Percival Cornen Beers and Maria H. Wachtel

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Husband Percival Cornen Beers ¹

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           Born: 30 Mar 1872 - McClintockville, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: Henry Irving Beers (1830-1917) 2
         Mother: Kate E. Miller (1841-1886) 1

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       Marriage: 1896 - ? Venango Co, PA

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Wife Maria H. Wachtel ¹

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         Father: Moses Wachtel (1843-      ) 1 3
         Mother: Maggie Halpin (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Percival Cornen Beers

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He spent his early life partly in Connecticut, receiving his education principally at the Park Institute, in Bridgeport, that State. When he entered business life it was as an employe in the First National Bank of Oil City, in which service he continued for seven years, after which he was engaged in the production of oil, maintaining his offices in the Beers building in Oil City. He became more and more closely associated with his father's in­terests as the years passed, and succeeded him as a director of the Manufacturers Light & Heat Company of Pittsburgh. With his brothers he also did business in Oil City a dealer and jobber in automobile and garage supplies. Mr. Beers was prominent in the social life of the city, belonging to the Venango Club, of which his father was one of the incorporators and the first vice presi­dent; to the Oil City Motor Club; Oil City Boat Club, and Wanango Club. In religious connection he was an Episcopalian. [CAB, 430]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 430.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 426.

3 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 829.