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McGiffin, Dr. W.A., a popular dentist of Allegheny, was born in Washington County, July 16, 1849,
son of William H. and Eliza (Frederick) McGiffin. His grandfather was John McGiffin, born in Washington County, September 17, 1781. Of John's three sons and one daughter, William H.,
born November 9, 1818, was a resident of Washington County, where he kept a country store. William enlisted in Company D of the Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and died
in 1862 of typhoid fever at Harrison's Landing, before Richmond, aged fourty-four years. His wife survived him until 1894, dying at the home of her son, Dr. McGiffin, at the age of sixty-five.
She was a member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Her husband was a Baptist. They had five children, only one of whom is now living.
W. A. McGiffin went to college at Mount Union, Ohio, and then taught in the public schools of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia for three or four years. In 1870 he began the study of
dentistry in Northwestern Ohio. After some practice there and at his old home he attended the Pennsylvania Dental College. In 1879 he came to Allegheny, where he has since followed his profession.
He is now one of the best known dentists in the city, well up in his profession, and an affiable and agreeable gentleman.
On July 31, 1879, Dr. McGiffin married Miss Emma M. McGaffick, daughter of Elizabeth McGaffick, of Beaver, Pa. Their children are - Edna A., William M., and Donald Hazzard. Mrs. McGiffin is a
member of the Fourth United Presbyterian Church. The Doctor is connected with the Improved Order of Heptasophs and the A. O. U. W. In politics he is a Republican, and has held the position
of clerk and librarian of the Pennsylvania Reform Schools for two years.
Biographical review: containing life sketches of leading citizens of Pittsburg and the vicinity, Pennsylvania. Boston: Biographical Review Pub. Co., 1897, Author: Anonymous.
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