George P. Espy and Mary Jewell

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Husband George P. Espy ^{1 2}

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           Born: 9 Dec 1817 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 3
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         Father: Josiah D. Espy (Abt 1788-1863) 3
         Mother: Susan [Unk] (Abt 1790-1847)

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       Marriage: Apr 1853 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 3

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Wife Mary Jewell ^{2 3}

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Children

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1 F Kate D. Espy ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: William Preston McCray (1857-      ) 2 4
           Marr: 20 Mar 1879 2 4

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2 M George R. Espy ³

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General Notes: Husband - George P. Espy

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He was reared on the farm, alternating the seasons of his boyhood with attendance at the public schools. He was thirty-six years of age when he moved to his own farm. In 1860 he started his first drill in search of oil and early in 1861 he struck a “gusher” in the Buckeye well - one among the first great flowing wells on Oil creek. During 1861 and 1862 he had wells producing an aggregate of fifteen hundred barrels per day. On his own farm he had but eight or ten wells in operation, while he had at least one hundred and fifty acres of as fine oil land as could be found in the county wholly untouched. As an agriculturalist he was painstaking, careful, and successful. [HVC 1890, 1083]

1 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1083, 1095.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 470.

3 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1083.

4 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1095.