Robert Haggarty, p. 1120

ROBERT HAGGARTY is a son of Samuel Haggarty, who was born in County Down, Ireland, and was brought to America by his parents when but four years old. He grew to manhood on a farm in Fayette county, Penn., which was located one mile from Coal Centre, Washington county, and there attended the log-cabin schools of the period. In early manhood he was married to Elizabeth Blayney, a member of a prominent pioneer family, and she bore him the following named children: Mrs. Louisa Russell, of Fayette county, Penn.; William, living in Monongahela; Samuel, deceased at the age of nine years; Johnson, who died in Ohio at the age of twenty-two years; Reuben, who went to Missouri with $1,500, and died seventeen years later, leaving a property of $50,000, and Robert. The father died in 1857 at the age of sixty-one years. He was a prominent member of the Democratic party.

Robert Haggarty was born March 17, 1835, on the old homestead in Fayette county, Penn., and there attended the common schools. At the age of seventeen years he began to learn the stonecutting and mason trade, receiving for the first year's pay $3 per month while learning. The second year he received $4 per month, and the third year he was paid 75 cents per day, after which he began business for himself. He was united in marriage with Elmira Ammon, a native of Carroll township, and at that time had but $5 with which to begin his wedded life. He now owns fifty acres of land in Carroll township, and twenty-five acres in Fallowfield township, but has given most of his time to his trade. In political opinion he votes with the Democratic party, and has served in Carroll township as president of the school board. He and his wife are the parents of five children, who were born as follows: Clarence Linton; Mrs. Margaret H. Coulter, of Carroll township; Harry Elwood, a stone mason of Monongahela; Violet Elmira, and Robert D.

Text taken from page 1120 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).

Transcribed January 1997 by Karen Souhrada of Pittsford, NY as part of the Beers Project.
Published January 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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