Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Jared B. Fife and Mary A. Marshall




Husband Jared B. Fife 1 2

           Born:  - Allegheny Co, PA
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           Died:  - Carnegie, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: Nathaniel Fife (1795-      ) 1 2 3
         Mother: Eleanor Boal (      -      ) 1 2


       Marriage: 1869 1



Wife Mary A. Marshall 1

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         Father: Rev. George Marshall, D.D. (1806-1872) 1 4 5
         Mother: Mary Lee (1805-1888) 1 6




Children
1 M George M. Fife 1

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           Died: 25 Feb 1893 1
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2 F Agnes Genevieve Fife 1

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General Notes: Husband - Jared B. Fife


He attended the public school, and later Bethel academy, and on July 4, 1861, enlisted in the Union army as a private in Company H, 62d Pennsylvania volunteers. He served three years, taking part in the battles of Yorktown, Gaines' Mill, Malvern hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Petersburg, and in numerous other engagements, coming out with the rank of corporal. After the war he spent several years in mercantile pursuits, keeping a general store for a time, and afterwards a hardware business in Mansfield (later Carnegie). He sold out in 1874, when he became superintendent of Chartiers cemetery for nine years. He became a real estate, loan and insurance agent in 1885. In the autumn of 1888 he was elected tax collector of the borough. In politics he is a stanch republican.
Mr. Fife was a prominent Mason, and a member of Espy post, No. 153, G. A. R., of which he was the second commander.

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Sources


1 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 535.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 286.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 407.

4 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 1194.

5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 732.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 536.


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