Hon. Chauncey Forward Black and Mary Dawson

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Husband Hon. Chauncey Forward Black ¹

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         Father: Judge Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1810-1883) 2 3 4 5 6
         Mother: Mary Forward (      -      ) 6

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Wife Mary Dawson ¹

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         Father: Hon. John Littleton Dawson (1813-1870) 1 7
         Mother: Mary Clark (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M Jeremiah Sullivan Black ⁴

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           Born: 20 Oct 1869 - Fayette Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Isabel Church (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 1891 4

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Chauncey Forward Black

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He was a distinguished journalist and served as lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania from 1882 to 1886. He was well known throughout the country as an ardent supporter of the political policies and principles promulgated by Thomas Jefferson, and for a period of ten years was president of an association of Democratic clubs in the United States.

1 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 158.

2 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 537.

3 John Gibson, History of York County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886), Pg 452.

4 —, History of York County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1907), Pg 20.

5 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. II (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 5.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 102.

7 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 145, 464.