Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Floyd Atwell and Mary M. Crawford




Husband Floyd Atwell 1

           Born: 12 Nov 1871 - Emlenton, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Boyd Atwell, Sr. (1839-1914) 1 2 3 4
         Mother: Olive M. Perry (1844-1926) 4


       Marriage: Aug 1898 5



Wife Mary M. Crawford 5

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         Father: E. H. Crawford (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Jane [Unk] (      -      ) 5




Children
1 M Loyal P. Atwell 5

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2 M Floyd Carroll Atwell 5

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General Notes: Husband - Floyd Atwell


He obtained an excellent education in the public schools and by a year's attendance at a private academy. He then taught school for four years, discontinuing to enter Grove City College. Completing his collegiate course, he decided to follow teaching as his life work, and, after holding a position in the Emlenton school for three years, received an appointment as principal of the Pleasantville public school. He held this office for five years and served in the same capacity in the Ambridge public school for six years. In 1911 he accepted the position of superintendent of the schools of New Brighton.
Professor Atwell belonged to the Presbyterian Church and was a member of the session. He affiliated with the Titusville, Pennsylvania, Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and Oil Creek Lodge, No. 303, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which latter he was past noble grand.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 806.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 630.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 901.

4 Nancy Byers Romig, Descendants of Rev. Johan Theodor Hofius (Export, PA: Self-published, July, 1997), Pg 120.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 807.


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