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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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GEORGE KENNGOTT, retired, residing near Etna, was born Jan. 6, 1836, in Reutlingen, kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, a son of Johan G. and Mary (Messinger) Kenngott. He came to America Sept. 30, 1854, and in Pittsburgh learned the tinner’s trade; later he established, in Lawrenceville (now Fifteenth ward, Pittsburgh), a prosperous tin, stove and house-furnishing business, which he conducted about twenty years, and then sold out to his brother, G. Edward. He resided in Sharpsburg ten years, but since 1884 has been living in Shaler township. His wife Elizabeth is a daughter of Archibald and Mary (Wood) Dunn. The latter died young. Mrs. Kenngott came from Berwickshire, near Kelso, Scotland, to America at the age of sixteen; she is the mother of one son, George F., born Feb. 8, 1864. He graduated from the Pittsburgh High-school in 1882, and from Amherst in 1886, and is a student in Andover Theological Seminary in the class of 1889.
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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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