Paul Reuben Foight and Estella Duff Wilson

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Husband Paul Reuben Foight ^{1 2}

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           Born: 4 Mar 1872 - Penn Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: John George Foight (1842-Aft 1918) 3 4 5
         Mother: Mary Emeline Brinker (1847-      ) 1 4 5 6

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       Marriage: 3 Jan 1906 2

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Wife Estella Duff Wilson ²

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         Father: John W. Wilson (1840-1907) 2
         Mother: Ellen H. Hamilton (      -Aft 1918) 7

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Children

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1 M Paul Reuben Foight, Jr. ²

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           Born: Abt 1907
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2 F Mary Ellen Foight ²

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           Born: Abt 1908
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3 F Ruth Wilson Foight ²

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           Born: Abt 1911
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4 M John George Foight ²

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           Born: Abt 1913
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         Status: Twin

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5 F Mildred G. Foight ²

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           Born: Abt 1913
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         Status: Twin

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6 F Martha Estella Foight ²

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           Born: Abt 1917
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General Notes: Husband - Paul Reuben Foight

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At an early age he became a pupil at the local district school and remained thus engaged until he had reached his fifteenth year, when he began to work on the farm. He continued to be thus occupied for eighteen years, but had made himself, during that time, a conspicuous figure in the life of the community and was well known as a careful and intelligent business man. Accordingly when, in the year 1905, the First National Bank of Export was organized, Mr. Foight was elected to the position of cashier therein, a post which he continues to hold at the present time. In politics Mr. Foight is a Prohibitionist and has made himself very active in the campaign against the liquor business in this part of the State. He has never sought office, however, preferrng to exert such influence as he could in the capacity of private citizen. In his religious belief he is a Presbyterian, although up to the year 1916 he was a member of the Reformed church. He has been very active in connection with the building of the present Presbyterian church in Export, was a charter member of the church society and a member of the building committee, and since the organization he has been a trustee. Mr. Foight has also been actively interested in a number of important business enterprises in this region, and is now a director and the treasurer of the Murrysville Telephone Company of Export. In the year 1915 he assisted in the drilling of the greatest gas well in this section of the State, this operation being carried on at McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He is also interested in gas enterprises at Trafford, Pennsylvania, and is a large stockholder of the concern known as the Export Gas Company, which now operates three wells. The position which Mr. Foight holds in the community is due to his aggressiveness of character and the hard study which he has given to every subject that he has taken up and especially to banking. He may be said to have made himself a banker and certainly worked early and late to acquire an intimate and practical knowledge of banks and banking methods. The concern with which he is now associated owes not a little to his ability and foresight, and its business has extended and increased materially under his guidance and care. Mr. Foight is also an active and progressive farmer and takes an exceedingly keen interest in the development and cultivation of his farm. In the year 1903 he raised the Carman potatoes which took the first prize at the St. Louis fair of that year. How hard a worker he is may be seen in the fact that in the thirteen years that he has been associated with the bank he has taken only four days vacation.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 87.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 24.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 85.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 648.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 23.

6 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 354.

7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 25.