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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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EDWARD A. HOLCOMB was born in Bradford county, Pa., April 28, 1847. At the age of five he removed to Linn county, Iowa, residing there four years, and two years in Boone county, Iowa, taking up his home in Jasper county, Mo., in 1867. He was married in 1866 in Boone county, Iowa, to Elizabeth Thomas, who was born in Illinois, and raised for the most part in Iowa. The children’s names are Charles, Fannie, and Clara. Mr. Holcomb has a farm of 120 acres; ten acres sown to wheat in 1882 averaged twenty bushels to the acre, and twenty-two acres of corn averaged forty bushels to the acre. There is a young orchard, grapes, and small fruit on the place. He was engaged for some years in smelting for Moffett & Sergeant, of Joplin, and also engaged in mining on his own account.

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