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J. W. McCREEDY, justice of the peace, Mansfield, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 26, 1848. About 1819 his grandfather, Hugh McCreedy, came to America from Ireland, landed in New York, and soon after came to Pittsburgh. He was a linen-manufacturer in the old country, but in America was engaged in peddling. He died soon after his arrival in Pittsburgh. His son, Robert, was twelve years of age when he came with his parents to this country; he was by trade a stone cutter. He married Margaret Huston, who bore him six children. Robert died in 1865, aged about fifty-eight years; his widow still survives him, aged about sixty years. J. W., our subject, is the second son. He was educated in the common schools until the age of twelve years, soon after which he commenced the study of drugs, and graduated at Ann Arbor College. He followed the drug business for thirteen years. He came to Mansfield in 1871, and engaged in the hardware business, and here has since remained. Mr. McCreedy married, in 1872, Mary Higbee, daughter of Benjamin and Jane Higbee, of this county. Mr. McCreedy is a republican, and was elected by that party justice of the peace of the borough of Mansfield in 1876, and still fills that office. He has been a member of the town council, and twice burgess of the borough. He is a Freemason and a member of the U. P. Church.