Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: Richardson, Harry M., Aug 1911

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from The Gazette Times dated Sunday, August 27, 1911:
 
Harry M RICHARDSON, aged 50, of Sewickley, son of John 
and Mary STIRLING RICHARDSON, died at the family home 
in Sewickley Friday. He was well known in the business 
and social circles of this vicinity, where he had lived 
all his life. He was born in the city of Allegheny and 
received his education in the public schools there and 
later at the old Newell Institute, one of the famous 
schools of the early seventies. Mr RICHARDSON early 
became interested in the iron business and took a 
clerkship with A M Byers & Co., pipe manufacturers, 
and remained with the concern and its successor, the 
A M Byers Company, for years, being its treasurer at 
the time of his death. Mr RICHARDSON never married, 
and moved with the family to Sewickley in 1880, where 
he has resided every since, becoming part of its varied 
social and charitable activities. He was retiring in 
disposition and did not seek public notoriety, but was 
fond of the companionship of his friends, was philosophical, 
and was a student of human nature as well as of books and 
flowers. He was a member of St Stephen's Episcopal Church 
of Sewickley, was treasurer of the Sewickley Valley Hospital 
Cot Club, also a member of the Edgewood and Allegheny Country 
Clubs. Mr RICHARDSON is survived by his mother and three 
brothers, O S of the Allegheny county bar; Frank E, president 
of the Pittsburgh Forge and Iron Company, and Charles, also 
connected with the Pittsburgh Forge and Iron Company.