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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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W. A. YOUNG, Bennett, was born Dec. 15, 1850, in Pine township, this county, son of Henry and Catharine (Wyland) Young, former of whom was a native of Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, and came to America in 1837, and is now in the seventy-first year of his life, and highly respected. His wife was a native of Alsace, Germany, and came to America in 1827; they were married in 1840, and were the parents of nine children. W. A. Young was reared on a farm, received a common-school education, and when seventeen years old learned the shoemaker’s trade, which he followed in Millvale until 1880,when he was elected justice of the peace. Mr. Young has dealt largely in real estate, also in the insurance business, in all of which he has been very successful. He has always been 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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