Sylvester McGuire and Cymanthia A. "Mantie" Whiting

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Husband Sylvester McGuire ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 12 Sep 1844 - Harmonsburg, Crawford Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: Thomas McGuire (1806-1888) 1 4 5 6
         Mother: Margaret Tinney (1818-1908) 1 5

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       Marriage: Apr 1872 7

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Wife Cymanthia A. "Mantie" Whiting ^{2 3 7}

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            AKA: Samantha Whiting 5
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         Father: Almon Whiting (1815-      ) 8
         Mother: Caroline W. Doud (      -      ) 8

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Children

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1 F Blanche Marion McGuire ^{3 7}

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2 F Minnie Agnes McGuire ^{3 7}

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3 M Claude Vincent McGuire ^{3 7}

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4 M Don Leo McGuire ⁷

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         Spouse: Mae E. Jones (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 1911 - ? Venango Co, PA

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5 M Thomas Paul McGuire ^{3 7}

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General Notes: Husband - Sylvester McGuire

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He began life on the farm; later he was a dredge operator in the construction of the Pittsburgh & Erie canal. In this work Mr. McGuire, appreciating the many advantages offered by Conneaut Lake, conceived the idea of making that pretty lake a summer resort. In partnership with B. F. Parker, in 1878, he purchased an acre of land and erected a one-story hotel and dancing pavilion. This building was enlarged and improved from year to year. In 1888 he purchased his partner’s interest and then conducted the hotel alone. He added to his property until he had ten acres with a frontage of twelve hundred and fifty feet on the lake. In 1894 Mr. McGuire erected Oakland Beach Hotel. He was a member of the company that placed the first steamboat, called the Tuna, on the lake after it was lowered.

He received a simple but practical education in Chestnut Corners School, then worked on dredges, on the farm and in the lumber business. After his marriage he took up farming. About 1880 he and a brother-in-law established picnic grounds where the Oakland Hotel was later located, on the east side of Conneaut Lake. They erected a dance hall, sixty feet in length, and later added a kitchen and dining room. Mr. McGuire soon purchased the interest of his partner, and conducted affairs alone, bought more land along the lake shore, and in 1894 built the Oakland Hotel, one of the five summer hotels on the lake front, known as Oakland Beach. After his death his family resided there except during the winter months, when their home was in Meadville. Formerly Mr. McGuire also sold nursery stock during the various seasons, but eventuallyl no longer engaged in this line of business. In connection with the hotel Mrs. McGuire, after his death, cultivated a 325 acre farm on which was also located a valuable deposit of shell marl, a natural fertilizer, which was also developed.

1 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 737.

2 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1088.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1289.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 311.

5 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1085.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1288.

7 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 738.

8 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1087.