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PETER FISHBURN, farmer and stock-raiser, post-office Avilla, was born in McDonald township, Jasper county, Nov. 26, 1839, where he attained his manhood and obtained a limited education at the pioneer school, being prior to the days of district or free schools. He spent his early life as youths usually did at that period. During the war of the Rebellion he espoused the Union cause, and became a member of the Seventy-sixth Regiment, E. M. M., in Sept., 1862, serving in that command in Jasper and Lawrence counties until March, 1863, when the regiment was re-formed into the Seventh Provisional Regiment, E. M. M., and in Nov., 1863, mustered as the Fifteenth Missouri Volunteer Cavalry. Mr. Fishburn participated in all the experiences of that command, and was discharged June 30, 1865, when he returned to his home and resumed the more peaceful avocation of farming. He was married Jan. 26, 1865, to Miss Harriett C. Graham, a native of Arkansas, and daughter of Allen Graham, one of the pioneer settlers of southwest Missouri. She obtained a good English education at the Newton College, Newtonia, Mo., and taught school in Newton and Jasper counties previous to her marriage. They are the parents of four children: Minnie A., born April 27, 1871; Tilman W., born Sept. 6, 1873; Juliett F., born Oct. 22, 1876, and an infant born Sept. 7, 1882. The farm consists of 149 acres, 118 acres of which is in a high state of cultivation, also a good commodious farm-house, and other good improvements. Mr. Fishburn has always been enterprising and industrious, and is now reaping the reward which industry and close attention to business is sure to accomplish.