Gustav Frederick Roess and Margaret Deets

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Husband Gustav Frederick Roess ¹

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           Born: 10 Jun 1867 - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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           Died: 1926
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Christian Roess (1844-1907) 3
         Mother: Sophia Julianne Krauthause (1844-1912) 1

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       Marriage: 1897 - ? Venango Co, PA

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Wife Margaret Deets ¹

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           Born: 3 Sep 1868 - Dempseytown, Oakland Twp, Venango Co, PA 2
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           Died: 1950
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Frank Hays Deets (1847-1875) 2
         Mother: Nancy C. Richey (1848-Aft 1919) 4

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Children

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1 M Gustav Frederick Roess ²

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           Born: 8 May 1898 2
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2 M Robert William Roess ²

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           Born: 6 Nov 1899 2
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           Died: 20 Dec 1916 2
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M Philip Louis Roess ²

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           Born: 9 Apr 1901 2
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4 M Joseph Randolph Roess ²

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           Born: 17 Jun 1903 2
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5 F Margaret Louise Roess ²

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           Born: 30 Jul 1904 2
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General Notes: Husband - Gustav Frederick Roess

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He was about a year old when brought to Oil City, Pennsylvania, where his early education was acquired in the public schools. On completing the high school course he received a certificate which entitled him to enter Cornell University, and he was graduated from that institution in the class of 1890 as a civil engineer. Immediately after his graduation Mr. Roess entered the employ of the transportation companies of the Standard Oil Company as assistant civil engineer, being engaged as assistant engineer on various pipe lines of the Standard Oil Company until 1899. In that year he was elected city engineer of Oil City, and served two successive three-year terms, on his retirement from that office turning to contract work and the sand business, which he followed for two years. In March, 1907, he joined the Gulf Refining Company as superintendent of construction, building pumping stations in Oklahoma and Texas until October, when he returned home on account of his father's death, and having been reelected city engineer that year served another two terms. As the incumbent of that position for twelve years, much of the recent progress in the line of public improvements in the city must be attributed to his influence and energy. Since 1913 he has been doing business in partnership with J. M. Lesher, operating as Lesher & Roess until 1914, when John Lesher became associated with them under the name of Lesher, Roess & Lesher, which has been retained since the latter's death. They make a specialty of municipal contract work, the construction of sewers, paving, street car work, disposal plants, concrete road building, etc., and in a great variety of occupations have acquired reliable experience as to the needs at any particular point, as well as the best way of filling them. Mr. Roess is affiliated with the Engineers' Society of Pennsylvania, whose headquarters are at Harrisburg; the American Society of Municipal Improvements; the Cornell Society of Civil Engineers, New York City; and the American Concrete Institute, which he helped to organize at Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1906. He was a member of Good Hope Lutheran Church. [HVC 1919, 780]

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Deets

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She was educated in the public schools and Franklin high school, and taught in Oil City, PA. She belonged to the Presbyterian Church, and was a charter member of Putnam-King Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Oil City.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 745, 780.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 780.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 744, 780.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 929.