Charles Larrison Kuhn and Catharine Shaner

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Husband Charles Larrison Kuhn ¹

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            AKA: Charles Larson Kuhn,2 Charles Lawrence Kuhn 3
           Born: 19 Aug 1852 or 1856 - Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: James Kuhn (1828-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Mary J. Larrison (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1875 4

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth M. "Lizzie" Mellinger (      -      ) 3 4 5 - May 1879 4

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Wife Catharine Shaner ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Charles Larrison Kuhn

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After leaving the public schools of Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in which he received a good education, he was employed for a time in the grocery business and then engaged in card painting in the city of Pittsburgh, continuing in that work for about five years. He returned to Mount Pleasant in 1872, and in 1875 engaged in the drug business. Entering the college of Pharmacy at Pittsburgh, in 1878, he completed the course of study and graduated from that institution in 1880. He became the proprietor of an excellent drug store, carrying about $5,000 worth of stock and he owned valuable real estate in Mount Pleasant as well.

He was educated in the public schools of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, and at Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy, being a graduate of the latter institution, class of 1880. After graduation he opened a drug store in Mount Pleasant. He was a director of the Strange Creek Coal and Coke Company, a West Virginia corporation, a member of Mount Pleasant, West Virginia, Coal Company, a member of its board of directors, and also had other business interests of importance. A lifelong Demcorat, Mr. Kuhn steadfastly refused all offers of political preferment, although often urged, and devoted himself exclusively to the management of his business affairs. He was a member of the Baptist church from his youth, and for several years served as trustee. He was a member of the board of trustees of Mount Pleasant Memorial Hospital, vice-president of Mount Pleasant Building and Loan Association, member of the Alumni Association of Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy, and of other societies, social and fraternal.

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General Notes: Wife - Catharine Shaner

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from Westmoreland Co, PA

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 196.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 279.

3 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 195.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 199.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 280.