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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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THOMAS B. DOUGHERTY, postmaster at Maple Grove, was born in Lafayette county, Ky., Dec. 18, 1807; was reared on a farm; son of Robert and Sarah Dougherty, natives of Virginia. Our subject moved with his parents to Indiana in 1814. His father was in the War of 1812. Our subject was reared and educated in Bradford and Lawrence counties, Ind. At the age of twenty-one he went to New Orleans with a load of wheat on a flatboat, sold it and returned to Vicksburg, from whence he took another barge of wheat to New Orleans; then returned to New Albany, Indiana. From there he took another load to the same city. He then returned to his old home and taught school until 1840, and then moved to Christian county, Ill., and there held the office of county recorder for twelve years; then kept a store and post-office near there until 1862; then moved to McLain county, and engaged in a shoe store for nine years, and in 1860 came to Jasper county. Mo., and kept post-office at Bower’s Mills. In 18S0 he came to Maple Grove and is keeping post-office and has a grocery store.
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