Husband Joseph Oglevee 1 2 3
Born: 2 Jun 1827 - Fayette Co, PA 1
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Father: Jesse Oglevee (1804-1876) 3 4
Mother: Elizabeth Galley (1807-1858) 1 3 5
Marriage: 25 Oct 1850 6
Wife Rebecca Stoner 2 3 6 7
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Father: Christian Stoner ( - ) 2 7 8
Mother: Annie Stauffer (1798-1865) 7 8
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1 M Leroy Woods Oglevee 6
Born: 9 Oct 1851 6
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Died: 16 Feb 1874 6
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2 F Emeline Oglevee 6
Born: 18 Sep 1853 6
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3 F Anna E. Oglevee 6
Born: 5 Feb 1856 6
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4 M Jesse A. Oglevee 6
Born: 25 Feb 1860 6
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5 M William G. Oglevee 6
Born: 19 Nov 1865 6
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6 M Christopher S. Oglevee 6
Born: 24 Mar 1868 6
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7 M Stark D. Oglevee 6
Born: 15 Dec 1873 6
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Died: 30 Mar 1875 6
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
General Notes: Husband - Joseph Oglevee
He was born on the same spot where his father was born and lived all his lifetime, the family residence standing on both sides of the line (which divided the house about equally) between Dunbar and Franklin townships, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and brought up by his parents under strictly moral and religious rules, and at the age of fourteen years united with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which he was ever after a faithful working member, doing at least as much as any other one of the congregation towards defraying expenses, paying the minister's salary, etc.
Mr. Oglevee's early education was gotten by the hardest of means, he being till he had nearly reached manhood the only son of his parents, and his father being a lame man, the work of the farm devolved upon him, and he was obliged to obtain his education by studying at night. By that means, and one session at Greene Academy, he succeeded in providing himself with a fair English education.
Mr. Oglevee was a man of great energy and determination, which together with large native intellectuality, disciplined by acute general observation and considerable reading, were doubtless the main factors of his success. His chief ambition or desire in active life seemed to be to accomplish whatever he undertook, whether it related to matters of the church or worldly affairs. As evidence of this, he went into the mercantile business at East Liberty about 1854, having nothing as capital but his hard-earned, slender means to begin with, and with no one to "bail "or help him, and practically unconversant with the business, having then "never stood in a store a day in his life," and in face of the fact that several persons who had started in like enterprises at the same place just previous to his, undertaking it had successively and utterly failed. Undaunted by all obstacles he gradually wrought out complete success, and was obliged, in order to accommodate his business, to enlarge the capacity of his store building from time to time. The profits of his mercantile and other business Mr. Oglevee applied in good part to the erection of houses and the improvement of the town.
Another instance of his great energy and enterprise, was his laying hold of the old mill property of Jacob Leighty, Sr., on Dickerson River, Dunbar township, when it had become so completely wrecked that no one else could be induced to attempt to revive it or even consider it, and not only repairing it but making it better than ever before. He put into it a new engine, new boilers, new machinery, and a new first-class miller, and it was not long before custom poured in so fast that he had to enlarge the mill, which he did by an addition thereto as large as the old mill itself, and he began grinding more wheat in a single month than had been ground for many years before.
General Notes: Wife - Rebecca Stoner
from Dunbar Twp, Fayette Co, PA