John E. Womer and Elizabeth L. "Lizzie" Allen

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Husband John E. Womer ¹

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            AKA: John Warner 2
           Born: 14 Aug 1856 - Allegheny Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: Isaac Womer (      -1864) 1
         Mother: Emily Morrison (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 8 Mar 1883 - Crawford's Corners, Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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Wife Elizabeth L. "Lizzie" Allen ²

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         Father: John R. Allen (1827-Aft 1895) 2 4
         Mother: Mary J. Campbell (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Della M. Womer ⁵

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         Spouse: John Keating (      -      ) 5

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2 F Emily E. Womer ⁵

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         Spouse: Frederick Cobbett (      -      ) 5

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3 F Una E. Womer ⁵

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4 M Carl L. Womer ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - John E. Womer

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He was reared to man's es­tate in Allegheny Township, Butler County, PA, and as he was a soldier's orphan he was entitled to the educational advantages offered by the Sol­diers' Orphans' School at Titusville, which he attended for nearly five years. He re­turned to Allegheny Township and re­mained there until he was twenty years of age, when he entered the Clarion County oil fields, going from there to McKean County and later to Allegheny County, New York, spending some time in each section and investigating others. He finally returned to Butler County and for a quarter of a century was interested in oil development there. He was also con­nected with the firm of Eakin Brothers, in Venango County. He met with a large amount of success in his line of business and was known all through the oil territory.
His early years were filled with excitement that only war can bring, more especially when its grim reality grasps happiness from the home circle, and from boyhood the marching and counter-march­ing of troops were but too familiar sights and entered into even childish play. Doubtless he inherited a taste for military life and evidently possessed a natural gift of command, for while he was a student at school, he was chosen, out of a score of other sons of soldiers, to command and drill a company, which became very profi­cient in the manual of arms as he taught them. When the Spanish-American War broke out, through his own personal effort he raised a full company and for two months he walked the distance of five miles from his home to Eau Claire, twice every week, to drill them, receiving no remuneration whatever.
He was a very active Republican for a number of years and was in close touch with other leaders of his party in Butler Coun­ty. He was sent as a delegate to three Congressional Conventions and once as a delegate to the convention to nominate a delegate to the National Convention. He was always a loyal party man and frequently proved his efficiency. He was a member of many important committees and was a delegate to the State Republican Convention at Harrisburg.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1367.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1327.

3 Joan S. Hanson & Kenneth L. Hanson, Marriages from Venango County Sources (Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1994), Pg 267.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 446.

5 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1368.