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JOHN F. SEVILLE, fruit-grower, post office Bellevue, was born Oct. 21, 1836, in Pittsburgh, Pa., a son of John and Hannah (Williams) Seville. His paternal grandfather was a native of Manchester, England. Our subject’s father was also born in Manchester, where he lived until his eleventh year, when he came to America with his parents and located in Philadelphia. Subsequently, in 1819, they removed to Pittsburgh. John Seville was a tailor by trade, but engaged in the furniture business. He removed to Ohio and embarked in grocery and canal business. During the civil war he was a soldier in Col. Clark’s regiment, and was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg; his widow is yet living at the age of seventy-six years. They were the parents of nine children. Of these John F. was reared and educated in Pittsburgh, and learned the plumber’s and gasfitter’s trade, which he followed successfully until 1868. He then removed to Ross township, and engaged in fruit-growing. He married Eliza J. Crooks, a native of Ireland, and they are the parents of eight children. Mr. and Mrs. Seville are members of the U. P. Church, of which he has been a trustee; he is a republican.