Algernon Sydney Wightman and Elizabeth R. Robinson
Husband Algernon Sydney Wightman 1 2
AKA: A. S. Whiteman 3 Born: 9 Feb 1851 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 4 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Thomas Wightman (1818-1908) 2 4 5 6 Mother: Isabella Ruth Russell (1824-1904) 2 4 7
Marriage: 24 May 1887 4
Wife Elizabeth R. Robinson 3 8
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Elisha Robinson (1832-1912) 3 8 9 10 11 Mother: Caroline Truby ( -Aft 1914) 3 8 10 11
Children
1 M A. Sydney Wightman, Jr. 8
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Algernon Sydney Wightman
He was brought up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and thoroughly educated in the public schools there, as well as at the Western University of Pennsylvania. He be-gan his business career in the glass works of his father, and for twenty-five years was man-ager of the plant at Parkers Landing, Pennsylvania. On Aug. 11, 1911, he and several others or-ganized the State Bank of Parkers Landing, which opened for business Jan. 1, 1912, with Mr. Wightman as president. He was a promi-nent member of Franklin Lodge, No. 221, F. & A. M., of Pittsburgh. Politically he was a Republican.
1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 533, 983.
2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 264.
3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 575.
4 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 533.
5 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 251.
6 Editor, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), Pg 1055.
7 Editor, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), Pg 1061.
8 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 983.
9 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 575.
10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 892.
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George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 227.
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