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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Review Volume of Biographical Sketches of The Leading Citizens of Hampshire County, Massachusetts published by Biographical Review Publishing Company in 1896. 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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JAMES A. BYRNS, a successful and enterprising baker of Ware, was born in Framingham, Mass., September 8, 1849. He acquired his education in the schools of Ware. When he was eighteen years of age he left the high school to work in his father’s bakery. He continued in the employ of his father until the death of the latter, which occurred April 3, 1890. He succeeded his father, and by close attention and careful management he has considerably increased the good business which, by many years of patient labor and persevering effort, his father had established. He sells both at wholesale and retail, and gives employment to ten men. He uses three wagons in delivering his goods. Mr. Byrns resides at 64 West Street. The building next to his residence is occupied by the bakery, and was erected by his father more than twenty-five years ago. In politics Mr. Byrns is a Democrat; and, though having little desire for official position, he has, nevertheless, during the past two years served acceptably as a member of the Board of Water Commissioners.
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This family biography is one of the numerous biographies included in the Biographical Review Volume of Biographical Sketches of The Leading Citizens of Hampshire County, Massachusetts published in 1896.
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