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ROBERT CARSON CATHERWOOD, farmer, Culmerville, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., April 6, 1832, son of John Canning and Elizabeth (Fleming) Catherwood, who came to Pittsburgh, in 1812, from County Derry, Ireland. They died May 15, 1861, aged seventy-four years, and Dec. 20, 1845, aged forty-five years, respectively. His father was a farmer, but worked in the Pittsburgh rolling-mills for some time, and was justice of the peace for West Deer township for two terms. Mr. Catherwood has one sister, Mrs. Susan Hessen Culmer. Robert attended the common school here, and remained with his father until the death of the latter. He then worked on the farm, which his father bought about 1827, consisting of one hundred acres, which he cleared from the woods. Robert was married, July 14, 1857, to Sarah Catherine McKnight, of Meadville, Crawford county, Pa., daughter of David S. and Elizabeth (Wayley) McKnight, natives of Pennsylvania. Her father died in 1874, aged seventy-four years, and her mother lives in Tarentum, Pa. They are all members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and are among its founders; her father was one of the elders from its organization until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Catherwood have four children living and four dead. Those living are John Charles, James S., Robert Fleming and Joseph Leonard; those deceased were all under four years of age. Mr. Catherwood was justice of the peace for two terms, and has held all of the town offices.