Biography

09/23/1873 - 05/02/1946

McGEARY, James Grant, a Representative from Westmoreland County; born, September 23, 1873 in Westmoreland County, Pa.; attended, Greensburg Seminary; graduated, Indiana Normal School (now Indiana University of Pennsylvania); teacher (10 years); school principal; proprietor, McGeary & McGeary, mercantile business; cashier, Citizen’s National Bank, Vandergrift; unsuccessful campaign, commissioner, Westmoreland County (1911); engaged in real estate and insurance; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1918; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1920); died, May 2, 1946 in Vandergrift, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Vandergrift Cemetery, Vandergrift, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.