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Below is a family biography included in The History of East Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887. 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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H. S. Pless, the subject of this sketch, is a merchant at White Pine, Jefferson County, Tenn., and was born in Haywood County, N. C, November 5, 1858, and is the son of W. P. and N. L. (Ivester) Pless. Both parents are natives of North Carolina, and when our subject was but a small boy, removed to Missouri, and later to Tennessee, and now live in Jefferson County, Tenn. Our subject was reared on the farm and educated in the country schools and the Emory and Henry College of Virginia. At the age of 18 he began teaching, and taught and attended school alternately for eight years. His teaching was in the public schools of Tennessee. During the last year of his teaching he was associate editor of the Eastern Progress, published at White Pine, and later became editor and proprietor of this same publication. In December, 1885, he suspended the publication and began dealing in drugs. He is now associated with J. E. Fry, constituting the firm of Pless & Fry, who are general merchants. Our subject is a young and enterprising man, and of the self-made type.
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