Elias Alter and Martha Ferson

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Husband Elias Alter ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 20 May 1820 - Allegheny Co, PA 3
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           Died: 5 Jan 1889 - Springdale, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Father: David Alter (1775-1838) 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Elizabeth Mull (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1849 3

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Wife Martha Ferson ³

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           Born: 23 May 1823 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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           Died: 14 Jun 1906 - Springdale, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Father: Andrew Ferson (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Mary Lindsey (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M George Elias Alter ³

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           Born: 8 May 1868 - Springdale, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Diana J. Swanton (      -      ) 8
           Marr: 11 Sep 1902 - Indianapolis, Marion Co, IN 8

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General Notes: Husband - Elias Alter

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The place of his birth was at Alter's Mills, on Puckety creek, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. His education was such as was afforded at the schools common at that day. He was reared on his father's farm and learned the carpenter's trade, and subsequently removed to Manchester, a part of the city of Allegheny, which later became a part of Pittsburgh, where he worked at his trade, and at one time conducted a planing mill. In his religious faith he was a Methodist Episcopal from his early years to the date of his death. He held the positions of trustee, steward and class-leader in the church at Springdale. In politics he was an ardent supporter of Republican party principles. In his home township\emdash Springdale\emdash he held the offices of assessor and school director, being for several years president of the school board. During the Civil war he volunteered in the Union cause, but was rejected on account of physical incapacity, having been seriously crippled by accidents in working about planing mill machinery

In 1861 he moved to Millerstown, Allegheny County, and from there in 1867 to Springdale, where he continued to reside until his death.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 364.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1313.

3 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 74.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 364, 711.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 489.

6 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 517.

7 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 73.

8 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 75.