Thomas W. Shields

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Husband Thomas W. Shields ¹

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           Born: 11 Jul 1866 - Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: David Shields (1816-Aft 1882) 1 2 3 4
         Mother: Sarah E. Humes (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas W. Shields

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He was reared on a farm until six years of age and then was brought by his parents to Latrobe, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools, took a full course at Duff's Commercial Business college at Pittsburgh and was graduated from that institution in 1884. In the spring of 1885 he became a partner with his father in the manufacture of carriages and buggies, as a member of the firm of D. Shields & Son. Their factory was a large three-story frame building, fronting fifty feet on Miller street and extending one hundred feet back. Their ware-rooms were on the corner of Jefferson and Railroad streets. They employed twenty men in their works and were manufacturers and wholesale and retail dealers in fine carriages, buggies, cutters, carts, harness, whips and robes. They made a specialty of the celebrated bay spindle wagon and had a large and extensive wholesale trade to which they principally gave their attention.
He was a republican in political belief.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 347.

2 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 630.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 245.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 913.