John S. Shively and Leah Jane Herpst

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Husband John S. Shively ^{1 2}

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           Born: 15 Dec or 25 Dec 1828 - Union Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 1894
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: Christian Shively (      -1857) 1 2
         Mother: Maria Steese (      -Abt 1870) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1 Jan 1850 1

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Wife Leah Jane Herpst ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1830
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           Died: 1917
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: John H. Herpst (1807-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Mary "Polly" Alsbaugh (      -      ) 1 2

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Children

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1 M Clifford Shively ²

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2 F Florence Shively ²

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           Died: when about nine years old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Laura Shively ²

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         Spouse: T. B. Simpson (      -      ) 2

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4 F May Shively ²

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           Born: 5 Aug 1855
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           Died: 11 Apr 1889
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 3

         Spouse: George W. Darr (      -      ) 2

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5 F Edna Shively ²

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General Notes: Husband - John S. Shively

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At first a farmer, in 1856, he engaged in the dry goods business in Lisbon, Venango County, Pennsylvania. In 1863, he removed to Oil City, and changed his business to the hotel line. The hostelry, named the Oil City Hotel, was among the pioneer taverns of the place. After a year's experience he returned to merchandising, and kept a grocery store about two years. In the great fire, May 23, 1866, his entire property was destroyed, his loss (over $45,000) being the largest of all the sufferers. In 1868, he re-entered the business world, having purchased the furniture stock of Nelson H. Brown, the pioneer furniture dealer of the city. [HVC 1879, 538]

He was educated in the log school house with slab seats and puncheon floor, slab writing desks and greased paper window lights. He began for himself at the age of eighteen years and upon reaching his majority he commenced keeping what was known as the old Stone House hotel on the Erie and Philadelphia pike in Clarion county, PA, which he continued for five years. He then went into the dry-goods business at Scrubgrass and continued there and at Lisbon, once nicknamed Fort Chisel, for seven years with good success. This he sold in 1862 and removed to Oil City, where he purchased the Oil City hotel from James Colgin. After two years' experience in this he entered the grocery and feed business on Main street and followed it for several years. He then bought and built property worth forty-five thousand dollars, nearly all of which was consumed by the great fire of 1866. He rebuilt as much as his means would warrant and went into the furniture business on Main street, where he remained until 1882. He was a member of the I. O. O. F., L. of H., Royal Arcanum, E. A. U., and T. of T. He furnished a substitute for the war, was a Republican, and with his wife belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church. [HVC 1890, 906]

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 538.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 906.

3 Various, Grove Hill Cemetery Transcription (Oil City, PA: Privately published, ~1985).