Eli Reep and Mary Jane Benninghoff

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Husband Eli Reep ¹

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            AKA: Eli J. Keep 2
           Born: 14 Jun 1832 - Fairview Twp, Butler Co, PA
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         Father: Isaac Reep (1787-1863) 1
         Mother: Mary Pontius (Abt 1797-1880) 1

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       Marriage: 22 Aug 1861 1

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Wife Mary Jane Benninghoff ^{1 3}

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           Born: 24 Jul 1839 - Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Benninghoff (1801-1882) 4 5 6
         Mother: Elizabeth Heise (1804-1872) 5 6 7

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Children

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1 M John W. Reep ¹

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2 M Eli E. Reep ¹

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3 F Etta A. Reep ¹

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4 F Achsah J. Reep ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Eli Reep

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He was reared on the farm, assisting his father in the home duties, and obtaining a meager education in the subscription school of the neighborhood, to which he was compelled to walk three miles through the forest. He was afterwards engaged on Oil creek in drilling and operating. He was married and they settled on a part of the Reep homestead, where they lived until September, 1884, and then removed to Fairview borough. He continued to own 130 acres of the tract entered by his grandfather, on which there were two produc­ing oil wells. The family were connected with the Methodist Episco­pal church. Though formerly a Republican, he became a Prohibitionist; served some years as borough assessor, and also was a member of the borough council. He was always active in church affairs, and served many years as steward, trustee and class leader.

1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 994.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 66.

3 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 777.

4 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 776, 1168.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 689.

6 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 127.

7 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 776.