My Genealogy Hound

HUGH CLANEY, contractor, Bellevue, was born in County Down, Ireland, in April, 1809, a son of William and Elizabeth (Patterson) Claney, who were born in the same county, and came to Pittsburgh in 1830. His father, who was a carpenter, died about 1840, aged ninety-four years; his mother died in 1850, aged eighty-four years. Mr. Claney received his education and learned his trade in Pittsburgh, and has been engaged in contracting most of the time since, doing a large amount of work in Pittsburgh after the fire of 1845. He bought about fifteen acres of land at Bellevue in 1865, and has sold off much of the same in town lots. He married, in 1833, Margaret Long, a native of Carlisle, Pa., and to them were born eleven children, five of whom are living, viz.: William, James, Albert, Ellen (Mrs. McIntosh) and Agnes (Mrs. R. J. Miller). Mr. and Mrs. Claney are members of the M. P. Church; politically he was a whig, now is a republican. Although eighty years of age, Mr. Claney still makes the ascent of all buildings with his workmen.