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SAMUEL CREELMAN, justice of the peace, Wilkinsburg, is a native of that borough, born February 14, 1842. His father, William Creelman, was a native of County Donegal, Ireland, and came to this country when a young man. He married Pethena Demmett, a native of Plum township, this county, who bore him six children, Samuel being the second. For many years the father kept a store in Wilkinsburg, and died in 1870, aged sixty-eight; his widow died in 1874, at the age of fifty-six. William Creelman was a weaver by trade; a zealous whig and republican, thus being barred out of the Covenanter Church, of which his wife was a member. Samuel Creelman has spent all his life here. In 1861 he joined the 101st regiment P. V., Company A. This regiment served with the Army of the Potomac, participating in its marches and engagements till the evacuation of the Peninsula, when it was detached for duty along the North Carolina coast. Mr. Creelman was made a prisoner at Plymouth April 20, 1864, and remained nearly a year at Andersonville and other southern prisons. He was discharged in 1865, and afterward took a course at Duff’s Business College at Pittsburgh. For eight years he kept a store, and is now in real-estate and hotel business. He has served as town clerk, etc.; was elected justice of the peace in 1884, and re-elected February 19, 1889, for a term of five years. Politically he is a republican. March 11, 1869, Mr. Creelman married Isabella Fogle, a native of Wilkinsburg, and daughter of Louis and Betsey Fogle, who were of German extraction. Following are the names of Mr. and Mrs. Creelman’s children: Calvin L., Mary Agnes, Edwin Page and Leonidas J. Mr. Creelman brought the first printing-press to Wilkinsburg, and taught himself the printing business. He is an ardent admirer of natural law, and, having stored his mind with ancient history, finds delight in comparing and contrasting the present with the past.