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History of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania : including its early settlement
Chicago : A. Warner Co., 1889
Cushing, Thomas, 1821
Pg. 268
WILLIAM ANDERSON, grandfather of WILLIAM A. HERRON, and one of the pioneers of the notable Pittsburgh family was born in Ireland about the middle of the 18th century. He came to America between 1775 and 1780. He first settled in Carlisle, Pa., but soon joined the army under Gen. Washington, taking the rank of major, and serving with distinction throughout the war. At its close he was awarded the contract for building the presidential mansion (the White House). ..In 1795 he left Carlisle, and after stopping several months in Huntingdon and Bedford, Pa., putting up public buildings in both places, he arrived in Pittsburgh in 1797. His first place of residence was on the north side of Penn St., between Fourth St. (formerly Pitt St.) and Evans Alley, about where J. H. Shoenberger’s residence now stands. The house was built of logs. The orchard was between the house and the Allegheny River, and the horse and cow pasture between Penn and Liberty streets.
MR. ANDERSON built the first steam sawmill and gristmill of west of the Allegheny mountains. He bought his logs of the Indians, and did a large business in lumber. His gristmill was the second one erected in Pittsburgh...Among the most notable buildings erected by him may be mentioned the First Presbyterian Church on Wood St. The new church was built over the log edifice, the logs being taken out of the windows of the new church. In 1810 he built a two-story brick residence on the corner of Penn St. and Irwin’s Alley (now Eighth St.) for himself and son JAMES, which is still standing, immediately in front of his sawmill. JOHN HERRON afterward purchased this property on Penn St., with the house and mills, from MAJ. ANDERSON (his father-in-law) between Maddock’s Alley and McCormick’s Alley, where he carried on the business for many years, but afterward confined himself entirely to his coal operations. MR. ANDERSON was a close friend of Col. O’Hara, and was very active in all public enterprises in Pittsburgh’s early days.
He united with the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, bring his certificate of membership and good standing with him to America. On his arrival in this country he joined a church at or near Carlisle, and later he and his wife became members of the First Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. He was a prominent member there until 1820, when he moved to Mercer Co., near Mercer City, where he owned a fine tract of land that he intended to improve. He was not able to carry out his intentions, however, for in 1821, he was attacked by an illness that proved fatal in a few days. His body was taken to Pittsburgh and buried in the First Presbyterian churchyard, beside that of his wife, who had passed away about 1816. She was MARY ANN CANN, born in Carlisle, Pa., and becoming an orphan, lived in the family of her guardian, Rev. Dr. Duffield, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, of which she was a member.
Pg. 268, 269
JOHN HERRON was descended from Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. His grandfather, FRANCIS HERRON, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, and came to this country in 1734, settling 11 years on a creek now known as HERRON’S branch, in Franklin Co., Pa. He had two sons: JOHN, father of REV. FRANCIS HERRON, D. D., of the First Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, and JAMES, father of JOHN, the subject of this sketch. MAJ. JAMES HERRON was born in 1754, married NANCY DAVIDSON, an died April 24, 1829, at Shippensburg, Pa. He had four sons and two daughters: JOHN, NANCY (wife of JOHN CRISWELL), WILLIAM, JAMES, SARAH (wife of ROBERT McINTYRE) and SAMUEL D.
JOHN HERRON was born April 3, 1792, on HERRON’S branch. In 1812 he went to Pittsburgh...He purchased a large farm of coal land at Minersville (now a part of Pittsburgh), and engaged in coal mining and farming...
In 1817 MR. HERRON married CLARISSA, daughter of MAJ. WILLIAM AND NANCY (CANN) ANDERSON. They had nine children: JAMES A. (deceased July 4, 1842, in his 25th year), WILLIAM A., JOHN D. (married to EMMA, daughter of SAMUEL THOMPSON), RICHARD G. (a colonel in the war of the rebellion, married to ANNETTE TOMLINSON), FRANCIS J. (the youngest general in the Union service during the civil war), DAVID R. (lieutenant of an Iowa battery), MARY ANN (married to REV. GEORGE A. LYON, D. D., of Erie, Pa.), ELIZA (married to RICHARD SILL, also of Erie) and MARGARET D.(married to WILLIAM C. FRIEND, of Pittsburgh).
The family moved from Pittsburgh, where MR. HERRON owned a great deal of property, to Minersville in 1833, on account of his health. Here he built a Presbyterian church. He was an elder in the church. He died in May 1863 and his wife died May 1873.
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WILLIAM ANDERSON HERRON, son of JOHN and CLARISSA HERRON, was born Aug. 7, 1821...He married on Oct. 23, 1843, to MISS LOUISA J. HILLS, daughter of RUFUS HILLS, of Erie, Pa., where she lived until she was 13. Seven children were born to them, of whom four are living: JAMES A. (married in 1867 to ISDA GREEN, and both now deceased), RUFUS H. (married in 1872 to JENNIE SHUGART, of Titusville, Pa.), SARAH (married in 1868 to OGDEN M. EDWARDS); JOHN W. (living), LOUISA J., FANNIE D. and WILLIAM (deceased).
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