Henry Forker and Salina J. Porter

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Husband Henry Forker ^{1 2}

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           Born: Aug 1823 - Mercer, Mercer Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 20 May 1865 - Altoona, Blair Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Gen. John Forker (1800-1865) 3 4 5
         Mother: Isabella Graham (1801-1890) 1 4 6

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       Marriage: 22 Feb 1849 3

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Wife Salina J. Porter ³

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            AKA: Selina Porter 1
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         Father: Thomas J. Porter, Esq. (1800-      ) 1 7
         Mother: Julia A. Quinby (1807-1849) 8

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Children

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1 M John Forker ¹

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2 M Harry Porter Forker ^{1 9}

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         Spouse: Maude Curtiss (      -      ) 9

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3 F Julia A. Forker ^{1 10}

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           Born: 29 May 1854 - Mercer, Mercer Co, PA 10
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           Died: 3 May 1936 - Sharon, Mercer Co, PA 11
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         Spouse: Frank Henry Buhl (1848-1918) 1 12 13
           Marr: 8 Feb 1888 12

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4 M Thomas J. Forker ^{1 3}

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           Born: 27 May 1856 - Mercer, Mercer Co, PA 3
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5 F Isabella G. Forker ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Henry Forker

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He grew up and received his education in Mercer, PA, and there carried on the mercantile business up to 1857, when he sold his interest to his brother Joseph and Mr. Zahniser, and removed to Sharon, where he entered the coal business in partnership with his father-in-law, T. J. Porter, Esq. In company with Samuel Kimberly, under the firm name of Kimberly & Forker, he opened Keel Ridge coal mine in 1863. He was successfully engaged in coal operations un­til his sudden death by a railroad accident. He was a stanch Republican, but took no active inter­est in political affairs. He was deputy sheriff under his father one term. He was a regular attendant at the United Presbyterian Church, and did a great deal toward building up that denomination in Sharon.[HMC 1888, 723]

1 Vilena Mae Forker Holliker, "Forker Genealogy" (San Antonio, TX: privately printed, 1976), Pg 2.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 723.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 724.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1094.

5 Vilena Mae Forker Holliker, "Forker Genealogy" (San Antonio, TX: privately printed, 1976), Pg 1.

6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 666.

7 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 748.

8 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 749.

9 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 173.

10 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 95.

11 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 96.

12 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 712.

13 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 93.