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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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ALBERT JOHN ENDSLEY WILSON, carpenter, Avalon, was born Sept. 18, 1858, in Franklin township, this county, a son of Robert and Martha A. (Roe) Wilson, natives of this county, former of whom was by trade a carpenter. The father died Sept. 2, 1866, aged thirty-two years, and the mother Nov. 7, 1881, aged forty-seven years. The family moved to the city of Allegheny about 1860, where Albert J. E. was given an education in the Sixth ward schools. At the age of seventeen he learned the trade of carpentering, and afterward that of broom-making, but has followed the former. He was married, Dec. 7, 1882, to Hannah Pace, a native of England, and daughter of George and Sarah Pace, former of whom died when she was young, and latter came to Pittsburgh. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson: Albert John Endsley, Sadie May and Cyrus William. Mr. Wilson was reared in the M. E. Church, of which his parents were members; in politics he is an independent republican, and is a member of the Jr. O. U. A. M. and Carpenters’ Union. He lived in the city of Allegheny until October, 1888, when he removed to his new residence at West Bellevue.

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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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