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PETER IVORY, farmer, and postmaster at West View, was born Feb. 1, 1819, in Pittsburgh, a son of Peter Ivory, Sr., a native of the parish of Street, County Westmeath, Ireland. Peter, Sr., was a mechanic, having worked eleven years for the English government during the reign of George III. He fought in two battles during the rebellion of 1789, was taken prisoner, but released shortly after on account of his extreme youth. He married, in Ireland, Catharine Rogers. Not liking nor caring to be subject to the English government, and being in fair circumstances, he resolved to seek a country whose form of government was more congenial to his mind, and with this object in view, and with his wife and only child, Mary, he immigrated to America in 1817. They arrived in Pittsburgh, and in 1819 purchased the farm on which he died Nov. 11, 1849, and on which the thriving village of West View is built. He was always an industrious, honest and prosperous man. Politically he was a democrat, and in religion a member of the Catholic Church. One son was born to him in Pittsburgh, Peter, Jr. (our subject), who has been engaged in farming and in different pursuits, such as contracting for the government; also was a stockman for twelve years. In 1863 he married Miss Johanna Conway, of Conway, Beaver county, Pa. He has bought and sold a great deal of property, owning at the present time two hundred acres of land. His marriage was blessed with two sons and three daughters: Peter, Conway, Minnie, Katharine Theresa and Ellie. Mr. Ivory has been justice of the peace for twenty-five years, has been president of the Pine creek and Wexford plank-road, director of the Allegheny and Perrysville plank-road, of which he has been secretary. Politically he is a democrat, and in religion he is a stanch member of the Roman Catholic Church.