Husband Robert Wylie 1 2 3
Born: 25 Aug 1830 - Canton Twp, Washington Co, PA 2 3 4
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Died: 27 Mar 1912 3
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Father: William Wylie (1800-1877) 2 3 5
Mother: Mary Clark (1811-Aft 1893) 3 6
Marriage: 3 Feb 1857 - Independence Twp, Washington Co, PA 3 4
Wife Elizabeth Beall 3 4
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Father: James Beall ( - ) 3 4
Mother: Mary McCormick ( - ) 4
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1 M William Wylie 2 4 7
Born: 10 Nov 1859 - Canton Twp, Washington Co, PA 2 4 7
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Spouse: Mary W. Gist (1861- ) 2 4 7
Marr: 16 Jun 1885 - Wellsburg, Brooke Co, WV 2 4
2 M James Beall Wylie 7 8
Born: 24 Sep 1862 - Cumberland Twp, Greene Co, PA 7 8
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Spouse: Helen Cornelia Roseborough ( - ) 7 8
Marr: 24 Jun 1890 - Senatobia, MS 7 8
3 F Laura Virginia Wylie 8 9
Born: 7 Oct 1867 - Canton Twp, Washington Co, PA 8
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Spouse: Joseph Christopher Gist, Jr. ( - ) 8 9
Marr: 1 Oct 1890 8
General Notes: Husband - Robert Wylie
He was born on the old Wylie farm in Canton township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He attended the district schools, and later took an irregular course at Washington College. He was not a rugged boy, and could not stand close confinement at school, so he early took to the roads where he might breathe a more free air. At the age of thirteen years his father intrusted to his care a drove of cattle and sheep to be driven across the mountains and sold in Philadelphia, the money to be brought back by him in saddle-bags on horse-back. He liked this business better than going to school or staying in the store, so he continued at same for some years, at first driving to Philadelphia and New York, later to Harrisburg. When the Pennsylvania Railroad was being finished to Pittsburgh, he early took advantage of this means of transport, being one of the first shippers on the road passing over the nine inclines through the Alleghany mountains. In 1861 he moved with his wife and family to a farm in Cumberland township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, where they resided until 1865, when he purchased the Dr. Stevens farm in Canton township (340 acres), situated two miles west of Washington on the Taylorstown road, on which he erected all the buildings. With farming he combined the wool commission business, in which connection he was probably best known, his figure being a familiar one in his own and adjoining counties-in fact, to the people within a radius of fifty miles of his home his was a well-known, welcome face. His two sons, William and James B., became associated with him in business about 1889, the firm name being Robert Wylie & Sons, and the amount of wool bought and handled by them ran well toward a million pounds annually, the bulk of it being bought by the senior member of the firm, who gave to this branch of the business the greater part of his time.