BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF J. G. EADIE
In
the year 1805, in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, was born Mr. Robert Eadie,
father of the subject of this sketch.
In the year 1828 he determined to seek his fortune in America. After a long and tedious voyage of three
months in a sailing-vessel, he found himself on a foreign shore among
strangers; but it was not long before he secured work at his old occupation,
namely, mining, which he followed until the year 
1853, when, on July 6th, he was killed in a
mine at Nesquehoning, in which he was working.
He was married to Miss Margaret Hunter, of Pottsville, in the year
1830. She was born at Paisley,
Scotland, in 1810, came to America with her older sister in 1827. This estimable lady was a first cousin of
the celebrated and successful African explorer, Dr. Livingstone, whose record
as an explorer has never been excelled.
Mrs. Eadie was the mother of nine children, three of whom are now
living, Mr. J. E. Eadie being the second in succession. He was born Dec. 26, 1835, at New Castle,
Schuylkill Co., Pa., and spent his younger days in educating the mind and
training the "young idea how to shoot," after which he worked at
general work around the mines for about four years, when, in 1854, he secured a
clerkship in Packer, Douglass & Co.'s store at Nesquehoning, staying with
them until 1857, when he located with Mr. W. W. Blakslee, in his large
mercantile establishment at Weatherly, Pa.
In 1866 he sought to make his fortune, and started in business for
himself at Rockport, Pa., continuing there until 1869, when he returned to
Weatherly, where success has crowned his every effort up to the present time,
so that to-day he is among the highest tax-paying citizens in the borough. He was elected chief burgess in the year
1872, well remembered as the one in which that dreadful disease, smallpox,
raged so fearfully, requiring a courageous and fearless board of officers to
cope with it. He also served a year as
borough assessor; was poor auditor for six years. In 1869 he was elected jury commissioner for a term of three
years. On July 3, 1861, he was married
to Elizabeth Stetler, who was born at Rockport, Pa., in 1840, where her
parents, Joseph and Elizabeth Stetler, resided. At one time Mr. Stetler and Judge Asa Packer owned together all
of that large tract of land lying immediately back of Weatherly borough. Mr. Eadie's marriage relations have proved
to be most happy and fruitful, resulting in eleven children, --eight daughters
and three sons. His oldest son is now
learning the machinist's trade in the Lehigh Valley Railroad shops at that
place. His other children, with the
exception of two who have died, are enjoying the advantages to be derived from
the most successful and well-disciplined public schools of the borough. In Mr. Eadie we have an example of the diligent,
energetic, determined man. Having but a
small amount of means when he began, we find him today among the most
prosperous of Weatherly's citizens, and carrying on a business that is second
to none.
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From
The History of the Counties of Lehigh & Carbon, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
By
Alfred Mathews & Austin N. Hungerford
Published in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1884
Transcribed from the original in July, 2002 by
Vincent
E Summers
[3X-great-grandson of David Weatherly Sr., namesake of the town of Weatherly]
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