Harriet Monroe Osborn

Lineage Book-National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution-Volume 38

MRS. HARRIET OSBORN McCALMONT. 37065 Born in Ripley, New York. Wife of Samuel Plumer McCalmont. Descendant of Lieut. Toseph Harris and of David Osborn, Jr.

Daughter of Platt Smith Osborn and Mary Ann Piatt, his wife.

Granddaughter of David Osborn, Jr., and Lucretia Harris, his wife.

Gr.-granddaughter of David Osborn and Mary Hunting, his wife; Joseph Harris and Elizabeth Sly, his wife.

Joseph Harris, (1750-1831), served as ensign in the Dutchess County, New York militia under Col. David Sutherland and was- promoted lieutenant.

David Osborn, Jr., (1761-1813), served as a private in Capt. Samuel Water's company, Col. Roswell Hopkins' regiment.

Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families

By: Emma Siggins White - 1918

SAMUEL PLUMER McCALMONT, son of John and Mary (Plumer) McCalmont, b. Sugar Creek Township, Venango County, Pa., September 21, 1823; educated in the common country schools of the county, supplemented by a short term at Allegheny College; after which he studied law in the office of his uncle, Judge Alexander McCalmont; was admitted to the bar of Venango County, November 25, 1847; and became one of the most able attorneys of the county; he was bitterly opposed to slavery, and was one of the organizers of the Republican party at Pittsburgh in 1856; was a member of the State Legislature in 1855, and twice thereafter; in 1874, he aided in organizing the Prohibition party.

He married in April 1859: Harriet Osborne, dau. of Platt Smith Osborne; she was born January 20, 1836; died December 25, 1912.

Children:

SAMUEL Plumer McCalmont, Jr.

MARY Plumer McCalmont

JOHN Osborne McCalmont

Dr. HARRIETTE Osborne McCalmont

JAMES Donald McCalmont, b. February 10, 1870.

CONSTANCE Plumer McCalmont, b. July 6, 1874.

DAVID Burnett McCalmont3, b. December 1, 1876; m. September 26, 1900: Edna Swallow, b. December 31, 1878, dau. of Burling and Lydia (Schyler-Jack) Swallow.

Children:

VIRGINIA Lucretia McCalmont8, b. Sept. 10 ,1905.

SAMUEL Plumer McCalmont, 3d8, b. Nov. 11, 1906.

DAVID Burnett McCalmont, Jr.8, b. Aug. 9, 1909.