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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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LYMAN THAYER CHILDS (deceased) was born in Upton, Mass., July 14, 1809. His ancestors emigrated with the Plymouth colony to New England, and his parents, Col. Asa and Clarissa (Partridge) Childs, came to Pittsburgh when he was eleven years old, and here he passed the balance of his life. Col. Asa Childs was engaged in the manufacture of shoes in Pittsburgh, and continued in same till his retirement on account of old age. He died Jan. 9, 1850, in his eighty-third year, his wife having preceded him on the 4th of November previous, in her seventy-fifth year. Both were Congregationalisms, and united with the Second Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh. On the retirement of Col. Asa Childs, his sons, Harvey, Asa and Lyman T., established the wholesale shoe business, now continued by his grandson, Harvey. Lyman Thayer retired on account of ill-health in 1851, and bought fifty-two acres where Homestead now is. Here he died Nov. 3, 1856, a Presbyterian in faith. All the family were whigs and republicans. In 1839 Mr. Childs married Annie, daughter of Evan and Gwen Laugher, and born in 1821, near Swansea, Wales. In 1837, his wife having died, Mr. Laugher came to Pittsburgh, where he started the first coke-ovens established there, and continued the manufacture many years. He died in Iowa, at the residence of his son David, in his eighty-fifth year.

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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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