William M. Cathcart and Martha Jane Read

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Husband William M. Cathcart ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 24 Feb 1827 - Ansonville, Clearfield Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: David J. Cathcart (Abt 1800-1877) 1 2
         Mother: Keziah Wilson (Abt 1810-1865) 1 2

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       Marriage: Jun 1859 2 3

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   Other Spouse: Rebecca Dunlap (      -      ) 4 5 - Aug 1897 4

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Wife Martha Jane Read ^{2 3 6}

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            AKA: Jane Reed 1
           Born: 14 Oct 1837 3
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           Died: May 1893 - Knox Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 2 3
         Buried:  - Mt. Zion Cemetery, Knox Twp, Clearfield Co, PA

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         Father: Ross Read (1807-1881) 3 6
         Mother: Mary Thompson (1811-1885) 3 6

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Children

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1 M Edward I. Cathcart ^{2 7}

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           Died: Bef 1898
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         Spouse: Mary Alice Ferguson (      -      ) 2 8

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2 F Edith Ann Cathcart ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: in childhood
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Mary Alice Cathcart ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
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           Died: in childhood
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Emma Olive "Ollie" Cathcart ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
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           Died: in her teen years
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 M Harry Allen Cathcart ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Rhoda Norris (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - William M. Cathcart

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His opportunities for education were meager, as his services were needed on the farm in the summers and in the woods, getting out timber, in the winters. After his first marriage he settled on a part of the homestead farm and made use of the buildings then standing, but these were later destroyed by fire and he erected new ones. In 1885 he moved to Olanta but continued to partially look after his farm interests, although his son, Edward Cathcart, was the general manager of the farm industries. Mr. Cathcart sold some land adjacent to Olanta, two acres to a coal company, which has been divided into lots and improved. Mr. Cathcart leased an open coal bank on his farm to the firm of Brown, Snyder & Co. He had other interests, at one time owning 160 acres of land in California, which he sold, and both he and wife were stockholders in the Curwensville National Bank.
He and his wife were members of the Lutheran church at Olanta. In politics he was a Republican.

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General Notes: Wife - Martha Jane Read

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from Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 567.

2 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 574.

3 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 11.

4 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 577.

5 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 14.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 660.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 567, 1010.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 567, 904, 1009.