Husband Rev. Lucian Cort 1 2 3 4
Born: 18 Apr 1824 - Adamsburg, Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 3 5
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Died: 20 Mar 1905 4 6 7
Buried: - Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA
Father: Daniel Kort (1780-1859) 8 9
Mother: Elizabeth A. Turney (1786-1860) 3 6 8 10
Marriage: 1864 4 7
Other Spouse: Sarah G. McCleary ( - ) 11 - 12 Nov 1852 4 6 7
Other Spouse: Harriet Scott ( - ) 4 12 - 23 Mar 1858 6 7
Wife Mrs. Sabina Ochs 7 12
Born: - Bucks Co, PA
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Died: 1888 4
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1 F Hulda Cort 4 7 12
AKA: Huldah Cort 13
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Spouse: Oliver R. Snyder, Esq. (1858- ) 4 7 12 14
Marr: 8 Feb 1888 13
2 M Nevin Augustine Cort 4 7 12 15
Born: 20 Mar 1867 - Quakertown, Bucks Co, PA 4 7
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Spouse: Mary E. Laird ( - ) 4 15
Marr: 10 May 1894 4 16
3 F Ada Cort 4 7 12
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Spouse: Joseph McIlvaine ( - ) 12
General Notes: Husband - Rev. Lucian Cort
He studied in the local schools and at Marshall College in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. He was a sophomore in that college in 1846, but never graduated. In that year he left school and became a teacher, and was eventually elected professor of mathematics in a Presbyterian college at Dubuque, Iowa. He remained there, however, only two years and then returned East, owing to the delicate health of his wife. After her death, however, he returned to Mercersburg, where he completed his theological studies, preparatory to entering the ministry of the Reformed church. He then became pastor of Harmony Church in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and shortly afterwards was elected principal of the Clarion Collegiate Institute at Rimersburg, which he conducted most successfully for several years. He then removed to Quakertown, Pennsylvania, where he took charge of a church and was also the principal of an Academy. The Quakertown Academy afterwards had attached to it a soldiers' orphans school, and under the management of the Rev. Mr. Cort it was acknowledged to be one of the best institutions of its kind in the state. Mr. Cort also became an assistant in the Woman's College at Allentown, and later on established the Juniata Collegiate Institute. Mr. Cort, from the Juniata Collegiate Institute, was sent to Greensburg in his native county, and there he founded and became principal of the Greensburg Seminary, which he conducted with a high degree of success for several years. During all these years, when he was so active in educational work, he also continued his work as a minister of the Reformed church and was very active in religious circles throughout the western part of the state. He was for more than forty years chairman of the classical and synodical committees of examination and licensure of the Reformed Theological Seminary, a position for which his intellectual acquirements and training especially fitted him. Franklin & Marshall College was about to bestow upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, the commencement exercises of 1905 having been set as the date for this honor, but Mr. Cort's death, shortly before, intervened. In spite of his advanced age he remained active up to the end of his life.
After his ordination to the ministry of the Reformed church he was for a time located at Harmony, Pennsylvania, later devoting his time and talents to educational work. He was a gentleman of broad culture and found the latter field most congenial and enjoyable, being at different times connected in official capacity with some of the leading institutions of higher learning in the state. At one time Rev. Cort filled the chair of mathematics in a college in Dubuque, Iowa, and upon his return to the east conceived and brought into being Clarion Collegiate Institute, at Rimersburg, Pennsylvania, of which he was the owner for several years. A natural teacher and an instructor of force and power, he reserved for himself a place on the faculty of this institution, and by this relation to the student body gained an insight into and a sympathy with undergraduate life and problems invaluable to him in maintaining the spirit of co-operation and the oneness of purpose that must exist between teachers and pupils for a successful school. After severing his connection with this institution, Rev. Cort became superintendent of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, then went to Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where he was connected with the Allentown Female Seminary, and subsequently became identified with Juniata Collegiate Institute, at Martinsburg, Pennsylvania. After selling this institute he founded, the Greensburg Seminary, at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, retaining his interest in that institution until his retirement from active life. He died at Scottdale, Pennsylvania, aged eighty-four years. Rev. Cort was a minister of sincere and earnest convictions, a preacher easy and convincing in expression, and an educator who held true to the highest aims of education, striving not only to fill the minds of the students in his care with learning, but endeavoring to teach them to think and live to noble ends. [GPHWP, 1005]
He was a sophomore in Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1846, but was not graduated. Leaving school he became a teacher. He was elected professor of mathematics in a Presbyterian college in Dubuque, Iowa, but remained only two years because of the delicate health of his wife. After her death, he returned to Mercersburg, where he completed his theological studies preparatory to entering the ministry of the Reformed church. He became pastor of the Harmony church in Butler County and married again. Soon afterwards he was elected principal of Clarion Collegiate Institute, and conducted it successfully for several years. He was next removed to Quakertown, Pennsylvania, where, in addition to his pastoral work, he had charge of an academy, and under his instruction Dr. J. O. Stahr, president of Franklin and Marshall College, Rev. Dr. Moore, a missionary to Japan, and other young men now noted in church and educational work, were prepared for college. The Quakertown Academy afterwards had attached to it a soldiers' orphans' school, and under Rev. Corts' management it was acknowledged to be one of the best schools of its kind in Pennsylvania. He was also an assistant in the Woman's College at Allentown, and later on, established the Juniata Collegiate Institute. In this school, among others, Dr. Ebbert, president of Ursinus College, received his preliminary education. From the Juniata Collegiate Institute he was sent to Greensburg, in his native county, where he founded and became the principal of the Greensburg Seminary, which he conducted with success for several years. During all these years he was a preacher as well as a teacher. He was, moreover, a preacher of the old school, and had no sympathy with the so-called "New Theology," which to him seemed to call in question the inspiration of the Scriptures, the divinity of Christ, the atonement or the resurrection. For more than forty years he served as chairman of the classical and synodical committees of examination and licensure, because of his education and special fitness for the position. Franklin and Marshall College was ready to confer on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity at commencement exercises of 1905, but his death prevented them from making this tardy recognition of his worth. For the last few years of his life he had not been actively engaged, though he never ceased work. After a brief illness which confined him to his house only a few days, he died. [HWC 1906 III, 642]
General Notes: Wife - Mrs. Sabina Ochs
from Quakertown, Bucks Co, PA