6. EDWIN ANDERSON³ HART (JOHN WILLIAM², EDWIN¹) was born October 10, 1856 in Shousetown, PA, and died September 29, 1930 in Wireton, PA. He married ANNA MARGARET ANDERSON July 03, 1888 in Shousetown, PA, daughter of WILLIAM ANDERSON and MARY FISCHGENS.

Notes for EDWIN ANDERSON HART:

Edwin Anderson Hart is descended on his father's side from an old Virginia family, his branch of which migrated to their present home in Pennsylvania at a comparatively recent date. On the maternal side, however, his people have been identified with Allegheny County, Pennsylvania for a number of generations.

Edwin Anderson Hart, fourth child of John W. and Sarah (McNamee) Hart, was born October 10, 1856, in Shousetown, Crescent Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. When two years of age, his parents moved to Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and in these two places, Allegheny and Shousetown, he passed his childhood and youth, attending the local public schools for his education. After completing this he began the active business of life by securing employment in Bevington's brick yard at Leetsdale, Pennsylvania, where he learned the business, and where he continued to work for a perios of seven years. He then found employment as a structural iron worker and did work for several companies along the river, and later took up his present work as carpenter. He secured employment in this capacity with the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad and eventually became a foreman of carpenters, a position which he holds today. Some time ago Mr. Hart bought out the other heirs of his mother's place and made it his home, but later he sold it and built a fine house for himself at Wireton, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. This was inthe year 1896, but for the past few years he has been living with his family on the old Captain William B. Anderson homestead, a fine farm of three hundred and seventy five acres, situated above Anderson Road Station. Mr. Hart is a successful man and is prominent in his community in many ways. He is vitally interested in politics and the affairs of his neighborhood, a member of the Democratic party, he has served his fellow citizens as school director, as town clerk for six years and as town commissioner. He has also bee a director of the Grove City Home since its erection in 1901. He is a member of the I.P. Dunlap Lodge, No. 546, Independant Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Hart is also active in the work of his church. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church in Shousetown and he has been at different times treasurer of the church and president of the board of trustees, holding each office for a number of years. He was also for two years superintendant of the Sunday school.

Mr. Hart married, July 3, 1888, Anna Margaret Anderson, a daughter of Captain William B. And Louisa (Fischgens) Anderson, and granddaughter of the Hon. Robert and Jemima (Taylor) Anderson. The Anderson family have been and still are very prominent in the affairs of Allegheny County. The Hon. Robert Anderson represented the county in the Pennsylvania State Legislature, and his son, Captain William B. Anderson, played an active part in the life of the region. As a boy of eleven years of age, the latter went to live with an older brother for the purpose of attending school. His restless, ambitious temperament could not brook the school tasks for above six months, and after the lapse of this period he left and entered the employ of the same brother in the latter's store. In 1843 the young man embarked upon an enterprise of his own, starting a grocery store in Pittsburgh, and in this was successful until the great fire of 1845 wiped out his property and left him penniless. He next secured employment as a clerk on the steamer "Lake Erie" under General Charles M. Reed, and continued to serve in this capacity for three years on this vessel, the "Michigan No. 2" and the "Beaver". This was the beginning of his career on the river, i nwhich he continued and prospered for many years, both as a builder and operator of vessels in that inland water trade. He entered into a partnership with a number of men to carry on this business and together they built many of the best river steamers then in operation, and ran them between Pittsburgh and other points with great success. On one of his own boats, the "Glide", Captain Anderson was employed by the United States government to carry dispatches during the war and in other services of a similar nature and responsibility. The United States government finally bought the "Glide". Captain Anderson saw much of the river campaign during those troublous times, and had many narrow escapes, yet in all the twenty-five years in which he was engaged in the river trade he did not lose so much as a single life. His daughter, Mrs. Hart, was the second of five children born to him and his wife. Since her marriage Mrs. Hart has lost three brothers and her parents, the brothers all inthe same year, 1890, from typhoid fever, her father, in 1897 and her mother in 1911. To Mr, and Mrs. Hart there have been born two children, as follows: Harry Anderson, born January 27, 1890, who resides at home with his parents and is employed as a tonnage clerl at the Jones and Laughlin Mill; Louwilla Catherine, born April 30, 1892, and residing at home with her parents.

Source: Genealogical & Personal History of Western Pennsylvania, by John W. Jordan, 1915

More About EDWIN ANDERSON HART: Buried: October 02, 1930, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA; Occupation: Iron Worker / Carpenter; Cause of Death: Cerebral Hemorage/Heart Attack

More About ANNA MARGARET ANDERSON: Buried: October 06, 1945, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA; Cause of Death: Senile Degeneration

Children of EDWIN HART and ANNA ANDERSON are:

7. GEORGE BYRON³ HART (JOHN WILLIAM², EDWIN¹) was born March 16, 1860 in PA, and died March 07, 1938 in Lawrence Co., PA. He married CATHERINE B MCGINNIS November 10, 1886 in Moon Twp., PA.

More About GEORGE BYRON HART: Buried: Coraopolis Cemetery, Coraopolis, PA; Occupation: Real Estate Agent

More About CATHERINE B MCGINNIS: Buried: Coraopolis Cemetery, Coraopolis, PA

Children of GEORGE HART and CATHERINE MCGINNIS are:

8. JOSEPHINE³ HART (JOHN WILLIAM², EDWIN¹) was born 1863 in PA, and died 1935. She married (1) JAMES GROVE COOK. She married (2) CHARLES MCGREW.

Notes for JOSEPHINE HART:

Married McGrew second, buried as Josephine Hart Cook

More About JOSEPHINE HART: Buried: Veezies Cemetery, Aliquippa, PA

More About JAMES GROVE COOK: Buried: Veezies Cemetery, Aliquippa, PA; Occupation: Railway Engineer

Child of JOSEPHINE HART and JAMES COOK is: