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Below is a family biography included in Portrait and Biographical Record of Berrien and Cass Counties, Michigan published by Biographical Publishing Company in 1893. 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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REV. NELLIS KLOCK, editor and proprietor of the Standard published at Dowagiac, was born at Palatine, Montgomery County, N. Y., August 24, 1831, and is the son of Daniel and Nancy (Nellis) Klock. His paternal grandfather, Maj. John Klock, was a soldier in the War of 1812. Our subject lived in Montgomery County until he was seven years old, when he accompanied his parents to St. Lawrence County, and there passed the years of his youth. After completing his studies in the Ogdensburgh (N. Y.) Academy, he engaged in teaching school for about six years.
In 1867, Mr. Klock was ordained a minister in the English Lutheran Church, and for twenty-five years held pastorates in various places. He established a church at Avoca, N. Y., and he also officiated as minister of the churches at Sharon Springs and other places. Prior to resigning from the ministry of the Lutheran Church, he assumed the editorship of the Ogdensburgh Signal, a temperance paper, and also published the Golden Era, a monthly magazine. He also for a time published the Lutheran Protest, at Stockton, Ill.
On coming to Illinois in 1877, Mr. Klock organized a congregation and built a church at Yellow Creek, while pastor of the Lutheran Church at Kent. Thence he went to Monroe, Wis., where he organized a congregation and built a church, and from that city came, in June of 1892, to Dowagiac, where he established the Standard, a Republican paper. In 1863 he married Miss Lovina I., daughter of Rev. William Ottman, a minister of the English Lutheran Church. Mrs. Klock was born and reared in New York, and received an excellent education in the schools of that State. About two years ago Mr. Klock withdrew from the English Lutheran Church and united with the Congregationalists, being now an ordained minister in that denomination.
Mr. and Mrs. Klock are the parents of the following children: Jay E., who is editor of the Kingston Weekly and Daily; Freeman, a resident of Kingston, N. Y.; J. Nellis, editor of the Owosso Daily Argus, at Owosso, Mich.; Lilian I., Ida B. and Ernest.
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