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(II) Nathaniel, son and eldest child of Grandfather McIntyre, was born in Utica,
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New York, January 4, 1804, died in Bradford, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1892. He obtained his education in the public schools, and later studied for the ministry of the United Breth- ren church, and had parishes. in Warren, Crawford and Erie counties. He was an hon- orable, upright, God-fearing man, abounding in good works and a veritable angel of mercy to needy ones. His warm heart and generous nature responded quickly to any one in less fortunate circumstances than himself, and his purse always obeyed the impulses of his high strung, emotional nature. He was largely re- sponsible for the building of the United Breth- ren church at Sugargrove. He married (first) Phœbe Kinney, died in Warren county, Penn- sylvania, 1835; (second) Rebecca Harmon, born in Sugargrove, Warren county, Pennsyl- vania, died in July, 1857, daughter of William Harmon; (third) Elizabeth Sheldon Lytle. Children of William Harmon : 1. William. 2. John, a farmer ; married, had children and died in Wisconsin. 3. Hosea, a cattle dealer, lumber- man and oil producer ; died in Sugargrove, Pennsylvania; married Sally Johnson, de- ceased, from Sugargrove. Children: Emma and William, both deceased. 4. Sarah, died in North Warren, Pennsylvania; married Amasa Baker, a hotel proprietor from Chau- tauqua county, New York. 5. Rebecca, men- tioned above, married Nathaniel McIntyre. 6. Hulda, died in Sugargrove, Pennsylvania; married Joel Cady, a farmer, from Sugar- grove. Children: Hosea, Thomas, William, Laura, Harry, John, Susan.
Children of first marriage of Nathaniel Mc- Intyre : 1. Sally Elizabeth, born in Herkimer county, New York, died in Pittsfield, Warren county, Pennsylvania, 1895; married James McGuire, a lumberman from Warren county, Pennsylvania, died in Pittsfield, same county ; one daughter, Jennie, married Charles Mc- Kinley, and lives on a farm at Corry, Penn- sylvania. 2. Silas, a farmer, born in Herki- mer county, New York, died in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania; married Harriet Alger, from Warren county, Pennsylvania ; children : Levi, Jerry, Frederick, Phœbe, Charles, Wesley. Children of second marriage of Nathaniel Mc- Intyre : 3. Eleanor, born in Sugargrove, Penn- sylvania, July 5, 1842, died in Bradford, Penn- sylvania, January 11, 1908; married Andrew D. Hervey, born in Allegany, New York, Decem- ber II, 1824, a retired merchant of Bradford. Children: i. Verna, born in Spartansburg,
Pennsylvania, December 10, 1868, died Au- gust 28, 1900, married William Roden, an oil producer of Titusville, Pennsylvania; chil- dren : Jessie, born July 4, 1887, lives in Brad- ford, Pennsylvania; Eleanor, born in Titus- ville, May 31, 1892. ii. Maud, born in Spar- tansburg, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1873; married John L. Mead, born in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1871, where he is employed by the railroad as ticket agent. iii. Lillian, born in Spartansburg, November 1, 1877, married Herman Girard, born in El -. mira, New York, May 24, 1877, a linotype operator in Bradford. 4. Emeline, born in Sugargrove, Pennsylvania, 1845, died in Cen- terville, Pennsylvania, 1879; married Simon Huckleberry, deceased, a farmer from Craw- ford county, Pennsylvania. Children : Minnie, lives in Crawford county; George, deceased ; Frederick, Archibald and James, live in Craw- ford county, Pennsylvania. 5. Richard E., of whom further. 6. William, born in Sugar- grove, Pennsylvania, November, 1853, a farmer near Warren, Pennsylvania; married Martha Jaquay, deceased, from Sugargrove. 7. Alice, born in Sugargrove; married (first) Zell Weaver, deceased, a minister of the United Brethren church; (second) Frank Al- len, a tank builder in Warren, Pennsylvania. Children, all by first marriage: Birdie and Della, both deceased; Elizabeth; Snow, de- ceased, and Clair. The death of Zell Weaver and three of his children was caused by black diphtheria. 8. Lansing, born in Sugargrove, July, 1856, a minister at Diamond, Pennsyl- vania; married (first) Myra De Pew; (sec- ond) Clementine Wright ; son of second mar- riage : Horace, born February, 1901. Children of third marriage of Nathaniel McIntyre : 9. Eugene, born in Grand Valley, Warren county, Pennsylvania, 1862, died in infancy. 10. Al- bert, born in Grand Valley, Warren county, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1867, died in Bradford, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1898.
