The White Family of Youngsville, Pennsylvania

The history of the White family has been traced back into England to Robert White, who served as guardian and church warden in South Petherton, Somerset county, England, in 1578. He had a wife, Alice, buried there August 22, 1596, and he was buried September 7, 1600.

(II) Robert (2) White

Robert (2), son of Robert (1) and Alice White, was a resident of South Petherton, England, in 1598, and in 1601 he was guardian and church warden. He had a wife, Joan, who died in South Petherton, September 13, 1631, and he died there March 8, 1642.

(III) John White

John, son of Robert (2) and Joan White, was baptized in South Petherton, Somerset county, England, March 7, 1601-02, died in 1673. After his marriage, May 28, 1627, to Joan, baptized April 16, 1606, died in Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1654, daughter of Richard and Maudlin (Staple-Cooke) West, of Burton in Drayton, he resided in Drayton parish, Somerset, England. In 1638 he owned a house in South Petherton parish. It is thought he left England in April, 1639, and reached Salem, Massachusetts, in August, where he was granted sixty acres of land. He appears to have made a trip to England in 1648, returning to Massachusetts in 1653. Shortly after his return he went to Lancaster to live, where he had twenty acres of land allotted to him on the “Neck,” which was the family homestead for several generations. He was granted other tracts from time to time in Lancaster and died there, his will being proved May 28, 1673.

(IV) Josiah White

Josiah, son of John and Joan (West) White, was baptized in Salem, Massachusetts, June 4, 1643, died November 11, 1714. He lived on the estate of his father at Lancaster, and his residence there was used as a garrison. He was a soldier in King Philip’s war under Major Simon Willard, of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, in 1675, also under Captain Poole (see pp. 122, 260, Dodge’s “Soldiers of King Philip’s War”, “New England Historical and Genealogical Register”, vol. 41, p. 274). He married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary (King) Rice, of Marlboro.

(V) Josiah (2) White

Josiah (2), son of Josiah (1) and Mary (Rice) White, was born September 16, 1682, died May 5, 1772. He resided upon the homestead in Lancaster. He served as tithingman in 1718, moderator six years, treasurer one year, representative in the general court of Massachusetts in 1728-29-30-31-37, when he refused re-election, selectman for five years, being one of the first seven. He was sergeant in command of the garrison in the war with the Indians in 1704 on the west side of Penicook creek (called the Neck), and was deacon of the first church from 1729 to 1772. He married, June 26, 1706, Abigail, daughter of Josiah and Rebeckah (Waters) Whitcomb. Among their children was:

1. Josiah White, of whom further.

(VI) Josiah (3) White

Josiah (3), son of Josiah (2) and Abigail (Whitcomb) White, was born in Lancaster, January 3, 1714, died September 1, 1806. He resided in the part of Lancaster which was set off as Leominster where he built the first saw mill in the town, and also the “Old Abbey” in 1738. He later resided in Charlestown, New Hampshire, and Rockingham, Vermont. He married, March 14, 1739, Deborah House, who died September 22, 1768. Among their children was:

1. Luke White, of whom further.

(VII) Luke White

Luke, son of Josiah (3) and Deborah (House) White, was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, December 8, 1757, died in Richville, New York, March 17, 1837. He served as a private in Captain William Warner’s company, Colonel Thomas Marshall’s continental regiment, 1777-79; reported on command with state commissary, January, 1779; private in Colonel Marshall’s regiment, 1780 (Continental Army Books, vol. 2, part 1, p. 76; vol. 10, part 2, p. 31). He married, November 30, 1782, Eunice White; children:

1. Betsey White
2. Orson White
3. Eunice White
4. Susan White
5. Luke White
6. Horace White
7. David White
8. Roswell White
9. Asenath White
10. Eusebia White
11. John White, of whom further.

