William Nelson Empfield and Nellie G. Shaffer

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Husband William Nelson Empfield ^{1 2}

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           Born: 18 Jun 1866 - Cherry Hill Twp, Indiana Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: William Harrison Empfield (1837-      ) 3 4
         Mother: Margaret Melissa Irwin (1844-      ) 1 5

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       Marriage: 27 Feb 1889 1

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Wife Nellie G. Shaffer ¹

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         Father: John Shaffer (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 M Irwin Dale Empfield ¹

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General Notes: Husband - William Nelson Empfield

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He was educated in the public schools of Brushvalley and Buffington townships, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He worked at home with his parents until he reached manhood, when he went west to Painesville, Ohio, and there did carpenter work, receiving $2.25 a day. Later he had charge of construction and of the docks at Grand River, and was subsequently with the Penn & Lake Erie Dock Company for twelve years as superintendent, after which he accepted the position of superintendent of the coal mines for the Webster Coal Gas Company at Belle Vernon. In 1900 Mr. Empfield became superintendent for the East Goshen Company, in Ohio, with residence at New Philadelphia, where he was general manager for ten years. Later he was with the Northwestern Construction Company, of Franklin, Pennsylvania.
He served two terms as mayor of Fairport, Ohio, to which office he was first elected in 1897. In political sentiment he was a Republican. For twelve years he was postmaster at Rico, where he lived, his wife attending to the duties of the office.
He was a Mason, belonging to Temple Lodge, No. 29, of Painesville, Ohio; to the Council, and Knights Templar, Lake Erie Consistory, and Alkoran Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Cleveland, Ohio.

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General Notes: Wife - Nellie G. Shaffer

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from Indiana Co, PA

1 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1248.

2 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 33.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1247.

4 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 32.

5 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 31.