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Below is a family biography included in History of Warren County, Iowa published by Union Historical Company 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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CLINE, VALENTINE, farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 30; P. O. Indianola; he owns a farm of 160 acres of well-improved land; born Feb. 17, 1835, in Adams county, Ohio; at the age of eleven years he was left an orphan, after which he lived with his oldest brother till he was sixteen years of age, when he came to Park county, Indiana, where he lived till 1854; he then came to this county and remained two years, and returned to Illinois, and then to Indiana, in 1856, where he remained till 1869, when he again came to this county, and settled where he now lives. He enlisted Oct. 31, 1863, in Co. C, One Hundred and Twenty-third Indiana, and served to Sept. 6, 1865, when he was discharged; he was in the battles of Chattanooga, Atlanta, Kennesaw Mountain, Chattahoochee River, and all the battles and skirmishes in which the regiment was engaged. He was married Sept 28, 1856, to Elizabeth Ball, a native of Park county, Indiana; they have a family of nine children: William B., George H., Louis W., James N., Hiram W., John F., Ulysses, A Pearl, Charles E. and Lou Anna; William B., Ulysses and Hiram W. are deceased.
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