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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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SANDY, W. G., farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Sandyville; the subject of this sketch was born in Washington county, Indiana, Feb. 17, 1818, but was raised in Owen county, of that State; he came to this county in the year 1850, when it was a wild plain, yet unsettled, and was one among the first to make a claim within the limit of what now constitutes Warren county; his present homestead is the one he first made; it now embraces 320 acres; he found a partner in the person of Miss Catharine Johns, of Indiana, whom he married in October, 1844, who died Sept. 25, 1853, leaving a family of three children: Jeremiah, Henry and Joseph; he was married to his present wife, whose maiden name was Elvira, daughter of Philip Lambert, Feb. 14, 1855; by this union they have six children: Julina, Mary E., Laura A., Amanda J., Thomas T. and Homer; Mr. Sandy is a man widely known and well respected, of genial disposition, courteous and obliging.
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