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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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ARCHIBALD McFEE STEWART, post office White Ash, a son of William and Elizabeth (McFee) Stewart, was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, Nov. 12, 1837. His father was a landscape-gardener, and came to this country in 1851. His first work in America was to lay out the grounds of J. K. Knox, at Knoxville. He afterward settled in Pittsburgh, where he acquired property, and died Sept. 20, 1874, aged sixty-nine years; his widow now resides there, at the age of eighty. Besides the son above named there are two others, John and James, in Pittsburgh. Archibald McFee Stewart received most of his education in Scotland. When fourteen years old he went to learn the shoemaker’s trade until he was twenty. He kept a shop in Lawrenceville and Allegheny, Titusville and various points in the oil-country, being longest at Martinsburg, where he now owns property. In 1887 he moved to the farm owned by the family at White Ash, and is engaged in fruit growing. In 1872 he married Mary Smathers, born in Clarion county, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Walters) Smathers, of German descent, and they have three children: Anna, Ella and William G. Mr. Stewart accepts the Swedenborgian faith, and is a member of the A. O. U. W.; for many years he has voted with the prohibitionists.
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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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