BIO:  RIPPEY FAMILY, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 834-845
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    RIPPEY FAMILY. Hugh Rippey (died at Shippensburg early in 1750) was
  probably born at Maguire's Bridge, a market town on Maguire's river, near
  Enniskillen, in County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was among the early
  Scotch-Irish emigrants to Pennsylvania, and was one of the pioneers of
  Shippensburg in 1732-33. He brought his family with him, and was the first of
  the Shippensburg settlers whose cabin was entered by the Grim Reaper. "Hugh
  Rippey's daughter Mary," James Magaw wrote, May 21, 1733, (was) "berried
  yesterday; this will be sad news for Andrew Simpson when he reaches Maguire's
  Bridge. He is to come over in the fall when they were to be married. Mary was
  a very purty girl; she died of a faver and they berried her up on rising
  groun, north of the road or path, where we made choice of a piece of groun
  for a graveyard. She was the first berried there. Poor Hugh has none left now
  but his wife, Sam and little Isabel." This is the earliest story of domestic
  grief in the Cumberland Valley that has come down to us. In Magaw's simple
  and homely language it is very sad; his eccentric orthography only

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  tends to make it more pathetic. Only in Irish poetry could be found a
  fitting dirge for Mary Rippey's unmarked grave in this forgotten graveyard.
  At the time of Mary Rippey's death there were eighteen cabins in the new town
  afterward called Shippensburg, but the hamlet was then without a name. We have
  no means of knowing where Hugh Rippey's house stood. It was probably on one of
  the lots for which his son Samuel received deeds from Edward Shippen, in 1763.
  That he prospered is evident from the fact that among the first letters of
  administration granted in the new county of Cumberland were those on his
  estate. The date of the administration was Feb. 28, 1750; John Rippey was the
  administrator. His wife's name is unknown. She probably died before him. He
  had issue:
    1. JOHN (II).
    2. SAMUEL (III).
    3. MARY, born in Ireland, died at Shippensburg, May 19, 1733.
    4. ISABELLA, born in Ireland, died unmarried, March 10, 1778.

    (II) JOHN RIPPEY (born in Ireland, probably at Maguire's Bridge, died at
  Shippensburg, October, 1758), son of Hugh Rippey, was one of the pioneers of
  Shippensburg, where he settled with his father, Hugh, in 1732-33. He built
  his cabin near the stream, at the west end of the town. This was within the
  limits of what is now Franklin county. He was a taxable in the old township
  of Lurgan in 1751. It is probable that he married in Ireland, but the natal
  name of his wife, Mary, is unknown. His will was signed Oct. 7, 1758, with
  his wife Mary, and brother Samuel, as his executors. He had issue:
    1. HUGH went to Lancaster county, now Dauphin, and later removed to
  Allegheny county. 
    2. MARGERY.
    3. AGNES died before her father.

    (III) SAMUEL RIPPEY (born in Ireland, probably at Maguire's Bridge, in
  1713, died near Middle Spring, Aug. 22, 1791), son of Hugh Rippey, the
  pioneer, came to Shippensburg with his father, Hugh, in 1732-33, when he was
  only twenty years old. Of his occupation in his early years nothing is known,
  but later in life he became a farmer, purchasing the farm that was owned by
  Rev. John Blair, when he was pastor of the Middle Spring Presbyterian Church,
  Mr. Blair's warrant for this tract, which contained 212 acres, was dated Oct.
  5, 1743. It was situated adjacent to the church, in what is now Southampton
  township, Franklin county. Mr. Rippey bought it about the time of the
  outbreak of the French and Indian war. He lived on it during the rest of his
  life. The loss of the early records of Middle Spring Church deprives us of
  much information concerning him, but it is clear that he was a worshipper
  there from the time of the erection of the first log meeting-house; he was a
  subscriber to the building fund of the old stone church in 1781. He was
  buried in the Lower Graveyard. His name appears on the list of original
  purchasers of lots in Shippensburg from Edward Shippen, his deeds being for
  Nos. 100, 101, 103 and 109. There is some uncertainty in regard to Mr.
  Rippey's marriage or marriages. A well-defined tradition that has been
  perpetuated in the Christian names of a number of his descendants is that his
  wife was a sister of Col. John Armstrong, the hero of Kittanning. In his will
  he mentioned his wife, Rachel, who survived him. According to the genealogy
  prepared by the late Hon. John McCurdy, of Shippensburg, he married Jane
  Grabil Allen. If this is correct she must

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  have been his first wife, and the name of his second wife Rachel Armstrong.