Eunice (White) White was born in Charlemont, March 29, 1766, died in Heath, Massachusetts, January 30, 1824, daughter of David White, baptized August 29, 1742, in Leominster, settled in Charlemont, and was drowned in Deerfield river in 1768. He married, February 14, 1765, Eunice, daughter of Simon and Anna (Fairbanks) Butler, the latter named having been a granddaughter of Jonas Fairbank, an early settler of Lancaster, and the great-granddaughter of John Prescott, the founder of Lancaster, who came to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1640, bringing with him his armor and coat-of-mail, and he was son of Ralfe and Ellen Prescott, Shevington, Parish of Standish, Lancaster, England, who was a descendant of Alfred the Great through William Fitz Gilbert (governor of Lancaster Castle, fifth baron of Kendal) and his wife, Gunred, Countess of Warwick, daughter of William de Warrenne and his wife, Elizabeth de Vermandois. David White was a son of Jonathan White, born in Lancaster, October 4, 1708, died December 4, 1788, son of Josiah (2) and Abigail (Whitcomb) White, aforementioned as generation V. Jonathan White was a large landholder, settling in the northern part of the New Grant, now Leominster, where he lived the greater part of his life. He was also an early proprietor of the town of Charlemont and built a house in the south part, which is now Heath. On March 29, 1755, he was commissioned captain in the Worcester Regiment of Colonel Ruggles, which marched for Crown Point. In this campaign he was promoted to the rank of major and then of lieutenant-colonel; as colonel he fought in the battle of Lake George, 1756, and participated in the Lake Champlain campaign, serving creditably until the end of the war. He married, June 22, 1732, Esther, daughter of James and Abigail (Gardner) Wilder.

(VIII) John White

John, son of Luke and Eunice (White) White, was born in Heath, Massachusetts, June 10, 1805, died in Harmony township, New York, May 23, 1853. He was educated at Canton and Potsdam, New York, taking training for the ministry. However, he taught school for some time, became a merchant and manufacturer of veneering, conducted a saw mill, and later, in 1843, purchased a farm in Chautauqua county, New York. He was a member of the Episcopal church, and highly respected in the community. He married, June 7, 1831, Rebekah Barber, born in Charlemont, Massachusetts, January 16, 1807, died at White’s Mills, Carter county, Missouri, November 19, 1881 (see Barber VII).

(IX) John Barber White

John Barber, only child of John and Rebekah (Barber) White, was born in Ellery township, Chautauqua county, New York, December 8, 1847. He was educated in the public schools of the township and Jamestown (New York) Academy. From 1866 to 1868 he taught school in the winter and worked on the farm in summer, and then, in partnership with two Jenner brothers, purchased a two hundred acre tract of pine timber, cut the logs, and had them sawed at a neighboring mill. In 1870 Mr. White bought out the Jenner brothers, and associated with R. A. Kinnear, of Youngsville, Pennsylvania, he opened lumber yards in Brady and Petrolia, Pennsylvania, which he disposed of in 1874. He then moved to Tidioute, Pennsylvania, where he purchased the Arcade Mill, and opened a lumber yard in Scrubgrass, Pennsylvania, and at the same time he assisted in founding the Warren County News, a weekly paper, in Youngsville, Pennsylvania, which was later moved to Tidioute, when Mr. White became the sole proprietor. In 1878 he returned to Youngsville and purchased a stave, heading and shingle mill. In 1880, in association with E. B. Grandin, Captain H. H. Cumings, the late J. L. Grandin and the late Jahu L. and Livingston L. Hunter, all of Tidioute, Mr. White organized the Missouri Lumber & Mining Company, a pioneer company in the development of the yellow pine lumber industry. Its mills, which were located at Grandin, Missouri, for over twenty years, are now in operation at West Eminence, Missouri. Mr. White has been general manager of this company since the beginning and president for a number of years, holding both positions at the present time. In 1899 he was associated with O. W. Fisher and others in the organization of the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company, with mills at Fisher and Victoria, Louisiana, having been secretary and director of this company since that time. In 1901, he organized the Louisiana Central Lumber Company, with mills at Clarks and Standard, Louisiana, and he is president of this company at the present time. He is also connected with various enterprises in the following capacities: President of the Forest Lumber Company, which owns a line of retail yards; secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Missouri Lumber & Land Exchange Company, with offices in the R. A. Long Building, Kansas City, Missouri; president of Salem, Winona & Southern Railroad Company; president of the Ouachita & Northwestern Railroad Company; president of the Reynolds Land Company; vice-president of the Grandin-Coast Lumber Company, with timber holdings in the state of Washington; vice-president of the Fisher Flouring Mills Company, with mills at Seattle, Washington, and Belgrade, Montana; vice-president of the Fisher-White-Henry Company, Seattle, Washington. Mr. White also owns a dairy farm on Chautauqua Lake, New York. He was the organizer and first president of the Missouri & Arkansas Lumber Association, the first organization of Yellow Pine lumber dealers, which was later merged into the Southern Lumber Manufacturers’ Association, of which Mr. White was twice elected president. He is now a director of the Yellow Pine Manufacturers’ Association, and a member of the board of governors of the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association. He was also president of the Bank of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, from 1886 to 1907, and is a director in the New England National Bank, Kansas City, Missouri.

