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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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THEODORE SMITH, hotel-keeper, McKee’s Rocks, son of John J. and Alena Smith, was born in Prussia, March 16, 1846. His parents had a family of four children: John, Hubert, Julia and Theodore. The father, who was a cooper by trade, resides with his children, and is now eighty-one years old; the mother died in 1885, aged sixty-seven years. Theodore was a puddler in the iron-works, an occupation he followed twenty-six years in the various mills of this county. Since then he has been engaged in hotel-keeping at McKee’s Rocks, where he owns a good property. He married, May 5, 1868, Annie, daughter of Joseph and Hettie Sharff, of this county, and to them have been born Theodore (deceased), Hubert (deceased), Freddie and Joseph. Mr. Smith has been a member of the Amalgamated association since 1876.
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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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