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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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J. F. J. ALLISON, broker, Sewickley post-office, was born in Beaver county, Pa., and was educated in Beaver. He came to Pittsburgh in 1850, and clerked a few years with the firm of George P. Smith & Co., later with Wilson, McElroy & Co. In 1857 he left the city; returning in 1860, engaged with Shacklett, McLain & Co., wholesale dry-goods merchants. In 1868 the firm was changed to McLain, Anday & Allison; later it was again changed to Anday, Myler & Allison, and eventually the firm became Anday & Allison. In 1875 the firm retired from business, and Mr. Allison was employed as general bookkeeper in the People’s National Bank of Pittsburgh, till November, 1887, when he resigned; since then has been a broker. His paternal grandfather, James Allison, was an eminent lawyer, and one of the organizers of the Beaver county bar, of which he was an honored member for fifty years, at the end of which time he retired from the practice of his profession.
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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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