Foster M. Mohney and Mary Doverspike

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Husband Foster M. Mohney ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Mar 1872 - Redbank Twp, Clarion Co, PA 2
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         Father: Adam T. Mohney (1847-Aft 1943) 1 2
         Mother: Lydia Zimmerman (1852-      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 8 Sep 1897 3

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Wife Mary Doverspike ³

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           Born: 21 Jun 1875 - Fairmount City, Clarion Co, PA 3
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         Father: Joseph Doverspike (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 F Helen F. Mohney ³

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           Born: 14 Sep 1898 3
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         Spouse: Charles F. Becker (      -      ) 3

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2 F Josephine Mohney ³

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           Born: 14 Nov 1900 3
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         Spouse: William W. Beatty (      -      ) 3

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3 M Foster M. Mohney ³

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           Born: 1 Apr 1904 3
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         Spouse: Mildred Birnley (      -      ) 3

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4 M Claud D. Mohney ³

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           Born: 28 Jul 1908 3
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         Spouse: Helen Allen (      -      ) 5

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5 F Margaret Ruth Mohney ³

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           Born: 17 Mar 1911 3
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         Spouse: James H. Sinclair (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Foster M. Mohney

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He spent his boyhood on the old homestead farm in Redbank Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. During this period he attended the neighborhood public schools and in 1889-90 was a student at Clarion State Normal School. After four years as a teacher in Redbank Township, he embarked upon his business career as bookkeeper for the Fairmount Coal & Coke Company at New Bethlehem, Clarion County, and continued as such until December, 1902, when he resigned to become prothonotary of Clarion County. To this office he had been elected on the Democratic ticket in the regular November elections. Taking office in January, 1903 he was reelected for a second term in 1905 and served to its conclusion, December 31, 1908.
In 1909, returning to private life, he became sales representative for the Pearl Glass Company of Clarion County, for whom he traveled until 1910. In the latter year he entered the fire and life insurance business in the Clarion community, establishing the agency which he then successfully conducted. This became one of the strongest in the county, representing well-known companies in both the life and fire insurance fields. Among these was the Clarion County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, a locally owned concern. Mr. Mohney became a director and general agent of this company in 1905 and in 1924 was also elected secretary and treasurer of the company, continuing as director and general agent.
While building up his own insurance business, Mr. Mohney was active in other fields of enterprise. He was one of the organizers of the Citizens' Trust Company of New Bethlehem, later the New Bethlehem Bank of New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, of which he became vice-president and director. He was secretary of the Clarion-Forest County Farm Loan Association from 1919 to 1935 and represented the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore, Maryland, which designated him as one of two examiners from Pennsylvania. In 1920 he was appointed bursar of Clarion State Teachers' College, an office he administered for twenty years. As a result of its responsibilities, he was able to devote only part of his time to his insurance business, which, however, he continued, and in 1940 returned on a full-time basis to the management of his agency, resigning as bursar of Clarion State Teachers' College.
During the early years of the century, Mr. Mohney also became a member of the Clarion Board of Health, of which he served as president. He was long active and prominent in the Democratic party and was for several years chairman of the Clarion County Democratic Committee. In 1908 he was a delegate of his party to the National Convention held at Denver and in 1920 was appointed by the State Democratic Committee as assistant sergeant-at-arms at the National Democratic Convention held at San Francisco.
During the First World War, Mr. Mohney was active in the Red Cross drives and other organized campaigns of the period.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the County Business Councils for Clarion County; a member of the Grange, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Free and Accepted Masons. In the Masonic order, he was affiliated with Clarion Lodge and with all higher bodies of both York and Scottish Rites, including Clarion Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Franklin Commandery, Knights Templar; and Pittsburgh Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which he took the thirty-second degree. He was also a member of Jaffa Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Altoona. He was reared in the German Reformed faith but was for some years a member of Clarion Presbyterian Church.

1 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), BP xl.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 422.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 423.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 4236.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 482.