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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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Thomas Edwards, machinist, Pittsburgh, was born in Baltimore, Md., May 20, 1826, a son of Thomas and Jane (Barr) Edwards, of Ireland. Thomas, Sr., who was a weaver, came to Pittsburgh in 1832. Both he and his wife were about sixty-nine years old when they died. Thomas Jr., attended the subscription schools and later the free schools, and when fourteen years old began to learn blacksmithing and wagon-work, and was eighteen years in the Pennsylvania railroad machine shops at Pittsburgh. Since 1870 he has been employed by the Allegheny Valley railroad company. He built his present residence on Penn avenue, near Forty-first street, in 1859. In 1849 he married Margaret Bradwell, who died of cholera in 1854. Sarah Ann and Franklin Pierce, her children, reside in Pittsburgh. In 1857 Mr. Edwards married Mary Wilcock, who died in 1873, the mother of Edwin Thomas, Samuel, Emily and Lily.
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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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