My Genealogy Hound

WILLIAM M. BLACK, M. D., Boston, is a grandson of James Black, one of the early settlers of Allegheny county, who located at Crooked Run, where he still resides. Six of his children are yet living. William Black, Sr., the father of our subject, was the oldest, and was born where the grandfather now lives. He followed farming and mining, and died April 10, 1873. He was the first settler up the Youghiogheny river, and finally located in Coultersville. His wife was Hannah, daughter of James Brown, of this county, and is still living. They reared ten children: James B., M. D., of Coultersville; Jennie, wife of Alexander Thompson, of Milesville; Sarah, wife of Richard Sneddew, of Coultersville; Mary, at home; Victoria, wife of James Thomas, of Coultersville; A. L., M. D., of Pittsburgh; Caroline C. and Hannah, both registered druggists of Coultersville, and Margaret A. and our subject, who was born in 1860, at Coultersville, and educated at the public schools. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1884, and located at Boston, and opened a drugstore in connection with his practice. At the present time he is assistant postmaster at Boston.