Biographical Sketch of Matthew Duff, Johnson County, Missouri
Centerview Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

MATTHEW DUFF,

farmer.  Was born in Pennsylvania, April 21, 1827.  He received his
early education in his native state, and afterwards attended the
Ellsworth academy, in Ohio, and after that, the Mount Union college.  He
then engaged in teaching, and taught two schools, of forty weeks each.
He was married in 1854, to Miss Lizze Clark, daughter of David Clark.
He then engaged in farming in his native county, and followed it until
1871, when he came to Missouri, and located at Centerview, where he and
James Kiddoo built the Centerview Mills, the first mills in the town.
He exchanged his mill property for his present farm, containing 160
acres, all in cultivation, with a first-class residence, and excellent
out buildings, and a never-failing spring of water, near the barn.  He
moved to his farm in 1876, since which time he has been engaged in
farming and stock-raising, and is quite an extensive wheat grower.  His
family consists of five children; Flora J., Mary L., James W., Wm. H.,
and Lizzie E.  Mr. and Mrs. D., and all their children, are members of
the U. P. church.

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