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ROBERT B. JEFFRIES, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, July 16, 1836, and is a son of Blair and Penillipa (Tilton) Jeffries, who were the parents of thirteen children and natives respectively of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. When a young man Blair Jeffries settled on a farm in Clermont County, Ohio, where he continued to reside until his death, which occurred in 1875, preceded by his wife some thirty years. Robert B. was reared on the home farm to manhood, securing only an ordinary education. In 1859 he married and from that time to 1862 farmed, when he enlisted in Company F., Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving a period of two years and eight months, when he was honorably discharged. He was in various skirmishes and engagements, chief among which was the attack on Fort Donelson. After the war he followed huckstering in his native State until 1867, when he came to Warrick County, Ind., and followed the same occupation until 1875. He then resumed farming and in 1878 purchased property east of Boonville, where he has resided to the present time. Mr. Jeffries has been twice married, his first wife bearing him two daughters: Lillie L. (Mrs. Jonas Hinman) and Effie (Mrs. Albert Richardson). To his second marriage one child, which died in infancy, was born. He is a member of the G. A. R., a Prohibitionist in political principle and he and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.