Husband Henry Suhr 1 2 3 4
Born: 11 Oct 1844 - Hardegsen, Province of Hanover, Germany 1 5 6
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Died: 2 Dec 1914 - St. Petersburg, Pinellas Co, FL 5 6
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Father: Christian Suhr ( - ) 5 6
Mother: Henrietta Frohne ( - ) 5 6
Marriage: 1875 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 5 7
Wife Louise Schorman 1 5 7
AKA: Louisa Schorman 8
Born: - Germany
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Died: 20 Feb 1919 - New York 4 7
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Father: Christian Schorman (1827-1914) 5 9
Mother: Catherine [Unk] ( - ) 8
Children
1 M Charles L. Suhr 3 10 11
Born: 30 Mar 1877 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 7 12
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Spouse: Kate A. Wilkins ( - ) 7 10
Marr: 1901 - ? Venango Co, PA
2 F Elizabeth C. Suhr 12
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Spouse: James Cuyler Black ( - ) 12
Marr: 1904 - ? Venango Co, PA
3 F Lena A. Suhr 7 12
Born: 1884 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA
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Died: 1966
Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
Spouse: Ernest Albert Burch (1872-1951) 7 12 13
Marr: 26 Jul 1905 - ? Venango Co, PA 13
4 M Henry W. Suhr 7 12
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Died: Oct 1918 - Saltville, Smyth Co, VA 7 12
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General Notes: Husband - Henry Suhr
He was reared and educated in his native land, but when he reached manhood he saw possibilities in America which his own country did not offer, and hither he came in July, 1868, locating first in New York City. He had learned the trade of locksmith, at which he found work in New York City and later in Buffalo, New York, and before coming to Venango County, Pennsylvania, he was also in Pittsburgh for a time, being engaged in a machine shop there for six months. Meantime the development of the oil industry in this section had attracted his attention, and in 1869 he came to the Oil Creek region to test its merits for himself. During the next six years he was employed by different oil concerns, in various capacities, and by that time had acquired sufficient familiarity with the oil business to make him anxious to operate on his own account. He began the business in 1875, establishing himself in Oil City, where he made his permanent home, and his success as a producer was immediate and notable. In 1886 he became identified with another branch of the business, joining Louis Walz and Samuel Justus in the organization of the Penn Refining Company, of which Mr. Suhr was the executive head for many years, filling the office of president until its absorption by the Penn American Refining Company more than a quarter of a century afterward. The business of the latter company grew to such large proportions, largely as the outcome of Mr. Suhr's efforts, that they were eventually refining nearly one million barrels of oil annually. Several years after becoming interested in the Penn Refinery Mr. Suhr joined other local oil men in the purchase of the plant of the Valley Oil Company at Rouseville, Venango county, and organized the Germania Refining Company, which eventually, in 1914, became consolidated with the Penn Refining Company under the name of the Germania Refining Company (later changed to Penn American Refining Company), of Oil City. It was about this time that Mr. Suhr gave up active connection with the refining business. He had acquired other important interests in the course of his busy life, and though he was not prudent to the extent of being over-cautious he exercised such certain judgment in the choice of investments that his decision on the worth of a financial undertaking was practically authoritative. He was one of the oldest stockholders of the Oil City Trust Company, one of the leading banking institutions of northwestern Pennsylvania, and served many years on its board of directors. He was interested in the Pure Oil Company, the Penn Oil & Supply Company of Oil City, the Consolidated Window Glass Company, a Bradford (Pennsylvania) concern with plants at Mount Jewett and Hazel Hurst, and The British American Oil Company, of Toronto, Canada. During the last few years of his life, owing to ill health, Mr. Suhr had not taken as active a part as usual in the conduct of these companies, but he maintained his association with them to the end and looked after the management of his interests. Two years before his death he tried a sojourn at Nauheim, Germany, for relief, and latterly he spent the winters in the southern United States, his death occurring at St. Petersburg, Florida, from heart failure after a severe attack of asthma. Mr. Suhr left many friends to mourn him outside of domestic and business circles. For over thirty years he was a vestryman of Good Hope Lutheran Church, of which he was a Charter member, and he was ever zealous in behalf of its interests, serving as a member of the building committee which had charge of the erection church structure completed in 1903. [HVC 1919, 618]
General Notes: Wife - Louise Schorman
She fell a victim of the influenza epidemic in 1918 while making a visit in New York City.