Samuel Walker Van Kirk and Florence Power

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Husband Samuel Walker Van Kirk ¹

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           Born: 22 Apr 1832 - Millsboro, Washington Co, PA 1
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         Father: William K. Van Kirk (1799-1881) 2 3 4
         Mother: Matilda Walker (1805-1874) 2 4

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       Marriage: 15 Dec 1864 1

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Wife Florence Power ¹

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           Born:  - Elizabeth Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: John Power (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Mary Howell (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 M Edward Van Kirk ¹

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         Spouse: Catherine Smalley (      -      ) 1

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2 F Alice Van Kirk ¹

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         Spouse: George T. Richards (      -      ) 1

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3 M William Van Kirk ¹

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           Died: 1893 - Chicago, Cook Co, IL 1
 Cause of Death: Accident
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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Walker Van Kirk

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He attended in youth the public schools and Sewickley Academy. He then entered Waynesburg College, continuing until twenty years of age, then entered his uncle's employ in 1852 as clerk in the latter's store in Elizabeth. A few years later he formed a partnership with his cousin, Samuel Walker, and established a general store in Elizabeth and as Van Kirk & Walker they conducted a very profitable business for thirty-five years. In 1899 this long and mutually agreeable and prosperous partnership was dissolved and Mr. Van Kirk retired to a well-earned relief from business cares. At the time of his retirement he was one of the oldest merchants of his town. He resided in the house built in 1810, purchased by his father in 1839, adjoining the old brick hotel erected by his grandfather, Major John Walker. He remodeled and enlarged the old house in 1875.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 639.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 403.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 189.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 638.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 639, 1145.