James L. Sommerville and Jane M. Harris

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Husband James L. Sommerville ¹

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            AKA: James S. Sommerville 2
           Born: 16 Aug 1837 - Scotland 1
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         Father: John S. Sommerville (      -1880) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Laing (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1860 3

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Wife Jane M. Harris ⁴

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            AKA: Jane H. Harris 5
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         Father: James Dunlop Harris (1797-1842) 6 7
         Mother: Mary Ann Miller (      -1851) 8 9

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Sommerville ²

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            AKA: Bessie Sommerville 3
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2 M Bond V. Sommerville ⁴

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         Spouse: Nina Ramsey (      -      ) 2

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3 F Mary H. Sommerville ⁴

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4 M John S. Sommerville ²

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5 M James H. Sommerville ⁴

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6 M Allen O. Sommerville ²

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7 M Robert H. Sommerville ²

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8 M Donald Lang Sommerville ²

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9 M Claudius L. Sommerville ²

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General Notes: Husband - James L. Sommerville

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He acquired his primary education in Glasgow, Scotland, and after coming to America with his father continued his studies in the Bellefonte Academy and at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. He then took a course in engineering in Philadelphia. His specialty was civil engineering, becoming very proficient in that line, and for many years was thus employed. He was assistant engineer on the Snow Shoe railroad, and the first engineer from 1865 until 1875, after which time he devoted his attention to his coal-mining interests. He also operated a tannery at Unionville, and afterward at the Snow Shoe intersection. In 1880 he removed to a home in Winburne, and leased nine hundred acres of coal lands, which he began operating, his mines yielding from eight to ten hundred tons per day-about three hundred thousand tons annually. A railroad was built to the mines, and every facility was secured for mining and shipping the products. His honorable dealing and his fairness to his men won their loyalty, and no local strike ever occurred among them. He also conducted a general merchandise store in Winburne, and was a most prominent factor in the up-building of that town.
Mr. Sommerville was reared in the Presbyterian faith, and his family attend the Church of that denomination, in which he was for years an elder. In politics he was a stanch Republican, deeply interested in the success of his party, but never sought or desired office, preferring to devote his energies to his business.

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General Notes: Wife - Jane M. Harris

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from Bellefonte, Centre Co, PA

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 670.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 187.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 671.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 187, 671.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 29.

6 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 199.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 186.

8 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 200.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 186, 239.