Northumberland-Schuylkill County PA Archives Biographies.....Purcell, Martin E. 1858 - living in 1899

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MARTIN E. PURCELL is a son of Patrick and Mary (Purcell) Purcell, and was born

in 1858 at Heckscherville, Schuylkill County, Pa. His father, Patrick Purcell,

was a native of Ireland who immigrated to America about 1840, locating in the

anthracite coal regions in Schuykill County, Pa., where he followed mining the

rest of his life.



  Martin E. Purcell, our subject, was educated in the common schools of Cass

township, and between the ages of eleven and twelve years went into the breaker

as a picker of slate, remaining in and around there for about seven years. He

then went into the Oak Dale shaft at Glen Carbon, Pa., as a laborer, and

afterwards did rock work in the turrets at the same place, continuing until

1872. He then moved to the Thomaston Colliery in Schuylkill County, Pa., and

followed mining for seven years, working some of the time as a miner and the

rest of the time as a fire-boss, holding the latter position from April, 1883,

until January 6, 1888, when he went to Bear Valley Colliery and accepted the

position of inside-foreman, which position he still holds.



  Mr. Purcell married Mary Shore, a daughter of Michael Shore, and they are the

parents of five children, as follows: Patrick; Robert; Mary; Julia; and Ella.





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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

  Published by 

  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)





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