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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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JOHN PHILIP BEECH (deceased) was born Sept. 2, 1832, in New York city. His parents, Leonard and Catharine Beech, came from Heidelberg, Germany, to New York in same year, and a few days after the birth of John Philip proceeded to Butler county, Pa., where they engaged in farming. They afterward came to Pittsburgh, where the father died, in 1850, aged fifty years; the mother died in 1877. John P., their eldest child, was cashier of the First National Bank of Birmingham for twenty-eight years, a position for which he was well qualified. He died Feb. 17, 1889. In 1853 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Berg, for many years a justice of the peace in Pittsburgh. To Mr. and Mrs. Beech were born four children, all living: Daniel (cashier in the bank his father was in), Julia, Charles F. (assistant bookkeeper in same institution as his brother) and Fred Bernard, at home. The family are identified with the E. P. Church. John P. Beech was 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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