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JAMES H. HERN was born in Greenup county, Ky., Nov. 26, 1816. He was reared on a farm, and has a limited education, most of it being picked up. He is a son of William and Sarah Hern, natives of Virginia. They had eight children, the subject of this sketch being the third child. He worked at home on a farm until he was eighteen years of age, and then went to work out by the month, working for one man for three years at $12 per month, and then worked for five years for Ellis Wilson for the same per month. On Feb. 29th, 1850, he was married to Mary Cane, who was born in Greenup county, Ky., Aug. 10, 1810. After he was married he rented a farm for seven years. In 1857 he moved to Missouri, settling in Cole county for two years, and then bought a farm in the woods and cleared it off and lived there nine years. In 1857 he came to Jasper county, Mo., to look at the country, and in 1868 he sold a farm that he had cleared off and improved; then bought 170 acres in the same county, lived on that twelve years, and in 1880 he located on his present farm, in Sheridan township, of eighty-two acres, which has a good house and barn, good improvements, good spring, a good orchard, and one of the best wells in the county. He has two children: William, born in January, 1856, in Greenup county, Ky., and is now carrying on the farm with his brother James. William was married Jan. 6, 1878, to Miss Mary J. Dallens, she being born March 17, 1859, in Cole county, Mo. They have two children, Alice and Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Hern are both members of the M. E. Church, and are very highly respected in the community.