Husband Porter Phipps 1 2
Born: 30 Nov 1842 - Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 2 3
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Died: 10 May 1932 4
Buried: - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 5
Father: Robert Phipps (1809-1862) 6 7
Mother: Ann Rieger Canan (1813-1872) 7 8 9
Marriage: 26 Jan 1869 3 10
Wife Sarah Jane Baird 10 11
Born: 10 Apr 1842 4
Christened:
Died: 9 Jun 1927 4
Buried: - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 5
Father: James Baird (1807-1865) 12
Mother: Mary Kilpatrick (1810/1813-1890) 12
Children
1 M Lyman Stewart Phipps 3 10
Born: 24 May 1870 13
Christened:
Died: 3 Nov 1945 13
Buried:
Spouse: Vera McKeon (1874-1921) 14
Marr: 24 Aug 1897 - Rochester, Monroe Co, NY 10
2 M Robert Baird Phipps 3 10
Born: 16 May 1872 13
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Died: 6 Apr 1957 13
Buried: - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 5
Spouse: Lavina Vanderlin (1875-1934)
Marr: 15 Feb 1900 10 13
3 F Mary Ann "Mayme" Phipps 3 10
Born: 15 Sep 1874 13
Christened:
Died: 1963 - ? Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 13
Buried: - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA
Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 M John Howard Phipps 3 10
Born: 13 Jul 1877 13
Christened:
Died: May 1940 13
Buried:
Spouse: Emma Batt (1881-1933/1937)
Marr: 12 Jan 1909
5 F Eva Martha Phipps 3 10
Born: 29 Jan 1881 15
Christened:
Died: 30 Jan 1966 - ? Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 15
Buried: - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 16
Spouse: Harry James Lewis (1879-1949) 10
Marr: 28 Jun 1910 10
6 F Grace Amelia Phipps 10
AKA: Grace M. Phipps 3
Born: 30 Jun 1883 15
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Died: Dec 1965 15
Buried:
Spouse: John Frederick Boyce (1882-1955) 10
Marr: 8 Jan 1908 10
General Notes: Husband - Porter Phipps
He grew up on the homestead farm in Clinton Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, attending the local township schools and later the Clintonville Academy. During his early manhood he taught for a time. In 1862 he enlisted in Company E, 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served until the end of the war, seeing considerable field duty, as may be judged from the fact that he took part in forty engagements. His military obligations fulfilled, he returned to his old home and became interested in farming and stock raising, acquiring a farm of 260 acres in Clinton Township, as well as productive land elsewhere, becoming a stockholder in the Bradford Orange Company, owning extensive orange groves in Florida. After 1878 he was identified with the oil industry, having commenced the production of oil that year. In 1900 he removed to Knoxville, Pittsburgh, and was engaged as a dealer in oil and gas properties, also doing development work in West Virginia, besides doing considerable prospecting work in Texas.
He was one of the most enterprising citizens of Clinton Township throughout his residence there, having served a five-year term as justice of the peace, to which office he was elected in 1876, and displayed his public spirit particularly in furthering the educational facilities of his neighborhood. He was associated with various other local interests, holding membership in Alexander Welton Post, G. A. R., which he served as commander, and belonging to the Presbyterian Church, which he represented as delegate to the Presbyterian General Assembly held at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1885. After his removal to Pittsburgh he kept up those interests with unabated zeal, and was quite hale and hearty in his seventy-seventh year. He was a layman in the Presbyterian Church for forty-nine years and a continuous scholar and teacher in the Sunday school for fifty-three years. He took great interest in having our National Government divorced from the liquor traffic. He wrote the plank that was adopted in the Republican State convention of 1887. He was a member of the Republican State convention in 1888 and was a member of the convention and on the committee of platform which reaffirmed the plank of 1887, which was, "Resolved that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall amend its Constitution, forever forbidding the manufacture, sale and importation of intoxicating liquors as a beverage." One of Mr. Phipps' desires was that the Lord would so spare his life so that he would see our government, national, state, county and local, entirely divorced from the liquor business. He had the honor of being commander of the largest G. A. R. post in Pittsburgh, Gen. Alex. Hays Post, No. 3. He was chaplain, patriotic instructor, council of administration, member of the Allegheny Company G. A. R. Association, and an aide de camp on the National G. A. R. staff. [CAB, 669]
General Notes: Wife - Sarah Jane Baird
Residing (married) in Pittsburgh, PA in Feb, 1927.