Bios: NORMAN G. VANCE, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      NORMAN G. VANCE,
  
  [p. 926] sole proprietor of the only feed and hay market in Wilmington
  Township, owns a very fine farm in Mercer County and is also interested
  in raising thoroughbred horses. Mr. Vance was born December 21, 1861, in
  Slippery Rock Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of
  William and Martha (Leslie) Vance. William Vance is a retired farmer
  residing at New Wilmington. His parents, James and Anna Vance, were the
  first settlers on the old Vance homestead, in Slippery Rock Township,
  where they located about 1790, when the land was still wild and uncleared.
  
  Norman G. Vance attended the country schools near his home and
  subsequently entered Grove City College, where he pursued the regular
  course, completing it in 1887. He then turned his attention to farming
  and has continued to be more or less interested in the same ever since.
  He has also been profitably interested in the stock business for some
  years. He owns two, Percheron mares and a share in two famous stallions,
  Partisan and Cleopaz. Partisan was imported from France in 1905, while
  Cleopaz and the mares were bred on a noted stock farm in Michigan. His
  valuable farm in Mercer County contains 123 acres and is situated three
  miles north of New Wilmington in Lackawannoc Township, on the east side
  of the road leading from New Wilmington to Sharon. His business in hay
  and feed, at New Wilmington, is conducted under his personal supervision.
  
  Mr. Vance was married, first, to Cora Wilkinson who died March 14, 1902.
  She was a daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Wilkinson. Three children were
  born to this union, namely: Gula, Margaret and Claire. Mr. Vance was
  married secondly to Elizabeth Neal, who is a daughter of James and
  Margaret Neal, of Lawrence County. Mr. Vance is a member of the Second
  United Presbyterian Church of New Wilmington. He is active in local
  politics and is a progressive. and public-spirited citizen.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
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