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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. V. M. TAYLOR, physician, McKeesport, was born in East Bethlehem township, Washington county, Pa., June 10, 1849, a son of Caleb and Mary (Gillis) Taylor. His paternal grandfather, Bryah Taylor, a native of New Jersey, and a blacksmith by trade, was first lieutenant of a company in the war of 1812; settled in McKeesport in 1846, and there died at the age of eighty-eight years. He was a son of Bryah Taylor, a pioneer of Fayette county, Pa. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Robert Gillis, a native of Ireland, and a pioneer of Washington county, Pa. Dr. W. V. M. Taylor was reared in his native township and educated at the Millsboro Normal school. In 1869 he read medicine with Dr. William G. Cotton, of East Bethlehem; entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1871, and graduated in 1873. In April of the same year he located in McKeesport, where he has since been in active practice. Dr. Taylor is a prominent member of the medical fraternity. He is serving a second term as member of the school board; politically he is a democrat.
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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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