James Taggert Hadley

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Husband James Taggert Hadley ¹

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           Born: 22 May 1871 - Hadley, Perry Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1
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           Died: 28 Dec 1913 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, Perry Twp, Mercer Co, PA

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         Father: Robert B. Hadley (      -      ) 1 3
         Mother: Eliza J. [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - James Taggert Hadley

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After attending public school in the vicinity of his birthplace he took a course in the Edinboro (Pa.) State Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1891. He taught one term of school in Otter Creek Township, Mercer County, and one at Stoneham, Warren County, but business life appealed most to him, and he spent some months studying in a commercial school at Rochester, NY, from which he was graduated. He then taught the commercial department of a school at Yonkers, NY, for one term, and in 1894-95 had charge of the commercial department of the Titusville high school, in July, 1895, commencing his real business career at Oil City, as bookkeeper for Joseph Reid. His ability soon drew greater responsibilities to him, and he became a member of the Joseph Reid Gas Engine Company and secretary and treasurer of that concern, which position he continued to fill until his death. Meantime he also became prominently associated with the other Reid interests, being secretary and treasurer of the Reid Land & Development Company of California; a director of the Frick-Reid Supply Company of Oklahoma; and one of the founders of the Oil City Woodworking Manufacturing Company.
He enjoyed social pleasures and activities, and always found time for the demands of good citizenship and his higher obligations toward his fellow men. He maintained a keen interest in the Y. M. C. A., which he served as director and vice president; was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church and at one time a trustee of that congregation; was instrumental in the organization of the Oratorio Society and its president from the beginning; a member of the Venango Club and Wanango Country Club, and director of the latter; and prominent in the Masonic bodies, affiliating with Petrolia Lodge, No. 363, F. & A. M., Oil City Chapter, R. A. M., and Talbot Commandery, K. T., all of Oil City; Pittsburgh Consistory, thirty-second degree; and Zem Zem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Erie, Pennsylvania.
He resided in Oil City with his sister Miss Emma and died there after an illness of three years’ duration. In 1911, in the hope of improving his condition, he went to southern California, where he remained for two years without getting the desired benefit. [CAB, 574]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 574.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 575.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1123.