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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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FRANK F. SNEATHEN, attorney at law, Braddock. John B. Sneathen, father of this gentleman, is a native of Dauphin county, Pa., born in 1832, his parents having come from Scotland at an early date to Eastern Pennsylvania. When twelve years of age he accompanied his mother to Allegheny county for the purpose of acquiring a thorough education, and on attaining manhood’s estate became engaged in various business enterprises, prominently those of commission merchant and coal-shipper on the Ohio. He married a Miss Keefer, an Ohio lady, who bore him five sons and four daughters; Frank F., the second son, was educated at the Pennsylvania Military Academy at Chester, and became lieutenant-colonel of the 18th regiment; entered Harvard College in 1877, graduating in 1879; commenced the study of law under the preceptorship of Marcus W. Acheson, and was admitted to the bar in 1880, since when he has practiced his profession at the bar of Allegheny county. In 1885 he removed to Braddock. He married, in 1886, Emma C., daughter of George A. Kim, a prominent glass-manufacturer of Pittsburgh. Mr. Sneathen is a member of the Methodist Church; in politics a republican.
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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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