Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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James Wirt Byers and Ellen Booth




Husband James Wirt Byers 1 2

           Born: 22 Aug 1842 - Pulaski, Lawrence Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: James Byers, Jr. (1800-Abt 1891) 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Piper (1807-Abt 1900) 3


       Marriage: 1867 2



Wife Ellen Booth 2

           Born: Abt 1843
     Christened: 
           Died: 1903 2
         Buried: 


         Father: Henry Booth (1809-1872) 2 4 5 6
         Mother: Mary Ann Berlin (1816-1911) 2 4 6




Children
1 F Lizzie May Byers 2

           Born: Abt 1868
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Charles McCalmont Brown (1867-      ) 7 8
           Marr: 13 Sep 1893 - Cooperstown, Jackson Twp, Venango Co, PA 9


2 M Henry Booth Byers 10

           Born: 4 Mar 1871 - Cooperstown, Jackson Twp, Venango Co, PA 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Nov 1896 11
         Buried: 



3 F Frances Byers 2

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: John Francis Watlington (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 1907 - ? Venango Co, PA



General Notes: Husband - James Wirt Byers


He was reared in French Creek Township, Venango County, PA. He had good educational advantages for the times, attending convenient schools and academies, including the academy at Cooperstown then presided over by Professor Carathers. When a youth of eighteen he entered his brother's store at Cooperstown, clerking with him for the next eight years, at the end of that time becoming a member of the firm of Byers, Stevenson & Co. (the "company" representing William S. Devore), who bought the store and conducted it for four or five years, eventually selling back to the original owner. But the firm did not go out of business, taking a store at Sandy Lake, and all being young and ambitious they were very successful. Mr. Byers gave all his attention to its interests until the death of his father-in-law, when he sold out and returned to Cooperstown, soon buying an interest in his brother Piper's store, then operated by Byers, Muse & Co. He was associated therewith for some years, until the farm demanded all of his attention, when he disposed of his share to his brother and withdrew from mercantile life after a twenty years' experience in that line. [CAB, 693]

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Sources


1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 663.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 693.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 692.

4 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), Pg 648.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1072.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 929.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 374.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 588, 693.

9 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #2444.

10 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 693, 694.

11 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 694.


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