Samuel McElroy and Ann Beamish family, I believe they or their descendants were from the Pittsburgh PA. area and then continued to move west into eastern Ohio. Mahoning and Columbiana Co. in the early 1920-40's. Linda

I'd really appreciate having the info from the McElroy Bible. The following two articles regard their son George Beamish McElroy, a Methodist minister and educator. Marc **************** Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume VII M. McELROY, George Beamish, educator, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., June 5, 1824; son of Samuel and Anne (Beamish) McElroy, who came from Ireland in 1821 and settled in Pittsburgh, Pa., and were among the founders of the First Methodist Protestant church in that city. In 1840 he began to study for the ministry under the Rev. George Brown. He was licensed to preach, June 5, 1842, and was ordained deacon and elder in 1845. He was married, July 22, 1851, to Mary Good of Johnstown, Pa., where he was then stationed. In 1852 he was elected instructor in the preparatory department, Madison college, Uniontown, Pa., where he pursued a full classical course and was graduated A.B. and A.M. in 1853. In 1853 he was elected to the chair of natural science and mathematics, resigning the next year, but resuming the chair under the presidency of the Rev. George Brown. He was principal of the North Illinois Institute, Henry, Ill., 1857-62; county superintendent and principal of city schools, Henry, Ill., 1862-64; principal of Allegheny Seminary, Sharpsburg, Pa., 1864-66; professor of mathematics and astronomy at Adrian College, Mich., 1866-98; vice-president of the college, I867-71; president, 1873-79; Amos professor of systematic theology, 1877-98; president pro tempore, 1879-81, and dean of the school of theology, 1882-98. He was elected secretary of the board of trustees of Adrian College in 1867 and a trustee in 1870, and was made professor emeritus of mathematics in 1898. He attended the ecumenical conference of Methodism, London, England, in 1881. *************** American Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men with Portrait Illustrations on Steel, Volumes I-II George Beamish McElroy, D. D. Adrian, Michigan, was born in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1824. His parents were both Irish, and came to this country but a few years previous to their marriage, in 1822. Doctor McElroy, during the first decade of his life, was frail and sickly; so much so, indeed, that it was only through the unintermitted care and tenderness of his parents that he was brought safely to his teens. Since then, however, he has been peculiarly free from illness,--never having been sick a whole day, or unable to perform his daily duties, for the last forty years. In consequence of his feeble health, he was unusually slow in acquiring the power of speech, being fully four years of age before he made any attempt at articulating words. As a last resort, he was sent to a school kept by an elderly maiden lady, with the hope that constant and familiar contact with those of his own age would develop his latent power of expression, if, indeed, he had any,--a thought that had begun to trouble his parents not a little. The experiment was happily successful. His opportunities for education, though as good as those generally enjoyed at that day by the children of parents not abundantly favored with the wealth of this world, were not very extended. When about twelve years of age, he was put at a nail-machine in one of the iron manufactories of his native city,--his father being a nail-cutter. At this employment, he remained until his eighteenth year. On the 23d of August, 1840, he became a member of the Methodist Protestant Church; and, a few months afterwards, placed himself under the instruction of Rev. George Brown, then pastor of the church, in view of preparing himself for the Christian ministry. His license to exhort bears date May 30, 1842. Previous, however, to his having received this license, he made his first attempt to address an audience from a pulpit at Bakerstown, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1842. On the eighteenth anniversary of his birth, he was formally licensed to preach. The following September, he was received into the Pittsburg Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, and was sent to labor in a district lying in what is now known as the State of West Virginia. During the delivery of his first discourse to his charge, he was seized with embarrassment,--the result was a complete failure. So chagrined and mortified was he at his ill success, that if he could have reached his mother's house that night, in all probability he would never again have left it on a similar errand. In August, 1845, he was regularly ordained, and vested with all the privileges of a Christian minister. On the 22d day of July, 1851, he was married to his present wife, whose maiden name was Mary Good. This event occurred at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he was in charge of a congregation. By the Annual Conference of that year, he was