Louis Earl Benninghoff and Mayme J. Fitzgerald

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Husband Louis Earl Benninghoff ^{1 2}

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           Born: 3 May 1885 - near Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: Lewis Nelson Benninghoff (1850-1929) 1
         Mother: Mary Matilda McClintock (1849-1891) 1

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       Marriage: 1 Jul 1914 3

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Wife Mayme J. Fitzgerald ³

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            AKA: Mary Fitzgerald 4
           Born:  - Clarington, Forest Co, PA
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         Father: Solomon D. Fitzgerald (1835-      ) 3 5
         Mother: Rebecca Henry (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Louis Earl Benninghoff

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He was educated in the public schools of Bradford and Arnold, Pennsylvania, St. Marys, West Virginia, and the high school at New Ken­sington, Pennsylvania. He began his career in the coal mines near New Kensington, where he worked for several years, and then entered the plumbing and roofing business for himself in Arnold. In 1906 he moved to Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, where his uncle, D. W. Brinton, had an oil lease. Mr. Benninghoff became associated with his uncle in this operation and did all kinds of work there until 1923, when he and his father purchased oil properties at Homeworth, Ohio. These were operated in partnership until the death of the elder man. In 1930 Mr. Benninghoff disposed of his Ohio properties and leased some land near Titusville. Here he had several wells drilled. Later he bought land at Gossville, War­ren County, leased other adjacent tracts and altogether drilled about thirty wells in that vicinity most of which were still producing years later.
Mr. Benninghoff was well known not only in the oil fields but also as an influential figure in the life of Titusville, where he served as a member of the city council and beginning in January, 1940, was superintendent of public safety. He was affiliated with the Masonic Blue Lodge, No. 499, at Homeworth, Ohio, and Nazir Grotto at Canton and was a member of the Titusville Young Men's Christian Associa­tion. Mr. Benninghoff was a Presbyterian in religious faith. His diversions were fishing and hunting.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1136.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 202.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 203.

4 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 931.

5 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 930.