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Below is a family biography included in The History of Brown County, Ohio published by W. H. Beers & Co. 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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W. L. MOCKBEE, manufacturer, Ripley, born in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1831, is a son of Baker M. and Henrietta (Kendall) Mockbee, both natives of Ohio. His father was a farmer, and shipped provisions and pork to New Orleans. This trade he carried on quite largely. He died in 1836; his wife is still living at Cincinnati in the seventh-eighth year of her age. Of their six children, two only are living — our subject and Laura, now the wife of Alexander Scott. When our subject was thirteen years of age he was apprenticed to learn the tanner’s trade at Ripley, and in 1850, after completing his trade, he went to California, where he was quite successful in the gold diggings. On returning, he purchased the tannery where he learned his trade. This he conducted for four years, when he disposed of the business and formed a partnership with W. W. Mauker, in the hardware trade at Ripley. This firm continued business for six or seven years, during which Mr. M. started the Champion Mills and Sash and Blind Manufactory, under the firm name of Mauker, Chase & Mockbee. At the end of eighteen months. Mr. Chase withdrew from the concern, when the remaining partners joined a stock company, under the name of the “Mauker-Mockbee Planing Company. Mr. Mauker retired from the business in 1868, when a partnership with W. B. Campbell and E. R. Bell was formed. In 1881, the Boyd Manufacturing Company purchased the mill at Higginsport. In 1881, Mr. Mockbee became interested in the mining interests in Colorado, where he purchased an interest in the Sultana Mine, which is said to contain the best vein of mineral in the State, and promises to develop a rich yield. Mr. M. was married in 1856 to Miss Isadora, daughter of Peter Shaw, Esq. Mr. M. has been prominently identified with the Sunday school of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the past sixteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Mockbee have a family of six children — Charles M., William S., Mary H., Edwin H., Judith I. and Laura E.

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This family biography is one of 992 biographies included in The History of Brown County, Ohio published in 1883 by W. H. Beers & Co.  For the complete description, click here: Brown County, Ohio History and Genealogy

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