Philip Creese and Jane Skiles

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Husband Philip Creese ¹

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           Born: 18 Mar 1816 - Ohio Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: Samuel Creese (      -      ) 3
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Wife Jane Skiles ⁴

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           Born: 10 Jul 1824 - Ohio Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: James Skiles (1790-      ) 5
         Mother: Catherine Emerick (      -1862) 6

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Children

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1 M Alfred Creese ²

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2 F Mary Jane Creese ²

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         Spouse: David Winters (      -      ) 2

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3 M William Creese ²

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4 F Susan Creese ²

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5 M Samuel Creese ^{2 7}

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           Born: 25 Mar 1850 - Allegheny Co, PA 7
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6 F Rebecca Creese ²

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7 M James Creese ²

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           Born: 5 Oct 1854 - Sewickley Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Nancy Speer (      -      ) 8

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8 F Anna M. Creese ^{2 10}

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            AKA: Anna M. Crees 9
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         Spouse: S. Andrew Seaman (1856-      ) 9 10

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9 F Tirzah Creese ²

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10 F Eva E. Creese ²

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11 M Ralph Philip Creese ²

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General Notes: Husband - Philip Creese

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After obtaining an education in the early schools of the locality, he erected and operated a saw mill on his father's property, cutting and fashioning the timber for a log house, which he reared himself. A few years later he bought a farm on the Sewickley Hills Road, later known as Campmeeting Road, where he built a house and lived for thirty-five years. He was extraordinary skillful with tools for one who had served no apprenticeship at any mechanical art, and manufactured finely wrought and substantially constructed furniture from rough wood from the forest. Few cabinetmakers surpassed him in useful knowledge, and some of his work would have defied emulation even by one learned in that trade. He later in life moved to Beaver Falls, where he lived until his death, which occurred at the home of his son James, at Leetsdale, while there with his wife on a visit.
He served the township as road supervisor, and was repeatedly re-elected to the school board in Sewickley township. His religious faith was the United Brethren, and the Mount Union Church of that denomination was largely the result of his generous support. He and an uncle walked to Red Bank, there procured pine lumber and floated it down the river, the church subsequently being built therefrom. He established a mission Sunday school in the Sewickley Hills school house and was for many years superintendent. This school formed the nucleus for the Van Cleve Chapel. In later life he was a Presbyterian, a member of the Shields Presbyterian Church. His quietness of demeanor was a characteristic remarked by all, and was apt to deceive one into concluding that he was a personage of small importance, but to watch the forward strides of a project that he had promised to carry to a successful consummation revealed the strength of purpose and the forceful ability that were concealed under his impassive exterior. "Still waters" had pertinent application in regard to the outward show of Philip Creese, but his influence for good in the community made eloquent expression in its results.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 468, 742.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 469.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 468.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 469, 742.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 741.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 742.

7 —, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Chicago: A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 635.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 470.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 186.

10 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 669.