John A. Proper and Sarah Grove

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Husband John A. Proper ^{1 2}

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           Born: 12 Sep 1815 - Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 2
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         Father: Daniel Proper (cal 1796-1870) 3
         Mother: Margurite Archer (1797-1851) 4

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       Marriage: Autumn, 1847 5

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Wife Sarah Grove ⁵

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         Father: Jacob Grove (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 F Rozilla Proper ⁵

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         Spouse: Daniel Walters (      -      ) 5

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2 F Jennetta Proper ⁵

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         Spouse: Samuel Varner (      -      ) 5

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3 M Oliver W. Proper ⁵

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4 F Alice Proper ⁵

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         Spouse: F. R. Lanson (1855-      ) 6
           Marr: 12 Apr 1883 7

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5 M J. Floyd Proper ⁵

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6 F Eu Retta Proper ⁵

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7 M Forest C. Proper ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - John A. Proper

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He was reared in his native town, and received a limited education in the com­mon schools. Like many other pioneers' sons, he experienced various hard­ships, and at the age of twenty-one years left home and began life in Randolph, NY, as a laborer at $10 per month. He later engaged as a jobber of lumber, in Warren and Venango counties, and what is now Forest County, up to 1847. In that year he purchased 1,300 acres of timber land in what is now Forest county, erected two mills and manufactured about 15,000,000 feet of lumber. In 1855 he purchased two farms in Clarion County, where he resided until 1867, carrying on a lumber business at the same time. He then sold out and moved to Tionesta, where he was engaged in various branches of business, including that of hotel proprietor in the borough, four years, lum­bering up to 1875, and beginning in 1881 he was a producer of oil at Balltown, carrying on farming also, near Tionesta. He owned two farms of 500 and 100 acres, respectively, 200 acres of the former of which he had cleared himself. Mr. Proper was among the best pilots on the Allegheny and Ohio rivers for a period of thirty years, and underwent many hardships during that time.
Mr. Proper was a prominent and rep­resentative citizen of Tionesta; he held many of its local offices, and served multiple terms as associate judge of Forest county. Politically he was a Republican. Judge Proper was one of the most rugged and enterpris­ing pioneers of that section of country, of remarkable strength, courage and powers of endurance; a natural woodsman and noted hunter, having, when nearly seventy years of age, hunted and killed as many as four deer in one day. His home was on the banks of the Allegheny river in Tionesta, where he lived in his old age, hale and hearty, known and respected by his numerous friends as an honest man of undoubted integrity and worth.

1 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1054.

2 Editor, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 937.

3 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 598, 1053.

4 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1053.

5 Editor, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 938.

6 Editor, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 934, 938.

7 Editor, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 934.