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George Lewis
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George Lewis born in Malmesbury Eng, May 20,1843. At the age of
one his family came to the US of A arriving in Cleveland Ohio in June
1844. They came over on the Abbigon in a 42 day voyage. They went from NYC
to Albany by river; from there they went to Buffalo by canal. From Buffalo
they went to Cleveland on Lake Erie.
His father took up market gardening on a 30 acre farm where George
remained until he was 20. In 1863 he went to Titusville Pa where he was
employed by Great Western Refinery at Pioneer remaining until 1865, when
he went back to Cleveland to work for Outhwait, Shurmer & Co. Later it
became Clark, Shurmer & Co of which he became a silent partner. He
Remained with Clark Shurmer & Co until the South Improvement Co in 1872 at
which time they disposed of their oil interests to Standard Oil and in
June of that year he entered their service and is still with them (1896).
In 1872 he came to Oil City where he has resided permanently.
He was one of the organizers of the American Oil Co in Bradford in 1876,
which operated in the Mc Kean fields.
He was also associated with P. H. Judd & Co., in the production of oil
in Venango Co and in both fields he was rewarded with a great deals of
success.
He was also one of the original stockholders in the Oil City Trust
Company and at present is one of the largest holders of stock in that
solid financial institution.
In 1869 he was married to Miss Sarah Bowman of Titusville who with her
husband makes their elegant place of residence on Bissell Ave on of the
most pleasant of Oil City's many hospitable homes.
Oil City Derrick,1896. Submitted by
Eliz.
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| Lewis Family
Histories
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Genealogies of the Lewis and kindred families |
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Adams, Albritton, Lewis & Wood families of N.C. to Ala. |
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Genealogy of the family of Henry Lewis (son of Evan Lewis) who emigrated from
Wales in 1682 |
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Genealogy of the Lewis family in America : from the middle of the seventeenth
century down to the present time |
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Randall Lewis of Hopkinton, Rhode Island and Delaware County, New York and some
of his descendants |
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Records of Lewis, Meriwether and kindred families : genealogical records of
Minor, Davis, Wells, Gilmer, and Clark families |
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The family record of John Carroll Watts : containing his Lewis, Gardner, Barber,
Kennedy, Teter, and Watts lines |
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The genealogical record of the ancestors and descendants of Perley and Phebe
(Lewis) Mitchell of Parke County, Indiana |
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The Lewis family of Wales and America : origin, ancestry, and some of the
descendants |
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The Severance genealogy : the Benjamin, Charles, and Lewis lines of the seventh
generation |
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The Sydney-Smith and Clagett-Price genealogy : with the Lewis, Montgomery,
Harrison, Hawley, Moorhead, Rixey, Doniphan, Waugh |
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