Thomas Keown (abt. 1810)

Born about 1810 in Ireland

Descendants

Biography

Thomas Keown, son of William Keown, settled soon after his arrival in the United States on a farm in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, that is now the site of the town of Keown. He bought one hundred acres of land, the purchase price four dollars per acre, and there built a log house, afterward rci)lacing it with one of brick, which is standing to the present time. A great part of this tract he cleared, conducting general farming operations in connection with his work at his trade, brick molding, and prospered in his dual business. The bricks of which his second house was made he manufactured. His church was the Protestant Episcopal, and in public service he filled the ofifices of school director and township supervisor. He was a public-spirited, dutiful citizen, living a life of usefulness and activity, passed in peace and enjoyable communion with his fellows. He married Anna Pierce, a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent, her parents, Obidiah and Mary Pierce, natives of eastern Pennsylvania, who moved westward to McCandless township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, where they died. Children of Thomas and Anna (Pierce) Keown: James, Mary Ann, Jane, John, of whom further, Nancy, Thomas, a soldier in the Union army during the war between the states, in the command of Colonel Clark, William.

Sources

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, Pages 742-744 (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915)