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ISAAC BLACKADORE, farmer, post office Wilkinsburg and Pittsburgh, East End, residence Maple Valley, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, November 20, 1819. When he was two years old his parents, George and Mary (Alexander) Blackadore, came to America. In 1821 they settled in Wilkins (part of which is now Penn) township, began clearing the land and built a house. His father died in 1861, aged eighty years, and his mother ten years later, aged ninety years. They had three sons and four daughters: Eleanor (Fitzsimmons), in Patton township; Isaac, Mary (Grierson), in Patton, and Elizabeth (Grierson), in East Liberty; Jane (Riggs) and John, in Canton, Ill., and William (deceased). The father was a member of Beulah Presbyterian Church; was at first a democrat, but afterward joined the republican party on account of slavery issues. Isaac Blackadore has always lived on this farm. He had little opportunity for acquiring an education, but is an extensive reader, and has a fine library in the brick residence which he erected in 1860. In 1867 he married Nancy Cochran, born in Franklin township, daughter of John and Mary (Alexander) Cochran, of Ireland, and their living children are Mary, Elizabeth, George, John, Annie and Frances; three died in infancy. Mrs. Blackadore is a member of the Presbyterian Church, to which faith he also adheres; politically is a republican.