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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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E. N. PERRY, mining operator, Stanley Diggings, two and a half miles south of Galena, was born in Lee County, Va., in 1852, and removed with his people to Northern Missouri, at the age of five years, where he was reared to the farming industry. In 1871, he located in Joplin, Mo., and was actively engaged in mining operations there till 1878, when, after spending a few months in Colorado prospecting, he returned and located here, and has been very successfully connected with the mining industry here since. He married on June 12, 1882, Miss Emma Hanks, a native of Johnson County, Mo. Mr. Perry is also actively interested in mining operations in the East Galena diggings. He carries on three shafts in active operation, and has six shafts inactive just now. He is also identified with farming here, having one farm of ninety acres in this county and one of eighty acres in Chautauqua County, both under a state of cultivation.
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