Grattan G. Best and Carrie Brownlee

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Husband Grattan G. Best ¹

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           Born: 9 Jun 1864 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: John A. Best (1838-      ) 1
         Mother: Jennie D. Roberts (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 25 Feb 1886 2

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Wife Carrie Brownlee ³

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         Father: Jonathan Brownlee (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Catherine Anderson (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Grattan G. Best

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He came in 1869 with his father to Washington, PA, where he was educated, spending two years at Trinity Hall, being the first scholar enrolled in that institution, and then went to Washington and Jefferson College, class of 1885. He studied bookkeeping at Duff's Commercial College, Pittsburgh, and then was in business with his father. He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, being past eminent commander of Jac­ques de Molay Commandery No. 2, the second oldest Commandery in the state of Pennsylvania, and was a thirty-second degree Mason. At the time Mr. Best was eminent commander he was the youngest command­er in the state.
He was a practical printer, and published the Weekly Financial Economist. He would say that he could not re­member a time when he could not set a stick of type, as he was raised in a printing office. He was very much interested in Sabbath-school work, and was superintendent of Jefferson Avenue M. E. Church Sunday-school, also president of the Epworth League.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 112.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 113.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 113, 1241.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1241.