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Peter McCormick Gilchrist was a native of Charlton, Saratoga County, New York, who came to Wilkes-Barre about 1827. His father John Gilchrist, a native of Scotland spent most of his life in Charlton, New York, and died there.

Gilchrist served as a clerk in a store for a short time, later engaged in stage business and for thirty years was proprietor of the old Phoenix Hotel.

His wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Miller Horton, a pioneer of Wilkes-Barre.

(from Wilkes Barre Times - January 10, 1896)