  [Archivist's note: No sister of Col. John Armstrong identified as marrying 
  a Rippey by later researchers.]

  Samuel and Rachel Rippey had issue:
    1. WILLIAM (IV).
    2. ELIJAH (V).
    3. SAMUEL (VI).
    4. JANE married James Finley (died in Greene township in 1812), and had
  issue: Samuel, John, James, William, Elizabeth (married Stephen Duncan),
  Isabel (married James (Galbraith), Mary (married Joseph Culbertson) and Jane
  (married Samuel A. Rippey).

    (IV) WILLIAM RIPPEY (born at Shippensburg in 1741, died Sept. 22, 1819),
  son of Samuel and Rachel (Armstrong) Rippey, engaged in the hotel business at
  Shippensburg soon after the close of the French and Indian war. The first
  mention of this tavern that was preserved was in a diary of David Brown, who
  visited the Cumberland Valley in the spring of 1769, and lodged at William
  Rippey's "on the run" on the night of the 27th of April. His house was known
  as the "Branch Inn," and was kept by him until his death. It became a famous
  hostelry and had many distinguished guests. President Washington ate his
  Sunday dinner at Rippey's Oct. 12, 1794, when on his way to western
  Pennsylvania to quell the "Whiskey Insurrection." No tavern of the early days
  is more frequently referred to in the diaries and journals of travelers. At
  the outbreak of the Revolution Mr. Rippey proved an earnest and active
  patriot. He raised a company of volunteers in the neighborhood of
  Shippensburg and Middle Spring, of which he was commissioned captain, Jan. 9,
  1776. This company was attached to the 6th Pennsylvania Battalion, Col.
  William Irvine, and served in the second Canada expedition. The regiment left
  Carlisle on the 20th of March, with an aggregate of 741, Capt. Rippey's
  company comprising 93 officers and men. Col. Irvine's battalion marched first
  to New York City, where it served under Gen. Greene, during the month of
  April, but on the 10th of May it was at Albany, and it started for Lake
  Champlain on the 13th, passing Lake George on the 24th, and arriving at St.
  John's on the 27th. On the 6th of June the 6th Battalion, with Wayne's and
  part of St. Clair's, was ordered to attack the enemy at Three Rivers. It was
  intended to make the attack at daybreak on the 8th, but the guides proved
  faithless and conducted the little army into a swamp instead of to the town.
  The expedition proved disastrous, and it was said that Capt. Rippey, with
  Gen. William Thompson, who was in command, and Col. Irvine, was among the
  prisoners on that occasion, but the statement is inaccurate. It was on the
  21st of June, while on a fishing excursion from Isle aux Noix, that he was
  captured by a party of Indians, who had observed and followed the fishermen.
  While they were at a house drinking spruce beer the Indians surrounded them,
  and being unarmed they fell an easy prey to the savages. Capt. Adams, Ensign
  Culbertson and two privates were killed and scalped and the others of the
  fishing party were made prisoners, but a detachment from the camp coming to
  their relief, Capt. Rippey and Ensign Lusk succeeded in making their escape.
  After spending the winter on the Canada frontier the regiment came home,
  reaching Carlisle March 15, 1777. It was then reorganized, becoming the 7th
  Regiment, Pennsylvania Line, but Capt. Rippey retired. He was afterward
  appointed sheriff of Cumberland county, and he was twice coroner, 1778-79,
  and 1781-83. Capt. Rippey married (first) Margaret Finley and (second) Elizabeth

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  McCracken, who survived him. He had issue:
    1. RUTH (died before her father) married Dec. 9, 1791, Joseph Duncan, and
  had issue: William Rippey, John, Daniel, Margaret Chambers and Jane Stewart.
    2. SAMUEL A. married Jane Finley, daughter of James and Jane (Rippey)
  Finley, and they had a son, William.
    3. ISABELLA married Joseph Kerr; they had a son, William.
    4. JANE married Dr. Alexander Stewart (VII).
    5. CATHARINE married John Raum; they had a son, William, a physician.
    6. JOHN C. became a physician.
    7. MARGARET (born in 1768, died July 4, 1820) married Joseph Chambers,
  youngest son of Col. Benjamin Chambers, the founder of Chambersburg; they had
  one daughter, Margaret, who married Rev. John McKnight, the younger.
    8. WILLIAM (VIII).

    (V) ELIJAH RIPPEY (died in 1794), son of Samuel and Rachel (Armstrong)
  Rippey, was a lifelong resident of Shippensburg. He married Elizabeth
  Thompson (died July 13, 1826), whose sister, Nancy, was the wife of James
  Piper. Elijah and Elizabeth Rippey had issue:
    1. SAMUEL (IX).
    2. THOMPSON died unmarried.
    3. ISABEL died unmarried, Jan. 25, 1859.

