Edward Howard McCune and Lida R. Messmore

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Husband Edward Howard McCune ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: Edwin Howard McCune 4
           Born: 25 Jun 1870 - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: William Alexander McCune (1844-1882/1883) 1 2 3 5
         Mother: Orthelia Mullen (1846-      ) 2 3

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       Marriage: 3 Oct 1898 4

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Wife Lida R. Messmore ⁴

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         Father: Albert G. Messmore (      -      ) 4
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Children

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1 M Robert Mullen McCune ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Edward Howard McCune

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He received his education in the Fayette City high school, Indiana State Normal school, California State Normal school and Washington and Jefferson college. He began reading medicine under Dr. J. H. Gordon, of Belle Vernon, but his health failing he gave up medicine and learned glass cutting, following that for two years. He then secured a position as bookkeeper for the Jutte Coal Company, remained there two years and was then elected one of the board of county auditors, serving in that capacity also two years, when he resigned to take the postmastership at Fayette City, to which he was appointed June 15, 1898.

1 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 362.

2 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 937.

3 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 66.

4 —, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 936.

5 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 521.