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HISTORY 


OF 


BOONE  COUNTY,  MISSOUEI. 


WRITTKN    AND    COMPILED 


PROM  THK  MOST  AUTHENTIC  OFFICIAL  AND  PUIVATK  SOURCES; 


INCLlDINCi   A    HISTORY   OF    ITS 


TOWXSHIPS,  T0WX8  AND  VILLAGES 


TOGETIIKR    WITH 

A  <oNI>KNSKI)   HISTORY  OF   MISSOURI;    THK  (  ITY  OF  ST.  LOITIS;    A   RELIARLK  AND 
lU:TAir.KL>  HISTORY  OF  ROONE  COUNTY  — ITS  PIONEER  RECORD,  WAR  HISTORY, 
KKf*OrRCES,  RI0(;RAPHICAL  sketches  and  P()RTRA1TS  OF  PROMINENT 
C:ITIZKNS;   (.iENERAL  AND   U)C\l.  STATISTICS  OF  liREAT   VALUE, 
AND  A  LAIKiE   AMOUNT  OF   LEGAL  AND  MlS(^ELLANEOUS 
MATTER;    INCIDENTS    AND    REMINISCENCES, 
GRAVE,    TRAGIC.    HUMOROUS. 


ILLUSTKATEl). 


S  T.    LOUIS: 

WESTERN   HISTORICAL   COMPANY. 

18  82. 


Entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  tlie  year  1882,  b}' 

WILLIAM   F.  SWITZLER, 
In  the  Office  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress,  at  Wasliiugton . 


8t,  Louis :  Press  of  Nixon-Jones  Printing  Co. 


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PREFACE. 


In  presenting  to  the  citizens  of  Boone  County  this  history,  it  is  with  the 

full  knowledge  that  there  must  necessarily  be  some  errors  found  within  its 

pages ;  otherwise,  it  would  be  different  from  any  work  yet  compiled  by  human 

hands,  absolute  perfection  never  having  been  reached,  either  in  the  historical 

or  any  other  field  of  earthly  labor. 

In  attempting  to  compile  a  complete  history  of  Boone  County  a  great 
variety  of  sources  of  information  had  to  be  consulted  by  the  writers  hereof: 
old  files  of  newspapers,  early  ofi^cial  records,  previously  written  histori- 
cal works  and  reviews,  old  settlers  still  living,  letters  of  correspondence 
and  private  documents  have  all  been  consulted  in  embodying  what  is  set  forth 
in  this  history.  Considering  all  these  things,  absolute  freedom  from  error 
would  be  a  miracle  of  wonders.  Much  care,  however,  has  been  taken  to 
avoid  ex  parte  statements,  and  the  writei*s  and  publishers  claim  that  this  his- 
tory, while  not  exact  in  everj'thing,  treats  all  with  fairness  and  candor.  To 
gather  the  incidents  of  the  long  ago  has  been  a  work  of  infinite  care  and  at- 
tention to  detail.  Intelligent  readers  may  judge,  therefore,  how  this  labor 
has  been  performed,  and  do  us  the  justice  to  accredit  us  with  an  honest  en- 
deavor to  make  this  history  worthy,  in  all  respects,  the  careful  perusal  of  the 
reader. 

To  name  all  persons  to  whom  tlie  publishers  are  indebted  for  the  facts 
herein,  would  be  an  undertaking  of  too  great  a  magnitude,  for  there  is 
scarcely  a  citizen  of  any  prominence  in  the  county  who  has  not,  in  soine  way, 
contributed  to  the  compilation  of  this  work.  First  and  foremost  the  publish- 
ers desire  to  acknowledge  themselves  indebted  to  Col.  Wm.  F.  Switzler,  of 
Columbia,  who  has  written  the  greater  part  of  the  general  history,  besides  re- 
vising and  correcting  the  condensed  matter  of  this  publication  pertaining  to 
the  State  of  Missouri.  To  Dr.  George  C.  Swallow,  late  of  Columbia,  the 
publishers  are  under  special  obligations  for  many  favors  extended  them,  and 
particularly  for  the  very  able  and  scientifically  written  chapter  on  the  geology 
of  the  county.     Mr.  John  W.  Hatton,   one  of  Columbia's  literary  authors, 

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PREFACE. 


has  aided,  by  his  faithful  labor,  the  completion  of  these  pages,  the  most  of 
the  biographical  matter  being  the  arrangement  of  his  ready  pen.  Mr.  Ed. 
W.  Stephens,  editor  of  the  HeroUd,  has  been  freely  drawn  upon  in  his  histor- 
ical skletch  of  Boone  County,  published  in  the  County  AUas  of  1876.  All  the 
editors  of  all  the  papers  of  the  county,  also  Dr.  A.  F.  Sneed  and  Dr.  P.  S. 
Hocker,  of  Centralia,  Gen.  Odon  Guitar,  Maj.  Jas.  S.  Rollins,  and  other  cit- 
izens of  Columbia,  Dr.  F.  G.  Sitton,  of  Ashland,  and  a  host  of  other  private 
citizens  too  numerous  to  mention  have  assisted  in  furnishing  the  information 
herein  embodied ;  and  to  the  entire  citizenship  of  the  county,  the  publishers 
return  thanks  for  the  universal  courtesy  with  which  they  and  their  assistants 
have  been  treated. 

With  these  few  preliminary  remarks  we  submit  this  work  to  the  tender  crit- 
icism of  a  charitable  public.  And  when,  in  days  to  come,  its  pages  shall  be 
conned  by  children  yet  unborn,  it  is  hoped  that  they  may  be  able  to  say  that 
its  perusal,  besides  entertaining  and  instructing  them,  has  the  better  prepared 
them  for  the  exercise  of  all  the  functions  of  intelligent  citizenship  in  a  free 
and  enlightened  land. 


CONTENTS. 

HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI. 

CHAPTER  L 

PAOK. 

Tkk  Louisiana  Pubchabx  —  Bkeef  Historical  Skxtch 1-7 

OH^VPTER  U.    # 

I>XSCRIFTrVK   AND  GXOGBAPHICAL 7-13 

CHAPTER  la 
Geoloot  or  MiuoxTRi 18-21 

CHAPTER  IV. 
TiTLK  AXD  Early  Sxttlxrs  21-27 

CHAPTER  V. 
Territorial  Oroakization 27-31 

CHAPTER  VI. 
Admission  into  the  Union 81-37 

CHAPTER  VII. 
Missouri  as  a  State 87-43 

CHAPTER  VIII. 
CivFL  War  in  Missouri 4:^-63 

CHAPTER  IX. 

Eaklt  Military  Record  of  the  State .        .    53-59 

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CHAPTER  X. 
Agriculture  and  Mineral  Wealth 59-65 

CHAPTER  XI. 
Education — The  Public  School  System 65-78 

CHAPTER  Xir. 
Religious  Denominations 73-79 

CHA1>TER  XIIT. 
Gov.  Crittenden's  Administration 79-85 

HISTORY  OF   ST.  LOUIS. 

From  1762  to  1882  — Leading  Institutions,  etc 86-106 

LAWS  OF  MISSOURI  . 

Public  and  Personal  Rights,  Legal  Forms,  etc. 107-120 

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vi  Contents. 

STATISTICS. 

PAGE. 

PopuLATioK,  Vital,  Imdxtbtsial  and  Political  Statistics   ....       121-124 

HISTORY  OF  BOONE  COUNTY. 

CHAPTER  L 
iKTBODueriov— Eablt  Histobt 125-148 

CHAPTER  IL 

From  the  OBOAinzATiov  ot  ths  County,  in  1820,  to  1830  ....        148-182 

CHAPTER  m. 
History  of  the  County  trom  ItSO  to  1840 182-216 

CHAPTER  IV. 
Early  Colleoxs  and  Academies 217-229 

CHAPTER  V. 
Early  History  ov  the  Missouri  State  University 229-269 

CHAPTER  VL 
History  or  the  State  University  from  1848  to  1860        ....        270-290 

CHAPTER  VIL 
History  or  the  State  University  from  1860  to  1882        ....       291-880 

CHAPTER  VnL 
History  of  the  County  from  1840  to  1860 880-869 

CHAPTER  IX. 
History  of  the  County  from  1850  to  1860 360-894 

CHAPTER  X. 
The  Civil  War  Commenced— History  from  1860  to  1863         .       .       .       394r426 

CHAPTER  XL 
The  Citil  War  Concluded 427-486 

CHAPTER  Xn 
History  of  the  County  from  1866  to  1870 486-502 

CHAPTER  Xm. 
History  of  the  County  from  1870  to  1882    .       .      y       .       .       .       .        503-530 

CHAPTER  XIV. 
Geology  of  Boone  County        .  • 581-588 

TOWNSHIP    HISTORIES. 

CHAPTER  XV. 
BoxTRBON  Township 539-614 

CHAPTER  XVL 
Cedar  Township 614-692 

CHAPTER  XVn. 
Obntbalia  Township 682-788 


Contents. 


VII 


CHAPTER  XVm. 

PAOB. 

CToLiTMBiA  Township 784-800 

CHAPTER  XIX. 
Th«  Citt  of  Columbia 801-974 

CHAPTER  XX. 
MiBsouRi  Township 075-1064 

CHAPTER  XXI. 
Febohz  Township 1066-1104 

CHAPTER  XXn. 
BoGXT  FoBK  Township 1104-1186 

CHAPTER  XXHL 

Boons  Countt  Live  Stoc?k  Interests 1186-1142 

List  of  County  Officials ^       .    1148-1144 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 


VIEWS. 


Normal  School,  Cape  Girardeau 
St.  Louis  Bridge     ...... 

Pour  Courts,  St.  Louis  .... 

St.  Louis  Fair  Grounds     .    .    . 
New  Custom  House,  St.  Louls    . 
St.  Louis  Union  Depot  .... 

View  in  Shaw's  Garden,  St.  Louis 
St.  Louis  High  School   .... 

New  Armory  Building,  St.  Louis 
Washington  University    .    .    . 
St.  Louis  Merchants*  Exchange 
Mo.  University  Buildings,  opposite 


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90 

92 

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96 

98 

100 

102 

104 

206 


PAGE. 


Agricultural  Farm  Mansion,  Mis- 
souri University,  opp.  ...  807 
English  and  Art  Sch'l,  Mo.  Un.,  opp.  807 
The  Laws  Observatory,  opp.  .  .  826 
Chalybeate  Spring,  Mo.  Un.,  opp. .  826 
Residence  of  J.  Lucas  Turner,  Esq.  684 
Stephens  Female  College      .    .    .  808 

Christian  College 810 

Columbia  Public  School,  opp.    .    .  816 

Residence  of  Gen.  Odon  Guitar   .  878 

Residencb  of  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins     .  984 

Residence  of  Caft.  J.  H.  Rollins  .  986 


PORTRAITS. 


page. 
Hon.  J.  S.  Kollins  (Frontispiece). 

Col.  Wm.  F.  Switzler,  opp.      .    .    .  126 

Di.  A.  W.  Rollins 264 

President  J.  H.  Lathrop,  opp.     .    .  295 

Prsbidknt  Daniel  Read,  opp.  .    .    .  824 

Gen.  John  B.  Henderson 898 

Dr.  George  C.  Swallow,  opp. .    .    .  681 

Dr.  J.  S.  LocKRiDOE,  opp 696 

S.  W.  Turner  opp 612 

Maj.  Wm.  W.  Bryan,  opp 644 

Ifis.  Co&kelia  a.  Robinson,  opp.     .  674 

Wm.  Bmitb,  opp 679 


PAGE. 

N.  W.  Wilson,  opp 795 

J.  L.  Matthews,  opp 908 

J.  K.  Rogers,  opp 929 

John  M.  Samuel,  opp.  ..*.,.    946 

Hon.  J.  L.  Stevens,  opp 966 

W.  M  Scott 960 

Geo.  p.  Ejcnnan 960 

M.  P.  LiENTZ,  opp 1040 

David  Pipes,  opp 1061 

John  S.  Wilhite,  opp 106^ 

Capt.  David  Prowell,  opp.      .    .    .  1098 
David  S.  Shock,  opp 109^ 


HISTOEY  OF  MISSOURI. 


CHAPTER    I. 

LOUISIANA    PUECHASE. 

BRIEF   HISTORICAL   SKETCH. 

The  purchase  in  1803  of  the  vast  territory  west  of  the  Mississippi 
River,  by  the  United  States,  extending  through  Oregon  to  the  Pacific 
coast  and  south  to  the  Dominions  of  Mexico,  constitutes  the  most  im- 
portant event  that  ever  occurred  in  the  history  of  the  nation. 

It  gave  to  our  Republic  additional  room  for  that  expansion  and 
stupendous  growth,  to  which  it  has  since  attained,  in  all  that  makes  it 
strong  and  enduring,  and  forms  the  seat  of  an  empire,  from  which 
will  radiate  an  influence  for  good  unequaled  in  the  annals  of  time.  In 
1763,  the  immense  region  of  country,  known  at  that  time  as  Louisiana, 
was  ceded  to  Spain  by  France.  By  ^a  secret  article,  in  the  treaty  of 
St.  Ildefonso,  concluded  in  1800,  Spain  ceded  it  back  to  France. 
Napoleon,  at  that  time,  coveted  the  island  of  St.  Domingo,  not  only 
because  of  the  value  of  its  products,  but  more  especially  because  its 
location  in  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  would,  in  a  military  point  of  view, 
afford  him  a  fine  field  whence  he  could  the  more  effectively  guard  his 
newly-acquired  possessions.  Hence  he  desired  this  cession  by  Spain 
should  be  kept  a  profound  secret  until  he  succeeded  in  reducing  St. 
Domingo  to  submission.  In  this  undertaking,  however,  his  hopes 
were  blasted,  and  so  great  was  his  disappointment  that  he  apparently 
became  indifferent  to  the  advantages  to  be  secured  to  France  from  his 
parchase  of  Louisiana. 

In  1803  he  sent  out  Laussat  as  prefect  of  the  colony,  who  gave  the 

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2  BISTORT   OF  MISSOUBI. 

people  of  Louisiana  the  first  intimation  ^they  had  that  they  had  once 
more  become  the  subjects  of  France.  This  was  the  occasion  of  great 
rejoicing  among  the  inhabitants,  who  were  Frenchmen  in  their  origin, 
babitSy  manners,  and  customs. 

Mr.  Jefferson,  then  President  of  the  United  States,  on  being  in- 
formed of  the  retrocession,  immediately  dispatciied  instructions  to 
Robert  Livingston,  the  American  Minister  at  Paris,  to  make  known 
to  Napoleon  that  the  occupancy  of  New  Orleans,  by  his  government, 
would  not  only  endanger  the  friendly  relations  existing  between  the 
two  nations,  but,  perhaps,  oblige  the  United  States  to  make  commcm 
cause  with  England,  his  bitterest  and  most  dreaded  enemy ;  as  the 
possession  of  the  city  by  France  would  give  her  command  of  the 
Mississippi,  which  was  the  only  outlet  for  the  produce  of  the  West- 
ern States,  and  give  her  also  control  ot  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  so  neces- 
sary to  the  protection  of  American  commerce.  Mr.  Jefferson  was  so 
fully  impressed  with  the  idea  that  the  occupancy  of  New  Orleans,  by 
France,  would  bring  about  a  conflict  of  interests  between  the  two 
nations,  which  would  finally  culminate  in  an  open  rupture,  that  he 
urged  Mr. -Livingston,  to  not  only  insist  upon  the  free  navigation  of 
the  Mississippi,  but  to  negotiate  for  the  purchase  of  the  city  and  the 
surrounding  country. 

The  question  of  this  negotiation  was  of  so  grave  a  character  to  the 
United  States  that  the  President  appointed  Mr.  Monroe,  with  full 
power  to  act  in  conjunction  with  Mr.  Livingston.  Ever  equal  to  all 
emergencies,  and  prompt  in  the  cabinet,  as  well  as  in  the  field,  Na- 
poleon came  to  the  conclusion  that,  as  he  could  not  well  defend  his 
occupancy  of  New  Orleans,  he  would  dispose  of  it,  on  the  best  terms 
possible.  Before,  however,  taking  final  action  in  the  matter,  he  sum- 
moned two  of  his  Ministers,  and  addressed  them  follows :  — 

**  I  am  fully  sensible  of  the  value  of  Louisiana,  and  it  was  my  wish 
to  repair  the  error  of  the  French  diplomatists  who  abandoned  it  in 
1763.  I  have  scarcely  recovered  it  before  I  run  the  risk  of  losing-  it : 
but  if  I  am  obliged  to  give  it  up,  it  shall  hereafter  cost  more  to  those 
who  force  me  to  part  with  it,  than  to  those  to  whom  I  shall 
yield  it.  The  English  have  despoiled  France  of  all  her  northern  pos- 
sessions in  America,  and  now  they  covet  those  of  the  South.  I  am 
determined  that  they  shall  not  have  the  Mississippi.  Althongli 
Louisiana  is  but  a  trifle  compared  to  their  vast  possessions  in  other 
parts  of  the  globe,  yet,  judging  from  the  vexation  they  have  mani- 
fested on  seeing  it  return  to  the  power  of  France,  I  am  certain  that 


HISTOBT  OF  MISSOURI.  3 

their  first  object  will  be  to 'gain  possession  of  it.  They  will  proba- 
bly commence  the  war  in  that  quarter.  They  have  "twenty  vessels  in 
the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  and  our  affairs  in  St.  Domingo  are  daily  getting 
worse  since  the  death  of  LeClerc.  The  conquest  of  Louisiana  might 
be  easily  made,  and  I  have  not  a  moment  to  lose  in  getting  out  of 
their  reach.  I  am  not  sure  but  that  they  have  already  begun  an  at- 
tack upon  it.  Such  a  measure  would  be  in  accordance  with  their 
habits  ;  and  in  their  place  I  should  not  wait.  I  am  inclined,  in  order 
to  deprive  them  of  all  prospect  of  ever  possessing  it,  to  cede  it  to  the 
United  States.  Indeed,  I  can  hardly  say  that  I  cede  it,  for  I  do  not 
yet  possess  it ;  and  if  I  wait  but  a  shoit  time  my  enemies  may  leave 
me  nothing  but  an  empty  title  to  grant  to  the  Republic  I  wish  to  con- 
ciliate. I  consider  the  whole  colony  as  lost,  and  I  believe  that  in  the 
hands  of  this  rising  power  it  will  be  more  useful  to  the  political  and 
even  commercial  interests  of  France  than  if  I  should  attempt  to  retain 
it.     Let  me  have  both  your  opinions  on  the  subject." 

One  of  his  Ministers  approved  of  the  contemplated  cession,  but 
the  other  opposed  it.  The  matter  was  long  and  earnestly  discussed 
by  them,  before  the  conference  was  ended.  The  next  day.  Napoleon 
sent  for  the  Minister  who  had  agreed  with  him,  and  said  to  him :  — 

**  The  season  for  deliberation  is  over.  I  have  determined  to  re- 
nounce Louisiana.  I  shall  give  up  not  only  New  Orleans,  but  the 
whole  colony,  without  reservation.  That  I  do  not  undervalue  Louis- 
iana, I  have  sufficiently  proved,  as  the  object  of  my  first  treaty  with 
Spain  was  to  recover  it.  But  though  I  regret  parting  with  it,  I  am 
convinced  it  would  be  folly  to  persist  in  trying  to  keep  it.  I  commis- 
sion you,  therefore,  to  negotiate  this  affair  with  the  envoys  of  the 
United  States.  Do  not  wait  the  arrival  of  Mr.  Monroe,  but  go  this 
very  day  and  confer  with  Mr.  Livingston.  Remember,  however,  that 
I  need  ample  funds  for  carrying  on  the  war,  and  I  do  not  wish  to  com- 
mence it  by  levying  new  taxes.  For  the  last  century  France  and  Spain 
have  incurred  great  expense  in  the  improvement  of  Louisiana,  for 
which  her  trade  has  never  indemnified  them.  Large  sums  have  been 
advanced  to  different  companies,  which  have  never  been  returned  to 
the  treasury.  It  is  fair  that  I  should  require  repayment  for  these. 
Were  I  to  regulate  my  demands  by  the  importance  of  this  territory 
to  the  United  States,  they  would  be  unbounded  ;  but,  being  obliged  to 
pai-t  with  it,  I  shall  be  moderate  in  my  terms.  Still,  remember,  I 
must  have  fifty  millions  of  francs,  and  I  will  not  consent  to  take  less^ 


4  HISTORY   OF   MISSOURI. 

I  would   rather   make   some   desperate  'effort  to  preserve  this  fine 
country." 

That  day  the  negotiations  commenced.  Mi^Monroe  reached  Paris 
on  the  12th  of  April,  1803,  and  the  two  representatives  of  the  United 
States,  after  holding  a  private  interview,  announced  that  they  were 
ready  to  treat  for  the  entire  territory.  On  the  30th  of  April,  the 
treaty  was  signed,  and  on  the  21st  of  October,  of  the  same  year.  Con- 
gress ratified  the  treaty.  The  United  States  were  to  pay  $11,250,000, 
and  her  citizens  were  to  be  compensated  for  some  illegal  captures, 
to  the  amount  of  $3,750,000,  making  in  the  aggregate  the  sum  of 
$15,000,000,  while  it  was  agreed  that  the  vessels  and  merchandise  of 
France  and  Spain  should  be  admitted  into  all  the  ^orts  ot  Louisiana 
free  of  duty  for  twelve  years.  Bonaparte  stipulated  in  favor  of 
Louisiana,  that  it  should  be,  as  soon  as  possible,  incorporated  into 
the  Union,  and  that  its  inhabitants  should  enjoy  the  same  rights, 
privileges  and  immunities  as  other  citizens  of  the  United  States,  and 
the  clause  giving  to  them  these  benefits  was  drawn  up  by  Bonaparte, 
who  presented  it  to  the  plenipotentiaries  with  these  words :  — 

**  Make  it  known  to  the  people  of  Louisiana,  that  we  regret  to  part 
with  them  ;  that  we  have  stipulated  for  all  the  advantages  they  could 
desire ;  and  that  France,  in  giving  them  up,  has  insured  to  them  the 
greatest  of  all.  They  could  never  have  prospered  under  any  Euro- 
pean government  as  they  will  when  they  become  independent.  But 
while  they  enjoy  the  privileges  of  liberty  let  them  remember  that  they 

are  French,  and  preserve  for  their  mother  country  that  affection  which 
a  common  origin  inspires." 

Complete  satisfaction  was  given  to  both  parties  in  the  terms  of  the 
treaty.     Mr.  Livingston  said  :  — 

<«  I  consider  that  from  this  day  the  United  States  takes  rank  with 
the  first  powers  of  Europe,  and  now  she  has  entirely  escaped  from  the 
power  of  England,"  and  Bonaparte  expressed  a  similar  sentiment  when 
he  said :  '*  By  this  cession  of  territory  I  have  secured  the  power  of  the 
United  States,  and  given  to  England  a  maritime  rival,  who,  at  some 
future  time,  will  humble  her  pride." 

These  were  prophetic  words,  for  within  a  few  years  afterward  the 
British  met  with  a  signal  defeat,  on  the  plains  of  the  very  territory  of 
which  the  great  Corsican  had  been  speaking. 

From  1800,  the  date  of  the  cession  made  by  Spain,  to  1803,  when 
it  was  purchased  by  the  United  States,  no  change  had  been  made  by 


HISTORY   OF   MISSOURI.  ^ 

the  French  authorities  in  the  jurisprudence  of  the  Upper  and  Lower 
Louisiana,  and  during  this  period  the  Spanish  laws  remained  in  full 
force,  as  the  laws  of  the  entire  province  ;  a  fact  which  is  of  interest  to 
those  who  would  understand  the  legal  history  and  some  of  the  present 
laws  of  Missouri. 

On  December  20th,  1803,  Gens.  Wilkinson  and  Claiborne,  who 
were  jointly  commissioned  to  take  possession  of  the  territory  for  the 
United  States,  arrived  in  the  city  of  New  Orleans  at  the  head  of  the 
American  forces.  Laussat,  who  had  taken  possession  but  twenty  days 
previously  as  the  prefect  of  the  colony,  gave  up  his  command,  and  the 
star-spangled  banner  supplanted  the  tri-colored  flag  of  France.  The 
agent  of  France,  to  take  possession  of  Upper  Louisiana  from  the 
Spanish  authorities,  was  Amos  Stoddard,  captain  of  artillery  in  the 
United  States  service.  He  was  placed  in  possession  of  St.  Louis  on 
the  9th  of  March,  1804,  by  Charles  Dehault  Delassus,  the  Spanish 
commandant,  and  on  the  following  day  he  transferred  it  to  the  United 
States.  The  authority  of  the  United  States  in  Missouri  dates  from 
this  day. 

From  that  moment  the  interests  of  the  people  of  the  Mississippi 
Valley  became  identified.  They  were  troubled  no  more  with  uncer- 
tainties in  regai*d  to  free  navigation.  The  great  river,  along  whose 
banks  they  had  planted  their  towns  and  villages,  now  afforded  them 
a  safe  and  easy  outlet  to  the  markets  of  the  world.  Under  the  pro- 
tecting ffigis  of  a  government,  republican  in  form,  and  having  free 
access  to  an  almost  boundless  domain,  embracing  in  its  broad  area  the 
diversified  climates  of  the  globe,  and  possessing  a  soil  unsurpassed  for 
fertility,  beauty  of  scenery  and  wealth  of  minerals,  they  had  every 
incentive  to  push  on  their  enterprises  and  build  up  the  land  wherein 
their  lot  had  been  cast. 

In  the  purchase  of  Louisiana,  it  was  known  that  a  great  empire  had 
been  secured  as  a  heritage  to  the  people  of  our  country,  for  all  time  to 
come,  but  its  grandeur,  its  possibilities,  its  inexhaustible  resources 
and  the  important  relations  it  would  sustain  to  the  nation  and  the 
world  were  never  dreamed  of  by  even  Mr.  Jefferson  and  his  adroit  and 
accomplished  diplomatists. 

The  most  ardent  imagination  never  conceived  of  the  progress  which 
would  mark  the  history  of  the  **  Great  West."  The  adventurous 
pioneer,  who  fifty  years  ago  pitched  his  tent  upon  its  broad  prairies, 
or  threaded  the  dark  labyrinths  of  its  lonely  forests,  little  thought  that 
a  mighty  tide  of  physical  and  intellectual  strength,  would  so  rapidly 


O  HISTOBT  OP  MISSOURI 

flow  on  in  his  footsteps,  to  populate,  build  up  and  enrich  the  domain 
which  he  had  conquered. 

Tear  after  year,  civilization  has  advanced  further  and  further,  until 
at  length  the  mountains,  the  hills  and  the  valleys,  and  even  the  rocks 
and  the  cavernsy  resound  with  the  noise  and  din  of  busy  millions. 

**  I  beheld  the  westward  marches 
Of  the  onknown  crowded  nations.  * 

All  the  land  was  foU  of  people, 
Restless,  straggling,  toiling,  striving, 
Speaking  raany  tongnes,  yet  feeling 
But  one  heart-beat  in  their  bosoms. 
In  the  woodlands  rang  their  axes ; 
Smoked  their  towns  in  all  the  valleys; 
Over  all  the  lakes  and  rivers 
Rashed  their  great  canoes  of  thnnder." 

In  1804,  Congress,  by  an  act  passed  in  April  of  the  same  year, 
divided  Louisiana  into  two  parts,  the  «*  Territory  of  Orleans,"  and 
the**  District  of  Louisiana,"  known  as  **Upper  Louisiana.'*  This 
district  included  all  that  portion  of  the  old  province,  north  of  **  Hope 
Encampment,"  on  the  Lower  Mississippi,  and  embraced  the  present 
State  of  Missouri,  and  all  the  western  region  of  country  to  the  Pacific 
Ocean,  and  all  below  the  forty-ninth  degree  of  north  latitude  not 
claimed  by  Spain. 

As  a  matter  of  convenience,  on  March  26th,  1804,  Missouri  was 
placed  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  government  of  the  Territory  of 
Indiana,  and  its  government  put  in  motion  by  Gen.  William  H.  Har- 
rison, then  governor  of  Indiana.  In  this  he  was  assisted  by  Judges 
Griffin,  Vanderburg  and  Davis,  who  established  in  St.  Louis  what  were 
called  Courts  of  Common  Pleas.  The  District  of  Louisiana  was  regu- 
larly organized  into  the  Territory  of  Louisiana  by  Congress,  March  3, 
1805,  and  President  Jefferson  appointed  Gen.  James  Wilkinson,  Gov- 
ernor, and  Frederick  Bates,  Secretary.  The  Legislature  of  the  ter- 
ritory was  formed  by  Governor  Wilkinson  and  Judges  R.  J.  Meigs 
and  John  B.  C.  Lucas.  In  1807,  Governor  Wilkinson  was  succeeded 
by  Captain  Meriwether  Lewis,  who  had  become  famous  by  reason  of 
his  having  made  the  expedition  up  the  Missouri  with  Clark.  Governor 
Lewis  committed  suicide  in  1809  and  President  Madison  appointed 
Gen.  Benjamin  Howard  of  Lexington,  Kentucky,  to  fill  his  place. 
Gen.  Howard  resigned  October  25,  1810,  to  enter  the  war  of  1812, 
and  died  in  St.  Louis,  in  1814.  Captain  William  Clark,  of  Lewis  and 
Clark's  expedition,  was  appointed  Governor  in  1810,  to  succeed  Gen. 


HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI.  7 

Howard,  and  remained  in  office  until  the  admission  of  the  State  into 
the  Union,  in  1821. 

The  portions  of  Missouri  which  were  settled,  for  the  purposes  of 
local  government  were  divided  into  four  districts.  Cape  Girardeau 
was  the  first,  and  embraced  the  territory  between  Tywappity  Bottom 
and  Apple  Creek.  Ste.  Genevieve,  the  second,  embraced  the  terri- 
tory from  Apple  Creek  to  the  Meramec  River.  St.  Louis,  the  third, 
embraced  the  territory  between  the  M6rameo  and  Missouri  Rivers. 
St.  Charles,  the  fourth,  included  the  settled  territory,  between  the 
Missouri  and  Mississippi  Rivers.  The  total  population  of  these  dis- 
tricts at  that  time,  was  8,670,  including  slaves.  The  population  of 
the  district  of  Louisiana,  when  ceded  to  the  United  States  was  10«120» 


CHAPTER    n. 

DESCRIPTIVE    AND   GEOGRAPHICAL, 

Kame  —  Extent  —  Sarface  —  Rivers  —  Timber  —  Climate  —  Prairies  —  Soils — Popula- 
tion by  Coanties. 

NAME. 

The  name  Missouri  is  derived  from  the  Indian  tongue  and  signifies 
muddy. 

EXTENT. 

Missouri  is  bounded  on  the  north  by  Iowa  (from  which  it  is  sep- 
arated for  about  thirty  miles  on  the  northeast,  by  the  Des  Moines 
River),  and  on  the  east  by  the  Mississippi  River,  which  divides  it  from 
Illinois,  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Indian  Ter« 
ritory,  and  the  States  of  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  The  State  lies  (with 
the  exception  of  a  small  projection  between  the  St.  Francis  and  the 
Mississippi  Rivers,  which  extends  to  36°),  between  36°  30'  and  40°  36' 
north  latitude,  and  between  12°  2'  and  18°  51'  west  longitude  from 
Washington. 

The  extreme  width  of  the  State  east  and  west,  is  about  348  miles ; 
its  width  on  its  northern  boundary,  measured  from  its  northeast  cor- 
ner along  the  Iowa  line,  to  its  intersection  with  the   Des   Moines 


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8  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI. 

Biver,  is  about  210  miles ;  its  width  on  its  southern  boundary  is  abouk 
288  miles.     Its  average  width  is  about  235  miles. 

The  length  of  the  State  north  and  south,  not  including  the  narrow  strip 
between  the  St.  Francis  and  Mississippi  Rivers,  is  about  282  miles.  It 
is  about  450  miles  from  its  extreme  northwest  corner  to  its  southeast 
corner,  and  from  the  noilheast  corner  to  the  southwest  comer,  it  is 
about  230  miles.  These  limits  embrace  an  area  of  65,350  square 
miles,  or  41,824,000  acres,  being  nearly  as  large  as  England,  and  the 
States  of  Vermont  and  New  Hampshire. 

SURFACE. 

North  of  the  Missouri,  the  State  is  level  or  undulating,  while  the 
portion  south  of  that  river  (the  larger  portion  of  the  State)  exhibits  a 
greater  variety  of  surface.  In  the  southeastern  part  is  an  extensive 
marsh,  reaching  beyond  the  State  into  Arkansas.  The  remainder  of 
this  portion  between  the  Mississippi  and  Osage  Rivers  is  rolling,  and 
gradually  rising  into  a  hilly  and  mountainous  district,  forming  the  out- 
skirts of  the  Ozark  Mountains. 

Beyond  the  Osage  River,  at  some  distance,  commences  a  vast  ex- 
panse of  prairie  laud  which  stretches  away  towards  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tains. The  ridges  forming  the  Ozark  chain  extend  in  a  northeast  and 
southwest  direction,  separating  the  waters  that  flow  northeast  into  the 
Missouri  from  those  that  flow  southeast  into  the  Mississippi  River. 

RIVERS.  ' 

No  State  in  the  Union  enjoys  better  facilities  for  navigation  than 
Missouri.  By  means  of  the  Mississippi  River,  which  stretches  along 
her  entire  eastern  boundary,  she  can  hold  commercial  intercourse  with 
the  most  northern  territory  and  State  in  the  Union ;  with  the  whole 
valley  of  the  Ohio ;  with  many  of  the  Atlantic  States,  and  with  the 
Gulf  of  Mexico. 

"Ay,  gather  Europe's  royal  rivers  all  — 
The  snow-sweUed  Neva,  with  an  Empire's  weight 
On  her  broad  breast,  she  yet  may  overwhelm; 
Dark  Danube,  hurrying,  as  by  foe  pursued, 
Through  shaggy  forests  and  by  palace  walls, 
To  hide  its  terror  in  a  sea  of  gloom ; 
The  castled, Rhine,  whose  vine-crowned  waters  flow, 
The  fount  of  fable  and  the  source  of  song ; 
The  rushing  Rhone,  in  whose  cerulean  depths 
The  loving  sky  seems  wedded  with  the  wave; 
The  yeUow  Tiber,  chok'd  with  Roman  spoils, 


HISTORY   OP  MISSOURT,  9* 

A  dying  miser  shrinking  'neath  his  gold ; 

The  Seine,  where  fashion  glasses  the  fairest  forms; 

The  Thames  that  bears  the  riches  of  the  world ; 

Gather  their  waters  in  one  ocean  mass. 

Oar  Mississippi  rolling  proudly  on, 

Wonld  sweep  them  from  its  path,  or  swallow  up, 

Like  Aaron's  rod,  these  streams  of  fame  and  song." 

By  the  Missouri  River  she  can  extend  her  commerce  to  the  Rocky 
Mountains,  and  receive  in  return  the  products  which  will  come  in  the 
course  of  time,  by  its  multitude  of  tributaries. 

The  Missouri  River  coasts  the  northwest  line  of  the  State  for  about 
250  miles,  following  its  windings,  and  then  flows  through  the  State,  a 
little  south  of  east,  to  its  junction  with  the  Mississippi.  The  Mis- 
souri River  receives  a  number  of  tributaries  within  the  limits  of  the 
State,  the  princijial  of  which  are  the  Nodaway,  Platte,  Grand  and 
Chariton  from  the  uorth,  and  the  Blue,  Sniabar,  Lamine,  Osage  and 
Gasconade  from  the  south.  The  principal  tributaries  of  the  Missis- 
sippi within  the  State,  are  the  Salt  River,  noith,  and  the  Meramec 
River  south  of  the  Missouri. 

The  St.  Francis  and  White  Rivers,  with  their  branches,  drain 
the  southeastern  part  of  the  State,  and  pass  into  Arkansas.  The 
Osage  is  navigable  for  steamboats  for  more  than  175  miles.  There 
are  a  vast  number  of  smaller  streams,  such  as  creeks,  branches  and 
rivers,  which  water  the  Statis  in  all  directions. 

Timber.  —  Not  more  towering  in  their  sublimity  were  the  cedars  of 
ancient  Lebano'n,  nor  more  precious  in  their  utility  were  the  almug- 
trees  of  Ophir,  than  the  native  forests  of  Missouri.  The  river  bottoms 
are  covered  with  a  luxuriant  growth  of  oak,  ash,  elm,  hickory,  cotton- 
wood,  linn,  white  and  black  walnut,  and  in  fact,  all  the  varieties  found 
in  the  Atlantic  and  Ei^stern  States.  In  the  more  barren  districts  may 
be  seen  the  white  and  pin  oak,  and  in  many  places  a  dense  growth  of 
pine.  The  crab  apple,  papaw  and  persimmon  are  abundant,  as  also 
the  hazel  and  pecan. 

Climate, — The  climate  of  Missouri  is,  in  general,  pleasant  and 
salubrious.  Like  that  of  Noith  America,  it  is  changeable,  and  sub- 
iect  to  sudden  and  sometimes  extreme  changes  of  heat  and  cold  ;  but 
it  is  decidedly  milder,  taking  the  whole  year  through,  than  that  of  the 
same  latitudes  east  of  the  mountains.  While  the  summers  are  not 
more  oppressive  than  they  are  in  the  corresponding  latitudes  on  and 
near  the  Atlantic  coast,  the  winters  ai*e  shorter,  and  very  much  milder,. 


10  mSTOBT  OF  MISSOURI. 

except  during  the  month  of  February,  which  has  many  days  of  pleas- 
ant sunshine. 

Prairies. — Missouri  is  a  prairie  State,  especially  that  portion  of  it 
north  and  northwest  of  the  Missouri  River.  These  prairies,  along  the 
water  courses,  abound  with  the  thickest  and  most  luxurious  belts  of 
timber,  while  the  "rolling^'  prairies  occupy  the  higher  portions  of 
the  country,  the  descent  generally  to  the  forests  or  bottom  lands  being 
over  only  declivities.  Many  of  these  prairies,  however,  exhibit  a  grace- 
fully waving  surface,  swelling  and  sinking  with  an  easy  slope,  and  a 
full,  rounded  outline,  equally  avoiding  the  unmeaning  horizontal  sur- 
face and  the  interruption  of  abrupt  or  angular  elevations. 

These  prairies  often  embrace  extensive  tracts  of  land,  and  in  one  or 
two  instances  they  cover  an  area  of  fifty  thousand  acres.  During  the 
spring  and  summer  they  are  carpeted  with  a  velvet  of  green,  and 
gaily  bedecked  with  flowers  of  various  forms  and  hues,  making  a 
most  fascinating  panorama  of  ever-changing  color  and  loyeliness.  To 
fully  appreciate  their  great  beauty  and  magnitude,  they  must  be 
seen. 

Soil.  —  The  soil  of  Missouri  is  good,  and  of  great  agricultural  capa- 
bilities, but  the  most  fertile  portions  of  the  State  are  the  river  bot- 
toms, which  are  a  rich  alluvium,  mixed  in  many  cases  with  sand,  the 
producing  qualities  of  which  are  not  excelled  by  the  prolific  valley  of 
the  famous  Nile. 

South  of  the  Missouri  River  there  is  a  greater  variety  of  soil,  but 
much  of  it  is  fertile,  and  even  in  the  mountains  and  mineral  districts 
there  are  rich  valleys,  and  about  the  sources  of  the  White,  Eleven 
Points,  Current  and  Big  Black  Rivers,  the  soil,  though  unproductive, 
furnishes  a  valuable  growth  of  yellow  pine. 

The  marshy  lands  in  the  southeastern  part  of  the  State  will,  by  a 
system  of  drainage,  be  one  of  the  most  fertile  districts  in  the  State. 


HI8TOBY  OF  MISSdUBI. 


11 


POPULATION  BY  COUNTIES  IN  1870,  1876,  AND   1880. 


Connties. 


Adair 

Andrew 

Atchison 

ADdrain      •        . 

BArry 

Barton 

Bates 

Benton 

Bollinger 

Boone  

Bacbanan 

Bntler 

Caldwell 

Callaway 

Camden 

Cape  Girardeau 

Carroll 

Carter 

Cass 

Cedar 

Chariton 

Christian 

CUrk 

Clay 

Clinton 

-Cole 

Cooper        

Crawford 

Dade 

DaUa«  .... 

Dariess 

DeKalb 

Dent 

Douglas 

Dunklin 

Fnuiklin 

Ga8cunade 

Gentry 

Greene 

Grundy 

Harrison     .... 

Henry 

Hickory 

Holt 

Howard 

Howell 

Iron    ...... 

Jackson 

Ja*«per 

Jefferson 

Johnson      

Knox 

Laclede 

Lafa>ette 

Lawrence 

Lewis 

Lincoln       

Linn 

Livingston 


IBTO.- 


11,449 
16,187 

8,440 
12,807 
10,873 

6,087 
16,960 
11,822 

8,162 
20,766 
86,109 

4,29b 
11,890 
19,202 

6,108 
17,668 
17,440 

1,440 
19,299 

9,471 
19,186 

6,707 
18,667 
16,664 
14,068 
10,292 
20,692 

7,982 

8,688 

8,883 
14,410 

9,868 

6,367 

3,916 

6,982 
30,098 
10,093 
11,607 
21,649 
10,667 
14,635 
17,401 

6,452 
11,<>52 
17,233 

4,218 

6,278 
66,041 
14,928 
16,380 
24,648 
10,974 

9,380 
22,624 
13,067 
16,114 
16,960 
16,906 
16,730 


1876. 


13,774 
14,992 
10,926 
16,167 
11,146 

6,900 
17,484 
11,027 

8,884 
31,928 
88466 

4,363 
12,200 
26,267 

7,027 
17,891 
21,498 

1,649 
18,069 

9,897 
28,294 

7,986 
14,649 
16,320 
18,698 
14,122 
21,366 

9,391 
11,089 

8,078 
16,667 
11,169 

7,401 

6,461 

6,266 
26,924 
11,160 
12,673 
24,693 
13,071 
18,580 
18,466 

6,870 
13,246 
17,816 

6,766 

6,623 
64,046 
29,384 
16,186 
23,646 
12,678 

9,846 
22,204 
13,064 
16,360 
16,868 
18,110 
18,074  I 


1880. 

12^,190 
16,318 
14,666 
19,739 
14,424 
10,333 
26,382 
12,898 
11,183 
26,424 
49,824 

6,011 
18,664 
28,670 

7,269 
20,998 
23,800 

2,168 
22,481 
10,747 
26,224 

9,683 
16,681 
16,679 
16,073 
16,619 
21,623 
10,768 
12,667 

9,273 
19,174 
13,343 
10,647 

7,768 

9,604 
26,536 
11,163 
17,188 
28,817 
16,201 
20,318 
23,914 

7,388 
16,510 
18,428 

8,814 

8,183 
82,328 
32,021 
18,736 
28,177 
18,047 
11,624 
26,761 
17,686 
16,926 
17,443 
20,016 
20,206 


mSTOUT  OF  MI8SOUXI. 
KJPDLATION  BT  COUNTIBS— CoBtiBawI. 


OoaaUea. 

isn. 

1H78. 

1880. 

McDonald 

6,2a6 

6,078 

7,816 

26,028 
8,760 
6,481 

22,794 

6,916 
23,780 

7:304 

Marion 

24,837 

Merc«r 

11,657 

13,398 

14,674 

Miller 

6,616 

8,629 

9,807 

MUslsslppl 

4,n83 

9,970 

18,376 

13,084 

14,349 

Uonrori 

17,761 
14,418 

19.078 

Montgomery 

10,406 

16,250 

9,62fl 

10,134 

NewMadrlil 

6,35  T 

6,673 

7,694 

I2,sai 

14,751 

16,875 
23,196 

Nodaway 

29,560 

8,1!87 

4,469 

11,200 

11,824 

8:363 

2,059 

4,679 
2,673 

tVmiscot 

4,299 

Perrj 

9,877 

11,189 

11.896 

Pettla.                 

18.706 

23,167 

S7,28G 

Phelps 

10,606 

B,919 

12.666 

28,076 

22,8S8 
16,948 
13,467 

Polk    .                 

14,446 

15,746 

Pula-Hkl       ,                

4,714 

6,157 

7,250 

Pnluani 

11,217 

12,641 

18,556 

10,610 

9,1197 

RMdolpii 

16,iH}8 

19,178 

22,761 

18,304 

HejDoMs 

6,72i 

Ripley 

8,176 

3,913 

6,377 

St.  Cliarles 

21,304 

21,821 

St.  Clair 

6,742 

11,242 

9,742 

11,621 

,  13,822 

8te.  Genfvleve 

H,3fM 

9,409 

;  10,309 

8t.  LouiB' 

861,189 

31,888 

21,67i 
8,820 

27,087 

Schuyler 

10.470- 

10,670 
7,317 
2,389 

10,119 

12,030 
7,812 
8,236 

13,243 

8:687 

Shelby 

14,024 

Stoddard 

8,53S 

10,888 

13,433 

Stone . 

3,263 

8,544 

1I,;I07 

14,039 
6,124 

Taney 

6,606 

12.207 

11,247 

14,418 

19,870 

Warren 

S,li73 

10,881 

10,806 

Wavhliigton 

1J.719 

13,100 

Wayno 

6,0<]8 

7,006 

10,484 
6,004 

10,li84 
7,164 

1,721,296 

1,547,030 

2,168,801 

>  St.  LoDi*  tilt7  ud  OouDt;  upantad  In  UT7>   FopalMlon  tor  ISTII  not  given. 


HISTOBT  OF  MISSOUBI. 


13 


8T71CMABT. 


Males 

Females 

native 

Foreign 

White 

Colored » 


1,126,424 
1,041,880 
1,967,564 

211,240 
2,023,668 

145,236 


CHAPTEE    ni. 

GEOLOGY  OF  MISSOURI. 

I 

I 

€lassiflcatloii  of  Rocks — Quatenary  Formation — Tertiary  —  Cretaceous  —  Carbonifer- 
ous —  Devonian  —  SUnrian  —  Azoic  —  Economic  Geology — Coal — Iron  —  Lead  — 
Copper — Zinc — Building  Stone  —  Ifeurble  —  Gypsum — Lime  —  Clays — Paints  — 
Springs  — Water  Powet. 

The  stratified  rocks  of  Missouri,  as  classified  and  treated  of  by  Prof. 
G.  C.  Swallow,  belong  to  the  following  divisions :  I.  Quatenary ; 
11.  Tertiary ;  III.  Cretaceous ;  IV.  Carboniferous ;  V.  Devonian ; 
VI.  Silurian  ;  VII.  Azoic. 

*'  The  Quatenary  formations,  are  the  most  recent,  and  the  most 
valuable  to  man:  valuable,  because  they  can  be  more  readily  utilized. 

The  Quatenary  formation  in  Missouri,  embraces  the  Alluvium,  30 
feet  thick  ;  Bottom  Prairie,  30  feet  thick  ;  Bluff,  200  feet  thick ;  and 
Drift,  155  feet  thick.  The  latest  deposits  are  those  which  constitute 
the  Alluvium,  and  includes  the  soils,  pebbles  and  sand,  clays,  vegeta- 
ble mould,  bog,  iron  ore,  marls,  etc. 

The  Alluvium  deposits,  cover  an  area,  within  the  limits  of  Mis- 
souri, of  more  than  four  millions  acres  of  land,  which  are  not  sur- 
passed for  fertility  by  any  region  of  country  on  the  globe. 

The  Bluff  Prairie  formation  is  confined  to  the  low  lands,  which  are 
washed  by  the  two  great  rivers  which  course  our  eastern  and  western 
boundaries,  and  while  it  is  only  about  half  as  extensive  as  the  Allu- 
vial, it  is  equally  as  rich  and  productive." 

*«  The  Bluff  formation,"  says  Prof.  Swallow,  <*  rests  upon  the 
ridges  and  river  bluffs,  and  descends  along  their  slopes  to  the  lowest 
valleys,  the  formation  capping  all  the  Bluffs  of  the  Missouri  from 
Fort  Union  to  its  mouth,  and  those  of  the  Mississippi  from  Dubuque 


^  Including  92  Chinese,  2  half  Chinese,  and  96  Indians  and  half-breeds. 


14  HI6T0RT  OF  MXSSOURI. 

to  the  mouth  of  the  Ohio.  It  forms  the  upper  stratum  beneath  the 
soil  of  all  the  high  lands,  both  timber  and  prairies,  of  all  the  counties 
north  of  the  Osage  and  Missouri,  and  also  St.  Louis,  and  the  Missis- 
sippi counties  on  the  south. 

Its  greatest  development  is  in  the  counties  on  the  Missouri  River 
from  the  Iowa  line  to  Boonville.  In  some  localities  it  is  200  feet 
thick.  At  St.  Joseph  it  is  140 ;  at  Boonville  100 ;  and  at  St.  Louis, 
in  St.  George's  quarry,  and  the  Big  Mound,  it  is  about  50  feet ; 
while  its  greatest  observed  thickness  in  Marion  county  was  only  30 
feet.'* 

The  Drift  formation  is  that  which  lies  beneath  the  Bluff  formation^ 
having,  as  Prof.  Swallow  informs  us,  three  distinct  deposits,  to  wit : 
♦'Altered  Drift,  which  are  strata  of  sand  and  pebbles,  seen  in  the 
banks  of  the  Missouri,  in  the  northwestern  portion  of  the  State. 

The  Boulder  formation  is  a  heterogeneous  stratum  of  sand,  gravel 
and  boulder,  and  water- worn  fragments  of  the  older  rocks. 

Boulder  Clay  is  a  bed  of  bluish  or  brown  sandy  clay,  through  which 
pebbles  are  scattered  in  greater  or  less  abundance.  In  some  locali- 
ties in  northern  Missouri,  this  formation  assumes  a  pure  white,  pipe* 
clay  color." 

The  Tertiary  formation  is  made  up  of  clays,  shales,  iron  ores,  sand- 
stone, and  sands,  scattered  along  the  bluffs,  and  edges  of  the  bottoms, 
reaching  from  Commerce,  Scott  County,  to  Stoddard,  and  south  to 
the  Chalk  Bluffs  in  Arkansas. 

The  Cretacequs  formation  lies  beneath  the  Tertiary,  and  is  com- 
posed of  variegated  sandstone,  bluish-brown  sandy  slate,  whitish- 
brown  impure  sandstone,  fine  white  clay  mingled  with  spotted  flinty 
purple,  red  and  blue  clays,  all  being  in  the  aggregate,  158  feet  in 
thickness.  There  are  no  fossils  in  these  rocks,  and  nothing  by  which 
their  age  may  be  told. 

The  Carboniferous  system  includes  the   Upper   Carboniferous  or 
coal-measures,  and  the  Lower  Carboniferous  or  Mountain  limestone. 
The  coal-measures  are  made  up  of  numerous  strata  of  sandstones^ 
'limestones,  shales,  clays,  marls,  spathic  iron  ores,  and  coals. 

The  Carboniferous  formation,  including  coal-measures  and  the  beds 
of  iron,  embrace  an  area  in  Missouri  of  27,000  square  miles.  The 
varieties  of  coal  found  in  the  State  are  the  common  bituminous  and 
cannel  coals,  and  they  exist  in  quantities  inexhaustible.  The  fact 
that  these  coal-measures  are  full  of  fossils,  which  are  always  confined 


1      _.-•  ^^ 


HI8T0BT   OF  MISSOURI.  15 

to  the  coal  measures,  enables  the  geologist  to  point  them  out,  and  the 
coal  beds  contained  in  them. 

The  rocks  of  the  Lower  Carboniferous  formation  are  varied  in  color^ 
and  are  quarried  in  many  different  parts  of  the  State,  bcKng  exten- 
sively utilized  for  building  and  other  purposes. 

Among  the  Lower  Carboniferous  rocks  is  found  the  Upper  Archi- 
medes Limestone,  200  feet ;  Ferruginous  Sandstone,  195  feet ;  Mid- 
dle Archimedes,  50  feet;  St.  Louis  Limestone,  250  feet;  Ottlitic 
Limestone,  25  feet;  Lower  Archimedes  Limestone,  350  feet;  and 
Encrinital  Limestone,  500  feet.  These  limestones  generally  contain 
fossils. 

The  Ferruginous  limestone  is  soft  when  quarried,  but  becomes  hard 
and  durable  after  exposure.  It  contains  large  quantities  of  iron,  and 
is  found  skirting  the  eastern  coal  measures  from  the  mouth  of  the 
Des  Moines  to  McDonald  county. 

The  St.  Louis  limestone  is  of  various  hues  and  tints,  and  very  hard. 
It  is  found  in  Clatk,  Lewis  and  St.  Louis  counties. 

The  Lower  Archimedes  limestone  includes  partly  the  lead  bearing 
rocks  of  Southwestern  Missouri. 

The  Encrinital  limestone  is  the  most  extensive  of  the  divisions  of 
Carboniferous  limestone,  and  is  made  up  of  brown,  buff,  gray  and 
white.  In  these  strata  are  found  the  remains  of  corals  and  mollus^ks. 
This  formation  extends  from  Marion  county  to  Greene  county.  The 
Devonian  system  contains:  Chemung  Group,  Hamilton  Group, 
Onondaga  limestone  and  Oriskany  sandstone.  The  rocks  of  the 
Devonian  system  are  found  in  Marion,  Ralls,  Pike,  Callaway,  Saline 
and  Ste.  Genevieve  counties. 

/  The  Chemung  Group  has  three  formations,  Chouteau  limestone,  85 
feet;  Vermicular  sandstone  and  shales,  75  feet;  Lithographic  lime- 
stone, 125  feet. 

The  Chouteau  limestone  is  in  two  divisions,  when  fully  developed, 
and  when  first  quarried  is  soft.  It  is  not  only  good  for  building  pur- 
poses but  makes  an  excellent  cement. 

The  Vermicular  sandstone  and  shales  are  usually  buff  or  yellowish 
brown,  and  perforated  with  pores. 

The  Lithographic  limestone  is  a  pure,  fine,  compact,  evenly-tex- 
tured limestone.  Its  color  varies  from  light  drab  to  buff  and  blue. 
It  is  called  **pot  metal,"  because  under  the  hammer  it  gives  a  sharp, 
rinsrins:  sound.     It  has  but  few  fossils. 


16  HISTOBT  OF  MISSOUBI. 

The  Hamilton  Group  is  made  up  of  some  40  feet  of  blue  shales,  and 
170  feet  of  crystalline  limestone. 

Onondaga  limestone  is  usually  a  coarse,  gray  or  buff  crystalline, 
thick-bedded  and  cherty  limestone.  No  formation  in  Missouri  pre- 
sents such  variable  and  widely  different  lithological  characters  as  the 
Onondaga. 

The  Oriskany  sandstone  is  a  light,  gray  limestone. 

Of  the  Upper  Silurian  series  there  are  the  following  formations : 
Lower  Helderberg,  350  feet ;  Niagara  Group,  200  feet ;  Cape  Girar- 
deau limestone,  60  feet. 

The  Lower  Helderberg  is  made  up  of  buff,  gray,  and  reddish  cherty 
and  argillaceous  limestone. 

Niagara  Group.  The  Upper  part  of  this  group  consists  of  red, 
yellow  and  ash-colored  shales,  with  compact  limestones,  variegated 
with  bands  and  nodules  of  chert. 

The  Cape  Girardeau  limestone,  on  the  Mississippi  River  near  Cape 
Grirardeau,  is  a  compact,  bluish-gray,  brittle  limestone,  with  smooth 
•  Victures  in  layers  from  two  to  six  inches  in  thickness,  with  argilla- 
.   us  partings.     These  strata  contains  great  many  fossils. 

1  he  Lower  Silurian  has  the  following  ten  formations,  to  wit :  Hud- 
1 .  iliver  Group,  220  feet ;  Trenton  limestone,  360  feet ;  Black  River 
urn .;  i'ird's  Eye  limestone,  175  feet;  first  Magnesian  limestone,  200 
f*?e^  ;  Saccharoidal  sandstone,  125  feet;  second  Magnesian  limestone, 
2i»()  rVot;  second  sandstone,  115  feet;  third  Magnesian  limestone, 
3-  '  ;  third  sandstone,  60  feet ;  fourth  Magnesian  limestone,  350 

fed, 

ri;dson  River  Group  :  —  There  are  three  formations  which  Prof. 
t:'  .  *llow  refers  to  in  this  group.  These  formations  are  found  in  the 
*A\xS  above  and  below  Louisiana ;  on  the  Grassy  a  few  miles  north- 
west of  Louisiana,  and  in  Ralls,  Pike,  Cape  Girardeau  and  Ste.  Gene- 
vieve Counties. 

Trenton  limestone :  The  upper  part  of  this  formation  is  made  up 
of  thick  beds  of  hard,  compact,  bluish  gray  and  drab  limestone,  varie- 
gated with  irregular  cavities,  filled  with  greenish  materials. 

The  beds  are  exposed  between  Hannibal  and  New  London,  north  of 
Salt  River,  near  Glencoe,  St.  Louis  County,  and  are  seventy-five  feet 
thick. 

Black  River  and  Bird's  Eye  limestone  the  same  color  as  the  Trenton 
limestone. 


HISTORY   OF  MISSOURI. 


17 


The  first  Miignesian  limestone  cap  the  picturesque  bluffs  of  the  Osage 
in  Benton  and  neighboring  counties. 

The  Saccharoidal  sandstone  has  a  wide  range  in  the  State.  In  a 
bluff  about  two  miles  from  Warsaw,  is  a  very  striking  change  of  thick- 
ness of  this  formation. 

Second  Magnesian  limestone,  in  lithological  character,  is  like  the 
first. 

The  second  sandstone,  usually  of  yellowish  brown,  sometimes 
becomes  a  pure  white,  fine-grained,  soft  sandstone  as  on  Cedar  Creek, 
in  Washington  and* Franklin  Counties. 

The  third  Magnesiun  limestone  is  exposed  in  the  high  and  picturesque 
bluffs  of  the  Niangua,  in  the  neighborhood  of  Bryce's  Spring. 

The  third  sandstone  is  white  and  has  a  fonnation  in  moving  water. 

The  fourth  Magnesiun  limestone  is  seen  on  the  Niangua  and  Osage 
Rivers. 

The  Azoic  rocks  lie  below  the  Silurian  and  form  a  series  of  silicious 
and  other  slates  which  contain  no  remains  of  organic  life. 

ECONOMIC   GEOLOGY. 

Goal.  —  Missouri  is  particularly  rich  in  minerals.  Indeed,  no  State 
in  the  Union,  surpasses  her  in  this  respect.  In  some  unknown  age  of 
the  past  —  long  before  the  existence  of  man  —  Nature,  by  a  wise  process, 
made  a  bountiful  provision  for  the  time,  when  in  the  order  of  things, 
it  should  be  necessary  for  civilized  man  to  take  possession  of  these 
broad,  rich  prairies.  As  an  equivalent  for  lack  of  forests,  she  quietly 
stored  awav  beneath  the  soil  those  wonderful  carboniferous  treasures 
for  the  U'^e  of  man. 

Geological  surveys  have  developed  the  fact  that  the  coal  deposits  in 
the  State  are  almost  unnumbered,  embracing  all  varieties  of  the  best 
bituminous  coal.  A  large  portion  of  the  State,  has  been  ascer- 
tained to  be  one  continuous  coal  field,  stretching  from  the  mouth 
of  the  Des  Moines  River  through  Clark,  Lewis,  Scotland,  Adair, 
Macon,  Shelby,  Monroe,  Audrain,  Callaway,  Boone,  Cooper,  Pettis, 
Benton,  Henrv,  St.  Clair,  Bates,  Vernon,  Cedar,  Dade,  Barton  and 
Jnsper,  into  the  Indian  Territory,  and  the  counties  on  the  northwest  of 
this  line  contain  more  or  less  coal.  Coal  rocks  exist  in  Ralls,  Mont- 
gomery, Warren,  St.  Charles,  Moniteau,  Cole,  Morgan,  Crawford  and 
Lincoln,  and  during  the  past  few  years,  all  along  the  lines  of  all  the 
railroads  in  North  Missouri,  and  along  the  western  end  of  the  Missouri 
Pacific,  and  on  the  Missouri  River,  between  Kansas  City  and  Sioux 


18  mSTOBT  OF  MISSOURI. 

City,  has  systematic  mining,  opened  up  hundreds  of  mines  in  different 
localities.  The  area  of  our  coal  beds,  on  the  line  of  the  southwestern 
boundary  of  the  State  alone,  embraces  more  than  26,000  square  miles 
of  regular  coal  measures.  This  will  give  of  workable  coal,  if  the 
average  be  one  foot,  26,800,000,000  tons.  The  estimates  from  the 
developments  already  made,  in  the  different  portions  of  the  State,  will 
give  134,000,000,000  tons. 

The  economical  value  of  this  coal  to  the  State,  its  influence  in 
domestic  life,  in  navigation,  commerce  and  9iani|factures,  is  beyond 
the  imagination  of  man  to  conceive.  Suffice  it  to  say,  that  in  the  pos- 
session of  her  developed  and  undeveloped  coal  mines,  Missouri  has  a 
motive  power,  which  in  its  influences  for  good,  in  the  civilization  of 
man,  is  more  potent  than  the  gold  of  California. 

Iron,  —  Promineht  among  the  minerals,  which  increase  the  power 
and  prosperity  of  a  nation,  is  iron.  Of  this  ore,  Missouri  has  an  inex- 
haustible quantity,  and  like  hei'  coal  fields,  it  has  been  developed  in 
many  portions  of  the  State,  and*  of  the  best  and  purest  quality.  It  is 
found  in  great  abundance  in  the  counties  of  Cooper,  St.  Clair,  Greene, 
Henry,  Franklin,  Benton,  Dallas,  Camden,  Stone,  Madison,  Iron, 
Washington,  Perry,  St.  Francois,  Reynolds,  Stoddard,  Scott,  Dent 
and  others.  The  greatest  deposit  of  iron  is  found  in  the  Iron  Moun- 
tain, which  is  two  hundred  feet  hiirh,  and  covers  an  area  of  five  hun- 
dred  acres,  and  produces  a  metal,  which  is  shown  by  analysis,  to  con- 
tain from  65  to  69  per  cent  of  metallic  iron. 

The  ore  of  Shepherd  Mountain  contains  from  64  to  67  per  cent  of 
metallic  iron.     The  ore  of  Pilot  Knob  contains  from  53  to  60  per  cent. 

Rich  beds  of  iron  are  also  found  at  the  Big  Bogy  Mountain,  and  at 
Russell  Mountain.  This  ore  has,  in  its  nude  state,  a  variety  of  colors^ 
from  the  red,  dark  red,  black,  brown,  to  a  light  bluish  gi'ay.  The 
red  ores  are  found  in  twenty-one  or  more  counties  of  the  State,  and 
are  of  great  commercial  value.  The  brown  hematite  iron  ores  extend 
over  a  greater  range  of  country  than  all  the  others  combined,  embrac- 
ing about  one  hundred  counties,  and  have  been  ascertained  to  exist  in 
these  in  large  quantities. 

Lead.  —  Long  before  any  permanent  settlements  were  made  in  Mis- 
souri by  the  whites,  lead  was  mined  within  the  limits  of  the  State  at 
two  or  three  points  on  the  Mississippi.  At  this  time  more  than  five 
hundred  mines  are  opened,  and  many  of  them  are  being  successfully 
worked.  These  deposits  of  lead  cover  an  area,  so  far  as  developed, 
of  morp  than  seven  thousand  square  miles.     Mines  have  been  opened 


HI8TOBT  OF   MISSOURI.  19 

in  JeSeraou,  Washington,  St.  Francois,  Madison,  Wayne,  Carter,  Rey- 
nolds, Crawford,  Ste.  Genevieve,  Perry,  Colo,  Cape  Girardeau,  Cam- 
den, Morgan,  and  mauy  other  coiMities. 

Copper  and  Zinc.  —  Several  varieties  of  copper  ore  are  found  in 
Missouri.  The  copper  mines  of  Shannon,  Madison  and  Franklin 
Counties  have  been  known  for  years,  and  some  of  these  have  been 
successfully  worked  and  are  now  yielding  good  results. 

Deposits  of  copper  have  been  discovered  in  Dent,  Crawford,  Ben- 
ton, Maries,  Green,  Lawrence,  Dade,  Taney,  Dallas,  Phelps,  Reynolds 
and  Wright  Counties, 

Zinc  is  abundant  in  nearly  all  the  lead  mines  4n  the  southwestern 
part  of  the  State,  and  since  the  completion  of  the  A.  &  P.  R.  R.  a 
market  has  been  furnished  for  this  ore,  which  will  be  converted  into 
valuable  merchandise. 

Building  Stone  and  Marble,  —  There  is  no  scarcity  of  good  building 
stone  in  Missouri.  Limestone,  sandstone  and  granite  exist  in  all 
shades  of  buff,  blue,  red  and  brown,  and  are  of  great  beauty  as  build- 
ing material. 

There  are  many  marble  beds  in  the  State,  some  of  which  furnish 
very  beautiful  and  excellent  marble.  It  is  found  in  Marion,  Cooper^ 
St.  Louis,  and  other  counties. 

One  of  the  most  desirable  of  the  Missouri  marbles  is  in  the  3rd 
Magnesian  limestone,  on  the  Niangua.  It  is  fine-grained,  crystalline, 
silico-magnesian  limestone,  light-drab,  slightly  tinged  with  peach  blos- 
som, and  clouded  by  deep  flesh-colored  shades.  In  ornamental  archi^ 
tecture  it  is  rarely  surpassed. 

Oypsum  and  Lime, — Though  no  extensive  beds  of  gypsum  have 
been  discovered  in  Missouri,  there  are  vast  beds  of  the  pure  white 
crystalline  variety  on  the  line  of  the  Kansas  Pacific  Railroad,  on  Kan- 
sas River,  and  on  Gypsum  Creek.  It  exists  also  in  several  other 
localities  accessible  by  both  rail  and  boat. 

All  of  the  limestone  formations  in  the  State,  from  the  coal  measures 
to  fourth  Magnesian,  have  more  or  less  strata  of  very  nearly  pure  car- 
bonate of  pure  lime. 

Clays  and  Paints,  —  Clays  are  found  in  nearly  all  parts  of  the  State 
suitable  for  making  bricks.  Potters'  clay  and  fire-clay  are  worked  in 
many  localities. 

There  are  several  beds  of  purple  shades  in  the  coal  measures  which 
possess  the  properties  requisite  for  paints  used  in  outside  work.  Yel- 
low and  red  ochres  are  found  in  considerable  quantities  on  the  Missouri 


20  HISTORY   OF   MISSOURI. 

River.     Some  of  these  paints  have  been  thoroughly  tested  and  found 
fire-proof  and  durable. 

SPRINGS    AND   WATER  POWER. 

No  State  is,  perhaps,  better  supplied  with  cold  springs  of  pure  water 
than  Missouri.  Out  of  the  bottoms,  there  is  scarcely  a  section  of 
land  but  has  one  or  more  perennial  springs  of  good  water.  Even 
where  there  are  no  springs,  good  water  can  be  obtained  by  digging 
from  twenty  to  forty  feet.  Salt  springs  are  abundant  in  the  central 
part  of  the  State,  and  discharge  their  brine  in  Cooper,  Saline,  Howard, 
and  adjoining  counties.  Considerable  salt  was  made  in  Cooper  and 
Howard  Counties  at  an  early  day.  f 

Sulphur  springs  are  also  numerous  throughout  the  State.  The 
Chouteau  Springs  in  Cooper,  the  Monagaw  Springs  in  St.  Clair,  the 
Elk  Springs  in  Pike,  and  the  Cheltenham  Springs  in  St.  Louis  CcJunty 
tiave  acquired  considerable  reputation  as  salubrious  waters,  and  have 
become  popular  places  of  resort.  Many  other  counties  have  good 
sulphur  springs. 

Among  the  Chalybeate  springs  the  Sweet  Springs  on  the  Black- 
water,  and  the  Chalybeate  spring  in  the  University  camp'us  are,  perhaps, 
the  most  popular  of  the  kind  in  the  State.  There  are,  however,  other 
spnngs  impregnated  with  some  of  the  salts  of  iron. 

Petroleum  springs  are  found  in  Carroll,  Ray,  Randolph,  Cass, 
Lafayette,  Bates,  Vernon,  and  other  counties.  The  variety  called 
hibricatinff  oil  is  the  more  common. 

The  water  power  of  the  State  is  excellent.  Large  springs  are 
particularly  abundant  on  the  waters  of  the  Meramec,  Gasconade, 
Bourbeuse,  Osage,  Niangua,  Spring,  White,  Sugar,  and  other  streams. 
Besides  these,  there  are  hundreds  of  springs  suflSciently  large  to  drive 
mills  and  factories,  iind  the  day  is  not  far  distant  when  these  crystal 
fountains  will  be  utilized,  and  a  thousand  saws  will  buzz  to  their 
dashing  music. 


HISTORY  OF  MI880UBI«  21 


CHAPTEE    lY. 


TITLE  AND   EARLY  SETTLEMENTS. 

Title  to  MiRsouri  Lands  —  Right  of  Discovery —Title  of  France  and  Spain  —  Cession 
to  the  United  States  —  Territorial  Changes  —  Treaties  with  Indians  —  First  SetUe- 
ment  —  Ste.  Genevieve  and  New  Bourbon  — St.  Louis  — When  Incorporated— 
Potosl  —  St.  Charles — Portage  des  Sioux — New  Madrid  —  St.  Francois  County — 
Perry  — Mississippi- Lontre  Island —  « Boone's  Lick**— Cote  Sans  Desseln  — 
Howard  County  —  Some  First  Things  —  Counties  —  When  Organized. 

The  title  to  the  soil  of  Missouri  was,  of  course,  primarily  vested  in 
flie  original  occupants  who  inhabited  the  country  prior  to  its  discovery 
by  the  whites.  But  the  Indians,  being  savages,  possessed  but  few 
rights  that  civilized  nations  considered  themselves  bound  to  respect ; 
80,  therefore^  when  they  found  this  country  in  the  possession  of  such 
a  people  they  claimed  it  in  the  name  of  the  King  of  France,  by  the 
rig/a  of  discovery.  It  remained  under  the  jurisdiction  of  France 
until  1763. 

Prior  to  the  j^ear  17fi3,  the  entire  continent  of  North  America  was 
divided  between  France,  England,  Spain  and  Russia.  France  held  all 
that  portion  that  now  constitutes  our  national  domain  west  of  the 
Mississippi  River,  except  Texas,  and  the  territory  which  we  have 
obtained  from  Mexico  and  Russia.  The  vast  region,  while  under  the 
jurisdiction  of  France,  was  known  as  the  '*  Province  of  Louisiana," 
and  embraced  the  present  State  of  Missouri.  At  the  close  of  the 
"Old  French  War,"  in  1763,  France  gave  up  her  share  of  the  con- 
tinent, and  Spain  came  into  the  possession  of  the  territory  west  of  the 
Mississippi  River,  while  Great  Britain  retained  Canada  and  the  regions 
northward,  having  obtained  that  territory  by  conquest,  in  the  war 
with  France.  For  thirty-seven  years  the  territory  now  embraced 
within  the  limits  of  Missouri,  remi^ined  as  a  part  of  the  possession  of 
Spain,  and  then  went  back  to  France  by  the  treaty  of  St.  Ildefonso, 
October  1,  1800.  On  the  30th  of  April,  1803,  France  ceded  it  to  the 
United  States,  in  consideration  of  receiving  $11,250,000,  and  the 
liquidation  of  certain  claims,  held  by  citizens  of  the  United  States 
against  France,  which  amounted  to  the  further  sum  of  $3,750,000, 
makin*^  a  total  of  $15,000,000.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  France  has 
twice,  and  Spain  once,  held  sovereignty  over  the  territory  embracing 


22  HISTORY   OF  MISSOURI. 

Missouri,  "but  the  financial  needs  of  Napoleon  afforded  our  Govern- 
ment an  opportunity  to  add  another  empire  to  its  domain. 

On  the  31st  of  October,  1803,  an  act  of  Congress  was  approved, 
authorizing  the  President  to  take  possession  of  the  newly  acquired 
territory,  and  provided  for  it  a  temporary  government,  and  another 
act,  approved  March  26, 1804,  authorized  the  division  of  the  **  Louis- 
iana Purchase,'*,  as  it  was  then  called,  into  two  separate  territories. 
All  that  portion  south  of  the  33d  parallel  of  north  latitude  was  called 
the  **  Territory  of  Orleans,"  and  that  north  of  the  said  parallel  was 
known  as  the  **  District  of  Louisiana,"  and  was  placed  under  the 
jurisdiction  of  what  was  then  known  as  **  Indian  Territory." 

By  virtue  of  an  act  of  Congress,  approved  March  3,  1805,  the 
** District  of  Louisiana"  was  organized  as  the  **  Territory  of  Louis- 
iana," with  a  territorial  government  of  its  own,  which  went  into 
operation  July  4th  of  the  same  year,  and  it  so  remained  till  1812.  In 
this  year  the  **  Territory  of  Orleans  "  became  the  State  of  Louisiana, 
and  the  **  Territory  of  Louisiana"  was  organized  as  the  **  Territory 
of  Missouri." 

This  change  took  place. under  an  act  of  Congress,  approved  June  4, 
1812.  In  1819,  a  portion  of  this  territory  was  organized  as  **  Arkan- 
sas Territory,"  and  on  August  10,  1821,  the  State  of  Missouri  was 
admitted,  being  a  part  of  the  former  **  Territory  of  Missouri." 

In  1836,  the  **  Platte  Purchase,"  then  being  a  part  of  the  Indian 
Territory,  and  now  composing  the  counties  of  Atchison,  Andrew, 
Buchanan,  Holt,  Nodaway  and.  Platte,  was  made  by  treaty  with  the 
Indians,  and  added  to  the  State.  It  will  be  seen,  then,  that  the  soil 
of  Missouri  belonged  :  — 

1.  To  France,  with  other  territory. 

2.  In  1763,  with  other  territory,  it  was  ceded  to  Spain. 

3.  October  1,  1800,  it  was  ceded,  with  other  territory  from  Spain, 
back  to  France. 

4.  April  30,  1803,  it  was  ceded,  with  other  territory,  by  France  to 
the  United  States. 

5.  October  31,  1803,  a  temporary  government  was  authorized  by 
Congress  for  the  newly  acquired  territory. 

6.  October  1,  1804,  it  was  included  in  the  **  District  of  Louisiana" 
and  placed  under  the  territorial  government  of  Indiana. 

7.  July  4,  1805,  it  was  included  as  a  part  of  the  **  Territory  of 
Louisiana,"  then  organized  with  a  separate  territorial  government. 


HISTOBT  OF  MISSOURI. 


23 


8.  June  4,  1812,  it  was  embraced  in  what  was  then  made  the  "  Ter- 
ritory of  Missouri." 

9.  August  lOy  1821,  it  was  admitted  into  the  Union  as  a  State. 

10.  In  1836,  the  **  Platte  Purchase"  was  made,  adding  more  ter- 
ritory to  the  State. 

The  cession  by  France,  April  30, 1803,  vested  the  title  in  the  United 
States,  subject  to  the  claims  of  the  Indians,  which  it  was  very  justly 
the  policy  of  the  Government  to  recognize.  Before  the  Government 
of  the  United  States  could  vest  clear  title  to  the  soil  in  the  grantee  it 
was  necessary  to  extinguish  the  Indian  title  by  purchase.  This  was 
done  accordingly  by  treaties  made  with  the  Indians  at  different  times. 

EARLT   SETTLEMENTS. 

The  name  of  the  first  white  man  who  set  foot  on  the  territory  now 
embraced  in  the  State  of  Missouri,  is  not  known,  nor  is  it  known  at 
what  precise  period  the  first  settlements  were  made.  It  is,  however, 
generally  agreed  that  they  were  made  at  Ste.  Genevieve  and  New 
Bourbon,  tradition  fixing  the  date  of  the  settlements  in  the  autumn  of 
1735.  These  towns  were  settled  by  the  French  from  Kaskaskia  and 
St.  Philip  in  Illinois. 

St.  Louis  was  founded  by  Pierre  Laclede  Liguest,  on  the  15th  of 
February,  1764.  He  was  a  native  of  France,  and  was  one  of  the 
members  of  the  company  of  Laclede  Liguest,  Antonio  Maxant  &  Co., 
to  whom  a  royal  charter  had  been  granted,  confirming  the  privilege 
of  an  exclusive  trade  with  the  Indians  of  Missouri  as  far  north  as  St. 
Peter's  River. 

While  in  search  of  a  trading  post  he  ascended  the  Mississippi  as  far 
as  the  mouth  of  the  Missouri,  and  finally  returned  to  the  present  town 
site  of  St.  Louis.  After  the  village  had  been  laid  off  he  named  it  St. 
Louis  in  honor  of  Louis  XV.,  of  France. 

The  colony  thrived  rapidly  by  accessions  from  Kaskaskia  and  other 
towns  on  the  east  side  of  the  Mississippi,  and  its  trade  was  largely  in. 
creased  by  many  of  the  Indian  tribes,  who  removed  a  portion  of  their 
peltry  trade  from  the  same  towns  to  St.  Louis.  It  was  incorporated 
as  a  town  on  the  ninth  day  of  November,  1809,  by  the  Court  of  Com- 
mon Pleas  of  the  district  of  St.  Louis ;  the  town  trustees  being 
AuiTuste  Chouteau,  Edward  Hempstead,  Jean  F.  Cabanne,  Wm.  C. 
€arr  and  William  Christy,  and  incorporated  as  a  city  December  9, 
1822.  The  selection  of  the  town  site  on  which  St.  Louis  stands  was 
highly  judicious,  the  spot  not  only  being  healthful  and  having  the  ad- 


24  HISTORY   OF   MISSOURI. 

vantages  of  water  transportation  unsurpassed,  but  surrounded  by  a 
beautiful  region  of  country,  rich  in  soil  and  mineral  resources.  St. 
Louis  has  grown  to  be  the  fifth  city  in  population  in  the  Union,  and 
is  to-day  the  great  center  of  internal  commerce  of  the  Missouri,  the 
Mississippi  and  their  tributaries,  and,  with  its  railroad  facilities,  it  is 
destined  to  be  the  greatest  inland  city  of  the  American  continent. 

The  next  settlement  was  made  at  Potosi,  in  Washington  County,  in 
1765,  by  Francis  Breton,  who,  while  chasing  a  bear,  discovered  the 
mine  near  the  present  town  of  Potosi,  where  he  afterward  located. 

One  of  the  most  prominent  pioneers  who  settled  at  Potosi  was 
Moses  Austin,  of  Virginia,  who,  in  1795,  received  by  grant  from  the 
Spanish  government  a  league  of  land,  now  known  as  the  "Austin  Sur- 
vey." The  grant  was  made  on  condition  that  Mr.  Austin  would  es- 
tablish a  lead  mine  at  Potosi  and  work  it.  He  built  a  palatial 
residence,  for  that  day,  on  the  brow  of  the  hill  in  the  little  villaire, 
which  was  for  many  years  known  as  "  Durham  Hall."  At  this  i)oint 
the  first  shot-tower  and  sheet-lead  manufactory  were  erected. 

Five  years  after  the  founding  of  St.  Louis  the  first  settlement  made 
in  Northern  Missouri  was  made  near  St.  Charles,  in  St.  Charles 
County,  in  1769/  The  name  given  to  it,  and  which  it  retained  till 
1784,  was  Les  Petites  Cotes,  signifying,  Little  Hills.  The  town  site 
was  located  by  Blanchette,  a  Frenchman,  surnamed  LeChasseur,  who 
built  the  first  fort  in  the  town  and  established  there  a  military  post. 

Soon  after  the  establishment  of  the  military  post  at  St.  Charles,  the 
old  French  village  of  Portage  des  Sioux,  was  located  on  the  Missis- 
sippi, just  below  the  mouth  oi  the  Illinois  River,  and  at  about  the 
same  time  a  Kickapoo  village  was  commenced  at  Clear  Weather  Lake. 
The  present  town  site  of  New  Madrid,  in  New  Madrid  county,  was 
settled  in  1781,  by  French  Canadians,  it  then  being  occupied  by  Del- 
aware Indians.  The  place  now  known  as  Big  River  Mills,  St,  Fran- 
cois county,  was  settled  in  1796,  Andrew  Baker,  John  Alley,  Francis 
Starnater  and  John  Andrews,  each  locating  claims.  The  following 
year,  a  settlement  was  made  in  the  same  county,  just  below  the  pres- 
ent town  of  Farmington,  by  the  Rev.  William  Murphy,  a  Bnptist  min- 
ister from  East  Tennessee.  In  1796,  settlements  were  made  in  Perry 
county  by  emigrants  from  Kentucky  and  Pennsylvania  ;  the  latter  lo- 
<5atins:  in  the  rich  bottom  lands  of  Bois  Brule,  the  former  o^enerallv 
settling  in  the  '*  Barrens,*'  and  along  the  waters  of  Saline  Creek. 

Bird's  Point,  in  Mississippi  county,  opposite  Cairo,  Illinois,  was 
settled  August  6,  1800,  by  John  Johnson,  by  virtue  of  a  land-grant 


HISTOKT  OF  WESBOCmi,  i^ 

from  the  oonnnandant  under  the  Spanish  Goremment.  Norfolk  and 
Charleston,  in  the  same  coantv,  were  settled  respectively  in  1800  and 
1801.  Warren  oonntr  was  settled  in  1801.  Loutre  Island,  below 
the  present  town  of  Hermann,  in  the  Missouri  River,  was  settled  by  a 
few  American  ^milies  in  1807.  This  tittle  company  of  pioneers  suf- 
fered sjeatW  frowa  the  floods,  as  well  as  from  the  incursions  of  thieviu«r 
and  blood-thirstv  Indians,  and  many  incidents  of  a  thrillinsr  character 
coald  be  related  of  trials  and  struggles,  hnd  we  the  time  and  spnee. 

In  1807,  Nathan  and  Daniel  M.  Boone,  sous  of  the  great  huuter  and 
pioneer,  in  company  with  three  others,  went  from  St.  Louis  to 
*<  Boone's  Lick,"  in  Howard  county,  where  they  manufactured  salt 
and  formed  the  nucleus  of  a  small  settlement. 

Cote  Sans  Dessein^  now  called  Bakersville,  on  the  Missouri  Kivor, 
in  Callaway  county,  was  settled  by  the  French  in  1801.  This  little 
town  was  considered  at  that  time,  as  the  *•  Far  West**  of  the  new 
world.  During  the  war  of  1812,  at  this  place  many  hard-fought 
battles  occurred  between  the  whites  and  Indians,  wherein  woman's 
fortitude  and  courage  greatly  assisted  in  the  defence  of  the  settle-* 
ment. 

In  1810,  a  colony  of  Kentuckians  numbering  one  hundred  and  fifty 
fiunilies  immigrated  to  Howard  county,  and  settled  on  the  Missouri 
Elver  in  Cooper's  Bottom  near  the  present  town  of  Fnuiklin,  and 
opposite  Arrow  Kock. 

Such,  in  brief,  is  the  history  of  some  of  the  early  settlements  of 
Missouri,  covering  a  period  of  more  than  half  a  century. 

These  settlements  were  made  on  the  water  courses  ;  usualU'  along 
the  banks  of  the  two  great  streams,  whose  navigation  affonled  them 
transportation  for  their  marketable  commodities,  and  communication 
with  the  civilized  portion  of  the  country. 

They  not  only  encountered  the  gloomy  forests,  settling  as  they  did 
by  the  river's  brink,  but  the  hostile  incursion  of  savage  Indians,  by 
whom  they  were  for  manv  years  surrounded. 

The  expedients  of  these  brave  men  who  first  broke  ground  in  the 
territory,  have  been  succeeded  by  the  permanent  and  tasteful  improve- 
ments of  their  descendants.  Upon  the  spots  where  they  toiled,  dared 
and  died,  are  seen  the  comfortable  farm,  the  beautiful  village,  and 
thrifty  city.  Churches  and  school  houses  greet  the  eye  on  every 
hand;  milroads  diverge  in  every  direction,  and,  indeed,  all  the  appli- 
ances of  a  higher  civilization  are  profusely  strewn  over  the  smiling 
surface  of  the  State. 


26  HISrOBT  OF  MISSOURI. 

I  Caltare'8  hand 

Has  scattered  verdore  o'er  the  land; 
And  smiles  and  fragrance  role  serene. 
Where  barren  ¥rild  nsorped  the  scene* 

SOlfE  FIBST  THIN08. 

The  first  marriage  that  took  place  Jn  Missouri  was  April  20,  1766, 
in  St.  Louis. 

The  first  baptism  was  performed  in  May,  1766,  in  St.  Louis. 

The  first  house  of  worship,  (Catholic)  was  erected  in  1775,  at  St. 
Louis. 

The  first  ferry  established  in  1805,  on  the  Mississippi  River,  at  St. 
Louis.  \ 

The  first  newspaper  established  in  St.  Louis  (Missouri  Gazette) y  in 
1808. 

The  first  postoffice  was  established  in  1804,  in  St.  Louis  —  Rufus 
E^ston,  post-master. 

The  first  Protestant  church  erected  at  Ste.  Genevieve,  in  1806  — 
Baptist. 

The  first  bank  established  (Bank  of  St.  Louis),  in  1814. 

The  first  market  house  opened  in  1811,  in  St.  Louis. 

The  first  steamboat  on  the  Upper  Mississippi  was  the  General  Pike, 
Capt.  Jacob  Reid ;  landed  at  St.  Louis  1817. 

The  first  board  of  trustees  for  public  schools  appointed  in  1817,  St. 
Louis. 

The  first  college  built  (St.  Louis  College),  in  1817. 

The  first  steamboat  that  came  up  the  Missouri  River  as  high  as 
Franklin  was  the  Independence,  in  May,  1819 ;  Capt.  Nelson,  mas- 
ter. 

The  first  coui-t  house  erected  in  1823,  in  St.  Louis. 

The  first  cholera  appeared  in  St.  Louis  in  1832. 

The  first  railroad  convention  held  in  St.  Louis,  April  20,  1836. 

The  first  telegraph  lines  reached  East  St.  Louis,  December  20, 
1847. 

The  first  great  fire  occurred  in  St.  Louis,  1849. 


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CHAPTER    V. 

TERRITORIAL  ORGANIZATION. 

Organization  1812  — Council— House  of  Representatives— William  Clark  first  Terri- 
torial Governor— Edward  Hempstead  first  Delegate  —  Spanish  Grants— First 
General  Assembly — Proceedings  —  Second  Assembly  —  Proceedings  —  Population 
of  Territory — Vote  of  Territory — Ruf  us  Easton — Absent  Members  —  Third  Assem- 
bly — Proceedings — Application  for  Admission. 

Congress  organized  Missouri  as  a  Territory,  July  4,  1812,  with  a 
Governor  and  General  Assembly.  The  Governor,  Legislative  Coun- 
cil, and  House  of  Representatives  exercised  the  Legislative  power  of 
thp  Territory,  the  Governor's  vetoing  power  being  absolute. 

lie  Legislative  Council  was  composed  of  nine  members,  whose  ten- 
ure of  office  lasted  five  years.  Eighteeti  citizens  were  nominated  by 
the  House  of  Representatives  to  the  President  of  the  United  States, 
from  whom  he  selected,  with  the  approval  of  the  Senate,  nine  Couur 
cillor8,to  compose  the  Legislative  Council. 

The  House  of  Representatives  consi^d  of  members  chosen  every 
two  years  by  the  people,  the  basis  of  representation  being  one  mem- 
ber for  every  five  hundred  white  males'.  The  first  House  of  Repre* 
sentatives  consisted  of  thirteen  members,  and,  by  Act  of  Congress,  the 
whole  number  of  Representatives  could  not  exceed  twenty-five. 

The  judicial  power  of  the  Territory,  was  vested  in  the  Superior  and 
Inferior  Courts,  and  in  the  Justices  of  the  Peace  ;  the  Superior  Court 
having  three  judges,  whose  term  of  office  continued  four  years,  hav- 
ing original  and  appellate  jurisdiction  in  civil  and  criminal  cases. 

The  Territory  could  send  one  delegate  to  Congress.  Governor 
Clark  issued  a  proclamation,  October  1st,  1812,  required  by  Congress, 
reorganizing  the  districts  of  St.  Charles,  St.  Louis,  Ste.  Genevieve, 
Cape  Girardeau,  and  New  Madrid,  into  five  counties,  and  fixed  the 
second  Monday  in  November  following,  for  the  election  of  a  delegate 
to  Congress,  and  the  members  of  the  Territorial  House  of  Represen- 
tatives. 

William  Clark,  of  the  expedition  of  Lewis  and  Clark,  was  the  first 
Territorial  Governor,  appointed  by  the  President,  who  began  his  duties 
1813. 

Edward  Hempstead,  Rufus  Easton,  Samuel  Hammond,  and  Matthew 
Lyon  were  candidates  in  November  for  delegates  to  Congress. 


28  HI8TOBT   OP  MISSOURI. 

Edward  Hempstead  was  elected,  being  the  first  Territorial  Dele- 
gate to  Congress  from  Missouri.  He  served  one  term,  declining  a 
second,  and  was  instrumental  in  having  Congress  to  pass  the  act  of 
June  13,  1812,  which  he  introduced,  confirming  the  title  to  lands 
which  were  claimed  by  the  people  by  virtue  of  Spanish  grants.  The 
same  act  confirmed  to  the  people  '*  for  the  support  of  schools,"  the 
title  to  village  lots,  out-lots  or  common  field  lots,  which  were  hold 
and  enjoyed  by  them,  at  the  time  of  the  session  in  1803. 

Under  the  act  of  June  4,  1812,  the  first  General  Assembly  held  its 
session  in  the  house  of  Joseph  Robidoux,  in  St.  Louis,  on  the  7th  of 
December,  1812.     The  names  of  the  members  of  the  House  were  :  — 

St.  Charles.  —  John  Pitman  and  Robert  Spencer. 

St.  Louis. — David  Music,  Bernard  G.  Farrar,  William  C.  Carr, 
and  Richard  Clark. 

Ste.  Genevieve.  —  George  Bullet,  Richard  S.  Thomas,  and  Isaac 
McGready. 

Cape  Girardeau.  —  George  F.  Bollinger,  and  Spencer  Byrd. 
.  New  Madrid. — John  Shraderand  Samuel  Phillips. 

John  B.  C.  Lucas,  one  of  the  Territorial  Judges,  administered  the 
oath  of  office.  William  C.  Carr  was  elected  speaker,  and  Andrew 
Scott,  Clerk. 

The  House  of  Representatives  proceeded  to  nominate  eighteen  per- 
sons from  whom  .the  President  of  the  United  States,  with  the  Senate, 
was  to  select  nine  for  the  Council.  From  this  number  the  President 
chose  the  following : 

St.  Charles.  — James  Flaugherty  and  Benjamin  Emmons. 

St.  Louis.  —  Auguste  Chouteau,  Sr.,  and  Samuel  Hammond. 

Ste.  Genevieve. — John  Scott  and  James  Maxwell. 

Cape  Girardeau.  —  William  Neeley  and  Joseph  Cavenor.  • 

New  Madrid.  — Joseph  Hunter. 

The  Legislative  Council,  thus  chosen  by  the  President  and  Senate, 
was  announced  by  Frederick  Bates,  Secretary  and  Acting-Governor  of 
the  Territory,  by  proclamation,  June  3,  1813,  and  fixing  the  first 
Monday  in  July  following,  as  the  time  for  the  meeting  of  the  Legis- 
lature. 

In  the  meantime  the  duties  of  the  executive  office  were  assumed  by 
William  Clark.  The  Legislature  accordingly  met,  as  required  by  the 
Acting-Governor's  proclamation,  in  July,  but  its  proceedings  were 
never  officially  published.  Consequently  but  little  is  known  in  refer- 
ence to  the  workings  of  the  first  Territorial  Legislature  in  Missouri. 


HISTOB^   OF   MISSOURI. 


29 


From  the  imperfect  account,  published  in  the  Missouri  Gazette^  of 
that  day ;  a  paper  which  had  been  in  existence  since  1808,  it  is  found 
that  laws  were  passed  regulating  and  establishing  weights  and  meas- 
ures; creating  the  office  of  Sheriff;  providing  the  manuer  for  taking 
the  census ;  permanently  fixing  the  seats  of  Justices,  and  an  act  to 
compensate  its  own  members.  At  this  session,  laws  were  also  passed 
defining  crimes  and  penalties ;  laws  in  reference  to  forcible  entry  and 
detainer ;  establishing  Courts  of  Common  Pleas ;  incorporating  the 
Bank  of  St.  Louis ;  and  organizing  a  part  of  Ste.  Genevieve  county 
into  the  county  of  Washington. 

The  next  session  of  the  Legislature  convened  in  St.  Louis,  Decem- 
ber 6,  1813.  George  Bullet  of  Ste.  Genevieve  county,  was  speaker 
elect,  and  Andrew  Scott,  clerk,  and  William  Sullivan,  doorkeeper. 
Since  the  adjournment  of  the  former  Legislature,  several  vacancies 
had  occurred,  and  new  members  had  been  elected  to  fill  their  places. 
Among  these  was  Israel  McCready,  from  the  county  of  Washington. 

The  president  of  the  legislative  council  was  Samuel  Hammond. 
No  journal  of  the  council  was  officially  published,  but  the  proceedings 
of  the  house  are  found  in  the  Gazette. 

At  this  session  of  the  Legislature  many  wise  and  useful  laws  were 
passed,  having  reference  to  the  temporal  as  well  as  the  moral  and 
spiritual  welfare  of  the  people.  Laws  were  enacted  for  the  suppres- 
sion of  vice  and  immorality  on  the  Sabbath  day ;  for  the  improve- 
ment of  public  roads  and  highways ;  creating  the  offices  of  auditor, 
treasurer  and  connty  surveyor ;  regulating  the  fiscal  affairs  of  the 
Territory  and  fixing  the  boundary  lines  of  New  Madrid,  Cape  Girar- 
deau, Washington  and  St.  Charles  counties.  The  Legislature  ad- 
journed on  the  19th  of  January,  1814,  sine  die. 

The  population  of  the  Territory  as  shown  by  the  United  States 
census  in  1810,  was  20,845.  The  census  taken  by  the  Legislature  in 
1814  gave  the  Territory  a  population  of  25,000.  This  enumeration 
shows  the  county  of  St.  Louis  contained  the  greatest  number  of  in- 
habitants, and  the  new  county  of  Arkansas  the  least  —  the  latter  hav- 
ing 827,  and  the  former  3,149. 

The  candidates  for  delegate  to  Congress  were  Bufus  Easton,  Samuel 
Hammond,  Alexander  McNair  and  Thomas  F.  Kiddick.  Bufus 
Easton  and  Samuel  Hammond  had  been  candidates  at  the  preceding 
election.  In  all  the  counties,  excepting  Arkansas,  the  votes  aggre- 
gated 2,599,  of  which  number  Mr.  Easton  received  965,  Mr.  Ham- 


30  HI8TOBT  OF  MISSOURI. 

mond  746,  Mr.  McNair  853,  and  Mr.  Riddick  (who  had  withdrawn 
previously  to  the  election)  35.     Mr.  Easton  was  elected. 

The  census  of  1814  showing  a  large  increase  in  the  population  of 
the  Territory,  an  appointment  was  made  increasing  the  number  of 
Representatives  in  the  Territorial  Legislature  to  twenty-two.  The 
General  Assembly  began  its  session  in  St.  Louis,  December  5,  1814. 
There  were  present  on  the  first  day  twenty  Representatives.  James 
Caldwell  of  Ste.  Genevieve  county  was  elected  speaker,  and  Andrew 
Scott  who  had  been  clerk  of  the  preceding  assembly,  was  chosen 
clerk.  The  President  of  the  Council  was  Willitim  Neeley,  of  Cape 
Girardeau  county. 

It  appeared  that  James  Maxwell,  the  absent  member  of  the  Council, 
and  Seth  Emmons,  member  elect  of  the  House  of  Representatives, 
were  dead.  The  county  of  Lawrence  was  organized  at  this  session, 
from  the  western  part  of  New  Madrid  county,  and  the  coiporate 
powers  of  St.  Louis  were  enlarged.  In  1815  the  Territorial  Legisla- 
ture again  began  its  session.  Only  a  partial  report  of  its  proceedings 
are  given  in  the  Gazette.  The  county  of  Howard  was  then  organized 
from  St.  Louis  and  St.  Charles  counties,  and  included  all  that  part  of 
the  State  lying  noith  of  the  Osage  and  south  of  the  dividing  ridge 
between  the  Mississippi  and  Missouri  Rivers.  (For  precise  bounda- 
ries, see  Chapter  I.  of  the  History  of  Boone  County.) 

The  next  session  of  the  Territorial  Legislature  commenced  its  ses- 
sion in  December,  1816.  During  the  sitting  of  this  Legislature  many 
important  acts  were  passed.  It  was  then  that  the  *' Bank  of  Mis- 
souri "  was  chartered  and  wentinto  operation.  In  the  fall  of  1817  the 
**  Bank  of  St.  Louis"  and  the  **Bank  of  Missouri"  were  issuins: 
bills.  An  act  was  passed  chartering  lottery  companies,  chartering 
the  academy  at  Potosi,  and  incorporating  a  board  of  trustees  for 
superintending  the  schools  in  the  town  of  St.  Louis.  Laws  were  also 
passed  to  encourage  the  *'  killing  of  wolves,  panthers  and  wild-cats." 

The  Territorial  Legislature  met  again  in  December,  1818,  and, 
among  other  things,  organized  the  counties  of  Pike,  Cooper,  Jeffer- 
son, Franklin,  Wayne,  Lincoln,  Madison,  Montgomery,  and  three 
couuties  in  the  Southern  part  of  Arkansas.  In  1819  the  Territory  of 
Arkansas  was  formed  into  a  separate  government  of  its  own. 

The  people  of  the  Territory  of  Missouri  had  been,  for  some  time, 
anxious  that  their  Territory  should  assume  the  duties  and  responsibilities 
of  a  sovereign  State.  Since  1812,  the  date  of  the  organization  of  the 
Territory,  the  population  had  rapidly  increased,  many  counties  had 


HI8TOBT  OF  HISSOOBI.  31 

been  established,  its  commerce  had  grown  into  importance,  its  agri- 
cultural and  mineral  resources  were  being  developed,  and  believing 
that  its  admission  into  the  Union  as  a  State  would  give  fresh  impetus 
to  all  these  interests,  and  hasten  its  settlement,  the  Territorial  Legis- 
lature of  1818-19  accordingly  made  application  to  Congress  for  the 
pass:ige  of  an  act  authorizing  the  people  of  Missouri  to  organize  a  State 
governmeut. 


CHAPTER    VI. 

Application  of  Missouri  to  be  admitted  into  tlie  Union  —  Agitation  of  the  Slavery 
Question  —  "  Missouri  Compromise  "  —  Constitutional  Convention  of  1820  —  Con- 
stitotion  presented  to  Congress  —  Farther  Resistance  to  Admission  —  Mr.  Clay  and 
his  Committee  make  Report —  Second  Compromise  —  Missouri  Admitted. 

With  the  application  of  the  Territorial  Legislature  of  Missouri  for 
her  admission  into  the  Union,  eomnjenced  the  real  agitation  of  the 
slavery  question  in  the  United  States. 

Not  only  was  our  National  Legislature  the  theater  of  angry  discus- 
sions, but  everywhere  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  Ke- 
public  the  '*  Missouri  Question"  was  the  all-absorbing  theme.  The 
political  skies  thi*eateued, 

<*  In  forked  flashes,  a  commanding  tempest,*' 

Which  was  liable  to  burst  upon  the  nation  at  any  moment.  Through 
such  a  crisis  our  country  seemed  destined  to  pass.  The  question  as  to 
the  ad^iission  of  Missouri  was  to  be  the  beginning  of  this  crisis,  which 
distracted  the  public  counsels  of  the  nation  for  more  than  forty  years 
afterward. 

Missouri  asked  to  be  admitted  into  the  great  family  of  States. 
**  Lower  Louisiana,"  her  twin  sister  Territory,  had  knocked  at  the 
door  of  the  Union  eight  years  previously,  and  was  admitted  as  stipu- 
lated by  Napoleon,  to  all  the  rights,  privileges  and  immunities  of  a 
State,  and  in  accordance  with  the  stipulations  of  the  same  treaty, 
Missouri  now  sought  to  be  clothed  with  the  same  rights,  privileges 
and  immunities. 

As  what  is  known  in  the  history  of  the  United  States  as  the  **  Mis- 
souri Compromise,"  of  1820,  takes  rank  among  the  most  prominent 


32  HI8TOBT   OF  MISSOURI. 

measures  that  had  up  to  that  day  engaged  the  attention  of  our 
National  Legislature,  we  shall  enter  somewhat  into  its  details,  being 
connected  as  they  are  with  the  annals  of  the  State. 

Februaiy  15th^  1819.  —  After  the  House  had  resolved  itself  into  a 
Ccjmmittee  of  the  Whole  on  the  bill  to  authorize  the  admission  of  Mis- 
souri into  the  Union,  and  after  the  question  of  her  admission  had  been 
discussed  for  some  time,  Mr.  Tallm^dge,  of  New  York,  moved  to 
amend  the  bill,  by  adding  to  it  the  following  proviso  :  — 

^^And  Provided^  That  the  further  introduction  of  slavery  or  involun- 
tary servitude  be  prohibited,  except  for  the  punishment  of  crime, 
wiiereofthe  party  shall  have  been  duly  convicted,  and  that  all  chil- 
dren boin  within  the  said  State,  after  the  admission  thereof  into  the 
Union,  shall  be  free  at  the  age  of  twenty-five  years." 

As  might  have  been  expected,  this  proviso  precipitated  the  angry 
discussions  which  lasted  nearly  three  years,  finally  culminating  in  the 
Missouri  Compromise.  All  phases  of  the  slavery  question  were  pre- 
sented, not  in  its  moral  and  social  aspects,  but  as  a  great  constitu- 
ti(mal  question,  affecting  Missouri  and  the  admission  of  future  States. 
The  proviso,  when  submitted  to  a  vote,  was  adopted  —  79  to  67,  and 
so  reported  to  the  House. 

Hon.  John  Scott,  who  was  at  that  time  a  delegate  from  the  Terri- 
tory of  Missouri,  was  not  permitted  to  vote,  but  as  such  delegate  hec 
had  the  privilege  of  participating  in  the  debates  which  followed.  On 
the  16th  day  of  February  the  proviso  was  taken  up  and  discussed. 
After  several  speeches  had  been  made,  among  them  one  by  Mr.  Scott 
and  one  by  the  author  of  the  proviso,  Mr.  Tallmadge,  the  amendment, 
or  proviso,  was  divided  into  two  parts,  and  voted  upon.  The  first 
part  of  it,  which  included  all  to  the  word  **  convicted,"  was  adopted  — 
87  to  76.  The  remaining  part  was  then  voted  upon,  and  also 
adopted,  by  82  to  78.  By  a  vote  of  97  to  56  the  bill  was  ordered  to 
be  engrossed  for  a  third  reading. 

The  Senate  Committee,  to  whom  the  bill  was  referred,  reported  the 
same  to  the  Senate  on  the  19th  of  Februarv,  when  that  bodv  voted 
first  upon  a  motion  to  strike  out  of  the  proviso  all  after  the  word 
**  convicted,"  which  was  carried  by  a  vote  of  32  to  7.  It  then  voted 
to  strike  out  the  first  entire  clause,  which  prevailed  —  22  to  16, 
thereby  defeating  the  proviso. 

The  House  declined  to  concur  in  the  action  of  the  Senate,  and  the 
bill  was  again  returned  to  that  body,  which  in  turn  refused  to  recede 
ftom  its  position.     The  bill  was  lost  and  Congress  adjourned.     This 


HISTOBY   OF  MISSOUBI.  88 

was  most  unfortunate  for  the  country,  v  The  people  having  already 
beeo  wrought  up  to  fevor  heat  over  the  agitation  of  the  question  in 
the  National  Councils,  now  became  intensely  excited.  The  press 
added  fuel  to  the  flame,  and  the  progress  of  events  seemed  rapidly 
tending  to  the  downfall  of  our  nationality. 

A  long. interval  of  nine  months  was  to  ensue  before  the  meeting  of 
Congress.  The  body  indicated  by  its  vote  upon  the  **  Missouri  Ques- 
tion,'* that  the  two  great  sections  of  the  country  were  politically 
divided  upon  the  subject  of  slavery.  The  restrictive  clause,  which  it 
was  sought  to  impose  upon  Missouri  as  a  condition  of  her  admissioUi 
would  in  all  probability,  be  one  of  the  conditions  of  the  admission  of 
the  TeiTitory  of  Arkansas.  The  public  mind  was  in  a  st:ite  of  great 
doubt  and  uncertainty  up  to  the  meeting  of  Congress,  which  took 
place  on  the  6th  of  December,  1819.  The  memorial  of  the  Legisla- 
live  Council  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Missouri  Territory, 
praying  for  admission  into  the  Union,  was  presented  to  the  Senate 
by  Mr.  Smith,  of  South  Carolina.  It  was  referred  to  the  Judiciary 
Committee. 

Some  three  weeks  having  passed  without  any  action  thereon  by  the 
Senate,  the  bill  was  taken  up  and  discussed  by  the  House  until  the 
19th  of  February,  when  the  bill  from  the  Senate  for  the  admission  of 
Maine  was  considered.  The  bill  for  the  admission  of  Maine  included 
the  **  Missouri  Question,"  by  an  amendment  which  read  as  follows  : 

**And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  in  all  that  territory  ceded  by 
France  to  the  United  States,  under  the  name  of  Louisiana,  which  lies 
uorth  of  thirty-six  degrees  and  thirty  minutes,  north  latitude  (except- 
ing such  part  thereof  as  is)  included  within  the  limits  of  the  State, 
contemplated  by  this  act,  slavery  and  involuntary  servitude,  other- 
wise than  in  the  punishment  of  crimes,  whereof  the  party  shall  have 
been  convicted,  shall  be  and  is  hereby  forever  prohibited  ;  Provided^ 
always^  That  any  person  escaping  into  the  same  from  whom  labor  or 
service  is  lawfully  claimed,  in  any  State  or  Territory  of  the  United 
States,  such  fugitive  may  be  lawfully  reclaimed  and  conveyed  to  the 
person  claiming  his  or  her  labor  or  services  as  aforesaid." 

The  Senate  adopted  this  amendment,  which  formed  the  basis  of  the 
'*  Missouri  Compromise,'*  modified  afterward  by  striking  out  the 
words,  **  excepthig  only  such  part  thereof  y 

The  bill  passed  the  Senate  by  a  vote  of  24  to  20.  On  the  2d  day  of 
March  the  House  took  up  the  bill  and  amendments  for  consideration, 
aud  by  a  vote  of  134  to  42  concurred  in  the  Senate  amendment,  and 


34  HISTORY   or   MISSOURI. 

the  bill  being  passed  by  the  two  Houses,  constituted  section  8,  of 
"An  Act  to  authorize  the  people  of  the  Missouri  Territory  to  form  a 
Constitution  and  State  Government,  and  for  the  admission  of  such 
State  into  the  Union  on  an  equal  footing  with  the  original  States,  and 
to  prohibit  slavery  in  certjiin  territory." 

This  act  was  approved  March  6,  1820.  Missouri  then  contained  fif- 
teen organized  counties.  By  act  of  Congress  the  people  of  said  State 
were  authorized  to  hold  an  election  on  the  first  Monday,  and  two  suc- 
ceeding days  thereafter  in  May,  1820,  to  select  representatives  to  a 
State  convention.  This  convention  met  in  St.  Louis  on  the  12th  of 
June,  following  the  election  in  May,  and  concluded  its  labors  on  the 
19th  of  July,  1820.  David  Barton  was  its  President,  and  Wm.  G- 
Pettis,  Secretary.  There  were  forty-one  members  of  this  convention^ 
men  of  ability  and  statesmanship,  as  the  admirable  constitution  which 
they  framed  amply  testifies.  Their  names  and  the  counties  repre- 
sented by  them  are  as  follows  :  — 

Cape  Girardeau.  —Stephen  Byrd,  James  Evans,  Richard  S. 
Thomas,  Alexander  Buckner  and  Joseph  McFerron. 

Cooper.  —  Robert  P.  Clark,  Robert  Wulhice,  Wm.  Lillard. 

Franklin.  — John  G.  Heath. 

Howard.  —  Nicholas  S.  Burkhart,  Duff  Green,  John  Ray,  Jonathan 
S.  Findley,  Benj.  H.  Reeves.  ^ 

Jefferson.  — Daniel  Hammond. 

Lincoln.  —  Malcom  Henry. 

Montgomery.  — Jonathan  Ramsey,  James  Talbott. 

Madison.  — Nathaniel  Cook. 

New  Madrid. — Robert  S.  Dawson,  Christopher  G.  Houts. 

Pike.  —  Stephen  Cleaver. 

St.  Charles.  —  Benjamin  Emmons,  Nathan  Boone,  Hiram  H.  Babcr. 

Ste,  Genevieve.  — John  D.  Cook,  Henry  Dodge,  John  Scott,  R.  T. 
Brown. 

St.  Louis.  —  David  Bailon,  Edward  Bates,  Ale>cander  McNair, 
Wm.  Rector,  John  C.  Sullivan,  Pierre  Chouteau,  Jr.,  Bernard  Pratte, 
Th(mias  F.  Riddick. 

Washington. — John  Rice  Jones,  Samuel  Perry,  John  Hutchings. 

Wayne.  —  Elijah  Bettis. 

On  the  13th  of  November,  1820,  Congress  met  again,  and  on  the 
sixth  of  the  same  mo  ith  Mr.  Scott,  the  delegate  from  Missouri,  pre- 
sented to  the  House  the  Constitution  as  framed  by  the  convention. 


HlhTORY   OF  MISSOURI.  35 

The  same  was  referred  to  a  select  committee,  who  made  thereon  a 
fuvorable  report. 

The  admission  of  the  State,  however,  was  resisted,  because  it  was 
claimed  that  its  constitution  sanctioned  slavery,  and  authorized  the 
Legii!^lature  to  pass  laws  preventing  free  negroes  and  muhittoes  from 
settling  in  the  State.  The  report  of  the  committee  to  whom  waa 
referred  the  Constitution  of  Missouri  was  accompanied  by  a  preamble 
and  resolutions,  oflFered  by  Mr.  Lowndes,  of  South  Carolina.  The 
preamble  and  resolutions  were  stricken  out. 

The  application  of  the  State  for  admission  shared  the  same  fate  in 
the  Senate.  The  question  was  referred  to  a  select  committee,  who,, 
on  the  2yth  of  November,  reported  in  favor  of  admitting  the  State. 
The  debate,  which  followed,  continued  for  two  weeks,  and  finally  Mr. 
Eaton,  of  Tennessee,  offered  an  amendment  to  the  resolution  as  fol- 
lows :  — 

**  Provided,  That  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  so  construed  as 

to  give  the  assent  of  Congress  to  any  provision  in  the  Constitution  of 

Missouri,  if  any  such  there  be,  which  contravenes  that  clause  in  the 

Constitution  of  the  United  States,  which  declares  that  the  citizens  of 
each  State  shall  be  entitled  to  all  the  privileges  and  immunities  of 

citizens  in  the  several  States." 

The  resolution,  as  amended,  was  adopted.  The  resolution  and 
proviso  were  again  taken  up  and  discussed  at  great  length,  when  the 
coraraittee  agreed  to  report  the  resolution  to  the  House. 

The  question  on  agreeing  to  the  amendnicnt,  as  reported  from  the 

committee  of  the  whole,  was  lost  in  the  House.     A  similar  resolution 

afterward  passed  the  Senate,  but  was  again  rejected   in  the  House. 

Then  it  was  that  that  great  statesman  and  pure  patriot,  Henry  Clay» 

of  Kentucky,  feeling  that  the  hour  had  come  when  angry  discussions 

should  cease, 

**  With  grave 
Aspect  he  rose,  and  in  his  rising  seem*d 
A  pUlar  of  state ;  deep  on  his  front  engravet  ' 

DeUberation  sat  and  public  care ; 
And  princely  counsel  in  his  face  yet  shone 
Majestic"     ♦♦♦♦♦♦ 

proposed  that  the  question  of  Missouri's  admission  be  referred  to  a. 
committee  consisting  of  twenty-three  persons  (a  number  equal  to  the 
number  of  States  then  composing  the  Union),  be  appointed  to  act  in 
conjunction  with  a  committee  of  the  Senate  to  consider  and  report 
whether  Missouri  should  be  admitted,  etc. 


36  HISTORY  OF   MISSOURI. 

The  motion  prevailed  ;  the  committee  was  appointed  and  Mr.  Clay 
made  its  chairman.  The  Senate  selected  seven  of  its  members  to  act 
with  the  committee  of  twenty-three,  and  on  the  26th  of  February  the 
following  report  was  made  by  that  committee :  — 

*'  Resolved,  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
United  States  of  America  in  Con^jress  assembled  :  That  Missouri  shall 
be  admitted  into  the  Union,  on  an  equal  footing  with  the  original 
States,  in  all  respects  whatever,  upon  the  fundamental  condition  that 
the  fourth  clause,  of  the  twenty-sixth  section  of  the  third  article  of 
the  Constitution  submitted  on  the  part  of  said  State  to  Congress,  shall 
never  be  construed  to  authorize  the  passage  of  any  law,  and  that  no 
law  shall  be  passed  in  conformity  thereto,  by  which  any  citizen  of 
either  of  the  States  in  this  Union  shall  be  excluded  from  the  enjoy- 
ment of  any  of  the  privileges  and  immunities  to  which  such  citizen  is 
entitled,  under  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  ;  provided.  That 
the  Legislature  of  said  State,  by  a  Solemn  Public  Act,  shall  declare 
the  assent  of  the  said  State,  to  the  said  fundamental  condition,  and 
shall  transmit  to  the  President  of  the  United  States,  on  or  before  the 
fourth  Monday  in  November  next,  an  authentic  copy  of  the  sai^  act ; 
upon  the  receipt  whereof,  the  President,  by  proclamation,  shall  an- 
nounce the  fact;  whereupon,  and  without  any  further  proceeding  on 
the  part  of  Congress,  the  admission  of  the  said  State  into  the  Union 
shall  be  considered  complete." 

This  resolution,  after  a  ))rief  debate,  was  adopted  in  the  House,  and 
passed  the  Senate  on  the  28th  of  February,  1821. 

At  a  special  session  of  the  Legislature  held  in  St.  Charles,  in  June 
following,  a  Solemn  Public  Act  was  adopted,  giving  its  assent  to  the 
conditions  of  admission,  as  expressed  in  the  resolution  of  Mr.  Clay. 
August  10th,  1821,  President  Monroe  announced  by  proclamation  tho 
admission  of  Missouri  into  the  Union  to  be  complete. 


HISTORY   OF  MISSOURI.  37 


CHAPTER    VII. 

MISSOURI  AS  A  STATE. 

first  Election  for  Governor  and  other  State  Officers  —  Senators  and  Representatives  to 
General  Assembly — Sheriffs  and  Coroners  —  U.  S.  Senators  —  Representatives  in 
Congress  —  Supreme  Court  Judges  —  Counties  Or^nized  —  Capital  Moved  to  St. 
Charles — Official  Record  of  Territorial  and  State  Officers. 

By  the  Constitution  adopted  by  the  Convention  on  the  19th  of  July, 

1820,  the  General  Assembly  was  required  to  meet  in  St.  Louis  on  the 

third  Monday  in  September  of  that  year,  and  an. election  was  ordered 
to  be  held  on  the  28th  of  August  for  the  election  of  a  Governor  and 
other  State  officers,  Senators  and  Representatives  to  the  General 
Assembly,  Sheriffs  and  Coroners,  United  States  Senators  and  Repre- 
sentatives in  Congress. 

It  will  be  seen  that  Missouri  had  not  as  yet  been  admitted  as  a 
State,  but  in  anticipation  of  that  event,  and  according  to  the  provi- 
sions of  the  constitution,  the  election  was  held,  and  the  General  As- 
sembly convened. 

William  Clark  (who  had  been  Governor  of  the  Territory)  and 
Alexander  McNair  were  the  candidates  for  Governor.  McNair  re- 
ceived 6,576  votes,  Clark  2,556,  total  vote  of  the  State  9,132.  There 
were  three  candidates  for  Lieutenant-Governor,  to  wit :  William  H. 
Ashley,  Natiianiel  Cook  and  Henry  Elliot.  Ashley  received  3,907 
votes.  Cook  3,212,  Elliot  931.  A  Representative  was  to  be  elected 
for  the  residue  of  the  Sixteenth  Congress  and  one  for  the  Seventeenth. 
John  Scott  who  was  at  the  time  Territorial  delegate,  was  elected  to 
both  Congresses  without  opposition. 

The  General  Assembly  elected  in  August  met  on  the  19th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1820,  and  organized  by  electing  James  Caldwell,  of  Ste. 
Genevieve,  speaker,  and  John  McArthur  clerk;  William  H.  Ashley, 
Lieutenant-Governor,  President  of  the  Senate  ;  Silas  Bent,  President, 
fro  tern. 

Mathias  McGirk,  John  D.  Cook,  and  John  R.  Jones  were  appointed 
Supreme  Judges,  each  to  hold  office  until  sixty-five  years  of  age. 

Joshua  Barton  was  appointed  Secretary  of  State ;  Peter  Didier, 
State  Treasurer;  Edward  Bates,  Attorney-General,  and  William 
Christie,  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts. 


58 


HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI. 


David  Barton  and  Thomas  H.  Benton  were  elected  by  the  General 
Assembly  to  the  United  States  Senate. 

At  this  session  of  the  Legislature  the  counties  of  Boone,  Callaway, 
Chariton,  Cole,  Gasconade,  Lillard,  Perry,  Ralls,  Ray  and  Saline 
were  organized. 

We  should  like  to  give  in  details  the  meetings  and  proceedings  of 
the  different  Legishitures  which  followed ;  the  elections  for  Govern- 
ors and  other  State  officers  ;  the  elections  for  Congressmen  and  United 
States  Senators,  but  for  want  of  space  we  can  only  present  in  a  con- 
densed form  the  official  record  of  the  Territorial  and  State  officers. 


OITICIAL  RSCORD  —  TSRRITORIAL  OrFIGKBS. 

Govemqr$. 

Frederick  Bates,  Secretary  and  William  Clark   •    • 

Acting-Governor     ....    1812-18 

OFFICERS  OF  STATS  GOYBRNMKNT. 


1818-20 


Oovemor$, 

Alexander  McNair 1820-24 

Frederick  Bates 1824-25 

Abraham    J.    Williams,    vice 

Bates 1825 

John  Miller,  vice  Bates   .    .    .  1826-28 

John  Miller 1828-82 

Daniel  Dunklin,  (1832-86)  re- 
signed; appointed  Surveyor 
General  of  the  U.  S.  Lilbum 

W.  Boggs,  vice  Dunklin  .    .  1886 

Lilbum  W.  Boggs 1886-40 

Thomas  Reynolds  (died  1844), .  1840-44 
H.  M.  Marmaduke  vice  Rey- 
nolds —  John  0.  Edwards    .  1844-48 
Austin  A.  King .         .         .    •  1848-52 

Sterling  Price 1862-56 

Trusten  Polk  (resigned) .    .    .  1866-67 

Hancock  Jackson,  vice  Polk    .  1857 

Robert  M.  Stewart,  vice  Polk  .  1867-60 
C  F.  Jackson  (1860),  office  va- 
cated by  ordinance;  Hamil- 
ton R  Gamble,  vice  Jackson ; 
Gov.  Gamble  died  1864. 

Willard  P.  Hall,  vice  Gamble .  1864 

Thomas  C.  Fletcher    ....  1864-68 

Joseph  W.  McClurg   ....  1868-70 

B.  Grata  Brown 1870-72 

Silas  Woodson 1872-74 

Charles  H.  Hardin 1874-76 

John  8.  Phelps 1876-80 

Thomas   T.    Crittenden    (now 

Governor) 1880 


Lieutenant'Oovemon, 

William  H.  Ashley 
Benjamin  H.  Reeves 
Daniel  Dunklin  . 
Lilbum  W.  Boggs 
Franklin  Cannon 
M.  M.  Marmaduke 
James  Young     . 
Thomus  L  Rice. 
Wilson  Br  »wn    . 
Hancock  Jnrk!>on 
Thomas  C.  Reynolds 
Willard  P.  Hall 
G^eo^ge  Smith    . 
Edwin  O.  Stanard 
Joseph  J,  Gravt»Ily. 
Charles  P.  Johnson 
Norman  J.  Coleman 
Henry  C.  Brockmeyer 
Robert  A.  Campbell   (present 
incumbent) 

Secretariea  of  State, 

Joshua  Barton 

William  G.  Pettis 

Hamilton  R  Gamble  .    •    •    . 

Spencer  Pettis 

P.  H.  McBride 

John  C.  Edwards  (term  expired 
1886,  reappointed  1887,  re- 
signed 1887)    

Peter  G.  Glover 

James  L.  Minor 


1820-24 
1824-28 
1828-32 
1882-36 
1836-40 
1840-44 
1844-48 
1848-62 
1852-65 
1855-66 
1860-61 
1861-64 
1864-68 
1868-70 
1870-72 
1872-74 
1874-76 
1876-80 

1880 


1820-21 
1821-24 
1824-26 
1826-28 
182&-80 


1880-87 
1887-89 
1839-45 


BISTORT  OF  MISSOURI. 


39 


OFnCfBBS  OK 

F.  H.  Mirtin  ••••••• 

Epbnim  B.  EwiDg     •    •    .. 
John  M.  Richardson   .... 

BenJNmin  F.  Blaney  (re-elected 

I860,  for  four  years) .    .    .    . 

MordecMi  Oliver 

Fnocii  Rodman  (re-elected  18G8 

for  two  years) 

K^neM  F.  Weigel,  (re-elected 

IS72,  for  two  years) .    .    .    . 

Kicfaiel  £•  McGrath  (present 

iocumbent) 

State  l^eaaurera. 

Petn-Didier 

Nathaniel  Simonds  .... 
Junes  Earickson  .  .  -.  •  • 
John  Walker 

Abrabam  McCIellan   .... 

Peter  G.  Glover 

A.  W.  Morrison 

George  O.  Bingham    .... 

William  Bishop 

William  Q.  Dallmeyer    .    .    . 

Samuel  HaTS 

Harvey  W.  Salmon     .    •    •    • 

Joeepb  W.  Mercer 

Elijah  Gntcs 

Phillip  E.  Chappell  (present  in- 
cumbent)     

A  ttomey-  Generals. 

Edward  Bates 

RufuA  Eastnn 

Robt.  W.  Wells 

William  B.  Napton     .... 

a  M-  Bay 

R  F.  Stringfellow 

William  A.  Bobards  .... 
Jamps  B.  Gardenhire  .... 
Ephmim  W.  Ewing    .... 

Jnrw^  P.  Knott 

Aikinan  Welch 

Thomas  T.  Crittenden    .    .    . 

Robert  F.  Wingate 

Homce  P.  Johnson 

A.  J.  Baker 

Henry  Clay  Ewing 

John  A.  Hockaday 

Jackson  L.  Smith 

D.  H.   Mclntire    (present   in- 
cambent)     .     •••... 


8TATE  OOYBRNMKNT  —  Contmued, 


1845-49 
1849-52 
1862-^ 

1856-60 
1861-64 

1864-68 

1870-72 

1874 


1820-21 
1821-28 
18-^9-33 
18^^3-88 
183S-43 
1843-51 
'1851-60 
1862-^>4 
1864-U8 
1808-70 
1872 
1872-74 
1874-76 
1876-80 

1880 


1820-21 
1821-26 
1826-36 
1836-30 
1839-46 
1845-49 
1849-51 
1851-o»J 
1856-59 
1850-')  1 
1861-4^ 

1864 

1864-68 

1868-70 

1870-72 

1872-74 

1874-76 

1876-80 

1880 


AudUfiTS  of  Public  AeeounU. 

William  Christie 1820-21 

William  V.  Kector      ....  1821-28 

EliasBarcroft 1823-38 

Henry  Shurlds 1833-«6 

Peter  G.  Glover 1885-37 

Hiram  H.  Baber 1837-45 

William  Monroe 1845 

J.  R  McDermon 1845-48 

George  W.  Miller 1848-49 

Wilson  Brown 1849-52 

William  H.  Bufflngton    .    .    .  1862-60 

William  S.  Moseley    ....  1860-64 

Alonzo  Thompson 1864-68 

Daniel  M.  Dmper 1868-72 

George  B.  Clark 1872-74 

Thomas  Holladay  .     .    .    ,    .  187  -80 
John  "Walker  (present  incum- 
bent)    1880 

Judges  of  Supreme  Court, 

Matthias  McGirk 1822-41 

John  D.  Cooke 1822-23 

John  K.  Jones 1822-24 

Rufus  Pettibone 1823-25 

Geo.  Tompkins 1824-45 

Robert  Wash 1825-37 

John  C.  Edwards 1837-89 

Wm.  Scott,  (appointed  1841  till 
meeting  of  General  Assem- 
bly in  place  of  McGirk,  re- 
signed;  reiippointod    .    .    .  1843 

P.  H.  Mc  Bride 1845 

Wm.  B.  Napton 1849-52 

John  F.  Ryland 1849-61 

John  H.  Birch 1849-51 

Wm.  Scott,  John  F.  Ryland, 
and  Hamilton  R.  Gamble 
(elected  by  the  people,  for  six 

years) 1851 

Gamble  (resigned) 1854 

Abiel  Leonard  elected  to  fill  va- 
cancy of  Gamble. 
Wm.  B.  Napton  (vacated    by 

failure  to  61c  ohiIi). 
Wm.  Scott  and  John  C.  Rich- 
ardson (resigned,  elected  Au- 
gust, for  six  years)    ....  1857 
E.  B.  Ewing,  (to   fill  Richard- 
son's resignation)    ....  1859 
Barton  Bates  (appointed)    .     .  1862 
W.  V.  N.  Bay  (appointed)  .    .  1862 


HI8TOHT  OP  MIBBOnRI. 


or  STATE  aov«Ri(Mnrr 


1862 

Barton  BaUi 

1368-65 

W.  T.  N.  Ba;  (elscted)   .    .    . 

1863 

John  D.  S.  Drjdun  (electod)    . 

186S 

David  Wagner  (appointed)      . 

1865 

Wallace  L.  Lovelace  (appoint- 

Hathaoiel  Holmes  (appointed) 

186£ 

Thorn,,..  .r.C-Fagg  («pp^inted) 

1866 

JameB  Baker  (appointed)    .    . 

1868 

David  Wagner  (eleeied) .    .    . 

18(58-70 

Philemon  BHm 

1868-70 

Warren  Currier 

1868-71 

"Washinttlon  Adams  (appointed 

to  fill  Carrier's  place,  who  k- 

•igned) 

1871 

Bphnum  B.  Ewing  [elected)    . 

1872 

Thoma*  A.  Sherwood  (elected) 

1872 

place  of  Ewlng.  Jeoeased)    , 

1878 

in  place  of  Adama,  resigned) 

1874 

Warwick  Houijh  (elected)       . 

1874 

William  B.  Napton  (elected)  . 

1874-80 

John  W.Henry 

1676-66 

Bobert  D.  Kay  lucceeded  Wm. 

B.  Napton  in 

1660 

Elijah  K  Norton  (appoinl«d  in 

Ik;,;),  aleclpd 

1876 

T.  A.  Sherwood  (re-elected) 

1882 

Vnited  Slalet  Sdnaton 

T.  H.  Benton 

1820-60 

D.  Barton 

1820-30 

Alei.  Buckner   ...... 

1830-33 

LP.Llnn 

1833-48 

D.  B.  Atchiton 

1843-55 

H.  S.  Oeyer 

1851-57 

James  S.  Oreen 

1867-61 

Waldo  P.  Johnson 

1881 

Robert  Wilson 

1661 

B.  Gratz  Brown  (for  unexpired 

term  of  Johnson)     .    .    .    . 

1863 

J  B.  ilondereon 

1868-69 

Chttrli^sD.  Drake 

1P67-70 

Carl  Schurz 

1860-76 

D.  F.  Jewett  (in  place  of  Drake. 

w^igied) 

1870 

F.  P.  Blair 

1871-77 

L-V.Bogy 

1878 

JameBShields(electedforuiiez- 

plredtanDofBogy)     .    .    . 

1879 

Coniimicd. 
~D.  H.  Armstrong  appointed  tat 

unB»pired  term  of  Bogy. 
F  M.Cockrell  (re-elected  18B1)    ! 

Georgt'  G.  Vest ■ 

Sepreientativa  (o  C 


John  Scott 

1820-28 

Ed.  Batea 

1828-28 

Spencer  PelUs 

1838-81 

William,  H.  Ashley 

1881-M 

John  Bull 

1882^ 

Albert  G.  Harriwn 

1884-39 

John  Miller 

1686-42 

for  two  years) 

1889-44 

John  C.  Edwards 

1840-42 

Jamea  M.  Hughea 

1842-44 

Jamoa  H.  Relt^ 

1642-48 

James  B.  Bowlin 

1642-50 

GuslBvus  M.  Bower    .... 

1842-44 

Sterling  Price 

1644-46 

William  McDaniel 

1846 

Leonard  H.  Sims 

1844.48 

John  S.  Phelps 

1844-60 

1856,  resigned) 

1846-60 

Willard  P.  Hall 

1846-68 

William  V.  N.  Bay    ...    . 

1648-61 

John  F.  Darby 

1860-68 

Uilchriit  Porter 

1860-57 

John  G.Miller 

1860-6$ 

Alfted  W.Lamb 

1852-54 

Thomas  1£.  Ui'nloi. 

1862-54 

Mordecai  Oliver 

1852-57 

Jamea  J.  Lindley 

1852-66 

rtjir.iucl  CriniHiTa 

1862-68 

Thomas  P.  Akers  (to  fill  unex- 

pired term  of  J.  G.  Uiller, 

1856 

Frandi  P.  Blair,  Jr.  (re-elected 

I860,  resigned) 

1856 

Tliu.nns  L.  Anderson  .... 

1856-60 

JniTiesOraig                 .    .    .    . 

1856-10 

Samuel  H.  Woodsou  .... 

1856-60 

John  B.  Clark,  8r. 

1857-61 

J   lik'hard  Barrett 

1B60 

John  W.  Noel 

1858-68 

James  8.  Rollins 

1660-64 

Elijah  H.  Norton 

1860-68 

John  W.  Raid 

1860-61 

William  A.  Hall 

1852-64 

Thomas  L.  Price  (in  place  of 

Beid,  expelled) 

1862 

HI8TOBT   OF  MISSOURI. 


HiDry  T.  Blow 

BemproniuB  T.  Boyd,  [elected  in 
lSe2,  ud  again  in  1868,  for 

JoMph  W.  HcGIuig   .... 

Anitin  A.  King 

BtDJBinin  F.  Loan  ..... 

Mn  G.  Scolt  (inplscoof  Noel, 

John  HoRSQ 

Thomu  P.  Kosl 

John  R.  Keboe 

ftobert  T,  Vim  Horn  .  .  . 
John  F  BetiJBTnin  ..... 
Q«o^^  Vf.  AnderaoQ .... 

.    Willuun  A.  Pile 

C.  A.  Stwoomb 

Jowph  J.  Gravellj 

June*  R.  UcCormack  .  ,  . 
Job  a   H.   Stover  (in   place   of 

JT'-Clur;;.  resigned).     . 
SriatuaWplI^  .... 

G.  A.  Fit. kleii burg.     .     . 

SuDuel  S.  Burdett 

Jo«l  F.  Asper 

D»Tid  P.  Dyer 

HuTiaon  B.  Havens    .... 

SttAC  a.  Parker 

Jamea  O.  Blair 

Andrew  King 

Edwin  O.  Stanard 

William  H.  Stone 

R.heri  A-  iTaU-htT  (elecUd)    . 

Richard  B.  Bland 

Thomai  T.  Crittenden    .    .    . 

Ira  B.  HyUe 

John  a.  Clark,  Jr. 

JohnM.  Glover 


1882-66 
1862-64 
1862-69 

1863 

18il4-flfl 

18H4-67 

18fi4-00 

1864-71 

1864-71 

1864-69 

1866-68 

ie'l6-e8 

1866-68 

1866-73 

1867 

1868-82 

1888-71 

1868-71 

18118-70 

1868-70 

1870-75 

1870-75 

1870-72 

1870-72 

1872-74 

1873-78 

IS72 

1872 

1872-74 

1872-74 


....     1872 

cottiiTfM — wn 

Adair _January29,  1841 

Aadrew _,.. January  29,  1841 

Alchiimn January  14,  1845 

Audrain Derember  17,  1836 

BwTV Januarys,  1836 

Barton December  12,  1836 

B«l"< .January  29,  1 

Benton January  8,  1835 

Bollinger March  1,  I 

Boone November  IG,  1820 

Buchanan February  10,  1 


Continued. 

Aylett  H.  Buckner 1872 

Edward  a  Kerr 1874-78 

Charlet  H.  Morgan      ....  1874 

John  F.  Philips 1874 

B.  J.  Franklin 1874 

David  Rea 1874 

RsEin  A.  De  Bolt 1874 

Antliony  Ittner 1S78 

NBtli:u,ieI  Colo 187fi 

Robert  A.  Hatcher .....  1876-78 

R.  P.  Bland 1876-78 

A.  H.  Buckner 1876-78 

J.  B.  CInrk.  Jr 1876-78 

T.  T.  Critli-ndeo 1876-78 

B.  J.  Franklin 1876-78 

John  M.  mover 1876-78 

RchBTt  A.  Hiiicher 1878-78 

Cli«.  H.  -Morgan 1876-78 

L.S.  MHcHlr 1876-78    ' 

H.  M.  Pollarf 1876-78 

David  Rea 1876-78 

8.  L.  Sawvar 1878-8I>- 

N.  Ford   '.    : 1878-82 

G.  F.  Rtithwel! 1878-83 

John  B.  Clnrfc.  Jr. 1878-82 

W.  H.  Hatch 1878-82 

A.  H.  Buckner 1878-82 

U.  L.  Clardy  ..;....  1878-82 

R.  G.  Froit 1878-82 

L.  H.  DHvii 1878-82 

R.  P.  BInnd 1878-82 

J.  R.  WndJell 1878-80 

T.  Allon lPSO-82 

R.  Hi-zcltiTic 18B0-82 

T.  M.  Rice 1880-82 

RT.  Van  Horn 1880-82 

Nicholas  Ford IWSO-SS 

J.  G.  Burrows 1880-82 


1812 
183S 

18'>9 
1836 
1846 


Caldwell .DBcember2a, 

Callaway.  .November  25, 

Camden....  Jnnunry  29, 

Cape  (iirnrdcnu October  1, 

Carroll January  8. 

Carter Usrch  10, 

Cass Supteniber  14, 

Cedar February  14, 

Chariton November  16, 

GtirLstlan March  8. 

Clark.- — December  16, 


HISTORY    OP    MISSOURI. 


COVirnn,  WHE 

Batler. Stbrvarj  27, 

Oinj.  ..— January  2, 

Olinton,.  ...  ...JiuiuarylS, 

Cola...  ...         Noveinber  16, 

Oooper December  17, 

Or»wford.  Jntiunry  28, 

Bade.  ...Jaii  unry  29, 

Dallaa ...December  10, 

Daviess ..December  29. 

DeEalb.  .Pebniary  26, 

DwA.  ...FebruBrj- 10, 

IhUfgua.  Octuber  19, 

Ta  KHa...  „  Jebrunry  14, 

TranUla..  Jiecaiober  11, 

QsscoDBdB.  November  26, 

Gentry  February  12, 

Greene...  January  2, 

-Grurdv  ..JanUnrvZ, 

HarrLB^n.  ....FplTunry  H. 

fieiiry  December  13, 

Hickory  Jebrqaiy  14, 

Holt...  Februsrj- 15, 

Howard January  2S, 

Howell ...Uurth  2, 

Iron _Februki7  17, 

Jaclnon - December  16, 

Jwper ...Jnnuury 

Jefferipn ..December  8, 

JohntoD -December  18, 

Bjioi..  February  14, 

Laclede...  .February  24, 

Lafayelle...  November  16, 

Lavf^nee,.  J'ebruarv  26, 

Lewis...  ..     ..JaniinVy  2. 

Lincoln December]  4, 

linn Jnnuary  7, 

LivingtttiD.  ...~  January  6, 

McDonald..  March  8, 

Uacon  ..  .January  3, 

Madison..  ...December  14, 

iMaricB.  .March  2, 


Monroe 

Montgomery.. 

Nevi  Madrid 

Newton 

Nodnway 


Mar 


mber2 


Mercer February  14. 

Miller February  6, 

Hi<u,i-"ippi ~. February  14, 

Uonileuu February  14, 


...January  6, 1881 

December  14, 1818 
.January  5,  1888 
October  1,  1813 
-December  81,1888 
.Februniy  14,  1846 
Fvbrunry  14,  ]e45 
.January  29,  1841 


Ozark January  29,  1841 

Pemiscot. February  19,  1861 


.NovemWr  16,  1820 

.January  86,  1888 

^November  18,  JSW 

...December  14,  1818 


Perry 

PetUa 

I'helps 
Pike. 

Plitle December  81,  1838 

Polk March  13,  1886 

Pulaski December  16,  1818 

Putnam  .February  28,  1846 

Italia...  .NnvBuiWie,  1820 

ICandolph....  ..January22,  1829 

Bay .November  16, 18BI) 

Keynolds .February  26,  I84fi 

Kpley - January  6, 1888 

St.  Charles....  ...October  1,  1812 

St  Clair,  .Jaiiuarj'29,  1841 

St.  FraneoiB December  19,  1821 

Stc.  GeDOvievo October  1,1812 

St.  Louia October  1,  1812 

8«lin8 - November  25.  1820 

Schuyler February  14.  1846 

9coUand January  29,  1841 

geoU, December  28,  1821 

Shannon January  29,  1841 

Shelby January  2,  1886 

Stoddaitl Jauuary  2,  188S 

Sloriu.  ..Fcbruarj-lO,  I86I 

Sullivan ....February  16,  18)8 

Taney January  16,  1887 

Texns...  February  14,  1886 

Vernon  ...February  17,  1861 

"Wiirren January  6,  1888 

"Washington August  21,  I81S 

Wayne...  December  11,  1B18 

Webster. March  8, 1866 

Worth February  8,  1861 

Wright. .Januaiy  29,  1841 


HISTORY  OF  MIS80UKI.  43 

CHAPTEE    Yin. 

CIVIL  WAR  IN  MISSOURI. 

Fort  Samter  fired  apon — Call  for  75,000  men  —  Gov.  Jackson  refuses  to  fnmlsh  a 
roan  — U.  S.   Arsenal  at  Liberty,  Mo.,  seized  —  Froclamatloif  of  Gov.  Jackson  — 
General  Order  No.  7  —  Le<!is1ature  convenes  —  Camp  Jackson  organized  —  Sterling 
Price  appointed  Major-General  —  Frost's  letter  to  Lyon —  Lyon's  letter  to  Frost  — 
Surrender  of  Camp  Jackson  —  Proclamation  of  Gen.  Harney  —  Conference  between 
Price  and  Harney  —  Harney  superseded  by  Lyon  —  Second  Conference  —  Gov.  Jack- 
son boms  the  bridges  behind  him  —  Proclamation  of  Gov.  Jackson  —  Gen.  Blair 
takes  possession  of  Jefferson  City  —  Proclamation  of  Lyon  —  Lyon  at  Springfield  — 
State  offices  declared  vacant — Gen.  Fremont  assumes  command  —  Proclamation  of 
LieQt.-Gov.  Reynolds  —  Proclamation  of  Jeff.  Thompson  and  Gov.  Jackson  —  Death 
of  Gen.  Lyon  —  Succeeded  by  Sturgls  —  Proclamation  of  McCulloch  and  Gamble  — 
Martiallaw  declared — Second  proclamation  of  Jeff .  Thompson  —  President  modi- 
fies Fremont's  order — Fremont  relieved  by  Hunter — Proclamation  of  Price  —  Hun- 
ter's   Order   of   Assessment — Hunter   declares  Martial  Law  —  Order  relating  to 
Newspapers  —  Halleck  succeeds  Hunter  —  Halleck's  Order  81  — Similar  order  by 
Halleck — Boone  County  Standard  confiscated  —  Execution  of  prisoners  at  Macon 
and  Palmyra —  Gen.Ewing's  Order  No.  11  — Gen.  Rosecrans  takes  command  —  Mas- 
sacre at  Centralia — Death  of  Bill  Anderson  —  Gen.  Dodge  succeeds  Gen.  Rose- 
crans— Ltlst  of  Battles. 

"  Lastly  stood  war  — 

With  visage  grim,  stem  looks,  and  blackly  hued, 

******* 

Ah  I  why  win  kings  forget  that  they  are  men? 
And  men  that  they  are  brethren?    Why  delight 
In  human  sacrifice?    Why  burst  the  ties 
Of  nature,  that  should  knit  their  souls  together 
In  one  soft  bond  of  amity  and  love?" 

Fort  Sumter  was  fired  upon  April  12,  1861.  On  April  15th,  Presi- 
dent Lincoln  issued  a  proclamation  calling,  for  75,000  men,  from  the 
the  militia  of  the  several  States,  to  suppress  combinations  in  the  South- 
ern States  therein  named.  Simultaneously  therewith,  the  Secretary  of 
War  sent  a  telegram  to  all  the  governors  of  the  States,  excepting 
those  mentioned  in  the  proclamation,  requesting  them  to  detail  a  cer- 
tain number  of  militia  to  serve  for  three  months,  Missouri's  quota 
being  four  regiments. 

In  response  to  this  telegram.  Gov.  Jackson  sent  the  following  answer : 

Executive  Department  of  Missouri, 
Jefferson  City,  April  17, 1861. 
To  the  Hon.  Simon  Cameron,  Secretary  of  WaVy  WasJitngtoriy  Z>.  C. : 
Sib:  Your  dispatch  of  the  15th  inst.,  making  a  call  on  Missouri  for 


44  HISTOBT   OF  MISSOURI. 

four  regiments  of  men  for  immediate  service,  has  been  received.  There 
can  be,  I  apprehend,  no  doubt  but  these  men  are  intended  to  form  a 
part  of  the  President's  army  to  make  war  upon  the  people  of  the 
seceded  States.  Your  requisition,  in  my  judgment,  is  illegal,. unconsti- 
tutional, and  can  not  be  complied  with.  Not  one  man  will  the  State  of 
Missouri  furnish  to  carry  on  such  an  unholy  war. 

C.  F.  Jackson, 

Crovernor  of  Mi&souH. 

April  21,  1861.  U.  S.  Arsenal  at  Liberty  was  seized  by  order  of 
Governor  Jackson. 

April  22,  1861.  Governor  Jackson  issued  a  proclamation  convening 
the  Legislature  of  Missouri,  on  May  following,  in  extra  session,  to  take 
into  consideration  the  momentous  issues  which  were  presented,  and 
the  attitude  to  be  assumed  by  the  State  in  the  impending  struggle. 

On  the  22nd  of  April,  1861,  the  Adjutant-General  of  Missouri  issued 
the  following  military  order : 

Headquarters  Adjutant-General's  Office,  Mo., 
Jefferson  City,  April  22,  1861. 
{General  Orders  No.   7.) 

I.  To  attain  a  greater  degree  of  efficiency  and  perfection  in  organ- 
ization and  discipline,  the  Commanding  Officers  of  the  several  Military 
districts  in  this  State,  having  four  or  more  legally  organized  compa- 
nies therein,  whose  armories  are  within  fifteen  miles  of  each  other,  will 
assemble  their  respective  commands  at  some  place  to  he  by  them  sever- 
ally designated,  on  the  3rd  day  of  May,  and  to  go  into  an  encampment 
for  a  period  of  six  days,  as  provided  by  law.  Captains  of  companies 
not  organized  into  battalions  will  report  the  strength  of  their  compa- 
nies immediately  to  these  headquarters,  and  await  further  orders. 

II.  The  Quartermaster-General  will  procure  and  issue  to  Quarter- 
masters of  Districts,  for  these  commands  not  now  provided  for,  all 
necessary  tents  and  camp  equipage,  to  enable  the  commanding  officers 
thereof  to  carry  the  foregoing  orders  into  effect. 

III.  The  Light  Battery  now  attached  to  the  Southwest  Battalion,, 
and  one  company  of  mounted  riflemen,  including  all  officers  and  sol- 
diers belonging  to  the  First  District,  will  proceed  forthwith  to  St.  Louis, 
and  report  to  Gen.  D.  M.  Frost  for  duty.  The  remaining  companies 
of  said  battalion  will  be  disbanded  for  the  purpose  of  assisting  in  the 
organization  of  companies  upon  that  frontier.     The  details  in  the  exe- 


HISTORY   OF    MISSOURI.  45 

<jiition  of  the  foreffoino:  are  iDtriisted  to  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  S. 
BoweD,  commanding  the  Battalion. 

IV.  The  strength,  organization,  and  equipment  of  the  several  com- 
panies in  the  District  will  be  reported  at  once  to  these  Headquarters, 
and  District  Inspectors  will  furnish  all  information  which  may  be  ser- 
Ticeable  in  ascertaining  the  condition  of  the  State  forces. 
By  order  of  the  Governor. 

Warwick  Hough, 
Adjutant-General  of  Missouri. 

Maj2,  1861.     The  Legislature  convened  in  extra  session.     Many 
acts  were  passed,  among  which  was  one  to  authorize  the  Governor  to 
purchase  or  lease  David  Ballentine's  foundry  at  Boonville,  for  the  mttn- 
nfacture  of  arms  and  munitions  of  war ;  to  authorize  the  Governor  to 
appoint  one  Major-General ;  to  authorize  the  Governor,  when,  in  his 
opinion,  the  security  and  welfare  of  the  State  required  it,  to  take  pos- 
session of  the  railroad  and  telegraph  lines  of  the  State  ;  to  provide  for 
the oivanization,  government,  and  support  of  the  military  forces;  to 
borrow  one  million  of  dollars  to  arm  and  equip  the  militia  of  the  State 
to  repel  invasion,  and  protect  the  lives  and  property  of  the  people. 
An  act  was  also  passed  creating  a  **  Military  Fund,"  to  consist  of  all 
the  money  then  in  the  treasury  or  that  might  thereafter  b^  received 
from  the  one-tenth  of  one  per  cent,  on  the  hundred*  dollars,  levied  by 
act  of  November,  1857,  to  complete  certain  railroads ;  also  the  pro- 
ceeds of  a  tax  of  fifteen  cents  on  the  hundred  dollars  of  the  assessed 
value  of  the  taxable  property  of  the  several  counties  in  the  State,  and 
the  proceeds  of  the  two-mill  tax,  which  had  been  theretofore  appro- 
priated for  educational  purposes. 
May  3,  1861.     *'  Camp  Jackson  "  was  organized. 
May  10,  1861.     Sterling  Price  appointed  Major-General  of  State 
Guard. 

May  10,  1861.  General  Frost,  commanding  *'  Camp  Jackson,"  ad- 
dressed General  iJ.  Lyon,  as  follows :  — 

Headquarters  Camp  Jackson,  Missouri  Militia,  May  10,  1861. 
Capt.  N.  Lyon,  Commanding  U.  S,  Troops  in  and  about  St,  Louis 
Arsenal: 

Sir:  I  am  constantly  in  receipt  of  information  that  you  contem- 
plate an  attack  upon  my  camp,  whilst  1  understand  that  you  are  im- 
pressed with  the  idea  that  an  attack  upon  the  Arsenal  and  United 
States  troops  is  intended  on  the  part  of  the  Militia  of  Missouri.     I  am 


46  HISTORY   OF   MISSOURI. 

greatly  at  a  loss  to  know  what  could  justify  you  in  attacking  citizens 
of  the  United  States,  who  are  in  lawful  performance  of  their  duties, 
devolving  upon  them  under  the  Constitution  in  organizing  and  instruct- 
ing the  militia  of  the  State  in  obedience  to  her  laws,  and,  therefore, 
have  been  disposed  to  doubt  the  correctness  of  the  information  I  have 
received. 

I  would  be  glad  to  know  from  you  personally  whether  there  is  any 
truth  in  the  statements  that  are  constantly  pouring  into  my  ears.  So 
far  as  regards  any  hostility  being  intended  toward  the  United  States, 
or  its  property  or  representatives  by  any  portion  of  my  command,  or, 
as  far  as  I  can  learn  (and  I  think  T  am  fully  informed),  of  any  other 
part  of  the  State  forces,  I  can  positively  say  that  the  idea  has  never 
been  entertained.  On  the  contrary,  prior  to  your  taking  command  of 
the  Arsenal,  I  proffered  to  Major  Bell,  then  in  command  of  the  very 
few  troops  constituting  its  guard,  the  services  of  myself  and  all  my 
command,  and,  if  necessary,  the  whole  power  of  the  State,  to  protect 
the  United  States  in  the  full  possession  of  all  her  property.  Upon 
General  Harney  taking  command  of  this  department,  I  made  the  same 
proffer  of  services  to  him,  and  authorized  his  Adjutant-General,  Capt. 
Williams,  to  communicate  the  fact  that  such  had  been  done  to  the 
War  Department.  I  have  had  no  occasion  since  to  change  any  of  the 
views  I  entertained  at  the  time,  neither  of  my  own  volition  nor  through 
orders  of  my  constitutional  commander. 

1  trust  that  after  this  explicit  statement  that  we  may  be  able,  by 
fully  understanding  each  other,  to  keep  far  from  our  borders  the  mis- 
fortunes which  so  unhappily  affect  our  common  country. 

This  communication  will  be  handed  you  by  Colonel  Bowen,  my 
Chief  of  Staff,  who  will  be  able  to  explain  anything  not  fully  set  forth 
in  the  foregoing. 

I  am,  sir,  very  respectfully  your  obedient  servant. 

Brioadier-Gbneral  D.  M.  Frost, 
Commanding  Camp  Jackson^  M.  V.  M. 

May  10,  1861.     Gen.  Lyon  sent  the  following  to  Gen.  Frost: 

Headquarters  United  States  Troops, 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  May  10,  1861. 
Gen.  D.  M.  Frost,  Commanding  Camp  Jackson: 

Sir:  Your  command  is  regarded  as  evidently  hostile  toward  the 
Government  of  the  United  States. 

It  is,  for  the  most  part,  made  up  of  those  Secessionists  who  have 


HISTORY   OP   MISSOukl.  47 

openly  avowed  their  hostility  to  the  General  Government,  and  have 

been  plotting  at  the  seizure  of  its  property  and  the  overthrow  of  its 

anthority.     You   are   openly   in   communication   with   the   so-called 

Southern  Confederacy,  which  is  now  at  war  with  the  United  States, 

and  you  are  receiving  at  your  camp,  from  the  said  Confederacy  and 

under  its  flag,  large  supplies  of  the  material  of  war,  most  of  which  is 

known  to  he  the  property  of  the  United  States.     These  extraordinary 

preparations  plainly  indicate  none  other  than  the  well-known  purpose 

of  the  Governor  of  this  State,  under  whose  orders  you  are  acting,  and 

whose  communication  to  the  Legislature  has  just  been  responded  to 

bj  that  body  in  the  most  unparalleled  legislation,  having  in  direct 

view  hostilities  to  the  General  Government  and  co-operation  with  its 

enemies. 

In  view  of  these  considerations,  and  of  your  failure  to  disperse  in 
obedience  to  the  proclamation  of  the  President,  and  of  the  imminent 
necessities  of  State  policy  and  warfare,  and  the  obligations  imposed 
upon  me  by  instructions  from  Washington,  it  is  my  duty  to  demand, 
and  I  do  hereby  demand  of  you  an  immediate  surrender  of  your  com- 
mand, with  no  other  conditions  than  that  all  persons  surrendering 
under  this  command  shall  be  humanely  and  kindly  treated.  Believing 
myself  prepared  to  enforce  this  demand,  one-half  hour's  time  before 
doing  so  vnW  be  allowed  for  your  compliance  therewith. 
Very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

N.  Lyon, 
Captain  Second  Infantry^  Commanding  Troops. 

May  10,  1861.  Camp  Jackson  surrendered  and  prisoners  all 
released  excepting  Capt.  Emmet  McDonald,  who  refused  to  subscribe 
to  the  parole. 

May  12,  1861.  Brigadier-General  Wm.  S.  Harney  issued  a  procla- 
mation to  the  people  of  Missouri,  saying  "  he  would  carefully  abstain 
from  the  exercise  of  any  unnecessary  powers,"  and  only  use  "the 
military  force  stationed  in  this  district  in  the  last  resort  to  preserve 
peace." 

May  14,  1861.     General  Harney  issued  a  second  proclamation. 

May  21,  1861.  General  Harney  held  a  conference  with  General 
Sterlinsr  Price,  of  the  Missouri  State  Guards. 

May  31,  1861.     General  Harney  superseded  by  General  Lyon. 

June  11,  1861.  A  second  conference  was  held  between  the  National 
and  Suite  authorities  in  St.  Louis,  which  resulted  in  nothing. 


48  H8TOBT   OF  MISSOURI. 

/ 

June  11,  1861.  Gov.  Jackson  left  St.  Louis  for  Jefferson  City, 
buniing  the  railroad  bridges  behind  him,  and  cutting  telegraph  wires. 

June  12,  1861.  Governor  Jackson  issued  a  proclamation  calling 
into  active  service  50,000  militia,  «*to  repel  invasion,  protect  life, 
property,"  etc. 

June  \hs  1861.  Col.  F.  P.  Blair  took  possession  of  the  State  Capi- 
tal, Gov.  Jackson,  Gen.  Price  and  other  officers  having  left  on  the  13th 
of  June  for  Boonville. 

June  17,  1861.  Battle  of  Boonville  took  place  between  the  forces 
of  Gen.  Lyon  and  Col.  John  S.  Marmaduke. 

June  18,  1861.  General  Lyon  issued  a  proclamation  to  the  people 
of  Missouri. 

July  5,  1861,  Battle  at  Carthage  between  the  forces  of  Gen.  Sigel 
and  Gov.  Jackson. 

July  6,  1861.     Gen.  Lyon  reached  Springfield. 

July  22,  1861.  State  convention  met  and  declared  the  offices  of 
Governor,  Lieutenant-Governor  and  Secretary  of  State  vacated. 

July  26,  1861.  Gen.  John  C.  Fremont  assumed  command  of  the 
Western  Department,  with  headquarters  in  St.  Louis. 

July  31,  1861.  Lieutenant-Governor  Thomas  C.  Reynolds  issued 
a  proclamation  at  New  Madrid. 

August  1,  1861.  General  Jeff.  Thompson  issued  a  proclamation  at 
Bioomfield. 

August  2,  1861.  Battle  of  Dug  Springs,  between  Captain  Steele's 
fiu'ces  and  General  Sains. 

August  5,  1861.  Governor  Jackson  issued  a  proclamation  at  New 
Madrid. 

August  5,  1861.     Battle  of  Athens. 

August  10,  1861  Battle  of  Wilson's  Creek,  between  the  forces 
under  General  Lyou  and  General  McCulloch.  In  this  engagement 
•General  Lyon  was  killed.     General  Sturgis  succeeded  General  Lyon. 

August  12,  1861.  McCulloch  issued  a  proclamation,  and  soon  letl 
Missouri. 

August  20,  1861.     General  Price  issued  a  proclamation. 

August  24,  1861.  Governor  Gamble  issued  a  proclamation  calling 
for  32,000  men  for  six  months  to  protect  the  property  and  lives  of  the 
citizens  of  the  State. 

August  30,  1861.     General   Fremont   declared   martial   law,  and 

« 

declared  that  the  slaves  of  all  persons  who  should  thereafter  take  an 
.active  part  with  the  enemies  of  the  Government  should  be  free. 


HI8TOBT  OF  lOSSOUBI.  49 

September  2, 1861.     General  Jeff.  Thompson  issued  a  proclamation 

in  response  to  Fremont's  proclamation. 
September  7,  1861.     Battle  at  Drywood  Creek. 
September  11, 1861.     President  Lincoln  modified  the  clause  in  Gen. 

Fremont's  declaration  of  martial  law,  in  reference  to  the  confiscation 

of  property  and  liberation  of  slaves. 

September  12,  1861.     General  Price  begins  the  attack  at  Lexing- 
ton on  Colonel  Mulligan's  forces. 

September  20,  1861.     Colonel   Mulligan  with  2,640  men  surren- 
dered. 

October  25,  1861.     Second  battle  at  Springfield. 

October  28,  1861.     Passage   by  Governor  Jackson's  Legislature, 
at  Neosho,  of  an  ordinance  of  secession. 

November  2,  1861.  General  Fremont  succeeded  by  General  David 
Hunter. 

November  7,  1861.     General  Grant  attacked  Belmont.  ^ 

November  9,  1861.  General  Hunter  succeeded  by  General  Halleck, 
who  took  command  on  the  19th  of  same  month,  with  headquarters  in 
St.  Louis. 

November  27,  1861.  General  Price  issued  proclamation  calling  for 
50,000  men,  at  Neosho,  Missouri. 

December  12,  1861.  General  Hunter  issued  his  order  of  assess- 
ment upon  certain  wealthy  citizens  in  St.  Louis,  for  feeding  and  cloth- 
ing Union  refugees. 

December  23-25.  Declared  martial  law  in  St.  Louis  and  the 
country  adjacent,  and  coveriug  all  the  railro.id  lines 

March  6,  1862.  Battle  at  Pea  Ridge  between  the  forces  under  Gen- 
erals Curtis  and  Van  Dorn. 

January  8,  1862.  Provost  Marshal  Farrar,  of  St.  Louis,  issued  the 
following  order  in  reference  to  newspapers : 

Office  of  the  .Provost  Marshal, 
General  Departmknt  of  Missouri, 
St.  Louis,  January  8,  1862. 
(General  Order  No.  10.) 

It  is  hereby  ordered  that  from  and  after  this  date  the  publishers  of 
newspapers  in  the  State  of  Missouri  (St.  Louis  City  papers  excepted), 
furnish  to  this  office,  immediately  upon  publication,  one  copy  of  each 
iswue,  for  inspection.  A  failure  to  comply  with  this  order  will  render 
the  newspaper  liable  to  suppression. 


50  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI. 

Local  Provost  Marshals  will  furnish  the  proprietors  with  copies  of 
this  order,  and  attend  to  its  immediate  enforcement. 

Bernard  G.  Farrar» 
Provost  Marshal  Greneral. 

January  26,  1862.  General  Halleck  issued  order  (No.  18)  which 
forbade,  among  other  things,  the  disphiy  of  Secession  flags  in  the 
hands  of  women  or  on  carriages,  in  the  vicinity  of  the  military  prison 
in  McDowell's  College,  the  carriages  to  be  confiscated  and  the  offend- 
ing women  to  be  arrested. 

February  4, 1862.  General  Halleck  issued  another  order  similar  to 
Order  No.  18,  to  railroad  companies  and  to  the  professors  and  direct- 
ors of  the  State  University  at  Columbia,  forbidding  the  funds  of  the 
institution  to  be  used  '*  to  teach  treason  or  to  instruct  traitors." 

February  20,  1862.  Special  Order  No.  120  convened  a  military 
commission,  which  sat  in  Columbiji,  March  following,  and  tried  Ed- 
mund J.  Ellis,  of  Columbia,  editor  and  proprietor  of  "  The  Boone 
County  Standard^^'*  for  the  publication  of  information  for  the  benefit 
of  the  enemy,  and  encouraging  resistance  to  the  United  States  Gov- 
ernment. Ellis  was  found  oruiltv,  was  banished  durinor  the  war  from 
Missouri,  and*  his  printing  materials  confiscated  and  sold. 

April,  1862.  General  Halleck  left  for  Corinth,  Mississippi,  leaving 
General  Schofield  in  command. 

June,  1862.  Battle  at  Cherry  Grove  between  the  forces  under 
Colonel  Joseph  C.  Porter  and  Colonel  H.  S.  Lipscomb. 

June,  1862.  Battle  at  Pierce's  Mill  between  the  forces  under  Major 
John  Y.  Clopper  and  Colonel  Porter. 

July  22,  1862.     Battle  at  Florida. 

July  28,  1862.     Battle  at  Moore's  Mill.  * 

AuiTust  6,  1862.     Battle  near  Kirksville. 

August  11,  1862.     Battle  at  Independence.  * 

August  16,  1862.     Battle  at  Lone  Jack. 

September  13,  1862.     Battle  at  Newtonia. 

September  25,  1862.  Ten  Confederate  prisoners  were  executed  at 
Macon,  by  order  of  General  Merrill. 

October  18, 1862.  Ten  Confederate  prisoners  executed  at  Palmyi-a, 
by  order  of  General  McNeill. 

January  8,  1863.  Battle  at  Springfield  between  the  forces  of  Gen- 
eral Marmaduke  and  General  E.  B.  Brown. 

April  26,  1863.     Battle  at  Cape  Girardeau. 


HISTOBT   OF  MI&BOUBI.  51 

August  — ,  1863.  General  Jeff.  Thompson  captured  at  Pocahontas, 
Arkansas,  with  his  staff. 

August  25,  1863.  General  Thomas  Ewing  issued  his  celebrated 
Order  No.  11,  at  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  which  is  as  follows :  — 


Headquarters  District  of  the  Border, 
Kansas  City,  Mo.,  August  25,  1863 


.„> 


(General  Order  No.  11.) 

First.  —  All  persons  living  in  Cass,  Jackson  and  Bates  Counties, 
Missouri,  and  in  that  part  of  Vernon  included  in  this  district,  except 
those  living  within  one  mile  of  the  limits  of  Independence,  Hickman's 
Mills,  Pleasant  Hill  and  Harrisonville,  and  except  those  in  that  part 
of  Kaw  Township,  Jackson  County,  north  of  Brush  Creek  and  west 
of  the  Big  Blue,  embracing  Kansas  City  and  Westport,  are  hereby 
ordered  to  remove  from  their  present  peaces  of  residence  within  fifteen 
days  from  the  date  hereof. 

Those  who,  within  that  time,  establish  their  loyalty  to  the  satisfac- 
tion of  the  commanding  officer  of  the  military  station  nearest  their 
present  place  of  residence,  will  receive  from  him  certificates  stating 
the  fact  of  their  loyalty,  and  the  names  of  the  witnesses  by  whom  it 
can  be  shown.  All  who  receive  such  certificate  will  be  permitted  to 
remove  to  any  military  station  in  this  district,  or  to  any  part  of  the 
State  of  Kansas,  except  the  counties  on  the  eastern  borders  of  the 
State.  All  others  shall  remove  out  of  this  district.  Officers  com- 
manding companies  and  detachments  serving  in  the  counties  named, 
will  see  that  this  paragraph  is  promptly  obeyed. 

Second.  —  All  grain  and  hay  in  the  field,  or  under  shelter,  in  the 
district  from  which  the  inhabitants  are  required  to  remove  within  reach 
of  military  stations,  after  the  9th  day  of  September  next,  will  be 
taken  to  such  stations  and  turned  over  to  the  proper  officer  there,  and 
report  of  the  amount  so  turned  over  made  to  district  headquarters, 
:>pecifyiug  the  names  of  all  loyal  owners  and  the  amount  of  such 
produce  taken  from  them.  All  grain  and  hay  found  in  such  district 
after  the  9th  day  of  September  next,  not  convenient  to  such  stations), 
will  be  destroyed. 

Tliird. — The  provisions  of  General  Order  No.  10,  from  these 
headquarters,  will  at  once  be  vigorously  executed  by  officers  com« 
mandiug  in  the  parts  of  the  district,  and  at  the  stations  not  subject  to 
the  operations  of  paragi-aph  First  of  this  Order  —  and  especially  in 
the  towns  of  Independence.  Westport  and  Kansas  City. 


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HISTORY  OF   MISSOURI. 


Fourth. — Paragraph  3,  General  Order  No.  10,  is  revoked  as  to  all 
who  have  borue  arms  against  the  Government  in  the  district  since 
August  20,  1863. 

By  order  of  Brigadier-General  Ewing :  > 

H.  Hannahs,  Adjutant. 

October  13.     Battle  of  Marshall. 

January,  1864.  General  Kosecrans  takes  command  of  the  Depart- 
ment. 

September,  1864.  Battle  at  Pilot  Knob,  Harrison  and  Little  Mo- 
reau  River. 

October  5,  1864. 
farm. 

October  8,  1864. 

October  20,  1864. 


Battle  at  Prince's  Ford  and  James  Gordon's 


Battle  at  Glasgow. 
Battle  at  Little  Blue  Creek. 

September  27,  1864.  Massacre  at  Centralia,  by  Captain  Bill  An- 
derson. 

October  27,  1864.     Captain  Bill  Anderson  killed. 

December  — ,  1864.  General  Rosecrans  relieved  and  General 
Dodge  appointed  to  succeed  him. 

Nothing  occurred  specially,  of  a  military  character,  in  the  State  after 
December,  1864.  We  have,  in  the  main,  given  the  facts  as  they 
occurred  without  comment  or  entering  into  details.  Many  of  the 
minor  incidents  and  skirmishes  of  the  war  have  been  omitted  because 
of  our  limited  space. 

It  is  utterly  impossible,  at  this  date,  to  give  the  names  and  dates  of 
all  the  battles  fought  in  Missouri  during  the  Civil  War.  It  will  be 
found,  however,  that  the  list  given  below,  which  has  been  arranged  for 
convenience,  contiiins  the  prominent  battles  and  skirmishes  which  took 
place  within  the  Slate  :  — 


Potosi,  May  14,  1861. 
Boonville,  June  17,  1861. 
Carthage,  July  5,  1861. 
Monroe  Station,  July  10,  1861. 
Overton's  Ran,  July  17,  1861. 
Dug  Spring,  August  2,  1861. 
Wilson's  Creek,  August  10,  1861. 
Athens,  August  5,  1861. 
Moreton,  August  20,  1861. 
Bennett's  Mills,  September  — ,  1861. 
Dry  wood  Creek,  September  7,  1861. 
Norfolk,  September  10,  1861. 
Lexington,  September  12-20, 1861. 


Bine  Mills  Landing,  September  17,  1861. 
Glasgow  Mistake,  September  20,  1861. 
Osceola,  September  26,  1861. 
Shanghai,  October  18,  1861. 
Lebanon,  October  18,  1861. 
Linn  Creek,  October  16,  1861. 
Big  River  Bridge,  October  15,  1861. 
Fredericktown,  October  21, 1861. 
SprlngHeld,  October  25,  1861. 
Belmont,  November  7,  1861. 
Fiketon,  November  8,  1861. 
Little  Blue,  November  10,  1861. 
Clark's  Station,  November  11, 1861. 


UI8TORT  OF  MISSOURI. 


5S 


Mt.  Zion  Church,  December  28,  1861. 
Sflrer  Creek,  Janaary  15,  1862. 
New  Madrid,  Febniary  28,  1862. 
Pea  Ridge,  March  6, 18G2. 
Neosho,  April  22,  18G2. 
Rose  Hill,  July  10,  1862. 
Chariton  River,  July  80,  1862. 
Cherry  Grove,  June  — ,  1862. 
Pierce's  Mill,  June  —,  1862. 
Florida,  July  22, 1862. 
Moore's  Mill,  July  28,  1862. 
KirksTllle,  August  6,  1862. 
Compton's  Ferry,  August  8,  1863. 
Tellow  Creek,  August  13,  1862. 
Independence,  August  11, 1862. 


Lone  Jack,  August  16,  1862. 
Newtonia,  September  18,  1862. 
Springfield,  January  8,  1868. 
Cape  Girardeau,  AprU  29,  1863. 
Marshall,  October  18,  1803. 
Pilot  Knob,  September—,  1804. 
Harrison,  September  — ,  1804. 
Moreau  River,  October  7, 18<>4. 
Prince's  Ford,  October  5,  1864. 
Glasgow,  October  8,  1864. 
Little  Blue  Creek,  October  20,  1864. 
Albany,  October  27, 1864. 
Near  Rocheport,  September  28,  1864. 
Centralhi,  September  27,  1864. 


CHAPTER    IX. 


EARLY   MILITARY   RECORD. 


Black  Hawk  War  —  Mormon  Difficulties  —  Florida  War — Mexican  War. 

On  the  fourteenth  day  of  May,  1832,  a  bloody  engagement  took 
place  between  the  regular  forces  of  the  United  States,  and  a  part  of 
the  Sacs,  Foxes,  and  Winnebago  Indians,  commanded  by  Bhick 
Hawk  and  Keokuk,  near  Dixon's  Ferry  in  Illinois. 

The  Governor  (John  Miller)  of  Missouri,  fearing  these  savages 
would  invade  the  soil  of  his  State,  ordered  Major-General  Richard 
Gentrv  to  raise  one  thousand  volunteers  for  the  defence  of  the  fron- 
tier.  Five  companies  were  at  once  raised  in  Boone  county,  and  in 
Callaway,  Montgomery,  St.  Charles,  Lincoln,  Pike,  Marion,  Ralls^ 
Clay  and  Monroe  other  companies  were  raised. 

Two  of  these  companies,  commanded  respectively  by  Captain  John 
Jamison  of  Callaway,  and  Captain  David  M.  Hickman  of  Boone 
county,  were  mustered  into  service  in  elnly  for  thirty  days,  and  put 
under  command  of  Major  Thomas  W.  Conyers. 

This  detachment,  accompanied  by  General  Gentry,  arrived  at  Fort 
Pike  on  the  15th  of  July,  1832.  Finding  that  the  Indians  had  not 
crossed  the  Mississippi  into  Missouri,  General  Gentry  returned  to 
Columbia,  leaving  the  fort  in  charge  of  Major  Conyers.  Thirty  days 
having  expired,  the  command  under  Major  Conyers  was  relieved  by  two 


54 


HISTORY   OF  MISSOURI. 


Other  companies  under  Captains  Sinclair  Kirtley,  nf  Boone,  and  Patrick 
Ewing,  of  Callaway.  This  detachment  was  marched  to  Fort  Pike  by 
Col.  Austin  A.  Bang,  who  conducted  the  two  companies  under  Major 
Conyers  home.  Major  Conyers  was  left  in  charge  of  the  fort,  where 
he  remained  till  September  following,  at  which  time  the  Indian  troub- 
les, so  far  as  Missouri  was  concerned,  having  all  subsided,  the  frontier 
forces  were  mustered  out  of  service. 

Black  Hawk  continued  the  war  in  Iowa  and  Illinois,  and  was  finally 
defeated  and  captured  in  1833. 

MORMON    DIFFICULTIES. 

In  1832,  Joseph  Smith,  the  leader  of  the  Mormons,  and  the  chosen 
prophet  and  apostle,  as  he  claimed,  of  the  Most  High,  came  with 
many  followers  to  Jackson  county,  Missouri,  where  they  located  and 
entered  several  thousand  acres  of  land. 

The  object  of  his  coming  so  far  West  —  upon  the  very  outskirts  of 
civilization  at  that  time  —  was  to  more  securely  establish  his  church, 
and  the  more  effectively  to  instruct  his  followers  in  its  peculiar  tenets 
and  practices. 

Upon  the  present  town  site  of  Independence  the  Mormons  located 
their  <*Ziou,'*  and  gave  it  the  name  of  **  The  New  Jerusalem.** 
They  published  here  the  Evening  Star^  and  made  themselves  gener- 
ally obnoxious  to  the  Gentiles,  who  were  then  in  a  minority,  by  their 
denunciatory  ai-ticles  through  their  paper,  their  clannishness  and  their 
polygamous  practices. 

Dreading  the  demoralizing  influence  of  a  paper  which  seemed  to  be 
inspired  only  with  hatred  and  malice  toward  them,  the  Gentiles 
threw  the  press  and  type  into  the  Missouri  River,  tarred  and  feathered 
one  of  their  bishops,  and  otherwise  gave  the  Mormons  and  their  lead- 
ers to  understand  that  they  must  conduct  themselves  in  an  entirely 
different  manner  if  they  wished  to  be  let  alone. 

After  the  destruction  of  their  paper  and  press,  they  became  fu- 
riously incensed,  and  sought  many  opportunities  for  retaliation.  Mat- 
ters continued  in  an  uncertain  condition  until  the  31st  of  October, 
1833,  when  a  deadly  conflict  occurred  near  Westport,  in  which  two 
Gentiles  and  one  Mormon  were  killed. 

On  the  2d  of  October  following  the  Mormons  were  overpowered, 
and  compelled  to  lay  down  their  arms  and  agree  to  leave  the  county 
with  their  families  by  January  1st  on  the  condition  that  the  owner 
would  be  paid  for  his  printing  press. 


\ 


HI8TOBT  OF  MI880UBI.  55 

Leaving  Jackson  county,  they  crossed  the  Missouri  and  located  in 
Clay,  Carroll,  Caldwell  and  other  counties,  and  selected  in  Caldwell 
county  a  town  site,  which  they  called  '«  Far  West,"  and  where  they 
entered  more  land  tor  their  future  homes. 

Through  the  influence  of  their  missionaries,  who  were  exerting 
themselves  in  the  East  and  in  different  portions  of  Europe,  converts 
had  constantly  flocked  to  their  standard,  and  **  Far  West,"  and  other 
Mormon  settlements,  rapidly  prospered. 

In  1837  they  commenced  the  erection  of  a  magnificent  temple,  but 
never  finished  it.  As  their  settlements  increased  in  numbers,  they 
became  bolder  in  their  practices  and  deeds  of  lawlessness. 

DurinsT  the  summer  of  1838  two  of  their  leaders  settled  in  the  town 
of  De  Witt,  on  the  Missouri  River,  having  purchased  the  land  from 
an  Illinois  merchant.  De  Witt  was  in  Carroll  county,  and  a  good 
point  from  which  to  forward  goods  and  immigrants  to  their  town  ^- 
Far  West. 

Upon  its  being  ascertained  that  these  parties  were  Mormon  leaders, 
the  Gentiles  called  a  public  meeting,  which  was  addressed  by  some  of 
the  prominent  citizens  of  the  county.  Nothing,  however,  was  done  at 
this  meeting,  but  at  a  subsequeilt  meeting,  which  was  held  a  few  days 
afterward,  a  committee  of  citizens  was  appointed  to  notify  Col.  Hin- 
kle  (one  of  the  Mormon  leaders  at  De  Witt),  what  they  intended  to 
do. 

Col.  Hinkle  upon  being  notified  by  this  committee  became  indig- 
nant, and  threatened  extermination  to  all  who  should  attempt  to  molest 
him  or  the  Saints. 

In  anticipation  of  trouble,  and  believing  that  the  Gentiles  would 
attempt  to  force  them  from  De  Witt,  Mormon  recruits  flocked  to  the 
town  from  every  direction,  and  pitched  their  tents  in  and  around  the 
town  in  great  numbers. 

The  Gentiles,  nothing  daunted,  planned  an  attack  upon  this  en- 
campment, to  take  place  on  the  2l8t  day  of  September,  1838,  and, 
accordingly,  one  hundred  and  fifty  men  bivouacked  near  the  town  on 
th;it  day.     A  conflict  ensued,  but  nothing  serious  occurred. 

The  Mormons  evacuated  their  works  and  fled  to  some  log  houses, 
where  they  could  the  more  successfully  resist  the  Gentiles,  who  had 
in  the  meantime  returned   to  their  camp  to  await  reinforcements.  ' 
Troops  from   Saline,  Ray  and  other   counties  came  to  their  assist- 
ance, and  increased  their  number  to  five  hundred  men. 

Congreve  Jackson  was  chosen  Brigadier-  General ;  Ebenczer  Price, 


56  HISTORY  OF   MISSOURI. 

Colonel ;  Singleton  Vaughan,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  Sarshel  Wootls^ 
Major.  After  some  days  of  discipline,  this  brigade  prepared  for  an 
assault,  but  before  the  attack  was  commenced  Judge  James  Earickson 
and  William  F.  Dunnica,  influential  citizens  of  Howard  county,  asked 
permission  of  General  Jackson  to  let  them  try  and  adjust  the  difficul- 
ties without  any  bloodshed. 

It  was  finally  agreed  that  Judge  Earickson  should  propose  to  the 
Mormons,  that  if  they  would  pay  for  all  the  cattle  they  had  killed  be- 
longing to  the  citizens,  and  load  their  wagons  during  the  night  and  be 
ready  to  move  by  ten  o'clock  next  morning,  and  make  no  further 
attempt  to  settle  in  Carroll  county,  the  citizens  would  purchase  at 
firsjt  cost  their  lots  in  De  Witt  and  one  or  two  adjoining  tracts  of 
land. 

Col.  Hinkle,  the  leader  of  the  Mormons,  at  first  i-efused  all  atteir^its 
to  settle  the  difficulties  in  this  way,  but  finally  agreed  to  the  proposi- 
tion. 

In  accordance  therewith,  the  Mormons  without  further  delay, 
loaded  up  their  wagons  for  the  town  of  Far  West,  in  Caldwell  county* 
Whether  the  terms  of  the  agreement  were  ever  carried  out,  on  the- 
part  of  the  citizens,  is  not  known. 

The  Mormons  had  doubtless  suffered  much  and  in  many  ways  —  the 
result  of  their  own  acts  —  but  their  trials  and  sufferings  were  not  at 
an  end. 

In  1838  the  discord  between  the  citizens  and  Mormons  became  so 
great  that  Governor  Boggs  issued  a  proclamation  ordering  Major- 
General  David  R.  Atchison  to  call  the  militia  of  his  division  to  enforce 
the  laws.  He  called  out  a  part  of  the  first  brigade  of  the  Missouri 
State  Militia,  under  command  of  Gen.  A.  W.  Doniphan,  who  pro- 
ceeded to  the  seat  of  war.  Gen.  John  B.  Clark,  of  Howard.  County, 
was  placed  in  command  of  the  militia. 

The  Mormon  forces  numbered  about  1,000  men,  and  were  led  by 
G.  W.  Hinkle.  The  first  engagement  occurred  at  Crooked  river, 
where  one  Mormon  was  killed.  The  principal  fight  took  place  at 
Haughn's  Mills,  where  eighteen  Mormons  were  killed  and  the  balance 
captured,  some  of  them  being  killed  after  ^they  had  surrendered. 
Only  one  militiaman  wjis  wounded. 

In  the  month  of  October,  1838,  Joe  Smith  surrendered  the  town  of 
Far  West  to  Gen.  Doniphan,  agreeing  to  his  conditions,  viz. :  That 
they  should  deliver  up  their  arms,  surrender  their  prominent  leaders 
for  trial,  and  the  remainder  of   the   Mormons  should,   with   their 


HISTORY  OP  MISSOURI.  57 

fcmilies,  leave  the  State.  Indictments  were  found  against  a  number 
of  these  leaders,  including  Joe  Smith,  who,  while  being  taken  to 
Boone  county  for  trial,  made  his  escape,  and  was  afterward,  in  1844, 
killed  at  Carthage,  Illinois,  with  his  brother  Hii-um. 

FLORIDA   WAR. 

In  September,  1837,  the  Secretary  of  War  issued  a  requisition  on 
Governor  Boggs,  of  Missouri,  for  six  hundred  volunteers  for  service 
in  Florida  against  the  Seminole  Indians,  with  whom  the  Creek  nation 
had  made  conimon  cause  under  Osceola. 

The  first  regiment  was  chiefly  raised  in  Boone  county  by  .Colonel 
Richard  Gentry,  of  which  he  was  elected  Colonel ;  John  W.  Price,  of 
Howard  county,  Lieutenant-Colonel ;  Harrison  H.  Hughes,  also  of 
Howard,  Major.  Four  companies  of  the  second  regiment  were  raised 
and  attached  to  the  first.  Two  of  these  companies  were  composed  of 
Delaware  and  Osage  Indians. 

October  6,  1837,  Col.  Gentry's  regiment  left  Columbia  for  the  seat 
of  war,  stopping  on  the  way  at  Jefferson  barracks,  where  they  were 
mustered  into  sei-vice. 

AiTiving  at  Jackson  barracks.  New  Orleans,  they  were  from  thence 
transported  in  brigs  across  the  Gulf  to  Tampa  Bay,  Florida.  Gen- 
eral Zachary  Taylor,  who  then  commanded  in  Florida,  ordered  Col. 
Gentry  to  march  to  Okee-cho-bee  Lake,  one  hundred  and  thirty-five 
miles  inland  by  the  route  traveled.  Having  reached  the  Kissemmee 
river,  seventy  miles  distant,  a  bloody  battle  ensued,  in  which  Col. 
Gentry  was  killed.  The  Missoinians,  though  losing  their  gallant 
leader,  continued  the  fight  until  the  Indians  were  totally  routed,  leav- 
ing many  of  their  dead  and  wounded  on  the  field.  There  being  no 
further  service  required  of  the  Missourians,  they  returned  to  their 
homes  in  1838. 

MEXICAN    WAR. 

Soon  after  Mexico  declared  war,  a<rainst  the  United  States,  on  the 
8th  and  9th  of  May,  1846,  the  battles  of  Palo  Alto  and  Resaca  de  la 
Pulma  were  fought.  Great  excitement  prevailed  throughout  the 
country.  In  none  of  her  sister  States,  however,  did  the  fires  of 
patriotism  burn  more  intensely  than  in  Missouri.  Not  waiting  for  the 
call  for  volunteers,  the  "  St.  Louis  Legion  "  hastened  to  the  field  of 
conflict.  The  "  Legion  "  was  commanded  by  Colonel  A.  R.  Easton. 
During  the   month  of  May,  1846,  Governor  Edwards,  of  Missouri,, 


ftS  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI. 

called  for  volunteers  to  join  the  "Army  of  the  West,"  an  expedition 
to  Sante  Fe  —  under  command  of  General  Stephen  W.  Kearney. 

Fort  Leavenworth  was  the  appointed  rendezvousyfor  the  volunteers. 
By  the  18th  of  June,  the  full  complement  of  companies  to  compose 
the  first  regiment  had  arrived  from  Jackson,  Lafayette,  Clay,  Sa- 
line, Franklin,  Cole,  Howard  and  Callawav  counties.  Of  this  regi- 
ment,  A.  W.  Doniphan  was  made  Colonel ;  C.  F.  Ruff,  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  and  Wm.  Gilpin,  Major.  The  battalion  of  light  artillery 
from  St.  Louis  was  commanded  by  Captains  R.  A.  Weightman  and 
A.  W.  Fischer,  with  Major  M.  L.  jClark  as  field  oflicer ;  battalions  of 
infantry,  from  Platte  and  Cole  counties  commanded  by  Captains 
Murphy  and  W.  Z.  Augney  respectively,  and  the  «*  Laclede  Rsmgers," 
from  St.  Louis,  by  Captain  Thomas  B.  Hudson,  aggregating  all  told, 
from  Missouri,  1,658  men.  In  the  summer  of  1846  Hon.  Sterling 
Price  resigned  his  seat  in  Congress  and  raised  one  mounted  regiment, 
one  mounted  extra  battalion,  and  one  extra  battalion  of  Mormon  in- 
iantry  to  reinforce  the  *<Army  of  the  West."  Mr.  Price  was  made 
Colonel,  and  D.  D.  Mitchell  Lieutenant-Colonel. 

In  August,  1847,  Governor  Edwards  made  another  requisition  for 
one  thousand  men,  to  consist  of  infantry.  The  regiment  was  raised 
at  once.  John 'Dougherty,  of  Clay  county,  was  chosen  Colonel,  but 
before  the  regiment  marched  the  President  countermanded  the  order. 

A  company  of  mounted  volunteers  was  raised  in  Ralls  county,  com- 
manded by  Captain  Wm.  T.  Lafland.  Conspicuous  among  the  en- 
gagements in  which  the  Missouri  volunteers  participated  in  Mexico 
were  the  battles  of  Bracito,  Sacramento,  Cafiada,  El  Embudo,  Taos 
and  Santa  Cruz  de  Rosalos.  The  forces  from  Missouri  were  mustered 
out  in  1848,  and  will  ever  be  remembered  in  the  history  of  the  Mexi- 
can war,  for 

<<A  thoasand  glorioas  actions  that  might  claim 
Triumphant  laurels  and  immortal  fame. 


mSTORT  OF  MISSOURI.  69 


CHAPTEK    X. 

AGRICULTURE  AND  MATERIAL  WEALTH. 

Missouri  as  an  Agricaltural  State— The  Different  Crops— Live  Stock  — Horses  — 
Males  —  Milch  Cows  — Oxen  and  other  Cattle— Sheep  — Hogs— Comparisons  — 
Missoiuri  adapted  to  Live  Stock  —  Cotton  —  Broora-Com  and  other  Products  — 
Fniits — Berries— Grapes- Railroads- First  Neigh  of  the  «•  Iron  Horse  "  In  Mis- 
souri— Names  of  Railroads- Manufactures  — Great  Bridge  at  8t.  Louis. 

Agriculture  is  the  greatest  among  all  the  arts  of  man,  as  it  is  the 
first  in  supplying  his  necessities.  It  favors  and  strengthens  popula- 
tion ;  it  creates  and  maintains  manufactures ;  gives  employment  to 
navigation  and  furnishes  materials  to  commerce.  It  animates  every 
species  of  industry,  and  opens  to  nations  the  safest  channels  /  of 
wealth.  It  is  the  strongest  bond  of  well  regulated  society,  the  surest 
basis  of  internal  peace,  and  the  natural  associate  of  correct  morals. 
Among  all  the  occupations  and  professions. of  life,  there  is  none  more 
honorable,  none  more  independent,  and  none  more  conducive  to  health 
and  happiness. 

**  In  ancient  times  the  sacred  plow  employed 
The  kings,  and  awful  fathers  of  mankind ; 
And  some,  with  whom  compared  your  insect  tribes 
4re  but  the  beings  of  a  summer's  day. 

Have  held  the  scale  of  empire,  rulod  the  storm 

Of  mighty  war  with  unwearied  hand, 

Disdaining  little  delicacies,  seized 

The  plow  and  greatly  independent  lived.*' 

As  an  agricultural  region,  Missouri  is  not  surpassed  by  any  State  in 
the  Union.  It  is  indeed  the  farmer's  kingdom,  where  he  always  reaps 
ail  abundant  harvest.  The  soil,  in  many  portions  of  the  State,  has 
an  open,  flexible  structure,  quickly  absorbs  the  most  excessive  rains, 
and  retains  moisture  with  great  tenacity.  This  being  the  case,  it  is 
not  so  easily  affected  by  drouth.  The  prairies  are  covered  with  sweet, 
luxuriant  grass,  equally  good  for  grazing  and  hay ;  grass  not  sur- 
passed by  the  Kentucky  blue  grass  —  the  best  of  clover  and  timothy 
iu  growing  and  fattening  cattle.  This  grass  is  now  as  full  of  life-giv- 
iog  nntriment  as  it  was  when  cropped  by  the  buffalo,  the  elk,  the  an- 
telope, and  the  deer,  and  costs  the  herdsman  nothing. 


60  HIBTOBY  OF  MI880UBI. 

No  State  or  territory  has  a  more  complete  and  rapid  system  of  nat- 
ural drainage,  or  a  more  abundant  supply  of  pure,  fresh  water  than 
Missouri.  Both  man  and  beast  may  slake  their  thirst  from  a  thousand 
perennial  fountains,  which  gush  in  limpid  streams  from  the  hill-sides, 
and  wend  their  way  through  verdant  valleys  and  along  smiling  prai- 
ries, varying  in  size,  as  they  onward  flow,  from  the  diminutive  brooklet 
to  the  giant  river. 

Here,  nature  has  generously  bestowed  her  attractions  of  climate, 
soil  and  scenery  to  please  and  gratify  man  while  earning  his  bread  in 
the  sweat  of  his  brow.  Being  thus  munificently  endowed,  Missouri 
offers  superior  inducements  to  the  farmer,  and  bids  him  enter  her 
broad  domain  and  avail  himself  of  her  varied  resources. 

We  present  here  a  table  showing  the  product  of  each  principal  crop 
in  Missouri  for  1878 :  — 

Indian  Corn 98,062,000  bushels. 

Wheat 20,196.000 

Rye 782,000 

Oats ^  19,584.000 

Buckwheat 46.400 

Potatoes :.....„    6,416,000 

Tobacco 28,023.000  pounds. 

Hay 1,620.000  ton*. 

There  were  3,552,000  acres  in  corn ;  wheat,  1,83^,000 ;  rye^ 
48,800;  oats,  640,000 ;  buckwheat,  2,900;  potatoes,  72,200;  to- 
bacco,  29,900;  hay,  850,000.  Value  of  each  crop:  corn,  $24,196,- 
224;  wheat,  $13,531,320;  rye,  $300,120;  oats,  $3,325,120;  buck- 
wheat, $24,128;  potatoes,  $2,057,700;  tobacco,  $1,151,150;  hay^ 
$10,416,600. 

Average  cash  value  of  crops  per  acre,  $7.69  ;  average  yield  of  corn 
per  acre,  26  bushels ;  wheat,  11  bushels. 

Next  in  importance  to  the  corn  crop  in  value  is  live  stock.  The  fol- 
lowing table  shows  the  number  of  horses,  mules,  and  milch  cows  in 
the  different  States  for  1879 :  — 


HISTORY  OF   MISSOURI, 


61 


SUtes. 


New  HAinpshire « 

VennoDt 

Mttttchusetts 

Rhode  Island. 

CoDDecUcut. 

KewYork 

New  Jerney 

PenntylTania 

Delaware. ...., 

Maryland 

Viiginia. ^ 

North  Carolina. 

South  Carolina. 

OeoT)g^ 

Florida 

Alabama. 

Mn^ittippL , 

Louisiana. 

Texas. 

Arkansas 

Tennessee. 

West  Virginia. 

Kentucky. «. 

Ohio ^ _ 

Michigiui...«» 

Indiana. 

Illinois. , 

Wisconsin 

Minnesota 

luwa. , 

MiasouBi. 

Knoias 

Nebraska 

Csiifomia 

Oregon.^. ^. 

Nevada,  Colorado,  and  Territories. 


Horses. 

Mnles. 

81,700 

57,100 

77.400 

181,000 

16,200 

58,500 

898,900 

11,800 

114,500 

14,400 

614,500 

24,900 

19,900 

4,000 

108,000 

11,800 

208,700 

80,600 

144.200 

74,000 

59,ft00 

51,600 

119,200 

97,200 

22.400 

11,900 

112,800 

111,700 

97,200 

100,000 

79,800 

80,700 

618,000 

180,200 

180,600 

89,800 

828,700 

99,700 

122,200 

2,400 

886,900 

117,800 

772,700 

26,700 

883,800 

4,:i00 

688,800 

61,200 

,100,000 

188,000 

384,400 

8,700 

247,800 

7,000 

770,700 

48,400 

•627,800 

191,900 

275,000 

50,000 

167,200 

13,600 

278,000 

25,700 

109.700 

8,500 

260,000 

26,700 

Milch 
Cows. 


196,100 

98,100 
217,800 
160,700 

22,000 

116,600 

l,44r>,200 

162,200 

828,400 

28,200 
100,500 
286,200 
282,800 
131,800 
278,100 

70,000 
216,200 
188,000 
110,900 
544,600 
187,700 
245,700 
180,500 
257,200 
714,100 
416,900 
489,200 
702,400 
477,300 
278,900 
676,200 
516,200 
821,900 
127,600 
496,600 
112,400 
428,600 


It  will  be  seen  from  the  above  table,  that  Missouri  is  the  Jifth  State 
in  the  number  of  horses ;  Jifth  in  number  of  milch  cows,  and  the 
leading  State  in  number  of  mules,  having  11,700  more  than  Texas, 
which  produces  the  next  largest  number.  Of*  oxen  and  other  cattle, 
Missouri  produced  in  1879,  1,632,000,  which  was  more  than  any  other 
State  produced  excepting  Texas,  which  had  4,800,00.  In  1879  Mis- 
souri raised  2,817,600  hogs,  which  was  more  than  any  other  State 
produced,  excepting  Iowa.  The  number  of  sheep  was  1,296,400. 
The  number  of  hogs  packed  in  1879,  by  the  different  States,  is  as 
follows :  — 


stales. 


Ohio... 
Indiana. 
Ulinoifl 
Iowa..... 


982,878 

622,821 

8,214,896 

569,768 


states. 

Mtssoubi... 

Wisconsin 

Kentucky 


No. 


965,889 
472,108 
212,412 


62 


HISXOBT  OF  lasSOCBI. 


▲YSBAGS  WEIGHT  FEB  ] 

ffXAD  FOR  XAOH  8TATB. 

SUtes. 

PonndA. 

States. 

Poanda. 

Ohio 

210.47 
198.80 
226.71 
211.98 

Missouri ^....•.... 

WiBcnnflin        .. 

211  82" 

Lidiima 

220.81 

IllinoU „ 

ICflntuclcv     .. ... 

210.lt 

Iowa. , 

From  the  above  it  will  be  seen  that  Missouri  annually  packs  more 
hogs  than  any  other  State  excepting  Illinois,  and  that  she  ranks  third 
in  the  average  weight. 

We  see  no  reason  why  Missouri  should  not  be  the  foremost  s*:ock- 
raising  State  of  the  Union.  In  addition  to  the  enormous  yield  of 
corn  and  oats  upon  which  the  stock  is  largely  dependent,  the  climate 
is  well  adapted  to  their  growth  and  health.  Water  is  not  only  inex- 
haustible, but  everywhere  convenient.  The  ranges  of  stock  are 
boundless,  affording  for  nine  months  of  the  year,  excellent  pasturage 
of  nutritious  wild  grasses,  which  grow  in  great  luxuriance  upon  the 
thousand  prairies. 

Cotton  is  grown  successfully  in  many  counties  of  the  southeastern 
portions  of  the  State,  especially  in  Stoddard,  Scott,  Pemiscot,  Butler, 
New  Madrid,  Lawrence  and  Mississippi. 

Sweet  potatoes  are  produced  in  abundance  and  are  not  only  sure 
but  profitable. 

Broom  corn,  sorghum,  castor  beans,  white  beans,  peas,  hops,  thrive 
well,  and  all  kinds  of  garden  vegetables,  are  produced  in  great  abun- 
dance and  are  found  in  the  markets  during  all  seasons  of  the  year. 
Fruits  of  every  variety,  including  the  apple,  pear,  poach,  cherries, 
apricots  and  nectarines,  are  cultivated  with  great  success,  as  are  also, 
the  strawberry,  gooseberry,  currant,  raspberry  and  blackberry. 

The  grape  has  not  been  produced  with  that  success  that  was  at  first 
anticipated,  yet  the  yield  of  wine  for  the  year  1879,  was  nearly  half  a 
million  gallons.  Grapes  do  well  in  Kansas,  and  we  see  no  reason 
why  they  should  not  be  as  surely  and  profitably  grown  in  a  similar 
climate  and  soil  in  Missouri,  and  particularly  in  many  of  the  counties 
north  and  east  of  the  Missouri  River. 


RAILROADS. 


Twenty-nine  years  ago,  the  neigh  of  the  **  iron  horse  *'  was  heard 
for  the  first  time,  within  the  broad  domain  of  Missouri.  His  coming 
presaged  the  dawn  of  a  brighter  and  grander  era  in  the  history  of  the 


HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI.  63 

State.  Her  fertile  prairies,  and  more  prolific  valleys  would  soon  be 
of  easy  access  to  the  oncomiilg  tide  of  immigration,  and  the  ores  and 
minerals  of  her  hills  and  mountain's  would  be  developed,  and  utilized 
in  her  manufacturing  and  industrial  enterprises. 

Additional  facilities-  would  be  opened  to  the  marts  of  trade  and 
commerce ;  transportation  from  the  interior  of  the  State  would  be  se- 
cured :  a  fresh  impetus  would  be  given  to  the  growth  of  her  towns 
and  cities,  and  new  hoi>cs  and  inspirations  would  be  impaired  to  all 
her  people. 

Since  1852,  the  initial  period  of  railroad  building  in  Missouri,  be- 
tween four  and  five  thousand  miles  of  track  have  been  laid ;  addi- 
tional roads  are  now  being  constructed,  and  many  others  in  contem- 
plation. The  Suite  is  already  well  supplied  with  railroads  which 
thread  her  surface  in  all  directions,  bringing  her  remotest  districts 
into  close  connection  with  St.  Louis,  that  great  center  of  western 
railroads  and  inland  commerce.  These  roads  have  a  capital  stock  ag- 
gregating more  than  one  hundred  millions  of  dollars,  and  a  funded 
debt  of  about  the  same  amount. 

The  lines  of  roads  which  are  operated  in  the  State  are  the  follow- 
ing:— 

Missouri  Pacific  —  chartered  May  10th,  1850;  The  St.  Louis,  Iron 

Mountain  &  Southern  Railroad,  which  is  a  consolidation  of  the  Arknu- 
sas  Branch ;  The  Cairo,  Arkansas  &  Texas  Rjiilroad  ;  The  Cairo  & 
Fulton  Railroad  ;  The  Wabash,  St.  Louis  &  Pacific  Railway ;  St. 
Louis  &  San  Francisco  Rjiilway ;  The  Chicago,  Alton  &  St.  Louis 
Railroad ;  The  Hannibal  &  St.  Joseph  Railroad  :  The  Missouri,  Kan- 
sas &  Texas  Railroad  ;  The  Kansas  City,  St.  Joseph  &  Council  Blnfik. 
Railroad ;  The  Keokuk  &  Kansas  City  Railway  Company ;  The  St. 
Louis,  Salem  &  Little  Rt)ck  Railroad  Company ;  The  Missouri  & 
Western  ;  The  St.  Louis,  Keokuk  &  Northwestern  Railroad  ;  The  St. 
Louis,  Hannibal  &  Keokuk  Railroad  ;  The  Missouri,  Iowa  &  Nebraska 
Railway ;  The  Quincy,  Missouri  &  Pacific  Railroad ;  The  Chicago, 
Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railway ;  The  Burlington  &  Southwestern 
Railroad. 

MANUFACTURES. 

The  natural  resources  of  Missouri  especially  fit  her  for  a  great  man- 
ufacturing State.  She  is  rich  in  soil ;  rich  in  all  the  elements  which 
supply  the  furnace,  the  machine  shop  and  the  planing  mill ;  rich  in 
the  multitude  and  variety  of  her  gigantic  forests  ;  rich  in  her  marble, 
stone  and  granite  quarries  ;  rich  in  her  mines  of  iron,  coal,  lead  and 


-64  HISTORY  OF  MI880UBI. 

ziuc ;  rich  in  strong  arms  and  willing  hands  to  apply  tho  force ;  rich 
in  water  power  and  river  navigation  ;  and  rich  in  her  numerous  and 
well-built  railroads,  whose  numberless  engines  thunder  along  their 
multiplied  track-ways. 

Missouri  contains  over  fourteen  thousand  manufacturing:  establish- 
ments,  1,965  of  which  are  using  steam  and  give  employment  to 
80,000  hands.  The  capital  employed  is  about  $100,000,000,  the 
material  annually  used  and  worked  up,  amounts  to  over  $150,000,- 
000,  and  the  value  of  the  products  put  upon  the  markets  $250,000,000, 
while  the  wages  paid  are  more  than  $40,000,000. 

The  leading  manufacturing  counties  of  the  State,  are  St.  Louis, 
Jackson,  Buchanan,  St.  Charles,  Marion,  Franklin,  Greene,  Lafay- 
ette, Platte,  Cape  Girardeau,  and  Boone.  Three-fourths,  however,  of 
the  manufacturing  is  done  in  St.  Louis,  which  is  now  about  the  second 
manufacturing  city  in  the  Union.  Flouring  mills  produce  annually 
about  $38,194,000;  carpentering  $18,763,000 ;  me;it-packing  $16,- 
769,000  ;  tobacco  $12,496,000  ;  iron  and  castings  $12,000,000  ;  liquors 
$11,245,000;  clothing  $10,022,000;  lumber  $8,652,000;  bagging 
and  bags  $6,914,000,  and  many  other  smaller  industries  in  propor- 
tion. 

GREAT   BRIDGE   AT   ST.    LOUIS. 

Of  the  many  public  improvements  which  do  honor  to  the  State  and 
reflect  great  credit  upon  the  genius  of  their  projectors,  we  hi^ve  space 
only,  to  mention  the  great  bridge  at  St.  Louis. 

This  truly  wonderful  construction  is  built  of  tubular  steel,  total 
length  of  which,  with  its  approaches,  is  6,277  feet,  at  a  cost  of  nearly 
$8,000,000.  The  bridge  spans  the  Mississippi  from  the  Illinois  to 
the  Missouri  shore,  and  has  separate  railroad  tracks,  roadways,  and 
foot  paths.  In  durability,  architectural  beauty  and  practical  utility, 
there  is,  perhaps,  no  similar  piece  of  workmanship  that  approximates 
it. 

The  structure  of  Darius  upon  the  Bosphorus ;  of  Xerxes  upon  the 
Hellespont ;  of  Crosar  upon  the  Rhine  ;  and  Trajan  upon  the  Danube, 
famous  in  ancient  history,  were  built  for  military  purposes,  that  over 
them  might  pass  invading  armies  with  their  munitions  of  war,  to  de- 
stroy commerce,  to  lay  in  waste  the  provinces,  and  to  slaughter  the 
people.  ' 

But  the  erection  of  this  was  for  a  higher  and  nobler  purpose.  Over 
it  are  coming  the  trade  and  merchandise  of  the  opulent  East,  and 
thence  are  passing  the  untold  riches  of  the  West.     Over  it  are  crowd- 


HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI.  65 

iDg  legions  of  men,  armed  not  with  the  weapons  of  war,  but  with  the 
implements  of  peace  and  industry  ;  men  who  are  skilled  in  all  the  arts 
of  agriculture,  of  manufacture  and  of  mining ;  men  who  will  hasten 
the  day  when  St.  Louis  shall  rank  in  population  and  importance,  sec- 
ond to  no  city  on  the  continent,  and  wlien  Missouri  shall  proudly  fill 
tbe  measure  of  greatness,  to  which  she  is  naturally  so  justly  entitled. 


CHAPTER    XI. 

EDUCATION. 

Poblic  School  System  —  Public  School  System  of  Missouri  —  Lincoln  Institute  —  Offi- 
cers of  Public  School  System  — Certificates  of  Teachers  —  University  of  Missouri — 
Schools  —  Colleges  —  Institutions  of  Learning  —  Location  -^  Libraries  —  Newspa- 
pers and  Periodicals  —  No.  of  School  Children  —  Amount  expended  —  Value  of 
Grounds  and  BuUdings  —  «  The  Press." 

The  first  constitution  of  Missouri  provided  that  ''one  school  or  more 
shall  be  established  in  each  township,  as  soon  as  practicable  and  neces- 
sary, where  the  poor  shall  be  taught  gratis." 

It  will  be  seen  that  even  at  that  early  day  (1820)  the  framersof  the 
constitution  made  provision  for  at  least  a  primary  education  for  the 
poorest  and  the  humblest,  taking  it  for  granted  that  those  who  were 
able  would  avail  themselves  of  educational  advantages  which  were  not 
gratuitous. 

The  establishment  of  the  public-school  system,  in  its  essential  fea- 
tures, was  not  perfected  until  1839,  during  the  administration  of  Gov- 
ernor Boggs,  and  since  that  period  the  system  has  slowly  grown  into 
favor,  not  only  in  Missouri,  but  throughout  the  United  States.  The 
idea  of  a  free  or  public  school  for  all  classes  was  not  at  first  a  popular 
one,  especially  among  those  who  had  the  means  to  patronize  private 
institutions  of  learning.  In  upholding  and  maintaining  public  schools 
the  opponents  of  the  system  felt  that  they  were  not  only  compromis- 
ing their  own  standing  among  their  more  wealthy  neighbors,  but  that 
they  were,  to  some  extent,  bringing  opprobrium  upon  their  children. 
Entertaining  such  prejudices,  they  naturally  thought  that  the  training 
received  at  public  schools  could  not  be  otherwise  than  defective  ;  hence 
many  years  of  probation  passed  before  the  popular  mind  was  prepared 


66  HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI. 

to  appreciate  the  benefits  and  blessings  which  spring  from  these  insti- 
tutions. 

Every  year  only  adds  to  their  popularity,  and  commends  them  the 
more  earnestly  to  the  fostering  care  of  our  State  and  National  Legis- 
latures, and  to  the  esteem  and  favor  of  all  classes  of  our  people. 
y  We  can  hardly  conceive  of  two  grander  or  more  potent  pronaoters  of 
civilization  than  the  free  school  and  free  press.  They  would  indeed 
seem  to  constitute  all  that  was  necessary  to  the  attainment  of  the  hap- 
piness and  intellectual  growth  of  the  Republic,  and  all  that  was  neces- 
sary to  broaden,  t9  liberalize  and  instruct. 

<<Tis  education  forms  the  common  mind; 
****** 

For  noble  youth  there  is  nothing  so  meet 
As  learning  is,  to  know  the  good  from  ill ; 
To  know  the  tongues,  and  perfectly  indite, 
And  of  the  laws  to  have  a  perfect  skill. 
Things  to  reform  as  right  and  justice  wUl; 
For  honor  is  ordained  for  no  cause 
But  to  see  right  maintained  by  the  laws." 

All  the  States  of  the  Union  have  in  practical  operation  the  public- 
school  system,  governed  in  the  main  by  similar  laws,  and  not  differing 
materially  in  the  manner  and  methods  by  which  they  are  taught ;  but 
none  have  a  wiser,  a  more  liberal  and  comprehensive  machinery  of 
instruction  than  Missouri.  Her  school  laws,  since  1839,  have  under- 
gone many  changes,  and  always  for  the  better,  keeping  pace  with  the 
most  enlightened  and  advanced  theories  of  the  most  experienced  edu- 
cators in  the  land.  But  not  until  1875,  when  the  new  constitution  was 
adopted,  did  her  present  admirable  system  of  public  instruction  go 
into  effect. 

Provisions  were  made  not  only  for  white,  but  for  children  of  African 
descent,  and  are  a  part  of  the  organic  law,  not  subject"  to  the  caprices 
of  unfriendly  legislatures,  or  the  whims  of  political  parties.  The  Lin- 
coln Institute,  located  at  Jefferson  City,  for  the  education  of  col- 
ored teachers,  receives  an  annual  appropriation  from  the  General 
Assembly. 

For  the  support  of  the  public  schools,  in  addition  to  the  annua) 
income  derived  from  the  public  school  fund,  w^hich  is  set  apart  by  law, 
not  less  than  twenty-five  per  cent,  of  the  State  revenue,  exclusive  of 
the  interest  and  sinking  fund,  is  annually  applied  to  this  purpose. 

The  oflScers  having  in  charge  the  public  school  interests  are  the  State 
*'  Board  of  Education,'*  the  State  Superintendent,  County  Commission- 


68  HISTORY   OF   MISSOURI. 

ers,  County  Clerk  and  Treasurer,  Board  of  Directors,  City  and  Town 
School  Board,  and  Teacher.  The  State  Board  of  Education  is  composed 
of  the  State  Superintendent,  the  Governor,  Secretary  of  State,  and  the 
Attorney-General,  the  executive  officer  of  this  Board  being  the  State  Su- 
perintendent, who  is  chosen  by  the  people  every  four  years.  His  duties 
are  numerous.  He  renders  decisions  concerning  the  local  Jipplication  of 
school  law  ;  keeps  a  record  of  the  school  funds  and  annually  distributes 
the  same  to  the  counties ;  supervises  the  work  of  county  school  officers  ; 
delivers  lectures  ;  visits  schools  ;  distributes  educational  information  ; 
grants  certificates  of  higher  qualifications,  and  makes  an  annual  report 
to  the  General  Assembly  9f  the  condition  of  the  schools. 

The  County  Commissioners  are  also  elected  by  the  people  for  two 
3'ears.  Their  work  is  to  examine  teachers,  to  distribute  blanks,  and 
make  reports.  County  clerks  receive  estimates  from  the  local  direct- 
ors and  extend  them  upon  the  tax-books.  In  addition  to  this,  they 
keep  the  general  records  of  the  county  and  township  school  funds,  and 
return  an  annual  report  of  the  financial  condition  of  the  schools  of 
their  county  to  the  State  Superintendent.  School  taxes  are  gathered 
with  other  taxes  by  the  county  collector.  The  custodian  of  the  school 
funds  belonging  to  the  schools  of  the  counties  is  the  county  treasurer, 
except  in  counties  adopting  the  township  organization,  in  which  case 
the  township  trustee  discharges  these  duties. 

Districts  organized  under  the  special  law  for  cities  and  towns  are 
governed  by  a  board  of  six  directors,  two  of  whom  are  selected  annu- 
ally, on  the  second  Saturday  in  September,  and  hold  their  office  for 
three  vears. 

One  director  is  elected  to  serve  for  three  years  in  each  school  dis- 
trict, at  the  annual  meeting.  These  directors  may  levy  a  tax  not 
exceeding  forty  cents  on  the  one  hundred  dollars'  valuation,  pro- 
vided such  annual  rates  for  school  purposes  may  be  increased  in  dis- 
tricts formed  of  cities  and  towns,  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  one 
dollar  on  the  hundred  dollars'  valuation,  and  in  other  districts  to  an 
amount  not  to  exceed  sixty-five  cents  on  the  one  hundred  dollars'  val- 
uation, on  the  condition  that  a  majority  of  the  voters  who  are  tax-pay- 
ers, voting  at  an  election  held  to  decide  the  question,  vote  for  said 
increase.  For  the  purpose  of  erecting  public  buildings  in  school  dis- 
tricts, the  rates  of  taxation  thus  limited  may  be  increased  when  the 
rate  of  such  increase  and  the  puq^ose  for  which  it  is  intended  shall 
hav^  been  submitted  to  a  vote  of  the  people,  and  two-thirds  of  the 


HISTORY   OF  MISSOURI.  69 

qualified  voters  of  such  school  district  voting  at  such  election  shall 
vote  therefor. 

Local  directors  may  direct  the  management  of  the  school  in  respect 
to  the  choice  of  teachers  and  other  details,  but  in  the  discharge  of 
all  important  business,  such  as  the  erection  of  a  school  house  or  the 
extension  of  a  term  of  school  beyond  the  constitutional  period,  they 
simply  execute  the  will  of  the  people.  The  clerk  of  this  board  may 
be  a  director.  He  keeps  a  record  of  the  names  of  all  the  children  and 
youth  in  the  district  between  the  ages  of  five  and  twenty-one  ;  records 
all  business  proceedings  of  the  district,  and  reports  to  the  annual 
meeting,  to  the  County  Clerk  and  County  Commissioners. 

Teachers  must  hold  a  certificate  from  the  State  Superintendent  or 
County  Commissioner  of  the  county  where  they  teach.     State  certifi- 
cates are  granted  upon  personal  written  examination  in  the  common 
branches,  together  with  the  natural  sciences  and  hio^her  mathematics. 
The  holder  of  such  certificate  may  teach  in  any  public  school  of  the 
State  without  further  examination.     Certificates  granted  by  County 
Commissioners  are  of  two  classes,  with  two  grades  in  each  class.     Those 
issued  for  a  longer  term  than  one  year,  belong  to  the  first  class  and  are 
susceptible  of  two  grades,  ditfering  both  as  to  length  of  time  and  attain- 
ments.    Those  issued  for  one  year  may  represent  two  grades,  marked  by 
qualification  alone.     The  township  school  fund  arises  from  a  grant  of 
land  by  the  General  Government,  consisting  of  section  sixteen  in  each 
congressional  township.     The  annual  income  of  the  township  fund  is  ap- 
propriated to  the  various  townships,   according  to  their  respective 
proprietary  claims.     The  support  from  the  permanent  funds  is  supple- 
mented by  direct  taxation  laid  upon  the  taxable  property  of  each  dis- 
trict.    The  greatest  limit  of  taxation  for  the  current  expenses  is  one 
percent;  the  tax  permitted  for  school  house  building  cannot  exceed 
the  same  amount. 

Among  the  institutions  of  learning  and  ranking,  perhaps,  the  first 
io  importance,  is  the  State  University  located  at  Columbia,  Boone 
County.  When  the  State  was  admitted  into  the  Union,  Congress 
granted  to  it  one  entire  township  of  land  (46,080  acres)  for  the  sup- 
port of  "A  Seminary  of  Learning."  The  lands  secured  for  this  pur- 
pose are  among  the  best  and  most  valuable  in  the  State.  These 
lands  were  put  into  the  market  in  1832  and  brought  $75,000,  which 
amount  was  invested  in  the  stock  of  the  old  bank  of  the  State  of  Mis- 
souri, where  it  remained  and  increased  by  accumulation  to  the  sum  of 
1100,000.      In  1839,  by  an  act  of  the  General  Assembly,  five  commis- 


: 


70  HISTORY   OF   MISSOURI. 

sioners  were  appointed  to  select  a  site  for  the  State  University,  tl 
site  to  coutain  at  least  fifty  acres  of  land  in  a  compact  form,  with 
two  miles  of  the  connty  seat  of  Cole,  Cooper,  Howard,  Boone»  Call 
way  or  Saline.  Bids  were  let  among  the  counties  named,  and  t 
county  of  Boone  having  subscribed  the  sum  of  $117,921,  sol 
$18,000  more  than  any  other  county,  the  State  University  was  locat 
in  that  county,  and  on  the  4th  of  July,  1840,  the  corner-stone  w 
laid  with  imposing  ceremonies. 

The  present  annual  income  of  the  University  is  nearly  $65,00 
The  donations  to  the  institutions  connected  therewith  amount 
nearly  $400,000.  This  University  with  its  diflFerent  department 
is  open  to  both  male  and  female,  and  both  sexes  enjoy  alike  i 
rights  and  privileges.  Among  the  professional  schools,  which  form 
part  of  the  University,  are  the  Normal,  or  College  of  Instruction 
Teaching;  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  College;  the  School  of  Min 
and  Metallurgy  ;  the  College  of  Law  ;  the  Medical  College ;  and  tl 
Department  of  Analytical  and  Applied  Chemistry.  Other  departmen 
are  contemplated  and  will  be  added  as  necessity  requires. 

The  following  will  show  the  names  and  locations  of  the  schools  ai 
institutions  of  the  State,  as  reported  by  the  Commissioner  of  Educati< 
in  1875:  — 

UmyiRSITIES    AND   COLLEGES. 

Christian  University CanU 

St.  Vincent's  College Cape  Girardei 

University  of  Missouri Columb 

Central  College '. „.... Fayet 

Westminster  College Fult< 

Lewis  College Glasgo 

Pritchett  School  Institute Glasgo 

Lincoln  College , ^...Greenwoc 

Hannibal  College Hannib: 

Woodland  College Independen< 

Thayer  College Kiddi 

La  Granite  College » La  Gran; 

William  Jewell  College Liberl 

Baptist  College « ....^...Louisiai 

St  Joseph  College ^St.  Joaep 

College  of  Christian  Brothers St.  Lou 

St  Louis  University St  Lou 

Wjislnngton  University St  Lou 

Drury  College Springflel 

Central  Wesleyan  College Warrento 

FOR  SUPERIOR  INSTRUCTION  OF  WOMEN. 

St  Joseph  Female  Seminary St  Josep 

Christian  College , ^Columbi 


HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI.  71 

Stephww' Collpge Columbia. 

Howtrd  College ^Payette. 

Lidependence  Female  College Independence. 

Oeotnl  Female  College .' Lexington, 

Cliy  Seminary. i. : Liberty. 

loi^ide  Female  College Palmyra. 

Lindeowood  College  for  Young  Ladies St.  Charles. 

Kirjr  Inititute  (Washington  University). .« SL  Louis. 

8t  Loaifl  Seminary ; St*  Louis. 

Umilioe  Academy St.  Louis. 

FOR  SECONDARY  INSTRUCTION. 

Aretdia  College Arcadia. 

8t  yinoent's  Academy Cape  Girardeau. 

Chillicotfae  Academy Chillicothe. 

^nuid  River  College Edinbuigh. 

Mirion?iIle  Collegiate  Institute Marionville. 

Nmyra  Seminary Palmyra. 

St  Paul's  Cellege Palmyra. 

Vao  Renaselaer  Academy Rensselaer* 

Shelby  High  School Shelbyville. 

fltewartaville  Male  and  Female  Seminary Stewartsville. 

SCHOOLS  OF  SCIENCE. 

ITwouri  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  College  (University  of  Missouri) Columbia. 

9choolf  of  Mines  and  Metallurgy  (University  of  Missouri) Rolla. 

Polytechnic  Institute  (Washington  University) St.  Louis. 

SCHOOLS  OF  THEOLOG^. 

SlViDcent's  College  (Theological  Department) ^. Cape  Girardeau. 

WestmiDster  College  (Theological  School) Fulton. 

Vardemsn  School  of  Theology  (William  Jewell  College) Liberty. 

Concordia  Collie St.  Louis. 

SCHOOLS   OF   LAW. 

law  School  of  the  University  of  Missouri Columbia. 

law  School  of  the  Washington  University St.  Louis. 

SCHOOLS   OF   MEDICINE. 

Kedical  College,  University  of  Missouri ...Columbia 

College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.. St.  Joseph. 

Kansas  City  Ck>llege  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons Kansas  City. 

Hospital  Medical  College St  Joseph. 

Missouri  Medical  College St.  Louis. 

Northwestern  Medical  College St.  Joseph. 

8t  Louis  Medical  College SL  Louis. 

Homeopathic  Medical  College  of  Missouri St.  Louis. 

Missouri  School  of  Midwifery  and  Diseases  of  Women  and  Children St.  Louis. 

31U*ouri  Central  College St  Louis. 

St  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy St  Louis. 


72 


HISTORY   OF  MISBOURI. 


LARGEST  PUBLIC  LIBBARIS8. 


Name. 


St.  Vincent's  College ...„ 

Southeaat  Missouri  State  Normal  School..... 

University  of  Missouri.. 

Athenian  Society , 

Union  Literary  Society 

Law  College 

Westminster  College 

Lewis  CoUe^ 

Mercantile  Library 

Library  Association 

Fruitland  Normal  Institute 

State  Library. 

Fetterman's  Circulating  Library 

Law  Library 

Whittemore's  Circulating  Library 

North  Missouri  State  Normal  School 

William  Jewell  College 

St  Paul's  College 

Missouri  School  of  Mines  and  Metallurgy 

St.  Charles  Catholic  Library 

Carl  Frielling's  Library 

Law  Library 

Public  School  Library 

Walworth  &  ColVs  Circulating  Library 

Academy  of  Science « 

Academy  of  Visitation 

College  of  the  Christian  Brothers %. 

Deutsche  Institute , 

German  Evangelical  Lutheran,  Concordia  College. 

Law  Library  Association 

Missouri  Medical  College 

Mrs.  Cuthbert's  Seminary  (Young  Ladies) 

Odd  Fellow's  Library 

Public  School  Library 

St.  Louis  Medical  College 

St.  Louis  Mercantile  Library 

St.  Louis  Seminary 

St,  Louis  Turn  Verein 

St.  Louis  University 

St.  Louis  University  Society  Libraries 

Ursuline  Academy 

Washington  University 

St  Louis  Law  School 

Young  Men's  Sodality 

Library  Association 

Public' School  Library 

Drury  College 


Location. 


Cape  Girardeau.. 
Cape  Girardeau.. 

'Columbia 

Columbia 

Columbia 

Columbia 

Fulton „ 

Glasgow 

Hannibal 

Independence 

Jackson 

Jefferson  City.... 

Kansas  City. 

Kansas  City 

Kansas  City 

Kirksville 

Liberty 

Palmyra.. 

Rolln 

St.  Charles... 

St  Joseph 

St  Joseph 

St  Joseph 

St  Joseph 

St  Louis.. 

Louis..... 

Louis.... 

X^xJXa  is  •  •  ■•••  •  ••  •  • 

AJvU  ■(?•*•  ••  ••  •    •  • 

St  Louis.. 

St  Louis 

St  Louis 

St.  Louis... 

St  Louis 

St  Louis 

Louis..... 

Louis.. 

Louis.^ 

Louis 

Louis 

Louis 

Louis 

Louis 

Sedalia 

Sedalia 

Springfield 


St 
St 
St 
St 
St 


St 
St. 
St 
St 
St 
St 
St 
St 


Volames. 


^500 
1,226 

10,000 
1,200 
1,200 
1,000 
6,000 
8,000 
2,219 
1,100^ 
1,000 

13,000 
1,300 
8,000 
1,000 
1,060 
4,000 
2,000 
1,478 
1,716 

6,ooa 

2,000 
2,500 
1,500 
2,744 
4,000 

22,000 
1,000 
4,800 
8,000 
1,000 
1,600 
4,000 

40,097 
1,100 

45,000 
2,000 
2,000 
;17,000 
8,000 
2,000 
4,600 

8,ooa 

1,327 
1,500 
1,015 
2,000 


IN  1880. 


Newspapers  and  Periodicals. 


481 


CHARITIES. 


State  Asylum  for  Deaf  and  Dumb Fulton. 

St  Bridget's  Institution  for  Deaf  and  Dumb St  Louis^ 

Institution  for  the  Education  of  the  Blind ..St  I^uia.. 

State  Asylum  for  Insane Fulton. 

State  Asylum  for  the  Insane St  Louis.. 


HISTORY  OF   MISSOURI.  73 

NORMAL  SCHOOLS. 

NotimI  lo'titate Bolivar. 

Southeast  MiMouri  Stole  Normal  School Cape  G\rardeau. 

KanmJ  School  (University  of  Missouri) ^ ....Columbia. 

FruitUnd  Normallnstitute Jackson. 

lincoln  Institute  (for  colored)....! ...Jefferson  City. 

CitT Normal  School ...- St  Louis. 

MiMouri  State  Normal  School Warrenaburg. 

IN  1880. 
Namber  of  school  children 


IN  1878. 

Rtiraated  Talue  of  school  property $8,321,899 

Total  receipts  for  public  schools 4,207,617 

Total  expenditures. 2,405,189 

NUMBER  OF  TEACHERS. 

Maleteachers 6.239;  average  monthly  pay $36.86 

Female  teachers 6,060;  average  monthly  pay 28.09 

The  fact  that  Missouri  supports  and  maintains  four  hundred  and 
seventy-one  newspapers  and  periodicals,  shows  that  her  inhabitiints 
are  not  only  a  reading  and  reflecting  people,  but  that  they  appreciate 
"The  Press/'  and  its  wonderful  influence  as  an  educator.  The  poet 
has  well  said  :  — 

Bat  mightieRt  of  the  mighty  means, 
On  which  the  arm  of  progress  leans, 
Man*s  noblest  mission  to  advance, 
His  woes  assuage,  his  weal  enhance, 
His  rights  enforce,  his  wrongs  redress  — 
Mightiest  of  mighty  Is  the  Press. 


CHAPTER    XIl/ 

RELIGIOUS   DENOMINATIONS. 

Baptist  Church  —  Its  History — Congregational  —  When  Founded  —  Its  history  — 
Christian  Church  —  Its  History  —  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church — Its  History  — 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  —  Its  History  —  Presbyterian  Church — Its  History  — 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  —  Its  History  —  United  Presbyterian  Church  —  Its 
History  —  Unitarian  Church  —  Its  History  —  Roman  Catholic  Church  —  Its  History. 

The  first  representatives  df  religious  thought  and  training,  who 
penetrated  the  Missouri  and  Mississippi  Valleys,  were  Pere  Marquette, 
La  Salic,  and  others  of  Catholic  persuasion,  who  performed  missionary 


74  HISTORY  OP  MISSOURI. 

labor  among  the  Indians.     A  century  afterward  came  the  Protestants. 
At  that  early  period 

"  A  church  in  every  grove  that  spread 
Its  living  roof  above  their  heads," 

constituted  for  a  time  their  only  house  of  worship,  and  yet  to  them 

"  No  Temple  built  with  hands  could  vie 
In  glory  with  its  majesty.'* 

In  the  course  of  time,  the  seeds  of  Protestantism  were  scattered 
along  the  shores  of  the  two  great  rivers  which  form  the  eastern  and 
western  boundaries  of  the  State,  and  still  a  little  later  they  were  sown 
upon  her  hill-sides  and  broad  prairies,  where  they  have  since  bloomed 
and  blossomed  as  the  rose. 

BAPTIST   CHURCH. 

The  earliest  anti-Catholic  religious  denomination,  of  which  there  is 
any  record,  was  organized  in  Cape  Girardeau  county  in  1806,  through 
the  efforts  of  Rev.  David  Green,  a  Baptist,  and  a  native  of  Virginia. 
In  1816,  the  first  association  of  Missouri  Baptists  was  formed,  which 
was  composed  of  seven  churches,  all  of  which  were  located  in  the 
southeastern  part  of  the  Stjite.  In  1817  a  second  association  of 
churches  was  formed,  called  the  Missouri  Association,  the  name  being 
afterwards  changed  to  St.  Louis  Association.  In  1834  a  general  con- 
vention of  all  the  churches  of  this  denomination,  was  held  in  Howard 
county,  for  the  purpose  of  effecting  a  central  organization,  at  which 
time  was  commenced  what  is  now  known  as  the  '*  General  Association 
of  Missouri  Baptists." 

To  this  body  is  committed  the  State  mission  work,  denominational 
education,  foreign  missions  and  the  circulation  of  religious  literature. 
The  Baptist  Church'  has  under  its  control  a  number  of  schools  and 
colleges,  the  most  important  of  which  is  William  Jewell  College, 
located  at  Liberty,  Clay  county.  As  shown  by  the  annual  report  for 
1875,  there  were  in  Missouri,  at  that  date,  sixty-one  associations,  one 
thousand  four  hundred  churches,  eight  hundred  and  twenty-four  min- 
isterii  and  eighty-nine  thousand  six  hundred  and  fifty  church  members. 

CONUKEOATIONAL    CHURCH. 

The  Coiigregationalists  inaugurated  their  missionary  labors  in  the 
State  in  1814.  Rev.  Samuel  J.  Mills,  of  Torringford,  Connecticut, 
and  Rev.  Daniel  Smith,  of  Bennington,  Vermont,  were  sent  west  by 
the  Massachusetts  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society  during 


HISTORY   OP  MISSOURI.  75 

t 

that  year,  and  in  November,  1814,  they  preached  the  first  regular 
Protestant  seimons  in  St.  Louis.  Rev.  Samuel  Giddings,  sent  out 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Connecticut  Congregational  Missionary 
Society,  organized  the. first  Protestant  church  in  the  city,  consisting 
often  members,  constituted  Presbyterian.  The  churches  organized 
by  Mr.  Giddings  were  all  Presbyterian  in  their  order. 

No  exclusively  Congregational   Church   was   founded    until  1852, 
when  the  **  First  Trinitarian  Congregational  Church  of  St.  L<ouis  "* 
was  organized.     The  next  chui*oh  of  this  denomination  was  organized 
at  Hannibal  in  1859.     Then  followed  a  Welsh  church  in  New  Cambria 
in  1864,  and  after  the  close  of  the  war,  fifteen  churches  of  the  same 
order  were  formed  in  different  parts  of  the  State.     In  1866,  Pilgrim 
Church,   St.    Louis,    was    organized.     The   General    Conference   of 
Churches  of  Missouri  was  formed  in  1865,  which  was  changed  in  1868, 
to  General  Association.     In  1866,  Hannibal,  Kidder,  and  St.  Louis 
District  Associations  were  formed,  and  following  these  were  the  Kan- 
sas City  and  Springfield  District  Associations.     This  denomination  in 
1875,  had  70  churches,  41  ministers,  3,363  church  members,  and  had 
also  several  schools  and  colleges  and  one  monthly  newspaper. 

CHRISTIAN   CHURCH. 

The  earliest  churches  of  this  denomination  were  organized  in  Cal- 
laway, Boone  and  Howard  Counties,  some  time  previously  to  1829. 
The  first  church  was  formed  in  St.  Louis  in  1836  by  Elder  R.  B. 
Fife.  The  first  State  Sunday  School  Convention  of  the  Christian 
Church,  was  held  in  Mexico  in  1876.  Besides  a  number  of  private 
institutions,  this  denomination  has  three  State  Institutions,  all  of 
which  have  an  able  corps  of  professors  and  have  a  good  attendance  of 
papils.  It  has  one  religious  paper  published  in  St.  Louis,  **  The  Chris- 
tiaiij**  which  is  a  weekly  publication  and  well  patronized.  The  mem- 
bership of  this  church  now  numbers  nearly  one  hundred  thousand  in 
the  State  and  is  increising  rapidly.  It  has  more  than  five  hundred 
oi-jjunized  churches,  the  greater  portion  of  which  are  north  of  the 
Missouri  River. 

CUMBERLAND   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH. 

In  the  spring  of  1820,  the  first  Presbytery  of  this  denomination 
west  of  the  Mississippi,  was  organized  in  Pike  County.  This  Pres- 
bytery included  all  the  territory  of  Missouri,  western  Illinois  and 
Arkansas  and  numbered  only  four  ministers^  two  of  whom  resided  at 


76  HISTORY  or  MISSOUBI. 

that  time  in  Missouri.  Tliere  are  now  in  the  State,  twelve  Presby- 
teries, three  Synods,  nearly  three  hundred  ministers  and  over  twenty 
thousand  members.  The  Board  of  Missions  is  located  at  St.  Louis.^ 
They  have  a  number  of  High  Schools  and  two  monthly  papers  pub- 
lished at  St.  Louis. 

METHODIST   EPISCOPAL   CHURCH. 

In  1806,  Rev.  John  Travis^  a  young  Methodist  minister,  was  sent 
out  to  the  **  Western  Conference,**  which  then  embraced  the  Missis- 
sippi Valley,  from  Green  County,  Tennessee.  During  that  year  Mr. 
Travis  organized  a  number  of  small  churches.  At  the  close  of  his 
conference  year,  he  reported  the  result  of  his  labors  to  the  Western 
Conference,  which  was  held  at  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  in  1870,  and  showed 
an  aggregate  of  one  hundred  and  six  members  and  two  circuits,  one 
called  Missouri  and  the  other  Meramec.  In  1808,  two  circuits  had 
been  formed,  and  at  each  succeeding  year  the  number  of  circuits  and 
members  constantly  increased,  until  1812,  when  what  was  called  the 
Western  Conference  was  divided  into  the  Ohio  and  Tennessee  Confer- 
ences, Missouri  falling  into  the  Tennessee  Conference.  In  1816,. 
there  was  another  division  when  the  Missouri  Annual  Conference  was 
formed.  In  1810,  there  were  four  traveling  preachers  and  in  1820,  fif- 
teen travelling  preachers,  with  over  2,000  members.  In  1836,  the  terri- 
tory of  the  Missouri  Conference  was  again  divided  when  the  Missouri 
Conference  included  only  the  State.  In  1840  there  were  72  traveling 
preachers,  177  local  ministers  and  13,992  church  members.  Between 
1840  and  1850,  the  church  was  divided  by  the  organization  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South.  In  1850,  the  membership  of  the 
M.  E.  Church  was  over  25,000,  and  during  the  succeeding  ten  years 
the  church  prospered  rapidly.  In  1875,  the  M.  E.  Church  reported 
274  church  edifices  and  34,156  members;  the  M.  E.  Church  South, 
reported  443  church  edifices  and  49,588  members.  This  denomina- 
tion has  under  its  control  seveml  schools  and  colleges  and  two  weekly 
newspapers. 

PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH. 

The  Presbyterian  Church  dates  the  beginning  of  its  missionary 
eflTorts  in  the  State  as  far  back  as  1814,  but  the  first  Presbyterian 
Church  was  not  organized  until  1816  at  Bellevue  settlement,  eight 
miles  from  St.  Louis.  The  next  churches  were  formed  in  1816  and 
1817  at  Bonhomme,  Pike  County.  The  First  Presbyterian  Church 
was  organized  in  St.  Louis  in  1817,  by  Kev.  Salmon  ^^dding.     The 


HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI. 


77 


first  Presbytery  was  organized  in  1817  by  the  Synod  of  Tennessee 
with  four  mini.sters  and  four  churches.  The  first  Presbyterian  house 
of  worship  (which  was  the  first  Protestant)  was  commenced  in  1819 
and  completed  in  1826.  In  1820  a  mission  was  formed  among  the 
Osage  Indians.  In  1831,  the  Presbytery  was  divided  into  three: 
Missouri,  St.  Louis,  and  St.  Charles.  These  were  erected  with  a 
Sjnod  comprising  eighteen  ministers  and  twenty-tbree  churches. 

The  church  was  divided  in  1838,  throughout  the  United  States.     In 
186*0  the  rolls  of  the  Old  and  New  School  Synod  together  showed  109 
ministers  and  146  churches.     In  1866  the  Old  School  Synod  was  di- 
vided on  political  questions  springing  out  of  the  war — a  part  form- 
•   ingthe  Old  School,  or  Independent  Synod  of  Missouri,  who  are  con- 
nected with  the  General  Assembly  South.     In  1870,  the  Old  and  New 
School  Presbyterians  united,  since  which  time  this  Synod  has  steadily 
increased  until  it  now  numbers  more  than  12,000  members  with  more 
than  220  churches  and  150  ministers. 

This  Synod  is  composed  of  six  Presbyteries  and  has  under  its  con- 
trol one  or  two  institutions  of  learning  and  one  or  two  newspapers. 
That  part  of  the  original  Synod  which  withdrew  from  the  General 
Assembly  remained  an  independent  body  until  1874  when  it  united 
with  the  Southern  Presbyterian  Church.  The  Synod  in  1875  num- 
bered 80  ministers,  140  churches  and  9,000  members.  It  has  under 
its  control  several  male  and  female  institutions  of  a  high  order.  The 
St.  Louis  Presbyterian^  a  weekly  paper,  is  the  recognized  organ  of 
the  Synod. 

PROTESTANT   EPISCOPAL    CHURCH. 

The  missionary  enterprises  of  this  church  be^ran  in  the  State  in 
1819,  when  a  parish  was  organized  in  the  City  of  St.  Louis.  In  1828, 
an  agent  of  the  Domestic  and  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  visited  the 
city,  who  reported  the  condition  of  things  so  favorably  that  Rev. 
Thomas  Horrell  was  sent  out  as  a  missionary  and  in  1825,  he  began 
his  labors  in  St.  Louis.  A  church  edifice  was  completed  in  1830.  In 
1836,  there  were  five  clergymen  of  this  denomination  in  Missouri, 
who  had  organized  congregations  in  Boonville,  Fayette,  St.  Charles, 
Hannibal,  and  other  places.  In  1840,  the  clergy  and  laity  met  in 
convention,  a  diocese  was  formed,  a  constitution,  and  canons  adopted, 
and  in  1844  a  Bishop  was  chosen,  he  being  the  Rev.  Cicero  S. 
Hawks.  Through  the  elForts  of  Bishop  Kemper,  Kemper  College  was 
founded  near  St.  Louis,  but  was  afterward  given  up  on  account  of 


78  HISTORY   OF   MISSOURI. 

pecuniary  troubles.  In  1847,  the  Clark  Mission  began  and  in  1849 
the  Orphans'  Home,  a  charitable  institution,  was  founded.  In  1865, 
St.  Luke's  Hospital  was  established.  In  1875,  there  were  in  the  city 
of  St.  Louis,  twelve  parishes  and  missions  and  twelve  clergymen. 
This  deuomuation  has  several  schools  and  colleges,  and  one  newspaper* 

UNITED   PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH. 

This  denomination  is  made  up  of  the  members  of  the  Associate  and 
Associate  Reformed  churches  of  the  Northern  States,  which  two 
bodies  united  in  1858,  taking  the  name  of  the  United  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Noith  America.  Its  members  were  generally  bitterly 
opposed  to  the  institution  of  slavery.  The  first  congregation  was 
organized  at  Warrensburg,  Johnson  County,  in  1867.  It  rapidly 
increased  in  numbers,  and  had,  in  1875,  ten  ministers  and  five  hundred 
members. 

UNITARIAN   CHURCH. 

This  church  was  formed  in  1834,  bv  the  Rev.  W.  G.  Eliot,  in  St. 
Louis.  The  churches  are  few  in  number  throughout  the  State,  the 
membership  being  probably  less  than  300,  all  told.  It  has  a  mission 
house  and  free  school,  for  poor  children,  supported  by  donations. 

ROMAN    CATHOLIC    CHURCH. 

\ 
\ 

The  earliest  written  record  of  the  Catholic  Church  in  Missouri  shows 
that  Father  Watrin  performed  ministerial  services  in  Ste.  Genevieve, 
in  1760,  and  in  St.  Louis  in  1766.  In  1770,  Father  Menrin  erected  a 
small  log  church  in  St.  Louis.  In  1818,  there  were  in  tlie  State  four 
chapels,  and  for  Upper  Louisiana  seven  priests.  A  college  and  semi- 
nary were  opened  in  Perry  County  about  this  period,  for  the 
education  of  the  young,  being  the  first  college  west  of  the  Mississippi 
River.  .In  1824,  a  college  was  opened  in  St.  Louis,  which  is  now 
known  as  the  St.  Louis  University.  In  1826,  Father  Rosatti  was 
appointed  Bishop  of  St.  Louis,  and  through  his  instrumentality  the 
Sisters  of  Charity,  Sisters  of  St.  Joseph  and  of  the  Visitation  were 
founded,  besides  other  benevolent  and  charitable  institutions.  In 
1834  he  completed  the  present  Cathedral  Church.  Churches  were 
built  in  different  portions  of  the  State.  In  1847  St.  Louis  was  created 
an  arch-diocese,  with  Bishop  Kenrick,  Archbishop. 

In  Kansas  City  there  were  five  parish  churches,  a  hospital,  a  con- 
vent and  several  parish  schools.  In  1868  the  northwestern  portion  of 
the  State  was  erected  into  a  separate  diocese,  with  its  seat  at  St.Joseph^ 


HISTORY  OF  MISSOURI.  79 

and  Kiirht-Reverend  John  J.  Hogan  appointed  Bishop.  There  were, 
in  1875,  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  34  churches,  27  schools,  5  hospitals, 
8colle{res,  7  orphan  asylums  and  3  female  protectorates.  There  were 
also  105  priests,  7  male  and  13  female  orders,  and  20  conferences  of 
St.  Vincent  de  Paul,  numbering  1,100  members.  In  the  diocese,  out- 
side of  St.  Louis,  there  is  a  college,  a  male  protectorate,  9  convents, 
about  120  priests,  150  churches  and  30  stations.  In  the  diocese  of 
St.  Joseph  there  were,  in  1875,  21  priests,  29  churches,  24  stations, 
1  college,  1  monastery,  5  convents  and  14  parish  schools : 

Namber  of  Snoday  Schools  inl878       .        •*•        •        .       «  .        •        2,067 

Nomber  of  Teachers  in  1878 •     ,  •  .      18,010 

Kofflber  of  PupUs  in  1878  .        • •  189,578 

THEOLOGICAL   SCHOOLS. 

Instruction  preparatory  to  ministerial  work  is  given  in  connection 
with  collegiate  study,  or  in  special  theological  courses,  at: 

Central  CoUege  (M.  E.  South) ' «        Fayette. 

Central  Wesleyan  College  (M.  E.  Church) •  Warrenton. 

Christian  University  (Chrlstlaft) Canton. 

Concordia  College  Seminary  TEvangelical  Lutheran)  ...  .St.  Louis. 

Lewis  College  (M.  E.  Church) Gla6;j:ow. 

St.  Vincent  College  (Roman  Catholic) Cape  Girardeau. 

Vardeman  School  of  Theology  (Baptist)       .                .        .        .        •  •         Liberty. 

The  last  is  connected  with  William  Jewell  College. 


CHAPTER    XIII. 

ADMINISTRATION   OF   GOVERNOR   CRITTENDEN. 

Koroinatton  and  election  of  Thomas  T.  Crittenden— Personal  Mention — Marraaduke's 
candidacy  —  Stirring  events  —  Hannibal  and  St.  Joseph  Railroad  —  Death  of  Jesse 
James  —  The  Fords  —  Pardon  of  the  Gamblers.  . 

It  is  the  purpose  in  this  chapter  to  outline  the  more  important 
events  of  Governor  Crittenden's  unfinished  administration,  stating 
briefly  the  facts  in  the  case,  leaving  comment  and  criticism  entirely  to 
the  reader,  the  historian  having  no  judgment  to  express  or  prejudice 
to  vent. 

Thomas  T.  Crittenden,  of  Johnson  county,  received  the  Demo- 
cratic nomination  for  Governor  of  Missouri  at  the  convention  at  Jeffer- 


^  HISTORY  or  MISSOUBI. 

son  City,  July  22d,  1880.  Democratic  nomination  for  a  State  office  in 
Missouri  is  always  equivalent  to  election,  and  the  entire  State  ticket 
was  duly  elected  in  November.  Crittenden's  competitors  before  the 
convention  were  Gen.  John  S.  Marmaduke,  of  St.  Louis,  and  John 
A.  Hockaday,  of  Callaway  county.  Before  the  assembling  of  the 
convention  many  persons  who  favored  Marmaduke,  both,  personally 
and  politically,  thought  the  nomination  of  an  ex-Confederate  might 
prejudice  the  prospects  of  the  National  Democracy,  and  therefore,  as 
a  matter  of  policy,  supported  Crittenden. 

His  name,  and  the  fame  of  his  family  in  Kentucky  —  Thomas  T. 
being  a  scion  of  the  Crittendens  of  that  State,  caused  the  Democracy 
of  Missouri  to  expect  great  things  from  their  new  Governor.  This, 
together  with  the  important  events  which  followed  his  inauguration, 
caused  some  people  to  overrate  him,  while  it  prejudiced  others  against 
him.  The  measures  advocated  by  the  Governor  in  his  inaugural 
address  were  such  as,  perhaps,  the  entire  Democracy  could  endorse, 
especially  that  of  refunding,  at  a  low  interest,  all  that  part  of  the  State 
debt  that  can  be  so  refunded ;  the  adoption  of  measures  to  relieve  the 
Supreme  Court  docket ;  a  compromise  of  the  indebtedness  of  some  of 
the  counties,  and  his  views  concerning  repudiation,  which  he  con- 
temned. 

HANNIBAL  &  ST.  JOE  RAILROAD  CONTROVERSY. 

By  a  series  of  legislative  acts,  beginning  with  the  act  approved 
February  22,  1851,  and  ending  with  that  of  Mju-ch  26,  1881,  the 
Slate  of  Missouri  aided  with  great  liberality  in  the  construction  of  a 
system  of  railroads  in  this  State. 

Among  the  enterprises  thus  largely  assisted  was  the  Hannibal  an^ 
St.  Joseph  Railroad,  for  the  construction  of  which  the  bonds  of  the 
State,  to  the  amount  of  $3,000,000,  bearing  interest  at  6  per  cent  per 
annum,  payable  semi-annually,  were  issued.  One  half  of  this  amount 
was  issued  under  the  act  of  1851,  and  the  remainder  under  the  act  of 
1855.  The  bonds  issued  under  the  former  act  were  to  run  twenty 
years,  and  those  under  the  latter  act  were  to  run  thirty  years.  Some 
of  the  bonds  have  since  been  funded  and  renewed.  Coupons  for  the 
interest  of  the  entire  $3,000,000  were  executed  and  made  payable  in 
New  York.  These  acts  contain  numerous  provisions  inten(led  to 
secure  the  State  against  loss  and  to  require  the  railroad  company  to 
pay  the  interest  and  principal  at  maturity.  It  was  made  the  duty  of 
the  railroad  company  to  save  and  keep  the  State  from  all  loss  on 
account  of  said  bonds  and  coupons.     The  Treasurer  of  the  State  was 


HISTORY   or   MISSOURI.  81 

to  be  exonerated  from  any  advance  of  money  to  meet  either  principal 
or  interest.  The  State  contracted  with  the  railroad  company  for  com- 
plete indemnity.  She  was  required  to  assiirn  her  statutory  mortgage 
lien  only  upon  payment  into  the  treasury  of  a  sum  of  money  equal  to 
all  indebtedness  due  or  owing  by  said  lioinpany  to  the  State  by  reason 
of  having  issued  her  bonds  and  loaned  them  to  the  company. 

In  June,  1881,  the  railroad,  thrcmgh  its  attorney,  Geo.  W.  Easley, 
Esq., paid  to  Phil.  E.  Chappell,  State  Treasurer,  the  sum  of  $3,000,- 
000,  and  asked  for  a  receipt  in  full  of  all  dues  of  the  road  to  the 
State.  The  Treasurer  refused  to  give  such  a  receipt,  but  instead  gave 
areoeipt  for  the  sum  *'  on  account."  The  debt  was  not  yet  due,  but 
the  authorities  of  the  road  sought  to  discharge  their  obligation  pre- 
maturely, in  order  to  save  interest  and  other  expenses.  The  railroad 
company  then  demanded  its  bonds  of  the  State,  which  demand  the 
State  refused.  The  company  then  demanded  that  the  $3,000,000  be 
paid  back,  and  this  demand  was  also  refused. 

The  railroad  company  then  brought  suit  in  the  United  States  Court 

for  an  equitable  adjustment  of  the  matters  in  controversy.     The  $3, 

000,000  had  been  deposited  by  the  State  in  one  of  the  banks*  and  was 

drawing  interest  only  at  the  rate  of  one-fourth  of  one  per  cent.     It 

was  demanded  that  this  sum  should  be  so  invested  that  a  larger  rate 

of  interest  might  be  obtained,  which  sum  of  interest  should  be  allowed 

to  the  company  as  a  credit  in  case  any  sum  should  be  found  due  from 

it  to  the  State.     Justice  Miller,  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court, 

who  heard  the  case  upon  preliminary  injunction  in  the  spring  of  1882, 

decided  that  the  unpaid  and  unmatured  coupons  constituted  a  liability 

of  the  State  and  a  debt  owing,  though  not  due,  and  until  these  were 

provided  for  the  State  was  not  bound  to  assign  her  lien  upon  the  road. 

Another  question  which   was   mooted,  but  not  decided,  was  this: 

That,  if  any,  what  account  is  the  State   to  render  for  the  use  of  the 

13,000,000  paid  into  the  treasury  by  the  complainants  on  the  20th  of 

Jane?    Can  she  hold  that  large  sum  of  money,  refusing  to  make  any 

account   of  it,  and   still   insist    upon    full    payment    by  the  railroad 

company  of  all  outstanding  coupons? 

Upon  this  subject  Mr.  Justice  Miller,  in  the  course  of  his  opinion, 
said:  **  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  the  State,  having  accepted  or  got  this 
money  into  her  possession,  is  under  a  moral  obligation  (and  I  do  not 
pretend  to  commit  anybody  as  to  how  far  its  legal  obligation  goes)  to 
80  use  that  money  as,  so  far  as  possible,  to  protect  the  parties  who 
have  paid  it  against  the  loss  of  the  interest  which  it  might  accumulate. 


82  HISTORY   OF  M1680UBI. 

and  which  would  go  to  extinguish  the  interest  ou  the  Staters  obliga-^ 
tions." 

March  26, 1881,  the  Legislature,  in  response  to  a  special  message,  of 
Gov.  Crittenden,  dated  February  25,  1881,  in  which  ho  informed 
the  Legislature  of  the  purpose  of  the  Hannibal  and  St.  Joseph  com- 
pany to  discharge  the  full  amount  of  what  it  claims  is  its  present 
indebtedness  as  to  the  State,  and  advised  that  provision  be  made 
for  the  **  profitable  disposal"  of  the  sum  when  paid,  passed  an  act,, 
the  second  section  of  which  provided. 

♦*  Sec.  2.  Whenever  there  is  sufficient  money  in  the  sinkiug  fund  to- 
redeem  or  purchase  one  or  more  of  the  bonds  of  the  State  of  Missouri,, 
such  sum  is  hereby  appropriated  for  such  purpose,  and  the  Fund 
Commissioners  shall  immediately  call  in  for  payment  a  like  amount 
of  the  option  bonds  of  the  State,  known  as  the  **  5-20  bonds,"^ 
provided,  that  if  there  are  no  option  bonds  which  can  be  called  in  for 
payment,  they  may  invest  such  money  in  the  purchase  of  any  of  the 
bonds  of  the  State,  or  bonds  of  the  United  States,  the  Hannibal  and 
St.  Joseph  railroad  bonds  exceptedv" 

On  the  Ist  of  January,  1882,  the  regular  semi-annual  payment  of 
interest  on  the  railroad  bonds  became  due,  but  the  road  refused  to 
pay,  claiming  that  it  had  already  discharged  the  principal,  and  of 
course  was  not  liable  for  the  interest.  Thereupon,  according  to  the 
provisions  of  the  aiding  act  of  1855,  Gov.  Crittenden  advertised  the 
road  for  sale  in  default  of  the  payment  of  interest.  The  company 
then  brought  suit  before  U.  S.  Circuit  Judge  McCmry  at  Keokuk,. 
Iowa,  to  enjoin  the  State  from  selling  the  road,  and  for  such  other 
and  further  relief  as  the  court  might  see  fit  and  proper  to  grant. 
August  8,  1882,  Judge  McCrary  delivered  his  opinion  and  judgment,. 

as  follows : 

^^ First.  That  the  payment  by  complainants  into  the  treasury  of  the 
State  of  the  sum  of  $3,000,000  on  the  26th  of  June,  1881,  did  not 
satisfy  the  claim  of  the  State  in  full,  nor  entitle  complainants  to  aa 
assignment  of  the  State's  statutory  mortgage. 

^^ Second.  That  the  State  was  bound  to  invest  the  principal  sum 
of  $3,000,000  so  paid  by  the  complainants  without  unnecessary  delay 
in  the  securities  named  in  the  act  of  March  26,  1881,  or  some  of 
them,  and  so  as  to  save  to  the  State  as  large  a  sum  as  possible,, 
which  sum  so  saved  would  have  constituted  as  between  the  State  and 
complainants  a  credit  pro  tarUo  upon  the  unmatured  coupons  now  in 
controversy. 


HISTORY   OF  MISSOURI. 


83 


'•Third.  That  the  rights  and  equity  of  the  parties  are  to  be  deter- 
mined upon  the  foregoing  principles,  and  the  State  must  stand 
chained  with  what  would  have  been  realized  if  the  act  of  March, 
1881,  bad  been  complied  with.  It  only  remains  to  consider  what  th© 
rights  of  the  parties  are  upon  the  principles  here  stated. 

"In  order  to  save  the  State  from  loss  on  account  of  the  default  of 
the  railroad  company,  a  further  sum  must  be  paid.  In  order  to  deter- 
mine what  that  further  sum  is  an  accounting  must  be  had.  The  ques- 
tion to  be  settled  by  the  accounting  is,  how  much  would  the  State 
have  lost  if  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  March,  1881,  had  been 
complied  with?  ♦  ♦  ♦  ♦  j  think  a  perfectly  fair  basis  of  settle- 
ment would  be  to  hold  the  State  liable  for  whatever  could  have  been 
Mved  by  the  prompt  execution  of  said  act  by  taking  up  such  5-20 
option  bonds  of  the  State  as  were  subject  to  call  when  the  money  was 
paid  to  the  State,  and  investing  the  remainder  of  the  fund  in  the 
bonds  of  the  United  States  at  the  market  rates. 

"  Upon  this  basis  a  calculation  can  be  made  and  the  exact  sum  still  to 
be  paid  by  the  complainant  in  order  to  fully  indemnify  and  protect  the 
State  can  be   ascertained.     For  the  purpose  of  stating  an  account 
upon  this  basis  and  of  determining  the  sum  to  be  paid  by  the  com- 
plainants to  the  State,  the  cause  will  be  referred  to  John  K.  Cravens, 
one  of  the  masters  of  this  court.     In  determining  the  time  when  the 
inrestment  should  have  been  made  under  the  act  of  March,  1881,  the 
master  will  allow  a  reasonable  period  for  the  time  of  the  receipt  of  the 
said  sum  of  $3,000,000  by  the  Treasurer  of  the  State  — that  is  to  say, 
such  time  as  would  have  been  required  for  that  puri)ose  had  the  offi- 
cers charged   with  the  duty  of  making  said  investment  used  reason- 
able diligence  in  its  discharge. 

••  The  Hannibal  and  St.  Joseph  railroad  is  advertised  for  sale  for  the 
amount  of  the  instalment  of  interest  due  January  1,  1882,  which 
instalment  amounts  to  less  than  the  sum  which  the  company  must  pay 
in  order  to  discharge  its  liabilities  to  the  State  upon  the  theory  of  this 
opinion.  The  order  will,  therefore,  be  that  an  injunction  be  granted 
to  enjoin  the  sale  of  the  road  upon  the  payment  of  the  said  instal- 
ment of  interest  due  January  1,  1882,  and  if  such  payment  is  made 
the  master  will  take  it  into  account  in  making  the  computation  above 
mentioned." 

KILLING   OF  JESSE   JAMES. 

The  occurrence  during  the  present  Governor's  administration  which 
did  most  to  place  his  name  in  everybody's  mouth,  and  even  to  herald 


84r  HISTORY   OF   MISSOURI. 

it  abroad,  causing  the  European  press  to  teem  with  leaders  announcing 
the  fact  to  the  continental  world,  was  the  •*  reraoval"  of  the  famous 
Missouri  brigand,  Jesse  W.  James.  The  career  of  the  James  boys,- 
and  the  banditti  of  whom  they  were  the  acknowledged  leaders,  is  too 
well-known  and  too  fully  set  forth  in  works  of  a  more  sensational 
character,  to  deserve  further  detail  in  these  pages  ;  and  the  •*  removal " 
of  Jesse  will  be  dealt  with  only  in  its  relation  to  the  Govenior. 

It  had  been  long  conceded  that  neither  of  the  Jameses  would  ever  be 
taken  alive.  That  experiment  had  been  frequently  and  vainly  tried, 
to  the  sorrow  of  good  citizens  of  this  and  other  States.  It  seems  to 
have  been  one  of  the  purposes  of  Gov.  Crittenden  to  break  up  this 
band  at  any  cost,  by  cutting  off  its  leaders.  Soon  after  the  Winston 
train  robbery,  on  July  15,  1881,  the  railroads  combined  in  empower- 
ing the  Governor,  by  placing  the  money  at  his  disposal,  to  offer  heavy 
rewards  for  the  capture  of  the  two  James  brothers.  This  was  ac- 
cordingly done  by  proclamation,  and,  naturally,  many  persons  were 
on  the  lookout  to  secure  the  large  rewards.  Gov.  Crittenden  worked 
quietly,  but  determinedly,  after  offering  the  rewards,  and  by  some 
means  learned  of  the  availability  of  the  two  Ford  boys,  yctimg  men 
from  Ray  county,  who  had  been-  tutored  as  juvenile  robbers  by  the 
skillful  Jesse.  An  understandinor  was  had,  when  the  Fords  declared 
they  could  find  Jesse  —  that  they  were  to  **turn  him  in."  Robert 
Ford  and  brother  seem  to  have  been  thoroughly  in  the  confidence  of 
James,  who  then  (startling  as  it  was  to  the  entire  State)  resided  in 
the  city  of  St.  Joseph,  with  his  wife  and  two  children  1  The  Fords 
went  there,  and  when  the  robber's  back  was  turned,  Robert  shot  him 
dead  in  the  back  of  the  head!  The  Fords  told  their  story  to  the 
authorities  of  the  city,  who  at  once  arrested  them  on  a  charge  of  mur- 
der, and  they,  when  arraigned,  plead  guilty  to  the  charge.  Promptly, 
however,  came  a  full,  free  and  unconditional  pardon  from  Gov.  Crit- 
tenden, and  the  Fords  were  released.  In  regard  to  the  Governor's 
course  in  ridding  the  State  of  this  notorious  outlaw,  people  were 
divided  in  sentiment,  some  placing  him  in  the  category  with  the  Ford 
boys  and  bitterly  condemning  his  action,  while  others  —  the  majority' 
of  law-abiding  people,  indeed, — though  <^eprecating  the  harsh  meas- 
ures which  James'  course  had  rendered  necessary,  still  upheld  the 
Oovernor  for  the  part  he  played.  As  it  was,  the  '*  Terror  of  Mis- 
souri "  was  effectually  and  finally  **  removed,"  and  people  were  glad 
that  he  was  dead,     Robert  Ford,  the  pupil  of  the  dead  Jesse,  had 


HI8TOBY  OF  MISSOURI. 


85 


been  selected,  and  of  all  was  the  most  fit  tool  to  use  in  the  extermina- 
tuNi  of  his  preceptor  in  crime. 

Tbe  killing  of  James  would  never  have  made  Crittenden  many  ene- 
mies among  the  better  class  of  citizens  of  this  State ;  but,  when  it 
esmetohis 

PARDON    OF  THE   GAMBLERS. 

The  case  was  different.  Under  the  new  law  making  gaminghouse- 
keying  a  felony,  several  St.  Louis  gamblers,  with  Robert  C.  Pate  at 
tiieirhead,  were  convicted  and  sentenced  to  prison.  The  Governor, 
ooehto  the  surprise  of  the  more  rigid  moral  element  of  the  State, 
ioon  granted  the  gamblers  a  pardon.  This  was  followed  by  other 
psrdons  to  similar  offenders,  which  began  to  render  the  Governor  quite 
unpopular  which  one  element  of  citizens,  and  to  call  forth  from  some 
of  them  the  most  bitter  denunciations.  The  worst  feature  of  the  case, 
perhaps,  is  the  lack  of  explanation,  or  the  setting  forth  of  sufficient 
retsons,  as  is  customary  in  issuing  pardons.  This,  at  least,  is  the  bur- 
dnn  of  complaint  with  the  faction  that  opposes  him.  However,  it 
mosl  be  borne  in  mind  that  his  term  of  office,  at  this  writing,  is  but 
balf  expired,  and  that  a  full  record  can  not,  therefore,  be  given.  Like 
dlmere  men.  Gov.  Crittenden  has  his  good  and  his  bad,  is  liked  by 
some  and  disliked  by  others.  The  purpose  of  history  is  to  set  forth 
the  facts  and  leave  others  to  sit  in  judgment;  this  the  historian  has 
tried  faithfully  to  do,  leaving  all  comments  to  those  who  may  see  fit  to 
niake  them. 


HISTORY  OF  ST.  LOUIS. 


ST.  LOUIS. 

• 

Her  First  Settlement  —  Arrival  of  the  First  Steamboat — Removal  of  the  Capital  to 
Jefferson  City  —  When  Incorporated  —  Population  by  Decades  —  First  Lighted  hf 
Gas — Death  of  one  of  her  Founders,  Pierre  Chouteau  —  Cemeteries  —  Financial 
Crash  —  Bondholders  and  Coupon-clippers  —  Value  of  Real  and  Personal  Property- 
Manufactures  —  Criticism. 

I£  was  nearly  a  century  and  a  quarter  ago  that  St.  Louis's  first 
an'ival  proclaimed  the  site  of  the  future  metropolis  of  the  Mississippi 
Valley.  In  1762  M.  Pierre  Laclede  Liguest  and  his  two  companions, 
Auguste  and  Pierre  Chouteau,  landed  upon  the  site  which  was  des- 
tined to  become  a  great  city.  They  were  the  avant-couriers  and 
principal  members  of  a  company  which  had  certain  privileges  secured 
to  them  by  the  Governor  of  the  Territory  of  Louisiana,  which  then 
included  the  whole  of  Missouri,  that  of  trading  with  the  Indians,  and 
.  which  was  known  as  the  Louisiana  Fur  Company,  with  the  privilege 
further  granted  of  establishing  such  posts  as  their  business  might 
demand  west  of  the  Mississippi  and  on  the  Missouri  rivers.  They 
had  been  on  a  prospecting  tour  and  knew  something  of  the  country, 
and  on  February  15, 1774,  Laclede  with  the  above  named  companions, 
took  possession  of  the  ground  which  is  now  the  city  of  St.  Louis. 
They  established  a  trading  post,  took  formal  possession  of  the  coun- 
try, and  called  their  post  St.  Louis.  In  1768  Captain  Rios  took 
possession  of  the  post  as  a  part  of  Spanish  territory  ceded  to  it  by 
France  by  the  treaty  of  Paris,  and  it  remained  under  the  control  of  suc- 
cessive Spanish  Governors  until  March  10,  1804.  The  Spanish  govern- 
ment, by  the  treaty  of  San  Ildefonso  in  1800,  retroceded  the  territory 
to  France,  and,  by  purchase,  France  ceded  the  whole  country  to  tho 
(86) 


HISTOKV   OF   ST.  LOUIS. 


HI8T0HT   OF    8T.  LOUIS. 


United  States,  April  30,  1803,  In  October  of  the  same  year  Congress  passec 
an  act  approviag  the  purchase,  and  anthoriziug  the  President  to  take  posse- 
sion of  tlie  country  or  'rerritory  of  Louisiana.     Thia  was  done  February  15, 


1801,  when  Captain  Amos  Stoddard,  of  the  United  States  army,  and  the  ^;en1 
■  of  the  United  States,  received  from  Don  Carlos  Debault  Delassus,  a  surrender  ol 
the  post  of  St.  Louis  and  the  Territory  of  Upper  Louisiana.     On  the  10th  ol 


HISTORY   OP   ST.  LOUIS.  89 

March  the  keys  to  the  government  house  and  the  archives  and  public 

property  were  turned  over  or  delivered  to  the  representative  of  the 

United  States,  the  Spanish  flag  was  lowered,  the  stars,  and  stripes 

throwQ  to  the  breeze,  accompanied  with  the  roar  of  artillery  and 

music,  and  theti-ansfer  was  complete.     In  1805  St.  Louis  had  its  first 

post-office  established,  and  the  place  was  incorporated  as  a  town  in 

1809.    It  did  not  grow  very  fast,  but  was  the  recognized  headquarters 

for  the  territory  of  the  west  and  northwest.     The  French,  from  Indiana 

and  other  points  had  settled  there,  and  the  town  was  decidedly  French  in 

its  character  and  population.     The  Missouri  Fur  Company',  which  had 

its  headquarters  there,  was  organized  in  1808,  of  which  Pierre  Chou- 

tetii  was  the  head.     His  associates  were  Manuel  Lisa,  Wm.  Clark, 

Sylvester  Labadie,  and  others,  and  such  familiar  names  as  the  Astors, 

Bent,  Sublette,  Cabanne,  General  Ashly  and  Robert  Campbell  were 

prominently  identified  with  the  town   and    its   progress.     The   first 

ptpor  was  issued  July  2,  1808. 

In  1812  the  Territory  of  Louisiana,  or  that  part  north,  was  changed 
ud  named  the  Territory  of  Missouri,  and  was  given  Territorial  rights, 
witik  a  representation  on  the  floor  of  Congress.  St.  Louis  was  the 
leat  of  the  Territorial  government  until  1820,  and  the  first  legislnture 
aet  in  that  town,  and  part  of  its  proceedings  was  the  removal  of  the 
leat  of  the  government  to  St.  Charles,  where  it  remained  until  located 
at  JeflTerson  City  in  182(5.  In  1822  St.  Louis  began  to  take  on  more 
style,  and  was  incorporated  as  a  city  December  9th  of  that  year. 
There  had  been  a  bank  established  in  1817,  and  quite  a  large  number 
of  bosiuess  houses  wore  built  and  occupied,  and  a  number  of  loan 
offices  chartered.  When  St.  Louis  l)ecame  an  American  city  her 
population  was  925;  this  was  in  1804.  When  the  Territory  was 
named  Missouri,  and  she  was  the  seat  of  government  in  1812, 
her  pbpulation  had  reached  2,000.  William  Deckers  laid  the  first 
pavement  in  1818.  A  ferry  boat  had  been  started  in  1804.  The 
first  steamboat  arrived  in  1817.  It  was  a  low-pressure  steamboat, 
built  at  Pittsbursrh,  and  named  the  General  Pike,  It  arrived  Anjrust 
2d,  and  was  greeted  by  the  entire  p()i)nlation,  who  gazed  upon  her 
with  wonder  and  astonishment.  The  Indians  were  a  badly  scared 
crowd,  and  could  not  be  induced  to  come  near  it.  The  first  steamboat 
stemmed  the  tide  of  the  Missouri  in  May,  1819,  and  the  same  year 
the  fii-st  steamboat  from  New  Orleans  put  in  an  appearance  at  St. 
Louis.     It  was  twenty-seven  days  en  route. 


HI8TOBT   OF    ST.  LOUIB. 


BOUin>ARIE:B    AND    INCORPORATION. 

In  1820  the  popalation  had  reached  4,928,  and  when  inoorporatea  ic 
1822  WHS  believed  to  number  abont  5,000,  not  much  immigration  having 


como  ill.     The  houndjtry  lines  of  the  city  when  she  received  her  cliiirtcr  wer« 
defined  as  follows:   The  line  commencing  at  the  middle  of  Mill  Creekj 


HI8TORT  OF  ST.  LOUIS.  91 

just  below  the  gas  works,  thence  west  to  Seventh  Street,  and  up 
Seventh  Street  to  a  point  due  west  of  «*  Roy's  Tower,"  thence  to  the 
river.    The  city  plat  embraced  385  acres  of  ground. 

The  first  church  was  built  in  1824,  and  was  of  the  Presbyterian 
<leDomination.  The  second  was  an  Episcopal  Church,  erected  in  1825. 
Anew  court-house  was  built  in  1827,  and  also  a  market-house.  These 
old-time  landmarks  have  long  since  disappeared,  and  no  mark  is  left 
to  tell  the  tale  of  their  being.  The  spot  or  location  iz  recorded,  but 
what  that  availeth  is  not  of  comprehension  to  the  generation  of  to-day. 

ADVANCEMENT. 

The  first  brick  house  is  said  to  have  been  erected  in  1814.  The 
first  mayor  of  the  city  was  Wm.  C.  Lane.  The  St.  Louis  University 
was  founded  in  1829 ;  the  Catholic  Cathedral  was  completed  in  1832 
and  consecrated  by  Bishop  [j^osetti. 

In  1833  the  population  of  St.  Louis  was  about  six  thousand,  and 
the  taxable  property,  real  and  personal,  aggregated  $2,745,000.  St. 
Louis,  like  all  other  cities,  felt  the  blighting  effects  of  the  financial 
msh  of  1837,  still  her  progress  was  not  wholly  checked.  Her  vitality 
waA  great,  and  her  resources  spread  over  the  territory,  in  many  cases, 
out  of  the  reach  of  the  troubles  of  the  times.  Her  fur  trade  was 
immeose,  and  the  crash  had  little  to  do  with  that,  so  that  while  she 
felt  *he  depression  in  her  financial  circles,  her  commercial  prosperity 
was  in  no  wise  checked.  There  is  very  little  more  in  the  history  of 
St.  L  'uis  to  record  than  the  noting  of  her  general  prosperity  and 
^eady  onward  progress  for  the  next  decade. 

Hei  population  in  1840  hud  risen  to  16,469,  and  in  1844,  34,140. 
Tho  population  had  more  than  doubled  in  four  years.  Fine  buildings 
had  arioen  in  place  of  the  old  fur  warehouses  of  the  early  French 
settlers.  Stately  residences  appeared  in  the  suburbs  ;  and  in  all  that 
gave  promise  of  a  great  and  influential  city,  she  had  advanced  and 
was  advancing  rapidly.  The  Mercantile  Library  was  founded  in  1848, 
and  gas  had  been  introduced  the  year  previous,  the  city  being  first 
lighted  on  the  night  of  November  4,  1847.  In  the  great  cholera  year, 
1849,  the  disease  assumed  an  epidemic  form,  and  of  that  dread  scourge 
the  people  had  a  fearful  experience.  The  progress  of  St.  Louis  had 
been  handsomely  commemorated  on  the  eighty-third  anniversary  of 
its  founding,  the  date  being  February  15,  1847.  Among  the  living, 
and  the  only  survivor  of  the  memorable  trio  who  first  landed  and 
located  the  city,  was  the  venerable  Pierre   Chouteau,  who,  with  his 


aZ  HIBTORT   OF  8T.  LODI8. 

brother,  had  accompanied  Laclede  Liguest,  to  locate  a  trading-post 
for  the  fur  company  of  which  they  were  members.  He  was  a  promi- 
nent figure  in  the  celebration,  and  thour^h  at  an  advanced  age,  he  was 
in  the  enjoyment  of  his  full  faculties,  and  was  keenly  alive  to  the  won- 
derful progress  of  the  city  in  the  eighty-three  years  of  its  life.  In 
1849,  the  epidepiic  year,  all  that  was  mortal  of  Pierre  Chouteau  was 
consigned  to  its  last  resting-place,  and  with  him  all  living  memory 
ceased  of  the  first  settlement  and  of  the  rise  and  progress  of  the  city. 
From  that  date  history  could  record  but  written  facts,  the  oral  record 
had  ceased  to  exist.     His  elder  brother,  Auguste  Chouteau,  had  pre- 


NEW  CUSTOM  HOUSE.  ST.  LOtHft 

ceded  him  to  themvstic  bevoml,  haviiig  departed  thit)  lil'o  in  Februar;  , 

1829. 

EXTENSIOS    OF    CITY    LIMITS, 

The  city  limits  had  been  greatly  extended  in  18-11,  embracing  an 
area  of  two  thousand  six  hundred  and  thirty  acres,  instead  of  the  three 
hundred  and  eighty-five  acres  in  December,  1822.  This  showed  the 
wonderful  growth  of  the  city,  which,  even  then,  was  contracted,  and 
its  suburbs  were  fast  filling  up. 

The  Institution  for  the  Blind  was  incorporated  in  1851,  and  thepoj>- 
ulation  had  increased  to  94,000  in  1852. 


HISTORY  OF   ST.    LOUIS.  93 


CEMETERFES. 


St.  Louis  took  pride  in  her  '*  cities  of  the  dead,"  for  she  has  sev- 
eral cemeteries,  with  wooded  dales  and  sylvan  retreats,  well  suited  as 
the  last  resting-place  of  those  whose  remains  are  deposited  in  the 
"Silent  City."  We  will  speak  here  of  only  two,  because  of  the  care 
taken  of  them,  their  size,  and  their  rich  and  diversified  surroundings, 
which  give  them  a  lonely,  yet  pleasant,  look  to  all  who  visit  them. 
The  Bellefontaine  was  purchased  by  an  association  of  gentlemen  who 
secured  an  act  of  incorporation  in  1849,  and  at  once  commenced  the 
improvement  of  the  ground.  In  1850-the  first  sale  of  lots  took  place. 
The  cemetery  comprises  two  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  land.  The 
Calvary  Cemetery  has  320  acres,  of  which  100  are  laid  out  and  im- 
proved. This  resting-place  of  the  dead  was  purchased  in  1852,  by 
the  Archbishop  of  the  Diocese  ot  St.  Louis,  and  like  the  first  above 
mentioned,  is  a  lovely  and  secluded  spot,  well  suited  for  the  purpose 
intended. 

BRIDGE   DISASTER. 

In  1«64  trie  terrible  accident,  known  as  the  Gasconade  Bridge  dis- 
aster, occurrcil,  when  many  prominent  citizens  of  St.  Louis  lost  their 
h'ves. 

FINANCIAL   CRASH. 

In  1857  the  financial  crash  had  a  greater  effect  upon  St.  Louis  than 
the  one  of  1837.     Her  merchants  had  been  prosperous  and  extended 
their  line  of  credits,  and  the  rapidly  growing  city  had  brought  many 
new  and  venturesome  people,  who,  believing  in  its  future,  had   em- 
barked in  business  enterprises  which  required  a  few  more  years  of 
steady  rise  and  progress  to  place  them  on  a  stable  foundation.     These, 
of  course,  went  down  in  the  general  crash,  but  the  stream  was  only 
temporarily  dammed,  and  the  debris  was  soon  cleared  away.     The 
flood-tide  had  set  toward  the  west,  and  the  greater  the  crash  the 
greater  swelled  the  tide  of  immigration  toward  the  setting  sun. 

The  era  of  a  healthy,  and  it  would  seem,  permanent  prosperity, 
again  dawned  upon  the  metropolis  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  in  1861, 
and  this  time  not  even  the  civil  war,  which  then  began  to  cast  its  bale- 
ful shadow  over  the  Union,  checked  its  onward  career,  and  at  the 
opening  of  this  terrible  drama  St.  Louis  claimed  a  population  of  187,- 
000  souls.  The  war  added  to  its  financial  and  commercial  prosperity, 
for  it  became  the  entrepot  of  supplies  for  the  army  of  the  southwest, 
And  the  headquarters  of  army  operations.     The  valuation  of  real  es- 


94  HIBTORT   OP   ST.  LOUia. 

tateaiid  personal  property,  which  had  only  been  a  little  rising  two  and  a  half 
millions  of  dollars  in  1833,  was  now,  in  1860,  $73,765,670. 

What  the  war  added  was  more  in  the  line  of  its  financial  and  commercial 
development  than  in  the  spreading  of  its  area  or  the  building  up  of  its  waste 
places,  but  when  war'6  fierce  alarm  had  ceased  the  tide  began  to  flow  west- 
ward, and  with  it  came  the  building  mania,  for  hpmes  and  houses  had  to  be 
provided  for  the  rush  of  new-comers. 

Chicago,  which  liad  nearly  monopolized  the  railroads  as  an  objective  point, 
eeemed  now  to  have  secured  all  that  would  pay,  and  St.  Louis  became  the 
focus  of  all  eyes.  Kansas,  Colorado  and  the  Southwest  began  to  loom  up  in 
its  agricultural  and  mineral  resources  ;  the  vast  quantities  of  land  which  had 
been  voted  by  venal  congressmen  to  great  railroad  corporations  were  now 
throwa  upon  the  market,  and  Kansas  became  a  leading  State  for  the  attrac- 


8T.  LOTUS  UNION  DEPOT. 


tion  of  the  emigrant.  In  this  more  railroads  were  necessary,  and  the  great 
crossing  of  the  Mississippi  was  at  St.  Louis.  Then  the  bridging  of  that 
great  river  commenced,  Capt.  Eads  having  made  known  his  plans  for  this 
importantwork  soon  after  the  close  of  the  war.  The  jubilee  was  not  enjoyed, 
however,  until  1874,  wlien,  uu  July  4th,  the  bridge  was  completed  and  opeoed 
to  the  railway  companies.  This  was  another  era  which  marked  a  rapid  prog- 
ress in  the  future  city  of  the  valley.  Sixteen  separate  and  distinct  lines  of 
railway  centered  at  St.  Louis  with  completion  of  the  bridge,  and  from  those 
lines  and  the  river  traffic,  St.  Louis  was  evidently  sure  of  her  future. 

BONDHOLDRRS    AND    COUPOS-CLIPPBR8. 

It  was  only  when  a  couceatration  of  wealth  took  a  new  departure  that  the 


HISTORY  OF   ST.  LOUIS.  95 

glorious  future  which  appeared  so  near  became  so  far.     The  energy 
and  enterprise  of  the  people  had,  in  a  large  measure,  previous  to 
the  war,  been  used  toward  building  up  the  city,  and  embarking  in 
manufactures,  etc.,  but  soon  after  the  war  that  wealth  was  turned  into 
government  bonds  and  the  energy  and  enterprise  were  concentrated 
by  these  rich  holders  in  cutting  coupons  off  of  these  same  bonds  every 
three  months,  and  with  few  exceptions  they  are  still  at  the  exhaustive 
work.    Whatever  of  advanced  progress  has  been  given  to  St.  Louis 
the  past  ten  years,  outside  of  her  Aliens,  Stannards,  and  perhaps  a 
score  of  others,  has  been  by  the  new  arrivals.     It  was,  in  '69  or  '70, 
that  her  local  papers  were  prospecting  on  the  enervating  influence  that 
a  hundred  first-class  funerals  would  have  on  the  material  prosperity 
of  the  "  Future  Great."     The  light  and  airy  business  of  coupon-clip- 
ping had  become  epidemic,  and  millions  of  dollars  which  ought  to 
have  been  invested  in  manufacturing  and  other  enterprises,  were  sunk 
in  the  maelstrom  of  governrhent  bonds,  and,  so  far  as  the  material 
advancement  of  the  city  was  concerned,  might  as  well  have  been  bur- 
ied in  the  ocean.     Still  St.  Louis  improved,  for  new  arrivals  of  the 
pro|;res8ive  order,  seeing  an  opening,  would  drop  in,  and  those  who 
mild  not  clip  coupons  for  a  business  worked  on  as  their  limited  capi- 
W  wonid  permit.     And  so  it  was  found  that  in  1870  real  estate  had 
reached   $119,080,800,  while  personal  property  was  $147,969,660. 
In  1875  the  value  of  real  estate  had  advanced  $12,000,000,  reaching 
the  gross  sum  of  $131,141,000,  and  personal  property  $166,999,660, 
again  of  nearly  $20,000,000  in  five  years.     The  valuation  January  1> 
1879,  was,  of  real  estate,  $140,976,540,  and  personal  property,  $172,- 
829,980,  or  a  total  valuation  of  real  and  personal  property  of  $313,- 
806,520,  "with  a  population  of  about  340,000.     Great  advancement 
had  taken  place  in  blocks  of  magnificent  buildings,  in  the  increase  of 
her  wholesale  trade,  in  the  area  of  her  city  limits,  in  the  enlargement 
of  her  working  population,  so  that  the  coupon-clippers  who  had  stood 
at  the  front  in  1870  now  held  a  rear  position,  and  were  rather  looked 
down  upon  as  drones  of  society,  wrapped  in  self  and  the  vanity  of  self- 
importance,  and  of  little  use  to  the  progress  or  to  the  detriment  of  the 
great  city.     Railroads  run  to  every  point  of  the  compass.     Her  tunnel 
and  the  union  depot  had  become  a  fixed  fact,  macadamized  roads  led 
to  all  parts  of  the  country,  miles  upon  miles  of  streets  were  paved 
and  sidewalks  laid  with  substantial  brick  or  stone,  street  cars  to  every 
part  of  the  city,  and  the  river-front  flashing  with  traffic,  which,  in 
point  of  development,  has  exceeded  the  most  sanguine  expectation 


HIBTOBT  OP  ST.  LOUIS. 


VIEW  IN  SHAWS  BOTANICAL  GAKDENS,  ST.  LOUIS. 


HISTORY   5F   8T.  LOL'I8.  97 

•of  those  who  had  believed  in  its  future,  while  the  oxpi'essious  of 
those  who  had  built  their  faith  on  the  railroads  depriving  a  free 
water-course  of  the  wealth  of  her  oifering  has  been  simply  one  of 
astooisbmeDt. 

ST.  LOUIS    PARKS. 

looDe  respect  St.  Louis  has  exhibited  comuiendable  sense  in  having 
aecDred  a  number  of  parks,  breathing-places  for  her  industrial  popu- 
lation and  pleasant  drives  for  her  wealthy  citizens.     There  are  no  less 
than  seventeen  of  these  beautiful  places,  many  of  them  small,  but  so 
scattered  about  the  city  as  to  be  convenient  to  all  her  citizens.     Her 
great  park,  which  is  called  "Forest  Park,"  has  1,372  acrot*,  and  the 
<iij  has  expended  in  purchases,  laying  out  and  beautifying  the  grounds, 
nearly  one  million  of  dollars.     Carondelet  Park  has  an  area  of  183.17 
acres;  O'Fallon  Park  has  an  area  of  158.32  acres,  and  Tower  Grove 
Flark  270  acres^    These  are  the  largest ;  the  others  represent  but  a 
muH  number  of  acres  each.     Of  the  smaller  ones,  Lafayette  Park 
Indi  with  tweuty-six  acres,  while  the  smallest,  Jackson  Place,  has  less 
4ltii  two  acres. 

BUILDINGS   AND    BANKS. 

'  ttera  were  1,318  brick  and  3()9  frame  buildings  put  up  in  1878,  at 
(t?0p|tof  $3,000,000.  A  very  fine  custom-house  is  approaching  com- 
^|||WID»  They  had,  January  1,  1879,  twenty-nine  banks'in  St.  Louis, 
§moi  which  were  national  banks.  The  coml>ined  capital  ot*  all  was 
4I9^406,019.  This  shows  a  healthy  progress,  but  one  of  not  more 
ordinary  in  the  line  of  building  improvements.  It  should  have 
ten  millions  to  show  that  advanced  progress  becoming  a  city 
ntSA  claims  it  is  destined  to  become  the  central  sun  of  the  great 
HlMuaippi  Valley. 

Ttt  1878  there  were  2,291  arrivals  of  steamboats,  and  2,348  depart- 
OQB.  The  commerce  of  the  river  was  some  half  a  million  of  dollars. 
The  new  barge  lines  and  the  wheat  movement  down  the  Mississippi  for 
the  year  1881,  including  her  other  river  traffic,  will  undoubtedly  double 
the  bosiness  of  1878.  The  figures  are  not  in,  but  the  first  half  year 
has  made  a  wonderful  increase.  Iler  commerce  is  steadily  improving. 
There  is  not  an  article  of  domestic  produce  but  has  rapidly  advanced 
in  the  amount  received  the  past  few  years.  The  cereals  and  stock, 
cattle,  sheep,  and  hogs,  also  the  roots  and  vegetables,  have  rapidly 
grown   in   quantity.     St.   Louis  is  the  greatest  mule  market  in  the 

world. 
In  its  public  buildings,  the  United  States  custom-house  stands  first — 


98 


BISTORV   OF  ST.  LOCIP. 


8  magfiWe  building'  of  white  granite,  occiipyiDg  a  whole  square,  and 
irhea  finished  will  have  cot<t  $6,000,000.  The  busineas  in  the  custom 
department  will  exceed  two  million  dollars  the  first  yearof  its  opening. 
The  Chamber  of  Commerce  is  another  magnificent  structure  just  com- 
pleted at  a  cost  of  $1,800,000.  The  county  court-house,  which  also 
takes  &  square  of  ground,  and  is  built  in  the  shape  of  a  Greek  cross, 
with  a  fine  dome,  cost  $2,000,000.  The  county  building  known  as  the 
'*  Four  Courts,"  and  the  city  prison,  is  a  beautiful  three-story-and-a— 
half  basement  structure,  which  cost  $1,250,000.  The  Polytechnic 
Institute  cost  $800,000,  and  the  magnificent  Southern  Hotel,  finished* 


HIGH  SCHOOL  BUILDING,  ST.  LOUIS, 
and    occupied    Miiy,  1881,  cost  $1  2.^0,000    for   building  and  furni- 
ture. 

There  arc  publiu  buildings  of  lesser  note,  many  private  structures  of 
magnificent  proportions,  with  a  wealth  of  beautiful  surroundings  ;  the- 
aters, hotels,  etc.,  all  that  go  to  make  up  a  great  city  ;  school-houses 
of  iini])le  proportions ;  churches  beautiful  in  architectural  design  of 
Grecian,  Doric,  and  Gothic,  many  of  them  being  very  costly  in  their 
build.  One  hundred  and  seventy-one  churches  are  foujid  withiu  her 
limits,  and  the  denominations  cover  all  that  claim  the  Protestant  or 


HISTORY   OF   ST.  LOUIS.  99 

Catholic feith.     The  Cathedral  on  Walnut  Street  is  the  oldest  church 
edifice,  but  not  the  most  costly,  in  the  city. 

The  public  school  library  was  founded  in  1872,  and  numbers  36,000 
Tolome8.  The  Mercantile  Library  has  42,090  volumes,  and  contains 
not  only  many  valuable  literary  works,  but  many  choice  works  of  art. 

MANUFACTURES. 

In  this  line  St.  Louis  is  fast  reaching  a  commanding  situation.     So 
long  as  railroads  commanded  the  freighting  facilities  of  the  city,  and 
the  great  highway  to  the  sea  which  Providence  had  placed  at  her  door 
was  ignored  for  man's  more  expensive  route  by  rail,  St.  Louis  remained 
but  an  infant  in  manufacturing  enterprises  — »and  these  had  succumbed 
in  many  instances  to  the  power  of  monopolies,  or  to  the  tariff  of  freight 
which  took  off  all  the  profits,  and  her  more  eastern  competitors  were 
the  gainers.     But  in  the  last  two  years  Nature's  great  highway  to  the 
sea  has  begun  to  be  utilized,  and  St.  Louis  has  all  at  once  opened  her 
eyes  to  the  fact  that  she  has  a  free  railway  of  water  to  the  sea,  the 
equal  of  twenty  railroads  by  land,  and  it  only  needs  the  cars  (the 
barges)  to  revolutionize  the  carrying  trade  of  the  Mississippi  and  Mis- 
souri valleys.     The  track  is  free  to  all.     He  who  can  build  the  cars 
can  have  the  track  readv  at  all  times  for  use.     The  Father  of  Waters 
lies  at  her  door;  a  mountain  of  iron  is  but  a  few  miles  away  ;  coal, 
iilso,  lies  nearly  at  her  gates  ;  and  while  she  has  slept  the  sleep  of  years, 
these  vast  opportunities  might  have  made  her,  ere  this,  the  equal  of 
any  manufacturing  city  on  the  globe.     She  will  become  such,  for  no 
other  city  can  show  such  vast  resources  or  such  rapid  and  cheap  facil- 
ities for  distribution.     Even  the  coupon-clippers  are  waking  up,  and 
believe  there  are  higher  and  nobler  aims  for  man  than  the  lavish  expen- 
diture of  wealth  in  indolence  and  selfish  pleasure.     The  surplus  wealth 
of  St,  Louis,  if  invested  in  manufacturing  enterprises,  would  make  her 
the  wonder  of  the  continent.     She  may  realize  this  some  day;  when 
she  does,  she  will  wonder  at  the  stupidity  and  lolly  that  has  controlled 
her  for  so  many  years.     Foundries,  machine-shops,  rolling-mills,  cot- 
ton and  woolen  factories,  car-shops,  these  and  a  thousand  other  indus- 
tries are  but  waiting  for  the  magic  touch  of  an  enterprising  people  to 
give  them  life. 

The  year  1882  opens  auspiciously  for  a  new  life.  St.  Louis  now 
begins  to  consider  the  question  of  progress  from  a  more  enlightened 
standpoint,  and  with  a  look  of  intelligent  action.  It  may  take  a  little 
time  yet  to  drive  sleep  from  her  eyelids  and  sloth  from  her  limbs,  but 


iiiyroirv  OF  ST.  Loris.  101 

it  looks  now  more  than  ever  as  llioiifrli  !>Ih*  would  accomplish  this  and 
vrak«  up  to  the  full  fruition  ot*  her  irrcat  oi)portunities  —  in  fact,  to 
bermauifest  destiny.  Missouri  ought  to  he  prouil  of  St.  Louis,  but 
tbitcanuot  be  while  sloth  lies  at  the  portals  of  her  ^ates  and  the  dry- 
rot.of  old  fogyisni  guides  her  present  course. 

TIm  breweiy  business  of  St.  Louis  is  one  of  her  leading  depart- 
aenfa  of  trade.  She  has  the  largest  establishment  in  the  world  for 
hittfingbeer,  a  building  two  hundred  feet  long  and  thirty  feet  broad. 
The  nuuiufuetnre  of  wine  is  another  important  business  which  has 
ttsumed  immense  proportions.  Distilling,  rectifying  and  wholesale 
deaKngin  liquors  is  anotlu^r  branch  that  adds  a  large  revenue  to  the 
iuable  wealth  of  the  citv.  There  is  nothin<j:  in  the  manufacturers' 
fine  bat  what  could  sustain  a  healthy  growth  in  St.  Louis,  if  even  plain 
buioess  sense  is  at  command.  Her  future  may  be  said  to  be  all  before 
her,  for  her  manufacturing  interests  are  yet  in  their  infancy.  She  can 
beeome  the  manufacturing  centre  of  the  continent.  The  centre  or 
nociviDg  point  for  the  greatest  amount  of  cereals  any  city  can  han- 
dle, and  the  stock  centre  also  of  the  country,  St.  Louis  may,  with  the 
oi^rtuuities  within  her  grasp,  well  be  called  the  **  Future  Great." 

CHAPTER   OF    CKITICISM. 

Bnt  the  name  ^^ Future  Great  "  is  used  at  this  time  by  her  rivals  in 

toneS'Of  derision.     That  she  should  have  ignored  so  many  years  the 

great  and  bountiful  resources  nature  has  so  lavishly  bestowed  upon 

her,  aye  I  it  would  seem,  even  spurned  them  through  an  ignorance  as 

dense  as  it  is  wonderful,  is  very  strange,  and  has  brought  a  stigma  of 

disgrace  upon  the  character  of  her  people.     This  action  on  her  part 

has  not  escaped  the  notice  of  men  of  wealth,  of  towering  ambition,  of 

nerve  force  and  of  unlimited  energy,  and  to-day  one  of  the  railway 

kings  of   the  country,  eJay  Gould,  of  New  York,  has  grasped   the 

sceptre  of  her  commercial  life  and  rules  with  a  grasp  of  steel,  and 

through  his  iron  roadways  run  the  commercial  life-blood  which  flows 

through  the  aiteries  of  her  business  life.     That  this  neglect  of  her 

great  opportunities  should  have  placed  it  in  the  power  of  one  man  to 

become  the  arbiter  of  her  fate  is  as  humiliating  as  it  has  proved  costly. 

Millions  have  poured  into  the  collers  of  Jay  Gould,  who,  seeing  this 

vast  wealth  of  resources  lying  idle  or  nncared  for,  had  the  nerve  to 

seize  and  the  far-seeing  judgment  and  enterprise  to  add  them  to  his 

own  personal   gains.     The  worhl  can  admire  the  bold  eneriry  of  the 

man,  and  the  genius  that  can  grasp  and  guide  the  commercial  desti* 


HISTOBY    OF    ST.  LOUIS. 


nles  of  aa  Empire,  but  it  is  none  the  less  a  blot  upon  the  &ir  name, 
capital  and  enterprise  of  a  great  city,  and  should  mantle  the  cheek  of 
every  St.  Louisian  with  shame.  The  writer  feels  all  that  he  has  here 
written,  but  his  pride  as  a  Missourian  cannot  blind  him  to  the  faults  of 
her  people 

St.  Louis  is  an  old  city  and  there  has  been  much  written  of  her 
extraordinary  progress,  and  yet  whatever  that  progress  is,  has  been 
caused  far  more  by  her  people  being  compelled  to  take  advantage  of 


"WASHINGTON  UNIVEKSITY,  ST.  LOUIS, 
the  opportunities  within  their  reach  than  making  such  by  their  own 
enei-gy  and  enterprise.  If  she  has  grown  in  population  and  in  wealth, 
it  is  because  she  could  not  help  herself.  After  forty  years  of  life,  as 
late  as  1813,  the  currency  of  St.  Louis  was  slill  confined  to  peltries, 
trinkets,  maple  sugar,  honey,  beeswax,  venison,  hams,  etc.,  in  fact, 
,  all  bai-ter  and  trade,  and  yet  those  who  have  compiled  her  local  history 


H18TOHY   OF  8T.  LOUIS.  103 

talk  vildly  of  her  destiny  and  prophesy  wonders  for  her  m  the  near 
future.  It  is  best  to  look  at  St.  Louis  as  she  is  to-day.  It  is  to  be 
hoped  that  her  future  growth  may  not  take  pattern  after  her  past,  and 
tbut  the  new  men  who  have  taken  her  commercial  future  into  their 
keeping  will  still  exhibit  that  towering  genius  for  the  development  of 
St.  Louis  that  has  characterized  them  in  their  eastern  home. 

The  future  of  St.  Louis  would  seem  to  be  one  of  a  rapidly  growing 
city,  not  only  in  population,  but  in  commercial  and  financial  strength, 
as  though  founded  upon  a  rock.  This  is  the  present  outlook.  While 
thej^enius  of  Gould  and  his  associates  has  secured  millions  of  dollars 
bj  their  business  ventures,  there  are  other  millions  still  left  to  build 
Dp  and  add  to  her  prosperity  and  greatness  if  rightly  managed. 

The  tremendous  energy  of  Gould  has  astoi^shed  the  sleepy  St. 
Louisians  as  much  as  if  they  had  been  treading  upon  live  coals,  and 
in  waking  up  they  have  discovered  that  their  sleep  and  indolence  have 
cost  them  several  millions.  Gould,  Keene,  Dillon,  Sage  and  their 
associates  do  not  work  for  nothing,  and  the  people  who  claim  the 
*•  Future  Great'*  as  their  abiding  i)lace  should  lose  no  time  in  taking 
a  firm  hold  of  the  present  and  guiding  her  toward  the  great  destiny 
which  awaits  her,  with  the  winning  cards  in  their  own  hands.  The 
New  Yorkers  have  shown  them  a  will  and  a  wav,  and  now  let  them 
pi-actice  the  lesson  it  has  cost  them  so  much  to  Icnru. 

It  has  been  over  a  ccnturv  since  St.  Louis  took  a  start  into  life,  and 
it  is  quite  that  since  the  ring  of  the  pioneer's  axe  and  the  sharp  crack 
of  his  rifle  reverberated  through  her  streets.     The  slow  progress  of 
pioneer  life  has  departed   and  modern  civilization,  with  the  light  of 
genius  for  its  guide,  is  rapidly  proirressing  and  recording  history  for 
future  generations.     When  in  1817  the  first  steamboat  landed  at  St. 
Louis,  the  possibilities  of  what  the  future  might  l)o  began  to  dawn 
wpoM  the  minds  of  her  people,  and  that  year  may  be  well  proclaimed 
^  the  dividing  line  between  the  old  and  the  new  era  of  St.  Louis's 
destiny.     From  that  day  she  looked  forward',  not  backward,  and  while 
up  to  that  time  she  seemed  to  have  lived  in  the  past,  it  was  the  future 
More  her  that  then  riveted  her  attention.     She  kept  up  a  lively  step 
to  the  music  of  progress  for  several  years,  and  the  Father  of  Waters 
and  the  mighty  Missouri  with  their  fleets  of  water-craft  attested  her 
enierprise,  and  she  grew  apace.     But  in  a  few  years  she  a^-ain  fell 
asleep,  and  slept  until  the  snort  of  the  iron  horse  awoke  her  rudely 
from  slumber.     She  had  grown  even  while  she  slept,  because  the  great 
water-way  which  passed  her  door  had  become  the  pathway  of  a  mighty 


H.IdTORY.OF  6T.  hOVlB.  106 

business.    Bat  this  grand  highway  to  the  sea  which  had  nourished 
her  while  she  slept  was  at  ouco  forgotten  or  relegated  to  the  rear,  and 
her  awakened  energies  were  given  to  the  prancing  steed  whose  breath 
was  fire,  that  made  the  e^irth  tremble  at  his  strength,  and  whose  speed 
was  like  the  wings  of  the  >vind.     The  railroad  fever  had  taken  posses- 
sion of  the  Queen  City  of  the  Valley.     She  grew  apacq  and  for  years 
she  has  reveled  in  the  new  love,  and  the  grand  old  Father  of  Waters 
which  had  nurtured  her  into  life  was  forgotten.     But  she  has  again 
awakened  from  her  quiet  dreams,  and  the  iron  horse  which  had  lulled 
her  to  repose  was  found  while  bringing  millions  to  her  door  to  have 
taken  millions  more  away.     And  in  this  year  of  1882  she  opens  her 
eyes  to  her  true  destiny,  and  the  grand  Old  Father  of  Waters,  which 
she  had  striven  to  drive  from  her,  was  once  more  recognized  as  the 
very  foundation  or  bed-rock  of  her  commercial  life,  the  power  that 
was  to  keep  in  check  the  absorption  of  her  wealth,  from  the  monopo- 
Hzing  influence  and  insatiable  maw  of  the  railway  kings.    /She  now 
proudly  points  to  the  grand  old  river,  and  the  fleets  of  barges  borne 
upon  its  bosom  filled  with  the  wealth  of  an  empire,  and  calls  on  her 
aster,  Chicago,  to  look  at  this  glorious  sight.     The  ♦*  Garden  City" 
has  abeady  snuflfed  the  battle  from  afar,  and  is  ready  to  struggle  for 
a  commercial  supremacy  in  which  there  are   literally  millions,  for 
nature  has  done  the  work,  and  St.  Louis  will  win.     The  **City  by 
the  Lake"  is  deserving,  and  had   she  the  opportunities  which  have 
lain  so  long  dormant  in  possession  of  her  rival,  would  have  been  to- 
day the  wonder  of  the  world.     But  it  is  the  rugged  path  that  brings 
out  man's  energy  and  endurance,  not  the  smooth  road.     So  it  is  with 
cities.    And  so  the  majestic  Mississippi  flows  on,  bearing  u[)on  its 
waters  the  riches  of  the  valley,  and  pouring  into  the  lap  of  the  Queen 
City  upon  its  banks  millions  upon  millions  of  wealth.     If  the  spirit 
»f  1882  shall  continue,  then  St.  Louis  will  soon  become  the  pride  of 
the  State.     In  realitv  she  will  be  the  "  Future  Great*'  of  the  Ameri- 
^an  Continent.     She  that  stands  on  the  })ank  of  this  great  inland  sea, 
the  commerce  of  an  empire  flowing  at  her  feet,  her  sails  in  every 
clime  and  country,  she  is  indeed  to  become  a  great  city,  the  arbiter  of 
the  commercial  world  and  the  Queen  City  whose  wealth,  commanding 
influence,  culture  and  refinement  will  attest  the  greatness  of  her  peo- 
ple and  command  the   homnge   of  the  world.     Such    is   to    be  the 
"Future  Great"  citv,  St.  Louis. 


106  HI8TOBY  OF  8T.  LOUI8. 

STATISTICS. 

Debt  of  St.  Louis,  January  1,  1881,  $22,507,000;  rate  of  taxatioa 
on  the  $100,  $1.75. 

The  receipts  of  all  kinds  of  grain,  51,958,177  bushels.  - 

Twenty-four  flouring-mills  manufactured  2,077,625  barrels  of  flour 
in  1880. 

The  receipts  of  cotton  for  1880  were  496,570  bales. 

There  were  12,846,169  pounds  of  tobacco  manufactured  into  plug, 
fine-cut  and  smoking  tobacco. 

There  were  330,935,973  feet  of  lumber  received  in  1880. 

St.  Louis  received  for  the  year  1880,  41,892,356  bushels  of  coal. 

Seven  elevators  have  a  total  capacity  of  5,650,000  bushels,  and 
three  more  are  being  erected  and  one  other  enlarged. 

The  aggregate  of  bank  clearing  for  1880  amounted  to  $1,422,- 
918,978. 

The  post-office  distributed  in   1880,  43,731,844   pieces,  weighing 
4,250,000  pounds. 

Post-office  orders  issued  numbered  53,337,  and  represented  $879,« 
943.90. 

The  value  of  school  property  is  $2,851,133. 

The  steel  bridge  cost  $13,000,000,  and  tunnel  $1,500,000. 


LAWS  OF  MISSOURI. 


HOMESTEAD   EXEMPTION   LAW. 

The  homestead  exemption  law  of  the  State  of  Missouri  has  been  one 
of  the  most  enlightened  laws  passed  for  the  benefit  of  the  people.  In 
the  last  session  of  the  general  assembly  of  the  State,  the  spring  of 
1880-81,  there  was  a  material  change  in  the  law,  and  it  is  given  here 
in  full.  Thus  every  head  of  a  family  can  be  secure  in  a  home  of 
moderate  value,  if  he  will  not  waive  his  right  to  it.  There  are  printed 
notes  now  drawn  up  in  which  there  is  a  clause  printed  waiving  the 
right  of  holding  such  property  under  that  law.  When  a  man  signs 
such  a  note,  his  home  stands  in  the  same  light  as  his  other  property. 
These  notes  should  never  be  signed  unless  by  or  with  the  consent  of 
the  wife  as  well  as  the  husband.  The  law  reads,  as  amended,  as  fol- 
lows, and  is  in  full  force  at  this  time  : 

Section  1.  Section  twenty-six  hundred  and  eighty-nine  (2689)  of 
the  Revised  Statutes  of  Missouri,  is  hereby  amended  by  striking  out, 
**or  incorporated  towns  and  villages  having  a  less  population,"  and 
inserting  in  lieu  thereof,  **  having  a  popuhition  of  ten  thousand  or 
less,"  in  twelfth  line,  and  by  inserting  immediately  after  '*  dollars," 
fifteenth  line,  the  words  ''and  in  cities  and  incorporated  towns  and 
villages  having  a  population  less  than  ten  thousand,  such  homesteads 
shall  not  include  more  than  five  acres  of  ground  or  exceed  the  total 
value  of  $1,500,"  so  that  said  section  as  amended  shall  read  as  fol- 
lows : 

Sec.  2689.  The  homestead  of  every  housekeeper  or  head  of  a 
family,  consisting  of  a  dwelling-house  and  appurtenances,  and  the 
land  in  connection  therewith,  not  exceeding  the  amount  and  value 
herein  limited,  which  is  or  shall  be  used  by  such  housekeeper,  or  head 
-of  a  family  as  such  homestead  shall,  together  with  the  rents,  issues 

(107) 


108  LAWS    OP   MISSOURI. 

and  products  thereof,  be  exempt  from  attachment  and  execution 
except  as  herbin  provided ;  such  homestead  in  the  country  shall 
include  more  than  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land,  or  exceed  th^^ 
total  value  of  fifteen  hundred  dollars  ;  and  in  cities  having  a  popula-*^ 
tion  of  forty  thousand  or  more,  such  homestead  shall  not  include 
more  than  eighteen  square  rods  of  ground,  or  exceed  the  total  value 
of  three  thousand  dollars ;  and  in  cities  having  a  population  of  ten 
thousand  and  less  than  forty  thousand,  such  homestead  shall  not  in- 
clude more  than  thirty  square  rods  of  ground,  or  exceed  the  total  value 
of  fifteen  hundred  dollars  ;  and  in  cities  and  incorporated  towns  and 
villages  having  a  population  less  than  ten  thousand,  such  homestead 
shall  not  include  more  than  five  acres  of  gpound,  or  exceed  the  total 
value  of  fifteen  hundred  dollars  ;  and  any  married  woman  may  file  her 
claim  to  the  tract  or  lot  of  land  occupied  by  her  and  her  husband,  or  by 
her,  if  abandoned  by  her  husband,  as  a  homestead ;  said  claim  shall 
set  forth  the  tract  or  lot  claimed,  that  she  is  the  wife  of  the  person  in 
whose  name  the  said  tract  or  lot  appears  of  record,  and  said  claim 

shall  be  acknowledged  by  her  before  some  officer  authorized  to  take 

• 

proof  or  acknowledgments  of  instruments  of  writing,  affecting  real 
estiite,  and  be  filed  in  the  recorder's  office,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  recorder  to  receive  and  record  the  same.  After  the  filing  of  such 
claims,  duly  acknowledged,  the  husband  shall  be  debarred  from,  and 
incapable  of  selling,  mortgaging  or  alienating  the  homestead  in  any 
manner  whatever,  and  every  such  sale,  mortgage  or  alienation  is  hereby 
declared  null  and  void  ;  and  the  filing  of  any  such  claims,  as  aforesaid, 
with  the  recorder,  shall  impart  notice  to  all  persons  of  the  contents 
thereof,  and  all  subsequent  purchasers  and  mortgagers  shall  be 
deemed,  in  law  and  equity,  to  purchase  with  notice  ;  Provided ^  how^ 
every  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  prevent 
the  husband  and  wife  from  jointly  conveying,  mortgaging,  alienating 
or  in  any  other  manner  disposing  of  such  homestead,  or  any  part 
thereof. 

