Husband John Sullivan 1 2 3
Born: 19 Jun 1793 - Allegheny Co, PA 2 4
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Died: 2 Nov 1854 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2 5
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Father: Charles Craven Sullivan, Sr. (1760-1813) 5 6
Mother: Susannah Johnston (1764-1834) 5
Marriage: 1821 2
Wife Mary McPherrin 2 3 7
Born: Abt 1800
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Died: 4 May 1888 - ? Butler, Butler Co, PA
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Father: Rev. John McPherrin (1757-1822) 3 7 8
Mother: Mary Stevenson ( - ) 3 9
Children
1 M Charles Sullivan 2
Born:
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Died: in infancy
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 F Amelia Sullivan 2
Born:
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Died: in infancy
Buried:
Spouse: Did Not Marry
3 M Col. John McPherrin Sullivan 10
Born: 9 Aug 1822 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 10
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Died: 1899 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 11
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Spouse: Mary S. Agnew ( -1874) 8
Marr: 10 Jun 1873 8
4 F Mary E. Sullivan 2
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Died: Aft 1895
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General Notes: Husband - John Sullivan
He was born in Allegheny County, PA, and removed with the family to Butler County when about four years old. In addition to a common school education, he was greatly aided by his mother and oldest brother in becoming proficient in the elementary branches of learning. He wrote a fair hand, was a good mathematician, and an expert accountant. He served with his three elder brothers in the War of 1812, in Capt. Robert Martin's Company. After his return he taught school in the neighborhood, and finally entered the store of Walter Lowrie, in Butler, in 1818, having been called to take charge of the business during Mr. Lowrie's absence as United States Senator. In 1820, in connection with his brother Moses, he established the Butler Centinel, and continued in connection with that paper until 1824. He served as treasurer of Butler county in 1825-26, and in 1827 opened a store in the brick building which he had previously erected on the northwest corner of the Diamond, where he conducted a mercantile business until 1831. In that year he purchased a large tract of unimproved land, located about a mile northwest of Butler, and expended much labor and money in improving and developing it into a farm, involving extensive clearing, the erection of a home and tenant buildings, a commodious barn, a mill with a very expensive stone dam, necessary road making and other improvements. In 1836 he was appointed prothonotary and clerk of the several courts of Butler county, serving until 1839, and at different periods in his life he filled other important public trusts. The strain in developing the farm left him with broken health, from which he never fully recovered. In 1843 he returned with his family to Butler, and died at his home in that borough. He was a Whig, in politics, and a Presbyterian in religious faith, and for many years a trustee of the Presbyterian church of Butler. He was always loyally devoted to the interests of the county, and his name is found among the foremost in pressing forward public improvements. His enterprise was manifested in the erection of buildings in different parts of the town, his enlistment as an active manager in turnpike companies, and his aid in the establishment and support of schools before the existence of our present school system. Amidst the cares of a busy life he was never forgetful of the supreme importance of education. In his youth and early manhood he had cultivated a taste for the best authors in prose and poetry, and his little library was well stocked with their works. He was an enterprising, generous and liberal citizen, of a cheerful and hopeful temper, social in disposition, exemplary in all the relations of life, outspoken in his convictions, fearless in maintaining the right, and a good representative of the worthy band of pioneers who laid the foundations of Butler's prosperity. [HBC 1895, 677]