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 COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES W A R R E N W. W E I X I V E R * propricior of the wholesale and retail hardware establish­ ment in Danvilje which he conducts under his name* and also a director of the W elliver H ardw are Company* a wholesale concern* hears a name w hkh has Ion? been associated with the hardware trade in this part o f Penn­ sylvania. H e is one of the most progressive merchants in the borough, a fact to which his up-to-date store and stock testify. M r. W elliver was born in DanviUe Ju ly 23* i86f>* son o f Samuel Jam es W ellivcr, and obtain al his education in the public schools of the borough. When only fourteen years old he started a modest business o f his own, sell­ ing [>aints. oils, leather* etc.* and a year later lie went to work for his father in the hard­ ware business. In 1884 he ivas sent to Nanti­ cokc to manage the store o f W elliver & Cole (his father and J . H. Cole)* and after he had Ijcen (here three years he tought the inter­ est o f Mr. Cole* from which time the business w as continued under the name o f S . J . WelUvcr & Co. In 1887 Mr, W elliver bought his father's interest and changed the name to the W elliver H ardware Company. He remained at Nanticokc until 1802. when he returned to DanviUe and entered the wholesale trade* in which he has since been interested. In 1894 the W ellivcr H ardware Company was incor|M>rated* with a capital of $25,000. which in w as increased lo $100*000. and W. W. W ellivcr became secretary and general man­ ager. continuing his connection with the con­ cern in that capacity for a period o f sixteen years, until he resigned, in 19 10 . He is still one of the directors, however. When he severed his active connection with the W ellivcr H ardware Co., he acquircti hy purchase the sole ownership of the wholesale and retail hardware business (hen being conducted by the firm known as S, J. W elliver’s Sons Coml>any. which he has since carried on under the name o f W. W. W ellivcr. In 19 10 he made extensive additions to the store occupied by this company, the building being now 25 feet wide and 500 feet deep, T lic slock is large and includes complete assortments o f all the lines carried, affording patrons the widest choke, and all the modern appliances and fit­ tings are to be found here. Mr. W ellivcr knows the business from the ground up* and he not only aims to supply the needs o f his cnscom crs.'but to offer them goods in ad ­ vance of their demands, suggesting the up-todate productions of the trade and giving them the tonefit of his knowledge of wh,at is in the in*arkct.

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M r. W elliver married Elizabeth Lewis* of Pitiston* Pa,, and to them w*as born one child* Dorothy. In 1894 -Mrs. W elliver died* and M r. W elliver has since remarried* his second union being to Grace L Irland, o f Danville, daughter o f Jam es M. Irland* the photog­ rapher. .Mr. W clliver belongs lo the NIahoning Presbyterian Church, and socially he holds mctnbcrship in the B. P. O. E lk s (Lodge No. 754) and Slasons, Mahoning todge* No. $16, l & A. M.* Danville Chapter, No. 239, R. A. M.* and C alvary Commandery. No. 37, K. T,* all of Danville. J a m k s M c M. m i a n I s l, s d, father o f Mrs. W clliver, was born Sept, 23, 1846, in Northumtorland county, Fa., son o f John M. and Amanda (A fcM ahan) Irland. H is parents were n f Scotch-Irish stock, and settled early in Pennsylvania. Jam es M. Irland was reared to farm ing, and was engaged at such work un­ til his enlistment in the Union arm y, Aug. 17, 1864. H e became a member of C ^ ip a n y E. 9th Pennsylvania Cavalr)** and w as in the sendee until the close of the war. .*t Woodhiiry, Tcnn.* he was captured, Init paroled a short time later. Mr. IrUind lias been engaged in business as a photugrapher at Danville since 1866. He married I.ucy F . M axw ell, of Carhondalc, Pa., daughter o f Robert and Jan e (D ouglas) M axwell, the former a mercliant. M rs. Irland died Dec. 12. 189H. the mother o f four children: Grace I.* w ife o f W arren W. W ellivcr, o f D an ville; Robert D., a physician*of Kansas City, M o.; Thom as C.* agent at DanviUe for the Delaware. Lacka­ wanna & Western R ailw ay Company, and Helen C.. w ife o f Paul A . Vannan, an elec­ trical engineer, o f E lv ria, Ohio. M r. Irland is a mcmtor o f tocige No. 754. B. P. 0 * Elks* o f Danville, and the Mahoning Presby­ terian Church. E D W A R D P U R P U R, v k c president and superintendent of the Nam -Trah Knitting & Spinning Company, o f DanviUe* Montour Co.* Pa.. w*as born in that place M ay 2<>* 1873. son o f Frederick and Louisa (H orw art) Purpur, Frederick Purpur was with the Philadel­ phia Ik Reading Iron Company as a ptiddler for some years, and later with the Mahoning Rolling A fills Company as timekeeper and ptiddler toss* so continuing until his <leath, which occurred Nov. 28, 1898, at DanviUe* when he was sixty-two years old. H is widow* now eighty years o f age* still makes her liome at Danville. Edw ard Purpur was educated in the pub­ lic schools o f his native borough, and togan