My Genealogy Hound

DANIEL RISHER, civil engineer, post office Homestead, was born Feb. 27, 1842. His grandfather, Daniel Risher, had nine children, of whom seven were daughters, all now widows, and of his two sons J. C. is yet a resident of Pittsburgh. He (J. C.) married Nancy Denny, daughter of John McClure. She died May 12, 1875, aged sixty-eight years. She and her husband were members of Lebanon Church; they were the parents of five children: Rev. Levi Risher, Mrs. S. S. Crump, Daniel, Mrs. William J. Snodgrass and John M. J. C., in 1851, bought the coal fields at Amity, which he and his son developed, the firm being known as J. C. Risher & Co. For seventeen years our subject was the third partner, and on him devolved most of the business, employing upward of four hundred men, and at times getting out 25,000 bushels of coal per day. They had their own sawmill, and built many barges for their own coal trade and for other people. Mr. Risher has been married twice; his present wife is Anna P. Gleadall, a native of the city of Allegheny. His first wife, Rebecca Gamble, of Elizabeth township, bore him five children. Mr. Risher is a member of the I. O. O. F., K. of P., Pittsburgh Commandery No. 1, K. T.