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Below is a family biography included in the book, The History of Knox County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887.  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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J. R. Horn, editor and proprietor of the Knox County Independent, and a resident of Edina, Mo., was born near Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., November 7, 1846, and is a son of John and Maria (Howard), both natives of Virginia. The father came to Missouri in 1867, and has since resided in Shelby County, where he is one of the most prosperous and highly respected farmer citizens. Our subject passed his youth in his native State, where he secured a good, English education. He served in the Confederate Army as a private in Company K, Twenty-third Regiment Virginia Cavalry, less than a year, during the late war. He accompanied his father to Missouri, and afterward embarked in the newspaper business in Danville, Harper Co., Kas., where he conducted the Danville Argus less than a year. In the spring of 1883 he returned to Shelby County, Mo., and started the Hunnewell Echo, which he moved a year later to Shelbyville, Mo., and changed the name to Shelby County Times, and there conducted that paper successfully. In January, 1885, he came to Knox County, and established the Independent at Knox City, removing the paper to Edina in May, 1886. Mr. Horn has met with unprecedented and well-merited success as a journalist and newspaper man in this county. His paper, as the name indicates, is strictly independent in politics. Mr. Horn was very instrumental in bringing up a revolution in the local political affairs of the county. November 29, 1869, Mr. Horn was united in marriage to Miss Mattie J. Hicks, a native of West Virginia, but for many years a resident of Knox County, with her father, the late Elisha Hicks. Mr. and Mrs. Horn have five children: Franklin H., Elisha S., Lillian R., Charles E. and John E. As before stated, Mr. Horn is one of the most successful men in the county in his undertakings, and enjoys a well-earned reputation as an upright citizen and business man.

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This family biography is one of 204 biographies included in the Knox County, Missouri portion of the book,  The History of Lewis, Clark, Knox and Scotland Counties, Missouri published in 1887.  For the complete description, click here: Knox County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

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