Husband John Tonkin 1
Born: 1837 - eastern Pennsylvania
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Died: 1929
Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2
Father: John Tonkin ( - ) 3
Mother: Margaret [Unk] ( - ) 3
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Wife Margaret Barnett 3
Born: 1847
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Died: 1919
Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2
Other Spouse: Charles Ferguson ( - ) 3
Children
1 F Frances Tonkin 3
Born: Abt Sep 1873 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA
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Died: 1966
Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 4
Spouse: Harry Taft Egbert (Abt 1865-1925) 3
Marr: 7 Jun 1898 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 5
2 M John B. Tonkin 3
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Spouse: May Simpson ( - ) 3
3 M Wade Hampton Tonkin 3
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Spouse: Blanche Keller ( - ) 3
4 F Margaret Winifred Tonkin 3
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Died: 1901 - near Boston, MA 3
Cause of Death: Railroad accident
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5 F Mary C. Tonkin 3
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Spouse: Archibald C. Perry ( - ) 3
6 M Loring L. Tonkin 3
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Spouse: Norma Smith ( - ) 3
General Notes: Husband - John Tonkin
He was born in eastern Pennsylvania, where his father was engaged at the coal mines for a time. When yet a child, his family removed to Tennessee, where he was reared and educated, receiving his preparatory work in the public schools and an advanced course at Hiawasse College, Madisonville, Tennessee. After leaving college he was employed as a clerk at the copper mines in that state, continuing thus until the Civil War broke out, when he enlisted in September, 1861, in the Confederate service, becoming second lieutenant of Company A, 43d Regiment, Tennessee, first attached to the western army under General E. Kirby Smith, through the Kentucky campaign. In May, 1862, he was promoted to captain. After returning from the campaign mentioned, his division was sent south to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in December, 1862, under General Stevenson, remaining there until the surrender in July, 1863. When the command had been declared exchanged he was attached to General Longstreet's command, then at Knoxville, in Eastern Tennessee, and in the spring of 1864 was assigned to duty in Virginia under General Early, taking part in the campaign of 1864. During the winter of 1864-65 he was stationed in the upper part of eastern Tennessee, and at the salt works in Southwestern Virginia. Upon receipt of the news of Lee's surrender, his command went over to General Joseph E. Johnston, of North Carolina, and was ordered to escort President Jefferson Davis, who left them a few days before his capture. They surrendered May 10, 1865, at Washington, Georgia.
At the close of the war Captain Tonkin came to New York to interview a number of his father's friends regarding business prospects, as the devastation and utter ruin which prevailed in the south-land gave little promise to him there. For eleven months he served as agent of a new coal mine under development at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, after which he located at Tidioute, Warren County, becoming superintendent of the Dennis Run and New York Oil Company. In 1887 he went to Ohio as manager of the Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Company, where he remained six years, five of which were spent at Toledo. In 1894 he removed to Oil City, where he took the position of assistant general manager of the natural gas interests of the Standard Oil Company, remaining in that connection until the death of E. Strong, when he was made president and general manager of the Oil City Fuel Supply Company, and of the Mountain State Gas Company of West Virginia, as well as the River Gas Company of Ohio, vice-president of the United Gas Company, and vice-president and general manager of the Clarksburg Light and Heat Company of West Virginia, and on the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company retired from all of the above positions except his association with the Clarksburg Light and Heat Company, which he resigned in November, 1915. Meanwhile, Captain Tonkin also acquired interests of his own in that line in the Kentucky fields, being president of the Central Kentucky Natural Gas Company, furnishing gas to Lexington, Winchester, Mount Sterling, Paris, and other Central Kentucky towns. During his residence at Tidioute, Captain Tonkin was an independent producer, operating in that field and in the Bradford field, McKean County. He was also prominent in the administration of civil affairs, serving as councilman and burgess. As a loyal Democrat he represented both Warren and Venango counties on the State committees.