(III) Richard E., son of Nathaniel and Re- becca (Harmon) McIntyre, was born in Sugargrove, Warren county, Pennsylvania, August 16, 1847. He attended the public schools until he was fourteen years of age, when he left to become a teamster in Grand Valley and Titusville. He drew the first load of oil taken from the Maple Shade wells of Oil Creek, and carted the first lumber to Pit- hole, Pennsylvania, for the oil tanks, the lum- ber being valued at seventy-five dollars per
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thousand feet. Until 1881 he engaged in vari- ous occupations, cattle driving at Triumph, Pennsylvania ; lumbering at Spring Creek, Pennsylvania ; teaming in New London, Penn- sylvania, and Edenburg, Pennsylvania ; farm- ing in Ohio and Crawford county, Pennsyl- vania, and in that year he began at Mount Al- ton, Pennsylvania, in the occupation in which he has had the most success, that of butcher. He supplied the meat for the company which erected the Kinzua Bridge, said to be the high- est in the world. In 1883 he moved to La- fayette Corners, Pennsylvania, where he con- ducted a hotel and meat market, leaving that town to go to Bradford, Pennsylvania, estab- lishing what is now one of Bradford's most popular meat markets. He is a member of the United Brethren church, and takes an active interest in all its affairs, having been trustee and treasurer. He belongs to Tent No. 4, Knights of the Maccabees, Bradford; Knights of St. John, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having been a charter member of the Mount Alton Lodge of that order.
He married, September 11, 1871, Lydia Sheldon, born in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, December 4, 1855, daughter of Allen Sheldon, born in Vermont, a farmer, Republican, and member of the Methodist Episcopal church; married Elizabeth Lytle. Allen Sheldon was a son of Isaac Sheldon, born in Vermont, died in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania. Children of Isaac Sheldon: 1. Allen, mentioned above, married Elizabeth Lytle. 2. Jonathan, died in Warren county, Pennsylvania, 1911, a lum- berman and farmer; married Ann Lytle, de- ceased. 3. Harrison, enlisted in Pennsylvania Bucktail Regiment ; was captured and sent to Libby prison, and was lost track of after the war. 4. Mary, married Willard Burton, from Riceville, Pennsylvania, and lives in Titusville, Pennsylvania ; Mr. Burton is the owner of a grist-mill. Children of Allen and Elizabeth (Lytle) Sheldon : 1. Frances, born in Pleasant- ville, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1848, died 1855. 2. John, born in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1851, a retired oil producer of Bradford; married June 25, 1878, Caroline Hewlings, from Clarion county, Pennsylvania, born May 2, 1859. Children, all born at Edenburg, Penn- sylvania : Myrtle, born April 13, 1880; married Ernest Jackson, July 4, 1912; Don, born De- cember 17, 1881, an oil well driller in Bradford, Pennsylvania : Jennie, born June 17, 1884 ; Jed,
born November 12, 1886, a chauffeur, in Brad- ford, Pennsylvania. 3. Jennie, born in Pleas- antville, June 20, 1852, died December 9, 1883; married John King, an oil well driller from Jefferson county, Pennsylvania. Children : Anna, born July 20, 1878; Frank, born April 2, 1880, married, January, 1912, Cary Mar- shall. 4. Lydia, mentioned above; married Richard E. McIntyre.
