Biographical Sketch of Moses A. Kirkham, Greene County, Missouri, 
Center Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Kirkham is the son of Moses A. and Elizabeth (Warren) Kirkham, and
was born in Davis County, Iowa, June 27, 1851.  His father was a native
of Ohio, and his mother of Kentucky.  His grandfather was a soldier in
the War of 1812, and his father was an Indian agent.  His father moved
to Kansas in 1857, and was the nearest neighbor of John Brown, and also
took an active part with Brown in the Kansas troubles.  When Moses was
about fifteen years of age, he started out for himself and learned the
plasterer's and bricklayer's trade.  Since then he has worked at his
trade in Kansas, Iowa, Texas and Missouri.  During the year 1876 he 
mined for lead at Galena, Kansas.  In 1881, he moved to Springfield, 
and in 1882, he went to Bois D'Arc, where he now resides and works at
his trade, and is proprietor of the Bois D'Arc Hotel.  He was married
November 20, 1870, to Miss Lucinda, daughter of Squire and Lucinda 
(Hawkins) Owens, of Franklin County, Kansas.  Their union has been
blest with four children, three of whom are now living, viz.: Geneva,
Tyrena and Pearl.

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