Dr. S. S. Towler and Clara B. Hunt

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Husband Dr. S. S. Towler ¹

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           Born: 6 Jun 1843 - Manchester, England 2
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         Father: Rev. William Towler (      -1846) 2
         Mother: Mary Phillips (      -1870) 2

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       Marriage: 1874 3

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Wife Clara B. Hunt ⁴

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         Father: Col. John D. Hunt (1811-1887) 5
         Mother: Marien F. Blood (      -Aft 1890) 6

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Children

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1 F Maude Towler ³

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2 M Harold Towler ³

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. S. S. Towler

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He was reared in Canada until seventeen years of age, and was educated in Toronto Model School. In 1860 he located at Cleveland, Ohio, and remained there until 1863 when he went into the quartermaster's department at Nashville Tennessee, and was honorably discharged in 1865. He read medicine with Drs. Mahaffey and Hickman, of Cleveland, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1873. He first began practice at Reynoldsville, then moved to Millerstown, Butler County, Pennsylvania, and in 1878 came to Marienville, where he then practiced his profession. He also operated in oil and hardwood timber. The Doctor was a member of the Butler County Medical Society; acted as surgeon for the Pittsburgh & Western Railroad for many years, and was a member of the National Association of Railroad Surgeons. Dr. Towler was medical examiner for the Equitable Life Insurance Company, of New York; the Penn Mutual, of Philadelphia; the Metropolitan; the Mutual Benefit, of New York; the New England Mutual; the People's Mutual, of Pittsburgh; the A. O. U. W., and the E. A. U. He was a member of Jenks Lodge, No. 250, I. O. O. F.; of the E. A. U., No. 351, and was deputy grand worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temperance. He was a Republican in politics, and filled the office of justice of the peace for ten years. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. [HMEF 1890, 959]

Dr. S. S. Towler drilled a well on the Hunt farm in 1881 to a depth of about 2,000 feet. At a depth of 900 feet a gas vein was struck, and from that time Marienville had a full supply of gas.

1 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 952, 958.

2 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 958.

3 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 959.

4 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 952, 959.

5 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 835, 952.

6 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 952.