Biographical Sketch of E. F. Avery, Camden County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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E. F. Avery, another enterprising and industrious farmer of Osage Town-
ship, was born in Londonderry, Rockingham Co., N. H., August 18, 1830,
and is the son of Foster and Rebecca (Robinson) Avery, natives of Mass-
achusetts and New Hampshire, respectively.  The great-grandfather Avery
was a native of Scotland, and on the Robinson side the ancestry can be
traced back to the "Mayflower".  Foster Avery was but nine years of age
when he went with his parents to New Hampshire, and in that state he 
passed his last days.  He was a farmer by occupation.  He was the 
father of eight children, four sons and four daughters.  Jeremiah M.,
Ephraim F., Sarah, the wife of Louis Stiles, of Massachusetts; and Eda
A., the wife of Nathaniel Ballon, who now resides in Iowa, are the ones
now living.  E. F. Avery was reared and educated in New Hampshire, and
afterward went to Lowell, Mass., where he worked in a cotton mill until
twenty-one years of age.  In 1851 he went to Wisconsin, locating in
Waupaca county, where he remained for some time, and then moved to Eau
Claire county.  He continued to live there until 1871, engaged in farm-
ing, and then came to Laclede county, Mo.  In 1872 he was employed on
the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, where he remained until 1876,
at which date he was employed on the Missouri Pacific Railroad as a
freight conductor.  In 1878 he retired from the railroad business and 
moved on his farm in Laclede county, where he lived until 1886, when he
moved to his present property in Camden county.  This consists of 294
acres, with a good portion under cultivation, and is considered one of
the finest farms in the county.  Mr. Avery was married in 1851 to Miss
Olive H. Cole, a native of Vermont.  To them were born five children,
four now living: Emma, wife of J. R. Pierce, is now residing in Wiscon-
sin; Edna C., wife of John B. French, of St. Louis; Roy, married to 
Miss Effie T. Churchill; and Charles E.  While living in Wisconsin Mr.
Avery was chairman of the board of supervisors one term.

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