Alexander D. Gillespie and Nancy Linn

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Husband Alexander D. Gillespie ¹

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           Born: 10 Oct 1822 - near Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 1
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           Died: 17 Apr 1902 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: David Gillespie (      -      ) 3 4
         Mother: Hannah Dumars (1800-Bef 1888) 5

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       Marriage: 4 Jul 1846 1

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Wife Nancy Linn ¹

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           Born:  - Mercer Co, PA
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           Died: 25 Jun 1904 6
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Children

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1 M Alfred D. Gillespie ^{1 2}

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           Born: 27 Feb 1848 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 2
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           Died: Aft 1909
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         Spouse: Emma Jane Robinson (1847-      ) 6
           Marr: 12 Apr 1870 6

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2 M Cassius R. Gillespie ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: when sixteen years old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M Eugene P. Gillespie ^{1 7}

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           Born: 24 Sep 1852 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 1 7
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           Died: 17 Dec 1899 7
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         Spouse: Ella Davidson (1857-1907) 1 7
           Marr: 25 Nov 1880 1

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4 M Alexander J. Gillespie ¹

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           Died: Aft 1909
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General Notes: Husband - Alexander D. Gillespie

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When he was six years old his parents moved to Big Bend, on the Shenango River, where they spent the remaining years of their lives. Alexan­der left home at seventeen to attend the academy of Greenville, PA, then under the charge of Rev. John Gamble, a well-known educator of that period, where he spent one year. He then began teaching school in the winter seasons, and devoted the remainder of his time to the study of law in the office of William Maxwell, of Mercer. He attended Allegheny College at Meadville during the session of 1842-43, and taught school until 1844. On the 17th of December, 1845, he was admitted to practice, and “hung out his shingle” in Greenville. His surplus of cash to bridge over the period during which he was waiting for clients was the sum of 75 cents. The first few years he scarcely made expenses, but with indomitable pluck he stuck to the law, and finally became one of the leading and most successful attorneys of the Mercer bar. Throughout his life he was firm in his adherence to the Democratic party; assisted in establishing the Greenville Progress, and for a time was its editor and pro­prietor, and was elected eight terms as burgess of Greenville, which fact, the town being strongly Republican, speaks volumes regarding his standing among the people of his home. [HMC 1888, 792]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 792.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 413.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 792, 1148.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1462.

5 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1148.

6 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 414.

7 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 476.