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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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JAMES LENDRUM, carpenter, Ross, was born in December, 1822, in County Tyrone, Ireland. His parents, George and Rebecca (McFarland) Lendrum, natives of the above-named place, had seven children, and with these emigrated to America in 1836. The father worked in a foundry in Allegheny, and died at the home of his son James, at the age of eighty-two years. James was educated in this county, and learned the carpenter’s trade, which he followed twenty-five years. Subsequently he turned his attention to agriculture, and now owns a farm of twenty acres. He married Jane, daughter of John Nelson, one of the oldest settlers in Ross township, who came here shortly after the Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Lendrum have five children: John, Anna, Rebecca, Adeline and George. Mr. Lendrum was formerly a whig, now 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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