Approved,  March  26,  1881. 

HUSBAND    NOT   LIABLE. 

Ax  Act  to  exempt  the  husband  from  the  payment  of  the  debts  of    he  wife,  contracted 
before  marrlaj»e. 

Secttion  1.  The  property  owned  by  a  man  before  his  marria^e^ 
and  that  which  he  may  acquire  after  his  marriage  by  purchase,  descent^ 
gift,  grant,  devise,  or  any  other  manner  whatsoever,  and  the  profits 


I«AW8   OF  MISSOURI.  109 

/ 

thereof,  except  such  as  may  be  acquired  from  the  wife,  shall  be 
exempt  from  all  debts  aud  Jiabilities  contracted  or  incurred  by  his  wife 
before  their  marriage. 

Sec.  2.  All  acts  aud  parts  of  acts  iuconsistent  with  this  act  are 
hereby  repealed. 

Approved,  March  25,  1881. 

RIGHTS   OF   MARRIED   WOMEN. 

The  law  passed  by  the  General  Assembly  on  the  rights  and  privi- 
leges of  married  women  is  full  and  complete,  is  composed  of  fourteen 
sections,  and  too  long  to  be  embodied  in  this  work.  The  law  can  be 
found  in  the  *«  Revised  Statutes  of  Missouri,  volume  1,  1876."  It  is 
chapter  51,  aud  found  on  pages  557  to  561. 

.    HEDGES   TRIMMED. 

It  may  not  be  known  to  all  that  a  law  was  passed  by  the  General 
Assembly  (1880-1881),  that  **  every  person  having  a  hedge  fence,' 
over  five  years  old,  upon  the  line  of  any  public  road  or  highway  in 
this  State,  is  hereby  required  to  cut  down  the  same,  to  the  height  of 
not  more  than  five  feet  nor  less  than  four  feet,  every  two  years  :  Pro^ 
wiW,  that  hedge  fences  inclosing  orchards,  house-yards  and  stock- 
ywds,  shall  be  exempt  from  the  provisions  of  this  act." 

The  overseer  of  roads  is  to  serve  the  notice  and  the  owner  has 
thirty  days  to  commence,  and  if  he  fail  to  do  it  the  overseer  shall 
Iwveitdone,  and  the  owner  must  pay  all  expenses  of  the  same.  It 
can  be  collected  of  him  by  law,  same  as  revenue  for  road  purposes. 

The  law  passed  and  took  effect  March  16,  1881. 

CHANGING    SCHOOL-HOUSE    SITES. 

Section  1.     The  voters  of  any  school-district  in  this  State  may 

change  the  location  of  a  school-house  site  when  the  same,  for  any 

cause,  may  be  deemed  necessary  and  notice  of  such  contemplated 

change  shall  have  been  given  by  the  directors  at  least  twenty  days 

prior  thereto  by  posting  at  least  three  written  notices  in  three  of  the 

most  public  places  in  the  district  where  such  school-house  site  shall 

be  located  ;  Provided^  that  in  every  case  a   majority  of  the  voters  of 

said  district  shall  only  be  necessary  to  remove  a  site  nearer  the  center 

«f  a  school  district,  but  in  all  cases  to  remove  a  site  further  from  the 

center  of  a  school  district  it  shall  require  two-thirds  of  the   legal 

voters  of  such  school  district. 


110  LAWS   OF  MISSOURI. 

Sec.  2.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  in  conflict  with  this  act  are^ 
hereby  repealed.  ' 

Approved  March  24,  1881. 

MARRIAGE   LICENSE. 

The  legislature  of  1880-81  passed  a  marriage  license  act  which 
makes  it  necessary  for  persons  before  marriage  to  secure  a  license. 
No  person  authorized  to  perform  the  marriage  ceremony  can  legally 
do  80  without  first  seeing  the  license,  and  a  marriage  performed  with- 
out a  license  is  not  legal  and  a  penalty  is  attached.  The  intent  of 
the  law  is  to  have  an  official  record  which  shall  stand  in  the  courts 
and  settle  any  dispute  either  of  marriage  or  property  which  may 
hereafter  arise.     The  law  reads: 

Section  1.  Previous  to  any  marriage  in  this  Stat«  a  license  Jbr 
that  purpose  shall  be  obtained. 

The  recorder  of  the  county  issues  the  license  and  the  parties  must 
be,  the  male  21  years  and  the  female  18  years  of  age.  If  j'ounger, 
the  parents  or  guardian  must  give  consent. 

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FORMS  OF  DEEDS,  LEASES,  MORTGAGES,  Etc. 

GENERAL   FORM    OF   WILL   FOR    REAL   AND   PERSONAL   PROPERTY. 

1,  James  Johnson,  of  the  town  of  Muncio,  county  of  Delaware,  and 
State  of  Indiana,  being  aware  of  the  uncertainty  of  life,  and  in  failing 
health,  but  of  sound  mind  and  memory,  do  make  and  declare  this  ta 
l»  my  last  will  and  testament,  in  manner  as  follows,  to-wit: 

First — I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  my  son,  James  Horace  John- 
son, $1,000  in  bank  stock,  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Boston,  and 
the  farm  owned  by  myself,  in  the  township  of  Washington,  Shelby 
county,  Missouri,  and  consisting  of  eighty  acres  of  land  with  all  the 
houses,  tenements  and  improvements  thereunto  belonging,  to  have 
and  to  hold  unto  my  said  son,  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever. 
Second —  I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  each  of  my  two  daughters^ 


112  LAWS  OF  XISSOUBI. 

Ida  Louisa  Johnson  and  Annie  May  Johnson,  each  $1,T)60  in  c 
each  one  a  quarter  section  of  hind  owned  hy  myself  in  the  t 
of  Jasi>er,  Henry  county,  Illinois,  and  recorded  in  my  nam< 
record  of  said  county,  where  said  land  is  located ;  the  north  1 
to  <!o  to  Ida  Louisa,  mv  eldest  daughter. 

Third — I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  my  son,  Thomas 
Johnson,  ten  shares  of  niilroad  stock  in  the  Mississippi  &  Ol 
mad,  and  my  lot,  with  the  residence  thereon,  in  Dayton,  Oh 
all  the  improvements  and  appurtenances  thereunto  belonging 
Siiid  real  estate  is  recorded  in  mv  name  in  the  countv  where  i; 

l^ourth  —  I  give  to  my  wife  Samuella  Richardson  Johnson 
household  furniture,  goods,  chattels  and  personal  property  a1 
home  not  hitherto  disponed  of.  including  fo.O.H)  of  bank  stocl 
Men'hants'  National  B:ink  of  Toledo.  Ohio,  fifteen  shares  in  t 
sissippi  A  Ohio  Railroad,  and  the  free  and  unrestricted  use,  po 
and  iHMiotit  of  the  home  farm  so  Ions  as  she  mav  H|-e,  in  lieu  o 
to  which  she  is  entitled  by  law,  Siiid  farm  being  my  preset 
of  resideuiv. 

Firf^t  —  It  is  also  mv  will  and  desire  that  at  the  death  of  n 
Samuclla  Richardson  Ji.huson,  or  at  any  time  when  she  may 
to  relinojuish  her  life  iiuerest  :n  the  a-'s?ve  mentioned  homest< 
satv.o  may  ri\ert  to  my  arK^ve  r.anuvl  oLildren,  or  to  the  lawf 
of  cuvh. 

A'\  :  Z. •>''•;  —  I  nom'nate  ar.«l  ar^^vm  as  exev^utors  of  this, 
w:"l  ar.'l  te>:amo:;t.  ir.v  wirV,  S:imue!la  Richanisoa  Johnson,  ; 
ei'-:es:  s-.^:^.  J:i!r.os  H'^r.i'.-c  Joh:.s/»::. 

I  fur:her  direct  tha:  my  deb:s  ar.d  necessary  funeral  expens* 
be  psid  frv^m  moneys  now  on  de}v^>::  in  the  Savings  Bank  of  ] 
O":.:.^-  i-c  rvs:'.:;:e  -f  snch  m-^noy  t»^  revorr  to  my  wife,  Samuel 
ard>on  J.  hiison.  for  her  u>e  fK-rwor. 

Ir.  wi:::css  whor^-*:*.  I.  J:i:v.i:s  J.  :.::?on.  to  this,  my  last  i 
tes::=.!v •::.:.  h^vo  hor.:::::o  se:  rjy  h:*::.!  .-ind  sedl.  this  founh 

J.OfFS  JCK 

S  -:  •  :  s-.i  ^:c.*:.rid  *  v  Jsr.-.-Js  .1  :■:;>-.!:  as  ar.d  for  his  lasi  i 
xes-.Ar:-.  ■..:,  :::  the  vrt--:::T.v  . :  u-,  wl..-.  :=.:  b  s  r\--q::est  aiid  in  h 
e::::e  r.-.i  :r.  :hc  vrvs^r.-.^e  cf  edwh  c:":.t:r.  have  subscribed  oui 
Ler^--::  as  wl:ues<KS  iheri  ?:'. 

Thomas  Dvoan.  Dsvton.  Ohio. 

RoJHESTEi  Mv.'IJvade.  Ciac2Diiaii«  < 


LAWS   OF   MISSOURI.  113 

CODICIL. 

Whereas,  I,  James  Johnson,  did,  on  the  fourth  day  of  December, 
1876,  make  my  last  will  and  testament,  I  do  now,  by  this  writing,  add 
lliis codicil  to  my  said  will,  to  be  taken  as  a  part  thereof.  y 

Whereas,  By  the  dispensation  of  Providence,  my  daughter  Ida 
Louisa  has  deceased,  October  10th,  1877  ;  and 

Whereas,  A  son  has  been  born  to  me,  which  son  is  now  christened 
John  Wesley  Johnson,  I  give  and  bequeath  to  him  my  gold  watch,  and 
iD  right,  interest  and  title  in  lands,  bank  stock  and  chattels  bequeathed 
to  my  deceased  daughter,  Ida  Louisa,  in  the  body  of  this  will. 

In  witness  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal  this  10th 

day  of  January,  1878. 

Jamks  Johxsox. 

Signed,  sealed,  published  and  declared  to  us  by  the  testator,  James 
Johnson,  as  and  for  a  codicil  to  be  annexed  to  his  last  will  and  testa- 
ment, and  we,  at  his  request  and  in  his  presence,  and  in  the  presence 
rf  each  other,  have  subscribed  our  names  as  witnessess  thereto,  at  the 
^  hereof. 

Thos.  Dugan,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

Charles  Jackson,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

FORM   OF   LEASE. 

This  article  of  agreement,  made  and  entered  into  on  this 


^J^i A.  D.  188-,  by  and  between '-,  of  the  county  of 

■,  and  State  of  Missouri,  of  the  first  part,  and ,  of  the 

county  of ,  and  State  of  Missouri,  of  the  second  part,  wit- 

Desseth  that  the  said  party  of  the  first  part  has  this  day  leased  unto 
^eparty  of  the  second  part  the  following  described  premises,  to-wit: 

^Here  insert  description.'] 

ror  the  term  of from  and  after  the day  of A.  D. 

^^^  at  the rent  of dollars,  to  be  paid  as  follows, 

to-wit: 

\^Here  insert  terms.'] 

And  it  is  further  agreed  that  if  any  rent  shall  be  due  or  unpaid,  or 
"default  be  made  in  any  of  the  covenants  herein  contained,  it  shall 
then  be  lawful  for  the  said  party  of  the  first  part  to  re-enter  the  said 
pi%mi868,  or  to  distrain  for  such  rent ;  or  he  may  recover  possession 


114  LAW8  OF  MISSOUBI. 

thereof  by  action  of  forcible  entry  and  detainer,  or  he  may  use  all  or 
any  of  the  remedies  to  effect  such  possession. 

And  the  party  of  the  second  part  agrees  to  pay  to  the  party  of  the 
first  part  the  rent  as  above  stated,  except  when  said  premises  are  unten^ 
antable  by  reason  of  fire,  or  from  any  other  cause  than  the  careless- 
ness of  the  party  of  the  second  part,  or  persons family,  or  in 

employ,  or  by  superior  force  or  inevitable  necessity.  And  the  said 
party  of  the  second  part  covenants  and  agrees  that  — —  will  use  the 

said  premises  as  a ,  and  for  no  other  purpose  whatsoever ;  and 

that especially  will  not  use  said  premises,  or  permit  the  same  U> 

be  used,  for  any  unlawful  business  or  purposes  whatsoever ;  that 

will  not  sell,  assign,  underlet,  or  relinquish  said  premises  without  the 

written  consent  of  the  lessor,  under  a  penalty  of  a  forfeiture  of  all 

rights  under  this  lease,  at  the  election  of  the  party  of  the  first  part ; 

and  that use  all  due  care  and  diligence  in  guarding  said  property, 

with  the  buildings,  gates,  fences,  trees,  vines,  shrubbery,  etc.,  from 

damages  by  fire  and  the  depredation  by  animals  ;  that will  keep 

buildings,  gates,  fences,  etc.,  in  as  good  repair  as  they  now  are,  or  may 
at  any  time  be  placed  by  the  lessor,  damages  by  superior  force,  .inev- 
itable necessity,  or  fire  from  any  other  cause  than  from  the  careless- 
ness  of   the   lessor,  or  persons  of family,  or  in  employ, 

excepted  ;  and  that  upon  the  expiration  of  this  lease,  or  upon  a  breach 

by  said  lessee  of  any  of  the  said  covenants  herein  contained,  . 

will,  without  further  notice  of  any  kind,  quit  and  surrender  the 
occupancy  and  possession  of  said  premises  in  as  good  condition  as 
reas'>nable  use,  natural  wear  and  decay  thereof  will  permit,  damages 
by  fire  as  aforesaid,  superior  force,  or  inevitable  necessity,  alone 
excepted. 

In  witness  whereof,  the  said  parties  have  subscribed  their  names  on 
the  date  first-above  written. 

Signed  in  presence  of  ' . 


REAL   ESTATE   MORTGAGE. 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents  :  That ,  of county, 

and  State  of ,  in  consideration  of dollars,  in  hand  paid 

by ,  of county,  and  State  of ,  do  hereby  sell  and 

convey  unto  the  said the  following  described  premises,  situated 

in  the  county  of ,  and  State  of ,  to- wit : 

[^Here  iiisert  description.'] 


\ 


\ 


V 

\ 


LAWS  OF  MISSOURI.  11«^ 

ind  do  hereby  covenant  with  the  said that lawfully  seized 

of  said  premises,  that  they  are  free  from  incumbrance^  that have 

goody  right  and  lawful  authority  to  sell  and  convey  the  same  ;  and 

do  hereby  covenant  to  warrant  and  defend  the  same  against  the  law- 
fid  claims  of  all  persons  whomsoever.     To  be  void  upon  the  condition 

that  the  said shall  pay  the  full  amount  of  principal  and  interest 

•tthe  time  therein  specified,  of certain  promissory  notes,  for  the 

ram  of dollars, 

One  note  for  $ — ,  due ,  18 — ,  with  interest  annually  at — per  cent* 

One  note  for  $ — ,  due ,  18 — ,  with  interest  annually  at — per  cent* 

One  note  for  $ — ,  due ,  18 — ,  with  interest  annually  at — ^per  cent* 

And  the  said  mortgagor  agrees  to  pay  all  taxes  that  may  be  levied 
upon  the  above  described  premises.  It  is  also  agreed  by  the  mort- 
gagor that  if  it  becomes  necessary  to  foreclose  this  mortgage,  a  rea- 
sonable amount  shall  be  allowed  as  an  attorney's  fee  for  foreclosing. 
And  the .  hereby  relinquishes  all  her  right  of  do\^  or  and  home- 
stead in  and  to  the  above  described  premises. 

Signed  the day  of ,  A,  D.  IS—. 


CHATTEL   MORTGAGE. 

Know  ALL  men  by  these  presents  :  That ,  of county  ^ 

and  State  of ,  in  consideration  of dollars,  in  hand  paid 

by ,  of  — =-  county,  and  State  of ,  do  hereby  sell  and  con- 
vey unto  the  said the  following  described  personal  property, 

now  in  the  possession  of ,  in  the  county  of ,  State  of , 

to-wit: 

[Jjfei'C  insert  description,"] 

and  do  hereby  warrant  the  title  of  said  property,  and  that  it  is  free 
from  any  incumbrance  or  lien.  The  only  right  or  interest  retained  by 
grantor  in  said  property  being  the  right  of  redemption  herein  provided* 
This  conveyance  to  be  void  upon  condition  that  the  said  grantor  shall 
pay  to  aaid  grantee,  or  his  assigns,  the  full  amount  of  principal  and 

interest  at  the  time  therein  specified,  of certain  promissory  notes 

of  even  date  herewith,  for  the  sum  of dollars. 

One  note  for  $ — ,  due ,  18 — ,  with  interest  annually  at — ^per  cent. 

One  note  for  $ — ,  due ,  18 — ,  with  interest  annually  at — per  cent. 

One  note  for  $ — ,  due ,  18 — ,  with  interest  annually  at — ^per  cent. 

The  grantor  to  pay  all  taxes  on  said   property,  and  if  at  any 
time  any  part  or  portion  of  said  notes  should  be  due  and  unpaid,  said 


116  LAWS   OF   MISSOURI. 

grantor  may  proceed  by  sale  or  foreclosure  to  collect  and  pay  himself 
the  unpaid  balance  of  said  notes,  whether  due  or  not,  the  grantor  to 
pay  all  necessary  expenses  of  such  foreclosure,  including  $ attor- 
ney's fees,  and  whatever  remains,  after  paying  off  said  notes  and  ex- 
penses, to  be  paid  over  to  said  grantor. 

Signed  the day  of ,  18 — . 


QUITCLAIM   DEED. 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents  :  That ,  of county, 

State  of ,  in  consideration  of dollars,  to in  hand 

paid  by  -; ,  of county,  and  State  of ,  the  receipt 

whereof do  hereby  acknowledge,  have  bargained,  sold  and  quit- 
claimed, and  by  these  presents  do  bargain,  sell  and  quitclaim  unto  the 

said   ,  and   to  heirs  and  assigns   forever,  all  I'ight, 

title  and  interest,  estate,  claim  and  demand,  both  in  law  and  in 
■equity,  and  as  well  in  possession  as  in  expoctiincy,  of,  in  and  to  the 
following  described  premises,  to-wit: 

[^Here  insert  description, "l 

With  all  and  singular  the  hereditaments  and  appurtenances  thereto 
belonging. 

Signed  this  day  of ,  A.  D.  18 — . 

Signed  in  presence  of 


warranty  deed. 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents  :  That ,  of county, 

and  State  of ,  in  con^^ideration  of  the  sum  of dollars  in 

hand  paid  by ,  of county,  and  State  of ,  do  hereby  sell 

and  convey  unto  the  sj^id  ,  and  to  heirs  and  assigns,  the 

following  described  premises,  situated  in  the  county  of ^  State 

of  Missouri,  to-wit : 

\^Here  insert  description.'^ 

And do  hereby  covenant  with  the  said  that  a 

lawfully  seized  in  fee  simple  of  said  premises,  that  they  are  free  from 

incumbrance ;  that ha —  good  right  and  lawful  authority  to  sell 

the  same,  and do  hereby  covenant  to  warrant  and  defend  said 


LAWS  OF  MISSOURI.  115 

ind  do  hereby  coYenant  with  the  said that lawfully  seized 

of  said  premises,  that  they  are  free  from  incumbrance^  that have 

good,  right  and  lawful  authority  to  sell  and  convey  the  same  ;  and 

do  hereby  covenant  to  warrant  and  defend  the  same  against  the  law- 
fid  claims  of  all  persons  whomsoever.     To  be  void  upon  the  condition 

that  the  said shall  pay  the  full  amount  of  principal  and  interest 

at  the  time  therein  specified,  of certain  promissory  notes,  for  the 

8Qm  of dollars, 

One  note  for  $ — ,  due ,  18 — ,  with  interest  annually  at — per  cent* 

One  note  for  $ — ,  due ,  18 — ,  with  interest  annually  at — per  cent* 

One  note  for  $ — ,  due ,  18 — ,  with  interest  annually  at — ^per  cent* 

And  the  said  mortgagor  agrees  to  pay  all  taxes  that  may  be  levied 
iipon  the  above  described  premises.  It  is  also  agreed  by  the  mort- 
gagor that  if  it  becomes  necessary  to  foreclose  this  mortgage,  a  rea- 
sonable amount  shall  be  allowed  as  an  attorney's  fee  for  foreclosing. 
And  the .  hereby  relinquishes  all  her  right  of  do\^  or  and  home- 
stead in  and  to  the  above  described  premises. 

Sgned  the day  of ,  A,  D.  18—. 


CHATTEL   MORTGAGE. 

Know  ALL  men  by  these  presents  :  That ,  of county  ^ 

Mid  State  of ,  in  consideration  of dollars,  in  hand  paid 

"J ,  of  — =-  county,  and  State  of ,  do  hereby  sell  and  oon- 

▼ej  unto  the  said the  following  described  personal  property, 

now  in  the  possession  of ,  in  the  county  of ,  State  of > 

to-wit: 

[^Here  insert  description. '\ 

Md  do  hereby  warrant  the  title  of  said  property,  and  that  it  is  free 
from  any  incumbrance  or  lien.  The  only  right  or  interest  retained  by 
pantor  in  said  property  being  the  right  of  redemption  herein  provided. 
Thia  conveyance  to  be  void  upon  condition  that  the  said  grantor  shall 
ptytosaid  grantee,  or  his  assigns,  the  full  amount  of  principal  and 

interest  at  the  time  therein  specified,  of certain  promissory  notes 

of  even  date  herewith,  for  the  sum  of dollars, 

One  note  for  % — ,  due ,  18 — ,  with  interest  annually  at — ^per  cent. 

One  note  for  $ — ,  due ,  18 — ,  with  interest  annually  at — per  cent. 

One  note  for  % — ,  due ,  18 — ,  with  interest  annually  at — ^per  cent. 

The  grantor  to  pay  all  taxes  on  said   property,  and   if  at  any 
time  any  part  or  portion  of  said  notes  should  be  due  and  unpaid,  said 


118  LAWS  OF  MI8SOUBI. 

If  it  is  to  be  paid  iu  trade  it  should  be  so  expressed  after  the  word 
dollars. 

RECEIPTS. 

Seceipts  should  state  when  received  and  for  what ;  thus : 

$100.      "  St.  Louis,  January  1,  1878. 

Received  of  J.  W.  Hardin  one  hundred  dollars,  for  services  in  the 
harvest  field,  to  date,  in  full. 

Or, 

Received  of  J.  W.  Hardin  fifty  dollars,  for  one  week's  work  of  sell 

and  team,  in  hauling  stone,  in  full. 

R.  W.  Fields. 

If  only  part  is  paid  it  should  read,  **on  account,"  instead  of  **  in 
fun.'' 

BILL   OF  PURCHASE. 

It  should  state  each  article  and  price,  as  follows :  —    * 

St.  Loms,  Mo.,  Januaiy  1, 1878. 
J.  W;.  Shattuck, 

Bought  of  J.  D.  Adams. 

To   5  Yards  Jeans,  at       •       .       .        .50 $2  8C 

«(  20      <<     Brown  Domestic  ••        .08       ••••••       .        I  OC 


Beceived  payment,  $4  IC 

J.  D.  Adams. 

VALUABLE  BULES. 

How  to  find  the  gross  and  net  weight  of  a  hog,  is  by  the  rule  that  a 
hog's  net  weight  is  one-fifth  less  than  his  gross  weight.  For  instance, 
a  hog  weighing  400  pounds  gross,  would,  when  dressed,  weigh  320. 

A  good  rule  to  find  the  capacity  of  a  granary  or  a  wagon-bed  ie 
multiply  by  (short  method)  the  number  of  cubic  feet  by  6308,  and 
point  off  one  decimal  place  —  the  result  will  be  the  correct  answer  in 
bushels  and  tenths  of  bushels. 

To  find  the  contents  of  a  corn-crib  multiply  the  number  of  cubic 
feet  by  64  (short  method)  or  by  4 J  ordinary  method,  and  point  ofl 
one  decimal  —  the  result  will  be  the  answer  in  bushels.  This  rule 
applies  when  it  is  first  cribbed  and  before  the  corn  shrinks. 

For  the  contents  of  a  cistern  or  tank,  multiply  the  square  of  the 
mean  diameter  by  the  depth  (all  in  feet)  and  this  product  by  5681 
(short  method)  and  point  off  one  decimal  place — the  result  will  be 
the  contents  in  barrels  of  31^  gallons  each. 

To  measure  boards  multiply  the  length  (in  feet)  by  the  width  (in 


LAWS  OF  MISSOURI. 


119 


inches),  divide  the  product  by  12  —  the  result  will  be  the  contents  m 
sqnare  feet. 

NoTK.— This  is* the  correct  measurement  for  every  inch  of  thickness. 

The  same  in  substance  is  the  rule  for  scantling,  joists,  planks,  sills, 
etc.  Multiply  the  width,  thickness  and  length  together  (the  width 
and  thickness  in  inches  and  the  length  in  feet)  and  divide  the  product 
by  12— the  result  will  be  square  feet. 

To  find  the  number  of  brick  required  in  a  building,  multiply  the 
number  of  cubic  feet  by  22^.  The  number  of  cubic  feet  is  found  by 
multiplying  the  length,  height  and  thickne8s*(in  feet)  together. 

A  congressional  township  is  thirty-six  sections,  each  a  square  mile. 

A  section  of  land  is  640  acres. 

A  quarter  section,  160  acres,  is  a  half  a  mile  square. 

Eighty  acres  is  half  a  mile  long  and  one-quarter  of  a  mile  wide. 

Forty  acres  is  a  quarter  of  a  mile  square. 

The  sections  of  a  congressional  township  are  all  nunlbered  from  one 
to  thirty-six,  commencing  at  the  northeast  corner  of  the  township. 

One  hundred  and  ninety-six  pounds  is  one  barrel  of  flour.' 

Two  hundred  pounds  is  one  barrel  of  pork. 

Fifty-six  pounds  is  called  a  firkin  of  butter. 

A  cord  of  wood  is  four  feet  wide,  four  feet  high,  and  eight  feet  long. 

WEIGHTS   AND   MEASURES. 

The  lawful  weight  of  the  following  articles  is  the  following  number  of 
pounds  per  bushel,  and  so  understood  when  no  special  contract  is  made : 

Apples,  peaches  and  quinces       .        .    48 

Cherries,  grapes,  currants  or  gooseber- 
ries   40 

Strawberries,  raspberries  or  blackber- 
ries   .32 

08ageH)range  seed      .        .        •        -32 

MUletseed 45 

Clover  seed ^^ 

Flu  seed 5^' 

Sorghum  seed ^0 

*nniothy8eed 45 

Hemp  seed  .        .        .        .        •        -44 

firoom-com  seed         .       .       •        .30 

Bine-grass  seed  .        .        •        .14 

Hungarian  grass  seed .        .        *        .45 

Sweet  potatoes 46 

Castor  beans 40 

I^ed  apples 24 

There  is  a  fine  and  penalty  attached  for  giving  false  weights. 


Dried  peaches 38 

Rye 56 

Salt 50 

Sand 180 

Lime 80 

Beans 60 

Bran 20 

Oats 88 

Wheat 60 

Barley 48 

Buckwheat  ......  52 

Corn-meal 48 

Stone  coal 80 

Com,  in  the  ear 70 

Potatoes 60 

Onions 57 

Shelled  com 56 


130  LAWS   OF  MISSOUBI. 


MISSOURI   GAME   LAW; 

There  have  been  so  many  violations  of  the  game  law  that  its  publica- 
tion is  one  of  interest.  Many  persons  violate  this  law  through  ignor- 
ance, and  others  wilfully.  The  penalty  is  here  given  for  all  such  acts. 
Every  good  citizen  and  lover  of  hunting  is  interested  in  preventing 
the  law  from  being  trampled  upon,  and  those  wilfully  breaking  it  should 
be  forced  to  pay  the  penalty.     A  synopsis  of  the  law  is  as  follows : 

It  is  unlawful  to  kill,  catch  or  have  in  possession  any  deer  betweea 
January  15th  and  September  1st. 

Wild  turkey  between  March  1st  and  September  15th. 

Prairie  chickens  between  February  1st  and  August  15th. 

Quail  or  pheasant  between  February  1st  and  October  15th. 

Woodcock  between  January  10th  and  July  1st. 

Turtle  doves,  meadow  larks  and  plover  between  February  1st  and" 
August  1st. 

Wild  sQug  birds  or  insectiverous  birds  cannot  be  killed  at  any  time. 

It  is  unlawful  to  net  or  trap  any  quail,  prairie  chicken,  or  any  of  the 
birds  named  above. 

It  is  unlawful  to  have  in  possession  or  purchase  or  sell  any  of  the 
game  or  animals  named  above  when  the  killing  is  prohibited. 

It  is  unlawful  to  have  in  possession  or  to  sell  any  of  the  game  birds 
named  that  do  not  show  shot  marks,  it  being  prima  facie  evidence 
that  they  have  been  trapped  or  netted  contrary  to  law. 

It  is  unlawful  for  any  railroad,  express  company,  or  other  carrier, 
to  receive  for  transportation  any  of  the  birds  or  game  mentioned, 
when  the  killing  of  the  same  is  prohibited. 

Every  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  above  named  laws  shall 
be  guilty  of  misdemeanor  and  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  $20  for 
each  bird  or  animal  killed,  netted,  trapped  or  found  in  his  possession. 

Any  violators  of  tliese  laws  can  be  prosecuted  before  any  police 
justice,  recorder,  or  justice  of  the  peace,  or  other  court  having  juris- 
diction to  try  cases  of  misdemeanor. 

One-half  of  any  fines  collected  will  be  paid  to  the  informer  and  the 
balance  to  the  school  fund  of  the  county.  It  is  the  duty  of  all  con- 
stables, marshals,  market-masters  and  police  ofl[icers,  to  arrest  all 
persons  violating  any  of  the  game  laws,  and  take  them  before  the 
courts  having  jurisdiction  to  hear  and  try  complaints. 

California  quail  cannot  be  killed  before  October,  1883. 

Messina  quail  cannot  be  killed  before  January  1st,  1886. 

Hawks,  owls,  eagles  and  crows  can  be  killed  at  any  time,  and  the^ 
destruction  of  these  birds  and  their  nests  is  recommended. 


POFDLATION 

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8,498 

Atkin:>u  .    .     . 

W)2.6C4 

591.611 

210,022 

134 

197 

C-lilbtniH.    .     . 

e6i.6HG 

767,266 

6,168 

75,122 

16.130 

. 

Colondo   .    .    . 

194.649 

191,452 

2,459 

610 

128 

1 

CniKKClicut  .    . 

622.681 

610,884 

11.422 

130 

241 

i 

hhota     .    .    . 

135,180 
14^i,(iM 
177,588 

138,177 
120.198 
118.236 

881 
26,456 
.69,878 

238 

1,384 

illDi«wtof  Ck>luin! 

i> 

18 

6 

i?iC^  ; 

267,851 

141.249 

126,262 

18 

87 

1.53n.0l8 

814,218 

724,664 

17 

94 

EW  .... 

82,611 

29,011 

8.8-8 

164 

Ufcii.    .    .    . 

8.078.7<i9 

8,a^2,174 

46,248 

314 

188 

1   r>]i>u     .    .     . 
iWi    .    .    .     . 

l.fl;8.8H2 
I,624,«20 

1,989,093 
1,614,510 

88.988 
9,412 

87 
47 

233 

464 

UKUH>.     .      .      . 

9'J.i.ftW 

952,056 

43,096 

22 

792 

niUntakv.    .    . 

1,646.708 

1,877,077 

271.462 

10 

60 

940.103 

466,063 

483,898 

488 

819 

«  Niiog  .    .    .    . 

646,046 

640,908 

1.427 

8 

607 

MM'-vd.    .     - 

984,632 

724,718 

209.897 

6 

11 

Illl«Wbu«.i.»    . 

1,783,012 

1,764.082 

18,644 

253 

841 

aWichig.,,.     .     . 

1,«3«.8.?1 

1.614,078 

14,986 

29 

7,2«8 

aicidD^ow    .  . 

780,806 

776,940 

1,558 

64 

2.264 

tlli.«.ip^i  .  . 

I.131.5M 

479,871 

650,337 

62 

l'8g 

m»-^\  .  . 

2,1HM01 

2.023,568 

145,040 

94 

96 

fc:  :  ; 

8tl,l57 

85,408 

202 

1,737 

1.760 

4r.2.4sa 

449,805 

2,876 

18 

233 

IK.,,,:.,- 

H2.2H.-1 

53,574 

465 

6.tJ^( 

2,803 

346,  !W4 

846.264 

14 

60 

»N«j„J,   .    . 

l,130,H8.t'   1.0»l.e5> 

88,796 

18:. 

58 

IIS«M«il-o.     . 

11H.43I1       107.1S8 

907 

6r 

10.280 

KS«,V„rk      .     . 

5,0-l:i.Hl(l    5.017.142 

64.943 

942 

783 

>3>orttiCuroliiiH  . 

1,400.0(7       yii7,-Ji;7 

531,310 

1,216 

WOhio     .... 

3,l»8.230    3,118.344 

79,656 

117 

118 

KOregon.    .    .    . 

174,764       HW.087 

493 

9,608 

1,079 

WP^ZlVHni..      . 

4,2«2.T8'i,  4,197,106 

85,842 

170 

168 

>Iia.del.l»<»l      . 

27.i.62«       2fi9,M4 

27 

67 

fflSwrth Carol. ,.«  . 

995,622      8'.n,2^» 

604,325 

114 

WTwriMMo 

l,51J,*i;i    1,139,120 

402,992 

20 

826 

«T«M    . 

1,5!I2.674|    1,197,493 

8M.O07 

142 

932 

*'i;iih  .... 

14;J,'J0.1        142,3S1 

20-1 

618 

8W 

^^^rmnnt 

B22.2Wi,      8Bt.213 
1,512,8061      880,739 

1,0.32 
681, 9P6 

11 

«viS  :  : 

6 

66 

«W,.hi„p.„  .    . 

75,120        07,849 

357 

8,227 

tl87 

«W«tVir«,..i:,     . 

618.443|       692.433 

26.729 

14 

17 

«W1««,„i„       ,     . 

1,315.4801   1.809,622 

2,724 

ir 

8,118 

I'Wjumin-       .     . 

20,789'        19.480 

299 

914 

139 

1      Tolfll  Oniwd  SlutM      .... 

-.0.152,866  43.402.408 

6.577.497 

105.679 

65,880 

FEB    CENT    or   INL'KKASK    FBOU    1B70   TO 

1880. 

T-W population -W.O';  percent.   |   Chinese  populn 

tion 

..  67.07 

per  cent 

Wli 
Colo 

lepopulaUon 28.82 

"         1  '"Tu^l 

on  (civiliz 

...166J)2 

-.34. 

8 

*• 

122 


STATISTICS. 


The  inhabitants  of  Alaska  and  the  Indian  Territory  (both  unorgan- 
ized as  yet)  are  not  included  in  the  above  total.  The  census  of 
Alaska  in  1880  showed:  White,  392;  Creoles  (issue  of  intermarriage 
between  the  whites  and  natives),  1,683;  Aleuts,  1,960;  Innuits, 
17,488;  Indians,  8,665;  total,  30,178. 

The  Indian  Territory  is  estimated  to  contain  60,000  to  75,000  in- 
habitants. 

The  Indians  included  in  the  census  in  each  State  and  Territory  are 
those  reckoned  as  civilized,  or  outside  of  tribal  organizations.  Indians 
not  taxed  are  by  law  excluded  from  the  census.  Estimates  of  their 
numbers  vary  widely  — from  800,000  to  350,000  (the  latter  as  esti- 
mated in  the  census  of  1870). 

In  the  Chinese  -column  (for  want  of  space  elsewhere)  have  been 
reckoned  a  very  few  Japanese,  East  Indians  and  Sandwich  Islanders, 
not  exceeding  250  in  all. 

MILSB  OF  RAILROAD  Ttf  THX   UNITED  8TATX8. 
1850 9,201 

1865 ..18,874 

1860 ~ UJ0,636 

IS66 85,086 

There  were  in  the  whole  world,  J&nuary  1,  1881, 192,962  miles  of  railway. 

TELEGRAPH  LINES   AND   WIRES. 

In  1866,  there  were  37,380  miles  of  telegraph  line  in  the  United 
States,  and  76,685  miles  of  wire ;  in  1870,  54,109  miles  of  line  and 
112,191  miles  of  wire  ;  in  1875,  72,833  miles  of  line  and  179,496 
miles  of  wire;, in  1880,  85,645  miles  of  line  and  233,534  miles  of 
-wire. 

There  were  29,216,509  telegraph  messages  sent  in  the  year  1880. 

OOTTOK  CROP  or  THS  UNITSD  8TATB8,  TSARS  SNDINQ  8EFTSMBKR  1. 


1870 52,914 

1876 74,«74 

1880 .84,716 


Year. 

Bales. 

Year. 

Bales. 

Year. 

Bales. 

1841 

1,634,945 
1.68*1,674 
2,368.375 
2.080,409 
2,394,503 
2,100,637 
1,778,651 
2.347,634 
2.728,596 
2,096,706 
2,366,257 
8,015,029 
3.262,822 

1864. 

1866 « 

1856 

2,930,027 

2,847,339 

3,527,846 

2,939,519 

3,113,962 

3,851,481 

4,669,770 

3,666,006 

No  rec'd. 
i< 

<i 

«i 

2,193,987 

1867 

2,019,774 

1842 

1869 

1870.. 

2,598,998 

184:i 

2,489,039 

1844 

1867 

8,164,946 

1845 

1868.. 

1871.. 

4,852,817 
2,974.861 

1846 

1859 

1872 

1878.. 

1847 

1860 

1861 

8.980,508 

1848 

1874.. 

4,170,888 

1849 

1862 „ 

1863 

1876.. 

1876  « 

8,882,991 
4,669,288 

1861 

1864 

1886 

1866 ^.... 

1877.. 

4,486,428 
4,811,266 
5,073,681 

1862.. 

1878.. 

1879.. 

1868.. 

gTATisncs. 
Tie  crop  for  1880  ifl  given  by  States,  aa  fotlows : 


BtatM. 

B«lM. 

StotM. 

&aw. 

966,806 
818,966 
801,090 
««9,676 
e08.980 
623,MS 
606, 7U 

H^ 

TenneiM* 

880,634 

Florida- 

64,907 

Lnnini                       

K«otuckj.., 

1,867 

L  TIKLM   0'  TBI    UNITKD  BT4TIB,  AXO  AimTAI.  FBODVITnOK. 


BTATM  AXa  TIKBITOBISB, 

i 

a 

i 

Jli 

'-^''  {SSS::::::::::;::::::::::::::::::::;::- 

472 
12.!i02 
10.000 

36.800 

550 

16.000 

18.000 

6.460 
26.887 
12.871 

6,100 

15.664,276 

7,7118,618 

2.627.285 

2,624,168 

1.819,824 

609,878 

263.487 

4S6.870 

621.930 

150.682 

188,418 

"Tmo 

82.988 

26.142.660 

' 

6,000.000 
8,600.000 

Ww  Virginia.- 

mjiMiZ"!. .;;";: .■." ". 

1,250,000 

1,600,000 

I 

1ft 
1] 
11 

w 

14 
15 

1» 
IT 
It 
11 

SO 

a 

K«i»u....:'z:vv;::v:::;: :::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::: ::::;:;:: 

22.266 

400,000 

ulUtiz::::;::::;::":::::::::::.:::::;:::::::;::;:::":;::,:;:: 

6,380 

11,000 

17.844 
60,000 
61,803 
28.160 
1.425 
5.800 
14.000 

W«hi„po„._ 

170,000 

186 

6,700 
3.000 

4^::::;::::::::::":;:::::::::::::;:":;::::;v:;""";:::::::::: 
:.b.^ 

85,000 
76.000 
226,000 
16,900 

Ibod.  Wand _ 

609 
12.000 
20.000 

100,000 

32.863.690 

134 


STATISTICS. 


PBX8IDINTIAL  TOTX  FROM  1789  TO  1880. 


OandidateB. 


1800, 


1804 


George  Waebiogton. 

John  Adams 

Thomas  Jeiferson... 
*Thomas  Jefferson. . 

Aaron  Barr 

John  Adams 

Thttmas  Jefferson... 

C  C.  Pinckney 

James  Madison 

C.  C.  Pinckney 

James  Madison 

DeWitt  Clinton 

James  Monroe 

Rufas  King 

James  Monroe 


Party. 


Federal. 

Democrat. 

Democrat. 

Democrat. 

Federal. 

Democrat. 

Federal. 

Democrat. 

Federal. 

Democrat. 

Federal. 

Democrat. 

Federal. 

Democrat. 


*John  Qaincy  Adams Federal. 

loo^  J  Andrew  Jackson iDemocrat. 

lOM  <  y^  H  Crawford 'Democrat. 

.Henry  Clay |Whig. 

(  Andrew  Jacknon |  Democrat. 

1828  i  John  Q.  Adams Federal. 

I  f  Andrew  Jackson Democrat. 

I  I  Henry^Clay 


18S2 


18:V5 
1840 
1844 


18B2 

1886 

I 

1860 


Whig. 

Whig. 

Anti -Mason. 

Democrat. 


JohnFloyd 

William  Wirt 

'Martin  Van  Ruren 

Wm.  H.  Harrison  ei  a<....|Whig. 

Wm.  H.  Harrison Whig. 

Martin  Van  Baren ,  Democrat. 

\  James  K.  Polk 'Democrat. 

,  J  Henry  Clay IWhig. 

I  (Zachary  Taylor Whig. 

1848  <  Lewis  Cass |  Democrat. 

I  i  Martin  Van  Buren Democrat. 

(  Franklin  Pierce Democrat. 

}  Winfleld  Scott  e<  at Whig. 

James  Buchanan .Democrat. 

John  C.  Fremont iRepublican 

Abraham  Linool  u i  Republican 

J.  C.  Breckenridge  et  al..' Democrat. 
Abraham  Lincoln 'Republican 


1864 
1868 
1873 


1876 


1880 


George  B.  McCIellan 

Ulysses  s.  Grant 

Horatio  Seymour.... 

Ulysses  S.  Grant 

Horace  Greeley 

SR.  B.  Hayes 
Bamuel  J.  Tilden 
Peter  Cooper  et  nl... 
S  James  A.  Garfield... 
W.  8.  Hancock 
James  B.  Weaver. . . . 


Democrat. 

Republican. 

Democrat. 

Republican. 

Democrat. 

Republican. 

Democrat. 

Greenback. 

Republican. 

Democrat. 

Greenback. 


Popular 
Vote. 


S 

|| 

So  . 
1-1  .a  a> 

K 

t"  o 

11 « 

S  O 

1  Elect'l  vote 

in  opposi'n. 

106,321 

155,872 

44,282 

46,ft87 

646,231 

509,092 

•687,502 

530,189 


Electoral 

Vote. 


761,549 

736,656 
1,275,011 
1,135,761 
1,337.243 
1,301,382 
1,360,099 
1,220,554 

291,2G{ 
1,601,474 
1,542,403 
1,838.160 
1,215,768 
1,866,352 
2,810,501 
2,216,067 
1,808,725 
8,015,071 
2,709,613 
8,597.070 
2,834,079 
4,033,950 
4,284,855 
93.898 
4,442,950 
4,442.0:{5 

306,867 


Electoral  Vote  1886.t 


States. 


84 
99 


All.  Alabama*"* 

71  Arkansas 

60  California 

73  Colorado 

73  Connecticut 

65  Delaware 

148  Florida 

28  Georgia 

122IlUnois 

47|lndiaua 

128iowa 

89  Kansas «... 

180  Kentucky 

84  Louisiana. ....... 

...  Maine...'. , 

Maryland 

Massachusetts... 

Michigan 

41iMinnesota 

S7, Mississippi 

178!  Missouri 

83|Nebraska 

239  Nevada 

49  New  Hampshire. 

11  New  Jersey 

7  New  York 

179  North  Carolina. . 

131  Ohio 

234  Oregon 

60^  Pennsylvania. . . . 
170 'Rhode  Island  — 
lOSjSouth  Carolina.. 

163  Tennessee 

127jTexas 

....'Vermont 

254:Virginia 

42' West  Virginia... 

174i  Wisconsin 

1221 

130i    Total 

123 

213| 

21 

214 

80 

800 

66 

185 

184 


214 
155 


No. 


10 
6 

e 

8 
6 
8 
4 

11 
21 
15 
11 
5 

li 

8 

7 

8 

18 

11 

5 

8 

1& 

8 

8 

5 

» 

85 

10 

» 

S 

29 

4 

7 

12 

8 

5 

11 

5 

10 


*  Elected  by  House  of  Representatives. 


t  Election  November  2, 1880. 


Washington,  Februai*y  22, 1732. 
J.  Adani8,  October  30, 1735. 
Jefferson.  April  2, 1742. 
Madison,  March  16, 1751. 
Monroe,  April  28, 1758. 
J.  Q.  Adams,  June  11, 1767. 
Jackson,  March  16, 1767. 


PRESIDENTS  BORN. 

Van  Buren,  December  5, 1782. 
Harrison,  February  9, 1773. 
TyUr,  March  29, 1790. 
Polk,  November  2, 1796. 
Taylor,  November  24, 1784. 
Fillmore,  January  7, 1800. 
Pierce,  November  23, 1804. 


Buchanan,  April  28, 1791. 
Lincoln,  February  12, 1809. 
Johnson,  December  29, 1806. 
Grant,  April  29, 1822. 
Hayes.  October  4, 1822. 
Garfield,  November  19, 1831. 
Chester  A.  Arthur,  Oct.  6, 1880.. 


COL.  WILLIAM  r.  SWITZLER. 


HISTORY  OF 


BOONE  COUNTY,  MISSOURI. 


• 
By  Col.  Win.  F.  Switzler,  author  of  the  "  The  History  of  Missouri." 


CHAPTER    I. 

Introdaction — Boone  originally  a  part  of  Howard  —  Boundaries  of  Howard  as  first 
Defined  in  1816  —  An  empire  —  Boone  now  larger  than  some  of  the  States  of 
Europe — Its  History  rich  in  Incident  and  Interest — The  Boone's  Lick  Country — 
Early  Stockade  Forts— First  White  Settlement  in  Boone  at  "ThralPs  Prairie  "  — 
"The  old  St.  Charles  Trail "  — Progress  of  Settlement  —  Names  of  the  First  Set- 
tlers— First  Churches  —  The  First  Newspaper  and  First  Steamboat  at  Franklin — 
Poblic  Dinner,  Speeches  and  Toasts — The  Second  Steamboat,  and  a  Description 
of  it — Prices  of  ProYisions  —  Mail  Facilities  —  Immigration  —  Smithton  and  Co- 
lumbia—  July  A  1619,  celebrated  in  Smithton  —  Proceedings  and  Toasts. 

INTRODUCTION. 

At  first  view,  and  without  thought  or  examination,  it  may  be  af- 
firmed by  some  that  Boone  county  has  no  history  which  is  worthy  of 
the  name,  or  at  least  which  assumes  such  proportions  and  importance 
as  to  merit  publication  in  an  enduring  form.  It  is  not  improbable 
that  a  hasty  judgment  would  conclude  that  at  best  this  history  con- 
sists of  few  events  of  special  interest,  and  that  none  of  them  have 
influenced  the  policy,  development  or  destiny  of  the  State. 

Closer  and  more  thorough  examination,  however,  will  disclose  the 
fact  that  Boone  county  has  nobly  and  courageously  borne  its  part  in 
advancing  the  progress,  civilization  and  culture  of  our  time,  and  the 
common  prosperity  and  glory  of  the  commonwealth  of  Missouri. 

Originally  its  territory  constituted  a  part  of  the  county  of  Howard, 
which,  as  organized  in  1816,  was  an  empire  in  superficial  area.  The 
act  of  the  General  Assembly,  approved  January  13,  1816  (see  Terri- 

(125) 


126  HISTORY  OF   BOOKE   COUNTY. 

torial  Laws,  p.  460),  organizing.  Howard  county  out  of  the  territories, 
of  St.  Louis  and  St.  Charles,  fixed  its  boundaries  substantially  as 
follows :  Beginning  at  the  mouth  of  the  Osage  river,  which  is  about 
ten  miles  below  the  present  Cty  of  Jefferson  and  opposite  the  village 
of  Barkersville  in  Callaway  county,  the  boundary  pursued  the  cir- 
cuitous course  of  said  stream  **  to  the  Osage  boundary  line,'*  meaning' 
thereby  the  eastern  boundary  of  the  Osage  Indian  territory,  or  to  the 
northeast  corner  of  Vernon  county,  where  the  Osage  river,  two  miles 
east  of  the  present  town  of  Schell  City,  runs  near  said  corner; 
thence  north  (along  the  western  line  of  St.  Clair,  Henry,  Johnson^ 
and  Lafayette),  to  the  Missouri  river,  striking  that  stream  west  of  and 
very  near  Napoleon  ;  thence  up  said  river  to  the  mouth  of  the  Kansas 
river,  (now  Kansas  City,)  **  thence  with  the  Indian  boundary  line, 
(as  described  in  a  proclamation  of  the  (Joverhor  [Wm.  Clark]  issued 
the  ninth  day  of  March,  1815,)  northwardly  along  the  eastern  bound- 
ary of  the  «*  Platte  Purchase"  one  hundred  and  forty  miles,  or  to  a 
point  about  36  miles  north  and  within  the  present  county  of  Adams,. 
Iowa,  near  the  town  of  Coming  in  said  county,  on  the  Burlington  and 
Missouri  River  railroad,  **  thence  eastward  with  the  said  line  to  thef 
main  dividing  ridge  of  high  ground,  to  the  main  fork  of  the  river  Cedar 
[which  is  the  line  between  Boone  and  Callaway  counties  in  Missouri] , 
thence  down  said  river  to  the  Missouri,  thence  down  the  river  Missouri 
and  in  the  middle  of  the  main  channel  thereof,  to  the  mouth  of  the 
great  Osage  river,  the  place  of  beginning.'* 

Although  these  boundaries  cannot  be  definitely  traced  on  the  map, 
it  is  nevertheless  clearly  seen  that  Howard  county,  as  originally  organ- 
ized in  1816,^  more  than  five  years  before  the  State  was  admitted 
into  the  Union,  embraced  not  only  the  present  territory  of  the  county 
of  Boone,  but  in  addition  a  vast  area  north  and  south  of  the  Missouri 
river,  and  including  the  present  counties  of  Cole,  north  part  of  Miller, 
Morgan,  north  parts  of  Benton  and  St*.  Plair,  Henry,  Johnson,  Lafay- 
ette, Pettis,  Cooper,  Moniteau,  Saline,  Clay,  Clinton,  DeKalb,  Gen- 
try, Worth,  Harrison,  Daviess,  Caldwell,  Ray,  Carroll,  Livingston, 
Grundy,  Mercer,  Putnam,  Sullivan,  Linn,  Chariton,  Randolph^ 
Macon,  Adair,  and  probably  parts  of  Shelby,  Monroe  and  Audrain. 
And  in  addition  the  following  counties  in  Iowa :  parts  of  Taylor  and 


*  The  county  was  reduced  to  its  present  Umits  by  an  act  of  the  Legislature  approved 
February  16, 1825.    See  Revised  Statutes,  1825.    Vol.  I,  page  233. 


HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTT.  127 

Adams  ;  Union,  Ringgold,  Clarke,  Decatur  and  Wayne,  and  probably 
parts  of  Lucas,  Monroe  and  Appanoose. 

A  vast  empire  to  constitute  a  single  county,  embracing  at  least  five 
of  the  present  counties  of  Iowa  and  probably  parts  of  as  many  more, 
and  in  addition  more  than  thirty  of  the  present  counties  of  Missouri, 
eight  and  parts  of  three  others  south  of  the  river,  and  twenty-three 
and  parts  of  several  others  north  of  it,  this  large  expanse  of  territory, 
covering  about  fourteen  million  acres  of  land  and  presenting  a  super- 
ficial area  of  21,875  square  miles.  An  area  larger  than  ancient 
Greece,  and  as  large  as  Saxony  and  Switzerland  combined,  and  larger 
than  the  States  of  Vermont,  Massachusetts,  Delaware  and  Rhode 
Island. 

In  one  respect,  therefore,  it  might  truthfully  be  said  that  as  the 
present  territory  of  Boone  for, five  years  and  more  constituted  a  part 
of  this  extensive  empire,  its  history  is  properly  the  history  of  Boone 
county,  and  that  this  volume  should  embrace  the  entire  county  of 
Howard  for  that  period. 

But  such  is  not  the  scope  and  character  of  the  history  which  fol- 
lows, the  simple  object  being  to  record  in  chronological  order  the 
:  more  important  events  which  transpired  within  the  present  limits  of 
Boone  county  from  the  earliest  white  settlement  in  1815  to  the  pres- 
ent time,  a  period  of  sixty-seven  years. 

In  superficial  area  —  674  square  miles  or  431,000  acres  —  Boone 
county  is  larger  than  some  of  the  states  of  Europe  and  the  islands 
of  the  ocean,  which  stricken  from  the  roll  of  empire  or  blotted  from 
the  annals  of  nations  would  so  mar  the  history  of  the  eastern  hem- 
isphere as  to  leave  it  measurably  without  a  history. 

It  is  also  about  half  as  large  as  one  of  the  States  of  the  American 
Union,  and  one-third  the  area  of  several  others ;  and  in  the  sphdre 
in  which  it  has  moved,  and  to  the  extent  of  its  opportunities  and 
capacity,  and  the  comparatively  short  period  which  has  elapsed  since 
its  first  settlement,  will  favorably  compare  in  its  achievements  and 
prowess  with  some  geographical  divisions  of  our  own  and  foreign 
lands,  larger  even  in  size  and  much  older  in  years,  whose  history  is 
canonized  in  poetry  and  song. 

Located  in  the  central  part  of  the  State,  and  settled  nearly  seventy 
years  ago  by  a  hardy  and  progressive  rac^  of  pioneers,  who  then  laid 
the  foundations  of  its  present  prosperity,  wealth  and  culture,  it  will 
be  found  that  its  history  is  an  inexhaustible  store-bouse  of  *'  moving 
incidents  by  flood  and  field,"  of  events  grave  and  gay,  of  steady  ad- 


128  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

vancement  in  agriculture,  education  and  a  Christian  civilization,  and 
in  all  the  arts  of  peace. 

What  is  here  claimed  for  it  receives  ample  verification  in  its  improved 
farms  and  farm  machinery,  its  farm-houses  and  barns,  its  churches  and 
schools,  its  newspapers  and  periodicals,  its  improved  stock  and  thor- 
oughfares, the  prowess  of  its  soldiers  in  war  and  the  eloquence  and 
achievements  of  its  statesmen  and  orators  in  council,  the  culture  and 
beauty  of  its  women,  the  qualifications  and  success  of  its  scholars  and 
teachers,  the  earnestness  and  ability  of  its  clergymen,  the  learning 
and  character  of  its  lawyers,  the  genius  of  its  authors,  poets  and  novel- 
ists, and  the  general  thrift,  hospitality,  and  public  spirit  of  its  people. 

In  a  word :  No  county  in  the  State,  St.  Louis  city  and  county  ex- 
cepted, has  contributed  more  vitality  to  the  agencies  which  are  solving 
for  the  State  the  problems  of  prosperity,  wealth,  and* culture,  or  in  a 
larger  measure  influenced  the  councils  or  shaped  the  policy  of  the  com- 
monwealth, than  **01d  Boone." 

Such  a  county  and  such  a  people  have  a  history,  and  one  which,  if 
faithfully  and  accurately  written,  will  disclose  a  wealth  of  incident, 
adventure  and  interest  not  excelled  by  any  in  the  Great  West. 

The  county  comprises  a  part  of  that  large  area  of  inland  territory  • 
which,  in  the  earlier  times,  received  the  name  of  '*  The  Boone's  Lick 
Country,"  and  which  embraced  '*  the  nine  upper  counties  on  the  Mis- 
souri River,  Clay,  Ray,  Chariton,  Howard,  Boone,  Cole,  Cooper,  Sa- 
line, and  Lillard,"*  the  name  of  the  latter  being  changed  to  La- 
fayette, February  16,  1825,  a  circumstance  which  was  no  doubt  in- 
spired by  Lafayette's  visit  to  St.  Louis  during  that  year. 

Howard  County  was  the  largest,  most  populous,  and  at  that  period 
the  most  important  of  the  counties  belonging  to  *«  The  Boone's  Lick 
Country,"  and  contained  a  small  salt  spring  in  Cooper's  Bottom,  now 
in  Boone's  Lick  Township,  in  that  county,  and  nearly  opposite  Aitow 
Rock,  from  which  the  name  was  derived.* 

It  is  quite  a  prevalent  error  that  Boon's  Lick,  or  the  salt  spring 
above  mentioned,  was  first  occupied  and  utilized  as  a  manufactory  6{ 
salt  by  Daniel  Boone,  the  old  Kentucky  pioneer.  There  is  no  evidence 
known  to  us  that  Daniel  Boone  ever  owned  or  operated  or  saw  the 
spring,  or  ever  was  in  Howard  County.     Two  of  his  sons,  however, — 


1  See  Franklin  (Mo.)  Intelligencer  of  November  26,  1822. 

s  See  Franklin  (Mo.)  Intelligencer  of  January  7, 1828.  The  spring  or  **  lick  "  is  abont 
two  miles  northeast  of  the  ferry  landing  opposite  Arrow  Rock,  and  is  on  land  now 
(1882)  owned  by  Wm.  N.  Marshall. 


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HISTORY    OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  129 

Nathan  and  Daniel  M.  Boone,  — during  the  summer  of  1807,  and  in 
company  with  three  other  men,  left  the  Fern  me  Osage  Creek  settle- 
ment, in  St.  Charles  County,  where  the  elder  Boone  then  lived,  and 
came  up  to  Howard  County  with  a  few  kettles  to  manufacture  salt  at 
thissprinof,  and,  because  of  this  fact,  it  was  called  **  Boone's  Lick." 

Up  to  the  close  of  the  last  war  with  Great  Britain,  which  is  known 
in|)opular  parlance  and  denominated  in  the  laws  of  Congress  as  **the 
War  of  1812,"  nearly  if  not  all  the  inhabitants  of  Howard  county 
were  confined  to  three  small  stockade  forts  —  Cooper's,  Hempstead's 
and  Kincjiid's  *  —  and  therefore  the  present  territory  of  Boone  was 
substnntiully  without  population,  unless  the  hostile  tribes  of  Indians  — 
Sac«  and  Foxes,  Kickapoos  and  Pottawatamies  —  which  abounded  in 
this  part  of  the  then  territory,  are  accounted  as  such. 

It  is  tme,  that  as  early  as  1812-13,  before  the  tide  of  flagrant  war 
reached  the  interior  of  the  territory,  a  few  of  the  small  hive  of 
emigrant Kentuckians  that  settled  in'Cooper's  bottom  ventured  to  the 
rich  lands  on  the  east  side  of  the  Moniteau,  at  "Thrall's  Prairie,"  as 
it  was  afterwards  called  ;  and  no  doubt  they  were  inspired  to  make 
the  venture  by  the  protection  afforded  by  Head's  Foil,  a  small  stock- 
ade defence  named  in  honor  of  Capt.  William  Head. 

It  was  situated  in  a  curve  of  the  Moniteau,  and  on  the  east  side  of 
it  in  Howard  county,  about  two  njiles  north  of  Rocheport,  a. mile  and 
a  half  south  of  where  the  old  St.  Charles  road  crossed  the  Moniteau, 
and  about  a  half  mile  west  of  the  Boone  line  and  the  same  distance 
^t  of  the  creek.  It  was  located  at  a  sprinor  of  never-failing  water, 
^hkb  is  on  land  now  owned  bv  Mr.  John  L.  Jones. 

FIRST    W^HITE    SETTLEMENT    IN    BOONE. 

The  history  of  Boone  County,  not  unlike  the  history  of  the  largest 
empires  on  the  globe,  may  be  said  to  be  funnel-shaped.     Starting  from 


'  Cooper*s  Fort  was  two  mUes  southwest  of  Boone's  Lick;   Klncald's,  nine  miles 

south  .vest  of  Cooper's  and  about  one  mile  north  of  the  present  railroad  bridge  at 

Booiwrille;  and  Fort  Hempstead,  about  one  and  a  half  miles  north  of  Kincaid's.     All 

'fere  built  in  1S12.  (CampbelPs  Gazetteer,  p.  246.)  Tlie  spot  on  which  Cooper's  Fort  was 

located  is  now  (1882)  about  one  and  a  half  miles  from  the  ferry  landing:  opposite  Arrow 

Bock,  and  the  land  is  owned  by  John  A.  Fisher.     Capt.  Sarshell  Cooper,  after  whom 

the  fort  was  named,  was  killed  in  it  on  the  ni<>;ht  of  April  14,  1814,  i)y  Indians,  and 

buried  near  by,  the  precise  place  of  interment  being  now  unknown,  and  in  a  corn  or 

wheat  field.     Mr.  Eusebius  Hubbard,  who  now  (1882)  resides  on  the  two-mile  prairie, 

ten  miles  southeast  of  Columbia,  and  who  came  to  Howard  couuty  from  Madison 

coQoty,  Ky.,  in  1810,  aided  in  buildin;.  Fort  Hempstead. 

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130  HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTY. 

a  single  point  of  time  (1815)  and  from  a  single  locality  (Thrall'^ 
PrairiOi),  its  contour  diverges  and  widens  as  the  years  roll  on  until  it 
embraces  the  population,  growth  and  achievements  of  nearly  three- 
quarters  of  a  century. 

In  the  beginning  a  paragraph,  a  line,  a  word  would  record  all  ii 
had  of  history.  After  the  elapse  of  seventy  years,  so  rapid  has  beer 
the  succession  and  so  countless  the  number  of  its  events,  so  transform 
ing  the  forces  of  its  being,  and  so  progressive  and  civilizing  the  natun 
of  its  achievements  in  art,  in  education,  in  religion,  and  in  all  th< 
varied  industries  which  characterize  the  civilization  of  our  age,  thai 
an  octavo  volume  is  too  small  to  perpetuate  its  annals. 

The  first  settlement,  or  more  properly  the  first  cabin  erected  anc 
patch  of  corn  planted,  were  the  work  in  1812-13,  of  John  and  Wil 
liam  Berry,  Wm.  Baxter  and  Reuben  Gentry,  in  the  neighborhood,  i 
not  on  a  part,  of  what  is  now  known  as  **  the  Model  Farm,"  formerly 
constituting  the  large  and  rich  e^ate  of  the  late  Hon.  John  W.  Har 
ris,  and  in  earlier  times  called  ''Thrall's  Prairie."^  In  the  sam^ 
neighborhood,  soon  after,  settled  James  Barnes,  Robert  and  Mitche 
Payne,  John  Denham,  David  McQuitty  and  Robert  Barclay,  with  thei: 
families.  Little  progress,  however,  was  made  in  the  settlement  of  th< 
country,  now  embraced  by  the  boundary  lines  of  Boone  County,  unti 
after  the  subsidence  of  the  war  with  Great  Britain,  and  until  after  th< 
treaty  of  1815  by  which  the  Indians  relinquished  all  claim  to  anj 
portion  of  the  territory  north  of  the  Missouri  River.  In  fact,  it  maj 
be  affirmed  as  substitntially  true  that,  anterior  to  this  time,  there  wai 
not  a  white  settlement  worthy  of  the  name  within  the  present  limit 
of  the  county. 

Speedily  succeeding  the  declaration  of  peace  and  the  ratification  o 
this  treaty  of  relinquishment  of  Indian  title  the  tide  of  immigratioi 
set  in  as  a  flood,  and  Robert  Hinkson  (not  Hinckston),  after  whom  th< 
creek  on  which  Columbia  is  located  was  called  ;  William  Callaham,  fo: 
whom  "Callaham's  Fork,"  of  the  Perche,  is  named;  Wm.  Graham 
Reuben  and  Henry  Cave,  and  perhaps  some  others,  all  from  Madisoi 
County,  Ky.,  settled  along  the  old  Boone's  Lick  trail,  or  old  St.  Charlei 
Road,  leading  from  St.  Louis  to  Franklin  —  a  '*  trail"  which  was  firs 
traversed  in   1808-10  by  Lieutenant-Colonol  Ben.  Cooper,  and  othe 


1  "Thrall's  Prairie,*'  or  **tbe  Model  Farm,''  is  twelve  miles  northwest  of  Colum 
bia  and  four  north  of  Rocheport,  and  Is  now  in  part  the  property  of  Warren  A.  Sn^itb 


HISTORY    OF  BOONE   COUNTT.  131 

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immigrants  of  that  name,  while  en  route  from  Madison  County,  Ky., 
m  St.  Charles  County  and  Loutre  Island  settlement  to  the  neighbor- 
hood of  **  Boone's  Lick,"  in  Howard  County. 

In  1869-70,  Mr.  E.  W.  Stephens,  as  assistant  editor  of  the  Columbia 
Stattsman,  of  which  paper  Col.  W.  F.  Switzler  was  editor  and  pro- 
prietor, prepared  for  and  published  in  that  journal,  a  series  of  inter- 
esting historical  sketches  of  Boone  County,  in  which  it  is  claimed  that 
"Calhihara,  Graham  and  Hinkson  stopped  along  the  Boone's  Lick 
trail  and  erected  cabins,  as  taverns,  for  the  accommodation  of  movers 
and  travellers  ;"  that  Callaham  **  was  a  noted  hunter  and  Indian  fighter, 
and  can  be  justly  designated  as  the  first  white  man  who  ever  settled  in 
Boone  County.  Nearly  the  same  time,  however,  John  Graham  built 
a  cabin  near  the  present  site  of  Rocky  Fork  church  (seven  miles  north- 
west of  Columbia),  and  he  was  followed  by  Robert  Hinkson,  who  lived 
near  the  source  of  the  stream  that  bears  his  name." 

The  years  1816,  1817  and  1818  —  the  latter  the  year  of  the  first  land 
sales  at  Franklin,  —  witnessed  a  great  influx  of  population  into  the 
"Boone*s  Lick  country,"  and  into  the  territory  now  composing  the 
county  of  Boone. 

w 

In  1816,  Augustus  Thrall  and  others  settled  in  what  was  soon  there- 
after known    as    **  Thrall's    Prairie."      The    Stephens  - /S'^a^e^man 
sketches  say  that  **  in   1816   settlement   in  Boone  County  began    in 
cjirnest.    In   the  spring  of  that  year  a  number  of  the  inhabitants  of 
Head's  Fort,  located  ivear  Rochepoil,  settled   on  what  was  afterwards 
known  as  Thrall's  Prairie,  situated  four  miles  north  of  the  present  site 
ofRocheport.      They  settled   upon  '*  Madrid  locations."     "Madrid 
l<KJatioiis"  were  tracts  of  land  which  were  gcranted  bv  the  government 
to  Settlers  who  had  sufl^ered  losses   by  the  earthquakes  in   the  county 
ofxVew  Madrid,  in  the  vears  1811  and  1812.     Most  of  the  land  of  that 
section  was  entered  by  Taylor  Berry,  of  Franklin."  ^ 

'*This  settlement  was  made  by  Anderson  Woods,  in  company  with 
the  following  persons  :  Robert  Barclay,  John  Barnes,  William  Pipes, 
Absalom  Hicks,  John  Stephenson,  Jefferson  Fulcher,  a  family  of  Bar- 
tons, Jesse  Richardson  and  several  others. 


*  Mr.  Berry  was  a  gentlemen  of  wealth  and  a  large  land  speculator.  On  August  31, 
1824,  he  fought  a  duel  on  Wolf  Island,  In  the  Mississippi  River,  with  Judge  Abiel 
I/eonard,  formerly  of  Fayette,  at  ten  paces,  with  pistols.  Berry  fell  at  the  flrst  lire, 
mortally  wounded,  but  lingered  until  September  22,  same  year,  and  died  at  New 
Madrid.  During  the  war  of  1812  he  served  in  the  Pay  Department  of  the  Northwestern 
army,  at  Detroit. 


132  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

**  The  settlement  grew  with  great  rapidity,  and  soon  comprised  some 
among  the  best  citizens  of  that  time — men  who  have  left  their  impress 
upon  the  history  and  development  of  our  county.  Among  them  we 
note  the  following :  Augustus  Thrall,  Oliver  Parker,  Anderson  Woods, 
first  Jndge  of  the  County  Court,  Dr.  J.  B.  Wilcox,  Clayton  Heme, 
Tyre  Harris,  Overton  Harris,  Sampson,  William  and  Stephen  Wilhite, 
Henry  Lightfoot,  James  Ketchum,  William  Boone,  William  Goslin, 
John  Slack,  Wilford  Stephens,  Jonathan  Barton,  James  Cochran, 
Reuben  Hatton,  Charles  Laughlin,  and  a  number  whose  names  we 
have  not  space  to  give. 

**  In  1819,  Oliver  Parker  had  a  store  there  and  kept  a  post-office, 
which  wjis  for  some  time  known  as  '  Lexington.' 

*'  In  the  spring  of  1817,  the  next  settlement  was  begun,  in  Perche 
Bottom,  in  the  southwestern  portion  of  the  county,  by  John  Hickam, 
Anthony  Head,  Peter  and  Robert  Austin,  John  McMickel,  Jacob  Mag- 
gard,  Silas  Riggs  and  Abraham  N.  Foley. 

**  In  1817,  immigration  to  the  county  was  very  large,  and  in  every 
section  large  settlements  sprung  up  with  amazing  rapidity,  and 
steadily  increased  during  the  years  1818,  1819  and  1820.  It  is,  of 
course,  impossible  to  ascertain  with  exactitude  the  date  of  the  immi- 
gration or  primitive  abodes  of  these  early  settlers,  but  it  is  due  to  those 
hardy  and  worthy  pioneers,  who  first  reclaimed  our  county  from  a 
wilderness,  that  their  names  should  be  preserved  as  far  as  possible, 
in  a  [)ermanent  history  of  our  county. 

**  On  Southern  Two-mile  Prairie  were  Overton  Harris,  Peter  Bass, 
Peter  Ellis,  Tyre  Martin,  Lawrence  Bass,  Mason  Moss,  D.  M.  Hick- 
man, Wilson  Hunt,  John  Broughton,  Benjamin  White,  David  Doyle, 
Samuel  Crockett,  Philip  and  Benjamin  Barns,  Daniel  Vincent,  Lewis 
Woolfolk,  William  Shields,  Wni.  Simms,  Noah  Sapp,  Ed.  Bass, 
Abraham  Barns,  John  Jamison,  Robert  and  Cyrus  Jones,  Richard 
Lawrence,  Durrett  Hubbard,  Francis  Lipscomb,  J.  P.  Lynes,  John 
Yates,  Ambrose  C.  Estes,  Stephen  Chapman,  Richard  and  James 
Barns,  Elias  Simms,  Mosias  Jones,  John  M.  Smith,  Michael  Hersh, 
Daniel  Hubbard,  James  Harris.  On  the  Two-mile  Prairie  north  of 
the  St.  Charles  road,  were  Samuel,  Elijah  and  Sampson  Wright,  Elias 
Newman,  Isaac  Geyhert,  Charles  Helm,  James  Chandler,  Wm.  Ed- 
wards, Elijah  Stephens,  Thomas  Peyton  Stephens,  Samuel  Riggs, 
Absalom  RentVo,  Nicholas  McCubbin,  Wm.  Wright,  Wm.  Timber- 
lake,  James  and  Hugh  Crockett,  Benjamin  Estill,  Rev.  Mr.  Kirk- 
patrick  (a  Methodist  preacher),  Asa  Stone,  Thomas  D.  Grant,  Roger 


HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  133 

N.  Todd,  Levi  McGuire,  Lazarus  Wilcox,  Thomas  C.  Maupin,  Nicholas 
S.  Eavaiiaugh,  John  Read  and  James  Barns. 

lu  the  vicinity  of  Claysville  lived  William  Ramsay,  Jesse  Byrant, 
Mark  Cunningham. 

From  the  neighborhood  of  Rocheport  to  Thrall's  Prairie  were  lo- 
cated John  Grey,  Gaven  Head,  Joseph  Head,  John  Berry,  David  and 
Andrew  McQuitty,  Samuel  Beattie,  Robert  Daly,  John  Copher,  Sol- 
omon and  Zachariah  Barnett,  Win.  Baxter,  James  Boggs,  David 
and  James  Pipes,  John  Copeland,  David  Kincaid,  Wm.  Lientz,  John 
G.Philips,  Michael  Woods,  J.  R.  Abernathy,  Robert  D.  Walkup,  and 
Tyre  Harris. 

East  and  southeast -of  Rocheport,  more  generally  known  as  '*  Ter- 
rapin Neck,"  lived  Granville  Bledsoe,  Daniel  Lewis,  James  Lewis, 
Wm.  Lewis,  Pattison  Y.  Russell,  Jesse  Lewis,  Wm.  Burch,  John 
Graves,  Ichabod  C.  Hensley,  Thomas  Williams,  and  Richard  Fulk- 
erson. 

In  the  vicinity  of  the  present  site  of  Midway,  lived  John  Hen- 
derson, Jonathan  Freeman,  Benjamin  Mothershead,  Charles  Laugh- 
lin,  W.  T.  Hatton,  Geo.  Crump,  Wm.  and  James  Y.  Jones,  John 
Ogan. 

A  few  miles  north  of  Columbia,  resided  Caleb  Fenton,  Riley 
Slocum,  Hiram  Phillips,  David  C.  Westerfield,  Jacob  Hoover,  John 
Slack,  John  T.  Evans,  Zachariah  Jackson,  John  Harrison.  Still  far- 
ther north,  near  where  now  stands  Red  Top  meeting-house,  were 
James  Hicks,  Wm.  L.  Wayne,  and  Zaddock  Riggs. 

Northeast  of  Columbia,  seven  or  eight  miles,  dwelt  Robert  Hinkson, 

Bibb,  Thomas  and  John  Kennon,  Dennis  Callaham,  James  W. 

Fowler,  Samuel  Johnson,  Robert  Houston,  and  Joseph  Persinger. 

**On  Perche  Creek,  in  the  northwestern  section  of  the  county,  where 
the  old  road,  or  *  Boone's  Lick  Trace,'  crossed  the  Perche,  there  stood 
the  old  town  of  Perche,  lonor  since  obliterated.  Some  of  its  inhabi- 
tants  were  George  and  Isham  Sexton,  James  C.  Babbitt,  James  Ryan, 
Adam  E.  Rowland,  Peter  Stivers,  Nicholas  Gentry,  and  Enoch 
Taylor. 

**  Near  where  Rockyfork  meeting-house  now  stands  lived  John  Gra- 
ham, Aquilla  and  Amos  Barnes. 

Where  Hallsville  now  stands  lived  J(^hn  Roberts  and  other  families 
of  the  same  name,  Peter  and  Joseph  Fountain,  Andrew  J.  Hendrick, 
and  John  and  Joshua  Davis,  and  Smith  Turner. 

Near  where  Rockbridge  Mills  now  are  were  Thomas  S.  Tuttle,  the 


134  HISTORY    OF    BOOXE    COUNTY. 

original  settler  of  that  place ;  Peter  Creason,  Nathan  Glasgow,  Elias 
Elston,  and  John  H.  Lynch. 

Within  the  neighborhood  of  Providence  lived  first  Ira  P.  Nash,  for 
whom  Nashville  was  named  ;  then  John  and  Robert  Peters  and  Gilpin 
S.  Tuttle. 

A  few  miles  northwest  of  Columbia  were  John  Witt,  James  Turley, 
James  Mayo,  and  a  family  of  Barnetts. 

Around  the  present  site  of  Columbia  were  Richard  Gentry,  Lewis 
Collins,  John  Vanhorn,  J.  M.  Kelly,  Peter  Wright,  Dr.  D  P.  Wilcox, 
Samuel  Wheeler,  A.  B.  Lane,  Thomas  Dooley,  James  Lipscomb,  David 
Jackson,  Henry,  Richard  and  Reuben  Cave,  David  Todd,  Warren 
Woodson,  Thos.  W.  Conyers,  Charles  Burns,  Wallace  Estill,  Minor 
Neal,  William  Ridgeway,  Peter  Kerney,  Kemp  M.  Goodloe,  John 
Cave,  Daniel  King,  James  Laughlin,  Elijah  and  Abraham  N.  Foley, 
John  J.  Foster,  Adam  C.  Reyburn,  and  Willis  Boyse. 

"  The  first  church  organized  in  the  Boone's  Lick  country  was  Mount 
Pleasant,  in  1815,  seven  miles  north  of  old  Franklin. 

'*The  first  church  organized  in  Boone  County  wasxjalled  '  Bethel,' 
and  was  situated  in  a  northwestern  section  of  the  county,  eight  miles 
north  of  Rocheport.  It  was  organized  June  28,  1817  ;  the  i)ersons 
forming  it  were  Anderson  Woods,  Betsey  Woods,  David  McQuitty, 
John  Turner,  and  James  Harris.  William  Thorp  was  its  first  pastor. 
The  next  church  formed  was  Little  Bonne  Femme,  in  December,  1819, 
by  David  Doyle,  Anderson  Woods,  Elizabeth  Woods,  James  Harris, 
Polly  Harris,  Mourning  Harris,  Elizabeth  Kennon,  John  Maupin, 
Elias  Elston,  Matthew  Haley,  Jane  Tuttle,  Lazarus  Wilcox,  Lucy  Wil- 
cox, James  Wiseman,  Thomas  S.  Tuttle,  and  Nancy  Tuttle.  David 
Doyle  was  the  first  pastor,  and  continued  in  that  position  for  ten  years, 
when  he  l)ecame  pastor  of  Salem  Church,  and  so  continued  for  thirty 
years,  thus  spending  forty  years  in  the  ministry  in  our  county,  for 
which,  it  is  said,  he  never  received  a  dime  of  remuneration." 

TWO    IMPORTANT    EVENTS  :    THE    FIRST    NEWSPAPER    AND   THE   FIRST 

STEAMBOAT    AT    FRANKLIN. 

Although  Franklin  is  not,  and  never  was,  in  Boone  county,  there 
were  two  events  which  occurred  there,  the  first  in  April  and  the 
second  in  May,  1819,  of  sufficient  importance  in  the  history  of  *'the 
Boone's  Lick  Country,"  of  wliich  this  county  was  a  part,  to  justify  iu 
this  place  more  than  a  passing  notice.  Both  of  these  events  had  an 
important  bearing  upon  the  development  and  destiny  of  interior  Mis- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  136 

souri,  and  of  the  whole  State  ;  and  a  detailed  account  of  them  in  an 
enduring  form  is  justified  by  their  prominence  and  significance. 

THE   FIRST   NEWSPAPER. 

On  the  23d  of  April,  1819,  Nathaniel  Patten  and  Benjamin  HoUiday 
commenced  the  publication  of  the  Missouri  Intelligencer  in  Franklin, 
then  a  flourishing  town  on  the  Missouri  river  and  opposite  Boonville. 
The  size  of  the  sheet  was  18  by  24  inches,  and  it  was  printed  on  what 
is  known  among  printers  as  the  Ramage  press,  a  wooden  contrivance 
with  cas<-iron  bed,  joints  and  platen,  and  which  at  this  day  is  a  great 
curiosity.  About  twenty-five  years  ago  Col.  Wm.  F.  Switzler  pre- 
sented this  press  to  the  Mercantile  Library  Association  of  St.  Louis, 
the  Missouri  Historical  Society  then  not  being  in  existence,  where  it 
can  be  seen. 

Recently  we  came  in  possession  of  full  and  complete  tiles,  substan- 
tially bound,  of  the  Missouri  Intelligencer  from  its  initial  number, 
April' 23,  1819,  to  its  last  issue  (in  Columbia),  December  5,  1835, 
embracing  a  period  of  over  sixteen  years,  to  which  we  are  indebted 
for  much  valuable  historical  matter  relating  to  this  county,  and 
which  will  be  found  in  its  proper  place  in  this  book. 

Many  changes  occurred  in  the  publishers  or  owners  of  the  Intelli- 
gencer, the  details  of  which  we  have  taken  the  trouble  to  collect  from 
its  files,  and  to  record  as  follows  :  — 

April  23,  1819,  to  June  10,  1820,  Nathaniel  Patten  and  Benjamin 
Holliday,  publishers.  (Mrs.  E.  W.  McClannahan,  near  Columbia,  is 
a  daughter  of  Mr.  Holliday.^) 

June  10,  1820,  Mr.  Patten  retired  as  publisher,  leaving  Mr.  Holli- 
day in  charge,  or  owner,  who  continued  till  July  23,  1821,  when  John 
Pajne,  a  lawyer,  became  editor.  He  was  a  native  of  Culpepper 
county,  Va.,  and  died  in  Franklin,  September  15,  1821,  aged  24 
vear:<. 

Septeml>er  4,  1821,  Mr.  Payne  retired  and  Holliday  again  assumed 
control . 

August  5,  1822,  to  April  17,  1824,  Nathaniel  Patten  and  John  T. 
Cleaveland  are  publishers.      Mr.  Cleaveland  died  some  years  ago  at  an 
advanced  age  in  Austin,  Texas. 
April  17,  1824,  Mr.  Cleaveland  retired,  leaving  Mr.  Patten  as  sole 


'  Mr.  HoUiday  was  born  in  Spottsylvania  C.  H.,  Va.,  June  8,  1780;  came  to  Frank- 
lin, Mo.,  iu  February,  1819,  and  died  near  Boonsboro,  Howard  County,  Mo.,  April  1, 
1859. 


136  HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

publisher,  which  position  he  continued  to  hold  until  the  sale  of  the 
paper  by  him  to  Mr.  Fred.  A.  Hamilton,  December  12,  1835. 

Last  issue  of  the  Intelligencer  in  Franklin,  June  16,  1826. 

First  issue  of  the  Intelligencer  in  Fayette,  June  29,  1826. 

July  5,  1827,  John  Wilson,  then  a  young  lawyer  in  Fayette,  is 
announced  as  editor,  which  position  he  held  till  July  25,  1828.  Mr. 
Wilson  died  in  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  February  2,  1877,  aged  87  years. 

In  August,  1827,  James  H.  Birch  commenced  the  publication  in 
Fayette  of  the  Western  Monitor, 

April  9,  1830,  last  issue  of  the  Intelligencer  in  Fayette.  • 

May  4,  1830,  first  issue  of  the  Intelligencer  in  Columbia. 

December  5,  1835,  last  issue  of  the  Intelligencer  in  Columbia. 

December  12,  1835,  first  issue  of  the  Patriot  in  Columbia. 

December  23,  1842,  last  issue  of  the  Patriot,  and  January  6,  1843, 
first  issue  of  its  successor,  the  Statesman,  which  has  been  regularly 
continued  to  this  day  under  the  same  management. 

August  1, 1881,  after  twelve  years'  experience  as  business  maiKiger, 
Irwin  Switzler,  eldest  son  of  W.  F.  Switzler,  became  proprietor  of 
the  Statesman,  the  latter  continuing  as  editor-in-chief. 

Near  the  close  of  the  year  1835  it  became  known  that  Mr.  Patten, 
owing  to  failing  health,  intended  to  dispose  of  the  Intelligencer  ofiice, 
and  as  the  Presidential  and  State  elections  of  the  following  year  were 
approaching,  the  possession  of  the  paper  became  an  object  of  interest 
to  some  of  the  politicians  and  people.  Whig  and  Democratic,  about 
Columbia.  Both  parties  wanted  it;  and  the  Democrats,  under  the 
leadership  of  Austin  A.  King,  then  a  lawyer  resident  here  and  in  1848 
elected  Governor  of  the  State,  Dr.  Wni.  H.  Duncan,  still  an  honored 
citizen  of  Columbia,  Dr.  Alexander  M.  Robinson  and  others  made 
some  efforts  to  secure  the  oflSce.  While  negotiations  to  this  end  were 
pending,  Robert  S.  Barr,  Oliver  Parker,  Wm.  Cornelius,  Warren 
Woodson,  Moses  U.  Payne,  A.  W.  Turner,  Joseph  B.  Howard,  John 
B.  Gordon,  Sinclair  Kirtley,  David  and  Roger  N.  Todd,  Dr.  Wm. 
Jewell,  James  S.  Rollins,  Thomas  Miller  and  perhaps  other  W^higs, 
entered  into  a  written  agreement  to  raise  the  money  to  purchase  the 
press  and  materials,  and  they  did  it  with  the  understanding  that 
Frederick  A.  Hamilton,  a  practical  printer,  should  take  charge  of  the 
publication,  and  Rollins  and  Miller,  then  two  young  lawyers 
of  Columbia,  the  editorial  conduct  of  the  paper,  the  name  of 
which,  December  12,  1835,  was  changed  to  Patriot,  Hamilton  was 
was  announced  as  publisher,  and  Rollins  and  Miller  as  editors.     Maj. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  137 

Rollins  selected  frpra  Shakspeare  the  motto  of  the  Patriot^  "  Be  just 
and  fear  not ;  let  all  the  ends  thou  aimest  at  be  thy  country's,"  which 
it  bore  until  it  was  supplanted  by  the  Statesman  in  1843,  and  which 
has  ever  since  floated  at  the  masthead  of  the  Statesman. 

Of  the  parties  named  in  this  connection  all  are  dead  except  Duncan, 
Rollins  and  Payne. 

Rollins  and  Miller  finally  became  owners  of  the  oflSce  and  continued 
to  edit  the  paper  until  the  close  of  the  Presidential  election  of  1840, 
when  Rollins  sold  his  interest  to  Wm.  T.  B.  Sanford,  a  printer,  and 
retired,  leaving  Col.  Miller  sole  editor. 

In  July,  1841,  the  present  editor  of  the   Statesman  became  editor 
of  the  Pfl^n'o^,  Col.  Thomas  Miller  having  retired,  but  still  retaining 
a  half  ownership,  with  the  hope  of  recuperating  his  health  by  a  trip 
across  the  plains  to   Santa  Fe.     Dying  en  route  of  pulmonary  con- 
sumption, September  15,  1841,  at  '«  Round  Mound,"  two  hundred 
miles  this  side  of  his  destination,  where  he  was  interred  on  the  tree- 
less plain,  aged  31   years,   more  than  three  months  elapsed  before 
news  of  his  death  reached  Columbia.     February  19,  1842,  Wm.  T.  B. 
Sanford,  surviving  partner  of  the  firm  of  Miller  &  Sanford,  sold  Col. 
Miller's  interest  to  John   B.   and  Younger  J.  Williams,  the  new  pro- 
prietors, Sanford,  Williams  &  Co.,  assuming  control  March  1,  1842. 
On  the  19th  of  August,   1842,  Dr.  A.  J.  McKelway  (now  a  citizen 
of  Marion    county)    purchased    Mr.     Sanford's    interest,    became 
editor — Wm.  F.  Switzler  retiring, — and    in    conjunction    with    the 
Wilijanis  brothers,   published   the  Patriot  till   December   16,    1842, 
when  Wm.  F.  Switzler  purchased   McKelvvay's   half  interest  and  he 
retired.     At  the  same  time  John  B.  Williams  sold  his  interest  to   his 
brother,  Younger  J.,  who,  as  an  equal  partner  with  Wm.  F.  Switzler, 
on  January   1,    1843,   changed  the  name  of  the  paper  to   Missouri 
Staie^man^  under  which  name,  with  Wm.  F.  Switzler  as  editor,  it  has 
erer  since  been  issued,  now  nearly  forty  years. 

Mr.  Sanford,  some  years  afterward,  went  to  Los  Angelos,  California, 
and  just  before  the  war  was  lost  on  the  Sacramento  River  in  a  burning 
steamboat. 

Younger  J.  Williams  died  February  19,  1843,  and  his  interest  was 
resold  to  his  brother  John  B.,  who,  in  January,  1845,  sold  out  to  Wm. 
F.  Switzler,  who  then  became  sole  editor  and  proprietor.  John  B. 
Williams  died  in  Fulton,  Mo.,  April  6,  1882,  aged  sixty  years,  as 
editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Telegraph. 


138  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Mr.  Patten  was  a  very  reputable  citizen,  small  in  stature,  and  quits 
deaf.  He  and  his  wife  set  the  type  for  his  paper  and  edited  it,  she 
therefore  being  the  first  female  compositor  west  of  the  Mississippi 
River.^  The  Patriot  was  tirst  published  in  a  little  hewed  log  house 
on  the  northeast  corner  of  the  lot  on  which  Mr.  B.  Loeb  now  lives, 
and  afterwards  in  a  small  frame  (destroyed  by  fire  Oct.,  1874),  which 
then  stood  on  Broadway,  near  the  old  brick  public  school  building. 
Several  of  the  printers'  stands,  made  of  walnut  lumber,  which  were 
used  in  the  Intelligencer  office  in  1819,  and  in  the  offices  of  all  its  suc- 
cessors, are  now  in  daily  use  in  the  office  of  the  Statesman. 

Nathaniel  Patten,  Jr.,  a  son  of  the  proprietor  of  the  old  InteUi- 
gencevj  now  resides  at  South  Fork,  Rio  Grande  County,  Colorado,  and 
from  him  we  have  recently  received  bound  files  in  good  order  of  that 
paper  from  April  23,  1819,  to  December  5,  1835,  a  period  of  more 
than  sixteen  years. 

ARRIVAL    OF   THE    FIRST   STEAMBOAT. 

The  second  notable  event  in  1819  was  the  arrival  at  Franklin,  on 
May  28,  of  the  steamer  Independence,  Capt.  John  Nelson-^ the  first 
which  ever  attempted  the  navigation  of  the  Missouri  River. 

Col.  Elias  Rector  and  others,  of  St.  Louis,  had  chartered  her  at 
Louisville,  Ky.,  to  go  up  the  Missouri  as  high  as  the  town  of  Chariton, 
now  a  deserted  town  two  miles  above  Glasgow,  near  the  mouth  of  the 
Chariton  River.  She  left  St.  Louis  May  15,  1819,  and  arrived  at 
Franklin,  Howard  County,  on  May  28,  occasioning  the  wildest  excite- 
ment and  the  greatest  joy  among  the  people. 


*  Mrs.  Patten,  formerly  Miss  Elvira  A.  Williams,  was  born  near  Charleston,  Va., 
July  4,  1807,  and  died  in  St.  Joseph,  Mo.  (then  being  Mrs.  Overall),  on  January  24, 
1878,  aged  71  years.  In  1823,  at  Old  Chariton,  Howard  County,  she  first  married  Dr. 
John  Holman.  He  dying  on  Monday,  November  27,  182G,  and  Mr.  Patten's  wife,  Mrs. 
Matilda  Patten,  dying  on  Friday,  December  27,  1829,  on  Sunday,  February  27,  1831, 
%t  the  residence  of  Mrs.  II.  T.  Peerce,  in  Columbia,  Rev.  W.  P.  Cochran  officiating, 
they  were  married.  The  fruit  of  this  marriage  was  Nathaniel  Patten,  Jr.,  who  now 
resides  in  South  Fork,  Rio  Grande  County,  Colo.  After  the  death  of  Mr.  Patten,  she 
married  Maj.  Wilson  Lee  Overall,  of  St.  Charles  (Aug.  1(5,  1840),  by  whom  she  had 
three  children,  namely,  Mrs.  John  F.  Williams,  St.  Louis  (wife  of  the  Insurance  Com- 
missioner), John  H.  Overall,  of  St.  Louis,  a  well  known  lawyer,  and  son-in-law  of  Hon. 
J.  S.  Rollins,  and  Mrs.  L.  E.  Carter,  of  St.  Joseph,  at  whose  house  she  died,  as  above 
stated.  Maj.  Overall  died  in  St.  Charles  of  paralysis,  December  24,  1850.  Mr.  Patten 
died  in  St.  Charles  in  1837,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  proprietor  of  the  Clarion 
newspaper. 


HISTORY   OF    BOONE    COUNTY.  139 

The  following  were  some  of  the  passengers  on  the  Independence : 
Col.  Elias  Rector,  Stephen  Rector,  Capt.  Desha,  J.  C.  Mitchell,  Dr. 
Stewart,  J.  Wanton,  and  Maj.  J.  D.  Wilcox. 

Immediately  after  its  arrival  at  Franklin,  a  public  dinner  was  given 
the  passengers  and  officers  of  the  boat.  A  public  meeting  was  then 
held,  of  which  Asa  Morgan  was  elected  President,;  and  Dr.  N.  Hutch- 
inson Vice-President.  We  copy  from  the  Franklin  (Mo.)  Intelli- 
gencer, issued  on  the  day  of  the  boat's  arrival,  an  account  of  the 
event :  — 

[From  the  Franklin  InteUigencer,  May  28,  1819.] 

ARRIVAL   OF   THE   0TKAMBOAT. 

With  DO  ordinary  sensations  of  pride  and  pleasare,  we  announce  the  arrival  this 
moniog,  at  this  place,  of  the  elegant  steamboat  **  Independence,''  Captain  Nelson,  in 
seren  gailiDg  days  (but  thirteen  from  the  time  of  her  departure)  from  St.  Louis,  with 
ptsseogers  and  a  cargo  of  flour,  whiskey,  sugar,  iron,  castmgs,  etc.,  being  the  first 
steamboat  that  ever  attempted  ascending  the  Missouri.  She  was  joyfully  met  by  the 
iobabitants  of  Franklin,  and  saluted  by  the  firing  of  cannon,  which  was  returned  by 
tbe "  Independence.'* 

The  ^nd  desideratum,  the  important  fact,  is  now  ascertained  that  steamboats  can 
safely  navigate  the  Missouri  River. 

A  respectable  gentleman,  a  passenger  in  the  Independence,  who  has  for  a  number  of 
jeara  navigated  the  great  Western  waters,  informs  us  that  it  is  his  opinion,  with  a  little 
precaatlon  in  keeping  clear  of  sand-bars,  the  Missouri  may  be  navigated  with  as  much 
facility  as  the  Mississippi  or  Ohio. 

Missoarians  may  hail  this  era  from  which  to  date  the  growing  importance  of  this  sec- 
tion of  the  country,  when  they  view  with  what  facility  (by  the  aid  of  steam)  boats  may 
»8cend  the  turbulent  waters  of  the  Missouri,  to  bring  to  this  part  of  the  country  the 
articles  requisite  to  its  supply,  and  return  laden  with  the  various  products  of  this  fertile 
region.  At  no  distant  period  may  we  see  the  industrious  cultivator  making  his  way  as 
biglias  the  Yellowstone,  and  offering  to  the  enterprising  merchant  and  trader  a  sur- 
plus worthy  of  the  fertile  banks  of  the  Missouri,  yielding  wealth  to  industry  and 
eoterprise. 

[From  the  Franklin  Intelligencer,  June  4,  1819.] 

ARRIVAL   OF    THE   **  INDEPENDENCE '*  —  Pl'BLIC   DINNER,    SPEECHES,    AND   TOASTS. 

On  Friday  last,  the  28th  ult.,  the  citizens  of  Franklin,  with  the  most  lively  emotions 
of  pleasure,  witnessed  the  arrival  of  this  beautiful  boat,  owned  and  commanded  by 
Captain  Nelson,  of  Louisville.     Her  approach  to  the  landing  was  greeted  by  a  Federal 
salate,  accompanied  with  the  acclamations  of  an  admiring  crowd,  who  had  assembled 
on  the  bank  of  the  river  for  the  purpose  of  viewing  this  novel  and  interesting  sight. 
We  may  truly  regard  this  event  as  highly  important,  not  only  to  the  commercial  but 
agricultural  interests  of  our  country.    The   practicability  of    steamboat  navigation 
being  now  clearly  demonstrated  by  experiment,  we  shall  be  brought  nearer  to  the  At- 
lantic, West  India,  and  European  markets,  and  the  abundant  resources  of  our  exten- 
sive and  fertile  region  will  be  quickly  developed.    This  Interesting  section  of  country, 
so  highly  favored  by  nature,  will  at  no  distant  period,  with  the  aid  of  science  and  enter- 
prise, assume  a  dignified  station  amongst  the  great  agricultural  States  of  the  West. 
The  enterprise  of  Capt.  Nelson  cannot  be  too  highly  appreciated  by  the  citizens  of 


140  HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Missouri.  He  is  the  first  individaal  who  has  attempted  the  navigation  of  the  Miasonri 
by  steam  power,  a  river  that  has  hitherto  borne  the  character  of  being  very  difficnlt 
and  eminently  dangerous  in  its  navigation  ^  but  we  are  happy  to  state,  that  his  pro- 
gress thus  far  has  not  been  impeded  by  any  accident.  Among  the  passengers  were  Col. 
Ellas  Rector,  Mr.  Stephen  Rector,  Capt.  Desha,  J.  C.  Mitchell,  Esq.,  Dr.  Stewart,  Mr. 
J.  Wanton,  Maj.  J.  D.  Wilcox. 

THE   DINNER  AND   TOASTS. 

The  day  after  the  arrival  of  the  Independence,  Capt.  Nelson  and  the  passengers  par- 
took of  a  dinner,  given  by  the  citizens  of  Franklin,  in  honor  of  the  occasion. 

After  the  cloth  was  removed,  Capt.  Asa  Morgan  was  called  to  the  chair,  and  Dr.  N. 
Hutchinson  acted  as  vice-president,  when  the  following  toasts  were  drank: 

1st.  The  Missouri  Biver,  —  Its  last  wave  will  roll  the  abundant  tribute  of  our  region 
to  the  Mexican  Gulf,  in  reference  to  the  auspices  of  this  day. 

2d.  TJie  Memory  of  Robert  Fulton.  —  One  of  the  most  distinguished  artists  of  his 
age.  The  Missouri  River  now  bears  upon  her  bosom  the  first  effect  of  his  genius  for 
steam  navigation. 

8d.  The  Memory  of  Franklin^  the  Philosopher  and  Statesman.  —  In  anticipation  of 
his  country's  greatness,  he  never  imagined  that  a  boat  at  this  time,  would  be  propelled 
by  steam  so  far  westward,  to  a  town  bearing  his  name  on  the  Missouri. 

4th.  Capt.  Nelson.  — The  proprietor  of  the  steamboat  Independence.  The  imagin- 
ary dangers  of  the  Missouri  vanished  before  his  enterprising  genius. 

5th.  Louisville y  Franklin  and  Chariton. — They  become  neighbors  by  steam  navi- 
gation. 

Cth.  The  Republican  Oovemment  of  the  United  States.  —  By  facilitating  the  inter- 
course between  distant  points.  Its  benign  Infiuence  may  be  diffused  over  the  continent 
of  North  America. 

7th.     The  Policy  resulting  In  the  expedition  to  the  Yellowstone. 

8th.  South  America.  —  May  an  early  day  witness  the  navigation  of  the  Amazon  and 
La  Plata  by  steam  power,  under  the  auspices  of  an  Independent  government. 

9th.  Internal  Improvement.  —  The  New  York  Canal,  an  imperishable  monument  of 
the  patriotism  and  genius  of  Its  projector. 

10th.  The  Missouri  Territory. —  Desirous  to  be  numbered  with  the  States  on  Consti- 
tutional principles,  but  determined  never  to  submit  to  Congressional  usurpation. 

11th.    James  Monroe. —  President  of  the  United  States. 

12th.     The  Purchase  of  the  Floridas. —  A  hard  bargain. 

13th.     The  American  Fair. 

VOLUNTEERS. 

By  Col.  Ellas  Rector  — The  memory  of  my  departed  friend.  Gen.  Benjamin  Howard; 
he  was  a  man  of  worth. 

By  Gen.  Duff  Green— The  Union  — It  Is  dear  to  us;  but  liberty  Is  dearer. 

By  Capt.  Nelson  —  I  will  ever  bear  In  grateful  remembrance  the  liberality  and  hos- 
pitality of  the  citizens  of  Franklin. 

By  Dr.  James  H.  Benson  —  The  Territory  of  Missouri  —  May  she  emerge  from  her 
present  degraded  situation. 

By  J.  C.  Mitchell,  Esq.  — Gen.  T.  A.  Smith  — The  Clnclnnatus  of  Missouri. 

By  Maj.  Thompson  Douglass  —  The  Citizens  of  Franklin  —  Characterized  by  hos- 
pitality and  generosity. 

By  Stephen  Rector,  Esq.  —  May  the  Mlssourlans  defend  their  rights,  if  necessary, 
even  at  the  expense  of  blood,  against  the  unprecedented  restriction  which  was 
attempted  to  be  imposed  on  them  by  the  Congress  of  the  United  States. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  141 

By  L.W.  Boggs,  Esq.  —  Maj.-G«n.  Andrew  Jackson. 

By  John  W.  Scudder,  Esq.  —  Oar  Guests  —  The  passengers  who  ascended  the  M!s- 
soari  in  the  Independence ;  they  have  the  honor  to  be  the  first  to  witness  the  success- 
ful eiperiment  of  steam  navigation  on  our  noble  river. 

By  Benjamin  Holliday  — The  28th  of  May,  1819  — Franklin  will  long  remember  it, 
and  the  Independence  and  her  commander  will  be  immortalized  in  history. 

By  Dr.  Dawson  —  The  Next  Congress — May  they  be  men  consistent  in  their  con- 
8traction  of  the  Constitution;  and  when  they  admit  new  States  into  the  Union, 
be  actaated  less  by  a  spirit  of  compromise  than  the  just  rights  of  the  people. 

By  Augustus  Storrs,  Esq.  —  The  Memory  of  Capt.  Lawrence,  late  of  the  Navy — By 
the  coodnct  of  such  men  may  our  national  character  be  formed. 

By  N.  Patten,  Jr.  —  The  Missouri  Territory  —  lt«  future  prosperity  and  greatness 
eaoDOt  be  checked  by  the  caprice  of  a  few  men  in  Congress,  while  it  possesses  a  soil  of 
inexhaustible  fertility,  abuudant  resources,  and  a  body  of  intelligent,  enterprising, 
independent  freemen. 

By  Maj.  J.  D.  Wilcox  —  The  Citizens  of  Mirtsonri  —  May  they  never  become  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Union  under  the  restriction  relative  to  slaverv. 

ByMr.L.  W.  Jordan  — The  Towns  on  the  Missouri  River  — May  they  flourish  in 
commerce,  and,  like  those  on  the  Ohio  and  Mississippi,  witness  the  daily  arrival  or  de- 
parture of  some  steamboat,  ascending  or  descending  this  majestic  stream. 

By  Mr.  J.  B.  Howard  —  Robert  Fulton  —  May  his  name  and  the  effects  of  his  genius 
be  truumitted  to  the  latest  posterity. 

By  Dr.  J.  J.  Lowry  —  (After  the  President  had  retired)  — The  President  of  the  day. 

By  Maj.  R.  Gentry  —  (After  the  Vice-Pretident  had  retired)  —  The  Vice-President 
of  the  day. 

Not  one  of  the  persons  mentioned  above  is  alive  to-day. 

[From  the  St.  Louis  Enquirer,  June  0,  1819.1 

"The  passage  of  the  steamboat  Independence ,  Capt.  Nelson,  up  the  Missouri  to 
FraDklin  and  Chariton,  is  an  era  in  the  history  of  that  noble  river,  and  has  called  forth 
the  most  lively  feelings  of  joy  and  triumph  all  over  the  country.  By  referring  to  the 
head  of  '  Steamboat  Intelligence,*  it  will  be  seen  that  the  banks  of  the  river  were 
visited  by  crowds  of  citizens  to  witness  this  great  event,  and  to  testify  their  joy  and 
Admiration.*' 

THE    SECOND    STEAMBOAT. 

In  1818  the  Government  of  the  United  States  projected  the  cele- 
brated Yellowstone  Expedition,  the  objects  of  which  were  to  ascertain 
whether  the  Missouri  River  was  navigable  by  steamboats,  and  to  estab- 
lish a  line  of  forts  from  its  month  to  the  Yellowstone.     The  expedi- 
tion st-irted  from  Plattsburg,  New  York,  in   1818,  under  command  of 
Colonel    Henrv   Atkinson.     General  Nathan  Raiinev,  a   well   known 
cilizen  of  St   Louis,  who  not  long  airo  died  in  that  city,  was  an  attache 
of  this  expedition.     Also  Captain  Wm.  D.  Hul)bell,  now  (1882)  aciti- 
zeii  of  Columbia.     It  arrived  at  Pittsburg  in  the  spring  of  1819,  where 
Colonel  Stephen  H.  Long,  of  the  Topographical  Engineers  of  the  U. 
S.  Army,  had  constructed  the  "  Western  Engineer,*'  a  small  steam- 


142  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

boat,  to  be  used  by  him  and   his  scientific  corps  in  pioneering  the 
expedition  to  the  mouth  of  the  Yellowstone. 

This  vessel  reached  St.  Louis  June  9,  1819,  and,  proceeding  on  its 
voyage,  arrived  at  Franklin  July  13,  same  year.  The  following  gen- 
tlemen were  on  board  :  Major  S.  H  Long,  commander  ;  Maj.  Thomas 
Biddle  (who  was  killejJ,  Aug.  27,  1831,  in  a  duel  with  Spencer  Pettis, 
on  Bloody  Island,  and  after  whom  Biddle  Street,  St.  Louis,  was 
named);  Lieuts.  Graham  and  Swift,  Maj.  Benj.  O'Fallon,  Indian 
agent ;  Mr.  Daugherty,  assistant  agent  and  interpreter ;  Dr.  Wm. 
Baldwin,  botanist  ;^  Tliomas  Say,  zoologist ;  Mr.  Jessup,  geologist; 
Mr.  Seymour,  landscape  painter;  and  Mr.  Peale,  assistant  naturalist. 

On  Monday,  July  19,  the  vessel  proceeded  on  its  voyage  up  the 
Missouri,  and  reached  Council  Bluffs  on  the  17th  of  September,  where 
it  stopped  for  the  winter. 

Owing  to  the  peculiar  construction  of  the  *'  Western  Engineer,"  as 
well  as  to  the  fact  that  a  water  craft  of  any  kind,  and  especially  one 
propelled  by  steam,  was  a  novel  spectacle,  its  progress  up  the  river 
excited  the  greatest  wonder  among  the  Indians,  many  of  whom  flocked 
to  the  river  banks  to  see  it,  while  others  fled  in  fear  to  the  forests  or 
prairies,  thinking  it  an  evil  spirit,  a  very  devil  with  serpent's  head 
and  breath  of  fire  and  steam. 

The  St.  Louis  Enquirer  of  June  16,  1819,  contains  this  description 
of  it : 

THE   STEAMER    **  WESTERN   ENGINEER.** 

The  bow  of  the  vessel  exhibits  the  form  of  a  huge  serpent,  black  and  scaly,  rising 
out  of  the  water  from  under  the  boat,  his  head  as  high  as  the  deck,  darted  forward,  his 
mouth  open,  vomiting  smoke,  and  apparently  carrying  the  boat  on  his  back.  From 
under  the  boat,  at  its  stem,  issues  a  stream  of  foaming  water,  dashing  violently  along 
All  the  machinery  is  hid.  Three  small  brass  field  pieces,  mounted  on  wheel  carriages, 
stand  on  the  deck;  the  boat  is  ascending  the  rapid  stream  at  the  rate  of  three  miles  an 
hour.  Neither  wind  nor  human  hands  are  seen  to  help  her;  and  to  the  eye  of  igno- 
rance the  illusion  is  complete,  that  a  monster  of  the  deep  carries  her  on  his  back,  smok- 
ing with  fatigue,  and  lashing  the  waves  with  violent  exertion. 

PRICES  OF    PROVnSIONS. 

[Franklin  (Mo.)    Intelligencer,  April  I,  1820.1 
• 

Provisions  of  almost  every  kind  are  cheap  and  plentiful,  but  labor  and  boarding  are 

high;  wheat  is  one   dollar  per  bushel,   corn  thirty-three   and  one-third  cents,  beef 

and  pork  at  five  dollars  per  cwt.,  and  boarding  from  three  dollars  and  fifty  cents  to  six 

dollars  per  week. 


>  Owing  to  illness  Dr.  Baldwin  abandoned  the  expedition  at  Franklin,  and  died 
tiiere  Sept.  1,  1819. 


HISTORY   or   BOONE    COUNTY.  143 


MEAGERNE88    OF   MAIL    FACILITIES. 

In  this  era  of  telegraphic  and  railroad  facilities,  whereby  important 
intelligence  is  transmitted  by  lightning  and  by  daily  and  semi-daily 
mails,  we  can  scarcely  conceive  of  a  period,  within  thp  personal  recol- 
lection of  many  of  the  old  pioneers  who  survive  among  us,  during 
which  the  prospect  of  a  stage  line  once  or  twice  or  three  times  a  week 
would  be  hailed  with  delight.  But  read  the  following  from  the  Frank- 
lin/ntetftjrencer,  of  April  23,   1819: 

It  U  contemplated,  we  understand,  shortly  to  commence  running  a  stage  from  St. 
Louis  to  FrankHn.  Such  an  undertaking  would,  no  doubt,  liberally  remunerate  the 
enterprisiog  and  meritorious  individuals  engaged,  and  be  of  immense  benefit  to  the 
public,  who  would,  doubtless,  prefer  this  to  any  other  mode  of  travelling.  A  stage 
bis  been  ranning  from  St.  Louis  to  St.  Charles,  three  times  a  week,  for  several  months 
past.  Another  from  the  town  of  Illinois  [now  East  St.  Louis,  opposite  St.  Louis] 
to  Edwardsvllle :  —  a  line  from  Edwardsvilie  to  Vincennes,  we  understand  is  in  con- 
templation. It  will  then  only  remain  to  have  it  continued  from  Vincennes  to  Louis- 
Tille.  When  these  lines  shall  have  gone  into  operation,  a  direct  communication  by 
sta^  will  then  be  opened  from  the  Atlantic  States  to  Boone*s  Lick,  on  the  Missouri. 

Benj.  Stephens,  who  is  yet  alive  and  a  resident  of  Boone  county, 
northwest  of  Columbia,  was  one  of  the  firm  of  Wetzel,  McClelland 
A  Stephens,  who  had  the  contract  for  bringing  the  mail  from  St. 
Charles  to  Fayette,  and  in  1834  drove  the  fii*st  Troy  coach  ever  in 
Columbia. 

IMMIGRATION    TO    THE    BOONE's    LICK    COUNTRY. 

Xotwithstan<ling  the  unusual  sickness  that  prevailed,  and  the  many 
deaths  which  occurred  in  1819,  the  immigration  to  '*  the  Boone's 
Lick  Countrv  "  was  verv  2:reat,  as  will  he  seen  bv  the  followintj  ex- 
tract  from  the  Franklin  Intelligencer  of  Nov.  19,  1819  : 

IMMIGRATION. 

The  immigration  to  tliis  Territory,  and  particularly  to  this  county,  during  the  pres- 
ent season  almost  exceeds  belief.    Those  who  have  arrived  in  this  quarter  are  princi- 
pally from  Kentucky,  Tennessee,  etc.     Immense  numbers  of  wagons,  carriages,  carts, 
etc.,  with  families,  have  for  some  time  past  been  daily  arriving.     During  the   mouth 
o\  October  it  is  stated  that  no  less  tlian  271  wagons  and  four-wheeled  carriages  and  55 
two-wheeled  carriages  and  carts  passed  near  St.  Charles,  bound  principally  for  Boon's 
Lick.     It  is  calculated  that  the  number  of   persons  accompanying  these   wagons,  etc., 
could  not  be  less  than  three  thousand  (3,000).     It  is  stated  in  the  St.  Louis  Enquirer^ 
of  the  10th  inst.,  that  about  twenty  wagons,  etc.,  per  week  had   passed  through  St. 
Charles  for   the   last  nine  or  ten  weeks,  with    wealthy  and    respectable   emigrants 
from   various    States  whose  united  numbers  are  supposed  to  amount  to  12,000.     The 
county  of  Howard,  already  respectable  in  numbers,  will  soon  possess  a  vast  popula- 
tion; and  no  section  of  our  country  presents  a  fairer  prospect  to  the  emigrant. 


144  HISTORY   OP   BOONE    COUNTY. 

8MITHTON    AND    COLUMBIA. 

Very  naturally  the  increase  of  population  within  the  present  limits 
of  Boone  county,  during  the  years  1816,  1817,  and  1818  was  followed 
by  the  questions  of  an  organized  county,  separate  from  Howard,  and 
the  location  of  a  county  seat.  The  site  of  the  new  village  of  ica> 
ington  at  Thrall's  Prairie  was  in  every  respect  except  one,  a  very 
eligible  location,  and  that  one  was,  it  was  not  near  the  geographical 
centre  of  the  proposed  county,  the  western  and  eastern  boundaries  of 
which  nature  seemed  to  have  fixed  at  the  Moniteau  and  Cedar  creeks. 
About  midway,  therefore,  between  these  streams,  and  about  the  same 
distance  from  the  Missouri  river  as  from  either,  was  generally  regarded 
as  the  proper,  because  the  most  convenient  location,  and  just  to  the 
extremes,  for  the  county  seat. 

Believing  the  organization  of  a  new  county  was  simply  a  question 
of  time,  and  most  probably  a  short  time,  certain  observant  and  enter- 
prising citizens  were  not  slow  to  adopt  measures  to  found  a  town 
which  they  hoped  in  the  early  future  would  become  the  seat  of  justice 
of  the  new  county. 

In  pursuance  of  this  object  a  company  was  formed  to  purchase,  at 
the  first  government  land  sales  held  in  the  State  at  Franklin,  Novem- 
ber 18th,  1818,  certain  rich  and  eligible  lands,  in  the  midst  of  a  fertile 
agricultural  district,  possessing  advantages  of  healthfulness,  water, 
and  timber,  on  which  to  project  a  town.  It  was  called  '*  The  Smith- 
ton  Company  "  and  the  town  they  started  *'  Smithton,"  in  honor  of 
Col.  Thomas  A.  Smith,  Register  of  the  United  States  Land  Office  at 
Franklin. 

(E.  W.  Stephens*8  Sketches  in  the  Statesman.) 

*'  The  rate  paid  per  acre  for  land  was  from  $4  to  $6.  The  land  was 
divided  into  lots  of  eleven  and  forty  acres,  and  thus  apportioned  to  the 
different  purchasers  as  each  might  elect. 

'*  NAMES    OF   THE    SMITHTON    COMPANY. 

'*They  were  thirty-five  in  number,  as  follows:  Richard  Love,  Lil- 
burn  W.  Boggs,  Robert  Snell,  Wnlhice  Estill,  Gerard  Robinson, 
Angus  L.  Longhorn,  Richard  Gentry,  Thomas  Story,  John  Wil- 
liams, Wm.  Byars,  John  Thornton,  David  Gordon,  Rol)ert  S.  Barr, 
Anderson  Woods,  David  Todd,  Wm.  Grayson,  Wm.  S.  Hatch,  Alfred 
R.  Head,  Mason  Moss,  James  H.  Beiniett,  Absnlom  McDaniel,  Wm. 
Licntz,  Rol)ert  and  John  G.  Heath,  James  H.  Benson,  Win.  M. 
Adams,  Joshua  Newbrough,  Thomas  Duley,  James  S.  Conway,  Peter 


HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  145 

Bass,  Lewis  N.  Jourdan,  Taylor  Berry,  Nicholas  S.  Burckhart,  Henry 
Cave,  and  Tarlton  Turner. 

**  The  company  conveyed  to  five  of  their  number  as  trustees,  viz : 
Thomas  Duley,  Gerard  Robinson,  David  Todd,  Richard  Gentry,  and 
Taylor  Berry,  the  portions  of  the  tract  situated  on  the  south  half  of 
sections  1,  2,  and  11,  township  48,  on  which  to  lay  out  a  town,  and 
during  the  winter  of  1818-19  it  was  done.-  The  site  occupied  the 
elevated  ground  some  half  mile  west  of  the  present  court-house  in 
Columbia,  and  now  owned  and  occupied  as  a  residence,  grounds,  and 
pasture  by  Jefferson  Garth. 

•Although  during  the  spring  of  1819  there  was  a  sale  of  lots  in 
Stnithton,  and  quite  a  large  number  of  purchases  made,  there  were  no 
houses  built  until  the  fall  of  that  year,  except  a  small  log  cabin.  Who 
built  this  cabin  we  have  not  been  able  to  learn.  The  trustees  them- 
selves made  no  movement  for  the  improvement  of  the  town  until,  in 
pursuance  of  the  following  advertisement,  they  contracted  for  the 
erection  of  a  **  double  hewed-log  house  :  "  — 

[Franklin  (Mo.)  Intelligencer,  July  23,  1819.] 

SMITH TON. 

The  Trustees  of  Smithton  wish  immediatelj  to  contract  for  building  a  double 

hewed-log  house,  shingled  roof  and  stone  chimneys,  one  story  and  a  half  high,  in  that 

town.    Timber  aod  stone  are  very  convenient. 

They  will  also  contract  for  digging  and  walling  a  well.    The  improvements  to  be 

finished  by  the  first  of  November  next,  when  payment  will  be  made.    Apply  to  the 

subscribers.  Taylor  Bkrry, 

Richard  Gentry, 

David  Todd, 

Trustees. 
July  23,  1819. 

Stephens'.s  Sketches  for  the  Statesman:  "The  double  hewed-log 
house,  with  several  other  smaller  ones,  was  let  in  the  fall  and  built. 
The  occupants  of  this  house  were  the  family  of  Gen.  Richard  Gentry 
(the  father  of  Thomas  B.  Gentry  and  Mrs.  Boyle  Gordon,  who  are 
now  residents  of  Columbia  and  the  last  of  a  family  of  thirteen).  Gen. 
Gentry  kept  there  a  house  of  entertainment,  till  his  removal  to 
Columbia  a  vear  afterwards.  There  also  resided  in  Smithton  two 
lawyers,  Anthony  B.  Wayne  and  Samuel  Wheeler;  a  physician,  Dr. 
Daniel  P.  Wilcox  ;  ^    a  grocery  merchant,  Peter  Kearney,  and  several 


»  Dr.  Wilcox  died  in  Boone  County  February  10,  1831,  being  a  member  of  the  Legls- 
atnre  at  the  time. 

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146  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

laboring  men,  among  whom  were  Charles  Burns,  Benj.  Mothershead^ 

and Butterworth." 

The  difficulty  of  obtaining  water  by  digging  wells — for,  at  that 
period,  nobody  thought  of  cisterns,  either  in  the  ground  or  above  it  — 
soon  developed  wide-spread  dissatisfaction  with  the  town  location,, 
and  consequent  propositions  to  move  it  to  the  east  side  of  Flat  Branch ,^ 
a  small  tributary  of  the  Hinkson,  and  which  ran  along  the  east  side  of 
the  beautiful  plateau  on  which  Smithton  was  situated.  It  was  urged 
that  in  the  lower  lands,  in  the  valley  of  this  branch,  water  could  be 
had  ;  and  finally,  unable  to  resist  the  force  of  the  arguments  for  re- 
moval,  and  conformably  to  the  almost  invariable  custom  of  the  early 
pioneers  of  the  West,  Smithton  was  transferred  to  the  coveted  site  oa 
a  water  course. 

FOURTH    OF   JULY    CELEBRATION    AT    SMITHTON. 

Although,  for  the  reasons  mentioned,  the  infant  town  of  Smithton 
was  in  a  state  of  decadence,  its  early  desertion  to  the  eastern  side  of 
Flat  Branch  being  a  fixed  fact,  the  patriotic  ardor  of  its  citizens 
suffered  no  abatement,  for  on  the  Fourth  of  July,  1820,  under  the 
genial  shade  of  the  stately  sugar  trees  which  there  abounded,  they 
assembled  to  celebrate  the  day.  The  Franklin  IntelUgencery  of  July 
29,  records  in  what  manner  it  was  done  :  — 

TUE   FOUKTU    OF   JULY. 

The  Fourth  of  July,  1820,  was  celebrated  at  Smithton  by  a  large  and  respectable 
number  of  the  citizens  of  the  eastern  part  of  Howard  County.  About  2  o'clock  the 
company  sat  down  to  an  excellent  dinner,  provided  for  the  occasion.  After  the  cloth 
was  removed  Col.  John  Williams  was  chosen  president,  and  Capt.  Overton  Harris,, 
vice-president,  when  the  following  toasts  were  drank,  with  great  glee  and  hilarity :  — 

1.  The  day  we, celebrate  —  the  birthday  of  our  liberties  —  may  posterity  cherish  its- 
remembrance. 

2.  The  United^States  of  America. 

3.  The  American  Navy. 

4.  The  memory  ofJGen.  George  Washington. 

5.  Thomas  Jefferson.     His  administration  —  a  perfect  model  of  republicanism. 

6.  James  Madison  — the  Patriot  and  Statesman. 

7.  James  Monroe^— President  of  the  United  Stutes. 

8.  Henry  Clay  —  the  profound  Statesman,  zealous  republican,  and  distinguished 
advocate  of  the  rights  of  man  —  his  loss  in  the  councils  of  the  nation  will  be  severely 
felt  by  the  citizens  of..  Missouri. 

9.  The  Missouri  Convention  —  may  they  give  us  a  sound  Constitution. 

VOLUNTEEKS. 

By  Thomas  Dudley,  Esq.  — The  Hon.  David  Todd  — The  enlightened  judge  and 
accomplished  politician,  may  the  citizens  of  Howard  County  ever  appreciate  his  worth. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  147 

By  Mr.  John  Williams  —Gen.  Thomas  A.  Smith  — as  a  soldier,  brave  and  resolute; 
as  a  citizeD,  highly  esteemed. 

Bj  Mr.  Harrison  —  Major  J.  S.  Findley — one  of  our  representatives  In  the  conven- 
tion—the flDished  gentleman. 

By  Joseph  Hickam,  Esq.  —  May  Smithton  be  our  seat  of  justice  and  Col.  Williams 
our  represeDtatlve.  [Judge  Hlckam  (not  Hlckum)  Is  still  living,  and  resides  one 
mile  west  of  Columbia.] 

By  Reuben  Cave,  Esq.  —  May.  the  Constitution  of  the  State  of  Missouri  be  formed 
to  the  satisfaction  of  its  citizens. 

By  John  Williams,  Esq.  —  Col.  James  Johnson  —  the  first  to  Introduce  the  power  of 
steam  on  the  **  turbulent  Missouri.*' 

By  John  Williams,  Esq.  —  Col.  Richard  M.  Johnson  and  the  heroes  who  fought  and 
bled  ID  the  Battle  of  the  Thames. 

By  Mr.  Reuben  Cave  —  Col.  Daniel  Boon,  the  pioneer  of  the  West  —  may  his  last 
days  be  his  happiest,  and  may  his  posterity  prosper. 

By  Minor  Neale,  Esq.  —  May  the  Constitution  of  Missouri  be  a  bright  link  In  the 
golden  chain  of  our  Union. 

By  Daniel  Neale,  Esq.  —  The  fair,  who  have  left  the  places  of  their  nativity  —  may 
they  prosper  and  shine  with  additional  lustre  In  Missouri. 

With  the  exception  of  Judge  Joseph  W.  Hickam  every  imin  whosa 
name  is  mentioned  in  the  above  is  dead. 

THE    TOWN    OF    NASHVILLE. 

[From  Stephens's  Sketch.] 

"One  among  the  first  towns  projected  within  the  present  limits  of 
Boone  County  was  laid  out  in  1819,  just  below  the  present  site  of  Prov- 
idence, on  a  tract  of  hind  owned  by  Ira  P.  Nash,  an  eccentric  genius 
who  lived  in  that  vicinity  for  many  years,  from  whom  it  was  named 
'Xa.^hville.' 

*'In  1820  Nashville  contained  a  tobacco  warehouse,  kept  by  James 

Harris  and  Abraham  J.   Williams  ;  a  post-office,    and    seyeral  other 

Imiltlings.     It  at  that  time  promised  to  be  one  of  the  largest  shippinor 

points  on  the  Missouri,  and  grew  to  be  a  place  of  some  enterprise, 

when  the  treacherous  river  swept  it  away." 

In  the  Franklin  Intelligencer  of  December  17,  1819,  appeared  the 
following  publication  relative  to  this  town  :  — 

THE  TOWN  OF 

NASHVILLE 

FOU    SALE. 

THE  above  TOWN  is  laid  off  on  a  Spanish  jrrant  confirmed  by  the  United  States. 
The  title  to  said  property  is  indisputable,  and  situated  on  the  North  bank  of  the"  Mis- 
souri river,  near  the  mouth  of  Little  Bonne  Femrae  creek,  about  thirty  miles  below  the 
town  of  Franklin,  and  about  the  same  distance  above  Cote  San  Dessein. 

NASHVILLE  is  the  nearest  and  most  convenient  point  on  tlie  river  to  which  the  ex 
tensive  and  numerous  settlement  in  the  Two  Mile  Prairie  and  the  surrounding  country 
can  have  access.     It  promises  to  enjoy  a  large  proportion  of  the  trade  of  the  river; 
and  from  the  convenience  of  Its  situation,  it  will  furnish  many  facilities  to  the  trans- 


148  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

portatlon  of  the  vast  quantities  of  sarplas  produce  of  an  extensive  and  salubrious  soil. 
The  landing  at  this  town  is  at  all  seasons  of  the  year  superior  to  most  other  places, 
and  certainly  Inferior  to  none  on  the  Missouri.  The  proprietors  have  concluded  to  give 
the  public  at  large  an  opportunity  of  enjoying  the  profits  arising  from  the  Increase  of 
town  property,  by  offering  at 

PUBLIC  SALE 
A    FEW    LOTS 

IN  NASHVILLE, 

At  Franklin,  on  Saturday,  the  first  of  January,  1820. 

The  remainder  of  the  Lots  in  the  town  of  Nashville  will  be  offered  at  public  sale  on 
the  15th  day  of  January,  1820,  at  Nashville. 

A  credit  of  six,  twelve,  and  eighteen  months  will  be  given  to  purchasers,  by  their 
executing  notes  for  the  payment  of  the  purchase  money. 

PETER  BASS, 
RICHARD  GENTRY, 
J.  M.  WHITE, 
Proprietors  and  agents  for  the  other  proprietors.. 
December  17,  1819. 


CHA.PTER    n. 

FROM  THE  ORGANIZATION  OF  THE  COUNTY  IN  1820  TO  1830. 

Election  returns,  from  1820  to  1830  —  Boone  County  organized  out  of  the  territory  of 
Howard  —  Law  defining  the  limits  of  Boone  County  —  County  named  after  Daniel 
Boone  —  Biographical  sketch  of  Daniel  Boone  —  Location  of  the  county  seat  — 
Smithton  —  First  Circuit  Court  at  Smithton  —  Names  of  officers,  jurors  and  attor- 
neys — First  County  Court  —  Smithton  moved  lo  Columbia  —  Public  notice  of  the 
change  given  by  the  trustees  —  Columbia  made  the  County  Seat  — Sale  of  lots  In 
Columbia  7-  First  residences,  stores,  hotel,  etc.  —  First  Circuit  and  County  Courts 
at  Columbia  —  Organization  of  Townships  —  First  Sheriff,  Assessor  and  Coroner  — 
First  post-office — First  Justice  of  the  Peace,  deed,  mortgage  and  marriages  — 
County  finances  in  1821 — The  grasshopper  pest  —  First  horse  and  water  mills  — 
**  The  hull  of  a  Court  House  " — A  financial  contrast  —  Towns  of  Perche  and  Roche- 
port  —  The  shooting  match  —  Indian  troubles  on  the  Chariton  —  The  Santa  Fe  trade. 

COUNTY  ELECTIONS    FROM    1820  TO  1830. 

ELECTION,  1822. 

REPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONGRESS. 

*John  Scott 503    J.  B.  C.  Lucas 6 

Alex.  Stewart       49  — 

Total 558 

REPRESENTATIVES   IN   LEGISLATURE. 

James  W.  Moss 244  Mason  Moss 67 

♦Peter  Wright 28H  *D.  C.  Westerfield ,..288 

Ellas  Eiston 277  Tijos.  Tiiompson ^  22S 

John  Slack 246 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


149 


Spedal  election  for  Repreientative  in  1822,  caused  by  resignation  of  Elias  Elston  : 
*Jag.W.Mo8S 257    John  Slack 118 


Total 


870 


SLBCTION,  1824. 

*  Those  thus  marked  were  elected. 


RIPRBSKNTATIYE  IN  COKORS88. 

• 

B 

3 

no 

• 

C 

1 

1 

• 

a 

Totel. 

John  Scott 

169 
67 

8 

68 
8 

1 

167 
26 
10 

89 

16 

6 

58 

■  •  • 

4 

651 

Geom  F.  Strotber 

107 

Robert  Wash 

2ft 

Total 

686 

Oormwr— 
Frederick  Bates 

140 
88 

76 
10 

98 
104 

71 
89 

47 
14 

482 

Wm,H.  Ashley 

250 

Total 

682 

LimtenarU-Govemor  — 
Benj.  H.  Reeves 

194 
7 

19 
2 

68 
13 

1 
6 

195 

•  •  « 

2 

•  •  « 

109 

•  •  • 

•  •  • 

•  •  • 

68 

•  •• 

«  ■  • 

•  •  • 

624 

Wm.C.Carr 

20 

Nathaniel  Cook 

28 

James  Evans • 

8 

Total 

675 

RtpresaUatives  — 
*PeterWrieht 

197 

71 
49 
12 
49 
53 
18 

180 
180 
148 
102 
38 
63 

74 
9 
65 
83 
46 
28 

56 

38 
62 

8 
26 

2 

527 

*D.  C.  Westerfield ' 

193 

118 

40 

68 

75 

419 

John  Slack 

890 

Tyre  Harris 

282 

Overton  Harris 

Kicbard  Gentry 

231 
176 

Special  election  for  Representetive,   November  4th,   1824,  caused  by  death  of  D.  C. 
Westerfield. 


^omas  W.  Conjers 
Tyre  Harris  .     .     . 
Jamea  W.  Moss      . 


140 

3 

19 

•  •  • 

50 

76 

16 

71 

•  «  « 

•  •  • 

47 

10 

4 

•  •  • 

5 

212 

163 

66 


At  this  election  James  Barns  was  re-elected  Sheriff  of  the  county. 

SPECIAL  ELECTION,  1825. 

December  8th,  1825,  special  election  to  fill  vacancy  caused  by  death  of  Gov.  Bates. 


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03 

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GOVERNOR. 

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Wm.  C.  Carr 

21 

122 

152 

1 

G 

3 

30 

•  •  • 

27 
25 
22 

«  •  • 

6 

42 

3 

•  •  • 

3 

44 

2 

63 

David  Todd 

236 

•John  Miller 

215 

Rnfna  Easton 

1 

150 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 


After  the  death  of  Gov.  Frederick  Bates,  August  4, 1825,  the  duties 
of  Governor  devolved  upon  Lieutenant-Governor  Benj.  H.  Reeves,  but 
he  being  absent  from  the  State,  in  Santa  Fe,  Abraham  J.  Williams, 
of  Boone,^  President  pro  tern,  of  the  Senate,  became  Governor  until  an 
election  was  held,  and  he  discharged  its  functions  from  August  till 
December,  1825. 

KLECTION,  1826. 


BEPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONGBESS. 


♦John  Scott  . 
Edward  Bates 


Total 

Senators  — 
A.  J.  Williams 


Total 

Repreaentativea  in  Legislature  — 

*Tyre  Harris 

David  M.  Hickman     .... 

Thos.  W.  Conyers 

Wm.  Barnes 

*Wm.  Jewell 

SheHf— 

*flarrison  Jamison      .... 

Samuel  Beattie 

James  T.  Moss    .        .... 

Ichabod  C.  Hensley    .*    .    .     . 


08 

S 
O 


241 
191 


171 


Peter  Wriffht I     83 

♦Richard  Gentry 

Asa  Stone 


Total. 


178 
1 


es 

6 


27 
26 


37 
9 
2 


238 
181 
189 
43 
243 

181 
91 
70 

101 


47 

33 
2 
8 

14 

26 
2 

21 
1 


o 

09 


t^ 


56 
79 


54 
26 
51 


96 
13 
40 
42 
76 

36 

74 

4 

24 


41 
60 


8 
23 
65 


79 
12 
19 
15 
64 

43 

34 

1 

10 


23 
42 


4 
86 
39 


16 
28 
47 
8 
64 

67 

18 


S 

o 

H 

388 
887 


776 

274 

177 

826 

1 


777 

476 
262 
287 
111 
461 

342 

219 

96 

141 

818 


By  this  it  will  be  seen  that  John  Scott  received  in  the  county  one 
majority  for  Congress,  and  that  Richard  Gentry  was  elected  Senator, 
Dr.  William  Jewell  and  Tyre  Harris  Representatives,  and  Harrison 
Jamison  Sheriff. 


»  Mr.  Williams,  being  born  with  only  one  leg,  always  used  crutches;  was  never  mar- 
ried, and  was  a  raerchant  of  Columbia,  his  storehouse  being  the  same  now  occupied  as 
a  residence  by  Dr.  James  McNutt.  Some  years  before  his  death  he  bought  and  im- 
proved a  farm — now  known  as  the  Payne  or  Jennings  farm,  six  miles  south  of  Colum- 
bia, on  the  Providence  road.  lie  died  on  this  farm,  December  30,  1839,  aged  68  years, 
and  was  buried  in  the  old  grave-yard  in  Columbia,  where  his  tomb  of  box  shape  is  yet 
to  be  seen. 


BISTORT    OF    BOONK    COUKTV. 


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2 
10 
80 

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28 
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18 
93 

61 

20 
8 

33 

49 

12 
12 

16 
3 

675 

Limteiuml-  Governor  — 
Stmael  Ferry     .          ... 

Pelii  Scott    ..',.. 
Alex.  Stewart    .     '    .    .    . 
<^Duiiel  Dunklin     .... 

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Alax.  Buckner 

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66 
95 

20 
44 

9 
45 

361 

ToUl 

BnrtitMtalivtt  in  LegUtalure  —  i 

•Sinclair  Kirtley 257 

♦William  S.  Burch 302 

Willi«m  Jewell ,  166 

JeweT.  Wooa 


218 


I,  —  Fopulation  of  Boone  County.. 


.3,092 


Missouri  was  not  finally  iidmitted  into  the  Union  us  u  State  until 
August  10,  1821,  at  which  time  the  event  w:is  accomplished  by  a 
proclamation  from  Prasidout  Moiiine.  Boone,  with  its  present  limits, 
buving  been  erected  into  a  county  November  lU,  1820,  some  nine 
months  before  the  admission  of  the  State,  was  for  that  peiiod  a  terri- 
torial county. 

It  will  be  interesting  to  note  the  preliminary  steps  which  were  taken 
to  carve  out  of  the  immense  territory  of  Howard  the  new  county  of 
Boone,  and  for  this  purpose  we  avail  ourselves  of  the  recital  made  of 
them  by  Mr.  Stephens's  historical  sketch,  published  in  the  Stales- 
man:  _ 

"The  Territorial  Legislature  assembled  in  St.  Louis  on  September 
18th,  1820,  and  proceeded  to  organize  by  the  election  of  James  Cald- 
well, of  Ste.  Genevieve,  Speaker,  and  John  McArlhur,  Clerk  of  the 
House.     It  consisted  of  forty-one  members. 


•\ 


152  HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

**  It  was  during  the  session  of  this  Legislature  that  Boone  County 
was  organized. 

''On  Tuesday,  October  20th,  1820,  Andrew  S.  McGirk  presented 
several  petitions,  and  a  letter  from  the  citizens  of  Howard,  praying 
for  the  establishment  of  a  new  county.  This  was  the  first  movement 
toward  the  reorganization  of  the  County  of  Boone.  The  petitions- 
were  referred  to  a  special  committee,  who,  a  few  weeks  afterward, 
made  a  favorable  report,  which  was  adopted  by  both  Houses,  and 
finally  approved  on  November  16th,  1820.  The  act  vesting  Boone 
with  all  the  privileges  and  immunities  of  a  distinct  county,  went  into- 
eflfect  January  1st,  1821,  but  it  was  not  until  February  that  the  first 
court  was  held,  and  it  was  as  late  as  June  before  the  Sheriff,  Assessor, 
and  other  officials  received  their  commissions  from  the  Governor. 
The  act  organizing  Boon©  County  thus  prescribes  Its  limits,  which, 
with  but  very  slight  variation,  are  the  same  at  this  time :  — 

Beginning  at  the  southeast  comer  of  and  running  with  the  eastwardly  line  of  How- 
ard County,  to  where  it  intersects  the  line  between  townships  fifty  and  fifty-one,  thence 
eastwardly  to  the  dividing  ridge  between  the  waters  of  the  Cedar  Creek  and  Salt  River 
to  the  Montgomery  line ;  thence  southwardly  with  said  line  to  where  It  strikes  said 
Cedar  Creek ;  thence  down  said  creek  in  the  middle  of  the  main  channel  thereof,  to- 
where  the  range  line  between  eleven  and  twelve  crosses  the  creek  the  second  time ; 
thence  with  said  line  to  the  middle  of  the  channel  of  the  Missouri  River;  thence  up 
the  Missouri  River  in  the  middle  of  the  main  channel  thereof  to  the  place  of  begin- 
ning.i 

"  Who  conceived  the  title  of  '  Boone '  is  unknown,  but  certain  it  is 
that  the  name  was  given  in  honor  of  the  fiimous  Kentucky  pioneer, 
Daniel  Boone,  and  it  is  probable  that  its  selection  was  mostly  influ- 
enced by  the  event  of  the  hitter's  death  at  Charrette  Village,  on  the 
Missouri,  a  few  miles  above  St.  Charles,  just  two  weeks  previous 
(September  26,  1820,)  to  the  presentation  of  the  petitions  by  Mr. 
McGirk. 

**  The  news  of  his  death  was  being  spread  throughout  the  country, 
and  at  the  time  Boone  County  was  formed,  the  members  of  the  Leg- 
islature were  wearing  badges  of  mourning  in  respect  to  his  memory. 
Under  such  cii'cumstances  it  is  but  a  natural  supposition  that  there 
should  have  been  a  prevalent  sentiment  to  establish  some  lasting 
monument  in  honor  of  a  man  whose  career  had  been  so  illustrious  and 
whose  name  had  been  so  closely  linked  with  the  early  fortunes  of 
Kentucky  and  Missouri. 


'  See  Rev.  Stat.,  1825,  vol.  1,  page  238. 


HISTORY    OF    BOONK    COUNTY.  15$ 

*•  Hence,  :is  a  befitting  tribute  of  appreciation,  a  county  was  named 
in  his  honor." 

BIOOUAPHICAL    SKETCH    OF  DANIEL    BOONE. 

It  is  certainly  not  inappropriate,  but  quite  the  contrary  that,  as  thi* 
county  was  called  in  honor  of  Daniel  Boone,  and  for  this  reason  will 
forever  remain  a  perpetual  memory  of  his  life,  a  short  biographical 
sketch  of  him  should  accompany  its  history. 

In  regard  to  his  birth,  name  and  death,  controversies  have  arisen 
among  historians  and  biographers.  It  is,  perhaps,  not  a  remarkable 
circumstance  that  doubts  and  differences  exist  in  reo:ard  to  the  time  of 
Daniel  Boone's  birth,  and  as  to  the  orthography  of  his  name,  but  that 
there  should  be  any  contrariety  of  statement  touching  so  recent  an 
event  as  his  death,  is  a  little  singular. 

1.  His  Birth:  He  was  born  in  Exeter  township,  Bucks  county,. 
Pa!,  according  to  Bogant,  February  11,  1735;  Hartley,  same  date; 
Peck,  February,  1735  ;  the  family  iPecord  in  the  handwriting  of  his 
Uncle  James,  July  14,  1732;  Flint  (who  wrote  in  1840),  1746; 
Bogart  (who  wrote  in  1881),  August  22,  1734  ;  Switzler  (who  wrote 
in  1877),  adopts,  in  his  ''History  of  Missouri,"  the  date  of  James 
Boone's  family  record  —  July  14,  1732. 

2.  Hi^  Name:  Was  it  Boone  or  Boon?  Many  of  his  descendants^ 
who,  fifty  years  and  more  ago,  lived  in  Missouri,  for  examples, 
William,  ifampton  L.,  Nestor  and  William  C.  Boon,  and  some  of  them 
who  yet  reside  in  the  State,  among  whom  is  AVilliam  C.  Boon,  of 
Jefferson  City,  omit  the  final  '*  e."  In  consequence  of  this  fact,  per- 
haps, the  early  records  of  this  county,  as  well  as  our  first  county  seal, 
spelled  it  "  Boon."  And  *'  Boon's  Lick,'*  as  applied  to  the  extensive 
resion  in  Central  Missouri  known  bv  that  name,  and  in  the  name  of 
the  first  newspaper  ever  published  west  of  the  Missouri  river,  at 
Franklin,  in  1819,  the  **  Missouri  Intelligencer  and  Boon's  Lick 
Advertiser^''  it  is  spelled  without  the  *•  e."  Nevertheless,  the  act  of 
the  Legislature  organizing  Boone  county,  November  16,  1820 ;  the 
Franklin,  Mo.,  Intelligencer  of  1819,  and  Lewis  C.  Beck's  Gazetteer 
of  Missouri,  1823,  when  speaking  of  the  coxmty  add  the  final  "e." 
Yet  there  is  higher  authority  than  either  of  these  for  the  **  e,"  viz.  : 
Daniel  Boone  himself,  for  he  thus  spelled  his  name.  We  have  before 
us  now,  through  the  courtesy  of  Col.  Thomas  E.  Tutt,  of  St.  Louis,  a 
lithographic  copy  of  a  letter  from  Boone  addressed  to  Col.  William 
Christian,  of  Kentucky,  —  called  "  Cristen  "  in    the    letter  —  dated 


154  HISTORY   OF    BOONE    COUNTY. 

August  23,  1785,  jind  concluding,  '*  you  'will  oblyge  your  omble 
sarvent,"  to  which  he  signs  his  name  as  '*  Daniel  Boone."  The 
original  letter  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Thomas  W.  Bullet,  of 
Louisville,  Ky.,  who  is  a  grandson  of  Col.  Christian.  In  the  museum 
of  the  Louisville,  Ky.,  Public  Library  there  is  a  genuine  autograph 
letter  of  Boone  dated  '*  Grate  Conhoway  eluly  the  30th  1789,"  and 
addressed  to  **Col.  Hartt  &  Rochester,"  which  is  subscribed  as  fol- 
lows :  *'  I  am  Sir  With  Respect  your  very  omble  Sarvent  Daniel  Boone." 
{See  letter  of  Prof.  P.  A.  Towne  in  the  Courter- Journal,  1876.)  In 
a  letter  of  J.  E.  Paton,  Circuit  Clerk  of  Bourbon  county,  Ky., 
written  at  Paris,  Ky.,  December  20,  1876,  to  the  Cincinnati  Enquirer^ 
he  says  there  are  in  his  office  a  number  of  the  genuine  signatures  of 
Boone  with  the  final  '*  c."  In  Collins'  **  History  of  Kentucky,"  Vol. 
II.,  page  61,  there  is  a  fac  simile  of  a  letter  from  Boone,  which,  in 
1846,  was  in  possession  of  Joseph  B.  Boyd,  of  Maysville,  and  ad- 
dressed to  **  Judge  John  Cobren,  Sant  Lewis,"  dated  October  6, 
1809,  that  concludes,  "  I  am  Deer  Sir  3'oures  Daniel  Boone." 

These  authorities  settle  the  question  beyond  cavil. 

3.  His  Life:  His  father.  Squire  Boone,  came  from  England,  and 
took  up  his  residence  in  a  frontier  settlement  in  Pennsylvania,  where 
Daniel  received  the  merest  rudiments  of  education,  but  became  thor- 
oughly familiar  with  the  arts  and  hardships  of  pioneer  life.  When  he 
was  18  years  old  the  family  moved  to  the  banks  of  the  river  Yadkin, 
in  North  Carolina,  where  he  married  Rebecca  Bryan,  and  passed  some 
years  as  a  farmer.  He  made  several  hunting  excursions  into  ihe 
wilderness,  and  finally,  in  1769,  set  out  with  five  others  to  explore  the 
border  region  of  Kentucky.  They  halted  on  Red  river,  a  branch  of 
the  Kentucky,  where  they  hunted  for  several  months.  In  December, 
1769,  Boone  and  a  companion  named  Stewart  were  captured  by  the 
Indians,  but  escaped,  and  Boone  was  soon  after  joined  by  his  brother. 
They  were  captured  again,  and  Stewart  was  killed;  but  Boone 
escaped,  and  his  brother  going  shortly  after  to  North  Carolina,  he  was 
left  alone  for  several  weeks  in  the  wilderness,  with  only  his  rifle  for 
means  of  support. 

He  was  rejoined  by  his  brother,  and  they  continued  their  explora- 
tions till  March,  1771,  when  they  returned  home  with  the  spoils  which 
they  had  collected.  In  1773  he  sold  his  farm  and  set  out  with  his 
family  and  two  brothers,  and  five  other  families,  to  make  his  home  in 
Kentucky.  They  were  intercepted  by  Indians  and  forced  to  retre^^t  to 
Clinch  river,  near  the  border  of  Virginia,  where  they  remained  for 


HISTORY    OF    BOONK    COUNTY.  155 

some  time,  Boone  in  the  meanwhile  conducting  a  party  of  surveyors 
into  Kentucky  for  Patrick  Henrj',  the  Governor  of  Virginia.  He  was 
afterward  appointed,  with  the  commission  of  a  captain,  to  command 
three  garrisons  on  the  Ohio,  to  keep  back  the  hostile  Indians,  and  in 
1775  was  employed  to  lay  out  lands  in  Kentucky  for  the  Pennsylvania 
-Company.  He  erected  a  stockade  fort  on  the  Kentucky  river,  which 
he  called  Boonsborough,  which  is  now  in  Madison  county,  and 
removed  his  family  to  the  new  settlement,  where  he  was  again  em- 
ployed in  command  of  a  force  to  repel  the  Indians. 

In  1778  he  went  to  Blue  Licks  to  obtain  salt  for  the  settlement,  and 
was  captured  and  taken  to  Detroit.  His  knowledge  of  the  Indian 
character  enabled  him  to  gain  favor  with  his  captors,  and  he  was 
adopted  into  one  of  their  families.  Discovering  a  plan  laid  by  the 
British  for  an  Indian  attack  upon  Boonsborough,  he  contrived  to  escape, 
and  set  out  for  the  Kentucky  settlement,  which  he  reached  in  less  than 
five  days.  His  family,  supposing  that  he  was  dead,  had  returned  to 
North  Carolina ;  but  he  at  once  put  the  garrison  in  order  and  success- 
fully repelled  the  attack,  which  was  soon  made.  He  was  court-mar- 
tialed for  surrendering  his  party  at  the  Licks,  and  for  endeavoring  to 
make  a  treaty  with  the  Indians  before  the  attack  on  the  fort ;  but, 
conducting  his  own  defence,  he  was  acquitted  and  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  major. 

In  1780  he  brought  his  family  l)ack  to  Boonsborough,  and  contin- 
ued to  live  there  till  1792.  At  that  time  Kentuckv  was  admitted  into 
the  Union  as  a  State,  and  much  litigation  arose  about  the  titles  of  settlers 
to  their  lands.  Boone,  losing  all  his  possessions  for  want  of  a  clear 
title,  retired  in  1795  in  disgust  into  the  wilderness  of  Missouri, settling 
on  the  Femme  Osage  Creek,  in  St.  Charles  County.  This  region  was 
then  under  the  dominion  of  Spain,  and  he  was  appointed  commander 
of  the  Femme  Osage  district,  and  received  a  large  tract  of  land 
for  his  services,  which  he  also  lost  subsequently  because  he  failed 
to  make  his  title  good.  His  claim  to  another  tract  of  land  was  con- 
firmed by  Congress  in  1812,  in  consideration  of  his  eminent  public 
sei-vices. 

The  latter  years  of  his  life  he  spent  in  Missouri,  with  his  son,  Na- 
than Boone,  near  Marthasville,  where  he  died  September  26,  1820, 
aged  eighty-six.  The  only  original  portrait  of  Boone  in  existence 
was  painted  by  Mr.  Chester  Harding  in  1820,  and  now  hangs  in  the 
State-house  at  Frankfort,  Kentucky.  His  remains  were  interred  by 
the  side   of  his  wife's,  who  died  March   18,   1813,  near  the  villao-e 


156  HISTOKY    OF    BOONK    COUNTY. 

named,  where  they  continued  to  repose  until  August,  1845,  wUen  they 
were  removed  for  interment  in  the  public  cemetery  at  Frunkfort. 

The  consent  of  the  surviving  relations  of  the  deceased  having  been 
obtained,  a  commission  was  appointed  under  whose  superintendence 
the  removal  was  effected  ;  and  the  13th  of  September,  1845,  was  fixed 
upon  as  the  time  when  the  ashes  of  the  venerable  dead  would  be  com- 
mitted with  fitting  ceremonies  to  the  place  of  their  final  repose.     It 
was  a  day  which  will  be  long  remembered  in  the  history  of  Franklin 
County,  Kentucky.     The  deep  feeling  excited  by  the  occasion  waa 
evinced  by  the  assembling  of  an  immense  concourse  of  citizens  from 
all  parts  of  the  State ;  and  the  ceremonies  were  most  imposing  and 
impressive.     A   procession    extending   more   than   a   mile  in   length 
accompanied    the  coffin    to  the  grave.     The  hearse,  decorated  with 
evergreens  and  flowers,  and  drawn  by  four  white  horses,  was  placed  in 
its  assigned  position  in  the  line,  accompanied,  as  pall-bearers,  by  the 
following  distinguished  pioneers,  viz. :  Col.  Richard  M.  Johnson,  of 
Scott;  Gen.  James  Taylor,  of  Campbell;  Capt.  James  Ward,  of  Ma- 
son ;  Gen.  Robert  B.  McAfee  and  Peter  Jordan,  of  Mercer ;  Walter 
Bullock,  Esq.,  of  Fayette;  Capt.  Thomas  Joyes,  of  Louisville;  Mr. 
London  Sneed,  of  Franklin  ;  Col.  eTohn  Johnson,  of  the  State  of  Ohio  ;: 
Maj.  E.  E.  Williams,  of  Kenton,  and  Col.  AVilliam  Boone,  of  Shelby. 
The  procession  was  accompanied   by  several   military  companies  and 
the  members  of  the  Masonic  Fraternity  and  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  in  rich  regalia.     Arrived  at  the  grave,  the  company  was 
brought  to«:ether  in  a  beautiful  hollow  near  the  «:rove,  ascendino:  from 
the  centre  on  every  side.     Here  the  funeral  services  were  performed. 
The  hymn  was  given  out  by  Rev.  Mr.  Godell,  of  the  Baptist  Church  ;* 
prayer  by  Bishop  Soule,  of  tiie  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  ;  oration 
by  the  Hon.  John  J.  Crittenden  ;  clo?*ing  prayer  by  the  Rev.  J,  J. bul- 
lock, of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  benediction  by  the  Eld.  P.  S. 
Fall,  of  the  Christian  Church.     The  coffins  were  then   lowered  into 
the  graves.    The  spot  where  the  graves  are  situated  is  as  beautiful  as 
nature  and  art  combined  can  make  it.     It  is  designed  to  erect  a  mon- 
ument on  the  place. 

4.  His  Death:  Timothy  Flint,  in  his  biography  (1840),  states 
that  it  occurred  '*  in  the  year  1818,  and  in  the  eighty-fourth  year  of 
his  age;"  Hartley,  on  September  26,  1820,  in  his  feighty-sixth  year; 
Bogart,  the  same  ;  Switzler,  the  same,  except  that  his  age  was  eighty- 
eight  ;  and  Chester  Harding,  who  painted  from  life  the  celebrated  por- 
trait of  him  in  June,  1820,  and  who  fixes  his  age  at  ninety,  also  fixes- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  157 

his  death  as  occurring  in  1820.  (See  Harding's  **  Egotist igraphy," 
for  a  copy  of  which  we  are  indebted  to  his  son,  Gen.  James  Harding, 
one  of  the  Board  of  Railroad  Commissioners  for  Missouri.) 

We  have,  however,  recently  met  with  higher  authority  than  either 
of  the  above  writeVs,  and  one  that  conclusively  settles  the  date  of  his 
death.  In  the  Franklin  (Mo.)  Intelligencer  oi  Oct.  14,  1820,  there 
is  copied  from  the  St.  Louis  Enquirer  an  obituary  notice  of  Daniel 
Boone,  the  first  paragraph  of  which  is  as  follows  : 

Died.  —  On  the  26th  ult.  [Sep.]  at  Charette  Village  [which  was  on  Femrae  Osage 
Creek,  in  St.  Charles  County,  Mo.],  in  the  ninetieth  year  of  his  age,  the  celebrated 
Col.  DANIEL  BOONE,  discoverer  and  first  settler  of  the  State  of  Kentucky. 

This  disposes  of  the  question  conclusively. 

He  died  at  the  residence  of  his  son,  Maj.  Nathan  Boone,  which  wasv 
an  old-style  two-story  house,  the  first  of  the  kind!  erected  west  of  the 
Missouri  river,  and  it  is  yet  standing.  A  good  wood  cut  of  it  can  be 
found  in  '*  Switzler's  History  of  Missouri,"  page  180. 

The  obituary  in  the  Enquirer  *a\Qo  says  that  on  the  28th  September, 
Mr.  £mmons.  Senator  from  Saint  Charles  County,  communicated  the 
intelligence  of  his  death  to  the  Legislature,  then  in  session  in  St. 
Charles,  and  that  "  both  branches  of  that  body,  through  respect  to 
hi&  memory,  adjourned  for  the  day,  and  passed  a  resolution  to  wear 
crape  on  the  left  arm  for  twenty  days.'' 

One  of  his  sous,  Jesse  B.  Boone,  was  at  the  time  a  member  of  the 
Legislature  from  the  county  of  Montgomery. 

LOCATION    OF    THE    COUNTY    SEAT. 

The  act  having  been  passed  November  16,  1820,  to  organize  Boone 
County,,  the  Statesman  sketches  by  Mr.  Stephens  say  that  ''John 
Gray,  Jefferson  Fulcher,  Absalom  Hicks,  Lawrence  Bass  and  David 
Jackson,  were  appointed  by  the  Legislature  commissioners  to  select 
and  establish  a  permanent  county  seat.  They  were  empowered  to  re- 
ceive donations  of  not  less  than  fifty,  or  more  than  two  hundred  acres 
of  land,  upon  which  to  fix  this  seat  of  justice ;  and,  in  the  event  of 
no  donations  being  made,  they  were  authorized  to  purchase  land,  for 
which  not  more  than  ten  dollars  per  acre  were  to  be  paid. 

'*Upon  the  reception  of  this  land,  deeds  were  to  be  taken  by  said 
commissioners,  which  were  to  be  submitted  to  the  Circuit  Court,  upon 
whose  approval  the  commissioners  were  to  proceed  to  advertise  the 
lots  for  sale,  in  some  newspaper  printed  in  the  State. 


158  HISTORY    OF    BOONE    COUNTY. 

"  In  January,  1821,  the  commissioners  entered  upon  the  discharge 
of  their  duties,  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  fixed  the  seat  of  justice 
at  Columbia ;  and  henceforth  the  identity  of  Boone  was  recognized 
and  permanently  preserved. 

The  ground  on  which  Columbia  now  stands  was  purchased  at  the 
government  land  sales,  on  November  18th,  1818,  by  an  association  of 
citizens  of  Missouri  and  other  States,  organized  in  Franklin,  and 
styled  the  "  Smith  ton  Company."  The  prospect  of  an  early  forma- 
tion of  a  new  county  was  quite  evident,  and  the  situation  of  this  land 
seeming  favorable,  it  was  purchased  for  the  purpose  of  securing  upon 
it  the  seat  of  justice. 

*'  Smithton,  however,  stood  for  over  eighteen  months,  and  it  was  two 
years  from  the  location  of  the  first  building  there  when  the  change  of 
the  county  seat  was  made  to  Columbia. 

FIRST    CIRCUIT    COURT    AT    SMITHTON. 

*'  During  its  existence  the  county  was  organized  (November,  1820)» 
and  by  an  act  of  the  Legishitnre,  the  temporary  county  seat  was  there 
located.  There,  on  April  2d,  1821,  the  first  Circuit  Court  (David 
Todd,  judge ^)  of  Boone  Count}',  was  held.  In  consequence  of  its 
historic  interest,  it  is  deemed  fitting  to  note  the  following  incidents 
durinir  the  session  of  the  Court: — 

On  the  day  of  its  meeting,  the  following  ofticers  appeared  and  pre- 
sented their  commissions  :  David  Todd,  Judge  ;  Hamilton  R.  Gamble, 
Circuit  Attorney;  Roger  N.  Todd,  Clerk;  Overton  Harris,  Sheriff. 
The  following  is  the  first  entry  on  the  records  of  the  court: 

State  of  Mo.,  Boon[e]  County. 
Be  it  remembered,  that  upon  the  2d  day  of  April,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thou- 
sand eight  hundred  and  twenty-one,  bein<?  the  first  Monday  in  said  month,  at  the  towtt 
of  Smithton,  in  said  county  of  Boone  (the  same  being  the  time  and  place  appointed 
for  holding  the  temporary  courts  for  said  county,  by  two  several  acts  of  the  Legislature 
of  said  State,  one  approved  November  25,  1820,  entitled  **An  act  establishing  judicial 
districts  and  circuits,  and  prescribing  tiie  times  and  places  of  holding  courts;*'  the 
other  approved  November  16th,  1820,  entitled  "An  act  defining  the  limits  of  Howard 
county,  and  laying  off  new  counties  within  tiie  limits  of  said  county  as  heretofore 
defined  "J  personally  appeared  David  Todd,  esquire,  and  produced  a  commission  from 
the  Governor  of  said  State  ^  as  the  Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  said  county,  and  as 
being  duly  qualified  thereto,  which  was  read,  and  is  in  the  following  words,  to-wit: 


1  David  Todd  was  born  in  Lexington,  Ky.,  March  20,  1780,  and  died  in  Columbia^ 
Mo.,  June  9,  1851). 

*  Then  Alex.  McNalr. 


HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  ISS"  ' 

SijfnedatSt.  Loals,  Dec.  5,  1820,  attested  by  Groveruor's  private'seal,  **  there  being 
no  seal  of  State  yet  provided,'^  and  by  Joshua  Barton,  Sec^y  of  Stated 

And  the  said  Judge  caused  due  proclamation  to  be  made  and  took  his  seat  and  con* 
stitQted  &  court  for  the  circuit  of  said  county  of  Boone. 

Hamilton  R.  Gamble  produced  his  commission  as  Circuit  Attorney. 

Tbe  following  persons  were  admitted  to  practice  as  attorneys :  — 

John  F.  Ryland,  Cyrus  Edwards, 

John  C.  Mitchell,  Chas.  French, 

John  Payne,  Wni.  J.  Redd, 

Hamilton  R.  Gamble,  John  T.  McKinney, 

Dabney  Carr,  Rob't  A.  Ewing, 

Andrew  S.  McGiric. 

GRAND    JURY. 

"The  following  grand  jury  was  empanelled: 

Peter  Bass,  Foreman,  Mosias  Jones,  Peter  Ellis,  James  Ready,. 
Hugh  Patten,  Thomas  G.  Jones,  Wm.  Barry,  Joshua  Alexander, 
JohuOgan,  John  Kennon,  Richard  Cave,  Sen.,  Joseph  Lynes,  Har- 
risou  Jamison,  Riley  Slocum,  Hiram  P.  Philips,  John  Anderson, 
John  Shick,  Smith  Turner,  George  Sexton,  Benjamin  Mothershead, 
Minor Neale,  John  Henderson,  and  Tyre  Harris." 

Havino^  received  their  charge,  the  jury  went  out  of  court,  and  aftcM- 
some  time  returned  and  presented  an  indictment  against  Wm.  Ramsey 
and  Hiram  Bryant  for  assault  and  battei-y  (a  true  l>ill),  and  havin<r 
nothing  further  to  present,  were  discharged.  Ramsey  and  Bryant 
were  indicted  for  assault  and  hatterv.  R.  was  convicted  at  next 
termand  fined  $20.  Case  v.  B.  nol.pvos'd  at  December  term.  Fii'st 
civil  suit  disposed  of  was  Obadiah  Babbitt  v.  Amos  Barnes.  Appeal 
from  Justice  John  Shick's  court.  Judscmcnt  set  aside.  Criminal 
cases  at  first  were  all  for  assault  and  battery. 

''A  petit  jui'y  was  also  empanelled  and  was  composed  of  the  foU 

lowincr : 

"John  T.  Evans,^  John  T.  Foster,  Michael  Woods,  Jesse  Richard- 
son, Daniel  King,  John  Jamison,  Thomas  Kennon,  John  Beriy,  Jesse 
Davis,  Joseph  W.  Hickam,  Robert  Jones  and  Adam  C.  Reyburn. 

"  This  court  held  two  days,  and  was  employed  chiefly  in  appointing 

overseers  for  roads  and  issuing  licenses.     In  the  absence  of  a  proper 

building,  their  proceedings   were  conducted  under  an  arbor  of  sugar 

trees,  constructed  for  the  purpose  and  provided  with  accommodations, 

and  here  within  this  shady  grove,  surrounded  by  the  luxuriance  and 

beauty  of  nature's  freshness,  did  justice  have  an  honored  birth-place 

UDon  the  soil  of  Boone  countv  ! 


160  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

**  On  August  6th,  1821,  was  held  another  Circuit  Court,  at  Smith- 
ton,  with  same  officers  and  the  following  grand  jury :  — 

**  William  Lientz,  Foreman  ;  Daniel  Toalson,  Lewis  Collins,  William 
Ridgeway,  Henry  Cave,  Sen.,  Peter  Creason,  James  Hicks,  Robert 
Barclay,  Stephen  Wilhite,  Aquilla  Barns,  David  McQuitty,  James 
Lamme,  John  W.  Fowler,  Nathaniel  Teagus,  William  Boyse,  Richard 
Lanum,  and  James  Harris. 

• 

FIRST    COUNTY    COURT. 

"  The  first  regular  session  of  the  County  Court  of  Boone  was  held  at 
rSmithton  on  February  23d,  1821,  two  months  before  the  sitting  of 
the  Circuit  Q)urt.  The  judges  present  were  ;  Auderson  Woods  and 
Lazarus  Wilcox.  Its  only  work  at  this  session  was  to  appoint  Warren 
AVoodson,  clerk  ^ro  tem.^  and  Michael  Woods,  County  Assessor. 

'*At  its  next  meeting  on  May  21st,  its  third  judge,  Peter  Wright,  ap- 
peared and  began  his  duties.  A  good  deal  of  business  was  transacted 
at  this  session,  and  amongst  other  things  were  the  division  of  the 
county  into  judicial  townships,  and  the  appointment  of  Peter  Wright, 
County  Surveyor,  and  of  Overton  Harris,  County  Collector.  Regu- 
lar sessions  of  the  same  Court  met  at  Smithton  on  August  20th,  and 
November  14th,  after  which  the  change  was  made  to  Columbia. 

• 

SMITHTON    MOVED    TO    COLUMBIA. 

"The  failure  to  obtain  water  on  the  site  of  Smithton  soon  induced 
the  proprietors  to  abandon  the  project  of  a  town  at  that  place,  and  it 
was  determined  to  lay  out  a  town  on  the  same  plan  on  the  present  site 
of  Columbia,  and  to  transfer  the  titles  of  land  in  Smithton  to  lots  of 
similar  size  and  value  in  Columbia  ;  should  it  be  the  option  of  holders 
of  these  titles  to  have  the  transfer  made." 

PUBLIC   NOTICE  OF   THE    CHANGE. 

The  following  publication  was  made  in  the  Intelligencer^  at  Franklin 
(May  21,  1821),  notifying  those  persons  of  the  change:  — 

COLUMBIA. 

The  trustees  of  this  town  iaforra  those  interested,  that  the  permanent  seat  of  justice 
of  Boon  County  has  been  located  upon  the  lands  belonging  to  the  company,  lately 
called  **  Smithton  Company,"  at  which  place  a  town,  upon  the  same  plan  as  the  orig- 
inal one,  has  been  laid  out,  and  is  caUed  Columbia. 

In  justice  to  the  purchasers  of  lots  in  Smithton,  the  trustees  will  reserve  a  lot 
corresponding  in  number,  to  be  conveyed  to  them  on  application,  if  made. on  or  before 
the  first  Monday  in  August  next,  and  will  renew  their  note  or  notes  now  held  by  the 


HISTORY  OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  161 

trustees:  ind  this  renewal  will  be  on  a  credit  of  one  year  for  one-half  the  amount  yet 
owing  the  trustees  —  the  other  to  be  considered  as  due.  These  proposals  are  consid- 
ered rery  liberal,  as  the  whole  amount  is  now  due,  and  for  a  lot  in  the  old  town,  which 
is  soppoeed  will  be  abandoned.  If  the  purchaser  does  not  apply,  and  cancel  the  old 
^mtnct  by  the  time  fixed,  it  will  be  presumed  the  purchaser  intends  retaining  and 
ptjingforhis  lot  in  Smithton;  and  the  trustees  will,  after  that  time,  feel  authorized  to 
dispose  of  the  number  now  reserved  for  those  persons  in  Columbia. 

Attention  will  be  given  immediately  on  the  subject  at  Judge  Todd*s  office,  in  Frank- 
lin, by  Mr.  Rees,  who  will  be  prepared  to  receive  the  old  notes  and  execute  title  bonds. 
It  \»  distinctly  understood  that  this  is  considered  a  new  purchase  by  each  individual, 
md  if  in  any  other  point  of  view,  the  purchaser  will  retain  his  lot  in  Smithton. 

The  town  of  Columbia  is  located  upon  a  fine  site,  and  in  a  neighborhood  of  the  best 
lands  in  the  State,  which  is  improving  with  great  rapidity  by  respectable  and  wealthy 
dtixens,  and  offers  every  inducement  to  mechanics  of  every  kind  to  settle  immediately, 
as  it  is  expected  the  county  buildings  will  be  contracted  for  in  a  few  months. 

The  proprietors  oi  this  company  are  notified  that  a  meeting,  by  themselves  or  their 
legallj  empowered  attorney  in  fact,  is  requested  on  the  first  Monday  in  August  next, 
atColambla,  on  business  of  the  utmost  importance. 

Bj  order  of  the  Trustees. 

May  21, 1821. 

**The  abundance  of  water  and  its  central  location,  and  public  senti- 
ment, fixed  Columbia  as  the  most  feasible  point  for  the  seat  of  justice  for 
the  neH  county.  Accordingly  a  donation  of  fifty  acres  of  land,  two 
public  squares,  $2,000  in  money,  and  two  wells  of  water,  from  the 
trustees  of  the  town,  was  accepted  by  the  Commissioners  appointed 
by  the  Legislature  to  locate  the  county  seat,  who,  on  August  6,  1821, 
submitted  the  following  report  to  the  Circuit  Court,  then  in  session  in 
Smithton,  which  was  adopted  :  — 

We,  the  undersigned,  Lawrence  Bass,  John  Gray,  David  Jackson,  Absalom  Ilicks, 
ud  Jefferson  Fulcher,  Commissioners,  appointed  by  an  act  of  the  Legislature  of 
Hissonri  erecting  the  said  County  of  Boone  to  tlx  upon  and  locate  the  permanent  seat 
ofjostice  in  said  county,  did,  on  the  third,  fourth,  fifth  and  sixth  days  of  AprU,  in  the 
jcir  eighteen  hundred  and  twenty-one,  proceed  to  the  discharge  of  the  duties  required 
ot  OS  by  the  said  act,  and  have  fixed  upon  as  the  permanent  seat  of  justice  of  said 
coontT,  the  southeast  quarter  of  section  twelve,  in  range  thirteen  and  township  forty- 
«iglit,  which  was  owned  by  Thos.  Duley,  Gerard  Robinson,  Taylor  Berry,  Richard 
Oeotrjr  and  David  Todd,  trustees  and  proprietors  for  certain  Individuals,  whose  names 
^  particularly  described  in  a  deed  of  trust,  of  record  in  the  office  of  Howard  County, 
b;  Anderson  Woods  and  others,  and  have  accepted  of  a  majority  of  the  said  trustees 
tbeir  propositions  of  a  donation  of  fifty  acres  of  land  and  two  public  squares  of 
iroQQd,  whereon  to  erect  suitable  and  necessary  buildings  for  county  and  town  pur- 
poses; alao,  a  farther  donation  to  the  County  Court  of  ten  acres  of  land  for  the 
erection  of  bridges  over  the  Moniteau,  Roche  Perce,  Hinkson  and  Cedar  Creeks,  on  the 
direct  route  from  Franklin  to  St.  Charles,  through  the  county  seat;   also,  ten  acres 
conditional  if  the  State  University  be  established  therein,  and  have  also  received  their 
propositlont  for  a  donation  of  two  thousand  dollars  in  cash  notes,  and  the  procuring 
of  two  wells  of  nerer  falling- water;  and  we  shall  proceed  forthwith  to  cause  town 

11 


162  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

lots  U»  be  laid  out,  and  the  necessary  conveyances  for  said  land,  and  shall  receive  the 
said  donation  of  cash  notes  upon  individuals,  all  of  which  we  will  in  a  further  report 
of  oui^  proceedings  refer  to  and  explain. 

Lawrence  Bass,  [Seal.] 

David  Jackson,  [Seal.] 

John  Gray,  [Seal.] 

Absalom  Hicks,  [Seal.] 

Jefferson  Fulcher.     [Seal.] 
Smithton,  Boone  CouNxy,  Mo.,  April  7,  1821. 

'*  Smithton  never  contained  over  twenty  inhabitants,  and  its  houses, 
with  the  exception  of  the  double  hewed  one  before  referred  to  as  be- 
longing to  Gen.  Gentry,  were  log  cabins  of  the  rudest  structure  and 
of  only  the  poorest  conveniences.  They  were  all  hauled  to  Columbia 
when  the  seat  of  justice  was  removed.  Not  a  vestige  of  them  remains. 
Columbia  was  laid  out  early  in  the  spring  of  1821.  The  surveyor  wa? 
Peter  Wright,  a  man  who  deserves  not  only  the  honor  but  the  grat- 
itude of  our  people  for  the  systematic  and  elaborate  manner  in  whicl 
he  did  his  work,  and  especially  for  the  judgment  and  taste  he  displayed 
in  the  construction  of  Broadway,  even  now  admitted  to  be  the  most 
beautiful  street  in  Missouri.  He  was  assisted  by  Charles  Burns,  Petei 
Kearny  and Butters  worth. 

"  The  first  sale  of  lots  in  Columbia  occurred  on  Monday,  May  28, 
1821.  The  publication  of  the  County  Commissioners,  giving  notice 
of  the  sale,  appeared  in  the  Intelligencer  of  April  14,  1821,  as 
follows  :  — 

COLUMBIA. 

The  commissioners  of  Boon  County  have  located  the  permanent  seat  of  justice  ii 
said  county,  near  the  centre,  upon  the  lands  adjoining  Smithton,  and  have  laid  off  th< 
above  town.  This  town  site  is  located  in  a  neighborhood  of  first  rate  lands,  and  inter 
sected  by  the  most  public  roads  in  the  State  leading  to  St.  Louis,  and  from  the  Uppei 
Missouri  to  the  expected  seat  of  Government,'  and  in  every  respect  is  calculated  U 
meet  the  expectation  of  the  public  and  its  friends. 

The  commissioners  propose  to  sell  lots  therein  on  the  third  Monday  in  May,  belnj 
County  Court  day;  and  on  the  first  Monday  in  August,  being  Circuit  Court  day,  at  th« 
town  of  Smithton,  and  will  adjourn  to  the  town  site,  on  which  days  they  expect  Um 

sales  will  be  entirely  closed. 

L.  BASS, 
JOHN  GRAY, 
DAVID  JACKSON, 
ABSALOM  HICKS, 
JEFFERSON  FULCHER. 

April  14,1821. 

FIRST   HOUSES,  ETC.,  IN    COLUMBIA. 

*'  The  first  house  in  Columbia  was  a  log  cabin,  built  by  Thomas  Duly, 


HI8TOKT  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  163 

in  1820.    It  stood  on  the  southeast  comer  of  Broadway  and  Fifth 
Street.    It  was  afterwards  weather-boarded  and  enlarged. 

"The  first  store-house  was  built  by  A.  J.  Williams,  on  the  southwest 
corner  of  Broadway  and  Fifth  Street,  afterwards  the  residence  of  Dr. 
William  Provines,  and  now  the  residence  of  Alfred  Brown,  a  colored 
man. 

"The  first  hotel  was  kept  by  Gen.  Gentry,  on  Broadway,  in  1821. 

"The  first  brick  house  was  built  by  Charles  Hardin,  in  1821.  The 
first  business  establishment  was  a  grocery,  kept  by  Peter  Kearny,  on 
the  northeast  comer  of  Fifth  Street  and  Broadway.  The  first  court 
in  Columbia  was  held  in  a  log  cabin,  about  fifty  yards  east  of  the 
present  jail,  where  it  met  for  a  year,  when  it  was  removed  to  a  work- 
shop belonging  to  Judge  John  Vanhom,  situated  on  the  ground  where 
now  stands  the  residence  of  Rev.  Isaac  Jones.  (The  large  two-stoiy 
brick  stores  of  Conley,  Searcy  &  Co.  now  occupy  the  lot.)  There  it 
remained  until  the  completion  of  the  old  court-house,  in  1824.  Tho 
first  jail  stood  a  few  yards  northwest  of  the  present  court-house,  audi 
the  keeper  was  John  M.  Kelly. 

"  In  1821  Columbia  did  not  attain  a  greater  growth  than  fifteen  or 
twenty  houses,  all  of  which  were  mud-daubed  log  buildings  of  the 
smaller  size,  and  but  one-story  high.  They  were  situated  in  a 
"clearing"  id  the  midst  of  stumps  and  brush,  while  all  around 
stretched  a  dense  and  trackless  wilderness. 

"Although  the  County  Commissioners  reported  the  removal  of  the 
seat  of  justice  to  Columbia  in  the  spring  of  1821,  the  actual  transfer 
could  not  be  made  without  the  ratification  of  the  Legislature,  which 
did  not  assemble  until  the  fall  of  that  year.  Courts  were  therefore 
held  at  Smithton  until  November  15th,  when  the  Legislature  made  the 
transfer. 

niiST  ciRCurr  court  at  Columbia. 

"Accordingly  the  first  court  was  held  at  Columbia,  on  December  7tb, 
1821.  The  following  is  the  grand  jury  that  was  on  that  day  empan- 
nelled  : 

**  Mason  Moss,  Foreman  ;  Jesse  Perkins,  James  Barns,  Alfred  Head,, 
fiichard  Fulkerson,  John  Harrisoh,  J.  C.  McKay,  William  T.  Hatton, 
Andrew  Hendricks,  Greorge  Crump,  Charles  Hughes,  William  Barns, 
John  Yates,  John  McKenzie,  Joseph  W.  Hickam,  Jesse  B.  Dale,  Michael 
Woods,  Thomas  Williams,  Caleb  Fenton,  John  G.  Philips,  Zachariah 
Jackson. 


164  HISTORY    OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

**Al80  the  following  petit  jury:  John  Witt,  Pattison  Y.  Russell, 
William  Russell,  Kemp  M.  Goodloe,  John  T.  Evans,  Nathan  Glas- 
gow, John  Ogan,  John  Graves,  James  Turley,  Jesse  Lewis,  JohnKen- 
non,  and  James  Denny.     This  court  held  two  days. 

FIRST    COUNTY    COURT   AT    COLUMBIA. 

"  The  first  County  Court  met  in  Columbia  on  February  18th,  1822. 
Four  regular  sessions  of  this  court  were  held  in  Smithton  during  1821, 
during  which  the  county  was  laid  off  into  judicial  townships,  and  Con- 
stables were  appointed  for  each,  as  follows  : 

"Columbia  Township  —  Nichohis  S.  Kavanaugh ;  Cedar  Town- 
ship —  Thomas  S.  Tuttle  ;  Missouri  Township  —  Ichabod  C.  Hensley ; 
Rockyfork  Township — Amos  Marney  ;  Perche  Township  —  Samuel 
Beattie. 

'*The  first  Justices  of  the  Peace  were  appointed  in  1821  by  Gov- 
ernor McNair,  as  follows ; 

"Columbia  Township  —  Richard  Cave;  Cedar  Township  —  James 
Cunningham;  Missouri  Township  —  John  Gray;  Rockyfork  Town- 
ship—  James  R.  Abernathy  ;  ^  Perche  Township  —  John  Henderson.' 

"Bourbon  Township  had  not  then  been  made. 

"  The  law  requuiring  the  appointments  of  District  Assessors  was  then 
in  force,  and  the  following  were  the  first  appointed  (1822)  : 

"Columbia  Township  —  Minor  Neal ;  Cedar — Lawrence  Bass; 
Missouri — Jesse  B.  Dale  ;  Rockyfork — William  L.  Wayne  ;  Perche — 
Michael  Woods  ;  Assessor  for  county  — Ichabod  C.  Hensle3^ 

"Overton  Harris  was  the  first  Sheriff  of  Boone  County,  having  been 
appointed  by  the  Governor.  He  held  the  position  until  the  first 
election  for  State  and  county  officers,  on  August  5th,  1822,  when 
James  Barnes  was  elected  Sheriff,  and  Mr.  Harris  received  the 
appointment  of  Assessor.  The  late  Hiram  Philips  was  appointed  first 
Coroner  of  Boone  in  1821. 

[His  son,  Judge  Richard  Philips,  of  Audniin  County,  has  furnished 
us  his  original  commission  issued  July  20th,  1821,  by  Governor  Alex- 
ander McNair,  and  it  strongly  contrasts  with  the  beautifully  printed 
and  highly  embellished  commissions  of  the  present  day.  It  is  all  in  the 
bold  elegant  penmanship  of  Wm.  G.  Pettus,  then  Secretary  of  State, 


*  Mr.  Aberuathy  was  afterwards  a  lawyer,  prosecuting  attorney,  and  editor  of  the 
Mercury  in  Paris,  Mo.,  where  he  now  lives  at  an  advanced  age. 

Old  settlers  state  that  Mr.  Henderson  lived  in  Missouri  Township  at  the  time. 


HIBTORT   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  165 

tod  the  State  then  having  no  seal  one  is  made  with  a  wafer  over  which 
is  a Btar-ehaped  piece  of  white  paper  cut  with  a  pair  of  scissors.  The 
commissiou  is  as  follows :  — W.  F.  Switzlbr.] 

Alexandbr  McNair,  Oovernor  of  thf  State  of  Missouri, 

TO  m  WHO  SHALL  SEE  THESE  PRESENTS.     GHreetitig:  \ 

Koow  je  that  reposing  8|>eclal  trust  and  confidence  in  the  integrity  and  abilities  of 

Hbim  Philips  of  the  County  of  Boone  I  do  him  appoint  Coroner  of  the  said  County 

ol  Boone  in  the  State  of  Missouri  and  do  authorize  and  empower  him  to  discharge  the 

duties  of  said  Office  according  to  law.    To  Have  and  to  Hold  the  said  Office  with  all 

die  riglits,  powers,  privileges  and  emoluments  unto  the  same  appertaining  unto  him 

tkenkl  Hiram  PhUips  until  the  next  general  election  and  until  his  successor  be  duly 

Rifled  onless  sooner  removed  according  to  law. 

Ifl  TtoUmony  whereof  I  have  hereunto  affixed  my  private  seal  (there  being  no  seal  of 

State  yet  provided).    Given  under  my  hand  at  St.  Charles  this  20th day  of 

[l^.]      July  A.  D.  One  thousand  eight  hundred  and  twentv  one  and  of  the  Inde* 

pendence  of  the  United  States  the  forty-sixt  i. 

Bj  the  Governor. 

A.  McNAIR. 
William  G.  Pettus,  Secretary  of  State. 

EwjM  Philips,  Copmlssion  Coroner. 
Filed  August  7th,  1S21 . 

R.  N.  TODD,  Clk. 

Stati  of  Missouri,  'i  ^.      ..  ^      .  .         .  ^        , « ., 

^ „_^  ,„     >  88.  C  rcuit  Court  August  Term  1821. 

CouKTY  OF  Boone.  /  ** 

This  day  personally  appeared  In  open  Court  the  within  named  Hiram  Philips,  Esquire, 

lod  took  the  oath  to  support  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  and  of  this  State 

ud  faithfully,  diligently  and  impartially  to  discharge  the  duties  of  Coroner  for  the 

CoQotTof  Boone  to  the  best  of  his  skill  and  abilities.    Given  under  my  hand  this  7th 

dtyof  August  1821  with  my  private  seal,  there  being  no  seal  of  State  yet  provided. 

[L.8.]  ROGER  N.  TODD,  Clk. 

State  of  Missouri.  Boone  Circuit  to  wit: 

Tbis  commission  of  Hiram  Philips  Coroner  was  produced  before  me  clerk  of  said 
Ooan  and  having  been  qualified  in  open  Court  the  same  with  certificate  of  qualiflca- 
tl<m8  Is  admitted  to  record  In  my  office  and  is  duly  recorded  in  Book  A  page  39  this  7th 
day  of  August  1821.  Given  under  my  hand  with  my  private  seal  there  being  no  seal  of 
o(8ce yet  provided. 

[L.ft.]  ROGER  N.  TODD,  Clerk. 

"One  Rmong  the  first  acts  of  the  Court  of  July,  1821,  was  to  fix 
tie  county  tax,  at  five  per  cent  of  the  State  Tax. 

"This  was  the  rule  in  Boone  county  until  1830. 

"The  first  license  to  keep  tavern  was  granted  to  Wilford  Stephens, 
of  Columbia,  on  August  20,  1821.  The  first  license  to  retail  mer- 
chandise was  granted  to  Peter  Bass  on  June  1,  1821,  and  the  next 
to  Oliver  Parker,  on  June  9,  1821. 


166  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

''  In  1821,  the  first  year  of  its  existence,  the  size  and  wealth  of  Col- 
umbia were  very  diminutive.  The  town  consisted  of  a  few  cabins  on 
'*Flat  Branch,"  while  none  but  Gentry's  Hotel  stood  as  far  east  aa 
Court  House  Street.  In  1 822  a  spirited  rivalry  sprang  up  between 
General  Gentry  and  Dr.  Wm.  Jewell,  as  to  whether  the  central  part 
of  the  town  should  be  where  it  now  is  or  at  the  intersection  of  Broad- 
way and  Fifth  Street.  Gentry,  however,  triumphed  and  during  the 
next  year,  1822,  several  houses  were  built  on  what  is  now  Eightii 
or  Court  House  Street.  The  primary  design  of  the  founders  of  Colum- 
bia was  that  the  ground  on  which  now  stands  the  court-house,  Baptist 
Church,  and  jail  siiould  be  a  public  square,  and  the  sui*vey  was  so  made. 

'*  In  1822,  dry  goods  stores  were  kept  in  Columbia  by  Peter  Bass, 
Abraham  J.  Williams,  and  Robert  Snell ;  groceries  by  Thomas  Dulj 
and  John  Graham,  and  taverns  by  Richard  Gentry,  Wilford  Stephens, 
and  Sam'l  Wall.  Other  inhabitants  were  David  Jackson,  William 
Davis,  Kemp  M.  Goodloe,  Roger  N.  Todd,  Abel  Foley,  Charles  Har- 
din, and  Dr.  Daniel  P.  Wilcox. 

*'  The  post-office  was  established  in  Columbia  in  1821,  with  Charles 
Hardin,  father  of  the  present  (1876)  governor  of  Missouri,  Charles 
H.  Hardin,  as  postmaster. 

[Charles  Hardin  was  a  tanner,  and  lived  and  kept  the  post-office,  on 
Flat  Branch,  in  the  southwestern  part  of  town,  and  on  the  same  lot 
on  which  his  old  brick  residence,  the  first  brick  house- erected  in  Col- 
umbia, yet  stands.  His  tan-yard  was  in  the  valley  of  the  branch, 
near  his  residence.  Mr.  Hardin  married  a  sister  of  the  late  Dr.  Wm. 
Jewell,  and  died  in  Columbia,  on  August  20,   1830. — W.  F.  S.] 

'*  The  first  jail  was  built  by  George  Sexton,  in  1822,  and  was  kept 
by  John  M.  Kelly,  who  died  in  Columbia,  January  24,  1874.  Thre< 
of  his  daughters,  who  are  estimable  Christian  ladies.  Misses  Marj 
Jane,  Roxanna  and  Catherine  Kelly,  survive  him,  and  are  still  resi- 
dents of  the  town,  living  in  a  frame  house  opposite  the  Christiai: 
Church. 

FIRST   SHERIFF   OF    BOONE    COUNTY. 

*'  Overton  Harris,  father  of  Hon.  John  W.  Harris,  Judge  James  and 
Mr.  William  A.  Harris,  was  the  first  sherift*  of  Bocme  County.  He  w« 
appointed  by  the  County  Court,  in  May,  1821,  and  commissioned  bj 
the  Governor  the  July  following.  He  gave  a  bond  of  $5,000  to  th< 
court,  with  Tyre  Harris,  Nicholas  S.  Kavanaugh  and  Samuel  Beattie, 
as  securities,  and  in  July  gave  one  of  $1,000  to  the  Governor,  witt 
Michael  and  Anderson  Woods,  securities.     He  held  the  position  til: 


\ 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  167 

the  first  election  for  State  and  county  officers,  on  August  5th,  1822, 
when  James  Barnes,^  still  a  resident  of  the  county,  was  elected 
sheriff,  and  Mr.  Harris  received  the  appointment  of  assessor." 

FIRST   DEED,    MORTGAGE,    ETC. 

The  first  deed  of  record  in  the  county  was  dated  Dec.  12,  1820,  from 
Taylor  Berry  and  wife  to  John  Walkup,  for  160  acres  of  land,  for 
$950,  and  is  as  follows  : 

VIRST  DEED. 

Tf  into  whom  these  presents  shaU  come,  Greeting: 

Know  ye,  that  I,  Taylor  Berry  and  Fanny  W.  Berry,  my  wife,  of  the  county  of 
Howtrd  and  State  of  Missouri,  for  and  in  consideration  of  the  sum  of  99M,  tp  me  in 
bud  paid  by  John  Walkup,  of  the  county  aforesaid,  the  receipt  whereof  I  do  hereby 
acknowledge,  have  granted,  bargained,  sold,  transferred  and  assigned,  and  do  by  these 
presents  grant,  bargain,  sell,  transfer  and  assign  to  the  said  John  Walkup,  his  heirs  or 
aasigni  forever,  a  certain  tract  or  parcel  of  land,  containing  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acrei,  be  the  same  more  or  less,  lying  and  being  in  the  said  county  of  Howard,  or  more 
properly  now  Boon  County,  It  being  the  southwest  quarter  of  section  No.  ten,  town- 
sUp forty-alne,  north,  and  range  No.  fourteen,  west  of  the  5th  principal  meridian  line, 
it  being  the  same  quarter  which  was  Improved  by  Michael  Woods,  which  said  quarter 
eection  is  a  part  of  a  location  made  by  me  by  virtue  of  a  New  Madrid  claim,  In  the 
name  of  Francis  Hudson,  Senr.,  —  To  have  and  to  hold  to  him  the  said  John  Walkup, 
bit  bein  or  assigns  forever,  free  from  the  claim  or  claims  of  all  persons  whatsoever. 

In  testimony  whereof,  etc. 

Dec.  12,  1S20. 

TAYLOR  BERRY. 

FANNY  BERRY. 
Witnesses:  Wm.  Grubbs,  Wm.  Carson. 

Acknowledged  before  Gray  Bynum,  Clerk  C.  C,  Howard  Co. 

"The  first  mortgage  was  given  on  February  18th,  1821,  by  Benjamin 
F.White,  to  Robert  Dale,  and  secured  a  debt  of  $67.26V4.  The 
property  mortgaged  was  '*  a  tract  of  land,  known  as  the  southeast 
quarter  of  the  second  section,  in  township  forty-eight,  range  four- 
teen, with  all  the  appurtenances  thereto  belonging  and  appertaining, 
and  one  sorrel  horse,  one  bay  mare,  one  red  yearling  heifer,  and 
tiro  sows  and  pigs." 

**The  first  letters  of  administration  were  granted  on  May  21st, 

1821,  to  James  Turley,    on  the  estate  of  Daniel  Turley,  deceased, 

Nathaniel  Fagan  and  John  McKinzie  being  securities  in  a  bond  of 

12,500.     The  deed  from  the  trustees  of  the  ''Smithton  Company" 

donating  ground  to  the  county  commissioners  as  the  seat  of  justice, 

WHS  recorded  on  April  28th,  1821." 


'  Mr.  Barnes  died  at  his  residence,  in  Randolph  County,  Mo., ,  187—. 


168  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


EARLY    MARRIAGES. 

1.  This  is  to  certify  that  Isaac  Black  and  Sarah  Maupin  was  married  by  the  under- 
signed on  the  14th  day  of  July  1820  given  under  my  hand  and  seal  this  tenth  day  of 
August,  1820.  TYRE  MARTIN,  J.  P. 

Recorded  June  20, 1821. 

2.  December  21,  1820.    Married  by  me  Robert  Dale,  a  baptist  minister  of  the  gospel^ 

in  Boone  county.  State  of  Missouri,  Robt.  D.  Walkup  and  Anna  W.  Cochran. 

ROBERT  DALE. 
Recorded  May  22,  1821. 

3.  Daniel  Lewis  and  Mary  Pain  [Payne]  Feb.  18,  1821.    By  Tyre  Martin,  J.  P. 

4.  Thomas  Kennan  and  Mary  Cave,  March  10,  1821.    Tyre  Martin,  J.  P. 

5.  James  Renn  and  Rebecca  Whitley,  March  18,  1821.    John  Henderson,  J.  P. 

6.  John  Gray  and  Nancy  Ross,  March  22,  1821.    John  Henderson,  J.  P. 

7.  Joseph  Glenn  and  Sally  Graham,  Apr.  5,  1821.    John  Henderson,  J.  P. 

8.  John  Anderson  and  Lovee  Fenton,  (''both  of  the  county  of  Boone**)  Apr.  28, 
1821.    Absalom  Hicks,  J.  P. 

BOONE    COUNTY   FINANCES    IN    1821. 

It  will  be  seen  by  the  following  tabular  statements,  made  and  pub- 
lished Nov.  13,  1821,  by  Overton  Harris,  coUectot,  that  the  finances 
of  Boone  county  the  year  after  its  organization  were  exceedingly 
small;  the  reading  of  which,  in  contrast  with  the  present  financial 
condition  of  the  county,  will  be  very  interesting :  — 

MONEYS 

Which  have  been  received,  and  which  ought  to  have  been  received  for  Licenses  in 

Boone  County,  since  the  15th  day  of  May,  1821. 

$  cts 

Peter  Bass,       (Merchandise) 150O 

Oliver  Parker,          do             ...        - 16  00 

Robert  Snell,            do             15  00 

Richard  Gentry,  (Wines  and  Spirituous  Liquors) 20  00 

Thos.  Donley,         do        do           do           do               6  00 

John  Grayum,         do        do           do           do              6  00 

ToUl  ^77  00 

Overton  Harris, 
Collector  Boone  Coanty. 
Nov.  13th,  1821. 

DELINQUENT    TAXES    OF    1821. 

The  following  jidvertisement  made  by  Overton  Harris,  collector^ 
same  day  and  date  as  above,  exhibits  the  names  of  certain  tax  payer* 
*'  who  have  absconded,  or,  become  insolvent  subsequently  to  the  date 
of  their  assessment  and  prior  to  the  date  when  the  tax  ought  to  have 
been  collected  and  the  amount  of  taxes  due  by  them  respectively." 

None  of  the  amounts  reach  the  sum  of  $10,  a  large  majority  of 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 


169' 


them  are  under  $1,  and  cue  of  them,  the  taxes  of  Louis  (Lewis)' 
Teters,  both  State  and  county,  only  twelve  cents.  It  will  be  seen  that 
the  tuxes  are  stated  with  scrupulous  exactness,  even  to  a  cent  and* 
fractions  of  a  cent,  and  that  it  is,  for  this  and  other  reasons,  a  very 
rare  and  racy  official  paper :  — 

A   LIST 

Of  iIlsDcb  persons  from  whom  taxes  are  due  for  State  and  coanty  purposes  in  Boone 
coQDtj,  for  the  year  1S21,  and  who  have  absconded,  or  become  Insolvent,  subsequent- 
to  th«  date  of  their  assessment  and  prior  to  the  date  when  the  tax  ought,  according  to 
the  provisions  of  Uie  statute  in  this  case  made,  to  have  been  coUected,  and  the  amount 
of  taxes  doe  by  them  respectively,  to- wit: 


Delinquents'  Names. 


BeojuDin  Bordyne 

KUm  Boles 

Jtmcs  Beatty,  (dead) 

Obadiih  Babbett 

Adtm  8.  Bamett .  

BcUyBurdlDe 

Hlian  Bryant 

Mio  Christian 

DinleJ  Cramp 

Aboer  Davis 

Anthony  J.  Davis 

Thomas  Ellison 

Mo  Finney 

Birtley  Gentry,  (dead) 

TbomisGray 

Jonathan  Gray 

George  Homts 

Heoiy  James 

ftinds  Lipscomb 

MnMcCarty 

Aithlbald  McNeal 

Walter  McKay  

WaiiamNolin 

StDQel  Nutting 

JohnPeden 

WUHam  Piper 

Jesie  Samuels 

John  Thompson 

Lewis  Teters 

William  D.  Young 

(Carles  Vanauster 

•^oho  Blackburn,  (dead) 

MnDillin 

Willis  A.  Ethel 

WOliamOrear 

William  Timberlake 


Amoant  of  Taxes 

State. 

Coanty. 

$1   00 

$     50 

1  00 

50 

1  57i 

781 

2  OS 

1  04 

1  02 

51 
56 

1  12^ 

67 

88 

12 

H 

22 

iH 

1  15 

57 

1  00 

50 

1  00 

50 

1  00 

50 

9  65 

4  47 

45 

22 

40 

20 

1  00 

50 

71 

851 

1  20 

60 

1  00* 

50 

1  00 

50 

1  15 

57 

62 

1} 

1  00 

50 

1  06 

53 

1  00 

50 

8  02} 

1  51 

1  60 

80 

08 

4 

1  27 

63 

1  00 

50 

70 

31 

15 

7 

11 

5 

1  13 

6D 

1  05 

52 

Nov.  18,  1821. 


Overton  Harris, 
Collector  Boone  Coanty. 


170  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

The  entire  amount  of  the  delinquent  taxes  thus  blazoned  in  the 
Franklin  Litelliffencer  sunounts  only  to  $64.26V4,  and  the  merchants' 
license  for  six  months  to  $45.00,  and  the  saloon  license  for  the  same 
period  to  $32.00. 

THE    GRASSHOPPER    PEST. 

No  doubt  the  younger  readers  of  this  History,  although  they  may 
recall  the  myriads  of  grasshoppers  which,  a  few  years  ago,  desolated 
the  farms  and  forests  and  the  prairies  and  fields  of  Kansas  and 
Nebraska,  as  well  as  portions  of  our  own  State,  do  not  know  that  the 
pioneers  of  the  commonwealth,  and  during  the  very  year  of  its  admits 
tance  into  the  Federal  Union,  made  the  acquaintance  of  this  destruc- 
tive scourge.  But  the  following  extract  of  a  letter  from  Fort  Osage, 
June  15,  1821,  to  the  St.  Louis  Register^  will  show  that  grasshoppers 
in  countless  numbers  visited  Missouri  then,  as  they  have  several  times 
since,  *'  literally  eating  up  the  whole  country." 

[Extract  from  the  Letter.] 

<<  Immense  swarms  of  grasshoppers  are  overrunning  this  whole  country,  and  lit- 
terally  eating  it  up.  Our  gardens  are  nearly  all  destroyed,  and  we  have  no  reason  to 
hope  that  anything  will  be  saved  of  them  without  some  Providential  interference.  I 
<^an  see  no  escape  from  all  the  distressing  consequences  of  a  general  and  utter  failure 
of  our  grain  crops.  This  plague  seems  to  be  evidently  progressing  south-eastwardly, 
so  that  you  may  count  upon  a  similar  visitation  next  fall.  Those  who  can  secure  two 
years'  supply  of  grain  from  the  present  crops,  ought  to  do  so  by  all  means.  You  had 
better  prepare  for  the  coming  evil  —  practice  economy  in  feeding  away  com,  &c.  Save 
plenty  of  forage  in  order  to  save  grain." 

An  article  by  E.  W.  Stephens,  in  the  Missouri  JStatesmany  of  October 
S,  1869,  says : — 

''After  the  permanent  establishment  of  the  seat  of  justice,  the 
installment  of  the  county  officers,  and  the  assumption  of  all  the 
privileges  and  functions  of  a  distinct  county,  Boone  grew  amazingly 
in  wealth  and  population,  and  scarcely  a  year  had  elapsed  before  she 
was  recognized  as  one  of  the  first  counties  of  Missouri  —  a  position 
she  has  never  since  ceased  to  sustain.  The  emigration  was  largest 
during  the  year  1822.  A  w^'iter  of  that  period  asserts  that  *the 
settlers  of  those  twelve  months  were  more  numerous  and  possessed  of 
more  wealth  than  those  of  all  upper  Missouri  besides.'  " 

FIRST    HORSE    AND    WATER    MILLS. 

''  Before   1820  there  was  but  one  grist  mill  within  the  limits  of 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  171 

Boone  county.  It  belonged  to  John  Copeland,  and  8t6od  near  Moni- 
teau creek,  several  miles  north  of  Rocheport.  During  1821  another 
■one  was  built  by  Durrett  Hubbard,  about  eight  miles  southeast  of 
Columbia,  near  the  present  residence  of  Judge  James  Harris.  In 
1822  the  first  carding  machine  was  built  near  the  present  southern 
suburbs  of  Columbia  by  David  Jackson,  by  whom  it  was  run  for  sev- 
•eral  years.  During  1822  the  great  influx  of  emigrants  occasioned  the 
coDStruction  of  a  considerable  number  of  factories  and  mills,  and  by 
Febraary  4, 1823,  there  were  in  the  county  three  manufacturing  water 
mills,  ten  horse  mills  and  three  water  saw  mills." 

POPULATION  —  WEALTH  —  ENTERPRISE. 

*^The  rapid  increase  of  the  county  had,  by  1824,  become  such  as  to 
awaken  enterprise  and  stai*t  the  pulses  of  trade  in  eveiy  avenue  of 
labor.  The  forests  began  to  ring  with  the  axe  of  the  woodsman,  and 
the  wilderness  fast  became  the  scene  of  active  industry  and  enlight- 
ened culture.  The  fertile  soil  was  made  to  yield  an  abundant  increase, 
which  found  a  ready  demand  and  sold  at  exorbitant  prices  to  the  new 
comers.  These  inhabitants  were  active,  energetic  and  progressive, 
and  with  resoluteness  applied  themselves  to  the  development  and 
civilization  of  the  country.  Log  cabins  were  supplanted  by  neat 
frame  dwellings,  and  over  the  hovels  of  poverty  rose  mansions  of  com- 
fort and  plenty.  The  haunts  of  barbarism  became  the  abodes  of 
learning,  and  the  mists  of  ignorance  vanished  before  the  light  of  intel- 
ligence. In  three  years  Columbia  had  grown  from  a  few  wretched 
huts  to  an  emporium  of  refinement,  enterprise  and  trade.  Scholars, 
lawyers,  divines,  capitalists,  and  men  of  every  rank  and  condition  in 
their  pilgrimage  to  a  Western  home,  attracted  by  the  richness  and 
beauty  of  the  country,  cast  their  fortunes  with  the  frontier  village  and 
applied  their  tastes  and  energies  to  its  adornment  and  progress. 
Columbia  was  now  confirmed  beyond  cavil  as  the  established  county 
seat,  and  the  large  population,  as  well  as  the  business  before  the 
courts,  made  it  necessary  that  there  should  be  a  temple  of  justice." 


*'THB   HULL    OF    A    COURT-HOUSE." 


The  first  court  house  erected  in  Boone  county  foi*  the  accommoda- 
tion of  the  Circuit  and  County  Courts  was  called  in  the  advertisement 
of  the  Commissioners  **the  hull  of  a  court-house,"  and  those  who 
Aided  in  the  administrationof  justice  within  its  walls,  either  as  judges, 


172  HI8TOUY    OF    BOONK    COUNTY. 

jurors  or  other  officers,  or  who,  as  citizens  or  spectators,  listened  witb 
rapture  to  the  foreusic  eloquence  of  our  early  lawyers,  will  agree  that 
i£  was  a  <<hull"  in  fact  as  well  as  in  name. 

It  was  a  brick  structure  erected  by  Minor  Neal,  and  stood  until  sup- 
planted in  1848  by  the  present  court-house,  where  the  Baptist  Church 
now  stands.  The  following,  copied  from  the  Intelligencer  of  May 
Ist,  1824,  is  the  advertisement  of  the  Commissioners  for  bids  to 
erect  the  hull :  — 

PUBLIC  NOTICE. 


THE    Commissioners  of  Boon  County  will,  on  the  first  day  of  the  next  term  of  the 
Circuit  Court  of  said  county,  at  the  town  of  Columbia,  on  the 

Second  Monday  in  June  next^ 

LET 

TO  THE  LOWEST  BIDDER,  ^ 

The  BUILDING  of  the 

HULL  of  a 

COURT  HOUSE, 

Forty  feet  square,  and  two  stories  high,  to  be  covered  with  good  shingles. 
Payment  —  part  cash,  and  the  balance  cash  notes. 
They  wUl  also  sell,  at  the  same  time  and  place,  about 

40  LOTS 

in  said  town,  at  six  and  twelve  months*  credit. 
Particulars  made  known  on  the  day  of  the  letting  of  the  house  and  sale  of  lots. 

John  Gray, 
'  Lawrence  Bass, 
Jefferson  Fulcher, 
Absalom  Hicks, 
David  Ja(^kson, 
Commissioners  of  Boon  County^ 

May  1,  1824.  38-7  w 

"The  building  was  afterwards  let  to  Judge  John  Vanhorn,  thei> 
a  resident  of  Boone,  and  Isaiah  Parks,  and  built  by  them  during  the 
year  1824.  It  stood  just  west  of  the  present  court-house,  where  is 
now  the  Baptist  Church.  It  was  a  brick  building  of  hip  roof,  two 
stories  high,  with  a  court  room  on  the  ground  floor,  and  grand  and 
petit  jury  rooms  above  stairs,  the  building  being  fifty  feet  long  by 
forty  wide.  Courts  were  held  there  until  the  completion  of  the  pres- 
ent court-house  in  1848. 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE    COUNTY.  173 

In  February,  1823,  the  population  of  Columbia  was  130.  See 
IrUeUigencer  of  Feb.  4,  1823. 

1824 1881 A    FINANCIAL    CONTRAST. 

Nothing,  perhaps,  will  so  clearly  or  in  so  interesting  a  manner  dis- 
close the  progress  made  in  the  county  as  a  comparison  of  its  receipts 
aud  expenditures  in  1824  with  its  receipts  and  expenditures  in  1881, 
nearly  sixty  years  afterwards  —  the  receipts  during  the  first  year  being 
only  $855.75,  and  the  last  year  $121,794.22  ;  expenditures  in  1824  only 
$743,  or  $112.75  less  than  the  receipts,  while  in  1881  the  receipts  were 
$121,794.22,  and  the  expenditures  $53,381.01. 

The  following  tabular  statements  —  the  first  from  the  Franklin 
Intelligencer  of  January  1,  1825,  and  the  last  frohi  the  records  of  our 
County  Court  —  will  exhibit  these  facts  in  interesting  and  suggestive 
contrast :  — 

RECEIPTS   AND    EXPENDITURES    FOR    1824. 
[From  the  FrankliD  Intelligencer,  January  1,  1826.] 

A   STATEMENT 

Of  the  Receipts  and  Expenditures  of  Boone  County  during  the  Year  1824. 

RECEIPTS 

Of  the  Collector,  it  being  the  net  amount  of  the  county  levy  for  the  said  year,  the 

Bum  of. $734  71 

Of  Constables,  on  fines  assessed  by  Justices  of  the  Peace 81  67 

Of  the  Sheriff,  on  fines  assessed  by  the  Circuit  Court 89  86 

ToUl  receipte $855  75 

EXPENDITURES. 

To  "William  Lientz,  as  a  Justice  of  the  County  Court 28  00 

*'  Lawrence  Baas,  as  a  Justice  of  the  County  Court 82  00 

**  Silas  Riggs,  as  a  Justice   of  the   County  Court 26  00 

"  James  Bams,  Sheriff. 169  54 

"  Harrison  Jamison,  Deputy  Sheriff. 26  00 

«*  Roger  N.  Todd,  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court 72  49 

"  John  T.  Foster,  for  furnishing  a  seal  press,  three  chairs  for  the  Court,  and  for 

other  services ^ 13  68 

"  Richard  Gentry,  for  furnishing  a  room  for  the  Circuit  Court  at  February  term...  2  00 

'*  Gabriel  Davis,  for  services  rendered  the  county , 2  00 

"  Hiram  Wilbum,  for  services  rendered  the  countv 8  00 

*'  Joshua  Gillum,  for  services  rendered  the  'county 4  00 

**  Samuel  Wickersham,  for  services  rendered  the  county 1  41 

^*  Hugh  Silvers,  for  services  rendered  the  county 8  00 


« 
« 


174  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

To  Richard  Kiggs,  for  services  rendered  the  county »  6  60^ 

"  Warren  Woodson,  Clerk  of  the  County  Court,  for  furnishing  stationery  for  his 
office,  making  out  county  tax-lists,  performing  the  duties  of  County  Treasurer 

for  said  year,  and  for  other  services  rendered  the  county 89  14 

Appropriation  made  said  Woodson  for  furnishing  record  books,  seal  of  office, 

seal  for  branding  measures,  and  half-bushel  measure 71  75 

Tyre  Harris,  Esq.,  for  services  rendered  the  county 2  00 

Adam  C.  Rayburn,  keeper  of  stray  pound,  and  for  services  rendered  the  county...  6  60" 

'*  Samuel  Jamison,  for  the  rent  of  a  house  to  hold  courts  in 88  00^ 

David  Jackson,  as  County  Commissioner 10  00 

•*  Jefferson  Fulcher,  as  County  Commissioner 10  00 

**  John  Gray,  as  County  Commissioner 10  00 

**  Robert  Hinkson,  for  services  as  overseer  of  road  in  1822 2  00 

"  Bazzel  Brown,  for  bearing  poll-book  to  Columbia 1  40" 

"  Roger  N.  Todd,  for  acting  as  clerk  to  a  sale  of  lots  in  the  town  of  Columbia 11  00 

"  Johiel  Parks,  for  acting  as  clerk  to  a  sale  of  lots  in  the  town  of  Columbia ...  8  00 

John  Henderson,  Esq.,  for  services  rendered  the  county 2  50 

Peter  Kerney,  Constable,  for  services  rendered  the  county 11  50" 

Adam  C.  Rayburn,  for  services  rendered  the  county... 8  76 

Harrison  Jamison,  for  services  rendered  the  county 10  87 

Sampson  Wright,  collector  for  certain  advertisements 4  00" 

Appropriations  made  to   Wm.   Lientz   for  furnishing  one-gallon,  half-gallon, 

quart,  pint,  and  half-pint  standard  measures.... 10  00 

Henry  Cave,  Sr.,  as  commissioner  to  view  a  road  in  1822 5  00* 

R.  N.  Todd,  for  making  repairs  to  a  house  for  the  use  of  the  courts 26  75 

Moses  Batterton,  his  semi-annual  allowance-  for  keeping  Alfred  Batterton,  a  per- 
son of  unsound  mind 10  00 

Total  amount  of  expenditures $743  00* 

State  of  Missouri,        1 
County  of  Boojte,  Set.  j 

As  Clerk  of  the  County  Court  in  and  for  said  county,  I  certify  that  the  above  and  forego- 
ing statement  contains  a  correct  account  of  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  said  county  dur- 
ing the  year  1824.  "" 
Given  under  my  hand,  with  the  seal  of  said  Court  affixed,  at  Columbia,  this  15th  day  ot 
December,  1824.            n 

[L.  S.]  WARREN  WOODSON,  Clerk. 

RECEIPTS  AND  EXPENDITURES  FOR  1881. 

RECEIPTS. 

County  revenue ^26,243  93 

County  interest 25,543  90* 

Valid  indebtedness 12,032  81 

State  tax 26,825  47 

Public  School  tax 28,228  84 

Railroad  tax  —  Rocky  Fork  Township 1,575  75 

RailroadUx  —  Perche  Township 1,343  52^ 

Total  receipts ^121,794  22: 


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HISTOBY   OP   BOONE   COUNTT. 


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EXPENDITURES. 

BoDds  redeemed #7,000  OO 

iDterest  on  bonds  redeemed 106  20 

CoopoDs  on  bonds  Redeemed 21,898  00^ 

jQdges'  salary 865  60 

Coantj  Clerk's  salary      ^ 2,896  21 

Sheriffs  fees .        .        .  227  84 

ProsecQting  Attorney's  salary 750  00* 

Circait  Clerk  and  criminal  costs 1,405  84 

Treuarer 650  00 

Assessor 688  80 

Sarreyor / 276  50^ 

School  Commissioner 41  75 

Road  Overseers 1,400  25 

CooDty  Physician .        .        .  146  00- 

Coonty  Poor-honse  expense 8,485  09 

FHoper  support  and  coffins 889  72 

Bridge  expense 6,806  92 

State  Lunatic  Asylum  expense 1,889  18 

Stationery  and  books 782  70 

Poblic  printing "...  276  60 

Repairs  and  farnitare  public  buildings 521  52 

Foel  poblic  buildings 171  60 

Inquest  fees 189  05 

Jail  expense 908  17 

Repairs  pablic  roads 100  00 

Insaraoce  public  buildings 26  6& 

Rebate  on  taxes 48  91 

Miscellaneous      .         .        • 43  05 

Total ^52,381  ai 

THE   TOWN   OF    ''PERSIA.''^ 

**Coliimbia  did  not  secure  the  seat  of  justice  of  Boone  County  wholly 
without  effort.  There  was  at  least  one  other  point  that  contested  her 
claims  stoutly  and  with  strong  prospects  of  success.  This  was  near 
the  intersection  of  the  old  ''Boonslick  Trace,''  or  St.  Charles  Road, 

and  Perche  Creek,  and  close  by  the  farm  now  owned  by 

A  town  was  there  laid  out  in  1820,  and  called  *'  Persia.''     Who  chose 

the  locality  or  promulgated  the  idea  of  proposing  it  for  the  county 

seat,  is  unknown.     Some  of  the  persons  who  lived  in  and  near  this 

toirn,  were  Moses  Batterton,  Jonathan  Barton  (cousin  of  Hon.  David 

Barton),  William  Callaham,  James  Davis,  Reuben  and  Eppa  Elliott, 

Isaac  Freeman,  Benjamin  Ferguson,  James  Fenton,  William  Goslin,. 

Nicholas  Gentry,  Tyre  Harris,  Joseph  M.  Little,  James  and  John 

Payne,  William  and  Barnett  Rowland,  William  Ryan,  Peter  Stivers^ 

'  Properly  speUed  Perch e. 


176  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

John  Skinner,  George  and  Ishara  Sexton,  John  Slack,  Enoch  Taylor,  O. 
Babett,  J.  Tefft  and  Elisha  Stanley. 

*'  In  1820  many  reasons  seemed  to  indicate  that  Persia  would  grow 
to  be  a  thriving  and  populous  town,  but  it  obtained  its  maximum  at 
fifteen  or  twenty  houses,  and  after  the  location  of  the  county  seat  at 
Columbia,  gradually  declined,  till  it  sank  from  existence,  and  is  now 
almost  wrapt  in  oblivion. 

**  The  advertisement  of  a  sale  of  lots  in  '*  Persia,"  which  we  copy 

from  the  Franklin  Intelligencer  of  April  1,  1820,  will  be  interesting 

reading :  — 

THE    TOWN    OF 

PERSIA, 

Situated  on  the  Rocher  Perce  Creek,  on  the  main  road  leading  from  Franklin  to  St. 
Charles,  about  28  miles  from  Franklin,  and  generally  supposed  to  be  in  the  centre  ol 
the  contemplated  county,  in  a  rich  and  fertile  tract  of  country,  rapidly  populating  with 
wealthy  and  respectable  citizens.  The  local  advantages  of  this  place  are  not  sur- 
passed, perhaps,  by  any  f^^r  a  town  in  the  territory — there  being  a  number  of  never- 
failing  springs ;  and  the  Rocher  Perce  contains  a  sufficient  quantity  of  water  to  keep 
mills  of  any  description  in  operation  at  any  season  of  the  year.  Two  of  the  proprie- 
tors will  commence  building  a  Saw  and  Grist  Mill  immediately,  near  the  town,  and  a 
Bridge  across  the  Creek.  There  will  also  be  erected  a  Brewery,  Distillery,  Carding 
Machine,  &  Fulling  Mill,  which  will  certainly  aid  very  much  in  facilitating  the  improve- 
ment of  the  town,  as  purchasers  will  be  able  to  obtain  materials  for  building  cheapei 
than  th«y  can  obtain  them  at  any  other  place  in  the  territory.  The  subscribers  hope 
this  will  be  an  inducement  to  purchase  and  improve  their  lots  at  once. 

The  proprietors  of  this  town  do  not  wish  to  exhibit  it  on  paper,  for  purposes  of 
speculation,  as  is  too  frequently  the  case,  but  wish  purchasers  to  improve  their  lots 
and  realize  their  value. 

50  LOTS 

will  be  given  to  Merchants,  Mechanics,  and  persons  wishing  to  Improve  in  the  above 
town,  on  stipulated  terms,  viz. :  A  lot  out  of  each  block,  or  in  proportion  to  the  num- 
ber of  blocks  in  said  town.  On  each  corner  lot  a  building,  frame,  brick  or  stone,  not 
less  than  two  stories  high,  and  eighteen  by  twenty-live  feet,  which  is  to  be  enclosed 
by  the  20th  Sept.  next.  If  of  brick  or  stone,  the  body  to  be  up  by  the  4th  July  next; 
if  a  frame,  t!ie  frame  to  be  erected  by  that  time  — and  on  each  middle  lot  a  comfort- 
able dwelling-house,  not  less  than  18  feet  square,  of  any  kind  of  materials,  to  be 
finished  by  the  4th  of  July  next. 

The  Lots  in  the  above  town  will  be  offered  at  PUBLIC  SALE,  on  the  premises,  on 
the  FOURTH  OF  JULY  next  —  and  at  Franklin  on  the  10th. 

Terms  of  payment —  one-tenth  in  three  months  from  the  day  of  sale,  and  the  remain- 
der at  the  expiration  of  three  years. 

ff^  A  plot  of  the  town  may  be  seen  at  the  town,  and  at  the  store  of  Stanley  and 

Ludlow  and  the  Printing  Office,  Franklin. 

O.  BABBITT, 

J.  TEFFT, 

E.  STANLEY, 

N.  PATTEN,  Jr., 

Agents  for  the  above  Town, 

April  I,  1820. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  177 

The** saw  and  grist  mill"  spokeu  of  in  the  above  was  afterwards 
built  and  owned  by  Elisha  Stanley. 

THE   TOWN   OF   ROCHEPORT, 

E.  W.  Stephens,  Assistant  Editor  of  the  Statesman^  November  19, 
1869:  "The  ground  on  which  the  town  of  Rocheport  stands  was 
originally  obtained  under  a  New  Madrid  certificate  (the  nature  of 
which  has  been  heretofore  explained)  by  David  Gray.  It  comprised 
a  tract  of  191.40  acres.  It  was  afterwards  sold  by  Gray  to  William 
Kincheloe,  who  had  possession  of  it  but  a  brief  period,  when  it  was 
purchased  by  John  Gray.  The  latter  had  resided  upon  the  land  prior 
to  the  date  of  purchase,  and  in  1821  obtained  a  license  to  run  a  ferry 
across  the  river  at  that  point.  About  the  same  time  a  warehouse  was 
established  there,  which  was  kept  by  Robert  Hood.  The  locality  was 
designated  '*  The  mouth  of  the  Moniteau." 

**0u  March  2,  1825,  one-third  of  this  tract  was  sold  by  John  Gray  to 
Abraham  Barnes,  and  one-third  to  Lemon  Parker  and  John  Ward,  for 
$2,000.  These  persons  immediately  laid  out  a  town  there.  The 
sur^'eyof  the  plat  was  made  by  our  aged  and  much  esteemed  fellow 
citizen,  William  Shields.^  Arrangements  having  been  perfected  for  a 
sale  of  lots,  the  following  publication  was  made  to  that  effect  in  the 
Intelligencer  of  September  2,  1825  :  — 

TOWX  OF 

ROCHEPORT. 

This  town  is  situated  on  the  Missouri  River,  at  about  an  equal  distauce  from  Franlclin 
aod  ColQinbia,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Grand  Moniteau.    Its  site  is  not  equalled  by  any 
on  the  Missouri  from  its  mouth  to  Fort  Osage.    Its  harbor  is  very  superior,  having 
^Jetrly  half-a-mile  of  deep  still  water  in  front  of  the  town,  occasioned  by  bluff  of  rocks 
*bore,  projecting  into  the  river,  which  renders  it  perfectly  secure  for  boats  during  the 
brwiking  up  of  ice.    The  tract  is  well  watered,  having  several  large  springs  of  fine 
Mft  water.    As  It  respects  the  advantages  of  this  puint  for  business,  to  those  who 
iitv-e  resided  any  time  in  Boon's  Lick  country  nothing  need  be  said,  its  superiority 
^ing  generally  acknowledged ;  but  for  the  information  of  emigrants,  who  feel  disposed 
to  settle  in  or  near  a  town  of  some  promise,  it  may  be  proper  to  make  a  few  remarks. 
The  business  of  this  section  of  country  necessarily  includes  in  some  degree  the  expor- 
tation of  its  surplus  produce;  and,  as  emigration  ceases,  and  cultivation -and  improve- 
nients  are  extended,  it  will  then  constitute  a  considerable  portion  of  our  commerce. 
For  a  business  of  this  kind,  its  situation  is  peculiarly  favorable,  having  in  its  rear  the 
itigest  connected  body  of  good  country  in  the  State,  and  its  settlements,  though  good 
U  present,  are  rapidly  progressing,  and  of  a  wealthy  and  enterprising  class.    Its  com- 
munication with  the  back  country  is  easy  and  free  from  those  difficulties  which 


'  Mr.  Shields  died  in  Columbia  on  September  7, 1870,  aged  83  years. 
12 


178  HISTORY    OF    BOONE    COUNTY. 

generally  exist  with  towns  situated  on  the  Missouri,  viz.,  bad  roads.    In  almost  every^" 
direction,  from  this  point,  good  roads  arc  and  may  be  had  with  but  little  labor.    The^ 
traveller  from  St.  Louis  to  Columbia,  Boonville,  Lexington,  Liberty,  or  Fort  Osage^ 
will  no  doubt  shortly  adopt  the  route  by  Kocheport,  there  crossing  the  Missouri,  by 
which  he  will  save  in  distance  ten  or  twelve  miles,  have  a  much  better  road,  and  avoid 
several  creeks  and  extensive  bottoms,  which,  in  a  wet  time,  much  impede  his  progress 
on  the  old  route. 

A  good  warehouse  and  ferry  are  already  established  at  Rocheport,  both  of  which  are 
at  present  well  supported. 

Tlie  title  to  the  town  tract  is  indisputable,  the  proprietors  being  in  possession  of  the- 
patent  from  the  United  States. 

LOTS 

will  be  offered  for  sale  on  the  premises,  on  the  seventeenth  day  of  Nov  ember  next  —  and 
as  it  Is  the  desire  of  the  proprietors  rather  to  promote  improvement  than  to  realize 
cash  from  the  amount  of  sales,  no  lots  will  be  sold  except  subject  to  certain  improve- 
ments, to  be  made  within  eighteen  months  from  purchase,  say  at  least  a  log  house 
eighteen  by  twenty  feet  on  each  lot.  To  merchants  or  mechanics,  who  wish  to  become 
settlers  and  make  extensive  improvements,  donations  of  lots  will  be  made.  A  bond 
will  be  given  to  purchasers  to  make  a  warrantee,  and  so  soon  as  the  purchase -money 
shall  be  paid.  ^ 

Six  and  twelve  months  will  be  given  on  sales. 

THE   PROPRIETORS. 
September  2,  1825. 

"Judge  John  Vanhorn  was  the  agent  for  the  proprietors  of  the 
town  in  the  sale  of  lots.  The  one-third  part  of  this  tract  owned  by 
John  Gray  after  his  sale  of  the  two-thirds  to  Barns,  Ward  and  Parker, 
was  sold  by  him  to  Joshua  Newbrough,  on  September  6,  1828,  for 
$700,  from  whom  it  was  purchased  on  December  15,  1832,  by  William 
Gaw  and  Lemon  Parker  for  $1,300. 

"  The  adaptiveness  of  Rocheport  as  a  shipping  point,  and  the  rich 
country  surrounding  it,  attracted  immediate  notice  from  emigrants. 
Very  soon   storehouses  were   established   by  Caleb   Harris,  John  G. 

Philips, Brewster,  and  others,  a  tavern  by  Thomas  Hudson,  and 

several  private  dwelling  houses.  Rocheport  soon  promised  to  be  one 
of  the  largest  towns  on  the  Missouri,  and  to  rival,  if  not  surpass, 
Columbia  in  trade  and  population.  Indeed,  it  was  only  the  central 
position,  capital,  and  indomitable  energy  of  the  latter  that  subsequently 
prevented  it." 

THE    8HOOTINO    MATCIfc 

Our  pioneer  civilization  was  characterized  by  athletic  and  other 
sports.  Some  of  them  were  more  or  less  rude,  but  all  of  them  com- 
paratively innocent  and  calculated  to  develop  the  traits  of  character 
held  in  esteem  by  the  people.     Wrestling,  foot-racing,  fishing,  hunt- 


HISTORY   OF    BOONE   COUNTY.  179 

ing,  ball  and  marble-playing,  and  shooting  at  targets  may  bo  men- 
tioned as  among  the  recreations  of  the  period. 

Some  of  these  have  not  passed  away  with  our  pioneer  civilization, 
bnt  have  come  down  to  the  more  advanced  conditions  of  refinement 
and  culture  which  characterize  our  times.  Others,  however,  have 
gone  into  disuse  and  are  unknown  to  the  younger  portion  of  this  gen- 
eration. Among  these  is  the  shooting  match,  which  was  a  very  popu- 
lar recreation  with  the  early  settlers  of  the  West,  and  very  frequently 
called  them  together  on  Saturday  afternoon  as  a  befitting  and  pleasant 
termination  of  the  labors  and  business  of  the  week.  It  was  popularly 
called  "shooting  for  beef,"  and  is  well  described  in  the  following 
article  from  the  Franklin  Intelligencer^  Sept.  2,  1825  :  — 

For  the  Intelligencer.] 

THE,  SHOOTING   MATCH. 

Among  the  sports  which  the  Western  freemen  engage  in  during  their  hours  of  relaxa^ 
tloD,  the  shooting  match  holds  the  first  place.    In  a  republic  where  regular  soldiers 
are  held  in  sach  indifferent  estimation  that  they  abandon  the  hope  of  uniform  good 
treatment,  it  is  important  that  every  citizen  prepare  himself  for  the  high  destiny  of 
self-defence.    To  establish  the  truth  of  this  position,  we  have  only  to  refer  to  the  for- 
tunes of  Generals  Lafavette  and  Wilkinson  —  both  officers  of   the  Revolution  —  the 
former  a  foreigner,  the  latter  a  native  citizen.    Their  services  have  been  as  nearly 
eqoalas  it  is  possible  to  conceive.    Each  staked  his  all  for  our  country.    The  former 
was  an  adventurer,  the  latter  a  patriot.    The  Urst  comes  to  our  shores  to  receive  our 
embraces  and  our  bounty,  and  deservedly,  too,  while  the  last  is  doomed  to  exile  —  to 
seek  an  humble  grave  in  a  foreign  land,  after  enjoying  the  stranger's  donation  for  a 
brief  period.    I  will  mention  no  more  instances  of  neglect,  although  they  occur  to  me 
by  hundreds,  less  I  am  deemed  Ill-natured,  but  solace  myself  with  the  belief  that  there 
will  never  be  found  men  enough  in  this  republic  to  increase  our  army  establishment, 
who  will  so  far  disgrace  themselves  as  to  become  the  mercenaries  of  a  government 
that  will  look  with  indifference  on  them  when  age  or  infirmities  shall  have  unfitted 
them  for  asef ulness.     It  is  with  proud  satisfaction  then,  that  we  turn  to  the  indepen- 
dent jreomen,  whose  pastime  fits  them  to  defend  their  native  soil  without  hope  of 
reward,  or  fear  of  degradation.    Though  Missourians  inhabit  a  remote  section  of  the 
l^nlon,  they  claim  to  hold  those  unerring  rifles  that  will,  when  our  country  shall  un- 
^>plly  need  them,  be  truly  aimed  "  in  the  front  of  the  battle." 

Besides  field  sports  in  a  new  country  where  game  is  abundant,  shooting  matches  on 
almost  every  Saturday  evening,  tend  to  perfect  our  riflemen  in  the  use  of  their  hair- 
splitting weapons.    Many  of  these  guns  are  so  unpromising  in  appearance  that  one  of 
them  might  be  mistaken  for  a  crowbar  tied  to  a  hand-spike ;  but  when  in  the  hands  of 
a  marksman,  its  value  is  ascertained.    At  our  shooting  match  for  beef,  a  steer  is  divided 
into  five  parts,  and  the  hide  and  tallow  is  termed  the  fifth  quarter.    This  last  is  the 
mo^t  vslaable,  and  it  is  for  the  fifth  quarter  that  the  most  skilful  marksmen  contend. 
The  shots  are  generally  so  thickly  planted  about  the  centre  of  the  target  as  to  require 
great  sera  tiny  in  determining  the  conquerors  —  the  "fifth  quarter  winner,"  "second 


180  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

choice,"  etc.  When  this  is  known,  great  exultation  is  not  unusual,  but  the  winner 
sometimes  betray  a  little  vanity  in  bestowing  encomiums  on  their  rifles ;  and  there  ar 
few  who  are  not  polite  enough  to  attribute  their  success  to  the  excellence  of  thei 
arras.  / 

If  the  gunsmith  be  present,  he  is  not  a  little  flattered  by  his  acknowledgment  o 
his  skill.  Many  of  the  most  distinguished  guns  acquire  names  of  most  fearful  import 
by  which  they  are  known  in  sporting  circles,  and  small  bets  are  sometimes  made  oi 
"Black  Snake,"  "Cross  Bunter."  "  Hair  Splitter,"  "  Blood  Letter,"  and  "Panthe 
Cooler."  In  short,  there  are  very  few  of  our  rifles  that  would  not  put  to  shame  th 
arrow  that  sent  a  messenger  "to  Philip's  eye."  I  am  likewise  disposed  to  believ* 
that  if  "Natty  Bumpo**  himself  were  to  attend  one  of  our  shooting  matches  "fo 
beef,"  he  might  stake  his  last  ninepence  to  no  purpose.  MOSS  BUCKET. 

INDIAN    TROUBLES    ON   THE    CHARITON. 

It  can  hardly  be  imagined  at  this  day  that,  as  late  as  the  summer  ol 
1829,  eiirht  years  from  the  admission  of  the  State  into  the  Union,  anc 
thirteen  years  after  the  organization  of  Howard  County,  seriouf 
troubles  occurred  with  hostile  Indians  so  near  the  centre  of  civilization 
as  on  the  waters  of  Chariton,  in  the  county  of  Randolph.  Never- 
theless, it  is  historically  true  that  in  June,  1829  a  roving  band  oi 
lowas,  Sioux  and  Winnebago  Indians  made  an  attack  on  a  settlement 
in  the  region  mentioned,  killing  three  white  citizens — John  Myers, 
James  Winn  and  Powell  Owensby,  and  wounding  several  others.  The 
news  of  these  depredations  set  the  country  ablaze,  and  in  a  short  time 
armed  volunteers  from  Howard,  Boone  and  Callaw\ay  counties,  num- 
berinir  in  the  ajr2:re<riite  more  than  a  thousand  men,  concentrated  at 
the  point  of  danger.  Those  from  Howard  County  were  under  the 
command  of  Col.  Major  Horner,  the  father  of  our  fellow-citizen 
John  P.  Horner.  All  descriptions  of  citizens  in  each  of  the  counties 
mentioned  flew  to  arms  with  alacrity,  amongst  others,  in  Howard 
County,  Col.  Benj.  H.  Reeves,  late  Lieutenant-Governor,  and  father 
of  Mrs.  Abiel  Leonard  ;  Gen.  I.  P.  Owens,  Abiel  Leonard,  John  B. 
Clark,  Samuel  Moore,  Sinclair  Kirtley  —  the  last  four  lawyers — and 
Drs.  William  Jewell  and  Alexander  M.  Robinson,  of  Columbia.  About 
two  hundred  volunteers  went  from  Boone  County,  under  the  leader- 
ship of  Rev.  James  Suggett,  who  had  hitherto  been  engaged  iu  the 
Indian  wars  of  the  country,  and  Capt.  Overton  Harris. 

The  company  from  Callaway  was  commanded  by  Capt.  Allen.  On 
the  arrival  of  these  forces  at  the  headwaters  of  the  Chariton,  where 
the  enoaorement  had  occurred,  it  was  found  that  some  ten  or  twelve 
Indians  had  been  killed  ;  that  Myers  and   Owensby  had  been  killed 


HISTORY   OF   BOONK   COUNTY.  ,  181 

scalped,   aud    that    nothing    remained   of    Winn    except    his 
hands  and    feet,  he   having   been   burned    by   the   Indians.     They 
were  decently   interred,    and    the   volunteers    formed    an   encamp- 
ment to  await  the  arrival  of  other  companies  and  instructions  from 
Gov.  John  Miller  in  regard  to  ulterior  movements.     To  expedite  the 
receipt  of  these  instructions  Robert  W.  Wells,  Attorney-General  of 
the  State,  who  had  accompanied  the  force  from  Fayette,  was  deputed 
togo  to  Jefferson  City  to  see  the  Governor.     Before  his  return,  how- 
ever, Mr.  Reed,  of  Howard  County,  arrived  as  an  express  from  the 
Governor  with  instructions  that  all  the  men,  except  one  hundred, 
should  return   to   their   homes.     Whereupon    the   companies   jfrom 
Boone  and  Callaway  reluctantly  departed.     These  instructions  were 
given  because  two  hundred  United  States  troops,  on  board  the  steamer 
Crusader,  were  en  route  to  Franklin,  thence  to  the  scene  of  trouble. 
Gen.  Henry  Leavenworth,*  for  greater  expedition,  left  St.  Louis  in 
the  stage,  arrived  at  Fayette  in  due  time,  and  departed  at  once  for 
Lil)ertv. 

This  martial  array  proved  a  regular  fiasco,  for  no  Indians  were 
discovered,  and  no  apprehension  of  further  trouble  being  enter- 
tained, their  swords  were  turned  into  pruning  hooks  and  their 
spears  into  ploughshares,  and  the  troops,  regular  and  volunteer, 
returned. 

THE    SANTA    FE   TRADE. 

From  about  1820  to  1835  the  Santa  Fe  trade  was  a  great  interest  in 
theBoonsliek  country,  and  in  its  prosecution  a  large  amount  of  capital 
and  canivans  of  armed  traders  were  employed.  Franklin  was  the 
commercial  centre  and  starting  point  of  this  trade.  Dry  goods  and 
notions  were  transported  in  wagons  drawn  by  teams  of  horses  or 
mules  to  Santa  Fe,  and  there  exchanged  for  specie,  Spanish  mules, 
buffalo  robes,  etc.  These  expeditions  were  attended  by  many 
hardships  and  privations  and  dangers  from  hostile  Indians.  To 
be  prepared  against  the  latter,  the  companies  of  traders  were,  in 
fact,  companies  of  armed  soldiers,  prepared  to  protect  the  caravans. 


*  Gen.  Leavenworth  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  December  10,  1783,  and 
died  near  the  False  Wachita,  July  21,  1834.  His  remains  were  interred  in  the  grave- 
jard  at  Delhi,  N.  Y.,  where  there  is  a  marble  monument,  twelve  feet  high,  erected  to 
his  memory.     Fort  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  was  named  in  honor  of  him. 


182  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Many  and  bloody  were  the  encounters  which  they  experienced, 
and  some  of  the  most  enterprising  and  well-known  citizens  of  this 
region  of  the  State  lost  their  lives  by  the  Indian  rifle,  tomahawk  or 
arrow. 

The  following  article  will  give  some  idea  of  this  trade,  and  cannot 
fail  to  interest  all  of  our  readers  :  — 

SANTA    FE. 

[From  the  Fayette  InteUigencer,  May  2, 1828.] 

The  town  of  Franklin,  as  also  our  own  village,  presents  to  the  eye  of  the  beholder 
a  busy,  bustling  and  commercial  scene,  in  buying,  selling  and  packing  goods,  practis- 
ing mules,  &c.,  &c.,  all  preparatory  to  the  starting  of  the  great  spring  caravan  to  Santa 
Fe.  A  great  number  of  our  fellow-citizens  are  getting  ready  to  start,  and  will  be  off 
in  the  course  of  a  week,  on  a  trading  expedition.  We  have  not  the  means  of  knowing 
how  many  persons  will  start  in  the  first  company,  but  think  it  probable  the  number 
will  exceed  150,  principally  from  this  and  the  adjoining  counties.  They  generally  pur- 
chase their  outfits  from  the  merchants  here  at  from  20  to  30  per  cent,  advance  on  the 
Philadelphia  prices,  and  calculate  on  making  40  to  100  per  cent,  upon  their  purchases. 
They  will  generally  return  In  the  fall.  We  suppose  the  amount  which  will  be  taken 
from  this  part  of  the  country  this  spring  will  not,  perhaps,  fall  much  short  of  $100,000 
at  the  Invoice  prices. 

We  wish  them  a  safe  and  profitable  trip,  a  speedy  return  to  their  families  and  homes 
In  health,  and  that  they  may  long  live  to  enjoy  the  profits  of  their  long  and  fatiguing 
journey  of  nearly  1,000  miles  through  prairies,  inhabited  only  by  savages  and  wild 
beasts. 


CHAPTEK    III. 

HISTORY   FROM    1830   TO    1840. 

Election  returns  from  1830  to  1840  —  Fourth  of  July  celebration  In  Columbia  In  1831  — 
First  Hanging?  in  Boone  County  —  Samuel  Samuel,  alias  Samuel  Earls,  hung  for 
murder,  December  13,  1831  — The  Black  Hawk  war — Boone  County's  participation 
In  it  —  Court  Martial  for  the  trial  of  Gen.  Benjamin  Means — Washington  Irving 
visits  Columbia  —  Population  of  Boone  County  In  1832  —  Pioneer  Theatre  —  Finan- 
cial statement  of  Columbia,  1833  —  Stars,  Stars,  Stars  —  A  Meteoric  Phenomenon  — 
First  paper  mill  west  of  the  Mississippi —  Bingham,  "  the  Missouri  artist"  — First 
Agricultural  Fair  In  Missouri  —  Trial  of  Conway  for  the  murder  of  Israel  B.  Grant  — 
The  Florida  war  — Boone  County's  Soldiers  In  It  —  Capt.  John  Ellis' Company  — 
Battle  of  0-kee-cho-bee  and  Death  of  Col.  Gentry —  The  Mormon  War,  1880. 


HI6TOKY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


183 


ELKCTION,  1880. 

*  Those  thus  marked  were  elected. 


• 
8BNAT0BS. 

i 

IS 

s 

3 

i 

i 

6 

t 

I 

• 

3 

♦William  Jewell ^ 

Ricbftrd  Gentry ~ . 

S66 
308 

85 
19 

81 

64 

88 
44 

88 
41 

600 
478 

ToUl 

1,078 
681 

EepnmiaivBea  in  Legislature. 
*John  B.  Gordon 

410 

y>u 

392 
228 
266 
255 
117 

1    400 

189 

105 

36 

88 
64 
41 
70 
24 
21 
7 

78 

20 

6 

84 
78 
103 
60 
64 
48 
17 

46 

25 

74 

1 

20 
17 
68 
48 
45 
42 
18 

41 
28 
22 

84 
40 
88 
29 
88 
88 
7 

47 

18 
6 

1 

1 

•Dnniel  P.  Wilcox 

*Win.S.  Burch 

♦Tjrre  Harris 

588 
682 
485 

JeiseT.  Wood 

432 

*P«ter  Wright 

894 

Hutchens  Bamett 

161 

Sherif, 

*fhom$M  C.  Maupin 

Peter  Kernev 

612 
226 

■John  Stemmons 

218 

James  Lauirhlin 

88 

StfflMoo  W rifirht. 

1 

2 

Total 

1.090 

William  Jewell  was  elected  State  Senator ;  John  B.  Gordon,  Daniel 
P.  Wilcox  and  William  S.  Burch,  Representatives,  and  Thomas  C. 
Maupiii,  SheriflF. 

ELKCTIOir,  1831. 


RlPaBENTATIVES    IN    CoNORVSS,    AUG.  4,    1831. 


David  Barton 

*8pencer  Pettis 

On  November  7,  1831,  there  was  a  special  election 
for  Representative  to  Congress  to  fill  vacancy 
occMioned  bv  death  of  Spencer  Petti?. 

Robert  W.  Wells 

♦William  H.  Ashley 


351 
346 


230 
244 


• 

^1 

• 

-• 

3 

a> 

O 

t 

Cf 

•^ 

9 

O 

:^ 

PL, 

40 

65 

14 

34 

63 

37 

81 

39 

68 

23 

-2 

o 
04 


s 

o 
H 


460 
480 


306 
335 


ELECTION,  1832. 


Stnaton  — 

*John  BuU^ 

Daniel  Dunklin. 
Stephen  Dorris.. 
John  T.  Smith.. 


Total, 


8G4 

92 

128 

70 

24 

130 

21 

51 

38 

21 

5 

10 

1 

'      2 

1 

678 

261 

16 

8 

958 


184 


HISTORY    OF    BOONE    COUNTY. 


ELECTION,  1882  —  Continued, 


Lieutenant-Governor  — 

'■lAmea  McGlellnnd 

471 
38 

117 
6 

159 
17 

79 
26 

89 
4 

86S- 

Lilburn  W.  Boci's •.•• 

9X 

Total             

95^- 

1            1 

Representative  in  Congress  — 


Wm.  H.  Ashley. 
Robert  W.  "Wells. 
James  H.  Birch... 


Total 


381 

91 

180 

64 

22 

151 

85 
1 

63 

68 

26 

67^ 

.31^ 

1 


997 


Jtepreseniatives  in  Legislature 

♦John  B.  Gordon 

♦Oliver  Parker 

*TyTe  Harris 

Richard  Gentry 

Jesse  T.  Wood* 

Henry  Cave 


387 

76 

164 

86 

24 

845 

90 

126 

66 

28 

282 

79 

89 

76 

18 

262 

66 

105 

68 

81 

165 

37 

62 

64 

19 

117 

23 

26 

69 

86 

677 
646 
643 
617 
837 
260- 


ELECTION,  1838. 


Representatives  in  Congress  — 
♦John  Bull 

272 

168 

26 

81 

8 

40 
26 

60 

16 

7 

8 

8 

23 

29 

4 

8 

1 

18 
18 
16 

397 

G^eonre  Shannon 

247 

James  H.  Birch 

61 

George  F.  Strother 

42 

G^orere  C.  Sibley 

12 

Total 

749- 

1 

...•.•.•       -~w 

ELECTION,  1834. 


Senators  — 

William  Jewell 

♦Alex.  M.  Robinson 

348 
271 

104 
121 

98 
122 

74 
101 

62 

82 

676 
697 

Total 

1,373 

1 

Representatives  in  Legislature  — 

♦John  B.  Gordon , 

♦Sinclair  Kirtley 

♦Thomas  C.  Maupin 

Tyre  Hiirris 

John  Henderson 

Jesse  B.  Dale 

Lawrence  Bass 

♦Austin  A.  King 


427 

100 

144 

66 

62 

470 

146 

91 

98 

91 

562 

197 

181 

143 

119 

329 

78 

70 

102 

60 

109 

12 

98 

85 

2 

124 

45 

127 

69 

16 

114 

116 

31 

64 

48 

302 

154 

126 

111 

80 

798 
896 
1,192 
629 
256 
881 
363 
780' 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


IBS 


♦Wm.  a  Ashley.... 
James  H.  Birch  .... 
GeoT^ge  F.  Strother. 
Alberto.  HATTison. 


ToUl. 


AUGUST  8,  1836. 


RSPRSSKNTATIVE    IN   CONOREflS. 


618 

97 

118 

78 

89 

391 

60 

71 

67 

81 

224 

82 

40 

68 

19 

218 

88 

27 

66 

17 

840 
610 
868 
861 


2,169 


AUGUST  8,  1886. 


BKPRSSSKTATIYX  IN  CONGRESS. 


♦James  tt  Birch 686 

Albert  G.  Harrison 607 

Geofjre  P.  Strother 12 

ToUl 


Samuel  0.  Owens. 
John  Miller 


641 
619 


I M     ...^21866 


GOVERNOR. 

♦William  H.  Ashley 827iLilbuni  W.  Boggs 

Total 


.  444 
.lizTt 


LIBUTSNANT-GOVERNOR. 

♦James  Jones 749IF.  Ooncannon 486 

ToUl ..1,188 

REPRESENT ATIYBS   IN  LEGISLATURE. 


♦John  B.  Gordon 774 

♦Thomas  C.  Maupin 818 

Austin  A.  King 663 

William  S.Barcli 129 


♦Michael  Woods 729 

*Arch  W.Turner 784 

Thomas  D.  Grant 637 

Ben.  F.  Robinson 393 


NOTS&IBER  7,  1836. 

Special  election  of  Representative  in  Legislature  caused  by  the  death  of  Michael  Woods* 
*Austin  A.  King 630lWilliam  Jewell 647 

ToUI ^ 1477 


AUGUST  8,  1838. 


REPRESENTATIVES  IN  CONGRESS. 


*BeTerlv  Allen 944  John  Wilson 938 


JohnMiller. 510 


Alberto.  Harrison 513 


ToUl 2,'.H)5 


SENATORS. 


*Thomas  C.  Maupin 950 

William  H.  Duncan 519 


*Arch.  W.  Tumor 931 

John  Slack 492 


186  HISTORY    OF    BOONK    COUNTY. 


REPRESSNTATIYSS  IN  LEGISLATURE. 


»David  M.  Hickman 9^7 

^John  B.  Gordon 792 

Tyre  Harris 829 

Lawrence  Bass 530 


^James  S.  Rollins 1,008 

♦Alex.  Pereinger 867 

George  B.  Wflcox 674 


NOVEMBER  6,  1839. 

Special  election  for  Representative  in  Congress  occasioned  by  the  death  of  Albert  G. 
Harrison. 

♦Thornton  Grimsly 391IJohn  Jamison 228 

Total 6U 

1830.  —Population  of  Boone  County 8,859 

FOURTH  OF  JULY  AT  COLUMBIA. 

[Intelligencer,  July  9,  1831.] 

A  large  number  of  the  citizens  of  Columbia  and  its  vicinity  assem- 
bled on  the  4th  inst.,  at  Capt.  David  Gordon's  spring,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  celebrating  the  fifty-sixth  anniversary  of  our  independence. 
An  oration  was  delivered  by  Calvin  L.  Perry,  Esq.,  after  which  the 
company  sat  down  to  a  dinner  provided  for  the  occasion.  At  the 
conclusion  of  the  repast,  owing  to  the  inclemency  of  the  weather,  the 
company  adjourned  to  the  court-house.  The  Rev.  John  Greenlagh 
was  appointed  president  of  the  day  ;  Doctor  A.  M.  Robinson,  vice- 
president  and  A.  A.  King  and  William  Cornelius,  secretaries.  The 
following  toasts  were  then  drank  :  — 

1.  The  day  %ve  celebrate, — Pre-eminent  in  story!  The  destroyers 
of  nations  are  astonished  at  the  magnanimity  of  the  deed !  This 
glorious  epoch  will  ever  stand  as  a  memorial  of  a  nation's  enfran- 
chisement, and  the  resplendent  talents  and  virtues  of  a  land  of 
heroes. 

2.  The  Declaration  of  Independence.  —  No  instrument  ever  delin- 
eated the  rights  of  man  more  clearly.  Whilst  virtue  prevails,  it  will 
stand  as  a  memento  of  the  purity  and  magnaminity  of  the  patriots 
and  heroes  who  formed  and  maintained  it. 

3.  The  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  — The  apostles 
of  liberty  ;  willing  to  become  martyrs  in  its  cause. 

4.  George  Washington, 

5.  The  Departed  Heroes  and    Sages  of  the  Revolution, — Conse- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  187 

crated  iu  the  aflTections  of  the  American  people  by  the  estimable 
hpcj  bequeathed  them,  of  liberty  founded  on  reason,  and  secured 
bv  written  Constitutions. 

6.  Thomas  Jefferson,  —  The  patriotic  statesman  and  virtuous 
sage— the  fruits  of  his  labors  are  not  only  the  inheritance  of  the 
American  people,  but  of  all  nations. 

7.  Benjamin  Franklin.  — Philosophy  justly  chiinis  him  .is  her  dis- 
ciple and  ornament.  The  present  and  future  generations  will  revere 
his  virtues. 

8.  Oeneinl  Lafayette.  —  Tyrants  be  mute !  envy  hold  thy  peace  1 
his  glory  cannot  be  sullied !  continents  claim  him  as  their  defender, 
indlilierty  as  its  invincible  champion. 

9.  The  President  of  the  United  States  of  America. 

10.  TTie  Ex-Presidents  of  the  United  States.  —  Long,  arduously 
and  successfully  have  you  devoted  your  services  in  behalf  of  your 
country  and  the  great  principles  of  civil  and  religious  liberty.  It  is  an 
animating  reflection  that  the  influence  of  your  example  will  extend  to 
Tour  successors. 

11.  The  Constitution  of  the  United  States.  —  The  grand  depository 
of  American  happiness:  To 'watch  and  guard  with  an  untiring  and 
patriotic  vigilance,  is  the  first  of  duties ;  but  in  construing  its  pro- 
visions let  us  be  governed  by  a  spirit  of  justice  and  candor. 

12.  Unioti  of  the  States. — The  fruits  of  the  toils,  wisdom  and 
blood  of  the  patriots  and  sages  of  the  Revolution  cement  it ;  he  who 
rejects  this  inheritance,  barters  his  richest  birthright  for  a  mess  of 
ixittage. 

13.  Education.  —  As  knowledge  is  justly  conceived  to  be  the  basis 
of  public  happiness,  the  promotion  of  science  and  literature  is  conse- 
quently the  surest  guarantee  of  a  free,  eflicient  and  equal  government. 

14.  The  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States.  —  The  splendid 
talents  and  legal  acquirements  of  this  tribunal  afford  just  grounds  for 
attional  pride.  The  security  which  it  gives  and  the  ocinal  justice 
vhich  it  administers,  entitles  it  to  the  confidence  of  the  American 
people. 

15.  Political   Parties.  —  Whilst  man  is  admitted    to  be  fallible, 
union  of  opinion  on  all  subjects  cannot  be  expected.     But  as  the  union 
of  our  government  constitutes  us  one  people,  our  interests  are  insep- 
arable.    It  is,  therefore,  wise  and    prudent  to  reject  all   personal  and 
<^tional  animosities  in  our  political  views  and  measures. 


188  HISTOKY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

16.  Agricultural  Commerce  and  Manufactures.  -^  These  are  the- 
great  resources  on  which  are  founded  the  power,  energy  and  prospei*— 

^ity  of  nations. 

1 7 .  The  American  Navy.  —  The  independence  and  commercial  pros- 
perity of  the  nation  essentially  depend  on  its  organization  being 
ample..  The  patriotic  spirit  of  our  seamen  will  vindicate  the  honor 
and  rights  of  our  country  and  its  flag  from  insult  and  aggression. 

18.  Poland. — Ill-fated  nation  I  Your  heroism,  your  invincible 
love  of  liberty,  entitle  you  to  success.  The  most  devout  wishes  of 
every  patriotic  philanthropist  under  heaven  are  with  you. 

19.  The  South  American  Republics.  —  We  deem  the  constitutional 
principle^  and^^representative  government,  as  essential  to  the  inde- 
pendence and  prosperity  of  a  nation.  We  cherish  the  pleasing  hope 
that  this'^will  be  the  reward  of  your  toils  and  dangers. 

20.  Greece.  —  The  Ottoman  no  longer  tramples  on  the  grave  of 
Leonidas. 

21.  Christopher  Columbus,  — 

**  The  first  who  dared  to  brave 
The  unknown  wonders  of  the  western  wave." 

Ever  held  in  grateful  remembrance  by  the  American  people. 

22.  John  Ada^ns.  —  His  revolutionary  services  will  ever  entitle- 
him  to  the  gratitude  of  the  American  people. 

23.  IVie  State  of  Missouri.  —  Blessed  with  all  the  resources  neces- 
sary to  her  prosperity. 

24.  IVie  American  Fair.  — Their  bosoms  are  the  pure  sanctuaries 
of  honor,  fidelity  and  truth.  The  far-famed  Caucasus  can  exhibit 
nothing  [more  lovelyjto  the  eye  of  taste,  and  the  character  of  the 
Romanfand  Grecian  matron  is  not  more  perfect  and  desirable. 

25.  The  Orator  of  the  Day.  —  [Mr.  Perry  rose  and  returned  his 
thanks  for  the  honor  done,  and  offered  as  a  toast]. 

The  Citizens  of  Boone  County. — Alike  distinguished  for  their 
patriotism^and  their  hospitality. 

VOLUNTEERS. 

By  the  Vice-President. — The  Constitution  of  the  United  States^ 
The  atlas  of  the  Federal  Union,  patriots  formed  and  patriots  will 
maintain  it. 

By  A.  A.  King.  —  The  heroes  and  sages  of  the  Revolution.  While 
we  drink  of  the  cup  of  liberty  and  eat  of  the  bread  of  independence^ 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   CX)UNtT.  189 

ibe  recollection  of  their  glorious  achievements  shall  furnish  the  most 

gmteful  part  of  the  repast. 

By  William  Cornelius.  —  Lafayette,  Kosciusko,  Steuben,  Pulaski, 
and  DeKalb  — ^  Americans  will  forever  admire  their  disinterested  love  of 

lil)erty,  and  feel  grateful  for  their  efficient  services. 

By  R,  y.  7odd.  —  The  Union  :  May  it  never  be  severed  by  politi- 
cal discord. 

By  Peter  Kemey.  —  Daniel  O'Connell,  the  Irish  orator:  May  he 
be  as  successful  in  putting  down  kings  and  princes,  as  he  is  powerful 
iu  defending  the  rights  of  the  Irish  people. 

By  James  8.  Rollins.  —  The  American  Constitution :  The  most 
stupendous  and  glorious  edifice  of  liberty  that  has  ever  bee^i  created 
«poa  the  foundation  of  human  integrity  in  any  age  or  couptry. 

By  R.  S.  Barr. — Domestic  Manufacturers,  like  an  infant,  re- 
quires nursing :  a  nation  giving  the  proper  protection  secures  in  time 
all  articles  necessary  to  her  comfort  at  a  cheaper  rate  than  she  can 
obtain  them  from  foreigners,  and  thereby  renders  herself  independent. 

By  W.  K.  Van  ArsdalL  —  Domestic  Manufacturers  should  be  en- 
couraged but  not  to  the  aggrandizement  of  one  section  of  the  Union 
and  to  the  destruction  of  another. 

By  E,  Robert.  —  Henry  Clay,  the  luminary  of  the  world  :  May  the 
splendor  of  his  genius  never  cease  to  emit  its  radiance  while  the  wheels 
of  time  are  moved  bv  the  force  of  rationality.    • 

By  James  T.  Tllton.  — The  County  of  Boone  :  her  standing  in  the 
State  is  a.s  America  to  the  nations  of  the  world. 

By  Dr.  James  M.  Moss.  — Bank  of  the  United  States  :  As  a  me- 
dium of  exchange,  relative  value,  and  general  usefulness  to  all  classes 
and  all  callings,  this  institution  is  unparalleled  ;  the  question  therefore 
to  abolish  it,  is  one  involving  the  highest  national  interest  and  requir- 
ing the  most  solemn  deliberation. 

By  J,  C.  Boggs.  —  The  Constitution  formed  by  the  statesmen  of 
76  — better  than  we  can  do  —  let  it  stand. 

By  Dr.  James  H.  Bennett.  — Henry  Clay  :  May  March  1833  make 
him  President  of  this  nation,  not  of  a  party. 

By  J.  Osborne. — Gen.  Andrew  Jackson — the  soldier  of  the 
Bevolution,^  the  victorious  commander  in  the  late  war  —  he  is  now  de- 
servedly enjoying  the  highest  honors  in  the  gift  of  a  free  people. 


'  Wishing  our  readers  enUghtened  on  the  subject,  we  shaU  take  it  as  a  favor  if  Mr. 
0.,  will  please  to  recapitulate  the  exploits  or  services  of  General  Jackson  during  the 
^'Bevolation."  — Editor. 


190  HISTORY    OF    BOONE    COUNTY. 

By  M.  Neale.  —  Rotation  in  offices,  the  advice  of  our  President: 
May  it  be  strictly  adhered  to. 

By  C.  L.  Perry,— The  4th  of  March,  1801,  and  the  4th  of 
March,  1829  :  "  then  were  the  winters  of  our  discontent  made  orlorious 
summer's  morn." 

By  W,  II,  Van  ArsdalL  —  Internal  improvements  in  the  interior  of 
the  States  —  they  are  the  only  legitimate  authority  to  conduct  thein. 

By  Wm,  Cornelius,  —  Henry  Chiy,  the  Union,  Internal  Improve- 
ment, Domestic  Manufacturers,  the  United  States  Bank,  and  real 
Reform. 

By  J.  M,  Thurston, — The  State  of  Missouri :  her  soil  fertile,  her 
climate  salubrious,  and  her  people  prosperous  and  happy. 

By  a  Chiest,  —  The  Ladies:  In  war  our  arms  their  protection  —  in 
peace  their  arms  our  refuge. 

The  festivities  of  the  dav  were  concluded  bv  a  ball  at  Mr.  McClel- 
lan's  Hotel. 

THE    FIRST    LKOAL    HANGING    IN    BOONE    COUNTY. 

The  first  mau  hung  in  Boone  County  for  murder,  was  Samuel 
Samuels,  whose  true  name  was  Samuel  Earls,  and  it  occurred  on- 
the  13th  day  of  December,  1831.  The  place  of  execution  was  a 
small  field  or  clearing  north  of  the  present  grounds  of  Christian 
College  and  south  of  Trices'  Nursery,  and  east  of  the  Columbia  and 
Blackfoot  turnpike,  and  at  a  spot  about  one  hundred  yards  northejist 
of  the  James  M.  Long  house,  now  occupied  by  George  E.  Allgier  as 
a  residence. 

The  murder  occurred  in  New  London,  Ralls  County,  early  on  Sun- 
day morning,  December  (>,  1829.  Tlie  citizen  murdered  was  Charles 
B.  Rouse,  and  the  case  was  called  in  the  Boone  Circuit  Court,  June 
term,  1830,  by  a  change  of  venue.  David  Todd,  judge  ;  Roger  N. 
Todd,  clerk;  Thos  C.  Maupin,  sheriff.  It  was  continued  from  time 
to  time  until  the  June  term  of  1831,  when  it  was  tried  before  the 
following  jury  : — 

Henry  Anderson,  RoHy  Asbury,  Anthony  Ousley,  John  Austin,  John  Hopper,  John 
Henderson,  James  li.  Woods,  James  Kirtley,  Wm.  McClain,  Asa  Stone,  Wra.  Nichols, 
John  Faulkner. 

After  a  full  hearing  of  the  case  the  prisoner  was  convicted  and  sen- 
tenced, June  13,  1831,  to  be  hung  on  Friday,  July  8,  next  ensuing, 
on  which  day,  in  the  language  of  a  newspaper  of  the  time,  **  an  im- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  191 

mense collection  of  people  of  all  sexes  and  all  colors"  assembled  to 
witness  the  execution*.  On  that  morning,  however,  a  respite  from  the^ 
Governor,  John  Miller,  reached  the  sheriff*,  postponing  the  execution 
until  December  13th,  1831,  in  order  that  the  Supreme  Court  might 
have  an  opportunity  to  decide  certain  points  of  law  appealed  to  them. 
(See  3d  Mo.  Reports  (Houck),  page  42.) 

He  WAS  hung  on  the  day  named,  and,  under  the  escort  of  a  small 
armed  guard,  was  tsiken  to  the  place  of  execution  in  a  cart  drawn  by 
ayokeof  oxen.  The  sheriff  (Maupin)  then  lived  on  a  farm  on  the 
Two-Mile  Prairie,  east  of  town,  and  the  cart  and  oxen  belonged  to 
him.  His  negro  man,  Adam,  drove  them  to  Columbia  that  morning, 
and  to  the  gallows.  The  hanging  was  according  to  the  old  style,  a 
strangulation,  for  the  culprit  stood  in  the  cart  body,  the  cart  at  a 
signal  being  driven  from  under  him.  He  protested  his  innocence  to 
the  last. 

The  evidence  on  the  trial  showed  that  for  about  a  year  previous  to 
the  naurder  of  Rouse  there  had  existed  a  bitter  feud  between  Rouse 
ani  his  friends  and  a  number  of  other  persons  residing  in  and  nc^'ir 
New  London.  This  feud  finally  culminated  in  the  unfortunate  killing 
by  Rouse  of  a  young  man  by  the  name  of  Purdam,  who  had  attaclied 
himself  to  and  took  an  active  part  with  the  party  opposed  to  Rouse. 
For  this  homicide  Rouse  was  indicted,  tried  and  acquitted.  This  re- 
sult inflamed  to  a  greater  degree  the  virulence  of  the  friends  of 
Purdam,  which,  reacting  upon  the  opposing  faction,  increased  the 
rancor  and  violence  of  both. 

Itwas  during  this  condition  of  affairs  that   Samuel   Samuel,  alias 
Earls,  appeared  upon  the  scene.      lie  came  to    New  London  from 
St.  Louis,  a  stranger,    apparently   without  money  or   friends.      He 
did  not  know,  nor  does   it  appear  from  the  testimony  that  he  had 
ever  spoken  to  Rouse,  and  the  belief  prevailed  among  the  friends  of 
Rouse  that  some  one  or  more  of  the  opposing  faction  had  picked  him 
op  in  St.    Louis,  brought    him  to  New  London,  and   hired  him    to 
commit  the  murder.     At  all  events,  apparently  without  motive,  ex- 
cept as  stated,  and  wholly  without  provocation,  early  on  the  morn- 
ing of  the  homicide,  he  secreted  himself  in  an  old  warehouse  in  the 
rear  of  Boardman's  store,  and   tlrrougli  a  hole,  seemingly  made  for 
the  purpose,  shot  Rouse  with  a  rifle,  while  he  was  standing  in  tfie 
porch  of  Caldwell's  tavern.     The  ball  entered  the  deceased  just  be- 
low the  left  nipple,  and  passing  entirely  through  the   body,  wounded 
a  man  by  the   name  of   Saunders,  who  was    standing    near  Rouse* 


192  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY, 

After  receiving  the  shot  Rouse  never  spoke,  and  died  in  a  fe 
minutes. 

After  the  murder,  Samuel,  alias  Earls,  fled  and  concealed  himse 
in  a  cave  in  the  Salt  River  hills,  in  Ralls  County.  A  woman  wh 
daily  carried  food  to  him  was  tracked  in  tlie  snow,  and  thus  b( 
trayed  his  hiding  place,  and  he  was  arrested,  tried,  convicted  an 
executed,  as  above  stated.  Earls  was  about  sixty  years  of  age,  au 
was  defended  on  the  trial  by  Thomas  L.  Anderson,  of  Palmyra,  he 
by  John  B.  Gordon,  Austin  A.  King,  Wm.  K.  Van  Arsdall  an 
Benjamin  F.  Robinson,  of  Columbia.  Mr.  Anderson  is  a  distil 
guished  citizen  of  Palmyra,  yet  living.  Mr.  Gordon  was  the  fath 
of  Boyle,  Wellington  and  Carey  H.  Gordon,  of  Columbia,  M< 
Mr.  King  was  subsequently  Governor  and  a  member  of  Congres 
Mr.  Robinson  is  the  father  of  the  present  prosecuting  attorney  < 
Boone  County,  J.  De  W.  Robinson. 

The  prisoner  was  prosecuted  by  the  attorney-general  of  the  Stat( 
Robert  W.  Wells,  of  Jefferson  City. 

All  of  the  jury,  and  all  others  connected  with  the  trial,  are  deac 
except  Mr.  Maupin,  the  sheriff,  who  now  lives  in  Ysleta,  El  Pa« 
County,  Texas,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-five  ;  Mr.  Anderson,  < 
Palmyra,  Mo.,  and  Mr.  B.  F.  Robinson,  who  resides  near  Dallas,  Texa; 

Earls  was  buried  under  the  gallows,  and  no  doubt  his  remains  n 
pose  on  the  spot  to  this  day. 

Wm.  E.  Wright,  our  present  county  surveyor,  then  a  small  boj 
was  present  on  July  8,  to  witness  the  execution,  and,  with  other 
was  sadly  disappointed  and  in  no  very  amiable  mood,  because  it  di 
not  occur.  He  did  not  attend  when  it  did  take  place ;  but  Robe 
L.  Todd,  now  cashier  of  the  Exchange  National  Bank  of  Columbij 
then  a  little  boy,  witnessed  it,  and  for  the  purpose  of  doing  so,  roc 
to  the  grounds  on  a  horse  and  behind  John  R.  Bedford,  who  stoc 
him  up  before  him  on  the  horse's  neck,  and  held  him  that  he  raigl 
see  the  hanging.     Maj.  N.  W.  Wilson  was  one  of  the  guard. 

THE    BLACK    HAAVK    WAR. 

«*  Switzler's  History  of  Missouri"   says  the  Black  Hawk  War  o 
cyrred  during  the  year  1832  —  called  *' The  Black  Hawk  War"  b< 
cause  the  Indians   engaged  in  it  were  led   by  a  brave,  often  called 
chief y  by  the  name  of  Black   Hawk.^     He  cannot  rank  in  intelligenc 


1  **  Ma-ka-tai-rae-she-kia-klah,"  or  Black* Hawk. 


HI8TOBY  OP   BOONE   OOUNTT,  193 

or  heroism  with  Pontiac  or  Tecumseh^  for  he  showed  no  special  intel- 
lectual power ;  was  simplj  a  desperate  savage^  and  fought  onlj  for 
revenge. 

In  1832  several  tribes  on  the  northwestern  frontier  who  had 
made  common  cause  with  the  British  in  1812,  became  restless  and 
appeared  bent  on  hostilities.  These  tribes  were  the  Sacs,  Foxes 
and  Wlnnebagoes.  After  the  peace  of  1815  they  maintained  their 
intercourse  with  the  British  in  Canada,  the  consequence  of  which  was, 
the  inflaence  over  them  by  the  United  States  was  greatly  weakened. 
In  fact,  in  1816,  Black  Hawk,  having  gathered  around  him  a  small 
band  of  disaffected  spirits,  refused  to  attend  the  negotiations  of  that 
year,  went  to  Canada,  proclaimed  himself  a  British  subject,  and  re- 
eeired  presents  from  that  quaiter. 

They  were,  therefore,  in  no  state  of  mind  to  recognize  the  obliga- 
tions of  the  treaties  of  1815,  1822  and  1825,  or  properly  to  appre- 
ciate the  efforts  of  the  United  States  to  maintain  peaceable  relations 
with  them.  Moreover  the  Sacs  and  Foxes  possessed  no  original  right, 
even  in  contemplation  of  Indian  ideas  of  justice,  to  any  portion  of 
the  Rock  River  country  or  any  other  portion  of  Illinois.  They  were 
aimply  intruders  on  the  country  of  the  Santeaus  and  lowas. 

Nevertheless,  blinded  by  prejudice  and  fired  by  a  spirit  of  revenge 
for  imaginary  wrongs,  the  Sacs  and  Foxes  chiimed  the  right  to  occupy 
a  part  of  the  country  on  Rock  River,  although  by  a  treaty  made 
"with  the  chiefs,  warriors  and  head  men  of  the  Sac  and  Fox  tribes  " 
at  Fort  Armstrong  [Rock  Island],  on  September  3d,  1822,  the  coun- 
try for  j\  valuable  consideration  was  transferred  to  the  United  States, 
and  had  been  settled  by  its  citizens. 

Frequent  collisions  with  the  inhabitants  were  the  consequence. 
In  1831  these  aggressions  were  so  serious,  and  preparations  for  open 
hostilities  so  threatening,  that  a  considerable  force  of  Elinois  militia 
were  called  into  the  field.  This  formidable  array  alarmed  the 
savages  into  an  agreement  to  retire  to  their  own  lands  west  of  the 
Mississippi. 

It  was  not  long,  however,  before  a  party  of  the  same  Indians  com- 
mitted  a  flagrant  outrage,  almost  under  the  guns  of  Fort  Crawford, 
upon  a  band  of  friendly  Meuomonie  Indians  encamped  in  the  village 
of  Prairie  du  Chien.  Twenty-five  of  these  Indians  were  wantonly 
murdered  and  many  others  wounded. 

Fearing  that  the  Sacs  and  Foxes  would  renew  their  attacks  upon 
the  settlements  on  our  frontier,  and  determined  that  the  murderers  of 
13 


194  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

the  Menomonies  should  be  sui^rendered,  or  captured,  for  puiiishment» 
on  the  7th  of  March,  1832,  Brigadier-General  Atkinson  was  ordered 
to  ascend  the  Mississippi,  with  a  large  detachment  of  the  regular 
troops  at  Jefferson  Barracks,  to  chastise  the  Indians,  who,  under 
Black  Hawk  and  the  Prophet,  had  violated  their  treaty  with  the 
United  States  by  removing  east  of  the  Mississippi  and  invading 
with  fire  and  scalping-knife  the  unprotected  frontier  settlements  of 
Illinois. 

To  the  demand  for  the  surrender  of  the  murderers  of  the  Meno- 
monies no  attention  was  paid  ;  on  the  contrary,  the  murderers  and 
their  adherents  under  Black  Hawk  re-crossed  the  Mississippi,  and  in 
hostile  array  established  themselves  on  Rock  River.  This  was  in 
May,  1832. 

A  bloody  engagement  near  Dixon's  Ferry  on  the  14th  of  the  month 
rendered  peace  hopeless.  Keokuk  was  the  legitimate  chief  of  the 
tribe,  but,  although  he  controlled  a  majority,  the  temptations  of  war 
and  plunder  were  too  strong  for  those  who  followed  the  track  of 
Black  Hawk. 

The  proximity  of  these  hostilities  to  the  Missouri  frontier  caused 
Governor  John  Miller  to  adopt  precautionary  measures  to  avert  the 
calamities  of  an  invasion,  which  seemed  imminent.  Therefore,  in 
May,  1832,  he  ordered  Major-General  Richard  Gentry,  of  Columbia^ 
Missouri  (of  whom  James  S.  Rollins,  Calel>  S.  Stone  and  Calvin  L. 
Perry  were  aids-de-camp),  to  raise,  without  delay,  one  thousand  vol- 
unteers for  the  defence  of  the  frontiers  of  the  State,  to  be  in  readiness 
to  start  at  a  moment's  warning. 

Accordingly,  on  the  29th  of  May,  1832,  orders  were  issued  by  Gen- 
eral Gentry  to  Brigadier-Generals  Benjamin  Means,  commanding  the 
seventh,  Jonathan  Riggs,  eighth,  and  Jesse  T.  Wood,  ninth  brigade^ 
third  division,  to  raise  the  required  quota,  the  first  named  four  and 
each  of  the  last  three  hundred  men,  each  man  *«  to  keep  in  readiness 
a  horse,  with  the  necessary  equipment,  and  a  rifle,  in  <?ood  order,  with 
an  ample  supply  of  ammunition,"  etc. :  — 

GENERAL  ORDER  BY  GEN.  GENTRY. 

Columbia,  Jane  25,  1S32. 
In  a  general  order  directed  to  me  by  the  executive  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  under 
date  of  May  25,  1832,  wherein  I  am  required  to  raise  and  organize  one  thousand 
mounted  volunteers,  for  the  defence  of  the  northern  frontier,  from  the  Third  Division' 
of  militia,  under  my  command,  and  to  organize  them  into  regiments  of  five  hundred 
each. 


BISTORT  OP  BOONE   COUNTT,  195 

I  hare,  In  puranance  of  said  order,  made,  by  lot,  the  following  organization,  viz.: 
Tbe  Are  oompanles  of  volimteers  raised  in  the  connty  of  Boone,  the  two  companies 
xiiMd  in  the  county  of  Callaway,  and  the  two  companies  in  the  county  of  Montgomery 
ahaU  compose  the  First  Begiment;  the  two  companies  raised  in  the  county  of  Marion^ 
remiiniDg  company  in  the  county  of  Balls,  the  remaining  company  in  the  county  of 
Pike,  tlie  company  from  the  county  of  Monroe,  the  two  companies  from  the  county  of 
Lincoln,  tnd  the  two  companies  from  the  county  of  St.  Charles,  shall  compose  tht 
Second  Begiment.  The  companies  comprising  the  First  Begiment  have  been  organ- 
lied  by  lot,  in  the  following  manner,  to  wit : 

Tlw  company  commanded  by  Patrick  Ewing,  of  CalUway,  Is  the  first. 

Tlie  company  commanded  by  Thomas  D.  Grant,  of  Boone,  the  second. 

Tlw  company  commanded  by  Parker  Dudley,  of  Montgomery,  the  third. 

Tlie  company  commanded  by  David  M.  Hickman,  of  Boone,  the  fourth. 

The  company  commanded  by  John  Jamison,  of  Callaway,  the  fifth. 

The  company  commanded  by  Thomas  Orlfflth,  of  Montgomery,  the  sixth. 

Tbe  company  commanded  by  Sinclair  Klrtley,  of  Boone,  the  seventh. 

Tbe  company  commanded  by  Elijah  P.  Dale,  of  Boone,  the  eighth. 

Tbe  company  commanded  by  Michael  Woods,  of  Boone,  the  ninth. 

jMiihecompmiieB  composing  the  Second  Begiment  in  the  following  manner ^  to  tdt: 

Tbe  company  commanded  by  William  Carson,  of  Marlon,  Is  the  first. 

The  company  commanded  by  David  Wlelock,  of  Marlon,  the  second. 

The  company  commanded  by  Thomas  Barby,  of  Monroe,  the  fourth. 

The  company  commanded  by  John  Balls,  of  Balls,  the  fifth. 

The  compaiiy  commanded  by  John  Plttman,  of  St.  Charles,  the  sixth. 

The  company  commanded  by  John  S.  Besser,  of  Lincoln,  the  seventh. 

The  company  commanded  by ,  of  Lincoln,  the  eighth. 

The  company  commanded  by  Felix  Scott,  of  St.  Charles,  the  ninth. 

I^The  captains  commanding  companies  will  cause  elections  to  be  held  In  their 
respectiye  companies  on  the  following  days,  to  wit :  Those  belonging  to  the  First  Begi- 
ment on  the  4th,  and  those  belonging  to  the  Second  Begiment  on  12th  of  July  next,  for 
the  purpose  of  electing  a  Colonel,  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  Major  to  each  regiment,  at 
tttch  places  as  the  several  officers  commanding  companies  may  designate — and  make 
Rtnrn  to  me  of  the  whole  number  of  votes  given  to  each  candidate  for  the  several^ 
offlcci,  without  delay.  RICHARD  GENTRY, 

Maj.  Gen.  comm'g  3d  Division  Missouri  Militia. 

Seven  companies  were  at  once  raised  in  Boone  County,  and  others 
inCallaway,  Montgomery,  St.  Charles,  Lincoln,  Pike,  Marion,  Kails, 
Clay,^  and  Monroe. 

The  Columbia  Intelligence^''  of  June  16,  1832,  says:  **In  Gen. 
Jesse  T.  Wood's  brigade,  composed  of  the  counties  of  Boone  and 
Callaway,  on  which  a  requisition  was  made  for  300  volunteers,  such. 


'  Sereral  companies  were  ordered  out  In  Clay ;  marched  northward  to  the  Iowa  line*,. 

ttdtbence  into  the  Grand  River  country.    They  were  absent  about  four  weeks.    It  Is 

Bot  known  to  tbe  writer  who  commanded  them.    Two  companies  were  raised  in  Ralls 

--one,  commanded  by  Captain  Richard  Matsoa,  was  in  active  service ;  the  other^  Johik 

tiQs  in  command,  was  held  in  reserve,  but  was  never  ordered  into  service. 


196  HISTORY   OF  BOOl^   COUNTY, 

was  the  enthusiasm  and  promptitude  of  our  citizens  that  on  Thursday 
last  400  offered  their  services,  being  100  more  than  was  required. 
They  were  immediately  organized  into  seven  companies,  and  held 
themselves  in  readiness  to  march  on  receipt  of  orders." 

Two  companies  of  mounted  volunteers,  under  the  command  of  Capt. 
David  M.  Hickman,  of  Boone,  and  Capt.  John  Jamison,  of  Callaway, 
detailed  by  order  of  Governor  Miller,  to  relieve  the  two  companies 
on  duty  on  the  frontier,  after  camping  one  or  two  days  in  the  vicinity 
of  Columbia,  took  up  the  line  of  March  on  Monday,  July  9,  1832,  for 
their  point  of  destination,  and  equipped  for  thirty  days  of  duty.  The 
whole  under  command  of  Major  Thomas  Conyers,  with  orders  to 
march  to  the  mouth  of  the  Des  Moines,  and  to  range  from  thence  to 
the  headwaters  of  Salt  River  and  on  towards  the  main  Chariton. 
This  detachment,  accompanied  by  General  Gentry  in  person,  at  once 
took  up  the  line  of  march  for  the  northern  frontier ;  arrived  at  Pal- 
myra July  10th,  and  at  Fort  Pike  five  days  afterwards.  This  foit 
was  built  by  Captain  Richard  Mace,  of  the  Ralls  County  *'  Volunteer 
Rangers,"  and  was  situated  ten  miles  from  the  mouth  of  the  Des 
Moines,  in  what  is  now  Clark  county. 

Officers  of  First  Regiment :  Austin  A.  King,  Colonel ;  Jesse  B. 
Dale,  Lieutenant-Colonel ;  Thomas  W.  Conyers,  Major. 

Finding  ''  the  wars  and  rumors  of  wars  "  much  exaggerated,  and 
that  no  hostile  Indians  had  crossed  into  Missouri,  General  Gentry 
ordered  work  to  be  discontinued  on  Fort  Matson,  sixty-five  miles 
from  Fort  Pike  and  within  eight  miles  of  the  Chariton,  and  left  for 
Columbia,  where  he  arrived  on  the  19th  of  July.  Major  Conyers' 
detachment  was  left  at  Fort  Pike  (to  quote  General  Gentry's  re- 
port to  the  Governor),  with  *«  something  like  40  barrels  of  flour, 
2  hogsheads   of  bacon,   4   barrels    of  whiskey  and    100    bushels   of 


corn." 


On  Thursday,  August  2,  1832,  the  company  of  volunteers  under 
command  of  Capt.  Sinclair  Kirtley  left  Columbia  for  Fort  Pike,  to 
relieve  the  company  under  Capt.  Hickman,  whose  tour  of  duty  would 
expire  in  a  few  days.  Being  thus  relieved,  Capt.  Hickman's  company 
reached  Columbia  on  Tuesday,  August  14th.  Colonel  Austin  A. 
I  K!ing  marched  the  detachment  to  Fort  Pike  and  conducted  those  who 

were  relieved  to  their  homes.  Major  Conyers  was  retained  in  com- 
mand of  the  fort. 

The  Indian  war  having  terminated,  all  the  troops  stationed  on  the 
frontier  were  withdrawn,  by  order  of  the  Governor,  and  accordingly 


HISTORT   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  197 

returned  to  their  homes.     Captain  Kirtley's  company  reached  Colum- 
bia on  Saturday,  September  22,  and  were  disbanded. 

But  it  did  not  thus,  or  at  this  time,  end  in  Illinois.  For  nearly  a' 
year  afterwards  it  was  continued  at  various  points  in  the  territory 
now  occupied  by  the  States  of  Iowa  and  Illinois,  till  the  decisive  battle 
on  the  Mississippi,  near  the  mouth  of  Bad-Ax  Eiver,  August  2d,  1833, 
when  the  troops  under  Generals  Atkinson,  Dodge,  Henry,  Posey  and 
Alexander  overtook  and  defeated  Black  Hawk  with  great  slaughter, 
entirely  broke  his  power  and  ended  the  war.  While  the  battle  waxed 
warm  Black  Hawk  stole  oflf  up  the  river,  but  on  the  27th  of  August, 
1833,  he  was  captured  by  two  Winnebagoes  and  delivered  to  the 
United  States  officers  at  Prairie  du  Chien.  He  was  well  treated  and 
carried  in  triumph  through  a  great  part  of  the  United  States,  after 
which  he  was  permitted  to  return  to  his  people. 

Black  Hawk  died  at  the  village  of  his  tribe  on  the  Des  Moines 
River,  in  Davis  county,  Iowa,  October  3d,  1838,  aged  about  70  years. 
The  only  mound  over  the  grave  was  some  puncheons,  split  out  and  set 
over  his  grave  and  then  sodded  over  with  blue  grass,  making  a  ridge 
about  four  feet  high.  A  flag-staff,  some  twenty  feet  high,  was  planted 
at  his  head,  on  which  was  a  silk  flag,  which  hung  there  until  the  wind 
wore  it  out.  He  was  buried  in  a  suit  of  military  clothes,  made  to 
order  and  given  to  him  when  in  Washington  City  by  Gen.  Jackson^ 
with  hat,  sword,  gold  epaulets,  etc.  Enclosing  all  was  a  strong  circu- 
lar picket  fence,  twelve  feet  high.  His  body  remained  here  until 
July,  1839,  when  it  was  carried  off  by  a  certain  Dr.  Turner,  then 
living  at  Lexington,  Van  Buren  County,  Iowa.  It  is  said  the  bones 
were  carried  to  Alton,  Illinois,  to  be  mounted  with  wire.  Black 
Hawk's  sons,  when  they  heard  of  this  desecration  of  their  father's 
grave,  were  very  indignant  and  complained  of  it  to  Governor  Lucas, 
of  Iowa  Territory,  and  his  excellency  caused  the  bones  to  be  brought 
back  to  Burlington  in  the  fall  of  1839  or  the  spring  of  1840.  When 
the  sons  came  to  take  possession  of  them,  it  seems  that  finding  them 
safely  stored  **  in  a  good  dry  place,"  they  left  them  there.  The  bones 
were  subsequently  placed  in  the  collection  of  the  Burlington  Geolog- 
ical and  Historical  Society,  and  it  is  certain  that  they  perished  in  the  fire 
which  destroyed  the  building  and  all  the  Society's  collections  in  1855* 

COUBT  BCARTIAL  FOR  THE   TRIAL   OF   GEN.  MEANS. 

On  Thursday,  December  6,  1832,  a   court  martial   assembled   in 
Columbia  for  the  trial  of  Brig  .-Gen.  Benjamin  Means,  of  the  7th 


198  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 

Brigade,  7th  Division  Missouri  Militia,  on  sundry  charges  and  specific 
cations  preferred  against  him.  The  following  officers  composed  th^ 
court :  — 

Brig.-Oen.  Jesse  T.  Wood,  9th  Brigade,  President. 

Brig.-Gen.  Jonathan  Riggs,  8th  Brigade. 

Col.  Thomas  D.  Grant,  SIst  Regiment. 

Col.  William  Talbot,  15th  Regiment. 

Lieat.-Col.  Jesse  B.  Dale,  26th  Regiment. 

Lient.-Col.  Jesse  Bamett,  Slst  Regiment. 

Maj.  John  Barclay,  SIst  Regiment. 

Lieut.-Col.  James  Culberson,  I8th  Regiment. 

Maj.  Abel  M.  Conner,  18th  Regiment. 

Maj.  Henry  Watts,  11th  Regiment. 

Maj.  Addison  McPheeters,  20th  Regiment. 

Maj.  Thomas  W.  Conyers,  Inspector  of  9th  Brigade. 

Maj.  Overton  Harris,  Quartermaster  of  8d  Division. 

Austin  A.  King,  Judge  Advocate. 

James  Jackson,  Provost  Marshal. 

The  trial  originated  in  alleged  misconduct  of  Gen.  Means  during 
the  Black  Hawk  war,  and  was  for  the  examination  of  the  following 
charges:  1.  Disobedience  of  order.  2.  Unofficerlike  conduct.  3. 
Dnofficerlike  and  ungentleraanly  conduct.  4.  Mutiny.  5.  Mutinous 
conduct.  We  are  not  informed  as  to  the  specifications ;  but  after  a 
long  and  laborious  investigation,  which  closed  on  December  19,  the 
court  found  him  not  guilty,  which  finding  was  approved  by  Maj  .-Gen* 
Richard  Gentry,  Caleb  S.  Stone,  Aid-de-ramp,  and  he  was  honorably 
discharged. 

WASHINGTON   IRVING  VISITS   COLUMBIA.  ^ 

Washington  Irving  arrived  in  Columbia  on  Wednesday,  September 
19,  1832,  and  remained  until  the  next  day,  when  he  resumed  his  jour- 
ney for  the  Osage  country.  The  Intelligencer  says :  **  He  expressed 
the  greatest  surprise  and  admiration  of  what  he  had  already  seen  of 
Missouri,  having  previously  formed  somewhat  diflferent  views  of  the 
country.  In  his  manners,  Mr.  Irving  is  unostentatious,  affable  and 
gentlemanly.  He  will,  no  doubt,  acquire  a  valuable  fund  of  materials 
in  his  progress,  for  interesting  works  or  sketches,  which,  ere  long,  we 
may  have  the  gratification  of  perusing." 

POPULATION  OF  BOONE  COUNTY. 

The  population  of  Boone  county  in  1832  was  as  follows :  Whites, 
6,221 ;  slaves,  2,248.     Total,  8,469.     Voters,  1,476. 


HISTOHT  OF  BOONB   COUNTT.  199 


PIOKEBR  TRBATBR. 


Primitive  and  frugal  as  were  the  habits  of  life  of  the  Boone  county 
pioneers,  it  is  in  evidence  that  they  quite  early  gave  attention  to  edu- 
cation and    were   not   unmindful  of  the  attractions  of  the  drama. 
Almost  simultaneously  with  the  establishment  of  good  school  houses 
(whether  the  one  had  any  influence  upon  the  introduction  of  the  other 
we  shall  not  argue),  came  the  theater.     No  doubt  the  first  theatre  and 
histriooic  corps   which    challenged  public   patronage  in    Columbia, 
were  unpretentous  and  almost  wholly  destitute  of  the  aids  and  appli- 
ances and  attractive  scenery  and  gorgeously  painted  drop  curtains  of 
later  days.     It  was,  nevertheless,  a  theater,  and  developed  the  amateur 
native  talent  of  the  times.     The  pioneer  theater  of  Columbia  made  its 
debut  on  the  night  of  Christmas  day,  1832,  in  the  play  <<  Pizarro ;  or, 
the  Death  of  Bolla,"  concluding  with  the  laughable  farce  of  <*My 
Uncle."     Complimented  and  encouraged,  no  doubt,  by  the  patronage 
and  plaudits   of  an   appreciative   public,  the  amateur  troupe   were 
eneoaraged  to  strut  the  stage  again,  and,  therefore,  on  Monday  even- 
ing, February  25, 1833,  Mr.  E.  Scott's  benefit  was  given  by  the  rendi- 
tion of  the  much  admired  comedy  of  ^<  She  Stoops  to  Conquer ;  or,  the 
Mistakes  of  a  Night,"  concluding  with  the  laughable  farce  of  *<  The 
Boarding  House."     Tickets,  50  cents;   children  and  servants  half- 
price. 

On  October  21,  1833,  a  semi-weekly  line  of  mail  stages  between 
St.  Louis  via  St.  Charles,  Fulton,  Columbia,  and  Fayette  was  let. 

COLUMBIA   FINANCIAL   STATEMENT. 
[From  the  Missoarl  Intelligencer  ol  AprU  20, 1838.] 

A  STATEMENT 

Of  iU  monies  received  and  paid  out   by   the   Board   of  Trastees  of  the  town  ol 

Colnmbla. 

Total  tmoant  received  from  all  sources  within  the  year  ending  this  day     .       f  805  S2 
Totii  amount  paid  ont  within  the  same  period 805  70 

BaUace  in  the  treasury .  X2 

RECAPITULATION. 

Bilance  hi  the  treasury  on  the  first  day  of  Soptember,  1882          .        .  $141  60 

Amoant  received  since  that  period UO  82 

$282  82 
ioKKint  paid  for  digging  and  walling  the  public  cistern  on  Broadway  998  00 


6  75 

4  69 

50  00 

• 

2  00 

40  00 

8  00 

17  15 

$282  20 

200  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 

Amount  paid  for  conducting  the  water,  for  timbers,  and  for  other 

work  and  materials  towards  completing  the  same    .        .        .        .  56  61 

Amonnt  paid  in  discharge  of  a  note  executed  by  a  former  Board  of 

Trustees      .        .        .        .        ... 

Amount  paid  for  walling  one  of  the  public  wells        .        .        .        . 

Amonnt  paid  in  part  consideration  for  the  public  fountain  on  Eighth 

Street • 

Amount  paid  for  publishing   an   advertisement   In   the   Missouri 

InteUigencer 

Amount  paid  for  flagging,  curbing,  and  boxing  four  of  the  public 

lYeiis   ••.••.•••..•• 
Amount  paid  for  a  large  trough  which  is  to  be  connected  with  the 

public  fountain  and  reservoir  on  Eighth  Street         .... 
Amount  paid  the  collector  (his  commission  for  collecting) 


Balance  in  treasury •     ,  .        .       •  12 

WILLIAM  CORNELIUS,  Chairman  B.  T. 
Columbia,  April  1, 1888. 

STARS,    STARS,    STARS A   METEORIC   PHENOMENON. 

Between  three  and  four  o'clock  on  Wednesday  morning,  November 
13,  1833,  there  occurred  in  Boone  County  and  throughout  the  whole 
country  a  meteoric  phenomenon,  the  splendor  of  which  nevei:  passed 
from  the  memory  of  those  who  witnessed  it.  It  was  called,  in  pop- 
ular language,  a  falling  of  the  stars..  In  the  firmament  above,  and  all 
around  the  horizon,  thicker  than  the  stars  themselves,  —  which  were 
on  that  morning  uncommonly  bright  and  beautiful,  —  were  beheld 
innumerable  balls  of  fire  of  a  whitish,  pallid  color,  rushing  down  and 
across  the  sky,  drawing  after  them  long,  luminous  traces  which  clothed 
the  whole  heavens  in  awful  majesty,  and  gave  to  the  air  and  earth  a 
pale  and  death-like  appearance.  An  inconceivable  number  of  meteors 
or  falling  stars  shot  across  and  downward  from  the  heavens,  as  though 
the  whole  framework  of  the  blue  and  cloudless  arch  above  had  been 
shaken.  These  small  and  luminous  bodies  had  the  appearance  of  fly- 
ing or  floating  with  great  rapidity  in  every  direction,  occasioning  the 
greatest  wonder  among  the  beholders,  mingled  with  fear  and  conster- 
nation. Some  described  them  as  the  slow  and  sparse  descent  of  large 
flakes  of  snow,  and  that  each  flake  —  some  smaller,  some  larger  in 
size,  from  accidental  aggregation  or  otherwise  —  take  fire  in  their 
passage,  and,  fusing  like  a  bombshell  before  bursting,  leave  a  long 
train  of  lurid  light,  and  that  thousands  of  these,  or  as  many  as  were 
within  the  range  of  vision,  continued  to  descend  and  scatter  and  be- 
come extinct  before  they  reached  the  earth.     It  was  a  radiating  rain 


HI8TOBY   OF  BOONE   (X>UNTT.  201 

of  fire,  Id  meteoric  partioles  of  the  greatest  brilliancy.  In  some  parts 
of  the  country  the  shower  of  meteors  continued  until  near  sunrise^ 
when,  it  is  supposed,  they  **  paled  their  ineffectual  fires  ''  only  before 
the  greater  brilliancy  of  the  sun. 

Ton  heaven,  through  its  glorious  spheresi 

Is  fuU  of  fiery  eyes, 
And  the  mysterious  meteor  bears 

Its  lightning  thro'  the  skies. 

'Tisnlghtl  'tismoonlessnightl  butstiU 
The  earth  is  bright  as  day ;  { 

AQd  you  can  see,  on  yonder  hill, 
The  Autumn  of  foliage  play. 

Nature  I  mysterious  are  Thy  ways, 

Crom  firmament  to  fiower. 
The  fragrant  leaf,  the  meteor's  rays, 

Proclaim  a  Godhead's  power. 

FIRST  FAPEB  MILL  WEST  OF  THE  MISSISSIPPI. 

As  early  as  1823  the  subject  of  a  paper  mill  in  Missouri  engaged  the 
sttentioQ  of  sonie  of  its  citizens,  and  in  the  Franklin  Intelligencer  of 
April  8,  of  that  year,  there  is  an  editorial  calling  attention  to  the 
importiaDce  of  the  enterprise.  It  was  not,  however,  until  1834,  more 
than  ten  years  after  the  first  agitation  of  the  subject,  that  a  paper  mill 
was  established  in  the  State.  In  1833  David  S.  Lamme,  John  W. 
Reiser  &  Co.  established  a  steam  flouring  mill  at  what  is  now  known  as 
'*Bockbridge  Mills,"  called  by  that  name  because  there  is  at  the  place 
ft  natural  bridge,  six  miles  southwest  of  Columbia.  In  January,  1834, 
this  firm  gave  public  notice  that  they  were  making  arrangements  for 
the  manufacture  of  paper,  their  intention  being  to  establish  at  that 
place  a  paper  mill,  and  that  they  would  pay  for  good  clean  linen  and 
cotton  rags  three  cents  per  pound,  and  for  woollen  ten,  and  jeans  rags 
one  cent  per  pound.  The  paper  mill  was  owned  by  David  S.  and 
William  Lamme,  John  W.  Reiser  and  Thos.  J.  Cox.  Near  the  close 
of  1834  the  mill  commenced  the  manufacture  of  printing  paper,  and 
the  Intelligencer  of  the  last  week  of  that  year  was  issued  on  paper 
DMuie  by  this  mill.  The  machinery  was  entirely  new  •*  and  the  whole ^ 
establishment  on  an  extensive  scale."  The  St.  Louis  Republican^  in 
the  fiiU  of  1835,  was  printed  on  paper  manufactured  by  the  Boone 
County  mill,  and  the  proprietors  of  the  Republican  annmmced  that 
"the  paper  will  compare  advantageously  with,  if,  indeed,  it  be  not 
raperior  to,  any  manufactured  west  of  the  mountains." 


202  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

Nevertheless,  the  enterprise  was  not  remunerative  and  the  paper 
mill  had  but  a  temporary  existence. 


OEORGE  C.  BINOHAM,  "THE  MISSOURI   ARTIST. 


»» 


Among  the  earliest  achievements  by  George  C.  Bingham  as  a  portrait 
painter  were  accomplished  in  Columbia,  where,  in  1835,  he  opened  his 
studio  and  painted  the  portraits  of  a  number  of  citizens.  Many  of 
these  specimens  of  art  are  yet  extant  in  the  county,  and  among  them 
a  portrait  of  the  late  Judge  David  Todd,  which,  a  few  years  since,  was 
presented  to  the  State  University  by  G.  W.  Samuel,  of  St.  Joseph, 
and  which  now  hangs  in  the  chapel  of  the  institution. 

THE   FIRST   AGRICULTURAL   FAIR   IN   MISSOURI,  OCTOBER,  1835. 

It  is  not  generally  known,  perhaps  not  known  at  all  to  a  single 
citizen  of  Boone  County,  or  of  the  State,  that  agricultural  fairs  in 
Missouri  had  their  origin  in  this  county.  This  important  and  valuable 
agency  in  the  improvement  of  the  cattle,  horses,  mules,  hogs  and  sheep 
of  this  State  was  a  coinage  of  the  brain  of  Boone  County  fanners ; 
and  in  October,  1835,  in  a  very  plain  and  unpretentious  manner  the 
enterprise  was  inaugurated. 

The  Agricultural  Society  owned  no  grounds,  had  erected  no  amphi- 
theater or  prepared  a  ring  for  the  exhibition  of  stock ;  and  neither 
the  exhibitors,  judges  nor  spectiitors  had  the  tedium  of  the  occasion 
relieved  by  a  band  of  music.  The  place  of  exhibition  was  then  a 
woodland,  or  pasture,  in  the  eastern  suburbs  of  the  town,  and  a  short 
distance  northeast  of  Samuels's  pork-house  and  near  the  present  res- 
idences of  Rev.  H.  B.  Watson  and  Mrs.  Emma  Anderson. 

Those  were  the  primitive  days  of  the  county,  and  the  methods  of 
the  people  were  primitive ;  and  doubtless  it  will  be  added  by  those 
who  read  the  following  award  of  premiums,  that  the  stock  was  prim- 
itive. Although  the  officers  of  the  Fair  —  Abraham  J.  Williams, 
President,  and  A.  W.  Turner,  Secretary  —  very  innocently  felicitated 
themselves  on  the  conviction  that  '*  the  stock  exhibited  would  bear  a 
.comparison  with  any  of  our  older  sister  States,"  we  suspect  that  the 
hogs,  sheep,  cattle,  mules  and  horses  then  exhibited  would  present 
rather  a  sorry  spectacle  if  brought  in  competition  with  the  stock  of 
this  day.  No  doubt  the  hogs,  although  they  may  have  been  fatted  for 
the  fair,  were  of  the  **  hazel-splitter"  variety,  with  sharp  backs,  long 
legs,  snouts  and  tails.     The  cattle,  mules  and  horses,  and  perhaps 


HISTOBT  OF  BOONE   COUNT7.  SOS 


dieep,  were  doubtless  more  respeotable,  but  none  of  them  are 
ported  as  of  illustrious  lineage,  with  long  pedigrees  in  the  American 
Herd  Book. 

The  officers  of  the  society,  in  making  an  official  announcement  of 
the  premiums  awarded,  deemed  it  a  matter  worthy  of  special  mention 
us  *<  a  novelty  in  our  country,"  that  there  was  on  exhibition  **  a  suck- 
ing colt,  broke  to  all  the  domestic  uses  of  man,  dressed  off  with  the 
gkj  attire  of  a  stallion,  and  plated  and  trained  as  the  courser." 
These  officers,  it  is  worthy  of  special  record,  prophetically  said,  •*  the 
hall  of  improvement  is  rolling  through  our  country,"  No  doubt  the 
ball  then  and  there  started  gave  impulse  to  the  improvement  of  all 
kinds  of  stock  which  through  the  succeeding  years,  from  that  period 
to  the  present,  has  influenced  our  farmers  to  place  Boone  County,  in 
the  character  of  its  stock,  in  the  front  rank  of  the  counties  of  the 
Commonwealth. 

[From  the  Ck>liimbla  InteHlgeDcer  of  October  24. 1885.] 

STOCK  FAIR. 

At  a  stock  fair  of  the  Boone  County  Agricultural  Society,  held  at 
Colombia  on  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  days  of  October,  1835,  the 
following  stock  were  exhibited  for  premiums  of  a  silver  cup,  worth 

110:- 

HOOS 

[William  Stone,  Alfred  Basye  and  William  Provines,  judges.] 
Samuel  Kennan  —  one  sow  pig,  and  one  black  sow.  The  black  sow 
took  the  certificate.  David  M.  Hickman  —  one  boar  and  one  sow. 
The  sow  took  the  certificate. 

SHEEP. 

[Tbeodorick  Jenkins,  A.  W.  Bollins  and  Stephen  Bedford,  judges.] 
William  Stone  —  one  ewe,  Merino,  and  one  ram.  Merino.  D.  M. 
Hickman  —  one  ram.  Merino, '  premium.  William  Johnston  —  one 
f^,  Merino,  certificate. 

JACKS   AND   JENNETS. 

[Lowden  Snell,  Mason  Moss  and  Philip  Barnes,  judges.]  A.  W« 
Bollins — one  sucking  jack,  premium.  A.  W.  Rollins  —  one  jennet, 
("Jimmy  Crow,'*)  premium.  Jesse  Turner  —  one  yearling  jack, 
<^rti6cate.     D.  M.  Hickman  —  one  yearling  jack,  premium.     D,  M» 


204  HI8TOBY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

Hickman  —  one  two  year-old  jack,  premium.  D.  M.  Hickman  —  one 
aged  jack  (Washington),  premium.  A.  W.  Turner  —  one  jack 
(Tecumseh),  certificate.     William  Johnston  —  one  jack. 

CATTLE. 

[Darid  Gordon,  William  Johnston  and  Lowden  Snell,  judges.} 
Edward  Young  —  one  white,  sucking  calf,  and  one  pided  calf;  Patten 
stock,  certificate.  Thomas  Jenkins  —  one  black  and  white  calf,  by 
his  bull  Tom  Jones.  A.  W.  Rollins  —  one  red  calf  (Teeswater),  by 
his  bull  Durock;  dam  Lady  San  Martin,  premium.  Eli  £.  Bass  — 
one  pided  calf.  Thomas  Jenkins  —  one  milch  cow ;  Patten  stock* 
Edward  Young — one  milch  cow;  Patten  stock,  certificate.  A.  W. 
Bollins  —  one  cow.  Lady  San  Martin;  Durham,  Teeswater  and  Miller 
stock,  premium.  William  Stone  —  one  year  old  bull;  Durham  and 
Patten  stock,  premium.  Thomas  Jenkins  —  one  year  old  heifer,  by 
Oscar,  dam  by  San  Martin,  certificate.  A.  W.  Rollins  —  two  year  old 
heifer,  by  Durock ;  dam  common  stock  of  Missouri.  D.  M.  Hick- 
man—  one  two  year  old  bull ;  scrub  stock,  certificate.  E.  E.  Bass  — 
one  two  year  old  cow ;  Shoii;  Horn  stock,  premium.  Thomas  Jen- 
kins—  bull,  Tom  Jones,  by  a  short-horned  bull;  dam  by  San  Martin,, 
premium.  A.  W.  Rollins  —  bull,  Durock;  a  full-blooded,  short- 
horned  and  Teeswater  bull ;  dam  Sportsman,  certificate.  D.  M. 
Hickman  —  bullock,  certificate.  Christopher  Morrow  —  one  bullock^ 
premium. 

MULES. 

[William   Maupin,   A.   W.  Rollins  and   William   Stone,  judges.] 
Philip  Barnes  one  sucking  mule,  four  feet  seven  and  a  half  inches- 
high,  premium.     D.  M,  Hickman — one  sucking  mule,  by  Washing- 
ton, premium.'   D.  M.  Hickman  —  one  two  year  old  mule,  premium* 
D.  M.  Hickman  —  mule,  certificate.     E.  E.  Bass  —  mule,  premium. 

HORSES. 

[J.  J.  Cotton,  Sinclair  Kirtley  and  T.  C.  Maupin,  judges.]  John 
Lampton  — one  sucking  horse  colt  by  Potomac  ;  dam  by  Prince  Richard,, 
premium.  Benj.  Barns  —  one  sorrel  horse  colt,  by  Black  Whip;  dam 
by  Diomede.  James  Sims  —  one  black  mare  colt,  by  Black  Whip;, 
dam  by  Lamplighter,  certificate.  Thomas  W.  Conyers  —  one  bay 
mare  colt,  by  Sir  Charles  ;  dam  by  Sumpter.  Edward  Young  —  one 
brood  mare,  by  Comet;  dam  by  Buzzard.     John  Lampton  —  brood 


206  HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

country.     The  ball  of  improvement  is  rolling  through  our  country,. 

and  it  is  the  duty  of  every  farmer  to  add  his  force  to  give  it  impetus. 

The  society  is  open  for  any  citizen  in  the  State  at  five  dollars  per 

annum. 

Abraham  J.  Williams,  President. 

A.  W.  Turner,  Secretary. 
October  21,  1835. 

trial  and  conviction  of  conway,  a  neoro  man,  for  the  murder 

of  israel  b.  grant. 

After  dark  on  the  night  of  December  29,  1835,  when  returning  to 
his  home  in  Callaway  county  from  Fulton,  on  horseback,  Israel  B» 
Grant,  a  leading  and  much  esteemed  citizen  of  that  county,  was  by  a 
blow  from  behind  a  tree  in  the  road  knocked  from  his  horse,  stabbed 
with  a  pocket  knife  and  killed,  and  his  body  dragged  into  the  woods 
and  a  log  rolled  on  it.  The  murder  excited  the  greatest  commotion 
and  no  effort  was  left  unemployed  to  bring  the  guilty  parties  to 
justice. 

