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JAMES F. DAUGHERTY, collector of the county revenue. The subject of this sketch is a native of Virginia, born in Lee county, Dec. 11, 1836. When a child one year old his parents immigrated to Missouri, locating in Platt county, where they lived five years, then to Andrew county, where our subject was reared and educated. At the age of twenty-seven he went to the gold-fields of Idaho and Montana; was one year in Virginia City, Nevada, and filled a responsible position in the auction and commission house of King, Curtis & Co., his duties being to weigh and value gold-dust. Returned east to Plattsmouth, Neb., in 1865, and engaged as a salesman in a dry goods and grocery house for three years. He was married at Fremont City, Iowa, Feb. 28, 1866, to Miss Susan M. Flanery, a native of Buchanan county, Mo. Of this union there are five children: Robertie E., born July 1, 1867; Mary E., born March 31, 1869; Clyde C., born Dec. 2, 1872; James J., born Nov. 26, 1874; Clinton, born Nov. 9, 1879. He became a resident of Jasper county in 1868, and engaged in farming and trading in livestock. The home farm consists of eighty acres, well improved; also owns a well improved eighty acre farm in section 11. As to the popularity of this gentleman we will simply say he was elected to the important office of collector of the county revenue, on the Greenback ticket, in 1882, receiving also the endorsement of the Democratic party, and a majority of 318 votes. In his younger days he was a deputy in the office of the circuit clerk, and ex officio recorder of Anderson county, Mo., four years, 1858 to 1862.