Mr. White served as president of the board of education at Youngsville, Pennsylvania, from 1876 to 1879 and from 1880 to 1883. He was elected to the Pennsylvania legislature in 1878, and was elected by the legislature of 1878 and 1879 one of a committee of seven to prosecute bribery cases. He served as postmaster at Grandin, Missouri, from 1887 to 1892. In November, 1905, he was appointed by President Roosevelt as his personal representative to investigate as to whether the Cass Lake (Minnesota) Indian reservation should be opened up in part for settlement. Mr. White is deeply interested in the cause of conservation, and has written many papers which have been published in pamphlet form. In 1908 he was appointed by President Roosevelt as a member of the National Commission on the Conservation of Natural Resources. He was appointed by Governor Hadley on the Missouri State Forest Commission. He was chairman of the executive committee of the first, second and third National Conservation Congress, and president of the fourth National Congress held at Indianapolis, Indiana, in October, 1912. He is a director of the National Conservation Association, and also of the American Forestry Association. He is a member of the National Association for Preventing the Pollution of Rivers and Waterways, of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, the National Irrigation Congress, and the Southern Commercial Congress. He is chairman of the Missouri committee of the National Conservation Exposition to be held in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1913. He is a member of the advisory committee of National Soil Fertility League. In 1912 he was appointed by Governor Hadley, of Missouri, on his personal military staff with the rank of colonel.

Mr. White also holds the following offices: President of the Kansas City Historical Society, elected October 1, 1912; for fifteen years deputy governor-general of the Society of Colonial Wars from Missouri; fourth vice-president from Missouri of the Sons of the Revolution; trustee of Kidder Institute, Kidder, Missouri; trustee of Drury College, Springfield, Missouri. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, Jamestown, New York, and Ararat Temple, Kansas City, Missouri. He is a member of the Missouri Historical Society, Virginia Historical Society, New England Historical & Genealogical Society, Worcester Society of Antiquity, “Old Northwest” Genealogical Society, Heath Historical Society (life), National Municipal League, American Academy of Political and Social Science (life), American Political Science Association, Academy of Political Science of New York, American Civic Association, National Civic Federation, National Geographic Society, Holstein-Friesian Association (life), American Society of International Law. He is also a member of the following clubs in Kansas City, Missouri: City Club, Commercial Club, Mid-Day Club, Civil Service League, Knife and Fork Club, Fine Arts Institute. Mr. White is a student of genealogy, having published four volumes of the “Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1574-1909”; “A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Gleason of Watertown, Massachusetts”; “A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut, 1614-1909, and of John Barber of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1714-1909.” Mr. White and his family are members of the Congregational church.

