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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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JEROME B. ANJER, Sewickley, was born in Ontario county, N. Y., son of Lyman and Ruth (Wheelock) Anjer. The Anjer family were French Huguenots, and a leading family in New England. The subject of this sketch was educated at Erie, Pa., early in life becoming a clerk in the mining district of Allegheny county. Subsequently he engaged in the transportation business with Clarke & Thaw; later he was in the flour, grain, commission and produce trade, in which he continued twenty-one years, when he embarked in a stove-foundry in Pittsburgh. Since 1886 he has resided in Sewickley, and not in active business. Mr. Anjer married Matilda, daughter of Joseph Marlatt, an old Pittsburgh business-man, and they have one daughter. They are members of the Presbyterian Church; politically Mr. Anjer 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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