Robert Hutchinson Woodburn and Nancy Boyles

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Husband Robert Hutchinson Woodburn ^{1 2}

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           Born: 5 Feb 1837 - Freeport, Armstrong Co, PA 1 3
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           Died: 13 Aug 1922 4
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         Father: John Woodburn (Abt 1805/1807-1849) 3 5
         Mother: Jane Hutchinson (      -1885) 1 3

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       Marriage: 15 Mar 1866 4

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Wife Nancy Boyles ^{1 6}

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           Died: 28 Jun 1918 4
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         Father: Ebenezer Boyles (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Dinah McClelland (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M George Boyles Woodburn ^{3 7}

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           Born: 9 May 1869 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Anna Mary Bleakley (1877-      ) 4 8 9
           Marr: 4 Feb 1903 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 4 9

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2 F Jennie Woodburn ^{1 6}

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         Spouse: George Edward Glines (1867-      ) 6
           Marr: 9 Oct 1895 - ? Venango Co, PA 10

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3 M Robert Woodburn ⁴

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           Died: in infancy
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 M H. Percival "Pearcy" Woodburn ^{1 4}

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           Died: Bef 1913
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General Notes: Husband - Robert Hutchinson Woodburn

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At eleven years of age, owing to the death of his father, he was obliged to make his own living. He went to Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and secured a position with James Caldwell, a merchant. At the outbreak of the Civil War, when the call came for volunteers, he enlisted two companies of one hundred men each, serving as a non-commissioned officer in one of them, and was engaged in some of the hardest struggles of the battlefield at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. Having by his fearlessness been recognized as a true leading military spirit, he was promoted to captaincy, by which title he was familiarly known always after. At the close of the war, Mr. Woodburn formed a partnership with his brother James, conducting a wholesale and retail dry goods business, which later became wholesale exclusively, and was known as the J. & R. H. Woodburn Company. Mr. Woodburn was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church and served as its elder for over forty-five years, and was particularly interested in Sunday School work. He was what one might term "the father of baseball" in Franklin, having introduced this form of athletics upon his return from the Civil War, and in the opening chapter of James B. Borland's book, "Fifty Years of Baseball," is an article which speaks of Mr. Woodburn's activities in that line.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 465.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 82, 416.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 82.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 83.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 464.

6 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 83, 416.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 263, 465.

8 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 787.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 263.

10 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 416.