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MATTHEW GILL EUWER, merchant, post-office Verona, was born at New Texas, Plum township, Allegheny county, in 1841, and is a grandson of John Euwer, a native of Ireland, who settled in Plum township about the beginning of the present century. The latter was a descendant of the Scotch Covenanters, and an active worker in that sect. His son, Archibald, was born in Plum township, and married Mary Gill, a native of what is now Patton township. They had four sons, all of whom are living. Archibald, the youngest, who was a posthumous child, and went into the army when eighteen years old and served throughout the civil war, now resides near Washington, Iowa. The others, John, Ebenezer and Matthew, reside in Parnassus, Westmoreland county, Pa. Archibald Euwer, Sr., died in 1843, aged forty-five, and his widow passed away in 1856, at the age of fifty-three. Matthew Euwer was reared on a farm, and when sixteen years old began teaching school, which profession he followed five years. For many years he was engaged in mercantile business in Allegheny City, and in 1886 he opened a store in partnership with his brother at Verona, May 1, 1888, James B. Meeds became a partner, and the firm is now Euwer Brothers & Co. Mr. Euwer, as is the entire family, is a tireless worker in the church of the Covenanters, and was one of the organizers of the Eighth Street Church, Pittsburgh, in which he was the first deacon elected. Since engaging in business here, he has taken up his residence in Parnassus in order to rear his family in the church of his fathers. March 5, 1868, Mr. Euwer was united in marriage with Mary Elizabeth Logan, a granddaughter of James Logan, first prothonotary of Allegheny county. Her parents, Robert Fulton and Nancy (Stotler) Logan, were born in Plum and Penn townships, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Euwer’s first born child died in infancy. The others are named, in order of age, William Fulton, Mary Wilson, Bertha Stotler, Theodosia Helen, Norman Logan and Nancy Catharine.