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History of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania : including its early settlement..
Chicago : A. Warner Co., 1889
Cushing, Thomas, 1821
Pg. 633
WILLIAM B. NEEL, carpenter, McKeesport, was born in Mifflin Twp., this county, Jan. 26, 1832, son of SAMUEL C. and MARY (SMILEY) NEEL. JOHN NEEL, his paternal grandfather, was a native of Ireland, and among the pioneers of Mifflin Twp., where he cleared and improved a farm, on which he lived and died. His children were JOHN, ARCHIBALD, THOMAS, WILLIAM, SAMUEL C. and TABITHA (MRS. ROBERT McELHANEY). The maternal grandfather of our subject was a pioneer of what is now Allegheny City. SAMUEL C. NEEL was a farmer, and lived in Mifflin Twp. His children were JOHN, THOMAS, WILLIAM B., SAMUEL C. GEORGE W., JOSEPH, GEORGE and DORCAS. WILLIAM B. was reared and educated in Mifflin Twp., and served an apprenticeship at the carpenter’s trade, which he followed in Mifflin Twp. in connection with farming until 1860, when he located in McKeesport, where he has worked at his trade ever since. In 1860 he married NANCY, daughter of HENRY and MARY ROBINSON, Westmoreland Co., Pa., and has four children: WILLIAM, JAMES F., CHARLES and MARY.
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