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Adam Stinebaugh, farmer, of Prairie Township, was born in Lincoln County, Mo., in 1821, his parents being Jacob and Nancy (Cannon) Stinebaugh, who were born in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, respectively. They were married in the latter State, and in 1819 removed to Lincoln County, Mo., living there until 1850, from which time they made their home in Dallas County until the war. They then returned to Lincoln County, and after peace was declared removed to Texas. There the father died, about 1882, aged eighty-seven. The mother died some years previous. Both were members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Stinebaugh was a skillful mechanic. The grandfather, Jacob, was born in Germany, and with nineteen others joined the English army during the Revolution, with the intention of coming to America, and as soon as possible deserting the English army to join forces with the colonists, in which project they were successful. Mr. Stinebaugh settled in Pennsylvania when the father of our subject was a boy; he next went to West Tennessee, and later settled in Kentucky, where he died. The maternal grandfather was born in South Carolina, and became a pioneer of Lincoln County, Mo., where many of his descendants now live. Adam Stinebaugh is the oldest of a family of ten children, and during his youth received a common-school education. In 1884 he married Mary Daniels, in Lincoln County, who was a native of Fauquier County, Va. She died in Sebastian County in 1876, leaving seven daughters and two sons, who married and reared families. Two have since died. In 1882 Mr. Stinebaugh married Mary E. Cloppon, who was born in Arkansas, and is the mother of four children. In 1845 Mr. Stinebaugh removed to Dallas County, Mo., and in 1850 spent some months in California. He returned home on account of his health, making the trip via the Isthmus of Panama. During the winter of 1850-51 he traveled in Central America, familiarizing himself with the customs and social habits of the people of that country. After an interesting and eventful journey homeward, he taught school a few years in Dallas County, and engaged in cattle dealing. From 1859 until 1868 he farmed and dealt in stock in Texas, and then came to Sebastian County. He has always lived in the same vicinity, and by the exercise of business ability and industry has accumulated a fortune. He is an experienced cattle dealer, and for fifteen years drove cattle and horses from Texas to this county, sometimes making four trips in one season. He probably handles as much stock as any other man in the county, and is the owner of 600 acres of land, besides property in Dayton, where for a year he sold goods. He is a Democrat, as his was before him, and although a public-spirited man has never desired public office. He has been a member of the Baptist Church over forty years, and holds a license to preach, but has never done so. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity of thirty years’ standing, and has taken most of the degrees conferred by that order.