Ivan Dalton Doverspike and Edna C. Ashe

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Husband Ivan Dalton Doverspike ¹

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           Born: 13 May 1887 - Eddyville, Red Bank Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: Isaac D. Doverspike (1842-1911) 2
         Mother: Anna Clara Fleming (      -1912) 3

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       Marriage: 1 Jul 1911 1

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Wife Edna C. Ashe ⁴

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         Father: Erwin J. Ashe (1866-      ) 4
         Mother: Martha E. "Mattie" Ross (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Ivan Dalton Doverspike

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He was born at Eddyville, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and attended common school there until fourteen years old. Then he came with his parents to Kittanning, where he completed his grammar school course, graduating, and afterward attending high school one year. His studies were continued in the Sayer business college, at Kittanning, from which he was also graduated, next entering Bucknell College, at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained for a short time, changing to the university at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Returning to Kittanning he became engaged in business with his father, who employed him as foreman in his lumbering operations, and he “flat-boated” lumber down the river to Pittsburgh. He took charge of the boatbuilding, having a crew of thirty-five men working under him when he was but twenty-one years old, and he was a pilot on the river, from Oil City to Pittsburgh, for two summers. Thus he was actively engaged until his father's death, which occurred Sept. 16, 1911, gaining a practical knowledge of affairs acquired by few men. After his father's death he continued alone in the same lines, having purchased most of his father's interests with which he had be­come familiar. He was engaged in the
manu­facture of lumber, for the trade, and princi­pally for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He was interested in twenty-seven oil wells above Oil City, owned eighty acres of coal land in Bethel township, Armstrong County, lying along the river, eight acres of fire clay land near Templeton, and other property in Oil City and Ford City, besides a one-fifth interest in the lands of his father's large estate. Few men of his age were directly connected with such large and varied enterprises, and he showed ability in their management which gained him the respect of his business asso­ciates even as a youth. [HAC 1914, 468]
He and his wife were members of the First Presbyterian Church of Kittanning. In political sentiment he favored the Republican party.

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 468.

2 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 363, 464.

3 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 363, 466.

4 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 467, 900.

5 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 468, 900.