TIMOTHY HARE. To beautiful Erin, the land of which Moore has so sweetly sung, and which has given to the world so many of its brilliant statesmen, jurists and soldiers, Washington county is indebted for many of her substantial, progressive and loyal citizens, among whom may be justly included the gentleman whose name opens this biographical memoir. Timothy Hare was born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1838, a son of Timothy and Catherine (Holloran) Hare. The father died there in 1847. When about sixteen years of age (1854) our subject emigrated to American, coming to Washington county, where he first worked on the farm of Robert M. Patterson, of Cross Creek township, for $8 per month, remaining with him two years. He had been barely that length of time in the land of his adoption when he found himself, by dint of hard labor and careful thrift, enabled, though yet but a mere boy, to send means to his native land to bring to Washington county his widowed mother and one of his sisters. The mother died in Washington in 1887 at an advanced age. She was the mother of nine children, all of whom died in Ireland, save three: Timothy, Bridget (Mrs. Shaughnessy) and Mary (Mrs. Farrell), both residents of Pittsburgh, Penn. In 1853 the second sister emigrated. After a time Mr. Hare commenced the huckstering business, carrying goods to Pittsburgh each week; then worked a farm in South Strabane township for one year. In 1874 he embarked in the present grocery business in Washington, in which he has met with exceptional success. In 1861 our subject was married to Margaret, daughter of Thomas Breen. To them nine children were born, namely: John F., in Washington; Thomas, near Pittsburgh; Timothy, a tailor in Cadiz, Ohio; James, in Washington; Mary, Catherine J., William and Margaret, all at home with their parents; Charles died some sixteen years ago, at the age of six months. Mrs. Hare is a native of Ireland, and was brought to this country when a small child. In 1880 Mr. Hare built the house in Washington, which is now the family home. In religious faith he is a Catholic, in politics a Democrat, but at elections he asserts his right to exercise his own judgment, regardless of party lines.

Text taken from page 283 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed June 1997 by Kathy Petty of Evansville, IN as part of the Beers Project. Published June 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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