Joseph Wilson Barr and Florence Laura Byles

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Husband Joseph Wilson Barr ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1 Jul 1875 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 1 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 1955
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Wilson R. Barr (1839-1912) 2 4
         Mother: Jennie Ceven Harding (1853-1937) 2 4 5

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       Marriage: 16 Jan 1913 - New York City, NY 6 7

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Wife Florence Laura Byles ^{8 9}

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           Born: 1879 - Titusville, Crawford Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 1953
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Julius Byles (1841-      ) 8
         Mother: Mary A. Axtell (      -      ) 8

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Children

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1 M Joseph Wilson Barr, Jr. ^{6 9}

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           Born: 15 Jan or 19 Jan 1914 6 9
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

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2 F Mary Virginia Barr ^{6 9}

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           Born: 19 Apr 1915 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 9
     Christened: 
           Died: 
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         Spouse: William Kirkpatrick Selden (1911-2009) 10 11
           Marr: 25 Jun 1938 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 12

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Wilson Barr

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He attended Oil City schools, was graduated from high school there in 1892, and then became a student at Amherst College, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1899. Afterward he studied law in the offices of Trax and Parker, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1903. He never actually practiced law, however, but, instead, in 1900 and 1901, turned his attention fully to the general insurance business of his father, in which he was becoming increasingly interested. This business was the oldest in that part of Pennsylvania, and after the elder partner's death, in 1912, Joseph Wilson Barr took over the business.
He was a Republican in politics. He adhered to the Protestant Episcopal faith, and was a regular attendant and supporter of Christ Episcopal parish, in Oil City. He was a member and Past Master of Petrolia Lodge, No. 363, Free and Accepted Masons, and in the Masonic Order was affiliated with Oil City Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Talbot Commandery and Lodge of Perfection. He was a member also of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, which he joined in his student days. During the first World War he was a "four-minute speaker" in the interest of the Liberty Loan campaigns, and otherwise he aided in the furtherance of worth-while activities during those difficult days. He was a director of the Pennsylvania Association of Insurance Agents and of the Oil City Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Venango County Bar Association and the Lawyers' Club of Oil City. He was a member also of the Rotary Club, the Wanango Country Club, the Oil City Boat Club, the Amherst Club of New York and other groups, and was a member of the board of directors of Oil City Hospital and of the Community Fund there, as well as vice-president of the Community Concert Association and the Forum Association. He was also a director of the Oil City Trust Company. [HNP, 62]

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General Notes: Wife - Florence Laura Byles

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She was a graduate of Smith College, class of 1901.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1139.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 651.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 62.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1137.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 867.

6 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 63.

7 Joan S. Hanson & Kenneth L. Hanson, Marriages from Venango County Sources (Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1994), Pg 12.

8 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 751.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 652.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 587.

11 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 205.

12 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #21089.