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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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HUGHEY. Prominent among the remaining pioneer families of Allegheny county are the Hugheys, who now reside at the old homestead, a valuable property purchased by their grandfather, Ephraim Hughey, as early as 1785. This tract originally contained 700 acres, and was at the time of its purchase the property of Joseph McDermott, a revolutionary soldier, the price paid being $2 per acre. Ephraim, with his wife and two children, came from Lancaster county, Pa., to Allegheny, then Washington, county. His wife was Dorcas Nieled, and they had seven children, all of whom grew to maturity: Joseph, the eldest, born in 1780; Jane (Mrs. Hayes); John, who died in Mercer county; Willison, who was a physician, and met his death on a steamship; Rachel (Mrs. Shaw); Washington, who was drowned in the Gulf of Mexico, and Joseph, the mechanic of the family, who remained with his father on the farm, and at the death of the former the farm of 100 acres was equally divided between him and John, the former finally purchasing the share of the latter. Joseph was born in 1790; he married Jane, daughter of William and Ann (Strowbridge) Kennedy, and a family of children were born to them: Mary, Ephraim, William, Dorcas, Joseph, David, Willison, Ann (Mrs. Edwards, of Virginia) and George W., of whom four sons and two daughters remain. Joseph, the father, was sixty-four years old when he died; his wife died in 1842, aged forty-nine years.

Joseph Hughey was born in 1823, and now resides near the farm where his early childhood was spent. He was educated at the common schools, and when seventeen years of age learned the trade of wagon-making, which he has followed through life. He was married in 1852 to Mary Jane, daughter of Harvey McDonough, of this county, and they have three children: H. Julia, Charles H. and George W.

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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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