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Title: Genealogical and personal history of western Pennsylvania Vol. 3 / editor-in-chief, John W. Jordan.
Author: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921.
pg. 1658
“RANKIN - The RANKIN family is an old one in this country, coming to it originally from Ireland, the land which has produced so many heroes of romance and of real life. They are to be found now in all states of the Union, and are highly esteemed in the various communities.
(I) ARCHIBALD RANKIN was born in Mifflin township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, his parents having been among the earliest settlers in that section. He was extensively engaged in farming in Mifflin township on land which had been patented by William Penn to --- VAN SWEARINGEN, and from him to the RANKIN ancestors. He married --- BREWSTER. Both were members of the Presbyterian church, and strict observers of their religion.
(II) WILLIAM RANKIN, son of ARCHIBALD and -- (BREWSTER) RANKIN, was born in Mifflin township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1836, and died May 31, 1904. Until he was forty-eight years of age he lived on the RANKIN homestead in Mifflin township, then removed to McKeesport, where he lived retired the remainder of his life. He was a staunch supporter of Democratic principles, and served as school controller for several terms. He and his wife were members of the Mifflin United Presbyterian Church. He married MARY ANN McCLURE, born in Mifflin township, December 25, 1837, died May 6, 1896. They had children: 1. HOWARD, deceased; was a mill worker in McKeesport. 2. WILLIAM A., was a (pg. 1658) teamster in McKeesport, and died unmarried. 3. REBECCA, died a the age of four years. 4. FRANK, a teamster in McKeesport, died at the age of twenty-five years. 5. FANNIE, died at the age of two and half years. 6. MARY, married S. P. MEYERS, a dentist, living in Pittsburgh. 7. CHARLES AUSTIN, of further mention.
JUDGE FRANCIS McCLURE, grandfather of MRS. MARY ANN (McCLURE) RANKIN, was born in county Down, Ireland, in 1742, and died in 1845, at the advanced age of one hundred and three years. He received an excellent education, and emigrated to America about 1770, settling in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He then removed to Wheeling, Virginia, where he served as postmaster several years, and about the year 1788 came to Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, where he took up about five hundred acres of land in “Buttermilk Hollow,” in Mifflin township. There he built a stone house which was in use many years but is now gone. He became associate judge in Allegheny county, and was a man of great influence in his day. He was possessed of a considerate fortune, kept fox hounds, hunters, etc., and his house was beautifully furnished with mahogany furniture. Like all of his family he was a strict observer of the United Presbyterian faith, and he was a very determined adherent of the principles of the Whig party. He had a brother, DR. RICHARD McCLURE, who was a prominent physician in Belfast, Ireland, where his death occurred, JUDGE McCLURE married MARGARET McCLURE, not a member of his branch of the McCLURE family, who was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1762, and they had children: 1. ANN, who died unmarried at an advanced age. 2. FRANCIS, of further mention. 3. ANDREW, was a farmer in Mifflin township.
FRANCIS (2) McCLURE, son of JUDGE FRANCIS (1) and MARGARET (McCLURE) McCLURE, was born on the McCLURE homestead in Mifflin township, and lived all his life on it, his death occurring in 1874 at the age of eighty years. He was a prominent farmer in his day, a member of the Presbyterian church, and a Republican in politics. He married REBECCA CRISWELL, born in county Mayo, Ireland, who came to this country at te age of thirteen years, with her parents. They had children: 1. ANN, died at the age of five years. 2. CATHERINE, married ROBERT DAY, lived in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, both deceased. 3. RICHARD, born February 15, 1823, died in March, 1912; was a retired farmer; married ANNA M. READ. 4. MARGARET, married FRANCIS McCLURE, who was a farmer in Versailles township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. 5. SARAH, now living in McKeesport; married DAVID RHODES, a riverman, who was drowned. 6. MARY ANN, who married MR. RANKIN, as above mentioned. 7. FANNIE, married GEORGE FULMER, a contractor and builder, living in Pittsburgh. 8. FRANCIS, died in infancy.
(III) DR. CHARLES AUSTIN RANKIN, son of WILLIAM and MARY ANN (McCLURE) RANKIN, was born in Mifflin township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, November 25, 1873. For a period of five years he attended the public school near his home, then, the family having removed to McKeesport in (pg. 1659) 1883, he attended the schools there and was graduated from the high school in 1892. Having matriculated at the West Penn Medical College in Pittsburgh, he pursued his studies there and was graduated from this institution in the class of 1896, the degree of Doctor of Medicine being conferred upon him. He at once opened offices in McKeesport for the practice of his profession, and has continued uninterruptedly up to the present time. He has now been a member of the medical staff of the McKeesport Hospital for nine years, and a member of the surgical staff of the same institution for two years. He is a member of the McKeesport Academy of Medicine, the Allegheny County Medical Society and the Pennsylvania State Medical Association. He and his wife are members of the First Methodist Church of McKeesport, and he is an Independent in his political views. His fraternal connections are as follows: Aliquippa Lodge, No. 375, Free and Accepted Masons; Duquesne Chapter, No. 193, Royal Arch Masons; McKeesport Commandery, No. 86, Knights Templar; Pittsburgh Consistory, Scottish Rite; Syria Temple, of which his wife is also a member; Foresters of America; Improved Order of Maccabees. In 1894 DR. RANKIN built a beautiful house at No. 1016 Walnut street, in which he is still residing. He married, April 12, 1899, BELLE ALLEN, born at Coal Valley, Pennsylvania, a daughter of DAVID and HELEN ALLEN, the former, who was a pitt boss in the coal mines, now deceased. They have four children: MARY McCLURE, born December 12, 1902; MARGARET ALLEN, born April 15, 1906, on Easter Sunday.”
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