[p. 994] secretary of the Thompson Run Coal Company, with offices at Ellwood City, was born in Big Beaver Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1878. His parents were William and Emily Bell (Vance) Douthitt. The Douthitts and the Vances were among the first families to settle in Big Beaver Township. The maternal grandfather Robert Vance is still living, having reached extreme old age.
William Douthitt, father of Frank H., was a very prominent business man in this section for many years. He was born in Big Beaver Township in 1851, and died in July, 1906. During a large portion of his life he was in the coal business and he organized the Thompson Run Coal Company, which continues to be a successful enterprise of this county. His widow, with two sons and two daughters, survive him. Harriet, the eldest daughter, married George R. Balph, of New Castle. Samuel W. is a student at New Castle. Sarah Caroline resides with her mother.
Frank H. Douthitt, the other member of the family, remained at school until he was sixteen years old, attending in Big Beaver Township, in New Castle and Wampum, and then for a year was engaged in a mercantile business at Thompson Run. Later, for two years, he was employed in the New York City office of the Standard Oil Company, and since then, for about eleven years, he has been identified with the Thompson Run Coal Company, serving as vice-president and general manager until 1908, when he was elected secretary and treasurer. This company works with a capital stock of $50,000. Mr. Douthitt has superior business qualifications as well as a genial personality, and he stands very high in the regard of his fellow-citizens.
On September 27, 1905, Mr. Douthitt was married to Miss Myrtle Lowry, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Lowry, of North Sewickley Township, Beaver County, and they have one daughter, Josephine Lowry. In his political views Mr. Douthitt is a Republican. He is a thirty-second degree Mason. For the past three years he has been a resident of Ellwood City.
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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