Felix Negley Humes and Mary Ann Wilhelm

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Husband Felix Negley Humes ^{1 2}

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           Born: 15 Nov 1824 - West Tarentum, Allegheny Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: James Humes (1793-1865) 1 2 4 5
         Mother: Mary Negley (1805-1886) 3 4 5

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       Marriage: 13 Mar 1851 - Sligo, Allegheny Co, PA 6

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Wife Mary Ann Wilhelm ⁶

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            AKA: May A. Wilhelm 7
           Born:  - Armstrong Co, PA
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         Father: George Wilhelm (      -      ) 7
         Mother: Lydia Hall (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 M Harry Kier Humes ^{6 7}

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           Born: 27 Aug 1856 - Iowa 6
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         Spouse: Sarah B. Dunlap (      -      ) 8
           Marr: 22 Dec 1886 8

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2 F Minnie May Humes ^{6 7}

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           Born: 27 Dec 1858 - Tarentum, Allegheny Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: Prof. O. H. Phillips (      -      ) 7

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3 F Annie Bell Humes ^{6 7}

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           Born: 27 Mar 1861 6
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         Spouse: [Unk] Mooder (      -      ) 7

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4 F Fronie Vogan Humes ⁶

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            AKA: Fronia V. Humes 7
           Born: 22 Feb 1868 6
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           Died: Bef 1915 - Tarentum, Allegheny Co, PA
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General Notes: Husband - Felix Negley Humes

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He received his education in the local schools, but ceased his attendance upon them early to take part in the active business of life. He was first employed as a farmer and also secured a position as a boat hand on the canal, but later was attracted to the oil business, great deposits of which were being found in western Pennsylvania. Having once made a beginning in this line, he continued in the same for many years, being very successful and carrying his operations over a number of states. He drove many oil wells, and also water wells. One of the first oil wells ever drilled in Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, was put down by him, and he also sank one of the first salt water wells at Peterson Station, Pennsylvania. During the course of his career he drilled wells in Ohio, Tennessee and Iowa, as well as all over the western part of Pennsylvania.
He served as burgess of Tarentum for three years. [GPHWP, 461]

He made his father's house his home until his marriage, after which they located on a farm near Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where they remained three years, when they removed to Iowa. Continued malarial attacks, however, occasioned their return to Tarentum, where Mr. Humes then engaged in drilling salt wells, which he continued until his removal to Ohio, in 1860. Returning to Tarentum in 1863, he embarked in the oil business, and was employed in drilling gas wells, his residence being in Tarentum.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 389.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 459.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 460.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 299.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 105.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 461.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 390.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 462.