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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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GEORGE GLADDEN, M. D., Homestead, was born in Washington county, Pa. The progenitor of the Gladden family in America was William W. Gladden, who came from England and settled east of the mountains in Pennsylvania. He was a soldier in the Revolution, fighting for freedom and his adopted country. He reared a family of eight children. His son Richard married Mary Kelso, and both died in Washington county, where Richard was a stockman. Our subject received his literary education at Washington and Jefferson College, and his medical education at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating in the class of 1875. Dr. Gladden married Francis Virginia Williams, of Richmond, Va., a member of one of the best old Virginia families. In 1881 the doctor located in Homestead, where he rapidly built up a good practice, and has been surgeon for the Carnegie, Phipps & Co. steel-mills. Dr. Gladden is a leading member of many societies, among which are the A. F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., R. A., American Mechanics and Heptasophs, having been a past officer in several of the orders.
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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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