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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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SAMUEL LOCK RIDDLE, farmer, post office Hulton, was born in 1814, in Pittsburgh, a son of Charles R. and Elizabeth (Lock) Riddle. His parents were natives of Baltimore, Md., and came to Pittsburgh in wagons about 1810. Charles Riddle was a chair-maker and painter on Smithfield street, Pittsburgh, but sold out and bought property in Indiana township, opposite Hulton station. When Samuel L. was quite small his father died, and the family was left with but little of this world’s goods. Our subject early learned to toil, has built up a fine property and enjoys a good home. His mother died in 1870, in her eighty-fifth year. In 1835 he started for himself on a farm in Lower St. Clair township, and in 1843 came to Plum township. After eleven years he moved to Fairview, Butler county, and remained twenty-one years, in which time he bought three good farms. He then sold two of them, and, coming again to Plum township, purchased ten acres just outside of the borough of Verona, east of Hulton station, where he has a fine home in which to spend his latter days. He married, in 1835, Mary Ann Schroder, born May 8, 1816, in Maryland, daughter of Henry and Katharine (Faik) Schroder, natives, respectively, of Holland and Little York, Pa. Her mother died in 1852; her father came to this country before the Revolution; was a tailor, and died in this county about 1832. Three boys and one girl have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Riddle: William Henry Harrison, an attorney in Butler county, Pa.; Samuel L., in Lawrence county; Ovington, in Lawrence county, and Margaret (now married). Mr. Riddle is a republican, and he and his wife are members of the U. P. 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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