Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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James Graham Chalfant and Alva Guffey




Husband James Graham Chalfant 1 2

           Born: 6 Aug 1869 - Wilkins Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: Henry Richard Chalfant (1837-1887) 1 2 3 4
         Mother: Evaline R. Graham (1846-      ) 1 2 5


       Marriage: 1902 6



Wife Alva Guffey 6

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           Died: 1904 6
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         Father: Alfred Guffey (      -      ) 6
         Mother: Amanda Coyne (      -      ) 6




Children

• They had no children.


General Notes: Husband - James Graham Chalfant


He attended the public schools near his home and later attended the University of Wooster, at Wooster, Ohio, after which he secured employment with the Pittsburg & Western Railway Company, where he remained some time and then identified himself with the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, at East Pittsburgh, under the tutelage of Thomas Rodd, consulting engineer. He later returned to the employ of the Pittsburg & Western Railway Company, and remained with that corporation until he became connected with the county road department of Allegheny County, where he remained for a time under the direction of Fred W. Patterson, the then county road engineer. After filling this position for some time he accepted a position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on its lines west from Pittsburgh. Subsequently he accepted the position of assistant engineer in the bureau of surveys of the city of Pittsburgh, which position he held seven years and up to the time of his appointment, in April, 1907, to the position of county engineer.
He was a Republican and a member of the Presbyterian church.

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Sources


1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 402.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 234.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 119, 429.

4 Elizabeth M. Davison and Ellen B. McKee, Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and Vicinity (Wilkinsburg, PA: The Group for Historical Research, 1940), Pg 127.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 429.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 235.


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