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JOHN R. CHRISTY, farmer, post office McKeesport, was born in Versailles township, Allegheny county, Oct. 20, 1842, a son of Andrew and Eliza(Aekin) Christy. His paternal grandfather was John Christy, a native of Ireland, who came to America in 1766, and settled on the farm now occupied by subject, which he cleared and improved, and lived and died thereon. The maternal grandfather of our subject was William Aekin, of Irish descent, a pioneer of Westmoreland county, who settled on a farm that was patented by John Christy. Andrew Christy was born, reared and died on the old homestead, his death occurring May 6, 1880, in his eighty-fifth year. He reared a family, the following-named children: Caroline (Mrs. James Cowan), Amanda (Mrs. Rev. J. L. Brown), Mary (Mrs. Rev. Alexander Marshall), Cyrus, Martha (Mrs.William Robbins), Maggie (Mrs. Joseph Robbins), John R. and Sarah (Mrs. Presley Samm). Our subject was reared on the old homestead, where he has always resided. He served one year in the civil war, enlisting in July, 1864, and was honorably discharged in June, 1865. He has been twice married; first, June 4, 1872, to Nancy, daughter of Robert and Jane (Ludwick) Robinson, of Westmoreland county, Pa., by whom he had one son, Robert S. R. Mr. Christy’s second marriage was (Oct. 18, 1883), with Lizzie, daughter of David and Mary (Muse) Shaw, of Versailles township, by whom he has two children, John S. and Mary M. Mr. Christy is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of McKeesport. In politics he is a republican.