Husband Charles Craven Sullivan 1 2 3
Born: 10 Mar 1807 - Franklin Twp, Butler Co, PA 2 3 4
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Died: 27 Feb 1860 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2 5
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Father: Charles Craven Sullivan, Sr. (1760-1813) 6 7
Mother: Susannah Johnston (1764-1834) 6
Marriage: 24 Jul 1845 8
• Residence: : Butler, Butler Co, PA.
Wife Susan Catherine Seltzer 8
Born: 26 Jun 1824 8
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Died: Aft 1909
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Children
1 M Charles A. Sullivan 9 10
Born: - Butler, Butler Co, PA
Christened:
Died: Bef 1909
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Spouse: Mary Reed ( - ) 8
Marr: 10 Jan 1870 9
2 M Moses Sullivan 10 11
Born: 28 Mar 1848 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 11
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Died: Aft 1909
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3 F Louise M. Sullivan 8
Born:
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Died: Aft 1909
Buried:
Spouse: Joshua H. Shaw ( -1874) 8
Marr: 26 Jun 1871 8
4 F Josephine Sullivan 8
Born:
Christened:
Died: Bef 1909
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Spouse: Thomas H. Rabe ( - ) 8
5 F Matilda Sullivan 8
Born:
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Died: Bef 1909
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Spouse: Joseph E. Dunton ( - ) 12
General Notes: Husband - Charles Craven Sullivan
He was born on the "Partnership Farm," about seven miles northwest of the town of Butler, in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
After obtaining a liberal education in home institutions within the county, finally graduated at Jefferson College. He read law with Gen. Ayres, and was admitted to the bar in 1830, as is inferred from an examination of the record. Mr. Sullivan soon took rank as an able advocate and sound lawyer. He was a man of strong will. He soon acquired a good practice and finally became one of the leading lights of the Butler bar-a bar long noted for the ability and character of its members. He practiced in many of the adjoining counties and had a great re-gard for the "name and fame" of his native county, and would never allow any aspersion to be cast upon it in his presence, without rendering a prompt and caustic reproof to the unfortunate individual who ventured any disparaging remarks about the land so prolific with "buckwheat and rabbit hams," as Butler County at this early day was alleged to be.
Mr. Sullivan was elected to the State Senate in 1841, and was re-elected in 1844, serving six years in that body with great acceptability. He was the author of much legislation during his Senatorial career, some of which still [1883] remains on the statute books. During this time, he gained a State reputation, he occupying a somewhat similar relation to the Legis-lation of the country that Senator Buckelow did at a later day. Had it not been that his party (Whig) was in the minority during his vigorous days, he would have occupied a still broader field of usefulness. As a mark of distinction, Sullivan County was named for him.
While the subject of this notice was a Whig in politics, he was by no means one of the "Regulation Pattern." In other words, he thought for himself. From his youth up, he sympathized strongly with the oppressed African. He was much pleased with the nomination of Gen. Scott by the Whigs over Fillmore, in 1852, regarding it as a great victory for the anti-slavery cause. He took a deep interest in that campaign, and was much disappointed at its outcome-the election of Pierce. Such an one naturally took with the Republican movement.
When in 1856, Jacob Mechling, Jr., occupied a place on the Republican ticket as a candidate for Associate Judge, his son (Thompson Mechling), then in the army, being a West Pointer and stationed in the South, wrote home a reproving letter, reminding his father that when he left home, "Charlie Sullivan and Clark McPherron were the only Abolitionists in the county." Young Mechling had little knowledge of the great change that had taken place in public sentiment. His father, with the rest of the ticket, was elected by a good majority, and no one rejoiced more heartily than did Mr. Sullivan.
Nor did the convictions of his youth and early manhood weaken in after life. During the summer and fall of 1859, his interest in national affairs seemed rather to increase. He was satisfied that a great national crisis was imminent, and his great anxiety was that the Republican party would stand up courageously for the right. During the winter of 1859-60, he frequently discussed national affairs; he believed a civil war was approaching, and talked to the young men of his acquaintance on the subject of their duty in such an emergency. He looked with great interest on the National Republican Convention. But, alas! disease came, and he was called away from the conflicts then approaching.
Born of Christian parents, he received from them a thorough moral education. He died as he lived, a professor of that religion which had taught him so forcibly his duty, both to his fellow-men and his God. He died leaving a widow and five children and a handsome estate, the result of a life of honorable professional labor. [HBC 1883, 56]
General Notes: Wife - Susan Catherine Seltzer
Jonestown, Lebanon Co, PA
Notes: Marriage
They were married in 1846. [HBC 1895, 678]