William Sterrett Daugherty and Martha V. Sansom

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Husband William Sterrett Daugherty ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: William S. Dougherty 4
           Born: 22 Jan 1846 - Saltsburg, Indiana Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: James Robinson Daugherty (1813-1893) 2 5 6
         Mother: Mary Ann Hart (1820/1822-1897) 2 5 6

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       Marriage: 19 Sep 1876 7

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Wife Martha V. Sansom ^{1 4 7}

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         Father: John Sansom (1792-1858) 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Pizel (1800-1898) 4

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1 M Hart B. Daugherty ⁷

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2 M Ross S. Daugherty ⁷

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General Notes: Husband - William Sterrett Daugherty

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He passed practically all his life in his native county-all but one year in Kansas, 1870, and one year in Brook­ville, 1872. He received his early education in the common schools and later attended Saltsburg Academy. After leaving school he learned the carpenter's trade, which he fol­lowed for three years, at the end of that time becoming interested in the drug business, in which he continued to be engaged, off and on, until 1872. At that time he became deputy sheriff under his father, who was then serving as sheriff, and he served three successive terms in that office, continuing with Sheriffs Wil­liam C. Brown and Daniel Ansley after his father's term expired. Toward the close of his third term, in 1881, he was elected protho­notary of Indiana County, was re-elected in 1884, and continued to hold that office until 1888, when he retired. In 1889 he was appointed to superintend the erection of the West Indiana school building. Late in the fall of that year he purchased the planing mill from his father, and he carried on the business thereafter. This mill, erected in 1856, was a large two-story frame structure, fitted throughout with all the most approved conveniences for carrying on the work in hand. The building was en­larged and improved from time to time to meet the growing demands of the business and to bring it up to date in equipment. Mr. Daugherty manufactured and dealt in rough and worked lumber of all kinds, flooring, weather boarding, ceiling and bill lumber, handles doors, sash, moldings and brackets, and was able to turn out anything for the custom trade. His patronage was not con­fined to the immediate locality, but extended all over the southern part of the county.
He served for thirty-four years in the capacity of school director. He was a trustee of the normal school for seven­teen years, having been first appointed to that position in 1894. He was an influential member of the Republican party.
He was well known in local fraternal circles, as a member of Palla­dium Lodge, No. 346, I. O. O. F., Indiana Lodge, No. 21, A. O. U. W., and the Masons, in the latter connection belonging to Indiana Lodge, No. 313, F. & A. M., Zerubbabel Chap­ter, No. 162, R. A. M., Pittsburg Command­ery, No. 1, K. T., and Syria Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Pittsburg. In 1898 he was ap­pointed district deputy grand master of the Thirty-ninth district. For five years he served as master of the blue lodge. In religious connection he was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

1 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 343.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 829.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 571.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 629.

5 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 343, 393.

6 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 570.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 830.