Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Megary, George W. March 1, 1880 

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GEORGE W. MEGARY, an accommodating, prosperous and popular merchant of Pleasant
Unity and a man of twenty years’ successful business experience in the city of
Baltimore and in Westmoreland county, was born in Baltimore, Md., March 1, 1850,
and is a son of James W. and Eliza (Myers) Megary. His grandfather, Patrick
Megary, was a native and resident of Huntingdon county in which he followed
hotel-keeping. His son, James W. Megary, went in early life to Baltimore where
he became a very active and successful business man. In that city he owned and
conducted two large stores, one of which was a grocery and provision and the
other a wholesale shoe-store. He was an officer of high rank in the Jr. O. U. A.
M. and served once as Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of Maryland to the
Grand Lodge of Jr. O. U. A. M. of the United States. He died in Baltimore in
1863, aged 43 years. He married Eliza Myers, who was a member of the
Presbyterian church and died in 1889 at sixty-eight years of age.

   George W. Megary was reared in Baltimore until he was eleven years of age
when he went with his parents to Mifflin county, Pa., where he remained for six
years. At seventeen years of age he returned to Baltimore and learned the trade
of painting which he followed until 1882. In 1S79 he came to Pleasant Unity,
where he has resided ever since. On April 30, 1885, he was appointed postmaster
at Pleasant Unity by President Cleveland and served very creditably as such
until April 1, 1889, when he resigned. In January, 1888, he purchased the store
of Thomas Hanna and has continued successfully in the general mercantile
business ever since, He has a large, conveniently arranged and well fitted up
mercantile establishment. His stock is complete and has been carefully selected
in the Eastern cities with an especial view to accommodate the needs of the
trade at Pleasant Unity. His goods are first-class in quality, reasonable in
price and varied in assortment to suit the wants of his numerous patron., He is
a member of the Lutheran church, A. Y. M. and K. of P. In politics Mr. Megary is
a democrat.

   In 1877 he married Lottie Shaffer, of Franklin township. Their union has been
blessed with four children: Bessie, Viola, Blanche and Bertha.


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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