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	Subject:	ANDREW WYLIE wed MARGARET RITCHIE (of CRAIG RITCHIE); WYLIE FAMILY
	Post Date:	November 14, 2008 at 10:39:33
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Boyd Crumrine, "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men" (Philadelphia: L. H. Leverts & Co., 1882). Canonsburg Borough (pp. 601) CRAIG RITCHIE, whose name also appears as a purchaser in 1787, was born in Glasgow, Dec. 29, 1758; emigrated to this country in 1772, and when thirty years of age married MARY PRICE. He came to this section of country before 1782, as he was with Col. William Crawford in the Sandusky expedition in that year. Immediately upon the purchase of the lot in Canonsburg he opened a store and carried on the mercantile business for many years. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1784, and served in the Legislature of the State in 1793-95. He was also one of the first trustees of Jefferson College, secretary of the board, and treasurer. He died at Canonsburg, June 13, 1833, aged seventy-five years, and left a large family. REV. ANDREW WYLIE, president of Jefferson and Washington Colleges, married the ELDEST DAUGHTER. [NOTE: http://www.indiana.edu/~libwylie/AWylieBio.html EXCELLENT SITE: Dates of birth and death are given. UNDER -WYLIE HOUSE MUSEUM - located at 307 E. Second Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47401 : Built by ANDREW WYLIE, Indiana University’s First President, in 1835, the WYLIE HOUSE MUSEUM is one of Bloomington’s oldest structures and is listed on the National Register of Historic Place. ABOUT ANDREW WYLIE (FOR WHOLE ARTICLE, SEE WEB SITE; MORE INFORMATION IS GIVEN ABOUT THE FAMILY) “ANDREW WYLIE was born in 1789, the son of an immigrant Irish farmer. He grew up in Washington County, PA...MARGARET RITCHIE became his wife in 1813, and together they had twelve children...HALF-COUSIN: THEOPHILUS WYLIE...ANDREW WYLIE died in WYLIE House, on Nov. 11, 1851 at the age of 62...MARGARET continued to live in the house until her death in 1859. The heirs sold the house and 5 acres of the original 20 acre homestead to THEOPHILUS A. WYLIE, ANDREW’S half-cousin and also a professor at Indiana University. [ANDREW WYLIE, SR. died at 2:00 P. M. Tuesday Nov. 11, 1851 of inflammation of the lungs after illness of three days aged 62. ANDREW and MARGARET’S children and grandchildren include: 1. ANDREW (b. Feb.25, 1814-1905): Married CAROLINE BYRAN; Children: ANDREW, PENDLETON, HORACE 2. WILLIAM (Jan. 1, 1816-March 18, 1835) 3. MARY ANN (Sept. 15, 1817-1886) ; Married JAMES F. DODDS; Children: RACHEL EMMA, SAMUEL WYLIE, MARY ELIZABETH, JAMES KEMPER, ANNIE LOUISA, MARGARET IRENE, LILIAN MADORA, WILLIS RITCHIE 4. CRAIG RITCHIE (April 25, 1819-July 23, 1840) 5. ELIZABETH (April 1, 1821-1900); Married JOHN McCALLA; Child: MARY BALLANTINE 6. JOHN HOSEA (Feb. 14, 1823-March 10, 1855); Married LIZZIE LEEDS; Child: IRENE E. 7. SAMUEL THEOPHYLACT (Jan. 2, 1825-Dec. 25, 1850) 8. MARGARET (Dec. 23, 1826-1898); Married SAMUEL MARTIN; Children: WILLIAM BOONE, SUSAN, MARY, EMMA, NEVINS, CLAUDIUS, FLORA BALLENTINE 9. IRENE CATHERINE (March 22, 1829-1878); Married JOSEPH BELL; Children: ANDREW WYLIE, JOSEPH HENRY, MARGARET, WALTER, FRANCES 10. REDICK McKEE (May 22, 1831-1904); Married MADELINE THOMPSON; Children: JANE, REDICK ANDREW, FRANCIS B., MADELINE [http://www.indiana.edu/~libwylie/documents/mathsample.pdf “REDICK McKEE WYLIE, was a successful farmer in Bloomington, and he eventually also went into business with JOHN McCALLA. JOHN died in 1899. Many of the WYLIES and McCALLAS are buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington including ANDREW & MARGARET WYLIE, their son, REDICK, and JOHN and ELIZABETH McCALLA. During the time between 1840-41, eight of the WYLIE‘S twelve children were still living at home, four boys and four girls.” ] 11. ANDERSON McELROY (Dec. 12, 1833-1892); Married MARGARET CONKLIN; Children: HENRY, MARY, CAROLINE, ANDREW 12, JANE MELHEME (May 9, 1836-Oct. 4, 1865) REV. SAMUEL F. LEAKE also married a DAUGHTER. ELIZABETH became the wife of DR. JONATHAN LEATHERMAN, and settled in Canonsburg. Another DAUGHTER [MARY] became the wife of DR. GEORGE HERRIOT. DRS. LEATHERMAN and HERRIOT both practiced in Canonsburg, and died there. ABIGAIL and JANE, also daughters of CRAIG RITCHIE, lived and died unmarried. JOHN, a son of CRAIG RITCHIE, removed to New Orleans, and finally to Texas, where he died. DAVID studied law, and practiced in Pittsburgh, and died there. He was at one time member of Congress from that district. WILLIAM, another son, removed to Wheeling, where he died. CRAIG RITCHIE, the youngest son, remained at Canonsburg, and