Husband Col. Israel Painter 1 2 3
Born: 11 Nov 1810 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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Died: 4 Jul 1880 - Westmoreland Co, PA 4
Buried: - Mill Grove Cemetery, Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
Father: Hon. Jacob Painter ( - ) 3 4 5
Mother: Catharine Lobingier (1771-1856) 4 5 6
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• Additional Image: Israel Painter.
Wife Maria Dunkel 7
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1 M Morris Lobengier Painter 8 9
Born: 21 Feb 1849 - Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA 8
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Died: 1 Sep 1923 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 7
Buried: - West Newton Cemetery, West Newton, Westmoreland Co, PA
Spouse: Anna Lydia Bell (1860-Aft 1935) 9 10
Marr: Apr 1880 - Bells Mills, South Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 10
General Notes: Husband - Col. Israel Painter
He lived at home until he was seventeen years of age. He then taught the district school two terms, and was employed as clerk at Mount Pleasant in his brother Christopher's store one year. He then attended several terms at Jefferson College, Canonsburg. In company with a Mr. Newmyer in 1830, he purchased his brother's store in Mount Pleasant and carried it on one year. He next built the "Mastodon" Salt Works, subsequently became interested in the "Fountain" and "Mammoth" salt works and was the owner of them all at the time of his death. In company with Daniel Waltz, he put down a salt well in Monongah County, West Virginia, and established salt works there, an enterprise requiring no small amount of pluck and energy, on account of the transportation through an almost unbroken wilderness of everything required in its construction and operation. He was interested in these works from 1832 to 1835. He became at an early date an extensive dealer in live stock-horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. His operations in this line of trade took a wide range, extending through the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia, and during the Civil war his dealings with the government in cattle, horses and mules were on a large scale. Though not of the same political faith, he enjoyed the acquaintance and confidence of President Lincoln, a relation, which was of great service to him in his operations with the government. Through his brother Christopher he became at one time largely interested in the cotton trade, making a number of trips to New Orleans in that interest. His operations in real estate were carried on on the most extended scale. These embraced the purchase and sale of over one hundred farms in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, alone, while he also operated largely in lands in Fayette, Indiana, and other western Pennsylvania counties. At the time of his death he was the owner of thirty-two farms. He operated largely in oil and oil lands. From 1865 to the time of his death Colonel Painter gave much attention to coal and coal lands. He was the first to introduce western Pennsylvania coal into the eastern market, eastern manufacturers of gas using up to that time an imported coal as a gas coal. In company with John George, Jr., Colonel Lewis McFarland and others, he purchased large tracts of coal lands on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad in North Huntingdon township, selling the coal to the Penn Gas Coal Company and Westmoreland Coal Company. In company with General Herman Haught, John Derbyshire, H. N. Burroughs, S. B. and C. P. Markle, he bought and sold many hundreds of acres of coal lands in Sewickley township. He built seventy-four coking ovens in Bullskin township, Fayette County in 1873, and carried them on till 1879. He owned one hundred and seventy acres of coking coal lands near Mount Pleasant at the time of his death. He was interested in contracts for the construction of sections of the Pennsylvania railroad, of the Northwest Pennsylvania railroad, also of the Pittsburg and Erie and Connellsville railroads. He was a stockholder in the Mount Pleasant and Robbstown turnpike, also in the Youghiogheny Navigation Company. He was prime mover in the building of the Southwest Pennsylvania railroad, also the Mount Pleasant and Broad Ford railroad, and a director in both, as also in the Pittsburg and Connellsville railroad. He was associated with Governor John W. Geary in contesting the will of Stephen Girard, in behalf of the heirs of the latter against the city of Philadelphia. He represented his district in the house of representatives from 1846 to 1848; was canal commissioner from 1849 to 1852; was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Charlestown, South Carolina, identifying himself with the Douglas wing of the party. He was at one time a candidate for his party for nomination to congress, but was defeated in the convention by Hon. Henry D. Foster. His death was the result of an accident. By a fall a glass bottle was crushed in his hand, by which the latter was so cut and lacerated he survived the effect of it only ten days.
It has fallen to the lot of but few men to be more prominent in business affairs than Colonel Israel Painter. His energy and will seemed inexhaustible. He was constantly on the alert. With him to think was to act. Difficulties and obstacles which would have overwhelmed and swamped most men only inspired in him renewed exertions. All his enterprises were conducted on a large scale. To figure in a small way with him was an impossibility. In his disposition he was whole-souled and genial, consequently few men commanded a wider or warmer circle of friends.