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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 N. HARTMAN, merchant, McKeesport, was born in Elizabeth township, this county, October 19, 1847, a son of William and Catherine (Steinman) Hartman. He was reared in McKeesport, educated in the public schools, and learned shoemaking with his father, which trade he followed until twenty-four years of age. He then opened a billiard parlor in McKeesport, which, with Charles Caldabaugh, he conducted for six years. For two years thereafter he was employed in the National Tube-works, and in 1880 he embarked in his present general hardware business with his brother William E., under the firm name of J. N. & W. E. Hartman. The members of this firm are live and progressive business-men, and from a small beginning have built up a large and constantly increasing trade. Our subject was married October 24, 1877, to Anna, daughter of Joseph and Eliza (Miller) Douglas, of McKeesport, and by her has had six children, all boys. Three children are living: Harry B. (twin), Willie F. and John N. (triplet). Mr. Hartman is a member of the German Lutheran Church, of the A. O. U. W. and McKeesport Board of Trade; in politics he is a democrat.
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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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