    (VI) SAMUEL RIPPEY (born at Shippensburg, died May 6, 1804), son of Samuel
  and Rachel (Armstrong) Rippey, owned a tannery at Shippensburg, which he
  conducted for many years. He was in active service in October, 1777, as a
  private in Capt. Alexander Peebles' company of Col. Samuel Lyon's marching
  regiment. Besides his tanyard, Mr. Rippey owned a fine
  stone mansion house, in Shippensburg, and at his death he had three farms -
  one on the Mt. Rock road, one on the Pittsburg road, and one, which he owned
  in common with Judge Yeates, near Roxbury, on the road to Strasburg. Mr.
  Rippey married Mary Finley (died in 1836), daughter of John and Mary Finley,
  of Letterkenny township; and they had issue:
    1. JOHN (X).
    2. ARMSTRONG.
    3. ISABELLA married William Bailey; they had issue, Harriet, Isabella and
  Mary Finley.
    4. MARGARET.
    5. HARRIET married June 20, 1819, Thomas Jacobs.
    6. MARY married George Hamill (XI).
    7. ELIZABETH married Hugh Smith; they had a daughter, Jean.

    (VII) JANE RIPPEY, daughter of Capt. William Rippey, married Nov. 17, 1801,
  Dr. Alexander Stewart (born in Lancaster county, died in 1830), who began the
  practice of his profession at Shippensburg, in 1795, and pursued it steadily
  until his death. Dr. Alexander and Jane Stewart had issue:
    1. WILLIAM RIPPEY (XII).
    2. MARGARET ANN married Hugh Long.
    3. HENRY AUGUSTUS.
    4. ISABELLA married Jacob Clippinger.
    5. ALEXANDER SCOTT.
    6. JAMES MORRISON.
    7. JOHN RAUM.
    8. JULIANA DUNCAN (born May 29, 1817, died July 24, 1901), married July 9,
  1833, Joseph Mifflin (born at Burlington, N. J., July 9, 1812, died Feb. 18,
  1885), son of Joseph and Martha (Houston) Mifflin, of one of the oldest and
  most distinguished families in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Mifflin was

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  noted for her lively and cheerful disposition and her great interest in
  people and affairs until the close of her life. They had nine sons and five
  daughters, including James Arthur, who was accidentally drowned while serving
  in the Civil war; Alexander Stewart, deceased, who served through the Civil
  war; Debbie, deceased; Joseph; William Stewart; Martha, Mrs. David Timmins;
  and Mrs. William E. Shappley.
    9. SAMUEL.

    (VIII) WILLIAM RIPPEY (died in 1821), youngest son of Capt. William Rippey,
  was a county commissioner of Franklin county, 1818-21. He married Lucy Piper;
  they had issue:
    1. ALLEN married Catharine Duncan, and had issue: William married Rebecca
  Starvalient; Duncan married Elizabeth Watts; Elizabeth married Joseph Bender;
  Sarah married Peter Dock; Joseph married Mary St. Clair; Sue married Rev.
  Thomas Dougherty.
    2. WASHINGTON married Nancy Wolf.
    3. Lucy ANN married J. Wolfly.
    4. JULIA married J. Immel.
    5. ISABEL.
    6. MARY.

    (IX) SAMUEL RIPPEY (died April 8, 1829), son of Elijah and Elizabeth
  (Thompson) Rippey, was a tanner. He married Jane Falkner (born in 1791, died
  March 4, 1857), daughter of John and Jane Falkner, and they had issue:
    1. ELIJAH, born Sept. 1, 1811, was drowned in October, 1830.
    2. ELIZABETH ANN, born Dec. 12, 1813, died unmarried June 21, 1830.
    3. MARY JANE married John McCurdy (XIII).
    4. JOHN THOMPSON (XIV).
    5. ISABEL, born Nov. 7, 1818, died unmarried Jan. 11, 1858.
    6. SAMUEL, died unmarried June 19, 1855.

    (X) JOHN RIPPEY, son of Samuel and Mary (Finley) Rippey, generally known as
  Col. John Rippey, was a prominent man in the community in which he was born
  and lived. He married Mary Piper. They had issue:
    1. SAMUEL died unmarried.
    2. ELIZABETH ANN married William Fletcher.
    3. LUCINDA married Samuel Allen.
    4. MARGARET married W. Danecher.
    5. SARAH died before her father.

