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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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A. GORDON, JR., merchant, Homestead, was born in 1855, in Pittsburgh, Pa. His father, Alexander Gordon, a native of Baltimore, came to this county at the age of twenty, and engaged in the forwarding commission and afterward in the lead business. Later he was engaged in the coal business at Swissvale until the N. Y. & C. Gas and Coal company bought his coal lands. He took an active part in political matters before the war; was on the Kansas aid committee, and is the only one living of the three men who composed the committee of arrangements in 1856, when the republican party was organized. He married Katie Edwards, and to them were born Rev. John, Alexander, George B. (an attorney), William and Orra E. Our subject clerked nine years for his father, then became weighmaster, and finally superintendent of the coalworks. He is a graduate of the Western University. In 1882 he came to Homestead, where, in partnership with his brother, he opened a lumber yard, and also a full stock of builders’ supplies. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is a republican.
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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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