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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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JAMES W. McQUISTON, born in Preble county, Ohio, Sept. 18, 1837, When quite young he came to Randolph county, Ill., enlisting from this county in the Fifth Illinois Cavalry, in 1861, serving his full time of enlistment. He was captured during the siege of Vicksburg and was imprisoned in the famous, although loathsome, Libby prison for three weeks. He was married in the fall of 1866, in Randolph county, Ill., to Carrie Burke, who was born in the aforenamed county, and died in Jasper county, Mo., in 1867, in the present city of Carthage. He was the second time married to Miss Sophia H. Rice, of Jasper county. From 1867 to 1875 he was engaged in the cattle business on a ranch in Kansas, and in 1875 engaged in the grocery business at Joplin, and is now engaged at the same business in Smithfield. He is also interested in prospecting for mineral near Smithfield. Mr. McQuiston is among the number of old residents who came to the county soon after the war, when the country was new and comparatively unsettled, and by business and economy has built up a fine business.
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