Shed Simcox Raymond and Edith Gail De Armit

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Husband Shed Simcox Raymond ¹

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           Born: 25 Mar 1886 - Raymilton, Mineral Twp, Venango Co, PA
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         Father: Aaron Whitaker Raymond (1842-1894) 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth P. Simcox (1856-1945) 3

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Wife Edith Gail De Armit ^{4 5 6}

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         Father: Thompson Berry De Armit (1856-      ) 5 7 8
         Mother: Theodosia Emma Stotler (1856-      ) 6 7 9

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General Notes: Husband - Shed Simcox Raymond

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He had all the educational advantages afforded by the public schools, and later attended Grove City College, after which for a time he was superintendent of the Montgomery Broom Manufacturing Company at Grove City, where he remained for five years. For the two years following he was located at Albion, Pennsylvania, where he established himself in the business of dry cleaning and pressing, which he has followed successfully to the present time [1919]. From Albion he removed to Franklin, which has afforded a much larger field for his enterprise, and where he has a modernly equipped plant at Eighth and Liberty streets. As his patronage widened he founded a branch at Oil City, where he also does a large business, maintaining auto trucks at both places for collecting and delivering. He gives steady employment to ten hands. In a large part of his territory Mr. Raymond has had the double task of familiarizing the people with the scope of his business and its advantages besides demonstrating the superior work which his establishment is prepared to turn out, but the trade has been put upon a solid basis and is increasing steadily. He gives practically all his attention to the business, having few outside interests, though he maintains active membership in the Masonic fraternity, affiliating with Grove City Lodge, No. 603, F. & A. M., and Venango Lodge of Perfection at Oil City; he also belongs to Franklin Lodge, No. 110, B. P. O. Elks. [CAB, 674]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 674.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 768.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 539, 674.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 675.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 675.

6 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 144.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 422, 675.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 970.

9 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 495.