Valentine Whitener and Martha Ann English

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Husband Valentine Whitener ¹

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            AKA: Valentine Whitmer 2
           Born: 11 Feb 1843 - Shippenville, Elk Twp, Clarion Co, PA 1
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         Father: Valentine Whitener (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Margaret Cook (      -1863) 1

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       Marriage: 27 Jan 1870 3

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Wife Martha Ann English ³

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            AKA: Mary Ann English 2
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         Father: James English (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Mary Ann Gallagher (      -      ) 2 3

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Children

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1 F Carrie Whitener ³

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2 F Margaret Whitener ³

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         Spouse: Henry C. Thorne (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 7 Jun 1892 3

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3 M O. S. Whitener ³

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         Spouse: Nettie Stewart (      -      ) 3

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4 F Della May Whitener ³

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         Status: Twin

         Spouse: R. L. Walter (      -      ) 3

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5 F Dora Whitener ³

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General Notes: Husband - Valentine Whitener

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He received his educational training in the schools of Pittsburgh, Green Oak, and Butler County, Pennsylvania. Upon first entering the business world he drove a team of mules in a coal mine in Westmoreland County for some time, after which he worked for a time in a brick yard. He then began work in the oil fields, spending three days working on the first oil well drilled at Franklin. He continued with success in the oil business after that time and was interested in a large number of oil wells in his locality. He owned stock in the Evans Manufacturing Company of Butler and the Producers Pipe Line Company. Subsequent to his marriage he moved to Lawrenceburg, where he worked in the oil fields for about two years, after which he went to Greece City, and engaged in the same business for one year, after which time he was a resident of Fairview Township, Butler County. For a period of five years he was construction boss of the Standard Pipe line.
Mr. Whitener served throughout the entire Civil War and first enlisted in Company E, 103d Penna. Vol. Inf. for eleven months after which he enlisted in Company E, 78th Penna. Vol. Inf. and served to the close of the war. Subsequent to the two days of fighting at the battle of Fairfax Court House, he was sent to the hospital for three months, thence home for six months, and as soon as able returned to his company. At the close of the war he was discharged at Washington, D. C.
Mr. Whitener owned a farm of eighty-seven acres in Muddy Creek Township, a tract of five acres in Fairview Township, as well as two pieces of town property. He was a man of public spirit and enterprise and served his township as supervisor two terms. He was a member of the G. A. R., McDermott Post, and held membership with the United Presbyterian Church of Fairview.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1258.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1274.

3 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1259.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1274, 1289.