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ROBERT L. KIRKWOOD, merchant, McKee’s Rocks, son of Robert and Hannah E. Kirkwood, was born in Iowa in 1858. His grandfather, Andrew Kirkwood, came from Paisley, Scotland, to America in 1817. He was the first Kirkwood to cross the mountains of Pennsylvania, and settled in Pittsburgh, where he resided the rest of his life engaged in keeping a boatstore. He died in 1864, at the age of seventy-seven years, leaving nine children, only one of whom is now living, Ann Kirkwood. His son Robert was born Aug. 25, 1824, in Pittsburgh; was educated for an artist and followed that profession through life, painting portraits and landscapes. He married, in 1851, Hannah E Betker, of Baltimore, Md., and their children were Andrew B. (deceased), John McClelland, William J., Robert L., Eliza T. (wife of R. H. Brown) and Annie R. The father died March 28, 1882, aged fifty-eight years; the mother in 1860 at the age of thirty-eight Their son, Robert L., was married Feb. 28, 1885, to Marie E., daughter of Robert and Eleanor Thompson, of Allegheny City, and two children have been born to them — Elinor S. and Robert B. Mr. Kirkwood has always been in the hardware business, and in April, 1888, he commenced in that line for himself at McKee’s Rocks, where he has a full stock of hardware and house-furnishing goods.