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ABRAHAM STONER, merchant, Wilkinsburg, is a brother of Joseph Stoner, and was born on a farm in the fall of 1811. He remained on the farm until 1839, when he opened a store in Wilkinsburg. In 1840 he was appointed postmaster by Martin Van Buren, and continued to attend to the duties of that office until he removed to Pittsburgh, five years later. In the fall of 1846 he went to Jacksonville, Westmoreland county, and was postmaster four years there. He returned to Wilkinsburg in 1853, was again appointed postmaster in 1864, and held the office twenty years. He and family are associated with the Presbyterian Church, in which his son is an elder, and this represents his faith. Mr. Stoner is a republican, and has been treasurer of Sterrett township since 1881. He married, in 1848, Rebecca, daughter of David and Christina (Stattenfield) Little, of Scotch-Irish and German descent. When they (her parents) first came to Wilkinsburg, in 1807, the entire district was woodland. Mrs. Stoner was born and reared in Wilkinsburg, and is the mother of six children, of whom two died in infancy. James Whitmore died at the age of thirty; Alvin Frederick assists his father in business; Eulalia Anna, the eldest (wife of Jonas Johnston), resides in Wilkinsburg, and Lillian Margaret is with her parents.