Arthur A. Poole, p. 692

ARTHUR A. POOLE, the popular jeweler of Washington, of English ancestry, was born in Bedford county, Penn., November 9, 1844. Denton Poole, his grandfather, emigrated from England to Maryland, where was born, in 1816, Samuel, the father of our subject.

Samuel Poole was a carpenter and builder. He married, in 1842, in Pennsylvania, Margaret Blankney, a native of Bedford county, and seven children were born to them, two of whom survive: Morgan, a resident of Braddock, Penn., and Arthur A. The parents lived in Allegany county Md., until 1850, when they removed to Cumberland, Md., where the father died in 1877, and the mother in March, 1857, at the age of forty years.

Arthur A. Poole had the advantages of a good common-school education, after which he clerked in a shoe store in Cumberland, Md., until he enlisted in September, 1861, in Company H, Second Maryland Infantry, and served until the close of the war, chiefly in the valley of Virginia. After his discharge he learned the jewelry business with S. T. Little, in Cumberland, Md., and on finishing an apprenticeship, he worked as journeyman in various places. In 1875 he opened a jewelry store in Cumberland, Md., in partnership with P. J. Smith, the style of the firm being Smith & Poole; in 1878 he came to Washington, and opened a small store in the same line of trade, now one of the finest in the place. By industry and careful attention to business, Mr. Poole has met with well-merited success. To-day he is one of the leading business men of Washington. In October, 1871, our subject married Laura V., daughter of Capt. R. A. French, of Cumberland, Md. Five children were born to them: Arthur French (who graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in the class of 1891, and is now in his father's store), Edith V., Helen May, Herbert C. and Marguerite. Mr. and Mrs. Poole are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington; in politics he is a Republican.

Text taken from page 692 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).

Transcribed June 1997 by Betty J. Stewart of Pittsburgh, PA as part of the Beers Project.
Published June 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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