Fayette County Pennsylvania Biographies

This book contains 500 sketches of Fayette County inhabitants living at the time of the book's original publication in 1889. The sketches are arranged by city or township and then alphabetically for each of the following localities: Brownsville and Bridgeport Bullskin Connellsville Dunbar Franklin Georges German Henry Clay Jefferson Luzerne Menallen Nicholson Redstone Salt Lick Springfield Springhill Stewart Tyrone Uniontown Washington and Wharton. While most of the sketches primarily discuss the individual's education career political and religious leanings etc. they also give at a minimum the subject's date and place of birth names of parents name of spouse(s) date of marriage names of children and names of spouse's parents.