Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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George L. Reed and Hannah L. Ellenberger




Husband George L. Reed 1 2 3

           Born: 8 Jun 1855 - Brady Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: John H. Reed (      -      ) 1 3
         Mother: Margaret Potter (      -      ) 1 3


       Marriage: 1884 or May 1887 1 4



Wife Hannah L. Ellenberger 2 4

            AKA: Anna S. Ellenberger 1
           Born:  - Belknap, Wayne Twp, Armstrong Co, PA
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         Father: Charles Ellenberger (      -1864) 2 5
         Mother: Anna Elizabeth Bargerstock (Abt 1820-1890) 2 5




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1 M Marlin G. Reed 1 4

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2 F Hulda E. Reed 1

            AKA: Hilda E. Reed 4
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3 M Russell L. Reed 4

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General Notes: Husband - George L. Reed


He obtained his elementary education in the country schools, sometimes traveling a distance of three miles to reach the school house. Afterward he attended the Brookville schools for three years. He was reared to the milling business, having assisted his father until the age of twenty-one, and with slight exceptions was engaged in that line of work thereafter. For eight years he followed the trade in New Hampshire. In 1888 he purchased an interest in the mill at Brookville, and beginning in 1892 he had charge of it.
He and his wife were among the active members of the M. E. Church, in which he held the office of steward. Politically, he was a Republican.

The public schools of Brookville and other places in Pennsylvania provided his early educational training, which was somewhat limited in scope, his broader education having been gained simply by experience. As a boy he was employed for some time at farm work, and later as driver of a cart in connection with the low grade railroad that was being constructed through Jefferson and neighboring counties. He also served in a similar way in the construction of another branch of the same railway line, and thereafter was for three months employed in a stone quarry in Armstrong County. This period of his career found him engaged in work of the sturdiest order, and his next experience was in connection with operations in the lumber woods of the central section of the state. Thereafter he was for two years associated with his father in the milling business in Armstrong County, where he gained the practical experience that gave him facility as a high-grade miller. After thus learning his trade he was for four years employed in the mill conducted by John Startzell, of Brookville, and he next assumed charge of a mill in Clarion County, in which county he still later had supervision of the operation of a mill at Millville. He then went to Freeport, where he held the position of second miller in a well equipped mill for a period of about two and a half years, at the expiration of which he went to Penacook, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, where he had a mill of his own for eight years. In the meanwhile, in 1887, he purchased an interest in the old Mabon mill at Brookville, and in June, 1891, returned to that place, where he assumed active charge of the mill and where he then maintained his home. The business was conducted under the corporate title of the George L. Reed Milling Company, of which he was president and controlling stockholder. Under his direction the mill was brought up to the best modern standards in mechanical equipment and accessories, with full roller process. He was president also of the Redbank Milling Company, of New Bethlehem, Clarion County, where he was president also of the Redbank Electric Company, of which he was one of the organizers.


General Notes: Wife - Hannah L. Ellenberger

from Belknap, Wayne Twp, Armstrong Co, PA

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Sources


1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1348.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 367.

3 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 299.

4 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 300.

5 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 189.


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