Henry Moore Amsler and Jean Wilson

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Husband Henry Moore Amsler ^{1 2}

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           Born: 20 Mar 1896 - Marienville, Jenks Twp, Forest Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Cornelius Washington Amsler (1849-1932) 1 2 3
         Mother: Ida A. Moore (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 27 Sep 1918 - Clarion, Clarion Co, PA 4

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Wife Jean Wilson ^{4 5}

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         Father: Edward M. Wilson (      -1900) 6
         Mother: Mary Knox (1859-      ) 4 5

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Children

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1 M Henry Cornelius Amsler ⁴

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           Born: 14 Apr 1920 4
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2 M Edwin Wilson Amsler ⁴

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           Born: 25 Jul 1925 4
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General Notes: Husband - Henry Moore Amsler

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He received his preliminary education at Kiskiminetas Springs School, Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, and subsequently entered the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, where he was a member of the class of 1918 in the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. He began his business career with his father's lumber companies in West Virginia, later entering the coal business in Clarion County, in which he was very active until 1935. He became a partner in the Birch Valley Lumber Company at Tioga, West Virginia, in 1922, and after his father's death assumed the responsibility of the family interest. He was president of Lesler, Inc., real estate operators at St. Petersburg, Florida; vice-president of the First National Bank of Fryburg; and a director of the Citizens Trust Company of Clarion; and also active in the coal and oil business in Clarion County.
As a resident of Clarion, Mr. Amsler was influential in civic and public affairs. He was a member of the board of trustees of Polk State School at Polk, Pennsylvania and beginning in 1932 served as a member of the borough council, of which he became president. Prominent in Republican politics, he was a member of the county executive committee, past member of the Young Republican State Executive Committee, past chairman of the Clarion County Young Republican Committee, past county chairman of the Willkie-for-President clubs, and in 1940 was alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention held at Philadelphia.
Mr. Amsler was active in the Free and Accepted Masons. A Presbyterian in religious faith, Mr. Amsler was a member of the board of trustees of the Clarion Presbyterian Church, past president of the board and past chairman of the finance committee. He was a member of the Wanango Country Club of Oil City, and the St. Petersburg Yacht Club of St. Petersburg, Florida, and found his principal recreation in skeet shooting, hunting and fishing. He was a member of the St. Petersburg Squadron of the United States Power Squadron with the rating of advanced pilot and was lieutenant-commander of that body. He was a charter member of Flotilla No. 4, Division No. 3, 7th Naval District, of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, as created by Act of Congress in 1940, and served as secretary, junior commander, vice-commander and commander.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 941.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 589.

3 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 951.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 590.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 476.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 476, 1102.