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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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SURBER, WILLIAM H., farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. St. Charles; was one of the earliest settlers of what now constitutes Warren county; having, in company with his father, in the spring of 1848, settled one and a-half miles west of the present town of Summerset, where he resided until 1860, when he removed to Wapello county, and engaged in coal mining, which he followed for seventeen years; in 1877 he returned to this county, and resumed farming, purchasing eighty acres of land, where he now resides; born in Washington county, Virginia; Mr. Surber was married February 1, 1854, to Nancy M. Webster, of McDonongh county, Illinois; to them were born eleven children, of whom ten are now living: Sylvester A., Delila C. (now Mrs. Wm. B. Thompson, of Wappello county), John A., Susan E., Adam L, Catharine M., Wm. H., Sarah E., Francis L. and Lena J.; Ann A. died Dec. 10, 1873.
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