James J. Shryock and Mary Shryock

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Husband James J. Shryock ¹

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           Born: 12 Mar 1821 - Conneautville, Crawford Co, PA 1
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         Father: Gen. Daniel Shryock (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth McNarma (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 1871 1

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   Other Spouse: Priscilla L. Gill (      -1869) 1 - 1842 1

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Wife Mary Shryock ¹

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         Father: George A. Shryock (      -      ) 1
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General Notes: Husband - James J. Shryock

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He was educated at the Meadville Academy, graduating in 1837. He then clerked for his father till 1839, when he embarked in general merchandising. In 1855 he was appointed Director of the Pittsburgh & Erie Railroad Company by the commissioners of Crawford County, Pennsylvania. In 1857, in company with J. D. Gill, he bought the Cussewago Mills. In 1858 he became one of the incorporators of the Meadville Railroad Company, now merged into the Atlantic & Great Western, and was elected a Director. In 1859 he was one of the incorporators of the New York Division of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, and was chosen Director. In the same year he sent several samples of the newly discovered petroleum to London, England; in December, 1861, he purchased 3,000 barrels for that market. In 1864 he became one of the Board of Directors of the New Lisbon, Ohio, Railroad Company. In 1865 he was elected President of the Pennsylvania Division of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, the same year a Director in the Mercer Mining & Manufacturing Company and also of the Shenango & Allegheny Railroad Company. On the consolidation of the railroads of the Atlantic & Great Western Company, in 1866, he was elected Vice-President, and the same year was appointed a Director of the Pithole Railroad Company. When the Atlantic & Great Western passed into the hands of a receiver in 1867, Mr. Shryock was made his assistant, and in 1868 became President of the Shenango & Allegheny Company. He was elected President of the Meadville Water Company in 1874; in 1880 was elected President of the Meadville Railway Company.
He and his wife were members of the Park Avenue Congregational Church, of which he was a Trustee. He was also one of the incorporators and a Director of the Greendale Cemetery and for many years was a Trustee of Allegheny College. [HCC 1885, 769]

1 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 769.

2 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 763.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 368.