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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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BENJAMIN AVERY GROAH, contractor and builder, Bellevue, was born in West Virginia in 1862, a son of William and Susan (Thorp) Groah, natives of the same place, and now aged forty-nine and forty-two years, respectively. William Groah moved to Allegheny when Benjamin was three years of age. Here he followed contracting, and about 1878 moved his family to Bellevue. They are members of the Presbyterian Church. The subject of this sketch received a common-school education, and started life on the Ohio river, and one year later began bridge-building, which he followed for two years. He then commenced shop work and house building, and in 1884 began contracting at Bellevue, buying his lumber by the carload from Youngstown, Ohio. He has been a very successful builder, and in 1888 erected a fine home for himself. He was married in 1882 to Emma I. Falck, of Bellevue, daughter of Charles Falck, and to them has been born one child, Florence. Mr. Groah is a republican, a member of the A. O. U. W., Select Knights and Jr. O. U. A. M.
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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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