Suspicion  soon  fastened  upon  several  slaves  in  the  neighborhood, 
among  them  Conway,  a  negro  man  belonging  to  Francis  K.  Cowherd^ 
and  Jake  belonging  to  Mr.  Grant,  upon  whose  clothes   blood  was 
found  and  in  his  pocket  $25.     Conway  and  Jake  were  indicted  for 
murder  at  the  February,  1836,  term  of  the  Callaway  Circuit  Court 
and  arraigned  for  trial.    Jake  turned  State's  evidence.    OfiBcers  of  the 
court:  David  Todd,  Judge;    Johii    Coats,  Sheriff;  James  Baskett, 
Clerk.     Sinclair  Kirtley,  of  Columbia,  appeared  as  counsel  for  Con- 
way,   and  the  State  was  represented  by   R.    W.   Wells,  Attorney- 
General.     Owing   to  the  excitement  in  Callaway,    Conway   took  a 
change  of  venue  to  Boone  county,  and  Judge  Todd  convened  a  special 
term  of  the  court  for  his  trial  at  Columbia,  February  29,  1836.     Mr. 
Wells,  the  Attorney-General,  being  absent,  Austin  A.  King  and  Wm. 
H.  Russell  were  assigned  by  the  court  to  prosecute.     The  following 
jury  tried  the  case :  James    Hopper,    foreman ;   Jesse   Whitesides, 
Henry  L.  Douglass,  Greenbury  Jacobs,  Daniel  Lyons,  Edward  Jar- 
man,  Adam  C.  Reyburn,  Levi  Bennett,  John  Caruthers,  Wm.  Y. 
Hitt,  Merritt  Stephenson,   Samuel  Morrow.     James  S.  Rollins  was 
the  principal  counsel  for  the  defence,  and,  although  a  young  man,  de- 
livered an  argument  of  great  eloquence  and  ability  and  one  which  is 
yet  remembered    for  its  remarkable  power  and  beauty.     The  trial 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  207 

lasted  for  several  days  and  the  jury  finding  a  verdict  of  guilty,  Con- 
way was  sentenced  to  be  hung  at  Fulton,  on  April  8,  1836,  and  on 
that  day  he  was  hung  —  protesting  his  innocence  to  the  last —  by  Mr. 
Coatji,  the  sheriff.  Jake  was  afterwards  tried,  convicted  and  hung. 
Many  people  now  believe  Conway  was  innocent. 

THE   FLORIDA   WAR. 

"Switzler's  History  of  Missouri  "  says  :  **  The  Florida  or  Seminole 
war  grew  out  of  the  opposition  of  the  Seminole  Indians  to  their 
removal  from  Florida  west  of  the  Mississippi  River.  This  attempt 
was  first  made  in  1835,  but  the  Seminoles  were  unwilling  to  relinquish 
their  lauds,  and  rallying  under  the  leadership  of  their  great  chief, 
Osceola,  organized  a  determined  resistance  to  the  efforts  of  the  Gen- 
eral Government.  ^  In  May,  1836,  the  Creeks  joined  the  Seminoles  and 
the  war  spread  into  Georgia.  The  Creeks  were  soon  conquered  and 
sent  beyond  the  Mississippi.  The  Seminoles  continued  the  war,  and 
asoftea  as  defeated  in  the  open  field  would  take  refuge  in  the  swamps 
and  everglades,  where  it  was  difficult  for  the  United  States  soldiers 
to  follow  thenu  In  October,  1837,  Osceola  was  captured  by  General 
Jessup,  and  sent  a  prisoner  to  Fort  Moultrie,  South  Carolina,  where 
he  died  of  a  fever.  Nevertheless,  the  war  continued  for  several  years, 
and  Missourians  took  part  in  it. 

Sometime  in  the  fall  of  1837,  and  during  the  administration  of 
Go?emor  Boggs,  the  President  of  the  United  States,  Mr.  Van  Buren, 
asked  Colonel  Benton,  one  of  our  Senators  in  Congress,  whether 
Missourians  could  be  induced  to  travel  so  far  as  the  swamps  of  Florida 
and  assist  in  chastising  the  Seminole  Indians.  Colonel  Benton  an* 
Bwered:  "The  Missourians  will  go  wherever  their  services  are 
needed,"  and  went  immediately  to  Joel  R.  Poinsett,  then  Secretary 
of  War,  and  urged  him  to  issue  an  order  for  raising  volunteers  in 
Missouri  for  that  purpose.  The  Secretary  being  assured  of  a  favora- 
ble response,  issued  a  requisition  on  Governor  Boggs,  for  two  regi- 
ments of  mounted  volunteers.  The  following  is  a  copy  (made  from 
the  original)  of  the  letter  of  the  Secretary  of  War  to  Colonel  Richard 
Gentry,  of  Columbia  :  — 

War  Department,  September  8th,  1837. 

Sir:  —  Yoa  are  hereby  informed  that  a  regiment  of  six  hundred  volunteers  from  the 

State  of  Missouri  wlU  be  accepted  by  this  Department,  for  service  in  Florida,  during 

the  next  campaign  against  the  Seminoles,  provided  they  can  be  raised  by  you  in  season 

to  reach  Tampa  Bay  by  the  middle  of  October,  or  the  1st  of  November,  at  latest » 


208  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   OOUNTT. 

General  AtkinKon  has  been  Instracted  to  dispatch  an  officer  of  the  army  to  master 
these  troops  into  the  service,  and  to  render  soch  other  aid  as  may  be  necessary  to  ex- 
pedite their  movements  towards  Florida. 

Very  respectfully,  your  most  obedient  servant, 

J.  R.  Poinsett. 
Colonel  Gentry,  Columbia,  Boone  County,  Missouri. 

The  first  regiment  was  raised  chiefly  in  Boone  and  neighboring 
counties  by  Colonel  Gentry,  of  which  he  was  elected  Colonel,  John 
W.  Price,  of  Howard,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  Harrison  H.  Hughes, 

also  of  Howard,  Major; Parks,  of  Riy,   Quartermaster,  and 

William  McDaniel,  of  Marion,  ('oramissary.  The  regiment  was 
composed  of  the  following  companies  :  — 

From  Boone  County :  Captains  John  Elh's  and  Thomas  D.  Grant; 
Callaway,  Captain  William  H.  Russell ;  Howard,  Captain  Congreve 
Jackson;  Chariton,  Cap£ain  James  Flore  ;  Ray,  Captain  John  Sconce ; 
Jackson,  Captain  Jas.  Chiles  ;  Marion,  Captain  John  Curd. 

Four  companies  of  the  second  regiment  were  also  raised  and 
attached  to  the  first.  Two  of  these  companies  were  composed  of 
Deleware  and  Osage  Indians. 

CAPTAIN    ELLIS'    COMPANY. 

The  following  is  a  partial  list  of  the  officers  and  privates  of  Capt. 
Ellis'  company.  We  have  made  every  eflbrt,  but  without  success,  to 
get  the  names  of  all  of  them  :  — 

John  Ellis,  Captain  ;  Clifton  R.  Harris,  First  Lieutenant;  William 
Gordon,  Second  Lieutenant ;  Richard  Snell,  First  Sergeant;  John  M. 
Harris,  Second  Sergeant;  Samuel  Davis,  Third  Sergeant:  Alfred 
Keene,  Fourth  Sergeant ;  James  Jones,  First  Corporal ;  John  Hopper, 
Second  Corporal ;  Lewis  Jones,  Third  Corporal ;  Archibald  Johnston, 
Fourth  Corporal.  Privates :  William  Little,  Calvin  Little,  John 
Green,  John  R.  Basnett,  John  H.  Hopper,  James  E.  Hopper,  James 
C.  Hopper,  Newton  Wilcox,  Charles  Stephens,  John  Holland,  Mont. 
TrimV)le,  John  McGinnis,  Jeptha  Haydon,  Joseph  Hickam,  John 
Nealy,  Robert  Carter,  D.  W.  Holt,  Thos.  Nichols,  O.  P.  Jones,  John 
Roberts,  William  Smith,  David  Grindstaff,  Thomas  Jefferson^.  Fred- 
erick Bittle,  Joseph  Anthony,  William  Martin, Guinn,  William 

H.  Belcher,  John  Senoir,  James  K.  McDaniel,  Alexander  Hickam, 
John  Tilford, Hunt. 

On  October  G,  1837,  Col.  Gentry's  regiment  left  Columbia  for  the 
field  of  danger  and  duty,  but  before  taking  their  departure  were  pre- 
sented by  the  ladies  of  Columbia  with  a  beautiful  regimental  flag,  the 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  209 

presentation  address  being  made  by  Miss  Lucy  Ann  Wales,  a  very 
cultivated  and  accomplished  lady,  at  that  time  preceptress  of  Columbia 
Female  Academy.  The  flag  was  borne  by  the  regiment  throughout  the 
campaign  in  Florida,  and  floated  at  its  head  in  battle,  and  after  its  re- 
turn to  Missouri  Was  delivered  to  the  widow  of  Colonel  Gentry,  Octo- 
ber 26,  1842,  by  Captain  William  Heniy  Russell,  and  it  is  now  in  the 
possession  of  Thomas  B.  Gentry,  of  Columbia. 

After  the  regiment  left  Columbia,  they  marched  by  land  to  Jeffer- 
son Barracks,  below  St.  Louis,  where  they  were  detained  for  several 
days  and  were  addressed  by  Hon.  Thomas  H.  Benton.  They  were 
there  mustered  into  service  by  General  Henry  Atkinson,  the  comman- 
der of  this  department.  They  were  taken  by  boats  from  there  to 
Jackson  Barracks,  New  Orleans,  from  which  point  they  were  trans- 
ported in  brisrs  across  the  gulf  to  Tampa  Bay,  Florida. 

Mr.  Elihu  H.  Shepard,  in  his  •*  Early  History  of  St.  Louis  and  Mis- 
souri," says  that  on  the  voyage  they  were  overtaken  by  a  violent  storm 
and  several  of  the  vessels  stranded.  Many  horses  were  lo^t,  but  no 
lives,  and  they  disembarked  on  the  15th  of  November  at  the  place  of 
destination.  On  the  Ist  of  December  they  received  orders  from  Gen- 
eral Zachary  Taylor,  then  commanding  in  Florida,  to  march  to  Okee- 
cho-bee  Lake,  one  hundred  and  thirty-five  miles  inland  by  the  route 
travelled,  in  the  vicinity  of  which  the  whole  force  of  the  Seminoles 
was  said  to  have  collected »  under  their  four  most  redoubtable  leaders, 
Sam  Jones,  Tiger  Tail,  Alligator  and  Mycanopee,  prepared  for 
battle. 

Having  reached  the  Kissemmee  River,  seventy  miles  distant,  the 
cavalry  scouts  captured  several  Indians  who  were  guarding  grazing 
stock,  by  which  the  Colonel  learned  the  Indians  were  near  at  hand  ; 
•and  immediately  crossing  the  river,  he  formed  the  Missouri  volunteers 
in  front  and  advanced,  supporting  them  at  a  proper  distance  by  the 
regular  army  on  either  flank. 

The  Indians  appeared  to  have  noticed  all  the  surroundings  of  the 
place,  and  commenced  the  attack  at  the  point  afl!brding  them  the  best 
position  for  prolonging  a  battle,  and  continued  it  with  a  pertinacity 
they  seldom  exhibit. 

Colonel  Gentry  fought  on  foot,  as  did  all  his  command,  and  had  re- 
puked  the   Indians  after  several  hours  of  severe  fifichtin^:.     He  was 
gradually  pushing  them  across  a  swamp,  and  had  nearly  reached  the 
t'lysoil,  when  a  bullet  pierced  his  abdomen,  inflicting  a  fatal  wound. 
He  knew    its    extent,  yet  he  stood  erect  an    hour   afterwards,  arid 
14 


210  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

cheered  his  men  to  victory ;  until  at  last  being  compelled  to  yield, 
he  was  borne  from  the  fight  and  expired  the  same  night. 

The  fall  of  their  leader  did  not  relax  the  exertions  of  the  Missou- 
rians.  They  made  good  all  their  Senator  had  said  of  them,  and 
continued  to  fight  several  hours  longer,  until  the  Indians  were  en- 
tirely vanquished.  The  loss  in  killed  and  wounded  was  one  hundred 
and  thirty-eight,  most  of  whom  were  Missourians. 

There  being  no  further  service  required  of  the  Missourians,  thej 
were  returned  to  their  homes  early  in  1838,  and  the  name  and  fame  oj 
Colonel  Gentry  placed  where  it  will  never  perish.  His  remains,  a^ 
well  as  those  of  Captain  VanSwearingen  and  Lieutenants  Brooke  anc 
Center,  6th  Regular  United  States  Infantry,  were  afterwards  broughl 
to  Jefferson  Barracks  and  buried.  The  County  of  Gentry,  organized 
February  12th,  1841,  was  named  in  honor  of  his  memory.^ 

The  oflicial  report  to  the  War  Department  by  General  Zachary  Tay- 
lor, U.  S.  A.,  in  regard  to  the  battle  of  Okeechobee,  occasioned  mud 
excitement  and  adverse  criticism  in  Missouri,  because  it  was  claimed 
that  he  not  only  did  great  injustice  to  the  Missouri  Volunteers  undei 
Colonel  Gentry,  but  that  on  one  occasion  he  treated  Colonel  Gentrj 
himself  with  a  degree  of  insulting  hardship  and  violence  wholly  uji- 
merited  by  that  gallant  officer.     Therefore,  during  the  session  of  th< 


^  The  following  is  a  copy  of  a  letter  written  from  Brigadier-General  Henry  Atkinson 

U.  S.  Army,  to  Mrs.  Ann  Gentry,  widow  of  Colonel  Gentry,  in  regard  to  the  receipt  am 

interment  of  his  remains : 

St.  Louis,  7th  May,  1S89. 

Mv  Dear  Madam:  — I  have  the  satisfaction  to  inform  you  that  I  have  received  thi 
remains  of  the  late  Major-General  Gentry,  your  lamented  huslTand,  from  Florida,  min 
gled  in  the  same  box  with  the  remains  of  Captain  VanSwearingen  and  Lieutenanti 
Brooke  and  Center,  6th  Regiment  U.  S.  Infantry.  The  whole  will  be  this  day  takei 
from  the  box  and  placed  in  a  suitable  coffin  and  carried  to  the  Episcopal  Church,  where 
at  half-past  two  o'clock,  the  funeral  service  will  be  peformed  by  the  reverend  clergy 
after  which  all  appropriate  military  honors  will  take  place  by  the  military  and  civi 
authorities  of  the  city.  The  remains  will  then  be  taken  to  Jefferson  Barracks,  when 
they  will  be  deposited  for  final  interment  as  soon  as  the  Gth  Regiment  returns  to  tha 
post.  It  is  intended  to  inter  all  the  remains  in  the  same  grave,  over  which  a  mono 
ment,  with  suitable  inscriptions,  will  be  erected. 

I  hope  this  disposition  of  the  remains  of  Major-General  Gentry  will  be  agreeable  U 
you  and  your  family.  It  would  now  be  difficult,  if  not  impossible,  to  designate  th< 
remains  of  either  individual ;  therefore,  should  you  wish  to  have  the  General's  bones 
it  would  be  impossible,  I  think,  to  select  them. 

With  the  kindest  regards,  madam,  I  am,  most  respectfully. 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 

H.  ATKINSON,  Brigadier-General  U.  S.  Army. 
Mrs.  Gentry,  relict  of  the  late  Major-General  Gentry,  Columbia,  Mo. 


/ 

HI8TOBY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  211 

L^slature  of  1838-9,  a  special  committee  was  appointed,  David  R. 
Atchison,  chairman,  to  investigate  the  facts  and  make  report  of  them 
\o  the  General  Assembly.  This  committee  cansed  about  twenty  of 
the  officers  of  the  Missouri  Volunteers,  who  had  served  in  the  Florida 
campaign,  to  be  examined  before  them,  among  whom  were  individuals 
who  were  engaged  during  the  battle  in  every  part  of  the  line,  and  oth- 
ers who  were  posted  at  the  baggage  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
swamp. 

After  the  examination  of  these  witnesses,  Mr.  Atchison  made  a 
report,  in  which  it  was  maintained  that  General  Taylor's  report  did 
the  Missouri  troops  great  injustice;  among  other  reasons  because  it 
ehai]ged  that  the  Missouri  Volunteers  mostly  broke  and  fell  back  to 
the  baggage,  and  that  the  repeated  effoils  of  his  Aids  could  not  rally 
them. 

Mr.  Atchison's  report  states,  in  substance,  that  the  battle  commenced 
between  nine  and  ten  o'clock  a.  m.,  December  25th,  1837;  that  the 
ITissoiiri  Volunteers  first  attacked  the  enemy,  led  the  charge,  and  bore 
the  brunt  of  the  battle  along  the  whole  line ;  that  they  had  to  march 
through  a  deep,  miry  swamp  for  about  half  a  mile  in  order  to  approach 
the  Indians,  who  were  concealed  in  the  edge  of  the  hummock  ready  to 
receive  them,  on  ground  which  they  had  chosen  and  prepared  for  that 
purpose ;  that  the  Indians  were  protected  by  the  heavy  timber  and 
thick  aoderbrush,  while  the  Volunteers,  mostly  unsupported  by  the 
Begiflars,  were  exposed  in  open  line,  uncovered,  in  the  swamp,  stand- 
ing up  to  their  knees  in  mud  and  water,  when  they  received  the  first 
deadly  fire  of  the  enemy.  Nevertheless,  they  fought  bravely  till  the 
heat  of  the  battle  was  over,  and  it  was  principally  by  their  fire  that 
the  Indians  were  first  dispersed.  Although  a  large  number  of  the 
Volunteers  were  killed  or  wounded  by  a  concealed  enemy,  they  hero- 
ically stood  their  ground  or  pressed  forward  to  the  attack,  until  the 
hummock  was  taken  and  the  victory  gained.  None  of  the  witnesses 
examined  knew  of  any  attempt  on  the  part  of  General  Taylor's  staff 
tQ  rally  the  Volunteers,  or  of  any  necessity  for  such  attempt ;  and  the 
f^i  is  established  that  after  the  heat  of  the  battle  was  over,  a  consid- 
erable portion  of  the  Volunteers,  instead  of  being  dispatched  in  pur- 
suit of  the  retreating  enemy,  were,  by  order  of  the  Regular  officers, 
detailed  to  make  a  causeway  across  the  swamp,  upon  which  to  carry 
out  the  dead  and  wounded.  To  the  committee,  it  was  manifest  that 
General  Taylor  entertained  strong  prejudice  against  the  Volunteers^ 
Aod  a  most  contemptuous  opinion  of  that  description  of  troops,  and 


212  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

they  reported  it  probable  that,  owing  to  this  prejudice,  he  could  no^ 
do  justice  to  the  Volunteers  from  Missouri.  Also,  that  "Colonel 
Gentry  fell  at  the  head  of  his  troops,  in  a  manner  worthy  of  the  com- 
mander of  Volunteers,  and  the  conduct  of  the  Volunteer  officers  and 
soldiers  generally  was  such  as  ought  to  have  elicited  praise  and  com- 
mendation, instead  of  censure  and  reproach.'* 

The  committee  concluded  their  report  by  recommending  the  adop- 
tion of  the  following  joint  resolutions : 

1st.  Besolvedf  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Bepresentatives,  that  the  conduct  of  the 
Missouri  Volunteers  and  spies,  in  the  Florida  campaign,  was  such  as  only  could  be 
expected  from  good  soldiers  and  brave  men. 

2d.  Besolvedf  that  so  much  of  Colonel  Z.  Taylor's  renprt  of  the  battle  of  Okeechobee, 
which  charges  that  the  Missouri  Volunteers  and  spies  mostly  broke  and  fell  back  to  the 
baggage,  and  that  the  repeated  efforts  of  his  staff  could  not  raUy  them,  is  proved  to  be 
unfounded,  not  to  say  intentionally  falser  and,  that  so  much  of  said  report  which  states 
that  the  Regular  troops  were  joined  by  Captain  Gilliam  and  Lieutenant  Blakey  wltha 
lew  men,  but  not  until  they  had  suffered  severely,  is  Incorrect  in  this,  —  that  GllUam 
and  Blakey  were  in  advance  of  the  Regular  troops  during  the  most  of  the  fight  and  nevti 
in  the  rear. 

3d.  Besolvedf  that  so  much  of  said  report  which  states  that  the  Missouri  Volonteera 
and  spies  behaved  themselves  as  well  or  better  than  troops  of  that  description  nsaallji 
do,  is  not  so  much  a  compliment  to  them  as  a  slander  upon  citizen  soldiers  generally, 

4th.  Besolved,  that  Colonel  Taylor  in  his  report  of  the  battle  of  Okeechobee,  has  done 
manifest  injustice  to  the  Missouri  Volunteers  and  spies,  and  that  said  report  was  not 
founded  upon  facts  as  they  occurred. 

5th.  Besolvedy  that  a  commanding  officer  who  has  wantonly  misrepresented  the  con- 
duct of  men  who  gallantly  sustained  him  In  battle,  is  unworthy  a  commission  in  the 
Army  of  the  United  States. 

6th.  Besolvedf  that  the  Governor  of  the  State  be  required  to  lay  before  the  President 
of  the  United  States,  the  evidence  reported  to  this  House,  In  relation  to  the  conduct  oi 
the  Missouri  Volunteers  and  spies  in  the  Florida  campaign,  and  Colonel  Z.  Taylor'a 
report  of  the  battle  of  the  Okeechobee,  and  that  he  solicit  on  the  part  of  this  State  a 
court  of  inquiry  Into  the  conduct  of  the  Missouri  Volunteers  and  spies,  and  the  truth  oi 
said  report. 

7th.  Besolved,  that  the  Governor  of  the  State  be  required  t»)  lay  before  the  President 
of  the  United  States,  a  statement  of  facts  relative  to  the  treatment  of  the  spies  under 
Colonel  Morgan  and  Captain  Sconce :  1st.  As  It  regards  the  fact  of  the  organization  of 
said  command  Into  a  spy  battalion,  under  the  order  of  Colonel  Taylor.  2d.  His  subse- 
quent acknowledgment  and  recognition  of  said  corps.  3d.  The  performance  of  arduous 
duty  by  the  officers  of  said  battalion  under  the  requisition  of  Colonel  Taylor.  4th. 
Their  subsequent  discharge  as  privates  and  the  pay  that  they  received  as  such.  5th. 
The  necessity  of  adopting  some  course  to  obtain  redress. 

The  resolutions  passed  both  houses  of  the  Legislature  unanimously, 
and  there  the  matter  rested,  no  court  of  inquiry  having  been  called  by 
the  President  of  the  United  States  to  investigate  the  truth  of  Colonel 
Taylor's  report. 


HI8TOBY  or  BOONE   COUNTY.  213 


THE  MORMON  WAR. 


The  smoke  of  the  Florida  war  had  scarcely  receded  from  view 
before  an  insurrection  within  the  borders  of  our  own  State  incited  the 
martial  spirit  of  our  people,  and  they  flew  to  arms  to  punish  and  drive 
from  the  State  the  Mormons,  under  their  Prophet,  Joe  Smith. 

After  their  expulsion,  in  1834,  from  Jackson  County,  they  flocked 
in  large  numbers  into  counties  north  of  the  Missouri  River,  but  chiefly 
into  the  new  county  of  Caldwell,  where  John  Whitmer  and  a  few  others 
had  selected  a  site  for  a  new  town  and  lands  for  a  new  home  for  the 
Saints.  The  town  was  called  **Far  West,"  and  Joe  Smith  and  his 
chief  pfficers  located  there,  and  assured  their  followers  that  it  would 
soon  become  one  of  the  mighty  cities  of  the  world. 

The  old  town  site  is  now  in  the  midst  of  a  corn-field,  which  consti- 
totes  part  of  a  tract  of  land  belonging  to  Col.  Calvin  F.  Burns,  of 
St.  Joseph,  and  is  situated  about  eight  miles  southwest  of  Hamilton 
and  about  the  same  distance  southeast  of  Cameron.  About  half  a 
mile  west  of  the  town  is  the  burying-ground  of  the  Mormons.  It  is 
DOW  included  within  the  limits  of  a  farm  owned  by  Mr.  Peter  L.  Boul-* 
ton,  a  brother  of  Judge  Jesse  A.  Boulton,  of  Boone  County.  Here 
are  some  two  or  three  hundred  graves,  all  more  or  less  obliterated, 
with  scarcely  an  occasional  rude  headstone  to  mark  the  presence  of  a 
once  sacredly-guarded,  but  long-forsaken  and  forgotten  village  of  the 
dead. 

But  perhaps  the  most  interesting  relic  of  the  times  of  which  we 
write  is  the  former  residence  of  Joseph  Smith,  the  Mormon  prophet, 
and  founder  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints.  It 
is  a  rude,  old-fashioned,  one-story  frame  building,  with  two  rooms, 
situated  about  a  quarter  ot  a  mile  southwest  of  the  temple  site,  which 
was  in  the  middle  of  the  town.  An  unusually  large  and  clumsy  stone 
chimney  at  the  north  end  of  the  building  is  its  distinguishing  charac- 
teristic. Otherwise  the  structure  is  an  exceedingly  ordinary  and  com- 
mon-place building,  suggestive  of  anything  rather  than  the  residence 
of  the  founder  of  a  mighty  sect  whose  wonderful  rise  and  progress 
constitute  an  era  in  the  history  of  Missouri. 

Under  the  influence  of  their  missionaries,  who  were  canvassing  all 

tte  Eastern  States  and  many  parts  of  Europe,  the  young  city  of  Far 

fl^est  promised  much.     Converts  settled  all  over  the  county,  and 

specially  along  the  streams  and  belts  of  timber.     Farm  houses  sprang 

tip  as  if  by  magic,  and  the  wilderness  was  in  a  few  months  transformed 


214  HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

into  an  industrious  and  promising  community.  Their  settlements  eic- 
tended  into  Livingston,  Daviess  and  Clinton  Counties,  biit  Far  West 
their  only  town,  was  their  commercial  centre,  and  became  their  county 
seat.  In  1837,  the  Mormons  began  work  on  what  was  intended  to  he 
one  of  the  most  magnificent  temples  in  the  United  States. 

The  town  was  laid  out  in  blocks  396  feet  square,  and  the  streets 
were  on  a  grand  scale.  The  four  principal  avenues  were  each  132  feet 
wide,  and  all  the  others  82|  feet  wide.  These  diverged  at  right  angles 
from  a  public  square  in  the  centre,  designed  as  the  site  of  a  grand 
temple,  which,  however,  was  never  built.  In  1837,  the  cellar  undei 
the  prospective  temple  was  dug.  The  excavation,  120  by  80  feet  in 
area,  and  4  or  5  feet  deep,  was  accomplished  in  about  one-half  of  a 
day,  more  than  500  men  being  employed  in  the  work,  with  no  othei 
means  of  removing  the  earth  than  hand-barrows.  It  is  generally 
believed  that  on  the  4th  of  July  following,  which  was  duly  observed 
as  a  national  holiday,  the  corner-stone  of  the  temple  was  laid.  This, 
however,  is  a  mistake. 

The  prosperity  of  the  Mormon  settlement  had  drawn  thither  manj 
good  and  industrious  men,  and  also  many  desperadoes  and  thieves, 
who  soon  obtained  full  sway  in  their  councils.  They  boldly  declared 
-that  ''the  Lord  had  given  the  earth  and  the  fulness  thereof  to  Hi« 
people,"  and  that  they  were  "  His  people,"  and  consequently  had  the 
right  to  take  whatsoever  they  pleased  from  the  Gentiles.  In  pursu- 
ance of  this  declaration,  bands  of  the  more  lawless  of  them  strolled 
about  the  country,  taking  what  they  pleased.  As  they  largely  out- 
numbered the  Gentiles,  and  as  the  county  ofiBcers  were  mostly  Mor- 
mons,, they  were  enabled  to  act  with  impunity,  until  their  lawlesi 
-course  excited  the  indignation  of  the  other  settlers,  who,  not  being 
able  to  obUiin  justice  in  a  lawful  manner,  also  resorted  to  mob  vio 
lence  and  retaliation  in  kind,  until  many  a  dark  and  bloody  deed  waa 
perpetrated  on  both  sides. 

In  1838  the  discord  became  so  great,  and  the  clamor  for  the  expul- 
sion of  the  Mormons  from  the  State  so  imperative,  that  Governoi 
Boggs  issued  a  proclamation,  ordering  Major-General  David  E. 
Atchison  to  call  out  the  militia  of  his  division  to  put  down  the  insur- 
gents and  enforce  the  laws.  He  called  out  a  part  of  the  1st  brigade 
of  the  Missouri  State  Militia,  under  command  of  General  Alexandei 
W.  Doniphan,  who  proceeded  at  once  to  the  seat  of  war.  The  militia 
were  placed  under  the  command  of  General  John  B.  Clark  of  Howard 
County.     The  Mormon  forces  numbering  about  1,000  men,  were  led 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTT.  215 

by  6.  W.  Hinkle.  The  first  skirmish  took  place  at  Crooked  River, 
in  the  Southwestern  part  of  the  county,  where  David  Patten  —  **  Cap- 
tain Fear-not,"  as  he  called  himself — the  leader  of  the  Danite  Band 
or  United  Brothers  of  Gideon,  was  killed.  But  the  principal  engage- 
ment was  fought  at  Haughn's  Mills,  five  miles  south  of  the  present  site 
of  Breckenridge.  The  Mormons  of  the  eastern  portion  of  the  county 
had  concentrated  there  and  intrenched  themselves  in  the  mill  and  in 
the  blacksmith  shop,  where  the  militia  numbering  about  125  men,  at- 
tacked and  captured  them.  One  militiaman  was  wounded  and  18  of 
the  Mormons  killed, —  some  of  them  after  their  surrender, — and 
their  bodies  were  thrown  into  a  neighboring  well  on  a  farm  owned  at 
that  time  by  Haughn.  This  land  is  now  the  property  of  James  C. 
McCrary,  Esq.,  of  Kingston,  to  whom  it  was  sold  for  a  St.  Louis 
pirty,  by  Nathan  Cope,  Esq.,  of  Kingston.  It  was  about  fifteen 
and  a  half  miles  east  of  Far  West.  This  bloody  and  sepuichral 
well  was  filled  up  by  Charles  Ross,  Esq.,  now  a  resident  of  Kings- 
ton, who  arrived  on  the  spot  just  ten  days  after  the  titigic  occur- 
rence. 

Two  reoriments  of  volunteers  were  raised  in  Boone  for  the  Mormon 
War,  but  strange  to  record,  both  of  them  were  destined  to  **  snuff  the 
battle  from  afar."  The  first  was  commanded  by  Col.  Thomas  D. 
Grant;  Lieut.-Col-*Joel  Hern;Maj.  Stewart  B.  Hatton.     Captains: 

John  Ellis,  James  Brown, Colvin.     This  regiment  was  ordered  to 

"the  seat  of  war." 

Afterwards  another  regiment  was  raised  with  John  Ellis  as  Colonel, 
Joel  Hern,  Lieut.-Colonel,  and  Stewart  B.  Hatton,  Major. 

When  the  militia  under  Gen.  Chirk  appeared  at  Far  West,  Octo- 
ber. 1838,  where  the  principal  Mormon  forces  were  gathered,  Joe 
Smith  surrendered,  agreeing  to  Gen.  Doniphan's  conditions,  viz. : 
That  they  should  deliver  up  their  arms,  surrender  their  prominent 
leaders  for  trial,  and  the  remainder  of  the  Mormons  should,  with  their 
families,  leave  the  State. 

The  leaders  were  taken  before  a  court  of  inquiry  at  Richmond, 
Judge  Austin  A.  King  presiding.  He  remanded  them  to  Daviess 
County  to  await  the  action  of  the  grand  jury  on  a  charge  of  treason 
against  the  State,  and  murder.  The  Daviess  County  jail  being  poor, 
tbej  were  confined  at  Liberty.  Indictments  for  various  offences, — 
treason,  murder,  robbery,  receiving  stolen  goods,  arson,  resisting 
legal  process,  etc.,  —  were  found  against  Joe  Smith,  Hiram  Smith- 
(Joe    Smith's     brother),    Sidney    Rigdon,    Lyman    Wight,  G.    W. 


:J16  history   of  BOONE   COUNTY. 

Hinkle,  Caleb  Baldwin,  Parley  P.  Pratt,i  Luman  Gibbs,  Maurice  P. 
Phelps,  King  FoUett,  Wm.  Osborn,  Arthur  Morrison,  Elias  Higbee,  J. 
Worthington,  W.  Voorhees,  Jacob  Gates  and  others.  Sidney  Rigdon 
was  released  on  a  writ  of  habeas  corpus.  The  others  requested  a 
change  of  venue  and  Judge  King  sent  their  cases  to  Boone  County. 
On  their  way  to  Columbia,  under  a  military  guard,  Joe  Smith  es- 
caped, by  bribing  the  guard,  as  was  generally  believed. 

During  the  progress  of  a  Fourth  of  July  celebration  in  Columbia,  in 
1839,  which  was  attended  by  most  of  the  citizens,  P.  P.  Pratt  knocked 
down  John  M,  Kelly,  the  jailor,  when  he  opened  the  door  to  serve 
them  with  dinner,  and  in  company  with  Morris  Phelps  and  King  Fol- 
lety  escaped.  Luman  Gibbs  chose  to  remain,  although  he,  too,  might 
easily  have  gone  with  the  rest.  FoUet  was  re-captured,  and  together 
with  Gibbs,  was  afterwards  tried  before  David  Todd,  circuit  judge, 
and  acquitted.  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins,  of  Boone,  and  Gen.  A.  W.  Doni- 
phan, of  Clay,  defended  them.  The  indictments  were  dismissed 
against  all  the  others,  by  Circuit  Attorney  James  M.  Gordon,  at  the 
August  term  of  the  court,  1840. 

Joe  Smith  and  his  brother  Hiram,  were  shot  and  killed  by  a  mob 
at  the  Carthage,  Illinois,  jail,  in  which  they  were  confined  on  a  charge 
of  treason,  on  June  27,  1844. 

Orson  Hyde  died  at  Salt  Lake  City  in  December,  1878. 

Orson  Pmtt,  one  of  the  first  members  of  the  Mormon  church,  and 
the  oldest  "Apostle,"  died  in  Salt  Lake,  October  3,  1881,  aged 
seventy  years.  He  was  the  best  educated  theologian  among  the 
Mormons. 

Gov.  Lilburn  W.  Boargs,  durinor  whose  administration  the  Mormon 
war  occurred,  died  on  his  farm  in  Napa  Valley,  California,  of  dropsy 
of  the  heart,  on  March  14,  1860,  in  the  sixty-third  year  of  his  age. 


1  Pratt  was  an  Elder  and  a  man  of  education.    In  1856  he  met  a  tragic  death  near 
Fort  Gibson,  for  fuU  account  of  which  see  <<  Switzler's  History  of  Missouri,"  page  250. 


HISTORY  OF  BOONS   COUNTY.  .  217 


CHAPTER    IV. 

OUR  EARLY  COLLEGES  AND  ACADEMIES. 

Boone  Femme  Academy  —  Started  in  1829 — First  School  for  Young  Ladies  established 
in  Colombia  by  Mrs.  Peerce,  in  1830  —  School  Books  then  in  Use  — Prof.  Guernsey's 
EngliBh  and  Classical  Academy — Bear  Creek  Academy,  by  J.  Coleman  Boggs  — 
Colombia  College,  the  seed  from  which  grew  the  State  University  —  Colambia  Fe- 
male Academy  —  Opened  in  1884,  under  Miss  Lucy  Ann  Wales,  and  closed  in  1856. 

BONNE  FEMME  ACADEMY. 

• 

One  of  the  most  distinguished  and  reputable  institutions  of  learning 
in  early  times  in  Central  Missouri  was  Bonne  Femme  Academy.  It 
was  situated  in  a  very  prosperous  and  fertile  agricultural  region,  about 
six  miles  south  of  Columbia,  on  the  north  bank  of  the  Bonne  Femme 
Creek,  from  which  the  Academy  derived  its  name.  It  was  an  academy 
for  males,  and  was  first  opened  for  the  reception  of  students  on  the 
third  Monday  of  May,  1829,  with  Warren  Woodson  as  teacher,  among 
whose  pupils  was  Capt.  Silas  Bent,  now  a  distinguished  citizen  of  St. 
Loais. 

Oq  25th  of  April,  of  that  year,  the  trustees,  namely :  Mason  Moss, 
Filliam  Shields,  Robert  S.  Barr,  Anderson  McPheters  and  Sinclair 
Kirtley,  gave  notice  in  the  Fayette  Inlelligencer  —  for  Columbia  then 
had  no  newspaper — that  they  wished  to  employ  an  instructor  to  take 
charge  of  the  institution,  on  the  day  above  named,  "competent  to 
teach  reading,  writing,  arithmetick,  grammar,  geography,  the  mathe- 
maticks,  and  some  of  the  more  ordinary  branches  of  belle  lettres."  The 
school  house  they  described  as  "  a  very  commodious  brick  building, 
with  two  rooms  of  twenty-two  feet  square,  situated  in  a  healthy, 
highly  moral  and  Very  respected  neighborhood  ;  possessing,  perhaps, 
tsmany  advantages  for  such  an  institution,  and  offering  as  many  in* 
dacements  to  boarders  from  a  distance,  as  any  in  the  country. 
Terms  of  tuition  per  year,  to  consist  of  two  sessions  of  five  and  a-half 
months  each:  $8  for  reading,  writing  and  arithmetick;  $12  for 
gi^mmar,  geography,  mathematicks,  &c.,  and  $18  for  the  Latin 
taguage." 

The  trustees  secured  the  services  of  Rev.  Robert  S.  Thomas  as 
principal  instructor,  and  to  the  course  of  studies  was  added  rhetoric, 
logic,  composition,  declamation,  natural  and  moral  philosophy,  chem* 


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218  HISTORY   OF  BOONE    COUNTY. 

istry,  astronomy  and  Greek.  The  trustees  announced  in  an  adverti 
ment  that  boarding  could  be  had  in  respectable  families  near  t 
academy  for  $25  per  session  of  five  and  a  half  months,  *'  washin 
fuel,  and  candles  included,"  that  is,  about  $1,133/4  per  week.  Amoi 
the  pupils  of  Mr.  Thomas  Avere  Gen.  Bela  M.  Hughes,  now  a  disti 
guished  lawyer  and  politician  of  Denver,  Col.,  and  Mrs.  James 
Rollins  and  Mrs.  George  C.  Pratt,  of  Columbia. 

Mr.  Thomas  retiring  from  the  charge  of  the  control,  the  truste 
placed  it  in  charge  of  Prof.  Edward  Summerfield,  an  accomplish 
scholar  and  apparently  a  cultured  gentleman,  but  before  the  end 
the  collegiate  year  a  cloud  obscured  his  fair  name  and  he  left  1 
Texas.  He  was  supposed  to  be  an  impostor,  whose  real  name  w 
William  Pinkney  Hill. 

He  was  succeeded  by  Prof.  Joseph  Bowers,  of  Paris,  Mo. 

The  trustees,  William  Shields,  David  M.  (lickman,  Theodori 
Jenkins  and  John  H.  Field  annnounced  that  the  October  sessio 
1837,  would  open  in  charge  of  Prof.  Oliver  Cunningham,  a  graduate 
Western  University,  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  and  that  they  expect 
soon  to  receive  a  large  and  well  selected  library,  donated  by  the  la 
Lucian  L.  Wilson,  formerly  of  Kentucky. 

By  an  act  of  the  Legislature  approved  December  27,  1838,  the  colle 
was   incorporated,  with    Wm.   Shields,  Overton   Harris,  Theodori 
Jenkins,  John  H.  Field,  John  Jacobs,  Gilpin  S.  Tuttle  and  Waller  ! 
Woolfolk  as  trustees,  with  power  to  perpetuate  their  own  body, 
purchase  lands  for  its   use,  and  to  confer  the  usual  literary  degree 

The  fall  session  for  1839  was  opened  with  Prof.  Cunningham  st 
in  charge.  Trustees :  William  Shields,  Gilpin  S.  Tuttle,  Overt< 
Harris,  Th.  Jenkins,  J.  H.  Field,  D.  M.  Hickman,  W.  L.  Wo( 
folk,  and  Thos.  C.  Maupin. 

The  session  for  the  next  year,  commencing  the  first  Tuesday 
November,  1840,  opened  with  Prof.  Cunningham,*  with  the  additi< 
of  Prof.  John  Roche,  of  Transylvania  University,  filling  the  chair 
Greek,  Latin  and  French.     Austin  Bradford  succeeds  W.  L.  Woolfo 
on  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

Diivid  S.  Lamme  appears  as  oqe  of  the  trustees  in  the  fall  sessio 
for  1841,  which  was  opened  under  Profs.  Roche  and  Cunningham. 

Disagreements  arising  between  Profs.  Roche  and  Cunningham  ai 
a  portion  of  the  trustees,  on  account  of  Prof.  Roche's  intempera 
habits.  Prof.  Roche  withdrew  from  the  institution,  and   resolved 
establish  an  independent  school  on  the  Two-mile  Prairie,  in  the  neig 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  219 

borhood  of  Capt.  Peter  Wright  and  William  Robards,  to  be  called  the 
«< Classical  Institute."     This  enterprise  did  not  succeed. 

Prof.  George  C.  Pratt,  who  is  now  (1882)  one  of  the  Railroad 
Commissioners  of  the  State,  was  elected  to  fill  the  chair  in  Bonne 
Ferame  College  made  vacant  by  the  retirement  of  Prof.  Roche,  and 
<;ontiDued  to  occupy  it  until  1843,  when  he  resigned  to  accept  the 
chair  of  Ancient  Languages  in  the  State  University.  Mr.  Lynn  had 
charge  of  the  preparatory  department. 

During  the  period  Profs.  Cunningham,  Roche  and  Pratt  were  in- 
structors in  the  college  there  were,  among  other  pupils,  the  following: 
Eld.  Winthrop  H.  Hopson,  now  a  distinguished  minister  of  the 
Christian  Church;  John  T.  Hughes,  author  of  *«  Doniphan's  Expedi- 
tion/' and  who  was  killed  at  the  battle  at  Independence,  August  11, 
1862;  Frank  Hughes,  his  brother ;  Dr.  Abner  Gore,  of  Paris ;  Joseph 
S.Hughes,  of  Richmond;  George  Parker,  of  St.  Louis;  the  late 
Prof.  Wm.  C.  Shields  and  Miss  Mary  Barr  Jenkins,  now  the  wife  of 
«x-6ov.  C.  H.  Hardin. 

In  the  Columbia  Patriot  of  October  16,  1841,  **  Visitor"  gives  an 
4u:€0UDt  of  the  examination  and  exhibition  at  the  college,  from  which 
we  make  this  extract :  — 

Hr.  Wm.  H.  Bobinson  read  a  poem  on  American  Independence  of  a  very  creditable 
^ncter,  and  one  that  showed  that  by  practice  he  can  write  excellent  poetry,  for  the 
luulTe  yein  is  there.  Mr.  John  T.  Hughes  spoke  a  Latin  address  that  gave  out  much 
of  the  Ciceronian  tone,  and  did  great  credit  to  the  writer. 

The  beautiful  Seine  flows  not  with  more  majestic  fulness  and  ease  by  the  refined 
<»pitalof  the  French  than  Telemachus,  Charles  XII.  and  Barbaroux*^  History  of  the 
United  States  were  read  by  Miss  Laura  Shields,  Mr.  James  White,  of  Fayette,  Mr. 
John  ChappeU  and  Mr.  Jno.  T.  Hughes. 

The  Greek  language,  which  unfortunately  is  not  rendered  as  prominent  in  most  of 
our  Western  colleges  as  its  intrinsic  merits  deserve,  was  on  this  occasion  splendidly 
rostalned  by  Mr.  J.  J.  Harvey,  of  Saline,  and  Miss  Mary  B.  Jenkins.  Mr.  Harvey  read 
portions  of  the  Greek  Reader  selected  by  a  young  gentleman,  a  student  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Missouri,  and  analyzed  the  same  in  a  masterly  manner. 

Miss  Jenkins  read  parts  of  the  Greek  Testament,  named  at  haphazard  by  a  gentle- 
nan  in  the  audience,  and  went  through  the  labyrinth  of  the  Greek  verb,  not  as  by  the 
^<1  of  a  borrowed  clue,  but  as  if  nature  had  formed  her  another  Ariadne.  I  was  also 
forcibly  struck  with  the  extraordinary  ease,  the  lucid  diction,  and  the  inimitable  taste 
^ith  which  Miss  Jenkins  read  Cicero. 

Most  of  the  compositions  of  the  young  gentlemen  had  to  be  omitted  for  want  of 
tine.  Among  those  read,  that  of  Mr.  Franklin  Hughes  stood  prominent  in  all  the 
<|Dallties  of  fine  writing.  In  truth,  there  are  few  men  of  any  age,  perhaps,  in  the  Union 
oan  do  more  justice  with  the  pen  to  any  subject  he  handles  than  this  young  gentle- 
man. 

I  cannot  close  these  hasty  remarks  without  referring  to  the  young  ladies'  composi- 


220  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

tlons.  Those  of  Misses  C.  Jenkins,  M.  F.  Harris  and  M.  J.  Tattle  were,  considering 
the  age  of  the  writers,  uncommonly  fine. 

Miss  Laara  Shlelds's,  '*0n  Imagination"  was  a  piece  of  exquisite  poetry  in  prose, 
dressed  in  << Orient  pearls"  not  **at  random  flung,"  bat  worked  by  some  superior 
power  into  a  brilliant  and  dazzling  specimen  of  intellectual  mosaic. 

Miss  Mary  B.  Jenkins's,  <<  On  the  Evidences  of  the  Christian  Religion  "  was,  as  usual 
with  her,  incomparable  in  reasoning,  taste  and  style.  To  compliment  any  of  her  pro- 
ductions looks  like  "gliding  refined  gold,  or  painting  the  lily." 

FIRST   SCHOOL   FOR  YOUNG   LADIES. 

Columbia  now  boasts,  and  for  many  years  has  been  proud,  of  two 
large  colleges  for  young  ladies,  the  buildings  and  appliances  of  either  of 
which  no  doubt  cost  more  money  than  every  school  house  in  Boone 
county  was  worth  at  the  time  of  the  establishment,  in  the  fall  of 
1830,  of  the  first  school  for  young  ladies  in  Columbia.  Mrs.  H.  T. 
Peerce  established  the  first  female  school  in  the  county  of  Boone,  and 
in  an  advertisement  she  issued,  March  5,  1831,  gave  notice  of  a  re- 
opening of  her  school,  about  the  20th  of  that  month,  in  which  she  pro- 
posed  to  teach  ''  Spelling,  Reading,  Writing,  English  Grammar,  and 
Geography,  together  with  plain  and  ornamental  needle  wqrk,  paint- 
ing water  colors,  body  colors,  and  oil.'*  Where  was  located  this 
humble  beginning  of  the  magnificent  results  which  others  among  us 
have  since  achieved  in  this  direction,  we  do  not  know;  most  probably 
in  one  of  the  rooms  of  her  own  residence,  which  yet  stands,  a  two- 
story  log  house,  weather  boarded,  facing  north,  on  the  lot  occupied  by 
Mr.  Loeb's  residence. 

TEXT-BOOKS    IN   USE   IN    COLUMBIA   SCHOOL. 

Torrey's  Primer,  ToiTcy's  Pleasing  Companion  for  Little  Girls  and 
Boys.  Torrey's  Moral  Instructor  and  Guide  to  Virtue.  Smiley's 
Geography,  Smiley's  Arithmetic,  Smiley's  United  States  Speaker* 
Grimshaw's  History  of  the  United  States. 

COLUMBIA   ENGLISH   AND   CLASSICAL  ACADEMY. 

Among  the  early  educational  institutions  of  Columbia  was  one  with 
the  above  name,  established  in  1832  by  Lyman  Guernsey,  A.  M. : 
Superintendent,  W.  M.  Kern,  assistant.  Mr.  Guernsey  was  a  man  of 
education  and  a  Christian  gentleman,  who  was  highly^esteemed  by  all 
who  knew  him.  Nevertheless  his  academy  was  not  a  permanent  insti- 
tution.    What  became  of  him  we  are  not  informed. 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  221 


**  BEAR   CREEK  ACADEMY. 


99 


In  1834  J.  Coleman  Boggs,  brother  of  Lilburn  W.  Boggs,  estab- 
lished at  Bear  Creek  Churchy  one  mile  north  of  Columbia,  a  school, 
which  he  called  **  Bear  Creek  Academy,"  and  in  which  were  taught 
the  visual  English  branches  and  book-keeping  and  surveying.  Among 
his  scholars  in  grammar  and  geography  were  Alouzo  Richardson, 
Cornelius  and  Samuel  Maupin,  John  B.  and  Youngei*  J.  Williams. 
Trastees  of  the  Academy,  Alex.  Persinger,  Biley  Slocum,  Andrew 
Spencer,  William  Bowland,  Wm.  Maupin,  and  Jacob  Hover. 

COLUICBIA   COLLEOE  —  THE   SEED   FROM  WHICH   GREW   THE   STATE 

UNIVERSITY. 

It  can  be  demonstrated  as  a  historical  truth  that  the  seed  which 
finally  produced  the  State  University,  was  planted  in  Columbia  by  a 
public  meeting  at  the  Court  House,  held  on  Tuesday  evening,  August 
9,1831,  "for  the  purpose  of  adopting  a  plan  for  the  purchasing  of  a  site 
for  a  seminary  in  the  town  of  Columbia,  and  for  the  purpose  of  adopt- 
ing some  measures  to  have  the  same  improved,  by  building  an  academy 
thereon."  Robert  S.  Barr  was  chairman,  and  Austin  A.  King  sec- 
retary of  this  meeting,  which  appointed  Robert  S.  Barr,  Oliver  Parker 
and  James  B.  Nichols,  a  committee  to  jdrafb  a  plan  and  select  a 
site  for  said  building,  and  to  ascertain  the  probable  cost  thereof;  and 
to  make  report  to  an  adjourned  meeting  to  be  held  on  the  19th  of 
August.  John  B.  Gordon,  Esq.,  was  announced  to  speak  at  the  meet- 
ing oa  the  subject  of  education. 

What  this  meeting  did,  if  held,  we  have  no  means  of  knowing,  for 
in  those  days  there  were  not,  as  now,  newspaper  editors  and  reporters 
on  every  corner  with  note-books  in  hand  ready  to  catch  the  shadow 
of  everything  before  the  substance  flies.  The  proceedings  were  not 
published,  but  a  communication  in  the  Intelligencer  of  August  27,  an- 
nounces, **  with  feelings  of  sincere  gratulations  and  conscious  pride," 
"the  liberality  manifested  by  our  citizens  toward  this  noble  object;  " 
also  the  large  portion  of  the  sum  required  to  erect  the  building  for 
"The College"  had  been  subscribed  and  that  the  balance  would  be 
obtained  in  a  few  days.  Forecasting  the  future  with  the  truth  of  pro- 
phesy this  correspondent  maintained  that  "this  institution  will  be 
productive  of  more  and  greater  direct,  positive  advantages  to  the 
town  and  county  generally  than  any  other  public  institution  that  could 
be  established  here  with  the  same  amount  of  money  and  labor.     In 


222  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

a  pecuniary  point  of  view,  it  will  be  advantageous  by  enhancing  the 
value  of  other  property  and  by  affording  to  parents  all  the  facilities 
for  giving  their  children  as  good  an  education  at  home  as  can  be 
obtained  by  sending  them  abroad,  and  at  a  cost  greatly  diminished." 

Continuing  he  says:  "In  reference  to  the  collateral,  remote  and 
contingent  beneficial  consequences  that  may  result  from  this  institu- 
tion to  this  county,  this  State,  the  United  States,  and  to  the  world  at 
large,  in  this  and  throughout  all  future  ages,  I  have  but  little  to  say. 
The  character  and  degree  of  influence  that  may  be  exercised  by  it  on 
human  society  can  not  be  calculated  or  easily  conjectured." 

Those  who  will  take  the  trouble  to  note  the  progress  of  events  and 
to  mark  the  consequences  which  have  resulted  to  the  people  of  this 
county  from  the  establishment  of  this  institution  of  learning  will  be 
curious  to  know  the  name  of  '*A  Friend  to  Education"  who  thus 
early  in  the  history  of  our  institutions  of  learning  gave  evidence  of 
such  truly  prophetic  philosophy. 

In  a  subsequent  number  of  the  Intelligencer  (Sept.  10,  1831  )> 
•' Philomathise"  presented,  among  others,  the  pecuniary  advan- 
tages of  "  The  College  "  to  the  people  of  Boone  county,  and  for  the 
first  time  reminded  them  of  the  fact  that  the  day  was  not  distant 
when  subject  of  the  establishment  of  ''a  State  college"  (as  he  calls  it) 
would  be  agitating  the  Legislature  ;  and  that  he  had  every  reason  to 
believe  it  would  be  located  in  that  village,  centrally  located,  *'  where 
the  solicitude  and  anxietv  has  been  manifested  in  the  cause  of  litera- 
ture."  He  also  exhorted  our  people  to  use  "  every  honorable  exer- 
tion to  fix  the  location  of  the  State  College  in  Columbia,  which  would 
not  only  add  to  our  peace  and  pleasure  at  home,  but  to  our  dignity 
and  respectability  abroad."     '«  Philomathiee  "  is  another  prophet. 

To  show  that  the  pecuniary  advantages  of  the  location  or  establish- 
ment of  a  literary  institution  in  Columbia  would  be  immense,  he  main- 
tains that  it  would  be  safe  to  say  «« there  are  in  Boone  County  thirty 
parents  who  will  give  at  least  one  son  each  a  liberal  education,"  which 
it  would  take  five  years  to  acquire.  Estimating  that  each  student 
would  spend,  for  tuition,  board,  etc.,  three  hundred  dollars,  makee 
the  aggregate  of  the  thirty-nine  thousand  per  year.  This  sum,  he 
maintains,  would  be  saved  yearly  by  the  college  at  home.  He  also 
maintains  that  such  an  institution  would  be  patronized  by  at  least 
seventy  young  men  from  a  distance,  who  would  annually  expend  in 
our  midst  three  hundred  dollars  each,  or  twenty-one  thousand  dollars 
in  the  aggregate. 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  225 

Sach  arguments  evidently  had  their  influence  upon  the  public  mind^ 
for  on  the  17th  March,  1832,  a  building  committee,  composed  of  War- 
ren Woodson,  James  H.  Bennett,  Oliver  Parker,  James  B.  Nichols 
and  Sinclair  Kirtlej,  gave  notice  to  mechanics  that  separate  written 
propositions  to  do  the  stone,  brick,  and  carpenter's  work  of  the  col- 
lege building,  to  be  erected  at  this  place,  would  be  received  until  the 
24th  of  that  month. 

The  erection  of  the  building  was  let  pursuant  to  this  notice  —  to 
whom  we  are  not  informed  —  and  completed  as  speedily  as  possible. 
It  was  of  brick,  sixty  feet  front,  twenty-six  feet  deep,  two  stories  high, 
and  divided  into  suitable  rooms  for  a  college.  It  occupied  a  most 
beautiful  and  elevated  site  in  the  southwestern  suburbs  of  the  town, 
and  is  the  same  building  now  occupied  as  a  residence  by  Rev.  R.  F.  Babb. 

Columbia  College  was  chartered  by  the  General  Assembly 


,  1833,  and  the  following  gentlemen  named  in  the  act  as  trus- 
tees thereof:  Roberts.  Barr,  A.  W.  Rollins,  Richard  Gentry,  Warren 
Woodson,  Thos.  W.  Conyers,  Wm.  P.  Cochran,  James  W.  Moss, Wm. 
Corneliu8,01iver  Parker,David  S.  Lamme,  John  B.Gordon,David  Todd, 
and  Sinclair  Kirtley ,  who  held  their  first  meeting  in  Capt.  Sam^uel  Wall's 
tavern,  on  the  first  Monday  of  May,  1833.  At  this  meeting  Dr.  Anthony 
W.  Rollins  was  elected  President  of  the  Board,  and  committees  were 
appointed  to  receive  reports  in  relation  to  the  college  building,  and  to 
secure  a  deed  of  conveyance  to  the  property.  There  being  a  want  of 
funds  necessary  to  pay  off  a  small  deficit  that  had  accrued  to  finish  the 
building,  the  President  announced  that  one  thousand  dollars  would 
effect  this  object,  *'  and  place  the  present  beautiful  edifice  in  a  situa- 
tion for  the  reception  of  professors  and  the  accommodation  of  from 
one  hundred  and  fifty  to  two  hundred  pupils."  With  a  view  of  rais- 
ing this  deficit,  a  public  meeting  was  called  at  the  court-house  on  the 
fourth  Monday  in  June,  and  John  B.  Gordon  and  Sinclair  Kertley 
were  requested  to  address  the  meeting. 

The  grounds  were  bought  and  paid  for  and  the  building  completed, 
Md  on  the  first  Monday  in  November,  1834,  the  first  regular  session 
of  the  institution  was  opened,  under  the  immediate  superintendence 
of  Thomas  Miller,  a  graduate  of  Indiana  College,  and  who  had  recently 
tad  chaise  of  the  Preparatory  Department  in  Transylvania  University. 
The  collegiate  year  consisted  of  two  sessions  of  five  months  each. 
Tuition,  $15.00  per  session,  contingencies  included.  Applications  to 
be  made  to  Dr.  Wm.  Jewell,  Sinclair  Kirtley  and  Wm.  Cornelius. 
Dr.  Jas.  W.  Moss,  who  had  been  elected  chairman  of  the  Board  of 


224  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Trustees  in  the  place  of  Dr.  A.  W.  Rollius  resigned,  makes  the  above 
announcements  in  the  Columbia  Intelligencer  of  October,  18,  1834. 

On  November  10,  1834,  Prof.  Miller  was  publicly  installed,  witi^li 
appropriate  and  imposing  ceremonies.  The  Intelligencer  gives  tb^s 
account  of  it :  — 

At  an  early  hoar  many  citizens  assembled  at  the  Court  House,  and  were  form^^i 
into  a  procession,  under  the  command  of  Capt.  D.  M.  Hickman,  who  had  been  prer'^- 
ously  appointed  marshal  of  the  day.    They  then  proceeded  to  the  Presbyterian  ChurcE:** 
where  the  ceremony  of  inauguration  toolc  place.    It  is  seldom  we  have  witnessed   ^^ 
more  interesting  procession.    Its  brilliancy  was  especially  heightened  by  the  uniforc:*=^ 
and  lovely  appearance  of  the  young  ladies  from  the  Female  Academy,  whose  presene'^ 
dispelled  the  gloom  which  an  inclement  day  was  calculated  to  inspire,  and  excited  ^^ 
deeper  and  more  lively  interest  in  the  exercises  of  the  day.    The  Throne  of  Grace  wa^P 
addressed  by  Rev.  F.  R.  Gray.    The  keys  of  the  college  were  then  presented  to  Mr^ 
Miller  by  Dr.  Moss,  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  with  a  few  very  dlgnifiedi. 
and  appropriate  remarks  upon  the  nature  and  importance  of  the  charge  devolving 
upon  him,  which  was  followed  by  a  luminous  and  well-written  address  from  Prof- 
Miller,  in  vindication  of  a  thorough  college  education.     The  correctness  of  the  po— 
sitions  assumed  were  not  the  most  impressive  parts  of  the  address.    It  was  presented 
in  a  fervid  and  animated  style  of  composition  —  diction  the  most  happy,  and  abounded 
throughout  in  the  choicest  classical  allusions  and  the  finest  illustrutions.     We  are 
disinclined,  however,  to  anticipate  the  public  on  this  subject,  as  it  will  be  presented 
to  them  shortly  in  pamphlet  form. 

Upon  the  whole,  we  were  delighted  with  the  manner  in  which  everything  was 
conducted,  and  we  think  it  augurs  bright  prospects,  not  only  for  Columbia  and 
Boone  County,  but  for  the  State. 

Copies  of  this  address  in  pamphlet  form  are  still   extant,  and   but  - 
for  the  want  of  space  copious  extracts  would  be  here  made  from  it. 
It  is  scholarly  and  ornate  in  language,  beautiful  in  style,  and  well  cal- 
culated to  awaken  popular  enthusiasm  on  the  subject  of  education. 

« 

The  first  session  of  Columbia  College  opened  auspiciously,  as  an- 
nounced, and  continued  successfully  to  the  end  of  the  term.  On 
April  8,  1835,  the  public  examination  of  students  commenced,  closing 
on  the  next  day  with  exercises  in  declamation  and  composition.  "  Lit- 
erary persons,  teachers  of  academies  and  schools,  parents  and  guardi- 
ans, and  the  friends  of  education  generally,"  were  invited  to  attend. 
By  invitation  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  B.  F.  Robinson  and  W. 
Jenkins  delivered  addresses  on  the  occasion,  copies  of  which  were 
requested  for  publication,  and  in  the  Intelligencer  of  April  18  the  ad- 
dress of  the  former  appears. 

The  first  session  of  the  institution  proved  so  successful,  not  only  in 
the  character  of  the  instruction  imparted,  but  in  the  number  of  stu- 
dents, that  the  Board  of  Trustees  were  encouraged  to  call  Rev.  John 


HISTORY  OP   BOONE   COUNTT.  825 

BeDuie,  A.  M.,  to  a  professorship^  so  that  by  the  joint  labors  of  two 
each  scholars  as  Miller  and  Rennie  the  highest  expectations  of  the 
public  might  be  realized.  Mr.  Rennie  having  signified  his  acceptance, 
it  was  announced  the  second  res:ular  session  of  the  institution  would 
open  on  the  first  Monday  in  November,  1835  —  James  W.  Moss,  Chair- 
man, aijd  Oliver  Parker,  Treasurer  of  the  Board. 

On  Tuesday,  November  24,  1835,  Mr.  Rennie  was  duly  installed, 
and  delivered  an  address  on  the  occasion,  pamphlet  copies  of  which 
are  yet  extant.  The  Intelligencer ^  commenting  on  the  address,  says 
it  received  the  highest  commendation.  'VHis  arrangement  was  excel- 
lent, his  style  pure  and  elegant,  his  diction  chaste  and  beautiful,  his 
thoughts  upon  the  subject  of  education  profound ;  and,  in  short,  the 
whole  address  was  well  calculated  to  instruct  and  captivate  his  hear- 
ers, and  every  way  worthy  as  emanating  from  the  head  and  heart  of  a 
liberal  and  enlightened  Christian." 

Mr.  Samuel  Hart  was  announced  as  principal  of  the  preparatory 
department. 

With  the  faculty  of  instruction  thus  organized  the  college  success- 
folly  progi*essed  for  a  few  years,  until  failing  health  and  a  desire  to 
engage  in  the  practice  of  law  with  Major  J.  S.  Rollins,  induced  the 
resignation  of  Prof.  Miller,  which  was  afterwards  followed  by  the 
resignation  of  Prof.  Rennie.  In  1838,  the  Board  of  Trustees  —  Rev. 
Luther  H.  Van  Doren,  President ;  James  S.  Rollins,  Secretary  ;  Robert 
S. Barr,  Treasurer;  Eld.  Thos.  M.  Allen,  Warren  Woodson,  William 
Cornelius,  David  S.  Lamme,  John  B.  Gordon  and  Thomas  Miller  — 
elected  the  following  gentlemen  to  constitute  the  faculty  of  the  col- 
lege: Rev.  Luther  H.  Van  Doren,  A.  M.,  President;  Rev.  Robert  S. 
Thomas,  professor  of  languages ;  Mr.  David  Dunlap,  professor  of 
mathematics ;  Rev.  E.  P.  Noel,  teacher  in  the  preparatory  depart- 
ment, and  the  college  was  reopened  for  the  reception  of  students  on 
Monday,  June  18,  1838. 

Columbia  College,  of  course,  had  no  endowment,  and  therefore  re- 
lied wholly  upon  public  patronage  for  its  support.  This  fact,  supple- 
mented by  another  far  more  inimical  to  its  continued,  permanent 
existence,  namely,  that  it  was  at  this  period  in  a  transition  state,  with 
almost  a  positive  certainty  of  being  supplanted  by  the  State  Univer- 
sity, caused  it  to  go  out  of  existence.  While  it  was  in  operation, 
however,  it  performed  its  duty  nobly  and  laid  the  foundations  for  the 
education,  culture  and  refinement  which  have  so  long  distinguished  our 
people. 
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226  HISTORY  OF  BOONE  COUNTY. 


COLUMBIA  FEMALE  ACADEMY. 


The  early  friends  of  education  and  liberal  culture  in  Columbia  were 
not  satisfied  with  the  establishment  of  Columbia  College,  designed 
exclusively  for  the  education  of  their  sons,  but  cotemporaneouslj 
with  their  noble  and  self-sacrificing  eflbrts  to  found  this  institution 
were  measures  to  organize  an  Academy  of  a  high  order  for  those 
times,  for  the  education  of  their  daughters. 

Accordingly,  on  the  24th  of  August,  1833,  a  citizens'  meeting  waf 
held  in  the  Court  House  to  take  the  subject  into  consideration,  where- 
upon Gen.  Richard  Gentry  was  called  to  the  chair,  and  Robert  S. 
Thomas  was  made  secretary.  After  suggestions  by  various  gentle- 
men and  warm  commendation  of  the  purposes  of  the  meeting,  resolu- 
tions were  adopted  with  great  unanimity,  approving  •'  a  system  ol 
instruction  calculated  to  bestow  on  the  female  sex  a  liberal  education; 
that  we  will  patronize  a  Female  Academy  located  in  Columbia,  upon  a 
plan  commensurate  with  the  wants  of  our  population,  and  we  recom- 
mend to  our  fellow-citizens  a  cordial  union  and  support  with  us." 

To  eflfect  this  object  it  was  resolved  that  William  Jewell,  William 
Provines,  William  S.  Burch,  James  Richardson,  Joseph  B.  Howard, 
Stephen  R.  Bedford,  William  Shields,  James  H.  Bennett,  Samuel 
Wall,  Roger  N.  Todd,  Austin  A.  King,  Moses  U.  Payne  and  Minoi 
Neal  be  requested  to  associate  together  and  constitute  a  •*  Board  ol 
Trustees  of  the  Columbia  Female  Academy,  and  that  they  contract 
for  the  purchase,  lease  or  rent  of  property ;  the  employment  ol 
teachers  and  the  purchase  of  all  necessary  apparatus  for  the  Academj 
within  the  means  placed  under  their  control,  and  that  they  make  laws 
for  the  government  of  the  Academy,  its  tutors  and  students,  and  ex- 
ercise every  needful  power  until  an  act  of  incorporation  can  be 
obtained  by  law."  The  Trustees  were  also  requested  by  the  meeting 
to  secure  the  services  of  Miss  Lucy  Ann  Wales  as  preceptoress  of  the 
institution. 

The  Academy  was  opened  without  delay  in  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  a  new  brick  building  which  was  erected  in  1833,^  and  at  once 
commended  itself  to  the  liberal  patronage  of  the  public. 

The  second  session  of  six  months  opened  on  the  first  Monday  in 
May,  1834,  Joseph  B.  Howard*,  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
announcing  that  the  number  of  pupils  would  be  limited  to  twenty-five. 


1  This  church  was  erected  on  the  north  side  of  Walnut  Street,  between  Fifth  and 
Sixth,  and  north  of  the  present  Episcopal  Church  on  Broadway. 


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HI8TOBY  OF  BOONE   GOUNTT.  227 

*<aD(ithat  a  young  lady  can  sicquire  as  thorough  an  education  here  as 
at  any  academy  west  of  the  mountains."  Terms  of  tuition,  ten  dol- 
lars per  session.  In  1836  means  were  raised  by  private  subscrip- 
tion for  the  erection  of  an  academy  building  and  for  the  purchase  of 
an  eligible  site.  After  due  consideration  the  Trustees,  on  Febiniary 
26,1837,  purchased  of  Wm.  Cornelius,  for  $175,  a  lot,  (No.  100)  on 
thesoath  side  of  Cherry  Street,  on  the  corner  of  Tenth  (immediately 
west  and  opposite  the  present  residence  of  Dr.  G.  W.  Riggins)  on 
which  they  erected  a  one-story  brick,  about  forty  feet  front,  twenty- 
five  feet  deep,  in  which  the  academy  was  conducted  for  a  number  of 
years  with  marked  success,  under  Miss  Wales.  N.  W.  Wilson  and 
Thomas  Selby  were  the  building  committee  to  superintend  the  work. 
She  resigned  her  position  in  1840,  and,  returning  to  New  York 
ciij,  was  married  to  Mr.  John  S.  Thayer»  and  now  resides  at  Chatta. 
nooga,  Tennessee.  She  was  succeeded  by  Miss  Lavinia  Moore,  of 
Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  and  John  D.  Ferryman,  after  which  the 
academy  was  conducted  in  the  order  named  by  Eleazer  Root,  Tyre  C» 
Harris  (who  died  at  Lexington,  Missouri,  October  9,  1854,)  Oliver 
Cunningham  and  J.  L.  Sloan.  Baptist  (now  Stephens)  College  being 
established  in  1856,  and  taking  the  place  of  Columbia  Female  Academy^ 
the  academy  passed  out  of  existence  and  the  building  and  grounds 
were  publicly  sold  June  20,  1865,  by  Moss  Prewitt,  Commissioner, 
under  special  act  of  the  Legislature,  approved  February  15,  1865,  to 
Dr.  S.  B.  Victor,  for  $1,415,  who  now  owns  the  property  and  rents 
it  as  a  residence. 

During  the  presidency  of  Mr.  Harris,  who  died  in  1854,  large  addi* 
tion^  consisting  of  a  second  story  and  an  ell,  were  made  to  the  build- 
ing—the needed  funds,  about  $1,800,  being  raised  by  private 
subscription,  After  the  sale  of  the  property  to  Dr.  Victor  the 
sum  of  $1,415,  which  was  paid  for  it,  was  distributed  pro  rata 
Among  those  who  contributed  means  for  the  erection  of  the  additions. 

The  academy  was  chartered  by  the  Legislature,  February  3,  1837,aud 
its  course  of  study  was  very  liberal  considering  the  times  and  circum- 
stances under  which  it  was  conducted.  It  embraced  reading,  writing, 
arithmetic,  algebra,  geometry,  geography,  history,  English  grammar, 
^tiiny,  outlines  of  geology,  chemistcy,  natural  history,  natural  phiL 
osophy,  astronomy,  logic,  rhetoric,  intellectual  and  moral  philosophy, 
drawing,  painting,  music,  ornamental  needlework  and  frequent  exer- 
cises in  composition. 

During  the  existence  of  the  academy,  the  following  ladies  of  educa- 


228  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

tion  and  approved  competency  were  assistant  teachers :  Miss  Eliza 
Ann  Gentry,  Miss  Catherine  Lynch  (now  Mrs.  Catherine  Clapp), 
Mrs.  Amanda  B.  Woodson,  Mrs.  Thos.  P.  Giles,  and  Mrs.  Margaret 
^Phillips,  the  latter  as  teacher  of  music. 

PUBLIC   EXHIBITION,    MARCH,    1841. 

As  a  sample  of  the  public  literary  exercises  of  the  academy  we  give 
the  following  programme.  It  is  copied  from  an  article  communicated 
by  *'  W.  F.  S.*'  to  the  Columbia  Patriot,  of  April  3,  1841  : 

The  stndents  have  learned  principles  as  weU  as  facts,  studied  the  philosopht 
of  the  sciences  more  than  the  language  of  authors,  —  and  withal  have  enabled 
themselves  to  bring  their  knowledge  Into  practical  operation.  Below  wUl  be  found 
the  names  of  those  who  have  read  compositions,  and  the  subjects  upon  which  they 
were  written. 

Miss  Frances  A.  Provlnes.  —  The  Passions. 

Miss  DavldellaTodd.  — Perception  of  the  Beautiful. 

Miss  Arethusa  J.  Hardin.  —  Happiness  the  Result  of  Integrity. 

Miss  Caroline  F.  Todd.  —  Our  Institutions. 

Miss  Julia  Price.  —  Habits  of  Observation. 

Miss  Mary  Harrison.  —  Home. 

Miss  Mary  Ewlng.  —  Gratitude. 

Miss  Ann  Vanhom.  —  No  man  can  Learn  all  Things. 
,  Miss  Mary  C.  Beattie.  —  Love  of  Gold. 

Miss  Lucretia  Caswell.  — The  Grave. 

Miss  Mary  Neale  —  How  Blessings  Brighten  as  They  take  Their  Flight. 

Miss  Mary  Gentry  and  Miss  Sallie  Goode.  —  Letters  passed  between  a  Swede  who 
liad  previously  visited  France,  and  a  French  Refugee  In  England  during  the  Revolution. 

Miss  Eliza  Seeley.  —  Patience  Removes  Mountains.] 

Miss  Elizabeth  S.  Broadwell.  —  Spring. 

Miss  Elizabeth  V.  Provlnes.  —  Pleasure  of  Meeting  Long  Absent  Friends. 

Miss  Susan  Howard.  —  Wind. 

Miss  Mary  E.  Barr.  —  Address  to  the  Ocean. 

Miss  Fannie  Law.  —  The  Schoolroom. 

Miss  Susan  Kuykendall.  —  Night. 

Miss  Mary  Prewitt.  — Stability  of  Character. 

Miss  Martha  M.  Goode.  —  Eloquence  of  Nature. 

Dialogue. —Ui^s  D.  E.  Todd,  World  of  Mind;  Miss  C.  F.  Todd,  World  of  Matter; 
Miss  A.  J.  Hardin,  Laws  which  Govern  Them. 

Dialogue.  —  Miss  M.  Harrison,  Greece;  Miss  J.  Price,  Egypt;  Miss  M.  Ewlng, 
Chinese  Empire ;  Miss  A.  Vanhorn,  America. 

Dialogue.  —  Miss  Fannie  Law,  Frost;  Miss  M.  M.  Goode,  Fire;  Miss  S.  Howard, 
Water. 

The  delivery  of  an  appropriate  and  well-written  address  by  Rev.  J.  L.  Yantls, 
•closed  the  exercises  of  the  evening. 

It  is  impossible  to  describe  or  estimate  the  beneficent  and  elevating 
influences  of  this  early  institution  of  learning  on  the  women  of  Colum- 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  229 

biaand  Boone  County,  and  through  them  on  the  people  at  lar^e.  It 
did  much  not  only  to  educate  in  science  and  art  and  in  the  accom- 
plishments of  cultivated  society,  the  young  ladies  who  attended  it, 
but  in  elevating  and  strengthening  the  moral  tone  of  the  people,  and 
in  preparing  them  for  the  higher  achievements  in  educational  enter- 
prises which  have  since  that  period  so  distinguished  our  county. 

But  for  Bonne  Femme  and  Columbia  Colleges  we  probably  never 
would  have  had  the  State  University  and  Agricultural  College,  and 
but  for  Columbia  Female  Academy,  Stephens  and  Christian  Colleges 
would  have  been  above  the  ambition  and  beyond  the  grasp  of  our 
people. 


CHAPTER    V, 

HISTORY  OF  THE  STATE  UNIVERSITY. 

¥rom  1818  to  its  Dedication,  Jaly  4,  1843  —  Acts  of  Congress  of  1818,  1820  and  1827  in 
regard  to  the  Seminary  Lands — Provisions  of  the  State  Constitution  —  Donation 
of  ten  acres  by  the  Commissioners  to  locate  the  town  of  Columbia  in  1821  for  a  Uni- 
versity site  —  Beneficent  Influence  of  Columbia  CoUege  and  Columbia  Female  Acad- 
emy—Bev.  E.  P.  Lovejoy*s  observations  on  Columbia  in  1884  —  Legislation  by  the 
General  Assembly  from  1828  to  1843  —  Austin  A.  King's  resolutions  in  the  Legisla- 
ture) November  21, 1836  —  List  of  Seminary  lands  selected  and  where  situated  —  The 
I<egi8latare  of  1838-39  provides  for  the  location  of  the  University  in  Cole,  Cooper, 
Saline,  Howard,  Boone,  or  Callaway  counties  —  Commissioners  Appointed  —  The 
contest  in  Boone  and  other  counties  to  secure  the  location  —  Law  of  Congress  of 
1831  aothorizing  the  sale  of  the  Seminary  lands  —  In  1838  the  Auditor  makes  report 
of  their  sale  —  A  Combination  in  Jackson  County  prevents  their  sale  at  their  value  — 
The  first  Board  of  Curators  —  Boone  County  subscription  —  Complete  list  of  sub- 
scribers —  Boone  County  secures  the  University,  June  24,  1839  — The  first  meeting 
0' the  first  Board  of  Curators,  October?,  1889— The  site  of  the  University  edifice 
selected— Contracts  made  for  its  erection,  and  the  corner-stone  laid  July,  4,  1840 -r 
The  Ceremonies— Bev.  John  C.  Young,  D.  D.  elected  president  October  28, 1839— Dr. 
Young,  declining,  John  H.  Lathrop  was  elected  October  29,  1840—  His  letter  of  ac- 
ceptance—He delivers  a  public  address  in  the  Union  Church,  and  enters  on  the 
duties  of  his  office  March  1, 1841,  In  Columbia  College  Building. 

CUKATORS  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY. 

The  following  comprises  a  full  and  complete  list  of  the  names  of  all 
the  curators  from  the  first  board  in  1839,  to  the  last  in  1882,  and  the 
yw  of  their  appointment.  Some  of  them  have  been  reappointed  a 
number  of  times  and  have  had  loug  years  of  service,  but  this  list  only 
•hows  the  year  in  which  they  were  first  appointed :  —  * 


230  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

1839.  —  Thomas  M.  Allen,  Ell  E.  Bass,  M.  M.  Marmaduke^  Gabriel 
Tutt,  John  T.  A.  Henderson,  Wm.  Scott,  George  C.  Hart,  John  J. 
Lowry,  Robert  W.  Wells,  Rowland  Hughes,  Irvin  O.  Hockaday, 
Thomas  West,  Wm.  Lieutz,  Priestly  H.  McBride. 

1840.  — Thomas  D.  Grant,  William  Shields,  Dr.  George  Penn, 
Warren  Woodson,  Anthony  W.  Rollins,  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Duncan. 

1841.  —  R.  S.  Thomas,  Dr.  Gustavus  M.  Bower,  James  W.  Mor- 
row, John  Slack,  George  W.  Huston,  B.  B.  Brown,  Caleb  S.  Stone, 

1842.— John  Ellis. 

1843.  —  William  A.  Robards,  Joseph  Carpenter,  Wm.  G.  Minor. 

1844.  — Peter  Wright. 

1845. — Alexander  Persinger,  Moss  Prewitt,  John  H.  Lathrop,  ea 
officio, 

1846. — Gov.  John  C.  Edwards,  F.  K.  Martin,  Secretary  of  State; 
P.  G.  Glover,  Treasurer;  J.  R.  McDearman,  Auditor,  ex  officio \ 
Alexander  H.  Robinson,  Allen  B.  Orear. 

1847. — James  L.  Matthews,  James  S.  Rollins. 

1849.— Addison  M.  Lewis,  F.  R.  Palmer,  Dr.  T.  R.  H.  Smith,  H. 
C  Dunn,  Dr.  W.  J.  McElhaney,  J.  A.  Brown,  Alton  Long,  Robert 
Brown,  C.  J.  Hughes,  John  Corby,  W.  D.  McCracken,  James  A. 
Clark,  James  Ellison,  William  Claude  Jones. 

1850.  —  Lewis  W.  Robinson. 

1851.  —  Henry  Fulbright,  Daniel  Patten,  James  L.  Minor,  Henrj 
F.  Garey,  Nelson  C.  Orear. 

1853.  —  George  W.  Hough,  Dr.  Joseph  Chew,  W.  G.  Eliot,  John 
B.  Clark,  Sr.,  of  Howard,  R.  G.  Roberts,  Henry  Slack. 

1854.  — C.  A.  Hayden. 

1856.  — George  L.  Pollard,  Dr.  Henry  W.  Cross,  Major  Homer, 
Charles  P.  Bullock,  Wm.  C.  Price,  Charles  L.  Rogers,  Calvin  F, 
Burns,  Wm.  E.  Brady. 

1857.  —Peter  S.  Wilkes,  George  H.  Hall,  Wm.  A.  Seay. 

1858.  —  Michael  Bright,  Wm.  B.  Starke,  Samuel  A.  Richardson. 
John  A.  Snell,  John  D.  S.  Dryden. 

1859.  — John  W.  Harris,  A.  S.  Walker,  James  T.  Campbell,  Hiram 
Blacklege. 

1860.  — Ira  DivoU,  Wm.  H.  Allen,  A.  W.  Flournoy,  P.  R.  Smith, 
Robert  A.  Hatcher,  I.  W.  Boulware,  Willard  P.  Hall,  F.  M.  Cockrell, 
J.  D.  Hill,  Robert  L.  Todd,  J.  W.  Tucker,  J.  H.  Halley,  A.  W. 
Doniphan,  Joseph  J.  Brady,  David  H.  Hickman,  Samuel  Treat,  who 
resigning,  Hugh  Campbell  was  appointed  in  his  place,  but  declined  to 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY,  231 

qualify,  not  having  resided  in  the  State  two  years  as  required  by 
law. 

1862.  — Dr.  M.  R.  Arnold,  James  H.  Birch,  Odon  Guitar,  P.  B. 
Locke,  Mordecai  Oliver,  Sample  Orr,  Francis  T.  Russell,  Thomas  B. 
Bead,  George  O.  Yeiser,  John  F,  Philips,  W.  S.  Mosely, 

1863.  —  W.  A.  Gibson,  Ferd.  Overstolz,  Wm.  Carter,  James  H. 
Moss,  John  B.  Clark,  Sr.,  of  Dade  county. 

1864.  —  S.  M,  Breckenridge,  Rev.  Henry  A.  Nelson,  Elijah  Perry, 
Bernard  Poepping,  A.  A.  Matthews,  James  McWilliams,  John  B, 
Weaver,  Rev.  George  W.  Longan,  Thompson  J.  Kelly,  Dr.  Franklin 
Cooley,  Lemuel  Dunn,  Leonidas  M.'  Lawson,  Bennett  Pike,  Dr. 
George  L.  Hewitt,  Alexander  McMurtree,  James  H.  Robinson, 
IGchael  M.  Robinson,  Hiram  Philips. 

1865.  —  Enos  Clark,  John  W.  Sutherland,  Francis  Kellerman, 
James  Lindsay,  E.  F.  Esteb,  Gustave  Bruiere,  Charles  E.  Leonard, 
John  P.  Clark,  Edward  L.  King,  Rev.  L.  M.  Vernon.  T.  A.  Sher- 
wood, Rev.  D.  A.  McReady,  Alex.  F.  Denny. 

1866. — Joseph  D.  Keebeaugh,  James  Love. 

1867.  —  John  W.  Matthias,  J.  M.  Woods,  Andrew  J.  Shepard, 
James  H.  Baker,  George  R.  Smith,  Theo.  S.  Case,  A.  J.  Barr,  Phile- 
mon Bliss,  Benjamin  Northcott,  Eugene  Williams,  Paul  Hubbard, 
A.J.  Conant,  James  M.  Martine. 

1868.  — Edward  Wyman,  W.  C.  Mattison,  G.  A.  Moser,  C.  P. 
Townsley. 

1869.  —  Orville  S.  Read,  Wm.  H.  McLane,  Wm.  W.  Orrick,  James 
H.  Kerr,  James  S.  Rollins. 

1870.  —  Henry  T.  Mudd,  George  W.  Kinney,  James  Moore,  George 
Husmann,  Barnabas  Smith. 

1871. — J.  W.  Barrett,  Norman  J.  Colraan,  Dr.  Wm.  S.  Dyer, 
Wm.  T.  Essex,  Rev.  John  D.  Vincil,  J.  F.  Wielandy,  Samuel  G. 
Williams,  John  E.  Worth,  W.  F.  Switzler. 

1872.  — Henfy  Smith. 

1873.  —  Alex.  M.  Dockery,  John  F.  Bush,  Jerry  C.  Cravens,  C.  P. 
Jones,  Joshua  LaDue,  Walter  T.  Lenoir,  Wm.  Starke,  Edwin  W. 
Stephens. 

1874. — H.  Clay  Ewing,  Squire  Turner,  Martin  L.  Clardy,  George 
M.  Jones. 

1875. — John  S.  Clarkson,  John  Hinton,  Dr.  William  Glenn,  Dr. 
Samuel  H.  Headlee,  John  E.  Hutton,  John  A.  Flood,  Robert  F. 
Lakenan,  Luther  T.  Collier. 


232 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 


1876 — John  A.  Hockaday,  A.  W.  Lamb. 

1877  —  Dr.  H.  H.  Middelcamp,  John  D.  Perry. 

1878 — Joseph  K.  Rogers,  Wm.  H.  Lackland. 

1879  —  Charles  C.  Bland,  John  Walker. 

1880  — A.  M.  Millard. 

1882  —  John  R.  Estill,  James  E.  Lincoln. 


1839 
1840 
1843 
1843 
1848 
1850 
1858 
1856 
1860 
1864 
1865 
1870 


Winiam  Scott,  deceased    . 
Thomas  M.  AUen,  deceased 
John  Slack,  deceased         .        . 
Warren  Woodson,  deceased 
Caleb  S.  Stone,  deceased  . 
F.  R,  Palmer,  deceased       . 
Caleb  S.  Stone,  deceased    . 
P.  H.  McBride,  deceased    . 

Wm.  H.  Allen 

Thomas  M.  Allen,  deceased 

Moss  Pre  wit  t,  deceased 

James  S.  Rollins,  LL.  D.,  still  in  office. 


1840 
184S 
1843 
1848 
1850 
1853 
1856 
1860 
1864 
1865 
1869 


The  University  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  called  in  the  acts  of  Con- 
gi-ess  of  February  17,  1818,  March  6,  1820,  January  24,  1827,  and 
March  2, 1827,  a  «'  Seminary  of  Learning,"  possesses  a  legislative  or 
legal  history  which  is  not  only  in  itself  very  interesting,  but  quite 
essential  to  a  proper  understanding  of  its  relations  to  the  Federal  and 
State  governments,  and  of  the  obligations  imposed  upon  the  General 
Assembly  of  Missouri  to  foster  and  encourage  it.  It  therefore  has  a 
history  which  antedates  its  location  and  establishment  in  the  town  of 
Columbia. 

It  is  quite  well  known  and  generally  understood  that  the  University 
was  founded  by  a  grant  of  public  land  made  by  the  United  States,  in 
the  act  of  Congress  of  March  6,  1820,  to  authorize  the  people  of  Mis- 
souri Territory  to  form  a  Constitution  and  State  Government.  The 
sixth  section  of  said  act  offered  to  the  convention  of  the  Territory  of 
Missouri,  for  its  free  acceptance  or  rejection,  five  distinct  propositions, 
which,  if  accepted  by  the  convention,  shall  be  obligatory  upon  the 
United  States.     Among  these  was  the  following :  — 

Fifth,  That  thirty-six  sections,  or  one  entire  township,  which  shaH  be  designated  by 
the  President  of  the  United  States,  together  with  the  other  lands  heretofore  reserved 
for  that  purpose,  shall  be  reserved  for  the  use  of  a  Seminary  of  learning,  and  vested  in 
the  Legislature  of  said  State,  to  be  appropriated  solely  to  the  use  of  such  Seminary  by 
the  said  Legislature. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 


23a 


This  enactment^  made  by  Congress  before  the  admission  of  Missouri 
into  the  Union,  was  in  accordance  with  the  policy  of  the  General  Gov- 
ernment to  aid  the  States  in  the  work  of  education  by  liberal  grants 
of  the  public  domain. 

This  policy  was  not  only  adopted  in  aid  of  the  higher'  education^ 
so-called,  but  also  —  and  by  the  act  of  Congress  providing  for  the  ad- 
mission of  Missouri  into  the  Union  —for  the  maintenance  of  township 
free  public  schools.   . 

Id  the  private  consideration  as  well  as  public  discussions  of  this  act, 
A  complicatioD  often  presented  itself,  originating  in  the  fact  that  the 
act  of  Congress  of  March  6, 1820,  donated  to  Missoiiri  only  thirty-six 
sectioQs,  or  one  entire  township,  whereas  the  State  received,  for  the 
Iwc  of  a  '*  Seminary  of  Learning,"  seventy-two  sections,  or  two  entire 
townships.  Whence  originated  this  discrepancy,  and  by  what  act  of 
Congress,  if  any,  the  problem  was  solved,  is  not  generally  known. 
Nor  did  our  public  men  and  legislators  seem  to  understand,  with  any 
distinctness,  the  phrase,  '<  together  with  the  other  lands  heretofore 
resenrcd  for  that  purpose."  What  these  lands  were,  what  their 
amount  in  acres,  where  situated,  and  by  what  act  of  Congress  reserved^ 
seems  to  have  had  no  distinct  or  satisfactory  solution  in  the  public 
tnind. 

Believing  it  to  be  our  duty  thoroughly  to  explore  the  field  of  diffi- 
culty, and,  if  possible,  clearly  to  trace  the  legislative  history  of 
the  grant,  we  entered  into  correspondence,  through  the  courtesy  of 
Hon.  F.  M.  Cockrell,  U.  S.  Senator  from  Missouri,  with  the  Com- 
missioner of  the  General  Land  Office  at  Washington.  This  corre- 
spondence disclosed  the  fact,  theretofore  unknown  to  the  writer,  that 
our  Seminary  lands,  although  donated  to  the  State  for  the  purpose 
mentioned  in  the  act  of  March  6,  1820,  were  not  selected  and  con- 
firmed to  the  State  by  that  act,  but  by  an  act  of  Congress  approved 
January  24,  1827,.  as  follows  (see  Chap.  V.,  Second  Session  Nineteenth 
Congress;  see  fourth  vol.  Stats.  U.  S.  at  Large,  page  200)  : 

ACT   OF  JANUARY  24,    1827. 

"An  Act  concerning  the  selection  of  certain  lands,  heretofore  granted  by  compact,  to  the 

State  of  Missouri,  for  seminaries  of  learning. 
"^U  enacted f  etc.y 

"That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  President  of  the  United  States,  as  soon  as  may  be,. 
tocaoge  to  be  selected,  from  any  of  the  public  lands  of  the  United  States  in  Missouri, 
^  sale  of  which  is  authorized  by  law,  and  in  quantities  not  less  than  a  section,  accord- 
^  to  the  divisional  lines  of  the  public  surveys,  the  several  townships  of  land  hereto- 
fore secured  by  compact  to  the  State  of  Missouri,  for  the  purposes  of  a  seminary  or 


234  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

seminaries  of  learning  in  that  State,  and  to  cause  one  descriptive  list  of  such  selec 
to  be  filed  with  the  Governor  of  ^Missouri,  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  that  i 
•and  another  like  list  to  be  filed  in  the  General  Land  Office  of  the  United  States 
iiie  lands  so  selected  shall,  immediately  thereupon,  vest  in  the  State  of  Missour 
cording  to,  and  in  satisfaction  of,  the  above  mentioned  compact  with  the  U 
States. 

"Approved  January  24th,  1827." 

The  terms  of  this  act,  to  wit :  "  The  several  townships  of  land  I 
tofore  secured  by  compact  to  the  State  of  Missouri,  for  the  purpo 
a  seminary  or  seminaries  of  learning  in  that  State,"  seemed  fai 
to  complicate  the  difficulty,  and  therefore  farther  correspondence 
the  General  Land  Office  became  necessary.  / 

Availing  ourself  again  of  the  courtesy  of  Senator  Cockrell,  we 
pounded,  through  him,  to  the  Commissioner  of  the  General  I 
Office  certain  questions,  the  purpose  of  which  was  to  elicit  an  ei 
nation  of  the  difficulty  we  encountered  in  understanding  not  onlj 
act  of  March  6,  1820,  but  that  of  January  24,  1827.  This  cc 
spondence  brought  to  view  another  new  and  important  fact,  nes 
least  to  us,  and  certainly  one  which  has  not  attained  any  promine 
or  even  recognition  in  the  public  discussions  of  this  subject  in  '. 
souri,  namely,  that  three  years  anterior  to  the  admission  of  Misfi 
into  the  Union,  and  by  the  third  section  of  the  act  of  Congres 
February  17,  1818,  two  townships  were  directed  to  be  located 
reseiTed  for  the  support  of  a  seminary  of  learning  in  this  State, 
that  one  of  these  townships  was  authorized  to  be  located  on  the  wf 
of  the  Missouri,  and  the  other  on  the  waters  of  the  Arkansas  Ri 
Also,  that  by  an  act  passed  March  2,  1827,  a  transfer  of  one  town 
was  made  from  the  waters  of  the  Arkansas  to  the  I'erritorv  of  Ar 
sas,  leaving  one  township  reserved  for  the  Missouri  Territory,  w 
added  to  the  one  township  granted  by  the  act  of  March  6,  1820,  n 
the  two  townships  donated  to  this  State,  which  the  President,  bj; 
act  of  January  24,  1827,  was  directed  to  select  for  the  use 
seminary  of  learning  in  the  State  of  Missouri.  For  a  clearer  un 
standing  of  the  subject,  we  append  the  letter  of  the  Commissionc 
the  General  Land  Office,  dated  July  15,  1882,  as  follows: — 


LETTER  OF   HON.  N.  C.  M'FARULND. 

Department  of  the  Interior, 

General  Land  Office, 

Washington,  D.  C,  July  16,  1882, 
-ETon.  F,  M.  Cockrell,  U,  8.  Senate : 

Sir  :  I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  letter  of  the  13th  inc 

transmitting  a  letter  from  Wm.  F.  Swltzler,  dated  at  Columbia,  Mo.,  July  10,  ISI 


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BISTORT  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  235 

vkkh,  ifter  referring  to  the  Act  of  Biarch  6, 1820,  and  January  24, 1827,  granting  lands 
littoSMt  «f  Missouri,  he  asks  the  following  questions,  viz. : 

lit.  "Bowdlft^MB  fpia  two  townships,  and  only  two,  when  neither  of  the  above  cited 
act!  provide  for  two  In  terms?  ** 

Sd.  "  Wiiat  are  *  the  other  lands  heretofore  received  for  that  pvrpose  T** 

Ii  reply,  I  would  state,  that  under  the  provision  of  the  third  section  of  the  Act  of 
CoDgriff,  approved  February  17,  1818,  entitled,  "  An  Act  making  provision  for  the 
eitibllshmentof  additional  land  offices  in  the  Territory  of  Missouri,**  two  townships  were 
direeted  tobe  located  and  reserved  for  the  support  of  a  neminary  of  learning,  provided 
thttooe  of  said  townships  shall  be  located  on  the  waters  of  the  Missouri  and  the  other 
01  fbt  waters  of  the  Ariomsas. 

9y  the  fifth  subdivision  of  the  sixth  section  of  the  Act  of  March  6,  1820,  one  entire 
towukip,  together  with  the  other  lands  heretofore  reserved  for  that  purpose,  was 
menred  for  the  use  of  a  seminary  of  learning. 

Bjthe  Act  of  March  2, 1827,  entitled  "An  act  concerning  a  seminary  of  learning  In 
tke  Territory  of  Arkansas,"  authorizing  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  to  set  apart  two 
towmliips  for  the  use  and  support  of  a  seminary  of  learning,  it  Is  provided  tliat 
OM  of  said  townships  so  set  apart  shall  be  <Mn  lieu  of  an  entire  township  of  land 
dirwted  to  be  located  on  the  waters  of  the  Arkansas  River,  in  said  Territory,  for  the 
Me  of  a  seminary  of  learning  therein,  by  an  act  of  Congress  entitled,  <  An  act  making 
IRortskHi  for  the  establishment  of  additional  land  offices  In  the  Territory  of  Missouri,'  *' 
approred  February  the  seventeenth,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  eighteen. 

It  will  be  seen  from  the  above  cited  act,  that  one  of  the  townships  reserved  for 
makuxj  purposes  in  the  Territory  of  Missouri,  and  to  be  located  on  the  waters  of  the 
Ail^iiias,  was  transferred  to  the  Territory  of  Arkansas,  leaving  one  township  reserved 
for  the  former  Territory,  which,  together  with  the  additional  township  granted  by  the 
Act  of  Htrch  6,  1820,  made  two  townships  which  the  President  of  the  United  States 
wu  directed  to  cause  to  be  selected,  under  the  Act  of  January  24,  1827,  for  the  pur- 
poieof  i  seminary  or  seminaries  of  learning  In  the  State  of  Missouri. 

The  letter  of  Mr.  Swltzler  is  herewith  returned. 

Very  respectfully, 

N.  C.  McFARLAND, 

Commissioner. 

The  policy  of  the  General  Government  to  aid  the  States  in  the 
work  of  education  also  found  expression  in  the  land  grants  made  by 
the  act  of  Congress  of  July  2,  1862,  to  the  different  States  for  the 
purpose  of  founding  therein  colleges  of  agriculture  and  mechanic  arts. 

The  liberal  school  policy  of  the  General  Government,  by  land 
gnioU,  was  established  by  the  ordinance  of  1787,  in  the  following 
language,  to  wit : — 

^  for  extending  the  fundamental  principles  of  clvU  and  religious  liberty,  which 
form  the  basis  whereon  these  republics,  their  laws  and  constitutions  are  erected,  etc., 
etc 

^iit  hereby  enacted  and  declared,  by  the  authority  (foresaid,  (1.  e.,  of  the  United  States 
in  Congress  assembled),  that  the  following  articles  shall  be  considered  as  articles  of 
^<^Pict  between  the  original  States  and  the  people  In  the  said  Territory  (northwest 
^ the  river  Ohio),  and  forever  remain  unalterable,  unless  by  common  consent,  to  wit: 


236  HI8TOKY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY, 

Article  3.  Religion,  morality  and  knowledge  being  necessary  to  good  govenunent 
and  the  happiness  of  mankind,  schools  and  the  means  of  education  shall  forever  b% 
encouraged. 

Ill  the  act  of  Congress  of  1812,  organizing  the  Territory  of  Missouri, 
this  article  of  the  ordinance  of  1787  was  carried  across  the  Mississippi,, 
and  somewhat  amplified,  as  the  following  extract  from  that  act  shows} 

Religion,  morality  and  knowledge  being  necessary  to  good  government  and  the 
happiness  of  mankind,  schools  and  the  means  of  education  shall  be  encouraged  and 
provided  for  from  the  public  lands  of  the  United  States  In  said  Territory,  In  such  man- 
ner as  Congress  may  deem  expedient. 

When  the  State  of  Missouri  was  organized  out  of  this  Territory^ 
Congress  deemed  it  expedient,  as  above  stated,  to  devote  two  town* 
ships  of  land  to  a  <<  seminary  of  learning  or  university,"  and  one 
thirty-sixth  of  the  entire  public  domain,  together  with  saline  and 
swamp  lands,  to  *<  township  (now  district)  schools." 

The  higher  education  was  thus  identified  with  the  lower,  as  coordi* 
nate  and  constituent  parts  of  the  public  school  work  of  Missouri,  upon 
the  original  organization  ot  the  State. 

It  is  the  traditional  and  established  policy  of  this  State,  however 
imperfectly  realized  hitherto,  to  support  the  University  as  the  crowa 
and  glory  of  the  public  school  system.  This  is  an  indisputable  fact; 
not  by  inference,  but  by  the  following  explicit  utterances,  in  the  first 
and  second  sections  of  the  sixth  article  of  the  first  Constitution  of  the 
State,  adopted  in  St.  Louis,  July  19,  1820,  viz : 

Schools  and  the  means  of  education  shall  be  forever  encouraged  In  this  State.  *  ^ 
One  school  or  more  shall  be  established  In  each  township.  The  General  Assembly 
shall  take  measures  for  the  improvement  of  such  lands,  etc.,  to  support  **  a  univer- 
sity for  the  promotion  of  literature  and  the  arts  and  sciences^  and  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  General  Assembly,  as  soon  as  may  be,  to  provide  effectual  means  *  *  *  for  ik» 
improvement  and  permanent  security  of  the  funds  and  endowments  of  such  Institutions. 

It  is  thus  seen  that  the  '*  Seminary  of  Learning"  of  the  acts  of 
Congress  of  1818,  1820  and  1827  is  the  «' University  "  of  the  first 
Constitution  of  the  State,  formed  under  the  authoritv  of  the  first  act 
named. 

Substantially  the  same  idea  as  presented  in  the  Constitution  of 
1820,  is  embodied  in  the  State  Constitution  of  1865,  as  follows :  — 

4.  The  General  Assembly  shall  also  establish  and  maintain  a  State  university,  with 
departments  for  Instructions  In  teaching  In  agriculture,  and  In  natural  science,  as  toon 
as  the  public  school  fund  will  permit. 

The  eleventh  article  of  the  Constitution  of  1875  is  still  more  liberal 
in  its  terms,  and  in  more  than  one  section  reco<rnizes  the  oblisration  of 


J 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  237 

the  General  Assembly  to  maintain  the  State  University  and  to  regard 

its  endowment,  and  the  proceeds  of  the  sales  of  the  seminary  lands, 

legally  inviolable. 
From  the  earliest  history  of  Boone  County  and  of  its  county  seat, 

even  while  preliminary  steps  were  taken  in  the  spring  of  1821  to 
establish  the  town  of  Columbia,  the  location  of  the  State  University 
in  said  town  was  entertained  as  a  desimble  consummation,  and  found 
expression  in  the  report  made  to  the  Circuit  Court  by  Lawrence  Bass,' 
John  Gray,  David  Jackson,  Absalom  Hicks  and  Jefferson  Fulcher, 
commissioners  appointed  by  an  act  of  the  Legislature  to  locate  the 
permanent  seat  of  justice  in  said  county.  (For  this  report  in  full  see 
pp.  161-2.)  Quick  to  comprehend  intelligently  the  provisions  made  in 
the  CDabling  and  other  acts  of  Congress,  as  well  as  the  provision 
in  the  Constitution  adopted  the  year  previous  to  the  passage  of  the 
enabling  act,  the  commissioners,  among  other  donations  of  land  for 
public  purposes,  made  by  the  trustees  of  the  Smithton  Company,  on 
the  condition  of  the  location  of  the  county  seat  on  the  present  site  of 
Columbia  was  **  ten  acres  conditional  if  the  State  University  be  estab- 
lished therein,^'  said  ten  acre  lot  being  just  across  the  road,  and 
south  of  the  present  residence  of  Jefferson  (Jarth  —  the  same  now 
occupied  and  owned  by  Mrs.  Stephen  Bedford,  and  embracing  per- 
haps the  northern  portion  of  the  new  cemetery. 

From  this  period  to  the  final  accomplishment  of  the  purpose  in  the 
location  of  the  University  at  Columbia  in  1839,  the  thoughtful  and 
leading  citizens  of  Boone  County  pursued  their  object  with  unfaltering 
steps.  As  we  have  already  seen  this  is  evidenced  by  the  establish- 
ment of  Columbia  College,  an  enterprise  which  was  largely  inspired 
by  the  hope  of  making  it  the  rallying  point  in  the  struggle  and  an  in- 
ducement to  locate  the  Uiyversity  or  "  State  College  "  in  Columbia. 
That  this  was  one  of  the  ulterior  purposes  to  be  accomplished 
through  this  agency  is  plainly  disclosed  by  the  preliminary  steps 
as  well  as  the  more  advanced  measures  and  counsels  connected 
with  the  college.  The  sequel  demonstrated  the  far-seeing  wisdom 
of  the  prudent  and  self-sacrificing  men  who  originated  and  accom- 
plished the  establishment  of  this  institution.  Without  Columbia 
College  and  the  education  which  it  afforded  not  only  its  pupils 
proper,  but  the  public  mind  of  the  county,  the  State  University 
would  never  have  been  located  in  Columbia.     That  college,  and  the 


Died  In  Boone  County,  April  27,  1856,  aged  seventy-six  years. 


238  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

Columbia  Female  Academy,  which  was  its  handmaid  in  the  cause  o 
liberal  education  and  liberal  public  thought,  inspired  the  leading 
minds  of  the  county  with  the  darling  purpose  when  the  final  struggle 
came,  to  outstrip  all  of  her  sister  counties  in  the  race  of  liberality  anc 
thus  secure  the  inestimable  boon  of  the  State  University.  WitI 
Columbia  College  and  the  lessons  of  culture  and  public  spirit  witl 
which  it  leavened  the  popular  mind,  the  University  was  a  possibli 
achievement.     Without  them  it  was  impossible. 

What  Columbia  and  the  county  of  Boone  were  in  1834  may  Iw 
plainly  seen  by  the  testimony  of  the  Rev.  Elijah  P.  Lovejoy^  tb 
editor  of  the  St.  Louis  Observer ^  a  disinterested  witness,  who,  durio] 
the  summer  of  that  year  travelled  through  the  central  counties,  anc 
for  a  short  time  stopped  in  Columbia.  Mr.  Lovejoy's  sketch  bears  testi 
mony  to  the  interest  which  was  then  felt  in  the  question  by  our  peo 
pie  as  well  as  to  the  feeling  of  general  rivalry  thus  early  existin, 
between  Boone  and  Howard  on  the  subject  of  the  University. 

The  following  is  his  sketch :  — 

Columbia  is  the  coanty  seat  of  Boone  County,  and  is  a  pretty,  thriving  vUlage 
about  700  inhabitants.  It  has  nine  stores,  two  taverns,  four  grog-shops,  and  but  oi 
meeting-house.  Thus  you  see  Bacchus  has  four  temples  —  and  I  know  not  hpw  ma 
domestic  altars  —  and  God  but  one,  in  Columbia.  The  meeting-house  belongs  to  t 
Presbyterians,  is  of  brick,  but  is  not  finished.  The  Baptists  and  Unitarians  are  abo 
to  commence  building  another  in  union.  An  odd  mixture  this,  and  one  which  can  pi 
duce  no  good.  The  Presbyterian  Church  consists  of  about  eighty  members.  Tl 
church  was  principally  gathered  under  the  ministrations  of  brother  Cochran,  wh<o 
still  affectionately  remembered  by  them.  Brother  Gray  succeeds  him,  both  in  lab< 
and  In  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  people.  In  Columbia  they  have  erectec 
brick  college,  sixty  feet  by  twenty-six,  two  stories  high,  and  having  six  apartmen 
In  this  a  male  academy  is  taught  —  Mr.  Uobert  S.  Thomas,  Principal,  and  Mr.  S.  Ha 
Assistant.  There  is  also  a  female  academy  taught  In  this  place  by  Miss  Lucy  A 
Wales,  assisted,  at  present,  by  a  daughter  of  Gen.  Gentry.  This  lady  had  acqulrei 
high  reputation  as  a  teacher  In  Callaway,  and  she  fully  maintains  It  here. 

In  the  two  departments  are  120  or  130  scholars.  Besides  these,  there  is  anoti 
female  school,  taught  by  one  of  the  ladles,  who  came  on  last  fall  as  a  missionary 
the  Indians,  but  whose  health  failed  her,  and  she  was  left  at  this  place.  I  underato* 
also,  that  still  another  was  expected  to  be  opened  In  a  week  or  two. 

On  the  subject  of  the  State  University,  there  Is  much  conversation  and  considera 
rivalry  of  feeling  in  the  two  counties  of  Boone  and  Howard.  And  In  reference  to  t 
subject,  they  are  bringing  out  some  of  their  strongest  men  In  the  two  counties  for 
next  Legislature,  as  It  Is  supposed  that  that  body  will  act  definitely  on  the  stibjc 
Between  the  rival  claims  of  the  two  counties  I  shall  not  undertake  to  decide ;  bn 
can  say  what  I  most  fully  believe,  that  but  little  benefit  will  be  derived  to  either,  oi 
the  State,  from  all  the  funds  appropriated  for  a  State  University.    And  this  opinio; 


1  Mr.  Lovejoy  was  shot  and  killed  by  a  mob  at  Alton,  111.,  on  November  7,  1837. 


HISTOET   OF  BOONE   COUNTT.  289 

freeljeipreMed  to  some  of  the  prominent  men  in  both  the  counties.  I  have  no  idea 
that  loj  Legislature  that  we  are  lilcely  soon  to  have  will  establish  a  University  on  any 
prfsdples  that  will  insure,  or  even  permit,  its  prosperity.  They  will  yoke  it  to  the 
eirof  State,  and  then  it  will  be  pulled  forward,  or  pushed- backward,  according  as 
this  or  that  political  party  shall  prevail.  And  in  the  turmoil  and  confusion  attending 
lodi  i  state  of  things  learning  and  science  will  be  frightened  from  its  halls.  Be 
tnored  that  the  muses  will  never  endure  the  presence  of  a  political  stump-speech 
nker.  Besides,  our  good  legislators  will  be  especially  careful  to  exclude  all  secta- 
liiiism  from  the  University;  and  I  doubt  not  they  will  contrive  to  make  tliatterm 
enbrtce  every  tenet  of  Cliristlauity.  Such,  at  least,  are  my  fears;  and  I  shall  be 
igreeibly  disappointed,  indeed,  if  they  are  not  realized.  The  history  of  the  Virginia. 
Unlfenity  might,  but  will  not,  be  read  for  instruction  on  this  subject. 

It  is  worthy  of  Dote«  in  this  connection,  that  the  fears  of  Mr.  Love* 
joy,  that  in  the  exclusion  of  sectarianism  from  the  University  Chris- 
tiaoity  itself  would  be  excluded,  were  groundless. 

SALE   OF  SEMINARY   LANDS. 

On  January  23,  1829,  (see  Session  Acts  1828-9),  an  act  was  ap- 
pro?ed  which  provided  for  the  prosecution,  fine,  and  imprisonment  of 
trespassers  on  the  seminary  lands. 

By  an  act  approved  December  31,  1830,^  provision  was  made  for 
the  sale  of  the  seminary  lands.  It  was  made  the  duty  of  the  Gov- 
enior  of  the  State,  or  his  successor  in  office  for  the  time  being,  after 
gWiog  six  months  previous  notice  thereof,  in  the  several  newspapers 
published  in  this  State,  to  cause  the  lands  granted  to  the  State  for 
seminaiy  purposes,  to  be  offered  at  public  sale  to  the  highest  bidder ; 
upon  this  condition,  however,  that  the  same  shall  not  be  sold  for  a  less 
price  than  two  dollars  per  acre,  and  the^sales  of  the  said  lands  shall  be 
conducted  in  every  other  respect,  under  the  same  regulations  as  the 
public  lands  of  the  United  States. 

Bjr  the  same  act  John  B.  Swearengen  was  made  register  and  Sam- 
uel C.  Owens  receiver  for  the  purpose  of  superintending  the  lands  in 
the  United  States  Western  district ;  James  Jamison,  register,  and  Henry 
L»ne,  receiver ,  in  the  Salt  river  district,  and  William  Garner,  register, 
and  Robert  F.  Brown,  receiver,  in  the  Cape  Girardeau  district,  each 
of  whom  was  required  to  give  bond . 

The  sales  of  land  in  the  Western  district,  were  held  in  Indepen- 
dence, commencing  on  the  first  Monday  in  December,  1831 ;.  in  the 
Salt  river  district  in  Palmyra  on  the  second  Monday  in  November, 


See  Session  Acts  1S30-1,  p.  86. 


240  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

1831  ;  and  in  the  Cape  Girardean  district  in  Benton,  Scott  county,  o 
the  first  Monday  in  November  of  the  same  year. 

On  Januaiy  17,  1831,^  an  act  was  approved  which  provided  fc 
annexing  to  the  town  of  Independence,  laying  off  into  lots,  and  mak 
ing  sale  of  eighty  acres  of  seminary  lands  adjoining  said  towE 
Said  sale  commencing  on  the  first  Monday  in  December,  1832,  open! 
to  the  highest  bidder,  under  the  superintendence  of  a  commissionc 
appointed  by  the  Governor,  said  act  providing  that  no  lot  of  one  acr 
or  less  should  be  sold  for  less  than  $10,  nor  any  lot  of  more  than  on 
acre  for  less  than  $5  per  acre. 

ACT   OF   DECEMBER    31,    1830,    REVIVED. 

January  29,  1833,^  an  act  was  approved  reviving  the  act  to  pre 
vide  for  the  sale  of  the  seminary  lands,  approved  December  3* 
1830,  and  it  authorized  public  sales  of  the  lands  at  Independeno 
Palmyra,  and  Benton  in  the  months  October,  November  and  Decembe 
1833.  Abraham  McClellan  was  appointed  commissioner  of  the  sal 
at  Independence,  Henry  Wilcox  at  Palmyra,  and  John  Moore  at  Be 
ton.  All  lands  not  thus  sold  at  public  sale  were  thereafter  subject 
private  entry  or  purchase. 

The  commissioner  of  the  Western  district  was  directed  at  the  ck 
of  the  public  sales  to  offer  to  the  highest  bidder  the  town  lots  remai 
ing  unsold  in  the  annexed  portion  of  the  town  of  Independent 
pursuant  to  the  act  approved  January  17,  1831. 

On  the  17th  March,  1835,*  an  act  of  the  Legislature  was  approv 
to  take  effect  the  first  day  of  May  thereafter,  providing  for  the  sa 
at  private  entry,  of  the  seminary  lands,  in  the  same  manner,  at  t 
same  price,  and  under  the  same  regulations  as  the  United  Sta' 
lands  were  then  disposed  of,  at  private  sales. 

By  the  terms  of  the  act,  John  Moore,  of  Scott  county,  for  the  Ca 
•Girardeau  land  district;  Henry  Wilcox  of  the  Salt  River  district  a 
Smallwood  Nolan  of  Jackson  county  for  the  Western  district  w( 
made  commissioners  to  superintend  the  sale  of  these  lauds,  each  gi 
ing  bonds  of  not  less  than  $5,000.  Moneys  received  by  them  fr( 
said  sales  to  be  paid  into  the  State  treasury  every  twelve  months,  t 


1  See  Session  Acts  1830-1,  p.  91. 
»  See  Session  Acts  1832-3,  p.  116. 
3  See  Revised  Statutes  1835,  p.  57(>. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  241 

treasurer  to  keep  the  same  <<  as  a  distinct  fund  for  the  purposes  for 
which  said  lands  were  accepted  "  by  the  State. 

During  the  session  of  the  eighth  Legislature,  which  convened  in  Jef- 
ferson City  November  17,  1834 — John  Jamison,  of  Callaway,  Speaker 
of  the  House  ;  James  B.  Bowlin,  of  St.  Louis,  Chief  Clerk,  and  Joseph 
W.Hickam,  of  Boone  (who  is  still  alive  and  a  citizen  of  Boone),  En 
grossing  Clerk — the  question  of  the  location  of  the  University  received 
much  attention.  The  Intelligencer y  of  December  6,  1834,  says  :  **  We 
tfe  much  gratified  to  learn  from  Jefferson  that  Columbia  stands  high 
mih  the  Legislature  as  the  most  suitable  location  for  the  State  Col- 
lege/' Nevertheless,  owing  to  the  rivalries  which  existed  between 
Yarious  counties,  a  majority  in  neither  house  was  able  to  agree  upon 
a  location,  and  the  Legislature  adjourned  without  making  one. 

SEMINART  LANDS. 

/  The  first  session  of  the  ninth  General  Assembly  met  November  21, 
1836 — John  Jamison  again  Speaker  of  the  House  ;  Thomas  C.  Burch, 
Chief  Clerk ;  Richard  B.  Jackson,  Doorkeeper,  and  Joseph  W .  Hick- 
am,  of  Boone,  Engrossing  Clerk,  without  opposition.  Again  the 
Uoiversity  was  one  of  the  topics  for  discussion,  and  with  increased 
prominence. 

On  November  25th,  Austin  A.  King,  one  of  the  members  from 
Boone,  introduced  the  following  resolutions  in  regard  to  the  semin- 
Wy  fund :  — 

[From  the  House  Journal,  November  25,  1886,  page  59.] 

1.  Besolved,  That  the  proceeds  of  the  seminary  fund  ought  to  be  appropriated  to 
''eartngap  a>semiDary  of  learning  in  this  State,  in  conformity  with  the  compact  with 
tht  United  States  and  the  Constitution  of  this  State. 

2.  Besolvedf  That  such  an  institution  as  is  contemplated  by  the  compact  and  by  the 
State  Constitution, where  the  young  men  of  the  State  could  receive  a  competent 
Vacation  to  qualify  them  for  teachers  of  common  schools,  would  aid  and  promote  a 
iOQDd  system  of  common  school  education. 

3.  R^^olvedf  Under  the  compact  and  Constitution  of  the  State,  the  present  youth 
of  the  country  are  justly  entitled  to  participate  in  the  benefits  of  the  seminary  fund, 
ttd  that  the  proceeds  thereof  ought  to  be  vested  in  some  productive  stock  yielding  an 
interest  for  the  building  up  and  endowing  said  institution  at  as  early  a  day  as  practi- 
cable. 

4.  Retolved,  therefore^  That  the  foregoing  proposition  be  referred  to  the  Committee 
ofiEdncation,  and  that  said  committee  be  authorized  to  report  by  bill  or  otherwise. 

Adam  B.  Chambers,  of  Pike,  afterwards  well   known  in  Missouri 
16 


242  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   GOUNTT. 

as  one  of  the  proprietors  and  chief  editors  of  the  St.  Louis  Repulh- 
licauj  moved  to  lay  the  resolutions  on.  the  table,  which  motion  was 
rejected,  and  the  resolutions  were  passed. 

During  the  same  session  of  the  Legislature,  and  on  January  5, 1837, 
Mr.  Abraiiam  Hunter,  of  Scott  (page  249)  introduced  a  resolution, 
which  passed,  requesting  the  Governor  to  inform  the  House  **  if  any, 
and  what  number  of  acres  of  seminary  land  is  due  this  State  from 
the  United  States,  showing  the  quantity  of  acres  selected  and  re- 
served for  seminary  purposes,  and  the  quantity  yet  to  be  selected." 
On  January  16,  1837,  the  Governor  (Lilburn  W.  Boggs)  responded 
(page  302)  that  there  had  been  selected  and  reserved  45,411^ 
acres,  and  that  there  remained  to  be  selected  618^^1^  acres  to  com- 
plete the  quantity  of  72  sections  of  land  acquired  by  this  State  from 
the  United  States  for  a  seminary  of  learning. 


THE    LANDS    SELECTED WHERE    SITUATED AND    THE    ACT    OP    CON- 
GRESS  OF   JANUARY    24,    1827, 

On  January  24,  1837  (page  343),  Mr.  Chambers,  from  the  Commit- 
tee on  Education,  reported  a  bill  to  incorporate  the  University,  which 
was  read  and  ordered  to  a  second  reading.  Mr.  Chambers,  from  the 
same  committee,  also  reported  that  they  had  considered  the  petitions 
of  the  President  and  Directors  of  *'  Howard  College,"  Fayette,  and 
that  from  the  provisions  of  the  above  bill,  providing  for  the  erection 
of  a  State  University,  it  would  be  inexpedient  to  act  on  said  petition. 
Report  concurred  in  and  committee  discharged  from  further  consid- 
eration of  the  subject. 

Three  days  afterward  (page  375),  on  motion  of  Mr.  Redman,  of 
Howard,  the  bill  to  incorporate  the  State  University  was  recommitted 
to  the  Committee  on  Education,  without  instructions.  This  is  the 
last  that  was  heard  of  it  during  the  session,  which  closed  Feb- 
ruary  6th. 

The  last  session  of  the  General  Assembly  having  failed'to  locate  the 
State  University,  the  subject  again  came  up  during  the  Tenth  Session^ 
which  met  in  Jefferson  City  on  November  19th,  1838 :  Lilburn  W. 
Boggs,  Governor;  Franklin  Cannon,  Lieutenant-Governor  and  Presi* 
dent  of  the  Senate ;  James  L.  Minor,  Secretary ;  William  Woods^ 
doorkeeper ;  Thomas  H.  Harvey,  Speaker  of  the  House ;  Micajah  V. 
Harrison,  Clerk;  Joseph  W.  Hickam,  of  Boone,  Engrossing  Clerk, 
Senators  from  Boone  —  Thomas  C.  Maupin  and  A.  W.  Turner.     Rep- 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  24S 

e 

reseotatires — David    M.   Hickman,  James   S.   KoUins,    Alexander 
Persinger,  Tyre  Harris  and  John  B.  Gordon. 

The  subject  of  the  Stiito  University  occupied  a  prominent  place  in 
the  deliberations  of  this  session.     Among  the  proceedings  of  interest 
itmsT  be  mentioned  that  on  December  7th,  1838,  David  R.  Atchison^ 
of  Clay  county  (afterwards  United  States  Senator),  offered  a  resolu* 
tiooin  the  House  that  '^it  is  expedient  to  locate  a  State  Seminary 
ttthis  session."     John  Miller,  of  Cooper,  moved  to  amend  by  placing 
the  prefix  *«  in  "  before  the  word  **  expedient,"  whereupon  a  debate 
ensued,  which  was  not  concluded  till  the  next  day.     Benjamin  Youn^^ 
of  Callaway,  offered  the  following  amendment :  <<  That  such  Seminary 
be  located  at  such  place,  and  under  such  circumstances,  as  will  admit 
of  tlie  introduction  of  the  manual  labor  system,"  which  was  rejected. 
What  became  of  Mr.  Miller's  amendment  the  journal  does  not  show^ 
The  original  resolution  passed — ayes,  62;  nays,  29,  the  members 
from  Boone  voting  aye.     (See  pages  90  and  91.)     On  motion  of  Mr* 
AtchisoD,  the  bill  to  establish  a  State  University,  introduced  by  John 
P.  Morris,  of  Howard,  together  with  the  resolutions  on  the  same  sub- 
ject, be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Education  (Benjamin  Emmons« 
of  St.  Charles,  chairman),  with  instructions  to  report  a  bill  organizing- 
and  endowing  a  State  University.     (Page  93.) 

On  January  10th,  1839,  Mr.  Emmons  reported  from  the  committee 
a  bill  entitled  **  An  act  to  Select  a  site  for  the  State  University,"* 
which,  on  his  motion,  was  referred  to  the  Committee  of  the  Whole 
House.  (Page  201.)  After  several  sittings  of  the  committee,  on 
February  2,  1839,  Jesse  B.  Thompson,  of  Clinton,  chairman,  reported 
the  bill  back  to  the  House,  with  sundry  amendments.  On  Monday, 
February  4,  1839,  on  motion  of  James  Jackson,  of  Audrain,  the 
House  took  up  the  report  of  the  committee  of  the  whole,  where- 
upon,  among  other  proceedings,  A.  M.  Elston,  of  Cole,  moved  to 
strike  out  Section  5,  and  insert  in  lieu  thereof  the  following  (page 
363):- 

Sic.  5.  The  Commissioners,  in  selecting  a  site  on  which  to  locate  the  State  Unil- 
Tcnltj,  shall  examine  the  public  grounds  in  the  neighborhood  of  Jefferson  City  and 


'  This  bin  was  drafted  and  introduced  by  J.  S.  Rollins,  of  Boone,  and  Col.  Wm.  F. 
Switxler  has  in  his  possession  the  original  bill  in  Mr.  Rollins'  handwriting,  and 
slso  i  copy  in  his  handwriting  of  that  admirable  and  eloquent  speech  made  by  him  In 
Itrorof  the  passage  of  the  biU,  the  first  set  speech  ever  made  by  him  in  a  legislative 
body.  There  being  no  reporters  at  that  early  day  of  the  legislative  proceedings,  this 
ipeech  was  never  printed. 


244  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COITNTr. 

estimate  the  ralae  of  the  most  saltable  site  thereon,  containing  fortgr  acres,  whidi, 
gether  with  such  sum  as  may  be  subscribed  by  the  people  of  Cole  coonty,  shall  be 
considered  in  connection  with  the  interest  of  the  State  generally  in  snch  location. 

Which  was  decided  in  the  Degative,  after  which  Henry  S.  Greyer,  of 
St.  Louis,  moved  to  amend  by  inserting  after  section  15,  four  addi- 
tional sections,  16, 17,  18  and  19,  which  was  agreed  to;  and  these 
sections  appear  in  the  bill  as  finally  passed. 

Among  the  commissioners  named  in  the  first  section  of  the  bill  was 
the  name  of  John  Thornton,  a  citizen  of  Clay,  which  Mr.  Morris,  of 
Howard,  moved  to  strike  out.  Agreed  to.  Jesse  Morin,  of  Clay, 
moved  to  fill  the  blank  thus  created  with  the  name  of  Peter  H. 
Burnett,  of  Clay ;  Mr.  Young,  of  Callaway,  with  the  name  of  Andrew 
Kobinson,  and  Mr.  Chiles,  of  Jackson,  with  the  name  of  Samuel 
White,  of  Jackson.  Burnett's  name  was  adopted.  Joshua  W. 
Bedman,  of  Howard,  moved  as  an  amendment  that  which  appears  as 
the  twenty-second  section  of  the  law,  and  it  was  agreed  to;  after 
which  the  bill  was  ordered  to  be  engrossed  and  read  a  third  time  the 
next  day.  The  first  item  of  business  noted  in  the  journal  of  the  next 
morning  (Tuesday,  February  5,  1839),  is  that  James  S..  Bollins,  <rf 
Boone,  from  the  Committee  on  Engrossed  Bills,  reported  the  bill  truly 
engrossed. 

On  the  following  day  the  bill  was  taken  up  in  the  House  and  read  a 
third  time,  when  Mr.  Rollins  moved  to  amend,  by  way  of  a  rider,  an 
additional  section,  section  24  of  the  law,  which  was  adopted.  The 
question  then  recurring  on  the  passage  of  the  bill,  Mr.  Morin  called 
for  the  ayes  and  nays,  which  were  ordered,  and  the  bill  passed  as 
follows  (page  385)  :  — 

Aye8  —  Messrs.  R.  £.  Acock,  of  Polk;  Charles  H.  Ashby,  of  Livingston,  David B. 
Atchison,  of  Clay ;  William  Biggs,  of  Pike ;  Joseph  Bogy,  of  St.  Francois ;  George  F. 
Bollinger,  of  Cape  Girardeau;  James  W.  Booth,  of  Pike;  F.  Bradshaw,  of  Stoddard; 
William  Brown,  of  Franklin;  Wilson  Brown,  of  Scott;  John  A.  Bart,  of  CaUawaj; 
George  Barckhardt,  of  Randolph ;  J.  D.  Caldwell,  of  Ralls;  William  Carson,  of  Marion; 
Charles  Carstarphen,  of  Ralls;  Thomas  Caulk,  of  St.  Louis;  F.  R.  Chiles,  of  Franklin; 
Merriwefher  Lewis  Clark,  of  St.  Louis;  John  D.  Coalter,  of  St.  Charles;  John  CorrUl, 
of  Caldwell;  Richard  D.  Cowan,  of  Wayne;  Isaac  Curd,  of  Callaway;  John  H.  Cord, 

of  Marion;  Emerson,  of ;  Benjamin  Emmons,  of  St.  Charles;  John  B. 

Fisher,  of  Morgan;  Simeon  Frost,  of  Crawford;  James  W.  Fulkerson,  of  Johnaan; 
Rufus  FuUerton,  of  Warren;  Henry  S.  Geyer,  of  St.  Louis;  Jonathan  Gore,  of  Monroe; 

S.  Hall,  of  Cooper;  John  W.  Hancock,  of ;  Tyre  Harris,  of  Boone;  David  M. 

Hickman,  of  Boone ;  B.  F.  Hickox,  of  Cooper;  Holliman,  of ;  George  W. 

Huston,  of  Lincoln;  James  Jackson,  of  Audrain;  Thomas  JarreU,  of  St.  Louis;  Myres 
F.  Jones,  of  Washington ;  M.  Kelley,  of  Pike ;  Ellas  Kincheloe,  of  Shelby;  F.  Manning, 
of  Washington;    Llttlebury  Mason,  of  Barry;    Charles  McLean,  of  Randolph;    John 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  245^ 

MDler,  of  Cooper;  Thomas  Hinnts,  of  Carroll;  Joseph  Montgomery,  of  Bollinger; 
Bobeit  Montgomeiyy  of  Palaski;  C.  R.  Morehead,  of  Ray;  George  R.  Netherton,  of 
HewMidrld;  William  N.  Penn,  of  Monroe;  Alexander  Persinger,  of  Boone;  John 
Fblk,  of  Madison ;  Wilson  Primm,  of  St.  Louis ;  William  Richie,  of  Marlon ;  J.  Russell, 
of  Oipe  Glrardean;  John  Sapplngton,  of  St.  Louis;  Jonathan  Smith,  of  Jefferson; 
Tbooas  Watson,  of  Charlton ;  Isaac  Williams,  of  Cape  Glrardean ;  James  Williams,  o£ 
YanBoren,  (now  Henry) ;  Benjamin  Young,  of  Callaway;  James  Young,  of  Lafayette, 
aid  Mr.  Speaker  (Harvey,  of  Saline)  — 67. 

Nats  — Messrs.  Charles  Canole,  of  Howard;  Chesley  Cannefax,  of  Greene;  J.  A. 
OirkiOf  Llnn^  A.  M.  Elston,  of  Cole;  James  Enloe,  of  Cole;  John  D.  Harrison,  of 
QiMoude;  Thos.  Jackson,  of  Howard;  Wm.  R.  Kemp,  of  Pettis;  Jesse  Morln,  of 
Otj;  J.  B.  Morris,  of  Howard;  J.  W.  Redman,  of  Howard;  Jesse  B.  Thompson,  of 
CDntoD,  and  Edward  WUks,  of  Miller  — 11. 

Absent,  Sick  —  Messrs  Hudspeth,  of  Washington ;  Samuel  D.  South,  of  Clark,  and 
JoiuMOD  Bright,  of  Macon  — 8. 

Absent— William  M.  Bowerlng,  of  Lafayette;  J.  A.  Chiles,  of  Jackson;  John  B. 

Gordon, of  Boone; Holman,  of ;  Bernard  Pratt,  of  St.  Louis;  AJddlson 

Bme,  of  Clark,  and  George  B.  Woodson,  of  Rives  (now  Cass)  — 7. 

t 

Owing  to. some  singular  mistake  or  omission  by  the  Chief  Clerk  or 
other  person,  the  following  members  are  not  reported  as  voting  either 
aye  or  nay,  or  as  being  either  sick  or  absent:  James  S.  Rollins,  of 
Booue ;  James  M.  Hughes,  of  Clay  ;  Thomas  Jeffries,  of  Jackson  ; 
BeDJ.  Hunt,  of  Jefferson  ;  M.  M.  Maugbs,  of  Montgomery  ;  Joab  W. 
Borgee,  of  Perry,  and  Alfred  Deatherage,  of  Ripley  —  7,  The  Clerk 
of  the  House  unquestionably  committed  an  error  in  omitting  to  record 
in  the  Journal  the  votes  of  the  last  named  members. 

The  bill,  having  thus  passed  the,  House  (February  6),  was  on  the 
next  day  reported  to  the  Senate,  where  Abraham  Hunter,  of  Scott^ 
mo?ed  to  strike  out  the  words  **  Cooper,  Howard  and  Callaway,** 
.which  was  rejected.  (See  page  306.)  J.  T.  V.  Thompson,  of  Clay, 
moved  to  strike  out  **  Callaway,"  which  was  also  rejected.  Mr.  Thomp- 
son thea  moved  to  amend  the  bill  as  follows : 

Iicfa  and  trerj  coanty  named  in  this  act  shaU  pay,  or  bind  themselves  to  pay,  said 
Mtation,  before  they  are  allowed  to  bid,  the  sum  of  $1,000,  for  the  privilege  granted 
brtblsact. 

John  Miller,  of  Cooper,  offered  to  amend  as  follows : 

The  commissioners  appointed  by  this  act  shall  when  considering  the  location  of  the 
Atte  University,  take  Into  consideration  the  probable  increased  value  of  the  public 
P'oper^  at  the  seat  of  Government,  and  also  how  far  they  consider  the  faith  of  the 
B^f  hj  impUcation  or  otherwise,  is  pledged  for  its  location  at  the  seat  of  Govem- 
neat. 

Which  was  rejected  on  the  first  reading. 


246  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY, 

Wm.  Monroe,  of  Morgan,  offered  to  amend  the  bill  by  way  of  rider 

The  said  commissioners  shall  not  locate  said  institution  at  any  point,  but  shall  mak 
a  report  to  the  next  General  Assembly  setting  forth  the  different  proposals,  wit 
their  opinion  of  the  advantages  and  disadvantages  likely  to  redound  to  the  interest  c 
the  State  in  acceptance  of  the  different  propositions. 

Which  was  rejected  as  follows  :  — 

Ayes. —  Messrs.  Daniel  Ashby,  of  Chariton;  Wm.  M.  Campbell,  of  St.  Charles 

John  Conger,  of ;  J.  F.  Danforth,  of ;  John  F.  Darby,  of  St.  LoqIb 

Francis  Deguire,  of ;  Joshua  Gentry,  of ;  Cornelius  Gilliam,  of  Platte 

Thomas  J.  Gorham,  of  Randolph; Glasscock,  of ;  Thornton  Grimsle7,c 

St.  Louis;  Frederick  Hyatt,  of  St.  Louis;  David  Jones,  of  Cooper;  James  Jones,  c 
Pike;  Thomas  C.  Maupin,  of  Boone;   Wm.  McDaniel,  of  Marion;  Jessie  H.  McDvali 

of  Washington ;  Josiah  Morin,  of ;  Smallwood  V.  Nolan,  of  Jackson ;  Georg 

Penn,  of  Saline ;  Peter  R.  Pratt,  of  Ste.  Genevieve ;  Charles  R.  Scott,  of  Howard 

David  Sterlgere,  of ;  A.  W.  Turner,  of  Boone ;  J.  T^  V.  Thompson,  of  Claj 

Henry  Watts,  of ;  —  26. 

Nays.  —  Messrs.  Johnson  H.  Alford,  of ;   Abraham  Bird,*  of 

Abraham  Hunter,  of  Scott;  George  W.  Miller,  of  Cole;  William  Monro,  of  Morgu 
Joseph  Montgomery,  of ,  and  Owen  Rawlins,  of  Howard  —7. 

Mr.  Penn  offered  to  amend,  by  way  of  rider,  add  Saline  after  Ca 
lawav  in  second  section,  which  was  read  three  several  times.  Tl 
question.  Shall  the  bill,  together  with  the  rider,  pass?  was  decide 
affirmatively,  as  follows  :  — 

Ayes  —  Messrs.  .Wm.  M.  Campbell,  of  St.  Charles;  John  F.  Darby,  of  St.  Loni 

J.  F.  Danforth,  of ;  Francis  Deguire,  of ;  Joshua  Gentry,  of  Marion;  C( 

nelius  Gilliam,  of  Platte;  Glasscock,  of ;  Thomas  J.  Gorham,  of  Randolp 

Thornton  Grimsley,  of  St.  Louis;  Frederick  Hyatt,  of  St.  Louis;  David  Jones, 
Cooper;  James  Jones,  of  Pike;  Thomas  C.  Maupin,  of  Boone;  Wm.  McDaniel, 

Marion;  Jesse  H.  Mcllvain,  of  Washington;  Josiah  Morin,  of  ;  Smallwood 

Nolan,  of  Jackson;  George  Penn,  of  Saline;  Peter  R.  Pratt,  of ;  A.  W.  Tumi 

of  Boone;  J.  T.  V.  Thompson,  of  Clay,  and  Henry  Watts,  of  .    Total— 22. 

Nays  —  Messrs.  Johnson  H.  Alford,  of ;  Abraham  Byrd,  of ;  John  Congi 

of ;  Abraham  Hunter,  of  Scott;  G.  W.  Miller,  of  Cole;  Wm.  Monroe, of  Morga 

Joseph  Montgomery,  of  ;   Owens  Rawlins,  of   Howard;  Charles  P.  Scott, 

Howard,  and  David  Sterlgere,  of .    Total —  11. 

So  the  bill  from  the  House  passed  the  Senate  with  a  single  amen< 
ment,  namely,  adding  Saline  after  Callaway,  and  went  to  the  Hou! 
for  its  concurrence,  where  it  was  taken  up  immediately  and  concurn 
in.     (See  page  396.) 

THE   LAW   TO   SELECT   A   SITE   FOR   THE   STATE   UNIVERSITY. 

(See  session  acts  1838,  pp.  184,  185,  186,  187.) 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  247 

On  January  11,  1839,  Mr.  Geyer,  of  8t.  Louis,  from  the  House 

Committee  on  Eklucation,  to  whom  was  referred  the  subject  of  a  State 

Uoivenity  and  for  the  government  of  colleges  and  academies,  reported 

a  bill  to  provide  for  the  care  and  management  of  the  seminary  fund, 

and  for  the   organization  of  the  State  University,  definition  of  its 

potrers,  etc.  (see  page  210),  which  was  referred  to  the  Committee  of 

the  Whole,  and  which,  after  due  consideration  and  debate,  was  passed  — 

ajes,  44;  nays,  31.     (See  page  397.)     This  bill  was  taken  up  in  the 

Senate  on  February  9,  and  passed  without  calling  the  ayes  and  nays 

(seepage  327), and  can  be  found  in  the  session  acts  of  1838,  page  174. 

This  act,  drafted  by  Henry  S.  Geyer,  of  St.  Louis,  a  distinguished 

lawyer  and  afterwards  United  States  Senator,  was  very  elaborate, 

oonsiatiug  of  five  articles,  and  provided  for  colleges  and  academies  in 

different  parts  of  the  State,  to  be  connected  with  the  State  University, 

aodto  be  under  the  visitorial  power  of  its  curators. 

This  idea  of  a  State  University,  with  branches  and  subordinate  in- 
stitutions scattered  over  the  State,  was  a  favorite  one  with  many 
distinguished  men  in  the  earlier  history  of  the  country,  and  was  placed 
upon  the  statute  book  of  several  of  the  States  ;  but  the  plan  was  found 
oimbrons,  and  too  unwieldy  to  be  carried  into  practice,  and  was  aban- 
doned wherever  projected. 

00NORE88  AUTHORIZES    THE   SALE   OF     THE     SEMINARY  LANDS,    AND   ON 
DECEMBER  20,  1838,  THE  AUDITOR  REPORTS  THEIR  SALE. 

The  eighth  section  of  '*  an  act  to  create  the  office  of  surveyor  of 
public  lands  for  the  State  of  Louisiana,"  passed  by  Congress  and  ap- 
proYed  March  3,  1831,  authorizes  the  Legislature  of  Missouri  to  sell 
the  seminary  lands  **  and  to  invest  the  money  arising  from  the  sale 
thereof  in  some  productive  fund,  the  proceeds  of  which  shall  be  for- 
ever applied  by  the  Legislature  of  said  State,  solely  to  the  use  of 
such  seminary,  and  for  no  other  use  or  purpose  whatsoever,"  as 
follows :  — 

Sic.  6.  And  be  U  further  enacted^  That  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Missouri  be, 
SBd  is  hereby  authorized  to  sell  and  convey  in  fee  simple  all  or  any  part  of  the  lands 
^tofore  reserved  and  appropriated  by  Congress  for  the  use  of  the  Seminary  of  learning 
b  Hid  State,  and  to  invest  the  money  arising  from  the  sale  thereof  in  some  produc- 
ttre  fuDd,  the  proceeds  of  which  shall  be  forever  applied  by  the  Legislature  of  said 
State,  solely  to  the  use  of  such  Seminary,  and  for  no  other  use  or  purpose  whatso- 
erer. 


248 


HISTORY  OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 


SALE   OF  SEMINARY  LANDS. 

During  the  session  of  the  Legislature  of  1838-39,  the  Senate  passed 
a  resolution  calling  on  Hiram  H.  Baber,  Auditor,  for  a  tabular 
statement  showing  the  number  of  acres  of  seminary  lands  sold  at 
the  several  land  districts  in  each  year,  since  the  commencement  of 
the  sales  of  said  lands,  and  also  the  number  of  acres  remaining 
unsold  in  each  district,  to  which  on  December  20,  1838,  he  replied 
as  follows :  — 

(See  Senate  Journal,  page  135.) 

# 

Namber  of  acres  selected  for  the  Western  District,  84,252.14.  Amount  sold  in 
Western  District :  — 


1881. 
1882. 
18:^8. 


Acres. 


80.00 

16,882.66 

9,645.01 


1884 

1885. 

1887. 


Acres. 


8,121^ 

8,688.22 

720.00 


Total  number  of  acres  sold..... 

**      unsold 


« 


«( 


84,081.02 
220.4S 


Number  of  acres  selected  for  the  Salt  River  District,  2,922.78.    Amount  sold  in  Salt 
River  District :  — 


Acres. 

Acres. 

1881 

1,402.67 
655.46 

From  December,  1888,  to  Jan- 
uarv.  1887 

1888* 

627.84 

Total  number  acres  sold ^ 

2,685.81 

"          "         "     unsold 

107^ 

Number  of  acres  selected  for  the  Cape  Girardeau  District,  8,876.80.    Amount  sold  in 
Cape  Girardeau  District :  — 


1888. 

1884 

1885. 


Acres. 


906.14 

1,249.88 

986.98 


1836. 
1837. 
1888. 


Acres. 


585.08 

1.428.96 

28a68 


Total  number  acres  sold..., 
"         "     unsold. 


(( 


5,845.60 
8,081.80 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY,  249 

Thus  making  the  whole  number  of  acres  selected  in  the  three  dis- 
tricts 45,421.67,  of  which  39»484.51  had  been  sold,  leaving  unsold 
5,937.16. 

About  25,000  acres  of  these  lands,  more  than  half  of  the  whole 

number,  were  located  in  Jackson  County,  and  were  among  the  most 

fertile  and  valuable  lands  in  the  State.     Previous  to  the  land  sales  at 

which  they  were  offered  combinations  among  the  settlers  were  made, 

Dotonly  to  prevent  non-residents  or  speculators  from  purchasing  them,. 

but  to  prevent  them  from  bringing  anything  above  the  Government 

price;  and  these  combinations,  by  threats  and  by  force,  effected  their 

object,  and  in  doing  so  deprived  the  seminary  fund  of  at  least  $50,000* 

The  lands  were,  at  the  time  of  the  sales,  worth,  and  would  have  brought, 

$5,  $8  and  $10  per  acre,  and  are  now  worth  at  least  $20,  but  the  com» 

binatioDS  threatened  with  violence  any  man  who  would  bid  more  than 

the  Government  price  for  them.     A  gentleman  from  Virginia  by  the 

name  of  West  attended  the  sales  with  a  large  sum  of  money  to  invest 

mthe  lands,  learning  which,  the  home  land  ring  forcibly  put  him  in 

jail  or  other  place  of  confinement,  threatening  his  life  if  he  bid  at  the 

Biles,  but  informing  him  that  if  he  desired  a  few  pieces  of  land  and 

would  give  them  their  numbers,  and  none  of  the  settlers  wanted  thero^ 

they  would  bid  them  in  for  him.     Mr.  West  sought  redress  of  John 

F.  Byland,  Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court,  and  he  was  disposed  to  grant 

it  to  the  extent  of  his  authority,  but  the  land  mob  threatened  to 

confine  him   with   West  if   he   attempted   to   do   anything   in   the 

premises.     The    combination    thus    overawed    all    outside    bidders 

and  the  civil  authorities,   and  procured   titles   to  the   richest  land 

in  the  State  at  thousands   and   tens  of  thousands   of  dollars  less 
than  their  value. 

THE  SEMINARY  LANDS  SELECTED. 

We  are  indebted  to  the  courtesy  of  Hon.  N.  C.  McFarlaud,  Com* 
nissioner  of  the  General  Land  Office,  June  15,  1882,  and  the  kind 
offices  of  Hon.  F,  M.  Cockerell,  United  States  Senator  from  Mis- 
souri, for  the  following  list  of  lands  selected  by  the  commissioners 
appointed  by  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  Missouri  for  the  purpose 
of  selecting  seventy-two  sections,  under  the  act  of  Congress  of  the 
Mth  of  January,  1827,  entitled  **  An  Act  concerning  the  selection  of 
^rtain  lands  heretofore  granted  by  compact  to  the  State  of  Missouri 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTT. 


for  seminaries  of  learning,"  which  eaid  selection  is  made  a 
quest  of  the  Honorable  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of  tb 
States :  — 


Duariptionot  Tncta. 

SacUoD. 

^r- 

^T- 

3.. 

« 

2B 
S3 
82 
81 
8 
8 
12 
18 
21 
19 
20 
29 
80 
17 
83 
82 
27 
8G 
81 
86 
26 
20 

se 

84 
13 
24 
10 
15 
21 
20 
14 
11 
28 
3 
2 
1 
~    4 
17 
9 
8 
11 
2 
8 
10 
15 
21 
22 
17 
20 
4 
9 
19 
2S 
23 

61 
hi 
Gl 
61 
50 
50 
GO 
60 
60 
50 
60 
50 
60 
60 
60 
50 
60 
60 
60 
50 
50 
GO 
60 
60 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
40 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
49 
50 
60 

80 
80 
80 
80 
80 
80 

81 
81 
81 
81 
88 
88 
82 
82 
82 
82 
82 
82 
82 
82 
82 
82 
■  32 
32 
82 
82 
32 

sa 

32 

82 
82 
82 

83 
88. 
88 
83 
83 
83 

88 
88 
83 
S3 
88 
29 
29 

640 

640 

640 

640 

629.56 

621.84 

640 

640 

640 

642.88 

640 

640 

640.01 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

040 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

655.19 

493.48 

648.47 

656.72 

640 

640 

640 

640 

648.89 

64B.02 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

640 

647.01 

640 

672.62 

640 

Hi} 
Raj 

Baj 
Kaj 

Mi  ol. 

All  of. 

Jac 

J« 

All  of 

All  of. 

Jac 

Jm 

Eut  half  and  n.  w.  quulei 
All  of. 

Allof._ 

Jac 
Jac 

Jac 

Jaci 
JacI 
Jac' 
Jac' 

a. 

All  of. 

HIBTORT  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


251 


LIST  OV  BBMOTART  LANDS  —  OonHnued. 


All  of. 

All  of. 

All  of. 

All  of. 

All  ot 

All  ot , 

All  of      , 

Allot , 

All  of. , 

AU  of. , 

AH  ot : , 

Allot 

All  of 

Allot , 

All  ot , 

FnctioDml 

Fnctional 

K.W.  fractional  quarter^ 

K.S.qaarter... 

8.  B.  fractiona]  quarter... 

8.  W.  quarter  of:. 

N.  W.  quarter  of. 

All  ot...... 


12 
8 
18 
24 
25 
86 
1 

12 

18 

21 

80 

81 

27 

5 

15 

1 

2 

81 

86 

25 

25 

86 

1 


84 
84 
84 
27 
27 
27 
26 
26 
26 
29 
25 
25 
24 
61 
56 
52 
52 
61 
61 
61 
61 
61 
29 


HE. 

11 

<« 

12 

<« 

18 

«< 

18 

<« 

18 

<« 

18 

<« 

18 

<« 

18 

it 

14 

«< 

14 

«< 

14 

tt 

14 

<« 

6  W. 

5 

1 

1 

5 

6 

6 

6 

•• .' 

6 

14  E.   1 

640 
680.67 
680.67 
684.85 
624.61 
619.71 
608.64 
717.04 
706.85 
640 
476.85 
640.85 
640 
590.14 
640 
808.41 
559.48 
96.15 
160 
125.49 
160 
160 


Perry. 

Perry. 

Perry. 

Scott. 

Scott 

Scott 

Seott 

Scott 

Scott 

Scott 

New  Madrid. 

New  Madrid. 

New  Madrid. 

Lewis. 

Rallf. 

Pike. 

Pike. 

Lewis. 

Lewis. 

Lewis. 

Lewis. 

Lewis. 

Scott 


Total  number  of  acres 45,299.15 

NoTB.— By  reference  to  the  above  it  will  bc^^een  that  by  selecting  ft*actional  sections 
(iQoiiung  other  lands  selected,  however),  the  quantity  selected  exceeds  the  aggregate  of 
NT«Dtf-two  fiill  sections  by  about  seventy-five  acres.  If  this  excess  shall  be  deemed  mate- 
rial,  it  ii  wished  that  it  may  be  taken  off  the  west  half  of  the  northwest  quarter  of  section 
16^  township  61,  range  6  (Lewis  county). 

CXBTIFICATX  OV  THS  OOYERNOR  OV  MISSOUBL 

EZSCUTIYE  DSPABTMSNT,  -i 

CiTT  or  JxfTXRSON,  March  25,  1828.  / 

I,  John  Miller,  Gk>vemor  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  do  hereby  certify  that  the  above  list 
ii  comet,  representing  the  several  tracts  of  land  selected  under  the  above  recited  act  of 
^Vmgrw  and  according  to  the  request  of  the  honorable  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of 
tlM  United  States  of  the  21st  August  1827.  This  is  a  full  report  of  the  lands  selected,  in- 
cluding those  comprehendecT  in  the  report  of  the  28th  January,  1828,  then  made  to  the 
bononble  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury.  JOHN  MILLER. 

To  the  Hon.  Richard  Rush,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States. 

The  selections  above  reported  are  approved,  with  the  exception  of  section  1,  township 

^'.nmgell 

Approved,  with  the  excepUon  of  section  1,  township  29,  range  14. 

R.RUSH. 
TuAsuar  Dspabtmbbtt,  June  6,  1828. 


THE   FIRST   BOARD   OP   CURATORS. 


Among  other  things,  the  bill  provided  that  the  number  of  cura- 
^fs  should  be  fifteen,  who  should  be  chosen  by  joint  vote  of 
^e  Senate   and  House  of  Representatives,   and  should   hold   their 


252  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

offices  for  two  years,  and   until  their  successors  were  duly  electa 
and  qualified. 

On  Saturday,  February  9,  1839,  Mr.  Coalter,  of  St.  Charles,  inti: 
duced  a  concurrent  resolution  in  the  House,  providing  that  the  tii 
Houses  will  meet  in  the  hall  of  the  House  on  Monday  next  ensuia 
at  2  o'clock  p.  M.,  for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  superintendent 
public  schools  and  fifteen  curators  of  the  University,  which  passe 
(See  page  430.)  The  Senate  concurring,  the  two  Houses  met  pu 
suant  to  the  resolution,  and  after  the  election  of  Peter  G.  Glover, 
Cole  County,  superintendent  of  common  schools,  proceeded  to  tl 
election  of  curators. 

Mr.  Young,  of  Lafayette,  (page  443)  nominated  Messrs.  T.  M.  Alh 
and  EliE.  Bass,  of  Boone  County,  I.  O.  Hockaday  and  John  A.  He 
derson,  of  Callaway,  John  J.  Lowry  and  Roland  Hughes,  of  Howai 
County ;  Thomas  A.  Smith  and  M.  M.  Marmaduke,  of  Saline  ;  Georj 
C.  Hart  and  Gabriel  Tutt,  of  Cooper ;  Wm.  Scott  and  R.  W.  Well 
of  Cole  County ;  Josiah  Spaulding,  of  St.  Louis ;  Thomas  Allen, 
Ray ;  David  Weir,  of  St.  Clair  County,  for  the  office  of  curators  of  tl 
State  University. 

Mr.  Penn,  of  the  Senate,  moved  to  strike  out  the  name  of  Rolai 
Hughes  and  insert  in  lieu  thereof  that  of  Abiel  Leonard,  which  w: 
rejected,  and  there  being  no  other  nominees,  they  were  selected  \ 
yeas  and  nays  —  yeas  91,  nays  1 — Mr.  Redman  of  Howard. 

THE   CONTEST  FOR   THE   UNIVERSITY   IN    1839. 

The  question  of  the  location  of  the  University  being  remitted  1 
the  act  of  the  General  Assembly,  heretofore  quoted,  to  the  people 
the  several  counties  named  in  said  act,  the  subject  at  once  awakenc 
the  liveliest  interest  in  several  of  them  —  notably  in  Boone,  Callawi 
and  Howard.  A  most  remarkable  contest  ensued  to  secure  the  pro 
fered  boon  by  newspaper  articles,  public  meetings  and  public  speeche 
and  the  importunities  and  personal  solicitations  of  numerous  canvassii 
committees,  the  liberality  and  county  pride  of  the  people  were  stirri 
to  their  profoundest  depths. 

The  history  of  no  new  or  sparsely  settled  State  in  the  Union  affbn 
a  parallel  to  the  general  enthusiasm  and  public  spirit  which  we; 
awakened  on  the  subject  of  education  during  this  contest. 

In  Boone  County,  which  then  had  a  population  of  less  than  14,0(X 
and  doubtless  the  same  remark  is  true  of  the  other  counties  where  s 
earnest  effort  was  made  to  secure  the  location,  all  business  for  tl 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTT,  258 

time  was  measurably  suspended.  Canvassing  committees  made  per- 
sonal visits,  in  many  instances  oft-repeated,  to  every  citizen,  taking 
sabscriptibns  of  money  ranging  in  amounts  from  one  dollar  to  three 
thousand  dollars. 

And  it  is  also  worthy  of  special  mention,  as  a  remarkable  instance 
of  liberality  in   a  new  State,   that  one  of  the  two   three  thousand 
dollar  subscriptions,  which  were  the  largest  given,   was  made   by 
£dward  Camplin,  a  man  who   could  neither  read  nor  write.    The 
Goonty  of  Boone,  in  addition  to  the  action  of  individual  citizens  above 
referred  to,  was  thoroughly  canvassed  by  a  number  of  the  best  speakers 
and  most  ardent  friends  of  education  residing  in  the  county.     The 
Hon.  Jas.  S.  Rollins,  being  the  author  of  the  bill  providing  for  the 
location  of  the  institution,  and  the  most  eloquent  and  earnest  cham- 
pion for  its  passage  by  the  General  Assembly,  led  the  way,  and  with 
the  powerful  aid  of  the  Hon.  John  B.  Gordon,  one  of  the  strongest 
speakers  in  the  State ;  Sinclair  Kirtley,  Esq.,  a  prominent  member  of 
the  bar  of  Columbia ;  Warren  Woodson,  Clerk  of  the  County  Court ; 
James  M.  Gordon,  a  young  attorney  of  the  Columbia  bar ;  William 
CorDeiius,^a  good  speaker  and  prominent  merchant  of  Columbia,  and 
others  equally  zealous,  attended  and  addressed  a  great   number  of 
meeting  held  in  every  part  of  the  county,  from  the  Gmnd  Prairie  on 
the  north  (then  almost  wholly  unsettled),  to  the  Missouri  River  and 
to  the  mouth  of  Cedar  Creek  on  the  south  and  east,  appealing  to  the 
people  by  every  possible  argument  that  could  influence  them  to  do  all 
in  their  power,  and  not  permit  the  opportunity  to  escape  of  securing, 
the  great  prize  of  the  location  of  a  university  in  their  midst.     No 
such  important  question  was  ever  before  or  has  since  been  presented 
to  the  voters  of  the  county.     Here  was  an  institution  intended  to  last 
forever,  and  if  properly  maintained,  as  provided  for  in  the  Constitution 
bj  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State,  its  influence  and   teachings 
upon  the  social,  mofal  and  intellectual  culture  and  elevation  of  the 
people  and  their  posterity,  not  only  of  the  county,  but  of  the  entire 
State,  will  last  as  long  as  the  Government  itself.     With  an  apprecia- 
tive people  this  was  a  prize  worth  contending  for.     Under  the  bill 
above  referred  to  the  contest  was  to  be  short,  sharp  and  decisive.     It 
vas  most  ably  conducted,  and  the  inhabitants  of  the  county,  although 
then  sparse  and  generally  in  moderate  circumstances,  responded  to 
the  appeals  made  to  them  in  the  most  liberal  and  enlightened  manner. 
■ftey  set  an  example  for  their  posterity  worthy  of  imitation  through- 
out all  the  ages  that  are  to  follow. 


HIBTOBT  OP  BOONE   COUNTT. 


d^^^^^g%" 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 


255 


In  this  contest  there  were  a  number  of  noted  instances  of  effort  and 
liberality  worthy  of  mention.  Dr.  Anthony  Wayne  Rollins,  having- 
no  property  interest  at  the  county  seat,  residing  on  his  farm  in 
the  extreme  western  part  of  the  county,  midway  between  Columbia 
and  Ffiyette,  on  the  Howard  County  line,  took  charge  of  the  entire 
cooQtywest  of  the  Perche  Creek,  to  the  mouth  of  the  Moniteau,  em- 
bracing Missouri  and  Perche  Townships.  He  was  the  largest  sub- 
scriber in  that  district  for  the  location  of  the  university  in  Boone 
County,  and  by  his  assiduity,  energy  and  vigilance,  he  obtained,  with 
the  aid  of  others,  a  large  subscription  from  that  part  of  the  county,  and 
lon^  afterwards  evinced  great  interest  in  the  cause  of  popular  and 
higher  education,  by  making  liberal  provision  out  of  his  not  large 
estate,  for  the  benefit  of  meritorious  and  indigent  youths,  male  and 
female,  who  might  have  the  desire  as  well  as  the  talent,  energy  and 
ambition  to  obtain  a  college  education. 

The  contest  closed  by  the  people  of  Boone  County  voluntarily  sub- 
scribing in  money  and  in  lands  the  large  sum  of*  $117,900,  for  the 
location  of  the  institution,  which  was  a  gift  to  the  people  of  the  State» 
and  to  their  honor  let  it  be  said  and  forever  remembered,  that  not  one 
doUar  of  this  sum  was  ever  repudiated,  but  the  whole  collected  and 
appropriated  for  the  benefit  of  the  Public  School  Fund  of  the  State  as 
provided  in  the  Constitution  of  the  State. 

THE   SUBSCRimON   LISTS. 

The  following  is  a  copy,  alphabetically  arranged,  of  all  subscriptions 
made  in  Boone  County  above  $100  to  secure  the  location  of  the  Uni- 
versity, the  publishers  being  compelled,  for  lack  of  space,  to  omit  the 
complete  list :  — 

We,  the  ondersigned,  whose  names  are  hereto  subscrlbedi  agree  and  bind  ourselves 
topajto  the  State  of  Missouri  the  sum  opposite  our  names;  one-half  In  one  and  the 
^>>laDce  lo  two  years  from  the  first  day  of  June,  1839,  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  the  State 
UnirereUy,  provided  that  It  is  located  In  Boone  County. 


SUMS 
51MKS.  SUBSCRIBED. 

Anderson,  H.  A $100  00 

Allen,  Thomas  M ^  600  00 

Arnold,  T.  T 200  00 

Arnold   James 100  00 

Armstrong,  Abner  £ 100  00 

Arnold,  M.  R. 260  00 


B. 

SUMS 

NAMES.  SUBSCRIBED. 

Bass,  Eli  E $8,000  00 

Bonnett,  J.  H 1,500  00 

Bradford,  Austin 400  00 

Berry,  Benjamin 100  00 

Beasly,  James 100  00 

Branham,  B.  0 600  OO 


HISTOBT  OF   BOONE   CODNTT. 


HAUKS.  SDBaCKtBED. 

•BrjKn,  Littleton $860  00 

BraTiham,  C.C - -  100  00 

Beuttie.Mary. ~  100  00 

BonduTBnl,  C«leb 100  00 

B«ttertoD.  John 100  00 

BuclilBj,  ThoTOM ~  20000 

BMnw.  JftHies.                      100  00 

Biker,  John  H 100  00 

B&mei,  Benjamin.  10000 

B»rr,  Robert  S.                        ..-  1,07700 

Bui.  Liiivrence,..                   ■■—  800  00 

B«ker.  UoMa....  10000 

Banu,  Philip....  100  00 

Brown,  JoBoph 160  00 

Brown,  James  R. '-iOOOO 

BUck.  Reuben  D 200  00 

Bry«n,J.H.4Co 1,000  00 

O. 

CuTti*.  Fielding. - 100  00 

Carnplin,  Edward —  3.000  00 

Conwnj  Francis  P              100  00 

Crumbsugh,   Henrj 200  00 

Curtis.  NeUoti.                 800  00 

Cromwell,  RithBrd 200  00 

€otton,JohnJ 20000 

ChHudler,  Jaraea 100  00 

■Cowan,  Andrew -  1»  M 

■Crockett,  Samuel 100  00 

ClMk,  Bichard..                  100  00 

Cunningham,  Jflinea  L 100  00 

Cave,  WilliBm  S.            150  00 

Cunningham,  John 200  00 

Cochran,  Robert. 100  00 

Cochran,  William -  100  00 

Copelftnd.John,8r. 10000 

Curtis,  Nelion 350  00 

Carter.  Nelson 800  00 

Comeliufc  Milton -  100  00 

Comeliua.  William 1,000  00 

Conley,  Benjamin -  200  00 

Cftve,E.H lOOOO 

D. 

Daniel,  Turner  R 200  00 

Davis,  John 200  00 

Dunn,  Jaa IWOO 

:l>ala.  Jesse.                      160  00 

roiiglai.,"W                   100  00 

Davenport,  Abralmm 125  00 

Donnally,  JW               10000 

Duncan,  William  a 850  00 


.  $81 


Eatei,  BerkUf. 

Bates,  Joseph -  21 

Ellii,  John -  1< 

Evane.  SUphen  U H 

Ea»iy,  Edward » 

F. 

Penton,  Caleb H 

Ferguson,  Jsrtftt 21 

Finley,   Filander         I( 

Ferguson,  John.           -  2' 

Fowler,  Joseph...         ._. 1( 

Field,  John  H. ." M 

a. 

Gordon,  Qeorge  W 20 

Uordon,  DbtIcI,,.            Ml 

Gordon,  Jnmei  SI            16 

GenUy,  R,  H..  26 

Guitar,  John.  1,00 

George,  William  N 16 

Gentry,  0.  P _ 26 

Grant.  Thomas  D -  30 

Glenn.  Aleiander -  10 

Qriffy,  EdwardB...  W 

Gmhsm,  R.  M...                     ....  10 

Grout,  Runie!,..  16 

Qosline,  William 10 

Gordon,  John  B 30 

H. 

Hickman.  D.  N -  20 

Eapden,  Richard 10< 

Henderson,  John 101 

Hill.  John  T. aw 

Haden,  J.  H 101 

IIick=.YmmeE -  60( 

Hickman,  William  T 10( 

Harris.  James.            -  101 

Hockaday.P  B...                   20C 

Hopper  James lOt 

Hickman.  Joseph  W- IOC 

Howard,  Joseph  B 1,760 

Uuilon,  William  B 160 

Hitrrif.  John  W, - 100 

Hamilton,  F.  A 800 

Harris,  Caleb  K. 400 

Hitt.  William  Y 800 

Uiokmrin,    R IOC 

Hannah,  Andrew IGC 

Henry.  J.  T 20( 

Hannah,  Samuel 16( 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 


Hudnx,  SamiMl 

ffictam,  <:flor(,'o  L_... 
Euiue,  Ue«rge. 

BustLB 

Hirdln,  Hunok 

...._      100  00 

100  00 

100  00 

KiOOO 

Hudth,  SMOUd 

J. 
Jolu»o^  Klijrf, 

JoblHlOD,  NoKh    S. 

10000 

200  00 

100  00 

J»nU,WillUm. 

J««1U.  Bojta 

MDWd,J.K 

IMaj,  Sincltur. 

l.HTOOO 

lOOOO 

100  00 

....p      150  00 

SojkwtWI,  J«cob 

iintJamea 

inooo 

100  00 

K^DDU,  Samuel. 
K«ai<.John6. 

10000 
100  00 
100  00 

^Men  H.   . 

100  0(1 

Ki-kbriJe,  .lo.julhttn 

500  00 

KtmM.JohQA 

_      15000 

Wir.WilliKt.  B 

Wplon,  Julin... 

Wpton,  JoihuB... 

lJ«nli,Monl.  P..._ 

I'Mir,  W.R 

l«»erj.Ji»ro8i8 

100  00 

..._     10000 

..  _      10000 

200  00 

125  00 

-      100  00 

Lin[)h,,rohnH 

l-mplon.  Williim 

...;..     8W00 

Win«,D.8i,L.P.L.,4D.S.L.  2.000  00 


ll«WiMn,J»m«»L 100  00 

Win,  John.  _  2SOO0 

"tClintock,  Jobn 150  00 

"ilUr,  ThomM _ 200  00 

"•"P^WillUm «000 

IT 


BUMS 
MAUSS.  «  SUBSCRIBKD. 

Maupin,  T.  C _  200  00 

HcBaine,  Turner 100  00 

Msrnej',  Amui 60000 

Marrell,  Simuel 200  00 

McAfee,  R.  L _  200  00 

N. 

Northcutl,  Oeoige _ 600  00 

NelBon,  J.L „ IBO  00 

NBlion,J.O 10000 

N.)rU.n,  JoshUH _ 10000 

Northcutt,  IJeojurain  F 260  00 

Nichols,  Robert _  100  00 

Northcutl,  T  H _  100  00 

NelM>n,JohnT i 100  00 

Nelson,  Robert. 10000 

Northcutl,  Joiepb „      10000 

Northcutl,  WiUlam,  Sr 800  00 

Nichols,  Imdi _ 60000 

Northcutt,  Bli 160  00 

O. 

0'Ra«r,B.  0 15000 

O'Baar,  Jeremiah - 100  00 

Oibum,  Jobn „ 800  00 

P. 

Purks,  Levi _     20000 

Payne,  N..ah 100  00 

Piirk.  Allen.                            100  00 

Piirker,  Olivtr 2,200  00 

I'aofl,  John       _  100  00 

Purker,  John.                      800  00 

Palmer,  Jas 100  00 

Powers,  Tbos.  E „  200  00 

Payne.  Moses  U  1,250  00 

I'rather,  Thomfts 200  00 

ParainKSr,  Alexander 200  00 

Parks.  Price  R.                   100  00 

Phillips  niruin          -  60000 

Puckman,  Jalin  B— lot  806,  in 
Oulumbift. 

Prewitt,  Mo« 1,600  00 

Pnivines,  WilUnm JOO  00 

Peebels,  A.  L 16000 

Peebels,  Carey  — lot  No.  10   in 
RocheporL 

B. 

Rollins,  James  8 2,000  00 

Richanjson,  James 600  00 

Rollio*.  Anthony  W _  1,600  00 

Rogers,  Frank _ 80000 


258 


HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 


SUMS. 
NAMES.  ««  SUBSCRIBED. 

Beady,  Henry  H 500  00 

Robnett,W.  C 400  00 

Ridgway,  Williinn  100  00 

Robnett,  Pleasant 800  00 

Rowland,  William 250  00 

Riggs,  Zadock 100  00 

Riggs,  Silas 100  00 

Roberto,  William  M .' 100  00 

Rogers,  Washington 100  00 

Rogers,  James 100  00 

Robinson,  S.  S 100  00 

Rollins,  Robert  liodes 160  00 

S. 

Searcy.  Lemuel  B 100  00 

Shields,  W^illiam  —  40  acres  of 
land. 

Stone,  Madison  D 100  00 

Samuel,  G.  W 10000 

Stone.William  W 100  00 

Stone,  Nathan 100  00 

Snell,  Richard  D 200  00 

Sprinkle,  Charles 200  00 

Smith,  Henry 200  00 

Sutton,  Seneca 100  00 

Spence;  Andrtw 200  00 

Slack,  John 160  00 

Smith,  William 100  00 

Stone,  Caleb  8 400  00 

Stone,  Caleb,  Sr 100  00 

Selby,  Thomas 400  00 

Sanford.  W. T.  B 10000 

T. 

Turner,  A.  W 1.500  00 

Todd,  David 800  00 

Toalson,   William 100  00 

Tuttle,  John 600  00* 

Tuttle,  Gilpin  S 200  00 

Turner,  James        100  00 

Turner,  J.  B 100  00 

Turner,  Thomas 100  00 


SUMS 
NAMES.  SUBSCBH 

Turner,  Jesse 85 

Tamer,  James 10 

Turner,  Benjamin 10 

Thomas,  R.  8 60 

Truilt,W.  S 60 

Todd,  R.N.  — 6  lots  and «  20 

^riggt  Joseph 20 

Todd,  W.  B 10 

Turner,  Enoch 20 

V. 

Van  Doren,  Luther  H.  V 26< 

Vallandingham,  James 10 

Vandyke,  Milton 60i 

Vanhorn,  John 25' 

Vallandingham,  Mathenas  —  lot 

68  in  Columbia  and... 10< 

Vivian,  J.  G KX 

W. 

Woodson,  Warren 1,26< 

Wilson,  James  C 16< 

Winn,  John 10< 

Wade,  Pierce ^  10( 

Wilson,  .T.  W 80( 

Wil8on,N.W 50( 

Woods,  J.  H 60( 

Wilson,  Mrs.  C.  U 26( 

West,  William 10( 

Ware,  John 15( 

West,  James  M 10( 

Wall,  Samuel 60( 

Wilcox,  Geo.  H 10( 

Wilcox,  Edwin  R IOC 

Wilcox,  Joseph 10( 

Waters,  Joseph 10( 

Woods,  Joseph  D 10( 

Wilhite,  Stephen 10( 

Woolfolk,  John „  10( 

Wilcox,  Lucy 80( 

Wingo,  Thomas 10( 


The  amount  hid  hy  Boone  County,  land  and  money,  was  $117, 
Callaway,  $1)6,000;  Howard,  $94,000;  Cooper,  $40,000;  Cole, 
000.     Saline  County  did  not  enter  the  contest. 


THB    UNIVERSITY   LOCATED    AT    COLUMBIA. 

The  law  provided,  as  we  have  seen,  that  the  five  commissi^ 
should  meet  in  the  City  of  Jeflferson  on  the  first  Monday  of  June, ! 


HISTORY  OF  BOONB   GOUNTT.  259 

t 

and  thereafter  at  such  times  as  they  might  appoint  at  the  county 

seat  of  each  county  mentioned ,  to  receive  conveyances  of  land  and 

subscriptions  of  money,  to  be  void  if  the  University  was  not  located 

at  the  county  seat  of  the  county  in  which  they  were  made.     After 

visiting  all  the  county  seats  and  receiving  bids  the  commissioners  were 

to  return  to  the  seat  of  government  and  open  the  bids;  '*and  the 

place  presenting  most  advantages  to  be  derived  to  said  University^ 

keeping  in  view  the  amount   subscribed,  and'  locality   and  general  .^ 

advanbiges,  shall  be  entitled  to  its  location." 

It  was  also  provided  that  each  county  was  privileged  to  appoint  an 
agent  to  represent  it  at  the  seat  of  government  at  the  final  meeting  ot, 
the  commissioners  whose  duty  it  was  to  open  the  bids  and  make  the 
location.  The  Boone  County  Court  honored  James  S.  Rollins  with 
the  appointment,  and  most  faithfully,  most  successfully,  did  he  dis- 
charge its  high  responsibilities.^ 

On  the  24th  of  June,  1839,  the  commissioners,  having  made  the 
drcuitof  all  the  contending  counties,  examined  their  proffered  sites 
and  received  their  bids,  met  in  Jefferson  City,  opened  the  bids,  and 
awarded  the  great  prize  of  the  location  to  Columbia,  in  the  county  of 
Boone.    The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  award :  — 

The  Commissioners  appointed  by  law  to  select  a  site  for  the  State  University  liare 
agreed  onaniroonsly  in  the  choice  of  Boone  Connty  for  its  location. 

GiTen  onder  our  hands  at  the  City  of  Jefferson,  this  twenty-fourth  day  of  June,  in 
tbe  year  1839. 
[SignedJ  JOHN  GANG   BRYAN, 

CH.  DURKEE, 
ARCHIBALD  GAMBLE, 
JOHN  S.  PHELPS, 
PETER  H.  BURNETT. 

It  is  an  incident  worthy  of  notice  that  the  Commissioners  appointed 
to  select  the  site  for  the  State  University,  before  entering  upon  their 
duties  as  such,  met  at  Jefferson  City,  the  seat  of  government,  and, 


*  Extract  from  the  journal  of  County  Court,  p.  601:  "Tuesday,  May  28,  1839. 
P^Dt.  Overton  Harris,  Hiram  Phillips,  Mathew  R.Arnold,  Judges;  Warren  Wood- 
son, Clerk;  John  M.  Kelly,  Deputy  Sheriff.  Ordered  by  the  Court  that  Jas.  S.  Rollins 
l^  ind  is  hereby  appointed  a  Commissioner  on  the  part  of  this  county  to  meet  with  the 
Commisf loners  appointed  to  locate  the  State  University,  at  the  seat  of  government,  at 
mch  time  as  said  Commissioners  shall  appoint,  for  the  purpose  of  being  present  at 
tbe  opening  and  comparing  of  the  bids  made  by  the  different  counties  authorized  to 
bid  for  said  University;  and  In  the  event  of  said  Rollins  being  prevented  from  attend- 
bf  and  acting  as  said  Commissioner  that  Sinclair  Kirtley  be  appointed  to  act  in  his 
>t(id,  ind  that  a  certificate  of  such  appointment  be  presented. 


%f 


260  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

after  taking  the  oath  required  by  law,  visited  the  counties  entitled  t 
bid  in  the  following  order,  and  received  their  sealed  subscriptions,  t 
wit:  Cole,  Cooper,  Saline,  Howard,  Boone  and  Callaway.  Whili 
the  Commissioners  were  visiting  Howard  County,  it  was  deemed  prt 
dent  that  some  one  from  this  county  should  go  to  Fayette  an 
ascertain,  as  far  as  he  could,  what  progress  the  Commissioners  wei 
making  in  securing  subscriptions.  The  Hon.  Jas.  S.  Rollins  wa 
selected  forthis  mission,  and  in  a  short  time  after  arriving  at  Fayett 
he  learned  from  Col.  Joe  Davis,  a  member  of  the  bar,  that  the  citizen 
had  bought  and  tendered  to  the  Commissioners  a  handsome  farr 
belonging  to  Gov.  Thos.  Reynolds,  and  which  was  situated  in  imme 
diate  proximity  to  Howard  College,  containing  200  acres.  Thi 
valuable  farm  was  purchased  conditionally  upon  the  location  of  th 
University  at  Fayette,  for  the  low  sum  of  $30  per  acre,  making  $6,00C 
but  which  the  Commissioners  valued,  in  receiving  it  as  part  of  the  bi 
of  Howard  County,  at  $80  per  acre,  making  a  difference  of  $10,00 
between  the  amount  agreed  to  be  paid  for  it  by  the  citizens  and  th 
amount  at  which  the  Commissioners  received  it  as  a  part  of  the  bid  ( 
that  county,  and  thus  adding  $10,000  to  the  bid  of  Howard  Count] 
Mr.  Rollins,  on  his  return  to  Columbia  in  advance  of  the  Commii 
sioners,  advised  the  proper  committee  here  of  the  above  state  ( 
facts ;  this  committee  being  composed  of  such  men  as  Robt.  S.  Bar 
Wm.  Cornelius,  Oliver  Parker,  Sinclair  Kirtley,  Warren  Woodsoi 
and  others,  when  they  determined  promptly  to  pursue  a  siraih 
policy,  and  purchase  a  farm  equally  as  large  and  contiguous  to  tl 
proposed  site  of  the  University  here.  Such  a  tract  of  land  wj 
diflScult  to  be  had,  when  an  appeal  was  made  to  Mr.  J.  S.  Rollins  1 
sell  to  them  his  farm,  upon  which  he  was  then  living  and  where  1 
now  resides,  who  finally  agreed  to  dispose  of  one-half  of  his  fam 
amounting  to  220  acres,  including  the  beautiful  grounds  owned  \ 
present  by  the  Boone  County  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  Assoc! 
tion,  and  also  the  handsome  grounds  on  which  was  subsequent 
erected  the  Hudson  mansion,  running  as  far  east  and  southeast  as  1 
include  the  present  residence  of  the  Hon.  Boyle  Gordon,  being  tl 
southwest  fractional  quarter  of  section  18,  township  48,  range  12,  ac 
which  he  consented  to  sell  at  whatever  sum  the  committee  migl 
place  upon  it.  The  committee  fixed  the  price  at  $25  per  acre,  coi 
ditioned  upon  the  location  of  the  University  in  the  County  of  Boon< 
and  which  for  the  220  acres  amounted  to  the  sum  of  $5,500. 

The  Commissioners,  after  arriving  in  Columbia,  and  examining  tb 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  '    261 

land  above  described,  valued  it  at  $75  per  acre,  and  thus  added  $11,- 
000  to  the  subscription  of  Boone  County,  being  the  difference  agreed 
to  be  paid  to  Mr.  Rolling,  to-wit,  the  sum  of  $5,500,  and  the  value 
placed  upon  it  by  the  Commissioners,  to  wit,  $16,500,  and  thus  fairly 
in  iact  making  his  voluntary  subscription  $13,000,  including  the  $2,000 
which  he  had  already  subscribed  and  which  he  subsequently  paid  in 


The  organization  of  the  State  [Jniversity,  and  the  erection  of  the 
main  edifice  followed  close  upon  this  act  of  location.  It  is  still  a  mat- 
ter of  some  importance,  to  notice  that,  in  pursuance  of  the  purpose  of 
the  land  grant  of  1820,  the  location  of  the  University  was  accomplished 
bj  the  authority  of  the  State,  in  the  most  formal,  open  and  public 
manner,  after  a  free  and  extensive  competition. 

THE   FIRST   MEETING   OF   THE   FIRST  BOARD   OF   CURATORS 

Was  held  at  the  site  selected  for  the  University  on  Monday,  October 
7)  1839.  Present :  Thomas  M.  Allen,  Eli  E.  Bass,  M.  M.  Marmaduke, 
Gabriel  Tutt,  John  T.  A.  Henderson  and  William  Scott,  who  sever- 
ally took  the  oath  of  office.  There  being  no  quorum  the  board  ad- 
jonmed  from  day  to  day  until  Thursday,  October  10,  when  George 
C.  Hart  appeared,  making  a  quorum,  whereupon  the  board,  assembled 
on  the  site  selected  for  the  building,  proceeded  to  organize  by  the 
electioQ  of  William  Scott,  President;  Thomas  M.  Allen,  Vice-Presi- 
dent aud  William  Cornelius,  Secretary. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Marmaduke,  the  president  appointed  a  committee 
of  five  to  obtain  from  architects  suitable  plans  for  the  principal  edifice 
ofthe  University,  and  ascertain  from  competent  persons  the  probable 
cost  of  the  building  if  erected  according  to  such  plan,  and  report  to 
the  next  meeting.     Committee:  George  C.  Hart,  T.  M.  Allen,  J.  T 
A.Henderson,  Dr.  John  J.  Lowry  and  Robert  W.  Wells,  to  which 
the  president  (William  Scott)  was  added.     On   motion  of  Mr.  Hen- 
derson, the  secretary  was  instructed  to  take  charge  of  Columbia  Col- 
lege building,  which,  together  with  the  grounds,  had  been  donated  to 
the  State  in  consideration  of  the  location  of  tho  University  at  Colum- 
bia, and  ofthe  University  grounds,  until  a  president  shall  be  elected. 
Adjourned  to  meet  on  Monday,  October  28,  1839,  in  the  Columbia 
Female  Academy,  then  a  one-story  brick  building,  now  owned  by  Dr. 
S.  B.  Victor,  and  situated  west  of  the  residence  of  Dr.  G.  W.  Rig- 
gins  on  Tenth  Street.     There  was  no  quorum  at  this  meeting,  but  a 
quorum  appearing  next  day,  namely,  Thomas  M.  Allen,  Eli  E.  Bass, 


262  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

John  J.  Lowry,  Roland  Hughes,  Irvin  O.  Hockaday,  George  C.  Ha 
P.  H.  McBride,  Thomas  West  and  William  Lientz,  the  board  p: 
ceeded  to  the  University  grounds  and  examined  them.  Returning 
the  academy  the  board  proceeded  to  an  examination  of  the  plans  a 
estimates  for  the  University  edifice,  whereupon  A.  S.  Hills  and  ^ 
liam  M.  Winters  submitted  plans,  the  first  of  which  (Hill's)  \ 
adopted,  and  $75,000  appropriated  for  the  erection  and  completion 
the  building  —  the  building  committee  of  three  members  T.  M.  All 
E.  E.  Bass  and  William  Lientz  was  appointed  to  receive  bids  for  1 
completion  of  the  building  according  to  the  plan  and  specificatic 
adopted. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Lowry  the  presidential  term  was  fixed  at 
years,  and  his  salary  at  $3,000  per  annum. 

Mr.  Lowry  submitted  the  following  resolution  :  — 

Besolvedf  That  the  principal  edifice  of  the  University  be  erected  on  the  emine; 
south  of  Columbia,  opposite  Tenth  street. 

Which  was  rejected  by  the  following  vote  :  — 

Yeas — Messrs.  Hart,  Hockaday,  Lowry  and  McBride — 4. 

Nays  —  Messrs.  Bass,  Hughes,  Lientz,  West  and  the  Vice  President  (Allen)  ~  5. 

Mr.  Hughes  submitted  the  following  resolution  :  — 

Besolvedf  That  the  principal  edifice  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  Missouri 
erected  at  or  near  the  centre  of  the  four  eleven-acre  lots,  and  fronting  Seve 
street. 

Which  was  rejected  by  the  following  vote  :  — 

Yeas  —  Bass,  Hockaday  and  Hughes  —  3. 

Nays  —  Hart,  Lientz,  Lowry,  McBride  and  West  —  6. 

Mr.  West  submitted  the  following  resolution  :  — 

Resolved,  That  the  principal  edifice  of  the  University  be  erected  upon  the  emlac 
fronting  the  south  end  of  Eighth  street,  and  as  near  as  practicable  to  the  line  runi 
east  and  west  through  the  four  eleven-acre  lots . 

Which  was  adopted  by  a  unanimous  vote. 

At  a  special  meeting  of  the  Board,  March  31,  1840,  the  repor 
the  building  committee  was  made  and  adopted.  Present:  T. 
Allen,  M.  M.  Marmaduke,  E.  E.  Bass,  Wm.  Lientz,  Thos.  D.  Gn 
Wm.  Shields,  George  Penn  and  Warren  Woodson.  The  report* 
braced  a  copy  of  the  advertisement  for  sealed  proposals  which  t 
had  extensively  published  in  the  newspapers  of  this  and  oj 
States  east  and  south,  and  also  that  .the  lowest  bidders  in 
Judson  Clement,  Phineas  Kenuon,  George  D.  Foote  and  Eliott 
Cunningham,  who  proposed  to  complete  the  building  according 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  263 

the  plan  of  A.  Stephen  Hills  for  $74,494,  with  James  M.  Seelj, 
Jacob  Hodgens,  Henry  Caswell  and  Robert  Dunlap  as  sureties ;  and 
that  they  had  employed  Mr.  Hills  as  architect  to  superintend  £he 
erection  of  the  building. 

At  the  meeting  on  the  next  day,  April  1»  1840,  Dr.  Anthony  W. 
SoUins  took  his  seat  in  the  Board  for  the  first  time.  Wm.  Scott 
having  resigned  his  membership,  Thos.  M.  Allen  was  elected  Presi- 
dent, M.  M.  Marmaduke  Vice  President,  and  Warren  Woodson 
Treasurer  of  the  Board,  the  latter  of  whom  was  required  to  give  a 
bond  of  $2,000,  which  he  gave. 

At  a  special  meeting,  July  3,  1840,  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Duncan  took  his 
seat  in  the  Board  for  the  first  time. 

LAYING   THE   CORNER   STONE. 

The  building  committee  made  a  report  of  the  arrangements  for 
laying  the  corner  stone  of,  the  edifice,  which  was  adopted,  as  follows : — 

Tbej  bare]  fixed  on  the  4th  day  of  July,  Instant,  as  the  time  of  laying  the  corner- 
ftone  of  the  principal  edifice  and  requested  James  L.  Minor  and  Uriel  Wright,  Esqrs., 
ADd  Be?.  John  L.  Tantis  to  deliver  addresses  appropriate  to  the  occasion,  and 
Also  Mr.  Tantis  to  officiate  as  chaplain.  Mr.  Minor  has  accepted  the  invitation 
ud  will  be  with  as  at  the  celebration,  but  Messrs.  Wright  and  Tantis  have  refused  to 
comply  with  the  call  made  upon  them,  and  we  have  supplied  the  place  of  chaplain,  ten- 
<fered  Mr.  Tantis,  by  the  appointment  of  Rev.  Robert  L.  McAfee. 

Toar  committee  further  report  tliat  they  have  given  a  general  invitation  through 
the  medium  of  the  Columbia  Patrioty  and  requested  i  other  public  journals  friendly  to 
tbe  institution  and  the  cause  of  education  to  insert  the  same  in  their  prints,  to  the 
^Ternor  and  olflcers  of  State,  and  to  the  citizens  of  this  and  adjoining  counties,  to 
l^ooor  Q8  with  their  presence  on  tliat  occasion. 

Yonr  committee  have  also  agreed  upon  malciug  the  following  deposits  under  the 
wrner-stone,  viz. :  — 
U.  S.  coins  —  5,  10,  25  and  50-cent  pieces. 

A  manuscript  copy  of  the  cliarter  of  the  University,  authenticated  by  the  signatures 
of  the  Governor  and  Secretary  and  the  great  seal  of  the  State. 
The  names  of  all  the  Curators  of  the  University  now  in  office. 
AIlBt  of  the  donors  to  the  institution  and  the  amount  subscribed  by  each. 
The  following  sentences,  written  in  the  English,  French,  Latin  and  Qreek  languages : 
"This  is  to  commemorate  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the  principal  edifice  of  the 
Uoirerslty  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  on  this  4th  day  of  July,  In  the  year  of  our  Lord 
<NM  thousand  eight  hundred  and  forty ;  In  the  sixty-fifth  year  of  the  independence  of  the 
Ignited  States  of  North  America  and  fourth  of  the  administration  of  Martin  Van  Buren, 
^Ident,  and  Richard  M.  Johnson,  Vice  President,  of  said  United  States. 

"The  twentieth  year  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  and  fourth  of  the  administration  of 

^bum  W.  Boggs,  Governor,  and  Franklin  Cannon,  Lieutenant-Governor  of  said  State. 

"Names  of  the  present  executive  officers  of  the  State:  James  L.  Minor,  Secretary 

<tf  StAte;  8.  BC&nafleld  Bay,  Attorney  General;  Hiram  H.  Baber.  Auditor  of  Public 

AocoQQtSy  and  James  McClelland,  State  Treasurer." 


264  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

ORDER  OF  PROCESSION. 

Ist.  Governor  and  oflScers  of  State,  and  marshal  of  the  day. 

2d.   Board  of  Curators  and  Secretary  and  Trustees  of  Columbia  College. 

3d.   Chaplain  and  orators  of  the  day.  , 

4th.  Principal  undertakers  of  the  University,  preceded  by  the  architect. 

6th.  Clergy. 

6th.  Female  teachers  and  young  ladles  under  their  charge. 

7th.  Male  professors  and  teachers  and  their  students. 

8th.  Ladles  from  abroad,  town  and  country. 

9th.  Invited  guests  and  strangers. 
10th.  Citizens  of  the  town  and  county. 

All  of  which  Is  respectfully  submitted  to  the  Board. 

(Signed)  '        T.  M.  ALLEN, 

ELI  E.  BASS, 
WM.  LIENTZ, 
WARREN  WOODSON, 

Committee. 

Hon.  David  Todd  presided. 

Prof.  John  Roche  was  invited  to  read  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence on  the  occasion  of  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone,  and  the  thanks 
of  the  Board  were  tendered  him  for  preparing  in  Greek,  Latin,  French 
and  English  suitable  inscriptions  to  be  deposited  in  the  corner-stone. 
One  thousand  copies  of  the  address  of  James  L.  Minor  were  ordered 
to  be  published  in  pamphlet  form. 

ELECTION   OF   PRESIDENT. 

Meeting  of  the  Curators^  July  3^  1840.  — On  motion  of  Mr.  Hart 
the  resolution  of  October  28,  1839,  fixing  the  president's  salary  at  three 
thousand  dollars  per  annum  was  rescinded,  and  on  motion  of  Mr.  West 
it  was  fixed  at  $2,500,^  he  furnishing  his  own  house. 

Recommendations  of  various  distinguished  gentlemen  residing  in 
different  States  were  then  read,  whereupon  Dr.  Duncan  nominated 
Rev.  John  C.  Young,  D.  D.,  of  Centre  College,  Kentucky,  who  was 
unanimously  elected,  and  Dr.  A.  W.  Rollins,  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Duncan 
and  Warren  Woodson  were  appointed  to  notify  him  of  his  election. 

Meeting  of  the  Curators,  October  29,  1840. — Dr.  J.  C.  Young 
having  declined  the  presidency  of  the  University,  on  motion  of  Dr. 
W.  H.  Duncan,  John  H.  Lathrop,  of  Clinton,  New  York,  was  unani- 
mously elected  president.  Committee  to  inform  him  of  his  election: 
T.  M.  Allen,  Warren  Woodson  and  W.  H.  Duncan. 

Meeting  Febi*uai-y  i,  1841  —Present,  T.  M.  Allen,  John  Slack,  E. 
E.  Bass,  W.  H.  Duncan,  Warren  Woodson,  T.  D.  Grant  and  R.  S. 
Thomas.     T.  M.  Allen  re-elected  president  of  the  Board  ;  John  Slack, 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  265 

vice-president;  W.  H.  Duncan,  treasurer  (bond  $20,000),  and  R.  S. 
Thomas,  secretary,  vice  Wm.  Cornelius,  resigned. 

ACCEPTANCE   OF  JOHN   H.  LATHROP. 

The  president  submits  the  following  communication  from  John  H. 

Lathrop: 

Hamilton  College,  N.  Y.,  November  16,  1840. 
Gextlexen:  The  maU  of  Saturday,  the  14th,  brought  to  my  hands  your  favor  of  the 
29tli  Qlt.,  SDQOuncing  my  election  to  the  Presidency  of  Missouri  University.  After  the 
correspondence  I  have  had  with  Prof.  W.  W.  Hudson,  of  the  substance  of  which  you 
are  doobtless  aware,  it  would  be  affectation  in  me  to  ask  time  to  make  up  my  mind  oi^ 
tbe  question  presented  to  me  in  your  note. 
I  accept,  gentlemen,  the  place  offered  me  by  the  Board  of  Curators,  whom  you  rep- 
resent, with  a  mind  open  to  the  greatness  of  the  trust  I  thereby  assume,  and  with  the 
fall  determination  to  pursue  with  zeal,  fidelity,  and  the  ability  which  God  has  given  me,. 
tbe  high  and  valuable  end  for  the  accomplishment  of  which  the  appointment  has  been 
made. 

J  notice  the  ample  provision  which  has  been  made  for  the  support  of  the  office,  as- 
well  as  tbe  limitation  of  the  same  to  the  term  of  six  3  ears.  These  conditions  meet 
with  my  entire  approbation. 

It  is  my  purpose  to  resign  my  post  here  on  the  first  day  of  December,  and  if  it  be 
tbe  pleasure  of  your  board,  I  will  regard  my  connection  with  the  University  as  com- 
mencing on  that  day. 

M7  arrival  at  Columbia  must  not  be  looked  for  earlier  than  the  I2th  or  18th  of  Janu- 
aiy,  which,  I  trust,  will  be  before  the  adjournment  of  the  Legislature,  whom  I  shall  be 
pleased  to  see  while  in  session,  agreeably  to  your  suggestion.  1  fully  appreciate  the 
importance  of  enlisting  the  leading  minds  in  the  State  in  the  cause  of  the  University 
ud  tbe  cause  of  education  generally. 

fie  pleased,  gentlemen,  to  accept  for  yourselves,  and  to  convey  to  the  body  you  rep- 
RKnt,m7  ^ery  grateful  acknowledgment  for  the  unexpected  honor  they  have  conferred 
nponme. 

With  an  unhesitating  reliance  on  the  co-operation  and  indulgent  support  of  the 
cuators,  collectively  and  individually,  I  look  with  assured  hope  to  the  accomplishment 
of  their  just  VFishes. 
Itm,  gentlemen,  with  very  great  consideration  and  respect,  your  obedient  servant,. 

JOHN  H.  lathrop. 
Troxas  M.  Allen,  Esq., 

Wm.  H.  Duncan,  Esq., 

Warrin  Woodson,  Esq., 

Committee. 

Meeting^  March    7,  1841,  —  President   Lathrop    having  reached 

Colambia  on  the day  of ,  1841,  on  motion  of  Dr.  Duncan, 

*  committee  —  Duncan  and  Woodson  —  were  appointed  to  wait  upon 
Wm  and  request  him  to  deliver  an  address  at  one  o'clock  that 
^*y  iii  the  Union  Church,  which  request  he  complied  with  by  the 
delivery  of  a  most  scholarly  and  finished  address,  which  made  a  pro- 
found impression  on  all  who  heard  it. 


266  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

The  buildins:  in  which  this  address  was  delivered,  was  a  small  bri< 
Structure  on  the  east  side  of  Eighth  street,  between  Broadway  ac 
Walnut,  and  was  among  the  first  church  buildings  in  Columbia, 
was  called  Union  Church  because  it  was  erected  under  the  joii 
auspices  of  the  Baptist  and  Methodist  denominations.^  A  few  yeai 
after  the  delivery  of  President  Lathrop's  address,  these  denofniai 
tions,  becoming  more  numerous,  sold  their  interest  in  the  buildln, 
and  erected  larger  places  of  worship.  The  gentlemen  who  bough 
the  old  Union  Church,  fitted  it  up  for  theatrical  performances,  U 
which  purpose  it  was  devoted  until  1856,  when  it  became  the  propert} 
of  Col.  W.  F.  Switzler,  who,  purchasing  the  Guitar  mansion  adjaoent, 
tore  down  the  front  of  the  church  and  converted  the  east  half  ol 
it  into  a  kitchen  and  servant's  room.  It,  and  the  residence  adjdniogi 
are  now  owned  bv  Jefferson  Garth. 

On  March  20,  1841,  W.  H.  Duncan,  John  Slack  and  R.  S.Thomafl, 
Building  Committee  of  the  Board  of  Curators,  received  proposals  ffi 
the  erection  of  **  a  family  house,"  on  University  ground,  meaninj 
thereby  a  residence  for  the  President  and  his  family.  This  buitdiD( 
was  destroyed  by  fire  in  November,  1865. 

The  first  report  made  by  Dr.  Duncan,  as  treasurer  of  the  Board 
was  at  a  meeting  held  at  his  office,  on  November  29,  1841,  and  : 
showed  —  receipts,  $21,301.85  ;  disbursements,  $21,?81.85,  leaving! 
his  hands  a  balance  of  $20.  How  strangely  these  small  sums  contrai 
with  the  much  larger  ones  at  later  periods  in  the  history  of  the  inst 
tution. 

Even  at  this  early  time  the  subject  of  dormitories  for  the  accomm 
•dation  of  students  was  in  the  mind  of  the  Board,  for  at  the  meetii 
of  November  29,  1841,  the  president's  report  was  taken  up,  and 
compliance  with  a  suggestion  therein,  the  Building  Committee  was  i 
tructed  to  take  into  consideration  the  propriety  of  so  changing  tl 
plan  of  the  principal  edifice  as  that  dormitories  may  be  secured  in  tl 
upper  stories.  The  plan,  however,  was  deemed  impracticable,  ai 
therefore  was  not  adopted ;  but  the  idea  was  not  abandoned,  for 
other  reports  of  the  president  and  in  subsequent  proceedings  of  tl 
Board,  the  subject  of  providing  cheap  accommodations  and  chei 
boarding  for  students  was  frequently  discussed. 

President  Lathrop  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his  office  on  March 


»  Dr.  Wm.  Jewell,  a  Baptist,  and  Rev.  Moses  U.  Payne,  a  Methodist,  contributed  near 
all  the  means  to  erect  the  building. 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE  OOUNTT.  267 

1841;  and,  in -accordance  with  his  views,  the  curators  deemed  it  ex- 
pedient that  courses  of  instruction  should  be  opened  in  the  old  Colum- 
bia College  building,  in  order  to  the  preparation  of  students  for  the 
regular  University  classes,  when  the  new  edifice  should  be  completed 
and  a  Faculty  of  Arts  fully  organized.     In  accordance  with  this  view, 
courses  of  instruction  were  opened  on  Wednesday,  April  14,  1841,  in 
the  College  building,  with  John  H.  Lathrop  as  president,  and  Wm. 
W.  Hudson,  Greorge  Hadley  and  Wm.  Van  Doran,  professors.     In  a 
report  made  to  the  Board  by  President  Lathrop,  September  30, 1842, 
he  informed  them  that  the  whole  number  of  students  to  whom  instruc- 
tion had  been  rendered  up  to  that  time  was  seventy-four.     Of  this 
number,  two — Robert  Levi  and  Robert  Barr  Todd,  the  former  now 
eashier  of  the  Exchange  National  Bank  of  Columbia  and  secretary  of 
the  Board  of  Curators  ;  the  latter,  one  of  the  judges  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Louisiana  —  had  been  prepared  for  the  Senior  Class  ;   four 
for  the   Junior,    eight  for  the    Sophomore    and    eighteen   for  the 
Freshnoan  Class. 

mST  UNTVERSITT   ORATORICAL   EXERCISES   IN   THE   COLLEGE   CHAPEL. 

The  first  examination  of  the  classes  of  the  Collegiate  and  Primary 
Departments  of  the  University  occurred  in  the  chapel  of  Columbia 
College,  during  the  last  week  in  April,  1842,  concluding  with  a  public 
exhibition  in  the  old  Christian  Church.  The  three  days  devoted  to 
the  examinations  were  characterized  by  the  Patriot  at  the  time  as 
"auspicious  days,"  and  that  none  **  brighter  ever  dawned  upon  the 
literary  destinies  of  old  Boone."  The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  pro- 
gramme of  the  public  exhibition,  which  possesses  peculiar  interest, 
among  other  reasons  because  it  is  the  first  University  oratorical  exer- 
cise in  the  history  of  the  institution  :  — 

Orations.  —  Isaac  McCoy,  Aspects  of  the  Material  Unlyerse;  Lather  T.  Collier, 
literature  of  the  West;  William  White,  Reputation;  Thomas  C.  Ready,  Early  Years 
<>' Washington;  Alonzo  Richardson,  Political  Morality;  William  H.  Robinson,  Ameri- 
go R«volatlon :  Thomas  J.  Hardin,  Patriotism ;  Odon  Guitar,  Fame  —  an  incentive  to 
Virtue;  Absalom  Hicks,  Mental  Progress. 

Okputation.  —  WiUiam  H.  Allen  and  John  C.  Scott,  Was  the  Confinement  of  Bona- 
P^ite  in  St.  Helena  justifiable? 

OraUofiM, — Thomas  M.Richardson,  Instability  of  Greatness;  John  Wilson,  Moral 
^ower;  Richard  E.  Turner,  State  of  the  Union;  Lewis  Dameron,  Biography. 

JHspuUUion. — James  H.  Parker  and  William  W.  Todd,  Comparative  Merits  of 
^olQmbus  and  Washington. 

Orations.  —  James  H.  Moss,  History;  Robert  B.  Todd,  Diversities  of  Taste  and 
^Qtiment;  Stephen  Bedford,  Political  Education  of  American  Youth. 


268  HISTORY   OP    BOONE   COUNTY. 

Eulogy, — Robert  A.  Grant,  Lafayette. 

Orations,  — William  P.  Thomas,  Mental  Power;  Robert  L.  Todd,  Literary  Renoirv* 

Colloquy,  —  Sleep  (anonymous  actors),  James  H.  Moss  and  Robert  B.  Todd. 

The  report  made  by  the  board  of  curators  to  Hon.  James  L.  MiuoP» 
Secretary  of  State,  among  many  other  things,  stated  that  the  contribta- 
tions  of  the  citizens  of  Boone  to  the  State  of  Missouri  in  consideratias^ 
of  the  location  of  the  University  at  Columbia  amounted  to  $82,300  ii 
cash  and  $36,000  in  lands.     Also  that  the  proceeds  arising  from  th^ 
sale  of  seminary  lands  is  a  trust  held  and  administered  by  the  Stat^^ 
for  the  benefit  of  the  University,  that  in  the  conversion  of  this  trusC^ 
into  money  a  policy  was  pursued  by  the  State  extremely  liberal  to  th^^ 
settler,  and  that  the  lands  were  sold  at  minimum  prices,  and  in  th^ 
aggregate  at  a  rate  very  greatly  below  their  real  value.     The  proceeds 
of  these  sales  amounted  to  a  fraction  less  than  $78,000.     This  sum 
was  invested  by  the  State  in  stock  of  the  Bank  of  the  State  of  Misr- 
souri,  and,  as  ordered  by  law,  it  there  remained  until  the  investment 
by  dividends  reached  $100,000.     The  dividends  in  1838  amounted  ta 
$4,302.38;  1839,  $9,945.40;  1840,  $6,051.53; -hi  1841,  nothing;  in 
1842,  $3,421.91. 

These  four  dividends,  added  to  principal,  amounted  to  $101,662.30, 
or  1,662.30  over  and  above  the  maximum  of  $100,000  and  therefore  a 
sum  available  for  the  use  of  the  University. 

As  the  University  relied  solely  for  support  on  the  tuition  paid  by 
students  and  the  sinall  and  precarious  dividends  of- the  bank,  the 
Board  of  Curators  experienced  great  difficulty  in  continuing  the  insti- 
tution. Fully  understanding  the  embarrassments  which  on  every 
hand  confronted  the  board,  and  deeply  sympathizing  with  them  in  the 
troubles  by  which  they  were  environed,  on  January  28, 1843,  President 
Lathrop,  in  a  spirit  of  self-sacrifice  and  commendable  liberality,  volun- 
tarily proposed  that,  from  and  after  the  first  of  July  ensuing,  the 
emoluments  of  the  President  of  the  University  be  only  $1,250, 
together  with  the  use  of  the  President's  house,  and  $5  per  scholar  per 
annum,  which  proposition,  on  motion  of  Dr.  Duncan,  was  unanimously 
adopted. 

AMENDING   THE    OEYER   ACT   OF    1839. 

On  the  twenty-fourth  of  February,  1843,*  an  act  was  approved 
amendatory  of  certain  provisions  of  the  act  of  February  11,  1839. 

1  See  Session  Acts  1843,  p.  148. 


HISTORT   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  269 

Under  this  amendatory  act  so  much  of  the  last  named  law  as  provided 
for  colleges  and  academies  in  different  pails  of  the  State,  under  the 
Tisitorial  power  of  the  curators,  was  repealed,  and  the  power  was  con- 
ferred OB  the  Board  of  Curators  to  appoint  the  necessary  professors 
and  tutors  of  the  University,  and  to  fix  their  compensation.  No  one 
of  the  professors  or  tutors  was  allowed  to  exercise  the  functions  of  a 
bishop,  priest,  clergyman  or  teacher  of  any  religious  persuasion, 
denomination,  society  or  sect,  whatsoever,  during  his  continuance  in 
office. 

The  act  also  provided  that  the  compensation  of  the  president,  pro- 
fessors and  tutors  shall  be  fixed  annually,  and  any  of  them  may  be 
remoyed  at  the  pleasure  of  the  curators.  Also,  that  so  much  of  the 
act  as  requires  a  curator  to  be  thirty  years  of  age  was  repealed,  and 
that  each  curator  shall  be  not  less  than  twenty-five  years  of  age. 

The  curators  were  authorized  to  sell  all  the  lands  conveyed  to  the 
State  for  the  benefit  of  the  University,  with  the  exception  of  twenty 
acres  for  a  university  site,  on  such  terms  as  the  curators  shall  deem 
b^  for  the  interest  of  the  institution,  and  to  convey  the  same  to  pur- 
chasers by  deed  under  their  common  seal. 

The  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  said  lands  to  be  applied  to  the  payment 
of  the  debts  contracted  by  the  curators ;  and  if  there  should  be  any 
surplus  remaining  after  the  payment  of  said  debts,  the  same  to  be 
applied  in  the  manner  deemed  best  for  the  benefit  of  said  University. 
An  act  was  also  approved  February  28,  1843, i  providing  for  semi- 
annual meetings  of  the  Board  of  Curators  in  April  and  October,  fixing 
the  number  to  constitute  a  quorum,  and  making  it  the  duty  of  the 
Auditor  of  Public  Accounts  to  report  to  each  meeting  the  increase  of 
the  seminary  fund. 


'  See  Session  Acts  184B,  p.  149. 


270  HISTOEY   OP   BOONE   COUNTT. 


CHAPTER    VI. 

raSTORY  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  —  Continued. 

IJniyersity  building  dedicated  July  4,  1843  — Organization  of  the  Institution— Ec 
lishroent  of  the  several  professorships  —  Medical  Department  established  in 
Louis  —  Act  of  1848-49—  President's  salary  fixed  —  Resignation  of  President  Lat' 

—  Election  of  James  Shannon  as  his  successor  in  September  1849  —  Resole 
of  the  Curators  in  regard  to  President  Lathrop  —  Discussion  and  excitement  ovei 
McCracken  amendment — Public  dinner  to  President  Lathrop  — President  Shai 

—  Tribute  to  him  by  the  students  of  Bacon  College — Prof.  Hudson  made  Presi 
ad  interim  —  Inauguration  of  President  Shannon,  July  4,  1850 — Portrait  of  F 
ident  Lathrop  —  Proceedings  of  the  Curators  in  regard  to  it — Affray  between  1 
R.  A.  Grant  and  Student  George  P.  Clarkson  —  Proposals  to  erect  for  the  Presi 
a  family  house  —  President  Shannon  declines  a  re-election  and  Prof.  W.  W.  Ha 
was  elected  President  for  six  years  —  Death  of  President  Hudson  —  Dr.  A.  T.  1 
Boe  elected  President,  and  he  declines  —  The  University  reconstructed,  with  ] 
Matthews  as  Chairman  of  the  Faculty. 

DEDICATION   OF   THE   UNIVERSITY   BUILDING,    JULY   4,  1843. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Curators,  held  on  May  15,  1843, 
in  accordance  with  a  suggestion  of  President  Lathrop,  arrangem< 
were  made  for  the  formal  dedication  of  the  University  building  to 
purposes  for  which  it  had  been  erected,  and  according  to  the  follow 
programme :  — 

1.  A  procession  from  the  court-house  to  the  Chapel  of  the  University. 

2.  Music. 

3.  Prayer  by  Rev.  T.  M.  Allen. 

4.  Music. 

5.  Address  to  the  President  by  Wm.  G.  Minor,  of  Jefferson  City,  Missouri,  and 
delivery  of  the  key  of  the  building  by  him,  in  the  name  of  the  Board. 

6.  Address  by  President  Lathrop. 

7.  Music. 

8.  Benediction. 

The  following  account  of  the  dedicatory  ceremonies  is  from 
Columbia  Statesman  of  July  5,  1843  :  — 

I^EDICATION   OF   THE   UNIVERSITY  OF   MISSOURI. 

The  4th  of  July,  1843,  will  long  be  remembered  by  the  citizens  of  Boone  CouDty, 
the  immense  concourse  of  visitors  and  strangers  who  assembled  here  on  that  df 
perform  a  high  and  patriotic  duty.  The  occasion  was  the  dedication  of  the  Unlve; 
of  the  State  to  its  appropriate  uses.    ♦    *    ♦ 

Singularly  auspicious  to  the  occasion,  the  morning  was  ushered  in  by  as  bright  f 
as  ever  shed  radiance  from  a  cloudless  sky.    *    *    * 


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HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  271 

Early  in  tbe  day,  and  up  to  the  hour  of  ten,  every  road  leading  to  our  town  poured 

la  a  continuil  accession  of  human  beings  —  thus  attesting  that  the  people  of  the  county,. 

uexampled  heretofore  in  the  liberality  of  their  donations  to  the  .University,  were  now 

eqnallj  maniiicent  in  a  feeling  of  Interest  for  its  contemplated  dedication  to  the  cause 
of  Mind. 

About  half  past  nine  the  doors  of  the  edifice  were  thrown  open  for  the  admission  of 
tbe  ladies,  and  in  a  short  time  the  beautiful  and  capacious  gallery  which  girts  the  semi- 
drealar  wall  of  the  Chapel  was  filled  for  the  first  time,  and  that  to  overflowing,  with 
tbe"beaotjand  fashion"  of  the  land. 

At  ten  o'clock,  under  the  control  and  direction  of  the  Grand  Marshal  of  the  day,. 
Nathaniel  W.  Wilson,  Esq.,  a  procession  was  formed  in  front  of  the  court-liouse, 
whieb,  composed  of  the  Boards  of  Instruction  and  Curators,  students  of  the  University 
and  District  School,  and  of  strangers  and  citizens  generally,  marched  majestically  to 
the  strains  of  a  band  of  music,  and  reached  the  University  building  about  the  hour  of 
eleren. 

The  exercises  of  the  day  were  opened  by  a  solemn  and  impressive  invocation  to  the 
Throne  of  Grace  by  Elder  T.  M.  Allen.  Whereupon,  William  G.  Minor,  Esq.,  on  be- 
half of  the  Board  of  Curators,  delivered  the  key  of  the  University  to  the  President  — 
accompanying  the  duty  with  a  short,  eloquent  and  appropriate  address.  Mr.  Minor 
haTing concluded,  the  President  of  the  University,  John  H.Lathrop,  arose  and  enchained 
the  attention  of  the  vast  auditory  for  upwards  of  an  hour,  in  the  delivery  of  a  most 
aUe  and  eloquent  inaugural. 

The  addrejis  of  the  President  was  concluded  abou(  half-past  one  o'clock,  and  the 
aadieoce,  altera  benediction  by  Elder  T.  M.  Allen,  dispersed. 

ORGANIZATION   OF  THE   UNIVERSITY. 

At  the  raeetiDg  of  the  Board,  May  16, 1843,  the  committee  appointed 
to  consider  that  portion  of  President  Lathrop's  communication  which 
related  to  the  complete  organization  of  the  University,  namely,  War- 
ren  Woodson,  W.  H.  Duncan,  Joseph  Carpenter  and  John  Slack, 
reported  that  five  professorships  were  essential  to  give  the  institution  a. 
respectable  standing,  and  that  therefore  they  recommend  the  estab* 
lishment  of  the  following  chairs  :  — 

Ist.  Of  Ethics,  History,  Civil  Polity  and  Political  Economy. 

2d.  Metaphysics,  Logic,  Rhetoric  and  English  Literature. 

M.  Ancient  and  Modern  Languages  and  Literature. 

4th.  lilathematics,  Natural  Philosophy  and  Astronomy. 

5th.  Chemistry,  Mineralogy,  Geology,  Botany,  Natural  History  and  Physiology. 

At  a  meeting  held  on  September  6,  1843,  Robert  S.  Thomas  was 
elected  to  chair  second;  George  C.  Pratt,  to  chair  third;  W.  W. 
Hudson,  to  chair  fourth,  and  Edward  H.  Leffingwell,  to  chair  fifth  — 
the  president  filling  the  first  chair. 

At  a  special  meeting  of  the  Board  held  January  21,  1845,  it  was 
ordered  that  their  annual  report  to  the  Secretary  of  State,  of  October, 
1844,  be  recorded.     This  report  was  due  in  October,  1843,  but  waa 


272  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

not  made,  for  the  reason  that  a  quorum  sufficient  to  transact  bi 
ness  at  an  annual  meeting  could  not  be  had.  This  is  a  very  long  s 
interesting  paper,  and  is  to  be  found  on  the  137th  and  subsequ* 
pages  of  the  Board's  Journal.     We  make  these  extracts  from  it :  — 

The  curators  have  the  satisfaction  now  to  state  that  the  commodloas  and  splei 
edifice  —  the  erection  of  which  was  committed  to  their  charge  —  has  been  complei 
and  which  for  permanency,  symmetry,  style  and  finish  wiU  compare  well  with  any  bo 
ing  of  the  same  cost  in  the  United  States.  It  has  been  upwards  of  four  years  si 
the  foundation,  including  the  basement  story,  was  laid,  and  two  years  since  the  wl 
weight  of  the  superstructure  has  rested  thereon;  yet  there  is  no  appearance  of  theh 
defect  in  the  walls  or  foundation. 

The  salary  of  the  president  is  now  fixed,  and  has  been  since  the  1st  day  of  Ji 
1843,  at  $1,250,  with  $100  additional  for  the  hire  of  a  servant  to  keep  the  house 
^rder,  etc.,  and  one-sixth  of  the  accruing  tuition  fees.  Prior  to  the  above  date  t 
salary  was  $2,500  per  annum  without  perquisites. 

The  salary  of  each  professor,  at  $500  and  one-sixth  part  of  said  fees.  The  rem) 
ing  one-sixth  the  Board  has  been  under  the  necessity  of  appropriating  to  the  fitting 
of  certain  rooms  In  the  University  building.  So  hard  has  the  Board  been  pressei 
carry  on  the  Institution,  that  they  have  been  forced  to  take  from  the  faculty  a  port 
of  the  tuition  fees,  which  Is  at  present  their  only  support.  The  tuition  fees,  at 
per  year,  or  $10  per  session,  amounting  in  all  to  something  like  $1,800  per  ano 
thus  far. 

Among  the  items  reported  as  disbursed  or  paid  is  the  followir 
$70,281.08  paid  contractors  for  building  University  edifice.  Amoi 
stipulated  to  be  paid  contractors  for  original  contract,  $74,4' 
Amount  allowed  them  for  extra  work  on  account  of  the  enlargem< 
of  the  building,  the  substitution  of  copper  instead  of  zinc  for  roofii 
finish  of  octagon  and  space  within  the  same,  etc.,  $4,600.  Balai 
due  contractors,  without  interest,  $8,812.12. 

SEMINARY    LANDS    AND    BANK   DIVIDENDS. 

Session  of  the  Legislature,  1846-7  :  From  an  act  directing 
Register  of  Lands  to  procure  from  the  Commissioner  of  the  Gen< 
Land  Office  copies  of  documents  relating  to  the  seminary  lands  i 
file  the  same  in  his  office  ;  also  making  it  his  duty  to  make  out  a  C( 
plete  list  of  said  lands,  specifying  range,  township  and  county,  ma 
ing  such  as  had  been  sold,  the  time  when  sold,  to  whom,  w 
remaining  unsold,  and  to  file  a  copy  of  said  paper  with  the  Secret 
of  the  Board  of  Curators.     See  Session  Acts  of  1846-7,  pp.   131 

Two  acts  passed  during  the  same  session  in  regard  to  bank  d 
dends  —  requiring  the  Bank   of  Missouri  to  report  the   amount 


HI8TOKT   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  273 

dividends  accruing  on  stock  held  in  tioist  for  the  University  to  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Board  of  Curators,  and  to  pay  over  to  him  or  place 
to  his  credit  the  same.     See  Session  Acts  1846-7,  pp.  136-7. 

MEDICAL   DEPARTMENT   ESTABLISHED. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  January  26,  1846,  President  Lathrop,  at 
that  time  being  under  the  law  ex-officio  a  member  of  the  Board, 
offered  an  ordinance  to  establish  the  medical  department  of  the  Uni- 
yersity,  the  faculty  of  which  was  authorized  to  hold  their  sessions  and 
deliver  their  course  of  instruction  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis.  A  vote 
being  taken  on  the  first  clause,  which  established  the  medical  faculty 
and  nameef  the  professors  thereof,  it  resulted  :  — 

Yeas— T.  M.  AUen,  W.  H.  Duncan,  T.  B.  Grant,  J.  H.  Lathrop,   Moss  Prewltt, 
Akx.  Peninger,  John  Slack  and  Warren  Woodson  — 8. 
Nats— Joseph  Carpenter  and  W.  A.  Robards  —  2. 
Excused  from  voting— £U  £.  Bass  and  Caleb  S.  Stone. 

The  vote  on  the  sixth  clause,  which  authorized  the  medical  faculty 
to  hold  their  sessions  and  deliver  their  courses  of  instruction  hi  St. 
Louis,  was  as  follows  :  — 

Teas- Allen,  Bass,  Duncan,  Grant',  Lathrop,  Prewitt,  Pcrsinger,  Slack,  Stone  and* 
Woodson  — 10. 
Nats- Carpenter  and  Bobards — 2. 

After  the  adoption  of  an  additional  clause  to  the  effect  that  this 
connection  with  tlij  St.  Louis  Medical  College  is  made  upon  the  ex- 
press condition  that  it  may  at  any  time  be  dissolved  by  a  vote  of  the 
Board  at  an  annual  meeting,  the  Board  elected  the  following  professors 
of  the  medical  department :  — 

Joseph  N.  McDowell,  M.  D.,  professor  of  Anatomy  and  Surgery. 

Thomas  Barbour,  M.  D.,  Midwifery  and  Diseases  of  Women  and  Children. 

J.  B.  Jolinson,  M.  D.,  Pathology  and  Chemical  Medicine. 

Edward  H.  LefHngwell,  M.  D.,  Chemistry  and  Pharmacy. 

Blchard  F.  Barrett,  M.  D.,  Materia  Medica  and  Physiology. 

John  S.  Moore,  M.  D.,  Theory  and  Practice  of  Medicine. 

The  president  of  the  University  was  made  ex-officio  president  of  the 
medical  faculty,  and  the  professor  of  Chemistry  and  Pharmacy  in  the 
faculty  of  medicine  ex^fficio  professor  of  Chemistry,  Natural  History, 
€tc.,  in  the  Faculty  of  Arts.  The  preparatory  department  in  the  Uni- 
versity was  instituted,  and  the  tutor's  salary  fixed  at  $250,  in  addition 
to  a  contingent  sum  equal  to  one  twelfth  of  the  tuition  fees. 

The  committee  on  lands  was  instructed  to  sell  the  old  College 
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274  HISTORY  OF   BOOMTE   COtTNtt. 

building  and  grounds  for  $1,500,  and  80  acres  of  land  on  Percl 

Creek  for  $50.     This  land  now  belongs  to .     The  CoUe| 

and  grounds  attached  (about  seven  acres),  were  sold  to  Robe 
S.  Thomas  for  the  sum  mentioned  on  a'  credit  of  6,  12,  and  3 
months. 

Two  nominations  were  made  for  tutor  in  the  preparatory  depar 
ment,  viz. :  Robert  L.  Todd,  and  Thomas  H.  Bradford  ;  vote :  Tod< 
5  ;  Bradford,  4.  Todd  declared  elected.  Mr.  Todd  declining  to  a4 
cept,  at  a  meeting  held  April  27,  1846,  Robert  A.  Grant  was  electc 
tutor. 

Meeting  July  29, 1846. — John  C.  Edwards,  Governor  of  the  Stab 
took  his  seat  as  a  Curator.  The  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Ai*ts  wi 
granted  to  Wm.  Henry  Allen,  Thompson  Burnhara,  John  Seo 
Clarkson,  Luther  Todd  Collier,  Lewis  Taylor  Dameron  and  Jot 
Henley  Moore,  and  the  president  was  empowered  to  confer  the  san 
by  diploma  at  commencement  on  the  30th  inst. 

RE-ELECTION   OF    PRESIDENT   LATHROP. 

Meeting  of  September  21,  1846. — John  H.  Lathrop  re-elects 
president  of  the  University. 

Meeting  of  Feh-uary  24,  1847*  — James  S.  Rollins  appeared  ^ 
a  member  of  the  Board  for  the  first  time.  Salary  of  the  tutor  in  tl 
preparatory  department  fixed  at  $300,  and  one-twelfth  of  the  tuitic 
fees,  the  honorarv  de«rree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  wis  conferred  on  Wdc 
H.  Duncan,  M.  D.,  of  Columbia,  Missouri. 

Meeting  July  28,  1847.  —  The  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  c 
Medicine  conferred  on  Wm.  Jewell,  M.  D.,  of  Columbia,  and  th 
honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  on  Thomas  Hart  Benton. 

ACT    OF    TIIE    LEGISLATURE,     1848-9. 

For  an  act  increasing  the  number  of  Curators  to  eighteen — on 
from  each  judicial  circuit  and  four  from  the  county  of  Boone  —  fixin; 
their  terms  of  office,  times  of  meeting,  and  compensation,  said  com 
pensation  to  be  paid  out  of  the  seminary  fund  ;  prescribing  the  man 
ner  of  filling  vacancies,  and  the  number  necessary  to  constitute 
quorum,  etc.,  see  Session  Acts  of  1848-9,  pp.  129-30. 

For  an  act  providing  for  a  Normal  Professorship  in  the  University 
prescribing  the  duties  of  county  courts  in  the  selection  of  student 
for  free  education  in  the  same,  etc.,  see  same  acts,  pp.  130-1. 


HISTORY  or   BOONE   COUNTT.  8T6 

For  ni  act  autborizing  the  curators  to  appropriate  the  remainder  of 
the  snbseription  fund  to  the  improvement  of  walks  leading  to  and  from 
theUniTersity,  outside  of  the  campus  ;  also  authorizing  the  Curators  to 
aodit  and  allow  any  debt  justly  due  by  the  trustees  of  Columbia  CoV- 
lege  at  the  time  of  the  location  of  the  University,  and  to  pay  the 
«uDeoat  of  any  money  belonging  to  the  subscription  fund,  or  which  may 
be  collected  from  it,  provided  said  debts  do  not  amount  to  more  than 
1300;  also  an  act  requiring  the  State  Auditor  to  certify  to  the  treas- 
urer of  the  Curators  the  balance  of  the  subscription  fund,  uncollected, 
ai|d  authorizing  the  Board  to  employ  some  person  to  collect  the  same, 
see  same  acts,  pp.  131-2, 

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PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE  CURATORS  RESUMED. 

Meeting  January  29^  1849.— Dv.  Abrani  Litton,  of  St.  Louis, 
elected  to  the  vacant  chair  of  Physical  Science  at  a  salary  of  $600 
per  annum  and  $2.50  per  session  on  each  student.  On  motion  of 
Mr.  Rollins  a  committee  of  three  —  Rollins,  Lathrop,  and  Robards  — 
was  appointed  to  call  the  attention  of  the  General  Assembly  to  the 
necessity  and  propriety  of  making  an  appropiation  out  of  the  com- 
mon school  fund  of  the  State  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  a  profes- 
sorship in  the  University  to  be  devoted  to  the  theory  and  practice  of 
teaching. 

President  Lathrop  having  been  called  to  the  presidency  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin  at  a  salary  of  $2,000  per  annum,  and  it  being 
<leemed  probable  he  would  resign,  Thomas  D.  Grant  offered  a  resolu- 
tion, as  an  inducement  for  him  to  continue  his  connection  with  our 
University  that  his  salary  be  fixed  at  $1,650,  per  annum  (it  was  then 
<>nly  $1,250)  with  use  of  the  president's  house  and  grounds,  and  $2.50 
per  session  on  each  student  over  80 ;    also  $100,  as  heretofore,  for 
servants'  hire  and  that  the  present  term  of  service  of  the  President  be 
extended  four  years  after  the  expiration  of  the  term  for  which   he  was 
last  elected.     Passed  unanimously,  and  a  committee  —  T.  M.  Allen, 
J«  L.  Mathews,  and  Moss  Prewitt — were  appointed  to  request  his 
Acceptance  of  the  above  proposal. 

RESIGNATION    OF    PRESIDENT    LATHROP. 

Meeting  May  14^  1849.  —  A  communication  was  received  from 
President  Lathrop  stating  that  it  was  his  intention  to  send  in  his 
J'^ignation  at  the  next  July  meeting  of  the  board,  to  take  effect  at  a 


276  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

day  he  will  then  designate  ;  and  that  he  gave  this  early  notice  in  ord< 
that  in  the  interval  snch  measures  may  be  adopted  for  filling  tl 
vacancy  as  may  be  judged  expedient ;  whereupon  a  committee  wi 
appointed  to  obtain  and  report  to  the  Board  at  its  next  meetic 
such  information  as  in  their  opinion  may  aid  the  board  in  making 
proper  selection  of  a  successor.  Committee:  Eli  E.  Bass,  Addisc 
M.  Lewis,  William  D.  McCracken,  Robert  Brown  and  Turner  R.  E 
Smith. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Brown  it  was  resolved,  after  much  discussion  an 
various  amendments  that,  after  the  first  Monday  of  April,  1850,  th 
president's  permanent  salary  shall  be  $2,000  per  annum  with  tb 
use  of  the  president's  house  and  grounds,  and  $2.50  per  sessic 
on  each  scholar  above  eighty,  with  $100  for  servants'  hire  as  hen 
tofore. 

Meeting  of  September  ,?,  1849  —  Present  —  C.  S.  Stone,  presider 
of  the  board;  J.  L.  Matthews,  W.  H.  Duncan,  F.  R.  Palmer,  W.  I 
McCracken,  William  Claude  Jones,  Alton  Long,  H.  C.  Dunn,  A.  I^ 
Lewis  and  T.  R.  H.  Smith.  President  Lathrop  tendered  his  resigns 
tion  to  take  effect  September  22d.  In  his  report  to  the  board,  afte 
giving  a  detailed  account  of  the  condition  and  wants  of  the  institutioi 
President  Lathrop  concludes  as  follows  :  — 

During  my  flrst  term  of  office,  in  coasideration  of  the  depressed  condition  of  tl 
finances  of  the  institution,  I  remitted  a  considerable  portion  of  my  salary  for  a  series 
years.  The  sum  total  of  these  benefactions  ranges  between  $2,500  and  $3,000.  Th 
sum  which  is  now  in  the  treasury,  has  been  abstracted  from  the  patrimony  of  my  ch 
dren.  It  \sjust  to  them,  that  this  fund  should  be  set  apart,  and  appropriated  to  sod 
valuable  university  interest,  which  shall  stand  as  a  perpetual  memorial  of  their  father 
bounty.  Should  the  board  agree  with  me  in  the  principle  of  this  suggestion,  the 
will  be  no  difficulty  in  ascertaining  the  amount  of  the  fund,  nor  in  settling  on  sor 
valuable  interest,  to  which  it  may  be  appropriated. 

ELECTION    OF   JAMES    SHANNON    AS    PRESIDENT. 

On  the  next  day  the  board  proceeded  to  the  election  of  a  presiden 
Mr.  Lewis  nominated  James  Shannon,  president  ot  Bacon  Collegi 
Kentucky,  and  Mr.  Jones  nominated  Dr.  Hiram  P.  Goodrich,  of  S 
Louis.  The  vote  stood :  Shannon,  9  ;  Goodrich,  1 ;  whereupon  M 
Shannon  was  declared  duly  elected.  Professor  Hudson  was  ai 
thorized  to  act  as  President  until  the  President-elect  entered  upc 
his  office. 

The  next  day  Mr.  Long  asked  permission  to  change  his  vote  froi 
Mr.  Shannon  to  Dr.  Goodrich,  which  was  granted. 


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HISTORf   OF   BOONE   COUNTi'.  277 

RESOLUTIONS   OF    RESPECT   FOR  PRESIDENT   LATHROF. 

The  following  resolution  was  introduced  by  Wm.  Claude  Jones :  — 

Raolud,  That  we  have  the  highest  confidence  in  the  learning,  talents,  integrity  and 
upright  mortl  character  of  President  John  H.  Lathrop,  and  while  we  deeply  regret  the  lose 
^fhii9iduabU$erviee$  to  our  State  Unioereity,  we  cordially  recommend  him  to  the  confi- 
daoee  of  that  community  wherever  his  lot  may  be  cast 

W.  D*.  McCracken  offered  the  following  amendment  to  the  above 

rwolution :  — 

Afflend  by  striking  out  all  after  word  "and'*  in  the  third  line  down  to  the  word  "we"  in 
the  fourth  line ;  that  is,  the  words  printed  in  italics. 

The  vote  being  first  taken  upon  the  amendment,  the  ayes  and  noes 
were  called,  and  stood  as  follows :  — 

Am— Stone,  Duncan,  McCracken,  Palmer,  Lewis  and  Smith  —  6. 
KoB— Matthews,  Long  and  Jones  —  8. 

Thus  the  amendment  passed. 

^The  vote  then  came  up  upon  the  resolution  as  amended,  and  the 
ayes  and  noes  being  called,  were  as  follows  :  — 

Atb— Matthews,  Long,  McOracken,  Palmer,  Jones  and  Smith  —  6. 
Non— Stone,  Duncan  and  Lewis — 8. 

Which  was  adopted. 

The  following  is  the  resolution  as  amended :  — 

Buolvtd,  That  we  have  the  highest  confidence  in  the  learning,  talents,  integrity  and 
spright  moral  character  of  President  John  H.  Lathrop,  and  we  cordial^  recommend  him 
to  the  confidence  of  that  community  wherever  his  lot  may  be  cast. 

C.  S.  Stone  asked  permission  to  have  his  protest  to  the  foregoing 
resolution  spread  upon  the  journal.  The  Board,  after  hearing  it  read, 
granted  the  request.     The  following  is    . 

THE  protest: 

C.  8.  Stone  protests  against  the  foregoing  resolution.  He  believes  Mr.  Lathrop  to  be  a 
P>od  scholar  and  a  man  calculated  to  do  good.  He  does  not  entertain  the  highest  confidence 
in  the  learning,  talents,  integrity  and  upright  moral  character  of  John  H.  Lathrop,  there 
Ming  other  men  for  whom  he  entertains  higher  confidence  in  all  these  particulars. 

W.  C.  Jones  introduced  the  following  resolution,  which  passed  :  — 

^ff^ed.  That  a  select  committee  of  three  be  appointed  to  take  into  consideration  so 
niQch  of  the  communication  of  President  J.  H.  Lathrop  to  the  present  Board  as  relates  to 
^amount  of  funds  which  he  claims  to  have  donated  to  the  University,  anti  that  said  com- 
ooHtee  report  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Curators. 

^mmittee  —  Duncan,  Matthews  and  Smith. 


278  msTORY  OP  boone  county. 

PUBLIC   DINNER   TO   PRESIDENT   LATHROP. 

The  resignation  of  President  Lathrop,  as  many  of  his  friends  believe 
it  to  have  been  partly  inspired  by  political  influences  adverse  to  h 
administration,  caused  the  deepest  solicitude  among  many  of  the  ol< 
est  and  most  steadfast  friends  of  the  University.  Public  and  privai 
discussions  of  the  causes  which  it  was  believed,  in  part,  brought  aboi 
his  retirement  from  the  institution,  together  with  the  proceedings 
the  Board  of  Curators,  especially  its  raising  the  President's  salai 
immediately  after  his  resignation,  and  the  adoption  of  the  McCracki 
amendment,  produced  the  greatest  excitement  and  widespread  dissa 
isfaction  in  the  community.  Angry  discussions  followed  in  the  new 
papers,  embracing  the  wide  range  of  all  the  topics  having  any  relati< 
to  the  subject.  We  have  not  room  in  this  volume  either  to  reprodu 
the  sharp  and  disagreeable  issues  which  were  made  and  discussed, 
the  discussions  themselves ;  suffice  it  to  say  that  the  proceedings 
the  Board  caused  the  friends  of  President  Lathrop,  very  largely  wit 
out  distinction  of  party,  and  wholly  withoutMistinction  of  sect,  tote 
der  him  the  compliment  of  a  public  dinner  ou  oaturday,  Septemb 
29,  1849,  previous  to  his  departure  for  Wisconsin,  which  he  s 
cepted. 

At  a  public  meeting  held  in  the  court-house  on  Friday  evening,  Se 
tember  14  —  Warren  Woodson,  Chairman,  Jesse  Kennard,  Secretary 
a  Committee  jftf  Arrangements,  consisting  of  thirty-two  citizens,  wi 
Dr.  Wm.  Jewell  as  Chairman,  was  appointed,  to  see  that  the  dint 
was  furnished  on  September  29,  and  arrange  the  programme.  T 
meeting  also  appointed  a  committee  of  twenty  on  resolutions,  as  f 
lows  : 

James  S.  Rollins,  Chairman ;  Thomas  M.  Allen,  Dr.  J.  F.  Buster,  Lemuel  Noble,  R( 
L.  Todd,  Philip  Crow,  Alex.  Douglass,  John  Slack,  Thomas  Wingo,  Ishmael  Vanborn,  Sj 
uel  A.  Young,  F.  Wm.  Haokman,  Roll  In  Lyman,  Dr.  A.  H.  Robinson,  Wm.  F.  Switz 
Dr.  J.  C.  Page,  Thomas  C.  Maupin,  Robert  Lemon,  D.  M.  Hickman,  and  Wm.  S.  Mosley. 

PROGRAMME    OF   EXERCISES. 

The  Committee  of  Arrangements  made  and  published  the  folic 
ing :  — 

1.  Maj.  John  Slack,  President,  and  Messrs.  John  H.  Field  and  Dr.  Wm.  McClure,  ^ 
Presidents. 

2.  Music  by  the  Band. 

8.  Address,  at  11  o'clock  a.  m.,  by  Robert  L.  Todd,  Esq.,  on  behalf  of  the  Alumni  of 

University. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONIC   COUNTY.  ?79 

i  Mwic  by  tk^  Band. 

6.  Address  by  President  Lathrop. 
&  Masicby  the  Band. 

7.  BMoltttions  read*  and  an  address  on  behalf  of  the  citizens,  byHi^.  J.  S.  Rollins. 
ft,  Vote  on  the  resolutions  by  the  citizens. 

ft.  Miuie  by  the  Band. 

10.  DiDoer  at  2  o*clock,  Saturday,  September  29th.  President  Lathrop,  speakers  and 
e4Bcen,  tofrether  with  the  ladies,  occupying  the  first  table. 

II  Chief  Marshal  of  the  day,  David  M.  Hickman. 

Ai  ample  provision  will  be  made  for  all  who  may  attend,  the  Committee  of  Arrange- 
■lemts  hereby  cordially  invite  not  only  the  ladies  and  gentlemen  of  our  county,  but  the  citi- 
sens  of  the  whole  SUte.  W.  JEWELL, 

Chairman  of  Committee  of  Arrangements. 

The  dinner  was  served  in  magnificentstyle,  pursuant  to  programme, 

Thomas  Selby,  Superintendent,  and   in  a  sugar-tree  grove  adjoining 

and  north  of  the  residence  of  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins.     Notwithstanding 

the  Inclemency  of  the  day,  occasioned  by  repeated  showers  of  rain, 

between  two  and  three  thousand  people,  male  and  female,  assembled 

to  do  honor  to  their  distinguished  guest. 

The  Columbia  Statesmark,  of  October  5,   1849,  thus  notices  the 
dinner,  addresses,  resolutions,  etc. :  — 

Hi j.  John  Sleek,  assisted  by  John  H.  Field,  Esq.,  and  Dr.  W.  McClure,  Vice  Presidents, 
pmided  on  the  occesion — Wm.  F.  Switzler  acting  as  Secretary.  The  assembly  being 
ieitedatthe  stand  and  called  to  order,  the  programme  of  exercises  was  announced  —  after 
whicii  Robt  L.  Todd,  Esq.,  on  behalf  of  the  Alumni  of  the  University,  delivered  a  very 
chtste  and  beautiful  address,  full  of  pleasant  memories  of  the  past,  high  esteem  for  the 
honored  head  of  his  alma  mater,  and  fervent  wishes  for  his  usefulness  and  prosperity  in  the 
Mw  field  to  which  he  is  called. 

After  masic  by  the  band  came  the  cardinal  point  of  interest,  the  speech  of  President 
Lathrop.  And  what  shall  we,  what  can  we,  say  of  such  a  speech  without  doing  it  injustice? 
In  elegance  of  diction,  scope,  and  power  of  thought,  and  caustic  rebuke,  we  never  expect  to 
hear  its  lilie  again.  Feeling  that  those  who  are  **  clothed  with  a  little  brief  authority,"  had 
attempted  an  everlasting  libel  upon  his  fame  —  had,  in  voting  the  **McGracken  proviso.*' 
^ne great  violence  to  his  reputation  —  he  proved  himself  equal  to  the  crisis,  and  by  a  sar- 
casm that  scathed  and  blasted  like  the  sirocco  canied  everything  before  him.  His  speech 
vai  frequently  interrupted  by  rapturous  applause,  while  smiles  of  approval  and  evidences 
of  regard  marked  the  "sea  of  upturned  faces  *'  before  him.  It  was  perfectly  evident  during 
the  delivery  of  his  speech,  and  before  the  vote  was  taken,  that  the  people,  believing  it  a 
high  moral  duty  to  protect  the  reputation  of  literary  men,  were  prepared  to  "repudiate, 
Qoodemn,  and  reverse,  with  one  voice  and  with  emphasis,"  the  judgment  of  the  Board  of 
Curators,  and  nobly  did  they  do  it ! 

President  Lathrop  having  concluded,  the  Secretary  reported  from  the  committee 
N^Noted  at  a  previous  meeting  the  following  resolutions:  — 

!•  Resolved,  That  the  resolution  introduced  at  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Curators  on 
the 5th  inst  by  W.  C.  Jones,  Esq.,  and  which  was  mutilated  by  a  majority  of  said  Board  by 
*triking  out  a  material  part  of  it,  be  adopted  by  this  meeting  without  alteration,  amend- 
nisnt  or  erasure,  in  the  exact  words  it  was  originally  introduced,  as  follows:  *^ Resolved, 
That  we  have  the  highest  confidence  in  the  learning,  talents,  integrity  and  upright  moral 


280  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

character  of  President  John  H.  Lathrop,  and  while  we  deeply  regret  the  loss  of  his  valu 
services  to  our  State  University,  we  cordially  recommend  him  to  the  confidence  of  that  ( 
munity  wherever  his  lot  may  be  cast," 

2.  Resolved^  That  this  community,  en  masses  without  distinction  of  party,  sect,  or  oo 
tion,  having  had  ample  means  of  forming  a  correct  judgment  of  President  Lathrop 
scholar,  officer,  and  citizen,  cannot  consent^  either  directly  or  indirectly,  to  indorse  the 
ceedings  of  a  majority  of  the  Board  of  Curators  on  the  5tb  inst,  in  striking  from  the  al 
resolution  the  expression  of  regret  at  the  loss  of  his  valuable  services  to  our  S 
University,  but  on  the  contrary  we  hereby  repudiate,  condemn,  and  reverse,  with  one  v 
and  with  emphasis,  this  proceeding  of  a  majority  of  said  board,  as  an  act  of  injustic 
President  Lathrop,  believing  it  calculated,  where  the  facts  are  unknown,  to  injure  the  cl 
acter  and  standing  of  a  highly  meritorious  gentleman  and  eminent  scholar. 

After  the  reading  of  the  resolutions,  and  another  air  by  the  band.  Judge  Woodson 
livered  an  address  expressive  of  the  views  and  feelings  of  the  citizens,  and  in  favor  of 
resolutions.  This  address  embraced  much  of  the  written  and  unwritten  history  of 
University,  from  its  organization  to  this  time,  and  was  a  powerful  vindication  of  Presii 
Lathrop's  administration.  It  brought  out  facts  new  and  old,  and  placed  men  and  thing 
their  proper  light  before  ^the  public.  To  a  few  men  it  was  perfectly  overwhelming,  fc 
traced  their  inconsistencies,  measures  of  mischief  in  the  Legislature  and  elsewhere, 
their  petty  personal  prejudices  with  a  master  hand.  This  address,  too,  was  received  i 
repeated  demonstrations  of  applause. 

Next  in  the  order  of  exercises  was  read  an  admirable  letter  from  Elder  Thomas  M.  Al 
This  letter  was  greeted  with  marks  of  satisfaction  and  approval  by  the  audience, 
breathed  a  spirit  highly  creditable  to  its  honored  and  much  esteemed  author,  and  expre 
in  felicitous  style  and  language  not  only  our  own  sentiments  but  the  sentiments  of 
community  in  regard  both  to  President  Lathrop  and  his  successor.  As  for  ourself 
indorse  every  word  of  il. 

The  vote  upon  the  resolutions  being  about  to  be  taken.  Dr.  T.  R.  H.  Smith,  one  of 
curators  who  had  voted  for  the  "McCracken  proviso,"  asked  if  the  resolutions  were  del 
blc.  It  was  then  moved  and  carried  by  acclamation  that  leave  be  granted  any  one  to  s| 
who  wished  to  do  so.  Dr.  Smith  then  took  the  stand  and  made  a  brief  explanation,  per» 
to  himself,  in  regard  to  his  vote  as  a  curator,  protesting  that  his  motives  were  pure  in  i 
he  had  done;  after  which  Wm.  F.  Switzler  made  a  few  remarks  upon  the  resolutions  th 
selves,  contending  for  their  adoption.  The  President  then  stated  the  question  and  put 
vote,  and  there  arose  from  the  vast  concourse  almost  one  unanimous  aye !  but  three  to 
persons  voting  in  the  negative — just  enough  to  save  President  I^athrop  from  the  Scrip 
malediction :  "  Cursed  are  ye  when  all  men  speak  well  of  you.'* 

Dinner  was  then  announced,  and  the  assembly  retired  in  perfect  order  to  the  sumpti 
tables.  By  universal  concession,  the  dinner  was  the  most  magnificent  affair  of  the  kind  * 
witnessed  in  this  part  of  the  country. 

After  dinner  the  crowd  reassembled  at  the  stand,  and  listened  with  high  satisfaction  t 
speech  from  Col.  Samuel  A.  Young.  It  was  one  of  the  Coloners  happiest  efforts,  and  ca 
forth  repeated  rounds  of  applause. 

The  newly  elected  President,  James  Shannon,  reached  Columbia, 
determine  whether  he  would  accept  or  decline  the  office,  on  Mondi 
October  8,  1849,  and  President  Lathrop  and  family  left  for  Madisi 
Wisconsin,  on  the  following  day. 

TRIBUTE   TO    PRESIDENT   SHANNON. 

On  June  12,  1850,  the  students  of  Bacon  College,  Harrodsbui 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  281 

Ky.,  met  in  Newton  Hall,  W.  J.  Miles,  Chairman,  and  D.  R.  A.  C 
Hundley,  Secretary,  and  passed  the  following  resolutions :  — 

L  Resolved^  That  we  deeply  regret  to  part  with  our  talented  and  highly  esteemed  Presi- 
^ot,  whose  genUemanly  demeanor  and  Christian  conduct,  whose  unflinching  adherence  to 
jut  principles  and  fearless  advocacy  of  truth  have  endeared  him  to  us  all,  and  gained  for 
him  in  extended,  lasting  and  enviable  reputation. 

2.  Ruolved,  That  the  citizens  of  Kentucky,  and  especially  the  friends  and  students  of 
Bmoo  College,  have  lost  in  him  a  successful  teacher,  a  clear,  faithful  and  uncompromising 
«q)ODnder  of  the  Word  of  Life,  and  one  of  the  brightest  and  purest  ornaments  of  the  age  in 
ffaieh  he  lives. 

$.  Resolved,  That  we  most  heartily  congratulate  the  students  of  Missouri  University  on 
tbeielection  of  such  a  man  to  preside  over  their  institution,  in  whom  they  will  ever  find  a 
fiuthftil  instructor  and  a  feeling  friend. 

i  Raolved,  That  he  carries  with  him  our  most  ardent  pra3'er8  for  his  future  success  and 
bippioeii. 

Curators*  Meeting j  November  5, 1849 ;  —  A  letter  from  James  Shan- 
non, dated  Paris,  Mo.,  October  23,  1849,  was  presented  and  spread 
npon  the  record,  accepting  the  presidency  on  certain  conditions.  His 
appointment  was  for  six  years.  He  desired  it  during  good  behavior, 
md  that  there  should  be  no  objection  to  his  ''continuing  as  hereto- 
fore to  preach  the  unsearchable  riches  of  Christ."  Continuing,  he 
«iid:  **Kthe  Curators  deem  it  advisable  to  change  the  tenure  of 
office  so  as  to  make  it  during  good  behavior,  they  may  regard  this  as 
my  acceptance  o^  the  presidency." 

Mr.  Long  introduced  the  following :  — 

1.  Ruolved,  That  the  Secretary  of  this  Board  he  required  to  inform  President  Shan- 
non thst  be  is  requested  to  enter  upon  his  duties  as  President  of  the  University  of  the 
6tate  of  Missouri,  suhject  to  the  restrictions  of  the  Laws  of  the  State  regulating  said 
Univenity. 

2.  Ruolved,  That  the  resolution  passed  at  the  September  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
Ronton,  fixing  the  term  of  office  of  President  at  six  years,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby  re- 
scinded. 

Dr.  Smith  moved  to  amend  the  first  resolution  by  striking  out  all 
«fter  the  word  "  resolved,"  and  inserting  the  following :  — 

That  the  tenure  of  office  of  the  President  of  the  University  of  Missouri  be  during  good 
^>«h»vior. 

Mr.  Lonor  moved  to  amend  the  amendment  as  follows :  — 

Strike  oat  all  after  the  word  '*  during,"  and  insert  *Hhe  pleasure  of  the  Board." 

The  vote  being  taken  the  amendment  to  the  amendment  was  rejected, 
^  follows :  — 

Atks— Corby,  Matthews  and  Long  —  8. 

^ATs  —  Stone,  Lewis,  McElhaney,  Duncan,  Smith,  Brown  and  Dunn  —  7. 


282  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Mr.  Long  then  introduced  another  amendment  to  the  amendm< 
as  follows :  — 

Strike  out  aU  after  the  word  **be,"  and  insert  *'  the  same  as  that  of  the  Profetaon  o 
University." 

Vote  the  same  as  before  :  lost^  whereupon  the  question  being  u 
Dr.  Smith's  amendment,  it  was  adopted,  asfollows:  — 

Ayes — Stone,  Lewis,  McElhaney,  Duncan,  Smith,  Brown  and  Dunn  —  7. 
Nays — Corby,  Mattliews  and  Long  —  3. 

The  second  resolution  offered  by  Mr.  Long  was  then  withdni 
Mr.  Corby  introduced  the  following: 

• 

Resolved,  That  in  the  election  of  President  Shannon  to  the  office  of  President  ol 
Univ^rsitv  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  the  Board  of  Curators  hereby  neither  affirm  nor  deni 
right  of  President  Shannon  to  exercise  his  functions  as  a  clergyman  during  his  continu 
in  said  office,  subjecting  the  same  to  the  operation  of  the  laws  governing  said  Universit 

Dr.  McElhany  moved  to  lay  the  resolution  on  the  table.  Carriei 
Messrs.  Corby  and  Long  voting  against  the  motion  and  the  babi 
for  it. 

The  Board  having  complied  with  all  his  conditions.  President  SI 
non  was  therefore  President  of  the  University. 

An  important  resolution  was  adopted  (on  motitm  of  Dr.  Smil 
concerning  the  education  of  poor  young  men  in  the  State,  substanti 
as  follows :  — 

Resolved,  That  indigent  young  men  in  the  State  of  Missouri,  possessing  good  n 
character  and  respectnble  talents,  and  not  under  fourteen  years  of  age,  be  permitted  to  a 
the  University  of  Missouri  by  paying  the  contingent  fee  of  one  dollar  a  year,  and  the  T 
urer  of  the  Board  is  authorized  to  furnish  certificates  to  all  who  may  present  satisfa 
evidence  from  the  Curator  or  Curators,  approved  by  the  Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  o 
or  their  Judicial  Circuit,  from  whence  recommendations  must  come  as  to  the  worthine 
the  applicants  desirous  to  avail  themselves  of  the  benefits  of  this  ordinance. 

Meeting  March  18,  1850,  —  George  C.  Pratt  tendered  his  resi* 
tion  as  Professor  of  Languages  and  the  thanks  of  the  board  v 
tendered  him  for  the  able,  faithful  and  successful  manner  in  whicl 
had  discharged  his  duty.  The  president  ad  interim.  Prof.  W. 
Hudson,  —  President  Shannon  not  having  entered  upon  his  du 
until  the  beginning  of  the  next  session,  —  was  requested  to  make  s 
division  of  the  duties  of  the  Professor  of  Languages  among  the  faci 
and  tutors  as  may  be  least  onerous  to  any  individual  member  until 
chair  could  be  permanently  filled.  Dr.  T.  R.  H.  Smith,  expecting 
be  absent  from  the  State,  resigned  the  secretaryship  of  the  board. 


HI8TORT   OF  BOONK   COUNTY.  388- 

D.  P.  Henderson  was  elected  Secretary^©  tern.  C.  S.  Stone- 
resigned  the  presidency  of  the  board,  and  at  the  July  session  Elder 
F.  R.  P&Imer  was  elected  in  his  place.  George  H.  Matthews,  of 
Bacon  College,  of  Harrodsburg,  Ky.,  notified  the  board  of  his  accept- 
ance of  the  chair  of  Ancient  Languages  at  a  salary  of  $1,000  per 
annum,  with  the  perquisite  of  $5  per  student  over  80. 

INAUGURATION   OF   PRESIDENT   SHANNON. 

[From  th«  Columbia  Statesman,  July  6,  IS^.] 

Ib  addition  to  the  ordinary  exercises  of  the  occasion,  the  interesting  ceremony  of  the 
iMOgontion  of  President  Shannon  took  place.  The  assembly  in  attendance  was  immense^ 
A  TeiyUi^ge  number  of  strangers  honored  the  day  by  their  presence.    The  following  is  the- 

PBOOKAMMB  OF  SXSBGIBX6 : 

Prayer,  n 
Music. 
Salutatory  Address  in  Latin,  by  Charles  B.  Allen. 
Oration  on  the  Progress  of  Science,  by^ James  D.  Head. 

Music. 

OratioQ  on  International  Copyright,  by  William  S.  Hyde. 

Oration  on  Difference  of  Opinion,  by  Henry  Slack. 

Music 
Oration  on  Fanaticism,  Political  and  Religious,  by  Calvin  F.  Bumes. 

Master  Oration,  by  Thomas  B.  Read. 

Music 

Degrees  Conferred. 

Valedictory  Address,  by  Lawson  G.  Drury. 

M  usic. 

Address  on  Behalf  of  Curators,  by  Rev.  Addison  M.  Lewis. 

Inaugural  Address,  by  President  James  Shannon. 

Music. 
Benediction. 
Wertf^ret  the  lateness  of  the  hour  at  which  the  exercises  closed  yesterday  evening  pre- 
clodei  the  possibility  of  comments  upon  the  address  of  President  Shannon.    SufSce  it  to 
iiy  it  breathed  the  right  spirit,  enforced  in  the  main  the  right  doctrine,  and  was  well 
iiodfed. 

The  inaugural  address  of  President  Shannon,  together  with  the  one^ 
felivered  by  Rev.  Mr.  Lewis,  was  requested  for  publication  and  3,000 
copies  ordered  to  be  printed. 

On  motion  of  James  Ellison,  it  was  resolved  that  it  would  conduce 
to  the  interest  of  the  University  for  the  president  to  visit  the  various 
sections  of  the  State  and  lecture  on  the  subject  of  education,  and  that 
he  be  requested  to  do  so. 

After  an  ineffectual  effort  to  secure  the  attendance  of  a  quorum  at 
the  December  meeting,  the  Board  adjourned  to  meet  in  Jefferson  City 
on  January  8,  1851. 


284  HISTORY    OF    BOONE    COUNTY. 


PRESIDENT    LATHROP'S    PORTRAIT. 


The  following  communication  from  the   ladies   of   Columbia  aad 

vicinity  was  read  to  the  Board  ;  — 

Saturday,  December  21, 1850. 

7b  the  Board  of  Curators  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  Missouri, 

Gentlemen:  Mr.  George  C.  Bingham,  Missouri's  gifted  artist,  prior  to  the  departure (X 
President  Lathrop  to  Wisconsin,  painted  a  most  excellent  and  accurate  portrait  of  that  gear 
tlemen  and  kindly  presented  it  to  the  ladies  of  Columbia. 

Associated  as  is  the  name  of  Dr.  Lathrop  with  the  University,  as  its  first  President 
indebted  as  this  community  feels  to  him  for  having  laid  broad  and  deep  the  foundation  ol 
that  institution,  and  identified  as  is  his  name  with  the  cause  of  education  in  Missouri,  wi 
deem  it  most  appropriate  that  his  portrait  should  find  a  permanent  and  conspicuous  plioi 
within  the  walls  of  the  University. 

We,  the  undersigned,  therefore,  a  committee  'appointed  on  behalf  of  the  ladies  of  thii 
place,  respectfully  request  that  it  be  hung  in  the  Chapel  immediately  on  the  left  of  the  Pren- 
-dent's  desk,  not  only  for  its  excell<^nce  and  preservation  as  a  work  of  art,  but  that  the  youni 
men  here  educated  may^study  his  character,  imitate  his  example,  and  thereby  elevate  mi 
enlighten  their  minds. 

A.  B.  Woodson,  Camilla  Price,  Mary  Jane  Switzler,  Hannah  Hardin,  E.  A.  Bast,  G.  A 
Lynch,  S.  A.  Daniels,  E.  E.  Branham,  S.  C.  Powers,  E.  B.  Selby,  D.  E.  Todd,  M.  Gentry 
M.  Guitar,  M.  A.  Wilson,  E.  V.  Provines,  C.  E.  Child,  L.  A  Matthews,  P.  W.  Royall,  M.  B 
Hollins,  C.  F.  Todd,  M.  L.  Parker,  8.  F.  Prewitt,  E.  Richardson,  M.  A.  Garth,  M.  Cltrkioi 

M.  Phillips,  President 

F.  A.  Field,  Secretary. 

W.  H.  Duncan  introduced  the  following  preamble  and  resol' 
tions :  — 

Whereas,  Ex-President  John  H.  Lathrop,  after  his  resignation  of  the  Presidency  of  1 
University,  and  upon  the  eve  of  his  departure,  as  we  are  informed,  did,  in  a  public  addr 
to  the  citizens  of  Boone  County,  indulge  in  a  tirade  of  abuse  and  vituperation  against  t\% 
the  Curators,  for  giving  a  conscientious  vote,  by  impugning  their  motives,  and  denounce 
them  in  most  unmeasured  terms;  and  whereas,  in  his  valedictory  address  upon  leaving  t 
University,  he  made  the  most  ungenerous  reflections  upon  the  Board  of  Curators  and  i 
Legislature  of  the  State,  therefore. 

Resolved.  That  the  thanks  of  the  Board  of  Curators  be  presented  to  the  ladies  of  Cola 
bia,  and  that  the  portrait  executed  by  Mr.  Bingham  be  received  and  suspended  in  I 
rotunda  of  the  University,  that  being  the  apartment  originally  designed  for  the  reception 
works  connected  with  the  fine  arts. 

Resolved,  That  in  adopting  the  above  resolution,  the  Board  is  actuated  solely  by  motii 
of  respect  for  the  ladies  of  Columbia,  and  for  the  distinguished  artist  of  Missouri;  that  t 
portrait  is  received  precisely  as  any  other  fine  specimen  of  the  art  of  painting  would  be  ) 
-ceived,  without  any  reference  whatever  to  the  nature  of  the  subject  delineated  on  the  ci 

vass. 

Resolved,  That be  appointed  »  committee  to  receive  the  painting,  and  to  locate 

agreeably  to  the  first  of  these  resolutions. 

These  resolutions  were  laid  over  until  the  next  day,  when  M 
Long,  of  St.  Louis,  introduced  one  providing  that  the  portrait  be  n 
<;eived  and  disposed  of,  as  the  ladies  request,  and  that  a  committee  b 


HldTQ^Y   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  285* 

• 

appointed  to  carry  out  that  request ;  whereupon  Dr.  Duncan  reintro- 
duced his  whereas  and  resolutions  as  a  substitute  for  Mr.  Long's. 
Dr.  Smith  then  offered  the  following  as  an  amendment  to  the  substi- 
tute of  Dr.  Duncan : 

Amend  by  striking  out  aU  after  the  word  "  Whereas "  ia  the  substitute,  and  insert  the 

foUowins: 

"Kx-President  Lathrop,  after  his  resignation  of  the  Presidency  of  the  University,  and 
upon  the  ere  of  his  departure,  did,  in  a  public  address  to  the  citizens  of  Boone  County,  in- 
dolge  in  a  tirade  of  abuse  and  vituperation  against  six  of  the  Curators  for  giving  a  con- 
KJentioaf  vote,  by  impugning  their  motives  and  denouncing  them  in  most  unmeasured 
tarmiitDd 

"¥ni6rms,iQ  his  valedictory  address  upon  leaving  the  University,  he  made  the  most 
ODgenerons  reflections  upon  the  Board  of  Curators  and  the  Legislature  of  the  State ; 
tiMnfors, 

*Rmloed,  That»  if  we  were  governed  by  the  dictates  of  human  nature,  we  would  un- 

I     beiitstlngly  reject  the  application  to  give  his  portrait  a  place  in  the  University,  but  being 

[     diipeied  to  act  upon  the  Christian  principle  of  overcoming  evil  with  good,  and  in  token  of 

nipect  for  the  distinguished  artist  who  executed  the  painting,  and  the  ladies  of  Columbia 

fbohiTe  so  politely  made  the  request,  it  is  hereby  granted. 

**Rttoi9ed,  That  a  committee  of  three  be  appointed  to  receive  the  portrait  and  carry  out 
I     tlie  object  of  the  foregoing  resolution. 

I       Mr.  Long  moved  that  the  substitute  and  amendment  be  rejected, 
and  upon  this  motion  the  ayes  and  noes  were  called,  and  stood  a& 

follows :  — 

km—  Matthews  and  Long  —  2. 

Nois  — HcElhaney,  Ellison,  Duncan,  Robinson  and  Smith — 5. 

James  Ellison  offered  the  following  amendment  to  the  amendment : 

Amend  preamble  by  inserting  after  the  word  "  Whereas,"  in  the  first  line,  the  words, 
"ti  ire  credibly  informed,"  and  strike  out  all  that  portion  relating  to  his  valedictory  address. 

Upon  this  amendment  the  ayes  and  noes  were  called,  and  were  as 

follows :  — 

Atis— EUison,  Duncan,  McElhaney  and  Smith  —  4. 
Nou —Matthews,  Long  and  Robinson  —  8. 

The  question  was  then  taken  upon  the  amendment  as  amended, 
wdupon  this  the  ayes  and  noes  were  called  and  stood  as  follows :  — 

Ates— McElhaney,  Ellison,  Duncan,  Rol^inson  and  Smith  —  5. 
Nays  —  Matthews  and  Long  —  2. 

Passed,  whereupon  Mr.  Ellison  introduced  the  following  resolu- 
tion :  — 

^x^Xwiy  That  the  letter  of  the  ladies  of  Columbia  be  entered  upon  the  Journal  as 
^  pAper  laid  before  the  Board  by  its  President,  and  that  the  preamble  and  resolutions  of 
•coeptsDcebe  entered  ;immediately  under  it. 


S86  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   OOUNTT. 

Which  was  adopted. 

The  presentation  of  the  portrait  of  President  Lathrop,  togetb 
with  the  letter  which  accompanied  it  from  the  ladies,  and  the  acti( 
of  the  Bosird  of  Curators  thereon,  were  topics  of  the  liveliest  intere 
in  the  community,  and  their  discussion  was  attended  by  no  little  il 
feeling  and  excitement.  Indeed,  this  discussion  finally  assumed  sui 
proportions  and  character  as  to  seek  the  newspapers  as  the  mediu 
of  its  utterance.    . 

Meeting  of  April  14^  1851.  —  Present — J.  L.  Matthews,  Addis( 
M.  Lewis,  Alton  Long,  W.  D.  McCracken,  Henry  FuUbright,  Dani 
Patten,  W.  H.  Duncan,  T.  R.  H.  Smith,  James  L.  Minor,  N.  ( 
Orear  and  Henry  F.  Garey. 

On  the  4th  of  March  preceding  the  date  of  this  meeting  an  ui 
fortunate  personal  street  encounter  occurred  in  Columbia  betwe< 
Robert  A.  Grant,  one  of  the  tutors  in  the  University,  and  George! 
Chirkson,  a  student,  in  which  Clarkson  was  mortally  wounded  by 
pistol  shot,  dying  nine  days  thereafter. 

There  were  several  resolutions  offered  on  the  subject  and  conside 
able  debate,  the  Board  finally  concluding  that  it  would  be  best  f 
the  institution,  under  the  circumstances,  for  them  to  declare  the  off 
of  tutor  vacant,  which  they  did. 

Meeting  August  ll,  1851, — Resignation  of  Prof.  Leffingwell,  of  1 
chair  of  chemistry  and  natural  history  received  and  accept 
Bolivar  S.  Head  elected  tutor  of  mathematics  and  Dr.  Abram  I 
ton,  of  St.  Louis,  professor  of  chemi^itry. 

Meeting  March  31^  1852.  —  Present  —  Duncan,  Lewis,  Matthe' 
McCracken,  Minor,  Stone  and  Garey.  George  C.  Swallow  ^ 
elected  professor  of  chemistry  and  natural  history  and  Wm.  C.  Shie 
adjunct  professor  oT  ancient  hmguages. 

Measures  adopted  for  the  reconstruction  of  the  President's  *'  fan: 
house,"  or  for  building  a  new  one.  ? 

Meml)ers  of  the  Board    who,  from    inability    or    (fisincli nation 
attend  the  meeting,  requested  to  resign. 

At  the  meeting  of  July  1,  1852,  Sterling  Price,  Jr.,  was  electe* 
tutor. 

At  the  meeting,  June  30,  1853,  R.  S.  Thomas,  professor  of  Engl 
literature,  and  G.  C.  Swallow,  professor  of  chemistry,  geoloj 
etc,,  tendered  their  resignations  —  the  former  to  assume  the  dut 
of  President  of  Wm.  Jewell  College,  the  latter  to  enter  upon  the  g 
loo:ical  survev  of  the  State. 


HI8TORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  S87 

At  the  October  meeting,  1853,  after  nine  ballots,  John  Locke,  Jr., 
<ef  Cincinnati,  was  elected  professor  of  natural  science,  and  J.  J. 
Jacob,  of  Bomney,  Virginia  (since  Governor  of  West  Virginia),  pro- 
fcMorof  Einglish  literature. 

Od  June  30,  1854,  Sterling  Price  was  made  adjunct  professor  of 
English  liteniture.  A  communication  was  received  from  John  W. 
Henry,  superintendent  of  common  schools  (now  one  of  the  judges  of 
\he  Supreme  Court)  calling  attention  to  the  law  in  regard  to  the 
e8tablidhment  in  the  University  of  a  professorship  to  be  devoted  to 
the  theory  and  practice  of  teaching,  to  be  called  the  normal  pro- 
fessorship. 

On  July  4,  1855,  W.  H.  Duncan  resigned  the  Treasurership  of  the 
Board,  and  Walter  T.  Lenoir  was  elected  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

PRESIDENT   SHANNON   DECLINES   RE-ELECTION. 

The  Legislature,  by  an  act  approved  December  4,  1855,  having  de- 
clared vacant,  on  July  4,  1856,  all  the  offices  held  by  the  President, 
professors,  and  tutors,  James  Shannon  was  unanimously  re-elected  to 
that  position  for  six  years,  terminating  on  4th  of  July,  1862,  an  honor 
which  he  declined  to  accept.  Resolutions  highly  complimentary  to 
President  Shannon  were  passed,  and  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D. 
<H)nferred  upon  him.' 

ELECTION    OF   PROF.    HUDSON. 

Calvin  F.  Burns  moved  to  declare  Prof.  W.  W.  Hudson  President 
for  six  years,  when  N.  C.  Orear  moved  that  he  Ije  President  p?'o  tern. 
for  oue  session,  commencing  October  1.  The  motion  of  Mr.  Burns 
3nd  the  amendment  were  laid  on  the  table,  6  to  5,  after  which  Mr. 
Hudson  was  unanimously  elected  President;  G.'  H.  Matthews,  Pro- 
fessor of  Ancient  Languages ;  John  J.  tJacob,  Professor  of  English 
Xiterature ;  Wm.  C.  Shields,  Associate  Professor  of  Latin  ;  Bolivar 
-S.  Head,  Professor  of  Mathematics,  and  Sterling  Price,  Normal  Pro- 
fessor and  Instructor  in  Greek  ;  John  Locke,  Jr.,  Professor  of  Chem- 
istry, Geology,  Mineralogy,  Physiology,  and  Anatomy.     A  Primary 


'  President  Shannon  was  called  to  the  Presidency  of  Christian  University,  Canton,  Mo., 
"^bich  he  accepted,  and  administered  the  trust  very  ably  and  satisfactorily  for  several  years. 
He  wag  bom  in  Monughan  County,  Ireland,  April  23,  1799,  and  died  in  Canton,  Mo.,  Peb- 
^^^25, 1869.  His  remains  were  interred  in  the  Columbia  Cemetery,  and  a  beautiful  mon- 
^«nt  iparfci  the  place  of  their  repose. 


288  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Department  iu  the  llDiversity  was  established,  and  the  resident  0 
tors,  on  nomination  of  the  Faculty  of  Arts,  empowered  to  app 
teachers  and  fix  their  salaries. 

The  Board  deemed  it  improper  to  elect  Professors  in  the  Med 
Department,  situated  in  St.  Louis,  which  was  equivalent  to  a  diss 
tion  between  the  University  and  that  department. 

At  the  July  meeting,  1857,  President  Hudson  reported  to  the  Be 
that  the  Faculty  had,  at  the  beginning  of  the  last  session,  appoir 
Wm.  Alexander,  Teacher  of  Drawing,  and  Carlo  De  Haro,  Teache 
Modern  Languages.  Mr.  Alexander  accepted,  but  **  Mr.  De  Haro 
turned  a  petulant  rejection,  partly  because  he  was  not  honored  \ 
the  title  of  Professor,  and  partly  because  he  considered  the  salary  c 
temptible."  The  position  was  then  tendered  Ignace  Hainer,  of  lo 
a  Hungarian  exile,  who  accepted  it.  Jasper  J.  Searcy,  Principal, 
Wm.  A.  Buckner,  Assistant,  had  had  charge  of  the  Primary  Dep 
ment.  On  motion  of  GeoiVe  H.  Hall,  the  Secretary  was  instru( 
to  notify  Prof.  Locke,  in  writing,  to  appear  before  the  Board  on 
last  Tuesday  of  September,  to  answer  charges  of  willful  neglecl 
duty.  Prof.  Locke  failing  to  appear  at  this  meeting,  the  Curai 
proceeded  to  examine  the  testimony  in  relation  to  the  charges,  fo 
them  true,  and  removed  him  from  office. 

At  the  August  meeting,  1858,  George  C.  Swallow  was  elected  I 
fessor  of  Chemistry,  Mineralogy,  Geology,  etc.,  for  four  years  fi 
July  1,  1858,  which  he  accepted,  retaining,  however,  his  position  in 
Geological  survey  of  the  State. 

BEATH    OF    PRESIDENT    HUDSON. 

Meeting  July  1,  1859.  —  The  death  of  President  Hudson,  wl 
occurred  June  14,  1859,  was  announced,  and  a  committee  —  C. 
Stone,  Jno.  W.  Harris,  Michael  Bright  and  P.  H.  McBride  —  ^ 
appointed  to  correspond,  with  a  view  of  tilling  the  vacancy.  P 
Matthews  was  elected  President  of  the  University  ^ro  tern, 

ELECTION    OF    DR.  A.  T.   BLEDSOE,  PRESIDENT. 

Meeting  August  22,  1859, —  On  motion  of  Mr.  Stone,  Albert  1 
lor  Bledsoe,  LL.  D.,  Professor  of  Mathematics  in  the  Universit 
Virt^inia,  was  elected  President  for  six  vears  from  July  4,  1859.  1 
ary  $3,000  per  annum,  with  use  of  President's  house  and  groui 
and  $5  per  scholar  on  all  who  may  enter  each  year  over  the  numbe 


HISTORY   OF   BOONK   COUNTY.  289 

eighty,  beneficiaries  excepted.  Prof.  Swallow  was  requested  to  de- 
liver during  the  next  session,  a  course  of  lectures  on  **  Scientific  Ag- 
riculture." 

Prof.  Bledsoe  declining  to  accept  the  presidency,  a  meeting 
of  the  Board  was  held  on  October  10,  1859.  Present — McBride, 
Horner,  Snell,  Blacklege,  Pollard,  Brady,  Stark,  Cross,  Orear,  Har- 
ris, Stone  and  Seay  — 12.  After  voting  down  a  proposition  made  by 
Mr.  Seay  to  proceed  immediately  to  the  election  of  a  President,  the 
Board  resolved  to  take  up  and  consider  a  memorial  from  the  Faculty, 
in  which  they  proposed  to  reconstruct  the  University  on  a  new  plan, 
each  of  the  professors  pledging  hitnself  to  vacate  his  position  in  the 
institution,  in  order  that  the  curatory  might  be  entirely  free  to  fill  the 
wious  chairs  under  said  plan.  Among  its  leading  features  were  the 
following :  — 

The  studies  to  be  divided  into  appropriate  departments,  each  of 
which  shall' be  independent  of  the  others.  Each  professor  to  report 
to  the  Curators  and  be  responsible  to  them  alone.  That  instead  of 
having  a  president,  the  Curators  shall  annually  appoint  some  member 
of  the  faculty  as  its  chairman,  no  one  of  whom  shall  be  eligible  two 
years  in  succession. 

Seven  departments  were  established:  1.  Latin  Language  and 
Literature.  2.  Greek  Language  and  Literature.  3.  English  Lan- 
guage and  Literature.  4.  Moral  Philosophy  and  Political  Science. 
5.  Mathematics.  6.  Astronomy  and  Natural  Philosophy.  7.  Nat- 
oral  Sciences  and  Scientific  Agriculture.  Also  ''Special  Courses  in 
Study,"  each  school  independent  of  and  separate  from  the  other  : 
1.  School  of  Scientific  Agi'iculture  and  Mechanics.  2.  School  of 
Civil  En«:ineerinor.  3.  Normal  School.  In  each  of  these  instruction 
to  be  given  by  professors  of  the  *'  Departments." 

This  substantially  was  the  system  which  prevailed  in  the  University 
<^f  Virginia.  After  much  discussion,  in  which  it  was  maintained  by 
the  opponents  of  the  new  plan  that  it  violated  the  organic  law  of  the 
institution,  it  was  adopted,  6  to  5,  as  follows :  — 

Ayes— McBride,  Harris,  Horner,  Snell,  Cross,  Blacklege  —  6. 
Nays  — PoUard,  Seay,  Orear,  Brady  and  Stone — 5. 
Absent  —  Stark,  who  was  sick  in  his  room  at  the  hotel. 

The  salary  of  each  professor  was  fixed  at  $1,500  per  annum,  and  the 
Chairman  of  the  Faculty,  in  addition,  the  use  of  the  President's  houne 
^»<1  grounds. 

Mr.  Stone  entered  his  protest  on  the  Journal  against  the  plan. 

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290  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

After  the  adoption  of  the  plan  the  Curators  proceeded  to  fill  t 
seven  depaitments  by  the  election  of  the  following  professors,  Polh 
and  Stone  voting  against  each  of  them  :  — 

1.  William  C.  Shields.  2.  George  H.  Matthews.  3.  Sterli 
Price,  Jr.  4.  John  J.  Jacob.  5.  Bolivar  S.  Head.  6.  To  be  fill 
by  the  resident  Curators.  7.  George  C.fSwallow.  Prof.  Matthe 
was  elected  Chairman  of  the  Faculty. 

Meeting  March  15 ^  1860.  —  Dr.  Duncan  nominated  William 
Allen  for  President  of  the  board,  who  was  elected,  and  Gen.  Donipii 
nominated  R.  L.  Todd  for  Secretary,  who  was  also  elected.  < 
motion  of  Mr.  Hickman  it  was  resolved  that  the  University  should 
reorganized  with  a  faculty  of  five  regular  professors:  1.  Engl 
Language  and  Literature.  2.  Mathematics.  3.  Natural  Sciences  a 
Natural  Philosophy.  4.  Latin  and  Greek  Languages.  5.  Moral  a 
Intellectual  Philosophy  and  Political  Science,  one  of  whom  shall 
elected  by  the  board  President  of  the  University.  Also  that  th 
shall  be  a  Primary  Department.  Also  that  a  committee — Min 
Duncan  and  Todd  —  be  appointed  to  correspond  with  the  view 
filling  the  professorships,  and  report  to  the  next  meeting.  Adop 
unanimously,  thus  upsetting  the  plan  of  organization  adopted  at 
October  meeting. 

Meeting  May  15^  1860.  —  It  was  resolved  that  Prof.  Matth< 
shall  be  ex-officio  President  of  the  University,  at  a  salary  of  $2,5 
with  use  of  President's  house,  etc.,  and  that  the  salary  of  the  p 
fessors  be  $2,000  per  annum.  Term  of  oflSce,  four  years,  exc 
principal  of  Primary  Department,  whose  term  shall  be  one  ye; 
salary,  $1,000. 

George  H.  Matthews  was  elected  Professor  of  Ancient  Languaj 
and  Liternture ;  A.  G.  Wilkinson,  of  Washington  City,  Assist 
Professor  and  Instructor  in  German  and  French ;  salary,  $1,1' 
John  H.  Lathrop  w^as  elected  Professor  of  English  Language  f 
Literature ;  Edward  T.  Fristoe,  Professor  of  Mathematics  s 
Astronomy;  Abram  Lytton,  Professor  of  Natural  Sciences  a 
Natural  Philosophy  ;  and  Jasper  J.  Searcy,  Principal  of  the  Primi 
Department. 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  291 


CHAPTER    VIL 

HISTOBY  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  AND   AGRICULTURAL  COL- 
LEGE —  Concluded. 

Beetion  of  PrMident  Minor  —  Military  oath  prescribed  by  Maj.  Oen.  Halleck  —  TheUni- 
teifity  doted  —  The  University  re-opened,  with  Dr.  Lathrop  as  President  of  the  Faculty 
Jqm,  1865i,  the  University  reorganized  by  the  election  of  Dr.  Lathrop  as  President  — 
The  SUte  Agricultural  GoUen^ —  First  movement  in  the  Board  to  secure  its  location  — 
Dftitb  of  President  Lathrop  —  Election  of  Daniel  Read  as  President  —  The  Stephens' 
Midal— Constitution  of  1865  on  Education  —  A  new  departure  in  regard  to  the  Univer- 
Bty— $10,000  to  rebuild  the  President's  house  and  one  and  three-quarters  per  cent  of 
the  SUte  revenae,  after  deducting  twenty-flve  per  cent  for  Public  Schools,  appropriated 
to  the  University  —  The  first  Dollar  ever  Appropriated  to  it  —  Act  of  March  11,  1867  — 
Liw  Department  established  —  Inauguration  of  President  Read  —  Erection  of  Club 
Boirding  House  —  Agricultural  College  located — A  long  struggle  ended — Citizens' 
mestiDg^  Action  of  the  County  Court  —  Proceedings  of  the  Commissioners  —  Land 
Commi^ioner  and  Land  Appraisers  appointed  —  Photographic  likeness  of  the  friends  of 
th«  Agricultural  Collie  hung  in  the  Library — The  School  of  Mines  located — Laying 
th«  eomer-stone  of  the  Scientific  Building — Portrait  of  Dr.  Rollins — Honors  to  James 
Si  Bollins— Portrait  of  Edward  Bates— Presentation  of  portrait  of  Dr.  Rollins — Re- 
jection of  President  Read  — Phelps  County  bonds  declared  illegal  —Portrait  of  Prof.  G. 
EHitthews — Election  and  inauguration  of  S.  S.  Laws  as  President — Professors'  chairs 
netted— Death  of  President  Read  —  Death  of  Prof.  George  C.  Bingham  —  Re-election 
of  President  Laws  —  '*  The  Laws  Observatory  and  Telescope  "  —  "  The  McAnally  prize 
for  English  "  — Sale  of  Agricultural  College  lands  —  The  Rollins  bell  —  The  chair  occupied 
by  Prof.  Swallow  declared  vacant — J.  W.  Sanborn  elected  to  fill  it  —  Endorsement  of 
Praiident  Laws. 

BENJAMIN    D.    MINOR   ELECTED   PRESIDENT. 

Meeting  July  2^  1860. —  Benj.  B.  Minor,  ofRichmond,Va.,  was  elec- 
ted Pre<»ident,  to  be  installed  October  2,  1860,  and  J.W.  Tucker,  of  the 
^mmissioners,  requested  to  deliver  an  address  on  behalf  of  the  cura- 
tors. J.  G.  Norwood  was  elected  Professor  of  Natural  Sciences  and 
Natural  Philosophy. 

Meeting  October  5,  1860. — The  thanks  of  the  Board  were  tendered 
J.W.Tucker  and  President  Minor  for  their  addresses,  copies  re- 
quested for  publication,  and  10,000  ordered  to  be  printed. 

MILITARY   OATH    TO    BE    TAKEN. 

Meeting  March  19 y  1862. — Major  General  Halleck,  Commander  of 
the  Department  of  the  Missouri,  having  issued  an  order,  February  3,. 
1862,  that  the  president,  professors,  curators,  and  other  officers  of 


292  HISTORY   OF   BOONS   COUOTT. 

the  University  take  the  oath  of  allegiance  prescribed  by  the  Sixi 
Article  of  the  State  Ordinance  of  October  16,  1861,  and  file  thesan 
in  the  office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  Generd,  in  St.  Louis,  within  i 
days,  in  default  of  which  they  will  be  considered  as  having  resignc 
their  respective  offices.  On  motion  of  Mr.  Russell,  the  officers  name 
be  requested  to  state  in  writing  by  two  o'clock  that  day  whether  the 
have  or  have  not  taken  said  oath.  General  Halleck's  order  also  pre 
vided  that  "  this  institution  having  been  endowed  by  the  govert 
ment  of  the  United  States,  its  funds  should  not  be  used  to  teac 
treason  or  to  instruct  traitors."  And  that  if  any  one  of  the  persor 
named,  failing  to  take  said  oath,  **  shall  thereafter  attempt  to  obtai 
pay,  or  perform  the  functions  of  such  office,  he  will  be  tried  and  pui 
ished  for  military  offence."  Responses  were  received  from  Presidei 
Minor  and  from  Professors  Lathrop,  Matthews  and  Norwood,  thattb< 
had  taken  the  oath.  Dr.  W.  T.  Lenoir,  Treasurer,  refused  to  take 
submitted  a  statement  of  his  accounts,  and  tendered  his  resignatic 
Thomas  B.  Gentry  was  elected  Treasurer  in  his  stead. 

Average  daily  attendance  of  students  only  about  forty. 

Prof.  Fristoe  having  abandoned  his  post  for  the  purpose  of  joiai 
Price's  army,  his  chair  was  declared  vacant. 

THE   UNIVERSITY   CLOSED. 

A  resolution  was  passed  declaring  the  offices  of  president,  proi 
sors  and  tutor  vacant  from  that  day,  and  that  the  treasurer  refund 
the  pupils  the  proportion  of  tuition  fees  paid  by  them  for  the  uim 
pired  part  of  the  term,  thus  closing  the  institution  on  account  of  1 
prevalence  of  civil  war,  and  the  military  occupancy  of  the^buildii 
and  grounds. 

A  warrant  for  $1,200  to  Prof.  Lathrop  was  issued  in  liquidation 
an  equitable  claim  in  his  favor,  for  parts  of  salary  voluntarily  I'emiti 
by  him  in  1843. 

A  communication  was  received  from  President  Minor,  protest! 
jagainst  the  discontinuance  of  his  office,  which  was  laid  on  the  tab 

UNIVERSITY    REOPENED. 

Meeting  November  12 ^  1862.  —  The  offices  of  professor  of  Engl  i 
language  and  literature  (John  H.  Lathrop),  and  of  ancient  langua^ 
and  literature  (George  H.  Matthews),  were  revived  and  continued  ^ 
the    session  to  be  opened  November  24,  1862 ;  Dr.  Lathrop  to 


.mSTOBT  OF   BOONE   CJOUNTY.  29| 

chairman  of  the  faculty.  The  troops  requested  to  vacate  the  east 
wing  of  the  building.  A  paper,  in  the  nature  of  a  protest,  received 
from  ex-President  Minor,  which  was  returned  to  him  without  com* 
ment. 

Meeting  Februa^^  17 y  1863. —  The  Commissioners — Jno.  H.  Lath* 
rop,  B.  McAlister  and  Henry  Keen  —  appointed  by  the  resident  cura- 
tors to  assess  damages  to  University  buildings  and  grounds,  by  reason 
of  military  occupancy,  reported  the  same  (with  items  in  detail)  at 
$3,000. 

Meeting  August  11^  1863.  —  University  reorganized  for  the  session 
of  1863-4,  by  the  election  of  Dr.  Lathrop  chairman  of  the  faculty 
and  professor  of  mental  and  moral  science,  G.H.  Matthews,  professor 
of  ancient  languages  and  literature ;  Dr.  Norwood,  professor  of 
natural  sciences  and  natural  philosophy,  and  J.  N.  C.  Karnes  and  H, 
N.  Ess,  tutors.  Dr.  Lathrop,  in  addition  to  salaiy,  to  have  use  of 
President's  house  and  grounds. 

Meeting  June  28,  1864.  — Thos.  M.  Allen  elected  president  of  the 
Board.  Professors  Lathrop,  Matthews  and  Norwood  were  requested 
to  continue  in  the  positions  then  held  by  them  for  the  next  year, 
^hich  they  agreed  to  do. 

JNO.  H.  LATHROP  ELECTED  PRESIDENT. 

Meeting  June  27 ^  1865.  —  Moss  Prewitt  elected  President  of  the 
loard.  The  civil  war  being  at  an  end,  and  the  white-winged  messen.- 
gerof  peace  having  again  returned  to  bless  our  country,  the  Univer- 
sity was  reorganized  by  the  election  of  Jno.  H.  Lathrop  President 
and  of  G.  H.  Matthews,  J.  G.  Noiwood  and  Carr  W.Pritchett  profes- 
sors (the  latter  of  mathematics)  for  one  year.  In  addition,  a  normal 
department,  on  motion  of  Mr.  Russell,  was  created.  Among  other 
important  business  transacted  a  resolution,  offered  by  Mr.  Bruere,  of 
St.  Charles,  was  passed,  requiring  the  Executive  Committee  to  memo- 
rialize Congress  to  repay  to  the  University  the  damages  occasioned 
by  the  occupation  of  Federal  troops  ;  and  one,  offered  by  Mr.  Russell, 
appointing  a  committee  —  Messrs.  Clark,  Sutherland,  Kellerman 
and  Hewitt  —  to  guard  the  funds  of  the  University  in  the  Lescis- 
lature,  and  procure  indemnity  for  any  loss  that  may  occur.  The 
Legislature  was  also  requested  to  remove  the  restriction,  which  pro- 
Whits,  virtually,  ministers  of  the  gospel  from  holding  office  in  the 
faculty. 


294  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

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STATE   AGRICULTURAL   COLLEGE. 

Meeting  July  26 j  1865.  —  To  Mr.  L.  M.  Lawson,  a  graduate  of  tl 
University  and  for  some  years  pasta  well-known  and  successful  bank 
in  New  York  City,  belongs  the  honor  of  making  the  first  movemei 
in  the  Board  of  Curators  to  secure,  at  Columbia,  the  location  of  tl 
Agricultural  College.  At  the  July  meeting,  1865,  he  offered  the  fo 
lowing  preamble  and  resolution,  which  was  supported  by  him  in  a 
able  speech,  and  which  we  regard  of  sufficient  importance  to  requii 
its  insertion  at  length  : — 

Whxbkas,  The  Congress  of  the  United  States  having  made  a  large  grant  of  lands  to  ea 
of  the  States,  with  a  view  to  establish  and  endow  Agricultural  Colleges  therein;  t 
whereas,  the  State  of  Missouri  having  the  entire  control  of  the  State  University,  located 
Columbia — the  endowment  of  which  has  been  derived  exclusively  from  the  bounty  of 
United  States  Government  and  the  people  of  Boone  County  —  with  library,  philosophi 
chemical  and  astronomical  apparatus,  geological  cabinet,  etc.,  thus  presenting  very  sir 
considerations — in  view  of  economy,  and  an  early  success  of  the  enterprise  —  why  the  j 
posed  agricultural  college  should  be  connected  with  the  University ;  be  it  therefore 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  five  members  of  this  Board  be  appointed  to  consider 
subject,  and  in  behalf  of  the  Board  to  memorialize  the  General  Assembly,  at  its  next  va 
ing,  in  favor  of  connecting  the  proposed  Agricultural  College  with  the  State  University. 

This  resolution  was  adopted  nem.  couy  and  Messrs.  Lawson,  Clu 
Esteb,  Robinson  and  Russell  were  appointed  the  committee  to  men 
rialize  the  General  Assembly  on  the  subject. 

Meeting  December  13^  1865,  —  During  the  recess  of  the  Boa 
Thos.  Yeatman,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  a  gentleman  eminently  qualif 
for  the  position,  very  generously  tendered  his  services  to  the  Exe« 
tive  Committee  to  discharge  the  duties  of  Professor  of  English  Lj 
guage  and  Literature,  for  the  current  year,  without  compensatic 
but  afterwards  and  unexpectedly,  circumstances  rendered  it  impossi 
for  him  to  do  so. 

The  Executive  Committee  reported  that  on  October  11,  1865,  tl 
appointed  Joseph  Ficklin  Professot*  of  Mathematics  at  a  salary 
1800  per  annum,  and  $5  on  each  paying  student.  Also,  that  John 
Cowgill  had  been  appointed  tutor.  The  President's  house  havi 
been  destroyed  by  fire  November  27,  1865,  the  two-story  frame  bui 
ing  in  the  northwest  corner  of  the  campus,  now  known  as  '*  i 
English  building,"  was  fitted  up  as  a  residence  for  President  Latbi 
and  familv. 

The  Legislature  was  requested,  by  resolution,  to  appropriate  $1 
000  to  rebuild  the  President's  home,  and  among  other  reasons  gi^ 
in  favor  of  the  proposition,  the  singular  fact  is  mentioned  that  up 


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HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  295 

t  time  the  State  had  never,  directly  or  indirectly,  contributed  from 

{treasury  a  single  dollar  for  the  institution. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Lindsay  a  copy  of  the  address  delivered  in  the 

lapel  by  Enqs  Clark,  by  invitation  of  the  faculty,  was  requested  for 

blication  in  the  Missouri  Statesman  and  Missouri  Democrat, 

Meeting  June  27,  1866.  —  Oren  Root,  Jr.,  of   New  York,  was 

wted  Professor  of  English  Languages  and  Literature. 

Mr.  Lawson  introduced  a  resolution,  which  passed,  looking  to  the 

pointment  of  a  military  professor,  under  the  act  of  Congress  of 

Ij2,  1862. 

DEATH  OF  PRESIDENT  LATHROP. 

Meeting  August  29,  1866. —  In  view  of  the  death  of  President  La- 
»p,  who  died  August  6,  1866,  the  session  of  the  Board  was  opened 
h prayer  by  Rev.  Henry  A.  Nelson,  D.  D.,  on  whose  motion  a  com- 
tee  (Nelson,  Perry  and  James  H.  Robinson)  was  appointed  to 
ort  a  suitable  minute  touching  his  death.  They  submitted  the  fol- 
ing,  which  was  adopted  :  — 

tie  Board  of  Curators  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  being  convened  In 
ial  session  in  consequence  of  the  recent  death  of  President  Lathrop,  desipe  to  put  on 
rd  our  profound  sense  of  personal  bereavement  and  of  public  loss  in  that  afflictive  dis- 
istion  of  Divine  Providence.  We  would  accept  it  in  humble  submission  to  the  will  of 
,  whose  infallible  wisdom  and  perfect  righteousness  we  devoutly  acknowledge.  Yet,  we 
it  aa  a  calamity  of  no  ordinary  magnitude.  Having  been  the  first  President  of  this  Uni- 
ity;  having  labored  for  its  establishment  and  advancement  with  extraordinary  diligence, 
;nce  and  self-denial;  having  adhered  to  it  in  days  of  adversity  and  darkness;  having 
ned  it  with  his  elegant  scholarship,  enriched  it  with  his  rare  wisdom  and  large  experi- 
t  and  loved  it  with  paternal  affection,  his  sudden  death  calls  its  guardians  and  its  pupils 
alumni  to  mourning  only  less  than  his  afflicted  family.  To  thei%we  tender  the  assur- 
er our  heartfelt  sympathy,  of  our  sincere  disposition  to  do  all  in  our  power  to  mitigate 
calamity,  and  of  the  very  high  honor  in  which  we  will  ever  hold  the  memory  of  him 
1  they  have  lost  and  whom  we  so  esteem  as  a  man  and  an  educator ;  that  we  can 
ely  wish  for  more  than  that  another  such  as  he  may  be  found  to  succeed  him. 

''liich  was  adopted,  and  a  copy  thereof  ordered  to  be  furnished  to 
fiimily  of  Dr.  Lathrop,  and  also  for  publication. 
n  motion  of  Mr.  Robinson  :  — 

i*olved.  That  some  badge  of  mournmg,  as  a  token  of  respect  for  Dr.  Lathrop's  mem- 
>e  put  in  the  lecture>rooms  of  the  University  until  the  close  of  the  next  commencement 
•lies. 

>a  Friday,  August  3,  1866,  a  citizens'  meeting  was  held  in  the 
rt-house  in  Columbia,  on  the  occasion  of  the  death  of  President 
lirop,  which  was  called  to  order  by  Moss  Prewitt,  President  of  the 
rd  of  Curators  of  the  University,  on  whose  motion  Hon.  Jas.  S. 


296  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Rollins  was  called  to  the  chair.  After  explanation  of  the  purposes  i 
the  meeting,  the  honorable  chairman  proceeded  to  a  brief  and  feeliu 
review  of  the  life  and  character  of  the  illustrious  deceased,  whic 
found  a  warm  response  in  the  hearts  of  all  present.  On  motion  of « 
F.  Baker,  James  L.  Stephens  was  elected  secretary,  whereupon  C!o 
W.  F.  Switzler  offered  resolutions,  accompanying  their  presentatio 
with  remarks  befitting  the  solemn  occasion,  in  which  proper  testimon 
was  borne  to  his  blameless  life,  distinguished  usefulness,  and  nob 
example,  and  to  his  eminent  learning  and  faithful  labors  in  the  emu 
of  education.  The  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted,  after  whic 
the  chairman  appointed  the  following  pall-bearers :  Moss  Prewit 
Prof.  Joseph  Ficklin,  N.  W.  Wilson,  Warren  Woodson,  Dr.  Paul  Hu 
bard,  James  H.  Waugh,  and  William  F.  Switzler — J.  S.  Rollins  al 
appointed  by  the  meeting. 

The  following  gentlemen  were  appointed  a  committee  to  make  st 
able  arrangements  for  the  funeral,  namely :  Joseph  B.   Douglass, 
T.  Russell,  and  J.  Scott  Payne. 

Since  the  hist  meeting  the  Executive  Committee  employed  as  tui 
D.  W.  B.  Kurtz. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Sutherland,  as  a  further  testimonial  in  honor 
President  Lathrop,  it  was  resolved  to  adopt  measures  to  establish  a 
endow  a  Lathrop  Professorship  of  Mental  and  Moral  Science.  Coi 
mittee :  Sutherland,  Allen,  and  Denny. 

ELECTION    OF   DANIEL    READ,    PRESIDENT. 

Daniel  Read,  LL.  D.,  of  Madison,  Wisconsin,  was  elected  Pre 
dent  for  four  yiears,  at  a  salary  of  $2,500  per  annum,  with  the  usi 
perquisites. 

Profc  C.  H.  Crowell,  of  Alton,  Illinois,  was  elected  Principal  of  1 
Preparatory  Department. 

Maj.  Gen.  Hancock,  Commander  of  the  Department  of  the  W 
souri,  having  detailed  a  board  of  officers  of  the  army  to  assess  1 
damage  done  to  the  University  buildings  and  grounds  by  militi 
occupancy  during  the  war,  the  secretary  was  requested  to  ask  k 
to  furnish  the  Board  a  copy  of  the  order. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Russell,  a  committee  of  five  was  appointed 
prepare  and  present  to  the  General  Assembly  a  memorial  advocati 
the  location  of  the  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  College  in  connect 
with  the  University.  Committee:  Russell,  Clark,  of  St.  Lou 
Robinson,  Todd  and  Love. 


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HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  297 

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Meeting  April  P,  1867.  -^  A  letter  received  from  James  L.  Stephens, 
donating  |500,  the  annual  interest  on  which  is  to  be  expended  in  a 
gold  medal,  to  be  awarded  to  the  stndent  in  the  Senior  (ylass  who 
shall  excel  in  oratory,  which  was  accepted  with  thanks.  Also,  $25 
from  Prof.  Swallow,  as  a  prize  to  the  graduate  who  stands  the  best 
in  the  department  ot  natural  sciences.     Accepted  with  thanks. 

James  H.  Waugh  elected  treasurer  of  the  board. 

A  committee  of  two  — Enos  Clark  and  R.  L.Todd  —  were  ap- 
pointed, in  connection  with  President  Read,  to  prepare  a  plan  for  a 
Normal  School. 

coNSTrrtJTiON  OF  1865  —  act  op  march  11,  1867 — a  new  depart- 
ure  IN   REOARD   TO  THE   UNIVERSITY. 

The  Constitution  of  1865  contained  the  first  organic  definition  of 
what  the  public  school  fund  shall  consist,  and  after  doing  so  proceeds  to 
declare  that  it  **  shall  be  securely  invested  and  sacredly  preserved  "  as 
suchfuud,  and  that  the  annual  income  thereof,  **  together  with  so  much 
of  the  ordinary  revenue  of  the  State  as  may  be  necessary,  shall  be 
fiuthfuUy  appropriated  for  establishing  atid  maintaining  the  free 
schools  'atid  the  University  in  this  article  provided  for,  and  for  no 
other  uses  or  purposes  whatsoever." 

These  provisions  not  only  clearly  defined  the  sources  of  the  public 
school  fund  and  made  the  University  a  part  of  the  educational  system 
of  the  State,  but  it  placed  that  institution  on  a  new  financial  foun- 
dation, to  wit :  a  sharer  with  the  public  schools  of  the  annual  income 
of  the  fund,  together  with  so  much  of  the  ordinary  revenue  of  the 
State  as  may  be  necessary  to  maintain  it. 

In  obedience,  therefore,  to  the  liberal  University  policy  here  en- 
joined on  the  General  Assembly,  that  body,  by  the  act  of  March  11, 
1867,  not  only  appropriated  ten  thousand  dollars  to  rebuild  the  Pres- 
ident's house,  but  also,  in  the  second  section  of  the  same  act,  pro- 
vided that : 

There  is  also  set  aside  and  appropriated,  annually,  for  the  support  of  the  State  University 
ofMuBoun,  out  of  the  revenue  of  the  State,  after  first  deducting  therefrom  the  one-fourth  of 
^  revenue  for  the  Public  School  Fund,  one  and  three-quarter  per  cent  of  such  balance  ot 
^  State  revenue ;  and  this  is  declared  to  belong  to  the  University,  and  shall  be  paid  to  the 
Tretsarer  of  the  Board  of  Curators,  as  provided  for  by  law,  for  the  payment  of  other  funds 
of  the  University. 

The  University  was  located  in  1839,  twenty-eight  years  previous 
to  the  passage  of  this  act,  and  it  is  historically  true  that  not  withstand- 


298  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

ing  the  donation  to  the  State  by  Boone  County  of  nearly  one  hundred 
and  twenty  thousand  dollars,  with  which  the  edifice  was  erected  sljh 
partially  equipped  for  the  purposes  of  its  establishment,  the  party  ii 
power,  although  constantly  asked  to  do  so,  had  never  appropriated  i 
dollar  to  maintain  it,  the  act  above  mentioned  being  the  first  iii  oui 
history  which  recognized  the  constitutional  obligation  to  maintain  it. 
This  act  was  the  turning  point  in  the  policy  of  the  Stat«  towards 
the  University,  and  secured  to  the  institution,  annually,  without  a  bi- 
ennial scramble  in  the  Legislature,  an  ever-increasing  sum  forife 
support,  the  amount  of  which  depended  on  the  amount  of  the  revenue 
of  the  State. 

The  act  remained  in  force,  apparently  as  the  settled  policy  of  th 
State,  until  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution  of  1875,  when  unfortui 
ately,  and  without  good  reason,  as  many  maintain,  the  Supreme  Cou 
of  the  State  decided  that  the  Constitution  repealed  this  and  all  simil 
acts,  and  that  henceforth  appropriations  for  the  support  of  the  Ui 
versity  and  all  others  must  be  made  by  each  Legislature. 

Meeting  of  Curators ,  April  9,  1879,  continued: — On  motioa 
Mr.  Russell,  the  nearest  district  school  in  Columbia  was  attached 
nnd  made  a  part  of  the  institution,  as  a  model  school,  and  the  Exec 
tive  Committee,  with  the  School  Trustees,  were  requested  to  arraD| 
the  details  and  set  the  school  in  operation,  in  the  frame  building  i 
the  northwest  corner  of  the  Campus. 

LAW   DEPARTMENT    ESTABLISHED. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Lawson,  a  Law  Department  was  established  ii 
the  University,  and  a  committee  of  three  was  appointed,  in  connec 
tion  with  President  Read,  to  arrange  the  details.  Committee :  Lai« 
son,  Clark  and  Russell. 

Motion  that  E.  P.  Lampkin  be  appointed  Principal  of  the  Prepari 
tory  Department  at  a  salary  of  $1,400.  Referred  to  the  Committe 
on  Normal  School. 

Mr.  Crowell  was  notified  that  his  services  would  not  be  needed  i 
the  Preparatory  Department  after  the  close  of  the  present  session. 

INAUGURATION    OF   PRESIDENT   READ. 

The  following  notice  of  the  ceremonies  is  copied  from  the  Columbi 
JStatesman,  of  June  28,  1867  :  — 

''  The  occasion  of  the  formal  inauguration  of  Daniel  Read,  LL.  D. 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  299 

tis  President  of  the  Univei'sity  of  Missouri,  was  of  rare  interest  in 
Columbia.  The  exercises  occurred  at  10  o'clock  on  Wednesday  be- 
fore a  large  audience  composed  of  the  Board  of  Curators,  Faculty 
tni  students  of  the  University,  strangers,  visitors  and  citizens. 
[  About  ten  o'clock  a  procession  was  formed  at  the  court  house  under 
the  direction  of  Col.  J.  R.  Shields,  marshal  of  the  day,  and  headed 
by  the  Mexico  Cornet  Bund,  marched  to  the  University. 

"L.  M.Vernon,  Esq.,  of  Greene  County,  one  of  the  Curators,  pre- 
sided. After  a  most  solemn  and  appropriate  invocation  of  the  Throne 
of  Grace  by  the  venerable  Elder  Thomas  M.  AUdn,  the  Hon.  Philemon 
Bliss,  of  St.  Joseph,  was  introduced,  who,  on  behalf  of  the  Board  of 
Curators  and  in  their  name,  introduced  Dr.  Read  as '  President-elect 
of  the  University,  and  proceeded  to  deliver  a  short,  able  and  appro- 
priate address  which  was  heartily  applauded  at  its  close. 

"After  the  close  of  Judge  Bliss'  introductoiy  speech.  Dr.  Read  re- 
sponded in  an  inaugural  address  of  about  one  hour's  duration.  The 
-address  of  Dr.  Read  eminently  befitted  the  great  occasion  —  was  - 
earnest  and  practical,  lucid  in  its  enunciation  of  the  true  policy  of  the 
State,  and  in  every  respect  very  able.  In  short,  this  inaugural  of  the 
new  President  of  the  University,  so  replete  with  practical  wisdom,  so 
earnest  and  full  of  hope,  delighted  the  friends  of  the  institution,  and 
eannot  fail  most  favorably  to  influence  the  public  mind  in  its  behalf." 
Meeting  June  25 j  1867,  —  John  C.  Conley  presented  $25  as  a 
prize  to  the  graduate  who  shall  excel  in  oratory  at  commencement, 
June  27,  1867.  Received  with  thanks.  On  motion  of  Mr.  Bliss  a 
College  of  Agricultural  and  Natural  Science  was  established,  with 
Norton  S.  Townshend,  of  Ohio,  principal,  on  condition  that  the 
Legislature  sanction  the  act  and  make  the  needed  appropriation 
therefor. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Baker  a  Normal  College  in  the  University  was 
established,  and  on  motion  of  Mr.  Matthias,  W.  F.  Phelps,  of  Minne- 
sota, was  elected  professor  at  a  salary  of  $2,500  per  annum. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Baker  it  was  resolved  that  the  President  of  the 
University  is  hereby  respectfully  instructed  to  interdict  from  the 
public  orations  and  essays  of  students  of  the  University  any  compli- 
mentary allusion  to  men  who  have  been  instrutnental  in  seeking  the 
destruction  of  our  government,  or  the  advancing  of  any  ideas  indi- 
cating a  spirit  alien  to  the  unity  of  our  country.  [Mr.  Baker  was 
Provost  Marshal  General  of  Missouri  during  the  latter  part  of  the 
war.] 


300  ^  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Russell,  Nathaniel  Holmes,  one  of  the  Judges  ( 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Missouri,  was  elected  Professor  of  Law  j 
a  salary  of  $1,000. 

Meeting  December  23 y  1867.  — The  appointment  by  the  Executiv 
Committee  of  Prof.  E.  L.  Ripley,  of  Michigan,  as  Principal  of  th 
Normal  Department,  and  of  Mrs.  Caroline  E.  Ripley  as  Principal  c 
the  Model  School,  and  of  Mis^Mary  Brice  Read  —  the  latter  a  daugl 
ter  of  President  Read  —  as  Assistant  in  the  Model  School,  wei 
approved. 

By  invitation,  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins  and  Prof.  G.  C.  Swallow,  ad 
dressed  the  board  on  the  subject  of  the  location  of  the  Agriciiltiin 
College  \\\  connection  with  the  University ;  whereupon,  on  motion  ( 
Mr.  Russell,  a  comniittee  —  Russell,  Case  and  Todd  —  were  appoiutec 
in  conjunction  with  Rollins  and  Swallow,  to  prepare  and  submit  t 
the  Legislature  a  bill  locating  said  College  in  Columbia.  Presidei 
Read  was  added  to  the  committee. 

The  chair  of  Ancient  Languages  and  Literature  (Matthews)  wi 
declared  vacant  after  the  present  collegiate  year. 

Mr.  Case  offered  the  following,  and  it  was  unanimously  adopted :  - 

Reaolved,  That  in  vacating  the  chair  of  Ancient  Languages  and  Literature,  to  long  a 
ably  filled  by  Prof.  George  H.  Matthews,  the  Board  has  been  actuated  strictly  and  solely 
convictions  of  duty  to  the  University,  believing  that  its  interests  will  be  thereby  a 
vanced.  That  we  regret  exceedingly  that  Prof.  Matthews'  health  is  such  as  to  have  i 
paired  his  usefulness  and  render  it  imperative  on  us  not  longer  to  continue  him  in  his  cha 
and  that  we  extend  to  him  assurances  of  our  high  appreciation  of  his  long,  arduous  a 
faithful  services,  recognizing  him  always  as  identified  with  the  success  and  future  grov 
and  prosperity  of  the  University. 

