Husband William Tuttle Mahaffey 1 2
AKA: William T. Mehaffey 3
Born: 25 Jun 1848 - near Cherry Tree, Indiana Co, PA 1
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Died: Aft 1911
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Father: John B. Mehaffey (1807-Bef 1898) 3
Mother: Ellen Byers ( - ) 3
Marriage: 18 Dec 1902 4
Other Spouse: Julia Jane Patchin ( -1894/1895) 5 - 1876 5
Wife Sarah Edmonson 4
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General Notes: Husband - William Tuttle Mahaffey
After completing his school studies about 1864, he took an active part in the Civil War, being drum major of Co. D, 78th Regimcnt, P. V. He was only thirteen years old at the beginning of the war. After the war, in 1869, he engaged in teaching school, which occupation he followed for some seven years, making a great success along this line of work. About the time of his marriage in 1876 he entered into the mercantile business, conducting a store for two years at Cherry Tree and during this time was also associated with his father in the lumber business. He then engaged in the manufacture of farm, lumber and saw-mill machinery. This business which he purchased was the first one of its kind established in northern Pennsylvania, the factory having been built in 1844, and after buying it he continued to operate the concern for twenty-one years. He then sold out and was engaged in the lumber business for six years subsequently a partner in the company called the St. Lawrence Broom & Manufacturing Company, of West Virginia, owning and operating one of the largest and heaviest timber tracts in the state of West Virginia, consisting of 86,000 acres. This company consisted of eight partners, Mr. Mahaffey being one of the directors. In 1902 Mr. Mahaffey was one of the founders of the First National Bank of Cherry Tree, of which he became a director. He was a founder and president of the Cherry Tree Electric Light Company, and founder and a director of the Cherry Tree Water Company. He also had valuable coal interests in that vicinity.
In 1876 he united with the Methodist Protestant church of Cherry Tree but afterward united with the Presbyterian church, and was for many years active in Sabbath school work, serving as president of District No. 2, of Indiana County. Mr. Mahaffey was first a Republican in politics, but later joined what was known as the Keystone party.
In 1909 he made a special trip to visit the old home of the Mahaffey family at Dublin, Ireland. On this occasion he gathered valuable data in regard to the ancestral history of the Mahaffey family, a subject in which he was much interested, and during a year or more he was engaged in compiling a history of the family. He was president of an organized society that held annual reunions of the Mahaffey clan each year. They met in 1911 in the city of Williamsport, the original home of Thomas Mahaffey, who came from County Donegal, Ireland, and settled there in 1723.
General Notes: Wife - Sarah Edmonson
from Glassport, Allegheny Co, PA