John W. Ailes and Mary Axton

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Husband John W. Ailes ¹

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           Born: 1855 - East Pike Run Twp, Washington Co, PA 1
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         Father: Nickson Ailes (      -Bef 1910) 2
         Mother: Martha Deems (      -Aft 1910) 1 2

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Wife Mary Axton ¹

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         Father: Baltzer Axton (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary Leclere (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Gertrude Ailes ¹

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         Spouse: Edwin Latchem (      -      ) 1

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2 M Herbert Ailes ¹

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         Spouse: Margaret Minford (      -      ) 1

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3 M Warren Ailes ¹

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 M Oliver Ailes ¹

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5 F Helen Ailes ¹

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General Notes: Husband - John W. Ailes

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He was reared on the home farm near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and at Brownsville, and attended school until fourteen years of age, when he went to work in the Brownsville boat yards, under John S. Pringle, where he remained two years. By that time he had decided upon a business rather than a mechanical career and after completing a commercial course in a Pittsburgh college, entered the Brownsville Deposit and Discount Bank, of which he became teller and continued in that relation to the institution as long as it existed. When the National Deposit Bank was organized he was elected teller and continued to serve in that capacity until May, 1881, when he bought an interest in the Alps Coal Company, of California, Pennsylvania. For eighteen years, or until its absorption by the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, he served as treasurer and general manager of this company, also as treasurer and general manager of the Crescent and California Coal companies. On December 1, 1902, Mr. Ailes was chosen assistant secretary of this corporation. He took an active part in the organization of the banks at Roscoe and Donora, and was president of both institutions beginning in 1902, and was also a director in the First National Bank of California, and of several trust companies. His advice was frequently sought by large interests and his attitude in relation to financial matters was closely noted by financiers. Later Mr. Ailes was most actively engaged as treasurer and general manager of the Crescent Coal Company of Pittsburgh, a corporation shipping rail coal and operating three mines fully equipped.
The family home was situated at No. 324 Highland avenue, Donora, Pennsylvania. Mr. Ailes was identified with the Masons and Elks. Politically a Republican, he sought the success of that party, but accepted no public offices except those concerned with the public schools, of which he was a director.

1 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1108.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1188.