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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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JAMES L. DEVENNY, editor and proprietor of the McKeesport Daily News, is a native of Washington county, Pa. At the age of eight he came to McKeesport, and was educated in the high-school of that city, from which he graduated in 1876 with the medal of his class. The succeeding eight years he was clerk in a Pittsburgh store, but in 1884 he returned to McKeesport, and became local editor of the News, a position which he creditably filled until 1886. He then purchased the newspaper plant from Dravo Brothers, becoming its editor and proprietor, since when the News, under his management, has had a wonderful increase in circulation and patronage. Mr. Devenny, though but twenty-two years old, and probably the youngest editor in the state, has proved his ability to conduct a first-class newspaper, and has made the News one of the brightest and newsiest dailies in Western Pennsylvania.
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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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