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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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TAYLOR, THOMAS H. farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Liberty Center; he owns a fine farm of 160 acres; born May 8, 1837, in Sharpshire, England; parents came to the United States, and settled in Peoria, Illinois, in the winter of 1848 and 1849; came to this county in the fall of 1870, and settled where he now lives, in the spring of 1872; he enlisted in Co. B, Eighty-sixth Illinois Infantry, August 27, 1862, and served to the close of the war, and was honorably discharged June 22, 1865; he was in the battles of Champlin Hills, Kentucky, Chickahominy, Buzzards’ Roost, Wilson’s Creek, Georgia, Mission Ridge, Silver Creek; he was crippled at Gordon’s Mills by the falling of a building while on picket duty; he was married December 4, 1865, to Mary M., daughter of James Richardson, of Peoria county, Illinois; he has five children: Ira J., Thaddeus E., Mary E., Goodie and Walter, all living.
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