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Below is a sample of a family biography included in The History of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Missouri and published by The History Publishing Company in 1915.  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.

OLIVER A. SANDUSKY, SR., a retired and respected business man of St. Joseph, was born February 7, 1832, in Jessamine County, Kentucky, and is a great-great-grandson of Jacob Sodowski (as the name was spelled in the early days), who was the founder of Sandusky, Ohio. The subject of this sketch attended the rural schools when young, and on the home farm learned the various branches of agriculture. He came to St. Joseph in 1855, when this city was on the extreme frontier. He worked on a farm in Andrew County for a time, and after his marriage to Serelda A. Potter, in 1857, he took up farming as an occupation. In a few years they were owners of a well-stocked farm. Mr. Sandusky enlisted in Company M of the Ninth Regiment, Union army, in 1863, was captured at Glasgow, Mo., paroled at St. Louis, and was honorably discharged at the end of the war. He immediately returned to this city and opened a grocery store. In 1867 he embarked in the fruit and produce business and built up an extensive and profitable trade. He retired from active business in 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Sandusky have no children of their own, but have brought up and educated a nephew and a niece. The nephew, Oliver A. Sandusky, Jr., is now a business man in St. Joseph, and the niece, now Mrs. James S. Polk, also lives in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Sandusky celebrated their golden wedding in 1907. They are members of the Francis Street Methodist Church.

This family biography is one of 434 biographies included in The History of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Missouri published in 1915.  For the complete description, click here: Buchanan County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

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