Stewart Herbert Whitehill and Twila C. Cale

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Husband Stewart Herbert Whitehill ^{1 2}

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           Born: 5 Dec 1850 - Summerville, Jefferson Co, PA 1
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           Died: 4 Mar 1916 - Brookville, Jefferson Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Brookville Cemetery, Brookville, Jefferson Co, PA

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         Father: Dr. Stewart Herbert Whitehill (1818-      ) 1
         Mother: Lavina [Unk] (1831-Aft 1917) 1

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       Marriage: 1914 3

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   Other Spouse: Mary A. Shepherd (      -1904) 2 3 - 1876 3

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Wife Twila C. Cale ³

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General Notes: Husband - Stewart Herbert Whitehill

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His public school training was received at Summerville and Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, and he was later a student in the Corsica Academy and Carrier Seminary (which later became the Clarion Normal School), taking his higher course in the Indiana (Pa.) Normal School, of which he was one of the first graduates, being valedictorian of the class of 1876. His early ambition was for the legal profession, and he took up the study of law immediately upon his graduation from normal school, in the offices of Hons. William P. and George A. Jenks, preparing for the bar examination in an unusually short time and passing it successfully. He began independent practice in 1878, and carried it on to the end of his life. In 1905 he was the Democratic nominee for judge in Jefferson County. In 1915 he was again a candidate for the nomination for that office, and conducted a lively campaign, which was no doubt a severe tax on his already failing strength, his heart having been weak for a number of years before his death. Indeed, he had to give up work a number of times, but he always resumed his activities as soon as possible, and he accomplished many things which a less ambitious nature would have hesitated to undertake. At the time of his death a Brookville paper spoke thus of his life and work:
"Mr. Whitehill was a man who was known for honesty of purpose. When he believed in a principle he was fearless in the advocacy of what he believed was right. He was a kind and affectionate father and keenly enjoyed the companionship of his friends and loved ones. He will be much missed by a large circle of friends in this community who will remember him on account of the influence he always exerted for good. . . Many newspaper articles that he was the author of found their way into print; most of these were prose, but a number were in verse. He was always deeply interested in the temperance cause, and all his life he was opposed to the liquor business. Most of his newspaper articles were on the evils of intemperance, and he never failed to oppose the saloon when he had the opportunity. The deceased was a member of the Brookville M. E. Church, having put his church certificate here from another church of the same denomination of which he became a member in his early youth. He was the superintendent of the Sunday school here for four years, a teacher of one of the Sunday school classes for over twenty years, a class leader for three years, and for thirty years in succession and up to the time of his death a member of the board of trustees."
His funeral services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. Homer B. Potter, assisted by Rev. Dr. W. S. Fulton, and the pallbearers were official members of the church.

1 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 34.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 129.

3 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 35.