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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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D. B. McCONVILLE, contractor, Tarentum, son of Peter and Bridget McConville, was born in Ireland in 1850. His parents immigrated to this country, and located in Brooke county, Va., where they lived twenty years, and then removed to Steubenville, Ohio. From the latter place they returned to their former home, where Peter McConville died, March 3, 1885. His widow is now a resident of East Liberty. Their children were James, Catharine and D. B. Our subject, when a child, came with his parents and a sister to what is now West Virginia, and there he learned the mason’s trade. He afterward visited various sections of the country, and worked at his trade in Cleveland (Ohio), Toronto (Canada), St. Louis, Mobile, New Orleans, Chicago and Steubenville (Ohio), finally locating in Tarentum, Pa. In 1877 he married Miss Celia, daughter of John McCarty, of Steubenville, Ohio, and by her has one child, Daniel J. Mr. McConville has been a contractor in Tarentum during the rapid growth of the place, and is a successful business-man. He is a member of the Catholic Church.
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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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