John Albert Dufford and Ruth Beatrice Riddle

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Husband John Albert Dufford ¹

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           Born: 1 Dec 1872 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 26 Sep 1937
         Buried:  - McKee Cemetery, Clintonville, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: G. L. Dufford (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 5 Oct 1909 - ? Venango Co, PA 2

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Wife Ruth Beatrice Riddle ¹

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           Born: 30 Oct 1886 - Clintonville, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 1968
         Buried:  - McKee Cemetery, Clintonville, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: Charles Milton Riddle (1846-1916) 4 5 6
         Mother: Emma Florence Cross (1850-1894) 4 5 7

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   Other Spouse: Robert Emmet Earl Marsteller (1877-1964) 8 - 18 Dec 1956 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 9

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Children

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1 F Eleanor Fern Dufford ²

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           Born: 15 Aug 1913
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried:  - McKee Cemetery, Clintonville, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: [Unk] Gary (      -      )

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General Notes: Husband - John Albert Dufford

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He received a good literary education, pursuing his higher studies at Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, from which institution he was graduated in 1897. Meantime he had been engaged in teaching, which profession he followed in his native county and for two years in Ohio. He took his course in pharmacy at Philadelphia, in 1899-1900, and having passed the examination of the Pennsylvania State board of pharmacy entered upon work in his chosen line in Pittsburgh, where he had a store of his own for six months before his removal to Clintonville. In 1914 Mr. Dufford erected the building in which the business is now [1919] conducted, located on a central corner in the borough and arranged especially for the requirements of the stock and trade. He has always endeavored to carry full and well selected lines of the class of goods that he handles, and no other store in this section has a better reputation for prompt and obliging service to its patrons. Mr. Dufford has been scrupulous about repaying the loyalty of his customers by giving them the best the trade affords, and the friendly relations which exist between them are as gratifying to him as his material success.
The family is associated with the United Presbyterian Church. Socially Mr. Dufford is affiliated with the Masonic lodge at Emlenton, and he also maintains his membership in the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, to which he was admitted while a student of Mount Union College. [CAB, 1061]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 912, 1061.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1061.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 101.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 574.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 995.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 518, 604, 911.

7 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 518, 604, 912.

8 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 32.

9 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #31140.