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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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HENRY STEIN, proprietor of Stein’s hotel, Sharpsburg, is a native of Prussia, Germany, born in 1844, a son of Jacob Stein, a farmer in that country. Henry is the youngest of his parents’ seven children, and at nine years of age became an orphan. In 1854 he came to America, soon after located in Sharpsburg, and for six years was engaged in the grocery business, and later for sixteen years was employed in the iron-mills of that town. In May, 1874, he commenced his present business, which he has since followed. His hotel is a three-story brick, erected in 1885 for the local trade.
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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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