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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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SAMUEL JOHN BROWN, foreman, Verona, was born in Pittsburgh in 1847, a son of Thomas, Jr., and Elizabeth (McLain) Brown, of English and Irish extraction, former of whom now resides in Pittsburgh, being employed in the tinning department of the Pennsylvania railroad shops. Samuel was reared in the city, and attended school until eighteen years old, when he commenced to learn his trade of machinist at Febbers’ machine-shop, Pittsburgh. For ten years he was night foreman of the Pan Handle round house in Pittsburgh, and came to Verona in 1879. For four years he was employed as forger at the Dexter Spring-works. He then entered the Allegheny Valley railroad shops, where he is foreman of the rod-gang. With his family he attends the Presbyterian Church; politically he supports the republican party. In 1873 he married Ida Porter, born in Pittsburgh, daughter of the late John Porter, of Penn township, and by her has five children: Ernest Robert, Alma Arthur, Ira, Ida and Porter. Mr. Brown enlisted April 4, 1865, in Pittsburgh, in Co. G, 110th P. V., 2d and 3d corps consolidated; was mustered out at Bailey’s Cross Roads, Va., and discharged at Harrisburg July 3, 1865.

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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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