LeRoy Raddle Oakes and Janet C. Stevenson

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Husband LeRoy Raddle Oakes ¹

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           Born: 26 Sep 1899 - Mt. Jewett, McKean Co, PA 1
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         Father: Perry Alvin Oakes (1859-1930) 1 2 3
         Mother: Mary Louisa Phillips (1860-      ) 3 4

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       Marriage: 16 Jun 1925 4

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Wife Janet C. Stevenson ⁵

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         Father: Charles F. Stevenson (1879-      ) 6
         Mother: Bessie R. Walker (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 F Donna Claire Oakes ⁶

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           Born: 18 Jul 1929 6
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General Notes: Husband - LeRoy Raddle Oakes

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He attended the public schools in Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania, his birthplace, and Meadville Business College. Reared in the oil business, he was associated with his father for many years until his father's death. He then entered into an association with Clyde and Gale Oakes, his brothers, the three of them proceeding to operate the business of P. A. Oakes & Sons. The firm both drilled for oil on a contract basis and produced oil in its own right in the New York and Pennsylvania fields. They had five “strings of tools” and fifty producing wells.
Aside from his work with this enterprise, Mr. Oakes was a member of the Pennsylvania Oil Producers' Associa­tion and a director of its Bradford district group. He also held charter membership in this division. A Repub­lican in politics, Mr. Oakes served for ten years on the Mount Jewett Town Council. He was active in the Rotary Club, the Smethport Country Club, and in the Free and Accepted Masons is affiliated with Mount Jewett Lodge, No. 627 (of which he was a Past Master); Coudersport Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and Zem Zem Temple (Erie), Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was also a trustee and chairman of the finance committee of the Methodist Church.

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General Notes: Wife - Janet C. Stevenson

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from Guffey, PA

She was a graduate of the State Teachers' College at Indiana, Pennsylvania, and a teacher before her marriage.

1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 231.

2 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 760.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 482.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 232.

5 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 218, 232.

6 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 218.