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SQUIRE F. M. B. AMOS, farmer and stock-raiser, Sections 23 and 27, P. O. Keelville, was born in Clinton County, Ind., in 1840, and received his literary education in the public schools of his native county. At the age of seventeen, he engaged at the profession of teaching, with which he was reputably connected for eleven years, after which he located here and engaged at farming and stock-raising, which industry he has been very successfully identified with since. In 1862, he married, in Clinton County, Ind., Miss Mollie C. Thomas, who was born and reared in Chillicothe, Ohio. They have a family of four sons and five daughters—Eva M., Stanley H., Monterey M., Justin B., Ellston, Helen, Fred L., F. M. B. and Ruby P. Squire Amos has worked actively toward the development of the social and industrial life of this locality since coming here. He has been active, officially, as Township Trustee and Justice of the Peace almost continuously since locating here. Has been an active member of the A., F. & A. M. society since 1861, and of the I. O. O. F. society for the last eighteen years. His farm consists of 400 acres of improved land well stocked and fenced and watered, and has an orchard of about 1,000 fruit trees, all bearing. Squire Amos did active service in Company C, Tenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, during the late civil war.