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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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JOSEPH HATCH, farmer, post office Bennett, was born Jan. 1, 1818, in Massachusetts, son of Ebenezer Hatch, who was born in 1774, in Barnstable county, Mass. The Hatch ancestry, Davis and Cushman, came over in the Mayflower in 1620. Ebenezer Hatch learned the ship-building trade in South Carolina. He married, in Maine, Statirah Blanchard, who became the mother of six children: Sabra, Eunice, Elizabeth, Nathaniel B., Joseph and Davis P. Ebenezer came to this county in 1807, and followed his trade in Pittsburgh, where he built the first brick house. Joseph learned the wagon-maker’s and painter’s trades and surveying, which he followed at different times. When a young man he taught school for ten years. He married Nancy Jane McFerrin, who died Feb. 24, 1875, a Presbyterian. Of her children, two are living: Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson and Mrs. Nancy J. Schar. Mr. Hatch has been a farmer forty-five years. He is a Presbyterian; has been a republican, is now a prohibitionist.
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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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