William Barnsdale and Eliza Curry

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Husband William Barnsdale ¹

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            AKA: William Barnsdall 2
           Born: 6 Feb 1810 - Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England 1
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       Marriage: 1 Sep 1835 1

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   Other Spouse: Fidelia A. Goodrich (      -      ) 1 - Nov 1846 1

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Wife Eliza Curry ^{1 2}

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         Father: Robert Curry (1782-1838) 3 4 5
         Mother: Olivia Titus (      -1855) 6 7

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Children

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1 F Olivia Barnsdale ¹

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            AKA: Olivia Barnsdall 8
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           Died: Aft 1885
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         Spouse: Peter Titus Witherup (1831-      ) 9

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2 F Lucy A. Barnsdale ¹

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           Died: Aft 1885
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         Spouse: O. H. P. Cleland (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - William Barnsdale

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He was born in England, where he received a select school education, and learned the trade of shoe-maker, which business he followed in England till 1831, when he immigrated to America, landing at New York, where he remained a few months. From New York he came to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and there worked at his trade several months. In 1832 he visited his parents (who had immigrated to America in the fall of 1829), then residing on a farm in the vicinity of Titusville, Pennsylvania. In 1833 he came to Titusville and commenced his trade, he being the first shoe-maker in the place. This he followed in connection with farming until 1859, in which year the oil excitement broke out. He drilled in the fall and winter of 1859-60 the second oil well (known as the Barnsdale Well) in the country. He was also one of a company who, in 1860, erected the first oil refinery in this section. He also drilled, in 1869, three wells in the Bradford District, one of which was a fourteen-barrel-per-day well, the first paying well in that section.
He was elected Mayor of Titusville in 1878, serving two years, then as City Treasurer two years, and filled various other official positions.

1 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1089.

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 556.

3 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 566, 570.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1046.

5 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 555.

6 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 566.

7 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 295.

8 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 699.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1065.