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Below is a family biography from the book, History of Kentucky, Edition 7 by J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin and published by F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1887. 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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FREDERICK G. OXLEY, a stave dealer who resides at Independence, Ky., was born in Boone County, Mo., September 21, 1834, and is a son of Clare Oxley and Philadelphia Oliver, both of whom were natives of Virginia. Our subject was brought up in Weston, Mo., in early life followed stock trading, afterward engaged in the real estate business in Cincinnati in 1857, and was thus engaged there until 1860, when he went to Louisville and engaged in the drug business there until the outbreak of the war when he took a contract from the Government to furnish beef to the army, which contract he held until the close of the war. He then engaged in his present business, and has followed the same ever since. He moved to Independence in 1867, and has a fine farm of 300 acres. In 1867 he married Margaret J. West, a daughter of Moses and Mary A. (Higgins) West, of Kenton County, Ky. To this union two children have been born: Robert F. and Mary E. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Politically he is a Democrat.
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This family biography is one of 150 biographies included in the Kenton County, Kentucky section of the book, The History of Kentucky, Edition 7 published in 1887 by F. A. Battey Publishing Company. For the complete description, click here: History of Kentucky, Edition 7
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