Robert Orr Landers and Ruth M. Mortland

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Husband Robert Orr Landers ¹

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            AKA: O. R. Landers 2
           Born: 12 Oct 1887 - Neillsburg, near Pleasantville, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: David E. Landers (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Margaret E. Peebles (      -      ) 1 3 4

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       Marriage: 14 Dec 1914 1

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Wife Ruth M. Mortland ¹

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         Father: M. M. Mortland (      -1940) 1
         Mother: Nora Burns (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Isabelle Jean Landers ¹

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           Born: 4 Jan 1920 1
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2 M David Edgar Landers ¹

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           Born: 2 Feb 1921 1
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3 M Robert Blaine Landers ¹

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           Born: 30 May 1924 1
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4 F Virginia Ruth Landers ²

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           Born: 15 Jun 1925 2
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         Spouse: James Sidney Cummings (1927-      ) 2
           Marr: 15 Jun 1965 2

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5 M Richard Orrin Landers ¹

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           Born: 6 Oct 1931 1
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6 U [Infant] Landers ¹

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7 U [Infant] Landers ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Orr Landers

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Common schools provided his early formal education. In early boyhood he started work in the oil industry as a lease worker, continuing along those lines until 1910, when he acquired his first lease. Since that time he has been an active producer in Mc­Kean, Forest and Venango counties, heading R. O. Landers & Company in the Bradford field and being a partner in the Bradford Oil Company, Bailey & Landers and Bailey Brothers & Company. The oil indus­try substantially gained from his efforts in its behalf, and he was widely known throughout that region of Pennsylvania.
Politically he was an “independent Republican,” casting his support always in favor of men and measures rather than on a partisanship basis, though leaning toward the Republican philosophy. In the Free and Accepted Ma­sons he belonged to Bradford Lodge, No. 749, Bradford Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, Bradford Council of Royal and Select Masters, Trinity Commandery of Knights Templar, Coudersport Consistory of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and Zem Zem Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (in Erie). He also belonged to the Bradford Club. He was interested in the work of the Methodist Church, and was a supporter of the church, though not a member.

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General Notes: Wife - Ruth M. Mortland

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from McKean Co, PA

1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 141.

2 Bonnie Rae (Allio) Schulz, The Allio Genealogy and History; Descendents of Joseph Allio and Vannettie Lewis Allio (Clarion, PA: Self-Published, 1983), Pg 69.

3 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1048.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 657, 908.