James M. Knox and Mary Barto

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Husband James M. Knox ^{1 2}

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           Born: 20 Dec 1856 - Perry Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: George Knox (Abt 1820-1893) 1 2 3
         Mother: Jane Steele (      -1903) 1 3

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       Marriage: 26 Jun 1903 1

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Wife Mary Barto ¹

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         Father: Daniel Barto (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 M George Knox ¹

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           Born: 8 Apr 1904 1
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General Notes: Husband - James M. Knox

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He was about seven years of age when his parents moved to Parker Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, and there grew to man's estate, receiving a good education in the public schools. From youth he followed farming, and was also identified with the oil industry. For more than twenty years he was an oil producer, finding it a very remunerative field of labor. He owned, in addition to the home farm of 100 acres in Parker Township, some 140 acres in Perry Township, Armstrong County, much of it timberland, and a farm of forty-six acres in Allegheny Township, Butler County.

He attended the Shields and Knox schoolhouses in Perry township, Armstrong County, and also a school in Parker township, Butler County. After commencing work he farmed and found employment in the oil fields as a driller, in time beginning to drill for himself. He eventually owned six producing oil wells and one produc­ing gas well, five of the oil wells being located on his property in Perry township. He had large holdings of land, having two farms in Perry township of forty-four and a half and one hundred acres, respectively, another tract of 112 acres, two-thirds of which lay in Perry township and the rest in Parker township, Butler County, and a tract of forty-six acres in Allegheny township, Butler County. He resided on that portion of his 112-acre farm lying in Parker township. Most of the build­ings on this property were put up by his father in 1873, though he did some building himself in 1897. Mr. Knox engaged in general farm­ing, applying his practical methods to every branch of his work.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 753.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 360.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1329.