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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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PHILIP BECKERT, gardener, post office Ross, was born July 19, 1828, in Alsace, Germany, the son of Philip and Mary (Kirchendoerfer) Beckert. He was educated in his native country, which he left in 1845, and, coming to America, settled in Allegheny county, where he learned the ropemaker’s trade, working for forty dollars a year. He followed his trade ten years, and then turned his attention to gardening, which he has since followed successfully. He is a self-made man, is highly respected, and is in possession of twenty-six acres of land laid out in gardens in “Gardener’s Home;” also a farm of forty-five acres in the same township, and four houses in the city of Allegheny. He married, in Reserve township, Lena, daughter of Jacob Huy, and eight children have been born to them: Philip, George, Edward, Elias, Elizabeth, Sophia, Anna and Bertha. Mr. and Mrs. Beckert are members of the G. P. Church at Girty’s Run; he is a republican.
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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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