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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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CAPT. JOHN W. McINTIRE, captain and pilot, post office Coraopolis, was born at McKeesport, Pa., April 26, 1836, a son of Robert S. and Jane (Dunseith) McIntire, natives of Allegheny county, Pa., and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Robert S. resides at McKeesport, and was a river-man when keelboats were in vogue. He is a son of Patrick McIntire, who came from Ireland with his parents to Westmoreland county, Pa., and later settled near Bucyrus. Robert S. returned to Pennsylvania, and settled in McKeesport. He and wife had two sons, Capt. John W., and Capt. Daniel, captain and pilot at McKeesport. Capt. John W. went on the river in 1852, and was engineer eight years, but has been pilot and captain ever since. He married, March 17, 1857, Alice Yolton, daughter of William and Mary (Cool) Yolton. Mrs. McIntire died July 26, 1884, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the mother of two children: Jennie, wife of Alvin Cornelius, Coraopolis; William W., learning piloting with his father. Thomas Dunseith, maternal grandfather of Capt. John McIntire, was born in New Jersey, married Jane Powell, and settled at Dowther’s settlement, near McKeesport. They lived in a blockhouse for protection from the Indians. He was a pioneer flat-boatman, and with others would float down from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, sell out and walk back.
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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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