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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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JAMES M. LOVE, bookkeeper, post office Duncan, a son of Samuel Love, was born in 1822, in Westmoreland county, where he was educated. In 1844 he married Priscilla McKain, and located at Port Perry, Allegheny county, where he worked at his trade of blacksmithing, which he also followed later in McKeesport. In 1859 he removed to Coultersville, where he pursued his business as before, but for the last eight years has been keeping books for the Osceola Coal company. Mr. Love is a republican, and has been identified with the township officially for many years, and at the expiration of his present term will have served twenty-one years as justice of the peace. His children are Manda J., wife of James Boon; Angeline, wife of W. K. Kramer; Melissa, wife of Henry Blank; James C.; Ada, wife of W. K. Scott, and Edward.

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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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