David A. Orr and Lillie Black

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Husband David A. Orr ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Orrstown, Franklin Co, PA
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         Father: William Orr (1802-1880/1881) 3 4
         Mother: Mary A. Gish (1818-      ) 2 5

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Wife Lillie Black ²

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Children

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1 M Barclay Orr ²

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General Notes: Husband - David A. Orr

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He was born at Orrstown, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, a town founded by his father and brothers, whose name it bears, and was educated at the schools of that borough. He attended a high school at upper Strasburg for one term and later underwent private instruction. Having an early taste for newspaper writing, before he was eighteen years of age he became the associate editor of the Sentinel, a Democratic newspaper then published at Shippensburg, and subsequently removed to Carlisle. From Shippensburg he went, after a somewhat protracted trip through the western states and territories, to Pittsburgh, where he resided and was engaged in active business until January, 1879. In that month he purchased the Democratic Chronicle at Shippensburg, which paper he sold six months later, and, in October of the same year, together with his brother, purchased and took charge of Valley Spirit. Although he always took an active interest in politics, Mr. Orr was never a candidate for any public office of profit. He was, however, engaged in a number of private enterprises. In 1884 he was appointed by Gov. Pattison one of the trustees of the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Asylum at Harrisburg. He was a delegate from the Eighteenth Congressional District to the National Convention in 1884, which nominated Grover Cleveland for the presidency. He was a member of the executive committee and treasurer of the Revenue Reform Press Association of Pennsylvania.

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General Notes: Wife - Lillie Black

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from Pittsburgh, PA

1 Editor, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 674.

2 Editor, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 397.

3 Editor, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 671.

4 Editor, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 395.

5 Editor, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 672.