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Below is a family biography included in The History of Newton County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1888. 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. J. S. Lindley, physician and surgeon at Neosho, Newton Co., Mo., was born in Izard County, Ark., February 11, 1860, and is the son of James M. and Sarah M. (Feltz) Lindley, both natives of North Carolina. Of the seven children born to their marriage, J. S. is the fifth child. The father was a carpenter and contractor by occupation, and in 1860 he and his family left North Carolina and immigrated to Arkansas, where J. S. was reared, and here assisted his father on the farm. He secured a good education at the State University at Fayetteville, and at the Collegiate Institute at LaCrosse, Ark., where he was engaged in teaching school for some time, meeting with unusually good success. He then read medicine, with Dr. T. J. Woods as preceptor, and attended medical lectures at Nashville, Tenn., and at the University at Louisville, graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1887-88. Dr. Lindley is a young physician of promise, and is devoted to his profession. He is a Royal Arch Mason.
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