Biographical Sketch of E. F. Avery, Camden County, Missouri >From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889. ********************************************************************** E. F. Avery, another enterprising and industrious farmer of Osage Town- ship, was born in Londonderry, Rockingham Co., N. H., August 18, 1830, and is the son of Foster and Rebecca (Robinson) Avery, natives of Mass- achusetts and New Hampshire, respectively. The great-grandfather Avery was a native of Scotland, and on the Robinson side the ancestry can be traced back to the "Mayflower". Foster Avery was but nine years of age when he went with his parents to New Hampshire, and in that state he passed his last days. He was a farmer by occupation. He was the father of eight children, four sons and four daughters. Jeremiah M., Ephraim F., Sarah, the wife of Louis Stiles, of Massachusetts; and Eda A., the wife of Nathaniel Ballon, who now resides in Iowa, are the ones now living. E. F. Avery was reared and educated in New Hampshire, and afterward went to Lowell, Mass., where he worked in a cotton mill until twenty-one years of age. In 1851 he went to Wisconsin, locating in Waupaca county, where he remained for some time, and then moved to Eau Claire county. He continued to live there until 1871, engaged in farm- ing, and then came to Laclede county, Mo. In 1872 he was employed on the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, where he remained until 1876, at which date he was employed on the Missouri Pacific Railroad as a freight conductor. In 1878 he retired from the railroad business and moved on his farm in Laclede county, where he lived until 1886, when he moved to his present property in Camden county. This consists of 294 acres, with a good portion under cultivation, and is considered one of the finest farms in the county. Mr. Avery was married in 1851 to Miss Olive H. Cole, a native of Vermont. To them were born five children, four now living: Emma, wife of J. R. Pierce, is now residing in Wiscon- sin; Edna C., wife of John B. French, of St. Louis; Roy, married to Miss Effie T. Churchill; and Charles E. While living in Wisconsin Mr. Avery was chairman of the board of supervisors one term. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joe Miller Penny (Eisenbarger) Harrell ====================================================================