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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company in 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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A. W. CARSON has been business manager of the daily and weekly Herald since the establishment of each. He was born at Cadiz, Ohio, and was educated at the McNeely Normal School of Ohio. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the Forty-Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served as a private in Company C. In 1807 he located in Marshfield, Mo., and for a year had charge of the public schools of that place. In 1868 he became proprietor of the Marshfield Yeoman, and has been connected with some newspaper enterprise almost uninterruptedly to the present date.
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