Dr. James Lafayette Acomb and Seraph Oliver

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Husband Dr. James Lafayette Acomb ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 27 Feb 1828 - Stanford Bridge, Yorkshire, England 1 4
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           Died:  - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA
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         Father: Joseph Acomb (      -1834) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: Apr 1851 - Dansville, Livingston Co, NY 4

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Wife Seraph Oliver ¹

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            AKA: Sareph Oliver 3
           Born: 3 Nov 1821 - South Dansville, Livingston Co, NY 4
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         Father: Squire Charles Oliver (1789-      ) 1 4
         Mother: Phebe Willson (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M James Acomb ⁴

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           Born: 1853 4
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           Died: 1863 4
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Oliver G. Acomb ⁴

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           Born: 26 Feb 1856 4
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           Died: 27 Jul 1857 4
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Sharon Acomb ⁴

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           Born: 1860 4
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           Died: 1864 4
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Seraph May Acomb ^{1 4}

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           Born: 
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         Spouse: Dr. C. M. Knight (      -      ) 4

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5 F Lillian T. Acomb ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 6 Jan 1864 3
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           Died: Aft 1943
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         Spouse: Livingston LeGrand Hunter (1861-1902) 3 5 6 7
           Marr: 6 Jan 1887 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 3

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. James Lafayette Acomb

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He left home at the age of seven years, and by his own efforts and close application to business fitted himself for the medical profession, and graduated from the Syracuse Medical College in 1853. He studied medicine in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, where he began his medical practice, afterward moving to Cuba, Allegany County, there following his profession until 1865; then, after spending one year at Pithole, Venango County, Pennsylvania, moved from there to Tidioute, Warren County, where he resided and came to enjoy a large and remunerative practice in his profession. On settlement there he embarked in the drug and prescription business and dealt in all grades of fancy and staple goods of the drug trade. He was also an oil producer for over fifteen years. He was a volunteer surgeon in the army in 1862, and held some of the town offices. [HWC 1887, BP ii]

He was born in York, England. When he was about eight years of age he was brought with a brother and sister to America by his parents. The family settled at first at Dansville, New York, his father engaging in work on a farm. The father's death soon after brought the whole care of the farm and the burden of the bringing up of the family on the mother.
His first schools were that of the neighborhood, going from the district school of the vicinity to Rogersville Academy, and subsequently prepared for college, entering the medical college at Rochester, New York, from which institution he later received the degree of M. D.
After leaving the medical school he went for further study to Buffalo, New York, and for about a year was a physician at one of the hospitals of the place. He then went to Cuba, New York, and established his office there for the practice of his profession. Here he remained until 1867, when he came to Pennsylvania, and located at Pithole, Venango County, which was in the heart of the oil fields of that state. Here he practiced medicine and at the same time kept a drug store. After a year in this place he decided to come to Tidioute, Warren County, practicing his profession, and as before conducting at the same time a drug store. In this place he became very much interested in the oil business and was one of the first to strike oil, in the Bradford oil fields.
At the outbreak of the civil war he offered his services to his country and served as major in the Thirtieth Brigade Seventh Division of New York Militia. To the memory of Dr. Acomb, his wife and deceased children, there is erected in the Tidioute cemetery a beautiful granite monument with a life-size statue surmounting it of Dr. Acomb in his uniform of major. It is said to be a perfect likeness of the man.
Socially Dr. Acomb was a member of the Tidioute Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Pittsburgh Consistory. He was a member of a class, forty in number, of the Pittsburgh Consistory who went to England and received there the thirty-second degree. After this he travelled abroad extensively, visiting the Holy Land and other places of interest.

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Notes: Marriage

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They were married in 1863. [HWC 1887, BP ii] Seems odd.

1 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP ii.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 780.

3 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 299.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 781.

5 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Bios 42.

6 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 131.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 779.