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Below is a family biography included in the book, Biographical Souvenir of the Counties of Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps, Harlan and Franklin, Nebraska published in 1890 by F. A. Battey & Company. 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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FRANKLIN SHOFF, M. D. This gentleman, a graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, holds high rank in his profession. He is a son of Daniel and Jane Shoff. His father was a native of Ontario, Canada, and was born in 1817; his mother bore the maiden name of Jane Summers, and was born in England in 1821, came to America in 1830, and settled in Ontario where she was married to Daniel Shoff in 1845. These are the parents of eight children as follows — Oscar, Amanda, Elgin, Sarah, Fred, Franklin, Ernest and Harry.
Franklin Shoff, the subject of this notice, is a native of Canada and was born in Ontario in 1859. He remained in his native place till 1883, and while there took a course in the collegiate institutes at St. Catherines and Toronto, and was engaged in teaching for five years. Coming to the States in 1883 he located in Kansas and remained there one year. From there he went to New York and entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which he graduated in 1886. That year he came to Nebraska, locating in Axtell, Kearney county, where he began the practice of his profession. He has been a resident of the place since and has a large and lucrative practice.
Dr. Shoff married in 1889, taking for a life companion Miss Millicent M. Hudson, a native of England. She is an intelligent lady and well fitted to bear the companionship he sought with her hand.
Dr. Shoff is an energetic and public-spirited citizen, and is interested in all movements contributing to the advancement of his town and county.
Politically, he is an upholder of republican principles. The doctor and his estimable wife are highly esteemed in their community.
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This family biography is one of the numerous biographies included in the book, Biographical Souvenir of the Counties of Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps, Harlan and Franklin, Nebraska published in 1890 by F. A. Battey & Company.
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