PittBuff.com | History & Genealogy of the Pittsburg Buffalo Company    LINKS Main: Introduction The Company Corporate Offices Bibliography Email Jay Holsing MINES Osceola 1878 Ivill 1881 Catsburg 1889 Rostraver 1890 Gallatin 1897 Johnetta 1899 Hazel 1902 Marianna 1907 Annabelle Francis 1903 JONES James Jones 1835 John H. Jones 1866 Thomas P. Jones 1868 William I. Jones 1869 David G. Jones 1871 Harry P. Jones 1873 Mary Agnes Jones 1877 E. Frank Miller 1882 IVILL William Ivill 1819 Ann Agnes Ivill 1845 John J. Ivill 1862 William C. Ivill 1881 Harry E. Ivill 1885 HOLSING W. F. Holsing 1840 W. J. Holsing 1869 Fredrick Holsing 1896 Stella Holsing 1900 James J. Holsing 1902 Holsing Family Photos Patzsch Family 1912 OBITUARIES James Jones 1912 Ann Agnes Ivill 1895 David G. Jones 1915 William I. Jones 1905 W. J. Holsing 1929 John H. Jones 1959 MEDIA John H. Jones Mayor '05 James Jones B-day '07 JAMES JONES HOLSING: 1902-1965 My grandfather James Jones Holsing grew up in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He was the son of W. J. Holsing and Mary Agnes Jones. He met his wife the former Emma Mae Patzsch there and was married in 1926. He was one of three children. His siblings were Margaret "Stella" Holsing and William Fredrick "Ted" Holsing. James attended Bucknell University and spent his life in a career with AT&T. He moved to Hillside New Jersey where he became Mayor and Police Commissioner. He had two children, Agnes Mae Holsing and James Judgson Holsing, my father. In 1949 the family moved to Springfield Massachusetts where I was born some years later. Grand-Daddy was quite an audiophile with a large collection of records. His home in Springfield was wired with handbuilt speakers, some mounted on walls. Each one had it's own volume control. He built a speaker cabinet as big as a desk that sat in the living room facing the davenport. His Christmas lights were the talk of the nieghborhood. The whole system was completely mounted on painted wood for easy set-up each year. He built special racks in the basement to store them. A large illuminated Jesus stood in the yard. He could build almost anything around the house. A standing lamp he made nearly 70 years ago sits next to my desk. Although he died when I was just a child I can still remember how his mustache tickled when he gave me a kiss! Note: "Arcos" are cigarettes from Czechoslovakia. BLI Holsing - Patzsch Unknown newspaper: Canonsburg 1926 The marriage of Miss Emma Mae Patzsch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Patzsch, of Iron Street, and James Jones Holsing son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Holsing, of Smithfield Street was solemnized last evening at 6:30 o'clock in the Central Presbyterian Church of this place. The ceremony was performed by the pastor, Rev. Leroy Myers, and took place in front of an embankment of ferns, palms and cut flowers. Mrs. A. J. Kirkpatrick sang "O Promise Me" and "At Dawning" accompanied on the piano by Mrs. W. F. Holsing, who also rendered the wedding march. The attendents were Miss Grace Patzsch, the sister of the bride, as bridesmaid, and Edwin G. Wilson, as best man. The bride wore a dark blue traveling suit with a corsage of Madam Butterfly roses. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Holsing left for Pittsburgh where they were entrained for Cleveland, Ohio, Buffalo and New York, later going to Philadelphia where they will reside, the groom being an employee of the American Telegraph Company of that city. Out of town guests present were, Mrs. W. F. Holsing, Long Island, NY; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Vitchestain, Pittsburgh; Mrs. Ad Brown and Mrs. Keeler, McKeesport; Elmer Wirtz, Bridgeville, PA. Mrs. W. F. Holsing is the second wife of W. F. Holsing 1840-1920. Elmer Wirtz eventually married Miss Grace Patzsch. My father gave me this Police Commissioner badge at a birthday dinner. My grandfather was the Hillside New Jersey Police Commissioner in the late forties. I was honored to recieve it.