Charles G. McIlvain, p. 282

CHARLES G. McILVAIN, a young attorney of Monongahela, and a progressive, native born citizen of the county, is a lineal descendant of the time-honored pioneer, Greer McIlvain, who came to this county from the eastern part of the State prior to 1788, and patented a large tract of land in Somerset township.

Charles G. was born April 6, 1862, in Carroll township, a son of Greer and Elizabeth (Williams) McIlvain, the former of whom was a grandson of the pioneer Greer McIlvain, a sketch of whom and the immediate ancestry of our subject appears elsewhere. Charles G. received his primary education at the common schools of his district, and at the age of fifteen he entered the Southwestern Normal School at California, Penn., on leaving which he for some time attended Jefferson Academy. He then entered the law school in connection with the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1885, and on his return home was admitted to the bar of Pittsburgh. He has succeeded in building up a large practice and highly respectable clientage in that city, and along the Monongahela valley.

On April 9, 1890, Mr. McIlvain was married to Nancy M., daughter of Capt. Peter Donaldson, of Brownsville, Fayette Co., Penn., and one child, Ruth, has come to brighten their home. Mr. McIlvain is a Republican in politics, and resides at Monongahela.

Text taken from page 282 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).

Transcribed June 1997 by Kathy Petty of Evansville, IN as part of the Beers Project.
Published June 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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