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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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JESSE H. DEWEES, superintendent and treasurer of the Osceola and Republic Coal companies, McKeesport, was born in Chester county, Pa., May 4, 1851; was reared in his native county, educated in the public schools, Norristown Academy and in the State Normal school at Westchester, after which he taught school two years. He located in McKeesport in 1871, and for seven years was cashier in the general store of Wood Bros. He then embarked in the coal business, and now owns a half interest in the Republic and Osceola coal-mines, and has been the efficient superintendent and treasurer of the Osceola Coal company since its organization. They are miners and shippers of the celebrated Youghiogeny gas-coal, one of the most popular fuels in the market, the combustion being intense and long continued, and as a producer of gas has no superior. The daily capacity of the Osceola and Republic collieries is about eight hundred tons, requiring the employment of about three hundred miners and extensive transportation facilities.
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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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