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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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STRICKLING, M. W., grocery, northwest corner of 11th and Broadway; residence, same; born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1849. He went to Nebraska in 1865, and was actively engaged in frontier life until 1868; taught school and kept store, when he enlisted at Fort McPherson in the 2d Reg: Cav., in which he served on the plains actively until his time expired in 1873, when he was honorably discharged. He located in Jacksonville, Morgan county, in this state, 1873, and married Miss Laura Clark, daughter of Geo. W. Clark, of that city, in 1876. She was born there, 1855. They located in Quincy, 1878, when he went into his present business, and is carrying on a large and profitable trade. He is a young man of good appearance and address, with the health of frontier life visible. He is a Democrat.

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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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