[p. 480] one of New Castle's older business citizens, who has been interested for the past seven years in real estate and insurance, has been identified with this city and its enterprises and activities, continuously since 1869. He was born in 1846, in what is now Lawrence County, in the section called Shenango Township, and is a son of Archibald and a grandson of James Cubbison.
James Cubbison was one of the pioneer settlers in Shenango Township, then Beaver County, where his son, Archibald, was born in 1812. The latter died at New Castle, in 1879. In early life he learned the shoemaking, the stone mason and the brick laying trades, finding opportunity to follow them all. He was a pioneer bricklayer at New Castle and in his later years, before being incapacitated by a stroke of paralysis, he conducted a jewelry business. He was a man of sterling character and was the second incumbent of the office of treasurer of Lawrence County.
W. Wesley Cubbison was a student in the early schools at New Castle and studied pharmacy, in early manhood, in Philadelphia, and until 1869 he engaged in clerking in drug stores at different points. He then returned to New Castle, where he bought a drug store, which, he conducted for many years. When he was elected a city alderman, he gave his whole attention to the duties of that office for six years, retiring then to private life, after a consciencious period of service. For eleven years he served as chief of the New Castle Fire Department. Whether in or out of office Mr. Cubbison has ever been a good citizen and a public-spirited man. He is a notary public, and he carries on a pension, real estate and insurance business, with quarters at No. 13 East Washington street.
In 1873 Mr. Cubbison was married to Miss Emily C. Clifford, and they have three children living: C. M., who is engaged in business at South Bend, Indiana; and Alice and Margaret, both residing at home. One son, W. A., was a graduate of Pittsburg College of Pharmacy and died March, 1908, in his twenty-ninth year. The family belong to Trinity Episcopal Church. Mr. Cubbison was made a Master Mason in 1872 and has ever since taken much interest in the fraternity. He belongs also to the Elks.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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