John A. Pyle and Mary Philinda Dunn

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Husband John A. Pyle ¹

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           Born: 24 Aug 1869 - Bully Hill, near Franklin, Venango Co, PA 2
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           Died: 1954
         Buried:  - Graham Cemetery, Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: Robert J. Pyle (1834-1910/1913) 1 4
         Mother: Maria E. Anable (1834-1909/1912) 2

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       Marriage: Abt 1893

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Wife Mary Philinda Dunn ^{2 5}

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           Born: 1869 - Plumer, Cornplanter Twp, Venango Co, PA
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           Died: 1947
         Buried:  - Graham Cemetery, Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: Edward Vincent Dunn (1846-1901) 2 5
         Mother: Mary Philinda Law (      -      ) 2 5

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Children

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1 F Helen Marie Pyle ²

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           Died: 3 May 1965
         Buried:  - Graham Cemetery, Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 6

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2 F Jane Agnes "Jennie" Pyle ²

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           Born: 1896
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         Spouse: Frank R. Siefer (1896-1980)
           Marr: 1919 - ? Venango Co, PA

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3 F Florence Lida Pyle ²

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4 F Gertrude Isabel Pyle ²

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5 F Luella Angie Pyle ²

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6 F Olive May Pyle ²

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General Notes: Husband - John A. Pyle

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He had the ordinary school advantages afforded by the neighborhood in his boyhood. He had plenty of practical training, especially in the occupation which he chose, for there was sufficient demand among the operators on Bully Hill to give him opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the local oil lands and the best methods of working them. During ten years of his early manhood he was associated with his father, under the name of the Pyle Com­pany, meanwhile operating on the old home place in Sandy Creek Township, where he developed a five-barrel yield, but he sold that interest in 1905. About 1895-06 he formed the partnership with his brother Frank Pyle and cousin Charles E. Pyle which still exists in the operation of one lease in Venango County and others in Clarion County under the style of Pyle Brothers & C. E. Pyle. They originally leased the Will Young farm in Sandy Creek Township, and the production on their present lease there has reached eight barrels a day. In company with Harry Smith, now of Florida, they are also operating on Bully Hill (in Sandy Creek Township) on the Alphabet Oil Lease, controlling one of the best leases in this territory, their daily production running between thirty and forty barrels. John A. Pyle acts as foreman and timekeeper for both concerns, and besides giving their own services the ac­tive partners have steady employment for five men. Because of his comprehensive understanding of the industry and conditions John A. Pyle has been a valuable factor in the development of the properties in which he is interested, and to whose advancement he has devoted most of his energies. He has not given much time to outside affairs, though he has done excellent service as steward of the East Grove Church, in whose work he has taken an active part. His home, one of the finest on Bully Hill, he built eight years ago. [CAB, 1045]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1044.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1045.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Sandycreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1999), Pg 32.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 625.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 513.

6 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Sandycreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1999), Pg 26.