Children of Richard E. and Lydia (Shel- don) McIntyre : 1. Lee, born in Centerville, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1875, a minister in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; married Lillian Corry, from Coryville, Pennsylvania. Children : i. Mazie, May 1, 1896. ii. Paul, born April 3, 1901. iii. Lee (2), born October 7, 1910. 2. Snowy, born Edenburg, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1877, died there in May, 1878. 3. Pearl, born in Edenburg, May 29, 1880; married Harry Blanchard, born in Bradford, Penn- sylvania, January 20, 1881, son of Charles K. and Laura V. (Slade) Blanchard. He en- gages in the butcher business with his father- in-law ; is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Bradford, the United Com- mercial Travelers, the Western Travelers and the Protected Home Circle. Pearl (McIn- tyre) Blanchard is a member of the United Brethren church.
BENNINGHOFF
The Benninghoffs of Bradford, Pennsyl- vania, descend through
four generations in the United States from an old and honored family of Germany, seated there for centuries. The American ancestor, whose Christian name is unknown, was born in Wittemburg, Germany, died in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, removing thence from Lehigh county, same state. He married, and among his children were Frederick, of whom further, and George, who, tradition says, went west. There is a family of the name in Tiffin, Ohio, and another in St. Louis, Missouri, who are probably descendants of George Benning- hoff.
(II) Frederick Benninghoff was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, in 1760, died in Venango county, Pennsylvania, in August, 1856. Between the years 1810 and 1812 he removed to Union county, Pennsylvania, about 1828 removed to Clearfield county, and be- tween the years 1830 and 1832 removed to Ve- nango county, where he spent the remainder
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of his days. For several years prior to his death he resided with his son John. He was a member of the Lutheran church, and a man of strict integrity and upright character. He married and among his children was John, see forward.
(III) John, son of Frederick Benninghoff, was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, De- cember 25, 1801, died in Greenville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1882, and is buried in the family lot in Shenango Valley cemetery. He accompanied his father to Union, Clearfield and Venango counties, Penn- sylvania. In the latter-named county he rented a farm known as the Henry farm, a mile or two west of Cherrytree, where he resided for several years, and then purchased what is known as the Benninghoff Oil Farm, which he sold in 1868 and removed to Greenville, where the remainder of his life was spent. He was a man of wealth and became the victim of the "Great Benninghoff Robbery," which is re- corded among the great crimes of Pennsyl- vania. His farm of three hundred acres was located on the famous Oil Creek. An oil well was drilled on his farm which, starting off with three hundred barrels daily, produced great excitement, and he was besieged by oper- ators to whom he leased one and two acre lots, receiving a bonus and one-fourth royalty. He soon became one of the richest men in the oil region, and having no faith in banks in this neighborhood had transferred his funds to New York and Pittsburgh banks; the amount in his private bank was there only waiting such time as it could be transferred to the other banks. He and his son Joseph had each pur- chased an iron safe in which they placed their money prior to removal to banks. Mr. Ben- ninghoff was warned of the danger of this, but would not pay heed, although he did place a night watchman on the premises with orders to admit no one to the house after dark except members of the family. Notwithstand- ing this precaution the house was entered on the night of January 16, 1868, the old man bound, the safe broken open and robbed of a large sum, which was carried away in two pillow cases. The amount stolen has been variously stated at from two to five hundred thousand dollars, the former amount being correct. Three of the criminals were found, tried and convicted. Saeger, the chief of the gang, however, never suffered the penalty of
his crime. Although badly beaten in his fight with the thieves, Mr. Benninghoff was not seri- ously injured, and the following year removed to Greenville, as stated.