Mr. White married (first) July 22, 1874, Arabell Bowen, born in Harmony township, Chautauqua county, New York, February 22, 1848, died at White’s Mills, Carter county, Missouri, November 16, 1881, daughter of Daniel Washington and Eliza (Smith) Bowen, who were the parents of two other children, namely:

1. Hattie E. Bowen
2. Elmina Bowen.

Daniel W. Bowen was a farmer (see Bowen XI). Mr. White married (second) December 6, 1882, Emma Siggins, born in Chariton, Iowa, February 6, 1857, daughter of Benjamin Baird and Elizabeth Erma (Walker) Siggins (see Siggins III). Children (John Franklin and Fanny Arabell by the first wife; Emma Ruth, Jay Barber and Raymond Baird by the second wife):

1. John Franklin White, born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1875, died in Kansas City, Missouri, June 11, 1900; he graduated from the Kansas City high school in 1894; taught school one year in Box Butte county, Nebraska; attended the University Medical College of Kansas City for two years, graduated from Missouri Medical College at St. Louis in 1898, and studied in Philadelphia also; in the fall of 1898 he became a member of the staff of the hospital department of the Missouri Lumber & Mining Company at Grandin, Missouri; in 1899 he took charge of the hospital department of the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company, Fisher, Louisiana; he was also local surgeon for the Kansas City Southern Railroad Company.
2. Fanny Arabell White, born in Youngsville, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1876; she graduated at Oberlin College in 1902; in 1903 she married Alfred Tyler Hemingway, general manager of the Forest Lumber Company, Kansas City, Missouri; children:
   1. Franklin White Hemingway, born in Alliance, Nebraska, March 4, 1904.
   2. Jane Hemingway, born in Kansas City, Missouri, April 29, 1908.
3. Emma Ruth White, born in Youngsville, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1884; she graduated at Wellesley College in 1907, and was a post-graduate student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1910 and 1911; in 1911 she made an investigation of the conditions of employment of women in industries for the board of public welfare in Kansas City; in 1912 she is pursuing studies in Berlin, Germany.
4. Jay Barber White, born October 2, 1886, died August 2, 1887.
5. Raymond Baird White, born in Grandin, Missouri, March 18, 1889; graduated from the Kansas City Westport high school in 1909, and entered the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1909, where he did three years work; is at present taking a course in agriculture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

(The Barber Line)

(I) Thomas Barber

Thomas Barber, the emigrant, was born probably in the county of Bedfordshire, England, about 1614, died at Windsor, Connecticut, September 11, 1662. He came to Windsor in 1635 with a party fitted out by Sir Richard Saltonstall, under Francis Stiles, a master carpenter of London. He was the first of the Barber name in New England. Windsor records show he was granted a lot there in 1635, where he resided. He was a sergeant in the Pequot war, and took a fort from the Indians which they considered impregnable. In 1641 he was granted about six hundred acres of land in the vicinity. He married Jane or Joan, surname not known. Among their children was:

1. Samuel Barber, of whom further.

(II) Samuel Barber

Samuel, son of Thomas and Jane or Joan Barber, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, October 1, 1648. His will was proved April 4, 1709. He married Ruth Drake. Among their children was:

1. Joseph Barber, of whom further.

(III) Joseph Barber

Joseph, son of Samuel and Ruth (Drake) Barber, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, 1681. He married Mary Loomis. Among their children was:

1. Daniel Barber, of whom further.

(IV) Daniel Barber

Daniel, son of Joseph and Mary (Loomis) Barber, was born April 23, 1719. He settled in Harwinton, Connecticut, about 1746, and moved to Amenia, New York, about 1750. He married, 1741, Naomi Barber. Among their children was:

1. Elizabeth Barber, of whom further.

(V) Elizabeth Barber

Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and Naomi (Barber) Barber, was born in 1749, died April 29, 1789. She married, in Harwinton, Connecticut, Rev. Isaiah Butler Jr., who served in the revolution (see “List & Return of Conn. Men”, vol. 12, p. 6). Among their children was:

1. Rebekah Butler, of whom further.

(VI) Rebekah Butler

Rebekah, daughter of Rev. Isaiah and Elizabeth (Barber) Butler, was born in Greenbush, New York, April 7, 1779, died August 10, 1858. She married, 1802, Moses Barber, born March 14, 1773, lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts, and died in June, 1825. He was a son of John Barber, born March 12, 1742, in Worcester, married Patience Gleason, died in Guilford, Vermont, May 27, 1776. John Barber was a son of John Barber, born about 1714, lived in Worcester, married Lydia Stimpson, and his will was proved January 7, 1777.

