James Read Ramsey and Mary Dickey

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Husband James Read Ramsey ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 14 Feb 1815 - Bart Twp, Lancaster Co, PA 2
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           Died: 24 Dec 1871 - near Oxford, Chester Co, PA 4
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         Father: William Ramsey (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Rebecca Wilson (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 6 Jun 1845 1

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Wife Mary Dickey ^{3 4}

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         Father: Samuel D. Dickey (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Jane Hutchison (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 M William W. Ramsey ⁴

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2 M Samuel D. Ramsey ²

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           Born: 24 Jul 1848 - Hopewell, Chester Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Sarah M. Brinton (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 6 Dec 1877 4

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3 M J. Everton Ramsey ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - James Read Ramsey

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He received his education at Hopewell Academy and at Washington, Pennsylvania, under his uncle, the Rev. Obadiah Jennings, D.D., who was connected with Washington College. He was with the Messrs. Dickey Brothers, extensive merchants and cotton manufacturers, at Hopewell, Pennsylvania, for some years.
He assisted in the organization of the Oxford Public Library and the Oxford Agricultural Society, acting as the first president of the former and the treasurer of the latter. He was also, for many years and at the time of his death, a director of the Bank at Oxford.

He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He received what was considered a good education in that day, and became an energetic and successful business man. He engaged in a number of enterprises, all of which seemed to prosper in his hands. During the last twenty years of his life he served as treasurer of the Philadelphia & Baltimore Central Railroad Company.
Politically he was a republican, and served during the dark days of the civil war as president of the Union League of Oxford. He held a number of minor offices, and was a prominent member of the Presbyterian church, serving as trustee for many years.

1 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 704.

2 Winfield Scott Garner, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Gresham Publishing Company, 1893), Pg 201.

3 Hugh R. Fulton, Genealogy of the Fulton Family (Lancaster, PA: Privately published?, 1900), Pg 152.

4 Winfield Scott Garner, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Gresham Publishing Company, 1893), Pg 202.

5 Hugh R. Fulton, Genealogy of the Fulton Family (Lancaster, PA: Privately published?, 1900), Pg 146.