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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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DR. F. R. McGREW, post office Mansfield Valley, was born in Allegheny county, Pa. in 1855, to Nathan and Phoebe C. (Hayden) McGrew, of Westmoreland county, Pa., who were the parents of seven children, five of whom are yet living, Dr. F. R. being the youngest son. Nathan McGrew, by occupation a farmer, resided in Westmoreland county until his death, which occurred when he was seventy-one years old; his wife died at the age of sixty-five years. The subject of this biographical memoir commenced the study of medicine under Dr. B. H. Vankirk, of West Newton, Westmoreland county, Pa., attended medical college in Detroit one year after which he practiced in West Virginia one year. He entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, graduated in 1880, and June 10, same year, he came to Mansfield, since when he has been actively engaged in his profession in this town and vicinity, where he enjoys a lucrative patron age. The doctor married, March 10, 1877, D. C. Snyder, daughter of Henry Snyder, of Fayette county, and they have a family of three children: Grace Pearl, Hazel May and Mattie Evans. Dr. McGrew 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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