William A. St. Clair

  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth: From Gravestone, 1842, Pennsylvania.

• Occupation: Dry Good Merchant, 1870, Indiana, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Name: William A Stclair
Estimated Birth Year: 1843
Gender: Male
Age in 1870: 27y
Color (white, black, mulatto, chinese, Indian): White
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: Pennsylvania, United States
Household Gender Age Birthplace
William A Stclair M 27y Pennsylvania
Mary C Stclair F 22y Pennsylvania
Minnie A Stclair F 6m Pennsylvania

• Residence: From 1880 Census, 1880, Mt Pleasant, Atchison, Kansas. Name: William St Clair
Residence: Mt Pleasant, Atchison, Kansas
Birthdate: 1843
Birthplace: Pennsylvania, United States
Relationship to Head: Self
Spouse's Name: Harriett St Clair
Spouse's Birthplace: Illinois, United States
Father's Name:
Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania, United States
Mother's Name:
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania, United States
Race or Color (Expanded): White
Ethnicity (Standardized): American
Gender: Male
Martial Status: Married
Age (Expanded): 37 years
Occupation: Farmer
NARA Film Number: T9-0372
Page: 493
Page Character: A
Entry Number: 4559
Film number: 1254372
Household Gender Age Birthplace
SELF William St Clair M 37 Pennsylvania, United States
WIFE Harriett St Clair F 32 Illinois, United States

• Occupation: Portable Sawmill Manager, 1900, Indiana, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Name: William A Stclair
Titles & Terms:
Event: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: ED 57 Indiana Township Ward 3, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States
Birth Date: Nov 1842
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Race or Color (Standardized): White
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 25
Estimated Marriage Year: 1875
Mother How Many Children:
Number Living Children:
Immigration Year:
Page: 24
Sheet Letter: A
Family Number: 500
Reference Number: 14
Film Number: 1241415
Digital Folder Number: 4115100
Image Number: 643
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head William A Stclair M 58 Pennsylvania
Wife Harriet E Stclair F 55 Pennsylvania
Son Oscar A Stclair M 20 Pennsylvania
Daughter Hazel M Stclair F 12 Pennsylvania

• Residence: From 1910 Census, 1910, Indiana, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Name: William A St Clair
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Residence: Indiana Ward 4, Indiana, Pennsylvania
Marital Status: Married
Race : White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Family Number: 16
Page Number: 1
Household Gender Age Birthplace
SELF William A St Clair M 67y Pennsylvania
WIFE Harriett E St Clair F 65y Pennsylvania
DAU Hazel M St Clair F 21y Pennsylvania
Clara B Wherry F 33y

Note: Clara B. Wherry is listed as a niece which is consistent with Harriet's last name.

• Residence: From 1920 Census, 1920, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Name: William A St Clair
Residence: , Indiana, Pennsylvania
Estimated Birth Year: 1843
Age: 77
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Film Number: 1821574
Digital Folder Number: 4384792
Image Number: 510
Sheet Number: 12
Household Gender Age Birthplace
SELF William A St Clair M 77y Pennsylvania
WIFE Harriet E St Clair F 75y Pennsylvania
Clara B Wherry F 40y Pennsylvania

• Cemetery: Oakland Cemetery, 1924, White Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania. From Treasures of the Past

StClair William A
(Civil War Co F 206th Reg PVI Cpl 8/27/64-6/26/65, from Indiana, go 5 Jul. 1924
b 13 Nov 1842 d 3 Jul 1924)

b. 1842
d. 1924
age: (82y)
Section B

• Family History: From Indiana County Pennsylvania, Her People, Past and Present, by Professor J. T. Stewart. WILLIAM A. St. CLAIR, who has been a resident of Indiana borough since 1885 and is now living retired, was during his active career engaged in farming, merchandising, lumbering and sawmilling, and is widely known in these various connections. He was born Nov. 13, 1842, in a round log house in White township, Indiana county, son of John and Nancy (Miller) St. Clair.

Mr. St. Clair is of Scotch-Irish extraction. The St. Clair family is an old one in Scotland. Two of its members, Gen. Arthur S. and James St. Clair, cousins, were engaged in the Continental service during the Revolutionary war, the former being president of the Continental Congress in 1787 and commander in chief of the armies of the United States in 1791. The latter was great-grandfather of William A. St. Clair. His parents were natives of the North of Ireland, and he himself was born in 1741, in eastern Pennsylvania. He owned a valuable farm not more than nine miles from York and died in York county in 1806, at the age of sixty-five. His wife's maiden name was Miller.

