George Augustus Waldron De Forest and Gerda Angeline Dennison

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Husband George Augustus Waldron De Forest ¹

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           Born: 23 Aug 1871 - Philadelphia, PA 1
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         Father: Charles Allison Lewis De Forest (1849-1893) 2
         Mother: Martha Ann Tomlinson (1838-      ) 1

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       Marriage: 3 Jun 1909 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 3

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Wife Gerda Angeline Dennison ⁴

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           Born: 28 Mar 1876 - Farmington Twp, Warren Co, PA 4
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         Father: James Duane Dennison (1817-1890) 4 5
         Mother: Rhoda Martin (1830-1902) 4 5

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General Notes: Husband - George Augustus Waldron De Forest

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He attended the public schools of Brooklyn, New York, and for three years was a student in the Freehold Military Academy of Freehold, New Jersey. He began his business career as clerk in the business office of the New York Commercial Advertiser in 1886. From 1887 to 1890 he was general shipping clerk for Higganum Manufacturing Company of New York City. In 1890 the family moved to Warren, Pennsylvania, and he was employed as field man for John Ellis & Company for about seven years. He was appointed deputy tax collector for Warren borough under Collector Frank Barnhart and served in that office until July, 1906. He entered partnership with Charles Barnhart, son of Frank, December 1, 1903, under the firm name of Barnhart & De Forest and conducted a fire insurance and real estate business at 408 Pennsylvania Avenue West, Warren, Pennsylvania, until January 21, 1911, when his partner withdrew from the firm. He then continued in business alone. He was also agent of the Edison Phonograph Company and carried a full line of phonographs and supplies. In politics he was a Republican. Beginning in 1900 he held a deputy sheriff's commission, and in November, 1911, he was elected coroner of Warren County for a term of four years. Mr. De Forest was a member of Allegheny Tent, No. 3, Knights of the Maccabees, of which he was record keeper, finance keeper and past commander. In June, 1907, at the triennial meeting of the Great Camp of Pennsylvania at Reading, Pennsylvania, he was elected great sergeant for four years, and in June, 1911, at Pittsburgh was reelected to the same office. He was one of the first trustees of the State Maccabees Home at Reading and was a member of the board of trustees. In religion he was an Episcopalian.

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General Notes: Wife - Gerda Angeline Dennison

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Until she was seventeen years of age she attended the Sugar Grove union school, and then began teaching in the town of Kiantone, Chautauqua County, New York. She taught in district schools in Warren county, Pennsylvania, until 1898 when she entered the Sugargrove Seminary, from which she was graduated in 1901. She taught the sixth and seventh grades in the Rouseville schools in Venango County for three years. She came to Warren in 1905 and for four years taught the sixth grade in the East street school.
She was a member of Morris Chapter, No. 14, Order of the Eastern Star, of Rouseville, Pennsylvania. For many years she was historical secretary of the Dennison family, and for over fifteen years she was engaged in genealogical research for the family. She compiled a record of her father's family which was published in 1912.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1074.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1073.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1075.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1077.

5 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP xxvi.