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JOHN BALDRIGE, JR., Braddock. His great-great-grandfather, a Scotchman, who moved to County Cavan, Ireland, married, June 16, 1714, Jeanette, daughter of Sir James Holmes, and by her had three sons and three daughters. They came to America and settled in Lancaster county, Pa., in 1745. Of these children, John, great-grandfather of our subject married Rebecca Clark, a native of Ireland and had sixteen children. He died July 31, 1766. Of his children, Joseph (a twin), grandfather of our subject, was born in 1762. This Joseph married Jane Gibb, about 1788, and moved from Lancaster county, Pa., to Westmoreland county. They had two children — John and Samuel. This wife dying, Joseph then married Mary Todd, who bore him four children: William T., Rebecca, Joseph (father of our subject) and David H. Joseph, the grandfather, bought a large tract of land on Loyalhanna creek, built a flouring-mill and engaged in milling and farming. He died May 5, 1859, aged seventy-seven. His son Joseph was born Jan. 1, 1802, and died when aged sixty-seven; he married Elizabeth Nicholls, who bore him four children, of whom the subject of this sketch is one.

John Baldrige, Jr., was born Dec. 26, 1831, and was educated at the public schools of Westmoreland county, Pa., and at Centre College, Danville, Ky. He married L. C., daughter of Alfred Corey, of Allegheny county, and they have eight children. He commenced business first in Latrobe, Westmoreland county, Pa., in 1853. Became the first telegraph-operator at Latrobe, and was for ten years in the employ of the P. R. R. Co. and the P. & E. R. R. Co. Leaving the railroad, he embarked, in 1865, in the coal and real-estate business in Braddock. He has been an elder in the First Presbyterian Church at Braddock since its organization in 1872. He is a republican.