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Below is a family biography included in History of Warren County, Iowa published by Union Historical Company in 1879. 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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SPENCER, LEONARD S., farmer and stock-shipper, Sec. 3; P. O. Lothrop; born in Trumbull county, Ohio, October 17, 1828, and lived in that State until twenty-six years old; came to Warren county, Iowa, in September, 1854, where he has lived since; taught the first school in the district that he lives in, which was organized in 1854; married Miss Catherine C., daughter of John Wheeler, a native of Ohio, March 18, 1855; has a family of one son and two daughters: Charles R., Paulina A. and Anna M.; has a farm of 100 acres; was appointed postmaster in Feb., 1855, by Postmaster-general Campbell, and held the office for eighteen years at Lynn, which is now changed to Lothrop on the railroad; was elected representative in this county in 1863; Mrs. Spencer’s father, John Wheeler, was born in Somerset county, Maine, Nov. 27, 1805, and lived there till eleven years old, when he came with his parents to Washington county, Ohio, and was married in that State to Miss Hannah Hutchings, a native of Maine, in 1826; have a family of five sons and one daughter: Robert, Enos, James, America, William W. and Catherine C. (now Mrs. L. S. Spencer); has a farm of 100 acres.
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