(VII) Rebekah Barber

Rebekah, daughter of Moses and Rebekah (Butler) Barber, was born in Charlemont, Massachusetts, January 16, 1807, died at White’s Mills, Missouri, November 19, 1881. She married, June 7, 1831, John White (see White VIII).

(The Bowen Line)

(I) Sir James Bowen

Sir James Bowen, of Wales, married Mary, daughter of John Hale, Esq. He had a son:

1. Mathias Bowen, of whom further.

(II) Mathias Bowen

Mathias, son of Sir James Bowen, of Wales, married Mary, daughter of John Phillips, Esq., of Pictou Castle. He had a son:

1. James Bowen, of whom further.

(III) James (2) Bowen

James (2), son of Mathias Bowen, of Wales, married Eleanor, daughter of John Griffith, Esq., of Richley, son of Sir William Griffith, Penrhyn Knight. He had a son:

1. Richard Bowen, of whom further.

(IV) Richard Bowen

Richard, son of James (2) Bowen, was born in Wales. He came with his wife, Anne, and children to New England, in 1638; lived a short time in Salem and Boston, Massachusetts, but was of Rehoboth, in 1643, where he died; buried February 4, 1675; will probated June 4, 1675. Among their children was:

1. Richard Bowen, of whom further.

(V) Richard (2) Bowen

Richard (2), son of Richard (1) Bowen, was born in Wales, buried in Rehoboth, June 4, 1678; settled with his father in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; married, March 4, 1646, Esther Sutton, died November 6, 1688. Among their children was a son:

1. John Bowen, of whom further.

(VI) John Bowen

John, son of Richard (2) Bowen, was born in Rehoboth, March 15, 167—; married, in Rehoboth, September 12, 1700, Elizabeth Beckett. No record of deaths. Among their children was a son:

1. John Bowen, of whom further.

(VII) John (2) Bowen

John (2), son of John (1) Bowen, was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, December 19, 1709; married (second) by Rev. John Greenwood, August 17, 1749, Hannah Peck, born in Rehoboth, March 10, 1726, died September 21, 1756. Among their children was a son:

1. Bezaleel Bowen, of whom further.

(VIII) Bezaleel Bowen

Bezaleel, son of John (2) Bowen, was born in Rehoboth, August 23, 1754. He was a sergeant in the revolution, enlisted in August, discharged in December. He was a school teacher and farmer. Married, about 1776, in Hartford, Connecticut, Mary Bradley. Among their children was a son:

1. Daniel Bowen, of whom further.

(IX) Daniel Bowen

Daniel, son of Bezaleel Bowen, was born in Bristol, Connecticut, March 10, 1785, died in Harmony, New York, May, 1863; married, June 14, 1814, Lucretia Cook, born in 1793, daughter of Titus and Silvia (Kimball) Cook. Among their children was a son:

1. Daniel Washington Bowen, of whom further.

(X) Daniel Washington Bowen

Daniel Washington, son of Daniel Bowen, was born in Bristol, Connecticut, September 6, 1816, died in Youngsville, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1902; married Eliza Smith, born April 25, 1822, died in Watts Flats, Chautauqua county, New York, September 6, 1868. They had a daughter:

1. Arabell Bowen, of whom further.

(XI) Arabell Bowen

Arabell, daughter of Daniel Washington Bowen, became the first wife of John Barber White (see White IX).

