The Devine Family of Bradford, Pennsylvania

One of Bradford’s best known and most highly respected citizens was the late William Francis Devine, for many years the proprietor of a popular and admirably conducted hotel and in his youth a brave soldier in the Union army. Mr. Devine was of Irish ancestry, a stock which has given to the United States many of her best and most useful citizens.

(I) Thomas Devine

Thomas Devine, father of William Francis Devine, was born in Ireland, emigrated to the United States and became a merchant tailor in Pittsburgh, where he passed the remainder of his life. He married Mary Gilner, who was like himself a native of Ireland, and died in Pittsburgh several years after the decease of her husband in that city. Of the thirteen children born to them the following grew to maturity:

1. Margaret, born in Ireland, married John Feneran, of the same country, now of Baltimore, and had three children:
   1. John, deceased;
   2. Lauretta, of Philadelphia,
   3. Mayne, of Baltimore.
2. Mary Ann, born in Pittsburgh, died there unmarried.
3. Martha, born in Pittsburgh, is unmarried and lives in Chicago.
4. William Francis, of whom further.
5. Jennie, married Edward Cassidy, a bridge builder of Pittsburgh, and died there as did her husband, leaving two children,
   1. Mercedes, of Chicago.
   2. Edward, of Chicago.
6. Ella, now lives in Pittsburgh, widow of Anthony Urban, who was a druggist in Chicago and died there, leaving five children all of Chicago:
   1. Ella,
   2. Stella,
   3. Antoinette,
   4. Graham,
   5. one who died young.
7. Thomas, unmarried, in business in Butler county, Pennsylvania.
8. James, died unmarried in Pittsburgh, in which city all these eight children, with the exception of the eldest, were born.

(II) William Francis Devine

William Francis, son of Thomas and Mary (Gilner) Devine, was born March 12, 1845, in Pittsburgh, where he received his education in the public schools, afterward finding employment as a puddler in his native city. While still hardly more than a boy the course of his life was changed by the outbreak of the civil war, for he was quick to feel the military ardor which inspired so many youths of that stirring period. In 1861, being then but sixteen years old, he enlisted from Pittsburgh in Colonel Black’s regiment and served throughout the entire four years of the war. His regiment did gallant service in the hottest of the fight at Gettysburg and also participated in many other important engagements. After the close of the war Mr. Devine went into the hotel business in Butler county, in what was known as the Bullion District, meeting with an encouraging measure of success. In 1879 he came to Bradford, where he became the proprietor of one of the city’s most prominent hotels, the prestige of which he steadily maintained, both by his able and enterprising method of administration and by his personal popularity, continuing in this business until the close of his life. He belonged to Bradford Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and also to the Maccabees, and like his father followed the standard of the Democratic party. He was a member of the Roman Catholic church.

Mr. Devine married, June 12, 1878, Sarah Louise Donahue (see Donahue III), and they became the parents of the following children:

1. Edith, born September 10, 1880, in Butler county, Pennsylvania, married Clifford Bauer, of Bradford, owner of a planing mill in the west.
2. Ella, born December 15, 1882, in Bradford, married Jesse McFarland, foreman of a mill in Oil City, Pennsylvania, and they have four children:
   1. Louise, born September 12, 1899;
   2. William, born February 22, 1903;
   3. James, born November 22, 1906;
   4. John, born 1910.
3. James Marshall, born September 7, 1885, in Bradford, now the proprietor of a hotel in Clarksburg, West Virginia, married Alice Lowe, of Bradford.

The death of Mr. Devine, which occurred March 12, 1898, his fifty-third birthday, was a distinct loss to Bradford, removing as it did one of her most useful and popular citizens, a man of whom it may be truly said that he was loved by his family and friends and sincerely respected by the entire community.

The Donahue Line

(I) James Donahue

James Donahue, grandfather of Mrs. Sarah Louise (Donahue) Devine, was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, where he passed his entire life on his farm. His wife was a native of the same county, and one son was born to them, William, of whom further. James Donahue and his wife were members of the Roman Catholic church, and both died on the farm.

(II) William Donahue

William, only child of James Donahue, was born in 1831, in county Tyrone, Ireland, where he received an excellent education. At the age of twenty-one he emigrated to the United States, settling in Butler county, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the coke and coal business, his superior education enabling him to take charge of the books and at the same time manage the furnaces as overseer. He was a staunch Democrat, and a member of the Roman Catholic church. Mr. Donahue married, in Ireland, Mary Jane, born in 1835, in county Tyrone, daughter of James and _____ (Armstrong) McClintic, both natives of that county, where the former was a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Donahue were the parents of the following children:

1. Sarah Louise, of whom further.
2. Margaret, born in October, 1853, in Butler county, now lives in Cleveland, Ohio, unmarried.
3. Elizabeth, born in 1855, in Butler county, now lives, unmarried, in Buffalo, New York.
4. Cecilia, born in 1857, in Butler county, as were all the younger children, married Patrick B. Hanlon, an oil producer of that county, and died November, 1910, leaving four children: Edith, born 1877, died November, 1910; Harry, born 1879; Frances, born 1881, married George H. Hyde, a millionaire speculator of Ridgeway, Pennsylvania; and Raymond, born 1883.
5. Susanna, born 1859, married William Doughty, of Butler county, now the proprietor of a hotel in Fulton, Ohio, and has one child, Charles.
6. William, born 1861, now in business in Sistersville, West Virginia, married Hattie Patterson, of Clarion county, Pennsylvania, and has one child, Charles, born 1891.
7. Mary, born 1863, died 1864. The mother of these children died in 1865 in Butler county. Like her husband she was a member of the Roman Catholic church.

(III) Sarah Louise Donahue

Sarah Louise, eldest child of William and Mary Jane (McClintic) Donahue, was born March 17, 1852, on the ocean, while her parents were making the voyage to this country. Her education was obtained in the public schools of Butler county, and she became the wife of William Francis Devine (see Devine II). Mrs. Devine is a member of the Roman Catholic church, and belongs to the Ladies’ Catholic Benevolent Association of Bradford, having been the first president of this organization.

See: Genealogy of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania

Source

Jordan, J. W. 1840-1921. (1913). Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co.

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