John W. Allshouse and Mary Jane Kemp

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Husband John W. Allshouse ¹

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           Born: 29 Oct 1836 - North Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Samuel Allshouse (Abt 1808-1886) 1 2
         Mother: Lydia Ann Baughman (      -Bef 1882) 2 3 4

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       Marriage: 9 Oct 1863 1

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Wife Mary Jane Kemp ¹

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         Father: Levi Kemp (      -      ) 1
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• Note: This may be the same person as : Mary J. Kemp.

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Children

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1 M Samuel H. Allshouse ^{1 5}

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         Spouse: Arabella Altman (      -      ) 5

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2 F Lydia E. Allshouse ^{1 5}

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         Spouse: Leopold Werkman (      -      ) 5

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3 F Margaret J. Allshouse ¹

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            AKA: Margaret I. Allshouse 5
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         Spouse: Samuel L. Thompson (      -      ) 5

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4 M John Marshall Allshouse ^{1 5}

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         Spouse: Sarah Smith (      -      ) 5

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5 F Laura E. Allshouse ¹

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            AKA: Laura A. Allshouse 5
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6 F Susie I. Allshouse ⁵

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            AKA: Sue Irene Allshouse,6 Susie A. Allshouse 1
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         Spouse: Morris L. Bossart (1873-      ) 7

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7 M James F. Allshouse ^{1 5}

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8 F Luella Virginia Allshouse ^{1 5}

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         Spouse: Oswell H. Hough (      -      ) 5

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9 M Grover Cleveland Allshouse ^{1 5}

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10 U [Infant] Allshouse ¹

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General Notes: Husband - John W. Allshouse

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He attended the common schools and at the age of twenty-five years went to Venango County, PA, where he drilled oil-wells for a year and followed teaming for two years. During the last year of this time he invested $1,000 in a one-sixteenth interest of an oil-well which sold for $400,000 in 1865. He returned to Westmoreland County and purchased a farm and returned to the oil regions, where he drilled oil-wells and was engaged in contracting for nine years. In 1877 he returned to his farm. He built a good residence and was engaged in the improvement of his land, which in addition to the fertility of the surface was heavily underlaid with coal.
He was a strong democrat, an active officer of Brush Creek Evangelical Lutheran church and an efficient director of Brush Creek Cemetery association. He was a charter member and treasurer of Highland Grange, No. 837, Patrons of Husbandry. He was elected in 1889 as a director of the Westmoreland Agricultural society, which was incorporated in 1869, and was re-elected for 1890. He was an ardent and successful worker in the interests of the grange movement in Westmoreland county.

He became interested in the brewing business March 1, 1901, when he erected the plant of the Braddock Brewing Company and immediately put it into active operation. This plant he sold to the Independent Brewing Company, July 1, 1904. He had erected and commenced to operate the Monessen brewing plant in February, 1903, and sold this to the Indepen­dent Brewing Company, September 5, 1904, retiring then from active business in this line. He next turned his attention to oil, and had deal­ings in that field for a number of years.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 651.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 612.

3 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 668.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 287, 651.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 613.

6 The Lauffer History. A Genealogical Chart of the Descendents of Christian Lauffer, the Pioneer. (Jeannette, PA: Press of the Westmoreland Journal, 1906), Pg 35.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 387, 613.