Hon. Franklin Howell Agnew and Nancy K. Lauck

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Husband Hon. Franklin Howell Agnew ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 6 Apr 1842 - Beaver, Beaver Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Hon. Daniel Agnew (1809-1902) 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Elizabeth Moore (Abt 1809-1888) 8 9 10 11

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       Marriage: 16 Jul 1885 12

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Wife Nancy K. Lauck ¹³

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            AKA: Nan K. Lauch 12
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         Father: Rev. William F. Lauck (      -      ) 13
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1 F Elizabeth Agnew ¹²

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Franklin Howell Agnew

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He was reared in Beaver, PA, and received his earliest education in the old Beaver Academy. He afterwards attended Jefferson College, from which he was graduated in 1862. After his graduation he taught in the Beaver Academy, then in Washington County. Being desirous of obtaining a thorough knowledge of book-keeping, he attended the Iron City Business College where he took a thorough course, and was afterward a teacher in the same institution. Returning to Beaver, he became principal of old Beaver Academy. He then went on the the United States Coast Survey, which he resigned in 1871. In 1872 he began the study of law in his father's office, and, after his admission to the bar, he formed a partnership with John M. Buchanan, which continued till 1887.

He was educated at Beaver Academy and at Jefferson College, where he was graduated in 1862. He afterwards graduated from and taught in, Iron City Commercial College, Pittsburgh. He was principal of Beaver Academy, 1864-65, resigning to accept a position in the United States Coast Survey in the autumn of 1865. During his term of service in the Coast Survey he was engaged in some very important work, such as large primary triangulation, where in some cases the sides of the triangles would run from fifty to sixty miles; accurate measurement of lines by means of the base measuring apparatus; the measurement of an arc of meridian from Nantucket to the northern part of Maine; the measurement of longitude across the continent from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, California, and incidentally connected with this, the accurate determination of latitudes by means of the zenith telescope. He was one of the Coast Survey party observing the total eclipse of the sun at Shelbyville, Kentucky, in 1869. Mr. Agnew was to have been one of the party for the determination of longitude between Washington City, Greenwich, and Paris, by means of the Atlantic cable, but through ill health was compelled to forego it. Resigning his position in the Coast Survey, he was admitted to the bar of Beaver County in September, 1872, after studying law with his father, the Hon. Daniel Agnew. He formed a partnership with John M. Buchanan, Esq., under the firm name of Agnew & Buchanan.
In 1882, at the solicitation of friends, he was induced to run for the State Senate in the Washington-Beaver District; was elected, and served four years, including the famous extra session of 1883.
Owing to ill health he was compelled to give up all work and go to California in the early part of 1891. After remaining there for eight years, he returned to his native town, where he again took up residence. In later years Mr. Agnew was engaged in some important scientific researches.

1 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 617.

2 Rev. Joseph A. Bausman, A.M, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York, NY: The Knickerbocker Press, 1904), Pg 232.

3 Edward B. Reighard, John Agnew of Hominy Ridge (Clearfield, PA: Self-published, 1984), Pg 4.

4 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 609.

5 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 57.

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 680.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 125.

8 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 610.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 85.

10 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 438.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 126.

12 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 618.

13 Rev. Joseph A. Bausman, A.M, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York, NY: The Knickerbocker Press, 1904), Pg 233.