William Edgar Himes and Grace B. Putney

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Husband William Edgar Himes ^{1 2}

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           Born: 15 Jul 1875 - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA 1
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         Father: Joseph C. Himes (1846-1908) 1 2 3
         Mother: Margaret Rutherford (1848-1915) 1 2 3

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       Marriage: 2 Jan 1907 1

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Wife Grace B. Putney ⁴

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         Father: William Taylor Putney (1847-      ) 5
         Mother: Clara B. Hamilton (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M Edgar Putney Himes ⁴

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           Born: 20 Feb 1908 - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA 4
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General Notes: Husband - William Edgar Himes

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After completing the prescribed course of study in the district school of Porter township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, he attended school in New Bethlehem for a time. He then entered upon an apprenticeship with the C. E. Andrews Lumber Company, to learn the trade of carpenter. He remained in the employ of that concern for the ensuing ten years, at the end of which he began to work in the C. E. Andrews planing mills, working for the next seven years as cabinetmaker, draftsman and estimator. July 3, 1911, he became a member of the Vindicator Printing Company, which corporation conducted a large printing establishment and published the Vindicator, a weekly newspaper that had a very extensive circulation throughout the Allegheny valley and the western part of the state. This weekly was established in 1878 and was issued every Friday morning, Mr. Himes being its editor and business manager. The Vindicator Printing Company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Pennsylvania in 1909. The newspaper was found in practically every home throughout that section of the state, and it was independent in its political attitude.
At the inception of the Spanish-American war in 1898 Mr. Himes enlisted for service, July 13, 1898, in Company G, 16th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, under Captain Austin Clark. He entered military service as a private at Kittanning. From Pennsylvania Company G proceeded to Chickamauga, Georgia, and thence to Newport News, Virginia, later returning to Camp Mead, in Pennsylvania. About this time Mr. Himes was taken ill, and for four weeks was confined in the general hospital at Lancaster. He then spent thirty days at home on furlough, eventually returning to Camp Mead. While he was in the hospital at Lancaster the 16th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers was sent to Porto Rico, and for about one month Mr. Himes was a member of the Second West Virginia Regiment. When the 16th Pennsylvania returned to Kittanning he rejoined his old command and for sixty days thereafter the entire regiment was furloughed. With his fellow soldiers he was mustered out of service at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, December 26, 1898.
Mr. Himes was a traveler of wide and interesting experience. He was thoroughly familiar with the United States, having visited practically every state in the union, and in 1904 he made an extended tour through Europe, familiarizing himself with conditions in Holland, Belgium, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Isle of Man.
He is a Presbyterian in religious faith and was active in church work, having served as superintendent of the Sunday school and as editor of the Clarion county edition of the Sabbath School Bulletin, of which he was the founder.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 611.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 706.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 490.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 612.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 608.