George Washington Lower and Mary A. Hollabaugh

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Husband George Washington Lower ^{1 2}

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           Born: 11 Dec 1850 - Louisville, Stark Co, OH 1 2
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           Died: 12 Jan 1912 1 2
         Buried:  - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA

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         Father: Jacob Lower (      -      ) 1 2
         Mother: Sarah Meese (      -      ) 1 2

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Wife Mary A. Hollabaugh ^{1 2}

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           Born: 7 Jul or 11 Jul 1852 - Stark Co, OH 1 2
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           Died: 24 Apr 1938 - St. Petersburg, Pinellas Co, FL 2
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         Father: Samuel Hollabaugh (      -      ) 1 2
         Mother: Sarah Ringer (      -      ) 1 2

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Children

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1 F Corda Luella Lower ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: George Otto White (      -      ) 1 2

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2 F Jennie Pearl Lower ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Wiley T. Corbett (      -      ) 1 2
           Marr: 17 Dec 1912 1 2

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3 M Ira Ellsworth Lower ^{1 3}

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           Born: 21 Sep 1872 - Mt. Union, Stark Co, OH 1
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           Died: 23 Apr 1941 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Anna Belle Ruff (      -      ) 3 5
           Marr: 17 Mar 1897 4 5

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General Notes: Husband - George Washington Lower

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He passed his boyhood and youth on his father's farm, attended the public schools of his birth city, and on reaching his majority he became interested in farming and stock-raising, and was identified with that line of work in Stark County, Ohio, until 1890, when he began to manufacture hollow brick building blocks. In 1898 he came to Clarion County, Pennsylvania, and located at New Bethlehem, where he built a plant in 1899, and the first hollow brick manufactured were sold in April of that year. He succeeded in building up a fine and substantial business in that section of the state. He was a Republican in politics, and in religious faith a Methodist.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary A. Hollabaugh

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At the time of her death in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the winter home of her daughter, Mrs. W. T. Corbett, the following tribute was written:
Her loyalty and devotion to the spiritual things of life; her honor, her deep humanity, and her constant love and devotion to all things beautiful; the good and the true, were among the admirable characteristics of her long and happy life. Her faith in God was a stubborn faith, for looking into the gaunt face of reality was common place experience with her. From early life she lived with parents of a generation whose pioneer forefathers pushed back the Ohio frontier. She knew and felt the insecurities of pioneer hardships. And now, at the age of eighty-five years, nine months and seventeen days this gentle life is completed in peace and harmony with that life of love and devotion that walked in the way of honor and service in the light of truth.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 717.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 519.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 517, 520.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 520.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 718.