Joseph Justice and Mrs. Mary Fleming

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Husband Joseph Justice ^{1 2}

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           Born: 20 Dec 1794 - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 1
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           Died: Aft 1877
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         Father: Jacob Justice (1757-1829) 1 2
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: Dec 1833 1

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   Other Spouse: Maria Reynolds (      -1833) 1 - Oct 1819 1

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   Other Spouse: Harriet Barker (      -1863) 1 - Nov 1836 1

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Wife Mrs. Mary Fleming ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: May 1835 1
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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Justice

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He lived with his father until his nineteenth year, when he came to New Castle, Pennsylvania, in May, 1813, and was apprenticed to Isaac Jones, the first hatter who worked at the trade in the place. Mr. Jones had a little log shop on the northwest corner of North and Shenango streets, which were then prominent thoroughfares of the embryo town. He remained with Mr. Jones until he became of age, when he went to Beavertown, where he worked the following winter as a journeyman for Messrs. Powers & McClain. In April, 1816, he left the western part of the state, and traveled towards the east; working in various places at his trade, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Huntingdon, Columbia, etc. He also worked for a short time in Pittsburgh. In 1817 he commenced business for himself, in company with Gabriel McGregor, at Hookstown, in the southern part of Beaver County, and continued for about two years, when he sold out and came to New Castle in June, 1819, and opened a shop on Beaver street. He carried on the hatting business in New Castle until April, 1834, when he rented his property, and removed to Centerville, Butler County, where he continued his business for about five years. During the last three years he held the office of justice of the peace. In 1839 he returned to New Castle, re-opened a shop, and carried on the business until 1851, when he gave up the manufacturing branch, but continued to deal in hats, caps and furs until about 1868, when he retired from active business pursuits. Mr. Justice was elected to the office of Burgess of the borough of New Castle, in the spring of 1827, being the third after its organization. In 1849, upon the organization of Lawrence County, he was elected its first Treasurer. He was also elected Treasurer of the borough, and a member of the council at various periods, and was repeatedly solicited to accept offices of responsibility and honor by his fellow-citizens, which he always modestly but firmly declined.
He united with the Methodist Episcopal church in 1839, and long continued a prominent member, holding various positions in the church, among them that of steward, whose duties he discharged for a period of sixteen years.
By his first wife he had seven children, three of whom were still living in 1877. His second wife had no children. The third bore him three, all of whom were living in 1877.

1 Editor, History of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 187.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 277.