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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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WILLIAM BEADLING, coal-operator, Essen, was born in this county in 1845, and is descended from Robert Beadling, an English man by birth, who came to Allegheny county some fifty-five years ago and settled on Saw-Mill run; he was a shoemaker, and for many years a miner. Among the progressive coal men of this section of Allegheny county, no firm, with the opportunities afforded, has been more successful than that of Beadling Brothers, of which William is a member. Their mines are on the P., C. & Y. R. R., and the market for their product is at Cleveland and Chicago. They own some 250 acres of land in Upper St. Clair and Scott townships, employ 125 hands, and their “slopes” are operated by a twenty-horsepower engine. Our subject was educated at the common schools, and was engaged in and about coal-mines from the age of nine years until 1880, since when he has been in the coal business. Mr. Beadling married, in 1866, Elizabeth, daughter of John Dillon, and six children have been born to them: William H., bookkeeper for the firm; Thomas, Robert, Dorothy, John and James.
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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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