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Below is a family biography included in The History of Crawford 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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N. H. Hardesty, M. D., a prominent physician of Cuba, Mo., was born in Zanesville, Ohio, February 2, 1835, and is the youngest of the ten children of Abram and Elizabeth (Marshall) Hardesty. N. H. Hardesty was educated in Philadelphia, and began the study of medicine in 1854, under T. D. Howell, M. D., at Sharon, Ohio; he graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, in 1856, and then took up the practice of his old preceptor at Sharon, the latter retiring to engage in the banking business. After three years of successful practice at Sharon Dr. Hardesty was so severely attacked by asthma that he was obliged to seek another climate. Prior to his departure he married Elizabeth A., daughter of Charles A. and Alice Jolly, of Dayton, Ohio. The young couple settled in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Mo., in 1859, where the Doctor enjoyed a large and lucrative practice until the late war broke out, when he enlisted as surgeon in the Union army, being transferred to the General Hospital at New Orleans, where he was stationed about two years, having charge of the institution one year. He was transferred from New Orleans to the hospital at Mobile, Ala., where a sunstroke received July 5, 1865, resulted in his discharge, and he returned to his family. He has three children, viz.: Frank R., a druggist at Cuba, Mo.; Addie, wife of F. M. Jamison, State attorney of Crawford County, Mo.; and Edwin F. After the war Dr. Hardesty resumed his practice and settled in Crawford County, in 1869, on a farm about four miles west of Cuba, to which place he removed in 1874. He has been unusually successful in his chosen profession, and enjoys the esteem and respect of a large circle of patrons. He is a member of the Encampment of the I. O. O. F., and the Medical Society of Rolla District. He is a Republican in politics, and cast his first presidential vote for Filmore.

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