Husband Robert Ramsay 1
Born: 28 Oct 1840 - near Dunfermline, county of Fife, Scotland 2
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Buried: 26 Aug 1899 - Union cemetery, near Shafton, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
Father: William Ramsay ( -1885) 3
Mother: Elizabeth Sharp ( -1889) 3
Marriage: 4 Jan 1861 2
Wife Janet Erskine 2
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Father: William Erskine ( - ) 2
Mother: Margaret White ( - ) 2
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1 M William Ramsay 2
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2 M Erskine Ramsay 2
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3 M Robert Ramsay 2
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4 M Morris R. Ramsay 2
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5 M John A. Ramsay 2
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6 M Charles S. Ramsay 2
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7 M Andrew C. Ramsay 2
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8 M George S. Ramsay 2
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9 F Margaret Ramsay 2
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10 F Elizabeth Ramsay 2
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11 F Janet Ramsay 2
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12 F Mary Stuart Ramsay 2
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General Notes: Husband - Robert Ramsay
He was born sixteen miles northwest of Edinburg, near Dunfermline, county of Fife, Scotland. At an early age he gave promise of engineering ability, and embraced every opportunity of fitting himself for that profession. At the age of twenty-three he and his wife came with his parents to the United States, and he worked at the machinist's trade in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, afterward being employed in the coal mines on the Monongahela river. In 1865 he went to Shafton, where he became mining engineer for the Shafton Coal Company. In 1870 he was given general charge of the operations by being advanced to the position of superintendent of the company, which position he held for eleven years. He then became associated with Messrs. Andrew and Thomas M. Carnegie, also natives of Dunfermline, Scotland, by serving as superintendent and engineer at the Monastery mines and coke works of the Carnegie Company until 1883, when he moved to Mount Pleasant to be more centrally located and to take general charge of the mines of the H. C. Frick Coke Company, into which company the Carnegie Company's coal and coke properties had previously been merged. Then followed a long and close connection with Messrs. H. C. Frick and Thomas Lynch in the management of the vast Frick interests. This position he retained until 1888, when he became general consulting engineer of the entire company and superintendent of the Standard mines and coke works, at that time the largest and most complete plant of its kind in the world. He had a very orginal mind and a strong natural bent toward things mechanical, as is evidenced by the many new mechanical devices which he invented and introduced in and about the mines. In 1886 he built the new Standard shaft, which has held the world's record for large outputs and was considered by the best authorities the finest shaft in the country, his genius being especially manifest in the beauty and simplicity of the design. This plant was the subject of many articles in technical and scientific journals from mining men the world over. He also engineered and superintended the erection of the Mount Pleasant water works and many other improvements made in the Connellsville coke region by the Carnegie-Frick interests. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church.
In the spring of 1898 Mr. Ramsay sustained an attack of grip, from which he never fully recovered. In May, 1899, he set out to visit his birthplace in search of health, but before reaching there was prostrated with anaemia at East Kilbride, Scotland.