My Genealogy Hound

JAMES KIRKPATRICK, superintendent of the Bear Creek Refining company, Pittsburgh, was born opposite Fort Perry in 1830, a son of John and Susanna (Crawford) Kirkpatrick, natives of Ireland, of Scotch descent. The father, who was a farmer, died in 1837, aged forty years; the mother died at the age of sixty-seven years, a member of the Presbyterian Church. At the age of seven years the death of his father threw our subject on the world for himself, and when sixteen years of age he learned the trade of machinist; then afterward bought a farm in Ohio and lived there seven years. Returning to Pittsburgh, he engaged in the oil business in that city, and some years afterward built the Bear Creek Refining-works, of which he has since been superintendent. In 1877 Mr. Kirkpatrick commenced the manufacture of oleomargarine in Pittsburgh, which enterprise he carried on two years. He was married in September, 1857, to Mary A. Bradley, of Morgan county, Ohio, daughter of John and Nancy (Marianer) Bradley, both deceased. Two daughters, Nancy B. and Mary G., who died at the age of twelve and nine years, respectively, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick. They are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Kirkpatrick moved to Verona in 1886, and to his present fine brick house in 1887. He is a K. T. He has traveled over the greater part of Europe, having made four trips, on the last of which he took his wife with him. Mr. Kirkpatrick helped to capture Morgan during the late war. He has a sword that his great-great-grandfather Crawford carried during the famous siege of Derry, Ireland. Three of his uncles Crawford were British officers who served five years in the East Indies, and on their return their mother stood on the shore and saw them lost by the sinking of the troopship Suldana, while in sight of the city of Londonderry.