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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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C. H. STILLEY, M. D., post office Hope Church, was born March 13, 1847, in Thompsonville, Washington county, Pa., a grandson of Peter Stilley, a native of Jefferson township. John B. Stilley, the father of C. H., was born in Jefferson township, this county, and died in 1886, at the age of seventy years. He had been a farmer in early life, but subsequently practiced medicine eight years, and then became civil engineer, serving as county engineer for three years. He was also a teacher at Bethel Academy for eight years; was a well-known gentleman, highly esteemed. His wife was Lydia A. Morgan, whose father was one of the early millers and millwrights on Painter’s run, in this county. She survives her husband, and is the mother of four children: Dr. Hugh M. (deceased), Charles H., M. D., Horace (an engineer), and Edward (a physician). The subject of this memoir was educated at Bethel Academy, read medicine with his father, and graduated at the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, in 1872. He located at Six-Mile Ferry, where he has built up a good practice. The doctor married Melissa M. Cunningham, and they have two children: Alexander M. and Jessie C. He is 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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