Joseph Benjamin Painter and Phebe Manchester

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Husband Joseph Benjamin Painter ¹

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           Born: 1854 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Painter (1796-      ) 1 2 3 4
         Mother: Susannah "Susan" Williams (      -      ) 1 4

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       Marriage: 1877 5

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Wife Phebe Manchester ⁵

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         Father: Asa Manchester (      -Bef 1910) 5
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Children

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1 M Asa Manchester Painter ⁵

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2 M J. M. Painter ⁵

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3 M Stanley H. Painter ⁵

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4 M Clarence R. Painter ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Benjamin Painter

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He attended the common schools of Westmoreland County, West Newton, Mt. Pleasant High School, Academy and the Columbia Classical College in Lancaster County, and later graduated from the Iron City Business College at Pittsburgh. He then devoted some time to the study of Blackstone, with a view of entering the law, but later abandoned that ambition and accepted a favorable opening in the oil business. He continued to be identified with that industry for twelve years and after retiring therefrom, located on a farm not far from Avella, where he successfully pursued agriculture.
He and his family belonged to the Presbyterian Church of Lower Buffalo.
In politics, Mr. Painter was nominally a Democrat, but he reserved the right to vote independently. At one time he took a lively interest in public affairs and frequently consented to hold office, for nine years being a school director in Clarion County, and for three years a member of the borough council at Edinburg, in that county. In the autumn of 1909 he was chosen a member of the United States Jury, sitting at Pittsburgh. For many years he was prominently identified with Masonry, was a member of Washington Lodge No. 164, F. & A. M., and served the Lodge and Chapter by filling the chairs; was a member of Syria Shrine of Pittsburgh, and was a charter member of Edinburg Lodge No. 550 and of Clarion Chapter in Clarion County. He belonged also to the Elks. He was an active grange worker; was a member of Avella Grange No. 1371, and was district deputy of Washington County and a past master of his sub-ordinate and Pomona Granges. He was a fluent writer and a ready debator.

1 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 702.

2 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 248.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 64.

4 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 267.

5 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 703.