Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John Ritchey Elder and Julia Ann Ohr




Husband John Ritchey Elder 1 2

           Born: 7 Dec 1820 - Dauphin Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Elder (1796-1857) 3
         Mother: Jane Henderson Ritchey (1800-      ) 3


       Marriage: 19 Dec 1848 - Indianapolis, Marion Co, IN 1

   Other Spouse: Amelia Ann Line (1823-1899) 1 2 - 19 Oct 1854 1



Wife Julia Ann Ohr 1

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           Died: 9 Apr 1853 1
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Children
1 M Henry David Elder 1

           Born: 31 Dec 1850 1
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           Died: 6 Mar 1853 1
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry


2 F Julia Ohr Elder 1

           Born: 31 Mar 1853 1
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           Died: 21 Oct 1854 1
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry



General Notes: Husband - John Ritchey Elder


At the time of his birth, there were present in the house three grandmothers (Elder, Ritchey, and Ritchey No. 2), and two great-grandfathers (Espy and Ferguson), showing he came of a long-lived race. When he was thirteen years old, his parents removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, where his boyhood was spent. He was educated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from whence he entered the publishing house of Robert Craighead, New York City, in 1848, returned to Indianapolis. In 1849 he became editor and publisher of The Locomotive, a popular weekly paper, which he conducted until 1860, when, with John H. Harkness, he purchased the Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, which they published until 1866. He was for some years president of the Water Works Company, at the same time holding the position of president of the Board of City Schools; later treasurer of the Indianapolis, Decatur and Springfield railroad. Beginning in 1882 he was been engaged in the construction of the Mississippi, Terre au Boeuf and Lake railroad of Louisiana, running into New Orleans, and was president of the road.

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Sources


1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 204.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 173.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 199.


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