Lucien Fombelle

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Husband Lucien Fombelle ¹

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           Born:  - France
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1 M Alexander Fombelle ¹

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           Born:  - Franklin Twp, Beaver Co, PA
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           Died:  - New Brighton, Pulaski Twp, Beaver Co, PA
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         Spouse: Delilah Magaw (      -      ) 2

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2 M Lucien Fombelle ³

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           Died:  - New Brighton, Pulaski Twp, Beaver Co, PA
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         Spouse: Eunice Magaw (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Lucien Fombelle

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He was a native of France, in his homeland owning vineyards of wide extent and also being proprietor of a jewelry business. Religious unrest and persecution drove him from his native land with a band of Huguenots who came to the United States in the post-revolutionary period. He brought with him all of his large fortune that he could convert into currency or portable securities, one of the items being several boxes of hand-wrought jewelry taken from his store, pieces of which, with the ancient price tags still fastened thereto, were still in the possession of his great-grandson years later, historic heirlooms dearly treasured. The total value of his belongings was estimated at about $60,000, and soon after he and his wife landed in America he invested a part of this sum in several tracts of land, one of fourteen hundred acres in Franklin township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and another near Wampum, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. He hoped to be able to raise vineyards that would rival those of his homeland, but several unsuccessful attempts showed him the futility of such an effort, the soil being totally unsuited to such an endeavor. He did, however, become a person of importance in the county, and in many cases accommodated his neighbors and added to his own wealth by lending of his fortune to those of his acquaintance in need of cash to tide them over some financial stringency or to promote some needed improvement on their property. He regarded such dealings as purely business and not as friendly transactions, and because his rates of interest never savored of usury his money was the means of aiding many who would have been uncomfortably embarrassed had they not had access to his plentiful store.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 756.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 756, 769.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 757.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 757, 769.