Husband Hon. Almond Benson Richmond 1 2
Born: 26 Apr 1825 - Switzerland Co, IN 1
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Died: Aug 1906 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 3
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Father: Dr. Lawton Richmond (1784-1842/1843) 4 5
Mother: Sarah Townsend (1791- ) 4 6
Marriage: 7 Sep 1848 1
• Business: : Meadville, Crawford Co, PA.
Wife Mary Jane Morris 1 7
Born: 27 Jan 1828 3
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Died: 5 Feb 1894 3
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Father: Levi Lewis Morris (1810-1840) 1 8
Mother: Nancy McKnight ( - ) 3 8
Children
1 M Lewis Lawton Richmond 7
AKA: Louis L. Richmond 1
Born: 7 Jun 1849 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 3
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Died: 28 Nov 1912 3
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Spouse: Mary Winifred "Winnie" Day (1853- ) 1 9
Marr: 6 Apr 1875 9
2 M Hiram Morris Richmond 1 10
Born: 28 Feb 1852 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 10
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Died: 17 Mar 1884 10
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Spouse: Margaret Fowler (1858- ) 1 10
Marr: 9 Dec 1879 10
3 M Maj. Charles E. Richmond 1 7
Born: 1859 3
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Died: Bef 1915
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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Almond Benson Richmond
He was born in Switzerland County, Indiana. He removed with his parents to Crawford County, Pennsylvania, where he entered Allegheny College; afterwards taking a medical course in which he was duly graduated. He practiced medicine for three years, engaging at the same time in the study of law for which he manifested a preference as his ultimate work in life. In 1848 he was admitted to practice before the courts of Crawford County, and became recognized as a criminal lawyer of unusual promise; this promise he more than fulfilled in later years, being a remarkably eloquent speaker and an orator of unusual attainments. Mr. Richmond's talents and interests were varied, and in every line of his achievements he excelled. He was greatly interested in philosophy and the natural sciences, upon which subjects he delivered many public lectures which were illustrated with apparatus of his own construction. His mechanical ingenuity was marked, and in 1853 he was appointed assistant director of machinery at the Crystal Palace. He was also state commissioner at the World's Fair. Beside his lectures on science and philosophy, Mr. Richmond delivered lectures on temperance before crowded audiences, his great interest in the subject making him a most effective speaker in this movement for reform. As an author he won considerable celebrity; among his published volumes were "Leaves from the Diary of an Old Lawyer," treating of such subjects as "Intemperance and Crime," and "Court and Prison;" "A Hawk in an Eagle's Nest" was also a title of one of the treatises in this volume written in the interest of the great temperance movement. Another published work was his "Review of the Seybert Commissioners' Report," a critical dissection of the work accomplished by the commissioners appointed by the University of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the bequest of the late Henry Seybert, to investigate the phenomena of spiritualism. Mr. Richmond was also one of the prime movers in arranging for the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the city of Meadville; in all matters of historical moment he was deeply interested, and his knowledge in this line was wide and varied.