HON. JOHN HOGE EWING, of Washington, Pa.
*Boyd Crumrine, "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men" (Philadelphia: L. H. Leverts & Co., 1882).
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MAJ. JOHN H. EWING
HON. JOHN HOGE EWING, of Washington, Pa. was born in Fayette County on Oct. 5, 1796...MR. EWING’S father was WILLIAM EWING, who was the son of GEORGE EWING, of Peach Bottom Twp., York County, lying on the Susquehanna and the Maryland line.GEORGE EWING was the cousin of the celebrated DR. JOHN EWING who became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia in 1759, provost of the University of Pa in 1779, and was one of the Baltimore commissioners to determine the boundary controversy between Pa. and Va, and one of the commissioners to extend Mason and Dixon’s line in 1784.The EWINGS were of Scotch lineage, and their ancestors emigrated from the north of Ireland to East Nottingham, Md., early in the last century.GEORGE EWING, never moved from the East, but his son WILLIAM, about 1790 came west as a surveyor and settled near Heistersburg, in Luzerne Twp., Fayette Co., where, in the next year he married MARY, the daughter of JEHU CONWELL, who had settled in that neighborhood probably as early as 1768 or 1769.Of this marriage the children were HON. GEORGE EWING, who early went to Texas under Gen. Sam. Houston; HON. NATHANIEL EWING, late of Uniontown, Pa., deceased; JOHN H.; JAMES EWING, late of Dunlap’s Creek, Pa., deceased; ELIZABETH, widow of JAMES E. BREADING; MARIA, widow of HON. JAMES VEECH; ELLEN, wife of JOHN H. WALLACE; LOUISA, wife of WILLIAM WILSON; MARY ANN, wife of GEORGE MASON, of Muscatine, Iowa; and CAROLINE, who died in infancy.
JOHN H. EWING, of this family came to Washington College at the beginning of the college year in 1810, and made his home with his father’s friend, HON. JOHN HOGE...(pg. 557)MR.EWING purchased the tract called “Meadow Lands,” on the Chartiers, about three and half miles north of Washington, through which the Chartiers Railway passes.Here he resided with his family until he moved to his present residence on East Beau Street in 1840; for on Nov. 2, 1820, he had married ELLEN, a daughter of JAMES BLAINE, and sister of EPHRAIM L. BLAINE, and the family consisted of the following children of that marriage in the order of their birth: MARGARET B., the widow of DR. WILLIAM A. HALLOCK; REV. WM. EWING, Ph. D., now in charge of MILLER’S Run Presbyterian Church, and of the Canonsburg Academy; JAMES BLAINE (1) died in early years; ELIZABETH B., wife of REV. WILLIAM SPEAR, D. D., for several years a missionary in China, and afterwards with the Chinese at San Francisco; DR. GEORGE EWING, in the iron business at Pittsburgh; MARY L., wife of HENRY WOODS, D. D.; ANN ELLEN, died young; JAMES BLAINE (2) who also died in early years; SAMUEL BLAINE, now farming upon the “Meadow Lands.”But soon after the birth of the last-named son, to wit, on Aug. 26, 1840, the mother of this family died at the new residence in Washington.
On Aug. 12, 1845, MR. EWING again married.His second wife was MARGARET C., daughter of RICHARD BROWN, who (her father dying in her infancy) was reared and educated in the family of the celebrated minister, BISHOP H. B. BASCOM, of the Methodist Episcopal Church.Of this union there have been two children: CLARA BASCOM, born June 20, 1846, and died about ten years of age; and FLORENCE BELL, born May 25, 1858...
I am not related to the EWINGS.Just gave you some information on the family