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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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EDWARD B. GODFREY, paper-bag manufacturer, Tarentum, a native of New Hampshire, came to Pittsburgh, and in 1856 he started a paper-manufacturing establishment. At his works, in 1861, was manufactured the first paper flour-sack ever made in the United States, Mr. Godfrey being the manufacturer of both the paper and the bag. His works at that time were on the Monongahela river, where he had two mills, but fire destroyed the big mill in 1883, and in 1884 he built a new mill at Tarentum, whither he removed the one from Monongahela river. The works have a capacity of ten tons of flour-sack paper daily, or 150,000 flour-sacks daily, and afford employment to from seventy-five to one hundred people. The firm is now Godfrey & Clark, with J. W. Rutherford as superintendent.
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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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