Husband Edward H. Darrah 1
Born: 2 Dec 1826 - Vermont 2
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Died: 1 Apr 1890 - Columbia Co, OR 3
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Father: Robert Darrah (1797-1865) 2
Mother: Lina Mitchell ( - ) 2
Marriage: 1852 3
Wife Hannah J. Clark 4
Born: 8 Jul 1826 - Bedford Co, PA 3
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Died: 31 Aug 1910 3
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Father: Elijah Clark ( - ) 3
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Children
1 F Mary A. Darrah 5
Born: - Brookville, Jefferson Co, PA
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Spouse: Judge Charles Corbet (1851- ) 6
Marr: 26 Sep 1876 5
2 F Henrietta Darrah 3
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Died: while young
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3 F Amy E. Darrah 3
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Died: 1908 - Los Angeles, CA 3
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Spouse: Julius A. Brown ( - ) 3
General Notes: Husband - Edward H. Darrah
It could be said that he was a born lumberman, for his experience in connection with the lumbering industry began when he was a mere boy. As a youth of fourteen years he carried mail, on horseback, between Kittanning and Ridgway, Pennsylvania, and his trips through the forest wilds were attended by peril and hardship, several unpleasant experiences were his in encountering bears, panthers and wolves while en route, and on one occasion his escape was made by a narrow margin. He wore a man's overcoat and a coonskin cap to ward off the cold during his trips in the winter months. In 1848 he was employed as sawyer at Iowa Mills, and in 1850 purchased a third interest in the business. The mills were located on Sandy Lick creek, a little over five miles up from Brookville. In 1855 he disposed of his interest in this business and established his home at Brookville, where he formed a partnership with Joseph E. Hall and engaged in manufacturing square timber products. This alliance continued eight years, and for three years thereafter Mr. Darrah conducted the enterprise in an individual way. He then became associated with William Dickey and the Moore Brothers in the operation of a sawmill at Millstone, on the Clarion river, the firm controlling three thousand acres of choice timber land. Later, in company with his brother, William R. Darrah, and John Mills, he erected a sawmill near Corsica, Jefferson county, with a valuable timber preserve of three hundred acres. This enterprise made a very substantial and prosperous record. Mr. Darrah became interested, also, in sawmills and timber lands on Tionesta creek, in Forest County, Pennsylvania, one operation being near Guitonville, and the other, a very large one, conducted under the name of Collins, Darrah & Co., at Nebraska. He held place as one of the prominent and influential representatives of the lumber industry in western Pennsylvania.
He was one of the pioneer and influential members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Brookville, and to the same he, in association with Hon. Frank X. Kreitler, presented the fine bell that called the people to worship.
He united with the Republican party at the time of its organization, and was a public-spirited citizen as well as a distinctively successful man of affairs. Mr. Darrah was a resident of Brookville at the time of his death, which occurred in the woods of Columbia County, Oregon, while he was examining some timber land, and where, being mistaken for a deer, he was accidentally shot and killed.