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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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O. O. POTTER, farmer, Section 14, P. O. Columbus, was born in Illinois February 17, 1846. He received a business education, and began shoe and leather trade at the age of eighteen, in Illinois, and continued it three years. He started for California in March 1867, by way of Omaha and Platte River, but on account of the Indian troubles, changed his course, coming back to Omaha, and then down the river to Kansas City, where he took the south trail by way of Fort Gibson. After reaching this section of the country, and seeing the favorable outlook, he decided to make it his home, and took a claim of 320 acres, which he improved and sold, and settled on his present farm in 1869, which he improved and is now running as a stock and grain farm, raising also a full line of all kinds of fruit. Mr. Potter’s farm is inclosed by hedge fence, and he has one of the finest residences in his section of the country. He was married to Miss Ethel M. Crandall, of Illinois, in 1866, who died, leaving five children— Ralph H., Joseph O., Mary E., Robert R. and Ruby. He was married to Miss Bell Troyer, of Illinois, in 1882.
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