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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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CHARLES McREYNOLDS, farmer, Section 26, P. O. Columbus, was born in Kentucky March 2, 1842, was raised on a farm, and received business education. At the age of nineteen he began farming in Indiana, which he continued until 1871. He then came to Kansas and located in Cherokee County on Section 25, where he improved a farm of 160 acres, and lived on it four years, when he sold it and bought in Section 23, and improved and sold it, and bought 120 acres on Section 24. This he has improved, and is now running it as a stock and grain farm, having also a good assortment of fruits and berries of all kinds. He bought and improved forty acres in Section 18, Crawford Township. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of I. O. of O. F. He was married to Miss Rachel Davis, of Indiana, December 28, 1860, and has four children living— Elizabeth R., William Wesley, Isaac R. (adopted), Annie A., Charles, Maudie, deceased.
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