BIO:  William T. McLaughlin, 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 166

WILLIAM T. MCLAUGHLIN, second son of Theodore and Sarah (Eckman) McLaughlin, was 
born in Harford County, Md., May 19, 1847.  The family are widely known as 
millwrights.  James McLaughlin, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, with his 
sons Theodore, Parke, Daniel and Joshua, having for a great number of years worked 
at this trade in York and the adjoining counties of Lancaster, Cecil and Harford.  
The grandfather was a man of immense physical strength and endurance, and was highly 
respected for his integrity of character.  He died in Harford County, in 1876, at 
the age of ninety-nine.  He was in Chester County, Penn., and it is reported that 
his infant slumbers in the cradle were broken on the morning of September 11, 1777, 
by the cannonading at the battle of Chad’s Ford.  The family are of Scotch-Irish 
origin.  William T. McLaughlin’s boyhood was passed on a farm, and his education 
obtained in a public school.  At the age of twenty-six he formed a partnership with 
Foulk Jones, and for five years carried on farming and butchering at Slate Hill.  
With the same partner he then engaged in the hardware business at Delta.  In 1883 he 
became the sole proprietor, and has since successfully conducted it.  He married 
Annie M. White, January 31, 1873, and has three children living:  Howard L., Jarett 
B. and Theodore, besides one who died in infancy.  He has served one term as borough 
auditor, and is a member of Mount Hebron Lodge, I. O. O. F.  His parents are both 
living.