BIOGRAPHY: Anthony McCAULEY, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, pages 471-472.

  ANTHONY McCAULEY, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in County Mayo, 
Connaught, Ireland;  his parents are Peter and Catherine (Hastings) McCauley.  
His paternal grandparents, Anthony and Honora (Merrick) McCauley, had the 
following children:  James, married, has five sons and three daughters;  Peter;  
Mary, married Mr. McCauley, has one son Anthony, and one daughter, Mary;  
Belinda, married Mr. McCauley, has four sons and one daughter;  Winifred, 
married Mr. Cavanaugh, has three sons and one daughter.  Peter McCauley, being 
brought up on a farm, was trained in the business of tilling the soil, and 
continued all his life in the same occupation.  He lived to the age of sixty-
one.  His wife, Catherine, daughter of Peter and Belinda (Harrison) Hastings, is 
still living, a venerable woman of nearly ninety years of age.  She had three 
brothers, all of whom married and raised families in Ireland:  Patrick was the 
eldest;  the next was Darby, who married a lady of his own surname, Hastings, 
and had two sons and four daughters;  the third, Thomas, married Miss Gillespie, 
and had three sons and one daughter.  The family of Mr. and Mrs. Peter McCauley 
is as follows:  Anthony;  James, resides in Ireland, married Miss Rutledge, has 
sons and daughters;  Peter, resides at Punxsutawney, Pa., married Ann ------, 
has five sons;  Belinda (Mrs. Michael Lowther), has a family.
  Anthony McCauley spent much of his boyhood in the healthy, if laborious, 
business of the farm.  His education was carried on in the common schools and 
under private tuition.  He also acquired a practical knowledge of stone-masonry, 
and when he reached his majority, judging correctly that he would find more 
profitable employment for his talents in a newer country, he set out for 
America.  Landing at New York March 20, 1866, Mr. McCauley proceeded to 
Pennsylvania, where he speedily found employment at his trade.  For several 
years he was profitably employed in various places, and in 1872 became a 
contractor and builder on his own account.  He built many large stone bridges 
for the Pennsylvania Railroad company along the line of the Columbia and Port 
Deposit Railroad, and along the main line;  he also constructed the two county 
bridges at McVeytown, in 1889.  It was not long before Mr. McCauley's reputation 
as a contractor and builder became fully established in central Pennsylvania.  
In 1886 he constructed the county jail at Middleburg, Snyder county;  in 1893-94 
he contracted for and constructed the Masonic Temple and the Opera House at 
Lewistown, both of which speak eloquently for his skill and taste.  He has taken 
an important part in many of the building enterprises of central Pennsylvania.  
His own good fortune is a structure that rests on the best and most solid of 
foundations, intelligence, skill, honest industry and perseverance.  Mr. 
McCauley takes an ardent interest in the affairs of his adopted country, and of 
the community in which he lives.  He is a promoter of all beneficent schemes, 
whether in the borough or in his own church, the Roman Catholic.  His political 
views are Republican.
  Anthony McCauley was married, March 1, 1881, to Catharine, daughter of William 
and Susan (McKnight) Baum.  Their family consists of two sons and three 
daughters:  William P., born December 31, 1881;  Susan, born January 23, 1883;  
Catharine, born January 23, 1884;  James A., born April 14, 1887;  and 
Elizabeth, born August 2, 1889.  William Baum, Mrs. McCauley's father, died June 
1, 1864, aged forty-four;  her mother died at the age of seventy-five, February 
1, 1890.  Their children are:  Mary (Mrs. Frederick Geibel), has six children;  
Catharine (Mrs. McCauley), born August 8, 1853;  Anna, born August 24, 1855, 
died September 1, 1857;  and Elizabeth.