George W. Reese and Mary M. Donnelly

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Husband George W. Reese ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1858 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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           Died: Aft 1914
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         Father: Isaac Reese (1821-1908) 4 5
         Mother: Elizabeth Bebb Jones (1824-1898) 6 7

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       Marriage: 1877 3

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   Other Spouse: Juanita "Nita" Truby (      -      ) 7 8 - 1894 3

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Wife Mary M. Donnelly ³

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           Died: 1885 3
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         Father: Daniel Donnelly (      -      ) 3
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Children

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1 F Margaret Reese ^{7 9}

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         Spouse: Woodward Patterson Brown (1882-      ) 7 10

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General Notes: Husband - George W. Reese

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He was educated in the public schools of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in the Iron City business college, graduating from the latter in 1877. In 1879 he came to Armstrong County, and embarked in the fire brick business at Manorville. In 1882 he went to Europe, and engaged to work in fire brick plants at London, and Abermant, near Swansey, South Wales. The proprietors were manufacturing a high grade of Silica fire brick, superior to any produced in the United States, and Mr. Reese engaged with this company in the hope of discovering the process. At first he worked as a laborer, then was put in the brickyards, and within six months mastered the details, so that he became an expert in the manufacture of this special kind of brick. Having gained his end, he returned to the United States, and began producing what was known as the Silica brick. This was the beginning of what subsequently developed into a large industry. This grade of brick was used specially for furnace work, and there was a large demand for it in every state in the Union. The business was conducted under the firm name of Isaac Reese & Sons until in 1902 Mr. Reese sold to the Harbison-Walker Refractories Company of Pittsburgh, although he retained stock in the concern, and was on the board of directors. For several years Mr. Reese was president and manager of the Kittanning Plate Glass Company, of Kittanning, and was a stockholder and director in same. In February, 1911, he organized the Fort Pitt Powder Company, which was incorporated with a capital stock of $200,000, with himself as president. This company also dealt in other high explosives. In addition to his other interests, Mr. Reese was a director in the Armstrong County Trust Company. Fraternally, he belonged to the order of Elks. [HAC 1914, 488]

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 369, 488.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 130.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 488.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 480.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 128.

6 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 484.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 131.

8 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 369.

9 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 488, 962.

10 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 961.