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JOHN
STACKHOUSE LAVERTY, merchant, was born May 11, 1856, at
Parkesburg, Chester County, Pa.; son of Charles and
Margaretta McClure (Stackhouse) Laverty, who lived at
Parkesburg, Leaman Place, and Philadelphia, Pa., served as an
employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad for fifty-two years, and
was a member of the board of education of Lancaster County for a
number of years; grandson of Robert and Rebecca (Morgan)
Laverty of Morgantown, Pa., the former a representative in
the Pennsylvania state legislature from Chester County, elected
on the Tory ticket, and of John and Elizabeth (McFarland)
Stackhouse, who lived near Parkesburg, Pa.; great-grandson
of Samuel Laverty, a native of Lancaster County, Pa.,
whose father, an Irish immigrant, settled in Philadelphia
County, Pa. Through an accident, Mr. Laverty lost
the sight of one eye when he was twelve years old, and a year
later became totally blind. Prior to the accident, he had
attended the public schools at Leaman Place, Pa., and later
entered the Philadelphia school for the Blind, where he was
graduated after six years of training. The year after his
graduation, he entered upon his life's vocation of teaching
music. His first position was that of musical director in
the Louisiana State School for the Blind, at Baton Rouge, which
position he held for several years. He was then elected to
the musical department of the Alabama School for the Blind at
Talladega, and held that position for twenty-one years. He
opened a music store in Talladega in 1888, and a branch house in
Gadsden in 1905, incorporating the business at Gladsden in 1910,
under the name of the Laverty Music Company. He is
a Democrat; and an Episcopalian. Married: July 8, 1880, at
Baton Rouge, La., to Maria Louisa, daughter of Richard
and Mary Warren (Newcomb) Loucks, of that place, the former
a lawyer and at one time attorney general of Louisiana;
grand-daughter of Henry Loucks, a lawyer in Albany, N.
Y., and of Francis Dana Newcomb, whose father,
Richard English Newcomb, was probate judge of Greenfield,
Mass., for twenty-eight years, and served in the Massachusetts
legislature. Children: 1. Charles DeWilton, m.
Frances Ella Thornton; 2. Phebe Maria, married Dr.
Edwin Gray Little; 3. Mary Warren, married Marion
McDonald Lawrence; 4. John Stackhouse, deceased; 5.
Robert Latta, married Daisy Alston Armstead; 6.
Margaretta Nye, married Rufus Cobb Fell.
Residence: Talladega. |
