Walter Selby Beers and Mildred E. Zeller

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Husband Walter Selby Beers ¹

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           Born: 6 Aug 1860 - Ridgefield, Fairfield Co, CT 1
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           Died: Aft 1919
         Buried: 

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         Father: Henry Irving Beers (1830-1917) 2
         Mother: Kate E. Miller (1841-1886) 1

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       Marriage: 1923 - ? Venango Co, PA

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   Other Spouse: Emma Pauline Reinbold (1874-1904) 1 3 - 16 Sep 1896 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 4

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Wife Mildred E. Zeller

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           Born: 1892
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           Died: 1926
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Walter Selby Beers

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He was four years old when he came with his parents to McClintockville, PA, on Oil creek, near Oil City, and his early edu­cation was acquired in the local public schools. After completing the high school course he attended the Park Avenue Institute at Bridgeport, Conn., where he pursued his advanced studies, and then for six years he filled a position in the First National Bank of Oil City, PA. He has been interested in the oil business and familiar with its details most of his life, from the time he was fourteen years old spending his vacations at employment in the oil fields. After leaving the bank he entered the oil business as a producer, and was a member of the Center Oil Company and Beers Brothers & Co., operating in the Pennsylvania and Indiana fields. The early practical experience which Mr. Beers acquired has enabled him to keep in the closest touch with the particulars of operation, even in a business where knowledge of such matters is almost as indispensable to the executives as to the workers, and his mechanical ability has been manifested in the production of a number of useful appliances now in popular use among oil operators. He has invented and patented various oil well tools, and the Beers Brothers patent valve, used in pumping oil, was recognized as one of the best friends of the producers, who have a large amount of water to contend with, it having a larger capacity than any other valve in the market. The firm of Beers Brothers, of Oil City, of which he was a member, also patented many automobile parts and were engaged in the manufacture of those as well as of the patent valve mentioned, doing a large business as dealers and jobbers in automobile and garage supplies.
Mr. Beers made his home in Oil City and was well known there in social as well as business circles, holding membership in the Venango Club and the B. P. O. Elks, and serving as a trustee of the latter lodge. He also belonged to Fraternal Lodge No. 483, F. & A. M., of Rouseville, beginning in 1891, and was affiliated with Venango Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree, of Oil City. [CAB, 430]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 430.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 426.

3 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 872.

4 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #3467.