Mr.  Nelson  moved  that  the  question  of  filling  the  chair  of  Ancic 
Languages  and  Literature  be  referred  to  a  committee,  to  whom  t 
testimonials  of  applicants  shall  be  addressed,  and  whose  report  sh 
be  made  to  the  next  meeting  of  the  Board,  which  was  adopted,  a 
the  following  committee  appointed :  J.  H.  Baker,  Booneville ;  A. 
Conant,  St.  Louis ;  Philemon  Bliss,  St.  Joseph ;  R.  L.  To( 
Columbia. 

Meeting  April  2,  1868,  —  Ex-President  Minor  presented  a  bill 
$5,694.45  against  the  University  for  arrears  of  salary  and  interc 
which  was  rejected.  The  Board,  after  various  motions  and  mi 
discussion,  proceeded  to  the  election  of  a  Professor  of  And 
Languages  and  Literature,  with  the  following  result :  Rev.  L. 
Vernon,  7  ;  Rev.  JohnM.  Packer,  7.  The  Vice  President,  T.  M.  All 
acting  as  chairman  —  Moss  Prewitt  being  absent  —  voted,  to  wh 


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HISTORY  or   BOONE   COUNTY.  301 


Mr.  Baker  entered  his  oral  protest.     There  being  a  tie  there  was  no 
election. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Sutherland,  the  Librarian  was  instructed  to  sell 
as  iraste  paper  the  surplus  addresses  delivered  in  1860  by  ex-Presi- 
dent Minor  and  J.  W.  Tucker. 
D.  W.  B.  Kurtz  was  declared  Assistant  Professor  in  the  Normal 
I  Department,  at  a  salary  of  $1,000.  Rev.  Leroy  M.  Vernon,  of 
Springfield,  Mo.,  was  elected  Professor  of  Latin  Language  and 
Literature,  and  Kev.  John  M.  Packer  of  Greek  Language  and  Lit- 
erature. 

The  Executive  Committee  were  authorized  to  make  arransrenient 
for  the  cheap  boarding  of  students  by  supplying  them  with  rooms 
at  a  low  rate  of  rent,  if  they  can  be  had,  or  by  building  suitable 
cottages. 

Mr.  Baker  was  authorized  to  correspond  with  the  Secretary  of  War 
relative  to  the  appointment  of  Gen.  R.  W.  Johnson  to  the  chair  of 
Military  Science  in  the  University.  ^ 

Meeting  December  28 ^  1868. — L.  M.  Vernon  declined  the  pro- 
fessorship of  Latin  Language  and  Literature. 

The  Executive  Committee,  having  since  the  June  meeting  purchased 
ground  and  erected  club  boarding-houses  thereon  for  the  use  of  stu- 
dents, the  Board  approved  their  action. 

Maj.  Gen.  Johnson  was  designated  by  the  Secretary  of  War  as 
Professor  of  Military  Science  and  assumed  his  duties  at  the  beginning 
of  the  current  session,  and  a  uniform  for  the  military  cadets  was 
adopted. 

The  chair  of  Latin  Language  and  Literature  being  vacant,  the 
Greek  professor  was  instructed  to  take  charge  of  the  instruction  in 
Latin  until  otherwise  ordered. 

Meeting  in  Jeffei'son  Cityy  January  27 ^  1869,  —  President  Read, 
in  the  hall  of  the  House,  at  7  o'clock  p.  m.,  addressed  the  Board  and 
a  large  audience,  chiefly  on  the  subject  of  locating  the  Agricultural 
College  at  Columbia.  Additional  boarding  cottages  authorized  to  be 
erected. 

Meeting  June  29 y  1869,  —  J.  S.  Rollins  elected  President  of  the 
Boiird,  and  has  occupied  that  position  continuously  to  the  present 
time —  1882.  Gen.  Johnson  retired  from  the  Professorship  of  Mili- 
itary  Science,  and  resolutions  highly  complimentary  to  him  were 
passed  by  the  Board. 
Daniel  Read  re-elected  President  of  the  University  for  four  years. 


302  HISTORY  OP  BOONE  COUNTY. 

THE  AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE  LOCATED . 

After  a  four  years'  struggle  in  the  Legislature  against  the  unreason- 
able and  inveterate  prejudices  of  many  of  the  party  in  power  against 
the  county  of  Boone,  against  a  remarkable  lack  of  information  on  the 
subject  and  a  desire  to  fritter  away  the  fund  by  appropriating  to 
other  objects,  the  Agricultural  College,  by  an  act  approved  February 
24,  1870,  was  finally  located  at  Columbia,  in  connection  with  the 
State  University.  The  contest  was  long  and  doubtful,  and  often 
characterized  by  great  bitterness  anji  much  partisan  feeling,  and  it  is 
but  justice  to  say  that  but  for  the  persistent  efibrts,  ability,  tact  and 
prudence  of  James  S.  Rollins,  Senator  from  Boone  district,  aided  and 
assisted  by  the  watchful  care  and  ceaseless  energy  and  adroitness  in 
debate  of  F.  T.  Russell,  a  member  of  the  House  from  Boone -^ 
assisted  by  the  able  efibrts  of  Dr.  Read,  the  President  of  the  Uni- 
versity —  the  College  never  would  have  been  located  in  Boone  County 
Dr.  Read,  by  learned  and  able  discourses,  aroused  the  Legislature  t 
the  importance  of  the  College  and  the  necessity  of  its  connection  wit! 
the  University,  and  to  him  no  small  share  of  credit  is  due  for  th 
final  triumph. 

The  members  from  Boone,  and  especially  Rollins  and  Russell,  wer 
constant,  in  season  and  out  of  season,  often  discouraged  by  implacabi 
opposition  and  temporary  defeats,  but  with  an  eye  single  to  the  oli 
ject  in  view,  they  finally  achieved  a  Legislative  victory,  which  fo 
Boone  County,  for  the  college  itself,  and  for  the  State,  is  the  greater 
in  the  history  of  their  public  careers. 

The  opposition  came  from  within  and  from  without,  from  leadin 
men  on  the  floor  of  both  Houses,  and  from  difiTerent  parts  of  th 
State,  who  came  to  the  capital  to  circumvent  their  efforts  by  plausibl 
schemes  to  divert  the  proceeds  of  the  sales  of  the  lands  to  objects  nc 
contemplated  by  the  Act  of  Congress,  by  giving  a  portion  of  it  t 
Lincoln  Institute,  by  providing  that  colored  students  should  be  adniitte 
both  to  the  College  and  to  the  University,  by  threats  to  move  th 
University  from  Columbia,  and  by  numberless  other  amendments,  to 
numerous  to  be  stated  here,  to  cripple  or  to  defeat  the  propositioi 
The  last  one  of  the  most  formidable  was  to  establish  a  Minins:  Scho( 
in  Southeast  Missouri,  in  the  mineral  district,  and  to  appropriate  t 
it  annually  one-fourth  of  the  proceeds  of  the  sales  of  the  lands  ;  sai 
school  to  be  located  by  the  curators  in  the  county  which  shall  donat 
to  the  State,  for  building  and  other  purposes,  not  less  than  |20,000  i 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  305 

cash,  nor  less  than  twenty  acres  in  land,  on  which  to  erect  buildings^ 
mi  lots  of  mineral  landi  in  such  quantity  and  kind  as  may  be  deemed 
necessary  for  said  school  for  practical  and  experimental  mining.  Con* 
yinced  that  the  College  could  not  be  located  at  all,  and  especially  in 
connection  with  the  State  University,  without  this  concession,  the 
members  from  Boone  and  other  true  friends  of  the  College,  in  a  spirit 
of  compromise,  agreed  to  it,  and  the  act  was  finally  passed. 

The  location,  however,  was  not  unconditional,  for  so  great  a  benefit 
was  not  to  be  conferred  upon  the  peo|)le  of  Boone  County  without 
their  paying  something  for  it.  Therefore,  the  act  provided  that,  by 
the  second  Monday  of  May  next  ensuing,  in  consideration  of  the  per- 
manent location  of  the  College  in  connection  with  the  State  University, 
thev  wei'e  to  donate  not  less  than  $30,000  in  cash,  to  be  used  in  erect- 
ingsuch  buildings  and  making  such  improvements  as  may  be  needed 
for  the  College,  and  in  addition,  to  donate  for  a  model  or  experimental 
farm  not  less  than  640  acres  of  land,  located  convenient  to  the 
University  grounds.     And  Boone  County  promptly  complied  with  the 

considerations.  ^ 

citizens'  meeting. 

On  Saturday  evening,  February  2(5,  1870,  a  public  meeting  was 
held  in  the  University  chapel,  to  take  suitable  action  on  the  attainment 
of  the  great  victoiy. 

On  motion  of  A.  J.  Harbison,  Gen.  Odon  Guitar  was  made  Presi- 
dent of  the  meeting,  and  on  motion  of  J.  H.  Waugh,  C.  P.  Anderson 
and  Lewis  M.  Switzler  were  made  Secretaries.  Gen.  Guitar  explained 
the  ohjects  of  the  meeting.  He  said  that  the  Agricultural  and 
Mechanical  College  was  a  great  boon  offered  to  us  by  the  Legislature. 
We  have  now  the  opportunity  of  making  our  county  a  great  educa- 
tional centre.  The  University  has  passed  through  a  severe  struggle, 
hut  a  ghu'ious  success  for  it  and  for  us  all  is  now  within  our  grasp. 
We  have  cherished  this  institution  in  times  of  peace  and  war,  and 
though  at  times  it  has  had  scarcely  a  sufficient  competency  to  sustain 
itself,  it  has  nevertheless  kept  on,  and  will  now  emerge  from  all 
embarrassments  as  one  of  the  first  institutions  of  the  country. 

('<>1.  Russell  moved  that  a  committee  of  seven  be  appointed  to  draft 
and  report  resolutions  for  adoption  by  the  meeting;  carried,  and  the 
chair  appointed  the  following  on  the  committee:  R.  L.  Todd,  R.  H. 
Smith,  A.  J.  Harbison,  David  Gordon,  J.  L.  Stephens,  Jeff.  Garth 
and  James  I.  Hickman. 

The  committee  retired,  and  Maj.  J.  S.  Rollins,  being  called  for. 


304  HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

appeared,  and  was  greeted  with  applause,  and  delivered  just  such  a 
speech  as  under  the  circumstances  was  eminently  befitting  him  and 
the  occasion. 

ACTION  OF  THE  COUNTY  COURT. 

On  Wednesday,  March  16,  1870,  a  special  session  of  the  Boone 
County  Court  was  held  to  take  into  consideration  the  location  of  the 
Agricultural  College.  All  the  judges  were  present  —  James  Arnold, 
James  Harris  and  John  W.  Hall.  Although  the  day  was  unusually 
inclement,  on  account  of  the  intense  cold  and  a  drifting  snow,  quite  a 
respectable  number  of  citizens  were  present.  The  court  was  addressed 
in  favor  of  the  requisite  appropriations  by  Col.  Switzler  (who  had 
just  returned  from  Washington)  and  by  Gen.  Guitar.  A  meeting  ol 
the  citizens  was  then  organized,  of  which  W.  F.  Switzler  was  choser 
chairman  and  H.  N.  Cook  secretary,  to  appoint  a  committee  of  citi- 
zens to  act  in  conjunction  with  members  of  the  Board  of  Curators  it 
the  selection  of  a  farm  site.  The  meeting  was  addressed  by  Jaraei 
L.  Stephens  in  regard  to  the  importance  of  the  College  to  our  county 
and  urging  prompt  and  liberal  action  on  the  part  of  the  court.  H< 
moved  that  Henry  Keene,  John  Machir  and  Joel  H.  Haden  b< 
appointed  the  committee  on  the  part  of  the  citizens.  Motion  carried 
On  motion  Boyle  Gordon  and  James  L.  Stephens  were  added  to  th 
committee.  ^ 

On  Monday,  March  21,  the  County  C^urt,  all  the  judges  bein 
present,  had  another  meeting,  and  heard  the  suggestions  of  all  citi 
zens  who  chose  to  address  them  in  reference  to  the  selection  and  pui 
chase  of  the  agricultural  farm. 

R.  L.  Todd,  one  of  the  local  Board  of  Curators,  and  J.  L.  Stc 
phens,from  the  committee  of  citizens  appointed  at  the  meeting  onth 
16th,  submitted  to  the  court  a  number  of  facts  in  regard  to  lands  an 
their  probable  cost,  which  might  be  selected  for  the  farm.  Thes 
embraced  quite  a  numl)er  of  combinations  or  plats  of  ground,  eac 
containing  six  hundred  and  forty  acres,  and  their  estimated  cost,  vary 
ing  from"$()2,000  to  $108,000. 

As,  under  the  law,  the  local  Board  of  Curators,  R.  L.  Todd,  J.  S 
Rollins,  Paul  Hubbard,  T.  M.  Allen  and  F.  T.  Russell,  are  authorize 
to  receive  subscriptions  and  purchase  the  lands,  the  court,  after  heai 
ing  the  subject  fully  discussed,  deemed  it  wisest  to  make  no  furtbe 
order  until  this  board,  which  has  a  legal  existence  under  the  act,  re 
ports  to  the  court  the  lands  they  prefer  and  the  lowest  sum  at  whici 
they  can  be  purchased. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  305 

The  court  then  adjourned  to  meet  at  its  regular  session  on  Monday, 
ipril  4th,  on  which  day  the  further  consideration  of  the  subject  was 
postponed  until  Monday,  April  11,  when  Maj.  Rollins,  on  behalf  of 
the  Curators,  presented  to  the  court  a  report  embodying  several  cora- 
binatioiis  of  lands.  Mr.  J.  L.  Stephens  presented  one  combination, 
embodying  chiefly  the  Garth  farm. 

The  court  then  unanimously  made  an  appropriation  of  $30,000  to 
purchase  the  agricultural  farm,  leaving  the  selection  of  the  land  to 
the  local  Board  of  Curators.  This  appropriation,  added  to  the  one  of 
$50,000  made  by  the  court  on  the  16th  ult.,  makes  $80,000  appro- 
priated by  the  court.  Adding  the  $10,000  appropriated  by  the  cor- 
poration of  Columbia,  makes  the  total  amount  $90,000.  The  bonds 
are  one-twenty  years  bonds  and  bear  ten  per  cent  interest,  payable 
semi-annually.  It  was  understood  the  owners  of  any  land  that  may 
be  purchased  were  to  be  paid  in  bonds  for  their  land. 

The  local  Board  of  Curators  made  two  reports  to  the  court,  pre- 
senting in  all  eight  combinations  of  land  of  640  acres  each,  and  the 
prices  at  which  they  could  be  purchased.  The  court  finally  made  a 
selection  of  the  tract  or  combination,  which  the  Commissioners  ac- 
cepted, and  thus  closed  the  long  contest. 

PROCEEDINGS    OF   THE    COMMISSIONERS. 

On  Tuesday,  May  3,  1870,  a  majority  of  the  State  Commissioners, 
namely,  Edward  Wyman,  of  St.  Louis  ;  Philemon  Bliss,  of  St.  Joseph  ; 
J.  W.  Matthias,  of  Springfield,  and  R.  L.  Todd  and  Paul  Hubbard,  of 
Columbia,  met  in  Columbia  to  discharge  the  duties  assigned  them  by 
law  in  regard  to  the  acceptance  or  rejection  of  the  lands  offered  by 
Boone  County  for  a  model  or  experimental  farm  for  the  Agricultural 
College. 

The  lands  offered,  six  hundred  and  forty  acres,  consist  of  twelve 
acres  bought  of  Prof.  G.  C.  Swallow,  twenty  acres  of  Mr.  T.  J.  Mc- 
Clellan,  about  one  hundred  and  eighty-three  acres  of  the  Hudson 
tract,  west  of  Hinkston  Creek,  and  including  the  fine  residence 
thereon,  and  the  remainder,  about  four  hundred  and  twenty-four 
acres  of  Major  Rollins,  all  of  which  lies  east  of  the  Providence  road, 
excluding  about  thirty  acres  around  his  residence,  and  including  the 
vineyard  and  garden  on  the  Hinkston. 

The  lands  and  titles  were  minutely  examined,  and  unanimously  and 

Without  hesitation  accepted,  thus  finally  consummating  the  work  and 
20 


306  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CX>UNTY. 

struggle  of  years,  and  permanently  locating  the  Agricultural  andM 
chanical  College  in  the  county  of  Boone. 

Neither  Mr.  H.  B.  Johnson,  the  Attorney  General,  nor  Mr.  T.  - 
Parker,   Superintendent  of   Public  Instruction,   were   present,  bo 
being  absent  from  Jefferson  City  when  the  notice  of  the  meeting 
the  Commissioners  reached  there. 

But  the  Agricultural  College  is  located,  finally  and  forever,  ai 
the  fact  goes  into  history. 

Meeting  of  the  Curators  on  May  5, 1870, —  On  motion  of  Mr.  Ru 
sell,  a  committee  of  five  was  appointed  —  Conant,  Northcott,  Russel 
Read  and  Orrick  —  to  locate  the  School  of  Mines,  as  provided  in  tl 
act  of  the  Legislature.  The  President,  Mr.  Rollins,  was  added  to  tl 
committee. 

Judge  Jas.  Harris,  of  Boone  County,  and  Dr.  L.  D.  Morse,  of  Kir: 
wood,  were  elected  by  the  Board  to  inspect  and  appraise  the  Agricu 
tural  College  Uinds,  note  the  character  of  soil,  amount  of  stone  ai 
timber  on  it,  etc.,  and  see  if  the  full  amount  of  land  to  which  tl 
State  is  entitled  under  the  act  of  Congress  has  been  selected,  and 
report.     Pay,  $6  per  day. 

A  committee,  consisting  of  Edw.  Wyman,  Dr.  Reed,  J.  W.  Ma 
thias,  F.  T.  Russell  and    R.  L.  Todd,  was   appointed  to  revise  tl 
various  courses  o£  study  in  the  University,  and  the  rules  and  regul 
tions  connected  therewith,  so  as  to  adapt  the  same  to  the  courses 
agricultural  and  mechanical  education. 

LAND    COMMISSIONER. 

J.  W.  Sutherland  was  elected  Land  Commissioner,  and  resigned  t 
place  as  member  of  the  Board.  • 

The  following  resolution  was  adopted  :  — 

Resolved^  That  with  a  view  to  the  entire  and  complete  reorganization  of  the  Univen^ 
and  its  proper  connection  and  adjustment  with  the  Agricultural  Department,  the  seats  of 
instructors  and  professors,  other  than  the  President,  are  held  and  declared  vacant  from  s 
after  the  close  of  the  session  of  the  University  in  June,  1871. 

PORTRAIT    OF    PRESIDENT    READ. 

On  motion   of  Mr.  Russell,   a  committee   of  three  (consisting 
Messrs.  Northcott,  Wyman  and  Todd)  was  appointed  to  arrange  ^ 
Mr.  A.  J.  Conant,  the  St.  Louis  artist,  for  the  painting  of  a  porti 
of  President  Read,  the  same  to  be  suspended  in  a  suitable  place  in 
chapel  of  the  University. 


I 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  307 

PORTRAITS   OF   THE   FKIEND8   OF   THE   AGRICULTURAL    COLLEGE. 

A  communication  from  James  S.  Rollins  and  F.  T.  Russell  was  read 
to  the  Board,  tendering,  on  behalf  of  the  citizens  of  Columbia,  pho- 
tographic portraits  of  those  members  of  the  Senate  and  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Missouri  who 
voted  for  the  bill  providing  for  the  organization  of  the  Agricultural 
and  Mechanical  College  and  its  connection  with  the  University  of  the 
State  established  h^'e ;  and  also  a  photographic  likeness  of  His  Ex- 
cellency, Gov.  McClurg,  who  approved  the  bill,  and  of  Lieut.  Gov. 
Stanard,  and  a  few  other  gentlemen,  who  aided  in  the  passage  of  the 
bill. 

These  i>ortraits  are  properly  framed,  were  accepted  by  the  Board, 
aad  DOW  grace  the  walls  of  the  library. 

JMeeting  September  2y  1870.  —  The  thanks  of  the  Board  were  voted 
to  Hon.  M.  E.  Fuller,  of  Madison,  Wisconsin,  for  Ward's  celebrated 
reaper  and  mower,  and  to  Messrs.  Stewart  &  Needham,  of  St.  Louis, 
for  the  Climax  reaper  and  mower,  both  of  which  were  generously 
donated  by  those  liberal-hearted  gentlemen  to  the  Agricultural  De- 
partment of  the  University. 

Prof.  E*.  A.  Haiffht's  resiornatioii  as  Assistant  Professor  in  the  Nor- 
naul  Department,  to  take  effect  August  5th,  was  accepted,  he  having 
been  elected  to  superintend  a  school  in  Alton,  Illinois. 

The  offices  of  business  agent  for  the  University,  and  of  farm  su- 
perintendent, were  created,  the  selection  of  officers  to  fill  them  being 
left  to  the  Executive  Committee.  Dr.  Paul  Hubbard  was  elected 
business  manager,  and  O.  A.  A.  Gardner,  farm  superintendent.  On 
motion  of  Mr.  Conant,  the  Board  resolved  to  build  a  Scientific  Hall, 
at  a  cost  not  to  exceed  $20,000,  the  details  of  the  work  —  plan- 
ning, locating,  contracting,  etc. — to  be  left  to  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee. ^ 

The  Chair  of  Agriculture  was  established,  and  Prof.  George  C. 
Swallow,  of  Columbia,  was  elected  to  fill  it. 

A  farm  committee,  consisting  of  Hon.  H.  T.  Mudd,  Hon.  J.  S. 
Rollins,  and  Dr.  P.  Hubbard,  was  appointed  to  take  charge  of  every- 
thing pertaining  to  the  Agricultural  Farm. 

Meeting  December  20^  1870.  —  President  Eead,  from  the  committee 
appointed  by  the  Board  of  Curators  on  the  reorganization  of  the 
University,  and  the  adaptation  and  harmonizing  of  its  various  course* 
of  studies,  so  as  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  act  of  Congress,. 


AORICDLTUBAL   FARU  If  AMBIOH,  HIMOOXI   DinTXBaiTX. 


nMVKBSITI. 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  807 

PORTRAITS  OF  TOE  FKIEND8   OF  THE   AGRICULTURAL   COLLEGE. 

A  GommaDication  from  James  S.  Rollins  and  F.  T.  Russell  was  read 
to  the  Board,  tendering,  on  behalf  of  the  citizens  of  Columbia,  pho- 
tographic portraits  of  those  members  of  the  Senate  and  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives of  the  Grenenil  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Missouri  who 
Yoted  for  the  bill  providing  for  the  organization  of  the  Agricultural 
and  Mechanical  College  and  its  connection  with  the  University  of  the 
State  established  h^e ;  and  also  a  photographic  likeness  of  His  Ex- 
cellency, Gov.  McClurg,  who  approved  the  bill,  and  of  Lieut.  Gov. 
Stanard,  and  a  few  other  gentlemen,  who  aided  in  the  passage  of  the 
bill. 

These  i>ortrait8  are  properly  framed,  were  accepted  by  the  Board, 
and  now  grace  the  walls  of  the  library. 

Meeting  September  5, 1870.  —  The  thanks  of  the  Board  were  voted 
to  Hon.  M.  E.  Fuller,  of  Madison,  Wisconsin,  for  Ward's  celebrated 
reaper  aad  mower,  and  to  Messrs.  Stewart  &  Needham,  of  St.  Louis, 
for  the  Climax  reaper  and  mower,  both  of  which  were  generously 
donated  by  those  liberal-hearted  gentlemen  to  the  Agricultural  De- 
partment of  the  University. 

Prof.  E*.  A.  Haio:ht's  resignation  as  Assistant  Professor  in  the  Nor- 
mal  Department,  to  take  effect  August  5th,  was  accepted,  he  having 
been  elected  to  superintend  a  school  in  Alton,  Illinois. 

The  offices  of  business  agent  for  the  University,  and  of  farm  su- 
perintendent, were  created,  the  selection  of  officers  to  fill  them  being 
left  to  the  Executive  Committee.  Dr.  Paul  Htibbard  was  elected 
business  manager,  and  O.  A.  A.  Gardner,  farm  superintendent.  On 
niotion  of  Mr.  Conant,  the  Board  resolved  to  build  a  Scientific  Hall, 
*t  a  cost  not  to  exceed  $20,000,  the  details  of  the  work  —  plan- 
Jiing,  locating,  contracting,  etc. — to  be  left  to  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee. ^ 

The  Chair  of  Agriculture  was  established,  and  Prof.  George  C. 
Swallow,  of  Columbia,  was  elected  to  fill  it. 

A  farm  committee,  consisting  of  Hon.  H.  T.  Mudd,  Hon.  J.  S. 
RolliDs,  and  Dr.  P.  Hubbard,  was  appointed  to  take  charge  of  every- 
thing pertaining  to  the  Agi'icultural  Farm. 

Meeting  December  20^  1870.  —  President  Eead,  from  the  committee 
appointed  by  the  Board  of  Curators  on  the  reorganization  of  the 
University,  and  the  adaptation  and  harmonizing  of  its  various  courses 
^f  studies,  so  as  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  act  of  Congress^ 


310  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CX)UNTY. 

**The  long  line  which  deployed  from  the  point  of  departure  on  Wal- 
nut Street,  the  gorgeous  regalia  of  the  Knights  and  members  of  the 
Chapter  and  Royal  Arch,  and  the  brilliant  banners  which  glittered  in 
the  sunlight,  added  to  the  inspiring  music  of  the  band,  and  the 
great  crowds  which  thronged  the  sidewalks,  made  up  a  magnificent 
pageant. 

** LAYING   THE    CORNER   STONE. 

•'Arriving  at  the  site  of  the  new  Scientific  Building,  the  grand  and 
impressive  ceremony  of  laying  the  corner  stone  was  entered  upon  it 
the  presence  of  an  auditory  numbering  from  three  to  five  thousand 
The  Knights  Templar  sei-ved  as  vanguard  and  as  escort  for  Governo 
B.  Gratz  Brown  and  the  officers  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri 
Surrounding  the  northeast  corner  of  the  building,  M.  W.  Thomas  E 
Garrett,  of  St.  Louis,  called  to  order  and  said  that  before  enterin; 
upon  any  great  work,  it  was  our  duty  to  invoke  the  aid  and  approva 
of  the  Deity,  whereupon  Rev.  E.  S.  Dulin,  G.  C,  and  President  o 
Stephens  College,  ofiered  a  prayer.  Following  this,  under  the  direc 
tion  of  M.  W.  Thos.  E.  Garrett,  assisted  by  R.  W.  D.  G.  M.  Johi 
D.  Vincil,  R.  W.  S.  G.  W.  Oren  Root,  Jr.,  of  Carrollton,  R.  W.  J 
G.  W.  John  R.  Walker  of  Bates,  and  James  A.  Adams,  principal  archi 
tect,  the  solemn  and  impressive  ceremonies  of  laying  the  corner  ston 
were  entered  upon  and  completed.  Mr.  John  Campbell,  superintec 
dent  of  the  work  on  the  foundation,  plied  the  mortar  and  assiste 
the  principal  architect  in  adjusting  the  corner  stone  to  its  plac< 
Dr.  Paul  Hubbard,  one  of  the  Curators  of  the  University,  d< 
posited  the  copper  box,  hermetically  sealed,  in  the  place  provide 
for  it. 

*'The  contents  of  the  box  were  as  follows  : — 


(< 


UNIVERSITY     RECORDS. 


"  Report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Reorganization  and  Enlargement  of  the  State  Univerait; 
presented  to  the  Board  of  Curators,  at  their  meeting  December  20,  1S70;  catalogue  of  tl 
State  University  for  1870-71 ;  programme  of  annual  commencement,  1871 ;  copy  of  pr 
gramme  Fifth  Case  prize  declamation ;  copy  of  programme  Stephens  Prize  Medal ;  repo 
of  Curators  to  the  Twenty-Fifth  General  Assembly,  1869. 

'*  ST.   LOUIB   PAPERS  AND  PERIODICALS. 

**  D&\] J  Republican^  June  27,  1871;  Daily  Democrat,  diiio ;  Dafly  7Vme«,  ditto;  Dai 
Sun,  ditto;  Daily  Wesiliche  Post,  ditto;  Daily  Ameigcr  des  Westena,  ditto;  Daily  DUpatc 
June  26 ;  Journal  of  Education  for  June ;  Western  Educational  Review  for  June ;  PeopU 
Journal  for  June;  Ladies^  Magazine  for  June;  Home  Journal  for  June  24th;  Colman 
Rural  World  for  June  24 ;  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal  for  March ;  Illustrated  Joum* 
of  Agriculture;  Western  Celt;   Western    Watchman,   June  24 ;    Christian  Advocate,  Jui 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  311 

21;  Ceniral  BaptUt^  June  22:  Old  School  Presbyterian,  June  28;  Central  CTirUtian  Adco- 
teU:  hda;  Pbtt  Office  Bulletin  for  May;  The  Future  Great  City  of  the  World,  by  R.  U. 
Renk;  St  Loaii  BkMee,  June  25. 


t< 


BOOKS  OOUNTT  PAPERS. 


'^MifsoaTi  Staieeman,  June  28;  Columbia  Herald^  June  22;  Sturgeon  Leader,  June  24; 
Boeheport  Enierprieey  June  28 ;  Centralia  Guard,  June  24 ;  Univeraity  Mieeourian  for  June. 


« 


IflBOSLLAVSOXJS. 


"Nttional  Flag,  contributed  by  Lewis  M.  Switzler;  copy  of  check  of  Boone  County  Na- 
tioDil  Btnk  of  Columbia;  two  25  and  two  10  cents  U.  S.  currency  and  two  nickels  contrib- 
atadbjR.  B.  Price;  copy  of  check  of  Exchange  National  Bank  of  Columbia;  $1  note  of 
iti  circQlstion ;  50  cents  U.  S.  currency ;  25-cent  gold  piece ;  25  cents  in  silver,  contributed 
bjJ.E  Waugh;  1  bottle  Cohosh  and  tar,  1  box  888  pills,  1  bottle  stimulating  cream  and  1 
boztuteless  worm  powders,  contributed  by  J.  S.  Dorsey ;  names  of  the  Building  Commit- 
tee ind  of  the  builders  and  architect. 

"The  corner  stone  being  in  its  place,  the  proper  officers  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  respectively  applied  the  square,  level  and  plumb,  and  reported 
the  workmen  had  done  their  duty  well.  Then  followed  the  cere- 
mony, which  we  sincerely  wish  the  vast  concourse  could  have  heard 
ind  witnessed,  of  applying  the  elements  of  consecration ;  the  corn 
as  an  emblem  of  plenty,  the  wine  as  an  emblem  of  joy  and  gladness, 
the  oil  as  an  emblem  of  peace. 

"After  the  grand  honors  of  the  order  and  a  short  and  most  befitting 
address  by  Most  Worshipful  Garrett,  an  adjournment  was  had  to  the 
portico  of  the  University  to  hear  the 

'*  SPEECH   OF     GOV.    BROWN. 

"This  was  preceded  by  a  brief  historical  reference  by  President  Read, 
to  the  occasion  of  laying  the  corner  stone  of  the  University,  July  4, 
1840,  and  to  the  address  made  by  Gen.  James  L.  Minor,  then  and 
now  an  honored  citizen  -of  Jefferson  City. 

"  Gov.  Brown's  speech  was  short.  He  briefly  reviewed  the  growth 
and  progress  of  the  University,  his  consistent  and  unfaltering  friend- 
ship for  it,  and  the  high  hopes  he  entertained  of  its  rapid  develop- 
ment and  great  destiny.  He  maintained  that  all  the  interests  and 
agencies  of  humanity  had  **  new  departures,"  and  that  education  it- 
self formed  no  exception  to  the  rule.  Progress  was  the  watchword 
of  the  world,  and  the  world  was  becoming  more  practical.  So  was 
education.  Hitherto  science  had  not  kept  pace  with  the  practical 
economy  of  the  times  and  the  wants  of  practical  men.  It  had  at- 
tempted too  much  to  theorize  and  theologize  for  the  world.  It  is 
now  happily  having  a  new  departure  in  the  recognition  of  the  true 


312  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

philosophy  of  life  and  of  its  own  mission.  The  Governor  commented 
upon  the  great  responsibility  resting  upon  the  people  of  Boone  county 
growing  out  of  the  location  in  their  midst  of  the  State  institutions  of 
learning  and  two  great  female  colleges.  Here,  he  said,  you  in  large 
measure  train  the  men  and  matrons  of  the  State,  the  bloom  of  after- 
time,  and  great  is  your  responsibility.  After  testifying  his  confidence 
that  our  people  would  bravely  meet  and  fully  discharge  this  responsi- 
bility, he  concluded  amid  the  applause  of  the  great  concourse." 

The  contract  for  the  erection  of  the  scientific  building  was  made 
with  McAlister,  Adams  &  Co.,  of  Columbia,  at  $45,507.25,  and  thei 
completed  the  building  in  1872. 

Meeting  June  27,  1871.— John  H.  Ovenill  was  employed  to  col 
leot  a  claim  against  the  State  for  one  and  three-fourths  per  cent  o 
seventy-five  per  cent  of  the  revenue  heretofore  returned  as  delinquent 
but  afterwards  collected. 

Professors  Norwood,  Packer,  Ficklin,  Swallow  and  Ripley  were  re 
elected  into  the  respective  positions  now  held  by  them,  at  a  salary  a 
$2,000  per  annum.  Prof.  Kurtz  was  elected  Assistant  Professor  o 
the  Preparatory  Department ;  Mrs.  Ripley  Assistant  Professor  in  th 
Normal  School,  and  Miss  Mary  Read  Principal  of  the  Model  School 
The  Executive  Committee,  consisting  of  the  resident  members  of  th 
Board,  was  authorized  to  fill  the  chair  of  English  Literature. 

John  H.  Overall  was  elected  Professor  of  the  Law  Department  ( 
the  University  at  a  salary  of  $2,000,  and  arrangements  were  made  t 
secure  distinguished  legal  gentlemen  to  deliver  lectures  in  this  depar 
ment. 

AGRICULTURAL    COLLEGE    LANDS. 

Meeting  December  12, 1871.  —  Mr.  Essex,  from  the  Committee  c 
Agricultural  Lands,  made  a  report  in  writing  in  regard  to  their  con^ 
tion,  value,  etc.  These  lands  are  located  chiefly  in  the  counties  < 
Newton,  Crawford,  Texas,  Cedar,  Phelps,  Ripley  and  Butler,  mac 
of  them  very  valuable  for  their  pine  timber  and  for  their  iron  an 
lead  deposits.  Many  of  the  tracts  were  marked  on  the  plats  as  '*  r< 
served"  from  sale  or  lease  on  account  of  their  mineral  indication 
especially  a  tract  in  Phelps  known  as  the  *'  Lenox  '*  tract.  The  fine 
spring  in  Southwest  Missouri  is  on  one  tract  in  Newton,  near  the  vi 
lage  of  Richville. 

A  resolution  was  passed  requesting  C.  P.  Will|ams,  Director  of  U; 
School  of  Mines,  and  Mr.  Pumpelly,  State  Geologist,  to  examine  ti 
lands  presumed  to  be  more  than  ordinarily  valuable  because  of  the 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  313 

mineral  deposits  and  report  to  the  Committee  on  Lands.  Also,  that 
none  of  these  lands  shall  be  sold  or  leased  unless  so  ordered  by  the 
Board  of  Curators. 

PORTRAIT   OF   DR.  A.  W.  ROLLINS. 

The  secretary  read  the  following  communication  from  Hon.  J.  S. 

Bollius:  — 

University  Edifice,  December  14, 1871. 

TotkeH<m.  Elijah  Perry,  Vice' President  of  the  Board  of  Curators  of  the  State  University » 

DurSik:  I  ask,  through  you,  the  privilege  of  presenting  to  the  Curators  of  the  Univer- 
dtj.u)  oil  portrait  of  my  venerable  father,  the  late  Dr.  Anthony  Wayne  Rollins,  to  be  per- 
BuaenUy  placed  in  the  University  building. 

He  wu  a  Curator  of  the  institution  from  1840  to  1842  —  was  one  of  its  earliest  benefactors, 
alwtjs  its  zealous  and  faithful  friend,  as  well  as  the  friend  of  common  school  education. 

Feeling  himself  all  the  inconveniences  in  early  life,  resulting  from  poverty,  he  made  some 
proriiioQ  in  aid  of  the  education  of  youth  similarly  situated,  who  might  desire  to  obtain  a 
oollege  education. 

This  portrait  is  a  most  faithful  and  accurate  likeness  of  my  father.  It  was  painted  by 
George  C.  Bingham,  Esq.,  the  distinguished  **  Missouri  artist,"  and  who  for  many  years  was 
hia  warm  personal  friend. 

Truiting  that  the  gentlemen  of  the  Board  will  regard  this  as  not  an  inappropriate  contri- 
botioD  to  the  University  as  a  work  of  art,  no  less  than  evincing  a  laudable  desire  on  my  part 
to  keep  fresh  in  the  memory  of  the  living  the  services  in  the  cause  of  education  and  the 
p«nonal  virtues  of  the  <«  faithful  dead,'' 

I  remain,  with  very  high  regard,  your  obedient  servant, 

•Tamxs  B.  Rollins. 

Whereupon,  Mr.  Switzler  offered  the  following  resolutions,  which 
were  unanimously  adopted :  — 

SmUed,  That  the  portrait  this  day  presented  to  the  University  by  the  Hon.  James  S. 
Bollini,  President  of  the  Board,  of  his  father,  Anthony  Wayne  Rollins,  deceased,  who  was 
formerly  a  member  of  this  Board,  and  during  his  life  the  steady  fViend  and  patron  of  the 
inttitotion,  is  accepted,  and  that  the  thanks  of  the  Board  are  hereby  tendered  to  the  donor 
&rthii  tppropriate  and  handsome  gift. 

^Ivcd,  That  the  letter  of  Major  Rollins  accompanyinc:  this  donation,  be  placed  by  the 
••cretary  on  his  records,  and  that  the  portrait,  for  the  present,  be  suspended  in  some  suitable 
place  in  the  Library  Hall. 

The  introduction  of  these  resolutions  was  followed  by  remarks  touch- 
ing the  life  and  character  of  Dr.  Rollins,  by  Messrs.  Switzler  and 
^nant,  Mr.  Conant  concluding  by  offering  the  following  resolution, 
which  was  adopted  :  — 

^Ived,  That  Mr.  Switzler  be  requested  to  prepare  for  publication  a  sketch  of  the  life 
of  Dr.  A.  W.  Rollins,  and  that  it  be  placed  on  the  records  of  the  Board. 

Which  was  done. 

Meeting  May  <9,  1872.  —  John  W.  Harris,  of  Boone,  offered  a  gold 


314  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   CX)UNTY. 

medal  worth  $50  to  any  member  of  the  senior  class  who  would  pre- 
sent the  best  essay  on  the  best  breeds  of  cows  for  dairy  purposes. 
This  premium  to  be  perpetual  and  awarded  every  year,  to  be  called 
^'The  Harris  Gold  Medal."  Liberal  premiums  were  also  offered  by 
Prof.  Swallow  and  Mr.  Geo.  F.  Barr,  of  Quincy,  III.,  to  studeuts  ia 
the  agricultural  department. 

The  Executive  Committee  of  the  School  of  Mines,  at  RoUa,  were 
authorized  to  lease  in  the  public  school  building  the  necessary  rooms 
for  said  school. 

•  Maj.  J.  W.  McMurray,  professor  of  military  tactics,  recommeiidec 
a  uniform  for  the  cadets,  which  was  adopted. 

On  nomination  of  Maj.  Rollins,  Mr.  Boyle  Gordon,  of  this  place 
was  unanimously  elected  (in  addition  to  Mr.  Jno.  H.  Overall)  a  la^ 
professor  in  the  University. 

On  Wednesday  night,  May  8,  1872,  in  the  chapel  of  the  Stafc 
University,  and  before  a  large  and  brilliant  audience  and  the  Board  a 
Curators,  an  exhibition  of  the  junior  class  took  place.  During  th 
retirement  of  the  committee  to  consider  of  the  award  of  prizes,  th 
large  auditory  were  relieved  and  much  interested  in  a  proceeding  no 
on  the  programme,  namely,  the  public  presentation  to  Hon.  James  S 
Rollins  of  the  thanks  of  the  faculty  and  students  of  the  University  fo 
his  great  services  to  that  institution.  President  Read,  on  behalf  c 
the  faculty  and  Henry  W.  Ewing,  on  behalf  of  the  students,  each  i 
very  appropriate  remarks,  read  the  resolutions  which  had  been  passec 
lifter  which  Maj.  Rollins  was  called  for  and  responded  to  the  hig 
compliments  paid  him,  in  most  felicitous  and  appropriate  terms,  hi 
address  frequently  eliciting  the  rapturous  plaudits  of  the  large  auditorj 

On  the  next  day.  May  9,  1872,  the  Board  of  Curators  being  i 
session.  Prof.  Edward  Wyman,  of  St.  Louis,  offered  a  resolution  an 
preamble,  in  which  he  lauded  the  labors  of  Maj.  Rollins  for  what  h 
had  done  on  behalf  of  the  University,  and  applied  to  him  the  soiibr 
quel  of  '*  Pater  Universitatis  Missouriensis^^ — a  most  deservin 
appellation,  the  honors  of  which  all  are  ready  to  accord  him. 

Prof.  Wyman  accompanied  the  presentation  of  this  testimonial  b 
a  few  remarks,  in  which  he  embodied  a  brief  recital  of  the  great  an 
long-continued  services  of  Maj.  Rollins  in  behalf  of  the  commo 
schools  of  the  State  and  of  the  University. 

Resuming  his  seat,  the  preamble  and  resolutions  were  seconded  b 
Rev.  John  D.  Vincil  and  Col.  W.  F.  Switzler,  the  latter  of  whoi 
briefly  addressed  the  Board  in  review  of  the  self-sacrificing  and  ui 


KBTOBT  OF  BOONB  GOUNTT.  315 

iligging  labors  of  Maj.  Rollins,  embracing  a  period  of  more  than 
thirty  jean,  to  aid  in  achieving  for  the  State  a  high  destiny. 

The  resolutioivs  passed  unanimously. 

Meeting  June  26 j  1872. —  Mr.  John  H.  Overall,  owing  to  ill  health 
and  a  contemplated  tour  to  the  mountains,  tendered  his  resignation  of 
Law  Professor,  which  was  accepted.     Boyle  Oordon  also  resigned. 

Mr.  Charles  Daschel,  of  Jeflferson  City,  presented  to  the  University 
a  miniature  steam  engine,  manufactured  by  himself,  and  a  very  neat 
aod  perfect  machine,  in  good  working  order,  on  the  condition  that  a 
teD-dollar  prize  be  annually  oflfered  for  excellence  in  physics,  which 
was  accepted,  and  the  thanks  of  the  Board  was  tendered  the  donor 
aod  the  prize  denominated  the  <*  Daschel  Prize." 

Prof.  Kurtz,  having  accepted  the  principalship  of  the  Montgomery 
Oitj  High  School,  tendered  his  resignation  of  assistant  in  the  College 
of  Normal  Instruction. 

The  Board  went  into  executive  session,  for  the  purpose  of  electing 
teachers  and  professors,  to  hold  their  offices  for  one  year,  dating  from 
J0I7 1,  1872,  and  until  otherwise  ordered  by  the  Board.  The  election 
was  conducted  by  ballot. 

The  foHowing  were  unanimously  elected  on  the  first  ballot :  Jos.  G. 
Norwood,  M.  D.,  Professor  of  Natural  Science  and  Natural  Philoso- 
phy; Jos.  Ficklin,  A.  M.,  Professor  of  Mathematics,  Mechanical 
Philosophy  and  Astronomy;  G.  C.  Swallow,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  Professor 
of  Agriculture,  Geology  and  Botany;  E.  L.  Ripley,  Principal  of  the 
College  of  Normal  Instruction ;  Mrs.  C.  A.  Ripley,  Assistant  in 
Department  of  Normal  and  Preparatory  Instruction ;  J.  W.  Abert, 
Professor  of  Applied  Mathematics  and  Civil  Engineering  in  School  of 
Hines  and  Metallurgy  at  RoUa. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Matthias  it  was  resolved :  That  the  chair  of 
Ancient  Languages  and  Literature  be  divided  as  follows  :  1st.  Pro- 
fessor of  Greek  Language  and  Literature;  2d.  Professor  of  Latin 
Language  and  Literature ;  and  that  the  said  professors  shall  have  full 
<!ontrol  of,  and  be  responsible  for,  the  instruction  in  the  respective  lan- 
guages in  all  departments  of  the  University.  The  salaries  of  said 
Professors  was  fixed  at  $2,000  per  year,  each.  The  salary  of  Mrs. 
C*  A.  Ripley  was  fixed  at  $1,250  per  annum. 

The  Board  adjourned,  to  meet  at  RoUa  on  the  Fourth  Tuesday  in 
August. 

A  full  length  portrait  of  the  late  Edward  Bates,  of  St.  Louis,  was 
presented  to  the  board  by  James  B.  Eads  and  Charles  Gibson. 


316  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Meeting  of  the  Board  at  Rolla j. August  27 y  1872.  —  The  following 
professors  were  chosen  to  the  vacant  professorships  in  the  University : 
Paul  Schweitzer,  Ph.  D.,  of  Columbia  College  School  of  Mines,  N. 
Y.,  to  the  chair  of  Analytical  and  Applied  Chemistry. 

Edward  H.  Twining,  late  of  the  University  of  Minnesota,  to  the 
chair  of  Latin. 

James  K.  Hosmer,  a  Harvard  graduate,  now  a  professor  in  Antiocl 
College,  Ohio,  a  well-known  writer  and  accomplished  litterateur^  t 
the  chair  of  English  Literature  and  Rhetoric. 

John  M. 'Leonard,  Ph.  D.,  of  Carlisle,  Pa.,  an  experience 
teacher,  who  has  just  returned  from  a  residence  of  seven  years  in  Cor 
tinental  universities,  to  the  chair  of  Greek. 

The  Board  also  elected  Judge  Philemon  Bliss,  of  St.  Joseph,  of  tt 
Supreme  Court,  and  the  Hon.  Boyle  Gordon,  of  Columbia,  as  pw 
fessors  in  the  Law  Deparment,  which  is  to  open  on  the  first  Monday  < 
October,  Judge  Bliss  to  act  as  Dean  of  the  Law  Faculty. 

Meeting  December  10 ^  1872.  — Messrs.  Vincil,  Hubbard  and  Tod 
made  a  report  in  regard  to  the  proposed  Medical  Deparment,  in  whic 
they  em!)odied  the  valuable  suggestion  and  liberal  proposition  of  Dn 
A.  W.  McAlester  and  T.  Allen  Arnold,  and  strongly  recommendin 
the  inauguration  of  that  department  at  the  opening  of  the  no 
semester,  which  was  agreed  to,  with  a  full  corps  of  instructors,  i 
follows :  — 

Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Surgery  and  Materia  Medica,  A.  W.  McAlester,  M.  D. 

Professor  of  Obstetrics,  Diseases  of  Women  and  Children,  and  Pratice,  Thomas  All 
Arnold,  M.  D. 

Professor  of  Chemistry,  Medical  Jurisprudence  and  Institutes  of  Medicine,  J.  G.  Nc 
wood,  M.  D. 

Professor  of  Botany,  Comparative  Anatomy  and  Comparative  Physiology,   George 
Swallow.  M.  D. 

Professor  of  Pharmacy  and  Toxicology,  Paul  Schweitzer,  M.  D. 

The  Executive  Committee  were  authorized  to  expend  a  sum  not  e; 
ceeding  $5,000,  in  the  erection  of  club  houses,  and  Switzler  ai 
Hubbard  were  appointed  a  committee  to  caiTy  out  the  order.  Und 
this  order  the  two  frame  club  houses  were  erected  on  the  street  lea< 
ing  to  the  Fair  Grounds. 

Meeting  June  24^  1873. —  An  account  for  $400,  in  favor  of  Gen.  ( 
Guitar,  was  presented,  for  legal  services  in  the  case  of  ex-Presidei 
Minor,  who   had  brought  suit  against  the  University  for  arrears 
salary. 

The  sum  of  $1,000  was  appropriated  to  the  Medical  Departmen 


HISTORY  OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  317 

to  be  expended  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  A.  W.  McAlester,  who  was 
then  in  Europe. 

Scott  RsLjes  was  elected  Assistant  Professor  in  the  Agricultural 
College. 

The  chair  of  Modern  Languages  was  established,  and  Miss  Mary 
B.  Read,  who  was  then  in  Europe,  was  elected  teacher  of  Modem 
Languages,  at  a  salary  of  $1,200  per  year,  to  commence  when  she  en- 
ters upon  the  duties  of  the  position. 

R.  B.  Price  was  elected  Treasurer  of  the  Board.  Vote :  R.  B. 
Price,  10;  J.  H.  Waugh,  9. 

THE   J.    8.    BOLLIN8   PORTRAIT. 

A  communication  was  presented  from  R.  B.  Price,  J.  T.  McBaine, 
J.  W.  Harris,  John  Machir,  W.  F.  Switzler,  James  L.  Stephens, 
James  Harris,  J.  K.  Rogers  Joel  H.  Hayden,  David  Ouitar  and  J.  Th. 
Fjfer,  committee,  tendering  the  Board  a  life-sized  portrait  of  Hon* 
J.  S.  Rollins,  by  Geo.  C.  Bingham,  to  be  placed  in  some  proper 
place  in  the  building. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Conant,  of  St.  Louis,  the  communication  -was 
referred  to  a  special  committee,  who  was  charged  with  the  duty  of 
preparing  suitable  resolutions.  Committee :  A.  J.  Condnt,  of  St. 
Louis,  J.  F.  Weilandy,  of  Jeflferson  City,  and  J.  W.  Barrett,  of 
Canton. 

At  two  o'clock  a  large  number  of  citizens  and  strangers,  among 
them  many  ladies,  met  the  Board  in  the  Library  Hall,  where  the 
formal  presentation  took  place. 

The  Board  being  called  to  order  by  the  vice-president,  Judge  Perry, 
the  communication  of  the  citizens'  committee  and  the  resolutions  of 
the  Board  were  read  by  Mr.  Todd,  the  secretary.  The  St.  Louis 
-Omocra^'«  report  says  :  '*  Col.  Switzler  then  made  formal  presentation 
of  the  elegant  portrait  of  Major  Rollins,  and  in  an  eloquent  and  feel- 
ing manner  referred  to  the  faithful,  earnest  and  efficient  services  of 
Major  Rollins  for  thirty-five  years  past  in  the  cause  of  the  University 
and  of  popular  education.  This  necessarily  caused  reference  to  the 
history  of  the  University,  the  struggles  and  trials  attending  its  loca- 
tion, erection  and  organization,  and  the  sacrifices,  labors  and  contri- 
hutious  of  those  who  aided  in  founding  tliis  institution. 

**In  responding  on  behalf  of  the  Board,  Mr.  Conant  referred  to  the 
distinguished  services  of  Maj.  Rollins,  to  the  extended  influence  which 
his  hibors  would  have  on  the  thousands  who  go  from  this  institution 


318  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

into  the  various  walks  of  life  throughout  our  land  ;•  who,  in  the  intel 
ligent  discharge  of  the  duties  of  citizenship,  should  through  all  timi 
continue  the  movements  of  the  wisdom  in  design  and  the  success  at 
tending  the  efforts  of  Major  Rollins  and  his  co-laborers,  in  their  effort 
to  promote  the  cause  of  general  education. 

'*  Major  Rollins,  being  called,  responded  eloquently,  acknowledgin 
a  very  high  sense  of  the  honor  conferred  on  him  in  the  kind  partialit 
of  those  friends  who  had  inaugurated  this  presentation,  and  the  favoi 
able  mention  made  of  his  efforts  in  the  cause  of  education,  on  th 
occasion.  In  a  somewhat  extended  address,  he  referred  to  the  educ 
tional  institutions  of  the  land  —  public,  private,  and  denominational  - 
and  in  most  eloquent  terms  pleaded  that  closer  union,  warm  symp 
thy,  and  friendly  co-operation  should  exist  between  them,  and  that  : 
should  have  the  generous  support  and  aid  of  the  State  and  of  the  pe 
pie  ev^y where." 

These  proceedings  and  the  addresses  delivered  were  aflerwan 
published  in  pamphlet  form. 

A  ROLL   OF   HONOR. 

On  motion  of  Col.  Switzler,  it  was  resolved  that  the  Secretary 
the  Board  be  instructed  to  prepare  and  record  in  alphabetical  order, 
an  appendix  to  the  journal  of  the  Board,  the  names  of  the  citizens 
Boone  County  who,  in   1839,  subscribed  sums  of  money  and  oth 
property  to  secure  the  location  of  the  State   University   at  Columbi 
together  with  the  amounts  thus  subscribed. 

Meeting  December  9,  1873:  —  Mr.  Rollins  reported  from  the  E 
ecutive  Committee  that  the  claims  of  O.  Guitar  and  B.  and  W.  G( 
don,  for  legal  services,  had  been  adjusted  and  paid. 

The  subject  of  the  election  of  a  successor  to  President  Read,  who 
term  of  office  expired  June  30,  1874,  was  postponed  till  the  next  8< 
sion,  which  was  held  at  RoUa  on  Tuesday,  March  31,  1874. 

Meeting  at  Rolla^  March  31^  1874. —  President  Read  was  re-elect 
President  of  the  University  for  one  year  from  the  30th  of  Jun 
1874  —  15  to  5,  as  follows  :  — 

Teas  —  J.  W.  Barrett,  J.  C.  Cravens,  A.  J.  Conant,  W.  T.  Essex,  John  W.  Harris, 
Hubbard,  W.  T.  Lenoir,  Josh  LaDue,  Henry  T.  Mudd,  Elijah  Perry,  Henry  Smith,  W. 
Switzler,  Edward  Wymiin,  Samuel  G.  Williams,  J.W.Wielandy — 15 

Nats  —  A.  M.  Dockery,  H.  Clay  Ewing,  C.  P.  Jones,  E.  W.  Stephens,  Squire  Turner.— 

A  committee  was  appointed,  consisting  of  Wyman,  Rollins  ai 
Jones,  to   open  correspondence  with   the  view  of  securing  a  prop 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  319 

person  to  succeed  Dr.  Read,  after  the   termination  of  his    office  on 
Jane  30,  1875.  ' 

Meeting  June  23 ^  1874.  —  Prof.  J.  K.  Hosmer  t  Adered  his  resigna- 
tion of  the  chair  of  English  and  history,  wherenpon  S.  S.  Hamill, 
then  professor  of  elocution  and  English  literature  in  the  State  Normal 
Sehool,  at  Kirksville,  was  elected  his  successor. 

The  Hudson  Mansion  was  set  apart  as  a  Woman's  College  Home  and 
tlie  Executive  Committee  instructed  to  make  the  needed  repairs  and 
r^nt  the  property  to  such  party  as  will  carry  out  the  purpose. 

2\Ieeting  December  <9, 1874,  —  Mr.  LaDue  presented  the  testimonials 

of    Rev.  W.  M.  Leftwich,  D.  D.,  of  St.  Louis,  a  candidate  for  the 

I^rcsidency  of  the  University,  which  were  referred  to  the  special  com- 

ittee  —  Wyman,  Rollins  and  Jones.     Mr.  Switzler,  from  the  special 

mmittee  on  repairs  of  the  Hudson  Mansion  and  the  preparation  and 

ftirnishing  the  ladies'  parlor  of  the  University,  made  a  report  as  to 

'^'tat  had  been  done  and  the  cost  of  the  same. 

FHELP8  COUNTY  BONDS  ILLEGAL. 

The  status  of  the  School  of  Mines,  under  the  decision  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  deciding  the  $75,000  of  Phelps  County  bonds  to  be  illegal  and 
Void,  was  largely  discussed  and  a  variety  of  opinions  given  as  to  the 
best  means  of  advancing  the  prosperity  of  that  department  of  the 
University.  The  prevailing  opinion  of  the  lawyers  on  the  Board 
seemed  to  be  that  the  adverse  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  did  not 
unsettle  the  location  of  the  school  at  Rolla,  some  of  them  maintaining 
that  its  location  at  that  place  had  received  repeated  Legislative  recog- 
nition, and  that  the  Board  of  Curators  or  the  State  had  recourse 
against  the  County  of  Phelps  for  the  $75,000  which  the  county  had 
promised  to  pay,  but  which  it  never  has  paid. 

Mr.  Ewing  offered  a  resolution  instructing  the  committee  appointed 
at  the  last  meeting  of  the  Board  to  confer  with  the  public  school 
authorities  at  Rolla,  and  if  it  can  be  done  on  acceptable  terms,  to  pur- 
chase the  school  building  for  the  School  of  Mines ;  that  the  treasurer 
deliver  to  said  committee  such  number  of  the  State  bonds  under  the 
act  of  March  29,  1872,  as  may  be  necessary  to  make  the  first  pay- 
ment.    Resolution  passed. 

RE-ELECTION    OF   PRESIDENT    READ. 

Mr.  Rollins,  from  the  committee  appointed  at  the  Rolla  session  to 


320  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    <X)UNTY. 

seek  and  ascertain  by  correspondence  and  otherwise,  a  suitable  per 
son  to  fill  the  office  of  President,  to  succeed  the  present  incumbent  ii 
June,  1875,  repdtted  that  they  had,  with  this  view,  attended  last 
August,  at  Detroit,  a  session  of  the  National  Association  for  the  pro- 
motion of  science  and  held  extensive  correspondence  with  the  educ^- 
tors  of  the  country,  but  had  been  unable  to  find  a  person  more  suitable 
for  the  position  than  Dr,  Read;  therefore,  they  recommended  his  re- 
election from  July  1,  1875,  to  July  4,  1876. 

Mr.  Smith  moved  that  the  President's  salary,  after  July,  1875,  be 
fixed  at  $3,000  per  annum,  with  the  use  of  the  President's  Mansion 
and  grounds  thereto  belonging  free  of  charge.  Mr.  Conant  moved  to 
amend  by  making  the  salary  $3,600,  which  was  seconded  by  Mr.  Cole- 
man. Mr.  LaDue  moved  to  amend  the  amendment  by  making  i 
$4,000,  which  was  lost.     Mr.  Conant's  amendment  was  passed. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Wielandy  the  Board  proceeded  to  elect,  by  ba 
lot,  a  President  for  one  year,  ending  July  4,  1876.  Mr.  SwitzU 
nominated  Dr.  Daniel  Read  and  Mr.  Turner  the  Rev.  W.  M.  Lef 
wich,  D.  D.,  of  St.  Louis.  Ballot — Read,  12;  Leftwich,  7.  O 
motion  of  Mr.  Conant,  the  election  was  declared  unanimous. 

While  this  election  was  pending  on  Wednesday   night  —  the  BoaJ 

at  the  time  holding  its  session  in  Library  Hall  —  a  shower  of  ston< 

was  precipitated  with  a  crash  through  one  of  the  windows  near  whic 

the  members  of  the  Board  were  seated.     Therefore  Mr.  Switzler  iiitr* 
duced  a  resolution  requesting  the  trustees  and  marshal  of  Columl^ 

and  the  Faculty  of  the  University  to  take  such  steps  as  they  may  dee 

best  to  discover,  arrest,  and  bring  to  trial  and  punishment  the  peri>" 

trators  of  the  outrage.     Passed. 

Meeting  April  13,  1875. — The  Board  proceeded  to  divide  ther": 
selves  into  three  classes,  as  required  by  act  March  23,  1875,  with  tl 
following  result :  — 

To  go  out  of  office  April  1,  1877  —  Cravens,  Hutton,  Headlee,  aw 
Lakenan. 

To  go  out  April  1,  1879  —  Colman,  Ewing,  Flood,  and  Glenn. 

To  go  out  April  1,  1881  —  Clarkson,  Collier,  Hinton,  LaDue  a-i 
Rollins. 

Mr.  Rollins  was  re-elected  President,  Mr.  Todd,  Secretary,  a- 
Mr.  Price,  Treasurer  of  the  Board. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Hinton,  a  committee  was  appointed  to  memo 
ize  the  Constitutional  Convention,  which  was  to  meet  in  Jefferson 
May  5,  with  the  view  of  securing  such  provisions  in  the  amended  0<: 


HI8TOBY  OF  BOOXB   COUNTT.  321 

stitotion  as  will  place  the  institution  on  a  more  permanent  basis,  and 
require  for  it  suitable  support ;  that  this  committee  appear  in  person 
before  the  proper  committee  of  the  convention,  in  aid  of  the  interests 
of  the  University  as  a  part  of  the  educational  policy  of  the  State* 
Committee:  Colman,  LaDue  and  Rollins. 

Oil  motion  of  Mr.  Colman,  a  committee  of  three  were  appointed  — 
the  President  of  the  Board,  Mr.  Rollins,  to  be  one  of  them  —  to  cor- 
respond with  the  view  of  securing  a  President  for  the  University  to 
succeed  Dr.  Read.     Committee:  Rollins,  Colman,  and  Lakenan. 

Mr.  Glenn  offered  a  resolution  ratifying  the  purchase,  at  $35,000, 
of  the  Rolla  school  building,  which  had  been  made  by  a  committee  un- 
der the  authority  of  the  Board. 

Dr.  W.  T.  Maupin's  proposition  to  rent  the  Hudson  mansion  for 
fi?e years,  for  a  female  infirmary,  and  the  lunds  attached,  was  de- 
clined. 

Mr.  LaDue,  from  the  committee  on  the  purchase  of  the  Rolla  school 
bnildiDg,  introduced  the  following  resolution  :  — 

huduA^  Thftt  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Rolla  School  of  Mines  be,  and  it  is  hereby 
lotborized  to  make  the  first  payment  of  $6,000,  by  delivering  five  hundred  of  the  Missouri 
nx  per  cent  bonds  now  in  the  hands  of  A.  Dumuth,  Treasurer,  on  the  purchase  of  the  pub- 
lie  ichool  building  at  Rolla;  and  the  President  of  the  Board  be,  and  is  hereby  authorized  to 
Bain,  execute,  and  deliver  the  necessary  notes  and  trust-deeds  on  said  buildings,  and  landt 
OBDoected  therewith,  to  the  Board  of  Education  of  the  city  of  Rolla,  to  secure  the  remaining 
psjments  fur  said  building. 

After  considerable  discussion,  the  resolution  was  adopted  :  — 

Atsb  — Colman,  Clarkson,  Collier,  Glenn,  Headlee,  Hinton,  Lakenan  and  LaDue — 8. 
^ATs —Flood,  Button,  and  Rollins— 8. 

Meeting  June  22 ^  1873.  — A  Professorship  of  Geology  was  estab- 
'ished  ill  the  School  of  Mines. 

PORTRAIT  OF  PROF.  G.  H.  MATTHEWS. 

^r.  Rogers,  on  behalf  of  alumni  of  the  University,  presented  the 
"**^ard  with  an  oil  portrait  of  the  late  Prof.  George  H.  Matthews,  by 
''^iss  Forbes,  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  Christian  College,  which 
^^  accepted  in  appropriate  remarks  by  Mr.  Rollins,  the  President. 

Meeting  October  27 ^  1875, — The  resignation  of  Miss  Mary  B.  Read, 
^^cher  of  German  and  French,  was  tendered,  to  take  effect  on  De- 
^^mber  14   next.     Prof.  B.  S.  Newland,  of  Paris,  Mo.,  was  chosen  to 
^*l  out  the  remainder  of  the  collegiate  year. 
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322  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

ELECTION    OF   S.  S.  LAWS    AS    PRESIDENT. 

The  names  of  quite  a  number  of  eminent  educators  and  scholars  wer 
before  the  board, who,  after  mature  deliberation,  unanimously  concurre 
in  electing,  for  four  years  from  July  4,  1876,  Dr.  S.  S.  Laws,  of  Nei 
York  City,  and  for  many  years  before  the  war  President  of  Westmin 
ister  College,  at  Fulton,  Missouri. 

The  executive  committee  were  instructed  to  adopt  the  necessar 
measures  to  have  the  University,  Agricultural  College  and  School  c 
Mines  properly  presented  at  the  Centennial.  Some  important  step 
had  alread}'^  been  taken  in  this  direction.  Prof.  Ripley,  who  seeme 
alive  to  the  importance  of  the  work,  had  already  nearly  completed 
large  and  most  beautiful  pictorial  painting  in  oil  of  the  Universit 
buildings  and  grounds,  presented  in  five  ovals  on  a  canvas  some  si 
by  twelve  feet  in  size  —  one  oval,  the  central,  representing  the  niai 
edifice  and  campus,  and  scientific  building ;  one  the  Normal  Scho< 
building;  President's  house;  one  the  Hudson  Mansion,  and  one  tl 
new  club  houses.  This  is  a  beautiful  work  of  art,  in  a  neat  gi 
frame. 

INAUGURATION   OF   PRESIDENT   LAWS. 

Meeting  June  30,  1876. —  Samuel  S.  Hamill,  A.  M.,  Professor 
English  History  and  Elocution,  tendered  his  resignation,  ^hich  w 
accepted,  and  resolutions  passed  bearing  testimony  to  his  ability  ai 
fidelity. 

A  letter  was  received  from  Dr.  Laws,  which  was  spread  upon  t 
journal,  accepting  the  Presidency  upon  certain  reservations  and  ca 
ditions,  to  which  the  Board  assented. 

The  Statesman  of  July  7,  1876,  gave  a  full  account  of  the  iuaug 
ration  of  President  Laws,  and  did  space   allow,  the  article  would 
quoted  entire.     The  inauguration  took  place  on  Wednesday,  July 
1876,  and   notwithstanding  the  inclement   weather,    the    Univer*: 
chapel  was  filled  by  a  large  and  brilliant  audience. 

Dr.  Daniel  Read,  the  retiring  President,   spoke    appropriately 
about  fifty   minutes,  after  the  opening  religious  exercises,  and  ^ 
followed  in  a  short  address  by  Prof.  Ficklin,  on  the  part  of  the  facul 
•expressing  a  kind  farewell  to  the  retiring  and  a  warm  welcome  to 
incoming  President.     Mr.  R.  L.  Todd,  on  part  of  the  alumni, 
lowed  in  a  twenty-five  minutes'  address,  paying  a  merited  tribute 
Dr.  Lathrop,  and  reciting  a  summary  of  Dr.  Read's  admiuistrati 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  323 

Speeches  were  made  by  a  number  of  other  gentlemen,  including  Gov. 

HardiD,  Norman  J.  Colman  and  Major  Rollins,  the  latter  of  whom 
gave  a  brief  histoiy  of  the  University,  closing  by  tendering  a  hearty 
welcome  to  Dr.  Laws.  The  exercises  of  the  occasion  were  closed  by 
the  inaugural  address  of  the  new  President,  who  fully  and  wisely  set 
forth  his  views  concerning  the  government  and  conduct  of  the  Uni- 
Tersitv. 

TheBuDceton  Brass  Band  furnished  excellent  music  for  the  occasion. 

Meeting  at  Jefferson  City^  July  18 y  1876,  —  B.  S.  Newland  was 
elected  to  the  chair  of  Modern  Languages  for  one  year  from  July  1, 

1876.  The  salary  of  William  S.  Pratt,  Assistant  Professor,  increased 
to  $800  per  annum.     A.  R.  Runyan  elected  business  agent. 

Meeting  December  12 ^  1876. — Mr.  Collier,  from  the  Nominating 

Committee,  reported  that  since  the  last  meeting  W.  H.  Cole  had  been 

chosen  Professor  of  English  and  History  until  June  30,  1877.     Also, 

that  Alexander  Meyrowitz   had   been   chosen   as   Professor   of    the 

Hebrew  Language  and  Shemitic  Literature,  both  of  which  the  board 
<;onfirmed. 

A  communication  was  received  from  Miss  M.  Lou  Gillette,  Assistant 

in  the  Normal  Department,  tendering  her  resignation  on  account  of 

ill-health. 

;  At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  held  in  Jefferson  City,  January  19, 

1877,  S.  M.  Tracy  was  appointed  Assistant  Professor  of  Agricul- 
ture, at  a  salary  of  $1,000  a  year,  with  the  use  of  the  McClellan 
^'ottage. 

Meeting  June  5,  1877.  —  A  School  of  Art  was  established,  of 
Hich  George  C.  Bingham,  of  Kansas  City,  was  elected  professor. 

Charles  P.  Williams,  Director  of  the  School  of  Mines  of  Rolla, 
^udered  his  resignation. 


•# 


CHAIRS    VACATED. 


The  chairs  occupied  by  Edward  H.  Twining,  Professor  of  Latin 
Language  and  Literature  ;  B.  S.  Newland,  Professor  of  Greek  and 
French ;  William  H.  Cole,  Professor  of  English  History  and  Elocu- 
tion; William  S.  Pratt  and  Lizzie  K.  Bedford,  Instructors  in  Prepara- 
tory studies  ;  also  the  place  of  Proctor,  were  declared  vacant. 

Meeting  June  4,  1878. — Letters  were  presented  from  M.  M. 
Wisher,  accepting  the  Professorship  of  Latin  ;  from  Thomas  J.  CowTy, 
Accepting  the  Professorship  of  Civil  Engineering,  and  from  D.  R. 
McAnally,  Jr.,  accepting  the  Professorship  of  En«:lish. 


324  HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Prof.  Waite  was  elected  Director  of  the  School  of  Mines,  vice 
Williams,  resigned. 

Meeting  August  13^  1878.  —  A  quorum  not  being  in  attendance, 
those  present  were  not  legally  competent  to  consider  and  decide  sev- 
eral questions  which  were  properly  before  the  board  The  resignation 
of  E.  L.  Ripley,  Professor  of  Pedagogics  and  Dean  of  the  Normal 
Faculty,  to  take  effect  on  October  1,  was  tendered  and  accepted, 
Prof.  Ripley 'having  been  elected  President  of  Shelbina  College.  The 
vacancy  occasioned  by  the  resignation  of  Prof.  Ripley  was  filled  by 
the  election  of  Miss  Grace  C.  Bibb,  of  St.  Louis,  who,  for  a  number 
of  years,  had  had  charge  of  the  Normal  Department  of  the  St.  Louis 
public  schools,  and  who  is  a  lady  of  large  and  successful  experience 
and  acknowledged  scholarship  and  qualifications. 

The  resignation  of  Dr.  T.  A.  Arnold,  Professor  of  Anatomy  and  c 
the  Principles  and  Practice  of  Medicine  in  the  Medical  Faculty  of  tl 
University,  was  tendered  and  accepted. 

Dr.  John  H.  Duncan  was  chosen  to  fill  the  chairs  of  Physiolog 
Materia  Medica  and  the  Principles  and  Pnactice  of  Medicine. 

Dr.  Woodson  Moss  was  elected  Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Demcp 
strator. 

Drs.  Duncan  and  Moss  had  hitherto  occupied  positions  in  the  Mec 
cal  Faculty,  and,  therefore,  were  well-known. 

Meeting  December  10^  1878,  —  Mrs.  J.  P.  Fuller  was  elected 
the  chair  of  Modern  Languages,  as  Assistant  in  the  English  branche 

Prof.  Meyrowilz  resigned  the  Professorship  of  Hebrew  and  Ancie 
History.     The  chair  of  Greek  and  Comparative  Philology,  occupi« 
by  Dr.  Leonard,  was  declared  to  be  vacant  after  June  30,  1879. 

James  Shannon  Black  well,  of  Ghent,  Ky.,  was  elected  Professor  - 
Shemitic  Langnages  and  Ancient  History,  and  Assistant  Professqjy 
Latin  and  Greek,  and  A.  F.  Fleet,  of  Lexington,  Mo.,  was  electe 
Professor  of  Greek  and  Comparative  Philology. 

DEATH    OF    PRESIDENT   READ. 

The  sudden  death  of  ex-President  Daniel  Read,  in  Keokuk,  low? 
October  3,  1878,  was  announced,  and  Mr.  Cravens  oflTered  and  th 
Board  nnanimously  passed  resolutions  very  appropriate  to  the  occi 
sion,  copies  of  which  were  ordered  to  !)c  sent  to  his  dauffhters.  Befil 
ting  tril)ntes  to  his   memory   were   also   passed   by  the  Faculty  an 

students  of  the  University,  and  ordered  to  be  published.     A  citizens 
mectin<]j  was  likewise  held  in  Garth  Hall  on  the  evening:  of  October  5 


PRK^IDKN'T  DA.NIKL  HEAD,  LL.  D. 


HISTOKY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  325 

1878,  which  was  presided  over  by  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins,  James  W. 
Bipley  acting  as  Secretary,  to  which  a  committee  of  nine  —  R.  L. 
Todd,  John  Hinton,  F.  T.  Russell,  Wm.  F.  Switzler,  J.  K.  Rogers, 
E. B.Price,  John  S.  Clarkson,  R.  T.  Prewitt  and  S.  C.  Douglass  — 
reported  through  Mr.  Todd,  chairman,  a  very  appropriate  notice  of 
his  death  and  public  services,  in  which  there  was  presented  a  beauti- 
1  fully  written  resume  of  his  long  and  successful  labors  in  the  cause  of 
education.  Col.  Switzler,  in  a  brief  speech,  moved  its  adoption, 
which  motion  unanimously  prevailed.  Maj.  Rollins  also,  in  a  short 
address,  gave  a  brief  sketch  of  the  life  and  services  of  the  deceased 
in  the  cause  of  education,  and  particularly  in  connection  with  the 
State  University  of  Missouri.  He  alluded  feelingly  to  his  personal 
relutioas  with,  and  strong  friendship  for.  Dr.  Read,  and  closed  with  a 
few  reminiscences  showing  the  faithful  devotion  of  the  deceased  to 
the  interests  of  the  University. 

The  proceedings  of  this  meeting,  together  with  the  speech  of  Maj. 
EoHliis,  were  afterwards  published  in  pamphlet  form. 

Meeting  June  5,  1879.-^  J.  W.  Sutherland,  Agricultural  Lands 
Commissioner,  has  resigned,  and  the  officers  of  the  Board  of  Curators 
will  elect  his  successor. 

Mrs.  J.  P.  Fuller',  Professor  of  French  and  German,  has  also  re- 
signed and  her  duties  will  be  discharged  by  members  of  the  present 
faculty. 

It  was  ordered  that  the  title  of  S.  M.  Tracy  shall  be  Professor  of 
Eutomology  and  Economic  Botany  and  Superintendent  of  Gardens, 
and  that  the  title  of  George  Hussmann  shall  be  Professor  and  Super- 
i'ntendent  of  Pomology  and  Forestry. 

Meeting  January  13^  1880,  —  At  9  o'clock  a.  m.  on  Wednesday, 
» meeting  of  the  Curators,  Faculty,  students  and  visitors  was  held  in 
the  chapel  for  the  purpose  of  hearing  the  inaugural  addresses  of  A. 
F.  Fleet,  Professor  of  Greek  and  Comparative  Philology,  and  ot 
Jiraes  S.  Blackwell,  Professor  of  Hebrew  and  of  Shemitic  Literature. 

On  Wednesday  morning  a  large  audience  again  assembled  in  the 
<5ha|)el  to  hear  the  inaugural  addresses  of  Conrad  Diehl,  Professor  of 
Alt,  and  of  Frank  P.  Blair,  Professor  of  Militaiy  Science.  The  ad- 
dress of  Prof.  Blair  was  well  delivered  and  received  with  marked  ap- 
plause. His  subject  was  the  Military  und  War  Powers  of  the  United 
States  Government,  which  he  treated  under  three  heads  :  1.  The  in- 
ception and  conduct  of  war.  2.  The  land  and  naval  forces.  3.  The 
^tate  Militia.     Short  addresses  were  then  made  bv  John  Walker,  of 


326  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Howard,  one   of  the   Curators,  and  Cols.  E.   C.   More  and  W. 
Switzler. 

Following  this  was  the  deeply  interesting  ceremony  of  present 
the  portrait  of  Judge  David  Todd,  for  many  years  an  eminent  citi 
of  Columbia,  and  distinguished  jurist  of  Missouri — the  port 
being  the  first  painted  by  the  late  George  C.  Bingham,  more  than  fi 
years  ago.  It  was  a  present  to  the  Uiiiversity  from  Mr.  George 
Samuel,  of  St.  Joseph.  Also  short  addresses  by  Maj.  Rollins 
Dr.  Laws. 

The  thanks  of  the  Board,  on  motion  of  Mr.  Dockery,  were  tend* 
to  President  Laws  for  his  munificent  donation  of  $500,  by  meau 
which  the  Curators  were  enabled,  in  exchange  for  the  old  telesc< 
to  possess  the  very  superior  and  well  known  telescope  of  the  Shi 
Graded  School,  of  Shelbjrville,  Kentucky. 

DEATH   OF   PROF.  OEOROE    0.  BINOUAM. 

George  C.  Bingham,  Professor  of  Art,  having  died  in  Kansas  ' 
on  July  8,  1879,  Mr.  Rollins  presented  resolutions,  which  were  pas 
bearing  testimony  to  his  eminence  and  usefulness  as  a  citizen,  an 
his  extraordinary  genius  in  the  world  of  art. 

Meeting  May  31  y  1880. — Chair  of  Emeritus  Professor  of  Phj 
was  created,  and  Joseph  G.  Norwood  was  made  Emeritus  Professc 
Physics  and  of  Medical  Jurisprudence  and  Dean  of  the  Medical  ' 
lege,  at  a  salary  of  $1,000  per  annum.  The  recommendation 
Professors  B.  F.  Thomas  and  Thomas  W.  Tobin  for  the  chai 
Physics  were  referred  to  the  Executive  Committee,  who  elected 
Thomas. 

RE-ELECTION    OF   PRESIDENT   LAWS. 

The  term  for  which  President  Laws  was  elected  expiring  on  i 
4,  1880,  he  was  unanimousty  re-elected  President  of  the  Univen 
no  term  of  office  being  specified.  A  communication  was  rece 
from  Prof.  Ficklin  touching  the  new  telescope  and  observatory 
sented  by  President  Laws,  in  which  he  recommended  that  it  be  ca 
'*  The  Laws  Observatory  ;"  that  an  annual  prize,  consisting  of  a  j 
medal,  and  designated  '*The  Laws  Astronomical  Medal,"  be  es 
lished  for  excellence  in  higher  astronomy,  and  that  the  portrait  of 
Laws  be  painted  and  hung  in  the  Observatory.  All  of  which 
ordered  by  the  Board,  the  medal  to  contain  a  device  of  the  Obse 
tory,  and  the  inscription,  **  The  heavens  declare  the  glory  of  Go 


LAWS   OBSIBVATOBI,  UIMOrBl    DHIVXHSITT. 


328  HISTORY  or  boonb  county. 

I>ell,  the  sound  of  which  has  become  familiar  to  the  ears  of  hundreds  of  students  i 
friends  of  the  University,  and  grates  harshly  on  the  ears  of  all ;  and 

Whebsas,  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins,  the  President  of  this  board,  aliye  now,  as  he  has  been 
Dearly  a  half  a  century,  to  the  best  interests  of  the  University,  has  generously  preseo 
to  it  a  large  new  bell,  beautiful  in  tone  and  appearance,  and  bearing  appropriate 
flcriptions,  therefore  be  it 

lUaolved,  that  we  gratefully  accept  the  gift,  as  one  much  needed  and  very  valuable,  i 
hereby  tender  the  public-spirited  donor  the  thanks  of  the  board,  hoping  he  may  I 
live  to  realize  that  it  will  in  truth 


'  Ring  out  the  old,  ring  in  the  new. 
Ring  out  the  false,  ring  in  the  true.' 


The  bell  was  manufactured  by  the  celebrated  Maneely  Bell  Co 
pany,  of  Troy,  N.  Y.,  will  weigh  2,000  pounds,  cost  about  $800,  t 
bears  the  following  inscriptions  : — 

1882.  Presented  by  Hon.  James  S.  Rollins,  LL.  D.,  President  of  the  Board  of  C 
tors  of  the  University  of  the   State   of  Missouri. 

Ring  out  the  old,  ring  in  the  new. 
Ring  out  the  false,  ring  in  the  true. 
Nunc  oceasio  eat  et  tempua. 

The  salary  of  B.  F.  Thomas,  Professor  of  Physics,  was  fixec 
♦2,000  a  year. 

Meeting  June  12 y  1882. — Present:  J.  S.  Rollins,  of  Boone  ;  J 
Cravens  of  Greene ;  Jas.  Lincoln,  of  Clay ;  J.  R.  Estill,  of  Howu 
W.  H.  Lackland,  of  St.  Louis,  and  J.  S.  Clarkson  and  W.  F.  Swit2 
of  Boone.     Absent :  A.  M.  Millard  and  Charles  C.  Bland,  of  Re 

During  most  of  the  time  the  board  was  in  executive  session 
therefore  results  and  not  the  reasons  for  them  are  known  to 
public.  It  is  known,  however,  that  unfortunate  misunderstand 
had  arisen  between  President  Laws  and  Professor  Swallow,  and 
in  reference  to  some  of  the  phases  of  them,  most  of  the  profes 
of  the  various  departments  of  the  institution,  including  the  Pi 
dent  and  Professor  Swallow,  were  requested  to  come  before  the  b< 
and  make  oral  statements,  such  of  the  professors  as  were  necessf 
absent  leaving  statements  in  writing. 

Those  who  made  verbal  statements  before  the  Board  were  the 
lowing :  President  Laws,  Professors  Swallow,  Fleet,  Tracy,  McAns 
Ficklin,  Schweitzer  and  Lowry.  Also,  the  Treasurer,  R.  B.  Pi 
The  Professors  who  were  absent  and  left  written  statements  i 
Fisher,  Black  well  and  Thomas.     Also  the  Medical  Faculty. 

Among  other  matters  of  public  interest,  the  chair  occupied  by  ( 
C.  Swallow,  Professor  of  Agriculture  and  Natural-History  and  E 


HISTORY  OF  BOOXE   COUNTY.  329 

of  the  Agricultural  Faculty,  was  declared  vacant  after  the  31st  inst., 
and  the  Executive  Committee  was  authorized  temporarily  to  fill  the 
same. 

The  salary  of  Conrad  Diehl,  Professor  of  Art,  was  raised  to  $2,000 
per  anuum. 

Boyle  Gordon,  Professor  of  the  Law  Faculty,  tendered  his  resigna- 
tion, which  was  accepted  with  regret,  whereupon  C.  G.  Tiedeman, 
hitherto  Professor  of  Law,  was  made  Professor  at  a  salary  of  $1,200. 

The  $500  note  of  Hon.  James  L.   Stephens,  given  to  the  Board  of 
Curators  several  years  ago,  the  interest  on  which  was  annually  appro- 
priated to  pay  for  the  "  Stephens'  Medal"  in  oratory,  was  surrendered 
to  him  on  his  depositing  with  the  Treasurer  a  $500  Boone  county  six 
percent,  bond.  No.  338. 

The  Treasurer  of  the  Board,  R.  B.  Price,  gave  a  new  bond,  with 
approved  securities,  in  the  sum  of  $350,000. 

The  claim  of  J.  W.  Sutherland,  of  St.  Louis,  ex-Agricultural  Land 
Commissioner  for  five  per  cent  commission  on  the  sale  of  more  than 
two  hundred  thousand  acres  of  land  to  C.  H.  Nettleton,  was  rejected. 

CURATOR   ABSENCES. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Switzler,  the  following  resolution  was  adopted  :  — 

Saolved^  That  the  Secretary  he  required  to  prepare  a  hook  so  arranged  as  to  contain  the 
luimeiof  all  the  Curators  of  the  University,  showing  the  date  of  expiration  of  their  corn- 
Bunions;  that  he  he  required  to  note  therein  the  failure  to  attend  of  any  memhers  of  the 
B<Mrd  any  annual,  semi-annual  or  regular  called  meeting  of  the  Board ;  and  to  certify  to  the 
^▼•rnor  the  (kct  of  such  failure  to  attend ;  and  to  notify  the  members  so  failing  to  attend 
'Uiat  luch  &ilure  has  been  certified  to  the  Governor. 

iUtohed^  That  it  is  the  sense  of  this  Board  that  any  fact  which  will  prevent  the  vacating 
<^t  his  office,  by  such  failure  to  attend,  must  be  stated  to  the  Governor. 

ENDORSEMENT    OF    PRESIDENT    LAWS. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Lincoln,  of  Clay,  the  following  preamble  and 
resolutions  were  adopted : 

^BiRiAB,  A  large  uumber  of  witnesses  have  been  examined  by  the  Board  of  Curators, 
vteloding  many  members  of  the  Faculty  connected  with  the  State  University,  touching  the 
Vttnsgoment  and  prosperity  of  the  institution  during  the  last  seventeen  years,  and  especially 
^«r  the  management  of  Dr.  Laws  during  the  last  six  years ;  and 

*^BKRixB,  All  of  said  testimony  is  to  the  effect  that  Dr.  Laws  is  well  qualified  and  pecu- 
"*^^J  fitted  to  preside  as  President  over  the  State  University,  and  to  establish  the  fact  that 
*^u  institution  was  never  in  so  prosperous  a  condition  as  during  the  last  six  years;  and 

Wrxre^^  Sgfd  evidence  further  shows  that  President  Laws  has  not  only  given  his  time 
^  ttlentg,  but  largely  of  his  own  private  means,  for  the  advancement  of  said  institution  dur- 
^  bii  oonoecUon  therewith;  therefore,  be  it 


330 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CX)UNTY. 


Resolved^  1,  That  in  the  opinion  of  the  Board  the  continued  prosperity  of  the  State 
University  demands  the  continued  services  of  Dr.  Laws  as  its  President,  and  we  earnestly 
and  unanimously  request  that  he  will  not  sever  his  connection  with  it. 

2.  That  we  would  deem  his  resignation  a  calamity  to  the  institution  and  to  the  best 
interests  of  the  State. 

PROF,    swallow's   successor. 

On  July  14,  1882,  the  Executive  Committee  —  Clarkson  and  Switz 
zer;  Rollins  sick  and  absent  —  of  the  Curators  of  the  University,  t( 
whom  the  duty  was  assigned  of  filling  the  vacancy,  elected  J.  W 
Sanborn,  of  the  New  Hampshire  College  of  Agriculture,  Dean  of  th 
Agricultural  College  of  Missouri,  to  fill  the  place  formerly  occupie 
by  Prof.  Geo.  C.  Swallow. 


CHAPTEK    Vin. 

HISTORY  OF  THE  COUNTY  FROM   1840  TO   1850. 

Rocheport  Whig  Convention  —  Columbia  Institute  —  A.gricultural  Pair  of  1841  —  A  pli 
"Mr."  made  a  plain  "Col."  —  A  man  in  a  well  —  Death  of  two  Bonne  Femme  Colk 
students — Law  cards — Fourth  of  July  celebration,  1842  — Stibb's  Academy,  Rocheport 
Great  religious  revival  —  "New  Cash  Store" — ^Two  citizens  accidentally  killed — T 
murder  of  Hiram  Beasley  and  the  execution  of  Henry  and  America — Henry's  confession 
Improvement  of  Broadway,  Columbia — It  is  a  monument  to  Dr.  Jewell — Militia  m 
ters  — The  great  freshet  of  1844  —  Providence  founded  —  Presidential  election  of  1844 
Liquor  prohibition  foreshadowed  — Colonization  societies — Boone  County  taxes  in  184( 
Missouri  annual  conference  —  The  new  Court  House  —  The  Mexican  war — A  flag  p 
sented  to  the  ** Boone  Guards*' — A  public  dinner  tendered  the  Mexican  volunteers 
their  return — The  State  Lunatic  Asylum  —  The  Globe  newspaper  established  —  Beligic 
revivals — Sons  of  Temperance  celebration  —  General  Taylor  elected  and  Columbia  ii 
blaze  — Columbia  Female  Collegiate  Institute  —  The  big  sleet —  California  gold  fevei 
Names  of  the  emigrants. 

ELECTION  RETURNS   FROM  1840  TQ  1850. 
*  Those  thas  marked  were  elected. 


AUGUST  8TH,  1840. 
REPRESENTATIVES  IN  CONGRESS. 


Edw.  M.  Samael, 
(Whig) 1,042 

•John  Miller, 
(Democrat) 667 


George  C.  Sibley, 
(Whig) 1,042 

♦John  C.Bdwards, 
( De  mocrat) ....    567 


GOVERNOR. 

John  B.  Clark. . ..1,038  |  *ThoB.   Reynolds,    595 


Total , 1,653 


LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 

Joseph  Bogy.... 1,038  |  *M.  M.  Marmadake, 
Total 1 

REPRESENTATIVES   IN  LEGISLATURE. 


*D.  M.  Hickman,  1,006 
*Ja8.  S.  Kollins..  995 
Jos.  W\  Hickam,  425 
John  M.  Roberto,    382 


•George  Knox 1 

•Alex.  Persinger.. 
•Tyre  Harris 


HISTORY   OF   BOONB   COUNTT. 


331 


ELECTION  RETT7RN8  —  Continued. 


Special  election  for  Senator,  to  All  vacancy 
caused  by  resignation  of  Tliomas  C.  Man- 
pin: 

•Sinclair  Kirtley.  .971 1  Joseph  Perainger,    5ii 

Total 1,615 

NOVEMBER  9TH,  1840. 

Special  election  for  Senator  to  All  vacancy 
caused  by  resignation  of  Archibald  W.  Tur- 
ner: 

*Hiram  Philips...  546     John  M.  McGhee,    82 

Alex.M. Robinson,  307  

Total 885 

AUGUST  4TH,  1842. 
SENATOR. 

•Tyre  Harris 938  |  Joseph  Persinger,  743 

Tot^ 1,676 

REPRESENTATIVES  IN  LEGISLATURE. 

^  •  •        —     Richard  M.  May,    843 
♦Wm.  Rowland...  1,102 


•WUliam  Smith...  956 
•Mat*w  R.  Arnold.  845 
Wm.  A.  Robards. .  734 


AUGUST  5TH,  1844. 
REPRESENTATIVE    IN  CONGRESS. 


•Leonard  H.  Sims,  853 
John  Thornton...  828 
•Sterling  Price....  511 
•James  u.  Relf e . .  510 


Thos.  B.  Hudson,  845 

Augustus  Joneis..  828 

•Jas.  B.  Bowling..  518 

•John  S.  Phelps...  412 

•John  Jamison....  439 


KstUf  Boone 829 

GOVERNOR. 

•John  C.  Edwards,  572 1  Charles  H.  Allen,  1,080 
Total 1,602 

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 

•John  C.  Young 550  |  Wm.  B.  Almond. .  955 

Total 1,506 

REPRESENTATIVES  IN  LEGISLATURE. 

•Wm.  Jewell 956 

Charles  Gordon,   eci 
James  Schooling  170 

SHERIFF. 

•Thos.  C. Maupin,  840  I  W.T.Hickman..   521 

John  W.  YeldeU..   466  |  

Total 1,827 


•George  Knox. ...1,061 
•Sinclair  KirUey .  .1,029 
George  S.  Waters,  732 


AUGUST  9th,  1845. 

DELEGATES  TO  STATE  CONSTITUTIONAL  CON- 
VENTION. 

•David  Hickman...  .842  |*John  F.  Stone. ...  881 
John  M.  Robinson.. 676  | 

AUGUST  12TH,  1846. 
REPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONGRESS. 

•John  G.  Miller. .  .1,126  |  James  S.  Green  . .   706 
ToUl 1,828 

SENATOR. 

•James  S.  Rollins,  1,115  |  Fayette  F.  Kirby,  5U3 
Total -. 1,708 

REPRESENTATIVE  IN  LEGISLATURE. 

•Wm.  F.  Switzler,  1,082  |  J.  L.  Matthews. .   691 

ToUl '.  1.72S 

SHERIFF. 
•T.  C.  Maupin 1,546  |  No  opposition. 

AUGUST  lOTH,  1847. 
CIRCUIT  CLERK. 

•Robert  L.  Todd. .  1,568  |  No  opposition. 

COUNTY  CLERK. 

•Warren  Woodson,   922  |  James  Arnold. . .   76» 

Total 1,691 

AUGUST  14TH,  1848. 
REPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONGRESS. 

Robert  Wilson 1,221  |  •Jas.  S.  Green. . .   787 


Total 2,00a 

GOVERNOR. 

James  S.  Rollins.. .  .1,257  |  •Austin  A.  King,  791 


Total 2,047 

LIEUTENANT  •  GOVERNOR. 

Littleberry     Hen-  |*Thos.  L.  Price..    778 

dricks 1,250  |  

Total 2,028 

REPRESENTATIVE  IN  LEGISLATURE. 

•Wm.F.  SwiUler..  1,143  |  Wm.  A.  Robards  830 
Total 1,97S 

SHERIFF. 

•Wm.  T.  Hickman  986  I  Garland  Harris..   818 

Milton  Sexton 206  |  

Total 2,009 


1840  —  Population  of  the  County 13,561 


ROCHE  PORT   WHIG    CONVENTION. 

**  Switzler's  History  of  Missouri  "  says  :  '*  The  Presidential  canvass 
of  1840,  Martin  Van  Buren,  of  New  York,  being  the  Democratic,  and 
William  Henry  Harrison,  of  Ohio,  the  Whig  candidate,  excited  unex- 
ampled interest  and  enthusiasm  in  every  State  in  the  Union.  In  the 
closely  contested  States  the  people  seemed  to  abandon  all  business, 
and  devote  their  entire  time   and   energies  to   the  pending  election. 


332  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Mass  conventions  of  unprecedented  members  were  held,  in  some  in- 
stances remaining  in  session  for  several  days,  which  were  addressed 
by  distinguished  speakers  whose  object  seemed  to  be  to  influence  the 
popular  enthusiasm  and  carry  the  election  by  music,  banners,  proces- 
sions and  stump  oratory.  Some  of  the  Whig  out-door  meetings  in 
the  Ohio  Valley  numbered  a  hundred  thousand  and  were  addressed 
by  General  Harrison  in  person.  At  these  monster  assemblages  min- 
iature log  cabins  and  veritable  coons  and  hard  cider  were  displayed 
and  campaign  songs  sung,  exciting  the  wildest  enthusiasm ;  so  tha 
that  the  contest  took  the  name  of  the  '  Log  Cabin,  Coon  Skin  aiK 
Hard  Cider  Campaign.' 

'*  To  counteract  the  influence  of  the  meetings  and  the  party  par: 
phernalia  employed  by  the  Whigs  to  captivate  the  masses,  the  friea^ 
of  Mr.  Van  Bnren  held  their  conventions  also,  and,  invoking  the  nan 
and  influence  of '  Old  Hickory,'  who  ardently  supported  him  for  t' 
presidency,  adopted  hickory  boughs  and  the  chicken-cock  as  th€ 
party  emblems,  the  former  gracefully  waving  and  the  latter  detiantl 
<5rowinor  everywhere. 

*'  The  Whigs  and  Democrats  of  Missouri  caught  the  prevailing  e 
thusiasm,  and  conducted  the  canvass  with  unusual  spirit.  Mass  co. 
ventions,  accompanied  by  the  splendid  pageantry  of  procession 
brilliant  banners  and  martial  music,  to  say  nothing  of  political  discu 
sions  unexcelled  in  fervid  eloquence,  abounded  everywhere.  Tl 
State  was  wild  with  excitement,  and  many  and  interesting  and  graph 
are  the  scenes  which  our  older  citizens  are  able  to  recall  of  the  can 
paign  of  1840. 

"The  most  memorable,  because  the  largest  and  most  elaborate 
prepared  convention  of  the  contest  in  Missouri,  was  the  Whig  Co 
vention,  held  at  Rocheport,  in  Boone  County,  in  June  of  that  yea 
Its  place  of  meeting  was  on  the  hill  east  of  the  town,  in  a  dense  gro' 
of  sugar  trees,  where  three  speakers'  stands  were  erected,  and  whe 
for  three  days  and  nights  the  friends  of  '  Tippecanoe  and  Tyler,  toe 
held  hifich  carnival  and  bid  defiance  to  the  absent  hosts  of  Van  Bun 
and  Johnson.  During  its  session  the  assembled  thousands  we 
addressed  by  Chilton  Allen,  of  Kentucky,  Fletcher  Webster  (a  son 
Daniel  Webster),  Gen.  A.  W.  Doniphan,  James  H.  Birch,  Abi 
Leonard,  James  S.  Rollins,  Col.  John  O'Fallon,  James  Winsto 
George  C.  Bingham  and  others." 

The  weather  was  most  propitious  for  an  out-door  assemblage,  and  tl 
number  present  was  variously  estimated  from  six  to  ten  thousand.   Coi 


/ 


HISTORY    OF    BOONE    COUNTY.  33.^ 

jsidering  the  utter  lack  of  railroads  or  other  more  modern  methods  of 
^communication  and  travel,,  and  that  the  total  population  of  the  State 
^^as  less  than  400,000  and  the  entire  Whig  vote  less  than  23,000,  the 
Hocheport  convention  was  a  "  monster  meeti'ng,"  the  tire  and  enthusi- 
asm and  incidents  of  which  will  never  be  forgotten  by  those  who 
aBLttended  it. 

Three  steamboats  full  of  delegates  came  from  St.  Louis,  bearing 
field  pieces  and  banners  and  flags  and  bands  of  music,  nnd  exciting  the 
-wildest  enthusiasm  at  every  landing.  The  flag-steamer  of  the  fleet 
43isplayed  a  large  bust  portrait  of  Gen.  Harrison,  (**01d  Tip."),  the 
sight  of  which,  when  the  boat  touched  the  shore  at  Rocheport,  moved 
t;he  assembled  thousands  with  uncontrollable  enthusiasm,  that  found 
expression  in  shouts  of  rapture. 

Barring  the  display  of  martial  uniforms  and  of  fire-arms,  the  plan- 
tation and  hills,  on  which  the  convention  was  held,  had  the  appear- 
ance of  a  military  encampment,  for  tents  and  covered  wagons  were  to 
be  seen  in  large  numbers,  for  the  Whig  uprising  for  '*  Tippecanoe  and 
Tyler,  too,"  continued  three  days  and  nights. 

Among  the  exciting  incidents  of  the  occasion,  it  may  be  mentioned 
that  one  of  the  delegations,  which  came  overland  from  a  neighboring 
county,  numbered  several  hundred  persons  on  horseback,  and  nniking 
the  welkin  ring  as  they  marched,  displayed  at  the  head  of  the  column 
a  banner  on  which  was  painted  a  bust  portrait  of  Thomas  H.  Benton, 
United  States  Senator  from  Missouri,  from  the  folds  of  whose  cravat 
protruded  the  corner  of  a  ten  dollar  bank  note,  the  caricature  intend- 
ing to  symbolize  an  alleged  indiscretion  of  young  Benton  when  a 
student  at  Chapel  Hill  College,  North  Carolina.  The  sight  of  this 
banner  was  a  red  flagJLo  the  few  Democrats  who  happened  to  be  pres- 
ent, exciting  them  furiously,  and  causing  them  to  denounce  the  cari- 
cature, in  which  many  of  the  older  and  more  conservative  Whigs 
joined,  as  an  unworthy  exhibition  of  party  malignity. 

Among  the  Democrats  present  was  Judge  Robbins,  of  Illinois,  a 
gentleman  of  prominence  and  a  speaker.  By  some  means  it  became 
noised  about  the  encampment,  producing  no  little  excitement,  that 
Robbins  was  an  Abolilionist^  an  epithet  which  signified  at  that  time 
in  Central  Missouri  the  sum  of  all  villainies.  Indeed,  it  subjected  a 
man  who  wore  it  to  the  humiliation  of  open  insult,  if  not  to  the  perils 
of  personal  violence. 

Hearing  that  his  name  was  associated  with  this  charge,  and  observ- 
ing that  it  was   creating  something  of   a    sensation   in   the  crowd, 


334  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CX)UNTY. 

Judge  Robbins  finally  asked  and  obtained  leave  to  occupy  the  mj 
stand  for  a  few  minutes  in  a  personal  explanation.  He  met  t 
charge  defiantly  and  denied  its  truth  in  to  to. 

Nevertheless,  the  Democrats,  as  usual,  carried  the  State,  ele< 
ing  Thomas  Reynolds,  Governor,  over  John  B.  Clark,  and  Van  Bur 
over  the  Harrison  electors,  by  about  7,500  majority.  John  Mill 
and  John  C.  Edwards  were  also  elected  to  Congress  over  E.  ] 
Samuel  and  George  C.  Sibley. 

COLUMBIA   INSTITUTE. 

During  the  winter  of  1841  there  was  organized  in  Columbia 
Lyceum  and  DebatingClub  of  the  above  title,  which  held  its  meetit 
in  the  Union  Church.  Its  exercises  were  largely  attended,  and  a 
sisted  of  debatcis  and  lectures.  Its  active  members  were :  Mill 
Cornelius,  John  F.  St<me,  Dr.  T.  R.  H.  Smith,  Wm*.  A.  Robar 
Dr.  W.  B.  Lenoir,  Lewis  W.  Robinson,  Milton  S.  Matthews,  Jc 
R.  Bedford,  F.  T.  Russell,  Wm.  T.  B.  Sangford,  Chas.  H.  Hard 
Dr.  A.  J.  McKelway,  Wm.  F.  Switzler  and  others.  Among  thequ 
tions  discussed  were:  "Is  Phrenology  true?/''  **  Does  conscien 
more  than  law,  restrain  man  from  crime?  "  *'  Does  the  geographi 
situation  or  the  institutions  of  a  country  have  the  greater  influence 
the  formation  of  national  character?"  *«  Is  conscience  innate 
*'  Should  usur}'^  laws  be  abolished?  "     *'  Is  novel-reading  beneficial! 

Among  the  lectures  delivered  were  the  following :  A  Geological  I 
course  by  President  J.  H.  Lathrop  ;  The  Unfading  Beauty  of  Knowlec 
Contrasted  with  the  Mutability  of  Human  Grandness  and  Greatness, 
John  F.  Stone;  Eulogy  on  Gen.  Harrison,  by  Wm.  F.  Switzler; 
Lecture,  by  Prof.  Wm.  Van  Doran  ;  "  The  Knowledge  which  should 
Possessed  by  Practicing  Physicians  of  the  present  day,"  by  Dr.  T. 
H.  Smith;  A  Lecture,  by  Prof.  John  Roche  ;  *' The  Superiority 
Moral  and  Intellectual  Power  to  Arbitrary  Sway,"  by  John  R.  R 
ford  ;  Lecture,  by  Dr.  W.  B.  Lenoir ;  Lecture,  by  Dr.  J.  C.  Pag 
Lecture,  by  Dr.  A.  J.  McKelway. 

Lectures  were  also  delivered,  during  the  existence  of  the  Institu 
by  the  following:  R.  L  Todd,  Thos.  P.  Giles,  William  T.  Dav 
y.  A.  Young,  G.  C.  Pratt,  Prof.  Leffingwell,  James  Winston,  Jam 
B.  Thomas,  Rev.  Z.  N.  Roberts,  and  others. 

This  institute  continued  its  sessions  during  the  fall  and  winter  I 
several  years,  and  contributed  its  part  to  the  literary  enjoyments 
Columbia  and  vicinity. 


HISTORY  or   BOONE   COUNTY. 


335 


BOONE   COUNTY  AGRICULTURAL   PAIR  —  1841. 

In  a  previous  chapter  we  gave  an  account  of  the  initial  exhibition  of 
the  society  under  whose  auspices  another  Fair  was  held  in  Columbia 
OD  October  4  and  5, 1841.  Our  farmer  readers  and  stock  raisers  will 
be  interested  in  the  premiums  offered,  especially  if  they  will  contrast 
die  meagre  list  with  the  premiums  of  our  present  Agricultural  Fair. 
The  total  amount  of  premiums  is  only  $110,  whereas  our  present 
Agricultural  Fair  Association  offers  a  number  of  premiums  which  sin- 
gly equal  and  some  of  them  treble  that  amount. 


STOCK  FAIR. 


[Columbia  Patriot,  August  21, 1841.] 

The  Boone  County  Agricultural  Fair  will  take  place  in  Columbia  on  the  4th  and  6th 
dijiof  October  next,  at  which  time  premiums  worth  the  following  sums  will  be  awarded  to 
Am  following  description  of  stock  and  agricultural  products,  riz, :  — 


Beitboar  pig  under  6  months'  old  . 
Bat  low  pig  under  6  months'  old  . 
B«it  low  pig  over  6  and  under  12 

months 

ButbosroTer  12  months 

But  low  oTer  12  months 

Beitroeking  bull  calf   . 

Beit  lacking  heifer  calf   . 

B«tt  one  year  old  bull    . 

Bnt  one  year  old  heifer  . 

But  two  year  old  bull  and  upwards 

^twoyear  old  cow  and  upwards 

Bertram 

Birt  ewe 

^t  100  lbs.  tobacco 


$5  00 

500 

600 

10  00 

10  00 

600 

6  00 

6  00 

6  00 

10.00 

10  00 

6  00 

5  00 

10  00 

Best  sucking  horse  colt  .  . 
Best  sucking  mare  colt  .  . 
Best  one  year  old  horse  colt 
Best  one  year  old  mare  oolt 
Best  saddle  horse  .  . 
Best  sucking  Jack  oolt 
Best  sucking  jennet  colt 
Best  yoftr  old  jack  .  . 
Best  year  old  jennet  . 
Best  two  year  old  jack . 
Best  two  year  old  jennet 
Best  sucking  mule  colt 
Best  yearling  mule  .  . 
Best  two  year  old  mule 


6  00 
5  00 
5  00 

5  00 
10  00 

6  00 
6  00 

10  00 
10  00 
10  00 
10  00 

5  00 

6  00 
10  00 


BEST  SADDLS  $10  00. 

^A  cattle,  sheep  and  tobacco,  to  be  exhibited  on  the  first  day.    All  entries  must  be 
""•de  on  the  eyening  previous  to  the  day  of  exhibition. 
The  following  gentlemen  were  chosen  judges :  — 

HOGS. 

o.  Bently,  of  Howard ;  St  G^o.  Tucker,  Callaway ;  Ashby  Snell,  Monroe ;  Jas.  Hutchi- 
*^^  Cooper;  Jno.  H.  Field,  Boone. 

CATTLE. 

Gerard  Robinson,  Howard ;  Wm.  Grant,  Callaway ;  Jas.  8.  Hutchison,  Cooper ;  Thomas 
^  ^len,  Boone. 

SHEEP. 

'^m.  Stone,  D.  Gordon,  8r.,  Wm.  Johnson. 

TOBACCO. 

L  C.  Scott,  of  Boone ;  C.  Carter,  of  Callaway ;  Samuel  Murrell,  Theo.  Dozier. 


336  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 


HORSES. 


Jas.  Palmer,  of  Boone ;  Theo.  Fletcher,  of  Boone ;  K.  Overton,  Callaway ;  Benj.  W&tti 
of  Howard ;  Ashby  Snell,  of  Monroe. 

JACKS  AND  JENNETS. 

Hugh  Withers,  of  Monroe;  Maj.  McKenney,  of  Callaway;  Harrison  Elliott,  of  Howard; 
N.  Leonard,  of  Cooper ;  Wm.  Maupin,  of  Boone. 

MULES. 

George  Burroughs,  of  Howard;  Smith  Walker,  of  Cooper;  Thos.  West,  of  Call&wiy; 
Peter  Ellis,  of  Boone ;  Philip  Barnes,  of  Boone. 
August  21, 1841. 

COLUMBIA    IN    1841. 

In  anticipation  of  the  completion  of  the  University  edifice,  and  the 
opening  and  permanent  organization  of  the  institution,  Columbia  in 
1841  felt  the  momentum  of  improvement  and  prosperity.  Although 
the  census,  as  taken  by  the  town  marshal,  showed  its  population  to  be 
only  770,  '*  near  one  thousand  "  was  claimed  for  it  by  the  FatrM* 
That  paper  says  :  — 

Independent  of  the  State  University  and  the  dwelling  of  the  president  of  that  insUUi 
tion,  since  August,  1840,  the  following  buildings  have  been  built,  or  are  now  building,  vis. 
John  T.  Nelson,  one  frame  dwelling;  Wm.  Lee,  one  frame  dwelling;  Tho.  E.  Tower,  on 
large  imitation  stone;  W.  A.  Kobards,  one  frame  lawoflBce;  Parker  &  Barr,  three  brie 
store-rooms ;  A.  L.  Peebles,  one  brick  store-room ;  Wm.  Cornelius,  one  brick  store-rooo 
H.  Keene,  one  brick  store-room;  J.  M.  Johnson,  one  brick  store-room;  M.  and  J.  Matthew 

■ 

one  brick  carriage  shop;  M.  and  L.  Matthews,  one  brick  dwelling;  G.  W.  Samuel,  one  b*^ 
dwelling;  J.  McClintock,  one  brick  dwelling;  Wm.  Cornelius,  one  large  brick  dwelling  ; 
Crumbaugh,  one  frame  dwelling;  Mrs.  N.  Collins,  one  frame  dwelling;  Thos.  Selby,  ^ 
brick  dwelling;  R  8.  Barr,  one  brick  dwelling;  W.  Woodson,  one  brick  dwelling;  D.  IC* 
ingway,  one  brick  dwelling;  G.  D.  Foote,  one  brick  dwelling;  N.  W.  Wilson,  one  b* 
dwelling;  O.  Parker,  one  brick  dwelling;  P.  Kenyon,  one  stone  dwelling;  J.  Hart,  one  fr^ 
house;  J.  Trigg,  one  frame  house;  one  large  brick  church  ;  W.  B.  Huston,  imitation  tto^ 
J.  Richardson,  imitation  stone;  E.  Camplin,  frame  for  carding  machine. 

Making  in  all  twenty  brick,  eight  frame,  one  stone,  and  three  imitation  stone  hou^ 
total,  thirty-two.  We  have  eight  dry  goods  stores,  one  book  and  two  drug  stores,  tl^ 
blacksmith  shops,  one  chair  factory,  three  cabinet  makers,  two  wagon  and  one  coach  ma^ 
two  tinners,  one  hatter,  three  saddlers,  and  three  tailor  shops. 

A   PLAIN    '*MR."    MADE    A    PLAIN    **  COL." 

W.  F.  Switzler,  the  edttor  of  the  Statesman^  assumed  the  editor 
charge  of  the  Columbia  Patriot  on  July  31,  1841,  age  22.     He  v^ 
then  a  plain  "  Mr.,"  but  did  not  long  remain  unpromoted,  for  in  H 
vember  following,  in  a  singular  and  very  innocent  manner,  he  was  ma. 
a  colonel  by  a  correspondent,  "  Rockbridge,"  who  was  none  otta 
than  Prof.  John  Roche,  of  Bonne  Femme  College.^     Writing  a  she: 


^  Prof.  Roche  died  in  Lexington,  Ky.,  October  28,  1849. 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  337 

nmonicatiou  for  the  Patriot^  N(>yember  20^  1841,  he  addressed  it  to 
Colonel  *'  Switzler,  and  concluded  it  as  follows  :  — 

'.  S.— You  must  not  be  offended  with  the  title  of  OoUmel,    There  was  your  predecessor, 
Miller;  there  is  Col,  Birch,  of  Howard;  there  is  Gunn,  of  Jefferson,  a  Gen* I  by  name,* 
•t by  nature;  and  there  is  the  Rev.  Major  of  the  Paris  CentinelflwithlH.  C.    Now,  sir,  if 
modesty  will  not  admit  the  above  named  title,  we,  the  people  of  Boone,  will  not  think 
ditoriil  chair  filled  with  adequate  dignity.    I  therefore  dub  thee : 

Colonel  thou  art,  and  Colonel  thou  shalt  be. 
Throughout  all  time,  and  through  eternity. 

m  since  the  issue  of  the  paper  which  contained  the  above,  the 
)rof  the  Statesman  has  been  called  **  Colonel." 

•  A   MAN   IN   A   WELL. 

]  Monday,  September  6, 1841,  a  very  singular  and  distressing  ac- 
it  occurred  in  Columbia,  the  memory  of  which  still  lingers  in  the 
Is  of  our  older  inhabiUints.  The  one  story  brick  house  which 
forms  the  ell  of  the  fine  residence  of  Robert  L.  Todd  was  built 
occupied  as  a  residence  by  G.  D.  Foote,  one  of  the  contractors 
B University.  While  the  building  was  in  progress  he  duga  well 
9  yard  about  50  feet  deep  and  had  it  walled,  but  of  very  indifiFei^ 
ad  unsuitable  stone.     It  had  been  walled  for  some  time,  and  it 

observed  that  the  wall  at  the  bottom  had  become  out  of  place, 
ither-in-law,  Steffhen   St.  John  expressed  the  intention  —  from 
I  Mr.  Foote  attempted  to  dissuade  him  —  of  going  down  into  the 
o  examine  more  closelv  the  nature  of  the  breach.     About  one 
k,  however,  Mr.  St.  John,  after  letting  a  candle  down  into  the 
Q  a  bucket  descended  himself,  leaving  Mr.  Prouty  at  the  top  of 
ell  to  render  uny  assistance  he  might  desire.     Mr.  St.  John  hud 
y  reached  the  point  he  wished  to  examine  before  the  rock  at  the 
n  began  to  give  way  and  fall  into  the  water.     Observing  this, 
empted  to  escape  by  climbing  the  rope  to  the  top,  but  was  una- 
do  so  for  the  wall  above  him    commenced  caving  in,  and  in  a 
nt  closed  over   and   formed   an    arch  above    him.     The    news 
e    singular    accident   spread    through    the   town    and   a  large 
3r   of  people  collected    at    the   top    of   the    well.       It    being 
ained  by  calling  him  that  St.  John   was  still  alive,  the  work 
loving  the  dirt  and   the  rock   was  soon  commenced  and  prose- 
with  speed  and  energy.     As  the  workingmen  descended  they 
with  distinctness  the  groans  of  the  ill-fated  man.     After  reniov- 
»out  40  feet  of  earth  and  stone  —  a  labor  of  abont  nineteen 

22 


338  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CX)UNTY. 

hours'  duration  and  extending  throughout  the  whole  of  the  night  —  th 
rock  that  covered  the  gray  head  of  the  old  man  was  removed  and  hi 
almost  lifeless  body  exhumed  from  its  resting  place  to  the  top.  B 
was  occupying  a  sitting  position  in  the  well,  his  right  foot  higher  thai 
his  head  and  both  hands  above  his  head  hold  of  the  rope.  Withthi 
exception  of  the  fracture  of  one  of  his  shoulders  not  a  bone  in  his  bod] 
was  broken.  His  body  was  recovered  about  7  o'clock  Tuesday  morn 
ing,  but  he  died  at  3  o'clock  that  day,  aged  56  years. 

DEATH   OF   TWO    BONNE   FEMATB    COLLEGE    STUDENTS. 

John  A.  Chappell,  a  well-known  student  of  Bonne  Femme  College 
son  of  the  late  John  Chappell,  who  resided  in  Pallaway  county,  on  th( 
Missouri  River,  opposite  Jefferson  City,  and  a  brother  of  Mrs.  Dr 
Wm.  B.  Lenoir  died  at  the  residence  of  Wm.  Shields,  near  the  college 
January  24,  1842.  Resolutions  of  respect  and  condolence  were  passef 
by  the  students  of  Bonne  Femme  College  and  of  Columbia  College 
John  T.  and  J.  F.  Hughes,  Robert  L.  Todd,  W.  M.  Irvine,  Thos.M 
Richardson,  Robert  A.  Grant  and  James  H.  Moss  participating  in  tb 
meeting.  On  February  3,  1842,  Jacqueline  J.  L.  Harvey,  son  < 
Maj.  Thos.  Harvey,  of  Saline,  and  a  student  of  Bonne  Femme  Collej 
also  died  at  the  residence  of  Wm.  Shields. 

LAW    CARDS. 

The  Patriot^  of  February  26, 1842,  contains  the  first  law  card  of 
T.  Russell,  whose  office  was  in  a  frame  building  which  then  stood 
the  lot  now  occupied  by  the  Statesman  printing  office.  In  the  Patf^ 
of  March  5,  1842,  Wm.  F.  Switzler  tenders  his  professional  servi 
as  a  lawyer  to  the  citizens  of  Boone  and  adjoining  counties.  Otf 
on  Guitar  Street,  tlie  two-story  little  brick  occupied  by  Maj.  Roll 
as  a  law  office,  and  adjoining  the  Patriot  office. 

The  Patriot y  of  April  1(),  1842,  contains  a  notice  signed  by  W^ 
Jewell,  the  president  of  the  Columl)ia  Temperance  Society,  and  W 
Van  Doran,  Recording  Secretary,  that  Wm.  F.  Switzler  would  deli 
a  temperance  address,  in  the  Union  Church,  on  May  2. 

Oliver  Parker,  who  first  settled  as  a  merchant  at  Thrall's  Prai ' 
and  who  was  one  of  the  pionee's  of  the  county,  died  in  Columbiim. 
Fri<lay  evening,  May  20,  1842. 

FOURTH  OF  JULY  CKLEBRATION,  1842. 

The  Fourth  of  July,  1842,  was  appropriately  celebrated  inColumt^ 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY .  339 

A  threatened  shower  of  rain  caused  the  people  who  hud  assembled 
for  the  purpose  to  adjourn  from  the  grove  to  the  Christian  Church, 
where  the  Declaration  of  Independence  was  read  by  John  R.  Bedford 
and  an  oration  was  delivered  by  Wm.  A.  Robards.  Judge  David 
Todd,  President;  Wm,  Johnson  and  John  Slack,  Vice  Presidents; 
Wm.  F.  Switzler  and  Wm.  Lampton,  Secretaries  ;  John  Vanhorn  and 
iavid  M.  Hickman,  Marshals  ;  F.  A.  Hamilton,  George  Foote,  Elliott 
P.  Cunuinghara,  Wm.  T.  Hickman,  Lewis  Colver,  W.  W.  Wilson, 
Armstrong  Beattie,  John  Corbitt  and  John  Hall  Lynch,  Managers. 
All  of  the  persons  named  are  dead  except  W.  F.  Switzler,  E.  P. 
Cunningham  (who  lives  near  Mexico,  Missouri),  William  T.  Hick- 
man, N.  W.  Wilson  and  John  Corbitt,  the  latter  now  residing  in 
Pennsylvania.  Amono^  the  volunteer  toasts  offered  were  the  fol- 
lowing :  — 

ByP.IL  Parka:  The  blind  man  on  the  way  side  —  may  he  anoint  his  eyes  with  Clay  and 
nceive  his  sight. 

By  W,B,  Lenoir:  A  porcupine  saddle,  long  stirrups,  and  a  hard  trotting  horse,  for  John 
Tyler. 

By  ILL.  Todd:  Our  State  University  —  our  pride  and  boast — palsied  be  the  band  or 
tongue  that  would  do  or  say  anything  to  produce  jealousy  or  dissension  among  the  good 
people  of  this  land  in  relation  to  its  usefulness.  An  editor  somewhere  in  Jackson  County 
has  Attempted  this  thing  —  maybe  have  the  gout  in  his  toes  and  chilblains  in  his  fingen 
when  he  may  attempt  another  such  essay. 

By  Warren  Woodaon :  Geo^t^e  D.  Foote,  Elliott  P.  Cunningham  and  Phineas  Kenyon, 
coDtracton  for  building  the  principal  edifice  of  the  University  of  the  State  of  Missouri, 
wfaoM  fidelity,  skill  and  untiring  efforts  in  the  discharge  of  their  undertakings  are  only 
•quailed  by  the  liberality  of  the  citizens  of  Boone  in  their  donations  to  said  object. 

By  W,  Slade :  The  orator  of  the  day  —  may  his  talents  and  his  worth  be  duly  appre* 
dated. 

ByJ.R,  Bedford:  John  Tyler;  a  political  shuffler  —  what  he  loses  in  dancing  he  makes 
up  in  turning  around. 

By  James  H,  Moss:  May  the  utility  of  their  country  ever  be  the  mainspring  in  directing 
tke  actions  of  American  citizens. 

ByJ.S.Hollina:  The  Constitution  of  the  United  States  —  the  richest  boon  i bequeathed 
^J  the  patriots  of  '76  to  their  posterity  —  let  us  cherish  and  maintain  its  principles  with  the 
■•Die  patriotic  devotion  which  actuated  our  forefathers  in  its  adoption. 

By  A  Quest :  The  University  —  may  its  enemies,  and  particularly  the  editor  at  Inde> 
P^denee,  live  on  parched  corn  and  darn  his  own  socks. 

By  John  B.  RoyaU :  Our  town  of  Columbia —  may  the  gallantry  of  her  sons  only  be  sur- 
P**8ed  by  the  virtue  and  excellence  of  her  daughters. 

^y  i)r.  W,  H.  Duncan :  The  Constitution  of  the  United  States  —  adopted  by  the  most 
celebrated  wisdom,  sagacity  and  patriotism,  its  perpetuity  should  be  regarded  as  the  future 
°*Ppine88  and  prosperity  of  the  Union. 

^Q.W.  Samuel:  The  Whig  party,  routed  in  1840  by  the  death  of  their  leader,  never 
diBcourage^^  but  already  armed  for  the  campaign  of  '44;  may  they  never  again  confide  to  a. 
^''•cherous  miscreant  the  power  to  betray  the  citadel  of  their  strength. 


840  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 


STIBB8   ACADEMY. 


Mr.  J.  T.  Stibbs  and  Mrs.  Mary  Stibbs  announce  that  the  first  sessioi 
of  the  second  year  of  **  Stibbs  Academy,"  Rocheport,  will  commeno 
on  the  fourth  Monday  in  May,  1842.  Among  the  patrons  of  the  acad 
emy  are  mentioned  the  following :  Dr.  G.  B.  Wilcox,  John  Stem 
mons,  James  Howlett  and  Lemuel  Noble.  The  Examining  Com- 
mittee was  composed  of  George  B.  Forbis  and  Col.  John  Cooper 
According  to  the  advertisement,  **good  board  and  lodging  can 
be  had  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  school  rooms  at  $1.50  pei 
week." 

In  the  fall  of  1842  the  experiment  of  an  agricultural  fair  was  at- 
tempted in  Rocheport.  John  Cooper,  president,  George  Knox,  secre- 
tary. On  the  4th  and  5th  of  November  a  fair  was  held  and  about 
$150  in  premiums  were  awarded. 

GREAT    RELIGIOUS    REVIVAL. 

One  of  the  most  notable  religious  revivals  in  the  history  of  Boom 
County  commenced  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Columbia 
during  the  first  week  in  January,  1843.  The  late  Rev.  Isaac  Jon€ 
was  at  that  time  pastor  of  the  church,  and  was  assisted  in  the  conda< 
of  religious  exercises  by  the  Rev.  Robert  L.  McAfee,  of  Boon 
and  Rev.  Messrs.  W.  W.  Robinson  and  David  Coulter,  of  Callawfl 
The  revival  meetings  continued  almost  daily  and  nightly  for  ^bc 
two  months,  and  nearly  a  hundred  persons  united  with  the  Presbjr 
rian  Church.  About  the  same  number  united  with  the  other  churcl 
of  the  town,  and  about  fifty  with  the  Methodist  Church  in  Rochepc 
The  Presbyterian  meetings  were  held  in  the  old  brick  church  on  V/" 
nut  Street,  which  for  much  of  the  time,  owing  to  the  absence  of  si^ 
walks  and  the  prevalence  of  deep  mud,  could  only  be  reached 
horseback.  Soon  after  this  revival  the  members  of  the  Presbyteri 
Church,  having  received  large  accessions  to  their  number  and  fintf 
cial  ability,  resolved  on  building  a  new  meeting  house,  which  V 
completed  in  the  fall  of  1846,  by  the  erection  of  the  church  edifice 
Broadway,  now  occupied  by  that  denomination  ;  and  which  in  1878  ^ 
enlarged  by  the  addition  of  a  lecture  room. 

On  Sunday,  February  19,  1843,  Younger  J.  Williams,  one  of  t: 
proprietors  of  the  Statesman^  died  at  the  residence  of  the  late  Caj 
John  B.  Roy  all. 


HI8TOBT  or   BOONE   COUNTY.  341 


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**  NEW   CASH   STORE." 


Daring  the  month  of  April,  1843,  one  of  the  most  notable  busi- 
nm  ereots  of  the  period  occurred  by  the  opening  in  Columbia  of 
the  "New  Cash  Store,"  by  James  L.  Stephens.  A  cash  store,  by 
which  was  meant  that  no  books  were  kept  and  cash  on  the  counter 
was  paid  for  eveiything  purchased,  was  unknown  in  Central  Missouri. 
As  the  tendency  was  downward  in  the  prices  of  groceries  and  dry 
goods  it  wsis  an  auspicious  time  to  establish  such  an  enterprise  as 
Mr.  Stephens  proposed;  and  therefore  the  opening  of  his  **  New 
Cash  Store,"  accompanied  by  liberal  advertising  of  both  dry  goods 
and  groceries,  at  prices  considerably  lower  than  those  then  prevailing, 
caused  a  sensation  in  business  circles  and  an  unusual  rush  of  custom- 
ers to  Mr.  Stephens'  counters.  He  came  in  on  the  tide  of  successful 
experiment,  permanently  established  himself  as  a  merchant,  and  se- 
cured great  thrift  and  prosperity. 

TWO   CITIZENS    ACCIDENTALLY   KILLED. 

On  Saturday,  March  26,  1843,  Mason  Jefferson,  a  young  man  and 
a  citizen  of  this  county  was  accidentally  killed,  near  the  village  of 
Xashville,  then  situated  on  the  Missouri  river.  Jefferson  and  a  friend 
^rere  trying  the  speed  of  their  horses  in  a  race  along  the  road,  during 
'W'hich  Jefferson's  horse  ran  on  one  side  of  a  tree  while  Jefferson,  lean- 
^^  toward  the  other  side  came  in  contact  with  the  tree  and  was  in- 
stantly killed,  his  skull  being  fractured.  On  Tuesday  morning,  April 
14, 1843,  Eaney  LaForce,  a  citizen  of  the  county  was  accidentally 
slot  and  killed  by  PhelixCallaham.  They  were  hunting  wild  turkeys 
"together  eight  or  ten  miles  northeast  of  Columbia;  and  having  sepa- 
*^ted  in  the  chase  of  a  flock,  Callaham,  thinking  he  saw  game  in  a 
"tlicket  before  him,  discharged  his  rifle  at  them.  Unfortunately,  La 
^orce  was  upon  the  other  side  of  the  thicket  immediately  in  the  direc- 
tion of  Callaham' s  aim.  At  the  discharge  of  the  gun  La  Force  fell 
^nd  died  in  a  few  minutes  —  the  ball  having  entered  his  chest.  La 
"Force  was  a  man  of  family. 

The  amount  of  moneys  paid  by  the  State  in  1843,  to  Boone  County 
for  common  school  purposes  was  only  $933.60.  In  1882  the  sura  paid 
^ast . 

THE   MURDER   OF   HIRAM   BEASLEY. 

About  sundown  on  Monday,  March  20,  1843,  Hiram  Beasley,  an 
^Id  resident  of  the  county,  was  murdered  by  his  negroes  on  his  farm. 


842  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Bituated  about  four  miles  north  of  Providence,  on  the  Providence  a 
Columbia  road.  On  the  next  day  five  of  the  negroes,  Henry,  a 
America,  his  wife ;  Simon,  David  and  Mary  were  aiTested,  brought 
Columbia  and  tried  before  Warren  Woodson,  J.  P.,  and  committed 
jail  for  further  trial.  They  were  subsequently  indicted  by  the  gra 
jury  and  at  the  May  term  tried.  Simon  and  David  were  found  gui 
of  murder  in  the  second  degree,  punished  by  thirty-nine  lashes  a 
banished  from  the  State.  Mary  was  acquitted.  Henry  and  Anier 
on  their  own  confession  were  convicted  and  sentenced  to  be  hung 
Judge  Leland  on  Saturday,  June  10th. 

On  the  evening  of  the  murder  Mr.  Beasley  and  his  negroes  were 
a  clearing  about  three  quarters  of  a  mile  from  his  house,  and  it  ^ 
at  this  place  the  murder  was  committed,  the  material  facts  of  whi 
are  disclosed  in  Henry's  confession,  which  follows.  The  followi 
are  the  names  of  the  jurors  who  tried  the  case :  Charles  Wren,  W 
liam  Jones,  Levi  Parks,  John  Pitts,  John  Rice,  John  Y.  Philii 
Isaac  Jacobs,  Lewis  Roberts,  James  Mayo,  George  W.  Scott,  Jo 
Roberts,  James  B.  Tucker;  Roger  N.  Todd,  clerk ;  John  D.  Lelar 
judge ;  James  M.  Gordon,  prosecuting  attorney ;  Frederick  A.  Hai 
ilton,  sheriff;  John  M.  Kelley,  jailer. 

About  two  o'clock  on  Saturday,  June  10th,  Henry  and  Ameri 
were  publicly  executed  on  the  gallows  in  the  northwestern  suburbs 
Columbia,  at  a  place  then  without  the  corporate  limits  of  the  to^ 
but  now  embraced  by  them.  The  frame  residence  known  as  t 
Carlyle  House,  but  now  owned  by  C.  B.  Wells,  and  the  house  in  wh 
Eld.  Thomas  M.  Allen  died,  is  situated  near  the  spot  where  the  ^ 
lows  was  erected.  Although  the  day  was  extremely  inclement,  it  b 
fng  rained  during  most  of  the  morning,  nearly  two  thousand  pers 
assembled  to  witness  the  execution.  The  condemned  man  and  wor 
were  attended  at  the  gallows  by  Rev.  Mr.  McMurtry,  of  the  Met 
dist  Church,  who,  previous  to  the  execution,  engaged  in  solemn  re 
ious  exercises.  The  gallows  was  an  old-fashion  gibbet,  construe 
of  two  posts  set  firmly  in  the  ground,  with  a  strong  beam  connect 
them  at  the  top.  To  this  beam  the  ropes  were  tied,  a  hangman's  no 
being  attached  to  the  lower  ends.  The  culprits  were  driven  ii 
common  wagon  from  the  jail,  each  sitting  on  a  cofiiu,  and  at  the 
pointed  time,  a  noose  being  about  the  neck  of  each,  the  wagon  ^ 
driven  from  under  them,  and  they  were  launched  by  strangulat 
into  eternity. 


HISTORY  OP   BOONE   COUNTT.  343 

What  was  done  ^ith  the  remains  of  Henry  we  know  not ;  but  a 
dispute  arising  among  the  physicians,  several  of  whom  examined 
America  before  the  execution,  as  to  whether  she  was  enciente^  most  of 
them  affirming  she  was  not,  a  post  mortem  examination  was  made  by 
Dr.  Wm.  B.  Lenoir,  the  disclosures  of  which  seriously  confounded 
some  of  the  doctors,  by  revealing  the  fact  that  she  was  pretty  far  gone 
in  pregnancy.  Dr.  Lenoir's  oiBce,  in  which  the  examination  and  dis- 
section were  made,  was  situated  in  the  rear,  or  north  end,  of  the  brick 
building,  on  the  corner  of  Broadway  and  Court  House  Street,  now 
(1882)  occupied  by  Loeb  &  Cook,  as  a  family  grocery  store,  the 
rear  of  the  building  being  at  that  time  divided  from  the  front  by  a 
[Murtition.    The  front  was  then  occupied  as  a  drug  store  by  Joshua  W. 

Norton. 

henry's  contession. 

Heniy  made  two  confessions,  one  to  Sheriff  Hamilton,  who  wrote  it 
down  a  few  days  before  the  execution,  and  which  was  read  to  the  mul- 
titude on  that  day ;  the  other,  and  a  much  longer  one,  under  the  gal- 
lows.   The  following  is  the  confession  made  to  Sheriff  Hamilton  : — 

Knowing  thftt  I  have  in  m  few  days  to  appear  in  the  presence  of  my  God,  I  feel  it  to  he 
07  inditpeniahle  daty  to  give  a  correct  history  of  the  unfortunate  transaction  for  which  I 
m  eoodemned  to  he  hung. 

Sometime  in  the  winter  of  1842,  David  and  myself,  for  the  purpose   of  keeping  from 

biiog  whipped,  ran  off,  and  during  that  time  Dave  insisted  on  my  joining  him  to  kill  maa- 

ttt;  that  matter  was  pressed  on  me  by  David  and  Simon  from  that  time  until  the  day  of  his 

U).   Sometime  previous  to  his  death,   Simon  beat  up  a  large  quantity  of  glass  for  the 

porpoM  of  poisoning  him,  hut  having  laid  it  on  the  fence,  it  was  found  by  master.    David 

■od  Simon  informed  me  that  they  had  been  determined  for  years  to  take  his  life.    The  day 

ef  Blaster's  death,  when  they  were  putting  in  the  hominy  block,  I  was  not  present;  but 

inHhuntingaringoff  of  the  bolster;  when  I  returned  I  found  Simon  some  short  distance 

from  the  wagon ;  he  spoke  to  me  and  said  that  Dave  had  killed  master  and  that  he  had 

•track  him ;  Dave,  Simon  and  America  all  acknowledged  to  me  that  they  had  struck  him ; 

ttid  sfter  I  came  up,  Mary  took  the  axe  and  struck  him  two  licks  on  the  head.    Dave  burnt 

thslesves;  we  then  started  for  the  house;  when  I  got  to  the  house,  I  found  Simon,  Dave, 

America  and  Mary.    After  night,  Simon  and  myself  removed  the  body  to  where  it  was 

feiuid.    Dave  had  taken  the  horse  and  put  him  in  the  upper  stable,  which  was  the  old 

tobioco  bouse.      I  threw  the  body  at  the  forks' of  the  ruad,  Simon  carrying  his  cap  and 

steadying  him  on  the  horse  by  holding  his  feet;  and  eased  him  off  the  horse.    David  would 

never  tell  me  who  shot  off  the  pistol ;  but  said  he  knew  who  it  was.    Three  or  four  nights 

before  he  was  killed,  Mary  and  David  laid  a  plot  to  kill  him.    Master  went  to  the  stable, 

*Qd  David  and  Simon  went  for  the  purpose  of  killing  him,  but  they  could  not  find  him.     I 

■^▼entruck  a  single  blow.     David  stated  to  me  since  his  trial,  that  he  and  Simon  have  de- 

^mined  ever  since  they  have  been  in  this  State  to  take  his  life.    The  keys  were  throwa 

into  the  the  flre  by  Mary. 

IMPROVEMENT   OF    BROADWAY,  COLUMBIA. 

Previous  to  the  improvement  of   Broadway,  Columbia,  in   1843, 


344  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

it  was  a  very  irregular  and  unsightly  thoroughfare,  and  often  im- 
passable on  account  of  its  deep  mud.  There  were  no  sidewalks  of 
brick  or  of  stone,  and  very  few  of  plank,  and  in  muddy  weather 
pedestrians  had  difficulty  in  passing  from  one  building  to  another,  and 
greater  difficulty  in  crossing  Broadway,  or  an  intersecting  street. 
The  writer  hereof  during  times  of  protracted  rain  has  seeu 
wagons  loaded  with  fire  wood  and  country  produce  completely  stalled 
in  the  mud  of  Broadway,  especially  in  that  portion  of  the  street  em- 
braced in  the  depression  which  then  existed  between  Eighth  and  Ninth 
Streets,  and  in  front  of  the  Exchange  National  Bank  and  Gilman  & 
Dorsey's  drug  store.  After  the  opening  of  the  University  in  1843  it 
was  determined  by  a  few  enterprising  citizens,  who  caught  much  of 
the  inspiration  from  Dr.  Wm.  Jewell,  chairman  of  the  town  trustees, 
that  they  would  remedy  these  evils  by  the  establishment  of  foot  ways 
or  sidewalks  on  each  side  of  Broadway  from  Water  Street,  on  Flat 
Branch,  to  Eleventh  Street,  then  the  eastern  limit  of  the  village. 
Also  by  the  greater  and  more  costly  work  of  grading,  macadamizing 
and  guttering  Broadway  for  the  distance  mentioned. 

This  enterprise,  on  account  of  its  cost  and  the  alleged  high  taxe 
which  would  be  necessary  to  complete  it,  produced  the  wildest  excit< 
ment  among  a  portion  of  the  people,  resulting,  in  some  instances,  i 
estrangement  of  personal  friendships  and  almost  violence.  But  D 
Jewell,  and  those  who  sustained  him,  had  put  their  hands  to  the  plo^ 
and  were  determined  to  carry  the  improvements  to  their  consumm: 
tion.  And  they  did  it,  and  Broadway  to-day,  one  of  the  wides 
best  improved  and  most  beautiful  streets  in  any  of  our  inland  towns, 
a  monument  to  the  enterprise,  sagacity  and  intrepidity  of  Dr.  Williai 
Jewell. 

MILITIA    MUSTERS. 

The  militia  musters  of  the  olden  time,  consisting  of  battalion  an 
regimental  parades  at  stated  times  and  places  in  each  county  of  tl 
State,  were  occasions  of  great  interest,  and  were  anticipated  and  pn 
pared  for  by  people  of  all  conditions,  classes  and  colors.  The 
brought  together  four  times  during  each  summer  and  fall  the  entii 
male  population,  to  meet  each  other  in  social  converse,  to  witness  th 
splendid  pageantry  of  peaceful  war ;  to  note  the  evolutions  of  gail 
caparisoned  horses  and  their  plumed  and  uniformed  riders ;  to  gaa 
with  patriotic  pride  upon  the  long  and  straggling  lines  of  citizen  so] 
diery  attired  in  home-spun  and  armed  with  walking  canes,  umbrella 
and  corn-stalks ;  to  pass  judgment  upon  the  merits  of  braying  jack 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  345 

^^'  M  isses  and  the  stump  oratory  of  political  candidates  who  were  often  on 
^*f  eibibition  in  close  proximity  to  each- other ;  to  eat  ginger  cakes  and 
drink  8weet  cider,  and  destroy  watermelons  by  the  score ;  and  late  in 
the  afternoon  to  form  part  of  a  wide  and  excited  ring,  which  circled, 
halloed,  clieering  and  swearing,  around  neighborhood  bullies  who,  on 
all  SQch  occasions,  settled  their  personal  differences  with  <*  fist  and 
skull." 

Many  and  oft  have  been  the  times  during  the  period  about  which 
we  write,  and  notably  during  the  celebrated  presidential  canvass  of 
1844,  our  citizens  came  together  at  the  battalion  musters  at  Charles 
wl  Sprinkle's,  at  Wm.  Marney's,  at  Edward  Young's  and  at  Stephen 
b|  Wilhite's,  at  each  of  which,  mounted  on  some  prancing  steed  whose 
"  neck  was  clothed  with  thunder,"  was  to  be  seen  the  tall  form  of 
^•1  .Brigadier  Gen.  Stewart  B.  Hatton,  with  red  sash  and  golden  epaulets 
r-1  and  burnished  sword  gleaming  in  the  sunlight.  James  Crockett, 
vi    Jesse  Barnett  and  John  W.  Hall    were    amons:  the   colonels   com- 


r--i 


manding. 


THE    GREAT   FRESHET   OF    1844. 


No  event,  perhaps,  in  the  history  of  Boone  County  is  more  marked 
than  the  June  freshet  in  the  Missouri  River  in  1844.     At  no  time  be 
ioTe  or  since  was  the  river  ever  so  full.     Completely  without  its 
l^^nka  the  low  lands  along  the  whole  course  of  the  river  were  over 
flcDwed.    The  town  of  Rocheport,  in  Boone  County,  suffered  very 
seriously.     The  store  and  warehouse  of  Peebles  &  Keizers,  near  the 
l>«nk,  were  inundated,  the  lower  floors  being  covered  with  several  feet 
of  water.     Water  six  feet  deep  was  upon  the  floor  of  the  dining  room 
of  Northcutt's    Hotel,  and   above  the  counters  in  all  the   business 
l^ouses  fronting  the  river  —  those  of  J.  K.  Wright  &  Co.,  Meyers  & 
Butler,  Howlett  &  Bourne,  etc. 

The  steamboat  •*  Wapello"  went  as  far  into  town  as  the  market 
l^ouse,  with  which  it  collided,  demolishing  the  house.  All  the  mer- 
cliants  in  the  place  removed  their  goods  to  more  elevated  positions  on 
Central  Street. 

The  town  of  Nashville — Providence  was  then  unknown  —  was 
completely  inundated  and  also  the  immense  bottoms  adjacent. 
Every  inhabitant  of  Nashville  had  to  desert  it.  The  water  was  eight 
feet  deep  in  the  streets.  Rice  G.  Woods  &  Co.  and  John  Parker  & 
Sons,  merchants,  in  order  to  save  their  goods,  shipped  them  onsteam- 
'^ats,  the  latter  to  St.  Louis,  the  former  to  Teter's  landing,  up  the 


346  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

river.     Lamme's  warehouse  was  swept  away,  and  Camplin's  t 
factory,  which  stood  on  the  river  bank,  caved  into  the  river. 

Great  destruction  of  property  and  personal  distress,  and  pc 
life  and  limb  were  occasioned  in  the  Missouri  bottom.  A  nun 
families  were  rendered  destitute,  and  relief  was  afforded  th 
wagon  loads  of  provisions  which  more  fortunate  citizens  contr 

On  Tuesday  night,  June  18,  about  9  o'clock,  four  citizens 
lumbia,  William  Lampton,  Cornelius  Maupin,  Lewis  T.  Damer 
John  W.  Collier,  left  that  place  for  Nashville  for  the  purpose  of 
Woods  &  Co.  to  prepare  their  goods  for  shipment  on  a  steamei 
der  to  save  them.  North  of  the  town  there  was  a  slough,  a 
low  lands  adjacent,  which,  without  their  knowledge  and  conti 
their  expectations,  were  underwater.  Arriving  about  3  o'clocl 
morning  at  the  edge  of  the  water,  and  about  one  mile  from  t 
lage,  and  not  for  a  moment  suspecting  the  water  was  too  dee 
thus  encountered,  they  rode  into  it  on  their  horses,  one  of  the 
ii  lantern  leading  the  way.  They  soon  discovered  their  dang 
in  the  pitchy  darkness  of  the  night  became  confused,  lost  the 
and  resolved  to  tie  their  horses,  abandon  them,  and  climb  tr€ 
remain  till  morning.  Fortunately,  the  beleagured  quarto  read 
saplings  not  far  distant,  and  two  ascended  each  of  them  ;  anc 
amid  the  bowlings  of  the  night  and  the  terrible  roar  of  the  re 
less  flood,  they  remained  perched  till  morning.  By  this  ti 
waters  had  so  risen  that  their  horses  could  not  stand  ;  therefo 
terrained  to  make  another  effort  to  escape  the  great  and  singul 
ils  which  threatened  them  and  to  reach  the  town,  they  descends 
the  limbs  on  which  they  had  stood  the  whole  night,  mountc 
horses  and  headed  their  course  for  dry  land,  about  one  th 
yards  distant.  After  accomplishing  three-fourths  of  the  wa; 
horses  gave  out,  and  a  watery  grave  seemed  to  be  the  fate 
Two  of  the  men  succeeded  in  reaching  trees,  the  third  a  large 
log,  but  the  fourth,  Mr.  Collier,  benumbed  by  the  vapors  o 
and  flood,  and  overcome  by  the  dangers  through  which  th 
passed,  and  which  seemed  still  to  block  their  way  to  safety, 
self-control,  and  was  drowned. 

About  6  o'clock  that  morning,  the  three  who  remained,  giii 
alarm  by  loud  cries  of  distress,  were  relieved  by  Dr.  Will 
Lenoir,  Harry  Acton  and  other  citizens,  who  made  their  way  1 
on  a  hastily  constructed  raft  of  planks  and  logs. 

Mr.  Collier's  body  was  recovered  the  next  day. 


HI8TORT  OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  347 

The  town  of  Nashville  having  been  completely  submerged  and 
^ept  away  by  the  freshet,  it  was  at  once  resolved  to  establish  a  new 
town  as  a  place  of  business  for  the  country  round  about  and  as  a  ship- 
ping and  receiving  point  for  Columbia ;  and,  therefore,  before  the 
flood  had  fairly  subsided,  the  commissioners  of  Providence  —  William 
Shields,  John  H.  Field  and  Robert  S.  Barr —  advertised  a  sale  of  lots 
at  a  point  immediately  above  the  Nashville  bottom,  on  a  permanent 
Tock  bluff,  and  a  sale  of  lots  was  made  on  July  13. 

PRESIDENTIAL   ELECTION,    1844. 

Boone  claimed  to  be  the  banner  Whig  county  of  the  State,  and, 
heing  settled  largely  by  Kentuckians,  felt  a  lively  interest  in  the  suc- 
cess of  Kentucky's  great  statesman  and  orator,  Henry  Clay.  All 
through  the  canvass  the  enthusiasm  was  almost  unbounded,  and  Whig 
speakers,  home  and  foreign,  addressed  the  people  at  various  times  and 
places  —  among  whom  may  be  mentioned  Abiel  Leonard,  of  Howard  ; 
Louis  V.  Bogy,  of  St.  Louis ;  John  B.  Duncan  and  William  H. 
Bassell,  of  Callaway ;  James  S.  Rollins,  Sinclair  Kirtley,  Dr.  William 
Jewell,  A.  W.  Turner,  F.  t*.  Russell  and  W.  F.  Switzler,  of  Boone. 
Clay  clubs  —  some  of  them  with  'coons  and  banners  —  were  organized 
in  eyery  township,  many  of  which  were  regaled  by  campaign  songs, 
rendered  by  glee  clubs.  On  Tuesday  night,  October  8,  in  the  pres- 
ence of  a  large  crowd,  and  near  the  Statesman  office,  a  tall  ash  flag 
pole  was  raised,  from  the  top  of  which  floated  the  American  flag,  on 
iriiich  occasion  Col.  William  H.  Russell  and  John  B.  Duncan,  of 
Callaway,  addressed  the  people.  But  this  pole  did  not  long  bear 
aloft  its  flag  and  streamers,  for,  on  the  night  of  November  20,  decisive 
returns  being  received  from  New  York,  rendering  Mr.  Clay's  defeat 
onquestionable,  some  disappointed  and  disgusted  Whigs  laid  the  axe 
toils  base  and  with  their  hopes  it  fell  to  the  ground. 

Nor  were  the  Democrats,  friends  pf  James  K.  Polk,  either  idle  or 
lacking  enthusiasm*during  the  campaign.  C.  F.  Jackson,  of  Howard  ; 
John  Jameson  and  Thomas  Ancell,  of  Callaway,  and  William  A. 
Bobards,  of  Boone,  met  the  Whig  orators  in  debate,  and  added  inter- 
nal and  excitement  to  the  exercises  of  the  political  rostrum. 

Mr.  Clay's  majority  in  the  county  was  588. 

LIQUOR  PROHIBITION    FORESHADOWED. 

In  the  winter  of  1845  a  temperance  society  was  organized  in  Colum- 


348  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY^ 

bia,  with  the  following  officers  ;  W.  F.  Switzler,  president ;  James  H, 
Woods,  first  vice-president ;  M.  S.Matthews,  second  vice-president  ;Dr. 
A.  J.  McKelway,  corresponding  secretary,  and  Lewis  T.  Dameron^ 
recording  secretary ;  whose  constitution  embraced  the  princi- 
ples of  prohibition,  as  follows :  *•  That  we  desire  the  General  Assem- 
bly so  to  change  the  present  license  laws  as  to  permit  the  qualified 
voters  in  every  township  in  the  State  to  decide  at  the  polls  how  many, 
if  any,  grocery  and  dram-shop  licenses  shall  be  granted  within  their 
respective  townships." 

COLONIZATION   SOCIETIES. 

Early  in  May,  1845,  Rev.  R.  S.  Finley,  agent  of  the  Missouri  Col- 
onization Society,  visited  Columbia  and  Rocheport  and  addressed  large 
meetings  of  the  people  in  behalf  of  African  colonization.     On  May 
17th  a  society  was  organized  in  Columbia,  a  constitution  adopted,  and 
the  following  officers  elected  :  President,  Dr.  Wm.  Jewell ;  vice-pres- 
idents, T.  M.  Allen,  Isaac  Jones,  Thos.   H.  Ford,  Walter  Prescott, 
Fielding  Wilhite,  Warren  Woodson,  A.  Persinger,  Eli  E.  Bass,  Dr. 
A.  H.  Robinson  ;  secretary,  Wm.  F.  Switzler ;  treasurer,  Sinclair Kirt- 
ley ;    managers.  Dr.  T.  R.  H.  Smith,  Moss  Prewitt,  Jas.  S.  Rollins, 
John  H.   Lathrop,   Robt.  S.  Thomas,  Jesse  A.  Boulton,  Dr.  H.  M. 
Clarkson,  Caleb  S.  Stone,  A.*W.  Turner,  W.  W.  Hudson,  Johfi  F. 
Stone,  Milton^S.  Matthews. 

W.  F.  Switzler  was  instructed  to  write  and  publish  an  address  i^ 
behalf  of  colonization,  and  Sinclair  Kirtley  was  invited  to  delive*^  • 
speech  to  the  society  at  its  meeting  on  July  4,  1845.  On  Sunday 
July  5,  1846,  this  society  held  its  annual  meeting  in  the  Christ 
Church  in  Columbia,  Dr.  Jewell  presiding.  Very  interesting  addrej 
were  made  by  Dr.  T.  R.  H.  Smith,  Eld.  Samuel  S.  Church,  and 
S.  A.  Young.  Eld.  Thos.  M.  Allen  was  elected  president  for  the 
suing  year. 

In  September,  1847,  the  following  officers  were  elected :  Presidei 
Dr.  Wm.  Jewell ;  vice-presidents,  T.  M.  Allen,   Isaac  Jones,  R. 
Thomas,  R.  L.  McAfee,  William  Wilhite,  Z.  N.   Robeils,  and  A. 
Macey ;    secretary,    W.    F.    Switzler ;    treasurer,   M.    S.   Matthew^ 
managers.  Dr.  T.  R.  H.  Smith,  Moss  Prewitt,  J.  S.  Rollins,  J. 
Lathrop,  Nelson  Carter,  Dr.  H.  M.  Clarkson,  D.  M.  Hickman,  W. 
Hudson,  G.  C.  Pratt,  J.  B.  Howard,  Dr.  Wm.  Provines,  and  N. 
Wilson.  .  / 

A  society  was  also  organized  in  Rocheport,  May  16,  1845. 


HI8TOBY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  349 

£Qt,  Moses  IT.  Payne;  vice  president,  George  Knox;  secre- 
ujy  Bev.  David  Coulter ;  treasurer,  George  W.  Outcalt ;  mana- 
gers, Dr.  A.  H.  Robertson,  Rev.  Walter  Prescott,  —  Caldwell,  P. 
[>ow,  George  Beeman,  —  Howlett,  and  B.  McAlister.  Although  these 
Bocieties  had  a  regular  organization  and  existed  for  two  or  three  years, 
nothing  special  was  accomplished  for  African  colonization. 

BOONE   COUNTY  TAXES   IN    1845. 

The  entire  taxable  wealth  of  the  county,  in  1845,  was  $1,943,162  ; 
whole  number  of  carriages  and  buggies  only  48;  money  at  interest 
0DI7  $119,460 ;  total  State  taxes  only  $3,699.53. 

MISSOURI   ANNUAL   CONFERENCE. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  and  important  sessions  of  the  Confer- 
ence of  the  Missouri  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  ever  held  in  the  State 
convened  in  the  Union  Churcii,  in  Columbia,  on  October  1,  1845  — 
Bishop  Soule  presiding  —  and  continued  in  session  eleven  days.  The 
great  question  of  separation  was  before  the  Conference  and  excited 
the  profouudest  interest.  Those  who  participated  in  the  discussion 
Mid  denied  the  propriety  of  adhering  to  the  Church  South  were  the 
following  ministers :  Jas.  M.  Jameson,  Wilson  S.  McMurray,  Nathan- 
el  Westerman  and  Thomas  W.  Chandler.  Those  who  took  the  oppo- 
site view  were  Andrew  Monroe,  Thomas  Ashley,  Wm.  Patten,  Wes- 
ej  Browning,  Joseph  Boyle  and  Jesse  Green.  The  Conference,  by  a 
ote  of  86  to  14,  adhered  to  the  Church  South.  Total  number  of 
members  of  the  Methodist  Church  in  Missouri,  26,061,  of  which  there 
ere  23,532  whites  and  2,529  colored.  During  the  third  week  in 
ctober,  1845,  Elder  Alexander  Campbell,  of  Bethany,  Virginia, 
tended  a  State  meeting  of  the  Christian  Church,  in  Columbia,  and 
slivered  several  sermons  to  large  audiences.  On  Sunday,  October 
>,  80  great  was  the  concourse  present  that  the  meeting  was  held  in  a 
•ove  east  of  town,  very  near  the  spot  on  which  the  residence  of 
i-ines  L.  Stephens  now  stands,  where  Mr.  Campbell  addressed 
5veral  thousand  people  in  a  very  able  and  scholarly  discourse. 

THE   NEW   COURT  HOUSE. 

On  the  2d  Monday  in  December,  1845,  the  Boone  County  Court, 
insisting  of  Judges  Alexander  Persinger,  James  W.  Daly,  and 
■^iJpiu  S.  Tuttle,  resolved  on  building  a  new  court  house,  and  made 


350  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

an  order  appropriating  $10,000  for  that  purpose  and  appointed  Dr» 
Wm.  Jewell  superintendent  of  the  work. 

The  work  was  entered  upon  in  due  time  and  the  house  completed 
and  delivered  November  22,  1847,  by  the  following  contractors; 
Larkin  Richardson,  undertaker  of  the  stone  work;  Henry  Keene, of 
the  brick  work  ;  B.  McAlester,  of  the  carpenter's  work,  and  Bolly 
Asberry,  of  the  plastering.  The  entire  cost  of  the  building  was 
$17,165,  and  was  at  the  time  regarded  as  the  best,  largest  and  moat 
magnificentcourt-house  in  Central  Missouri.  Since  that  time,  however, 
it  has  been  far  eclipsed  by  the  court  houses  of  almost  every  other 
county  in  this  part  of  the  State. 

Above  the  front  door  there  is  a  plate  inserted  in  the  wall  on 
which  are  these  words:  (W.  M.  Winter,  architect  ;^)  '^L.  Richardson, 
H.  Keene,  and  B.  McAlester,  builders;  Wm.  Jewell,  superintend- 
ent."* Below  this  plate  on  the  stone  lintel  of  the  front  door  is  the 
following  inscription  :  '*  Oh  Justice  !  when  expelled  from  other  hab- 
itations make  this  thy  dwelling  place  !  " 

THE   MEXICAN    WAR. 

*'  Switzler's  History  of  Missouri  "  says  that  the  annexation  of  Texas 
was  the  alleged  cause  of  the  declaration  of  war  by  Mexico  against  the 
United  States  in  April,  1846  ;  but  the  more  immediate  cause  of  it  was 
the  occupation  by  the  American  army  of  the  disputed  territory  lying 
between  the  rivers  Nueces  and  Rio  Grande. 

The  declaration  of  war  by  Mexico  was  soon  followed  by  a  counter- 
declaration  by  the  American  Congress,  that  *'  a  state  of  war  exists  be- 
tween   Mexico  and    the  United    States."     Soon   after   this   couatBt- 
declaration,  the    Mexicans  cro:ssed  the  Rio  Grande  in  strong  forces, 
headed  by  their  famous  Generals  Arista   and   Ampudia,  and   on   da« 
8th  and  9th  of  May,  at  Palo  Alto  and  Resaca  de   Palma,    were    to^ 
and  repulsed  with  great  slaughter  by  General  Taylor,  of  the  «•  Ax^*^ 
of  Occupation."     This  fact  created  great  excitement  in  St.  Louis  ^^ 
the  surrounding  country.     Volunteers  flocked  to  the  standard  of    ^ 
United  States,  and  the  *'  St.  Louis  Le«:ion,"  a  militarv  oro:aniza€>^' 
under  command  of  Colonel  A.  R.  Easton,  quickly  prepared  for     * 
field  of  action. 

About  the  middle  of  May,  1846,  Governor  Edwards,  of  Misso 
called  for  volunteers  to  join  the  •*Army  of  the  West  "  —  an  expedi^ 


^  The  words  in  parenthesiB  originally  appeared,  but  were  erased  by  order  of  Dr. 
Jewell. 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  351 

0  Santa  Fe  —  under  command  of  General  Stephen  W.  Kearney ► 
2oTfB  of  mounted  volunteers  were  speedily  organized,  and  early  in 
lone  began  to  arrive  at  Fort  Leavenworth,  the  appointed  rendezvous. 
By  the  18th  of  the  month,  the  full  complement  of  companies  to  com- 
pose the  first  regiment  having  arrived  from  the  counties  of  Jackson, 
Lafnyette,  Clay,  Saline,  Franklin,  Cole,  Howard,  and  Callaway,  an 
election  was  held,  which  resulted  in  the  choice  of  Alexander  W.  Doni- 
phan, Colonel ;  C.  F.  Ruff,  Lieutenant-Colonel ;  and  William  Gil- 
pin, Major. 

Hulf-a-dozen  men,  among  whom  were  Odon  Guitar  and  John  M. 
Robards,  were  from  Boone  county  in  the  Callaway  county  company  of 
Doniphan's  regiment.  They  enlisted  on  three  hours*  notice  as  the 
compiiny  was  marching  through  Columbia  to  Fort  Leavenworth. 

Early  in  the  summer  of  1846,  Hon.  Sterling  Price,  a  member  of 
Congress  from  Missouri,  resigned,  and  was  designated  by  President 
Polk  to  command  another  regiment  of  volunteers  from  Missouri,  to 
reinforce  the  •*Army  of  the  West."  This  force  consisted  of  a  full 
mounted  regiment  and  one  mounted  extra  battalion  and  one  extra 
battalion  of  Mormon  infantry.  The  complement  of  men  was  soon 
raised,  consisting  of  companies  from  the  counties  of  Boone,  Benton, 
Carroll,  Chariton,  Linn,  Livingston,  Monroe,  Randolph,  Ste.  Gene- 
vieve and  St.  Louis ;  and  about  the  first  of  August  rendezvoused  at 
Fort  Leavenworth. 

With  this  force  Colonel  Price  took  up  the  line  of  march  for  Santa 
Pe,  over  the  same  route  pursued  by  Kearney  and  Doniphan,  and  on 
September  28th,  three  days  after  Gen.  Kearney's  departure  for  Cali- 
'ornia,  arrived  in  very  feeble  health. 

In  May,  1846,  John  Ellis,  Major-General  of  the  12th  Division, 
lissouri  Militia,  received  orders  dated  May  14,  requesting  him  to 
aifte  without  delay  in  the  counties  of  Boone  and  Callaway,  100  volun- 
eers  of  infantry  or  riflemen  for  the  reinforcement  of  the  "Army  of 
Occupation"  in  Texas.  On  Monday,  May  25,  four  battalions  of 
lilitia,  by  order  of  Gen.  Ellis  paraded  in  Columbia  for  the  pnrpose  of 
esponding  to  the  requisition  of  the  Governor  for  fifty  volunteers  from 
his  county  to  repair  forthwith  to  the  seat  of  war  in  Texas.  More 
han  the  number  required  (58  men)  soon  marched  into  line,  with 
aearts  animated  by  the  love  of  country,  and  ready  to  hasten  to  the 
field  of  battle,  whence  the  blood  of  their  countrymen  cried  out  from 
the  ground.  As  soon  as  the  company  was  formed,  an  election  of 
officers  was  held.     The  following  is  the  roll  of  officers  and  privates : 


352 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   CJOUNTT. 


OapUin  — Wm.  Robards,  8r.  Fourth  Sergeant— Jdo.  W.  GMer. 

Fint  Lieutenant — Alex.  L.  Robinson.  First  Corporal  —  J.  P.  Fleming, 

Second  Lieutenant— Elijah  A.  Willis.  Second  Corporal —J.  B.  Phillipa. 

Orderly  Sexgeant— Jno.  M.  Robards.  Third  Corporal— J.  B.  Ridgway. 

Second  Sergeant—  Wm.  E.  Wright  Fourth  Corporal —Joseph  Turner. 

Third  Sergeant—  Arthur  Callaham. 
Privates— John  Atha,  J.  W.  Boggs,  David  Boothe,  Carr  Boothe,  Edward  Booths,  DM 
Bishop,  Archibald  Brooks,  Larkin  Bennett,  Alex.  Casaday,  David  Coover,  Felix  Gsllshu^ 
Joel  Farthing,  Henry  M.  Henry,  Levi  Heme,  Wm.  T.  Hancock,  Enoch  Hulin,  Ambnii 
Hulin,  George  W.  Johnston,  Squire  Hart,  Charles  Hart,  Granville  Homsinger,  J.  Si 
Houston,  Clark  Kenuon,  Thomas  J.  Kitchen,  Joshua  Lampton,  Lafayette  Lewi%  SooA 
Hurdock,  Levil  Merry,  James  F.  Mills,  Isaac  B.  Munday,  Wm.  O'Counor,  Geoigt  Oliiw^ 
Eldridge  Payne,  James  R.  Pigg,  John  Simpson,  Wm.  Smith,  R.  Stone,  Robert  Seott,  W. 
W.  Schooling,  Joseph  Turner,  James  Turner,  Jos.  Vinson,  Francis  M.  Well8»  Wm.  WiUriH 
J.  M.  Wright,  Bamett  Williams. 

The  election  of  officers  being  over,  the  company  marched  from  tlie 
grove  to  Selby's  Hotel  and  partook  of  a  sumptuous  dinner,  gi?oi 
them  by  the  citizens. 

Whilst  the  militia  were  on  parade  Capt.  John  Hinton,  of  Boche- 
port,  now  Probate  Judge  of  Boone  county,  made  a  speech,  in  whiob 
he  announced  his  intention  to  organize,  in  this  county,  one  hundred 
mounted  volunteers,  in  anticipation  of  the  requisition  of  the  Oovemor 
for  1,000  troops  from  the  State  to  protect  the  Santa  Fe  traders. 
Numbers  —  exactly  how  many  we  do  not  know — gallantly  responded 
to  the  call  of  Capt.  Hinton. 

It  was  announced  that  Gen.  John  Ellis  (as  captain)  and  Col.  James 
Crocket  (as  lieutenant)  would  lead  one  hundred  men  to  the  plains,  if 
their  services  be  needed,  as  flying  artillery.  The  whole  number  was 
soon  made  up.  Some  twenty-five  were  also  added  to  a  uniform  volun- 
teer company,  organized  in  the  summer  of  1844,  under  Capt.  Joseph 
Persinger,  who  held  themselves  in  readiness  to  march  to  the  plains  for 
the  protection  of  the  traders  to  Santa  Fe. 

Capt.  William  Robards'  company,  raised  for  the  purpose  of  marcli- 
ing  to  the  seat  of  war  in  Texas,  never  received  marching  orders,  aod 
therefore  were  never  in  active  service. 


'»  BOONE   GUARDS  "  —  CAPT.  m'mILLAN'S    COMPANY. 

In  July,  1846,  Samuel  H.  McMillan,  of  Columbia,  raised  a  comp^^^? 
of  mounted  volunteers  to  join  Col.  Sterling  Price's  regiment,  to  r^**** 
force  the  "Arnjy  of  the  West."  The  number  of  troops  ordered  fr"<^^ 
Boone  County  for  this  service  was  seventy-four,  but  eighty-three  w^^ 
raised,  some  of  them  volunteering  from  Boone  and  some  from  ol 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  353 

•     The  following  is  a  complete  roster  of  the  ofBcers  and 
of  Capt.  McMillan's  company :  — 

In — Samuel  H.  McMiUaiL  Third  Sergeant — James  B.  McDaniel. 

Ueutenant — Wm.  B.  BoyalL  Fourth  Sergeant — James  A.  Turner. 

1  lieutenant— Bobt.  B.  Todd.  First  Corporal— Sherrod  Faddis. 

Lieutenant — Geo.  B.  Lackland.  Second  Corporal  —  E.  Hurdock. 

teiigeant —  F.  B.  Webb,  of  St  Louis.       Third  Corporal  -—John  Leopard. 
1  Seigeant — Samuel  H.  Teeter.  Fourth  Corporal — Bobt  T.  Slate. 

(from  Boone  County)  — Thos.K.  McCutchen,  David  Bishop,  G.  W.  Casteel, 
TaiiU,  John  W.  Carter,  Thos.  G.  Duncan,  H.  P.  Dunham,  Enoch  Dooley,  Milton 
avid  Ford,  Michael  Fallon,  William  A.  Gentry,  C.  Houston,  J.  C.  Houston,  Gran- 
inger,  Squire  T.  Hart,  Tyre  G.  Harris,  Geo.  W.  Johnson,  F.  M.  Wells,  Tyre  H. 
.  W.  Nichi^  L.  M.  Nash,  B.  T.  Orear,  Itichard  Philips,  Q.  Peacher,  Jas.  B.  Beed, 
Qsey,  Badford  Stone,  John  Speaks,  James  Wry,  John  M.  Hickman ;  fh>m  Howard 
ilton  Arnold,  Matthew  Arnold,  M.  M.  Basey,  James  Campbell,  Bich.  Fristoe,  La- 
ad*  B.  A.  Layton,  Samuel  Shacklett;  from  Buchanan  County,  John  Browning, 
ircb,  M.  D.,  Wm.  Ducoing,  Henry  Evers,  E.  S.  Gale,  M.  D.,  M.  Ward,  T.  D. 
Bobt.  Hewete,  Asa  Bupe,B.  Wiley;  A*om  Platte  County,  S.  Blount,  H.  Fender, 
r.  S.  Harris,  G.  W.  Harris,  W.  A.  Shackleford ;  from  Callaway  County,  Elijah 
.  D.  Burgess;  from  Fort  Leavenworth,  Henry  Bodie;  from  Saline,  Bobert  Carson; 
on,  T.  H.  Coats,  W.  C.  Coats,  G.  W.  Howser,  T.  H.  Jeffries;  from  Jackson,  A.  C. 
Tom  Johnson,  William  H.  Mars ;  A*om  Atchison,  A.  P.  Bouse,  J.  Bouse ;  from 
iigh ;  from  Lafkyette,  T.  C.  White. 

onday,  July  20,  1846,  this  company  took  up  the  line  of  march 
t  Leavenworth,  and  encamped  for  the  night  on  the  Perche, 
BS  west  of  town.  Previous  to  their  leaving  they  were  formed 
mounted,  in  front  of  the  residence  of  Moss  Prewitt  —  now  the 
5e  of  Dr.  G.  W.  Riggins  —  in  the  presence  of  a  large  con- 
)f  citizens  of  both  sexes,  for  the  purpose  of  receiving  a  flag 
e  ladies  of  Columbia.  This  flag  was  a  splendid  silken  streamer, 
the  stars  and  stripes;  on  one  side  in  large  letters  ''Boone 
"  and  stars  representing  the  States  of  the  Union;  on  the 
I  American  eagle  with  arrows  and  an  olive  branch  in  its  talons, 
rteen  stars,  typical  of  the  thirteen  original  States,  together 
5  mottoes :  '*  Onward  "  —  *«  We  conquer  but  to  save."  The 
odies  who  made  the  flag  surrounded  Col.  Samuel  A.  Young, 
their  behalf,  presented  it  in  a  speech.  Robert  B.  Todd,  Sec- 
utenant,  accepted  the  flag  in  a  speech.  Mr.  Todd  is  now  one 
fudges  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Louisiana,  and  a  son  of  the 
Ige  David  Todd. 

ig  the  stay  of  the  company  at  Santa  Fe,  the  following  privates 
oone  died  :  Sam.  Teters,  William  Curtis  and  John  C.  Huston, 
las  W.  Sampson,  who  had  been  elected  Second  Lieutenant  of 
ohn  Hinton's  company,  whose  services  were  not  needed,  and 
IS 


354  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

which  therefore  was  never  mustered,  followed  Capt.  McMillan's  com- 
•  pany  to  Fort  Jjeavenworth,  where  he  entered  the   quartermaster's 
department,  under  Col.  Ogden,  and  remained  in  it  till  the  close  of  the 
war,  being  discharged  in  New  Orleans. 

On  July  22,  1847,  a  public  dinner  was  tendered  the 
Mexican  war  volunteers  from  Boone  and  Howard,  in  Roche- 
port —  President,  George  Knox  ;  Vice-President,  Philip  Crow  ;  Secre- 
tary, James  A.  Hill.  Colonel  Samuel  A.  Young,  of  Columbia,  was 
the  orator  of  the  day,  to  whose  speech  appropriate  responses  were 
made  by  Jno.  Hinton,  of  Rocheport,  and  J.  S.  Fleming,  of  Columbia. 
The  citizens  of  Columbia  being  a  little  tardy  in  demonstrations  of  re- 
spect for  the  gallant  services  of  the  Boone  County  volunteers  in  the 
Mexican  war,  some  of  them  held  a  meeting,  the  published  proceedings^ 
of  which  were  very  ironical,  as  foIli>ws  : 

[From  the  Columbia  sUt/esman  of  August  13,  1847.] 

▲  MEETING 

Wai  held  by  the  returned  volunteers  of  Boone  Count}'  on  Saturday,  the  7th  instant,  when, 
on  motion,  Lieut.  R.  B.  Todd  was  called  to  the  chair,  and  Odon  Guitar  appointed  secretary. 
The  chairman,  being  called  on»  briefly  stated  the  object  of  the  meeting,  after  which  the  fol- 
lowing resolutions  were  offered  and  unanimously  adopted :  — 

1.  Rtaolvedy  That  we,  the  volunteers  of  Boone  County,  tender  to  our  friends  tJid  fellow- 
eitizena  of  Columbia  and  its  vicinity  our  grateful  acknowledgments  for  the  kind  reception 
and  generous  welcome  with  which  we  have  been  met  on  our  return  home;  the  remembrance 
of  the  toils  and  hardships  which  we  have  undergone,  of  the  difficulties  and  dangers  which 
we  have  encountered,  are  lost  and  forgotten,  and  we  reap  in  the  grateful  affections  ofouffel" 
low-citizens  an  ample  reward  for  all. 

2.  Resolved^  Therefore,  That  we  make  a  public  manifestation  of  our  gratitude  by  giving 
a  public  supper  at  Trumpler's  Saloon  on  Thursday  evening,  the  19th  instant;  and  as  it 
would  be  almost  impossible  to  give  every  one  a  private  invitation,  we  resort  to  this  public 
method,  and  would  therefore  respectfully  solicit  the  attendance  of  our  friends  and  fellow- 
citizens  of  Columbia  and  its  vicinity,  and  especially  the  presence  of  the  ladies. 

Suitable  and  appropriate  toasts  will  be  prepared  for  the  occasion. 

Published  by  order  of  the  Committee  of  Arrangements. 

On  motion,  the  meeting  adjourned. 

ROBERT  B.  TODD,  Chairman. 
Odon  Guitar,  Secretary. 

The  biting  sarcasm  of  these  proceedings  qnickened  the  public  appre- 
ciation of  the  gallant  services  of  the  **Boone  Volunteers"  in  the  '*Army 
of  the  West,"  but  as  Capt.  McMillan  and  a  large  number  of  his  sol- 
diers did  not  return  until  September  22  (after  an  absence  of  about 
fourteen  months),  nothing  was  done  to  testify  the  general  gratitude 
and  appreciation  of  the  people.  Three  days  after  their  return,  how- 
ever (September  25),  a  public  meeting  was  held  in  the  court-house  in 
Columbia  —  S.  A.  Young,  chairman  ;  M.  G.  Singleton,  secretary — at 


I 

HI8TOBT  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  355 

irkich  measures  were  adopted  to  tender  the  volunteers  a  public  dinner 
in  a  beautiful  groye  west  of  the  University,  on  Saturday,  October  9* 
On  that  day  and  in  this  form,  a  hearty,  thrice-hearty  welcome  was 
tendered  the  **  Boone  Volunteers,"  who  had  encountered  the  perils  of 
war  aiid  endured  the  privations  of  camp  and  march.  Escorted  to  the 
groands  by  Gen.  Joseph  Persinger's  troop  of  horse  (these  and  the 
procession  being  under  the  orders  of  the  marshal  of  the  day,  David 
M.Hickman),  the  volunteers  took  position  in  front  of  the  speaker's 
stand,  and  were  addressed  by  Dr.  John  R.  Atkinson.  James  P.  Flem- 
ing, who  did  gallant  services  at  Bracito  and  Sacramento,  re- 
sponded. 

W.  B.  Royall,  second  lieutenant,  has  been  in  the  United  States  army 
ever  since,  and  is  now  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Third  Cavalry,  U.  S. 
A.   (See  subsequent  pages  of  this  history.)  v 

STATE   LUNATIC   ASYLUM. 

In  February,  1847,  the  Legislature  passed  an  act  providing  for  the 
location  of  an  asylum  for  the  insane  in  one  of  the  following  central 
connties :  Boone,  Callaway,  Cole,  Moniteau,  Cooper,  Saline,  Chariton 
and  Howard.  The  following  gentlemen  were  elected  commissioners : 
Junes  M.  Hughes,  of  Clay ;  J.  W.  McElhiuey,  of  St.  Charles ;  Robert 
E.  Acock,  of  Polk,  whose  duty  it  was  to  meet  on  the  first  Monday 
in  April  ensuing^  and  proceed  to  the  several  counties  to  which 
the  location  was  confined,  examine  their  advantages  and  receive 
their  donations,  and  then  locate  the  institution.  Boone  and  Calla* 
way  were  the  only  counties  which  manifested  any  especial  solicitude 
on  tha  subject.  Cole  proposing  only  a  donation  of  100  acres  of  land 
•nd  Cooper  only  $900  in  cash.     The  commission  met  at  Booneville 

on  Tuesday,  14,  1847,  and  decided  to  locate  the  asylum 

*i  Fulton,  Callaway  county  having  subsidized  the  largest  sum  in 
<Qoney  and  land.  Callaway's  subscription:  Cash,  $11,494;  laud, 
^OO  acres  ($3,000);  total,  $14,494.  Boone's  subscription:  Cash^ 
♦10,212. 

This  was  a  sore  defeat  to  the  people  of  Boone  County  —  to  them 
*nd  their  posterity  an  irretrievable  loss.  It  was  a  great  victory  for 
^he  people  of  Callaway,  and  one  which  in  every  respect  is  priceless^ 
Boone,  for  the  lack  of  less  than  $5,000,  lost  a  State  institution  whose 
financial  advantages,  added  to  those  accruing  from  the  University, 
^ould  have  been  worth  millions.  But  the  people  of  Boone  County  at 
^ht  time  this  struggle  was  made  had  not  fairly  recovered  from  the 


356  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

burden  of  the  $117,000  subscribed  a  few  years  before  to  secure  the 
University.     Hence  their  failure  to  secure  the  Lunatic  Asylam. 

**  THE   GLOBE,"    THE   FIRST   DEMOCRATIC   PAPER   IN   BOONE. 

On  the  22d  April,  1847,  the  first  number  of  the  Columbia  Olobe^  ^ 
William    A.  Verbryke,  publisher;    Thomas  P.  Giles,  editor  — w» 
issued  in  Columbia.     This  was  the  first  Democratic^  newspaper  pub- 
lished in  Boone  County. 

RELIGIOUS   REVIVALS. 

In  December,  1847,  Rev.  Dr.  Nathan  H.  Hall,  of  Lexington,  Ey., 
commenced  a  series  of  revival  meetings  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Columbia,  and  soon  after  a  series  of  meetings  were  commenced  in  the 
Cliristian  Church  by  Elders  T.  M.  Allen  and  Marcus  Wills,  of  Boone 
County,  and  Elder  Henry  Thomas,  of  Monroe.  Both  continued  with 
great  interest  for  several  weeks. 

SONS  OF  TEMPERANCE  CELEBRATION. 

On  Wednesday,  August  23,  1848,  the  Sons  of  Temperance  of  Co- 
lumbia, joined  by  numerous  representatives  from  neighboring  countiest 
had  a  grand  celebration  and  Bible  presentation  in  Columbia.     At  thre* 
o'clock  p.  M.,  a  procession  was  formed  under  the  superintendence  ol 
M.  S.  Matthews  and  William  C.  Shields,  marshals  of  the  day.    Tb« 
members  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  participated  in  the  ceremonies  oi 
the  occasion,  turned  out  in  large  numbers,  and,  attired  in  the  regal: 
of  their  order  were  assigned  the  front  rank  in  the  procession.    A^ 
though  Rockwell's  circus  was  performing  at  the  same  hour,  the  chap^^^ 
of  the  University  where  the  banner  presentation  occurred  was  filled  ti-^-^ 
its  utmost  capacity,  there  being  present  the  largest  assembly  ev^^^ 
congregated  in  the  building.     W.  F.  Switzler,  Worthy  Patriarch  a»fc^i 
F.  Nutt,  Worthy  Associate,  presiding.     Prayer  by  Rev.  Mr.  Roberta"i^8, 
of  Methodist  Church,  after  which  Mrs.  Margaret  Prewitt  and  Francs^-i* 
A.  Provines  were  introduced,  who,  on  behalf  of  the  young  ladies -^^' 
Columbia,  and  in  beautiful  and  appropriate  addresses,  presented  an  eL  '^- 
gant  banner  (painted  by  Col.  S.  A.  Young)  to  the  Boone  Divisic^:^* 
William  Bentley  responded. 

Mrs.  Ann  Eliza  Bryan  was  then  introduced,  who,  in  the  name    4>f 
the  married  ladies  of  Columbia,  and  in  an  address  commendable  ^or 
the  richness  and  beauty  of  its  language  and  chasteness  of  its  sent!- 


HI8TORT  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  357 

mento,  presented  the  division  the  chart  of  life  here  and  hereafter, 
God's  best  gift  to  man  —  the  Bible. 

Mr.  George  C.  Pratt  receiving  the  Bible  on  behalf  of  the  order  re- 
sponded. 

These  ceremonies  over,  Mr.  John  F.  Williams  (now  insurance  com- 
missioner) proceeded  to  address  the  assembled  concourse  in  exposition' 
aod  defence  of  the  nature  and  objects  of  the  Sons  of  Temperance. 

The  benediction  was  then  pronounced  by  Rev.  Mr.  Hart,  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church,  and  the  exercises  closed. 

A   ROBBERY. 

On  Monday  night,  August  28,  1848,  the  residence  of  Lewis  Hume, 
near  Providence,  was  entered,  and  a  small  hair  trunk  containing  $500 
or  t600,  principally  in  gold  and  silver,  was  stolen.  Mr.  Hume  and 
&miljwere  in  the  house  at  the  time  and,  hearing  the  noise  made  by 
the  robber  as  he  left  the  room,  Mr.  Hume  made  pursuit  but  with. 
no  success. 

GENERAL   TAYLOR   ELECTED COLUMBIA   IN   A   BLAZE. 

On  Monday  night,  November  20,  1848  the  Whigs  of  Columbia  cele- 
brated the  election  of  Geneial  Taylor  to  the  Presidency  by  a  general 
mumination,  displays  of  torches  and  transparencies  and  a  monster 
meeting  at  the  Court  House,  which  was  addressed  by  S.  A.  Young,  J. 
S.  Rollins  and  W.  F.  Switzler. 

COLUMBIA   FEMALE   COLLEQIATE   INSTITUTE. 

In  November  and  December,  1849,  new  and  remarkable  interest 
sprang  up  in  Columbia  on  the  subject  of  establishing  a  Collegiate  In- 
^itote  in  that  place  for  the  education  of  young  ladies.  It  originated 
'o  a  proposition  made  by  Samuel  Hatch  and  H.  H.  White,  of  Har- 
^sburg,  Ky.,  to  remove  to  Columbia,  and,  on  certain  conditions,  to 
^ke  charge  of  a  Female  College  of  the  highest  grade.  Dr.  Hatch 
^as  present  and  attended  all  the  meetings  held  on  the  subject,  which 
^ere  numerous,  and  by  intercourse  with  our  people  and  explanations 
>f  bis  designs,  excited  great  interest  on  the  subject.  Several  public 
Qieetiugs  were  had,  whose  deliberations  were  participated  in  by  Dr. 
W'm.  Jewell,  Warren  Woodson,  Moss  Prewitt,  Jas.  S.  Rollins,  R.  L. 
Todd,  James  B.  Boyce,  Eld.  T.  M.  Allen,  S.  A.  Young,  Eld.  D.  P. 
Henderson,  R.  S.  Thomas,  R.  C.  Branham,  Dr.  T.  R.  H.  Smith,  W. 


858  HI8TOBY   OF  BOONE   OOUKTY. 

W.  Hudson,  A.  W.  Turner,  Eld.  S.  S.  Church,  A.  O.  Forshey, 
F.  Switzler  and  others. 

The  several  meetings  resulted  in  the  report  of  two  plans  from  i 
lect  commyttee,  widely  different  from  each  other,  these  differe 
finally  resulting  in  an  adjournment  sine  die  of  the  last  meeting, 
an  apparent  abandonment  of  the  whole  scheme.  It  was  not,  I 
ever,  fruitless  of  results,  for,  out  of  the  deliberations  and  discussi 
Christian  Female  College  and  Stephens  (Baptist)  Female  Col 
were  evolved. 

THE   BIG   SLEET. 

In  December,  1848,  a  sleet  occurred  which  had  no  parallel  ii 
history  of  the  country.  Trees,  even  of  the  largest  class,  were  all 
literally  stripped  of  branches,  rendering  the  roads  in  many  pi 
impassable.  Trees  without  number  were  borne  to  the  ground 
broken  off  by  the  insupportable  mass  of  ice  upon  them.  Shade 
ornamental  trees  were  greatly  damaged  and  many  orchards 
ruined. 

CALIFORNIA   GOLD   FEVER. 

The  discovery  of  gold  in  California  in  1849  greatly  excited  the 
pie  all  over  the  West,  and  of  course  the  people  of  Boone  co 
caught  the  infection.  Early  in  the  spring  of  that  year,  but  la 
numbers  of  them  during  1850,  abandoned  their  homes  and  businei 
some  of  them,  alas  !  never  to  return  —  for  the  gold  fields  of  the 
Eldorado.  During  the  month  of  April  the  emigrants  from 
County  took  up  the  line  of  march  in  wagons  and  on  horseback 
their  toilsome  journey  to  the  Pacific.  So  far  as  we  have  been  ab 
learn,  the  following  are  their  names  :  — 

Francis  T.  Russell,  R.  E.  Lusk,  Dan'l  Grosse,  Jerre  Orear, 
W.  B.  Lenoir,  M.  Boyle,  Thos.  A.  Russell,  David  Guitar,  Wn 
Russell,  John  Chadwick,  Wm.  B.  Royall,  T.  A.  Garth,  Samuel 
non,  A.  N.  Wilhite,  Madison  D.  Stone,  Eli  PuUiam,  Lawrence  I 
ford.  Rev.  Francis  Hart,  John  W.  Carter,  M.  P.  Wills,  Jr.,  G 
Nichols,  James  M.  Wilcox,  W.  J.   Hitt,  Nathaniel  Torbitt,  \^ 

Tuttle, Elliott,  A.  E.  West,  Arch.  Goin,  W.  H.  Stone,  Sa 

R.  Tuttle,  Thos.  A.  Sims,  Hugh  T.  Plant,  Jas.  B.  Furnish,  Jame 
Wright,  David  R.  Doyle,  Dr.  John  B.  Isbell,  G.  L.  Russell,  Joh 
Willis,  Moss  P.  Foffe,  Thomas  Orear,  John  Scott,  Chas.  R.  Tho 

Harris,  Samuel  D.   Lamme,  Andrew  Trumbaugh,  Ben, 

Orear,  Lemuel    Noble,  Thos.  J.  O'Neal,  Wm.    Bentley,  John 


HISTORY  or  BOONE  COTJHTT.  359 

Bryau,  T.   W.   Sampson,  Jamea  P.  Fleming,  George  Winn,  E.  A. 

Wills, D:ivid  Crockett, -Bedmond,  Wm.  Y.,Hitt,  Marion  Lowry, 

lliDj.  B.  Hitt,  Ataos  Murncy,  Sr.,  Amos  Marney,  Jr.,  James  Pollard, 

Msrtiu  OlJham,  Willmm  Gmu,  Edwin  Curd, Taylor,  Joseph 

Doyle,  Wm.  Spiora,  Jumes  Wiseman,  Jr.,  Wm.  Whitley,  Joshua  Mar- 
tini Elijah   Stephens,  Price  P.   Taffe,  Campbell  St.  John,  Geo.  W. 

Stolt,  Larkin  Richardson, Han-el,   William   Broaddua,  John 

Slemnions,  James  Tnruer,  H.  Wheeler,  Powhatan  Woodson,  Samuel 
Bejitley,  Marcus  Pollard,  James  Hill,  Julius  Dunn,  James  Winn, 
Miriou  RichiirdsoQ,  Dr.  Wm.  Schooling,  Jeptha  Buker,  Thomas  Oald- 
tell,  R.  E.  Scott,  Willriim  Moade,  Thomas  Turner,  Johnson  Osboru, 
Aleisader  Black,  Barney  Woods,  Mr.  Huyden,  Henry  Stemmons,  M. 
Stemmons,  J.  Steiumoiis,  Jr.,  John  S.  Wilhite,  Wm.  F.  Wilhite, 
Lewis  H.  Harl,  Willis  March,  Andrew  N.  Wilhite,  G.  F.  Wilhite,  Jas. 
F.  Wilhite,  JiLs.  A.  McQuitty,  S.  S.  Eliott,William  Wilhite  ( son  of  Joel 
Wilhite),  Smith  Wilhite,  Mr.  Grant, T.  Baker,  Wm.  Dunn,  J.  J.  Winn, 
H,  Rulen,  Mr.  McGhee,  Harrison  Booth,  Edward  Booth,  David 
Booth,  Elijah  Booth,  Jr.,  Mr.  Timbeilake,  Wm.  Gaw,  Milton  Ogen, 
Gi«en  Hays,  James  Lowry,  Jr.,  Mr.  Parsons  (of  Bocheport),  Garland 

Huris,  Jonathan  Bartou,  Sr.,  Jonathan  Barton,  Jr.,  John  Barton, 

JoehuR  Barton,  Robert  Barton,  Fleming  Hatten,  Henry  H.  Wilker- 

«w,J<ihn  Corlew,  Wm  Corlew,  Bartlett  Gentry. 
Doubtless  there  were  many  others,  but  vre  have  not  been  able  to  ob- 

tun  their  names. 


360 


HI8TORT  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 


CHAPTER    IX. 


FROM   1850  TO   1860. 


California  Gold  Fever,  Continued  —  Hickman's  Perry  across  the  North  Platte  *—  list  of  CaJi* 
fomia  Emigrants — An  untimely  Snow — Explosion  iff  J.  L.  Stephen^'  Store  —  Flank  Road 
from  Columbia  to  Providence  ^-Exports  of  Rocheport  in  1861  —  Fat  Bullocks  — Monrcw 
and  Boone  Counties  Contesting — North  Missouri  Bailroad — The  Subscription  of  BooiM 
County — What  a  Mistake  Cosi  Callaway  and  Howard — Daring  Attempt  at  Rape  —Negro 
Hung  by  a  Mob  -^  One  Student  of  the  University  Kills  another —  The  Drought  of  18M  — 
Selby's  new  Hotel  —  Monster  Kansas  Meeting — Premonitions  of  the  coming  Storm — B. 
K.  Klampus  Yietus  — Thespian  Hall  Columbia  —  New  County  Jail — Daily  Mail  to  Jeffatw 
son  City — Boone  County  Troops  for  Kansas  —  Trial,  Conviction  and  Execution  of  Joha 
Chapman  for  Murder —  R.  C.  Branham  Lost  in  Galveston  Bay — Joe  Robinson,  aNsgr» 
Man,  Executed  for  the  Murder  of  James  T.  Points  —  Drunken  Riot  in  Rocheport-— (^ti» 
zens'  Meeting — Soldiers  of  the  War  of  1812  in  Boone  —  County  Clerk's  Safe  Blown 
Open  —  Largest  Taxpayers  in  1858  and  1881  —  Columbia  Library  Association  — Priossof 
Negroes  Hired  and  Sold  in  1869 — Town  Clock. 

ELECTION   RETURNS    FROM    1850  TO    1860. 
*  Those  thus  marked  were  elected. 


AUGUST  10th,  1850. 
HBPRBSAlfTATIVB  IN  CONORB88. 

•John  6.  MiUer..  919  I  John  Miller. 106 

James  S.  Green.  686  | 

SENATOR. 

*Sam'lA.Tonng.  719  |  Jas.  M.  Gordon...  827 
Total 1,546 

RBPRBBBNTATrVXS  IN  LEGI8LATURB. 


•Absalom  Hicks  900 
*S.  B.  Hatton....  894 
N.W.McCleUand  361 


*L.  W.  Robinson  906 
A.  O.  Forshey...  884 
L.D.  Tipton....    116 

SHERIFF. 

•J.  B.  Douglass..   791  I  James  Arnold. . .  460 
Caleb  Fenton. .. .    34S  | 

Total 1,698 

AUGUST  2d.  1852. 
GOVERNOR. 

Jas.  Winston.. ..1,145  |  ^Sterling Price..   694 
Total 1,841 

LIEUT.  •  QOVERNOR. 

Andrew  King... 1,139  |  *  Wilson  Brown..   688 
Total A 1,821 

REPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONORE88. 

•Jno.  G.  Miller.  .1,154  |  Jas.  S.  Green 706 

Total 1,860 

REPRESENTATIVES  IN  LEGISLATURE. 


•Jas.  M.Gordon.1,118 
•Stephen    Wil- 

liite 978 

Dr.  McGleUand..  687 


*D.  H.  Hickman.1,079 
L.W  Kobinson..  880 
S.  U .  Uatton. ...   671 


SHERIFF. 

•J.  B.  Donglas8..1,64S  | 

AUGUST  9TH,  1854. 
RBPRB8XNTATIVX  IN  CONORXS8. 

•GUchrist  For-  I  Tnlly  R.  Oomiek  917 

ter 1,217  [ 

Total 2iu4 

REPRS8BNTATrVB8  IN  LBOISLATURB. 

•Jas.  S.  RoUins..l,175  |«Odon  Guitar l,ltt 

P.  H.McBride..   984  |A.  O.  Forshey....  931 

SHERIFF. 

John  M.  Samnel.  621  I  Greo.  L.  Hickam.  611 
•Jeremiah  Qrear  666  |  ZadooRiggs 875 

Total 2,1» 

AUGUST  4TH,  1856. 
REPRESBNTATIVB  IN  CONGRB88. 

*T.  L.  Ander8on.l,220  |  B.  F.  Richmond..  90T 
Total .*. 2,217 

GOVERNOR. 

RobtC.  Ewing.. 1,198  I  rrrasten Polk....  982 
ThoB.  Benton....     85 


Total. 


.2;2tt 


LIEUT.  -OOVBRNOR. 


Wm.  Newland..  .1^13  {•Hancock  Jackson  985 

John  W.Kelly..     42  | 

Total M» 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


361 


SLSOTiOK  RETURNS  —  Continued, 


SBNATOR. 

JiK>.¥.HeDi7».l,180  |  *L.  W.  ItobinsoD.1,028 

TWd '. 2.918 

RIPSBABXTATIYX8  IN  LBOX8LATU&B. 

•WiBJ.8witxler.l^57  i  M.  B.  DoiiglM8..1,196 
LB. Searcy 1.064  |  Geo.  W.  liiller...l,089 

BHBRIVF. 

V  e  r  e  m  i  a  h         I  Stephen  Petty.  ..1.016 
Qmr 1,S14  I 

Tbtal «.W3 


AUGUST  5TH,  1868. 
BSPRB8BNTATIT1B  IN  OONORB88. 

rr.  L.  Ander80ii.l.8S6  |  J.  B.  Henderson  481 
Total 1,887 

REPRE8BNTATIYE8  IN  LEOISLATUBB. 

*Odon  Gnitar....  1.265  I  ^James  Harris.. 1,288 
A.  G.  Newman...l,288  |  Jas.  B. Shields..  1,085 

8HBRIFV. 

*J.  M.  Samuel... 1,665  (  James  W. Byan...860 
Total 2^ 


1850— Population  of  Boone  County 14,979. 

Increased  and  remarkabU  interest  was  felt  during  the  spring  of 
1850  in  the  Galifornia  gold  mines,  and  the  emigration  to  that  country 
from  Boone  and  other  counties  in  Missouri  was  one  of  the  marvel- 
lous events  of  the  period.  Nothing  else  was  thought  or  talked  of, 
tnd  all  classes  and  conditions  of  the  people  were  excited  by  hopes  of 
obtaining  sudden  riches  in  the  newly  discovered  mines.  Thousands 
and  tens  of  thousands  of  the  people  of  Missouri,  and  at  least  a  half- 
thousand  from  Boone  County,  crossed  the  plains,  with  the  expectation 
of  reaping,  with  little  trouble  and  little  labor,  a  rich  harvest  on  the 
golden  shores  of  the  Pacific. 

The  large  emigration  developed  a  new  enterprise,  namely,  the  es- 
tablishment of  a  ferry  across  the  North  Platte  River.  For  this  pur- 
pose David  H.  Hickman  &  Co.,  of  this  county,  with  teams,  wagons 
and  laborers,  went  to  the  North  Platte,  730  miles  from  St.  Joseph  ; 
&nd  at  large  expense,  built  ferry  boats,  capable  of  transporting  across 
that  stream  the  immense  caravans  whose  point  of  destination  was  the 
gold  mines  of  California.  It  was  pecuniarily  a  hazardous  undertaking, 
hut  Hickman  &  Co.  made  more  money  out  of  it  than  three-fourths 
of  the  emigrants  realized  from  the  gold  mines.  They  crossed  several 
hundred  teams  each  day,  at  $7.50  per  team. 


CALIFORNIA   EMIGRANTS. 

The  following  list,  alpabetically  arranged,  embraces  the  names,  as 
^*f  as  known  to  us,  of  all  the  Boone  County  emigrants  to  California 
*^  1850.  No  doubt  there  were  others  whose  names  we  were  unable 
to  obtain :  — 

^— H.  C.  Anderson,  James  Austin,  Dr.  John  M.  Angel,  John  Armstrong,  Cain  Acton, 
••Daai  Atkinson,  Henry  Asherry. 


362  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CX)UNTT. 

B.  —  Sam'l  W.  Berry,  Mac  Brink,  Wm.  T.  Berry,  Thos.  Barns,  Benj.  Bams,  Hubbub 
Barns,  George  Bradford,  Jas.  J.  Boyce,  Stephen  Bedford,  Jr.,  W.  G.  Bugg,  Dr.  JameiE 
Bennett,  Geo.  Bright,  K.  E.  Bondurant,  Wm.  H.  Booker,  Jesse  Bugg,  Franklin  Bamett 
John  M.  Black,  Madison  Bradley,  Dr.  J.  L.  Buster,  Lee  Burruss,  Nimrod  Bishop,  Johi 
Barkwell,  Dr.  John  Baley,  Robt  Baley,  Wm.  Breyman,  Jos.  G.  Berry,  John  Bysfield,  Wm 
Beazley,  Jefferson  Bentley,  Elijah  Brink,  Lawrence  Bass,  Albert  Bamett,  John  Booth 
Peter  Booth,  Carr  Booth,  James  Benedict,  Greenbery  Baker,  L.  G.  Berry,  R.  C.  F.  Boyoe 
Wm.  B.  Bast,  Elijah  Byers,  George  Boon,  Abram  Barns,  Jacob  T.  Bruner,  Robert  Bar 
nett,  James  Bell,  William  Brown. 

C.  —  T.  H.  Cox,  Montgomery  Cowden,  Richard  Carter,  W.  A.  Carter,  Mac  Culbert,  Johi 
Carlisle,  Wm.  Clarkson,  John  Clarkson,  James  T.  and  Sanford  Connerly,  Thomas  Oild 
well.  Nelson  Carter,  John  Corbitt,  Ogel,  Charles  and  Wm.  Campbell,  Merit  Cave,  Dudley 

and  Franklin  Clark, .  Wm.  Carpenter,  Thomas  Chandler,  Chapman,  A.  J.  ChtlliU 

Milton  Crews,  Clatweller,  Sam'l  and  James  Caldwell,  Dr.  W.  F.  Cartmill,  H.  B.  C 

Oowden,  Coons,  W.  H.  Crosswhite,  Elza  Coats,  Nath.  Cromwell,  Jas.  Crosswhite. 

D.  —  John  Dickinson,  Dooley,  Alex.  Duncan,  Martin  Duncan,   J.  M.  Donegbec 

James  M.  Downey,  Sindney  Dunham,  M.  Durnhill,  Henry  Douglass,  S.  M.  Duley. 

£. — James  Eastin,  Green  Edwards,  Moss  Easley,  Wm.  Evans,  A.  Evans,  Tboi 
Evans,  John  Ewing,  George  Elliot. 

F.  —  James  Fulkerson,  Andrew  Fenton,  W.  H.  Fawcett,  Thos.  Farthing,  John  Fortoe 
Wary  Fortner,  Charles  Finley,  Columbus  Finley,  Sherrad  Faddis,  Wiley  Ferguson,  Josep 
Fowler. 

G. — James  Grant,  John  M.  Gordon,  Wm.  J.  Gordon,  Henry  Gutewood,  Odon  Quits 
Reuben  Gosling,  Robert  Galloway,  James  and  Sidney  Gentry,  Joseph  Graves,  W.  H.  Gs 
rett,  David  Gordon  (son  of  G.  W.  Gordon),  James  Gibson. 

H.  — Thomas,  David,  William  and  James  Hulen,  B.  B.  Hunter,  Levi  Hem,  S.  Hai 
Cicero  Houston,  John  Hall,  Geo.  Hersh,  Dr.  Thos.  J.  Hardin,  Robt.  Hamilton,  Staunti 
Hume,  L.  B.  Hunt,  Durret  Hubbard,  John  Hubbard,  Wm.  Hickam,  John  Hadden,  Jam 
Hern,  Harrison  Hawkins,  J.  Harvey  Hill,  Birch  Hunt,  Hensley  Hudson,  John  Harris,  Jol 
and  Sidney  Hopper,  Thos.  Hancock,  Rice  and  Madison  Hem,  Geo.  Hickam,  Willii 
Holmes,  M.  N.  Heaston,  G^o.  Hubbard,  Ambrose  Hulen,  Harney  Haun,  R.   Hudson, 

Hatten,  Wm.  Hughes,  James  Hesser, Harris,  Joseph  Harris,  T.  B.  Hulen,  W.  Hunt< 

John  and  Hiram  Hickam,  Sam'l  and  James  Hunter,  Clifton  Hensley,  Ben  Hill,  Rob< 
Hubbard,  James  Hardy,  James  E.  Hicks. 

J.  —  Thomas  Jackson,  Slocum  Jackson,  James,  Thomas  and  Harrison  Jones,  Greenbei 
Johnson,  Jas.  E.  Johnson.  Thos.  Jefferson,  Isaac  Johnson,  F.  M.  Johnson. 

K.  — W.  D.  Kelso,  Geo.  W.  Kimbrough,  Sr.,  Geo.  W.  Kimbrough,  Jr.,  Robt.  Ki 
brough,  John  Kimbrough,  John  W.  Kimbrough,  Alex,  and  Thomas  Keene,  Charles  Kii 
Henry  Kite,  Ric'd  Keene,  Isaac  Kuykendall,  George  N.  King. 

L.  — Claiborn  F.  Laforce,  Rich'd  H.  Lawson,  John  Lampton,  Joshua  (Cap.)  Lamptc 
Rich'd  Leonard,  Ambrose  Lythe,  Jacob  and  Geo.  Langston,  Wm.  Laforce,  James  Lai 
ston,  James  and  Franklin  Lowry,  Perry  Lynes,  Slater  Lenoir,  M.  J.  Lamme,  James  Litt 
Benj.  Lane,  R.  Lowry,  John  H.  Lynch,  Kirtley  Lynch,  Sam'l  Leopard,  Jesse  Lanham. 

M. — Isaac  B.  Monday,  William  Miller,  Cornelius  Maupin,  Job  Marsh,  Orvil  McCread 

Ed.  McCutchen,  B.  McAlester,  Jas.  McClintock,  McMickle,  Joseph  McDaniel,  Job 

Robert  and  Tyre  Martin,    Nathan  Martin,  Jr.,  James  Melloway,  Wallace  Maxwell,  — 

McGowen,  Sam'l  H.  McMillin, Maupin,  Wm.  Mead,  Ab.  Marsh,  David  McQuitty,  S 

David  McQuitty,  Sr.,  David  McBride,  Wm.  Monroe,  Moses,  Wm.  and  Geo.  Maupin,  X 
Masterson,  W.  K.  McPherson,  Geo.  D.  Mourning,  Thos.  M.  Maupin,  John  C.  Msup 
M.  W.  Maupin. 

N.  —  B.  F.Nichols,  Lemuel  Northcutt,  Elvin  J.  Nichols,  Amos  Nichols,  Geo.  Nel« 
John  Northcutt,  Elman  Nash,  Wm.  Norris,  Dr.  J.  M.  Nye. 

O. —  B.  F.  Drear,  Wm.  Orear,  J.  Belt  Drear,  Robt.  Drear. 


BISTORT  OF  BOONE   COUNTT.  368 

P.— Toiu^;  A.  Parcell,  Hiram  Philips,  Jr.,  Auguttine  Philips,  James  Pigg,  Thos.  Pra- 
tt0r,Tlios.Puken  Thomas  0.  Philips,  Thos.  Palmer,  John  G.  and  Robt.  R.  Provines, 
JMiW,  Paricer,  Henry  Parsons,  Bloomfield  Philips,  Dr.  W.  J.  Philips,  Mitchel  Palliam, 
Wbl  Polliam,  James  B.  Peninger,  Stephen  Pettis,  Quincy  Pitcher,  0.  G.  Payne,  Dr.  James  H. 
Pnker,  Oeo.  0.  Pratt,  Thomas  and  Jas.  E.  Palmer,  Preston  Philips,  A.  J.  Pipes,  Anderson 
Piyoe,  John  Pace,  Burden  Palmer,  Jesse  D.  Patton,  Richard  Paine,  James  Pendleton. 

&-Slcanah  G.  Reed, Redderford, Redderford,  John  P.  Roy  all,  Grace  Ridg- 

ny,  Dr.  Alonso  Itichaidson,  James  Richardson,  Jr.,  David  Richardson,  Wesley  Rice,  John 
ind  Tbos.  Rochfoid,  F.  T.  Russell,  John  M.  Robards,  Thos.  Roleson,  Thos.  Roberts,  Finley 
Roberti,  John  Reed,  James  Ryan,  Wm.  Ryan.  W.  Riley,  John  Ridgway,  Elijah  Rogers, 
WnLReybum,  James,  Zadoc  and  John  Riggs,  Sam'l  Rowland,  Thos.  Rowland,  W.W.  Row- 
lud,  G.  W.  Roland,  Ewing  Rowland,  W.  F.  Roberts,  Gharles  T.  Reed,  Wm.  Riggs,  Robt. 
Rodej.  Thot.  Rollins,  T.  J.  Roberts,  A.  W.  Rutherford,  J.  D.  Rutherford,  Jackson  L. 
BaaMlL 

8.— Alex.,  Wharton  and  Rice  Schooler,  J.  G.  Sprinkle,  Galeb  S.  Stone,  Frank.  Stivers, 

Job  Slocumb,  Robt.  G.  Slocumb, Shackleford,  Z.  Spiers,  James  and  Gharles  Starke, 

John  sod  James  Smith,  Alfred  Slack,  Philip  J.  Self,  Brown  Searcy,  Sam'l  B.,  K  M.,  W.  R. 
ind  J.  A.  Spence,  James  Smith,  John  and  J.  H.  Stephens,  W  Smith,  W.  South,  Newman 
Bottls,  Yamer  Skinner,  Thos.  and  Rice  Short,,  Franklin  Seymour,  Jas.  H.  Shock,  Gharles, 
J*nm  sad  John  Sinclair,  James  Skeene,  Hezekiah  Speaks,  John  Senate,  Elias  and  Robert 
^OMllejr,  George  Smith,  from  the  country,  Dempsey  Sapington,  Stephen  S.  Strow, 
Wllford  Stephens,  William  Stephens. 

T.— Jas.  B.  Tucker,  Jet,  Thos.  and  Ben.  Turner,  Sam'l  Tuttle,  R,  a  and  John  Thral- 

Wd,  Gab.  Turner,  Tucker,  Thos.  S.  and  Wm.  Tuttle,  Dr.  E.  G.  Taylor,  Abram  N. 

IWiier,  Ric'h  Tuck,  Moxdecai  Turner,  J.  R.  Tiffee,  Jesse  and  James  Turner,  Enoch  and 
Siha  Tipton,  Wm.  True,  James  M.  True,  Joseph  Turner. 

v.— Wm.  H.  Victor,  J.  D.  Yanhom,  John  Vanlandingham,  James  D.  Vance. 

W.— Harvey  Wright,  A.B.  Weldon,  James  Wainscott,  John  Wamock,  William  H. 
^riRht,  Wm.  E.  Wilson,  U.  H.  Wilkerson,  Geo.  S.  Waters,  J.  W.  Wright,  Allen  White, 
Vm]Bj  Wright,  W.  P.  Wright.  Joseph  Wright,  Wm.  White,  John  Wade,  John  J.  Weir, 
wnei  Wilcoxon,  Hern  Williams,  Peter  J.  and  Aler.  Wright,  R.  P.  Waters,  William 
^elU,  Sampson  and  James  M.  Wilhite,  William  and  James  Wirt,  W.  W.  Wigham, 
»orge  Woodson,  Joseph  and  Wm.  Waters,  Harris  Wilkerson,  Wm.  Wiley,  L.  Withers, 
''alter  W.  Wilson,  Wm.  Williams,  John  E.  Willis,  Thomas  West,  William  Williams, 
•m  Williams,  John  William,  Moses  Wilhite. 

DEATHS   AMONG   EMIGRANTS. 

Several  of  these  emigrants  died  en  route,  and  a  large  number  after 
^eir  arrival  in  California.  We  note  the  following,  which,  of  course^ 
^  very  incomplete : 

Prsnklin  Wilhite,  son  of  Rev.  Fielding  Wilhite,  at  Angel's  Greek,  Cal.,  December  24, 
^»;  Charles  Starke,  September  6,  1860;  William  Starke.  October  80,  1860;  John  Hudson 
^«n:ls7,  August  28, 1860;  John  W.  Nichols,  Samuel  R.  Tuttle;  Dr.  James  H.  Bennett,  at 
^ngtown,  Cal.,  October  8,  1850,  aged  68;  Thomas  Cox,  October  8,  1850;  Madison 
i-cQowan;  Haydon  Lanter,  washed  overboard  in  a  storm  at  sea  on  his  return;  Joseph 
1*^  John  T.  Mitchel,  October  80,  1850;  James  D.  Wood,  of  cholera,  at  Fleet  River 
^1^7,  July  2,  1850;  at  Court  House  Rock,  85  miles  east  of  Fort  Laramie,  of  cholera,  Mrs. 
^  J.  Lamme,  daughter  of  Thomas  C.  Maupin;  Dr.  J.  M.  Nye,  Owen  Hern,  Dr.  Jewell 
^''liih,  Alexander  Wright,  William  W.  Rowland,  Thomas  B.  Ridgway,  Joseph  Turner, 
'^'wlaiid  McKinzie,  Rev.  John  M.  Black,  James  P.  Wilcoxson,  Richard  Paine,  D.  C. 
'tampion. 


364  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

The  Columbia  Statesman  had  a  correspondent  with  the  emigrant 
train,  Mr.  William  R.  Rothwell,  afterwards  a  distinguished  Baptist 
minister,  and  now  (1882)  President  of  William  Jewell  College  at 
Liberty,  Mo. 

AN   UNTIMELY    SNOW. 

The  spring  of  1850  was  unusually  inclement  and  backward,  greatly 
to  the  regret  of  the  California  emigrants.  There  was  a  heavy  fall  of 
snow  in  Boone  County  on  Sunday,  April  14,  which  remained  on  the 
ground  till  the  next  day,  when  it  vanished. 

EXPLOSION    IN   J.    L.    STEPHENS*    STORE. 

About  11  o'clock  A.  M.,  on  Saturday,  October  5,  1850,  the  people 
of  Columbia  and  surrounding  country  were  shocked  by  a  terrifi< 
explosion,  no  one  for  a  time  knowing  the  cause  of  it  or  its  exac 
locality.  Soon,  however,  it  was  ascertained  that  Mr.  J.  L.  Stephens 
large  new  brick  store-room  was  in  ruins ;  that  the  catastrophe  wai 
occasioned  by  the  explosion  of  gunpowder,  and  that  one  person  wai 
certainly  killed  and  many  others  seriously  injured. 

The  store  was  a  heap  of  ruins,  and  it  was  some  time  before  it  coulc 
be  ascertained  with  certainty  who  were  among  the  killed  and  injured 
The  accident  occurred  in  this  way:  Mr.  Stephens  was  in  receipt  of  s 
large  stock  of  goods,  which  were  laying  about  the  floor  in  boxes  un- 
opened. They  had  reached  him  during  the  past  few  days.  Twc 
kegs  of  powder  composed  a  part  of  the  stock.  These  were  received 
the  night  previous,  and  were  placed  in  the  lobby  near  the  counter 
and  some  ten  feet  from  the  front  door.  On  the  morning  of  the  ^ataa 
trophe,  one  of  the  kegs  was  discovered  to  be  in  bad  order  —  that  i» 
it  was  seen  even  through  the  sacking  that  powder  had  leaked  from  thi 
sides  or  bottom  on  to  the  floor.  Yet  the  quantity  was  small,  but* 
prevent  accident  the  sound  keg  was  placed  by  one  of  the  clerks  c 
top  of  the  unsound  one  —  the  intention  being  very  soon  to  remo" 
both  to  a  shed  back  ot  the  store  where  the  powder  of  the  establis- 
ment  was  kept.  Mr.  Josiah  M.  Short  came  in  the  store  smoking 
cigar,  and  while  standing  near  the  two  kegs  fire  dropped  from  t^ 
cigar  (as  is  supposed),  on  the  loose  powder  on  the  floor,  the  qiixJ 
tity  not  being  larger  than  a  gun  load,  and  instantly  the  house  wa^ 
ruins. 

The  store-room  was  a  very  long  and  large  one,  two  stories  hi^ 
Two-thirds  of  the  building  (the  front  part  of  it)  was  instantly  li't:^ 
ally  torn  to  fragments  I 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  365 

Josiah  M.  Short,  a  young  man  25  years  of  age  and  residing  in  the 
northern  part  of  the  county,  was  instantly  killed,  and  is  the  only  per- 
son who  was  killed  outright.  His  clothes  were  literally  burnt  from 
his  body  —  not  an  article  remaining  upon  him  except  one  shoe  and 
sock  and  a  part  of  his  cravat.  Even  one  of  the  soles  of  the  shoe  on 
his  foot  was  blown  off.  It  was  wFth  diflSculty  he  was  identified,  so 
awfully  was  his  body  disfigured. 

Ben.  T.  White  and  wife  were  injured,  seriously  —  the  former,  dan- 
gerously, and  died  the  same  evening.     He  was  completely  covered 
with  the  rubbish,  his  head  resting  on  the  sill  of  the  front  door.     Mrs. 
Susan  Duncan,  wife  of  Dr.  W.  H.  Duncan,  was  also  badly  burnt,  and 
struck  in  the  head  by  some  missile.     James  Crews,  a  young  man  from 
the  country,  was  considerably  burnt.     He  happened  to  be  passing  the 
door  of  the  store  at  the  time  of  the  accident.     Mrs.  Short,  mother  of 
the  young  man  killed,  was  also  hurt  —  not  badly.     Miss  Ada  Mc- 
Bride,  daughter  of  Judge  P.   H,  McBride ;    Miss  Catharine  Lynch 
(now  Mrs.  Catharine  Clapp),  daughter  of  John  H.  Lynch,  of  Colum- 
bia; Wm.  Mosely ;  J.  L.  Stephens,  owner  of  the  store,  and  his  two 
clerks,  Thos.  Stephens  and  Geo.  Morrfs ;  James  Howard ;  St.  Clair 
and  Perry  West,  sons  of  Bransford  West,  and  a  little  son  of  John  C. 
Davenport,  were  likewise  injured,  most  of  them  slightly.     The  escape 
of  Ml*.  Stephens  was  miraculous.     He  was  standing  behind  the  coun 
ter,  near  which  the  kegs  exploded,  and  about  ten  feet  from  them. 
At  the  point  where  he  stood  the  ceiling  and  floor  above,  with  the 
broken  roof  of  the  building,  fell  with  a  tremendous  crash  and  rested 
upon  the  counter,  but  for  the  strong  framework  of  which  he  would 
have  been  instantly  crushed.     Yet  he  escaped  with  no  material  per- 
sonal injury. 

Eliza,  a  negro  woman  of  Mr.  J.  L.  Matthews,  was  very  badly  burnt 
and  died  a  few  days  afterwards. 

The  upper  back  room  of  the  store  was  occupied  by  the  Masons  and 
Sous  of  Temperance.  Most  of  their  furniture  was  taken  out  without 
serious  damage.  The  two  other  rooms  above  stairs  were  occupied  by 
Mr.  George  Smith  as  a  daguerrean  gallery.  All  his  apparatus  and 
furniture  were  a  total  loss.  Fortunately  no  person  was  in  either  of 
the  upper  rooms  at  the  time  of  the  explosion . 

The  building  was  on  the  same  lot  now  (1882)  occupied  as  a  dry 
goods  store,  on  the  corner  of  Broadway  and  University  Streets. 


366  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 


PLANK    ROADS. 


During  1851  and  several  succeeding  years  the  plank  road  mania 
prevailed  in  Missouri,  and  also  in  Boone  County.  Remarkable  as  it 
may  appear  at  this  day  the  proposition  was  seriously  entertained  of 
building  a  plank  road  from  Glasgow  via  Columbia  to  St.  Louis,  and 
on  April  21st,  a  convention  was  held  in  Danville,  Mont<romery 
County,  composed  of  delegates  from  St.  Charles,  Warren,  Montgom- 
ery, Callaway  and  Boone  —  Howard  not  represented  —  to  promote 
this  object,  A.  O.  Forshey,  R.  S.  Burr  and  Warren  Woodson  repre- 
senting- Boone  County.  The  proceedings  of  this  convention,  which 
provided  among  other  things  for  the  opening  of  books  at  various 
points  for  the  subscription  of  stock,  filled  nearly  two  columns  of  the 
Statesman.  Fortunately  for  the  people,  as  we  can  now  see,  but  did 
not  then,  the  project  was  a  failure,  but  the  people  of  Boone  County^ 
failing  to  secure  a  plank  road  to  St.  Louis,  determined  to  build  one 
of  their  own  from  Columbia  to  Providence,  on  the  Missouri  River  ;  and 
for  this  purpose,  June  6,  1853,  organized  a  plank  road  company 
with  John  Parker  as  president;  J.  B.  Douglass,  secretary,  and  D.  B. 
Cunningham,  J.  S.  Rollins,  Moss  Prewitt,  R.  C.  Branham,  R.  L* 
McAfee,  N.  W.  Wilson  and  James  McConathy,  directors.  Commit- 
tees were  also  appointed  to  solicit  subscriptions  for  the  work,  and  on 
Saturday,  May  13, 1854,  at  a  meeting  of  the  directors  held  in  Columbia, 
the  road  was  definitely  located  and  the  president  authorized  to  receive 
bids  for  its  construction. 

On  June  6,  1854,  John  Parker  wan  re-elected  president,  James  Mc- 
Conathy vice-president,  and  R.  L.  Todd  secretary,  with  the  following 
directors :  John  Harker,  D.  B.  Cunningham,  James  McConathy,  J.  T. 
M.  Johnston,  John  F.  Burnam,  J.  S.  Rollins,  Moss  Prewitt,  R.  C. 
Branham  and  J.  B.  Douglass. 

On  Saturday,  July  15,  1854,  the  contract  for  building  the  road  was 
let  to  Jacob  Barcus  and  Samuel  Leonard,  of  Louisiana,  Mo.,  they 
taking  $2,000  stock  and  giving  bond  to  complete  the  work  in  twelve 
months  for  $30,000 ;  and  they  completed  it  accordingly.  In  a  few 
years  the  road  was  a  ruin,  and  now  not  a  plank  of  it  remains. 

In  August,  1853,  Prof.  G.  C.  Pratt  completed  a  survey  of  several 
routes  proposed. 

EXPORTS    OF   ROCHEPORT   IN    1851. 

Before  the  completion  of  the  railroad  to  Columbia  in  1867,  and 
during  the  hey-day  of  freight  and  passenger  transportation  by  the 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  387 

Missouri  River,  Rocheport  was  a  very  important  business  place,  and 
was  the  shipping  point  for  a  large  district  of  country.  This  is  shown 
by  its  ejcports  in  1851,  as  follows  f  670  hogsheads  of  tobacco  ;  8  boxes 
of  manufactured  tobacco ;  189  bales  of  hemp ;  39  coils  of  rope ;  21,- 
423 bushels  of  wheat;  377  bushels  of  oats;  1,465  bushels  of  corn; 
408 bushels  of  rye;  192  casks  of  bacon  ;  127  kegs  of  lard  ;  42  bar- 
rels of  lard  ;  77  tierces  of  lard  ;  l,125.pound8  of  feathers  ;  176  bush- 
els of  flax  seed;  71  hides;  17  barrels  of  butter;  19  kegs  of  butter; 
1,146  bushels  of  dried  apples  ;  457  barrels  of  green  apples  ;  117  bush- 
of  dried  peaches. 


FAT  BULLOCKS MONROE   AND   BOONE   COUNTIES    CONTESTING. 

During  the  summer  of  1853,  great  and  unusual  interest  was  ex- 
cited among  the  cattle-breeders  of  Central  Missouri  by  a  contest  for 
two  silver  pitchers,  worth  $50   each,  at  the  Boone  County  Fair  in 
September,  between  Major  Thomas  Barker,  of  Monroe,  and  Major 
Theodoric  Jenkins,  of  Boone,  the  premiums  to  be  awarded  to  the  lot 
of  bullocks,  three  in  number,  which  would  command  the  largest  sum 
of  money  in  the  aggregate,  either  alive  or  slaughtered,  in  the  city  of 
St.  Louis.     No  similar  contest  before  or  since  excited  such  universal 
interest,  or   was  contemplated  l)y  the  citizens  of  the  two  counties 
named   with  such   solicitude.     It  required  several  months  of  card* 
writing  in  newspapers  between  the  contestants  to  settle  the  prelimin- 
aries, but  they  were  finally  settled  as  stated.     The  exhibition  occurred 
on  the  Boone  County  Fair  Grounds  while  the  Fair  was  in  progress^ 
September  30,  1853. 

Maj.  Barker,  of  Monroe,  exhibited  on  his  part  his  celebrated  black 
steer,  a  red  belonging  to  Mr.  For  man,  and  a  deep  red  belonging  to 
Mr.  McCann.  Mr.  Jenkins  exhibited  his  unapproached  and  unap- 
proachable white  steer,  a  red  belonging  to  A.  W.  Turner,  and  another 
belonjring  to  W.  C.  Robinett. 

Lewis  Chandler,  of  St.  Louis,  failing  to  attend,  Henry  Larrimore, 
of  Callaway,  was  selected  in  his  place  as  one  of  the  judges,  in  con- 
'iection  with  John  Harrison,  of  Callaway,  and  David  Hutchinson,  of 
Cooper. 

All  the  bullocks  exhibited  were  remarkably  fine  —  large,  fat  and 
*^autiful.  Six  larger,  better  beef  cattle  (it  was  often  affirmed  by 
those  competent  to  judge)  could  not  be  found  in  the  State. 

After  a  thorough  examination  of  each  bullock  in  the  presence  of 
*^e  assembled  concourse  of  spectators,  the  judges  awarded  the  palm 


368  HISTORY   OF    BOONE    COUNTY. 

of  victory  to  Old  Boone^  whereupon  exultant  shouts  went  up  from  a 
thousand  throats,  and  hundreds  of  hats  from  hundreds  of  heads. 

The  aggregate  measurement  aroifnd  the  girth  of  the  two  lots,  ac- 
cording to  the  figures  of  the  judges,  was  remarkably  close,  the  varia- 
tion being  only  half  an  inch,  as  follows;  Jenkins'  three,  twenty-five 
feet  four  inches  ;  Barker's  three,  twenty-five  feet  three  and  a  half 
inches. 

After  the  award  was  pronounced,  it  was  proposed  that  the  cattle  be 
driven  to  town  and  weighed,  which  was  done,  the  weights  being  as 
follows :  — 

Barker^ s  —  The  Forman  steer,  deep  red,  2,540  pounds;  the  Mc- 
Oann  steer,  red,  2,500  pounds  ;  the  Barker  steer,  black,  2,480  pounds. 
Aggregate,  7,520  pounds. 

Jenkins* — The  Jenkins  steer,  white,  2,800  pounds;  the  Turner 
steer,  red,  2,420  pounds ;  the  Robinett  steer,  red,  2,400.  Aggre- 
gate, 7,620  pounds — being  one  hundred  pounds  in  favor  of  Boone. 

NORTH    MISSOURI    RAILROAD. 

The  projection  in  1853,  of  the  North  Missouri  Railroad,  from  St. 
Louis  to  Macon  City  (then  called  Hudson  City),  in  Macon  County, 
was  a  notable  event  in  the  history  of  the  State.  The  question  of  its 
location  through  the  intermediate  country  was  one  of  great  interest 
to  the  people  along  the  several  proposed  routes,  for  it  was  a  question 
whether  they  would,  or  would  not,  obtain  a  railroad,  and  thus  enjoy 
long-needed  communication  by  rail  with  St.  Louis  and  other  impor- 
tant markets  North  and  South.  It  was,  of  course,  a  question  in 
which  the  people  of  Boone  County  had  and  felt  the  liveliest  concern, 
iis  was  evidenced  by  the  proceedings  of  numerous  public  meetings 
iind  by  newspaper  articles. 

It  finally  became  evident,  that  in  order  to  divert  the  line  of  the  road 
from  both  the  middle  and  eastern  routes  to  one  which  would  pass 
through  Boone  County,  a  subscription  by  the  county  of  at  least  $100,- 
000  stock  was  a  condition  precedent.  Therefore,  at  the  Ma}-  term  of 
the  County  Court  of  that  j^ear,  an  order  was  made  for  an  election  at 
the  various  precincts  in  the  county  on  Monday,  June  13,  1853,  to 
test  the  sense  of  the  tax-payers  of  the  county,  as  to  the  proposed  sub- 
scription of  $100,000  to  the  capital  stock  of  said  road,  provided  it 
passed  through  the  county,  said  tax-payers  also  to  express  themselves 
by  their  ballots,  whether  such  subscription  should  be  paid  by  the  issue 
of  county  bonds  or  by  taxation.     The  canvass  pro  and   con  was  very 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 


369 


I,  and  brought  our  speakers  to  the  rostrum  and  our  writers  to 
wspapers.  The  people  were  addressed  at  various  places  in 
fthe  subscription,  and  of  bonds,  by  J.  S.  Bollins,  Odon  Guitar 
.  F.  Switzler  —  one  speech  being  made  in  Columbia  on  the 
de  by  President  Shannon.  Speeches  were  also  made  in  Cedar 
ip  against  the  subscription  by  Austin  Bradford,  James  Cun- 
n  and  James  M.  Wright.  Mr.  Bradford  also  opposed  it  in 
lus  articles  over  his  own  name  in  the  Statesman.  The  election 
i  as  follows :  — 


FBBdNOTS. 

For  Subs'!!. 

Against  Snb. 

For  Bonds. 

For  Tax. 

I 

885 

291 

880 

18 

k 

484 

26 

476 

18 

rt 

106 

106 

109 

7 

8 

80 

9 

88 

oand            .... 

29 

176 

58 

121 

5      •                   •                    gr                  .                   •                   • 

5 

155 

17 

28 

89 

85 

59 

82 

•                    .                   .       »          .                   •                   • 

1,066 

816 

1,057 

251 

le  number  of  votes  cast,  1,872  ;  majority  for  the  subscription, 
lajority  for  bonds,  806. 
vote  secured  Boone  County  the  railroad. 

e  routes  were  surveyed:  The  route  on  which  the  road  is 
,  the  middle  route  which  passed  about  six  miles  southwest  of 
md  the  eastern  route,  which  crossed  Salt  River  east  of  Florida 
ow  the  Three  Forks. 

a  fuller  understanding  of  the  subject  it  should  be  mentioned, 
evious  to  the  order  of  the  Boone  Countv  Coui-t  for  an  election, 
ird  of  directors  had  located  the  road  on  the  Paris  route,  which 
d  from  the  present  line  at  Benton  City  northwestwardly,  and 
lorth  of  Mexico  and  south  of  Paris,  to  Goose  Pond,  near  Clar- 
n  the  Hannibal  and  St.  Joseph  Railroad.  Major  Rollins  was  at 
le  a  director  of  the  road,  and  protested  against  this  location, 
erward,  by  the  most  persistent  efforts,  secured  a  reconsidera- 
It  was  then  ordered  by  the  board  that  if  the  counties,  towns 
:izens  of  Callaway,  Boone,  Howard,  Randolph,  Macon,  Adair 
huyler,  by  corporate  and  individual  subscriptions,  would  raise 
00  to  the  capital  stock,  the  road  would  be  located  through 
counties  to  Hudson  or  Macon  City,  and  thence  north  to  the 
ine.     It  was  proposed  that  each  of  the  three  counties  fiivst 

24 


370  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

niimed,  subscribe  $100,000,  and  an  effort  was  made  to  induce  tbes 
to  do  SO.  Boone  was  the  only  one  of  the  three  which  respondec 
favorably. 

Major  Rollins  having  secured  a  reconsideration,  of  the  vote  locating 
the  road  on  the  Paris  route,  and  a  conditional  location  of  it  through 
the  seven  counties  mentioned,  his  own  (Boone)  being  one  of  them, 
took  a  very  active  interest  in  securing  the  $500,000  subscription  asked 
for  by  the  directors.  In  addition  to  an  active  agency  in  securing 
$100,000  from  Boone  county,  and  about  $20,000  from  private  citi- 
zens, he  visited  Rjindolph,  Adair,  Schuyler,  Callaway  and  Howard, 
and  by  public  speeches,  to  very  small  audiences  in  the  two  last,  sought 
favoral)ly  to  impress  the  oflScials  and  people  of  those  counties  with  the 
proposition.  In  the  three  first  named,  success  was  achieved,  and  bj 
the  time  of  the  meeting  of  the  board,  he  and  others  who  had  beei 
engaged  in  raising  the  amount  required,  reported  an  aggregate  sub 
scription  of  about  $485,000,  and  the  road  was  thereupon  located  oi 
the  present  route.  There  was  almost  universal  apathy,  if  not  direc 
opposition  on  the  subject,  in  Callaway  and  Howard  Counties,  many  c 
the  leading  influential  citizens  of  both,  strange  to  say,  positivel 
antagonizing  it. 

The  County  Court  of  Callaway  did  order  an  election,  and  the  sa 
scription  was  voted  down  by  almost  five  hundred  majcu'ity. 

There  was  such  indifference  and  opposition  in  Howard  County,  th 
an  election  even  was  not  ordered,  and  of  course  no  subscription  w: 
made. 

Nevertheless,  by  an  increased  subscription  in  Montgomery,  the  $120 
000  in  Boone,  and  the  corporate  and  private  subscriptions  in  Randolpl 
Macon,  Adair  and  Schuyler,  the  directors  were  induced  to  divert  tl 
road  from  the  Paris  route,  and  locate  it  through  Boone  County,  ontl 
present  line.  Parties  in  Boone,  however,  resisted  the  payment  of  tl 
sum  voted,  on  the  ground  that  the  location  just  inside  of  the  nortl 
ern  limits  of  the  county,  and  not  through  its  center,  by  or  n© 
Columbia,  was  not  in  compliance  with  the  conditions  on  which  tl 
subscription  was  made. 

These  parties  sought  in  the  Circuit  Court,  Hon.  Wm.  A.  Hal 
Judge,  to  enjoin  the  County  Court  from  issuing  the  bonds  ;  but  Jud^ 
Hall  decided  that  the  location  was  a  substantial  compliance  with  tl 
law,  and  the  bonds  were  issued. 

But  for  the  refusal  of  the  Counties  of  Callaway  and  Howard  ' 
make  the  subscriptions  asked  of  them,  the  North  Missouri  Railroa 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  371 

would  have  diverged  from  the  present  route,  west,  at  New  Florence, 
across  the  Loiitre,  and  through  the  center  of  Callaway,  Boone  and 
Howard.  But  the  people  of  Callaway  and  Howard  refused  to  aid  in 
building  a  railroad  through  their  counties,  and  thus  not  only  lost  the 
rond  themselves,  but  prevented  the  people  of  Boone  from  getting  it 
on  the  route  they  desired. 

Years  ago,  but  too  late  to  recover  the  advantages  which  they  failed 
to  appreciate  and  refused  to  embrace,  Callaway  and  Howard  plainly 
saw  the  great  mistake  they  had  made  —  a  mistake  which  cost  each 
of  them,  by  subscriptions  to  railroads  running  from  north  to  south 
instead  of  from  east  to  west,  not  one  hundred  thousand  dollars,  but 
nearly  three-quarters  of  a  million. 

Although  Boone  County  obtained  the  railroad,  which  was  worth  to 
her  all  she  paid  for  it,  and  was  the  owner  of  $100,000  of  its  capital 
stock,  the  stock  never  paid  any  dividends ;  and  in  the  mutations 
mcident  to  Western  railroad  property,  resulting  in  changes  of  owner- 
ship, the  stock  finally  depreciated  in  value  to  a  nominal  sum,  and  the 
Bocae  County  Court,  July  5,  1869,  sold  her  interest  in  the  road  to 
Wm.  M.  McPherson,  of  St.  Louis,  for  $8,000. 

DARING   ATTIfiMPT   AT    RAPE NEGRO   HUNG   BY  A   MOB. 

Near  dark  on  Friday,   August  12,   1853,  a    daring   attempt  was 

niaide  by  Hiram,  a  young  negro  man   belonging  to  the   late  Major 

Edward    Young,    who    then     resided    about    ten    miles    south    of 

Colambia,  on   the   Jefferson    City  road,    to    violate  the    person   of 

ACiss  Nancy    Hubbard,    aged    fifteen    years,    a     daughter    of   Mr. 

Eusebius  Hubbard,  of  Cedar  Township.     The  young  lady,  in  company 

^«vith  a  married  sister,  Mrs.   Mary  Jacobs,  and   her    little    daughter 

-A^mauda,  were  returning   from  the  burial  of  Mr.    Harrison  Jacobs. 

The  path  they  travelled  led  by  a  heavy  thicket  and  through  a  pair  of 

l^ars,  the  latter  being  some  three  hundred  yards  from  the  residence  of 

Joseph  Armstrong.     Reaching  the  bars,  the  young  lady  dismounted 

a^nd  let  them  down.     Her  companions  passing  through,  she  proceeded 

t^c)  put  them  up.     At  this  moment  a  negro  man,  entirely  naked,  sud- 

Gently  emerged  from  the  thicket,  and  seizing  her,  made  a  desperate 

a^ttempt  to  violate  her  person.     A  most  determined  struggle  ensued 

for  some  ten  minutes,  during  which  the  young  lady,  notwithstanding- 

»he  was  severely  bruised  and  frightened,  made  successful  resistance  to 

the  hellish  designs  of  the  naked  monster.     The  cries  of  murder  and 

the  desperation  of  the  struggle  so  frightened  the  horse  rode  by  the 


372  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

married  sister  and  her  little  girl  that  they  were  thrown  —  the  married 
sister  being  disabled  by  the  fall.  The  little  girl  ran  to  the  house  ol 
Mr.  Armstrong,  and  he  came  with  all  speed  to  the  scene  of  danger. 
The  negro,  hearing  his  approach,  fled  to  the  thicket.  A  number  ol 
negroes  were  arrested  on  suspicion  and  discharged,  and  finally  cir- 
cumstances pointing  to  Hiram,  he  was  informally  brought  befon 
Justices  John  Ellis  and  Walter  C.  Maupin,  tried  and  discharged 
Strong  convictions  of  his  guilt  being  still  entertained  by  the  people 
on  Tuesday  night  following  a  warrant  was  issued  for  his  arrest  b; 
Justice  Thomas  Porter,  of  Columbia,  and  he  was  arrested  and  lodge* 
in  jail. 

On  Saturday,  August  20,  he  was  brought  to  trial  in  the  upper  rooi 
of  the  court  house  before  David  Gordon,  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  an 
F.  T.  Russell,  Recorder  of  Columbia. 

Maj.  J.  S.  Rollins  and  Col.  S.  A.  Young  appeared  as  counsel  at  tl 
instance  of  the  negro's  owner  to  see  that  a  fair  and  full  trial  wj 
given,  and  Odon  Guitar,  Esq.,  appeared  for  the  prosecution.  A  vei 
large  concourse  of  citizens  were  in  attendance,  a  portion  of  who 
were  much  excited  by  the  daring  atrocity  of  the  crime,  and  a  fir 
conviction  of  the  negro's  guilt.  This  portion  of  the  people  were  fi 
summary  vengeance,  without  waiting  for  the  issue  of  the  tris 
Nevertheless,  the  trial  progressed  without  interruption  until  abo 
three  o'clock,  when,  seemingly  no  longer  able  to  resist  their  feeling 
a  portion  of  the  crowd  outside  rushed  into  the  court  house,  and,  ov€ 
coming  the  importunities  and  efforts  of  the  court,  sheriff*,  couns( 
etc.,  put  a  rope  around  the  prisoner's  neck,  and  forced  him  into  t! 
street.  The  rope  was  once  cut,  however,  by  Maj.  Rollins,  but  it  w 
again  placed  around  the  negro's  neck.  With  an  excited  populace 
his  heels,  he  was  hurried  down  Court-house  Street  to  Broadway,  ai 
down  Broadway  to  the  bridge  over  Flat  Branch,  at  the  western  e 
tremity  of  town,  and  thence  to  a  wood  northwest  of  the  court  houfi 
Here  an  attempt  was  made  to  hang  him  ;  some  desiring  to  burn  bu 
an  attempt  which  in  all  probability  would  have  proved  successful,  b 
for  the  protestations  of  many  citizens  and  the  accidental  breaking 
the  rope.  Major  Rollins  and  Col.  Switzler  protested  against  the  pr 
needing,  and  by  addresses  to  those  concerned,  backed  by  the  peace 
ble  importunities  and  co-operation  of  Mr.  E.  C.  Davis,  of  the  Sentim 
and  many  other  citizens,  assuaged  in  some  measure  the  exciteniei 
prevailing,  and  induced  those  having  the  prisoner  in  charge  to  tal 
him  back  to  jail  and  allow  him  the  privilege  of  a  legal  trial.     Wit 


HI8TOBT  OF   BOOKE   COUNTY.  37S 

DO  little  difficulty  and  delay  be  was  finally  returned  to  jail  —  and,  what 
is  remarkable,  notwitlistauding  the  intense  excitement  of  the  occasion, 
DO  one  wag  hurt. 

On  Sftbbatb  the  prisoner  made  a  full  confession  of  his  guilt,  thus 
removing  all  doubts  on  that  subject ;  at  the  same  time  bringing  to 
light  the  names  of  two  other  negro  men  of  his  neighborhood  who  had 
made  threats,  that,  some  time  in  the  future  and  upon  some  white 
female  or  other,  they  would  commit  a  similar  outrage.  In  every 
point  of  view,  then,  as  aU  now  concede,  even  those  must  importunate 
for  sammary  punishment,  the  counsels  which  remanded  the  prisoner 
to  jail  and  prevented  the  hanging  on  Saturday,  were  most  wise  and 
salutary,  and  all  appeared  gratified  at  the  result. 

Monday  was  another  day  of  excitement,  and  the  people  were  out  in 

lar^  numbers.     There  being  no  longer  a  reasonable  doubt  of  the 

prisoner's  guilt,  a  portion  of  those  present  were  unwilling  to  await 

1^1  conviction  and  punishment  by  the  Circuit  Court  —  contending 

that  the  punishment  of  the  law  was  not  adequate  to  the  crime,  and 

therefore  they  were  for  immediately  forcing  the  locks  of  the  prison 

and  taking  the  negro  and  burning  or  hanging  him.     At  the  instance 

of  the  father  of  the  young  lady  upon  whose  person  the  outrage  had 

been  attempted.  Col.  S.  A.  Young  and  Odon  Guitar,  Esq.,  stated  to 

those  determined  upon  summary  punishment^  that  it  was  not  his 

desire  the  negro  should  be  burned,  but  hanged.     Mr.  Guitar  earnestly 

exhorted  them,  if  it  was  their  determination  to  hang  him,  to  go  about 

it  coolly  and  do  it  decently  and  in  order.     That  concert  of  action 

might  characterize  the  movements  of  those  participating  in  the  affair, 

*  meeting  was  held  in  the  street,  in  front  of  the  court  house.     Eli  E. 

^Ba«s,  Esq.,  one  of  our  most  respectable  and  influential  citizens,  was 

cliosen  chairman  of  the  meeting.     He  put  the  question  whether  the 

^©gro  should  be  burned,  and  not  more  than  half  a  dozen,  if  that  nnm- 

^r,  voted   in   favor  of  burning.     Mr.  Bass  then  put  the  question, 

**All  who  are  in  favor  of  hanging  him  will  say  aye,"  and  most,  if  not 

**l^  of  those  participating  said  aye,     A  large  number  of  the  citizens 

pJ^sent  did  not  approve  and  took  no  part  in  the  proceedings.     Hang- 

'*ig  being  thus  decided  upon,  a  committee  was  appointed  to  procure  a 

^ope,  a  cart  on  which  to  convey  the  negro  to  the  place  of  execution, 

^nd  a  coffin  in  which  to  bury  him.     It  was  also  made  the  duty  of  this 

^^ommittee  to  force  the  prison  doors,  take  the  negro  out,  and  hang 

^im  ••  decently  and  in  order."     Mr.   Geo.  N.  King  was  appointed 

^l^&irman  of  the  committee,  with  power  to  appomt  nine  committee. 


374  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

men  to  co-operate  with  him.  The  following  are  the  names  of  the 
committee  as  furnished  us  by'Mr.  King,  viz. :  Geo.  N.  King,  Henry 
Wilkinson,  John  Ballinger,  Wra.  Breakey,  Wm.  B.  Cato,  John  Robi- 
uett,  John  Hume,  Wm.  Hubbard,  A.  R.  Vest  and  R.  P.  Waters. 

About  12  o'clock  they  proceeded  to  the  jail,  and  under  the  protest 
of  the  sheriff,  forced  the  door,  took  the  negro  out,  and,  followed  by  a 
large  number  of  persons,  quietly  proceeded  to  a  grove  northwest  of 
town,  and  there  the  negro  was  hung^and  buried.  This  grove  is  now 
the  pasture  of  Mrs.  Dr.  Arnold,  and  is  immediately  west  of  R.  H. 
Clinkscales' .  Miss  Nancy  Hubbard  afterwards  married  James  Lane 
and  they  now  reside  in  Bates  County,  Mo. 

ONE    STUDENT   OF   THE    UNIVERSITY   KILLS    ANOTHER. 

About  11  o'clock,  A.  M.,  on  Monday,  December  19,  1853,  in  a  pei 
sonal  altercation  at  the  foot  of  the  stairway,  in  the  east  wing  of  tl 
State  University,  between  Benjamin  F.  Handy,  of  Harrodsburg,  Ky 
and  W.  W.  Thornton,  of  Shelby ville.  111.,  students,  the  former  wt 
shot  by  the  latter,  with  a  revolver,  and  almost  instantly  killed.  Tt 
circumstances  were  these< — 

About  two  months  previously,  one  evening  after  tea,  these  youn 
men  were  engaged  in  Thornton's  room  in  a  game  of  whistjfor  anms< 
ment,  during  which  Mr.  Thornton  charged  Mr.  Handy  with  unfa 
play.  Angry  words  followed,  resulting  finally  in  Mr.  Thornton  ordei 
ing  Mr.  Handy  from  his  room,  and  he  went.  On  Sabbath  morninc 
about  two  weeks  after  this  (the  parties  in  the  meantime  having  n 
intercourse  with  each  other),  Mr.  Thornton  deemed  himself  grossl 
insulted  by  Mr.  Handy  at  the  breakfast  table,  for  they  both  boarde 
at  the  same  house. 

Growing  out  of  this  supposed  insult  was  a  personal  rencontre  o 
the  next  day,  Monday.     The  facts  on  this  point  were  about  these  :- 

Rev.  Mr.  Henshall,  of  Lexington,  Ky.,  had  been  preaching  in  tl 
Christian  Church  in  Columbia,  and  on  Saturday  evening  the  youn 

men  had  attended.     Mrs.  H ,  the  ladv  of  the  house  with  whoi 

they  boarded,  engaging  in  the  conversation  at  the  breakfast  table  tl 
next  morning  in  regard  to  the  preaching,  asked  Mr.  Thornton  how  h 
was  pleased  with  the  sermon.  He  replied  substantially  that  Mi 
Henshall  was  an  easy,  graceful  speaker,  but  that  his  discourses  lacke 
point  —  that  he  (T.)  could  not  sometimes  tell  the  point  he  was  aimin 
to  establish.  Mr.  Handy  then  remarked  substantially,  to  a  studei 
sitting  by  his  side  at  the  table,  but  in  a  tone  loud  enough  to  be  heai 


HI8T0BT  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  375 

bj  all,  that  Mrv  Henshall  was  a  minister  of  reputation ;  that  he 
accompanied  Alexander  Campbell  during  his  tour  in  £urope,  and  that 
any  man  of  common  sense  could  see  the  points  in  his  preaching. 
This,  Mr.  Thornton  regarded  as  a  fling  at  him,  and  an  insult  to  be 
avenged. 

So,  therefore,  next  morning  (Monday)  he  made  an  assault  upon 
Mr.  Handy,  beating  him  with  his  fists  quite  severely,  and  making  him 
apol(^ze,  etc..  Handy  offering  no  resistance.  The  matter  coming 
before  the  Faculty  of  the  University,  Mr.  Thornton  was  suspended 
for  three  weeks  and  had  eighty  subtracted  from  his  credit  marks. 
Nothing  was  done  with  Handy. 

Some  three  weeks  before  the  shooting  Mr.  Handy  bought  a  large 

bowie-knife  at  a  store  in  town,  declaring  at  the  time  that  he  intended 

to  cane  Thornton  for  whipping  him,  and  that  if  he  resisted* he  would 

aee  his  heart's  blood  with  that  knife.     The  fact  that  Handy  was  armed 

coming  to  Thornton's  ears,  he  asked  a  mutual  friend,  as  a  personal 

favor,  to  go  to  Handy  and  advise  him  in  his  (the  friend's)  own  name, 

not  to  make  an  attack  on  him ;  that  he  did  not  wish  any  difficulty 

with  him ;  but  that  if  Handy  did  attack  him  he  would  certainly  kill 

him.    The  request  was  complied  with.     Handy  denied  buying  the 

knife  for  any  such  pui*pose,  and  pledged  his  honor  that  he  meditated 

Qo  attack  upon  Thornton,  and  desired  that  he  be  so  informed.     All 

privy  to  the  matter  now  very  reasonably  supposed  the  affair  at  an 

end. 

But  on  Monday,  December  20,  as  the  students  were  coming  out  of 
Prof.  Locke's  room  (which  was  on  the  lower  floor)  and  departing 
from  the  University,  Mr.  Handy  preceded  Thornton  and  waited  near 
tie  hall  door,  a  door  with  two  shutters,  one  of  which,  however,  was 
'imened.  As  Thornton  approached  this  door,  being  about  three  feet 
i^m  it.  Handy  made  an  assault  upon  him  with  a  heavy  cane,  striking 
^m  on  the  head  several  times.  Thornton ,  according  to  some,  got  out  of 
be  door,  and  according  to  others  was  fastened  between  the  students. 
^t  all  events,  Handy  was  on  the  inside,  with  his  left  hand  on  the  door, 
^x^ssing  it  against  Thornton,  and  with  his  cane  in  his  right  attempting 
^  strike  him  ;  Thornton  the  while  pushing  against  the  door  to  get  in. 
succeeding,  at  least  partially,  the  combatants  grappled  each  other, 
•nd  Thornton  instantly  shot  Handy  in  the  left  breast  with  a  pistol, 
fusing  almost  immediate  death.  The  body  being  afterwards  exam- 
Ued,  a  loaded  pistol  and  large  bowie-knife  were  found  on  Mr.  Handy's 
person. 


376  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Mr.  Thornton  voluntarily  surrendered  himself  to  Justices  David 
Gordon  and  Henry  H.  Ready,  and  was  tried  and  acquitted.  Jame» 
M.  Gordon  appeared  for  the  defense.  No  attorney  appeared  for  the 
prosecution. 

COLUMBIA    CEMETERY   ASSOCIATION. 

The  old  or  first  cemetery  of  the  town  becoming  wholly  inadequate 
to  the  demands  upon  it,  in  1854  the  General  Assembly  chai'tered  an 
association,  with  the  usual  powers  of  such  companies,  and  the  follow- 
ing directors,  who  were  clothed  with  authority  to  perpetuate  their 
number:  Jefferson  Garth,  J.  S.  Rollins,  Moss  Prewitt,  J.  R.  Boyce, 
R.  C.  Branham,  H.  H.  Ready,  and  W.  F.  Switzler.  This  board  or* 
ganized  by  the  election  of  the  following  officers :  R.  C.  Branham,  pres- 
ident; J.  R.  Boyce,  secretary,  and  W.  F.  Switzler,  treasurer. 

This  association  is  still  in  existence,  and  since  its  organization  has 
purchased  two  large  additions  of  grounds  adjoining  the  old  cemetery* 
and  have  expended,  over  and  above  the  cost  of  the  grounds,  every  dol- 
lar received  from  the  sale  of  lots,  in  fencing  and  improving  the  cem- 
etery. Among  the  improvements  is  the  opening  and  macadamizing  o 
a  new  avenue  from  Broadway  to  the  grounds,  the  old  entrance  haviimj 
been  on  the  east,  instead  of  north  of  them. 

The  ground  was  laid  off  into  lots  of  appropriate  size,  sixteen  \m, 
thirty-two  feet,  and  others  sixteen  feet  square,  and  the  first  sale  o^ 
curred  on  Saturday,  November  20,  1858. 

I 

THE    DROUGHT   OF    1854. 

A  drought  unprecedented  in  the  history  of  the  county  occurred  in 
1854,  no  rain  of  any  consequence  falling  between  June  20  and  Sep- 
tember 11.  The  streams,  wells,  and  springs  became  dry;  water  foi 
stock  was  almost  exhausted  and  difficult  to  find,  and  not  more  than 
half  a  crop  of  corn  was  raised.  The  grass  in  forests  and  pastures  be- 
came dry  enough  to  burn,  and  several  disastrous  conflagrations  acci- 
dentally occurred  in  Boone  County.  Corn  advanced  to  a  price  hitherto 
unknown  —  sixty  cents  per  bushel. 

Missouri  and  Boone  County  were  not  alone  in  this  calamity,  for  the 

drought  prevailed  all  over  the  New  England  and  most  of  the  Western 

States. 

selby's  new  hotel. 

The  large  two-story  frame  building  near  the  court-house,  and  now 
known  as  the  •'  Planters'  House,"  was  originally  built  by  the  late 


HISTORY  OF  BOON£   COUNTY.  377 

^^^§    Alexander  Douglass,  father  of  ShaiiDon  C.  Douglass,  Esq.,  and  Dr. 

Wm.  H.  Douglass,  for  a  residence.     Being  eligibly  located  for  a  hotel, 
-^{    inlbj,  1855,  the  late'Thomas  Selby  purchased  the  property,  and  in 

November  following  occupied  it  as  a  hotel,  and  it  has  ever  since  been 

thus  occupied. 


i.T 


X0N8TEB  KANSAS  MEKTINO PREMONITIONS  OF  THE  COMING  STORM. 

Thedbcussions  in  Congress  and  elsewhere,  growing  out  of  the  territo* 
ml  organizations  of  Kansas  and  Nebraska  m  1852-7,  excited  the  liveliest 
intereat  throughout  the  whole  country,  North  and  South ;  and  the  peo- 
ple of  Boone  County  were  not  uninterested  spectators  of  the  passing 
Bcenes.    Indeed,  they  were  deeply  moved  and  at  times  greatly  excited 
bj  tbe  debates  iu  Congress,  and  by  the  struggles  in  the  Territory  of 
Kansas  over  the  State  constitutions  adopted  at  Lecompton  and  To- 
peb — one  free  and  the  other  slave.     Very  diverse  views  were  enter- 
tUDed  in  Boone  County  touching  some  of  the  issues  involved  in  the 
Saosas-Nebraska  controvei*sy,  which  finally  found  expression  in  atan- 
Ip'ble  form  at  a  public  meeting  held  at  the  old  fair  grounds,  east  of 
Columbia,  on  Saturday,  June  2,  1855.     The  meeting  was  first  organ- 
ized in  the  court-house,  but  that  building  was  wholly  inadequate  to 
Acoommodate  the  vast  multitude  present.     Hence  the  adjournment  to 
the  Fair  Grounds.  * 

At  the  court  house,  Odon   Guitar  called  the  meeting  to  order,  and 
on  his  motion,  James  McConathy  was  called  to  the  chair,  and  Dr. 
^V^.  H.  Lee  and  John  C.  McKinney  were  appointed  secretaries.    John 
H.  Field  then  opened  the  ball  by  introducing  a  series  of  resolutions, 
^Thereupon  Col.  Young  moved  that  a  ^mmittee  of  three  Whigs  and 
tliree  Democrats  be   elected  by  the  meeting,  to  report  resolutions. 
Several  other  motions  were  made  in  regard  to  a  committee,  and  con- 
siderable  discussion  ensued,  during   which   remarks  weYe  made  by 
^laj.  Bollins,  Col.  Young,  Maj.  Forshey,  Mr.  Field,  Dr.  Forshey  and 
perhaps  others.     On  motion  of  Joseph  K.  Northcutt,  it  was  ordered 
that  none  be  allowed  to  vote  in  the  meeting  except  residents  of  the 
county  who  are  twenty-one  years  of  age.     The  committee  of  six  on 
Insolations  were  6nally  elected,  Jis  follows:      Whigs  —  W.  F.  Switz- 
l^T,  James  M.  Gordon  and  Middleton  G.  Sinofleton.     Democrats  — 
-t^r.  W.  H.  Lee,  John  Slack  and  Priestly  H.  McBride,  during  whose 
retirement  the  meeting  took  a  recess. 

This  committee  did  not  agree,  but  agreed  to  make  two  reports. 
This  fact  being  announced,  a  motion  was  made  and  carried  that  the 


378  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

meeting  adjourn  to  the  Fair  Grounds,  where  the  vast  assembly  could 
be  accommodated ;  whereupon  the  great  throng,  pell-mell,  halter* 
skelter,  repaired  thither. 

Order,  such  as  it  was,  being  restored.  Colonel  Switzler,  on  behalf 
of  that  portion  of  the  committee  he  represented,  reported  the  fol- 
lowing : — 

RESOLUTIONS. 

Resolved  1.  That  domestic  slavery,  as  it  now  exists  i^  many  of  the  States  of  the  Union, 
is  recognized  and  protected  by  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  and  is  left  by  that  in- 
strument to  be  regulated  alone  by  the  municipal  policy  of  the  States  in  which  it  it  ormiy 
be  established. 

2.  That  the  aggressive  and  fanatical  spirit  evidenced  by  the  Abolitionists  and  Freenoilan 
of  the  North,  wantonly  to  interfere  with  the  institution  both  in  the  States  and  Territonei^  il 
calculated  to  disturb  the  friendly  feeling  which  should  exist  between  the  people  of  ti^mf' 
eral  States,  light  the  torch  of  servile  insurrection  and  war,  and  ultimately  to  dissolve  tlM 
Union. 

8.  Non-intervention,  therefore,  on  the  part  of  Congress,  with  slavery  both  in  Ststeiand 
Territories ;  and  non-interference  by  the  people  of  the  free  States  with  slavery  in  the  iltfl 
States,  is  not  only  in  accordance  with  the  Constitution,  but  the  dictates  of  patriotism  lal 
sound  policy;  and  that  those  who  would  attempt  to  subvert  these  principles  ought  to  bfis- 
garded  as  enemies  of  the  Union,  seeking  to  effect  by  incendiary  agitation  the  destruction  of 
our  domestic  peace  and  the  palladium  of  our  liberties. 

4.  That  Abolitionism  and  Freesoilism  are  monsters  of  iniquity,  at  war  with  the  best  intfl^ 
ests,  and  insulting  to  the  sovereignty  of  the  slave  States ;  and  that  the  utterance,  publicttion, 
or  circulation  of  any  statements,  arguments  or  opinions  in  this  State,  tending  to  excite  oof 
slaves  to  insurrection  or  rebellion,  justly  subjects  the  offender,  under  our  law,  to  impriion- 
ment  in  the  penitentiary,  and  to  a  forfeiture  of  the  right  to  sit  as  a  juror,  to  vote  at  our  elec- 
tions, or  to  hold  office. 

5.  That  the  efforts  of  the  Emigrant  Aid  Society  of  Massachusetts  to  Abolitionize  the 
Territory  of  Kansas,  by  pouring  within  its  limits  and  upon  our  western  border,  hireling 
Abolitionists  and  Freesoilers,  going  thence  with  no  purpose  permanently  to  settle,  bat 
merely  to  vote  at  the  elections  of  the  Territory  and  return  home,  very  deeply  and  justly  SX" 
asperates  the  people  of  Missouri ;  and  we  hereby  pledge  ourselves  to  aid  by  all  honorable 
and  legal  means  to  defeat  the  efforts  of  those  who  would  thus  make  a  mockery  of  pabB< 
law,  and  disregard  our  peace. 

^.  That  the  Kansas-Nebraska  bill,  based  upon  the  principle  of  non-intervention,  ^ 
guaranteeing  to  the  people  of  the  Territories  the  power  to  settle  the  question  of  slavery  ^ 
themselves,  meets  with  our  approval ;  and  we  regard  any  man  who  favors  its  repeal,  or  ^ 
of  choice  agitates  the  subject  of  slavery  in  Congress  or  elsewhere,  as  an  enemy  to  our  id^ 
tutions,  and  as  forfeiting  all  claim  to  our  support  or  confidence. 

7.  That  whilst  we  do  not  sanction  acts  of  violence,  whether  perpetrated  by  citizens  of  '^ 
North  or  South,  so  long  as  the  law  affords  protection  and  redress ;  and  whilst  we  reg^ 
Abolitionism,  Nullification  and  Freesoilism  alike  dangerous  to  the  peace  and  permane^ 
of  this  Union,  we  are  ready  to  pledge  "  our  lives,  our  fortunes  and  our  sacred  honor"  to  i^ 
tect,  at  all  hazards,  by  legal  and  honorable  means,  the  institutions  of  the  South  against  ^ 
croachment  and  invasion  from  without  and  sedition  and  treachery  from  within. 

8.  That  the  recent  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Wisconsin,  declaring  the  PugiCs^ 
Slave  Law  unconstitutional  and  of  no  binding  force  within  the  limits  of  thai  State,  and  '^ 
passage  of  the  Personal  Liberty  Bill,  in  defiance  of  the  Governor's  veto,  by  the  Legblat^ 
of  Massachusetts,  whereby  the  Fugitive  Slave  Law  h  practically  nullified  within  the  lii 


HI8TOBT   OF  BOONK   COUNTY.  879 

4if  thttOomiiKMiwealtby  are  alarming  evidences  of  faDaticism,  nullification  and  treason,  cal- 
«ilitod  to  foment  discord  among  the  people  of  the  States,  and  alUmately  to  dissolve  the 
Uoioo. 

&  Thst  the  reftisal  of  the  Abolitionists  and  Freesoilers  to  execute  the  laws  of  Oongress» 
«onititiitionany  made ;  their  attempts  to  remove  officers  for  executing  those  laws ;  their 
•etiof  ouUifleatioo  and  avowal  of  "higher  law"  doctrines,  are  outrages  at  which  the  South 
■aj  ind  does  justly  cemplain,  and  their  continuance  is  wholly  incompatible  with  the  spirit 
sf  ths  Union ;  and  if  the  Union  is  to  be  preserved,  it  becomes  the  conservative,  law-abiding 
pMple  of  the  North  to  disavow  and  repudiate  these  incendiary,  ruthless  attacks  upon  the 
liviof  the  land  and  the  guarantees  of  the  Constitution. 

IOl  That  we  regard  the  Union  as  the  Palladium  of  our  Liberties,  and  all  acts  tending  to 
vnkMi  the  confidence  of  the  people  in  its  stability,  to  abate  their  appreciation  of  its  price- 
iMfsliie  and  patriotic  love  for  its  integrity  ~  all  acts  designed  to  exasperate  one  section  of 
the  Union  against  another,  thereby  tending  to' its  dissolution,  we  regard  as  the  basest  treason, 
■iiithig  the  execration  of  every  true  lover  of  his  country. 

11  That  if  it  be  true,  as  it  has  been  repeatedly  charged,  that  Governor  Reeder  is  an 
nmj  to  the  institutions  of  the  South — that  he  has  sought  and  is  still  seeking  to  Aboli* 
tiooiu  the  Territory  of  Kansas,  and  that  he  gave  the  Emigrant  Aid  Society  notice  of  the 
noi&t  election  previous  to  notifying  the  people  of  said  Territory,  his^appointment  to  the 
oiei  he  holds  and  the  fulure  of  President  Pierce  to  remove  him  therefit>m,  meets  with  our 
BBqaslifled  condemnation. 

11  That  the  charge  of  Abolitionism  and  Freesoilism  against  loyal  citizens  of  Missouri, 
■ids  without  evidence  and  often  egainst  evidence,  is  not  only  well  calculated  to  give  Aboli- 
tioskm  undue  respectability,  but  also  to  disturb  our  peace  and  foment  insurrection  and 
inmhordination  among  our  slaves,  and  therefore  merits  the  severest  condemnation  of  all 
|Md  dtixena. 

The  resolutions  being  read,  Col.  Switzler  proceeded  briefly  to  refer 
to  their  character.  He  maintained  that  they  were  national,  conserva- 
tive, loyal  to  the  South  and  to  the  Federal  Union  — clear  and  decided 
in  the  assertion  of  the  Constitutional  rights  of  the  slave  States  and 
the  duty  of  the  people ;  justly  severe  in  the  condemnation  of  the 
heresies  of  Abolitionism,  Freesoilism  and  Nullification ;  in  short, 
that  they  covered  the  whole  ground,  and  laid  down  a  platform  on 
^hich  every  Missourian,  who  was  true  to  his  State  and  his  country, 
^uld  stand. 

Dr.  Lee,  with  the  concurrence  of  two  other  members  of  the  com-, 
aittee,  reported  the  following 

PRSAMBLS  AND  BSSOLUTIONS. 

WBBKXAa,  It  is  induhitahle  that  God  wiUs  the  existence  and  happiness  of  the  whole  hu- 
^•B  fiunily ;  that  the  capacities  of  the  races,  respectively,  and  of  the  successive  generations 
^  those  races,  are  adapted  to  the  several  spheres  they  are  designed  to  fill ;  that  their  ezist- 
'^  sad  happiness  cannot  he  secured  without  the  protection  of  rights,  and  redress  of 
''^OBgi;  tnd  that  this  protection  and  redress  cannot  be  secured  in  any  degree  commensu- 
^te  with  our  necessities  without  social  organization,  which  organization  must  necessarily 
^  Adspted  to  the  moral  and  intellectual  condition  of  those  for  whom  it  is  intended ; 
ksnfore, 

^nolvedy  1.  That  human  government  exists  in  accordance  with  the  will  of  God  (and  by 
"^  ooment  of  the  governed,  if  they  are  morally  and  intellectually  qualified  for  self-govern* 


380  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

ment),  for  the  protection  of  the  rights  and  the  redress  of  the  wrongs  of  its  subjects,  deriving^ 
all  its  just  powers  from  its  necessity  for,  and  its  adaptation  to,  the  accomplishment  of  these 
purposes. 

2.  That  to  resist  government  in  the  accomplishment  of  its  lawful  objects,  and  the  exer- 
cise of  its  just  rights,  or  to  subvert  its  authority  when  directed  to  these  ends,  is  highly  crim- 
inal, and  destructive  of  the  best  interests  of  society  and  the  human  family. 

8.  That  when  any  government,  from  whatever  cause,  is  incapable  of  protecting  the  rights- 
and  redressing  the  wrongs  of  its  subjects,  it  is  their  inalienable  right,  both  as  individuals  and 
as  communities,  and  it  is  their  duty,  to  take  protection  and  redress  into  their  own  hands 
and  to  provide  all  necessary  guards  for  their  future  security. 

4.  That  in  accordance  with  these  principles,  all  communities,  whether  savage  or  civilised, 
admit  the  right  of  necessary  self-defence,  and  the  consequent  right  of  abating,  by  extras 
legal  means,  such  nuisances  as  are  intolerable,  and  cannot  be  abated  by  the  regular  opera- 
tions of  laws. 

6.  That  the  fanatical  and  persevering  efforts  of  Abolitionists,  and  Abolition  societies,  to* 
render  our  slave  property  insecure,  and  to  excite  the  evil  passions  of  those  slaves  to  insula 
ordination,  has  a  direet  tendency  to  incite  them  to  a  servile  war,  with  all  its  attendant 
horrors;  and  is  such  an  invasion  of  our  rights  that  we  feel  justified  in  pledging  our  lives, 
our  fortunes,  and  our  sacred  honor  to  each  other,  to  the  State  and  to  our  sister  slave  States, 
that  we  will  abate  i^,  to  the  utmost  extent  of  our  ability  —  peaceably  if  we  can,  forcibly 
if  we  must 

6.  That  the  repeated  invasion  of  the  constitutional  rights  of  the  slave  States  has  a  direct 
tendency  to  dissolve  the  Union,  and  if  persisted  in,  must  inevitably  lead  to  this  deplorable 
result,  as  the  only  refuge  from  impending  evils  of  the  most  appalling  and  intolerable  char- 
acter ;  and  we  therefore  pledge  ourselves,  irrespective  of  all  previous  party  ties,  to  abjure 
all  minor  issues,  and  unite  as  one  man  in  waging  a  deadly  war  on  Abolitionism,  and  resist- 
ing all  its  vile  efforts,  whether  made  by  force  or  fraud,  to  trample  our  constitutional  rights- 
under  its  unhallowed  feet. 

7.  That  we  appeal  to  the  intelligence,  patriotism  and  loyalty  of  the  free  States,  to  arrest 
the  torrent  of  Abolition  fanaticism  that  is  sweeping  over  them  in  open  violation  of  our  con- 
stitutional rights,  exposing  the  Union  of  these  States  to  imminent  peril,  and  if  not  speedily  ai^ 
rested,  to  certain  annihilation. 

8.  That  the  whole  State  is  identified  in  interest  and  sympathy  with  the  citizens  on  our 
western  border;  and  we  will  co-operate  with  them  in  all  proper  measures  to  prevent  the 
foul  demon  of  Abolitionism  from  planting  a  colony  of  negro  thieves  on  our  frontiwr,  to  har- 
ass our  citizens  and  steal  their  property,  it  matters  not  whether  that  colony  be  imported 
from  European  poor-houses  and  prisons,  or  fh)m  the  pestilential  hot-beds  of  New  England 
fanaticism. 

9.  That  we  regard  the  emissaries  of  Abolitionism  whether  open  or  disguised,  as  our  vilest 

•enemies  —  conspirators  against  the  peace  and  permanency  of  our  Union,  and  as  such  we  feel 

bound  to  give  them  no  countenance  nor  encouragement  whatever ;  but  on  the  contrary,  as  it 

is  our  duty  in  self-defence,  we  will  use  all  lawful  and  proper  means  to  expose  them  to  a  just 

retribution,  and  a  lawful  and  well-merited  infamy. 

10.  That  as  we  believe  the  Missouri  Compromise  to  have  been  at  variance!with  the  spirit 
and  objects  of  the  Federal  compact,  in  which  are  conferred  all  the  powers  of  the  General 
Government,  we  most  heartily  approve  of  the  repeal  of  that  odious  measure,  and  as  cordi- 
ally indorse  the  Kansas-Nebraska  bill,  believing  its  principles  to  be  correct  We,  therefore, 
have  seen  with  feelings  of  indignation  and  abhorrence  the  efforts  made  by  citizens  of  the  free 
States  to  deprive  slave-holders  of  the  rights  which  the  Kansas  bill  was  designed  to  restore; 
and  while  we  deprecate  the  necessity,  we  cannot  too  highly  appreciate  the  patriotism  of 
those  Missourians  who  so  freely  gave  their  time  and  money  for  the  purpose,  in  the  recent 
election  in  Kansas,  of  neutralizing  said  Abolition  efforts,  and  preventing  the  fraud  attempted 
by  the  importation  of  hireling  voters  into  that  Territory. 


BISTORT  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  881 

1.  Thai  the  other  oountiee  in  the  State  be  requested  to  bold  meetings  and  express  their 
sMots  on  the  subject,  so  that  whatever  hopes  may  be  entertained  by  the  Abolitionists  of 
iogsDT  adTantage  from  division  among  us,  may  be  dispelled  — and  that  the  people  of 
State,  irrespectiTe  of  all  party  considerations,  may  present  an  unbroken  fh>nt  of  opposi- 
te the  foul  deaigns  of  the  Abolitionists. 

2.  That  we  view  with  indignation  the  efforts  made  in  Congress  as  well  as  in  the  North- 
States,  to  repeal  or  render  inoperative  the  Fugitive  Slave  Law,  and  that  we  will  not  sub- 
iotbertpeaL 

I  That delegates  be  appointed  to  represent  this  meeting  in  the  convention  to  be 

in  Boonville ;  and  that  the  chairman  make  the  appointment 

'he  two  sets  of  resolutions  being  thus  before  the  assembly,  the 
opened  anew  amid  considerable  excitement  and  disorder.  Dr. 
said  he  had  no  objections  to  the  first  resolntionsy  but  preferred 
)wn  as  they  went  a  little  further.  Col.  Young  moved  that  both 
be  adopted  en  rmisse.  Maj.  Rollins  called  for  a  division  of  the 
(tion,  remarking  that  while  Col.  Switzler's  seemed  generally 
ptable,  there  were  several  of  Dr.  Lee's  which  were  very  obnox- 
,  and  he  could  not  vote  for  them.  Some  insisted  that  the  vote 
aken  on  each  resolution  separately  ;  others  that  each  set  be  pre- 
ed  by  itself.  During  the  presentation  and  discussion  of  these 
kindred  motions  *'  noise  and  confusion"  bore  sway,  with  much 
tement.  Deliberation  was  impossible  ;  discussion  out  of  the  ques- 
.  All  was  turmoil  and  disorder.  Bad  blood  was  stirred,  and  yet 
oassing  scenes  were  far  more  farcical  than  tragical.  Here,  there 
everywhere,  on  the  ground,  on  the  seats,  in  the  stand,  men  were 
ing — calling  upon  the  president,  whacking  the  air  by  violent 
ores,  making  suggestions,  trying  to  speak  —  and  the  president 
and  anon  made  an  effort  to  put  questions  to  the  meeting.  One 
;Ieman  (Maj.  Geo.  S.  Waters),  moved  that  the  proceedings  be 
lished  in  none  of  the  papers  !  The  Major  realized  his  wish.  No 
3r  ever  will  publish,  foi  no  stenographer  could  report,  a  full 
unt  of  what  was  done  and  said  at  the  Kansas  meeting.  There 
3  never  witnessed  more  disorder  and  excitement  at  a  ground  swell 
city.  An  attempt  was  made  to  divide  the  assembly  to  the  right 
left,  according  to  their  choice  between  the  two  sets  of  resolutions, 
this  failed. 

inally,  at  the  request  of  gentlemen  on  both  sides  of  the  question, 
with  the  concurrence  of  the  presiding  oflScer,  A.  W.  Turner  (who 
erred  Dr.  Lee's),  temporarily  occupied  the  chair  and  succeeded 
Bstoring  comparative  order.  His  was  a  new  voice,  and  a  clear  one, 
the  uproar  subsided.  He  said  that  there  seemed  to  be  no  objection 
he  resolutions  of  Switzler,  and  therefore  he  would  put  the  vote  upon 


382  HISTORY   OP   BOONE    COUNTY. 

them  en  masse.  He  did  so,  and  they  passed  by  a  large  raajority. 
After  announcing  that  they  had  been  adopted,  Mr.  Turner  said  that 
inasmuch  as  many  had  strong  objections  to  some  of  the  resolutions  of 
Dr.  Lee,  he  would  take  the  vote  of  the  meeting  as  to  whether  they  should 
be  voted  on  separately  or  en  masse.  The  vote  was  put,  and  Mr. 
Turner  announced  he  could  not  decide.  At  this  point,  uproar  and 
confusion  again  resumed  the  mastery.  Something  was  heard,  for  the 
first  time  by  the  chairman  and  many  others,  about  an  appeal  of  Dr. 
Lee  from  the  decision  in  regard  to  the  vote  on  Switzler's  resolutions. 
Swelling  above  the  tumult  were  the  loud  demands  of  Sterling  Price, 
Jr.,  one  of  the  adjunct  professors  in  the  University,  for  a  vote  on  Dr. 
Ijee' 8  appeal/  Maj.  Rollins  and  others  denied  that  an  appeal  had  been 
taken.  Amidst  the  uproar  that  prevailed,  the  vociferous  cry  of  "  Mr. 
President/''  was  heard  from  a  distant  point  of  the  amphitheatre, 
and  a  gentleman  in  that  direction  was  seen  apparently  seeking  to  nlr 
tract  the  attention  of  the  chairman  by  violent  motions  with  his  white 
beaver.  It  was  President  Shannon,  of  the  State  University.  He  op- 
posed Switzler's  resolutions,  and  denounced  the  sixth  of  the  series  as 
containing  "  lurking  treason  to  the  South."  Maj.  Rollins  promptly 
denied  the  allegation,  and  demanded  that  the  '•treason"  be  shown, 
but  it  was  not. 

The  friends  of  Dr.  Lee's  resolution  then  withdrew  from  the  resjulat 
meeting,  and  at  a  point  outside  of  the  amphitheatre  called  Col.  Younj 
to  preside,  and  passed  his  resolutions  unanimously. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  regular  meeting,  Mr.  Guitar  and  Maj.Rol 
lins,  in  response  to  calls  made  upon  them,  addressed  the  assembly  i 
soul-stirring  and  eloquent  denunciations  of  Abolitionism,  Freesoilist 
and  Nullification,  exhorting  the  people  to  law  and  order,  to  unyicl 
ing  defence  of  their  rights,  and  to  adherence  to  our  glorious  Una* 
at  all  hazards  and  to  the  last  extremity. 

*' E.    K.    KLAMPUS   VIETU8." 

In  November,  1854,  a  Harko  (lodge)  of  this  order  was  organic 
in  Columbia,  with  about  forty  members.  It  claims  to  have  originate 
with  Confucius,  the  great  Chinese  philosopher,  and  was  introduced  id 
the  United  States  by  the  Chinese  in  California.  The  following  are  t^ 
oflicers  of  Columbia  Harko  :  — 

Tho8.  A.  Russell,  Most  Worthy  Grund  Gyrescutus ;  J.  S.  Doreey,  Right  Worthy  Go»^ 
path-e;  Wm.  H.  Provines,  Le-ang  Ther-ma-path-e-ho;  J.  M.  Bates,  Senior  Ho-ta-tote  9 
A.  Garth,  .Junior  Ho-ta-tote;  E.  T.  Withers,  Yang-se-to-ag ;  W.  Crow,  Din-af-ea-e-ang  5 
H.  Field,  Lin-to-ag ;  L.  E.  Wright,  Lo-to-ag. 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  38^ 

THESPIAN   HALL,    COLUMBIA. 

In  February,  1856,  some  of  the  citizens  of  Columbia  formed  an  as- 
socMtion  for  the  purpose  of  cultivating  the  drama.  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Lee, 
who  now  resides  at  Mexico,  Mo.,  was  elected  president;  Odon  Guitar, 
fice-presideiit ;  J.  F.  Baker,  treasurer;  Jas.  Thompson  (foreman  of 
the  Statesman  printing  office),  secretary;  S.  A.  Young,  stage  di- 
rector, and  £.  F.  Rogers,  chairman  of  the  finance  committee.  The 
ftsflociation  purchased  the  old  Union  Church,  and  proceeded  without 
delay  to  fit  it  up  with  a  stage  and  seats  for  a  Town  and  Thespian 
Bill.  On  Saturday  night,  June  28,  1856,  the  company  gave  their 
Grst  entertainment  before  a  crowded  house,  rendering  the  popular 
lirces,  "Limerick  Boy"  and  ** Irish  Tutor,"  and  a  few  evenings 
ifter, "  Fortune's  Frolic."  Later  in  the  season  the  troupe  performed 
the  popular  comedy,  "  His  Last  Legs,"  and  the  farce,  ••Kill  or  Cure," 
tnd  won  many  laurels.  Encouraged  by  the  success  they  had  achieved,. 
the  company  finally  assumed  the  responsibility  of  presenting  such  plays 
IS  the  **Lady  of  Lyons."  Pecuniarily,  the  enterprise  was  not  a 
MCC6S8,  and  the  building,  together  with  the  paraphernalia  of  the 
stage,  were  sold  to  W.  F.  Switzler,  who,  owning  the  adjacent  build- 
ings, tore  down  the  front  part  of  the  hall  and  converted  the  rear 
into  a  kitchen  and  servants'  rooms. 

NEW    COUNTY   J^^L. 

In  August,  1856,  the  contract  for  the  erection  of  a  new  stone  jail 
was  let  to  B.  McAlester  at  $11,000,  who  sub-let  the  stone  work  to 
Charles  Cameron.  It  is  the  same  jail  the  county  now  has,  and  coniiists 
^f  a  prison  proper  with  hall  and  four  cells,  together  with  a  two-story 
rame  residence,  for  the  jailer,  adjoining  the  prison.  The  jail  is  also 
wo  stories  high,  walls  two  feet  thick  resting  on  a  foundation  five  feet 
n  thickness  and  which  covers  the  whole  area  of  the  building.  Roof 
•Iso  of  stone,  no  wood  being  used  in  the  construction  of  the  building 
3fcepta  second  roof  of  shingles  covering  the  one  of  stone. 

DAILY   MAIL   TO   JEFFERSON    CITY. 

On  Monday,  August  24,  1856,  Moore  &  Walker,  mail  contractors, 
^nnmenced  running  a  daily  line  of  four-horse  mail  coaches  between 
olumbia  and  Jeflerson  City  via  Ashland  and  Claysville.  This  was 
^e  fipHt  direct  mail  of  any  kind  ever  estal)lished  between  the  State 
*pital  and  the  State  University. 


384  HISTORY  OP  BOONE  COUNTY. 


BOONE  COUNTY  TROOPS  FOR  KANSAS. 


The  question  of  the  admission  of  Kansas  into  the  Union,  with  or 
without  a  constitution  recognizing  slavery,  was  a  subject  which  greatlj 
excited  the  people  of  Missouri  and  of  Boone  County.     At  all  periods 
of  our  history,  a  question  of  great  delicacy  and  fraught  with  elements 
of  popular  upheavals  with  tendencies  to  frenzy  and  passion,  the  desire 
to  plant  the  institution  of  slavery  in  Kansas  assumed,  in  Boone  Couuty, 
very  alarming   proportions.     And   yet  the   people   were  divided  in 
regard  to  it,  one  part  of  them  maintaining  that  if  Kansas  were  ad* 
mitted  into  the  Union  as  a  free  State  it  would  jeopardize  the  institution 
of  slavery  in  Missouri,  and  that  this  fact,  together  with  the  efforts 
then  being  made  bv  the  emisrrant  aid  societies  of  New  Ens:land  to 
organize  the  State  with  a  free  constitution,  justified  contravailing 
-efforts  to  accomplish  its  admission  on  a  pro-slavery  basis.     The  other 
party  maintained  that  the  people  of  Missouri  could  not   legally  or 
rightfully  mterfere  in  the  matter,  and  that  any  effort  on  their  part  by 
participation  as  voters  in  the  elections  of  Kansas,  or  by  force  of  arms 
to  coerce  that  State  into  the  Union  with  a  pro-slavery  constitution, 
was  revolutionary  and  calculated  to  foment  civil  war. 

Nevertheless,  some   of    the    more   active   and    ultra-slavery  prop- 
agandists   met   in  Columbia,  in   August,  1856,  for   the   purpose  of 
•enlisting  and  organizing  a  military  company  **  to  aid  the  pro-slavery 
party  in  Kansas  Territory  in  resisting  the  assaults  of  the  Abolition- 
ists."    S.  A.  Young  was  elected  Captain  ;  S.  B.  Hatton,  First  Lieu- 
tenant;   George    W.    Miller,    Second    Lieutenant;    Irvin    H.  Field, 
Ensign,  and  John  J.  Howe,  Orderly  Sergeant.     Col.  Young  resigned 
the  captaincy,  and  the  duties  of  that  position  (we  suppose)  devolve^i 
at  least  temporarily,  upon   Lieutenant    Hatton.     At  all    events,  o^ 
Wednesday,  August  27,  the  company,  consisting  of  some  forty  meiB- 
bers,  took  up  the  line  of  march  **  for  the  seat  of  war." 

The  contending  factions  in  Kansas  having  precipitated  upon  tb*^ 
Territory  actual  hostilities,  by  a  battle  at  Osawattamie  between  tM^ 
pro-slavery  forces,  under  Gen.  J.  W.  Reid,  and  the  Abolitionists  un^®' 
old  John  Brown,  the  excitement  in  Boone  County  reached  fever  h^^^' 
and  on  Monday,  September  8,  a  Kansas  meeting  was  held  ^^ 
Columbia  —  John  Slack,  president,  and  J.  W.  Hickara,  secretarjr  — ' 
to  which  Dr.  W.  H.  Lee  reported  from  a  committee  that  the  Coaoty 
Court  be  called  upon  to  appropriate  $5,000  for  the  purpose  of  arnciin^ 
and  equipping  one  hundred  volunteers  to  go  to  Kansas,  which  ^was 


HI8TOBT   OF  BOONB   COUNTY.  885 

idopted.     A  committee  was  appointed  to  wait  upon  the  court,  but  the 
ippropriatioD  was  never  made.     Nevertheless,  on  the  next  day  after 
the  meetiDg,  the  citizens  contributing  about  $200  to  aid  in  defraying 
their  expenses,  about  twenty  persons  started  for  Kansas,  among  them 
Lewis  W.  Bobinson  and  Samuel  A.  Young.     Previous  to  their  leaving, 
IkDwe?er,  these  persons  met  and,  on  motidn  of  L.  W.  Robinson,  it  was 
iwolved  that  they  went  to  Kansas,  **  not  as  volunteer  soldiers,  but  as 
citizens,  free  to  act  as  our  judgment  and  circumstances  may  dictate 
after  we  shall  have  arrived  in  the  Territory ;  that  we  will    not  do 
toTtbing  in  violation  of  the  laws  of  Kansas,  the  laws  and  Constitu- 
tion of  th»  United  States,  or  that  is  not  right." 

What  was  done  in  Kansas,  either  by  the  volunteers  or  citizens  of 
Boone,  cannot  now  be  learned.  It  is  known,  however,  that  peace  was 
in  a  few  days  restored,  and  that  by  the  20th  of  September,  Oen'l 
Hatton,  Col.  Young,  Mr.  Robinson  and  most  of  the  Boone  company, 
returned  home. 

TRIAL,  CONVIOTION  AND  EXECUTION   OF  JOHN   CHAPMAN,   FOR   MURDER. 

About  ten  o'clock,  a.  m.,  on  Friday,  June  29,  1855,  John  Chap- 
man, who  then  resided  on  the  county  road,  between  Hallsville  and 
Centralia,  committed  one  of  the  most  unprovoked  and  cowardly  mur- 
ders known  to  the  criminal  annals  of  the  county.  John  C.  Denham, 
whom  he  murdered,  lived  not  far  distant.  He  was  a  poor  and  inofien- 
nve  man,  with  a  wife  and  children.  On  the  day  of  his  murder  he  was 
plowing  in  his  field,  unconscious  of  danger.  Chapman,  in  order  to 
execute  his  diabolical  purpose,  had  secreted  himself  with  a  loaded 
rifle  near  the  fence.  As  Denham  drove  his  horse  near,  and  when  in 
twelve  paces  of  him.  Chapman  fired  from  ambush,  lodging  a  large  ball 
inDenham's  head.  He  fell  lifeless  in  the  fresh  made  furrow,  and  the 
murderer  retired  to  his  home. 

Very  soon  after  the  crime,  suspicion  rested  upon  Chapman,  and  he 
fl^  to  Ohio,  whither  he  was  pursued,  but  not  caught.  A  year  or 
QQore  afterwards  he  secretly  returned  to  this  county,  was  discovered,  ap- 
prehended, and  lodged  in  jail.  In  1857  he  obtained  a  change  of  venue  to 
Howard  County,  and  on  Friday,  April  17,  was  taken  from  our  county  jail 
'n  charge  of  James  H.  Waugh,  deputy  sheriff,  to  Fayette,  where  he 
'^as  incarcerated  to  await  his  trial.  From  one  cause  and  another,  the 
^rial  did  not  occur  until  the  June  term,  1858,  of  the  Howard  Circuit 
Court,  W.  A.  Hall,  Judge.  The  prosecution  was  conducted  with 
^narked  ability  and  power  by  John  F.  Williams,  Circuit  Attorney,  and 


AC 


386  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Robert  T.  Prewitt,  of  Fayette.  The  defence,  with  a  zeal  and  eloquenee 
unsurpassed  in  criminal  trials  in  the  West,  by  J.  S.  Rollins  and  Odott 
Guitar,  of  Columbia,  Jerre  P.  Lancaster,  of  Ralls,  and  Andrew  J. 
Herndon,  of  Howard. 

The  evidence  was  entirely  circumstantial,  but  so  clear  and  convio^ 
ing,  that  notwithstanding  the  ability  and  eloquence  of  his  attornejii 
the  jury  rendered  a  verdict  of  guilty,  and  Judge  Hall  sentenced  tbe 
prisoner  to  be  hung  at  Fayette,  on  Friday,  July  16,  1858.  Ou  tbe 
.  way  to  the  gallows,  he  was  accompanied  by  Revs.  Noah  Flood  and 
Tyson  Dines,  a  relative,  and  the  sheriff,  Boyd  McCrary.  Upon  emerging 
from  the  jail,  he  looked  calm,  and  took  his  seat  in  the  wagon  with  com* 
posure.  On  the  way  to  the  gallows  he  conversed  with  his  relative,  in 
low,  but  earnest  tones;  arrived  there,  he  bade  him  good-bye,  and 
mounted  the  scaffold  with  a  steady  step.  Upon  being  asked  if  he  \ 
desired  to  make  any  remarks,  he  arose  and  spoke,  in  substance,  as 
follows : — 

I  feel  it  a  duty  to  say  a  few  last  words.  I  bear  no  malice  towards  any  human  being.  I 
have  found  it  hard  to  forgive  my  enemies,  but  thank  God,  He  has  enabled  me  to  do  iU  Uj 
poor  voice  cannot  tell  the  suffering  my  enemies  have  caused  me,  but  all  is  forgiven.  Ibtfi 
a  soul  to  be  saved  or  lost,  but  thank  God  I  have  a  hope,  a  bright  hope,  that  all  is  wdL 
I  never  felt  it  till  last  night ;  I  then  forgave  all,  and  trust  that  I  was  forgiven.  I  came  to  tfaii 
State  alone,  and  settled  in  Boone  County;  God  knows  I  ought  not  to  have  an  enemy  in 
Boone.  All  has  been  said  and  done  by  one  or  two  enemies.  Chapman  had  done  this  and 
Chapman  had  done  that,  and  false  reports  had  been  spread  abroad,  while  everything  fsvwir 
ble  had  been  suppressed.  False  reports,  black  as  night,  persecutions  beyond  mortal  concep- 
tion, have  been  heaped  upon  me.  I  stand  before  you  and  speak  in  view  of  judgment;  do 
use,  dear  friends,  to  dissemble  now.  I  have  been  in  jail  sixteen  months,  and  suffered  mucb, 
but  God  has  spoken  peace  to  my  soul.  My  life  was  threatened  by  bitter  enemies,  andtbey 
are  about  to  get  it,  for  no  cause.  Hundreds  of  you  have  heard  and  believed  false  reports 
and  you  only  have  the  voice  of  a  poor  old  man  against  them.  I  leave  these  false  reports  tnd 
enemies  all  behind.  I  thank  God  the  reports  were  false,  and  forgive  my  enemies.  I  hsTSi 
dear  little  son,  who  is  near  to  my  heart,  but  I  have  not  been  permitted  to  see  him,  althoagh 
I  understiuid  he  was  within  four  miles  of  town.  I  hope  my  son  will  be  raised  up  inlmtli 
and  honesty,  and  be  a  useful  man,  and  that  I  shall  hereafLer  meet  him  in  Heaven,  where  I 
trust  in  God  I  am  going.  I  was  snatched  away  from  my  wife  and  poor  little  child,  and hste 
not  been  permitted  to  see  them ;  this  was  the  work  of  my  enemies,  but  I  forgive  themilli 
and  hope  to  meet  them  in  Heaven.  I  am  a  poor  old  man,  about  to  die  on  false  reports,  tnd 
this  ought  to  be  a  warning  to  all  men.  Did  I  think  I  would  ever  come  to  this?  I  settled 
among  men  who  have  sworn  my  life  away  —  who  snatched  me  from  my  wife  and  poor  little 
son ;  they  swore  to  have  my  life,  and  they  are  about  to  succeed,  but  only  my  poor  voice  uji 
this.  This  world  is  a  world  of  wickedness  and  trouble,  and  it  is  about  time  for  God  to  mike 
a  change. 

He  commenced  in  a  firm,  low  tone  of  voice,  but  when  he  came  to 
speak  of  his  child,  evinced  considerable  emotion,  and  continued  in  a 
rapid,  disconnected  manner. 


HI8TOBT  OF  BOONE.  COUNTt.  387 

After  he  had  spoken.  Rev.  Dines  offered  a  feeling  and  appropriate 
f«yer.  kneeling  with  the  prisoner,  who  gave  frequent  audible  re- 
ponses.  Mr.  Dines  then  asked  him  if  he  had  anything  further  to 
ty,  or  desired  anything  said.  He  replied  in  the  negative,  and  to 
hrther  remarks  expressed  entire  confidence  in  God  and  resignation  to 
hisfiite. 

Mr.  Flood  asked  if  he  still  declared  himself  innocent?  He 
nqwndedy  **Yes."  He  also  inquired  if  he  felt  prepared  for  his 
&te?  He  replied  he  did;  that  God  was  all-powerful;  he  trusted 
in  Him ;  had  forgiven  his  enemies,  and  hoped  to  meet  them  all  in 
Heayen. 

All  having  retired  from  the  scaffold,  except  the  sheriff,  he  announced 
to  the  prisoner  that  the  time  had  arrived  and  he  must  execute  the  law. 
The  prisoner  shook  hands  with  him,  and  desired  to  meet  him  in 
Heaven.  After  the  ropes  were  adjusted  and  the  cap  pulled  over  his 
Bu»,  he  said,  **Lord  he  with  me  in  this  last  trialy^*  and  was  launched 
into  eternity. 

Throughout  the  entire  scene  he  evinced  no  visible  agitation,  except 
irheD  he  referred  to  his  son.  He  was  either  innocent,  or  one  of  the 
QHMt  desperately  wicked  men  that  ever  lived  or  died.  He  informed 
bis  spiritual  advisers  that  he  experienced  a  change  in  his  feelings  the 
Bight  before  his  execution  —  that  he  then  forgave  his  enemies  and  felt 
that  God  had  forgiven  him.  To  them  he  protested  his  innocence,  first 
and  last,  in  the  most  positive  and  solemn  manner. 

Chapman  was  from  Ohio — came  to  this  State  some  five  or  six  years 
Wore  his  death  —  was  about  45  years  old,  and  left  a  wife  and  one 
child. 

RICHARD   C.    BRANHAM  LOST   IN   GALVR8TON   BAY. 

In  May,  1857,  R.  C.  Branham,  an  old  citizen,  and  for  many  years 
^prominent  merchant  in  Columbia,  and  Dr.  M.  R.  Arnold,  of  Boone 
'Onnty,  made  a  trip  to  Texas  for  the  purpose  of  looking  at  the  coun- 
ty—both  being  passengers  on  the  steamship  **  Louisiana,"  Capt. 
heppard.  The  vessel  took  fire  about  1  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  May 
1,1857,  in  Galveston  Bay,  and  when  about  eight  miles  from  the  city, 
^ll  the  passengers  were  asleep  when  the  fire  broke  out,  but  some  of 
^em  awaking  lowered  the  larboard  life-boat  and  jumped  into  it,  cap* 
'sing  the  boat  and  drowning  six  or  eight  persons,  among  whom  was 
Ir.  Branham. 

Those  who  were  in  another  life-boat,  among  whom  was  Dr.  Arnold^ 
rere  more  fortunate  and  escaped,  and  arriving  at  Galveston  about 


•888  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

sunrise,  gave  the  first  intelligence  of  the  catastrophe.     Mr.  Branham'i 
body  was  never  recovered. 

JOE   ROBINSON,  A   NEGRO   MAN,    EXECUTED   FOR   THE   MURDER  OF  Ji 

T.    POINTS. 

About  7  o'clock  on  Saturday  morning,  September  26,  1857,  Ji 
T.  Points,  living  about  twelve  miles  north  of  Columbia,  and  near 
Zion  meeting  house,   was   murdered   by  a   negi*o   man,   Joe,  al 
eighteen   years  old,  belonging  to  Mr.   Wm.  Robinson.     Mr.  Pot 
had  Joe  in  his  employ  for  the  year,  and  on  Friday  had  sent  him  Mi 
the  woods  to  make  rails.     Returning  that  evening,  he  told  Hr.Ei 
he  had  made  a  certain  number.     Next  morning  (Saturday)  he 
to  the  woods  with  the  negro,  and  found  that  he  had  told  him  a 
hood  as  to  the  number,  whereupon  Mr.  P.  expressed  his  determii* 
ation  to  chastise  him.     Nothing  of  the  kind,  however,  was  attemptii 
at  the  time,  and  nothing  more  said  about  it.     Mr.  P.  proceeded  tl: 
assist   the  negro  in  splitting  a  large  log  at  which  he  was  at  work.; 
After  a  time   he   became   fatigued   and   sat  down   to   rest.     WM 
in  this  position  the  negro,  picking    his  opportunity,  struck  Mr.  P.| 
on  the  head  with  the  poll  of  the  axe,  knocking  him  down.     In  a 
fihort  time  he  gave  evidences  of  returning  consciousness,  whereupoft  < 
the  murderer  gave  him  a  second  blow  with  the  axe,  killing  him  ou(f> 
right.     He  then  placed  the  body  upon  Mr.  P.'s  saddle-horse,  sad 
took  it  a  half  mile  distant  into  the  woods  and  threw  it  under  some 
brush  to  conceal  it.     After  this  he  returned  to  his  work. 

Mr.  P.  not  returning  at  night,  his  family  became  uneasy,  and  sonte 
of  the  neighbors,  suspecting  foul  play,  at  once  arrested  Joe,  who  next 
morning  confessed  the  crime  and  told  where  he  had  secreted  the  body. 
The  murderer  was  at  once  committed  to  the  county  jail.  A  spedil 
term  of  the  Circuit  Court  was  held  on  Saturday,  August  2,  Judge 
Hall  presiding,  a  grand  jury  being  empanelled,  an  indictment  was 
found  against  him  for  murder  in  the  first  degree,  and  the  prisoner 
was  arraigned  for  trial.  Odon  Guitar  and  Lewis  W.  Robinson  were 
assigned  him  as  counsel,  who  advised  him  as  to  his  rights  and  respon- 
fiibilities  under  the  law.  Having  no  defence  to  make,  he  plead  gnil^ 
to  the  indictment,  and  was  sentenced  to  be  hung  on  Friday,  Novem- 
ber 13th ;  after  which  he  was  remanded  to  prison  to  await  his  execu- 
tion, which  occurred  about  a  mile  west  of  the  court  house,  on  the 
Rocheport  road,  and  between  the  present  residences  of  Mrs.  Comeliu* 
Maupin  and  Mr.  Jacob  W.  Strawn.     Jerry  Orear  was  sheriff. 


'    HI8T0BT  OF  BOONB  COUNTY^  389 

BBUNKBN  BIOT  IN   BOCHEPORT  —  CITIZENS'    AfEETINQ. 

Oq  Saturday,  March  6,  1858,  two  young  men,  citizens  of  Howard 
bounty,   by    the    name    of  Joysen    Patton  and   William   Thomas,. 
Dime   to    Bocheport    early    in    the    day,   and    as    soon .  as    prac- 
Bnble   got    drunk,   and  commenced  yelling    and    screaming    like 
itfils,  and   making    use   of   very  obscene  and  indecent   language, 
ntil  about  four  or  five  o'clock,  when  they  mounted  their  horses  and 
commenced  riding  up  and  down  the  streets  in  a  most  furious  and 
daSant  manner.     One  of  them,  Col.  Patton,  drew  a  Colt's  revolver,; 
•ad rode  his  horse  upon  the  pavement,  which  was  densely  crowded, 
vith  men  and  children,  and  put  spurs  to  him  and  tried  to  ride  over, 
ffeiy  person  on  the  sidewalk,  and  had  his  pistol  presented  at  the 
oowd  as  he  passed,  threatening  to  kill  any  person  who  would  attempt 
Id  arrest  him  in  his  lawless  career.     At  this  juncture  of  the  game,. 
Qficer  Thornton  made  his  appearance  with  a  posse  of  citizens,  and. 
called  upon  the  rioters  to  surrender  themselves  to  the  authorities  of 
tlietowB,  which  request  they  spurned,  and  bid  defiance  to  the  officer 
and  his  assistants,  and  threatened  to  kill  any  man  who  would  dare 
temeh  them.     The  officer,  determined  on  executing  the  law,  rushed. 
apon  the  rioters  and  ordered  them  to  stop,  saying  that  they  should 
Bot  be  punished  except  by  due  process  of  law,  at  which  time  Patton 
wheeled  his  horse,  facing  the  officer  and  about  one  hundred  people, 
ind  deliberately  fired  two  shots  into  the  crowd,  one  of  which  struck. 
J.  L.  Lewis'  coat  in  the  left  breast,  but  did  him  no  injury.     Mr.  Thorn- 
ton then  drew  a  revolver  and  discharged  one  shot  at  the  rioters  without 
eflbct,  whereupon  Patton  fired  his  third  shot,  the  volley  passing  over 
the  heads  of  the  crowd  and  striking  a  family  residence.     The  depre- 
dators then  turned  and  fled,  and  several  gentlemen  with  the  officer 
pursued  them  several  miles  from  town,  and  would  doubtless  have  ar- 
rested them,  but  one  of  the  pursuers  was  unfortunately  kicked  by  a 
horse,  and  was  thought  to  have  been  seriously  injured,  but  was  not. 
These  disorderly  proceedings  aroused  the  latent  indignation  and 
temperance  sentiments  of  the  people  to  such  an  extent  that  they  met 
in  the  town  hall  on  Tuesday,  March  9th,  when,  on  motion  of  Hugh  L. 
Forsythe,  Dr.  Qeorge  B.  Wilcox  was  called  to  the  chair,  and  fVank 
D.  Evans  appointed  secretary. 

On  motion  of  James  B.  Watson,  a  committee  of  five  was  appointed> 
to  wait  upon  those  who  were  engaged  in  the  liquor  traffic  at  Roche- 
port,  and  request  them  to  give  up  their  stock  of  liquors,  to  be  re-* 


390  HISTORY   OP  BOONE    COUNTY. 

turned  to  St.  Louis,  and  that  the  committee  be  empowered,  on  bel 
of  the  citizens,  to  purchase  said  liquors,  which  motion  was  ud 
imously  adopted.  On  motion,  the  meeting  adjourned  to  meet  atei 
candle-light. 

EVENING  SESSION. 

The  meeting  met  pursuant  to  adjournment. 

On  motion,  T.  F.  Clayton  was  called  to  the  chair  and  F.  D.  Evi 
appointed  secretary. 

The  chair  made  a  report  that  the  committee  to  whom  was  delegai 
the  power  to  purchase  the  liquors  in  the  town,  had  so  far  perfom 
their  duty  as  to  take  possession  of  eight  hundred  dollars'  worth,  wh 
they  had  purchased  from  the  venders,  subject  to  a  reshipment  to 
Louis,  which  report,  on  motion,  was  adopted. 

On  motion  of  Martin  Staley,  a  committee  of  three  was  appoin 
to  draft  and  report  resolutions  expressive  of  the  sentiments  of 
meeting.     Whereupon  the  Chair  appointed  R.  S.  Robinson,  Dr. 
Patton  and  Martin  Staley. 

The  committee  reported  the  following  preamble  and  resolutions 

Whxbkas,  In  view  of  the  untold  miseries  which  have  been  inflicted  upon  the  ho 
fkmily  by  the  liquor  traffic,  and  our  determination  to  wage  a  war  of  extermination  ag 
Baid  traffic  in  our  midst  — 

Jleaolvedf  1.  That  we  heartily  indorse  the  action  of  the  committee  appointed  bj 
meeting  of  this  morning,  in  taking  charge  of  the  liquors  in  this  town. 

2.  That  having  purchased  all  of  the  stock  of  liquors  now  on  hand,  we  are  detem 
that  no  more  liquor  shall  be  landed  at  this  place  to  be  sold  in  any  shape  or  form  what 

8.  That  a  committee  of  sixty-eight  be  appointed,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  carry  in 
feet  the  object  of  the  second  resolution. 

T.  F.  Olattom,  a 

F.  D.  Eyanb,  See'y. 

Which  preamble  and  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted. 

Committee  of  Vigilance,  appointed  by  the  Chair :  G.  B.  Wilcox 
Hulett,  Dr.  A.  Patton,  T.  F.  Clayton,  Jno.  Glazier,  Thos.  Chape 
Thos.  Waller,  Col.  J.  Corbett,  Jno.  A.  Evans,  J.  B.  Jones,  McWc 
Bo.  G.  Lyle,  Wm.  Gellaspie,  Frank  Bentley,  Dr.  Jno.  Wilcox 
Bentley,  Peter  Ross,  H.  W.  Crow,  R.  S.  Miller,  L.  Burroughs, 
W.  Morgan,  J.  R.  Clayton,  Ro.  Wood,  Jas.  Tindall,  H.  Tumy,  . 

A.  Hill,  Jno.  Funk,  J.  W.  Davis,  B.  F.  Dimmitt,  Jno.  S.  Lewis 

B.  Potts,  Jas.  B.  Watson,  Jas.  H.  Chandler,  H.  G.  Hopper,  ( 
Hatton,  Geo.  Raulins,  S.  Conrad,  Jno.  S.  Clayton,  Jno.  Evans, 
Jas.  Thornton,  Geo.  Watts,  Jno.   Smith,  Geo.  R.  Wilson,  Jno 
Adair,  Allen  Bysfield,  Jno.  A.  Wallace,  S.  M.  Bradley,  Geo. 
Freeman,   W.  Crump,  O.  T.  Stevens,  David  Bailey,  Jos.  Bui^ 


HI8TOBY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  391 

brtm  Staley,  Job.  Conrad,  W.  T.  Evans,  Jno.  W.  Roberts,  E.  In- 
aan,  Jno.  Q.  Orr,  Jas.  Bradley,  Ed.  Miller,  H.  L.  Forsythe,  J.  H. 
Chimbers,  W.  H.  Bailey,  J.  J.  Lampkins,  John  Shanks,  Jas.  C.  Orr, 
V.  D.  Evans. 

SOLDIERS  OF  THE  WAR  OF  1812. 

lu  November,  1857,  the  following  soldiers  of  the  war  of  1812,  all  of 
whom  were  then  residents  of  Boone  county,  and  all  of  whom,  with- 
oat  exception,  are  now  dead,  petitioned  Congress  to  pass  a  law  grant- 
ing the  soldiers  of  that  war  pensions  for  life.  The  age  and  place  of 
Dati?ity  of  each  are  given  with  their  names :  — 

Dirid  Todd,  bom  in  Kentucky ;  aged  71  yean  and  6  months ;  health  good. 

Korbone  B.  Spottswood,  born  in  Yiiginia;  aged  67  years  and  2  months;  health  indif- 
fncot 

HinmPhinip«,bom  in  Anifpnia;  aged  66  years  and  6  months;  general  debility. 

John  Davenport,  bom  in  Virginia;  aged  64  years  and  6  months;  partly  deaf;  wounded  at 
tks  battle  of  RiTer  Raisin. 

Berkley  Estea,  bom  in  Vii^nia;  aged  60  years. 

John  Bamea,  bom  in  Kentucky ;  aged  64  years  and  8  months ;  partly  deaf. 

Abnham  Davenport,  bom  in  Virginia ;  aged  77  years ;  general  debility. 

Ojnt  Lnsk,  bom  in  Kentucky ;  aged  61  years  and  8  months ;  health  good. 

JsoMi  King,  bom  in  Kentucky;  aged 62  years ;  very  indifTerent  health. 

Gsbriel  Paiker,  l>ora  in  Maryland ;  aged  66  years ;  health  good. 

Hmrj  Berry,  bom  in  Kentucky ;  aged 60 years;  health  first-rate. 

John  Green,  bom  in  Kentucky ;  aged  67  years;  ^n  feeble  health. 

JimesOreen,  bom  in  Kentucky;  aged  71  years;  weakness. 

Iiaic  Williams,  bom  in  Pennsylvania ;  aged  66  years  and  7  months ;  health  not  very  good* 

Thompson  Hardin,  bom  in  Virginia;  aged  72 years;  health  indifferent. 

William  Sims,  bom  in  Kei^tucky ;  aged  67  years ;  health  feeble. 

BoDJamin  Brookshire,  born  in  North  Carolina;  aged  61  years;  health  feeble. 

John  Weller,  bom  in  Virginia;  aged  67  years;  health  good. 

Simuel  B.  Todd,  born  in  Kentucky ;  aged  64|  years ;  health  tolerable  (wounded  in  battle). 

Hogb  Kelvin,  bom  in  Kentucky ;  aged  73  years ;  health  feeble. 

