Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Rev. Henry Kuhn Shanor and Maria Agnes Fisher




Husband Rev. Henry Kuhn Shanor 1 2

           Born: 9 Mar 1853 - near Butler, Butler Co, PA 2
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         Father: Daniel Shanor (1815-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Sophia Mechling (1831-      ) 1


       Marriage: 17 May 1878 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2



Wife Maria Agnes Fisher 2

            AKA: Agnes Fischer 4
           Born: 17 Feb 1854 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2
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         Father: Franklin Fisher (      -      ) 2 5
         Mother: Barbara Emerick (      -      ) 2 5




Children
1 F Mary Elizabeth Shanor 2 6

            AKA: Mary Elizabeth Shanar 4
           Born: 1879 2
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         Spouse: Oliver Wesley Ziegler (1874-1936) 2 6 7 8 9
           Marr: 8 Oct 1902 6


2 M Edgar Ethelbert Shanor 2

           Born: 20 Nov 1880 2
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           Died: 28 Apr 1975 - ? Sharon, Mercer Co, PA
         Buried:  - Emlenton Cemetery, Emlenton, Venango Co, PA 10
         Spouse: Sara Ann Newton (1880-1968)
           Marr: 1909 - ? Venango Co, PA


3 M Dr. Charles Krauth Shanor 2

           Born: 3 May 1883 - Freeport, Armstrong Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Cooper (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 12 Jun 1912 2


4 F Ellen Adaline Shanor 2

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         Spouse: Lewis A. Sullenberger (      -      ) 2


5 F Katherine Alberta Shanor 2

           Born: 1897 2
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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Henry Kuhn Shanor


His education is a very liberal one, being acquired in the Witherspoon Institute, Butler, Pennsylvania; Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1877; Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1882. He was ordained as a minister the same year he was graduated, and had, prior to this time, been engaged in teaching. He became pastor at Freeport, Middle Lancaster and Youngwood, Pennsylvania, and beginning January 1, 1914, has been stationed at Jewett, Ohio. He was professor at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, for a period of four years, and served in the same capacity at Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania, three and a half years. He was a very able minister of the Lutheran Church, a staunch Republican, and was secretary of the school board while living at Youngwood, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. [GPHWP, 476]

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Sources


1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 345.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 476.

3 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 655.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 347.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 842.

6 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 992.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1196.

8 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 346.

9 Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler, The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania (Zelienople, PA: Charles Campbell Printing Co., 1970), Pg 168.

10 Margaret Segui Kahle, Emlenton Cemetery Interments (Emlenton, PA: Self-published, 1977), Pg 92.


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