Benton T. "Ben" Wilkins and Rebecca Brown

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Husband Benton T. "Ben" Wilkins ^{1 2}

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           Born: 4 Mar 1840 - Painesville, Lake Co, OH 1
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           Died: 27 Apr 1912 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 1
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Wife Rebecca Brown ^{1 2}

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           Died: 28 Aug 1904 1
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Children

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1 M G. P. Wilkins ¹

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2 M Frederick James Wilkins ⁴

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            AKA: Fred J. Wilkins 3
           Born: 30 Nov 1872 - Petroleum Center, Cornplanter Twp, Venango Co, PA 1 4
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           Died: 16 Dec 1936 5
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         Spouse: Ella A. Tyler (      -Aft 1936) 3
           Marr: 15 Nov 1906 - ? Venango Co, PA 1 5

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3 F Kate A. Wilkins ^{2 6}

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         Spouse: Charles L. Suhr (1877-      ) 6 7 8
           Marr: 1901 - ? Venango Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - Benton T. "Ben" Wilkins

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He learned telegraphy in his youth. During the Civil war he was a member of the United States Signal Corps, in 1863-64, starting railroad work at Erie in 1865, on what was then the Buffalo & Erie road, later the eastern division of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. In 1868 he went to Petroleum Center, Venango County, PA, some years later moving thence to Rouseville to take the position of trainmaster and dispatcher for the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which he filled with marked ability until his retirement, five years before his death. Prompt and faithful in the discharge of his responsibilities, he did his duty well and at the same time was duly solicitous in all the other obligations of life. He had a quiet, wholesome sense of humor which made him a welcome figure wherever he was known, and which contributed as much to his popularity as his more substantial qualities. He died of paralysis at the home of his son-in-law, Charles L. Suhr, No. 505 West Third Street, Oil City. [CAB, 552]

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General Notes: Wife - Rebecca Brown

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from Elmira, NY

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 552.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 134.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 551, 552.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 85.

5 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 86.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 552, 619.

7 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 132.

8 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 74.