Husband Gen. Cyrus Painter Markle 1 2
Born: 18 Apr 1810 - Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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Died: 27 Oct 1882 - Mill Grove, Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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Father: Gen. Joseph Markle (1777-1867) 3 4 5 6
Mother: Elizabeth "Betsey" Painter (1782-1815) 1 7 8
Marriage: 5 May 1835 - Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 9
• Residence and Business: : Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA.
• Business: C. P. Markle & Sons, Paper Mills: West Newton, South Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA.
• Business: "Markleton" Wood-pulp Mills: Somerset Co, PA.
• Family History: George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882).
To read a brief history of the Markle family, click here.
Wife Sarah Ann Lippincott 2 9 10
Born: 12 Jun 1814 - Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 9
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Died: 26 Nov 1868 - Mill Grove, Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 9 10
Buried: - Markle Cemetery, Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
Father: James Lippincott ( - ) 9
Mother: Margaret Zeigler ( - ) 9 11
Children
1 F Margaret Ann Markle 2 9
Born: 28 Jan 1836 2 9
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Died: Aft 1890
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Status: Twin
Spouse: Capt. Thomas McMasters (1822-1872) 2 12 13
Marr: 1860 13
2 F Mary Elizabeth Markle 2 9
Born: 28 Jan 1836 2 9
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Died: 14 Jun 1843 2 12
Buried:
Status: Twin
Spouse: Did Not Marry
3 M Joseph L. Markle 2 9
Born: 7 Nov 1837 2 9
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Died: 4 Jul 1843 2 9
Buried:
Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 M Jesse Henry Markle 2 9
Born: 8 Jan 1839 2 9
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Died: 10 Jun 1843 2 9
Buried:
Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 M Capt. Cassius Clay Markle 9 14 15 16
Born: 31 Oct 1840 - Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 9 16
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Died: 20 Mar 1905 16 17
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Spouse: Mary Anne Overholt (1846-1935) 9 15 16 18
Marr: 21 Feb 1865 9 16 19
6 M Shepard Brown Markle 9 20 21
Born: 15 May 1844 - Mill Grove, Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 9
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Died: 5 May 1900 - Mill Grove, Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 21
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Status: Twin
Spouse: Isabella Carothers (1851/1852-1924) 21 22
Marr: 11 Jun 1874 14 21
7 M Cyrus Painter Markle 9 21
Born: 15 May 1844 - Mill Grove, Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 9 21
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Died: 8 Jan 1845 9 21
Buried:
Status: Twin
Spouse: Did Not Marry
8 F Mary Emily Markle 9 21 23
Born: 7 Sep 1846 9 21
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Died: Aft 1890
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Spouse: John McMasters Larimer (1843- ) 12 21 23
Marr: 21 May 1868 21 23
9 F Harriet Cornelia Markle 9 21 24 25 26
Born: 28 Sep 1847 - Westmoreland Co, PA 9 21
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Died: Aft 1890
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Spouse: Abraham Overholt Tinstman (1834- ) 21 25 26 27 28 29
Marr: 1 Jul 1875 21 24 25 26 29
10 F Amanda Markle 9 21
Born: 26 Jul 1850 9 21
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Died: 18 Nov 1850 12 21
Buried:
Spouse: Did Not Marry
11 M Winfield Scott Markle 9 21
Born: 14 Feb 1852 9 21
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Died: Nov 1853 12 21
Buried:
Spouse: Did Not Marry
General Notes: Husband - Gen. Cyrus Painter Markle
He was born April 10. [BF, 272]
His education was limited to an attendance at the common school. One of the most pleasing incidents of his boyhood, and one remembered with no little pride, was his meeting Gen. La Fayette at Uniontown, PA, and acting as one of his escort on horseback from that place to the city of Pittsburgh. This occurred when he was fourteen years old. Very early in life he became actively employed in the business enterprises carried on by his father, and foreshadowed in the boy a capacity in the management of affairs which has been a marked characteristic of the man. In 1829, at the age of nineteen, a partnership was formed with an elder brother, Shepard B. Markle, under the firm-name of S. B. and C. P. Markle, which partnership continued for more than half a century. The manufacture of paper was the business in which the firm was chiefly employed, though farming was also quite extensively carried on. Two tracts of land containing over three hundred acres and the paper-mill at Millgrove were deeded them by their father on condition of their meeting certain pecuniary obligations for which he had become liable by undersigning. These obligations were eventually fully met by the firm. For thirty years the firm continued in the manufacture of paper at the "Millgrove" mill. In 1859, in order to meet the increasing demand for their products, and at the same time to avail themselves of better facilities for transportation, they built a large paper-mill (brick) at West Newton. At this mill paper from rags was manufactured until 1865, when they erected a straw pulp-mill (wood), and subsequently the production of wood pulp was introduced.
