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JOSEPH MORGAN McNAIR, grand recorder of the A. O. U. W., Pittsburgh, was born in Virginia, June 27, 1827, son of James and Mary (Krider) McNair. His father was born near Carlisle, Pa., in 1801, and died in 1869. He was a woolen-manufacturer in Virginia, and moved his family to Butler, Pa., in 1832, where he was for a number of years a justice of the peace. He was a life-long democrat, a member of the M. E. Church. Joseph M. McNair attended school at Butler until sixteen years of age, and then learned the tailor’s trade, which he followed at Butler and at New Castle, Pa., until 1875, being twelve years in the latter place. In 1875 he accepted his present position as grand recorder of the A. O. U. W. He is a Freemason, a member of Select Knights, A. O. U. W., Royal Arcanum, Knights of the Golden Eagle and Sovereigns of Industry. Mr. McNair was married May 8, 1851, to Martha Spencer, a native of Wales, of English parents, Charles and Mary (Jones) Spencer. Her father died at Harrisburg, Pa., six weeks after arriving from Wales. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McNair: Mary Adrienne McNair, Gertrude Spencer, James Alexander, Thomas Charles, Addie Louise and Alice Flora, the three last named being deceased. The parents are members of the M. E. Church of Allegheny, where they reside.