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From Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910)
MYRON W. STAPLES.
A man who has long been an important factor in the citizenship of Nodaway county is Myron W. Staples, and his popularity is well deserved, as in him are embraced the characteristics of an unbending integrity, unabated energy and industry. He is public spirited and takes a deep interest in what ever tends to promote the intellectual and material welfare of the community in which he has resided.
Mr. Staples was born in Jefferson county, Wisconsin, in 1852, the son of A. R. and Abigail (Ward) Staples, the former a native of Vermont, and the latter a native of New Hampshire, in which state they were married. They came west in about 1850 and located in Jefferson county, Wisconsin, where they pre-empted land and were pioneers. In about 1853 they moved to Monroe county, Wisconsin, and in 1856 to Gentry county, Missouri, where they bought and pre-empted land, and there developed a good farm, becomingwell established, and lived there until 1862, when they moved to Nodaway county, this state, and located four miles west of Hopkins. Mr. Staples bought and traded land, and about 1876 he bought land in Atchison county and lived there until his death in 1879. His wife died in 1883. He and his
As printed in Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name Myron W. Staples: William T. Jackson
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