Mr. Benninghoff married, in Union county, Pennsylvania, in 1823-24, Elizabeth Heise, of Hartleton, Union county, Pennsylvania, daugh- terter of Martin and Mary (Wagoner) Heise, who were married in 1799, and whose children were: George, born February 12, 1800; Jo- seph, February 22, 1802; Elizabeth, mentioned above, November 5, 1804; Patience, March 27, 1806; Martin, May 31, 1808; Polly, May 5, 1810, died in infancy ; Christina, August 3, 1812; John, June 26, 1815, died in infancy ; Catherine, August 10, 1817; Sarah, February I, 1819; Solomon, July 7, 1821 ; Mary, April 5, 1823; John, May 4, 1825. Martin Heise, father of these children, was born in Balti- more, Maryland, 1760, died in the fall of 1867, in his one hundred and seventh year; he was a cooper by trade and worked in Philadelphia during the revolutionary war; his first vote was cast for George Washington, and his last for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and it is said the only time he rode in a buggy was when he went to the polls to vote for Mr. Lincoln when he was one hundred and four years old. He had two brothers, George and Solomon, the former of whom lived in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, and the latter was a well-to-do farmer in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. His wife was a native of England. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Benninghoff: I. George, of whom further. 2. Charles, married Sarah Yates ; died March 10, 1890. 3. Martin, mar- ried Mary Gehring; died March 3, 1898. 4. Amelia, married Jacob Gehring; died March 28, 1882. 5. Elizabeth, married Sproul Howe, now deceased. 6. John E., married Julia Geh- ring ; died March 11, 1888. 7. Catherine, mar- ried Horace Duke; died April 9, 1883. 8. Frederick, married Julia Holmes; he died March 15, 1907; his widow survives him, a resident of Greenville, Pennsylvania. 9. Mary Jane, married Eli J. Keep, who resides at Fair- view, Pennsylvania; she died January 18, 1898. IO. Jeremy, died April 3, 1903; his widow re- sides in Leon, Kansas. II. Joseph, an attor- ney-at-law, residing in Greenville, Pennsyl- vania. 12. Milton, died February 11, 1909; his widow resides near Rochester, New York. John Benninghoff and his wife were members of the Lutheran church, and were faithful.
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consistent Christians. Mrs. Benninghoff died July 26, 1872, buried in the family lot in She- mango Valley cemetery.
(IV) George, son of John Benninghoff, was born in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and was accidentally killed at Meadville, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1909. He was but a youth when his parents moved to Venango county, where his after life was spent. He engaged in farming after completing his studies in the Venango county schools, and later in the production of oil. He was success- ful in his business operations, and became one of the substantial men of his township. He was a director of the Benninghoff Oil Com- pany, and interested in other enterprises in the oil country. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and a Republican in pol- itics. He married Julia, born in Cherrytree township, 1830, died February, 1893, daughter of John and - - (Stevenson) Baney ; John Baney was a farmer of Cherrytree township during the greater part of his life, was a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church, as was also his wife, and died in 1886, aged ninety-eight years. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Benning- hoff, born in Cherrytree township, Venango county, Pennsylvania : 1. Minnie, born No- vember, 1849; married E. L. Affantranger, of Meadville, deceased ; children : Nellie, married (first) Joseph Bowes. (second) 2. Lewis Nelson, born 1850, married Mary Mc- Clintock; children: Harry, now in Japan ; Homer ; Comer, and three others. 3. Living- ston, born 1852, deceased ; married Emma Cole ; children : George, Norman and a daughter. 4. George Edward, of whom further. 5. Julia Minerva, born November, 1863, married Charles E. Morgan, of Meadville; one child.
(V) Dr. George Edward Benninghoff, son of George Benninghoff, was born in Cherry- tree township, Venango county, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1854. His early education was obtained in the public schools of the town- ship ; at the age of thirteen he went to Mead- ville and attended the schools of that city for two years, and the following year he was a student at Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, New York. He then entered Oberlin College, (Ohio), remaining one year. Deciding upon the profession of medicine, he entered the West- ern Reserve Medical College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1879. He then located in Brad- ford, and is now (1912) firmly established in
that city in a lucrative practice. He makes a specialty of surgical cases, and is a most skill- ful and successful practitioner. He is sought for in consultation, having the confidence of his brethren of the profession to a marked de- gree. He is a member of the state and county medical societies and other professional, social and fraternal organizations. He belongs to Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery and Shrine of the Masonic order; the Bradford Club, Merchants' Club, Lafayette Gun and Fishing Club and the Country Club, all of Bradford. He is a Republican in politics, and since 1883 has been president of the United States pension board excepting four years un- der President Cleveland's second administra- tion.
