Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Walter S. Harper and Sarah Denny




Husband Walter S. Harper 1

           Born: 16 Mar 1834 - Vernon Twp, Crawford Co, PA 1
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         Father: Robert Harper (      -1865) 1 2
         Mother: Rebecca Quigley (      -1879) 1 2


       Marriage: 1863 1

   Other Spouse: Margaret Glenn (      -      ) 1



Wife Sarah Denny 1

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Children

General Notes: Husband - Walter S. Harper


He was reared on a farm and received a common school education. At eighteen years of age he learned the carpenter's trade, and from that entered his present occupation as proprietor of a planing-mill and lumber yard. In 1870 he bought an interest in this business, and in 1877 he bought out his partner and thereafter conducted the business alone, employing from fifteen to twenty men. He was Mayor of Meadville, Pennsylvania, for 1882 and 1883.

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Sources


1 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 743.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1691.


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