William W. Piper and Frances M. Jones

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Husband William W. Piper ^{1 2}

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           Born: 22 Jan 1871 - Saltsburg, Indiana Co, PA 2
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         Father: Wilson McDowell Piper (1845-      ) 1 3 4
         Mother: Maria J. Kaney (1850-      ) 2

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       Marriage: 5 Aug 1896 2

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Wife Frances M. Jones ²

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           Born:  - Staffordshire, England
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         Father: John Jones (      -      ) 2
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - William W. Piper

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He attended the public schools of Conemaugh township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, until he was fourteen years of age, and during the next two years assisted his father in the cultivation of the farm. He then went to the city of Pittsburgh, and for five years was general utility man in the Union Station. In 1895 he entered the employ, at Wilkinsburg, of Brace Brothers, laundrymen of Pittsburgh, and learned this business thoroughly. In 1905 Mr. Piper, in association with S. W. Fullerton, his friend and co-worker at the laundry, organized the firm of Piper & Fullerton, at New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, buying out the plant of Thomas Wallace. Two months later they decided that Beaver Falls offered a better field for the class of work they delivered, in pursuance of which idea they bought the laundry plant of McLean Brothers, and located at the corner of Seventh street and Eighth avenue. They conmenced on a small scale, employing five women, and after eight years their working force had increased to more than fifty men and women, and they enlarged their plant several times, until they had the largest laundry and dry cleaning plant between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Youngstown, Ohio. Their trade was drawn from throughout Beaver Valley.
He was a Republican, and was an active worker in the interests of the political party with which he was affiliated. He served as a member of the city council of Beaver Falls for a period of four years, and was elected as a member of the new commission for city government, serving on this two years. He was a member of Stuckrath Lodge, No. 430, Free and Accepted Masons, of Allegheny County, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Protestant church of Beaver Falls.

1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 440.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 225.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 224.

4 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 363.