Adnah Neyhart and Maria Jane Grandin

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Husband Adnah Neyhart ^{1 2}

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           Born: 20 Dec 1836 - Lansing, Tompkins Co, NY 1 3
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           Died: 17 Feb 1875 - San Diego, San Diego Co, CA 1 3
         Buried:  - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA

       Marriage: 17 Sep 1868 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 3

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Wife Maria Jane Grandin ^{1 4}

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           Born: 20 Feb 1843 5
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           Died: Aft 1913
         Buried: 

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         Father: Samuel Grandin (1800-1888) 6 7 8
         Mother: Sarah Ann Henry (1807-1852) 5 9 10

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Children

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1 F Emma Grandin Neyhart ^{1 11 12}

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           Born: 22 Jun 1871 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 11
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           Died: Abt 11 Sep 1937 - ? Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co, OH
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         Spouse: Howard Ambrose Couse (1871-1957) 11 12
           Marr: 1900 12

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2 M Adnah Neyhart, Jr. ^{1 11}

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           Born: 31 Dec 1872 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 
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         Spouse: Grace G. Stephenson (      -      ) 11

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General Notes: Husband - Adnah Neyhart

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He was born at Lansing, Tompkins County, New York; he came to Tidioute, Pennsylvania, in 1865, being then a young man of nearly thirty years of age, and having by unfortunate investments in the oil regions lost heavily. Being possessed of an unusual amount of business sagacity, self-reliance and enterprise, he proceeded at once to build up his fallen fortunes and turn his former defeat into a complete and well sustained financial victory. He associated himself with Joshua Pierce, of Philadelphia, in the oil producing firm of Pierce & Neyhart, which became well known throughout the petroleum world, being pioneers in the business of transporting oil in tank cars. Building a number of large iron tanks in which to store their own production during the low prices of 1866, at which time they owned a number of immense wells, they afterwards gave up operating and confined themselves wholly to the shipping business. Mr. Neyhart remained in the oil regions, while Mr. Pierce attended to the business of the firm in the east. This association lasted until about 1870, when the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Neyhart continued to carry on operations independently. He became one of the largest and most successful oil producers in the country, applying himself to business with unremitting zeal and exercising a wisdom and foresight in his dealings which earned for him a wide-spread reputation throughout these regions. He became closely associated with the three Grandin brothers, whose sister he married, and continued operations with them characterized by an unusual degree of mutual profit and esteem. Their confidence in the moral and business integrity of one another was so complete that little attention was given to recording travel expenses when any member of the partnership was abroad in the interests of the work. The close application which Mr. Neyhart gave to the business, however, gradually undermined his health and compelled him to abandon his personal activities and seek rest and recuperation in a different climate. He removed with his family to California, continuing to direct all important movements by letter and telegram from that place. His enterprising spirit would not allow him to be idle, and he engaged in gold mining, purchased a gold mine, and set up the requisite machinery, meeting with success, when he was stricken down by death. He died at San Diego, California, and was buried at Tidioute, Pennsylvania, under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity, of which he was a member. His religious affiliations were with the Presbyterian church.

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General Notes: Wife - Maria Jane Grandin

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Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA

She was born February 21, 1841. [GGSOPF, 371]

1 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP lxxiii.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 398, 1026.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 398.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 399, 1026.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1026.

6 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 638, BP lxxiii.

7 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 65.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1025.

9 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 639, BP lxxiii.

10 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 66.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 399.

12 Kate M. Zahniser & Charles Reed Zahniser, The Zahnisers - A History of the Family in America (Mercer, PA: Kate M. Zahniser, Publisher, 1906), Pg 131.