Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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James S. Kuhn and Ella O'Neil




Husband James S. Kuhn 1 2

           Born: 3 Oct 1852 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Dr. John S. Kuhn (1813-1883) 1 2 3
         Mother: Mary E. Speer (Abt 1824-1900) 1


       Marriage: 1880 4



Wife Ella O'Neil 2 5

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         Father: James O'Neil (1815-      ) 5 6
         Mother: Eliza J. Berry (      -      ) 5




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General Notes: Husband - James S. Kuhn


He was reared in Pittsburgh and McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and educated in the public schools. At the age of fifteen he was employed in the First National bank of Pittsburgh, where he remained for seven years. In 1874 he came to McKeesport, and for more than fourteen years was in the service of the First National bank of that city in various capacities, his later position being that of cashier, to which he was appointed in 1884. He was a director of the bank for some years, was secretary and treasurer of the American Water-works company, of McKeesport - an organization with a paid-up capital of half a million dollars. He was president of the Russell Manufacturing company, and was one of the projectors of the Youghiogheny bridge, of which he was half-owner, and was secretary and treasurer of the company. He was vice-president of the New Enterprise Building & Loan association, and for several years was city treasurer. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church; politically a republican.


General Notes: Wife - Ella O'Neil

from McKeesport, Allegheny Co, PA

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Sources


1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 315.

2 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 470.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 419.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 316.

5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 316, 325.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 987.


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