    (XI) MARY RIPPEY, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Finley) Rippey, married Aug.
  6, 1812, George Hamill (born in 1773, died Nov. 6, 1849), son of Robert
  Hamill, who came from the North of Ireland, and died at Shippensburg about
  1780. He was for many years a prominent business man and leading citizen of
  Shippensburg. He was appointed by President John Adams second lieutenant,
  19th Inf., U. S. A., July 10, 1799. This was at the time when a war with
  France was impending and preparations were making to resist French
  aggressions. Under Jefferson's second administration, when our relations with
  Great Britain were strained to a point that rendered war imminent, he was a
  captain in the 5th Regiment, U. S. Inf., and he was directed, May 23, 1808,
  by Gen. Henry Dearborn, Secretary of War, to recruit a company of fifty men,
  and instructed to "establish a daily practice of learning the recruits the
  position of a soldier, the facings, wheelings and marching, until you shall
  receive more particular instructions in relation to the drill generally." The
  company was fully organized and equipped, as appears from a letter dated Nov.
  3, 1808, from Callender Irvine, Superintendent of Military Stores at Phila-

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  delphia, by which he was informed that the balance of the annual supply of
  clothing for his company had been forwarded to Carlisle by direction of Gen.
  Wilkinson. George and Mary Hamill had issue:
    1. CHARLOTTE married John Taylor.
    2. ELIZABETH married Dr. Alexander Stewart (XV)
    3. GEORGE WASHINGTON died unmarried, in 1848.
    4. MARY died unmarried, in 1846.
    5. SAMUEL RIPPEY practiced law at Sullivan, Ind. He married Martha Wood,
  sister of Surgeon General Wood, U. S. A., and left three sons and three
  daughters, Samuel R., Charles, Carson, Augusta, Frances, and Elizabeth. Two
  of the sons, Samuel R. and Carson, are practicing law at Terre Haute, Ind.;
  Charles is a merchant in the same place; Augusta married Rev. E. A. Abbey;
  Elizabeth married Harry E. Baker, a lawyer of Terre Haute.
    6. JOHN, born in 1823, died at Shippensburg, Feb. 9, 1848.
    7. JAMES practiced medicine for many years at Newark, Ohio, and died there,
  leaving one son, James, residing in Newark.
    8. ROBERT KEARNEY died unmarried, at Sullivan, Ind.
    9. ELLIOTT J.

    (XII) WILLIAM RIPPEY STEWART (born near Shippensburg, Sept. 29, 1802, died
  at York Springs, March 9, 1867), son of Dr. Alexander and Jane (Rippey)
  Stewart, studied medicine and began the practice of his profession at Upper
  Strasburg. In 1827 he removed to York Springs, Adams Co., Pa., where he
  remained in successful practice until his death. Dr. Stewart married, April
  5, 1827, Diana McKinney (born June 25, 1808, died Jan. 17, 1893), daughter of
  David and Eleanor (Quigley) McKinney, the former of whom was a justice of the
  peace, and owned and conducted the "Upper Hotel" at Strasburg for many years.
  Dr. William R. and Diana (McKinney) Stewart had issue:
    1. MARY JANE (born June 21, 1828) married Rev. William A. McKee, and had
  issue: Dr. Edward McKee and Nina (married George Monroe, who had issue:
  Eleanor Rippey and James Stewart).
    2. ELEANOR ISABELLA VIRGINIA, born June 9, 1832, died March 5, 1898.
    3. CATHARINE RIPPEY RAUM, was born Aug. 9, 1834.
    4. WILLIAM WARREN (XVI).
    5. LIBERTY MCCREA, born Aug. 16, 1838, married Dr. James S. Rutter.
    6. DAVID McKINNEY was born Aug. 7, 1840.
    7. ROBERT MONTGOMERY, born Nov. 21, 1844, married Mary Cole.
    8. SARAH HANNAH was born Nov. 6, 1846.

    (XIII) MARY JANE RIPPEY (born July 8, 1816, died Nov. 20, 1853), daughter
  of Samuel and Jane (Falkner) Rippey, married March 14, 1843, John McCurdy
  (born June 24, 1811, died March 2, 1880), son of Samuel McCurdy (born 1780,
  died Jan. 11, 1852) and Sarah Martin, who lived near Bushmills, County
  Londonderry, Ireland, of which their son John was a native. He emigrated to
  Pennsylvania and settled at Shippensburg, where he became a leading man in
  the community and at one time conducted The Shippensburg News. He was a
  fluent writer and wrote many valuable articles relating to the early history
  of Shippensburg and its neighborhood. John and Mary J. (Rippey) McCurdy had
  issue:
    1. SAMUEL LYCURGUS, born Jan. 22, 1844, died April 26, 1864.
    2. LAURA BELL, born May 31, 1847, died Jan. 19, 1888.

