Husband Jacob Baughman 1
Born: 14 Mar 1802 - Armstrong Co, PA 1
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Died: Aft 1882
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Father: Adam Baughman (Abt 1773-1840) 1 2
Mother: Magdalene Rugh (1779-1831) 1
Marriage: 5 Aug 1824 1
Wife Margaret Cort 1
Born: 24 Jul 1804 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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Father: Daniel Kort (1780-1859) 3 4
Mother: Elizabeth A. Turney (1786-1860) 3 5 6
Children
1 F Lavina Baughman 7
Born: 28 Aug 1825 7
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Spouse: John Parson ( - ) 7
2 F Elizabeth Baughman 7 8
Born: 8 Nov 1826 7
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Spouse: George Welty (1823-1844) 7 8
3 M William Baughman 7
Born: 19 Jun 1828 7
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Spouse: Barbara Schwartz ( - ) 7
4 M Adam Baughman 7
Born: 16 Feb 1830 7
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Died: Aft 1882
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5 F Harriet Baughman 7
Born: 27 Jan 1832 7
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Died: Bef 1882
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Spouse: George Greer ( -Bef 1882) 7
6 F Sarah Ann Baughman 7
Born: 7 Mar 1834 7
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Spouse: William Fritchman ( - ) 7
7 M Cyrus Baughman 7
Born: 21 Feb 1836 7
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Died: Aft 1882
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Spouse: Martha Ann Clark ( - ) 7
8 F Martha Baughman 7
Born: 2 Mar 1838 7
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Died: Aft 1882
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Spouse: William Hayworth ( - ) 7
9 M Henry Harrison Baughman 7
Born: 25 May 1840 7
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Died: 19 Apr 1868 7
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10 M Samuel Baughman 7
Born: 15 Sep 1842 7
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Spouse: Margaret Baker ( - ) 7
11 M Joseph Baughman 7
Born: 24 May 1844 7
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Died: Bef 1882
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Spouse: Sarah Simrall ( -Bef 1882) 7
12 M Lucian Baughman 7
Born: 2 Jun 1846 7
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Spouse: Jane Gracely ( - ) 7
13 M Ebenezer Baughman 7
Born: 21 Mar 1848 7
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Spouse: Amanda Smith ( - ) 7
General Notes: Husband - Jacob Baughman
He was an infant when his father moved from Armstrong County, PA, to the homestead in North Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County. Here he lived until he was twenty-two years of age. He received the education afforded by winter attendance at the common school. In April, 1825, he moved on to a farm belonging to his father in North Huntingdon township, five miles from West Newton, which he carried on for three years. During this time he accumulated a capital of $800, with which in the spring of 1828 he came to West Newton, where he purchased of John Richie an acre of ground, upon which a tannery and log house had been erected, for which he stipulated to pay $1200, half down and half upon credit, leaving him $200 working capital. He built a slaughterhouse upon the place, and for seven years carried on there the business of tanning and butchering. At the end of that time he purchased 86 acres lying north of the village, for which he paid $4000, and in 1836 he added 76˝ acres at $5000, lying on the south and east side of the village, purchased of John Niccolls, Jr., and in the spring of 1837 moved on to the latter property. The house, still a substantial farm residence in 1882, was built in 1776 by Joseph Van Kirk. Here he resided until 1879. He built upon the place a new tannery and slaughter-house.
In 1837 he purchased in West Newton a store, which he carried on for three years, and subsequently, from 1858 to 1865, was interested in a store with Daniel Swaim. He owned and ran a grist- and saw-mill, together with salt-works at the mouth of the Big Sewickley, which he sold to Alexander Plumer in 1845. The same year he purchased the grist- and saw-mills now known as the Apple Mills, on the Big Sewickley, which he operated twenty years, selling them to Mr. Apple in 1865. His dealings for years in grain, flour, cattle, and hogs were very large for the locality, his sales in flour alone often amounting to seven and eight hundred barrels per day, while he kept not only his own but many of the neighboring mills employed in grinding his wheat. Though he operated at different times in any commodity out of which he might realize a profit, he held well on to his original business of farming, tanning, and butchering as sheet-anchors, which from first to last under his vigorous management yielded him sure and ample returns. His dealings in real estate, besides the purchases already mentioned, were quite extensive in the vicinity of West Newton and in the State of Iowa, in all amounting to several thousand acres, enough, indeed, to give all his children a farm and still have enough left to occupy the time of his old age, either for farming or disposing of in village lots.
From the first Mr. Baughman took an active interest in every effort to make West Newton accessible to the markets. To this end he took stock in the West Newton and Somerset plank-road, in the Youghiogheny Slack-Water Navigation Company, in the steamers “Shriver” and “West Newton,” plying between West Newton and Pittsburgh, and in the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad, enterprises which benefited the town, but which yielded to their possessor no dividends.
He was on the building committee with Alexander and John C. Plumer, Henry Fulton, William Linn, and Judge Bell in the construction of the West Newton bridge, and when Jacob Mace, its builder, was likely to fail of completing his contract on account of the difficulty of collecting subscriptions, Mr. Baughman came to his rescue by timely raising the necessary funds.
Like many others, Mr. Baughman “took a hand” in oil operations, which only resulted in the loss of many thousands invested.
In politics he was a stanch Republican, but never desired or sought office.
For many years he was a member of the Lutheran, and his wife of the German Reformed Churches, but later for over twenty-five years they were members of the Presbyterian Church at West Newton. [HWC 1882, 668]