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L. L. Seaburn, dealer in furniture, coffins, stoves and general house furnishing goods, Pacific, Mo., was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1835, and is the fourth in a family of eight children born to Samuel and Mary (Fouts) Seaburn, natives of Pennsylvania. Samuel Seaburn, a son of Andrew Seaburn, also a native of Pennsylvania, and in an early day a teamster over the mountains, died in 1887, aged about eighty years. Mrs. Mary Seaburn died in 1885, aged eighty-four years. L. L. Seaburn was reared on a farm until his seventeenth year, when he went to Warren, Ohio, to learn the cabinet-maker’s trade, in which capacity he worked three years. About 1856 he moved to Summit County, Ohio, where he worked at his trade, and two years later went to Keithsburg, Ill., continuing at his trade until 1859, when he moved to Lebanon, Mo.; he followed his trade at the latter place until 1863, when he moved to Pacific and assumed charge of the bridge building on the ‘Frisco Railroad for two years. He then went to St. Louis, and engaged in the freight office for the ‘Frisco Railroad, six months later returning to Pacific, where he engaged in general merchandising. He was appointed postmaster about the same time. In 1878 he sold his stock of goods, resigned his position as postmaster, and for the following four years was occupied in no particular business. In October, 1886, he established his present business. Beside his stock of furniture Mr. Seaburn owns four town lots, his residence, and three and one-half acres of the celebrated “white sand”; he also owns an additional twenty-six lots. He was married December 18, 1859, to Mollie S. Stafford, a native of Callaway County, Mo., and a daughter of Thomas and Caroline (Cleveland) Stafford, the latter a cousin of President Cleveland. One child was born to this union, Charles E., who died in 1864. Mr. Seaburn is a Republican in politics, and is a Master Mason.