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Below is a family biography included in The History of Cherokee County, Kansas included within the History of Kansas by William G. Cutler, published by A. T. Andreas, 1883. 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. A. G. ROBB, a Methodist minister, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, June 10, 1848. He received an academic education. Between the ages of sixteen and twenty-three, he taught school, in the meantime reading law. At the age of twenty-two he joined the M. E. Church. At the age of twenty-two, he entered a traveling connection in Ohio. During Pittsburg Conference he served at Belmont, Clarington, Ohio. In 1876, fell in East Ohio Conference and went to Sumerton, Ohio, for three years. He went to Kansas in September, 1880, was at Neodesha eighteen months, and, in March, 1882, went to Columbus. At Neodesha he received 139 converts into the church, paid the church debt of $636, which had been running nine years, built a new church costing $1,250, and, finally free of debt, dedicated it. He is an Odd Fellow, member of School Board, and Examiner of city schools.
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