My Genealogy Hound

CORNELIUS SCULLY, farmer, post office Pittsburgh, was born on the farm where he now resides, Dec. 9, 1817, a son of John S. and Mary Scully. John S. Scully came from Ireland in 1803, spent one year in Marietta, Ohio, but in consequence of malaria in that section left there and settled in this county. He purchased 350 acres of land from Gen. Hand, which has remained in the Scully family since, and upon which is the quite noted Scully mineral spring. He married Mary Donivan, by whom he had fifteen children, of whom Cornelius is the only survivor. Mr. Scully, the elder, served as justice of the peace over thirty years, and died in 1837, at the age of seventy years, a member of the Episcopal Church; his widow died in 1839, at the age of sixty-eight years, a member of the Catholic Church. Cornelius Scully married, Oct. 28, 1842, Matilda, daughter of Samuel and Isabella Duff, of this county, and to them were born John S., now cashier of the Diamond National Bank, Pittsburgh; William J., Mary (wife of Amos Petrie), Samuel D., Isabella (wife of John T. Negley), Henry D., Almira, Cornelius, Julia (deceased), Ellen (deceased), Louisa and James B. Mr. Scully owns seventy-five acres of the old homestead, which is in a very high state of cultivation, some twenty acres being in choice fruit. He has a very fine collection of Indian relics found on his farm. He has served as school director over thirty years, and is one of Chartiers township’s most respected citizens.