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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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JOSEPH CAMPBELL, farmer, post office Noblestown, was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1826, a son of William and Nancy Jane (Summerville) Campbell, who were the parents of six children. The parents came with five children to America and immediately settled in Fayette (now South Fayette) township, this county. The father rented a farm, on which they resided five years, at the end of which time he purchased 130 acres of land, all now owned by his sons, James and Joseph. The land on which Joseph resides is part of a tract owned by Mr. Dunlevy, an old pioneer of Allegheny county. William Campbell died in 1881, aged eighty-five years. He was three times married; his first wife died in 1837, and by his last two marriages there were no children. Joseph, the subject of this sketch, was educated at the common schools of South Fayette township, and has always been a farmer; he purchased eighty acres of land in 1861, and is now the owner of a handsome home and a fine farm of 150 acres. He married, in 1852, Margaret, daughter of John Johnson, of Fayette township, and three children were born to this marriage, two living: J. J. (assisting on the farm) and Lizzie J. Mrs. Campbell died in 1887, aged fifty-three years.
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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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