Kenton Chickering and Elizabeth Hamilton

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Husband Kenton Chickering ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 16 May 1847 - Worcester, Worcester Co, MA 2 3
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           Died: 9 Dec 1908 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Cyrus Clark Chickering (1812-1865) 3
         Mother: Sarah M. Scott (1818-1901) 3

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       Marriage: 13 Jun 1872 - New York City, NY 2

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Wife Elizabeth Hamilton ^{2 3 4}

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           Born: 23 Nov 1846 - New York City, NY 3
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           Died: 2 Nov 1926 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: James Hamilton (      -      ) 4
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M James Hamilton Chickering ^{2 3}

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           Born: 8 Dec 1875 - New York City, NY 3
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           Died: 1950
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Helen Shepard (1881-1974) 3
           Marr: 15 Jun 1905 - ? Venango Co, PA 3

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2 F Myra Scott Chickering ²

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           Born: 1879
     Christened: 
           Died: 1949
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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3 F Cornelia K. Chickering ²

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         Spouse: James V. Blake (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 1911 - ? Venango Co, PA

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4 F Mary Chickering ²

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General Notes: Husband - Kenton Chickering

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At the time of his death he was vice-presi-dent and general manager of the Oil Well Supply Com-pany, of Oil City, Pennsylvania. He was associated with John Eaton in selling oil well supplies and in forming the Oil Well Sup-ply Company, Ltd., removing from Titusville to Oil City in January, 1876. He was a Republican in politics, at one time a member of the Oil City Council, a director and the first president of Oil City Hospital, and a vestryman and warden of Christ Episcopal Church, of Oil City.

He had the excellent educational advantages afforded in New England, attending public school, the Allen School for Boys at West Newton, Massachusetts, and the Boston Latin School. In 1863 he went to New York City and became dispatch bearer to General Clark, of the United States Commissary Department, holding that position until the end of the war and remaining in the government service for another year. Then for two or three years he was engaged as a clerk and traveling salesman for the Peet Valve Company of New York, in 1869 entering the employ of Eaton & Cole of that city, dealers in brass and iron supplies. He was sent at once to Titusville, Pennsylvania, as their representative, and that year the firm became The Eaton, Cole & Burnham Co., with whom he remained until 1874, coming to Oil City in their interest. Mr. Chickering became associated with the Oil Well Supply Company, Limited, one of the most famous concerns built up, side by side, with the expansion of the oil business. It was organized in 1874 as the result of the union of several rival houses, and Mr. Chickering was one of the stockholders. At the reorganization in 1879 he was elected secretary, and from that time forward this company was his chief interest. When the present corporation succeeded the limited company in 1891 he became vice president, continuing to fill that position during the remainder of his life.
He was foremost in other activities pertaining to the oil industry, having been one of the organizers of the Oil Exchange, as he was of the Oil City Board of Trade, and every other practical project in the oil trade had the benefit of his hearty encouragement and support.
Mr. Chickering was also among the founders of the leading social organizations of the city, having been one of the first members of the Ivy and Venango Clubs, and assisted in forming the Riverside Drive Association, of which he was president for one year. He was a thirty-second-degree Mason, affiliated with Petrolia Lodge, F. & A. M., the Chapter, and Talbot Commandery, K. T., all of Oil City; Pittsburgh Consistory; and Zem Zem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S, of Erie.
While abroad in February, 1907, he was stricken with paralysis in Naples, and never regained his physical strength, although he kept in touch with his numerous interests practically up to the time of his demise, which followed shortly after a second attack. The death of Mr. Chickering was regarded as a personal loss by everyone who knew him. He died at the family home, No. 127 West Third Street, and was buried in Grove Hill cemetery.

He was closely identified with business and community interests in Oil City for a period of thirty-nine years. He was a man of remarkable sagacity in his life work, an organizer of known ability, and an executive of the highest type. To him is due not only the present prosperity of one of Oil City's largest industries, but many of the institutions of social and charitable aims recognized him as their founder and chief sup-porter during the struggles of their early life. He was always to be counted on as one ready to give his time and his long-sighted advice, and he invariably stood for the betterment of his fellow men. He was a believer in good government, better living conditions and the advancement of the younger men around him. Many an Oil City business man owes his pres-ent success to the advice and timely assistance of Kenton Chickering.
No less zealous and sincere in his efforts to place Oil City among the attractive residence towns of the state, Mr. Chickering fostered its best interests with characteristic wisdom and foresight. He had no ambition for public office except as a means of attaining this end, and his seven years as member of the select council were well spent, showing that he was thoroughly imbued with high ideals regarding the general welfare and untiring in his efforts to realize them. He helped to organize the Oil City Hospital and was president of the association for nine years, and was chairman of the building committee having charge of the erection of the hospital and of the Nurses' Home, being one of the trustees who administered the Henry H. Rogers fund for the latter purpose. He was a director of the Car-negie Library Commission and served a term as its president; was vice president of the Y. M. C. A.; and a leading member of the Episcopal Church, which he served as vestryman and warden up to within a year of his death. For several years he was a member of the city school board. He was of a mechanical turn of mind and many times was called into consultations where difficult engineering problems presented themselves.

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 854.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 435.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 180.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 855.