Biographical Sketch of Joseph F. Macloskey, Greene County, Missouri,
Jackson Township

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

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Was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 24th, 1859.  His parents
moved to Champaign, Illinois, in 1870, where Joseph was educated in the
high school of that place.  He then engaged in farming until 1875, when
he carried on the bakery business.  In November, 1876, he removed to
Sullivan, Franklin county, Missouri, where he was engaged in the iron
business until 1878.  On the 8th of November of that year, he came to
Greene county, and with his father, carried on farming.  In August, 
1882, he formed a partnership with his brother, B. R. Macloskey, in the
provision business in Strafford, where he is now engaged.  It is just 
such young men as he that is the life blood of a country, and who will
push themselves to the front in every laudable enterprise.  His name 
will soon appear among the leading business men of the county.

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