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Abraham Bestwick |
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| ABRAHAM
BESTWICK was born in England in 1835 and died July 8, 1889. His wife
was Sarah Boswell, also an English lady, who was born in 1833 and died on
July 1, 1887. Isaac Bestwick died when a young man and is survived by two
children who are living, Charles A. of New Brighton, and Carrie, wife of
Fred Johnston of McKeesport. Jacob removed to McKeesport, where he engaged
in the tinning business and was succeeded by his son John, both of whom
are now deceased. Abraham became a strong temperance advocate during the course of his life. He was an active member and officer of more than one temperance order or society and delivered lectures upon that subject numerous times. The surviving children of Abraham and Sarah Bestwick were Mary, wife of P. H. Reehl, Eva, wife of F. W. Duerr, David, George A. and Abraham. Upon his father’s death, the business was taken over and continued by David Bestwick, but afterward he gave it up and is now living in Sebring, Ohio. An interval of a few years then elapsed during which the Bestwick family was out of business in the borough, the only period to interrupt a continuation of nearly one hundred years, in which successive generations of that family have maintained either a tinning establishment, or hardware store, or both in New Brighton. In the late nineties, George A. resumed the family vocation by opening a tinning establishment and hardware store in the small building where his father had a tin shop about 40 years before, at 1000 Third Avenue. Later he bought the property at 902 on the same street, and moved into it, which is the location of the business at the present time. Abraham, his youngest brother served in the Spanish war as a member of Company B, Tenth Regiment and is now the proprietor of a sporting goods store on a part of the old Bestwick estate at 1004 Third Avenue. George A. was born Nov. 21, 1869, and died in 1924. He is survived by his wife and children; Erma G., wife of Chas. H. Kennedy, Wayne F., and George A. Bestwick Jr., Willard F., who died in 1903. Since their father’s death the hardware business has been carried on at the same place by Mrs. Kennedy and Wayne F. Bestwick as the Bestwick Hardware Company. History of New Brighton 1838-1939, published by the Historical Committee of the Centennial, Butler, PA, pages 20-21. More Beaver County History Books Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors. View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file! Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.
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