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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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J. S. McCARTNEY, M. D., Tarentum, is a son of Jacob McCartney, and was born in Apollo, Armstrong county, Pa., in 1832. He received his literary training at different academic institutions, and his medical education at Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, graduating in 1856, and commencing the practice of medicine at Tarentum in December, 1857. Dr. McCartney has practiced continuously at Tarentum since locating there, and has been prominently identified with many of the local enterprises of the place. The first bank started here was an individual concern, but it soon developed into a national bank, in which the doctor was president and largely interested, and was one of the three trustees who started the first glassworks there. The doctor invested largely in real estate in Tarentum, and holds considerable interests in Chicago and Cook county, Ill. His real and personal estate amounts to over one hundred thousand dollars. His principal business now is of a financial character—investing in bonds, and loaning money on mortgages and real estate and collateral securities, and caring for his estate.
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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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