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Below is a family biography included in The History of Crawford County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1888. 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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Joel T. Coffee, M. D., a native of Clay County, Tenn., was born June 30, 1846, and is a son of Joseph P. and Margaret (Turner) Coffee, of Tennessee and Virginia, respectively, the former of whom, a farmer, is still living. Joel T. received his literary education principally at Burksville Academy and Georgetown College, Kentucky. In 1886-87 he attended the Louisville Medical College, and the following year removed to Missouri where he resumed teaching, still pursuing his chosen profession. He then took a second course of lectures at the St. Louis Medical College, in 1870-71, and afterward located in Steelville, where for the past seventeen years he has been a successful practitioner of the medical profession. He is a member of the American Medical Association, and also of the Rolla Medical Association. He is one of the board of commissioners of the State Lunatic Asylum No. 3, appointed by the governor, and takes an active part in all enterprises of the town, being director of the Bank of Steelville and also of the Riverside Roller Milling Company, as well as president of the Cuba & Steelville Telephone Company. In 1878 Dr. Coffee married Miss Rosemond Wallace, a native of New Castle, Penn., and of their two children, the younger, a daughter, is living. In politics Dr. Coffee sympathizes with the Democratic party.
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