appointed to a charge at Brownsville, Pennsylvania. He had barely become comfortably settled in the parsonage, however, when he received and accepted a call to teach in Madison College, located at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the church, by commissioners named by the General Conference of that year, having assumed the control of the institution. At first, it was designed to conduct the school simply as an academy. After a few months, however, the principal, Rev. R. H. Ball, persuaded the trustees to consummate a regular collegiate organization. As a result of this change in the character of the school, Doctor McElroy became principal in the preparatory department. At the same time, he entered upon and prosecuted, in connection with his six hours of daily labor in the school-room, a full and regular system of classical, scientific, and mathematical readings; the last, however, received the greater share of his time and attention. A few years having passed, he was appointed to the chair of Mathematics and Natural Science, which had been made vacant by the resignation of Professor Newel. The duties, many and laborious, of this position, he discharged for about one year. At this time, he was the only Northern man in the facully. Having determined among themselves to have a corps of teachers sympathizing with, and devoted exclusively to, Southern interests, as these were then understood and interpreted, the rest of the faculty and the Southern students, the latter constituting by far the greater number in attendance, made his stay in the institution any thing but comfortable and desirable. He accordingly resigned his position, and received from the trustees, who fully understood the case, a very complimentary testimonial. The faculty was then enlarged, and consisted of men, able in their several departments, but intensely Southern in their views and feelings. Before many months had passed, however, the entire body of teachers, with one exception, and nearly all the students from the South, abandoned Madison College and went to Lynchburg, Virginia. This led to a reorganization of the institution; Doctor McElroy was induced to return, and, for the sake of the interests involved, he consented to again assume the charge of the preparatory department. While in this position, he completed his course of readings, and, in June, 1857, was regularly graduated Bachelor of Arts; on the day following, he was honored with the degree of Master of Arts, as a token of special favor. Previous to this, however, he had been elected to the chair of Mathematics. In the fall of the same year, he removed to Henry, Illinois, and took charge of the North Illinois Institute. He remained there five years, and then accepted the principalship of the public schools of the city. Towards the close of the year 1862, he was nominated and elected, by the friends of the National Union, County Superintendent of Common Schools. This was the first and the only time he was ever before the public as a candidate for office. In July, 1864, he returned to Pennsylvania to take charge of Alleghany Seminary, near Pittsburg. Here he remained until he removed to his present residence, Adrian, Michigan, to take the chair of Mathematics and Astronomy in Adrian College, to which he had been elected March 8, 1866. In June,--1871, he received from the faculty and trustees of Waynesburg College, Pennsylvania, the degree of D. D. On the 28th of February, 1867, at the organization of the college under the exclusive control of the Methodist Church, he was elected Secretary of the Board of Trustees,--a place he has held by successive annual re-elections ever since. On the 1st of March of the same year, he was chosen Vice-President of the college. June 19, 1873, he was called to be President of the college, and this position he still holds. In August, 1874, he was elected, by the Michigan Annual Conference, a representative to the General Conference of the Methodist Church. This body he served as Secretary during its entire session. As an alternate, he was also a member of the General Conference of 1871. He was elected a representative of the same Annual Conference to the General Convention of the Church, held at Baltimore, Maryland, in May, 1877. Doctor McElroy is a gentleman of fine presence and dignified appearance. He is eminent for his scholarly attainments; and his social qualities and kindly manners endear him to all who know him. He is distinguished by simplicity of character, purity, frankness, and earnestness of purpose, and all the characteristics of a Christian gentleman. ----- Original Message ----- From: <RiverShack1@aol.com> To: <MCELROY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: September 25, 2002 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [MCELROY-L] McLeroy, etc | Samuel McElroy and Ann Beamish family, I believe they or their descendants | were from the Pittsburgh PA. area and then continued to move west into | eastern Ohio. Mahoning and Columbiana Co. in the early 1920-40's. | | Linda | --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 09/19/2002