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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 STEWART, shipping clerk for the National Rolling-mill, McKeesport, was born in Versailles township, Nov. 16, 1831, a son of Hamilton and Nancy S. (Dinsmore) Stewart. His paternal grandfather was Samuel Stewart, a native of County Deny, Ireland, and maternal grandfather, Henry Dinsmore, both of whom were pioneers of Allegheny county. Our subject was reared in Versailles township, and in early manhood taught school, an avocation he followed for ten years. In the war of the rebellion served in the 9th P. R., and was wounded in the right arm, at Gaines’ Mills, June 27, 1862. He married, in 1864, Mary Hammond, a native of Ireland, who, with their seven children, died during the years 1873 and 1875. He has been in the employ of the National Tube-works company for seven years. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is an advocate of prohibition.
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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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