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EDWARD C. KEARNEY, physician, McKeesport, was born in Monongahela City, Pa., April 30, 1844, and is a son of Edward and Jane (Fleming) Kearney. His father was a native of Berkeley county, now West Virginia, a farmer by occupation, and about 1816 settled with his parents, James and Margaret Kearney, in Monongahela City. His wife was a daughter of David Fleming, a pioneer of Washington county, Pa. Our subject was reared in his native city, and graduated from Monongahela City academy. In 1860 he began the study of medicine with Dr. William H. King, and later with Dr. C. R. Stuckslager, and graduated from Western Reserve college, Cleveland, Ohio. He began the practice of his profession in 1866, in his native city. In 1868 he located at Dravosburg, Allegheny county, where he had a large and successful practice for seventeen years. In 1885 he came to McKeesport, where he has been in active practice since. He recently erected a fine residence on Shaw avenue, and in 1887-88 built the fine building known as the Kearney block, corner of Walnut street and Shaw avenue, one of the finest business blocks in the city. Dr. Kearney married, in 1873, Mary, daughter of William Stone, of Dravosburg, and has three children: Edward, William A. and Charles W.