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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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JOHN F. McENULTY, oil-producer, residence at Crafton, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth McEnulty, was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., in 1845. He came to this county with his parents in 1854, and settled in Pittsburgh. They had seven children: Helen (deceased), Charles, Joseph, John F., Thomas J., William B. and Jennie (deceased). Their father was a cabinet-maker, but spent eighteen years of his life in the English navy, and died in 1859, at the age of fifty-four years. His widow is still living, at the age of sixty-nine years. John F. McEnulty married, in 1873, Annie, daughter of George R. and Mary Pearson, and by this union there are two children, Jennie and John F. Mr. McEnulty has been a bookkeeper in the American Bank of Pittsburgh for eighteen years, but has recently engaged in the oil-producing business. He has built an elegant residence in the beautiful village of Crafton. His brother Charles served over three years in the civil war; was in the One Hundred and Second regiment, and was in nearly all the hard-fought battles of the war in the east.
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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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