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AINEY, William David Blakeslee, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in New Milford, Pa., April 8, 1864; attended the public schools, the State Normal School at Mansfield, and Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., in 1887; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Montrose, Pa.; district attorney for Susquehanna County 1890-1896; organized Company G of the Pennsylvania National Guard and served as captain 1889-1894; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George W. Kipp; reelected to the Sixty-third Congress and served from November 7, 1911, to March 3, 1915; was not a candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; delegate to the International Parliamentary Union for International Peace held at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1912, and at The Hague in 1913; secretary and president of the Japanese-American group of interparliamentarians and delegate in 1914 to Tokyo, Japan, and to Stockholm, Sweden; resumed the practice of law in Montrose, Pa.; appointed a member of the Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania May 20, 1915, and on August 20, 1915, was elected chairman; reappointed for a ten-year term as member and chairman on July 1, 1917, and again on July 1, 1927; appointed chairman of the Pennsylvania Fuel Commission in August 1922; president of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners in 1924; died in Harrisburg, Pa., September 4, 1932; interment in Montrose Cemetery, Montrose, Pa.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present; contributed by A. Newell)
GRAY, Mrs. Mary Tenney, editorial writer and philanthropist, born in Brookdale, Liberty township, Susquehanna county, Pa., 19th June, 1833, and became a citizen of Kansas by adoption. Her fitness as a leader in the struggles and labors of the new State was the result of a thorough training in her father's theological library, supplemented by a course of study in the Ingalls Seminary, Binghamton, N.Y., and continued in a Pennsylvania seminary. After she was graduated, she was for several years preceptress in Binghamton Academy. On the editorial staff of the New York "Teacher" for two years her influence was felt among the teachers of the State. After she became the wife of Judge Barzillai Gray in 1859, and her removal to Wyandotte, Kansas Territory, and afterwards to Leavenworth, she entered upon many enterprises in the line of charities, church extension, the up building of State and county expositions, and was a prominent mover in the Centennial exhibit for Kansas in Philadelphia in 1876. She was a contributor or correspondent to the leading magazines and papers of Kansas and to the eastern press. The orphan asylum in Leavenworth was debtor to the appeals of her pen for recognition and assistance. The "Home Record," of the same city, was an outgrowth and exponent of her deep and abiding interest in the welfare and elevation of women. The compilation of the Kansas "Home Cook Book," for the benefit of the Home for the Friendless, was and is still a source of financial strength to the institution, more than ten-thousand copies having been sold. She has been for twenty years one of the officers of the board of control for the Home. As editor of the home department of the "Kansas Farmer" for some years she showed both sympathy and interest in a class who by force of circumstances are largely debarred from intellectual pursuits. As one of the original founders and first president of the Social Science Club of Kansas and Western Missouri, she has given an impetus to intellectual culture in those localities, and through skill, tact and personal influence has seen the organization grow from a small number to a membership of five-hundred of the brightest women of the two States. To these labors have been added scientific attainments unusual among women, and artistic work of much merit.
(Source: American Women by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol. 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow)
Greek, William
Contributed by Jody Smith
William Greek was born in NY in abt 1824. He married Betsey Peck (b. abt 1826) NY in Newark, NY on Apr. 16, 1845 by E Higbie a JP who resided in Newark, Tioga Co., NY. William and Betsey had the following children: Charlotte Elnetta Greek (b. 7-18-1846), Harriet Jane Greek (3-24-1848), William H. Greek (9-12-1851), James F. Greek (5-1-1854), Olive J. Greek (6-8-1858), Abram D. Greek (5-17-1860), and Earnest E. Greek (4-21-1862).
William enrolled on 9-15-1862, at Montrose, PA in Co. B, 17th Regiment of PA Cavalry volunteers, to serve 3 years, or during the war, and mustered in service as private on Oct 21, 1862. He died at US Gen'l Hosp, York, PA May 18, 1863 of Typhoid Fever. (Burried Civil War Circle, Prospect Hills Cem., York, PA)
Betsey initially applied for pension in Susquehanna Co on Aug 3, 1863 and in 1865 we learn from penson records that she married Grandison Eno on 2-8-1865 at Forest, Vernon Co., WI and reapplied for pension for her children from William Greek.
(records obtained thru Widow Pension Records of the Civil War for William Greek)
Jody Smith
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