Alfred W. Britton and Minnie J. Bowers

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Husband Alfred W. Britton ¹

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           Born: 13 May 1887 - Crawford Co, PA 2
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         Father: Charles P. Britton (1852-Bef 1927) 2 3 4
         Mother: Emma E. Bannister (1853-      ) 2 3

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       Marriage: 16 Dec 1909 - ? Venango Co, PA 5

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Wife Minnie J. Bowers ⁶

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         Father: Joseph Bowers (1846-1914) 7
         Mother: Margaret Elizabeth Wanamaker (1851-      ) 6

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Children

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1 F Ruth Britton ⁵

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2 F Elizabeth Britton ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Alfred W. Britton

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He was born on the paternal farm near Guys Mills, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and was the fourth son in the family. He began his studies at the local country schools, which he attended for two terms, until the family moved to Meadville to enable his father to look after his duties as sheriff more conveniently. After three years' residence in that city they located on a farm again, this time at Hartstown, Crawford County, where Mr. Britton finished his common school course. Then he was a student in the Meadville high school for three years, and on leaving school entered the drug store of G. W. Brock, of Meadville, as an apprentice. On the completion of the required two years' service he took the examination of the State Board of Pharmacy and passed successfully as an assistant pharmacist, taking a position as such in Oil City in the fall of 1905 and working for a year. In 1906 he entered the University of Pittsburgh as a student in the department of pharmacy, and worked his way while taking the course, which he completed in 1908, graduating May 13, 1908, on his twenty-first birthday, as president of his class. Mr. Britton at once returned to Oil City, where he was employed as a pharmacist until July, 1911, when in partnership with Thomas Gaddess he bought the E. J. Griffith establishment, one of the oldest drug stores in Venango County. In July, 1912, Mr. Britton purchased the interest of Mr. Gaddess, thereby becoming sole owner of the business, and Britton's became one of the best known drug houses in western Pennsylvania, having an especially high reputation for absolute reliability as to the quality of its goods and considerate treatment of all patrons. The store was at No. 223 Center Street, Oil City. He was also associated with his brothers-in-law and other local men in the Bowers Torpedo Company, manufacturers of nitroglycerin and oil well shooters, being president of the company. He was also interested in oil production.
Mr. Britton identified himself with social activities and a number of fraternal bodies in Oil City, holding membership in Fraternal Lodge, No. 483, F. & A. M.; Venango Lodge of Perfection; Oil City Lodge, No. 589, I. O. O. F., and Oil City Lodge, No. 344, B. P. O. Elks. He was a thirty-second-degree Mason, affiliated with Pittsburgh Consistory.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 809, 1055.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1055.

3 Editor, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 928.

4 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 1202.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1056.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 809.

7 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 808, 816.