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WILLIAM C. WATERS was born in Cornwall, England, Jan. 13, 1834, where he was raised. In 1862 he removed to America, and being a miner by profession he engaged his services in the copper mines of Lake Superior, and after two years in the gold and silver mines of Colorado, at Central City, Salt Lake City, of Utah, Virginia City, Last Chance, Montana, and again at Denver, Col. In 1866 he came to Jasper county to the new mines of Oronogo and Joplin, also at Neosho, Newton county, in the Granby mining employ. He was married in September, 1867, to Mrs. Kate Cheeney, of Granby, who was born in Old Virginia, and raised in north Missouri. The children’s names are Hattie and William, besides five younger, not living. The names of Mrs. Cheeney’s children are Lue, Lee, and Belle. Mr. Waters has a farm of 120 acres, eighty acres under cultivation; forty-five acres of wheat averaged twenty-seven bushels, and fifteen acres of corn about fifty bushels to the acre. Mr. Waters is by profession a practical miner, but injuring his health by exposure he was compelled to travel, going overland to the Sulphur Springs, which greatly benefited his impaired health.