Husband William Campbell Pettit 1
Born: 7 May 1867 - Titusville, Crawford Co, PA 1
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Father: Jonathan Milton Pettit (1830-1904) 1 2
Mother: Margaret J. Campbell (1832-1905) 1 2
Marriage: Jul 1906 3
Wife Jennie Fruit Hull 3
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Father: Byron S. Hull (1843-Aft 1909) 3 4
Mother: Caroline "Carrie" Fruit ( -Aft 1909) 3 5
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General Notes: Husband - William Campbell Pettit
He obtained his education at the public schools of Titusville and Greenville, Pennsylvania, subsequently graduating from Thiel College. Having chosen law for his profession, he studied with A. D. Gillespie at Greenville, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1889, immediately located in Greenville, where later he became the law partner of Hon. E. P. Gillespie, the firm being styled, Gillespie & Pettit, up to the date of Mr. Gillespie's death in 1899, after which time Mr. Pettit conducted an independent general law practice. Besides his legal business, Mr. Pettit was interested in various enterprises and was the president of the Greenville Electric Light and Power Company; was a director in the First National Bank of Greenville and was prominent in business circles. He was a member of the Mercer County Bar Association; and in his fraternal society affiliations was connected with the Masonic order, belonging to Eureka Lodge, No. 290, F. & A. M., of which he was a past master; he was also member of the Mound Chapter, No. 212, Royal Arch Masons. In Odd Fellowship, he was a member of Alhambra Lodge, No. 293, of which he was a past noble grand, and was a member of Custer Lodge, No. 469, Knights of Pythias. In 1904, he was nominated by the Democratic party for judge of Mercer County, and was defeated by only 638 votes, although the head of the Republican ticket that year carried the county by a plurality of 4,669. Politically, Mr. Pettit was a Democrat. In church connection he was a member of the Presbyterian church. [HMC 1909, 399]