Lewis Nelson Benninghoff and Margaret Whitehill

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Husband Lewis Nelson Benninghoff ¹

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            AKA: L. M. Benninghoff,2 Louis N. Benninghoff 3 4
           Born: 13 Aug 1850 - Cherrytree Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
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           Died: 8 Jun 1929 - Homeworth, Columbiana Co, OH 5
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         Father: George Benninghoff (1825-1909) 6 7 8
         Mother: Julia Ann Baney (Abt 1825/1830-1889) 1 8 9

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       Marriage: 9 Oct 1899 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 3

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   Other Spouse: Mary Matilda McClintock (1849-1891) 1 - 1873 1

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Wife Margaret Whitehill ¹⁰

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           Born: 22 Jul 1854 - near Shippenville, Elk Twp, Clarion Co, PA 3
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         Father: David Whitehill (1807-1881) 11
         Mother: Esther Packer (1818-1898) 12

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Lewis Nelson Benninghoff

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He obtained his education at the common schools, and attended one term at the Commercial College at Meadville. In 1866 moved with his parents to a farm near Meadville, Crawford County, PA. In the following year he returned to Venango County to oversee some interests for his father, where he remained until 1877. In 1877 they removed to Tarport, McKean County, where he followed contracting and operating for oil until 1882, when they removed to Meadville, where they lived two years. He then settled on a farm that he had previously purchased of the Benninghoff heirs in Sugar Grove Township, Mercer County. He was a member of the I. O. O. F., and politically was a Republican.

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Whitehill

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An autobiographical statement:
Living quite a distance from a public school, much of my early education was received from a kind mother, a twin sister Mary (now Mrs. Sey­more Pottorf) shared these advantages with me, after a few years at the public school, I spent a year at a village academy, fitting myself for a teacher, which profession I followed for several years, teaching in Clarion, Warren and Forest counties, Pennsylvania, meanwhile attending several schools, among them the State Normal, Indiana, Pennsylvania, the National University of Lebanon, Ohio, and Clarion State Normal. Then when the right time and the right man came I took a smaller school with promise of better pay and less labor, was married to Louis N. Benninghoff, October 9, 1899 (son of George Benninghoff, of Meadville, Pennsylvania). Ever since have been a resident of Warren county, Pennsylvania, and for the past seven years of Warren. There we have a home, but much of the summer is spent in the country where Mr. Benninghoff's business is located, and being a lover of nature I much enjoy the green woods, the shady nooks and the babbling streams and all the beauties of nature which the All-Father has so bountifully given us.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1136.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 550.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1047.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 202.

5 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 203.

6 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 714, 891.

7 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 777.

8 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 127.

9 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 715, 891.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1045.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1043.

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 549, 1045.