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SOLOMON SCHOYEK, JR., attorney at law, Swissvale, a native of this county, was born Aug. 10, 1832, and was one of six children who grew to manhood and womanhood, Solomon, Jr., being among the eldest. Our subject was reared and educated in Pittsburgh, and at the age of fourteen entered Allegheny College at Meadville, where he graduated in 1850. He then found employment on the Pittsburgh Gazette, at that time under the directorship of D. N. White, and when twenty years old commenced the study of law (without discontinuing his connection with the Gazette), completing his studies under Hon. A. W. Loomis. He was admitted to the bar in 1858, and at once opened a law-office at 139 Fourth avenue, Pittsburgh, where he has since practiced. From 1860 to 1866 Mr. Schoyer was solicitor for Allegheny, during which time the celebrated Bond case and others of importance were tried. He was instrumental in securing the public parks of Allegheny City, drawing up the general legal schemes therefor, which were adopted. He has on several occasions been a delegate to the county and state conventions, and reported for the Pittsburgh Gazette the first republican convention which met in that city; he has for four years been president of the Duquesne Club, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. In 1860 Mr. Schoyer married Frances Palmer, daughter of James Madison Balkman, of Washington county, and by her had nine children, seven of whom are yet living: Samuel B., Robert Palmer, Weld Allen, Lucy N., Harriet Alden, Catharine R. and George S.