Fred T. Fruit

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Husband Fred T. Fruit ^{1 2}

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           Born: 22 May 1886 - Sharon, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: James Satterfield Fruit (1849-1902) 3
         Mother: Caroline E. Semple (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Fred T. Fruit

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He was educated in the public schools of Sharon, Trinity Hall, in Washing­ton, Pennsylvania, and Rayen School in Youngstown, Ohio. He graduated from Princeton University in 1908 and from the Law School of the University of Pennsyl­vania in 1911.
Following his admission to the bar, Mr. Fruit com­menced the practice of law with Horace W. Davis, in Sharon, under the firm name of Davis and Fruit. Subse­quently, Eugene E. Anderson became a member of the firm and the name was changed to Davis, Fruit and Anderson and so continued for many years. Mr. Fruit was a member and former president of the Mercer County Bar Association, and also a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
In 1879 Mr. Fruit's father, with Edwin N. Ohl and John J. Spearman, founded the Fruit-Ohl Company, as a partnership, dealing in hardware and mill supplies. The firm was subsequently incorporated in 1899 and James S. Fruit was its president until his death.
Fred T. Fruit became president of the Fruit-Ohl Com­pany in 1911. He was also president of the Valley Savings & Loan Association, a director of Sharon Steel Corporation, the Merchants & Manufacturers National Bank of Sharon and Inland Investors, Inc., of Cleve­land. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania in 1915 and also solicitor of the city of Sharon from 1916 to 1941. He was president and a member of the board of directors of the Shenango Valley Community Fund and active in other civic and charitable organizations.
During the first World War, Mr. Fruit was a member of various committees and boards engaged in war work and at its close was in the Field Artillery Training Corps at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and held a membership in the Sharon Chamber of Commerce, Sharon Country Club and the Free and Accepted Masons.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 725.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 204.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 724, 926.