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Below is a sample of a family biography
included in the Sullivan County, Missouri History published in 1888 by Goodspeed
Publishing Company.
These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing
ancestors or filling in the details in 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.
John Blanchard, one of the prominent farmers and stock raisers
of Sullivan County, is a native of Edgar County, Ill., where he was born in
1831, and is the eldest of eleven children, five of whom are now living, of
Horatio and Rebecca (Hannah) Blanchard, natives of Brown County, Ohio. The
father is of French descent, and was born in 1806, married in 1830, and the
same year moved to Edgar County, Ill., where he entered a tract of land, upon
which he has since resided. His wife died in 1863, and both Mr. and Mrs.
Blanchard belonged to the Baptist Church. John remained at home until he was
sixteen years old, receiving but a limited common-school education. He was
then employed by a cattle firm, and in the fall following the war, with seven
others, drove a herd of cattle to New York, the journey occupying 101 days. He
remained in New York six or seven years, and in 1855 married Lucretia,
daughter of Daniel and Esther Stamp, formerly of New York, but then living in
Edgar County, Ill. The year following his marriage, Mr. Blanchard removed to
Sullivan County, and located upon Government land in Union Township, ten miles
east of Milan, but in 1864 he removed one mile north upon his present farm.
Our subject began life a poor boy, and even came to Sullivan County with no
capital, but, through his unceasing devotion to labor, and with the aid of his
good business and financial ability, has become one of the foremost
agriculturists and extensive stock raisers of Sullivan County, being the
present owner of about 1,800 acres of land in Sullivan County, and most of
which is finely improved and under a good state of cultivation, making one of
the most desirable and attractive farms in the county. Mr. Blanchard has
always enjoyed his farm life, and has never desired political distinction,
much preferring to attend to his domestic duties. During the war he served in
the Missouri State Militia. For a number of years he was quite extensively
engaged in buying and selling cattle, but is now making a specialty of raising
thorough-bred cattle. He was reared a Democrat, but cast his first
presidential vote for Lincoln, and since the war has been a Republican, and is
a long standing and prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, having united
with that order in 1854. Mr. Blanchard is one of the pioneer settlers of
Sullivan County, having located here when the country was in a wild and
uncultivated condition, and when there were but few inhabitants upon the
prairie.
This family biography is one of 247
biographies included in the History of Sullivan County, Missouri published by
Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1888. For the
complete description, click here:
Sullivan County, Missouri History,
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