William Parker Westlake and Margaret Jane Young

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Husband William Parker Westlake ¹

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           Born: 16 Apr 1838 - Worth Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1
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           Died: 19 Aug 1912 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: George Westlake (cal 1801-1881) 1 3
         Mother: Fannie Parker (cal 1804-1876) 1 3

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       Marriage: 8 May 1862 2

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Wife Margaret Jane Young ²

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           Born: 6 May 1844 - Worth Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
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           Died: 21 Mar 1911 2
         Buried:  - Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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Children

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1 M Frank L. Westlake ²

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2 F Mary Rowena Westlake ²

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         Spouse: Dr. Elmer L. Dickey (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 1893 - ? Venango Co, PA

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3 M Walter Lavan Westlake ²

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         Spouse: Winifred I. Dishong (      -      ) 2

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4 M George H. Westlake ²

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5 M Leo Llewellyn Westlake ²

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           Born: 22 Sep 1875 - Worth Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Nancy Irene Jones (1889-1915) 2
           Marr: 4 May 1911 2

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General Notes: Husband - William Parker Westlake

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He was born in Worth Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, near Millbrook, and was reared there, having such educational advantages as the local schools provided. He learned the trade of carpenter and never gave it up entirely, continuing to take contracts even after he made farming the principal business of his life. He obtained part of the home farm, and lived there until he sold it and removed in 1887 to Irwin Township, Venango County, where he settled on the tract of two hundred acres near Bullion known as the old Hanberry Jones farm, and that year finished the construction of the house, then in process of erection. The barn had been built in 1883. The buildings were located near the center of the farm, which lay two and three quarters miles east of the Pittsburgh & Franklin pike, being fourteen and a half miles southwest of Franklin. Under the ownership of William P. Westlake the timber was cut off and the oil development on the property commenced, under lease, and it continued without interruption until there were forty-two producing wells on the place, with average yield. He was an enterprising man, and took an interest in all things affecting his fellow men, but he never held any official position. His life motto was "do your work, then play." He was one of the original Prohibitionists in his locality, supporting the party ticket when very few men in the township voted that way.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 946.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 947.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1080.