Samuel Alvin Work and Ellen Adams

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Husband Samuel Alvin Work ^{1 2}

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           Born: 30 Jul 1877 1 2
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         Father: Henry Hartman Smith (1848-      ) 3
         Mother: Celia Jane Smith (1853-      ) 1

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         Father: John Harvey Work (      -      ) 2 4
         Mother: Jane McCreery (1840-1878) 2 4

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Wife Ellen Adams ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Alvin Work

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He lived with his foster parents from the age of four years. He was educated in the common schools and summer school of Fairfield township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, afterward studying for one term at New Wilmington College. He graduated from Monmouth College, and later entered the Allegheny United Presbyterian Seminary, where he remained three years. He was ordained to the ministry of the United Presbyterian church, and beginning in 1905 was living in Egypt as a missionary.
So rapid was his advancement when a boy at school that at the age of thirteen he successfully passed the county examinations and received a teacher's certificate, though of course too young to enter upon the duties of an instructor.

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General Notes: Wife - Ellen Adams

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from Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1019.

2 M. T. Steele & Edith Work, The Work Family (Marion Center, PA: Privately published, 1894), Pg 22.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1018.

4 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 459, 460.