Henry H. Loveridge    

HENRY H. LOVERIDGE, retired civil engineer, Meadville, was born in Genesee County, N. Y., December 1, 1817, and is a son of Ethan and Caroline (Gunn) Loveridge, the former a native of Massachusetts, the latter of Connecticut, and both of English descent. His father, who was a farmer, reared a family of five children, of whom Henry H. was the eldest. He remained on the farm until seventeen years of age, when he studied civil engineering, and then went on public works, where he continued working for many years, being employed on the Erie Canal for over thirty years, of which for several years he was Superintendent of the French Creek feeder. He was married in 1843 to Nancy Jane, daughter of John B. Plummer, a merchant in, Mercer County, Penn., and to this union were born two children, William P. and Florence. Mr. and Mrs. Loveridge are members of the Park Avenue Congregational Church. He has been a member of the Council of Meadville; in politics is a Republican.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 749

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