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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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G. W. Harrington. Ever since locating in Mississippi County, Ark., Mr. Harrington has enjoyed the reputation of being a substantial and progressive farmer, and has also been considered an intelligent and thoroughly posted man on all the current topics of the day. His father, L. R. Harrington, is a Tennessean, and is now living in that State in retirement, although he had previously followed the occupation of farming. He was married there to Miss Brunetta Binkley, also a native of the State, who gave birth to our subject in 1836, he being the eldest of their four children. She died in 1873. G. W. Harrington was reared to a farm life in his native State, and it was here that he received his early scholastic training, it being only such as the common schools of his day afforded. At the age of twenty-two years he began farming for himself, and as it was an occupation with which he had always been familiar, his success was an assured fact. In 1857 he emigrated to Arkansas, and for ten years farmed on rented land near where he now lives, but purchased, in 1865, a farm in North Chickasawba Township, amounting to eighty acres, partially improved, and on this fertile farm he has made many more improvements, and has it nearly all under cultivation. At the breaking out of the war, he enlisted in the Confederate army, Company H, Fifteenth Tennessee Regiment, and was in the battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville and Murfreesboro; and after the last named battle, he returned to Arkansas, and was married at the close of the war to Miss Mary Crawford, of Mississippi County, by whom he became the father of the following children: Lydia, Ida, Lizzie, Nannie, Larkin, Charles, Samuel, George and Jefferson. Mr. Harrington is quite an active politician, and a public-spirited citizen. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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This family biography is one of 162 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi County, Arkansas published in 1889.  View the complete description here: Mississippi County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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