Hon. John Birch and Elizabeth Todd

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Husband Hon. John Birch ¹

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           Born: 5 Aug 1810 - near Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 1
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         Father: William Birch (1788-1879) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Mitchell (1791-      ) 1

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       Marriage: 28 Feb 1882 2

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   Other Spouse: Harriet Reed (1815-1877) 2 - 5 May 1835 2

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Wife Elizabeth Todd ²

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         Father: Dr. Samuel P. Todd (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Susan Kerr (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. John Birch

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He obtained his education in the common and subscription schools and when sixteen years old was apprenticed to John Sharp, a neighboring tanner, with whom he worked four years as an apprentice and one year as a journeyman. In 1832 he went to Claysville, Pennsylvania, and after working for a short time for a local tanner, he opened a tannery of his own and conducted it for more than fifty years, at the end of that period retiring from active business. In politics he was a Jacksonian Democrat. He was frequently called upon to accept official duties. In 1848 he was elected a county commissioner and served three terms in that office; in 1860, was census enumerator in his section; served five terms as a justice of the peace and finally was elected to the State Legislature by a majority of more than 100 votes, and that in a strong Republican county. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and was a member of the board of trustees.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Todd

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from Beaver Falls, Beaver Co, PA

1 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 547.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 548.