Husband Winfield F. Richardson 1 2
Born: 24 Jan 1852 - near Bentleyville, Washington Co, PA 3
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Father: Harrison Richardson (1820-1884/1885) 2 4 5 6
Mother: Sarah Letherman (1820-1906) 5
Marriage: 24 Oct 1882 - Bentleyville, Washington Co, PA 7
Wife Lillian W. West 6 7
Born: 22 Mar 1860 - Bentleyville, Washington Co, PA 7
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Father: Robert N. West (1820- ) 7 8 9
Mother: Susan Bentley ( - ) 9
Children
1 M Harrison B. "Harry" Richardson 6 10 11
Born: 21 Jun 1885 - Bentleyville, Washington Co, PA 10 11
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Spouse: Mary Jane Holt (1888- ) 7 12 13
Marr: 1908 11
General Notes: Husband - Winfield F. Richardson
He was reared on the home farm. He enjoyed really superior educational advantages, passing from the country schools to the State Normal School at California, Pennsylvania, and from there to Mt. Union College, at Alliance, Ohio, and at the latter institution was graduated in the classical course. After he returned home he taught school, several terms in Bentleyville and also in West Pike Run, in Somerset Township. When but eighteen years of age he taught his first school, in Fayette County. For some years he was associated with his father in farming and stock raising, but in 1883 he came to Bentleyville and for ten years was engaged in the mercantile business. He owned some valuable farming land in Washington County, had large coal interests and was a director in the Farmers and Miners National Bank at Bentleyville.
He received his education in the public schools of Somerset township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and in the Southwestern Normal School at California. He then took the classical course in Mt. Union College, at Alliance, Ohio, where he was graduated with the class of 1875. During the following five years he engaged in teaching school, at Bentleyville, in West Pike Run township, and one term in Jefferson township, Fayette County. In 1880 he engaged in the mercantile business in Bentleyville, continuing in that line for six years, and then turned his attention to the real estate and insurance business, to which he devoted himself continuously for a period of nearly forty years. He was vice president of the Farmers & Miners Bank at Bentleyville.
Politically Mr. Richardson always gave his support to the Republican party and served as burgess of Bentleyville, a member of the board of school directors and of the town council. Fraternally he was a member of Beallsville Lodge, No. 327, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He also took all the degrees of York Rite Masonry and to the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He was a charter member of the Nemacolin Country Club of Beallsville and the Washington Chamber of Commerce. He is a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church and was president of the board of directors of the Bentleyville Union Holiness Association.