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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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RICHARD R. SMITH, M. D., physician and surgeon, Sarcoxie, was born in Kalamazoo county, Mich., Aug. 20, 1854. His parents, Sanford M. and Catharine Smith, are natives respectively of New York and the Emerald Isle. During infancy subject was taken with parents to Iona county, same state, where they located on a farm. In 1864 the family came to Missouri, locating in this county near Carthage. Subject was raised principally on a farm and educated liberally in the common schools. In December, 1880, he entered the American Medical College, St. Louis, and graduated from that institution in June, 1882. Returned immediately to this county and engaged in the practice of his profession at Sarcoxie. Dr. Smith was married Dec. 26, 1873, to Miss Mollie A., daughter of Ferdinand and Rebecca Hollingsworth, of Jasper county. Mrs. Smith was born near Vincennes, Knox county, Ind., July 7, 1853. They have one child, Garrett Rowley, born Dec. 31, 1878. The Doctor, although a young man, has by his energy and assiduous study acquired a fund of knowledge pertaining to his profession which, coupled with his practical tendencies, cannot fail to eventually gain him prominence as a practitioner. He is truly what may be termed a self-made man.
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