Lemuel  B.  Searcy,  born  in  Kentucky ;  aged  63  years ;  health  but  common. 

Allen  Coats,  bom  in  North  Carolina ;  aged  87  years ;  very  stout,  but  deaf.  (In  Dudley's 
defeil) 

Heetwood  flemdon,  born  in  Virginia ;  a^^  64  years ;  health  tolerable. 
OomelinsVanausdale,  bora  in  Virginia;  aged  65  years;  health  feeble. 
John  Camthera,  born  in  Virginia ;  aged  64  years ;  nearly  blind. 
John  Birclay,  born  in  Kentucky ;  aged  66  years ;  sorely  afflicted, 
^raenbury  Jacoba,  bom  in  Virginia ;  aged  78  years ;  health  good. 
Jti&esThomaa,bominVii*ginia;  aged 66  years  and  6  months;  badly  afflicted. 
^]ah  Stephens,  bora  in  North  Carolina ;  aged  73  years ;  health  tolerably  good. 

COUNTY   CLERK'S    SAFE   BLOWN   OPEN. 

On  Tuesday  night,  July  13,  1858,  the  iron  safe  in  the  county 
«'«rk*8  office  in  Columbia  was  blown  open  with  gunpowder,  and  up- 
wards of  $400  belonging  to  Judge  Woodson,  County  Clerk,  stolen 


892 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   OOUKTT. 


therefrom.  The  thieves  broke  the  fastenings  off  the  shutters 
front  window  and  thus  effected  an  entrance  to  the  office.  The 
iron  safe  was  then  rolled  from  its  place  near  the  wall,  turne 
front  upwards  and  after  powder  was  introduced  through  tl 
hole  the  two  doors  were  blown  off  their  hinges.  The  first  or  c 
door  was  thick  and  heavy ;  yet  it  was  blown  against  the  ceiling 
roof  tearing  off  the  plastering  on  a  spot  the  size  of  the  door, 
of  the  papers  were  injured  or  taken.  No  clue  to  the  thieves  wa 
discovered. 

LARGEST  TAX-PATERS  IN  1858  AND  1881. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  twenty-two  of  the  largest  taz-paj 
Boone  county  for  the  years  1858  and  1881,  respectively.  F( 
list  of  1881  we  are  indebted  to  the  Columbia  Herald:  — 


FOR  185S. 

1.  EU  E.  Bass 

2.  James  S.  RoUins 
8.  Austin  Bradford 
4.  George  R.  Jacobs 
6.  Moss  Prewitt    . 

6.  M.  G.  Singleton 

7.  Jefferson  Garth 

8.  Fielding  Curtis  . 

9.  F.  B.  Fullenwider 

10.  Wm.  C.  Robinett 

11.  James  M.  Gordon 

12.  Newman  B.  Starke 
18.  Capt.  Wm.  Smith 

14.  H.  M.  Clarkson. 

15.  James  Harris 

16.  John  C.  McKinney 

17.  Dr.  Wm.  McClure 

18.  William  Cochran 

19.  John  Machir 

20.  Archibald  W.  Turner 

21.  John  W.  Rollins 

22.  John  H.  Field  . 


$852  95 
870  19 
867  11 
809  86 
294  19 
278  52 
273  16 
272  38 
228*00 
218  48 
205  08 
199  70 
199  51 
193  89 
192  93 
190  94 
180  52 
185  90 
185  11 
160  72 
159  57 
149  90 


Aggregate  taxes  of  the  22,  $5,662  21 


FOR  1881. 

1.  James  8.  Rollins  $1,2; 

2.  James  T.  McBain  1,1* 

8.  R.  B.  Price  .    » 

4.  John  C.  Conley  .    7! 

5.  Jefferson  Garth  .    7 

6.  Joel  H.  Haden   .        .  .    7 

7.  George  A.  Bradford  .  .    6 
%,  R.  T.  Prewitt*s  estate  .    6 

9.  James  Harris'  estate  .    6 

10.  N.  T.  MitcheU,  Sr.     .  .4 

11.  J.  K.  Rogers  .4 

12.  O.  Guitar   ...    4 
18.  SUas  W.  Warreu  .    i 

14.  J.  H.  Waugh  .4 

15.  John  Machir  .    ^ 

16.  E.  C.  More,  .    ^ 

17.  John  8.  Clarkson  .    i 

18.  Daniel  May^r 

19.  S.  £.  Lenoir 

20.  W.  W.  Tucker   . 

21.  J.  S.  Moss 
22  B.P.  Ritchie 

Aggregate  taxes  of  the  22,  $18, 


COLUMBIA   LIBRARY   ASSOCIATION 

On  November  29,  1858,  a  meeting  was  held  in  Columbia  to 
ize  a  library  association,  of  whicli  Warren  Woodson  acted  as 
dent,  and  Dr.  Fayette  Clapp  secretary.  W.  F.  Switzler,  Gee 
Swallow  and  Robert  L.  Todd  were  appointed  a  committee  to  i 
constitution,  which  they  reported  to  a  subsequent  meeting  and 


HI8TORT  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  393 

idopted.    The  association  was  permanently  organized  December  20 » 
1858,  by  the  election  of  the  following  ofBcers :  — 

Ftesident,  Warren  Woodson;  Secretary,  Robert  L.  Todd;  Treasurer,  R.  B.  Price; 
Ubnrlui,  Thomas  T.  Gentry;  Executive  Committee,  Jonathan  Kirkbride,  Moss 
Flpewitttnd  W.  F.  Switzler;  Library  Committee,  J.  J.  Jacob,  X.  X.  Backner  and 
Jofeph  K.  Rogers. 

The  association  established  a  circulating  library,  purchased  a  large 
number  of  books ,  and  for  several  years  held  a  prosperous  career,  but 
in  time  its  members  failed  to  hold  meetings,  and  the  books  were 
finally  deposited  in  the  University  library,  where  they  now  are. 

PRICES  OF  NEGROES  HIRED  AND  SOLD  IN  1859. 

» 

It  will  be  interesting  as  a  matter  of  history,  especially  to  the 
younger  readers  of  this  volume,  to  record  the  prices  at  which  slaves 
were  publicly  hired  for  one  year  and  sold  for  life,  in  Columbia,  on 
January  I,  1859,  Wm.  Lampton,  auctioneer,  as  follows :  — 

BBLONOINO  TO  WILLIAM  SUTTON. 

lUeo,  aged  about  12  years    .    .    .  $50  00  |  Harrison,  aged  about  8  years    .    .    f  1  00 

BSLONOfNG  TO  MOROAK  BRTANT'S  BSTATB. 

Harriet,  16  years  to  AprU  1st,  1859    f  8  00  I  Nancy  12  years,  to  April  1st,  1859  .   f  2  25 
Hau]r,i4 years,  to  April  Ist,  1859   .  22  00  | 

BBLOMQUfO  TO  J.  H.  WILKER80N*8  ESTATB. 

KOlyanddiUd f 90  00  |  Cliarlotte $46  00 

BBLONGINO  TO  JOHN  8HOCK*S  BSTATB. 


Kirk,  aged  13  years.      .....  $56  00 

Nat,  aged  11  years 20  00 


James,  aged  24  years    ....     $201  00 

Slijah,  aged  16  years 156  00 

Oreen,agedl5  years    *    .    .    .    .  151  00 

BBLONQING  TO  MARY  SHOCK* 8  BSTATB. 

HaiyandchUd $55  00  |  Peter $202  00 

NBOROBS  SOLD. 


Estate  Rev.  Dr.  Hall,  Alex,  to  J. 
F.  Bumham $336 


J.  S.  ClarlE8on*s  Mary,  28  years,  to 

H.B.Cowden $1,110 

WUUt,UiJ,  H.  Waugli 310 

W.  H.  IRWIN'S  NBOROBS,  SOLD  ON  TWELVE  MONTHS*   CREDIT. 


Iliiaand  ch^d,  to  T.  C.  Parker  .    .  $1,140 
John,  10  years  old,  to  Robert  Lemon  .  610 

Jack,  9  years  old 660 

^Jy,  7  yean  old,  to  W.  D.  True    .    .  467 
^^^rtha,  7  years,  to  J.  M.  Samael  .     .  220 


J.  F.  Bumham's  Dave,  9  years,  to 
J.  Maddez $450 

A.  Sablett*s  Mary,  to  H.  R.  C.  Cow- 
den  1,000 


TOWN   CLOCK. 


The  inauguration  of  the  enterprise  which  resulted  in  the  purchase 
^f  a  town  clock  for  Columbia,  and  which  now  can  be  seen  in  the 


394 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


cupola  of  the  Court  House,  is  largely  due  to  James  L.  Stephen 
He  made  the  suggestion  and  contributed  a  large  amount  of  the  meat 
in  July,  1859,  and  before  the  end  of  that  year  the  clock  was  in  pos 
tion,  paid  for  and  performing  its  office. 


CHAPTEK  X. 

THE  CrVTL  WAR  COMMENCED  —  HISTORY  FROM   I860  TO  186^ 

Presidential  and  Congressional  Election  of  1860 — Contest  between  Rollins  and  Hendem 
^r  Congress — *'  Minch  or  Munch,"  which  ?  —  A  Laughable  Anecdote  —  The  election 
Mr.  Lincoln — Boone  County  Southern  Rights  Meeting,  in  1861  —  Union  Meeting 
Boone,  in  1861  —  Capture  of  Camp  Jackson  —  First  Federal  Troops  in  Boone — Swc 
ney's  Raid  on  Rollins'  Farm  — ^Attempt  to  Assassinate  Col.  Switzler  —  Gen.  Prentiss  Vii 
Columbia —  Cols.  Glover  and  Birge's  troops  in  Columbia  —  Fight  at  Mount  Zion  Chui 
—  Federal  and  Confederate  Accounts  —  "  Merrill's  Horse  "  —  Arrest  of  Citizens  Ot 
of  Loyalty  —  Union  Military  Display  —  A  Federal  Soldier  Disgraced  —  Arrival  of  C 
Odon  Guitar  in  Columbia — ^Military  Suppression  of  the  Columbia  5tofuton2  Newspape: 
Columbia  Trustees  Ousted— Flag  Presented  to  **  Merrill's  Horse  "—Death  of  Id€ 
Theo.  Brooks —  Col.  Guitar  at  Jefferson  City  —  Roster  of  his  Staff  and  Officers  —  Jul] 
1862,  in  Columbia  — Pursuit  of  Porter  —  Fight  at  Moore's  Mill  — Battle  at  Kirksvilk 
Fight  at  Compton's  Ferry  and  Yellow  Creek  —  Rebel  Guerrillas  visit  Columbia  i 
Release  the  Prisoners  from  Jail — They  go  to  the  Statesman  Printing  Office  to  Destro} 
but  are  Dissuaded  from  Their  Purpose  —  Col.  Switzler  Appointed  Military  Secretary 
Arkansas — Burning  of  Mount  Zion  Church  — Flag  Presentations —  Gen.  Guitar's  H< 
quarters  at  Columbia  —  Sword  Presented  to  Him  —  61st  Regiment  Enrolled  MisA 
Militia  —  Col.  Joseph  B.  Douglass. 

ELECTION  RETURNS  FROM  1860  TO   1868. 
*  Those  thus  marked  were  elected. 


AUGUST  6th,  1860. 

GOVERNOR. 

Sample  Orr 1,522 

Hancock  Jackson 68 

*C.  F.  Jackson 1,066 

Total 2,656 

lieut.-oovernor. 

T.  J.  C.  Fagg 1,501 

M.  M.  Parsons 60 

«T.  C.  Reynolds 1*086 

Total 2,637 


REPRESENTATIYS  IK  CONGRESS. 

*James  S.  Rollins 1, 

J.  B.  Henderson I 

Total... 2, 

SENATOR. 

*C.  H.  Hardin 1, 

J.  L.  Stephens 1> 

Total -2. 


HISTORY   OF    BOONE   COUNTY. 


395 


XLiOTioir  RSTURVB  —  Continued, 


MPiBirrATrviBB  nr  LsoisLATinuB. 

•Joha  W.  Hwrit. 1,488 

John  P.  Horner. ^....1,282 

*J.E  Gordon 1,287 

J.  W.  Roberto... 1,026 


*Joho  )L  Samuel  (no  opposition).. 2,698 

iLicnoir  roB  prkbidkht,  voy.  1860. 

Stephen  A,  Douglas  (Denioorat).» 678 

JohnBeU  (Union) l,67l 

John  Gl  Breckinridge  (Democrat)... ....     662 

Ahnhim  Lincoln  (Republican) 12 

FSBBUARY  2lsT,  1861. 

filLlOATSB  TO  STATE  OOKYXNTIOK. 

•Bi  1.  Bsss. «. .1,866 

*Joieph  Flood. 1,964 

P.EMoBride ^ 897 

*WiiTtn  Woodson 1,764 

f.P.a  Triplett 384 

itfenonF.  Jones... 848 


NOVEMBER  4tb,  1862. 
coiroBiss. 

♦J.  8.  Rollins 1,024 

Arnold  Krekel * 8 

Rollins'  minority  in  the  District. 6,426 

STATS  8XHAT0B. 

♦.i.  M.  Gk>rdon 976 

T)iomas  Ansel 11 

BKPKSSKKTATIVICS — TWO  XLXCnCD. 

♦Dr.  W.  B.  Todd 616 

♦  \Vm.  Slade 608 

F.  T.Russell 644 

J.  G.  Shelnutt 64 

SHSRDrr. 

*James  H.  Waugh 694 

James  R.  Harris 897 

00T7NTT  JUDGX. 

*David  Gk>rden  (no  opposition)...... 989 

COUKTT  TRXASUXXB. 

♦Moss  Prewitt  (no  opposition) 986 


I860.— Population  of  Boone  County 19,486. 

Nothing  of  very  staitling  public  interest  occurred  in  Boone  County 

during  the  year  1860.     The  most  notable  event  of  the  year  in  the 

<^iiDty,  and  in  the  nation  as  well,  was  the  Presidential  election  —  in 

some  respects  the  most  remarkable  in  the  history  of  the  Bepublic, 

And  will  long  live  in  our  public  annals  with  the  freshness  of  a  new 

«V€nt.    It  was  immediately  preceded  by  the  most  important  proceed- 

iiigsin  Congress  and  among  the  people  which,  up  to  that  period,  had 

occurred  since  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution.     **  Switzler's  His- 

^ly  of  Missouri"  says  that  **  among  these  may  be  mentioned,  as  of 

Uie    greatest  significance,  the   renewal   of  unexampled    violence   of 

the   slavery   agitation,   the  repeal   of  the   Missouri   compromise   of 

-^820,  the   Kansas-Nebraska   controversy,  the   passage   of  the   per- 

^^n»l  liberty  bills  by  several  of  the  Northwestern  States,  the  John 

^^own  raid  at  Harper's  Ferry,  in  Virginia,  and  the  belligerent  and 

^Bunion  utterances  of  various  distinguished  and  trusted  leaders  of 

*iie  South. 

••While  the  popular  excitement  occasioned  by  these  events  was  at  its 
■height,  the  Presidential  canvass  of  1860  was  opened.  In  the  number 
^f  the  parties  to  it,  and  the  character  of  the  gentlemen  composing  the 


396  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

tickets  presented  for  the  support  of  the  American  people,  the  canvas 
was  a  faithful  reflex  of  popular  sentiment,  for  while  it  is  true  tb 
slavery  question  was  the  chief  issue  in  the  struggle,  it  assumed  a  mul 
tiplicity  of  forms,  and  separated  the  people  of  the  United  States  int 
four  grand  divisions,  each  represented  by  its  national  convention  an* 
nominees  for  President  and  Vice  President.  It  was,  therefore, 
quadrangular  contest;  and  could  not  fail,  on  account  of  the  inflanr 
mable  nature  of  the  questions  discussed  and  the  highly  respectabi 
character  of  the  tickets  presented,  to  excite  the  profoundest  interes 
in  every  State  in  the  Union." 

In  Missouri,  so  far  as  the  State  ticket  was  concerned,  the  conte 
was  quadrangular,  for  the  Republican,  or  Lincoln  party,  presents 
J.  B.  Gardenhire  as  a  candidate  for  Governor,  —  the  vote  for  pre 
ident  in  the  State  being:  Douglas,  58,801;  Bell,  58,372;  Brec 
enridge,  31,317;  Lincoln,  17,027.  Whole  number  of  votes  ca 
158,579 ;  the  Douglas  electors  carrying  the  State  over  the  Bell 
only  429  votes.  More  than  half  the  votes  given  to  Mr.  LiQC4 
(9,945)  were  cast  for  him  in  St.  Louis.  He  received  only  twelve  vo 
in  Boone  County,  one  in  Columbia,  three  in  Ashland  and  eight 
Claysville. 

For  Governor,  each  of  the  parties  (Lincoln  excepted)  had  can 
dates:  Sample  Orr,  Bell-Everett  or  Union;  C.  F.  Jackson,  Doug 
Democrat,  and  Hancock  Jackson,  Breckenridge   Democrat,  who. 
was  understood,  represented  the  more  ultra  pro-slavery  wing  of 
Democratic  party.     Orr's  majority  over  C.  F.  Jackson,  456. 

Boone  County  felt  an  unusual  interest  in  the  State  and  CongE 
sional  canvasses,  because  two  of  her  distinguished  citizens  were  can 
dates  —  Odon  Guitar  for  attorney-general,  against  J.  Proctor  Kii 
(D.)  and  James  S.  Rollins  for  Congress,  against  John  B.  Henden 
(Douglas  Democrat).  Both  Guitar  and  Rollins  were  candidates 
the  Bell-Everett,  or  Union  ticket.  Guitar's  majority  in  Boone,  31 
Rollins',  452 ;  in  the  district,  253. 

The  Bell-Everett  national  ticket  was  nominated  at  Baltimore,  s 
the  platform  adopted.     It  was  comprised  in  a  single  sentence  :  — 

ThK  OOKSTITUTION  of  the  country,  THB  union  of  the  8TATB8  AND  THS  XNFOl 
MSNT   OF   THK   LAWS. 

Col.  Switzler  was  a  delegate  from  Missouri  to  the  conventii 
and  it  was  on  his  motion  that  Edward  Everett,  of  Massachusetts,  \ 
made  the  candidate  for  Vice-President. 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  89^7 

Greftt  enthusiasm  was  excited  in  Boone  Connty  and  in  the  State  in 
the  Presidential  9  Gubernatorial  and  Congressional  candidacy  —  one 
of  the  national  political  ditties  of  the  campaign  used  by  the  Bell-Er- 
erott  Union  party,  being  the  following :  — 

Friends  of  the  Union,  from  each  mountain  and  vallej. 

New  let  your  glad  Toices  responsively  swell ; 
From  hamlet  and  cot,  let  Freemen  now  rally, 

And  list  to  the  notes  of  the  National  Bill. 
Our  glorious  Eagle  spreads  his  wings  now  asunder, 

Which  Democrats  strive  to  fetter  and  chain ; 
But  the  peal  of  our  Bell,  in  tones  of  loud  thunder,  / 

Shall  teach  them  that  all  their  corrupiioii  is  rain. 
"  The  Constitution  —  The  Union — the  Bnforoement  of  Laws." 

No  Congressional  canvass  in  the  State  ever  attracted  more  interest, 
was  characterized  by  more  iBxcitement  or  conducted  with  more  ability 
than  the  canvass  between  Kollins  and  Henderson.  Both  of  them 
were  leaders  of  acknowledged  statesmanship  and  eloquence,  tact  and 
courage,  and  large  concourses  of  enthusiastic  and  admiring  friends 
flocked  to  their  appointments,  and  made  the  welkin  ring  with  their 
applause.  The  anti-slavery  agitation  was  rapibly  reaching  a  climax, 
and  the  institution  of  slavery  —  its  history,  its  constitutional  guaran- 
tees, its  influence  upon  the  destiny  of  Missouri,  and  the  measures  and 
parties  most  likely  to  secure  it  against  interference,  were  topics  of 
QDiversal  and  angry  debate.  Very  naturally,  therefore,  one  of  the 
questions  at  issue  between  Rollins  and  Henderson  was',  as  the  district 
in  the  aggregate  wa3  largely  pro-slavery,  which  was  the  more  worthy 
of  being  trusted  in  the  national  councils  by  a  constituency  largely  in- 
terested in  the  stability  of  the  *'  peculiar  institution."  Each  charged 
the  other  with  being  unsound  on  the  question,  with  having  Freesoil, 
if  not  Abolition,  sympathies,  and  therefore  unworthy  of  support. 
But  there  were  two  counties  in  the  district,  St.  Charles  and  Warren, 
in  which  there  was  a  large  German  or  Freesoil  element.  Republican 
in  sentiment,  whose  support  was  essential  to  the  success  of  one  or  the 
other  of  the  candidates. 

Therefore  the  effort  of  both  candidates  seemed  to  be  to  conciliate 
^^^  receive  this  independent  or  Freesoil  vote,  residing  mainly  in 
'barren  and  St.  Charles  counties.  But  it  was  extremely  dangerous, 
*®  both  of  them  well  knew,  for  either  of  them  to  go  too  far  in  the 
^^fk  of  conciliation,  lest  they  might  be  seriously  prejudiced  in  the 
^^lids  of  the  voters  in  other  parts  of  the  district,  which  were  known 
^  be  generally  and  violently  pro-slavery  in  their  views. 


HISTORY    OP    BOONE    CODNTY. 


Both  of  tho  candidates  were  known  to  be  liberal  in  their  views  on 
the  slavery  question,  and  yet  at  that  critical  period  of  its  discusslna 
it  required  a  good  deal  of  adroit  munsijrement  and  skilful  eloquence 
to  Bteer  clear  of  the  breakers  which  presented  themselves  on  the  ua 


of  party  politics,  lest  in  iittempting  to  avoid  shipwreck  on  the  Scyl'* 
of  Freesoilism  on  the  one  hand  they  did  not  go  to  the  bottom  on  tb* 
Charybdis  of  Pro-slaveryisni  on  the  other. 
They  had  an  appuintmcnt  to  speak  in  the  village  of  Martbasville  io 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  399 

Wiirren  county,  and  as  good  luck  to  Rollins  would  have  it,  Henderson 

wdsUw  ill  to  be  present ;  but  Frederick  Muench,  the  leader  of  the  Ger- 
man FreesoilerSy  was,  and  he  and  his  friends  gave  a  very  attentive 
hearing  to  the  eloquent  address  of  the  Major.  After  its  close  Mr. 
Muench  politely  waited  on  the  Major,  and  they  discussed  not  only  a 
bottle  of  German-made  wine  together,  but  the  political  situation  of 
the  district.  Mr.  Muench  frankly  complimented  him  on  his  speech 
ftiidtold  him  he  thought  the  Germans  could  safely  intrust  the  princi- 
ple^^ advocated  by  them  to  his  hands,  and  therefore  would  use  his  in- 
Duence  with  them  to  support  him,  all  of  which  was  **  flannel"  to  the 
Major's  anxious  and  patriotic  heart. 

This  was  the  first  meeting  between  Rollins  and  Muench,  but  pre- 
cisely what  passed  will  pehaps  never  be  known,  as  Mr.  Muench  is 
lead  and  the  Major  may  have  forgotten.  Beyond  doubt,  however,  it 
i^as  this  meeting  and  Henderson's  absence  from  the  speaking  that  de- 
eded the  contest  in  favor  of  Rollins,  whose  majority  in  the  district 
'a«  only  254.  ' 

But  we  are  now  about  to  touch  **  the  funny  bone  "  of  the  subject. 

few  days  after  the  meeting  and  while  he  was  yet  under  the  influence 
'  Rollins'  liberal  views  on  the  slavery  question  and  his  finely  turned 
^riods,  Mr.  Muench,  without  Rollins  knowing  anything  of  his 
tentions  to  do  so,  wrote  a  letter  to  a  German  Freesoil  paper 
Hannibal  in  which  he  expressed  a  preference  for  Rollins  over 
enderson,  saying  he  believed  the  Germans  might  safely  support  him, 
at  he  had  met  him  and  found  him  a  ^ery  interesting  and  persuasive 
^ntlemun,  etc. 

The  letter  to  the  Hannibal  paper  was  translated  into  English,  and 
»r  Henderson's  benefit  re-published  in  the  St.  Louis  Republican^ 
liich  advocated  his  election  ;  and  on  the  morning  of  their  joint  dis- 
Jssion  at  Sturgeon,  reached  there  a  short  time  before  the  hour  of 
peaking.  Rollins  did  not  know  it  had  appeared  in  print,  but  Hen- 
erson  got  hold  of  a  paper  containing  it,  and  in  his  opening  address 
ladea  terrific  onslaught  on  Rollins  for  having  been  bargaining  with 
^e  German  Freesoilers  of  Warren  and  St.  Charles  to  vote  for  him 
^  the  ground  of  his  Freesoil  principles. 

Rollins  promptly  jumped  to  his  feet  and  defiantly  denied  it.  Hen- 
crsoii  responded  —  **  I  will  prove  it  on  him  ;  I  charge  that  one  Mr. 
Hnch,  a  German,  has  written  a  letter  urging  the  Germans  to  vote 
>r  him,  and  after  he  had  an  interview  with  Minch."     Rollins  denied 


400  HISTORY   or  BOONE   COUNTY. 

he  knew  any  such  man  as  Minch ;  thereupon  Heuderaon  read  the 
letter  somewhat  to  Rollins'  embarrassment.  Portions  of  the  crowd 
hurrahed  for  Henderson,  but  Rollins  rose  with  much  equanimity,  real 
or  assumed,  and  said  defiantly  —  '*  Read  the  name  of  the  author.'' 
Henderson  did  it,  ''Frederick  Minch."  "Spell  it,"  said  Rollins, 
and  Henderson  spelled  it  —  "  M-^u-e-n-c-h."  Rollins  —  "  The  naooe 
is  Muencli  not  Minch;  you  can't  cheat  the  people;  you  can't  play 
such  tricks  on  me  with  impunity  ;  you  have  changed  his  name !  " 

About  this  time  Henderson's  hour  expired  when  Rollins  took  the 
stand  and  said :  '.«  Fellow-citizens,  you  see  the  advantage  Henderson 
is  taking  of  you  and  of  me  ;  I  denied  I  had  ever  heard  of  such  a  man 
as  Minch ^  and  he  changed  his  name  to  Minch  to  entrap  me  into 
that  denial.  It  was  Munch  not  Minch;  I  know  him;  he  is  a 
gentleman  and  a  patriot  and  a  man  of  sense,  which  I  fear  Henderson 
is  not." 

All  the  Whigs  were  satisfied  and  shouted  for  Rollins,  and  Mr.  James 
Palmer  (since  deceased),  one  of  the  largest  men  in  the  county  aiidan 
ardent  Henry  Clay  Whig  mounted  the  stand  and  shouted,  •'  Rollins  is 
vindicated    triumphantly.      Henderson    changed    the   name   of  the 
writer  of  the  letter  and  thus  attempted  to  mislead  our  gallant  leader, 
Rollins.     No  man  who  will  do  such  a  thins:  is  entitled  to  the  votea 
of   Whigs    or    Democrats,   and  I   now  move  that    we  all   vote  fot 
Rollins."     And  he  put  the  vote  and  there  arose  in  response  athuik' 
dering  aye,  and  Palmer  (without  putting  the  other  side)  declared  i 
carried  unanimously,  and  in  the  midst  of  the  excitement  and  uproli 
moved  that  the  crowd  adjourn  to  the  nearest  saloon  and  take  a  drink 
which  they  did,  leaving  Henderson  discomfited  and  crestfallen,  ana 
Rollins  trium]3hant  and  cock  of  the  walk. 

And  all  because  Henderson  said  Minch  instead  of  Munch. 

THE    ELECTION   OF   MR.  LINXOLN. 

The  election  of  Mr.  Lincoln  to  the  Presidency  spread  the  wilder 
excitement  throughout  all  the  slaveholding  States,  and  fanned  to  i 
flame  the  smouldering  fires  of  disunion  and  civil  war.  Very  soon  aftei 
it  was  announced,  the  State  of  South  Carolina  seceded  from  the  Union 
and  thus  placed  herself  in  the  vanguard  of  those  States  which  soonee 
or  later  madly  leaped  into  the  vortex  of  revolution  and  anarchy.  Thr 
event  greatly  excited  and  deeply  moved,  not  only  the  people  of  Boone 


HI8TORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  401 

County,  but  of  the  entire  State,  for  it  was  quite  natural  that  a  large 
fll&Yeholding  county  like  Boone,  in  the  interior  of  the  only  border 
sUveholding  State  west  of  the  Mississippi  River,  should  give  evidence 
of  much  concern  in  regard  to  evei*y  movement  calculated  to  shake  the 
foandations  of  the  Federal  Union  or  the  stability  of  the  institution  of 
aUrery. 

Near  the  closing  scenes  of  the  year  1860,  the  people  of  the  county 
inticipated  the  future  with  kindred  emotions  of  hope  and  despair, 
fearing  that  the  Union  was  in  imminent  peril,  and  that  the  torch  of 
dfil  war  might  very  soon  blaze  in  skies  hitherto  cloudless  and  serene. 
And  the  sequel  proved  that  their  forebodings  of  evil  were  not  ground- 
leds.  The  secession  of  South  Carolina  on  December  20,  followed 
dnring  January  by  the  secession  of  Mississippi,  Florida,  Alabama  and 
Georgia,  were  events  of  dire  portent  and  well  calculated  to  disturb 
the  foundations  on  which  reposed  the  public  peace  and  security. 

1861. — Chronologically,  we  are  now  approaching  in  this  history  the 
tbyes  of  that  bloody  and  fratricidal  civil  war'  into  which  our  country 
WB8  plunged  ;  and  we  realize  that  in  attempting  to  record  the  exciting 
ind  rapidly  occurring  events  of  the  period  we  tread  **  between  burning 
plowshares,"  and  are  liable  from  various  causes  to  unjust  criticism 
and  misapprehension.  Neveitheless,  it  will  be  our  purpose  to  record 
impartially  the  events  of  the  war,  and  not  to  manufacture  them ;  to 
do  justice  to  its  participants  on  both  sides,  to  record  facts  as  we  find 
tbem,  and  to  record  them  as  a  historian  and  not  as  a  commentator. 
No  opinion  or  prejudices  of  our  own  shall  distort  or  color  them,  but 
it  will  be  our  purpose  in  collating  the  stirring  events  of  this  period 
to  accomplish  it  with  perfect  fairness  and  im])artiality. 

The  firing  upon  the  Federal  garrison  at  Fort  Sumter  by  Gen.  Beau- 
regard, on  April  11,  1861,  was  an  event  the  sound  of  which  rang 
through  the  country  like  a  fire-bell  in  the  night.  It  came  with  the 
speed  of  lightning  on  the  wires  to  Boone  County,  followed  very  soon 
*fter  by  a  call  on  Missouri  by  the  President  for  four  regiments  of  men 
for  immediate  service,  the  refusal  of  Gov.  Jackson  to  furnish  them, 
the  organization  in  Columbia,  on  Wednesday,  April  24,  1861,  of  the 
**  Columbia  Home  Guards,"  a  volunteer  company  for  the  protection 
•nd  defence  of  Columbia.  OflScers  —  Prof.  E.  T.  Fristoe,  Captain  ; 
Prof.  J.  J.  Searcy,  First  Lieutenant ;  Richard  H.  Carter,  Second  Lieu- 
tenant; James  H.  Waugh,  Third  Lieutenant;  Wm.  H.  Tillery,  First 
Orderly  Sergeant;  W.  H.  Noilhcutt,  Second  Orderly  Sergeant; 
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402  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNIT. 

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Joseph   B.  Douglass,  Third    Orderly  Sergeant ;   John    M.    Samuel, 
Treasurer. 

BOONE  COUNTY  '*  SOUTHERN   RIGHTS  MEETING." 

Something  of  the  temper  and  sentiments  of  a  portion  of  the  people 
may  be  gathered  from  the  proceedings  of  a  ''  Southern  Rights  Meet- 
ing" held  in  the  Court  House  on  Saturday,  April  20,  1861.  While 
it  was  in  session  three  different  flags  floated  in  Columbia :  the  Stan 
and  Stripes,  the  Border  State  flag,  and  the  flag  of  the  Confederate 
States.     The  following  are  the  proceedings  of  the  meeting:  — 

BOONE    COUNTY    MEETING. 

Pursuant  to  previous  notice,  a  large  and  enthusiastic  meeting  of  the 
citizens  of  Boone  County  was  held  at  the  Court  House  in  Columbiaon 
Saturday,  the  20th  of  April.  On  motion.  Dr.  C.  Q.  Chandler  was 
temporarily  called  to  the  chair,  whereupon  S.  Turner  moved  that  a 
committee  of  five  be  appointed  to  report  back  a  permanent  organiza- 
tion for  the  meeting.  The  chair  appointed  Messrs.  S.  Turner,  Samuel 
Kennon,  Wm.  H.  Duncan  and  Arthur  P.  Clarkson,  who  retired  foi 
the  purpose  named.  During  the  absence  of  the  committee,  Capt.  F. 
F.  C.  Triplett,  by  the  request  of  the  chair,  explained  the  object  ol 
the  meeting  in  a  clear,  forcible  and  satisfactory  manner,  the  substance 
of  which  is  set  forth  in  the  resolutions  annexed.  The  committee  oi 
permanent  organization  reported  as  follows  :  — 

Chairman:  Judge  P. H.  McBride.  Vice  Presidents:  Dr.  C.  Q.  Chandler,  David  Powel 
James  Ryan,  Col.  E.  E.  Bass,  Isaac  Williams,  Judge  Alexander  Persinger,  Allen  B.  Orel 
Secretaries :  C.  Maupin,  F.  K.  Lynch,  Dr.  Alex.  Spence, 

The  report  of  the  committee,  on  motion  of  Capt.  Triplett,  wj 
adopted,  and  the  persons  named  repaired  to  their  respective  station 
On  motion  of  Col.  John  W.  Rollins,  a  committee  of  two  from  ea< 
civil  township  was  appointed  to  prepare  and  report  resolutions  e 
pressive  of  the  views  and  sentiments  of  the  meeting.  Just  as  tl 
committee  retired,  a  number  of  gentlemen,  bearing  aloft  the  flag 
the  Confederate  States,  with  fifteen  stars  emblazoned  thereon,  edg< 
their  way  into  the  crowded  court  room  and  were  greeted  with  thr^ 
cheers  for  Jeff.  Davis  and  the  Southern  Confederacy.  S  Turner  w: 
called  upon  to  address  the  meeting,  which  he  did,  alluding  briefly  i 
the  causes  of  our  National  troubles,  and  reviewing  in  au  eloquent  an 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  408 

patriotic  manner  the  many  insults  and  injuries  which  have  been 
heaped  upon  the  South  by  the  fanatics  of  the  North ;  appealing  to 
his  coantrymen  to  rise  in  their  majesty  and  vindicate  Southern  honor^ 
concluding  amid  great  applause  and  cheers  for  <<  Old  Virginia,"  and 
the  addition  of  another  star  to  the  Confederate  States.  Calls  for 
"Dixie'*  by  the  band,  etc.  The  committee  on  resolutions  then 
made  the  following  report :  — 

Whibias,  Abraham  Lincoln,  President  of  the  United  States,  by  a  warlike  policy  to- 
iiidithe  Confederate  States  of  America,  in  sending  an  armed  fleet  io  the  port  of  Oharles- 
toQtnd  in  notifying  the  authorities  of  South  Carolina  that  he  '*  would  provision  and  rein- 
force" Fort  Sumter  peaceably  if  allowed,  but  forcibly  if  necessary,  thereby  provoking  an 
itUck  by  the  Confederate  troops  on  Fort  Sumter,  and  involving  us,  regardless  of  the 
liihM,  prayers  and  entreaties  of  every  patriot  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  our 
proiperoQs  and  happy  country,  in  all  the  horrors  and  devastation  of  a  civil  and  servile 
ynt;  tnd 

Whirbas,  He  has  withdrawn  the  Federal  troops  from  our  frontier  posts,  and  placed 
tiiun  io  a  position  for  active  service  against  our  brethren,  leaving  our  frontier  citizens  in  a 
defo&oeless  condition  and  exposed  to  the  ravages  of  the  merciless  savage ;  and, 

Whibsas,  He  is  actively  engaged  in  fitting  out  and  sending  to  the  Southern  coasts  armed 
TMiei^ladened  with  provisions  and  munitions  of  war,  with  orders  sealed  to  all  but  himself 
tad  his  counsellors  and  other  minions  of  destruction ;  and  in  divers  other  demonstrations  of  a 
nriika  character.  In  the  movements  of  both  land  and  naval  forces,  exciting  just  apprehen- 
lioQi  m  the  minds  of  the  people  of  South,  that  he  intends  an  invasion  of  their  soil  and  the  sub. 
Jngition  of  them  Into  obedience  to  the  Federal  laws.  A.nd  in  open  defiance  to  the  warning 
voice  and  solenm  admonitions  of  the  border  slave  States,  to  stay  his  hand  and  avoid  the 
dMddmg  of  blood,  while  they  were  engaged  in  a  noble,  patriotic  and  self'-sacriflcing  strug* 
gletu  adjust  our  National  difSculties,  preserve  our  once  glorious  Union,  and  save  our  gov- 
Muneot  and  our  people  from  the  inevitable  ruin  and  devastation  that  must  necessarily  fol- 
low in  the  train  of  a  civil  war,  he  has  called  on  the  Governors  of  the  several  States  for 
Nrenty-five  thousand  men  to  accomplish  his  diabolical  work  of  destruction,  turning  loose 
apen  gg  the  dogs  of  war,  thirsting  for  blood  and  carnage,  and  thus  blasting  forever  all  hopes 
of  I  reconciliation  between  the  belligerent  sections  of  our  country;  he  has  forced  upon  the 
border  slave  States  the  alternative  of  taking  their  position  in  the  fearful  struggle,  either 
with  the  fanatical  Abolition  and  negro- worshipping  States  of  the  North,  in  the  subjugation 
of  their  brethren  of  the  South,  with  whom  they  are  identified  by  the  strongest  and  most  in- 
diiioluble  bonds  of  interest,  honor,  institutions  and  blood,  or  of  uniting  their  destinies  with 
their  liiter  Southern  States  and  resisting  to  the  death  the  tide  of  Northern  fanaticism  and 
iggreision  which  threatens  to  overwhelm  and  annihilate  the  dearest  rights  and  liberties  of  a 
^  tod  independent  people.    Be  it,  therefore, 

Betohed,  1.  That  we  unhesitatingly  link  our  destinies,  our  interest,  our  honor,  our  fate 
ttd  oar  all,  for  weal  or  for  woe,  with  our  Southern  brethren ;  and  we  will,  as  an  unholy, 
^ust  and  unnatural  war  is  forced  upon  us,  unsheathe  the  civil  sword  in  defence  of  our 
^gbtg  and  hold  it  up  (reeking  with  fraternal  blood)  to  the  gaze  of  the  civilized  world,  as  a 
^thful  witness  of  the  justice  of  our  cause. 

2.  That  the  secession  of  a  State,  or  the  withdrawal  of  the  powers  delegated  by  it  to  the 
^•denl  Government,  is  but  a  peaceable,  sovereign,  inherent  and  inalienable  right  of  a  free 
People  (from  whom  all  good  governments  derive  their  just  powers),  to  change,  throw  off,  or 
"▼olntionize  their  government  when  it  becomes  oppressive  or  dangerous  to  their  rights, 
liWtiet  or  institutions. 

^  That  the  committee  appointed  by  the  State  Convention  for  the  purpose  of  calling  that 


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404  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

body  together  when  the  state  of  the  country  demanded  it,  are  earnestly  reqaested  to  conToi 
said  body  at  as  early  an  hour  as  is  practicable,  that  it  take  such  action  as  will  place  Mil 
aouri  in  her  proper  position  with  her  sister  States  of  the  South  who  have  been  compellsc 
by  the  fanaticism  of  the  North  and  by  Federal  aggression  to  resume  the  exercise  of  tki 
powers  delegated  by  them  to  the  Federal  Government. 

4.  That  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  Missouri  be  and  is  hereby  requested  t«  take  speedily 
such  steps  as  are  requisite  to  put  our  State  in  a  defensive  posture,  and  to  place  her  on  awv 
footing. 

5.  That  we  regard  with  scorn  and  contempt  the  demand  made  by  Abraham  Lincoln  oi 
the  Governor  of  Missouri  for  troops  to  aid  in  carrying  out  his  unholy  and  iniquitous  cruiade 
for  the  subjugation  of  our  Southern  brothers,  under  the  specious  and  insidious  pretext  of 
enforcing  the  laws  of  the  Federal  Gt)vernment  and  preserving  the  Union  and  the  Conititih 
tion,  which  has  been  by  him  and  his  party  grossly  insulted,  violated  and  trampled  uodv 
their  unhallowed  feet.  And  we  mottt  cordially  'indorse  the  prompt,  manly  and  patriotic  n> 
tponse  of  Governor  Jackson  to  his  presumptuous  demand. 

6.  That  the  course  of  John  B.  Henderson,  and  the  opinions  avowed  by  him  inthelati 
session  of  the  Missouri  convention,  are  inconsistent  with  our  honor,  interest  and  feeling 
and  that  we  request  him  not  to  assume  to  act  as  our  delegate  in  any  convention  or  coD8alts> 
tion  of  the  border  slave  States. 

7.  That  we  totally  disapprove  of  the  votes  given  by  the  convention  refusing  to  pledgi 
Missouri  against  Federal  coercion  and  in  favor  of  seceding  with  the  other  border  sUft 
States. 

8.  That  the  people  of  the  several  counties  throughout  the  State  be  requested  to  meet  m 
convention,  and  that  they  recommend  that  the  State  Convention  be  convened  at  as  early  in 
hour  as  practicable,  and  to  instruct  their  delegates  to  vote  for  the  immediate  withdrawtl  of 
Missouri  from  the  Federal  compact 

9.  That  a  committee  of  three  be  appointed  to  correspond  with  our  delegates,  and  instruct 
them  to  vote  for  the  immediate  withdrawal  of  Missouri  from  the  Federal  Government,  toi 
to  propose  memorials  to  the  voters  of  our  district,  to  be  signed  by  them,  requesting  the  im- 
mediate resignation  of  such  as  may  refuse  to  comply. 

10.  That  the  adjournment  of  the  convention  to  December,  after  it  had  by  its  votes  dete^ 
mined  to  do  nothing  under  any  circumstances  to  change  the  Federal  relations  of  the  State, 
was  apparently  designed  to  prevent  the  people  from  selecting  delegates  of  different  sentl* 
Bient  to  meet  and  alter  the  condition  of  things,  and  was,  therefore,  anti-republican  in  spiii^ 
and  design. 

11.  That  in  view  of  the  perilous  condition  of  public  affairs  and  the  inauguration  of  civil  an 
probably  servile  war,  we  deem  it  prudent  and  proper  to  take  such  steps  as  will  crush  oi 
and  suppress  discontent  and  insurrections  among  slaves  and  free  negroes,  and  to  prevei 
them  from  being  tampered  with  or  instigated  to  disobedient  and  rebellious  acts  by  any  d 
signing  white  men  who  may  be  regarded  as  enemies  to  our  peace,  security  and  happinoc 
It  is  therefore  recommended  that  meetings  be  held  as  soon  as  convenient  in  each  civil  to^^ 
ship  in  the  county  to  consider  the  premises  and  adopt  such  measures  as  may  be  deemed  batf 

12.  That  all  who  concur  in  the  above  resolutions  are  cordially  invited  to  a  participati'^ 
in  this  meeting  and  a  co-operation  with  us  in  the  promotion  of  all  its  objects,  regardless 
past  party  divisions  or  prejudices. 

And  upon  motion  of  Col.  John  W.  Rollins,  were  unanimousl 
adopted.  As  each  resolution  was  read,  loud  and  deafening  applaud 
ensued.  The  whole  batch  of  resolutions  was  voted  for  not  on! 
unanimously,  but  with  a  vim  never  before  witnessed  here.  Col.  Ro 
lins,  responding  to  a  call,  delivered  a  brief  but  eloquent  speech,  A^ 


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HI8TORT   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  405 

daring  his  entire  devotion  to  the  South  —  that  their  destiny  was  one 

for  weal  or  for  woe,  glory  or  shame  ;  that  he  would  apply  the  torch 

to  his  own  home  —  that  he  would  see  the  verdant  fields  of  the  Soutlf 

barut  black  and  crisp  —  that  he  would  go  farther :  that  he  would  lay 

the  koife  to  his  last  child  rather  than  purchase  their  security  by  a 

i    cowardly  and  shameful  submission  to  Black  Republican  rule  I     The 

Colooel  was  loudly  and  rapturously  applauded. 

The  venerable  vice-president,  Judge  Persinger,  for  twenty-four  years 
Judge  of  the  County  Court,  was  vociferously  called  for.  In  response, 
the  Judge  referred  to  his  past  political  associations.*  He  said  that  he 
WM  formerly  a  Whig,  afterwards  acted  with  the  American  party,  and 
Btilllatera  member  of  the  Union  party;  that  he  had  taken  strong 
UnioD  ground  during  the  contest  for  delegates  to  the  late  State  Con- 
ventiou,  actuated  as  he  was  by  the  delusive  hope  that  proper  compro- 
mises would  be  made,  the  Union  reconstructed,  and  quiet  restored ; 
that  this  hope  gradually  gave  way  as  LincoIn*s  acts,  one  by  one,  were 
mide  known,  until  now  no  hope  was  left  —  that  one  course  only  was 
left  for  Missouri;  that  her  interest,  honor,  sympathy  and  destiny  was 
with  the  South.  He  was  repeatedly  interrupted  by  loud  applause 
and  **  Go  on,  old  man,  we  want  to  hear  from  you." 

Col.  Eli  £.  Bass  (delegate  to  the  State  Convention),  one  of  the 
TJce-presidents  of  the  meeting,  was  called  for  and  took  the  stand. 
CoK  Bass  said :  —  <*  Fellow-citizens  :  I  am  glad  you  have  given  me  an 
opportunity  here  to-day,  since  there  seems  to  be  great  dissatisfaction 
among  you  at  the  course  pursued  by  me  as  your  delegate  to  the  State 
Convention,  of  explaining  my  vote  upon  the  amendment  offered  by 
Mr.  Bast,  of  Montgomery,  to  the  third  resolution  of  the  majority 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Federal  Relations."  Col.  Bass  stated  that 
he  voted  nay  under  a  misapprehension  of  the  import  of  the  amend- 
ment ;  that  a  day  or  two  before  the  vote  was  taken  he  had  seen  a  pro- 
posed amendment  of  Mr.  Bast,  which  the  latter  said  he  intended  to 
introduce,  and  which  at  the  time  of  voting  he  understood  to  be  under 
consideration ;  that  he  (Col.  Bass)  was  then  and  would  still  be  under 
similar  circumstances  opposed  to  that  amendment  which  differed 
wholly  in  its  effect  from  the  one  finally  presented  by  Mr.  Bast,  of 
Montgomery ;  that  he  was  astonished  afterwards  to  see  his  vote  re- 
corded against  the  Bast  amendment ;  that  he  cordially  indorsed  said 
amendment.  The  Colonel  further  stated  that  he  approved  of  the  pro- 
ceedings and  objects  of  the  meeting  —  when,  on  motion  of  S.  Turner, 
^ol,  Bass  was  exonerated  by  the  meeting  from  any  reflection  or  cen- 


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406  HISTOUY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

sure  on  account  of  the  said  vote,  after  which,  at  the  suggestion  of  the 
chair,  three  cheers  were  given  for  Governors  Jackson  and  Magoffin, 
^n  motion,  the  meeting  adjourned. 

A  similar  meeting  expressing  similar  sentiments,  was  held  in  Roche- 
port,  on  April  19,  of  which  Dr.  C.  I.  Chandler  ac^ed  as  president, 
and  B.  F.  Diraitt,  as  secretary.  A  committee  composed  of  Dr.  John 
Wilcox,  Dr.  A.  Patton,  H.  Wheeler,  F.  F.  Kirby  and  John  Shindler 
reported  the  resolutions,  and  a  request  was  made  that  G.  G.  Vest  and 
Lewis  W.  Robinson  address  them  at  their  earliest  convenience. 
During  the  absence  of  the  committee  on  resolutions,  **  a  call  was  made 
for  Col.  John  Hinton,  who  responded  in  an  able,  eloquent  and  pat- 
riotic speech,  in  defence  of  the  rights  and  liberty  of  the  South,  and 
was  frequently  cheered  and  applauded  with  great  enthusiasm."  F.  F. 
Kirby  was  appointed  to  solicit  names  of  members  of  a  '*Home 
Guard." 

Having  copied  the  proceedings  of  a  «*  Southern  Rights  meeting," 
held  by  a  portion  of  the  citizens  of  Boone,  during  the  early  stages  of 
our  civil  war,  it  is  but  fair  that  those  on  the  other  side  be  also  heard, 
and  for  this  purpose  we  copy  from  the  Statesman  of  May  10,  1861, 
the  proceedings  of  a 

UNION   MEETING    IN    BOONE    COUNTY. 

Pursuant  to  public  notice,  one  among  the  largest  meetings  ever  held 
in  the  county  convened  in  the  Court  House  on  Monday,  May  6,  1861, 
to  express  opinions  in  regard  to  the  then  present  crisis.  At  1  o'clock 
the  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  Col.  Switzler,  on  whose  nomination 
Mr.  James  McConathy,  Sr.,  was  elected  president.  On  taking  the 
chair  the  president  requested  Col.  Switzler  to  explain  the  objects  of 
the  meetings  which  he  proceeded  to  do  in  a  speech  of  considerable 
length;  whereupon,  on  motion  of  Elder  T.  M,  Allen,  Dr.  M.  R. 
Arnold  was  elected  secretary. 

F.  T.  Russell,  Esq.,  moved  that  a  committee  of  seven  be  appointed 
to  draft  resolutions  expressive  of  the  sense  of  the  meeting,  and  the 
chair  appointed  the  following  :  F.  T.  Russell,  Ishmael  Vanhorn,  David 
Gordon,  Henry  Keene,  John  W.  Hall,  Joel  Palmer,  Maj.  James 
Brown . 

On  the  retirement  of  the  committee,  on  motion  of  Col.  Switzler, 
Judge  Cuilis  Field,  Jr.,  of  Richmond,  Ky.,  who  was  present  in  the 
audience,  was  requested  to  address  the  meeting.  As,  in  his  opinion, 
the  crisis  demanded  that  each  State  should  decide  for  itself  its  own 


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HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  407 

duty,  and  as  he  was  a  citizen  of  Kentucky  he  did  not  deem  it  proper 
to  take  up  the  time  of  the  meeting  with  any  remarks  of  his  own,  and, 
therefore,  begged  to  be  excused. 

Maj.  Rollins  was  then  loudly  called  for,  and  responded  in  a  speech 
of  an  hour  and  a  half,  at  the  conclusion  of  which  the  committee, 
through  Mr.  Russell,  their  chairman,  reported  the  following  preamble 
and  resolutions :  — 

Whebsas,  Civil  war  has  been  inaugurated  in  the  United  States,  brought  about  by  the 
extreme  men  of  the  North  and  the  extreme  men  of  the  South ;  and  whereas  the  State  of 
Missouri  occupies  a  position  central  between  the  two  extremes,  and  has  hitherto  earnestly 
opposed  all  hostile  demonstrations  on  the  part  of  either;  therefore, 

Resolved,  1.  That  the  true  policy  of  Missouri,  at  present,  is  to  maintain  an  independent 
position  within  the  Union — holding  her  soil  and  institutions  sacred  against  invasion  or  hos- 
tile interference  from  any  quarter  whatever. 

2.  That  we  approve  and  indorse  the  reply  of  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  Missouri  to  the 
Secretary  of  War,  in  refusing  to  furnish  troops  for  the  purpose  of  coercing  our  Southern 
brethren. 

8.  That  patriotism  and  policy,  and  the  preservation  of  the  pul^ic  peace,  alike  require 
on  the  part  of  the  Federal  Administration  a  prompt  and  immediate  recognition  of  the 
Southern  Confederacy,  as  a  government  defactOt  and  forming  an  alliance,  offensive  and  de- 
fensive, with  it,  for  mutual  protection. 

4.  That  in  our  opinion  Secession  is  a  remedy  for  no  evil,  real  or  imaginary,  but  an  ag- 
gravation and  complication  of  existing  difficulties;  but  if  we  are  reduced  to  the  necessity  of 
engaging  in  the  present  war  and  strife,  that  then  we  will  stand  by  and  co-operate  with  the 
South. 

5.  That,  to  the  end  that  Missouri  may  be  fblly  prepared  for  any  contingency,  we  would 
have  her  citizens  arm  themselves  thoroughly,  at  the  earliest  practicable  moment,  by  regular 
action  of  the  State. 

6.  That  as  we  hear  that  the  Border  State  Convention  will  be  held  at  Frankfort,  Ken- 
tucky, on  the  27th  inst,  we  therefore  urge  the  delegates  from  Missouri  to  said  Convention, 
to  attend  the  same. 

7.  That  we  approve  of  the  course  of  our  delegates  to  the  State  Convention,  Messrs. 
Woodson,  Bass  and  Flood,  and  that  we  believe  they  truly  and  faithfully  reflected  the  wishes 
and  sentiments  of  those  by  whom  they  were  elected,  and  that  their  action  upon  the  impor- 
tant measures  before  the  Convention  is  fully  indorsed  by  this  meeting. 

The  question  being  upon  the  adoption  of  the  resolutions,  Mr.  Guitar 
moved  that  the  vote  be  taken  upon  the  resolutions  separately,  which 
motion  carried.  The  preamble  and  the  first  and  second  resolutions 
were  adopted  unanimously. 

When  the  third  resolution  was  read  Mr.  Guitar  rose  in  his  place 
and  said  he  had  no  desire  to  disturb  the  harmony  of  the  meeting,  or 
to  influence  the  action  of  any  one  participating  in  it,  that  he  could 
cheerfully  indorse  all  the  resolutions  except  the  third  and  fourth,  but 
these  he  could  not  indorse  and  desired  briefly  to  state  his  reasons. 

This,  he  said,  was  no  time  for  men  to  be  pandering  to  the 
prejudices  of  each  other,  no  time  for  courting  the  wavering  or  cower- 


X 


408  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

ing  before  the  strong ;  the  question  was  narrowed  down  to  a  sing 
issue  :  Are  we  for  our  country  or  against  it?  Shall  Missouri  aband( 
the  Union  and  range  herself  under  the  ensign  of  the  Rattlesnake  ai 
Pelican,  or  will  she  still  rest  under  the  shadow  of  the  glorious  Sta 
and  Stripes?  This  was  the  question,  the  only  question,  demandii 
an  answer  at  our  hands. 

The  third  resolution  was,  in  his  judgment,  a  clear  recognition 
the   right   of    secession,    the    most    damnable   political  hei'esy  et 
invented  by  the  brain  of  the  vilest  political  demagogue.     He  shou 
never  countenance  it,  either  directly  or  indirectly. 

He  said  the  resolution  required  the  government  to  recognize  tl 
Confederacy  as  a  government  «*de  facto.**  It  had  no  existence, 
his  opinion,  either  as  a  government  in  fact  or  of  right,  unless  wen 
mit  the  correctness  of  the  principle  upon  which  it  is  founded,  tl 
right  of  peaceable  secession ;  otherwise  it  is  but  revolution  inchoai 
and   its  consummation  remained  subject  to  the  vicissitudes  of  wa 

He  said  further,  the  third  resolution  required  us  to  form  an  allianc 
offensive  and  defensive,  with  the  Southern  Confederacy.  In  answ 
to  this  he  only  had  to  say,  that  if  the  Government  of  the  Unit 
States  had  become  too  weak  or  too  corrupt  to  protect  our  rights  a 
redress  our  wrongs  we  ought  to  revolt  and  throw  it  off  before  eiit 
ing  into  an  alliance  with  a  foreign  piwer. 

The  fourth  resolution,  he  said,  required  us  in  any  event,  to  join  1 
seceded  States,  notwithstanding  the  developments  of  the  future  mi< 
show  it  to  be  our  duty  and  our  interest  to  unite  ourselves  with  a  d 
tral  Confederacy.  Be  that  as  it  might,  there  was  one  feature  i 
grafted  upon  the  organic  law  of  the  so-called  Southern  Confeden 
which  would  forever  keep  him  out  of  it ;  that  was  the  right 
'*  peaceable  secession." 

He  said  he  cared  nothing  for  the  fate  of  the  resolutions,  but  ho] 
the  friends  of  the  Union  would  dare  to  do  and  say  what  they  thouj 
was  right.  For  himself  he  had  not,  and  would  not,  occupy  i 
equivocal  position,  when  the  liberties  and  destiny  of  his  country  w 
at  stake.  He  was  for  his  country,  and  should  remain  so.  He  pri( 
himself  in  her  glory,  and  was  willing,  if  need  be,  to  participate  in  i 
shame.  If,  he  said,  the  glorious  old  shij}  of  State  shall  be  drsmas 
by  the  storm,  deserted  by  her  crew,  and  left  to  founder  and  s 
amid  the  waves  of  anarchy  which  will  engulf  her,  it  would  be  gb 
enough  for  him  to  go  down  with  the  wreck. 
'    Mr.  Russell,  in  response,  said  that  the  fourth  resolution  negatii 


mSTORT   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  ^  409 

the  idea  of  recogniziug  the  right  of  secession  by  denounciug  secession, 
urging  that  the  recognition  of  the  Confederate  States  as  a  government 
le facto  was  a  measure  of  peace»  violative  of  no  principle ;  that,  in 
ghort,  it  was  recognition  or  war,  and  we  had  to  choose  between  them. 
He  preferred  recognition. 

Maj.  Rollins  thought  that  he  had  an  amendment  which  could  recon- 
cile the  difficulty  and  satisfy  all.  He  therefore  moved  to  amend  the 
resolution  as  follows :  after  the  word  •'  that,"  in  the  first  line,  insert 
"whilst  we  repudiate  the  constitutional  right  of  secession,"  which 
was  adopted,  the  resolution,  as  amended,  passed  with  one  negative 
Tote — Mr.  Guitar,  a  number  of  gentlemen  not  voting. 

The  balance  of  the  resolutions  were  then  unanimously  adopted,  ex- 
cept the  fourth,  which  was  voted  as  the  third,  after  which,  at  the 
unanimous  request  of  the  meeting,  Elder  T.  M.  Allen  g^ve  his  views 
as  to  the  duty  of  Missouri  in  the  present  crisis,  taking  uncompromis- 
ing ground  against  secession  and  for  the  Union  —  denouncing  seces- 
rion  as  civil  war,  and  making  an  eloquent  appeal  to  the  people  to 
maintain  an  armed  neutrality  within  the  Union,  and  not  be  driven 
away  by  passion  and  prejudice  into  the  dangerous  experiment  of 
revolution  and  anarchy. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

THE   CAPTURE   OF   CAMP  JACKSON, 

On  May  10,  1861,  by  the  Federa^  forces  under  Lyon  and  Blair, 
greatly  excited  the  people  of  Bopne  and  of  the  whole  State,  for,  re- 
gardless of  their  views  as  to  the  justness  of  the  procedure,  they 
looked  upon  it  as  the  substantial  inauguration  of  civil  war  within  our 
herders.  And  so  it  proved,  for  very  soon  afterward  it  was  followed 
by  an  extra  session  of  the  Legislature,  seemingly  with  warlike  intent, 
the  sudden  abandonment  of  the  State  Capital  by  that  body  and  the 
State  officers  on  the  approach  of  the  Federal  arms,  and  the  battle  of 
Boonville  (Monday,  June  17,  1861),  and  the  occupation  of  that  city 
by  Lyon  and  Blair. 

Many  of  our  citizens  residing  on  the  river  border  were  in  hearing 
of  the  cannonading  at  Boonville,  and  some  of  them  were  participants 
in  the  warlike  events  of  that  day.  They  were  quick  to  recognize  the 
booming  of  the  guns  as  a  signal  of  war,  and  those  of  them  who  on 
the  evening  of  the  battle  saw  for  the  first  time  about  150  Federal 
troops  disembark  from  the  ferry-boat  and  occupy  the  tow  n  had  ocu- 
lar demonstration  of  the  fact  that  the  tocsin  of  civil  war  had  indeed 


410  %  HISTORY  OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

been  sounded.  These  were  the  first  government  troops  which  "  in- 
vaded the  sacred  soil "  of  Boone  county.  It  was  not  long,  howeycr, 
before  another  force,  coming  up  on  a  train  from  Mexico,  disembarked 
at  Centralia.  A  third  and  much  larger  force,  consisting  of  six  or  sevei 
hundred  infantry  and  about  one  hundred  cavalry,  under  commando 
Col.  W.  H.  Worthington,  of  the  Fifth  Iowa  Infantry,  marched  ua 
heralded  into  Columbia  quite  early  on  Wednesday  morning,  Septem 
ber  4,  1861.  They  came  from  Jefferson  City,  occupied  the  Uftiversitj 
campus,  and  Uiter  in  the  day  took  up  quarters  in  the  building  itself 
At  6  o'clock  in  the  evening,  at  the  request  of  many  citizens,  Col 
Worthington  consented  to  a  dress  parade  on  Broadway,  and  for  thi 
purpose,  the  entire  force  marching  to  the  strains  of  martial  music  aD( 
with  the  Stars  and  Stripes  gaily  glittering  in  the  sunlight,  appeared  oi 
that  street,  presenting  that  which  was  to  all  eyes,  friendly  and  un* 
friendly,  a  magnificent  pageant. 

On  the  next  day  the  command  left  for  Jeflerson  City. 

What  they  came  for  has  never  transpired.  Ceiiiainly  they  die 
nothing,  by  arrest  or  otherwise,  to  indicate  hostile  intentions  or  U 
disclose  the  object  of  their  visit. 

Sweeney's  raid  on  rollins'  farm. 

On  Tuesday,  October  22,  1861,  about  fifty  cavalrymen  under  com 
mand  of  Capt.  Bob  Sweeney,  of  Renick,  marched  through  Columbi 
and  encamped  at  the  Fair  Grounds.  They  were  State  or  Souther 
troops,  and  it  was  not  long  before  a  portion  of  them  made  a  raid  o 
the  farm  of  James  S.  Rollins,  a  Union  man,  and  took  therefrom  s 
head  of  horses,  among  which  were  his  carriage  horses,  and  five  hei 
of  mules,  together  with  a  two-horse  wagon  and  all  the  plow  harn6 
they  could  find.  Maj.  Rollins  was  at  the  time  absent  in  St.  Loui 
In  the  evening  and  the  following  morning  they  revisited  the  farm  ai 
pressed  a  sufficient  quantity  of  corn  to  forage  the  horses  of  the  who 
command  during  their  stay,  which  was  till  the  morning  after  th 
arrived.  Maj.  Rollins'  loss  was  about  $1,500.  As  soon  as  this  pr 
ceeding  was  known,  the  leading  secessionists  expressed  their  stroi 
condemnation  of  it,  and,  greatly  to  their  credit,  exerted  themselv 
to  induce  Capt.  Sweeney  to  return  the  property.  'Some  of  the 
offered,  if  he  would  return  it,  to  furnish  him  an  equal  number 
horses  of  their  own.  He  seemed  inexorable;  but  was  finally  pr 
vailed  upon  to  return  a  horse  belonging  to  J.  W.  Lamme,  taken  wi 
the  balance. 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   CX)UNTY.  411 

ATTEMPT    TO   ASSASSINATE   COL.    bWITZLER. 

During  the  evening  of  Sweeney's  visit,  and  while  a  crowd  of  citizens 
WB8  in  front  of  the  Statesman  office,  some  of  them  in  conversation 
with  Capt.  Sweeney,  the  editor  of  the  Statesman  being  one  of  the 
crowd,  an  attempt  was  made  by  a  man  who  was  an  utter  stranger  to 
bim,  and  of  whose  presence  or  even  existence  he  knew  nothing,  to 
assassinate  Col.  Switzler  by  a  pistol  shot  in  the  back.  Of  this  dem- 
onstration he  was  very  soon  informed  by  another  stranger,  Wil- 
liam Inge,  of  Pike  county,  a  recruiting  officer  from  Price's  army, 
aod  an  honorable,  heroic  man.  In  a  short  time,  however,  as  he 
walked  across  the  street,  and  when  about  the  center  of  it,  Mr.  Inge, 
who  followed  him,  detected  a  second  attempt  by  the  same  man  to 
draw  his  pistol ;  an  attempt  unseen  by  Switzler,  whereat  Mr.  Inge 
instantly  drew  a  large  navy  revolver,  and  presenting*  it  towards  him, 
denounced  him  as  a  cowardly  assassin  thus  to  attempt  to  shoot  a 
roan  in  the  back  who  had  never  spoken  to  him,  warning  him  that  if 
he  moved  a  muscle  he  would  fill  him  full  of  holes.  There  the  affair 
€nded. 

Late  in  the  afternoon  of  Tuesday  about  seventy-five  cavalry,  under 
Gen.  S.  B.  Hatton,  and  early  in  the  night  another  company  under 
Capt.  Searcy,  came  into  Columbia  and  encamped  at  the  Fair  Ground. 
Next  morning  about  eleven  o'clock  the  whole  force  took  up  the  line 
of  march  for  a  Southern  camp  six  hundred  strong  near  Concord, 
Callaway  county,  where  they  were  still  encamped  on  Thursday  morn- 
ing meditating  an  advance  upon  a  camp  of  loyal  State  troops  said  to 
he  near  Shamrock,  under  Gen.  J.  B.  Henderson. 

GENERAL    PRENTISS    VISITS    COLUMBIA. 

In  November,  1861,  Lieut.  Col.  Morse,  of  Foster's  regiment  of 

Missouri  militia,  from  Hudson  City   (Macon  City),    visited    Boone 

<5ounty  in  search  of  Sweeney's  command,  who  had  retreated  beyond 

Olasgow  into  Chariton,  whither  he  pursued.     During  the  same  month 

Oen.  B.  M.  Prentiss,  then  of  Quincy,  Illinois,  and   commandant  of 

tie  post  of  Jefferson  City,  remained  in   Columbia  with  a  considerable 

force  for  several  days.     During  his  stay  he  ordered  the  arrest  of  one 

of  his  own  soldiers  for  an  outrage   west  of  Columbia,  and  sentenced 

him  to  be  drummed  out  of  service  without  pay  —  which  was  done. 

General  P.  made  a  speech  at  the  court  house,  had  a  magnificent  dress 

parade  on  the  street,  and  left  for  Jefferson  City  via  Providence,  his 


412  HISTORY   OF   BOONB   COUNTY. 

troops  cheering  Maj.  Rollins  as  they  passed  his  residence.  The  Maji 
came  out  and  acknowledged  the  compliment  in  a  ringing  Unk 
speech. 

On  Saturday,  December  7,  1861,  Captain  Sweeney  and  about  i 
of  his  followers  were  captured  in  Saline  county,  opposite  Glasgow,  1 
a  Federal  force  under  Maj.  Marshall. 

Early  on  the  same  night  the  very  lamentable  death  of  Miss  Kill 
Spilman,  a  young  lady,  occurred  near  the  residence  of  the  late  Wa( 
M.  Jackson,  of  Howard  County,  occasioned  by  a  shot  from  a  Feder 
picket,  belonging  to  troops  under  the  command  of  Lieut.  Weather^ 
a  portion  of  Morse's  command.^ 

COLS,  glover's  and  birge's  troops. 

On  Friday,  December  27,  1861,  about  200  Federal  infantry,  und 
command  of  Capt.  John  Welker,  of  Col.  Birge's  sharpshooter 
reached  Columbia  from  their  encampment,  Middleton,  twelve  mil 
north,  and  took  up  quarters  in  the  University.  On  Sunday  nigl 
they  left  for  Sturgeon.  On  the  next  evening  —  the  North  Missou 
Railroad  having  been  burned  in  several  places,  thus  cutting  off  con 
municatfon  with  St.  Louis  —  about  250  cavalry,  under  Col.  Johnl 
Glover  and  a  portion  of  Captain  Campbell's  company  of  Birge 
Sharpshooters,  accompanied  by  several  wagons,  came  to  Columb 
for  the  purpose  of  procuring  supplies  of  flour,  coffee,  etc.,  for  t 
Federal  camp  at  Sturgeon.  Cols.  Glover  and  Birge  were  with  thei 
Having  no  means  with  which  to  purchase  the  needed  supplies,  and 
the  early  stages  of  the  war  not  having  adopted  the  policy  of  forcit 
taking  possession  of  what  they  needed,  they  experienced  some  troul 
in  procuring  what  they  desired.  Finally,  the  merchant  firm 
Thomas  J.  and  S.  F.  Conley,  who  were  Union  men,  sold  them  wl 
they  wanted  to  the  amount  of  about  $300,  for  which  a  receipt  ^ 
given ;  but  it  was  some  years  after  the  close  of  the  war,  because 
the  red  tape  in  the  department  at  Washington,  before  they  succeed 
in  collecting  the  bill. 

THE   fight   at   MT.    ZION   CHURCH. 

On  Saturday  morning,  December  28,  1861,  several  previous  si 
mishes  between  Federal  forces  belonorins:  to  the  Third  Missouri  Cavali 


^  In  the  skirmish  with  the  Confederate  force  near  Renick,  on  the  night  of  December 
Lieut  Col.  Morse  was  wounded  in  the  thigh  by  a  gun  shot  and  died  of  the  wound. 


HI8TOBl[   OF  BOONS   COUNTY.  413 

ol.  John  M.  Glover  commanding,  and  sharpshooters  of  Col.  J.  W. 
irge,  all  under  command  of  Gen.  Prentiss,  and  a  confederate  force  com- 
anded  by  Col.  Caleb  Dorsey,  culminated  in  an  engagement  at  Mt. 
on  meeting-house,  fifteen  miles  northeast  of  Columbia,  which  as- 
lined  the  proportions  of  a  battle.     The  following  is 

OEN.   PRENTISS*    OFFICIAL   REPORT. 

HXADQUABTSBS  AbMT  OF  NOBTH  MlBSOUBI,  1 

PALifYBA,  Mo.,  January  4, 1862.     / 

ft  John  C.  KeUon,  AasUtani  Adjutant-General  Department  of  Miseowri: 

la  panoanoe  of  a  special  order,  received  on  the  evening  of  December  28, 1861, 1  proceeded 
m  Pilmyra  for  Sturgeon  on  the  morning  of  the  24tb  day  of  December,  with  five  compar 
s  af  the  Third  Miasouri  Cavalry,  Gol.  John  M.  Glover  commanding.  1  arrived  at  Sturgeon 
the  evening  of  the  26th.  During  the  following  day,  having  learned  that  there  was  a  con- 
trtUon  of  rebels  near  the  village  of  Hallsville,  in  Boone  Gounty,  I  sent  forward  one  com- 
17  of  cavalry,  commanded  by  Capt  Howland,  to  reconnoitre  in  that  vicinity.  Oapt. 
rUnd  proceeded  to  Hallsville,  but  found  no  rebels.  After  proceeding  about  two  miles 
Olid,  his  advance  guard  encountered  the  rebels  in  force,  commanded  by  Gol.  Oaleb  Dor- 
Gspt  Howland  endeavored  to  draw  off  his  company,  having  taken  nine  prisoners,  but 
oferpowered.  Being  wounded,  and  having  lost  his  horse,  he  was  taken  prisoner,  with 
private  of  hit  company.  The  remainder  of  his  men  made  good  their  retreat,  arriving  at 
i]geon  at  nine  o'clock  p.  m.  Having  learned  the  position  of  the  enemy,  I  immediately  or^ 
)d  five  companies  of  cavalry,  OoL  John  M.  Glover  commanding,  and  five  companies  of 
pibooters.  Col.  Birge  commanding,  numbering  in  all  four  hundred  and  seventy,  to  march 
vo  A.  M.,  at  which  hour  I  started,  and  after  marching  a  distance  of  sixteen  miles,  at  eight 
oekiuic.  of  the  28th  inst,  I  found  one  company  of  rebels,  commanded  by  Capt  Johnsoni 
odtion  to  the  left  of  the  road  leading  from  Hallsville  to  Mt  Zion.  I  i>rdered  two  compa- 
of  sharpshooters  to  pass  to  the  rear  of  the  enemy,  and  one  of  cavalry  to  dismount  and 
ige  them  in  the  front,  it  being  difficult  for  the  sharpshooters  to  attain  their  position  un- 
mved,  the  enemy  manifesting  a  disposition  to  retire. 

!oL  Glover  opened  fa%  and  succeeded  in  killing  five,  and  capturing  seven  prisoners,  from 
*m  I  learned  the  number  and  position  of  the  main  force.  The  enemy  being  posted  at  a 
reb,  known  as  Mt  Zion,  in  Boone  County,  and  one  mile  and  a  half  in  advance,  numbering 
r  nine  hundred  men,  I  ordered  the  cavalry  under  Col.  Glover  forward,  accompanied  by 
companies  of  Bilge's  sharpshooters.  Col.  Birge,  vrith  them,  arriving  near  the  encamp- 
it,  one  troop  of  cavalry  were  ordered  to  dismount  and  engage  the  enemy.  The  sharp. 
)ten  were  afterwards  ordered  through  a  field  on  our  right  to  skirmish  with  the  enemjr's 
and  if  possible  drive  them  from  the  woods. 

The  firing  being  heavy,  these  three  companies  not  being  able  to  drive  the  enemy  from  his 
)r,  CoL  Glover,  with  his  available  force,  moved  in  double<quick  to  the  aid  of  the  three 
psnies  engaged,  and  for  half  an  hour  longer  the  battle  raged  and  became  a  hand-to-hand 
t.  Oapt  Boyd's  company  of  sharpshooters  were  in  the  midst  of  the  rebel  camp.  Also^ 
orCarrick,  with  Company  C,  Third  Illinois  Cavalry.  When  Col.  Glover  arrived,  the 
li  could  not  stand  the  fire  of  our  rifles  and  retreated,  leaving  in  our  hands  ninety  (90) 
«i  snd  one  hundred  and  five  (105)  stand  of  arms.  The  battle  was  brought  to  a  close 
It  eleven  ▲.  n. 

*be  reserve  of  two  companies  coming  into  action  at  the  moment  the  enemy  gave  way,  our 
)ry  was  complete.  After  collecting  our  wounded,  we  proceeded  to  collect  those  of  the 
^h  placed  them  in  the  church,  and  sent  for  farmers  and  friends  in  the  vicinity  to  render 
ttsDce.    I  collected  wagons,  made  our  wounded  as  comfortable  as  possible,  and  at  four 


414  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

P.  M.  started  for  Sturgeon,  where  we  arrived  at  nine  p.  m.  Our  loss  in  the  batUe  of  Mt  Zit 
and  in  the  eng^agement  of  the  evening  previous  is  as  follows :  Killed,  three ;  slightly  wouode 
forty-six ;  severely  wounded,  seventeen,  Bobel  loss :  Killed,  twenty-five ;  wounded,  o 
hundred  and  fifty. 

I  have  not  been  able  to  get  a  correct  report  of  the  rebel  missing;  but  having  taken tfair 
prisoners  from  the  barn,  their  punishment  is  a  severe  one.  Sixty  of  the  rebels,  with  Ct| 
Howland  and  four  of  our  men  as  prisoners,  arrived  at  the  camp  at  night,  twenty  milei  d 
tant  from  the  field  of  battle. 

Permit  me  to  mention  that  our  entire  force  behaved  gallantly.  I  make  special  mention 
the  following  officers :  Col.  John  M.  Glover,  Maj.  Carrick,  Lieuts.  Yates  and  Kirkpatrick, 
the  Third  Missouri  Cavalry ;  Col.  Birge.  Capt.  Boyd,  and  Adjt  Temple,  of  Birge's  Sliar 
shooters,  and  Lieut.  Edwin  Moore,  my  aide.  I  also  assure  you  that  the  men  behaved  wi 
coolness  and  daring  during  the  engagement 

Annexed  please  find  list  of  names  of  our  killed  and  wounded,  and  list  of  rebel  woonde 

left  by  us  at  Mt.  Zion.    I  have  the  honor  to  be.  Captain,  very  respectfully,  your  obediei 

servant, 

B.  M.  Prentiss,  Brigctdier-GmenL 

i 

LIST  OF  KILLED  AND  WOUNDED  AT  THE  BATTLE    OF   MT.  ZION,  DEOEHBEB   28,    1861,  OF  TI 
FIRST  REGIMENT  OF  SHARPSHOOTERS  —  COL.  BIRQB  COMMANDING. 

Severely  Wounded, —  W.  Derot,  Company  B,  since  died;  Sergeant  Larimore,  Gompii 
B;  J.  Manar,  Company  B;  P.  Putnam,  Company  B;  C.  H.  Machie,  Company  H;  H.  Gi 
non,  Company  H ;  C.  Atherton,  Company  H. 

Slightly  Wounded. — A.  Henoesi,  Company  A ;  John  Lynch,  Jesse  Chambers,  L.  Bea< 
D.  Martimore;  W.  H.  Blake.  Tobias  Miller,  Peter  Edwards,  Company  B ;  Sergeant  Wee! 
Company  D ;  Sergeant  Lemon,  Corporal   Carr,   J.   M.   Parker,   J.  Vinton,  M.  Grady, 
Slevin,  Company  H. 

REPORT  OF  KILLED  AND  WOUNDED  AT  THE  SKIRMISH  NEAR  HALLSVILLE,  DECEMBER  27,  18 
AND  AT  THE  BATTLE  OF   MT.  ZION,  DECEMBER  28,  1861,  OF  COL.  JOHN  OLOYSE*8 

THIRD   MISSOURI   CAVALRY. 

Killed.  —  Hugh  Gregg,  Alfred  Magers,  G.  Milton  Douglass,  Company  C. 

Severely  Wounded,  —  Andreus  Goodrich,  Company  A,  since  died ;  Wm.  Wright,  Co 
pany  B,  since  died ;  Charles  Carnehan,  D.  H.  Hindman,  C.  C.  Washburn,  Company  B,  sii 
died;  John  R.  Stewart,  George  Barcastle,  Isaac   Black,  Company  C,  since  died;  Wm. 
Hardin,  Benjamin  F.  Tidell,  Company  E,  since  died. 

Slightly  Wounded.  —  Capt.  J.  T.  Howland,  Company  A;  F.  S.  Morris,  Company  A;  . 
Seph  Washburne,  Company  A ;  Daniel  Barret,  Company  A ;  J.  H.  Warnesbrj',  Jan 
Eagle,  Company  B;  Marion  Morrell,  Thos.  Phillipot,  Henry  Ferguson,  John  Wessell,  Th 
Kirby,  John  Scroggen,  William  Beman,  Robert  Allen.  Company  C;  Herbert  Reed,  J. 
Flickiner,  Company  D ;  J.  H.  Turner,  Henry  Alters,  Company  A ;  Daniel  Shannehan,  . 
lius  Krenling,  Company  B;  Henry  Henry,  Henry  S.  Akers,  Jesse  Steele,  William  H,  H< 
ell,  John  R.  Rogers,  Millard  Williams,  Company  C;  William  B.  Davis,  John  Macklin,  G 
Lopez,  John  W.  Donaldson,  Allen  H.  Fite,  Company  F. 

LIST  OF  REBEL  WOUNDED  LEFT  AT  MT.  ZION  CHURCH,  AFTER  THE    BATTLE   OF  DECEMBER 

1861. 

W.  C.  McLean,  arm  broken;  Wm.  Phillips,  shot  through  the  stomach;  Wm.  Swad 
Callaway  County  (since  died),  right  breast;  Wm.  T.  Ives,  Lincoln  County,  through  groi 
Major  Thomas  Breckinridge,  Warren  County,  right  arm  and  left  breast;  John  H.  Jon 
Warren  County,  thigh;  Samuel  Bamum,  Lincoln  County,  left  shoulder;  F.  J.  Brougha 
Callaway  County,  neck ;  A.  J.  Parson,  Montgomery  County,  left  thigh ;  Robert  Snead,  Li 


BISTORT   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  415 

eoln  Gountjt  both  tbighs ;  0.  King,  Lincoln  County,  both  thighs ;  W.  H.  Vaughn,  Lincoln 
Ooontj,  throat;  O.  McDonald,  St  Charles  County,  both  thighs;  Abram  Bramberger,  Calla- 
nyConnty,  left  breast;  J.  £.  McConnell,  Montgomery  County,  right  thigh;  L.  Davis, 
GiUaway  Coantj,  right  cheek  and  neck ;  F.  G.  Henderson,  8t.  Charles  County,  hand ;  R. 
3.  Mootford,  Oallaway  County,  calf  of  leg ;  J.  Crossman,  Boone  County,  small  of  back ;  C. 

Qmsenbeny,  Boone  County,  right  breast ;  Eeman,  St  Charles  County,  left  hand  and 

ftce;  John  Bailey,  Warren  County,  thigh ;  Capt  Myers,  "Warren  County,  side ;  W.  R.  Smith. 

Pike  County,  left  shoulder; Martin,  Pike  County,  leg;  Lawrence  Jacobie,  Pike  County, 

kind.   Foar  names  not  obtained,  dangerously  wounded. 

THE  CONFEDERATE  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  FIGHT. 

Neither  Col.  Dorsey  nor  any  other  confederate  oiBcer  published  an  of- 
ficial account  of  the  Mount  Zion  fight,  otherwise  it  would  be  given  here. 
But  an  intelligent  gentleman,  who  was  one  of  his  command,  and  who 
was  present  during  the  engagement,  informs  us  that  on  December  24, 
1861,  Col.  Dorsey  left  Pike  County,  and  on  the  27th,  at  Grandview, 
in  Boone  County,  which  is  near  and  west  of  the  church,  organized 
his  forces,  consisting  of  six  companies,  of  about  350  men,  not  all 
araed.  The  officers  in  command  were  Col.  Caleb  Dorsey,  Lieut. 
Col.  Cole  Kent,  Maj.  Thomas  Breckinridge  and  E.  W.  Herndon,  (now 
a  citizen  of  Columbia),  Surgeon. 

About  2  o'clock,  p.  m.,  of  the  27th,  this  force  took  up  the  line  of 
inarch,  intending  to  camp  at  Mount  Zion  church.    About  a  half  a  mile 
northeast  of  the  church,  the  Federals  came  up  and  tired  on  their  rear 
guard,  wounding  two  of  Dorsey's  men,   and  then  fell  back.     Dorsey 
pursued  them,  and  three  miles  from  the  church  overtook  the  retreat- 
ing force,  and  fired  upon  them.     A  ten  minutes'  skirmish  ensued,  in 
w^hich  one  Federal  was  mortally  wounded,  and  Capt.  Rowland  (Fed- 
ci"al),  was  wounded  in  the  thigh,  and  taken  prisoner.     Dorsey's  sur- 
geon, Dr.  Herndon,  extracted  the  ball.     None  of  Dorsey's  men  were 
killed  or  wounded. 

Oil  the  morning  of  the  28th,  the  engagement  was  renewed,  the  force 

under  Dorsey  being  about  100  yards  east  of  the  church,  in  the  brush 

and  timber.     The  Federal  charge  upon  them  was  with  both  infantry 

aud  cavalry,  but  was  repulsed.     They  again  charged,  and  were  again 

Repulsed,  after  which  they  made  a  third  charge.     The  ammunition  of 

Dorsey's  command  being  exhausted,  he  determined  to  fall  back  to  his 

'Wagons.     The  Federals  advanced  upon  him,  and  took  some  ten  pris- 

^^ners.    They  then  marched   on  to  the  church,  and  seeing  soldiers  in 

^ne  building,  fired  on  it,  whereupon  two  of  the  prisoners  who  were  in 

^he church,  ran  out  and  said:   "  There  are  no  fighting  men  here  ;  this 

*8  a  hospital ;"  hearing  which  the  Federal  fire  ceased. 


416  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

» 

Gen.  Prentiss  then  gathered  up  his  dead  and  wounded,  pres9 
teams  and  wagons,  and  returned  to  Sturgeon,  leaving  the  Confedera 
wounded  on  the  field,  whom  Dr.  Herndon  distributed  among  the  far 
houses  in  the  neighborhood.  Dorsey's  loss :  Skilled;  35  wounde< 
and  10  prisoners.  Prentiss'  loss  (estimated)  :  30  killed ;  60  woundec 
and  10  prisoners. 

The  gentleman  who  makes  this  report  to  us,  also  desires  it  to  b 
stated  that  Gen.  Prentiss  in  every  respect  acted  the  gentleman  anc 
the  soldier,  in  regard  to  the  Confederate  wounded,  aflTording  all  tb( 
assistance  in  his  power,  and  detailing  a  guard  from  his  own  commaoc 
to  keep  soldiers  out  of  the  church. 

We  learn  from  a  different  source  that  among  Dorsey's  wouuded 
were  Clifton  Quisenberry,  of  Boone,  Capt.  Mj'ers,  of  Lincoln,  i 
young  man  by  the  name  of  Thurman,  and  a  Mr.  Swaydor,  all  ol 
whom,  except  Capt.  Myers,  died  —  Swaydor  at  John  Reed's,  who 
lives  near  the  church.  One  of  the  wounded  also  died  at  James  Ful- 
kerson's. 

From  another  source,  altogether  authentic,  it  is  learned  that  \n  the 
skirmish  on  the  evening  before  the  main  fight  at  Mt.  Zion,  the  fol- 
lowing men  of  Co.  A,  3d  Cavalry,  Missouri  Volunteers,  were  taken 
prisoners  by  the  Confederates,  viz.:  Capt.  Jas.  T.  Howland;  pri- 
vates Geo.  Hipkins,  Thos.  J.  Maggard,  John  W.  Peak,  A.  J.  Johnson, 
Wm.  B.  Hatten,  W.  J.  Morton,  A.  J.  Goodrich  and  Chas.  Carna- 
han.  Capt.  Howland  was  badly  wounded  in  the  leg;  Carnahan  wai 
struck  on  the  occipital  bone ;  Goodrich  was  the  soldier  mortal!; 
wounded,  who  died  the  same  night. 

A  few  days  after  the  fight  an  arrangement  was  effected  betwc< 
Gen.  Prentiss  and  Col.  Dorsey,  commanding  the  Federal  and  Confe 
erate  forces  respectively,  for  an  exchange  of  prisoners.  Capt.  H€ 
derson  represented  the  Confederates  and  Col.  Glover  the  Feder^ 
and  the  exchange  was  made  at  Sturgeon.  The  following  are  t 
names  of  the  Federals,  exchanged  :  — 

Capt  J.  T.  Howland,  Co.  A,  8d  Mo.  Cavalry. 

Wm.  Morton,  Co.  A,  8d  Mo.  Cavalry. 

Wm.  Hatten,     "    "    •*     "  " 

Sergeant  J.  C.   Miller,  Co.  C,  3d  Mo.  Cavalry. 

"        W.  S.  Grover,  "    "     "      "  *' 

Bugler  Thos.  Orton,         "    "     **      "  " 

Corporal  Rhino,  "    "     "      "  " 

Private  Prank  Murray,    "    "     "      **  *• 

Sergeant  Isaiah  Null,  Flagg's  Regiment 
Private  Walter  Scott,  Slat  Ohio  Infantry. 


HI6TOBT  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  417 

After  leaving  Mt.  Zion  Church   Col.  Dorsey  made  his  way  west- 

mrd  into  Perche  township,  and  went  into  camp  near  Everett.     Here 

heieroained  a  day  or  two,  when,  pursuant  to  orders  from  Gen.  Price, 

be  ordered  his  command  to  <<  scatter,"  until  such  time  as  a  concen* 

tntion  would  be  proper  and  could  be  effected.     In  February  foU 

lowing  the  major  portion  of  the  command  crossed  the  Missouri  and 

made  its  way  to  Price's  army. 


**  Merrill's  horse. 


>j 


1862.  One  of  the  prominent  incidents  in  the  military  history  of 
Colombia,  and  of  Boone  County,  was  the  advent  into  the  former,  on 
Thanday,  January  2,  1862,  of  a  large  poi*tion  of  the  Second  Cavalry 
regiment,  Missouri  Volunteers,  known  as  ^'Merrill's  Horse,"  and 
commanded  by  Col.  Lewis  Merrill,  Lieut.-Col.  Wm.  F.  Shaffer  and 
Maj.  John  Y.  Clopper.  This  force  pitched  their  tents  in  the  Uni- 
Tenity  campus,  made  officers'  quarters,  and  established  a  depository 
for  Commissary's  and  Quartermaster's  stores  and  a  military  prison, 
in  the  University.  They  garrisoned  Columbia  until  about  the  1st  of 
Jolj,  when  the  headquarters  of  the  regiment  were  moved  to  War- 
rentoD. 

Merrill's  Horse  came  to  be  well  known  in  Missouri.  It  fought  in 
almost  every  quarter  of  the  State,  from  Cherry  Grove,  in  Scotland 
County,  to  Bloomfield,  Stoddard  County.  It  fought  at  Silver  Creek, 
Pierce's  Mills,  Compton's  Ferry,  Kirksville,  and  other  places  in  this 
State,  and  did  much  service  in  Arkansas. 

During  the  stay  of  this  force  in  Columbia  many  citizens  in  various 
parts  of  the  county  were  aiTested,  a  few  of  them  tried  by  court-mar- 
tial, some  of  them  banished  from  the  State,  some  of  them  condemned 
to  death  (but  never  shot)  for  bridge  burning,  recruiting  within  the 
Federal  lines,  violations  of  parole,  etc.,  and  several  hundred  of  them 
Inquired  to  give  bond  and  take  the  following  oath  :  — 


I,  ■ ,  of  my  own  free  will  and  accord,  do  solemnly  swear  before  Almighty 

^^  and*in  the  presence  of  these  witnesses,  without  any  mental  reservation  and  with  full 
intent  of  mind  and  heart  to  keep  the  obligation,  that  I  will  bear  true  faith  and  allegiance  to 
^^«  Federal  Government  of  the  United  States,  above  all  allegiance  to  any  other  State  or 
government;  that  I  will  support  and  uphold  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  and  the 
^Ute  of  Missouri,  and  that  I  will  neither  encourage,  aid  nor  assist,  by  word  or  deed,  any 
^^0  are  now  or  who  may  hereafter  be  in  rebellion  against  the  Government  of  the  United 
^^tes  as  lawfully  constituted,  and  that  I  will  by  all  peaceful  means  in  my  power  dis- 
courage  and  discountenance  the  present  rebellion  against  the  said  Goveniment  So  help 
ineOod. 

27 


418  HISTORY    OF   BOONE   CX)UNTY. 

UNION    MILITARY    DISPLAY A    FEDERAL    SOLDIER   DISGRACED. 

On  Monday,  February  11,  1862,  there  was  a  very  imposing  militarjr 
pageant  in  Columbia,  attended  by  an  unusual  exhibition  of  the  rigor 
of  military  discipline. 

On  their  march  from  Boonville  to  Danville,  and  en  route  for  the  field 
of  battle  in  Tennessee,  three  infantry  regiments  under  command  of 
Col.  Worthington,  acting  Brigadier-General,  passed  through  Colum- 
bia and  encamped  near  the  farm  of  Dr.  Jacobs,  six  miles  east.  The 
column  consisted  of  the  Fifth  Iowa,  Col,  Worthington  ;  Forty-seveuth 
Illinois,  Col.  Bryan,  and  an  Ohio  regiment  under  Col.  Groeslwck, 
with  a  battery  of  six  pieces  under  Captain  Sharp,  and  about  130 
wagonvS.  The  whole  made  an  immense  train.  When  the  front  of 
the  column  reached  the  brow  of  the  hill  west  of  town,  a  halt  wm 
ordered  and  Capt.  Sharp  discharged  two  of  his  pieces,  waking  up  aU 
the  region  round  about,  after  which,  with  martial  music  by  three 
bands,  and  the  Siarsand  Stripes  floating  at  the  head  of  each  regiment, 
the  immense  pageant  marched  through  town. 

A  few  miles  west  of  town,  that  morning,  one  of  the  soldiers,  who 
was  on  horseback,  while  passing  the  residence  of  James  Watson,  dis- 
mounted from  his  lame  and  jaded  charger,  and  without  license,  bridled 
and  saddled  and  rode  away  a  gelding  of  Mr.  Watson's.  No  sooner 
was  Col.  Worthington  advised  of  this  fact  than  he  ferreted  out  the 
oflTender,  returned  the  horse  to  his  owner,  and  secured  the  unfortunate 
man  with  a  ro[)e  to  the  hind  gate  of  one  of  the  wagons,  with  a  file  of 
soldiers  to  guard  him. 

ARRIVAL   OF    COL.    ODON     GUITAR    IN    COLUMBIA. 

Early   in  January,  1862,  Odon  Guitar,  a  distinguished  lawyer  aod 
well-known  Union  man  of  Columbia,  was  authorized  bv  Gov.  Gam t>^^ 
to  recruit  a  cavalry  regiment  of  Missouri  State  militia  —  the  Nint^^- 
He  entered  upon   the  duty  with  alacrity,  and  it  was  not  long  before 
his  effbrts  were  crowned  with  success ;  and  his  regiment,  after  bei  ^^i 
organized,  attained  no  mean  distinction  for  efficiency  and  counigo     ^^ 

sustaining  the  flag  under  which  they  marched. 

« 

On  Tuesday,  February  17,  1862,  Col.  Guitar  arrived  in  Coluint^'*^ 
with  two  companies  of  his  regiment  from  Sturgeon,  fully  uniform^^^ 
and  equipped.  Their  entrance  into  Columbia  was  acccompanied  fc^I 
the  waving  of  handkerchiefs  and  many  other  tokens  of  greeting  frc^^ 
the  citizens  and  by  loud  huzzas  from  the  people  and  from  Col.  M^^ 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  419 

rill's  cavalry ;  the  latter  was  drawn  up  in  front  of  the  8 talesman 
office  to  receive  them.     It  was  a  soul-stirring  ovation.     These  com-* 
pinies  of  Col.  Guitar's  regiment  were  composed  principally  of  young 
and  able-bodied  men  from  Boone  and  Howard. 

The  22d  of  February,  1862  was  celebrated  in  the  court  bouse  in 
Columbia^  Maj.  A.  J.  Harbison  acting  as  president  and  L.  M.  Switz* 
kr  as  secretary.  Pi*ayer  by  Rev.  Isaac  Jones.  Beading  of  Wash-* 
iogton's  farewell  address  by  Dr.  J.  H.  Lathrop.  Shoi-t  addresses  by 
Col.  Merrill  and  Capt.  Howard. 

Pr 

MILITARY  8UFPRE88ION  OF    THE    COLUMBIA   <<  STANDARD  "    NEWSPAPER. 

In  March,  1862,  a  military  commission  convened  at  Columbia  pur- 
suant to  special  orders  No.  160,  of  February  20,  1862,  from  the  Head- 
qoarters  of  the  Department  of  the  Missouri,  Col.  Lewis  Merrill, 
President,  before  which  Edmund  J.  Ellis  was  arraigned  and  tried  on 
Tarious  charges  and  specifications  —  substantially,  that  in  the  Columbia 
Standardf  a  newspaper  of  which  he  was  editor  and  proprietor,  he 
gaie  information  for  the  benefit  of  the  enemy  and  encouraged  resist- 
ance to  the  government  and  laws  of  the  United  States,  and  that  in 
doing  so  he  violated  the  laws  of  war.  The  commission  found  him 
guilty,  and  sentenced  him  to  be  placed  and  kept  outside  of  the  lines 
of  the  State  of  Missouri  during  the  war,  and  that  the  press,  types 
ind  other  material  of  the  Standard  oiBce  be  contiscated  and  sold  for 
the  use  of  the  United  States.  The  finding  and  sentence  were  approved 
by  Maj.  Gen.  Halleck,  and  by  Edwin  M.  Stanton,  Secretary  of  War, 
and  wore  executed.  • 

The  same  military  commission  tried  Wm.  F.  Petty,  James  Quisen- 
berry  and  James  Lane,  on  the  charge  of  railroad  and  bridge  burning 
on  the  North  Missouri  Railroad,  about  December  21,  1861 ;  found 
them  guilty,  and  sentenced  them  to  be  '^  shot  dead  at  such  time  and 
place  as  the  Major  General  commanding  the  department  shall  direct.'* 
On  recommendation  of  the  commission  Gen.  Halleck  commuted  the 
sentence  to  taking  the  oath  of  allegiance,  and  giving  bond  in  $2,000 
each  for  future   loyalty  to   the  Government.     Petty,  himself,  was 

finally  released,  and  now  lives  in  Texas. 

COLUMBIA   TRUSTEES    OUSTED. 

By  a  military  order  issued  April  19,  1862,  by  Col.  Merrill,  W.  H. 
Tillery,  W.  B.  Quisenberry,  Thomas  Selby,  J.  M.  Samuel  and  W.  H. 


420  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Duncan,  Trustees ;  John  Lackland,  Recorder,  and  W.  H.  Northcutt, 
Marshal  of  Columbia,  were  forbidden  to  exercise  any  of  the  func- 
tions of  their  oiBces,  under  penalty  of  being  arrested  and  tried  for 
military  offence. 


FLAG   PRESENTATION   TO    *' MERRILL* S   HORSE. 


»» 


On  Monday,  April  28,  1862,  a  flag  was  presented  to  the  regiment  ' 
of  Col.  Lewis  Merrill  (Merrill's  Horse)  by  the  loyal  citizens  of  Co-  3 
lunibia  and  vicinity,  as  a  testimonial  of  their  high  appreciation  of  thar 
services.     At  the  appointed  hour  the  portion  of  the  commands  of 
Cols.  Merrill    and    Guitar,  then   stationed  in  Columbia,  formed  as 
infantry  in  the  University  campus,  and  with  banners  flying  and  to  the 
music  of  the  cavalry  bugle  marched  to  the  front  of  the  court  hoose,* 
where  the  presentation  was  made.     J.  H.  Waugh,  T.  B.  Gentry,  Dr. 
Paul  Hubbard  and  W.  B.  Selby  acted  as  a  committee  of  arrange- 
ment.    Col.  Switzl6r   presided,  and  prayer  was  offered  by  Rev.  Dr. 
Landis,  Chaplain  of  «*  Merrill's  Horse."     Dr.  John  H.  Lathrop  de- 
livered the  presentation  speech,  to  which  Col.  Merrill  responded. 

DEATH   OF   LIEUT.  THEODORE   BROOKS. 

On  Saturday  night.  May  3,  1862,  Lieut.  theO.  Brooks,  of  Capt. 
Cook's  Company,  Guitar's  regiment,  with  twelve  men,  stopped  tor 
the  night  at  the  house  of  John  Long,  four  miles  from  Florida  and  eight 
miles  from  Paris,  in  Monroe  County.     Apprehending  an  attack  during 
the  night  from  about  fifty  armed  Confederates,  who  were  supposed  to 
be  in   the  vicinity,  Lieut.  Brooks  posted  sentinels  at  every  available 
point.     Between  12  and  1  o'clock  about  thirty  shots  were  fired  at  the 
sentinel  posted  at  the  barn  guarding  the  horses.     The  firing  was  hear* 
at  the  house,  and  Lieut.  Brooks  proceeded  immediately  to  the  barn  ^ 
learn  the  cause.     As  he  was  returning  to  the  house  he  was  mistak^^ 
by  his  own  men  for  one  of  the  enemy  and  one  soldier,  W.W.  Cong^* 
now  of  Centralia,  after  calling  *'  halt,"  (which  Lieut.  Brooks  did  U^ 
hear)  fired   upon  him,  the  ball  breaking  his   right  thigh   and  bad* 
jfthattering  the  bone.     He  was  the  next  day  conveyed  to  Paris  ».J5 
accommodated  with  a  room  at  the  Glenn  House,  where  he  died    ^ 
Tuesday  night.     His  widow,  who  still  resides  at  Ashland,  has,  eV^ 
since  his  death,  regularly  received  a  pension  from  the   Governmed^ 
A  detachment  of  Capt.  Cook's  company  escorted  his  remains  to  Salefl 
Church,  in  Boone  County,  where  they  were  interred. 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  421 

COL.    GUITAR   AT  JEFFERSON   CITY. 

On  May  6,  1862,  Odon  Guitar,  having  completed  the  organrzatioQ 
of  his  regiment,  was  commissioned  by  Gov.  Gamble  as  Colonel,  and 
on  May  Slst  Brig.  Gen.  James  Totten  issued  an  order  forming  a  mili« 
iary  sub-district  with  the  following  boundaries :  '^Northeast  and  south 
by  the  Missouri  and  Osage  Rivers,  and  west  by  a  line  from  Warsaw, 
throngh  Versailles  to  Mount  Vernon,  in  Moniteau  County,  and  that  Col. 
Odon  Guitar,  commanding  the  Ninth  Regiment,  M.  S.  M.  Cavalry,  will 
tBsame  military  control  and  surveillance  of  said  district,  keeping  up  a 
system  of  scouts  throughout  the  same,  so  that  at  all  times  he  may  be 
perfectly  informed  of  the  whereabouts  of  guerrilla  bands  and  other 
disloyal  persons  within  his  command."     Col.  Guitar  assumed  com- 
mand on  June  2d,  and  as  far  as  known  this  is  the  first  time  at  which 
his  raiment  was  all   stationed  at  the   same  place.     Col.    Guitar's 
encampment   at  Jefferson  City  was  called    '' Camp  Totten,"  and  on, 
June  9th  be  issued  General  Orders  No.  2,  attested  by  Thomas  Ward, 
post  adjutant,  in  regard  to  the  government  of  his  officers  and  the  dis- 
dpline  and  conduct  of  his  men. 

JULY   4,    1862,    IN   COLUMBIA. 

The  portion  of  "Merrill's  Horse  "  stationed  in  Columbia,  together 
with  many  citizens, 'celebrated  the  86th  anniversary  of  American  In- 
dependence, by  a  national  salute  at  day  break,  a  cavalry  dress  parade 
on  Broadway,  the  reading  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  by 
Lieut.  Lee  S.  Watson,  followed  by  a  speech  by  Capt.  Wm.  Barr. 

poindexter's  raid. 

During  the  month  of  August,  1862,  occurred  what  came  to  be 
tuown  as  **  Poindexter's  Raid."  Col.  J.  A.  Poindexter,  of  Randolph 
^-^unty,  returned  to  Missouri  from  the  Confederate  array,  in  Arkun- 
^and  recruited  in  this  section  of  Missouri,  a  considerable  force, 
Mimated  at  from  1,000  to  1,500,  and  then  sought  to  make  his  way. 
^>ackto  Arkansas.  He  was  pursued  by  Gen.  Odon  Guitar,  and  over- 
men at  Compton's  Ferry,  on  the  Grand  River,  Carroll  County,  and 
disastrously  defeated,  losing  about  thirty  killed,  a  number  of  horses, 
^nns,  provisions,  cftc.  Afterward  he  was  again  encountered  by  Gen. 
B.  F,  Loan,  near  Utica,  in  Livingston  County,  and  turned  south. 
Passing  through  thecorner  of  Linn,  and  into  Chariton  County,  he  was 

•gain  overtaken,  at  the  crossing  of  Yellow  Creek,  by  Gen.  Guitar  and 

"is  forces  dispersed. 


; 


422  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Poindexter's  raid  was  a  disastrous  failure.  His  men  rode  for  days 
without  food  or  sleep,  and  were  at  last  captured  and  defeated  from 
sheer  exhaustion.  Guitar  gave  them  no  chance  to  halt  and  refresh 
themselves,  and  everywhere  the  militia  were  up  and  after  them. 
Many  of  them  were  from  Boone  County,  and  a  few  returned  home 
in  safety,  but  many  more  were  captured. 

The  fight  at  Compton's  Ferry  occurred  August  9  :  that  at  Yellow 
Creek  August  13.  In  both  of  these  engagements  portions  of  the 
Ninth  M.  S.  M.  were  present  and  took  a  creditable  part.  A  few  days 
previously  —  that  is  to  say,  on  July  28  —  Gen.  Guitar  had  fought  and 
defeated  a  force  of  Confederates  under  Col.  Jo.  Porter,  Third  Missouri 
Cavalry,  C.  S.  A.,  at  Moore's  Mills,  Callaway  County.^  Guitar  had 
under  him  portions  of  companies  A,  B,  G,  and  F,  of  the  Ninth  M.  S.  M. ; 
a  part  of  Merrill's  Horse,  a  battalion  of  the  Third  Iowa  Cavalry,  and 
a  company  of  militia  from  Pike  County.  Following  is  a  list  of  the 
killed  and  wounded  in  the  companies  of  the  Ninth  M.  S.  M. :  — 

Killed.  — Richard  Baker,  George  Scbultz.  % 

Wounded,  —  Bugler  John  Gallatlj,  in  several  places,  dangeroui  (the  report  that  he  wil 
killed  is  untrue);  H.  Shrader,  in  head,  severe;  P.  Knitzer,  in  head,  severe;  L.  Snowdsn, 
mortally;  J.  Tudor,  in  leg,  severe;  W.  A.  Mason,  in  hip  and  hand,  severe;  H.  Shultii  i& 

thigh,  slight;  Fleming,  in  arm,  severe;  R.  H.  Breese,  in  head,  slight;  M.  Dalton,  i& 

elbow,  slight;  E.  0.  Music. 

The  total  Federal  loss  at  Moore's  Mill  was  about  sixteen  killed  and 
fifty  wounded.  The  Confederate  loss  was  about  the  same.  Boone 
County  men  participated  in  this  fight  on  both  sides.  Among  the 
Confederate  killed  were  D.  P.  Brown  and  Henry  Pigg,  both  of  this 
county  ;  wounded,  Wm.  T.  Tolston,  John  McKinzie,  John  Bergen, 
itnd  John  Jefl*ries. 

August  6,  Gen.  John  McNeil  defeated  Col.  Porter  at  Kirksville,  the 
Ninth  M.  S,  M.  performing  much  valuable  service  for  the  Federals. 
The  Boone  County  companies,  under  Capts.  Garth  and  Cook,  vfete 
especially  mentioned  in  the  official  reports  for  gallant  action. 

THE  GUERRILLAS  VISIT  COLUMBIA  AND  RELEASE  THE  PRISONERS  VS 
JAIL THEY  CALL  FOR  COL.  SWITZLER  AND  GO  TO  THE  «»  STATES- 
MAN "  OFFICE  TO    DESTROY    IT THEY    CAPTURE    ABOUT    80   PEDEBAl* 

HORSES. 

On  Tuesday,  August  13,  18(52,  about  200  guen-illas  under  com- 
mand of  Capt.  Young  Purcell,  of  Audrain,  and  Lieutenant  John  Brown, 


^  A  full  account  of  this  engagement  and  of  the  Compton's  Ferry  fight  were  prapered  vpr 
publication,  but  omitted  for  want  of  room.  — Publibhkbs. 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  423 

iooiie,  made  a  sudden  dash  into  Columbia  from  the  north,  by  the 
itraliaroad.  Their  presence  in  different  portions  of  it  was  so  sud- 
i.and  unexpected,  that  it  was  with  difficulty  that  many  of  the 
jeral  soldiers,  who  were  leisurely  walking  around  and  sitting  be- 
ith  the  trees,  made  their  way  past  them  to  their  encampment  in 
)  campus  of  the  University. 

The  guerrilla  advance  guard  was  the  first  to  enter,  which  im- 
)diately  picketed  the  principal  cross  streets  and  all  the  roads 
iding  out  of  town,  allowing  no  one  to  pass  in  or  out.  This 
ard  was  shortly  followed  by  about  70  more  who  scattered  in  the 
•eets  north  of  Broadway,  leaving  a  large  number  in  the  suburbs 
hind.  « 

After  going  through  with  these  preliminaries,  they  proceeded  to 
ejail,  demanded  the  keys  of  the  jailer,  who  surrendered  them,  and 
leased  the  three  confederate  prisoners  therein  confined  —  Wm.  B. 
ckson  of  Audrain,  Wm.  Rowland,  and  Amos  Marney,  Jr.,  both  of 
is  county,  the  latter  a  cousin  to  the  confederate  Captain  Purcell. 
le  release  of  these  men  appeared  to  be  the  principal  object  of  their 
sit  to  Columbia,  for  shortly  after  this  was  accomplished  they  evacu- 
ed  the  town  creating  no  further  disturbance. 

But  while  this  was  going  on,  squads  of  them,  some  intoxicated, 
m  ranging  up  and  down  the  streets  swearing  and  hallooing  at  a  ter* 
)le  rate.  A  party  of  them  halted  in  front  of  the  Statesman  office 
d  inquired  for  Colonel  Switzler,  but  were  informed  that  he  was  ab- 
ut, he  having  left  early  on  the  previous  evening  for  St.  Louis  via 
fferson  City.  They  then  swore  with  a  vengeance  that  they  had  come 
demolish  the  office,  and  were  about  proceeding  to  the  work  when 
e  intei*ference  of  Lieut.  Brown  and  some  of  the  citizens.  Southern 
en,  prevented  it.  It  was  with  reluctance  that  they  could  give  up 
is  long  and  dearly  cherished  design.  Happily,  however,  they  in- 
red  nothing.  One  of  them  ordered  down  the  Union  flag  floating 
front  of  Redmond's  daguerrean  gallery  and  trailed  it  in  the  dust 
he  rode  through  the  streets  singing  songs  and  shouting  for  Jeff. 
itvis.  Such  conduct  as  this  characterized  many  of  them  whilst  in 
wn,  but  the  body  of  them  were  more  civil  and  more  disposed  to  be 
liet. 

The  pickets  kept  up  a  continual  firing,  the  Federals  returning  it 
len  they  could,  from  behind  houses  and  fences,  but  no  one  was  in- 
red,  though  several  citizens  narrowly  escaped. 
Whilst  these  things  were  going  on  in  town  a  party  of  the  invaders 


424  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

went  to  a  pasture  belonging  to  Maj.  Wm.  S.  Cave,  one  mile  north  ol 
town  and  captured  81  head  of  government  horses — the  farm  now  owned 
by  Col.  E.  C.  More.  The  horses  were  grazing  in  the  pasture,  and 
were  guarded  by  four  men,  all  of  whom  escaped  except  one  —  Daniel 
W.  Rogers  —  who,  it  is  supposed,  was  wounded  as  he  was  taken  pri»- 
oner.  They  also  took  a  horse  from  Mr.  Jere  Orear,  a  citizen  of  Colum- 
bia. The  government  horses  taken  were  very  inferior  animals,  some 
of  them  scarcely  worth  driving  away.  Out  of  the  whole  number,  they 
got  only  about  twenty  fit  for  service  of  any  kind.  About  15  were 
afterwards  recovered. 

About  5  o'clock  they  left  town  by  the  Mexico  road,  and  camped 
that  night  on  the  farm  of  John  Read,  near  Mt.  Zion  Church. 

MILITARY   SECRETARY   IN   ARKANSAS. 

In  August,  1862,  Hon.  John  S.  Phelps,  of  Springfield  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  Secretary  of  War,  Military  Governor  of  Arkansas, 
who  appointed  W.  F.  Switzler,  Military  Secretary  of  that  State,  with 
the  rank,  pay  and  emoluments  of  a  major  of  cavalry.  Amos  Eno,  ol 
New  York  City  was  appointed  adjutant.  They  immediately  took  up 
their  headquarters  in  Helena,  Ark.,  then  garrisoned  by  Maj.  Gen 
8.  B.  Curtis,  with  25,000  soldiers.  Col.  Switzler,  in  October  follow 
ing,  resigned  and  came  home. 

BURNING   OF   MOUNT   ZION    CHURCH. 

On  Sunday,  September  22,  1862,  a  detachment  of  an  Iowa  reg 
ment  stationed  at  Mexico,  and  at  the  time  in  command  of  a  Lieuten^ 
by  the  name  of  Hartman,  appeared  at  Mount  Zion  Church,  about  ' 
miles  northeast  of  Columbia,  and  burned  it  to  the  ground.  They  ai 
burned  the  dwellings  and  barns  of  Robert  H.  Gay,  and  Elijah  Cri 
man,  in  the  same  neighborhood.  It  is  not  known  that  they  were  ev" 
arrested  and  punished  for  these  outrages. 

In  August,  1862,  Col.  Guitar,  9th  Cavalry,  M.  S.  M.,  was  promote 
by  Gov.  Gamble,  to  be  Brigadier  General  in  the  enrolled  militia,  fi 
gallant  and  meritorious  services  recently  rendered,  and  was  orderc 
to  make  his  headquarters  in  Columbia,  where  he  issued  an  order  thi 
all  persons  subject  to  military  duty,  residing  in  the  county,  repoi 
themselves  at  his  headquarters  (the  president's  house  at  the  Unive 
sity),  for  enrollment  on  or  before  September  26th.  John  Corbi 
enrolling  officer. 

Under  this  order  about  2,100  citizens  were  enrolled. 


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HI8TORT   OF  BOOXB   COUNTY.  425 

FLAG  PRESENTATIONS. 

Oo  Thursday  morning,  the  30th  of  October,  1862,  a  rich  and  beau- 
tiful silk  flag,  on  behalf  of  the  Union  ladies  of  Columbia  and  vicinity, 
was  presented  to  the  command  of  Gen.  Guitar,  the  Ninth  Cavalry, 
M.  S.  M.,  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins  making  the  presentation  speech,  and 
Gen.  Guitar  responding.  On  the  same  occasion,  R.  L.  Todd,  Esq., 
presented  a  beautiful  banner  to  Company  B,  Captain  Garth  respond- 
ing. Still  another  banner,  no  less  beautiful  and  appropriate  than  the 
others,  was  presented  by  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins  to  the  Ninth  Cavalry, 
accompanied  with  an  appropriate  address  from  Maj.  Rollins,  and  a 
stirring  response  from  Gen.  Guitar.  The  scene  of  the  presentations 
was  in  front  of  the  court  house,  the  troops  being  drawn  up  conven- 
iently and  appropriately,  in  columns,  and  the  speakers  standing  on 
the  steps  of  the  portico. 

At  the  battle  at  Lone  Jack,  in  Jackson  County,  Missouri,  Capt.  J. 
B.Watson  and  W.  T.  Parker,  of  this  county,  wye  killed.  Capt.  W. 
was  shot  in  the  head.  Mr.  Parker  was  a  son  of  Gabriel  Parker,  of 
this  county. 

NEW  ORDER  —  COL.   GUITAR. 

'^■\  General  Merrill,  at  his  own  request,  having  been  relieved  of  the 
command  of  the  Enrolled  Militia  of  this  (9th)  Military  District. 
Gen.  Guitar  was  appointed  to  the  command,  with  headquarters  at 
Columbia.  The  District  was  composed  of  the  counties  of  Boone, 
Bandolph,  Howard,  Monroe,  Audrain,  Callaway,  Ralls,  Pike,  Mont- 
gomery, Wan-en  and  St.  Charles.  Maj.  Luther  T.  Hayman  was  ap- 
pointed Asst.  Adjt.  General  of  the  District. 

Lt.  W.  B.  Kemper  was  promoted  to   Brigade  Quartermaster,  of 
^iiis  District,  with  the  rank  of  Major. 

SWORD   PRESENTED   TO   COL.    GUITAR. 

On  Saturday  night,  November  29,  1862,  at  the  military  headquar- 

^^  in  Columbia  (the  president's  house  in  the  University  campus), 

^®  ceremonies  attending  the  presentation  of  a  magnificent  sword  to 

^^n.  Guitar  occurred,  as  a  token  of  esteem  and  regard  on  the  part  of 

^^8  Union  friends  in  Boone  County.     The  sword  was  manufactured  in 

-Philadelphia,  at  a  cost  of  about  $150,  and  is  a  superb  piece  of  work- 

^^Oship.     The  scabbard  is  plain,  but  highly  polished,  and  exhibits  a 

yichly  golden  color.     Near  the  top  of  it,  next  to  the  hilt,  is  engraved 

^^  silver  the  portrait  of  Washington.     On  the  other  side  are  engraved 


436  HI8TORT  OP  BOONE   OOUKTIT. 

the  words:  "Presented  to  Brig.  Gen.  O.  Chiitar  by  his 
Jriends  of  Boone  County  for  his  gallant  and  meritorious  com 
Moore's  Mill,  Little  Comptonand  Yellow  Creek." 

The  hilt  is  of  solid  silver,  with  goldea  guard,  and  bears  the  ( 
ing  of  aneagle  in  combat  with  a  serpent.  The  end  of  the  hilt 
mounted  with  a  golden  eagle.  The  blade  is  executed  of  the 
steel,  highly  polished.  On  it,  in  beautiful  colors,  is  engrav 
goddess  of  liberty,  with  the  letters  "  U.  S." 

B.  L.  Todd  made  the  presentation  speech  to  which  Gen. 
responded. 

Orders  were  issued  December  16,  1862,  that  Gen,  Guitar' 
ment  leave  Columbia  and  make  its  headquarters  at  Rolla,  Mi 
and  that  Col.  J.  B.  Douglass,  with  Captains  Miller  and  Lamme' 
panics  of  enrolled  militia,  garrison  the  post.  Lieut.  James  A. . 
remained  as  Provost  Marshal. 


HI8TOBT  OF  BOONE  COUNTY. 


427 


CHAPTEB    XI. 

THE  CIVIL  WAR.  —  Concluded.    . 

IlKtion  Baianis  -^Oonfedente  Assault  on  the  Columbia  Jail  —  Skirmish  on  Oedar  Greek -» 
Hon.  J.  8.  Bollins  ** Taken  in"  by  Confederate  Guerrillas ~ Celebration  of  Union 
Victorias  —  Union  Meetings  —'  Negro  Bxodus  —  First  Provisional  Regiment  —  Murder  of 
M.  E.  Oldham— Depreciation  of  Slave  Property;  a  **  Likely"  Negro  for  $200  — Negro 
BeeniiU— Desperate  Fight  at  Dripping  Springs  —  The  Gosline's  Lane  Fight;  Capture 
of  i  Pederal  Wagon  Train;  Eleven  Federals  and  One  Bushwhacker  Killed — TKe 
Otrnag€  at  CentraUa  —  Massacre  of  28  Unarmed  Federals  by  Bill  Anderson  —  Horrible 
Soinei— Annihilation  of  Mi^.  Johnson's  (Federal)  Command  by  the  Bushwhackers  and 
^uerrillis  under  George  and  Tom  Todd,  Thrailkill,  Anderson  and  Poole  — A  Fight 
without  a  Parallel— Federal  Loss  128;  three  Guerrillas  Killed  — Pursuit  of  the  Guerril- 
ItibyOen.  J.  B. 'Douglass  — The  Federal  Draft  and  the  Drafted  —  Horrible  Massacre 
ofNegross— A  Fighting  Flock  of  Furious  Fowls— Capt  Cook's  Fight  with  Carter's 
Boihwhackers  in  Perche  Township — *'The  Morning  Cometh"  —  Peace  at  Last — An- 
other Draft,  but  Nobody  Hurt  —  Assassination  of  President  Lincoln — Public  Meeting 
—Oct.  Fletcher's  Appointments -^Spencer  Rifles  for  the  '*  Boone  County  Tigers"  — 
Rollini  Bobbed  Again  —  Surrender  of  Jim  Jackson's  Band  — Independence  Day,  1866  -~ 
Oeoenl  Be-union  of  the  People  —  Brethren  in  Unity  Once  More  — Clasping  Hands 
Of«r  the  Bloody  Ghaam- Capt  Cook's  Company  Believed;  Bnd  of  MiHtary  Oocupa- 
tioD— Railroad- Agricoltaral  College  —  Federal  and  Confederate  Soldiers'  Record. 


ELECTION  RETURNS  FROM    1863  TO   1866. 
*  Those  thns  marked  were  elected. 


NOTEMBER,  1864. 


V 


PRESIDENT. 

««o.B.McClel.         I  ♦Abraham   Lln- 
^1  Dem.     .  808  |     coin,  Rad.      .  244 

McClellan's  majority 664 

CK>yBRNOR. 

1^08.  L.  Price,         I  ♦Thos.C.  Fletch- 
^m.  .    .    .  818  I     er,  Rad.     .    .  218 

Price's  majority 600 

CONGRESS. 

<^on  Guitar,         I  ♦G.  W.  Ander- 
^ni.  ...  809  I     son,  Rad.  .    .  190 

^^niUr's  majority 619 

^  CIRCUIT  ATTORNET. 

^'  J.  Harbison,  Dam.,  (no  opp.)  .    .  684 

J^PRESKXTATIVES  IN  LEOI8LATURB. 

*]^<>»- J.  Sutton  99  John  Berkeblle  99 
•JU?; W.Harris  674  ♦Boyle  Gordon  670 
r""i>n8Ude.     90    Wm.  W.  Todd  .  163 


SHERIFF.     , 

Jeremiah  Orear  333  |  Vohn  F.  Baker  626 


Total 869 

MEMBERS    OF    CONSTITUTIONAL     CONVEN- 
TION. 


John  W.  Jami- 
son   .  .    .    .48 
♦W.  F.  Switzler  699 


Francis  T.  Ros- 

eil  ....  67 
J.  B.  Redmond  .  67 
♦Thos.  B.  Harris  603  ] 

For  holding  constitutional  convention  174 
Against 339 


COUNTY   JUDGE. 

*James  W.  Daly  (no  opposition) 

COUNTY  TREASURER. 

*Mos8  Prewltt  (no  opposition) 

COUNTY  ASSESSOR. 


791 


812 


♦J.  W.  Hickam  382 
James  Lampton  200 


T.  J.  GlUaspie  .  168 


428 


HISTORY   OF   BOO?^   COUNTY*. 


KLBCTIOK  BETURN8  —  Continued, 


JUNE  6th,  1865. 

•For  new  constitatlon 132 

Against 1,763 

Shall  the  raUroads  pay  their  f  ^®®      '    ^^ 

^^°^«^ Ino   .    1,431 

NOVEMBER  6th,  1866. 

REPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONGRESS. 


Wm.F.  Switzler  686 


♦George  W.  An- 
derson .    .     .178 


Total 814 

STATE  SCHOOL  SUPERINTEDENT. 


John    F.    Wil- 
liams, Dem.  .  681 

SENATOR. 


♦T.    A.  Parker, 
Rad.      ...  136 


John  A.  Hock- 
aday     .     .     .  645 


♦Paul   Hubbard  166 


Total 811 

REPRESENTATIVES   IN   LEGISLATURE. 


♦James  S.  Rol- 
lins ....  308 
Wm.  Leach,  Jr,    11 
1. 1.  Blair     .    .    82 


John  B.  Allison  82 
Jno.G.  Shelnutt  9 
♦Rollin   Lyman  321 


SHERIFF. 

♦James  C.  Orr  .  606  |  John  F.  Baker    220 


Total 


825 


COUNTY  JUDGES  (THREE  ELECTED). 


♦James  Harris  618 
♦John  W.  Hall  .  423 
♦James  Arnold .  321 
J.  R.  Crosswhite  228 


James  W.  Daly  308 
David  Gordon .  2$4 
John  BeriLebile  191 


CIRCUIT  CLERK. 

♦Jno.  M.  Samuel  652  |  R.  L.  Todd  .   .  2m 


SamuePs  majority    .    .    . 

COUNTY  CLERK. 


284 


♦Warren  Wood- 
son ....  366 
H.  M.  Cook      .  261 


Joseph  B. Doug- 
lass ....  200 


COUNTY  TREASURER. 

♦R.  B.  Price      .  695  |  J.  H.  Waagh 
Price's  majority 426 

COUNTY  ASSESSOR. 

♦J.  W.  Hlckam  220 
M.  H.  Harris  .  189 
J.  C.  Gillaspie  .  162 

SUPERVISOR  OF  REGISTRATION. 

♦Jeffers'n  Garth  678  |  Isaac  T.  Jeffrey  146 
Garth's  majority 5S9 

COUNTY  SCHOOL  COMBflSSIONER. 

♦James  A.  Hen-         I  H.  H.  Grey  .    .  158 


James  Lampton  145 
Miles  J.  Henley  99 
H.  P.  Potts  .    .    4 


derson 


480    E.  G.  T.  Ross  .   60 


CONFEDERATE    ASSAULT   ON   THE   COLUMBIA   JAIL. 

1863. —  About  12  o'clock  on  the  night  of  January  11,  1863,  a  band  of 
Confederates,  numbering  about  fifteen,  entered  Columbia  for  the  purpose 
of  releasing  six  or  eight  Confederates  therein  confined,  on  indictmeat3 
by  the  civil  authorities,  based  on  charges  of  horse-stealing  and  perhap* 
other  criminal  offenses.  The  jail  was  guarded  by  a  single  sentinel,  wb^ 
hearing  the  approach  of  the  Confederates,  withdrew  to  the  court  houi^^ 
where  the  remainder  of  the  guard,  numbering  six  or  eight  men,  w^* 
lodged.  It  appears  that  one  of  the  Confederates,  Chas.  McGhee,  * 
this  county,  came  in  advance  of  the  band  foi^  the  purpose  of  capt 
ing  or  killing  the  sentinel.  McGhee,  in  the  darkness  of  the  night, 
taking  one  of  the  windows  of  the  jail  for  a  sentinel,  fired  thirty  o 
buck  shots  into  it.  When  his  companions  came  up  they  mistook  h 
for  the  guard  and  one  Confederate  fired  on  him,  a  charge  of  bucksl 
entering  his  back  and  lodging  in  his  breast.  They  then  visited  the  ho 
of  the  jailer  for  the  purpose  of  getting  the  keys,  but  the  jailer 
escaped  with  the  keys  to  the  court  house.     During  this  time, 


] 


HI8T0BT  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  429 

guards  lodged  in.  the  court  house  kept  up  a  constant  firing.  The 
CoofederateSi  finding  the  place  too  hot  for  them,  left  on  a  double 
quick,  without  entering  the  jail  or  committing  any  damage. 

McGbee  lived  in  great  agony  for  three  hours,  but,  before  his  death, 
gave  the  names  of  several  of  the  parties  engaged  in  the  raid,  viz. : 
John  Brown,  Thomas  Cave,  J.  Drury  Pulliam,  Sidney  Jackman,  of 
Howard,  and  John  Yates. 

A  SHARP  SKIRMISH  ON  OEDAR  CREEK. 

Od  Wednesday  morning,  January  21,  1863,  a  squad  of  E.  M.  M., 
from  Columbia,  numbering  about  twenty  men,  under  command  of 
laeut.-Col.  F.  T.  Bussell,  went  on  a  scout  in  search  of  ^  Confederate 
camp,  reported  to  be  in  the  forks  of  Cedar  Creek,  near  Boonsboro. 
When  the  command  got  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  hiding  place, 
it  was  divided  — a  portion  under  Col.  Bussell  and  the  balance  under 
Capt.  Hubbard  Williams.  It  was  not  long  before  two  of  the  militia, 
J.  W.  and  A.  L.  Scott,  brothers,  were  fired  upon  from  ambush  by  the 
Confederates,  the  former  wounded  in  the  back,  and  the  latter  in  the 
liead  aud  knee.  The  escape  of  the  latter  was  miraculous.  He  spied 
I  Confederate  behind  a  tree,  and  both  raised  their  guns  at  once,  the 
[Confederate's  gun  firing  first,  the  ball  entering  Scott's  cap  above  the 
mm  and  cutting  the  skin  on  his  head. 

These  shots  opened  the  ball,  and  they  were  succeeded  for  several 
lours  by  irregular  skirmishing,  searching,  retreating,  pursuing  —  re- 
ulting  finally  in  the  capture  of  four  captains,  three  of  whom  had  re- 
niiting  commissions  on  their  persons,  viz. :  James  Wilson  and  George 
^ogston,  of  Boone ;  Alex.  Muir,  of  Cooper,  but  more  recently  of 
Nebraska  City,  and  Capt.  Primrose,  of  Knox  County.  Four  others 
scaped,  among  them,  very  narrowly.  Dr.  Julius  McGuire,  of  this 
>Unty,  whose  horse,  saddle  and  equipments  were  captured. 

Col.  Bussell,  with  his  squad,  found  the  Confederate  camp  to  consist  of 
le  tent  made  of  bed-ticking,  blankets,  cooking  utensils,  provisions, 
c.  It  seems  dinner  was  in  progress  when  the  militia  flushed  the 
tmp,  for  the  wheat  dough  was  kneaded  and  the  bacon  was  in  the  pan 
iady  for  frying. 

Capts.  Wilson  and  Langaton  had  an  eventful  time  of  it.  The 
>rmer,  in  his  attempt  to  escape,  lost  his  cap  and  threw  away  his  coat 
nd  gun,  afterwards  concealing  himself  in  a  pile  of  drift-wood  in 
5edar  Creek.  Capt.  Langston  went  into  the  subject  much  deeper, 
or  he  immersed  his  whole  body  in  the  creek,  his  head  only  emerging 


430  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CX)UNTY. 

from  the  water,  and  this  in  the  midst  of  a  pile  of  drift-wood.  George, 
who  is  a  very  clever  fellow,  got  rather  a  cold  bath,  but  the  militit 
took  him  in  out  of  the  wet. 

HON.    J.    S.    ROLLINS    CAPTURED   BY   GUERILLAS. 

On  Wednesday,  July  1,  1863,  about  5  o'clock  p.  m.,  James  S.  Rol- 
lins and  Warren  Woodson  left  Jefferson  City  on  their  return  home, 
taking  passage  on  a  steamboat.  The  boat  landed  at  Providence  at  10 
o'clock.  That  night,  shortly  thereafter,  a  band  of  guerillas  from 
fifteen  to  twenty-five  in  number,  dashed  into  the  town  on  horseback, 
under  the  command  of  Capt.  Drury  PuUiam.  Riding  up  in  front  of 
Mr.  J.  W.  Lamme's  store,  they  inqi^ired  for  Maj.  Rollins,  wh<^  pre*  1 
senting  himself  at  the  door,  Capt.  Pulliam  dismounted  and  arrested 
him,  at  the  same  time  ordering  two  of  his  men  to  guard  him  closely 
and  not  allow  him  to  leave  the  store-room.  In  a  few  minutes  the 
whole  band  took  possession  of  the  store  and  commenced  indiscriminate 
plunder,  from  the  most  valuable  down  to  the  smallest  article  which 
they  could  lay  their  hands  upon.  Maj.  Rollins  remained  in  the  store 
while  this  pillage  was  going  on,  giving  to  them  an  occasional  word 
of  good  advice.  One  of  the  band,  under  the  nom  de  plume  of  William 
Hunter  (a  great  desperado),  denounced  Mr.  R.  as  a  *'  d — d  old  Abo- 
litionist and  Lincolnite  ;  "  said  that  he  had  been  after  him  for  a  long 
while,  and  that  now  he  meant  to  *'  kill  and  send  him  to  h — 11."  After 
the  plundering  ceased,  Maj.  Rollins  had  a  short  conversation  with 
Capt.  Pulliam,  who  was  altogether  civil  in  his  language,  and,  upon  the 
intercession  of  several  ladies  who  were  present,  the  Major  was  re- 
leased. Besides  Capt.  Pulliam,  Russell  Palmer,  of  this  place,  and 
the  aforesaid  Wm.  Hunter  (the  same  man  who  was  engaged  eighteen 
months  before  in  plundering  Maj.  Rollins'  farm),  and  a  young  Evaus* 
of  this  county,  were  with  the  gang. 

Two  ladies  living  near  Columbia  were  arrested  by  order  of  Cap^* 
H.  N.  Cook,  commander  of  the  post  of  Columbia,  for  insultin^^3 
getting  off  the  sidewalk  into  the  gutter,  in  order  to  avoid  passi^*^ 
beneath  a  Union  flag,  on  July  4,  1863. 

FALL    OF    VICKSBURG    CELEBRATED. 

Friday  night,  July  10,  1863,  the  Union  victories  achieved  at  Vicl 
burg,  Helena  and  Gettysburg  were  celebrated  in  Columbia  by  illui 
nation,    firing  of   cannon,    speeches,  etc.     Volleys  of  fire   cmck^^ 
exploded  upon  the  sidewalks,  serpentine  fireworks  careered  throu. 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  431 

the  air,  while  rockets  shot  with  whizzing  sound  and  fiery  tails  athwart 
the  sky.  The  cupola  of  the  University  was  brilliantly  illuminated  by 
the  soldiers  of  the  Ninth  Cavalry  and  the  enrolled  militia,  and  the 
windows  of  many  of  the  business  houses,  offices,  and  private  resi- 
dences blazed  with  light.  About  9  o'clock  the  soldiers  on  duty,  in 
eommand  of  Lieut.  Marshall  H.  Harris,  Capt.  Cook's  company, 
Guitar's  regiment,  marched  from  their  quarters  into  town,  and  forming 
aline  in  front  of  the  post  office,  then  in  the  building  on  court  house 
Street  now  occupied  by  Wm.  Booth's  restaurant,  the  people  collected 
there  to  hear  speeches.  Lieut.  Harris,  from  the  balcony,  called  the 
concourse  to  order,  i\,nd  ^'^^'  Switzler  proceeded  to  address^  those 
present.  He  was  followed  by  Mr.  J.  V.  C.  Karnes,  and  he  by  Maj. 
A.  J.  Harbison.  The  speeches  were  listened  to  with  marked  atten- 
tion and  were  vociferously  cheered  throughout.  The  exercises  of  the 
evening  were  closed  by  a  national  salute  from  Sergeant  Conger's  anvil 
tattery. 

PROVOST   MARSHAL,  NINTH   DISTRICT. 

In  July,  1863,  Wm.  F.  Switzler  was  appointed  by  President  Lincoln 
Provost  Marshal,  under  the  conscription  act  of  Congress  of  March  3, 
1863,  for  the  Ninth  Congressional  district,  composed  of  the  counties 
of  St.  Charles,  Warren,  Montgomery,  Callaway,  Boone,   Audrain, 
Lincoln,  Pike,  Monroe  and  Ralls,  with  headquaiters  at  Mexico.     S.  J. 
Beynolds,  of  Pike,  surgeon;  Wm.  B.  Adams,  of  Montgomery,  com- 
missioner, and  Wm.  W.  Davenport  and  Jonas  Whitney,  clerks.     Lewis 
M.  Switzler  was  deputy  provost  marshal,  and  James  T.  Harris  and 
Wm.  Hunter,  enrolling  officers  for  Boone  County.     In  January,  1864, 
the  headquarters  were  moved  to  St.  Charles,  where  Col.  Switzler  dis- 
charged the  duties  of  his  office  until  October,  1864,  when  he  was 
removed,  he   supporting  Gen.   McClellan  and  not  Mr.  Lincoln  for 
President,  and  Wm.  L.  Lovelace,  of  Montgomery,  was  appointed  his 
successor. 

UNION   MEETINGS    IN    COLUMBIA. 

On  Saturday ,  July  18, 1863,  a  Union  meeting  was  held  in  the  court 
house,  in  Columbia,  to  consider  the  state  of  the  country,  the  ordi- 
nance of  emancipation,  to  indorse  Gov.  Gamble's  administration  and 
the  conduct  of  our  delegates  to  the  Convention. 

An  organization  was  perfected  by  the  election  of  Hon.  Jas.  Rollins 

^  permanent  president.     On  motion  of  W.  F.  Switzler  Gen.  F.  R. 

^nwayand  Wm.  Boggs,  Esq.,  were  elected  vice-presidents  and  J. 

▼  .C.Karnes  and  L.  M.  Switzler  secretaries.     On  motion  of  W.  F. 


432  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Switzler  the  chair  was  instructed  to  appoint  a  committee  of  nine  b 
draft  resolutions  expressive  of  the  sense  and  objects  of  the  meeting, 
The  chair  appointed  the  following  :  — 

Col.  W.  F.  Switzler,  Dr.  E.  R.  Arnold,  Wm.  Whist,  J.  T.  Heniy, 
J.  W.  Daly,  Moss  Prewitt,  Wm.  H.  Allen,  J.  W.  Harris  and  Wm» 
C.  Robinett. 

During  the  retirement  of  the  committee  Maj.  Rollins  addressed  the 
people  in  favor  of  the  restoration  of  law  and  order  in  Missouri,  and 
the  subordination  of  the  military  to  civil  authority.  He  advised  th« 
people  to  acquiesce  willingly  and  peaceably  in  the  ordinance  of  eman* 
cipation,  saying  that  the  plan  adopted  by  the  late  Convention  for  tlw 
emancipation  of  the  slaves  in  Missouri,  was  the  best  that,  under  the 
circumstances,  could  be  secured. 

He  was  particularly  severe  on  the  radical  or  revolutionary  party  is 
the  State  who,  regardless  of  law,  are  seeking  to  do  away  with  the 
work  of  the  Convention,  and  to  overthrow  the  Provisional  Govern- 
ment of  Missouri.  He  branded  them  as  traitors  to  peace,  to  law  and 
to  the  security  of  the  State.  All  agitation  of  the  subject  of  shivery  in 
Missouri  should  now  cease,  and  the  people  of  the  State  should  ply 
their  wonted  avocations  undisturbed  bv  local  dissensions  and  divisions. 
It  was  their  duty  to  sustain  with  a  strong  arm  the  General  Govern- 
ment and  the  Provisional  Government  of  the  State,  to  put  down  agi- 
tation, to  support  and  defend  the  laws  and  to  kill  or  drive  from  the 
country  lawless  brigands  of  whatever  name  or  character. 

He  denounced  the  instigators  of  the  rebellion  as  guilty  of  a  great 
wickedness,  second  only  in  criminality  and  atrocity  to  the  murder  of 
the  Savior  of  mankind. 

Maj.  Rollins' s  speech  was  warmly  applauded.     After  the  conclusion 
of  his  remarks,  W.  F.  Switzler,  chairman  of  the  coWnittee,  reported 
resolutions  in  favor  of  the  Union,  against  the  rebellion  and  guerilla 
warfare  and  bushwacking,  in  favor  of  law  and   order,  and  the  subor- 
dination of  the  militarv  to  the  civil  authoritv,  indorsino:  Gov.  Gumble 
as  an  unselfish  patriot,  a  Christian  statesman  and  a  wise  ruler,  and 
the  votes  of  our  delegates  to  the  State  Convention  —  Warren  Wood- 
son, Eli  E.  Bass  and  Joseph  Flood  —  in  voting  for  the  ordinance  o\ 
emancipation  as  the  wisest  and   best  policy  they  could  adopt  undei 
the  circumstances,  by  which  we  are  surrounded. 

The  resolutions  were  passed  unanimously  and  enthusiastically. 

After  the  adoption  of  the  resolutions.  Col.  Switzler  addressed  tb 
audience  in  a  speech,  in  which  he  took  strong  grounds  for  sustainii'i 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  433 

8  Government  in  an  unrelenting  prosecution  of  the  war  to  a  restora- 
)n  of  the  Union,  for  sustaining  the  administration  of  Gov.  Gamble, 
id  for  a  willing  support  of  the  ordinance  of  emancipation.  He  de- 
}UQced,  in  unqualified  terms,  the  demagogues  heading  the  radical 
iction,  who  strive  to  keep  alive  the  slavery  issue  in  Missouri.  At 
ike  conclusion  of  his  speech  the  meeting  adjourned. 

NEGRO   EXODUS. 

The  existence  of  flagrant  civil  war  practically  abolished  slavery,  de- 
pite  all  constitutions  and  laws,  for  the  legal  ligament  which  bound 
he  slave  to  the  master  became  a  very  brittle  and  uncertain  tenure, 
fherefore,  as  early  as  the  summer  of  1863,  the  negro  exodus  began 
md  slaves  abandoned  their  masters  with  impunity.  Later  in  the 
rear  the  adult  males  left  in  large  numbers  for  the  army,  and  for 
>ther  States,  and  very  few  of  them  were  reclaimed  —  most  of  them 
ie?er. 

FIRST   PROVISIONAL   REGIMENT   M.  M. 

Oil  September  1,  1863,  Col.  Joseph  B.  Douglass,  Sixty-First  Regi- 
nent  E.  M.  M.,  was  promoted  to  Brigadier  General,  and  under  an  act  of 
the  Legislature,  and  by  the  authority  of  Gov.  Gamble,  took  com- 
nand  (iis  colonel)  of  the  First  Provisional  Regiment,  with  the  following 
ftaff:  Alex.  F.  Denny,  Lieut.  Col.  ;  Majors,  Lewis  P.  Miller,  James 
iBay  and  Robert  Biirclay,  Jr.  ;  Adjutant,  Frank  D.  Evans;  Quar- 
:ermaster,  R.  G.  Lyell;  Surgeon,  Wm.  Blair;  Assistant  Surgeons, 
Fordon  Hayes  and  William  A.  Brown.  OflScers  of  Company  A. :  B. 
P.Ritchie,  Captain;  Thomas  A.  Arnold,  First  Lieutenant ;  John  G. 
Strode,  Second  Lieutenant.  Company  K.  :  S&muel  L.  Cully,  Cap- 
tain; Miles  J.  Henly,  First  Lieutenant;  John  L  Orr,  Second  Lieu- 
tenant. Headquarters  of  the  regiment,  Mexico.  The  regiment  was 
mustered  out  of  service  in  February,  1864. 

A    DIABOLICAL    MURDER. 

About  10  o'clock,  on  Thursday  night,  September  24,  1863,  a  dia- 
bolical murder  was  committed  by  a  squad  of  Federal  soldiers,  on 
the  person  of  Martin  E.  Oldham,  who  resided  four  miles  west  of  Co- 
lumbia. 

About  the  hour   mentioned,   four  armed  men  dressed  in  Federal 

uniform  came  to  the  door  of  Mr.  Oldham's  residence  and  demanded 

*dnnittance.     One  of  them  came  in  dancing,  and   in   a  few  moments 

another  came  in,  presenting  his  pistol  and  ordering  the  citizens  pres- 

28 


434  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  . 

ent  out  of  the  house ;  there  being  six  in  number  in  the  house  at 
time,  names  as, follows: — Joseph  Gooding,  a  Mr.  Johnson,  Leoni 
Scott,  William  Oldham,  J.  R.  Payne  and  John  Meredith.  Th 
armed  men  ordered  them  out  of  the  house,  in  line,  and  said;  •*! 
will  settle  that  thing  damn  quick."  They  also  ordered  three  hor 
caught,  which  was  done.  Martin  E.  Oldham  had  by  this  time  coi 
up  to  where  the  citizens  were,  and  was  formed  in  line  with  the 
The  deceased  asked  permission  to  go  to  the  house  and  change  I 
clothes,  which  he  did,  accompanied  by  one  of  the  soldiers.  One 
the  men  calling  himself  Captain,  took  Mr.  Johnson  to  one  side  a 
conversed  with  him.  They  ordered  M.  E.  Oldham  and  Joseph  Goc 
mg  to  mount  their  horses  and  go  with  them,  leaving  the  balance 
the  citizens  where  they  were.  In  about  fifteen  minutes  Mr.  Goodii 
returned  from  the  direction  of  Robert  Scott's,  and  the  deceased  d 
not  return  with  him. 

They  took  Mr.  Oldham  a  short  distance  from  his  house,  and  hui 
him  by  the  neck  to  the  limb  of  a  small  tree,  until  he  was  dead,  c 
him  down,  and  left  him  lying  upon  the  ground.  Such  was  the  vc 
diet  of  the  coroner's  jury.  Coroner :  George  W.  Rowlan( 
Jurors:  Thomas  J.  Gillaspy,  Sr.,  foreman ;  J.  B.  McMickle,  Jam 
H.  Stephens,  Robert  Lemon,  Ishmael  Vanhorn  and  C.  P.  Hultz. 

Mr.  Oldham  wns  an  old  citizen  of  the  county,  a  man  of  family,  ai 
what  was  then  called  a  secessionist. 

Four  soldiers  of  the  Ninth  M.  S.  M., —  Odell,  Leadbetter,  Wedd( 
and  Maples, —  were  arrested  for  the  crime,  indicted  by  the  grai 
jury  and  committed  to  jail.  At  the  May,  1864,  term  of  the  Booi 
Circuit  Court,  they  obtained  a  change  of  venue  to  Audrain  Count 
and  on  Thursday,  June  9,  1864,  James  H.  Waugh,  sheriff,  took  the 
to  St.  Louis  for  safe  keeping  and  lodged  theniTin  prison. 

After  much  delay  the  prosecution  was  nolle  pros'ed^  it  is  believed! 
military  order,  and  the  prisoners  discharged. 

COLD    THURSDAY. 

Thursday,  December  31,  1863,  will  long  be  remembered  as  '*Co 
Thursday."  The  oldest  inhabitants  doubted  whether  a  daysoco 
was  ever  experienced  in  this  latitude,  since  Winter,  in  the  unnut 
bered  generations  of  the  past,  first  put  on  its  icy  garments, 
violent  snow  storm  raged  all  day,  and  the  thermometer  rang* 
Thursday  night  and  Friday  morning,  at  twenty-three  degrees  belo 
zero. 


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HIBTORT  OP  BOONE   CX)UNTY.  435 

8ALB  OF  SLAVES. 

1864.  In  the  first  portion  of  this  chapter  are  given  the  prices  at 
vhich  slaves  were  sold  on  January  1,  1860,  before  the  war.  In  in* 
sbructive  contrast  with  the  prices  they  then  brought,  is  appended  the 
following  account  of  a  sale,  January  1,  1864,  of  the  slaves  belonging 
to  the  estate  of  John  Shock,  deceased,  sold  to  the  highest  bidder^ 
before  the  court  house  door,  iu  Columbia,  by  Joel  H.  Haden  and 
D&yid  Shock,  executors  ;  terms  cash : — 

hut,  aged  48  yeaw,  sold  to  P.  T.  RuMell.'. ^ $  86 

UtMb^u     7  ••         "    "   Henry  Shock  170 

Um,     «•     9  "         "    «•   David  Shock  160 

j^        •«  86  "         *•    «•   J.  H.  Haden  260 

lai,        "16  "         "    "   Henry  Shock  200 

In,        •«  18  "         "    "  Isam  Williams 812 

HiDDth,  "  80  "  and  tbreo  children,  aged  6,  4  and  1  year,  to  J.  H.  Haden ^ 605 

Also,  of  a  public  sale  on  Monday,  January  25, 1864,  by  the  sheriffi 
of  22  slaves  belonging  to  John  W.  Rollins,  for  cash,  as  follows  :  — 

TbJ.  T.  McBain,  Alex,  aged  48  years $182  00 

J.  A.  McQuitty,  Green,  aged  80  years ^    80  00 

"Dr. J. W. Roberts,  Charles,  aged  80  years 160  00 

**  6.  C.  Swallow,  Levi,  aged  26  years ,,...  208  00 

"  J.  W.  Lam  me,  Essex,  aged  80  years 186  00 

"  J.W.Lamme,  Joe,  aged  21  years 140  00 

F.  Hemdon,  William,  aged  18  years ^ 161  00 

"  D.  Gttitar,  Jerome,  aged  8  years 70  00 

J.  W.  Lamme,  Eddy,  aged  6  years 61  00 

A.L  Vandtver,  Winny,  aged  65  years 101  00 

M.  8.  Matthews,  liary,  aged  40  years,  and  her  child,  Odon,  aged  18  months 10(5  00 

"  BobertSchwabe,  Hannah,  aged  86  years 26  00 

"  D.  McQuitty,  Margaret,  aged  80  years 50  00 

J.  W.  Lamme,  Lucy,  aged  80  years 145  00 

J.W.Lamme,  Harriet,  aged  16  years,  and  two  children 170  00 

<f' W.  Lamme,  Fanny,  aged  12  years , 86  00 

"  J.A.HcClancy,  Julia,  aged  10  years 136  00 

"  Mn.  W.  F.  Switzler,  Lnura,  aged  9  years 93  00 

**  M.  8.  Matthews,  Morgan,  aged  4  years ^ 48  60 

Twenty-two  negroes $2,080  ^ 

On  Saturday,  at  a  constable's  sale,  a  very  likely  negro  man,  Dick, 
«ged  21  years,  was  bought  by  Wm.  F.  Switzler  for  $126  00  ;  the  slave 
^U  was  the  property  of  Columbus  B.  Hickam. 

NEGRO    RECRUITS. 

Lieut.  Col.  F.  T.  Russell,  61st  Regiaient.,  E.  M.  M.,  was  Assistant 
^^'ovost  Marshal  in  Columbia  for  enlistinsr  colored  volunteers  in  accord- 


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436  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY 

ance  with  General  Orders  No.  135,  and  he  accepted  the  appointment 
and  enlisted  a  large  number.     He  resigned  the  position  in  July. 

A  SOLDIER  OF  "  MERRILL' 8  HORSE  "  TAKEN  FROM  THE  STAGE  AND  SHOT, 

On  Wednesday,  July  20,  1864,  the  bushwhackers  stopped  the  Cen- 
tralia  stage  at  Hallsville,  in  this  county,  en  route  for  the  railroad,  aod 
inquired  if  there  were  any  soldiers  aboard.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  V.  C. 
Karnes  and  a  furloughed  soldier  of  *'  Merrill's  Horse,"  by  the  name 
of  James  Palmer,  a  young  man  of  Cedar  township,  in  this  county, 
were  in  the  stage,  the  latter  dressed  in  citizen's  clothes.  Palmer  told 
his  name  and  acknowledged  being  it  soldier,  whereupon  they  ordered 
him  out  of  the  stage,  cursed  him  and  told  him  he  was  the  very  man  they 
wanted,  took  his  pistol  from  him,  opened  his  trunk,  and  marched  him 
off  on  the  road  leading  west  from  Hallsville  into  a  woodland  belong- 
ing to  the  late  Wni.  Dunn,  and  shot  him.  On  the  24th  his  body  was 
found  not  far  from  Red  Top  church,  covered  with  logs  and  brush. 
Capt.  Smith,  who  then  commanded  the  post  at  Sturgeon,  ordered  the 
people  of  that  neighborhood  to  bury  his  body,  which  they  did. 

DESPERATE   FIGHT    WITH    BUSHWHACKERS   NEAR   DRIPPING   8PRIN(^. 

About  the  middle  of  August,  1864,  this  county  had  been  cursed 
with  the  presence  of  quite  large  bodies  of  guerillas  and  horse  thieves, 
wandering  in  armed  bands  over  the  county,  and  robbing  the  citizens 
night  and  day  indiscriminately,  of  whatever  property  they  possessed.     ' 
General  J.  B.  Douglass,  the   military  commander  of    this  district, 
being  well  posted  in  regard  to  their  movements,  made  such  a  disposi- 
tion of  a  small  portion  of  his  forces  as  to  give  the  outlaws  to  under- 
stand that  they  must  cease  their  depredations  in  this  quarter.    In 
pursuance  of  this  object,  on  Tuesday,  August  16,  he  sent  a  company 
under  the  command  of  Captain  Carey,  of  the  3d  M.  S.  M.,  to  a  point 
some  ten  miles  northwest  of  Columbia,  where  it  was  understood  that 
Clif.  Holtzclaw,  and  his  band,  were  in  considerable  force,  numbering 
probably  100  men,  near  what  is  called  the  Dripping  Spring.     On  his 
arrival  there  he  ascertained  that  the  17th  Illinois,  under  the  comnaand 
of  Captain  Hibbard,  had  arrived  on  the  ground  the  day  before,  and 
that  on  Monday  night  two  of  his  pickets  were  fired  upon  from  a  corn- 
field and  badly  wounded —  (one  of  whom  died  on  the  following  nig^^^ 
in  Columbia),  and  that  on  Tuesday  morning  considerable  skirmisbi>^8 
had  been  going  on  between  them  and  the  bushwhackers.     CaptA^^ 
Carey,  on  his  way  out,  was  met  also  by  Captain  Cornell,  of  the  E.  5*' 
JVf.   and  Captain  Campbell,  of  the   9th  M.  S.  M.,  with  small  detach- 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   CX)UNTY.  437 

diits  of  their  respective  companies.  Coming  up  on  the  enemy ,  a 
isk  engagement  ensued,  lasting  some  three  quarters  of  an  hour  or 
lore,  in  which  four  of  the  bushwhackers  were  killed  and  left  on  the 
eld,  and  from  the  abundant  signs  of  blood  left  upon  the  bushes,  a  good 
luuiy  were  also  wounded.  Twelve  or  fifteen  fine  horses  were  captured 
ind  quite  a  number  of  guns  and  pistols.  There  was  no  one  killed  on  the 
federal  side,  but  nine  soldiers  were  slightly  wounded.  The  enemy 
letrested  into  the  thick  brush  and  rugged  country,  the  engagement 
)ea8ed,  and  the  command  started  in  the  direction  of  CoTumbia.  On 
their  way  down,  about  four  miles  north  of  town  they  were  fired  upon 
by  another  band  of  these  desperadoes  —  one  man  was  slightly 
wounded,  and  also  several  horses.  Upon  the  fire  being  returned  by 
the  troops,  they  fled  precipitately  to  the  woods,  scattering  in  every 
direction.  This  last  band  was  supposed  to  have  been  under  the  com* 
mand  of  Capt.  Tom  Toddy  who  was  on  his  way  to  reinforce  Holtzclaw.' 
The  wounded  men  were  all  brought  to  Columbia  and  furnished 
with  comfoi*table  quarters.     They  were  as  follows  :  — 


J. E  Hall,  Company  9, 17th  HI,  wounded  on  picket  duty  in  the  arm  and  back;         '    ■ 
WiDtling  (died),  (Company  F,  17ih  IIU  wounded  on  picket  duty  in  the  breast  and  limbs; 
Tbeodoric  Roasell,  Gompany  L,  9ih  M.  S.  M.,  knee;  Elisha  Howell,  leg,  Jas.  0.  Matthews, 
Mek,  Wm.  J.  CayhUl,  hip.  Company  G,  8d  &L  S.  Bi.;  Elliott  Baker,  arm,  Simon  Johnson,- 
chuk,  Lewis  Peny,  side.  Company  B,  8d  M.  S.  M. 

One  of  the  guerrillas  killed  was  John  Kincaid,  of  this  county,  who  was 
riding  at  the  time  of  his  death  a  horse  taken  from  Jere  Orear,  of  Co- 
lumbia, several  days  ago.  Another  man  killed  was  Geo.  Jones,  son  of 
Lewis  Jones,  of  this  county.  The  guerillas  did  not  return  to  bury 
theirdead,  but  it  was  done  by  the  women  and  negroes  of  the  neighbor- 
hood. It  is  also  definitely  ascertained  that  sixteen  guerrillas  were 
wounded  in  the  engagements. 

THl    FIGHT   IN    OOSLINE'S   LANE  —  CAPTURE      OF    A    WAGON    TRAIN 

ELEVEN   FEDERAL   SOLDIERS    KILLED. 

On  Friday,  September  23, 1864,  a  Federal  train  of  fourteen  wagons, 
four  government  wagons,  and  the  remainder  pressed  for  the  occasion, 
started  from  Sturgeon  to  Rocheport.  The  train  was  escorted  by 
about  seventy  men  of  the  3d  M.  S.  M.  under  Capt.  McFadden.  The 
^Hgons  were  loaded  principally  with  some  subsistence,  with  ammuni- 
^on,  clothing  and  private  property  belonging  to  officers  and  soldiers. 
The  majority  of  the  wagons  and  teams  were  pressed  from  private 
^^tizens  of  the  neighborhood  and  belonged  to  and  were  driven  by 


438  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

W.  W.  Batterton  (present  County  Clerk),  Bellfield  Crosswhite, . 

Barnes,  and  Michael  Spillman.  George  Wayne,  a  colored  man  be- 
longing to  Anthony  Wayne,  drove  one  of  the  teams.  The  escort 
train  travelling  south  from  Sturgeon  stopped  near  sunset  in  the 
of  Sylvester  F.  Gosline,  on  section  10,  township  49,  range  14,  about 
seven  miles  from  Rocheport.  A  few  of  the  soldiers  were  in  Mr.  Gos- 
line's  yard  and  some  of  them  in  his  orchard  gathering  apples  ;  most  of 
the  command  and  all  of  the  wagons  were  in  the  lane  about  200  vurds 
from  the  house.  On  the  west  side  of  the  house  (the  escort  aad 
wagons  being  east  of  the  house),  and  running  north  and  south,  there 
is  a  narrow  neighborhood  lane  communicating  with  the  main  lane  in 
front  and  southwest  of  Gosline's  house.  Without  the  least  warning  or 
^expectation  of  their  presence,  and  very  suddenly,  a  force  numbe^ 
in«:  about  100  mounted  men  under  Thomas  and  Georoje  Todd  and 
John  Thrailkill  charged  at  full  speed  down  this  lane,  yelling  like  In- 
dians as  they  came,  and  made  a  desperate  attack  upon  thd^escort  and 
train,  firing  indiscriminately  and  with  deadly  effect  upon  the  soldiers. 
The  charore  was  so  sudden  that  the  Federal  soldiers  had  not  even  time 
to  form  in  line  for  battle.  Under  these  circumstances  they  were 
scattered  and  no  alternative  left  but  to  save  themselves  by  flight 
Some  escaped  by  abandoning  their  horses  and  going  into  a  corn  field 
which  was  on  one  side  of  the  road  ;  and  some  rode  across  the  country 
to  Columbia  and  others  went  back  to  Sturgeon.  Some  of  the  soldiers 
had  neither  arms  nor  horses  and  were  riding  in  the  wagons.  The 
ti'ain  was  taken  possession  of  by  the  guerrillas.  Among  other  things 
they  got  eighteen  thousand  rounds  of  ammunition,  a  lot  of  clothingi 
and  private  baggage  belonging  to  the  oflScers  and  soldiers.  After  the 
train  had  been  robbed  of  everything  the  bushwhackers  could  use,  the 
wagons  and  their  remaining  contents  were  burned. 

Eleven  Federal  soldiers  were  found  dead  on  the  ground  and  three 
negroes,  Geo.  Wayne  being  one  of  them,  who  was  shot  in  the  fore- 
head.    We  have  not  been  able  to    obtain  the  names  of  the  soldi©^* 
who  were  killed. 

Mr.  Batterton,  while  sitting  in  his  wagon  on  the  stores  with  which  ^ 
was  loaded,  holding  the  reins  of  his  horses,  was  wounded  by  the  gU^^ 
yias  in  the  right  shoulder,  and  Mr.  Crosswhite  in  the  heel. 

A  team  belonging  to  James  D.  Patton,  of  Sturgeon,  and   driV'^ 

by ,  started  up  the  road  after   the  wagon    was    fired,  and  a^^ 

Marion  McKinney's  ran  against  a  tree,  or  was  overturned  in  a  gul»J 
killing  one  of  the  horses. 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  439 

After  robbing  aud  firing  the  wagon  train  and  killing  and  scattering 
e  escort,  the  guerillas  left  the  scene  by  the  same  lane  through 
liich  tbey  approached  it,  none  of  them  having  been  killed,  and  only 
le  mortally  wounded.     Bill  Anderson  was  not  among  them. 


THE  0ABNA6B  AT  OENTRALIA. 


UmACEM  OF  UVABlfXD  RDXKALS,  TAKXK  FBOM  A  TBAIN,  BT  BILL  ANDERSOK  —  AHNI- 
HlUnoir  OV  THX  FSDCBAL  FOBCB  UVDXB  MAJ.  JOHNBON  BT  THX  VOBCES  OV  TODD, 
THlAn.¥n,L,  AXDXB80K  AND  POOLX  —  PUBSUIT  OF  THB  QUXBILLAB. 

After  the^fight  in  Gosline's  lane,  September  23,  Geo.  Todd  and  John 
rhrailkill  went  to  Howard  County  and  formed  a  junction  with  Bill 
inderson  and  his  company  of  75  men.  Rev.  Tom  Todd,  a  Baptist 
ninister,  and  Si  Gordon,  each  had  a  band.  Todd's  numbering  50, 
jordon's  25,  and  Dave  Poole  had  about  60.  The  aggregated  force 
leemed  really  to  have  no  conimander,  but  George  Todd  was  the  lead* 
og  spirit,  and  perhaps  next  to  him  John  Thrailkill.  If  there  was 
ipeculation  as  to  the  future,  or  doubt  as  to  present  purposes,  *^  What 
ioes  George  say?"  was  the  first  question  asked.  The  grim,  sturdy- 
looiuDg,  Scotch-Canadian  rode  stolidly  along,  seeming  to  know  what 
M  was  about,  and  to  be  revolving  extraordinary  enterprises.  It  was 
lis  design  to  carry  out  Gen.  Price's  instructions  and  "  keep  the  Fed- 
eral militia  north  of  the  river  actively  employed  ;  *'  and  finally  to  cross 
lie  Missouri  in  the  neighborhood  of  Jefi^rson  City,  aud  join  the  Con* 
ederate  army  when  it  should  make  its  appearance  iu  that  quarter,  as 
t  was  preparing  to  do. 

Moving  northward,  the  guerillas  passed  into  Randolph  county, 
^derson  attacked  Allen,  then  a  small  station  on  the  North  Missouri 
Ulroad,  near  where  Moberly  now  stands,  sacked  it,  and  passed  into 
[onroe  with  the  remainder  of  the  guerilla  force.  An  attack  on 
aris  was  contemplated,  but  citizens  of  Monroe  reported  that  place 
arrisoned  by  Kutzner's  regiment  of  Missouri  infantry,  and,  remem- 
ering  the  Fayette  disaster,  Todd  marched  by  Middle  Grove  and 
n  eastward  into  the  timbered  region  along  Young's  Creek. 

About  this  time  the  pickets  of  Bill  Anderson,  who  were  dressed  in 
t^ederal  uniform,  were  fired  on  by  some  of  the  command  of  Capt.  G. 
'V.  Bryson  of  Boone,  who  was  then  in  that  region  on  recruiting 
«rvice  by  authority  of  Geu.  Price.  The  firing  by  Bryson's 
J^eu  was  soon  discovered   by  him  to  be  a  mistake,  they  supposing 


440  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Anderson's  pickets  to  be  Federal  soldiers,  and  a  lieutenant  was  sen 
to  Anderson  to  make  the  needed  explanation  and  to  propose  a  unici!; 
of  their  forces.    Anderson  indignantly  refused  to  receive  him.     •'  Youi 

men  are  either  d d  fools  or  worse,"  he  said,  **  or  you  would  no! 

have  fired  at  us.  I  don't  want  anything  to  do  with  you  or  any  othei 
of  Perkins's  men."  Col.  Perkins  was  at  that  time  raising  a  regiment 
for  the  Confederate  army  from  this  section,  and  to  this  regiment 
Bryson's  company  belonged. 

The  guerillas  made  their  way  up  Young's  Creek,  going  southward, 
crossed  the  North  Missouri  Railroad  about  two  and  a  half  miles  easto 
Centralia,  and  marched  to  the  farm  of  Col.  M.  G.  Singleton,  au  ex 
Confederate  officer  then  at  home  on  parole  and  under  bond.  Here  oi 
the  evening  of  September  26,  1864,  they  encamped. 

Col.  Singleton  had  plenty  of  forage  and  provisions  to  which  th 
guerillas  helped  themselves  very  liberally  ;  and  forays  were  mad 
into  the  neighborhood,  and  every  family  visited  was  forced  to  prepai 
food  for  the  guests,  who  thus  came  uninvited  and  for  the  most  pai 
unwelcomed. 

BILL  Anderson's  camp,  equipments  and  force. 

The  guerilla  camp  was  well  chosen.  Water,  grass,  and  shad 
abounded,  and  above  all  coveted  seclusion,  and  sufficient  proximil 
to  Col.  Singleton's  large  barn,  which  at  night  could  be  used  h 
a  part  of  the  command  for  sleep  and  repose.  On  all  sides  < 
the  camp  there  was  a  long  stretch  of  prairie,  so  that  a  hostile  for< 
could  be  discovered  miles  away,  and  in  ample  time  to  prevent 
surprise. 

Here  it  was  the  purpose  of  the  guerillas  to  rest  for  a  few  day 
capture  and  rob  a  train  on  the  railroad  only  a  short  distance  to  tl 
north  of  them,  and  then  hasten  to  a  crossing  on  the  Missouri  Riv 
and  to  safety  in  Price's  army. 

The  total  number  of  the  guerillas  in  camp  at  Singleton's  fa 
could  not  have  been  far  from  350  —  not  many  more,  not  many  1<5 
Poole  said  there  were  400.  Todd  did  not  pretend  to  know.  Thr^ 
kill  said  350.  Rev.  Tom  Todd  reported  there  were  325.  A  citi^ 
counted  them  next  morning  as  they  passed  through  a  lane  and  repor 
their  number  at  428,  but  they  had  been  reenforced  after  their  st^y 
Singleton's.  Some  placed  the  number  at  300,  with  about  S 
prepared  to  fighi  as  guerrillas  fight ;  for  the  equipments  of  a  guerri 
consist  of  a  good  horse,  with  a  good  saddle  and  bridle,  and  at  le^ 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  441 

four  dragoon  revolvers,  with  every  chamber  of  every  cylinder  carefully 

loaded. 

Todd's  men  were  thus  armed  and  equipped  for  duty  and  for  danger. 
There  were  but  few  shot  gups  or  carbines  in  the  command,  and  ouly 
ft  few  revolvers  of  smaller*  size  and  caliber  than  a  dragoon  or  navy 
nze  pistol.     One  of  these,  a  five-inch  Colt's,  wiis  ploughed  up  in  the 
spring  of  1882,  on  the  field  of  James  Garrard,  where  Thrailkill's  men 
fought,  with  the  wood  of  the  handle  decayed,  but  the  metal  not  much 
injared,  the  silver  plating  not  tarnished,  and  every  chamber  loaded. 
The  night  of  September  26th  was  chiefly  spent  by  Todd,  Thrailkill^ 
Poole  and  Anderson  in  consultation.     They  knew  there  was  a  Federal 
force  at  Sturgeon,  one  at  Mexico,  and  one  north  of  Centralia,  some- 
where between  Mexico  and  Paris.     Troops  were  also  known  to  be  at 
Cokmbja,  and  much  coveted  plunder.     The  temptation  was  strong  to 
attack  the  latter  place,  capture  it  if  possible,  sack  and  burn  it,   and 
hasten  on  to  Rocheport,  sometimes  called  by   bushwhackers    ^'  our 
eapitjil,"  and  there  cross  the  river.     But  circumstances  forbade,  and 
it  was  well  for  them  and  for  Columbia  likewise  they  did  forbid. 

THE  GUERILLAS  ENTER  CENTRALIA. 

About  10  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  September  27,  1864,  the  few 
citizens  of  the  little  hamlet  of  Centralia  were  about  their  ordinary 
avocations,  unsuspecting  that  any  event  of  extraordinary  character 
WHS  about  to  occur.     The  town  then  contained  about  a  dozen  houses^ 
including  two  hotels,  two  small  stores,  a  school  house,  and  the  depot. 
The  hotels  were  small.     One  of  them,  the  *' Eldorado  House,"  then 
kept  by  Col.  Jo.  J.  Collier,  is  still  standing,  and  is  now  occupied  as 
ft  tenement  house.     It  is  ai  one-story  frame,  and  a  rambling  L-shaped 
structure.     The  other  was  a  two-story  frame,  owned  and  conducted 
hyXhos.  S.  Sneed,  and  stood  on  the  present  site  of  the  Globe  Hotel. 
The  stores  were  owned,  one  by  J.  W.  Ball,  and  the  other  by  Thos.  S. 
.  Sneed,  still  a  citizen  of  Centralia.     The  stocks  were  neither  very  large 
nor  very  valuable.     There  were  but  two  two-story  buildings  in  the 
place;  and  about  the  town,  and  especially  toward  the  north  and  west 
ofit,  there  were  miles  of  open  prairie. 

At  about  the  hour  above  named,  a  countryman  came  into  the  town 
*nd  reported,  with  bated  breath,  that  the  bushwhackers  were  near. 
** There  are  300  or  400  of  them  down  at  Col.  Singleton's,  and  Quan- 
trell  and  Bill  Anderson  and  all  of  the  rest  of  the  big  bushwhackers  are 
at  the  head.     Hell  will  be  to  pay  in  this  country,  now  I  "     Near  the 


442  HISTOKY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.' 

same  time  another  scout  came  in  and  reported  that  Capt.  G.  W. 
Bryson  was  lying  out  in  the  woodcj  to  the  north  of  town  wounded  and 
suffering  from  an  encounter  with  Kutzner's  men  under  Maj.  A.  V.  E. 
Johnson,  over  on  Young's  Creek,  or  near  Santa  Fe,  Monroe  County, 
^  a  day  or  two  before.  Secret  preparations  were  being  made  to  render 
him  some  assistance — to  procure  a  buggy  in  which  to  remove  him 
into  the  timber  near  Hallsville,  and  Dr.  A.  F.  Sneed  was  solicited  to 
visit  and  render  him  medical  and  surgical  aid. 

But  lo !  suddenly  to  the  soutlieast  a  company  of  mounted  men, 
probably  about  80  in  all,  was  seen  approaching  the  town  in  a  brisk 
trot.  As  the  men  were  dressed  in  blue,  at  least  a  large  majority  of 
them,  they  were  thought  to  be  Federal  militia ;  but  their  true  char- 
acter was  soon  made  apparent.  The  group  about  the  messenger  who 
was  seeking  assistance  for  Capt.  Bryson  departed  and  the  bush- 
whackers began  to  scatter  about  the  town.  Every  house  was  entered. 
A  few  of  the  intruders  were  civil  and  gentlemanly,  but  nearly  all  were 
otherwise.  "Got  any  grub  cooked?"  **Got  any  greenbacks?" 
<«Areyou  all  rebels  or  union?"  These  were  the  usual  greetings. 
Replying  to  questions  from  the  citizens:  '*  We  are  Bill  Anderson's 
men,"  they  said  with  exultation. 

Anderson  himself  rode  strais^ht  to  the  Eldorado  House  and  was 
soon  in  conversation  with  the  landlord  and  Vol.  Collier, 

DR.    SNEED's    experience    WITH   THE    GUERILLAS. 

Dr.  Sneed  passed  down  the  street  and  Collier  beckoned  to  him. 
When  he  came  up  said  Vol  Collier,  «*  Dr.  Sneed,  this  is  Captain 
Anderson/  "  Imagine  the  doctor's  sensations  !  '*  Captain  "  Anderson 
entered  into  friendly  conversation,  sitting  on  his  horse  like  a  knight- 
errant  and  speaking  as  smoothly.  '*  This  is  a  fine  location,  doctor," 
he  said.  '*A  pretty  place  for  a  fight.  If  those  Feds,  up  at  Sturgeon 
will  come  down,  I  will  give  them  a  twist  to-day.  I  don't  want  to  go 
up  there,  and  I  won't,  but  if  they  will  come  down  here  I'll  fight 
them . ' ' 

Just  then  the  doctor  saw  his  horse  was  being  led  away  by  a  bush- 
whacker, and  he  called  Anderson's  attention  to  it.  *'  Go  and  get 
him  ;  tell  that  man  I  say  he  must  not  take  your  horse."  Dr.  S. 
started  and  had  gone  only  a  few  steps  when  he  was  met  by  another 
guerilla  with  a  drawn  pistol.  "  Out  with  your  pocket  book," 
demanded  the  brigand.  **  Excuse  me,  but  your  captain  sent  me  after 
that    horse,"    said  the  doctor,  not  halting,  and   leaving  the    bush- 


HI8TOBT   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  448 

;k6r  nonplussed  by  bis  coolness.  A  few^  steps  further  anoher 
ilia  confronted  bim.  ''Hand  out  your  pocket  book,"  said  he. 
(;use  me,"  said  the  doctor,  blandly,  ''but  you  are  a  little  too 
I  have  just  been  interviewed  by  your  comrade  yonder."  When 
et  other  guerillas  that  morning  who  demanded  his  purse,  the 
p  always  replied,  *'  You  are  too  late." 

FLUNDRRING  THE  TOWN  —  WHISKY. 

intime  the  guerillas  were  cleaning  out  the  town  vexsf  thoroughly, 
tores  of  Ball  and  Sueed  were  robbed  of  nearly  every  article 
contained.  Goods  were  taken  for  which  the  bushwhackers  had 
3  —  calicoes,  muslins,  women's  shoes,  even  baby  slippers.  The 
ry  was  wanton  and  indiscriminate.  The  depot  also  was 
ered.  There  were  some  goods  in  the  freight  house  boxed  up 
siraiting  transmission  to  merchants  in  Columbia.  Among  other 
$s  were  three  or  four  cases  of  boots.  These  were  appropriated 
speedily.  There  was  also  a  barrel.  "  What's  in  this?  "  "  By 
I  It's  whisky  1**  In  five^seconds  the  head  was  broken  in  and 
-prohibition  "  flowed  down  the  thi'oats  of  the  guerillas  like 
after  a  long  and  sultry  ride. 

rs  of  the  discovery  of  the  whisky  spread  rapidly,  and  very  soon 
'  all  of  the  guerrillas,  and  Anderson  himself,  had  sampled  it,  as 
:8  of  the  border  alone  can  accomplish  a  convivial  feat  of  that 
:ter.  Then  the  question  arose  as  to  the  method  of  carrying  a 
u  of  it  to  the  camp,  that  their  "comrades  in  arms"  might 
with  them  its  exhilarating  influence,  and  it  was  soon  decided 
tome  of  the  new  boots  should  serve  the  office  of  demijohns, 
ley  were  filled  to  the  leg  tops,  and  carried  to  the  camp  miles 

CAPTURE   OF   THE   COLUMBIA    STAGE. 

inwhile  it  was  apparent  that  something  beside  plundering  the 
and  terrorizing  its  defenceless  inhabitants  was  on  the  pro- 
ne. 

ow  long  before  that  d  d  train  will  be  here  ?"  was  frequently 
"  Will  the  Columbia  stage  be  in  first?  "  was  another  query, 
ibout  eleven  o'clock  a  commotion  was  observed  at  the  edge  of 
on  the  Columbia  road,  and  a  dozen  or  more  guerillas  were  gal- 
:  in  that  quarter.  The  Columbia  stage,  an  old-fashioned 
cord,"  drawn  by  four  horses  driven   by  Joe  Kelly,  and  owned 


444  HISTORY  or  boone  county. 

by  Wm.  J.  Jordan,  of  Columbia,  had  arrived,  and  Anderson's  men 
were  proceeding  to  *' interview"  the  passengers.  They  surrounded 
the  coach,  and  some  of  them  dismounted  and  opened  the  doors. 
**Are  there  any  Federal  soldiers  in  here?"  they  demanded. 
*' None,"  was  the  reply.  '*Well,  get  out,  all  of  you,"  said  the 
guerillas.  The  stage  had  for  passengers,  James  H.  Waugh,  sheriff 
of  Boone  County;  John  M.  Samuel,  ex-sheriff;  Henry  Keene,  Boyle 
Gordon,  Lewis  Sharp,  Columbus  Hickam,  Lafayette  Hume  and 
Hon.  James  S.  Rollins,  the  latter  then  the  representative  in  Congress, 
from  this  district,  and  nearly  all  of  them  on  their  way  as  delegates  to 
the  Democratic  Congressional  Convention  at  Mexico,  before  which 
Mr.  Rollins  and  Gen.  Odon  Guitar  were  understood  to  be  can-^ 
didates. 

The  passengers  were  questioned,  inspected  and  robbed,  in  less  time 
than  it  takes  to  write  it.  *'  What  is  your  name?"  was  asked  of  each 
passenger.  "  My  name  is  Smith,"  said  Sheriff  Waugh.  *'  My  name 
is  Johnson,  and  I  am  a  minister  of  the  Methodist  Church,  South," 
said  Maj.  Rollins,  ''and  I  live  a  few  miles  south  of  Columbia." 
**  My  name  is  Samuel,"  replied  John  M.,  '*  and  I  have  been  arrested 
by  the  Federals,  and  graduated  from  Lynch's  old  nigger  yard  in  St. 
Louis."  **  That's  all  right ;  hand  out  your  pocket  books,  all  of  you," 
demanded  the  robbers.  Peyton  Long,  a  lieutenant  of  Anderson's^ 
and  a  desperate  guerilla,  whose  home  was  in  Clay  County,  and  wha 
was  afterwards  killed,  with  Quantrell,  in  Kentucky,  robbed  Mr. 
Samuel.  Two  or  three  had  Maj.  Rollins  in  custody,  and  were  ply- 
ing him  with  questions,  which  he  skillfully  answered.  Two  of  the 
horses  were  taken  from  the  stage  and  led  away  for  use.  There  were 
Southern  men  and  Union  men  in  the  stage,  but  all  were  insulted  and 
robbed  alike,  at  the  point  of  the  pistol.  *'  We  are  Southern  men  and 
Confederate  sympathizers ;  you  ought  not  to  rob  us,"  remonstrated 
one  of  the  passengers.  '*  What  do  we  care?  Hell's  full  of  all  such 
Southern  men.     Why  ain't  you  out  fightin'  ?  "  was  the  retort. 

After  taking  what  '*  plunder"  there  was  in  sight  and  what  was^ 
surrendered  to  them,  preparations  were  made  to  search  the  passen- 
gers thoroughly.  Had  this  been  done.  Sheriff  Waugh  and  Maj. 
Rollins  would  probably  have  been  identified  and  murdered,  uyless 
held  as  hostages  or  for  large  ransom.  Waugh  had  his  pocket  full  of 
papers  pertaining  to  his  oflSce,  and  Rollins  would  have  been  recog- 
nized by  his  name  in  indelible  ink  on  his  clothing,  and  by  his  letter* 


HIBTOBT  OF  BOONE  COUNTY.  445 

d  papers,  as  a  loyal  member  of  the  hated  Federal  Congress.  But, 
)t  as  the  siearch  began,  a  cry  arose :  — 

"THE   TRAIN  I    THE   TRAIN  I      YONDER   GOMES   THE   TRAIN  !  ** 

Away  dashed  the  guerillas  toward  the  depot,  about  250  yards  away, 
le  passengers  then  wended  their  way  toward  Siieed's  hotel,  and  to 
her  supposed  safe  quarters  in   town.     They  all   felt  very  nervous, 

« 

It  there  was  no  manifestation  of  cowardice  on  the  part  of  any  of 
em. 

Ad  hour  before  the  stage  reached  C^ntralia  it  had  been  stopped 
rj.  G.  Bruton,  and  the  passengers  informed  of  the  presence  of  the 
ishwhackers  in  the  vicjnity .  Some  of  the  passengers  wished  to  re- 
rn,  but  the  driver  (Joe  Kelly)  said  he  was  carrying  the  United 
ates  mail,  and  intended  going  on  at  all  hazards.  All  then  agreed 
go  with  him. 

CAFTURXNO  THE   TRAIN. 

About  11 :  30  A.  m.,  the  regular  northern  bound  train  from  St.  Louis, 
the  North  Missouri  Bailroad,  came  in  sight  of  Centralia.  At  that 
y  trains  were  not  run  by  telegraph,  but  by  schedule.  Following  the 
isenger  train  out  from  Mexico  was  a  gravel  or  construction  train, 
e  passenger  train  carried  the  mail  and  express,  and  there  were  three 
iches.  Conductor  Overall  was  in  charge  of  the  train,  on  board  of 
ich  were  some  railroad  officials,  Joseph  Gamble,  Belden,  and 
)ther,  and  also  twenty-three  discharged  and  furloughed  Federal 
diers,  and  fully  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  other  passengers,  men, 
men  and  children. 

iVhen  the  train  came  up  near  town  the  engineer  saw  the  guerillas 
i  "  slowed  up,"  intending  to  run  back  to  Mexico ;  but  he  remem- 
red  that  the  gravel  train  was  close  behind  him,  and  he  knew  a  colli- 
Q  would  ensue,  and  as  the  track  seemed  clear  ahead  he  thought  he 
ild,  by  putting  on  full  steam,  pass  the  station  in  safety.  Accord- 
,^ly  he  pulled  open  the  throttle  of  his  engine  and  started.  But 
mediately  some  of  Anderson's  men  behind  the  depot  began  pitch- 
\  ties  and  other  obstructions  on  the  track,  others  opened  fire 
the  train,  and  a  larg'e  squad  that  had  hidden  behind  a  store 
Hoped  out  and  began  firing  and  shouting,  as  did  the  squad  which 
i  robbed  the  stage,  whereupon  the  engineer  stopped  the  train, 
e  fireman  was  slightly  wounded.  Some  revolver  balls  passed 
ough  the  cats,  but  no  one  was  hurt.  No  shots  were  fired  from 
•  train,  and  no  resistance  of  any  sort  was  attempted  by  any  of 


446  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

the  passengers  or  soldiers.  The  soldiers  had  no  arms  —  only  t\ 
cavalrymen  having  revolvers  —  and  the  citizens  had  few,  if  any,  arn 
of  any  kind. 

ROBBING   THE    TRAIN. 

As  soon    as   the  train  stopped   it  was  boarded    by  the   guerillas 

The  passengers  were  thoroughly  frightened.     '«  Those  men  areguer^ 

iUasf  shouted  a  soldier  of  the  First  Iowa  Cavalry,  when  the  trail 

first  slackened  its  speed.     The  news  rapidly  spread  through  the  can 

that  the  bushwhackers  were  in  possession  of  Ccntraliaand  would  soon 

have  the  life  of  every  passenger  at  their  mercy.     A  number  of  the 

guerillas,    Anderson's    lieutenant^   Arch.    Clements,  at   their  head, 

sprang  on  the  train,  crying  out  to  the   soldiers,  "Surrender I  sur 

render!  you  are  prisoners  of  war."     The  soldiers  did,  this,  someol 

them  saying,  "  We  can't  help  ourselves,  for  we  are  unarmed."    Verj 

soon  after  this  the  demeanor  of  the  ornerillas  chan^jed.     Thev  bejrai 

to  curse  and  maltreat  the  soldiers,  and  to  rob  everybody  on  the  train 

men,  women,  and  even  children.     Every  guerilla  had  a  pistol  in  hi 

hand,    and  occasionally    a   shot  was   fired.     Pocket  books,  watche 

knives,  rings,  bracelets,  ear-rings,  trinkets,  clothing,  and  various  olli* 

articles,  were  taken  from  the  passengers.     Many  of  the  soldiei's  wei 

stripped  of  their  uniforms  to  their  underwear,  and  the  blue  clothii 

donned  by  those  of  the  guerillas  who  were  wearing  apparel  of  oth^ 

hues.     The  express  car  was  entered  by  a  squad  led  by  Anderson  hia 

self.     The  express  messenger  delivered  up   his  keys,  the   safe  wg 

opened,  and  about  $3,000  taken  therefrom.     A  much  larger  sum  wg 

left  unnoticed,  for  just  as   it  was  about  to  be  discovered  a  cry  cam 

from  Long,  Frank  James,  and  others,  in  the  baggage-car  :  "  Good  God 

Here's    thousands  of  greenbacks!      Whoopee  I     Run    here,  qiiickl' 

A  valise  had  been  broken  open  containing,  it  is  said,  $10,000,  hu 

doubtless  this  amount  was  largely  exaggerated.     At  any  rate,  the  me 

in  the  express  car  left  it  and  entered  the  baggage  car.     Every  valia 

and  trunk  was    broken   open   and  the   contents    tumbled  out.     Th 

train  men,  conductor,  engineer,  brakemen,  and  all,  were  robbed  c 

their  watches  and  pocket  books,  and  some  of  them  of  their  rings  an 

breastpins. 

The  scene,  as  described  by  the  citizens  who  witnessed  it,  and  by  th 
passengers  and  the  guerillas,  was  terrible  and  horrible.  The  guerilla 
were  shouting  and  cursing;  brandishing  pistols  and  threatening  every 
body  ;  the  women  and  children  were  crying,  sobbing  and  moaning 
The  men  among  the  passengers  spoke  but  few  words  or  not  at  all. 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  447 

The  stripped  and  unarmed  Federal  soldiers  bore  themselves  well. 
Although  jostled  and  kicked  about  by  their  captors,  insulted  and 
struck  in  the  face  with  pistols,  they  uttered  not  a  word. 

SOLDIERS   MARCHED   IN    LINE   TO   BE   SHOT. 

At  last  Anderson  gave  the  corainand  to  have  the  soldiers  taken  to 
the  south  side  of  the  railroad  and  formed  in  line.  The  passen«^cr& 
were  ordered  to  leave  the  train,  and  they  huddled  in  groups  about 
the  grounds  adjoining,  clinging  to  each  other,  and  not  daring  to  leave 
without  permission.  A  few,  seemingly  stupefied  or  paralyzed  with 
horror,  remained  in  the  cars,  some  of  them  crouching  beneath  the 
seats. 

THE   MASSACRK   OP  THE   SOLDIERS. 

There  were  twentv-four  men  on  the  train  who  *»  wore  the  blue,'* 
but  only  twenty-throe  of  them  were  or  had  been  soldiers.  One  man, 
a  German  from  St.  Louis,  wore  a  blue  blouse  and  a  soldier's  cap, 
both  nither  old  and  dingy,  which  he  had  probably  picked  up  about 
the  camps  near  the  city.  As  stated,  he  was  a  German,  and  was^ 
thought  to  be  a  Jew.  He  spoke  English  so  imperfectly  that  he  could 
with  difficulty  make  himself  understood.  He  was  not  a  soldier  and 
never  had  been  one,  but  he  was  believed  to  be  a  soldier,  and  was, 
therefore,  marched  across  the  railroad  track  and  made  to  take  a  place 
in  the  line  with  the  others. 

*' What  are  you  going  to  do  with  them   fellows?"  Arch.  Clements 
asked  Anderson,  alluding  to  the  soldiers,  who  stood  tremblingly  in 
line.    "  Parole  them,  of  course,"  returned  Anderson,  with  an  ironical 
and  sardonical  emphasis  on  the  word  "  pan)le."     Witli  a  laugh,  Clem- 
ents rejoined:  **  I  thought  so.     You   might  pick  out  two   or  three, 
though,"  he  added,    *' and  exchange  them  for  Cave,    if  you   can." 
(He  referred  to  Cave  Wyatt,  a  sergeant  of  Anderson's  company,  who 
had  been  wounded  In  a  fight  in  Carroll  County,  and  was  reported  to 
be  a  prisoner  in  the  hands  of  the  Federals  at  Columbia.  )     "Oh,  one 
^11  be  enough   for   that,"    Anderson    replied.     *'Arch.,  you   take 
charge  of  the  tiring  party,  and,  when  I  give  the  word,  pour  hell  into 
them."    Then  Anderson  rode  to  the  line,  which  was  drawn  up  acroj^s 
*he  street  and  near  the  store,  a  few  yards  from   the  railroad,  where 
-A^nthony's  livery  stable  now  stands,  on  the  corner  west  of  Roberts' 
**otel.    When  within  a  few  feet  of  the    Federal  prisoners,   he  ad- 
^I'essed  them  almost  pleasantly:  '*  Boys,  is  there   a  sergeant  among 
you?*'    There  were  three  or  four  men  of  that  rank  in   the  line,  but 


448  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

no  man  spoke.  '*  I  say,fis  there  a  sergeant  in  this  line?"  he 
peated  ;  **  if  there  is,  let  him  step  out."  Whereupon  Sergeant  Th 
M.  Goodman,  of  Col.  Flad's  First  Regiment,  Missouri  Engineers,  f 
days  from  his  regiment,  then  at  Athmta,  Ga.,  stepped  to  the  froi 
looking  the  guerilla  chieftain  squarely  in  the  eye.  The  prisone 
Goodman,  included,  believed  that  the  sergeants  were  to  be  taken  c 
and  shot,  and  the  remainder  of  them  released  ;  but  to  one  who  kn( 
Tom  Goodman,  it  would  be  no  marvel  that  he  should  defy  deal 
Moreover,  he  had  been  robbed  of  his  coat  by  a  guerrilla  who  sto 
near  with  the  garment  on,  bearing  the  chevron  of  a  sergeant  of  € 
gineers,  and  this  man  moved  towards  Anderson,  as  if  to  point  o 
Goodman.  Anderson  then  directed  two  of  his  men,  Hime  (or  Hirai 
Litton  and  Richard  Ellington,  to  take  charge  of  the  prisoner  andi 
move  him  to  a  place  of  safety,  and  to  protect  him.  Accordingly, 
was  taken  to  the  rear,  behind  a  small  stable. 

THE    BLOODY   WORK    BEGINS. 

And  now  Arch.  Clements  began  to  carry  out  Anderson's  orde 
and  to  "pour  hell"  into  the  prisoners.  Probably  twenty-five  n 
opened  on  the  doomed  line  with  revolvers  at  twenty  paces.  Exg 
pistol  shots  as  they  were,  many  of  the  guerillas  missed  their  ai 
A  dozen  of  the  prisoners,  shot  through  the  brain  or  the  heart, 
dead  at  the  first  vollev.  Others  screamed  and  staggered  about  iw 
a  hand  pressed  to  their  wounds  until,  shot  again  and  again,  they  tu 
bled  lifeless  to  the  ground.  One  man.  Sergeant  Peters,  of  the  \ 
souri  Engineers,  Goodman's  regiment,  a  man  of  herculean  statu 
stripped  to  his  shirt  and  drawers,  was  shot  five  times  through 
body,  and  yet  knocked  the  guerillas  right  and  left,  broke  throi 
the  line,  and,  with  the  blood  spouting  from  his  wounds,  succeedec 
reaching  the  depot  and  crawling  under  the  platform,  which  was  rai 
some  feet  above  the  ground. 

Others  wandered  about,  stunned  and  bleeding,  and  in  their  ag( 
staggered  against  the  very  muzzles  of  the  revolvers  of  the  guerill 
One  or  two  started  for  the  railroad,  and  fell  dead  within  a  few  feet 
it.  Some  cried,  "  O,  God,  have  mercy!"  but  the  most  of  th 
merely  groaned  and  moaned  in  the  most  agonizing  manner.  T 
I^oor  German  whined  pitifully  as  he  expired. 

Sergeant  Peters  was  dragged  from  under  the  depot  platform  i 
given  the  finishing  touch,  as  it  were,  with  a  bullet  through  the  bra 
He  sank  back  seemingly  a  corpse,  but  in  a  short  time  raised  up,  res 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  449 

bimself  on  his  left  elbow,  extended  his  right  arm,  with  the  fist 
denched,  towards  heaven,  held  it  in  that  position  a  moment,  then 
mattered,  *^  My  Lord,"  sank  down  and  died  with  his  head  on  his  arm, 
08  a  little  child  goes  to  sleep.  One  man  lay  flat  on  his  back,  with  his 
hands  clinched  tightly  in  the  short  grass.  Another  lay  with  one 
hallet-hole  over  the  .eye,  another  in  his  face,  a  third  in  his  breast. 
He  was  unconscious,  his  eyes  were  closed,  he  did  not  moan,  but,  with 
a  sort  of  spasmodic  motion,  he  dragged  his  right  heel  on  the  grpund, 
back  and  forth,  back  and  forth.  **  He's  marking  time,"  said  Arch. 
Clements,  jocosely. 

The  passengers  and  citizens  who  were  witnesses  of  these  dreadful 
scenes  were  stricken  almost  dumb  with  horror.  The  women  did  little 
else  than  cry  and  pray.  The  men  wandered  about  in  a  dazed  way, 
tiyiog  to  get  farther  from  Centralia.  The  passengers  who  had  come 
in  the  Columbia  stage  were  in  a  perilous  plight.  Major  Rollins  was 
hid  in  the  garret  or  attic  story  of  Sneed's  Hotel  from  a  window  of 
which  he  witnessed  the  bloody  work.  The  other  passengers  were 
scattered  about  in  what  they  deemed  to  be  safe  places.  The  depot 
and  platform  had  been  set  on  fire.  One  of  Anderson's  men  came  upon 
some  citizens,  among  whom  were  Sheriff  Waugh  and  Dr.  Sneed,  and 
directed  them  to  go  over  to  the  side  track  and  push  a  car  of  salt  be- 
longing to  Columbia  merchants  down  to  the  burning  depot,  that  it  too 
might  be  destroyed.  With  alacrity  they  obeyed.  As  they  were 
going  over  Dr.  Sneed  took  the  Sheriff's  tell-tale  papers  from  him  and 
secreted  them  on  his  own  (the  doctor's)  person.  **  May  we  go  on  to 
Sturgeon?"  asked  some  of  the  railroad  passengers  of  Anderson. 
**6o  on  to  hell,  for  all  I  care,"  returned  the  chieftain. 

THE   TRAIN   FIRED   AND   STARTED   UP  THE   ROAD. 

Preparations  were  now  made  by  the  guerillas  for  leaving  the  scene 

of  their  atrocity.     The  two  forward  cars  of  the  train  were  set  on  fire, 

and  the  engineer  was  ordered  to  jump  off  and  "  let  her  go."     The 

obstructions  were  removed  and  the  engineer  obeyed  orders.     He  had 

the  boldness  and  presence  of  mind,  however,  to  start  his  pumps  and 

.  lower  his  fires  so  that  the  engine  would  run  only  a  short  distance 

^hen  the  steam  would  be  exhausted.     Away  went  the  train,  the  front 

^rs  ablaze  and  the  whistle  blowing.     It  ran,  however,  but  two  and  a 

Iw^lf  miles  west  of  Centralia,  or  on  the  northwest  quarter  of  section  7, 

^^nship  51,  range  11,  when  it  stopped,  and  all  of  the  coaches  were 

*^^nied.    Some  citizens  were  near  when  it  burned,  but  were  unable  or 

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450  HISTOBY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

afraid  to  put  out  the  fire,  or  even  to  uncouple  or  push  out  of  danj 
the  cars  that  bad  not  taken  fire.  Some  of  the  men  had  been  pa8S< 
gers  on  ^the  train  when  it  reached  Centralia,  and  had  gotten  out 
town  in  some  manner,  and  were  on  their  way  to  Sturgeon.  Befc 
the  train  left  Centralia,  but  after  it  had  been  set  on  fire,  Mr.  Thos. 
Sneed  went  through  the  cars  and  in  one  of  thom  found  a  woman  ai 
three  children.  They  were  pale  and  speechless.  Mr.  Sneed  UTff 
them  to  leave  the  car,  and  explained  that  the  train  would  shortly  I 
destroyed  by  fire.  The  poor  creatures  then  left,  overcome  with  frigl 
and  crying  and  sobbing. 

Subsequently  the  gravel  train  came  in,  and  ran  on  a  side  track  ai 
it  was  captured  and  burned,  some  of  the  machinery  of  the  engii 
broken,  and  the  train  men  robbed.  The  engine  of  the  passeng 
train  was  not  materially  injured.  Some  thousands  of-  dollai*s  in  tl 
express  car,  overlooked  by  the  guerillas,  were  destroyed  in  tl 
conflagration. 

THE    OUEBILLAS   LEAVE   CENTRALIA  FOB  THEIR   CAMP. 

With  cheers  and  shouts,  or  rather  yells  and  screams,  the  guerill 
now  began  to  depart  for  camp.  The  prisoner,  Goodman,  was  mount 
on  a  mule  and  taken  along.  Every  one  of  the  guerillas  had  **  plundei 
of  some  kind,  and  many  of  them  had  a  good  deal  —  greenbaci 
gold  watches,  jewelry,  etc.  The  boots  full  of  whisky  were  tied 
gether  and  hung  over  the  horses*  necks,  or  carried  by  the  men  in  th 
arms.  Much  of  it  was  spilled,  of  course,  but  enough  was  saved 
make  drunk  a  hundred  or  more  of  Todd's  men  at  Singleton's.  Go( 
were  carried  in  front  of  the  men,  and  strapped  in  bundles  behind  the 
The  route  taken  was  substantially  the  same  by  which  in  the  morning  tl 
entered  the  town.  They  rode  away  to  the  southeast  two  and  a  I 
miles,  and  were  soon  in  camp,  fraternizing  with  their  comrades,  s 
distributing  whisky  and  boots  and  other  spoils  of  victory  amc 
them. 

SHERIFF  WAUGH  AND  CONGRESSMAN  ROLLINS. 

Before  leaving  town,  Anderson  seemed  to  have  discovered  t 
Sheriff  Waugh  was  the  party  calling  himself  Smith.  He  rode  do 
in  front  of  Sneed' s  Hotel.  *•  If  Mr.  Smith  is  in  the  house,"  he  ss 
*' let  him  come  out.  I  have  found  a  check  for  $10,000  payable 
him,  and  if  he  will  come  out  I  will  give  it  to  him."  But  **  Mr.  Smiti 
had  lost  no  check,  and  it  is  doubtful  if  he  would  have  '*  come  out" 
he  had,  since  he  suspicioned  that  the  guerilla  only  meant  to  get  i 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTT. 


451 


irithin  range  of  his  deadly  revolver.  Also,  in  some  way,  the  presence 
of  Major  Rollins  in  the  town  was  learned,  for  one  of  the  guerillas 
mi.  that  a  citizen  had  informed  him  that  one  of  the  stage  passengers 
was  a  member  of  Congress.  Anderson  wanted  to  go  back  and  search 
for  him,  but  decided  on  reflection  that  this  would  be  useless.  **  He 
would' do  to  exchange  for  Cave  Wyatt,"  he  said ;  but  Peyton  Long 
said,  <<  You  can  get  another  man  just  as  good  as  he  is,  without  half 
the  trouble." 

The  citizens  and  passengers  wandered  about  and  gazed  on  the 
corpses  of  the  murdered  soldiers  with  feelings  to  be  imagined,  but  not 
described.  They  compared  experiences  and  indulged  in  fearful  fore- 
bodings of  the  future.  The  passengers  expected  to  encounter  the 
goerillas  again,  and  the  citizens  knew  that  the  Federal  militia  would 
soon  be  in  Centralia,  and  perhaps  would  hold  its  citizens  guilty  of 
complicity  in  the  visit  of  Anderson  and  his  guerillas  to  the  place 
with  fire  and  sword. 

NAMES,  ETC.,  OF  SOME  OF  THE  ^UBDERED  SOLDIERS. 

As  before  stated,  there  were  twenty-three  soldiers  on  the  train,  but 
only  twenty-two  of  them  were  killed.  One,  Sergt.  Goodman,  was 
saved.  Twenty-three  dead  bodies  lay  on  the  ground,  however,  but 
the  twenty-third  was  not  the  body  of  a  soldier.  The  names,  regi- 
ments and  residences  of  some  of  the  murdered  soldiers  have  been  ob- 
tained from  Sergt.  Goodman,  and  are  here  appended  :  — 


Name. 

Regiment. 

Residence. 

Edmond  Pace «. 

1st  Missouri  Enerineers 

Taylor  County,  Iowa. 
Page  County,  Iowa. 
Pa^  County,  Iowa. 
Nodaway  County,  Mo. 
Nodaway  County,  Mo. 

Jimei  Mobley 

O188  Boee „ 

1st  Missouri  Engineers. 

1st  Missouri  En^neers 

Jnrith  Comer 

1st  Missouri  Enerineers 

Chu.  Hilterbridle 

1st  Missouri  Engineers 

Sergetnt  Peters 

1st  Missouri  Enerineers 

Holt  County,  Mo. 
Buchanan  County,  Mo. 

Junes  Thomas 

1st  Missouri  Enerineers 

William  B.  Bamam. 

Co.  F,  23d  Iowa  Infantry 

Clarinda,  Iowa. 

As  every  man  was  robbed,  no  papers  or  other  articles  were  found 
on  the  soldiers  by  which  they  could  be  identified.  Not  much  effort 
'^as  made,  however,  at  identification,  the  bodies,  in  most  instances,, 
^ing  allowed  to  lie  where  they  had  fallen  until  the  next  morning. 

DEPOT   BURNED. 

■*^e  depot  was  soon  burned  down,  and  converted  into  a  mass  of 
fiinoul Bering  embers  and  smoking  timbers.     The  majority  of  the  pas-^ 


452  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

sengers  from  the  train  set  out  for  Sturgeon  as  soon,  and  in  the  best 
manner,  possible.  Some  of  them  remained  in  the  few  bouses  in  town, 
owing  to  the  fact  that  all  of  the  vehicles  in  the  neighborhood  had  bees 
engaged  by  others. 

Why  had  Anderson  and  his  company  come  upon  Centralia  that 
morning,  while  all  the  rest  of  the  guerillas  remained  behind  ?  Early  in 
the  morning  he  told  Todd  and  Thrailkill  that  a  reconnoissance  in  the 
direction  of  Sturgeon  was  advisable,  to  note  if  the  Federals  were  or 
had  been  about,  and  as  Centralia  was  on  the  road  it  could  easily  be 
visited.  If  the  information  obtained  at  Centralia  was  satisfactory  he 
need  go  no  farther,  but  could  halt,  capture  the  stage  and  train  and 
return  to  camp.  If  he  came  upon  Federals  he  was  to  fight  them  and 
fall  back  towards  the  main  camp,  if  necessary.  If  he  could  ascertain 
that  Columbia  could  easily  be  captured,  the  attempt  was  to  be  made. 
A  picket  of  Thrailkill's  men  was  stationed  near  Young's  Creek  bridge 
on  the  railroad,  to  take  observations,  but  with  instructions  not  to  in* 
terfere  with  the  track  or  trains.  This  picket  or  another  (it  is  not  cer- 
tain )  moved  up  westward  in  sight  of  Centralia,  so  that  if  troops  came 
in  on  cars  and  disembarked  they  could  be  seen  and  their  movements 
reported. 

ARRIVAL   OF   MAJ.    JOHNSON's    COMMAND. 

At  about  3  p.  M.,  the  citizens  of  Centralia  saw  coming  from  the 
east,  along  the  railroad  toward  the  town,  anothet*  considerable  military 
force  dressed  in  blue.  At  first  they  were  thought  to  be  another  de- 
tachment of  guerillas,  but  they  were  soon  found  to  be  a  portion  of 
the  39th  Missouri  Infantry  Volunteers,  under  command  of  Maj.  A 
V.  E.  Johnson,  the  force  heretofore  mentioned,  moving  about  betwe^^ 
Mexico  and  Paris.  The  regiment  was  newly  organized,  and  h^ 
been  in  service  only  about  two  weeks.  On  the  14th  of  Septemb^ 
<Jompanies  A  and  G,  of  the  regiment,  had  arrived  at  Paris,  and 
week  later  Companies  C  and  H.  By  orders  from  Col.  E.  ^ 
Kutzner,  of  Scotland  County,  these  companies  were  placed  und^ 
command  of  Maj.  Johnson,  and  mounted  on  horses  and  mul^ 
^*  pressed  "  from  certain  "  disloyal "  citizens  of  Monroe,  Shelby  aoi 
JVIarion  Counties.  These  animals  were  of  an  inferior  grade,  moi 
of  them  being  old  brood-mares  and  plow-horses,  with  some  indiffel 
ent  mules.  The  39th  Missouri  was  armed  with  Enfield  muskets,  mnz 
zle-loading  guns,  carrying  an  ounce  ball  and  equipped  with  bayonets 
There  were  no  revolvers  or  sabers  in  the  regiment,  save  those  carriei 
by  the  commissioned  officers. 


HI8TOBY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  453 

For  some  day8»  and  at  intervals,  Johnson's    battalion   had    been 
fioouting  in  Monroe  County.     Once,  as  before  stated,  it  had  come  up 
irithCapt.  Bryson's  company  of  forty  men  near  Santa  Fe,  Monroe 
County,  and  dispersed  it,  wounding  Bryson  and  three  or  four  of  his 
men  and  taking  one  prisoner,  Andrew  Ewing.     The  next  day  it  con- 
tinued the  hunt  for  the  fleeing  Confederates,  but  failed  to  find  them. 
Bryson's  force  learned  from  the  citizens  and  by  their  own  observation, 
how  many  men  Johnson  had,  how  they  were  armed,  mounted,  etc., 
and  had  conveyed  this  information  to  Anderson  in  the  interview  before 
narrated. 

On  the  night  of  the  26th  of  September  intelligence  was  brought 
to  Paris,  that  Bill  Anderson  had  entered  the  county  from  the  west 
and  was  near  Middle  Grove.  At  ten  o'clock  p.  m.,  Johnson  mounted 
147  of  his  men,  detachments  of  Companies  A,  G,  and  H,  and 
started  in  pursuit.  Company  A  was  from  Adair  County  and  was 
commanded  by  Capt.  James  A.  Smith,  with  Edwin  Darrow  and  Robt. 
Moore  as  Lieutenants.  Company  G  was  from  Shelby  county, 
commanded  by  Capt.  Wm.  Glover.  On  this  occasion  it  was  com- 
manded by  First  Lieutenant  Thos.  Jaynes,  of  Shelb)rville.  Com- 
pany H  was  commanded  by  Adam  Theiss,  of  Hannibal,  and  was 
made  up  of  recruits  from  Marion,  Lewis,  Shelby,  and  Monroe  coun- 
ties. The  lieutenants  of  this  company  were  Frank  B.  Wray,  of  Lewis, 
and  John  E.  Stafford,  of  Clark.  The  commissioned  officers  present 
with  the  command  |were  Major  Johnson,  Captains  Smith  and  Theiss, 
and  Lieutenants  Jaynes  and  Stafford.  Company  H  had  but  35 
men  on  the  expedition,  with  two  wagons  and  one  prisoner.  The  total 
number  of  men  led  by  Johnson  into  Centralia  was  therefore  155, 
composed  of  147  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates,  five  officers, 
two  teamsters,  and  one  prisoner. 

Johnson  came^upon  Todd's  trail  near  Middle  Grove  and  followed 
it  as  rapidly  as  possible.     He  found  that  the  guerrillas  had  robbed 
nearly  every  house  along  the  route,  but  had  killed  no  one.     He  pushed 
on  in  a  southeasterly  course  to  the  timber  on  Young's  Creek   and 
^hen  moved  due  south  to  where  the  guerillas  had  crossed  the  railroad, 
*l>out  two  and  a  half  miles  east  of  Centralia  and  in  plain  view  of  the 
^Wn.     Here  he  halted  and  decided  to  visit  the  village  in  search  of  in- 
formation, having  no  suspicion  of  the  dreadful  tragedy  that  had  been 
^xxacted  a  few  hours  before. 

'VThen  he  arrived  at  the  place  and  saw  the  smoking  ruins  of  the  depot 
^*xd  the  cars,  and  the  bloody,  ghastly  corpses  of  the  slain  soldiers. 


454  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

and  the  horror-stricken  women  and  children ,  Maj.  Johnson  at  onoe 
knew  it  was  all  the  work  of  the  guerillas,  but  speedily  set  about  to 
learn  the  details.  He  conversed  with  some  of  the  citizens,  but  more 
especially  with  Dr.  A.  F.  Sneed.  The  latter  informed  him  thoroughly  ■ 
as  to  what  had  occurred,  of  the  location  of  the  camp  of  the  guerillas, 
and  of  their  probable  —  at  least  their  reported  —  number.  Maj. 
Johnson  and  Dr.  Sneed  ascended  into  the  attic  of  Mr.  Sneed's  hotel 
and  looked  out  southeast  over  the  prairie  toward  Singleton's.  Very 
soon  they  saw  a  squad  of  15  or  20  men  ride  out  from  a  little  belt  of 
timber  along  a  small  branch  near  Mr.  Yates'  residence,  a  mile  from 
town,  and  halt.  •<  There  they  are  now,"  said  the  Major,  and  he 
hastily  descended.  On  the  groilnd,  Doctor  Sneed  asked  him  if  he  in- 
tended marching  out  to  attack  them,  ''/do,"  he  emphatically  re- 
sponded. Dr.  Sneed  remonstrated  and  urged  him  not  to  risk  a  fight 
with  the  guerillas.  <*  They  largely  outnumber  you,"  he  said,  •*  and 
they  are  much  better  armed  and  mounted,  having  four  good  revolvers 
each  and  splendid  horses." 

**  How  many  do  you  think  there  are  of  them  ?"  asked  Major  Johnson. 

•*  I  do  not  know  to  a  certainty,  but  there  are  said  to  be  about  400,'* 
replied  Dr.  Sneed. 

'*  But  you  say  there  were  only  about  80  in  town  this  morning." 

"  The  remainder  were  down  in  the  camp." 

The  Major  seemed  somewhat  incredulous  as  to  the  number  of  tlw 
foe,  thinking,  no  doul)t,  they  were  largely  overestimated,  as  \^^ 
commonly  the  case. 

*'And  they  are  armed  only  with  revolvers?"  he  again  queri^^ 
**  Well,  they  may  have  the  advantage  of  me  in  numbers  but  I  y/^i 
have  the  advantage  of  them  in  arms.  My  guns  are  of  long  ran^ 
and  I  can  fight  them  successfully  at  a  distance."  Soon  after  fc 
added,  '*  I  will  fight  them  anyhow, ^^ 

JOHNSON    DETERMINES   TO   FIGHT. 

Johnson  spoke  like  a  soldier.  It  was  his  duty  to  march  forth  aa 
attack  his  enemy  at  any  hazard.  He  had  been  following  him  for  sei^ 
eral  hours  with  orders  to  fight  him  when  found.  He  had  come  upot 
him ;  and  here  was  a  town  with  its  railroad  buildings  in  ashes,  it= 
citizens  robbed  and  plundered  and  the  dead  bodies  of  twenty-three 
Federal  soldiers,  brutally  murdered  in  cold  blood,  lying  stark  and 
stripped  and  lifeless  in  the  sun  ;  and  those  who  had  done  the  burning, 
the  robbing,  and  the  murdering  were  only  a  mile  or  so  away.     Sup- 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTT.  455 

pose  he  had  acted  the  craven  and  the  coward  and  retreated  to  Stur- 
geon in  safety,  leaving  the  guerillas  to  pursue  their  way  in  peace,  all 
fatare  generations  wonld  have  justly  condemned  his  conduct  and  ex- 
erated  his  memory.     Major  Johnson  is  better  off,  dust  and  ashes  in 
bis  grave  in  Marion  county,  than  if  he  were  alive  under  such  a  cloud 
of  contumely  and  shame.     He  has  been  censured  deeply  and  often  by 
those  who  did  not  know  the  facts  or  did  not  rightly  interpret  them. 
YarioQS   silly    statements  have  been  made  concerning   him ;  among 
them  that  he  entered  Centralia  cursing  and  swearing  at  the  citizens* 
and  left  using  ^he  most  violent  threats  and  denunciations ;  that  he 
knew  nothing  of  the  force  he  was  confronting  —  their  numbers,  char- 
acter, etc. ;  that  he  carried  a  black  flag  at  the  head  of  his  command ; 
that  the  people  of  the  place,  even  ''beautiful  girls,"  implored  him 
not  to  go  out  against  the  bushwhackers,  with  much  more  misrepre- 
sentation and  falsehood. 

The  truth  is,  as  related  by  the  then  citizens  of  Centralia  now  living, 
and  who  speak  that  which  they  know,  and  by  the  few  surviving  mem- 
bers of  Johnson's  command,  none  of  the  ridiculous  utterances  or 
actions  attributed  to  him  were  ever  said  or  done.  He  treated  the 
citizens  respectfully,  even  kindly.  He  had  on  his  person  a  written 
order  from  Gen.  C.  B.  Fisk  commanding  him  to  ''exterminate  the 
murderous,  thieving  bushwhackers,"  but  he  made  no  threats  against 
the  people  of  Centralia.  He  knew  something  of  the  character  of  the 
force  he  was  about  to  engage,  having  followed  them  long  enough,  and 
conyersed  with  people  who  had  well  obsei*ved  them,  to  get  an  accurate 
idea  of  them.  Doubtless,  he  was  mistaken  as  to  their  numbers,  as  it 
is  said  he  told  Lieut.  Stafford  that  lie  did  not  believe  they  exceeded 
150.  He  conferred  with  Dr.  Sneed  and  one  or  two  other  citizens  of 
Centralia,  and  was  advised  by  them  not  to  attempt  an  attack,  but  no 
**  beautiful  girl  "  implored  him  to  remain.  He  floated  no  black  flag. 
He  had  a  United  States  flag  carried  in  his  command,  by  Isaac  Howard, 
and  this  was  brought  unstained  and  unhurt  from  the  field.  Practi- 
<5ally,  it  may  be,  both  sides  were  fighting  under  the  black  banner  of 
"no quarter.**  The  guerillas  killed  every  Federal  that  fell  into  their 
hands,  and  this  fact  was  well  known  to  Johnson,  whose  orders  were 
^  *'  exterminate  "  them  if  he  could. 

JOHNSON  MARCHES  TO  BATTLE  AND  TO  DEATH. 

t^etting  his  command  together,  Johnson  ordered  Capt.  Theiss  and 
*^'6Ut.  Stafford,   of  Company  H,    with  35  men  to  remain  in    Cen- 


456  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

tralia  with  the  two  teamsters,  the  wagons  and  the  prisoner.     Witb 
the  detachments  of    Company    A,  Capt.  Smith,   and  Company  G, 
Lieut.  Jay ues,  Major  Johnson  advanced  toward  the  southeast.    He 
did  not  have  exceeding  120  men.     An  advance  under  a  commissioned 
officer,  numbering  perhaps  25  men,  rode  in  a  trot  toward  the  guerilla 
picket  force,  near  Yates's.     When  the  forces  were  within  200  yards 
of  each  other,  the  guerillas  retreated  southward  ;  the  Federals  fol« 
lowed  slowly,  but  never  losing  sight  of  their  enemy.     The  guerilla 
rode  leisurely  along,  halting  occasionally  to  be  sure  that  they  were 
being  followed.     Haifa  mile  south  of  Yates's  there  was  a  field.    The    ; 
fence  was  thrown  down,  the  guerillas  entered  the  field  and  marched 
in  a  trot  up  a  gentle  slope.     Johnson  closed  up  with  his  advance  in 
the  little  hollow  and  skirt  of  timber  near  where  the  fence  was,  and 
entered  the  field  through  the  same  gap  the  guerillas  had  passed.    He 
marched  up  the  slope  in  a  walk  to  the  crest  of  the  hill,  and  entered  a 
piece  of  fallow  land  where,  the  previous  year,  had  grown  a  crop  of 
corn.     Here  he  halted  his  command  and  '*  fronted"  it,  his  line  now 
running  north  and  south  and  facing  the  east.     Near  half  a  mile  away, 
on  the  crest  of  another  hill,  sloping  down  east  to  Young's  Creek,  he 
saw  perhaps  75  men,  Andei*son's  company.     The  remainder  of  the 
guerillas  were  out  of  sight,  save  a  few  that  could  be  seen  in  a  holloa 
to  the  right.     Johnson  dismounted  three-fourths  of  his  men,  ordered 
them  to  **  fix  bayonets,"  and,  himself  at  their  head  on  horseback* 
moved  forward  about  100  yards  and  halted,  leaving  behind  one-four*^ 
of  his  men  to  hold  horses,  as  is  customary  with  cavalry  and  mount ^^ 
infantry  when  fighting  on  foot. 

PREPARATION  OF  TODD  FOR  THE  FIGHT. 

When  Bill  Anderson  returned  to  the  main  camp,  near  Singleton 
and  reported  what  he  had  done,  he  had  a  considerable  altercation  wi^ 

Georore  Todd  concernincr  his  conduct.     Todd  denounced  the  killin 

of  the  defenceless  soldiers  and  the  robbery  of  the  citizens.  Ande^ 
son  was  on  the  point  of  withdrawing  from  the  command,  whe^ 
Thrailkill's  pickets  came  in  and  reported  the  approach  of  Johnson'^ 
command.  The  officer  in  charge  of  the  scouts  (said  to  have  beec::^ 
Thrailkill  himself),  said  he  had  counted  the  Federals  as  they  marched 
up  the  railroad  track  and  that  their  number  was  one  hundred  and  fifty- 
five.  It  was  soon  agreed  that  this  was  the  command  of  whiclt- 
Bryson's  men  had  informed  them  that  morning.  «*  They  have  only 
old  muskets  and  no  revolvers,  then,"  said  Anderson  to  Todd,  **and 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  457 

will  be  only  fun  to  clean  them  up."  All  differences  were  forgotten^ 
lid  the  command,  **  saddle  up  !  '•'  rang  through  the  camp.  Todd  was 
oon  prepared  for  battle.  Fullenwider's  fence  lay  in  front  of  the 
amp  to  the  west.  Every  other  panel  was  thrown  down,  and  the 
^erillas  passed  into  the  fallow  field.  Todd  and  Thrailkill  planned 
lie  battle  line.  To  the  right  of  the  field  was  a  slough,  or  <<  branch," 
running  northeast  into  Young's  Creek.  To  the  left  was  a  slough 
ninning  southeast  into  Young's  Creek.  Up  the  slough  to  the  right 
irere  sent  Thrailkill  and  Tom  Todd.  Up  the  slough  to  the  left  went 
Gteorge  Todd  and  Si.  Gordon.  Up  the  centre  went  Bill  Anderson,  and 
his  company  line  running  from  north  to  south  and  facing  the  west. 
Behind,  and  partly  overlapping  Anderson's  company,  was  Dave  Poole. 

Before  the  line  of  battle  was  formed,  Todd  sent  out  a  squad  of 
Thrailkill's  men  to  observe  the  movements  of  Jtthnson.  This  squad 
moved  up  near  Yates's,  and  was  the  squad  seen  by  Maj.  Johnson  and 
Dr.  Sneed  from  the  attic  of  Sneed's  hotel.  When  Johnson's  advance 
rode  down  to  near  this  force,  the  Federal  leader  called  out,  **  Come 
on;  we  are  ready  for  you."  In  a  minute  he  again  shouted,  **  Wait 
forus,  then,  you  d — d  cowards."  The  guerillas  (but  he  did  not,  of 
sonrse,  know  it)  were  only  waiting  for  him.  Report  was  sent  to  Todd 
)f  the  approach  of  the  Federals,  and  he  directed  the  squad  to  '•  toll  " 
>r  lead  them  into  the  trap  which  he  was  setting  for  them,  which  they 
nccessfully  accomplished.  As  soon  as  the  guerillas  got  into  the  old 
om-field  they  galloped  away  to  their  command.  The  Federals  came 
►n  as  before  described. 

As  the  forces  stood  confronting  each  other,  there  was  profound 
ilence  for  a  minute  or  two.  Each  party  waited  for  the  other  to  be- 
in  the  attack.  Five  paces  ahead  of  his  soldiers  sat  Johnson  on  his 
negray  horse,  his  left  hand  holding  the  reins,  his  right  grasping  his 
istol  —  a  Colt's  dragoon.  If  he  spoke  to  his  men,  no  one  is  now 
live  that  heard  what  he  said.  Anderson  had  halted  at  the  head  of 
lis  company.  He  looked  over  to  the  right  and  to  the  left  and  saw 
hat  Todd  and  Thrailkill  were  in  position.  Then  he  rode  behind  his 
ompany,  and  said  to  his  men:  **Boys,  when  we  charge,  break 
(trough  the  line  and  keep  straight  on  for  the  horses.  Keep  straight 
^  for  the  horses  I  Keep  straight  on  for  the  horses!"  It  had  been 
Tanged  that  Anderson  was  to  open  the  fight  and  draw  the  Federal 
^^*  It  had  also  been  arranged  that  he  was  to  lift  his  hat  as  a  signal 
^r  the  attack,  which  would  be  observed  by  Poole  and  the  other  lead- 
's.    As  soon  as  the  Federals  fired,  Todd  and  Thrailkill  were  ta 


458  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

charge.  All  of  Anderson's  meii  kept  their  horses,  and  kept  in  liDe; 
none  of  them  dismounted,  as  reported  in  some  accounts.  AndenoD 
scanned  narrowly  the  dismounted  Federals  in  his   front,  with  their 

muskets  and  gleaming  bayonets.     **Not   a  d d  revolver  in  the 

crowd  r*  he  exultingly  exclaimed  to  Arch.  Clements. 

THE  FIGHT  AND  THE  CARNAGE. 

At  last  some  one  of  the  guerillas  gave  a  wild  shout,  and  at  once 
Anderson's  line  sprang  foward  in  a  gallop.     Such  a  scene  I     In  a  mo- 
ment Johnson's  men  fired   irregularly   and   wiUily,  and   in  another 
moment  Anderson  was  upon  them,  his  pistols  blazing,  and  his  men 
cheering  and  shouting.     "  Surrender  1  surrender  I  "  was  heard  among 
other  cries  and  yells.     The  revolvers  cracked  rapidly,  so  rapidly  that 
the  reports  sounded  at  a  distance  like  a  heavy  hail  storm  beating  on 
glass  roofs.     In  a  few  seconds  Todd  and  Thrailkill  had  hurried  for- 
ward and  were  taking  part,  and  then  Anderson  and  Poole  swept  on 
toward  the  reserve.       The  *'  fourth   men,"  who  were   holding  the 
horses  for  the  Federals,  made  but  feeble  resistance,  and  sought  safety 
by  riding  away  as  rapidly  as  possible.     A  few  of  them  started  when 
the  guerillas  made  the  first  charge,  turning  loose  the  horses  entrusted 
to  them.     Shooting  all  the  time,  now  a  man,  now  a  horse,  the  guer- 
illas rode  about  the  field  in  a  perfect  frenzy.     Many  Federals  fougbt 
to  the  hist,  clubbing  their  muskets  and  thrusting  with  their  bayonetfi» 
and  a  few   of  the  guerillas  received  bayonet  wounds.     Some  of  tb* 
Federals    knelt   on   the  ground    and    implored   mercy.       **I   am    ' 
Mason  I  *'   some  of  them  cried  out.     Very  many  did  not  fire  at  s^^ 
for   their  guns  were  found  loaded    after  the  fight.     To  all  on  t>l 
field,  with  a  single  exception,  death  came   in   two    minutes'  tiiCM^* 
Nearly  all  of  Johnson's  horses  were  killed  on  the  field,  a  major! ^ 
of  them  in  the  fight,  the  rest  deliberately.     In  some  respects  it^ 
Centralia  fight  has 

NO   PARALLEL    IN   THE    ANNALS    OF   THE    CIVIL    WAR. 

It  was  the  wildest  and  the  most  merciless,  and  in  proportion  to  tfc3 
number  of  the  force  vanquished,  the  most  destructive  of  hums^ 
life.  Out  of  a  total  force  of  only  about  ninety,  which  was  in  line  C^ 
battle,  and  thirty  others  detailed  to  hold  horses  in  the  rear,  one  hui^ 
dred  and  eight  fell  before  the  remorseless  revolvers  of  Todd's  and  An^ 
derson's  men  —  men  who,  fresh  from  the  horrible  scenes  of  blood  an^ 
pillage  and  fire  at  Centralia  that   morning,  were  prepared  for  othe^ 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  459 

scenes  of  carnage  on  a  larger  scale  in  the  afternoon.  To  such  men, 
-with  appetites  whetted  for  blood  and  suffering  and  death,  the  carnage 
A  Singleton's  farm  was  a  refreshment  and  a  joy,  and  perhaps  a  pleas- 
ant memory.  The  pistol  shots,  the  yells,  the  shouts  and  the  cheers 
of  the  victors,  mingled  with  the  screams,  groaus,  and  prayers  of  the 
Tanquished  —  the  exciting  spectacle  of  charging  horses,  of  men  wav- 
ing weapons  and  firing,  of  men  fleeing  and  others  pursuing,  all  made 
a  scene  without  a  parallel. 

No  quarter  was  shown  to  a  single  Federal.  Capt.  Smith  caught  a 
guerilla's  horse  by  the  bridle  :  **  I  always  spare  prisoners,"  he  called 
out  loudly;  **  I  7icver  do,"  cried  the  guerilla,  fiercely,  and  shot  the 
officer  dead.  No  quarter  would  have  been  shown  the  guerillas  had 
they  been  taken  prisoners,  or  had  the  fight  gone  against  them,  and 
they  expected  none.  True,  they  might  not  have  been  shot  down  on 
the  field,  but  they  would  in  that  case  have  been  court-martialed,  and 
probably  shot  for  the  cowardly  massacre  of  the  morning. 

THE   PURSUIT. 

Anderson  ^nd  Poole,  as  has  been  stated,  passed  on  for  the  reserve 
with  the  horses.     Some  of  the  '*  fourth  men  "  sat  upon  their  horses 
in  a  state  of  stupefaction,  with  their  muskets  on  their  saddles  in  front 
of  them,  and  never  moved  until  they  were  shot  dead  from  their  sad- 
illes.    A  few  dismounted  and  fired  one  round  —  no  more.     The  others 
sought  to  escape,  and  turned  toward  Centralia  and  Sturgeon.     But 
the  old  sickle-hammed  brood-mares  and  plow-horses,  and  the  sore- 
backed  mules,  were  no  matches  in  speed  for  the  fine  horses,  the  best 
in  Missouri,  ridden  by  the  guerillas.     The  most  of  the  fugitives  were 
overtaken  in  a  few  moments  and  shot,  falling  from  their  saddles  into 
the  tall  grass  of  the  prairie.     The  remainder  were  pursued  across  the 
prairie  as  hunters  pursue  a  quarry  —  chased  as  wild  beasts. 

The  best  mounted  among  Anderson's  and  Poole's  men,  and  even 
among  Todd's  and  Thrailkill's,  led  the  chase.  The  little  fence  to  the 
left  of  the  field  where  the  battle  occurred  was  a  weak  and  straorglinff 
enclosure,  and  was  ridden  over  as  if  it  had  been  made  of  reeds. 
Outside,  to  the  west  and  north,  was  open  prairie  for  miles  and  miles. 
It  was  but  pastime  for  the  guerrillas  to  gallop  over  this  plain  in  pur- 
suit of  the  fleeing  Federals,  who,  after  the  first  fire,  with  their  empty 
Muskets  were  as  harmless  as  children.  Ever  and  anon  white  puffs 
^f  smoke  would  be  seen  at  the  muzzles  of  the  guerillas'  revolvers, 
*nd  a  flying  Federal  would   reel    in   his  saddle  and   tumble  to  the 


460  HISTORY   or   BOONU   COUNTY. 

ground.     Fifteen  were  killed  between  the  fence,  on  the  west  side  of 
the  battle-field,  and  Centralia. 

In  less  than  five  minutes  from  the  firing  of  the  first  gun,  Lieut. 
Jaynes,  of  the  Shelby  County  company,  galloped  back  into  Centralia, 
his  horse  covered  with  sweat-foam  and  his  pistol  smoking.  He 
shouted  to  Capt.  Theiss's  men,  *«  Get  out  of  here  !  Get  out  of  here! 
Every  one  of  you  will  be  killed  if  you  don't!  "  A  few  seconds  be- 
fore this  Lieut.  Stafford  and  Dr.  Sneed  were  in  the  attic  of  Sneed'a 
Hotel,  looking  toward  the  field.  The  officer  exclaimed,  "  There  thej 
come  !  they  are  routed  ! ' '  and  immediately  descended  and  hastened 
to  his  company.  He  and  three  of  his  men  at  once  set  out  for  Paris, 
and  made  good  their  escape.  Theiss  organized  his  company  as  well 
as  he  could  and  started  for  Sturgeon.  Some  of  them  remained  m 
Centralia  and  watched  the  approach  of  the  guerillas,  and  theD 
attempted  to  hide  themselves. 

THE    GUERILLAS    RETURN    TO    CENTRALIA HORRIBLE    SCENES. 

The  guerillas  were  soon  in  town  in  search  of  their  prey.    Dave 
Poole  was  among  the  first.     South  of  Sneed's  Hotel,  while  galloping 
at  full  speed,  he  shot  two  Federals  through  the  head,  off  their  horses, 
fifty  yards  away.     T.  S.  Sneed  was  standing  on  top  of  his  kitchen  and 
witnessed  the  shooting.     Poole  saw  Mr.  Sneed  and  turned  his  pistol 
on  him,  dropping  a  bullet  one  foot  on  each  side  of  him.     Mr.  Sneed, 
like  Zaccheus,  of  sycamore  fame,  came  speedily  down.     Poole  then 
rode  up  to  the  hotel,  and,  cursing  Sneed,  took  his  horse  from  him  and 
rode  rapidly  in  the  direction  of  Sturgeon.     As  Theiss  and  his  men 
were  leaving  town  two   guerillas,  who  stood  by  the  roadside,  shot 
four  men  out  of  the  ranks.     At  Judge  J.  W.  Hall's  (who  then  lived 
in  Centralia),  his  daughter.  Miss  Eliza,  lay  sick.     A  frightened  Fed- 
eral took  refuge  in  the  house  and  cowered  down  by  the  bed  whereon 
lay  the  sick  lady.     The  guerillas  followed  him  and  slew  him  while  he 
trembled  and  begged  for  his  life.     Two  men  ran  into  the  privy  of  the 
Eldorado  House,  whither  they  were  pursued  and  shot.     Another  W*s 
in  the  hotel.     A  trooper  rode  up  to  the  fence  and  called  out :  *'  Cooo® 
out  and  surrender,  and  you  shall  be  paroled  and  not  hurt."     t^^' 
Sneed  lived  directly  opposite,  heard  the  guerilla,  saw  the  Fedei-*^ 
come  out  and  throw  down  his  gun,  and  then  saw  the  guerilla  sho^* 
him   dead.     One   guerilla   called   for  a  drink  of  water.     As  it  i^** 
handed  him,  he  saw  one  of  Johnson's  men  jump  over  the  back  feO.<5* 
and  run.     Wheeling  his  horse  he  galloped  after  the  blue  coat,  and     ^^ 


HISTORY   OlS   BOONE   COUNTY.  461 

a  second  his  pistol  cracked,  the  Federal  fell  dead,  and,  returning,  the 
guerilla  said,  *<  I'll  take  that  drink  now." 

John  C.  Rowland,  a  citizen,  was  in  town  in  a  wagon  with  some 
ladies,  when  the  guerillas  came  into  town  on  the  heels  of  the  Feder- 
als. Mr.  Rowland  drove  the  wagon  behind  a  barn,  intending  to  keep 
himself  and  ladies  out  of  harm's  way.  Tom  Little,  one  of  Anderson's 
guerillas,  rode  upon  the  wagon,  and  struck  at  Mrs.  Redman,  one  of 
the  ladies,  with  his  reyolver.  Mr.  Rowland  caught  the  weapon  by 
the  barrel  and  held  on  with  such  a  grip  that  he  was  almost  dragged 
from  the  wagon.  Little  then  killed  him.  Mr.*  Rowland  was  a  well- 
respected  young  man,  who  had  never  been  a  soldier,  but  was  regarded 
as  a  Southern  sympathizer. 

The  Federals  were  pursued  into  Sturgeon,  eight  miles  distant.  One 
man  was  shot  within  half  a  mile  of  the  town.  Frank  Barnes,  a  pri- 
vate in  Theiss's  company,  was  shot  five  times  and  not  killed.  He  was 
taken  prisoner  by  the  guerillas,  carried  off,  and  saved  by  Todd's  or- 
der. A  German  soldier  left  the  battle-field  and  retreated  in  a  south- 
west direction.  He  was  not  pursued.  He  crept  in  a  corn  shock  on 
the  farm  of  Mr.  Cook,  and  was  fed  and  helped  by  the  latter  on  his 

m 

way  to  liberty  and  life,  and  escaped.  He  made  his  way  to  Sturgeon 
by  way  of  Hallsville.  One  man,  Marquette,  of  the  Shelby  County 
company,  died  after  reaching  Sturgeon. 

When  the  guerillas  returned  to  Centralia  from  the  pursuit,  it  was 
quite  dark.  A  messenger  had  been  sent  from  the  battle-field  for  Dr. 
Sneed  to  attend  Anderson's  wounded.  Dr.  Sneed  was  forced  to 
mount  behind  the  messenger,  his  horse  having  been  taken  in  the  morn- 
ing, but  soon  a  guerilla  came  back  leading  a  very  good  horse  that  had 
been  captured,  and  this  animal  the  doctor  rode  to  camp.  He  lost  his 
instrument  case  on  the  way,  and  extracted  one  ball  with  a  thumb- 
lance.  Three  of  Anderson's  men  only  were  found  to  be  severely 
wounded ;  others  only  slightly.  Three  were  killed  outright  and  one 
mortally  wounded.  Those  killed  were :  Frank  F.  Shepherd,  Henry 
Williams  (called  *'  Hank"  Williams),  and  a  young  man  named  Pey- 
ton. Frank  Shepherd  was  nearly  seven  feet  high ;  Williams  had,  a 
short  time  before,  deserted  the  Federals.  Peyton  was  from  Howard 
County.  The  mortally  wounded  man  was  Richard  Kinney.  All  of 
those  who  were  killed  outright  were  shot  in  the  face.  Mr.  Thomas 
T.  Jennings,  now  a  carpenter  in  Centralia,  made  coffins,  by  order  of 
Anderson,  for  them,  and  they  were  buried  in  Pleasant  Grove  Cem. 
®tery,  where  they  still  repose. 


462  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Dr.  Sneed  left  the  field  about  10  o'clock  p.  m.,  and  soon  thereafter 
Todd  moved  camp  and  went  south  a  few  miles  and  again  encamped. 

CITIZENS   COLLECT  THE   DEAD   ON   THE   FIELD. 

The  next  morning  Dr.  F.  J.  Bruton,  W.  R.  McBride,  Jacob  Kan-  ' 
atzer,  and  other  prominent  citizens  went  out  on  the  battle-field  and 
gathered  up  the  Federal  dead.'  Where  Johnson's  line  was  formed  they 
found  sixty-eight  dead  men.  Maj.  Johnson's  body,  with  a  bullet 
through  the  temple,  lay  a  few  feet  in  advance  of  his  line.  His  iron- 
grey  horse  was  near  him.  The  Major's  pockets  had  been  searched, 
and  his  papers  lay  scattered  on  the  ground.  His  revolver  was  found 
by  the  guerillas  with  three  of  the  chambers  empty.  His  body  wa* 
not  mutilated,  according  to  the  accounts  of  the  citizens  named,  who 
searched  the  field,  and  who  are  responsible  for  the  statements  here 
made.^ 

All  of  the  bodies  of  the  Federals  had  been  searched  and  some  of 
them  stripped.  A  few  of  the  bodies  were  mutilated.  Three  are 
known  to  have  been  scalped,  one  of  these  being  a  large  red-headed 
man.  Over  in  the  prairie,  west  of  the  field,  one  body  was  stripped 
and  mutilated  in  a  revolting  manner  not  to  be  described.  Near  Mr. 
Jackson's  house  one  soldier  lay  dead,  pinned  to  the  earth  with  his  own 
bayonet. 

As  the  gentlemen  named  were  gathering  the  bodies  they  were 
startled  by  one  of  them  rising  and  asking  for  help.  Unfortunately 
this  man's  name  cannot  be  given.  He  had  been  shot  through  the 
head,  but  not  killed,  and  remained  conscious  all  through  the  fight  and 
the  following  night.  He  heard  the  citizens  when  they  came  on  the 
field,  but  feared  they  were  guerillas  and  would  not  make  known  hia 
condition  until  he  was  certain  who  they  were.  He  was  carried  to 
Centralia  in  a  blanket  and  sent  down  to  Mexico,  where,  it  is  said,  he 
died  that  night. 

That  morning  Col.  D.  P.  Dyer,  of  the  49th  Missouri  Infantry,  i^ 
1880  Republican  candidate  for  Governor,  came  up  from  Mexico  witb* 
portion  of  his  regiment  j^nd  prdered  the  citizens  to  bring  all  of  the 
dead  bodies  from  the  field  to  Centralia.     He  took  away  the  bodies    oi 


1  A  silly  statement  has  been  published  that  Maj.  Johnson  was  killed  by  the  noted  baf»^*» 
Jesse  James.    As  learned  from  guerillas  whose  word  can  be  depended  on,  and  from  o^" 
sources,  Jesae  James  was  not  at  Centralia  at  all.    At  that  time  he  was  lying  woundeo 
Carroll  or  Chariton  County.    Frank  James  was  at  Centralia,  and  took  a  foil  hand. 


HISTORY    OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 


46» 


irs  taken  from  the  cars  and  killed.  Col.  Dyer  did  not  re- 
ientralia  but  a  short  time,  and  then  returned  to  his  camp, 
leton  furnished  wagons  and  assisted  himself  in  removing  the 
town.  It  is  believed  that  eighty-three  bodies  were  brought ► 
day  the  citizens  buried  seventy-nine  of  these  in  one  large 
ar  the  railroad  and  east  of  the  town,  the  other  four,  in- 
SSlBj.  Johnson,  were  buried  elsewhere  —  the  latter  at  his 
Marion  County. 


LIST  OF   THE    FEDERALS   KILLED. 

Eict  number  of  Federals  killed,  it  is  believed,  has  been  cor 
ertained,  together  with  their  names.     J.  A.  Waddell,  Adju- 
eral  of  the  State,  furnishes  from  the  muster  rolls  of  the 
s  of  the  Thirty-ninth  Missouri,  on  file  in  his  office,  the  name 
man  reported  killed  at  Centralia,  as  follows :  — 

LED  OF  THIBTT-KINTH    MISSOXTRI   IKFANTBY,   AT  BATTLE  OF  OBNTBALL^   M0.». 

8BFTBMBBB  27,  1864. 

Major  A.  Y.  B.  Johnson, 


COMPAKT  A. 


Smith,        Seigt  Wm.  G.  Elliott,  Sergt.  J.  S.  Nesbit, 
Reynolds,   Corp.  A.  W.  Walters,  Corp.  Jasper  May, 

Corp.  Elijah  Eitel. 


Sergt.  M.  B.  Long, 
Corp.  Canada  Keller^ 


ns, 
iden. 

Graves, 

If 
on, 

m, 

car, 

aaker, 

•aum, 

>od, 


Privates, 

Geo.  W.  Bragg,  O.  C.  Byrd. 

Wm.  H.  Corbin,  A.  J.  Capps, 

Porter  Cunningham,  A.  J.  Denton, 

Alfred  B.  Hay  ward,  Valentine  Hine, 
Granville  Hanlin, 


James  Morrow, 
Mark  S.  Musick, 
A.  B.  Polly, 
Isaac  Slaughter, 
Daniel  A.  Simler, 
J.  R.  Williams, 
C.  C.  Wise, 


Wm.  H.  Jeffers, 
Joseph  Morrow, 
Jas.  K.  P.  Mock, 
Alfred  S.  Parsons, 
James  C.  Stuteville, 
Chas.  Wilbaum, 
Thos.  Waugh, 
Alfred  Zimmerman, 


"Wm.  H.  Braden, 
J.  L.  Canada, 
David  R.  Graves, 
Benj.  Hargrove, 
Henry  Keller, 
F.  McClanahan, 
"Wm.  Norton, 
Jacob  Reed, 
Emmet  H.  Selby, 
Jas.  H.B.  Waddell, 
Jas.  Willis, 
Total,  66. 


COMPANY  G. 


d  N.  Dunn,  Sergt  Jno.  Donahoo,    Sergt.  Wm.  Lair,  Sergt  Geo.  W.  Miller,- 

ier  P.Bart,  Corp.  Jas.  S.  Gunby,    Corp.  Wm.  Loar,         Corp.  David  Riggs, 
Corp.  L.  D.  Sherwood,  Corp.  Jacob  R  Wexler, 

Privates, 


lams. 

Charles  Bishop, 

Samuel  Bell, 

Philip  Christman, 

tman, 

Oscar  Collier, 

John  J.  Cirstein, 

Homer  M  Dunbar, 

lan, 

Sylvester  H.  Deen, 

James  S.  Edwards, 

Eleazer  Evans, 

ston. 

Wm.  G.  Floor, 

James  Forsythe, 

Robt  Greenfield, 

464  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Wm.  P.  Golay,  Henry  T.  Gooch,  Joseph  S.  Glahn,  John  W.  Hardio, 

Elijah  Hall,  Chas.  M.  Jenkins,  Wm.  Knipper,  Anthony  Labu, 

Louis  F.  Marquette,  Chas.  Matterson,  John  Moore,  Jno.  C.  Montgomeiy, 

Wm.  A.  Ross,  Robt  E.  Spires,  J.  G.  Sellers,  Edward  Stracb&D, 

James  Stalcup,  Wm.  T.  Smith,  Peter  Sunnoner,  J.  W.  Traswell, 

Geo.  W.  Van  Osdale,  J.  N.  Vaden,  A.  M.  Vandiver,  Jonathan  Wobdell, 

Wm.  T.  Whitelock.    Total,  61. 

COMPANY  H. 

Sergt  Henry  F.  Porter. 

Privates. 

Patrick  Ballagher,         Samuel  L.  Dingle,         Wm.  Dingle,  Wm.  Dexhimer, 

Wm.  A.  Denny,  James  M.  Henry,  Chas.  Kline,  Frederic  Miller, 

Robt  E.  Montgomery,  Conrad  Pilgram,  Chas.  E.  Rendlen,  Winfleld  Shuler, 

Benj.  Stephenson,  Bennett  Ford.     Total,  16. 

Rbcapitulation. — Field  officers,  1;  line  officers,  1;  Company  A,  non-coromiuioBed 
officers  and  privates,  55 ;  Company  G,  61 ;  Company  H,  15.     Total,  128. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  some  of  Capt.  Theiss's  companj 
(H.),  who  escaped:  Capt.  Adam  Theiss,  Lieut.  John  E.  Stafford, 
Corp.  John  R.  Sublett,  Isaac  (?)  Howard,  color-bearer,  Louis  Taylor, 
John  Cummiugs,  Ephriam  J.  Folen,  Jack  Calvert,  Enoch  Hunt, 
Frank  Barns,  wounded,  and  Wm.  Parker, 

The  seventy-nine  bodies  buried  at  Centralia  were  disinterred  De- 
cember 17,  1873,  under  direction  of  Capt.  Nelson,  and  forwarded  to 
JeflTerson  City,  and  reinterred  in  the  national  cemetery  at  that  place. 
James  A.  Harris  had  the  contract  for  taking  them  up,  for  which  here- 
<5eived  $150.  A  monument  which  had  been  placed  over  the  grave 
was  removed  by  C.  A.  Brown  for  $30.  About  fifty-six  bodies  were 
taken  up  the  first  day.  The  bones,  clothing,  cartridge  boxes,  belts, 
etc.,  were  well  preserved.  The  skeletons  were  small,  indicating thej 
were  of  young  men.  Those  who  buried  them  say  they  t/7erc  younj 
men,  in  most  cases,  with  smooth  faces  and  without  even  mustaches 
Seventy-nine  skulls  were  taken  out  of  this  grave,  each  with  a  bulW 
hole  in  it. 

The  prisoner,  Sergt.  Goodman,  taken  from  the  cars  at  Centrals 
and  spared  by  Anderson,  was  in  the  charge  of  Anderson's  company  oi 
Johnson's  men  in  the  field,  and  witnessed  the  tight,*  and  accompanie< 
the  command  when  it  left.  He  was  with  the  guerillas  ten  days,  an< 
escaped  as  they  were  crossing  the  Missouri  River.  After  his  returi 
to  his  home,  in  Page  County,  Iowa,  he  published  a  pamphlet  givinj 
an  account  of  his  experiences.     From  this  pamphlet  much  informa 


^  Now  living  in  Centralia,  and  from  whom  this  and  other  information  have  been  obUia^ 
'  As  did  Mr.  Yates,  a  citizen,  who  happened  to  be  near  the  field  with  his  team. 


/ 


HI8TOKY    OF   BOOt4£   COUNTT.  465 

tionhas  been  derived  for  this  article.     Mr.  Goodman  now  lives  at 
Santa  Bosa,  California. 

THE   RETBEAT   AND    PURSUIT   OP   THE    GUERILLAS   BY   GEN.  J.  B.  DOUG- 
LASS. 

On  the  night  after  the  massacre  and  battle  Todd  moved  his  com- 
naDd  down  in  the  neighborhood  of  Frazier's  Mill,  and  encamped  on 
the  northwest  quarter  of  section  12,  township  49,  range  12.  Pickets 
were  posted  and  foraging  parties  sent  out  to  procure  provisions  for 
the  men.  It  was  expected  the  Federals  would  soon  be  upon  them, 
and  Todd  and  Thrailkill  were  very  uneasy.  They  were  seeking  to 
<T088  the  Missouri  River  as  soon  as  possible,  and  put  themselves 
under  the  protection  of  Gen.  Price. 

On  the  evening  of  the  27th  Gen.  J.  B.  Douglass,  of  Columbia,  then 
in  command  of  the  military  district  embracing  Boone  County,  came 
across  the  country  from  Fayette  to  Columbia,  escorted  by  two  com- 
panies of  the  1st  Iowa  Veteran  Cavalry.  At  Columbia  Gen.  D.  found 
Lieut.-Col.  Austin  A.  King,  of  the  13th  Mo.  Cavalry,  with  three  com- 
panies of  his  regiment,  a  detachment  of  Capt.  James  A.  Adams's 
company  (B),  of  the  9th  M.  S.  M.,  and  one  piece  of  artillery,  a  six- 
pounder.  Col.  King  had  followed  Todd  and  his  command  from  Fay- 
ette to  near  Sturgeon,  at  which  time,  believing  the  guerillas  would 
attempt  to  cross  the  Missouri  in  the  southern  part  of  Boone  County, 
he  marched  across  the  country  south  to  intercept  them.  Douglass 
and  King  heard  the  evening  of  the  27th  of  the  massacre,  but  not  of 
the  battle  and  annihilation  of  Johnson  and  his  command. 

Early  on  the  morning  of  September  28th,  Gen.  Douglass  and  Col. 
King  started  after  Todd  and  Anderson,  and  about  eight  or  nine  o'clock 
came  on  them,  near  Frazier's  Mill.  Just  before  the  pickets  were 
fired  on  a  woman  of  the  neighborhood  was  captured  on  her  way  to 
the  guerilla  camp,  with  a  handsomely  embroidered  velvet  vest  for 
Bill  Anderson.  The  pickets  were  driven  in  and  the  piece  of  artillery 
moved  to  the 'front  and  fired  twice,  each  time  being  loaded  with 
shell.  As  soon  as  the  sound  of  artillery  was  heard,  Todd  began  mak- 
ing his  preparations  for  a  rapid  retreat.  He  believed  that  the  pur- 
suing force  had  been  sent  up  from  St.  Louis,  and  that  it  was  a  strong 
Mid  efficient  one.  He  first  went  east,  into  the  Cedar  Creek  timber, 
then  south,  across  the  Two-Mile  Prairie,  Douglass  in  pursuit.  Two 
or  three  times  Todd's  rear  guard  formed  as  if  to  fight,  but  this  was 
^Qlydone  to  gain  time,  for  when  Douglass  would  form,  the  rear  guard 
30 


466  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

moved  rapidly  away.  The  opposing  forces  frequently  excl 
shots,  and  across  the  Two-Mile  Prairie  there  was  a  sort  ofn 
fight.  Near  noon  Anderson  passed  Jas.  McKinney's,  and  the  | 
were  then  skirmishing.  The  guerillas  were  leading  about  fifty  I 
They  robbed  Mr.  McKinney  of  his  watch,  two  horses  and  i 
money.  They  also  robbed  Maj.  Brown  of  his  watch  and  n 
Near  Phil.  Gillaspy's,  Anderson  formed  in  line,  but  son 
treated. 

After  Todd  reached  the  Cedar  Creek  timber  he  was  safe, 
lass  could  not  get  to  him,  unless  at  great  disadvantage.  His  ar 
could  not  be  utilized  and  made  efiective,  owing  to  the  extren 
evenness  of  the  ground  and  denseness  of  the  forest.  The  gu 
crossed  Cedar  Creek  and  passed  down  south,  on  the  east  side,  i 
laway  County,  going  near  Stephens's  Store  and  Millersburg. 
of  them,  said  to  have  been  Tom  Todd's  company,  kept  down  c 
west  side.  Crossing  the  Two-Mile  Prairie,  Todd's  men  threw 
some  Enfield  muskets,  which  they  had  taken  from  the  battle  fi 
Centralia. 

At  the  camp  of  the  guerillas,  near  Frazier's  Mill,  two  younj 
of  this  county^  who  had  been  pressed  into  service  as  guides, 
found  by  Gen.  Douglass,  and  gave  him  the  first  information  < 
Centralia  fight  and  of  the  destruction  of  Johnson's  command, 
he  also  found  a  citizen  who  had  counted  the  guerillas  as  they  mt 
along  the  road,  and  made  their  number  to  be  428.  Gen.  Doi 
states,  that  a  careful  count  of  the  soldiers  under  his  (D.'s)  com 
that  day  showed  they  numbered  360  ;  but  they  were  all  veterans 
armed  and  eagerforthe  fray.  The  Iowa  Cavalry,  and  Company  B, 
9th  M.  S.  M.,  had  to  be  restrained  in  their  impetuosity,  or  they 
have  charged  the  guerillas  at  every  hazard.  They  cursed  Doi 
because  he  would  not  permit  them  to  go  ;  but  the  General  state 
he  did  not  wish  them  to  be  caught  in  a  trap,  and  did  not  wish  tc 
the  lives  of  his  command  without  a  reasonable  prospect  of  vl 
This  prospect  was  hopeless  without  the  effective  employment  < 
entire  force,  artillery  as  wtell  as  cavalry  —  a  condition  of  afiliirs 
understood  by  him  than  by  his  impatient  soldiers. 

On  the  evening  of  the  28th,  after  a  hard  day's  march,  Dougla? 
his  command  went  into  camp  in  the  southeastern  part  of  Coli 
township  or  in  the  northeastern  part  of  Cedar.     Todd  was  not 
than  two  miles  away,  and  both  parties  had  out  strong  pickets, 
next  morning  the  pursuit  was  resumed.     Todd  abandoned  the  pu 


t 


HI8TOBY   OP  BOONE   COUNTT.  467 

of  crossing  the  river  near  Jefferson,  and  marched  in  a  westerly  direc- 
tion across  the  northern  part  of  Cedar  township,  going  south  of  the 
Bockbridge  Mills,  and  near  Providence.  Gen.  Douglass  felt  encumbered 
by  his  piece  of  artillery,  and  when  south  of  Rockbridge  Mills  sent  it 
to  Columbia  under  an  escort  of  the  9th  M.  S.  M.     The  guerillas 
passed  west  along  the  river,  crossing  the  Perche  and  going  in  the 
direction  of  Rocheport.     During  this  day  the  line  was  formed  for  a 
fight  two  or  three  times.     But  Todd  was  not  anxious  for  an  engage- 
ment, and  Douglass  while  seeking  it  did  not  intend  to  deliver  battle 
unless  under  circumstances  which  assured  him  of  victory. 

Later  in  the  day  Todd  began  to  scatter  his  forces,  directing  them 
to  rendezvous  at  '*  Barker's, "  in  Howard  County. 

A  few  miles  northwest  of  the  crossing  of  Perche  Creek  Company 
B,  of  the  9th  M.  S.  M.,  came  upon  a  squad  of  guerillas  in  a  house. 
One  of  them  rode  up  and  asked  for  water,  not  thinking  the  men  he  saw 
were  bushwhackers.  '*  Where  are  you  from?  "  queried  the  occupants 
of  the  house.  **  From  St.  Joe,"  replied  the  militiaman.  Immediately 
bewas  fired  on  with  a  shot-gun.  His  comrades  came  up  and,  in  a  corn- 
field near  the  house,  a  skirmish  ensued,  in  which  one  of  the  Ninth 
IGssouri  (Joseph  Wheeler)  was  severely  wounded.  A  man  named 
Creed,  reported  to  be*  one  of  Anderson's  guerillas,  was  killed  in  this 
skirmish.  He  lived  in  the  vicinity,  and  his  body  was  taken  home  for 
burial,  but  his  wife,  fearing  the  Federal  soldiers,  disowned  him  and 
pretended  not  to  recognize  his  remains.  As  soon,  however,  as  most 
of  the  soldiers  left  she  recognized  him,  exclaiming,  "  That  is  my  hus- 
l>and,"  and  broke  into  vehement  denunciations  of  the  few  Federals 
who  were  near,  warning  them  that  "  Bill  Anderson  will  make  you 
pay  for  this." 

That  night  Gen.  Douglass  marched  to  Cook's  farm,  on  section  18 > 
township  48,  range  13,  and  encamped.  Next  morning  he  went  to 
Kocheport,  and  sent  out  scouting  paitics  in  every  direction,  who  found 
the  guerillas,  partly  on  account  of  hunger,  and  partly  because  of  the 
presence  of  Douglass's  command  in  the  vicinity,  disbanded  and  scat- 
tered over  the  country. 

Learning  this.  Gen.  Douglass  thereupon  started  a  citizen  of  Roche- 
Port  to  Glasgow  with  dispatches  for  Gen.  Fisk,  but  Anderson's  men 
^ptured  him  en  route  in  Howard  county,  took  his  dispiitches  from 
^na,  and  released  him.  After  satisfying  himself  that  the  guerillas 
"ad  disbanded  Gen.  Dou<rlass  returned  to  Columbia. 


468 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE  COUNTY. 


THE  FEDERAL  DRAFT  —  NAMES  OF  BOONE  COUNTY  CITIZENS 

On  November  14,  1864,  there  was  a  draft  at  Proves 
Lovelace's  headquarters  in  St.  Charles,  in  which  one  hun 
sixty-four  of  the  citizens  of  Boone  county,  some  white,  so: 
drew  prizes^  and  prizes  which  cost  some  of  them  several  mo 
vice  in  the  Federal  army,  and  a  large  number  of  them  fron 
$750  for  substitutes.  The  apparent  deficit  of  Boone  county 
To  meet  this  164,  or  double  the  number  were  drawn.  1 
ber  to  fill  the  quota  of  82  was  taken  from  the  list  in  the 
which  they  were  drawn,  excluding  of  course  those  whom  t 
ining  board  might  exempt  for  disabilities,  and  those  who  ha< 
who  since  the  enrollment,  had  enlisted  in  the  United  Stat 
The  draft  was  for  one  year.     The  following  is 


THE   LIST   OF  DRAFTED   MEN. 


1.  John  Adair, 

2.  Robert  Henry, 

5.  James  Pigg* 
4.  Peter  Palmer, 

6.  Ben].  Mead,  Jr., 

6.  Morgan  Reams, 

7.  Robert  R.  McBain, 

8.  John  W.  Asbury, 

9.  Henry  N.  Ess, 

10.  Henry  Robinett, 

11.  John  K  Boulton, 

12.  Daniel  Phillips, 
18.  Pollard  W.  Graves, 

14.  John  M.  Samuel, 

15.  Alfred  Stephens, 

16.  Andrew  J.  Bryson, 

17.  Azariah  Martin, 

18.  George  H.  Akeman, 

19.  Joel  Kirtley  (col»d), 

20.  Ellas  Elliott, 

21.  Lewis  Ashbury  (col*d), 

22.  Wm.  Barnes, 

23.  Frederick  Wilcox  (coPd), 

24.  Wm.  Albright, 

25.  Lewis  M.  Switzler, 

26.  Wm.  H.  Barnett, 

27.  John  F,  Evans, 

28.  Nathaniel  Harris, 

29.  David  Vivion, 

80.  W.  A.  Damally, 

81.  Elijah  G.  Taylor, 


82.  Clay  Ballew, 

88.  Jacob  Strawn, 

84.  Riley  Christian, 

85.  Samuel  M.  Jones, 

86.  Milton  A.  Wiggington. 

87.  James  M.  Smith, 

88.  Asa  a  Nichols, 

89.  Eli  Lanham, 

40.  H.  W.  Richardson, 

41.  Stephen  Todd  (col'd), 

42.  Edward  Mansfield, 

48.  Anthony  Clarkson  (col 

44.  Samuel  S.  Hagan, 

45.  Alfred  E.  Grubbs, 

46.  Lewis  Vanhom  (coPd), 

47.  Morrison  Powell, 

48.  Isaac  Lamme. 

49.  Wm.  Beazley  (coPd), 

50.  R  0.  Dyson, 
61.  John  M.  Brown, 
52.  Hiram  Cowden, 
58.  John  E.  Blakemore, 

54.  Wm.  D.  Oliver, 

55.  James  Petty, 

56.  Peter  Lyons, 

57.  Thomas  Gibson, 

58.  Wm.  A.  Harris, 

59.  Robert  T.  Sapp, 

60.  Charles  Todd  (col'd), 

61.  Joseph  E.  Proctor, 

62.  Thomas  L.  Burdett, 


HUVOBT  or  BOONX  conNTr. 


«S.  DatidBCead, 

H.  Aihby  Oromp, 

«.  H«BiT  L.  Cook. 

B6.  Bonea  W.  Gold. 

Vt.  Pl«H«iit  R  NlchoUeo, 

m.  Jofan  E.  Woolfolk, 

eg.  Wn.  J.  Simnu, 

m  H.rry  C.  Suniman. 

71  Jsniei  E.  Tui'lter, 

Tt  Wio.  T.  Shock, 

n.  Leri  Qicksm  (<:o\'3), 

T4.  Tliuiau  MUholliD, 

Ti.  Frank  Snppinglon  (col'd), 

Tt  m.mu  Dunbar, 

77.  Junes  R.  Uiigsn, 

78.  BobMt  H«llowa;, 
71.  Bobnt  B.  ColemMt, 
80.  John  D.  Patton. 

Bl.  Willwe  TTiniuni  (aol'a}, 

W.  Jimei  A.  HcQuittj, 

6!.  Robert  P.  Watert, 

84.  .lulij,  fcigera. 

66.  L«w*-jn  (i.  Dmry, 

8t  Aji^HtJjs  Lewi, 

87.  .1..,;,.  Chiypol,., 

85.  JuDH  Barrii, 

89.  Jacob  Smith  (col'd), 

9D.  Wtn.  iiestwick. 

SL  Nithui  Robeni, 

».  Fpuik  ThomsB, 

W.  CfM*)  Conley  (col'd.) 

M.  &.li>muii  Crmdataff, 

«■  Wm.  F.  Oall. 

H.  Ctrtet  Obuidler. 

97.  J«mM  S.  Yeager, 

96.  John  H.  Ward, 

V>,  Uicluel  Speilman, 

IM.     Jlowt  J,  WiDMWtt, 

101.  Jwum  J.AtddU, 

"B-  Wn,.  AllBD,  Sen.. 

IM.  ^umu  el  Street, 

'W-  Bcnjimin  Jenkins, 

lOS.  Sjdney  Hume, 

■«■  Abrshflm  Ewing. 

'"'■  John  It  Garth, 

"*■  L.  W  HenJrii, 

I<^  Hobert  Oorfon. 

'■^  JoMphHalt, 

"'■  Edward  Bw*  (col'd), 

^^  Wm.  Hunter, 

11*.  Jaow  W.  SinglBtoD, 


lU.  Jain«i  Slate. 

116.  Andrew  I'ejloD, 
lie.  flenry  Grindstaff, 

117.  Josnpll  KuberW  (col'd), 


IIB. 


■I  ShllT! 


119.  KobiTt  H.  iV'TOlfolk, 

120.  Wm.  H.  Cnwe, 

121.  Ambrow  W.Hulen, 

122.  Enoch  C.  Dooley, 
128.  Squira  Searcy  (col'd), 
124.  JameB  Davia, 

126.  Henry  OolTin, 
128.  .Amo-  Il..ra,'j-. 

127.  Benjamin  T.  Da*ii, 

128.  Iiaac  Henry  (col'd), 

129.  John  L.  Hinei, 

150.  Thoma*  Bpillman, 

151.  Robert  B.  Smith, 
182.  Henry  F.  Williama, 

188.  Lirighl  V«iiaiTor, 
IM.  Jamt»M.  Dinwiddie, 

186.  Ben-F   Williamson, 
180.  Stephen  W  Pigft 

187.  James  M.  Strode, 
138.  Thomas  H.  Keene, 

189.  James^.  Turner, 

140.  Samuel  Glintou, 

141.  Matthew  Kvans, 
14S.  Simeon  Chriitian, 

143.  AJoDEoWHKht, 

144.  iSilaa  Henior. 

145.  Joseph  Snpplngton, 
140.  Silas  Hudson  (ool'd), 

147.  Jacob  Palm, 

148.  nnney  Parker  (ool'd), 
140.  Tboma»  BalleT  (col'd), 
IGO.  John  M.  Shock,    ' 

161.  Coludibiis  Uunter. 

162.  James  K.  Solby, 

168.  l.PMLis  McAfee '(col'd), 

164.  John  H.  Seymour, 

156.  Wm.  Fa[^ 

166.  Samuel  Buyd, 

167.  John  Conway  (col'd), 

168.  Daniel  Uobin^lt, 

169.  James  B.  Stauibury, 

160.  Sylveater  Dine*. 

161.  John  P.  Cato, 

162.  JeHe  O.  Long, 
168.  Wm.  Irvin, 

164.  Jeff.  B.  Ridgway. 


470  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

REMARKS. 

Of  those  drafted  144  were  white  and  twenty  colored.  Nos.  9  and 
35  were  tutors  in  the  State  University.  No.  25,  Lewis  M.  Switder,  ^ 
then  assistant  editor  of  the  Statesman,  No.  42,  a  former  foreman  in 
the  Statesman  oflSce,  but  then  in  St.  Louis  or  Memphis.  Furnished 
substitutes  for  one  year:  Nos.  1,  7,  9,  11,  18,  25,  27,  51,  64,  68,  71, 
72,85,  96,  99,  105,  132,  136,  138,  139,  142,  143  and  152.  Total, 
23.  Furnished  substitutes  for  three  years  :  Nos.  13,  14,29.33,38, 
58,  59,  61  (Furnished  February  18,  1863),  83,  107,119,122,133, 
134,  137  and  150.  Total,  16.  Held  to  personal  service :  Nos.  19, 
46,  54,  60,  73,  75,  92,  94,  101,  108,  118,  128,  140,  144,  148, 
151,  153,  155,  157  and  158.  Total,  20.  Exempted  from  draft: 
Nos.  2,  6,  35,  43,  49,  50,  95,  111,  112,  114  (now  in  U.  S.  ar- 
my),  116,  120  (the  sixth  of  our  Union  Cranes),  130,  131,  141, 
146,  147  and  149.  Total,  18.  Did  not  report:  Nos.  3  (busk- 
whacker),  4,  5,  8,  10,  12,  15,  16,  17,  20,  21,  22,  23,  24,  26, 
28,  30,31,  32,  34,  36,  37,  39,  (in  Confederate  army),  40,  41  (nowin 
U.  S.army),  42,  44, 45  (in  Confederate  army),  47,  48,  52,  53, 55,56, 
57,  62,  63  (in  Confederate  army),  65  (in  Confederate  army  or  in  the 
bushes),  66,  67,  69,  70,  74,  (in  Gratiot  Prison),  76,  77,  78,  79  (in 
Confederate  army),  80,  81  (in  U.  S.  army),  82,  84,  86,  87,  88  (in Con- 
federate  army),  89,  90,  91,  93  (in  U.  S.  army),  97,  98,  100,  102  (re- 
ported by  letter;  very  sick  at  home),  103,  104,  106,  109,  110, 113, 
115,  117,  121,  123,  124,  125,  126,  127  (at  medical  school,  Jefferson 
college,  Phila.),  129,  135  (in  Confederate  army),  145,  154,  156, 159, 
160,  161  (in  California),  162  and  163  (near  Quincy,  Ills.)  Total,  86. 
Dead,  No.  164. 

HORRIBLE   MASSACRE    OF   NEGROES. 

On  Friday,  November  18,  there  was  reported  a  horrid  massacre  of 
negroes  in  the  vicinity  of  Sturgeon.  It  appears  a  negro  woman,  the 
slave  of  Edward  Graves,  living  eight  miles  from  Sturgeon,  on  the 
Eocheport  road,  had  left  home  sometime  since  and  taken  up  her 
abode  in  Sturgeon.  On  Friday  she  returned  for  the  purpose  of  taking 
off  other  negroes  from  her  former  home.  She  started  back  to  Stur- 
geon in  a  wagon  with  five  more  negroes  taken  from  the  premises,  con- 
sisting of  a  woman,  a  girl,  a  boy,  and  two  small  children.  After 
proceeding  about  two  miles  the  party  were  overtaken  by  three  men 
disguised  in  Federal  uniforms.  The  negroes  were  then  taken  by  them 
a  distance  into  the  woods,  and  all  shot  dead  except  the  two  children, 


HI8T0BY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  471 

^ere  returned  to  their  homes.  One  woman  was  hung  before 
shot.  Who  the  perpetrators  of  this  horrible  butchery  were  is 
wn. 

A  FIGHTING  rLOCK   OF   CRANES. 

I  Columbia  Statesman^  of  December  2,  1864,  flushed  in  Cedar 
hip,  near  Providence,  a  flock  of  Cranes,  who,  ever  since  the 
)mmenced,  had  been  pecking  away  at  the  head  of  the  rebellion ; 
LUen,  James,  Darius,  Tinsley  and  John  Crane,  all  sons  of  Wm. 
!rane.  Allen  died  in  the  service,  a  member  of  *'  Merrill's 
."  James  was  in  Company  F,  Ninth  Cavalry,  M.  S.  M.,  and 
J,  Tinsley  and  John  were  in  the  Foui-teenth  Missouri  Volun- 
What  county  can  scare  up  a  bigger  flock  of  Union  Cranes 
his? 

it.  William  Colbert,  of  Troy,  Mo.,  assumed  command  of  the 
of  Columbia,  in  January,  1865,  headquarters  in  the  court 
;  and  Capt.  H.  N.  Cook,  Company  F,  Ninth  Cavalry,  M.  S.  M., 
bruary  24,  for  the  purpose  of  recruiting  a  company  to  defend 
wn  and  county  against  robbers  and  plunderers,  and  to  bring 
peace  and  good  order.  A  bounty  of  $50  was  offered  by  the 
)  County  Court  to  each  man  who  would  enlist. 

* 

CAFr.  cook's  fight  with  carter's  bushwhackers. 

Saturday  evening,  February  11,  1865,  Capt.  Henry  N.  Cook 
iieut.  Marshall  H.  Harris,  and  eighteen  men  of  Company  F, 
M.  S.  M.,  left  camp  at  Rocheport,  in  this  county,  on  a  recon- 
iug  expedition  in  the  Perche  Hills,  and  about  1  o'clock,  on  Sun- 
loniing,  discovered  unmistakable  signs  of  bushwhackers.  Dis- 
ting  his  company  he  left  his  horses,  boots  and  shoes,  and  moved 
rd,  when  a  dim  light  was  soon  observed,  whereupon  Capt.  Cook 
is  dashing  platoon  rushed  pell  mell  into  the  den  —  which  was  a 
^-twelve  shanty,  constructed  by  their  own  hands,  with  one  end 
ind  a  large  log  lying  in  front  with  a  fire  between  the  log  and 
and  was  situated  about  three  hundred  yards  from  the  west  bank 
rche  Creek,  about  one  mile  below  Old  Town  Ford,  and  about 
miles  north  of  Columbia.  One  of  the  bushwhackers  fired  his 
,  instantly  killing  Sergeant  Thomas  J.  Hern  and  slightly 
ling  private  J.  F.  Tudor.  Now  the  battle  raged  with  the  greatest 
shooting,  knocking  down  and  dragging  out  was  the  order  in 
things  were  conducted  for  about  five  minutes.  Some  of  the 
rs  broke  their  rifles  into  atoms  over  the  heads  of  the  foe.     Sev- 


472  HISTORY  or  boone  county. 

eral  of  the  desperadoes  were  left  for  dead,  whilst  the  others  were 
breaking  through  the  lines  and  running  through  the  brush,  each  pur- 
sued by  a  soldier,  who  kept  up  a  continual  stream  of  fire  upon  the 
rear  of  his  fleeing  adversary,  until  the  last  load  was  discharged  from 

rifle   and   revolver.     James   Carter   and  Thompson,  the  latter 

known  as  **  Dink  Robinson,"  both  inmates  of  the  den,  were  killed  nt 

the  den,  and  Cavanaugh  about   300   yards   from  it.     Harvey 

Rucker  was  shot  in  the  abdomen'  and  escaped. 

Twenty  splendid  new  navy  revolvers,  six  blue  and  two  gray  over- 
coats, eight  or  ten  pairs  of  boots,  one  U.  S.  infantry  coat,  one  single- 
barreled  shot  gun,  several  likenesses  of  ladies  who  are  known  in 
Howard  County,  enough  blankets  and  bed  quilts  to  make  eleven  men 
comfortable  in  an  open  house  in  dead  of  winter,  eight  horses  with  full 
equipments,  eight  barrels  of  corn,  a  lot  of  hay,  bacon,  flour,  sugar, 
coffee,  cooking  utensils,  and  divers  and  sundry  other  household  arti- 
cles too  tedious  to  mention,  as  well  as  some  financial  appliances  snch 
as  pocket  books,  belts,  etc.,  etc.,  were  the  trophies  gained  by  the 
victors. 

Lieut.  Harris  had  his  glove,  which  was  on  his  hand,  cut  by  a  ball 
from  one  of  his  foes'  pistols,  and  in  fact  he  was  in  such  close  prox- 
imity to  the  weapon  that  his  hand  was  powder-burnt. 

• 

PEACE GLAD   TIDINGS    OF   GREAT   JOY THE    WAR   OVER. 

On  April  9,  1865,  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia,  under  command 
of  Gen.  R.  E.  Lee,  surrendered  at  Appomattox  Court  House  to  Gen. 
U.  S.  Grant,  namely:  Gen.  Lee,  eight  lieutenant-generals,  seveuteeu 
major-generals,  sixty-one  brigadier-generals,  and  about  20,000  sol- 
diers.    From  that  day  forth  the  civil  war  was  practically  at  an  eod* 

SECOND    FEDERAL   DRAFT. 

On  April  5,  1865,  pursuant  to  orders  from  Gen.  Fry,  Provost  M^^ 
shal  General  of  the  United  States,  a  second  draft  was  had  in  the  Nir»^ 
District.  The  quota  of  Boone  County  being  one  hundred  and  twen^J 
two  hundred  and  forty  names  (double  the  number  required)  w^^ 
drawn. 

Quite  a  number  of  these  persons  were  held  to  service  and  furnisb-^ 
substitutes,    but   as   the   surrender   of   Gen.   Lee  practically  end^ 
the   rebellion,    neither   the   substitutes    nor  the   men    drafted   w^ 
mustered. 


HISTORr   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  478 


ASSASSINATION   OF   PRESIDENT  LINCOLN  —  PUBLIC   MEETING. 

The  assassination  of  President  Lincoln  by  John  Wilkes  Booth,  at 
ord's  Theatre  in  Washington,  D.  C,  at  eleven  o'clock  on  Friday 
ght,  April  14,  1865,  startled  the  country.  To  give  expression  to 
ie  sentiments  of  our  people  a  large  meeting  was  held  at  the  court- 
)Q8e  in  Columbia,  on  the  22d  April,  1865.  On  motion  of  Hon. 
lines  S.  Rollins,  Prof  J.  H.  Lathrop,  LL.  D.,  was  elected  president^ 
id  Rev.  Isaac  Jones  and  Gen.  Jos.  B.  Douglass,  vice-presidents; 
3hn  F.  Baker  and  Robt.  L.  Todd,  secretaries. 

On  motion  a  committee  consisting  of  Hon.  Jas.  S.  Rollins,  Elder 
'.  M.  Allen,  Dr.  M.  R.  Arnold,  Judge  David  Gordon,  and  Col.  James 
L  Shields,  was  appointed  to  submit  resolutions  for  the  action  of  the 
leeting. 

During  the  retirement  of  the  committee  the  meeting  was  addressed 
y  Col.  Switzler,  at  the  conclusion  of  whose  remarks  Maj.  Rollins,  on 
ehalf  of  the  committee,  submitted  the  following  —  accompanying  the 
une  with  an  earnest,  eloquent,  feeling  tribute  to  the  memory  and 
^orth  of  Mr.  Lincoln  —  after  which  the  preamble  and  resolutions 
'ere  unanimously  adopted .  (  The  resolutions  are  the  best  and  the  most 
ppropriate  offered  to  any  meeting  in  the  country  on  the  same  sub- 
let, and  were  written  by  President  John  H.  Lathrop)  : 

Whirbas,  Abraham  Lincoln,  the  President  of  the  United  States,  on  the  night  of  the  14th 
Btint,  was  stricken  down  by  the  hand  of  an  assassin,  and  removed  by  a  violent  death,  from 
I  exalted  position  of  usefulness  and  honor ;  and  whereas,  the  simultaneous  attempt  to  take 
•  lireiof  other  eminent  public  men,  indicates  concert  of  action,  with  a  traitorous  as  well 
t murderous  intent;  and  whereas,  it  becomes  a  great  people,  whom  God  has  set  up  as  an 
^Affiple  to  the  nations  of  the  earth,  to  purge  themselves  from  the  taint  of  sympathy  with 
ii  crime  against  civilization,  and  also  to  give  utterance  to  their  sense  of  the  national  be- 
BTBment,  therefore, 

^etoloed,  That  we,  in  common  with  our  fellow  citizens  throughout  the  country,  hold  up 

prwent  execration  and  perpetual  infamy,  as  enemies  of  the  human  race,  the  procurers 

d  the  perpetrators  or  the  savage  and  revolting  murder  of  the  Chief  Magistrate  of  the 

Ottican   Republic   and   other   like    crimes,  simultaneously  attempted    but  mercifully 

•ted. 

^ohedj  That  our  gratitude  is  due  to  Almighty  God  for  the  leadership  of  the  distinguished 
•d,  in  the  period  of  our  country's  peril ;  for  the  exemplary  purity  of  his  private  and  public 
;  for  his  just  appreciation  of  the  national  crisis;  for  the  admirable  temper  with  which  he 
fc  its  exigences,  in  defeat  as  well  as  in  victory ;  for  his  heroic  faith  in  the  exalted  destiny  of 
American  people ;  f6r  his  self-devotion  to  the  cause  of  human  liberty,  even  unto  death ; 
I  for  the  consolation  which  we  cherish  that  now,  in  the  triumphant  moment  of  his  emi- 
^t  public  service,  the  hand  of  the  assassin  has  failed  to  impair  the  value  of  his  official 
ik;  and  has  been  only  able  to  commit  to  the  historic  page  the  name  of  Abraham  Lincoln 
»^e  second  founder  of  the  great  Republic. 


474  HISTOBY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Resolved,  That  although  this  attempt  has  been  made  by  traitorouB  hands  to  reach  the 
life  of  the  nation  through  the  assassination  of  its  distinguished  public  men,  we  haye  un- 
shaken confidence  in  the  speedy  restoration  of  the  national  authority  over  every  acre  of  ill 
soil,  and  the  termination  of  the  shock  of  arms  in  the  formation  of  a  still  closer  union;  in 
the  establishment  of  a  more  comprehensive  and  authoritative  justice;  in  the  assurance  of  n 
enduring  domestic  tranquility;  in  a  more  effective  provision  for  the  common  defence;  in  a 
more  vigorous  promotion  of  the  general  welfare;  in  the  immovable  security  of  the  bleasingi 
of  liberty  to  ourselves  and  our  posterity ;  and  in  the  extension  of  the  benefit  of  our  gtttX 
example  to  the  nations  of  the  earth. 

Resolvedf  That  we  recognize  in  Andrew  Johnson,  the  chosen  instrument  of  the  Amen* 
'Can  people  for  the  promotion  of  these  great  national  end  ,  a  patriot  statesman, 

"Among  the  faithless  faithful  found,"  \ 

and  commend  his  incoming  administration  to  the  generous  and  persistent  support  of  eyeiy 
steadfast  heart,  that  tempers  the  sorrow  of  our  national  bereavement,  by  an  undying  conll- 
dence  in  the  integrity,  the  perpetuity,  and  the  ever  progressive  greatness  of  our  AmericiD 
Union. 

Resolved,  That  in  the  testimony  of  our  respect  for  the  memory  of  our  fallen  chiet  the 
public  buildings  of  Columbia  be  draped  in  mourning  for  thirty  days ;  and  to  this  end  the  mi- 
-dent  Curators  of  the  State  University  and  the  County  Court  of  Boone  County,  are  respect- 
fully requested  to  carry  into  effect  this  resolution.  ' 

Resolved,  That  we  tender  to  the  widow  and  family  of  the  illustrious  dead  our  heartfelt 
sympathies  for  the  great  loss  which,  in  common  with  the  nation,  they  have  sustained;  end 
request  the  chairman  of  this  meeting  to  communicate  a  copy  to  them  of  the  foregoing  reio- 
lutions. 

Resolved,  That  the  proceedings  of  this  meeting  be  signed  by  the  officers  thereof  and 
that  the  newspapers  of  the  State,  be  requested  to  publish  the  same. 

On  motion  of  R.  L.  Todd  it  was  — 

Resolved,  That  Dr.  J.  H.  Lathrop  be  requested  to  prepare  an  address  on  the  life  and  cha^ 
acter  of  our  late  President,  Abraham  Lincoln,  to  be  delivered  before  the  people  of  Boone 
County,  at  such  time  as  mny  suit  his  convenience. 

Elder  T.  M.  Allen,  being  called  for,  addressed  the  meeting  briefly 
and  felicitously,  and  Col.  F.  T.  Russell,  in  response  to  an  urgent  in- 
vitation made  a  few  remarks,  well  timed  and  appropriate. 

The  proceedings  of  this  meeting  were  published  in  a  large  costly 
volume,  issued  by  order  of  Congress,  —  a  distinction  not  given  the 
proceedings  of  any  other  county  meeting  in  the  Union. 

GOV.  Fletcher's  appointments  in  boone. 

The  State  Convention  of  1865,  having  adopted  an  ordinance  ousti^S 
a  large  number  of  the  officials  in  the  State,  and  conferring  upon  ^^ 
Governor  the  power  to  fill  them  by  appointment.  Gov.  Fletcher  m^^ 
the  following  appointments  for  Boone  County :  Circuit  Clerk,  Rot^^^ 
L.  Todd  ;  County  Clerk,  Joseph  B.  Douglass  ;  Sheriff,  John  F.  BalC^- 
County  Judges,  James  W.  Daley,  David  Gordon  and  John  BerkebF^ 
all  of  them  the  old  incumbents  except  Mr.  Berkebile. 


HI8TOBY  OF  BOONE  COUNTT.  475 

8FENCEB  RIFLES   FOB  HOME   DEFENCE. 

On  Monday,  May  1^  1865 ,  which  was  the  last  day  of  the  term  (un- 
der the  onsting  ordinance  of  the  convention)  of  the  old  County  Court 
of  Boone,  they  made  an  appropriation  of  $4,000  with  which  to  buy 
^Qcer's  repeating  carbines  and  revolvers  to  arm  Capt.  Cook's  com- 
pany of  •*  Boone  County  Tigers."  The  money  was  at  once  placed  in 
the  hands  of  Lieut.  Wm.  B.  Kemper,  of  that  company,  who  left  for 
St.  Louis  at  once  to  purchase  them.  Capt.  K.  purchased  one  hun- 
<lred  stand  of  arms,  for  which  he  paid  $3,500.  Some  years  after  the 
war  ninety-seven  of  these  guns  were  sold  to  Gen.  Guitar  for  $12.50 
apiece.    The  other  three  were  unaccounted  for. 

STAGE  STOPPED  BY  BUSHWHACKERS —  HON.  J.  S.  ROLLINS   BOBBED. 

On  Saturday,  April  29,  1865,  as  the  stage  was  returning  from  Cen- 
tralia  to  Columbia,  it  was  stopped  about  10  o'clock,  ten  miles  from 
Columbia,  near  the  residence  of  John  S.  Varnon,  by  four  bushwhackers. 
Hod.  J.  S.  Rollins  was  the  only  person  in  the  stage  beside  the  driver. 
When  the  bushwhackers  were  first  discovered  approaching  the  stage, 
Maj.  Rollins  took  out  his  watch,  a  very  valuable  gold  one,  and  slipped 
itnoder  the  cushion  of  the  seat,  but,  when  they  came  up,  the  stage 
was  searched  and  the  watch  found  and  taken  by  them.     They  de- 
manded to  know  of  Maj.  Rollins  what  his  name  was,  where  he  lived, 
&nd  what  avocation  he  followed.     He  gave  them  the  old  Centralia 
dodge;  replied  that  his  name  was  Johnson,  that  he  lived  a  few  miles 
south  of  Columbia,  and  was  by  occupation  a  farmer.     They  then 
asked  the  driver  who  he  was,  and  the  driver  affirmed  that  he  did  not 
know  him.     Maj.  Rollins  was  searched  and  his  pocket-book  taken, 
containing  about  seventy-five  dollars  in  greenbacks.     His  carpet-sack 
^as  broken  open,  and  his  private  papers  and  some  other  property 
looked  over,  but  nothing  of  value  to  the  bushwhackers  was  found,  and 
his  carpet-sack  was  given  back  to  him.     One  of  them  took  his  hat  and 
gave  him  back  another,  the  rim  of  which  was  cut  off,  save  enough  to 
mate  it  resemble  a  cap.     This  the  Major  wore  to  Columbia,  and,  with 
It  on,  presented  quite  a  bushwhacker  appearance. 

On  arriving  in  Columbia,  Maj.  Rollins  addressed  a  large  meeting  of 
citizens  on  their  duties  in  driving  out  marauders  and  maintaining  the 
laws.  After  his  speech,  a  scout,  composed  of  citizens  and  soldieps, 
"^as  started  out  in  pursuit  of  the  robbers.  The  trail  was  found  about 
^^ght,  but  a  heavy  rainstorm  coming  up,  attended  by  intense  dark- 


476  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

ness,  precluded  further  pursuit.     The  men  who  committed  this 
bery  were  Jim  Jackson,  John  West,  of  Mexico,  aud  Wm.  W.  Ma: 
of  Callaway,  aud  another,  name  unknown. 

SURRENDER   OF   JIM   JACKSON* 8    BAND. 

Early  in  June,  1865,  the  bottom  having  fallen  out  of  the  Rebell 
negotiations  were  entered  upon  looking  to  the  surrender  of  the  1 
of  bushwhackers  under  Capts.  Jim  Jackson  and  Wm.  Stephens, 
on  Tuesday,  the  13th  of  the  month,  they  were  consummated,  am 
order  of  Gov.  Fletcher,  were  permitted  to  surrender  to  Capt.  H 
Cook  at  "  Camp  Switzler"  at  the  Fair  Grounds,  near  Columbia 
taking  the  amnesty  oath,  giving  up  their  horses  and  arms,  each  b 
permitted  to  leave  the  State.  About  11  o'clock  on  that  day,  C 
Jackson  marched  in  his  men  under  a  flag  of  truce,  and  the  foUo' 
surrendered :  — 

1.  James  Jackson,  formerly  of  Texas,  then  of  Bourbon  County,  Ky.,  where  h 
raised. 

2.  Wm.  M.  Stephens,  Randolph  County,  Mo. 
8.  Wm.  S.  Farley,  Giles  County,  Tenn. 

-  4.  John  West,  Mercer  County,  Mo. ;  formerly  of  Audrain  County. 

5.  Barton  J.  Ramsey,  Montgomery  County,  Mo. 

6.  Wm.  W.  Hill  (son  of  Marcus  Hill),  Boone  County,  Mo. 

7.  James  R.  Mayfield.  Newton  County,  Mo. 

8.  Sam*l  H.  Nunnelly,  Bowie  County,  Texas. 

9.  Joel  Franklin  Ramsey,  Callaway  County,  Mo. 

10.  Sam*l  T.  Rowland,  Boone  County,  Mo. 

11.  George  Spears,  Macon  County,  Mo. 

12.  Madison  Evans,  Boone  County,  Mo. 

13.  Wm.  McCarty,  Chariton  (formerly  of  Marion)  County,  Mo. 

14.  Abraham  D.  Rumans,  Boone  County,  Mo. 

15.  John  Mullen,  Callaway  County,  Mo.      (Irishman.) 

16.  Wm.  W.  Martin,  Callaway  Count}',  Mo. 

Capt.  Jackson  was  gaily  attired  in  Confederate  gray  pants  wil 
black  stripe  down  the  legs,  and  a  richly  embroidered  shirt, 
others  were  dressed  in  citizens'  clothes.  Each  of  them  had  from 
to  four  revolvers,  which  together  with  fifteen  horses  and  saddles,! 
of  them  very  common,  were  surrendered  to  Capt.  Cook.  Abe 
mans  wore  a  cane  and  a  crutch  in  consequence  of  a  wound  in  the 
thigh  received  in  February.  Three  of  the  party,  Jackson,  Ma 
and  one  other  whose  name  has  escaped  us,  acknowledged  to  have  a 
in  the  robbery  of  Major  Rollins  in  the  Centralia  stage  on  the 
April.  Jackson  got  his  watch  and  money,  but  said  he  had  giver 
watch  to  one  West,  who  was  then  in  Illinois.     Martin  exchanged 


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HIBTOBY   or  BOONE   COUNTY.  477 

with  the  Major,  but  said  the  hat  as  well  as  the  Major's  fine  shawl  had 
ffiDce  been  captured  by  the  Federals.  The  shawl  was  in  the  hands 
of  Captain  Wood  Harris,  of  the  Howard  County  militia,  and  was 
afterwards  sent  to  Kollins.  Major  Rollins  ascertaining  that  West 
owned  a  forty  acre  tract  of  land  in  Linn  County,  brought  a  civil 
action  against  him  for  the  value  of  the  watch,  obtained  a  judg- 
meot,  sold  the  land  under  execution,  and  recovered  the  value  of  the 
watch. 

Jackson  and  Farley  did  not  live  long  to  enjoy  their  liberty,  for  the 
week  after  their  surrender  and  release  they  were  caught  by  citizens  of 
Aadrain  near  Spencerburg,  Pike  County,  and  brought  to  Santa  Fe, 
Monroe  County.  A  squad  of  Capt.  Mitchell's  <<  Tigers,''  from  Mex- 
ico, were  sent  to  Santa  Fe  to  ascertain  who  they  were  (for  their  citi- 
zen captors  did  not  know  them),  and  they  were  recognized  as  Jackson 
and  Farley.  A  citizen  went  with  the  squad  who  knew  Jackson  was 
the  man  who  robbed  him  and  murdered  Mark  Young.  Both  of  the 
bushwhackers  were  killed. 

PODBTH  or  JULY   IN  BOONE,  1865 MILITIA  MUSTERING  —  BARBECUES, 

PICNICS,    SPEECHES,    ETC.  —  REUNION    OF  THE   PEOPLE. 

The  Fourth  of  July,  1865,  was  a  glorious  day  in  Boone  County, 
and  was  observed  extensively  after  the  manner  of  the  olden  time  be- 
fore the  affections  of  the  people  were  alienated  by  the  late  unhappy 
and  disastrous  war. 

So  lively  was  the  interest  manifested  by  the  people,  so  thorough 
their  *<  union  of  hearts  and  hands,"  that  a  strausrer  would  have 
scarcely  discovered  that  any  <<  root  of  bitterness  "  had  ever  distracted 
their  councils  or  alienated  the  bonds  which  hitherto  bound  them 
together.  The  whole  county  was  in  patriotic  communion,  celebrat- 
^gthe  anniversary  of  the  nation's  Independence. 

There  were  musters  of  militia  at  several  places  in  accordance  with 
previous  public  announcement.  At  many  of  these  places  there  were 
barbecues,  picnics,  speaking,  etc.  At  Riggs's,  five  miles  northeast 
^f  Columbia,  a  splendid  picnic  was  prepared ,  which  was  attended 
by  quite  a  large  concourse  of  people.  The  orators  of  the  occasion 
^ere  T.  B.  Gentry,  W.  F.  Switzler,  and  'Squire  Turner,  who  ad- 
dressed a  large  audience  beneath  an  arbor  subsequently  used  for 
<Jaiiciug. 

At  Rockbridge  Mills  (or  McConathy's),  there  was  a  great  outpour- 
^'^g  of  the  people.     A  barbecue  was  prepared  and  the  people  assem- 


478  HISTORY.  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

bled  on  a  shady  plat  of  ground  where  was  erected  a  stand  for  the  ] 
speakers,  which  was  surrounded  by  an  abundance  of  benches  for  ■ 
seating  the  audience.  Lewis  M.  Switzler  read  the  Declaration  of  In.  4 
dependence  accompanying  the  same  with  a  speech.  He  was  followed  \ 
in  a  speech  by  Maj.  A.  J.  Harbison.  Finally  music  was  rendered  ^ 
and  dancing  was  carried  on  in  the  perfection  of  the  art.  The  occa- 
sion passed  off  delightfully,  every  comfort  and  arrangement  necessary 
for  enjoyment  having  been  provided  for  by  Mr.  James  McConathy 
and  other  people  living  in  the  vicinity. 

At  Lynn  Spring,  in  '<  Terrapin  Neck,"  was  prepared  a  sumptoous 
picnic  and  a  very  large  crowd  was  in  attendance.  The  people  were 
addressed  by  John  W.  Harris  and  Gen.  S.  B.  Hatton,  Dancing  was 
also  conducted. 

Greenland,  in  Perche  township,  was  also  a  place  of  interest  —  a  gen- 
eral picnic  with  plenty  to  eat.  Speeches  were  made  to  a  large  and 
attentive  audience  by  Maj.  Stephen  Wilhite  and  Judge  Strong. 

At  Hallsville  the  people  were  addressed  by  Edw.  Haley  and  Judge 
J.  W.  Hall  and  others.  The  Declaration  of  Independence  was  read  by 
Alf.  M.  Duncan,  of  Columbia,  now  of  Fulton.  The  young  people 
enjoyed  themselves  in  the  dance,  and  the  occasion  passed  off  finely, 
the  best  order  prevailing. 

Picnics  were  held  at  several  other  places,  but  we  have  no  report 
from  them. 

CAPT.     cook's     company     RELIEVED  — THE     MILITARY     OCCUPATION    OF 

COLUMBIA    SUMMARIZED. 

[Prom  the  Columbia  Statesman,  August  4,  1866.] 

On  Friday  morning,  December  21,  1861,  Lieut-Colonel  Morse,  with  a  detachment  of  the 
22d  Missouri  Infantry,  Col.  J.  D.  Foster,  left  this  place  for  Centralia,  the  editor  of  this  paper 
and  Colonel  Francis  T.  Russell  accompanying  them  for  considerations  of  personal  safely. 
Columbia  was  without  Federal  troops  for  one  week — until  Friday  evening,  December  27, 
1861,  when  Capt.  John  Welker,  of  Birge's  Sharpshooters,  Infantry,  arrived  with  about  200 
men  and  took  up  quarters  in  the  State  University.  On  Sunday  night,  December  29th, 
Capt  Welker  left  for  Sturgeon,  and  Columbia  was  again  without  Federal  troops  until  the 
following  evening,  Monday,  December  30,  when  Col.  John  M.  Glover,  8d  Missouri  Cavalrji 
accompanied  by  Col.  Birge,  came  in  with  230  men  and  left  the  following  evening,  Dece®" 
ber  31.  From  Tuesday  to  Thursday  evening,  January  2d,  1862,  Columbia  was  without 
Union  troops,  when  Col.  Merrill  arrived  with  a  large  portion  of  his  regiment  Not  a  day 
since  December  81, 1861  —  January  2,  1862  —  until  Tuesday  last,  August  1, 1866,  three  years 
and  seven  months,  has  our  town  been  without  the  presence  of  Union  soldiers  of  some  kiw- 
On  Monday,  Capt  Cook's  company  of  Boone  county  militia  was  relieved  from  duty,  1®*^" 
ing  •*  Camp  Switzler  "  to  take  care  of  itself.  There  is  not  a  Union  soldier  on  duty  in  the 
county ;  and  what  is  better  still,  no  necessity  for  their  services,  for  all  is  peace  and  MW^ 
once  more.    Let  us  thank  God,  take  courage,  and  move  vigoroufily  onward! 


HI8TOBT  OP  BOONE  COUNTT.  479^ 

RAILBOAD  —  AGRICULTURAL   COLLEGE. 

)on  after  the  close  of  the  civil  war,  the  people  of  Boone  county 
nenced  the  agitation  of  the  subject  of  the  construction  of  a  rail- 

from  Columbia  to  some  point  on  the  North  Missouri  Railroad  in 
coanty,  and  the  location  in  Columbia  of  the  Agricultural  College, 
log  the  October  fair,  a  citizens'  meeting  was  held  at  the  fair 
inds  to  take  these  subjects  into  consideration.  The  meeting  was 
id  to  order  by  Col.  Switzler,  on  whose  motion  Elder  T.  M.  Allen 
elected  to  preside.  On  motion  of  Col.  F.  T.  Russell,  Gen.  Odon 
tar  and  Col.  M.  G.  Singleton,  were  chosen  vice-presidents,  and 
1 M.  Samuel  and  W.  F.  Switzler,  secretaries, 
fter  brief  remarks  by  the  president,  Thomas  C.  Fletcher,  Gov- 
)rof  the  State,  and  Isaac  H.  Sturgeon,  president  of  the  North 
souri  Railroad,  addressed  the  people  on  the  subject  the  rail- 
i,  and  President  J.  H.  Lathrop,  spoke  on  the  subject  of  the 
ege. 

Liter  the  adjournment  of  the  meeting  the  corporators  named  in  the 
rter  of  the  Boone  County  and  Jefferson  City  Railroad  Company, 
'odoced  in  the  Legislature  1856-7  by  Col.  Switzler,  held  a  session 
[organized  by  electing  J.  L.  Stephens,  President;  W.  F.  Switzler, 
retary,  and  Moss  Prewitt,  Treasurer ;  who  were  instructed  at  once 
)pen  books  for  the  subscription  of  stock. 

Phis  meeting  was  the  beginning  of  the  end,  for  it  inaugurated  a 
vement  which  finally  resulted  in  the  ^building  of  the  railroad  and 

location  of  the  college. 


SOLDIERS'  RECORD. 

The  publishers  desired  to  give  the  name  of  every  soldier  from 
me  county  who  served  on  either  the  Confederate  or  Union  side 
ing  the  civil  war,  and  to  this  end  made  every  reasonable  effort  to 
ain  them.  The  attempt,  however,  was  a  failure.  There  are  no 
nal  records  accessible  of  the  Confederate  soldiers,  and  but  few  of 
Federals.  The  number  of  men  from  Boone  county  who  were 
lal  soldiers  amounted  to  about  500  on  either  side,  but  only  the 
les  that  follow  were  obtained.  Many  names  could  have  been  fur- 
led, and  were  promised,  but  those  possessing  them  failed  to  hand 
m  iu.     Both  ex-Confederate  and  ex-Federal  officers  were  written 


480 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


and  requested  to  furnish  information,  but  they  refused  to  respond. 
The  publishers  have  done  the  best  they  could.] 

FEDERAL  SOLDIERS. 

COMPANY  B,  NINTH  CAVALRY,  M.  8.  M. 

CommiasUmed  Officers. 
*  Captain  James  A.  Adama.     lat  Lieut  John  C.  Wilcox.       f  2d  Lieut  C.  F.  Berkebile. 

Non-commMsioned  Officers, 

Ist  Serg.  Marcellus  A.  Nichols,  6th  Serg.  John  C.  Bucher, 
2d      "    Joseph  Lukens,  7th    "     R.  F.  Berkebile. 

8d      "    Hezekiah  Brown,        Ist  Corp.  F.  M.  Oreenstreet, 
4th    "     John  Harrison,  2d      "    H.  T.  Goodwin, 

6th    "     Wm.  O.  Blanchard,    3d      "    Benj.  Weddle, 


4th  Corp.  A.  G.  H.  Littie, 
5th    "     John  W.Brown, 
6th    "    George  W.  Littie, 
7th    **     Geo.  W.  Goodmio. 
Blacksmith,  W.  T.  Jonea. 


Ptivates. 


John  Bolander, 
J.  P.  Berkebile, 
Coulby  Bush, 
Marion  F.  Clardy, 
Benj.  F.  Clardy, 
Robert  Coleman, 
Wm.  Coleman, 
Thomas  Dewire, 


Francis  Daily, 
Samuel  C.  Davis, 
Robert  Gallop, 
Wm.  Grindstaff, 
James  Grindstaff, 
Eli  B.  Gabbard, 
Francis  Hayden, 
Geo.  W.  Harryman, 


John  M.  Johnson, 
Perry  C.  Jeffry, 
Nathaniel  Little, 
James  Madden, 
Elvis  Nichols, 
John  O'Brien, 
Reuben  Rater, 
Valentine  Shoemaker, 


George  F.  Shults, 
Wm.  Senor, 
Paul  Vamer, 
Wm.  Vaughn, 
John  A.  White, 
John  A.  Wheeler, 
Wm.  H.  Wheeler, 
John  Galatly. 


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Discharged. 

Sergt  C.  F.  Berkebile,  to  accept  promotion.    Priv.  Squire  Holenbeck,  by  order  of  Governor. 
Private  Wm.  Blackburn,  by  special  order. 
Blacksmith  Thos.  Doling,  by  special  order. 
Sergt  W.  H.  Fargens,  to  accept  promotion. 
Corp.  Elijah  M.  Friend,  for  disability. 
Priv.  Jas.  Goodwin,  by  order  Gov.  Gamble. 
"    W.  Goodwin,  for  leg  lost  at  Kirksville. 
Sergt  C.  H.  Gordon,  to  accept  promotion. 
Priv.  Samuel  A.  Garth,  to  accept  promotion. 

Daniel  Houck,  for  disability. 

Jeptha  Haden,  by  order  of  Governor. 

A.J.Harbison,  "      " 


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Wm.  Judd,  "      **    " 

Amos  Judy,  «*      "    "        " 

J.  G.  Jamison,  promoted  to  2dLieal 
Edward  Kirsky,  for  disability. 
Benj.  F.  Miller, 
James  Miller, 
John  Peters, 
Cummings  Scaggs, 
John  Scaggs, 

Corp.  Wm.  Gamble, 

Sergt  J.  C.  Wilcox,  to  accept  promotion. 


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Sergt  Wm.  Bush,  kiUed  at  Kirksville.  Priv.  Wm.  T.  Risk,  of  disease,  Feb.  28,  M- 

Priv.  John  Claig,«of  disease,  March  16,  1862.  "  W.  R.  Scaggs,  of  disease,  March  24,  '62 
Jackson  Jefferson,  shot  by  court  martial.       **    John  Quinn,  of  disease.  May  8, 1868. 

Transferred.  —  Corporals  Wm.  Buchanan  and  Joseph  P.  Hays  were  transferred  to  tn< 

-commissioned  staff;  privates  Austin  Bledsoe  and  John  A.  Crane  re-enlisted  inthelw 

Missouri  Cavalry  Volunteers ;  private  Jacob  Sellinger  was  transferred  to  Company  R  ^ 
M.  S.  M. 

Killed  and  Wounded.  — The  following  were  the  casualities  in  the  company  at  thebattl 
of  Kirksville,  Aug.  6,  1862 :  Sergt  Wm.  Bush  was  killed ;  Private  Wm.  Blackburn  w« 
shot  through  the  left  hand  and  log ;  Private  Wm.  Vaugh  was  slightly  wounded  in  tbe  le 


*  Capt.  Samuel  A.  Garth,  the  first  Captain,  was  promoted  to  Major,  July  10,  1868. 
t  J.  D.  Jamison,  2d  Lieutenant,  resigned  February  16,  1864. 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 


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Private  Wm.  Goodwin  lost  his  right  leg;  Private  John  A.  Wheeler  was  severely 
ed  in  the  left  side;  John  O'Brien  and  F.  M.  Haden  were  slightly  wounded  in  the 
ind  James  Madden  was  wounded  in  the  right  hreasL  Private  John  G^atly  was 
ed  in  the  side  and  in  the  chin  at  the  battle  of  Moore's  Mills.  Seigt  Robert  Berke- 
IS  severely  wounded  in  the  left  thigh  in  a  fight  with  guerrillas  on  Platte  River,  Mis- 
July  2,  1864,  and  Private  John  Maddern  was  severely  wounded  in  the  breast  in  the 
ght.  Private  John  A.  Wheeler  was  severely  wounded  in  the  side  and  shoulder  in  ft 
ihwith  the  guerrillas  in  Boone  county,  October  6, 1864.  Sergt.  Hezekiah  Brown  was 
y  wounded  by  accident  while  on  a  scout,  July  80,  1868.  Lieut,  (afterwards  Captain) 
A.  Adams  was  thrown  against  a  tree  and  his  leg  broken,  while  in  skirmish  with 
las,  near  Germantown,  in  April,  1862.  Private  Daniel  Houck  was  shot  in  the  arm  at 
tie  time. 

torical  Memoranda.  —  Company  B,  9th  Cavalry,  M.  S.  M.,  was  organized  at  Colum- 
)bruary  19,  1862.  In  the  following  April  it  was  ordered  to  Germantown,  Boone 
.  In  June  it  was  ordered  back  to  Columbia.  The  9th  Regiment  was  then  ordered  to 
on  City.  Company  B  remained  at  the  capital  until  in  the  latter  part  of  July,  when 
the  field  in  pursuit  of  Porter  and  Poindezter,  and  from  thence  until  in  September 
tively  engaged  in  scouting  through  Central  Missouri.  In  September  it  was  ordered  to 
bia,  where  it  remained  about  three  months.  In  December  it  marched  to  Rolla  via 
on  City.  From  Rolla  it  returned  to  Columbia  in  March,  1868.  From  Columbia  it 
}  Sturgeon  in  June,  1868,  and  from  thence  to  St.  Joseph,  in  August  following.  St. 
I  was  company  headquarters  until  in  November,  1864,  although  in  September  and 
iber  of  that  year  it  was  actively  engaged  in  this  part  of  the  State,  and  some  squad- 
ok  part  in  the  pursuit  of  Bill  Anderson  after  the  Centralia  affair,  and  a  portion  of  the 
ny  was  taken  prisoners  at  the  capture  of  Glasgow  by  the  Confederates  under  Gen- 
belby  and  Clark,  in  October,  1864.  In  November,  1864,  the  company  was  ordered  to 
City,  where  it  remained  until  it  was  mustered  out  of  service,  February  27, 1866, 
gallant  and  meritorious  service  of  three  years. 


Senry  N.  Cook. 


gt,  Wm.  H.  Carr, 

'     R.  A.  Dykeman,      6th 

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COMPANT  T,   NINTH  CAVALRY,   M.  8.   M. 

Commissioned  Officers, 

1st  Lieut.  Marshall  H.  Harris. 

Non-commissioned  Officers. 
4th  Sergt,  Wm.  W.  Conger.   2d  Corp.,  Chas.  W.  Pelsus, 


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Campbell, 
D.  Duane, 
I  Devaney, 
Hopper, 
latchinson. 


James  Hart, 
John  Kite, 
Wm.  F.  Lay, 
J.  P.  Morrison, 
Reuben  Perkins, 
Jonathan  Perkins, 


Jos.  Sappington.     4th 
Saml.  A.  Barnett.    5th 

trivates, 

James  O.  Smith, 
Wm.  Todd, 
Henry  M.  Thomas, 
James  H.  Tyler, 
Stephen  Tyler, 
William  Tyler, 


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James  W.  Crane, 
Nich.  M.  Gentry. 

John  T.  Tuder, 
John  H.  Wainwright, 
John  Whetston, 
Andrew  Zumalt, 
Wm.  Engstrom, 
D.  P.  J.Dozier,  saddler. 


