Husband Samuel Young Ramage 1
Born: 3 Jul 1853 - New Brighton, Pulaski Twp, Beaver Co, PA 1
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Died: 15 Apr 1940
Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
Father: Benjamin Ramage (1807-Abt 1863) 1 2
Mother: Almira Seavey ( - ) 1 2
Marriage: 12 Jun 1879 3
Wife Cora Evelyn Hull 3
Born: 26 Apr 1853
Christened:
Died: 29 Oct 1936
Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
Father: Milton W. Hull ( - ) 3
Mother: Rebecca Jones Conarroe ( - ) 3
Children
1 F Florence E. Ramage 3
Born: 11 Apr 1880
Christened:
Died: 18 Dec 1958
Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
Spouse: Henry Logan Golsan ( - ) 3
Marr: 1909 - ? Venango Co, PA
2 M Samuel Young Ramage 3
Born: 1882
Christened:
Died: 1948
Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
Spouse: Elizabeth D. Saxon (1889-1973) 3
3 F Ruth Elyn Ramage 3
Born: 9 Mar 1884
Christened:
Died: 19 Apr 1887
Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 F Louise Ramage 3
Born: 8 Nov 1886
Christened:
Died: 2 Mar 1887
Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 M Alfred Hull Ramage 3
Born: 14 Feb 1888
Christened:
Died: 17 Apr 1926
Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
6 F Isabel Ramage 3
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Charles H. Maddox ( - ) 3
7 M Benjamin Ramage 3
Born: 20 Sep 1892
Christened:
Died: 28 Apr 1954
Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Young Ramage
Because of the early death of his father, who left only a small estate, his own share of which he turned over to his sisters, Samuel Young Ramage was forced by necessity to relinquish a college career in order to enter business. This he did after attending the public schools and having had two years at Curry Institute, Pittsburgh, leaving the latter in 1871. But owing to the fact that he was always an omnivorous reader, Mr. Ramage, by his own efforts, offset this curtailment of his education. It was this innate love of the best literature that in later life caused him to be largely instrumental in obtaining for Oil City, Pennsylvania, its fine Carnegie Public Library, and was the chairman of the commission, for he knew the value of good books in helping to determine the course of young lives. His first position after leaving the institute was as clerk in the office of the Green Line, in Pittsburgh, at that time the crude oil line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, where he remained until transferred to the general offices of the Empire and Green Lines, at Oil City, on May 31, 1872. The spring of the previous year he had driven from Pittsburgh to Oil City, a journey of three days, and a strenuous undertaking even for those vigorous times.
When, in 1877, the Empire Line dissolved from the Green Line, he was made the agent for the former at Oil City, a position he retained until resigning in 1881. Meantime, he had engaged in refining oil at Reno, Pennsylvania, with A. L. Confer as his first partner, but in 1879 he went with the newly-formed Mutual Oil Company, with which he was connected until its absorption by the Standard Oil Company in 1895. In March of the following year he went to Cincinnati with the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky, but later was transferred to the New York office at No. 26 Broadway, where he remained until his resignation in 1899. As a business man he was notably successful, and was regarded as one of the leading financiers of Western Pennsylvania, where his holdings in oil and gas were extensive, in addition to which he had large mining interests in the lead and zinc districts of Missouri.
From early youth a deeply inborn love of nature sent him into the woods and fields for recreation and inspiration. His children would tell that among their outstanding memories were those of happy week-end jaunts in the country with their keenly intellectual father, who pointed out to them the various birds and flowers, describing the distinctive habits of each in words so filled with poetic fancy as to lay hold on their young and vivid imaginations. Nothing annoyed him more than to see the country-side despoiled by vandal hands, the unnecessary hewing of trees proving particularly obnoxious. Being a practical man of affairs, however, he was not content to allow his love of the out-of-doors to remain merely passive, constructive thought being an essential factor of his temperament. This side of Mr. Ramage found expression in the preservation of the forests, culminating in the formation of the Cook Forest Association, of which he was president. This organization sought to preserve Cook Forest and neighboring areas in Pennsylvania, at that time the last remaining primeval white pine forest east of the Mississippi River, which formerly covered millions of acres on which grew the finest specimens of the world-famous white pine.
Mr. Ramage was richly endowed with a variety of interests, and, parallel with a love of nature, was a devotion to music, of which he had an erudite understanding and scholarly taste. Also, he was much interested in scientific farming, not only for his own satisfaction, but for the benefit of his neighbors. He advocated the establishment and maintenance of a farm bureau with a paid expert in charge in order that the entire district might acquire modern methods of agriculture.
While an enthusiastic member of the Republican party, he never sought public office. His community zeal showed itself in his work for the Oil City Hospital, of which he was president of the board of directors for more than ten years, and to which he made liberal financial gifts. But it was in Grandview Sanitorium for tuberculous patients, which he established and partly endowed, so that the poor might have proper treatment, that his samaritan spirit best evinced itself.
General Notes: Wife - Cora Evelyn Hull
It is through her great-grandfather, Isaiah Jones, that she was eligible to be a member of the Putnam King Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Oil City, Pennsylvania. She was always closely identified with the literary and musical activities of the town, and was unceasing in her endeavors to make Oil City a musical center; and to this end she was one of the founders of the Schubert Club. It was largely through the initiative and ability of Mrs. Ramage that the Belles Lettres and Wednesday Morning clubs came into being and made their valuable contributions to the cultural life of the community.