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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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JOHN CLARK, paying teller of the Farmers’ Deposit National Bank, Pittsburgh, was born in County Derry, Ireland, Dec. 27, 1838, son of Oliver and Eliza (Davis) Clark, natives of the same place. His mother died there, and after the children came to America his father, who was a farmer, and afterward an overseer, followed them here to spend his last days, dying at his son John’s house, in 1883, at the age of seventy-five years. He had ten children, viz.: daughters, Eliza and Sarah (both deceased), Margaret, Jane and Mary; sons, R. D. (deceased), Joseph, John, and James and Oliver (both deceased). Of these, John attended school in Ireland, and on coming to Pittsburgh, in 1860, entered the Farmers’ Deposit National Bank as messenger boy, from which he has worked his way up to his present position. Mr. Clark was married twice; the second time, in 1874, to Catharine Rogers, of County Derry, Ireland, and two children, Oliver D. and Edith G., have been born to them.
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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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