BIO:  Constantine F. Dougherty, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Peach Bottom Township, Pg 163

CONSTANTINE F. DOUGHERTY, a native of Donegal, Ireland, was born October 10, 1839.  He, with 
his parents, Henry and Mary Dougherty, came to America and settled at Delta in 1852.  
Constantine is the eldest of eight children – four sons and four daughters.  He received a fair 
education in the public schools, and was for some time employed in a slate quarry.  At the age 
of eighteen he began the trade of blacksmith, and has successfully carried it on ever since.  
During the war he spent about two years in the government employ in Washington, D. C., and 
Baltimore.  He married Miss Kate Barr, daughter of Hugh and Fannie Barr, of Donegal, Ireland, 
at Philadelphia, June 6, 1866, and has ten children:  James H., Mary E., Fannie, Michael H., 
Charles, Francis, Joseph, Kate, Susan T. and Sarah A. (living), and John F. (who died at the 
age of five years).  In politics Mr. Dougherty is a Democrat.  In 1884 he was elected chief 
burgess of Delta, though two-thirds of the voters of the place are Republicans.  This fact is 
an evidence of the esteem in which he is held by his neighbors.  His father died in 1879, at 
the age of seventy-three; his mother is still living.  The family are members of St. Mary’s 
Catholic Church, of Harford County, Md.