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Below is a family biography included in The History of Newton County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1888. 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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Harwood Hall, superintendent of the Indian Training School, Indian Territory, is a native of Salem County, N. J., born March 27, 1859, and is the son of Morris and Rebecca (Barnes) Hall, both natives of New Jersey, and the family on both sides are of old New Jersey stock. Harwood Hall was reared in New Jersey up to the age of twenty, and was educated in the academy of Salem. At the age mentioned he moved to Stockton, Mo., where his uncle, D. P. Stratton, resided, who is a prominent man in Missouri political life. Mr. Hall was editor of the Stockton Journal from 1879 to 1881. He then engaged in selling goods at Stockton, which occupied his attention for four years, after which time he was engaged in making topographical surveys of counties in the State of Missouri. January 1, 1886, he was appointed to his present position in the Agency. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., also the K. of P., at Stockton, Mo., and is, politically, a Democrat.
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