James St. Clair, son of James St. Clair, was born in May, 1774, in York (now Adams) county, Pa., and in 1809 came thence to Indiana county, for several years living in Brushvalley. In 1816 he came thence to the region of Indiana, bringing a horse and a cow. He lived at Indiana for a while but soon removed about five miles out into the northern part of White township, where he had bought 500 acres. There being no road to the new home at that time, he had to follow the bridle path, and the horse and cow were tied to saplings until better arrangements could he made. He had to cut logs to build a cabin. He followed farming on that place for many years. His death occurred in Center township, this county, April 8, 1855. He was an old-line Whig in politics.

Mr. St. Clair married Jennie Slemmons, born in Lancaster county, of Irish descent, daughter of William Slemmons, who removed from Lancaster to Washington county in 1790, and there followed farming until his death, in 1820, in his sixtieth year. Mr. Slemmons served thirty years as justice of the peace under appointments by the governor. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Boggs, had several children. Of these Mrs. St. Clair was reared in Washington county. She died Oct. 15, 1855, aged seventy-one years, the mother of ten children, among whom were Thomas, Isaac and John. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

John St. Clair, the son of James and Jennie (Slemmons) St. Clair, was born Aug. 18, 1818, in a log house in White township. His educational advantages were meager, being limited to those afforded by the old subscription schools. He followed farming all his active life in the place where he was born, but died while visiting with his daughters in Chicago, Nov. 21, 1900. His wife, Nancy (Miller), died in Indiana Dee. 20, 1904, at the age of eighty-four. They were Presbyterians in religious faith. In politics he was first a Whig HISTORY OF INDIANA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 1015 and afterward a Republican. Four children were born to this couple : William A.; Jane, public school teacher of Chicago, who died there Dec. 17, 1908; Harry, of Los Angeles, Cal., a chiropractic, who married Clara Lowry; and Mary Agars, who has been a teacher in the Chicago public schools for twenty-two years.

William A. St. Clair grew to manhood in White township, where he received his education in the public schools. On Aug. 25, 1864, he became a member of Company F (Capt. John A. Kinter), 206th P. V. I., Col. Hugh Brady, enlisting for one year or during the war. He served with the Army of the James, was discharged June 26, 1865, at Richmond, and returned home, remaining with
his parents until he was twenty-five years of age. For some time Mr. St. Clair conducted a store at Newville, Indiana county, know known as Creekside, where his first wife died. He continued residing in Indiana county until after his second marriage, in 1879, going' West to Atchison, Kans., where he rented land and farmed for two years. Returning to Pennsylvania on account of his wife's health, he moved back to his farm in White township, and in addition to his farm work ran a sawmill. In 1885 he removed to the borough of Indiana, where he built his present home, but he continued to operate his farm and sawmill until his retirement. His home is at No. 337 North Ninth street. He has had various interests and has made a success of his different undertakings.

On Nov. 5, 1868, Mr. St. Clair was married to Mary C. Foreman, of Armstrong township, daughter of Moses Foreman, whose wife's maiden name was Anderson. Mrs. St. Clair died in 1874, the mother of one child, Minnie, now the wife of S. Craig King, of Vandergrift, Pa. On July 29, 1875, Mr. St. Clair married (second) Harriet Wherry, daughter of James and Sarah (Nesbit) Wherry, and they had two children: Oscar A., an electrical engineer, of Chicago, married Merriam Cameron, of Indiana; Hazel M. graduated from the Indiana normal school and is now a teacher in Belleville, New Jersey.

Mr. and Mrs. St. Clair are member's of the First Presbyterian Church of Indiana, in which he served as elder. He is a Republican in polities, and socially he has united with G. A. R. Post No. 28.

William married Mary Catharine Forman, daughter of Moses Forman and Anderson, on 5 Nov 1868 in Center Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania. (Mary Catharine Forman was born in 1848 in Pennsylvania and died in 1874 in White Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania.)

William next married Harriet E. Wharrey, daughter of James Wharrey and Sarah Nesbit, on 29 Jul 1875 in Center Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania. (Harriet E. Wharrey was born in Jan 1845 in Illinois and died in 1925 in White Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania.)