Caleb Duvall of Luzerne Twp.

CALEB DUVALL - LUZERNE TWP.
Cyclopedia of Fayette Co Biographies, Wiley and Gresham, Chicago, 1889
p 545
Caleb B Duvall, one of Luzerne townships steady and reliable farmers, is
a son of Eli and Elizabeth Richey Duvall, and was born in Luzerne
township, Fayette county, Pa, February 17, 1831.  
His grandfather, Alexander Duvall, was a native of Fayette county and
lived during the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was a
hardworking 
farmer and resided on the Monongahela river below Brownsville.
His father, Eli Duvall, was born in Redstone township, reared on a 
farm and made farming his life-business. He was a whig and afterwards
a republican. His family consisted of five boys and three girls: John,
Eli, 
Caleb, Eliza, Robert, Harrison, Abigail and Rachel.
        Caleb B Duval was trained to farming when a boy, and attended
subscription schools in the last years of their existence, ere they were
succeeded by the common schools. He engaged in farming and stock
raising and has continued successfully in that business ever since
leaving school.
        January 22, 1857, he was married Miss Elizabeth, a daughter of 
Andrew Porter. They have had four children: George (dead); Eli C, a 
school teacher and clerk; Jennie; Maggie, wife of John Harne, a 
clerk in Kansas; Haddie, Osie, and Leona.  
        Caleb B Duvall is a republican in political affairs, and has served
acceptably as school director of Luzerne township. He owns a valuable
farm and employs his time in its cultivation and improvement and 
stock raising.