Dr. Benninghoff married, January 1, 1880, Nancy Jane, born September 1, 1858, in Mont- erey, Pennsylvania, daughter of James Mc- Kee and Priscilla (Sheppard) Hogan, and granddaughter of James and Lydia (McKee) Hogan. James Hogan was born in 1774, died in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, November 7, 1846; his wife was born in 1784, died July 31. 1855. James McKee Hogan was born in West Monterey, Clarion county, Pennsyl- vania, February 17, 1818, died March 24, 1905; his wife was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. Children of Dr. and Mrs. Ben- ninghoff : 1. Walter Garrett, born September I, 1887, died March 28, 1903. 2. Julia, born in Bradford, September 3, 1893, now a student of the Colonial School, Washington, D. C.
This branch of the Sloan fam- SLOAN ily came to Bradford from Wash- ington. county, Pennsylvania, the family having been founded there by James Sloan, born in 1776 in County Tyrone, Ireland, where there were other branches of the Sloan family. The family originally is said to have come from Wales. James Sloan married, in Ireland, Martha Sloan, a distant relative. They were fairly well-to-do, farming good land un- der a favorable lease. About 1804 they came to the United States, finally settling on a farm in Hopewell township, Washington county, Pennsylvania. He died there in September, 1851 ; his wife, August 18, 1865, aged eighty- five years. Among their children were the fol- lowing : 1. John, of whom further. 2. William, died in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh; a blacksmith; married Rebecca Children : i. George, lives in Union-
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town, Pennsylvania. ii. Eli, deceased. iii. Children : Emerson; Charles, deceased ; Leon- Elizabeth, lives in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. iv. James. 3. Margaret, died unmarried in Allegheny county. 4. Sarah, died in Allegheny county ; married George Beyers; no issue. 5. Eliza, died in Allegheny county : married James Wallace, a farmer; one of their chil- dren, James (2), now resides in Library, Pennsylvania.
(II) John, eldest son of James Sloan, was born in 1803. He learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed in earlier life, later becoming a farmer of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he died in June, 1875. He married Sarah Murphy, born in Washing- ton county, Pennsylvania, in 1813, died in Li- brary, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in February, 1899. She was the daughter of James Murphy, born in the North of Ireland, emigrated and settled in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he became a prosperous farmer ; married Mary Goldstone, born in England, died in Butler county, Pennsylvania, about 1862, aged ninety-nine years ; both were members of Peters Creek Baptist Church. None of Mary Goldstone's immediate family came to the United States. The children of James and Mary (Goldstone) Murphy were all born in Washington county: 1. John, died in Library, Pennsylvania, aged ninety-one years ; was a farmer and merchant; also for many years justice of the peace; married Bet- sey Long, of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, also deceased. Children : i. Derthula, now liv- ing in Library. ii. Robert, deceased. iii. Mary, . now living in Library. iv. Josephus, now living in Crawford county, Pennsylvania. v. Nancy, also living in Crawford county. 2. James, died in the west, leaving a family. 3. William, mar- ried and left a family. 4. Sarah, mentioned above, married John Sloan. 5. Elizabeth, mar- ried James Donnelly, of Pittsburgh, a con- tractor ; had issue. 6. Archibald, lives in But- ler county, Pennsylvania, a 'farmer ; married Jane Rysor, and had issue, all now living at Prospect, Butler county, Pennsylvania : Oliver, James, Mary and two other daughters.
