BIO: W. W. CATHCART, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 653.
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  W. W. CATHCART, a prosperous agriculturist of Knox township, who resides on 
his well improved farm of 100 acres, situated one and one-fourth miles east of 
Olanta, Pa., was born July 31, 1860, in Knox township, on an adjoining farm.  
His parents were James and Rachel (Flegal) Cathcart, the former of whom died 
July 27, 1884, and the latter, March 8, 1911.  The Cathcart family is one of the 
old, prominent and substantial ones of this section.
  W. W. Cathcart attended the Turkey Hill school in Knox township in his youth 
and afterward turned his attention to lumbering and farming.  He lived at home 
until his marriage and for seven months afterward and then came to his present 
farm, which is a part of the old homestead, his father at one time having owned 
600 acres of land.  Mr. Cathcart has fifty acres of his land cleared and under 
cultivation and has erected substantial buildings.  He also has a mill on the 
place and does his own grinding and custom work for the neighborhood.  He is a 
stockholder in the Knox Mutual Telephone Company and is one of the township's 
enterprising men.
  In July, 1881, Mr. Cathcart was married to Miss Nora A. Dunlap, a daughter of 
John R. Dunlap, of Knox township, and they have had nine children, as follows:  
J. C., who assists his father on the home farm; Merna, who is in business for 
herself as a dressmaker; May, who married James Robbins; and Lewis G., Elva, 
Ralph, Cora and Howard, all at home; and an infant son, deceased.  Mr. Cathcart 
and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Turkey Hill.  He is 
identified with Lawrence Grange, in which he takes much interest and belongs 
also to the P. O. S. of A. and the P. O. of A., at Olanta, as does his wife and 
two of their sons, J. C. and Lewis G.  In politics he is a prominent Republican 
and is chairman of the Knox Township Central Committee.