Biography

04/04/1842 - 04/01/1911


McGAUGHEY, John, a Representative from Indiana County; born, April 4, 1842 in Armstrong Township, Indiana County, Pa.; sergeant, Company K, 105th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1865, Civil War); farmer; engaged, real estate business; elected, council, West Indiana, Pa. (2 terms); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1895 and 1897 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1899 term; died, April 1, 1911 in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; interred, Oakland Cemetery, Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.


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