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Below is a family biography included in The History of Cole County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  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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J. E. Garman was born in Ohio, and is the son of Philip Garman, a native of Germany, who came to America when a young man, settling in Wayne County, Ohio, and there passed his last days. J. E. Garman remained at home and assisted his father on the farm until eighteen years of age, when he came to Cole County, Mo. Up to the time of leaving his father’s farm the son had all the advantages of a good common-school education. After his arrival in Cole County he engaged to work on a farm, and afterward bought the place of 200 acres, where he still resides. His first wife was Miss Mary J. Douglass, who died without children. Mr. Garman took for his second wife Miss Eliza Plummer, daughter of William Plummer, one of the pioneers of Cole County. She died leaving one daughter, Miss Minnie, who now lives with her father and stepmother, who is also her aunt, as her father, after the death of her mother, married Miss Rachel Plummer, sister of his second wife. To this third union has been born one child, a son, William Martin. Mr. Garman is a Democrat in politics, and has been prominently mentioned in that party as judge of the county court. Mr. Garman is the owner of some fine breeding-stock, notably a fine Morgan horse, “Douglas;” also a fine jack, of the Walker and Knight breed. Mr. Garman and family are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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This family biography is one of 127 biographies included in The History of Cole County, Missouri published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Cole County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

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