Westmoreland-Schuylkill County PA Archives Biographies.....Laird, Thomas September 14, 1845

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THOMAS LAIRD, general superintendent of the Hecla Coke works, Nos. 1 and 2, was
born September 14, 1845, in Glasgow, Scotland, and is a son of Francis and Mary
(Buchanan) Laird. His grandfather, Thomas Laird, was a native of the west of
Scotland. Born in 1792 in Scotland, where he belonged to the Episcopalian
church. William Buchanan, maternal grandfather, was a native of Dumbarton,
Scotland, where he died when his daughter Mary was quite young. Francis Laird
(father) was born in Glasgow, Scotland, July 12, 1824, and lived there until
1848, when he came to America and settled in Schuylkill county, Pa. From there
ho afterwards went to Maryland and thence to Kanawha county, W. Va., where he
served as mine boss for the Winifred Mining and Manufacturing Company. In 1861
he came to Mercer county, Pa., thence went to Trumbull county, Ohio, and in 1866
came to Hecla, this county. He was married in Scotland, where two of his
children were born: Thomas and Elizabeth. His wife was killed in Trumbull
county, Ohio, by being tramped upon by a horse. Mr. Laird is the father of ten
children, five sons and five daughters, all living but one.

   Thomas Laird was married October 23,1867, to Margaret Sneddon, a native of
Pennsylvania and daughter of Thomas Sneddon, by whom he has had five children:
Harry, now in the employ of the P. R. R. Co. as an engineer, Frank, Mary, Jennie
and Maggie.

   Thomas Laird was educated in the common and high schools of Sharon, Mercer
county, Pa., and began life for himself as a miner, which he continued until
1875, when he with three others engaged in the mining business in Mercer county,
under the firm name of Baker, Snedden & Co. In 1882 he removed to Armstrong
county, where he was in the coal business a year in company with Robert Snedden,
then removed to Allegheny county and clerked for a time in the Pittsburg glass
works. In 1881 he came to Hecla, this county, as general superintendent of the
Hecla Coke Company, operating Hecla Nos. 1 and 2, and has been there ever since.
He is a republican, has served as school director, councilman and burgess of
Wheatland, Pa., and with his wife is a member of the M. E. church at Hecla, of
which he is one of the trustees. He also belongs to New Virginia Lodge, No. 841,
I. O. O. F., of Pennsylvania and is a progressive and enterprising citizen.


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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