Husband Benjamin F. Brundred 1 2
Born: 28 Jun 1849 - Paterson, Passaic Co, NJ 3
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Died: 28 Mar 1914 3
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Father: William James Brundred (1825-1889) 4
Mother: Rachel Magee (1826-1901) 4
Marriage: 3 Apr 1878 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
• Business: Crystal Spring Poultry Farm: Oil City, Venango Co, PA.
• Business: Crystal Spring Poultry Farm: Oil City, Venango Co, PA.
• Business: Crystal Spring Poultry Farm: Oil City, Venango Co, PA.
Wife Elizabeth Dilworth Loomis 1 3
Born: 13 Nov 1858 5
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Died: Aft 1919
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Father: Capt. Moses DeWitt Loomis (1822-1863) 1 3
Mother: Elizabeth Scott Dilworth (1825-1880) 3
Children
1 F Elizabeth Dilworth Brundred 1 6
Born: 17 May 1879 6
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Spouse: Harold Douglas Brown ( - ) 1 6
Marr: 1904 - ? Venango Co, PA
2 F Rachel Brundred 1 6
Born: 6 Aug 1881 6
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Spouse: John McCalmont Wilson ( - ) 6
Marr: 12 Apr 1910 7
3 M William James Brundred 1 6
Born: 24 Dec 1883 6
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4 F Ruth Brundred 1 6
Born: 14 Oct 1887 6
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Spouse: James Lynn Mitchell ( - ) 6
Marr: 1908 - ? Venango Co, PA
5 F Lois Brundred 6
AKA: Loomis Brundred 1
Born: 24 Dec 1889 6
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Died: 6 Jun 1973 - San Diego Co, CA
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6 M Benjamin Ford Brundred 6
Born: 7 Nov 1891 6
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Died: 2 May 1963 - Los Angeles Co, CA
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7 M Latham Loomis Brundred 1 6
Born: 2 Oct 1893 6
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Died: 23 Feb 1965 - San Diego Co, CA
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Spouse: Jean Elenor Miller ( - ) 6
Marr: 18 Dec 1917 6
General Notes: Husband - Benjamin F. Brundred
He was educated in the East, attending public school in Brooklyn, the Highland Military Academy at Worcester, Massachusetts, from which he was graduated in 1865, and Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College in New York City, coming to Oil City with his parents in July, 1866. Here he immediately took a position as clerk for the Empire Transportation Company and Green Line under his father, becoming chief clerk of the Empire Line in 1868, with charge of all the shipments of crude and refined oil made by that line from points on the railroad between Tidioute and Titusville. His duties included a vast amount of detail work because of the large number of refineries and loading racks located between those points, from which the shipments were made, but he handled them capably, and in 1870 received the appointment of chief clerk of the Green Line also, at that time the crude oil line of the Pennsylvania railroad, with loading racks at Parkers Landing, Foxburg, and many other points on the Allegheny Valley road. He continued to fill both positions until 1877, when he resigned to devote himself to the production of oil, having acquired valuable interests in Clarion and McKean counties, in the famous Edenburg district and Bradford fields. His first venture as a producer was made in partnership with his mother, and he took much satisfaction in its success, which enabled him to make a partial return to his parents to offset the large investments they had lost. In the fall of 1879, in association with Marcus Hulings and Dr. Harding, he built the Emerald Oil Works, a small refinery at the mouth of the Cornplanter River, which, later, remodeled and greatly enlarged, was well known as the Union Refinery, with its large barrel and paraffin works, all of which passed into the hands of the Standard Oil Company in October, 1882. Meantime it had been owned and successfully operated by Marcus Hulings, Gen. John A. Wiley, Wesley Chambers and Mr. Brundred, who was manager. When the transfer was made he went on with the Standard Oil Company in the same capacity, and when these works were abandoned, in the early eighties, he was appointed treasurer of the Eclipse Lubricating Oil Works, at Franklin. He then became president and general manager of the Imperial Refining Companies, having two refineries and barrel works at Oil City, holding that position until 1894, when on account of the transfer of the refining business to the seaboard the works were dismantled. From that time on he occupied himself with oil production, in which he was notably prosperous.
Mr. Brundred's tireless energy and progres-sive tendencies were as valuable to his home city as to the advancement of his own interests. He could conceive large undertakings and had the courage to develop his ideas and put them into practical application. He was one of the first to see how much Oil City might be benefited by an electric railway system and light and power plant, and was one of the earliest promoters of such enterprises locally, becoming a stockholder and director of the Oil City Rail-way Company (later merged with the Citizens' Traction Company and Light & Power Company) and one of the original directors of the Oil City Electric Light Company, being its first secretary and serving a term as president. For fourteen years he was president of the Oil City board of health, in which association he gave public-spirited service which conferred permanent benefits upon the city. He was a prominent member of Christ Church, and for thirty-four years vestryman and secretary of the vestry, at the end of that period becoming senior warden. [CAB, 419]
The Crystal Spring Poultry Company, a farm, was started by Mr. Brundred, after his retirement from the Standard, owing to ill health. The property, which was a few miles out from Oil City, was developed by him as a duck farm with the same energy which he put into all his undertakings. It was the largest farm of its kind in Pennsylvania, and from the beginning was conducted on a strictly business basis, as many as eighty-four thousand ducks having been raised for the market in one season.