Alexander Plumer and Eleanor Reynolds

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Husband Alexander Plumer ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: John Alexander Plumer 4
           Born: 18 Dec 1786 - South Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Dec 1875 - West Newton, South Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 5
         Buried: 

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         Father: George Plumer (1762-1843) 2 6 7 8 9 10
         Mother: Margaret Lowrey (1765-1818/1818) 2 7 8 10 11

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       Marriage: 7 Sep 1846 1

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   Other Spouse: Susan Robinson (      -1814) 1 3 - 15 Feb 1810 1

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Moore (      -1844) 1 - 3 Nov 1815 1

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   Other Spouse: Levinia Eliza Maclay (1862-Aft 1882) 4 12 - 13 Mar 1862 1

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Wife Eleanor Reynolds ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: 23 Apr 1860 1
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Alexander Plumer

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He was the second child of his parents, born in their first home on Puckety Creek, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He had an aptitude for business and trade which in more propitious times would have brought him distinction and wealth. He was early placed in his father's store on the farm adjoining Robbstown, and when it was transferred to the village he was intrusted with its management. When it was closed out, he formed a partnership with Messrs. Cromwell & Dent, merchants, in Pittsburgh, and conducted for several years a large general trade, including the receipt of goods by wagon from the East, and shipment by keel-boats to Pittsburgh to his partners there for the lower country.
Robbstown was then one of the points of river navigation for emigrants to the Ohio country, and A. Plumer & Co. furnished boats and supplies to the "movers." But they were involved in the embarrassments of the Pittsburgh house, the members of which removed to Missouri, where, on a farm on which he afterwards resided, near St. Louis, the daughter of Frederick Dent married Capt. Ulysses S. Grant.
When A. Plumer & Co. were sold out by their creditors he was left with an indebtedness of six thousand dollars beyond their assets. For this he was given an extension of ten years, with annual payments, and to the payment of his firm's debts he bent all his energies. He took charge of the improvement of the Youghiogheny River by dams and wing-walls under supervision of government engineers. Next he made several trading voyages on the lower rivers, and with William T. Nicholls, Samuel Hunter, John Robertson, and his brother-in-law, James Smith, brought droves of cattle, sheep, and hogs from Ohio to the Eastern markets. In 1826-27 he built half the distance of turnpike from Robbstown to Williamsport, and was one of the contractors for building the bridge at Robbstown. He put down several wells for salt on the Sewickley Creek, in doing which he invented the plan of casing his wells to shut off the fresh water, afterwards adopted as original in the oil regions of Pennsylvania. He was an original Jackson democrat, but in the excitement following the abduction of Morgan he was one of the leaders in the anti-Masonic party in Western Pennsylvania, but was afterwards with the Whig and Republican parties.
He was a man of strong native powers of mind, a sincere, active Christian, always of cheerful ready humor, and ever ready to do his part in all local and public affairs. He died in West Newton, of which he was the first resident when laid out as a town.

He had two children with his first wife and four with his second wife.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 661.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 569.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 38.

4 Editor, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 152.

5 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 662.

6 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 658.

7 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 762.

8 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 19.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 697.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 37.

11 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 659.

12 Editor, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 826.