BIO: John McCAHAN, Huntingdon County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JO

Copyright 2008.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm 
**********************************************************
__________________________________________________________________  

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, page 183.
__________________________________________________________________ 

  JOHN McCAHAN, Huntingdon, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born on the 
homestead in Smithfield township, son of Thomas S. and Rachel (Higgins) 
McCahan. Thomas S. McCahan, a farmer of Huntingdon county, died 
December 15, 1868. His wife, who was born in Williamsburg, Blair 
county, Pa., died in 1852. Their children are: John; Mary (Mrs. W. H. 
Smith), of Duncannon, Pa.; and Rachel, who died in infancy. In 1858, 
Thomas S. McCahan married Sarah L. Cameron, of Huntingdon county. Their 
children are: Jennie; Harry, of Kirksville, Mo.; and Minnie.
  Jon McCahan attended the public schools of Walker township, and of 
Huntingdon, Pa., but was unable to remain long at school. He first 
found employment as brakeman on the coal trains of the Huntingdon and 
Broad Top Railroad. He was afterwards baggage master, and for eighteen 
months served as engineer on the same road; no accident occurred while 
he had the engine in charge. Notwithstanding his success as engineer, 
he gave up his position and turned his attention to dairy farming, in 
which business he is still engaged. Mr. McCahan is a staunch 
Republican. He belongs to the Masonic order, Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 
300, Huntingdon, Pa.
  John McCahan was married in 1870, to Maria W., daughter of the late 
John A. Nash, editor of the Huntingdon Journal. Mr. McCahan was elected 
justice of the peace, but did not serve. He was treasurer and is now 
assessor of Smithfield township.