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CLARK McSPARREN (deceased) was born in Erie, Penn., July 2, 1810. second son of Archibald and Margaret (McKay) McSparren. of Scotch-Irish descent.

E. J. KELSO, deceased, second son of Gen. Kelso, was born April 10, 1800, in Fairview Township, this county.

BENJAMIN HERSHEY was born in Mill Creek Township, Erie Co..

WILLIAM AYRES GALBRAITH, son of Judge John Galbraith and Amy (Ayres) Galbraith, was born in Franklin, Venango Co., Penn., May 9, 1823, and came to Erie with his parents in 1837.

JOHN GALBRAITH. The Penn. Galbraiths came of the Scotch-Irish stock so prominent in the early history of the commonwealth.

A. P. BURTON, funeral director and general furnisher, Erie, was born in Erie City Sept.

S.H. BROWN, Erie, was born in this county March 24, 1816, son of Geo. and Margaret (Brewster) Brown, former a native of Penn., of German descent, latter a native of Ireland. Geo.

CONARD BROWN, deceased, was a native of this county, born in 1812, son of Conard Brown, who came to Erie Co. about 1790. He and his father were traders and farmers, and early pioneers of Erie Co.

Adrian Lee whose demise occurred in Utica New York on the 25th of June, 1901, was long and successfully engaged in business here as a wholesale meat merchant.

THOMAS BAIRD, a native of Franklin, county, Pennsylvania, and a surveyor by profession, purchased a tract of land where his grandsons now live in Clinton township, for which he paid six hundred dollar