Henry Alexander Colwell and Phebe Bratton Mosgrove

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Husband Henry Alexander Colwell ¹

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           Born: 15 Jul 1844 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Alexander Colwell (1812-1902) 2
         Mother: Rebecca Pritner (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 16 Jan 1867 1

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Wife Phebe Bratton Mosgrove ¹

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         Father: Hon. James Mosgrove (1821-      ) 3 4
         Mother: Rebecca Jane Brown (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M James Mosgrove Colwell ¹

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           Died: 26 Apr 1913 - Salem, VA 1
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         Spouse: Marion Hyde (      -      ) 1

         Spouse: Ida M. Sparry (      -      ) 1

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2 M John A. Colwell ¹

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           Died: 6 Aug 1913 - Anniston, Calhoun Co, AL 1
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         Spouse: Helen Wally (      -      ) 1

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3 M Henry Clifford Colwell ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Henry Alexander Colwell

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He attended school at Mahoning Furnace, Pennsylvania, later was a pupil in the academy at Sewickley for two years, and for one year attended school at Elder's Ridge. In 1861 he found employment at Kittanning as a clerk in the general mercantile establishment of McConnell & Campbell, with whom he remained about eighteen months. He next entered the employ of R. L. Brown & Co., who had an iron and rolling mill business at Kittanning, remaining with them about two years, and in March, 1865, took the position of superintendent at the Mahoning iron fur-nace. So well did he look after the affairs of that company in this responsible capacity that he became his father's partner and remained there until the plant was abandoned in the spring of 1878. In 1879 he became a partner and foreman of the coal and iron mines of the Kittanning Iron Company (Limited), of which his father was one of the organizers, this concern in time becoming the Kittanning Iron and Steel Company. He was thereafter associated with this business, of which he was one of the owners since 1879, and he became the last survivor of the original group who organized the company. Upon the reorganization, when the concern took its later title, Mr. Colwell became vice president and superintendent. About three hundred hands were regularly employed, a fact which made the prosperity of the plant of the utmost importance to the well-being of the locality. Mr. Colwell was an all-around business man, and in addition to his manufacturing and banking interests had valuable holdings of farm lands in the county, which he managed with the same good judgment which marked his conduct of other affairs. He was prominently associated with local financial institutions, being president of the National Kittanning Bank and a director of the Farmers' National Bank. [HAC 1914, 561]

He was a Mason, belonging to Blue Lodge No. 244 at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and he was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of New York. He and his wife attended the Episcopal Church.

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 561.

2 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 560.

3 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 593.

4 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 562.