Otho J. Gillespie

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Husband Otho J. Gillespie ¹

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           Born: 6 Nov 1874 - Morgan Co, OH 1
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         Father: Thomas Benton Gillespie (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Sarah Ann Medley (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Otho J. Gillespie

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He first attended the pub­lic schools in Wayne County, Michigan, and afterward at Hilliard, Pennsylvania. He then began working about the mines of western Pennsylvania and was employed in various capacities at inside and outside work. Al­ways ambitious for success, he zealously pursued a course of study in electricity through the International Correspondence School of Scranton as a means to that end. He installed a plant at the Keystone Mine, where he remained one and a half years, and in 1907 located at Ferris. In 1909, he was em­ployed by the Bessemer & Lake Erie Coal Mining Company to put in a plant in West Virginia. He purchased the Jerry Hilliard farm of sixty acres in Washington Town­ship, Butler County, PA, from A. D. and T. B. Gillespie, and was the owner of three houses and lots in Hilliard. He also was a stockholder in the International School of Correspondence. His farm was an excellent property and was underlaid with coal, one of the banks hav­ing been opened. It had not been tested for oil or gas.
Fraternally, he was a member of Hilliard Lodge, No. 111, I. O. O. F.; and Hilliard Lodge, No. 92, K. P. He was a Democrat in politics and served on the election board in Washington Township. In religious attachment, he attended the Methodist Episcopal Church. April 22, 1908, he began an enjoyable so­journ in England, which ended June 3, 1908, when he set sail from Liverpool.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1462.