James Satterfield Fruit and Caroline E. Semple

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Husband James Satterfield Fruit ¹

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           Born: 17 Oct 1849 - Jefferson Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: Thomas Fruit (1800-1852) 4 5
         Mother: Anna Campbell (      -1888) 4

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       Marriage: 4 Dec 1884 6

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Wife Caroline E. Semple ³

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            AKA: Callie Semple 6
           Born:  - Mercer Co, PA
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Children

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1 M Fred T. Fruit ^{3 6}

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           Born: 22 May 1886 - Sharon, Mercer Co, PA 3
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General Notes: Husband - James Satterfield Fruit

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He left home at the age of fourteen, and entered a store in Clarksville, PA. At the age of six­teen he attended the Edinboro Normal School, where he spent three terms. He subsequently clerked in Wheatland, and thence removed to Trumbull County, Ohio, where he conducted a general store for about eleven years. In January, 1879, he formed a partnership with J. J. Spearman, and as J. S. Fruit & Co. purchased the hardware store of A. E. Carter & Co. The following month they bought out Ohl, Vile & Co., and the firm of Fruit, Ohl & Co. was then organized.
Mr. Fruit was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1884, and was a member of the State Committee in 1885. In 1886 he was elected to the Legislature from Mercer County, and served in the session of 1887. In the spring of 1888 he was renominated at the convention held at Mercer, and re-elected in Novem­ber. Mr. Fruit was a member of the Masonic and I. O. O. F. fraternities, and was one of the best known citizens of his native county. [HMC 1888, 725]

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

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

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

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 925.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 744.

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