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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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CHARLES BACHMAN, clothier, McKeesport, is a native of Rhina, near Hesse-Cassel, Germany, where he was reared and educated. He came to America in 1881, when nineteen years of age, and located in Baltimore, Md., where he held the position of clerk in the leading clothing stores of that city until 1885. He then engaged as traveling salesman for a prominent wholesale clothing-house of Cincinnati, Ohio, his field being Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas, in which he showed first-class ability, and with which house he was connected until Jan. 1, 1887. He then represented a prominent Baltimore firm in the same capacity, and in the same territory, for fourteen months. March 1, 1888, he located in McKeesport, and opened the Golden Eagle Clothing-house with a stock unequaled in Western Pennsylvania, and, though but recently established in the city, has already the reputation of being one of the leading merchants in his line in the city.
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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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