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WILLIAM J. CURRAN, lawyer, Pittsburgh, was born in that city March 6, 1851. His parents were Manas Curran, who came to this county in 1844, and Prudence P. (Scott), whose father was a farmer residing in Allegheny township, Westmoreland county, Pa. He was the second of a family of eight children, of whom, besides himself, two only survive, Cecelia G. and John E., the latter now in his twenty-first year. When the subject of this memoir was less than a year old his parents moved from Pittsburgh to Freeport, Armstrong county, Pa., and he lived there and in that vicinity, in Westmoreland and Allegheny counties, but for the most part in Allegheny township, Westmoreland county, working on a farm, attending school and teaching until September, 1875. He was educated in the common schools and at St. Vincent’s College, Latrobe, Pa. In January 1875, he began the study of law with J. G. D. Findley, Esq., of Freeport, and in September of same year entered the office of Hon. H. H. McCormick, formerly speaker of the Pennsylvania house of representatives, and subsequently United States district attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar April 14, 1877, and has since been constantly engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a member of the R. C. Church, and is a democrat.