Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Dr. William John Bierer and Blanche M. McGinley




Husband Dr. William John Bierer 1

           Born: 10 May 1873 - Delmont, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: George W. Bierer (      -1900) 1 2 3
         Mother: Mary Ann Potts (1844-Aft 1918) 1 2 3


       Marriage: 25 Nov 1902 1



Wife Blanche M. McGinley 1

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Children
1 M Robert Bierer 4

           Born: 17 Sep 1904 4
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2 M Edward Bierer 4

           Born: 20 May 1907 4
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3 F Jean Bierer 4

           Born: 18 Aug 1918 4
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. William John Bierer


He was educated in the Delmont public schools and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with the class of 1897, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. From the beginning of his active practice until 1913, Dr. Bierer was located in Export, Pennsylvania, when he moved to Kittanning. Thereafter he maintained an ever-growing practice in that town and served also on the staff of the General Hospital. Dr. Bierer was a member of the Armstrong County Medical Society. He was also a strong advocate of fraternal benefits, and was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons in all the ramifications of that group, including the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and he held the thirty-second degree. A Republican in political sympathies, he was for a long time a school director, and with the Kiwanis Club, of which he was a member, he was an active worker for the advancement of Kittanning. He was a communicant of the First Presbyterian Church.

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Sources


1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 367.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 90, 121.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 393.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 368.


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