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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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SMITH, WM., farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Carlisle; born in Derbyshire, England, about 1826, and was twenty-two years of age when he came to America and located in Shelby county, Indiana, and remained only about one year; while there he bought 400 acres of land where he now lives, without coming to see it; he then returned to England and remained for six months, and came back to Indiana and to this county in the spring of 1857; he has been twice married, first, to Martha Nast, June, 1855, a native of England, who is now deceased; married again to Anna C. Henley, Dec. 24, 1873, a native of Brown county, Illinois; they have three children: Mary, Wm. and Henry; his wife has five children by first marriage: Jennie, Charles, Annie, George and Albert; has a farm of sixty acres; he has made two trips to England since he came to this State; he bought and sold the first hogs in the county.

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This family biography is one of 548 biographies included in The History of Warren County, Iowa published in 1879.  For the complete description, click here: Warren County, Iowa History and Genealogy

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