PHOTO 1 ) 917 Elk Street This fine example of Gothic Revival Style architecture is located at 917 Elk Street. The basic home was built in 1862 on property owned by Robert Lamberton. Deed searches indicate that Lamberton owned the property but apparently had an agreement to allow Peter McGough to live there and pay the taxes. It appears from the increase in assessment that the home was improved with additions and possibly the trim around 1865. Lamberton and McGough were both in the banking business. Peter McGough was born in Blairsville, Indiana on Sept. 3, 1822. He was the son of Thomas & Catherine Gamble McGough. He married Sarah Marshall, daughter of Samuel and Phoebe Marshall of Armstrong County. Peter died in 1894 and Sarah died in 1901. They are buried at Franklin Cemetery. Peter and Sarah’s son, Thomas, graduated from Franklin High School and went on to Princeton. He graduated in 1873 and came to Franklin to read law with Attorney Heydrick. In 1879 Thomas McGough was the District Attorney. Thomas died in this home in 1915. Miss Sarah McGough, daughter of Peter and Sarah, married James F. Rial. When Sarah died in 1939, Mr. Rial married Margaret Woodburn Jamison. James Rial died in 1970 and Margaret died in 1975. At that time the home was passed by her inheritance to her son Charles. PHOTO 2 ) 918 Elk Another daughter of Peter and Sarahs, Miss Catherine McGough married Frank W. Officer in 1882. They built their Stick Style home across the street from her parent’s home in 1887. Mr. Officer was a Vice-President with the Franklin Trust Company. Frank Officer was born in 1851 in Logan, Ohio the son of Samuel P. Officer. Frank died in 1933 and Catherine died in 1934. They are buried at Franklin Cemetery. An interesting article appeared in the Franklin Evening News on Aug. 11, 1911 Old Home Week News Column The oldest article on exhibition at the Armory includes a mirror owned by the F.W. Officer family. It was brought to America from England by a sea captain around 1623 and has since been owned by the ancestors of Mrs. Officer, who was a McGough. It was brought to Franklin from New Jersey.
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