Theodore Hill Cunningham and Harriet Josephine Letton

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Husband Theodore Hill Cunningham ^{1 2}

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           Born: 11 Jun 1836 - Brown Twp, Mifflin Co, PA 2
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           Died: Aft 1897
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         Father: Jesse Alexander Cunningham (      -1850) 1 2
         Mother: Jane Brown Alexander (1809-Aft 1878) 1 3

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       Marriage: 1 Dec 1863 - Washington, D. C. 4

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Wife Harriet Josephine Letton ⁴

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         Father: M. H. Letton (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Mary Sands (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Theodore Hill Cunningham

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After attending the Tuscarora Academy, he worked for two years on the farm, and then, in 1854, went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was employed in the Mercantile Bureau for one year, and then returned to his studies, this time at the Kishacoquillas Seminary. He was afterwards employed in Philadelphia until 1861; for the ensuing four years he was clerk in the War Department, at Washington, D. C., under Secretary E. M. Stanton. In Philadelphia again, he was in the wholesale trade for seven years, and then, in 1872, went to Osborne County, Kansas. There he had a varied and no doubt interesting experience of "wild western" life. He was engaged in the buffalo robe and fur trade; the modus operandi was, to go with teams to the hunting grounds of Wyoming, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico, hunt the buffaloes and other fur-bearing animals, collect the pelts and take them to the Indian villages to be dressed for the market. Nine years passed in this life on the plains, after which he returned to Philadelphia, and engaged once more in the wholesale trade.

1 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 52.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 589.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 590.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 591.