M. H. Byles and M. Agnes Axtell

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Husband M. H. Byles ¹

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           Born: 1 Apr 1851 - Pleasantville, Oil Creek Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: W. D. Byles (      -1883) 1
         Mother: Maria Smith (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 20 Sep 1882 1

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Wife M. Agnes Axtell ¹

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1 M Ralph Byles ¹

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General Notes: Husband - M. H. Byles

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He was the youngest in a family of ten children of his parents.

He was given good educational advantages, graduating from the Western Reserve College, at Cleveland, Ohio, in the classical course, in 1875. He then went to Erie City, Pennsylvania, where he studied law in the office of J. Ross Thompson, and was admitted to the bar in 1879. In the winter of 1879 he came to Bradford, and for a time was a partner with Henry McSweeney, and later the partnership of McSweeney & Byles was formed. The firm was composed of energetic young men.
Mr. Byles was a member of the Knights of Honor, Royal Arcanum, and the I. O. O. F. lodge and encampment. In politics he was a Republican. Mrs. Byles was a member of the Episcopal Church.

1 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 342.