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    3. DELIA BELL, born May 31, 1847, died July 11, 1851.
    4. HORACE GREELEY, born April 23, 1853, died Dec. 28, 1878.

    (XIV) JOHN THOMPSON RIPPEY (born Dec. 23, 1820, died Feb. 28, 1889), son of
  Samuel and Jane (Falkner) Rippey, married Nov. 24, 1844, Mary Jane Donavin
  (born Dec. 29, 1825), daughter of Levi Kirkwood and Mary (McConnell) Donavin.
  They had issue.
    1. ADA was born Aug. 29, 1846.
    2. MYRA (born March 16, 1849) married May 16, 1878, Watson R. Sadler, of
  Adams county. They had issue: Isaac Lewis, born Sept. 10, 1880; Rippey, June
  8, 1882; Mary Ada, Feb. 26, 1884; Isabel Trimble, Dec. 27, 1886; Gilbert
  Hastings, Jan. 7, 1889, and Richard Watson, Nov. 27, 1 890.
    3. ELIZABETH ANN (born March 5, 1851) married March 28, 1872, E. W.
  Hastings (died Jan. 30, 1902), and had issue: Mary Mellicent, born May 23,
  1873, died June 21, 1889. Mrs. Hastings is in the Philippines.
    4. THOMPSON (born Feb. 19, 1853) married (first) Mary Robbins, and had
  issue: Joseph Francis, born at Delaware, Ohio, who married and had a son,
  Thompson, born March 16, 1899. Mr. Rippey married (second) in August, -----,
  Grace Lourier.
    5. OTHO BOSWELL TIPPET, born June 19, 1855, died Dec. 19, 1855.
    6. MARY JANE (born Nov. 29, 1856) married Sept. 19, 1878, H. O. S.
  Hiestand, Major, U. S. A., serving in the Philippines.
    7. NORA (born May 6, 1859, died Jan. 29, 1893) married (first) June 15,
  1880, Matthew Gilbert Higgins, born June 24, 1851, died Nov. 30, 1881),
  (second) George Almy, and had issue: Mary Hiestand, born Jan. 17, 1893, 
  who died the same day.
    8. SARAH BELL (born July 11, 1861) married Aug. 8, 1883, G. A. Kolbe, and
  had issue: Mary Thompson, born July 18, 1886; Florence Sheldon, April 11,
  1894 (died the same day); Henrietta Jane Aug. 29, 1895 (died the same day);
  James Rippey, Sept. 3, 1897, and Henry Hiestand, Feb. 16, 1899.
    9. JENNIE (born Jan. 7, 1864) married Oct. 5, 1882, Raymond E. Shearer, of
  Carlisle, and had issue: Raymond Eli, born March 6, 1884; Mary Hiestand,
  April 13, 1887; Rippey, June 1, 1889; Rachel Wertz, Sept. 13, 1893; Robert
  Pattison, July 27, 1896; Myra Saddler, Oct. 27, 1899; and Kirkwood Donavin,
  May 5, 1902.

    (XV) ALEXANDER STEWART (born in Frederick county, Md., Sept. 28, 1809, died
  Jan. 5, 1894) was a son of John and Rosanna (Sheeler) Stewart, natives of
  Maryland, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. John was the only son of Alexander
  Stewart, who emigrated from county Antrim in 1773, and settled in Frederick
  county, Md., and was a successful farmer and business man. Alexander Stewart,
  son of John, was educated at Mount St. Mary's College, and at the age of
  nineteen began the study of medicine at Emmittsburg. He was graduated M. D.
  at Washington Medical College, Baltimore, in 1831. Soon after receiving his
  degree he came to Shippensburg, where he was in active practice for nearly
  half a century. He was a skillful physician and enjoyed an extensive
  practice. To his medical skill he added an agreeable personality and was
  always held in affectionate professional and personal regard by his neighbors
  in Shippensburg and the surrounding country. In many cases he served the same
  family through successive

