My Genealogy Hound

HENRY McCOMB, farmer, post office Negley, was born in County Down, Ireland, Aug. 12, 1823, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Todd) McComb. His father was born in September, 1801, and died Oct. 4, 1882. His mother was born in 1791, and died Dec. 3, 1866. They were Scotch-Irish, and came to Pittsburgh in 1825, where Thomas McComb was an iron-worker for a number of years, and then a merchant in the Diamond in Pittsburgh. His grandfather, Henry, moved to Ireland from the Highlands of Scotland. His maternal grandfather was Thomas Todd, and the wife of Thomas Todd was Isabella McClellan, and both were Scotch-Irish. Our subject received his education in Pittsburgh,, and at the age of twenty-two began for himself. He was hammerman and roller in Wood, Edwards & McKnight’s mill for twenty-two years, also spent eight years in another mill, where he made as high as twenty dollars per day most of the time. He bought his present farm in 1852, moved his family there, and the boys worked the farm, while he continued in the mills until 1872. He married, in 1846, Christina Smith, of Ireland, who was born March 21, 1825, a daughter of William and Margaret (Caldwell) Smith, and moved to Pittsburgh in 1828.

Eight children bless this union: Thomas, in the leather business at Wilmington, Del.; William, on a farm; Mary Ann, Mrs. John Kuhn; John, who died in 1876, aged twenty-two years; Robert died in 1878, aged twenty-two; Henry, at home; Wilson died in 1887, aged twenty-four; James, at home, a graduate of Edinburgh College, class of 1887. Mr. and Mrs. McComb are members of the Unity U. P. Church. Mr. McComb is a republican, and for nine years was member of the school board. He has led a very successful life, and has two hundred acres of good farming land, well improved.