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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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CHARLES I. McKEE, commissioner merchant, Allegheny, was born Sept. 7, 1857, in Birmingham, Ohio, son of Daniel and Amelia (Evans) McKee, latter of whom was born at New Castle, Pa. Daniel McKee, who was a native of Salem, Ohio, and a blacksmith by trade, moved, when Charles I. was quite young, to New Castle, where the latter was educated until thirteen years of age. He (Charles I.) then came to Pittsburgh, where he worked for a grocer for a time; then entered the office of Brace Bros’, laundry, as office-boy, where he rose step by step until he was placed in charge of their office on Sixth street. At the end of nine years Mr. McKee resigned to accept a position as collector for William Moyle, Allegheny. Here he served three years, and then, in 1888, opened a commission-store at 33 East Diamond street, that city. Mr. McKee was married May 26, 1884, to Mattie E. Lloyd, sister of Mrs. Thomas Armstrong (see sketch of Thomas H. S. Armstrong), and they have one child, Margaret M. Mr. McKee is a member of the R. A., A. O. U. W. and Select Knights. Mrs. McKee is a member of the M. E. Church. Their home is in Emsworth.
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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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