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McCORMICK. The McCormick family was one among the earliest settlers. Benjamin McCormick was one of two brothers who came to this country at the same time from Ireland, in the seventeenth century. He purchased a farm in Moon township, Allegheny county, Pa., where he settled as a farmer. The farm is owned at present by Nicholas Nolte. Unto him were born two sons — James and Hugh, they receiving their father’s property at his death, Hugh becoming the owner of about 300 acres of land. He was unfortunate at the raising of a barn, where a falling timber drove his leg into the ground, making him a cripple and fracturing his leg so that it never got entirely well, and was a source of severe suffering to him for a period of about fifty years, till in 1852, when he died at the age of eighty-three. In 1804 he was married to Miss Margaret Nichol, daughter of John Nichol, of Robinson township, and to them were born four sons and one daughter, Benjamin being the eldest. When a young man he came to Robinson township and settled on one hundred acres of land as a farmer, of which his father purchased fifty acres, and his mother inheriting fifty acres beside, as her part of a four-hundred acre tract divided by her father, John Nichol, between his eight children. In 1835 he was married to Miss Eleanor Deemer. He lived on this farm until his death. He died June 1, 1888, at the age of eighty-three, being the owner of 160 acres of land. His widow lives on the old homestead. Unto them were born eight children, of whom five sons and two daughters are now living.

Benjamin N. McCormick, his fourth son, was born in 1841, and was educated at the public schools in Allegheny county. He has always followed farming with the exception of the period he was in the war. He enlisted in 1863 in Battery G, 7th I. P. B., and was in the United States service eighteen months at Fort Delaware, until the close of the war. In 1880 he was married to Miss Letitia J., daughter of William Glass, and to them have been born three children, viz.: Benjamin Franklin, William Alvin and Roxie Etta. Mr. McCormick now owns eighty-two acres of land, which he inherits from his father, where he now resides. The family are members of Union U. P. Church; politically he is a republican.