Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Machesney, Jackson April 7, 1829

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JACKSON MACHESNEY. One who takes pride in farming and has brought his farm into
the front rank of the best farms of the county is Jackson Machesney, an
industrious and thrifty citizen of Derry township. He was born in Unity
township, Westmoreland county, Pa., April 7, 1829, and is a son of Andrew and
Mary(Henderson)Machesney. 

For nearly two centuries a westward tide of emigration from Ireland has been pouring 
into Pennsylvania.Of those who came during the first part of the present century was one
William Machesney, who settled in Unity township where he followed farming until
his death, which occurred some forty years ago. He had six children: Andrew,
John, William, Margaret, Elizabeth and Jane. Of these none are living. Andrew
Machesney was born in Ireland but reared in Unity township. He was a farmer, an
old-line whig and later a republican.

    In 1837 he removed from Unity to Derry township where he purchased two
farms. He died about 1870. His wife was Mary Henderson, a daughter of William
Henderson of Unity township, who came with his family from Ireland. After the
death of him and his wife, his children with the exception of one or two removed
to Ohio in 1830. Andrew and Mary Machesney had thirteen children, of whom eleven
are living: John, of Salem township; William, who is in Iowa; Andrew, a resident
of Greensburg; Alexander, residing at Derry; James, who is in Illinois; Dr.
David L., a resident of Illinois; Jane, widow of Thomas Duncan, of Indiana
county, Pa.; Mary, wife of A. Davis, of Blairsville, Pa.; Margaret, widow of
John Mowrer and lives at New Alexandria; and Elizabeth, wife of Henry Lobaugh,
of Iowa.

    Jackson Machesney attended school in Unity and Derry townships. At
twenty-one years of age he engaged in his present occupation of farming. At the
death of his father he bought one of the farms of the latter. He has improved
and enriched this farm until it is now considered one of the best in the county.

    He is a republican in politics. He has always taken a great interest in
educational matters and has served as school director for a quarter of a
century. Whatever tends to promote the welfare of his community or advance its
material interests always enlists his attention and engages his efforts in its
behalf.

    Jackson Machesney, on March 11, 1856, united in marriage with Elizabeth
Machesney, daughter of John Machesney of Unity township. To them have been born
eight children: Mary Catharine, dead; Maggie Arabella, deceased; Luella
Elizabeth, Harriet Amanda, dead; Minerva Jane, John Clark, Angeline, who died at
fourteen years of age and Bertha May. John Clark is attending Elder’s Ridge
academy where he has about finished his preparatory studies for college. He has
a mathematical turn of mind and excels in mathematics.


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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