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ALEXANDER WATSON CADMAN, manufacturer, Pittsburgh, and with one exception the oldest established brass-founder in the city, was born in Allegheny, Pa., Feb. 16, 1847. His father, Samson Cadman, a native of Manchester, England, came to Pittsburgh when nineteen years old; he was a machinist, and for several years was engineer on the Ohio river; later he became captain, and commanded the Latrobe, Mansfield and Clara Dean. At the outbreak of the civil war he was in the government transport service; in 1862 he was in the Mississippi squadron. Afterward he established a brass-foundry on Duquesne way, Pittsburgh, which he operated till his death; he died in 1877. He was a democrat. He was married to Mary Watson of Highland-Scotch birth, and their only living children are Alexander and Josephine (wife of James H. Orr, of Edgewood). This wife dying in 1854, Mr. Cadman afterward married Mrs. Matilda Sproat, who survives him. A. W. Cadman attended the public schools of Allegheny and Prof. Davis’ academy. When sixteen years old he was employed by his uncle in a boiler-yard, and soon went into his father’s office, succeeding to the business. Mr. Cadman is the second oldest resident of Edgewood. Samson Cadman bought land and built a house here in 1868, and brought his family, and A. W. Cadman built his present residence, adjoining his father’s, in 1876. He was married in 1874 to Henrietta McWhinney, a native of the city of Allegheny, daughter of Matthew and Sarah McWhinney, of Ireland, and their children are Matthew McW., Ralph Watson and Mary Emma. The family attend the Wilkinsburg Presbyterian Church. Mr. Cadman is a F. &A. M. He was a democrat until 1884, and then became a republican.