Hannah Peck, wife of John Bowen (see Bowen VII) was a daughter of Nicholas Peck, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, who was a son of Joseph Peck, also of Rehoboth. Joseph Peck was a son of Lieutenant Nicholas Peck, born in England, baptized April 9, 1630, died May 27, 1710; was an ensign in the Massachusetts militia, 1678; member of the council of war, 1678; lieutenant, 1682. Lieutenant Nicholas Peck was a son of Joseph Peck, the emigrant, baptized in Beccles, county Suffolk, England, April 30, 1587, died December 23, 1663, son of Robert Peck, and a descendant in the twenty-first generation from John Peck, of Belton, Yorkshire, England. Joseph Peck, the emigrant, came in the “Diligent,” reaching Boston, August 10, 1638, from Ipswich, Suffolk, England. He settled in Hingham; was representative 1639-40-41-42; moved to Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in 1645; settled in the part now known as Seekonk Plain; was a very active and influential citizen.

(The Siggins Line)

(I) William Siggins

William Siggins was of Sligo county, Ireland; he married Mary Taylor, born in Drumcliff parish, Sligo county, Ireland. Among their children was:

1. John Siggins, of whom further.

(II) John Siggins

John, son of William Siggins, was born in Sligo county, Ireland. He married there Sarah Hood, said to have been a near relative of Admiral Samuel Hood, of the English navy. She was born in Leitrim county, Ireland, in 1750. In 1793 they came to America, settling successively near Philadelphia, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and finally in Center county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1801. She died at Youngsville, Pennsylvania, September 30, 1835. Among their children was:

1. Alexander Siggins, of whom further.

(III) Alexander Siggins

Alexander, son of John Siggins, was born in 1793, on shipboard en route to America. He married, November 7, 1816, in Venango county, Pennsylvania, Margaret Kinnear (see Kinnear IV). He died April 7, 1858, at Youngsville, Pennsylvania. He and his wife were members of the Methodist church. One of their sons:

1. Benjamin Baird Siggins, married Elizabeth Erma Walker (see Walker VII) and became the father of:
   1. Emma Siggins (White) (see White IX).

(The Kinnear Line)

(I) William Kinnear

William Kinnear and his wife, Jane (Simpson) Kinnear, lived in Connaught parish, Leitrim county, Ireland.

(II) Margaret Kinnear

Margaret, daughter of William and Jane (Simpson) Kinnear, was born in 1760, in Leitrim county, Ireland. She married there Thomas Kinnear (probably a relative). They came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1794 or 1795. She died at Franklin, Pennsylvania, in 1821.

(III) Margaret (2) Kinnear

Margaret (2), daughter of Thomas and Margaret (1) (Kinnear) Kinnear, married in Pennsylvania, in 1797, Henry Kinnear (probably a relative). Henry Kinnear was a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Barow or Verow) Kinnear. He was born in Ireland, on Easter Sunday, 1764. He was an officer in the English army (Light Horse) for about thirty years and was sent to America to purchase horses for the English army. After attending to this commission and making shipment of the horses to England, he took up his residence in this country. He obtained certificate of naturalization in Center county, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1803. He became a merchant by trade and settled in Venango county about 1814. He was one of the first commissioners in Warren county, becoming justice of the peace in 1816, an office he held during the remainder of his life. He was an ardent supporter of the Methodist church for many years, but on account of some difficulties was expelled from the church at one time. Seven years later he repented the course he had taken, and requested that he be reinstated as a member, and that it be known and remembered that he died within the pale of the church and at peace with God. He died at Youngsville, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1826. Among the children of Henry and Margaret (Kinnear) Kinnear was:

1. Margaret Kinnear, of whom further.

(IV) Margaret (3) Kinnear

Margaret (3), daughter of Henry and Margaret (2) (Kinnear) Kinnear, was born December 1, 1801, died April 16, 1877. She married, November 7, 1816, Alexander Siggins (see Siggins III).

(The Walker Line)

(I) John Walker

John Walker, the first of this family of whom there is definite information, lived and died in Wigton, Scotland. He married Jane McKnight. Among his children was a son

1. John Walker, of whom further.

(II) John (2) Walker

John (2) Walker, the emigrant, and son of John (1) Walker, was born in Wigton, Scotland. He moved with his family from Scotland to Newry, Ireland, and probably in May, 1726, sailed from Strangford Bay, landing in Maryland, on August 2, of that year. He settled in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he died in September, 1734. He had contemplated removing to Virginia, as did many of his relatives, and had bought a farm in Rockbridge county a short time before his death. He married, January 7, 1702, Katherine, daughter of John and Isabella (Allein) Rutherford, who lived on the river Tweed in Scotland (see Allein). They afterward removed to county Down, Ireland, where John Rutherford died in the eighty-fourth year of his age.

