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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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JOSEPH BROOKER, farmer and hotelkeeper, Wexford, was born in 1837, and is a son of Ignatious and Mary (Snyder) Brooker, former of whom was born in Baden, Germany, latter in Holland, in February, 1814. Ignatious Brooker came to Pittsburgh about 1835, and in 1840 came to Pine township; about 1850 he purchased a farm of one hundred acres in Franklin township, which he sold in 1868, and purchased three hundred acres in Pine township, where he resided until his death, Aug. 28, 1884, aged eighty-two years. Joseph received his education in Allegheny county, and worked on the farm with his father until the latter’s death. The farm was willed to Joseph and his brother Henry; former also has one hundred acres in Butler county, Pa. Joseph was married, Aug. 18, 1869, to Elizabeth Beaser, a native of Germany, who came here with her parents when she was but six months old. Her parents died shortly after coming to this country. Mr. and Mrs. Brooker have one child deceased and eight living, viz.: Mary Elizabeth, Henry Ignatious, William Pius, Matilda Catherine (deceased), Alphons Albert, Emma Margaret, Mary Stella, Joseph Francis and Sarah L. M. All of the family are members of the Catholic Church.
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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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