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WILLIAM PARKER McDADE, toolmaker, post office Verona, was born on an island in the mouth of Plum creek, this county, April 5, 1852, a grandson of James McDade, who came from Ireland, and kept store many years in Pittsburgh, and also in what is now Verona. William Parker was jailer of Pittsburgh the same time that James McDade dwelt there, and Robert, son of the latter, married Mary, daughter of the former, both being born in the city. The McDades were Methodists and the Parkers Presbyterians. Robert McDade now resides in Pittsburgh, his wife having died June 14, 1888. He served three years in Hampton’s battery during the civil war, and his son went out at the age of fifteen, and died a year later in the service. William McDade was the youthful stay of his mother during his father’s military service, and had little opportunity for schooling. At the age of nineteen he went to learn the plasterer’s trade, which he followed six years. For the last twelve years he has been employed in the Verona Tool-works. He is a member of the R. A.; is a republican, and adheres to the faith of the Methodist Church. In 1875 he married Loraine, a native of Penn township, and daughter of Alexander and Eliza Smith. Their children are Harry Parker, Warren, Clifford, Ella Maud, Edith P. and an infant son unnamed.