Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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James Atkinson Weddell and Sarah Elizabeth White




Husband James Atkinson Weddell 1

            AKA: James A. Waddell 2
           Born: 29 Oct 1878 - Monongahela, Washington Co, PA 1
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         Father: Trovillo Jacob Weddell (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Jane Sampson (      -      ) 1


       Marriage: 18 Aug 1904 - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA 1



Wife Sarah Elizabeth White 2

            AKA: Sara Elizabeth White 1
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         Father: John Crawford White (      -      ) 1 3 4 5
         Mother: Rosella J. Cochrane (      -      ) 5



   Other Spouse: Arthur Cockran (      -      ) 2


Children
1 M James Crawford Weddell 1

           Born: 21 May 1910 1
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2 M Arthur White Weddell 1

           Born: 14 Aug 1912 1
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General Notes: Husband - James Atkinson Weddell


He was descended from the following Revolutionary soldiers: William Sampson, Jr., ranger of the frontiers, 1780; William Thompson, who served as lieutenant; James Scott, Sr., lieutenant in the Westmoreland County Militia, 1777; and George Grant, captain of the 9th Pennsylvania, May 3, 1777.

He was educated in the grammar and high schools of Monongahela, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Academy and Washington and Jefferson College, from which latter institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Adopting the profession of civil engineering, he entered practice at Monongahela in 1901, and two years later moved to Linton, Indiana, where he was mine manager and engineer of a local coal company from 1904 to 1907. In 1908 he joined the Pittsburgh Steel Company as a civil engineer and in 1910 began a connection with the American Steel and Wire Company. From that time he was occupied without his responsibilities as construction engineer at the Donora plants of the company. Mr. Weddell was a member of the Monongahela City School Board and for many years was active in the civic life of the city. He was affiliated fraternally with the Masonic Order, in which he was a member of the Blue Lodge and the several higher Scottish Rite bodies, including the Consistory, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

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Sources


1 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 448.

2 Margaret White Loomis, The Presbyterian Families of White, Crawford, Hanna and Sharp (Winnetka, IL: Self-published, 1940), Pg 3.

3 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 61.

4 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 1012.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 389.


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