Children of John and Sarah (Murphy) Sloan: 1. Mary, born August 14, 1837; mar- ried June 12, 1862, William Wagers, a farmer. died at Finleyville, Washington county, Penn- sylvania, in 1903: no issue. 2. John, born May 30, 1839, died in Monongahela City, Pennsylvania ; a farmer ; married Miss Ham- ilton, of Washington county; also deceased.
ard, now living in Philadelphia; a daughter, died young. 3. Elizabeth, born February 27, 1841, died October 13, 1843. 4. Margaret, born December 27, 1842, died in Pittsburgh, 1909 ; married James Kennedy, of Washing- ton county, a farmer ; no issue. 5. William, born March 5, 1845, died in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1905 ; married Mary Grubb, also deceased ; had children, Hannah, Elmer, Wal- ter and Sadie. 6. Archibald, born February 21, 1847; now living in Finleyville, Pennsyl- vania ; a farmer and justice of the peace ; mar- ried Ann Mowrey. Children: Waldo, died August 8, 1912; Maud; Margaret, deceased. 7. Henry, born February 17, 1849, died in New Kensington, 1887; married Elizabeth Fisher, who survives him, living on the home farm at New Kensington. Children : John and Lettie. 8. George, born February 14, 1851, now a rancher at Blythe, California; unmarried. 9. Sarah, born April 16, 1854; married Charles Phelan, a carpenter now residing at Finleyville, Penn- sylvania ; child, Lillian. 10. James Mitchell, of whom further. II. Daniel, born March 27, 1858, died in Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, 1904; a farmer ; unmarried.
(III) James Mitchell, tenth child of John and Sarah (Murphy) Sloan, was born in Alle- gheny county, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, February 14, 1855. He attended the public schools, then worked at farming for two years, later moving to Butler, Pennsylvania, where he learned the carpenter's trade. He contin- ued working at his trade until 1878, then be- came an oil producer in the Mckean county district, making his home in Duke Center. He also owned oil rights in the state of Kentucky, and was constantly engaged in the oil business until 1906, when he sold his principal interests. In 1904 he established in Bradford as under- taker and funeral director; in 1910 so greatly had his business increased that he disposed of all his oil properties and interests, giving since then all his attention to his undertaking estab- lishment. He has been a very successful busi- ness man and owes his prosperity to his own energy and forcefulness. He is a Republican in politics, but strongly in favor of prohibition, as a party principle, but not as an independent political movement. He was a school director in Duke Center, and in Bradford has served on the common council, also for many years as inspector representing the First Ward in councils. For thirty years he has been an
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official member of the Methodist Episcopal church, active and helpful in all its work. He is also a member of the Heptasophs. Mr. Sloan is a public-spirited and progressive man, con- tributing his full share to the upbuilding of his city. He is honored and respected by his townsmen, while in his professional capacity he is most sympathetic, thoughtful and con- sideratc.
He married, February 23, 1888, Ana (or Anna) Mackenzie, born in Brighton, Province of Ontario, Canada, October 20, 1858, daugh- ter of Colin Mackenzie, born in New York state, and when a babe taken to Canada by his parents. Colin Mackenzie was the son of a Scotch emigrant, a scion of the famous Clan Mackenzie, of Scotland. Colin inherited a large farm from his father, and lived to a good old age ; he married Amanda Clute, who died in Brighton, Canada, in 1889, a very old lady ; their children, all born in Brighton: I. Well- ington, born 1852, no further record. 2. Emma, died at Trenton, Canada, in 1912, unmarried. 3. Wesley, born 1856, now a cigar manufac- turer of Montreal, Canada; unmarried. 4. Ana (or Anna), mentioned above, wife of James Mitchell Sloan. She was given a liberal education, and received a teacher's certificate, entitling her to teach in the Canadian schools. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and with her husband an active worker in its different departments. 5. Donald, born in 1862, no further record. 6. Carlotta, born 1864, now living in Saskatchewan, Canada; unmarried. 7. John, born 1866, now engaged in the insurance business in San Francisco; married Lena Martin, of Belleville, Ontario, Canada ; no issue.
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