Augustus  Henry,  for  disability, 
'eter  Vincent, 
'^imrod  Purman, 
?ho«.E.  Brumfield," 
■isckey  Devaney, 
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Priv.  Sam.  H.  Thomas,  for  disability. 

Corp.  Clinton  Turner,      "         " 

Priv.  McDonald  Welch,  gen'l  worthlessness. 

Alex.  Stewart,  for  disability. 

Jos.  B.  Tuder,  " 

A.  C.  Thomas,  for  reenlist.  14  Mo.  Cav. 

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Priv.  John  S.  Moody,  for  disability.  Priv.  Jacob  Bittle,    for  reSnlist  14  Mo.  Git, 

"    David  Pebley,  for  gen.  worthlessness.  "    Rich.  Prager, 

Corp.  John  O.  Sener,  for  disability.  "    Prank  Rooney, 

Priv.  John  W.  Pickle,  "         ••  "    Jac  F.Powell    " 

JHed. 

Priv.  Geo.  Hutchinson,  of  disease.  Corp.  John  B.  Blackburn,  of  disease. 

Musician  J.  R.  Baker,  kiPd  at  Moore's  Mills.      Priv.  John  W.  Gilpin,  of  disease. 
Corp.  J.  Haley,  mort  wd.  at  Yellow  Creek.        Sergt  C.  J.  Pullen,  of  disease. 
Sergt.  Thomas.  J.  Hern,  killed  in  fight  with  bushwhackers  in  Perche  Twn.,  Feb.  12, 1866. 

Deserted.  —  John  W.  Newsom,  John  Sweager,  Wm.  P.  Duane,  Charles  Dykeman,  and 
Carey  Bledsoe. 

Transferred.  —  Wm.  B.  Hern,  to  be  Q.  M.  Sergt.  of  regiment.    John  Henry  proved  t» 
be  a  slave  and  was  dropped  from  the  rolls  by  order  of  Col.  Guitar. 


COMPANY   K,   NINTH  CAVALRY,  M.  S.  M. 


Captain,  Wm.  B.  Kemper. 


Cknnmissioned  Officers. 

2d  Lieut.,  Carey  H.  Gordon. 


Ezekiel  Smith, 
Thomas  Smith, 
George  Sargent, 
Daniel  Zumalt, 


J.  D.  Hillburo, 
Jake  Sellinger, .. 
James  Rush, 
Ballinger  Smith. 


Non-commissianed  Officers  and  Privates. 

Joseph  Zumalt,  John  Samuel, 

Wm.  Barnes,  Scott  Hickam, 

Perry  Thrall,  A.  J.  Dill, 

John  Rubison,  Cyrus  Turner, 

Wounded.  —  Capt  W.  B.  Kemper  was  ambushed  by  guerrillas  on'Fishing  River,  in  CUy 
county,  in  the  fall  of  1864,  and  badly  wounded  in  the  thigh.  John  Rudison  was  shotintibs 
bowels  at  the  same  time. 

Engagements^  etc.  —  This  company  took  part  in  the  engagements  at  Newton,  EarksrilU, 
and  other  fights  while  in  pursuit  of  Porter  and  Poindezter,  and  in  numerous  skirmiihsft 
with  guerrillas  and  bushwhackers  in  Western  Missouri.  On  one  occasion,  while  siqaid 
under  Lieut.  Carey  H.  Gordon  was  beating  up  the  bush  in  the  southern  part  of  Clay  county, 
a  band  of  guerrillas  was  encountered  in  a  thicket  at  dinner.  One  of  the  guerrillas  wss  Je«e 
James,  afterward  the  noted  bandit  and  robber.  In  the  skirmish  that  ensued  the  guerrillat 
were  routed,  and  Jesse  James  had  a  finger  shot  off. 


SIXTY-FIRST   REGIMENT   ENROLLED    MISSOURI    MILITIA ROSTER. 

This  regiment  wus  composed  almost  wholly,  if  not  entirely,  of 
Boone  County  men.  The  following  is  the  roster  of  the  commissioued 
officers  of  the  regiment.  Names  of  non-commissioned  officers  and 
privates  cannot  now  be  learned  :  — 


Date  of 
Commission. 


Dec.  15,  1862 
Sept26, 1863 
Dec.  15,  1862 
Dec.  15,  1862 
Dec.  15^  1862 
Dec.  15,  1862 
Mar.  27, 1863 
July  3,   1863 


Name. 


Joseph  B.  Douglass. 

Lewis  P.  Miller 

Francis  T.  Kussell.. 

Lewis  P.  Miller 

Frank  D.  Evans 

Robert  G.  Lvell 

Paul  Hubbard 

Paul  Hubbard 


Rank. 


Colonel... 
Colonel. 
Lt.  Col. 

Major 

Adjutant. 
Q.M. 
JSurgeon.. 
Surgeon. 


Accounted  For. 


Promoted  to  Brig.  Gen. 


Promoted  to  Colonel. 


Com.  A.  Sur.  1  Pro.  Reg.... 


Date. 


Sept  1,  IBM 
Sept26,l868 

Apr.  18,1968 


HI8TOBY  OF  BOONS  COUNTT. 


48S 


COMPANY  A. 


Lewis  P.  IfiUer. 

Hablwrd  WilliamB... 
Hablwrd  WiUuims... 
Thomas  J.  Arnold ... 
John  G.  Strode 


Captain... 
Captain... 
Ist  Lieut 
Ist  Lieut 
2d  Lieut. 


Acooonted  For. 


Promoted  to  Major.... 
Promoted  to  Captain* 


Date. 


Oct  21, 1862 


COMPANY  B. 


DaTid  Guitar ., 

SanfordT.  Connelly.. 
Wm.  T.Anderson... 


Captain... 
1st  Lieut 
2d  Lieut. 


COMPANY  C. 


Wirt  W.  Samuel...... 

Samuel  M.  Cully...... 

Samuel  M  Cully 

Miles  J.  Henley 

Overton  B.  Harris 


Captain... 
Captain. 
1st  Lieut 
1st  Lieut. 
2d  Lieut 


Mar.  18, 1868 
Mar.  26, 1868 


COMPANY  D. 


James  M.  Ellis.^ 

John  L.  Hickman..... 
Thomas  M.  Field...... 


Captain. 
Ist  Lieut. 
2d  Lieut 


COMPANY  E. 


Tyre  G.  Harris... 

John  Q.  Orr 

James  T.  Harris. 


Captain. 
1st  Lieut 
2d  Lieut 


COMPANY  F. 


Jan.  80,  1868 


James  D.  Patten.... 

William  Hunter.... 

John  A.  Fisher...... 

William  Seymore.. 


Captain... 
Captain. 
1st  Lieut 
2d  Lieut 


COMPANY   G. 


Martin  E.  Swift.. 
Bicbard  Phillips . 
Garland  M.  Sims. 


Captain. 
1st  Lieut 
2d  Lieut 


COMPANY   H. 


B.  P.  BitchieM...« 

P.  H.  Owing8« 

F.  F.  Sbeppard 


Captain. 

Ist  Lieut 

2d  Lieut. 


COMPANY   L 


Joseph  J.  Sterne 
B.  E.  Sappington. 
W.T.  Sapp 


Captain. 
1st  Lieut. 
2d  Lieut. 


COMPANY   K. 


John  W.  Rollins. 

A.  H.  Conley 

Joshua  Fenton.... 


Captain... 
Ist  Lieut. 
2d  Lieut 


Resigned. 


April  6,  1863 


484 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


CONFEDERATE  SOLDIERS. 

[The  name  of  every  Boone  county  man  that  wore  the  gray  would  here  appear  if  it 
been  possible  to  learn  it  Information  was  solicited  from  every  source,  blanks  famislii 
those  deemed  best  posted,  to  be  filled  up  with  the  names  of  Boone  county  Confederatei 
all  efforts  produced  the  most  meagre  and  unsatisfactory  results.  Letters  were  writti 
many  and  unresponded  to.  The  publishers  desire  to  thank  Col.  Eli  Hodge,  of  Colin 
for  names  furnished,  and  Capt  M.  G.  Corlew,  of  Dripping  Springs,  for  the  following  n 
his  company,  made  up  from  memory]  :  — 

CAPT.  M.  O.  CORLEW'8  COMPANY,  MISSOURI  STATE  OUARD. 

Commiasioned  Officers, 
Captain,  Mastin  O.  Corlew.      1st  Lieut,  James  Winn.        2d  Lieut,  Amos  Onan  (die 

Non-commissioned  Officers  and  Privates. 


Jonathan  Winn, 
Sanford  Reed, 
James  Alexander, 
Henry  Batterton, 
Saul  Robinson, 
James  Barnes, 
John  Toalson, 
John  Burks, 


Riley  Brown, 
Jackson  Rumans, 
Thomas  Robinson, 
Thomas  Toalson, 
Wm.  Holton, 
Samuel  Shryock, 
B.  Shackleford, 
John  Onan, 


Buck  Tribble, 
Edward  Waller, 
J.  M.  Forshay, 
W.  T.  Toalson, 
J.  H.  Parmer, 
Milton  Shryock, 
Dr.  James  Gosline, 


James  Bratton  (di 
Oeorge  Alexande 
Wm.  Forshay, 
Charles  Burlo, 
T.  B.  Wade, 
James  Toalson, 
S.  P.  Kemper. 


Memoranda  —  This  company  took  part  in  the  destruction  of  the  North  Missouri  Ra 
at  and  near  Sturgeon,  and  was  in  the  Riggs  Run  Fight  the  next  day.  Here  Thos.  Tot 
James  Toalson,  and  John  Onan  were  killed,  and  Beverly  Shackelford  wounded.  It 
ward  crossed  the  river  and  joined  Price's  army. 

COMPANY  C,  NINTH  MISSOURI  INFANTRY,  C.  8.  A. 

Commissioned  Officers, 
Captain  M.  O.  Corlew.  2d  Lieut,  Al.  Evans  (died).      3d  Lieut,  Wm.  Clayton. 

Non-commissioned  Officers  and  Prixfaies* 


Thomas  Evans, 
Howard  Evans, 
Jack  Robinson, 
Thos.  Bailey, 
James  Johnson, 
Adam  Colly, 
Richard  Slaughter, 


Wash  Buckler, 
Mountville  Rose, 
James  White, 
Wm.  Lawrence, 
Marion  White, 
Samuel  Miller, 


Thos.  Hubbard, 
Jesse  Baker,* 
James  Baker,* 
Thomas  Baker,* 
John  Baker,* 
Turner  Baker,* 


Clayton, 

Sim.  Cannon, 
T.  B.  Wade, 
Wm.  Brink, 
John  Rumans, 
Owen  Rollins. 


The  three  Morris  bros. 
Memoranda  —  This  company  was  first  organized  for  Poindexter's  regiment,  but  w» 
terwards  mustered  into  the  Ninth  Missouri  Infantry,  Col.  John  B.  Clark.    It  took  pa 
many  hard-fought  battles  in  Arkansas  and  the  Southwest 

maxwell's   COMPANY,  WILLIAMS'  REGIMENT,  JOB  SHELBY'S  DIVISION  OF  CAVALBK' 

Commissioned  Officers. 
Captain,  John  H.  H.  Maxwell.  2d  Lieut,  James  H.  Lowrey. 

Non-commissioned  Officers  and  Privates. 

B.  H.  Hudson,  T.  J.  Smith,  S.  D.  Cochran, 

H.  G.  Hudson,  T.  H.  Benton,  D.  H.  Cook, 

W.  Robinson,  James  Robinson,  James  Ogan, 

Sam.  Dysart,  N.  Watson,  James  O.  Maxwe 


Robert  H.  Douglass, 
Joseph  Douglass, 
B.  Williamson, 
Thomas  Barrett, 


*  The  Bakers  were  all  brothers. 


HI8T0BY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  485 

Mo  Golman,  Swead  Hudson,  E.  Lyons,  F.  Rumans, 

]L  Oolman,  ■  Claxton,  James  Lyons,  James  Harris, 

A.  Chittendeo,  S.  :Kohard,  Scott  Jacobs,  John  Morton, 

iMcQiutty,  F.  Bi.  McQuitty,  Oldham.  L.  McQueen, 


nomii  McQuitty,       Thomas  Westlake, 

Hut  company  was  mainly  recruited  in  the  fall  of  1864,  by  Ck)l  £Ii  Hodge,  who  was  after^ 
md  lieutenant  colonel  of  the  regiment  to  which  it  belonged.  It  went  out  at  the  time  of 
YMi  raid,  but  many  of  its  members  had  seen  service  of  some  sort  in  the  Confederate 
eiaie  previously. 

BOOm  OOUKTT  COMPAKIBS  IK  THE  M.  S.  O. 

At  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war  several  companies  were  formed  in  Boone  county 
wpinai  the  Federal  authority,  and  their  services  tendered  to  Gov.^Claib.  Jackson.  They 
vire  accepted  and  became  a  portion  of  the  Missouri  State  Guard  ("M.  S.  G.").  The  first 
Moipsny  was  commanded  by  John  M.  Samuel,  and  went  from  Columbia  to  Boonville  a 
tnrdsjs  before  the  **Baces"  at  the  latter  place.  Some  of  the  members  entered  for  the 
ifirrettid  "races,"  and,  as  reported,  made  an  excellent  record  for  speed  I  Being  sheriff  of 
the  coQoty  at  the  time  and  under  a  heavy  bond,  which  he  feared  might  be  forfeited, 
*'Oiptsin  "  Samuel  returned  home  in  a  few  days,  and  was  soon  after  followed  by  several  of 
hiioomrsdee. 

In  August,  1861,  several  companies  were  formed,  under  Cols.  McKitmey,  Singleton  and 
fmhist,  and  went  south  to  Gton.  Price's  army.  Of  the  organization  of  these  companies  into 
ttettalion,  Capt.  M.  G.  Corlew  says:  **The  battle  of  Dry  wood  was  fought  September  2d 
(7tii),  1861.  A  day  or  tw%  afterward,  while  we  were  camped  on  the  prairie  west  of  Dry- 
iood,the  battalion  to  which  we  belonged  was  organized.  M.  G.  Singleton  was  elected 
liaoteoant-colonel,  and  Quin.  Peacher  elected  mi^or.  The  captains  of  the  companies  con-> 
ititatiBg  the  battalion  were :  F.  Fullenwider,  James  Watson,  Sam.  Tuttle,  M.  G.  Corlew, 
ind  then  there  was  Poacher's  company,  whose  commander  I  do  not  remember.  From  Dry- 
food  we  went  to  Lexington.  After  the  surrender  of  Mulligan,  and  I  think  about  September 
2B,  we  were  organized  into  a  regiment,  the  battalion  being  first  dissolved.  Harvey  G. 
McKinney  was  elected  colonel;  M.  G.  Singleton,  lieutenant-colonel;  and  Quin.  Peacher, 
nijor.  The  company  commanders  were:  Wm.  Clarkson,  Ah.  Hicks,  Bobert  Maupin, 
—  Strode,  Sam.  Tuttle,  James  Watson,  F.  Fullenwider,  Dick  Carter  (probably),  and 
vfaoerer  was  in  command  of  Peacher's  old  company." 

This  regiment  was  the  4th  Regiment,  8d  Division  {Qeu.  John  B.  Clark),  M.  S.  G.  In  the 
winter  of  1861-62  the  majority  of  the  men  re-enlisted  —  this  time  in  the  regular  Confederate 
Nrvioe.  • 


486 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 


CHAPTEE    Xn. 

FROM  1866  TO  1870. 

fiubaidence  of  Civil  War — Railroad  Projects  —  Convention  of  Callaway  and  Boone  Dele- 
gates in  Columbia  —  Discussion  of  the  Martinsburg^Columbia  Proposition — Its  Fail- 
ure— Monster  Petition  to  the  Boone  County  Court  —  Subscriptions  to  Boone  (Joontf 
Rail  and  Turnpike  Roads  —  Ceremony  of  "Breaking  Ground"  for  the  Railroad^Finl 
Railroad  Convention  in  the  State  —  North   Missouri  Railroad  Incorporated  —  *'BooM 
County  and  Jefferson  City  Railroad"  —  Public  Meeting  to  Bndorse  President  Aodnt 
Johnson  —  Registration  and   Election — Test  Oath  for  Voters  —  Disfranchisement  tad 
Excitement  —  Militia  Enrollment  in  1867  —  Cook  v.  Woodson — ^A  Writ  of  Quo  Wtt^ 
ranto  Isssued  against  the  Latter — Judge  Woodson's  Death  ends  the  Case  —  Cook  Ap- 
pointed County  Clerk  —  Registration  of  1868  —  Gen.  Grant  Carries  the  County  — NamM 
of  Accepted  Voters  —  Louisiana  and  Missouri  River  Railroads  —  Bond   Elections  ia 
Missouri,  Columbia,  Perche  and  Rocky  Fork  Townships  —  Legal  Complications  in  Re- 
gard to  the  Bonds  of  the  Two  Latter  — A  Compromise. 


ELECTION    RETURNS. 
*  Those  thus  marked  were  elected. 


NOVEMBER,  1866. 

STATE  8UPKRINTENDBNT  OF  SCHOOLS. 

John  F.Williams,  (C.) 631 

*T.  A.  Parker  (R.) 135 

Williams'  majority 497 

CONGRESS. 

Wm.  F.  Switzler  (C.) 636 

*G.  W.  Anderson  (R.) 178 

Switzler's  majority 458 

STATE  SENATOR. 

J.  A.  Hockaday  (C.) 615 

*Paul  Hubbard  (K.) 166 

Hockaday's  majority 479 

HOUSE    OF   REPRESENTATIVES. 

[First  District,  one  to  be  elected.] 

♦James  S.  Rollins  (C.) 308 

John  B.  Allison  (R.) 82 

Wm.  Leach,  Jr.,  (C.) 12 

John  G.  Shelhiutt,  (C.) 9 

Rollins's  majority  over  Allison 226 

[Second  District,  one  to  be  elected.] 

♦Rollins  Lyman  (C.) 321 

J.  J.  Blair  (R.) 81 

Lyman's  majority 240 


COUNTY  COURT  JUDGES. 

[Three  to  be  elected.] 

♦James  Harris 518 

♦John  W.  Hall 428 

♦James  Arnold 921 

James  W.  Daly 306 

David  Gordon ^ 284 

John  Berkebile ....« 191 

J.  R.  Crosswhite 228 

CIRCUIT  COURT  CLERK. 

♦John  M.Samuel 652 

Robert  L.  Todd 268 

Samuel's  majority 284 

COUNTY   COURT  CLERK. 

*  Warren  Woodson 866 

H.  W.  Cook 261 

Joseph  B.  Douglass 200 

SHERIFT. 

♦James  C.  Orr 605 

John  F.Baker 220 

Orr's  majority 386 

COUNTY  TREASURER. 

♦R.  B.  Price ^^ 

J.  H.  Waugh 169 

Price's  majority -  ^ 


u 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 


487 


XLXonoK  BBTUBirs  —  C<mtinued. 


OOUNTT  JL88X8S0B. 

2kuD ^ 220 

k 189 

^  4 

pie „ 162 

pton 145 

Dley 99 

KYIBOB  OF  RBOISTRATIOK. 

Jarth  (0.) 678 

frey  (a) 146 

iigoriij 582 

*T  SCHOOL  GOMMISSIOKXB. 

SeDderaon ^ 480 

158 

r» 18 

•s. ~  60 

OOBOKBB. 

spie 646 

ibe. 112 

s  majority 584 

OV^BER  8d,  1868. 

lOK  FOB  PBSSIDKKT,  1868. 

it(R) 177 

mour(D.) 171 

lajority  over  Seymour. 6 

BKNTATIVE  IN  CONGRESS. 

itzler. 195 

153 

majority 42 

GOVERNOR. 

jlps. 204 

McClurg. US 

lajority 56 

SENATOR. 

ollins 213 

in f 108 

ajority 105 

INTATIVES   IN  LEGISLATURE. 

A^llen 70 

Russell ; 79 

ly 52 

38 

s 99 

SHEROT. 

Svans 257 

ir 84 

ajority 163 


COUNTY  JUDGE. 

♦James  Harris  (D.) 206 

John  Berkebile  (R) 187 

Harris's  majority 69 

OIBCUrr  JUDGE. 

*(>eorge  H.  Burckhart  (D.) 217 

A.  P.  Denny  (R) 127 

Burckhart's  majority t..  90 

CIBCUIT  ATTORNEY. 

♦John  H.  Overall  (D.) Ill 

Boliver  S.  Head  (D.) 41 

J.  R.  Christian  (D.) 1 

S.  C.  Major  (D.) 11 

J.  W.  Barron  (R.) 116 

COUNTY  TBEA8UBEB. 

*R.  B.  Price  (D.) 206 

Lafayette  Hume 186 

Price's  majority f 70 

COUNTY  A88E880B. 

♦John  C.  Conley  (D.) 221 

S.  M.  Culley  (R.). 62 

H.  C.  Schwahe  (R.) 28 

PUBLIC  ADMINISTBATOB. 

♦John  Ellis  (D.) 177 

Paul  Huhbard  (R.) Ill 

Ellis's  majority 66 

COUNTY  SURVEYOR. 

*R.  C.  Dyson  (D.) 208 

H.  E.  Clough  (R.) 129 

Dyson's  majority 79 

SCHOOL   COMMISSIONER. 

*C.  W.  Masterson  (D.) 218 

Wm.  Helper  (R.) 117 

Maslerson's  majority 96 

CORONER. 

♦Thos.  J.  Gillaspy,  Sr. 192 

Lewis  Sharp 145 

Gillaspy's  majority 47 

SUPERVISOR  OF  REGISTRATION. 

♦Lewis  M.  Switzler 169 

Wm.  Seymour 130 

Switzler's  majority.... 39 

SUFFRAGE    AMENDMENT   TO   THE    CONSTITU- 
TION. 

Against  striking  out  the  word  **  white  "  278 

For  striking  out  the  word  "white  " 68 

Majority  against  negro  suffrage 210 


1  candidate. 


488  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CX)UNTr. 

The  subsidence  of  civil  war  and  the  inauguration  of  practical  peace 
witnessed  the  return  of  the  people  of  Boone  county  to  their  usual 
avocations,  and  to  the  projection  of  new  enterprises  for  the  promotioa 
of  their  best  interests.  Among  those  of  a  public  character  were  the 
building  of  a  railway  from  Columbia  to  some  point  on  the  North  Mis- 
souri Railroad  at  New  Florence,  Martinsburg,  Mexico,  Centralia  or 
Sturgeon  ;  and  the  location  in  Columbia  of  the  Agricultural  College. 
Of  the  difficulties  they  encountered  and  overcome  in  regard  to  the 
latter,  and  of  their  final  triumph,  we  have  spoken  at  length  in  another 
chapter. 

To  forward  the  railroad  project  a  portion  of  the  citizens  of  Boone 
met  in  Columbia  on  Monday,  January  1,  1866,  for  the  purpose  of 
appointing  delegates  to  a  railroad  convention,  proposed  by  the  people 
of  Callaway,  to  be  held  in  Columbia,  on  Monday,  January  8, 1866. 
Henry  Keene  was  chosen  chairman  of  the  meeting  and  J.  H.  Waugh, 
secretary.  Major  Rollins  explained  its  object,  and  on  his  motion  the 
following  resolution  was  adopted  :  — 

Whereas,  A  convention  of  the  citizens  of  Montgomery,  Callaway,  Boone  and  Howard 
counties  having  been  proposed  to  consider  the  feasibility  of  building  a  railroad,  commaDO* 
ing  at  Florence,  on  the  North  Missouri  Railroad,  and  passing  through  the  county  aeaU  of 
the  above  named  counties,  and  to  strike  some  point  on  the  Missouri  River  in  the  vicinitj  of 
Glasgow;  and  whereas,  Callaway  county  having  appointed  delegates  to  meet  in  ColambiA 
on  the  8th  inst,  to  confer  with  such  delegates  as  might  be  appointed  on  the  part  of  theotheir 
counties : 

Resolved,  That  the  following  named  persons  be,  and  the  same  are  hereby  appointed  a> 
delegates,  on  the  part  of  Boone  county  —  to  represent  its  citizens  in  the  proposed  convention 
at  the  time  specified,  namely,  the  Directors  of  the  "  Boone  County  and  Jefferson  City  Rail- 
road Company,"  to  wit:  — 

D.  H.  Hickman,  J.  S.  Rollins,  R.  L.  Todd,  William  H.  Bass,  S.F.  Conley,  James  Harrii^ 
M.  G.  Singleton,  James  H.  Waugh,  Henry  Keene. 

And  the  following  named  citizens:  Wm.  F.  Switzler,  James  L.  Stephens,  John  F. Baker, 
Joseph  B.  Douglass,  M.  S.  Matthews,  John  M.  Samuel,  Moss  Prewitt,  G.  C.  Pratt,  W.  T. 
Hickman,  David  Guitar,  John  W.  Harris,  Henry  Tumy,  J.  F.  Clayton,  Dr.  C.  D.  Chandler* 

« 

The  convention  was  held  accordingly ;  Joseph  Flood,  of  Callaway, 
president ;  W.  F.  Switzler,  of  Boone,  secretary.  A  general  discus- 
sion of  the  proposed  enterprise  ensued,  during  which  speeches  were 
made  by  Thos.  B.  Harris,  Henry  Larrimore  and  John  A.  Hockaday, 
of  Callaway,  and  W.  F.  Switzler,  D.  H.  Hickman,  James  L.  Stepheus, 
F.  T.  Russell,  Geo.  C.  Swallow,  W.  T.  Hickman,  John  W.  Harris 
and  Milton  S.  Matthews,  of  Boone. 

Mr.  Harris,  of  Callaway,  moved  that  the  president  appoint  a  com- 
mittee of  five  to  prepare  and  report  a  charter,  naming  in  it  the  corp^ 
rators  in  each  county,  and  that  this  meeting  adjourn  subject  to  the  <^ 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  489 

}f  said  committee,  which  was  adopted  and  the  following  gentlemen 
ippoiuted:  Thomas  B.  Harris  and  John  A.  Hockaday,  of  Callaway, 
md  Wm.  F.  Switzler,  D.  H.  Hickman  and  John  W.  Harris,  of  Boone. 

This,  we  believe,  was  the  last  ever  heard  of  the  proposition  ;  and, 
herefore,  the  people  of  Boone,  determined  to  have  a  railroad,  pro- 
seeded  to  adopt  measures  to  build  the  one  projected  by  themselves, 
ind  without  the  aid  of  any  other  county. 

The  charter  of  the  road  (hitherto  noticed)  introduced  into  the 
iCgislature  by  Col.  Switzler  in  1856-7,  having  empowered  the  County 
)ourtto  subscribe  to  its  capital  stock,  either  with  or  without  submit- 
ingthe  question  to  a  vote  of  the  people,  it  was  resolved  that  the  fol- 
owing  petition  be  circulated  for  signatures  :  — 

fb  ihe  Honorable  the  County  Court  of  Boone  County  : 

The  undersigned,  citizens  and  tax  payers,  believing  that  a  system  of  improved  roads  would 
idd  much  to  the  value  of  property,  and  the  general  interest  of  the  county,  respectfully 
wtition  the  court  to  provide  means,  by  sale  of  county  bonds,  or  in  such  other  way  as  may 
adeemed  expedient,  for  having  graded  and  turnpiked  or  gravelled  four  roads;  one  from 
/olomhia  to  the  North  Missouri  Railroad,  one  to  Rocheport,  one  to  Glaysville  by  way  of 
bhknd,  and  one  to  the  Callaway  line,  in  the  direction  of  Fulton.  Or,  if  deemed  best  by 
he  court,  to  aid  in  making  the  first  named  a  railroad  to  the  amount  it  would  cost  to  build 
itoropike. 

This  petition  was  signed  with  astonishing  unanimity,  and  up  to  its 
presentation  to  the  County  Court,  on  Wednesday,  February  7,  1866, 
ibout  fifteen  hundred  citizens,  comprising  not  only  a  majority  of  the 
voters,  but  at  least  two-thirds  in  interest  of  the  tax-payers  of  the 
lounty  had  signed  it. 

Ail  o'clock,  therefore,  on  that  day  this  monster  petition  was  pre- 
^eated  to  our  County  Court,  in  the  presence  of  a  large  assembly  of 
he  people,  by  D.  H.  Hickman,  the  president  of  the  railroad  company, 
•vith  the  request  that  the  court  make  substantially  this  order  :  — 

Two  hundred  thousand  dollars  in  county  bonds  to  aid  in  the  construction  of  a  railroad 
rom  Columbia  to  the  North  Missouri  Railroad,  provided  the  railroad  company  raise  an 
dditional  amount  sufficient  to  complete  the  road  in  running  order;  and  one  hundred  and 
1%  thousand  dollars  in  bonds  to  aid  in  the  construction  of  a  turnpike  from  Columbia  west 
t>  Rocheport,  from  Columbia  east  to  the  county  line,  and  from  Columbia  south  to  Clays- 
ille  by  the  way  of  Ashland. 

A  most  respectful  and  patient  hearing  was  given  by  a  full  bench  of 
idges  —  James  W.  Daly,  David  Gordon  and  John  Berkebile —  while 
'^o  merits  of  the  proposition  were  elaborately  discussed,  the  following 
^Dtlemen  in  speeches  urging  the  appropriation,  namely  :  D.  H.  Hick- 
^*n,  James  L.  Stephens,  Odon  Guitar,  J.  S.  Rollins  and  W.  F. 
«vitzler — John  W.  Harris  in  speeches  opposing  it. 


490  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

The  Court  made  the  order  unanimously  —  thus  securing  the  com- 
pletion of  the  railroad  from  Columbia  to  the  North  Missouri,  and  three 
turnpike  roads  on  the  lines  mentioned. 

On  March  9  and  10,  1866,  the  directors  of  the  North  Missouri 
Eailroad  held  a  meeting  in  St.  Louis  which  was  attended  by  Mr.  Hick- 
man, the  president  of  the  Columbia  Branch,  and  by  J.  S.  Rollins  and 
R.  L.  Todd,  directors,  and  a  contract  was  made  to  secure  the  building 
of  the  road. 

Geo.  C.  Pratt,  engineer,  commenced  the  survey  on  Monday,  March 
12,  1866. 

CEREMONY   OF    «*  BREAKING    GROUND." 

On  May  2d  the  board  entered  into  a  contract  with  Joseph  and 
James  Kelley,  of  St.  Louis,  to  build  the  road,  and  on  Monday, 
May  21,  1866,  the  ceremony  of  breaking  ground  occurred  in  Colum- 
bia before  a  large  concourse  of  people,  male  and  female. 

The  contractors  of  the  road,  James  and  Joseph  Kelley,  both  of  wham 
were  present,  and  George  C.  Pratt,  the  engineer,  selected  the  plac6 
for  breaking  ground,  at  an  eligible  point  in  the  grass  lot  south  of  Mr. 
McAlester's  residence,  northeast  of  town.  At  the  appointed  hour 
the  large  concourse  repaired  on  foot  and  in  carriages  to  the  grounds, 
where,  after  some  soul-stirring  music  by  the  Centralia  Comet  Band, 
the  vast  assembly  was  called  to  order  by  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins,  who,  in 
a  very  appropriate  address,  introduced  the  ceremonies. 

On  all  sides  of  the  spot  selected  for  *'  breaking  ground  "  stood  an 
-imposing  concourse  of  our  people ;  intermixed  here  and  there  and 
everywhere  among  them  were  the  sturdy  and  strong-armed  men  who 
were  to  build  the  great  work  in  prospect,  while  in  the  center  were  the 
<?ffieers  of  the  road,  contractors,  engineers,  band,  and  in  full  view  of 
all  stood  a  wheelbarrow  and  spade. 

Finally,  D.  H.  Hickman,  president  of  the  road,  took   hold  of  the 
spade,  and,  with  the  first  effort  to  sink  its  point  into  the  green  turf, 
the  welkin  rang  with  the  loud  plaudits  of  the  people.     After  he  de- 
posited several  spades  full  in  the  w^heel barrow,  David  Gordon,  one  oi 
the  Honorable  Judges  of  the  County  Court  (in  the  place  of  Mr.  J-  ^* 
Stephens,  who  was   absent  on  account  of  a  severe  family  affliction)» 
followed  suit,  whereupon  Wni.  F.  Switzler,  the  author  of  the  railroad 
charter,  wheeled  the  earth  away  and  *'  dumped  "  it  at  the  appoin**^^ 
place.     Cheer  upon  cheer  followed  ;  for  thus  and  then  commenced  ^^^ 
most   important   public  work  to   our  people  ever  projected  in     ^'^^ 
county. 


OF   BOONE   COUNTT.  491 

ft 

After  short,  thrilling  speeches  by  Col.  Swltzler  and  Gen.  Guitar, 
and  music  by  the  band,  the  vast  concourse  was  dismissed,  every  coun- 
tenance being  radiant  with  joy  and  hope. 

riKST   RAILROAD   CONVENTION    IN   THE   STATE. 

The  St.  Louis  Railroad  Convention  met  April  20,  1836.  Among 
the  delegates  from  Boone  Countv  were  John  W.  Keiser  and  James  S. 
Rollins.  The  latter  was  twenty-four  years  of  age  the  day  after  the 
convention  assembled,  and  its  youngest  member.  This  convention 
recommended  three  railroads  radiating  from  St.  Louis  —  northwest, 
west  and  southwest.  It  memorialized'  the  State  Legislature  for  a 
grant  of  State  aid  to  the  extent  of  $10,000,000,  and  Congress  for  a 
grant  of  public  lands.  Rollins  moved  the  memorial  to  Congress,  and 
was  made  chairman  of  the  committee  for  that  purpose. 

In  the  autumn  of  1836  a  survey  was  made  for  a  railroad  from 
Louisiana  to  Columbia.  James  S.  Rollins,  General  Richard  Gen- 
try, Sinclair  Kirtley,  William  Cornelius  and  David  M.  Hickman, 
of  Boone,  were  promoters  of  this  enterprise.  In  January,  1837, 
the  Louisiana  and  Columbia  Railroad  Company  was  chartered,  and 
Gentry,  Kirtley,  Cornelius  and  Hickman  were  named  among  the 
corporators. 

During  the  same  month  the  Rocheport  Railroad  Comptvny  was  in- 
corporated to  build  a  railroad  from  Rocheport  to  Columbia,  and  the 
corporators  were  Anthony  W.  Rollins  (father  of  Hon.  James  S.  Rol- 
lins), Robert  S.  Barr,  George  Knox,  John  Alexander,  John  Ward, 
William  Gaw,  John  Stemmons,  Jesse  B.  Dale  and  L.  C.  Dickinson. 

NORTH    MISSOURI    RAILROAD    INCORPORATED. 

The  North  Missouri  Riilroad  Company  was  incorporated  March  3, 
1^51,  and  the  road  was  completed  through  Boone  County  in  the  au- 
tumn of  1858.     Its  line  cuts  a  triangle  off  the  northeast  corner  of  the 
^^unty,  twelve  miles  long  east  and  west  by  two  and  a  half  miles  wide 
•**t  its  widest  part,  on  the  east  boundary  of  the  county.     Boone  County 
suhscdbed  $100,000  to  the  capital   stock   of  this  company,  paid  the 
subscription  in  county  bonds,  and  subsequently  redeemed  the  bonds, 
^^veral  citizens  also  took  stock  in.  the   company.     James  S.  Rollins 
^^8  for  many  years  a  director  in  the  company,  and  Geo.  C.  Pratt  was 
^^^e  of  the  engineers  on   location  and  construction.     (For  a  full  ac- 
^^Uiit  of  the  canvass  preceding  the  vote  of  $100,000,  see  Chapter  IX., 


492  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

THE    BOONE    COUNTY   AND   JEFFERSON    CITY    RAILROAD    COMPANY 

Was  incorporated  January  30,  1857,  to  build  a  railroad  from  th 
North  Missouri  Railroad,  via  Columbia,  to  the  Pacific  Railroad,  at  oi 
above  Jefferson  City.  Col.  Switzler  drafted  and  introduced  the  char 
ter  in  the  Legislature  of  1856-7.  Among  the  corporators  were  Jas. 
S.  Rollins,  Wm.  F.  Switzler,  Jas.  L.  Stephens,  Jefferson  Garth,  W. 
W.  Tucker,  F.  T.  Russell  and  Geo.  C.  Pratt. 

No  steps  were  taken  to  build  the  road  until  after  the  war,  when  the 
corporators  organized  October  5,  1865,  only  a  few  days  before  the 
charter  expired,  and  opened  books  for  subscriptions  to  the  capital  stock. 
The  stockholders  met  December  16,  1865,  and  elected  directors,  whc 
on  the  same  day  elected  D.  H.  Hickman  president  and  Geo.  C.  Prat 
chief  engineer.  Surveys  were  commenced  immediately,  but  wer 
soon  after  suspended  until  March,  1866,  when  the  final  location  wa 
made  and  the  work  put  under  contract.  Construction  was  commence 
May  21,  1866.  The  road  was  completed  from  Centralia  to  Columbij 
October  29,  1867. 

The  resources  provided  for  building  the  road  were  :  — 

Individual  subscriptionB  in  cash $l2,5i 

Boone  County  subscriptions  in  8  per  cent  bonds 200,3 

Eight  per  cent  mortgage  bonds  on  road 30(^0 

Total $512,6 

Before  commencing  work  a  contract  had  been  made  with  the  Nori 
Missouri  Railroad  Company,  by  which  the  latter  was  to  operate  the  ros 
and  pay  for  use  of  same  one-third  of  gross  earnings  from  all  businej 
going  to  or  from  the  leased  property. 

This  rent  went  to  pay  interest  on  the  mortgage  bonds. 

After  January  12,  1869,  the  North  Missouri  Company  ceased  to  ps 
rent  and  consequently  the  lessor  company  had  no  money  wherewith  1 
pay  interest.  Consequently,  on  April  23,  1873,  the  road  was  so 
under  foreclosure  to  Wra.  E.  Burr  for  $30,000.  Burr  conveyed  t 
property  to  the  Boone  County  and  Boonville  Railroad  Company,  a  a 
poration  organized  by  ''Articles  of  association  filed  April  30,"  18' 

The  capital  stock  of  that  company  is  $500,000  and  the  mortg^ 
debt  on  the  road  is  $100,000  seven  per  cent  bonds.  The  property 
leased  to  the  Wabash  Company  which  pays  the  interest  on  tb 
bonds  as  rent.^ 


1  We  are  much  indebted  to  George  C.  Pratt,  now  one  of  the  State  Railroad  Oommissi^^ 
for  many  of  these  facts. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  493 

rriNG   IN   BOONE   COUNTY   TO   ENDORSE   PRESIDENT   JOHNSON. 

ry  large  meeting,  pursuant  to  public  notice,  assembled  in  the 

ouse  in  Columbia,  Missouri,  on  Monday,  March  5th,  1866,  to 

r  the  political  issues  of  the  day,  and  more  especially  those 

;  out  of  the  proceedings  of  Congress  and  the  action  of  Presi- 

linson  in  regard  to  the  restoration  of  the  Union.     The  court- 

^as  crowded ;  and  at  the  appointed  hour  the  assembly  was 

>  order  by  Maj.  A.  J.  Harbison,  on  whose  motion  Hon.  J.  S. 

was  called  to  preside. 

s.  Henry  Keene  and  William  Boggs  were  elected  vice-presi- 

nd  A.  G.  Newman  and  A.  J.  Harbison,  secretaries. 

SV.  F.  Switzler  then  moved  the  appointment  of  a  committee 

o  report  resolutions  to  the  meeting,  and  that  all  resolutions 

)ed  be  referred  to  that  committee  ;  which  was  adopted  and  the 

g committee  appointed  by  the  chairman  :  Col.  W.  F.  Switzler, 

R.  Arnold,  Gen.  J.  B.  Douglass,  Judge  David  Gordon  and 

.  Field,  Esq. 

is:  the  retirement  of  the  committee  the  meeting  was  addressed 

h  by  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins  in  a  speech,  fully  endorsing  the  policy 

ident  Johnson,  and  condemnatory  of  the   revolutionary  pro- 

)  of  the  Sumner-Stevens  Radicals. 

Switzler,  from   the   committee  on  resolutions,   reported    the 

g-  — 

RESOLUTIONS. 

t  the  citizens  of  Boone  County,  here  assembled,  loyal  to  the  Constitution  and  the 
d  faithful  to  the  principles  which  have  carried  the  Republic  triumphantly  through 
re  convinced  of  the  necessity  of  an  early  and  complete  pacification  of  the  country, 
eople  may  all  engage  in  their  proper  pursuits  and  reap  the  just  rewards  of  their 

t,  therefore,  we  desire  to  see  the  restoration  of  practical  and  constitutional  rela- 
een  all  the  States  and  the  Federal  Government  at  the  earliest  practicable  period, 
t  end  we  favor  the  admission  into  Congress  of  all  loyal  representatives  from  the 
jly  in  rebellion,  who  were  fairly  elected  and  can  take  the  oath  prescribed  by  Con- 
test of  loyalty  through  all  the  pressure  and  peril  of  the  rebellion, 
the  Constitution  is  at  once  our  charter  and  defence ;  no  magistrate  can  go  beyond 
^artment  of  the  government,  however  powerful,  legislative  or  executive,  is  per- 
transcend  it;  and  however  benevolent  pr  otherwise  meritorious  a  measure  may  be, 
t  within  the  powers  granted  by  the  Constitution,  it  cannot  be  adopted,  and  we  in- 
very  one  of  our  public  servants  shall  conform  to  the  will  of  the  whole  people,  as 
i  in  the  great  organic  act,  which  is  antecedent  and  superior  to  the  government 

t  we  approve  the  general  principles  announced  by  President  Johnson  in  his  annual 
ind  in  bis  late  message,  explaining  the  reason  for  withholding  his  assent  to  the  bill 
ntinuance  and  enlargement  of  the  Freedmen's  Bureau ;  and  while  we  express  our 
i  approval  we  give  him  our  confidence,  and  promise  him  our  continued  support  in 


492  ^-uri. 

gtf*"*     ^/atioo»i  gavammant  in  all  part«  of  A* 

THE  ^^  y-'^ 

™.       .  ^  „^'''^\^yflur  worthj Mid  patriotie  repreientatim a 

W8B   ir  /"   ^,^  ^^'"ST^'*  ■■  *«»•".  '*"■  'lie"'  "ble  "nd  msnlj  Hp- 

North  ,y.'''-        ,„#>^C[^j?^uiiMU>Uiii  tba  eoiutltution  and  restore  the  Uoira 

aboT  -I'^^'Jiili**' 

.  ^                       ,,^  ^'"^^^     ^^j^tthmartlin'  U  hereby  appointed  a  commitlselopn- 

"'''  !^'^'Z'      .„Al'^'^Jd«W«*«»py  oftheaereiolutiont. 

S  ■'''.''p"'''"  f^i'-''^"^^  »  eounty  eentnl  oommittae  of  flie,  whose  duly  itihill 

1  i  r^'-  '^""iv"'"'  fi^tT'  oiganbttlon  and  lucceu  of  the  cooaervative  Union  ptrtf 

>.■  '■'  ''■'''!!,."'>  *'  "jili  f  1^"'''  "W'ting  be  published  in  the  Uiuouri  Slatttman  and  St 


P^^'^.jgr  fl«!ompanied  the  pi-eaeutation  of  theee    resolutioiw 

C^-  ^*! ,  ^,d  lucid  exposition  of  the  principles  they  enunciate, 

^ith  '     moi'^^%  ^^^  admioistration  of  Presideut  Johnson,  atidia 

^■00  to  tiiB  usurpatjona  and  tyranny  of  the  Radicals,  who  are  ene- 

"l^f'^gt  administration. 

""u    W-  ^-  S™"***  *''^*"  arose  and  briefly  addressed  the  meeting,  en- 

. '  (be  i-estopation  policy  of  the  President,  and  highly  eulogistic 

fh'e  berolo  resolve  to  stand  by  the  constitution. 

"  rbe  resolntiouB  were  then  unanimously  adopted,  and  the  following 

-Bntle™®"  appointed  county  central  committee :  W.  F.  Switzler,  A,  J. 

^irrison,  J-  W.  Harris,  J.  B.  Douglass,  M.  R.  Arnold.     After  which 

f},e  meeting  adjouraed  sine  die. 

REOISTRATION   ASD   ELECTION TEST   OATH. 

The  Constitution  of  18(j5  prescribed  a  test  oath  for  voters,  which 
greatly  inflamed    the  people  of  the  State  and  of  Boono  County,  es- 
pecially that  portion  of  them  belonging  to  the  Democratic  party.   The 
convention  which  adopted  and  the  Legislature  which  enacted  l;iw3  to 
enforce  it,  sought  to  Justify  the  procedure  on  the  ground  that  the  best 
interests  of  the  country  would   be  subserved   by  committing  thera  it 
the  polls  to  the  ai-bitrameut  of  voters  who  wore  loyal  to  the  govera- 
ment,  and  who,  during  the  Rebellion,  had  not  attempted  by  force  ot 
arms,  by  sympathies,  or  by  other  methods,   to  overthrow  the  ConsH- 
tution  ;  while  the  Democrats   charged  that  the  continued   suprcmft'^y 
of  Republican  rule  in  the  State  —  in  other  words,  the  retention  ot"  *'' 
the  offices,    by  the  disfranchisement  of  political  opponents,  was    t^* 
governing  motive  of  the  onactnieutsi.     At  all  events  the  process  °' 
registration,   in   Boone  County,  was    under  the  control,    in  18(i<3,     ** 
Pierce   BuflSngton,    a  Republican,   as   supervisor,   and    the  follt>iv'i'*o 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  495 

registrars  of  the  various  townships,  all  of  whom  were  Republicans  :  — 
J.  C.  Gallanar,  W.  H.  Fox,  W.  A.  Graham,  W.  G.  Green,  Wm.  Shide, 
Wm.  Hunter,  Isaac  T.  Jeffry,  Peter  E.  Nichols  and  W.  H.  Dunn. 
Clerks  of  the  Board  of  Review :  — Thos.  J.  Sutton,  E.  S.  Rhino  and 
A.  P.  Selby,  the  latter  now  deputy  clerk  of  the  U.  S.  Circuit  Court 
in  St.  Louis. 

Paid  out  of  the  county  treasury  to  the  supervisor,  registrars  and 
clerks,  $517.75. 

The  registration  engendered  great  bitterness  of  feeling,  sometimes 
approaching  the  verge  of  personal  violence. 

After  the  registration  lists  had  been  made  by  the  precinct  registrars 
and  thoroughly  supervised  at  Columbia,  the  whole  number  of  persons 
who  were  registered  as  qualified  voters,  out  of  the  5,000  in  the 
county,  was  878,  as  follows :  Bourbon  township,  Centralia  precinct^ 
81 ;  Sturgeon,  94 ;  Rocky  Fork  township,  8 ;  Columbia,  238 ; 
Cedar  township,  Ashland  precinct,  86 :  Claysville,  94 ;  Providence, 
71 ;  Missouri  township,  Rocheport  precinct,  141 ;  Strawn's,  43 ; 
Perche  township,   23. 

MILITIA   ENROLLMENT   IN    1867. 

1867.  In  November,  1866,  J.  C.  Gallanar  was  appointed  by  Gov. 
Fletcher  enrolling  officer  of  Boone  County,  and  on  November  26th  gave 
notice  that  *'all  able-bodied  male  inhabitants  of  the  State,  between 
the  ages  of  eighteen  and  forty-five  years  inclusive,  constitute  the 
militia  of  the  State,  and  must  be  enrolled."  This  Enrollment  was 
concluded  in  January,  1867,  and  exhibited  the  following  result : — 

PRECINCTS.  WHITE.  COLORED. 

Columbia 608  240 

Rocky  Fork 210 

Perche ^ 260     *  6 

Centralia -...  102  3 

Sturgeon  « 189  18 

Missouri ^ ^ 816  47 

Providence «  108  15 

Claysville 120  1 

Ashland 827  20 

Totals 2,139  360 

Total  of  all  colors,  2,489,  of  which  about  250  are  exempt. 

H.  N.  COOK  vs.  WARREN  WOODSON. 

These  two  gentlemen,  at  the  November  election,  1866  (as  we  have 
seen),  were  candidates  for  County  Clerk,  and  Mr.  Woodson  having 


496  HISTORY   OF    BOONE    COUNTY. 

been  declared  duly  elected,  Cook  sought  by  proceedings  in  the  courti 
to  dispossess  him  of  the  oflSce  on  several  grounds,  among  them  tbat 
he  was  disloyal  to  the  United  States  government ;  that  he  had  com- 
mitted some  of  the  acts  specified  in  section  3,  article  2,  of  the  Stste 
Constitution  of  1865 ;  that  therefore  he  was  ineligible  to  hold  the 
office  of  County  Clerk,  and  that  the  votes  cast  for  him  were  nullities. 

In  January,  1867,  a  writ  of  quo  wari'anto^  issued  by  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  State,  was  served  on  Woodson  requiring  him  to  appeir 
before  that  body  on  Saturday  following  and  show  by  what  authority 
he  held  the  office  of  county  clerk.  Although  this  proceeding  was  all 
in  the  name  of  the  State  and,  in  the  event  of  the  State's  failure,  atthe 
expense  of  the  State,  Mr.  Cook  was  the  real  prosecutor. 

Judge  Woodson  obeyed  the  writ  and  by  his  counsel,  Wm.  A.  Hall,  I 
of  Randolph,  made  answer.  Quite  a  lengthy  discussion  ensued 
between  Judge  Hall  and  Attorney  General  Wingate  and  A.  F.  Denny,  i 
much  of  which  concerned  the  meaning  and  bearing  upon  the  case  ofa 
recent  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States.  The 
case  was  submitted  to  the  court,  which  took  it  under  advisement  untB 
its  July  term,  when  a  judgment  of  ouster  against  Woodson  was  ren- 
dered and  a  commission  issued  by  Gov.  Fletcher  to  Cook,  Judges 
Thos.  J.  C.  Fagg  and  David  Wagner  concurring.  Judge  Nathaniel 
Holmes  dissenting.     (See  Mo.  Reps.,  Vol.  41,  page  228.) 

Woodson  appealed  the  case  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States  and  retained  the  office  till  his  death,  which  occurred  October  4, 
1868,  up  to  whith  time  the  appeal  had  not  been  heard.  It  was  then 
dismissed,  and  Cook  was  appointed  by  Gov.  Fletcher  to  fill  the 
vacancy. 

REGISTRATION    OF    VOTERS    IN    1868. 

1868.  —  Since  the  last  registration  of  voters  the  Legislature  passed 
a  more  stringent  law  on  the  subject,  and  for  this  and  other  reasons  the 
registration  preparatory  to  the  election  of  1868  was  wholesale  in  its 
character  and  ended  in  the  disfranchisement  of  3,000  citizens  of  the 
county,  only  411  being  allowed  to  vote.  So  general  and  sweeping 
was  the  ostracism  that  Gen.  Grant  carried  the  county  for  President 
over  Horatio  Seymour  by  six  majority. 

This  extraordinary  proceeding  inflamed  many  of  the  people  to  fever 
heat  and  at  times  there  were  outbreaks  of  individual  and  popular 
fury  which  not  only  menaced  the  personal  safety  of  the  registrars  but 
the  general  public  peace  itself. 

And  this  was  in  fact  no  marvel,  for  the  political  ostracism  of  so 


HI8TOBT  OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 


497 


lumber   of  citizeus   who    had    been    accustomed   to   vote, 

them   being   old   residents   and  taxpayers,   was  well  cal- 

>  upturn  the  foundations  of  society  and  to  incite  the  disfran- 

d  their  friends  to  the  fiercest  denunciations,  if  not  to  open 

Jlough,  Pierce  Buffington  and  William  Dunn  were^the  regis- 
0,  after  subjecting  the  lists  to  days  and  days  of  manipula- 
ly  deposited  in  the  County  Clerk's  office  the  following :  — 

RECORD  OP  ACCEPTED  VOTERS  IN  1868. 


COLUMBIA    TOWNSHIP — 110. 


I. 

•mas  A. 
amoB 
ohn 

T,  G.  M. 
N. 
las 
k>bert 
.P. 
9hnT. 
ird 

anus  P. 
>hn  A. 
P. 

esM. 
James  M. 
nesM. 


nC. 

ohn 

lel  M. 
G. 
raid 

lepb  B. 
kD. 


Ftcklin,  Joseph 
Gentry,  Thomas  B. 
Gordon,  Boyle 
Gallatly  James 
Gordon,  David 
Guitar,  Odon 
Gordon,  Carey  H. 
Green,  Wm.  S. 
Gordon,  Wm.  J. 
Gans,  J.  G. 
Garth,  Jeff 
Hume,  Lafayette 
Hickey,  John  E. 
Hinkle,  John  F. 
Henderson.  J.  A. 
Hubbard,  Paul 
Hamm,  Fred 
Harris,  James  T. 
Hume,  Reuben 
Hunter,  Wm. 
Henley,  M.  J. 
Hugle,  Arnold 
Helper,  Wm.  M. 
Hume,  James  R. 
Keene,  Alf. 
Kelley,  John  M. 
Eehr,  Chris. 
Eimmell,  E.  J. 


King  George 
Lamme,  Josiah  W. 
Lukens,  A.  J.' 
Lukens,  A.  N. 
Lukens,  George  W. 
Lukens,  Wm.  A. 
Livingston,  Wra. 
Lee,  Wm. 
McKasky,  Robert 
Marshall,  Charles 
Miller  James, 
McCarten,  John 
Miller,  Benj.  F. 
Murphy,  John 
More,  Stephen  J. 
McKay,  Neal 
Maynard,  James  A. 
Northcutt,  Wm.  H. 
Nichols,  Philip  P. 
Pierson,  Wm.  F. 
Prewitt,  Moss 
Power,  Thomas  E. 
Potts,  Charles  J. 
Root,  Oren,  Jr., 
Ripley,  E.  L. 
Robnett,  Wm.  C. 
Read,  Daniel 
Rollins,  James  S. 


Russell,  F.  T. 
Sturgeon,  Edward  8. 
^witzler,  Lewis  M. 
Stewart,  James  L. 
Schwabe,  H.  C. 
Saunders,  Thomas 
Scott,  James  N. 
Shanks,  James  M. 
Shultz,  Aug. 
Schwabe,  H.  C,  Jr., 
Sexton,  Enoch 
Scott,  Samuel  F. 
Scott,  A.  L. 
Scott,  N.  F. 
Stewart,  Benj.  F. 
Scott,  Wesley 
Switzler,  W.  F. 
Sellinger,  Jacob 
Thornton,  James  H. 
Todd,  W.  W. 
Todd,  Robert  L. 
Warren,  Harris  N. 
Waugh,  James  H. 
Warren,  Wm. 
Westerlage,  P. 
Weist,  Simon 
Werdemann,  A.  D. 


PROYIDBNCB  —  33. 


se 

land 
.W. 

lA 

OS 

68  W. 

inis 
razier 


Gilpin,  Ambrose 
Grindstaff,  Samuel 
Gilpin,  George  A. 
Gilpin,  Elias 
Hickam,  Scott  H. 
Hume,  Lewis 
Homell,  J.  C. 
Hume,  Sidney 


Hessleman,  Lewis 
Hopper,  Sidney  W. 
Jeffries,  John 
Jeffries,  Perry  C. 
Lunda,  Wm.  N. 
McBain,  James  T. 
McBain,  Turner 
Maples,  Robert 


Perkins,  Reuben 
Rogers,  Jesse 
Stewart,  Charles 
Senor,  John  O. 
Senor,  Wm.  T. 
Stickdaub,  C.  W. 
Teeter,  John  E. 
Vamer,  Paul 


498 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


PERCHX  — 17. 


Allspaw,  Reuben 

Long,  James 

March,  Absalom,  Sr., 

,  Scbwabe 

Botner,  Jacob 

McAlister,  Wm.  T. 

March,  Absalom,  Jr., 

,  Scbwabe 

Gaton,  Thomas 

Merry,  John 

Palm,  Jacob 

Stewart, 

Glass,  Robert  R. 

March,   Wm.,  Jr., 

Schwabe,  Robert 

Williami 

Gentry,  N.  M. 

CENTBALIA  — 19. 

Adams,  James 

Bower,  Throp 

King,  W.  E. 

Sbultz,  ( 

Adams,  Wm.  B. 

Faukner  James 

Myers,  John  L. 

Wainsco 

Booth,  Horace 

Fretwell,  Silas 

Phillips,  James 

Wheeler 

Baker,  Allen 

Gallop,  Simeon 

Stemmons,  John  T. 

Wert,  J« 

Booth,  W.  J. 

Herbert,  James  A. 

Tuly,  James 

STRAWN*8   SCHOOL  HOUSE — 12. 

Cook,  Levi 

Graham,  James 

Lamme,  W.  W. 

Sharp,  L 

Grant,  Columbus 

Hultz,  C.  P. 

Register,  George  W. 

Sharp,  G 

Graham,  Wm.  A. 

Ip^ordon,  James  M. 

Searcy,  D.  G. 

Todd,  Sa 

STURGEON  —  76. 

Allison,  John  B. 

Dingman,  Chaney 

Harris,  M.  H. 

Roberts, 

Barnes,  Thomas  M. 

Eagle,  Joseph 

Helem,  Chas. 

Randall, 

Butler,  John 

Fretwell,  Joseph 

Jar  man,  Jas.  J. 

Roher,  I 

Brown,  Jacob 

Farr,  Edward 

Jarman,  John  F. 

Smith,  I 

Barnes,  Brinsley 

Fisher,  John  F. 

Keiser,  Oliver 

Slotz,  Jc 

Baker,  Thomas  J. 

Finley,  John  W. 

Keller,  Lewis 

Seymour 

Broomfield,  Thos.  E. 

Fantes,  David  F. 

Kelly,  Wm.  J. 

Spelman 

Brundy  John  S. 

Fuer,  Andrew 

Lockridge,  Jas.  S. 

Stephens 

Batterton,  John  Y. 

Green,  Wm.  J. 

Long,  Matthew 

Spelman 

Clinton,  Samuel 

Gyer,  Henry  P. 

Manahen,  Michael 

Seymoui 

Cross,  S.  F. 

Gordon,  Hiram 

Patterson,  Mason  W. 

Seymoui 

Croswhite,  John  F. 

Gordon,  Robert 

Patton,  J  no.  M. 

Seymoui 

Chalmers,  Goldsmitl 

1    Gray,  Henry  S. 

Palmer,  Thos. 

Taylor, 

Carpenter,  Edward 

Hill  hurt,  Hosea 

Palmer,  Jas.  D. 

Tucker. 

Croswhite,  Wm.  P. 

Harbins,  John  D. 

Redmon,  Jno.T. 

Usry,  J( 

Clark,  John  J. 

Haves,  James  P. 

Roberts,  John  W. 

Wadkini 

Cain,  Amon 

Harris,  James  L. 

Roth  rock,  Lazarus  S. 

Wilkins, 

Croswhite,  Jacob 

Hoi  man,  Henry 

Rowland,  Wm.  C. 

White,  ( 

Carney,  Michael 

Hawkins,  John 

Riggs,  Zadock  T. 

H  ALLSVILLE  —  16. 

Austin,  J.  M. 

Brown,  John  R. 

Kent,  0.  S. 

Moody,  . 

Angel,  Jlobt 

Brown,  Edward 

Kent,  Carlos 

Tucker. 

Ay  res,  Nath. 

Dunn,  W.  H. 

Masterson,  S.  S. 

Varnon, 

Austin,  Stephens 

Haggard,  Alvin  J. 

Masterson,  C.  M. 

Stewart, 

ROCHEPORT  —  26. 

Acton,  Aaron 

Boggs,  Thomas  J. 

Grindstaff,  Sol. 

Slade,  Y 

Boggs,  Wm. 

Bowen,  Thos.  H. 

Grossman,  L. 

Sampsoi 

Bistield,  Thos.  A. 

Crawford,  John 

Gentry,  J.  C. 

Waddle, 

Boggs,  Christie 

Daley,  Jas. 

Hultz,  M.J. 

Tumy.  I 

Boggs,  Chas  M. 

Daley,  Thos.  A. 

Harris,  F.  G. 

White,  i 

Burroughs,  Levi 

Deitrich,  Aug. 

Mooth,  Henry  C. 

Henley, 

Boggs,  Jas. 

HI8TOBT   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


499 


inold,  James,  Jr. 

Beffiogton,  Thos. 

Boffio^n,  Pierce. 

Bledsoe,  Abraham 

Bledsoe,  Leroy 

Botler,  Wm. 
fiiddle,  Jacob. 
Boqui  Wm.  P. 
Clough,  Lewis  £. 
Clough,  Herman  E. 
Chitterton,  Horatio 
Ewing,  C.  P. 
EUis,  Peter  F. 


Acton,  Harrison 
Blackburn,  R.  J. 
Bennett,  Wm.  B. 
Brown,  Hezekiah 
Brown,  John  W. 
Bennett,  Jeremiah 
Bljthe,  John 
Betrce,Eli 
Brown,  Geo.  W. 
Brown,  Hiram 
Cbue,  Nathan 
Goodwin,  Walter 
Qoodwin,  James 
GrindsUff,  Wm. 


CLATSYILLB  —  61. 

Foster,  Wm.  Kilpatrick,  Greenb*y 

Gilmore,  Samuel  S.  Kemp,  John  G. 

Gleeson,  John.  Legate,  Otis. 

Graham,  Solomon  J.  Legate,  H.  M. 

Hunt,  Joshua  Madden,  John  G. 

Hover,  Jonathan  Madden,  Wm. 

Henshaw,  Amos  R.  Matthews,  Franklin 


Henshaw,  Able. 
Hickman,  Jas.  S. 
Hudinger,  Jacoh 
Hilbum,  Jas.  H. 
Hickam,  Geo.  H. 
Jones,  Wm.  M. 


Madden,  Jacob  Jr. 
McClenn,  John. 
Perkins,  John 
Perkins,  Windall 
Risk,  Wm. 
Rader,  Reuben 


Small  wood,  Jas. 
Sappington,  K  G. 
Sapp  Noah. 
Sapp,  John  H. 
Smallwood,  Irvin 
Tuck,  Finis 
Webber,  Nicholas 
"Waters,  Jas.  M. 
Waters,  John  H. 
Westhrook,  Edwin 
Zumalt,  Joseph 
Zumalt,  David 


ABHLAND  —  58. 


Goodwin,  John 
Goodwin,  P.  J. 
Hardin,  Rufus  T.  "~ 
Huttinger,  Arnold 
Hazle,  Randolph 
Haggard,  Ghas.  E. 
Haden,  Jeptha 
Haden,  Francis 
Johnson,  John  M. 
Johnson,  Wm.  T. 
Johnson,  Geo.  W. 
Johnson,  J.  B. 
Johnson,  James  R. 


Johnson,  James 
Little,  A.  J.  H. 
Little,  Wm. 
Little,  Geo.  W. 
Little,  John  H. 
Little,  Nathaniel 
Monaghan,  John 
Nolan,  Simeon 
Noakes,  John 
Nichols,  P.  E. 
Nichols,  Eli. 
Nichols,  Wm.  A. 
Perkins,  David  W. 


Peake,  Reuben  B. 
Pauley,  James  W. 
Russell,  Wm.  H. 
Ridwell,  G.  B. 
Rollins,  Henry 
Riley,  Lawrence 
Sargeant,  G.  W. 
Shelnutt,  Lewis 
Sharp,  Milton 
Shultz,  Geo. 
Shelnutt,  John  G. 
Stewart,  James  L. 
Vandiver,  Carlton  D. 


THE  LOUISIANA  AND  MISSOURI    RIVER    RAILROAD  —  ELECTIONS   ORDERED 

BY   THE    COUNTY    COURT. 

On  December  8,  1868,  a  petition  was  presented  to  the  County 
Court  from  a  number  of  tax-payers  in  Rockyfork  township,  asking  the 
court  to  order  an  election  in  that  township  to  ascertain  the  will  of 
the  qualified  voters  in  regard  to  the  proposition  to  subscribe  $25,000 
to  the  capital  stock  of  the  Louisiana  and  Missouri  River  Railroad. 
The  court,  after  consideration,  complied  with  the  prayer  of  the  pe- 
tition, and  ordered  the  election  to  be  held  on  Wednesday,  January 
27,  1869. 

A  similar  petition  was  presented  from  a  number  of  tax-payers  of 
Perche  township,  asking  an  election  on  a  proposition  for  that  town- 
ship to  subscribe  $25,000  to  the  same  road.  The  court  ordered  an 
election  on  the  matter,  to  be  held  on  Tuesday,  January  26,  1869. 

Still  another  petition  was  presented  from  tax-payers  in  Missouri 
township,  asking  an  election  in  their  township,   on  a  proposition  to 


500  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

subscribe  $65,000  for  the  extension  of  the  Boone  County  Railroac 
a  point  on  the  north  side  of  the  river,  opposite  Boonville.  ' 
court  also  complied  with  this  petition,  and  set  Tuesday,  January 
1869,  as  the  day  on  which  the  election  should  be  held. 

Judge  Lackland,  of  Mexico,  was  present  and  addressed  the  courl 
the  interest  of  the  Louisiana  and  Missouri  River  Railroad.  D. 
Hickman  and  Gen.  O.  Guitar  addressed  the  court  in  behalf 
the  proposition  looking  to  the  extension  of  the  Boone  Cou 
Railroad.  There  was  no  opposing  interest  to  either  road  before 
court. 

As  has  been  seen  by  the  foregoing  list  of  accepted  voters  there  \^ 
only  thirty-seven  in  Missouri  township  qualified  to  vote  on  the  pre 
sition  to  subscribe  $65,000  to  extend  the  Boone  County  Railroad, 
Rocheport,  to  a  point  on  the  river  opposite  Boonville,  the  r 
thence  to  be  continued  to  Arrow  Rock,  etc.  As  the  mass  of 
tax-payers  in  this  township  were  disfranchised,  it  would  have  b 
manifestly  unjust  for  the  thirty-seven  registered  voters  to  de( 
whether  or  not  the  township  should  be  taxed  to  the  amount  of  $65, 
to  aid  in  the  construction  of  thfe  proposed  road. 

A  remedy  was  proposed,  to  avoid  injustice  being  done  in  this  y9 
A  separate  poll  for  the  disfranchised  tax-payers  was  opened,  and  t 
were  permitted  to  vote ;  and  it  was  understood  that  if  a  majority 
these  was  not  in  favor  of  the  road,  the  County  Court  would  not  m 
the  appropriation,'  and  this  mode  of  raising  the  money  was  to 
abandoned.  If  two-thirds  of  the  legally  qualified  voters  did  notv 
for  the  appropriation  it  could  not  legally  be  made,  and  of  coui 
would  not  have  been,  though  a  majority  of  the  disfranchised  citiz 
voted  for  it. 

THE    RAILROAD    ELECTION    IN    MISSOURI   TOWNSHIP. 

1869.  —  On  January  12,  1869,  pursuant  to  the  order  of  theCoui 
Court,  an  election  was  held  in  Missouri  township,  upon  the  pro; 
sition  to  subscribe  $65,000  towards  extending  the  Columbia  Brai 
of  the  North  Missouri  Railroad,  which  resulted  as  follows  :  — 

ROCHKPORT. 

Votes,  r«. 

Legal 36 

Disfranchised 181 

Totals 227 

Majority  for  appropriation 


BISTORT  OP  BOONE  COUNTY.  501 

strawh's. 

Legtl 4  6 

Dofrtoehiied. —  44 

Totils « ~ 4  49 

Majority  igunit  appropriation  at  Strawn's 46 

Total  legal  vote— Yes 40;    No 8 

Majority  of  the  legal  votes,  32,  which  was  more  than  two-thirds,  the 
number  necessary  to  carry  the  appropriation. 

RAILROAD   ELECTION   IN   COLUMBIA   TOWNSHIP. 

The  proposition  for  Columbia  township  to  subscribe  $60,000  to  the 
extension  of  our  railroad  west  to  Boonville,  via  Rocheport,  thence  to 
Arrow  Bock,  to  be  continued  to  Marshall,  Lexington  and  Kansas 
City,  was  carried  on  Tuesday,  February  9,  1869,  by  an  immense 
majority  of  both  legal  and  disqualified  voters.  The  vote  stood  as 
follows :  — 

QUALIFIBD  yOTXBS. 

Forthepropoeition i * 54 

AguBstthe  proposition S 

JUHoi'iiy  lor •■*.••.•...•••  ..........  • . . ...a............ •  •  •  .•••*..••.•.....•....« •  •  •  M....M..................................*...*......    " ' 

DISQUALDTIKD  VOTERS. 

lor  the  proposition .« » 204 

AgBimtthe  proposition 46 

Minority  for ....»........:...... ».... 158 

RAILROAD   ELECTIONS   IN   PERCHE    AND   ROCKY   FORK    TOWNSHIPS. 

The  former  was  held  January  26,  and  the  latter  January  27,  1869, 
on  propositions  respectively  to  subscribe  $25,000  in  eight  per  cent 
twenty  year  bonds  to  the  capital  stock  of  the  Louisiana  and  Missouri 
Biver  Railroad  on  condition  of  its  location  through  said  townships, 
the  vote  being :  — 

IN  PEBCHS  TOWNSHIP. 

Whole  number  of  qualified  voters  only 17 

Forthe  bonds la 

Agsiost  the  bonds none 

IN  ROCKY  FOBK  TOWNSHIP. 

Wholenumberof  qualified  voters , 16- 

l^or  the  bonds 7 

^Mt  the  bonds none 

A  remarkably  small  vote  and  a  remarkably  small  number  of  voters 
mtwo  entire  townships  of  a  populous  county  to  decide  such  a  ques- 
tion!   But  they  did  decide  it  according  to  the  forms  of   law,  and 


502  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

on  their  decision  the  bonds  were  issued,  delivered  to  the  railroad  com- 
pany and  sold  by  them. 

^  Previously,  however,  the  railroad  company  located  its  road  from 
Mexico  via  Hallsville  and  Harrisburg,  through  the  townships  named 
to  Fayette,  in  Howard  county,  and  proceeded  to  grade  and  bridge  the 
track,  but  the  road  was  never  completed,  and,  perhaps  never  will  be. 

Nevertheless,  the  bonds  of  the  townships  were  in  the  hands  of  inno- 
cent purchasers  who  had  paid  their  money  for  them  ;  but  this  fact  did 
not  prevent  the  tax-payers  from  being  very  reluctant  to  pay  them,  for 
they  had  received  no  consideration  in  return  except  the  inconvenience 
and  damage  which  an  abandoned  railroad  track,  with  its  cuts  and  fills, 
-entailed  upon  the  county. 

The  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  in  the  case  of  G.  W. 
Hartman,  plaintiff  in  error,  vs.  Bates  county,  Missouri,  having  decided 
■similar  bonds  to  those  authorized  by  Perche  and  Rocky  Fork  to  be 
null  and  void,  the  people  of  those  townships,  at  the  June  term,  1876, 
of  the  Boone  County  Court,  petitioned  the  court  to  make  an  order  re- 
straining the  tax  levy  on  them  for  the  payment  of  either  interest  or 
principal  of  the  bonds,  and  the  court  agreed  to  do  so  as  soon  as  the 
citizens  of  each  township  filed  a  bond  of  $10,000,  and  deposited  with  the 
county  treasurer  $500  in  cash,  to  indemnify  the  county  against  aoy 
loss  or  expense  which  might  accrue  in  consequence  of  said  order.  Tlie 
conditions  were  promptly  complied  with  and  the  restraining  order  sirBS 
made. 

In  the  course  of  time,  however,  the  courts.  State  and  Federal,  ren- 
dered adverse  decisions  to  the  one  above  mentioned,  and  suit  was 
stituted  against  the  townships  by  the  holders  of  the  bonds,  Henry 
Cnnninghani,  of   St.   Louis,  being   the  attorney  for  the  township^^* 
Passing  over  the  intermediate  history  and  coming  to  the  final  resul  t., 
suffice  it  to  say  that  in   1880  a  compromise  was  made  between  t 
bondholders  and  the  tax-payers  on  the  basis  of  662/3  cents  on  the  d( 
lar,  by  which  each  township  made  some  $12,000,  and  at  elections 
in  Rocky  Fork  on  April  13,  1880,  and  in  Perche  on  May  25,  1880 
a  constitutional  majority  was  secured  in  favor  of  the  compromise  ai 
funding  the  bonds  at  6  per  cent,  as  follows  :  Rocky  Fork,  yeas,  16i 
nays,  12.     Perche,  yeas,  78  ;  nays,  14. 


HI8TOBT  OF  BOONE  COUNTT. 


508 


CHAPTEK    XIII. 


FROM  1870  TO  1882. 

Vekhodiit  Oooferanoe^BegistnitioD  of  1870— Public  Meetings  in  Honor  of  Qen.  K  E. 
Lm— Railroad  Meetings  in  Ashland  —  Cedar  Township  Kallroad  Vote  —  Boone  County 
Regiitran — Decoration  Day  at  Centralia — Political  —  The  Passive  Policy  Indorsed  — 
Piesbyterian  Synod  —  Sale  of  the  Boone  County  Railroad  —  The  Lost  Found  —  The 
Detd  Alive— Stock  Law  Election  —  Columbia  and  Bock  Bridge  Gravel  Boad— The 
Centsnnial  Year — Evidences  of  Patriotism  —  Martha  Washington  Reception  at  Colum- 
bia—Foarth  of  July  at  Ashland  —  Census  of  Boone  County  of  1876 — Election  to  Refund 
Gotmtj  Bonds  —  A  Temperance  Wave  —  The  Blue  Ribbon  Movement  —  Missouri  State 
Grange— State  Convention  of  Colored  Teachers — Fire  in  Columbia  —  Missouri  Medi- 
cal and  Press  Associations  —  Grand  Lodge  of  Good  Templars — Death  of  President  Gar- 
Held— Public  Honors  Paid  to  His  Memory  —  Sad  Accident  on  Thanksgiving  Day. 

SLKCTION  BBTURNS  FROM  1870  TO   1882. 

*  Those  thus  marked  were  elected. 


nibrioir  fob  qovirkor,  1870. 

*B.  Gratz  Brown  (Liberal) 1,893 

Joieph  W.  McClurg  (Republican) 667 

Brown's  majority  over  McClurg 726 

coNSTmrrioirAL  ambndmekts. 

Na  1  — .  Abolislyng  District  Courts : 

Yeas 2,063 

^tys 22 

^jority 2,041 

^•2*-Abolishing  oath  of  loyalty  for  jurors  : 

^eaa 1,994 

^ays 


^jority. 


98 
.1,896 


*  S. — Abolishing  double  liability  of  stock- 
holders in  private  corporations : 

f  «as 2,023 

^ays 56 

^jority : 1,968 

*•  4. — Abolishing  oath  of  loyalty  for  voters : 

X'eas 1^61 

Nays 134 

Majority 1,823 


No.  6.  —  Abolishing  certain  disqualifications 
to  hold  office  on  account  of  race,  color,  or 
previous  condition  of  servitude,  and  on 
account  of  former  acts  of  disloyalty: 

Yeas 2,086 

Nays 65 

Majority 1,971 

No.  6.  —  In  relation  to  education,  prohibit- 
ing  the  General  Assembly,  counties,  cities* 
towns,  townships,  school  districts,  or  other 
municipal  corporations  from  making  ap- 
propriations in  aid  of  any  creed,  church, 
or  sectarian  school : 


Yeas 
Nays. 


2,008 
.     64 


Majority 1,944 

FOB  SUPREME  JITDOB. 

*David  Wagner  (no  opposition) 2,045 

CONGRESS. 

♦Andrew King...l,321  I  D.  P.  Dyer 90 

E.  Draper. 551  I  

King's  majority  over  both 681 


504 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


XLECTlON  RBTURNB  —  Continued. 


BSPBESENTATIYX  IN   LBOI8LAT17BE  —  FIRST 

DISTRICrr. 

O. W. Mastewon   281    *A. G.Newman   517 

T.  B.  Gentry. 877  

Newman's  majority  over  Masterson.^    286 
Over  Gentry 140 

RKPRESEITTATIVE  —  8BC0KD  DISTRICT. 

«John  L.  Bass....    683  I  H.  0.  Mooth....    234 

James  Goodwin.    108  I  

Bass*  majority  over  both 296 

CIRCiriT  CLERK. 

♦J.  M.  Samuel...l,269  [  J.  T.  M.  John- 

I     ston... 859 

Samuel's  majority 410 

couKTY  clbre:. 


*H.  N.  Cook 854 

J.  W.  Daley 76 

J.  T.  Harris......    176 


J.  P.  Homer.....  569 
W.  H.  Gilman...  122 
P.  Bentlay 298 

SHERIFF. 

♦J.  C.  Orr 1,020  I  J.  C.  Gillaspie..    802 

A.  B.  Bumam...    811  I  Perry  C.  Jeffrey      19 

COUNTY  TREASURER. 

*RB.  Price 1,569  |  L.  Hume 589 


Price's  majority „1,030 

ASSESSOR. 


*J.  A.  Hender- 
son  1,077 


Jas.  Lampton...    552 
\V.  W.  Lam  me    516 

SUPERVISOR  OF   REGISTRATION. 

Taylor  (no  opposition) 925 

COUNTY  COURT  JUDGE. 

J.  W.  Hall 279  I  *David  Gordon.    951 

*J.  Y.  Batterton    808  I  James  Long......      77 

CORONER. 

*J.H.Cozine...„    910  |  John  Campbell    713 
Cozine's  majority 197 

COUNTY  SCHOOL  SUPERINTENDENT. 

*W.W.  Batter-  I  W.  W.  Todd....    881 

ton 1,212  I  

Batterton's  majority 381 

NOVEMBER,  1872. 

FOR   PRESIDENT. 

Horace  Greeley  3,199  |.*U.  S.Grant 998 

Charles  O'Conor    18  I 

FOR  GOVERNOR. 

V  

♦Silas  Woodson  I  John  B.    Hen- 

(D.) 8,318  I      derson  (R)....     988 


FOR  CONGRESS. 

♦John  B.  Clark,            i  M.  L.  DeMotte 
Jr.(D.) 8,297  |      (R.) 9?7 

FOR  STATE  SENATE. 

*C.  H.  Hardin  (D. —  no  opposition).....  8,816 

FOR   REPRESENT ATIYE. 

E.  C.  More(D.)  1,954  I  ♦Squire  Turner 

Phineas     R  I      (D.) »2,ltt 

McBride  p.)       17  1 

COUNTY  COURT  JUDGE. 

♦John  Y.  Batterton  (no  opposition).....  3,846 

PROBATE  JUDGE. 

Stephen  Bed-  i  ♦John  Hinton.. 2.158 

ford 1,130  I  H.  N.  Cook......   976 

COLLECTOR. 

H.  C.  Keene  ...  1,924  |  ♦R.  H.  Smith...  2,842 

SHERIFF. 

M.  G.  Coriew..  1,717  |  ♦  J.  C.  Gillaspy- 2,686 

TREASURER. 

♦R.  B.  Price 3,041  |  J.  S.  Clarlyon- 1,270 

PUBLIC  ADMINISTRATOR. 

H.  C.  Pierce....  1,795  |  ♦A.  H.  Conley- 2,429 

SUPERINTENDENT  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

H.  M.  Cheavens  1,551  I  ♦Harvey  Hulen  1,618 
W.  S.  Pratt.....     900  I 

SURVEYOR. 

♦M.  G.  Quinn..  3.186  |  W.  W.  Beazley  1,011 

ASSESSOR. 

♦T.  B.  Searcy..  1,775  l  Jas.  Lampton.- 1,409 
W.  H.  Jacobs ..  1,080  | 

/        PROSECUTING  ATTORNEY. 

♦Wellington            i  J.  De  W.  Rob- 
Gordon  2,152  I      inson -  h 

CORONER. 

♦D.  E.  Daugher-           I  Dudley  Hamil 
ty .2,087  I      ton 

CONSTITUTIONAL    AMENDMENTS. 

/Yes 3,516  I  ^^    f Yes. 


860 


1st 


I  No. 


362  I  iNo 

NOVEMBER,  1874. 

OOYERNOR. 

♦C.  H.  Hardin  Wm.     Gentry, 


8,587 
324 


(D.) 8,103        People's ^ 


LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 

♦N.  J.  Colman  I  S.  W.  Headlee, 


D 3,007  I      People's 


771 


HI8TOBY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 


505 


XLSonoK  BXTUBNS  —  OonHnuetL 


OONOSS88. 

'JobnB.  Clark,  Jr.(I).)  (no  opposition)  8,870 

BTATE  SSKATOB. 

*D.E  Mclntyre  D.  (no  opposition)....  8,871 

CIBCUIT  JITDOE. 

•6.EBurckharU  (no  opposition) 8,886 

OONyBMTIOir. 

Im. — 2,872  I  No « 1,069 

COKSTITUnOKAL  AMXNDMSMT. 

Yet -  8,289  |  No 404 


•W.KWilhite  i  C.  H.  Gordon 

(D.) ^  2,844  I     (Ind.  D.)-....  1,640 

COUKTT  OOUBT  JUDGE. 

*ET.  Wright,  I  M.  D.  Cook 1,026 

W - ...  2,646  I  W.  T.  Beybum     141 

OOUIITT  COLLBOTOB. 

*EliHoag8(D.)  2,611  I  C.  T.  Worley.  1,104 

00171ITT  ASBtBSOB. 

*T.  Benton  i  A.  L. Scott 484 

Stticy  (D.)...  2,668  |  Jas.  Lampton...     829 

FUBUC  ADimriBTBATOB. 

•Stephen  Bed-  i  J.  M.  Boswell.«     910 

fold  (D.) 2,772  I 

ClRCftfrr  CLBBK. 

*W.W.  Garth,  I  N.  W.  Wilson..     988 

p.) 2,987  I 


OOXTNTt  CLBBK. 

*W.W.Batter- 


Wm.  T.  Hick- 
man  

H.  N.  Cook 


426 
645 

878 


ton  (D.) I,66t8 

^.  A.  Woodson  1,188 

8HBBIFF. 

*Jm.  C.  Gillas-  I  C.  T.  Worley 

Py.  (D.) ^  8,605  I 

COUKTT  TBBASUBBB. 

^B.  Price,  (D.)  (no  opposition)... 8,868 

PROBBCDTIKO  ATTOBNBY. 

^  C.  Douglass,  (D.)  (no  opposition)...  8,806 

COUHTT   COBOKBB. 

J"^P.) 1,977    W.K.  Sturgeon    446 

^^  Wsller...     128 

Jof  jicetuing  dogs ^ 1,091 

*8*jn*t  licensing  dogs 2,082 

|«*"»t  township  organization „  2,437 

®' township  organization 628 


ELECTION  NOVEMBER,  1876. 

For  the  new  constitution „ 1,846 

Against  the  new  constitution ^     117 

Majority  for  constitution 1,729 

NOVEMBER,  1876. 

PBBSEDBNT. 

Samuel  J.  Tilden  (Dem.) 8,846 

^Rutherford  B.  Hayes  (Rep.) 1,181 

Peter  Cooper  (Greenback) 4 

GreeaClay  Smith  (Prohibition) »        4 

GOYBBNOB. 

*John  S.  Phelps  (D.) '. 8,698 

G.  A.  Finkelnburg  (R) 1,176 

LIBUT.  -OOVBBNOB. 

♦Henry  C.  Brockmeyer  (D.)^ 8,767 

Charles  C.  Allen  (R.) 1,176 

8BGBBTABT  OF  8TATB. 

♦Michael  K.McGrath  (D.) 8,846 

Eugene  F.  Weigel  (R.) 1,177 

STATB  TBBASUBBB. 

♦Eiyah  Gates  (D.) ^ 8,860 

John  Severance  (R.) 1,17& 

STATB  AUDITOB. 

♦Thomas  Holliday  (D.) 8,861 

Geo.  R.  Smith  (R.) 1,176 

ATTOBNBY-OBNBBAL. 

♦Jackson  L.  Smith  (D.) 8,86e 

Alex.  W.  Mullins  (R.) 1,176 

BBOISTBB   OF   LANDS. 

♦James  E.  McHenry  (D.) 8.856 

Richard  Drane  (K) 1,17^ 

JUDGES  SUPBEMB  COUBT. 

♦John  W.  Henry  (D.) 8,864 

David  Wagner  (R.) 1.176 

FOB  BAILBOAD  C0MMI88I0NEB. 

(For  six-year  term.) 

♦James  Harding  (D.) 8,827 

Thomas  R.  Allen  (R.) 1,178 

Franklin  Murphy  (Greenback) 

(For  fourry  ear-term.) 

♦J.  S.  Marmaduke  (D.) 3,816 

Edmund  D.  Harper  (R.) 1,17a 

W.  Hopkins  (Greenback) 

(For  two-year  term.) 

♦John  Walker  (D.) 8,819 

Isaac  Hayes  (R.) 1,178 

Marvin  R  Banks  (Greenback) 8 


HIBTORT  OF  BOOME  CODNTT. 
■LECTION  RBTiTRira  —  Oontimt«d. 


•John  B.  aark,  Jr.  (D.) _ 8,809 

*M.  L.  DeMotte  (B.) 1,161 

•John  A.  Flood   D.  no  op.) 8.886 

■BPBESKNTATlVi;. 

•W.  E.  WilhiW  {D.  no  op.) 8,T10 

I'Ol-KTY    FOURT  jnDO«. 

•U«vid  Pipes  <D.  no  op.). 8,804 


•John  Hinton  (D.  n. 


p.).... 


^4,000 


C01.L«CTOB. 

Eli  Hodge  (D.  nom.) 2.167 

•J.  C.  Gillaspy  (D.  ind.) „ 3,622 

C.  T.  Worley  (D.  ind.) 76 


Joaiah  W.  Stone  (U.nom.) 2,830 

•James  C,  Orr  (D.  ind.) 2,450 

C.  T.  Worley  (I>.  ind.) 81 


•B.  B.  Price  (D.  nom.) 2,226 

J.  M.  Samuel  (I).  Ind.) „  2.609 


tt'm.  W.  Beazley  '  (D.  nora.) 2.491 

George  E.  Flood  (D.  ind.) 2,036 

AHSSSBOH. 

•T.  B.  Searcy  (D.  no  op.) 4,040 


..  8,922 


•S.  C.  Douglass  (D.  no  op.)... 


•Sherwood  Harris  (D.  nom.) 2,415 

Kobert  F  NuiiU.v  [D.  iiiJ.) 1,716 

JCSOE  OF  SUPRKHE  COURT. 

•E.  H.  Norton  (D.) 4,095 

A.  F.  Denny  (R) 772 

A,  L.  GiUtrap  (C.  b _       29 

STiTB  SUPKRWTENliBWT  Of  BCHOOLS. 

•B.  D    Shannon  (D.J 4.080 

Roderick  Baldwin   ll.) 708 

E.  K.  Uoolh^G.  B.) _       48 

AKQIAtKb  of  lands. 

•J.  E.  MoUenry  (!) 4,075 

W.  N.  N-.rville  IK.) 762 

A.  W.  St.  John  (G.  B.) 47 

'  Not  a  oandldale. 


KAILKOAD  COHKISSIONXB. 

•A.  M.  BeTier{D.) _ 2,m 

John  "Walker '  (D.) _ _  1,7« 

J.  P.  Tr.cy(B.) TH 

Ivert  Uaydon  (G.  B.).      — I 


f  re.... 


Poll  tax  sohool  purpotei..  i  i"* .2 

•JohnB.  Clark,  Jr.  (D.),  no  opp. 4,1H 

•J.  A.  nockndny  <!).).  no  opp...- iX 

Wellington  Gordon  (D.) IM 

"J.  W   KneU!oy{D.) VM 

G.  W  RigginB<D.l _ 6B 

J.  S.  Rtvelle  {O.  B -    '<»  ■ 

PBOSBCrTISO  ATTOWrtT. 

*S.  C.  Douglass  (D.)  _  i»8 

Jv  De  W    Robinson  (D,).  l.Jtt 

I  F.  F.  C.Trip!elt(r>.  » 

I'lHCriT  I'OUBT  CLIBX. 

•W.  W.Qarth(D.) 41M 

J.  A.  Woodson  (U.) : U14 

COUHTT  COUBT   OLERK. 

•W.  W.  Battarion  (D.) „ SJM 

F.  B.  Young  (D.)..  IT! 

H.  N.Cook    II.  Tn 

•John  M,  Samuel  (D.),  no  opp tW 

BBBBtFF. 

J.  C.  Orr  (D.) l,«ll 

•J.  W.  Stone  (D.) 4*'! 

COLLKCTOH. 

•J.  C.  Gillaspy  (D.) S,I» 

W.  R  Jackson  (D.) - l.W 


M.  G.  Corlew(D.)..... 

I  J.  L.  Henry  (D.) 

I  •!!.  G.  (iuinn  (D.)  .. 
1  E,S.  Sturgeon  (D.)... 
Ice.  Torbitt(I) 

B.  L.  Withers  (D.). 
PRKsiDWa  itjaa 

J.  A.  Boulton(D,).... 

•David  Pipes  (D.).... 

John  VanhornfR.).,. 


.,  1,1M 


1.966 


HISTOBT   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 


■UCTIOH  KSTVKSB  — Continued. 


TT  JVOaW  —  ».  MiTRIOT. 

1  (D.) 668 

f  (D.) - MS 

(D.)...  184 

»rt.<D.) T29 

rt-(D.)...  ^24 

TT  JITSOB        fl.   DIBTBICT. 

Bantxn  (G.  B.) 122 

(D.)                            MI 

mfD.)...                     681 

n  (D.) 846 

lanahiD  (D.) 616 

COBOHXK. 

ID  (D.) - 4.111 

krrU(D.)  217 

NDCCQ  rOOMTY  BOMDB. 

{Ym         4  067 
No..'..~.'    '468 

MOVEMBEIl,  1880. 

FttBSIDBHT. 

>ck{D.) 8,269 

ild(R.) 1,1V0 

r  (Q.) 41S 


.Jr  (D-) 

ing  («-) 

OOVIRHOK. 

tnden  (I'l 

"  (B.) 

(G.) 


.bell  (D.) 3,259 

t.) 1,107 


ralh  (D.) 3,2'i2 

elKR 1,167 

.nes(0.)  432  I 


'r(D.) 

Mon  (K.)... 
rkii(G.l... 


«ll  (D.). 


trre(D.) 3,279 

■g(R-) LlfiS 

dley  (G.) 42.'-> 


LAKDB. 

•Hobsrt  McCulloch  (D.) 

G.  B.  Heronden  (R.) 

J.  A.  Maltinee  (G.) 

bupreMB  Jt'DOB. 

•Robert  D.  Ray  1)J. 
'  J.V.  C.  Kirne8{R.). 
'  Peter  E.  Bland  (G.).. 


•OBorgeC.  Pnitt(I>, 
H.  BRrnei  (col'd  R,| 
J.  B.  Alexander  (U  y 

•J.  L.  Stephens  (D.)..., 
1  J.  8.  RoBelle  {G.}... 


*G.  H.Burckhartt(D.]... 
W.A.  Martin  (D.). 


'  'J.  W.  lii.eialey  [T).) 

W.  J.  Booth  (B.) 

S.  B.  Hatton  {L  D.)  

iiMlsTT  JUMK       N.  DIBTKIOT. 
•Wm.  F   Ifcberla  (D.) 

COUNTr  JUBOR        S.  DiaTRLtT. 

«W.  P.  Tuttle  (D.) 

J.  H.  McGhee^I.  D, 

I'RO.^^Itet'TINO  ATTORWKV. 

•J.  Db  W.  llobiDi-on  (D.)         

IXILLBCTOR. 

•Jamea  C.  Orr  (D.) 

Eli  Hodge  (I.  D.) _ 


•John  M.  Samuel  (D.). 
•John  Hinton  (D.)... 
•Jos.  W.  Stone  (D.}. 


.  1,619 
.  2,906 


'i  "M.  G.  Quinn  (D.) 

|i  J.  P.  Kennard(I.  D.)... 


*Wm.  J.  llHbb  (D. 
•W.E.  Wright  (D.). 


.  3,878 
..  3.750 


•CharlBB  Y.  Trici.  <[>. 

J.  H.  Hickam  (L  D.) 

Frank  M.  Miller  (R.) 

Total  vote  polled,  4,895. 


508  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

1870.  —  The  excitement  and  ill-feeling  consequent  upon  the  strinj 
registration  of  1868  did  not  pass  away  with  the  election,  for  the  gr 
jury  in  Boone  county  in  January,  1870,  indicted  Lewis  O.  Clough, 
of  the  registrars,  for  the  refusal  and  failure  of  himself  and  the  ot 
registrars  to  register  A.J.  Harbison,  Monroe  Bateman,  Eli  Mars,  s 
perhaps  others,  as  accepted  voters,  and  on  Saturday,  January  8, 18 
he  was  arrested  at  his  home  in  Claysville  by  Deputy  Sheriff  Her 
Keene. 

On  his  arrival  here  Clough  was  discharged  on  $1,600  bail,  alar 
number  of  citizens  going  on  his  bond,  Clough  obtained  a  change 
venue  to  ^— -  county,  where  after  continuances  the  case  was  final 
aismissed. 

The  Missouri  annual  conference  of  the  M.  E.  Church  South  held  i 
annual  meeting  in  Columbia  commencing  on  September  14,  187 
Bishops  McTyeire  and  Marvin  were  present,  the  former  presidii 
most  of  the  time.  Revs.  John  D.  Vincil,  J.  H.  Pritchett  and  H.  i 
Bourlaud  were  secretaries.  The  conference  numbered  132  meinbei 
clerical  and  lay  —  30  of  the  latter.  Some  300  persons  were  in  a 
tendance  and  were  provided  with  homes  during  the  conference  by  tl 
people  of  the  town  and  vicinity. 

REGISTRATION    OF    1870. 

This  was  the  last  registration  of  voters  made  in  the  county,  a 
companied  by  the  test  oath,  as  at  the  election  that  year  a  constit 
tional  amendment  was  adopted  abolishing  the  oath.  It  was  cc 
ducted  by  Lewis  M.  Switzler,  supervisor  of  registration,  and  W 
H.  Allen,  John  B.  Allison  and  James  Madison  West,  registrai 
Total  number  of  white  accepted  voters,  1,968.  Colored,  600.  Tot 
2,568.     Total  number  rejected  in  the  county,  120. 

PUBLIC    MEETINGS    IN   HONOR   OF    GEN.  R.  E.  LEE. 

On  Saturday,  November  5,  1870,  the  audience  which  assembled 
the  Baptist  Church  in  Columbia  to  testify  their  appreciation  of  t 
character  of  Gen.  E.  E.  Lee,  was  worthy  of  the  occasion.  It  w 
composed  of  a  large  number  of  the  best  citizens  of  town  and  couni 
among  whom  were  many  ladies.  The  meeting  was  called  to  order 
Dr.  W.  H.  Duncan,  on  whose  motion  Prof.  Geo.  C.  Swallow  ^ 
called  to  preside ;  after  which  Edwin  W.  Stephens  and  Lewis  - 
Switzler  were  made  secretaries. 


HISTOBT  OF  BOONB  COUNTY.  509 

Gen.  Lee,  having  been  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Episcopal 
CShnrch,  the  meeting  was  opened  by  Rev.  Dr.  Jennings,  who   read 
&  portion  of  the  burial  service  of  that  church,  concluding  with  a  brief 
iDd  appropriate  prayer ;  after  which  the  orator  of  the  day,  Capt.  F.  F. 
CTriplett  was  introduced,  who  proceeded  to  deliver  a  very  chaste,  or- 
inte  and  elegant  address. 
Other  remarks  being  called  for,  Mr.  E.  W.  Stephens  delivered  an 
.    address,  concluding  by  the  introduction    of  the  following   resolu- 
tions:— 

Whxubab,  It  has  pleased  an  over^ruling  Providence  to  remove  ttom,  the  scene  of  his 
Ubon  Qen.  Bobert  E.  Lee,  late  oommander-in-chief  of  the  armies  of  the  Confederate 
StatM^  and  President  of  Washington  College,  Lexington,  Virginia,  thus  visiting  with  pain- 
ftil  boreavement  the  family  of  the  deceased  and  thousands  in  this  and  other  landsj  who  ad- 
ninsnd  reverence  his  life  and  character ;  and, 

WBiRKAa,  We  behold  in  the  career  of  Gen.  Lee  those  great  qualifies  of  mind  and  .heart 
iliieh^tioguiBhed  their  possessor,  with  the  virtues  of  skill,  temperance  and  courage  in  the 
iiflld;  wisdom  and  courtesy  in  the  council,  and  fortitude  and  dignity  in  defeat;  and, 

Weibxab,  We  find  in  him  a  character  without  ambition  as  a  citizen,  illumined  by  those 
tniti  of  Christian  excellence  which  commanded  the  admiration  of  even  his  adversaries  and 
^warmeit  esteem  and  affection  of  his  associates.    Therefore,  be  it 

Betolved,  That  while  we  bow  in  submission  to  this  visitation  of  Diving  Providence,  we 
neognize  in  the  death  of  Gen.  Lee,  the  loss  of  a  great  and  good  man,  of  a  brilliant  warrior, 
of  a  trae  and  unswerving  patriot,  devoted  at  all  times  to  what  he  conceived  to  be  the  wel- 
ftre  of  his  own  country,  a  distinguished  and  usefhl  citizen,  skilled  no  less  in  the  arts  of 
paiee  than  of  war,  and  that  the  cause  of  popular  culture  is  deprived  of  a  representative 
whose  iDfloence  will  be  felt  long  after  the  passions  of  the  present  shall  have  died  away  into 
history,  and  that  in  his  humility,  piety  and  Christian  devotion  he  has  left  a  model  fit  for 
imitation  through  all  succeeding  time. 

Ruolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  transmitted  to  the  family  of  the  deceased, 
tad  to  the  public  prints  of  this  city  for  publication. 

The  resolutions  were  seconded  by  W.  F.  Switzler,  in  a  few  remarks, 
and  they  were  passed  unanimously. 

LEE   MEETING   IN   ROCHEPORT. 

On  Saturday,  September  17,  1870,  a  large  number  of  people  of 
«^th  sexes  assembled  in  the  Christian  Church  in  Rocheport  to  do 
nonortothe  memory  of  Gen.  Robert  E.  Lee.  It  was  organized  by 
calling  Dr.  W.  J.  Roberts  to  the  chair  and  electing  J.  DeW.  Robin- 
^on  secretary.  The  proceedings  were  opened  by  prayer  by  Elder  N. 
fi-  Peeler,  after  which  J.  DeW.  Robinson  introduced  to  the  audience 
Gen.  John  B.  Clark,  Sr.,  the  orator  of  the  day,  who  proceeded  to  de- 
hver  a  very  appropriate,  feeling  and  temperate  oration  commemora- 
ttve  of  the  character  of  Gen.  Lee. 

Mr,  J.  DeW.  Robinson  being  called  for  by  the  audience,  made  a 


510  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

brief  address  and  introduced  the  following  resolutions,  which  were 
unanimously  adopted :  — 

Whbrbab,  Death  has  taken  from  us  Qen,  Robt.  E.  Lee,  a  man  whom  we  delighted  t» 
honor  while  living,  and  whose  memory  we  revere  and  cherish,  now  dead ;  and 

Whereas,  We  recognize  in  him  preeminently  the  qualities  of  skill,  courage  and  pradaoee 
in  the  field,  modesty  and  wisdom  in  council,  and  fortitude  and  dignity  in  defeat. 

Resolved,  Therefore,  that  the  whole  country  has  sustained  in  the  death  of  Gen.  Lee  lo 
irreparable  loss ;  that  he  was  as  perfect  a  character  as  the  American  Continent  ever  pro- 
duced—  a  good  man,  a  brilliant  warrior,  and  an  uncompromising  patriot:  in  a  word  he 
was  a  model  character,  worthy  to  be  imitated  in  all  coming  time. 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  transmitted  to  the  family  of  the  decesssi 
and  furnished  for  publication  to  the  Columbia,  Fayette  andBq^pville  papen. 

After  which,  calls  being  made  upon  them  by  the  audience,  remarb 
were  made  by  W.  F.  Switzler  and  E.  W.  Stephens.  Then  the  meet- 
ing adjourned. 

RAILROAD  MEETINGS  IN  ASHLAND. 

1871.  A  large  and  enthusiastic  meeting  of  the  citizens  of  Cedar 
township  assembled  in  Ashland  on  thp  18th  of  February,  1871,  for  the 
purpose  of  considering  the  feasibility  of  building  a  railroad  from  Co- 
lumbia to  Jefferson  City,  and  for  taking  such  action  on  the  subject  as 
the  meeting  might  deem  expedient. 

On  motion,  A.  G.  Payne,  Esq.,  was  called  to  the  chair  and  H.  C. 
Pierce  was  appointed  secretary. 

On  motion,  E.  M.  Bass,  J.  T.  M.  Johnston  and  Maj.  J.  S.  Strode 
were  appointed  a  committee  to  draft  resolutions  expressive  of  the 
sentiments  of  the  meeting. 

Whilst  the  committee  were  in  retirement  Wm.  F,  Switzler,  beiag 
called  upon,  addressed  the  meeting,  at  the  conclusion  of  which  th© 
committee  reported  the  following  resolutions,  which  were  unanimously 
adopted :  — 

1,  Resolvedj  That  it  is  for  the  benefit  of  the  township  and  county  that  a  railroad  be  btx^^ 
from  Columbia  to  Jefferson  City,  by  the  most  direct  and  practicable  route. 

2.  Resolved,  That  a  committee  consisting  of  thirteen  members,  to  wit:  W.  C.  Rickey,  ^ 
J.  Ruffner,  A.  G.  Payne,  Ev.  M.  Bass,  James  Harris,  Peter  Ellis,  A.  Tandy,  T.  B.  Hickm.^ 
James  L.  Stephens,  R.  B.  Price,  Alex.  Bradford,  W.  B.  Strode  and  Hiram  Smith  be  ^1 
pointed  to  inquire  into  the  cost  of  such  road,  to  ascertain  the  amount  of  subscription  wh.i^ 
can  be  obtained  for  it,  the  aid  which  the  Pacific  Railroad  will  grant  to  it,  to  urge  upon  "CJi 
citizens  of  Cedar  and  Columbia  townships  the  propriety  of  voting  a  township  subscripti^^ 
to  it,  and  that  this  committee  be  required  to  report  to  a  meeting  to  be  held  in  the  towrk  c 
Ashland  on  such  day  as  they  may  appoint  by  publication  in  the  Columbia  Statesman  ^Ja* 
Columbia  Herald. 

On  motion,  Wm.  F.  Switzler,  James  L.  Stephens  and  James  Harris 
were  appointed  a  committee  to  wait  on  the  Legislature  of  Missoun 
and  ascertain  what  aid  the  State  will  give  to  this  enterprise. 


HISTORY  OF  BOONB  COUNTT.  511 

Another  meeting  on  the  same  subject  was  held  in  Ashland  on  Sat- 
rday,  December  2,  1871,  of  which  Wm.  Vanausdal  was  made  pres- 
lent  and  Thos.  J.  Neal  secretary.  Resolntions  were  unanimously 
lisaed  cordially  endorsing  the  proposed  road,  and  recommending  that 
mbecriptions  be  made  by  the  citizens. 

The  meeting  was  addressed  by  Hon.  Arnold  Krekel,  Judge  of  the 
United  States  District  Couil  for  the  Western  District  of  Missouri  ^ 
Hon.  H.  Clay  Ewing,  and  Mr,  J.  E.  Belch,  all  of  Jefferson  City,  and 
Capt.  H.  C.  Pierce,  of  Columbia. 

Daring  the  session  of  the  County  Court  commencing  on  Monday, 
December  11,  1871,  a  petition,  signed  by  forty  citizens  of  Cedar  town- 
8iup,  was  presented  expressing  the  desire  to  take  stock  in  the  proposed 
railroad  from  Jefferson  City  to  Columbia,  through  Cedar  township,  to 
the  amount  of  $80,000  in  township  bonds,  payable  in  ten,  fifteen,  and 
twenty  years,  and  asking  the  court  to  make  an  order  for  a  special 
registration  and  election,  with  the  view  of  ascertaining  the  will  of  the 
people  in  the  premises  ;  whereupon  the  court  ordered  a  special  reg- 
istration, on  Tuesday,  December  26,  1871,  and  a  special  election  on 
Saturday,  January  6,  J872,  for  the  purpose  mentioned. 

Another  large  meeting  was  held  in  Ashland  on  Friday,  December 
15, 1871,  to  consider  the  question  of  the  railroad  —  John  L.Bass, 
president,  and  Eli  Penter,  secretary.  Speeches  were  made  in  favor 
of  the  enterprise  by  Judge  George  W.  Miller,  of  Jefferson  City; 
W.  F.  Switzler,  H.  C.  Pierce  and  J.  DeW.  Robinson,  of  Columbia, 
and  Judge  James  Harris. 

CEDAR   TOWNSHIP    RAILROAD    VOTE. 

Pursuant  to  the  order  of  the  court,  an  election  was  held  at  the  vot- 
ing precincts  in  that  township,  on  Saturday,  January  6,  1872,  on  the 
proposition  to  take  stock  in  the  proposed  railroad.  The  day  was  very 
^Id,  yet  quite  a  respectable  number  of  voters  were  at  the  polls,  the 
result  being  as  follows  :  — 

^XCDTCTS.  TX8.  NO. 

^hlind „ 866  82 

3l*yinlle 82  6 

^^dence. 10  91 

Totals 447         129 

Majority  for  the  bonds 818 

I^otilT«te  cast 676 

The  total  vote  in  favor  of  the  proposed    subscription  by  Cedar 


512  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

township   being  447,   and   384   being   two-thirds   of  the  whole 
(576)  cast,  the   proposition   carried   by  two-thirds  and    sixty-! 
over. 

Although  the  people  of  Cedar,  Columbia  and  Missouri  towns 
voted  the  bonds  asked  of  them  to  aid  in  the  construction  of  thi^ 
road,  it  was  never  built,  owing  chiefly  to  the  failure  of  Moniteau 
Franklin  townships,  in  Howard  County,  to  secofid  the  propositioi 

BOONE    COUNTY   REGISTRARS. 

A  new  and  far  more  liberal  registration  law  —  abolishing  the 
oath  —  having  been  passed  by  the  Legislature,  (approved  March 
1871,)  the  County  Court  of  Boone  County  appointed  the  following 

Registrars. — At  Sturgeon,  S.  F.  Cross;  at  Centralia,  J.  M.  West;  at  Hallsville,  "W 
Tucker;  at  Columbia,  L.  M.  Switzler;  at  Ashland,  A.  G.  Payne;  at  Claysville,  Josepl 
Jones;  at  Providence,  B.  F.  Orear;  at  Strawn's  S.  H.,  Dr.  John  A.  Yanlandinghftm 
Roeheport,  F.  Bentley ;  at  Rowland's  S.  H.,  H.  M.  Petty. 

DECORATION  DAY  AT  CENTRALIA. 

1872.— On  Thursday,  May  30,  1872,  the  graves  at  Centralia  of 
soldiers  of  the  39th  Reoriment  of  Missouri  Volunteer  Infantry,  kil 
in  action  with  the  command  of  Bill  Anderson,  on  September  27,18 
were  decorated  with  flowers,  amid  appropriate  ceremonies.  Dele 
tions  were  present  from  Mexico,  Macon  City,  Moberly  and  ot 
points. 

The  delegations  were  formally  received  by  the  citizens  of  Centra 
and  every  courtesy  and  attention  extended  to  them.  A  speech 
welcome  was  made  by  the  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  D. 
Flagg.  After  this  a  procession  was  formed  which  marched  to 
graves  of  the  soldiers.  Here  an  organization  was  made,  pra 
offered  by  Rev.  W.  F.  Clayton,  of  Moberly.  Music  by  the  Mobc 
Silver  Cornet  Band  followed,  after  which  an  opening  address  y 
made  bv  S.  P.  McCormick.  FoUowinor  this  came  the  decoration 
the  graves,  accompanied  with  solemn  music.  There  was  an  ana 
abundance  of  the  most  beautiful  flowers.  Dr.  A.  F.  Sneed,  of  C 
tralia,  detailed  the  incidents  and  particulars  of  the  battle  in  wh 
the  soldiers  fell.  Gen.  T.  J.  Jones,  Maj.  Clements,  of  Macon  Ci 
and  M.  F.   Simmons,  of  Mexico,  also  made  addresses. 

POLITICAL THE    PASSIVE    POLICY    ENDORSED. 

In  pursuance  of  a  call  by  the  chairman  of  the  Democratic  Coui 
Central  Committee,  the  Democracy  of   Boone  County  assembled 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  513 

convention  at  the  court  house  iu  Columbia,  on  Monday,  June  3,  1872, 
for  the  purpose  of  selecting  delegates  to  the  State  convention   to  be 
beld  at  Jefferson  City  on  June  12,  and  to  take  action  in  regard   to  the 
Presidential   campaign.     On  motion  of  Dr.  C.  Q.  Chandler,  member 
of  the  County  Central  Committee,  Judge  John  Y.  Batterton,  of  Stur- 
geon, was  made  president  of  the  convention,  and  E.  W.  Stephens,  of 
the  Columbia  Herald^  John  W.  Jacks,  of  the  Sturgeon  Leader^  F.  B. 
Bysfield,  of  the  Rocheport  Enterprisey  and  Lewis  M.  Switzler,  of  the 
Columbia  Statesman  were  made  secretaries.     Col.  Wm.  F.  Switzler 
introduced  the  following  resolutions  :  — 

BmUtd^  That  we  deem  it  inexpedient  for  the  Democratic  party  of  the  United  States  to 
mikt  iny  nominatioDB  for  the  Presidency  and  Vice- Presidency  at  the  Baltimore  convention. 

2.  That  in  expressing  our  decided  opposition  to  nominations  for  President  and  Vice- 
Prandent  by  the  Baltimore  convention,  we  at  the  same  time,  are  for  maintaining  the  or- 
gtnization  of  the  Democratic  part3%  intact  and  thorough,  in  Missouri  and  all  the  States  of 
the  Union. 

Capt.  F.  F.  C.  Triplett  offered  the  following  as  a  substitute :  — 

Raolved,  That  in  the  restoration  of  the  rights  of  the  States,  as  recognized  before  the  late 
eiTil  war,  and  the  restricting  of  the  general  government  to  its  constitutional  functions,  we 
lee  the  only  hope  of  the  recovery  of  liberty. 

2.  That  our  delegates  to  the  State  Democratic  convention  to  be  held^in  Jefferson  City 
OD  the  12th  of  June,  shall  go  untrammelled  by  instructions,  and  then,  in  our  opinion,  the 
delegates  to  the  convention  to  be  held  in  Baltimore  on  the  9th  of  July,  proximo,  should  be 
tqoally  free  to  consult  with  delegations  from  other  States,  and  to  act  on  their  best  judgment 
tt  formed  upon  such  consultation. 

After  some  discussion  H.  L.  Gray  moved  that  a  committee  of  one 
from  each  township  be  appointed  by  the  President  to  report  on  all 
resolutions  offered. 

Col.  W.  F.  Switzler,  Capt.  F.  F.  C.  Triplett,  A.  G.  Newman,  J. 
M.Barron,  Col.  J.  H.  Moss,  Squire  Turner,  J.  T.  Singleton,  J.  P. 
Homer  and  J.  I.  Hickman  made  remarks.  Mr.  Gray's  motion  was 
lost.    J.  DeW.  Robinson  offered  the  following  resolution  :  — 

Beiolved,  That  we,  the  Democracy  of  Boone  county,  in  convention  assembled,  deem  it 
inexpedient,  under  existing  circumstances,  that  the  National  Democratic  convention  when 
^Membled  nominate  candidates  for  President  and  Vice-President. 

2.  That  we  are  opposed  to  the  disbanding  of  the  Democratic  party,  and  will  never  con. 
sont  to  its  dissolution. 

3.  That  we  adhere  to  the  Democratic  doctrine  as  taught  by  Jefferson  and  Madison,  and 
ftre  uncompromisingly  opposed  to  all  amendments  to  the  Federal  constitution  which  look  to 
<^nsolidation  or  centralization. 

The  substitute  offered  by  Capt.  Triplett  was  adopted,  also  the  reso- 
lutions offered  by  Col.  Switzler.  Mr.  Robinson  stated  that  for  the 
sake  of  preserving  harmony  he  withdrew  his  resolutions. 

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514  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

J.  M.  Barron  moved  that  the  President  appoint  a  committee  c( 
sisting  of  one  from  each  township  to  select  three  delegates  from  ea 
township  to  represent  Boone  county  in  the  State  Convention.  Ca 
ried  ;  and  the  chair  appointed  the  following:  Rocky  Fork,  J.  J 
Barron ;  Perche,  M.  G.  Corlew ;  Bourbon,  W.  E.  Wright ;  Missour 
L.  Grossman  ;  Cedar,  John  Ellis  ;  Columbia,  F.  C.  More. 

On  motion  of  Col.  Switzler,  Col.  A.  A.  Anderson,  a  Democratt 
candidate  for  Congress  in  this  district,  was  then  invited  to  addresi 
the  convention,  which  he  did  in  a  brief  and  pertinent  address. 

PRESBYTERIAN   SYNOD. 

The  representatives  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  (O.  S.)  of  Missouri, 
convened  in  annual  synod  in  Columbia  on  Tuesday,  October  8,  1872, 
Rev.  Dr.  Lacy,  of  St.  Louis,  preaching  the  introductory  sermon 
Moderator,  Rev.  Dr.  John  Montgomery ;  recording  clerk,  Rev 
Edwin  M.  Yantis  ;  reading  clerk,  Rev.  J.  L.  Lapsley. 

SALE    OF   THE    BOONE    COUNTY    AND   JEFFERSON   CITY   RAILROAD. 

1873.  — On  the  3d  day  of  December,  1866,  the  Boone  County  au 
Jefferson  City  Railroad  Company,  or  what  is  popularly  known  as  tfc 
Columbia  Branch  of  the  old  North  Missouri  Railroad,  executed  a  de€ 
of  trust  to  Joseph  B.  Douglass,  Arthur  B.  Barrett,  and  Robert  E.  Car 
and  to  their  successors,  conve^'ing  to  them  as  trustees  the  property' 
rights  and  franchises  of  said  railway,  to  secure  the  payment  of  thr 
hundred  bonds  of  one  thousand  dollars  each,  executed  by  said  Booi 
County  and  Jefferson  City  Railroad  Company,  bearing  date  July  15t 
1866,  and  payable  twenty  years  after  date,  with  interest  thereon 
the  rate  of  eight  per  centum  per  annum,  payable  semi-annually  4 
the  15th  of  January  and  July  in  each  year.  It  was  provided  that 
the  bonds  or  any  installment  of  interest  thereon  should  not  be  p» 
when  due,  and  should  so  remain  unpaid  for  the  period  of  sixty  day 
that  then  the  trustees  might  at  the  request  of  holder  or  holders  of  sa 
bonds,  the  principal  or  interest  of  which  should  then  be  in  defaul 
proceed  to  sell  the  road,  at  public  auction,  to  the  highest  bidd 
for  cash. 

Default  having  been  made  in  the  payment  of  the  interest  due  \xp^ 
the  bonds  named,  and  at  the  request  of  a  large  number  of  the  hoB 
ers  of  them,  the  trustees,  after  three  months*  public  notice  proceed, 
at  two  o'clock  on  Wednesday,  Ajpvil  23d,  1873,  before  the  court  hou 
door,  in  Columbia,  to  sell  the  road  to  the  highest  bidder. 


BISTORT  OP  BOONE   COUNTT.  515 

• 

The  sale  of  so  large  an  amount  of  property,  the  largest  ever  offered 
afc  one  time  in  the  county,  very  naturally  excited  much  public  interest 
and  attracted  a  large  number  of  people. 

In  addition  to  quite  an  assemblage  of  our  own  citizens,  the  follow- 
ing gentlemen  from  St.  Louis  were  attracted  hither  by  the  sale :  J.  J. 
IGtchell,  president  of  the  St.  Louis,  Kansas  City,  and  Northern  Rail- 
way; W.  C.  Van  Home,  general  superintendent,  and  John  M.  Wood- 
wn,  attorney,  of  the  same  railway ;  Robert  E.  Carr,  president  of 
the  Kansas  Pacific;  W.  E.  Burr,  president  of  the  St.  Louis  National 
fiank,  and  A.  B.  Barrett,  one  of  the  tinistees  and  president  of  the 
St.  Louis  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  Association. 

At  the  appointed  hour  —  two  o'clock  p.  m.  —  Gen.  J.  B.  Douglass, 
one  of  the  trustees,  mounted  the  courthouse  steps,  stated  the  pur- 
pose of  meeting  together,  read  the  adveHisement  of  sale,  and 
Galled  for  bids,  and  received  them  as  follows : 

Kntbidby  W.  K.  Burr,  St  Louis. $16,000 

SteoDdbidby  Win.  H.  Jacobs,  of  Boone, 20,000 

Third  bid  by  W.  E.  Burr. 25,000 

Pourtbbidby  0.  T.  Worley,  of  Columbia. 26,000 

Pifthbidby  W.  B.  Burr... 80,000 

Which  being  the  last  and  highest  bid  the  road  was  knocked  off  to  Mr. 
Ban*,  who  it  was  publicly  announced  represented  the  holders  of  the 
bonds,  said  bondholders  thus  becoming  the  legal  owners  of  the  road. 

THE  LOST  FOUND  —  THE  DEAD  ALIVE. 

James  and  Benjamin  Payne,  two  brothers,  together  with  their  father 
*nd  mother,   brothers  and  .sisters,  were  born  and    lived    in  Smith 
County,  Tennessee,  about  fifty  miles  east  of  Nashville.     James  was 
born  in  1800,  and  Benjamin  in  1810,  and  therefore  in  1873  were  sev- 
enty-three and  sixty-three  years  old  respectively.     In   1818,  w^hcn 
James  was  in  his  eighteenth  and  Benjamin  in  his  eighth  year,  James 
'eft  home  with  his  grandfather,  John  Payne,  to  come  to  Missouri, 
leaving  Benjamin   and  the  balance  of  the  family  in  Smith  County. 
•'^mes  settled  with   his  gi-andfather  in  this  county,  where  he  has   re- 
'^^^ned  ever  since.     Benjamin  grew  up  to  manhood,  remained  in  Teu- 
^^Bsee  and  traded  South  till  1851,  twenty-two  years  ago,  when  he 
'^oved  with  his  family  to  Sangamon  County,  Illinois,  fifteen  miles 
^^oxxi  Springfield,  where  he  now  lives. 

Until  sometime  during  1873  each  supposed  the  other  dead  many 


516  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


1 ^L  _  A. ?  J X  xi_  _  Till- 


long  years  ago  ;  but  not  long  after  by  the  merest  accident  the  Ulim 
brother  heard  tliat  James  was  still  living.  He  could  not  at  first  cre 
it,  but  investigjitions  by  letter  and  otherwise  convinced  him  the  I 
was  found  and  the  dead  had  come  to  life. 

Therefore  they  arranged  it  by  correspondence  to  meet  each  other 
Columbia  on  Wednesday,  May  21st,  1873,  on  the  arrival  of  themoi 
ing  train,  Benjamin  coming  by  rail  from  Illinois  and  James  on  hop 
back  from  his  farm  in  this  neighborhood,  and  the  appointment  vi 
strictly  fulfilled.  Thus  these  two  brothers,  now  old  men,  met  ea 
other  after  a  sej)aration  of  more  than  fifty  years  and  a  most  affectic 
joyful  meeting  it  was,  such  as  the  ills  and  trials  of  earth  do  not  oft 
vouchsafe  to  brothers  on  earth. 

f 

STOCK   LAW    ELECTION. 

On  Tuesday,  November  4th,  1873,  a  special  election  was  held 
Boone  County,  for  the  purpose  of  deciding  whether  a  majority  of  1 
people  were  in  favor  of  adopting  and  enforcing  in  this  county  the  1 
to  prevent  domestic  animals  —  horses,  cattle,  mules,  hogs,  she 
etc. — from  running  at  large,  that  is,  outside  of  an  inclosure 
their  owners.  The  question  was  decided  in  the  negative  as  i 
lows ;  — 

Voting  Places.  Tes. 

Ashland 43 

Claysville „  26 

Columbia 129 

Centralia ^  18 

Everett U 

HallsvHle 33 

Providence 25 

Rocheport  61 

Strawn^s 23 

Sturgeon 27 

Total 889     I 

Majority  against  the  law 1 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast 1 

COLUMBIA  AND  ROCKBRIDGE  GRAVEL  ROAD. 

The  directors  of  the  Columbia  and  Rockbridge  Gravel  Road  Compj 
met  in  Columbia,  on  Monday,  November  29th,  pursuant  to  a  call 
the  meeting  of  the  stockholders,  held  November  22,  1875.     Prese 


HI8TOHT  OP   BOONE   COUNTY .  '        517 

James  S.  Rollins,  Joseph  Estes,  David  Emmett,  Isom  Williams  and 
H.  L.  Beasley. 

Moved  and  seconded  that  Maj.  Rollins  be  appointed  temporary 
chairman,  and  H.  L.  Beaslej  act  as  temporary  secretary.     Carried. 

It  was  resolved  on  motion  of  David  Emmett  that  in  order  to 
complete  this  road  subscriptions  to  the  amount  of  at  least  $10,000 
in  addition  to  those  already  obtained  must  be  secured  ;  and  J.  De  W. 
Bobioson,  Isom  Williams  and  J.  S.  Rollins  were  appointed  to  solicit 
further  subscriptions.  Failing  to  obtain  them  an  appeal  to  the 
County  Court  for  aid,  by  an  appropriation  of  $5,000,  was  made. 
This  was  unsuccessful  and  the  directors  were  forced  to  abandon  the 
enterprise. 

THE  CENTENNIAL   TEAR  —  EVIDENCES    OP    PATRIOTISM   IN   BOONE 
COUNTY —  MARTHA   WASHINGTON   RECEPTION    AT   COLUMBIA. 

1876. — We  have  had  many  good  things  in  Columbia  in  the  form  of 
festiyals,  musical  concerts,  readings,  lectures,  dramatic  entertainments, 
etc.,  etc.,  etc.,  in  aid  of  church  and  benevolent  objects,  but  we  believe 
it  is  generally  admitted  that  **  Ye  Martha  Washington  Reception  "  at 
the  Court  House,  on  Tuesday  night,  March  2,  187(),  was  the  most 
unique  and  successful  exhibition  ever  made  here.  It  certainly  had  the 
merit  of  rekindling  the  patriotic  memories  of  our  people,  and  afforded 
t  fitting  occasion  for  the  exhibition  of  that  love  of  country  which 
should  distinguish  all  Americans. 

The  programme,  which  purported  to  give  *'a  lyste  of  ye  greate 
folkes  who  are  to  be  present,  also  the  order  and  titles  of  ye  tableaux, 
tnd  likewise  a  lyste  of  ye  national  hymns  and  other  worldly  songs, 
wh  are  to  be  sunge  and  played,"  is  as  follows  :  — 

MARTHA  WASHINGTON'S   (MRS.  J.  S.  ROLLINS's)  RECEPTION. 

<^rge  and  Martha  Washington  —  flon.  J.  S.  Rollins  and  wife.  Ye  following  Greate 
Folkei  were  presented  hy  G«n.  George  Washington :  Gen.  and  Lady  Washington  (in  minia- 
**•),  Matter  Gay  Gordon  and  Miss  Susie  Trimble;  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Mrs.  Jefferson, 
"•B.  Price  and  wife;  John  Adams  and  Mrs.  Adams,  Geo.  W.  Trimble  and  wife;  John  Jay, 
^emon  Bliss;  Benjamin  Franklin  and  wife,  W.F.  Switzler  and  wife;  Gen.  Mifflin  and 
™» T.  B.  Gentry  and  wife ;  G^n.  Knox,  John  M.  Samuel ;  Gen.  and  Mrs.  Lafayette,  E.  C. 
More  and  wife;  John  Hancock,  Jas.  0.  Gillaspy;  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  Dr.  Paul  Hubbard; 
***rt  Morris  and  Mrs.  Morris,  E.  L.  Ripley  and  wife ;  Gen.  and  Mrs  Greene,  I.  O.  Hock- 
■^y  and  Mrs.  J.  H.  Rollins;  Gen.  Lincoln,  Dr.  W.  T.  Maupin;  John  Smith,  James  W. 
^PW;  Pocahontas,  Miss  T.  Todd;  Gen.  Steuben,  David  M.  Hickman;  "Uncle  Sam," 
J»naei  P.  Hurt;  Washington's  Private  Secretary,  Warren  Switzler;  Miss  Nellie  Custis,  Miss 


518  HISTORY   OP   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Flotie  BoIHds;  "Tom  Collins,"  Lewis  M.  Switzler;  Glen.  Jonathan  Trumbull,  6. 
Bollins;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown  (Quakers],  J.  Scott  Branham  and  Miss  Bettie  P.  Todd;  Sqain 
Bowden,  Dr.  G.  W.  Riggans;  Mrs.  Thompkins,  Mrs.  G,  CL  Swallow;  Mrs.  Ware,  Mtl  V. 
R.  Banks.  Tableaux.  I.Washington's  Dream  of  Liberty  —  Scene  1st,  Court  of  G«oigi 
m.,  James  M.  Ferguson,  King ;  Miss  Emma  Price,  Queen;  scene  2d,  Thirteen  iStttM— 
Liberty.  2.  Molly  Pitcher  at  the  Cannon,  Miss  C.  L.  McAfee.  3.  Song,  "  John  Andenon, 
my  Jo  John,"  Miss  Anna  H.Stephens.  4.  The  Kitchen.  6.  William  Tell  and  son,  J.  W. 
Ripley  and  Ollie  Gentry.  6.  Interview  between  Washington,  Franklin  and  Lafayette,  fol- 
lowed by  the  Marseilles  Hymn  by  the  choir.  7.  The  Trades.  8.  The  Star  Spangled  Banmr 
(song),  by  the  choir.    9.  "E  Pluribus  Unum,"  sung  by^Mrs.  E.  C.  More. 

A  platform  extending  across  the  entire  length  of  the  court  house, 
and  carpeted  and  otherwise  appropriately  furnished,  ser\'ed  as  the  re- 
ception room  ;  the  audience,  which  was  about  as  large  as  ever  seen 
in  the  court  house,  occupying  seats  elsewhere  in  the  room.  Flags» 
large  and  small,  pictures  of  George  and  Martha  Washington  and  of 
revolutionary  scenes  hung  upon  the  walls. 

Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins  and  wife,  costumed  as  their  great  prototypes 
were,  personated  President  Washington  and  wife,  and  they  did  it 
splendidly.     The  entertainment  opened  with  "  Martha  Washington's 
Reception,"  which  consisted  of  the  ceremony  of  President  Washington 
receiving,  and  introducing  to  his  wife,  after  the  manner  of  similar  re- 
ceptions in  revolutionary  times,  **  Ye  Greate  Folkes  "  mentioned  i^ 
the  above  programme,  all  of  whom  were  dressed  in  the  costumes  oi 
that  period.     Warren  Switzler  acted  as  President  Washington's  pri- 
vate secretary  and  usher,  and  at  the  door  received  the  cards  of  the 
callers  as  they  entered  and  announced  their  names.     **  Ye  Receptioia 
was  a  most  interesting  and  attractive  introduction  to  what  followed 
and  was  conducted  throughout   in    exquisite   taste   and   with   gr^^ 
success. 

**  Washington's  Dream  of  Liberty,"  consisting  of  two  scenes, 
quite  impressive  and  successful.     J.  M.  Ferguson  personated  Geor 
III,  and  Miss  Emma  Price,  his  Queen  ;  and  the  following  young  ladi 
represented  the  goddesses  mentioned  :  Miss  Mary  A.  Douglass,  Ty 
anny ;  Miss  Sarah  Matthews,  Justice  ;  Miss  Ella  Dimmitt,  Libert 
Miss  Zela  Gillette,  War ;  Miss  C.  P.  Switzler,  Hope. 

The  song,   **  John   Anderson,  my  Jo  John,"    by  Miss    Anna 
Stephens,    was    sung   in    her   proverbially   exquisite   and    success 
manner. 

The  interview  between  Washington,  Franklin  and  Lafayette  a 
the  Marseilles  hymn  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  interesting  p 
tions  of  the  programme.     Gen.  Washington  was  personated  by  Mf^ 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  519 

Bollins;  Marquis  de  Lafayette,  by  E.  C.  More,  and  Dr.  Franklin  by 
W.  F.  Switzler ;  and  tlie  performance  consisted  oi  a  scene  improvised 
by  poetic  license  for  tlie  occasion,  for  it  never  actually  occurred  in 
history.  Dr.  Franklin  as  one  of  the  commissioners  to  France  in  1777, 
to  interest  the  government  and  people  of  France  in  the  struggle  o^ 
the  thirteen  States  for  liberty,  was  represented  as  returning  to  the 
United  States  with  Lafayette,  whom  he  introduced  in  a  speech  to 
Gen.  Washington,  to  which  he  responds,  cordially  accepting  the  ser- 
yices  of  Lafayette.  To  this  speech  Lafayette  replied,  very  feelingly, 
and  in  broken  English  with  the  peculiar  French  accent. 

The'* Star  Spangled  Banner,'*  sung  by  the  choir  of  the  Baptist 
church,  was  executed  in  splendid  style  and  stirred  the  patriotic  feel- 
ings of  all  present  from  their  profoundest  depths.   • 

The  evening's  entertainment  was  befittingly  closed  by  **  E  Pluribus 
Unum,"  sung  by  Mrs.  E.  C.  More,  and  sung  with  a  pathos  and  power 
that  elicited  the  warmest  applause. 

FOURTH  OF  JULY   AT  ASHLAND. 

The  town  was  full  of  people  and  flags  gaily  glittered  in  the  breeze 
in  every  direction.     A  brass  24-pounder,  made  to  order  at  Sedalia 
for  the  occasion,  and' paid  for  by  the  citizens  of  Ashland  and  vicinity, 
^oke  the  hills  and  plains  for  miles  around  by  its  national  salutes.     A 
long  procession,  under  the  command  of  Chief  Marshal  Jos.  W.  John- 
ston, with  James  W.  Conly ,  Ev.  M.  Bass,  Wm.  Stone  and  J.  C.  Carroll 
*8  assistants,  and  headed  by  the  Fulton  brass  band,  marched  to  West- 
l>rook's  grove  in  the  vicinity  of  town,  where  an  abundant  and  elegant 
l>asket  dinner,  niore  deserving  the  name  of  banquet,  was  served  to 
^bout  one  thousand  persons. 

About  2  o'clock,  at  a  signal  given  by  the  band,  the  large  assembly 
came  together  around  a  platform  which  had  been  erected  in  the  grove 
for  the  accommodation  of  the  Continental  Congress,  which  it  was  pro- 
posed to  personify.  Mr.  A.  G.  Payne  called  the  concourse  to  order, 
briefly  explained  the  object  of  the  meeting,  and  invited  the  members 
of  the  Congress,  fifty-six  in  number,  to  seats  on  the  platform.  It  was 
*n  imposing,  unique  demonstration.  About  half  the  members  ap- 
P^ftred  in  the  costume  of  the  revolutionary  period  and  excited  much 
interest.  There  sat  Gen.  Knox  of  the  army,  in  the  person  of  John 
•°*«  Samuel,  and  Benjamin  Franklin  in  the  person  of  James  C.  Orr,  of 
^^lurabia.  R.  B.  Price  personated  and  looked  like  Thomas  Jefferson  ; 
^^.  F.  Switzler,  in  costume  for  which  he  was  indebted  to  the  cour- 


520 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 


tesy  of  Mr.  David  Emmett,  personated  John  Hancock  and  pr 
over  the  conference.     The  following  were  the 


MEMBERS  OF  THE    CONGRESS. 


YIROINIA. 

Richard  Henry  Lee Absent* 

Thomas  Nelson .P.  J.  Puffner* 

Thomas  Jefferson R.  B.  Price. 

Francis  Lightfoot  Lee Dr.  James  Kerr. 

Garter  Braxton S.  T.  Mustain. 

George  Wythe W.  J.  Warren- 
Benjamin  Harrison £.  Penter. 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

John  Hancock W.  F.  Switzler. 

John  Adams J.  W.  Johnston. 

Samuel  Adams J.  R.  Burks. 

^bert  Treat  Payne.; D.  D.  Murphy, 

PEKKSYLYANIA. 

Benjamin  Franklin James  G.  On*. 

Robert  Morris Gol.  Thad  Hickman. 

Benjamin  Rush T.  H.  Roberts. 

John  Morton John  H.  Sappington. 

George  Glymer D.  M.  Burnam. 

James  Smith Green  B.  Sappington. 

George  Taylor L.  L.  Lindsey. 

James  Wilson Seth  Whitfield. 

Geoi^e  Ross W.  G.  Scoit 

NORTH  CAROLINA. 

William  Hooper B.  A.  Ghristian. 

Joseph  Hughes Dr.  H.  M.  Cbevans. 

John  Penn Edmond  C.  Forbes. 

SOUTH  CAROLINA. 

Edward  Rutledge W.  H.  Wiggins. 

Thomas  Heyward Amos  Nichols. 

Thomas  Lynch Foster  Martin. 

Arthur  Middleton H.  T.  Wright. 

OEORQIA. 

Button  Gwinnett John  Barger. 

George  Walton Dennis  Forbis. 

Lyman  Hall J.  G.  Wiseman. 


NSW  JERSEY. 

John  Witherspoon David  B 

Richard  Stockton John  M.  E 

Francis  Hopkins W.  £ 

John  Hart Reuben 

Abraham  Glark .Eli  I 

NEW  HAlfFSHIRE. 

Josiah  Bartlett J.  G. 

William  Whipple ..Amos  T.  I 

Matthew  Thornton..... James  ] 

CONNECTICUT. 

Samuel  Huntington Oten,  Job 

William  Williams Joel  Hi 

Oliver  Wolcott ..Willian 

Roger  Sherman Walter  S.  1 

NSW    YORK. 

■ 

John  Willing John  L.  Bi 

William  Floyd Robert  £i 

Francis  Lewis Ed.  I 

Lewis  Morris George  H 

Philip  Livingstone J.  W.  C 

DELAWARE. 

Gsesar  Rodney John  W.  Sapi 

Geoii^  Reed Ev.  ] 

Thomas  McKean R.  E.  Sap) 

MARYLAND. 

Samuel  Ghase Alezande 

Thomas  Stone * Robei 

William  Paca A.  G.  Har 

Gharles  Garroll Dr.  F.  G 

RHODE  ISLAND. 

Elbridge  Gerry Esq.  H.  ' 

Stephen  Hopkins E.  R.  We 

William  EUery Johi 

David  Humphrey .John  T.  J< 


Pursuing  the  history  of  the  proceedings,  the  Congress  was  ca 
order  by  Charles  Thompson  (A.  G.  Payne),  and  was  open 
prayer  by  Rev.  Robert  White,  after  which  Col.  Switzler,  as 
Hancock,  the  President,  addressed  the  Congress  and  people. 

Benjamin  Harrison,  of  Virginia  (Eli  Penter),  from  the  comn 
reported  and  read  with  the  spirit  and  the  understanding  the  Dc 
tion  of  Independence,  and  the  question  being  on  its  adoption  or 


HI8TOB7  OF  BOONE  COUNTY. 


521 


tioDy  Samuel  Adams,  of  Massachusetts  (J.  R.  Burks),  opened  the 
baU  in  a  speech  in  its  favor.  He  was  followed  on  the  same  side  by 
Quurles  Carroll,  of  Maryland  (Dr.  F.  6.  Sitton),  and  in  speeches 
•gunst  it  by  John  Willing,  of  New  York  (John  L.  Burnam),  and 
David  Humphrey,  of  Bhode  Island  (John  T.  Johnston).  These  were 
BQOceeded  by  speeches  in  favor  of  its  adoption  by  Roger  Sherman,  of 
Connecticut  (Walter  S.  Maupin),  and  John  Adams,  of  Massachusetts 
(Jo.  W.  Johnston),  after  which  a  vote  was  taken  and  the  Declaration 
adopted.  No  sooner  was  the  vote  announced  by  the  President  than 
the  fact  was  succeeded  by  the  firing  of  cannon,  the  ringing  of  the 
bells  of  the  village  and  the  applause  of  the  people  assembled. 

Some  of  the  speeches  delivered  were  improvised  for  the  occasion. 
All  of  them,  especially  the  well-known  speech  of  John  Adams,  wore 
deli?ered  with  a  fervid  eloquence  eminently  befitting  the  occasion  and 
worthy  of  all  praise.  To  sum  up  in  a  word,  the  Centennial  Fourth 
at  Ashland  was  a  grand  success,  and  one  to  which  the  people  of  Ash- 
land and  Cedar  township  msLV  well  refer  with  pride  and  satisfaction. 

CENSUS  OP  BOONE  COUNTY  IN  1876. 

The  following  is  an  official  abstract  of  the  census,  taken  by  the  SUite, 
of  Boone  county,  in  1876,  by  the  County  Assessor,  the  late  Thomas 
\    Benton  Searcy :  — 

Totalwbite  males. ^ 12,815 

T>Btal  white  femmles..... 12,688 

Totil  white  population 25,448 

Total  colored  males ^...  8,256 

Tbtal  colored  females^ 8,480 

Total  colored  population........  6,686 

^  Total  populaUon  of  the  county.. 82,134 

COLUMBIA. 

Total  white  males 1,508 

Tow  white  females 1,357 

Total  white  population 2,865 

Total  colored  males 627 

^otal  colored  females. 678 

Total  colored  population 1,800 

®*»1  population  of  Columbia- 4,165 

^^mber  hones  in  Columbia,  177;  mules, 
*  ^ttle,  175;  sheep,  198;  hogs,  200. 


16: 


BOGHKPORT. 

Total  white  males 889 

Total  white  females 276 

Total  white  population 615 

Total  colored  males..'. 167 

Total  colored  females 189 

Total  colored  population 856 

Total  population  of  Rocheport 971 

Number  of  horses  in  Rocheport,  39; 
mules,  7 ;  jennets,  4 ;  cattle,  52 ;  sheep,  30 ; 
hogs,  51. 

STURQEOK. 

Total  white  males 836 

Total  white  females 270 

Total  white  population 606 

Total  colored  males 77 

Total  colored  females 87 

Total  colored  population 


164 


Total  population  of  Sturgeon 770 

Number  of  horses  in  Sturgeon,  95 ;  mules, 
92;  jacks,  2;  cattle,  377:  sheep,  33;  hogs^ 
319. 


522 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


CEKTRALIA. 

Total  white  males 177 

Total  white  females 148 

Total  white  population »  825 

Total  colored  males 14 

Total  colored  females 11 

Total  colored  population 26 

Total  population  of  Centralia 350 

Number  of  horses  in  Centralia,  64;  mules, 
6 ;  cattle,  56 ;  sheep  (the  bell-wether),  1 ; 
hogs,  36. 

Children  in  the  county  under  10  years  of 
age,  3,628. 

Deaf  and  dumb  in  the  county:  Males,  9; 
females,  7 ;  total,  16. 


Blind  in  the  county :  Males,  2 ;  femalei,  8; 
total,  5. 
Insane  in  the  county,  14. 

LIVE  STOCK. 

Horses... 10,545  Mules ^..  li^fil 

Jacks 94  Jennets. Wi 

Neat  cattle 19,296  Sheep 80,719 

Hogs. 43,652 

AGRICULTURAL  PRODUCTS. 

Wheat,  bu...«  87,101  Com,  bu....l,681,78J 

Oate,  bu 118,740    Jtye,  bu 18,7« 

Tobacco,  lb8..824,821  Wool,  lbs......  87,261 

Sugar,  lbs 7,221  Hay,  tons  .....  16,598 

Wine,  gals 1,992  Molasses,  gals  11,996 


•  ELECTION  TO  REFUND  COUNTY  BONDS. 

On  Tuesday,  August  6,  1877,  an  election  was  held  ou  the  proposi- 
tion to  refund  $300,000  of  our  county  debt  at  7  per  cent  —  our  bonds 
then  bearing  8  per  cent.  Interest  was  quite  small,  the  total  vote  be- 
ing 1,607  ;  majority  for  the  proposition,  1,413.  The  following  is  the 
vote  in  detail : 


/ 


VOTING  PLACES. 

Columbia, 

Hallsville 

Centralia 

Ashland 

Struwn's 

Sturgeon 

Hnrrisburg 


For. 

Against. 

463 

11 

231 

t  •  • 

113 

5 

226 

2 

33 

5 

185 

2 

66 

23 

VOTING  PLACES. 


Providence 

Rocheport 

Clavsville 

Wilhite'8 

Totals 

Majority  for  funding  bonds 


A    TEMPERANCE    WAVE THE    *' BLUE    RIBBON    MOVEMENT 


>> 


In  this  year,  under  the  auspices  and  by  the  effort  of  certain  proini- 
nent  temperance  workers,  aided  by  the  ministers  of  the  various  ^^ 
nominations,  the  Murphy  or  blue  ribbon  movement  was  inaugurat^^ 
Before  it  spent  its  force  it  assumed  immense  proportions,  and  t<^ 
large  extent  embraced  the  entire  county.  Frequent  public  meeti*^« 
were  held  in  Columbia,  and  finally  appointments  for  speakers  \^^ 
made  in  various  parts  of  the  county.  Each  signer  of  the  pledge 
abstain  from  all  intoxicating  liquors  as  a  beverage,  and  by  all  hoii.^ 
able  means  to  encourage  others  to  do  so,  was  furnished  with  a  prin'^' 
card  containing  the  pledge,  and  a  blue  ribbon  to  wear  on  the  1^ 
breast. 


HI6TOBT  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  583 

During  these  meetings  a  large  number  of  ministers,  lawyers  and 
her  orators  addressed  the  people  in  favor  of  the  pledge.  Among 
«m  may  be  mentioned  Eld.  L.  B.  Wilkes,  Pres.  J.  E.  Rogers, 
«Y.  Dr.  J.  S.  Grasty,  Rev.  Dr.  H.  M.  Dodge,  Rev.  G.  W.  Horn, 
ires.  S.  S.  Laws,  Dr.  W.  T.  Lenoir,  Prof.  Paul  Schweitzer,  Rev.  J. 
I.  fiobinson,  Carey  H.  Gordon,  Marcellus  Dimmitt,  Pres.  G.  S. 
Jryant,  Jerry  Harrigan,  Squire  Turner,  Prof.  M.  M.  Fisher,  R.  L. 
[odd,  H.  C.  Pierce,  J.  W.  Kneisley,  W.  T.  Waters,  Rev.  Dr.  W. 
Pope  Yeaman,  Wm.  T.  Hickman,  James  S.  Rollins,  Rev.  Dr.  Ley- 
}Qrn,  of  Lexington,  Missouri ;  Rev.  Mr.  Maple,  of  Mexico,  Missouri ; 
Eld.  R.  W.  Gentry,  Dr.  E.  W.  Herndon,  Rev.  Dr.  W.  M.  Prottsman, 
}f  Lexington  ;  Eld.  R.  N.  Davis,  Rev.  J.  W.  Riggins,  Dr.  G.  W.  Rig- 
jins,  Rev.  M.  L.  A.  Via,  W.  F.  Switzler,  Judge  J.  A.  Boulton,  Shan- 
qodC.  Douglass  and  others. 

MISSOURI    STATIB    ORANGE. 

This  body  met  in  Columbia  in  the  chapel  of  the  University  on 
raesday,  December  10,  1878,  Henry  Eshbaugh,  of  Jefferson  County, 
Master,  presiding,  and  was  largely  attended  by  delegates  and  visitors. 
The  treasury  receipts  of  the  grange,  since  its  organization,  were 
>93,0OO.  Receipts  ot  the  previous  year  $106.53.  Number  of  mem- 
)ers,about  20,000;  number  in  1875,  about  55,000. 

On  Wednesday  night  an  open  session  was  held  in  the  chapel,  Col. 
i!.  C.  More,  of  Boone,  presiding,  which  was  largely  attended, 
nd  which  was  addressed,  according  to  a  programme  made  out  by  a 
>n[iraittee  of  the  Grange,  by  the  following  gentlemen,  in  the  order 
^med :  W.  F.  Switzler,  Henry  Eshbaugh,  J.  S.  Rollins,  R.  Q.  Roache, 
•  J.  Colman,  W.  C.  Downing  and  Dr.  S.  S.  Laws. 

STATE  CONVENTION  OF  COLORED  TEACHERS. 

This  body  met  in  Columbia  on  December  26,  1878,  and  was  called 
order  by  Chas.  Newton,  president  of  the  convention  held  in  St. 
uis  in  December,  1877.  The  following  officers  were  elected: 
r  president,  Inman  E.  Page,  of  Jefferson  City ;  vice-president,  R. 
Woods,  of  Warrensburg ;  secretary,  John  A.  Agee,  pf  St.  Charles  ; 
distant  secretary.  Miss  Sadie  Woodson,  of  St.  Louis. 
There  were  present  the  following  teachers:  Chas,  Newton, 
chard  H.  Cole  and  P  H.  Murray,  St.  Louis  ;  Ricely  L.  Woods  and 
allace  H.  Dixon,  Warrensburg;  A.  L.Stewart  and  J.  H.  Agee, 
'.  Charles ;  John  M.  Fisher,  Sturgeon ;  Richard  A.  Hudlin,  Kirk- 


524  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

wood ;  Inman  E.  Page,  Jefferson  City ;  Willis  N.  Brent,  Boonviilc 
J.  W.  Baldwin,  Fayette ;  C.  E.  Ciimmings  and  John  Bannister,  Cc 
lumbia;  Mrs.  Cynthia  Ann  Cummings  and  Miss  Matilda  Kurd 
Columbia;  Miss  Louisa  C.  Jackson,  Boone  County;  Miss  Sadie  J 
Woodson,  St.  Louis;  Clark  Washington  and  Mirror  H.  Bass,  resi- 
dence not  given. 

Mr.  C.  E.  Cummings,  of  Columbia,  then  delivered  the  address  ol 
welcome. 

The  regular  programme  was  taken  up  and  papers  were  read  by  the 
following  persons :  — 

"  School  Laws  of  Missouri,"  J.  A.  Agee,  St.  Charles. 

**  Civilization,"  R.  H.  Cole,  St.  Louis. 

*'  Educational  Relation  of  Citizen  and  State,"  Chas.  Newton. 

**  Objects,  Means  and  Ends  of  Education,"  R.  H.  Hudlin,  Kirk 
wood' 

"  Development  v.  Cramming,"  W.  N.  Brent,  Boonville. 

FIRE  IN  COLUMBIA HALF  OF  A  BLOCK  DESTROYED. 

1879. — About  five  o'clock  on  Tuesday  morning  February  4,  fir 
was  discovered  in  a  wooden  shed  (used  as  a  coal  house)  in  therea 
of  the  drug-store  (so-called)  of  R.  C.  Rogers,  on  the  west  side  c 
Court  House  Street,  and  nearly  opposite  the  Planters'  House 
There  was  no  possible  way  for  fire  to  get  to  the  place  in  which  it  wa 
found  unless  it  had  been  placed  there  with  the  design  of  destroyia 
the  buildings,  and,  therefore,  the  conviction  was  universal  that  itwa 
the  act  of  an  incendiary. 

The  fire  was  discovered  by  Mr.  J.  S.  Hoskins,  an  old  geutlema 
who  with  two  daughters  lived  in  a  small  two-story  brick  on  the  soutl 
west  corner  of  the  block,  belonging  to  Hon.  James  S.  Rollins,  wl 
at  once  gave  the  alarm,  which  in  a  short  time  became  general  ai 
brought  an  immense  throng  to  the  scene. 

The  fire  increased  and  continued  to  rage  until  the  whole  block  noi 
of  the  alley,  with  the  exception  of  a  two-story  fire-proof  brick,  beloi 
ing  to  J.  K.  Rogers,  was  consumed,  as  follows :  The  marble  wo 
(small  one-story  frame  box  house)  of  Wallace  &  Kirkfiian  ;  the  ^< 
able  photograph  gallery  of  C.  L.  Martin  ;  the  two-story  family  groc 
store  (frame)  and  warehouse  of  R.  L  Shock  &  Co. ;  a  two-st< 
frame  building  occupied  by  W.  W.  Chandler's  meat  market  beU 
and  A.  Johnson's  shoe  shop  above  ;  the  two-story  frame  drug  store 
R.  C.  Rogers,  with  Dr.  Wm.  French's  office  above,  and  an  old  t^ 


HIBTOBT  OF  BOONE  GOUNTY.  525 

rtory  brick  tenemenif  house  belonging  to  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins,  were 
^troyed. 

Little  or  no  wind  prevailing  at  the  time,  the  progress  of  the  fire  was 

comparatively  slow,  and  the  contents  of  most  of  the  buildioigs  were 

•  sated.    The  large  frame   ice  house  of  R.  L.  Shock  &  Co.  was  only 

partially  damaged,  the  roof  and  a  portion  of  the  walls  on  two  sides 

being  destroyed,  leaving  the  ice  unharmed. 
The  roofs  of  the  Baptist  Church  and  Court  House,  being  of  shingles, 

caught  fire,  but  were  extinguished.     The  large  two-story  shingle  roof 

brick  dwelling  and  frame  ice  house  of  Col.  Switzler,  of  the  Statesman^ 
I    situated  in  the  vicinity  and  west  of  the  doomed  block,  were  saved 

without  damage,  by  the   vigorous  use  of  water  and  wet   blankets 
;-  upon  the  roofs. 

MISSOURI   MEDICAL   AND   PRESS   ASSOCIATIONS. 

May  was  a  beautiful  and  a  busy  month  in  Columbia,  and  was 
signaliased  by  the  annual  sessions  of  two  important  bodies.  The  first, 
which  assembled  in  the  University  chapel,  on   Monday,  May  19,  was 

[    the  Missouri  Medical  Association,  which  was  called  to  order  by  Dr. 

[  £.  W.  Schauffler,  of  Kansas  City.  Dr.  G.  M.  B.  Maughs,  of  St.  Louis, 
was  elected  president,  after  which  Dr.  B.  A.  Watson,  of  Columbia, 
delivered  the  address  of  welcome.  The  association  was  in  session 
several  days,  during  which  a  n.umber  of  very  able  papers  on  medical 
objects  were  read  and  interesting  discussions  had.  The  labors  of  the 
occasion  closed  with  a  banquet  at  the  Planters'  House,  after  which 
responses  were  made  as  follows,  to  the  following  toasts  :  — 
'Missouri." — By  W.  F.  Switzler,  Columbia,  Mo. 

*  Our  Hosts."  — Dr.  J.  M.  Allen,  Liberty,  Mo. 

*  Medical  Journalism."  —  A.  J.  Steele,  St.  Louis,Mo. 
•Public  Hygiene."  —  S.  S.  Laws,  Columbia. 
'What  a  Kansas  City  Doctor  thinks  of  Columbia."  — Dr.  S.  S. 
Kansas  City. 

'Medical  Associations."  —  E.  W.  Schauffler,  Elansas  City. 
'Citizens  of  Columbia."  — G.  M.  B.  Maughs,  St.  Louis. 
'  Our  University."  —  Col.  E.  C.  More,  Columbia  Mo. 

*  Progress  of  Medical  Science  in  Missouri." — Squire  Turner, 
Columbia. 

MISSOURI   PRESS   ASSOCIATION. 

The  brightest,  balmiest  May  weather  greeted  the  knights  of  the 
**  shears  and  paste-pot,"  the  editorial  "  we's,"  on   their  arrival  in 


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526  HISTORY  OF  BOONE  couimr. 

Columbia  Tuesday  morning,  May  20,  1879',  several  hundre 
number.  The  inundation  could  not  have  taken  the  town  i 
more  favorable  conditions.  Nature  was  in  her  most  smiling  rr 
Everywhere  the  foliage  and  the  flowers  breathed  a  weh 
and  the  air  was  laden  with  perfume.  The  town  never  lo 
more  attractive  or  lovelier,  and  it  was  plain  to  be  seen  th 
most  favorable  impression  was  entertained  by  our  guests  of  the  [ 
and  its  surroundings. 

The  committee  of  reception,  consisting  of  E.  W.  Stephens,  of 
Herald^   W.  J.  Davis,  of  the  Sentinel,  and  Irvin   Switzler,  of 
Statesman;    also,  Dr.   B.  A.  Watson,  I.  O.  Hockaday,    Felix 
LaForce,  D.  D.  Berry  and  S.  C.  Douglass,  met  the  delegates  at  ( 
tralia   Monday  night  and  escorted  them   to   this   place   early  i 
morning.     Knowing  the  number  of  hidies  and  gentlemen  to  be  j 
vided  for,  this  committee  had  their  duties  reduced  to  a  system.    I 
guest  was  presented  with  a  card  containing  the  name  and  the 
dence  of  the  family  to  which  he  was  assigned.     Badges  were 
pinned  upon  the  lappel  of  each  gentleman's  coat  and  each  was  1 
instructed  as  to  how  to  proceed  in  order  to  secure  his  quarters 
the  least  possible  annoyance  to  himself,  immediately  upon  his  arri 
or  as  soon  thereafter  as  desired.     This  admirable  arrangement 
due  principally  to  the  originality,  energy  and  industry  of  Mr.  1 
phens,  the  chairman  of  the  reception  committee. 

The  committee  on  decoration  were  certainly  deserving  of  the  hig 
praise.  The  taste  and  judgment  exercised  in  the  discharge  of  t 
duty  could  not  have  been  surpassed.  The  following  ladies  and 
tlemen  constituted  the  committee :  James  W.  Ripley,  Prof.  D 
McAnally,  Prof.  Scott  Hayes,  Prof.  F.  Pannell,  Mrs.  E.  C.  \ 
Mrs.  A.  F.  Newland,  Mrs.  C.  P.  Smith,  and  Misses  E.  F.  Ri 
Lizzie  Fisher,  Minnie  L.  Russell,  Mary  Gentry,  Ella  Child, 
Hayes  and  Bettie  Todd. 

The  chapel  presented  a  most  attractive  appearance  with  its  beai 
floral  ornamentations  and  its  sufirfirestive  and  instructive  decora 
otherwise.  A  chain  of  cedar  festoons  and  hanging  moss  basi 
filled  with  trailing  vines  and  blooming  flowers  fringed  the  e 
extent  of  the  semi-circular  gallery.  Fronting  the  audience, 
ornamentation  was  rich  in  profusion  and  tasty  in  design.  A 
large  United  States  flag  extended  between  the  pillars  just  back  o 
rostrum.  A  large  bronze  eagle  figured  as  a  centre  piece  just  ah 
and  just  below  the  eagle,  with  its  shield  and  arrows,  hung  the  folio 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   CJOUNTY.  527 

cedar-trimmed  mottoes:  "Free  Speech,"  «*A  Free  Press,"  *«A  Free 

People/* 

On  the  right  hung  the  splendid  topographical  chart  of  the  Univer- 
rily  grounds,  and  on  the  left  the  fine  oil  painting  of  the  University 
buildiDgs  which  ordinarily  hung  there.     Immediately  in  front,  a  sys- 
tem of  telegraph  ?ras  extended  entirely  across  the  rostrum  from  wall 
to  wall,  just  {{elow  which,  stood  a  Washington  hand  press  —  both 

;  most  appropriate  in  their  suggestiveness,  as  well  as  very  ornamental. 
The  smaller  rostrum  which  projects  immediately  in  front  of  the 
bculty's  gallery  was  utilized  on  this  occasion  for  the  speaker's  stand. 
Here  the  most  elaborate  and  elegant  display  of  cedar  wreaths  and 
flowering  plants  was  made.  The  speaker's  desk  was  a  terraced  ^^a^*- 
toTC  of  bright  hued  and  fragrant  flowers.  Extending  around  jbhe  gal- 
lery abbve  the  hanging  baskets  hung  a  number  of  appropriate  names  of 
distinguished  inventors  belonging  to  the  craft ;  each  was  printed  in 
large  type  and  tastefully  fringed  with  cedar.  They  were  as  follows  : 
Gnttenburg,  Faust,  Caxton,  Franklin,  Morse,  Field,  Hoe  and  Edison. 
In  the  southwest  cdirner  of  the  chapel  a  regular  telegraph  office  was 
located  by  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  company  for  the  convenience 
of  reporters,  and  was  under  the  courteous  charge  of  Mr.  F.  G.  Mason» 
ofMoberly,  Mo. 

Col.  John  E.  Hutton,  editor  of  the  Mexico  Intelligencer^  president 
of  the  association,  called  the  convention  to  order  and  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Dodge,  of  Columbia,  oflfered  up  a  prayer.  The  quartette  known  as  the 
Apollo  Club,  consisting  of  Messrs.  G.  N.  Garnett,  R.  B.  Garnett,  J. 
T.Payne  and  Leon  Ridgeway,  University  students,  then  sang  a  song, 
after  which  the  welcoming  address  was  delivered  by  the  editor  of  the 
Statesman  to  which  President  Hutton  replied. 

Ex-Governor  B.  Gratz  Brown  delivered  the  annual  address  on 
"  Character  in  Journalism.*'  Other  addresses,  papers  and  poems  fol- 
lowed during  the  session,  but  a  notice  of  them  is  excluded  for  the 
want  of  space. 

1880.  —  Population  of  Boone  County 25,424. 

GRAND  LODGE  OF  GOOD  TEMPLARS. 

One  of  the  largest  and  most  prosperous  sessions  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Good  Templars,  Dr.  N.  S.  Richardson  of  Macon,  Grand  W.  C.  T., 
^ct  in  Columbia  on  Tuesday,  October  9,  1880,  and  continued  in  ses- 
sion several  days. 


528  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

DEATH   OF   PRESIDENT  GARFIELD  —  PUBLIC   HONORS   PAID    TO    HIS  MEX- 

ORY   IN   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Ou  Tuesday  night,  September  20,  1881,  the  sad  intelligence  of  tie  I 
death  of  President  GariSeld  being  verified,  a  very  large  number  ' 
of  our  citizens,  regardless  of  party,  asseinbed  in  the  court 
house  in  Columbia  to  testify  their  respect,  by  resolutions  and 
otherwise,  for  the  memory  of  our  dead  President.  The  meeting  was 
called  to  order  by  Gen.  O.  Guitar,  after  which  Hon.  S.  C.  Douglass, 
chairman  of  the  Democratic  State  Central  Committee,  was  chosen 
president;  Hon.  Philemon  Bliss  and  Prof.  M.  M.  Fisher,  of  the  Uni- 
versity, vice-presidents,  and  Capt.  H.  N.  Cook,  secretary. 

Mr.  Douglass  made  a  few  very  appropriate  remarks  explaining  the 
object  of  the  meeting,  after  which  the  following  committee  was  ap- 
pointed to  report  resolutions:  J.  P.  Horner,  O.  Guitar,  J.  H,  Waugh, 
Lewis  M.  Switzler  and  Prof.  M.  M.  Fisher. 

During  the  retirement  of  the  committee,  or  after  its  report,  brief 
and  very  appropriate  addresses  were  made  by  Judge  Bliss,  Col.  E.G. 
More,  Robt.  L.  Todd,  Pres.  G.  S.  Bryant,  of  Christian  College,  Bev. 
W.  B.  Y.  Wilkie,  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  Professor  Paul 
Schweitzer,  Gen.  Odon  Guitar  and  Qol.  Squire  Turner. 

The  committee,  through  its  chairman.  Gen.  Guitar,  repoi-ted  the 
following  resolutions,  the  adoption  of  which  was  moved  by  Col.  E.  C. 
More,  and  they  were  unanimously  adopted,  as  follows  :  — 

Whereas,  The  nation  pauses  to-day  in  its  onward  march  to  contemplate  the  appallios 
spectacle  of  a  murdered  President.  We  feel  it  due  as  citizens  of  this  great  repuhlic,  to  give 
some  i'xpression  of  the  feelings  which  this  terrible  event  has  aroused  in  our  hearts;  there- 
fore, be  it 

Resolved^  1.  That  we  regard  the  assassination  of  the  President  as  a  direct  blow  aimed  tX 
the  existence  of  civil  government,  and  as  an  outgrowth  of  doctrines  and  sentiments  which  tf* 
at  war  with  the  spirit  and  genius  of  our  free  institutions. 

Resolved^  2.  That  we  regard  as  traitors  and  outlaws  all  men  who  entertain  or  symptthi*^ 
with  the  doctrines  of  nihilism  or  communism,  and  we  advocate  the  most  radical  and  strei^^ 
ous  methods  to  stamp  out  such  seniiments  (if  any  such  exist)  in  this  country. 

Resolved,  3.  That  we  recognize  in  the  President  the  official  head  of  the  nation,  elev«^ 
to  power  by  the  supreme  voice  of  the  people,  and,  as  such,  the  representative  of  every  ^**^' 
zen  in  the  republic;  and  as  citizens  we  unite  in  sentiments  of  national  regret  over  the  nati^^ 
loss,  and  in  shedding  the  tears  of  sympathy  over  the  grave  of  our  fallen  chieftain  and  fel^^ 
citizen. 

Resolved,  4.  That  we  denounce  the  assassin  who  has  imbued  his  hands  in  the  bloo^  ' 
the  nation's  Executive  as  one  of  the  most  cowardly  and' execrable  criminals  of  which  hi0^^^ 
gives  any  account;  and  yet  we  hold  the  law  of  the  land  to  be  paramount  to  all  other  iui3^^ 
ity,  and  invoke  its  aid  in  meting  out  the  punishment  due  to  his  most  atrocious  crime. 

Resolved,  5.  That  while  we  sensibly  realize  that  this  great  calamity  plunges  the  n^'^^l 
into  grief,  we  behold  with  a  sad  satisfaction  that  the  American  people,  irrespective  of; 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  529 

sects,  or  of  sections,  join  in  one  common  cause  of  sorrow  at  the  death  of  the  nation's 
if  officer,  whom  we  recognize  to  have  been  a  faithful  and  dutiful  President,  and  a  Chris* 
k  statesman  of  rare  virtue  and  ability. 

RB9olvedy  6.  That  we  extend  our  profound  sympathy  to  the  bereaved  family  of  our  de- 
laed  President,  and  especially  to  her  who  during  weeks  of  national  sorrow  and  suspense 
s  nerved  the  heart  of  her  husband  in  his  struggle  for  life,  and  aroused  a  feeling  of  hope  in 
tS  dark^t  hour,  and  who  by  her  devotion  and  affection  has  embalmed  her  own  memory 
lOng  with  that  of  the  Chief  Executive  in  the  hearts  of  stricken  homes  all  over  our  com- 
i«n  country. 
Resolved,  7.  We  recommend  the  suspension  of  all  business  on  the  day  of  the  President's 
aneral,  and  that  such  public  service  be  held  as  shall  be  deemed  suitable  and  appropriate 
0  tbe  occasion. 

After  the  adjournmeut  of  the  meeting  the  various  church  and  col- 
ege  bells  were  tolled  for  an  hour  or  more. 

PRESIDENT    GARFIELD MISSOURI    UNIVERSITY    MEETING. 

Immediately  after  the  Missouri  University  chapel  exercises  closed,  on 
Wednesday  morning,  September  21st,  President  Laws  announced  the 
leath  of  President  Garfield,  whereupon  Hon.  James  S.  Rollins,  pres- 
lent  of  the  Board  of  Curators,  and  chairman  of  the  executive 
ommittee,  proceeded  to  make  a  short,  appropriate  and  feeling  ad- 
Iress,  after  which  he  presented  the  following  resolutions  for  adoption 
y  the  meeting  which,  being  seconded  by  Judge  Bliss,  a  standing 
ote  was  taken,  at  the  instance  of  President  Laws,  and  they  were 
nanimously  agreed  to  :  — 

RESOLUTIONS. 

JUiolvedf  That  we  have  learned  with  profound  grief  of  the  death  of  James  A.  Garfield, 
resident  of  the  United  States,  rendered  all  the  more  distressing  on  account  of  the  circuin- 
ADces  which  led  to  it,  and  of  the  great  suffering  endured  by  him  from  the  time  of  the  fatal 
lot  by  the  assassin  to  the  period  of  his  death. 

Rtsolvedf  That,  in  common  with  all  the  citizens  of  the  American  Republic,  we  feel  a 
^p  sense  of  the  loss  which  the  country  has  sustained  in  the  death  of  our  first  executive 
Boer.    In  his  demise  the  country  has  been  deprived  of  an  eminent  citizen,  distinguished 

A  thoughtful  and  conscientious  Christian  statesman,  a  patriot,  a  scholar,  a  friend  of  the 
'Mention  of  the  people,  and  in  whose  hands  our  cherished  institutions  would  have  been  safe, 
id  the  prosperity  of  the  people  of  every  section  assured. 

^ohedj  That  we  deeply  sympathize  with  his  bereaved  widow  and  orphan  children  in 
*  painful  sufferings  which  they  have  been  compelled  to  endure,  and  in  their  irreparable 
■»  in  being  thus  deprived  of  husband,  father,  friend  and  protector,  and  we  commend  them 
^h«  divine  consolation  of  Him  who  wept  at  the  grave  of  Lazarus. 

'^Ivedy  That  in  our  abhorrence  of  the  foul  crime  which  has  been  committed,  we  must 
^  foi^get  that  we  live  in  a  land  of  liberty  and  law,  and  we  express  the  earnest  hope  that 
^'^  will  be  no  outbreak  or  attempt  on  the  part  of  any  portion  of  the  people  to  punish  the 
'Jiintl,  other  than  according  to  the  forms  of  the  Constitution  and  laws,  which  must  ever 
***inthe  crowning  glory  of  our  free  institutions. 

Solved,  That  a  copy  of  the  foregoing  resolutions  be  transmitted  by  the  president  of  the 
^H  of  Curators  to  the  family  of  the  deceased  President,  with  an  expression  of  the  earnest 
'Apathies  of  all  who  are  connected  with  the  University  of  the  State  of  Missouri. 

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530  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Resolved^  That  the  proctor  of  the  University  be  directed  to  drape  the  columns  of  t2M 
main  edifice  of  the  University  building  with  appropriate  emblems  of  mourning,  commem- 
orative of  the  great  calamity  which  has  befallen  the  entire  country. 

Resolvedt  That  the  proceedings  of  this  meeting  be  published  in  the  papers  of  the  couDtj 
of  Boone  and  city  of  St.  Louis. 

The  board  of  trustees  of  Columbia  also  passed  appropriate  resolu- 
tions.  ^ 

On  the  day  of  President  Garfield's  burial  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  Mon- 
day,  September   26,   1881,   the   business  houses  of   Columbia  were 
closed  from  twelve  o'clock  until  the  next  morning,  and  appropriate 
memorial  services  were  held  in  the  University  chapel,  addresses  beia^ 
delivered  by  Hon.  Philemon  Bliss,  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins  and  Elder 
Wp  Gentry. 

SAD    ACCIDENT    ON   THANKSGIVING   DAY. 


Thanksgiving,  Thursday,  November  24,  1881,  was  a  typical  win 
day  in  Columbia,  clear  and  cold,  with  a  free,  glorious  sunlight  ill 
minating  the  earth.  But  about  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  when  tl 
shades  of  night  were  rapidly  approaching,  the  whole  community  w  a: 
horrified  by  the  report,  which  spread  rapidly  from  house  to  hou^  ^ 
and  speedily  summoned  a  thousand  or  more  of  our  population  to  tl 
scene  of  the  disaster,  that  a  fearful  catastrophe  had  occurred  at  t 
pond  of  Mr.  John  M.  Samuel,  in  the  southeastern  suburbs  of  tfc 
town,  in  which  three  young  persons  were  drowned  and  others  u».:i 
rowly  escaping  with  their  lives. 

The  pond  covers  nearly  two  acres  of  ground,  and  is  in  many  plact^ 

fifteen  or  twenty  feet  deep,  and  when  covered  with  ice,  as  it  wasc^ 

Thursday,  is  a  favorite  skating  place  for  our  young  people.     On  ttm.: 

occasion  twenty  or  thirty  young  lads  and  lasses,  many  of  them  stri. 

dents  of  our  schools,  were  on  the  pond  indulging  in  the  pleasant  ex^i 

cise  of  skating,  when  suddenly  those  who  were  near  the  center  of  t^b 

pond,  and  where,  doubtless,  the  ice  was  the  thinnest  and  the  watx 

deepest,   broke  through,  and,  despite  every  effort  to  rescue  thoii 

three  of  them   were  drowned,  namely :    John   Samuel   Garth,  ag^ 

about  fourteen  years,  eldest  son  of  Walter  W.  Garth,  our  Circu 

Clerk;  Theodore  Murphy,  aged  sixteen,  son  of  Joseph  Murphy,  ^^ 

meriy  of  Platte  county,  Missouri,  and  Maggie  Buckner,  aged  fift^^ 

daughter  of  Mrs.  Clara  Buckner,  of  Lamar,  Bates  count}^  MissaUi 

widow  of  the  late  Rev.  X.  X.  Buckner,  formerly  of  this  county,   ^ 
later  of  Kansas  Citv. 


Jj^^  Ju^^'J^'^ 


HI8TOBY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  531 


CHAPTER    XIT. 

GEOLOGY  OF  BOONE  COUNTY. 

By  Geo.  O.  Swallow,  LL.  D. 

t 

M  Geological  Perioda^-Tbe  Lower  Silurian,  the  Devonian,  the  OarboniferouB  and  the 
QuAlernaiy  Agea.  FormaHona  of  the  Canadian  Period,  —  The  1st  and  2d  Magneiian 
limestone — The  1st  and  2d  Saocharoidal  Sandstone.  7%e  Hamilton  Age,  —  Irregular 
Limestone  Beds  and  Shaly  BCarls.  The,  C^enmn'g  Age.  —  Chouteau  and  Hydraulic  Lime- 
stone—Uinta to  Profidence  People.  The  Carboniferoua  Age,  —  Bncrinital  Limestone — 
Archimedes  LinMstone — Ferruginous  Sandstone  —  The  Coal  Measures  —  Area  of  the 
Coal  Begion — Its  Value  —  Land  worth  $10  contains  $100  worth  of  Coal  — Unimportance 
of  the  Sandstone.  7^  Qjuatemaiy  Age. — The  EMft — ^The  Lacustrine  or  Bluff  De- 
posit—The  Tenaoe — The  Becent—  How  the  Three  Latter  were  Formed.  The  SoiU.  — 
Tsfcble  of  Amount  and  Kind  of  Plant  Food  in  each  Foot  of  Soil  Resting  on  the  Bluff 
Deposit —  '*Our  Boone  Soils  are  Inexhaustible  "  —  Experiments  on  the  College  Farm — 
Bow  Land  turned  out  to  Mullen  and  Sassafras  was,  in  Six  Years  made  to  produce  Forty 
Boabels  of  Wheat  Per  Acre,  without  the  use  of  Fertilizers  ~  How  to  Raise  Wheat  and 
>>n  on  ''Worn-Out"  Land. 

I* be  geology  of  Boone  County,  Missouri,  is  very  variable  and  rich 
Bcientifio  aad  industrial  products. 

THE   GEOLOGICAL   PERIODS. 

^^nning  at  the  oldest,  we  find  — 

L   The  Canadian,  of  the  L  Siluriak  Ags. 
^{cSa^  m2L"«!SI.^^  C^onitebous  Ao.. 


XV. 


r  Drift..... 

T^^!!?.7.!ZZ',  h'  ^^^  Quaternary  Age. 
Recent 


The  formations  which  belong  to  the  Canadian  Periods^  are  the 
^  and  2d  Magnesian  LimestoneSy  and  the  1st  or  SaccJiaroidal 
^ndstone.  These  rocks  underlie  all  the  southeastern  part  of  the 
^tity,  and  crop  out  in  the  bluffs  of  the  Missouri,  from  Providence 
the  Cedar,  some  miles  up  the  Cedar,  and  in  many  of  the  ravines  in 
t  part  of  the  county. 

^Vie  Saocharoidal  Sandstone  is  a  white,  sometimes  brown,  sand- 
^e,  which  easily  crumbles,  and  derives  its  name  from  its  resem- 
•l:ice  to  sugar  in  color  and  structure.     It  is  an  excellent  material  for, 


532  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

and  is  much  used  in  making  white  mortar  for  fine  plastering.  Itig 
the  best  material  for  fine  glass  and  is  used  in  the  glass  manufactories 
of  this  State,  and  is  exported  in  large  quantities  to  other  parts  of  the 
country. 

The  1st  and  2nd  Magnesian  Limestones  contain  many  beds  of 
superior  building  stone  which  are  both  beautiful  and  durable,  as 
shown  in  the  buildings  at  Claysville  and  other  localities.  The  fine 
cream  colored  beds  called  cotton  rock^  are  regularly  stratified  and 
easily  quarried  and  cut  into  ashlers,  and  make  beautiful  building 
stone,  as  seen  in  the  State  House. 

It,  however,  must  be  selected  with  great  care  since  some  of  the  beds 
crack  on  exposure  to  frost,  a  defect  visible  in  the  steps  and  flagging 
of  the  State  House.  Excellent  quarries  of  these  limestones  are  found 
in  many  places  in  the  southeastern  part  of  the  county.  These  mag- 
nesian limestones  produce  a  warm,  lively  soil,  the  best  in  Missouri  for 
grnpos  and  other  fruits,  as  is  well  shown  by  the  vineyards  and  orchards 
on  the  bluffs  and  slopes  underlaid  by  these  rocks. 

The  formations  which  belonor  to  the  Hamilton  A$^e  are  irregular 
beds  of  limestones  and  sandstones  and  shaly  marls.  These  marls  and 
limestones^  are  often  filled  with  beautiful  corals  and  shells,  which 
peopled  the  warm,  shallow  seas  in  which  these  rocks  were  deposited. 
The  remains  of  coral  reefs  are  sometimes  found  in  the  Devonian  rocks. 
The  falls  of  the  Ohio  at  Louisville  are  produced  by  a  reef  of  this  nature. 

Only  a  small  portion  of  this  county,  along  the  Cedar,  is  underlaid 
with  these  rocks.  Thev  are  but  little  used  in  the  arts,  but  the  de- 
con)p()sing  marly  shales  produce  strong,  durable  soils. 

The  formations  belonging  to  the  Chemung  Age  are  concretioni^'^J 
beds   of  fine,  bluish  limestone  having  thin,  shaly  beds   between   tl^® 
strata.     This  formation  is  often  tilled  with  beautiful  little  shells  O-^^ 
was  named  Chouteau  limestone,  as  it  was  first  examined  and  idet^^^' 
fied  as  a  distinct  formation  at  Chouteau  Springs,  in  Cooper  county^    ^^ 
1852.     These  Chouteau  limestones  are  well  exposed  in  the  low  bli^^ 
just  below  Providence,  and  also  in  the  base  of  the  high  bluffs  ahc^'^ 
the  town.     They  have  been  but  little  used;  but  when  well  burri- 
they  make  a  strong  semi-hydraulic  lime. 

Resting  upon  the  beds  of  Chouteau  limestone  are  some   fift}' 
of  thick,   heavy  beds  of  impure,  bluish  gray  limestone,  called 
draulic  limestone,  from  its  marked  hydraulic  properties. 

These  thick  beds  of  hydraulic  limestone  make  most  durable  ashl^^^ 
for  l)uildings  and  bridges,  as  shown  in  the  old  custom-house  in 


HI8TOBT  OF   BOONB   COUNTY.  533 

(ois,  and  many  other  buildings  and  numerous  bridges  in  various 
rU  of  the  State.  These  beds  of  hydraulic  limestone  are  well  ex- 
>sed  in  the  middle  of  the  high  bluffs  both  above  and  below  Provi- 
ince,  and  furnished  the  excellent  stone  for  the  various  buildings  in 
at  town.  These  beds  extend  up  the  Missouri  and  the  Perche  as  high 
I  the  bridge  on  the  gravel  road.  ^ 

This  limestone  will  make  as  good  a  hydraulic  cement  as  any  made 
the  West.  Vast  quautities  could  be  quarried  at  Providence  at 
igbt  cost ;  and  it  is  so  high  in  the  bluffs  it  could  be  dumped  into  the 
Ids,  and  from  the  kilns  into  the  mill,  and  from  the  mill  into  the 
mts  which  would  carry  it  at  the  cheapest  rates  to  all  towns  and 
ties  which  buy  millions  of  barrels  and  send  them  all  over  the  great 
^est.  Providence  might  command  this  great  trade  and  add  millions 
» the  wealth  and  hundreds  to  the  population  of  our  noble  old  county, 
'ehave  the  rock,  the  wood  to  burn  it  and  to  make  'the  barrels  to 
Jd  it,  the  money  to  carry  on  the  business  and  the  river  to  carry  the 
oducts  to  market.  There  is  not  so  favorable  a  locality  in  America 
r  the  manufacture  of  hydraulic  cement.  Not  many  years  will 
tpse  before  some  enterprising  firm  will  utilize  this  grand  gift  of  the 
vonian  seas. 

The  formations  belonging  to  the  Carboniferous  Age  are  the  En- 
nital  limestone^  the  Archimedes  limestone^  the  Ferruginous  sand- 
te  and  the  coal  measures.  The  EncHnilal  limestone  is  a  gray, 
nular,  heavy-bedded  limestone,  containing  many  concretions  of 
rt  in  the  upper  pait,  and  a  vast  quantity  of  the  remains  of  encri- 
M  and  other  fossils.  The  sea  in  which  it  was  deposited,  swarmed 
h  radiates,  molluscs  and  fishes.  This  limestone  is  durable  and 
kutiful,  and  has  furnished  the  materials  for  all  the  buildings  in  Co- 
ibia  and  Rocheport  and  the  adjoining  country.  It  furnished  mate- 
I  for  all  the  rock-work  in  the  University  buildings,  save  the  miser- 
e  sandstone  used  for  the  window  and  door  sills  of  the  Scientific 
ilding.  I  protested  against  its  use  when  it  was  voted  in,  and  I  pro- 
t  against  it  still.  It  will  soon  have  to  be  replaced  by  more  durable 
•terial. 

Bluffs  of  this  limestone  are  seen  below  the  bridge  east  of  Columbia, 
Goose  creek,  in  town  and  all  along  the  Hinkson  to  the  south  and 
thwest.  It  caps  the  bluffs  at  Providence,  extends  up  the  Missouri 
tiocheport,  and  up  the  Moniteau,  forming  its  bluffs.  It  is  the  pre- 
ing  rock  in  all  the  southwestern  part  of  the  country,  and  south 
Ashland. 


534  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

The  Encrinital  limestone  abounds  in  caves  and  under-ground 
streams.  Connor's  cave,  a  large  cave  in  the  bluffs  of  the  Missouri, 
below  Rocheport,  the  one  at  Rock  bridge,  Rock  bridge  itself,  and 
several  other  caves  in  the  county,  are  in  this  limestone.  The  countiy 
underlaid  with  this  rock  abounds  in  sink-holes,  through  which  the 
surface  water  reaches  subterranean  streams ;  as  shown  along  the 
course  of  Connor's  cave.  The  great  amount  of  clay  and  sand  in  this 
cave  was  washed  in  throus^h  these  sink-holes. 

Bold  perennial  springs  abound  in  the  Encrinital  limestone.  The 
famous  Rollins's  spring,  on  the  College  farm,  is  a  good  sample  of  the 
springs  flowing  from  this  rock. 

The  flint  concretions  of  this  formation  furnished  the  mound-buildere 
and  their  successors,  the  Indians,  with  materials  for  their  plow-points, 
knives,  spears  and  arrow  heads,  as  shown  by  many  specimens  placed 
in  the  University  by  Mr.  Lawson  Stuart  and  others. 

There  were  several  extensive  manufactories  of  flint  implements  in 
this  State.     One   near  Bolivar  is  described  in  my  second  geological 
report.     Hatchets    were    usually  made   of    a   harder   and    stronger 
rock ;  but  I  have  one  made  of  this  limestone  which  I  found  in  tkiis 
county. 

The  joints  of  crinoidal  columns  so  abundant  in  this  rock,  and  so  lifee 
buttoti  moulds,  were  used  strung  on  sinews  as  an  ornament  by  tl:ie 
Indians.  These  curious  fossils  are  sometimes  called  "  St.  Cuthbert's 
buttons  "  from  the  legend  that  represents  this  saint  as  spending  fciJs 
time  seated  on  the  western  bluffs  of  England  whittling  these  unique 
fossils  from  the  rock.  If  he  made  all  that  are  found  in  the  rotks,  lie 
must  have  been  the  prince  of  whittlers. 

The  Archimedes  Limestone  which  rests  upon  the  Encrinital,  is  litbio- 
logically  much  like  the  latter,  but  presents  an  entirely  new  set  of  fo^ 
sils.  The  one  most  noted,  and  from  which  the  rock  takes  its  name,  is 
the  axis  of  a  reticulated  coral  in  the  form  of  a  screw.  This  limestone 
is  found  on  the  Perche  below  the  railroad  bridge.  It  is  but  sparingly 
developed  and  of  but  little  consequence  in  Boone ;  although  it  con- 
tains nearly  all  the  lead  and  zinc  mines  in  southwest  Missouri. 

The  Coal  Measures  underlie  nearly  or  quite  half  the  county,  to  *'*^® 
north  and  northeast.     The  southern  boundary  of  these  rocks  exte*^ 


from  south  of  Thrall's  prairie  in  a  very  irregular  line  through  ColU 
bia  and  southeast  to  the  Cedar  ;  and  all  north  and  east  of  this  liii^  ^^ 
underlaid  with  coal.  From  one  to  five  successive  beds  of  this  val*^^ 
ble  mineral  underlie  all  this  part  of  the  countv.     Some  of  these  l>^ 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  585 

iraish  an  excellent  article  for  domestic  and  manufacturing  purposes. 
Qtwo  of  the  beds  we  have  the  black  coal,  so  much  valued  by  manu- 
ictarers  for  furnace  work,  since  it  will  burn  without  coking,  which 
«ves  the  expense  of  coking.  This  coal  consists  of  thin  laminaa  of 
niDeml  charcoal  and  bituminous  coal.  The  charcoal  prevents  the 
docks  from  melting  and  choking  the  furnace.  The  coal  measures 
ire  made  up  of  numerous  beds  of  limestone,  clays,  shales  (soap- 
itone),  sandstone,  iron  ore  and  coal. 

The  sandstones  are  very  irregular  and  of  little  value.  One  bed  is 
ihowu  at  Dripping  Springs,  where  it  is  very  thick.  The  limestones 
ire  used  for  all  the  ordinary  purposes,  and  some  of  them  are  emi- 
leotly  hydraulic. 

The  coal  will  in  time  be  appreciated  at  its  real  value.  If  a  bushel 
f  coal  is  worth  a  cent  in  the  mine,  then  the  coal  of  Boone  county  is 
rorth  more  than  the  whole  county  would  sell  for  at  the  present  time, 
'arms  sell  for  $10  and  $20  per  acre  which  have  coal  on  them  worth  a 
undi'ed  dollars  per  acre.  In  a  few  years  the  value  of  this  mineral 
ill  be  better  appreciated  and  men  will  wonder  why  they  did  not  see 
sooner. 

The  formations  belonging  to  the  Quatemai^y  Age  are  the  Drifts 
B  Lacustrine^  the  Terrace ^  and  the  Recent, 

The  Drift  is  a  gift  of  the  glacial  period  of  little  importance  in  Boone  ; 
ice  it  consists  of  a  few  feet  of  gravel  and  pebbles  and  here  and 
ere  a  boulder  often  called  lost  rock  or  nigger  heads  so  odd  and 
rd  are  the  v. 

The  Lancustrinej  or  Bluffy  is  by  far  the  most  valuable  of  all  the  for- 
ntions  of  Boone  county,  and  it  underlies  all  the  uplands  and  renders 
em  inexhaustibly  fertile  for  all  future  generations.  This  formation 
usually  called  clay  and  lies  immediately  below  the  soil,  forming  a 
bstratum  above  the  consolidated  rocks  from  five  to  fifty  feet  thick, 
lese  beds  of  silicious  marls  were  deposited  in  a  lake  which  covered 
>rth  and  Central  Missouri  just  after  the  glacial  period.  The  Mis- 
iiri  and  other  rivers  to  the  north  and  west  washed  out  from  the 
jund-up  rocks  of  all  the  northwest  the  best  soil  material  and  distrib- 
ad  the  same  over  the  bed  of  this  great  lake,  where  Boone  county 
en  was.  Thus  the  soils  of  Missouri  are  made  up  of  the  best  ma- 
rials  of  all  the  rocks  of  the  States  and  Territories  now  drained  by  the 
issouri  and  Upper  Mississippi. 

The  Terrace  was  formed  where  this  lake  was  drained  and  the  waters 
jre  reduced  to  the  immediate  valleys  of  our  rivers,  where  the  bottom 


536 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


prairies  and  wooded  bottoms  were  formed,  yielding  the  very  best  sub- 
strata for  soils  yet  discovered ;  since  they  are  rich  in  plant-food  and 
pervious  to  the  river  waters,  which  moisten  the  soil  and  prevent  the 
dire  effects  of  droughts. 

The  Recent  consists  of  such  beds  of  loose  materials  as  the  rivers 
and  other  causes  are  now  forming.  Sand-bars,  deltas,  slides,  and  soil 
are  some  of  the  beds  belonging  to  the  Recent  period  in  Boone 
County. 

The  soils  are  by  far  the  most  important  formation  in  the  county. 
All  the  varieties  of  the  State,  save  the  very  poorest,  the  black-jack 
soil,  is  represented  in  the  county.  The  hackberry  and  crow-foot 
lands  at  Thrall's  prairie.  The  ^  elm  lands  at  various  localities  be- 
tween Thrall's  prairie,  Rochepoit,  Columbia,  and  Ashland.  The 
hickory  lauds  are  abundant  about  Columbia  and  the  white  oak  Ipds 
are  represented  in  the  bluffs  and  ridges  of  the  principal  streams  of 
the  county.  All  of  these  soils  have  about  the  same  subsoil  and  all 
rest  substantially  upon  the  same  foundation,  and  have  certain  char- 
acteristics in  common. 

To  show  at  a  glance  the  amount  of  plant  food  in  the  soil  itself,  and 
then  in  each  foot  of  depth  below  the  soil,  I  have  prepared  the  follow- 
ing table,  which  presents  an  average  of  all  the  varieties  of  soils  rest- 
ing on  the  bluff,  from  the  richest  hackberry  land  to  the  poorest  white 
oak,  and  the  amount  for  each  foot  in  depth  for  the  first  three  feet,  and 
also  for  one  foot  at  the  depth  of  twelve  feet  below  the  surface.  Other 
portions  between  the  third  and  twelfth  foot  and  below  are  equally  rich. 


TABLE    SHOWING    THE    AMOUNT    OF    THE     VARIOUS   ELEMENTS     OP    PLANT    FOOD    IK  %k^<^ 

FOOT   OF  THE   MISSOURI   SOILS    RESTING   ON  THE   BLUFF. 


First  loot. 

^ 


19.10(5  lbs. 


Lime 

Magnesia ,  13.329 

Potash 13.310 

Soda I  7.167 

Phosphoric  Acid '  12.808 

Orscanic  Matter I  209.630 

Sulphuric  Acid ,  3.180 

Chlorine '  .405 

Carbonic  Acid I  not  known. 


ii 


Secoud  Foot. 


16.117  lbs. 
30.927    »' 
32.234 
7.406 
11.157 
263.381 
2.990 
.429 
not  known. 


n 
ii 


Third  Foot. 


29.494  lbs 

18.184    " 

17.413 

11.343 

13.996 

142.310 

4.061 

.604 

not  known. 


ii 
ii 

a 
ii 

ii 
ti 


Twelfth  Yo 


o*- 


26.4«4 
18.81S 
40.420 
104.644 
1.491 
46.787 
not  knowr^ 
not  knowr^ 
44.606^ 


This  table  shows  these  soils  as  rich  in  plant  food,  save  the  orgam^^ 
matter,  at  a  depth  of  three  feet  as  they  are  at  the  surface,  even  a  IL  "* 
tie  richer  iu  phosphoric  acid,  soda,  potash,  chlorine  aud   sulphur 


HISTORY  OF   BOONB   COUNTY.  587 

At  twelve  feet  below  the  surface  the  amount  of  plant  food  is 
greater  except  m  organic  matter  and  phosphoric  acid, 
irmers  usually  cultivate  less  than  one  foot  of  their  soils,  and  when 
plant  food  in  that. is  exhausted  they  use  fertilizers  at  great  ex- 
e  of  money  and  labor  to  supply  the  plant  food.  But  the  farmer 
lese  Missouri  soils,  when  the  surface  soil  is  exhausted,  has  an  abun- 
e  of  the  best  fertilizers  in  his  subsoil ;  and  instead  of  buying  f er- 
irs  and  spreading  them  over  the  surface,  he  sets  his  plow  a  little 
er  and  turns  them  up  from  bis  own  stores  in  the  subsoil.  And 
1  the  plants  have  consumed  the  supply  thus  obtained,  there  is 
lower  down,  enough  of  the  same  costly  materials  to  replenish  his 
i  hundred  times  ;  for  it  goes  all  the  way  down  to  depths  varying 
10  to  200  feet,  all  about  equally  rich  as  the  table  shows  it  to  be 
depth  of  twelve  feet. 

show  the  money  value  of  this  store  of  plant  food  in  the  subsoil 
I  these  lands,  we  may  reckon  the  commercial  value  of  the  phos- 
c  acid  for  a  single  foot  in  depth  on  one  acre.  The  second  foot 
ese  soils,  that  is,  the  subsoil  from  the  depth  of  one  foot  to  two 
in  every  acre,  contains  11,157  pounds  of  this  acid  At  ten 
^  a  pound  this  would  cost  $1,115.70.  The  next  foot  below,  that 
)m  two  to  three  feet  in  depth,  contains  in  each  acre  13,996 
Is  of  phosphoric  acid,  which  would  cost  $1,399.60.  Thus  it  is 
that  two  feet  only  of  these  subsoils,  contain  on  each  aci*e  as  much 
)horic  acid  as  could  be  bought  in  commercial  fertilizers  for 
5.30. 

e  soils  as  above  shown,  from  which  these  results  are  obtained, 
selected  as  representative  soils  from  the  lands  of  all  grades  and 
all  parts  of  North  and  Central  Missouri.  The  soils  of  Boone 
y  give  the  same  results. 

we  should  calculate  the  commercial  value  of  the  other  fertilizers, 
tash,  soda,  sulphuric  acid,  chlorine  and  organic  matter  found  in 
ibsoils  of  a  single  acre,  and  if  the  calculation  be  extended  to  a 
of  ten  feet  or  one  hundred  feet,  the  result  would  be  somewhat 
ing.  Such  a  calculation  would  not  fall  far  short  of  a  demoustra- 
rf  the  often  repeated  assertion,  *'  Our  Boone  soils  are  inex- 
ibler 

3  experiments  at  the  College  farm  fully  establish  the  value  of  these 
ific  deductions  and  prove  the  soils,  —  the  poorest  soils — of  the 


le  commercial  value  of  phosphoric  acid  is  twelve  and  a  half  cents  per  pound. 


538  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

county  practically  inexhaustible  under  intelligent  culture.  On  the 
College  farm  we  had  extensive  areas  of  soils  exhausted  by  some  fifty 
years'  ordinary  culture,  mostly  in  corn.  These  lands  had  been  turned 
out  as  exhausted  and  were  washed  full  of  gullies  and  sustained  a  scant 
growth  of  grass,  mullen,  and  sassafras.  Such  exhausted  land  was 
plowed  and  subsoiled  to  bring  up  the  plant  food  of  the  subsoil  and 
planted  in  corn  for  ten  successive  years  without  a  pailicle  of  any  kind 
of  fertilizer.  This  corn  was  from  year  to  year  equal  to  the  best 
raised  in  the  county ;  as  many  witnesses  can  testify. 

Mr.  Maddox  has  tried  the  same  kind  of  experiments  with  wheat  ou 
the  white  oak  ridges  east  of  the  farm  house  which  had  been  so  ex- 
hausted by  corn  as  to  preclude  the  hope  of  a  renumerative  crop  and 
had  been  turned  out  to  mullen  and  sassafras.     When  Mr.  Maddox 
commenced  cutting  out  the  grubs  and  filling  gullies  preparatory  to  put- 
ting these  exhausted  lands  in  wheat,  he  was  told  by  some  of  our  best     ■ 
farmers  he  would  lose  his  labor,  as  it  would  produce  no  wheat.    But 
the  subsoil  was  stirred   and  the  wheat  for  the  first  year  yielded  lesfr 
than  five  bushels  per  acre.     But  it  has  steadily  increased  until  this, 
the  sixth  year,  when  the  yield  was  over  forty  bushels  per  acre  and 
furnished  the  only  No.  1  wheat  shipped  from  the  county  this  year  to 
date,^ 

Such  a  discovery,  so  completely  sustained  by  these  experiments  on 
the  college  farm  by  myself  and  Mr.  Maddox  more  than  repay  the  county 
and  State  for  all  they  have  expended  on  the  college,  however  adverse 
the  circumstances  under  which  we  have  labored. 

These  analyses  of  the  bluff  and  subsoils  and  the  experiments  show- 
ing the  presence  of  so  much  available  plant  food  in  our  subsoils  and 
underlying  marls,  fully  prove  our  soils  may  be  successfully  cultivated 
indefinitely  without  resort  to  fertilizers  by  subsoiling  and  thus  utiliz- 
ing the  immense  quantity  of  plant  food  which  has  been  placed  in  our 
subsoils  and  underlying  marls,   to  the  depth  of  from  five  to  fifty  feet. 

If  wheat  is  cultivated  and  the  stubble  plowed  under  by  deep  an^ 
thorough  culture  the  yield  will  improve  as  the  years  roll  on  ;  but  com 
requires   more  organic  matter,  and  if  the  stalks  are  removed,  the  sou 
will  in  the   course  of  years  need  clovering  or  other  green  manures. 
Stable    manure    will    answer   the    same    purpose    though    a  grei^^^' 
expense. 

Such  are  the  ffeoloorical  features  of  favored  old  Boone. 


*  No  fertilizers  were  used  in  any  of  these  experiments. 


HI8TOBT   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  589 


CHAPTER    XV. 

BOURBON  TOWNSHIP. 

• 

and  Description  —  Gteologj  and  Archseology  —  Early  Settlements  —  Items  of  Early 
►ry  —  Organisation  —  War  Times  —  Burning  of  the  Sturgeon  Bridge  —  Destruction  • 
e  Railroad  —  Skirmish  in  Riggs's  Pasture —  Sentenced  to  be  Shot  —  Jim  Jackson's 
t — Hanging  of  Amos  Judy  —  Anecdotes  —  Miscellaneous  —  Stories  by  "  Uncle  " 
ett  Bruce  —  "  Uncle  "  John  Alexander — Railroad  Fires  —  The  Shroyer  Murder  — 
ting  of  Rowland  by  Wade  —  Old  Petersburg — McGauley's  Mill  —  School  Houses  — 
itry  Churches— Cemeteries— 7%«  Town  of  Sturgeon  — Evtly  History —  " Buena 
i"— The  "Firsts"— Early  Days  in  Sturgeon— In  Time  of  War  —  Fires  —  Stur- 
itesin"Nigger  Wool"  Swamp  — Killing  of  Benj.  Croswhite  —  Industries,  Institu- 
,  Associations,  etc — Court  of  Common  Pleas  —  Official  History — Churches  — 
5  Orders  — Schools— Cemetery- The  "Leader"  —  Biographies  of  Old  Settlers  and 
ainent  Citizens  of  Bourbon  Township. 

POSITION    AND   DESCRIPTION. 

irbon   township   is   the  northwest  corner  township   of  Boone 
jr.    It  comprises  all  of  township  51,  range  12,  and  township 
ncre  13,  and  fractional  township  51,  range  14,  —  running  to  the 
rd  County  line  on  the  west,  and  to  Centralia  township  on  the 
It  is  bounded  on  the  north  by  Randolph  and  Audrain  counties, 
tt  the  south  by  Perche  and  Rocky  Fork  townships, 
surface  is  mingled  prairie  and  timber.     Some  of  the  timber  land 
ered  with  thin  soil,  as  is  a  portion  of  the  prairie,  but  in  general 
ad  is  very  fertile.     The  few  tracts  of  bottom  land  are  remark- 
f)r  grass.     In  1872  Mr.  W.  G.  Ridgway,  of  Sturgeon,  cut  three 
►f  hay  from  one  acre  of  meadow,  which  he  sold  for  $26.     The 
was  fully  five  feet  high,  and  was  so  rank  and  heavy  that  it  fell 
lodged  "  and  could  not  be  cut  with  a  mowing  machine,  but  was 
1  with  a  scythe.     From  sixteen  acres  Mr.  R.  secured  a  crop  of 
forty  tons.     The  land  was  rich  bottom. 

SOME   GEOLOGICAL    AND    ARCH^OLOGICAL   FEATURES. 

aland  Iron  Ore, — Along  Perche  Creek  and  in  the  vicinity 
is  a  considerable  quantity  of  a  good  article  of  coal.  Banks  have 
opened  and  worked  successfully.  A  great  deal  of  the  coal  has 
shipped  to  Sturgeon  and  Rocheport.  Iron  ore  is  also  to  be 
,  but  not  in  sufficient  quantities  as  yet  to  justify  the  erection  of 

t/QS. 


540  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

lied  Granite.  —  Some  substantial  and  valuable  deposits  of  fine  red 
granite  are  to  be  found  six  or  seven  miles  southeast  of  Sturgeon,  in 
this  township  and  in  Rocky  Fork  and  Perche.  The  stone  is  to  be 
found  in  great  abundance.  It  was  discovered  by  Dr.  A.  Titus  aod 
W.  H.  Welch  —  or  first  developed  by  them.  Red  Rock  Church,  in 
Perche  township,  is  named  from  the  abundance  of  this  peculiar  kiud  of 
stone  in  its  neighborhood. 

Plaster  Sand. — On  the  {premises  of  Mr.  Wm.  Dinwiddie,  that 
gentleman  dug  a  well  twenty-six  feet  deep.  At  the  depth  of  thirteen 
feet  below  the  surface,  a  vein  of  fine  white  sand  was  struck  which  ran 
down  about  thirteen  feet  further,  when  a  stratum  of  gravel  was 
reached  and  the  water.  The  sand  proved  to  be  excellent  for  plaster- 
er's use. 

Remarkable  Cave.  —  In  the  northwest  quarter  of  sectioil  34,  tp. 
51,  range  13,  is  located  a  cave  with  some  very  remarkable  character- 
istics. It  has  been  explored  to  an  extent  of  200  yards,  where  is 
reached  a  house,  naturally  formed  of  solid  rock.  In  its  greatest 
breadth  it  makes  a  very  good  sized  room.  This  cave  was  stopped  up 
by  some  railroad  men,  who  built  a  culvert  and  filled  up  the  mouth, 
or  entrance  at  which  used  to  flow  a  large  spring  of  very  cold  water. 
On  one  occasion,  in  early  days,  some  dogs  chased  a  panther  into  this 
cave,  and  their  owners  were  forced  to  enter  after  them  in  order 
to  save  them.  There  are  many  incidents  narrated  in  connection 
with  the  history  of  this  cave,  which  must  be  omitted  for  waut  of 
room. 

Panther    Cave.  —  About   half  a    mile    north    of  the    cave  above 
descril)ed  is  Panther  Cave,  so  called  from  the  fact  that  in  pioneer  days 
it  was  infested  by  panthers  in  dangerous  numbers,  and  their  fierce 
bowlings    and  snarlings   many  a  time  chilled    the  blood   of  many  * 
traveler  who  came  upon  the  den  unawares.     It  is  not  so  large  as  the 
first   cave,  but  is  well  worth  a  visit  to  see.     Not  far  from  it,  anc 
within  a  short  distance  of  tfie  larger  cave  are  two  cylindrical  openings 
in  the  earth  called    '*  sink  holes,  "    having  the  appearance  of  waU^ 
wells,  and  being  of  considerable  depth. 

Fine  Spring.  —  On  the  northeast  quarter  of  section  34,  tp.  ^ 
range  13,  on  the  premises  now  owned  by  Willis  Brundege,  Esq.,  tt^ 
is  a  very  large  and  fine  spring  of  good  water. 

The  Mound' Builders.  — Evidences  of  the  presence  at  one  time 
this  township  of  that  mysterious  race  known  as  the  Mound-Builds  ^ 
are  plenty.     Numerous  mounds  exist  and  have  existed,  specimens 


HI8TORT   OF  BOONE   COUNTT.  541 

ttery  have  been  found,  and  flint  arrow-heads  can  be  picked  up  in 
eat  abundance.  John  Alexander  has  quite  a  collection  of  arrow 
A  lance  heads,  which  were  gathered  in  this  township. 
Along  Roche  Perche  Creek,  starting  from  Perche  Church  and 
llowing  the  creek  do^n  about  two  miles,  are  numerous  mounds,  the 
ark,  undoubtedly,  of  the  famed  mound-builders.  These  mounds 
•e  from  three  to  six  feet  in  heischt,  and,  on  an  average,  are  from  100 
200  yards  apart.  They  number  about  twenty  well-defined  speci- 
ens.  Dr.  Davis,  of  Sturgeon,  and  Wm.  Prowell  opened  one  of 
ese  mounds  on  the  farm  of  the  hitter.  In  the  center  they  found  a 
jrfect  vault,  the  roof  of  which  was  covered  with  stones.  In  this 
mltlay  a  large  skeleton.  It  measured  seven  inches  across  the  fore- 
lad  and  the  size  of  the  other  bones  was  in  proportion.  The  general 
rm  and  character  of  the  mounds  indicate  that  they  are  of  the  sepul- 
iral  kind  ;  that  is,  they  are  merely  resting  places  for  the  dead, 
jvcnil  other  skeletons  and  parts  of  skeletons  were  taken  out  of  other 
onnds  in  Mr.  Prowell's  field.  Many  of  the  mounds  are  covered 
ith  heavy  timber,  some  of  which  is  hundreds  of  years  old,  per- 
ips.  There  is  a  peculiar  yellow  or  mulatto  soil  along  where  the 
ounds  occur,  but  the  elevations  themselves  seem  to  be  of  common 
ith. 

Mr.  McCauley  says  that  in  1876,  on  opening  one  of  the  mounds,  a 
pewas  found.  It  was  made  of  clay  and  had  been  burned  or  baked 
(6  a  piece  of  pottery.  It  was  of  ordinary  size,  and  seemed  to  have 
m  placed  in  the  hand  of  the  Indian  with  whom  it  was  buried.  The 
wl  was  thought  to  contain  ashes  and  soot,  as  though  it  had  been 
*e(l  and  not  well  cleaned  just  before  burial.  The  mouth-piece  of  the 
em  was  considerablv  worn  as  if  bv  the  teeth  ot  the  owner.  The 
pe  was  sent  to  the  Centennial  Exhibition  at  Philadelphia,  in  1876. 

EARLY    SETTLEMENTS. 

It  is  Stated  that  the  first  settler  in  this  township  was  a  man  named 
ggs,  who  located  three  miles  south  of  where  Sturgeon  now  stands 
d  huilt  a  cabin,  as  early  as  the  year  1818.  This  property  now  be- 
igstoMr.  Daniel  Mayer,  of  Sturgeon.     Again  it  is  asserted  that 

ck  Lynch  and Runnels  were  the  first  settlers  in  what  is  now 

'U'bon  township.  Nothing  very  definite  or  explicit  can  be  learned, 
^ever,  reMrdinor  these  settlements. 

*^bert  Rowland  settled  on  the  northeast  quarter  of  section  35, 
'^ship  51,  range  13,  near  the  Perche  line,  about  the  year  1827. 


542  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Robert  Schooling  came  to  the  southeast  quarter  of  the  section  whew 
Rowland  settled  in  1831,^  and  Woodson  Evans  settled  near  Schooling 
about  the  same  time,  as  did  also  Wm.  Kincaid.     Rowland  and  School 
ing  were  from  Kentucky.     North  of  Schooling's  settlement,  in  tlie 
northeast  quarter  of  section  26,  township  51*  range  13,  Nicholas S. 
Woods  settled  in  1832.      Ira  Taylor  located  two   and  a  half  milei 
southwest  of  Sturgeon  some  time  between  the  years  1845  and  1848. 
Near  here  the  first  house  in  the  Grand  Prairie  was  built  by  Wm. 
Green ;  date  not  learned,  neither  has  the  date  of  Green's  settlement 
been  ascertained. 

In  the  Schooling  settlement  the  first  marriage  reported  is  that  of 
Sam.  Rowland  and  Emeline  Schooling,  in  1832.  The  marriage  oc- 
curred at  Schooling's,  and  the  ceremony  was  performed  by  the  dis- 
tinguished Baptist  minister.  Rev.  Fielding  Wilhite.  The  first  death  ■ 
was  that  of  a  child  of  Woodson  Evans,  about  the  year  1831.  The  ' 
body  was  buried  on  section  2,  township  50,  range  13,  now  Perche 
township. 

The  first  physician  was  Dr.  Alex.  Robinson,  who  practiced  in  1835, 
coming  directly  from  Columbia,  and  to  Missouri  from  Kentucky.  He  ' 
finally  went  to  St.  Joseph.  During  his  residence  in  Boone,  Dr.  Rob- 
inson represented  the  county  in  the  Legislature,  and  after  his  removal 
to  St.  Joseph,  he  was  sent  from  Buchanan  county  to  the  same  body. 
He  was  an  excellent  physician  and  very  popular.  Dr.  Hiram  B. 
Johnson  located  in  1849  or  1850,  about  two  and  a  half  miles  south- 
east of  Sturgeon . 

Very  soon  after  the  settlements  were  effected,   religious  services 
were  held.     The  pioneer  preachers  trod  hard  upon  the  heels  of  ii^^ 
first  cabin  builders,  and  often  were  among  the  latter  class  themselves. 
Dr.  Provines,  an  Old  School  Presbyterian,  held  the  first  services  ^^ 
the  neighborhood,  in   1832.      Another    pioneer    preacher   was  Vfc^ 
Crockett.     Dr.  Provines  preached  the  first  sermon  at  Ed.  Gi'aves'^ 
just  across  in  the  corner  of  Rocky  Fork  township,  section  1,  townsh^ 
50,  range  13. 

The  first  school-house  was  built  on  section  35,  about  1837.     It  wi 
not  an  elaborate  affair,  but  answered  very   well  at  that  day.    T 
name  of  the  first  teacher  has  not  been  obtained,  nor  have  the  fir*^ 
names  of  his  scholars  ;  but  it  is  known  that  the  latter  were  the  childn 
of  Esq.  Schooling,  Rowland,  Evans,  Woods,  and  others. 
'  i 

^  One  account  says  in  1S35. 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE  COUNTY.  548 

ITEMS  OF  EARLY  HISTORY. 

[aimed  that  the  first  physician  in  this  township  was  Dr.  Wells, 
jar  1843,  a  Dr.  Taylor  practiced  in  Pittsburg.  The  first  house 
•airie  below  Sturgeon  was  built  by  W.  D.  Kelly  on  the  north- 
rter  of  section  20,  township  51,  range  12,  in  the  year  1837. 
izabeth  Kelly,  wife  of  W.  D.  Kelly,  is  probably  the  oldest 
male  born  in  Boone  county.  She  is  the  daughter  of  Zadok 
Lid  was  born  in  the  southern  part  of  the  county,  not  far  from 
ice,  February  1, 1819. 

ORGANIZATION. 

lany  years  after  the  organization  of  the  county,  Bourbon 
)  was  included  in  Perche  and  Rocky  Fork  townships.  At  last, 
,  its  population  had  increased  to  such  an  extent,  and  its  interest 
sd  that  the  territory  now  comprised  therein  should  be  erected 
parate  township.  At  the  June  term  of  the  county  court,  1854, 
sact,  on  the  19th 'of  the  month),  the  court  made  the  following 

'  by  the  Courts  That  a  new  municipal  township  be  erected  in  this  county  out  of 
irche  and  Rocky  Fork ;  to  be  taken  out  of  said  townships  by  a  line  running  with 
ip  line  between  townships  50  and  51  across  the  county,  and  all  that  territory  lying 
id  line  in  this  county  to  compose  the  said  new  township,  to  be  denominated 
hwnahip ;  and  it  is  ordered  that  the  place  of  holding  elections  in  said  township  be 
f  Bourbonton. 

town  of  Bourbonton  "   was  also  called  Buena  Vista,  and  is 

to  in  the  sketch  of  the  town  of  Sturgeon,  on  another  page, 
mdaries  of  Bourbon  township  remained  the  same  until  the 

of  Centralia  township.  It  is  said  that  the  township  took  its 
)m  Bourbonton,  then  its  chief  town ;  and  that  the  town  was 
by  some  of  the  citizens  who  were  from  Bourbon  county, 
y,  their  neighborhood  being  called  Bourbon.  It  is  also  le- 
:hat  the  town  was  named  from  the  leading  brand  of  whisky 

in  the  place. 

rS   OF   THE   CIVIL   WAR   IN    BOUBBON   TOWNSHIP  —  BURNING     OY 

THE   STURGEON  BRIDGE. 

irst  act  of  war,  or  act  connected  with  the  war  history,  in  this 
p  was  in  June,  1861.  As  related  to  the  compiler,  on  Saturday, 
I  of  the  month,  the  railroad  bridge  over  Sailingtown  branch  near 
n,  was  burned  about   12   o'clock   of  that  day  by  Sergeant 


544  HISTORY  or  boone  county. 

E.  Bruce  Ball,  who  claimed  to  be  acting  under  special  orders  from  Gror. 
C.  F.  Jackson.  The  bridge  was  soon  rebuilt,  and  trains  were  running 
as  usual. 

DESTRUCTION   OF    THE     NORTH     MISSOURI     RAILROAD     AND    SKIRMISH  IIT 

RIGGS'S   PASTURE.^ 

On  the  night  of  December  20,  1861,  detachments  of  the  companies 
of  Captains  James  Watson,  J.J.  Searcy,  M.  G.  Gorlew,  Francis  Petty, 
W.  F.  Robards  (and  perhaps  of  F.Carson),  all  of  the  Confederate 
service,  amounting  to  about  250  men,  under  command  of  Capt. 
Watson,  raided  the  North  Missouri  Railroad  and  destroyed  a  consid- 
erable  portion  of  the  track  of  that  thoroughfare  in  order  to  prevent. 
the  passage  of  Federal  troops,  the  transportation  of  supplies,  etc. 
The  track  was  injured  considerably,  but  not  very  seriously,  as  it  was 
soon  rebuilt.  Some  bridges  and  trestles  were  burned.  The  men  en- 
gaged in  this  work  looked  upon  the  affair  as  a  sort  of  frolic  to  be  par- 
ticipated in  without  serious  consequences  to  themselves,  but  to  work 
great  injury  to  their  enemies  and  consequent  benefits  to  the  Confeder- 
ate cause. 

The  next  morning  after  the  night's  operations,  the  greater  portion 
of  the  Confederates  encamped  on  Z.  T.  Riggs's  farm,  near  the  center 
of  the  east  half  of  the  northeast  quarter  of  section  24,  township  51, 
range  12,  or  about  four  miles  southwest  of  Centralia.  The  stoppage 
was  made  to  get  breakfast.  While  they  were  eating  they  were  sud- 
denly attacked  by  a  force  of  Federals  commanded  by  Major  David 
McKee,  and  believed  to  belong  to  the  7th  Missouri  Cavalry  Volun- 
teers. By  count  the  Federals  numbered  110  men.  The  attack  was  a 
complete  surprise,  and  being  made  with  great  impetuosity,  and  the 
Federals  being  well  armed  and  mounted,  the  Confederates  were  soon 
routed  and  driven  in  great  confusion  from  the  field. 

The  Confederate  loss  was  John  Onan,  Jr.,  andThos.  Tolson,  killed; 
James  Tolson  mortally  wounded  ;  Allen  Pipes  and  Beverly  Shackle- 
ford  wounded,  and  a  young  man   named  McQuitty  had  ^both  thig^^ 
broken  by    being  thrown    from    his   horse,  while  trying  to  escape* 
Capt.    Watson  was  slightly   wounded,   and    others  were   scratch^^* 
The  Federals  had  some  men  wounded,  but  none  killed.     A  few  of  ^■^' 
Confederates  went  to  Joel  Palmer's  for  breakfast,  and  afterwards  v^^ 
by  mistake  so  close  upon  the  Federals  that  they  were  made  prison 


»  Sometimes  caUed  "the  Riggs'sRun  Fight'* 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  545 

les  were  Thos.  M.  Smith,  John  Patton,  Stephen  Stott, 
Tompkins,  of  Boone  county ;  R.  B.  Crowder,  of  Macon 
eorge  H.  Cunningham  and  George  M.  Pulliam  from  Holt 

le  wounded  were  at  first  taken  into  Mr.  Riggs's  house,  **  and 
it  pretty  bloody,"  says  Mr.  R.  Soon  after  the  Federals 
ved  to  Sturgeon,  where  their  wounds  were  dressed  and  at- 
by  Dr.  J.  S.  Lockridge.  The  doctor  states  that  Maj.  Mc- 
.  him  to  hurry  up  and  go  out  to  the  battlefield,  as  there 
ided  Confederates  there  who  needed  his  assistance  worse 
)wn  (the  Major's)  men.  The  Major  seemed  actuated  by 
mpulses  on  this  occasion  and  made  a  favorable  impression 
I  whom  he  came  in  contact.  After  attending  to  the  Federal 
it  Sturgeon,  Dr.  Lockridge  hastened  to  the  scene  of  the 
nd  dressed  the  wounds  of  the  Confederates,  in  which  work 
isted  by  Dr.  Elliott,  of  Watson's  forces,  who  had  been  cap- 
paroled. 

ifederate  prisoners  were  first  taken  to  Macon  City,  and  from 
Palmyra.  Here  they  were  tried  by  a  military  commission 
Col.  Groesbeck,  39th  Ohio  Infantry,  was  president,  on  a 
uilroad  and  bridge  burning,  convicted  and  sentenced  **  to  be 
Eith  at  such  time  and  place  as  the  major  general  command- 
partment  shall  direct."  Gen.  Halleck  at  that  time  was  in 
and  he  approved  the  sentence  and  deputed  Gen.  Prentiss 
em  of  their  approaching  fate.  The  time  and  place  were 
^nated.  February  20,  1862,  Gen.  Halleck  issued  an  order, 
e  declared  that ''  in  consideration  of  the  recent  victories  won 
ieral  forces,^  and  of  the  rapidly  increasing  loyalty  of  the 
Missouri  *  *  *  the  sentences  of  John  C.  Tompkins, 
orshey,  John  Patton,  Thos.  M.  Smith,  Stephen  Stott,  Geo. 
agham,  R.  B.  Crowder  and  Geo.  M.  Pulliam,  heretofore 
1  to  death,  are  provisionally  mitigated  to  close  confinement 
tary  prison  at  Alton.  If  rebel  spies  again  destroy  railroad 
render  it  necessary  for  us  to  make  severe  examples,  the 
entences    against   these    men   will    be  curried    into  execu- 

soners  were  removed    from   Palmyra  to  Alton,  and    each 
a  cell  to  himself,  in  the  fourth  story  of  the  building,  next 


elflon  had  been  recently  captured,  among  other  victories. 


546  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

the  roof.  During  cold  weather  they  were  forced  to  go  to  bed  to  keef 
warm,  (^ne  by  one  they  fell  sick  and  were  removed  to  the  hospital 
From  here  Mr.  Smith  made  his  escape.  What  finally  became  of  the 
others  is  not  known. 

JIM  Jackson's  fight  with  the   federals   in  1864. 

In  the  late  fall  or  early  winter  of  1864,  "  Captain  "  Jim  Jackson,  a 
guerrilla  leader  or  bushwhacker,  was  operating  in  this  section  with  & 
small  band.  With  seven  of  his  men  he  was  sitting  down  to  supper 
in  a  house  about  two  inil^s  west  of  Sturgeon,  and  within  three 
hundred  yards  of  the  county  line,  when  he  was  attacked  by 
Lieut.  Keebaugh,  of  Glasgow,  with  a  force  of  Federals  forty- 
five  in  number.  Though  surprised,  the  guerrillas  were  not  dis- 
concerted. Accustomed  to  every  sort  of  fighting,  they  at  once  sprang 
up  and  made  for  the  door,  drawing  their  revolvers  as  they  rose  and 
firing  them  as  they  ran.  The  house,  a  little  log  cabin  with  one  room, 
was  completely  surrounded  by  the  Federals,  but  Jackson  and  his  men 
cut  their  way  out,  and  escaped  w^ith  but  the  loss  of  one  man  badly 
wounded,  and  he  afterward  recovered,  and  two  horses,  which  were 
brought  into  Sturgeon.  The  Federal  loss  was  two  men  raortally 
wounded  and  five  slightly  injured.  The  mortally  wounded  men  died 
shortlv  afterward.  The  wounded  men  were  all  left  in  charge  of  Dr.  J. 
S.  Locj^ridgc.  He  dressed  their  wounds,  cared  for  them  and  stayed 
with  tlicin  that  night,  and  sent  them  to  Macon  City  with  the  two  dead 
men  the  next  morninir. 

It  was  late  in  the  eveninir  when  the  fio:ht  occurred.     Jackson  aud 
his  men  escaped  into  the  '*  Blackfoot  country,"  and  Lieut.  KeebaugJ^ 
went  on  to  Sturgeon.     On  their  way  into  towMi  the  Federals  captur^ 
Bill  Woods  and  brou«:ht  him  in.     He  was  confined  in  the  court-hou^*» 
but  made  an  almost  miraculous  escape.     He  left  behind  him  his  hon^^ 
and  hat,  together  with  almost  unmistakable  signs  that  he  had  falL  -^^ 
into  the  big  well,  and  this  was  the  general   opinion  among  friends        ^ 
well  as  foes.     Cold  as  the  weather  was.  Woods  preferred  to  walko^^"*^^ 
the    prairies    bareheaded  and   barefooted  to  staying   and  taking  t=:=^^^ 
chances  \vith  the  Federals. 

Jim  Jackson  was  originally  from  Texas.     As  stated  by  himself, 
joined  the  Texas  Rangers  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  went  to  Tenn 
see,    kill(»d  a    comrade,    and  then  deserted    and  joined  a  Tenness 
cavalry  regiment.     He  served   under  John  Morgan  and   was  on  t 
Ohio  raid,  in  which  he  was  captured.     He  escaped  from  Camp  Do 


but  was  killed  by  the  Audrain  militia  soon  after,  while  on  hi» 
»  Illinois. 

HANGING    OF   AMOS   JUDY. 

863  Amos  Judy,  who  lived  a  few  miles  southeast  of  Sturgeon, 
ken  from  his  home  one  night  by  a  band  of  bushwhackers,  ear- 
vay  and  never  again  heard  of.  Judy  was  a  Union  man  who  had 
ed  himself  especially  obnoxious  to  the  Confederates,  by  acting  as 
!e  and  a  spy  for  the  Federals  when  tliey  visited  the  township.  He 
50  been  a  member  of  Company  B,  9th  M.  S.  M.  —  Capt.  Adams' 
ny  of  Guitar's  regiment.  Whatever  became  of  Judy  is  not  cer- 
known.  It  is  believed,  however,  that  he  was  taken  over  on 
s  Fork  and  hung  and  his  body  secreted.  His  family  made  dili. 
jarch  and  inquiry  for  his  remains,  but  with  no  success. 
879,  while  a  party  of  hunters  were  on  Silver's  Fork  their  atten- 
as  attracted  by  an  old  and  somewhat  peculiar  **  blaze  "  upon 
)dy  of  a  tree,  very  high  up,  as  though  made  by  a  person  on 
back.  A  further  investigation  disclosed  a  slight  depression  in 
1  at  the  foot  of  the  tree,  bearing  the  outline  of  an  old  grave, 
inquiries  of  the  oldest  resident  in  the  locality  failed  to  discover 
as  to  who  had  been  buried  in  such  a  strange,  out-of-the-way 
Prompted  by  curiosity,  the  party  procured  a  spade,  and  after 
g  down  about  two  feet  they  came  upon  portions  of  the  charred 
is  of  a  human  skeleton,  lying  amidst  a  bed  of  ashes  and  charred 
At  the  head  of  the  gi'ave  was  found  a  small  rusty  hand  axe. 
rave  was  situated  due  east  and  west,  and  its  location  is  in  a 
line  from  where  Judy  lived,  being  but  a  very  short  distance 
lis  residence.  But  what  is  more  significant,  it  is  in  the  identi- 
ection  pursued  by  the  party  on  that  memorable  night.     When 


548  HI8TOBY  or  BOONE   COUNTY . 

erals  and  brought  before  the  provost  marshal.  That  official  put  on  a 
severe  look  and  sternly  demanded  of  Parson  Butts  why  he  had  left 
home  and  kindred  and  started  for  the  miserable  rebel  army,  wherein 
were  all  manner  of  men  that  were  vile  and  wicked  and  contemp- 
tible. 

'«  Well,  captain,"  replied  Mr.  Butts,  **  I  am  a  minister  of  the  gos- 
pel, and  having  often  heard  of  the  terrible  depravity  of  the  rebel  sol- 
diers, I  was  moved  with  pity  at  their  condition,  and  thought  I  would 
go  down  and  preach  for  them^  seeing  that  they  needed  it  so  bad.'* 

This  excuse  seemed  satisfactory  to  the  shoulder-strapped  worthy, 
and  his  features  relaxed  as  he  bade  the  would-be  missionary  sit  down. 
They  contracted,  however,  as  he  ordered  up  Creson  for  examinaUon. 
^*  What  is  your  excuse  for  stalling  to  the  rebel  army?  "  he  thundered 
out. 

**  Mef  "  returned  **  Jot,"  with  a  semblance  of  great  fear  and  trem- 
bling; **Me?  O!  I  —  I  —  went  along  to  hear  Mr.  Butts  preach!*^ 

With  a  heaity  laugh  the  Federal  officer  released  both   parson  ai&<l 
private  and  they  were  discharged,  as  they  should  have  been. 

HOW    <<J0T"    creson   shot   rev.    BARNES. 

The  venerable  old  pioneer  preacher,  **  Uncle  Jimmy  "  Barnes,  wsuR 
a  strong  Union  man.     **  Jot  "  Creson  was  a  **  rebel  "  sympathizer,  bi::st 
a  noted  wag  as  well.     On  one  occasion  Creson  came  suddenly  upc^n 
**  Uncle  Jimmy  "  in  a  secluded  place  in  the  public  road.     Reining  ca^p 
his  horse  *'  Jot "  fiercely  said :  '*  *  Uncle  Jimmy,'  you  are  a  Unic^n 
man,  and  you  know  I  don't  like  you.     I  am  a  rebel,  and  I  am  goirzm^ 
to  shoot  you."     Although  really  believing  his  life  to  be  in  great  dang^x", 
^*  Uncle  Jimmy  "  was  not  badly  frightened.     In  as  cool  and  delibera^^e 
A  voice  as  he  could  command,  he  replied  to  the  threat  of  his  **  rebel  " 
neighbor:  "  Well,  *  Jot,'  I  am  getting  old,  and  if  you  do  shoot  oae 
you  won't  shoot  me  out  of  very  many  years.     I  am  ready ;  bla-^® 
away."     Creson  drew  himself  up,  thrust  his  hand  into  his  pocket  ai^d 
drew  out  —  not  a  pistol,  but  a  pint  bottle  filled  with  good  whisfej* 
and  this  he  thrust  into  the  old  man's  face.     **  Uncle  Jimmy  "  life^ 
his  toddy  very  well,  and  he  soon  took  Creson's  weapon  from  him  ^^^^ 
extracted  therefrom  a  comfortable  dram  and  passed  it  back, 
joke  was  fully  apparent  and  the  two  fell  to  chatting  at  once  ' 
friendly.     In  a  few  minutes,  as  they  were  about  to*  separate,  the 
minister  said  :  **  *  Jot,'  I  am  on  my  way  to  preaching  and  as  I'm 
ting  old,  and  its  pretty 'hard  work  to  preach,  won't  you  please 


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me  agaifiy  so  as  to  help  me  along?  "     It  is  needless  to  say  that  **  Uncle 
Jimmy  "  was  *<  ftiot  "  again,  with  a  good  solid  *'  load,"  too. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Mrs.  Frances  Ann  Maher,  horn  in  South  Carolina,  December  28, 
1796,  and  who  has  lived  in  Missouri  for  56  years,  was  probably  the 
oldest  woman  living  in  the  township  July  4,  1882.  Joshua  Gibson 
was  reported  as  the  oldest  man. 

In  June,  1860,  M.  M.  Jessee  picked  up  from  the  surface  of  the 
ground  a  small  globe  of  iron  resembling  a  grapeshot,  which,  it  was 
supposed,  had  been  used  long  ago  in  a  campaign  against  the  Indians. 
The  piece  was  about  one  and  a  half  inches  in  diameter,  and  much  re- 
sembled a  grapeshot,  but  could  hardly  have  been,  since  no  artillery 
was  used  against.the  Indians  in  this  country  in  early  days. 

In  1881,  while  the  surveyors  were  running  a  route  for  the  Hannibal 
ind  Southwestern  Railroad,  near  John  H.  Seymour's,  Mr.  S.,  with  an 
>ld  rifle,  shot  and  killed  two  turkeys  at  one  shot.  The  fowls  were 
Iressed  and  served  for  dinner,  to  which  the  surveyors  were  invited ; 
nd  as  they  accepted  the  invitation  in  force,  a  big  time  and  a  jolly  one 
as  had. 

Mr.  W.  H.  Welch  has  a  pair  of  silver  cuflT  buttons,  brought  from 
©land  to  America  before  the  revolutionary  war,  by  his  great-great- 
'nudfather. 

Suming  Bumble  Bees, — In  September,  1880,  Thomas  Stewart,  a 
3  about  fourteen  years  of  age,  found  a  bumble  bee's  nest  about  a 
lie  south  of  Sturgeon,  and  sought  to  visit  the  occupants  thereof 
th  fire,  if  not  with  sword,  to  "  have  some  fun."  Accordingly  the 
atch  was  applied,  and  the  fire  burned  nicely.  It  burned  so  nicely, 
fact,  that  it  consumed  a  fine  meadow,  a  quarter  of  a  mile  of  fence, 
c  stacks  of  hay,  and  played  the  mischief  generally.  '*But,"  the 
>y  remarked  consolingly,  and  almost  with  exultation,  *'  it  everlast- 
gly  fetched  them  bees  I  " 

STORIES    BY   UNCLE   DURRETT   BRUCE. 

Durrett  Bruce  was  born  near  Lexington,  Kentucky,  in  March^ 
89.  He  came  to  Boone  county  in  the  year  1834,  and  was  one  of 
e  first  citizens  of  this  township.  He  blazed  out  the  road  from  the 
iristian  Church  in  section  19,  township  51,  range  13,  north  to  the 
unty  line,  on  the  7th  of  April,  1837,  as  he  was  on  his  way  to  a  new 
lim  in  Randolph  county. 


550  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Although  in  his  94th  year,  **Uucle"  Durrett  is  hale,  heai-ty  and 
jolly,  and  can  tell  a  good  story  or  enjoy  one  with  th#  best  of  them. 
The  compilers  are  indebted  to  him  for  much  valuable  information  in 
the  shape  of  reminiscences,  incidents,  etc.  Some  of  Mr.  Bruce's 
tales  may  savor  of  the  improbable  to  a  few  hypercritical  people,  but 
the  large  majority  of  readers  will  accept  his  statements  with  ready 
credence,  and  only  regret  that  there  are  not  more  of  them. 

'Coon  Branch  got  its  name.  Uncle  Durrett  says,  from  this  circum- 
stance :  A  settler  was  going  along  its  banks  one  day  when  he  chanced 
to  closely  observe  a  large  elm  tree,  the  trunk  of  which  was  slowly 
but  regularly  contracting  and  expanding  with  alternate  movements. 
Curious  to  learn  what  occasioned  the  spectacle,  the  settler  cut  down 
the  tree  and  split  it  open.  Lo,  snugly  imbedded  or  imprisoned 
within  the  trunk  like  the  imprisoned  fiends  in  Rinaldo's  grove,  were 
lots  of  'coons/  There  were  big  'coons,  little  'coons,  old  'coons, 
j'oung  'coons,  to  a  vast  number,  and  an  unlimited  extent.  Their 
breathing,  it  seemed,  was  regular  and  simultaneous,  and  the  contrac- 
tion and  expansion  of  their  diaphragms,  regular  as  pulse  beats, 
caused  the  tree  to  open  and  shut,  open  and  shut,  open  and  shut. 
With  great  propriety  tlie  stream  was  thereafter  called  'Coon  Branch. 

Sugar  Creek,  says  Mr.  Bruce,  took  its  name  from  the  number  of 
sugar  trees  along  its  margin,  and  also  from  the  following  incident: 
The  sugar  trees  were  very  full  of  the  richest  sort  of  sap.  The  woods 
caught  fire  one  spring,  and  many  of  the  trees  were  badly  heated  and 
scorched.  A  German  settler,  after  the  fire  had  passed,  cut  down  a 
hollow  sugar  tree  and  found,  nicely  granulated  and  stowed  away  in  the 
center,  about  150  pounds  of  an  excellent  quality  of  mjq^le  sugar,  which 
had  been,  by  the  action  of  the  heat,  extracted  from  the  sap  and  as 
scientifically  boiled  down  and  "sugared  off"  as  if  the  process  had 
l)een  accomplished  by  the  aid  of  a  patent  pan  ! 

Johnson  Branch  was  named  for  Alfred  Johnson,  said  to  have  been  the 
larixest  man  in  the  world.  Lick  Fork  was  so  named  from  the  num- 
])er  of  deer  licks  along  its  margin. 

Uncle  Durrett  savs  he  once  ciiu":ht  seven  wolves  out  of  a  <jronnd- 
hog  hole,  just  over  the  line,  in  Howard  county.  At  that  day  a 
bounty  was  paid  for  wolf  scalps,  and  Mr.  Bruce  says  he  first  thought 
he  would  save  these  wolves  and  breed  for  the  market,  as  it  were ;  but 
they  gave  him  more  trouble  than  their  scalps  would  be  worth,  as 
they  effectually  cleaned  out  his  chicken  coops  and  pig  pens  in  a  short 
time.     Uncle  Durrett  says  he  and  his  neighbors  soon  learned  to  turn 


HI8TOBT  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  551 

van  honest  penny  by  making  two  wolf  scalps  out  of  one,  by  a 
^688,  adroitly  rendered,  of  splitting  the  ears  and  dividing  them. 
s  were  trained  to  fight  wolves,  as  follows :  The  wolves  were 
rht  in  large  traps  made  of  poles,  and  set  with  bait  and  triggers, 
en  one  was  caught  one  of  his  ham-strings  was  cut,  or  a  chain 
ened  to  his  leg  and  held  by  a  man,  and  then  one  dog,  or  two,  if 
case  demanded  it,  turned  upon  him. 

'he  people  were  accustomed  to  put  **  blobs"  into  their  calves' 
iths,  to  prevent  their  sucking.  The  implements  gave  the  animals 
ngalar,  not  to  say  a  ridiculous,  appearance.  The  first  time  a  man 
led  Isham  saw  a  calf  with  a  **  blob,"  he  thought  it  had  tried  to  swal- 
a  pocket  book  and  got  choked,  and  he  chased  it  up  and  down  a 
ik  for  hours,  trying  to  secure  possession  of  the  supposed  treasure. 
$  creek  is  in  Audrain  county,  and  was  named  for  the  man  who 
jed  the  calf  with  a  *'blob." 

rhile  divine  service  was  being  held  down  at  John  Rowland's,  some 
nty-five  years  ago,  two  bulls  got  to  fighting,  near  the  house.     A 

was  being  dug  near  the  church,  and  it  had  been  left  uncovered, 
their  mad  plunging  and  struggling  the  animals  approached  the 
1  pit,  and  one  of  them  backed  fairly  into  it,  falling  down  about 
Teet,  or  until  he  struck  the  rock  wall,  which  had  been  partially 
t,  where  he  stuck  and  looked  wildly  around.  The  men  of  the 
jregation,  who,  notwithstanding  the  gravity  of  the  occasion,  had 
1  regarding  the  fight  with  more  interest  than  they  had  listened  to 
sermon,  rushed  out  of  the  meeting-house,  and  thinking  the  case 
liar  to  that  of  an  ox  in  the  ditch,  procured  ropes  and  chains,  and, 
day  as  it  was,  at  last  succeeded  in  extricating  the  bovine  from  his 
amfortable  quarters. 

>n  another  occasion  there  was  preaching  at  Mr.  Rowland's,  and 
•e  were  also  a  butting  ram  on  the  premises  and  a  wicked  boy. 

ram  had  been  receiving  his  education  from  the  boy,  and  had 
ned  one  thing  right  well.  Whenever  any  one  stopped  and  crooked 
iger  at  him  he  would  butt  like  a  battering  ram  or  an  iron-clad. 

minister  was  kneeling  down  in  front  of  an  open  door,  but  with 
>ack  to  it,  and  was  **  battering  the  gates  of  heaven  with  storms  of 
i^er."     The  ram  was  outside,  watching  the  minister,  and  the  boy 

inside  J  watching  the  ram.     Presently  the  b6y  leaned  over  toward 

sheep,  and,  having  succeeded  in  attracting  its  attention,  crooked 
fingers,  just  in  front  of  the  rear  elevation  of  the  preacher.     This 

too  much.     The  ram  had  been  considerably  worked  up  over  the 


552  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

f 

minister's  clapping  his  hands  and  shouting,  and  now  that  a  taunt  had 
been  thrown  out  he  could  endure  it  no  longer.  He  rushed  through 
the  door  like  he  had  been  shot  out  of  a  gun,  and,  striking  the  suppli- 
ant divine  in  the  small  of  the  back,  upset  not  only  him  but  the  gravity 
of  the  congregation  as  well.  It  was  with  some  difficulty  that  the  ram 
was  suppressed,  and  the  wicked  boy  laughed  like  a  fiend. 

**  Uncle  Durrett  "  now  lives  in  Moberly.     He  is  a  locksmith,  and  ' 
still  works  at  his  trade  although  ninety-three  years  of  age.    He  is 
undoubtedly  the  oldest  person  in  this  section  of  Missouri.     As  before 
stated,  he  is  hale,  hearty,  and  full  of  fun.     He  is  able  to  do  a  fair 
day's  work,  and  reads  well  without  spectacles. 

**  UNCLE  "    JOHN    ALEXANDER, 

One  of   the  pioneers  of   the   county  and  township,  relates  another 
incident  concerning  preacning  and  preachers  down  at  John  Rowland's 
in  an  early  day.     About  the  year  1825  there  was  preaching  at  Row- 
land's when  he  lived  near  old  Bethlehem  church,  Perche  township. 
After  services  Rev.  Wm.  H.  Hutchinson  killed  a  garter  snake  and  took 
it  up  stairs  with  him,  and  pretended  to  be  asleep,  as  he  knew  Robert 
Sloan,  a  brother  minister,  would  soon  follow  him.     Mr.  Sloan  soon 
came  up  lay  down,  and  began  to  snore.     Hutchinson  had  previously 
tied  a  string  to  the  snake  and  as  soon  as  Sloan  was  asleep  he  begaa 
to  draw  the  reptile  up  his  leg.     Sloan  awaked  and  catching  sight  of 
the  **varmint,"  sprang  suddenly  from  the  bed,  and  yelled  as  if  the  evil 
one  were  upon  him.     Hutchinson  laughed  and  then  Sloan,  seeing  the 
joke  that  had  been  played  upon  him,  and  not  taking  it  in  good  part, 
turned  on  Hutchinson  in  an  angry  mood,  and  the  two  men,  preachers 
though  they  were,  were  soon  engaged  in  a  real  rough  and  tumble 
fight.     They    were    separated    with   some  difficulty,  but  soon  made 
friends,  and  laughed  it  all  over. 

A    BEAR   CHASE. 

IJncl^  John  Alexander  states  that  in  the  fall  of  1819,  as  Joshu 
Alexander,  John  Rowland,  and  others  were  helping  put  on  the  roof  c 
a  cabin  down  in  Perche  township,  near  the  Howard  line,  they  heaX 
a  small  dog  coming  toward  them  barking  violently.  Looking  up  th^ 
saw  a  large  bear  advancing  rapidly.  Bruin  passed  them  by  in  peac^ 
but  the  men  gave  chase  with  guns,  dogs,  etc.,  as  soon  as  they  coul^ 
They  treed  the  animal  pretty  soon  and  several  shots  were  fired  at 
without  ^effect.     Finally  Joshua  Alexander,  with  a  well  directed  shcp 


HI8TOBT  OF  BOONE  COUNTY.  553 

ought  down  the  bear.  No  sooner  had  the  huge  animal  been  dis- 
tched  when  along  came  Col.  Ben  Rives,  Joe  Davis,  and  others  who 
limed  that  they  had  started  it.  Consequently  the  animal  was  skinned 
id  equally  divided  among  both  parties. 

RAILROAD   FIRES. 

Some  years  ago,  before  spark-arresters  on  locomotives  were  in- 
ented,  the  people  living  along  the  line  of  the  North  Missouri  railroad 
9  this  township  suffered  greatly  at  certain  seasons  of  the  year  from 
irairie  fires  and  grass  fires.  The  land  along  the  road  is  prairie  and  open 
Jid  when  the  grass  was  dry  it  was  easily  ignited  by  the  large  sparks  that 
ell  from  the  engines.  In  dry  seasons  the  people  were  afraid  to  leave 
lome,  and  stood  as  minute  men  ready  to  sally  out  to  fight  fire  as  soon 
is  smoke  was  discovered. 

THE    SHROYER   MURDER   CASE. 

A  most  horrible  and  at  the  same  time  a  most  interesting  case  of 
nurder  occurred  in  this  township  in  the  fall  of  1876.     The  particulars^ 
lere  given  are  taken  from  the  Sturgeon  Leader  of  August  5,  1882. 
rhe  editor  of  the  Leader^  Mr.  T.  S.  Carter,  is  better  informed  con- 
Jerning  the  facts  in  the  case  than  any  other  person,  and  was  pro  mi 
lent  iu  causing  the  arrest  of  the  alleged  murderer :  — 

Late  Saturday  evening,  October  14th,  1876,  a  wagon  drove  up  to 
tfrs.  Martha  A.  Seymour's,  about  three  miles  southwest  of  Sturgeon. 
Ji  the  wagon  was  a  man  and  a  woman,  and  three  children  —  two  boys 
ind  a  girl.  The  man  wanted  to  buy  some  feed  for  his  horses.  While 
ie  was  at  the  barn  getting  some  corn  from  Mr.  Gulick,  Mrs.  Sey- 
nour's  son-in-law,  the  woman  in  the  wagon  told  Mrs.  Seymour  that 
ler  husband  was  going  to  kill  her  that  night,  that  he  had  threatened 
-0  do  80,  and  if  she  would  go  down  in  the  morning  to  where  they 
^ould  camp  that  night  she  would  find  her  dead  body.  Nothing  fur- 
her  was  thought  of  this  till  the  7th  day  of  February,  1877,  when 
Jome  choppers  in  the  woods  suddenly  came  upon  the  mutilated  re- 
nains  of  a  human  being.  The  bones  and  clothing  were  gathered  up 
^nd  an  inquest  held.  An  examination  showed  that  the  skull  had  been 
>roken  as  if  by  a  heavy  blow  ;  one  arm  was  also  broken.  Everybody 
^as  satisfied  that  a  murder  had  been  committed  but  how  to  find  out 
^^  perpeti'ator  of  the  dark  deed  was  the  question.  Mrs.  Seymour 
®<^llected  the  circumstances  of  the  movers  who  passed  her  house  the 
previous  October.     Marion  White,  residing  three  miles  west  of  where 


554  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

the  body  was  found,  recollected  that  a  man  and  three  children  camA  i 
to  his  house  early  on  the  morning  of  October  15th,  1876,  but  ik> 
woman  was  with  them.  The  man,  children,  wagon  and  team  were  ex- 
actly as  described  by  Mrs.  Seymour  and  others  who  had  seen  them 
the  day  before.  This  was  all  telegraphed  to  the  St.  Louis  papers  and  ■ 
in  a  short  time  found  its  way  to  Marshall,  Kansas.  In  a  few  days  a 
letter  came  from  Marshall  stating  that  Mike  Shroyer  left  there  that 
fall  for  Miami  County,  Indiana,  with  his  wife  and  three  children  to 
collect  some  money  coming  to  her  from  her  first  husband's  estate,  she 
having  previously  been  married,  but  he  returned  without  his  wife  and 
could  tell  no  reasonable  or  even  plausible  story  about  what  became  of 
her  and  that  people  suspicioned  him  as  having  killed  her. 

Letters  were  >vritten  to  Indiana  and  answei^s  received  stating  that 
Shroyer  and  his  wife  and  three  children  left  there  about  the  last  of 
September  with  exactly  the  same  outfit  —  wagon  and  team  —  as  seen 
at  Mrs.  Seymour's  the  evening  before  the  murder  and  by  Mr.  White 
the  morning  after  it.  Samples  of  clothing  were  sent  from  Indiana 
which  corresponded  exactly  with  that  found  upon  the  dead  woman.  . 

The  little  girl  was  sick  when  at  Mr.  White's  and  it  was  noticed  that 
she  had  a  crippled  hand.  The  child  was  sick  when  Shroyer  arrived 
home  in  Kansas,  and  the  editor  of  the  Leader^  who  made  a  trip  to 
Kansas  on  the  hunt  of  Shroyer,  saw  the  child  of  Michael  Shroyer,  a 
girl,  with  a  crippled  hand  exactly  as  described  by  Mrs.  White  and 
others.  Many  other  interesting  circumstances  went  to  show  that 
Michael  Shroyer  had  murdered  his  wife. 

Being  fully  satisfied  of  his  guilt,  he  was  indicted  at  the  April  term, 
1877,  of  the  Boone  circuit  court,  and  here  the  matter  rested  until  in 
Jul}',  1882,  when  he  was  captured  in  Jasper  county.  Mo.,  and  brought 
back  to  this  county  and  lodged  in  our  county  jail.     The  Leader  says 
that  a  man  named   John    Pittnian  once  resided  in  Marshall  county, 
Kanj?as,  and  was  a  near  neighbor  to  the  Shroyers  and  became  well  ac- 
quainted with  Mike.     Subsequently  he  moved  to  Jasper  county,  Mo.i 
and  settled  near  Joplin.     He  was  living  there  when  he  read  in  the  p^' 
pers  accounts  of  the  murder  of  Mrs.  Shroyer  by  her  husband,  nearly 
six  years  ago,  but  the  matter  had  almost  entirely  left  his  mind  unt^"' 
about  July   20,  1882,    when  he  suddenly  came  upon  Mike  Shrove^ 
who  was  at  work  as  a  grader  on  the  Webb  City  Extension  of  the  Kan^ 
sas  City,  Ft.  Scott  &  Gulf  Railroad.     Pittman  then  wrote  to  an  olc^ 
friend  of  his  in  Marshall  county,  Kansas,  inquiring  about  Shroyer 
But  in  the  meantime   he   told   some   parties   about  the  report  tha^ 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.    '  555 

Mike  Shroyer  had  murdered  his  wife  somewhere  in  Missouri  but  he 
did  not  remember  where.  It  so  happened  that  John  Esry,  Jr.,  and 
John  Jester,  former  residents  of  Sturgeon,  were  present  and  heard 
Pittman's  story.  They  remembered  well  all  the  circumstances  con- 
nected with  the  finding  of  the  body  of  the  murdered  woman,  and  at 
once  the  sheriff  of  the  county  (Roberts)  was  notified  and  Shroyer 
was  arrested  and  lodged  in  jail.  He  afterwards  brought  the  prisoner 
to  Columbia  and  committed  him  to  the  safe  keeping  of  Mr.  Stone, 
the  sherifi*of  Boone  County,  who  will  retain  him  for  trial. 

SHOOTING    OF   ROWLAND. 

A  'difficulty  occurred  in  Bourbon  township,  at  Union  church,  in 
1879,  between  two  prominent  members  named  Wade  and  Rowland. 
They  were  brothers-in-law,  and  if  seems  had  quarrelled  over  the  set- 
tlement of  an  estate  in  which  they  were  both  interested.  The  affair 
got  into  the  church,  necessitating  a  church  trial  for  adjustment.  It 
was  while  the  members  were  meeting  for  that  purpose  that  Wade 
shot  Rowland.  The  courts  have  not  yet  finally  passed  upon  the  case, 
and  it  is  not  for  the  historian  to  anticipate  the  action  of  the  councils 
of  justice. 

OLD    PETERSBURG. 

On  the  east  half  of  the  southwest  quarter  of  section  31,  town- 
ship 51,  range  12,  where  is  now  a  corn  field,  once  stood  a  little 
village,  called  Petersburg.  It  was  laid  out  in  the  year  183G,  or 
perhaps  in  1837,  and  was  a  noted  little  village,  on  Silver's  Fork  of 
Perche,  at  one  time  with  a  population  of  say  fifty  souls.  There  were 
two  stores  in  the  place,  a  mill,  a  tanyard,  blacksmith  shop,  etc.  Gen. 
Geo  Dorris,  now  of  St.  Louis,  put  up  the  first  store  in  Petersburg. 
Gen.  D.'s  wife,  who  was  murdered  in  the  fall  of  1881,  by  her  grandson, 
Russell  Brown,  is  well  remembered  by  the  old  citizens.  The  wife  of 
Gen.  John  A.  Logan,  now  U.  S.  senator  from  Illinois,  was  born  in 
Petersburg.  Her  maiden  name  was  Mary  Cunningham.  Many  of 
her  relatives  now  reside  in  the  vicinity. 

The  mill  at  Petersburg  belonged  to  H.  Brink,  who  was  really  the 
founder  of  the  little  town. 

Old  Petersburg,  like  other  frontier  towns  in  an  early  day,  was  a 
great  place  for  frolicking,  dancing,  fun  and  fighting.  Many  an  old 
stager  with  gray  beard  and  bald  head  will  feel  young  again  as  he 
recalls  the  delightful  scenes  through  which  he  passed  when  in  his 
youth    he  was  wont   to  visit  and  recreate   in  Petersburg.     But  the 


556  HISTOKY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

town,  like  the  days  of  his  youth,  has  passed  away  forever,  and  iti! 
memones  at  last  are  bitter  as  well  as  sweet. 

Among  the  many  incidents  related  of  Old  Petersburg  is  this  oner; 
Long  ago  there  was  an  individual  in  the  vicinity  who  was  known 
**  Tasty"  Jones.  He  was  probably  ironically  so  called,  from 
taste  in  the  selection  of  his  wearing  apparel.  Ou  one  occasion 
**  Tasty"  had  come  to  town  and  bought  a  pound  of  gunpowder, 
which  he  had  put  in  the  pockets  of  his  pantaloons,  a  bran-new  tow- 
linen  pair.  He  went  into  a  blacksmith  shop  to  swap  news  with  the  3 
village  smithy.  While  standing  carelessly  about,  a  livid  spark  from 
the  anvil  flew  against  his  linen  unmentionables,  and  set  them  on  fire. 
The  fire  communicated  with  the  powder,  and  then  there  came  a  buret 
of  thunder  sound  —  poor  Jones  !  Oh,-  where  was  he  ?  It  is  solemnlj  i 
averred  that  the  explosion  blew  '*  Tasty"  fairly  through  the  roof, 
which  was  a  low  one,  and  badly  demoralized  the  roof  itself;  that  it 
knocked  the  blacksmith  galley- west  and  crooked,  and  frightened  the 
townspeople  into  thinking  an  earthquake  was  upon  them.  Jones  was 
laid  up  for  some  days,  but  finally  recovered.  His  pants  were  a  total 
wreck,  and  perished  in  the  great  catastrophe. 

m'cauley's  mill. 

This  mill  stands  on  Perche  creek,  on  the  northeast  quarter  of  sec- 
tion 7,  township  51,  range  13.  It  was  built  in  the  year  1867,  by 
John  Peacher,  Curtis  Gentry,  and  J.  R.  and  H.  W.  Jackson.  Its 
first  cost  was  about  $1,200,  but  its  present  value  is  about  $1,500,  as 
estimated  by  Mr.  McCauley.  The  mill  is  a  saw  and  grist  mill  com- 
bined, and  grinds  both  wheat  and  corn.  It  uses  the  patent  process 
for  purifying  middlings.  During  the  fall  and  winter  seasons  it  nins^ 
regularly.  In  the  spring,  and  subsequently,  it  is  usually  operated 
but  one  or  two  days  in  the  week. 

SCHOOL    HOUSES    IN    BOURBON. 

Barrett  School  House.  —  Stands  on  the  southeast  quarter  of  sectioa 
29,  township  51,  range  13.     The  site,  one  acre,  was  donated  by  J. 
H.  Alexander,  including  the  timber,  although  he  was  childless.    He 
was  a  trustee  for  one  year  after  the  house  was  built.     The  house  was 
built  in  the  summer  of  1877,  at  a  cost  of  $300.     The  average  term  of 
school  in  this  district  for  the  past  year  or  two  has  been  low  ou  ac- 
count of  indebtedness.     Average  attendance,  twenty-five.     Present 
trustees,  Geo.  W.  Gulick,  Wm.  B.  Prowell,  and  John  H.  Graves. 


HI8TOBT  OF  BOONE  COUNTY.  557 

iddie  School  House.  7— Northeast  quarter  of  section  11,  town- 
range  12.  The  site  comprises  two  acres.  The  house  was 
lOUt  1872,  at  a  cost  of  $300.  Average  term  of  school,  six 
;  average  attendance,  twenty  ;  average  wages  per  month  paid 
),  $32.50.  Present  teacher.  Miss  Ella  Patterson.  Present 
,I#.  W.  White,  president ;  Zadok  Kelly,  secretary  and  clerk ; 
inwiddie,  treasurer. 

er  School  House. —  Northwest  quarter  of  section  12,  town- 
,  range  13.  The  site,  one  acre,  was  donated  by  J.  Turner, 
ise  was  built  in  1876,  and  cost  $340.  Average  term  of  school, 
ths ;  attendance,  fifteen  ;  teacher's  wages,  $35  and  $40.  Last 
,  Miss  Bose  Ann  Seymour. 

Is  School  House. — Near  the  centre  of  section  26,  township 
je  13.  The  house  was  built  about  1857,  and  cost  $400.  Av- 
$honl  term,  seven  months ;  teacher's  wages,  $35.00. 
e  School  House.  —  Southeast  quarter  of  section  7,  township  51, 
3.  The  site,  an  acre,  was  donated  equally  by  J.  T.  and  Thomas 
The  house  was  built  in  the  summer  of  1876,  and  cost  $410. 
'  five  months  of  public  school  are  held  during  the  year  besides 
be  school  term  of  two  or  three  months.  The  average  wages 
ichers  is  $37.50.  Miss  Addie  White  was  the  last  teacher, 
directors,  J.  T.  White,  James  M.  Chaney,  J.  R.  Jackson. 
rison  School  House  —  Is  on  the  southeast  quarter  of  section 
nship  51,  range  14.  The  house  was  built  near  the  year  1872  ; 
25.  The  average  attendance  is  about  thirty-five.  The  salary 
$30  to  $40.  Directors,  Geo.  Hombs,  John  Bobinson,  Han- 
iith.  Bobinson  school  house  is  noted  for  its  spelling  matches 
mating  schools. 

Tucker  School  House, — This  school  house  is  located  on  the 
5st  quarter  of  the  southwest  quarter  of  section  20,  township 
^e  12.  It  was  built  about  the  year  1869.  The  site  contains 
n  acre  of  ground.  The  building  cost  from  $400  to  $450.  B. 
cer,  Thos.  Palmer,  and  Y.  E.  Biggs  are  the  present  directors, 
cker  superintended  the  building  of  the  house.  The  district 
ut  eight  months  school  in  the  year,  with  an  average  daily  at- 
e  of  twenty-eight. 

30UNTKY   CHUBCHES  —  MT.    HOREB,    BAPTIST    ( EXTINCT). 

church  was  situated  on  the  southwest  quarter  of  section  8, 
p   51,   range  12.     The  date  of  its  organization  is  March  3, 


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558  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

1853.  The  original  members  were  Saml.  M.  and  Margaret  Riggs, 
and  Rebecca  Hawkins,  Jesse  and  Mary  Ann  Gopher,  Parmelia  Wini 
Gerald,  Serena,  and  Elizabeth  Angcll,  Thos.  L.  and  John  D.,Ei 
kiel  v.,  and  Margaret  Hawkins,  Peter  G.  and  Margaret  Booth,  Jol 
S.  Parmer,  Francis  M.  Brink,  James,  Paulina,  and  Elizabeth  flai 
kins,  Elizabeth  Gibson,  Joseph  H.  and  Mary  E.  Keithley,  Prisdl 
Ann  Taylor,  Mary  Ann  Bentley,  William  and  Sally  Summers,  Jam 
A.  and  Lou  Ann  Quisenberry,  and  Jonathan  Bogarth.  Rev.  Wd 
Thompson  was  really  the  founder  of  the  church. 

The  building,  a  frame,  was  erected  in  the  summer  of  1855.  I 
cost  exceeded  $1,200.  Of  this  sum  $1,100  was  subscribed  atthesUi 
and  the  remainder  added  afterwards.  When  the  frame  of  tb 
church  was  up  it  was  blown  down  by  a  severe  storm.  It  was  aga 
put  up  and  all  completed  but  the  plastering,  when  it  was  struck  I 
lightning  and  shivered  so  badly  that  it  was  torn  down  and  built  ov 
the  third  time.  During  the  war  soldiers  encamped  in  it  and  injured 
very  considerably.  At  present  it  is  not  used,  being  an  old  wreck  ai 
fast  crumbling  into  complete  decay. 

During  its  existence  the  pastors  of  this  church  were :  Rev.  D 
Wm.  Thompson,  W.  R.  Wigginton,  P.  T.  Gentry,  W.  K.  WoodsJ 
S.  Woods,  W.  R.  Wigginton  (again),  Green  Gary,  Wigginton  (agaii 
1866),  Green  Gary  (again,  from  1868  to  1871,  the  last  regul; 
preacher). 

The  founder  of  Mt.  Horeb,  Dr.  Wm.  Thompson,  was  one  of  tl 
ablest  divines  ever  in  Missouri.  He  was  a  native  of  Scotland,  and 
graduate  of  Edinburg  University.  He  was  a  thorough  scholar  ar 
especially  an  accomplished  linguist.  He  afterward  became  presidei 
of  Wm.  Jewell  College,  Liberty,  and  died  there  not  many  years  ag' 
A  monument  has  been  erected  to  his  memory. 

When  Dr.  Thompson  first  came  into  Bourbon  township,  manyyea: 
ago,  he  was  regarded  as  a  '*  tramp."  He  called  at  the  residence  < 
Mr.  Hawkins,  a  prominent  church  member,  and,  as  he  was  not  J 
home,  started  away.  Mr.  H's  son,  Andrew  J.  Hawkins,  then  a  bo; 
followed  Dr.  Thompson  and  inquired  his  business  with  his  fathe 
Being  informed  that  it  was  regarding  church  matters,  the  doctor  w 
invited  back  to  the  house  to  remain  over  nisfht.  Meeting  was  beV 
held  in  the  neighborhood.  Dr.  Thompson  stated  that  he  sometiti 
preached  and  he  was  invited  to  attend.  While  in  church  he  ^ 
called  on  to  pray.  The  worshippers  had  viewed  him  with  sc 
suspicion  and  distrust,  but  when  he  began  to  pray  he  *'  astonis 


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HI8TOBT  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  55& 

the  natives."  After  the  meeting  he  was  invited  to  preach  and  became 
file  founder  and  first  pastor  of  Mt.  Horeb.  Under  his  ministrations 
fte  church  prospered  greatly.  It  is  said  that  the  learned  divine  was 
>*ci&Dky"  at  times.  On  these  occasions  he  would  never  speak  a 
word — nothing  could  induce  him  to.  Furthermore  it  is  stated  that 
be  could  repeat  from  memory  and  by  rote  every  word  of  the  New 
Testament. 

FAR   WEST — CHRISTIAN. 


'       This  church  stands  on  the  northeast  corner  of  section  22,  township 
;    51,  mnge  12.     The  congregation  was  organized  sometime  in  the  year 
1858.    Three  of  the  original  members  were  Jesse  Roberts,  Alfred 
Wainscott,  and  Wm.  Denham. 

The  first  church  building,  a  log  structure,  was  built  either  in  the 
Wl  of  1852  or  the  spring  of  1853.     It  was  proposed  by  James  Hen- 
dricks to  raise  a  subscription  for  the  building  of  a  church  before  any 
^     organization  of  any  denomination  was  formed.     The  people  believed 
that  if  they  would  build  a  house  in  which  to  hold  meetings  that  they 
coald  obtain  the  help  of  a  minister  and  have  regular  services,  and 
;     thus  improve  the   moral    tone  of  the  community.      Mr.  Hendricks 
I     headed  the  subscription  list  and  the  money  was  raised  and  the  building 
■     eompleted   several  years  before   the    organization  of  the   Christian 
diiirch. 

The  present  church  building,  a  frame,  was  completed  in  the  fall  of 
1880.  Its  cost  was  about  $700  ;  a  great  deal  of  the  work  of  construc- 
tion was  done  gratis  by  the  community.  The  land  on  which  the 
building  stands  was  deeded  to  the  use  of*'  the  Methodist,  Christian,  and 
Baptist  churches,''  although  the  Christian  church  was  the  only  denomi- 
nation holding  regular  meetings.  Rev.  Stephen  J.  Bush  was  the  first 
preacher  in  the  new  church.     The  present  membership  is  about  45. 

PERCHE    CHURCH. 

This  church  is  owned  and  controlled  by  the  Baptists  and  Christians 
jointly.  It  is  situated  in  the  center  of  section  19,  township  51,  range 
13.  The  Christian  organization  was  formed  June  14,  1835.  The 
original  members  were  Wm.  White  and  wife,  Silas  Riggs  and  wife, 
James  Williams  and  wife,  Alfred  Johnson  and  wife,  Thomas  McBride 
*^d  wife,  John  White  and  wife,  Joel  Bradley  and  wife,  Gabriel 
B^dley  and  wife,  Durrett  Bruce  and  wife,  Nancy  D.  Sanford,  Mar- 
garet Clayton,  Elizabeth  Roberts,  Mahala  Ann  Roberts,  Caleb  Woods, 
^ancy  Swezer,    Willis    Clayton,   Nicholas    Roberts,    Sarah    White,^ 


560  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Joel  White  and  Emily  Bradley.  The  first  house  of  worship  was  a  log 
with  a  big  fire  place  and  chimney  in  each  end.  The  first  elders  were 
Durrett  Bruce,  Wm.  White  and  John  White.  Among  the  pastors  were 
William  and  John  White,  John  McCune,  Silas  Naylor,  and  Minter 
Bailey.  The  present  church  building  is  a  fine  frame  structure, 
34x50  feet  in  size,  and  was  built  in  the  year  1880  at  a  cost  of  $1,200. 
It  has  not  been  dedicated.  The  old  church  was  built  about  the  year 
1835  or  1836. 

The  Baptist  organization  was  constituted  in  1881,  and  has  but  re- 
cently gone  into  partnership  with  the  Christians.  The  first  organiza- 
tion was  composed  of  22  members,  as  follows  :  Sam'I  Jackson,  J.  B, 

Lyon,  Wm.  Prowell,  G.  W.  Gulick,  and Brown,  and  their  wives  ; 

James  W.  Robinson,  wife  and  daughter;  Hewson  Smith,  wife  and 
daughter ;  Wesley  Holmes,  Mary  E.  Holmes,  John  Robinson,  Wood- 
son Tisdel,  Elizabeth  Tisdel,  and  J.  A.  Carr.  There  have  been  four 
additions  since  the  organization.     Rev.  Green  Carey  is  the  pastor. 

UNION    CHURCH. 

This  is  the  only  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  county, 
and  is  located  in  the  northern  part  of  section  35,  township  51,  range 
13.  As  nearly  as  can  be  ascertained,  it  was  organized  in  about  1832. 
The  original  members  were  Robert  Rowland  and  wife  ;  Robert  School- 
ing and  wife ;  Edward  Graves  and  wife  j  James,  Nancy  and  Susannah 
Schooling ;  and  Barnabas  S.  Woods  and  wife.  The  first  building 
erected  was  a  log  structure,  which  answered  for  a  meeting-house 
for  several  years.  They  next  built  a  frame,  which,  however,  was 
burned  in  the  summer  of  1879.  The  fire  was  a  mysterious  affair, 
and  is  supposed  by  some  to  have  been  the  work  of  incendiaries. 
A  tragedy  connected  with  this  church  is  elsewhere  given  in  this 
chapter. 

The  ministers  that  have  served  this  church  since  1873,  to  this  writ- 
ing, are  R.  C.  Mansfield,  T.  G.  Pool, Johnson,  and  G.  W.  Dysart. 

The  present  building  was  erected  in  1881,  at  a  cost  of  about  $1,100. 
The  number  of  members  at  this  writing  is  about  100. 

CEMETERIES. 

Palmer  Graveyard,  —  This  is  probably  the  oldest  burying  ground 
in  the  township.  It  was  laid  out  by  James  Palmer  about  the  year 
1837,  and  contains  about  an  acre  of  land.  The  first  interment  was 
that  of  John  Palmer.     Others  of  the  Palmer  family  are  here  buried. 


HISTORT  OF   BOONE   COCNTT.  561 

There  are  probably  twenty  graves  iu  the  cemetery,     It8  location  is  in 
the  southeast  quarter  of  section  20.  township  51,  range  12. 

The  Robinson  Graveyard. — This  cemetery,  &  private  one,  is  in 
section  8,  township  51,  range  13,  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  J.  B, 
Robinson.  It  was  laid  out  abont  the  year  1849,  by  Tandy  Robinson, 
father  of  the  present  owner  of  the  liiud.  It  containa  about  twenty 
graves. 

THE  CITY  OP  STURGEON. 
EABLY   HISTORY. 

Many  years  ago  a  town  called  Btiena  Vista  stood  on  the  range  line 
between  ranges  12  and  13  and  between  section  6,  township  51,  of  the 
former,  and  section  1  of  the  latter,  the  site  being  about  half  way  of 
the  section  line  from  north  to  south.  The  place  was  also  called  Bour- 
bonton.  At  one  time  it  contained  about  150  inhabitants,  two  stores, 
two  blacksmith  shops,  a  saloon,  etc.  The  place  was  renowned  chiefly 
for  horse-racing,  whisky-drinking,  and  fighting.  It  is  not  important 
that  a  full  history  of  Buena  Vistu  be  given  here,  since  the  place  that 
knew  it  once  knows  it  now  no  more  forever.  It  is  remembered,  how- 
ever, that  on  one  occasion  in  a  row  over  a  horse-race,  a  Mr.  Hndson 
shot  four  men  and  cut  the  throat  of  another.  None  of  the  men  were 
killed,  hut  allwcre  placed  hora  du  combat.  This  was  known  as  the 
Hudson-Perk  in  s-Angel  I  tight. 

Lemuel  Dill  was  a  noted  house-mover,  and  when  old  Buena  Vista 
was  removed  to  where  Sturgeon  now  is,  he  moved  the  houses,  using 
a  huge  wagon  with  axles  and  coupling-pole  long  enough  to  hold  aguod- 
flized  house. 

LOCATION  AND  SURVEY  OP  THE  TOWN. 
The  town  of  Sturgeon  was  laid  out  in  July  and  August,  1856,  by 
the  Sturgeon  Town  Company  whose  trustees  were  J.  D.  Pattou, 
James  E.  Hicks,  and  Archie  Wayne.  The  site  was  purchased  from 
John  Kochford,  N.  B.  Burks,  and  J.  B.  Smith.  Only  a  short  distance 
away,  on  the  northwest  quarter  of  section  5,  township  51,  range 
12,  the  town  of  Prairie  City  was  laid  out  but  swallowed  up  by  the 
town  of  Sturgeon,  because  the  railroad  company  refused  to  locate  a 
depot  therein.  John  Rochford  owned  the  principal  portion  of  the 
land  OD  which  Sturgeon  was  laid  out.  He  was  an  engineer  and  a 
contractor  on  the  North  Missouri  Railroad,  and  built  about  twenty  i 
miles  of  that  important  thoroughfare. 


562  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

The  town  was  named  for  Hon.  Isaac  H.  Sturgeon,  then  the  super- 
intendent of  the  North  Missouri  Railroad,  and  was  contemplated  to  be 
a  station  on  the  road  from  the  start.  The  little  bit  of  **  taffy"  ten- 
dered the  railroad  magnate  was  probably  not  without  its  effect  ia 
causing  the  location  of  a  depot  at  the  town  bearing  his  name,  but  it 
took  something  more  substantial  to  effect  the  location  finally  and 
absolutely.  Six  worthy  citizens  of  the  vicinity,  including  Messrs. 
Rochford,  Burks,  and  Smith,  obligated  themselves  to  pay  to  the  rail-  ] 
rofid  company  $6,000,  contingent  upon  the  location  of  the  railroad 
station  as  aforesaid.     The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  obligation  :  — 

We  hereby  obligate  ourselves  to  pay  to  the  North  Missouri  Railroad  Company  thne 
thousand  dollars  on  the  Ist  day  of  December  next,  and  the  further  sum  of  three  thoosaod 
dollars  on  the  Ist  day  of  August,  1857,  provided  said  railrosul  company  locate  a  depot  on 
said  railroad  between  station  No.  5772  and  station  No.  5790,  being  on  the  east  end  of  section^ 
129  and  the  west  end  of  section  ^  128,  west  of  Salington  creek ;  and  further  provided  thii 
no  depot  be  located  within  five  miles  of  this  point.  Given  under  our  hands  and  seals  this 
theSdof  Julv,  1856. 

John  Rochford.  [seal]  N.  B.  Burks,  [seal] 

^  John  B.  Smith,  [seal]  John  M.  Booth,  [bkal] 

Peter  G.  Booth,  [seal]  S.  M.  Rioos.  [seal.] 

As  will  be  seen  the  railroad  company  agreed  not  to  locate  another 
depot  "  within  five  miles  of  this  point,"  i,  e,  the  town  of  Sturgeon, 
and  this  agreement  gave  Prairie  City  its  quietus. 

When  first  laid  out  the  founders  of  Sturgeon  had  in  view  a  great 
future  for  their  town.  Not  only  was  it  intended  to  be  a  great  railroad 
town  and  shipping  point,  but  it  was  intended,  and  so  advertised,  to  be 
the  county  seat  of  the  new  county  of  '*  Rollins,"  then  in  contempla- 
tion of  formation.  As  ''  Rollins  .county  "  was  never  formed.  Stur- 
geon never  became  a  county  capital.  The  projectors  were  very 
profuse  of  promises  at  the  first  to  give  tracts  of  land  for  churches, 
academies,  etc.,  but  it  is  said  that  not  all  of  these  promises  were  ful- 
filled. 

THE    '«  FIRSTS." 

It  is  difficult  to  decide  whose  was  the  first  house  in  the  town* 
Claib.  Thompson  says  that  he  put  the  first  building  in  the  place,  a^ 

■ 

old  log  cabin,  which  he  removed  from  Buena  Vista.     This  structure  i3 
now  weatherboarded  and  is    still  standing  in  the  southeast  part  o^ 
town,  south  of  the  railroad.     John  F.  Fisher  framed  one  house  in  the 
old  town  and  brought  the  parts  to  Sturgeon  and  put  them  togetb^^* 
and  it  is  claimed  for  this  building  that  it  was  the  first  in  the  plii'<5©' 


Referring  to  railroad  sections. 


HI8TORT   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 


56a 


[leged  that  the  first  building  erected  entirely  in  the  town 
'  E.  S.  Hawkins  for  Smith  &  Burks  and  used  by  them  as  a 
building,  it  is  said,  was  completed  before  the  one  framed 
Fisher,  but  this  point  is  one  hard  to  decide.     Mr.  Haw- 
5ar  Sturgeon  before  the  town  was  laid  out.     This  building 
the  fall  of  1856,  the  year  the  town  was  laid  out.     The 
>use  in  town  was  commenced  by  J.  S.  Lockridge.     He 
:d  joined  by  Maj.  John  F.  Eucker,  and  they  completed  it. 
[  that  this  was  also  the  first  brick  house  in  the  township* 
Bale  child  born  in  the  town  was  David  A.  Mayer,   son  of 
A.nn  Eliza  Mayer,  who  was  born  November  11, 1857.     The 
child  was  Mary  A.   Murphy,  born  June  16,  1857.     She 
iter  of  Michael  and  Mary  Murphy,  and  is  now  Mrs.  J.  A. 
ntralia.  ' 

death  was  that  of  Miss  Mary  Hukle,  who  departed  this 
,  1857,  aged  18.  Her  disease  was  erysipelas.  Her  burial 
)t  been  ascertained,  but  it  is  believed  to  have  been  in  some 
country  grave  yards.  J.  B.  Smith  died  in  June,  1857. 
family  in  the  town  was  either  that  of  M.  B.  Tompkins  or 
Vlurphy.  It  is  claimed  that  Tompkins  was  the  first  inside 
)rate  limits.  He  came  in  February,  1857,  and  located  on 
k  29.     Mr.  Tompkins  kept  the  first  hotel,  on  lot  16,  block 

store  was  a  small  supply  store  for  the  railroad  men  while 
ts  being  built.  In  it  were  kept  a  few  necessaries  of  life, 
sky,  tobacco,  etc.  The  first  store  worthy  of  the  name  was 
th  &  Burks  before  mentioned.  It  stood  on  lot  34,  block 
rst  lot  sales  are  said  to  have  come  off  in  November,  1856, 
re  was  built  prior  to  that  time.     Smith  &  Burks  kept  a 

of  general  merchandise.     Daniel  Mayer  moved  to  Stur- 
Buena  Vista  in  the  spring  of  1857,  and  is  now  in  business 
3r  place,  the  oldest  merchant  in  town. 
I  other  pioneer  business  men,  mechanics,  etc.,  it  may  be 

Dr.  J.  S.  Lockridge  was  the  first  physician ; Henry^ 

ryer  ;  Kev.  James  Barnes  (Baptist),  the  first  minister  who 
us  services ;  Thos.  L.  Hawkins,  the  first  shoemaker ;  T. 
»n,  the  first  tailor,  and  the  first  barber;  John  M.  Burks, 
arwood,  Wm.  Marshall,  and  Mr.  Smith  the  first  black- 
i  either  James  Bishop  or  Purdy  the  first  photographer, 
t  off  into  the  Union  army  during  the  civil  war  and  was  an 


564  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    CX>UNTY. 

army  photographer.  While  at  Ft.  Pickering,  Memphis,  Tenn.,  he  was 
shot  and  killed  by  a  negro  soldier,  whom  he  had  offended.  The  first 
section  boss  was  a  Mr.  McCormick. 

The  first  mayor  was  Housen  Canada ;  the  first  postmaster  Adam 
Gosline  ;^  the  first  newspaper  was  established  in  1858  by  Col.  Wm. 
A.  Strawn  and  called  the  News. 

The  first  church  building  was  the  M.  E.  South,  with  the  Masonic 
Hall  above,  built  in  1859.  Previous  to  the  building  of  this  chuitjli 
religious  meetings  had  been  held  in  the  summer  time  in  arbors  erected 
by  the  people.  Political  meetings  were  wont  to  be  held  in  Daniel 
Mayer's  store,  on  lot  1,  block  36. 

The  first  school-house  was  built  in  1857. 

Daniel  Mayer  is  the  oldest  merchant  now  in  town,  having  been  here 
25  years.  E.  S.  Hawkins  and  J.  F.  Fisher,  both  carpenters,  are  the 
only  men  now  in  the  place  who  were  here  when  the  town  was  origin- 
ally laid  out,  in  1856. 

ITEMS. 

When  the  town  of  Sturgeon  was  first  started  its  moral  tone  was  not 
the  most  elevated.  Rows  were  very  frequent,  and  melees^  during 
which  knives  and  pistols  were  flourished,  and  sometimes  used,  were 
quite  frequent.  In  time  this  state  of  affairs  was  removed,  and  the 
community  became  more  tractable  and  peaceable. 

In  the  spring  of  1857  a  cyclone  or  tornado  passed  over  the  young 
town,  and  blew  down  several  houses.  Among  them  was  a  new  build- 
ing, 50  by  60  feet  in  size,  and  three  stories  high,  which  was  totally 
demolished.  This  building  was  intended  for  a  hotel,  and  was  being 
erected  for  Claiborne  Thompson,  by  E.  S.  Hawkins,  Esq.  It  stood 
on  lot  7,  block  28. 

The  town  grew  with  reasonable  rapidity  after  the  railroad  was  com- 
pleted, and  in  a  year  after  it  was  started  had  a  population  of  from  200 
to  300  inhabitants.     Considerable  business  was  transacted.     Sturgeon 
was  the  leading  shipping  point  for  a  large  area  of  country  tributary 
to  St.  Louis.     The  railroad  was  a  new  thing  in  these  parts,  and  Stur- 
geon and  Centralia  were  the   only  stations  thereon    in  this   county. 
The  former  was  the  recognized  leading  point,  and  received  and  dis- 
charged  considerable   quantities  of  freight,   not  only  from  BoonCj 
but  from   Randolph,  Monroe  and  Audrain    counties,   as  it  does  ^ 
this  day. 


The  post-office  web  established  in  1S57. 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  565 


EARLY   DAYS   IN   STURGEON. 

A  year  or  two  since,  one  of  the  oldest  citizens  of  Sturgeon,  a  gen- 
^man  who  was  one  of  the  first  inhabitants  of  the  place,  with  a 
collection  of  early  scenes  and  events  and  capacity  to  write  of  them, 
iblished,  in  the  Sturgeon  Leader^  some  reminiscences  of  early  days, 
hich  are  herewith  appended  :  — 

Ftorluips  the  common  experience  of  our  day  would  forbid  the  recurrence  of  the  like  in 
eh  common-place  things.  But  then  the  country  was  new,  towns  few  and  far  between ;  the 
Oviy  was  coming  right  through  the  middle  of  the  town !  No  mistake !  Splendid  depots, 
ichine-shops,  round-houses,  etc.,  would  be  erected,  and  the  place  taken  under  the  especial 
itronage  of  this  new  institution.    Who  wouldn't  bite? 

But  S8  so  much  was  to  be  done  for  Sturgeon,  of  course  she  must  do  something  in  return, 
l)6sid«8  that  litUe  subscription  **  for  the  railway.  Well,  ten  acres  of  the  most  sightly  and 
laable  ground  in  the  town  would  be  sufficient  to  erect  these  promised  improvements  on, 
Bould  she  just  donate  that  little*'  the  thing  would  be  ** fixed" — Certainly,  take  the  land; 
'e  thousand  dollars  is  nothing  in  return  for  such  promised  blessings. 
And  now  everybody  stands  with  arms  akimbo,  with  fiery  eyelids,  dilated  nostrils  and 
ATing  bosoms,  in  breathless  expectation  of  the  coming  events.  Everybody  talked  Stur- 
lon,  talked  depot,  talked  machine  shops  and  round-house ;  the  news  spread  like  thin  batter, 
id  it  stuck ;  the  place  was  overrun  with  people,  and  still  others  came  in  haste,  fearing  to 

I  late.  Tomkin's  house  couldn't  accommodate  the  half.  Harrison  Hulett  set  up  the  City 
otel—  "no  go,"  more  room.   The  Planters*,  on  the  south  side,  two-story,  staked  and  ridered, 

II  ran  up  by  a  joint  stock  company.  The  railway  had  now  come,  sure  enough;  had 
anted  a  turn-table  on  the  west  side.  What  next?  All  are  on  tip-toe.  The  ''Railroad 
(Change " —  what  of  that?  Oh,  that  was  an  institution  that  lent  a  pious  hand  in  the  ad- 
inifltration  of  spirituous  consolation.  But  what  about  the  machine  shops,  etc  ?  Well, 
mby  hangs  a  tale  —  I  am  a  little  tender  on  that  subject 

The  depot —  yes,  that  came  one  night,  when  all  slept.  There  it  stands,  a  thing  of  beauty, 
toy  for  ever  so  long  a  time.  See  its  stately  columns,  arches,  towers  and  minarets,  its  roof 
mting  both  ways  at  once.  Step  inside,  ye  gods !  This  elegant  retreat  on  the  left  is  the 
lies'  private  parlor ;  on  the  right,  the  grand  saloon ;  in  the  west  wing  under  the  main 
ver,  on  the  avenue  lane  with  hewn  ties,  is  the  company's  office :  comfortable,  of  course  it 
Why,  one  is  rather  pleased  than  otherwise.  If  night  trains  are  a  little  late  you  can 
ike  yourself  at  hpme ;  and  then,  to  think,  all  this  luxury  in  exchange  for  that  little  strip 
K  and  bleak  over  the  way.  Bad  luck  to  it !  "  Why,  I  thought  that  was  for  machine 
Dpe!"  So  it  was — but — well,  they  are  not  built  yet.  But  isn't  there  a  beautiful  mon- 
aent  over  there  to  the  memory  of  blasted  hopes?  No.  That  you  will  find  in  the  new 
netery  grounds,  west,  but  the  road  thither  is  difficult  But  why  do  they  vacate  the  burial 
dunds  in  the  west  comer?  Oh,  that  was  to  compensate  for  the  strip  on  the  south  side,  and 
M  nobody  thought  of  djing  of  a  sudden ;  the  doctors  were  mostly  young  men ;  Lockridge 
dDoir  were  on  their  first  legs,  and  if  they  couldn't  cure  were  considerate  enough  to  pro- 
ig  life  at  least  to  the  extent  of  the  purse ! 

Sow  about  the  business  centers  of  the  town  in  those  days?  Some  changes  have  been 
^«.  Yes,  formerly  the  bulk  of  the  trade  was  done  on  the  street  fronting  the  railroad ; 
*  Zrea(^  block  was  the  center  of  exchange — contained  the  post-office,  had  stores,  drug 
^^^1  and  other  institutions  where  spirituous  consolation  and  medical  purposes  were  ad- 
^stered  with  happy  results.  In  it  also  flourished  the  political  schools,  from  which  were 
trusted  our  present  town  politicians ;  but  its  greatness  has  departed,  leaving  this  once 
y  mart  to  be  inhabited  by  bats,  an  unhappy  editor,  a  few  indignant  lawyers  and  a  broom 

•OTJ, 


566  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

STURGEON   IN   WAR   TIMES. 

When  the  civil  war  broke  out  the  people  of  Sturgeon,  for  the  most 
part,  sympathized  with  the  Southern  or  Confederate  side.  The  towa 
was  early  occupied  by  the  Federals,  and  held  by  them  as  a  military 
post  during  the  greater  part  of  the  war.  It  was  regarded  by  them  as 
a  place  of  considerable  importance,  as  indeed  it  was.  By  reason  of 
its  military  occupation  the  citizens  were  greatly  inconvenienced,  to  use 
a  mild  term. 

The  first  company  of  Federal  soldiers  in  town  was  a  battalion  of 
the  Third  Iowa  Infantry,  Col.  Williams  commanding.  These  soldiers 
came  in  July,  1861,  but  did  not  stay  long,  remaining  only  a  few  hours. 
The  second  body  of  troops  that  came  was  the  Fourteenth  Illinois  In- 
fantry, Col.  John  M.  Palmer.^  This  regiment  was  stationed  here  for 
a  short  time,  and  was  succeeded  by  a  company  of  Merrill's  Horse, 
Second  Missouri  Cavalry.  Then  came  a  company  of  militia  from 
Boonville,  followed  by  another  company  of  Krekel's  militia  froniSt. 
Charles.  In  December,  1861,  came  Col.  Birge's  Western  Sharpshoot- 
ers, who,  in  connection  with  Col.  Glover's  Third  Missouri  Cavalry, 
fought  Col.  Dorsey's  Confederates  at  Mt.  Zion  church,  December  28. 
Then  followed  a  battalion  of  Iowa  volunteers,  the  number  of  the  regi- 
ment not  being  remembered. 

From  Sturgeon,  Gen.  Prentiss,  at  the  head  of  a  battalion  of  Birge's 
Sharpshooters,  and  of  Col.  J.  M.  Glover's  Third  Missouri  Cavalry.set 
out  to  attack  Dorsey's  troops  at  Mt.  Zion,  as  before  narrated.     While 
Birge's  men  occupied  the  place  some  of  them,  who  were  printers,  took 
charge  of  the  News  office  and  issued  a  number  of  the  paper  gotten  up 
by  and  to  please  themselves.     This  paper  gave  an  alleged  truthful  ac- 
count of  the  Mt.  Zion   fight,  of  a  skirmish  over  on  Young's  creek,  \^ 
Monroe  county,  etc.,  and  indulged  in  much  boasting  of  the  prowess 
of  the  boys  in  blue  and  a  corresponding  depreciation  of  the  valor  o 
the  Confederates. 

From  Sturgeon  also  set  out,  in  September,  1864,  the  ill-fated  exp^ 
dition  to  Rocheport,  in  charge  of  Capt.  J.  W.  McFadden,  Compati 
F,  Third  Missouri  State  Militia,  which  was  set  upon  by  George  To^ 
and  John  Thrailkill  with  their  guerillas,  in  Gosline's  Lane,  in  PercJ 
township.  An  account  of  this  aflair  is  to  be  found  elsewhere  in  th^ 
pages. 

Here  also  was  the  city  of  refuge  for  the  few  men  of  Major  JoL- 


^  Afterward  Major-CJeneral  of  U.  S.  Volunteers,  and  Governor  of  DUnoU  in  1870-72. 


HT8TOBY  OP  BOONE  COUNTY.  667 

son's  command,  who  escaped  from  the  battle,  or  massacre,  of  Cen- 
fcralia.  Draper's  and  Scbaeffer's  commands  were  here  and  in  the 
ricioity  at  the  time,  Draper  coming  down  from  Macon  the  next  day. 
[t  would  be  a  hard  task,  and  not  a  profitable  one,  to  detail  all  of  the 
nilitary  movements  in  and  about  Sturgeon  during  the  war.  No  great 
^ory  was  won  by  either  side,  however,  and  the  least  said,  perhaps, 
lie  better. 

Sturgeon  sent  her  quota  of  men  into  the  Confederate  army,  and 
K)me  of  them  were  as  gallant  soldiers  as  the  most  knightly  in  either 
irmy,  and  as  brave  as  the  best. 

FIRES   IN   8TUROEON. 

Since  the  founding  of  the  place  it  has  been  remarkably  free  from 
ires.  Several  small  buildings  have  been  burned,  but  no  conflagration 
»f  serious  character  occurred  until  the  summer  of  1882.  The  follow*- 
Dg  is  said  to  be  a  list  of  all  the  fires  in  the  place :  — 

In  June,  1861,  the  residence  of  Hugh  Melvin,  situated  near  the 
iresent  residence  of  James  Conners,  was  burned  to  the  ground. 

In  the  spring  of  1862  the  residence  of  John  F.  Moore,  located  be- 
ween  the  present  residence  of  W.  T.  Old  and  T.  D.  Moss,  was 
urned  by  the  soldiers. 

In  November,  1863,  the  block  of  buildings,  four  in  number,  about 
'here  the  broom  factory  stands,  was  burned.     Loss  considerable. 

Next  was  the  residence  of  Dr.  Pollard,  dentist,  located  near  where 
[aria  Anderson  lives  ;  burned  by  the  soldiers  about  1864. 

Some  time  in  1864  a. house  on  the  corner  where  Robinson's  store 
3w  stands,  was  burned.  It  belonged  to  Dr.  Dinwiddle's  estate  and 
as  occupied  by  A.  H.  Nise. 

lu  1865  the  town  calaboose  was  burned  by  a  lot  of  soldiers  who  had 

'en  put  in  it  the  day  before  for  some  mutinous  conduct. 

About  1875  the  colored  Methodist  Church,  near  Russ  Schooling's, 

IS  destroyed  by  fire. 

July  19,  1882,  the  most  serious  conflagration  occurred  in  Sturgeon. 

9  o'clock  p.  M.  of  that  day,  the  fire  broke  out  in  Wood's  saloon 
ilding  and  was  bursting  through  the  roof  when  discovered.  The 
lowing  were  the  principal  losers  and  their  losses  :  C.  B.  Brauham's 
tcher  shop ;  loss,  $300.  B.  C.  Barnes,  saloon  ;  loss,  $150 ;  build- 
J  belonging  to  James  Palmer,  $500.  Daniel  &  Canada's  billiard 
U  and  saloon,  loss  on  fixtures,  $200;  on  building,  $1,250.  John 
itler,  two  unoccupied  buildings,  $1,200.     Woods's  saloon,  loss  $900. 


568  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Montrief  &  Prather  lost  three  large  livery  stable  buildings,  sheds, 
Fairbanks  scales,  etc.,  amounting  in  all  to  a  loss  of  $2,500.  The 
two-story  frame  building  occupied  by  the  Sturgeon  Savings  Bank  was 
saved  by  covering  the  roof  with  carpet  and  sprinkling  heavily  with 
salt. 

Several  incipient  fires  have  occurred,  but  no  great  damage  was  done. 
It  is  also  a  remarkable  fact  that  there  has  never  been  a  dollar  of  in- 
surance on  any  of  the  property  burned  in  this  place. 

STURGEONITES    IN    *' NIGGER    WOOL    SWAMP." 

In  November,  1880,  a  party  of  Sturgeonites,  Major  John  F.  Rucker, 
J.  M.  Proctor,  T.  S.  Carter,  W.  T.  Old,  F.  W.  Middleton,  and  J.  A. 
Tunier,  went  down  into  that  portion  of  the  territory  of  the  State  of 
Arkansas  known  by  the  euphonious  title  of  the  Nigger  Wool  Swamp.* 
Some  of  the  party  had  visited  the  locality  during  the  civil  war,  and 
knew  that  it  abounded  in  game  and  fish.  The  swamp  is  almost  m^ 
cessible  and  impenetrable.  After  going  into  camp  Rucker,  Middleton 
and  Old  started  out  for  a  hunt.  They  found  some  deer  tracks  a  few 
miles  from  camp.  Mr.  Old  took  one  direction,  and  Major  Rucker  and 
Middleton  another.  Mr.  Old  soon  discovered  that  he  was  lost,  but, 
happening  to  hear  in  the  distance  the  rumble  of  a  train  of  cars  a  mile 
or  so  away,  he  succeeded  in  making  his  way  to  the  railroad  track,  and 
then  to  the  camp  in  safety. 

Rucker  and  Middleton  were  not  so  fortunate.  After  rambling  about 
for  a  time  they  too  became  bewildered  and  lost.  They  were  not  much 
alarmed  or  disconcerted,  however,  as  they  had  good  guns,  plenty  of 
ammunition,  and  a  first-rate  compass.  The  latter  article  proved  of 
but  little  use,  as  they  were  unable  to  travel  but  a  short  distance  in  any 
one  direction,  owing  to  the  numerous  sloughs  and  lakes.  The  weather 
was  quite  cold  and  there  was  snow  on  the  ground.  The  situation  of 
the  hunters  was  not  at  all  comfortable.  Night  was  fast  approaching, 
and  they  had  but  feeble  hopes  of  extricating  themselves  before  the  next 
day.  They  had  but  three  matches  and  two  of  these  were  burned  in 
order  to  locate  their  direction  of  travel.  The  other  match  was  saved 
to  kindle  a  fire  in  case  they  were  compelled  to  camp  out. 

At  length,  worn  out  and  weary,  without  food  and  drenched  to  the 
waist  by  wading  through  mud  and  water,  they  decided  to  camp  for  the 
night,  and  hope  for  the  best  in  the  morning.     Extraordinary  prepara- 


1  On  Black  River,  in  Clay  County. 


HIBTOBT   OF   BOONE   COUNTT.  569 

tions  were  made  to  insure  the  safe  ignition  of  the  solitary  match  on 
which  they  were  dependent  for  warmth  and  comfort,  and  their  efforts 
were  successful.  The  greatest  precautions  were  taken  to  have  the 
wood  take  fire,  and  these  were  also  crowned  with  success.  A  bright, 
hot  fire  was  soon  burning,  by  which  the  belated  hunters  were  trying 
to  make  themselves  somewhat  comfortable.  Mr.  Middleton  succeeded 
m  removing  his  boots,  but  Maj.  Rucker's  feet  were  so  badly  swollen 
that  his  boot^  could  not  be  taken  off.  The  night  was  passed  in  a 
manner  that  may  be  imagined,  but  that  is  difficult  to  be  described. 
All  the  time  their  comrades  in  camp  were  shouting,  firing  guns,  build- 
ing bright  fires,  and  trying  many  other  devices  to  attract  their  attention 
and  guide  them  to  safety,  but  their  signals  were  unheard  and  unob- 
served. 

Sometime  in  the  forenoon  of  the  next  day  Rucker  and  Middleton, 
tired  out,  hungry,  and  in  a  most  wretched  plight  every  way,  made 
their  appearance  in  camp.  Their  companions,  though  almost  over- 
joyed at  their  safety,  were  inclined  to  rally  and  ''  chaff"  them  over 
their  mishap  and  ill  luck,  but  Maj.  Rucker  levelled  his  gun  and  warned 
the  party  that  the  matter  was  too  serious  to  be  joked  about,  and  that 
he  was  in  no  mood  to  be  trifled  with.  It  is  said  that  neither  of  the 
parties  has  since  shown  any  very  fervent  desire  to  chase  the  wild  deer 
or  track  him  to  hid  lair  within  the  delectable  precincts  of  Nigger  Wool 
Swamp. 

KILLING   OF   BENJAMIN   CR08 WHITE. 

About  the  1st  of  February,  1866,  Beverly  F.  Daniel  killed  Benja- 
min Croswhite,  Clerk  of  the  Sturgeon  Court  of  Common  Pleas  and 
clerk  in  the  dry  goods  store  of  Daniel  Mayer,  and  a  very  estimable 
foung  man.  Mr.  Croswhite  was  shot  in  the  letl  temple  with  a  pistol, 
the  ball  passing  through  the  head,  inflicting  a  wound  of  which  he  died 
n  a  few  minutes.  Daniel  was  at  once  arrested  by  S.  F.  Cross,  deputy 
heriff,  and  was  tried  before  J.  B.  Jarmau,  justice  of  the  peace,  and 
ommitted  to  jail  on  a  charge  of  murder  in  the  first  degree.  He  died 
^  the  Columbia  jail  while  awaiting  trial.  There  was  a  rumor  at  one 
^e  that  he  did  not  die,  but  was  spirited  away,  and  the  report  of  his 
^th  circulated  to  cover  his  escape.  There  was  no  truth  in  the  latter 
iport. 

INDUSTRIES,  INSTITUTIONS,  ASSOCIATIONS,  ETC. — STURGEON  MILLS. 

The  "  Sturgeon  Mills,"  F.  M.  Truby,  proprietor,  were  built  ten  or 
irelve  years  since  by  Frank  Suttles.     The  mills  manufacture  flour 


570  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

and  feed.  They  cover  an  area  of  60x30  feet.  They  have  recentiy 
been  fitted  up  with  all  of  the  latest  improvements  in  mill  machinery; 
make  the  '*  new  process  "  flour  and  have  a  liberal  patronage.  Thrir 
capacity  is  about  twenty-five  barrels  of  flour  a  day. 

THE    MIDDLETON   &  TAYLOR   MILLS. 

These  mills  are  among  the  best  in  the  country.  Recently  there  has 
been  added  to  the  machinery  a  new  lot,  costing  about  $3,000.  Anew 
engine  of  30-horse  power  has  been  put  in.  There  has  also  been  i 
considerable  addition  to  the  area  and  capacity  of  the  mill  made 
recently.  The  mill  power  has  four  run  of  burrs.  It  makes  the  best 
grades  of  flour,  including  the  variety  known  as  the  **  new  process." 
Mr.  F.  W.  Middleton  had  sole  charge  of  the  mill  until  in  the  spring 
of  1882,  when  Mr.  C.  H.  Taylor  was  taken  in  as  partner.  Messrs. 
Middleton  &  Taylor  have  in  connection  with  this  mill  a  valuable  hay 
press,  costing  $6,000,  which  has  a  baling  capacity  of  five  tons  a  day. 

STURGEON    SAVINGS    BANK. 

The  Sturgeon  Savings  Bank  (now  a  private  bank)  was  organized 
September  25,  1879,  with  a  capital  of  $10,000.  The  president  isB. 
P.  Kitchie ;  cashier,  D.  Mayer ;  directors,  C.  F.  Sanies,  W.  H.  and 
J.  S.  Ritchie.     B.  F.  Tucker  is  also  a  stockholder. 

THE    STURGEON    BANK. 

This  bank  was  first  organized  in  the  spring  of  1877,  by  Wooldridge 
&  Carr.  It  was  converted  into  a  stock  bank  in  the  fall  of  1878,  with 
B.  P.  Ritchie,  president,  and  F.  E.  Carr,  cashier.  The  present  offi- 
cers are  M.  H.  Harris,  president ;  Dr.  J.  F.  Keith,  vice-president;  S. 
W.  Turner,  cashier ;  directors,  J.  M.  Seymour,  A.  D.  Spratt,  Dr.  J. 
F.  Keith,  John  F.  Rucker,  John  Hazelrigg,  M.  H.  Harris,  S.  W. 
Turner.  A  general  banking  business  is  done,  to  the  satisfaction  of  a 
liberal  number  of  patrons.  The  paid  up  capital  stock  of  the  bank  is 
$20,000. 

STURGEON    GUN    CLUB. 

In  the  spring  of  1879,  Messrs.  F.  W.  Middleton,  J.  A.  Turner,  W. 
R.  Harris,  R.  H.  Edmonds  and  J.  F.  Keith  organized  the  Sturgeon 
Gnn  Club.  Edmonds  was  chosen  president,  and  Keith  secretary  and 
treasurer.  The  club  has  shot  at  Sturgeon,  Moberly,  and  other 
points,  and  made  a  fair  record.  One  member  has  died  since  the 
organization. 


HI8TOBT  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  571 


BROOM  FACTORY. 


The  broom  factory  of  S.  A.  Fretwell  is  quite  an  institution  of  its 
and.  It  was  establis}ied  in  1878.  It  has  a  capacity  for  turning  out 
iirty  dozen  of  well-made  brooms  in  a  day.  Brooms  and  brushes 
x)th  are  manufactured,  the  latter  made  of  jute,  which  is  imported  for 
be  purpose.  Mr.  Fretwell  sells  his  wares  in  Columbia,  Fulton,  Mex- 
co,  and  along  the  Wabash,  St.  Louis  and  Pacific  Railway  as  far  north 
,8  Ottumwa,  Iowa.  He  also  supplies  the  railway  with  brooms  and 
►rushes.  The  broom-corn  used  is  mostly  grown  in  Boone,  Callaway, 
ind  Audrain  counties.  This  section  of  Missouri  is  well  adapted  for 
he  cultivation  of  broom-corn.     Mr.  Fretwell  employs  five  workmen. 

The  shipping  of  railroad  ties  is  a  considerable  industry  in  Stur- 
geon. The  county,  south  and  west,  produces  great  numbers  of  them, 
md  the  average  shipment  is  about  1,000  a  day,  or  300,000  in  a  year. 
This  has  been  an  active  business  for  fifteen  or  twenty  years  last 
past. 

Mr.  J.  M.  Proctor  has  one  of  the  largest  and  best  orchards  in  Cen- 
tral Missouri  on  his  premises  in  the  north  part  of  Sturgeon,  just  out- 
ride of  town.  The  orchard  comprises  an  area  of  six  or  seven  acres, 
md  contains  600  apple  trees,  400  peach  trees,  150  pears,  50  apricots 
md  nectarines,  5,000  strawberries,  besides  raspberries,  plums,  cher- 
^es,  and  other  fruits  in  great  abundance.  Rawle's  Janet  is  considered 
he  best  apple  for  all  purposes,  being  especially  the  most  reliable 
)earer;  Ben  Davis  and  the  Northern  Spy  come  next.  The  Ben  Davis 
3  the  most  valuable  for  shipping.  St.  Louis  is  the  best  apple  market 
or  this  section  of  Missouri.  Mr.  Proctor  has  also  a  fine  fish  pond, 
n  acre  and  a  half  in  extent,  stocked  with  the  best  varieties  of  fish, 
i>ch  as  perch,  land-locked  and  California  salmon,  buffalo  and  cat. 
he  pond  furnishes  Mr.  Proctor  with  all  of  the  best  quality  of  fish 
>od  that  he  desires.     It  was  made  in   1876,  and  cost  about  $1,000. 

also  furnishes  about  100  tons  of  ice  per  year,  besides  abundant 
ater  for  stock. 

Maj.  John  F.  Rucker  is  about  to  undertake  the  erection  of  a  town 
dl,  50x60  feet  in  size,  which  will  be  a  much  appreciated  institution 
hen  completed,  according  to  the  specifications  made. 

COURT   OF    COMMON    PLEAS. 

By  an  act  of  the  Legislature,  approved  January  10,  1860,  a  Court 
Common  Pleas  was  created  to  be  held  at  Sturgeon.     The  first  term 


572  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

convened  July  16,  1860.  Hon.  Wm.  A.  Hall  was  the  judge;  J.  T. 
Burnam,  clerk;  Jno.  R.  Jacks,  marshal.  The  first  proceeding  of 
any  sort  was  the  naturalization  of  Louis  Burkeye  as  a  citizen  of  the 
United  States,  with  all  of  the  high  honors  and  privileges  thereunta 
belonging.  The  first  civil  action  was  on  a  promissory  note — "Polly 
A.  Fountain,  plaintifl*,  v.  Housen  Canada,  James  D.  Patton  and  Arch- 
ibald H.  Wavne,*defendants." 

The  jurisdiction  of  this  court  extends  over  portions  of  Boone, 
Audrain,  Howard  and  Randolph,  and  is  of  great  advantage  to  the 
people  within  its  precincts.  Its  sessions  are  from  two  days  to  a  week 
in  length.  The  present  officers  are:  Judge,  Geo,  H.  Burckhartt ; 
clerk,  T.  S.  Carter;  marshal,  F.  M.  Chancy. 

OFFICIAL   HISTORY. 

The  town'of  Sturgeon  was  first  incorporated  in  the  year  1859,  with 
Housen  Canada^as  the  first  mayor.  The  charter  was  amended  in  1875, 
and  under  this  the  town  is  now  runnins:. 

The  mayors  have  been  Housen  Canada,  Napoleon  B.  Burks,  

Dyson,  W^.  W.fStone,  H.  L.  Gray,  J.  P.  Merry,  John  F.  Fisher, 
John  Butler,  M.  M.  Jessee,  G.  W.  Merry,  C  B.  Branham,  J.  W. 
Montrief.  The  present  officers  are:  Mayor,  W.  J.  Montrief;  mar- 
shal, J.  H.  Barnette ;  treasurer,  T.  J.  Croswhite ;  clerk,  J.  V. 
Kemper;  council,  M.  H.  Harris,  W.  H.Welch,  J.  T.  Jackson,  R.  H. 
Edmonds,  J.  A.  Turner,  C.  H.  Taylor. 

THE  CHURCHES  OF  STURGEON. 

The  first  religious  services  in  Sturgeon  were  conducted  by  Rev. 
James  Barnes,  a  Baptist,  who  preached  under  an  elm  tree,  down  near 
the  branch,  in  the  eastern  part  of  town.  <<  Uncle  Jimmy  "  was  a 
very  popular  minister  in  his  pioneer  ministrations.  His  biography  is 
to  be  found  elsewhere.  There  are  those  who  deny  that  Rev.  Barnes 
was  the  first  minister  in  Sturgeon  that  held  services.  They  assert 
that  a  Catholic  priest  from  St.  Louis  was  here  while  the  railroad  was 
buildino^,  and  held  mass  in  one  of  the  railroad  houses. 

Not  long  after  the  town  was  started,  a  lady  preacher  came  along 
and  held  forth  on  two  or  three  occasions.  Some  people  did  not  en- 
joy the'spectacle  of  a  lady  in  the  pulpit,  holding  that  a  woman  was 
forbidden  to  speak  in  public,  etc.  One  night  the  lady  challenged 
any  one  to  deny  her  right  to  preach  and  teach,  and  expressed  an 
anxiety  to  discuss  the  matter  publicly.     Rev.  Butts  was  in  the  con- 


H18TOBT   OF  BOONE   COUNTT.  573' 


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ration  9  but  did  not  seem  disposed  to  pick  up  the  glove  so  defiantly 
irown  down.  He  was  urged  to  reply,  but  refused.  Then  the  boys 
irew  buckshot  at  him,  peppering  him  on  all  sides,  and  at  last  forced 
imto  his  feet.  He  made  a  speech  in  opposition  to  the  claims  of  the 
idy,  and  denied  her  right  to  preach.  He  was  especially  severe  on  ^ 
ie  doctrine  of  "  woman's  rights  *'  in  general.  The  lady,  in  a  short 
Qt  cutting  reply,  rather  discomfited  the  reverend  gentleman.  Her 
pening  sentence  was  :  **  Mr.  Butts  is  butting  against  the  wrong  indi- 
idual  this  time  I  " 

During  the  war,  services  were  practically  suspended  in  the  place, 
lie  Christian  church  was  occupied  by  the  Federals  for  a  time  as  a 
)rtification.  The  house  was  occupied  as  barracks  by  the  soldiers  and 
heavy  earthwork  was  thrown  up  around  in  case  it  should  be  at- 
icked.  Traces  of  the  old  ditches  and  embankment  are  still  to  be 
een. 

M.   B.    CHURCH   SOUTH. 

The  congregation  of  this  church  was  first  organized  in  old  Buena 
Ista,  or  Bourbonton,  as  far  back  as  in  1851.  Upon  the  laying  out  of 
►turgeon  the  organization  was  removed  to  the  latter  place  in  1857. 
omeof  the  original  members  of  the  church  were  Nicholas  S.  Woods 
od  his  wife,  Leantha  Woods  ;  John  Baker  and  his  wife,  Nancy  Baker ; 
raoklin  Green  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Green  ;  John  Dusky  and  wife, 
nd  Joseph  Keene.  The  church  building  was  erected  in  1859  ;  it  is  a 
'ame  and  cost  about  $2,000.  It  is  still  standing,  its  location  being  on 
>ts  6  and  7,  block  37.  It  was  dedicated  in  April,  1860,  by  Rev.  W. 
•  Miller.     The  pastors  have  been  Revs.  David  Fisher,  Wesley  Hat- 

'D,  Wm.  Saxton,  P.  M.  Pinkard,  S.  P.  Cope,  Faubion,  

ids,  Joseph  H.  Pritchett,  James  Smith,  George  Sexton,  John  Tay- 
r,  Wm.  M.  Wood,  G.  W.  Rich,  T.  De  Moss,  Wm.  M.  Wood,  John 
ores,  D.  H.  Root,  and  Robt.  White. 

