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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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JAMES H. KYTE, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Washington county, Ind., Jan. 22, 1838, and there raised. At the age of fifteen he removed to Clarke county, Iowa, and in 1866 came to Jasper county, Mo. His father (Lewis) was a prosperous farmer in Indiana, James H. Kyte was united in marriage July 24, 1862, with Mary Orr, who was born in Ohio, Sept. 10, 1842. Their children are Louisa B., Thomas S., John L., William E. and Henry O. (twins), Allen S., Myrtie L., and Francis. Mr. Kyte is one of the early settlers of the second epoch in Jasper county’s history, or immediately after the war. He owns a fine farm of eighty acres, bordering on the south line of the county, and overlooking for miles some of the finest land of Newton county. There are about sixty acres of well improved land, growing immense crops the past season, and producing some of the finest fruit from 300 bearing trees. This farm is nine and one-half miles south of Carthage, in section 15, township 27, range 31, of Jackson township, and everything indicates good farming, systematic industry, and real thrift.
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