Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Frederick Alexander Aggers and Sarah Wakefield




Husband Frederick Alexander Aggers 1

           Born: 18 Nov 1851 - Snowden Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Henry Aggers (1812-1852) 1 2
         Mother: Johanna Demperwolf (1815-1883) 1


       Marriage: 5 Sep 1874 3



Wife Sarah Wakefield 3

           Born: 25 Jul 1856 - Saltsburg, Indiana Co, PA 3
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         Father: John Wakefield (1826-Aft 1913) 3
         Mother: Elizabeth McCune (1825-1895) 3




Children
1 F Elizabeth Aggers 3

           Born: 6 Aug 1878 - Butler Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Emil Stinger (      -      ) 3


2 F Grace Aggers 3

           Born: 4 Mar 1880 - East Bradford, McKean Co, PA 3
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3 M Earl Wakefield Aggers 3

           Born: 4 Jan 1883 - Indian Creek, McKean Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Theresa Baur (      -      ) 3


4 M Arthur Aggers 3

           Born: 3 Mar 1890 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 3
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General Notes: Husband - Frederick Alexander Aggers


He was educated in public school No. 5, Snowden township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and continued his mother's assistant on the farm until 1869. He then began learning the carpenter's trade, at which he worked until 1876 in his native township. He then went to the oil fields of Butler County, Pennsylvania, worked first as tool dresser, later as driller. He followed the oil fields through Butler, Venango, Clarion, Jefferson and McKean counties, becoming a contractor, and was later engaged in the production of both oil and gas. He settled in Bradford in 1880, remaining until 1886, then spent two years in Wyoming, then settled in Kane. He was vice-president of the Midland (Pennsylvania) Gas Company, Nansen Oil & Gas Company, and interested in the Home Oil Company of Kane, the firm of Bartlett Kane & Company, Clarion; the Kane Window, Glass Company; the Kane Blind and Screen Company and the Kane Milk Bottle Company. He was a Republican in politics and was councilman five years, school director three years and one of the trustees of Kane Public Park. He was past commander of the Knights of the Maccabees, No. 108, and an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 244.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 573.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 245.


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