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Below is a family biography included in the book, Biographical Souvenir of the Counties of Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps, Harlan and Franklin, Nebraska published in 1890 by F. A. Battey & Company. 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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M. G. HOOPER, a citizen of Orleans, Harlan county, Nebr., is a native of Prince Edward Island, Dominion of Canada, was born December 8, 1837, and lived with his parents till twenty years of age, when he left for St. John’s, New Brunswick, and from there to Portland, Me., and then to Boston, then to New York, and left for San Francisco, Cal., in 1860. He stayed in California and Idaho and Montana till 1868, and after going home to see his parents came to Chariton and married Pocahontas Millan in December, 1870 and in 1872 came to Orleans, were he has resided ever since.
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This family biography is one of the numerous biographies included in the book, Biographical Souvenir of the Counties of Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps, Harlan and Franklin, Nebraska published in 1890 by F. A. Battey & Company.
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