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Joseph H. Hardman, circuit clerk and recorder of Knox County, Mo., is a native of the same county, where he was born December 23, 1856, and is a son of Squire and Elizabeth (Porter) Hardman, both natives of Kentucky. [See sketch of father.] Our subject was reared and received his education in his native county, where he clerked in the drug business in Newark and Edina for five years, until 1875, when he was engaged in the post office at Edina, where he remained for three years. He next accepted a position as bookkeeper and assistant in the Knox County Savings Bank, where he remained until 1882, when he was elected circuit clerk and recorder of Knox County, the duties of which office he performed in a faithful and efficient manner, and at the expiration of the term of four years, was re-elected, and is now holding the same office. October 12, 1880, he married Ella B. Bradley, of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Hardman have one son living—James Harold. Mr. Hardman has always been an unyielding Democrat in politics, and was elected to his present office by that party. He is a Master Mason. Mr. Hardman is justly recognized as one of Knox County’s most enterprising and public-spirited citizens, and is a well-known and popular public official.