Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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David Luther Ferguson and Eliza Ferguson




Husband David Luther Ferguson 1 2

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           Died: 1895 - Hoopa Valley, CA 3
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         Father: David Ferguson (Abt 1786-1863/1865) 4
         Mother: Rachel McKee (Abt 1799-1852/1853) 5


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Wife Eliza Ferguson 1 6

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           Died: Aft 1898
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         Father: James Ferguson (      -      ) 7
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Children
1 F Maud Ferguson 3

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           Died: when twenty-four years old - California
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2 M Frank Ferguson 3

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3 M Chester Ferguson 3

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General Notes: Husband - David Luther Ferguson


During the war of the Rebellion he was attending college, but left his studies to assist in raising a company of cavalry which was mustered into the 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry, he being commissioned a lieutenant, and serving during the entire Rebellion. Leaving home, he married, and entered into the lumber and mercantile business in Lumber City, where he continued for twelve years, during which time he was interested in the cause of education, and through his efforts the Lumber City Academy was founded. Having his store burned, and meeting with other reverses, he closed out his business and moved to Humboldt county, California, where he pre-empted 160 acres of redwood timber land. Entering in with a company, he took charge of a trading post on an Indian reservation in Hoopa Valley, California, where, in 1895, having contracted pneumonia while crossing a snow-capped mountain, the disease terminated his life.

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Sources


1 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 525.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 904.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 905.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 816, 904, 1009.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 904, 1009.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 905, 906.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 816, 904.


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