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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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HENRY S. BECKER, expressman, Sewickley, was born December 9, 1841, in Pittsburgh, Pa., son of Adam Becker, a native of Holland, who came to America when a single man, and settled in Pittsburgh; he had been a blacksmith in Holland, and engaged here with John Anderson & Son, of Monongahela foundry, in 1833. He remained with the same firm until his death, which occurred in 1857. He was trustee of St. Michael’s Catholic Church, and was one of the original stockholders of one of the first German newspapers in Pittsburgh, known as the Republicaner, published for the benefit of St. Joseph’s orphan asylum. He was married to Mary T. Gehlhausen, and they reared a family of four children. Henry S. Becker enlisted in the Army of the Potomac at the age of nineteeen, and served three years. He participated in eight or ten battles, and was promoted to sergeant. Since the war he has lived in Sewickley, where he has been in the express business for eighteen years. He was married to Mary S. Sacher, and they have nine children. Mr. Becker is a democrat.
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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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