Walter Smith Lobingier and Rose May Fulton

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Husband Walter Smith Lobingier ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: Walter B. Lobingier 4
           Born: 11 Jun 1869 - Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 1946 5
         Buried:  - Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Mt. Lebanon, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: Jacob Smith Lobingier (1828-1907) 1 3 6 7 8
         Mother: Mary Jane Cochran (1837-1920) 1 4 8

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       Marriage: 30 Dec 1897 9 10 11

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Wife Rose May Fulton ^{9 10 11}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 1924 5
         Buried:  - Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Mt. Lebanon, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: James Fulton (      -      ) 10
         Mother: Martha Morrison (      -      ) 10

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Children

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1 F Martha Fulton Lobingier ^{9 11}

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           Born: 6 Jan 1903 9 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Wendell Lusk (      -      ) 11
           Marr: 2 Jun 1928 11

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General Notes: Husband - Walter Smith Lobingier

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He led the accustomed life of a farm boy, meanwhile acquiring his primary education at the public schools and at the Mt. Pleasant Institute. He matriculated at Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, where he completed his freshman year. Desirous of enlarging the scope of his literary studies, he entered Wooster University, Wooster, Ohio, from which he graduated in the class of 1892. During his senior year in college, he had acquired the rudiments of newspaper technique by working as a reporter on the local paper and correspondent for Metropolitan Dailies, so he had a job within a week of his graduation.
To inaugerate his venture in newspaper work, he chose Pittsburgh for the tryout, As a reporter, he saw life in a big city from an angle practically unknown to even its older citizens, especially since, at the time he became a reporter on the "Dispatch", the city was in a turmoil over a threatened strike of the steel workers and other labor unions and the place became the news center of the country. The Homestead strike broke soon after he arrived and he received his first real experience as a reporter in narrating its happenings. While connected with this paper, he covered many important assignments and learned something of the game of newsgathering in its various phases. During the following years, he was employed by several newspapers in Pittsburgh in different capacities, among them being city editor of the "Times" and the New York Correspondent of the Daily News. On a trip to the Pacific coast, he visited Denver, Colorado, San Francisco, California, and other places continuing his journalistic pursuits. He returned to Pittsburgh, however, founded the Index, which came be one of the most widely read of the weekly publications of its kind in Pittsburgh, later under the name of the Bulletin-Index. Eventually he assumed the part of financial editor of the Pittsburgh Press and was working in this capacity when he decided to study law and become an attorney. Having completed the required studies while continuing his editoral duties, he was admitted to the Allegheny County Bar in 1903, and immediately established a sucessful practice. The smell of printers ink and the paste pot was still strong enough to induce him to connect himself in the editorial work of the Pittsburgh Legal Journal, the staff of which he joined in 1910 as associate editor. He edited a number of books on legal subjects, specialized in Appellate Court practice and annotated the Pennsylvania Supreme, Superior and Equity Court Rules in a service long widely used by the profession.
In 1945, he was director of the Educational Department of Westinghouse Electric Corp., and in conjunction with this he helped recruit engineers for Westinghouse. While working at this capacity, he picked up enough engineering on his own to be elected President of the National Association. Prior to joining Westinghouse, he was an English Teacher at Pennsylvania State University.
In addition to his professional activities, he was also active in civic and social affairs and for many years was an active leader in the Republican Party, but for much of his time he devoted himself exclusively to his professional duties. He was on the Board of Trustees of Point Park College; he was Past Master of his Masonic Lodge and Past High Priest of his Royal Arch Chapter; he was a member of the various Masonic Orders, including the Knights Templar, Scottish Rite and Shrine. He was a member of the East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, the Allegheny and State Bar Associations, 50 year member of the Alpha Tau Omega College Fraternity, Sons of the American Revolution, and the Pennsylvania Society of New York City. At one time, he was a member of Company B, 10th Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania.

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General Notes: Wife - Rose May Fulton

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from Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 298.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 230.

3 Kenneth Lobingier, Genealogy of the Lobingier Family 1374 - 1974 (Mt. Pleasant, PA: Privately published, 1974), Pg 10.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 489.

5 Kenneth Lobingier, Genealogy of the Lobingier Family 1374 - 1974 (Mt. Pleasant, PA: Privately published, 1974), Pg 40.

6 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 488.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 339.

8 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 509.

9 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 299.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 231.

11 Kenneth Lobingier, Genealogy of the Lobingier Family 1374 - 1974 (Mt. Pleasant, PA: Privately published, 1974), Pg 12.