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Born 1839
From History of Ray County, Mo. (1881)
EDWARD P. TIFFIN.
Edward P. Tiffin was born in Ross county, Ohio, November 24, 1839. At the age of five years he came with his parents to Ray county, Missouri, and settled in the town of Knoxville. He has lived in the vicinity of that place ever since. Mr. Tiffin owns 1,500 acres of excellent land, all under fence, and about 1,000 acres in a fine state of cultivation and productiveness. These lands are improved with good houses, barns, and other buildings; are well irrigated by running streams of pure water, besides pounds, wells, and springs, for the accommodation of stock. They are diversified by groves, green pastures, fertile fields, and thrifty orchards and gardens, yielding abundantly of fruit and vintage. The broad rolling pastures are filled with the best breeds of horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep, and the whole estate, in its appearance and the completeness of its appointments and arrangement, evinces the masterly management and sound judgment of its owner. Mr. Tiffin was married in this county in the year 1861, to Miss Margaret Campbell, a native of Jackson county,
Missouri, born in 1846. The issue of this union was four children, two of whom only are now living: Mary F. and Aeda.
As printed in History of Ray County, Mo. (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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