Ory L. Rew and Mina A. Brown

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Husband Ory L. Rew ¹

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           Born: 26 Jan 1840 - Friendship, Allegany Co, NY 1
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         Father: Orris Rew (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Eunice Corbin (      -      ) 1

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   Other Spouse: Inez M. Babcock (      -1878) 1

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Wife Mina A. Brown ²

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         Father: Joseph G. Brown (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary Pierce (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Galena A. Rew ²

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2 F Ora L. Rew ²

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3 F Mary E. Rew ²

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General Notes: Husband - Ory L. Rew

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He remained at his birthplace up to the age of eighteen years, and received an excellent education. In the fall of 1859 he went west to Illinois, where he taught school, and being there when the Civil war broke out enlisted in Company B, 33d Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Later, when promoted, he was transferred to Company G of that regiment as first lieutenant, with which rank he served until the close of the war. He saw plenty of active service, principally in the South and West, being stationed on the Cash River in Arkansas and on duty in the Vicksburg campaign, after which he was transferred to the Department of the Gulf and sent to New Orleans. He also served in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama, having sufficient variety in his army life to make it very interesting, and he had many delightful reminiscences of those days along with the recollection of their serious experiences.
When the war ended Mr. Rew returned to Illinois and resumed teaching, following that profession in the winter seasons and carpenter work in the summer time for a few years. In 1868 he went to Iowa, where he was en­gaged in farming until 1875, in which year he went back to his native town in New York state, and for a time was in the foundry business there. In 1878 he went to Venango County, PA, locating on Bully Hill, but after three years' residence there returned once more to New York and during the next year followed the milling business. When he came back to Venango County in 1882 he took the position of superintendent on the Miller & Sibley farm on Bully Hill, and had charge of that property for the next twenty years. In 1902 he took up his residence in Franklin, where he made his home at No. 513 Elk Street, and the same year he entered the employ of the Galena-Signal Oil Company in an office position. He and his family were prominent workers in the Metho­dist Church, which he served as steward, and he was also an officer in Maj. W. B. Mays Post, No. 220, G. A. R. [HVC 1919, 1019]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1019.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1020.