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JOHN J. McCORMICK, steamship and railroad agent, post office Bonney, Pa., a son of Thomas and Elizabeth McCormick, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1834. Thomas was born in Ireland, came to this country in 1820, and settled in New York, where he married Elizabeth Grogan, by whom he had nine children: John J., Mary (deceased), James, Julia (wife of Laurence Brown), Elizabeth (wife of John W. Hawkins, of Connecticut), Catherine, Margaret, Thomas F. and Mary. John J. came to this county in 1865, and here he has since resided. In 1864 he married, in Covington, Ky., Martha E. Vandergrift, formerly of this county, and five children have been born to them: Sarah E. (wife of James P. Dunlevey), John V., William P., Edward C. and Mary E. (deceased). Mr. McCormick, in addition to other educational advantages, spent six years in college, but at the age of twenty-seven enlisted in the U. S. navy, where he remained four years and held the position of assistant purchasing paymaster. At the expiration of his service in the navy he came to Pittsburgh, Pa., and was two years in the coal trade, but for the past twenty years has been in his present business of steamship, exchange and railroad agent, having the agency of thirty-two companies, which have steamers plying between this country and Europe, He is also the city agent for the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad, and order agent for the Pennsylvania railroad. He is said to be the leading steamship agent in the United States.