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Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and Present, J. H. Beers & Co., 1914 |
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John, 8-4.001 Jacob, 8-4.002 Aaron B, 8-5.0001 Samuel C, 8-5.0002 Thomas J, 8-5.0003 (Isiah) Edmund, 8-5.0004 Paul, 8-6.0013
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Pages 763 - 764: THOMAS J. Rowley a merchant, doing business at North Vandergrift,
Armstrong Co., Pa., is a member of one of the old and
prominent families of his section. He was born NOV. 26, 1875, along
Cherry run, in Plum Creek township, Armstrong county,
son of John Rowley and a grandson of Jacob Rowley.
Jacob Rowley was one of the pioneers in what is now Plum Creek
township, securing 600 acres of valuable land in early days, a
part of which remains in the family. In old township records his
name appears and he evidently was one of the leading men of
his time in this part of the county. He died at the age of
seventy-five years, while his wife, Polly Rowley, lived to be ninety
years old. They were buried in the Rowley burial tract on their own
land. They had five children: John, Jacob, Ellen, Nancy and
Martha. John Rowley, son of Jacob and father of Thomas J. Rowley, was born on his father's farm in Plum Creek township and became owner of 100 acres of the homestead. He devoted his life entirely, to agricultural pursuits. He was twice married, first to a member of the Rupert family of Armstrong county, and (second) to Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel George. She died in 1889. The children of the first union were: Aaron B., Mary and Josephine. Nine children were born to the second marriage, as follows: Sadie, who died when aged twenty-seven years; Samuel C., who owns the old family homestead in Plum Creek township; Susan, who died when aged twenty-one years; Thomas J.; Jemima, who married Joseph Dickey; Lottie, who married Harry Christy; Minnie, who married Harvey Rearick; and Alice and Edmund. Thomas J. Rowley attended the public schools and remained at home assisting his father until he was twenty-five years of age, when he was employed by the Gosser Furniture Company at Apollo, Pa. In January, 1904, he removed from that place to North Vandergrift, where he conducts a general store and also handles flour, feed and grain, doing a large business and enjoying patronage from all the surrounding country. He has always voted the Democratic ticket and in 19O7 was elected a justice of the peace for Parks township, in which office he served until 1911, when he resigned, finding it necessary to give all his attention to his rapidly growing business. Mr. Rowley married Annetta, daughter of Jacob Manges, of Indiana county, and they have four children: Velma, Leila, Paul and Gladys. Mr. and Mrs. Rowley are members of the Lutheran Church. |
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John, 8-4.001 Aaron B, 8-5.0001 Samuel C, 8-5.0002 Thomas J, 8-5.0003 Samuel Milford, 8-6.0007 |
Page 770: SAMUEL C. Rowley, the owner of a ninety-five acre farm in Plum
Creek township, Armstrong county, was born on that
place Oct. 4, 1872, son of John and Elizabeth (George) Rowley.
John Rowley was born April 6, 1831, on the farm where he died Oct.
24, 1905 ? the homestead place in Plum Creek township
now occupied by his son Samuel. He was twice married, and had a
family of twelve children, three by his first wife, Anna Mary
Rupert, namely: Aaron B., who is in Oklahoma, engaged in the real
estate business; Mary, wife of Simon Shawl, a farmer of
Plum Creek township; and Josephine, wife of John E. Burkett, of
South Bend township, Armstrong county. For his second wife
Mr. Rowley married Elizabeth George, who was born in Burrell
township, this county, daughter of Samuel George, and died at
the Rowley homestead July 1, 1887. She was the mother of nine
children, viz.: Sadie, born May 12, 1870, who died when thirty
years old; Samuel C., born Oct. 4, 1872; Susan Irene, born in 1874,
who died at the age of twenty-one years; Thomas a
merchant at North Vandergrift, Pa., who married Nettie Mangus, of
Indiana, Pa., and has four children, one son and three
daughters; Rosa J., who married Joseph Dickey, a mill man of
Vandergrift, Pa.,; Lottie E., who married Harry Christy, of Girty,
Armstrong county, a farmer, and has five children; Minnie, who
married H. N. Rearick, a farmer of Plum Creek township, and
has three children; Alice, born in 1886, who lives at home on the
old farm; and Eddie, a machinist, now at Gary, Ind., formerly in
the government employ. Samuel C. Rowley grew up on the home farm and obtained his education in the local country schools. He has always followed farming, and now owns and cultivates the homestead, which is a fertile tract of ninety-five acres, in excellent condition. He is one of the prosperous and progressive farmers of his section. On May 2, 1905, Mr. Rowley was married to Minnie Hankey, of Kittanning township, Armstrong county, daughter of Benjamin A. Hankey, whose family consisted of seven children. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rowley: Alice Ramona, born March 7, 1906; Beulah Ruth, born in June, 1908; and Samuel Milford, born in March, 1910. The family attend the Lutheran Church. In his political views Mr. Rowley is a Democrat. |
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Page 456
CHARLES E. KEELER, M. D., senior member of the firm of Drs. Keeler and Campbell, has been engaged in the general practice
of medicine at Elderton, Armstrong county, since 1898. He is a native of Manor township, this county, born Feb. 6, 1869, son
of John T. and Caroline (Rowley) Keeler. His grandfather and grandmother Keeler were of Holland Dutch and English
extraction, respectively. John T. Keeler, the Doctor's father, was born Oct. 4, 1843, in Kittanning township, Armstrong county, and passed all his life in that and Manor townships, following agricultural pursuits and building. By his first marriage, which took place in 1863, to Caroline Rowley, he had four sons, namely: Elmer E., a teacher, who lives at Ford City, Armstrong county; Anthony S., a manufacturer, of Marion, Ohio; Charles E.; and Harry Davis, a merchant, of Marion, Ohio. Mrs. Caroline Keeler died in 1872 at her home in Manor township. Her parents, Samuel and Katherine (Houser) Rowley, were both of German blood. By his second marriage, to Mrs. Clarissa Iseman, John T. Keeler had a family of seven children, two sons and five daughters. |
Thanks to Gordon Clark
Modified December 23, 2009