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SAMUEL S. MEANOR, merchant and ferry man, post office Stoops, was born in Moon township, Jan. 31, 1824, a son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Davidson) Meanor. Isaac Meanor was born in Findlay township, Allegheny county, Pa.; his parents were natives of Ireland, and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. Isaac Meanor’s grandmother, Sarah (Scott) Meanor, was a cousin of Gen. Winfield Scott. Her father and brothers were soldiers in the Revolution, and both were in the battle of Brandywine. Isaac Meanor’s parents had four daughters and nine sons, all of whom lived to be old and had families. Isaac Meanor and wife were members of the Presbyterian Church; they had nine children, six living: Martha (wife of Henry Powell, of Madison, Ind.), Samuel S., Rebecca (unmarried, residing at Stoops’ Ferry), Margaret (wife of John A. Porter, in Evansville, Ind.), Mary (widow of James Kain, in Chester, Ill.) and Jane (wife of Washington McCartney, in Rochester, Beaver county, Pa.). Samuel S. remained on the farm until he was fifteen years old, when he began life for himself. He learned the cooper’s trade and followed it at Clinton, Allegheny county, until Feb. 26, 1852. He then went to California, mined and prospected until 1855, when he returned to Clinton, worked at the carpenter’s trade until 1858, and then bought a general store there. He sold out in 1864, purchased a farm in Moon township, and in February, 1884, bought his present property at Stoops’ Ferry.

He has been twice married; first, Jan. 27, 1847, to Isabella Hood, who was born in Findlay township, this county, daughter of Nathan and Jane (Davison) Hood, natives of Ireland and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. Mr. and Mrs. Meanor had five children, three living: Winfield S. (a fruit-grower and gardener, at Sharon, married to Nancy McKinley), Sierra Nevada (managing the store at Stoops’ Ferry for his father, and is married to Alice White), E. E. (a carpenter on the P. & L. E. R. R., married to Nancy Winters, and residing at Stoops’ Ferry). Mrs. Meanor died in April, 1862, a member of the M. E. Church, and Mr. Meanor next married, in 1875, Mrs. Margaret F. Elder, a daughter of David and Jane (Flannigan) Moody. Mr. and Mrs. Meanor have had five children, three living: Elizabeth G. (wife of John Springer, farmer, of Moon township), and Laura and Margaret L. (who reside with their parents). Mrs. Meanor and daughters are members of the Presbyterian Church at Sharon. Mr. Meanor cast his first vote for his relative, Winfield Scott, for president, and since the organization of the republican party has been one of its warm supporters.