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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Sevier County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  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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D. C. Ladd, Jr., is a native born resident of Sevier County, Ark., his birth occurring February 26, 1860, and he has always devoted his attention to farming, his first knowledge of this business being obtained on his father’s farm. He was the eldest of eight children—six sons and two daughters— born to D. C. and Hermyan (Taylor) Ladd, both natives of this State. His advantages for acquiring an education were somewhat limited, and his boyhood and early manhood were passed on his father’s farm. He then began following the same occupation for himself, and at the age of twenty-five years he went to Lamar County, Tex., where he farmed two years longer. During his residence in the Lone Star State his health had greatly improved, and after his return to his old home in Arkansas he was appointed to the position of deputy sheriff, an office he has held by re-election ever since. He has followed mining in Antimony City, has been in business in Nashville, and in January, 1890, became one of the wide-awake business men of Silver City. July 22, 1881, his union to Miss Mary Hankins was consummated, and they are now the parents of four bright little boys: James, Walter, Edward and Roy. Considering the fact that Mr. Ladd is still a comparatively young man and that he began for himself with but little means, his life has not been an unsuccessful one, and he is now comfortably fixed, financially. He is a Democrat, politically.

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This family biography is one of 96 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Sevier County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Sevier County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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