Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John A. Duff




Husband John A. Duff 1

           Born: 1 Nov 1837 - Penn Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Duff (1789-      ) 1
         Mother: Isabelle Fisher (      -      ) 1





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General Notes: Husband - John A. Duff


He was educated in his native township, and in 1856 commenced farming operations independently. October 3, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and First Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served until May 17, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He was actively engaged at Yorktown, Williamsburg and Fair Oaks. He was captured at Plymouth, North Carolina, April 20, 1864, and released at Jacksonville, April 28, 1865. He was a prominent member of the local post at Wilkinsburg of the Grand Army of the Republic. After the war he went west for a time, then returned to Penn township, where he cultivated a farm of eighty-five acres.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1119.


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