BIO: Thomas S. McCreight, Jefferson County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion, Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens. 
Chicago, Ill.: J. H. Beers, 1898, pages 1096-1097.
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THOMAS S. MCCREIGHT, a farmer and ex-lumberman, of Winslow township, 
Jefferson county, is a native of Pennsylvania, having been born on 
April 25, 1830, in Armstrong county. When two years old he was brought 
by his father to Winslow township, Jefferson county, where the latter 
cleared the 150-acres of land which now constitutes our subject's farm.
  Young McCreight attended the district schools in the winter seasons, 
in the summers working on the farm, whereon he continued until his 
enlistment in 1862, in Company B, 135th P.V.I., for nine months' 
service. In 1869 he married Frances P. McKee, of Bell township, 
Jefferson county, born March 13, 1847, a daughter of David and Matilda 
J. (Chambers) McKee, the former a native of Centre county, the latter 
of Clarion county, Penn.; they had a family of six children, four of 
whom are now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. McCreight were born eight 
children as follows: Smith M., Thomas E., James M., Ida Ethel, Mary A., 
Cora B., Everett Lloyd, and Alberta G., all yet living except the last 
named. Of the sons, Smith M. is a lawyer of Reynoldsville; Thomas E. 
and James M. is a lawyer of Reynoldsville; Thomas E. and James M. are 
at home with their parents. Our subject was for some twenty-five years 
engaged in lumbering in Jefferson county, but for the past seven years 
has devoted his time exclusively to his farming interests. Socially he 
is a Republican; in their religious views he and his wife are members 
of the United Presbyterian Church.
  Andrew McCreight, father of Thomas S., married Ann Sharp, by whom he 
had thirteen children, name respectively: James, sharp, Sally, Joseph, 
John, Ann, Jennie, Polly, Thomas S. Smith, Nancy, Jameson, and Hannah, 
eight of whom are yet living. The father of these died in 1861, aged 
seventy-four years, eight days; the mother in 1858, at the age of 
sixty-three years, eight months and eight days, and they are buried on 
the farm now owned by their son, Thomas S.