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  generations. Late in life he relinquished all business cares except the
  presidency of the First National Bank of Shippensburg, of which he was the
  first president.
    Dr. Stewart married (first), in 1832, Margaret Grabill, of Frederick
  county, Md., who died in May, 1833, without issue; (second) in 1836,
  Elizabeth Hamill (born May 13, 1813, died April 22, 1853), daughter of Capt.
  George and Mary (Rippey) Hamill, and had issue:
    1. GEORGE HAMILL (XVII).
    2. JOHN (XVIII).
    3. ALEXANDER (XIX).
    4. ROBERT COCHRAN (born Dec. 9, 1850, died Feb. 10, 1899) was a physician
  and practiced his profession at Shippensburg. He was graduated at the Medical
  Department of the University of Pennsylvania, in 1872, and succeeded to his
  father's practice.
    5. MARY AUGUSTA (born Dec. 8, 1845, died Dec. 3, 1900) married Dec. 27,
  1873, James E. McLean (born Dec. 11, 1839, died Aug. 3, 1895), son of William
  McLean, of Shippensburg.
    6. CHARLOTTE LOUISA married John H. Craig; they had issue: Augusta S. and
  Helen.
    Dr. Stewart married (third), in 1858, Eunice G. Wilson (born at Chester,
  Vt., April 23, 1822, died at Shippensburg, June 5, 1901), who came of sturdy
  New England ancestry, and was an educated and accomplished lady. In her young
  womanhood she engaged in teaching in Texas. There were no children by this
  marriage.

    (XVI) WILLIAM WARREN STEWART (born Aug. 8, 1836), son of Dr. William Rippey
  and Diana (McKinney) Stewart, was educated at the Cumberland Valley Institute
  and at the Juniata Academy, Shirleysburg. At the latter institution he gave
  much attention to the study of mathematicsand civil engineering with the
  intention of becoming a civil engineer. In 1857 he became a member of a corps
  of United States engineers, engaged in the survey of government lands in
  Nebraska. In 1859 he returned to his father's home in York Springs, Adams
  Co., Pa., and shortly afterward obtained employment with the Adams Express
  Company at Baltimore. At the outbreak of the Civil war he returned to York
  Springs. In June, 1861, he enlisted in Company K, 1st Regiment, Pennsylvania
  Reserves, and upon arriving in camp at West Chester, Pa., two weeks later,
  was made first sergeant of his company. In September of the same year he was
  made first lieutenant of Company K, and was made adjutant of the regiment in
  November, 1861, and promoted to captain, June 30, 1862. At Charles City Cross
  Roads, during the seven days' battle of the peninsula, he was wounded by a
  minie ball through the left thigh. After being confined in Libby prison until
  September he was paroled, and when his exchange was effected he took command
  of his company. On March 1, 1863, he was made lieutenant-colonel of his
  regiment, which at that time was a part of the 22d Army Corps, in Fairfax
  county, Va. He was made brevet colonel and brevet brigadier-general, March
  13, 1865. His first brevet was for gallant conduct at the battles of the
  Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House. He was mustered out with his
  regiment, June 13, 1864. Gen. Stewart was engaged in many battles, including
  Drainesville, Hawkshurst Mills, Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill, Charles City
  Cross Roads, Fredericksburg, New Hope Church, Mine Run, Rappahannock Station,
  Spottsylvania Court House, the Wilderness, North Anna, Pamunkey River, Cold
  Harbor, Bethesda and Gettysburg. He was slightly wounded in the side by a
  piece of shell at North Anna.

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  At Gettysburg Col. Stewart came on the battleground with his regiment early
  in the morning of the second day, having marched thirty-five miles the day
  previous. The regiment occupied Little Round Top, and was in the charge that
  recovered the ground lost by the 1st and 2d Divisions of the 5th Corps. He
  had charge of the skirmishes that afternoon and night, and continued on duty
  until the charge of his brigade on the third day that was personally ordered
  by Gen. Meade. The brigade lay on the battlefield that night, making
  forty-two hours of service without rest. Col. Stewart was commissioned
  colonel of the 193d regiment, P. V., March 15, 1865, and with his regiment
  participated in the campaign against Richmond, and later was in some of the
  skirmishes in the Shenandoah Valley. Part of that time he was in command of
  the 3d Brigade, 2d Division, Army of the Shenandoah. After the surrender of
  Gen. Lee he had, as brigade commander, charge of the post at Staunton, Va.;
  which embraced Harrisonburg and Lexington. In July, 1865, he was assigned to
  command the post at Harper's Ferry, and was mustered out Aug. 24, 1865. His
  brevet as a brigadier-general was for gallant conduct at North Anna River. He
  was one of the very few soldiers of the Union who entered the service as a
  private in 1861 and came out a brigadier-general in 1865.

