William Addison Shanor and Susan M. Sheiver

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Husband William Addison Shanor ^{1 2}

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           Born: 25 Dec 1853 - near Prospect, Butler Co, PA 2
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         Father: Elias Shanor (1830-      ) 3
         Mother: Susan Myers (1830-      ) 2

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       Marriage: 15 Sep 1880 - Beaver Falls, Beaver Co, PA 4

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Wife Susan M. Sheiver ¹

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           Born: 5 Oct 1858 - Zelienople, Jackson Twp, Butler Co, PA 4
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         Father: Henry Sheiver (      -Abt 1860) 4
         Mother: Sebina Gross (      -      ) 4

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         Father: John C. Shanor (1817-      ) 5
         Mother: Catherine Cratty (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 M Imbra Olen Shanor ⁷

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           Born: 15 Nov 1881 - Osceola, Clarke Co, IA 7
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         Spouse: Ursula Wesner (      -      ) 7

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2 M Harold W. Shanor ⁷

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           Born: 3 Mar 1884 7
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         Spouse: Mayme Dinsmore (      -      ) 7

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3 F Pearl Shanor ⁷

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           Born: 3 Dec 1886 7
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         Spouse: Edward Morris (      -      ) 7

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4 M Irvin Vincent Shanor ⁷

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           Born: 12 Sep 1889 7
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 M Algie Victor Shanor ⁷

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           Born: 25 Dec 1891 7
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6 F Verna A. Shanor ⁷

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           Born: 26 Jun 1893 7
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7 M Herbert Shanor ⁷

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           Born: 4 Mar 1896 7
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8 M Bertram Shanor ⁷

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           Born: 26 Feb 1898 7
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9 M Wilbert Shanor ⁷

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           Born: 22 Dec 1900 7
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10 F Wilda Shanor ⁷

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           Born: 29 Oct 1904 7
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General Notes: Husband - William Addison Shanor

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For several causes, none of which could be overcome, he was unable to attend school until he was nine years of age, his first schooling being obtained in the Martin District School near his boyhood home, which he attended for six years, making rapid progress and at length overcoming the great handicap of years with which he had started school. When he was sixteen years of age he came to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and began to learn the carpenter's trade under the instruction of his uncle, Solomon Myers, his wages at the beginning of his service being small but still much higher than those paid to apprentices during the years of their apprenticeships. After two years with his uncle he was sufficiently well versed in what he intended to make his life trade to hold his own in a force of workmen of much longer experience and of more advanced age, and accepted a position in Venango County in the employ of the Standard Oil Company, erecting standards and rigging about the oil wells for that concern, later performing the same kind of work in Butler County. After two years of this work, he left the Standard Oil Company and for one year lived on his grandfather's farm, then returned to Beaver Falls, where he was married. In 1880 he followed the westward course of his brothers and sisters and went to Osceola, Iowa, where for three years he followed his trade, at the end of that time returning to Beaver Falls. His eastern residence is peculiar in that he was the only one of a family of nine children, all of whom were eastern-born, who has found a field in the part of the country in which he was born fitted to his qualifications, all the others making western localities their scenes of endeavor. For a time after his return east Mr. Shanor was employed as foreman for Mr. Harold, a builder of Beaver Falls, but after 1900 he engaged in independent contracting operations, with success and profit. Among the buildings which he erected at Beaver Falls are the Carnegie Library, the Lyceum Theatre, and the plant of the Pittsburgh Seamless Rubber Company.
He was a Republican in politics, and with his wife a member of the (English) Lutheran Church, of which he was a deacon from the organization of the congregation, in which he played no small part. Mr. Shanor's residence, built by him in 1897, was at No. 231 Tenth street.

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General Notes: Wife - Susan M. Sheiver

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She was adopted by the Shanor family when she was four years old.

After the deaths of her parents, she was reared in the family of Conrad and Catherine Shanor, living with them until her marriage, and ever after her entrance into their home was known by the name of Shanor.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1189.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 81.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 80.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 82.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1189, 1257.

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1189, 1255.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 83.