Alpha William Colegrove and Ellen L. Burdick

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Husband Alpha William Colegrove ¹

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           Born: 5 Jun 1844 - Colegrove, McKean Co, PA 1
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         Father: William Jonathan Colegrove (1821-1893) 2
         Mother: Eunice Hayford Wright (1821-1907) 1

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       Marriage: 24 Dec 1868 3

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   Other Spouse: Anna E. Pevey (      -1888) 3

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   Other Spouse: Hannorah G. Higgins (1871-      ) 3

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Wife Ellen L. Burdick ³

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           Born: 19 Nov 1846 - Norwich, McKean Co, PA 3
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           Died: 6 Oct 1869 - Port Allegany, McKean Co, PA 3
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Alpha William Colegrove

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He attended the public schools of his native town, and although but seventeen years of age at the outbreak of the Civil War, enlisted in the Forty-second Regiment, Thirteenth Pennsylvania Reserves, nicknamed the "Bucktail Regiment." On December 17, 1861, he took part in the battle of Gainesville, the first victory gained by the Army of the Potomac. The rigors of strenuous campaigns, however, was too much for his youthful strength, and in December, 1862, he was discharged for physical disability, and for two years was in ill health. He then returned to school, graduating from the Smethport academy, later attending Lima College at Lima, New York. His education was completed by a business course in Eastman's College, Poughkeepsie, New York. During the year 1866, he worked on his father's farm and the following year was employed as a mercantile clerk in Westfield, Pennsylvania. In 1868 he engaged in the hardware business in Port Allegany, Pennsylvania, and until 1873 was a surveyor on an engineer corps in the West, again establishing in the hardware business in the latter year, this time at Sardinia, Erie County, New York, where he continued until 1880. For the fifteen following years he was employed by the Standard Oil Company, for five years acting as foreman, with headquarters at Colegrove; and in 1895 he opened a drug store in Smethport, selling out two years later. He was actively interested in politics as a Republican, was justice of the peace, court crier and road supervisor in Norwich township. He held the thirty-second degree in the Masonic order, belonging to McKean Lodge, No. 388, Free and Accepted Masons, of Smethport; Arnold Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Coudersport Consistory. He was also a member of the Central Club of Smethport.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 105.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 104.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 106.