carried on the mercantile business at the old place, where the RITCHIE Block now stands. Later he went to Wheeling, Va., where he married MRS. CHICKERING, and remained a number of years. He returned to Canonsburg, and lived there till his death. His widow still resides in Canonsburg, and his son, WILLIAM H. S. RITCHIE, is a merchant on the site where his father and grandfather kept store before him. W. H. S. RITCHIE. W. H. S. Ritchie was born in Canonsburg, Washington Co., Pa., June 9, 1850. His grandfather, HON. CRAIG RITCHIE was born in Glasgow, Scotland, Dec. 29,1758. He emigrated to this country in 1772. He early evinced extraordinary talents for business, and soon succeeded in working his way to the position of a successful merchant in Canonsburg. At the age of thirty he secured to himself the possession of a most estimable and valuable wife by marrying MISS MARY PRICE, a native of Maryland. She died at Canonsburg in 1836. This excellent lady, who became the mother of a large family (fourteen children), pre-eminently adorned her station, and greatly contributed to MR. RITCHIE’S happiness and success in life. She sympathized with him in his toils and struggles to sustain Jefferson College through its early history; and her name ought ever to stand with those of Mrs. Canon, Mrs. McMillan, and other noble women who labored and prayed and made such sacrifices for this institution. MR. RITCHIE’S energy of character, business habits, integrity of principle, and general intelligence secured to him a widely extended reputation. He was early elected to the Legislature, and served his country for some years in this capacity. During the "Whiskey Insurrection" he took a decided stand on the side of law and order, and rendered himself so unpopular with some of the leaders of that unhappy affair that he was in danger of their vengeance. Indeed, nothing but his absence in attendance at the General Assembly of the State saved his property from the torch of the incendiaries at the time that Gen. Neville's house was burned to the ground, as some of the party told the family. He enjoyed the confidence and especial friendship of Gen. Washington, who often visited him and corresponded with him, and availed himself of MR. RITCHIE’S aid in the management of his landed interest in Washington County. He not only lodged with MR. RITCHIE, and often dined with him, hut took many a walk with him along the banks of Chartiers, conferring with him, not only about his own private interests, but the public concerns of the country. He also enjoyed the friendship and confidence of Dr. McMillan, who made MR. RITCHIE’S house his home whenever he was in Canonsburg. For more than forty years there was an unbroken intimacy between these good men. It would be hard to say how much Jefferson College is indebted to MR. RITCHIE for its successful struggles in its most perilous times. He was one of its first trustees, and secretary of the board for a long time. He also was appointed treasurer at various times, and managed the financial affairs of the college with great judgment and success, often paying large sums in advance from his own pocket. He was by far the best business man they had, and did more in devising ways and means to sustain the college than perhaps all the other trustees together, even including Dr. McMillan himself. He gave a large portion of his time and personal attention in superintending the progress of the new building (Providence Hall), and provided from his own resources whatever might be temporarily wanted by the workmen. When, in 1817, every other trustee seemed to despair of the further existence of the college, MR. RITCHIE was unmoved and immovable, and took such energetic steps as reanimated the friends of the institution and secured its continuance. He died June 13,1833. He was a gentleman of the old school. His dignified and somewhat aristocratic manners and his fine personal appearance commanded respect wherever he might be found. For honesty of principle, goodness and charity, and for self-sacrificing efforts in behalf of Jefferson College, the church of his choice, and the country of his adoption, MR. RITCHIE had no superior in the men of his day. To have so long enjoyed the confidence and esteem of Gen. Washington and Dr. McMillan is a high honor to which few, living or dead, can lay claim. He left behind him a large family of uncommon intelligence and refinement. A number of them died in infancy. The REV. DR. ANDREW WYLIE, president first of Jefferson College, then of Washington College, and lastly of Indiana University, married his OLDEST DAUGHTER. The REV. JOSEPH T. SMITH, D.D., of Baltimore, married a GRANDDAUGHTER...”