Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Connor, Timothy April 1, 1826

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TIMOTHY CONNOR, one of Derry township’s prominent and well-known citizens and an
industrious and prosperous farmer, is a son of John and Sarah (Layton) Connor
and was born in Derry township, Westmoreland county, Pa., April 1, 1826. His
grandfather, Timothy Connor, was born in Ireland in 1755, immigrated to America
in youth, settled at Elizabethtown, Lancaster county, Pa.; enlisted in the
Continental army in 1776 and served throughout the Revolutionary war. He and a
fellow soldier, Bernard McGuire, was captured at Gen. Montgomery's attack on
Quebec and subsequently escaped by leaping from a high wall down into a large
snow-drift. Some time after 1795 he came to Derry township where he patented a
large tract of land which is now included in the farms owned by the subject of
this sketch and his brother. He married Ellen McCullough of Elizabethtown, Pa.,
and reared a family of four sons and four daughters who are now all dead. Mr.
Connor died in 1815 and his widow survived him until 1834.

   The sons were: John, Timothy, Jr., who learned the trade of saddler with Col.
F. Rohrer of Greensburg, and died in the south; Cornelius, who removed to
Nashville, Tenn., and subsequently went to New Orleans where he afterwards died;
and Dennis, who died in Derry township about 1852.

   John Connor (father) was born in Lancaster county in 1795, was brought to
Westmoreland about 1800 and was reared to manhood in Derry township where he
afterwards resided until his death. He was a successful farmer, a member of the
Catholic church, a democrat in politics, a peaceful, well respected citizen and
a well-informed man. He was married to Sarah Layton, daughter of James Layton,
of Unity township, but who was formerly from Fayette county, Pa., where he first
located when he emigrated from Irebind. Mr. and Mrs. Connor had nine children:
Nancy, Mary, Timothy, Elizabeth, Ella, dead; Margaret, widow of James Barnett,
dead; Ann, deceased; John, and James, who is dead.

   Timothy Connor was reared on the farm on which he resides and on which his
grandfather Connor died. He attended the subscription schools and has always
been engaged in farming, except four seasons spent on a section-boat which he
owned and ran on the Pennsylvania canal from Pittsburg to Philadelphia. While on
the canal he became well acquainted with John Covode and other prominent men of
the State. Mr. Connor was a democrat, until some years ago, but is now
independent in political opinion. He has served as supervisor, school director
and mercantile appraiser. He has always been industrious and hard-working, is an
intelligent and fluent talker and stands well among the people of his community.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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