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HENRY CESSNA FOREMAN, cooper, Harmarville, was born in Allegheny City, Feb. 12, 1845, and is a son of Jacob and Sarah Jane (Allison) Foreman. His father was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., May 21, 1812; in his younger days was a contractor, and is now a carpenter. His mother was born in Pittsburgh Feb. 29, 1820. They now reside in Allegheny, and are members of the Presbyterian Church. The paternal grandparents of Henry C., Henry and Mary (Harnish) Foreman, were natives of Huntingdon county, Pa., and our subject’s maternal grandparents, John and Jane (Cessna) Allison, were natives of Chambersburg, Pa.; Jane (Cessna) Allison and her parents, who were of English descent, walked to Pittsburgh in 1800. Henry C. Foreman, at the age of sixteen, learned the cooper’s trade, which he has since followed. In 1871 he took the position, which he still holds, of foreman-cooper at the Allegheny county workhouse. He resided at Claremont until 1884, when he bought his present fine home at Hulton Ferry. He married, in 1868, Sarah Ann Covalt, of West Virginia, daughter of James B. and Matilda (Rice) Covalt, former of whom, a mate on the Ohio river, was born in 1822 and died in 1883; latter died when Mrs. Foreman was an infant. Mr. Foreman’s grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution, and his wife had several brothers in the civil war, one of whom spent ten months in Andersonville prison. Mr. and Mrs. Foreman have two sons: Harry Allison and Frank Jacob. The eldest, who is eighteen years of age, is in the employ of the Westinghouse Air-brake Works; is a member of the K. of G. C., K. of G. E., and several other societies. Mrs. Foreman is a member of the Campbellite Church; also a member of the Knights and Ladies of Honor. Mr. Foreman is a democrat, and a justice of the peace, and is a member of the A. F. & A. M.