John M. Risher and Mary J. Patterson

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Husband John M. Risher ^{1 2}

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           Born: 16 Sep 1849 - Six-Mile Ferry, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Father: John C. Risher (1815-1889) 4 5 6
         Mother: Nancy Denny McClure (1808-1875) 7 8

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Wife Mary J. Patterson ⁹

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         Father: Robert Patterson (1820-      ) 10 11
         Mother: Priscilla McCaslin (      -1878) 9

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Children

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1 M Robert P. Risher ¹²

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2 F Eva A. Risher ¹²

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3 F Bessie G. Risher ¹²

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Mary J. Risher ¹²

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5 F Fannie M. Risher ¹²

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General Notes: Husband - John M. Risher

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He was educated at the Western University, and the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, New York. After leaving school he was clerk in the banking house of S. McLean & Co., Fourth street, Pittsburgh, for one year, and then went to a position with the Fort Pitt Banking company, Pittsburgh, filling the same for three years, when he resigned to accept the position of bookkeeper and superintendent in the coal business of J. C. Risher & Co., retaining his residence in Dravosburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylania. In the fall of 1878, in partnership with James H. Gamble, he bought the coalfield at White Mills, in Washington County, known as the Penney tract, which they operated successfully. In February, 1884, he purchased Mr. Gamble's interest, and eventually had in operation two coalbanks, with a capacity of 15,000 bushels per day. His dealings with the miners were such as to benefit them, and good feeling existed between employer and employed.
He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. He was a member of the Jr. O. U. A. M., and a republican.

In 1915, a resident of California.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 396, 725.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1203.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 396.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 296, 725.

5 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 553.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1202, 1748.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 725.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1202.

9 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 397, 642.

10 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 397, 641.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 224.

12 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 397.