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R. J. EDIE, teller First National Bank, McKeesport, was born in Allegheny City, Sept. 9, 1854, a son of William H. and Mary J. (Wilson) Edie, also natives of Allegheny. His paternal grandfather, Guyan Edie, a native of Virginia, was among the pioneers of Allegheny. The subject of these lines was educated in Pittsburgh, and commenced the world as a bill-clerk in the wholesale dry-goods house of Arbuthnot & Shannon, in that city. From there he went to Texas and spent four years on the frontier, moving thence to St. Louis, Mo., where, for two years, he was bookkeeper in a large wholesale dry-goods house. Returning to Pittsburgh, he served for a time as teller in the Penn Bank, and later was employed by the P. & L. E. R. R. Co. as paymaster, a position that he filled to the entire satisfaction of that great company, and which demonstrated the confidence and esteem in which he was held by those who had charge of great public interests. In March, 1886, Mr. Edie came to McKeesport, where he has since resided, occupying the position referred to above, and attending also to the duties of treasurer of the New Enterprise Building and Loan association, to which office he was chosen when that association was formed. He belongs to a family noted for its scholastic attainments, some of them having been prominent in literary circles, and some in the professions, several eminent divines of the name being widely known in the councils of the orthodox churches.

Mr. Edie married, in 1871, Emily, daughter of Albert and Emily (Brown) Culbertson, of Monongahela City, and has one son living, Robert B. Mr. Edie is a member of the Presbyterian Church; is a member of the R. A., and is a democrat.