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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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ELLIOTT DAVIS, retired, Wilkinsburg, was born in Elizabeth township, this county, April 15, 1803, the youngest of twelve children born to Francis Davis, and the sixth child by Sarah Elliott, his father’s second wife. She was a native of Maryland, and her husband of Pennsylvania, both being of Scotch-Irish extraction. The father of Francis Davis settled in this county before the beginning of this century, and died here when over one hundred years old. With the exception of six years spent in Pittsburgh, Francis Davis lived in Wilkins township after the birth of our subject, and died in 1820, aged seventy-two; his widow passed away soon after, at the same age. Elliott Davis has always been a farmer, and settled on the place which he still owns, in Wilkins township, in 1839. He attends the M. E. Church, and in politics is a republican. He was twice married, the first wife being Elizabeth Stager, who became the mother of three children, viz.: John (deceased), Francis (a resident of Bloomfield), Sarah (Mrs. John Mitchell, in Wilkinsburg). The second wife, Ruth, daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth Cleland, died in 1883. Thomas, her first child, is deceased, and David, the third, died in the army. The others reside as follows: Rachel, widow of Peter Kenyon, in Turtle Creek; Elliott, on the homestead; Theodore, in Braddock; John, in Washington territory. Since his wife’s decease Mr. Davis has been boarding in Wilkinsburg.

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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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