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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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VALENTINE VEY, grocer, Braddock, only son of Valentine and Catharine (Kuntz) Vey, was born in Allegheny, Pa., Sept. 1, 1862. His father came from Germany when twenty-three years old, and located in Allegheny, where he died three months before the birth of his son, with whom the widowed mother now resides. He was educated in German and English in New York city, and finished his English training at Ebensburg, Pa. When twelve years old he went on the P. R. R. as news agent, for six years. Before he was nineteen he built a house at Brushton, out of his savings, and has since erected another. For five years he was brakeman on a P. R. R. passenger train. In 1887 he became a partner in the firm of Vey & Dinges, who purchased a building and established a successful grocery trade at Braddock. Mr. Vey is a member of St. James R. C. Church; politically he is a democrat. June 26, 1888, he married Miss Sadie, a native of Kearney Station, Pa., daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Troy.
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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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