Rev. Samuel Earp, Ph.D. and Mary Elizabeth Johnston
Husband Rev. Samuel Earp, Ph.D. 1 2
Born: 31 May 1844 - West Bromwitch, Staffordshire, England 1 2 Christened: Died: 17 Jun 1906 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 1 3 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 4
Father: William Earp ( - ) 1 3 Mother: Ann Tandy ( - ) 1 5
Marriage: 22 Dec 1868 1 6
Wife Mary Elizabeth Johnston 6 7
Born: 29 Sep 1846 - Westmoreland Co, PA 7 8 Christened: Died: 1916 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 8 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 4
Father: Col. Robert Smith Johnston (1809-1846) 7 8 Mother: Jane Kirkpatrick (1820-1904) 7 8
Children
1 M John Kirkpatrick Earp 1 3
Born: 18 Nov 1869 - Sewickley, Allegheny Co, PA 1 8 Christened: Died: 1959 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 4Spouse: Eva Mae Magee (1890-1975) 9 10 Marr: 31 Dec 1919 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 8
2 F Mary Baldy Earp 1 6
Born: 26 Feb 1871 1 8 Christened: Died: 9 Dec 1873 1 8 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
3 F Cornelia Fuller Earp 11 12
Born: 22 Aug 1873 - Grand Rapids, Kent Co, MI 8 11 Christened: Died: 1966 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 13Spouse: Col. Edwin Van Deusen Selden (1858-1952) 14 15 16 Marr: 2 Jan 1901 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 11 17
4 M William Henry Hinsdale Earp 1 6
Born: 30 May 1876 1 8 Christened: Died: 24 Feb 1898 1 8 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 4
General Notes: Husband - Rev. Samuel Earp, Ph.D.
He came with his parents to America when six years old. They settled first at Scranton, and later removed to Danville, Pennsylvania. His boyhood was spent in Scranton and Danville. He prepared for college in the old Danville Academy under Professor James Kelso, and graduated from St. James' College, Maryland, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In after years Hobart College gave him the degree of Master of Arts, and Washington and Jefferson the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Previous to his college course, when scarcely more than a boy, he enlisted in a Danville company of state militia which was on its way to Antietam when that battle was fought, and which was afterward disbanded. The year subsequent to his graduation from college was spent in tutoring at Burlington College, New Jersey. Dr. Earp then entered the General Theological Seminary, New York, and after completing the three years course was ordained to the ministry in 1868. Then followed twenty-one years of active ministerial service in the Protestant Episcopal church. His first parish was in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, where he remained two years. He then moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was rector of St. Mark's, the leading parish in the western part of the state. In 1877 he was called to St. Andrew's, New York City. In 1879 he went to Washington, Pennsylvania, where he founded for Bishop Kerfoot, of Pittsburgh, Trinity Hall, a school for boys, and was its first rector. He remained there nearly seven years, when he was called to Ann Arbor, the seat of the University of Michigan, to officiate as rector of St. Andrew's. While in Grand Rapids he was largely instrumental in the setting apart of the diocese of western Michigan, and failed by but a few votes of being chosen its first bishop in 1874.
Coming to Oil City, Pennsylvania, in 1889, Dr. Earp retired from parochial work and devoted himself to the equally important work of education, and continued teaching up to the time of his death. For sixteen years he was a foremost educator of Oil City, and his great scholarship and special aptitude for teaching left a profound impress upon the character of those who came under his care. At the time of his death, the Oil City Derrick said of him: "In Dr. Earp this community has lost a broad-minded, earnest man, and an influence for good that cannot be over estimated. As a teacher, a minister of the gospel and a citizen, he was equally prominent. His personal qualities, high character and courteous bearing, endeared him to all, and his death will cause a deep feeling of sorrow in many hearts outside of the circle of his immediate relatives and most intimate friends."
1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 457.
2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 76, 205.
3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 76, 206.
4 Various, Grove Hill Cemetery Transcription (Oil City, PA: Privately published, ~1985), Sec. 13.
5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 76.
6 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 77, 206.
7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 458.
8 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 77.
9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 487.
10 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 77, 112.
11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 587.
12 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 77, 205.
13 Various, Grove Hill Cemetery Transcription (Oil City, PA: Privately published, ~1985), Sec. 14.
14 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 488.
15 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 586.
16 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 201.
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George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 205.
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