    After the Civil war he returned to York Springs, where he resumed his
  profession as a civil engineer. In 1878 he came to Chambersburg, where he
  built the Mont Alto railroad, serving the Cumberland Valley railroad as an
  engineer until 1881, when he entered the service of the Pittsburg & Atlantic
  Railroad Company. He was afterward engaged with the Pittsburg, Bradford &
  Buffalo Railroad Company, and built the Stewartstown railroad, in York
  county, in 1884.

    He then went to Richmond, Va., where he was engaged in engineering work for
  the United States Government, at the National Cemetery. In 1888 he returned to
  the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company, to take charge of the line from
  Martinsburg, W. Va., to Winchester, Va. Later he served with the Lehigh
  Valley railroad, on the Schuylkill Valley division. In 1890 he came back to
  Chambersburg and took charge of a field corps. He became supervisor of the
  Cumberland Valley tracks in 1892, a position he has since held. In politics
  he is a Republican, and a Presbyterian in religion. Gen. Stewart has never
  married.

    (XVII) GEORGE HAMILL STEWART (born at Shippensburg Dec. 29, 1837), son of
  Dr. Alexander and Elizabeth (Hamill) Stewart, was educated in the public
  schools of his native town and at Milnwood Academy, Shade Gap, Huntingdon
  county. As a youth he felt a strong desire to become a business man, and
  embarked in his first important venture in 1857, before he was twenty years
  of age. This was in the mercantile business at Shippensburg, in which he
  continued until 1868, with more than average success. During this period he
  also became interested in buying and selling real estate and the tanning of
  leather. In 1869 he engaged in the grain and forwarding business at
  Shippensburg, however, still continuing his real-estate transactions, which
  are very extensive, he being the owner of a large number of the finest and
  most productive farms in the beautiful Cumberland Valley, all of which he has
  brought to a high state of cultivation. He has other large interests in and
  outside of Shippensburg. He is president of the Valley National Bank of
  Chambersburg and has been since its organization in 1890; president of the
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  School; treasurer of Wilson College; director in the Cumberland Valley
  Railroad; director in the First National Bank of Shippensburg, and The
  Farmers Trust Company of Carlisle, as well as holding many other positions of
  trust and confidence. He is a thorough business man, a generous and courteous
  gentleman, and a liberal contributor to moral and religious enterprises.

    Mr. Stewart married (first), Nov. 22, 1862, Mary C. McLean (born Jan. 13,
  1838, died May 24, 1884), daughter of William McLean, of Shippensburg; there
  was no issue. He married (second) Feb. 23, 1887, Ella J. Snodgrass (born Oct.
  16, 1850), daughter of Robert and Mary (Burr) Snodgrass; they have issue:
  1. GEORGE HAMILL, born Jan. 28, 1888, a student at Mercersburg Academy; 
  2. ALEXANDER, born Oct. 25, 1891.

    (XVIII) JOHN STEWART (born at Shippensburg, Nov. 4, 1839), son of Dr.
  Alexander and Elizabeth (Hamill) Stewart, received his elementary education
  in the schools of his native town and at Milnwood Academy, Shade Gap, and was
  graduated at Princeton College in 1857. After leaving college he studied law
  in the office of Judge Frederick Watts, at Carlisle, and was admitted to the
  Cumberland County Bar in November, 1860. Choosing Chambersburg as his future
  home, he was admitted to the Franklin County Bar, Jan. 23, 1861, and at once
  entered upon the practice of his profession. His practice was interrupted by
  the exigencies of the Civil war, and he was mustered into the service of the
  United States as first lieutenant of Company A, 126th Regiment, P. V., Aug.
  11, 1862, and promoted to be adjutant of the regiment, Aug. 15, 1862. Later
  on he became mustering officer of his division in the 5th Army Corps, in
  which capacity he served until the battle of Chancellorsville, in which he
  resumed his duties as adjutant, and was mustered out with his regiment, May
  20, 1863. After his return to civil life he devoted himself entirely to the
  practice of his profession, first in association with Col. A. K. McCune, and
  later with Col. Thomas B. Kennedy, the firm of Kennedy & Stewart continuing
  for more than twenty years. He was very successful in his profession, and
  acquired a large and lucrative practice, taking rank among the leaders of the
  Bar. He has always been a Republican in politics, with the courage to assert
  his personal and political independence of party dictation. He was a delegate
  to the Republican National Convention at Baltimore which nominated President
  Lincoln for a second term. He represented the 19th Senatorial District in the
  Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention which framed the constitution of 1874.
  In 1868 he was chosen a Presidential elector on the occasion of Gen. Grant's
  first election as President, and he was again a delegate to the Republican
  National Convention of 1876, at Cincinnati, which nominated President Hayes.
  He represented the district comprising the counties of Franklin and
  Huntingdon in the State Senate, 1881-84. During his service in the State
  Senate serious difficulties arose in the Republican party of Pennsylvania in
  regard to party policies. Senator Stewart took a bold and independent course
  in these differences, and in 1882, in consequence of the division in the
  party, he became the Independent Republican candidate for Governor against
  Gen. James A. Beaver, who was defeated in the triangular contest of that
  year. In 1884 he was again a delegate to the Republican National Convention
  at Chicago which nominated James G. Blaine for President, and was chairman
  of the Pennsylvania delegation. In 1888 he was elected Presi-

