Joseph T. Shoemaker and Martha A. Ritchey

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Husband Joseph T. Shoemaker ¹

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           Born: 26 May 1837 - Mahoning Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Shoemaker (1813-1901) 3 4
         Mother: Ruth Davis (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 3 Oct 1865 2

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Wife Martha A. Ritchey ^{2 5}

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         Father: Thomas Ritchey (1807-1891) 6 7
         Mother: Mary Calhoun (1812-Abt 1867) 5 6 7 8 9

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1 M Harry C. Shoemaker ²

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2 M Eddy O. Shoemaker ²

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3 M Lucius I. Shoemaker ²

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4 F Gertrude Iona Shumaker ¹⁰

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            AKA: Gertie Shoemaker 2
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         Spouse: Ellsworth W. Bowser (      -      ) 2 10

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5 M Ralph Shoemaker ²

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6 F Mary L. Shoemaker ²

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7 M Charles Shoemaker ²

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph T. Shoemaker

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He was reared in what is now Mahoning township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, on the paternal homestead. Beginning his education in the common schools of the neighborhood, he later attended normal school at Putneyville, and when he was a young man of twenty taught school one winter. He then took a course in the Iron City Business College, at Pittsburgh, and when Hamilton, Shoemaker & Co. opened their store, in the late fifties, he entered their employ as clerk. After six months with that concern he again took up school teaching, at which he was engaged for several terms in Mahoning township. He then accepted a position as clerk in the general store of James A. Truitt, at Oakland, Armstrong County, remaining with them in that capacity for a period of two years, at the end of which he again entered the Iron City Business College, receiving his diploma from that school in 1860. He then went to Oil City, purchased a lot and built himself a shanty, and remained there for six months. Returning to Mahoning, he was appointed assignee of the bankrupt firm of Hamilton, Shoemaker & Co., and in June, 1861, purchased the goods at their appraisal. He conducted the business on his own account very successfully until 1879, when he sold out. For five seasons after that he was engaged in peeling bark, in Elk County, and then again went to Oil City, clerking for two years in a hardware store. For fifteen years he was assistant postmaster at Oakland, Armstrong County, and he was a justice of the peace continuously for at least thirty-five years. In political connection he was a Republican, and he was quite active in the interests of the party. He was a member of the regular Baptist Church at New Bethlehem. During the Civil war he enlisted, becoming a member of Company G, 57th Pennsylvania Regiment, Emergency Men, and was sent to Ohio, where he assisted in the capture of General Morgan, who was then raiding that state. He was honorably discharged after three months of service.

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 826.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 827.

3 O. S. Marshall, The Marshall Family (Kittanning, PA: Steam Press of Reichert Bros., 1884), Pg 186.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 826, 920.

5 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 526.

6 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 864.

7 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 114, 1080.

8 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 733.

9 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 567.

10 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 517.