Biographical Sketch of J. A. O'Bryan, Johnson County, Missouri
Jackson Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

J. A. O'BRYAN,

P.O. Holden; a prosperous and respectable farmer of this township, was
born in Cooper county, Missouri, July, 1843.  His father, J.T. O'Bryan,
was a native of North Carolina, born in 1819. His parents emigrated to
Missouri in 1838, and settled in Cooper county, where he remained until
1849, when he went to California, and was gone until 1859, when he
returned.  He moved to Johnson county in the spring of 1867, and died
the following year, on the farm now owned by James A.  The mother of the
subject of this sketch was born in Missouri, and was the daughter of
James A. Revis, one of the first settlers of Cooper county.  James A,
was educated in the county district school until eighteen years of age,
when he went to Prof. Kemper's select school at Boonville, where he
attended several terms.  He then went to Eureka College, Illinois;
after leaving this he read law, and soon after turned his attention to
farming, which he has followed successfully ever since.  He owns a fine
farm near Whalebuck Ridge, of 320 acres, with a large and spacious
residence. In 1877 he married Miss E.G. Lowery, daughter of Dr. Lowery,
of Holden.  They have three children: Richard, Edith and Estell.

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