Arthur H. Lusk and Georgia A. Jones

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Husband Arthur H. Lusk ^{1 2}

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           Born: 11 Aug 1883 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2
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         Father: William H. Lusk (      -1907) 2 3 4
         Mother: Hannah Matilda Endres (      -Aft 1909) 2 5

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       Marriage: 1912 - Georgia 2

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Wife Georgia A. Jones ²

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           Born:  - Georgia
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Children

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1 F Mary Lusk ²

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         Status: Adopted

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General Notes: Husband - Arthur H. Lusk

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He was trained to be a civil engineer, and after completing his preliminary education in the public schools of Butler County, Pennsylvania, attended Allegheny University, in which he took a civil engineering course. When he left the university, Mr. Lusk followed the profession of civil engineer, taking positions throughout the United States and Canada, and attained such prominence in the field that about 1914 he was appointed superintendent of the harbor development work in Hudson Bay. In 1915 he went into the employ of the Dravo Construction Company, as engineer, and with this concern he progressed rapidly. He left, however, in 1918, in order to take the vice-presidency and the general managership of the Pittsburgh Company, and the Ellwood Water Company, in both of which concerns he had been interested financially previously.
As the two concerns are important factors in the history of Ellwood City and in the shaping of the career of Arthur H. Lusk, their stories will not be amiss here. The Pittsburgh Company, the older of the two, was founded in 1868, but not in Ellwood City. Its original name was the Continental Improvement Company and its first habitat was in Philadelphia. In 1870 the company moved to Pittsburgh, where its officials changed its name to the Southern Improvement Company. In 1895 the officials moved to Ellwood City and there organized the Pittsburgh Company. Henry Hartman was its first president and general manager. In 1892 he had organized the Ellwood Water Company and he also headed that concern. Mr. Hartman was later succeeded in the presidency by S. A. Roelofs, and later the presidency went to J. A. Gelbach, the president at the present time. In 1918, Mr. Lusk became vice-president of the company and its general manager, and in 1919 Ray H. Aylesworth (a short biography of whom follows), became secretary and treasurer. The Pittsburgh Company has been identified from the first with the progress of Ellwood City. In its early years it owned most of the Ellwood City land and on this property it built houses and business buildings and simultaneously carried on a general insurance business. The company also built the P. & L. E. Railroad branch line to Ellwood City and the cut-off of the railroad that is known as the Baltimore & Ohio short-line.
Established in 1892 by Mr. Hartman and Mr. Roelofs, the Ellwood Water Company, controlled by the same officers as the Pittsburgh Company, has been another agent in the growth and development of Ellwood City. It maintains a six-million-gallon reservoir, from which the people of Ellwood City are supplied with water, and it has one of the most modern filtering plants in the country, located at Wurtemberg, about two miles east of Ellwood City. About 2,500 families and factories are subscribers to the water system of the company. The company has shown remarkable growth since the advent of Mr. Lusk, and to him is attributed much of it.
Mr. Lusk was president of the Locust Grove Cemetery Association. He was a Republican; and he belonged to the Ellwood City Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Ellwood City Chamber of Commerce, and the Ellwood City Rotary Club.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 717.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 191.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 717, 1084.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 795.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 717, 1120.