William S. DeVore

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Husband William S. DeVore ¹

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           Born:  - Washington Co, PA
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         Father: Samuel DeVore (      -1859) 2
         Mother: Mary Sampson (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - William S. DeVore

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He was educated in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and at the age of fifteen years he began clerking in a store at Pittsburgh, where he remained four years, and then was employed by Thomas Stevenson, of Mercer, for about three years. He then went into business at Louisville, Kentucky, on a small scale. He subsequently engaged in business at Franklin, Venango County, and later at Utica, in the same county. He was fifteen years at the latter place, having a Mr. Nesbit as a partner for a portion of this time. He went from Utica to Sandy Lake, and in 1873 formed a partnership under the firm name of Devore & Stevenson. Mr. Devore was a director and stockholder in the Sandy Lake Banking Company, and was one of the wealthiest and most enterprising gentlemen in Sandy Lake. He was a Republican.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 517.

2 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1050.