Clearfield County PA Archives - Photos: BETTS, William Irvin

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Betts, William Irvin, leading citizen of Clearfield County

photo scanned from Roland D. Swoopes "Twentieth Century History of Clearfield 
County, PA and Representative Citizens", published 1911, page 998

  WILLIAM IRVIN BETTS was born in Clearfield, Pa., June 3, 1870, son of William 
W. Betts and Margaret Irvin Betts.  After receiving his education in the
schools 
of Clearfield and at Greenwich, Conn., and Peekskill, N. Y., he entered his 
father's office in 1889, becoming interested with him in his many business 
enterprises.  He was married in Clearfield, Pa., December 28, 1904, to Isabel 
Holt Murray, and has four children, - Thomas Murray, Dorothy, William Irvin, 
Jr., and Donald Betts.  He is president and director of the Clearfield Colliery 
Company, director in the Clearfield National Bank, vice president and member of 
the Board of Governors of Clearfield-Curwensville Country Club, director in the 
Y. M. C. A. of Clearfield, trustee of the Presbyterian church of Clearfield,
and 
has served one term as burgess of Clearfield.  He is a member of the American 
National Red Cross, member of the Racquet Club, of Philadelphia, and a member
of 
the Board of Governors of the Clearfield Chamber of Commerce.