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John Joseph Pershing, nicknamed “Black Jack” was born in Laclede, Missouri on September 13, 1860. Pershing, oldest of eight children, was born to John F. Pershing and Anne Elizabeth Thompson. His father was a prosperous business man, working as a merchant during the Civil War, but during the panic of 1873, his father was forced to jake a job as a traveling salesman while john worked on the family farm
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