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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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JOSEPH GRIFFITH, superintendent of coal mine, post office Camden, was born April 1, 1834, in Blueford, Wales. His parents, John and Margaret (Williams) Griffith, came to Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1837; the father became a miner in Pitt township; he died in Mifflin township, aged seventy-eight years. The family consisted of ten children, five of whom are living, as follows: Joseph, Capt. Jabez, John, Martha and Lizzie. Our subject became connected with a coal mine in early life, and is known far and wide as a practical miner. Since 1876 he has been superintendent of Lysle & Sons’ coal mines, where 240 men are employed, who turn out about seventeen thousand bushels of coal per day. Mr. Griffith here married Margaret, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Sarver) Soles, and their children are: William, Annie E., Maggie J., Martha, Mary A., Joseph and Edward.
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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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