Biographical Sketch of James F. Larkin, 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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James F. Larkin, P. O. Waverly, Mo.  Was born in County Galway, Ireland,
April, 1812, where he was raised and educated.  He came to the United
States in 1836 and spent nine years traveling over the states.  He was
married in Page county, Va., June 3, 1845, to Miss Mary J. Poisal.  Her
grandfather served seven years in the Revolutionary War.  In 1853 he 
moved to Missouri and settled in this county, where he has since lived
and now owns 440 acres of land and devotes his attention to farming and
raising stock.  He has ten children: Thomas S., John F., Edward K., 
James F., Annie, now Mrs. W. T. Maddox, of Corder; Michael, Francis P.,
Patrick Henry, Joseph and Peter.  He is a member of the Catholic church.
He took no active part in the war; called himself a Union man, but was 
not molested by anybody.

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