George A. Kern and Leona Mae Waldo

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Husband George A. Kern ¹

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           Born: 20 Nov 1874 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: James P. Kern (1844-1919) 2 3
         Mother: Margaret E. Turner (1850-1923) 1

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Wife Leona Mae Waldo ⁴

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           Born: 11 Mar 1885 4
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           Died: 2 Feb 1957 - Dunkirk, Chautauqua Co, NY 4
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         Father: George W. Waldo (      -1921) 4
         Mother: Ella Wall (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M Kenneth James Kern ¹

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           Born: 21 Apr 1902 1
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General Notes: Husband - George A. Kern

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He acquired his early education in Oil City, Pennsylvania, attending the grammar and high schools. Later he took a course at the business university in Rochester, New York, and his practical training was obtained in his father's establishment where he was advanced in responsibility as he gained familiarity with the various departments, being well prepared to assume his share of the management when his father re­tired, in October, 1916.

Mr. Kern was particularly zealous in furthering educational facilities in his home city, serving two terms as school controller from the Seventh ward and as a member of the building committee when plans for the new high school building were selected, the structure being started during his second term. He was always enthusiastic about athletics, in his earlier years playing with the Heckers Hitters, a famous baseball team of the Iron and Oil League, whose manager, Hecker, was one of the noted professional players of the oil country league, which first had eight clubs, but was later reduced to six. While at Rochester, New York, Mr. Kern was assistant physical director of the Y. M. C. A. At Oil City he was prominent in the fraternal and social organizations, being a member and past master of Petrolia Lodge, No. 363, F. & A. M.; member of Oil City Chapter, No. 236, R. A. M.; Talbot Commandery, No. 44, K. T.; Zem Zem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Erie, PA; the Venango Club; the National Security League; and Oil City Council, United Commercial Travelers, of which he was a past councilor.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 991.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 887.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 990.

4 Frances Deets Latham, The Genealogy of the Samuel Deets Family of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Palm Harbor, FL: Self-published, 1975), Pg 16.