William Paden and Olive A. Long

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Husband William Paden ^{1 2}

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           Born: 7 Apr 1847 - Delaware Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: John Paden (1801-1878) 2 4
         Mother: Jane Patton (1810-1878) 2 4

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       Marriage: 2 Nov 1872 2 5

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Wife Olive A. Long ^{5 6}

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           Born:  - Hempfield Twp, Mercer Co, PA
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         Father: David Long (      -      ) 5 6
         Mother: Eliza Limber (Abt 1821-      ) 7

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Children

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1 F Lydia Paden ⁶

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            AKA: Lyda Paden 8
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         Spouse: Albert Preston Steele, M.D. (1870-      ) 6 8 9

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2 M William L. Paden ⁶

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3 F Laura Paden ⁶

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4 M Howard Paden ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - William Paden

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He was the eldest son in a family of nine children, was reared on his father's farm, attended the common school of the district, and afterward the high-school at Sheakleyville, PA. In 1870 he came to Greenville, and began clerking in the store of Charles Hoge. In the spring of 1871 he and H. H. Lininger bought out the business, and the firm of Lininger & Paden was formed. In the spring of 1872 the store was destroyed by fire, and the partnership dissolved. Another building was then erected, and Mr. Paden conducted business therein. The family belonged to the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Paden was a Republican, served in the council three terms and was a school director several years. He was also a member of the Board of Trade, and a prominent breeder of fine horses. [HMC 1888, 823]

After completing a grammar and high school training, he entered as a student the academy at Sheakleyville, PA, but he was reared as a farmer boy on the old Paden homestead a mile and a half west of Fredonia. Coming to Greenville in the fall of 1870 he became a clerk in the store of Charles Hoge, and in the spring of 1871 in association with H. H. Lininger he bought his employer’s interest in the business and established the firm of Lininger and Paden. But just one year from this time, in the spring of 1872, the store was destroyed by fire and the partnership was dissolved, but the store was later rebuilt and the firm of Paden and Holby was organized. Their capital stock at the time of organization consisted of one thousand dollars each, and going to New York City Mr. Paden purchased an eight thousand dollar stock of goods from the firms of H. B. Clafflin and Company and A. T. Stewart and Company, his father signing his notes, but the firm were able to meet all these notes as they came due, while in addition Mr. Paden made trips to New York City every six weeks to purchase more goods. The firm of Paden and Holby proved successful from the start, and each year their sales amounted to from $120,000 to $125,000, and it is a well authenticated fact that they did a larger business in their line than has ever been transacted both before by any one house in Greenville. But in 1894 Mr. Paden retired from his dry goods business to return to the more peaceful pursuits of the farm. In 1885 he had purchased the interests of the other heirs in the old home estate, and there he turned his attention to the breeding of full blood Percheron horses and Jersey cows, but after a time he sold the old farm and bought a place a mile and a half east of Greenville. He superintended the work of this farm and was extensively engaged in the raising of horses and Jersey cows, keeping constantly from fifteen to twenty head of full blood Percheron brood mares. He received from two hundred and fifty to six hundred dollars each for his mares, and once he received three hundred dollars for a colt of eight months. He also bred for sale from thirty-five to forty head of Jersey cattle. [HMC 1909, 1107]

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 690, 823.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1106.

3 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 823.

4 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 823, 1023.

5 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 824.

6 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1107.

7 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1034, 1107.

8 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 732.

9 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 799.