. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. Montgomery Guards; and as president of theQuincy School Alumni Association. In religion Mr. McVey was a Roman Catholic. In politics hewas a staunch Republican. On September 3, 1873, he was married to Margaret Murphyof South Boston, daughter of John and Ann (Quirk) Murphy,and a granddaughter of Moses and Ann (Wight) Murphy, theformer of Irish and the latter of English birth. Mrs. McVeydied a few months prior to her husband. Of this marriage therehave been eight children. Seven are now livi
. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. Montgomery Guards; and as president of theQuincy School Alumni Association. In religion Mr. McVey was a Roman Catholic. In politics hewas a staunch Republican. On September 3, 1873, he was married to Margaret Murphyof South Boston, daughter of John and Ann (Quirk) Murphy,and a granddaughter of Moses and Ann (Wight) Murphy, theformer of Irish and the latter of English birth. Mrs. McVeydied a few months prior to her husband. Of this marriage therehave been eight children. Seven are now living: John R.,president of the Old South Trust Company of Boston; Fred J., aphysician; Arthur G., a lawyer; Mrs. James McMorrow; G. Carroll of Rochester, New York; Marguerite, Radcliffe,1913; and Helen, Girls Latin School, 1913. Mr. McVey died in Boston, July 13, 1912. He was a maker offriends, and has been loved and regretted by all who knew success in life was due in large measure to his qualities ofperseverance and untiring energy, and his ability to make the bestof c^/^&- IRA MILLER IRA MILLER, late President of the American Whip Company,of Westfield, Massachusetts, and organizer and generalmanager of the United States Whip Company of Westfield,met with a degree of success in the commercial world which in-vested his career with unusual interest. He was born in Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky, April 22, 1848,and died at Little Rock, Arkansas, December 16, 1915. John Miller of the town of Ayr, in Scotland, the progenitor ofthat branch of the Miller family to which Ira Miller belongs, lefthis native town and settled in Antrim, Ireland, about the middle ofthe sixteenth century. He bore a part in the battle of Antrim, andfor brave conduct in the field received a grant of valuable land inAntrim county. Antrim Castle, built by him on this land, is stillheld by some of his descendants. One of his descendants emigratedto America in 1685, and settled in
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