Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Frank W. Highberger and Mary Rebecca Laird




Husband Frank W. Highberger 1

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       Marriage: 24 Oct 1900 1



Wife Mary Rebecca Laird 1

           Born: 18 Feb 1874 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Francis Van Buren Laird (1840-      ) 2 3 4
         Mother: Hetty D. Welty (      -      ) 3




Children

General Notes: Husband - Frank W. Highberger


He was a confidential clerk in the offices of the Carnegie Steel Company. Soon after his marriage he was appointed representative gen­eral of the Carnegie, or United States Steel corporation, in the city of Mexico, where they resided for two years. At the solicitation of his wife he resigned that position and returned to Pittsburg in the employ of the same company.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 463.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 120.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 462.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 736.


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