Sullivan-Wyoming-McKean County PA Archives Biographies.....Hope, Christopher 1862 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      CHRISTOPHER HOPE, postmaster and a prominent merchant of Mildred, Sullivan
  county, Pennsylvania, possesses that valuable quality of versatility or
  adaptability which is a prominent element of the American character and which by
  its exercise in international commerce is beginning to attract world-wide
  attention and regard. Mr. Hope is of Irish extraction and for the success which
  he has attained in life his own efforts deserve full credit.
  
      He was born at Lovelton, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, November 3, 1862, the
  son of Peter F. and Marcella (Reilly) Hope, now residents of Lovelton. Peter F.
  Hope was born in Ireland, in 1836, the son of Christopher and Eliza Hope, who
  remained in their native land throughout life. Peter F. was a young man of
  twenty-one when he resolved to seek a new home in America. He settled at
  Lovelton, married Marcella Reilly, the daughter of Bernard and Ann (Cunningham)
  Reilly, and there engaged in farming. To Peter F. and Marcella Hope were born
  these children: Christopher, subject of this sketch; Bernard, Edward,
  Bartholomew, Francis, Charles, George, Elizabeth (Mrs. John Corcoran), Anna
  (Mrs. Edward Schultz), Mary (Mrs. Malloy), Margaret, Susan (Mrs. Michael
  Murray), Catherine, and Marcella, - all living.
  
      Christopher, our subject, the eldest child of his parents, remained at home,
  assisting in the work of the farm until he reached the age of twenty-three
  years. He then started out for himself in life. For six months he was in the
  woods at Big Shanty, McKean county, Pennsylvania, and then he returned home for
  a year. Again he engaged in lumbering at Lopez, this state, and then was
  connected with a hotel at Dushore. Returning to Lovelton he farmed for two
  years, then in 1893 he engaged in his present mercantile business at Mildred. In
  February, 1894, he was appointed postmaster at Mildred. In politics he is a
  Democrat and in religious faith a Catholic. Socially he is a member of the order
  of the Knights of Labor, and is highly esteemed.
  
      Mr. Hope was married at Dushore, in April, 1890, to Miss Anna Burke, a
  native of Ireland, the daughter of William and Ann (Sullivan) Burke. William
  Burke was born in county Galway, Ireland, November 4, 1833, the son of Michael
  and Mary (Cunningham) Burke. Of the five children of this latter couple two -
  John and Margaret - died young; three came to America: Thomas, now a farmer of
  Colley township, Sullivan county, Pennsylvania; Michael, a shoemaker of Lopez,
  this county; and William, the father of our subject's wife. The parents died in
  Ireland - Michael in 1868, aged ninety-two years, and Mary in 1858, aged seventy
  years. William Burke was married at Tyna church in county Galway, Ireland, June
  22, 1860, to Ann Sullivan, who was born in county Tipperary, same country, in
  1833, daughter of Patrick and Mary (Donnelly) Sullivan, who remained in Ireland.
  After his marriage William remained on his father's farm until two years after
  the latter's death, then, in 1870, he emigrated to America. He settled at
  Dushore, where he worked for four years on the track for the Jackson & Millett
  Coal Company, and after the road changed hands he continued with the new owners
  until 1879, when he entered the Bernice coal mines. In 1888 he purchased from
  Joseph Marshall his present farm and in 1895 retired from coal-mining and has
  since engaged in farming. He is in politics a Democrat and a member of the
  Catholic church. The children of William and Ann Burke are as follows: Mary,
  Mrs. Patrick Lynch, of Detroit, Michigan; Margaret, Mrs. John Temple, of
  Detroit, Michigan; Michael, who died young; Ann, wife of our subject; Thomas, a
  resident of Cleveland, Ohio; Tracia, Patrick and Dennis, at home. To our subject
  and wife have been born the following children: Zetia, Mary, Florence, Corentha,
  Frances and Helen.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
        Extracted from: 
          
        History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
        by Thomas J. Ingham
          
        Compendium of Biography
          
        The Lewis Publishing Company
        Chicago: 1899
  
  
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