Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Daniel Reamer and Lavina Fisher




Husband Daniel Reamer 1 2

           Born: 5 Nov or 15 Nov 1815 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 
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         Father: Jacob Reamer (1783-      ) 1 3
         Mother: Sarah Wible (      -Abt 1815) 2


       Marriage: 1845 4

   Other Spouse: Mary Margaret Crooks (1827-1916) 4 5 - 25 Jun 1850 4



Wife Lavina Fisher 2 4

           Born: 
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           Died: 25 Jun 1850 2
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         Father: Jacob Fisher (      -      ) 2 4
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Children
1 M Jacob William Reamer 4 5 6 7

           Born: 27 Aug 1846 - Westmoreland Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: Annie A. Tinstman (      -      ) 6 7
           Marr: 1873 6



General Notes: Husband - Daniel Reamer


He was only nine days old when his mother died. He attended school in the old school house; his teacher was Governor Geary's father, who was a fine teacher and good disciplinarian. At sixteen years of age, after completing the "Western Calculator" arithmetic at school he left home and learned the trade of tanning with Lewis Harrold. He followed tanning and farming for many years. He spent nine years at Mt. Pleasant, and in 1850 came to Greensburg where he followed butchering in connection with his tanning business for some time. In 1885 he retired from active business. He differed from his family in politics: they were all democrats while he was a republican. In 1887 he was elected director of the poor and in 1889 was re-elected. He was a member of the United Brethren church.

He spent his entire life in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Reared on the home farm, he attended the public school and assisted his father in working the farm and supporting the family. At the age of sixteen years he decided to learn a trade which would make him independent of the farm, and after a short time spent in working at the butcher's trade, he took up tanning. In this profession he worked with Lewis Harrold and spent nine years in Mt. Pleasant before moving to Greensburg in 1850.


General Notes: Wife - Lavina Fisher


One source gives June 25, 1850, as the date of her death. Another source states that his was the date of his second marriage. It is unlikely that both events occurred on the same day.

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Sources


1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 155.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 399.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 287.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 156.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 400.

6 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 799.

7 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 461.


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