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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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MRS. MARY E. SMITH, druggist, West Elizabeth, daughter of William Bradford and Sarah A. (McQuaid) Sprague, was born in Jacksonville, Westmoreland county, Pa. Her father, a native of Vermont, came to Westmoreland county when about twenty-two years of age, and engaged in business as a tailor. There he married Sarah A., daughter of James McQuaid, one of the old families of Westmoreland county. They removed to Saltsburg, Indiana county, Pa., where they remained for some years, but eventually returned to Elizabeth, where he embarked in the drug trade, and afterward came to West Elizabeth, where he continued the business of druggist. They reared a family of four children: James M. (in Pittsburgh), Nannie E. (now Mrs. McKee, of Glenfield, Allegheny county), Ida (now Mrs. G. W. Conrad, of Uniontown, Fayette county) and Mary E., who, in 1870, married John H. Smith, of Elizabeth township; at first they resided in Allegheny, but soon on account of ill health Mr. Smith was obliged to travel. He received no permanent benefit, however, and died in 1874. Mrs. Smith returned to West Elizabeth, and is now engaged in the drug business. Mr. Smith left one child, now the wife of R. L. Roller, of West Elizabeth.

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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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