Thomas J. McKaig
MSA SC 3520-1793
Born: November 4, 1804 in Steubenville, Ohio
Died: 1882
Father: Patrick McKaig
Mother: Rachel Star
Marriage: Virlinda Beall in 1828, she died in 1872;
Margaret Ann Tilghman in 1874 at the age of 70
Children: Frisby Tilghman and Nina Lamar by
Margaret
Ann Tilghman
Education: B.A. 1826 from Washington College,
Pennsylvania;
admitted to the bar in April, 1831
Religion: Presbyterian, elected first president
of the board of trustees for the Presbyterian Church of Cumberland,
Maryland;
converted to Catholicism late in life
Military: Colonel of the Fiftieth Regiment and
later appointed brigadier-general of the Maryland militia
Occupations: 1826-1834 principal of the Allegany
County Academy; Lawyer 1831-1872
Political Affiliation: Whig; switched to Democrat
in the early 1850's
Maryland Politics:
Mayor of Cumberland, 1837
Maryland Legislature, 1854
Maryland Senate, 1859
Maryland Constitutional Convention, 1867
Source: Scharf, J. James. History of Western Maryland, Volume 2. (Louis H. Everts, Philadelphia, PA, 1882), 1398, 1399,1400, 1401, 1415, 1427, 1433.