Edward Richard Gnade and Maude Ray Fleming

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Husband Edward Richard Gnade ¹

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           Born: 23 Aug 1874 - Rutherford, NJ 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 1947
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Richard Edward Gnade (1843-      ) 1
         Mother: Fannie Sarah Butler (1849-      ) 1

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       Marriage: 23 Nov 1904 - ? Venango Co, PA 2

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Wife Maude Ray Fleming ²

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           Born: 1879
     Christened: 
           Died: 1979
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: William Fleming (1842-1902) 2 3
         Mother: Ophelia Jane Ray (1855-1935) 3

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Children

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1 F Margaret Fleming Gnade ²

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           Born: 11 May 1906 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Aug 1984 - ? Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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2 M Richard Edward Gnade ²

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           Born: 19 May 1912 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 1961
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - Edward Richard Gnade

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After attending the schools at Rutherford, New Jersey, he studied at Stevens Preparatory and then entered Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, where he completed his course as a mechanical engineer. After working with various concerns, among others the Cooke Locomotive Works of Paterson, New Jersey, the National Meter Company, Brooklyn, New York, International Correspondence Schools, Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the Dickson Manufacturing Company of Scranton, Pennsylvania, he became associated with the Oil Well Supply Company at Oil City, Pennsylvania, where, in 1900-02, he assisted in erecting the Imperial Works of that company, which house, among other departments, had a steel foundry, a gray iron foundry, a malleable iron foundry, drop forge shop, blacksmith shops, and general machine shops, which, together, manufactured over one thousand articles, large and small, of general oil well equipment. Beginning in December, 1908, Mr. Gnade was manager of that plant, which employed a thousand high-grade workmen, including a large office force.
Fraternally, Mr. Gnade was a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, and a member of the Rotary, Wanango Country, Venango and Oil City Boat clubs. He was also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

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General Notes: Wife - Maude Ray Fleming

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An alumni of Wellesley, she was a member of the Red Cross, the Needle Work Guild, the Twentieth Century Club, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, as well as of the various activities of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which she and her family were members.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 369.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 370.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 990.