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Two Offices to serve you.
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235 Seneca Street
Oil City, Pa. 16301
Phone: (814) 677-1214
FAX: (814) 677-1218
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1190 Elk Street
Franklin, Pa. 16323
Phone: (814) 432-3166
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HISTORY OF DAUGHERTY BROTHERS REAL
ESTATE:
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The
"Daugherty" name has now been associated with
Venango County real estate for 7 decades. James E. E.
Daugherty, a 1940 graduate of Cranberry High School and
the patriarch of what is known today as Daugherty Brothers
Real Estate, began working in the real estate business
in 1940.
He did not, however, hone his interest into a career choice
until 1943. An employee in the real estate department
of The Oil City Trust Company, he was charged with the
responsibility of disposing of bank-owned property for
commission. His business acumen proved to be a forte.
Having attended a Franklin
business school, he realized his hands-on proficiency
while with the trust company. Mr. Daugherty went on to
become licensed with a nationwide brokerage firm that
is still in existence today. He sold developed and undeveloped
property, independent of the bank, from offices on Oil
City's Wilson Avenue and in Cranberry.
In 1948, Mr. Daugherty teamed
with the late Sidney Beers to form Daugherty & Beers
Enterprises. The business specialized in insurance as
well as real estate. The new business blanketed northwestern
Pennsylvania. Offices were maintained at 8 Seneca Street
(on the second floor of the Beers Building), with others
in Franklin, Titusville, Clarion, Emlenton, Sharon and
Warren.
Mr. Daugherty bought Beers'
interest in 1953 and streamlined his operation to include
only Oil City, Franklin and Titusville offices. In addition
to reducing the number of offices, Mr. Daugherty dropped
insurance sales in 1961 to fully concentrate on the real
estate business.
Mr. Beers purchased the
Sharon office and Dick Stahlman, a former employee, purchased
the Warren office, while Joe Lamenski, another employee,
bought the Titusville office in 1962.
The other Daugherty offices, except the one in Franklin,
were consolidated into the Oil City office.
He relocated the Oil City office to 10 Seneca St., on
the first floor of the Beers Building, in 1953.
He again changed locations in 1965 when the business was
moved to 214 Seneca Street, on the ground floor of the
National Transit Building. Daugherty Enterprises occupied
that space through July 1977. The 1965 relocation was
necessitated due to a downtown urban renewal project.
In the late 1950's, Mr.
Daugherty's two oldest sons, James L. and William P.,
had begun working for their father during summers and
on weekends. James L. Daugherty earned his license to
perform the duties of a real estate salesperson in 1963.
A year later, his brother William was licensed as well.
Eighteen years later (1982), the youngest brother, Scott,
was licensed, thus rounding off the second generation
to serve full time in the family business. In August 1967
James E. E. Daugherty died at age 43, leaving behind a
business that has excelled in assisting the families and
businesses of Venango County with all aspects of their
real estate needs from that time on. A third generation
of the Daugherty family business is represented by William's
son, Todd J. Daugherty, who has recently returned to the
area from Chicago, where he had been in the newspaper
business.
The Oil City office once
again relocated in 1977 to 235 Seneca Street (the present
location), when Daugherty Brothers Real Estate purchased
and remodeled the former Hewitt Building.
The Daugherty family had maintained a Franklin branch
office at various locations from about 1950 through 1989,
when the firm purchased and remodeled the former Community
Ambulance building located at 1190 Elk Street (behind
the Venango County Courthouse at the corner of Elk and
12th Streets). This modern facility continues to be the
present location of the Franklin branch.
Through the years, the
Daugherty name and the Daugherty family has represented
a tradition of excellence and professionalism in the Venango
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James L. Daugherty, Broker
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William P. Daugherty, Broker
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Scott D. Daugherty, Broker
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Todd J. Daugherty, Real Estate
Sales Person
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