Robert D. Humes

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Husband Robert D. Humes ¹

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           Born: 24 Feb 1833 - Tarentum, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: James Humes (1793-1865) 1 2 3 4
         Mother: Mary Negley (1805-1886) 1 3 5

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General Notes: Husband - Robert D. Humes

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He was educated in the public and private schools of Tarentum, Pennsylvania, and engaged for a time in farming, but later began the manufacture of brick at his native town. In 1861 he went to the oil region and was in the oil business there about a year. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Co. I, one hundred and twenty-third reg. Pa. Vols. The day following his enlistment as a private he was promoted to the captaincy of his company, in which capacity he served until December 13, 1863, when, at the battle of Fredericksburg, he was wounded in the thigh by a rifle-ball and disabled. His regiment was part of the time under command of Fitz John Porter and the remainder under "Fighting" Joe Hooker.
He was an elder in the same church at West Newton, and held the same position before going to that place in 1880.
He was a republican and an active worker in his party but had no political aspirations.
He was engaged in the drug business after he returned from the war.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 299.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 389.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 105.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 459.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 460.