Samuel Moffitt Lawrence and Hanna Green

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Husband Samuel Moffitt Lawrence ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 14 Dec 1835 - Washington Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Oct 1864 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 2 3
         Buried:  - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA

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         Father: Hon. Joseph Lawrence (1788-1842/1842) 4 5 6 7 8
         Mother: Maria Bucher (1802-1861) 2 4 9

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       Marriage: 4 Apr 1864 1

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Wife Hanna Green ^{1 10}

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1893 - Philadelphia, PA
         Buried: 

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         Father: Hon. John Green (      -      ) 10
         Mother: 

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Moffitt Lawrence

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He was well prepared by education, and studied engineering. He was a long time employed on the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad when very young. He laid out and helped to locate and build the Oil Creek Railroad. He was nominated and elected to the Legislature from Warren, McKean and Elk counties, serving one winter, peremptorily declining a renomination. He died in Warren leaving a widow but no children; she died in Philadelphia before 1893.

His father's death occurring when he was six years old, his mother removed, two years later, to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, her former home, where she continued to reside during the remainder of her life. There he received his principal education, although attending Jefferson College for a time. From boyhood he was a remarkable student, and had a perfect hunger for knowledge. At an early age he adopted the profession of civil engineering, and was engaged in the survey of the Huntingdon and Broad Top railroad, and afterwards on the Sunbury and Erie, (later Philadelphia and Erie,) and continued on it until its completion in 1864. He was perfectly familiar with every part of the road, and had traveled it all on foot from Sunbury to Erie. He was one of the four original contractors who built the Oil Creek railroad, and was chief engineer of it. He was also engaged in the survey of the Warren and Franklin railroad at the time of his death. He was nominated by the Republican party in the counties of Clearfield, McKean, Jefferson and Elk for the Legislature, and represented them in the term of 1860-61, thus spending this winter in Harrisburg, his old home. Not having a taste for politics, he declined further nomination. The last three or four years of his life he resided at Warren.

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General Notes: Wife - Hanna Green

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from Germantown, near Philadelphia, PA

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 516.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 97.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 130.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 597.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 97, 425.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 434.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 129.

8 F. S. Reader, Some Pioneers of Washington County, Pa. - A Family History (New Brighton, PA: F. S. Reader & Son, 1902), Pg 85.

9 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 126.

10 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 131.