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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 BUTLER CLEMENT, teller of the Real Estate Savings Bank of Pittsburgh, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in May, 1817, a son of Ephraim S. and Sarah Clement, and grandson of William Butler. His parents moved to Cincinnati in 1806, and opened the first grocery on Fifth street, that city. Ephraim P. Clement died in 1827, aged forty-one years; his widow in 1829, aged forty; both were natives of Massachusetts. In 1876 the subject of this memoir came to Verona, Allegheny county, Pa., where his family had moved five years before, and has since been teller of the Real Estate Savings Bank of Pittsburgh. He married, in 1843, Eliza Jane Meeds, a native of Baltimore, Md. They have one son living — Stephen B. Mr. and Mrs. Clement are members of the First M. P. Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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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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