Husband Thomas Lucas Templeton 1 2 3
AKA: [Unk] Henderson 4
Born: 19 Oct 1843 - Brookville, Jefferson Co, PA 5
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Died: 9 Mar 1907 - Jefferson Co, PA 5
Buried: - Brookville Cemetery, Brookville, Jefferson Co, PA
Father: John Templeton, Esq. (Abt 1812-1850) 1 2 3
Mother: Mary Thompson (Abt 1811-1860) 6 7 8
Marriage: 4 Feb 1874 9
Wife Anna Henderson 4 10
Born: 4 Feb 1849 - Jefferson Co, PA 11
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Died: Aft 1917
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Father: Hon. Joseph Washington Henderson (1814-1896) 4 12
Mother: Nancy Wilson (1819-1917) 4 12
Children
1 F Lillian Anthony 13 14
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Status: Foster Child
Spouse: Daniel Benard Curll ( - ) 13 14
Marr: 24 Jun 1899 13
General Notes: Husband - Thomas Lucas Templeton
He acquired his early education in the common schools of his native village and was favored in having gained also the fortuitous discipline that has consistently been pronounced the equivalent of a liberal education-that of the country newspaper office. At the age of eleven years he entered upon a practical apprenticeship in the office of the Brookville Star, Brookville, Pennsylvania, where he gained practical knowledge of the "art preservative of all arts" and familiarized himself with the various details of the printing business. For two years he was employed in the office of the Clarion Democrat, at the judicial center of Clarion County, and this period, with that of his service during the Civil war, represented practically the only interval of his residence outside the borders of his native county. While providing for his own maintenance by his work as a printer Mr. Templeton continued to attend school when opportunity presented, and he thus alternated between work and educational pursuits until, at the age of seventeen years, he responded to the call of higher duty and showed his youthful patriotism by tendering his aid in defense of the Union. About the 1st of August, 1861, upon the organization of the 105th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, he was appointed private secretary to the commanding officer of the regiment, the late Col. A. A. McKnight, and he went with the regiment to the front, where he continued his service in this capacity until the 28th of April, 1863, when he was appointed sutler of his regiment. On the 17th of the following December he resigned this office and returned to Brookville, where he became associated with Dr. William J. McKnight in the drug business, as junior member of the firm of McKnight & Bro.
Mr. Templeton was one of the zealous promoters and organizers of the Jefferson County Agricultural Society and Driving Park Association, of which he was elected the first secretary and treasurer, a dual office of which he continued the incumbent for three years. Of his connection with the organization the following statement was made in a Brookville paper at the time of his death: "In the Driving Park Association he was untiring in his labors, and to his intelligent management, seconded by other officials, can be attributed much of the success of that institution."
Upon the organization of the National Bank of Brookville Mr. Templeton was, on the 1st of August, 1891, elected its cashier, and in this office he continued until the time of his death. It has been consistently said that "He was able and skillful in managing the business, and superintended the erection of the beautiful building which the bank has occupied for a number of years."
From an appreciative estimate that appeared in a local newspaper when Mr. Templeton was called from the stage of life's mortal endeavors are taken, with slight paraphrase, the following quotations: "Mr. Templeton was a man of fine tastes and mechanical ideas. He was one of the building committee of the Presbyterian parsonage and had been a trustee of the Brookville Presbyterian Church since January, 1885. To him perhaps more than to any other one man is due the fine edifice which the Presbyterians now occupy for church services. He was for years treasurer of the principal funds of the church and was of great service in its financial affairs, the while his deep Christian faith was a dominating force in every relation of his life. Possessing in a marked degree the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens, Mr. Templeton occupied throughout his life-time a prominent position in the business and social affairs of the town, and he was known to all as a citizen whose word was at all times as good as his bond, a man incorruptible in his rugged honesty and integrity of purpose. He had served as a member of the town council, giving to his official duties the same conscientious attention that marked his association with business affairs. He had been foremost in many works looking to the upbuilding of his home town, and his death removes one whose every act tended toward the real betterment of civic conditions. The funeral services in tribute to this sterling citizen were conducted at the Presbyterian Church on the Tuesday afternoon following his death, which occurred the preceding Saturday, and the remains were given interment in the Brookville cemetery. Hobah Lodge, No. 276, of which the deceased had been a valued member, attended the funeral in a body and performed the last rites due a member of the fraternity. The deceased leaves to survive him his wife and one half-brother, Dr. William J. McKnight, of Brookville. He is survived also by Mrs. Daniel Bernard Curll, of Wayne, Pa., who was formerly Lilian Anthony and who was a member of the Templeton household throughout her youth and young womanhood, Mr. Templeton having been her guardian and foster-father."
Though Mr. Templeton never manifested any desire to enter the turbulence of practical politics he accorded loyal allegiance to the Republican party. He was affiliated with the local lodge of the Masonic fraternity, and held membership also in Jefferson Chapter, No. 225, Royal Arch Masons. [HJC 1917 II, 136]