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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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FRED SCHWITTER, dairyman, post office Allegheny City, was born March 3, 1847, in Canton Glarus, Switzerland, the son of Fred and Louise (Schwitter) Schwitter. The family is one of the largest in Switzerland. Our subject received his education in his native home, where he learned his trade, that of silk-colorer, and worked five years to earn his passage to America, where he arrived in August, 1866. He was without food from New York to Allegheny county, where he settled. He worked at various occupations until 1871, when he procured a few cows and started a dairy on a small scale in Allegheny City, and served milk to his customers in a two-wheeled cart. He built up a good business; then rented, and finally, in 1881, purchased the old Morrow homestead. He now owns seventy-five acres of land, and has greatly improved the farm, keeps from sixty to eighty-five cows, and has all the modern dairy improvements, and the place presents a very attractive appearance. He married Mary, born in this county, daughter of Francis J. Wehrle, of Baden.
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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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