Dr. Dick S. Ashcom and Catherine Wilton

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Husband Dr. Dick S. Ashcom ¹

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         Father: Dr. John A. Ashcom, D.D.S. (1841-1897) 2 3
         Mother: Adelaide Ulerich (      -      ) 4

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Wife Catherine Wilton ¹

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         Father: Charles K. Wilton (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary Pickenue (      -      ) 1

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1 M John M. Ashcom ¹

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2 M Dick S. Ashcom ¹

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3 M Charles Wilton Ashcom ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Dick S. Ashcom

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He was educated in the public schools of Ligonier, Pennsylvania, and the Indiana State Normal School; he graduated from the dental department of the University of Pittsburgh and began the practice of his profession in that city. His studies at the Indiana State Normal School were interrupted by the outbreak of the Spanish-American War and his enlistment in Company F, Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Captain, William H. Mahan, Colonel, Theodore Burchfield. On May 9, 1898, he was mustered in at Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania, and sent to the training camp at Chickamauga, Georgia, being transferred thence to the hospital service at Lexington, Kentucky; on November 7, 1898, he was discharged at Indiana, Pennsylvania.
He affiliated with Temple Lodge, No. 678, Free and Accepted Masons, of Pittsburgh, and was a past grand of R. Biddle Roberts Lodge, No. 530, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, also of that city; he was a member of the encampment of the same order and belonged to the Heptasophs and the Sons of St. George, of which he was a past president and past district deputy for the Pittsburgh district, also a member of the Grand Lodge; he was past president of the Allegheny City Gymnastic Club; at one time he was exalted ruler of Allegheny Lodge, No. 339, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1097.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 3.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 95, 644, 1096.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 95, 1097.