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Joseph FRENCH, attorney, of Peirce City, Mo., was born in Marion County, Ill., August 7, 1854, and is a son of Marshall and Harriett (WILLIAMS) FRENCH, who were the parents of nine children. Joseph is the second child, and was reared in Illinois. His boyhood days were spent in tilling the soil and in attending the district schools. He came to Missouri with his parents in 1874, where he taught school and read law at the same time, and was admitted to the bar in 1878. He began practicing in the spring of 1879, and is a careful and painstaking lawyer and a close student. He has a lucrative practice, and is rising rapidly in his profession. November 8, 1880, he was united in matrimony to Levisa SAUNDERS, who was born in Tennessee, and by her is the father of one child--Edna.
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