John William Elder Pollins and Lydia Jane Ramsey

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Husband John William Elder Pollins ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 27 May 1900 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2 3
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         Father: John William Pollins (1849-1922) 1 4 5
         Mother: Agnes Viola Elder (1866-1934) 1 2 5

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       Marriage: 9 Jun 1934 6

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Wife Lydia Jane Ramsey ⁶

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         Father: James Herrington Ramsey (      -Bef 1939) 6
         Mother: Anna Litzinger (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Jane Pollins ⁶

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           Born: 4 Jan 1935 6
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         Status: Twin

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2 F Mary Louise Pollins ⁶

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           Born: 4 Jan 1935 6
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           Died: 16 Apr 1935 6
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         Status: Twin

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - John William Elder Pollins

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He attended the public schools of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, graduating from the high school in 1919. He spent three years at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and transferring to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, received his degree of Bachelor of Arts from that institution in 1923. Selecting the law as his profession, Mr. Pollins continued his studies at the University of Michigan Law School, graduating there in 1926 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Returning home to Greensburg he was admitted to the bar in August, 1926, and to practice before the Supreme and Superior courts of Pennsylvania and the United States District Court at Pittsburgh. At first he was associated in the practice of law with Joseph J. Knappenberger, who continued the legal practice of Judge Steel. Later, when Mr. Pollins' brother, Calvin E., completed his legal studies and was admitted to the bar, February, 1929, the two brothers formed the firm of Pollins and Pollins. They maintained offices in the Huff Building, Greensburg, and in the Bossart Building, Latrobe.
Mr. Pollins was a member of the United Presbyterian Church and was the treasurer and a trustee of the Greensburg congregation. He belonged to the Kiwanis Club of Greensburg of which he was a director, and was a member of the executive committee of the Westmoreland Law Association. In politics Mr. Pollins was a Republican; in 1931 he was a candidate on that party ticket for the office of register of wills of Westmoreland County. Aside from his profession and in his leisure time Mr. Pollins' chief interests were books and literature, winter sports and the family farm of which he and his brother were particularly fond.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 538.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 880.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 256, 266.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 879.

5 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 256, 265.

6 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 259.