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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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Stephen D. Anthony, postmaster and proprietor of Anthony's Mills, was born in Washington County, Mo., in 1848. His father, Jonas M. Anthony, a practical miller, early followed that calling in this vicinity, and purchased from John Harrison, its original owner, the first grist and saw mill in the county, which, after running a few years, came into possession of his son, Stephen, in 1876. In 1831 Mr. Jonas Anthony married Miss Nancy Twitty, daughter of John and Mary Twitty, natives of Tennessee, who bore him ten children, six of whom are living: Catharine (now Mrs. Elisha Scott), Mary (wife of Garrett I. Van Allen), Nancy (who married Samuel D. Anderson), Sallie (wife of Jacob W. Filley), Eliza (Mrs. William Maxwell) and Stephen D. (who was the eighth child). In 1868 Mr. Anthony departed this life, sincerely mourned by all, for he was a man of kind and generous impulses, a true friend to the poor, a citizen of substantial worth, and well respected. His wife was born in Davidson County, Tenn., in 1814, and when but five years old, in 1819, accompanied her parents to the then new Territory of Missouri, settling in Franklin County, where her father entered 120 acres of land, and where they underwent the hardships of a pioneer life. Settlers here were then few, and frequent outbreaks by the Indians were of common occurrence. Since her husband's death Mrs. Anthony has resided in Washington County, where she is well and favorably known. She is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Stephen D. Anthony was reared and educated in his native county, naturally growing up to a milling experience. Since 1876, as mentioned, he has been actively engaged in this occupation, and in 1880 he rebuilt the old mill and added new machinery, the capacity of his present mill being about twenty-five barrels daily. Since 1876 he has been postmaster of Anthony's Mills, an office which was established about 1870 or 1871; it is on the route running from Potosi to Bourbon. Politically, Mr. Anthony is a Democrat.

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