Frank Orcutt and Mary Ellen Holden

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Husband Frank Orcutt ¹

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           Born: Sep 1843 - Penobscot Co, ME 1
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         Father: Ezra Orcutt (1817-Aft 1898) 1
         Mother: Sarah Sawyer (1820-Aft 1898) 1

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       Marriage: 23 Jun 1867 1

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Wife Mary Ellen Holden ²

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         Father: Algernon S. Holden (1826-Aft 1898) 3 4
         Mother: Susanna Bloom (      -1876) 3 5

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Children

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1 M Stanley Orcutt ¹

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           Born: 14 Jan 1868 1
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2 M E. E. Orcutt ⁶

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           Born: 14 Jul 1871 6
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         Spouse: Frances E. Farewell (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 23 Oct 1893 6

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3 M Melvin Orcutt ⁶

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           Born: 7 Aug 1873 6
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         Spouse: Sarah A. Whitaker (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 3 Nov 1895 6

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General Notes: Husband - Frank Orcutt

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In 1865, he left his native state, coming to Bloom township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, where he worked in the woods on Anderson creek for George and Paul Merrill, and in the spring drove logs down that stream. After one year he obtained employment with Samuel Kirk in Cameron County, Pennsylvania, driving a team for six months, after which he returned to Clearfield County and worked on the farm of A. S. Holden. He wed his employer's daughter and after marriage worked in the woods for Samuel Kirk of Cameron County until the spring of 1868, when he purchased a team and operated his father-in-law's farm during the summer. He then purchased 135 acres of timber land, on which he engaged in lumbering and farming for thirteen years, but in 1873, in connection with A. S. Holden and Hugh Leech, he bought the mill property of Mr. Stronich, and engaged in the manufacture of lumber for three years, when the property was destroyed by fire, and as it was without insurance the loss was very heavy. He then returned to his farm, which he sold in the spring of 1881 to Mr. Hartfelt, and the same spring commenced logging for Eliot Arnold, of Curwensville, on Anderson creek, and with his family removed to Camp, where they remained three years. He then bought a hotel property in Grampian, which his wife took charge of, running a temperance house, while he followed logging. In 1890 he contracted with Norris & Irwin to cut three million feet of lumber on Poplar run, and in this business formed a partnership with William Russell under the name of Russell & Orcutt. Later he cut the timber from a large tract for Leavy & Mitchell, and drove the logs down the river, and in 1892 contracted with the Curwensville Lumber Co. to put in several million feet of hard-wood lumber, completing that work in the following year. In 1893 he sold his hotel to Fred Smith, and erected a fine residence in Grampian, which he occupied until the spring of 1895, when he repurchased the hotel, where he then resided, while his son lived in the private dwelling.
In politics, Mr. Orcutt was an ardent Democrat, and for a number of years held the office of street commissioner, was also tax collector, and a school director.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Ellen Holden

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from Bloom Twp, Clearfield Co, PA

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 770.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 770, 807.

3 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 430.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 623, 771, 806.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 623, 771.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 771.