Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Frederick Eugene Mallory and Jennie Rittenhouse




Husband Frederick Eugene Mallory 1 2

           Born: 5 Feb 1851 - Cambridge Springs, Crawford Co, PA 2
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         Father: Truman Mallory (1824-1899) 2 3
         Mother: Charlotte Lydia Phelps (1829-1903) 4


       Marriage: 1 Nov 1876 1



Wife Jennie Rittenhouse 2

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         Father: A. Rittenhouse (      -      ) 1
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Children
1 M George Mallory 2

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2 M Roy Mallory 2

           Born: 1887 2
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General Notes: Husband - Frederick Eugene Mallory


He was born Feb 25. [HVC 1890, 1133]
He never attended school after passing the age of fifteen, when his father introduced him to the oil business at the Sherman flats, Crawford County, PA, where he was at work pumping. Within a few months he was promoted to the work of a driller, following this until he became strong enough to dress tools, at which he become proficient in a short time, earning four dollars and a half per day. His first contracting venture was made in 1870 at Scrubgrass, Venango County, in partnership with his brother L. E. Mallory. They drilled fifteen wells before realizing a dollar, and within a year Frederick E. returned to day’s labor twenty-five hundred dollars in debt. In 1873, in company with his father and brother, he invested in productive oil property, and in the autumn of 1876 his daily income was more than two hundred dollars. An offer of one hundred thousand dollars was refused for their property, which sold four years later for four thousand. From that time he was senior partner of the firm of Mallory Brothers.
The business firm of Mallory Brothers came into existence in 1880. Operations were begun in the Bradford oil fields in McKean County, PA, with seven sets of tools, and continued there two years with fair success. During this period the firm also leased oil territory to a limited extent. In 1882, attracted by the promising prospects of the Speechley gas field, they moved to Venango County, drilling the first well for the Oil City Fuel Supply Company, then recently organized. The operations of the firm were gradually extended from year to year. About twenty wells were drilled in 1882. The total number drilled during the seven years the firm was in Venango County was about two hundred and twenty-five, of which more than a hundred have approximated two thousand feet in depth. In March, 1889, the number of sets of tools was increased from eight to twelve, and the working force from forty-four to eighty. The monthly pay roll aggregated seven thousand dollars and the daily expenses averaged six hundred dollars. The firm built its own derricks, selling the same to the contracting company. [HVC 1890, 1133]


General Notes: Wife - Jennie Rittenhouse

from Spartansburg, PA

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Sources


1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1133.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 45.

3 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Bios 226.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 44.


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