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Below is a family biography included in The History of Wayne County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1886.  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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Robert A. Haggard, attorney at law of Waynesboro, Tenn., is a native of Wayne County and a son of James Haggard, Esq., whose sketch appears in this work. Robert A. was educated in the common schools and was reared on a farm. At the age of twenty-one he became a disciple of Blackstone, with the view of making law a profession, and entered the law department of the State University of Iowa in 1880, and graduated in June, 1881, with the degree of LL. B. He returned home and began practicing in October, 1881, and has continued to the present time, with good success. November 29, 1883, he married Annie C. Norman, a native of Lawrence County. They have one child named Nona. Mr. Haggard is a Republican in his political views, and is candidate on that ticket for county court clerk, subject to the August (1886) election. He is among the successful and enterprising young lawyers of the county, and bids fair to rank among the first in his profession in the State.

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This family biography is one of 76 biographies included in The History of Wayne County, Tennessee published in 1886.  The History of Lawrence County was included within The History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman & Lewis Counties of Tennessee. View the complete description here: History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman and Lewis Counties of Tennessee

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