John B. Garrison and Abigail Bloom

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Husband John B. Garrison ^{1 2}

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           Born: 27 Jul 1827 - Pike Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 1
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         Father: Mason Garrison (      -1861) 1 3
         Mother: Elizabeth "Betsey" Bloom (      -Abt 1850) 1 3

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       Marriage: 1848 1

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Wife Abigail Bloom ^{1 2}

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           Born: 12 Jul 1828 2
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         Father: John Bloom (1786-1872) 4 5 6
         Mother: Susanna "Susie" High (1788-1874) 6

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Children

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1 F Catharine Garrison ⁷

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         Spouse: T. Farnsworth (      -      ) 7

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2 F Philena Garrison ⁷

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         Spouse: William K. Henderson (      -      ) 7

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3 F Julia A. Garrison ⁷

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         Spouse: William Kanar (      -      ) 7

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4 F Mirta T. Garrison ⁷

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         Spouse: Elmer Smith (      -      ) 7

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5 M Jesse B. Garrison ⁷

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General Notes: Husband - John B. Garrison

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In a private school of his native county, he was educated, and upon the home farm he became familiar with agricultural pursuits, which he decided to make his life work. Upon his marriage he left the parental roof and located on a farm in Pike township, which was his home for many years. It was covered with a heavy growth of timber, which he at once began to clear, erected a small house and later built a sawmill, where he converted his trees into lumber, which he would then raft down the river to market; but the prices he received were very small. From time to time he purchased other wooded tracts of land, and from the timber manufactured lumber, successfully continuing this business for thirty years. He then gave his attention exclusively to the cultivation and improvement of his farm of ninety-two acres, eighty of which were cleared of the stumps and placed under the plow. His residence was a good, two-story frame structure, located two miles south of Curwensville, and was surrounded by all the outbuildings to be found on a model farm. In the orchard was a fine variety of fruit trees, which never failed to bear. In connection with his home farm Mr. Garrison had also sixty-three acres of raw timber land in Lawrence township, at the mouth of Hog Back run, on which had been opened up a fire-clay mine, while underlying his farm was a good grade of coal, and also fire-clay.

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Notes: Marriage

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They were the parents of eight children, of whom five grew to adulthood.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1005.

2 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 551.

3 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 602.

4 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 631.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 753.

6 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 548.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1006.