BIO: McClennan ERVIN, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 373-374.
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  McCLENNAN ERVIN, Otelia, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in 
Huntingdon county, September 3, 1867. He is a son of Alexander and 
Catherine J. (Parsons) Ervin. William Ervin, grandfather of McClennan, 
was also a native of Huntingdon county, as also was his wife, Isabella, 
daughter of William and Mary Vaughn. They had seven children: Thomas; 
Robert; and Isabella; these three are deceased; those living are: 
William; Nancy; Frederick; and Ellen. Mr. William Ervin's life business 
was farming. He died well advanced in years; his wife died in February, 
1890, at the age of seventy-three. They were members of the 
Presbyterian church. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Ervin, the 
Parsons, were Irish by birth, and came to America in early youth.
  Both Mr. Ervin's parents are natives of Huntingdon county. His 
father's employment has always been agriculture. He has served his 
township in the following offices: Inspector, one year; school 
director, three years; and assessor, elected in 1889, served three 
years. Alexander Ervin was married in 1866 to Catherine J., daughter of 
George and Ellen (Waters) Parsons. They have had nine children: 
McClennan; Nancy b., wife of Evan Parsons; William B.; Robert L.; 
Margaretta E.; Elmira R.; Ada M.; John L.; Martha J., died in April, 
1893, aged seven. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Ervin reside in Huntingdon, 
Pa.; they are members of the United Brethren church, in which Mr. Ervin 
has been a class-leader for the last ten years. His political opinions 
are Democratic.
  Mr. McClennan Ervin attended the public schools until he completed 
his eighteenth year. He was then occupied with farming for about two 
years, then in mining, in Huntingdon county, for about three, but not 
regularly. In the fall of 1886 he went to Missouri, and there worked at 
farm business for some two years, returning to Huntingdon county in 
1888. In 1892 Mr. Ervin bought his present residence, a farm then 
recently owned by Frank S. Briggs. He has tilled this land ever since, 
with success.
  McClennan Ervin was married April 18, 1889, to Charlotte M., daughter 
of Robert E. and Sarah J. (Cisney) Parsons. Their children are: Bertha 
J.; Violet I.; and Ellsworth S., who died January 29, 1892, at the age 
of two months.
  Mrs. Ervin was born April 5, 1870. Her parents were natives of 
Huntingdon county, where her father was all his life engaged in 
farming. Her mother was the daughter of James and Sarah Cisney. Their 
family included eight children: Samuel C.; Amanda J., wife of John 
Kling; Margaretta M., wife of William Peiper; Mary, wife of Wilbert 
Beers; Rachel, wife of William Love; Evans; Charlotte M. (Mrs. Ervin); 
and Ellsworth. Mr. Cisney died March 29, 1896, aged seventy-one; his 
wife died in 1887. They belonged to the United Brethren church. Mrs. 
Ervin's paternal grandparents, James and Catherine Parsons, were born 
in Huntingdon county; Mr. Parsons was a stonemason. Their children 
were: Robert E.; James; Samuel; and Julia Ann, who is the wife of Noah 
McMellor. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons both lived to a good old age. James 
Cisney, Mrs. Ervin's maternal grandfather, was a farmer all his life. 
He was the father of five children: Diana, wife of Alexander 
Hockenberry; Washington; Rachel, wife of George Kimberton; Sarah J.; 
and Margaret, deceased.