Northumberland County PA Archives Biographies.....Ramsey, William J. 1859 - living in 1899

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WILLIAM J. RAMSEY, an enterprising citizen of Sagon, Coal township,

Northumberland County, Pa., and inside-foreman at the Hickory Ridge Colliery,

has had a thorough mining career and, through steadiness of character and

conscientiousness in his work, has won for himself a splendid position, the

duties of which he fills to the entire satisfaction of the company. He is a son

of Cyrus and Margaret (Henry) Ramsey, and was born March 15, 1859, in Schuylkill

County, Pa.



  Cyrus Ramsey, father of our subject, was born near Lebanon, Pa. He was a

teacher in his younger days, but during his later life was a colliery clerk in

the region of the Hickory Swamp Colliery. He lived in that region thirty-five

years prior to his death, which occurred at Coal Run. He was a man of good,

practical education, and was widely known in that section. Our subject's mother

was born in Schuylkill County, Pa., but is now living at Coal Run.



  William J. Ramsey, the subject of this biography, spent his early life in the

mining districts and consequently followed the occupation of a miner. At the age

of nine years he went into the breaker as a picker of slate, and remained there

until he entered the mines as a full-fledged miner. It was not long until he was

promoted to the position of assistant foreman at Hickory Swamp, where he

remained two and one-half years. At the end of that period, in 1894, he accepted

a similar position at Hickory Ridge, and his work being satisfactory, in April,

1898, he was promoted once more, to the position of inside-foreman.



   Politically Mr. Ramsey is a Republican and is an active supporter of his

party, having served a number of times on the election board, and has also been

a delegate several times to the county conventions. He is a member of several

fraternal organizations, namely: Knights of the Golden Eagle; Jr. O. U. A. M.;

Knights of the Mystic Shrine; and holding offices in the Jr. O. U. A. M. and the

Knights of the Golden Eagle. Mr. Ramsey, on July 18, 1881, married Eliza Sands,

daughter of Samuel Sands of Shamokin, Pa., and they are the parents of five

children, as follows: George A.; Cyrus R.; Joseph S.; B. Franklin; and Ethel

Irene. Mr. Ramsey is one of the most active workers in Sagon and is a man of

strictest integrity.

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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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