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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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WILLIAM W. McDOWELL. Mr. McDowell was born May 17, 1833. At three years of age he removed to Tippecanoe county, Ind. His father removed to the Southwest and settled in Cherokee, Kan., where he died in 1881; his son also migrated to the same county in 1865, and took up his home in Jasper county in the spring of 1870. He was married April 12, 1870, to Lida Stiers, who was born in Ohio, and principally raised there. The names of the children are Charles, Ollie T., and one deceased. He enlisted at Indianapolis, Ind., in the Twenty-sixth Indiana Infantry, serving three years and four months. He has a farm of eighty acres where he lives and 155 acres in Kansas; twenty-six acres of wheat averaged twenty bushels to the acre, besides there were twelve acres in corn, and a good orchard on the farm. This farm has been under cultivation for years, having been entered by Judge Cooley, and is therefore one of the oldest cultivated farms in the county. Both Mr. and Mrs. McDowell are members of the Methodist Church, in good and regular standing, and are useful members of society.
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