David Sterrett McNitt and Catherine Ann Cummins

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Husband David Sterrett McNitt ^{1 2}

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           Born: 6 Dec 1868 - near Siglerville, Mifflin Co, PA 3
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           Died: 25 Jan 1913 3
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         Father: Alexander Brown McNitt (1837-1900) 1 4
         Mother: Sarah Reed (      -Aft 1913) 4 5

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       Marriage: 22 Dec 1892 6

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Wife Catherine Ann Cummins ⁶

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           Born: 9 Dec 1868 7
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           Died: Aft 1913
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         Father: Sterrett Cummins (      -Bef 1913) 8 9
         Mother: Agnes McNitt (      -Bef 1913) 8 9

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Children

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1 F Sarah Reed McNitt ⁷

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           Born: 17 Apr 1894 7
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2 M Allen Cummins McNitt ⁷

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           Born: 17 Oct 1895 7
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3 M Alexander Brown McNitt ⁷

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           Born: 
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           Died: when three years old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Berenice McNitt ⁷

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           Born: 
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           Died: when twenty months old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 M David Sterrett McNitt ⁷

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           Born: 22 Dec 1904 7
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6 F Frances Anna McNitt ⁷

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           Born: 21 Sep 1909 7
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General Notes: Husband - David Sterrett McNitt

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He was educated in the public schools, Lewistown Academy and new Bloomfield Academy and spent the years preceding his marriage engaged in farming. After marriage he purchased a farm of two hundred acres near Siglerville, Pennsylvania, where he resided for fourteen years. In 1898 he became interested in the lumber business, operating alone in Mifflin and Center counties and at various points in central Pennsylvania until 1902, when he admitted his brother, Andrew Reed McNitt, to a partnership and in 1903, formed with E. M. Huyett, the McNitt, Huyett Lumber Company, which yet continues, operating chiefly in Centre County, their own stores, mills and railroads. In 1907 Mr. McNitt moved his residence to Lewistown and in 1909 was one of the organizers of the Juniata Lumber Company, the firm consisting of H. C. Hower, R. C. McNitt and the McNitt, Huyett Lumber Company. The mills and timber land of this company being located at Midlothian, Maryland. He also became interested in and was a director of the Maryland Lumber Company, located at Demnar, Pocahontas county, West Virginia. This company owned seventeen thousand acres of timber land and manufactured one hundred thousand feet of lumber daily, employing two hundred and twenty-five men. He also was president of the Dana Lumber Company of Lombard, Powell County, Kentucky. While his initial enterprises, and perhaps his most important, were connected with the manufacture of lumber, he also acquired important connections with other large corporations and firms. He was president of the Lewistown Foundry Machine Company; director of the Citizens National Bank of Lewistown; director of the Sunbury Bridge Company; the Sunbury Amusement Company; the Sunbury and Selinsgrove Electric Railway Company and was largely interested in the National Limestone Company with quarries at Naginey, near Milroy.
He was chairman of the executive committee of the Lewistown board of trade, an elder and trustee of the Lewistown Presbyterian church, a teacher in the Sunday school and a member of the public morals committee of the Mifflin County Inter-Church Federation. In political faith he was a Republican, but never sought public office.
He died from the result of an accident at the quarries of the National Limestone Company, at Shraders, Pennsylvania.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 439.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 665, 670.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 670.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 665.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 429.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 671.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 672.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 588.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 664, 671.