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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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BERRY M. CHAMBERS was born in Kentucky, Adair county, July 29, 1846. Enlisting in 1861 in the Federal army, in the Fifth Kentucky Cavalry, Company D, under Col. Haggard, being soon promoted to second major of his regiment, he served until May 8, 1865, when he was mustered out at Louisville, Ky. He returned to Cumberland county, Ky., and soon began a tour of travel in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Indiana, South Carolina, and to Jasper county, Mo., in 1878. Since coming here he has been engaged in the mining business in the towns of Joplin, Webb City, and Oronogo, with reasonable success. Mr. Chambers is at present the justice of the peace of Oronogo, to which position the suffrages of the people called him in the fall of 1882.
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