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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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A. B. STARR, superintendent Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, Sewickley, is a native of New York city, where his father, Henry B. Starr, was a prominent merchant. Mr. Starr was educated in the New Haven schools till his seventeenth year, when he entered the Polytechnic Institute at Troy, and here graduated at the age of twenty-one, in the class of 1869. For a short time he was employed on the New York city survey. In February, 1870, he went to Erie, where he was assistant engineer of the Philadelphia and Erie division of the Pennsylvania railroad. He was soon promoted to the position of engineer, and finally to superintendent of the Sunbury division. December 1, 1881, he was appointed superintendent of the Eastern division of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, which position he now occupies with ability.
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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.
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