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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 WERNER, brewer, West Elizabeth, son of Albert and Sarah Werner, was born at Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1842, and in 1857 he came to Pittsburgh. In 1861 he enlisted in Co. F, 6th U. S. C, and was captured near Gettysburg, taken to Richmond, Va., and confined in Libby and Belle Isle prisons until three months later, when he was paroled. In 1864 he was mustered out of the service, returned to Pittsburgh, and in the fall of 1865 married Anna Maria, daughter of Joshua Vogel, of West Newton, Westmoreland county, Pa. Their children are Maggie, Willie, John, Joshua and Annie. Mr. Werner was at one time engaged in mining coal, later as a mine boss, and in 1871 came to Jefferson township, where he purchased and rebuilt the brewery he now owns, which has a capacity of forty barrels per day, and where he is at present engaged in business. By not getting license under the Brooks law, in the spring of 1888 his property was almost all confiscated by the license court of Allegheny county.
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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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