Robert McCalmont and Jessie Benton Crawford

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Husband Robert McCalmont ¹

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           Born: 18 Sep 1859 - Washington, D. C. 1
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         Father: Gen. Alfred Brunson McCalmont (1825-1874) 1 2 3 4
         Mother: Sarah Frances Evans (1829-1898) 5

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Wife Jessie Benton Crawford ⁶

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         Father: William Reid Crawford (1827-1905) 7 8 9
         Mother: Jane Kerr (      -1902) 7 9 10

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General Notes: Husband - Robert McCalmont

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He received his preliminary education in the public schools of Franklin, Pennsylvania, and took his collegiate course at Princeton, where he was graduated in 1878 with the degree of C. E. He then read law in the offices of Dodd & Lee, attorneys at Franklin, and was admitted to the bar of Venango County in 1881. After a year's practice as a member of the firm of Lee & McCalmont, of Oil City, he opened an office in Franklin. For many years he was also in business as an oil producer. He was a Democrat, and was appointed postmaster of Franklin Jan. 28, 1915, and he handled the affairs of the office ably, having a very fortunate gift for management which enabled him to keep his numerous interests in order. He had many social connections, belonging to the Washington Club, the Franklin Club, the Elks, the Royal Arcanum and the Masonic fraternity, in the latter affiliating with Myrtle Lodge No. 316, F. & A. M., Venango Chapter No. 211, Keystone Council No. 42, and Franklin Commandery No. 44, K. T., all of Franklin, as well as Pittsburgh Consistory and Syria Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Pittsburgh. In religion he was an Episcopalian, and he was vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Franklin for thirty-eight years. [CAB, 455]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 452.

2 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 176.

3 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 182.

4 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. II (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 84.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 222, 455.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 456.

7 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 493.

8 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 819, 967, 1079.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 506.

10 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 819, 1079.