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SAMUEL NEELY (deceased) was born in what is now Robinson township, Allegheny county, Pa. In early life he was engaged in the manufacture of salt, but afterward in the manufacture of plows at Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1823 he purchased a farm of 170 acres, which is now in the borough of Coraopolis. He married Sarah McCormick, who was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Wilkinson) McCormick. He died Feb. 7, 1875, aged eighty-three, and she in 1885, aged seventy-eight years; both members of the Presbyterian Church. William McCormick was born in Ireland, and was but five years old when he came with his parents to Pennsylvania. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and for several years kept a public house; also owned a farm on the Steubenville road, about six miles from Pittsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Neely had six children. One of his daughters, Martha Neely, resides at Coraopolis, on the old farm; another daughter, Mrs. E. J. Riter, who died recently at her residence in Coraopolis, was the widow of the late James M. Riter, manufacturer, of Pittsburgh. Mrs. Riter had one son, Samuel N., residing at Coraopolis.