George Covert Denney and Ruth Lilley Crowthers

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Husband George Covert Denney ¹

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           Born: 28 Mar 1881 - Luzerne Twp, Fayette Co, PA 1
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         Father: Ross Denney (1843-1926) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Frances Covert (1850-1909) 1

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       Marriage: 15 Oct 1907 2

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Wife Ruth Lilley Crowthers ²

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           Born:  - Coal Center, Washington Co, PA
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         Father: Joseph Benjamin Crowthers (1854-1930) 2 3
         Mother: Emma Jane Lilley (1859-1911) 2

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Children

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1 F Frances Jane Denney ²

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           Born:  - Coal Center, Washington Co, PA
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         Spouse: Calvin Elder Pollins (1903-      ) 4 5 6
           Marr: 8 Jun 1935 7

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2 M George C. Denney, Jr. ²

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3 M John Lawrence Denney ²

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4 M Thomas Denney ²

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General Notes: Husband - George Covert Denney

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He was educated in the public schools of Luzerne Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and prepared for a career as a teacher at the Southwestern State Normal School at California, Pennsylvania. He graduated from that institution in 1901, taught school for a year at West Bend, Pennsylvania, and then began his long business life. In 1903 he entered the employ of the Baker and Jackman Real Estate and Insurance Company, and later was employed by the Vesta Coal Company of California, Pennsylvania, a subsidiary of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company. He held this position for five years, leaving it to become a salesman for the Cooke-Wilson Electrical Supply Company of Pittsburgh. After two years in this work he became associated as a salesman with the Garlock Packing Company of Pittsburgh, taking up his duties on July 1, 1912, and continuing with them for over twenty years. The company was a manufacturer of mechanical rubber goods. Mr. Denney had a sales territory of fifteen counties in Pennsylvania, eight in West Virginia, and two in Maryland. Mr. Denney became a resident of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1915.
Mr. Denney was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Greensburg. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He belonged to Monongahela Valley Lodge, No. 461, of California, Pennsylvania; Brownsville Chapter, No. 164, Royal Arch Masons; the McKean Commandery, No. 80, Knights Templar, and Syria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Pittsburgh. He was a member of the Republican party and of the Greensburg Country Club. His recreation was golf.

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General Notes: Wife - Ruth Lilley Crowthers

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from Coal Center, Washington Co, PA

She belonged to the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was a member of the Phoebe Bayard Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution, also the Order of Eastern Star, White Shrine of Jerusalem.

1 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 573.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 574.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 975.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 538.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 880.

6 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 265, 574.

7 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 267.