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THOMAS WILSON McCUNE, retired, Wilkinsburg, was born in Elizabeth township, this county, in 1827, the eldest of eight children born to John B. and Mary (Wilson) McCune, of Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Thomas McCune, was of Scotch-Irish parentage; settled on a farm near Buena Vista, where he died. He had seven sons and two daughters, of whom John B. was the second. He was a boat-builder and afterward a farmer; he served several years as a road commissioner. Mary Wilson McCune died in her forty-fourth year, and Mr. McCune afterward married Mary Weddle, who bore him seven children. He died in 1876.

T. W. McCune was educated in the common schools, and when nineteen years old became associated with an uncle, supplying timber to the Youghiogheny Slackwater Navigation company. He continued in the lumber business for six years, and then kept a general store at Buena Vista till the outbreak of the civil war. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, 28th P. V. I., and served in the Army of the Potomac nearly two years, becoming sergeant-major. After leaving the military service he followed contracting, and for one year he was mine-manager for Laughlin & Co. and seven years manager of
the Eliza furnaces. In 1872 he went to Scottdale, and managed a furnace there seven years, at the end of which time he removed to Wheeling. After rebuilding the Belmont furnace, he removed to Huntingdon, Huntingdon county, and took charge of R. H. Powell’s plant at Saxton as general manager, and later was general superintendent for three years of the Glamorgan Iron company, at Lewistown, Mifflin county. He now devotes his attention to real estate. He came to Wilkinsburg in 1885, and built his handsome residence on Edgewood avenue. While at Scottdale, a part of which borough he laid out, he was school director and a member of the borough council, and he is now on the Wilkinsburg council. He is a republican, a member of Wilkinsburg Presbyterian Church, and a K. T. In 1850 he married Sarah H., daughter of Peter Patterson, and by her had two sons, John Harvey, who died when twelve years old, and one that died in infancy, unnamed. Mrs. McCune died in 1878, and in 1879 Mr. McCune married Emma, nee Balfe, widow of Robert Ray.