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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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REV. JOHN RILEY is an aged pastor of the United Brethren Church. He was ordained in 1830, and has since (with the exception of a few years on account of failing health) devoted his entire life to the interests of the church. The subject of this sketch deserves more than passing notice. From 1852 until 1863 his work was at different points in Pennsylvania. In 1864 he moved to Trimble county, Ohio, farming and traveling on the Fowler circuit. In 1865 he moved to Clay county, Mo., and in 1867 to Greene county. He came to Jasper county, settling where he now resides in 1875. His farm consists of eighty acres of beautiful land. He is a native of Westmoreland county, Pa., born in 1825, being a son of Richard and Edith (Stewart) Riley. His father was a native of Ireland and his mother of Scotland, but they were raised and married in Pennsylvania, and settled on the farm where our subject was raised. There was a family of six children, John R. being the fourth. He was married when at the age of twenty-five to Miss Rebecca Cooper, a native of Summerset county, Pa., born in 1826, a daughter of J. and Jane (Doyel) Cooper, who were natives of Ireland. Our subject has a family of five children: William, James M., Jesse P., John S., and K. J.
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