John Ritchey Elder and Amelia Ann Line

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Husband John Ritchey Elder ^{1 2}

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

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       Marriage: 19 Oct 1854 1

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   Other Spouse: Julia Ann Ohr (      -1853) 1 - 19 Dec 1848 - Indianapolis, Marion Co, IN 1

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Wife Amelia Ann Line ^{1 2}

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           Born: 6 Jun 1823 2
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           Died: Oct 1899 2
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         Father: Judge William Line (1785-1868) 1 4
         Mother: Rebecca Wise (      -1826) 5

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Children

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1 M William Line Elder ⁶

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           Born: 31 Jul 1855 6
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2 F Mary Jane Elder ⁶

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           Born: 15 May 1858 6
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3 M John Henry Elder ⁶

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           Born: 19 Nov 1860 6
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           Died: 16 Aug 1861 6
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 M Edward Clinton Elder ⁶

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           Born: 15 Aug 1868 6
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General Notes: Husband - John Ritchey Elder

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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.

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.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 171.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 172.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 205.