BIO: David FORCEY, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.  279

  DAVID FORCEY, the well-known and popular proprietor of a leading drug 
store at Philipsburg, Centre Co., Penn., is a man whose sound judgment 
and ready tact have won him success in many lines of business, and who 
holds a high and enviable position among the progressive citizens of 
the county.
  Mr. Forcey is a native of this section, having been born in 
Clearfield county, November 20, 1837, one of the family of seventeen 
children born to Mathew and Margret (Murry) Forcey.  His youth was 
spent mainly at his birthplace and in Huntingdon county, Penn.  On 
leaving school he engaged in mercantile pursuits at Green Tree, 
Huntingdon Co., Penn.  While there he was married, in 1861, to Miss 
Mary A. Myton, a native of Huntingdon county, Penn., and in 1862 they 
moved from Green Tree to Clearfield county, where he was engaged in 
mercantile and lumbering pursuits for about eighteen years.  Mr. Forcey 
is the father of two sons: Mathew J. and William W.
  The Forcey family is of German and Irish lineage, and has been 
represented in this section since the latter part of the eighteenth 
century, Thomas Forcey, the grandfather of our subject, having about 
the year 1790 come from Delaware to settle upon a farm in Clearfield 
county.  He lived to the patriarchal age of ninety-nine years, and 
consequently the greater part of his life was spent in Clearfield 
county.  He married Elizabeth Arnola, and had five children: Jane, 
Catherine, Tamar, Nancy and Mathew.