Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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William Dunlap Sargent and Mary Forward Kooser




Husband William Dunlap Sargent 1 2

           Born:  - Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA
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           Died: Bef 1939
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         Father: Elijah Sargent (1786-1850) 3
         Mother: Matilda Tannehill (      -1852) 3


       Marriage: 1903 4



Wife Mary Forward Kooser 2 4

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           Died: Aft 1939
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         Father: Judge Francis Jacob Kooser (1846-1932) 4 5
         Mother: Maud Ogle (      -1905) 2




Children
1 M Dr. William Dunlap Sargent, Jr. 2

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2 F Maude Sargent 2

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3 F Sarah Sargent 2

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         Spouse: Dr. Edward Ramberg (      -      ) 2



General Notes: Husband - William Dunlap Sargent


After the family moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he became a telegraph operator on the Pennsylvania railroad. At the beginning of the Civil War he was appointed a telegraph operator in the government service and was assigned to duty at the headquarters of General A. E. Burnside, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and was thus engaged at the time of the Morgan raid. He left the service on account of ill health, and returned to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged as manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company's offices, but was later removed to Chicago on the staff of C. H. Summer, electrician under General Anson Stager, Later Mr. Sargent removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he became superintendent of the American District Telephone Company, which was instituted in 1873 under his supervision. In 1877 he became associated with Thomas E. Cornish, who had secured a license for eastern Pennsylvania and the states of Delaware and New Jersey for the telephone business, with headquarters in Philadelphia, and remained with him until 1882, when he accepted a position with the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, with headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, of which company he became vice president.

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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 364.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 50.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 363.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 365.

5 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 49.


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