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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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C. B. SCHREINER, M. D., Mount Lebanon, was born in this county in 1852. His parents, Dr. Samuel and Lucinda (McClurkin) Schreiner, had a family of five children, two of whom are now living. Dr. Samuel was for twenty-two years a practicing physician in Plum township. He was born in Lawrenceville, graduated at the University of Pittsburgh, and died in 1865, aged forty-seven years. The subject of this memoir was educated at the public schools and academy, and was a student at Jefferson College. He commenced the study of medicine in 1874 at Philadelphia, Dr. Stewart being his preceptor, and graduated in 1877 at Long Island College hospital, and immediately commenced the practice of his profession in Mount Lebanon. He married, in 1878, Myrtle, daughter of G. P. Reed, of Indiana, Indiana county, Pa., and five children were born to them, all of whom are living: Hallie, Samuel, Carrie, Adella and an infant. The doctor is a member of the U. P. Church; politically a republican.
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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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