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Below is a family biography included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879.  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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BEHRINGER, GEORGE F., clergyman; P. O. Mendon: was born in New York City, Oct. 13, 1846; taught in the city grammar schools there from 1863 to 1866; studied at Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, from 1866 to 1868; graduated at the Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, as the first graduate in 1869; was appointed Assistant-Professor of German Language and Litany at the Cornell University, 1869 to 1870; spent three years at the German and French Universities abroad, finishing at Leipzig, in 1873; returned home and received the appointment of acting Professor of Rhetoric and modern languages at Howard University, in Washington, D. C., in 1874; received and accepted a call from the Evangelical Lutheran church at Indianapolis, December 1876; accepted a call to the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mendon, September 1878; married Mary Jane Vail Colburn of New York City, Nov. 26, 1874. She was born July 15, 1851. Two children: George Frederick, born Aug. 16, 1875; Jennie Louise, born Nov. 28, 1877.

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This family biography is one of 1444 biographies included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879.  View the complete description here: The History of Adams County, Illinois

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