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R. S. P. McCALL, special officer, Tarentum, son of James and Mary (Miller) McCall, was born in Freeport, Armstrong county, Pa., in 1835. His parents removed to Tarentum, where they died, the father Oct. 10, 1886, aged ninety-four years, and the mother in 1874. Their children were E. M. (deceased), Elizabeth (now Mrs. James Smith, of Fawn township), Margaret (now Mrs. John Borald, of Kansas), Rachel (now Mrs. Edward Bunchfield, of Fawn township), Nancy (the late Mrs. Carson Reed), James B. (of Oil City), R. S. P., Mary P. (deceased) and John T., of Tarentum. R. S. P. McCall married, in 1860, Rachel, daughter of John and Jane Euwer, of East Deer township, where he was born, and at the commencement of the civil war he enlisted in Co. F, 123d regiment, P. V. I., and at the termination of his enlistment returned and located in Tarentum, and has been prominently identified with it since. He served as assistant doorkeeper of the state senate of Pennsylvania for two years; also as assistant sergeant-at-arms of the state senate of Pennsylvania for two years, and as United States storekeeper for four years. He was interested in the establishment of the bottling-works there; also in the Gas company, and in various enterprises. At present he is a special officer of Allegheny county, and has always been prominent in the politics of the state and county. The children of Mr. and Mrs. McCall are Mary; Lillie, now wife of William Stofield, city editor of the Pittsburgh Gazette; and John P., shipping clerk of the plate-glass works.