Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Jacob Lupher and [Unk] Smith




Husband Jacob Lupher 1 2 3

           Born: 1782 - eastern Pennsylvania 1 2 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Jul 1874 - Canal Twp, Venango Co, PA 1 2 3
         Buried: 


         Father: Casper Lupher (      -      ) 3
         Mother: 


       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Martha Elizabeth Hill (      -      ) 2 3 4 - 1815 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2 3



Wife [Unk] Smith 3

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Mar 1860 3
         Buried: 


Children

• They had no children.


General Notes: Husband - Jacob Lupher


He was born in eastern Pennsylvania and reared in that section. Early in the nineteenth century he came to western Pennsylvania, locating in Allegheny County, his home being at Pittsburgh for several years. During the war of 1812 he was enlisted as a teamster, and he hauled supplies to Commodore Perry at Erie, driving a four-horse team. The main road over which he traveled lay along a ridge in its course through Venango County, and while passing through he chose the tract of land in what is now Canal Township (then Sugar Creek) which he purchased and settled upon after the war, buying 163 acres June 29, 1816, of George Sutley. He made a settlement immediately, near the present site of Canal Center, bringing his wife and two children, and their first home was a rude cabin, which they continued to occupy until he put up a better dwelling. In clearing his land to prepare it for cultivation Mr. Lupher burned up white oak and sugar maple timber then lightly valued because of its abundance, and by great industry he succeeded in improving 110 acres of his tract, becoming one of the prosperous farmers of the township. His last years were spent on a nearby property, after witnessing the development of his section from a sparsely settled state to a rich and populous district. At first he had only a few neighbors, including the Sutley family. Mr. Lupher was a warm friend and patron of churches and schools, as all the family have been, the first schoolhouse built in the township by public money having been the Lupher school, erected in 1840. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lupher were among the first members of Wesley Chapel M. E. Church (the names of Eliza and Thomas Lupher also appearing in the list), and he was its first class leader. The congregation held its meetings in the old Lupher schoolhouse until 1839, when a frame building was built, Mr. Lupher donating land for the church and cemetery. [HVC 1919, 781]

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Sources


1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 554.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1061.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 781.

4 Roger N. Whiting, The William Cousins Family of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chippewa Falls, WI: Personal genealogy research, 2012), Pg 55.


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