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Below is a family biography included in The History of Osage County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  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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Samuel Mosby, an attorney at Linn, Osage County, is a native of Callaway County, Mo., and was born in 1837. His parents were Williamson and Elizabeth (Speed) Mosby, both natives of Mercer County, Ky., born, respectively, in 1800 and 1808. Williamson Mosby was a son of Joseph Mosby, who was a native of South Carolina, and served six years in the Revolutionary War; he died in Mercer County, Ky., at the advanced age of ninety-seven years. Williamson Mosby was a farmer by occupation, and in 1832 immigrated to Callaway County, Mo., removing from there to Osage County in 1839, where his death occurred in 1875; his wife died in 1844. Samuel was the fourth in a family of seven children, and was reared on a farm. At the age of twenty he began teaching school, at which he was engaged twelve months in Osage and six months in Maries County, at the same time devoting his spare time to the study of law. In June, 1860, he was admitted to the bar in Vienna, Maries County, by Judge G. W. Miller. Mr. Mosby immediately entered upon the practice of the legal profession at Vienna. In 1861 he enlisted in Company G, Second Regiment Missouri Confederate Cavalry, and was in the service four years, participating in the battles of Pea Ridge, Lexington, Corinth, Iuka and many others. At the close of the war he located in Osage County, and turned his attention to farming until 1868, when he again took up the practice of law at Linn, where he has since resided, actively engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. He is a man of much legal ability, and ranks among the best lawyers of Osage County. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Osage County in 1872, to which office he was re-elected in 1874, and again elected in 1876. In February, 1861, Mr. Mosby married Mary Pattie, who was born in Osage County, Mo., in 1843, and is a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (McKnight) Pattie. Mr. and Mrs. Mosby are the parents of five children, viz.: George H., Bayard, Annie Lewis, wife of Augustus Gove, a merchant of Linn; Thomas Speed and Julia. George H. is the editor of the Unterrified Democrat, of Linn, of which he assumed control in April, 1887.

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This family biography is one of 52 biographies included in The History of Osage County, Missouri published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Osage County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

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