Lee Alexander McCracken and Georgia Vaughan French

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Husband Lee Alexander McCracken ^{1 2}

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           Born: 3 May 1880 - Cornplanter Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: Joshua Powers McCracken (1845-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Adelia Dodds (1857-      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1 Oct 1913 4

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Wife Georgia Vaughan French ⁴

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           Born: 21 Feb 1886 - McClintockville, Venango Co, PA 4
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         Father: Winfield Scott French (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Mary Barber Vaughan (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 M Robert Alexander McCracken ⁴

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           Born: 16 Sep 1916 4
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General Notes: Husband - Lee Alexander McCracken

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He attended the public schools of Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, and was graduated from Rouse-ville High School, then, in 1903, from Oil City High School. He then attended the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he took up both a regular classical course and a law course, remaining for two and one-half years. He continued the study of law in the law office of P. M. Speer, in Oil City, who later became counsel for the Standard Oil Company of New York. Mr. McCracken was admitted to the bar in 1909, then settled in Oil City and took up the independent practice of his profession, so continuing until May, 1932. He was at that time appointed to the vacancy caused by the elevation of Judge William M. Parker to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. This vacancy was a judgeship of the Venango County Court, to which office Judge McCracken was elected by his constituents for a full ten-year term in 1933.
Judge McCracken was a mem-ber of the Venango County Bar Association and the Pennsylvania State Bar Association. A Republican in politics, he served for twelve years as district attorney of Venango County. He was a trustee of Trinity Methodist Church, in Oil City. In the fraternal sphere he was affili-ated with Fraternal Lodge, No. 483, Free and Accepted Masons, at Rouseville, and was a member of the New Castle Consistory of Scottish Rite Masonry, the Lodge of Perfection and the Royal Arch Chapter at Oil City, and Zem Zem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in Erie. He was affiliated with Oil City Lodge, No. 589, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a member of the Oil City Chamber of Commerce, a charter member of the local Kiwanis Club, and a member of the Keystone Club, which he joined at the University of Michigan.

1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 55.

2 Kate M. Zahniser & Charles Reed Zahniser, The Zahnisers - A History of the Family in America (Mercer, PA: Kate M. Zahniser, Publisher, 1906), Pg 189.

3 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1098.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 56.

5 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 52.