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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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SANFORD C. CLARK, coal-operator, McKeesport, was born in Mifflin township, Allegheny county, Pa., Sept. 3, 1835, a son of Robert Clark and Margaret (Moore) Clark, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Ireland. They located in Pittsburgh about the year 1818, and resided in different sections of Allegheny county for many years. Robert Clark was a prominent coal-operator of his time, and among the first to float coal from the Pittsburgh coal-fields to Cincinnati and Louisville. He reared a family of seven children: Samuel, Thomas, Eliza (Mrs. John F. Dravo), David, Oliver, Margaret (Mrs. Augustus Leonard) and Sanford C. The last named was reared in or near McKeesport, and in the year 1857 and up to 1864 acted as agent for different parties, selling coal at Cincinnati, Louisville, Vicksburg and New Orleans. In the year 1865-66 was shipping oil from Oil City to Pittsburgh in bulk-boats, and in 1867 embarked in the coal business as shipper. In 1869 he began operating a coal-works opposite McKeesport, and since 1875 has been operating a coal works at Coal Valley. Mr. Clark married, in September, 1870, Harriet D., daughter of James and Margaret M. Clark, of McKeesport, and has six children: Milnor P., Edgar I., Maggie E., Effie M., George N. and Samuel W. Mr. Clark has been a permanent resident of McKeesport since 1865. In politics he is a republican.
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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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