George A. Chalfant and Margaret Bell

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Husband George A. Chalfant ^{1 2}

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           Born: 3 Mar 1841 - Turtle Creek, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Henry Richard Chalfant (1837-1887) 3 4 5 6
         Mother: Evaline R. Graham (1846-      ) 3 4 7

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• Note: This may be the same person as : George H. Chalfant.

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Wife Margaret Bell ⁸

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         Father: George Bell (      -      ) 8
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• Note: This may be the same person as : [Unk] Bell.

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General Notes: Husband - George A. Chalfant

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He was educated in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and attended Jefferson College, from which he graduated in 1861. He was subsequently employed as clerk in the office of Spang, Chalfant & Co., and in the course of two years was promoted to the position of superintendent and general manager of the works. At the time he took charge the business employed three hundred men; eventually it employed eight hundred. Mr. Chalfant was the first to utilize natural gas in the county.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 597.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 235.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 402.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 234.

5 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 119, 429.

6 Elizabeth M. Davison and Ellen B. McKee, Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and Vicinity (Wilkinsburg, PA: The Group for Historical Research, 1940), Pg 127.

7 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 429.

8 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 598.