Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....Rettenbury, John Vickery 1831 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
       JOHN VICKERY RETTENBURY is a leading representative of the business
  interests of Dushore, Pennsylvania, where he carries on operations as a jeweler
  and watchmaker, and enjoys a large and lucrative trade. He has the most complete
  store of the kind in Sullivan county, and also has the finest repairing
  department in this section of the state. Of excellent business ability and broad
  resources, he has attained a prominent place among the substantial citizens of
  the community, and has won success by his well-directed, energetic efforts.
  
      Mr. Rettenbury was born in Devonshire, England, November 30, 1831, and is
  the only surviving child of Hugh and Judith (Vickery) Rettenbury. His father was
  a prominent hotel man in his native country, where he died when our subject was
  a lad of five years. The mother afterward married again, and in 1842 the family
  came to America, locating in Niagara county, New York, where Mr. Rettenbury
  completed his education in the common schools. During his youth he learned the
  carpenter and joiner's trade, and later the jewelry and watch-making trade. In
  1878 he located in Monroeton, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, but in April of the
  following year came to Dushore, where he has since successfully engaged in
  business. In political sentiment he is a Republican, and he ever takes a deep
  and commendable interest in public affairs.
  
      On the 28th of October, 1879, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Rettenbury
  and Miss Bernice Kellogg, who was born in South Branch, Bradford county, June
  27, 1845, a daughter of Ezra and Lavina (Sweet) Kellogg. The father, who was a
  prominent farmer of South Branch, was born August 14, 1806, in Hadley,
  Massachusetts, and was a son of Amos and Eunice (Chadwick) Kellogg. Mrs.
  Rettenbury is a most estimable lady and a member of the Universalist church.
  
  
  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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