Ira Ransom, Sr. and Margaret Braden

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Husband Ira Ransom, Sr. ¹

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           Born: 19 Jul 1813 - Trenton, Oneida Co, NY 1
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         Father: Daniel Ransom (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary Peirce (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: Feb 1835 1

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Wife Margaret Braden ¹

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         Father: John Braden (      -      ) 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Catherine McIntyre (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Oscar Ransom ⁶

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2 M John Ransom ⁶

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3 M Darwin Ransom ⁶

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4 M Ira Ransom ⁶

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5 M Willard Ransom ⁶

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6 M Thaddeus Ransom ⁶

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7 M Alfred Ransom ⁶

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8 F Mary Ransom ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - Ira Ransom, Sr.

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In 1834 he located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, where he was the contractor for the Erie extension of the Pennsylvania Canal. In 1840 he entered the employ of James Patterson, of Beaver Falls, as a grain buyer. In 1849 he engaged in building railroads, and constructed eight miles of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, by contract. In 1852 he removed to Youngstown, Ohio, where he resided until 1869, and during his residence there assisted in building several railroads by contract, among them the Baltimore & Ohio, the Central Ohio (later the Panhandle), and the Steubenville & Indiana. In 1869 he returned to Beaver Falls, and engaged in the flour and feed business for seven years, conducting also the Beaver Falls Flouring Mills two years. In 1877 he built a section of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, Moravia. Mr. Ransom erected the first brick residence in Beaver Falls.

1 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 710.

2 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 752.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 770.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 186.

5 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 595.

6 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 711.