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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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LEVI STARR, grain, stock, and seed dealer, was born in 1817, in Preble county, Ohio. His father, Adam, was a native of North Carolina; his ancestors were from Germany. His mother, Mary, nee Clapp, was a native of North Carolina. Levi, with his father’s family, removed to Vermillion county, Illinois, in 1826, where he was reared to manhood. In 1839 they removed to Wisconsin, where Mr. Starr engaged in stock and grain. In 1875 he came to Carthage, Missouri, when he built the bank building known as the Farmers’ and Drovers’ Bank. He operated the bank about two years, and was engaged at the same time in the stock enterprise, and is now very extensively engaged in the grain and stock trade, buying grain at five different shipping points. He was married in 1842 to Juliet Bridge, of Wisconsin, a native of Ohio, who died in 1874. He married Lena Hamilton, of Carthage, Missouri, for his second wife. Mr. Starr is a stirring business man and one of the foremost men of the city in all affairs of progress.
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