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HENRY TAYLOR McCORMICK, locomotive engineer, Wilkinsburg, was born in Brush Valley, Indiana county, Pa., June 19, 1843, a son of William and Margaret (Taylor) McCormick, also natives of that county. His grandfather, a Lutheran Irishman, settled, early in the present century, in Pennsylvania. There being no church of his faith in his neighborhood, his son associated with the Presbyterians. Henry was reared on a farm, and when sixteen years old became a brakeman on the P. R. R. A year later he took the position of fireman, and after three years in this service was given an engine, and now pulls the fast passenger train between Pittsburgh and Altoona. He has been engineer for twenty-five years, and has never had an accident, though he has had some narrow escapes. In 1876, while pulling a train with six hundred people en route for the Centennial Exhibition, he saved the train from destruction at an open switch by staying on his engine, at the imminent risk of going over a high embankment. Mr. McCormick is a republican; a member of the Masonic fraternity; his family attends the M. E. Church. He married, June 18, 1867, Mary C. McIntyre, who was born at George’s Station, Westmoreland county, a daughter of James and Annie (Funk) McIntyre, of Scotch and German descent, respectively. Mrs. McCormick is the mother of seven children: Edward Scott (fireman), James, William Devore, Mabel, Lottie, Henry and Mary.