ROBERT T. M'QUOWN D. D. S.
Isaac McQuown, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born
in Scotland, in 1772, and came to Pennsylvania in early childhood. In
1790 he removed to Washington county, Virginia. He was twice married.
In 1795 Ann Orr became his wife, and they had seven children.
John Ryburg, Ellen, Ann, Arthur Orr, Jane Branson, Elizabeth,
Rebecca. He married secondly, on August 21, 1817, Mrs. Margaret
Hope, and they had one son, Isaac A., born August 30, 1819. This
son Isaac, father of Robert T., was educated at the Abingdon Male Academy,
and taught school and farmed, many years. He was in the Confederate
States army in 1863, and in 1864 was elected county surveyor,
which office he so ably filled that he was retained in it until his
death, which occurred on February 9, 1887.
Isaac A. McQuown was twice married. His first wife was Nancy K.
Berry, whom he married December 23, 1841, and they had eight children
Sarah Virginia, Columbus, David Nathaniel, James Ferdinand
(in service last year of the war), Mary Margaret, Isaac Walter,
William Parker, and Robert T. Isaac A. McQuown married secondly,
January 28, 1879, Kate McGinniss, who survives him.
Mrs. Margaret McQuown, the grandmother of Robert T., was born
in Northern Virginia, February 25, 1776. His mother was born in
Washington county in 1817, the daughter of one of its honored residents,
Robert Berry.
Robert T. McQuown was born near Osceola, Washington county,
October 13, 1860. He received his academical education at Liberty
Hall Academy, then attended the University of Maryland, where he
graduated with degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1885. In the
same year he located in Abingdon, where he is engaged in practice.
