Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Eben Blackley Sankey and Julia Woodward




Husband Eben Blackley Sankey 1 2 3

           Born: 1 Jul 1837 1
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         Father: Maj. Ezekiel Sankey, Jr. (1807-      ) 1 4 5
         Mother: Sarah Skinner Jones (1811-1861) 1 3 6


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Wife Julia Woodward 7

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General Notes: Husband - Eben Blackley Sankey


At an early age he engaged in railroading. He built the Youngstown and Hubbard division of the Ashtabula and Youngstown railroad; was also engineer in the erection of the Etna Furnaces in New Castle; and subsequently built a furnace in Terre Haute, Indiana.
He was later located at Salem, Missouri, and was the General Freight Agent of the St. Louis, Salem and Little Rock railroad. He was also Chief Engineer of the road, and likewise Superintendent of the iron ore mines belonging to the same. He was in the service of the Civil war as sutler to the Mount Jackson Battery.


General Notes: Wife - Julia Woodward

from Taunton, MA

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Sources


1 Editor, History of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 165.

2 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 196.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1625.

4 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 86, 195.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1624.

6 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 87, 196.

7 Editor, History of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 166.


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