Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Henry B. Naylor and Mary Ada Wolff




Husband Henry B. Naylor 1

            AKA: Tom Naylor 2
           Born: 19 Apr 1864 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Harry Naylor (1836-1903) 1
         Mother: Annie M. Baldwin (1840-      ) 1


       Marriage: 2 Dec 1882 3



Wife Mary Ada Wolff 2 3

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         Father: D. King Wolff (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary J. Grimm (      -      ) 2




Children

General Notes: Husband - Henry B. Naylor


He received his education in the public schools of Oil City, Pennsylvania, and later prepared himself for his business career through the correspondence school of the Scranton engineering college. hHis first work was that of machinist, a trade he had learned in Oil City and followed for twelve years, the learning and mastering of the trade in Oil City occupying three years. He then was with the Westinghouse company, of Pittsburgh, three years, and four years with the McIntosh-Hemphill company, of Pittsburgh. Later he became superintendent of the Second National bank building, and in 1900 he became superintendent of all the property of Henry Phipps, the millionaire capitalist and philanthropist, in Pittsburgh and Allegheny. Mr. Naylor had charge of all buildings, erection of new ones, rents and contracts, hiring, and the like. He erected for Mr. Phipps the thirteen-story Bessemer building, on the corner of Sixth street and Duquesne way, and the Phipps power house, Pittsburgh.
Mr. Naylor was president of the board of school control for the first ward, Allegheny, where he has resided beginning in 1898. He was the prime mover in the establishment, by the first ward board in 1900, of the Allegheny training school. In 1902 Mr. Phipps erected a fine two-story brick building, known as the Phipps gymnasium and playground, in this institution also Mr. Naylor took an important part. It was a public institution containing free baths and reading-rooms open to all. Mr. Naylor took up the cause of the children of the ward, and to him more than to any other man in the ward were due the excellent advantages enjoyed by young and old. Mr. Naylor was a republican in politics, a member of the citizens' party, and was interested in party reform in the county. He was a Mason, belonging to Allegheny lodge, No. 223; Allegheny chapter, No. 217; No. 35, Knights Templars, and to Syria temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Pittsburgh; also to No. 25, A. O. U. W., Allegheny, of which he was past master workman. [MAC i, 531]

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Sources


1 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 531.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 886.

3 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 532.


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