Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Britt, Robert June 4, 1805 - ????
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Source: History of Fayette County, L H Everts and Company 1882, page 588
Author: Franklin Ellis

    Robert Britt of Smithfield is of Irish descent and was born in Chester
County, Penna, June 4, 1805, and removed from there with his father to
Springhill Furnace, Fayette County, Penna, in August, 1811.  He received
his education in the common schools.  Mr Britt is by occupation a
carpenter.  He spent two years working at his trade in Kentucky and
following his vocation, passed eight years of his life in Virginia; the
rest has been spent in Fayette County.  He has resided in his present home
for thirty two years.
    December 11, 1831, he married Asenath Greenlee, a lady of Irish stock,
whose mother was three years old when brought to America.  Of this union
are three children: Mary Emily Britt married to Benjamin Franklin
Goodwin; Frances Elizabeth Britt, wife of Albert S Miller; and Frank P
Britt was educated in the common schools, at Washington and Jefferson
College, and the Allegheny Theological Seminary, and is now pastor of the
Pisgah Presbyterian Church at Corsica, Jefferson County, Penna.  
Mr Britt and his wife have been members of the Presbyterian Church for
more than a quarter of a century.  In December, 1881, they celebrated
their golden wedding.  Mr Britt has held the office of school director and
other responsible township offices.  He has always been a Jefferson
Democrat, and never swerved from his party. 

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