Joseph Hamilton Stivenson and Harriet Smail

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Husband Joseph Hamilton Stivenson ¹

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           Born: 27 Mar 1851 - Kittanning Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Stivenson (Abt 1821-1894) 1
         Mother: Flora King (1829-      ) 2

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       Marriage: 4 Jul 1872 3

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Wife Harriet Smail ³

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         Father: Peter Smail (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Polly Klingensmith (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M Robert F. Stivenson ³

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            AKA: Bert Stiveson 4
           Born: 12 Aug 1879 3
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         Spouse: Grace L. Gosser (      -      ) 4 5

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Hamilton Stivenson

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He assisted with the farm work at home and attended school winters until eighteen years old. When a young man he taught during the winters, having made the most of his opportunities for securing an education, for besides going to public school he was a student at select school for two terms. When twenty-one years old he entered the employ of a man who was engaged in huckstering, continuing with him two and a half years, after which for four years he was engaged at work in rolling mills. He was next weighmaster at a coal tipple for eight months, at the end of which time he embarked in the mercantile business at Leechburg, where he then conducted a general store.
His fellow citizens called upon him for various public services, and he was councilman for three years, burgess three years and constable five years. He was also marshal of the borough. An active member of the Lutheran Church, he served in the office of deacon, taking a useful part in church work.
In his early youth he harvested with the sickle and did other work in the manner typical of the times. He sowed flax, pulled it, threshed the seed out, rotted the wood on the grass (by watering, to make the wood brittle), then broke it by hand with the old sword brake, and scutched it, after which it was made into linen. [HAC 1914, 345]

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 345.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 401, 882.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 346.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 570.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 725.