My Genealogy Hound

GEORGE O. FAWCETT boat-builder, post office Munhall, was born July 27, 1840, in Pittsburgh, a son of James Fawcett, a native of England. He and his wife and two children came to this county in 1832; he was a coal miner, but by industry soon became a coal merchant and operator near Braddock. Subsequently he retired from the coal business, and became a director and then president of the First National Bank of Birmingham, which position he held until his death. His wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Abraham Parker, an old settler of Butler county, Pa. They had nine children, of whom only Thomas, George O. and Mrs. Mary Challinor survive. George O. is the superintendent of his brother’s business at Fawcett’s Landing, where he employs from twelve to twenty-five men, repairs barges and finishes coalboats. He graduated from the Iron City Business College in the class of 1859, and for seventeen years was in the lumber and sawmill business in Pittsburgh until he came to Fawcett’s Landing. He married Mary, daughter of Peter and Margaret (Smith) Wilson, and they have four children: John B., Mrs. Flora B. Munhall, Walter C. and Harry A. Of these John B. married Mamie Thomas, and has one child, Flora. Mr. Fawcett is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and a republican.