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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company in 1883.  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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B. B. CARMIN, farmer, section 27, post-office Carthage. Was born in Clark county, Ohio, March 1, 1830. His father was a farmer, and became crippled by an accident when our subject was quite young, and being the eldest child, the care of the farm and family devolved principally upon him. At the age of twenty-two he went to Miami county, Ohio, and worked in a distillery four years. Was married Oct. 3, 1853, to Clementine Jenkins, also a native of Ohio. In 1856 he moved to Stark county, Ind.; bought and settled upon a new farm, which he cleared up and grubbed. During the war of the Rebellion he served in Company G, Twenty-third Regiment Indiana Volunteers; was attached to the Seventeenth Army Corps, marched with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, and participated in all the engagements of the command, and the return march to Washington D. C.; was at the grand review of the armies in that city; was discharged at Louisville, Ky., in July, 1865. Returned to his farm in the Hoosier State; remained until 1867, when he sold out and came to Jasper county, Mo.; settled where he now lives. The family occupied a log-cabin the first ten years of their residence, which has been replaced by a commodious farm-house. The farm consists of 160 acres well improved. Mr. Carmin farms the land to advantage, gets good crops of wheat, corn, and oats. Met with some reverses the first years of his residence, but has overcome them and can now enjoy the fruits of his labor and enterprise. His family consists of two sons and two daughters: Clara Jane, wife of James I. Whitwell of Newton county; James A., Lewis L., and Mary A., wife of John McQuivey. Mr. C., though always exercising the right of suffrage and identified with the Democratic party, is not by any means a partisan. In local affairs prefers the man independent of party affiliations. Is a member of the Baptist Church. Donated two acres of land upon which to build a Presbyterian Church in 1880.

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