Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Blaney, Wilfield Scott April 22, 1848 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 415
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

Wilfield Scott Blaney of Dunbar is a son of Isaac Blaney 
and Sarah Victor Blaney, and was born in Monongalia county, 
West Virginia (then Virginia) April 22, 1848. William Blaney 
(grandfather) was a native of Virginia, where he died. Isaac 
Blaney (father) was born and reared in Western Virginia, was 
a farmer, a republican, and a member of the Methodist 
Protestant church. He married Sarah Victor. 
    Four of their sons served in the Union army: John Blaney 
enlisted in 1861 and was killed at the battle of 
Fredericksburg: Lawrence Blaney served in the Seventh West 
Virginia, was in all the principal battles of the Army of 
the Potomac; Henry Blaney and William Blaney (twins) 
enlisted in 1863 in the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, the 
former was killed at Piedmont, the latter was captured and 
passed six months in Andersonville prison.
    The father of Mrs Blaney, Frank Victor, was a native of 
Virginia. Two of his sons served in the Civil War, one, 
Lawrence Victor of the Seventy West Virginia Infantry, lost 
a leg in the Seven Days' Fight; the other, Jacob Victor, 
left an arm at Antietam. 
    W S Blaney was educated in the subscription and free 
schools of Western Virginia. Mr Blaney removed to Fayette 
county in 1870 where he engaged in mining for ten years. His 
next business was farming, and in 1880 he purchased his 
present farm. In 1869 he married Miss Mary C Darnell, 
daughter of Samuel and Margaret Darnell, both of Morgantown, 
West Virginia.
    They have seven children: Jennie Blaney, a teacher in 
Dunbar township; Hattie Blaney, Walter Scott Blaney, Linda 
Blaney, Frank Blaney, Fred Blaney and Mary Mason Blaney.
    During the war he was engaged for eighteen months in 
teaming for the Union army. He is a hard-working, energetic 
farmer; is a republican and takes an active part in 
politics. 

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