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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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RICHARD BRANKSTONE, manager of glass works, P. O. Crafton, is a son of Richard and Ellen Brankstone, and was born in Cambridge, near Boston, Mass., June 15, 1841. He came with his parents from New York city in 1852, and settled in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was engaged as a glass-worker. His parents had six children: James (deceased), Robert (deceased), William (deceased), George (deceased), Jenett (wife of R. T. McClure, who is engaged in the woodenware business at Erie, Pa.) and Richard. Richard, Sr., died of cholera in 1852; his widow is still living in the city of Erie, Pa., at the age of seventy-three years.
Our subject married in June, 1873, Jennie A., daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth Hamilton Adams, and they have two children living-Robert and Hugh. Mr. Brankstone, like his father, has devoted his life to the glass business, and is at present managing for Maing, Hart & Co. Glass-works, at Leasdale station, on the Pan Handle railroad. He is a member of the society of United Workmen; politically he is a republican, and voted for Harrison and Morton.
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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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