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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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FREDERICK WILDE, blacksmith, Chartiers, is a son of Charles and Mary Wilde, and was born in Germany May 19, 1845. His father died in Germany in 1861, and in 1881 his mother came to this country, and now resides in the city of Allegheny, at the age of sixty-eight years. Frederick arrived in New York May 5, 1869, and worked one year on Long Island; in 1870 he came to Pittsburgh, and in March, 1874, located in Chartiers, Stowe township, where he bought property and established a general blacksmithing and wagon-making business, which he has successfully carried on to the present time. He first married, in 1872, Caroline Teitz, who died the following year at the age of twenty-six years. His second marriage occurred June 26, 1874, with Catherine Eisenbeiser, and by this union there are eight children: Lena, Louisa, Annie, Katie, Frank, Bertie, Emma and Friederika.
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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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