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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 YOURD, farmer, post office White Ash, was born on the farm where he now resides, May 17, 1829. His grandfather, Samuel, son of Archibald, came from Ireland and settled in Penn about 1801. Archibald Yourd, son of Samuel, was about three years old when the family came to America. He married Mary Woods, a native of Pennsylvania, and settled where John Yourd now lives. He died in 1860, aged sixty-two years, and his widow in 1866, aged sixty-one. He was employed in farming and coal-mining. John Yourd has always lived on the home farm, but for some time followed boating on the Allegheny river. He and Mrs. Yourd are members of the R. P. Church, and politically he is a republican. He served as road supervisor seven years and as school director eleven years. In 1854 he married Martha Clark, a native of Wilkinsburg, and daughter of James and Flora Ann Clark, of Irish descent. Their children are Archibald, in East Liberty; William, in Penn; Harriet Ann (Mrs. George Bond), in Beltzhoover; Hugh Ellsworth, Elizabeth and James Edward, at home.
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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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