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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 MORTON, retired, Allegheny, son of Andrew and Mary Morton, was born in Washington county, Pa., in 1822, and came with his parents to Pittsburgh in 1825. Here they resided until 1854, engaged in the lumber business from 1844. The parents had seven children, two only of whom survive, James and Nancy (widow of John Eaton). Andrew Morton died July 25, 1862, at his residence, Arch street, Allegheny, at the age of seventy-two years; his widow died July 10, 1887, at the age of eighty-eight, years. They were of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock, and came from the north of Ireland. James Morton, the subject of this sketch, never married. He was for many years engaged with his father in the lumber business, and soon after the latter’s decease, his stock of lumber being burned in Pittsburgh, he discontinued the business, and has since lived a retired life at the family residence on Arch street, Allegheny, his only occupation being the care of the property of the estate.
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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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