Dr. Walter Madison Small and Berta Ida "Ebba" Muehlbauer

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Husband Dr. Walter Madison Small ^{1 2}

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           Born: 5 Jul 1887 - Cooperstown, Jackson Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: Madison Moses "Matt" Small (1849-1931) 2 3 4
         Mother: Ida Mary Alcorn (1854-1945) 1 2

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       Marriage: 17 Jun 1933 2

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Wife Berta Ida "Ebba" Muehlbauer ²

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Walter Madison Small

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He was thoroughly educated, having had the advantages of the local common schools and Cooperstown high school, after which he attended Alden Academy at Meadville and took a literary course in Alle­gheny College, graduating in the class of 1911. Having become interested in geology he took an additional course at the University of Pitts­burgh, in oil and gas geology, meantime teach­ing for two years at Miles City, MT, and he subsequently was engaged for a year in the bank of the Franklin Trust Company. Going to Mexico, he was engaged in geological work on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec at the time of the trouble at Vera Cruz, was subsequently employed in Oklahoma, and later did inves­tigation work in the southwestern oil fields of the United States, in Kansas, Texas, Colorado, Utah and other States in that region, as well as in the Mexican oil fields. He and his squad of men went into the wildest country, traveling with a camping outfit and living wherever their duties called them. The results of some of his explorations were published in the geolog­ical textbooks of some of the colleges, for instance Johns Hopkins University. [CAB, 526]

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General Notes: Wife - Berta Ida "Ebba" Muehlbauer

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Vienna, Austria

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 526.

2 Earl Prather, The Alcorn Family in Northwestern Pennsylvania (Self-published, 1997), Pg 6.

3 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 603, 604.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 523.