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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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LOUIS STIPE, boatman, post office Chartiers, son of August (a miner) and Augusta Stipe, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1855. August Stipe came to Pittsburgh from Germany in 1852. He was the father of three children, Julius P., Henrietta (deceased) and Louis, and died on the day Louis was born. His widow married, in 1857, Adam Dewalt, a farmer of this county, and by this marriage there were four children: William, Adam J., Jacob and John (deceased). Louis Stipe commenced boating in 1872, which he has followed most of the time since, a part of the time engaged on a steamboat from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. Dec. 29, 1879, he met with a very serious accident on the towboat Smoky City, when he had both legs broken, and was otherwise injured. He was unable to work for more than a year, and has never fully recovered from the effects.
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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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