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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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W. H. ROPER, M. D., physician and surgeon, Sarcoxie, was born in Montgomery county, Ill., June 27, 1853. His parents, George M. and Mary M. (Jones) Roper, were natives respectively of Kentucky and Illinois. Our subject came with his parents to this county when fourteen years of age. He was raised principally on a farm, and educated in the common schools, Pierce City High School and the Drury College, Springfield, Mo. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. J. W. Blosser, now of Macon City, Mo. In the spring of 1878 he took a course of lectures at the American Medical College, St. Louis, graduating in the spring of 1881. Dr. Roper was married at Avilla, this county, Dec. 25, 1877, to Miss Lauretta C., adopted daughter of Judge William H. Rusk, of Sarcoxie. From this union there are two children: Pearl Rusk, born April 28, 1880; and Lyttleton H., born Aug. 24, 1882. Mrs. Roper is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The doctor has been a close student, and consequently has armed himself with a fund of knowledge in the different branches of his profession which cannot fail to win him a reasonable degree of success as a practitioner. He is a man of energy, and by his strict attention to his chosen work has acquired a good practice.
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