Below is the family biography of Scott Ferris 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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Scott Ferris, of English descent, was born in the town of Mount Morris, Livingston Co., N. Y., in the year 1842. His father, Lewis G. Ferris, was a successful physician and surgeon of the allopathic school of medicine, who married Miss Sophronia Holmes, of Avoca, Steuben Co., N. Y., and soon moved to Livingston County, where he died of typhoid fever at the early age of thirty-six years. Scott Ferris received a good commonschool education, lived on a farm in Nunda, Livingston Co., N.Y., till the age of twenty-five, when he married Annie M. Thorp, of Granger, Allegany Co.. N. Y., and moved to Southwest Missouri in the winter of 1866-67, where he took a homestead of eighty acres, three miles south of Neosho, the county seat of Newton County, and has since added 200 acres to his farm. Four children bless their home: Thomas, Elizabeth, Scott and Harriett. Mr. Ferris and wife have always taken a lively interest in public affairs, and both are warm Prohibitionists. Having lived on the same farm for twenty-two years in the migratory West, it shows the substantial character of the Ferris family.
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This family biography is one of 220 biographies included in The History of Newton County, Missouri published in 1888.
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