Husband Henry Deniston 1 2
Born: 10 Apr 1839 - near Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1 2
Christened:
Died: 23 Nov 1925 3
Buried:
Father: Samuel Deniston (1798-1856) 1 2
Mother: Laetitia Sturgeon ( - ) 4
Wife
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Children
General Notes: Husband - Henry Deniston
Like most boys of that pioneer day, he received a scant education in the public schools which ran only when the small pupils were not needed for work on the farm. As he grew older he performed a man's work on the farm, which began to supply food to the ever-growing city of Pittsburgh. When his father died, he received part of the homestead, and later sold to the McClintock-Marshall Construction Company some of his river-frontage, which they, in turn, sold to the Carnegie Steel Company for the erection of blast furnaces. Thus the peaceful farm and its rural outlook changed to clanging industry, and the old homestead on a bluff overlooking the river commanded a view of the workshop of the world; Homestead, Munhall, Duquesne, Rankin and Braddock, all industrial centers crowded with gigantic manufacturing plants. Henry and his brother James, never married but were chiefly responsible for the financial interests of the Deniston heirs, and remained on the old homestead until their deaths. They remembered the primitive wilderness of the country in their childhood, and the time when the Poor Farm of Pittsburgh stood on the site of a later steel mill. In 1903 James and Henry Deniston purchased ground in Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, and had erected thereon the beautiful Deniston mausoleum, and in 1915 Henry Deniston had the remains of those of the family who had been buried in the old family burying-ground on a corner of the old homestead lifted and re-interred in this mausoleum. Mr. Deniston's political affiliations were with the Republican Party, his religious fellowship with the Presbyterian Church of Swissvale, his home.