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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 YUNKER, merchant, McKee’s Rocks, son of Peter and Catherine Yunker, was born in 1858, in Pittsburgh. His father, a native of Germany, immigrated to Pittsburgh in 1852, and located in Temperanceville, where he followed rolling in the iron works, which has been his occupation through life. In 1868 he moved to Stowe township, where he still resides. He married, in Allegheny county in 1852, Catherine, daughter of Conrad and Catherine Smith, of this county. Mrs. Yunker died in 1875, aged forty years, the mother of the following-named children: Peter (deceased), John, Joseph (deceased), Philip, Peter (second), Mary (wife of Jacob Herbst), Sophia (wife of Matthew Herbst), Louis, Theresa (deceased) and Katie. Mr. Yunker’s second marriage occurred in 1876, with Mrs. Catherine Gast, a widow. John Yunker was married in May, 1881, to Lena, daughter of Christian and Anna Jaggi, and they had three children, all deceased. Mr. Yunker, like his father, followed iron-rolling until 1883, when he commenced mercantile business, in which he is still engaged at McKee’s Rocks, where he keeps a general store.
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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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