Peter Rader and Catherine Hartman

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Husband Peter Rader ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1823 or 1831 - Germany 3
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           Died: 1905 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Rader (      -1882) 3
         Mother: Margaret Gleinhentz (      -1884) 3

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       Marriage:  - Germany

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   Other Spouse: Caroline Sheaver (Abt 1832-1900) 2 - near Middle Lancaster, Lancaster Twp, Butler Co, PA

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Wife Catherine Hartman ³

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           Born: 
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           Died:  - ? near Middle Lancaster, Lancaster Twp, Butler Co, PA
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Peter Rader

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He grew to manhood in his native land, there married, and immigrated to Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1851, settling near Middle Lancaster. He purchased a farm of fifty acres, lived on it for five years, then sold it and bought 160 acres in Connoquenessing township, near Petersville, where he then engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was also interested in oil producing, having twenty-four wells on his farm. They were first operated by W. A. Clark & Company of Butler, but were later controlled by the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Rader and his wife were members of the German Reformed church of Petersville, in which he filled the office of elder. Politically, he was a Democrat, and gave his earnest support to the principles and measures of that party. [HBC 1895, 1193]

He was born in Germany, and shortly after his first marriage, emigrated to the United States. He settled on a farm near Middle Lancaster, in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where he was living at the time of his wife's death. He formed a second union there and in the spring of 1858, moved to Petersville, Butler County, and settled on a farm later owned by his son, William H. Rader, in Forward Township. In 1894 he and his wife retired from farm life and located in the village of Petersville. He was a hardworking, industrious man, and accumulated a handsome property, being the owner of some three hundred acres of land at his death. [TCHBC, 1044]

The sources are not clear as to which of his wives was the mother of his various children.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 798, 1193.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1044.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1193.