Kenton Chickering    

KENTON CHICKERING, secretary of the Oil Well Supply Company, Limited, is a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, and was born in 1847. His father, Cyrus C. Chickering, a manufacturer of dental material, and in after life a farmer, died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1867. at the age of fifty-three years. His mother’s family name was Scott, of the old Philadelphia Scott family, and a near relative of General Winfield Scott, famous in American history. Kenton Chickering was an only son. He was educated in the public schools of Massachusetts. In 1863 he became dispatch bearer to General Clark, United States commissary department, New York city, and held that posi­tion two years. For about one year after the close of the war he remained in government service, and for the succeeding two or three years sold goods as clerk and traveling salesman for different New York establishments. In 1869 he accepted employment with Eaton & Cole of New York, dealers in brass and iron goods, fitting pipes, etc., and as their representative came to Titusville in 1870. In that year the Eaton, Cole & Burnham Company was organized, and he was in their interest till 1874, having moved in the meantime (1873) to Oil City. The Oil Well Supply Company was organized first in 1874; in 1879 it was reorganized and Mr. Chickering, a stock­holder, became its secretary. Though of a retiring disposition he is always interested in public affairs and wide awake to the best interests of the com­munity. He has been three years a member of the select council since the adoption of the city’s new charter, was one of the organizers of the Oil City Board of Trade, and has been identified with the Oil Exchange and the Ivy Club from their inception. He is a communicant of the Episcopal church, and has been seven years junior warden therein. He was married in New York city June 13, 1872, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of James Hamilton, and has four children: J. Hamilton; Myra Scott; Cornelia K., and Mary.

History of Venango County, Pennsylvania : its past and present, including its aboriginal history, the French and British occupation of the country, its early settlement and subsequent growth, a description of its historic and interesting localities, its rich oil deposits and their development, sketches of its cities, boroughs, townships, and villages, neighborhood and family history, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc., etc.
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