Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Samuel H. Leeper and Mary Jane "Jennie" Denny




Husband Samuel H. Leeper 1

            AKA: Samuel Leiper,2 3 Samuel Leper 4
           Born: 1 Aug 1821 - Frankfort Springs, Beaver Co, PA 1
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         Father: Hugh Leeper (1793-1869) 1 5
         Mother: Esther Harper (1798-1871) 1 5


       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Margaret Patterson (      -      ) 1 2 4



Wife Mary Jane "Jennie" Denny 1 6

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         Father: Walter Denny (1816-Aft 1893) 3 7
         Mother: Mary Welch (      -Aft 1893) 3 7




Children

• They had no children.


General Notes: Husband - Samuel H. Leeper


He taught school eight years, beginning at the age of nineteen, receiving a certificate from Thomas Nicholson, the first county superintendent. After this he was a farmer, and owned 116 acres.
He and his wife were members of the United Presbyterian church, and he was a member of Session. He was active in church and school work, and was secretary of the board nine years. He was formerly a Whig, and later a Republican.

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Sources


1 Editor, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 862.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 191.

3 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 163.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1129.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 645.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1393.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 601, 1393.


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