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JOHN CAUGHEY, farmer, post office Chartiers, a son of John and Maria Caughey, was born in 1833, in County Down, Ireland. He came to this country in 1852, located same year in Allegheny county, and has been a resident of Stowe township ever since. For several years he deprived himself of many of the comforts of life to save money, in order to help sustain and finally bring his people to this country. In 1855 he brought two of his brothers and a sister to America, and in 1859 he brought his parents, a brother and two sisters. Of the eight members of the family who came to this country through his beneficence, three are living. His father died in 1879, at the age of eighty-eight years, and his mother in 1878, at the age of eighty. Our subject was first married, in 1855, to Jane Thompson, and by this union there were eight children: John, Joseph (deceased), Andrew, Margaret J. (wife of Joseph Heinour), Joseph (second), Martha (deceased), William and Mollie. Mrs. Caughey died in 1872, at the age of thirty-three years, and Mr. Caughey’s second marriage occurred in 1874, with Sarah J., daughter of Joseph and Ellen Patterson, by which marriage there were seven children: Ellen (deceased), Robert, Benjamin, Annie B. (deceased), Sadie, Martha and Annie. Mr. Caughey is a good citizen, and his property gives evidence of industry and good taste.