Samuel Porter Delo and Unknown
Husband Samuel Porter Delo 1
Born: 1 May 1839 - Beaver Twp, Clarion Co, PA 1 Christened: Died: 1893 - Birmingham, AL 1 Buried:
Father: Daniel Delo (1799-1877) 2 Mother: Christiana Loughner (Abt 1807-Abt 1877) 3
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Unknown ( - )
Wife Unknown
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Porter Delo
He was a violinist and an expert on nearly all musical instruments. He had a common school education, and became a locomotive engineer on the P. R. R. between Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne. In an accident his arm was broken; after recovery he enlisted in Pittsburgh in the first call for volunteers in the civil war. After serving his term he re-enlisted and became a recruiting sergeant, when he was appointed chief clerk in the provost marshal's office in Meadville, where he remained up to the close of the war. He then traveled for a number of years as a canvasser. Last he was employed as timekeeper for the Southern Pacific R. R. at Birmingham, Alabama, where he died.
Besides his son William, he also had a son by his second wife lived in Los Angeles, California, with his mother.
1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 247.
2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 243.
3
John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 246.
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