In 1870, Mr. S. B. Markle retired from the firm, after which time the business was carried on, largely extended, under the firm name of "C. P. Markle & Sons," the firm consisting of Gen. C. P. Markle and his sons, Capt. C. C. Markle and Shepard B. Markle, Jr. In 1881 this firm built at West Newton another mill (brick), designated "Mill B," fifty-three by three hundred and twenty-nine feet, the largest and one of the most complete in the State, and one into which they introduced all of the latest and most improved machinery. These mills were situated on the bank of the Youghiogheny River, between it and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
In 1880 the firm purchased five thousand acres of coal and timber land in Milford township, Somerset County, PA, and in 1881 built thereon extensive wood-pulp works. The pulp-mill was two hundred and fifty by eighty-three feet, the evaporator one hundred and fifty by fifty feet. In addition to the works, a station house, store, and twenty-four dwelling-houses were built by them. The place, named after the general, was named Markleton. It was situated on the Castleman River, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
About twenty tons of paper were manufactured from the pulp produced at their Markleton and West Newton mills. While their mills at West Newton were devoted exclusively to the manufacture of printing paper, a very superior quality of hardware paper was produced at the "Millgrove Mill." The firm had their warehouse at 126 Second Avenue, Pittsburgh. [While the firm was more than ordinarily successful in their business as paper manufacturers, they met their full proportion of losses by fire. The old frame mill on Sewickley Creek was burned in 1862. In 1876 the brick mill, in 1877 the frame, and again in 1878 the brick mill at West Newton were burned, but were all rebuilt the same year they were burned.]
While the manufacture of paper was the leading business of the general, he was also largely interested in the production of coke. In 1871, in company with John Sherrick, of Mount Pleasant, under the firm of "Sherrick & Markle," he built on the Mount Pleasant Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad the "Eagle Coke-Works," one hundred ovens. He sold his interest in these works in 1879 to H. Clay Frick. In 1873 he purchased of Peter Sherrick and William McMasters their farms, two hundred and sixty acres, in East Huntingdon township, near Mount Pleasant, and in company with the former firm, Markle & Sherrick, erected on the Sherrick farm the "Rising Sun" Coke-Works, one hundred ovens. On the McMasters farm C. P. Markle & Sons built the "Bessemer Coke-Works," one hundred and fifty ovens. In connection with these works about fifty tenant-houses were built, also about a mile and a quarter of railroad, which was known in that section as the "June Bug" Branch of the Baltimore and Mount Pleasant Railroad.
In company with Col. Israel Painter, Gen. Larimer, Horatio Burrows, and Gen. Haupt, Gen. Markle operated extensively in coal lands in the township of Sewickley. To the original homestead tract of three hundred acres he added nine hundred acres adjoining in the townships of Sewickley and South Huntingdon.
For a number of years the general and his sons took an interest in blooded stock. Four of the finest "Jerseys" in the country were at their stock-farm. Their yearly sales of stock ran into the thousands.
In all the operations of C. P. Markle & Co. about six hundred men were employed. Owing to a partial stroke of paralysis, from which he never fully recovered, Gen. Markle for a number of years left the active conduct of the business to his sons, by whom he was kept thoroughly posted in regard to all operations, and who fully appreciated the value of his advice and mature judgment in all business matters.
The general became very early in life interested in the military, a taste undoubtedly inherited from his father. At the age of fourteen he became a member of the Sewickley Artillery Company, afterwards its adjutant, and then captain. Still later he was elected major and finally general of the Thirteenth Legion Pennsylvania Militia, composed of the counties of Washington, Fayette, and Westmoreland.
In politics he was a firm supporter of the principles of the Whig and Republican parties, but, like his father before him, was always more ready to help a friend to office than to accept official position himself. Indeed, the successful conduct of his extensive business interests, which made him one of the busiest men of his times, would have precluded his entrance upon public life, even if he had entertained any aspirations in that direction. He was interested in the construction of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad, and served as one of its directors. He was for many years a member of the Sewickley Presbyterian Church, but was later a member of the church of the same denomination at West Newton. [HWC 1882, 656]