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Note: Jim and Bob McConeghy grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, and then in attended high school in Coudersport, PA, the family hometown. They both then attended The Peddie School in Hightstown, NJ and Jim then went on to Brown University. He was a fine athlete and competed in track and field, in pole vaulting and other events.
During World War II Jim was an employee of Martin aircraft and was a member of the design team for the B26 bomber and other projects. After the war he became a civil servant and was involved in many government health projects, including setting standards for radiation emissions from TVs during the 1950s, and other safety projects.
Jim was active in his community, especially in his Presbyterian church groups. He enjoyed gardening and caring for his yard at the family home on Wadsworth Dr in Bethesda, MD. They moved into that home as the first occupants as it was then a newly developed home on the outskirts of the growing suburbs. The interstate system had not yet been completed and the Beltway was built soon after they moved in. The family bought a summer home at Deep Creek, and then he retired with Mary to New Smyrna Beach, Florida where several other families of friends from the church had moved. Unfortunately he was a heavy cigarette smoker and sadly died prematurely from classic smokers lung cancer.
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1920 US Census Ward 9, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA, dwelling 211, family 255, page 24 of 24,
enumerated January 16, 1920. roll T625_1520, page 12B, ED #460
living at #249 Fisk St, rented
Robert McConeghey (sic) , head, 36, born in PA, father born in PA, mother born in PA, occ: doctor M.D.
Elsie, wife, 30, born in PA, father born in PA, mother born in PA
Josephine, daughter, 8, born in PA, parents born in PA
James, son, 6, born in PA, parents born in PA
Robert, son, 5, born in PA, parents born in PA
Lillian Lockard, cousin, 49, widow, born in PA, father born in PA, mother born in PA
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Note: the "e" spelling of surname in 1920 census is just a blot or a spelling error by the enumerator. As far as we know Robert never spelled his name any other way than "McConeghy".
Lillian Lockard is a complete surprise. We were previously unaware of her existence. Lockard obviously was her married name. She must be the Lilly M. Walker who is listed , age 9, in the 1880 census as a grand-daughter of Eliza Walker, we have as yet been unable to identify her parents. She was born around 1871.
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1930 US Census, Coudersport Borough, First ward, Potter County, Pennsylvania, ED #6, dwelling # 546, family #556,
sheet #22-B, image #43 of 53, enumerated May 2 1930
(address 103 Water(??) Street) rented house - rent $ 35/mo
Robert K. McConeghy, head, age 45, born in PA, parents born in PA, age at first marriage 26, occ: Physician - general practice,
not a veteran, owned a radio set
Elsie, wife, age 39, born in PA, father born in PA, mother born in Canada-French, age at first marriage 19, occ: none
Josephine, daughter, age 18, born in PA, single, occ: none, attended school
Daniel James, son, age 16, born in PA, single, occ: none, attended school
Robert, Jr., son, age 15, born in PA, single, occ: none, attended school
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was living in Baltimore in 1948.
a social note in the Clermont news column of the Sept 17, 1948 edition of The Bradford Era, Bradford, PA
reads:
" Mr & Mrs James McConeghy and children, of Baltimore
and Miss Mary McConeghy of Coudersport, visited J. P. Keating
and Iroe Diebler(sic) recently."
(Note: J.P was the cousin of James McConeghy's father, Robert.
Mary was James's aunt,
Iroe Dibler was the husband of James' 1st-cousin once removed, Elizabeth Ellen Decker)
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