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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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HENRY JOHNSON BIGGER, lawyer, Pittsburgh, was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, June 5, 1849, of Scotch-Irish parentage. He was reared on a farm, and graduated at Monmouth College, Illinois, in 1872. He was a teacher in Greene county, Ohio, in 1872 and 1873, and in the latter year he came to Pittsburgh, where he entered the law-office of Aughinbaugh & Duff, and was admitted to the bar of Allegheny county in the autumn of 1876. He was married, Feb. 6, 1881, to Miss Sallie P., daughter of the late John Palmer Pears, of Pittsburgh, and they have three children.
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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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