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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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JACOB LUDWICK, grocer, McKeesport, was born in Versailles township, Oct. 14, 1819, a son of John and Eliza (Curry) Ludwick. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Ludwick, of German parentage, was a pioneer of North Versailles township, Allegheny county, and his maternal grandfather, William Curry, a native of Ireland, was among the pioneers of Versailles township. Jacob Ludwick was reared in Versailles township, where he received a common-school education. He left home at the age of twenty, and learned the carpenter’s trade, which he followed until 1849, when he went to California, and was there engaged in mining four years. He then followed mercantile pursuits at Stewartsville, Westmoreland county, Pa., three years, then was engaged in the same business at Osceola, this county, four years, and at Alpsville four years. In 1865 he embarked in the wholesale whisky and tobacco trade at Pittsburgh, and after four years in that line carried on a grocery business at Webster, Pa., three and a half years, and at Lynch’s station, Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny railroad, seven years. In April, 1887, he again located in McKeesport, where he has since resided, engaged in the grocery business. In 1857 he married Rose A., daughter of Samuel and Hetty (Stewart) Daly, of Stewartsville, Pa., and by her had two children: Hannah (Mrs. John Gabelhart) and Charles. Mr. Ludwick is a member of the retail grocers’ association, and is a republican.

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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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