Biographical Sketch of Edwin H. Jeffries, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Edwin H. Jeffries, a son of Charles R. and a nephew of C. S. Jeffries
was born on his father's old homestead near St. Clair on August 12,
1842.  He remained on the farm until the outbreak of the late war,
when he entered the State service in the cause of the South, from
which he passed into the Confederate army, and served under the 
"Stars and Bars" until the surrender of the Southern forces.  He was
seriously wounded in the battle of Port Gibson, after which he was
engaged in behalf of the Confederate Government in an engineering
corps at Richmond, until the cessation of hostilities in the spring
of 1865.  He arrived at his old home in 1865, and at once determined
to devote his attention to the law; completing his education at St.
James, Phelps County, he was duly admitted to the bar, and at once
devoted his attention to the profession.  He formed a partnership
with T. A. Lowe, Esq. at St. Clair, where he remained until 1875,
when he located at Union.  He ran on the Democratic ticket for the
office of probate judge and was defeated by only a small majority. 
He was elected to the office of county attorney in 1875 by a handsome
plurality, and during the term of office ably and faithfully dis-
charged the duties of his position.  He was married in 1872 to Miss
Octavia V., daughter of Thomas F. Renfroe, and early settler of 
Franklin County; she was born in Franklin County in 1852, and died in
May, 1878, leaving two children, one deceased.  In 1880 Mr. Jeffries
moved from Union to his present home, on the farm, in Section 25,
Franklin County, where he devotes his attention to the pursuit of
agriculture and mining.  He is United States deputy collector of the
Internal Revenue, is manager of the Jeffries Mining Company, owns a
good farm of 160 acres, upon which he resides, and an interest with
his former law partner, Hon. J. W. Booth, in 2,000 acres of pasture
land on the Meramec River.  He is a Democrat, politically, and cast
his first presidential vote for Horace Greeley, in 1872.  He is a 
worthy member of the Union Lodge, No. 273, F. & A. M., and of Excel-
sior Lodge, No. 399, A. O. U. W.

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