George Byards Bastian and Caroline Endres

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Husband George Byards Bastian ¹

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            AKA: George B. Bastien 2
           Born: 7 Jan 1844 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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           Died: 28 Oct 1907 4
         Buried:  - East Wildwood

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         Father: William McKinley Bastian (1813-1887) 5 6
         Mother: Amy Garvin (1823-1896) 5 6

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Caroline Endres ²

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            AKA: Caroline Endress 3
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1909
         Buried: 

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         Father: Adam Endres (1823-Aft 1909) 7 8
         Mother: Elizabeth Wooster (      -      ) 9

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General Notes: Husband - George Byards Bastian

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He was educated in the public schools and was a graduate of the Duff's Commercial College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On August 11th, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company C, 134th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers; and on February 17th, 1863, was promoted to the position of Second Lieutenant. After leaving the army, he returned to Zelienople and became an active and energetic business man and a leader in all the progressive movements in his community. He was appointed postmaster at Zelienople in 1872 and continued in office for twelve years. He was deeply interested in the Agricultural Society of the county and served as president of the Harmony Fair Association for a number of years. He was one of the chief promoters in the rural districts of the Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and was instrumental in having the road pass through his native town. He moved to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1881, and opened up the largest and most expensively furnished art and toy store in central Pennsylvania. He conducted this business with energy and suc-cess until the disastrous and unprecedented thirty-four-foot flood of 1889 swept through the valley and made many rich men poor.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 977, 1245.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1119.

3 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1245.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1246.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1164.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1244.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 717, 1119.

8 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 876.

9 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 796.