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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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H. H. LYON, master-mechanic, Bennett, was born March 14, 1846, in Butler county, Pa. His grandfather, Thomas Lyon, was born April 11, 1779, and was married to Mary Kerr, by whom he had seven children. Their son Henry B. was born June 10, 1819, died Nov. 21, 1879. He was reared in Butler county, where his father was an old settler. In 1858 he came to this county, where he was a teacher for twenty-six years, highly esteemed and honored; was also a sealer of weights and measures of Allegheny county, and clerk in the provost-marshal’s office during the rebellion. He held the office of justice of the peace, was a Presbyterian, in politics a republican. He married Mary A. White, who was born Jan. 20, 1820, and survives him. Their son, H. H. Lyon, the subject of this memoir, worked in the Etna mills as early as 1857. He is a machinist and engineer by trade, and is at present machinist of the Carbon Iron-works, of Pittsburgh. He married Emma, daughter of Richard Danver, one of the first councilmen of Allegheny, and they have three children: Frank K., Harry D. and Richard A.
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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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