Carter G. Dempsey and [Unk] Cloven

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Husband Carter G. Dempsey ^{1 2}

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           Born: 13 Apr 1839 - Ravenna, Portage Co, OH 1 2
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         Father: Thomas Carter Dempsey (1806-1884) 1 2
         Mother: Mary Ann Arthurs (1807-1866) 1 2

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       Marriage: Jun 1866 1

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Wife [Unk] Cloven

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            AKA: Rhoda Clover 2
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         Father: Harrison Cloven (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 M Carter G. Dempsey, Jr. ²

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2 M Harry Dempsey ^{1 2}

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3 M Benton Thomas Dempsey ^{1 2}

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4 F Mary Dempsey ²

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General Notes: Husband - Carter G. Dempsey

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He was born in Deerfield, Portage County, Ohio. [HCC 1885, 1017]

He did not have many school advantages, most of his earlier years being occupied in clearing the farm and helping support the family, and such education as he received was by the aid of his mother, who was a lady of sterling qualities, and a literary turn of mind. At the age of fifteen he purchased what became known as the "Dempsey farm," in Venango County, which he paid for by hard work and good management. Kane City was located on this farm. Twenty-four oil-producing wells were to be found there, all of which he owned, as well as several other farms in Venango County. Mr. Dempsey, with the aid of a gentleman in Philadelphia, organized a stock company known as the Eagle Spring Oil & Refining Company, in which Mr. Dempsey cleared about $200,000, part of which he lost by sinking other wells that failed to produce oil. Besides the Dempsey farm he owned 1,000 acres in Forest County, nearly 9,000 acres in Tennessee and the Spring Valley stud farm in Crawford County, where he had from thirty-five to fifty thoroughbred and trotting horses. He was also a breeder of short-horn cattle. For several years Mr. Dempsey spent several months during the summer and fall, attending the noted trotting races, where he was familiarly known by all horse men as the "Great American Pool Seller." From 1860 to 1872 he owned and operated several stores in different towns in Pennsylvania, doing an immense business. [HCC 1885, 1017]

1 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1017.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 75.