Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Lemmon, James August 25, 1813 

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JAMES LEMMON, one of the prosperous farmers and reliable citizens of Mt.
Pleasant township, is a son of Capt. James and Rhoda (Galloway) Lemmon and was
born in Mt. Pleasant township, Westmoreland county, Pa., Aug. 25, 1813. The
Lemmons are of English descent. John Lemmon, grandfather, was a native of
Antram, England, and about 1762 settled at Carlisle, Pa., where he was engaged
in farming until 1796. In that year he removed to Mt. Pleasant and purchased of
the Dillworths a large tract of land which was called “partnership” and
contained 340 acres. He was a farmer, and old-line whig and a presbyterian of
the strictest kind. While at Carlisle be received a pass and certificate of
character from one of the King’s justices of the peace. He married a Miss
Mickey, who is now dead. Capt. James Lemmon was born at Carlisle in 1783 and
died in Mt. Pleasant township in 1844, aged sixty-one years. In the last year of
the war of 1812 he raised a company of troops, but peace was declared while they
were on the way to join Gen. Harrison’s army. He was a whig and a presbyterian
and married Rhoda Calloway, by whom be had eleven children, of whom six are yet
living and reside in Mt. Pleasant township.

   One of these sons is George Lemmon who is a successful farmer, an earnest
presbyterian and an active republican. He married Susan Eicher and has ten
children: Rhoda, Milton D., William S., Missouri, Marion, Anna, VanAmberg,
Frank, Sarah and Mary B.

   Mrs. Rhoda Lemmon, who is dead, was a daughter of James Galloway who was a
native of Scotland, settled on what is now known as the Hunter farm. He followed
blacksmithing and farming. He married Elizabeth Hunter who bore him two sons and
seven daughters, of whom one, Jane Hunter, born in 1801 is still living.

   James Lemmon was reared and received bis education in Mt. Pleasant township
where he owns a fine farm of one hundred and eighty acres. He has always
followed farming and stock-raising. He is a useful member of the Presbyterian
church, a conservative republican in politics and served three years as
constable. He resides in the large brick house which was erected by his
grandfather in 1829.

   James Lemmon was married on December 31, 1846, to Sarah Sandels, daughter of
Jacob Sandels. They have seven children: Rhoda E., wife of James Irwin of
McKeesport, Pa.; Van Amberg, Carlisle, Lizzie, George W., and Dayton, who
married Elmira Tedrow and is engaged in the livery business at Mt. Pleasant with
his brother George W.


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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