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HUGH C. MAGOFFIN, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office Golden City. The subject of this sketch was born in Erie county, N. Y., April 13, 1832. He is the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Magoffin, natives of Pennsylvania. When three years old he moved with his parents to Ohio and settled in Seneca county. The subject of this sketch was reared and educated there. They settled in Ohio before the Indians had left that part of the country. He was very fond of hunting and fishing, and went fishing oft-times with the Indians. He remained at home until twenty-five years of age, and was then married to Miss Uriah Hedges Feb. 11, 1858. She was born in Seneca county, Ohio, March 1, 1837, and is the daughter of Isaac and Rebecca Hedges, who were natives of Maryland. Mr. Magoffin enlisted in 1862 in the state militia for one hundred days. After he was mustered out he returned home, until 1864, when he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out in Dec, 1865. In 1867 he came to Jasper county, Mo., and located on his present farm in Nov., 1868. Mr. and Mrs. Magoffin have eight children: Lizzie, Elmer C., Jennie A., Alfred J., Charles, Robert, Retta, and Ella. His farm consists of 520 acres, 320 in section 17, 160 in section 16, and 40 acres in Barton county. He has one good spring, a good house, and 200 acres of land in section 16; on the 320 acres he has four good living springs, a good house and a splendid location, sloping in all directions except from the east; has a fine large barn 48x64 feet; has fourteen acres in orchard, and raises all kinds of fruit. He deals some in cattle, has 130 head of sheep, from forty to fifty hogs, and is quite an extensive farmer. Himself and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Republican. His reputation for fair dealing has won him many friends.