Joseph Albert Angove and Catherine E. Rossman

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Husband Joseph Albert Angove ¹

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           Born: 10 Dec 1865 - Ridge Mine, Ontonagon Co, MI 1
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         Father: William Angove (Abt 1832-1909) 1
         Mother: Sarah Skelton (      -Aft 1919) 2

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Wife Catherine E. Rossman ³

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         Father: Henry Rossman (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Mary Jane Frank (      -      ) 3

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1 F Dortha R. Angove ³

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2 M Walter Sydney Angove ³

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Albert Angove

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He was four years old when the family came to Venango County, Pennsylvania. He attended school principally at Shaffer Run, in Cornplanter Township, also having a term at Reno, this county, and left his studies when thirteen years old to enter upon an apprenticeship to the machinists trade in the employ of Joseph Reid, at Oil City, in October, 1879. His regular course in mechanical engineering was pursued some time after he had acquired the practical end of the business, by study under the direction of the International Correspondence Schools. In 1883 Mr. Angove was sent to Charleston, South Carolina, to erect dredging machinery, and on the completion of the work was made chief engineer of dredge for the Venango Phosphate Company. In the spring of 1885 he started work in the shops of the W. C. & A. Railroad Company at Florence, South Carolina, as general machinist, fitting up main driving rods, and on general repairs of locomotives. After a year in that employ Mr. Angove returned to Oil City, in 1886, becoming a machinist in the shops of the National Transit Company; in 1894 he was given charge of the erecting floor. He was sent to Philadelphia to erect a pump for the Atlantic Refining Company, and upon his return was given charge of the erecting shop. In 1895 he was sent to Bayonne, New Jersey, to erect a large engine for the Bayonne Refining Company. The superintendent of the shops, John Kline, recommended him to the Snow Steam Pump Works at Buffalo, New York, to erect a large pumping engine at Indianapolis, Indiana, for the Indianapolis Water Company. Later he erected pumps in the Ohio Steel Works at Youngstown, Ohio; went to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he started the erection of a vertical engine, with pump pit sixty-one feet deep, for the city of Wheeling waterworks; took charge of the erection of three thirty-five-million-gallon engines at the Chestnut Hill pumping sta-tion and one twenty-million-gallon engine at Spot pond, for the Metropolitan Water & Sewer Board of Boston, Massachusetts, which controlled all the waterworks and sewerage within ten miles of the capital; erected a small pumping engine at Wilmington, Delaware, Cold Spring pumping station; a five-million-gallon pumping engine at Bridgeton, New Jersey; a ten-million-gallon high service engine at the Division street pumping station, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901; and two twenty-five-million-gallon engines on the East Side, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1902 and part of 1903. At that time he was employed by the International Steam Pump Company, Snow Holly Works, of Buffalo, a consolidation of the Snow Steam Pump Works with other interests. In 1903 he started the erection of two high service engines for the city of Allegheny, at the Montrose pumping station, where he was engaged until 1904. Then he put in a seven-thousand-horsepower pumping engine for the Midvale Steel Company at Nicetown, Philadelphia, for their armor plate press; in 1905 erected three fifty-four-hundred-horse-power gas engines at San Francisco for the California Gas & Electric Corporation, being in that city during the earthquake of April 18, 1906; in 1907 erected a thirty-four-hundred-horsepower gas engine at Atlanta for the Georgia Railway & Electric Company; in 1908 and 1909 erected six 25,000,000-gallon engines for the city of Philadelphia at Tacony, Pennsylvania. In 1910 Mr. Angove again became associated with the National Transit Company at Oil City as inspector, later having charge of the power plant for a short time, until transferred and made superintendent of the lower shops. The National Transit Company built machines for the Standard Oil Company exclusively until its dissolution in 1911, after which the business was continued under the name of the National Transit Pump & Machine Company, and the entire plant was under one supervision, with Mr. Angove as assistant general superintendent, his superior being J. P. Coffman, general superintendent.
Socially his principal interest was in the Masonic fraternity, in which connection he belonged to Radiant Star Lodge, No. 606, F. & A. M., of Philadelphia; Venango Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree, of Oil City; and Pennsylvania Consistory, thirty-second degree, A. A. S. R., of Pittsburgh. Politically he was a Republican in sentiment, but independent about giving his support to worthy men and measures. His religious connection was with Trinity M. E. Church.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 944.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 945.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 946.