Fayette County, Pennsylvania Biography extractd from the book Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County by John W. Jordan, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1912.
Biographical Sketches and Genealogies:
IMPORTANT NOTE: The following rather lengthy biographies contain multi-generational genealogies and collateral families. If you don't see the name you are looking for in the surname index, be sure to use the search engine below to see if the surname is part of another biography. The surname index generally refers to the originator of the line of descent in the bio.
Most of these family histories cover many Pennsylvania counties as the biographies follow the family as they resettle into different parts of Pennsylvania and other states.
Ache Family
Beeson Family
Bowie Family
Bulger Family
Burd Family
Byrer Family
Carr Family
Chisolm Family
Coates Family
Conrad Family
Cope Family
Derrick Family
Dice Family
Downer Family
Edel Family
Edmiston Family
Evans, Lewis
Evans, Powel
Evans, Rees
Evans, Richard
Evans, Thomas
Fast Family
Farrell Family
Field Family
Frasher Family
Fusarini Family
Gaddis Family
Gaskill Family
Ghrist Family
Goff Family
Greene Family
Hagans Family
Harah Family
Hartley Family
Hempstead Family
Hogsett Family
Hook Family
Hornbake Family
Humphreys Family
Jaquet, Andrew Dutton
Jaquet, Pierre
Jones Family
Kaiser Family
Kefover Family
Kiefer Family
Kough Family
Kramer Family
Lincoln Family
Metzler Family
Neff Family
Niccolls Family
Playford family
Poletz Family
Pratt Family
Prentice (Prentiss) Family
Riffle Family
Ross Family
Rutter Family
Sample Family
Sechler Family
Smiley Family
Sterling Family
Storey Family
Sturgis Family
Titlow Family
Waldron Family
Wonders Family
Wood Family
Whyel Family
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