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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 THOMAS TAYLOR, builder, post office Turtle Creek, is a grandson of Jacob Taylor, a revolutionary soldier, who settled on a farm in Westmoreland county about 1800. William, a son of Jacob, born in 1807, married Louisa Craig, of Scotch descent, and settled on the Greensburg pike, in Versailles township, where he engaged in wagon-making. He died in Westmoreland county, in September, 1885, aged seventy-eight. Charles T. Taylor was born March 9, 1835, in Versailles, received a common-school education, and worked with his father until twenty-two years old, when he took up carpenter work. In 1859 he married Eliza Jane Maxwell, a native of Patton township, and a daughter of Hugh and Agnes Maxwell, of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have four children, all with their parents: James Maxwell, employed at Homestead Steel works; Samuel Alfred, a civil engineer; Agnes Louisa, and Charles Francis, assisting his father.
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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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