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ROBERT A. GEARY, owner of a tract of 247 acres in Robeson Township, Washington Co., Pa., operates a dairy in
connection with farming, which be has followed all of his life, and was born March 2, 1838, on the old Richard
Donaldson farm in Washington County, and is a son of R. D. and Maria (Glass) Geary, and a grandson of Alexander
and Elizabeth Geary, who came to this county in 1806 and purchased land f or six dollars an acre, R. D. Geary was
a farmer and school teacher and his union with Maria Glass resulted in the birth of five children, all of whom
are deceased but our subject. Mrs. Geary died about 1843 and he subsequently married Nancy Fulton, by whom he bad
three children: Samuel; Mary, who married Eli Wilkison; and Maria Jane,
Robert A. Geary was reared on the farm and received but a limited amount of schooling as he was obliged to assist
with the farm work at an early age, and started to plow when ten years old. Mr. Geary has always foP lowed farming
and purchased his farm from his father and his heirs, his original purchase consisting of 119 acres, to which be
added later and now has 247 acres. He has erected a fine modern home and rebuilt the barns and other buildings,
and has two producing gas wells on. the farm, but has never tried for oil.
Mr. Geary was married January 17, 1867, to Jane King, a daughter ot William and Elizabeth (Cooper) King, who were
farmers of Washington County, and the parents of the following children: Margaret; Jane, wife of our subject; Anna;
Martha, deceased; and William J. No children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Geary but they have reared three children,
namely: Charles; Catherine, who is the wife of William Woods; and Bessie, who married R. R. Cummins. The family
holds membership with the Midway United Presbyterian Church.
From:
20th Century History Of The City of
Washington and Washington County Pennsylvania
and Representative Citizens
By: Joseph F. McFarland
Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co.
Chicago, Illinois, 1910
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