Evans W. Shippen and Catharine Y. McElwee

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Husband Evans W. Shippen ^{1 2}

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           Born: 16 Mar 1824 - Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co, PA 1
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         Father: Hon. Henry Shippen (1788-1839) 3 4 5
         Mother: Elizabeth Wallis Evans (      -      ) 3 4 5

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       Marriage: 1851 1 2

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Wife Catharine Y. McElwee ^{1 2}

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         Father: Col. Thomas B. McElwee (      -      ) 1 2
         Mother: [Unk] Smith (      -      )

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Children

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1 F Frances S. Shippen ⁶

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         Spouse: W. R. Gill (      -      ) 6

         Spouse: Clarence G. Hollister (1857-      ) 6
           Marr: 28 Dec 1882 6

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General Notes: Husband - Evans W. Shippen

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He was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and carried while an infant in the arms to Meadville in 1825. He was educated in the common schools of the village and one year in the preparatory department of Allegheny College. At the age of twelve years his father remarked, "I have six sons and I do not know what one of them will be excepting that one (pointing to the subject of this sketch); he will become a mechanic." After his father's death he traveled the state of Pennsylvania in search of employment at iron works, and finally succeeded, in 1844, in becoming the manager of iron furnaces in Lancaster and York counties, where he remained for six years. Thence he went to Philadelphia, where he carried on the foundry business for twelve years. A specimen of his work could be seen in the fountain on the public square in Meadville, which he presented to the city in 1863, when he came there to live.
In 1861 he engaged in drilling wells on oil creek and built a refinery in Philadelphia, where he, in 1862, chartered the barque Catharine and shipped the first full cargo of oil to England, overstocking the market for nearly one year. In 1864 he organized a company for drilling wells in Venango County and struck a well producing one thousand eight hundred dollars' worth of oil per day, when he retired to a farm. In 1869 he imported the first Percheron horses that came into Pennsylvania; but becoming tired of the monotony of farm life he moved into the city, in 1873, where he then engaged in various pursuits; pumping the old well drilled in 1864, drilling new wells and building new machinery for oil wells.

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General Notes: Wife - Catharine Y. McElwee

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She was a great-granddaughter of Judge Jasper Yeates, author and compiler of Yeates' Reports, who was Chief Justice of Pennsylvania
from 1791 to 1817.

1 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 768.

2 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 709.

3 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 766.

4 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 306, 768.

5 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 708.

6 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Bios 173.