Thomas Edgar Ventress and Florilla Appelgate

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Husband Thomas Edgar Ventress ¹

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           Born: 7 Sep 1850 - Elizabeth, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Michael Ventress (1809-1894) 1 2
         Mother: Isabella Garrett (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 3 Sep 1874 1

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Wife Florilla Appelgate ¹

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         Father: James Appelgate (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Biggere (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Adlie Charlotte Ventress ³

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           Born: 28 Jul 1875 3
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2 F Elizabeth Ventress ³

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           Born: 30 Aug 1877 3
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3 M Frank Edgar Ventress ³

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           Born: 20 May 1884 3
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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Edgar Ventress

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He was educated in the Elizabeth public schools, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and from the autumn of 1863 to the spring of 1866 he was employed as an errand boy by Joseph Horne & Company, a dry goods merchant. He was just thirteen years of age when he left this mercantile establishment, and at once went onto the People's line of packet-boats, which ran from Pittsburgh to Morganstown, continuing from 1866 to 1869, when he abandoned the life of a boatman, for a short time engaging in the feed business in Elizabeth, which enterprise he sold out and again sought his fortune on the river, working on the packet boat "Elizabeth," plying between Elizabeth and Pittsburgh, from 1869 to 1873, at the termination of which time he engaged with the Jones Brothers' Coal Works as weighmaster; here he served from 1873 until 1879, and then came to Swissvale, near Pittsburgh proper, and there embarked in the grocery business, conducting the same until 1884, when he sold his store and in 1885 was employed as tax-collector's clerk in the county treasurer's office of Allegheny County. After one year's service in that position and in 1886 he was employed in the rail mills of the Homestead Steel Works for a short time, but during the same year went with the United States Steel Corporation, where he was then employed as a foreman at Swissvale.
He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Blue lodge; was a member of the Swissvale Presbyterian church, and in polities was an independent Republican.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 12.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 389.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 13.