Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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Evan O'Neill Kane III and Hannah McCoy Hamlin




Husband Evan O'Neill Kane III 1

           Born: 11 Aug 1899 - Kushequa, McKean Co, PA 2
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         Father: Elisha Kent Kane (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Zella Ellen Hays (      -      ) 2


       Marriage: 19 Jun 1926 2



Wife Hannah McCoy Hamlin 1 3 4

           Born: 10 Jan 1905 - Smethport, McKean Co, PA 3 4
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         Father: Orlo James Hamlin (1873-      ) 4 5 6
         Mother: Mirabel Depew Folger (1877-      ) 4 5 7




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1 F Hannah Elizabeth Kane 2

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2 M Orlo Hamlin Kane 2

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3 M Evan O'Neill Kane 2

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4 F Eugenia Mary Kane 2

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5 F Harriet Rebecca Kane 2

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General Notes: Husband - Evan O'Neill Kane III


A graduate of Kane High School in 1917, he was a student at Oberlin College in 1917-18 and from August to December, 1918, served as a private in the United States Army Infantry. After the close of the First World War, he entered Princeton University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1921. A number of his business connections grew out of his administration of the Kane Estate. In 1929 he became a trustee of the Elizabeth D. Kane Estate and in 1930 organized the Kane Estate, Inc., and the Kane Realty Corporation, of which he was president. From 1921 to 1928 he was superintendent of the Kushequa Brick Company and the Kushequa Keramic Company at Kushequa and in 1928 entered the garage business under the name of Blair & Company at Kane, Pennsylvania. In 1933 he was elected treasurer of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Gas Company and its subsidiaries and was thereafter active in the management of this group. Mr. Kane was also vice-president of the Kane Industrial Gas Company beginning in 1932; was a director of the Simpson-Cooper Oil Company, oil producers from 1928 to 1937 and was a partner in this enterprise beginning in 1937; and was a partner in the Lannigan Run Property, another oil producing organization.
Mr. Kane was a member of the Borough Council there from 1930 to 1933, and was a member of the board of managers of Kane Summit Hospital, regional director of the Boy Scouts of America, and director of the Kane Young Men's Christian Association. He was also a president of the Kane Rotary Club, member of the Cloister Inn Club at Princeton and other organizations. Mr. Kane was a Republican in politics and a member of the Union Church at Kushequa.

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Sources


1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 25, 434.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 434.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 188.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 28.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 187.

6 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 23.

7 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 25.


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