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JAMES H. BERRY, justice of the peace, McKeesport, was born in Mifflin township, Allegheny county, Pa., August 3, 1815, a son of Daniel and Ellen (McNeeland) Berry. His father, a native of Maryland, and a tailor, settled, about 1812, in Mifflin township, where he worked at his trade a number of years, and in 1848 located in McKeesport, residing there until his death, in 1854. He (Daniel) had seven children: James H., Caroline (deceased), Eliza J. (Mrs. James O’Neil), Mary A. (Mrs. Robert Healey), Oliver P. (deceased), Ellen M. (Mrs. S. P. Ludwick, deceased) and Daniel W. (deceased). Mrs. Ellen Berry was born in this county, in 1790, a daughter of William McNeeland, a native of Ireland, and a pioneer of Mifflin township, this county. James H. was reared in Mifflin township, and worked at the tailor’s trade until thirty-five years of age. He then engaged in the grocery business for a number of years. In 1859 he located in McKeesport, and in 1863 was elected justice of the peace of that town, which office he has held for twenty-five years. His wife was Jane, a daughter of Robert and Anna (Crawford)Morrow, of Robinson township, Allegheny county, by whom he has two children, Anna E. (Mrs. E. F. Woods) and Jennie M. (Mrs. J. C. Smith). Mr. Berry has been burgess of McKeesport one term. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church; politically a republican.