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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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MATTHEW T. McFADDEN, farmer, post office Chartiers, is a son of John and Rachel McFadden, and was born in 1852 on his father’s homestead, in Stowe township. John McFadden was born in Stowe township in 1812, and married, Dec. 19, 1837, Rachel, daughter of William McCormick, of Allegheny county. He inherited his father’s farm of four hundred acres, and at his death willed it to his widow, and at her death it was divided among the children. John and Rachel McFadden had ten children, six of whom are now living, viz.: William M., Mary A. (wife of Rev. Jonathan Tombes), Lewis A., John W., Matthew T. and Sarah J.(wife of Alexis Pendleton), now a resident of California. John McFadden died in 1873, at the age of fifty-six years, a member of the U. P. Church, as was also his wife. Matthew T. McFadden was married May 29, 1879, to Luella, daughter of Ackley A. and Orilla Johnson, of Mason county, W. Va., and they have five children, viz.: Walter T., Charles W., Ada M., Ora R. and Joseph W. Joseph D. McFadden, a brother of Matthew T., was killed in the railroad disaster at Chatsworth, Ill., Aug. 10, 1887, at the age of forty-six years.
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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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