John Livengood Barchus and Mary Edna McClure

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Husband John Livengood Barchus ¹

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           Born: 10 Oct 1865 - Fayette Co, PA 1
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         Father: Daniel Barchus (1818-1900) 1
         Mother: Barbara Livengood (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 10 Oct 1899 2

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Wife Mary Edna McClure ²

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           Born: 21 Aug 1878 2
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         Father: Capt. Quincy Adams McClure (1843-1907) 2
         Mother: Ellen Bradbury (1857-1909) 2

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Children

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1 M John McClure Barchus ²

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           Born: 10 Apr 1902 2
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         Spouse: Malvina Caruthers Porter (      -      ) 2

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2 F Dorothy Barchus ²

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3 M Daniel Quincy Barchus ²

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         Spouse: Mary Ellen Knight (      -      ) 2

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4 F Eleanor Barchus ²

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - John Livengood Barchus

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He was about five years old when his parents removed to Salisbury, Pennsylvania, from Fayette County, where he was born. He attended the Salisbury schools until the family took up their residence in Hagerstown, Maryland, where he studied at a local academy. For a time he was a clerk in a Salisbury business establishment. To perfect himself in business methods, he entered a commercial college in Baltimore, Maryland, taking a special course. Then, completing it, he went to Kansas, where he was a clerk for a friend in a store. On his return, in 1889, he opened a clothing and furnishing store in Salisbury. This enterprise became, in 1895, the firm of Barchus and Livengood, being so named when A. E. Livengood was admitted as a member. Subsequently they admitted a third partner, Roscoe Wefley, changing the name to Barchus and Livengood Company, the form that was permanently retained thereafter.
In 1889, in addition to his other activities, Mr. Barchus opened a private bank in Salisbury\emdash the Valley Bank. He operated it as such until 1902, when he converted it into the First National Bank of Salisbury, of which he became the first president. Mr. Barchus also interested himself in other business enterprises, being a director of the Twentieth Century Manufacturing Company. The Pennsylvania and Maryland Street Railway Company built and operated an electric line from Salisbury to Garrett, later consolidating with another company with a view to extending the line through Somerset County to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and south to Frostburg and Cumberland, Maryland. He was secretary-treasurer of the Pennsylvania and Maryland Street Railway Company until it was sold. He also served as a director of the Improved Traction Engine Company and the Livengood Coal and Coke Company (of West Virginia); the Citizens' Light, Heat and Power Company, of Salisbury; and was secretary and treasurer of the Salisbury Coal and Lumber Company of West Virginia.
He was a staunch Republican. For six years he served as president of the Borough Council, and for four years as school director. Fraternally, Mr. Barchus was a member of the Blue Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Meyersdale, the Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, of Harrisburg, and Jaffa Temple, Altoona, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was a consistent member of the Brethren Church, of Salisbury, in whose affairs he was active.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Edna McClure

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from McKeesport, Allegheny Co, PA

She received her early education in the McKeesport schools and at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

1 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 514.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 515.