Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Enoch Crawford Filer and Margarita MacIntosh Burns




Husband Enoch Crawford Filer 1

           Born: 17 Mar 1897 - Grove City, Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: Enoch L. Filer (1861-1911) 1 2
         Mother: Mary Ann Crawford (1871-1926) 1


       Marriage: 28 Dec 1921 1



Wife Margarita MacIntosh Burns 1

           Born:  - Danville, Vermilion Co, IL
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         Father: William C. Burns (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Jennie MacIntosh (      -      ) 1




Children
1 F Mary Jane Filer 1

           Born: 25 Jan 1930 1
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2 F Elizabeth Filer 1

           Born: 13 Jan 1933 1
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         Status: Twin



3 F Margarita Filer 1

           Born: 13 Jan 1933 1
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         Status: Twin




General Notes: Husband - Enoch Crawford Filer


He attended Greenville schools and was graduated from high school there in 1915, whereupon he became a student at Allegheny College, in Meadville, taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1919. He was graduated from the Law School of Harvard University in 1921 as a Bachelor of Laws, and in that same year was admitted to the Erie County bar and to practice in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. After that time he was actively engaged in the practice of law in Erie.
Mr. Filer was a director of the Marine National Bank, of Erie, and president of the Erie Malleable Iron Company. A Republican in his political alignment, he served for twelve years as United States Commissioner. He was a member of the Erie County Bar Association, the Pennsylvania State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. In the Free and Accepted Masons he belonged to Eureka Lodge, No. 290, of Greenville; Erie Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and the Shrine Club. Mr. Filer was also a member and past treasurer of the local post of the American Legion, and he served during the World War at Camp Jackson, South Carolina, and was honorably discharged in 1919 from Fort Meade, Maryland. He belonged to the Erie Club, the Kahkwa Club and the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, which he joined in his student days. He was chancellor of the Erie diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church and a member of the Cathedral of St. Paul, in Erie. In addition to all his other activities, Mr. Filer was a member of the board of incorporators and a director of Hamot Hospital, Erie, and a member of the board of incorporators and member of the board of trustees of Erie Cemetery.

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Sources


1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 376.

2 —, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), Pg 384.


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