Husband Chester David Sensenich 1 2 3
Born: 8 Jan 1867 - Compass, Chester Co, PA 2 3
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Father: Jacob Heasten Sensenich (1829-Aft 1906) 1 2 3
Mother: Mary Eaby (1832-1914) 1 2 3 4
Marriage: 8 Jun 1899 - Redstone, Fayette Co, PA 1 3 5
• Additional Image: Chester D. Sensenich.
Wife Carrie Edna Boyd 1 5 6
Born: 15 Nov 1872 - Redstone, Fayette Co, PA 3
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Father: Robert Boyd (1834-1916) 7 8
Mother: Margaret Ann Gray (1837-1931) 6 7 9
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1 F Zelma Boyd Sensenich 1 3 5
Born: 9 Jun 1900 - Irwin, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 5 10
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Spouse: Ralph Alfred Kuhn (1894- ) 10 11
Marr: 22 Aug 1923 - Irwin, Westmoreland Co, PA 10
2 F Ila Mary Sensenich 3
AKA: Mary Meila Sensenich 1 5
Born: 4 Mar 1902 - Irwin, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 5 12
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3 M Chester George Sensenich 1 3
AKA: Chester Boyd Sensenich 5
Born: 20 Jun 1904 - Irwin, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 5 12
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Spouse: Isabel Warren Scull (1905- ) 12
Marr: 7 May 1927 - Irwin, Westmoreland Co, PA 12
4 M Louis Eaby Sensenich 3 5
Born: 31 Aug 1906 - Irwin, Westmoreland Co, PA 5 12
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5 M Boyd Steel Sensenich 3 5
Born: 5 Oct 1908 - Irwin, Westmoreland Co, PA 5 12
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Spouse: Mary Gladys Buchanan (1910- ) 12
Marr: 7 Jun 1935 - Irwin, Westmoreland Co, PA 12
6 M Gray Franklin Sensenich 3 5
Born: 18 Jul 1910 - Irwin, Westmoreland Co, PA 5 12
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7 M Earl Ward Sensenich 3 5
Born: 14 Mar 1914 - Irwin, Westmoreland Co, PA 5 12
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General Notes: Husband - Chester David Sensenich
He was born at Compassville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and removed with his parents in early life to Irwin, Westmoreland County, where his parents thereafter made their home. It was in the public schools of Irwin that he received his education and completed the same with a commercial course at night school. After graduating from the latter institution he was taken by his father into the latter's contracting business, where he learned the trade of stone-cutting, attaining so great a proficiency in that craft that he came to do all the fine engraving for the firm. In the year 1901 Mr. Sensenich formed a partnership with Louis S. Malone and the two young men bought the foundry near Irwin, known as the Irwin Novelty Company. Here they began the manufacture of mine cars and other equipment for mines under the name of the Irwin Foundry and Mine Car Company. This enterprise was a success from the outset and grew rapidly to large proportions. Their plant became one of the most important of the many industries that flourished at Irwin and in its vicinity.
Conspicuous as was Mr. Sensenich as a business man, he was perhaps even better known through his prominent connection with local politics. He was always a staunch Republican and took an extremely active part in the politics of the county, affiliating himself with the local organization of his party. He had not been connected thus for many years before his political colleagues recognized him as one of their leaders, and as early as 1894 he was a delegate to the State convention where Governor Hastings was nominated and was the Huff delegate from his county when Colonel George F. Huff was nominated for Congress. In 1896 he was elected county chairman of the Republican committee and it was the duties involved in this office that caused him to withdraw from his father's business. In the following year he was chosen to fill the office of clerk of courts, where he served for the full term of three years. In 1901 he withdrew temporarily from politics while he was engaged in founding and developing the business with which his name became so prominently associated, and this retirement lasted for a considerable period, but with his success came a larger and larger association with the commercial and financial interests of the region. In the spring of 1905 he was elected president of the Jersey Serial Food Company of Irwin, a concern which manufactured "Jersey Flakes" and which was one of the most flourishing concerns of Irwin with a market for their food extending all over the United States. He was also one of the organizers of the Citizens' National Bank of Irwin, Pennsylvania. However, he did not altogether give up political association and remained a member of the Republican county committee, on which he has served for twenty-five years, elected chairman in 1910 and I911. In 1912 he once more became one of the most prominent figures in politics in that part of the state and was elected to represent his county in the State Senate. He served on mines and mining, appropriations, judicial, special, public grounds and building committees. He also served on the borough council of Irwin.