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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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WILLIAM H. COX, of the firm of Cox & Miller, house, sign, and ornamental painter, paper-hanging and fine graining a specialty. The subject of this sketch was born in Galesburg, Illinois, March 28, 1842, and there reared until he was sixteen years old. His father, David, is a physician, and his mother, whose maiden name was Hannah Worley, is a native of Wales, and his father of Somersetshire, England. Mr. W. H. Cox was married May 8, 1847, to Mary E. Mills, who was born in Indiana, July 27, 1856. The children are Arthur and Lewella. Mrs. Cox is a member of the Baptist Church. He lived in Iowa for some years and later removed to St. Louis and Moberly. November 3, 1882, he became a citizen of Carthage, and is by trade a professional paper-hanger and frescoer. Mr. Cox has executed some of the finest work of Moberly and St. Louis, Missouri, and Des Moines and Marshalltown, Iowa. His partner, Mr. Miller, is the painter of the firm, and they enjoy and merit a liberal patronage.
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