CHURCH   OF   CHRIST. 

This  church  stands  on  lots  13  and  14  of  block  51,  and  is  a  neat  and 
nmodious  frame  building.  It  was  begun  in  1859  and  completed  in 
60.  The  congregation  was  first  organized  in  1858,  by  Elders  P. 
bble,  and  F.  M.  Allen,  and  re-organized  by  Clayton  Keith  Septem- 
r  24,  1866.  The  original  members  were  John  Foreman,  wife 
d  son,  William  ;  John  R.  Jacks  and  wife  ;  William  Hargis  and  wife, 
A  others.  The  pastors  that  have  served  this  church  are  the  folio w- 
g:   J.  M.  Berry,  S.  P.  HolUs,  Gill,  G.  A.  Perkins,  M.  M. 


574  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

Davi8,  J.   H.  Hardin,  and   O.  A.  Carr.     The  present  membership 
is  reported  as  ninety-nine. 

CATHOLIC   CHURCH. 

This  church  is  situated  in  Rochford's  addition  to  Sturgeon.  The 
church  organization  was  first  founded  in  the  year  1866.  The  original 
members  were  Michael  Moynihan,  Michael  Spellman,  Philip  Spellman, 
Dennis  Benson,  Bryan  Nolan,  James  Connors,  Chas.  Lanham,  John 
Moynihan,  Wm.  Moynihan,  and  Duncan  McDonald.  The  church 
building  was  erected  in  1868.  It  is  a  frame  and  cost  about  $3,000, 
It  has  not  yet  been  dedicated.  The  pastors  in  charge  of  the  church 
have  been  Fathers  O'Neal,  McCabe,  McKinney,  Stack,  and  Dempsey. 
Father  Twohey,  the  curate,  from  Moberly,  now  celebrates  mass.  The 
present  number  of  members  is  about  35. 

CIVIC   SOCIETIES  —  MASONIC   LODOE. 

Sturgeon  Lodge,  No.  174,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  was  instituted  by  Hen- 
derson Davis,  the  first  master.  The  dispensation  was  issued  in  1855. 
The  chaiter  bears  date  May,  1857.  The  charter  members  were  Hen- 
derson Davis,  W.  W.  Stone,  Wharton  Schooler,  Dr.  W.  H.  Callaway, 
Daniel  Mayer,  James  D.  Patton,  Housen  Canada,  and  others.  Thefirst 
officers  were  Henderson  Davis,  W.  M.  :  James  D.  Patton,  treasurer; 
Wharton  Schooler,  secretary.  (Other  officers'  names  not  furnished.) 
The  present  officers  are :  Master,  S.  W.  Turner ;  senior  warden, 
John  Loux ;  junior  warden,  Anthony  Wayne ;  treasurer,  John  F. 
Rucker ;  secretary,  S.  F.  Cross;  senior  deacon,  F.  E.  Bruton; 
junior  deacon,  J.  W.  Pickett.  The  present  membership  is  62.  The 
lodge  meets  in  a  frame  hall  that  was  built  in  the  year  1859,  at  a  cost 
of  about  $1,600.  The  Hallsville  and  Centralia  lodges  were  formed 
mostly  of  members  from  Sturgeon  lodge  ;  and  some  members  were 
furnished  to  constitute  Harrisburg  and  Morality  lodges. 

UNITED   WORKMEN 

Sturgeon  lodge  No.  174,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  was  instituted  by  D.  G. 

M.  W. Bonney.     Its  charter  and  dispensation  are  dated  A"* 

gust  13th,  1878.  The  charter  members  were  T.  S.  Carter,  M.  B* 
Harris,  W.  H.  Goin,  A.  J.  Wren,  S.  W.  Turner,  R.  H.  Edmonds,  S. 
F.  Cross,  J.  S.  Powers,  Geo.  L.  Mitchell,  J.  T.  Jackson,  Geo.  W.  3*^ 
terton,  W.  W.  Lyon,  J.  M.  McComas,  R.  P.  Hopkins,  Wm.  Prowe''* 
Geo.  W.  Hubbard,  C.  D.  Croswhite,  L.  W.  White,  R.  D.  Euck^r, 


mSTOBT  OF  BOONE  ,COUNTY.  575^ 

F.  Backer,  J.  M.  Hawkins,  S.  O.  Titus,  F.  W.  Middleton,  S.  W. 
lyock,  J.  A.  Turner,  P.  M.  Hutton,  T.  A.  Cassity.  The  first  of- 
ers  were :  8.  W.  Turner,  P.  M.  W. ;  G.  W.  Batterton,  M.  W. ;  T- 

Carter,  G.  F. ;  R.  H.  Edwards,  O. ;  A.  J.  Wren,  F. ;  F.  W. 
iddleton,  G. ;  J.  M.  Hawkins,  J.  W. ;  J.  T.  Jackson,  O.  W. ;  S.  O. 
tas,  R. ;  S.  W.  Shryock,  receiver.  The  present  officers  are:  S. 
.Turner,  P.  M.  W. ;  T.  S.  Carter,  M.  W, ;  W.  H.  Goin,  G.  F. ; 

W.  Batterton,  O. ;  S.  T.  Davis,  R. ;  John  Stolts,  receiver;  S.  F. 
ross,  financier ;  E.  S.  Hawkins,  J.  W. ;  T.  G.  Sims,  O.  W. ;  M. 
.  Wade,  G.  The  present  membership  is  sixty- six.  During  thia 
rm  the  lodge  has  lost  only  one  member,  James  H.  McBride,  who 
led  January  17,  1881.  The  loss  was  promptly  paid.  One  member 
as  suspended  and  in  about  two  weeks  thereafter  committed  suicide. 
>uring  the  year  1881,  fifteen  new  members  were  admitted  to  mem-- 
erehip.  The  lodge  is  in  good  financial  condition  and  thoroughly 
rosperous. 

KNIOHTS   OF  HONOR. 

Sturgeon  lodge  No.  2134,  was  instituted  by  Grand  Reporter  Peter 
^effer.  The  dispensation  was  issued  April  3d,  1880.  The  first  mem- 
srswere:  S.  W.  Turner,  J.  T  Jackson,  T.  M.  Smith,  Dr.  J.  F. . 
eith,  John  Hazelrigg,  P.  M.  Hutton,  S.  M.  Smith,  M.  M.  Clark,  J 
!.  Winscott,  D.  Miller,  John  J.  Canada,  John  W.  Owens,  J.  H. 
arnett,  Y.  E.  Riggs.  The  first  officers  were :  John  Hazelrigg,  die- 
^tor;  M.  M.  Clark,  vice  dictator;  P.  M.  Hutton,  assistant  dictator; 
.  W,  Turner,  past  dictator;  J.  W.  Owens  reporter;  J.  H.  Win- 
'-ott,  financial  reporter;  J.  T.  Jackson,  treasurer;  J.  F.  Keith, 
edical  examiner ;  D.  Miller,  guide.  The  present  officers  are  :  J.  T. 
Mikson,  dictator;  J.  H.  Barnett,  vice  dictator;  Ed.  Jarman,  assistant 
ctator;  John  Owens,  reporter;  W.  H.  Winscott,  financial  reporter; 
►hn  Stolts  treasurer ;  Frank  Bruton,  guide  ;  P.  M.  Hutton,  chaplain  ; 

H.  Prather,  guardian ;  F.  M.  Truby,  sentinel ;  J.  F.  Keith,  med- 
il  examiner.  The  present  membership  is  forty-two.  The  hall  in 
lich  the  lodge  meets  is  rented.  This  lodge  has  had  no  deaths  since 
^  organization.  The  Order  of  Knights  of  Honor  was  instituted  in  the 
nited  States,  June  30,  1874.  Total  number  of  members  June  30, 
$81,  112,155;  assessments  during  the  same  period,  91.  Losses 
^id,  $5,395,093.65.  Total  number  of  members  in  the  State  of 
[issonri,  December  31,  1881,  5,441.  Total  cash  on  hand  and  in- 
ested  for  the  State,  $23,617.31.  Total  deaths  in  Missouri  to 
December  31,  1881,  122,  one-half  ofthese  were  half  rate.     Altogether 


576  HISTORY    OF   BOONE   CX)UNTY. 

the  beneficiaries  received  $243,000.  The  report  of  the  Graud  Lodge 
is  highly  satisfactory,  considering  that  the  order  passed  through  the 
yellow  fever  period,  during  which  its  losses  were  excessive. 

THE   STURGEON   SCHOOLS. 

As  previously  stated,  the  first  school  house  in  Sturgeon  was  built  in 
1857.  The  pine  lumber  of  which  the  house  was  built  was  brought  from 
Hannibal ;  the  oak  was  procured  at  home.  At  first  the  house  had  but 
two  rooms,  one  above  the  other.  Considerable  additions  have  been 
made  to  it  since,  however.  The  house  was  built  expressly  for  school  pur- 
poses, but  it  was  afterward  sold  to  the  Catholic  church,  and  still  later 
repurchased  for  $1,000.  The  town  trustees  had  promised  a  school 
house  free  gratis  to  the  people,  but  failed  to  fulfill  that  promise,  as  it 
is  said  they  did  certain  others. 

A  Mr.  Dewey  was  the  first  school  teacher  in  Sturgeon.  He  had  a 
good  school  and  received  about  $100  per  month. 

Prof.  S.  T.  Davis  is  the  present  principal  of  the  Stui;geon  school. 
In  the  last  term,  ending  in  March,  S.  O.  Titus  was  first  assistant  till 
Christmas  and  after  him  was  J.  A.  Hatchett.  The  other  teachers 
were  Miss  D.  Annie  Allison  and  Miss  Rena  M.  Redmond.  The 
town  has  about  six  months'  public  school  and  three  months'  private 
school,  two  teachers  being  engaged  in  the  latter.  The  following  is  an 
abstract  of  the  report  for  the  term  ending  March  17,  1882  :  — 

Number   of   pupils    enrolled  —  White,  males,   124;  females,   104; 
total,  228.     Average  daily  attendance,  149. 

Colored   School  —  Males,   29;    females,   44;  total,  73.    •  Average 
daily  attendance,  38. 

Total  enrollment  in  both  schools,  301.     Average  daily  attendant' 

in  both  187.     Increase  in  enrollment  over  last  year,  32  ;  increase   ^ 

attendance  30. 

The  present  school  oflicials  are  Joseph  Seymour,  president ;  T,     •- 

Carter,  clerk;  Silas  Fretwell,  treasurer;   D.  Mayer,  F.  M.  Chan^3 

and  L.  Sweeney,  trustees. 

STURGEON    CEMETERY. 

The  original  town  cemetery  was  deeded  to    the  public  by  the  to 
company,  in  1857.      It   contained    about   five   acres.       Its   locati 
was  inside  of  the  corporate  limits.     No    one  was  ever  buried   in 
cemetery.     It  was  soon  sold   and  another  purchased  a  half-mile  w 
of  the  town.     This,  the  present  cemetery,  contains  about  six  acr 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  577 

'8t  burial  therein  was  that  of  John  B.  Smith,  Esq.,  one  of  the 
1  proprietors  of  the  town.  It  is  asserted  that  Mr.  Smith  was 
it  citizen  of  the  place  that  died  ;  but  those  who  perhaps  know 
my  this,  and  say  that  Miss  Hukle,  before  mentioned,  died  before 
Dith.  Besides  their  own  cemetery  the  citizens  of  Sturgeon  use 
graveyard,  across  the  line,  in  Audrain,  and  Mt.  Horeb,  a  mile 
outh  of  town,  as  burying  grounds. 


THE   STURGEON    *'  LEADER. 


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re  had  been  several  papers  started  at  Sturgeon  previous  to  the 
;  of  the  Leader  in  1869.  John  W.  Jacks,  a  practical  printer, 
e  founder.  It  was  not  a  success,  financially,  under  his  manage- 
and  at  last  suspended  in  1872.  In  1873,  its  present  proprietor. 
Carter,  purchased  the  office,  and  in  May,  1873,  issued  the  first 
)r  of  the  paper  under  the  new  management.  The  paper  is  a  siz- 
Q  folio.  It  has  a  good  chxulation  in  Boone,  Audrain,  Randolph, 
)e  and  Howard  counties.  It  is  Democratic  in  politics,  but  liberal 
timent.  It  is  a  live,  earnest,  reliable  local  paper,  giving  all  the 
(vithin  the  range  of  its  circulation,  at  the  exclusion  if  necessary 
sign  matter.  This  feature  of  the  Leader  has  given  it  a  wide  cir- 
3Q,  and  made  the  paper  an  indispensable  visitor  in  almost  every 
hold  for  miles  around.  The  Leader^  in  Mr.  Carter's  hands, 
ot  only  given  satisfaction  to  its  patrons,  but  has  proved  a  pay- 
iterprise  to  its  publisher. 


BIOGRAPHIES.  1 
J.    H.    ALEXANDER. 

I.  Alexander,  farmer,  was  born  in  Mercer  County,  Kentucky, 
aber  2d,  1815.  His  father,  Joshua  Alexander,  was  a  native  of 
[ia,  removing  first  to  Kentucky,  and  thence  to  Missouri,  in 
settling  in  Perche  township,  about  eight  miles  south  of  where 
Alexander  now  resides.  He  died  Jan.  27th,  1867.  Mrs.  Alex- 
,  nee  Rowland,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky.  She  died  January 
1842.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  came  to  Missouri  with  his 
bs  in  1818,  and  has  lived  in  Boone  county  ever  since.  He 
aised  on  afarm,  and  has  followed  agricultural   pursuits  all  his 

ringed  alphabetically. 

37 


578  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

life.  He  moTed  to  his  present  home  February  Ist,  1839.  Was  mar* 
ried  April  8th,  1838,  to  Miss  Emeline,  daughter  of  Armstead  and 
Sarah  (Wade)  Carter.  They  have  /seven  children  living  and  thw 
dead.  The  living  are  :  Joslina  C,  James  T.,  George  W^.,  Ehzabetk 
J.,  wife  of  C.  G.  King;  Martha  E.,  married  to  Mr.  Gopher;  Mary 
Alice  and  Emeline.  Mrs.  Alexander  died  January  14th,  1870.  Mr. 
Alexander  has  been  a  member  of  the  old  school  Baptist  Church  for 
forty-live  years.  He  is  of  Irish  origin.  He  is  a  good  citizen,  a  kind 
neighbor  and  a  worthy  man  in  every  sense  of  the  term. 

J.  B.  ALLISON. 

J.  B.  Allison,  farmer,  near  Sturgeon,  is  the  son  of  Alexander  and 
Jemima  (nee  Crawford)  Allison.     His   mother  was  the  daughter  of 
James   Crawford,   one  of   the  first  settlers    of  Boone  county.    Hi* 
father  came  to  Boone  county  in   181.'>,  and  settled  about  six  miles 
north  of  Columbia.     He  helped  to   ma^e  the  first    wagon    road  ever 
opened  in  Boone  county.     It  was  called  the  Boone's  Lick  road.   The 
elder  Allison  died  October  13th,  1861.     The  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  born  six  miles  north  of  Columbia,  September  7,  1828.    .When 
about  five  years  old   his  father  moved  over  on  Salt  River.     He  lost 
his  mother  when  eight  years  old.     The  children  were  then  scattered, 
no  two  of  them  growing  up  in  the  same  place.     The  first  money  ever 
earned  by  J.  B.  Allison  was  spent  in  educating  a  sister.     The  family 
were  brought  up  under  very  unfortunate  circumstances.     The  subject 
of  this  sketch  was  apprenticed  out  at  the  tanner's  trade,  which  he  fol- 
lowed until  he  was  twenty-one  years  old.     From  twenty-one  to  twenty- 
two,  he  taught  school.     He  was  principally  raised  in  the  vicinity  of 
Florida,   Monroe  county,   Missouri.     Was  married,  November  Uth, 
1850,  to  Miss  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Martha  Woodson, 
and  a  niece  of  Warren  Woodson,  who  was  clerk  of  the  Boone  county 
court  for  forty  years.     They  have  eight  children  living :  George  W.  and 
Benjamin  A.,  attorneys,  at  McPherson,  Kansas;    Annie  and  BelK 
teachers  in  the  public  schools;  John   S.,  Emma  J.,  William  Mo&l^y 
and  Mary  H.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allison  are  both  members  of  the  M^^^' 
odist  church.     Mr.  Allison  is  a  self-educated  man.     Atfler  marr>^^t 
he  engaged  for  several  years  in  selling  lightning  rods  and  chain  puEC^P' 
He  afterwards   followed  farming.     He   was  marshal  of  the  comnr*!^ 
pleas  court  at  Sturgeon  for  eight  years.     He  was  the  Republican  n^^^^^ 
inee  for  the  legislature  in  186G  against  Major  James  S.  Rollins.       3l 
Allison  was  an  unconditional  Union  man  during  the  late  war. 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  579 

G£OBGE   W.    BATTERTON. 

re  W.  Batterton,  Democratic  nominee  for  the  legislature,  waa 
Boone  County,  about  seven  miles  north  of  Columbia,  Decern- 
837,  and  grew  to  manhood  on  his  father's  farm.  His  grand- 
Moses  Batteiton,  emigrated  from  Kentucky  to  Missouri  about 
r  18S0,  and  settled  on  Callaham's  creek,  about  seven  miles 
Columbia.  His  father,  Lemuel  B.  Batterton,  was  born  in 
ad  learned  the  cabinet-maker's  trade  in  Kentucky.  He  came 
\  father  to  Boone  County  in  1820.  About  four  years  after  his 
e  he  bought  the  place  where  George  W.  was  born,  upon  which 
i  and  died,  his  death  occurring  in  1869.  He  man*ied  Mary 
a  native  of  Kentucky.  Her  ancestors  came  from  near  Lynch- 
'irginia,  which  city  was  named  after  a  member  of  her  family. 
1  Mrs.  Batterton  raised  eight  sons  and  two  daughters  to  man- 
id  womanhood.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  left  home  when 
ighteen  years  of  age  and  labored  for  wages  which  be  spent  in 
ig  himself.  When  about  twenty  years  of  age  he  commenced 
y  in  the  public  schools  and  continued  in  this  business,  with 
itervals,  for  about  six  years.  Was  a  soldier  in  the  Confederate 
>r  about  nine  months.  Belonged  to  McKinney's  company, 
as  the  **  Blackfoot  Rimgers."  Was  in  the  battle  of  Wilson 
Lexington,  and  Drywood.  Went  to  Nebraska  in  1864  where 
ced  on  a  farm  and  taught  school  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
ack  in  1866  and  went  to  farming  in  Audrain  county.  After 
one  crop  he  removed  to  the  Two-mile  Prairie,  in  Boone  coun- 
re  he  farmed,  taught  school  and  bought  and  shipped  stock  un- 
).  He  then  removed  to  Vernon  county,  Missouri,  where 
ed  for  eighteen  months.  Sold  his  farm  in  1872  and  removed  to 
a  where  he  followed  mining  until  1876,  when  he  returned  to 
1  county  and  resumed  farming  which  he  has  followed  ever 
His  farm  is  situated  one-half  mile  from  Sturgeon  in  Audrain 
Was  elected  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  1878  and  has  held  the 
ver  since.  He  is  an  earnest,  conscientious  Democrat,  having 
oted  any  other  ticket.  His  first  vote  was  for  John  C.  Breck- 
for  president.  Mr.  Batterton  was  first  married  in  1863  to 
E.,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Sophia  (Barnes)  Gillaspie.  First 
ed  January  26,  1872.  There  were  no  children  by  this  mar- 
Was  married,  April  8,  1873,  to  Lizzie,  daughter  of  Judge  B. 
hie.     They  have  three  children  living  and  two  dead.     The  liv- 


580  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

ing  are  Annie  Sue,  James  Ritchie  and  Mary  Lula.  First  wife  was  a 
member  of  the  Christian  church.  Mr.  Batterton  is  a  member  of  the 
A.  O.  U.  W.     He  is  of  Irish,  German  and  French  origin. 

FRANK    E.    BRUTON. 

Frank  E.  Bruton,  salesman  for  Rucker  &  Turner,  Sturgeon,  Mo., 
is  the  son  of  Dr.  F.  J.  and  Nettie  B.  (Fenwick)  Bruton.  He  was 
born  and  raised  in  Boone  county,  Missouri.  His  father  and  mother 
are  natives  of  Kentucky.  Mr.  Bruton  commenced  active  business  at 
the  early  age  of  fourteen,  and  has  continued  without  intermission  ever 
since.  He  is  at  this  writing  engaged  as  a  salesman  in  the  store  of 
Messrs.  Rucker  &  Turner,  and  has  given  eminent  satisfaction  to  his 
employers  and  won  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  all  his  patrons. 
He  was  married  April  19,  1882,  to  Ida,  daughter  of  Joseph  B. 
Harris.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church,  also  of  the 
Masonic  and  Knights  of  Honor  lodges.        ^ 

JOHN    BUTLER. 

« 

John  Butler,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  County  Tip- 
perary,  Ireland,  September  10,  1825.  He  is  the  son  of  John  and 
Mary  Butler.  The  elder  Butler  left  Ireland  when  his  son  was  but 
two  years  old,  coming  first  to  New  York  City.  The  family  finally 
settled  near  Albany,  where  Mr.  Butler  took  a  contract  on  the  first 
railroad  ever  built  in  the  United  States.  This  road  connected  Albany 
and  Schenectady.  John  Butler  owned  a  hotel  on  this  line,  called  the 
Half-way  House,  where  the  trains  stopped  for  dinner.  He  took  his 
son  with  him  on  the  first  train  of  cars  that  ever  passed  over  the  road. 
The  first  package  of  freight  ever  sent  over  the 'road  was  consigned  to 
the  elder  Butler,  who  preserved  the  receipt,  signed  by  John  Hamp- 
«on,  the  first  engineer  on  the  road.  It  is  dated  either  in  1831  or 
1832,  and  was  given  in  acknowledgment  of  fourteen  shillings  paid  by 
John  Butler  on  the  package  delivered  to  him  from  the  train  on  its 
first  business  trip  over  the  road.  Mr.  Butler,  having  received  the 
contract  for  building  a  turnpike  from  Troy,  New  York,  ft)  Benning- 
ton, Vermont,  removed  to  Oneida  county,  where  he  died.  Mrs- 
Butler  is  still  living  in  Oneida  county.  New  York.  The  subject© 
this  sketch  remained  at  home  until  1852.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  ^ 
went  to  California,  where  he  remained  for  three  years,  returning  ^ 
New  York  in  1855,  and  from  there  he  came  to  Boone  county,  by  ^^ 
of  Jefierson  City,  crossing  the  country  on  foot.     Mr.  Butler  was  fi^ 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  581 

irried  October  16,  1847,  to  Miss  Jane,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Jane 
cGrah,  of  Hoosick,  New  York.  Had  five  children  by  this  marriage, 
roof  whom,  William  and  Annie,  are  now  living.  The  former  mar- 
gd  Zeh)  Hawkins,  the  latter  Thornton  Stewart.  The  first  wife  hav- 
gdied  in  1862,  Mr.  Butler  was  married  to  his  second  wife,  January 
1875.  He  is  now  living  with  his  third  wife,  whose  maiden  name 
as  Leticia  Hill,  daughter  of  Eli  Hill,  of  Sturgeon.  Have  had  three 
lildren,  two  of  whom  are  living,  Martin  and  Mary.  Mr.  Butler  is 
mechanic,  and  as  such  entered  the  armv  in  1862.  He  is  a  member 
F  the  Masonic  lodge  at  Sturcjeon.  His  wife  is  a  member  of  the 
hristian  church.  He  has  done  as  much,  perhaps  more,  to  advance 
le  interest  and  prosperity  of  Sturgeon  than  any  other  individual  of 
le  place.  He  has  built  a  great  many  houses,  and  by  this  means  con- 
ibuted  largely  to  the  size  of  the  town  as  well  as  to  the  number  of 
8  inhabitants.  He  is  a  man  of  considerable  means,  all  of  which  he 
arned  by  his  own  labor  and  prudent  management.  He  has  engaged 
I  many  enterprises,  and  has  prospered  in  all  his  undertakings.  He 
I  a  carpenter,  and  his  skill  as  such  has  served  him  to  the  best  advan- 
ige  in  improving  his  own  lands.  He  owns,  in  addition  to  his 
)wn  property,  about  seven  hundred  acres  of  land,  much  of  which 
e  has  redeemed  from  a  howling  wilderness.  He  started  the  Stur- 
eon  broom  factory,  now  owned  by  S.  A.  Fretwell.  He  also  made 
be  Commercial  Hotel  a  profitable  business  before  selling  out  to  its 
resent  proprietor,  W.  E.  Smith. 

THOMAS    8.  CARTER. 

Thomas  S,  Carter,  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Sturgeon  Leader^ 
ras  born  in  Monroe  county,  East  Tennessee,  November  14,  1843.  He 
I  the  son  of  Lewis  and  Elizabeth  (?iee  Parker)  Carter.  The  elder 
'arter  was  a  Methodist  minister.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  came  to 
lissouri  in  1860,  and  settled  in  Hickory  county.  Went  south  at  the 
reaking  out  of  the  war.  Came  to  North  Missouri  in  1864  and  en- 
aged  in  farming  until  1870,  when  he  removed  to  Sturgeon  where  he 
^  engaged  as  marshal  of  the  town  for  two  terms.  He  was  also  a 
^mber  of  the  board  of  education.     In  1874,  he  was  appointed  clerk 

the  court  of  common  pleas,  which  position  he  has  held  continuougly 
^i'  since.  He  has  represented  the  Democratic  party  several  times 
State  conventions,  and  was  one  of  the  delegates  to  the  Cincinnati 
'Sidential  convention  in  1880.  Served  one  session  as  docket 
**k  of  the   Thirtieth    General    Assembly.       He    was    secretary  of 


582  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

the  Missouri  Press  Association  for  three  years.  He  was  married 
December  6,  1876,  to  Miss  Melissa,  daughter  of  Joha  and  Nawy 
Baker,  a  native  of  Boone  county.  They  have  four  children  liviug: 
Lora  E.,  Maud  M.,  Pearl  and  Boone.  Mrs.  Carter  is  a  meni- 
ber  of  the  Methodist  Church  South.  Mr.  Carter  was  educated  at 
Hiwassee  College,  Tennessee.  He  is  of  Welsh  descent  on  his  father's 
side.  His  mother  was  a  native  of  Tennessee.  He  landed  in  Sturgeon 
without  a  dollar,  and  has  by  his  own  individual  exertions  and  energy 
accumulated  a  competence  as  well  as  an  influential  position  in  the 
community  where  he  resides. 

SAMUEL   F.    CROSS. 

Samuel  F.  Cross  was  born  in  Nsishville,  Tennessee,  October  11, 
1834.     From  Nashville  he  went  to  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  and  from 
there  to  Cincinnati,  finally  settling  in  Bush  County,  Indiana.    Was 
married  October  18,  1855,  to  Edith  P  ,  daughter  of  Phrlip  and  Ana     ' 
Nicholas,  of  Indiana.     Had  three  children   by  this  marriage,  all  of 
whom   are   living.      Their   names   are  Benjamin   F.,  Louis  H.,  and 
Edwin  P.     The  first  wife  dying  in  1862,  he  was  married  the  second 
time,  December  11,  1863,  to  Susan  F.,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Susan 
F.  Adams.     They  had  several  children  by  this  marriage,  all  of  whom 
are  living.     Their   names  are  Carrie  B.,  Joel  P.,  Mary  E.,  Sarah, 
George  W.,  Ellen  W.,  and' Fleming  Rucker.     Mrs.  Cross  died  June 
2d,  1880.     Mr.  Cross  came  to  Sturgeon  April  28th,  1857.     His  first 
business  was  carpentering.     He  afterwards  engaged  in  the  drug  busi- 
ness, which  he  followed  for  about  ten  years.     He  was  commissioned  a 
notary  public   in    1?^64,   and  has  held   the  oflice  ever  since.      He  is 
financier  of  the  A.  O.  U.  W.,  and  secretary  of  the  Masonic  lodge- 
He  was  commissioned  postmaster  at  Sturgeon,  February  7th,  18t>2' 
but  had  charge  of  the  office  for  a  year  previous,  under  John  P.  H^^^ 
ner,  now  of  Columbia,  Missouri.     He  held  this  office  for  seven  yei^-^s* 
retiring  when  the  present  postmaster  was  appointed.     Was  elect^^^ 
clerk  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  in  1864,  and  held  the  office   ^^ 
two  years.     He  is  a  member  ot  the  M.  E.  Church  South.     He  is  tA.1^ 
a   member  of  the    Good    Templar,   Masonic   and  United   Worker*.^ 
lodges.     He  has  been  marshal  of  the  town  and  member  of  the  bo^*'* 
of  education  and  city  council.     He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics. 

JOHN    H.    CROSWHITE. 

John  H.  Croswhite,  son  of  James  and  Frances  (Hughes)  Croswhi 


HISTOBT   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  583 

8  born  in  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky,  August  11th,  1824.  He 
neto  Boone  county  with  his  parents  in  the  autumn  of  1826,  and 
tied  five  miles  north  of  Columbia,  where  thev  remained  for  about 
een  years.     In  1841  they  removed  to  Audrain  county,  and  settled 

0  and  a  half  miles  north  of  Sturgeon.  The  elder  Croswhite  died  on 
s  farm.  Mrs.  Croswhite  is  still  living,  at  the  advanced  age  of 
[hty-six  years.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  raised  on  the  farm, 
dhas  followed  that  occupation  all  his  life,  and  with  more  than  usual 
jcess.  He  also  bought  mules  for  the  Southern  market,  making  his 
anal  drives  for  many  years  in  succession.  Was  married  December 
st,  1851,  to  Susan  L.,  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Jane  Lampton,  of 
loue  county.     Lived  for  two  years  near  Hallsville  ;  then  moved  to 

1  present  place  of  residence,  one  and  a  half  miles  north  of  Sturgeon. 
J  went  to  California  in  1864,  where  he  staid  several  years.  Was 
ofor  a  while  a  resident  of  Carson  City,  Nevada.  The  Croswhites 
re  originally  from  Albemarle  county,  Virginia,  and  are  believed  to 
of  Welsh  descent.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  owns  a  nice  farm  of 
()  acres,  forty  of  which  is  in  timber.  Mrs.  Croswhite  belongs  to 
5  Methodist  church  at  Centralia.     They  have  no  children. 

WILLIAM    R.    CROSWHITE. 

tVilliam  R.  Croswhite  was  born  in  Audrain  county,  near  Sturgeon, 
bruary  27,  1857.  He  is  the  son  of  Robert  and  Mary  (nee  Palmer) 
jswhite.  His  father  was  born  in  Kentucky,  but  came  to  Audrain 
inty  in  an  early  day  and  settled  on  the  farm  where  he  now  resides. 
is  actively  engaged  in  farming  and  stock  raising.  William  R.  was 
sed  on  the  farm  and  educated  at  the  common  schools  of  the  county. 
1881  he  attended  D.  L.  Musselman's  Commercial  College,  Quincy, 
nois,  graduating  from  that  institution,  August  25,  1881.  Return- 
to  Sturgeon,  he  was  ensaged  as  a  salesman  in  the  store  of  Rucker 
Turner,  which  position  he  now  holds.  He  is  a  polite,  affable  gen- 
Qan,  highly  esteemed  by  all  who  know  him. 

ISAAC    S.    CROSWHITE. 

'uac  S.  Croswhite  was  born  in  Audrain  county,  four  miles  north 
itiirgeon,  December  12,  1844.  He  is  the  son  of  John  R.  and  Rosa 
►sely)  Croswhite,  formerly  of  Clark  county,  Kentucky.  Thesub- 
of  this  sketch  was  raised  in  Audrain  county  where  he  lived  most 
lis  life.  He  was  brought  up  on  the  farm.  Lived  a  few  years  in 
rollton,  Missouri.     Was  married,  July  6,  1869,  to  Miss  Amanda 


584  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Catherine,  daughter  of  Barnabas  Woods,  who  lived  six  miles  southof 
Sturgeon.  Have  one  child,  living,  Minnie  L.  Mr.  Croswhite  took 
no  part  in  the  late  civil  war.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Old  School 
Baptist  Church.  Is  not  a  member  of  any  secret  order.  He  is  a  cle?* 
er  gentleman,  highly  esteemed  by  all  who  know  him. 

WILLIAM   DINWIDDIE. 

William  Dinwiddie  is  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Patsy  (McBride)  Din- 
widdie.     He  was  born  in  Lincoln  county,  Kentucky,  December  18, 
1833.     When  six  years  old  he  came  with  his  parents  to  Boone  county, 
Missouri,  and  settled  four  miles  east  of  Columbia,  where  he  continu- 
ously resided  up  to  the  day  of  his  death,  which  occurred  about  the 
close  of  the  war.     The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  brought  up  on  a 
farm,  and  has   followed  that   business  since  attaining  his  majoritj. 
He  was  married,  November  8, 1855,  to  Sarah  Ann,  daughter  of  Cjnw 
and  Kittie  (Crockett)  Lusk,  natives  of  Kentucky.     The  autumn  fol- 
lowing his  marriage,  he  left  Boone  county,  Missouri,  previously  the 
home  of  both  himself  and  wife,  and  went  to  Kansas,  settling  in  the 
vicinity  of  Topeka.     Was  there  when  the  war  broke  out  between  the 
Southern  and  Northern  settlers  over  the  slavery  question.     Here- 
turned  to  Boone  County  and  farmed  in  the  vicinity  of  Mt.  Moriah 
church  for  several  years ;  then  moved  to  Bourbon  township  just  pre- 
vious to  the  war,  where  he  has  lived  ever  since.     They  have  seven 
children,  three  sons  and  four  daughters.     Their  names  are  Kittie, 
Mattie  F.,  Lulie,  Emma,  William,  Alonzo  and  Edwin.     Mr.  Dinwid- 
die is  a  well-educated  man,  having  had,  in  addition  to  a  fair  common- 
school  education,  the  benefit  of  three  years'  study  at  the  State  Uni- 
versity.    He  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  Church.     Mrs.  Dinwiddie 
is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  Church.     He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Or- 
der of  United  Workmen.     He  has  been  a  school  director  ever  since 
he  came  to  Bourbon  township.     He  has  always  voted  with  the  Demo- 
cratic party.     He  is  of  Scotch  and  German  origin. 

HON.  HENRY   DD8ENBURY,  DECEASED. 

Hon.  Henry  Dusenbury  was  born  on  the  banks  of  the  Hudson  riv^^' 
New  York,  in  which  State  he  was  reared  to  manhood,  and  married  ^ 
Miss  M.  E.  Depew.  After  his  marriage  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  ]|A** 
souri,  where  he  served  as  circuit  court  judge  for  thirteen  years,  'f^ 
health  having  failed  he  removed  to  a  farm  near  Oakland,  St.  Lcf"** 
county,  where  he  remained  for  about  twelve  years.     He  next  mo^-*"^ 


HI8TORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  585 

iarm  near  Sturgeon,  where  he  and  his  wife  died  a  few  years  after- 
j.  They  were  both  members  of  the  Methodist  church.  Judge 
nbury  was  also  a  Mason.  He  was  educated  principally  at  home, 
r  the  instructions  of  a  private  tutor.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  poli- 
nd  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  old  German  families  of  New  York, 
ad  nine  children  in  all,  six  of  whom  are  now  living  —  three  sons 
hree  daughters.  Their  names  are  Henry,  Mary  E.,  niarried  lo 
L  Henderson,  of  Columbia,  Missouri ;  Lulu  V.  B.,  married  to  R. 
ucker ;  Fannie,  Robert  D.  and  R.  M.  Robert  D.  Dusenbury  was 
at  Oakland,  St.  Louis  county,  February  10th,  1861,  and  came 
his  father  to  Boone  county  and  lived  with  him  until  his  death,  in 
.  He  was  educated  at  the  Missouri  State  University.  After  re- 
iig  a  diploma  from  that  institution  he  took  a  commercial  course 
:hen  studied  telegraphy.  R.  M.  Dusenbury  is  studying  medicine 
rDr.  Lockridge,  of  Sturgeon.  He  attended  one  course  of  lec- 
I  at  the  Medical  College,  St.  Louis,  in  1881-82,  and  will  graduate 
ensuing  term  of  that  institution. 

RICHARD    H.    EDMONDS. 

chard  H.  Edmonds,  salesman  with  Rucker  &  Turner,  Sturgeon, 
ouri,  was  born  in  Fauquier  county,  Virginia,  September  25th^ 
'.  He  is  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Alice  Olivia  (  nee  Beal)  Edmonds, 
igh  but  a  boy  when  the  war  commenced,  he  enlisted  in  Captain 
iam  H.  Payne's  company,  which  was  a  portion  of  Turner  Ashby's 
>U8  Black  Horse  Cavalry.  His  captain  was  afterwards  promoted 
le  position  of  general.  His  next  captain  was  Robert  Randolph, 
the  third  was  A.  D.  Pavne.  He  was  in  the  first  battle  at  Manas- 
also  at  Seven  Pines,  and  in  the  famous  raid  around  McClellan's 
^neaf  Richmond.  Was  in  the  second  battle  of  Manassas,  and  at 
psburg  and  Brandy  Station.  Was  with  Gen.  Early  in  his  cam- 
ti  in  the  Valley  of  Virginia,  and  at  Gettysburg.  He  was  in 
art's  second  raid  around  the  Federal  army  in  Maryland.  Was 
16  battle  of  Spottsylvania  Court  House,  and  at  Yellow  Tavern, 
e  Gen.  J.  E.  B.  Stuart  was  killed,  also  the  captain  of  the  com- 
in  which  Mr.  Edmonds  was  serving  Was  in  the  battles  around 
rsburg,  finally  surrendering  at  Appomattox  Court  House,  in  1865. 
e  were  but  about  twenty-five  of  his  original  command  left.  Mr. 
onds  received  a  terrible  wound  at  Harper's  Ferry,  being  shot 
Jgh  the  left  breast  with  a  minie  ball.  He  was  with  Mosby  at 
time.     Mr.  Edmonds  was  the  youngest  of  five  brothers,  all   of 


586  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

whom  entered  the  Confederate  army.  One  of  them  was  killed  at 
Seven  Pines,  and  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and  two  other  brothers, 
were  severely  wounded.  When  the  war  closed  he  returned  home 
and  raised  a  crop.  The  next  season  they  sold  out,  and  Mr.  Edmonds 
went  into  the  mercantile  business  in  Alexandria,  as  a  salesman, 
remaining  there  two  years.  He  then  took  charge  of  a  store  at  Linden, 
Virginia,  where  he  remained  until  he  came  to  Missouri.  He  came  to 
Sturgeon  in  1869  and  engaged  in  business  with  Maj.  Rucker  as  sales- 
man. He  remained  in  the  store  for  about  two  years,  when  he  removed 
to  Harrisburg  and  commenced  business  for  himself  in  partnership  with 
a  man  named  Rowland.  Their  store  was  destroyed  by  fire  and  Mr. 
Edmonds  removed  to  Columbia,  where  he  ensfaged  in  business  with  a 
man  named  Campbell,  also  with  the  firm  of  Wells  &  Marks.  Remained 
two  years  at  Columbia  and  then  returned  to  Sturgeon  and  resumed 
his  former  position  in  the  store  of  Rucker  &  Turner,  which  he  still 
holds,  being  head  clerk  and  manager  of  the  establishment.  He  was 
married,  February  13th,  1872,  to  Miss  Annie  M.,  daughter  of  James 
P.  and  Sallie  L.  Harris,  natives  of  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky.  They 
have  two  children,  Hattie  May  and  Ida  Lyell.  Mrs.  Edmonds  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Church  South.  Mr.  Edmonds  is  a  member 
of  the  citv  council.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order 
United  Workmen.  He  is  a  genial,  aflable  gentleman,  possessing 
every  qualification  of  a  first-class  business  man. 

HOWARD    EVANS. 

Howard  Evans,  farmer,  is  the  son  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Nichol- 
son) Evans,  natives  of  Kentucky,  who  emigrated  to  Howard  county, 
Missouri,  about  the  year  1824,  where  they  remained  fifteen  years,  re- 
moving to  Boone  county  in  1839.  He  settled  on  a  farm  southwest  of 
Sturgeon  where  he  lived  until  his  death  in  the  autumn  of  1875,  afjed 
seventy-four  years.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Howard 
county,  Missouri,  April  15,  1825.  When  fourteen  years  of  age  his 
parents  removed  to  Boone  county.  Except  twelve  or  thirteen  years 
spent  in  California,  Mr.  Evans  has  lived  in  this  county  ever  since. 
While  in  California  he  followed  mining.  Since  his  return  from  the 
mines  he  has  followed  farming.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  mar- 
ried April  27,  18()0,  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  Tandy  Robinson,  a  native 
of  Virginia.  They  have  eight  children  living.  Their  names  are 
Marcus,  Lillie  Lee,  Mary  Elizabeth,  Vienna,  Susan  F.,  Martha  E., 
James  H.,  Albert  A. 


HISTORY  pr  BOONE   COUNTY.  587 

W,   H.   FOUNTAIN. 

^  H.  Fountain,  farmer,  of  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  is  of  Eng- 
origin,  his  gi'eat-grandfather,  on  his  father's  side,  having  been 
)d  from  England  in  1760,  on  account  of  religious,  disturbances 
;h  prevailed  in  the  old  country  at  that  time.  His  grandfather  was 
of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Kentucky,  and  a  great  hunter,  being  re- 
kably  proficient  as  a  marksman.  The  father  of  W.  H.  was  horn 
lark  county,  Kentucky,  his  mother  in  Bourbon  county,  of  that 
e.  The  grandfather  of  Mr.  Fountain  emigrated  to  Missouri  in 
),  when  his  son,  the  father  of  W.  H.,  was  about  seventeen  years 

They  settled  on  Lick  Fork,  in  section  27,  his  residence  being 
he  northwest  quarter.  His  father  was  married  in  this  county  to 
f  Ann  Angell,  March  13th,  1838,  Young  E.  Hicks,  a  justice  of 
peace,  solemnizing  the  marital  obligation.  W.  H.  Fountain  was 
I  February  17th,  1839.  He  has  one  brother  living.  Another 
her  was  drowned  in  Smoke  river,  while  crossing  the  plains,  July 
,  1863.  W.  H.  Fountain  moved  to  Randolph  county  in  1870. 
las  two  farms,  the  one  upon  which  he  is  now  living,  and  another 
k>one  county.  Most  of  his  business  is  in  this  county,  and  he 
b  of  returning  to  Boone  to  live.  Mr.  Fountain  was  first 
ried,  February  15th,  1866,  to  Miss  Julia,  daughter  of  Thomas  A. 
Martha  Barnes,  of  Randolph  county.  She  died  in  1872,  leaving 
e  children,  Radford  M.,  Martha  A.,  and  Otis.     Married  second 

to  Miss  Rachel,  daughter  of  Eli  and  Eliza  Lyons,  of  Boone 
itv.  Thev  have  two  children,  John  F.  and  Eliza  Beulah.  He 
crossed  the  plains  some  half-dozen  times.  He  was  in  company 
ihis  brother  when  the  latter  lost  his  life,  in  1863.  Is  a  member 
he  Baptist  church.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Honor. 
8  a  Democrat  in  politics.  Mr.  Fountain  is  an  enterprising  farmer, 
k  raiser  and  trader.  He  has  shipped  as  many  as  138  car  loads  of 
kin  one  year.  So  far  this  season  (summer  of  1882)  he  and  his 
her-in-law,  his  partner  in  the  business,  have  shipped  over  1,000 
I  of  cattle.  They  ship  from  various  points.  Most  of  the  Fountain 
ly  emigrated  to  Oregon  years  ago.  The  family,  on  the  maternal 
.is  of  Irish  origin,  the  grandfather  of  Mr.  Fountain  having  been 
I  and  raised  in  that  country. 

8.    A.    FRETWELL. 

A.  Fretwell,  proprietor  of  the  Sturgeon  broom  factory,  was  bom 
oone  county,  October  9,  1846.     He  is  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Han- 


588  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

nah  (iiee  Riggs)  Fretwell.  His  father  is  an  active,  energetic  farmer 
and  stock  raiser.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  raised  on  the  farm 
and  followed  agricultural  pursuits  until  he  went  into  the  broom  busi- 
ness at  Sturgeon.  He  has  a  large  establishment  and  employs  only 
skilled  labor.  The  brooms  made  at  this  factory  are  not  inferior  to 
the  best,  and  his  facilities  are  equal  to  that  of  any  manufactory  in  the 
State  outside  of  St.  Louis.  Mr.  Fretwell  was  married,  March  6, 1867, 
to  Mary  H.,  daughter  of  William  and  Martha  Lampton.  They  ha?e 
one  son,  William  J.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fretwell  are  members  of  the 
Christian  church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  order  of  A.  O.  U.  W.  He 
is  an  active,  energetic  business  man,  and  by  industry  and  prudence  is 
building  up  a  prosperous  and  reliable  trade. 

WILLIAM   H.    GOIN. 

William  H.  Goin  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  January  5, 
1834.     He  is  the  son  of  Archibald  and  Sophia  (Hunter)  Goin.    The 
subject  of  this  sketch   was  reared  on  a  farm.     About  the  year  1869 
he  commenced  merchandising  in  Sturgeon.     He  had  previously  clerked 
in  a  store  when  a  boy.     He  was  married,  January  6,  1856,  to  Miss 
E.  J.  Sweeney,  daughter  of  Archibald  Sweeney,  who  was  a  justice  of 
the  peace  for  Bourbon  township  for  a  number  of  years.     They  have 
five  children,  all  livnig  —  Emma,  Byron  A.,  Idella,   Archie  and  Au- 
brey.    Mr.  Goin  is  a  man  of  considerable  culture.     His  opportunities, 
when  young,  were  poor,  but,  by  hard  study  and  close  application,  he 
has  in  a  great  measure  overcome  the  disadvantages   of  early  life,  and 
with  small  thanks  to  any  one  but  himself,  can  boast  a  fair  education, 
which  for  all  practical  purposes  is  not  inferior  to  that  of  many  of  our 
college  graduates.     The  acquisition  of  property,  as  well  as  education, 
has  also  been  by  his  individual  efforts.     He   has  travelled  extensively 
in  connection  with  the  cattle  business,  visiting  some  seventeen  States. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Goin  &  Lockridge,  which  has  been  in 
existence  since  1870. 

GEORGE   W.    GULICK. 

George  W.  Gulick,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  a  native  of  Loudon 
county,  Virginia,  as  were  both  his  parents,  William  and  Mary  (Hix- 
son)  Gulick.  Both  his  grandfathers  were  Virginians  and  majors  m 
the  revolutionary  war.  His  father  served  in  the  war  of  1812.  George 
W.  was  born  April  13,  1830.  He  grew  to  manhood  in  his  native 
county,  and  was  educated  partly  at  the  country  schools,  completing^ 
his  education  at  Loudon  Agricultural  and  Chemical  Institute.   After 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  689 

(hiug  a  thorough  course  of  studies  at  this  college,  he  entered  at 
e  apon  the  active  duties  of  life.  His  proficiency  was  such  that 
quitting  Loudon  Institute,  he  was  elected  an  honorary  member 

the   Literary   Society    of  Hampden-Sidney   College,    Virginia. 

was  married,  October  13,  1857,  to  Miss  Mittie  £.,  daughter  of 
lliam  J.  and  Lucinda  Carr.  She  was  a  native  of  Loudon 
Dty,  Virginia.     They  have  eight  children    now   living:    William 

Carr,  Kate  C,  Mary  L.,  Walter  O.,  George  T.,  Hattie  and 
irl.  Mr.  Gulick  removed  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  1857, 
I  settled  about  two  miles  from  where  he  now  lives.  Himself 
I  wife  are  members  of  the  Baptist  church.  He  is  also  an  Odd 
How  and  a  member  of  the  Order  of  United  Workmen.  He  served 
a  justice  of  the   peace   for   Bourbon  township    for   two  terms. 

is  also  a  member  of  the  Boone  county  Democratic  central  com-* 
:tee.  He  is  of  German  origin  on  his  father's  side.  His  mother 
s  of  Scotch  descent.  Mr.  Gulick  is  an  energetic,  well-to-do 
zen,  and  is  held  in  high  esteem  by  all  who  know  him. 

MARSHALL   H.  HARRIS. 

The  life  of  Marshall  H.  Harris,  postmaster  and  druggist.  Sturgeon, 
ssouri,  is  one  of  the  very  best  illustrations  of  the  self-made  man. 
8  energy  and  will-power  can  hardly  be  surpassed,  and  all  his  efforts 
ire  been  made  in  an  honorable,  manly  direction.  He  is  the  son  of 
erton  G.  and  Nancy  (nee  Ellington)  Harris.  His  father  was  almost 
tirely  raised  in  Boone  county,  his  grandfather,  Tyre  Harris,  having 
me  to  Boone  along  with  the  very  first  emigrants.  He  was  one  of 
5  first  representatives  in  the  legislature  from  Boone  county,  having 
en  elected  for  several  terms.  A  more  extended  review  of  his  ser- 
ies in  this  capacity  may  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  The 
bject  of  this  sketch  attended  school  in  one  of  the  primitive  log 
bins  which  in  the  early  day  were  made  to  answer  the  purpose  of 
lool-houses.  After  he  was  grown,  however,  he  attended  Lathrop 
»demy,  an  excellent  high  school,  for  two  years.  He  read  medical 
oks  by  firelight,  substituting,  from  enforced  economy,  hickory  bark 
*  candles.  He  graduated  in  a  brown  jeans  suit  made  by  one  of  his 
ters.    He  was  married  March  1st,  .1855,  to  Miss  Mary  J.,  daughter 

Dr.  A.  S.  Dinwiddle,  of  Boone  county.  They  have  three  children, 
tirie,  Walter  and  Mattie.     Mr.  Harris  was  a  member  of  Company 

of  General  Guitar's  regiment  of  M.  S.  M.,  enlisted  in  March» 
62,  and  was  mustered  out  in  April,  1865.     He  served  under  Capt. 


590  mSTORY  OP  BOONE  COUNTT. 

Cook,  who  was  detached  from  his  company  much  of  the  time,  leaving 
it  in  charge  of  Mr.  Harris.  He  was  in  most  of  the  fights  and 
skirmishes  in  which  his  regiment  took  part,  from  the  date  of  his  en- 
listment to  the  close  of  the  war.  He  had  charge  of  the  garrison  at 
Columbia  for  some  time.  During  the  war  he  made  hosts  of  friends 
among  Confederates  and  Southern  sympathizers  by  his  many  acts  of 
kindness  and  generous  sympathy  for  the  unfortunate.  He  is  thor- 
oughiy  identified  with  the  community  in  which  he  lives.  He  was  ap- 
pointed postmaster,  April,  1869,  and  has  held  the  office  continuously 
ever  since.  He  has  been  president  of  the  Sturgeon  bank,  but  is  not 
connected  with  that  business  at  present.  He  built  the  building  now 
occupied  by  the  Sturgeon  bank.  He  is  a  member  of  the  order  of  A. 
O.  U.  W.  He  and  his  wife  are  both  members  of  the  Missionary  Bap- 
tist church.     In  politics  Mr.  Harris  is  a  stalwart  Republican.  ' 

A.    J.    HAWKINS. 

A.  J.  Hawkins  is  the  son  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Skinner)  Hawkins, 
and  was  born  in  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  July  14,  1828.  His 
father  ciime  to  Boone  county  in  1829  and  settled  on  Thrall's  Prairie, 
near  the  Model  Farm.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  brought  up  on 
the  farm  and  has  followed  that  occupation  principally  all  his  life.  He 
has  also  worked  considerably  at  the  blacksmith's  trade,  aud  has 
taught  school.  Was  married,  November  11,  1852,  to  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Hicks)  Fountain.  They  have  three  children: 
Barsco  Zelo,  Laura  Bell,  and  Ezekiel  John.  Barsco  Zelo  married 
William  M.  Butler  and  Laura  Bell  married  John  C.  Via.  Butler  is 
living  in  Chicago  ;  Via  in  Dallas,  Texas.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hawkins  are 
both  members  of  the  Baptist  church.  Mr.  Hawkins,  though  possess- 
ing only  the  educational  advantages  offered  by  the  common  schools 
of  the  county,  is  a  well  educated  man  and  has  been  quite  successful 
as  a  teacher  of  common  schools.  He  i^  of  German  and  English 
origin,  his  mother  being  of  German  descent,  his  father  English.  He 
is  an  affable,  pleasant  gentleman,  faithful  in  all  the  duties  and  respon- 
sibilities of  life.  * 

ELIJAH    S.  HAWKINS. 

Elijah  S.  Hawkins,  carpenter,  was  born  in  Howard  county,  Michi- 
gan, March  30,  1832.  He  is  the  son  of  Weeden  and  Elizabeth  (Lun- 
ham  )  Hawkins.  The  fiimily  removed  to  Illinois  in  1834,  and  settled  in 
Adams  county,  near  Quincy,  where  they  remained  until  1851,  when 
they  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  and  settled  about  three-fourths 


HI8TOBT  OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  591 

imile  soathwest  of  Sturgeon.  Mr.  Hawkins  has  followed  the  oc- 
nation  of  carpenter  during  most  of  his  life.  For  a  short  time  he 
d  goods  in  Sturgeon  with  Napoleon  Burks,  under  the  firm  name  of 
irks  &  Hawkins.  Theirs  was  perhaps  the  second  dry-goods  estab- 
hment  ever  started  in  that  place.  He  has  farmed  considerably  in 
nnection  with  his  trade.  He  was  first  married,  September  27,  1857, 
Julia,  daughter  of  Jesse  and  Mary  A.  Copher.  Was  afterward  niar- 
A  to  Miss  Sallie,  daughter  of  Simon  Engleman.  They  have  one 
ild  by  this  marriage,  named  Sallie.  Mr.  Hawkins  is  a  member  of 
e  United  Workmen.  He  has,  since  coming  to  Missouri,  lived  con- 
inously  in  Boone  county,  except  two  years  spent  in  Montana,^ 
Ding  and  working  at  his  trade. 

JOHN   HAZELRIGG. 

John  Hazelrigg  is  the  son  of  Dillard  and  Sallie  (nee  Benick)  Hazel- 
g,  and  was  born  in  Clark  county,  Kentucky,  July  17,  1828.  His 
iber  was  the  daughter  of  George  and  Mary  Magdalen  Renick,  and 
;er  of  Abraham  Renick,  one  of  the  noted  stock  men  of  Clark  county, 
in  Hazelrigg  left  Kentucky  in  1856  and  settled  in  Bath,  Masou 
iDty,  Illinois.  He  enlisted  in  the  85th  Illinois  Infantry  in  1862. 
was  chief  musician  of  his  regiment.  Was  at  the  battles  of  Perry- 
e,  Murfreesboro,  Chickamauga,  Missionary  Ridge,  and  in  Sher- 
n's  famous  march  to  the  sea.  He  was  married,  February  14, 1854, 
ilildred,  daughter  of  J.  V.  Kemper,  Sr.,  of  Montgomery  county, 
itucky.  Have  one  daughter,  Mary  Dillard.  Mr.  Hazelrigg  is  now 
member  of  the  firm  of  Hazelrigg  &  Kemper,  Sturgeon,  Missouri, 
lers  in  drugs,  groceries,  etc.  He  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Hon- 
md  was  formerly  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows  lodge,  but  has  not 
iated  with  the  order  since  coming  to  Sturgeon.  He  is  a  member 
'he  Christian  church,  and  has  been  since  he  was  seventeen  years 
Mrs.  Hazelricror  js  also  a  member  of  the  same  church.     He  haa 

CO 

11  councilnian  of  the  city  for  several  years,  and  has  been  city  clerk 
two  years.  He  is  of  Scotch  and  Welsh  origin  on  his  father's  side 
German  on  the  mother's  side. 

C.    B.    HULEN. 

.  B.  Hulen  was  born  in  Bath  county,  Kentucky,  November  16, 
J.  He  is  the  son  of  John  C.  and  Sallie  (nee  Bruton)  Hulen.  Mr. 
en's  parents  were  natives  of  Kentucky,  his  father  of  Madison,  his 
her  of  Montgomery  county.  He  left  Kentucky  when  ten  years  of 
They  emigrated  to  Boone  county,  where  the  subject  of  thi& 


592  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

sketch  has  resided  ever  since.  He  was  married,  August  29,  1860,  to 
Mary  F.,  daughter  of  J.  V.  and  Mary  Kemper.  They  have  one  child 
named  Yard.  Mr.  Hulen  has  been  engaged  for  the  last  ten  years  in 
buying  and  selling  mules  and  horses,  making  Sturgeon  his  shippmg 
point.  He  took  no  part  in  the  war,  remained  in  Illinois  until  it  was 
over.  In  1865  he  moved  to  a  farm  three  miles  south  of  Sturgeon 
where  he  has  lived  ever  since.  He  and  his  wife  are  both  members  of 
the  Christian  church.  Mr.  Hulen  is  a  warm-hearted,  whole-souled 
man,  universally  liked  by  all  who  know  him.^ 

JAMES    T.  JACKSON. 

James  T.  Jackson,  dealer  in  hardware  and  farming  implements, 
Sturgeon,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Madison  county,  Virginia,  April  5th, 
1850.  His  father,  Thomas  M.  Jackson,  was  a  native  of  Virginia. 
He  came  to  this  State  in  1832.  He  was  a  tinner  and  worked  at  his 
trade  until  his  health  failed,  when  he  returned  to  Virginia,  taking  his 
family  with  him.  James  remained  in  Virginia  until  he  wae  nineteen 
years  of  age,  when  he  returned  to  his  native  State,  coming  direct  to 
Sturgeon,  where  he  remained  for  a  few  months.  He  then  went  to 
Roanoke,  Howard  county,  where  he  attended  school  one  sessioD.  Re- 
turning to  Sturgeon,  he  entered  the  High  School,  taught  by  Col.  J.  J. 
Searcy,  remaining  a  student  of  this  institution  for  two  sessions.  He 
then  went  to  work  for  Dr.  J.  S.  Lockridge  and  J.  F.  Rucker,  on  a 
brick-yard.  The  following  winter  he  fed  cattle  for  Dr.  Lockridge. 
The  summer  following  he  made  up  a  herd  of  cattle  and  grazed  them 
on  the  prairie.  Returning  to  Sturgeon  he  bought  an  interest  in  a 
drug  store  and  commenced  business  with  W.  H.  Goin.  This  was  in 
1871.  April  30th,  1872,  he  was  married  to  Miss  M.  F.  Rucker,  sister 
of  Major  John  F.  Rucker  and  daughter  of  John  D.  and  Lucy  J.  {nee 
Linsley)  Rucker.  They  have  two  children,  Lloyd  R.  and  Annie  Cor- 
nelia. He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Honor  and  A.  0.  U.  W. 
He  also  belongs  to  the  M.  E.  Church  South.  He  has  held  several 
offices  under  the  city  government  of  Sturgeon.  He  commenced  the  hard- 
ware business  in  1874,  and  has  been  doing  a  growing  business  eversince. 
He  is  one  of  the  substantial  and  reliable  business  men  of  Sturgeon. 

WM.    KEITH,    M.    D.,    CENTRALIA. 

The  gentleman  whose  name  heads  this  sketch  is  a  native  of  Scott 
county,  Kentucky,   born  December   20th,  1806.     The  Keith  family 

»  vSince  the  foregoing  sketch  has  been  in  type,  Mr.  Hulen  died  in  St  Louis,  of  apoplexy* 
Sept  28,  1882. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  598 

ive  been  of  Scotch  origin,  George  Keith,  great  grandfather 
illiam,  having  been  a  native  of  Scotland.  The  Doctor's 
3r  was  a  native  of  Maryland.  All  the  paternal  ancestors 
preat-grandfather  down,  bearing  the  name  of  George.  Lon- 
ms  to  have  been  a  characteristic  of  this  familv,  as  most  of 
o'rs  lived  to  be  past  eighty  years  old,  and  the  primary  ances- 

mentioned  is  said  to  have  reached  the  remarkable  age  of 
red  and  eleven  years.  Dr.  R.  lived  with  his  father  in  his 
inty  till  about  fifteen  years  old,  when  they  removed  to  Bul- 
S  Kentucky,  where  William  remained  till  he  was  22  years  of 
the  age  of  about  12  he  was  taken  down  with  white  swelling 
it  leg  and  confined  to  his  bed  a  long  time,  even  before  he  was 

on  crutches,  which  he  subsequently  did  for  a  considerable 
time.  At  15  years  old,  he  put  himself  under  treatment  of 
loctor  named  James  H.  Forester,  and  was  soon  enabled  to 
5  light  work.  At  the  age  of  17,  being  desirous  to  be  at 
iloyment,  and  having  a  fair  education,  began  teaching,  his 
ng  mostly  composed,  at  first,  of  juvenile  pupils,  or  **a-b-c- 
He  succeeded  so  well  as  a  teacher  that  his  patrons  retained 
il  years,  At  intervals,  however,  he  would  between  terms 
liigher  schools  himself  for  short  periods  until  he  was  about 

22  vears.  Having  a  desire  to  see  the  old  friends  and  rela- 
lis  native  soil,  he  left  his  father's,  and  made  his  way  back, 
good  English  education  he  engaged  in  the  occupation  of 
3hool  in  various  places.  Finally  made  his  stand  in  Mortons- 
dford  county,  where  he  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Wm.  M. 
d  in  the  year  1837-8,  at  Transylvania  University,  completed 
ation  for  the  practice  of  medicine.  After  this  he  began  to 
I  connection  with  his  preceptor,  Dr.  W.,  who  died  during 
ction,  and  Dr.  K.  remained  there  in  the  practice  till  1840, 

Missouri  in  that  year.     He  first  practiced  for  three  or  four 

Centralia.  He  was  married,  in  1844,  to  Miss  Martha  Jane 
and  moved  to  Chillicothe,  Missouri,  where  he  purchased  a 

years  later,  and  continued  farming  and  practicing  medicine 
!ion  county  for  several  years.  He  then  moved  back  to  Chil- 
order  that  his  children  might  enjoy  the  advantages  of  the 

that  city.  When  the  civil  war  came  on.  Dr.  Keith  was 
eave  home,  entrusting  the  care  of  his  family  to  his  oldest 
>n,  then  a  lad  of  16  years,  and  his  mother.     The  Doctor 


594  HISTORY   OF  BGk>NE   COUNTY. 

went  to  the  Confederate  army  and  served  as  surgeon  to  Gen.  Wm.T. 
Slack  till  the  latter  was  killed  at  Pea  Ridge.  Dr.  Keith  remained 
with  the  General  till  he  expired,  and  then  buried  him  in  Fullbrighi*8 
orchard,  in  order  that  there  should  be  no  difficulty  in  finding  his 
remains.  Subsequently  he  was  employed  as  hospital  surgeon  till  th( 
fall  of  1863,  when  he  left  the  army,  and  accompanied  by  his  family 
who  had  joined  him,  repaired  to  Arkansas.  They  remained  in  tha 
State  from  October,  1863,  till  April  following,  when  they  went  t 
Kentucky  and  remained  till  the  civil  troubles  were  over.  In  Octobei 
1865,  the  whole  family  returned  to  Missouri,  locating  at  Sturgeon,' 
Boone  county,  where  they  continue  to  reside.  Dr.  K.  resuming  tl 
practice  of  his  profession  and  continuing  till  1875.  He  then  turni 
it  over  to  his  youngest  son,  J.  Fahricius  Keith,  who  had  previous 
been  practicing  in  the  City  Hospital.  He  continues  the  practice 
Sturgeon,  and  is  married  to  a  Miss  Turner,  an  amiable  lady  of  go( 
family,  daughter  of  Alexander  Turner,  now  of  Sturgeon.  Clajtc 
Keith,  the  doctor's  oldest  son,  obtained  a  good  education  and  enten 
the  ministry,  but  was  forced  to  give  it  up  because  of  failing  healt' 
He  then  studied  medicine  and  having  prepared  himself  for  the  pra 
tice,  was  soon  afterwards  married  to  Miss  Mary  Bernard,  of  Louisian 
Missouri,  where  he  is  now  located  and  prq^cticing  his  profession.  D 
Keith  has  good  cause  to  be  proud  of  his  family,  having  reared  the 
in  that  exemplary  manner  that  fits  them  for  the  responsible  duties 
life. 

DR.  JAMES    F.  KEITH. 

Dr.  James  F.  Keith  was  horn  in  Livingston  county,  Missouri,  Ja 
uary  18,  1849.  He  is  the  son  of  Dr.  William  and  Martha  J.  (n 
Lampton)  Keith.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  left  Missouri  in  the  f« 
of  1863,  going  first  to  Arkansas,  thence  to  Tennessee  and  Kentuck; 
and  from  the  latter  State  back  to  Missouri,  stopping  at  Sturgeon,  : 
1865,  where  he  has  lived  continuously  ever  since,  except  the  fewyesi 
spent  at  the  Medical  College  in  St.  Louis.  He  entered  that  institi 
tion  in  1869,  graduating  two  years  later.  He  was  assistant  surgeo 
at  the  St.  Louis  hospital  for  six  months,  returning  to  Sturgeon  in  th 
fall  of  1871.  He  practiced  medicine  with  his  father  until  the  latter' 
health  failed,  when  he  turned  his  entire  business  over  to  his  son.  H' 
was  married  October  7,  1874,  to  Miss  Dora,  daughter  of  Alexander  J 
Turner,  of  Sturgeon.  They  have  one  child  living,  William  F.  Dr 
Keith  was  not  in  the  army.     He  belongs  to  no  church.     Is  a  membei 


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HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  595 

he  Knights  of  Honor,  and  is  medical  examiner  for  the  order.  He 
served  a  number  of  insurance  companies  in  the  same  capacity, 
has  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  entire  community. 

CHARLES   G.  KINO. 

'he  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Boone  county,  October  19, 
8.  He  is  the  son  of  James  and  Kissiah  (Penic)  King,  both  natives 
Kentucky,  but  early  settlers  in  Boone  county.  Mr.  King  was 
red  on  the  home  place  about  two  miles  west  of  Columbia,  where 
father  lived  and  died.  In  early  manhood,  the  subject  of  this 
tch  crossed  the  plains  to  California  where  he  remained  for  two 
rs  working  in  the  mines.  He  returned  home  in  1852,  and  re- 
led  his  former  occupation  —  farming.  Was  married,  December 
1853,  to  Mary,  daughter  of  David  and  Cynthia  Shock,  of  Boone 
ity.  They  have  nine  children  living;  William,  May,  Francis, 
id  Everly,  Maggie,  Mattie,  Walter,  Dora,  and  Minnie.  Mr.  and 
.  King  are  members  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church. 
King  has  lived  a  life  of  earnest,  persistent  toil,  and  by  industry 
prudent  management  has  accumulated  a  handsome  estate  and  won 
esteem  and  confidence  of  a  wide  circle  of  friends  and  acquaint- 

)S. 

DR.    JAMES   8.    LOCKRIDGE. 

'he  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Randolph  County,  Missouri, 
ril  27,  1832.  His  father,  William  Lockridge,  was  a  native  of 
rkbridge  county,  Virginia.  His  mother  was  a  native  of  Augusta 
nty,  Virginia.  Her  maiden  name  was  Ruth  Davis.  The  elder 
ckridge  died  when  his  son  was  hut  sixteen  or  seventeen  years  of 
i,  leaving  him  the  sole  support  of  his  mother  and  three  sisters. 
!  had  but  little  time  to  attend  school  and  grew  to  manhood  without 
ng  scarcely  able  to  write  his  name.  His  sisters  having  married, 
i  his  mother  dying  when  he  was  about  twenty-one,  he  commenced 
education  in  real  earnest.  He  attended  the  St.  Louis  Medical 
liege  and  Jeflferson  College,  Pliiladelphia,  graduating  from  the 
ter  institution  in  1856,  and  from  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College  the 
ir  following.  He  came  to  Sturgeon  in  the  spring  of  1857,  where 
Was  married  the  following  November  to  Elizabeth  A.,  daughter  of 
oraas  Prather  and  gnmddaughter  of  Mrs.  Cowan,  one  of  the  oldest 
izens  of  Boone  county.  They  have  one  child  living,  R.  Lee. 
ivetwo  sons  dead.  •William  died  at  the  age  of  fourteen,  Willardat 
-age  of  two  and  a  half  years.     Dr.  Lockridge  built  the  first  brick 


596  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

house  ever  erected  in  Sturgeon.  He  has  an  interest  in  the  stofe 
conducted  under  the  firm  name  of  Goiti  &  Lockridge.  He  has  tikea 
a  lively  interest  in  every  enterprise  calculated  to  promote  theintemti 
of  the  town  in  which  he  lives,  and  has  lent  a  helping  hand  to  eveiy 
laudable  underUiking  which  stood  in  need  of  such  patronage.  He  is 
also  liberal  in  his  professional  charges,  especially  so  to  the  poor,  and 
in  this  way  has  done  a  great  deal  of  good  of  which  the  world  knows  little 
or  nothing  at  all.  The  doctor  and  his  wife  are  both  members  of  the 
Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church. 

F.    W.    MIDDLETON. 

F.  W.  Middleton  was  born  in  Clinton  county,  Illinois,  November 
17,  1836,  and  lived  there  until  1876,  when  he  removed  to  Sturgeon, 
Missouri.     Before  leaving  Illinois  he  was  engaged  in  the  hay  busi- 
ness.    He  was  marned,  December  29,  1855,  to  Miss  E^na,  daughter 
of  Lacy  K.  and  Catherine  Witcher,  natives  of  Pennsylvania,  but  citi- 
zens of  Illinois  at  the  time  of  their  daughter's  marriage.     They  have 
five  children,  whose  names  are  Finis  E.,  Nelson  Holt,  George  Leon- 
ard, Walter,  and  Bertie.     Mr.  Middleton  served  in  the  Union  army 
during  the  late  war,  being  a  member  of  Company  D,  89th  lUiDois 
infantry,  which  operated  m  Georgia,  Alabama  and  Tennessee.     Heiras 
in  the  battles  of  Perryville,  Stone  River,  Chickamauga,  Atlanta  and 
Nashville.     He  is  a  member  of  the  A.  O.  U.  W.,  and  had  belonged  to 
the  Odd  Fellows  before  coming  to  Sturgeon.     There  being  no  lodge 
at  that  place  he  withdrew  from  the  order.     Mr.  Middleton  and  C.  H. 
Taylor  own  and  operate  one  of  the  Sturgeon  mills.     They  also  have  a 
hay  press  in  connection  with  their  business  which  is  a  valuable  acqai8i- 
tion  to  the  town. 

WILLIAM   J.  MONTRIEF. 

William  J.  Montrief,  member  of  the  firm  of  Montrief  &  Prather, 
livery,  feed  and  sale  stables.  Sturgeon,  Missouri,  is  a  native  of  Frauk- 
lin  county,  Virginia,  where  he  was  born,  November  5th,  1839.  He  is 
the  son  of  Isaac  and  Francis  Montrief.  His  father  was  of  French 
origin,  his  mother  of  Irish  parentage.  At  the  beginning  of  the  war 
he  joined  Company  C,  Tenth  Virginia  Cavalry,  Confederate  army. 
In  the  last  years  of  the  war  he  served  in  Captain  Wingfield's  company. 
He  was  in  the  seven  days  battle  near  Richmond,  and  was  at  Sharps- 
burg,  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg,  and  the  siege  of 
Petersburg  in  the  fall  of  1864;  was  taken  prisoner  and  carried  to 
AVashington  City  in  July,  1865,  where  he  took  the  oath  and  was  re- 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  597 

kised.  He  had  two  brothers  iii  the  regiment  in  which  he  served.  He 
returned  to  his  home  in  Franklin  county,  ajfter  being  released  from 
prison,  a  sound  man,  having  gone  through  the  entire  war  without  re- 
ceiving a  wound.  He  landed  in  Sturgeon,  Missouri,  in  the  winter  of 
1868,  and  settled  on  a  farm  southeast  of  town.  In  1877,  moved  to 
town  and  has  been  a  citizen  of  the  place  ever  since.  He  was  married, 
February  14th,  187D,  to  Miss  Penelope,  daughter  of  James  Hendrick. 
They  have  five  children:  J.  Virgil,  I.  Homer,  William  L.,  Lilburn 
H.  and  Everett  B.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Montrief  are  both  members  of  the 
Christian  church.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Honor. 
He  is  at  this  writing  mayor  of  the  city.  He  has  also  held  the  office  of 
constable.  Since  becoming  a  citizen  of  Sturgeon,  he  has  followed  the 
livery  business  in  partnership  with  Mr.  Prather.  He  is  a  man  of  ex- 
cellent judgment  and  considerable  culture,  having  received  a  fair  edu- 
cation before  entering  the  army.  He  is  social,  kind  and  accommodat- 
ing as  a  neighbor  and 'highly  esteemed  by  all  who  know  him.  He  is  a 
Democrat  in  politics,  but  was  raised  a  Whig. 

JOHN   TAYLOR   m'CAULEY. 

Samuel  McCauley,  father  of  John  Taylor,  was  a  native  of  Ken- 
'flcky,  having  been  born  and  raised  in  Montgomery  county  of  that 
>tate.  He  removed  to  Missouri  in  1819,  and  settled  about  five  miles 
«8t  of  Columbia.  He  was  first  engaged  as  an  overseer  for  Asa 
>tone,  for  whom  he  labored  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  Florida 
'ar,  when  he  enlisted  under  Col.  Dick  Gentry,  and  was  with  that 
illant  officer  when  he  received  his  death  wound.  He  also  served  in 
le  Mexican  war,  and  was  in  the  battle  of  Buena  Vista.  He  also 
'ossed  the  plains  to  Santa  Fe  several  times.  The  subject  of  this 
:etch  was  born  in  Boone  county,  October  5,  1844.  His  mother's 
aiden  name  was  Cynthia  A.  Lewis.  He  was  raised  on  the  farm, 
d  in  early  manhood  went  into  the  milling  business,  afterwards  was 
tie  and  timber  contractor.  Was  also  in  the  livery  business  at  Stur- 
on.  Served  as  justice  of  the  peace  for  ten  years.  Was  married, 
uuary  22,  1871,  to  Alice,  daughter  of  John  and  Millie  Peacher,  of 
)one  county.  Have  three  children  living:  Walter  Scott,  Daisy  D., 
)bert  Bruce.  Mr.  McCauley's  grandfather,  on  his  father's  side,  was 
Scotchman  and  a  soldier  of  the  revolutionary  war  under  General 
'ashington.  Mr.  McCauley  and  wife  are  members  of  the  Christian 
lurch.  He  is  also  a  Mason.  He  was  left  an  orphan  at  an  early 
;e,  and   had   not  only   himself  to  educate  and    support,  but  the 


598  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 

care  of  several  younger  members  of  the  family  resting  alone  upon 
his  industry,  fidelity  and  prudence. 

JAMES   M.   m' COMAS,    M.  D. 

Dr.  James  M.  McComas,  a  prominent  physician  of  Sturgeon,  Mis- 
souri, was  born  at  Newton,  Kentucky,  February  29,  1844.     He  is  the 
son  of  C.  L.  and  Clara  McComas,  the  former  a  native  of  Virginia, 
the  latter  df  Morgan  county,  Kentucky.     His  life,  from  early  youth, 
has  been  an  eventful  one.     His  parents  removed  to  the  west  when  he 
was  an  infant,  stopping  first  at  Burlington,  Iowa,  moving^  next  to  Ne- 
bniska,  where  they  remained  for  a  few  years,  thence  to  Illinois,  where 
they  both  died,  their  deaths  being  within  a  short  period  of  each  other. 
Young  McComas,  being  thus  left  an  orphan,  returned  to  his  relatifes 
'in  Kentucky,  and  remained  a  short  time  at  Louisville  and  Covington, 
attending  school.     He  next  went  to  Philadelphia,  and,  at  the  early 
age  of  eleven  years,  embarked  with  his  uncle  on  a  voyage  to  South 
America,  where  he  remained  for  a  short  time.     Returning  from  the 
tropics,  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  youth  in  the  States  of  Illinois, 
Iowa,  Kentucky  and  Pennsylvania.     Having  no  one  to  guide  or  coun- 
sel him,  and  being  of  an  inquisitive  temperament,  and  possessing, 
withal,  an  unusual  amount  of  vitality,  he  naturally  acquired  a  wan- 
dering disposition,  and  sought  wider  fields  of  observation  than  the 
immediate  vicinity  in  which  he  was  left  a  helpless  orphan.     While  yet 
a  mere  youth,  he  attended  a  course  of  medicine  at  the  Missouri  medJ* 
cal  college,  St.  Louis,  in  the  class  of  1860  and  1861.     He  took  one 
degree  at  the  Pennsylvania  medical  college,  Philadelphia,  and  two  at 
the  medical  department  of  Central  university,  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
where  he  gniduated  in  1875  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.     In  1880,  he 
took  the  degree  of  M.  D.  at  the  Kentucky  school  of  medicine,  Louis- 
ville.    Dr.  McComas  was  married,  September  26,  1867,  to  Miss  Mag- 
gie, daughter  of  John  and  Catherine  Rochford,  large  landholders  ot 
Sturgeon,  Missouri.     The  Doctor  has  two  children  :  Arthur  Rochford 
and  Edwin  Gaillard.     He  belongs  to  no  church.     He  is  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  order.     He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  origin.     He  has  a  lai^e 
medical  library,  consisting  of  standard   works  and  a  large  collection 
of  recent  publications   by  the  most  eminent  authors  of  the  profes- 
sion.    Notwithstanding  the  vast  amount  of  medical  literature  con- 
stantly issuing  from  the  press,  he  is  a  liberal  purchaser  of  all  that 
possess  the  least  merit,  and  by  this  means  he  keeps  fully  abreast 
with  all    the    recent   discoveries    made,  and    reported  by  the  most 


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HI8TOBY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  599 

eminent  men  in  the  profession.  He  believes  in  progress,  and  cher- 
ishes every  new  idea,  and  welcomes  every  new  discovery  calculated 
to  benefit  the  race  by  alleviating  human  suffering.  In  addition  to 
his  medical  library,  he  has  a  fine  collection  of '  literary  works,  in- 
cluding a  full  set  of  the  American  Cyclopedia.  He  has  also  a  large 
electric  battery  of  recent  and  most  approved  construction,  with  a 
fine  assortment  of  electric  attachments  and  appliances  for  use  in 
his  practice.  He  has  been  at  Sturgeon  for  fifteen  years,  and  has 
built  up  a  splendid  practice.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Linton  medi- 
cal association,  also  of  the  State  association.  He  is  a  man  of 
broad,  liberal  views,  and  a  genial,  courteous,  entertaining  gentle- 
man.   Mrs.  McComas  is  a  member  of  the  Catholic  church. 

EMERSON   D.    M'ALLISTER 

Was  born  in  Warren,  Huntingdon  county,  Indiana,  January  31, 1852. 
He  is  the  son  of  George  and  Rebecca  McAllister.     His  father  was  born 
near  Zanesville,  Ohio,  and  his  mother  was  born  and  reared  in  the  State 
of  Indiana.     Besides  Emerson,  there  were  born  four  other  children  — 
William  A.,  James  Monroe,  Alonzo  and  Lavina  —  of  whom  William 
A.  only  is  now  living,  and  is  a  leading  physician  in  Centralia.     Emer- 
son lived  with  his  parents  in  Warren,  Indiana,  until  he  was  fifteen 
years  old.     In  1867  his  father  moved  to  Boone  county  and  settled  on 
*  farna  about  four  and  a  half  miles  southeast  of  Sturgeon,  where  Eni- 
^t^ou  remained,  performing  the  usual  duties  required  of  farmers'  boys 
for  about  three  years  and  a  half.     He  then  went  to  Centralia  and  com- 
menced learning  the  art  of  telegraphy  under  the  supervision  of  the 
^ight  operator.     Here  he  remained  five  months,  when  he  was  placed 
H  charge  of  the  office  at  Cunningham,  hi  Chariton  county.     From 
5ere  he  went  to  Ottumwa,  Iowa ;  then  successively  to  St.  Peters,  Mont- 
gomery, Martinsburg,  Carrollton,  St.  Charles  and  New  Florence,  Mis- 
souri.    On  account  of  his  wife's  health,  he  next  moved  to  Hillsboro, 
Texas,  and  remained  a  short  time ;  from  Texas  he  removed  to  Stur- 
geon, where  he  has  for  several  months  past  very  efficiently  discharged 
he  arduous  duties  of  agent  and  operator.     He  has  been  engaged  as 
igent  and  operator  at  various  points,  aftogether,  for  a  period  of  about 
.welve  years.     His  education  was  acquired  at  the  schools  of  Warren, 
n  which  he  made  very  satisfactory  progress  up  to  the  period  of  his 
eaving ;  but  owing  to  poor  health  he  was  prevented  from  taking  as 
idvanced  a  course  as  he  desired,  until  he  arrived  atan  age  when  he  felt 
it  incumbent  upon  him  to  wage  his  own  part  in  the  actual  battle  of  life. 


600  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   CX)UNTY. 

On  December  29,  1880,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Ava  J.  Hunter,  daugh- 
ter of  S.  P.  and  Esther  (Sherman)  Hunter.  Mrs.  McAllister  is  an»- 
tive  of  Morrison,  Gasconade  county,  this  State.  They  have  one  child, 
named  Elmer.  In  connection  with  Mrs.  McAllister  there  is  a  bit  of 
romantic  history  to  which  a  brief  allusion  will  here  be  made,  and  which 
also  concerns  some  of  the  early  pioneers  of  Boone  county.  MissHuiH 
ter's  mother,  prior  to  her  marriage,  was  a  Heath.  She  had  a  brother 
named  Robert.  In  1822  Robert  Heath's  father  emigrated  from  Boone 
county,  taking  with  him  a  colony  consisting  of  mechanics,  artisans, 
etc.,  and  settled  upon  a  tract  of  land  five  leagues  square,  then  within 
the  borders  of  old  Mexico,  but  now  just  within  the  borders  of  New 
Mexico.  In  consideration  of  establishing  the  colony  upon  it,  this  tract 
was  deeded  to  Mr.  Heath  by  a  physician  to  the  emperor,  to  whom  it 
had  been  granted  by  royal  authority  for  his  great  skill  and  leiarning. 
The  tract  is  known  as  the  Brazito  claim.  Owing  to  the  turbulent 
times  which  arose,  the  colony  was  broken  up,  and  returned  to  Missouri, 
where,  not  long  after,  Mr.  Heath  died.  The  heirs,  excepting  Robert 
Heath,  knew  nothing  of  their  claim  to  this  estate  till  a  few  years agoi 
when  it  leaked  out  through  Robert's  efforts  to  obtain  confirmttion  of 
the  title  and  secure  the  entire  property  himself.  The  required  evi- 
dence has  been  gradually  collected  for  the  past  few  years,  and  the  claim 
of  the  rightful  heirs  to  their  just  proportion,  it  is  expected,  will  soon 
be  established.  .  Mrs.  McAllister's  mother's  share  will  be  one-eighth 
in  this  large  estate. 

Mr.  McAllister  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  lodge  at  Sturgeon,  and 
his  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

DUNCAN   M'dONALD. 

Duncan  McDonald,  wagon-maker  and  blacksmith.  Sturgeon,  Mis- 
souri, is  a  native  of  Stormount  county,  Canada,  but  of  Scotch  parent- 
age. He  is  the  son  of  Alexander  and  Catharine  (nee  Mclotosh) 
M^sDonald.  His  mother  was  a  first  cousin  of  the  Confederate  general 
James  Mcintosh,  killed  at  Pea  Ridge.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  and  raised  near  the  line  between  Franklin  county.  New  York, 
and  Canada,  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  Wheeler  family,  aud  knew 
the  vice-president  very  well.  Mr.  McDonald  was  born  February  *> 
1836,  and  lived  in  his  native  county  until  he  was  sixteen  years  old. 
He  was  brought  up  on  the  farm,  but  after  reaching  manhood  learned 
the  trade  of  a  wagon-maker  and  blacksmith.  Leaving  Canada,  he 
went  first  to  Iowa,  where  he  remained  one  year,  coming  from  that 


HI8TOBT  or  BOONE   COUNTY.  BOl 

tate  direct  to  Sturgeon,  where  he  has  remained  ever  since,  working 
lODtiiiuously  at  his  trade.  He  was  married  in  the  fall  of  1859,  to 
Hiss  Elizabeth  R.,  daughter  of  James  R.  Burks.  They  have  six  chil- 
Iron  living,  and  five  dead.  The  names  of  the  living  are  Samuel 
[KMikridge,  Catharine  Lee,  Martha  Ellen,  Duncan  Bruce,  Ada  Eveline, 
md  John  Archibald.  Mr.  McDonald  is  a  member  of  the  Catholic 
iurch.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  city  council,  and  also  of  the 
chool  board.     Mrs.  McDonald  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church. 

J.    W.    NOE. 

J.  W.  Noe,  farmer,  was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Kentucky,  No- 
ember  20,  1811.  He  is  the  son  of  George  and  Catharine  (Smith) 
(oe.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Kentucky.  Mrs.  Noe  was  a  native 
f  Virginia.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  grew  to  manhood  in  Ken- 
icky.  His  grandfather  built  the  first  house  ever  erected  in  Fayette 
)anty.  His  parents  lived  to  a  very  old  age.  Mr.  Noe  was  married, 
pril  3,  1833,  to  Matilda  S.,  daughter  of  Judge  A.  P.  Howe,  ot 
icholas  county,  Kentucky.  They  have  eleven  children  living,  three 
■  whom  reside  in  California.  The  names  of  ten  of  the  living  are 
imea.  Anion,  Mary,  George,  Oscar,  Newton,  Issachar,  Nattie,  Boaz 
id  Amanda.  Julia,  the  first-born,  is  dead.  Oscar  is  a  physician  and 
now  practicing  his  profession  in  Illinois.  George  graduated  in  law 
the  University  of  California,  and  is  at  present  conducting  a  large 
hool  in  that  State.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Noe  are  both  members  of  the 
iristian  church.  Most  of  their  children  are  also  members  of  that 
urch.  Two  of  their  sons  are  members  of  the  order  of  United 
orkmen.  Mr.  Noe  commenced  business  at  an  early  age  as  a  clerk 
a  store  on  the  line  of  the  Wabash  and  Erie  canal,  in  Indiana.  He 
30  contracted  to  build  four  sections  of  the  canal,  and  the  work 
oved  a  financial  success.  This  was  in  Green  county.  He  also  ran 
store  in  connection  with  his  other  business.  He  is  of  French  and 
iglish  origin. 

WILLIAM   D.  OLIVER. 

William  D.  Oliver  was  born  in  Casey  county,  Kentucky,  January 
,  1836.  His  parents,  Isaac  and  Mary  (Downey)  Oliver,  were 
Lives  of  North  Carolina,  who  first  emigrated  to  Kentucky,  where  the 
bject  ot  this  sketch  was  born,  and  then,  in  1838,  to  Boone  county, 
ssouri,  settling  nine  miles  northwest  of  Columbia,  where  the  elder 
iver  died,  August  16,  1871.     The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  edu- 


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€02  HTSTOBT  OP  BOONE  OOUNTT. 

oated  at  the  common  schools  of  the  neighborhood.  He  was  brought  up 
on  the  farm,  and  has  followed  agricultural  pursuits,  the  stone  mason*! 
trade,  and  teaching  ever  since  attaining  his  majority.  Farmiughai  WT^^ 
been  his  principal  occupation.  He  has  traveled  as  an  adventurer  and  V  ^ 
a  soldier,  over  most  of  the  States  of  the  Union.  He  was  married, 
July  17,  1871,  to  a  daughter  or  Aaron  and  Margaret  Pierce.  They 
have  three  children,  Mary  Margaret,  William  Isaac,  and  James  Aaron. 
Mr.  Oliver  and  his  wife  are  both  members  of  the  Christian  church. 
Mr.  Oliver  served  duriuo^the  last  vear  of  the  war  under  Gen.  Sherman. 
Mrs.  Oliver  was  a  widow  previous  to  their  marriage.  Her  first  hus- 
band was  Benjamin  Berry.  There  were  two  sons  by  this  marriage, 
Walter  W.  and  Benjamin  L.  W"^ 

JOEL   PALMER,    DECEASED.  1^^ 

Joel  Palmer,  was  one  among  the  most  enterprising  farmers  and  stock 
raisers  of  Boone  county.     He  was  born  in  Clark  county,  Kentucky,  in 
1811,  but  removed  in  early  life  to  Bourbon  county,  where  he  remained 
until  his  marriage,  in  1831,  to  Miss  Milly  Fret  well  of  that  county.    He 
came  to  Missouri  in  1833.     He  was  the  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth 
(Foster)  Palmer.     Landed  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  with  a  wagoa 
and  team  and  eight  hundred  dollars,  and  died  worth  about  sixty  thoa- 
saud.     He  first  settled  about  three  miles  south  of  Sturgeon,  where  he 
lived  from  1833  to  1865.     After  selling  his  farm  he  moved  several 
times,  finally  settling  down  with  his  son,  Lancelot,  where  he  died 
October  29,  1879.     He  left  two  children,  Lancelot  and  Mary  Susan 
Stewart.     His  first  wife  having  died,  he  was  married  the  second  tirti« 
in  his  old  age.     Lancelot  Palmer  was  born  in  Boone  county,  three 
miles  south  of  Sturgeon,  at  the  old  Palmer  homestead.  May  10, 18$^:. 
He  was  raised  in  Boone  county  where  he  continued  to  reside  unt>i 
1881,  when  he  removed  to  Audrain,  about  one-half  mile  north  of  Stim  ^' 
geon,  where  he  now  lives.     He  is  largely  engaged  in  farming  ^CB^^ 
stock  raising,  which  he  has  followed  all  his  life.     Was  married,  Jum:^^ 
2,  1867,  to  Martha  Ann  Cook,  a  native  of  Boone  county,  daughter  ^^^ 
Robert  and  Ann  Eliza  Cook.     The  parents  of  Mrs.  Palmer  were  fo'^' 
merly  of  Kentucky.     They  have  four  living  children.     Letha  An»^> 
Robert  Lee,  James    and   Charles.     Mr.    and  Mrs.    Palmer  are  n^^^ 
members  of  any  church.     He  belongs  to  no  secret  orders.     Tookn»^ 
part  in  the  late  civil  war.     He  owns  about  two  thousand  acres  of  Ian 
one-half  in  Boone,  the  remainder  in  Audrain  county. 


t  HI8TORT  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  608 

CHABLE8  H.  PRATHEB. 

Charles  H.  Prather,  of  the  livery  firm  of  Montrief  &  Prather,  Stur- 
|eoD,  Missouri,  was  born  ia  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  October  19, 
1829.    He  is  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Polly  (Cowan)  Prather.     The 
«lderPrather  was  born  and  raised  in  Kentucky.     Mrs.  Prather  was 
born  in  Virginia.     They  moved  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  about  the 
jear  1830,  and  settled  on  a  farm  four  miles  north  of  Columbia,  where  • 
Mr.  Prather  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life,  dying  in  1848.     The  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  two  years  old  when  his  parents  came  to  Boone 
county.     He  was  reared  on  a  farm  and  followed  agricultural  pursuits 
until  he  engaged  in  the  livery  business  two  years  ago.     He  lived  in 
Sandolph  seven  years,  and  in  Audrain  twelve  years,  his  home  being 
near  Sturgeon.     For  the  last  two  years  Mr.  Prather  has  been  engaged 
in  the  livery  business  with  Montrief.     Was  married  October  19, 1849, 
to  Eliza  J.,  daughter  of  Joseph  Brown,  of  Boone  county.     The  fol- 
lowing children  born  of  this  marriage,  are  now  living :  Mary  Ellen, 
Joseph,  John,  and  Ida  May.     The  fii'st  wife  having  died  February  23, 
1880,  Mr.  Prather  married  Miss  Said,  daughter  of  William  Barnett. 
Served  in  Capt.  Davenport's  company.  Confederate  army,  during  the 
last  year  of  the  war.     Was  in  several  minor  engagements  while  en 
route  southward.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church.      His 
^i(e  is  a  Methodist.     Mr.  Pra'ther  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Honor,  also  of  the  Home  Mutual  Association.     In  addition  to  the 
Kvery  business,  Mr.  Prather  is  largely  interested  in  the  cattle  trade  in 
partnership  with  his  brother-in-law. 

J.  M.  PROCTOR. 

J.  M.  Proctor,  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  successful  business 
^en  in  his  section  of  country,  was  born  in  Macon  county,  Missouri, 
February  12th,  1842.     He  first  came  to  Boone  county  in  1849,  re- 
gaining about  four  years,  during  which  time  he  was  engaged  in  farm- 
ing out  in  the  '*  white  ooks."     Returning  to  Bloomington,  Macon 
county,  he  learned  the  tinner's  trade.     He  remained  at  Bloomington 
until  1860,  when  he  removed  to  Mexico,  Missouri,  where  he  remained 
during  the  war,  except  for  a  few  weeks  spent  in  campaigning  with 
Col.  Porter ;  was  in  the  fight  at  Monroe  Station,  the  first  battle  of  the 
war  fought  on  Missouri  soil.     He  was  also  at  Moore's  Mill  and  Florida. 
Mr.  Proctor  is   the   son   of   Dr.  William    H.   and    Sophronia    (nee 
Maughs)   Proctor.     His   mother   is  a  sister  of  Dr.  J.  M.  B.  Maughs, 


604  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   OOUNTT. 

of  St.  Louis,  and  Mordecai  Maughs,  of  Callaway  ^ounty.  He  wu 
married  January  20th,  1864,  to  Miss  Ella,  daughter  of  William  White, 
a  Methodist  minister,  of  Mexico.  They  have  five  children :  Finnie, 
Laura  Belle,  Willie  Patton,  John  Henry  and  Edna  Clay.  After  his 
marriage  he  removed  to  Sturgeon,  where  he  has  been  actively  engaged 
in  farming  and  trading  ever  since.  He  is  a  self-made  man,  havinghad 
no  advantages  save  those  he  created  for  himself.  He  went  to  school 
in  the  woods,  the  school-house  being  made  of  unhewn  timber,  tbefii^ 
place  occupying  an  entire  end  of  the  rude  cabin.  When  he  returned 
to  Bloomington,  he  went  one  term  to  the  High  School,  finishing  his 
education  while  learning  his  trade.  After  working  all  day  he  usually 
spent  about  half  the  night  studying.  He  labored  after  working  hours 
to  procure  money  to  buy  books.  He  read  law' for  two  years  and  was 
anxious  to  enter  upon  the  duties  of  that  profession  but  had  not  the 
means  to  do  so.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Proctor,  and  all  their  children  except 
one,  are  members  of  the  Methodist  Church  South.  He  was  a  candi- 
date before  the  Democratic  convention  for  the  State  Senate  in  1880, 
but  was  beaten  by  Hon.  James  L.  Stephens,  of  Columbia.  He  is  of 
Scotch  origin,  on  his  father's  side.  His  mother  was  of  French  ex- 
traction. He  has  accumulated  considerable  property,  and  is  doing  a 
profitable  business.  He  is  one  of  the  largest  dealers  in  railroad  ties 
in  the  State.  He  is  true  to  his  convictions,  fair  in  his  dealings,  aiid 
earnest  and  sincere  in  the  discharge  of  duty.  Mr.  Proctor  was  nomi- 
nated nt  the  Democratic  primaries  in  August,  1882,  as  a  candidate  for 
representative,  defeating  a  strong  competitor,  Capt.  J.  W.  Kneisleyf 
in  every. voting  i)recinct  in  the  county  but  one. 

WILLIAM   PROWELL. 

William  Prowell,  farmer  and  stock  raiser,  was  born  in  Boone 
county,  Missouri,  August  8th,  1847.  His  father  Robert  Prowell, 
was  born  in  Adair  county,  Kentucky,  as  may  be  learned  from  his 
biography  which  appears  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  William  grew  to 
manhood  on  his  father's  farm.  He  received  a  fair  education  at  the 
district  schools  and  State  University  and  followed  teaching  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  this  county  for  about  five  years.  He  was  married,  March 
15th,  1870,  to  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Eli  and  Nancy  Lyon,  of  Boone 
county.  They  have  three  children,  all  living:  Lucy  P.,  Robert  E. 
and  Carrie  L.  Mr.  Prowell  and  his  wife  are  both  members  of  the 
Baptist  church.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Order  of  United  Work- 
men, at  Sturgeon,  and  a  notary  public.     He  runs  a  blacksmith  shop 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  605 

onnectioa  with  his  farm,  also  keeps  a  supply  of  staple  groceries 
his  farm  hands.  He  is  a  well-to-do,  prosperous  farmer,- owning 
le  320  acres  of  good  land  and  about  600  acres  of  white  oak  lands, 
ides  an  interest  in  other  real  estate.  He  uses  all  available  machin- 
and  keeps  fully  abreast  with  the  age  in  which  he  lives.  Though 
la  young  man,  he  has  by  his  individual  industry  and  enterprise 
umulated  nearly  all  he  possesses,  having  received  only  a  bare  start 
the  world  from  his  own  and  his  wife's  parents. 

JOSEPH   B.  JKOBINSON. 

foseph  B.  Robinson,  farmer  and  blacksmith,  was  born  in  Albemarle 
mty,  Virginia,  October  10th,  1832.  His  father,  Tandy  B.,  was  a 
;ive  of  Virginia,  where  he  was  reared  to  manhood  and  married 
zabeth  Barnes,  also  a  native  Virginian.  He  removed  to  Missouri 
the  fall  of  1834,  and  settled  first  in  Howard  county,  removing  to 
one  in  1838,  where  he  had  previously  entered  the  farm  upon  which 
son,  Joseph,  now  resides.  He  died  January  26th,  1874,  and  his 
e  October  15th,  1876.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  has  lived  in 
one  county  continuously  ever  since  he  was  six  years  old,  except 
>  years  spent  in  Illinois,  during  the  late  civil  war.  He  worked  ten 
T8  at  his  trade,  but  has  made  farming  the  chief  occupation  of  his 
.  Was  married  May  14th,  1872,  to  Mary  L.,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Caldwell,  of  Boone  county,  formerly  of  Adair  county,  Kentucky, 
Bre  Mrs.  Bobinson  was  born.  They  have  two  children,  Edward  and 
rl.  He  has  an  excellent  farm  of  300  acres.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
er  of  A.  O.  U.  W. 

JOHN   ROGHFOKD,    DECEASED. 

ohn  Rochford  was  born  at  Armagh,  Ireland,  May  2,  1815.  He 
)ived  a  thorough  collegiate  education.  He  came  to  America  in 
y  life,  landing  first  at  New  York,  where  he  received  employment 
onnection  with  the  United  States  Navy.  From  New  York  City  he 
re  to  St.  Louis  in  1839,  where  he  labored  as  an  architect,  planning 

building  some  of  the  finest  public  buildings  in  that  city.  From 
Louis  he  came  to  Columbia,  Missouri,  where  he  lived  until  1849, 
m  he  went  to  California,  where  he  remained  four  years.     While  on 

Pacific  coast  he  engaged  in  the  lumber  business,  which  proved  a 
y  profitable  venture.  Returning  to  Boone  county,  he  settled  in 
irgeon  and  took  a  contract,  in  partnership  with  Col.  Ruby,  for 
Iding  twenty  miles  of  the  North  Missouri  railroad.     Mr.  Rochford 


606  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

invested  largely  in  land  along  the  line  of  this  road.  When  Sturgeon 
was  laid  off  he  owned  most  of  the  land  included  within  the  limits  of 
the  town,  which  he  was  mainly  instrumental  in  locating.  He  gave 
the  town  its  name,  calling  it  Sturgeon,  in  honor  of  the  first  president 
of  the  road.  It  is  said  that  he  donated  forty  acres  of  land  as  an 
inducement  to  the  railroad  company  to  locate  the  depot  at  this  point. 
Mr.  Rochford  was  married  in  Ireland  to  Catherine  Madden.  They 
had  four  children,  one  son,  Bernard,  and  three  daughters.  Only  one 
of  the  children,  Mrs.  McComas,  wife  of  Dr.  J.  M.  McComa8,is  livin?  ' 
in  Boone  county.  Bedel ier  married  a  man  named  Sinclair,  and 
Louisa  R.  married  a  Mr.  Cowsill. 

WILLIAM   G.    RIDGWAY. 

William  G.  Ridgway,  farmer  and  wagon-maker,  was  bom  two  and 
a  half  miles  west  of  Columbia,  December  21,  1829.  His  father, 
Enoch  Ridgway,  was  a  farmer  and  a  native  of  Rowan  County,  North 
Carolina,  from  which  he  emigrated  to  Kentucky,  thence  to  Missouri, 
arriving  in  Old  Franklin,  Howard  county,  about  the  year  1817.  He 
next  went  to  New  Mexico,  where  he  remained  about  one  year.  Re- 
turning from  New  Mexico,  he  settled  in  what  is  facetiously  called 
'*  Terrapin  Neck,"  situated  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  and  more 
particularly  described  elsewhere.  Mr.  Ridgway  married  Ailcy 
Barnes,  a  native  of  Frankfort,  Kentucky.  The  subject  of  this  sketch 
went  to  Pike  county  in  1848  and  remained  there  four  years,  during 
which  time  he  learned  the  wagon-maker's  trade.  He  returned  to 
Boone  County  in  1852  and  has  worked  at  his  trade,  and  at  farming, 
ever  since,  devoting  most  of  his  attention  to  agriculture.  The  elder 
Ridgway  left  his  place  in  the  river  bottom  on  account  of  '*  milk  sick- 
ness.'* He  entered  part  of  the  land  upon  which  William  G.  now 
resides,  about  the  year  1834  or  1835.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
married,  January,  9,  1852,  to  Melissa,  daughter  of  J.  Fisher,  of  Pike 
county,  Missouri.  They  have  nine  children  living.  There  names 
are  Nora,  George  W.,  James  M.,  Martha  Savannah,  Eupha,  William 
Edmund,  Sophia,  Bertha  and  Ora  Glenn.  Mrs.  Ridgway  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Christian  church. 

MA  J.    JOHN   F.    RUCKER. 

Maj.  John  F.  Rucker,  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  influential 
business  men  of  Sturgeon,  was  born  in  Amherst  county,  Virginia* 
September    19th,  1838.     He   is   the    son  of  John  D.  and  Lucy  J- 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  60T 

\  Tinsley  )  Rucker.     Maj.  Rucker  came  to  Sturgeon  in  1858,  where 
emained  until  the  war.     He  joined  Company  C.  which   was  raised 
bat  place.     He  was  afterwards  made  a  lieutenant  in  a  St.  Louis 
ment  commanded  by  Col.  Kelly.     He    entered    the   service    ii> 
1,  at  Jefferson  City.     He  was  at  Boonville  and  Lexington,  went 
ith  with  the  army  and  participated  in  the  battles  of  Carthage  and 
Ison  Creek.     He  was  also  in  the  battle  of  Drywood,  and  a  num- 
of  other  skirmishes  and  battles  of  less  note.     Came  home  after 
surrender  of  Lexington,  and  was  captured  by  the  enemy  and  im- 
soned  at  Macon  City.     He  was  released  on  parole,  but  was  soon 
erwards  re-arrested  on  a  charge  of  treason  and  conspiracy,  having 
m  indicted  by  the  United  States  Court.     He  was  taken  to  St.  Louis 
Iputin  jail.     Giving  bail  he  was  released  from  prison.     He  at-- 
ided  several  terms  of  the  United  States  Court  but  his  case  was  not 
led  up.     A  compromise  w«S  at  last  agreed  upon  by  which  Maj. 
cker,  was  banished  to  Montana  during  the  war.     While  in  Mon- 
la  he  was  elected  chief  clerk  of  the  legislature  and  also  a  member 
the  territorial  constitutional  convention.     At  the  close  of  the  war 
ij.  Rucker  returned  to  Virginia,  and  after  a  short  stay  in  the  Old 
>minion,  he  returned  to  Sturgeon,  where  he  has  lived  ever  since. 
5  was  married,  August  28th,  1867,  to  Miss  Julia,  daughter  of  Col. 
illiam  Eiarly  Rucker,  of  Audrain  County,  Missouri.     Four  sons  were 
rn  of  this  marriage.     Their  names  are  Booker  H.,  Guy  Lockridge, 
irly  D.,  and  Ray.     The  first  wife  dying,  March  30th,  1879,  he  was 
arried,  May  18th,  1880,  to  Miss  Frankie  D.,  daughter  of  Carter 
ingle,    of    Mexico,    Audrain    county,    Missouri.     Maj.    and  Mrs. 
acker  are  both  members  of  the  Methodist  Church  South.     He  has 
5€n  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school  for  fourteen  years.     Has 
ways  been  a  Democrat  in  politics.     Has  held  the  office  of  chairman 
the  Congressional  Central  Committee  for  five  or  six  years  past. 
1 1875  he  was  elected  to  the  convention  to  form  a  new  State  consti- 
ition  representing  the  Ninth  Senatorial  District.     It  was  a  free  race 
id  there  were  a  number  of  candidates,  including  Col.  Switzler,  who 
as  also  elected.     The  Major  is,  practically  speaking,  a  self-made 
^an.    He  is  a  public-spirited  citizen  in  the  truest  sense  of  the  term,, 
nd  has  been  ai^  earnest  laborer  in  the  cause  of  immigration.     He 
ig^ested  the  main  points  in  the  immigration  bill.     He  is  a  director 
f  the  Sturgeon  bank  and  has  been  for  several  years.     He  and  Mr. 
>herwood  W.    Turner  own  a  controlling  interest  in  the    business, 
le  is  the  leading  man  in  the  firm  of  Rucker  &  Turner,  a  store  that 


608  HISTORY   OF   BOONB   COUNTY. 

is  doing  u  large  business.     They  also  have  an  extensive  trade  in  rail- 
road ties. 

RODERIC    D.    RUCKER. 

Roderic  D.  Rucker,  chief  salesman  with  Goin  &  Lockridge,  Stu^ 
geon,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Amherst  county,  Virginia,  May  7li, 
1849.  He  is  the  son  of  John  Dabney  and  Lucy  Rucker.  Since  com- 
ing: to  Missouri,  in  1868,  Mr.  Rucker  has  lived  continuouslv  in  Boone 
and  Audrain  counties,  spending  the  first  two  years  on  a  farm  about 
one  mile  west  of  town,  on  what  is  known  as  the  old  Marney  place. 
He  entered  the  store  of  Goin  &  Lockridge  in  the  spring  of  1882.  He 
was  married  December  22d,  1874,  to  Miss  Lulu,  daughter  of  Judge 
Henry  Dusenbury.  They  have  three  children,  Edward  Leslie, 
Francis  Marion  and  Robert  Milton.  Mrs.  Rucker  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  church.  Mr.  Rucker  belongs  to  the  order  of  A.  O.  U.  W. 
He  owns  and  cultivates  a  nice  farm  oveV  the  line,  in  Audrain  couuty, 
where  he  resides.  The  farm  is  three  miles  north  of  Sturgeon  Mr. 
Rucker  is  a  quiet,  affable  gentleman,  well  known  and  highly  appre- 
ciated in  business  circles.  He  is  a  brother  to  Maj.  John  Rucker,  of 
Sturgeon. 

ALFRED    SIMS. 

Alfred  Sims,  farmer  and  miller,  was  born  in  Madison  county,  Ken- 
tucky, February  4,  1832.  He  is  the  son  of  Abram  and  Gracie  (Eo- 
bards)  Sims,  natives  of  Kentucky,  who  came  to  Boone  county,  Mis- 
souri, when  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  but  two  years  old.  He  was 
raised  on  a  farm  and  has  followed  farming  ever  since  he  was  old 
enough  to  work,  except  seven  or  eight  years  spent  in  a  saw  mill.  He 
owns  a  farm  of  260  acres.  Was  married,  March  16,  1855,  to  Miss 
Nancy  Jane,  daughter  of  J.  W.  and  Polly  Barnes.  They  have  six 
children,  named  as  follows:  Abram  L.,  Nancy  Elizabeth,  John  Davis 
Beauregard,  James  Anderson,  Sidney  Daniels,  and  Polly  Thomas. 
Mr.  Sims  has  been  a  hard-working  man  and  has  accumulated  all 
his  property  by  his  own  individual  exertions,  having  inherited  nothing 
but  ahorse  and  saddle  from  his  father.  He  has  spent  his  life  in  Bour- 
bon township,  and   is  well  and  favorably  known  in  that  section. 

THOMAS    G.    SIMS. 

Thomas  G.  Sims  was  born  near  New  Castle,  Henry  county,  Ken- 
tucky, July  20,  1823.  He  is  the  son  of  Thomas  A.  and  Elizabeth 
(Morris)  Sims,  natives  of  Virginia.  The  subjectof  this  sketch  cana^ 
to  Boone  county  in  1836,  and  has  resided  here  ever  since.     He  has 


HI8TOBT   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  609 

ted  his  time  to  farming  and  bricklaying.  Was  married,  Decern- 
17,  1853,  to  Miss  Margaret  A.,  daughter  of  James  M.  Hicks. 
'  have  eight  children  living,  and  one  dead.  Their  names  are 
nas  A.,  Jeannette  D.,  James  M.,  Lizzie  J.,  Lenora,  Walter  B., 
%  T.,  Elmer  T.,  and  Betta.  The  last  named  is  dead.  Mr.  Sims 
member  of  the  Masonic  order,  also  a  member  of  the  orders  of 
ed  Workmen  and  Knights  of  Honor.  He  is  an  officer  in  the  two 
named  lodges.  Was  imprisoned  by  the  Union  authorities  during 
¥ar  on  account  of  his  Southern  politics.  Mr.  Sims  is  a  self-edu- 
1  man,  having  never  attended  school  but  three  months  in  his  life, 
ras  appointed  a  justice  of  the  peace  during  the  war.  He  is  an 
[lent  workman.  He  superintended  the  erection  of  Hardin  Col- 
audthe  opera  house  at  Mexico,  Missouri,  and  assisted  in  building 
addition  to  the  Christian  College,  Columbia.  He  is  a  good- 
red,  jovial  man,  and  is  universally  esteemed  by  all  who  know 
Mrs.  Sims  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church. 

WILLIAM   ENOCH   SMITH. 

le  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Benjamin  F.  and  Polly  A. 
Wilson)  Smith,  and  was  born  in  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky, 
ember  6th,  1835.  He  lived  in  Kentucky  until  he  was  twenty-two 
J  old,  when  he  removed  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  1857.  He 
)d  at  Providence  on  the  Missouri  river,  April  16th,  and  remained 
at  vicinity  for  two  years,  when  he  moved  north  of  Columbia,  near 
leton,  ten  miles  south  of  Sturgeon,  where  he  remained  for  eight 
I.  L#eaving  that  neighborhood,  he  removed  to  a  place  six  miles 
iwest  of  Columbia,  where  he  remained  for  thirteen  or  fourteen 
.  His  next  move  was  to  Sturgeon.  His  occupation,  up  to  this 
had  been  farming,  shipping  of  stock  and  trading.  Coming  to 
;eon,  he  bought  the  Commercial  hotel,  opening  house  October 
1880.  Mr.  Smith  was  educated  in  Kentucky,  partly  at  common 
Is  and  partly  by  private  tutors.  He  took  no  part  in  the  war. 
as  never  married.  Is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church,  but 
gs  to  none  of 'the  lodges.  He  never  held  an  office  and  has  no 
cal  aspirations  whatever.  His  paternal  grandfather  was  a  native 
rgiuia,  but  one  among  the  first  to  emigrate  to  Kentucky.  He 
A  surveyor.  He  settled  where  Mt.  Sterling  now  stands,  but 
9  there  was  a  white  settler  within  sixty  miles  of  his  place.  At 
ime  he  donated  one  hundred  acres  of  land  to  a  preacher  as  an 
ement  to  the  minister  to  settle  in  his  locality  and  preach  for  the 
39 


610  HISTORY  OF  BOONE  COUinT. 

settlement.  He  had  previously  located  one  thousand  acres  for  himBe 
for  in  those  days,  according  to  a  special  law  of  Virginia,  the  surreji 
was  **  monarch  of  all  he  surveyed" — almost.  Kentucky  was  thei 
portion  of  the  Old  Dominion,  and  to  induce  surveyors  to  go  tot 
wilderness  and  run  off  the  lauds,  large  grants  were  allowed  them,  wi 
the  privilege  of  locating  their  lands  wherever  they  liked  best.  Tl 
law  induced  a  large  number  of  young  men  to  learn  surveying,  and 
practical  knowledge  of  the  art  enabled  many  of  them  to  lay  the  fou 
datiou  of  a  princely  fortune  in  the  wilds  of  Kentucky. 

CHARLES  HENBT  TAYLOR. 

Charles  Henry  Taylor  was  born  in  Maryland,  August  4th,  185 
He  is  the  son  of  Levi  and  Adeliza  {nee  Bell)  Taylor.  He  left  I 
native  State  when  he  was  twenty  yeare  of  age,  coming  to  St.  Charl< 
Missouri,  where  he  remained  one  year,  removing  from  there  to  Sti 
geon,  where  he  has  remained  ever  since.  He  was  depot  agent  ai 
telegraph  operator  for  ten  years.  In  the  fall  of  1878  was  married 
Miss  Kate,  daughter  of  Christian  Miller,  of  Audrain  county.  Th 
have  one  child,  Lloyd  Stanley.  Mrs.  Taylor  is  a  member  of  t 
Christian  church.  Mr.  Taylor  belongs  to  the  order  of  A.  O.  U.l 
He  is  a  member  of  the  city  council.  Has  a  half-interest  in  the  pro 
erty  known  as  the  Middleton  &  Taylor  mill.  A  large  lot  of  d< 
machinery  has  lately  been  added  to  this  mill,  and  the  property  great 
improved  throughout.  The  estimated  value  of  the  mill,  in  itsprese 
improved  condition,  is  $6,000.  ]VIr.  Taylor  is  a  very  clever,  obligii 
young  man,  and  stands  very  high  in  business  and  social  circles. 

F.    M.    TRUBY. 

F.  M.  Truby,  machinist  and  miller,  was  born  in  Armstrong  count 
Pennsylvania,  April  27th,  1829.  He  is  the  son  of  Jacob  and  Catheri 
(nee  Mechling)  Truby.  He  lived  in  Pennsylvania  until  he  came 
Missouri,  sometime  about  the  year  1874.  He  first  settled  in  Midd 
Grove,  Monroe  county,  where  he  lived  four  years.  He  came  to  Stt 
geon  in  1879.  He  has  a  good  education,  having  received  special  i 
structions  in  his  line  of  business.  He  is  a  practical  machinist,  and  b 
applied  his  knowledge  and  skill  principally  to  milling  purposes.  I 
is  proprietor  of  the  Sturgeon  Mills.  Mr.  Truby  was  married  iu  185 
to  Rebecca  Cooper,  daughter  of  Ustacy  and  Mary  Ann  Cooper, 
Waynesville,  Ohio.      They  have  ten  living  children.     Their  nam 


HI8TOBT   OF   BOONE   COUNTT.  611 

ire  Katie,  Celesta,   Ustacy,  Romeo,  William,  Annie,   Osa,  Lillie, 
Wilber  and  Franklin.     Their  fourth  child,  Isbin,  is  dead. 

B.    p.    TUCKKR. 

B.F.  Tucker  was  born  in  Boone  coUnty,  Missouri,  September  23d, 
1834.  He  is  the  son  of  W.  W.  Tucker,  a  native  of  Virginia.  His 
mother  was  a  native  of  Kentucky.  Her  maiden  name  was  Woodruff. 
W.  W.  Tucker  is  the  father  of  sixteen  childi*en,  all  of  whom  are  living. 
They  are  all  the  children  of  one  mother.  B.  F.  Tucker  grew  up  to 
manhood  on  his  father's  farm,  in  Rocky  Fork  township,  removing  to 
Bourbon  when  twenty-one  years  of  age,  where  he  has  continuously 
resided  ever  since.  He  was  educated  at  the  common  schools  of  the 
county.  His  father  was  a  farmer,  and  the  son  was  brought  up  in  that 
line  of  business,  and  has  followed  agricultural  pursuits  all  his  life. 
He  was  married  December  12th,  1855,  to  Miss  Jeannette  H.,  daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Hannah  Fountain,  of  Bourbon  township.  They  had 
two  children  by  this  marriage,  William  Warren  and  Joseph  D. 
The  first  wife  dying,  Mr.  Tucker  was  again  married,  June  12th, 
1873,  to  Lucinda  E.,  daughter  of  James  and  Tabitha  Davenport, 
natives  of  Kentucky.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tucker  are  both  members  of 
the  Christian  church.  He  took  no  part  in  the  war.  His  fann  is 
pleasantly  situated  and  quite  productive.  By  industry,  -  prudence 
and  economy,  Mr.  Tucker  has  accumulated  considerable  property, 
nearly  all  of  which  is  the  result  of  his  own  individual  labor. 

A.    J.    TURNER. 

A.  J.  Turner  was  bom  in  Warren  county,  Kentucky,  September 
2,1831.  He  is  the  son  of  Andrew  and  Mary  (neeHairis)  Turner. 
He  came  to  Missouri  when  sevdn  years  old.  He  was  raised  in  Saling 
township,  Audrain  county,  three  miles  north  of  Sturgeon.  When 
eighteen  years  old  he  went  overland  to  California.  He  did  not  re- 
main in  the  mines  but  a  few  months,  returning  byway  of  Panama. 
He  was  four  months  at  sea  and  suffered  severely  from  sea-sickness. 
He  was  married  July  8,  1852,  to  Miss  Catherine,  daughter  of  Jesse 
and  Georgia  Vance,  natives  of  Kentucky.  They  have  four  children. 
Their  names  are  P.  H.,  Dora,  Mary,  and  Katie.  Dora  is  the  wife  of 
Dr.  J.  Keith,  of  Sturgeon.  Mr.  Turner  improved  and  sold  several 
forms  in  Audrain  county  previous  to  comino^  to  Sturgeon  in  1870. 
«ince  removing  to  town,  he  has  followed  no  particular  occupation^ 
He  came  to  Sturgeon  for  the  purpose  of  educating  his   children.     He 


612  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

is  au  earnest  advocate  of  popular  educatio^i.  He  says  the  or 
he  was  ever  beaten  for  an  oflSce  was  when  he  offered  for  scho 
tor.  It  was  when  the  law  required  but  one  director,  and 
known  to  be  in  favor  of  an  increased  levy  for  school  purpos 
has  been  a  member  of  the  city  council  for  about  ten  years.  ] 
Mrs.  Turner  are  both  members  of  the  Christian  church.  He 
Mason.  Mr.  Turner  is  a  kind-hearted,  quiet,  genial  man. 
comfortable  circumstances  and  takes  the  world  very  easy. 

SHERROD    W.    TURNER. 

Sherrod  W.  Turner,  cashier  of  the  Sturgeon  bank,  and  me 
the  firm  of  Rucker  &  Turner,  was  born  and  reared  in  Boone 
Missouri.  He  is  the  son  of  John  and  Virenda  H.  (Tucker) 
His  early  education  was  limited.  He  attended  the  common 
of  the  county,  and  afterwards  went  to  the  State  University,  at 
bia,  Mo.  He  taught  in  the  public  schools  for  about  five  years, 
attempt  at  teaching  being  in  the  capacity  of  assistant  in  the  5 
high  school.  He  went  to  the  Mound  City  Commercial  Coll 
Louis,  where  he  took  a  thorough  course,  including  commen 
He  graduated  from  this  institution  in  1869.  In  1870  he 
Texas  and  was  engaged  in  a  dry  goods  house  as  book-keeper 
year.  Returned  to  Sturgeon  in  1871,  and  was  employed  t 
keeper  and  salesman  by  Maj.  G.  F.  Rucker  until  1876,  wher 
came  a  partner  in  the  firm.  December,  1879,  he  became  cashi< 
Sturgeon  bank.  He  was  married,  November  12,  1871,  to  Mis 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  Roberts,  of  Boone  county.  They 
children.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Turner  are  both  members  of  the  C 
church.  He  is  a  Knight  Templar  and  a  member  of  the  Ord< 
O.  U.  W.  and  Knights  of  Honor.  Mr.  Turner  is  a  live  busin< 
and  has  been  very  successful  in  all  his  undertakings. 

W.    I.    WEBSTER. 

W.  I.  Webster,  compositor  in  the  Leader  office,  Sturgeo 
souri,  was  born  in  Randolph  county.  May  13,  1857.  He  is 
of  W.  P.  and  Elizabeth  (Coulter)  Webster.  He  was  born  an 
on  the  farm,  and  remained  on  the  homestead  until  he  was  < 
years  old,  when  he  removed  to  Macon  county,  Missouri,  ai 
there  to  Sturgeon,  where  he  entered  the  Leader  office  as  a  com 
Has  worked  at  the  trade  about  eight  years.  He  was  marrie 
ruary  12,  1882,  to  Maggie,  daughter  of  William  J.  McLone^ 


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HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  613 

ten's  a  good  workman  and  a  competent  newspaperman.     He 
mplates  starting  a  paper  of  his  own  in  the  near  future. 

WILLIAM^  H.    WELCH. 

id  B.  Welch,  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born 
larper's  Ferry,  Virginia.  He  came  to  Monroe  county,  Missouri, 
he  was  married,  afterwards  removing  to  Boone  county  about 
jar  1835.  He  settled  at  Old  Petersburg,  where  he  was  em- 
l  for  several  vears  as  a  teacher.  Was  also  a  shoemaker.  He 
it  Petersburg  about  seven  years.  The  subject  of  this  sketch 
)rn  in  Boone  county,  October  1,  1840.  His  mother's  maiden 
«vas  Kituria  Brink.  Mr.  Welch  has  been  a  citizen  of  Boone  all 
J,  except  while  absent  in  the  Confederate  army  and  in  Califor- 
He  has  been  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  for  about 
en  years.  He  spent  four  years  in  California.  Was  married, 
it  19,  1869,  to  Laura,  daughter  of  H.  H.  Jamison,  of  Pettis 
r,  Missouri.  They  have  four  children  living  and  four  dead, 
ring  are  Scott,  Annie,  Daniel  W.,  and  Serepta  Evellen.  Mr. 
enlisted  in  the  Confederate  army  under  Capt.  Ab.  Hicks,  of 
8  Division.  He  was  in  the  battles  of  Boonville,  Lone  Jack,  Car- 
Wilson's  Creek,  Dry  wood,  Lexington  and  Pea  Ridge.  He  also 
pated  in  the  fatal  assault  upon  Helena,  Arkansas,  and  was  in 
}  raid  in  1864.  Mr.  Welch  is  a  member  of  the  city  council,  also 
Sturgeon  Masonic  lodge.  He  is  of  Irish  and  German  origin. 
*ft  an  orphan  at  the  ago  of  seven,  and  from  early  boyhood  sup- 
and  educated  himself.  He  has  also  built  up  a  good  business 
own  individual,  unaided  exertions. 

JAMPS   T.  WHITE. 

es  T.  White,  farmer,  is  the  son  of  William  C.  White,  who  was 
1  1812,  and  came  to  Missouri  about  the  year  1822  and  settled 
irard  county,  where  he  remained  one  year,  finally  removing  to 
county  and  settling  on  a  farm  near  where  James  T.  White  now 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Boone  county,  March 
1838.  His  mother,  Luvicy  Lawrence,  was  a  native  of  Ken- 
Mr.  White  was  reared  on  the  farm,  and  has  always  followed 
3upation  of  a  farmer.  Was  a  soldier  in  the  Confederate  army,, 
first  a  member  of  Capt.  John  Bole's  company,  afterwards  with 
tone.  Was  at  Prairie  Grove,  Milliken's  Bend,  Gaines'  Landing, 
number  of  smaller  engagements.     He  served  three  years.     He 


614  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

and  his  brother-in-law  have  in  partnership  three  hundred  and  seventy- 
six  acres  of  land  and  devote  their  attention  to  farming  and  stock- 
raising.  When  Mr.  White  returned  home  from  the  war  fifty  dollars 
comprised  all  that  he  possessed  in  the  world.  He  now  owns,  in  addi- 
tion to  his  Boone  county  property,  a  stock  farm  in  Vernon  county, 
Missouri,  which  he  manages  in  connection  with  his  lands  in  Boone 
county. 

SAMUEL   NEWTON   WOODS. 

Samuel  Newton  Woods  was  born  in  Boone  county,  February  26th, 
1844.  He  is  the  son  of  Barnabas  S.  and  Martha  C.  (Copher)  Woods. 
Was  raised  on  the  farm  upon  which  he  now  resides,  and  which  hu 
always  been  his  home  except  while  absent  in  the  army,  or  while  cross- 
ing the  plains.  Was  absent  in  the  army  eighteen  months,  and  in 
crossing  the  plains  fifteen  months.  Was  sworn  into  the  Confederate 
service  by  Col.  Poindexter,  and  served  under  Col.  Dorsey.  Was  in 
several  engagements  in  Northern  Arkansas.  Was  only  seventeen 
years  old  when  he  joined  the  army.  Mr.  Woods  was  married,  Feb- 
ruary 8th,  1870,  to  Caroline  Boyd,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
(Seymour)  Boyd.  They  have  five  children,  Patrick  Seymour,  Wil- 
ford  Watson,  Lafayette  Gomer,  Ober  Kyle  and  Samuel  Boyd.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Woods  are  members  of  the  Baptist  church. 


CHAPTER    XVI. 

CEDAR    TOWNSHIP. 

Position  and  Description  —  Organization  —  Remarkable  Natural  Features  —  Cavei,  Mousds, 
etc.  —  Rockbridge  Mills  —  Minerals,  '*  Gold !  Gold !  "  —  Early  Settlers  and  Settlements- 
Incidents,  Peter  Ellis  and  the  Indians,  Joker  Jones — Tragedies  of  the  Civil  War— Kill- 
ing of  James  Harrington  and  others  —  Skirmish  at  Stonesport — Miscellaneous  Mftttert 
of  Interest — Country  Churches  —  The  Town  of  Ashland  —  Its  General  History  —  Stock 
Sales— The  *»Bugle"— Riot— Secret  Orders  — Churches  — The  Town  of  Providence- 
Nashville —  Stonesport — Biographies  of  Old  Settlers  and  Prominent  Citi^ns  of  C«dir 
Township. 

POSITION    AND    DESCRIPl^ION  —  ORGANIZATION. 

Cedar,  which  is  by  far  the  largest  muuicipal  township  in  thecouaty, 
embraces  all  that  portion  of  the  county  lying  south  of  Columbia 
township  and  east  of  the  Roche  Perche.     Its  northern  boundary  is 


BUBTOnr  OF  BOONE  COUNTY.  615 

same  as  the  line  north  of  congressional  township  47,  while  it  is 
M)iinded  on  the  east  by  Cedar  creek  (the  Callaway  county  line)  as  far 
Iowa  as  the  southeastern  corner  of  section  12,  of  congressional  town- 
ihip459  range  12,  from  which  point  south  to  the  Missouri  river  the 
mndary  is  the  range  line  on  the  east  of  said  congressional  township. 
rhe  Missouri  river  forms  the  southern  and  southwestern  boundary, 
lowing  in  an  almost  regular  outward  curve  from  the  mouth  of  the 
Socbe  Perche  to  the  Callaway  line.  Cedar  may  be  properly  said  to 
3mbrace  almost  a  little  kingdom  within  itself,  with  the  capital  at  Ash* 
and,  80  great  is  its  area  and  so  independent  the  character  of  its  citi- 
sens.  The  township  as  now  bounded  is  the  same  original  township 
jstablished  by  order  of  the  county  court  at  the  May  session  of  1821. 
rhe  record  as  quoted  from  Book  A.  of  the  first  county  court,  gives 
Jie  following :  **  The  court  then  proceeded  to  lay  off  the  county  into 
ownships,  and  to  establish  the  following  as  the  several  and  respective 
wundaries  thereof,  viz. :  1st  Township,  beginning  at  the  mouth  of 
he  Perche  creek,  thence  up  to  where  it  crosses  township  line  between 
ownship  47  and  48,  thence  east  with  the  township  line  to  the  eastern 
►ouudary  of  the  county,  thence  southward  with  the  said  boundary 
ine  to  the  Missouri  river,  thence  up  said  river  to  the  place  of  be^n- 
ing,  which  said  township  is  denominated  Cedar  township."  The 
3urt  held  its  session  at  Smithton,  and  was  presided  over  by  Peter 
i^right,  Lazarus  Wilcox  and  Anderson  Woods  as  justices.  The  same 
>urt  at  the  same  session  established  four  other  townships,  and 
•pointed  constables  for  each,  Thomas  S.  Tuttle  being  appointed  the 
St  constable  of  Cedar  township. 

Cedar  contains  two  entire,  and  six  fractional  congressional  town- 
ips,  and  has  about  182  whole  sections  and  40  fractional  sections  of 
Id.  Estimating  the  40  fractional  sections  at  an  average  of  20 
lole  ones,  gives  202  square  miles  of  640  acres  each.  This  gives  an 
tire  area  of  about  129,280  acres. 

TOPOGRAPHY,  NATURAL  FEATURES,  ETC. 

Along  the  eastern  side  of  Cedar  township,  the  Two-mile  Prairie 
tends  for  some  distance,  entering  it  from  the  north  and  running 
rallel  with  Cedar  creek  and  extending  down  nearly  opposite  Ashland 
the  east.  Most  of  the  country  around  Ashland  is  rolling,  with 
flScient  drainage  to  carry  off  all  surplus  water.  Farther  to  the  oast 
mg  Cedar  creek,  the  country  is  rough  and  broken,  and  in  some 
ices  affords  magnificent  scenery.     At  Duly's  mill,  on  Cedar  creek. 


616  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

where  the  stream  makes  a  great  bend  of  a  mile  or  more,  and  return 
within  about  50  feet  of  itself,  a  tunnel  was  cut  through  the  solid  lira^ 
stone  to  the  same  stream  opposite,  giving  a  fall  of  about  fifteen  feet 
and  saving  the  building  of  a  dam.  Little  Bonne  Femme  creek  rises 
in  the  southern  part  of  Columbia  township  and  flows  southwest  aud 
thence  southeast  in  a  kind  of  curve  through  the  western  part  of  Cedar 
into  the  Missouri  river.  The  face  of  the  country  along  this  stream  is 
rough  in  the  vicinity  of  Rockbridge  mills.  West  of  this  are  Perche 
creek  aud  Missouri  river  bottoms.  Of  course,  the  bluff  districts  along 
the  Missouri  are  rough  and  broken  as  they  are  everywhere  on  that 
great  stream.  The  finest  farming  country  is  in  the  central  and 
northern  portions,  and  the  Two-mile  Prairie. 

REMARKABLE    NATURAL   FEATURES THE    CAVE    AND    NATURAL    BRIDGE 

AT   ROCKBRIDGE   MILLS. 

This  natural  feature  is  located  a  quarter  of  a  mile  east  of  the  natural 
bridge,  on  the  farm  of  Mr.  D.  M.  Emmitt.  The  entire  country  io 
that  locality  is  honeycombed  with  "  sink-holes,"  and  the  cave  whose 
opening  fronts  east,  is  entered  b}^  going  down  into  one  of  these  sink- 
holes. The  entrance  is  large  enough  for  a  man  to  ride  in  on  horseback, 
though  there  is  no  evidence  that  anyone  ever  accomplished  that  feat. 
The  opening  is  about  ten  feet  high  by  fifteen  feet  wide,  and  though  it 
has  been  explored  to  some  distance,  no  terminus  has  ever  been  discor- 
ered.  Inside  is  a  stream  called  Cave  creek,  that  flows  wholly  under 
ground  from  northeast  to  southwest.  A  distance  of  some  200  yards 
can  be  penetrated  on  terra  firma,  when  it  then  becomes  necessary  to 
proceed  in  a  boat,  the  stream  in  some  places  being  ten  or  fifteen  feet 
deep.  It  has  its  stalagmites  and  its  stalactites,  its  compartments, 
rooms  and  passages,  all  that  goes  to  constitute  a  cave  of  real  inter- 
est. The  largest  apartment  known  is  about  200  yards  from  the 
mouth,  and  is  entered  by  a  passage  some  fifteen  feet  high,  which 
opens  out  into  a  room  about  twenty-five  feet  high  by  150x75  feet  in 
length  and  width.  One  gentleman,  who  explored  it  to  the  distance  of 
nearly  a  mile,  pronounces  the  passage  irregular,  but  not  difficult. 
Other  parties  claim  to  have  gone  in  far  enough  to  exhaust  four  miles 
of  guide  string  without  finding  any  terminus. 

bass's  cave. 

This  cave  is  also  on  Little  Bonne  Femme,  four  miles  from  Ashland> 
on  the  land  of  the  old  Bass  estate.     It  opens  about  ten  feet  above  tb« 


mSTOBT  OP  BOONE  COUNTY.  617 

I  bed,  and  the  mouth  is  large  enough  for  a  man  to  walk  in  erect» 
^  nine  feet  high  by  five  feet  wide.  It  penetrates  the  bluff  from 
re  it  opens  on  the  west,  running  back  east  to  a  distance  of  about 
yards.  It  has  several  compartments,  the  largest  of  which  is  the 
1  cavern,  dimensions  about  15x25x80  feet  in  height,  width  and 
th.  It  terminates  in  a  small  room  at  the  eastern  extremity,  and 
Fanning  through  it,  from  a  spring  in  the  interior,  a  stream  of  very 
water  which  flows  from  the  opening  into  the  creek  below.  This 
e  is  quite  famous  as  a  neighborhood  picnic  resort. 

QUILLAN'S   CAVE. 

n  the  farm  of  J.  B.  Quillan  there  is  a  peculiar  cave  utilized  by 
M  a  cellar.  The  location  of  the  cave  is  near  Mr.  Quillan's  resi- 
ce.  It  is  reached  by  descending  a  stairway  about  100  feet  in 
;th.  The  floor  of  the  cave  is  perhaps  forty  feet  from  the  surface, 
en  the  temperature  outside  is  100  degrees  it  is  only  50  degrees  in 
interior  of  the  cave.  Mr.  Quillan  makes  considerable  quantities 
mtter  and  stores  his  milk  in  the  cool  receptacle  so  nicely  provided 
lature. 

CAVE   ON    LICK   CREEK. 

here  is  also  a  cave  on  Lick  creek,  in  the  southeast  quarter  of  sec- 
18,  township  46,  range  11,  which  is  somewhat  peculiar.  The 
rture  is  cylindrical  in  form,  is  about  five  feet  in  diameter,  and  has 
appearance  of  a  hole  bored  with  a  huge  auger.  At  the  entrance 
whole  surface  of  the  walls  is  of  solid  rock,  but  further  inward 
floor  is  of  gravel.  It  has  never  been  fully  explored.  Its 
th  or  extent  is  unknown.  Foxes  have  been  chased  into  this 
),  pursued  by  dogs,  and  after  a  considerable  time  the  dogs  would 
)pear,  but  without  their  game. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

^n  the  southwest  quarter  of  section  16,  township  45,  range  12, 
"e  lies  a  huge  boulden  It  is  about  125  feet  in  length,  12  feet  high^ 
its  greatest  width  is  about  30  feet.  It  is  supposed  to  have  fallen 
n  the  bluff  or  ledge  near  by,  and  has  lain  in  its  present  position 
many  years. 

a  February,  1882,  Mr.  Benjamin  Wren  found  a  petrifaction  very 
3h  resembling  a  buffalo  horn,  sawed  off  at  the  base.  The  interior 
sents  a  flinty  appearance,  while  the  outside  resembles  limestone, 
^iniens  of  fossil  corals,  resembling  honeycomb,  mistaken  by  many 


€18  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

for  petrified  wasp  nests  or  houeycomb,  and  so  called,  have  been  picked 
lip  in  different  parts  of  the  township. 

Along  the  Missouri  river  are  scattered  many  mounds  of  the  sepul- 
chral class,  built  by  the  Mound  Builders  centuries  ago.  One  of  thwe 
mounds  was  opened  some  years  since,  and  in  the  interior  were  foudd 
fragments  of  human  bones,  charred  wood,  ashes,  and  a  fine  potteij 
pipe,  the  latter  well  and  handsomely  made,  and  in  a  perfect  state  of  pre- 
servation. The  archfleology  of  this  township  is  well  worth  study  anditf 
vestigation,  although  to  this  date  not  much  attention  has  been  given  to  it 

In  digging  a  well  near  Stonesport,  about  the  year  1860,  when  the 
workmen  had  reached  a  depth  of  some  twenty-two  feet  some  pieces  of 
ribs  belonging  to  a  prehistoric  animal,  resembling  a  mastodon,  were 
found.     They  were  about  24  inches  in  length  by  about  three  in  width. 

ROCKBRIDGE    MILLS. 

The  Rockbridge  mills,  situated  on  section  7,»township  47,  range  12, 
six  miles  straight  south  of  Columbia,  take  the  name  from  a  natural 
bridge  spanning  the  Little  Bonne  Femme  creek  at  the  place  where  the 
mills  are  located.  The  creek  sinks  into  the  ground  on  the  farm  of 
Alexander  Bradford,  about  three  miles  above  the  bridge,  and  emerges 
from  a  cave  about  fifty  feet  above  the  mill.  Here  it  passes  under  the 
natural  bridge  of  rock  about  100  feet  wide.  It  is  seventy  feet  from 
the  ground  to  the  top  of  the  bridge,  the  arch  of  which  is  fifteen  feet 
high  and  forty  feet  wide.  In  1876,  Mr.  Emmitt,  the  present  owner, 
built  a  stone  wall  across  the  side  of  the  rock  farthest  from  the  mill. 
The  mill  ^Yas  built  by  S.  Tuttle,  in  1822,  and  was  among  the  first  in  the 
county.  Tuttle  had  associated  with  him  other  gentlemen.  It  was 
built  of  logs,  and  the  next  year  broke  down  and  was  washed  away.  It 
was  rebuilt  by  Keyser  &  Co  ,  partly  of  logs  and  partly  framed,  and 
stood  thus  till  sold  to  James  McConathy,  in  1840.  He  made  addi- 
tions to  it,  and  changed  the  power  from  water  to  steam,  and  added 
a  distillery.  About  the  close  of  the  war  it  passed  into  the  hands  of 
Mr.  James  Emmitt,  of  Ohio,  who  still  owns^  the  property,  which  is 
occupied  by  his  son,  David  M.  Emmitt. 

CHIMNEY   ROCK. 

A  short  distance  above  the  residence  of  Mr.  Allen  Burnett  stands  a 
column  of  stone  known  in  the  locality  as  the  <<  chimney  rock."  It  is 
about  forty  feet  in  height,  is  nearly  cylindrical  in  form,  with  a  di- 
ameter of  about   ten  feet.      It   is  composed  of  what  seem  to  be  a 


HI8TOBT  OF  BOONE  COUNTT.  619 

• 

umber  of  small  stones    cemented  together,    bnt  it  is   really  one 
icky  the  small  stones  being  air-slacked  fragments  thereof.     The  col- 
mn  stands  almost  perpendicular,  and  on  the  whole  is  well  worth 
seing. 
MUceUaneotis.  —  On  the  farm  of  Mr.  Murphj  (s.  w.  1-45-13),  there 

I  a  very  large  cottonwood  tree,  measuring  at  the  base  39  feet  and  four 
icbes  in  circumference. 

Ou  the  farm  of  Mn  Crenshaw  (s.  w.  17-45-12),  there  ace  two  large- 
ized  elm  trees,  whose  bases  are  near  together,  and  one  of  which,  at 

II  angle  of  45^,  enters  the  other  at  a  height  of  about  ten  feet  from 
he  ground,  and  thus  the  two  form  one  trunk.  The  bases  are  about 
welve  feet  apart. 

On  the  same  farm  there  is  a  large  circular  sink  hole,  some  thirty  or 
}rt7  yards  in  diameter  and  ten  or  twelve  feet  deep.  There  is  another 
ink-hole  of  a  similar  dimension  on  the  farm  of  S.  B.  Bryant,  ad- 
3iii]ng. 

Not  far  north  of  Wilton  the  Missouri  river  has  recently  made  a 
reak  into  the  Bonne  Femme  creek.  There  are  really  two  of  these 
reaks,  which  are  some  distance  apai*t.  The  Bonne  Fefhme  now 
npties  into  the  river,  and  a  short  distance  below  the  river  runs  into 
OQue  Femme  again.  Large  quantities  of  earth  have  fallen  into  the 
ver  lately  in  the  neighborhood  of  Providence  and  down  the  river, 
id  considerable  injury  to  laud  has  resulted. 

MINERALS. 

No  paying  mines  of  any  kind  have  as  yet  been  opened  in  Cedar 
v^nship.  The  biggest  excitement  of  this  kind  is  one  of  recent  de- 
lopmeut.  Mr.  Robin  Parker,  of  Colorado,  who  was  spending  the 
nter  of  1881-82  in  Boone  county,  began  prospecting  for  the  precious 
jtals  in  Cedar  township.  He  claims  to  have  discovered  both  gold 
d  silver  on  the  farm  of  W.  A.  Barton,  near  Wilton.  A  company 
IS  formed,  called  the  Boone  County  Gold  Mining  Company,  which  be- 
n  operations  on  Monday,  May  8,  1882.  They  however  discovered 
)re  lead  than  either  of  the  precious  metals,  and  altered  their  operations 
3ordingly,  and  there  is  a  prospect  of  obtaining  lead  in  paying  quan- 
ies.  They  claim,  however,  to  have  found  gold,  and  a  fine  quality  of 
st  was  exhibited  at  Columbia,  said  to  have  come  from  the  Cedar  mine. 
Mr.  L.  L.  Lindsay  is  also  sinking  a  lead  shaft  on  his  place,  and  the 
lications  are  good.  No  coal  banks  have  as  yet  been  developed,  but 
e  indications  are  good  on  the  east  side  of  the  township. 


620  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

On  the  farn)  of  Wm.  M.  Jpnes,  that  gentleman  has  frequently 
picked  up,  after  a  heavy  washing  rain,  a  great  number  of  pieces  of 
lead,  which  some  have  thought  indicate  that  the  locality  was  once  the 
site  of  a  battle-field  ;  but  as  there  is  no  record,  or  even  tradition  of  a 
battle  in  this  section  in  which  bullets  were  used,  it  is  believed  bj 
others  that  the  pieces  found  indicate  the  presence  of  lead  in  consider- 
able quantities  beneath  the  surface. 

EARLY   SETTLERS. 

It  is  not  always  possible  to  get  at  the  facts  pertaining  to  earliest 
settlement,  especially  where  different  parties  claim  the  priority.  As 
far  as  can  be  correctly  ascertained  the  following  will  give  the  principal 
pioneer  settlements :  David  Rice  came  from  Kentucky  to  Boone 
county  in  1818,  and  settled  on  Bonne  Femme  creek,  six  miles  north- 
west of  where  Ashland  now  stands.  He  moved  over  on  the  river  in 
1835,  where  he  has  since  resided.  Tvre  Martin  and  the  Nichols 
brothers  also  came  at  an  early  day  and  settled  mostly  in  Cedar  town- 
ship. Martin  drove  the  first  covered  wagon  that  crossed  the  river  at 
St.  Charles.  John  Nichols  had  twenty-two  children,  and  thus  became 
the  progenitor  of  a  numerous  stock,  all  of  whom  are  said  to  be  pro- 
lific. Earlier  still,  in  1817,  it  is  claimed  that  Ira  P.  Nash,  James 
Adams,  Samuel  Buckalew,  William  Ramsey,  Hiram  Bryant,  Thomas 
Brooks  and  John  Herald  came  to  Boone  county  and  settled  in  several 
neighborhoods  in  Cedar  township.  Two  years  later  Daniel  Hubbard 
and  G.  B.  Sappington  settled  in  Cedar,  all  of  whom  were  there  prior 
to  the  admission  of  the  State  and,  of  course,  before  Cedar  was  laid 
oflT  into  a  township. 

Peter  Ellis  came  in  1818,  and  brought  the  second^  if  not  indeed  the 
firsts  k^el-boat  that  came  up  the  Missouri.  After  the  Ellises,  came 
the  Basses,  and  these  in  turn  were  followed  by  others  from  the  grand 
old  States  of  Virginia  and  Kentucky,  till  soon  after  Missouri's  admis- 
sion into  the  Union  Cedar  t6wnship  had  a  population  of  considerable 
numbers. 

In  the  general  history  department  of  this  volume,  Col.  Switzlerhas 
handled  the  pioneer  history  so  completely  that  further  mention  of  first 
comers  is  here  unnecessary. 

Rev.  Dr.  David  Doyle  was  also  a  pioneer,  and  was  the  first  resident 
physician  who  practiced  in  Cedar  township.  [See  biography.]  Itw 
uncertain  whether  he  or  Berryman  Wren  preached  the  first  sermon,  a* 
they  were  cotemporaneous,  and  the  honor  is  claimed  for  each.    Those 


HI8TOBT   or   BOONE   COUTNY.  621 


3laiin  the  priority  in  ministerial  labors  for  Rev.  Wren,  locate  the 
service  at  Goshen,  while  by  others  it  is  held  that  Dr.  Doyle's 
iBy  held  at  the  house  of  Anderson  Woods,  was  the  first,  the  dates 
ch  case  being  indefinite.  But,  however  that  may  be,  they  were 
worthy  men,  and  all  honor  is  due  them  for  their  God-fearing, 
loving  zeal. 

V.  Berryman  Wren  was  bom  in  Rutherford  county,  N.  C,  in 
He  came  to  Boone  county  in  1819,  and  was  licensed  to  preach 
21.  He  was  noted  as  a  very  earnest  and  zealous  minister  of  the 
3I,  and  *'  died  in  the  harness  "  September  19th,  1867,  after  a  brief 
IS.  His  wife,  Tabitha,  is  still  living,  at  the  age  of  87. 
nes  Beazley  came  from  Virginia  to  Boone  county  in  1828,  and 
id  on  section  30,  township  48,  range  13,  where  he  lived  till  his 
I,  in  1854.  Henry  Jefferson,  the  father-in-law  of  Beazley,  was 
a  Virginian,  and  came  to  Boone  in  1827.  He  located  on  the 
least  quarter  of  section  16,  township  47,  range  13.  Louis  Hume 
from  Madison  county,  Ky.,  in  1823,  and  settled  on  the  northeast 
er  of  section  5,  township  47,  range  13. 

ar  Claysville  were  Robert  P.  Carter,  who  came  from  Virginia 
lally,  and  from  Kentucky  to  Missouri  directly,  in  the  year  1829, 
settled  where  the  town  of  Claysville  now  stands.  Capt.  Wm. 
sey  made  his  advent  into  the  county  in  about  1825,  locating  a 
and  a  quarter  west  of  Claysville.  The  captain  was  probably 
'  commissioned  to  his  office,  but  won  his  spurs,  as  it  were,  by  be- 
great  and  successful  Indian  fighter.  Job  Murray,  a  Tennesseean, 
td  one  mile  east  of  Claysville,  in  1835  or  1836.  Greenberry 
ns  was  an  early  settler,  and  made  his  claim  on  the  Clardy  farm, 
e  first  marriages  in  this  neighborhood,  now  remembered,  were 
of  John  Marley  to  Maria  Toombs,  1827,  and  Mark  Sappington 
iphy  Ramsey,  in  1828.  As  early  as  1830  Dr.  David  Doyle  prac- 
his  profession  as  a  physician  in  the  community  and  preached  the 
il  on  Sabbath  days  whenever  convenient.  It  is  said  that  when  on 
ay  to  preaching  or  to  see  a  patient  he  would  always  carry  a  gun 
him  for  fear  of  Indians.  Probably  the  first  religious  services 
conducted  by  Dr.  Doyle,  although  Rev.  James  Suckett,  an  old 
st  minister  from  Kentucky,  preached  here  in  1838  and  a  claim  is 
that  Rev.  Berryman  Wren,  who  began  his  labors  in  the  vineyard 
30,  was  the  first  minister  in  the  community. 
e  first  school-house,  in  the  southern  part  of  the  township,  was 
about  1830.     It  stood  down  in  the  corner  of  the  county,  close  to 


622  HISTORY  OP   BOONE   COUNTT. 

the  Callaway  line,  on  section  25,  township  45,  range  12.  A  oitt 
named  Hayden  taught  the  first  school  the  same  year  the  house  wa» 
built.  He  had  twenty  or  more  scholars  and  was  paid  $2  per  montk 
per  scholar  for  his  services.  Mr.  Hayden  is  reported  to  have  died 
**  up  in  the  prairie  somewhere." 

P.  H.  Mellon  claims  to  have  put  up  the  first  store  in  Claysville,  in 
1845  or  1846.  He  was  probably  the  first  postmaster.  Claysville  hai 
for  a  long  time  been  a  steamboat  landing,  and  a  great  deal  of  freight 
has  been  received  and  shipped  from  time  to  time.  Robt.  P.  Carter, i 
native  of  Culpepper  county,  Va.,  who  came  to  Boone  in  1829,  first 
settled  where  Claysville  now  is,  and  kept  a  wood-yard  for  a  numberof 
years.     The  town  was  named  for  Henry  Clay. 

INCIDENTS,    REMINISCENCES,    ETC. 

When  Peter  Ellis,  Sr.,  lived  in  Cedar  in  early  times,  seven  In- 
dians came  to  his  house  either  on  a  plundering,  begging  or  stealing 
expedition,  one  or  all  being  given  to  whichever  of  the  above  weak- 
nesses that  circumstances  most  favored.  "  Boys,"  said  Mr.  Ellis 
to  his  sons,  '*  go  to  the  smoke-house,  corn-crib  and  tobacco-house, 
and  don't  let  'em  in."  Abe  went  to  the  meat-house,  and  posted 
himself  inside.  A  squaw  tried  to  force  her  way  in,  tempted  by 
the  thoufifht  of  the  well-cured  hams  hangino:  within.  Abe  tried  to 
**hold  her  out,"  but  she  pushed  him  in  and  entered.  He  pushed 
her  out  and  she  fell  backwards  over  the  door-sill,  which  made  all 
the  other  Indians  laugh.     They  went  off  without  doing  any  damage. 

Peter  Ellis  was  a  very  determined  old  man,  and  had  no  notion  of 
having  his  '*  truck  "  carried  off  by  loafing  Indians.  Abe  would 
have  been  rougher  in  keeping  out  the  squaw,  but  was  afraid  of  the 
Indians,  thinking  every  minute  his  father  might  do  or  say  sorae- 
thing  that  would  awaken  their  vengeance. 

JONES    THE   JOKER. 

Joseph  G.  Jones  is  a  historic  character,  in  the  sense  of  being  the 
*«  boss  joker"  of  Boone.  It  is  related  of  him  that  once,  when  a 
neighbor  came  to  his  house  and  ground  some  sausage,  Jones  told  him, 
while  there,  of  a  panther  that  had  been  prowling  around,  and  cau- 
tioned him  to  be  on  his  guard.  After  he  was  fully  away  from  the 
house,  returning  through  the  woods,  Jones  took  a  near  cut,  headed 
him  off  in  the  woods,  and  set  up  a  mock-panther  scream  that  caused 
the  hair  to  rise  on  his  scared  neighbor's  head,  who  dropped  his  bucket 


BISTORT  OF  BOONE   COUNTT.  62& 

sausage  and  ran  for  his  life.  Jones  took  the  sausage  home,  and,  to 
mplete  the  joke,  bfought  back  the  bucket,  scratched  up  as  though 
B'* varmint"  had  eaten  up  the  sausage  and  left  the  bucket  in  the 

X)d8. 

Oq  another  occasion  he  caught  a  pony  belonging  to  his  father  and 
inted  it  up.  The  old  gentleman  thought  he  discovered  a  stray  ani- 
d  on  his  place,  and  set  the  dogs  on  it  to  get  rid  of  it.  But  the 
my  came  back,  and  it  was  not  till  the  process  of  dogging  was  re- 
lated and  the  poor  brute  chased  nearly  to  death  that  the  delusion 
18  discovered. 

One  of  Jones'  neighbors  had  been  enterprising  enough  to  erect  a 
;htning  rod  on  his  premises.  Jones  was  not  to  be  outdone ;  so,  pro- 
ring  some  paw-paw  poles,  he  fastened  them  together  and  set  them 
by  his  chimney.  He  then  went  to  the  house  of  his  friend  who  had 
5  "sure-enough  *'  rod  on  his  house,  and  told  him  he  had  put  up  one 
his  plate.  Fearing  it  was  not  properly  adjusted,  he  urged  the  neigh- 
r  to  go  over  and  examine  it.  He  consented,  but  when  they  arrived 
I  he  saw  how  he  was  sold,  it  is  said  he  came  near  taking  satisfac- 
1  out  of  Jones'  hide. 

L  favorite  prank  of  the  joker  was  to  palm  off  on  people  not  well 
ted  some  buzzard  eggs,  and  induce  them  to  hatch  them  out  as  the 
8  of  a  fowl  of  very  fine  breed. 

TRAGEDIES   OF  THE   CIVIL   WAR. 

ruling  of  James  Harrington,  —  September  3,  1864,  a  company  for 
Confederate  service  was  being  recruited  in  this  township.  Informa- 
of  the  fact  was  conveyed  to  the  Federal  military  post  at  Fayette, 
Captain  Rives  Leonard,  of  the  9th  Cavalry,  M.  S.  M.,  was  sent  out 
I  a  detachment  to  capture  or  disperse  the  Confederates.  At  Colum- 
he  was  joined  by  a  detachment  of  Captain  Carey's  company  of  the 
H.  S.  M.     Making  his  way  into  the  township.  Captain   Leonard 
hed  Rockbridge  mills.     Here  some  of  his  men  broke  into  McCona- 
8  distillery  and  got  drunk.    From  the  mills  the  command  marched 
;he  residence   of  Mrs.  Edwards,  near  Nashville  church.     On  the 
I  from  the  mills  to  Mrs.  Edwards'   Leonard's  men  overtook  Mr. 
les  BLarrington,  a  citizen  of  the  township,  and  shot  and  killed  him. 
Federals  claimed  that  as  soon  as  Mr.  Harrington  saw  them  he  ran 
refused  to  obey  the  command  to  halt ;  that  he  was  chased   some 
ance  and  fired  at  several  times,  but  would  not  stop,  and  at  last  re- 
ed the  fatal  bullet.     Captain  Leonard  further  represented  that  he 


624  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

took  Mr.  Harrington  and  some  others  of  his  neighbors  with  whom  he 
was  in  company  to  be  a  portion  of  the  Confedefate  command  he  wu 
expecting  every  minute  to  encounter,  and  that  their  conduct  in  pre- 
cipitately retreating  confirmed  him  in  his  belief.  The  truth  was,  Mr. 
Harrington,  although  a  strong  Southern  man,  was  not  a  Confederate. 
He  was  a  very  exemplary  gentleman  and  a  universally  respected  citi- 
zen. Whether  killed  by  accident  or  design,  his  death  was  greatly  to 
be  deplored.  Leonard's  men  committed  serious  outnigeson  this  raid. 
They  caught  Mr.  Wm.  Grooms,  who  was  riding  along  the  road,  and, 
taking  him  for  a  bushwhacker,  as  they  said,  hung  him  up  to  a  tree, 
but  he  was  rescued  before  he  was  seriously  injured.  At  Mrs.  Ed- 
wards' several  citizens  were  attending  a  public  sale.  Of  these  Samuel 
Olds,  Benjamin  F.  Orear,  Bradford  Lanhorn,  and  J.  S.  B.  Douglass 
were  made  prisoners  and  cruelly  maltreated,  being  beaten  over  the 
head  with  muskets  and  knocked  about  with  great  brutality.  The  pris- 
oners were  not  carried  away. 

Afterward  Captain  Leonard  came  upon  the  Confederates  and  had  a 
short  but  sharp  skirmish  with  them.  Some  men  were  wounded  on 
both  sides,  but  nobody  killed.  The  Confederates,  being  mdiffereutly 
armed,  and  generally  without  experience,  were  soon  completely  routed 
and  driven  away  in  great  confusion.  After  the  skirmish  the  Federals 
returned  to  Fayette  by  way  of  Columbia. 

In  1863  a  company  of  Federal  cavalry  from  Jefferson  City  raided 
the  lower  portion  of  this  township.  They  were  commanded  by  an 
oflScer  remembered  as  Capt.  White.  This  company  visited  the  resi- 
dence of  Wm.  T.  Nevin,  a  returned  Confederate  soldier,  near  Bur- 
lington. Nevin  was  taken  out  and  shot,  his  house  burned,  and  many 
articles  of  his  personal  property  carried  away.  His  father  was  made 
prisoner,  as  was  Mr.  John  Sappington.  Other  citizens  of  the  ueigh- 
V)orhood  were  also  arrested.  The  Federals  claimed  that  Nevin  was  a 
notorious  bushwhacker,  and  that  his  house  was  a  rendezvous  for  bush- 
whackers, guerillas,  thieves,  and  robbers. 

In  1863,  near  the  northeast  corner  of  the  township,  in  Callaway 
county,  but  near  the  Boone  line,  and  near  the  Columbia  line  also,  John 
Trigg  was  shot  by  some  of  the  Ninth  M.  S.  M.  He  was  in  a  camp  of 
Confederates  that  were  routed  that  morning  by  the  militia,  who  were 
led  by  Gen.  Guitar.     The  skirmish  is  noted  elsewhere. 

In  the  year  1864,  John  C.  McCall,  a  Confederate,  was  shot  by  Ste- 
phen O'Connor,  at  a  point  about  four  miles  south  of  Ashland. 

In  the  fall  of  1864,  Ellington  Ford,  said  to  have  been  a  peaceful cit- 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  625 

reputable  man,  was  shot  by  a  soldier  belonging  to  Capt. 
[upany  of  Federals.^  The  killing  was  done  by  the  roadside, 
as  known,  was  wholly  unprovoked  and  unextenuated, 
agio  episodes  during  the  war  were  the  shooting  of  Tilman 
Union  man,  by  the  bushwhackers,  and  the  killing  of  a  rob- 
ttempted  to  rob  P.  H.  Mellon,  Esq.  The  latter  shot  the 
md  killed  him  instantly. 

le  1st  of  September,  18*64,  Mr.  Franklin  Harris  wasreturn- 
from  Providence,  when,  in  a  secluded  place  on  the  road,  he 
and  fired  on  from  the  brush,  a  ball  taking  effect  in  his  neck 
g  a  dangerous  wound. 

A  at  Stoneaport^  Cedar  Township,  —  About  10  o'clock  on 
)f  May  22,  1862,  information  was  received  at  Claysville  by 
r,  near  which  place  he  was  then  camped,  with  a  detachment 
ment,  that  a  party  of  Confederates  were  crossing  the  river 
louth  of  Bonne  Ferarae  creek.  Preparations  were  at  once 
ircumvent  and  capture  them.  Three  squads,  one  led  by 
lard,  one  by  Lieut.  McKinsey,  and  a  third  by  Qo\.  Guitar 
accompanied  by  Lieuts.  Ross  and  Kemper,  marched  by  dif- 
;es  to  the  objective  point.  About  daylight  the  Confederate 
surprised,  and  the  men  fled  in  every  direction,  throwing 
kets,  guns,  and  what  else  might  impede  their,  flight.  In  the 
)ol.  Guitar  and  his  men  captured  eight  men  and  nine  horses. 
3  captured  was  D.  B.  Cunningham,  who  was  armed  with  a 

MISCELLANEOUS . 

b  brick  building  in  Cedar  township  was  put  up  by  Perry 
1839,  on  the  southwest  quarter  of  section  26,  township  46, 
It  is  still  standing,  and  is  occupied  by  his  son.  A  fine 
ling  house  was  put  up  by  P.  H.  Mellon,  Esq.,  about  half  a 
'  Claysville,  some  time  between  1855  and  1860.  It  is  a  fine 
and  cost  several  thousand  dollars. 

-Mr.  Whitfield  (s.  e.  2-46-12)  has  in  his  possession  a  watch 
•8  evidence  of  having  been  manufactured  in  the  year  1616, 
:ha  Wren,  widow  of  the  pioneer  preacher,  Berryman  Wren, 
er  which  she  purchased  in  1804,  and  several  other  interest- 
Mrs.  S.  A.  Carter  (s.  e.  14-45-12)  has  a  queensware  pepper- 
►ne  hundred  years  old.     It  has  a  hole  in  the  |>ottom  in  which 


to  have  been  a  company  of  the  3d  M.  S.  M.,  on  a  hunt  for  horses. 


626  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

to  put  the  pepper,  and  this  hole  is  stopped  with  a  cork.  The  top  is 
not  removable,  but  perforations  are  made  therein  through  which  the 
pepper  is  sifted  as  wanted. 

When  Dr.  Robert  Martin  had  just  returned  from  a  medical  college 
with  his  "sheepskin,"  a  waggish  farmer  sent  for  him  in  great  haste 
to  come  and  set  *'  a  broken  leg."  Arriving  at  the  farmer's  house, the 
doctor  found  that  the  l)roken  limb  belonged  to  a  deer-hound.  Not 
disconcerted,  he  set  to  work,  reduced  the  fracture,  did  a  good  job,  and 
the  animal  was  soon  well  again.  The  farmer  laughed  right  heartily  it 
the  young  doctor  for  a  time,  but  a  few^days  thereafter  Dr.  Martin  pre- 
sented and  collected  his  bill  for  his  services,  amounting  to  $50.  Then 
the  doctor  laughed  ! 

The  first  steamboat  that  came  up  the  Missouri  with  a  steam  whistle 
attached  blew  its  loudest,  most  discordant  notes  at  a  point  opposite 
the  lower  part  of  Cedar  township.  An  old  pioneer  who  heard  the 
fearful  noise  called  out  to  his  wife  :  *'  Old  woman,  hurry  up  and  wash 
and  dress  the  children  —  quick  !  That  was  sartinly  old  Gabriel,  tootin' 
his  horn  !     Git  ready  —  git  ready  !  " 

About  ten  years  ago  a  small  dog,  belonging  to  L.  P.  Jones,  was  ac- 
cidentally shut  up  in  Mt.  Pleasant  church,  where  it  remained  without 
food  or  drink  for  one  month,  lacking  two  days.  Upon  being  released, 
it  was  fed,  and  soon  after  died. 

In  early  days  the  Cedar  township  small  boys,  now  old  men,  bearded 
and  gray,  frequently  indulged  in  the  sport  of  rolling  rocks  from  the  top 
of  the  bluffs  down  into  the  river.  Sometimes  a  sharp-pointed  rock  would 
strike  a  tree,  and  the  point  would  be  broken  off  in  the  tree.  In  process 
of  time  the  fragments  w^ould  be  overgrown,  and  it  is  said  that  there  is 
manv  a  tree  alon<r  the  foot  of  the  bluffs  with  a  stone  imbeddedin  it. 

Remarkable  Men, — Mr.  Loyd  Austin,  who  resides  on  section  10, 
towniship  47,  range  13,  is  doubtless  the  oldest  living  person  born  in 
Cedar  township.  Mr.  Austin  is  sixty-three  years  of  age,  having  been 
oorn  in  1819.  Jonathan  Nichols  (n.  e.  14-46-12)  is  reported  as  pos- 
sessing two  peculiarities.  He  is  an  old  bachelor,  and  is  always  to  be 
found  at  home,  although  a  stout,  active  old  man.  Living  less  than 
two  miles  from  Ashland,  he  has  not  been  to  that  town  for  twelve  years, 
and  he  never  saw  a  railroad  in  his  life.  Mr.  Leopard,  of  Claysville, 
exhibits  wonderful  skill  as  a  wood-carver.  He  is  a  native  of  Boone 
county,  and  a  shoemaker  by  trade.  Quite  a  number  of  canes  made 
and  carved  by  him  are  to  be  found  throughout  the  county.  Eev.  Sam- 
uel Ott,  who  came  to  Boone  county  with  his  father  in  1826,  has  been 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  627 

larried  four  times,  and  is  the  father  of  seventeen  children.  His  last 
wrriage  was  in  March,  1882.  Mr.  Ott  is  sixty-five  years  of  age.  A& 
adicated,  he  is  a  minister  of  the  gospel,  and  obeys  literally  the  com« 
oand  to  **  multiply  and  replenish." 

While  the  representative  of  the  publishers  of  this  volume  was  at  hia 
vork  of  collecting  historical  facts  for  the  history  of  this  township,  he 
requently  stopped  and  consulted  a  township  map  which  he  carried 
fith  him.  In  the  neighborhood  southeast  of  Ashland  he  was  ob- 
jenred  to  have  frequent  recourse  to  his  map,  and  was  seen  poring  over 
tin  divers  odd  places.  A  report  was  current  that  "  the  man  with 
[he  map  "  was  none  other  than  Frank  James,  the  noted  bandit,  figur- 
ing and  mapping  out  a  predatory  campaign  !  The  same  representa- 
tive sought  a  second  interview  with  S.  W.  Warren,  to  re-obtain  some 
information  which  had  been  lost,  but,  owing  to  certain  pressing  busi- 
ms  engagements  of  Mr.  Warren,  an  interview  was  wholly  impractica- 
ible  at  the  time. 

Dr.  J.  T.  Rothwell,  now  of  Ashland,  claims  to  have  been  the  first 
merchant  at  Burlington.  He  occupied  the  store-room  now  owned  and 
jsed  by  J.  W.  Taggart. 

Suicides.  — Among  those  who  deemed  life  a  burden  too  grievous  to 
)e  borne,  and  who  have  disregarded  the  canon  of  the  Almighty 
gainst  self-slaughter,  may  be  mentioned  Samuel  Walkup,  who  hung 
imself  near  Burlington,  in  the  year  1879,  and  Mrs.  Anna  Perkins, 
rife  of  Michael  Perkins,  who  threw  herself  into  Bonne  Femme  creek, 
year  so  after  Walkup  died,  and  was  drowned.  It  is  alleged  that 
ianderous  reports,  circulated  by  her  neighbors  against  her  character, 
orked  upon  Mrs.  Perkins'  feelings  and  so  affected  her  mind  that  she 
ecame  distracted,  and,  while  in  this  condition,  she  took  her  own 
fe. 

COUNTRY    CHURCHES  —  NASHVILLE    BAPTIST    CHURCH. 

The  historian  stands  indebted  to  John  M.  Edwards,  clerk  of  the 
ashville  church,  for  the  facts  appearing  in  this  outline. 

The  local  name  and  dencmiination  is  the  *'  United  Baptist  Church 
f  Nashville,"  and  it  is  situated  in  section  26,  township  47,  range  13. 
lore  exact  dates  of  this  church  have  been  secured  than  of  most  any 
ther.  It  was  organized  April  22d,  1834,  and  the  first  church  build- 
ag  was  erected  in  1845,  and  was  a  log  edifice,  which  answered  the 
ongregation  for  a  meetino:-house  for  several  vears.  The  charter 
nembers  of  this  church  were  :  James  Cunningham  and  Susan,  his  wife  ; 
John  H.  and  Lydia  Baker ;  Willis  Baker ;.  Robert  and  Catherine  Bar- 


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628  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

uett ;  Gilpin  and  Sarah  Tuttle  ;  Stephen  and  Winna  Jackson  ;  James 
and  Margaret  Dunn  ;  Catherine  A.  Dunn  (now  wife  of  Israel  Winfrey, 
and  the  only  sui-viving  original  member)  ;  Jacob  and  Frances  Kuy- 
kendall,  and  Maria,  a  negro  slave  of  James  Cunningham.  Id  1871, 
the  present  house  was  built,  a  frame  structure,  which  cost  $1,500. 
Elder  H.  Wright  preached  the  first  sermon,  and  the  following  have 
served  the  church  as  pastors  :  John  Grunhalds,  Wm.  H.  Duvall,S.  H. 
Ford,  P.  H.  Steinberger,  John  M.  Black,  George  D.  Todd, 
J.  M.  Robinson,  J.  T.  M.  Johnston,  J.  M.  Robinson  (again 
from  '63  to  '65),  W'.  J.  Patrick,  J.  M.  Robinson  (again  ia 
'67),  William  Clark,  Jas.  C.  Woody,  John  M.  Willis,  Wm. 
R.  Wigginton  and  John  Palmer,  the  latter  being  the  present  pastor 
in  chaise.  This  church  has  a  flourishing  membership  of  about  160 
communicants.  After  the  organization,  and  prior  to  the  erection  of 
a  church  house,  the  members  and  pastors  met  for  worship  at  private 
houses,  the  neighbors  being  always  ready  and  willing,  and  always  felt 
honored  when  '*  meetin' '  *  was  held  at  their  house.  From  such  a  nucleus 
has  sprung  the  now  prosperous  and  successful  church  of  Nashville. 
[See  history  of  defunct  village  of  Nashville.] 

RICHLAND  CHAPEL    ( METHODIST). 

The  exact  date  of  organization  has  not  been  obtained,  but  it  was 
sometime  in  the  semi-decade  of  1845  to  1850,  J.  H.  GriflSn,  Rebecca 
Griflin,  Alex.  Grindstaff  and  wife,  Thomas  Britt,  Mar/ Britt,  David 
Coonrod  and  wife,  James  Beel  and  wife,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Vandiver,  Mrs. 
Sarah  Vandiver  and  Sam  Couts  were  among  the  original  members. 
The  first  church-house  used  by  this  congregation  was  a  frame  building 
erected  in  1855,  near  Burlington,  at  a  cost  of  between  $400  and  $500. 
The  present  building  was  built  in  Burlington  (section  2,  township 
45,  range  13),  and  cost  $1,000.  It  is  a  framed  house,  but  ample  for 
the  requirements  of  a  house  of  God,  seating  and  sheltering  comfortably 
all  who  come  there  to  worship.  The  present  membership  numbers 
about  90.  Among  the  worthy  names  of  God-fearing  men,  who  have 
preached  to  this  congregation  and  served  Richland  Church  as  pastors, 
are  the  following:  George  Rich,  A.  P.  Linn,  Rev.  Cope,  B.  F.  John- 
son, William  Penn,  Joseph  Dines,  John  Bell,  William  Jordan,  Thomp- 
son Penn,  Robert  Jordan,  Thomas  De  Moss,  William  Sartor,  D.N. 
Epperson,  J.  F.  Monroe,  L.  A.  Smith,  Robert  White,  W.  T.  Elling- 
ton, C.  W.  Collett,  S.  L.  Woody,  J.  F.  Shores  and  H.  D.  Graves. 
Many  have  been  the  "  protracted  meetings  "  held  at  this  church,  and 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  629 

aany  "  outpourings  "  of  the  Divine  Spirit  have  here  gladdened  the 
icarts  of  old  veterans  in  the  army  of  the  Lord. 

GOSHEN    (baptist)    CHURCH. 

This  church  represents  a  body  of  Old  School  Baptists,  and  is  situate 
OB  section  26,  township  46,  ran«^e  18,  in  the  municipal  precinct  of 
Cedar.  As  nearly  as  has  been  ascertained,  it  was  organized  in  about 
1830,  with  Berry  Wren  and  wife,  Isaac  Wilcoxen  and  wife,  Perry 
fencer  and  wife,  Richard  Fnlkerson  and  wife,  Samuel  Wilcoxen  and 

wife,  David  Ott,  Sr.,  and  wife  and  Tumblestone  and  wife  as 

original  members.  The  first  church-house  was  built  the  same  vear  of 
its  organization,  but  of  what  material,  or  at  what  cost,  has  not  been 
ascertained.  The  present  structure  wjis  built  in  1874-75,  and  cost 
about  $1,600.     Berry  Wren  served  here  as  preacher  in  charge  till  his 

death.     He  was  succeeded  by Musteen,  and  he  by  Frank  Jenkins. 

Martin  Doty,  Howard  Jackson,  and  G.  M.  Thompson  followed  in  turn 
till  the  present.  This  church  belongs  to  the  Bonne  Femme  Associa- 
tion, and  claims  a  round  membership  of  110  communicants.  The 
number  of  her  members  is  good  evidence  of  the  fact  that  this,  too,  is 
a  prospeivius  church,  and  is  doubtless  bearing  the  colors  of  Emanuel 
valiantly  in  this  mundane  struggle  for  celestial  felicity. 

BETHEL  CHURCH  (MISSIONARY  BAPTIST) 

Is  located  on  section  1,  township  47,  range  13,  on  the  road 
from  Columbia  to  Providence.  The  organization  is  now  about 
27  years  old,  the  date  of  its  organization  being  May  9th,  1855. 
The  original  members  were  J.  T.  M.  Johnston,  Minerva  T. 
Johnston,  J.  S.  Johnston,  Pauline  Johnston,  J.  M.  Willis,  Electa 
Willis,  Eliza  K.  Johnston,  Mary  A.  Boatright,  Wm.  Harrington, 
Elizabeth  Harrington,  Lycurgus  P.  Hickam,  Cornelia  A.  Hickam, 
Thomas  Rucker  and  14  or  15  others.  The  present  church-house  is 
the  one  first  built  and  was  erected  in  October,  1857,  at  a  cost  of 
♦l»500.  Rev.  J.  M.  Robinson  was  the  minister  who  dedicated  the 
church  to  the  service  of  God.  The  names  of  pastors,  that  have  served 
thechurch,  are  the  following:  Rev.  H.  H.  Buckner,  in  1856;  J.  T. 
M.Johnston,  1857-8-9-60 ;  J.  T.  Williams,  1862-3;  J.  M.  Robinson, 
1864-5;  J.  T.  M.  Johnston,  1866-7-8;  Mathan  Ayers,  1869-70;  J. 
T.  M.  Johnston,  1871 ;  J.  S.  Dingle,  1872-3 ;  E.  S.  Dulin,  1874  ;  W. 
K.  Wigcrinton,  1875-6;  G.  L.  Black,  1877-8;  J.  M.  McGuire,  1879- 
80-1-2.     The  ground  on  >vhich  this  church  stands  was  donated  for 


630  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   OOUMTT. 

that  purpose  by  the  Rev.  J.  T.  M.  Johnston  who  served  the 
tion  there  for  so  many  years.     Rev.  David  Doyle  was  choam 
ator  in  the  constitution  on  the  day  on  which  it  was  adopted  and 
lished.     Meetings  are  held  every  third  Saturday  and  Sunday  ia 
month.     At  this  writing  the  membership  is  thirty-six,  and  the 
is  in  good  working  condition. 

NEW   SALEM   BAPTIST   CHUHCH. 

A  detailed  history  of  this  church,  containing  biographical 

of  many  of  its  members  and  pastors,  has  already  been  written  bj 

F.  G.  Sitton,  and  published  complete  in  the  Ashland  Bu^. 

history  alluded  to  is  much  fuller  and  more  complete  than  canbegH 

space  in  this  volume;  but  from  the  sketch  kindly  furnished  by 

Sitton,  the  historian  condenses,  and  gives  the  following  facts: 

*•  The  Baptist  church  of  Jesus  Christ,  at  New  Salem,  was  oi 

on  the  2d  Saturday  in  November,  1828,  at  the  house  of  Tyre 

by  a  Presbytery  composed  of  Elders  Greenlaugh  and  David  Doyhi] 

The  members  had  a  joint  letter  of  dismissal  from  Little  Bonne  Feail] 

church  for  that  purpose.      The  following  named  persons  entered 

the  organization  :  Shadrach  Wren,  Mosias  Jones,  Isaac  Bates, 

Nichols,  Jesse  Nichols,  Foster  Sappington,  Joseph  Green,  TyreMtt-l 

tin,  S.  B.  Sappington,  Joseph  Peak,  Green  B.  Sappington,  Samid 

Wilcoxen,  Squire  Burgam,  Foster  Martin,  Robert  Jones,  Isaac  WO- 

coxen,  Perry  Spencer,  Jane  Bates,  Elizabeth  Wren,  Isabel  Nicholfl, 

Elizabeth  Peak,  Susan  Nichols,  Elizabeth  Sappington,  Rachel  Martin, 

Nancy    Sappington,  Mary  Burnam,  Rebecca    Sappington,  Elizabeth 

Jones,  Malinda   Nichols,  Milly  Wilcoxen,   Rebecca  Wilcoxen,  Jane 

Griggs,  Mary  Green,  Mourning  Martin,  Elvira  Sappington,  andJItfJ 

Wilcox." 

Dr.  David  Doyle  was  chosen  first  pastor  in  December,  1828,  anc 
served  the  church  faithfully  many  years,  assisted,  after  becoming  olc 
and  infirm,  bv  Eld.  M.  M.  Modiset.  In  1852,  Rev.  B.  B.  Black  wii 
ealled  to  the  ministerial  labors  of  this  congregation  and  served  om 
year.  He  had  been  preceded  by  a  gentleman  of  the  same  name.  Be? 
John  M.  Black,  who  served  the  church  in  1849-50.  Other  pastor 
who  have  served  this  church  were  W.  H.  Burnham,  S.  H.  Fordin< 

Noah  Flood. 

The  first  church  was  finished  late  in  1830,  and  was  erected  onto 
obtained  from  Peter  Bass,  northeast  quarter  of  section  3,  townshi: 
4(),  rano-e  12,  west.     The  original  edifice  was  a  small  brick' building 


HISTORY   OP   BOOHE   COUNTT,  631 

and  cost  $335.29,  besides  labor  and  materials  donated  by  the  brethren. 
This  was  enlarged  in  18i8  to  suitthe  demands  for  room  occasioned  by 
the  growth  oT  the  congregation  in  nnmbers.  It  was  done  by  taking 
down  the  side  walls  and  making  it  wider.  This  answered  till  1877, 
when  the  present  building,  a.  large  and  elegant  frame,  was  finished  at 
a  total  cost  of  $1,860.85,  and  dedicated  by  the  Rev.  Pope  Yeaman, 
D.D.  Twenty-two  members  were  granted  a  joint  tetter  of  dismissal 
in  September,  1858,  for  the  purpose  of  forming  the  Mount  Pleasant 
church,  and  in  March,  1879,  thirty-five  were  granted  the  same  to  form 
the  Atfhiand  clmrch.  [See  history  of  those  churches].  Prior  to  the 
war,  New  Salem  had  a  number  of  colored  members,  who  were  always 
uni>rofitable,  and  more  so  after  emancipation.  In  1866,  the  church 
took  action  on  the  case  under  a  aeries  of  resolutions  introduced  by 
George  Hnbbard,  and  set  them  off  into  a  separate  congregation  called 
the  African  church  of  New  Salem. 

New  Salem  church  has  been  called  the  *'  mother  of  preachers," 
having  sent  five  young  preachers  into  the  ministry  and  ordained  three. 
The  aggregate  memberHhip  is  api)roximately  one  thousand.  The 
greatest  attained  at  any  <ine  time  was  in  1859,  when  the  church  roll 
showed  a  membership  of  470.  Since  then  there  has  been  a  decrease, 
by  death,  removal,  dismissal  and  forming  new  congregations,  New 
Salem  being  the  mother  of  churches  as  well  as  of  preachers.  With 
this  succinct  outline  this  sketch  must  be  closed,  though  material  is  at 
hand  for  one  much  fuller  did  the  nature  of  this  publication  permit. 

UTTLE    BONNE    FEMME    BAPTIST    CHURCH 

Is  ](R'aled  in  the  southern  part  of  section  3,  township  47,  nuige  12 
(Cedar  Township),  and  is  one  of  the  oldest  churches  in  the  State,  hav- 
ing been  organized  in  Dccemlier,  1820,  before  Missouri  was  a  State, 
A  detail  of  the  long  and  useful  existence  of  this  church  and  all  the  in- 
cidents connected  with  so  remarkable  an  institution  can  not  be  given 
here  ;  l)ut  a  more  condensed  sketch  will  have  to  suffice.  The  original 
members  were  David  Doyle,  Anderson  Woods,  Elizabeth  Woods, 
James  Harris,  Mourning  Harris,  Polly  Harris,  Elizabeth  Kennon, 
John  Maupin,  Elias  Elston,  Matthew  Haley,  John  Tuttle,  Lazarus 
Wilcox,  Lucy  Wilcox,  James  Wiseman,  Thomas  S.  and  Nancy  Tuttle. 
The  first  house  was,  of  course,  a  log  building,  and  was  built  in  1819, 
before  tlier©  was  a  formal  organization  of  the  church.  The  prenent 
structure,  is  a  substantial  bnck  bouse,  and  was  erected  in  1843  at  a 
■cost  of  about  two  thousand  dullurs,     The  niiuios  of  pastors  that  have 


632  HI8TOBT  OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 

served  the  body  of  worshippers  at  Little  Bonne  Femme  are  David 
Doyle,  Anderson  Woods,  Robert  S^  Thomas,  James  Suggett,  S.  E 
Ford,  Noah  Flood,  M.  Modiset,  T.  C.  Harris,  J.  M.  Robinson,  John 
T.  Williams,  J.  T.  M.  Johnston,  G.  L.  Black,  J.  M.  McGuire,  N.8. 
Johnston.  The  present  membership  is  given  at  80  souls,  though,  of 
course,  that  number  is  subject  to  constant  increase  or  diminution.  The 
church,  so  far  as  can  be  learned,  is  in  fine  working  order  and  repre- 
sents an  harmonious  brotherhood,  all  working  with  an  eye  single  to 
.  the  glory  of  the  Master. 

MOUNT   PLEASANT    (UNITED   BAPTIST)    CHURCH 

Was  first  organized  on  the  first  Saturday  in  June,  1858,  by  the 
Rev.  P.  H.  Steamberger,  who  also  became  its  first  pastor.  The 
original  members  were  Mosias  Jones,  Sr.,  Mosias  Jones,  Jr.,  Joseph 
Jones,  Tyre  Jones,  Isabelle  Slate,  Euphamy  Sappington,  and  other 
members,  numbering  twenty-three  hi  all.  They  erected  their  church, 
which  still  serves  as  a  place  of  meeting,  in  1861.  It  is  a  frame  build- 
ing and  cost  about  $800  besides  labor  and  material  donated  by  mem- 
bers. There  was  never  any  formal  dedication  services  held,  but  by 
mutual  consent  was  devoted,  when  finished,  entirely  to  thOsService  of 
the  Lord.  P.  H.  Steamberger,  James  H.  Tuttle,  J.  T.  M.Johnston, 
William  Clark,  A.  H.  Wright,  G.  L.  Black,  T.  B.  Nunelly ,  and  J.  S. 
Parmer  have  served  the  church  as  pastors. 

BURLINGTON    (BAPTIST)    CHURCH 

Is  located  in  the  town  of  Burlington,  and  was  organized  in  1873,  with 
Thomas  Tuttle  and  wife,  James  Roddy  and  wife,  Mrs.  Sallie  Porter, 
Mrs.  G.  W.  Coonce,  and  Fayette  Shull.  It  is  a  frame  church,  and 
cost  between  $700  and  $800.  It  was  dedicated  by  Rev.  J.  S.  Parmer, 
Hampton  Wright  and  William  Clark  having  served  it  as  pastors— the 
first  mentioned  being  the  present  preacher  in  charge.  The  member- 
ship was  never  very  large,  numbering  at  this  writing  not  exceeding 
fifteen.  They  have  services  the  first  Saturday  and  Sunday  of  each 
month. 

SOME   SCHOOL   HOUSES. 

Christian  School  House  is  situated  on  the  southwest  quarter  of  sec* 
tion  27,  township  46,  range  12.  The  site  was  donated  by  David  Chris- 
tian. The  first  house  was  of  logs,  and  was  built  by  the  citizens  about 
1846.  The  present  building  is  a  frame,  and  was  built  three  or  four 
years  ago,  at  a  cost  of  $700. 


HI8TOBT  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  633 

Clardy  School  Houw  is  located  on  the  northwest  quarter  of  section 
12,  township  45,  range  12.  It  is-a  log  building,  and  was  erected  in 
1869,  being  built  bj  contributions  from  the  citizens  in  labor  and  mate- 
rial. An  average  of  six  months  of  school  is  taught ;  teacher's  wages, 
$35  per  month  ;  average  attendance  per  diem,  20. 

Jones  School  House  was  built  about  twelve  years  ago  by  the  citi- 
xens.  School  is  taught  half  the  year,  the  average  daily  attendance 
being  about  30. 


TOWN  OF  ASHLAND. 

This  beautiful  little  inland  city  is  located  in  one  of  the  finest  agri- 
cultural sections  of  Boone  county,  or  even  the  State  of  Missouri,  for 
that  matter.  Its  immediate  situation  is  on  the  line  between  sections 
10  and  15,  of  township  46,  range  12,  the  forest  lying  on  the  north, 
west  and  south,  the  Two-Mile  Prairie  stretching  up  to  the  town  limits 
00  the  east.  The  country  round  is  beautifully  undulating,  and  no 
stranger  can  visit  Ashland  without  being  impressed  with  the  fact  that 
it  would  be  a  good  place  to  live.  The  first  house  in  the  town  was  built 
by  Peter  Nichols,  on  the  lot  now  occupied  by  the  residence  of  Mr. 
Christian.  D.  M.  and  A.  M.  Burnam  erected  the  first  store-house  in 
January,  1853,  on  what  is  now  known  as  '*  Farmers'  Corner."  The 
Bumams  occupied  the  building  on  its  completion,  placing  therein  a 
general  merchandise  stock.  In  the  fall  of  the  same  year  a  business 
house  was  built  by  P.  E.  and  Wm.  A.  Nichols,  on  the  site  where 
Keen's  restaurant  now  stands.  Other  houses  were  soon  added,  and 
4e  place  began  to  take  on  the  appearance  of  a  village.  For  some 
'ears  it  continued  to  grow  and  flourish,  the  fine  farming  country  adja- 
^nt  demanding  just  such  a  market  as  Ashland  afibrded.  It  was  not 
n  May,  1877,  however,  that  the  town  was  incorporated  as  a  city  of 
te  fourth  class.  The  first  board  of  trustees  were  Eli  Penter,  J.  W. 
Iannis,  W.  T.  Nichols,  John  G.  Wiseman,  A.  G.  Payne  —  Wiseman 
^ing  the  chairman.  R.  C.  Bowman  had  the  honor  of  being  the  first 
by  marshal.  The  first  sidewalk  in  the  town  was  built  in  1880.  A 
rge  mill  was  erected  in  1877,  with  **  five  run  of  stone  "  and  a  grind- 
g  capacity  of  one  hundred  barrels  per  day,  the  flour  being  made  by 
itent  process.  These  mills  are  owned  by  the  Ashland  Mill  Company, 
id  cost  over  $20,000.  The  Farmers'  Bank  was  incorporated  and 
immenced  business  August  3d,  1881.  The  directors  were  Abner 
Aitin,  J.  W.  Johnston,  R.  E.  Sappingtou,  H.  T.Wright,  Peter  Ellis, 


€34  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTr. 

Sr.,  O.  B.  Thomas  and  Eli  Penter,  the  latter  being  elected  president, 
and  Edward  L.  Dimmitt  chosen  cashier.  The  city  board  at  this  time 
presents  the  following  names :  Eli  Penter,  chairman ;  T.  W.  Peck, 
treasurer ;  W.  R.  Hopper,  marshal ;  D.  L.  McBride,  B.  P.  Matthews, 
T.  G.  Tuttle,  J.  T.  Rothwell,  trustees,  and  W.  J.  Warren,  city 
assessor. 

At  the  town  election  in  April,  1882,  the  citizens  voted  an  appropria- 
tion of  $3,000  for  improving  the  streets. 

The  school  building,  a  two-story  frame  edifice,  was  erected  in  1859 
by  a  company  incorporated  as  the  Ashland  High  School  Association. 
It  was  purchased  by  the  district  in  1871,  and  devoted  to  public  school 
purposes.  They  employ  two  teachers,  the  principal  at  this  writing 
being  Prof.  Buckmaster.  The  town  also  has  a  colored  school,  with  an 
attendance  of  about  fifty  pupils.  The  town  now  has  a  population  of 
about  five  hundred,  as  it  has  grown  since  the  census  was  taken  in 
1880. 

Ashland  has  two  hotels,  a  livery,  feed  and  sale  stable,  and  several 
restaurants,  thus  securing  entertainment  and  comfort  for  man  and 
beast.  The  situation  of  the  town  generally,  and  on  the  gravel  road 
from  Columbia  to  Claysville  specially,  gives  it  a  commercial  prestige 
enjoyed  by  few  inland  towns  of  its  size.  Her-shops  and  stores  are 
therefore  thrifty,  and  her  citizens  of  a  hardy  class,  most  of  her  busi- 
ness men  having  come  from  the  agricultural  element  originally,  and 
possessed  of  that  sturdhiess  that  usually  characterizes  such  a  class. 
Her  professional  men,  numbering  two  lawyers  and  several  physicians, 
are  as  enterprising  and  successful  as  her  merchants.  The  various 
churches  and  lodges,  of  which  Ashland  has  several,  are  historically 
outlined  in  the  sketches  given  hereafter.  One  of  the  chief  enterprises 
of  this  enterprising  town  is  the  well-known  and  far-famed 

ASHLAND    STOCK    SALES, 

A  term  used  to  signify  a  periodical  convocation  of  live  stock  dealers 
at  Ashland,  to  buy  and  sell  and  "•  trade  "  horses,  mules,  cattle,  etc. 
These  stock  sales  had  their  origin  and  conception  in  the  fertile  brains 
of  W.  H.  Bass  and  J.  W.  Johnston,  who  may  properly  be  said  to 
father  the  enterprise.  In  the  fall  of  1881,  a  company,  called  the 
"Boone  County  Stock  Sales  Company,"  was  formed,  with  W.  H. 
Bass  as  superintendent  and  J.  W.  Johnston,  secretary.  The  other 
members  of  the  board  of  directors  were  O.  B.  Thomas,  George  M. 
Nichols,  George  Arnold,   Peter  Ellis,  W.  H.  Thompson,  Alex.  Brad- 


HISTOBT  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  635 

ord,  W.  S.  Burnett,  Thomas  L.  Bass  and  W.  S.  Maupin,  with  B.  S. 
fartin  as  treasurer.  The  first  notices  of  sales  were  issued  for  No- 
vember 5,  I88I9  and  have  taken  place  regularly  once  a  month  since 
hat  time.  The  sale  lots  are  located  just  noith  of  the  buildings  on 
he  north  side  of  the  principal  street,  and  are  so  systematically  ar- 
anged  as  to  be  a  model  of  convenience  in  handling  stock  before  and 
ifter  selling.  Mr.  W.  H.  Bass,  one  of  the  originators  of  this  scheme, 
ras  so  kind  as  to  take  the  historian  all  through  these  yards  and  ex- 
)laiD  their  utility  and  convenience.  Buyers  and  sellers  come  from 
)ther  counties  in  Central  Missouri  to  attend  these  sales,  and  much 
aluable  property  of  the  kind  changes  hands  at  every  sale.  The  sell- 
Qg  is  done  principally  by  auction  or  outcry,  Col.  Worley,  of  Columbia, 
leiug  the  official  auctioneer. 

ASHLAND    BUOLE. 

The  only  paper  published  in  the  place  is  a  Democratic  weekly, 
iilled  the  Ashland  Bugle^  edited  by  James  L.  Wilcox,  who  has  issued 
^  as  a  weekly  since  April  13,  1877.  It  was  originally  a  monthly, 
)unded  by  Eli  Penter  and  J.  W.  Johnston,  who  began  its  publica- 
on  chiefly  as  an  advertising  medium,  in  1875.     [See  biography  of 

L.  Wilcox/] 

ASHLAND    RIOT. 

One  of  the  historic  reminiscences  of  the  usually  peaceable  town  of 
ihland  is  what  is  known  as  the  ''Ashland  riot,"  which  occurred 
ere  on  election  day,  November  the  4th,  1878.  About  four  o'clock 
M.,  the  streets  were  filled  with  negroes,  many  of  whom  were  noisy 
d  turbulent,  from  having  imbibed  too  freely  of  bad  liquor  that  al- 
ys  flows  too  freely  on  election  days.  The  deputy  marshal  ordered 
jm  to  keep  quiet,  when  one  of  the  ''  nigs  '*  replied  with  a  most  insult- 
r  epithet,  which  naturally  raised  the  anger  of  the  officer,  who,  of 
irse,  seemed  inclined  to  resent.  Both  negroes  and  whites  became 
rolved  in  the  quarrel  from  this,  and  both  sides  armed  themselves 
lost  of  them  probably  already  supplied),  in  anticipation  of  trouble. 
ic  conflict  soon  became  general,  and  a  negro  named  Harris  is  said 
have  fired  the  first  shot,  though  the  confusion  was  so  great  and 
8  excitement  so  intense  that  it  is  not  certain  as  to  who  burnt  the 
8t  powder.  But  it  is  certainly  known  that,  for  a  short  space  of 
DC,  the  air  was  filled  with  flying  rocks  and  whistling  bullets  ;  and, 
range  as  it  may  seem,  no  one  killed  or  indeed  very  seriously  hurt, 
ough  several  casualties  of  a   minor  sort  occurred.     The  Ashland 


636  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Bugle ^  in  its  next  issue,  makes  mention  of  the  following:  i\m 
Harris  (colored)  was  shot  in  hip,  and  also  received  a  scalp  woimd. 
Alex.  Bass  (colored),  wounded  in  breast  by  pistol  shot.  Lowsoa 
Grey  (colored,  and  reported  to  be  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  riot)^ 
shot  through  the  hand  and  in  the  back.  A  stray  shot  grazed  the 
cheek  of  a  daughter  of  Dr.  R.  S.  Martin,  who  was  standing  in  her 
father's  yard,  listening  to  the  band  when  the  riot  began. 


SECRET  ORDEKS  —  MASONIC  LODGE. 

Ashland  lodge,  No.  156,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  was  instituted  May  Ist, 
1858,  the  dispensation  bearing  date  of  May  28th,  1859.  F.  G.  Sitton 
was  the  first  master,  and  the  other  charter  members  were  P.  J.  Ruff- 
ner,  E.  M.  Bass,  J.  S.  Strode,  Wm.  H.  Harris,  John  Grant,  J.  S. 
Winterbower,  D.  L.  Sitton,  R.  S.  Martin,  H.  M.  Strode,  Then. 
Brooks  and  J.  B.  Patten.  The  present  officers  are  H.  T.  Wright, 
W.  M. ;  A.  P.  Nichols,  S.  W. ;  John  W.  Sterne,  J.  W.  ;  E.  Penter, 
treasurer ;  W.  P.  Boqua,  secretary ;  H.  S.  Baxter,  S.  D. ;  William 
Crane,  J.  D.  The  present  membership  numbers  ninety-three  and  i* 
increased  from  time  to  time  by  acquisitions  of  new  members,  the  lodge 
being  in  a  growing  condition.  They  have  a  neat  frame  hall  that  cost 
$800,  and  the  affairs  of  the  order  are  in  good  shape. 

ANCIENT  ORDER  UNITED  WORKMEN. 

The  Ashland  Lodge  of  A.  O.  U.  W.  No.  192,  was  instituted  by  O.J. 
Miller,  the  date  of  charter  being  June  26,  1880.     The  charter  members 
were  J.  W.  Johnston,  W.  R.  Hopper,  H.  T.  Wright,  John  T.  Rothwell, 
W.  R.  Stone,  H.  S.  Baxter,  Jas  T.  Mays,  B.  P.  Matthews,  Joe  Bauman, 
S.  H.  Whitfield,  A.  J.  Harrington,  E.  R.  Westbrook,  W.  H.  Bass,  B. 
W.  Sapp,  J.  A.  Gates,  E.  M.  Bass,  W.  H.  Callaway,  H.  W.  Whipple, 
W.  P.  Boqua,  M.  D.  Matthews  and  Wm.  S.  Peak.     The  following 
gentlemen  were  the  first  oflScers :  H.  T.  Wright,  P.  M.  W. ;  W.  P- 
Boqua,  M.  W. ;  W.  T.  Lemon,  G.  F.  ;  S.  H.  Whitfield,  overseer;  W. 
J.  Warren,  recorder  ;  W.  R  Hopper,  financier  ;  Joe  Bauman,  recorder •^ 
Eli  Nichols,  guard  ;  J.  A.  Kerr,  inside  watchman  ;  William  Blackburn, 
outside  watchman.     The  number  of  present  membership  is  36.    They 
own,  as  yet,  no  hall  of  their  own,  but  use  a  rented  room.     Mr.  H.  T. 
Wriofht  is  deleo^ate  to  the  Grand  Lod«:e. 

CO  o 

PATRONS    OF   HUSBANDRY. 

•  _ 

The  Ashland  Grange,  No.  533,  P.  of  H.,   was  instituted  by  J.  B- 


HI8T0BT  or  BOONE   COUNTY.  637 

dell,  district  deputy,  and  the  date  of  their  dispensation  was  July 
1873,  their  charter  being  dated  Decenber  23, 1873.  A.  G.  Payne, 
esForbis,  James  W.  Edwards,  R.  V.  Burnett,  Milton  Forbis,  E. 
Bass,  J.  6.  Jones,  A.  6.  Martin,  R.  T.  Bass,  R.  £.  Sappington. 
).  Wilcox,  Mrs.  Mary  J.  Martin,  Mrs.  Julia  M.  Bass  and  ten  others 
e  the  original  and  charter  members.  The  first  officers  were  as  fol- 
s:  Master,  A.  G.  Payne  ;  overseer,  J.  G.  Jones ;  chaplain,  W.  T. 
ters;  steward,  J.  H.  Sappingtou  ;  assistant  steward,  R.  T*  Bass  ; 
isurer,  James  Edwards  ;  secretary,  R.  E.  Sappington  ;  lecturer,  E. 
Bass ;  gate  keeper,  J.  C.  Wilcox.  The  present  officers  are :  Mas- 
J.  G.  Jones;  overseer,  S.  H.  Whitfield;  lecturer,  R.  V. Burnett; 
rard,  J.  H.  Sappington  ;  assistant  steward,  Eli  Winterbower ; 
plain,  William  Coons;  treasurer,  T.  Christian;  secretary,  G.  D. 
pington  ;  gate  keeper,  J.  H.  Nichols  ;  Pomona,  Mary  B.  Sapping- 
;  Ceres,  Susan  E.  Bager ;  lady  assistant  steward,  Celestine  Guil- 
.    The   grange   at  this  writing   numbers  a  membership  of  fifty. 

7  use  a  rented  hall,  having  never  built  a  room  in  which  to  meet. 

ASHLAND   BAPTIST   CHURCH. 

8  indicated  by  its  name,  this  church  is  situated  in  the  town  of 
land,  its  immediate  location  being  lot  No.  1  of  block  No.  2 
idway  Street.  The  date  of  its  organization  was  April  19,  1879, 
it  forty  members  being  named  on  its  charter  roll.  The  church, 
:h  is  a  neat  and  commodious  frame  building,  was  erected  in  1880, 
cost  of  about  twenty-five  hundred  dollars.  It  was  dedicated  by 
Rev.  Joseph  C.  Maple,  in  November,  1881.  The  names  of  the 
ors  are  Jonathan  M.  McGuire,  who  served  the  church  a  short 
8  after  it  was  constituted,  and  Rev.  E.  D.  Isbell,  D.  D.,  who  suc- 
led  Rev.  McGuire,  and  is  still  the  preacher  in  charge  at  this 
ing.  The  present  membership  numbers  seventy,  and  the  church 
fair  to  be  a  power  for  good  in  the  community. 

M.    E.    CHURCH    (south) 

organized  in  1854,  the  names  of  original  members  being 
BS*  Roberts,  Sr.,  Thomas  H.  Roberts,  Lawrence  Bass,  Edwin 
,  Eli  M.  Bass,  W.  C.  Maupin,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  J.  Maupin,  George 
Dennis,  Lewis  Percell,  Jacob  Morris,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Dennis,  Mrs. 
is  Percell,  Whitley  Madden,  Mary  F.  Martin,  and  William  T. 
itt.  The  first  church  building  was  a  frame  structure  erected  the 
)  year  after  the  church  was  organized.     The  present  building  was 


638  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

finished  in  1875,  and  is  also  a  frame,  the  cost  of  which  was 
hundred  dollars.  It  was  dedicated  in  1876  by  John  D.  Vincil,  D.  D. 
The  present  pastor  is  Rev.  H.  D.  Groves.  George  W.  Rich,  A.  P. 
Linn,  William  Penn  and  Samuel  W.  Cope  were  connected  with  the 
organization  of  this  church.  The  historian  was  not  furnished  with 
sufficient  statistics  from  which  to  make  out  a  complete  history  of  the 
church,  but  has  done  the  best  he  could  with  the  matter  at  hand. 

CHRISTIAN   CHURCH. 

This  church  was  organized  April  20,  1881.  The  elegant  new  church 
house  is  a  frame  structure  erected  in  January,  1882,  at  a  cost  of  twenty- 
five  hundred  dollars,  and  was  dedicated  the  same  month  by  Rev.  C. 
H.  Hardin,  of  Mexico,  Missouri.  Rev.  O.  A.  Carr,  the  present 
preacher  in  charge,  is  the  first  and  only  pastor  the  church  has  yet  had. 
The  particular  aim  of  Elder  Carr  and  his  congregation  is  the  restora- 
tion of  Apostolic  Christianity  in  faith  and  practice,  with  no  creed  but 
that  '*  Jesus  is  the  Christ,  the  son  of  the  living  God,*'  and  theBibleas 
the  only  rule  of  faith  and  guide  of  action.  The  present  membership 
numbers  fifty-two.  Nothing  is  required  as  a  test  of  fellowship  but 
what  the  New  Testament  enjoins  as  necessary  to  pardon. 


PROVIDENCE. 


This  village,  which  is  situated  on  the  Missouri,  in  section  20,  of 
township  47,  range  13,  now  contains  several  buildings,  though,  of 
course,  is  unincorporated.  The  first  building  erected  there  is  the 
house  now  occupied  by  Dr.  Riggs,  and  was  built  in  1844,  by  John 
Parker,  who  put  it  up  for  a  residence.  The  next  house  was  a  store, 
built  and  occupied  by  Dr.  Riggs,  the  same  year,  on  the  site  now  occu- 
pied by  Tuttle  &  Connelly.  It  was  destroyed  by  fire,  and  replaced 
by  the  present  building.  James  Wood  next  erected  a  stone  store, 
and  then  came  a  saloon,  on  the  site  of  the  present  one.  Other  build- 
ings soon  followed,  and  Providence  became  a  village  and  post-office. 
G.  S.  Tuttle  served  as  postmaster  many  years,  and  doled  out  the  mail 
to  the  good  people  of  Providence.  At  this  time  the  place  boasts  of 
two  general  merchandise  (Tuttle  &  Conley  and  R.  A.  Roddy  &Co.)» 
one  drug  store  (R.  A.  R.  &  Co.),  and  one  grocery  and  liquor  house 
(Frank  Austeel).  Bradford  Lanham  is  the  general  mechanic  and  un- 
dertaker, and  Robert  Nivens  plies  the  **  art  of  Vulcan." 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  68^ 


NASHVILLE. 


One  among  the  first  towns  projected  within  the  present  limits  of 
Boone  county  was  laid  out  in  1819,  just  below  the  present  site  of 
Providence  on  a  tract  of  land  owned  bv  Ira  P.  Nash,  an  eccentric 
genius,  who  lived  in  that  vicinity  for  many  years,  frftm  whom  it  was 
named '•Nashville."  In  1820  Nashville  contained  a  tobacco  ware- 
house, kept  by  James  Harris  and  Abraham  J.  Williams,  a  post-office 
and  several  other  buildings.  It  at  that  time  promised  to  be  one  of  the 
largest  shipping  points  on  the  Missouri,  and  grew  to  be  a  place  of  some 
enterprise,  when  the  treacherous  river  swept  it  away . 

Old  Ira  P.  Nash  was  indeed  an  eccentric  genius,  as  stated.  He  was 
quite  wealthy,  and  it  is  said  did  many  a  generous  deed.  He  was  pug- 
nacious and  would  fight  on  small  provocations.  At  an  early  day  he 
was  tried  in  the  Boone  County  Circuit  Court  for  fighting  a  duel.  He 
was  convicted  and  fined  $100.  He  was  among  the  very  first  slave 
owners  in  Boone  County  to  manumit  certain  of  his  slaves.  (See  also 
general  history,  pp.  147,  148). 


STONESPORT. 


This  is  another  of  the  defunct  villages  that  once  had  ''  great  expec- 
^tions."  Its  site  is  a  little  over  a  mile  above  Claysville,  on  the  Mis- 
souri river,  and  it  was  laid  out  in  1836,  by  Asa  Stone  and  William 
^msey,  Peter  Wright  doing  the  surveying.  Mr.  Mark  Sappington 
5  authority  for  the  statement  that  Mat  West  was  the  first  merchant 
t  Stonesport,  and  was  thefe  in  1830.  At  one  time  Stonesport  stood 
j^ood  show  of  being  selected  as  the  capital  of  the  great  State  ot  Mis- 
Ouri,  but  the  committee  chose  Jefferson  instead. 


BIOGRAPHIES. 
FRANCIS    AUSTEEL. 

Joseph  Austeel,  father  of  Francis,  was  a  native  of  Canada,  and  of 
'rench  origin.  His  mother,  Mary  Grindstaff,  was  a  native  of  Ken- 
ucky,  but  a  resident  of  Boone  county,  Missouri,  at  the  time  of  her 
aarriage.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  near  Burlington,  in 
)edar  township,  July  31,  1840.     He  is  the  oldest  of  a  family  of  six 


640  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

sons  and  five  daughters,  of  whom  three  sons  and  four  daughters  are 
living,  all  in  Boone  county.  Mr.  Austeel  was  reared  in  Boone  countj, 
with  the  exception  of  a  few  years  spent  in  Saline  county,  Missouri. 
In  1866  he  went  into  business  at  Providence,  a  small  village  on  the 
Missouri  river,  situated  in  the  upper  corner  of  Cedar  township,  deal- 
ing in  groceries  and  liquors,  in  which  business  he  is  still  engaged. 
Part  of  the  time  he  has  conducted  a  farm  in  connection  with  his  other 
business.  He  was  married  in  Boone  county,  December  29 ,  1867,  to 
Miss  Fannie  E.,  daughter  of  David  Tooley,  native  of  Illinois,  but 
more  recently  of  Cooper  county,  Missouri.  They  have  had  three 
sons  and  two  daughters.  Two  of  their  sons  are  dead.  In  1864  he 
enlisted  in  Captain  Webb's  company,  of  Colonel  R.  C.  Bradshaw's 
regiment,  the  44th  Missouri  Infantry.  He  took  part  in  the  battle  of 
Franklin,  Tennessee,  and  was  at  Nashville,  Spanish  Fort  and  Mobile. 
He  served  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  was  corporal  of  Corapany 
E,  dunng  this  campaign. 

WILLIAM    BALDRID6E. 

Robert  Baldridge,  the  father  of  William,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky, 
but  left  that  state  with  his  parents  when  but  five  years  old.  They 
came  to  St.  Charles  county  in  1795.  The  father  of  William  was 
married  in  1809  to  Miss  Margaret  Rybalt,  a  native  of  Kentucky.  Robert 
Baldridge  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.  He  died  December  Sd, 
1865.  Mrs.  Baldridge  died  in  Boone  county.  May  16th,  1878.  Will- 
iam was  the  sixth  son  and  eighth  child  of  a  family  of  seven  boys  and 
five  girls,  of  whom  three  sons  and  two  daughters  are  now  living.  One 
sister,  Mrs.  0*Neil,  lives  in  Boone  county.  William  Baldridge  was 
born  in  St.  Charles  county,  Missouri,  February  26th,  1827.  He  re- 
mained on  his  father's  farm  until  he  was  eighteen  years  old,  when  he 
came  to  Boone  county.  He  farmed  for  two  years,  then  entered  the 
shop  of  John  Batterton,  where  he  learned  the  carpenter's  trade.  After 
three  years'  apprenticeship,  he  commenced  work  for  himself,  and  con- 
tinned  the  business  until  1854.  In  1855  he  bought  a  farm  on  Dry 
Ridge,  which  he  cultivated  until  1865.  He  sold  the  place  in  1868 
and  removed  to  the  farm  where  he  now  lives,  seven  miles  northwestof 
Ashland.  Mr.  Baldridge  was  married,  November  30th,  1854,  to  Miss 
Louisa  J.  Dickey,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  but  a  resident  of  Boone  coun- 
ty. They  have  five  sons  and  four  daughters,  all  of  whom,  except  one 
son,  are  living.  In  the  winter  of  1862,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  en- 
listed in  the  Confederate  service,  but  did  not  go  South  until  the  sumnaer 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  641 

[863.  He  was  a  member  of  Capt.  Twist's  company,  Dorsey's  bat- 
on and  Hindmaii's  division.  On  the  retreat  from  the  Prairie  Grove 
tie,  Mr.  Baldridge  was  captured  by  the  enemy  and  taken  to  Spring- 
d  and  from  there  to  Gratiot  street  prison,  St.  Louis.  He  was  after- 
rds  sent  to  City  Point,  Virginia,  for  exchange,  which  was  effected 
Qe7th,  1863.  Mr.  Baldridge  at  once  reported  to  his  battalion  at 
kadelphia.  He  was  detailed  to  remain  at  this  post  with  the  sick, 
iviiig  been  transferred  to  Young's  battalion,  he  was  sent  by  Gen. 
elby  to  Boone  county,  for  the  purpose  of  recruiting  a  company. 
!  afterwards  joined  Mitchell's  brigade,  becoming  a  member  of 
ircy's  battalion  of  sharp-shooters.  He  remained  with  this  com- 
nd  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Nashville 
ptist  church,  also  of  the  Nashville  grange. 

JOHN    GASPER    BARGER. 

Henry  Brown  Barger,  the  father  of  John,  was  born  near  Sparta, 
5St  Tennessee,  June  12, 1803,  and  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
1819.  He  was  married,  February  26, 1826,  to  Phoebe  Wilfley.  He 
i  January,  1872.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  October  2, 
8.  Moved  from  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  to  Atchison  county 
1858,  where  he  lived  for  seven  years,  moving  next  to  Moniteau 
nty  where  he  staid  for  two  years,  then  to  Boone  where  he  has  lived 
r  since.  He  was  raised  on  the  farm,  but  learned  the  carpenter's 
le.  Farming  is  now  his  chief  occupation.  Was  married,  Decem- 
25,  1855,  to  Miss  Harriet,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Sarah  Barger. 
3  child  was  born  of  this  marriage,  Sarah  Jane,  now  dead.  Was 
Tied  the  second  time,  March  28,  1858,  to  Miss  P.  A.  Roads,  ' 
ghter  of  Thomas  and  Nancy  Roads.  She  died  April  23,  1864. 
ee  children  were  bom  of  this  marriage,  two  of  whom  are  now  liv- 
.  Harriet  Ann,  and  John  William.  Mr.  Barger  was  married  the 
d  time,  March  11,  1866,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  S.,  daughter  of  Jesse 
Jane  (Wilfley)  Nichols.  They  have  no  children  by  this  marriage, 
and  Mrs.  Barger  are  both  members  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Mt. 
isant.  They  are  also  members  of  the  grange,  of  which  he  was 
ter  for  two  years.  Mr.  Barger  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  lodge 
Lshland.  He  makes  a  specialty  of  growing  all  kinds  of  fruits.  He 
first  to  introduce  the  English  gooseberry,  and  has  paid  as  high  as 
le  dollars  for  a  single  pear  tree.  He  has  about  two  hundred 
le  trees,  and  four  hundred  peach  trees,  and  small  fruits  almost 
lOut  number.  His  farm  is  situated  in  the  northeast  quarter  sec- 
41 


642  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

tion  33,  township  46,    range    12.     He  possesses  a  relic  of  the 
century,  a  die  and  bolt  for  cutting  wooden  screws,  which  his  father 
brought  from  Tennessee  in  1819. 

ELIAS    BARNES. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Benjamin  Barnes,  a  native 
of  Kentucky,  and,  with  one  exception,  the  only  citizen  of  Boone, 
now  living,  who  came  to  this  county  in  1817.  He  is  now  eighty-five 
vears  old.  The  mother  of  Elias  Barnes  was  Lucretia  Simms,  who 
came  to  Missouri  when  a  child.  Elias  was  born  June  15,  1839.  He 
was  the  seventh  son  and  tenth  child  of  his  father's  family.  He  was 
raised  on  the  farm  eutered  by  his  father  soon  after  his  arrival  in 
Boone  county,  and  was  educated  at  the  common  schools  of  his  neigh- 
borhood. He  remained  with  his  father  until  1864  when  he  enlisted  in 
the  Confederate  army,  joining  Captain  Strode's  company,  of 
Searcy's  regiment,  in  which  he  served  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He 
was  in  Price's  raid  and  took  part  in  all  the  battles  fought  on  the  re- 
treat from  Independence  to  Cane  Hill.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he 
was  a  member  of  the  home  guard  at  Columbia  for  several  mouths.  In 
the  fall  of  1865  he  went  to  work  on  the  farm  owned  by  Mrs.  K.  Fort- 
ney.  July  29,  1867,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Lou,  daughter  of  Mrs. 
K.  Fortney,  who  is  still  living  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-scTen 
years.  In  the  winter  of  1870  he  came  to  the  farm  where  he  now  lives, 
in  sections  6  and  7,  township  47,  range  12.  He  has  always  followed 
the  occupation  of  a  farmer.     They  have   one  daughter,  Cannabel. 

LAWRENCE    BASS. 

The  subject  of  this  biographical  sketch  is  the  son  of  George  P.  and 
Susan  (Wiseman)  Bass.  He  was  born  on  the  old  Wiseman  place, 
January  22,  1830.  He  is  one  of  a  family  of  eleven  children  —  nine 
sons  and  two  daughters  —  of  whom  five  sons  and  two  daughters  are 
now  living.  When  a  small  boy  his  parents  removed  from  the  old 
home,  in  the  vicinity  of  Ashland,  to  a  farm  in  Howard  county,  where 
Lawrence  lived  and  labored  until  seventeen  years  of  age.  The  next 
three  years  were  spent  in  learning  the  saddlery  business,  but  not  liking 
the  trade,  he  has  never  followed  it.  In  the  spring  of  1850  Mr.  Bass 
started  for  California  by  the  overland  route,  reaching  his  destination 
in  the  month  of  July  following.  He  remained  in  California  and  Ne- 
vada until  1875,  making  several  business  trips  East,  at  one  time  bring- 
ing with  him  from  Colorado  a  herd  of  2,000  cattle.     While  in  the  West 


HISTORY    OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  643 

le  was  actively  engaged  in  freighting,  mining,  and  trading  in  stock. 
In  the  spring  of  1876  he  moved  to  the  A.  E.  Ellis  farm,  where  he  now 
resides.  He  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Bass,  Johnston,  Brooks  & 
Harris,  Ashland.  The  firm  is  known  as  the  Trade  Centre.  They 
hare  a  branch  store  at  Guthrie,  in  Callaway  county.  Mr.  Bass  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Ashland  Mill  Company;  also  a  stockholder  in  the 
Ashland  Bank,  and  one  of  the  directors.  He  was  one  of  the  origi- 
nators of  the  Boone  county  stock  sales.  He  has  been  an  extensive 
sheep-raiser,  having  large  flocks  in  Texas.  His  experience  in  business 
is  of  wider  range  perhaps  than  that  of  any  other  capitalist  or  trader 
in  his  locality.  Mr.  Bass  was  married  November  17,  1870,  to  Miss 
Sallie  Ellis,  only  daughter  of  A.  E.  Ellis,  of  Boone  county.  They 
have  had  three  children  —  two  sons  and  one  daughter  —  of  whom  only 
one,  the  youngest  son,  is  liviug.  Mr.  Bass  has  had  many  adventures 
during  his  extensive  travels,  the  most  thrilling  of  which  perhaps  was 
ashipwreck  off  the  coast  of  British  Columbia  in  1858.  The  vessel  was 
a  total  wreck.  Mr.  Bass  and  several  others  escaped  in  an  open  boat. 
He  is  an  affable  gentleman,  kind  and  courteous  in  his  manners,  and  is  , 
justly  honored  and  esteemed  by  all  who  know  him. 

ELIJAH   BOOTHE. 

Elijah  Boothe  is  the  son  of  Elijah  and  Sarah  (Woods)  Boothe,  and 
^as  born  about  1839,  near  Lexington,  Kentucky.  His  parents  came 
^  Missouri  and  settled  near  Harrisburg,  Boone  county,  Missouri,  \vhen 
'Hjah  was  about  one  year  old.  His  mother  died  in  1847,  and  his 
^ther  in  1849.  When  Elijah  was  twelve  or  thirteen  years  of  age  he 
t^rted  with  two  mules,  one  to  ride  and  one  for  a  pack  animal,  for  Cali- 
>rnia,  and  with  the  exception  of  a  few  days  made  the  trip  alone.  He 
ud  two  brothers  there  and  went  out  in  search  of  them.  He  worked 
I  the  mines  and  frei<2:hted  ^oods  from  Los  An<2:eles  to  Texas.  He 
as  poisoned  while  working  in  the  mines  by  striking  a  spring  contain- 
[g  corrosive  sublimate.  His  hair  came  out  three  times,  and  the  last 
me  it  grew  it  was  perfectly  white.  He  appears  to  be  at  least  sixty 
3ars  of  age,  but  is  young  yet  and  vigorous.  When  out  in  the  *'  dig- 
ngs  "  he  says  he  only  saw  a  white  man  once  a  year,  during  his 
ng  stay  in  the  West.  He  took  passage  on  a  vessel  for  some  island 
slonging  to  some  English  colonists,  and  prospected  for  about  six 
ouths.  Then  he  went  to  Australia  and  was  there  for  about  four 
onths,  being  gone,  in  all,  a  little  over  a  year.  He  states  that  when 
B  first  reached  Sacramento  he  was  so  small  that  he  could  not  procure 


644  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

work,  and  almost  starved  to  death.     At  last,  after  a  four  years'  search, 
he   found  his  brothers.     He  came  home  about  five  years  ago,  and 
stopped  a  short  time  near  Rocheport.     His  oldest  brother,  David  H. 
Boothe,  was  a  farmer  in  the  Western  part  of  Boone  county,  and  died 
recently.     One  brother,  William,  is  living  in  Columbia.     Elijah  came 
back  to  Missonri  over  the  old  overland  stage  route  with  five  horses. 
He  has  had  a  world  of  ups  and  downs  in  life,  and  his  descriptions  of 
places  and  things  he  has  seen  is  truly  wonderful.     He  has  a  chair  Vic- 
tory and  blacksmith  shop  on  the  southwest  quarter  of  section  20, 
township  45  and  range  — ,  established   in  1879.     He   makes  good, 
snbstantial  chairs,  which  he  sells  to  all  the  neighboring  towns.     He  is 
an  Odd  Fellow,  but  is  not  at  present  connected  with  any  lodge.    He 
was  a  charter  member  of  five  lodges  in  California. 

D.    A.    BRADFORD. 

Daniel  Alexander  Bradford  is  the  son  of  Austin  Bradford,  a  nativ^^ 
of  Virginia,  who  came  to  Boone  county  in  1836,  and  to  the  farm  upo 
which  Alexander  now  lives  in  1837.     His  mother  was  Lavinia  Hum 
also  a  native  of  Virginia.     The  elder  Bradford  was  married  in  Ke 
tucky.     The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  on  the  farm  upon  whicr 
he  now  resides,  April  21st,  1842.     He  is  the  third  sou  and  sevent:: 
child  of  a  fomilv  of  three  bovs  and  five  ofirls,  all  of  whom  are  livin 
With  the  exception  of  a  few  years  he  has  spent  his  life  on  the  old  ho 
place.     He  was  educated  at  Bonne  Femme  Academy  and  at  the  Sta 
University.     He  is  a  farmer,  and  is  largely  interested  in  the  breediim 
of  thoroughbred  cattle.     He  was  married  in  Boone  connty,  Noveml 
24th,  1863,  to  Miss  Harriet  E.,  daughter  of  Rollin  Lyman.    The 
have  had  two  sons  and  four  daughters,  all  living  except  one  daughte 
Mr.  Bradford  is  a  member  of  the  Columbia  lodge  of  I.  O.  O.  F. 

• 

MAJOR    WM.  W.  BRYAN. 

The  venerable  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  native  of  Bryan's  Static 
Kentucky,  and  was  brought  by  his  widowed  mother  from  that  State 
Missouri  in  the  fall  of  1827,  and  has  lived  in  Boone  county  most 
his  life.     In  earlv  times  he  attended  school  at  the  now  defunct,  baJB't 
then  famous  "Bonne  Femme"  Academy.     In  1832  he  was  sent 
Capt.  Hickman  on  a  business  trip  to  Northwest  Missouii,  on  which 
was  gone  six  months.     When  not  engaged  in  handling  stock,  Maj 
Bryan  worked  on  the  farm,  and  in  his  time  has  done  much  of  th 
kind  of  invigorating  labor.     His  title  was  acquired  during  the  Mormon 


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HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  645 

ir,  he  being  a  Major  in  Col.  Gilmore's  regiment  in  the  campaign 
ainst  the  ««  Latter-day  Saints."  In  1848  Major  Bryan  was  clerk  in 
iinme  &  Bryan's  store  at  Nashville.  He  also  did  business  for  John 
.  Bryan  &  Co.'s  paper-mill,  distillery  and  pork  packing  establish- 
eiits  throughout  the  Southern  States.  He  became  captain  of  the 
earner  **  Warsaw"  in  '41,  and  in  '47  was  principal  clerk  in  D.  S. 
imme's  commission  house,  on  Water  street,  St.  Louis.  He  became 
eutfor  the  United  States  bank  in  1849,  attending  to  the  aflfairs  of 
at  concern  in  three  States,  being  constantly  immersed  in  a  sea  of 
siiiess  for  twenty  years,  during  which  he  obtained  one  judgment 
r  the  bank  of  $369,000.  The  manuscript  of  the  concern  was  sold 
the  paper-mill  when  its  affairs  were  wound  up,  and  weighed  eighty- 
ur  tons.  He  has  spent  five  winters  on  his  land  in  Dallas,  Texas. 
:■  this  writing  he  resides  on  the  Peter  Bass  mill  tract,  in  Cedar  town- 
ip.  He  is  quite  robust  in  health,  and  even  yet  can  do  any  kind  of 
rd  labor.  During  the  civil  war,  he  was  a  Washington  Union  man, 
it  never  a  Lincoln  man.  Major  Bryan  was  never  married.  He  has 
ver  asked  an  office  of  the  people,  never  engaged  in  a  lawsuit  of  his 
'n,  and  all  through  his  useful  and  eventful  life  never  asked  any- 
ing  but  even-handed  justice  from  any  man,  nor  would  he  ever  have 
»s.  He  has  done  a  great  deal  of  business  for  others,  and  his  record 
one  of  which  he  is  not  ashamed,  but  on  the  contrary,  is  as  justly 
oud  as  are  his  many  friends. 

E.    C.    BURNETT. 

Edward  Camplin  Burnett  was  born  in  Boone  county,  October  13th, 
38.  He  is  the  son  of  Dabney  and  Elizabeth  (Ramsey)  Burnett, 
iives  of  Kentucky.  Mrs.  Burnett  was  the  daughter  of  Capt.  Ram- 
',  an  associate  of  Daniel  Boone's  in  the  early  settling  of  Kentucky, 
e  parents  of  Edward  Burnett  first  settled  in  St.  Charles  county.  In 
15  they  came  to  Boone  and  settled  on  a  farm  one  and  one-half  miles 
•th  of  Ashland,  where  the  elder  Burnett  died  in  1845.     On  this  farm 

subject  of  this  sketch  was  born.  He  was  the  fourth  son  and  ninth 
Id  of  a  family  of  seven  boys  and  four  girls.  Was  educated  at  the 
brict  schools  of  his  ovvn  neighborhood.  In  the  spring  of  1859  went 
Colorado,  and  the  year  follo\\ing  to  New  Mexico,  remaining  three 
nths  in  Santa  Fe.  He  remained  in  the  West  until  the  fall  of  1868, 
iting  Montana,  Arizona,  Utah,  Idaho  and  Oregon.     Returned  to  the 

farm,  where  he  has  since  lived,  except  during  the  year  1871,  which 
5  spent  on  another  farm.     He  is  an  official  member  of  the  New  Sa- 


646  HI8TORT   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

lem  Baptist  church,  also  of  the  Ashlaud  Lodge  of  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  Ha 
was  married  October  13th,  1870,  to  Miss  Sarah  E.  Bice,  a  native  of 
Boone  county,  the  daughter  of  David  Bice,  who  emigrated  from  Ken- 
tucky to  this  county  in  1819.  They  have  had  four  children,  one  son 
and  three  daughters,. of  whom  only  the  three  daughters  are  living. 

R.    V.    BURNETT. 

Bobert  V.  Burnett  is  the  son  of  Joseph  Burnett,  a  native  of  Virginia. 
He  removed  to  Kentucky  and  from  thence  to  Ohio,  finally  comiog 
to  Missouri  in  1820.  He  settled  first  in  Howard  county,  but  soon  re- 
moved to  the  place  known  as  Burnett's  ford,  on  Cedar  creek,  wliere 
he  remained  until  his  death  in  1853.  His  wife  was  Mary  Ann  Leopard, 
a  native  of  Kentucky  and  pioneer  settler  of  Missouri.  He  built  one 
of  the  first  mills  ever  erected  in  Boone  county.  Bobert  V.  was  born 
December  6,  1837.  He  was  the  second  son  and  second  child  of  a 
family  of  four  boys  and  one  girl,  of  whom  only  Bobert  and  one  brother 
are  now  living.  He  remained  on  the  farm  until  the  spring  of  18H 
when  he  commenced  working  at  his  trade,  that  of  stone  mason.  He 
entered  the  Confederate  service  August  14,  1861,  under  Captain  John 
M.  Robinson.  In  December,  1861,  he  was  ti*ansferred  to  a  company 
of  1st  Missouri  Infantry  under  Colonel  Burbridge.  Was  re-organized 
and  put  under  Colonel  Cockerill  as  the  2nd  regiment  after  battle  of 
Shiloh.  Mr.  Burnett  belonged  to  this  command  until  he  left  the  ser- 
vice, January  2,  1865.  He  took  part  in  the  battles  of  Lexington, 
Baker's  Creek,  Champion  Hills,  Big  Black  River  and  Vicksburg. 
During  the  siege  he  threw  a  thirty-two  pound  shell  among  a  party  of 
Federal  soldiers  who  were  undermining  the  Confederate  works,  being 
the  first  man  to  throw  by  hand  a  shell  with  lighted  fuse  attached. 
After  the  surrender  and  while  on  the  way  to  the  place  where  they 
were  to  be  paroled,  he  left  the  line  to  get  something  to  eat  and  was 
captured  by  the  enemy  and  held  a  prisoner  of  war.  Was  kept  two 
weeks  at  St.  Louis  and  from  there  sent  to  Camp  Morton,  Indianapolis, 
where  he  remained  until  near  the  close  of  the  war  when  he  was  re- 
leased and  allowed  to  return  home.  In  the  fall  of  1873  he  bought  and 
moved  to  the  farm  upon  which  he  now  lives,  one-half  mile  north  of 
Ashland.  He  was  married  in  Boone  county,  April  25,  1865,  to  Miss 
Martha  Martin,  daughter  of  John  P.  Martin.  Has  had  four  sons  and 
two  daughters,  of  whom  the  three  oldest,  two  sons  and  one  daughter, 
died  within  the  space  of  fifteen  days  of  diphtheria.     Mr.  Burnett  is  & 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  647 

• 

nember  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  of  the  grange.     He  was  delegate 
;othe  State  grange  hi  1881-2. 

J.    W.    CONLEY. 

James  William  Conlej  was  born  in  Cedar  township,  Boone  county, 
Missouri,  March  18,  1848.  He  is  the  son  of  Benjamin  Conley,  a 
pioneer  settler  and  one  of  the  largest  land  holders  in  the  county. 
His  mother  was  a  native  of  Kentucky.  He  is  the  youngest  of  a 
family  of  five  sons  and  five  daughters,  of  whom  three  of  each  sex  are 
living,  all  in  Boone  county.  He  lived  on  the  farm  upon  which  he  was 
born  until  the  fall  of  1875,  when  he  removed  to  the  place  upon  which 
be  now  resides.  His  farm  consists  of  800  acres  of  excellent  land  finely 
mproved.  It  is  situated  three  and  one-half  miles  northeast  of  Ash- 
and  and  fifteen  miles  southeast  of  Columbia.  He  is  largely  engaged 
n  stock  raising  and  has  some  very  fine  thoroughbred  cattle.  He  was 
narried  in  St.  Louis,  April  29,  1878,  to  Miss  Abbie  S.  Terry,  daugh- 
er  of  Thomas  J.  Terry,  of  the  firm  of  Terry,  Hodson  &  Co.  Has 
lad  one  son  and  one  daughter.     The  son,  alone,  is  living. 

WILLIAM   HENRY   CURTRIGHT. 

The  subject  of  tliis  sketch  is  a  son  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  Curt- 
ght,  the  former  of  whom  was  born,  lived  and  died  in  Kentucky, 
hile  the  mother  was  a  native  of  Maryland,  though  reared  in  Ken- 
icky.  William  was  born  on  his  father's  farm  in  Bourbon  county, 
entucky,  July  2d,  1825.  He  was  the  third  son  and  fifth  child  of  a 
mily  of  five  boys  and  three  girls,  and  was  reared  and  educated  in 
is  native  State.  He  ciune  to  this  State  and  county  in  1852,  and 
cated  on  the  farm  where  Bonne  Femme  church  now  stands,  and  has 
sided  there  ever  since.  Mr.  Curtwright  has  been  an  extensive  stock 
ader,  and  his  operations  in  this  particular  have  been  in  different 
rts  of  the  land.  He  is  still  an  importer  and  breeder  of  fine  cattle. 
1  October  2,  1857,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Catherine  Jenkins,  a 
tive  of  Kentucky,  and  daughter  of  Theodore  Jenkins,  of  Boone 
unty.  They  have  had  two  sons  and  one  daughter,  the  latter  of 
lom  died  in  childhood.  Mr.  Curtright  owns  a  very  fine  stock  farm 
382  acres,  six  miles  from  Columbia,  cm  the  gravel  road  to  Ashland, 
le  first  owner  of  this  place  was  Col.  McClelland,  who  settled  it  and 
Id  to  Mr.  Theodore  Jenkins,  from  whom  Mr.  Curtright  got  the 
enership. 


048  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTT. 

EDWARD    L.    DIMMITT. 

Mr.  Dimmitt  was  bom  at  Liberty,  Clay  county,  Missouri,  June  3d, 
1849.  His  father,  St.  Clair  Dimmitt,  was  a  gentleman  of  French 
descent,  and  a  native  of  Virginia,  and  his  wife,  Edward's  mother,  was 
born  in  Ohio.  Edward  L.  received  the  elementary  part  of  his  educa* 
tion  in  the  public  schools  of  Liberty,  and  completed  his  course  at 
Watson's  Seminary  in  Ashley,  Pike  county,  leaving  school  for  busi- 
ness life  in  1867.     He  then  ensraged  in  the  drug  business  in  the  em- 

CO  o 

ployment  of  his  brothers  in  St.  Louis,  remaining  with  them  until 
1873.  During  the  first  and  second  years  of  that  time  he  attended 
lectures  at  a  school  of  pharmacy.  In  1873,  he  came  to  Columbia,  in 
this  county,  and  engaged  in  the  drug  business  under  the  firm  uaracof 
B.  &  E.  L.  Dimmitt.  In  June,  1874,  he  became  a  senior  partner  of 
the  firm  of  Samuel  &  Strawn.  From  January,  1879,  until  July,  1881, 
he  was  book-keeper  in  the  Exchange  National  Bank.  At  the  latter 
date  he  accepted  the  position  of  cashier  of  the  Farmers'  Bank  of  Ash- 
land, to  which  place  he  removed  in  September  of  the  same  year,  and 
of  which  he  has  since  been  a  resident. 

September  10,  1872,  Mr.  Dimmitt  was  married  to  Miss  Betty  E. 
Samuel,  daughter  of  John  M.  Samuel,  a  well-known  citizen  of  this 
county.  Five  children  have  been  born  to  them,  four  of  whom,  two 
boys  and  two  girls,  are  now  living. 

Mr.  D.  has  been  a  meni})er  of  the  Presbyterian  church  since  1865. 
Hejs  a  member  of  the  A.  O.  U.  W.,  the  National  Temperance  Relief 
Union,  and  of  the  Good  Templars.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  the  latter  order  at  Hannibal,  in  1870,  and  at  the  session  at 
Columbia,  in  1880.  He  has  held  all  of  the  oflSces  in  the  subordinate 
lodge.  In  1875  and  1871)  he  published  The  Golden  Age,  a  temper- 
ance paper,  at  Columbia.  Theodore  Tilton  claimed  that  the  name  of 
this  journal  was  an  infringement  on  that  of  his  own  of  the  same  name 
published  in  New  York.  Mr.  Dimmitt  investigated  the  matter  and, 
finding  that  Tilton  had  no  copyright,  procured  one  himself,  and  then 
called  on  the  distinguished  sentimentalist  to  discontinue  the  publica- 
tion of  his  New  York  Golden  Age, 

DR.    DAVID    DOYLE. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  one  of  the  pioneer  preachers  of  the 
West,  uniting  within  himself  the  qualifications  of  a  minister  and  a 
physician.     His  opportunities  for  doing  good  were  varied  and  exten- 


HI8TOKY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  649* 

and  he  discharged  his  whole  duty  to  his  fellow-man  in  the  most 
rful  and  acceptable  manner,  leaving  behind  a  memory  of  good 
:8  that  will  ever  survive  him.  He  came  to  Cedar  township  in 
,  being  among  the  first  settlers  of  that  portion  of  Boone 
ty.  He  was  born  in  Rutherford  county.  North  Carolina,  and  it  is 
that  he  commenced  pi^eaching  before  he  was  nineteen  years 
He  also  commenced  the  practice  of  medicine  at  an  early  age. 
le  month  of  December,  1819,  he  with  fifteen  others  met  at  the 
e  of  Anderson  Woods  for  the  purpose  of  founding  a  church,  and 
!  there  and  then  constituted  into  what  has  since  been  known  as  the 
e  Bonne  Femme  Baptist  church.  He  was  pastor  of  New  Salem 
;i3t  church  for  twenty-nine  years,  having  been  chosen  December 
1828.  He  died  of  typhoid  fever,  July  29th,  1859.  The  congre- 
m  at  New  Salem  erected  a  handsome  monument  over  his  grave  as 
mony  of  their  great  love  for  him  as  a  man  and  their  high  appre- 
on  of  his  services  as  a  minister. 

PETER   ELLIS,    DECEASED. 

le  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Botetourt  county,  Virginia, 
I  1,  1778.  He  went  with  his  father's  family  to  Greenbrier 
ty,  and  thence  to  Hawkins  county,  Tennessee.  In  1800  he  went 
e  Scioto  Salt  Works,  and  from  there  to  St.  Louis,  which  was  then 
r  Spanish  rule.  He  was  married  on  a  sand  bar  near  St.  Charles, 
iss  Eleanor  Patterson,  a  Catholic  priest  oflSciating.  Mr.  Ellis  moved 
oone  county  in  1818,  where  he  lived  until  his  death,  January  27, 
.  They  had  ten  children  —  six  sons  and  four  daughters  —  several 
hose  biographies  appear  in  this  volume. 

JOHN   ELLIS. 

hn  Ellis  is  the  oldest  son  and  second  child  of  Peter  and  Eleanor 
terson)  Ellis.  He  was  born  in  St.  Louis  county,  Missouri,  De- 
)er  10,  1805,  and  came  with  his  parents  to  Boone  county  in  1818. 
ns  educated  at  the  Bonne  Femme  Academy,  completing  his  studies 
828;  was  married  March  17,  1831,  to  Catharine  Doyle,  oldest 
;hter  of  Dr.  David  Doyle.  He  then  moved  to  a  farm  adjoining 
■ather's,  where  he  lived  until  1834.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he 
;ht  and  moved  to  the  farm  he  now  occupies,  consisting  of  400 
3  on  the  Two-Mile  Prairie,  five  miles  northeast  of  Ashland  and 
ve  miles  southeast  of  Columbia.  He  had  two  sons  and  three 
:hters,  of  whom  but  one  is  now  living  —  Mrs.  Field,  of  Denver^ 


'660  HISTOKY  OP  BOONE  COUKTr. 

Colorado.  In  1860  his  son,  William  P.,  then  in  his  twenty-seventh 
year,  was  burned  to  death  m  his  store  at  Providence.  He  was  a 
graduate  of  the  University,  and  a  young  man  ot  bright  promise,  and  1 
his  horrible  death  was  universally  lamented.  In  1837-8  Mr.  Ellis 
commanded  a  company  under  Col.  Richard  Gentry,  in  the  Florida 
war.  The  next  year  he  was  commissioned  a  colonel,  and  had  command 
of  a  regiment  under  marching  orders  from  Governor  Boggs.  This  wag 
during  the  Mormon  insurrection.  He  was  preparing  to  start  with  his 
regiment  to  the  Mexican  war,  but  was  prevented  by  the  illness  of  his 
wife,  who  died  August  25,  1846.  He  was  one  of  the  first  curators 
of  the  University.  Of  his  colleagues,  all  are  dead  but  one.  Hs 
served  as  public  administrator  for  ten  years ;  was  justice  of  the 
peace  from  1844  to  1878.  He  now  holds  a  commission  as  notary 
public.  Few  men  in  Boone  county  have  been  more  active  in  public 
affairs,  or  disposed  of  more  business,  and  none  perhaps  have  come 
nearer  rendering  general  satisfaction. 

PETER   ELLIS. 

Peter  Ellis  is  the  youngest  often  children,  born  to  Peter  and  Eleanor 
Ellis,  pioneer  settlers,  and  was  born  in  Boone  county,  August  19th, 
182(),  where  he  was  raised  and  educated.  W:is  married  October  12th, 
1848,  to  Miss  Sallie  Mosely,  daughter  of  William  Moseley,  who  set- 
tled in  Boone  county  in  1827.  Two  sons  were  born  of  this  marriage, 
one  of  whom  died  in  infancy  the  other  when  nearly  grown.  The  first 
wife  having  died  in  1852,  Mr.  Ellis  was  married  in  1861  to  Miss 
Amanda  Moseley,  sister  of  the  first  wife.  By  this  marriage  they  have 
bad  four  sons  and  three  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  now  living.  Mr. 
Ellis  has  been  actively  engaged  in  the  mule  trade  since  1854,  audhas 
not  failed  taking  a  drove  South  every  year  except  during  the  war.  He 
has  been  a  member  of  New  Salem  Baptist  church  since  1842. 

E.    p.    ELLIS. 

Elisha  Patterson  Ellis,  one  of  the  most  substantial  farmers  of  Boone 
county,  and  a  man  of  superior  intelligence  and  energy,  was  born  in  St. 
Louis  county,  Missouri,  September  1 1th,  1817.  His  parents  were  Peter 
and  Eleanor  (Patterson)  Ellis.  They  left  St.  Louis  county  the  year 
after  Elisha  was  born,  and  settled  on  the  farm  now  known  as  the  Williaio 
Bass  place,  two  and  one-half  miles  north  of  Ashland^  Boone  county, 
Missouri.  The  elder  Ellis  was  successful  in  life,  being  able,  at  his 
death,  to  give  each  of  his  ten  children  a  farm  of  160  acres  of  excellent 


HISTORY  OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  651 

iod.  Elisha  Ellis  was  reared  on  the  home  place,  remaining  with  his 
arents  until  he  was  twenty-five  years  old.  He  availed  himself  of 
very  opportunity  to  procure  an  education,  and  when  he  went  forth  in 
he  world  to  work  out  his  own  destiny  he  was  well  prepared  for  the 
luties  of  life.  In  1841  he  came  in  possession  of  the  farm  upon  which 
le  now  lives.  Except  the  dwelling,  which  he  afterwards  enlarged,  the 
and  was  unimproved.  He  moved  to  this  place  in  the  spring  of  1843, 
laving  the  year  previous  married  Mary  Jane  Sheley,  sister  of  Judge 
Jheley,  of  Independence,  Missouri.  Mr.  Ellis  has  lived  on  this  farm 
iince  settling  it,  except  two  years,  from  the  spring  of  1873  to  1875, 
ipent  in  the  commission  business  with  the  firm  of  Godlove  &  Ellis,  St. 
Louis,  Missouri.  Mr.  Ellis  was  married  to  Mrs.  Mary  Jacobs,  of 
Bolden,  Johnson  county,  ilissouri,  formerly  a  native  of  Clark  county, 
Kentucky.  Mr.  Ellis  was  for  many  years  general  of  militia.  Has 
)6en  a  member  of  New  Salem  Baptist  church  for  forty  years.  Since 
840,  Gen.  Ellis  has  been  steadily  engaged  in  the  mule  trade,  buying 
mrk  mules  and  tjiking  them  South.  His  farm  consists  of  320  acres, 
ituated  four  miles  northeast  of  Ashland  and  fifteen  miles  southeast  of 
'olumbia,  in  one  of  the  richest  and  most  beautiful  sections  of  this 
Juntrv. 

J.    M.    ELLIS. 

James  McAllister  Ellis  is  the  fifth  son  and  eighth  child  of  Peter  and 
leanor  Ellis.  He  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  May  27th, 
^21,  aud  was  educated  at  the  common  schools  of  the  county.  Grew 
manhood  on  his  father's  farm.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  commenced 
iding  in  mules.  Took  his  first  lot  of  IGO  to  Mississippi,  in  1854, 
d  has  been  South  annually,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  years  when 
ide  was  dull,  and  during  the  war,  when  there  was  no  trade  at  all. 
r.  Ellis  has  a  fine  farm  of  760  acres  nine  miles  northeast  of  Ashland 
d  ten  miles  southeast  of  Columbia.  He  was  married  in  Callaway 
unty,  December  9th,  1852,  to  Martha  J.  Glasgow,  daughter  of  Na- 
m  Glasgow,  of  Millersburg.  By  this  marriage  they  had  two  sons 
J  two  daughters,  of  whom  but  one  daughter  is  now  living.  Mr. 
lis  is  a  member  of  the  New  Salem  Baptist  church,  also  of  the 
hland  lodge  of  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

A.  E.  ELLIS. 

Abraham  Ellis  is  the  son  of  Peter  Ellis,  a  native  of  Virginia,  and 
3anor  Patterson,  a  native  of  North  Carolina.  The  Pattersons  and 
lises  emigrated  to  Missouri  about  the  same  time  and  settled  in  St. 


652  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Louis  county,  where  Peter  Ellis  and  Eleanor  Patterson  were  married. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  on  his  father's  fsirm,  December 
5th,  1807.  He  was  the  second  son  and  second  child  of  a  familt  of  six 
sons  and  four  daughters.  In  the  fall  of  1818  he  moved  with  his  par- 
ents to  Boone  county,  pitching  their  tent,  on  the  night  of  October  Igt, 
just  two  miles  south  of  where  Mr.  Ellis  now  lives.  Commenced 
business  for  himself  in  1829,  but  remained  with  his  father  several 
years,  conducting  business  in  partnership  at  home  and  on  a  stock 
ranch  in  Arkansas.  In  1840  commenced  farming  on  the  east 
side  of  Two-mile.  Prairie,  where  he  lived'  until  the  year  1858, 
when  he  moved  to  the  place  where  he  now  lives.  For  twenty-eight 
years  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  mule  trade,  buying  in  Missouri  and 
selling  in  the  South,  principally  at  Bastrop,  Louisiana.  Mr.  Ellis* 
farm  is  situated  nine  miles  south  of  Columbia.  He  hjis  700  acres  in  a 
high  state  of  cultivation.  He  was  married,  April  21st,  1836,  to  Miss 
Rutha  H.  Young,  daughter  of  Edward  Young,  of  Cedar  township. 
They  have  one  child,  a  daughter,  who  married  Lawrence  Bass,  of  this 
county.     He  is  a  member  of  the  New  Salem  Baptist  Church. 

WILLIAM   T.    ELLIOTT. 

Smith  Elliott,  the  father  of  William,  came  from  Garrett  county,. 
Kentucky,  in  1825,  and  settled  near  Rocheport,  in  this  county.  He 
afterwards  removed  to  the  Perche  bottom,  seven  miles  east  of  Roche- 
port,  where  he  died,  in  1846.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  bora 
in  Boone  county,  March  4th,  1832.  His  mother's  name  was  Margaret 
Hutcheson,  also  a  native  of  Garrett  county,  Kentucky.  Young  Elliott 
was  in  early  life  strongly  impressed  with  a  desire  to  travel,  and  whea 
gold  was  discovered  in  California,  he  was  among  the  first  to  cross  the 
plains,  being  ninety-six  days  on  the  road.  Spent  two  years  in  Cali- 
fornia ;  then  went  to  Panama,  and  from  there  to  Cuba ;  theuce  to 
New  York,  He  then  returned  home.  Having  satisfied  his  curiosity 
for  travelling  he  was  now  content  to  remain  at  home  during  the  restof 
his  life.  He  was  first  married  December  28th,  1853,  to  MissAmau- 
da,  daughter  of  John  G.  and  Delina  Cochran,  who  lived  near  Roche- 
port,  Boone  county,  Missouri.  One  child,  now  dead,  was  born  of  this 
marriage,  and  named  Louvena.  Was  married  the  second  time,  April 
6th,  1869,  to  Mahala,  daughter  of  William  and  Winnifred  Christian. 
No  children  were  born  of  this  marriage.  After  the  close  of  the  war 
Mr.  Elliott  spent  one  year  at  Hamrick's  Station,  Putnam  county,  I^" 
diana.     During  his  stay  at  that  place  was  made  postmaster,  by  Presi- 


HI8T0BT  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  653 

msou.     He  is  a  member  of  the   Methodist  church.     Mrs» 
i  a  Baptist. 

DAVID   MARTIN   EMMITT. 

ther  of  David  M.  Emmitt  was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  but  has 
e  most  of  his  life  in  Ohio,  where  he  now  lives.     His  mother, 
fartin,  was  a  native  of  Ohio.     David  M.  was  born  in  Waverly, 
)vember  10th,  1843.     He  was  thefiflh  of  a  family  of  six  sons, 
rhom  are  now  living.     Except  David  M.,  they  are  all  citizens 
The  elder  Emmitt  is  a  banker,  miller  and  distiller.     The 
»f  this  sketch  was  reared  in  Ohio  and. educated  at  Delaware 
graduating  in  1863.     After  leaving  college  he  commenced 
,  buying  grain  for  his  father,  at  Circleville,  Ohio.     In  the  fall 
he  went  to  Europe  with  his  parents  and  a  younger  brother, 
lined  there  one  year,   pursuing   his  studies  at  Frankfort-on- 
i.     In   1867,  he  returned  to  the  United  States,  and  went  in- 
illing  and  distilling  business  with  his  brother,  at  Chillicothe, 
nder  the  firm  name  of  Emmitt  Brothers,   continuing  in  this 
for  five  years,  when  he  sold  out  and  came  to  Booue  county, 
.     In  1872  he  bought  the  Rockbridge  mill  property,  consist- 
ill,  distillery,  store  and  800  acres  of  land.     He  was  commis- 
postmaster  in  1875,  which  position  he  held  until  1881,  when 
aed.     Mr.  Emmitt  was  married  at  Circleville,  Ohio,  May  8th, 
Miss  Mary  L.,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Wagenhals,  who  is  still 
b  Lancaster,  Ohio,  and  is  probably  the  oldest  German  Lutheran 
in  the  State.     They  have  had  four  sons  and   two  daughters, 
i  two  sons  and  two  daughters  are  living.     The  eldest  sod  died 
i.     William  Henry  died  in  infancy.     The  living  are  Edwin, 
ohn  and  Katie.     In  1863   Mr.  Emmitt  joined   the  parties  in 
of  John  Morgan,  \n  his  famous  raid  through  Ohio,  and  took 
e  part  in  the  several  skirmishes  that  took  place  during  that 
campaign.     He  is  now  permanently  located  in  Boone  county, 
roughly  identified  with  its  interests. 

CAPT.    W.    FEELY 

on  of  John  and  Jane  (Wilson)  Feely,  and  was  born 
2,   1827,  in  the  State  of  Ohio.     He  left  his  native  State 

bout  eight  years  old,  living  in  Indiana  two  years,  when  he 
Missouri.     He  lived  in  St.  Louis  two  years,  and  then  went  to 

er's,  in  Cole  county,  Missouri,  and  from  there  the  family  moved 

county.     He  was  selling  goods  in  Harrisonville  when  the  war 


654  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

broke  out.  Cisting  bis  lot  with  the  Confederacy,  he  enlisted  in  tb 
State  Guards  in  1861,  and  afterwards  in  Price's  army,  Sixteenth  Beg* 
iment,  Company  K  (of  which  he  was  captain),  Trans-Mississippi  De- 
partment.  He  seized  four  years  in  the  army,  and  only  when  lot 
surrendered,  and  the  cause  so  dear  to  his  heart  was  hopeless,  he  laid 
down  his  arms  and  accepted  the  situation,  as  all  good  soldiers  do.  At  I 
the  battle  of  Lone  Jack  he  received  a  gunshot  wound  in  the  arm, 
which  literally  tore  away  the  muscles.  He  was  in  the  battles  of  Pea 
Ridge,  Prairie  Grove,  Jenkins'  Ferry,  and  Helena.  He  was  married 
December  27,  1866,  to  Miss  A.  J.  Watkins,  of  Cole  county,  and  baa 
been  blessed  with  four  children,  all  of  whom  are  now  living  —  Laura, 
John  Alexander,  D.  Postlewait  and  Beulah.  He  is  now  selling  gen- 
eral merchandise  in  Wilton,  Boone  county,  Missouri,  and  is  also  post- 
master. He  has  been  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  about  thirty- 
two  years,  fifteen  of  them  at  his  present  home.  In  connection  with 
his  store  he  has  a  steamboat  landing,  and  does  a  general  commissioD 
business  for  the  farmers  in  the  country.  He  also  ships  about  twenty- 
five  thousand  railroad  ties  every  year,  making  that  business  a  spe- 
cialty. 

DR.    WILLIAM   WINSTON   FINDLEY. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Rodgersville,  Hawkins  county, 
Tennessee,  December  15,  1829.     He  is  the  sou  of  John  B.  and  Mar- 
garet (Winston)   Findley.     The  elder  Findley  was  born  in  Orange 
county,  Virginia.     Mrs.  Findley  was  a  native  of  Halifax  county,  Vir- 
ginia.    They  removed  to  Alabama  in  1844,  settling  in  DeKalb  county, 
removing  from  there  to  Madison  county.     The  subject  of  this  sketch 
first  learned  the  printer's  trade,  afterwards  the  duties  of  a  druggist, 
and  for  several  years  clerked  in  a  drug  store.     He  then  read  medicine 
under  Dr.  Carter,  at  Lebanon,  Alabama,  for  four  years,  at  the  same 
time  occupying  a  position  in  a  drug  store ;  attended  first  course  of 
lectures  in  1854-55  at  Nashville  Medical  Institute,  and  a  second  course 
at  Marion   (Alabama)   Medical   College,   where  he  received   the  de- 
gree of  M.  D.     After  that  he  was  in  the  drug  business  up  to  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  war,  when  he  enlisted  under  Capt.  Thomasson,  in  Com- 
pany E,  Fourth  Alabama  ;  was  afterwards  transferred  to  Capt.  Higgius' 
company,  Twelfth    Alabama ;  was  at   Seven   Pines,   both  battles  of 
Manassas,  and  at  Sharpsburg.     He  then  went  to  Richmond  and  toolt 
charge  of  one  of  the  hospitals  of  that  city.     He  bore  away  with  hi^a 
numerous  testimonials  both  in  reference  to  his  skill  and  of  gratitiKi® 
from  those  he  had  faithfully  served.     Rejoining  the  army  as  a  soldi' 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  656^ 

18  captured  by  the  enemy  and  taken  to  Rock  Island.  While  a 
[ler  at  that  place  he  was  appointed  medical  steward  in  the  hospi- 
nd  was  of  much  service  to  his  fellow-prisoners.  When  released 
me  directly  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  where  he  has  lived  ever 
He  first  stopped  in  Perche  township,  in  what  is  known  as  Black- 
where  he  taught  school  for  several  years.  He  has  been  practic- 
nedicine  for  about  ten  years.  He  was  both  a  soldier  and  a 
ician  during  his  service  in  the  army ;  was  severely  wounded  at 
issas,  and  was  sent  to  Richmond,  where  he  remained  in  the  hos- 
for  three  months.     He  was  never  married. 

MICHAEL   FISHER. 

• 

•.  Fisher  is  the  son  of  George  and  Mary  Ann  (Harness)  Fisher, 
of  whom  were  natives  of  Virginia.  The  mother  lived  to  the  ad- 
3d  age  of  ninety-two,  dying  in  1881,  having  spent  her  entire  life 
n  less  than  a  mile  of  where  she  was  born.  On  the  paternal  side, 
Fisher  is  of  Irish  descent,  and  on  the  maternal  side,  of  Dutch  ori- 
Jacob  Fisher,  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  died  in 
nia  in  1835.  Michael  was  born  on  his  father's  farm  in  Virginia, 
le  17th  day  of  August,  1811,  and  was  the  second  son  and  child  of 
lily  of  eight  sons  and  three  daughters.  He  was  reared  and  edu- 
I  in  his  native  State,  and  has  been  a  farmer  all  his  life.  In  1837 
me  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  and  settled  on  the  Missouri  river, 
Nashville  (now  defunct).  He  moved  to  the  farm  where  he  now 
es  in  1846,  his  place  being  now  a  large,  finely-improved  farm,  six 
I  southeast  of  Cohmibia,  on  which  he  built  his  present  dwelling- 
ein  1855.  Mr.  Fisher  was  married  in  Virginia,  August  19,  1834, 
[iss  Rebecca  Cunningham,  who  died  November  18,  1839.  His 
jnt  wife  was  Phoebe  Ann,  daughter  of  W.  L.  Woolfolk,  of  Boone 
ty,  to  whom  he  was  married  January  4,  1853.  Mr.  Fisher  takes 
;  interest  in  educational  afliairs,  and  has  served  as  school  director 
liirty-four  years,  being  a  member  of  the  district  board  at  this  writ- 
He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Bonne  Femme  Baptist  Church  for 
y^-eight  years,  and  has  always  labored  zealously  for  the  cause  of 
ncement,  morality,  and  religion.  Besides  the  homestead  farm, 
Fisher  is  owner  of  other  lands  in  the  fine  old  county  of  Boone. 

E.    W.    FORBIS. 

Imund  Walter  Forbis  is  the  son   of  George    Forbis,  a  native   of 
;ucky.     His  mother,  Mary    Perrigan,    was  also  a  native  of  that 


656  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

State.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  boru  in  Fayette  county,  Keo- 
tucky,  June  16,  1811.  He  was  the  youngest  of  a  family  of  twelve 
sons  and  three  daughters,  of  whom  four  sons  are  now  living,  all  in 
Boone.  Mr.  Forbis  spent  most  of  his  youth  in  Oldham  county,  about 
thirty  miles  from  Louisville.  He  came  to  Boone  county  in  1837  and 
settled  on  the  farm  where  he  now  lives,  two  and  one-fourth  miles 
northwest  of  Ashland.  The  farm  had  been  entered  before,  hut  Mr. 
Forbis  improved  it.  He  built  the  house  he  now  occupies  in  1838. 
He  was  married  May  28,  1845,  to  Miss  Ann  Eliza  Blanton,  of  Boone 
county,  daughter  of Burdette  Blanton.  She  died,  September?,  1865, 
leaving  two  sons  and  four  daughters.  IVIr.  Forbis  was  again  married, 
September  3,  1868,  to  Mrs.  Eliza  Self,  who  died  February  9,  1879. 
He  has  two  sons  and  two  daughters  living  in  this  county.  Mr.  Forbis 
is  an  official  member  of  the  New  Liberty  Baptist  church. 

A.    R.    GIBBS. 

Alexander  Robert  Gibbs  was  born    in    Bedford   county,   Virginia, 
June  4,  1815.     He  was  the  fifth  son  and  seventh  child  of  a  family  of    ! 
nine  sons  and  six  daughters.     In  his  tenth  year  he  removed  with  his    J 
parents  to  Kentucky  where  he  grew  to  manhood.    Was  brought  upon 
the  farm  and  in  early  life  commenced  trading  in  stock,  buying  in  Ken- 
tucky and  driving  to  Virginia,  North  Carolina  and  Alabama.    Was 
married  in  Lee  county,  Virginia,  March  9,  1847,  to  Mary  J.  Gibson, 
daughter    of  Zachariah    Gibson.     By    this    marriage  they  had  four 
children,    two    sons    and    two    daughters,    all    of  whom  are  living 
except    the  oldest  son,  who  was    drowned    in    early  boyhood.    Mr. 
Gibbs    came    to  Missouri  in  1851   and   settled    on  the  farm  where 
he    now    resides,    six    miles    northeast    of     Ashland,    and    fifteen 
miles    southeast    of  Columbia.     There  are    260    acres  in  this  tract. 
He  owns  a  large  body  of  land  on  the  Missouri  river.    Mr.  Gibbs  deals 
largely  in  thorough-bred  stock,  principally  cattle. 

NATHAN    G.    HAGAN8 

Is  the  son  of  Levi  and  Charlotte  (Graham)  Hagans  and  was  born  i^ 
Kentucky.  His  father  moved  to  Missouri  in  1842  and  settled  ^' 
Lafayette  county  where  he  lived  a  year,  when  he  moved  to  Booi^ 
county,  where  he  died  in  1854.  Nathan,  the  subject  of  our  sket 
went  to  California  in  185-  and  was  gone  about  thirteen  months, 
lived  in  California  seven  months,  having  made  the  trip  in  a  wag 
drawn  by  oxen.     He  came  back  by  sea  via  New  Orleans.     He  \m^  - 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CX)UNTY.  657 

I  married  twice.  The  first  time  to  Miss  Kebecca  Wilcoxen  by 
imhe  had  six  childreu,  four  of  whom  are  alive.  His  second  wife 
the  widow  of  Samuel  Wilcoxen,  and  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
sabeth  Peak.  Mr.  Hasans  is  of  Irish  origin  upon  his  father's  side 
I  inherits  their  good  qualities  of  head  and  heart.  He  keeps  the 
diug  upon  the  river  known  as  Hagans'  landing  and  handles  and 
p8  about  12,000  ties  per  year.  He  is  one  of  the  very  best  citizens 
1  county  noted  for  her  number  of  men  of  sterling  worth. 

THOMAS    O.    HAGANS 

;he  son  of  Levi  and  Charlotte  (Graham)  Hagans  ;  was  born  August 
1846.  His  father  came  to  this  county  from  Allen  county,  Ken- 
ky,  in  1843,  and  settled  in  Boone  county,  near  Burlington.  His 
ber  died  in  1854,  after  farming  in  this  county  for  eleven  years, 
omas  is  a  bachelor  living  alone  on  his  farm.  He  devotes  his  time 
farming  and  gardening,  making  the  cultivation  of  watermelons  a 
icialty.  He  lived  four  years  in  Buchanan  county,  four  in  Callaway 
I  one  year  in  Miller  county,  thence  back  to  his  present  home  where 
has  since  lived.  He  is  one  of  the  yeomen  of  the  country,  such 
n  as  are  relied  upon  by  all  governments  to  make  them  strong  at 
ne  and  respected  abroad. 

JAMES    S.    HiCKAM. 

Che  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  John  and  Lucinda  (Collier) 
3kam  and  was  born  in  Boone  county,  September  18,  1835.  His 
ber  was  a  native  of  Virginia  and  emigrated  to  Cole  county,  Mis- 
iri.  In  1834  he  came  to  Boone  where  James  was  born.  At  the  age 
nine,  his  father  moved  to  Henry  county,  and  then  to  Barry  county. 
)m  Barry  he  moved  back  to  Henry  and  from  thence  he  moved  to 
!8  county.  From  Cass  he  moved  to  Bates  county  and  finally  back 
Jole  county  again  where  he  died  in  1856.  At  his  father's  death 
les  went  to  Maries  county,  where  the  three  counties  of  Maries, 
Lge  and  Miller  corner  upon  each  other.  He  lived  there  12  or  13 
rs  engaged  in  farming.  From  there  he  moved  to  Cooper  county 
I  lived  there  about  four  years,  when  he  moved  back  to  Boone,  the 
nty  of  his  birth.  He  has  been  engaged  in  farming  all  his  life  until 
spring  of  1882,  when  he  rented  out  his  farm  and  engaged  in  the 
»cery  business.  He  married,  March  13,  1856,  Miss  Elizabeth 
mhart,  daughter  of  Hoover  and  Elizabeth  Barnhart.  Seven  chil- 
'n  are  living,  viz.,  Salina  Frances,  Minerva  C,  John  W.,  Radford, 
42 


658  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

Eliza  Evelyn,  Eleanor  and  Conley.  Mr.  Hickam  was  a  ConfedenU 
soldier  under  General  Parsons,  9th  Missouri,  company  C  Hewa* 
captured  at  Eolla  and  taken  to  St.  Louis  and  incarcerated  in  McDow* 
ell's  college.  He  was  afterward  sent  to  Alton  until  the  war  was  nearlT 
over,  when  he  was  exchanged  at  Vicksburg. 

THADDEUS  HICKMAN. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  William  Hickman,  of  Bour- 
bon county,  Kentucky.  His  mother  wjis  Mary  Tureman,  a  native  of 
Mason  county,  Kentucky,  Thaddeus  Hickman  was  born  in  Bourbon 
county,  Kentucky,  February  14th,  1828,  and  was  educated  in  thedis- 
trict  schools  of  his  neighborhood.  He  was  one  of  two  sons  of  a  family 
of  eleven  children,  six  of  whom  are  now  living.  After  becoming  of 
age  he  managed  an  estate  belonging  to  his  father  and  brother.  After- 
wards he  commenced  farming  on  his  own  responsibility  in  Pettia 
county,  Missouri.  The  war  having  commenced,  he  left  bis  farm  and 
returned  to  Boone  county,  but  did  not  actively  engage  in  business 
until  the  close  of  the  war.  In  1867  he  opened  a  store  at  Burlington^ 
where  he  remained  until  the  spring  ot  1875,  when  he  moved  totheold 
Tyre  Martin  farm,  south  of  New  Salem  Church,  where  he  now  resides* 
He  now  turned  his  attention  largely  to  breeding  thoroughbred  cattle. 
His  stock  was  selected  with  great  care  from  the  best  herds  in  Kentucky. 
By  close  and  careful  attention  to  business,  he  has  attained  much  celeb- 
ritv  as  a  breeder  of  short  horn  cattle.  His  herd  is  one  of  the  best 
in  the  country.  One  of  his  cows,  Jenny  Lind  7th,  is  winner  of  manj 
prizes,  among  others  a  prize  in  Scotland  ;  first  prize  as  two-year  old  at 
Michigan  ( 1872)  State  fair,  and  fine  prizes  subsequently.  He  has  always 
purchased  of  the  leading  importers  and  keeps  none  but  the  best.  He 
has  cattle  from  the  best  herds  of  Kentucky,  also  from  the  herds  of 
John  P.  Sanborn,  Michigan  ;  Ben  Sumner,  Connecticut,  and  D.  S.  Pratt, 
of  Brattleboro,  Vermont.  Mr.  Hickman  is  a  member  of  the  Ash- 
land grange. 

T.  B.  HICKMAN. 

Thaddeus  Bryan  Hickman  is  the  son  of  David  M.  Hickman,  one  of 
the  old  pioneer  settlers  of  Boone  county.  He  visited  this  section  of 
the  county  as  early  as  1817.  Mr.  Hickman  did  not  return  until  1822, 
when  he  came  to  stay.  He  was  married  in  Kentucky  to  Miss  Corne- 
lia Bryan.  He  purchased  a  large  body  of  laud  in  this  county,  hU  real 
estate  consistinij:  of  3,000  acres.  Thaddeus  was  born  November  22d, 
1829.     He  was  the  fourth  son  and  fourth  child  of  a  family  of  six  sons 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  659 

and  one  daughter,  all  of  whom,  except  one  son,  are  now  living  —  four 
in  Boone  county.  He  was  educated  at  Bonne  Femme  Academy, 
completing  his  studies  in  1849.  Since  1860,  Mr.  Hickman  has  fol- 
lowed farming.  He  lives  about  midwav  between  Columbia  and  Ash- 
land.  He  has  traded  largely  in  stock.  He  is  now  engaged  in  raising 
thoroughbred  stock.  He  was  married  in  Louisiana,  May  1st,  1860, 
tolGss  Louisa  Hickman,  of  Rapides  parish.  He  is  a  member  of  tlie 
Bonne  Femme  Baptist  church. 

GEORGE  HUBBARD. 

George  Hubbard  is  the  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Ballon)  Hubbard, 
natives  of  Kentucky,  where  their  son  George  was   born   November 
.  17th,  1805.     They  emigrated  to  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  in  1831, 
and  to  Boone  the  year  following,  siettling  the  place  where  Mr.  Hub- 
bard now  resides.     The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  fourth  son  and 
fourth  child  of  a  family  of  four   boys  and  two  girls,   two  sons  and 
one  dauo^hter  of  whom  are  now  livinor.     Mr.  Hubbard   has   been  a 
farmer  all  his  life.      He  was   married  in   Kentucky,    August  12th, 
1829,  to  Miss  Patsy  H.  Gibbs,  daughter  of  Alexander  Gibbs.     They 
have  three  sons    and  six   daughters,  of    whom  two    sons  and  four 
danghters  are  living,    all  in  Boone.      Has  been  a   member  of  New 
Salem  Baptist  church  since  1840.     His  farm  consists  of  400  acres, 
situated  six  miles  northeast  of  Ashland  and  fifteen  miles  southeast 
of  Columbia. 

E.    D.    18BELL,    D.    D. 

Kev.  E.  D.  Isbell,  a  prominent  Baptist  minister,  and,  at  this 
fv^riting,  pastor  of  New  Salem  church,  Cedar  township,  is  a  native 
>f  Paris,  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky,  where  he  was  born  October 
17th,  1825.  His  parents,  James  and  Fanny  Isbell,  were  natives 
if  Virginia,  having  emigrated  to  Kentucky  about  the  year  1820. 
^Ir.  Isbell  was  educated  at  Georgetown,  Kentucky,  where  he  grad- 
lated  in  1846.  He  then  attended  the  Baptist  Theological  Semi- 
lary,  graduating  in  1851.  The  year  following  he  commenced  the 
egular  pastorate  with  the  Beal  Street  Baptist  church,  Memphis, 
Tennessee.  His  health  having  failed,  he  returned  to  Kentucky  in 
he  summer  of  1854.  Was  afterwards  pastor  of  several  churches  in 
S^entucky,  and  president  of  Augusta  College,  Bracken  county,  for 
ieveral  years,  and  professor  in  Georgetown  College.  He  came  ta 
Missouri  in  the  winter  of  1873,  and  stopped  at  Macon  City  until 
called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Columbia,  where  he 


660  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

labored  quite  successfully  for  four  years.  During  this  time  there 
were  about  three  hundred  additions  to  the  church.  He  next  served 
the  church  at  Fayette,  Missouri,  for  two  years,  during  which  time 
the  membership  was  doubled.  In  1879  he  took  charge  of  the  Sew 
Salem  church,  and  has  preached  for  that  congregation  ever  since. 
He  has  here  met  with  about  the  same  success  that  attended  his  labors 
elsewhere.  Mr.  Isbell  was  married  March  5th,  1846,  to  Miss  Sarah 
E.,  daughter  of  Joab  and  Jane  Wheat,  of  Paris,  Kentucky.  They 
have  one  son,  Harvey  W.,  who  was  educated  at  Georgetown  College, 
Kentucky,  and  at  West  Point  military  academy.  New  York.  He 
afterwards  studied  law,  but  never  practiced  his  profession.  He  is  also 
a  journalist  and  a  writer  of  ability.  He  has  been  connected  with  a 
number  of  papers  in  Missouri,  but  is,  at  this  writing,  engaged  in 
teaching.  He  is  married,  and  now  makes  his  home  at  Nevada,  Mis- 
souri. 

E.    D.    JOHNSON 

Is  the  son  of Johnson  and  Mary  (Turley)  Johnson,  and  was 

born  May  10th,  1826.  He  is  a  posthumous  child,  his  father  hav- 
ing died  before  he  was  born.  His  father  settled  in  what  is  known  as 
the  Boone's  Lick  country,  in  Howard  county,  Missouri.  After  his 
father's  death  his  mother  came  to  Columbia,  and,  being  poor,  the 
older  boys  were  **  bound  out,"  and  an  aunt  took  the  only  daughter. 
The  subject  of  our  notice  was  adopted  by  L.  L.  Pace,  and  reared 
upon  the  farm  which  Mr.  Johnson  now  owns.  He  went  to  the 
country  schools  and  what  was  then  called  Rockbridge  Academy,  and, 
later,  he  attended  the  University  for  three  years.  He  has  been  a 
farmer  all  his  life,  and  is  one  of  Boone's  well-to-do,  staunch  citizens. 
In  1849  he  went  with  a  party  to  New  Mexico,  when  the  Far  West  was 
the  Eldorado  of  all  the  young,  and  many  of  the  old  men  of  the 
country.  Shortly  after  leaving  Missouri  he  took  the  cholera,  and 
died,  as  his  comrades  thought.  All  preparations  were  made  for  his 
burial,  when  they  discovered  that  their  cattle  had  strayed  off.  So 
they  postponed  the  obsequies  until  the  wandering  oxen  had  been 
found.  Upon  their  return,  great  was  their  joy  when  they  saw  signs 
of  life  in  the  friend  they  were  about  to  bury  alive.  By  careful  nurs- 
ing he  was  restored  to  health,  and  continued  his  journey  to  New 
Mexico.  He  only  stayed  in  the  West  a  short  time,  when  he  set  his  ftce 
toward  the  rising  sun,  and  came  back  to  Missouri,  the  garden  of 
America.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Dorothy  Ann  Payne,  daughter  of 
James  and  Lois  Payne,    of  this  county.     His  wife  died   July  27th, 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  661 

865.  He  has  three  children,  all  living:  Laura  Alice,  Spurgeon  G. 
nd  John  E.  Miss  Laura  went  several  years  to  the  University,  and 
J  ft  regular  graduate,  taking  the  full  classical  course.  Mr.  Johnson 
3  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Nashville,  this  county. 

JOSEPH   WATERS    JOHNSTON. 

John  T.  M.  Johnston,  father  of  Joseph,  came  from  Kentucky  to 
Joone  county  when  a  boy,  and  settled,  with  his  parents,  near  Colum- 
rta,  being  among  the  pioneers  of  this  county.  His  wife  was  Minerva 
Vaters,  and  of  this  pair  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born,  August 
t9tb,  1848.  He  first  saw  the  light  on  his  father's  farm,  and  was  the 
econd  son  and  third  child  of  a  family  of  four  sons  and  four  daughters, 
,11  but  two  of  whom  still  reside  in  Boone  county.  He  acquired  his 
ducation  in  the  neighborhood  schools  in  the  vicinity  of  his  old  home, 

I  the  Ashland  school  and  in  Jones'  Commercial  College  of  St.  Louis. 

II  the  fall  of  1866,  he  first  engaged  in  business  for  himself,  opening  a 
eneral  store  in  Ashland,  which  he  conducted  for  three  years.  In 
869  he  formed  a  partnership  with  A.  G.  Paine,  and  they  did  business 
ill  the  fall  of  1871.  He  then  formed  a  partnership  with  J.  G.  Wise- 
lan,  which  lasted  till  1880.  Mr.  Johnston  then  became  a  member  of 
16  firm  of  Bass,  Johnston,  Brooks  &  Harris,  with  whom  he  is  still  in 
usiness  at  this  wi'iting,  their  business  depot  being  known  as  the 
Trade  Centre."  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Ashland  Mill  Company, 
id  a  director  of  the  Farmers'  Bank.  In  1870,  he  built  the  Johnston 
otel,  and  in  '77  erected  the  livery  stable  at  Ashland.     He  was  one 

*  the  originators  of  two  important  enterprises  of  his  town,  viz.,  the 
ill  project  and  the  bank.  He  is  also  secretary  of  the  '*  Ashlaud 
ock  Sales."  rSee  history  of  Ashland] .  Mr.  Johnston  was  married 
Bonne  Femme  church,  November  5th,  1880,  to  Miss  Julia  Harris, 
ughter  of  Judge  James  Harris,  deceased.  They  have  one  child,  a 
Ughter.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  also  belongs 
the  Masonic  fraternity  and  A.  O.  U.  W. 

J.    G.    JONES. 

Joseph  Glenn  Jones  is  the  son  of  Mosias  Jones,  a  native  of  Kentucky, 
3  emigrated  to  Missouri  in  1805,  settling  first  in  St.  Louis  county. 
1818  he  came  to  Boone  county,  then  almost  a  wilderness.  He  was 
lember  of  the  first  grand  jury  ever  empanelled  in  the  county.  He 
Jed  on  the  south  end  of  the  Two-mile  prairie.  On  this  farm  the 
ject  of  this  sketch  was  born,  June  7th,  1825.     He  is  the  fourth  sou 


662  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

and  seventh  child  of  a  family  of  six  sous  and  six  daughters,  all  of 
whom  lived  to  maturity  and  became  members  of  the  New  Salem  Bap- 
tist church.  Of  this  family  four  brothers  are  alive  at  this  writing. 
Three  brothers  and  one  sister  are  living  in  Boone  county.  Mr.  Jones 
lived  on  the  home  place  until  1848,  when  he  purchased  and  removed 
to  a  farm  near  where  Claysville  now  stands.  He  resided  on  this  place, 
until  the  spring  of  1878,  when  he  removed  to  Ashland,  intending  at 
the  time  to  give  up  business.  He  bought  a  fine  farm  adjoining  the 
town,  which  he  still  cultivares.  During  the  war  he  was  arrested  by 
the  Federal  authorities  and  taken  to  Jefferson  City.  From  there  he 
was  sent  to  Gratiot  street  prison,  St.  Louis,  where  he  remained  for 
several  months,  being  finally  transferred  to  Alton.  When  released 
from  prison  he  returned  home  and  was  allowed  to  remain  with  his 
family  until  the  troubles  were  over.  Mr.  Jones  has  handled  a 
great  deal  of  stock,  and  devotes  much  attention  to  diseases  of 
horses  and  cattle.  He  is  now  a  member  of  Mount  Pleasant  Bap-* 
tist  church,  also  a  member  of  the 'Masonic  order,  meeting  with  the 
Ashland  lodge.  He  also  -belongs  to  the  Ashland  Grange.  Mr. 
Jones's  wife  is  a  native  of  Tennessee.  Thev  were  married  in  Cedar 
township.  May  11,  1847.  They  have  three  children,  two  sons  and 
one  daughter,  the  latter  by  adoption. 

W.    E.    JONES. 

William  Elijah  Jones,  is  the  son  of  Christopher  H.  Jones,  a  native 
of  Madison  county,  Kentucky.  He  came  to  Boone  county  with  his 
brothers,  Mosias  and  Lyne  Jones  in  1818,  being  among  the  very  ear- 
liest settlers  of  this  county.  Christopher  Jones  was  married  in'Ken- 
tucky  to  Miss  Martha  Yates.  Emigrating  to  Boone  county,  soon 
afterwards  he  settled  on  the  farm  now  occupied  by  Elijah,  at  which 
place  all  his  children  were  born.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born 
October  23d,  1841.  He  was  the  sixth  son  and  twelfth  child  of  a 
family  of  six  sons  and  seven  daughters,  of  whom  three  sons  and  three 
ilauirhters  are  now  livin^:  —  four  of  them  in  Boone  countv.  Mr.  Jones 
was  reared  on  the  farm  and  educated  at  the  common  schools  of  the 
neighborhood.  In  1861  he  enlisted  in  Gen.  Clark's  Division  of 
Missouri  State  Guard,  being  a  member  of  the  Sixth  regiment.  He 
sei-ved  in  this  regiment  for  six  months,  when  he  was  transferred  to  the 
Ninth  Missouri  Infantry  w^ith  which  command  he  remained  until  the 
close  of  the  war.  He  participated  in  the  battles  of  Lexington,?^ 
Ridge,  Mansfield,  Pleasant  Hill,  Jenkins'  Ferry,  and  numerous  skir* 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  663 

shes  of  less  note.  Surrendered  in  June,  1865,  and  returned  to  his 
me  in  Boone  county,  where  he  has  remained  ever  since.  His  farm 
situated  two  miles  west  of  Ashland.  Makes  the  breeding  of  fine 
igs  a  specialty.  He  was  married,  February  26th,  1867,  to  Miss 
ary  S.  Forbis,  daughter  of  E.  W.  Forbis,  of  Boone  county.  They 
lYe  one  son  and  two  daughters. 

J.    A.    KERR,    M.    D. 

Dr.  James  Albert  Kerr  is  the  son  of  Wm.  Kerr,  a  farmer  and  a 
itive  of  Frederick  county,  Va.,  and  Isabella  Castlemane  Kerr,  born 
I  Clark  county,  Va.  The  doctor  was  born  on  his  father's  farm  March 
th,  1838.  He  was  the  youngest  child  of  a  family  of  fifteen  children, 
ine  boys  and  six  girls.  Three  of  the  boys  still  survive.  The  doctor 
as  educated  chiefly  at  the  Winchester  (Va. )  University.  In  the 
mn^  of  1854  he  entered  the  druj?  store  of  David  Ricketts,  of  Balti- 
lore,  and  remained  one  year.  The  next  year  he  served  with  J.  B. 
loore,  in  the  same  business,  in 'Washington,  D.  C.  The  next  year 
ewas  with  John  Keeshan,  Cincinnati,  and  the  next  two  years  with 
lex.  Leitch  &  Co.,  St.  Louis.  In  the  spring  of  1859  he  became 
lok-keeper  for  Rufus  Fitch  &  Co.,  stationers.  He  then  made  a  trip 
•  Texas  and  was  absent  six  months.  On  his  return,  in  1861,  under 
r.  J.  N.  Edwards,  of  Jefferson  City,  he  continued  the  study  of  medi- 
ae, which  he  had  already  begun  while  serving  as  a  druggist.  He 
ceived  his  diploma  from  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College,  in  1862.  In 
arch,  1863,  he  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Cedar  City, 
illuway  county.     He  remained  there  two  years,  or  until  the  spring 

1865,  when,  having  been  drafted  into  the  Federal  service  as  a  com- 
on  soldier,  and  not  wishing  to  fight  against  the  South,  his  sympathies 
ing  with  that  section,  he  excused  himself  (  !)  and  went  to  Salt  Lake 
ty.  Here  he  practiced  for  thirteen  months.  From  the  spring  of 
56  till  the  ensuing  fall  he  was  in  Helena,  Montana.  He  then  came 
Boone  county,  and  settled  in  Ashland,  and  here  and  in  the  sur- 
Hiding  country  he  has  ever  since  been  actively  engaged  in  the  prac- 
e  of  his  profession. 
May  17,  1870,  Dr.  Kerr  married  Miss  Sophia  A.  Nichols,  a  daugh- 

of  Robert  Nichols,  a  farmer,  and  an  old  resident  of  Boone  county. 
ey  have  had  born  to  them  six  children,  three  boys  and  three  girls. 

these  one  boy  and  two  girls  are  still  living.  The  doctor  is  a  mem- 
r  of  the  Ashland  Baptist  church  and  belongs  to  the  Ancient  Order 
lited  Workmen. 


664  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 


WALTER   THOMAS   LEMON 


Was  the  ninth  born  of  a  family  of  ten  children,  five  sons  and  five 
daughters.  His  parents  were  Robert  and  Amanda  (Mars)  Lemon, 
and  Walter  T.  was  born  on  his  father's  farm,  one-half  mile  west  of 
Columbia,  December  27,  1853.  Two  of  his  brothers  and  four  of  lu» 
sisters  attended  the  first  school  under  Prof.  Tandy  Orear,  in  the  old 
brick  house,  repaired  for  the  **  model  school"  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity. The  subject  of  this  sketch,  took  his  course  through  the  Uni- 
versity, graduating  from  the  medical  department  in  1876.  He  began 
the  practice  at  Vandalia,  in  Audrain  county,  Missouri,  remaining  there 
nine  months,  and  then  comin<;  to  Boone  county,  where  be  has  since 
been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession.  At  Ashland,  where 
he  resides  at  this  writing,  he  has  been  associated  with  Dr.  J.  T.  Roth- 
well.  In  the  winter  of  1879-80,  Dr.  Lemon  attended  lectures  at 
Bellevue  Medical  College,  New  York,  and  received  his  degree  from 
that  institution  in  the  spring  of  1880.  He  was  married,  March  15, 
1881,  at  Mexico,  Missouri,  to  Miss  Nannie,  daughter  of  Rufus  Pear- 
son, a  prominent  merchant.  They  have  one  child,  a  daughter.  Dr. 
Lemon  belongs  to  the  A.  O.  U.  W.,  and  is  an  earnest  and  consistent 
man  in  whatever  he  believes  to  be  right.  His  father  is,  at  this  writing, 
still  living,  and  resides  on  the  old  farm.  His  mother,  however,  is 
dead,  having  departed  this  life  in  January,  1857. 

LEASEL    LITTLEBURY    LINDSAY. 

This  gentleman  was  born  October  24,  1814  in  Spartanburg  district, 
South  Carolina.  He  is  the  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Warford) 
Lindsay.  His  parents  being  poor  hired  him  out  to  the  neighbors  to 
help  carry  on  their  farms.  He  grew  to  manhood  in  the  neighborhood 
of  his  birth,  and  is  without  text-book  education.  When  he  wastweuty 
years  of  age  he  left  home  and  learned  the  tanner's  trade.  Then  he 
came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  1834  and  has  resided  here  ever 
since.  He  located  in  the  vicinity  of  Union  settlement,  near  Union 
church  on  the  Perche.  He  lived  there  a  year  and  then  moved  to  where 
he  now  lives  or  in  close  proximity  to  his  farm.  He  is  a  farmer,  but 
has  carried  on  the  business  of  milling  for  about  seventeen  of  the 
twenty-three  years  since  he  moved  to  the  old  homestead.  He  was 
married  June  4,  1837,  to  Miss  Adeline  A.  V.  Edwards,  in  this  county. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Presley  and  Mary  J.  Edwards,  who  had  moved 
to  Missouri  from  Tennessee  some  years  before.     He  is  the  father  of 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE    COUNTY.  665 

eive  children,  five  of  whom  are  dead.  Mary  E.  (deceased),  born 
)ril  18,  1839  ;  Eliza  J.,  born  March  1,  1841 ;  Sarah  Margaret,  born 
icember  18,  1842;  Zerelda  A.,  born  January  1,  1845;  Jezreel, 
rn  September  28,  1847 ;  Jasper,  born  April  22,  1849 ; 
ssy  C.  P.  (deceased),  born  February  23,  1853;  Newton, 
rn  February  15,  1856;  Frances  Ellen  (deceased),  born 
igust  2,  1858  ;  Adeline  Lenora,  born  January  23, 1861 ;  Lease!  and 
mes,  twins  (deceased),  born  April  1,  1864.  He  is  aMason — mem- 
Y  of  the  lodge  at  Ashland.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are  members  of 
e  Baptist  church.  He  is  a  good  citizen,  enjoying  the  esteem  and 
nfidence  of  his  neighbors,  as  an  evidence  of  which,  he  has  been  a 
stice  of  the  peace  for  six  years. 

ABNER   MARTIN,    M.    D. 

Dr.  Martin  was  born  February  7,  1835.  He  received  a  good  com- 
)u  school  education  in  the  schools  of  his  neighborhood.  In  1854  he 
gan  the  study  of  medicine,  with  his  uncle.  Dr.  Meredith  Martin,  of 
.Louis,  and  graduated  from  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College  four 
ars  later,  or  in  1858.  After  his  graduation,  he  practiced  in  Boone 
anty  for  about  five  years.  He  spent  the  winter  of  1863-4  in  Belle- 
e  Medical  College,  New  York,  from  which  noted  institution  he  re- 
ved  a  diploma  in  the  spring  of  1864.  He  then  returned  to  Ash- 
d,  where,  and  in  the  county  generally,  he  practiced  his  profession 
eusively  until  1881,  when  he  became  president  and  superintendent 
the  Ashland  Mill  Company,  and  this  position  he  still  holds.  May 
1859,  Dr.  Martin  was  married  at  Providence,  Boone  county,  to 
js  Annie  Tuttle,  a  daughter  of  Judge  Gilpin  S.  Tuttle.  Of  this 
on  two  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter,  have  been  born.  The  doc- 
has  been  a  member  of  North  Salem  Baptist  church  for  about  thirty 
rs. 

R.  H.  MARTIN. 

lobert  Hudson  Martin  is  the  son  of  Nathan  and  Mary  (Hill)  Mar- 
natives  of  Kentucky,  who  emigrated  to  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
1838.  Robert  was  born  in  Todd  county,  Kentucky,  December 
h,  1820,  and  was  educated  at  home,  his  father  being  his  only 
jher.  As  the  elder  Martin  was  a  good  scholar,  the  son's  education 
\  not  neglected,  as  it  might  otherwise  have  been,  for  in  Robert's 
'hood  there  were  no  public  schools  in  that  section  of  country.  He 
\  the  fourth  son  and  seventh  child  of  a  family  of  eleven  children, 
sons  and  five  daughters,  of  whom  only  five  are  now  living.     Mr. 


666  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

Martin  crossed  the  plains  to  California  in  1850,  returning  home  in 
1851.  In  1852  he  bought  and  moved  to  the  farm  where  he  now  re- 
aides,  one  and  one-half  miles  north  of  Ashhind.  He  was  married, 
December  14th,  1848,  to  Miss  Nancy  E.  Harris,  a  native  of  Boone 
county.  They  have  had  ten  children,  eight  daughters  and  two  sons, 
of  whom  six  daughters  and  one  son  are  now  living.  Mr.  Martin  hu 
given  special  attention  to  stock  raising  and  has  made  the  business 
quite  profitable.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New  Salem  Baptist 
church,  also  of  the  Ashland  lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.  Mrs.  Martia 
died  September  9,  1881. 

ROBERT  SIDNEY  MARTIN,  M.  D. 

The  professional  gentleman  whose  name  heads  this  sketch  is  the 
son  of  Lincoln  R.  and  Isabella  Martin,  and  grandson  of  Wayne  Mar- 
tin,  who  came  from  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  to  St.  Louis,  Mis- 
souri, in  1816,  and  to  Boone  county  in  1818.  His  grandfather  was, 
therefore,  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  the  county  and  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Bonne  Femme  Baptist  church,  who  left  it  to  foimd 
the  New  Salem  church.  Dr.  Martin's  mother  was  a  daughter  of 
Abner  Nichols,  who  came  to  Boone  county  in  1825,  and  he  (Robert 
Sidney)  was  born  on  a  farm  one-half  mile  from  Ashland,  this  county, 
July  18,  1833.  He  was  the  second  of  a  family  of  eight  boys  and  two 
girls,  five  of  the  former  and  one  of  the  latter  still  surviving,  and  all 
residing  in  this  county.  Dr.  Martin  attended  the  district  schools  iu  his 
boyhood,  and  thus  acquired  the  elementary  part  of  his  education.  In 
1856,  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  his  uncle,  Meredith  Martiu, 
of  St.  Louis,  and  also  attended  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College,  from 
which  he  gratuated  in  1858.  In  the  winter  of  1859-60,  he  took  a 
course  of  lectures  at  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  iu  Philadelphia, 
from  which  he  received  his  diploma  in  the  spring  of  1860.  He  had 
begun  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Ashland,  in  1858,  and  returniog 
there,  after  finishing  his  course,  he  resumed  the  practice,  which  he 
has  built  up  to  be  both  extensive  and  lucrative.  He  had  not  practiced 
to  any  extent,  however,  when  the  war  came  on  and  he  entered  the 
Confederate  service  as  surgeon  of  the  6th  Missouri  regiment  of  infantry, 
Clark's  division  of  Gen.  Price's  army.  He  was  in  the  battles  of 
Boonville  and  Pea  Ridge,  and  after  the  latter,  was  assigned  to  the 
hospital  service  until  May  following,  when  he  returned  home.  D^* 
Martin  was  maried,  October  3d,  1860,  to  Mary  L.  Blanton,  oiKe^' 
tucky.     Three  sons  and  four  daughters  have  been  born  to  bless  tt»is 


HI8TOBT   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  667 

nion,  all  of  whom  survive  at  this  writing.  The  doctor  is  a  member 
f  the  New  Salem  Baptist  church,  and  also  of  the  Ashland  lodge  of  A. 
^  and  A.  M. 

W.    T.    MAUPIN. 

Wellington  Tilman  Maupin  is  a  son  of  W.  C.  and  Elizabeth  Scott 
i!aupin,  both  natives  of  Albemarle  county,  Virginia.  They  came  to 
3t. Charles  county,  Missouri,  in  1835,  and  to  Warren  county  in  1837, 
where  Mr.  M.  engaged  in  merchandising  in  addition  to  farming.  Here 
(Wellington  T.  Maupin  was  born  January  16,  1838,  being  the  third 
;hild  and  second  son  of  a  family  of  four  sons  and  two  daughters.  In 
;be  spring  of  1845  his  parents  removed  to  St.  Louis,  and  in  the  fall  of 
;he  same  year  to  Boone,  settling  on  a  farm  and  also  keeping  a  store 
it  Nashville,  ten  miles  southwest  of  Columbia.  Here  young  Maupin 
mproved  the  educational  advantages  afforded  by  the  common  schools 
)f  his  neighborhood,  and  attended  them  whenever  possible,  his  educa- 
iion  being  mainly  the  result  of  his  own  efforts.  In  1857  he  entered 
he  dry  goods  house  of  Stephens,  Conley  &  Smith,  at  Columbia,  and 
lere  remained  one  year,  the  next  year  becoming  deputy  postmaster, 
ifterwards  he  was  for  five  years  salesman  for  Hume  &  Park,  dealers 
n  general  merchandise,  and  then  became  a  member  of  the  firm,  which 
hen  took  the  name  of  Hume,  Park  &  Co.  In  1867  he  engaged  as 
alesraan  with  Barth,  Victor  &  Myer,  general  merchants.  In  1870  he 
ngaged  in  the  grocery  trade  in  partnership  with  Mr.  Allen,  the  firm 
eing  Allen  &  Maupin.  In  1875  he  disposed  of  his  interest  in  this 
'siness  and  for  the  next  two  years  was  a  salesman,  first  for  Kiggins 

Orear,  and  afterwards  for  Moss  &  Prewitt.  In  1877  he  came  to 
^hland,  where  he  has  since  been  engaged  in  merchandising,  at  first 
On  his  own  hook,"  and  subsequently,  in  September,  1881,  becoming 
iieraber  of  the  firm  of  Wiseman,  Maupin  &  Co. 
November  5,  1863,  at  Kansas  City,  Mr.  Maupin  married  Miss  Re- 
cca  E.  Wilson,  of  Lexington,  Kentucky,  daughter  of  an  American 
leer  who  fell  in  the  war  with  Mexico.  To  them  have  been  born  four 
Idren,  two  only  of  whom  are  now  living.  Mr.  Maupin  has  been  a 
mber  of  the  M.  E.  church.  South,  since  1854.  He  belongs  to  Twi- 
ht  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A^  M.,  of  Columbia,  and  also  to  the  Good 
mplars.  He  has  been  several  times  a  delegate,  and  is  now  delegate 
ct,  to  the  annual  Methodist  conference  of  Missouri.  In  1871  he  was 
ensed  by  his  church  as  an  exhorter.  He  was  at  one  time  superin- 
ident  of  the  Columbia  Sabbath  school,  and  is  now  superintendent  of 
e  Methodist  Sunday  school  at  Ashland. 


668  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

MRS.    MARY   M.    MURRY. 

The  maiden  name  of  Mrs.  Murry  was  Glasgow.  Her  father,  Nathai^ 
Glasgow,  was  one  of  the  early  pioneers  of  Missouri.  Her  mother's 
maiden  name  was  Graham.  Mrs.  Murry  was  first  married  to  £1*08108 
King,  of  Callaway  county,  in  1848.  Mr.  King  died  in  1856,  leaving 
three  small  children,  all  boys.  In  the  spring  of  1865  Mrs.  Murry 
moved  to  the  farm  upon  which  she  now  resides,  ten  miles  southeast  of 
Columbia,  containing  480  acres.  Two  of  her  sons,  Nathan  and  Johu 
G.  King,  live  with  her.  In  1874  she  was  married  to  Andrew  Murry, 
who  died  in  1876.  Mrs.  Murry's  sons  were  all  educated  at  Westmin- 
ster college,  Fulton,  Missouri.     One  son  died  in  infancy. 

p.    HENRY   m'KENNA. 

P.  Henry  McKenna  was  born  in  Jefibrson  county,  New  York,  March 
19,  1839.  He  is  the  son  of  James  and  Margaret  (Bruton)  McKenna. 
His  father  was  a  farmer,  and  the  son  was  brought  up  in  that  avocation. 
He  joined  the  Union  army  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  war,  becoming  a 
member  of  Company  C,  First  New  York  light  artillery,  with  which  he 
served  through  all  the  most  prominent  battles  of  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac.  He  took  part  in  sixteen  of  the  hardest-fought  engagemeuU 
of  the  war ;  participated  in  the  battles  of  Bull  Run,  Fredericksburg, 
Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg,  Falling  Waters,  Antietam,  the  battles  of 
the  Wilderness  and  around  Richmond.  He  was  married  September 
15,  1870,  to  Miss  Julia,  daughter  of  Otis  and  Rosette  Legate.  They 
have  four  children  living  —  Charles  Edwin,  Laurena  Henry,  Fred. 
and  Bertha.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  left  an  orphan  at  an  early 
age,  and  commenced  work  for  himself  at  three  dollars  a  month.  He 
not  only  had  to  care  for  himself,  but  for  several  younger  members  of 
the  family.  He  owns  about  400  acres  of  land  nearClaysville,  and  one 
of  the  finest  views  in  the  State.  His  house  stands  on  a  high  bluff, 
back  from  the  river  about  one  and  a  half  miles.  He  is  the  postmas- 
ter at  Claysville.  He  is  a  genial,  whole-souled  man,  a  kind  neighbor, 
and  worthy  citizen.  He  has  by  his  own  labor  accumulated  a  compe- 
tency, and  enjoys  it  as  a  reasonable  man  should. 

THOMAS    GARLAND    OLD. 

Thomas  Garland  Old,  blacksmith,  is  the  son  of  S.  M.  and  Elizabeth 
(Nichols)  Old.  His  parents  were  Kentuckians,  who  emigrated  to 
Boone  county,  Missouri,  where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  boriu 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  669 

ebruary  6th,  1844.  The  elder  Old  was  a  farmer,  and  the  son  was 
lared  on  a  farm  and  worked  at  that  business  himself.  Commenced 
orking  at  the  blacksmith's  trade  six  or  seven  years  ago.  Settled  at 
laysville  in  November,  1881.  Was  married  May  18th,  1876,  to  Vir- 
inia,  daughter  of  George  Mack  Hickam,  of  Boone  county.  They 
ive  two  children,  Hezekiah  and  Luvestie.  Mrs.  Old's  father  was 
)ni  and  raised  in  Boone  county.  Her  mother  came  from  North  Car- 
lina. 

REV.    DAVID    OTT. 

David  Oft,  Sr.,  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a  native  of 
irginia.  He  emigrated  first  to  Kentucky  and  then  to  Missouri,  land- 
igin  Boone  county  in  1826.  He  first  settled  about  six  miles  south- 
estof  Columbia,  where  he  remained  two  years.  He  then  moved  to 
erche  bottom,  where  he  remained  until  1844,  when  he  removed  to  a 
lace  northeast  of  Columbia,  remaining  there  two  years,  thence  to  a 
irm  below  Burlington,  where  he  lived  until  his  death,  March  17th, 
857,  aged  sixty-three.  He  was  a  wheelright  by  trade.  The  subject 
f  this  sketch  was  born  May  13th,  1830.  His  mother's  maiden  name 
as  Susannah  Perkins.  She  was  a  native  of  Virginia,  moving  first  to 
entucky  and  then  to  Missouri.  She  was  married  to  David  Ott  in 
ock  Castle  county,  Kentucky.  David  Ott,  Jr.,  lived  in  Boone 
>unty  until  1859,  when  he  removed  to  Carroll  county,  Missouri, 
here  he  resided  until  1862,  when  he  moved  to  Linn  county,  where, 

1870,  he  was  ordained  a  minister  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  was 
igaged  in  the  ministry  until  he  came  to  Burlington.     Went  to  Texas 

1877,  where  his  first  wife  died  in  1878.  Was  in  Texas  about  a 
ar  and  a  half.  Returned  to  Carroll  county  and  engaged  in  the  niin- 
ry  for  a  while  as  a  missionary,  then  returned  to  Boone.  While  in 
rroll  county  was  pastor  of  Coloma  and  Bethlehem  churches  and 
pplied  the  church  at  DeWitt.  After  returning  to  Boone  he  preached 
•  the  Burlington  church  for  one  year._  Was  first  married  Septera- 
r  21st,  1853,  to  Miss  Matilda  A.,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary 
sk,  natives  of  Kentucky.  Have  five  living  children  by  the  first 
Fe:  Nathan  B.,  A.  L.,  J.  B.,  M.  F.  and  John  P.  The  first  four 
med  are  living  in  Carroll,  the  last  mentioned  is  with  his  father. 
•.  Ott  was  married  the  second  time  January  8th,  1878,  to  Mrs. 
rah  (Nichols)  Chase.  Mr.  Ott  was  in  the  Union  army  about  twelve 
mtbs,  being  a  member  of  Company  C,  Forty-third  regiment,  Mis- 
iri  Volunteers.  He  was  for  a  while  a  lieutenant  in  the  **  Bobtail 
litia"  of  Carroll  county.     He  is  a  Mason  and  a  Granger.     Was 


670  H18TORT  OF  BOONB  OOUWTT. 

a  constable  and  a  justice  of  the  peace  while  a  citizen  of  Carroll 
county.     He  is  of  German  origin. 

OTWAY  p.  PBCK. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  a  native  of  Maryland » but  was  reand 
in  Virginia.  After  he  grew  to  manhood,  he  emigrated  to  Masoa 
county,  Kentucky,  where  he  was  elected  sheriff  for  two  terms,  discbarg* 
ing  the  duties  of  that  office  satisfactorily.  He  then  moved  to  Lexing- 
ton, Missouri,  and  was  living  there  when  the  gold  fever  of  ««'49" 
took  so  many  of  Missouri's  best  citizens  to  California.  While  bewu 
absent  in  California  his  family  moved  to  St.  Francois  county,  where 
they  remained  about  a  year,  and  then  moved  to  Ste.  Genevieve,  where, 
after  about  a  year,  they  were  joined  by  Mr.  Peck,  who  had  come 
back  from  California.  They  then  moved  to  Boone  county  in  the  {til 
of  1852,  and  settled  in  Columbia.  He  died  in  Johnson  county,  Mi»> 
souri.  He  made  considerable  money  in  California,  but  was  taken  sick 
among  strangers  and  his  money  melted  away.  He  was  married  the 
first  time  to  Miss  Ann  DeBell,  of  Kentucky,  who  died  after  being 
married  five  or  six  years.  By  this  marriage  they  had  one  son,  who 
died  in  California.  He  married  the  second  time  Miss  Frances  C, 
daughter  of  Edward  Wood,  EJsq.,  of  Fleming  county,  Kentucky, bj 
whom  he  had  eight  children,  only  three  of  whom  are  living,  £.  H., 
born  in  Washington,  Mason  county,  Ky.,  July  26th,  1841;  F.  W., 
bom  in  Lexington,  Ky.,  February  8th,  1850,  and  O.  P.,  bom  January 
1st,  1853.  They  were  reared  mostly  in  Boone  county.  £.  H.  and  F. 
W.  are  in  the  drug  business  at  Ashland  under  the  firm  name  of  Peck 
Bros.,  where  they  have  been  since  March  19th,  1879.  E.  H.  Peck 
learned  the  drug  business  in  Columbia,  and  is  considered  a  first-class 
pharmacist.  He  took  quite  a  trip  through  Texas,  Indian  Territoiy 
and  Kansas.  After  coming  back  to  Columbia  he  was  postmaster  there, 
and  then  went  into  business  for  himself  and  succeeded  admirably.  He 
was  educated  at  subscription  schools  and  at  the  University.  He  was 
one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Knights  of  P3rthias  Lodge  at 
Columbia,  and  has  been  city  treasurer  of  Ashland  for  two  years.  His 
father  and  mother  were  strict  members  of  the  Old  School  Prej*by- 
terian  church.  The  Pecks- were  all  descendants  from  three  brothers* 
who  came  over  from  Ireland,  and  upon  the  mother's  side  were  o^ 
French  and  German  extraction.  Thomas  Stone,  one  of  the  signer® 
of  the  Declaration  of  Iiulependence,  was  one  of  their  mother's 
oestors. 


BISTORT   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  671 

ELI   PENTER 

le  son  of  Martin  and  Nancy  A.  {nee  Tate)  Penter,  and  waa 
on  his  father's  farm  in  Independence  county,  Arkansas,  February 
$36.  When  but  thirteen  years  old  he  went  to  Oregon,  where  he 
ided  the  common  schools,  the  Salem  Institute  and  the  Winchester 
iemy.  From  the  spring  of  '62  till  the  fall  of  '65,  he  was  engaged 
«ding  in  the  mines  of  Oregon  and  Idaho,  transferring  supplies 
I  the  head  of  navigation  to  the  interior  mines,  doing  a  wholesale 
also  a  jobbing  business.  In  the  fall  of  '65  he  sold  out  at  Idaho 
,  and  came  via  Salt  Lake  City  and  Denver  to  Omaha,  and  thence 
0  Quincy,  Illinois,  where  he  spent  part  of  the  succeeding  winter, 
ling  up  with  a  visit  to  his  old  home  in  Arkansas.  His  coming  to 
ne  county  was  in  April,  1866.  The  three  years  succeeding  he 
it  in  farming  and  in  teaching  in  this  county.  In  the  fall  of  1867 
ntered  the  University  of  Columbia,  in  the  Sophomore  class,  grad- 
fig  with  honors  in  the  class  of  1870.  During  his  last  year  at  the 
irersity  he  was  an  instructor  in  that  institution.  After  leaving  the 
Jge  he  became  the  teacher  of  the  public  school  at  Ashland,  which 
tion  he  filled  for  three  years,  engaging  in  the  study  of  law  at  the 
B  time.  June  6th,  1873,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  the  session 
be  circuit  court  at  Columbia.  He  has  since  been  engaged  in  the 
tice  of  his  profession,  and  in  attending  to  his  duties  as  a  notary 
in  the  business  of  conveyancer  and  real  estate  agent.  April  1st, 
»,  in  connection  with  J.  W.  Johnson,  he  began  the  publication  of 
Ashland  Bugle y  and  continued  the  same  for  two  years.  During 
troubles  with  the  Indians  in  Oregon,  Mr.  Penter  served  six  months 
le  Oregon  volunteers  against  the  savages,  and  was  in  two  regular 
igements  and  a  number  of  skirmishes  with  them, 
ovember  9th,  1881,  Mr.  Penter  was  manned  to  Miss  Maggie  B. 
iston,  daughter  of  Rev.  J.  T.  M.  Johnston,  of  Boone  county. 
P.  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  of  the  Knights  of 
bias.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat ;  for  a  number  of  years  he  was 
ember  of  the  county  central  committee,  and  has  frequently  been 
as  a  delegate  to  his  paity's  county,  senatorial  and  State  couven- 
J. 

