John Frederick Stark and Sybbilla Thomas

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Husband John Frederick Stark ^{1 2}

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           Born: 4 Feb 1828 or 1829 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: Abt 1893 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Father: Gottlieb Stark (      -      ) 1 3
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )

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       Marriage: 27 Jan 1852 1

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Wife Sybbilla Thomas ¹

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            AKA: Sibella Thomas 4
           Born: Abt 1840 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
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           Died: 30 May 1911 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Thomas (1799-1881) 5 6
         Mother: Catharine Weaver (1801-1886) 4 5

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Children

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1 M Cyrus N. Stark ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: [Unk] Wilson (      -      ) 2

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2 M Henry Frank Stark ^{1 7 8}

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           Born: 11 Aug 1857 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 7
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         Spouse: Martha Jane Pollock (      -      ) 1 8
           Marr: 13 Oct 1881 - Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 7

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General Notes: Husband - John Frederick Stark

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He learned his father's trade, but having more taste for chemistry and inventions than his trade, he, after years of hard labor and study, turned his attention to chemistry in which he soon became quite proficient. His forte was invention and he was known nearly all his life as an inventor of far more than local note. He invented a carriage paint which was said to be one of the most durable and finest paints on the market. He perfected several labor-saving inventions. One important invention was a device to detect easily and instantly any gas leakage from gas pipes. Mr. Stark was a republican, and a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 166.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 384.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 384, 937.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 81.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 705.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 81, 103.

7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 385.

8 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 73.