D. P. Packard

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Husband D. P. Packard ¹

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           Born: 6 Dec 1857 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: Dr. Daniel B. Packard (1817-1873) 2 3
         Mother: Celestia Cotton (      -      ) 2

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Daniel Prescott Packard.

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General Notes: Husband - D. P. Packard

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He attended the Greenville union schools until Thiel College was established, and then attended that institution some four or five years, until the death of his father. He made a trip to California in 1874, and afterward attended college at Poughkeepsie, New York, from which he was called home to look after the crockery and glassware business of the old firm of D. B. Packard & Co. He was an active Democrat, and was elected chairman of the Democratic County Committee in 1881 and again in 1882, the two most successful years in the history of the Democratic party in Mercer County, there being more Democrats elected to office under his administration as chairman than ever before. He read law under A. F. Henlein, and was admitted to practice in January, 1885. In 1887 he was nominated by his party for the office of district attorney, and was defeated by a small majority, so small that his party placed him in nomination in 1888 for the office of State senator, and this was done without his knowledge and against his private wishes. He was prominent in local military, fire department and secret society circles, being adjutant of the Fifteenth Regiment National Guards of Pennsylvania, and foreman of the D. P. Packard Hose Co., No. 1, which was named after him. A Mason of high standing, he filled every office in the power of the lodge to give him, and was elected and served as district deputy grand master of Odd Fellows for some three years. [HMC 1888, 823]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 823.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 133.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 822.