Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Algernon Sydney Wightman and Elizabeth R. Robinson




Husband Algernon Sydney Wightman 1 2

           Born: 9 Feb 1851 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Father: Thomas Wightman (1818-1908) 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Isabella Ruth Russell (1824-1904) 2 3 6


       Marriage: 24 May 1887 3



Wife Elizabeth R. Robinson 7

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         Father: Elisha Robinson (1832-1912) 7 8 9 10
         Mother: Caroline Truby (      -Aft 1914) 7 9 10




Children
1 M A. Sydney Wightman, Jr. 7

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General Notes: Husband - Algernon Sydney Wightman


He was brought up in Pittsburgh and thoroughly educated in the public schools there, as well as at the Western University of Pennsylvania. He be­gan his business career in the glass works of his father, and for twenty-five years was man­ager of the plant at Parkers Landing, PA. On Aug. 11, 1911, he and several others or­ganized the State Bank of Parkers Landing, which opened for business Jan. 1, 1912, with Mr. Wightman as president. He was a promi­nent member of Franklin Lodge, No. 221, F. & A. M., of Pittsburgh. Politically he was a Republican.

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Sources


1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 533, 983.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 264.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 533.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 251.

5 —, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), Pg 1055.

6 —, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), Pg 1061.

7 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 983.

8 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 575.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 892.

10 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 227.


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