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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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ANDREW ULMER was born in Washington county, Feb. 6, 1852, he lived there until 1866, when he removed to Kosciusko county, Ind., and remained there until March, 1878, when he removed to Jasper county, Mo. He was married Oct. 17, 1882, to Margaret Bates, of Ray county, Mo., who was born Oct. 4, 1850. Mr. Ulmer is a member of the Grange. He has a farm of forty acres in section twenty, and eighty acres in section sixteen, of Twin Grove township; fifty acres sown to wheat in 1882 averaged eighteen bushels, thirty-five in corn averaged thirty-five bushels, and ten into oats, averaged thirty-five bushels per acre. There is a young orchard and good improvements for a new farm. Mr. Ulmer is a German by family descent, and is a young, enterprising, and prosperous farmer, destined to stand among the first men for solid, well-earned responsibility.
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