Joseph F. Piper and Myrtle M. McNeil

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Husband Joseph F. Piper ¹

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           Born: 22 Jul 1875 - Conemaugh Twp, Indiana Co, PA 1
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         Father: Wilson McDowell Piper (1845-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Maria J. Kahney (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1898 1

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Wife Myrtle M. McNeil ¹

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         Father: R. B. McNeil (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Jennie E. [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Mary McNeil Piper ¹

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2 F Martha Piper ¹

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         Spouse: Walter King (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph F. Piper

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The public schools of Conemaugh Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, provided the early education of Joseph F. Piper, who at the age of fourteen turned his attention to business affairs of magnitude. In 1889 he became associated with the J. C. Moore Hardware Company, in Saltsburg, an enterprise whose history dates back to 1861, the year in which William Moore started the business. Later others entered the firm\emdash Frank E. Shupe and Logan R. Moore and Joseph F. Piper. The business was incorporated in 1921, with J. C. Moore as president and L. R. Moore, J. F. Piper, F. E. Shupe and Olive Ewing as the executive officers. J. C. Moore died in 1929, and the reorganization that followed placed Mr. Piper as president; Mr. Shupe as vice-president; Mrs. Olive (Ewing) Robinson as secretary-treasurer; and Harry H. Lemon and Benton T. Shupe as the remaining officers of the company. In addition to his service as president of the J. C. Moore Supply Company, Inc., Mr. Piper was a director of the First National Bank of Saltsburg, president of the Volunteer Firemen and other corporations, and a director of the Cemetery Board. During the first World War period he served on many boards and committees. For a number of years he was a member of the Saltsburg School Board. He was active in the Lions International, being a charter member of the local groups. Fraternally he was connected with the Free and Accepted Masons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In the Masonic Order he was affiliated with many branches, including the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite at Pittsburgh, Syria Temple, and held the thirty-second degree. He worshipped in the faith of the Presbyterian Church.

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General Notes: Wife - Myrtle M. McNeil

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from Saltsburg, Indiana Co, PA

1 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 363.

2 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 440.