My Genealogy Hound

JOHN A. McELHENY, farmer, post office Glenshaw, was born Aug. 8, 1834, on the old homestead. His grandfather, William McElheny, a Scotchman, came from Adams county, Pa., and settled in Snowden township, this county, where he died. He was a farmer, and married a Miss King, by whom he had the following-named children: Robert, William, Victor, Samuel, John, Hugh, Mrs. Torence, Mrs. Hara, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. King. Of these Samuel, Robert and John were sickle-makers by trade in Shaler township. John, our subject’s father, learned his trade with Robert; worked for T. W. Shaw for some time, and had a factory on Little Pine creek, where he owned a farm of one hundred acres. He married Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Hilands) Morrow, old settlers, and they had three children: Victor K., Mrs. Elizabeth Herst and John A. The last named married Sarah J. Griesmere, and they have seven children: John H., Robert H., Mary C., Caroline L., Thomas L. W., Oscar William C. and Le Roy. The Mc Elheny family have all been Presbyterians and republicans, and John McElheny, our subject’s father, served as justice of the peace twenty years. John A. McElheny is now engaged in farming on the old homestead in Shaler township.