David Henry Siggins and Julia Marietta Guignon

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Husband David Henry Siggins ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 8 Dec 1846 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 1 2 3
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           Died: 28 Sep 1924 - Hot Springs, Garland Co, AR 4
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         Father: Henry Kinnear Siggins (1818-1893) 1 3
         Mother: Catherine Lockhart (1822-1899) 1 3

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       Marriage: 2 Sep 1875 4

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Wife Julia Marietta Guignon ^{2 4}

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            AKA: Etta Guignon 1
           Born: 3 May 1852 - Wattsburg, Venango Twp, Erie Co, PA 4
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           Died: 26 Oct 1931 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 4
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         Father: Joseph A. Guignon (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Julia Ann Runyon (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 F Julia Mable Siggins ⁴

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           Born: 4 Aug 1876 4
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2 M Hugh Archibald Siggins ^{4 5}

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           Born: 24 Aug 1877 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 4
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           Died: 24 Dec 1930 4
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         Spouse: Grace Legard Todd (1878-      ) 4 5
           Marr: 2 Jun 1902 5

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3 F Maude Isabel Siggins ^{4 5}

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           Born: 18 Jul 1882 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Samuel Quinn Smith (1876-Bef 1943) 4 5

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General Notes: Husband - David Henry Siggins

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After being educated in the public schools of Warren County, Pennsylvania, he found his first regular employ-ment as a lumber jobber for Colonel L. F. Watson and then became associated with Henry Brace of the Brace-ville lumbering interests, work in which Mr. Siggins earned an enviable reputation as one of the most accurate timber cruisers of his day in the Pennsylvania forests. Out of this employment, he developed an interest in the transportation of logs down river to the sawmills and so became a river pilot, being employed in taking huge rafts of timber downstream to such cities as Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, Ohio. Leaving the forests and the river in 1878, after making twenty-eight trips to the mills, Mr. Siggins opened a livery stable at Warren, a business which he developed rapidly, making it the largest livery stable in Warren. After fifteen years of this activity, he sold out to follow his new interest in the construction and operation of electric street railways, becoming president of the Warren Street Railway Company when that or-ganization was established. Successful in this enterprise as in all things he undertook, the railway grew into one of the major systems in northwestern Pennsylvania, serv-ing not merely Warren but reaching out to link Sheffield and Jamestown with Warren and also developing a sub-sidiary enterprise of providing electric light and power to the county. In 1906 his interests in the Warren Street Railway were taken over by his son, Hugh Siggins, who guided the destinies of the organization until it was pur-chased by the Pennsylvania Public Service Corporation at a price reported to be very satisfactory. David Henry Siggins' withdrawal was brought about by his interest in an offer to construct a city street car railway at Coffey-ville, Kansas, an undertaking which under his leadership shortly grew into the huge Union Traction System of which he was president for many years. The growth of this system was featured by its various headquarters: the first office was in rented space in the Pfister Building, the second in the Plaza Building and the third in its own building on West Eight Street, with the fourth in the Terminal Building which Mr. Siggins designed and erected as a modern development of a complete transpor-tation system for freight as well as passengers. Signifi-cantly, Mr. Siggins regarded the system's headquarters as his "home," being found in his office or in some of the various departments of the organization at almost any time of the day or night. Politically a Republican and worshipping in the Methodist Church, Mr. Siggins was a member of the Conewango Club of Warren and of the Coffeyville, Kansas, lodge of the Benevolent and Protec-tive Order of Elks.

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General Notes: Wife - Julia Marietta Guignon

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from Sugar Grove, Warren Co, PA

1 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 155.

2 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 236.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 331.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 332.

5 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 305.