History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution .. . Pittsburgh, Pa. A man of strength andcharacter and tenacity of purpose, he is highly respectedand greatly trusted by friends and business associates. Mr. McCalmont married, Aug. 18, 1915, Sidney , daughter of Matthew and Priscilla (McGin-nis) Robinson, of Pittsburgh, and they are the parentsof one child, Agnes Louise. COLONEL GEORGE W. ELKINS—The familyof Elkins is one of the oldest of American lines, datingto Heinrich Elkins, of New Amsterdam, in 1620. Chris-tened Henry Elkins,
History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution .. . Pittsburgh, Pa. A man of strength andcharacter and tenacity of purpose, he is highly respectedand greatly trusted by friends and business associates. Mr. McCalmont married, Aug. 18, 1915, Sidney , daughter of Matthew and Priscilla (McGin-nis) Robinson, of Pittsburgh, and they are the parentsof one child, Agnes Louise. COLONEL GEORGE W. ELKINS—The familyof Elkins is one of the oldest of American lines, datingto Heinrich Elkins, of New Amsterdam, in 1620. Chris-tened Henry Elkins, he was one of a large number ofEnglishmen who, early in the seventeenth century, fledthe religious persecutions of their native land and foundasylum in Holland, and there he assumed the Dutchform, Heinrich. In one of the original charters of theNew Amsterdam Company he was referred to as Hein-rich. It is of record that he counselled the Pilgrimsto make settlement on Manhattan Island instead of atPlymouth. Heinrich Elkins was one of the New Am-sterdam colonists of 1620, and from him is descended the. The American Historical Society Enq f3y E G U^ilfiams S Bro yV
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