Joseph Dilworth and Louisa Mendenhall Richardson

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Husband Joseph Dilworth ^{1 2}

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           Born: 25 Dec 1826 - Coal Hill (later Mt. Washington), Allegheny Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: William Dilworth, Sr. (1791-1871) 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Scott (1797-1883) 3 5

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       Marriage: 15 Jan or 28 Jan 1850 2 6

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• Biographical Sketch: from Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889).
To read a brief biographical sketch of this individual, click here.

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Wife Louisa Mendenhall Richardson ^{2 6}

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           Born:  - New Lisbon, Columbiana Co, OH
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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Dilworth ⁷

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            AKA: [Unk] Dilworth
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         Spouse: Carter Curtis Beggs (      -Bef 1908) 6 7

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2 M Lawrence Dilworth ^{6 7}

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         Spouse: Virginia Snyder Crossan (      -      ) 7

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3 M Charles Richardson Dilworth ^{6 7}

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         Spouse: Elizabeth Tiffany (      -      ) 7

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4 F Louise Richardson Dilworth ⁷

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            AKA: [Unk] Dilworth
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         Spouse: Harry Clyde Beggs (      -      ) 6 7

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5 M Joseph Richardson Dilworth ^{6 7}

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         Spouse: Annie Wood (      -      ) 7

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Dilworth

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As a young man he clerked for Schriver & Dilworth, wholesale grocers, and later, about 1856, engaged in the powder business with D. W. C. Bidwell, under the firm name of Dilworth & Bidwell, representing the powder mills of the Dupont and Hazard companies. Still later in life he engaged in the iron trade, forming in 1858 the firm of the Dilworth-Porter Company, manufacturers of railway supplies, and in 1880 it was changed to Dilworth, Porter & Company (limited). In 1869 he became a partner in the firm of Dilworth, Harper & Company, consisting of his brother, George W. Dilworth, Albert Harper and Joseph Dilworth, doing a grocery business as wholesalers. On the death of Mr. Harper, in 1871, the firm became Dilworth Brothers, which continued until 1902, when it was incorporated under the firm name of Dilworth Brothers Company.
He was one of the organizers and stockholders in the Northern Pacific Railroad, of which he held a directorship. He was connected with this great trans-continental line until Henry Villard became its president. For many years he was a director in the Citizens' National Bank of Pittsburgh; he was a trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association; one of the founders of the Pennsylvania College for Women, and was an original member of the First Presbyterian church. Upon his removal from Mount Washington to the East End he became one of the founders of Shady Side Presbyterian church, was very active in church work and one of the trustees in Shady Side church up to his death. He was president of the National Iron and Steel Publishing Company, publishers of American Manufacture. He became county commissioner of Allegheny County at the troublesome time of the liquor license question, and did noble work for the people.

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General Notes: Wife - Louisa Mendenhall Richardson

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from Cincinnati, OH

1 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 137.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 45.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 421.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 43.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 44.

6 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 139.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 50.