Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Core, Alfred  September 30, 1827 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 494
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Alfred Core, a popular justice of the peace and the 
genial auctioneer of Smithfield, was born in German 
township, Fayette county, Penna, September 30, 1827, and is 
a son of Isaac Core and Jane French Core.  

    His grandfather, Colonel Henry Core, was of German 
extraction and came to German township at an early day.  He 
commanded a regiment of Pennsylvania militia.

    His father, Isaac Core, was born in 1790 and died in 
1860.  He was a farmer and was county commissioner in 1821 
and 1822.  His wife was Jane French, daughter of Enoch 
French, the latter of Scotch Irish descent and a ruling 
elder of Dunlap's Creek Presbyterian church.  Isaac Core had 
three sons: W F Core of Texas, Alfred Core and John C Core 
of Franklin township.  

    Alfred Core was reared and educated in German township.  
His business up to the breaking out of the rebellion was 
farming and stock dealing.  In 1863 he entered the 
quartermaster's department at Clarksburg, West Virginia, and 
was afterwards transferred to Grafton where he remained 
until 1865.  

    After the war he located at Smithfield and ran the 
Stentz House for eighteen months, when he engaged for three 
years in operating a hack line from Smithfield to Uniontown 
and carried the United States mails. Relinquishing the hack 
line business, he again engaged in stock dealing.  

    In 1851 he was married to Miss Mary V Sangston.  They 
have two children: Rebecca Jane Core, wife of Absalom Howard 
of Smithfield; and Emma R Core, married to James Abraham Jr 
of Greensburg, who is conductor on the Pennsylvania Central 
railroad.  

    Mrs Core's father, Hon John A Sangston, was born in 1803 
and died in 1858.  He was sheriff of Fayette county from 
1829 to 1832, and a member of the Pennsylvania State senate 
from 1834 to 1838.  He was not a speaker, but a man of 
splendid natural ability.  His wife was Miss Rebecca 
McClelland of Uniontown.  

    Alfred Core is a member of the I O of O F and Knights of 
the Golden Eagle.  Before the war he was a lieutenant of a 
militia cavalry company and an aid-de-camp to General Ed 
Swearingen.  Although a republican, he has been elected for 
his fourth term of five years each as a justice of the peace 
in a strong democratic township.  For thirty five years he 
has been a successful auctioneer.  Squire Core is congenial 
and popular, an entertaining conversationalist, and 
inimitable in description of the humorous and ludicrous.  

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