(III) Alexander Walker

Alexander, son of John (2) Walker, was born May 19, 1716, died in Rockbridge county, Virginia, in 1784 or 1785. He served in the colonial war, and an account of his service may be found in “Va. Hist. Mag.” (vol. 8, No. 3, at pages 278-9). He married Jane Hammer (or Hummer), on January 8, 1747. Among their children was:

1. James Walker, of whom further.

(IV) James Walker

James, son of Alexander Walker, was born June 29, 1751, in Virginia. He moved from Virginia to Kentucky, where he died April 12, 1800. He was one of the Virginia militia who forwarded “Sentiments” to the legislature, in October, 1776 (see “Amer. Archives,” 5th series, vol. 2, p. 815). He married, July 8, 1778, Margaret (Peggy) Gray. Among their children was:

1. Alexander Walker, of whom further.

(V) Alexander (2) Walker

Alexander (2), son of James Walker, was born December 15, 1779, and grew up in Woodford county, Kentucky. He settled in Adair county, Kentucky, where he owned a farm of three hundred acres, and raised large crops of tobacco. He married Elizabeth, born April 6, 1788, in Kentucky, daughter of Samuel and Martha (McCorkle) Scott. Samuel Scott was born in North Carolina, in 1762, died December 12, 1820. He served in the revolutionary war, entering the volunteer service as a minute-man. He took part in the battle of King’s Mountain, North Carolina, as did his two brothers (see “Summer’s History of Southwest Virginia,” p. 864):

1. William Scott
2. Thomas Scott.

Samuel Scott and his wife moved to Kentucky in 1783 in company with Daniel Boone, making a perilous trip and encountering hostile bands of Indians. His father, John Scott, was born in Scotland, went to Ireland and fought in the Irish rebellion, losing an arm in the service. He married a Miss Thornton, evidently a Virginian, after coming to this country. Among the children of Alexander and Elizabeth (Scott) Walker was:

1. Samuel Scott Walker, of whom further.

(VI) Samuel Scott Walker

Samuel Scott, son of Alexander (2) and Elizabeth (Scott) Walker, was born in Adair county, Kentucky, January 30, 1807, died January 22, 1892. When a young man he emigrated to Illinois, pushing on later to Iowa. At Fairfield, Iowa, he served as sheriff four years. He was noted for honesty and integrity in all his dealings, and also for his interest in the civic welfare of the community. In 1840 he was appointed colonel of the state militia by Governor Dodge. He married, January 24, 1832, Sarah Ann Allen, born and raised in Adair county, Kentucky, died in November, 1882, in Cowley county, Kansas, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Tilford) Allen. William Allen was a son of Malcolm Allen, of Botetourt county, Virginia. The Chalkley Records contain an account of his colonial war service.

(VII) Elizabeth Erma Walker

Elizabeth Erma, daughter of Samuel Scott and Sarah Ann (Allen) Walker, was born in Adair county, Kentucky, February 20, 1833, died September 29, 1864, at Cobham, near Tidioute, Pennsylvania. She was educated at a young ladies’ seminary in Fairfield, Iowa. She married, February 24, 1856, Benjamin Baird Siggins, born July 27, 1827, at Youngsville, Pennsylvania, died June 14, 1903, at the same place, son of Alexander and Margaret (Kinnear) Siggins (see Siggins III). He attended Allegheny College after which he studied law, and practiced for a time in Chariton, Iowa. He then moved with his family to Colorado, making the trip with teams and covered wagons, and narrowly escaping capture by the Indians. In Colorado he engaged in mining. He also was judge of the probate court in Central City, Colorado. In 1864 the family moved to Pennsylvania where the mother, Elizabeth Erma (Walker) Siggins, died shortly after. Mr. Siggins married as his second wife, Uruzilla E. Belnap. They resided in Pennsylvania, living for a good many years at Youngsville, where Mrs. Siggins still lives. Children of Mr. Siggins (Emma, Laura and Clinton C. by his first marriage; Albert B. and Lida B. by his second marriage):

