Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Jennings Coulter McCandless and Angeline Walker




Husband Jennings Coulter McCandless 1 2 3

           Born: 18 Apr 1848 - Center Twp, Butler Co, PA 3 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 12 Jul 1921 3
         Buried: 


         Father: John F. "Peach John" McCandless (1802-1869) 1 5 6 7
         Mother: Nancy Hays (Abt 1821-1863) 1 7


       Marriage: 



Wife Angeline Walker 3 4

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 12 Aug 1914 3
         Buried: 


         Father: Abraham Walker (      -      ) 4
         Mother: 




Children
1 F Blanche McCandless 4 8

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Charles K. Rea (      -      ) 4 8


2 M John Franklin "Frank" McCandless 4 8

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 21 Jan 1919 8
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Charlotte Black (      -1903) 8
         Spouse: Nettie Frazier (      -      ) 8


3 F Mabel McCandless 4

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1909
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Elisha S. Bailey (      -      ) 3


4 F Leanna McCandless 4 8

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Stephen Stright, Jr. (      -      ) 8



General Notes: Husband - Jennings Coulter McCandless

Connoquenessing Twp, Butler Co, PA
He was reared in Center Township, Butler County, PA, and with his brothers and sisters, attended the country schools. His mother died when he was five years old and when his older sisters married and left home, he also, about 1865, started out for himself. He spent three years in Michi­gan and Wisconsin, but when the discov­ery of oil made the Parker field known all over the country, he returned to Butler County and went to work at Parker's Landing. He helped to develop that field and for fifteen consecutive years was en­gaged in oil production at Bruin. In 1890 he came to Petersville, in Connoquenessing Township. In partnership with his brother-in-law, William Walker, he did a large amount of business, under the firm name of Walker & McCandless, and for a short time this firm had the distinction of owning the biggest well in Pennsylvania, one that flowed thirty-five barrels of oil an hour.

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Sources


1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1070.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 847, 1344.

3 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 22.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 848.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 344.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 848, 1133, 1343.

7 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 13.

8 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 35.


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