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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company in 1883.  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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C. W. DYKEMAN, grocer of Joplin, was born in Broome county, N. Y., March 23, 1846. His father, Walter Dykeman, is a native of Connecticut, born July 4, 1813, and is now living at Amboy, Ill. His mother, Lucy (Haynes) Dykeman, of New Hampshire, was born in 1815; died March 16, 1852. When five years of age subject moved with his parents to Amboy, Lee county, Ill. He was raised on a farm and spent his youth in agricultural pursuits and attending the common schools. In the fall of 1858, he came west to Missouri, stopping in Scotland county. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-first Missouri Volunteer Infantry, Col. David Moore commanding, and served until the close of the war. He participated in the battle of Athens, Missouri, Shiloh, Corinth, Nashville, Mobile, and Blakely, and many others of lesser importance. He was mustered out at Morgan, Ala., April 30, 1866, and discharged at St. Louis shortly after. He returned to northern Illinois and engaged in farming for about five years, then came west, locating at Baxter Springs, Kansas, where he engaged in the bakery and restaurant business one year, thereafter engaged in the restaurant and confectionery business. In 1877 he went to Short Creek and commenced the grocery business with Mr. W. G. Holman (now of Holman and Swift, this city) under the firm name of Dykeman and Holman, but returned to Joplin in the following spring and shortly after purchased his partner’s interest and has since conducted the business alone. Mr. Dykeman was married in Lee county, Ill., July 10, 1870, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah (McCrary) Mooney, natives of County Antrim, Ireland. Mrs. Dykeman was born in Ireland, April 20, 1844. From this union there were two children: Cornelia, born June 12, 1871, died January, 1881, and Lucy, born Aug. 1, 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Dykeman are members of the Catholic Church. He has been a member of the school board of Joplin for three years. His business is on Fourth between Joplin and Wall streets. He carries a complete stock of staple and fancy groceries, queensware, glass, and wooden ware, provisions, feed, etc.

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This family biography is one of more than 1,000 biographies included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published in 1883.  For the complete description, click here: Jasper County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

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