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  dent Judge of the 39th Judicial District, and he was re-elected in 1898.
  His course on the Bench has been characterized by legal acumen, judicial
  fairness and independence, and unquestioned integrity. The rulings of few
  judges of the courts of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania have been so seldom
  reversed by the Superior and Supreme courts.

    Apart from his judicial duties Judge Stewart takes an active interest in
  all matters pertaining to the well-being of the county and the county seat.
  He is a member of Housum Post, No. 309, G. A. R., and has frequently
  addressed the members of the post. He is a trustee of Wilson College for
  Women, and has always been active in promoting the prosperity of the college.
  He is a member of the Scotch-Irish Society of Pennsylvania, of the Society of
  the Scotch-Irish in America, and of the Kittochtinny Historical Society, of
  Chambersburg. He was president of the Scotch-Irish Congress held in
  Chambersburg in 1901, and served for five years as the first president of the
  Kittochtinny Society. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Franklin
  and Marshall College in June, 1903.

    Judge Stewart married Jane Holmes Larmour, daughter of Samuel B. and Anna
  (Worrall) Larmour, of Alexandria, Va.; they had five daughters, Mary Larmour,
  Anna Worrall, Elizabeth Keith, Janet Holmes and Helen Montgomery and one son,
  the subject of the following sketch:

    ALEXANDER STEWART (born at Chambersburg, Feb. 7, 1866, died Jan. 8, 1895)
  was educated at the Chambersburg Academy and prepared for college at York. He
  was graduated at Princeton University in 1886. After leaving college he
  studied law with his father and was admitted to the Franklin County Bar April
  23, 1888. He was a young man of unusual talent and soon became counsel for the
  Cumberland Valley Railroad Co. and the National Bank of Chambersburg. When
  Judge Watson Rowe retired from the Bench, Mr. Stewart became the junior
  partner in the law firm of Rowe & Stewart. In his brief career at the Bar he
  was soon recognized as one of its leaders, and as a lawyer he had a brilliant
  future that was cut short by his early death. He was a man of sturdy, robust
  frame, upright, gentle, earnest and honorable. He was a member of the Whig
  Club of Princeton and of the University Club of Philadelphia.
 
    (XIX) ALEXANDER STEWART (born at Shippensburg, Sept. 17, 1843), son of Dr.
  Alexander and Elizabeth (Hamill) Stewart, received his education in the
  public schools of his native town. When only seventeen years old he enlisted
  in Company D, 130th Regiment, P. V., for the nine months' service, and
  participated in the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg and other
  engagements. He was in the battle of Antietam on his birthday. He again
  entered the service as first lieutenant of Company K, 201st Regiment, P. V.,
  Aug. 28, 1864, and was mustered out June 21, 1865. After the war Mr. Stewart
  went to Colorado, where he remained three years engaged in the transportation
  of freight over the Plains. As this was before the era of railroads in that
  part of the country the hardships of his life in the Far West were very
  great. When he returned to Shippensburg he engaged in mercantile pursuits. In
  1874 he removed to Scotland, where he still resides. He conducts a large
  business in the purchase and sale of grain, and gives much attention to
  farming. Mr. Stewart attributes his success in life to hard work and close
  attention to business He has always been an active Republican. He was
  chairman of the Frank-

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  lin County Republican Committee, 1897-99. He was elected a member of the
  State Senate in 1900 and in 1904 was re-nominated for and re-elected to that
  body, for a term of four years. He is a charter member of Housum Post, No.
  309, G. A. R., and in 1865 joined the Masonic fraternity at Shippensburg,
  joining Lodge No. 315. Mr. Stewart married, in 1877, Nancy Elizabeth Hays
  (died July 14, 1897), daughter of Dr. Robert C. and Christiana (Snively)
  Hays, of Shippensburg; they had no issue.