Husband Calvin Blythe North 1 2
Born: 28 Mar 1824 - McAlisterville, Juniata Co, PA 3
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Father: John North (1799- ) 1 3 4
Mother: Jane Houston McAlister (Abt 1802-Aft 1886) 1 3 4
Marriage: 5 Jan 1865 3
Wife Anna R. Richter 2
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Father: Peter Richter (1780-1846) 5
Mother: Elizabeth Holstein ( - ) 5
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1 M Roscoe Calvin North 3
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General Notes: Husband - Calvin Blythe North
His early years were spent under the home roof, and in attending the public and private schools of that day. At the age of sixteen he entered a store at Thompsontown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, as clerk, where he remained for more than five years. In 1845 he entered a wholesale dry-goods house in Philadelphia, as salesman, remaining there until 1846 when he returned to McAlisterville, where he embarked in general merchandising with his father, and continued this partnership for more than eight years, after which he traveled extensively for a year or more through the Western and Southern States. In the year 1857 Mr. North received an appointment to a clerkship in the Department of the Interior at Washington, D. C., under the administration of President Buchanan, and remained there until November, 1861. In February, 1862, he entered the Mifflin County Bank at Lewistown, Pennsylvania, as teller, and so continued till March, 1864, when the First National Bank of Selinsgrove, was organized, and he was elected cashier, which position he has continued to occupied for more than thirty years.
In politics Mr. North was always a Democrat, but on the currency question sided with the more conservative members of his party, repudiating the doctrine of free silver. He was a prominent worker in the party ranks, and in his younger years was active in County and State Conventions, but became less so in later years when other duties claimed the major portion of his time. Though reared in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, he, finding no church of that denomination in Selinsgrove, joined the Lutheran Church.