David Lindsey Cunningham and Agnes Parker

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Husband David Lindsey Cunningham ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Wayne Twp, Lawrence Co, PA
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         Father: William W. Cunningham (Abt 1827-1869) 1
         Mother: Nancy Van Eman (      -      ) 1

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Wife Agnes Parker ^{2 3}

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         Father: John Parker (      -1897) 4 5
         Mother: Agnes Jackson (      -      ) 5 6

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - David Lindsey Cunningham

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He attended the district schools in Wayne township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and worked on the homestead until his marriage. He went to housekeeping with his young wife on a farm of eighty-four acres near New Wilmington, in Mercer County. There they built a good house and barn, improved the land, and lived in peace and full contentment until 1890. At that date Ellwood City was springing into prominence in Lawrence County as a growing young city, full of rich opportunities for those who would but seize them and take advantage of them. After thoroughly looking the ground over, and becoming convinced of Ellwood City's splendid adaptation as a business center, he decided to rent his farm, and to merge himself in with the commercial life of the place. He erected one of the first buildings used for a store, and for two years he was engaged in dealing in merchandise on the corner of Seventh Street and Lawrence Avenue. He built eight dwelling-houses, all of which were rented except the handsome brick residence on the corner of Fifth Street and Fountain Avenue, which became familiar to all Ellwood City residents as the Cunningham home. In co-operation with George B. Nye, Mr. Cunningham owned a farm of thirty-five acres which they laid out for a cemetery, and eight hundred acres in the oil district of Slippery Rock township with Robert C. Aiken. He was elected constable and tax collector of the city in 1892.

1 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 187.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 1013.

3 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 187, 407.

4 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 187, 406.

5 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 1012.

6 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 406.