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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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JOHN FAIRLEY, farmer, post office West View, was born Feb. 21, 1830, on the old homestead. His grandfather, John Fairley, a native of County Fermanagh, Ireland, emigrated to America in 1798, with his wife and children. They were farmers, and bought 300 acres of land for four dollars per acre. They both died nearly ninety years old. Their children were Peter, Elizabeth, Burns, Mrs. Sarah Neeley and John. John inherited a part of the old farm, on which he died Jan. 8, 1860, at the age of fifty-six years. John Fairley, Sr., married Rosanna, daughter of Lawrence Burns. She died in 1879, aged seventy-six years, the mother of three children: Peter, John and Nancy. Of these our subject is the only one now living. He was educated in this county, and married here Susannah Smith. They have ten children: John, Thomas, Mary J., Harry, Rosannah, Ann M., Estella, Susannah, Frank and Louise A. Politically the Fairleys were democrats.
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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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