Biographical Sketch of M. A. Dyer, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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P. O. Aullville.  Second son of Manoah W. Dyer, was born December 22,
1838, in Warren county, Kentucky.  While yet an infant he came to this
county with his parents, locating three miles west of Aullville, where
he was raised and educated.  At the age of eighteen he entered the
Masonic college in Lexington; in the second session he was taken with
fever, brought home in a wagon, and came near dying; never went back.
He then went to teaching, and taught to the beginning of the war.  Did
not join either army.  May 28, 1861, he married Miss Melissa Brown, of
Johnson county, by whom he had two children, Sallie and Lucinda; the
first died in 1865.  His wife dying, he was married the second time, 
to Miss Emily Hoffman, of Johnson county, Missouri, March 25, 1867,
and by this union he has six children living: Lydia, Nettie, Carter,
Freddie, Mattie M., and Carrie.  Mr. Dyer lives on his farm of 200
acres, the farm lying mostly in this county, but a portion of it in
Johnson county.  He is a member of the Christian church, a good citizen
and a good farmer.

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