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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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CHARLES FREDERICK DEAN, cashier Union National Bank, Pittsburgh, comes of Scotch-Irish lineage, and was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 8, 1849. His grandfather, John Dean, born in Huntingdon county, Pa., in 1773, went from Cumberland county to Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1801. His grandmother was Elizabeth, sister of Judge William Dock, of Harrisburg, and was a member of one of the earliest families of Cumberland county. John Dean built one of the first houses at Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, where he died in 1835. His son, Alexander, was born in New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1821, and came to Pittsburgh in 1838. He was a prominent steamboat owner and captain, but was obliged to retire from active life by a paralytic stroke in 1856; he died in 1886. He married Elizabeth Emily, daughter of William and Jerusha C. (nee McKinney) Johnston. Mrs. Elizabeth Dean’s maternal grandfather, Roderick McKinney, a Scotchman, built one of the first half-dozen houses in Pittsburgh. Charles F. Dean was educated in the public schools and a private academy. On June 18, 1867, he entered the Union National Bank as discount clerk, and by gradual promotion became cashier Feb. 15, 1888. He is an elder in the Third U. P. Church of Pittsburgh, and is a republican with prohibition sympathies.

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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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