BIO: SAMUEL McKEEHAN, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 474
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    SAMUEL McKEEHAN, a retired merchant now residing at Newville, represents
  one of the oldest families in this portion of the State, and he was born at
  Pittsburg Nov. 9, 1843.
    
    (I) Samuel McKeehan, the paternal grandfather for whom our subject is
  named, was born in Cumberland county, and married a Miss McBride.
    
    (II) James McKeehan, one of the sons of the elder Samuel, and father of the
  younger Samuel, was born at Mt. Rock. Nov. 7, 1809. He spent his first quarter
  of a century in Cumberland county, and then removed to Pittsburg, where he
  engaged in a mercantile line. Next going to Baltimore, Md., he there
  continued in the same line, but after eight years, he made his home at
  Cincinnati, Ohio, removing there in 1852, and engaging actively in the
  mercantile trade until his death which occurred Nov. 25, 1897. He married
  Margaret Sharpe, who was born in Cumberland county, in 1816, and died in
  Baltimore, in 1848. Mr. McKeehan then married Mrs. Lucy F. Swift, of
  Massachusetts. By his first marriage, Mr. McKeehan had five children: Ellen,
  who died in Pittsburg; Samuel; Helen; Anna Bell and Louisa.
    
    Samuel McKeehan was born at Pittsburg, as before stated, and was only nine
  years of age when taken to Cincinnati, and there received his primary
  education in the public schools of that place. After leaving school he
  assisted his father, then a prominent merchant, and so continued until he
  sold his interest, in 1896, and retired to Newville, where he now makes his
  home.
    
    In 1875, Mr. McKeehan married Miss Lyda C. Craig, of Cincinnati, of which
  place she was a native. She was a charming lady, highly educated, and died in
  1896, leaving no children. Mr. McKeehan is a member of the Elks, and is a man
  of means, who is highly esteemed in his community as a gentleman of high
  business ability, and genial. courteous manner.