Stephen Vanderline Seaton and Rose Frost

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Husband Stephen Vanderline Seaton ¹

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           Born: 18 Mar 1839 - the area of Murrinsville, Butler Co, PA 1
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           Died: 5 Apr 1916 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA 2

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         Father: John Seaton (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Jane [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1 Aug 1900 2

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth A. "Lizzie" Hultz (      -1895) 2 - 29 Feb 1860 2

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Wife Rose Frost ²

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           Born:  - Oil City, Venango Co, PA
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           Died: Aft 1919
         Buried: 

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         Father: David Frost (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M Gerald Stephen Seaton ²

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General Notes: Husband - Stephen Vanderline Seaton

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He was reared and educated at Franklin, PA, and as a youth learned the trade of wagonmaker, which he followed at that place for some time, being only a young man, however, when he entered the oil industry as a producer. He continued in the latter line most of the time until he came in 1888 to Oil City, where he ever afterward had his home and business interests. His oil wells were below Franklin, at what was known as the Cochran Flats. His sons William H. and Charles W. Seaton having started a small general store at Oil City, under the name of W. H. & C. W. Seaton, he joined them and the firm style was changed to S. V. Seaton & Sons. Evidently he had not exhausted his business resources in the oil fields, for the growth of the trade at Oil City brought the Seaton store into first place within a few years. In fact it was spoken of in 1896 as the largest general store in the city, and at that time was being conducted by Mr. Seaton and his son Charles as S. V. Seaton & Son, with the flattering comment that “this firm is sometimes styled the Wanamaker of Oil City.”
At Oil City he served two terms as councilman from the Fifth ward, and he was long a leading member of Grace M. E. Church, which he served a number of years as trustee and treasurer, and as a member of the official board at the time of his death. Politically he was a Republican. [CAB, 654]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 654.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 655.