1. Emma Siggins, of whom further
2. Laura Siggins, born August 15, 1859, married, September 19, 1883, J. O. Messerly, of Warren, Pennsylvania
3. Clinton C. Siggins, born December 31, 1862, married, April 20, 1890, at Hugo, Colorado, Nellie Cunningham, now living at Twin Falls, Idaho.
4. Albert B. Siggins, born 1866, died the same year
5. Lida B. Siggins, born February 3, 1867, married, in 1886, George H. Plyatt, of Whitehall, New York, died June 29, 1887.

(VIII) Emma Siggins

Emma, daughter of Benjamin Baird and Elizabeth Erma (Walker) Siggins, was born February 6, 1857, at Chariton, Iowa. She graduated from the Youngsville (Pennsylvania) high school and also from the pioneer class of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle of 1882. She subsequently taught school for ten years in Warren county, Pennsylvania. She was married, December 6, 1882, at Youngsville, Pennsylvania, to John Barber White (see White IX). Both before and since her marriage Mrs. White has been prominent in social and club life in the various localities in which she has been resident. She has been a member of the Good Templars Lodge of Youngsville, Pennsylvania; the Athenaeum Literary Club of Kansas City, Missouri, and the “History Class of 82” of Kansas City. Mrs. White at present (1913) belongs to the C. L. S. C. Alumnae Association; is a life member of the Kansas City Historical Society; director in the Juvenile Improvement Club, and chairman of their furnishing committee for the new Boys’ Hotel, erected in 1911, at Kansas City, Missouri, and also chairman of their Women’s Auxiliary; is a member of the advisory board of the Fine Arts Institute of Kansas City. She was one of the organizers of the Kansas City Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and its historian for seven years, and is at present vice-regent of this organization and chairman of their patriotic education committee, which has accomplished the important work of placing framed copies of the Ten Commandments in the hallways of the eighty public school buildings of Kansas City, December, 1912. She belongs to the Westminster Congregational Church of Kansas City, of which she is also a deaconess. Mrs. White is author of the Walker genealogy, and is at present compiling histories of the Siggins and Kinnear families.

(The Allein Line)

Tobias Allein was born about 1590. He was descended from the Alleins of Suffolk, and lived in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. He was a tradesman who was engaged by the corporation to take toll of everything sold in the public market, Devizes being the great center of the wool traffic. He was a prominent citizen, his name often appearing in the town records. In 1636 he was sponsor for the equipment of a musketeer in the town train bands. Later he lent the borough three hundred pounds in the time of war. He was a “capital Burgess” of the common council, and was also a devout Puritan. He married, October 11, 1617, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Northie, who was four times mayor of Devizes. Children:

1. Edward Allein, a clergyman, who died in his twenty-seventh year, said to be a “young minister of rare promise.”
2. Joseph Allein, born 1633, at Devizes; he entered Oxford at the age of sixteen; was very studious, became in 1653 a tutor in the college of Corpus Christi, where he also acted as chaplain; he was assistant minister at Taunton, Magdalen, Somersetshire, from 1655 to 1662, when he was deprived for non-conformity; he still continued to preach six or seven, and sometimes fourteen or fifteen times a week; in 1663 he was committed to Ivelchester jail, was convicted for his preaching and remained in prison twelve months; he then renewed his labors, but was so broken down by imprisonment that he died in 1668; he was author of “An Alarm to the Unconverted” and numerous books of a like nature; he died in 1668; he married, about 1655, Theodoshia Allein, a distant relative, who was the daughter of Richard Allein, rector of Dichet, Somersetshire, for nearly fifty years; they had a daughter:
   1. Isabella Allein, who married John Rutherford, and had a daughter:
      1. Katherine Rutherford, wife of John Walker (see Walker II).

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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