Joseph R. Laughrey and Maggie Porter

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Husband Joseph R. Laughrey ¹

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            AKA: Joseph Laughery 2
           Born: 28 May 1845 - Lower Tyrone Twp, Fayette Co, PA 1
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         Father: Robert Laughrey (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Sarah Walker (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 28 Sep 1889 3

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   Other Spouse: Anna E. Overholt (      -1888) 2 3 - 16 May 1872 3

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Wife Maggie Porter ³

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         Father: John Porter (      -      ) 3
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Children

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1 F Olive Laughrey ³

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph R. Laughrey

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He received a meagre education in the public schools of his native place, and worked on the home farm until seventeen years of age, when he went to work in the mines for the firm of Brown & Cochran. Afterwards he took a course at the Iron City Business college of Pittsburgh, and was given the position of shipping clerk at the Jimtown and Sterling works of Brown & Cochran, which he held until 1875, when he was made superintendent of both these large works, a position he held until 1885. In that year he was made general manager for the new firm of Brown & Cochran.
He was one of the promoters and organizers and a director and stockholder of the First National Bank of Dawson, and was vice-president from its organization. He was a charter member, stockholder and director, treasurer and member of the executive committee of the Washington Coal and Coke Company, and a stockholder, director and one of the organizers and vice-president and chairman of the committee of construction of the Washington Run Railroad Company. He was chairman of the executive committee, director and stockholder in the Star Supply Company, of Star Junction, and in the Dawson Supply Company, of Dawson, and stockholder in the Cochran Coal and Coke Company. He served several terms in the Dawson borough council and was for three terms (nine years) president of that body. He served a number of terms as school director, and was a member of the Bloomington Lodge, No. 728, I. O. O. F., the Royal Arcanum, Royal Additional, Order of Iroquois and Order of Americus.

1 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 988.

2 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 72.

3 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 989.