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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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DR. CHARLES W. PERRY. Among the rising young physicians of Jasper county, is the subject of this sketch, who was born in Cass county, Mo., Dec. 31, 1853, son of William B. and Fannie A. Perry. His mother was born in Tennessee and his father, who was also a physician, in Mississippi. He had seven children, the subject of this sketch being the fourth child. He received a common school education in Cass county, and in the winter of 1877 and 1878 attended the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis, then went to Polk county and commenced the practice of medicine. In July, 1878, he came to Jasper county, Mo., and in 1881 he returned to the Medical College at St. Louis and graduated in March, 1882; then returned to Chambersville, and has since continued the practice of medicine with very good success. He has responded to the call of the sick no matter at what hour or how stormy the weather. The Dr. was married April 4, 1879, to Miss Florence West. She was born in Dade county, July 6, 1858, and is the daughter of Ison J., and Hester West, Her father was a captain in the late war. Mr. and Mrs. Perry have one child, named William J. The Dr. is a very pleasant and courteous gentleman, and bids fair to soon become one of the leading physicians of Jasper county.
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