MICAJAH    GIBSON    PROCTOR 

le  son   of  Micajah  and  Nancy  (Sullins)  Proctor,  and  was  born 

^niber  14th,  1819,  in  this  county.     His  father  and  mother  were 

natives  of  Kentuckv.     His  father  died  in  1819  and  his  mother 


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in  1824,  here  in  Boone.  His  father  settled  on  the  Big  Bonne  Femme, 
about  four  miles  and  a  half  south  of  where  Mr.  Proctor  is  now  living. 
Upon  the  family's  breaking  up  at  the  death  of  his  parents  he  lived 
with  a  brother  of  his  mother  until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age,  when 
he  went  out  to  fight  life's  battles  for  himself.  He  was  without  meaiM 
or  education,  the  facilities  for  schooling  being  very  poor  in  those  early 
days.  The  first  year  he  worked  for  wages,  and  received  pay  foveverj 
day  with  the  exception  of  one  half  day  which  he  worked  upon  the 
road.  At  the  close  of  the  year  he  had  saved  $120.  He  went  to 
school  nine  months  and  again  resumed  work.  He  then  taught  two 
terms  of  three  months  each.  He  married  on  November  1st,  1844, 
Miss  Julia  Ann  Ballinger,  daughter  of  Elijah  and  Mary  Ballinger. 
His  wife  is  a  native  of  South  Carolina.  They  have  had  ten  childi-en, 
five  of  whom  are  now  living  —  James  E.,  Mary  E.,  Micajah  Gibson, 
Jasper  Emmett  and  Charles  Everett.  Himself  and  wife  are  members 
of  the  Old  School  Baptist  church.  He  was  a  volunteer  in  the  Mormon 
war,  but  never  saw  service,  as  the  trouble  ceased  before  he  arrived  at 
the  rendezvous.  His  father  forted  and  farmed  near  Boonville  when 
he  first  came  here  because  of  the  hostile  Indians  near  there.  Mr. 
Proctor  has  been  a  school  director  for  forty  years,  with  the  exception 
of  a  year  or  two.  He  has  a  splendid  farm,  nearly  all  acquired  by  his 
own  industry  and  good  management.  He  is  one  of  Boone's  substan- 
tial citizens  and  a  clever  gentleman. 

DAVID    RICE. 

David  Rice  was  born  in  Hardin  county,  Kentucky,  September  4th, 
1800.  He  is  the  son  of  John  and  Patsy  (Johnson)  Rice.  When 
nineteen  years  of  age,  he  came  to  Boone  county.  His  father  came  a 
year  later.  They  settled  at  Boone's  Lick.  In  1821  moved  to  the 
Bonne  Femme,  four  miles  southeast  of  McConathy's  mill.  He  was  a 
farmer,  and  his  son,  David,  was  brought  up  in  the  same  occupation. 
Was  married,  March  22d,  1829,  to  Miss  Sallie,  daughter  of  Higgason 
and  Nancy  Harris.  They  have  had  nine  children,  five  of  whom  are 
now  living::  Hi«:«:ason  H.,  Julina,  John  J.,  David  Barton  and  Sarah 
E.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rice  are  both  members  of  the  Baptist  church.  Mr. 
Rice  has  ])een  a  communicant  for  sixty  years.  Mr.  Rice  had  a  con- 
tract for  furnishing  lumber  for  the  capitol  building  at  Jefferson  Citv, 
and  rafted  to  that  city  three  hundred  pieces  of  timber.  Mrs.  Bice  has 
a  counterpane  which  she  spun  and  wove  with  her  own  hands  sixty 
years  ago. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  678 

s 

HIGGA80N    H.    RICE 

le  son  of  David  and  Sarah  (Harris)  Rice,  and  was  born  in 
le  county,  Missouri,  June  ()th,  1831,  and  has  lived  in  the 
ty  ever  since.  He  entered  the  hind  from  the  United  States  Gov- 
lent  upon  which  he  lives.  He  married  Miss  Mary  S.  Cropper, 
:hter  of  Thomas  and  Nancy  Anne  (Mitchell)  Cropper,  of  Cooper 
ty.  By  this  marriage  he  had  seven  children,  all  living:  David 
John  R.,  Franklin  D.,  Penelope  W.,  Lelia  B.,  Wm.  F.  and  Mary 
His  first  wife  died  in  June,  1874.  His  second  wife  was  Miss 
h  E.  Sappington,  daughter  of  Wm.  Sappington,  by  whom  he  had 
e  children:  Sarah  E.,  Tyre  H.  and  Palmer.  His  second  wife 
January  2d,  1882.  Mr.  Rice  is  a  member  of  the  Missionary  Bap- 
church,  and  has  been  a  deacon  about  27  years.  He  is  one  of  the 
St  Masons  of  the  county,  having  been  at  the  institution  of  Twilight 
ge,  at  Columbia. 

JOHN    J.    RICK. 

)hii  J.  Rice  is  the  son  of  David  and  Sarah  Rice,  natives  of  Ken- 
Ly,  but  among  the  first  settlers  of  Boone  county.  Mr.  Rice  came 
Missouri  in  1818,  and  settled  on  the  Bonne  Femme  creek.  His 
,  Sarah  Harris,  came  with  her  parents,  in  1819,  settling  in  the 
e  neighborhood.  David  Rice  moved,  in  1835,  to  a  farm  near 
>'8ville,  where  he  now  resides.  On  this  farm  his  son  John  was 
1  March  17th,  1836.  He  grew  to  manhood  on  this  farm,  attend- 
the  schools  of  the  neitjhborhood.  Durino  tlie  war  he  was  in  Illi- 
,  where  he  engaged  in  various  occupations.  In  the  spring  of 
5  he  was  married  to  Miss  Isabel  le  Nichols,  of  near  Ashland,  daugh- 
of  John  F.  Nichols.  After  his  marriage  Mr.  Rice  removed  to  a 
1  he  had  previously  purchased,  three  miles  from  Claysville.  Here 
remained  until  the  spring  of  1872,  when  he  moved  to  his  present 
le,  one  mile  north  of  Ashland,  on  the  srravel  road.     His  wife  hav- 

(lied  in  1879,  he  married  Sallie  Douglass,  a  native  of  Boone 
nty  and  a  descendant  of  the  first  pioneers.  Mr.  Rice  has  four 
dren,  three  sons  and  one  daughter.     He  has  been  a  member  of  the 

Pleasant  Baptist  church    since   he   was  twenty-three  years    old. 

is  also  a  member  of  the  Ashland  Lodge  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  a 
nber  of  the  Granire. 

MRS.    CORNELIA    ANN    ROBINSON 

«^  brought  from  Kentucky  by  her  widowed  mother,  Sarah  Bryan 
43 


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H74  HISTORY   OF.  BOONE   COUNTY. 

(afterwards  McClelland),  in  1827,  and  was  partially  educated  at 
Bonne  Femme  Academy.  In  1829  she  was  married  to  David  H. 
Hickman,  after  whose  decease  in  1856,  she  remained  a  widow  for 
fourteen  years.  She  was  then,  in  1870,  married  to  Elder  J.  M. 
Robinson.  At  an  early  age  she  had  professed  religion,  and  was  bap- 
tized by  Elder  R.  S.  Thomas,  and  was  ever  afterwards  an  energetic 
member  of  the  Baptist  church.  She  united  in  an  eminent  degree  tbe 
various  qualities  necessary  to  the  supervision  of  any  amount  of  work, 
reo^ardless  alike  of  former  methods  or  extent.  Each  fall  she  bad 
from  six  to  eight  of  the  better  kinds  of  York  carpets  woven,  and 
made  with  her  own  hands  some  eighty  or  more  garments,  besides 
entertaining  a  great  number  of  visitors  annually.  On  many  occa- 
sions she  has  been  known  to  entertain  over  night  from  thirty-five  to 
forty  persons ! 

For  many  years,  later  in  life,  she  was  in  feeble  health,  and  speut 
much  of  her  time  in  visiting  friends  throughout  the  country,  travel- 
ling over  the  greater  part  of  the  continent.     She  gave  liberally  of 
her  means  to  the  poor  and  needy,  never  stinting  her  purse  where 
she  thought  she  could  do  an  act  of  real  charity.     This  remarkable 
woman  wrote  her  own  last  will  and  testament.     A  correspondent  says 
of  her  in    an    obituary:    "Mrs.    Robinson  was    a    lady    universally 
beloved  for  her  g:entle,  womanlv  nature  and  true.  Christian  charac- 
ter.      Amiable,    unusually   kind,  charitable  and  affectionate  in  her 
feelings,    she  was    beloved    by    hosts    of  friends."     Another  writer 
says:    "Well    do   I    remember    her   in    my   early   boyhood  when  I 
played   with    her  children  as    school-fellows    and    oftentimes  visited 
her  attractive,  beautiful  home,  which  was  the  seat  of  refinement  and 
unsparing  hospitality.     Everything  about  her  reflected  neatness,  or- 
der and  gentility,  and  her  devotion  to  her    friends,  her   neighbor!? 
and  her  church  was  indeed  remarkable.     She  was  always  first  at  the 
house  of  God  and  the  last  to  leave  the  altar  of  prayer.     She  per- 
mitted nothins:  to  interfere  with  what  she  conceived  to  be  herdutVf 
and  was    fearless    in   its    performance.      Her    presence  was  never  a 
restraint  to  the  young,  but,  by  her  gentle  manners,  unselfisb  char- 
racter  and  kind  words,  she  imparted  joy  and  freedom  to  all." 

R.  A.  RODDY,  DECEASED. 

R.  A.  Roddy,  late  a  prominent  business  man  of  Providence  and 
vicinity,  was  born  in  Tennessee,  December  6th,  1831.  Came  to 
Boone  county  with  his  widowed  mother  in  1836.     He  was  married 


UR8.  CORNKUA  A.  BOBISSON. 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  675 

ctober  26th,  1852  to  Mi»8  Sallie  G.  Tuttle,  daughter  of  Gilpin  Tuttle, 
Boone  county,  Missouri.  His  father  and  mother  were  natives  of 
)uth  Carolina.  Mrs.  Roddy's  maiden  name  was  Lewis.  They  were 
irried  in  South  Carolina  in  1824  and  removed  to  Tennessee  the  year 
(lowing.  The  elder  Roddy  died  in  1835.  Mrs.  Roddy  came  to 
)one  county,  Missouri,  the  year  following,  and  lived  here  until  her 
r  death  in  1860,  having  previously  married  James  Dunn.  She 
ought  four  children  with  her  to  Missouri,  Francis  T.,  Robert  A.  and 
mes  H.  Robert  A.  was  born  December  6th,  1831  Was  reared  on 
3  farm  five  miles  south  of  Providence  and  was  educated  in  the  com- 
m  schools  of  the  county.  When  about  twenty-one  years  of  age  he 
nmenced  farming  and  continued  in  this  business  until  1868.  He 
8  also  largely  engaged  in  the  tobacco,  hemp,  and  stock  trade.  In 
J  spring  of  1869  he  bought  the  interest  of  Mr.  George  Haydon  in  a 
re  at  Providence,  thereby  becoming  the  partner  of  W.  P.  Tuttle, 
5  firm's  name  being  Roddy  &  Tuttle.  Mr.  Roddy  was  drowned, 
itober  the  5th,  1877,  while  on  his  way  to  St.  Louis,  on  board  a 
lamer,  with  hogs  for  that  market.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Nash- 
le  Baptist  church,  also  of  the  Masonic  lodge  at  Columbia.  Seven 
lldren  were  bom  to  him.  James  G.,  Robert  A.,  Margaret  A.,  Albert 
d  Arthur  are  living.  Two,  Willie  and  Lucy,  are  dead,  the  former 
ving  been  killed  by  a  wagon,  at  the  age  of  five  years,  the  latter  dy- 
I'm  February,  1881.  The  family  still  live  at  Providence.  Robert 
in  the  mercantile  business  with  Turner  S.  Riggs  and  T.  R.  Courts, 
der  the  firm  name  of  R.  A.  Roddy  &.  Co.  Mr.  Court;*  left 
?  firm  in  September,  1881. 

DR.    JOHN    T.    ROTHWELL. 

3r.  Rothwell  was  born  in  Garrard  county,  Kentucky,  July  11,  1840. 
J  father,  Fountain  Rothwell,  a  native  of  Virginia,  now  resides  in 
above  named  county,  where  he  has  spent  the  greater  part  of  his 
,  being  a  large  farmer  and  stock-raiser.  His  mother,  Jennie  Roth- 
11,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  and  a  daughter  of  Naanlan  Robberts, 
officer  in  the  war  of  1812.  John  was  the  fifth  child  and  fourth  son 
a  family  of  seven  children.  Of  his  brothers.  Rev.  W.  A.  Roth- 
11,  M.  D.,  now  resides  in  Moberly ;  James  M.  Rothwell  was  captain 
:he  Federal  army,  and  is  now  an  extensive  coal  miner  in  Kentucky ; 
nuel  D.  Rothwell  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Federal  army  ;  Gideon  B. 
:hwell  is  now  living  on  the  old  homestead  in  Kentucky.  His  sister 
he  wife  of  Rev.  W.  A.  Cravens,  of  Carthage,  Missouri.     The  dor- 


676  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

tor  received  a  liberal  education  in^his  native  State,  graduating  at  Dan- 
ville Central  College  in  1857. 

He  commenced  the  study  of  medicine  in  March,  1858,  with  Dr.  W. 
A.  Roth  well,  who  then  lived  in  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  and  con- 
tinued with  this  gentleman  until  May,  1860,  entering  the  St.  Loan 
Medical  College  in  the  fall  of  the  latter  year.  He  was  married  io  St. 
Louis  to  Miss  Anna  M.  Cuthbert,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Cuthbert,  princi- 
pal of  Cuthbert  Academy,  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  In  March,  1861,  he 
commenced  the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession  in  Boojie  county, 
Missouri.  During  a  part  of  the  years  1861  and  1862  ho  was  surgeon 
in  the  Confederate  army  ;  he  then  resumed  the  practice  in  this  county* 
and  continued  it  until  the  year  1874,  when  he  went  to  Colorado  with 
his  invalid  wife.  Returning  from  that  State  two  years  later,  he  again 
commenced  the  practice  in  Ashland,  this  county,  where  he  still  lives. 
He  was  again  married  May  2,  1860,  to  Miss  Savilla  J.  Ruffher,  who 
was  a  daughter  of  Peter  J.  Ruffner,  a  large  farmer  and  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  Boone  county.  Of  this  marriage  one  son  and  one 
daughter  were  born,  of  whom  the  son  is  still  living.  Dr.  Rothwellis 
now  practicing  with  Dr.  W.  T.  Lemon  ;  is  a  member  of  the  Metho- 
dist church  and  of  the  town  council  of  Ashland ;  an  excellent  phy- 
sician, and  an  estimable  citizen. 

LEWIS    8HELNUTT. 

John  G.  and    Rachel  Shelnutt,  the    parents   of  Lewis,  were  na- 
tives of  Georgia.     They  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  1847. 
Lewis  was  born  in  Georgia,  December  12,  1844.     He  is  the  second 
son  and  sixth  child  of  a  family  of  four  boys  and  three  girls,  of  whom 
two  sons  and  three  daughters  are  now  living.      He   was   reared  in 
Cedar  township,  and  educated  at  the  district  schools  of  the  neighbor* 
hood  and  at  Columbia.     In  1863  he  enlisted  under  Capt.  Cook,  in 
Company  F,  Ninth  M.  S.  M.     In  February,  1865,  he  was  transferred 
to  Capt.  James  B.  Decker's  company,  of  same  regiment,  in  which 
he  served  until  the  13th  of  July  following;    took  part  in  several  en- 
gagements, in  one  of  which  he  had  a  horse  shot  under  him.    After 
his  discharge  he  engaged  in  business  at  Columbia;  in  1868  went  to 
farming,  and  in  1874  moved  to  the  farm  which  he  now  occupies,  three 
miles   northwest   of  Ashland.     Mr.  Shelnutt  was   married  April  2t 
1869,  to  Miss  Susan  F.,  daughter  of  William  Blackburn,  of  Booue 
county.     They  have  four  sons  and  three  daughters.     , 


HISTORY   or   BOONE    COUNTY.  677 

FELIX    GRUNDY   SITTON,    M.    D. 

Dr.  Sitton  is  the  son    of  J.  T.  and  Priscilla  (May)  Sittoii,  and 
was  born  on  a  farm  two  miles  from  Fulton,  Callaway  county,  Mis- 
souri, March  8,  1822.     His  father  was  a  native  of  Tennessee,  and 
bis  mother  of  Kentucky,  though  they  came  to  Missouri  in  an  early 
day,  where  they  became  acquainted  and  were  married.      Dr.  Felix 
G.  was  the  eldest  of   a  family  of  four  sons  and  one  daughter,  the 
latter  being  deceased.     One  of  the  brothers  resides  at  Ashland,  in 
this  county,  and  the  other,  Albert  G.  Sitton,  is  in  the  medical  prac- 
tice at  Claysville.     The  subject  of  this  sketch  attended  the  common 
schools  of  his  native  county,  and  acquired  a  knowledge  of  algebra, 
natural  philosophy,  etc.,  at  the  school  of  Mr.  Woodsworth,  near  Wil- 
liamsburg.    At  that  time  he  was  eighteen  years  old.     For  the  next 
two  years  he  engaged  in  teaching,  also  continuing  his  studies  in  pri- 
vate.   In  the  spring  of  1845  he  commenced  the  study  of  medicine 
under  Dr.   E.  Rackliffe,  of  Portland,  Callaway  county,  at  the  same 
time  earning  the  means  to  prosecute  his  studies  by  his  own  industry. 
Tw^o  years  later  he  went  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  finished  his  me<li- 
'«!  course  and  received  his  diploma  from  the  St.  Louis  Medical  Coi- 
^ge.     He  began  the  practice  four  miles  north  of  Ashland  in   1849, 
warding  first  in  the  family    of    Mr.  Strode,  and  practicing  in  that 
»i't  of  the  county.      In  185»5  he  moved  to  Ashland,   where  he  has 
'^ce  resided  and  practiced  his  profession.      June  14,   184G,  he  en- 
*ted  in  Capt.  Rogers'  company  of  Col.   Doniphan's  regiment,  and 
'rved  in  the  Mexican  war  in  the  "Army  of  the  West,"  under  Gen. 
eariiey.     On  account  of  failing  health,  however,  he  was  discliarged 
<>m  service,  and  returned  home  in  August.     In  the  following  May, 
is  health  being  recovered,  he  went  to  St.  Louis  to  continue  his  studies  in 
tie  hospitals.  Dr  Sitton  wasfirst  married  January  4, 1853,  to  Miss  Susan 
>trode,  daughter  of  Jacob  S.  and  Frances  Strode.     She  died  September 
4,  1871,  having  borne  four  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  living  but  one 
ou.    The  doctor  was  again  married  February  4,  1877,  to  Miss  Clara 
-    Roberts,  daughter  of  John  S.  and  Sallie  Roberts,  and  granddaugh- 
*^  of  the   Roberts   who  owned  the  land  on  which  part  of  Ashland 
^^  stands.     By  the   last  marriage   he  had   two    girls.     Dr.  Sitton 
***   been  a  member  of  the  New  Salem   Baptist  church   since   1852, 
*d    twenty-two  years    of   that   time   he   has   served    as    moderator. 
^^  is  an  active  temperance   nnin   and  a  strong  prohibitionist.     The 
^torians  of  this  work  are  much  indebted  to  Dr.   Sitton  for  a  <le- 


678  HISTORY   OP   BOONK   COUNTY. 

tailed  history  of  New  Salem  church,  of  which  he  has  been  so  long  a 
member. 

ALFRED    SLACK. 

John  Slack,  the  father  of  Alfred,  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania. 
He  emigratedto  Kentucky  in  1810  and  to  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
in  1819.  His  mother,  Mary  (Caldwell)  Slack,  was  a  native  of  Ken- 
tucky. Alfred  was  born  February  21,  1821.  He  was  the  fourth  son 
and  fifth  child  of  a  family  of  six  sons  and  two  daughters,  two  sons 
and  one  daughter  of  whom  are  now  living.  Gen.  William  Y.  Slack, 
of  the  Confederate  army,  killed  at  the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge,  was  an 
elder  brother.  Alfred  was  a  student  of  the  State  University  from  the 
opening  session  of  that  institution  until  he  completed  his  studies. 
After  leaving  the  University,  he  spent  two  years  in  Columbia,  clerk- 
ing in  a  store.  In  1843,  the  elder  Slack  having  been  appointed  tobacco 
inspector  by  Governor  Reynolds,  which  necessitated  his  removal  to 
St.  Louis,  Alfred  took  charge  of  his  farm  and  managed  it  for  him  tim- 
ing his  absence.  In  the  spring  of  1850  he  crossed  the  plains  to  Cali- 
fornia where  he  remained  for  two  vears  devotino:  his  attention  to  miu- 
ing.  Returning  in  1852,  he  located  at  Boonville,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  mercantile  business  until  1881,  when  he  came  to  Boone  county, 
where  he  now  resides.  He  is  living nin^  miles  southeast  of  Columbia 
upon  a  farm  of  350  acres.  He  was  first  married  in  Cooper  county  to 
Miss  Nannie  O'Brien,  who  died  in  1865.  Afterwards  he  married  M'isjj 
Marv  A.  Stark,  a  native  of  Boone  countv,  and  sister  to  Newman  B. 
Stark.  Has  had  three  children,  two  daughters  and  one  son,  of  whom 
one  son  and  one  daughter  are  living. 

FRANCIS    M.    SMITH. 

Francis  Marion  Smith  is  the  son  of  William  Smith,  a  native  ot'M(*r- 
cer  county,  Kentucky.  He  came  to  St.  Louis  at  an  early  day  and  to 
Boone  county  in  1818  with  Peter  Ellis,  whose  daughter  he  nmrried. 
He  settled  on  a  farm  in  the  vicinity  of  Ashland,  which  he  finally  im- 
proved. Upon  this  farm  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  Febru- 
ary 18,  1840.  Was  raised  on  the  farm  and  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  the  neighborhood.  Has  had  charge  of  the  farm  upon  which 
he  now  lives  since  18(54.  Has  always  followed  the  occupatiou  of  » 
farmer  and  a  dealer  in  stock,  principally  cattle  and  mules.  Mr.  Smith 
was  married  in  Audrain  county,  September  14,  1864,  to  Miss  Hattie 
J.  Pearson,  daughter  of  Richmond  Pearson.  They  have  two  sons. 
SmirtM.h  has  been  a  justice  of  the  peace  since   1880.     He  is* 


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HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  679 

aber  of  Dry  Fork  Baptist  church  ;  also  of  the  Ancient  Order 
ted  Workmen. 

WILLIAM     SMITH,    DECEASED. 

rUliam  Smith  was  the  son  of  George  W.  Smith,  of  Kentucky.  He 
born  on  his  father's  farm,  in  Mercer  county,  Kentucky,  April  24, 
7.  He  was  the  oldest  of  three  sons  and  four  daughters.  Of  these 
son  and  three  daughters  are  now  living :  Washington  in  Arkan- 
,  Mrs.  Shoults  in  Boone  county,  Mrs.  Piatt  in  St.  Louis  county, 
5.  Graves  in  Texas.  William  came  with  his  father  to  St.  Louis 
nty,  Missouri,  in  1816,  where  the  elder  Smith  lived  until  his  death. 
1818  William  came  to  Boone  county  in  company  with  Peter  Ellis, 
J  whose  eldest  daughter  he  married  October  29,  1818.  This  was 
first  marriage  ever  celebrated  within  the  bounds  of  what  now  con- 
utes  Boone  county,  then  part  of  Howard  county.  Ten  children 
•e  born  of  this  marriage,  seven  sons  and  three  daughters.  They 
jd  to  see  all  their  children  grown,  married  and  settled,  most  of  them 
bin  a  few  miles  of  the  old  home.  After  his  marriage  Mr.  Smith 
ired  to  Callaway  county,  where  he  remained  seven  years.  In  1827 
'eturued  to  Boone  county  and  settled  on  the  land  now  owned  and 
jpied  by  his  son,  F.  W.  Smith.  In  1842  he  built  a  large  brick 
tiling  in  which  he  lived  and  died,  his  death  occurring  May  24,  1872. 
1.  Smith  died  May  1,  1876.  Mr.  Smith  was  a  zealous 
nbor  of  the  Methodist  church.  For  twenty-five  years  his 
;e  mansion  was  used  as  a  place  for  holding  religious 
^ices.  He  was  an  enterprising,  thrifty,  public-spirited  citi- 
,  doing  all  in  his  power  to  proniote  every  enterprise  that  wjis 
;ulated  to  beneBt  his  people.  He  was  an  active,  zealous  worker 
he  cause  of  education  and  gave  liberal  support  to  every  scheme 
king  to  a  higher  and  better  system  of  public  education.  He  sub- 
bed largely  to  the  State  University  and  lived  to  see  and  realize  the 
ts  of  his  generosity.  Although  his  life  was  spent  in  retirement,  he 
a  name  and  reputation  that  will  ever  survive  him.  He  was  a  good 
I  and  a  useful  citizen. 

HIRAM   SMITH. 

he  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  William  and  Nancy  (Ellis) 
th.  He  is  entitled  to  the  distinction  of  being  the  first  white  child 
I  in  Boone  county  of  parents  who  were  married  in  this  county, 
was  born  on  the  old  Peter  Ellis  farm,  August  18th,  1819.  He 
le  eldest  of  a  family  of  seven  boys   and    three  girls.     Remained 


680  HISTOBY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

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with  his  parents  until  1845,  when  he  removed  to  the  farm  upon  which 
he  now  resides,  consisting  of  300  acres,  adjoining  the  old  homestead. 
Was  married  December  19th,  1844,  to  Miss  Mary  A  Hubbard,  a 
native  of  Boone  county,  and  daughter  of  Daniel  Hubbard,  oueoftbe 
early  pioneers.  By  this  marriage  they  have  had  four  sons  and  tiro 
daughters,  of  whom  three  sons  are  now  living.  Mr.  Smith  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  Salem  Baptist  church.  He  is  largely  interested  in 
stock  raising  and  has  some  choice  high-grade  cattle.  His  farm  is 
finely  improved.  His  three  sons  are  all  married.  David  H.  is  a 
merchant  at  Mexico,  Missouri ;  Dr.  William  R.  is  located  atCarring- 
ton  station,  Callaway  county,  and  Thomas  B.  is  a  fanner  and  resides 
in  this  county. 

PETER   E.    SMITH,    DECEASED. 

Peter  Ellis  Smith  was  one  among  the  oldest  native  born  citizens  of 
Boone  county.  His  father,  William  Smith,  came  to  Boone  countv 
in  1818.  He  married  Nancy,  eldest  daughter  of  Peter  Ellis,  Sr.,  the 
progenitor  of  the  Ellis  family  of  Boone  county.  The  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  born  March  28th,  1821.  He  was  the  second  sou  and 
second  child  of  a  family  of  seven  sons  and  three  daughters,  five  of 
whom  are  now  living,  all  but  one  in  Boone  county.  When  five  or  six 
years  old,  his  father  moved  to  the  farm  now  occupied  by  F.  M.Smith. 
He  remained  on  this  farm  until  his  marriage,  February  26th,  1846. 
His  first  wife  was  Miss  Nancy  Moseley,  daughter  of  William  Moseley, 
of  Boone  county.  Mr.  Smith  had  a  fine  farm  of  500  acres,  situated 
seven  miles  northeast  of  Ashland  and  twelve  miles  southeast  of  Colum- 
bia. He  was  a  successful  breeder  of  thoroughbred  cattle.  Was  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  church.  Had  four  children,  two  sons  and 
two  daughters,  of  whom  only  one  daughter  is  now  living.  The  first 
wife  having  died  in  1872,  he  was  again  married,  July  26th,  1874,  to 
Mrs.  Lorinda  J.  Wheeler,  daughter  of  John  Crobarger,  of  St.  Louis. 

JOHN  E.  SMITH. 

John  Ellis  Smith  is  the  son  of  William  and  Nancy  (Ellis)  Smith, 
who  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  Boone  county.  The  subject  ot 
this  sketch  was  born  on  the  old  Smith  farm,  in  Boone  county,  October 
15th,  1830.  He  was  the  fifth  son  and  sixth  child  of  a  family  of 
seven  sons  and  three  daughters.  He  was  reared  on  the  farm  and 
educated  at  the  common  schools  of  the  neighborhood.  He  lived  on 
the  home  place  until  1859,  when  he  bought  the  farm,  where  he  now 
lives,  which  contains  320  acres  and  is  situated  six  miles  northeast  of 


HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  681 

jhlaiid.  He  is  largely  interesteiJ  in  agriculture  and  is  an  extensive 
ealer  in  stock.  He  was  married  in  Callaway  county,  October  9th, 
856,  to  Miss  Mary  J.  Boyd,  daughter  of  Thomas  Boyd,  now  a  citizen 
TBenton  county,  Missouri.  They  had  four  sons,  three  of  whom  are 
mor,     Mr.  Smith  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church. 

GILPIN  8PKNCER 

J  the  son  of  Perry  and  Eliza  Jane  (Wiseman)  Spencer;  was  born  on 
le  farm  where  he  now  lives  on  the  5th  day  of  February,  1835.  His 
itherwas  born  in  Talbot  county,  Maryland,  and  was  engaged  in  busi- 
688  in  Baltimore  for  several  years.  Financial  reverses  overtook  him 
id  became  West  and  engaged  in  farnaing,  which  he  continued  until 
18  death  in  1862.  His  son  Gilpin  is  living  upon  the  old  home  place, 
;tending  strictly  to  business,  handling  stock  and  raising  grain,  of 
hich  wheat  is  his  specialty.  He  was  married,  December  10th,  1862, 
»Mis8  Sarah  C.  Hubbard,  daughter  of  George  and  Patsy  Hill  (Gibbs) 
abbard.  They  have  three  children  livin^:  and  one  dead,  Albert  B., 
illie  Carrie  (deceased),  George  Perry  and  Susannah.  Himself,  wife 
d  oldest  son  are  members  of  the  Methodist  church  at  Burlington, 
lich  church  he  was  instrumental  in  building  and  is  now  one  of  the 
diner  members.  His  is  a  fine  farm  containino:  over  six  hundred 
•es  of  choice  land. 

JOSEPH   I.  STKHNK, 

e  son  of  Thomas  and  Nancy  (Ingles)  Sterne,  was  born  in  Harrison 
inty,  Kentucky,  May  2d,  182H.  His  father  \yas  a  native  of  Vir- 
ia,  and  his  mother  of  Kentucky.  His  mother's  parents  were  Joseph 
I  Mary  (Bryant)  Ingles.  His  grandmother  on  his  mother's  side 
J  a  niece  of  Daniel  Boone.  He  was  married  October  28th,  1852, 
Vliss  Emma  Coleman,  daughter  of  Whitehead  and  Elizabeth  (Pow- 
Coleman.  By  this  union  they  have  had  seven  children,  six  of 
>m  are  living,  Thomas  W.,  James  G.,  Frank,  Mary  B.,  Dixie, 
e  and  Lizzie,  deceased.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fratcrni- 
md  his  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Missionary  Baptist  church.  He  has 
n  engaged  in  farming  pretty  much  all  his  life,  and  is  a  good  citizen 


clever  gentleman. 


THOMAS  W.  STERNE. 


Ir.  Sterne  is  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Emma  (Coleman)  Sterne,  and 

\  born  in  Harrison  county,  Kentucky,  January  20th,   1854.     His 

ler  moved  from  Kentucky  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  when  Thomas 

about  three  years  old,  where  the  young  man  was  reared.     He  was 


682  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

married,  October  9th,  1881,  to  Miss  Annie  L.  Wright,  a  daughter  of 
Hale  T.  Wright.  Mr.  Sterne  has  a  good  common  school  educatioo 
and  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  worthy  young  men  of  his  section, 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  lodge  at  Ashland  and  his  wife  is  a 
member  of  the  Baptist  church. 

JUDGE   WILLIAM    PORTER   TUTTLE. 

Judge  William  Porter  Tuttle  is  the  son  of  John  Tuttle,  a  native  of 
Virginiji,  who,  when  a  young  man,  went  to  Kentucky  on  horseback, 
and  while  there  married  Susan  Elliott,  a  native  of  that  Stat^.  They 
emigrated  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  about  the  year  1826,  and  set- 
tled five  miles  southwest  of  Columbia.  They  were  members  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  in  which  faith  they  lived  and  died.  The  subject 
of  this  sketch  was  born  January  20th,  1834.  He  was  the  youngest  of 
a  family  of  three  boys  and  three  girls,  all  of  whom  are  now  living 
except  one  sister,  Mary  Jane,  who  died  in  1841,  at  the  age  of  eighteen. 
All  of  the  family,  except  one,  are  living  in  Boone  county.  Porter 
was  reared  on  his  father's  farm.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  entered  the 
Missouri  State  University,  taking  the  full  course  as  prescribed  by  that 
institution.  After  completing  his  studies  he  entered  the  store  of 
Gilpin  S.  Tuttle,  at  Nashville,  Boone  county.  Two  years  later  he 
was  married  to  his  cousin,  Nannie  P.  Tuttle,  daughter  of  his  employer. 
He  then  went  into  partnership  with  his  uncle  at  Providence,  under  the 
firm  name  of  G.  S.  &  W.  P.  Tuttle.  They  did  business  until  thev 
were  obliged  to  close  the  store  on  account  of  their  political  opinions. 
This  was  in  1861.  In  the  summer  of  that  year  he  enlisted  in  Capt. 
Samuel  Tattle's  company,  of  Col.  McKinney's  regiment,  Confederate 
army.  He  took  part  in  the  battles  of  Dry  wood  and  Lexington. 
While  recruiting  on  this  side  of  the  river,  was  captured,  December 
15th,  1861.  Was  sent  a  prisoner  to  McDowell's  College,  St.  Louis, 
where  he  was  soon  afterwards  prostrated  with  a  severe  attack  of 
small-pox,  remaining  from  the  25th  of  December,  1861,  until  March, 
1862,  in  the  hospital.  Recovering  at  last,  he  was  released  from  prison 
on  takinor  the  oath  of  alleoriance  to  the  Federal  Government.  On  his 
return  he  resumed  business  at  Providence  under  the  firm  name  of 
Thomas  P.  &  William  M.  Tuttle.  In  1864  they  were  robbed  three 
times  by  guerillas,  and  once  by  the  Federal  soldiers.  He  now  gave 
up  the  mercantile  business  and  went  to  freighting  across  the  plains  to 
New  Mexico,  and  finally  to  Montana,  the  work  being  in  the  interest  ot 
the  Federal  Government.     In   1867  he  returned  to  Providence  »«^ 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  683 

isamed  the  merciintile  business  with  George  Haydon  &  Co.  Two 
ears  later  Mr.  Haydon  sold  to  R.  A.  Roddy  and  the  business  went  on 
I  the  name  of  Roddy  &  Tuttle.  Mr.  Roddy  was  drowned,  October  5th, 
877,  and  Mr.  Tuttle  associated  in  business  S.  J.  Conlev,  with  whom 
le  is  still  doing  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Tuttle  &  Conley. 
They  do  a  large  mercantile,  grain  and  stock  business,  and  are  largely 
Dterested  in  farming.  Judge  Tuttle  has  had  three  sons  and  five 
laughters  born  to  him,  four  of  whom — Charles  T  ,  Annie  R.,  Marion 
J.,  and  Victoria  R.,  are  dead.  The  living  are  Saliie,  William  M., 
^orter  H.,  and  Clara  E.  Mr.  Tuttle  was  elected  judge  of  the  Boone 
ounty  court  in  1880,  and  is,  at  this  writing  (summer  of  1882),  a  can- 
lidate  for  re-election,  with  a  fair  prospect  of  being  his  own  successor, 
lewas  commissioned  postmaster  at  Providence  in  1879,  which  posi- 
ion  he  resigned  on  being  elected  a  judge  of  the  county  court.  He 
las  been  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  for  twenty-seven  years. 
Irs.  Tuttle  has  been  a  member  of  the  same  church  for  twenty-eight 
ears.  They  united  with  the  church  at  Old  Nashville  and  were 
nmereed  in  the  Missouri  river.  Has  been  a  member  of  the  Ashland 
xlcre  of  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  since  1862. 

J.    LUCAS   TURNER. 

James  Lucas  Turner  is  the  son  of  Major  Henry  Smith  Turner,  who 
18  born  in  King  George  county,  Virginia,  April  1st,  1811.  He  en- 
fed  West  Point  Military  Academy  in  1830,  graduating  in  1834.  In 
i  class  were  Gen.  Halleck  and  Major  John  H.  Lee,  now  living  On 
^duating,  was  commissioned  brevet  second-lientenant  of  First 
•agoons.  Became  adjutant  at  regimental  headquarters  in  July,  1830, 
lich  position  he  held  for  two  years.  Was  commissioned  first- 
Litenant  March  3d,  1837,  and  aid-de-camp  to  Gen.  Adkinson  in 
ly,  1839.  After  which  he  was  sent  by  the  War  Department,  with 
:>  of  his  fellow-graduates,  to  the  cavalry  school  of  France,  for  the 
rpose  of  studying  the  system  of  tactics  taught  at  that  institution 
;h  a  view  of  preparing  a  manual  for  the  United  States  army.  Spent 
>  years  in  this  work.  Returning  home  in  1841,  he  was  made  adju- 
it  of  his  regiment  and  stationed  at  Fort  Leavenworth,  where  he 
nained  until  1846.  Was  breveted  major  for  gallant  service  on  the 
ntier,  and  resigned  in  1848.  In  1850  was  appointed  assistant 
asurer  for  the  government  at  St.  Louis,  which  position  he  held  for 
•ee  years.  In  1853  engaged  in  the  hanking  business  with  James  H. 
icas  and  Gen.  W.  T.  Sherman,  remaining  with  the   St.  Louis  firm 


684 


HISTORY   OK  BOONE   CODNTY. 


until  1^57,  when  he  went  to  Sau  Francisco,  where  Lucas,  Turner. 
Co.  had  a  braucb  house.  Major  Turner  was  married  to  Julia  Enn 
daughter  of  (Japt.  Theodore  Hunt,  of  the  U.  S.  A.,  a  first  couaiui 
Gen.  Robert  E.  Lee.  Mrs.  Turner  is  the  granddaughter  of  John  I 
C.  Lucas  and  Ann  L.  Hunt,  who  was  the  daughter  Qf  John  BspIJi 


Charlus  Lucas,  of  Normandy,  France.  He  was  educated  for  tli«  l»i 
and  emigrated  to  America,  settling  at  Philadelphia.  Ho  was  a  mei 
ber  of  the  legislature  and  judge  of  the  common  pleas  court  of  th 
citv.  In  1S03— 4  was  a  member  of  Congress,  resigned  his  seat  to  a 
cept  the  office  of  commissioner  of  titles  for  the  province  of  Upp 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  685 

ouisiana.  J.  Lucas  Turner  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  September  25th, 
]5ij  where  he  remained  until  his  family  removed  to  Philadelphia,  in 
163.  In  1866  the  family  returned  to  St.  Louis,  and  J.  Lucas  went 
Orleans,  France,  where  he  studied  for  three  years.  Returning  to 
e  United  States,  he  completed  his  education  in  1869  at  Georgetown 
Jlege,  District  of  Columbia.  In  1874  he  went  into  business  in  St. 
)ui8  as  stockholder  and  director  of  the  Harrison  Wire  (company. 
3  remained  in  this  business  for  two  years.  For  two  years  following 
IS  connected  with  the  Lucas  bank,  St.  Louis.  His  health  failing, 
I  retired  from  the  bank  and  moved  a  short  distance  into  the  country. 
1880  he  removed  to  Boone  county,  settling  oiu  the  farm  where  he 
res  at  this  writing.  He  has  a  fine  place  of  six  hundred  acres  located 
reive  miles  south  of  Columbia.  Mr.  Turner  was  married,  November 
)th,  1876,  to  Miss  Bertha  G.  Chouteau,  of  St.  Louis,  daughter  of 
enry  Chouteau,  Jr.,  and  granddaughter  of  Henry  Chouteau,  Sr., 
ho  was  killed  in  the  Gasconade  bridge  accident,  while  a  passenger 
1  the  first  train  over  the  Missouri  Pacific  railroad.  He  has  one  son 
id  one  daughter.  Mr.  Turner  is  the  tenth  child  and  eighth  son  of  a 
mily  of  ten  sons  and  seven  daughters,  of  whom  ten  —  five  of  each 
K  —  are  now  living.  His  eldest  brother,  Capt.  Thomas  T.  Turner, 
«  a  member  of  Gen.  Ewell's  staff".  Wilson  P.  H.  Turner  was  first- 
utenant  in  Col.  Pelham's  light  artillery,  and  was  killed  at  the 
*'Ond  battle  of  Manassas.  His  uncle,  Thomas  Turner,  was  admiral 
the  United  States  Navy,  and  had  command  of  the  navy  yard  at 
iladelphia.  Mr.  Turner  devotes  his  entire  attention  to  breeding 
:>roughbred  horses  and  Jersey  cattle.  His  stock  is  not  excelled  on 
3  continent  for  purity  of  blood  and  lineage.  With  a  determination 
excel  in  this  business,  he  has  spared  neither  time,  pains  nor  money 
stocking  his  excellent  farm  with  the  finest  grade  of  horses  and  cat- 
that  could  be  purchased.  It  is  too  soon  for  him  to  realize  the 
ight  hopes  which  he  reasonably  cherishes,  but  the  day  is  not  far  dis- 
it  when  the  attention  of  all  lovers  of  fast  and  beautiful  horses  will 
turned  to  this  splendid  collection,  the  nucleus  of  which  cannot  be 
celled   in  this  country. 

THOMAS    GILPIN    TUTTLE. 

Mr.  Tuttle   is  the  son  of  John  Tuttle,  a  farmer,  who  was  a  native 

Virginia,  and  born  near  Bull    Run    creek,  where  so   much  hard 

hting  was  done  during  the  civil  war.      John's  wife,  and  Thomas' 

)ther,  was  Susan  Hall  Elliott,  a  native  of  Kentucky.     The  subject 


686  U16TOKY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

of  this  sketch  was  born  on  his  father's  farm,  in  Booue  county,  July  20, 
1831,  where  he  continued  to  reside  till  1864.  His  education  wu 
obtained  in  tlie  schools  of  his  neighborhood,  which  he  attended  during 
boyhood.  The  winter  of  1858-59  was  spent  in  Texas.  In  Januarj, 
1862,  he,  being  a  Southern  sympathizer,  was  arrested  by  order  of 
Gen.  J.  B.  Douglass,  of  the  M.  S.  M.,  and  confined  in  Gratiot  street 
(St.  Louis)  prison,  and  was  also  held  at  Alton.  He  was  released  ii 
the  latter  part  of  June  following,  but  had  to  swear  allegiance  andgive 
a  bond  of  $4,000.  Returning  home  he  cultivated  his  farm  till  he  so 
it  in  the  spring  of  1864.  He  then  engaged  in  the  mercantile  basiness 
in  Providence,  this  county,  with  his  brother.  He  was  twice  robbed 
by  Anderson's  men,  and  was  also  effectually  cleaned  out  by  the  Fed- 
erals, under  Gen.  Fisk. 

In  the  spring  of  1865,  he,  with  two  brothers,  went  to  freighting 
across  from  Fort  Leavenworth  to  Colorado  and  Montana.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1865,  he  moved  his  family  to  Saline  county,  where  he  farmed  and 
fed  stock  for  two  years.  He  bought  a  farm  in  the  spring  of  '68,  eight 
miles  west  of  Columbia,  where  he  lived  ten  years,  until  his  removalto 
Ashland  in  '78.  There  he  engaged  in  the  furniture  and  undertaking 
business,  where  he  still  resides.  He  also  cultivates  a  farip  adjoining 
the  town  on  the  south.  Mr.  Tuttle  was  married  Juno  19,  1855,  to 
Gillie  C,  daughter  of  James  S.  Lowery,  of  Boone  county.  Sbe  died 
in  1872,  and  he  was  again  married  in  '74,  to  Miss  Georgie  E.  Tuttle, 
daughter  of  Judge  Gilpin  S.  Tuttle,  of  Boone  county.  Mr.  Tuttle  i« 
the  father  of  two  sons,  oldest  born  in  1875,  and  younger  in  1882. 

He  is  a  member  of  Ashland  lodge  of  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  was  a 
charter  member  of  Locust  Grove  Grange,  P.  of  H. 

WILLIAM    CORNELIUS    VANAUSDAL. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Bridgeton,  St.  Louis  county, 
Missouri,  December  4,  1841.  He  is  the  son  of  Wm.M.  andMan' 
Ann  (Robertson )  Vanausdal.  His  father  was  from  Greenbrier  county, 
Virginia  ;  and  his  mother  was  a  native  of  South  Carolina.  His  father 
was  drowned  oft'  the  steamer  Belle  St.  Louis  while  on  his  way  to  St. 
Louis  in  the  fall  of  1876.  He  and  his  family  came  to  Boone  county  in 
April,  1852.  He  was  both  a  blacksmith  and  house-carpenter,  but  the 
last  years  of  his  life  he  worked  at  carpentering  exclusively.  He  built 
many  of  the  best  houses  in  and  around  Ashland.  Mrs.  Vanausdal's 
brother,  Jack  Robertson,  and  her  brother-in-law,  Wm.  FaTIon,  were 
the  first  to  carry  the  United  States  mail   across  the  plains  from  St. 


HISTORY   OF   BOOxNE    COUNTY.  687 

Louis  to  California  upon  horseback.  Wm.  C.  Vanausdal,  our  subject^ 
vss  educated  at  Florissant,  St.  Louis  county,  and  at  Ashland  College, 
nnder  the  principalship  of  J.  T.  M.  Johnston  and  Dr.  {1.  M.  Chevins 
i8  assistant.  When  the  war  broke  out  he  enlisted  in  Capt.  Martin's 
company,  C.  S.  A.,  and  was  at  the  battle  of  Boonville.  After  Mar- 
tin's company  was  disbanded  he  joined  Strode's,  and  was  captured 
and  imprisoned  at  the  University.  After  his  release  he  started  to 
Salt  Lake  City,  but  abandoned  the  idea  and  went  down  to  Santa  Fe, 
New  Mexico,  where  he  remained  about  two  years,  and  returned  to 
Missouri.  He  went  to  St.  Louis  and  went  into  business  with  Harris 
&  Pe,  mule  brokers,  government  contractors,  etc.,  for  whom  he 
worked  a  year.  He  then  came  back  to  Boone  and  engaged  in  farm- 
ing and  stock  trading.  He  made  several  trips  to  the  Indian  Territory 
for  cattle,  and  continued  in  the  business  for  two  years.  He  next  sold 
goods  iu  Ashlaud  for  Godlove,  Payne,  Haden  &  Co.,  and  Wiseman  & 
Johnston.  From  there  he  went  to  Jefferson  City  and  clerked  for 
Crow,  Roach  &  Stokes  in  1872.  After  two  years  he  came  to  Clays- 
ville,  and,  in  conjunction  with  Thomas  McKenna,  he  did  a  general 
merchandising  business.  He  sold  out  in  March,  188^,  and  went  to 
farming  and  handling  stock  for  about  a  year.  He  now  gives  his  en- 
ire  attention  to  the  tie  business.  He  purchased  a  steamboat  and 
Piloted  her  successfully  for  about  sixty  trips,  buying  and  freight- 
5g  his  immense  number  of  ties  to  the  different  points  upon  the  river. 
Ir.  Vanausdal  was  married  the  8th  of  October,  1872,  to  Miss  Martha 
aiie,  daughter  of  E.  W.  and  Elizabeth  Forbis,  of  Boone  county.  By 
iis  union  they  have  been  blest  with  two  children,  aged  eight  and  two 
ears.     His  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church. 

E.    R.    WE8TBROOK. 

Edwin  Ruthvan  Westbrook  is  the  son  of  Cornelius  Westbrook,  a 
escendant  of  the  early  German  settlers  of  Delaware,  and  his  mother 
as  Betsey  Goodrich,  a  descendant  of  the  early  English  settlers  of  the 
onnecticut  valley,  her  family  living  near  Hartford.  Both  families 
nigrated  to  New  York  and  settled  on  the  Genesee  River,  where  Mr. 
id  Mrs.  W.  became  acquainted  and  married.  They  removed  to  Ohio  in 
333,  locating  at  Cleveland.  Here  Edwin  Westbrook  was  born, 
[arch  27,  1835.  Two  years  later  his  parents  removed  to  Morgan 
3unty  and  settled  on  a  farm.  In  1852  he  came  to  Clay  county,  Mo., 
bout  four  miles  north  of  Kansas  City.  Prior  to  coming  to  Missouri, 
[r.  Westbrook  had  attended  the  common  schools  of  his  native  State, 


688  HISTORY   OP    BOONK    COUNTY. 

but  after  settiint^  in  this  State  his  education  was  mainly  acquired  at 
Union  School,  Chiy  county,  under  the  direction  of  George  D.  Hughes, 
completing  his  course  in  1855,  at  the  age  of  20.  After  leaving  school 
he  engaged  as  a  teacher,  which  profession  he  pursued  for  24  years,  or 
until  1879.  During  this  period  he  served  for  two  years  as  principal  of 
the  Ashland  Public  School.  In  the  fall  of  1879  he  engaged  as  salesman 
in  the  store  of  Wiseman,  Johnston  &  Bass,  with  whom  he  remained 
until  January  1st,  1881.  March  1st,  following,  he  engaged  in  the 
business  of  general  merchandising  with  John  G.  Wiseman,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Wiseman,  Westbrook  &  Co.,  which  partnership  continued 
until  the  ensuing  October,  when  W.  T.  Maupin  became  a  partner  and 
the  name  was  changed  to  Wiseman,  Maupin  &Co. 

Mr.  Westbrook  was  married  in  Bates  county.  Mo.,  October  15th, 
1860,  to  Miss  M.  T.  Caruth,  of  that  county.  They  have  had  born  to 
them  nine  children,  of  whom  two  boys  and  three  girls  are  now  living. 

Early  in  the  civil  war,  Mr.  Westbrook  espoused  the  cause  of  the 
South,  and  enlisted  in  Capt.  Jackman's  company  of  Gen.  Rains' di- 
vision of  Gen.  Price's  army.  Not  long  after  he  had  enlisted,  he  was 
captured  by  the  Federals  and  held  a  prisoner  for  about  two  weeks, 
when  he  was  released  upon  taking  the  oath.  He  returned  to  Boone 
countv  and  remained  until  in  October,  18H4,  when  he  asrain  engaged 

»  ^  '  one 

to  serve  the  Confederate  cause,  and  on  the  5th  of  November,  at  a 
point  16  miles  southeast  of  Osceola,  St.  Clair  county,  Mo.,  while  on 
his  way  to  Gen.  Price,  he  was  again  made  a  prisoner.  He  was  taken 
to  St.  Louis  and  confined  two  weeks  in  Gratiot  street  prison,  and  then 
sent  to  Alton,  III.,  where  he  was  confined  until  March  IHth,  1865. 
He  was  then  released  on  condition  of  his  enlistment  in  the  U.  S. 
army  to  serve  against  the  Indians  on  the  plains.  He  was  a  member 
of  Company  D  5th  U.  S.  infantry.  A  few  weeks  after  his  enlist- 
ment, he  accompanied  Companies  C  and  D  of  his  regiment  as  an 
escort  to  Col.  Sawyer's  road  expedition  from  Niobrara  City  to  Vir- 
ginia City,  Montana  Territory.  August  13th,  he  was  engaged  in  a 
battle  with  the  Indians  near  Fort  Reno,  which  lasted  nearly  all  dav. 
The  Indians  numbered  over  200  and  were  commanded  by  Red  Cloud. 
There  were  al)out  250  soldiers.  He  assisted  in  the  buildins:  of  R 
Reno.  He  also  took  part  in  Col.  Carrington's  fight  with  the  sav- 
ages, July  1st,  1866.  He  returned  to  the  States  via  Forts  Laramie 
and  Kearney,  and  was  mustered  out  October  1st,  1866.  He  then 
returned  to  Boone  county,  where  he  has  ever  since  resided. 

It  is  worthy  of  note    that,  in   1854,  Mr.    Westbrook   spent  a  few 


HISTORY    OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  689 

in  Mexico,  and  that  in  185G  be  made  an  overland  trip  to  Cali- 
nrhere  he  was  engaged  in  farming  and  teaching  until  inDecem- 
)9. 

Vestbrook  has  served  as  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  his  township. 
Democrat  in  politics  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Demo- 
>unty  committee  since  1876.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Ashland 
church,  and  belongs  to  the  Ancient  Order  United  Work- 
d  the  Good  Templars. 

DR.    HENRY    W.    WHIPPLE. 

lenry  W.  Whipple  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  having  been  born  in 
A.pril  12th,  1842.  He  is  the  son  of  P.  B.  and  Elizabeth 
ras)  Whipple.  Was  educated  at  Sedgwick  Institute,  Great 
ton,  Berkshire  county,  Massachusetts.  Graduated  in  the 
c  department  of  that  institution  in  1862.     Came  back  to  Alton, 

August  following,  joined  company  G  Ninety-seventh  Illi- 
[unteers.  Was  at  Chickasaw  Bluffs,  Fort  Hindman,  Port  Gib- 
ymond.  Champion  Hills,  Black  River  Bridge,  Vicksburg  and 
I.  Afterwards  was  in  the  hospital  department,  where  he  re- 
most  of  the  time  until  the  close  of  the  war.  Returning  to  111- 
le  settled  on  a  farm  which  his  father  had  given  him  at  Mont- 
.  Went  to  farming  and  practicing  in  that  vicinity,  but  having 
)unded  during  the  war  by  a  piece  of  shell,  which  struck  his 
B  was  compelled  to  give  up  farming,  as  the  labors  incident  to 
e  aggravated  the  wound  and  gave  him  much  pain.  During  his 
Montgomery,  he  was  elected  a  justice  of  the  peace.  He  .it- 
a  course  of  lectures  at  St.  Louis  Medical  College,  but  did  not 
;e.  Moved  from  Illinois  to  Bates  county,  Missouri,  where  he 
to  the  drug  business.  His  brother  was  with  him  in  the  busi- 
id  practiced  medicine  during  the  four  years  spent  in  that 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  also  practiced,  but  not  steadily, 
lipple  next  went  to  Madison  county,  Arkansas,  where  he  prac- 
8  profession  for  a   few  months,    and  from  there   he   came   to 

settling  at  Burlington,  where  he  has  remained  ever  since, 
arried,  April  12th,  1866,  to  Margaret  L.,  daughter  of  C.  F. 
tharine  Powers,  of  Michigan.  Have  one  son,  Henry  F.  The 
is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  also  of  the  United 
len.  The  Whipples  trace  their  origin  back  into  the  remote 
One  of  the  family  signed  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
ctor  has  a  good  practice  and  is  doing  well. 
44 


690  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

ISAAC    MILTON   WILCOX. 

The  grandfather  of  Isaac  M.  Wilcox  was  born  in  Kentucky,  but 
was  one  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  Boone  county,  Missouri.  Fb 
son  David,  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  and  raised  in 
Boone.  He  moved  to  Holt  county,  Missouri,  in  1852,  but  returned 
in  1861,  and  remained  a  citizen  of  this  county  until  his  death,  whiA 
occurred  at  his  home,  near  Claysville.  Isaac  M.  Wilcox  was  bom  in 
Boone  county,  December  7th,  1849.  His  mother,  Martha  (Blythe) 
Wilcox,  was  born  in  Kentucky.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  raised 
on  the  farm.  In  early  life  he  learned  the  trade  of  tobacco-rolling, but 
did  not  follow  it  long.  ^Married  March  29th,  1870,  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Shelton  A.  and  Martha  Carter.  They  have  three  children: 
Arthur  Tarleton,  Mittie  Dewel  and  Verdia  Alice.     Mr.  Wilcox's  earl? 

• 

education  was  limited,  and  his  patrimony  was  even  more  so.  All  his 
possessions  have  been  earned  by  his  own  exertions  since  commencing 
life  on  his  own  account.  In  1873  he  was  engaged  as  a  guard  in  the 
penitentiary,  at  Jefferson  City,  but  had  to  give  up  the  position  on  ac- 
count of  sickness.  For  about  two  years  he  was  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  at  Claysville,  with  P.  H.  McKenna.  They  sold  out 
in  the  spring  of  1882,  to  Wooley  &  Loux,  who  are,  at  this  writing, 
conducting  the  business  at  the  old  stand.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilcox  are 
members  of  the  Baptist  church. 

,1AMES    L.    WILCOX. 

James  Libern  Wilcox  is  the  son  of  Isaac  N.  and  S.  A.  Wilcox.  His 
father  was  a  prominent  Kentucky  farmer,  and  his  mother  was  the 
daughter  of  John  Clinkenbeard,  of  Bourbon  county,  in  that  State. 
J.  L.  Wilcox  was  born  in  Holt  county,  Missouri,  December  15,  1855. 
He  was  the  fourth  child  of  a  family  of  three  boys  and  two  girls,  all  of 
whom  are  now  living.  When  he  was  three  years  of  age  his  fiither 
died,  and  six  years  later  he  removed  with  his  mother  to  Nebraska  City, 
then  a  live  trading  and  outfitting  town  of  3,000  inhabitants.  Here 
he  lived  until  1875,  having  attended  school  three  months  in  the 
meanwhile  and  served  an  apprenticeship  in  the  printing  office  of  the 
Nebraska  City  Daily  and  Weekly  Chronicle^  working  from  1868  to 
1871.  He  then  worked  about  a  year  on  the  Daily  Press.  In  1873, 
in  company  with  five  other  printers,  he  reestablished  the  old  Daily 
and  Weekly  Chronicle^  which  had  an  existence  of  about  six  months. 
In  the  fall  of  '73  he  went  to  Omaha,  and  soon  aftenvards  to  Lincoln, 


HISTORV    OF    HOONE    COUNTY.  691 

where  he  uud  four  others  organized  a  company  and  published  a  daily 
paper,  in  the  interest  of  the  temperance  crusade,  called  the  Capital 
2few8,  which  ran  a  short  but  brilliant  career  of  three  weeks,  the 
**fighting  editor"  (subject  of  this  sketch)  being  three  times  called 
into  requisition  during  that  brief  period.  He  then  worked  for  the 
Slate  Journal  Company  for  six  months,  after  which  he  visited  his  old 
home,  Nebraska  City,  and  did  job  work  for  the  different  offices  of 
that  city  till  April,  1875.  Going  thence  to  Hamburg,  Iowa,  he  as- 
sisted W.  A.  Fulmer  in  the  publication  of  the  Hamburg  Democrat^  and 
during  the  campaign  of  1876,  was  able  to  do  some  good  work  for  the 
Democracy.  His  next  editorial  venture  was  in  Boone  county,  Mis- 
souri, in  January,  1877,  he,  on  the  invitation  of  the  business  men  of 
Ashland,  accepting  editorial  control  of  a  Democratic  paper  called  the 
Ashland  Bugle^  publishing  it  as  a  weekly  paper.  He  succeeded  in 
securing  it  a  good  subscription  list,  and  started  the  paper  on  a  sub- 
stantial basis,  issuing  the  first  number  on  April  13,  1877.  The  paper 
is  still  published  by  him,  and  enjoys  an  increasing  patronage  and  in- 
fluence. 

Mr.  Wilcox  married  in  Ashland,  September  14,  1881,  his  wife  be- 
ing Mary  R.,  daughter  of  Samuel  Nichols  an  old  resident  of  Boone. 

He  became  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Nebraska  City,  and 
)f  the  I.  O.  O.  F.  in  Hamburg,  and  is  a  charter  member  of  Ashland 
jodore,  K.  of  P. 

JUDGE    HAIL    T.    WRIGHT. 

Hail  Tall)ot  Wright  is  the  son  of  Fletcher  Wright,  a  native  of  Ten- 
essee,  but  a  resident  of  Boone  county  from  1818  up  to  the  time  of 
is  death,  which  occurred  in  1851.  His  mother,  Sophia  Talbot,  was 
native  of  Kentucky.  Hail  was  born  in  the  northeast  part  of  Boone 
Dunty,  September  19th,  18H1 ,  and  came  with  his  parents  to  this  place, 
^here  he  now  lives,  in  1836.  He  is  the  oldest  of  a  family  of  two  sons 
nd  two  daughters,  of  whom  the  Judge  alone  survives.  He  was  edu- 
ated  at  the  common  schools  of  the  county,  and  commenced  business 
)r  himself  as  a  farmer  in  1851,  his  father  having  died  when  he  was 
ut  thirteen  years  old,  and  hi.s  mother  about  four  years  later.  Mr. 
bright  was  married  June  13th,  1855,  to  Miss  Mary  Elizabeth, 
aughter  of  L  L.  Lindsey,  of  Boone  county.  They  have  one  son  and 
bree  dausrhters,  all  of  whom  are  alive  at  this  writing:. 

Judge  Wright  was  elected  to  the  office  of  county  justice,  and  served 
he  people  in  that  capacit}'  for  four  years.  He  is  now  actively  en- 
aged  in  agricultural  pursuits  and  in  stock  raising.     He  is  a  member 


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892  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

of  the  Ashland  Lodge  of  A.  F.  and  A.  M. ;    also  a  member  of  the 
Ashland  Lodge  of  A.  O.  U.  W. 

A.    C.    YOUNG. 

Ambrose  Crockett  Young  is  the  son  of  Edward  and  Frances  (Gray) 
Young,  both  natives  of  Virginia.  They  emigrated  in  early  life  to 
Kentucky,  where  they  were  married,  reipoving  from  that  State  lo 
Missouri  in  1831,  settling  on  a  farm  near  Ashland,  in  Boone  county, 
where  he  died  in  1864,  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-two  years  and 
six  months.  His  wife  died  in  1852.  Ambrose  was  born  on  his 
father's  farm,  in  Clark  county,  Kentucky,  February  1st,  1825.  He 
was  the  youngest  of  a  family  of  five  sons  and  seven  daughters,  of 
whom  two  sons  and  three  daughters  are  now  living,  all  but  one  io 
Boone  county.  He  came  with  his  parents  to  this  county  in  1831,  and 
settled  on  the  farm  where  he  now  resides.  Was  educated  at  the 
Bonne  Femme  Academy  and  the  University  of  Missouri.  He  has  al- 
ways resided  on  the  old  home  place,  a  farm  of  500  acres  of  excellent 
land  finely  improved.  It  is  situated  on  the  Jefferson  City  and  Co- 
lumbia gravel  road,  four  and  one-half  miles  north  of  Ashland  and 
nine  miles  south  of  Columbia. 


CHAPTER     XYII. 

CENTRAL! A   TOWNSHIP. 

Position  and  Description  —  Early  Settlements  —  Organization  —  Miscellaneous —Uoioo 
Church— 7%«  Town  of  Centralia  —  EAr\y  History  —  The  " Eldorado  Hotel"— The 
"Firsts"  — The  Fire  of  1860  — A  Chase  for  a  Bonnet  —  War  —  The  First  Fedenl 
Troops  —  Bill  Anderson's  Visit  —  Burning  ofSneed's  Store  and  Hotel  by  Federal  Miiitii 
—  Capt  Bryson's  Capture  of  the  Train  at  the  Water  Tank  —  When  the  Cruel  War  wm 
Over  —  Incorporation  —  The  Fires  of  1868  and  1872  —  Building  of  the  C.  &  A.  Railroad- 
Town  OflScers  —  Public  School  —  Newspapers  —  Killing  of  Jo.  Collier — Secret  Orders  - 
Churches  —  Biographies  of  Old  Settlers  and  Prominent  Citizens  of  Centralia  Towa«bip. 

POSITION   AND    DESCRIPTION. 

This  IS  the  latest  formed  and  the  smallest  township  in  area  in  Boone 
county,  yet  it  is  by  no  means  the  most  insignificant  in  every  partic- 
ular, containing,  as  it  does,  the  second  town  and  some  of  the  best 
territory  in  the  county.     The  northern  part  of  the  township  is  com- 


HI8TOKV    OF    HUOME    COUNTY.  693 

M)8ed  chiefly  of  prairie  :  the  southern  part  of  timber.  .  Silvers'  Fork 
»f  the  Perche  rises  in  this  township,  in  the  south  central  part,  flowing 
ivestwardly,  and  Young's  Creek  skirts  the  eastern  border.  There  are 
M)me  very  fine  farms  in  the  township,  notably  those  of  J.  D.  Garrard,^ 
W.J.  Booth,  J.  M.  Angell,  S.  Bryson  and  W.  R.  McBride.  The 
township  contains  but  30  entire  sections  of  land,  in  Congressional 
township  51,  range  11  west.  The  eastern  row  of  sections,  viz.,  1,  12, 
13,  24,  25  and  36,  being  in  Audrain  county. 

EARLY    8ETTLE31ENT8. 

The  first  settlements  in  what  is  now  Centralia  township,  were  made 
by  *»Kudy"  (Rudolph)  March,  Wm.  Sexton,  Peter  Stice  and 
Thomas  Sexton,  who  moved  in  from  Howard  county  and  settled  in 
the  southwestern  part  of  the  township,  along  a  small  branch  of  Silvers' 
Fork,  about  the  year  1822.  All  of  them  were  originally  from  Madison 
county,  Kentucky.  In  the  spring  of  1825,  Daniel  Hunter  purchased 
he  farm  of  Rudy  March  (sec.  31  —  51  —  11),  where  G.  H.  Chance  now 
lives,  and  removed  thereto  with  his  family.  This  was  the  extreme 
northern  settlement  in  the  county  at  that  time.  Mr.  Hunter  put  up 
the  first  horse  mill  in  183(>. 

Probably  the  first  male  child  born  in  the  township  was  Blueford 
5tice,  son  of  Peter  and  Elizabeth  Stice,  whose  birth  is  set  down  as 
occurring  in  1824.  Jane  Sexton,  daughter  of  Wm.  and  Edith  Sexton, 
vas  born  in  1827,  being  the  first  female  child  born  within  the  present 
boundaries  of  the  township.  The  first  death  remembered  was  that  of 
Phos.  Sexton,  who  was  buried  at  Red  Top  Church. 
It  is  said  that  no  regular  physican  located  in  this  township  until 
bout  the  time  Centralia  town  was  founded.  Dr.  A.  F.  Sneed  was 
robably  the  first  located  physician.^  The  name  of  the  first  minister 
)  hold  religious  services  cannot  now  be  ascertained,  but  the  first 
sligious  organization  formed  of^which  there  is  definite  knowledge, 
as  that  of  Union  Church  in  1854.  (See  history.)  The  date  of  the 
rst  school,  the  name  of  the  teacher,  etc.,  have  not  been  learned. 
The  information  concerning  the  early  settlement  of  Centralia  has 
3en  obtained  from  Mrs.  Mary  Pool,  now  the  oldest  living  inhabitant 
Fthe  township.     Her  first  husband  was  Daniel  Hunter,  who  settled 

*  It  was  on  the  farm  of  Mr.  Garrard  where  the  battle  of  Centralia  was  fought.  A  gun- 
rrel,  ramrod  and  some  bayonets  plowed  up  in  the  field  in  the  spring  of  1882,  and 
ppoted  to  have  belonged  to  the  Federals,  were  presented  to  the  writer  by  Mr  G.,  and  are 
w  in  possession  of  the  Missouri  Historical  ^5ociety  at  St.  Louis. 


694  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

on  section  31  in  1825.     To  this  venerable  '*  mother  inlsraeP'the 
publishers  desire  to  return  grateful  acknowledgments. 

The  first  school  in  the  township  was  taught  by  Rice  Jones,  in  a 
private  house,  in  the  year  1842.  The  first  school  house  was  built  in 
1845  by  Lewis  Robei*ts,  and  stood  about  two  and  a  half  miles  south 
of  Centralia.     ft  was  a  log  house,  and  cost  about  $100.  * 

ORGANIZATION. 

Until  in  1874,  the  territory  now  comprising  Centralia  township  ^vas 
embraced  in  Bourbon  township.  Upon  the  laying  out  of  Centralia, 
that  town  was  made  a  voting  precinct,  and  so  continued  for  many 
years.  Ineffectual  efforts  were  made  to  form  a  new  township  from 
time  to  time,  some  of  the  people  wishing  to  defer  the  matter  until  it 
was  settled  whether  or  not  **  Rollins  County"  would  be  formed,  in 
order  that  it  might  be  settled  what  territory  should  comprise  the 
township. 

At  last,  on  June  20,  1874,  the  county  court  made  and  entered  of 
record  the  following  order :  — 

In  the  matter  of  the  division  of  Bourhon  municipal  township,  in  Boone  county,  and  the 
establishment  of  Centralia  municipal  township:  Now,  on  this  day,  a  large  number  of  the 
legal  voters  resident  within  Bourbon  township  came  by  their  attorneys  and  filed  their 
petition,  praying  the  court  to  divide  Bourbon  township  and  establish  Centralia  municipal 
township ;  and  upon  a  full  hearing  of  the  case,  the  application  and  the  proofs,  the  court  duth 
order  and  adjudge  —  A  municipal  township,  to  be  known  as  Centralia  township^  is  herehr 
created  and  established  with  the  metes  and  bounds  as  follows,  to  wit :  Beginning  at  the 
southwest  corner  of  section  31,  in  township  51,  range  11 ;  running  thence  north  on  the  range 
line  to  the  north  boundary  of  Bourbon  township ;  thence  along  the  north  boundary  afor^aid 
to  the  northeast  comer  of  section  2,  township  51,  range  11;  thence  south  with  the 
division  line  between  Boone  and  Audrain  counties  to  the  southeast  comer  of  section  35, 
township  51,  range  11 ;  thence  west  to  the  place  of  beginning.  (Record  "  S,'*  page  476  Co. 
Ct.  Recs.) 

Since  that  period  the  people  of  the  towhship  have  gone  smoothly 
jilong  in  their  ways,  secure  in  their  autonomy  and  proud  of  the 
privilege   of  self-government. 

MI8CELLANKOUS. 

The  war  histoiy  of  Centralia  township  may  be  summarized;  The 
majority  of  the  people  were  Confederates ;  a  number,  however, 
sided  with  the  Union  and  fought  for  it.  The  Confederates  recruited 
pretty  extensively  ;  the  Union  troops  made  numerous  raids  after  thein. 
The  Federal  militia  *' made  it  hot"  for  the  secessionists,  and  both 
sides  fed  off  and,  in  some  instances,  maltreated  the  citizens.  The 
remarkable  (.entralia  massacre,  and  the  bloody  affair  between  Todd's 


HISTORY    OF    BOONE    COUNTY.  695 

uerrillas  and  Johnson's  Federals  occurred  in  this  township,  a  fiili 
^count  of  which  mav  be  found  elsewhere. 

There  are  some  excellent  schools  in  the  township,  and  as  a  rule  the 
iople  are  intelligent  and  educated.  Quite  a  number  of  families 
om  Illinois  and  other  Northern  States  have  come  in  since  the  war, 
id  aided  very  materially  in  the  development  of  the  country. 

UNION    (christian)    CHURCH 

'as  organized  in  1854,  and  James  Bruton  was  the  first  elder, 
tnong  the  early  members  were  James  Jennings,  Jesse  Roberts, 
.mes  Williams  and  C.  C.  Bush. 

The  first  building  used  by  the  congregation  as  a  place  of  worship 
is  an  old  log  school  house.  They  erected  a  large  frame  in  1868,  in 
lich  they  have  regular  monthly  meetings.  They  have  a  Sunday 
liool,  and  their  membership  is  large,  and  both  church  and  Sabbath 
hool  is  in  fine  working  order. 


THE  TOWN  OF  CKNTRALIA. 

The  town  of  Centnilia  was  laid  out  in  February,  1857,  by  a  company 
which  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins,  Col.  M.  G.  Singleton,  Thos.  January, 
d  others  were  members.  It  was  designed  as  a  railroad  station,  and 
ily  founded  upon  the  certainty  of  the  completion  of  the  North  Mis- 
uri  Railroad  to  the  locality.  The  town  was  named  by  the  proprie- 
rs  from  its  central  position  on  the  old  North  Missouri  line  of  railway 
>m  St.  Louis  to  Ottumwa,  Iowa.  The  plat  was  recorded  in  May, 
57,  by  Col.  Middleton  G.  Singleton,  and  showed  that  the  town  was 
3ated  on  the  south  half  of  the  north  half  of  the  southwest  quarter 
d  the  south  half  of  the  southwest  quarter  of  section  10,  and  the  north 
If  of  the  northwest  quarter  of  section  15,  township  51,  range  11. 
The  first  public  sale  of  lots  was  in  May,  1857.  Prices  ranged  from 
enty,  to  one  hundred  dollars  per  lot.  No  immediate  improvements 
jre  made,  however,  and  for  months  things  went  on  as  they  were 
)nt  to  go.  The  grass  grew,  the  flowers  bloomed,  and  the  rank  vege- 
Lion  was  untrod  where  now  is  the  busy,  bustling  town.  Not  gntil 
e  following  winter  was  the  first  house  in  the  place  erected  —  a  large, 
o-story  frsime,  20x60  feet,  built  by  Tinsley,  Elston  &  Co.,  and  oc- 
piedby  them  as  a  dry  goods  and  grocery  store.  It  stood  on  lot  1, 
ock  23.     At  the  time  of  the  completion  of  this  building  the  railroad 


696  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

had  not  been  completed  to  that  point,  and  the  stock  of  goods  wu 
hauled  from  Mexico.  The  next  building  was  the  Eldorado  Hotel,  a 
single-story  structure  of  four  rooms,  still  standing  with  this  inscription, 
much  faded  and  nearly  obliterated,  on  its  front:  **  Eldorado  Hotel,bf 
J.  J.  Collier."  As  an  inducement  to  build  this  structure.  Col.  Single- 
ton gave  Mr.  Collier  two  lots,  and  *'  Uncle  Jo,"  for  a  long  time  there- 
after was  known  far  and  near  as  the  '^mine  host"  of  the  Collier  House, 
as  many  of  its  patrons  named  the  hostelry.  Other  houses  gradoallj 
went  up,  and  in  1859  there  were  twenty-five  dwelling  houses,  two 
stores  and  a 'saloon.  The  North  Missouri  Railroad  was  now  finished 
to  the  place  and  Centralia  became,  not  an  experiment,  but  an  estab- 
lished fact,  owing  its  existence  to  the  existence  of  the  railroad.  Ad 
additional  store  house  and  another  saloon  went  up.  The  former  wu 
managed  by  R.  S.  and  G.  W.  Tinsley  ;  the  latter  was  **  run  "  by  W. 
D.  Collier.  In  the  meantime  the  first  store  had  been  closed  out  and 
M.  V.  Singleton  became  the  purchaser  of  the  building,  which  was  af- 
terward occupied  by  T.  S.  Sneed  and  M.  G.  Singleton  with  a  stock  of 
general  merchandise.     The  latter  afterward  sold  his  interest. 

In  the  spring  of  1860  the  first  fire  occurred.  Both  stores  and  the 
saloon,  with  the  larger  portion  of  the  contents  were  destroyed.  The 
principal  losers  were  Dr.  A.  F.  Sneed  and  W.  A.  Clark,  who  had 
bought  out  Sneed  &  Singleton  a  short  time  previously,  and  R.  S.  4 
G.  W.  Tinsley,  and  W.  D.  Collier.  Another  hotel,  the  **  Boone 
House,"  went  up  in  1860  and  was  run  !>y  V.  A.  Bedford.  It  was  af- 
terwards kept  by  T.  S.  Sneed,  and  this  was  the  building  burned  In 
1864  by  the  German  militia  from  St.  Charles. 

The  second  building  was  put  up  in  the  winter  of  1858-9,  by  Wm. 
H.  Wade,  a  blacksmith.  In  April,  1859,  T.  S.  Sneed  built  a  dwellinj^ 
and  moved  to  town.  He  is  still  a  resident  and  the  oldest  in  the  place. 
Next  L.  C.  Singleton  built  a  dwelling  and  moved  in  with  his  family- 
This  house  was  afterward  a  hotel,  the  **  Boone  House."  In  January, 
1860,  Dr.  A.  F.  Sneed  came  to  town  and  became  the  first  practicing 
physician.  He  is  still  a  resident  and  has  furnished  much  infor- 
mation incorporated  in  this  chapter.  These  were  all  of  the  families 
in  Centralia  remembered  in   1860. 

THE    FIRSTS. 

The  first  house  built  in  Centralia  was  by  Tinsley,  Elston  &  Co..« 
firm  composed  of  R.  S.  Tinsley,  A.  M.  Elston,  M.  V.  Singleton,  «nd 
Bruce  Ball.     It  was  a  store  building  and  occupied  as  such. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  697 

The  first  birth  was  that  of  a  male  child  of  Dr.  A.  F.  and  Lavinia 
Ineedy  whicli  was  born  January  7, 1860.  It  died  24  hours  after  birth. 
U  death  was  the  first  in  the  place. 

The  first  marriage  was  that  of  Pleasant  M.  Pool  and  Miss  Cynthia 
i.  Gorham,  May  1,  1864.  The  ceremony  was  performed  by  Rev. 
imes  Berry. 

The  first  school  house  was  built  in  1860.  It  was  a  small  frame  and 
08t  about  $250.  It  stood  on  block  23.  Miss  Minnie  Conger  taught 
he  first  school  therein,  the  same  year.  She  had  about  twenty  schol- 
iT8  and  received  $20  per  month  for  her  services.  The  name  of  the 
iret  minister  who  officiated  and  the  date  when  the  first  religious  ser- 
rices  wer6  held  are  not  remembered. 

The  original  cemetery  is  the  one  now  in  use,  in  the  noitheast  part 
)f  town.     It  was  donated  by  the  town  company  in  1857. 

For  three  years  after  the  railroad  station  was  established  there  was 
110  depot.  In  1861  the  first  one,  a  small  affair,  was  built  by  Thos.  S. 
Sneed.  Not  long  afterward,  probably  in  1862,  the  railroad  company 
built  another  and  larger  one.  This  was  destroyed  by  Bill  Anderson 
ind  his  guerillas  the  time  of  his  raid,  and  then  the  present  one  was 
)uilt.  Thos.  S.  Sneed  was  the  first  agent.  T.  W.  Gantt  was  the 
igent  at  the  time  of  the  raid,  but  was  not  in  town.  His  assistant, 
William  Rowland,  a  very  popular  young  man,  was  killed  by  the  gueril- 
is  the  day  of  the  massacre.  The  particulars  will  be  found  on  another 
age. 

The  railroad  was  completed  to  the  town  in  the  spring  of  1858,  and 
sntralia  was  for  a  time  nothing  but  a  flag  station.  There  were  only 
ree  or  four  houses  in  the  place  for  a  year  or  two.  In  1858  the  post- 
Bee  was  established,  and  Richard  S.  Tinsley  was  the  first  postmaster, 
le  first  practicing  physician  was  Dr.  A.  F.  Sneed,  originally  from 
•ankfoit,  Ky.,  now  a  resident  and  active  practitioner  of  the  place. 
The  first  mayor  was  J.  II.  Fields. 

DESTRUCTIVE    FIRE    IN    CENTKALIA. 

About  2  o'clock  p.  m.  on  Fridav,  Mav  11,  1860,  the  store  room  of 
eed  &  Clark,  in  Centralia,  on  the  North  Missouri  Railroad,  in  Boone 
►unty,  was  discovered  to  be  on  fire.  The  fire  was  in  an  upper  back 
:)m,  and,  from  the  great  scarcity  of  water  in  the  town,  progressed 
th  almost  unchecked  rapidity  until  the  entire  building  and  all  ad- 
ning  were  consumed.  Therefore,  the  store-room  and  warehouse  of 
eed  &  Clark ;  the  store-room  and  warehouse  of  Tinslev  &  Elston, 


698  HISTORY  or  boone  county. 

and  the  grocery  of  William  Collier  were  destroyed.  These  cousti- 
tuted  all  the  business  houses  in  the  place.  A  considerable  amount  of 
the  merchandise  of  Sneed  &  Clark  and  Tinsley  and  Eistou  was  saved, 
but  much  of  it  lost  —  how  much  has  not  been  learned.  The  store- 
room and  warehouse  of  Sneed  &  Clark  were  owned  by  Singleton  A 
Ball,  and  were  insured  in  the  Boone  County  Home  Mutual  for  $1,200. 
That  company  also  had  $2,500  on  the  goods  of  Sneed  &  Clark,  and 
$1,400  on  the  goods  of  Tinsley  &  Elston's  predecessors,  R.  S.  & 
G.  W.  Tinsley.  T.  &  E.  had  $6,600  in  the  Home  Insurance  Com- 
pany, New  York,  J.  S.  Dorsey,  Columbia,  agent.  No  insurance  on 
the  grocery.  The  post-office  was  kept  by  Tinsley  &  Eistou,  and  was 
also  burned,  with  all  its  contents,  including  all  the  copies  of  the 
Statesman  of  the  previous  week  for  the  east  and  west. 

The  impression  is  pretty  general  that  the  fire  was  the  work  of  uii 
incendiary. 

BONNKT    CHASE    ON    THE    PKAIRIE. 

In  August,  1860,  an  amusing  incident  came  off  at  Centralia,  which 
it  is  proper  should  be  recorded  for  the  benefit  of  present  and  future 
generations.  A  correspondent  of  one  of  the  county  papers  gave  the 
following  account  at  the  time  :  — 

A  citizen  of  Boone,  accompanied  by  his  wife,  came  to  Centralia  for  the  purpose  of  mik- 
ing purchases  at  one  of  the  stores  in  that  place.  Among  other  articles,  a  large  stnw  bon- 
net struck  the  fancy  of  our  hero;  and,  although  scoop-shaped  and  of  the  balloon  order, and 
therefore  rather  out  of  time,  buy  it  he  would  and  buy  it  he  did.  Leaving  the  store  for 
home,  bonnet  in  hand,  he  encountered  a  lively  prairie  wind  (for  Centralia  is  in  the  midst  of 
a  prairie),  which,  snatched  the  bonnet  from  his  grasp  and  blew  it  rapidly  from  him.  He 
started  in  pursuit,  leaping  over  boxes,  piles  of  lumber  and  the  railroad  track.  But  the 
bonnet  flew  upon  the  wings  of  the  wind,  while  our  hero  only  flew  upon  a  pair  of  short  legs 
and  heavy  brogans.  On  they  went  across  the  prairie,  the  bormet  careering  over  the  parched 
grass,  our  hero  making  it  crack  under  his  feet.  Up,  over,  down — first  in  mid-air  and  then 
on  the  ground  —  rapidly  sailed  the  bonnet,  while  its  pursuer  bounded  like  a  two-legged 
antelope,  or  a  boy  after  a  butterfly.  At  four  o'clock  in  the  evening  the  bonnet  and  pursuer 
passed  Skull  I^ick  in  Audrain  county,  two  or  three  miles  from  Centralia,  the  bonnet  ahead 
and  our  hero  still  after  it,  with  his  tongue  out. 

WAR    TIMES. 

Up  to  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war,  the  progress  of  the  place 
was  very  slow  ;  afterwards,  still  slower.  When  the  war  began  there 
were  about  a  dozen  houses,  and  not  more  than  two  or  three  structures 
of  any  sort  went  np  until  after  the  incident  under  the  Appomattox 
apple  tree.  The  neighborhood  was  Southern  in  sentiment  and  the 
majority  of  the  people  were  disposed  to  act  on  the  aggressive  against 
the  Federals  almost  from  the  start. 


HISTORY   or  BOONE   COUNTY.  (>99 

Col.  M.  G.  Singleton  hud  a  battalion  in.  the  Missouri  State  Guards, 
which  his  brother-in-law,  Capt.  F,  B.  Fullenwider,  had  a  company, 
lese  gentlemen  were  from  near  Centralia,  and  many  of  their  men 
jrefrom  the  vicinity.  Capt.  G.  W.  Bryson,  also  of  the  neighbor- 
od,  had  a  company  of  Confederates.  A  few  men  from  what  is  now 
mtralia  township  took  service  under  the  United  States. 
Early  in  the  war  a  company  of  Federals,  belonging  to  the  Four- 
snth  Illinois  infantry »  was  stationed  at  Centralia  a  short  time,  and 
•out  the  same  time  a  company  of  the  Third  Iowa  infantry  came  in 
id  spread  their  tents  on  the  north  side  of  the  railroad.  Then  after 
rhile  came  Birge's  sharpshooters.  These  troops  made  incursions 
to  the  country  to  stop  recruiting  for  Price's  army,  and  there  was 
le  skirmish  over  on  Young's  Creek,  in  Monroe  county. 
From  time  to  time  other  troops  passed  through  or  stopped  off  for  a 
ief  period.  Some  of  the  citizens  were  arrested  and  taken  to  St. 
mis,  and  released  upon  taking  the  oath.  One  or  two  of  these  were 
lidents  of  the  hamlet  at  the  time  of  Anderson's  fearful  raid  and 
^ve  fearful  massacre,  and  were  between  hawk  and  buzzard.  Mr. 
08.  S.  Sneed  was  one.  The  guerillas  plundered  him  and  abused 
1  unreasonably.  They  robbed  his  store,  and  then  the  next  day 
aper's  9th  Missouri  militia  came  in,  cursed  him  for  a  "d — d  secesh,'' 
1  buruisd  it !  Mr.  Sneed  was  also  proprietor  of  a  very  good  hotel, 
fed  hundreds  of  Federal  soldiers  free  gratis,  but  at  last  objected  to 
iing  the  St.  Charles  German  Home  Guards,  who  had  been  put  n\\ 
trains  as  guards  after  the  Centralia  nuissacre.  These  train  guards 
jld  jump  from  the  cars  as  soon  as  they  stopped  for  dinner,  which 
y  did  regularly,  and  rush  to  the  tables,  crowding  ont  the  passen- 
5,  who  would  be  compelled  to  leave  without  eating.  A  few  days 
T  Anderson's  raid,  Sneed  refused  to  longer  keep  open  house  for 
St.  Charles  Germans,  and  in  open  day  they  burned  up  his  hotel. 
1.  fl.  S.  Rollins  jnit  out  the  fire  after  it  started  <ind  tried  to  save 
building,  but  the  Teutons  soon  rekindled  the  flame  and  then  stood 
with  presented  muskets,  daring  him  to  try  to  subdue  the  flames 
in.  The  oflScer  in  command  observed  the  whole  proceeding,  pla- 
y  smoking  his  pipe  in  the  meanwhile.  Sneed  secreted  himself  on 
same  train  on  which  were  the  house-burning  German  Federals, 
went  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  remained  till  the  war  was  over.  He 
V  resides  in  Centralia. 
)f  course,  the  most  remarkable  event  during  the  war  was  th(»  mas- 


700  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

sacre  and  battle  of  Centralia,  an  elaborate  account  of  which  is  giTen 
in  this  history.  Much  of  the  information  there  detailed  was  obtained 
from  Dr.  A.  F.  Sneed,  Thos.  S.  Snecd,  Dr.  F.  J.  Bruton,  W.  R.  Mo- 
Bride,  and  others  who  lived  in  the  place  at  that  time. 

September  7,  1864,  or  a  few  days  before  the  battle  of  Centralia, 
Capt.  G.  W.  Bryson  and  his  company,  composed  mostly  of  newly- 
recruited  Confederates,  captuied  a  train  on  the  North  Missouri  at  the 
water  tank,  a  mile  east  of  Centralia.  On  this  train  were  forty  good 
horses  e?i  route  for  St.  Louis  —  fine,  fat  and  frisky  —  the  veiy  articles 
the  Confederates  were  greatly  in  need  of.  A  few  soldiers  were  also 
on  board.  These  were  taken  prisoners  and  carried  away,  despite  the 
remonstrances  of  a  few  timorous  Southern  sympathizers,  who  feared 
that  the  Federals  would  in  some  way  hold  them  responsible  for  the 
affair,  and  visit  them  with  condign  punishment  for  the  taking  awaj  of 
the  prisoners  whom  they  imagined  were  being  carried  off  to  be  shot. 
Capt.  Bryson  was  offered  hundreds  of  dollars  if  he  would  release  the 
prisoners,  but  he  laughed  at  the  frightened  citizens,  declared  he  did 
not  intend  to  hurt  the  prisoners,  and  rode  away.  In  a  day  or  so  the 
prisoners  were  released  and  sent  to  Sturgeon,  not  a  hair  of  their 
heads  having  been  harmed. 

WHEN  THK  CRUEL  WAR  WAS  OVER. 

During  tlio  summer  of  1865  the  town  showed  signs  of  returning 
animation,  as  it  were.  Some  new  store  buildings  went  up  and  a  Dum- 
ber of  new  citizens  moved  in.  A  new  hotel,  the  '*  Phoenix,"  was 
,  established  by  T.  S.  Sneed  on  the  ruins  of  bis  former  house,  the  old 
"  Boone  Hotel,"  now  the  present  site  of  the  **  Globe."  People  were 
attracted  to  the  place  from  time  to  time,  some  by  the  beauty  of  its 
location,  some  by  other  circumstances.  The  place  was  well  known. 
Bill  Anderson  had  given  it  considerable  free  advertising,  but  this  had 
given  people  to  attribute  to  it  a  character  which  it  never  possessed. 
Because  a  guerilla  massacre  had  occurred  in  the  town,  some  peo- 
ple argued  that  the  citizens  must  be  guerillas  themselves.  The 
o-rave  wherein  seventy-nine  dead  Federal  soldiers  were  buried  was 
pointed  out  to  every  passenger,  and  at  last  a  monument,  erected  at 
public  expense,  indicated  more  plainly  the  **  bivouac  of  the  dead." 

The  town  improved  slowly  but  surely  during  1866,  and  at  the  close 
of  the  year  evidenced  no  small  degree  of  prosperity.  At  last  the  peo- 
ple grew  tired  of  living  "  at  random,"  or  at  hap-hazard,  and  decided 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  701 

organize  for  the  general  welfare,  common  prosperity  and  mutual 
fence,  their  numbers  making  such  a  step  highly  desirable ;  and  so 
me  . 

INCORPORATION. 

At  the  March  term,  1867,  of  the  county  court,  the  town  was  incor- 
orated,  the  metes  and  bounds  being  declared  to  include  *'  all  the  ter- 
itory  embraced  in  the  following  tracts  of  ground :  The  north  half  of 
be  northwest  quarter  of  section  15  ;  the  south  half  of  the  southwest 
uarter  of  section  10 ;  the  south  half  of  the  north  half  of  the  south- 
rest  quarter  of  section  10,  in  township  51,  range  11,  containing  200 
cres,  more  or  less."  This  was  the  first  incorporation,  and  uiider  it 
he  following  town  trustees  were  appointed  until  their  successoi*s  should 
>e  duly  elected  and  qualified:  Jno.  H.  Fields,  Jamcfd  H.  Stephens, 
Tm.  L.  Conevey,  E.  D.  Hawkins  and  Thos.  S.  Sri^ed. 

In  1868  the  business  portion  of  the  town  was  again  attacked  and 
estroyed  by  fire.  Several  stores,  together  witl  the  greater  portion 
r  the  goods  they  contained,  were  destroyed.  The  loss  was  about 
^5,000,  with  but  very  little  insul-ance.  For  nearly  a  year  thereafter 
lere  were  but  few  improvements.  The  town  was  being  built  of  wood, 
id  the  danger  from  fires  was  very  great,  and  these  circumstances  de- 
rred  many  men  from  putting  up  new  buildings  and  otherwise  adding 

the  prosperity  of  the  place.  However,  in  1869,  building  was  again 
sumed,  and  the  town  improved  slowly  until  in  1872,  when  it  was  in 
more  thriving  and  generally  prosperous  condition  than  it  had  ever 
Jen  before.  The  tide  of  prosperity  was  destined,  however,  to  an- 
her  check.  On  the  night  of  the  22d  of  March,  1872,  the  cry  of 
fire  !  "  again  roused  the  people  from  their  beds  and  rang  throughout 
e  town.  Another  serious  conflagration  visited  the  young  city, 
ve  stores  and  Sneed's  Phoenix  Hotel  were  burned  to  the  ground, 
le  total  loss  by  this  fire  was  about  $30,000  ;  very  little  insurance, 
le  business  men  of  Centralia  now  seemed  as  indifferent  to  fire  as 
lamanders.  They  lost  no  time  in  bewailing  their  misfortunes  or  re- 
uing  at  the  calamities  that  had  befallen  them,  but  set  pluckily  to 
3rk  to  retrieve  the  lost  ground  and  restore  their  damaged  fortunes, 
liis  was  the  fourth  time  the  town  had  been  destroyed,  but  it  was  the 
,me  as  if  it  had  been  the  first  or  the  four-hundredth,  or  if  it  had 
5ver  been  destroyed  at  all.  Some  of  them  among  those  who  were 
le  worst  scorched  by  the  flames,  began  to  rebuild  on  former  sites  be- 
ire  the  ashes  had  grown  cold.  The  town  grew  apace,  and  two  years 
iter  had  a  population  of  nearly  500. 


702  HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Siuce  that  period  the  progress  of  Centralia  has  been  steadily— not 
rapidly,  but  surely  —  onward. 

BUILDING    OF   THE    C.  &    A.    UAILKOAD. 

The  building  of  the  Chicago  and  Alton  railroad,  which  marks  anew 
era  in  the  progress  of  Centralia,  may  be  said  to  date  from  the  final 
survey  made  through  the  northern  part  of  the  county  in  the  winter  and 
spring  of  1878.  John  M.  Robards,  H.  C.  Threlkeld  and  P.  S.  Hocker 
may  be  ranked  foremost  among  the  public-spirited  citizens  who  did 
most  in  favor  of  so  beneficial  an  enterprise,  but  the  entire  citizenship 
lent  enthusiastic  support,  and  many  of  them  gave  material  aid  in  the 
construction  of  this  great  trunk  railway.  The  citizens  of  Centralia 
donated  of  their  means  and  paid  in  cash  $900.  The  following  ga^e 
each  fifty  dollars:  W.  R.  McBride,  W.  J.  Booth,  P.  S.  Hocker, H. 
C.  Threlkeld,  Jno.  M.  Robards  and  Geo.  D.  Ferris;  while  W.C. 
Nichols  donated  in  ||)roperty  and  right  of  way,  seventy-five  dollars. 
The  first  train  came  to  Centralia  on  the  C.  &  A.  in  August,  187  ,  and 
though  it  was  no  new  sight  to  the  Centralians,  the  Wabash  having  been 
so  long  in  operation,  yet  the  additional  importance  which  the  new 
road  gave  the  town,  filled  them  with  joy,  and  it  is  said  some  of  **the 
boys"  filled  with  Homething  else  in  celebration  of  that  event.  The 
road  granted  an  excursion  to  Chicago  in  September  following,  in  which 
many  citizens  of  Centralia  participated.  The  company  have  built 
both  a  passenger  and  a  freight  depot  in  the  northern  part  of  town, 
through  which  the  road  runs,  and  Centralia  now  has  two  of  the  most 
important  roads  in  the  West  in  full  operation. 

TOWN    OFFICERS. 

The  present  town  officers  are  P.  S.  Hocker,  mayor  ;  J.  E.  Stewart, 
H.  C.  Threlkeld,  F.  Shryock,  James  W.  Bay,  trustees  ;  J.  L.  Paxton, 
clerk;  A.  F.  Sneed,  treasurer;  Alber  Easter,  marshal.  Centralia, 
since  the  completion  of  the  C.  &  A.,  has  grown  till  she  had  a  popula- 
tion, by  the  census  of  1880,  of  703;  and  her  rapid  growth  since  the 
last  census  has  been  such  that  the  present  population  is  about  1,000. 

CENTRALIA  PUBLIC  SCHOOL. 

The  erection  of  the  first  school  building  in  the  town,  as  well  as  the 
name  of  the  first  teacher,  are  elsewhere  mentioned.  The  cost  of  the 
first  building  was  $250,  and  its  size  18x20  feet.  The  school  district 
(No.  1,  township  51,  range  11)  was  organized  in  1860.     The  second 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  703 

bool-house  was  erected  ou  block  27,  donated  for  that  purpose  by  M. 
.  Singleton,  and  cost  $1,050.  It  was  a  one-story  frame,  20  x  36  feet, 
t  this  time  about  forty  pupils  were  in  attendance,  and  Thomas  Gantt, 
.  S.  Sneed  and  John  Fields  were  trustees.  The  present  building,  a 
wo-8tory  brick,  size  27  x5l  feet,  with  lobby  16  x  20  feet,  was  ei'ected 
D 1880.  Two  acres  on  the  east  side  of  town  were  donated  by  Jas.  S. 
iollins,  on  which  the  building  was  erected,  at  a  cost  of  $4,500  for 
H)Q8e  and  furniture.  Trustees  were  J.  E.  Stewart,  P.  S.  Hocker 
mdGreorge  M.  Lease.  In  1880,  the  number  of  school  children  in  the 
iistrict  was  164,  and  the  value  of  taxable  wealth  was  $99,000.  In 
1881,  the  number  of  school  children  was  317,  and  value  of  taxable 
property  $117,000.  Number  of  children  in  1882,  363,  and  taxable 
wrealth  $154,000.  Prof.  J.  C.  Hall,  county  commissioner,  was  prin- 
cipal in  1881,  assisted  by  L.  J.  Hall  and  Miss  M.  Swenny  and  Miss 
M.Holmes.  Hall  was  elected  principal  again  for  1882,  with  L.J. 
Hall  and  wife  and  Miss  Fannie  Booth  as  assistants. 

NEWSPAPERS. 

The  first  newspaper  publication  of  any  sort  in  Centralia  was  estab- 
isbed  October  16,  1868.  It  was  called  the  Southeim  Home  Circle^ 
nd  was  issued  monthly  by  Adam  Rodemyre.  In  June,  1870,  the 
material  of  the  office  was  moved  to  Sturgeon  and  consolidated  with 
lat  of  the  Sturgeon  Independent^  a  Democratic  paper,  W.  Z.  Conne- 
5y  and  A.  Rodemyre,  publishers.  In  March,  1871,  Mr.  Rodemyre 
)ught  out  Mr.  Connevey  and  removed  the  material  back  to  Centra- 
i,  where,  on  March  18,  1871,  was  issued  the  first  number  of  Our 
{reside  Guards  a  six-column  paper,  published  by  A.  Rodemyre  and 

H.  Stephens.     The  Guard  wan  a  weekly  paper,  neutral  in  politics. 

1872  Mr.  Rodemyre  became  sole  proprietor,  and  enlarged  the  pa- 
jr  to  a  seven-column  sheet.  In  June,  1874,  the  material  of  the  office 
18  removed  to  San  Bernardino,  California,  by  Mr.  Rodemyre,  where 
was  used  by  him  and  his  partner,  John  Isaacs,  in  the  publication  of 
daily  and  weekly  newspaper  called  the  Times, 

Some  time  in  June,  1876,  Mr.  W.  J.  Davis  established  a  paper  in 
entralia  which  was  called  the  Sentinel,  It  was  a  five-column  paper, 
emocratic  in  politics.  In  the  following  November  Mr.  Rodemyre  re- 
irned  from  California,  purchased  the  Sentinel^  and  re-established  the 
l^uardy  January  7,  1877,  which  paper  is  still  in  existence,  the  only  one 
I  the  place.     It  is  a  folio,  containing  seven  columns  to  the  page,  and 

neutral  or  independent  in  politics.     Subscription  price,  $2  per  year. 


704  HISTORY   OF    BOONE   COUNTY. 

The  Guard  is  well  known  throughout  Central  Missouri,  although 
making  no  pretensions  to  a  general  circulation.  Its  editor,  Mr.  Rode- 
nijre^  is  certainly  a  genius  with  remarkable  versatility  of  talent.  He  is 
not  only  a  good  writer,  but  a  first-rate  artist  and  caricaturist.  His 
paper  seldom  appears  without  some  pointed,  humorous  cartoon,  and 
in  the  past  it  has  been  thus  profusely  illustrated.  The  cuts  are  all 
designed  and  engraved  by  Mr.  Rodemyre.  The  paper  is  printed  on  a 
power  press,  the  sole  invention  and,  with  the  exception  of  the  cylinder, 
the  sole  work  of  Mr.  R.  This  press  is  a  marvel  of  ingenious  mechau- 
ical  construction,  and,  though  made  of  various  materials  and  by  cari- 
ous contrivances,  is  a  first-rate  press,  and  does  rapid  and  excellent 
work. 

KILLING   OF   JOSEPH   J.    COLLIER. 

The  only  homicide  in  time  of  peace  in  Centralia  came  off  in  October, 
1872,  resulting  in  the  death  of  J.  J.  Collier,  an  old  citizen  of  the  place, 
and  formerly  the  landlord  of  the  Eldorado  Hotel.  Though  a  man  of 
many  excellent  qualities,  Mr.  Collier  was  addicted  to  drink,  and  when 
under  the  influence  of  liquor  was  inclined  to  be  rough  and  quarrelsome. 
On  the  occasion  referred  to  he  was  in  the  store  of  Whaley,  RobardsA 
Threlkeld,  somewhat  intoxicated.  In  a  half  sportive  mood,  but  rather 
roughly,  he  slapped  a  young  fellow  named  Smith,  a  painter,  and  han- 
dled him  a  little  violently.  Another  young  man  named  James  McDow- 
ell, who  was  standing  by,  said  to  Collier:  **  If  you  would  do  that  to 
me,  you  would  have  me  to  lick."  Collier  turned,  and  with  some  ex- 
pressions of  contempt  and  anger,  caught  McDowell  by  the  neck  and 
shook  him  with  extreme  violence.  A  scuffle  ensued,  during  which 
McDowell  whipped  out  a  knife  and  stabbed  Collier  so  severely  that 
he  died  in  a  short  time.  McDowell  was  arrested  and  released  on 
preliminary  examination.  He  was  never  indicted.  Collier's  death 
occurred  October  28,  1872. 

SECRET   ORDERS FREE    MASONS. 

The  Centralia  Lodge,  No.  59,  of  the  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  was  organ- 
ized in  186G,  the  dispensation  bearing  date  of  August  8,  of  that  year. 
The  first  officers  were  S.  J.  Bush,  W.  M.  ;  D.  B.  Roberts,  S.  W.;  B. 
P.  Roberts,  J.  W.  ;  J.  G.  Bruton,  S.  D.  ;  F.  M.  Roberts,  J.  D.;  W. 
K.  Sturgeon,  secretary;  C.  C.  Bush,  treasurer;  M.  V.  Baker,  tyler. 
They  received  their  charter  October  19,  1867.  In  March,  1877,  they 
had  the  misfortune  to  lose  their  lodge  room  and  furniture  by  fire, 
though  they  were  fortunate  enough  to  save  the  records  and  charter. 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  705 

is  writing  (August,  1882)  the  lodge  is  in  a  flourishing  condition, 
wns  a  lodge  room  24  by  60  feet,  furnished  complete  with  best 
J,  carpets,  charts,  etc.,  valued  at  $1,000.  The  total  present 
)ership  is  seventy,  with  the  following  officers  :  W.  H.  Carpenter, 
[. ;  James  M.  Angell,  S.  W. ;  J.  W.  Bryson,  J.  W. ;  R.  D.  Poag, 
irer;  A.  Rodemyre,  secretary;  H.  C.  Threlkeld,  S.  D. ;  S.  N. 
m,  J.  D.,  and  Thomas  J.  Roberts,  tyler. 

ANCIENT   ORDER   OF   UNITED   WORKMEN. 

Ige  No.  199,  at  Centralia,  was  instituted  by  Deputy  Grand  Mas- 
'orkman  O.  J.  Miller,  of  Rocheport,  the  dispensation  being  dated 
st  4,  1880,  and  the  charter  dated  the  same.  The  names  of  char- 
embers  are  J.  M.  Angell,  Jerry  Bush,  J.  W.  Bay,  H.  S.  Batter- 
j,  D.  Burch,  J.  R.  Flynn,  E.  H.  Farrar,  W.  B.  DeJarnette,  J. 
itchell,  A.  D.  Rumans,  W.  A.  McAllister,  T.  K.  Wallace,  F.  M. 
jhber,  H.  C.  Threlkeld,  D.  T.  Hubbard,  G.  M.  Lease,  Josiah 
W.  D.  Lawhorne,  M.  T.  Jones,  J.  S.  Hannah,  W.  J.  Booth  and 
,.  McBride.  The  names  and  rank  of  the  first  officers  are  the  fol- 
g:  J.  S.  Hannah,  M.  W. ;  W.  J.  Booth,  P.  M.  W. ;  E.  H.  Far- 
ecorder;  H.  C.  Threlkeld,  overseer;  J.  M.  Angell,  G.  F.  ;  W. 
cAUister,  financier;  G.  M.  Lease,  recorder;  F.  M.  Traughber, 
;  T.  K.  Wallace,  J.  W. ;  A.  D.  Rumans,  O.  W.  The  present 
re  of  the  lodge  are  E.  H.  Farrar,  W.  A.  McAllister,  J.  C.  Hall, 
.  Head,  A.  D.  Rumans,  C.  E.  Chance,  W.  J.  Booth,  S.  Shryock, 
ish  and  J.  Hayden,  who  respectively  fill  the  above  indicated  offices, 
of  them  are  reported  as  grand  lodge  officers.  The  membership 
esent  is  fifty-four  in  number.  They  have  a  frame  hall,  built  in 
,  which  cost  five  hundred  dollars. 

V 
CENTRALIA    LODGE    NO.    2679,    K.    OF    H. 

lis  lodge  of  Knights  of  Honor  was  instituted  by  R.  H.  Robbins, 
late  of  dispensation  being  February  14,  1882.  The  charter  mem- 
were  W.  M.  Robinson,  W.  H.  Baldridge,  J.  W.  Simco,  Edgar 
aberlain,  J.  W.  McCallister,  Peter  Picket,  Geo.  H.  Crouson,  W. 
iraco,  J.  H.  Brown,  C.  E.  Chance,  W.  N.  White,  James  K. 
hcutt,  D.  H.  Glore,  Wm.  Patten,  R.  H.  Wilhite,  J.  W.  Hockcr, 
^  Adams,  W.  A.  Gooch,  J.  H.  White,  Dan.  Davis,  B.  White,  J. 
horaas  and  J.  H.  Head.  The  first  officers  were  W.  A.  McCallis 
D. ;  J.  H.  Head,  P.  D.  ;  D.  H.  Glore,  A.  D.  ;  Wm.  Patten,  V. 

C.  E.  Chance,  ;  Edgar  Chamberlain,  C.  ;   Jas.  K.  North- 

45 


706  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

cutt,  F.  R. ;  W.  H.  Baldridge,  S. ;  W,  Simco,  G. ;  R.  Wilhite.O.j 
J.  W.  Hocker,  R.  The  present  officers  are  the  same  as  those  fini 
chosen,  except  that  D.  H.  Davis  is  chaplain  in  place  of  Chamberlafai^ 
resigned.  J.  H.  Head  is,  up  to  this  time,  the  only  grand  lo^ 
officer,  and  the  present  membership  numbers  seventy-five.  j 

I; 
GOOD   TEMPLARS. 

The  lodge  of  Good  Templars  at  Centralia  wis  organized  January 
12,  1874.  The  charter  members  were  Miss  Mattie  Atkins,  Isaiah 
Harper,  Geo.  T.  Ray,  T.  S.  Larkin,  D.  D.  Conger,  W.  H.  Bancaid, 
J.  B.  Cave,  Ed.  Chamberlain,  Geo.  L.  Truitt,  Thos.  West,  Miss  Eva 
Chamberlain,  T.  J.  Bennett,  Samuel  Bennett,  Miss  Lizzie  Phelpa, 
Miss  Lillie  Lofland,  Wm.  Conger,  Sr.,  and  A.  J.  Bush.  ThefinI 
officers  were  the  following:  T.  S.  Sneed,  W.  C. ;  Julia  West,  W.V.; 
J.  B.  Lofland,  W.  Sec. ;  Miss  Lizzie  Sneed,  Asst.  Sec.  ;  Wm.  Conger, 
W.  Chap.  ;  T.  J.  Roberts,  W.  G.  L.  D. ;  Isham  Bonlware,  W.  M.; 
Miss  Lillie  Brown,  D.  M. ;  Leslie  Farris,  O.  G. ;  Mrs.  T.  S.  Sneed, 
R.  H.  S  ;  Mrs.  Eliza  Truitt,  L.  H.  S. 

CHURCHES  —  METHODIST   EPISCOPAL   CHURCH    ( SOUTH). 

The  Centralia  M.  E.  church.  South,  was  organized  in  1868,  with  the 
following  original  members;  Robert  Cook,*R.  F.  Edwards  and  wife, 
Mary  Edwards  ;  Newton  Russell  and  wife,  Celia  Russell ;  A.  Cook, 
Druzilla  Cook,  Elbert  Givens  and  wife,  Sarah  Givens.  The  first 
church  house  erected  was  the  same  they  are  now  using,  and  was  built 
in  1870-71,  and  is  a  frame  structure  which  cost  about  $1,500.  It 
was  dedicated  in  September,  1871,  by  Dr.  John  D.  Viucil.  The 
pastors  that  have  presided  over  this  flock  are  the  Reverends  DeMoss, 
Rich,  Sutton,  Metcalf,  Graves,  Rooker,  Salvage,  Root  and  Bobert 
White,  the  latter  being  the  present  minister  in  charge.  The  present 
membership  numbers  sixty-five,  and  the  church  is  reported  in  fine 
working  condition. 

METHODIST   EPISCOPAL   CHURCH. 

This  congregation  has,  as  yet,  no  place  of  worship  of  their  own, 
but  use  the  church  belonging  to  the  M.  E.  church  South.  The 
church  was  organized   by  A.  J.  Dill,  in   1871,  the  original  members 

being  J.  V.  Farris  and  wife,  H.  Booth  and  wife, Buly  and  wife, 

and  J.  B.  Alison  and  wife.     The  following  are  the  names  of  pastors 
that  have   served   the  cono^regation  since  the   orofanization :  W.  T. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  707 

Freeland,  J.  Gillies,  H.  B.  Seely,  J.  W.  Andersou,  N.  Shumate  and 
T.  J.  Enyeart,  who  is  the  present  pastor  serving  his  first  year.  The 
present  membership  numbers  forty-seven.  Up  to  the  spring  of  1882 
this  denomination  have  never  had  a  dollar  invested  in  church  property 
in  Boone  county.  They  now  own  a  parsonage  at  Centralia,  built  in 
the  spring,  which  cost  $600.  Though  the  success  of  this  denomina- 
tion has  not  as  yet  been  great  in  this  county,  they  think  their  pros- 
pects for  the  future  better  than  they  have  been  in  the  past. 

BAPTIST   CHURCH. 

The  Centralia  Baptist  church  was  organized  April  17th,  1871,  with 
the  following  as  original  members :  T.  S.  Sneed,  Susan  S.  Sneed,  A. 
F.  Sneed,  L.  H.  Sneed,  Lizzie  Sneed,  Maggie  Sneed,  Amanda  Pogue 
(orPoage),  Patsy  Keen,  Sarah  Martin,  M.  E.  Holmes,  Ed.  Silver, 
Nancy  Silver,  J.  Chapel,  Annie  Chapel,  Mollie  Snow,  M.  K.  Lofiand 
(or  Loughland),  M.  Conger,  A.  M.  Conger,  Elinder  Silver.  The 
organization  at  Centralia  have  heretofore  had  no  church  of  their  own, 
but  have  worshipped  in  the  churches  of  other  denominations.  They 
are  now  (1882)  building  a  church  house,  an  elegant  frame  structure 
which  will  soon  be  completed,  and  will  cost  about  $2,500.  The  pres- 
ent membership  is  sixty-three  in  number,  and  E.  D.  Isbell  is  the 
pastor  in  charge. 

CHRISTIAN   CHURCH. 

The  Christian  church  was  organized  in  Centralia  under  the  auspices 
of  Eld.  James  A.  Berry,  the  17th  of  October,  1867,  with  the  follow- 
ing members,  viz. :  James  M.  West,  Elizabeth  West,  George  W. 
Kimbrough,  Katurah  Kimbrough,  F.  J.  Bruton,  Nettie  Bruton,  P.  S. 
Hocker,  Emma  Hocker,  J.  H.  Forbis,  Mary  Forbis,  J.  J.  Collier, 
Halmah  Collier,  Francis  Collier,  Rebecca  G.  Jackson,  Emily  F. 
Baker,  James  Phelps,  Judah  Phelps,  Margaret  Hull,  Susan  Carpenter, 
Emma  Givens,  Ellen  Holmes.  Pledging  themselves  to  one  another  to 
take  the  Bible  and  the  Bible  alone  as  their  guide  and  rule  of  faith^and 
practice,  giving  themselves  to  the  Lord  and  each  other,  asking  God's 
richest  blessings  upon  them  in  all  time  to  come,  the  congregation  met 
in  the  school-house  and  worshipped  there  at  intervals  until  the  fall  of 
1871.  The  congregation  had  its  trials  and  difficulties  to  maintain 
itself.  But  in  the  year  1869  S.  W.  Early  and  James  D.  Wyatt  and 
their  families  moved  into  Centralia  and  immediatelv  united  with  the 
little  church,  which  imparted  new  life  and  zeal  into  the  organization • 
In  June,  1869,  by  the  aid  of  Eld.  John  D.  White,  who  long  since  has 


708  HISTORY  OP  BOONE  COUNTT, 

gone  to  his  reward,  the  congregation  was  re-organized  by  app< 
F.  M.  Roberts  and  James  D.  Wyatt,  Elders,  and  S.  W.  fiu 
Jesse  Prewetty  deacons.  The  above  officers  were,  on  the  firs 
day  in  September  following,  properly  ordained  by  Eld.  D.  M. ' 
field.  In  the  year  1871  they  built  a  nice  frame  church,  38x50, 
about  the  center  of  the  town,  on  three  lots,  40  each  by  120,  i 
the  grounds  a  square.  These  lots  were  generously  donated 
church  by  the  Hon.  Jas.  S.  Rollins.  The  church  house  is 
building,  yet  nicely  finished  both  inside  and  out;  the  groai 
enclosed  and  an  abundance  of  shrubbery,  and  nice  shade  tre 
been  planted  in  the  grounds,  and  with  its  bluegrass  lawns 
inviting  place.  The  building  and  fixtures  cost  about  $2,50 
it  is  stated,  is  now  entirely  free  from  incumbrance.  The  oi 
tion  has  lost  many  of  its  original  members  by  death  and  rei 
and  in  the  past  dissensions  and  discord  were  the  unfortunate  fa 
sown  in  their  midst  by  designing  and  disreputable  preachers, 
the  prudent  and  untiring  vigilance  of  the  officers,  these  troubl 
overcome,  and  the  church  now  numbers  130  of  as  influential  • 
as  are  in  Boone  county,  thoroughly  united  and  in  perfect  ha 
and  under  the  management  of  its  eldership  and  G.  A.  Hoffmai 
present  pastor,  sways  an  immense  moral  influence  in  that  come 
They  have,  if  not  the  best,  one  of  the  best  Sunday  schools 
State,  Prof.  J.  C.  Hall,  superintendent.  This  church  has  be< 
istered  to  by  some  very  eminent  men — such  as  Eld.  T.  P. 
formerly  of  St.  Louis;  Eld.  Benj.  Franklin,  of  Cincinnati; 
Wilks,  T.  M.  Allen,  William  Ridgway,  J.  H.  Hardin,  F.  W. 
O.  A.  Carr,  D.  M.  Grandfield  and  others.  Eld.  James  Bei 
the  only  regular  pastor  they  had  from  1867  up  to  1875. 
Grandfield  has  labored  with  them  in  several  very  successful  pro 
meetings  in  the  years  past.  James  D.  Wyatt,  S.  W.  Early  J.  G. 
and  J.  H.  Forbis  are  the  present  eldership,  J.  D.  Wyatt  havii 
the  same  position,  except  for  a  short  interval,  since  1869.  D 
Wallace,  John  T.  Mitchell,  W.  H.  White,  James  H.  Silver  an< 
A.  Chance  are  the  present  board  of  deacons.  From  the  « 
faithfulness  of  a  few  men  and  women  the  church  has  grow 
twenty-one  members,  all  women  except  seven,  to  be  a  large  an« 
ential  congregation,  now  one  of  the  best  working  congregationi 
county.  But  few  of  the  members  appear  to  be  wealthy,  yet 
liberal  church  is  hard  to  find.  They  are  paying  their  pastor  $ 
half  of  his  time,  and  orive  largely  of  their  means  to  the  various 


HISTOKY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  709 

ry  societies  of  the  church  generally  and  remember  their  poor  and 
nfortunate  by  their  benevolence. 


BIOGRAPHIES. 
JAMES    M.    ANGELL. 

James  M.  Angell  is  the  son  of  Robert  Angell,  a  native  of  Kentucky, 
le  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  February  11,  1833.^  His 
ither  came  to  Missouri  in  1825,  and  settled  in  this  county.  His 
rife's  maiden  name  was  Martha  Perkins.  They  had  thirteen  chil- 
ren.  James  M.  was  educated  at  the  old-time  log  school  house, 
is  first  teacher  being  John  M.  McGhee.  He  settled  in  Centralia 
ownship  in  1867,  where  he  purchased  700  acres  of  rich  prairie 
and.  He  is  now  largely  engaged  in  farming  and  stock  raising, 
le  was  elected  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  1878,  which  office  he  still 
lolds.  Has  served  as  director  of  his  district  school  since  1867, 
ind  was  one  of  the  building  committee  in  erecting  their  new 
ichool  house.  Was  married,  September  10,  1857,  to  Miss  Han- 
lah,  daughter  of  Absalom  Fountain.  They  have  two  sons  and 
iree  daughters.  Their  names  are  Martha,  Lucy  E.,  Mary  E., 
Kedford  M.,  and  John  M.  Redford  and  Martha  are  dead.  He  has 
levoted  much  time  and  care  to  the  education  of  his  children.  His 
laughter,  Lucy  E.,  is  the  wife  of  Frederick  S.  Sappington,  of 
Boone  countv.  Mr.  Anorell  has  tried  one  hundred  and  twentv-five 
Jases,  none  of  which  have  ever  been  reversed  by  the  circuit  court. 
Bas  married  about  thirty  couples,  and  acknowledged  over  forty  deeds, 
[n  the  discharge  of  official  duty,  no  magistrate  perhaps  in  the  county 
las  given  better  satisfaction.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Angell  are  both  members 
)f  the  Methodist  church  South. 

ANTHONY  & BRO. 

George  and  Lewis  Anthony  are  the  sons  of  Thomas  J.  Anthony  and 
We  born  in  Morgan  county,  Missouri,  George  in  1850,  Lewis  in 
^852.  They  were  brought  up  on  the  fiirm,  but  each  of  the  brothers 
las  a  good  business  education.  Lewis  was  a  farmer  and  stock  trader 
mtil  1876,  when  he  went  into  the  grocery  trade  at  Centralia  where 
»e  continued  with  his  brother  until  they  went  into  the  livery  business. 
Their  mother's  maiden  name  was  Cassandra  Sutton.  There  were  four- 
een  children,  seven  of  each  sex.     Thomas  Anthony  and  his  wife  were 


710  HI8TORT  OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 

natives  of  Kentucky.     The  firm  of  Anthony  &  Brother  was  establishel 
in  1878. 

JAMES  W.  BAT. 

-  James  W.  Bay,  at  present  telegraph  operator  and  ticket  and  exprea 
agent  at  Centralia,  Missouri,  was  bom  in  Cumberland,  Guernsey  ooan* 
ty,  Ohio,  August  13th,  1848.  His  father,  Maj.  James  T.  Bay,  wii 
an  ofScer  in  the  United  States  army.  The  grandfather,  on  mothei^i 
side,  was  of  German  origin  ;  his  name  was  Andrew  Kells.  On  tin 
paternal  side,  the  family  is  of  Scotch-Irish  extraction.  The  maternal 
grandfather  served  in  the  war  of  1818.  Young  Bay  was  educatedit 
the  common  schools  of  Ohio,  leaving  his  native  State  for  Missouri, 
in  1860.  From  1862  to  1865  he  was  in  the  United  States  servioeit 
military  telegraph  reporter.  Since  then  has  been  constantly  in  the 
business.  For  four  months  after  the  war,  was  in  the  service  of  the 
Ohio  and  Mississippi  Railroad  company ;  then  in  the  service  of  the 
Missouri  Pacific,  from  1866  to  1875 ;  then  one  year  with  the  Iroa 
Mountain  Road  ;  then  to  Ferguson  Junction,  and  from  there  to  Cra- 
tralia,  in  the  fall  of  1876,  at  which  post  he  has  remained  ever  since. 
Mr.  Bay  married  Miss  Mary  R.  Bell,  daughter  of  G.  L.  Bell,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Tennessee  family  of  that  name,  Mrs.  Bay  beingagraod- 
daughter  of  John  Bell,  who  was  a  candidate  for  pi*esident  in  I860. 
They  have  two  children.  Mr.  Bay  is  a  member  of  A.  F.  and  A.  M., 
also  of  the  A.  O.  U.  W.  He  is  a  steady,  energetic  business  man, 
prompt  and  zealous  in  the  discharge  of  duty,  and  thoroughly  con?er- 
sant  with  the  business  intrusted  to  his  care. 

THOMAS    HARRIS   BARNES. 

Thomas  Harris  Barnes  is  the  son  of  Thomas  H.  Barnes,  of  Madison 
county,  Kentucky,  where  he  was  born  January  8,  1860.  His  mother 
was  Ann  Wingfield,  a  native  of  Virginia.  The  father  of  Thomas  died 
when  his  sou  was  but  three  years  old.  He  had  served  his  native 
county  in  the  capacity  of  county  court  clerk.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Christian  church.  Mrs.  Harris  removed  to  Missouri  with  her 
family  of  six  children  in  the  fall  of  1866,  settling  three  miles  west  of 
Centralia,  where  she  remained  until  her  death.  Thomas  H.  prepared 
himself  for  teaching  in  the  public  schools.  He  followed  his  profession 
until  1882,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with  R.  H.  Wilhite  in  the 
boot  and  shoe  trade.  They  have  a  good  business,  with  flattering  pros- 
pects for  the  future.  Mr.  Harris  is  a  member  of  the  Good  Tempto 
lodge  at  Centnilia. 


raSTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  711 


DURRETT   H.    BARNES. 


John  Barnes,  the  father  of  Durrett,  was  a  citizen  of  this  county 
rhile  it  was  yet  the  abode  of  wild  Indians.  The  only  means  of  safety 
fas  the  rude  forts  constructed  by  the  early  pioneers,  in  which  they 
took  refuge  when  the  Indians  were  on  the  war-path.  John  Barnes 
came  to  Howard  county  in  1808  with  his  father,  Shadrach  Barnes. 
They  forted  for  several  years  near  Old  Franklin.  John  was  one  of  a 
fiimily  of  twelve  children,  eight  sons  and  four  daughters,  all  of  whom 
li?ed  to  have  families.  Durrett  Barnes  was  born  in  Boone  county, 
September  13,  1822.  His  opportunities  for  obtaining  an  education 
were  very  limited.  His  first  teacher  was  Overton  Harris,  who  taught 
io  a  little  log  cabin  with  puncheon  floor.  The  boys  attended  this 
school  clad  in  the  simplest  style  that  could  be  imagined,  their  entire 
wardrobes  consisting  of  but  a  single  garment  made  from  the  lint  of 
flax,  grown  on  the  farm  and  manufactured  at  home  by  industrious 
mothers  and  daughters  who  knew  nothing  of  the  luxuries  and  vanities 
of  civilization,  and  cared  less.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  married 
to  Miss  Caroline  E.,  daughter  of  Philip  Lyle,  a  native  of  New 
York.  They  had  eight  children,  six  sons  and  two  daughters. 
Their  names  are  Ellen  F.,  Thomas  T.,  Philip,  Filmore,  Dora  A., 
Bobert  D.,  William  H.,  and  John.  There  are  but  five  of  the  number 
living.  Durins:  the  war,  Mr.  Barnes  entered  the  Confederate  service 
ander  Colonel  Joe  Porter,  and  was  taken  prisoner  and  kept  at  Alton, 
tlliuois,  until  1864,  when  he  was  released  and  allowed  to  return  home. 
ih  first  wife  having  died,  he  was  married  the  second  time  to  Lavinia 
Canatzar,  nee  Roberts,  in  1869.  He  is  now  living  on  a  farm  of  240 
cres  in  Centralia  township. 

PETER  J.  BARRON 

as  born  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  September  12,  1847, 
here  he  continued  to  reside  till  he  was  18  years  old.  His  parents 
3re  Thomas  and  Lucy  (7iee  Smith)  Barron,  and  they  lived  for  several 
\9LVs  in  St.  Louis,  where  Peter  obtained  his  education  in  the  public 
hools.  At  12  years  old,  he  went  to  clerking  in  a  store,  remaining 
r  six  years  in  that  employment.  He  then  went  to  Baxter  Springs, 
ansas,  and  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  for  two  years.  After 
is  he  located  at  Crawfordsville,  same  State,  and  went  into  the  general 
erchandise  business,  and  was  at  the  same  time  authorized  by  govern- 
ent  to  trade  with  the  Indians.     In  1876,  he  returned  to  St.  Louis 


712  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

and  engaged  for  two  years  in  the  grocery  business,  at  the  expiration 
of  which  he  came  to  Columbia  and  went  into  business  in  the  firm  of 
White,  Barron  and  Co.,  the  history  of  which  firm  is  given  in  the 
sketch  of  W.  N.  White.  Mr.  Barron  is  a  thorough-going  basiQe» 
man.  He  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Honor  and  Knights  of  Pythias, 
and  id  a  gentleman  highly  esteemed  in  both  social  and  business  circles. 
He  was  married  in  1874,  to  Miss  Susie  Gooch,  of  Shelby  county,  Mis- 
souri, daughter  of  William  Gooch,  a  prominent  citizen  of  that  count;. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barron  have  four  children,  named  John,  Paul,  Charles 
and  Annie. 

DB.   F.   J.    BRUTON. 

Dr.  Francis  Jackson  Bruton  was  bom  in  Montgomery  county, 
Kentucky,  February  8th,  1830.  Was  educated  at  the  common 
schools  and  at  Prospect  Hill  college.  His  father,  James  Bruton, 
was  a  farmer  and  stock  raiser.  They  came  to  Boone  county  in  1853. 
The  country  about  Ceutralia  was  then  very  sparsely  settled.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  remembers  having  killed  wild  deer  upon  what 
now  constitutes  a  portion  of  the  town  of  Centralia.  Dr.  Bruton 
farmed  until  1866,  when  he  moved  to  Centralia.  In  1871  he  gradu- 
ated at  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College,  having  previously  read  medi- 
cine for  two  years.  He  was  married,  July  14th,  1852,  to  Miss  Hen- 
rietta Fenwyck,  of  Bath  county,  Kentucky.  They  have  four  children. 
Has  one  daughter  now  the  wife  of  Robert  B.  Singleton,  of  St.  Louis. 
Has  one  son,  Frank  E.,  in  business  at  Sturgeon.  During  the  civil  war, 
Dr.  Bruton  remained  at  home.  Took  no  part  in  the  strife,  but  was 
arrested  by  Merrill's  Horse  and  kept  several  days  on  account  of  bis 
sympathy  for  the  South.  He  was  drafted  about  the  close  of  the  war, 
but  did  no  service.  Was  on  the  ground  after  the  Centralia  fight  and 
helped  to  dispose  of  the  dead,  as  will  be  seen  by  reading  the  account  of 
the  massacre  which  appears  in  this  volume.  Dr.  Bruton  is  a  Mason. 
He  and  his  wife  are  both  members  of  the  Christian  church. 

CHRISTOPHER   C.    BUSH. 

Christopher  C.  Bush  is  a  native  of  Kentucky,  where  he  was  bom, 
October  25th,  1823.  He  is  the  son  of  T.  V.  Bush,  a  farmer,  and  was 
reared  and  educated  in  the  same  line  of  business.  His  father  lived  to 
the  age  of  seventy- three,  and  is  entitled  to  the  distinction  of  having 
invented  the  first  corn  planter  ever  patented  in  the  United  States. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  came  to  Missouri  in  the  spring  of  1855,  and 
settled  in  Boone  county,  where  he  has  continuously  resided  ever  since. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  713 

He  has  always  followed  farming.  Married  Miss  Sarah  A.,  daughter 
of  Nelson  Bush.  Four  sons  and  six  daughters  were  born  of  this  mar- 
riage. The  first  wife  dying,  Mr.  Bush  was  again  married,  the  second 
wife  being  Miss  Perlina,  daughter  of  James  C.  Jennings.  He  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Christian  church  ever  since  he  wastliirteen  years  old. 

JOHN    A.    CHANCE. 

John  A.  Chance  was  born  in  Missouri,  but  went  with  his  parents  to 
Illinois  when  a  child.  This  was  in  1847.  He  came  back  to  Missouri 
in  1865  and  engaged  in  farming  until  1881  when  he  purchased  a  con- 
trolling interest  in  the  hardware  store  of  Thomas  Sexton,  Centralia. 
His  brother,  C.  E.  Chance,  is  now  his  partner  in  business,  the  firm 
being  Chance  Brothers.  He  was  married  in  1873  to  Miss  Addie, 
daughter  of  Solomon  Sexton.  They  have  two  children.  Mr  Chance 
is  an  official  member  of  the  Christian  church.  The  firm  of  Chance 
Brothers  is  well  established  and  justly  popular  with  the  people 
of  Centralia  and  vicinity. 

GARRISON   H.    CHANCE. 

Garrison  H.  Chance  was  born  in  Delaware,  March  20,  1823.  He  is 
the  son  of  Thomas  Chance,  a  native  of  New  Jersey.  He  is  of  Welsh 
t>rigin  on  the  father's  side.  His  maternal  ancestors  were  English.  In 
1827  Thomas  Chance  emigrated  to  Ohio,  where  he  remained  six  years. 
n  1833  he  removed  to  Illinois.  In  1840  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
'ame  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  where  ho  married  Miss  Martha  A., 
laughter  of  John  Roberts.  There  were  six  sons  and  two  daughters 
►y  this  marriage.  The  first  wife  dying,  he  married  Miss  Lurinda, 
laughter  of  Inyard  Winscot.  They  have  three  sons  by  this  marriage. 
rlr.  Chance  has  a  large  farm  well  improved.  He  raises  a  variety  of 
produce.  Has  a  fine  orchard  and  apiary.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
christian  church,  and  contributes  liberally  to  the  support  of  the  gos- 
)el.     Though  hardly  sixty  years  of  age,  he  has  twelve  grandchildren. 

WILLIAM    W.    CONGER. 

William  Wallace  Conger  was  born  in  Oswego  county.  New  York, 
January  7,  1840.  His  father  was  a  miller  and  he  was  brought  up  to 
:he  same  business.  Attended  school  at  Phcenix,  his  native  town.  In 
1858  he  came  with  his  father  to  Audrain  county,  Missouri,  and  set- 
tled on  a  farm  where  he  remained  for  eight  years.  In  1873  he  came 
to  Centralia  and  entered  the  firm  of  Conger  Brothers,  proprietors  of 


714  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

the  Centralia  mills,  of  which  firm  he  is  still  a  member.     lu   1861  he 
acted  as  scout  for  Federal  troops,  being  with  the  3d  Iowa  regiment. 
March  25,  1862,  enlisted  in  Captain  H.  N.  Cook's  company.  Guitar's 
regiment,  in  which  he  served  for  three   years  and  one  month.    Was 
third  sergeant  of  his  company  and  followed  the  fortunes  of  his  regi- 
ment  in   all  the  raids,  marches  and  battles  in  which  it   was  engaged. 
Was  at  Moore's  Mills,  Kirksville,  Brown's  Springs,  and   other  skir- 
mishes of  less  note.     Was  never  wounded  or  captured.     Mr.  Conger 
was  married   March  17,  1864,  to  Miss  AngelineM.  Hunt,  of  Monroe 
county.     They  have  eight  living  children.     Their  names  are  William 
E.,  Henry  M.,  Clarence  H.,  Harriet  N.,  Bessie,  Alice  L.,  Ann  Bar- 
bara, Clyde  W.,  and  one  dead — Addie.     Mr.  and    Mrs.  Conger  are 
members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.     Mr.  Conger  is  also  a 
Mason. 

JAMES    R.  BRYSON. 

The  Bryson  family  are   of    Irish  origin,  the  great-grandfather  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  having  emigrated   to    this  country   from 
Ireland  in  an  early  day  on  account  of  religious  persecution.     He  was 
the  father  of  Andrew,  a  native  of  Kentuckv,  who  was  the  father  of 
Solomon,  also  born  and  raised  in  Kentucky.     James  R.,  son  o£  Sol- 
omon Bryson,  was  born  in  Madison  county,  Kentucky,    May  30th, 
1826,  and  came  with  his  parents  to  Howard  county,  Missouri  in  1829. 
They  remained  in  Howard  county  for  ten  years,  when  they  removed 
to  a  farm  near  Centralia,  where  the  elder  Bryson  died  soon  after  the 
war.     James  was  one  of  eight  children,  four  of  each  sex.     He  was 
educated  at  an  old  log  school  house,  where  the  benches  were  con- 
structed from  the  trunks  of  trees  split  in  the  middle,  each  half  form- 
ing a  bench,  and  each  bench  proving  a  seat  of  torture  to  the  children 
doomed  to  sit  with  their  feet  dangling  in  space,  with  no  rest  for  the 
arms  or  back.     The  primitive  school  house  is  never  forgotten  by  those 
who  experienced  the  tortures  inflicted  upon  mind  and  body  within  its 
dark,  rude   walls.     Mr.   Bryson    married   Miss  Nancy,    daughter  of 
Isaac  Stone.     They  have  had  eight  children,  seven  of  whom  are  now 
living.     During  the  civil  war  Mr.  Bryson  took  sides  with  the  South. 
He  joined  the  Confederate  army  in  1862  and  served  until  the  close  of 
the  war.     He  was  in  several  battles,  but  escaped  without  injury.    Two 
of  his  brothers  were  captured  and  killed  by  Federal  soldiers.     Another 
brother  was  wounded  at    Wilson  Creek.     Mr.  Bryson  was  quai'ter- 
master  during  most  of  the  war.     He  has  always  voted  the  Democratic 
ticket.     He  owns  about  600  acres  of  fine  land  well  improved.    It  was 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  715 

>iie  of  the  first  places  settled  in  his  neighborhood.     He  is  a  member 
>f  the  A.  F.  and  A.  M. 

SAMUEL   W.   EARLY. 

Mr.  Early  is  a  native  of  West  Virginia,  born  in  Monroe  county, 
September  26th,  1835.  He  is  a  son  of  Andrew  C.  and  Elizabeth 
'Nickell)  Early,  who  were  both  natives  of  the  **  Old  Dominion."  In 
he  year  1842  his  parents  removed  to  Callaway  county.  Mo.,  where  he 
rrew  to  manhood,  being  engaged  on  his  father's  farm  the  greater  por- 
ion  of  his  time,  and  attending  the  subscription  schools  of  his  neigh- 
>orhood  when  opportunity  offered.  In  1855  Mr.  Early  removed  to 
ludrain  county,  where  he  followed  farming  until  1863,  when  he  located 
n  Mexico,  and  afterward  engaged  in  merchandising.  By  the  great 
ire  of  March,  1872,  Mr.  Early  was  damaged  to  the  extent  of  several 
housands  of  dollars.  He  has  since  been  engaged  in  the  insurance  and 
eal  estate  business.  During  the  last  two  years  he  has  sold  over  300, 
)00  acres  of  land.  (  ?)  Mr.  Early  was  the  leading  merchant  of  the 
)lace  when  he  was  in  business,  although  he  started  in  trade  with  a 
^ery  small  capital.  August  26th,  1857,  Mr.  Early  married  Miss  Ruth 
S.  Leach,  a  daughter  of  Wm.  Leach,  Esq.,  of  Audrain  county,  one  of 
he  earlysettlers  of  that  county.  They  have  had  born  to  them  twelve 
hildren,  nine  of  whom  are  living,  viz.:  Josephine  E.,  Annie  P., 
yharles  H.,  Ella,  Sallie  A.,  Florence,  Henrietta,  William  W.  and 
♦'rancis  M.  Mr.  Early  has  been  a  member  of  the  Christian  church 
ince  1855,  and  an  elder  for  ten  vears.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the 
iasonic  order  for  about  twentv-five  vears.  He  has  been  one  of  the 
own  trustees  for  about  seven  years,  and  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  ten 
'ears.  During  the  period  that  he  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  he  had 
mt  three  of  his  decisions  reversed  bv  hiorher  courts. 

FISHER    ELLIOTT. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Hiram  Elliott,  of  Boyle 
lounty,  Kentucky,  where  he  was  born  December  30th,  1846.  He  was 
he  youngest  of  five  children.  He  was  principally  raised  in  Boone 
jounty,  Missouri.  He  married  Miss  Fannie  Bryson,  daughter  of  Solo- 
non  Bryson.  They  have  two  sons  and  two  daughters.  Mr.  Elliott 
8  now  living  on  a  small  farm,  which  he  owns,  one-half  mile  from  Cen- 
iralia.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Missionary  Baptist  church. 

JAMES    H.    FORBIS. 

James   H.    Forbis,    former,    came    to  Centralia    township  in  1865. 


716  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTr. 

When  he  moved  to  the  neighborhood  the  prairie  grass  was  growing  as 
high  as  a  man's  head  where  the  town  now  stands.     He  was  born  in 
Henry  county,  Kentucky,  June  6th,  1833.     He  is  the  son  and  grand- 
son   of  the  Forbises,   pioneers   of    Kentucky.     Jaraes    was  one  of 
eight  children.     He  was  brought  up  on  the  farm.     Served  an  appren- 
ticeship at  the  carpenter's  trade  in  Louisville.     After  completing  his 
trade  he  went  to  Mississippi  where  he  remained  for  about  three  years. 
He  came  to  Missouri  in  1857,  settling  first  in  Callaway  cpunty,  re- 
moving next  to  Monroe  county,  where  he  was  fnarried,  June  6th,  1860, 
to  Miss  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Wilson  Enochs.     One  daughter  and 
four  sons  were  born  of  this  marriage.     Mrs.  Forbis  dying,  he  married 
Miss  Mary,    daughter  of  Thomas  Welch,  of  Monroe   county.    They 
have  one  daughter  (Eliza)  by  this  marriage.     Mr.  Forbis  settled  pres- 
ent place,  one  and  one-fourth    miles  southwest  of  Centralia,  in  1865. 
He  is  an  official  member  of  the  Christian  church. 

WILLIAM   H.    GARRETT. 

William  H.  Garrett  was  born  July  14th,  1855.  He  is  the  son  of 
James  Garrett,  a  hardware  merchant  of  Mexico,  Missouri.  His 
grandfather,  Richard  Garrett,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  is  now  a  citizea 
of  Schuyler  county,  Missouri.  William  H.  was  the  eldest  of  seven 
children.  He  was  educated  in  Mexico,  where  he  was  apprenticed  to 
the  hardware  business.  Was  married  to  Miss  Rosa,  daughter  of 
T.  S.  Sneed.  Mrs.  Garrett  was  the  first  living  child  born  in  Centralia. 
They  have  one  child,  Nina.  Mr.  Garrett  is  an  exemplary  member  of 
the  Christian  church.  He  moved  to  Centralia  in  1881,  previously 
selling  out  his  business  at  Vandalia,  Missouri.  He  purchased  an  in- 
terest in  the  hardware  store  ot  Mr.  E.  Thurston,  and,  July  11th, 
1882,  they  bought  the  furniture  store  of  J.  M.  Hawkins.  The  firm  of 
Garrett  &  Thurston  is  a  reliable,  prosperous  house.  Both  men  are 
practical  workmen  in  their  line  of  business. 

TURNER    S.    GORDOX. 

Turner  S.  Gordon,  proprietor  of  the  Centralia  brick  kiln,  was 
born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  April  26th,  1848.  He  is  the  son  of 
William  J.  Gordon,  for  many  years  one  of  the  proprietors  of  an  ex- 
tensive wagon,  plow  and  repair  shop  at  Columbia,  Missouri,  which 
did  a  large  business  in  the  manufacture  of  agricultural  implements 
and  general  repairing.  The  blacksmithing  was  under  the  supervision 
of  Mr.  Gordon,  while  the  woodwork  was  made   the  specialty  of  his 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  717 

partner,  Mr.  Anderson.  They  used  slave  labor  principally,  and  when 
the  negroes  were  set  free  by  the  war,  Mr.  Gordon  left  the  shop  and 
engaged  in  the  livery  business,  which  he  followed  up  to  his  death, 
in  1872.  George  W.  Gordon,  grandfather  of  Turner,  came  to  Boone 
county  about  fifty-two  years  ago.  He  was  of  Scotch-Irish  origin .  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  at  the  Missouri  State  University. 
In  1868  he  married  Miss  Leona,  daughter  of  Gen.  Bolton.  Her 
parents  haying  died  when  she  was  a  small  child,  she  was  brought  up 
in  the  home  of  her  uncle.  Gen.  Thomas  L.  Price,  of  Jefferson  City. 
She  was  educated  at  the  Moravian  Female  College,  in  Pennsylvania. 
They  have  two  sons  living  and  one  dead.  In  1877  Mr.  Gordon  em- 
barked in  the  brick-making  business,  which  he  has  followed  ever 
since.  He  moved  to  Mexico  in  1881,  where  his  family  now  reside. 
Purchased  his  present  business,  with  land  attached,  in  March,  1882. 
Mr.  Gordon  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church. 

PROF.    JAMES    C.    HALL. 

James  Clinton  Hall,  commissioner  of  public  schools,  was  born  in 
Jourbon*  township,  Boone  county,  September  20th,  1848.  He  was 
artly  educated  at  the  common  schools,  completing  his  education  at 
IcGhee  college.  After  leaving  college  he  spent  several  years  on  a 
irm.  Having  been  employed  to  teach  the  Hallsville  district  school,  he 
as  retained  by  the  directors,  serving  that  district  for  seven  years.  He 
as  then  employed  to  teach  at  Columbia,  serving  as  principal  of  the 
iblic  school  for  four  years.  He  went  to  Centralia  in  1881,  and  took 
large  of  the  public  school  at  that  place,  which  position  he  still  holds. 
1  1875  was  elected  school  commissioner,  and  has  held  the  office 
rer  since,  except  in  1877  and  1878.  He  was  married  March  18th, 
378,  to  Geneva  Pollard,  daughter  of  James  P.  Pollard,  of  Hallsville. 
[r.  and  Mrs.  Hall  are  members  of  the  Christian  church.  He  is  a 
lember  of  the  K.  P.  lodo:e  at  Columbia  and  A.  O.  U.  W.  of  Centralia. 
[e  was  secretary  of  Boone  County  Teachers'  Institute  from  1871  to 
iout  1875,  and  has  been  president  ever  since.  Prof.  Hall  is  an  able, 
irnest,  conscientious  teacher,  thoroughly  devoted  to  his  calling,  and 
iev  zealous  in  promoting  the  cause  of  popular  education. 


ALFRED  HEAD,  M.  D. 

This  gentleman  is  a  native  of  Sumner  county,  Tennessee,  born 
'ctoberl7th,  1815.  His  parents,  Henry  and  Elizabeth  Head,  were 
3th  natives  of  Virginia.     Dr.  Head  grew  to  manhood  in  the  county 


718  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

of  his  birth,  and  received  his  non-professional  education  at  theBural 
Academy  of  Sumner  county.  His  professional  course  was  taken  at 
the  Nashville  Medical  University,  and  he  began  the  practice  InBentou 
county,  Missouri,  in  1843.  He  continued  there  till  1863,  with  theex- 
ception  of  about  three  or  four  years,  from  1850  till  1854,  which  he  spent 
in  California.  In  1863  he  moved  to  Millersburg,  Callaway  county,  Mis- 
souri, where  he  practiced  medicine  till  1881,  his  two  sous  being  asso- 
ciated with  him,  and  doing  a  leading  practice  in  that  county.  In  the 
last  mentioned  year.  Doctors  Head  located  at  Centralia,  Boone  county, 
Missouri,  and  are  at  this  early  succeeding  date  ( 1882)  rapidly  building 
a  good  practice.  Dr.  Head  was  married,  in  1836,  to  Miss  RhodaL. 
Vincent,  daughter  of  James  and  Clara  Vincent,  of  Sumner  county, 
Tennessee.  There  are  five  children  of  this  marriage,  Catharine  A., 
Luvenia  B.,  James  H.,  Clara  E.  and  Charles  W.  Dr.  Head  has  been 
a  Mason  for  over  17  years,  and  is  in  everything  a  worthy  citizen  and 
substantial  man. 

CHARLES  W.  HEAD,  M.  D., 

Is  a  son  of  Dr.  Alfred  Head,  of  Centralia,  and  was  born  in  Benton 
county,  Missouri,  January  the  30th,  1855.  His  education  was  received 
in  this  State,  the  elementary  part  being  acquired  in  the  common 
schools  of  his  native  county.  His  literary  and  academic  course  was 
taken  at  the  University  of  Missouri  in  Columbia,  and  his  professional 
course,  at  the  Missouri  Medical  College,  of  St.  Louis.  He  attended  the 
latter  institution  in  the  years  1875,  1876  and  1877,  graduating  therefrom 
in  the  latter  year.  The  same  year  he  embarked  in  the  practice  of 
his  noble  profession  with  his  father  at  Millersburg,  Missouri,  continu- 
ing there  till  1881,  when  they  located  at  Centralia  in  this  county, 
where  they  are  now  in  the  practice.  Dr.  Head  has  been  a  hard  stu- 
dent, and  labors  faithfully  to  keep  up  in  all  the  new  developments  of 
medical  science.  Young  in  years  and  highly  educated,  both  profes- 
sionally and  generally,  there  is  before  him  every  prospect  of  a  success- 
ful future. 

JOHN    EDWARD    HINMAN. 

John  Edward  Hinnian  is  the  eldest  son  of  Gen.  William  A.  Hinman, 
and  was  born  in  Jacksonville,  Illinois,  November  16th,  1843.  The 
family  traces  its  origin  back  to  the  Pilgrim  Fathers.  Maj.  Benjamin 
Hinnian,  the  grandfather  of  John  Edward,  was  the  son  of  Deacon 
David,  who  was  son  of  Benjamin,  Jr.,  and  grandson  of  Benjamin,  Sr., 
and  great  grandson  of  Edward  Hinman.  He  married  Anna  Keyser, 
daughter  of  Captain  John  Keyser,  a  soldier  of  the  revolution.    The 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  719 

following  children  were  born  of  this  marriage:  John  Edward,  Benja- 
min, Jr.,  Col.  John  J.  and  General  William  A.,  the  father  of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  who  was  born  July  11th,    1802.     Col.  John  E. 
Hiaman  received  his  title  in  1821,  when    he  was  elected  lieutenant 
colonel  of  the  134th  regiment  of  New  York  militia.     He  held  various 
other  offices  of  trust  and  honor,  and  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  his 
constituents.     He   married  Mary,  daughter  of  G.    C.    Schroppel,  of 
New  York,  and   now   resides  in  Utica.     He   has  no  children.     Col. 
John  J.  married   Huldah  M.  Sturtevant.     He  was  a  lawyer  for  sev- 
eral years,  but  subsequently    followed   niilling  and    merchandising. 
He  had  five  children,  all  of  whom  are  dead.     He  died  in  1849.     Capt. 
Benjamin,  Jr.,  was  a  magistrate  and  captain  of  a  company.     He  was 
never  married.     Maranda  died  in  her  twelfth  year.     Annis  married 
Dr. Thomas  Monroe,  in  Maryland.     They  have  five  children.    They  are 
now  living  at  Rushville,  Illinois,  where  the  doctor  is  practicing  his 
profession.     Gen.  William  A.  Hinman,  the  father  of  John  Edward, 
was  educated  for  the  law  and  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the  bar  in 
Utica,  New  York.     In  1832  he  visited  Illinois,  and,  being  charmed 
with  the  country,  removed  to  Rushville,  where  he  dealt  largely  in 
^eal  estate.     He  also  served  as  surveyor-general  of  Illinois   for  sev- 
eral years  and  became  quite  familiar  with  the  geography  of  the  State. 
tie  served  as  a  general  in  the  Blackhawk  war  of  1832.     He  was  mar- 
ried, February  4th,  1843,  to  Miss  Grace  A.  Kingsbury,  daughter  of 
In  Episcopal  minister.     Two  sons  were  born  of  this  marriage,  John 
E.  and  Edward  M.  C.     The  latter  was  born  April  10th,  1847.     He 
Harried  Miss  Josephine  Long,  daughter  of  (^apt.  Long,  of  the  United 
States  army.     He  was  in  government  service  until  his  death,  in  1870. 
He  left  no  children.     His  widow  resides  at  Lewiston,  Illinois.     John 
E.    was  educated  in  St.  Louis  and    at  Rushville    and   Jacksonville, 
[llinois.     He  is  a  farmer  and  stock-raiser.     He  married  Miss  Sarah, 
laughter  of  Dr.  J.  C.  By  water,  of  Auburn,  New  York.     They  had  one 
jhild,  Grace,  born  January  6th,  1867.     The  first  wife  dying  in  1877, 
be  was  married  to  Miss  Flora,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  E.   Johnson, 
of  Canada.     They  have  one  child,  Edward  Willie,  born  August   13th, 
1878.     Mr.  Hinman  came  to  Boone  county  in  1869,  in  company  with 
his  father,  and  settled  at  Centralia  when  less  than  a  dozen  buildings 
constituted  the  entire  town.     He   purchased  400  acres  of  land  north 
of  and  in  close  proximity  to  the  village.     At  first  he  kept  a  hay  press. 
He  is  now   engaged  in  fanning   and   stock-raising.     He  keeps    some 
well-bred  horses.     In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat.     He  is  a  member  o! 


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720  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 

the  Episcopalian  church,  and  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias 
and  Ancient  Order  United  Workmen. 

PHILIP  8.    HOOKER. 

This  gentleman  is  a  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Tankenle;) 
Hocker,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Lincoln  county,  Kentucky, and 
moved  to  Monroe  county,  Mis;souri,  in  1830.  In  the  latter  county 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  November  1st  1832.  Dr.  Hocker 
was  reared  on  a  farm,  acquiring  his  rudimentary  education  in  ttie  com- 
mon schools  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  i^et  in  to  learn  the  carpenter'i 
trade,  and  also  learned  cabinet-making.  In  1852  he  moved  to  M^ 
Kinney,  Collin  county,  Texas,  where  he  resided  fourteen  years,  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  furniture.  When  the  civil  war  came  on, 
Dr.  H.  enlisted,  in  1861,  in  Col.  Stone's  regiment  of  Texas  vol- 
unteers, and  gave  his  services  to  the  cause  of  the  Confedemy. 
In  the  winter  of  1862  he  returned  home  and  assisted  in  recruiting  t 
company  for  Col.  Alexander's  regiment.  Hocker  was  commissioned 
second  lieutenant,  and  was  the  officer  sent  by  Gen.  Pike  from  Ft.  Gib- 
son, soon  after  the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge,  under  a  flag  of  truce,  to 
Gen.  Curtis,  to  adjust  the  difficulties  concerning  the  <*  scalping" 
done  by  the  Indian  allies  of  both  Federals  and  Confederates. 
He  withdrew'  from  Alexander's  regiment  in  1863,  and  was  ap- 
pointed hospital  steward  in  Col.  L.  M.  Martin's  regiment,  which 
position  he  held  till  the  close  of  the  war.  In  1866  he  returned  to 
Missouri  and  settled  in  Centralia,  Boone  county,  engaging  in  the 
furniture  business.  In  1867  he .  moved  to  Middle  Grove,  Moni-oe 
county,  and  engaged  in  the  drug  business  till  1871.  He  then  moved 
back  to  Centralia,  where  he  continued  in  the  drug  business  till  1881, 
when  he  embarked  in  the  real  estate  business,  in  which  he  is  still  en- 
gaged. Dr.  H.  has  been  three  times  elected  mayor  of  Centralia,  and  is 
honoring  that  position  at  the  time  of  this  writing.  In  1880  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  Centralia  school  board,  and  it  is  chiefly 
due  to  his  efforts  that  that  city  is  to-day  blessed  with  an  elegant 
public  school  building.  Dr.  H.  has  been  three  times  married.  His 
first  wife  was  Louniira  E.  Wilkerson,  daughter  of  Milton  and  Jane 
Wilkerson,  of  Florida,  Monroe  county,  Missouri,  to  whom  he  was 
married  August  26,  1852.  She  died  in  McKinney,  Texas,  in  1865, 
having  borne  him  one  son,  James  W.,  now  a  druggist  of  Centralia. 
On  January  22,  1867,  he  was  again  married  to  Miss  A.  E.  SncU, 
daughter  of  Judge  Granville  Snell,  of  Monroe  county.     This  lady  died 


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ibruary  21st,  1874,  leaving  three  children,  Charles,  Walter  and 
ary.  Dr.  Hooker  was  married  again  in  1874,  to  Miss  Emma,  daugh- 
r  of  Albert  and  Sarah  Gibbons,  of  Boone  county.  Three  children 
ive  been  born  of  this  last  union,  Regina,  Philip  S.  and  Vesta, 
e  has  been  a  Mason  since  1856,  and  organized  the  lodge  at  Mid- 
e  Grove,  of  which  he  was  for  two  years  master.  Since  1852  he  has 
jen  a  member  of  the  Christian  church,  and  is  in  everything  an  earn- 
it,  substantial  citizen.  The  doctor's  literary  attainments  may  be 
idged  from  the  fact  that  he  boldly  attacked  the  whole  school  of 
ifidel  scientists,  in  an  ably-written  pamphlet  entitled  **  Science  and 
evelation,"  in  which  he  vindicates  the  faith  of  the  faithful,  and 
lows  the  necessity  of  a  fjreat  First  Cause. 

AARON    L.    HUI.EN. 

Aaron  L.  Hulen,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  the  son  of  James 
ulen,  and  was  born  in  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  November  8th, 
552.  He  was  raised  on  the  farm  and  educated  at  the  common 
hool8  of  the  county.  Married  Miss  Martha,  daughter  of  James  E. 
ry,  of  Monroe  county,  Missouri.  They  have  one  daughter.  Mr. 
ulen  sold  his  farm  in  Monroe  county  and  removed  to  Boone  in  1882, 
irchasing  120  acres  one  mile  west  of  Centralia,  upon  which  he  has 
Bcted  a  broom  factory.  He  has  considerable  experience  in  the  busi- 
ss,  and  his  brooms  meet  with  ready  sale.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
iristian  church.  He  formerly  tauocht  school  of  winters.  He  is  a 
iDiocrat  in  politics. 

TAYLOR    H.   HULEN. 

Taylor  H.  Hulen  was  horn  in  Kentucky,  September  12,  1824.  He 
ne  to  Missouri  in  1832,  when  a  small  boy,  and  was  educated  at  the 
nmon  schools  in  the  neighborhood  of  his  home.  In  1846  he  was 
rried  to  Miss  Narcissa,  daughter  of  William  Turner.  By  this 
ion  they  had  ten  children,  five  of  each  sex,  all  of  whom  are  living 
t  one.  The  first  wife  having  died  in  1868,  he  was  again  married, 
I  second  wife  being  Mrs.  Margaret  Roberts,  late  widow  of  Shelton 
berts,  of  Boone  county,  and  a  daughter  of  Andrew  Gooding.  They 
7%  four  children,  two  of  each  sex.  Mr.  Hulen  followed  farming 
til  1880,  when  he  built  the  livery  stable  he  now  owns,  in  connec- 
n  with  his  partner,  Jerry  Bush,  at  Centralia,  Missouri.  Mr. 
lien  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church.  He  takes  a  lively  inter- 
',  in  public  matters,  and  is  a  friend  and  zealous  worker  in  the  cause 
education.  Mrs.  Hulen  is  a  member  ef  the  Christian  church. 
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JOHN   A.  JOHNSON. 


Anderson  Johnson,  the  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  of  Irish  origin,  and  a  native  of  Virginia.  The  father  of  John  A., 
Greenberry  Johnson,  was  born  in  Howard  county,  Missouri,  May, 
1822.  He  moved  to  Boone  county,  where  his  son  was  born,  February 
4,  1844.  The  mother's  maiden  name  was  Emily  Scaggs,  daughter  of 
Archibald  Scaggs,  of  German  origin.  Mr.  Johnson  married  Miw 
Elizabeth, 'daughter  of  William  W.  Tucker,  a  native  of  Virginia.  Mrs. 
Tucker's  maiden  name  was  Martha  Woodruflf.  Mr.  Johnson  has  three 
children,  Charles  C,  Nora  B.,  and  Victor  T.  He  owns  a  fine  farmof 
200  acres,  well  improved  and  quite  productive.  He  has  a  fine  orchard 
and  beautiful  shrubbery.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church  and 
assistant  superintendent  of  the  Lone  Star  Sunday  school. 

FRANK    KAHN. 

Frank  Kahn  is  a  native  of  Germany,  and  was  born  December  1, 
1851.  His  father  is  still  living,  having  reached  his  74th  year.  His 
grandfather  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of  103  years.  The  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  one  of  thirteen  children,  six  sons  and  seven  daughters, 
ten  of  whom  are  now  living.  One  brother,  Leopold,  fell  in  the 
Franco-Prussian  war.  Frank  came  to  the  United  States  in  1872  and 
settled  first  at  Nashua,  Illinois,  where  he  remained  for  three  years. 
He  then  went  to  Evansville,  Indiana,  where  he  clerked  in  the  store  of 
Nathan  Frank  for  four  years.  He  then  came  to  Centralia,  where  he 
commenced  business  for  himself,  handling  dry  goods,  clothing  :ind 
gents'  furnishing  goods.  He  was  married  in  Columbia,  Missouri,  in 
1880,  to  Miss  Fannie  Arnold,  a  native  of  Philadelphia.  They  have 
one  son.  Mr.  Kahn  was  raised  and  educated  in  Europe.  He  is  an 
active,  intelligent  business  man,  and  has  succeeded  in  building  up  a 
good  business.  Few  men  could  have  accomplished  as  much  in  the 
same  length  of  time.     He  came  to  Centralia  in  1879. 

WILLIAM   C.  LOVE  JOY. 

William  C.  Lovejoy  was  born  at  Hanesville,  Illinois,  February  19» 
1853.  His  father,  William  Lovejoy,  kept  a  hotel  at  Hanesville,  where 
he  died  in  1857,  when  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  but  four  years 
old.  Young  Lovejoy  was  educated  in  the  common  schools,  and  was 
especially  trained  in  penmanship,  in  which  art  he  became  quite  pro- 
ficient.     After  quitting  school  he  taught  writing  and  drawing  for  nine 


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re.  Was  employed  for  five  years  in  the  first  buttery  and  creamery 
iblishedin  Wisconsin,  where  he  commanded  the  highest  salary  paid 
the  company.  He  spent  several  years  teaching  in  Nevada,  and 
nd  it  very  profitable.  Came  to  this  county  in  1881,  and  settled 
he  place  where  he  now  lives.  He  opened  a  green-house  in  Cen- 
liain  the  spring  of  1882,  aud  has  now  one  of  the  finest  collections 
st  of  St.  Louis.  He  will  soon  have  a  large  stock  of  small  fruits  of 
iry  variety  known  to  our  soil  and  climate.  Mr.  Lovejoy  is  an  en- 
prising  gentleman,  and  has  already  done  much  to  advance  the  local 
erests  of  the  community  in  which- he  lives. 

EPHRAIM   MINOR. 

Bphraim  Minor  is  of  English  origin,  his  great-grandfather,  on  the 
her's  side,  having  been  a  native  of  that  country.  His  grandfather 
8  a  soldier  in  the  revolutionary  army,  enlisting  in  Virginia.  His 
her  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.  His  mother,  Rachel  Lamb, 
8  also  of  English  ancestry.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in 
acken  county,  Kentucky,  March  7,  1822.  He  was  the  youngest, 
^e  one,  of  a  family  of  thirteen  children.  He  was  raised  on  the  farm 
i  educated  at  the  district  schools.  In  1847  he  married  Miss 
ah  Furguson,  daughter  of  David  Furguson,  of  Brown  county, 
lio.  They  have  had  three  children.  The  eldest  child  died  young, 
icy  M.  is  married  to  Pete**  Pickert,  a  farmer.  They  have  one  child, 
e  other  daughter,  Emma,  is  married  to  G.  H.  Brown,  also  a 
iner.  Mr.  Minor,  since  his  marriage,  and  before  coming  to  Mis- 
iri,  resided  in  Ohio,  Illinois,  Kentucky,  Minnesota  and  Wiseon- 
i.  In  1864  he  enlisted  in  Company  F,  Independent  Regiment, 
nnesota  Volunteers.  Soon  after  he  was  disabled  by  the  prema- 
•e  discharge  of  a  cannon,  and  was  released  from  further  duty. 
5  lived  on  his  farm  in  Wisconsin  until  1873,  when  he  removed 
Missouri  and  settled  near  Centralia.  In  1882  he  moved  into 
''^n.  He  owns  a  fine  farm  of  226  acres.  Having  lost  both  of  his 
nds  by  the  accident  above  mentioned,  he  now  draws  annually  a  pen- 
n  of  $850.  He  is  a  Democrat,  voting  with  his  party  at  all  times 
d under  all  circumstances.  He  is  a  worthy,  well-to-do,  thrifty  citi- 
ii  highly  esteemed  by  all  who  know  him. 

JOHN  T.  MITCHELL. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Newman  and  Hannah  (nee 
ckman)  Mitchell,  and  was  born  in  this  county,  July  16th,    1857. 


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724  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY, 

Both  his  parents  are  native  Missourians,  his  father  having  beenbon 
in  Boone  county,  and  his  mother,  in  Howard.  John  T.  was  rearedoi 
a  farai  in  Boone  county,  and  educated  at  the  State  University  of  Co- 
lumbia. In  1877  he  accepted  the  position  of  book-keeper  in  the  BodM- 
port  Savings  Bank,  and  served  in  that  capacity  till  the  fall  of  1811, 
when  he  went  to  Centralia  and  organized  the  Bank  of  Centnliaor 
rather  became  an  incorporator  of  that  institution,  which  began  bmi* 
ness  in  1880.  Mr.  Mitchell  is  cashier  of  the  bank,  his  educational 
qualifications  and  his  Rocheport  experience  combining  to  fully  fit  \m 
for  that  responsible  position.  He  was  married  in  1881  to  Miss  Bdb 
R.  Clayton,  the  accomplished  daughter  of  John  S.  and  Fannie 
{nee  Chambers)  Clayton,  of  Rochepoit.  Mr.  Mitchell  is  a  memlNr 
of  the  Christian  church,  and  is  certainly  one  of  the  rising  yoong 
business  men  of  the  county. 

WILLIAM    R.  m'BRIDE. 

William  R.  McBride  was  born  in  Boyle  county,  Kentucky,  Novem- 
ber 4th,  1833.  His  father,  John  McBride,  came  to  Boone  county  in 
1854,  but  returning  to  his  native  state  on  a  visit  in  1860,  he  died  then. 
The  grandfather's  name  was  David.  He  was  a  native  of  Maryltod, 
but  moved  to  Noith  Carolina,  and  from  that  State  to  Missouri  in 
1835.  He  was  of  Scotch-Irish  origin.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of 
1812.  William  was  one  of  a  family  of  -eight  children.  He  com- 
menced business  for  himself  when  twenty-one  years  old,  with  no  cap- 
ital but  strength,  pluck  and  energy.  His  education  has  been  derived 
more  from  men  than  books,  and  the  lessons  learned  were  those  of  ex- 
perience, acquired  in  the  busy  field  of  human  effort.  In  1866  be  was 
married  to  Miss  Letha  J.,  daughter  of  Thomas  Adams,  of  Millen- 
burg,  Callaway  county,  Missouri.  They  have  three  sons  and  one 
daughter  livinc:  and  one  son  dead.  Mr.  McBride  is  a  member  of  A. 
O.  U.  W.  In  faith  he  is  a  Presbyterian.  He  is  actively  engaged  in 
the  stock  business,  buying  and  shipping,  and  has  been  since  1859. 
He  cleared  $1,600  on  one  shipment  of  hogs  —  seven  hundred  and  fifty 
head  —  for  which  he  paid  nine  and  a  half  cents,  the  lot  costing  him 
$20,000.  He  has  now  (summer  of  1882)  three  hundred  fat  hogs, 
and  is  grazing  three  hundred  beef  cattle.  He  settled  where  he  now 
lives  in  1866.  His  farm  contains  four  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  all 
under  fence.  He  has  a  fine  orchard  of  twenty  acres.  Mrs.  Mo- 
Bride,  having  an  eye  for  the  beautiful,  the  yard  is  all  aglow  with  the 
r.irest  and  most  lovelv  flowers.     Mr.  McBride  takes  an  active,  sealoas 


HISTORY   OF    BOONE   COUNTY.  725 

Arestiu  school  matters,  as  well  as  all  other  enterprises  calculated  to 
prove  or  benefit  his  neighborhood. 

WILLIAM    A.    m'GALLISTER,    M.  D., 

as  born  in  Huntington  county,  Indiana,  January  7,  1850.  Hii$ 
irents  were  George  and  Rebecca  {nee  Rittenhouse)  McCallister, 
e  father  being  a  native  of  Virginia  and  the  mother  of  Ohio, 
llliara  lived  in  his  native  county  till  he  was  sixteen  years  old,  and 
lere  received  his  education.  In  1866  he  came  to  Sturgeon,  Boone 
lunty,  Mo.,  and  engaged  in  farming  in  summer  and  school  teaching 
iringthe  winter,  continuing  this  till  1872.  He  began  the  study  of 
edicine  under  Dr.  Keith  and,  in  1874,  attended  lectures  at  the 
issouri  Medical  College  in  St.  Louis.  After  practicing  a  short  time 
Centralia,  he  returned  to  the  Medical  College  in  St.  Louis,  taking 
8  filial  course  of  lectures  in  1876-77,  graduating  from  that  institution 
the  latter  year.  He  resumed  the  practice  at  Centralia,  where  he 
Dtinues  to  enjoy  a  lucrative  business  in  his  profession. 
Few  men  can  boast  of  the  eminent  success  that  Dr.  McCallister  has 
ide  in  so  short  a  time  ;  his  position  and  education  being  the  result, 
iefly,  of  his  own  unaided  efforts.  He  was  married  on  January  13, 
S9,  to  Miss  L.  Hendrix,  daughter  of  James  and  Rachel  Hendrix,  of 
one  county.  Two  children  —  Annie  B.  and  Jessie  P.  —  have  been 
rn  to  bless  this  union.     Dr.  M.  belongs  to  the  A.  O.  U.  W.,  and 

0  to  the  Knights  of  Honor.     He  is  one  of  the  leading  physicians  of 
county,  and  a  valuable  citizen  to  the  town  of  Centralia. 

ORSON    NICHOLS. 

Ar.  Orson  Nichols  was  born  in  Otsego,  New  York,  July  24,  1837, 

1  continued  to  reside  there  till  he  was  17  years  old.  His  father's 
ae  was  Warren  C.  Nichols,  and  he  reared  young  Orson  on  a  farm 
to  the  age  mentioned. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  received  his  education  in  the  public 
ools  of  his  native  county,  and,  in  1854,  left  there  and  came  West  to 
11  county,  Illinois,  where  he  remained  till  1874.  Until  1864  he  was 
;agedin  farming,  but  then  embarked  in  a  mercantile  calling  in  Homer, 
nois,  continuing  till  1872.  He  then  moved  to  Centralia,  Boone 
mty,  Missouri,  and  merchandised  there  three  years.  Returning  to 
mer,  he  remained  till  1877,  when  he  came  back  to  Centralia,  and 
lin  began  merchandising.  At  Homer,  he  was  postnuister  for  eight 
irs,  and  is  at  the  present  postmaster  of  Centralia,  having  been  ;ip- 


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726  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

pointed  by  President  Arthur  in  May,  1882.  Mr.  Nichols  was  married, 
January  22dy  1859,  to  Miss  Hannah  L.  Mason,  of  Will  county,  Illinob. 
Eight  children  have  been  bom  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nichols,  six  of  whon 
are  living  at  this  writing:  Frank  O.,  Ida  J.,  Cora  A.,  Fred,  Grace  E., 
and  Oliver  £.  Mr.  Nichols  enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  hii 
neighbors,  and  gets  his  share  of  patronage  in  Centralia. 

JAMES  o'meara. 

James  O'Meara  was  born  in  Ireland,  May  17,  1837.  His  parents, 
Patrick  and  Catherine  (Howe)  O'Meara,  emigrated  to  Canada  in 
1845,  bringing  the  subject  of  this  sketch  with  them.  They  died  soon 
after  settling  in  their  new  home,  and  in  1856  James  O'Meara  came  to 
Missouri,  where  he  engaged  in  boot  and  shoemaking,  having  learned 
this  trade  in  Canada.  In  1877  he  came  to  Centralia  and  established 
a  shop,  where  he  has  remained  ever  since.  He  is  a  well-read,  intelli- 
gent, thoughtful  man ;  independent  in  his  views  and  candid  in 
expressing  them.  He  was  married  to  Miss  Lizzie  Carry,  who  died 
May  10th,  1882. 

JOHN   L.    PAXTON. 

This  gentleman's  parents,  John  A.  and  Dorcas  (Hocker)  Paxton, 
were  both  natives  of  Kentucky,  though  John  L.,  himself,  is  a  Mis- 
sourian.  He  was  born  in  Montgomery  county,  February  9, 1852, 
where  he  grew  up  and  was  educated.  At  the  age  of  15,  he  began 
clerking  in  a  store  at  Middletown,  and  continued  for  three  years.  In 
1870,  he  went  to  Dakota  Territory,  and  spent  a  year  in  the  Yankton 
Reservation,  herding  cattle  among  the  Indians.  He  returned  to  Mid- 
dletown, Montgomery  county,  in  1871,  and  the  next  year  came  to 
Centralia,  in  this  county,  and  began  clerkingTor  P.^S.  Hocker,  remain- 
ing with  him  for  some  time.  He  was  then  engaged  in  a  lumber  yard 
till  1880,  when  he  embarked  in  the  drug  business  on  his  own  respon- 
sibility. Mr.  Paxton  has  made  what  he  has  himself,  his  own  en- 
ergy, pluck  and  industry,  being  sufficient  to  start  him  in  life  on  a 
solid  basis.  He  began  life  for  himself  when  only  12  years  old  and  has 
"  held  his  own  "  ever  since.  At  this  writing  (1882)  he  is  sening 
as  city  clerk  of  Centralia.  Mr.  Paxton  was  married  in  1876  to  Miss 
May  Holmes,  daughter  of  Sylvester  Holmes,  of  Monroe  county. 
They  have  one  child,  a  son  named  Charles  F. 

CHARLES   W.    PELSUE. 

Charles  W.  Pelsue,  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  Centralia  Mills, 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  727 

s  a  native  of  Vermont,  in  which  State  he  was  born  August  8,  1842. 
Bis  grandfather,  John  Pelsue,  was  a  Frenchman ;  his  father,  Parker 
B.»  married  Lucy  Emeline  Hancock,  a  relative  of  Gen.  W.  S.  Han- 
cock. Charles  was  one  of  a  family  of  twelve  children  —  eight  sons 
and  four  daughters.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  married  Miss  Jennie 
Am  daughter  of  W.  Conger,  a  native  of  New  York.  By  this  union 
they  have  had  six  children  —  three  of  each  sex.  Their  names  are 
Frank  W.,  Cora  E.,  Clara,  Fred.  E.,  Charles  E.,  and  Nadie  L.^  Clara 
died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Pelsue  was  a  corporal  in  the  Ninth  Missouri  reg- 
iment (Federal)  for  three  years.  He  was  living  in  Audrain  county 
when  the  war  commenced,  having  settled  there  three  years  previous. 
In  1876  he  sold  his  farm  In  Audrain  and  came  to  Centralia,  where  he 
purchased  an  interest  in  the  Centralia  mills,  which  he  still  owns.  Mr. 
Pelsue  is  a  member  of  the  A.  F.  and  A.  M.  He  is  a  public-spirited, 
active  business  man,  and,  in  every  sense  of  the  word,  a  useful 
citizen. 

PETER  PICKERT. 

Peter  Pickert,  son  of  Elias  Pickert,  is  of  German  origin.  He  was 
born,  in  the  State  of  New  York,  March  13th,  1842.  His  father  was  a 
farmer  and  boatman,  and  the  son  was  brought  up  on  the  farm.  He 
^ent  with  his  father  to  Wisconsin  where  he  was  married  to  Miss  Lucy 
M.,  daughter  of  Ephraim  Minor.  They  have  four  children,  two  of 
5ach  sex.  He  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  1873,  and  settled 
n\  the  farm  upon  which  he  now  resides.  It  is  a  handsome  place  pleas- 
ntly  located.     He  is  a  member  of  the  K.  of  H. 

ADAM  RODEMYRE. 

Adam  Rodemyre,  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Centralia  Fireside 
ruardy  was  born  in  Illinois,  November  20th,  1841.  He  is  the  son  of 
.dam,  Sr.,  a  native  of  Germany,  who  came  to  the  United  States? 
t)Out  the  year  1830.  He  was  a  wagon-maker.  The  maiden  name 
FMrs.  Rodemyre  was  Laura  Kline.  Adam  wasoneof  eight  children, 
lis  mother  was  twice  married.  He  was  educated  at  the  public  schools 
F  Illinois.  Finishing  his  academic  course  he  went  into  the  confection- 
y  and  baker's  business,  which  he  followed  for  five  years.  He  next 
igaged  in  coal-mining,  which  he  followed  for  several  years.  He  then 
)llowed  agricultural  pursuits  until  he  was  nineteen  years  old,  when 
e  entered  a  newspaper  office.  Remaining  until  he  learned  the  trade, 
e  bought  a  job  office  and  started  a  paper  called  the  Literary  Gem, 
'hich  he  continued  for  several  years,  finally  moving  it  to  Centralia  in 


728  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CX)UNTy. 

1866,  where  he  continued  its  publication  under  the  name  of  Owr 
Southeim  Home  Circle.  He  next  went  to  Sturgeon  where  he  published 
the  Independent  for  one  year,  at  the  expiration  of  which  time  he 
bought  the  printing  material  of  his  partner  and  returned  to  Centnlit 
and  started  the  Guards  which  he  has  continued  to  publish  ever  since, 
except  for  a  period  of  two  years  spent  in  San  Bernardino,  California, 
during  which  time  he  published  the  Daily  and  Weekly  Times  of  that 
city.  He  returned  to  Centralia  in  1876  and  resumed  the  publication 
of  the  Ouardy  which  is  independent  in  politics.  Mr.  Rodemyre 
was  married  in  1866  to  Miss  Maria  Tribhle,  of  Boone  county.  They 
have  two  sons  and  one  daughter.  Their  names  are  Edgar  T.,  Homer 
B.  and  Viola  L.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  also  of  tlie 
Independent  Order  of  Good  Templars,  and  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry. 
Mrs.  Rodemyre  is  a  member  of  the  Missionary  Baptist  church.  Mr. 
Rodemyre  is  an  energetic,  hardworking  journalist,  doing  the  work  of 
his  office  without  assistance.  He  is  the  inventor  of  an  automatic  cylin- 
der press  upon  which  he  prints  his  paper.  The  Guard  is  orna- 
mented with  original  cuts,  which  he  engraves  himself.  He  is  aU 
proficient  in  the  art  of  stereotyping.  Although  thorough  in  his  busi- 
ness and  ahead  of  the  times  in  many  respects,  he  is  quite  reticent  in 
speaking  of  his  own  accomplishments  in  the  line  of  his  profession. 

JOHN   R.  8AME8. 

John  R.  Sames  was  born  in  Audrain  county,  Missouri,  May  29th, 
1859.  He  is  the  son  of  Dr.  Charles  F.  Sames,  a  native  of  Germany, 
but  of  French  extraction.  Dr.  Sanies  emigrated  to  the  United  States 
in  1847  and  settled  in  Audrain  county,  where  he  now  lives.  The  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  educated  principally  at  the  Missouri  State  Uni- 
versity. In  1880  he  went  to  Montana  Territory.  Returning  in  1881, 
he  opened  a  grocery  store  at  Centralia,  in  partnership  with  James  B. 
Giddings.  The  firm  name  is  Sames  &  Giddings.  They  keep  a 
general  stock  of  fancy  and  staple  groceries.  Mr.  Sames  is  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  and  United  Workmen  lodges,  and  a  Democrat  in  poli- 
tics. He  is  a  courteous,  affable  gentleman,  well  known  and  highly 
appreciated  by  the  community  in  which  he  resides. 

FRKDEKICK    S.    8APPINGTON. 

Frederick  S.  Sappington  was  born  near  Sturgeon,  Boone  county, 
Missouri,  October  4,  1853.  His  father,  Overton  Sappington,  was  a 
farmer  and  stock  raiser.     He  was  born  in  St.  Louis  county,  his  father 


HI8TORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  729 

iving  emigrated  from  Kentucky  to  Missouri  in  au  early  day.  The 
ibject  of  this  sketch  was  one  of  five  children.  He  was  educated  at 
le  Sturgeon  high  school,  and  followed  teaching  for  several  years.  He 
18  married,  March  1,  1877,  to  Miss  Lucy  £.,  daughter  of  James  M. 
kDgell.  She  was  also  a  professional  teacher,  having  been  educated 
t  Central  College,  Fayette.  They  have  one  child,  Mary  E.  Mr. 
lappington  settled  on  the  farm  where  he  now  lives  in  1877.  His  farm 
ontaios  240  acres,  well  situated  and  very  productive.  He  is  a  mem- 
«r  of  the  Centralia  Baptist  church. 

ELI  AS    J.    SEARS. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  Missourian  by  birth,  born  in  Monroe 
ounty,  September  1,  1833.  He  is  the  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Jacks) 
lean,  both  natives  of  Kentucky.  His  mother  came  to  Howard  county 
8  early  as  1816,  and  his  father  came  to  the  same  county  four  years 
iter,  placing  them  among  the  pioneer  families  of  that  section.  Elias 
m  reared  on  a  farm  in  Monroe  county,  and  there  laid  the  foundations 
f  an  education,  which  he  afterwards  completed  at  the  State  Univer- 
ity  at  Columbia.  After  leaving  college  Mr.  Sears  engaged  in  teach- 
ig  school,  following  that  laudable  occupation  from  1857  to  1867.  In 
le  next  succeeding  year  he  went  to  Sturgeon,  this  county,  and  en- 
^ed  in  the  dry  goods  business,  in  which  he  continued  till  1878,  when 
?  moved  to  Centralia,  and  there  went  into  the  lumber  business  with 
is  brother.  This  firm  does  a  leading  business  in  that  line,  and  in 
)81sold  150  car-loads  of  lumber.  Mr.  Sears,  in  1861,  married  Miss 
ary  D.  Kennedy,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Ann  (nee  Smith)  Kennedy, 

Monroe  county,  Missouri,  formerly  of  Kentucky.  Three  children 
ve  been  born  of  this  marriage,  only  one  of  whom  survives  at  this 
iting.  Mr.  Sears  has  been  a  member  of  the  Christian  church  for 
er  a  quarter  of  a  century,  and  is  one  of  the  leading  members  of 
it  denomination,  as  well  as  a  citizen  of  force  and  integrity.  He  has 
lassed  what  he  has  by  his  own  persistent  efforts,  and  certainly  mer- 

the  esteem  in  which  he  is  held. 

SAMUEL    8HRYOCK. 

Samuel  Shryock,  blacksmith  and   plow    manufacturer,    Centralia, 

ssouri,  was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Kentucky,  November  26,  1834. 

8  father,  Daniel,  was  also  a  blacksmith,  and  a  volunteer  in  the  war 

1812.     His  grandfather,  Frederick,  was  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers 

Kentucky,  and  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-four  years,  sixty 


i 


730  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

years  of  his  life  having  been  spent  in  Kentucky,  and  in  one  house.  He 
was  of  German  parentage.     Daniel  came  to  Missouri  in  1850  with  his 
family,  and  settled   in  Boone  county.     During  the  civil  war  Samuel 
took  sides  with  the  South  ;  he  entered  the  Confederate  service  August 
14,  1861,  under  Gen.  Price,  and  participated  in  the  battles  of  Lex- 
ington, Cane  Hill,  and  Drywood.     He  was  transferred  to  the  East 
Mississippi  Department,  and  took  part  in  the  battles  of  luka  and  Cor- 
inth, after  which  he  was  transferred  back  to  the  Missouri  Division, 
commanded  l)y  Gen.  Parsons.     During  the  remainder  of  the  war  he 
served  under  Gen.  John  B.  Clark,  surrendering  at  Shreveport,  Louis- 
iana, June  6,  1865.     He  remained  on  a  farm  for  about  a  year  after 
returning  from  the  war.     Moving  to  old  Greenland,  near  Harrisburg, 
he  started  a  blacksmith  shop.    He  remained  there  six  years,  goingnext 
to  Harrisburg,  where  he  lived  for  five  years.     In  the  spring  of  1879  he 
went  to  Centralia,  where  he  now  lives.     He  is  a  member  of  the  A.  0. 
LT.  W.  and  A.  F.  and  A.  M.    He  is  a  good  workman  and  a  clever  citizen. 

ACHILLES    F.    8NEED,    M.    D., 

Is  the  son  of  Landon  C.  and  Elizabeth  (Gibson)  Sneed,  both  of 
whom  were  natives  of  Franklin  county,  Kentucky,  where  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  was  also  born,  December  20,  1827.  In  his  boyhood 
days.  Dr.  Sneed  lived  on  a  farm,  and  of  course  the  first  work  he  ever 
did  was  of  an  agricultural  nature.  He  grew  up  in  his  ujitive  county, 
receiving  the  elementary  part  of  his  education  in  the  subscription 
schools  of  that  period.  In  1851  he  began  the  study  of  medicine, 
and  the  same  year  entered  Louisville  University,  from  which  insti- 
tution he  graduated  in  1853.  The  following  fall  he  moved  to  Boone 
county,  Missouri,  and  located  eight  miles  south  of  Centralia,  where 
he  began  the  practice  of  his  profession.  He  continued  in  that  neigh- 
borhood till  18()0,  when  he  went  to  Centralia,  being  the  first  regular 
physician  to  locate  at  that  place.  Himself  and  brother  are  the  only 
citizens  now  living  in  the  town  who  were  there  when  he  moved  there. 
Dr.  Sneed  has  always  enjoyed  a  lucrative  practice  in  his  profession, 
and,  better  still,  has  always  (gained  and  retained  the  esteem  and  con- 
fidence  of  the  people,  lie  has  been  a  Free  Mason  for  nearly  a  quarter 
of  a  century  and  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  since  1854.  In  the 
last  named  year  he  was  married  to  Miss  L.  Blanton,  daughter  of 
Kev.  William  Blanton,  of  Franklin  county,  Kentucky.  Eight  chil- 
dren have  been  born  of  this  union,  four  of  whom  still  survive:  Eliza- 
beth, wife  of  Dr.  Wallace,  of  Centralia  ;  Henry  Landon  ;  Lewis  W.; 


HISTORY   OF    BOONE   COUNTY.  731 

hod  Cora  v.     Dr.  Sneed  still  continues  to  do  a  fine  practice  and  is 
one  of  the  leading  citizens  of  Centralia. 

HENRY    CLAY   THRELKELD. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Boone  county,  October  31, 
1844.  Was  educated  at  public  schools.  Lived  in  Columbia  township 
till  March  4,  1866,  when  he  came  to  Centralia.  Had  but  twenty-five 
cents  in  his  pocket  the  day  he  landed  in  town.  Went  to  work  on  the 
railroad  and  afterwards  drove  a  team.  He  next  engaged  in  the  gro- 
cery business,  afterwards  in  general  merchandising.  Followed  this 
business  for  nine  years.  Then  went  into  the  hotel  business,  which  he 
followed  for  three  or  four  years.  Quitting  the  hotel,  he  went  back  to 
the  grocery  business,  afterwards  selling  out  to  E.  M.  Anderson.  He 
then  became  one  of  the  incorporators  and  directors  of  the  Centralia 
bank.  Mr.  Threlkeld  has  been  trustee  of  Centralia  for  many  years. 
Has  been  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Mary  Enochs,  of  Renick, 
Missouri.  Was  married  May  11,  1870.  The  first  wife  having  died 
January  23,  1871,  he  married  Miss  Mattie  Porter,  a  native  of  Belle- 
ville, Canada-  They  have  two  children.  Mrs.  Threlkeld  is  a  mem- 
l>er  of  the  Methodist  church.     Mr.  Threlkeld  is  a  Mason. 

THOMAS   TURNER 

Was  born  at  the  fort  at  Old  Franklin,  Howard  county,  April  15, 
817.  He  is  a  son  of  Smith  and  Nancy  Turner,  who  were  natives  of 
forth  Carolina,  but  settled  in  Kentucky  at  an  early  day.  In  181G 
ley  removed  to  Howard  county,  Missouri,  and  three  years  later  came 
)  Boone,  locating  in  what  is  now  the  neighborhood  of  the  old  Rock- 
>rd  church,  and  becoming  one  among  the  pjoneers  of  the  county, 
tere  Thomas  Turner  grew  to  manhood,  receiving  his  education  at  the 
;hools  of  his  neighborhood,  then  not  of  a  very  high  order.  His 
Jucation,  so  far  as  book-learning  is  considered,  was  therefore  some- 
hat  limited,  but  in  the  school  of  experience  he  took  a  full  course, 
a  1839  Mr.  Turner  entered  eighty  acres  of  land  south  of  Centralia, 
n  the  line  of  Boone  and  Audrain  counties.  Here  he  has  since  lived, 
aving  added  largely  to  his  original  tract,  until  his  farm  now  corn- 
rises  721  acres  of  choice  +and,  and  is  one  of  the  best  stock  farms  in 
he  country.  Mr.  T.  has  uniformly  engaged  in  farming  and  stock- 
aising,  in  which  pursuits  he  has  been  fairly  successful.  In  1882  Mr. 
'urner  removed  to  Centralia,  where  he  has  a  fine  residence  and  is  very 
omfortably  situated.    His  son  manages  his  fine  farm.     September  27, 


732  HISTORY   OF  BOOMS   COUNTT. 

1838,  Mr.  Turner  married  Miss  Eleanor  Tumert  daughter  of  Thooui 
and  Peggy  (Dunham)  Turner,  natives  of  Kentucky,  and  among  tk 
early  8ettlei*8  of  this  county.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  and  his  wife 
are  the  parents  of  two  children,  William  S.  and  Mary  B.  M.  Taruer. 
While  not  a  wealthy  man,  as  the  term  is  understood,  he  enjoys  a  compe- 
tence of  this  world's  goods,  the  product  of  his  own  industry,  energy 
and  management.  No  man  stands  higher  in  his  community.  Hia 
word  is  as  good  as  his  bond.  His  friends  are  numbered  by  legions, 
and  he  deserves  every  one  of  them. 

WILLIAM   N.    WHITE, 

Is  the  son  of  John  O.  White  and  his  wife,  Jemima  (nee  Conley) 
White,  and  was  born  in  this  county,  on  the  2d  day  of  July,  1847. 
His  parents  were  both  natives  of  Kentucky,  but  moved  out  to  Boon» 
county  at  an  early -day.  Mr.  White's  paternal  grandfather  was  a 
soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.  William  N.  was  reared  on  a  farm  till  bo 
was  eighteen  years  old,  and  then  accepted  a  clerkship  in  the  store  of 
Conley,  Strong  &  Co.,  at  Columbia,  and  was  with  them  and  their  soc- 
cessors  for  twelve  years.  He  then  went  into  business  as  a  partner  in 
the  firm  of  White,  Barron  &  Co.,  at  Columbia,  also  having  a  branch 
house  at  Centralia.  In  1881  they  consolidated  at  Centralia,  where 
they  do  a  leading  business  in  their  line,  carrying  a  stock  of  some 
$50,000  annually.  May  1,  1873,  Mr.  White  married  Miss  Cornelia 
Shannon,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  James  Shannon,  of  Jefferson  Citj, 
Missouri,  an  eminent  divine  in  the  Christian  church,  and  for  seyeral 
years  president  of  the  State  University.  Mrs.  White's  mother,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Moore,  was  born  in  Georgia.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  White 
are  the  parents  of  three  children,  two  of  whom  —  John  Shannon  and 
Jemima  —  still  survive.  Mr.  White  has  been  a  member  of  the  Chris- 
tian church  since  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age,  and  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  fraternity  and  a  Knight  of  Honor.  He  accumulated 
what  he  has  chiefly  through  his  own  exertipns,  and  is  a  fine  business 
man  and  a  worthy  citizen. 

KOHEKT    HARRIS    WILHITK. 

Robert  Harris  Wilhite  \s  the  son  of  Smith  Wilhite,  a  native  of 
Boone  county,  and  was  born  October  7th,  1855.  He  was  raised  on 
the  farm  and  educated  at  the  common  schools  of  the  neighborhood. 
In  1875  he  commenced  business  for  himself  at  Austin,  Texas.  Re- 
turning to  Missouri,  a  few  years  later,  he  opened  a  furniture  and  un- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  733 

dertaker's  store  at  Centralia,  which  he  continued  until  July,  1881, 
when  he  went  into  the  boot  and  shoe  trade.  In  1882  took  T.  H.  Barnes 
in  partnership.  In  religion,  Mr.  Wilhite  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church.  He  is  a  young  man  of  energy  and  firmness,  and  is  fast  ])uild- 
ingup  for  himself  a  reliable  and  paying  business. 

JAMES    D.    WYATT. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Fleming  county,  Kentucky, 
April  30th,  1830. '  His  parents,  Micajah  and  Mary  (Drennen)  Wyatt, 
were  both  natives  of  Kentucky,  and  both  his  paternal  and  maternal 
grandfathers  served  as  soldiers  in  the  Revolution.  James  D.  was 
reared  on  a  farm  and  received  his  education  in  the  county  of  his  birth, 
finishing  his  course  at  Flemingsburg  Academy.  After  quitting  school 
he  began  teaching,  and  continued  in  that  calling  till  1852,  when  he 
began  merchandising  at  Flemingsburg.  In  1855  he  went  to  St.  Joseph, 
Missouri,  and  there  read  law  under  his  brother,  Judge  Wyatt,  who  was 
then  judge  of  the  probate  court  in  that  city.  Mr.  Wyatt,  however,  never 
entered  the  practice,  but  giving  up  the  law,  went  to  Barry,  Clay 
county,  Missouri,  and  again  began  merchandising.  He  returned  to 
St.  Joe  in  '63,  and  for  four  years  filled  the  position  as  salesman  in  a 
business  house  there.  Again  entering  the  mercantile  field,  he  operated 
111  1869,  when  he  sold  out  and  moved  to  Centralia,  where  he  carried 
m  the  mercantile  business  till  the  year  of  the  National  Centennial. 
le  then  retired  from  that  line,  and  since  then  has  been  practicing  law 
nd  operating  as  a  collector.  He  has  served  as  postmaster,  and  was 
Iso  mayor  of  Centralia.  Mr.  Wyatt  was  married  in  1858  to  Miss 
lettie  Givens,  daughter  of  Albert  and  Sallie  Givens,  of  Clay  county, 
lis  State,  formerly  of  Kentucky.  Three  children  were  born  of  this 
nion,  only  two  of  whom  are  living  at  this  writing.  Mr.  Wyatt  has 
een  a  member  of  the  Christian  church  for  over  twenty  years,  and 
ince  1869  has  been  an  elder  therein.  He  has  also  been  a  member  of 
lie  Masonic  fraternity  for  ten  years,  and  in  every  way  a  trustworthy 
nd  exemplary  citizen. 


784  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 


CHAPTER    XVni. 

COLUMBIA    TOWNSHIP. 

Topography — Fine  Farms — Early  SetUers  and  Settlement!  —  Pioneer  Life— The  Fint 
Mills — Killed  by  a  Tree — A  Pioneer  Burial  —  Old  Boonsboroogh  —  Oiganizttioii- 
FirstOfficers  — Brown's  Station  — The  Coal  Mines— Horrible  Mine  Disaster— Hilli- 
Killing  of  Biigor  Cave  —  Country  Churches —  Grange— Biographies  of  Old  SetUenind 
Prominent  Citizens. 

TOPOGRAPHY. 

The  greater  portion  of  the  land  in  Columbia  is  of  a  rolling  char- 
acter, and  in  many  parts  it  is  rough  and  hilly.  Along  the  Hinkson 
and  the  other  streams,  the  soil  is  very  stony.  Some  very  fine  and 
picturesque  bluffs  are  to  be  seen  along  the  Hinkson,  and  there  is  some 
magnificent  scenery  of  this  character  on  the  Cedars. 

In  the  eastern  part  of  the  township  is  the  famed  Two-mile  prairie, 
a  body  of  prairie  land  some  miles  in  extent  from  north  to  south,  and 
of  about  an  average  width  of  two  miles,  from  which  circumstance  it 
takes  its  name.  There  are  a  few  other  tracts  of  prairie  in  the  town- 
ship. 

Cedar  and  Little  Cedar  creeks  in  the  eastern  part,  the  Hinkson  in 
the  center,  and  numerous  branches  of  Bonne  Femme  in  the  western 
part  of  the  township,  besides  numberless  springs,  furnish  abundant 
water.  Stone  of  the  best  quality  can  be  had  in  abundance.  Coal 
abounds  in  the  north  and  is  mined  very  successfully.  There  are  natural 
exposures  of  this  mineral  in  other  parts  of  the  township. 

FINE   FARMS. 

Some  of  the  finest  farms  in  the  State  of  Missouri,  or  in  the  West, 
are  to  be  found  in  Columbia  township.  On  them  are  to  be  found  not 
only  fertile  fields  but  fruitful  orchards,  pleasant  pastures,  lovely  lawns, 
and  handsome,  commodious  and  elegant  residences.  Some  of  the  farm- 
houses in  the  township  present  the  appearance  of  the  mansion  of  an 
English  landlord,  and  the  estates  are  in  the  highest  state  of  cultiva- 
tion and  improvement.  The  farms  on  the  Two-mile  prairie  have  an 
extended  reputation,  but  a  majority  of  the  timber  farms  produce  on 
an  average  fully  as  well,  albeit  a  great  deal  of  the  soil  in  the  timber 
is  so  poor  as  to  be  practically  worthless  for  the  purposes  of  ordinary 
cultivation. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  735 


EARLY   SETTLERS. 


It  will  not  be  expected  by  the  readers  of  this  volume  that  the  names 
of  all  of  the  first  settlers  of  this  township  can  now  be  correctly  given 
in  their  proper  order  and  arrangement,  with  the  details  and  date  of 
their  settlement  accurately  set  forth.  The  best  has  been  done  to  meet 
public  expectation  in  the  historical  sketch  of  not  only  this  township, 
but  of  every  other  in  the  county,  and  it  is  hoped  that  the  result  will 
be  fairly  satisfactory. 

It  is  known  that  among  the  first  white  men  who  came  to  the  country 
now  comprised  within  Columbia  township  were  old  Robert  Hinkson, 
whose  cabin  stood  near  where  the  St.  Charles  road  crossed  the  creek 
that  afterward  bore  and  now  bears  his  name.  Near  Hinkson  came 
Tbos.  and  John  Kennon,  Dennis  Callahan,  James  W.  Fowler,  Samuel 
Johnson,  Robert  Houston  and  Joseph  Persinger,  the  latter  the  famous 
old  hunter  and  pioneer,  who  was  reared  by  the  Indians.  Peyton  Mahan 
settled  two  miles  north  of  Columbia  in  1824. 

Mr.  Ed.  Stephens,  in  his  historical  sketch  in  the  Boone  County  Atlas^ 
in  1875,  says  that  in  the' early  days  land  cost  the  settlers  from  two  to 
9ix  dollars  per  acre.  During  the  years  1816,  1817  and  1818,  the  land 
Q  Boone  county  was  surveyed  into  ranges,  townships  and  sections, 
mder  William  Rector,  surveyor-general,  and  Angus  L.  Langham, 
Villiam  L.  May  and  John  C.  Sullivan,  deputies. 

A  description  of  these  early  pioneers,  their  habits  of  life,  traits  of 
haracterand  experiences  would  be, of  great  interest  did  space  permit, 
r  were  the  facts  wholly  known.  That  they  possessed,  energy,  in- 
»grity,  industry  and  dauntless  courage  is  a  familiar  fact  to  those 
ho  have  the  honor  to  claim  them  as  ancestry.  Children  of  revo- 
itionary  heroes,  the  best  blood  of  Virginia  and  Kentucky,  brave, 
3termined  and  nurtured  in  the  noblest  precepts  of  Christianity, 
ley  were  embodiments  of  manhood  that  would  have  honored  any 
mntry. 

The  homes  of  these  pioneers  were  simple  but  comfortable.  Log 
ibins  daubed  with  mud  and  covered  with  boards,  secured  to  the  roof 
7  poles,  laid  lengthwise,  nails  being  too  expensive  —  the  whole 
mally  built  by  the  occupant  —  comprised  a  majority  of  their  abodes, 
he  floors  of  many  of  these  cabins  were  dirt,  while  the  chimneys  were 

wood,  stone  rarely  being  used  at  all.  Farms  ranged  in  size  from 
n  to  thirty  acres.  A  farmer,  though  entering  a  thousand  acres, 
ould  generally  only  cultivate  fifteen  or  twenty  acres  in  corn,  perhaps 


§ 


736  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

one  iu  hemp  or  flax,  and  some  little  tobacco  aud  a  few  acres  of  cotton. 
Cotton  gins  were  common  and  were  better  patronized  than  carding 
machines. 

Com  sold  at  twenty  cents  a  bushel,  pork  brought  a  cent  a  pound, 
and  whisky  from  twenty  to  twenty-five  cents  a  gallon.  Horses  brough 
from  twenty  to  forty  dollars,  and  a  cow  was  by  no  means  a  bargain  at 
nine  dollars.  An  estate  worth  five  hundred  dollars  was  a  good  com- 
petence, and  one  thousand  was  rich  ;  wants  were  few  and  the  necessi- 
ries  of  life  cheap. 

Men  were  imprisoned  for  debt,  a  barbarism  that  has  happily  yielded 
to  our  advancing  civilization.  The  **  whipping  post,"  another  cruelty, 
has  likewise  passed  away.  The  people  of  those  times  were  eminentlj 
social.  ««  Shooting  matches,"  **  log  rollings,"  frolics  of  nearly  e?erT 
conceivable  nature  were  in  vogue,  and  everybody  would  go ;  some 
would  get  drunk ;  all  would  have  a  good  time.  Patriotism  was  at 
fever  heat,  and  the  people  had  still  the  mania  for  the  *«  military" 
created  by  the  revolution.  Musters  were  of  constant  occurrence, 
which  would  be  attended  by  a  vast  concourse,  and  Fourth  of  July 
and  General  Jackson  celebrations  aroused  an  enthusiasm  that  knew  no 
bounds. 

THE    FIRST   MILLS. 

The  first  mill  in  the  township  was  a  horse  mill  brought  in  a  wagon 
from  Virginia  by  William  Wright,  in  the  year  1816.  It  was  set  up  on 
the  northeast  quarter  of  section  13,  township  49,  range  12,  and  was 
run  for  a  great  many  years.  Mr.  Wright  was  one  of  the  first  settlere 
of  Boone  county.  Richard  Cave's  mill  was  on  the  farm  now^ owned 
by  Capt.  David  Guitar.  It  was  put  up  about  1821  or  1822,  and  was 
a  horse  mill.  The  Fulkerson  mill  stood  on  the  Hinkson,  in  Missouri 
township,  and  was  built  in  1819. 

KILLRD    BY    A    FALLING   TREE. 

In  1825  a  little  nine-year-old  boy  named  William  R.  Wright,  whose 
parents  lived  in  this  township,  was  killed  at  a  point  in  Missouri  town- 
ship, on  what  is  now  known  as  the  Hume  farm.  He  was  buried 
where  is  now  a  garden,  on  the  farm  of  Sidney  Hume.  The  Indians 
had  set  the  woods  on  fire  and  the  boy,  with  his  father  and  some  others 
of  the  settlers,  was  out  fighting  the  flames,  and  a  burning  tree  fell  on 
him  and  killed  him  instantly.  The  tragic  incident  was  long  remem- 
bered by  those  who  lived  in  the  county  at  the  time. 


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HISTORY   OF    BOONE   COUNTY.  747 


A   PIONEER   BURIAL. 


In  1820  u  young  man  whose  name  cannot  be  recalled  sickened  ai>d 
ed  at  the  home  of  Isom  Winnegan,  tliree  miles  noi'th west  of  Colum-  - 
a  and  was  buried  in  a  very  singular  manner,  and  his  grave  is  yet  to 
B  seen  on  the  old  James  King  farm.  At  that  early  day  there  were 
)  professional  undertakers  in  the  country  and  very  scanty  means  of 
aking  coffins.  Having  no  planks  out  of  which  to  construct  a  coffin 
id  determined  that  the  young  man  should  not  be  simply  interred  in 
is  clothes  it  was  agreed  by  some  of  the  neighbors  —  Newberry  Stock- 
m,  William  and  Alex.  Douglass  and  Arch  Mayo  —  that  they  would 
d  Mat  Douglass,  a  negro  man  belonging  to  William  Douglass,  in 
itting  down  a  large  walnut  tree,  splitting  it  and  making  two  troughs 
^sufficient  capacity  when  joined  together  to  contain  the  body.  The 
jrpose  was  accomplished  and  the  young  man  buried  in  this  rude 
»ffin. 

OLD    BOONESBOROUOH. 

About  the  year  1836,  a  Mr.  Woods  laid  off  a  town  on  section  3, 
wnship  48,  range  11,  on  the  east  end  of  the  tcTwnship  line,  adjoin- 
g  Callaway  county,  which  he  called  Boonesborough.  The  place 
me  to  be  one  of  some  trade  and  importance.  The  first  merchants 
)re  Felix  Bryan  and  W.  H.  Robertson.  The  first  grocery  store  was 
ilt  and  kept  by  Thomas  Turley,  who  was  succeeded  by  Lewis  Reed, 
iter  Kennev  and  J.  Tavlor.  A  store-house  was  also  built  by  New- 
in  &  Kimbrough,  and  another  by  Broyles  &  Taylor.  The  latter 
ilding  was  afterward  occupied  by  Carr  &  Kempinsky.  There  were 
o  at  Boonesborough  a  horse-mill,  built  and  run  by  Wm.  James; 
B  blacksmith  shop  by  Durnell  Bros.,  and  another  by  Walter  flames  ; 
tarpenter  shop,  by  Wm.  James  and  Lou  Levi ;  a  carding  machine 
ilt  and  run  by  James  Turner,  and  a  grocery  store  built  and  kept  by 
thur  McLane.  There  was  also  a  select  school,  the  ''Boonesbor- 
gh  Academy,"   which  had  for  teachers,  from  time  to  time,  Robert 

11,  Thomas  Kennan,  Leachman,  Stephens,  W.  H.  Robertson, 

—  Field,  and  others. 

Boonesborough  was  in  existence  for  about  twenty  years,  or  until 

57,  when  it  died,  or  **  played   out,"  as   we  in  the  West  express 

Nothing    is    now  left  to  mark    the   site   and    the   former   glory 

the  town  but  two   buildings,  one  of  which  was  the  residence  of 

r.  Woods,  and  the   other  the   old   store  house  built  by  Bryant  & 

)bert8on. 

47 


738  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

ORGANIZATION  —  BOUNDARIES. 

Columbia  is  one  of  the  original  townships  of  Boone  county.  At 
the  session  of  the  county  court.  May,  1821,  the  county  was  divided 
into  municipal  townships.     Saith  the  record :  — 

The  court  then  proceeded  to  lay  off  the  county  into  townships,  and  do  establish  tiisibl* 
lowing  as  the  several  and  respective  boundaries  thereof,  viz. :  •  •  *  Seetmd  torn- 
MMp,  To  be  denominated  Columbia  tawnMp:  Beginning  on  the  township  line  betvw 
townships  47  and  48  and  one  mile  west  of  the  range  line  between  ranges  Nos.  18  sndlS; 
thence  north  with  the  sectional  line  to  the  southeast  comer  of  section  2,  township  49,  xnge 
18 ;  thence  east  with  the  sectional  line  to  the  eastern  boundary  of  the  county;  thenosioadh 
wardly  with  the  said  boundary  line  to  the  northeast  comer  of  Cedar  township;  thenes  wt 
with  the  northern  boundary  of  said  township  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

The  metes  and  bounds  of  the  township  as  fixed  by  the  early  fatken 
are  the  same  at  this  day,  no  subsequent  court  caring  to  remove  the 
ancient  landmarks.  Sundry  efforts  have  been  made,  from  time  to 
time,  to  create  a  new  civil  township  out  of  the  territoiy  embraced  in 
Columbia  and  of  some  of  the  other  contiguous  townships  of  the  county, 
but  to  all  petitions  for  a  change  the  court  has  always  turned  a  desf 
ear. 

FIRST   OFFICERS. 

After  the  location  of  the  town  of  Smithton  and  prior  to  the  organu^ 
ation  of  Boone  county,  when  this  territory  composed  a  part  of  How- 
ard county,  where  the  greater  portion  of  Columbia  township  now  is 
the  township  of  Smithton  was  created  by  the  county  court  of  Howard 
July  12,  1820.  The  first  constiible  of  Smithton  township  was  Wallace 
A.  Estill.  No  record  is  to  be  found  containing  the  name  of  the  jus- 
tice of  the  peace  of  the  township  —  perhaps,  and  indeed  probably, 
none  was  ever  appointed. 

At  the  first  term  of  the  Boone  county  court.  May,  1821,  a  num- 
ber of  petitions  were  presented  praying  for  the  appointment  of  jua- 
tices  of  the  peace,  but  these  petitions  being  irregular,  were  rejected, 
and  none  others  ofiered.  On  the  last  day  of  the  term  this  court,  on 
its  own  motion,  recommended  certain  persons  to  the  Governor  for 
commissions.  Referring  to  this  township,  the  record  stated:  ''A 
justice  of  the  peace  being  much  wanting  in  the  township  of  Columbia, 
Boone  county,  and  none  having  been  petitioned  for  as  the  law  direcU, 
this  court,  on  the  last  day  of  the  term,  do  nominate  to  His  Excellency 
Alexander  McNair,  Governor  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  Richard  Cave 
as  a  suitable  person  to  fill  the  office  of  justice  of  the  peace  in  the  said 
township  of  Columbia."     Accordingly  Richard  Cave  was  duly  com- 

1 


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HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  739 

missioned,  and  shortly  stood  up  in  all  the  glory  of  his  robes   magiste- 

terial,the  pioneer  justice  of  Columbia  township.  A  few  days  previous, 

Nicholas  Kavanaugh  had  been  aprpointed   constable  of  the  township, 

giving  $1,000  bond. 

brown's  station.' 

The  hamlet  known  as  Brown's  Station  is  situated  on  the  northwest 
quarter  of  section  10,  township  49,  range  12,  and  is  quite  a  shipping 
point — the  leading  one,  in  fact,  on  the  Columbia  branch  of  the  Wa- 
bash railway  between  Centralia  and  Columbia,  Its  founders  were 
Reese,  Goodding  and  Hubbard,  the  proprietors  of  the  coal  mine. 

The  first  house  was  built  by  John  W.  Hubbard,  and  A.  E.   Burnam, 
and  the  first  store  was  owned  by  these  gentlemen.     The  post-office 
was  established  in  1876,  and  A.  E.  Burnam  was   the  first  postmaster. 
The  first  marriage  was  that  of  Ralph  Hay  worth  and  Miss  Lizzie  Good- 
ding,  by  Stephen  J.  Bush.     The  first  death  was  that  of  Chas.  Hockry, 
who  was  buried  in  Gilead  cemetery,  three  miles  north  of  Brown's  Sta- 
tion.    The  first  physician  was  Dr.  L.  B.  Brown,  who  is  still  actively 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession.     The  first  religious  services 
were  held  in  Burnam's  warehouse,  by  Rev.  Stephens,  a  Baptist. 


LEADING  INDUSTRIES. 


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THE    COAL   MINES    AT    BROWN  S    STATION    AND    PERSINQBR. 


/ 


The  Boone  County  Coal  and  Mining  Company  was  organized  in  the 
jrear  1875,  by  Alfred  Rees,  W.  A.  Goodding,  Allen  E.  Burnjiin  juul 
lohn  F.  Burnam,  for  the  purpose  of  mining  coal  in  the  northern  part 
3f  Columbia  township.  Previously,  in  1872,  a  mine  had  been  opened 
it  Brown's  Station  by  J.  W.  Hubbard,  Alfred  Rees  and  W.  A.  Good- 
iling.  This  mine  is  now  the  property  of  the  Boone  County  Coal  and 
^fining  Company.  Its  shaft  is  about  177  feet  in  depth.  The  vein 
averages  about  forty-two  inches  in  thickness,  and  the  coal  is  of  excel- 
lent quality.  The  first  shaft  was  practically  abandoned  in  February, 
1882,  after  producing  nearly  2,000,000  bushels. 

The  company's  mine  at  Persinger  station  was  opened  in  May,  1881.^ 
The  shaft  is  80  feet  deep  ;  depth  of  vein,  42  inches  ;  average  number  of 
men  employed,  thirty-five.  The  mine  is  located  in  section  28,  town- 
ship 49,  range  12,  on  land  leased  for   twenty-five    years,  the  lease 


'  The  first  considerable  quantity  of  coal  was  taken  out  the  foHowing  October. 


740  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   OOUNTT. 

expiring  in  1906.  Altogether^  the  company  is  in  possession  by  lease 
of  290  acres  of  land,  in  sections  28,  29  and  33,  in  township  49, 
range  12.  The  present  capacity  of  the  mine  is  1,200  bushels  per  da;. 
The  coal  is  shipped  to  the  gas  company  at  Columbia,  also  to  the 
mill  company,  and  to  various  points  on  the  Wabash  niilroad,  notably 
to  Warrenton.  It  bears  an  excellent  reputation  as  to  quality,  and  the 
mine  itself,  generally  speaking,  is  the  best  in  this  section  of  Missoori. 
At  present  it  is  in  a  highly  prosperous  condition.  The  firm  is  now 
composed  of  Alfred  Rees  and  W.  A.  Goodding,  the  firm  name  being 
Rees  &  Goodding. 

MINE    DISASTER   AT    BROWN* S   STATION. 

In  connection  with  the  history  of  the  mines  of  the  Boone  County  Coel 
Company  it  is  proper  to  note  the  terrible  accident  in  the  Browu's  Sta- 
tion mine,  Friday,  April  21,  1876.  On  the  n^orning  of  that  day  the 
miners  began  to  descend  the  shaft  to  go  to  work.  Twenty-one  of  them 
had  gone  down  in  safety  by  means  of  the  tub,  such  as  is  ordinarily 
used  in  coal  shafts,  and  four  more  stepped  in  to  make  the  descent. 
The  names  of  those  in  the  tub  were  Charles  C.  Stewart,  W.  H.  Can- 
non, Joseph  Mclntyre,  and  Robert  L.  Palmore.  When  the  men  vrere 
about  forty  feet  from  the  top,  the  post  on  the  outside  that  supported 
the  apparatus  by  which  the  tub  was  raised  and  lowered*  broke  and  fell. 
This  caused  the  rope  by  which  the  tub  was  suspended  to  fly  off  the 
drum  wheel  through  which  the  post  passed  and  it  (the  rope)  was  cut 
in  two.  The  tub  with  its  inmates  fell  a  distance  of  about  135  feet, 
alighting  on  the  solid  rock.  Palmore,  an  eleven-year-old  boy,  was 
killed  instantly.  His  throat  was  cut,  and  his  teeth  were  knocked 
out.  Cannon  exclaimed,  **  Tell  my  wife  *  farewell '  forme,"  and  died 
in  a  few  moments.  He  was  a  young  married  man  aged  25.  Mclntyre 
died  in  24  hours.  Stewart  lived  nineteen  days,  suffering  intensely  all 
the  while.  J.  H.  Truby,  who  was  in  the  mine  was  slightly  injured. 
The  scene  a  few  moments  after  the  dreadful  fall  was  terrible.  The 
screams  of  women  and  children,  the  wives  and  other  relatives  of  the 
poor  miners,  were  heartrending.  Men  ran  wildly  to  and  fro  and  the 
wildest  rumors  and  conjectures  as  to  the  number  killed  and  injured 
were  prevalent  for  a  time.  Burnam  Bros,  generously  opened  their 
store  and  told  those  engaged  in  caring  for  the  victims  of  the  accident 
to  take  anything  they  wanted.  The  first  three  that  died  were  buried 
ill  Mt.  Gilead  cemetery,  the  next  day.  No  blame  for  the  disaster  at- 
iMv'hed  to  any  one.     The  post  broke  because  it  was  badly  worm  eaten. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  741 

SAW    AND    GRIST    MILL. 

Messrs.  Dysart  &  Henry  have  a  very  good  mill  near  Brown's  Sta- 
tion, eight  miles  north  of  Cohimbia.  The  building  covers  an  area  of 
30x36  feet,  and  is  two  and  a  half  stories  high.  The  machinery  is 
dri?en  by  an  engine  of  25.horse  power.  There  are  two  run  of  burrs, 
and  the  grinding  capacity  of  the  mill  is  about  35  barrels  of  flour  or 
300  bushels  of  corn  meal  j3er  day.  The  machinery  is  from  Logans- 
port,  Indiana,  and  is  called  the  automatic  grinding  mill,  the  only  one 
of  the  kind  in  the  county  except  at  Sturgeon.  The  saw-mill  can  turn 
off  from  4,000  to  5,000  feet  of  hard  lumber  per  day.  The  size  of  the 
mgine  house  is  17x46  feet. 

WAR    INCIDENT  —  KILLING    OF   MAJ.    WM.    CAVE. 

During  the  civil  war,  September  4,  1864,  a  squad  from  Capt.  Carey's 
ompany  of  the  Third  M.  S.  M.,  rode  out  from  Columbia  and  shot 
id  killed  Maj.  Wm.  Cave,  who  then  lived  a  mile  north  of  Columbia, 
1  the  farm  now  owned  by  Col.  E.  C.  More.  The  look-out  in  the  cu- 
)la  of  the  couil  house  reported  that  he  saw  a  squad  of  bushwhackers 
ie  up  to  Maj.  Cave's  residence  about  noon,  and  after  remaining  long 
loughto  eat  a  hearty  dinner,  came  out  again,  and  rode  away  into  the 
ush.  The  squad  was  immediately  sent  out,  and  soon  returned,  re- 
>rting  that  the  **  old  devil  "  would  feed  no  more  bushwhackers. 

COUNTRY  CHURCHES BEAR  CREEK  CHURCH,  NOW  ANTIOCH. 

Perhaps  the  first  church  organization  in  Columbia  township  was  old 
jar  Creek,  afterwards  called  Antioch,  the  church  building  of  which 
aod  on  or  near  the  section  line  between  sections  23  and  24,  in 
wnship  48,  range  12.  The  organization  was  first  effected  north 
Columbia,  and  for  some  time  there  was  no  regular  place  of  nieet- 
g,  services  being  held  in  the  members'  houses,  chiefly  at  the  d\Vell- 
g  house  of  Richard  Cave.  The  following  is  a  literal  copy  of  the  first 
lurch  constitution,  happily  still  in  existence  :  — 

.June  the  6.  1S24. 

we  the  under  name  subscribers  being  calld  upon  to  Examine  in  to  the  faith  and  abillity  of 

ethren  living  on  and  nea  Bear  Creek  (n.  of  Columbia)  desiring  to  be  constituted  —  we  find 

im  in  our  opinions  sound  in  the  faith  and  Possessing  the  abilitys  of  keeping  in  order  the 

use  of  God.  We  therefore  have  Pronounced  them  a  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  under  noothei* 

siplin  or  Rule  for  faith  and  Practice  but  the  old  and  new  testemen  profcbsing  at  the  same 

16  to  have  Charity  Enough  as  a  Church  to  let  Each  other  judge  of  the  doctrines  Contained 

the  scriptures  for  ourselves,    given  under  our  hands  who  are  elders  and  have  Constituted 

)  undersigned  names.     Elders  present —  Thos.  McBbide, 

Wm.  Roberts, 

John  M.  Thomas. 
Assigned  the  day  and  date  above  named. 


742  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   CODNTT.  \ 

The  followiDg  were  the  first  members:  Asa  Stone,  Cumberlinl 
Snell,  Wm.  Lewis,  Wm.  Cave,  Derritt  Wills,  Bichard  Cave,  Fnncii 
Cave,  Bennett  Tilly,  John  Cave,  Marcus  Wills,  Sarah  Wills,  EUabetk 
Stone  and  Nancy  Hams,  who  were  admitted,  as  the  record  states,  "ob 
profession  of  faith."  Two  members,  Stephen  Bedford  and  Elizabetk 
Bedford  were  received  as  living  **  in  Columbia/' 

The  first  communion  service  was  held  at  the  house  of  Bichard  Cave, 
that  gentleman  furnishing  for  the  occasion  *^  one  bottle  of  wine, 
worth  $1." 

The  following  are  extracts  from  the  record  book  of  the  proceedings 
of  the  first  meetings  of  the  organization  :  — 

July  5  (Saturday),  182J^  —  The  Church  of  Christ  at  Bear  Creek  met|  and,  after  dirioe 
service,  chose  Bro.  Bichard  Cave  moderator  and  proceeded  to  buiineit.  First,  appoiotsd 
Bro.  Wm.  Lewis  church  clerk ;  also  chose  Bro.  Asa  Stone  to  be  our  deacon.  Then  ad- 
journed till  our  next  meeting  in  course. 

Aug%ut  5,  18S4,  —  Church  met,  and,  after  divine  service,  inquiry  was  made  if  all  in  is 
love.    Nothing  come  forward  and  we  was  then  dismisst  in  order. 

January  5,  i5f5.  —  Church  met,  and,  after  divine  worship,  inquiry  wai  made  if  til  ire 
in  love.    Nothing  come  forward  and  we  was  then  dismisst  in  order. 

March  S,  1825,  —  Church  met,  and,  after  divine  worship,  inquiry  was  made  if  all  sw  is 
love.    Nothing  come  forward  and  we  was  then  dismisst  in  order. 

May  S,  18£5, --The  church  met,  and,  after  divine  worship,  we  had  preaching,  and  then 
the  church  opened  her  doors  for  the  reception  of  members,  and  Bennett  THUy  joined  by  ex- 
perience.   We  then  adjourned  till  our  next  meeting  in  course. 

June  S,  i^;?J.  — The  church  met,  and  after  divine  worship,  Bro.  Richard  Cave  presched 
a  sermon,  and,  after  setting  in  order  the  things  of  the  house,  we  was  dismisst  in  order. 

Auffuat  3,  1825.  —  Thos.  McBride  preached  and  John  Cave  was  received  into  the  church. 

The  first  church  building:  was  a  lojs:  house  which  stood  somewhere 
on  Bear  creek.  The  second  church  site  was  selected  iu  1852,  being 
four  acres  on  the  northwest  quarter  of  the  southwest  quarter  of  sec- 
tion 33,  township  49,  range  12.  The  church  was  built  during  the 
summer  and  fall  of  1853,  and  the  first  regular  services  were  held  on 
the  fourth  Sunday  in  October,  1853.  It  was  then  named  Antioch. 
The  cost  of  the  building  was  about  $1,200.  The  early  pastors  of  the 
church  were  Richard  Cave,  Thomas  McBride,  Joel  Haden, Mar- 
low,  and  perhaps  others. 

Recentl}'^  services  have  been  suspended  at  Antioch  churbh,  the  mem- 
bers being  very  few  in  number,  and  growing  somewhat  apathetic. 
Lest  the  denomination  of  Antioch  church  may  not  be  clearly  under- 
stood by  what  has  been  stated,  it  may  be  well  to  say  that  it  belongs 
to  the  Christian  church. 

OAKLAND  CHUKCH — (CHRISTIAN). 

Oakland  church  is   situated   seven  miles  from   Columbia,  on  the 


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HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  743 

southwest  quarter  of  section  17,  township  49,  range  12,  on  three  acres 
)f  land  purchased  from  Wm.  L.  Parker  and  J.  B.  Orear.  The  con- 
gregation was  organized  in  1872,  with  forty-four  members,  among 
t^hom  w^re  J.  F.  Spence,  Richard  Phillips,  Augustus  Phillips  and 
9.  B.  Jones  and  their  wives,  John  C.  and  Francis  Phillips,  S.  H.  and 
llary  J.  Prather,  J.  C.  and  Lula  Prather,  Jesse  Prewitt  and  S.  E. 
^rewitt. 
The  church  building  was  erected  in  1872,  and  dedicated  December 
4th,  of  that  year.  It  is  a  frame,  34x52  in  size,  and  cost  $2,400. 
he  dedication  services  were  conducted  by  Elder  L.  B.  Wilkes.  The 
astors  have  been  Wm.  Mason,  J.  H.  Duncan,  J.  H.  Headington,  O. 

.  Carr  and Hoffman.     The  present  number  of  members  is  one 

iiudred  and  foriy-three. 

In  September,  1873,  a  protracted  meeting,  conducted  by  Elders  D. 
!.  Grantfield  and  Wm.  Mason,  was  held  at  this  church,  resulting  in 
urteen  additions.  August  22,  1874,  another  meeting,  conducted  by 
iders  Wilkes  and  Duncan,  and  lasting  eight  or  nine  days,  was  held, 
hich  resulted  in  fifty-seven  additions.  Since  its  first  organization,  in 
J72,  the  membership  has  increased  from  forty-four  to  143.  The 
lurch  building  is  a  very  handsome  and  comfortable  structure,  and 
is  a  seating  capacity  of  350.  There  is  a  fine  cemetery  in  connec- 
on  with  the  church. 

OLIVET    CHURCH (  CHRISTIAN  ) . 

This  church  is  situated  on  section  24,  township  48,  range  12.  It 
as  organized  January  17,  1874,  with  about  thirty-five  members, 
>me  of  whom  were  Elizabeth,  Mary  and  Amanda  Chick;  MoUie  C. 
id  J.  T.  Dailey ;  Patsey,  Hettie  and  S.  Dinwiddle  ;  Martha  A.,  Cor- 
e  v.,  R.  S.  and  W.  B.  Estes ;  Martha  A.,  Elizabeth  J.,  Sallie  J., 
nnie  M.,  Annie  E.  and  Squire  Turner;  Elizabeth  White,  J.  R.  and 
argaret  Boulton,  Annie  Bradford  and  Wm.  P.  Berkebile. 
The  church  building,  a  frame,  was  built  in  the  spring  of  1874,  at  a 
>st  of  $2,000.  It  was  dedicated  August  16,  1874,  by  Elder  L.  B. 
^ilkes.  The  pastors  have  been  W.  C.  Ridgeway,  G.  H.  Perkins,  Dr. 
ewton  Hockensmith,  R.  N.  Davis,  Philip  Bruton  and  William  Jar- 
>tt. 

The  largest  number  of  accessions  to  the  church  in  any  one  season 
as  at  a  meeting  which  began  October  18,  and  lasted  until  November 
,1879.  This  meeting  was  conducted  by  Elder  Kirk  Baxter,  and 
lere  were  thirty-five  converts. 


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744  HISTORY   OF  BOOKE   COUNTT, 

PRAIRIE   GROVE   CHURCH    (M.    E.   SOUTH). 

This  church  is  located  on  section  6,  township  48,  range  11.  Tin 
organization  was  effected  about  the  year  1853.  It  has  not  been  poaii- 
ble  to  obtain  the  names  of  the  original  members.  The  present  chnrdi 
building  was  erected  in  the  years  1872  and  1873.  It  is  a  frame,  ud 
cost  $1,500.  It  was  dedicated  in  June,  1873,  by  Rev.  John  D.  Vm- 
cil.  Thepastore  have  been  B.  H.  Spencer,  Wm.  Penn,  B.  F.  John- 
son, S.  W.  Cope,  H.  Brown,  W.  G.  Miller,  R.  H.  Gordon.  J.  W. 
Gordon,  W.  F.  Bell,  J.  R.  Taylor,  W.  M.  Sutton,  D.  N.  Epperson, 
J.  F.  Monroe,  L.  A.  Smith,  W.  H.  Lewis,  W.  T.  Ellington,  R.W. 
Collet,  S.  L.  Woody,  J.  F.  Shores  and  H.  D.  Graves,  The  present 
membership  is  thirty-five. 

PKAIBIE   GROVE   CHURCH    (BAPTIST). 

Prairie  Grove  church  was  organized  March  20,  1875,  with  thirty- 
eight  members,  some  of  whom  were  John  M.  and  John  O.  Maapin, 
Thomas  and  Frank  Wilcox,  Martha  R.  Maupin,  Amelia  Lusk,  Fannie 
Lusk,  Mollie  Devier,  Rebecca  Carpenter,  Alice  Wilhite,  D.  H.  Wilhite, 
the  Mosely  family,  and  James  and  Amanda  Northcutt.  The  church 
building  stands  on  section  6,  township  48,  range  II.  It  is  a  frames 
and  was  built  in  the  fall  of  1875  at  a  cost  of  $1,700.  It  was  dedi- 
cated on  the  third  Sunday  in  April  following,  by  ^v.  J.  M.  RobinsoD. 
The  church  has  had  for  pastors  Revs.  J.  M.  Robinson,  G.  L.  Black 
and  B.  B.  Gentry.     The  present  membership  is  forty-one. 

Before  the  church  was  built  services  were  held  in  the  M.  E.  Church 
South.  At  one  time  a  union  meeting  between  the  Methodists  and 
Baptists  was  held  which  resulted  in  twenty  additions  to  the  church. 
March  20,  1875,  the  church  received  seven  additions  by  letter  fwrn 
Bonne  Femme  church.  Prairie  Grove  was  originally  a  branch  of  the 
Baptist  church  at  Millersburg,  Callaway  county. 

GRAND  VIEW    BAITIST   CHURCH. 

This  church  is  situated  at  the  head  of  the  Two-mile  prairie.  The 
congregation  was  organized  December  25,  1869.  Some  of  the  origi- 
nal members  were  Samuel  and  Rhoda  Watkins,  R.  H.  Wilcox,  E.  J- 
Wilcox,  John  James,  Wm.  and  E.  F.  Norris,  Aaron  and  Mary  Thorn- 
ley,  Mary  James,  A.  G.  and  Eliza  Shaefer,  Noah  Flood  and  John 
Howell.  The  church  building,  a  frame,  was  erectedin  1874,  and  ded- 
icated May  27,  1877,  by  Rev.  J.  M.  Robinson.     This  church  has  bad 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  745 

lyr  pastors  Revs.  G.  D.Tolle,  Green  Carey,  John  Parmer,  J,  M.  Mc- 
jttire,  and  Joshua  Pearce.  The  church  has  been  greatly  strengthened 
tbe  present  year  under  the  ministrations  ot  Rev.  Pearce.  Twenty- 
six  additions  have  been  made  to  the  membership,  and  the  church  feels 
that  it  has  also  received  many  spiritual  blessings,  and  hopes  that  in 
the  future  it  may  be  as  a  city  set  on  a  hill,  which  "  cannot  be  hid." 
lie  present  membership  is  101. 

GILEAD    GRANGE. 

Gilead  Grange  No.  1657,  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  was  instituted  by 
W.  T.  Hickman  under  a  charter  dated  February  14,  1874.  The  char- 
ter members  were  J.  A.  Stevenson,  W.  W.  Hulet,  Henry  Palmer,  A. 
Hunter,  A.  C.  Turner,  J.  D.  Williams,  A.  G.  Robinson,  Sallie  Palmer, 
Josie  Hulet,  Eliza  Williams,  and  others.  The  first  officers  were  J.  A. 
Stevenson,  master;  B.  Crump,  overseer;  C.  C.  Turner,  lecturer; 
W.  W.  Hulet,  treasurer ;  T.  Crump,  chaplain  ;  L.  G.  BeiTy,  secre- 
tary; W.  Roberts,  steward;  Mrs.  Amanda  G.  Robinson,  Ceres; 
Crotia  Haggard,  Pomona;  Miss  Josie  Hulet,  Flora;  Mrs.  Martha  J. 
Barrett,  lady  assistant  steward.  The  present  officers  are :  L.  G. 
Berry,  master:  Silas  Hogan,  O. ;  J.  W.  Conley,  L.  ;  Joseph  Brown, 
J.;  D.  H.  Orear,  sec'y;  A.  Conkling,  steward;  Mrs.  E.  A.  Berry, 
^res ;  Mrs.  Bettie  Hogan,  Pomona  ;  Miss  Etta  Berry,  Flora  ;  Miss 
laggie  Conley,*  L.  A.  S.  The  present  membership  is  about  50.  The 
range  meets  in  a  rented  hall  at  Brown's  Station. 


BIOGRAPHIES. 
LEE   ANTHONY. 

The  subject  of  this  notice  was  born  in  Morgan  county,  Missouri,  in 
46.  He  is  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Cassandra  (Sutton)  Anthony. 
is  father  is  a  native  of  Tennessee,  and  was  born  February  28th,  1812. 
is  parents  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  when  he,  Thomas,  was 
ite  a  small  boy,  and  settled  about  five  miles  west  of  Columbia.  He 
irried  Miss  Cassandra  Sutton,  a  daughter  of  Wm.  Sutton.  Miss 
ittou,  the  mother  of  Lee  Anthony,  was  born  in  Kentucky  on  the  7th 
December,  1818,  and  came  to  Boone  county  with  her  parents  when 
e  was  quite  a  child.  One  year  after  her  marriage  with  Thomas  An- 
ony  they  moved  to  Morgan  county,  where  Lee  was  born.  They 
^ed  there  until   1862,  when  they  returned  to  Boone.     They  had  a 


746  HISTORY   OF  BOOKS   GOUNTT. 

family  of  fourteen  children,  seven  of  whom  are  now  living.    Thomn 
Anthony  died  in  1876,  and  is  buried  at  the  Wright  graveyard,  k}] 
Columbia  township,  where  his  first  wife  was  buried  in  1865.  Hii' 
second  wife  is  still  living.     For  the  last  few  years  of  his  life  he  hA 
in  Audrain  county.     Lee  Anthony,  his  son,  came  to  Boone  ooontjf 
with  his  parents  when  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age,  and  has  lived  hen 
continuously  since.     He  was  married  February  12th,  1875,  to  lb 
Lottie  S.  Tucker,  a  daughter  of  Warren  W.  and  Martha  B.  TuduTf 
of  this  county.     They  have  three  children,  two  girls  and  one  boj. 
Their  names  are  Cora  C,  Allison  Woods  and  Eva  May.    Hisfimn 
upon  which  he  lives  is  one  mile  east  of  Stephens'  station  and  six  miki 
northeast  of  Columbia.     The  home  place  contains  three  hundred  acra, 
and  his  other  farm  on  the  prairie  four  miles  to  the  southeast  of  him, 
has  two  hundred  and  sixty-five  acres.     Mr.  Anthony  is  a  farmer  aod 
stock  feeder,  standing  in  the  front  rank  of  enterprising  stock  men  of 
Boone  county.     He  is  a  genial,  hospitable  gentleman,  dispensing  hoi- 
pitality  in  that  hearty,  whole-souled  manner  which  is  characteristic  of 
the  Southern  man  everywhere.     He  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the 
Christian  church  at  Oakland. 

DR.    M.    R.    ARNOLD,    DECEASED. 

Dr.  Matthew  Bead  Arnold,  son  of  Lewis  and  Margaret  (Throd[- 
moiton)  Arnold,  was  born  in  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky,  March  13thf 
1805.  He  was  educated  in  Kentucky.  After  coming  to  Boone 
county,  be  studied  medicine  and  practiced  his  profession  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  July  22d,  1868.  He  was  married  SeptemW 
2d,  1828,  to  Melvina,  daughter  of  Gen.  R.  S.  Russell,  of  Bourbon 
county,  Kentucky.  By  this  union  there  were  five  children,  Eliza  B., 
Lewis  H.,  Maria  T.,  Robert  E.,  and  Thomas  A.  The  fii-st  wife 
dying,  he  was  married  the  second  time,  September  22d,  1853,  to 
Eliza  J.,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Susan  (Hill)  Swanson.  By  this 
union  there  were  two  children,  Matthew  R.  and  Jas.  P.  Dr.  Arnold 
was  a  member  of  the  Christian  church  of  Columbia.  Mrs.  Arnold  is 
a  member  of  the  Columbia  Methodist  church.  She  is  living  on  the 
farm  purchased  by  her  husband,  four  and  one-half  miles  southeast  of 
Columbia. 

£LI  nASS. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and 
died  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  1865,  in  the  fifty-ninth  year  of  his 
age.     His  father,  Peter  Bass,  was  a  native  of  Maryland,  but  for  a 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  747 

nomber  of  years  had  lived  at  Nashville,  when  he  moved  with  his  family 
to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  1819,  when  Eli  was  quite  a  boy.  He 
was  a  man  of  great  energy  and  decision  of  character  and  amassed  a 
Tery  large  fortune  and  at  his  death  left  his  children  large  patrimonies. 
£li,  his  son,  instead  of  spending  his  fortune,  as  most  young  men  do, 
who  inherit  great  wealth,  added  greatly  thereto,  besides  rearing  and 
educating  a  large  family.  He  was  in  the  true  sense  of  the  word  a 
gentleman,  one  of  extensive  information  and  fine  practical  sense,  pos- 
sessing a  magnificent  physique.  He  was  perhaps  one  of  the  largest 
owners  of  real  estate  in  Central  Missouri,  living  in  princely  style  at 
bis  elegant  country  residence,  where  he  dispensed  hospitality  in  the 
true  Southern  style.  He  reared  large  herds  of  stock  and  carried  on 
farming  in  a  remunerative  and  practical  manner.  In  1861  he  was 
elected  to  the  Constitutional  Convention  to  form  a  new  Constitution 
for  the  State.  He  subscribed  $3,000  to  procure  the  location  of  the 
State  University  at  Colun^bia,  and  was  one  of  its  first  curators.  His 
reputation  for  rectitude  and  reliability  was  of  the  highest  order.  He  was 
for  years  a  worthy  and  consistent  member  of  the  Baptist  church.  His 
children  are  among  the  most  enterprising  and  intelligent  citizens  of 
Boone  county,  one  son,.  J.  L.,  representing  the  county  in  the  General 
Assembly  some  years  since,  and  no  name  has  beea  held  in  higher  es- 
teem in  Boone  county,  than  that  of  Bass.  Eli's  elder  brother,  John 
M.,  was  a  lawyer  of  distinction  in  St.  Louis,  a  compeer  of  Bates, 
Gramble,  Geyer  and  Lucas,  and  afterwards  was,  for  twenty-five  years, 
president  of  the  Union  Bank  of  Tennessee.  Eli  Bass  married  Miss 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Capt.  Wra.  Johnson,  of  Boone  county,  who 
survives  him.  She  is  a  noble,  highly  cultivated  Christian  lady,  be- 
loved by  all  who  know  her. 

CAl*T.    MONROE    BATEMAN. 

Captain  Monroe  Butenian  is  a  native  of  Fleming  county,  Ken- 
tucky, where  he  was  born  February  13,  1831.  Is  the  son  of  Newton 
and  Margaret  Bateman.  He  was  educated  in  Mason  county,  Kentuckj'. 
In  1852  Mr.  Bateman  went  to  Stockton,  California,  where  he  re- 
mained five  years.  Returning  to  Mason  county,  he  engaged  in  the 
mercantile  business  at  Minerva  until  1857.  At  the  breaking  out  of 
the  war  Captain  Bateman  raised  a  company  of  cavalry  for  the  Union 
army.  His  command  was  mustered  in  as  company  L,  2d  Ken- 
tucky cavalry.  At  one  time  his  company  served  as  escort  to  General 
Sherman.     He  was  captured  by  the  enemy  and   was  a  prisoner   until 


748  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

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paroled,  October  5,  1H63.     In  the  latter  part  of  the  war  he  went  to 
Cincinnati  where  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  with  Ellig, 
McAlpin  &  Co.     He  did  not  remain  in  Cincinnati  but  one  year,  com- 
ing to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in   1864.     He  was  married,  May  I, 
1864  to  Miss  Mary  A.,  daughter  of  Jesse  and  Mary  Boulton.    Their 
union  has  been  blessed  with  eight  children,  four   of  whom  are  dead. 
The  deceased  children  were  Clarence  M.,born  May  4,  1865,  died  May 
28,1870;  Levi  M.,  bom  December   2,    1867,  died   June   13,  1870; 
Ruth  A.,  born  August  8,  1875,  died  January  3,  1876,  and  an  infant 
son,  born  and  died  May  3,  1871.     The  living  children  are  Mary  L, 
born  August  15,  1869  ;  Jesse  C,  bom  December  4,  1872  ;  ClintonC,, 
born  July  3,  1877,  and  Clark  R.,  born  November,  1879.     Mr.  Bate- 
raan  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  lodge  at  Columbia,  also  a  member  of 
the  Columbia  Christian  church.     Mrs.  Bateman  is  a  member  of  the 
same  church.     Mr.  Bateman  is  president  of  the  Blackfoot  and  Colum- 
bia rock  road,  which  position  he  has   held  for  eight  years.     He  is 
largely  interested   in  agriculture.     His  farm  of  217  acres  is  well  im- 
proved.    It  is  an  excellent  stock  farm,  the  land  being  well  set  in  bloc- 
grass.     It  is  situated  three  miles  north  of  the  court-house.     He  al^ 
owns  120  acres  of  land  in  section    18,  township   49.     He  has  been 
president,  vice-president  and  director  of  the  Boone  County  Agricul- 
tural and  Mechanical  Association,  being  for  many   years  one  of  the 
most  active  and  energetic  workers  in  this  corporation. 

SAMUEL    BEATTIE,    DECEASED. 

The  old  pioneer  whose  name  heads  this  sketch  was  a  native  of  Wash- 
ington county,  Virginia,  where  he  was  reared  and  educated.  Became 
to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  company  with  his  brother  David,  as 
early  as  1818.  He  was  married  in  this  county,  May  11,  1820,  to  Miss 
Mary  Denny,  and  the  young  couple  made  their  bridal  tour  to  Garrard 
county,  Kentucky,  on  horseback^  the  trip  requiring  some  three  weeks. 
He  had  settled  on  Thrall's  Prairie  some  time  in  the  year  1818.  Two 
sons  and  three  daughters  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Beattie,  named 
William  N.,  David  F.,  Sarah  A.,  Mary  E.,  and  Elizabeth  J.  Samuel 
Beattie  was  the  first  constable  of  Perche  township,  having  been  ap- 
pointed to  that  office  in  1821.  He  was  always  a  farmer,  and  the  place 
he  settled  is  the  one  now  occupied  by  his  son,  William  N.  Beattie.  It 
lies  one  and  a  half  miles  north  of  Columbia  court-house.  He  died  in 
Boone  county,  January  31,  1831,  and  is  buried  by  the  side  of  his 
wife,  on  the  old  homestead,  she  having  died  September  29,  1856. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  749 

WILLIAM    N.    BEATTIE. 

William  N.  Boattie  is  a  son  of  the  deceased  pair  mentioned  in  the 
ketch  of  Samuel  Beattie,  aud  was  born  in  Boone  coimty,  April. 20, 
L821.  He  seems  to  have  been  the  oldest  of  five  children,  and  was 
reared  and  educated  in  his  native  county,  receiving  his  education  at 
Columbia  College.  He  was  married  September  20,  1849,  to  Miss 
Katharine,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Letitia  (Hayes)  Murrell.  They 
bavefive  children  —  three  sons  and  two  daughters.  Mr.  Beattie  has 
ilways  been  a  farmer,  and  is  now  residing  on  the  old  place  settled  by 
bis  father.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  of  Columbia. 
He  was  quite  young  when  his  father  died,  though  he  was  the  oldest 
jhild ;  and  the  work  of  the  family  maintenance  and  improvement  of 
he  farm  devolved  largely  upon  him.  Since  he  has  become  solely 
yossessed  of  the  old  farm,  he  has  greatly  improved  and  built 
ip  the  place,  till  it  is  now,  at  this  writing,  one  of  the  finest  farms 
1  Boone  county. 

JOHN    W.    BEAZLEir,    DECEASED. 

Mr.  Beazley  was  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Woolfolk) 
eazley,  and  was  born  in  Boone  county,  seven  miles  southwest  of 
olumbia.  He  received  his  education  in  this  county,  and  in  early 
fe  learned  the  cabinet-maker's  trade,  at  which  he  worked  for  seven 
jars.  On  the  20th  of  December,  1855,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
irah  Lynes,  daughter  of  James  M.  and  Hannah  B.  (Victor)  Lynes. 
)ou  after  his  marriage,  Mr.  Beazley  quit  the  cabinet-making  business, 
id  moved  on  a  farm  three  and  a  half  miles  southeast  of  Columbia,, 
liere  he  continued  to  reside  till  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred 
ay  24th,  1864.  Mrs.  Beazley,  his  widow,  is  still  living  in  Boone 
lunty  at  the  time  of  this  writing.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Bonne 
amme  Baptist  church,  and  has  been  for  nineteen  years. 

.JESSE    A.    BOULTON. 

Judge  Jesse  .Augustus  Boulton  is  the  son  of  Brice  and  Eliza  (Pep- 
»r)  Boulton.  He  was  born  in  Mason  county,  Kentucky,  May  19, 
U7,  aud  came  to  this  county  in  the  fall  of  1840.  He  was  edu- 
kted  at  Bacon  College,  Georgetown,  Kentucky,  of  which  David  S. 
urnett  was  president.  After  completing  his  education,  he  taught 
jhool  in  Bracken  county,  Kentucky,  afterwards  at  Woodlawn  Sem- 
lary.  He  was  married,  October  17, 1839,  to  Miss  Mary  H.,  daughter 
f  Levi  Todd  and  Mary  (Emison)  Smith.     By  this  marriage  they 


750  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

had  two  children,  one  son  and  one  daughter.  The  son,  David  S.,  it 
now  in  Maysville,  California.  Mrs.  Boulton,  died  February  26, 1846, 
and  was  buried  on  the  farm  formerly  owned  1>y  her  father,  now  the 
property  of  Capt.  Monroe  Bateman.  Judge  Boulton  returned  to 
Kentucky  in  the  spring  of  1847,  and  was  married  soon  after  to  Min 
Clara,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth  Payne  (Loyd)  Ferine.  Bj 
this  union  they  have  had  five  sons  and  one  daughter.     Jesse  L.  wu 

born and  died  September  8,  1854.     Robert  Periuewts 

born  June  29th,  1854.  He  is  now  professor  of  English  literature  it 
the  Christian  University  at  Canton,  Missouri,  which  position  he  hu 
occupied  for  several  years.  Lillie  Francis  was  bom  July  25,  1857; 
Walter  E.,  April  6,  1861;  Payne  A.,  August  18,  1864,  and  Joha 
W.,  August  21,  1867.  Judge  Boulton  was  employed  to  teach 
the  public  school  at  Columbia  in  1840,  and  was  actively  engaged  in 
this  business  for  several  years.  From  1847  to  1850  he  taught  it 
Woodlawn  Seminary,  Kentucky,  as  previously  stated  in  this  biography. 
He  served  two  terms  as  judge  of  the  Boone  county  court,  first  term 
by  appointment  from  Gov.  Hardin  in  1875.  The  year  following  he 
was  elected  to  the  same  office.  Judge  Boulton  has  followed  teaching 
and  farming  all  his  life.  He  was  president  of  the  Boone  county 
grange  for  two  years,  and  has  always  been  an  active,  zealous  member 
of  that  organization.  He  is  an  official  member  of  the  Christian 
church,  and  his  wife  has  been  a  communicant  of  that  church  for  forty 
years.  Since  1850,  Judge  Boulton  lias  followed  farming  exclusively. 
He  has  a  fine  farm  of  475  acres  three  and  one-half  miles  northeast  of 
Columbia,  all  of  which  is  inclosed.  One-half  of  the  land  is  in  grass, 
the  remainder  he  devotes  to  the  various  crops  usually  grown  on  the 
farm.  Mr.  Boulton  has  a  remarkable  memory.  He  recollects  every 
incident  connected  with  his  life  from  earliest  childhood,  and  can  name 
the  date  of  each  occurrence  correctly.  Rice  Boulton,  the  father  of 
Jesse,  was  born  in  Charlotte  county,  Virginia,  December  23,  1787, 
and  emigrated  to  Kentucky  in  1813.  The  year  following  he  was  mar- 
ried to  Eliza  Pepper,  of  Mason  county,  Kentucky,  a  professional 
school  teacher.  The  elder  Boulton  was  for  years  sherifl^  of  Mason 
county.  Came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  March  26,  1853,  and  lived 
with  his  son  Jesse  until  his  death,  which  occurred  March  26,  1866. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Christian  church,  and  his  wife,  who  is  still 
living  —  having  reached  her  eighty-fourth  year —  is  also  a  member  of 
the  same  church,  and  has  been  for  seventy  years. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  751 

G.    A.    BRADFORD. 

George  Austin  Bradford  is  the  son  of  Austin  and  Levina  Bradford, 
Df  Scott  county 9  Kentucky,  in  which  State  he  was  born  June  6,  1830. 
Be  came  to  Boone  county  in  1836,  and  was  educated  at  the  Bonne 
Temme  Academy,  six  miles  southeast  of  Columbia.  Was  married 
Jlmuary  28,  1858,  to  Miss  Annie,  daughter  of  Joel  and  Dorcas  T. 
Smith,  of  Randolph  county,  Missouri.  Mr.  Bradford  was  raised  on 
the  farm  and  has  followed  farming  all  his  life.  He  owns  twelve 
hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  land.  A  body  of  four  hundred  acres  con- 
stitutes the  tract  upon  which  he  lives.  This  farm  is  well  located  and 
finely  improved.  He  has  a  fine  frame  residence  situated  three  miles 
southeast  of  Columbia,  on  the  Columbia  and  Ashland  gravel  road. 
Mr.  Bradford  is  largely  engaged  in  stock-raising  and  has  some  fine 
thoroughbred  Durban)  cattle.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Christian 
church  at  Olivet,  on  the  Two-Mile  Prairie,  and  has  l^een  a  mem- 
ber of  this  congregation  for  fifteen  years. 

f 

MICHAEL    BRIGHT. 

Michael  Bright  is  the  son  of  Michael  and  Jane  (McCluiig)  Bright, 
lid  was  born  in  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  May  20th,  1848.  His 
ither  was  from  Greenbrier  county,  West  Virginia,  and  emigrated  to 
[issouri  in  1834.  The  grandfather  of  our  subject  was  also  Michael 
right,  and  his  wife  was  Sarah  Price,  all  Virginians.  The  father  of 
[ichael,  our  subject,  settled  in  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  near  Ste- 
lens'  store,  and  lived  upon  the  farm  until  his  death,  in  1881.     He 

buried  at  Cedar  church,  in  Callaway  county.  The  present  Michae 
as  reared  upon  the  farm  and  lived  with  his  parents  until  he  was 
^'enty-four  years  old,  when  he  went  to  Wyoming  Territory,  and 
ayed  two  years.  He  was  married  on  the  28th  of  May,  1874,  to  Miss 
delia  A.,  daughter  of  John  C.  and  Elizabeth  McKinney,  of  Boone 
>unty.  Mrs.  Bright's  father  is  dead,  but  her  mother  is  yet  living, 
er  father  died  in  1875,  and  is  buried  at  Walnut  Grove  church.  Mr. 
id  Mrs.  Bright  lived  one  year  after  their  marriage  in  Callaway 
)unty,  and  then  sold  their  farm  and  bought  and  improved  the  place 
are  in  Boone  where  thev  are  now  living.  The  farm  contains  240 
jres,  well  improved.  The  house  is  upon  the  southwest  quarter  of 
action  20,  township  49,  range  11.  Mr.  Bright  handles  stock  consid- 
rably,  mostly  cattle.  His  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church 
t  Prairie  Grove.     They  have  one  son,  John  McKinney  Bright, 


752  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY, 


BERKYWIGK  J.  BROWN. 


Berry  wick  Johiisoii  Brown  is  a  native  ofBooue  county.       He  is  tke 
son,  and  only  surviving  child  of  Jamee  and  Sarah  Ann  (Davi8)Bro«B^ 
who  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Boone  county.      Berrywick  wu 
born   four  and  one-half  miles  northwest   of  Columbia^  Novembers, 
1848.     He  was  educated  at  the  district  schools,  completing  his  studies 
at  the  Missouri  State  University.      Was  married  November  29,  1877, 
to  Miss  Lula,  daughter  of  Philip  and  George  Ann  (Nichols),  Prather. 
By  this  marriage  they  have  had  two  sons.      Mr.  Brown  was  raised  on 
the  farm,  and  has  followed  agriculture  exclusively  until  recently,  whea 
he  added  the  business  of  brick-making,  forming  for  this  purpose  a 
partnership  under   the  firm  name  of  Brown  &  Berry.     This  is  tk 
largest  firm  of  the  kind  ever  established  in  Columbia.       They  employ 
over  twenty  hands.     They  have  all  the  modern  machinery  for  making 
pressed  brick,  such  as   our  people  were  formerly  compelled   to  ship 
from  a  distance.     They  find  ready  sale  for  all  their  brick.       Though 
the  enterprise  is  yet  in  its  infancy,  Messrs.  Brown  &  Berry  have  every 
reason  to  feel  encouraged,  and  the  people  of  Columbia  are  fortunate 
in  thus  securing  good  material  for  the  many  excellent  buildings  that 
are  being  added  to  the  town  every  year.       Mr.  Brown  has  a  farm  of 
500  acres,  situated  two  miles  north  of  Columbia,  on  the  Columliia  and 
Blackfoot    rock  road.     He  is  a  member  of  the   Columbia  lodge  of 
K.  of  P.     His  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church.    James  Brown, 
the  father  of  B.  J.,  was  born  July    27,   1798,    and  came    to  Boone 
county  in  1832,  emigrating  from  Madison  county,  Kentucky.     He  was 
married  March    5,  1840,  to  Sarah  A.  Davis,  of  Scott  county,  Ken- 
tucky.      Tiy  this  union  they  had  seven  children,  six   sons   and  one 
daughter,  Berrywick  being  the  fifth  child  born  of  this  marriage.      He 
is  the  only  child  now  living.     James  Brown,  the  father  of  Berrywick, 
died  in   181)5,  and  was  buried  on  the  farm  now  owned   by  his  son. 
Mrs.   Brown  died   July    18,  1873,   aged    fifty-nine  years.     She  whs 
buried  bv  the  side  of  her  husband.     The  elder   Brown  was   banished 
from  Missouri  in  1862,  on  account  of  his   Southern   proclivities.    He 
spent  most  of  his  exile  at.Greencastle,  Indiana. 

LEONIDAS    B.  BROWN,  M.  D. 

Dr.  Leonidas  B.  Brown  is  the  son  of  James  and  Dorcas  (McCalla) 
Brown,  of  Scott  county,  Kentucky,  where  he  was  born  May  13,  1828. 
The  family  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  the  spring  of  1835. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  753 

e  ^as  educated  at  Georgetown  College,  Kentucky.  Studied  medi- 
inein  the  oflSce  of  Greig  &  Rankin,  Georgetown,  Kentucky,  afler- 
rards  graduating  at  the  University  of  Louisville,  in  the  twenty-fourth 
rear  of  his  age.  -He  next  attended  a  course  of  lectures  at  Jefferson 
iledical  College,  Philadelphia,  graduating  in  the  spring  of  1852.  He 
^en  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  where  he  practiced  his  profes- 
lion  for  two  years,  returning  to  Philadelphia  for  another  course  of 
lectures.  Completing  his  medical  studies,  he  returned  to  Boone  county 
md  resumed  his  former  practice  at  Brown's  Station.  He  moved  his 
Simily  to  the  farm,  formerly  owned  by  his  father,  one-half  mile  east  of 
Stephens'  station,  but  still  keeps  his  office  at  Brown's  Station,  which 
lerives  its  name  from  him.  The  village,  consisting  of  some  eight  or 
^n  bouses,  is  built  on  his  land.  He  has  an  extensive  practice,  visit- 
ogin  his  rounds  some  three  hundred  families.  He  has  at  his  home 
arm  170  acres,  and  at  Brown's  station  about  40  acres.  Dr.  Brown 
ras  married  December  19,  1854,  to  Miss  Thompson,  daughter  of 
tichardand  Ann  (Swan)  Thompson.  By  this  marriage  they  had  one 
)n  and  one  daughter.  The  first  wife  died  in  1856.  In  1858  he  was 
larried  to  Miss  Nannie,  daughter  of  Hugh  and  Mary  Wright.  By  this 
lion  they  have  four  sons  and  one  daughter.  Dr.  Brown's  father  was 
carpenter,  but  carried  on  a  farm  while  working  at  his  trade.  He 
lilt  a  great  many  houses  in  Columbia.  He  was  quartermaster  in  the 
ormon  war,  under  General  Thomas  D.  Grant.  He  died  in  1845,  and 
buried  at  the  old  Hinkson  church.  Mrs.  Brown  died  in  1869,  and 
buried  by  the  side  of  her  husband.  Their  family  consisted  of  nine 
lildren,  five  sons  and  four  daughters,  of  whom  three  sons  and  two 
LUghters  are  now  living,  Dr.  Brown  being  the  oldest.  F.  C.  Brown 
a  practicing  physician  at  Hickory  Grove  church,  Boone  county.  C. 
.  Brown  is  in  the  mercantile  business,  St.  Louis ;  Isabella  married 
jsse  Hart ;  Miriam  married  Samuel  Crockett,  all  of  Boone  county, 
rs.  Dr.  Brown  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church. 

A.    p.    CLARKSON. 

Arthur  Payne  Clarkson  is  the  son  of  Dr.  Henry  M.  and  Mariam 
Payne)  Clarkson.  Dr.  Clarkson  was  a  graduate  of  the  old  Medical 
oUegeat  Philadelphia,  but  never  practiced  his  profession.  He  own- 
1  a  large  plantation  in  Fauquier  county,  Virginia,  which  required  all 
•his  attention.  His  wife's  father  was  also  one  of  the  largest  planters 
I  their  section  of  Virginia.  Arthur  P.  Clarkson  came  to  Missouri  in 
J41  and  settled  in  Columbia,  where  he  remained  for  six  or  seven 
48 


754  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CODNTT. 

years.     He  then  moved  to  the  farm  upon   which  be  now  remde8,fiT« 
miles  east  of  Columbia,   on   the  gravel  road.     He   was  educated  it 
Westminster  College,   Fulton,  Missouri.     Was  married  April  SStb, 
1859,  to  Miss  Emily   A.,  daughter  of  William  H.  and  Harriet  (Hoi- 
ley)  Brand,    of  Lexington,  Kentucky.     Dr.    Holley,  grandfather  of 
Mrs.  Clarkson,  was  four  years   president   of  Transylvania  College, 
Lexington,  Kentucky.     Mr.  Clarkson  has  always  followed  farming. 
He  owns  a  fine  farm  one  and  a  half  miles  east  of  Columbia,  on  the  &. 
Charles  road.     From    1867   to  1373   Mr.  Clarkson  was  chairman  of 
the  Boone  County  Democratic   Central  Committee.     He  has  always 
taken  a  lively  interest   in   political  matters.     While  not  a  partisan* 
strictly  speaking,  he  is  yet  sincere  and  positive  in  his  political  convic- 
tions and  unwavering  in  his  suppoil  of  paily  men  and  measures. 

JOHN   CONNBLLY.  ^ 

The  above  is  the  original  spelling  of  the  name  of  an  old  pioneer 
family,  though  the  orthography  has  been  changed  by  the  descendants 
and  younger  generation,  who  spell  the  name  C-o-n-l-e-y,  droppingont 
one  ««  n  "  and  one  *'  1  "  and  placing  the  *«  e  "  between  the  **  1 "  and 
the  **y."  John  Connelly,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in 
Maryland  in  the  year  1755,  and  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri, in 
1827.  He  married  Elizabeth  Turner  of  Madison  county,  Kentucky, 
and  became  the  ancestor  of  many  of  th^  generations  in  Boone  county, 
who  bear  the  name,  and  the  altered  name  as  mentioned  above.  Mr. 
Connelly  served  under  Gen.  Greene  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and 
was  present  at  Yorktown  when  Lord  Cornwallis  handed  over  his 
sword  to  Gen.  Washington.  This  worthy  old  pioneer  died  at  the 
home  of  his  son-in-law,  James  Turner,  in  1849,  on  what  is  known  as 
the  Two-mile  Prairie,  and  was  laid  by  his  friends  and  relatives  iu  his 
last  resting  place. 

SANFOUD    CONNELLY 

Is  a  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Turner)  Connelly,  and  was  bom  in 
Madison  county,  Kentucky,  January  8th,  1815,  and  was  partially 
educated  in  his  native  county.  He  completed  his  education  in  Boone 
(H>unty,  Missouri,  whither  his  parents  removed  in  1827.  When  22 
years  old  he  enlisted,  in  1837,  for  service  in  the  **  Florida  War." 
He  served  three  months  under  command  of  Col.  Richard  Gentry, 
and  with  credit  to  himself.  Mr.  Connelly  was  married  in  Boone 
county,  December  23d,  1840,  to  Jane  Le  Force,  daughter  of  William 
and  Mary  (Martin)  Le  Force,  a  family  of  French  descent.     Mr.  Con- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  755 

nelly  was  engaged  in  business  in  Columbia,  keeping  a  general  mer- 
chandise store  from  1858  to  1862.  He  then  sold  his  stock  of  goods 
to  his  nephew,  John  C.  Connelly,  and  moved  to  the  country  on  a 
farm  of  280  acres,  four  miles  northwest  of  Columbia,  where  he  lived  till 
1879.  On  leaving  that  place,  he  moved  to  his  present  place  of  resi* 
dence,  two  and  a  half  miles  south  of  Columbia.  Mr.  Connelly  is  one 
of  Boone  county's  most  substantial  farmers,  and  owns  some  570  acres 

of  as  good  land  as  is  in  the  county.     He  is  a  member  of  the  '*  Olivet " 

Christian  church. 

ANDREW    MAY    CONWAY. 

Andrew   M.  Conway,  son  of  Gen.  Frederick  Kector  and  Martha 
(Collins)  Conway,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  October  8,  1842. 
Came  to  Boone  county  in  1849.     Was  educated  at  the  Bonne  Femme 
Academy,  and  at  Elm  Ridge  Academy,  Howard  county,  completing  his 
literary  education  at  the  Missouri  State  University  in  1864.   Completing 
his  medical  course  in  1874  at  St.  Louis.  Returning  to  Boone  county,  he 
opened  an  office  at  Midway,  seven  mileswest  of  Columbia.  In  Oct.  1875, 
he  married  Miss  Susan,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Susan  (Anderson)  Hays. 
In  the  spring  of  1876,  Dr.  Conway  went  to  Texas  with  the  view  of 
locating,  but   came  back   to   Boone   county  in   1878    and   settled  at 
Stephens'  station,   where   he    is   now    practicing    his   profession    and 
rapidly  building  up  a  good  business.     They  have  two  children  :   Fred- 
erick R.,  born  September  14,  1><76,  and  Julia,  born  April   10,  1881. 
The  doctor  is  not  a  member  of  any  church.     Mrs.  Conway  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Church  South.     Gen.  Frederick  R.  Ccmway,  the 
father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a  man  of  considerable  promi- 
nence.    He  was  born  in  Green  county,  Tennessee,  July  4,  1799.     He 
was  a  grandson  of  Col.  Henry  Conway,  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  and 
the  son  of  Judge  Thomas  Conway,  who  moved  to  Howard  county, 
Missouri,  in  1818,  where  he   remained   until   his  death  in    1836.     In 
early  manhood  Gen.  Conway  served  as  clerk  in  the  office  of  his  uncle, 
William  Rector,  surveyor-general  of  Missouri  and  Illinois,  also  deputy 
United  States  surveyor  of  public  lands.     In  1830  he  was  appointed 
United  States  recorder  of  land  titles  in  St.  Louis,  an  office  created  by 
Congress  for  the  purpose  of  settling  claims  under  French  and  Spanish 
grants  in  the  territory  of  Louisiana.     He  moved  to  Boone  county  in 
1849.     He  was  one  of  seven  brothers,  two  of  whom,  James  S.  and  Elias 
N.,  were  governors  of  the  same  State  ( Arkansas),  an  incident  without  a 
parallel  in  the  history  of  this  country.     Henry  W.,  the  eldest  brother, 
was  an  officer  in  the  United  States  armj'.     While  stationed  in  Arkan- 


756  HISTORY   OF    BOONE   COUNTY. 

sas  territory  he  resigned  and  was  elected  a  delegate  to  Congress. 
Pending  a  subsequent  election,  he  was  killed  in  a  duel.  Dr.  JohnK., 
another  brother,  was  a  surveyor  of  public  lands  and  commissioner  to 
define  the  boundary  line  between  Texas  and  Arkansas.  William,  the 
fifth  brother,  was  supreme  judge  of  Arkansas.  Thomas,  the  sixth 
brother,  was  a  merchant.  He  died  at  Huutsville,  Missouri,  when 
quite  a  young  man.  Ex-Governor  Elias  Conway  is  the  only  sur- 
viving brother.  He  is  now  living  at  Little  Rock,  Arkansas.  There 
were  three  sisters.  One  became  the  wife  of  William  Shields,  another 
married  a  man  named  Runkle.  The  third  is  Mrs.  Gen.  William  Pel- 
ham,  living  near  Austin,  Texas.  Gen.  Conway  first  married  a  widow 
named  Smith.  By  this  union  they  had  one  son.  She  dying  a  short 
time  after  her  marriage,  he  wedded  Martha  Collins.  There  were  five 
children  by  this  union:  Lucy  A.,  Thomas  F.,  a  lawyer  in  Santa  Fe, 
New  Mexico;  Andrew  M.,  Mary  E.,  deceased,  and  Francis  H.,  who 
is  now  running  a  cotton  plantation  on  the  Arkansas  river,  near  Little 
Rock. 

JAMES   WILLIAM    CONLEY. 

James  William  Conley,  son  of  John  and  Belila  (Weldon)  Conley, 
was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  May  11,  1835.  He  was  brought 
up  on  the  farm  and  educated  at  the  common  schools  of  the  country. 
Married,  November  5,  1857,  Miss  Anna  E.,  daughter  of  Orastus  and 
Mary  (Summers)  Reid.  By  this  union  they  have  nine  children,  oue 
son  and  eight  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  living:  MoUie  B.,  born 
December  22, 1858  ;  Maggie  Lee,  born  September  3, 1861  ;  Mattie  and 
Minnie,  born  December  16,  1863;  Alva  N.,  born  April  19,  1867; 
Alvin,  born  July  15, 1870  ;  Rosa,  B.,  born  November  20,  1873  ;  Genie, 
born  January  21,  1877  ;  Roy,  born  December  13,  1879.  Mr.  Conley 
taught  school  in  Boone  county,  beginning  in  the  spring  of  1855  and 
continuing  until  1862.  In  1870-71,  run  a  saw-mill  on  the  old  Prather 
farm,  seven  and  one-half  miles  northeast  of  Columbia,  on  Clay's  Fork. 
Since  1871  he  has  followed  farming  continuously  up  to  the  present 
time.  He  owns  a  fine  farm  of  300  acres,  seven  miles  northeast  of 
Columbia,  on  the  Middletown  road.  The  farm  is  well  watered  and 
timbered.  He  has  lived  on  this  farm  since  1858.  He  has  improved 
the  place  to  the  very  best  advantage.  A  large  portion  of  the  land  i8 
in  grass  and  woodland  pasture.  He  devotes  about  one  hundred  acres 
to  corn,  wheat  and  oats.  He  has  two  of  the  finest  sugar  orchards  in 
the  county.  Has  a  good  coal  mine,  the  vein  being  from  three  to  four 
feet  in  thickness.     It  was  opened  some  time  in  1850,     Mr.  Conley  is 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  757 

I  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  also  a  Patron  of  Husbandry.  He  is  a 
oember  of  the  Oakland  Christian  church.  Four  of  his  daughters 
ire  members  of  the  same  church. 

HUGH   DBVIER, 

8  a  son  of  Allen  and  Nancy  (Turley )  Devier  ;  was  born  May  17,  1818, 
1  Rockingham  county,  Virginia.  He  is  the  third  of  a  family  of  ten 
liildren.  His  father,  Allen  Devier,  was  born  in  Rockingham  county, 
Irginia,  in  the  year  1787,  and  died  August,  1850.  His  mothe^  was 
Iso  a  native  of  the  same  county  and  died  in  1861.  They  are  boried 
I  the  county  in  which  they  were  born,  married  and  died.  Hugh 
iceived  his  education  in  Augusta  and  Rockingham  counties,  Virginia. 
[e  lived  at  home  with  his  parents  until  he  was  thirty  years  of  age, 
hen,  in  the  spring  of  1848,  he  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  and 
sttled  on  the  farm  that  was  bought  by  his  grandfather,  Wm.  Devier, 
f  Christian  county,  Kentucky,  in  1818,  for  $2.50  per  acre.  When 
[ugh  took  charge  of  the  place  it  was  a  wild  timbered  tract,  never 
ftving  heard  the  ring  of  the  ax,  or  .felt  the  glebe  of  the  plow.  By 
^rd  work  and  skilful  management  it  has  been  transformed  into  one 
fthe  best  farms  in  the  county,  containing  428  acres,  six  miles  nprth- 
ist  of  Columbia,  on  the  range  line  road.  Mr.  Devier  was  a  large 
Baler  in  cattle  and  hogs  from  1861  to  1880.  He  was  married  March 
,  1847,  to  Miss  Alcinda  E.,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  (Keller) 
[iller,  from  Strasburg,  Virginia.  By  this  union  they  have  eight 
lildren,  five  boys  and  three  girls:  James  William,  Sarah  V.,  Jacob 
.,  Hugh  J.,  Mary  E.,  Hiram  K.,  Stonewall  J.,  and  Nancy  T.,  and 
re  all  living  at  home  except  James  William,  who  lives  in  Denton 
)unty,  Texas.  Himself,  wife  and  four  of  their  children  are  members 
r  the  Missionary  Baptist  church.  His  brother,  Giles  Devier,  is  edi- 
>r  of  the  Rockingham  Register,  of  Rockingham  county,  Virginia, 
^tablished  in  1832. 

SAMUEL    DINWIDDIE. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Patsy  (McBride) 
►inwiddie.  He  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  October  25th, 
845.  He  was  educated  at  the  district  schools,  attending  the  old 
rick  school  house,  four  miles  east  of  Columbia,  and  what  was  known 
3  the  Old  White  school  house,  four  miles  southeast  of  Columbia. 
Ir.  Dinwiddie  was  married  November  11th,  1868,  to  Hettie,  daughter 
f  Wm.  H.  and  Missouri  Hickam  Garrett,  of  Linn  county,  Missouri, 
[e  is  a  farmer,  and  has  followed  agricultural  pursuits  all  his  life.     He 


768  HISTORY   OP    BOONE    COVSTY. 

resides  on  the  old  farm  bought  by  his  father  in  1840,  situated  ou 
the  Columbia  and  Cedar  creek  rock  road.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Olivet  Christian  church.  His  wife,  who  died  May  21st,  1882,  wm 
a  member  of  the  same  church. 

JAMES    m'bRIDE    DINWIDDIE. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Patsy  (McBride) 
Dinwiddie,  and  was  born   in  Lincohi  county,  Kentucky,  May  llth, 
1839.      His   parents   were   natives  of  Kentucky,   and  emigrated  to 
Boone  county,  Missouri,  when  James  was  about  a  year  old,  and  settled 
the  place  upon  which  his  son  Samuel  is  now  living,   about  four  miles 
east  of  Columbia.   Samuel  Dinwiddie  was  a  tanner  by  trade,  but  followed 
farming  after  he   came  to  Missouri  until   his  death    in    1865.    His 
wife,  our  subject's  mother,  died  in  1868,  and  they  are  Imried  upon 
the  old  homestead.     They  had  nine  children.     James   McBride  has 
lived  in  Boone  county  all  his  life,  save  one  year  spent  in  Illinois  dur- 
ing the  war.     He   was  educated  in  the  country  schools  principally, 
going  one  term  to  the  University.     He  was  married  May  ^Ith,  1862, 
to  Miss  Kate,  daughter  of  William  Moseley.     By  this  union  they  have 
had   nine  children:    William  S.,  Mary  Irene,   Clara  Moseley,  John, 
Julia,  Ella,  James,  Charles  and  Thomas.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dinwiddie 
are  members  of  the  Christian  church,  and  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Honor  at  Columbia.     He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  and  a 
life-long  Democrat.     Has  farmed  all  his  life,  and  been  quite  successful. 
He  has  a  fine  farm,  and  is  accounted  one  of  the  substantial  citizens  of 
the  county. 

.TAMES    C.    DYSART. 

James  C.  Dysart,  son  of  Madison  and  Maria  (Cowan)  Dysart,  was 
born  in  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  September  21st,  1836.  He  came 
to  Boone  county  with  his  parents  in  1838.  He  was  educated  at  the 
common  schools  of  the  county,  and  worked  on  the  farm  until  1857, 
when  he  was  engaged  as  a  salesman  at  Burlington  by  J.  C. 
Thompson.  The  business  was  afterwards  moved  to  Sturgeon,  and 
he  continued  with  Thompson  for  a  while.  Then  he  formed  a  part- 
nership with  a  man  named  Croswhite,  in  the  dry  goods  business.  He 
continued  with  Croswhite  until  1861,  when  the  partnership  was  dis- 
.solved,  and  he  continued  the  business  alone  until  1864,  wheu  he 
sold  out  and  removed  to  Helena,  Montana  Territory,  where  he 
opened  a  grocery  store.  He  went  by  steamer  from  St.  Louis.  On 
the  way  the   vessel   sunk  near  Omaha.      His  family  then  returned 


HISTORY   OF    BOONE    COUNTY.  759 

ome,  while  he  continued  his  journey  on  board  another  steamer. 
[e  landed  at  Helena  City  July  12th,  1865,  and  opened  a  grocery  store 
'hich  he  ran  until  September  of  that  year.  He  also  engaged  in  min- 
ig,  having  an  interest  in  a  quartz  mill.  Leaving  Helena  in  Septem- 
er,  he  went  to  Fort  Benton.  There  he  took  passage  on  a  flat-boat 
>r  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  and  from. there  to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  trav- 
led  by  stage.  Returning  to  Boone  county,  he  engaged  in  farming 
iar  Hallsville  in  1867.  He  continued  in  the  business  for  about  a 
»ar,  when  he  came  to  Brown's  Station  and  engaged  in  the  general 
ercantile  business  under  the  tirm  name  of  Dysart  &  Turner.  One 
ar  later  the  firm  was  dissolved,  Mr.  Dysart  buying  Turner's  interest 
the  business.  He  ran  the  store  alone  for  one  year,  when  he  took 
.  A.  Goodding  in  partnership,  the  firm  name  being  Dysart  &  Good- 
ag.  Two  years  later  Mr.  Dysart  bought  out  Mr.  Goodding's  inter- 
by  and  has  since  conducted  the  business  alone.  He  has  a  good 
ide,  and  is  doing  well.  In  connection  with  the  store  he  is  running  a 
w  and  grist  mill,  in  partnership  with  James  L.  Henry.  Mr.  Dysart 
is  married  January  4th,  1849,  to  Miss  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Lewis 
d  Sallie  (Barnes)  Reid,  daughter  of  Elder  James  Barnes.  By  this 
lion  they  have  eight  children,  five  sons  and  three  daughters,  six  of 
lom  are  living.  One  of  the  sons,  George  R.,  received  severe  inju- 
rs while  raking  hay,  August  5th,  1882,  from  which  he  died  the  day 
[lowing. 

BERKLEY  ESTES  (DECEASED). 

This  gentleman,  though  now  numbered  with  the  dead,  will  be  re- 
3mbered  by  many  as  an  old  settler  of  Boone  county.  Mr.  Estes 
18  the  son  of  Richard  Estes,  of  Virginia,  and  was  born  in  Spottsyl- 
nia  county,  of  that  State,  in  1797,  and  resided  in  his  native  State 
iring  youth.  He  came  to  this  State  and  county  in  1827,  having 
en  reared  and  educated  in  Virginia,  where  he  was  also  married. 
1  February  5th,  1826,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Malinda  Estes,  and 
I  her  death,  was  a  second  time  married  to  Miss  Mary  Smith,  April 
th,  1839.  He  was  by  trade  a  brick-layer,  though  he  farmed  for 
any  years  after  coming  to  Missouri.  He  bought  a  farm  in  this  coun- 
,  three  miles  southeast  of  Columbia,  on  the  Cedar  Creek  road. 
Tien  the  **  War  of  '12  "  came  on,  Mr.  Estes  was  just  of  the  suitable 
e  to  take  part  in  that  brief  struggle  against  England,  and  he  served 
3  country  faithfully  under  Commodore  Barry.  By  ftis  first  wife  he 
d  five  children,  four  daughters  and  a  son,  of  whom  only  one — Mar- 
ret  E.,  wife  of  John  R.  Boulton  —  is  living  at  this  writing.     By  the 


760  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

second  marriage,  Mr.  Estes  was  the  father  of  three  boys  and  ouegirl, 
of  whom  William  B.,  and  R.  S.  Estes  still  survive.  Mr.  EUtes  de- 
parted this  life,  July  29th,  1869,  and  he  and  his  wife  are  both  buried 
in  the  family  burying  ground  on  the  old  homestead. 

RICHARD  SAMUEL  ESTES 

Is  the  son  of  Berkley  Estes,  deceased,  and  was  born  in  Boone  coQuty 
May  27,  1847.  He  was  educated  in  his  native  county,  and  was  mar- 
ried, April  6th,  1869,  to  Cordelia,  daughter  of  John  and  Margaret 
Carlisle.  He  has.  folio  wed  farming  and  stock  raising,  and  is  living  on 
the  old  homestead.  The  farm  Contains  257  acres,  mostly  in  grass. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Estes  have  six  children,  three  boys  and  three  girls,  all 
living  at  this  writing.  He  and  wife  are  both  members  of  the  Olivet 
Christian  church.  There  is  a  splendid  coal  bank  on  his  farm  of  a  good 
quality,  which  will  of  course  be  fully  worked  at  some  future  time.  A 
stream  of  clear  water,  called  Limestone  Creek,  runs  through  his  place, 
and  affords  abundant  water  for  his  stock. 

ARCHIBALD  TURNER  GARTH. 

Mr.  Garth  is  the  son  of  John  R.  and  Kate  M.  (Turner)  Garth  and 
was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  February  24th,  1852.  His  father 
John  Robert  Garth,  was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Kentucky,  November 
10th,  1827.  He  was  married  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  January, 
1851,  to  Miss  Catherine  M.  Turner.  He  was  one  of  Columbia's  most 
enterprising  merchants  and  best  citizens.  He  died  suddenly  on  the 
23d  of  July,  1877,  at  the  residence  of  his  son,  A.  T.  Garth,  and  is  bur- 
ied at  the  Columbia  cemetery.  Our  subject,  A.  Turner  Garth,  was 
educated  at  the  State  University  and  at  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Com- 
mercial College,  of  St.  Louis.  In  1873  and  1874  he  was  engaged  in 
the  boot  and  shoe  business  in  Columbia,  and  in  1877  and  1878  he  was 
with  R.  H.  Clinkscales  in  the  grocery  business.  In  the  spring  o\ 
1880  he  went  back  upon  the  farm  and  has  dealt  largely  in  stock  ever 
since.  He  handles  none  but  the  best  blood,  and  has  shipped  many 
young  cattle  to  Kansas  and  other  Western  States.  He  is  interested  in 
a  very  large  herd  of  cattle  in  Dickerson  county,  Kansas,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1881  he  shipped  an  extra  large  lot  of  stock  to  the  West. 
He  and  his  brother,  S.  T.  Garth,  have  a  very  large  farm,  well  ap- 
pointed in  all  modern  improvements  and  well  stocked  with  thorough- 
breds. The  home  farm  is  called  the  Rose-Bud  Herd  Farm,  and  is  one 
of  the  best  upon  the  celebrated  Two-mile  prairie.     Mr.  Garth  was  mar- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONB    COUNTY.  761 

Tied  October  the  8th,  1872  to  Miss  Ella  M.,  daughter  of  I.  W.  and  A. 
B.  McDonald,  of  Kansas  City.  They  are  blest  with  one  child,  Ro- 
berta B.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Garth  are  members  of  the  Christian  church 
and  he  is  a  member  of  the  A.  O.  U.  W.  society. 

R.  BROWN   OANS. 

fi.  B.  Cans,  the  celebrated  optician  and  telescope  maker,  was  born 
in  Fayette  county,  Pennsylvania,  July  2d,  1819.  He  was  educated 
at  the  common  schools  of  the  county,  and  among  other  things  learned 
the  cabinet-maker's  trade  from  his  father,  who  was  a  skilful  mechanic. 
He  followed  this  business  until  the  war.  About  the  year  1847,  and  while 
jetacitizen  of  Pennsylvania,  he  commenced  work  as  an  optician.  He 
made  some  twelve  telescopes,  one  of  which  he  sold  to  Waynesburg  Col- 
lege, Green  county,  Pennsylvania.  After  coming  to  Boone  county  he 
resumed  the  business.  He  made  the  one  now  in  use  at  the  Christian 
female  College,  Columbia,  worth  $1,000.  He  has  one  now  in  course 
►f  construction  which  will,  when  finished,  be  worth  $2,0(50.  It  will 
>e  an  equatorial  instrument,  worked  by  a  clockwork  governor,  ten 
3et  focal  length,  and  seven  inches  clear  aperture.  It  will  be  provided 
ith  fifteen  eye  pieces  of  various  kinds,  together  with  a  pull-rising 
ye-piece  and  micrometer.  It  will  be  mounted  on  a  heavy  iron  col- 
mn  of  a  half-ton  weight,  with  right  ascension  and  declination  circle 
>  five  seconds.  He  also  has  a  small  instrument  already  complete. 
t  is  fifty-seven  inches  focal  length  and  three  and  one-fourth  inches 
perture.  It  is  mounted  in  brass  on  a  heavy  try-rod,  together  with 
nder  and  four  eye-pieces,  possessing  a  magnifying  power  of  from  six- 
f  to  two  hundred  times.  It  is  adjusted  by  rack  and  pivot  and  end- 
5S8  screw.  This  instrument  is  valued  at  two  hundred  dollars.  Mr. 
rans  imports  his  glass  from  the  same  firm  that  supplies  Clark  &  Son, 
f  Cambridgeport,  Massachussetts.  He  furnished  one  telescope  to 
h".  Isaac  Kidge,  of  Kansas  City,  in  1881,  for  which  he  received  two 
undred  dollars.  He  has  an  invention  of  his  own  for  grinding  and 
olishing  his  glasses  and  lenses.  The  old  method  of  grinding  by 
and  took  the  time  and  trouble  to  grind  one  glass  that  he  would  de- 
ote  to  five,  and  his  process  is  more  accurate  and  better.  He  has  a 
lachine  lathe,  made  by  Sheppard,  of  Cincinnati,  which  cost  him  two 
undred  dollars. 

ROBERT   PARKS    GLENN. 

The    subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Moses  T.  and  Elizabeth 
Cowan)  Glenn,  and  was  born  May  24th,  1826,  in  Nicholas  county, 


7(52  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTT. 

K/eiitucky.     His  father,  Mo$es  Glenn,  was  born  March  26th,  1791,  in 
Fleming  county,  Kentnck}',  and  died  in  March,  1866.     His  mother 
was  born  in  Nicholas  county,  Kentucky,  May  15th,  1795 ;  died  in 
1879,  and  is  buried  by  the  side  of  her  husband  in  the  county  of  her 
birth.     They  had  eight  children,  six  boys  and  two  girls.     Sarah  P., 
born  March  24th,  1825;  Robert  P.,  born  May   24th,   1826;  Nancy 
A.,  born  November  24th,  1827  ;  Thos.  J.,  born  May  5th,  1829 ;  John 
H.,  born  February  11th,  1831 ;  Archibald  M.,  born  February  8th,  1833, 
and  died  at  Memphis  in  1867  ;  Moses  A.,  born  December  15, 1834 ;  and 
James  M.,  born  January  12th,  1837.    Robert  P.,  the  second  of  the  eight 
children,  was  educated  in  his  native  county.     He  lived  upon  the  farm 
with  his  father,  and  took  the  general  management  of  the  farm,  which 
was  a  very  large  one,  being  composed  of  just  one  thousand  acres. 
He  lived  at  home  till  he  was  twenty  years  of  age,  then,  in  1855,  he 
ran  a  saw  and  grist  mill  in  Nicholas  county,  Kentucky,  on  Fleming 
creek,  known  as  the  Pleasant  Valley  mills.     After  running  the  mills 
satisfactority  for  three  years,  he  came  to  Audrain  county,  Missouri, 
and  rented  a  farm  upon  which  he  raised  one  crop.     He  then  bought  a 
farm  in  Boone  county,  ten  miles  northeast  of  Columbia,  between  the 
old  St.  Charles  and  Mexico  roads,  known  as  the  Fuller  Allen  farm, 
where  he  still  resides.     The  farm  contains  four  hundred  and  eighty 
acres,  and  is  one  of  the  best  improved  farms  in  Boone  county,  being 
regarded  as  the  model  farm  of  the   Two-mile  prairie.     He  has  five 
miles  of   hedge   upon  the  place,  making  an   impassable    barrier  for 
unruly  stock.     He  has  a  fine  house,  and  his  fields  are  all  well-wateced. 
His  stock  consists  of   pedigreed    short-horn    cattle,  Cotswold  sheep 
and    Berkshire    hogs.      He   is  a   dealer  in    mules,    handling,  on  an 
average,   eighty  head  per   year.     He   was  married,   May   1st,  1856, 
to     Miss    Amanda     F.,    daughter    of  John    and     Kitty     (Squires) 
Hall,    of  Nicholas   county,    Kentucky.     They    have   four    ehildreu; 
John    H.,    Moses   F.,  Sallie   and    Robert   B.,   all    living.     Himself, 
wife    and    danorhter   are  members   of  the    Christian    church.      Mrs. 
Glenn's     father,     John      Hall,      was    born     in      Nicholas     oountr, 
Kentucky,  May  8th,   1801.     Her  mother,  Kitty  Squires,  was  born  in 
Fauquier  county,  Virginia,  March  15th,  1808.     Their  children  were: 
Margaret  Elizabeth,  born  December  30th,  1829  ;  Cynthia  Ealin,  born 
January  16th,  1832;  Mary  Catharine,  born  July  27th,  1834;  Amanda 
Frances,  born  July  2Hth,  1836;  Mildred  Ann,  born  June  23d,  1838; 
Harriet  Stout,  born  April   18th,   1840;  Caroline  Amelia,  born  April 
2r)th,  1842  ;  Judith  Ann,  born  July  1st,  1844  ;  Laura,  born  September 


HISTORY    OF    BOONE    COUNTY.  7(13 

SOjtb,  1846,  aud  died  Jauiiary  29th,  1849 ;  Sarah  Jane,  born  January 
4jUi,  1849;  Robert  Henry,  born  January  6th,  1855.  Mrs.  Glenn's 
grandfather  was  James  Hall,  born  in  Ireland,  May  5th,  1753,  and 
died  February  7th,  1835.  His  wife,  Elizabeth  (Johnson)  Hall,  was 
bom  December  28th,  1759,  and  died  July  7th,  1839.  Her  grand- 
father upon  her  mother's  side  was  Micajah  Squires,  born  February 
4th,  1770,  and  was  murdered  near  St.  Louis  in  1819.  His  wife, 
Margaret  Turley,  was  born  October  3d,  1775,  and  died  in  August, 
1858.     They  were  both  born  in  Virginia. 

B.    GORDON. 

Boyle  Gordon  is  a  native  of  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  the  home 
of  many  of  our  best  citizens,  and  the  native  county  of  the  parents  or 
many  more.  There  is  scarcely  a  neigW)orhood  in  Boone  but  has 
representatives  from  this  good  old  county,  which  gave  so  liberally  of 
her  best  citizens  to  people  Boone  and  other  counties  of  Missouri.  It 
seems  strange  that  so  many  people  could  have  left  one  county  without 
in  a  great  measure  depopulating  it.  Visitors  from  that  portion  of 
Kentucky  are  forcibly  impressed  with  the  similarity  of  the  people  of 
Boone  as  compared  with  their  own.  The  reason  is  obvious:  Central 
Kentucky  is  virtually  the  parent  of  Boone  county,  and  the  resem- 
blance is  the  natural  result  of  a  natural  cause.  Mr.  Gordon  was 
bom  December  8th,  1825,  and  came  to  Boone  county  in  the  fall  of 
1826.  He  remained  in  Columbia  until  1840,  when  he  returned  to 
Kentucky,  where  he  remained  for  three  years  attending  school.  He 
returned  to  Boone,  and  entered  the  old  Columbia  Seminary,  finishing 
his  education  at  the  State  University.  At  the  age  of  twenty-five 
he  commenced  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  his  father,  John  Boyle 
Gordon,  then  a  prominent  attorney  at  the  Columbia  bar.  Was 
admitted  to  the  practice  of  law  when  twenty-seven  years  of  age,  and 
followed  the  profession  without  intermission  until  he  retired  from 
practice  in  1872.  He  was  appointed  assistant  professor  of  law  in  the 
State  University,  which  position  he  holds  at  this  writing.  Mr. 
Gordon  was  first  married,  in  1863,  to  Miss  Susan  Watson,  of  Kails 
county,  Missouri.  She  did  not  survive  their  marriage  but  one  year, 
dying  in  1864      He  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  from  Columbia 

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district  in  1864,  serving  two  sessions.  In  1875,  Governor  Hardin 
appointed  him  judge  of  the  Boone  county  court,  which  office  he 
declined.  Mr  Gordon  has  been  quite  successful  in  the  practice  of 
law.     From  1856  to  1862,  he  was  in  partnership  with  General  Guitar, 


764  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   GOUNTT. 

the  firm  commauding  all  the  practice  they  could  well  attend  to.  Jidj 
10th,  1867,  Mr.  Gordon  was  married  to  Ann  Grentry,  daughter  of 
Col.    Richard  Gentry,   who   was   killed   in    the   Florida  war.   Hr. 
Gordon  owns  a  nice  farm  one  and  one  half  miles  southeast  of  Colambii 
on  the  Columbia  and  Ashland  gravel  road.      The  farm  contains  thm 
hundred  acres  well  improved  and  pleasantly  situated.     During  the 
war  Mr.  Gordon  was  a  consistent  Union  man,  but  took  no  part  in  the 
struggle.     Since  the  war  he  has  voted  the  Democratic  ticket.    He  is 
a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  having  united  with  that  denom- 
ination  more    than    forty   years   ago.     Mr.    Gordon   has    had  two 
children  by  his  second  wife.     His  daughter  Annie,  died  April  5th, 
1879i     His  son  Mai^shall,  bom  April  6th,  1869,  is  still  living.    The 
remains  of  the  old   Black  mill,  one  of  the   first    water  mills  e?er 
erected  in  Boone  county,  is  situated  on  Mr.  Gordon's  place.    It  was 
built  as  far  back  as  1839.     It  is  situated   on   the   Hinkson  Croei[. 
Mr.  Gordon  has  a  fine  collection  of  Indian  pottery,  arrow-heads  and 
stone  axes,  and  takes  much  interest  in  those  relics.     He  is  an  affable 
gentleman,  firm  in  his  opinions  and  resolute  in  maintaining  them. 

GAPT.    DAVID    GUITAR. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was?  born  in  Richmond,  Madison  county, 
Kentucky,  May  1st,  1827,  and  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in 
the  fall  of  1829.  His  parents  were  John  and  Emily  (Gordon)  Guitar. 
John  Guitar  was  born  in  Agen,  France,  and  emigrated  to  the  Uuited 
States  in  1819,  landing  first  in  New  York,  whore  he  remained  for  two 
years.  From  New  York  he  went  to  Richmond,  Kentucky,  where  he 
was  married,  in  1824,  to  Miss  Emily  Gordon,  daughter  of  David  aud 
Mary  Jane  (Boyle)  Gordon.  The  mother  of  Mrs.  Guitar  was  a 
native  of  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  and  a  sister  of  Judge  Boyle,  of 
Danville,  Kentucky.  John  Guitar  was  engaged  in  the  mercantile 
business  previous  to  coming  to  Columbia,  Missouri.  On  his  arrival 
here,  he  resumed  his  former  occupation,  selling  diy  goods  and 
jewelry.  He  was  actively  engaged  in  this  business  from  1829  up 
to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1848.  He  is  buried  at  the 
old  family  burying  ground  on  what  is  known  as  the  Old  Widow 
Gordon  farm,  east  of  Columbia.  Mrs.  Guitar  died  in  1847,  and  is 
buried  by  the  side  of  her  husband.  Capt.  Guitar  was  educated  partW 
at  the  old  Columbia  College,  finishing  his  studies  at  the  Missouri 
State  University,  being  one  among  the  first  students  of  that  institu- 
tion.    In  1847  he  enlisted  in  the  Mexican  war,  serving  for  one  year. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  765 

[n  1849  he  went  overland  to  California,  where  he  remained  for  three 

years.     Returning    to    Columbia,    he    engaged    in   the   mercantile 

business  under  the  firm  name  of  Baker  &  Guitar.     He  followed  this 

business  for  seven  years,  when  he  sold  out  to  his   partner,  G.   F. 

Baker.     In  the  spring  of  1860   he  removed  to   the   farm    he   now 

occupies,  two  miles  northeast  of  Columbia.     During  the  war  he  was 

captain  of  a  militia  company  under  Gen.  Douglass.     After  the  war,  he 

continued  farming  until  1869,  when  he  entered  the  firm  of  Anderson, 

Conly  &  Co.,  proprietors  of  the  Columbia  Mills.     He  followed  this 

business  for  eight  years,  returning  to  his  farm  in  1876.     Capt.  Guitar 

was  married,  October   25th,    1854,   to  Miss    Harriet,   daughter   of 

Ferdinand  and  Martha  (Bradley)  Herndou,  of  Nashville,  Tennessee. 

The  father  of  Mrs.  Guitar  was  an  officer  in  the  war  of  1812.     He  was 

born  in  Fredricksburg,  Virginia.     By  this  union  they  have  had  ten 

children,  eight  of  whom,  five  sons  and  three  daughters,  are  still  living. 

Their  names  are:  James  G.,  David  G.,  Elizabeth,  William,  Martha 

H.,  John,  Harriet  and  Eddie. 

ISAAC    LOYD    HADEN. 

The  subject  of  this  notice  is  the  son  of  Turner  R.  and  Sarah  Ann 
[Loyd)  Haden,  and  was  born  August  11th,  1854,  in  Boone  county, 
Missouri.  His  father  came  from  Scott  county,  Kentucky,  to  Boone 
iounty,  Missouri,  about  1825  or  1826,  and  settled  on  what  is  now 
[uowu  as  the  Bedford  farm.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  died  in  January, 
879.  Mrs.  Haden,  the  mother  ot  Isaac  Loyd  Haden,  is  still  living, 
ged  fifty-seven.  They  reared  a  family  of  nine  children,  three  boys 
nd  six  girls.  Our  subject,  Isaac,  is  the  fourth  child  and  second  son. 
saac  was  born  four  miles  northeast  of  Columbia.  He  was  educated 
n  his  native  county  at  what  is  known  as  the  Kennan  school  house. 
le  lived  at  home  until  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age,  when  he  mar- 
led Miss  Myra  Gillespie,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Sophia  (Barnes) 
jrillespie.  By  this  union  they  have  two  children,  a  boy  and  girl, 
A^m.  Porter  and  Sallie.  He  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Chris- 
Jan  church  at  Hickory  Grove,  Callaway  county,  Missouri.  He  has  a 
jood  farm  upon  the  Columbia  and  Concord  road,  ten  miles  northeast 
)f  Columbia.  The  soil  is  a  black  loam,  and  raises  the  very  finest 
(vheat  and  corn  in  the  vicinity. 

JOEL    HARRIS    HADEN. 

Joel  H.  Haden,  one  of  Boone  county's  most  successful  citizens,  is 


766  HISTORY   OF   BOONR   COUNTY. 

the  son  of  Turner  R.  and  Rebecca  Hadeu,  and  was  bora  in  Scoti 
county,  Kentucky,  September  12th,  1811.  He  came  to  Boone  conntj 
in  the  fall  of  1828,  and  rented  a  farm  two  and  a  half  miles  northeast 
of  Columbia,  now  known  as  the  Lenoir  farm.  He  was  first  married 
to  Miss  Sarah  Cave,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Martha  (Cave)  Talbott. 
By  this  marriage  they  have  one  child,  Margaret,  who  is  the  wife  of 
John  W.  Carter,  of  Boone  county.  Mr.  Haden's  first  wife  diedMaj 
15th,  1835.  He  was  again  married  July  4th,  1838,  to  Miss  Zerelda, 
daughter  of  James  and  Maria  Kirtley.  Two  sons  were  born  of  this 
union,  James  W.  and  Turner  R.  S.  The  second  wife  having  died  No- 
vember 3d,  1870,  Mr.  Haden  was  married  September  28th,  1872,  to 
Sarah,  sister  of  the  second  wife.  Mr.  Haden  has  always  followed 
farming.  His  farm  is  one  of  the  best  in  the  county.  He  has  a  fine 
residence,  beautifully  situated  on  the  Columbia  and  Blackfoot  rock 
road,  one  and  a  half  miles  north  of  the  city.  Mr.  Haden  is  in  every 
sense  of  the  word  aiself-made  man,  having  accumulated  a  large  for- ^ 
tune  by  his  individual  effort.  His  home  place  contains  900  acres.  In 
addition  to  this  he  owns  ()00  acres  elsewhere,  besides  much  other  valu- 
able property,  all  of  which  he  accumulated  by  hard  labor  and  good 
management.  Mr.  Haden  is  at  this  writing  seventy-one  years  old, 
but  looks  to  be  not  over  fifty. 

EDWARD    D.    HRNRY. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  John  Todd  and  Sarah 
(Keene)  Henry.  He  was  born  in  Scott  county,  Kentucky,  March  14, 
1812.  Was  educated  in  the  common  district  schools  of  the  country. 
Came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  with  his  mother,  in  the  fall  of  1826, 
and  settled  on  a  farm  five  and  one-half  miles  northeast  of  Columbia, 
where  he  remained  until  he  was  twenty-two  years  old.  Then  went 
from  home  to  learn  the  trade  of  brick-laying  under  J.  G.  Keene  and 
David  Neal.  In  1837  returned  to  Kentucky,  in  company  with  his 
brother,  where  he  remained  for  one  vear.  When  work  was  com- 
menced  on  the  Missouri  State  University  he  was  employed  to  lav 
brick,  building  the  front  wall  of  that  institution.  He  helped  to  lay 
the  first  brick  that  were  placed  in  the  University.  In  1841  he,  in 
company  with  Henry  Keene,  formed  a  partnership  for  making  and 
laying  brick.  He  continued  in  this  business  for  about  six  years.  He 
was  married  July  7th,  1852,  to  Miss  Susan,  daughter  of  Gabriel  and 
Elizabeth  Parker.  By  this  union  they  have  had  three  sons  and  two 
daughters.     Lizzie  L.,  born  May  2d,  1853  ;  Mary,  born  October  15th, 


HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  767 

>;  Edward  P.,  born  September  7th,  1860;  William  Todd,  born 
ch  nth,  1867,  died  October  15th,  1877 ;  Robert,  born  May  10th, 
i,  died  May  11th,  1864.  In  1849  Mr.  Henry  bought  the  farm 
1  which  he  now  lives,  containing  216  acres.  This  farm  is  well 
jred  and  timbered,  and  is  in  every- respect  finely  improved.  Mr. 
ry  is  an  official  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  has 
I  for  thirty-three  years.  Mrs.  Henry  is  also  a  member  of  the 
B.  Her  father,  Gabriel  Parker,  diedFebruary  24th,  1880,  at  the 
meed  age  of  eighty-eight  years.  Her  mother,  Mrs.  Parker, 
March  1st,  1864. 

JOHN    TODD    HEiqiY,    JR.,    DECEASED. 

>hn  Todd  Henry,  Jr.,  deceased,  was  the  son  of  John  Todd  Henry, 
and    Sarah    (Keene)    Henry.     John   Todd    Henry,  Sr.,  was  a 
\re   of  Charlotte  county,  Virginia,  and  was   born   in  1762.     He 
luated  at  Prince  Edward  College,  Virginia,  now  Hampden  Sid- 
He  emigrated  to  Scott  county,  Kentucky,  and  wjis  president  of 
>llege  in  Georgetown,  where  he  died,  February  23d,  1822.     His 
was  born  in   Maryland,  in   1782,  and  moved  to  Scott  county, 
tucky,   with  her   parents,  when    a  child.     She   came  to    Boone 
ity,  Missouri,  in  1826,  where  she  died  in  1860.     They  had  four 
i  and  four  daughters.     Two  children,  one  son  and  one  daughter, 
dead.     The  living  have  all  resided  in  Boone  for  fifty-six  years,  and 
he    same    neighborhood.     The    oldest   member   of  the  family  is 
luel  L.  Henry,  who  is  now  in  his  eighty-second  year.     John  Todd 
ry,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Scott  county,  Kentucky,  August  5th,  1803, 
was  educated  at  the  common  schools  of  his  native  county.     In 
y  manhood   he  was  constable  of  his  township,  and  from   1826  to 
:$,  was  deputy  sherifi*  of  Scott  county,  Kentucky.     He  was  mar- 
,  February  25th,  1834,  to  Miss  Harriet,  daughter  of  Capt.  Francis 
Elizabeth  (Gordon)  Coleman.     The  father  of  Mrs.  Henry  was  a 
;ain  in  the  Revolutionary  army.     She  was  born  December  21st, 
1.     She  is  the  only  one  living  of  a  family  of  seven  children.     Mr. 
Mrs.  Henry  have  had  seven  children,  two  of  whom  died  in  infancy, 
names  of  the  living  are  John  T.,  Samuel  W.,  Sarah  E.,  Robert 
and  Emma.     Mr.  Henry  came  to  Boone  county  in  1834,  and  set- 
on  the  farm  upon  which  he  died,  August  5th,  1882.     The  farm  is 
ated  six  miles  northeast  of  Columbia,  and  consists  of  440  acres, 
y  improved.     When  he  settled  this  place  there  were  but  twelve 
s  of  cleared  land,  the  rest  of  the  farm  being  in  the  woods.     Mr. 


768  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

Heniy  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church.     Mrs.  Henry  Ui 
member  of  that  church  also. 

JAMES    LAWRENCE    HENRY. 

James  Lawrence  Henry,  Jr.,  son  of  Dr.  James  L.  and  Mary  A. 
(Barnard)  Henry,  was  born  in  Easton,  Washington  county,  New 
York,  September  22d,  1839,  and  was  educated  at  Greenwich,  which 
is  also  in  Washington  county.  In  1856  he  left  his  native  State,  going 
first  to  Farmington,  Iowa,  where  he  worked  one  year  in  the  machine 
shops,  then  to  Knox  county,  Missouri,  where  he  worked  in  the  miUing 
business  eighteen  months  under  the  firm  name  of  Hill  &  Henry. 
Selling  out  his  interest  in  the  mill  1^  went  to  Macon  City,  Missouri, 
where  he  acted  as  superintendent  of  a  livery  stable  owned  by  Harry 
Wortz.  He  remained  in  this  business  until  1859,  when  he  came  to 
Boone  county  and  drove  the  Columbia  and  Sturgeon  stage  for  Leonard 
&  Burks  until  the  spring  of  1860,  when  he  engaged  in  the  steam  saw- 
mill business.  He  removed  the  mill  from  near  Ceutralia  to  Hinkson 
creek,  ten  miles  northeast  of  Columbia.  He  ran  this  mill  until  March, 
1861,  when  he  went  to  farming  one  mile  east  of  Brown's  Station.  He 
^as  married  March  10th,  1861,  to  Frances  S.,  daughter  of  James  and 
Louisa  (Ridgway)  Lampton.  By  this  union  they  had  seven  children, 
two  sons  and  five  daughters.  Mary  L.,  bom  February  5th,  1862, 
died  August  23d,  1866  ;  Eunice  B.,  born  November  12th,  1868  ;  John 
L.,born  April  13th,  1871 ;  Susan  G.,  born  July  6th,  1873 ;  James  C, 
born  July  19th,  1876,  died  May  11th,  1878;  Marion  L.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 7th,  1879,  and  Elizabeth  R.,  born  February  23d,  1881.  Mr. 
Henry  enlisted  in  the  Confederate  army  in  1861  under  Capt.  Robert 
L.  Maupin,  then  again  under  Capt.  Amos  Hulett.  After  several  at- 
tempts to  reach  the  army,  he  was  captured  in  the  summer  of  1862,  and 
confined  in  prison  at  St.  Louis,  Alton  and  Washington  City.  In  the 
spring  of  1863  he  was  exchanged  and  sent  to  City  Point,  Virginia. 
From  there  he  went  West  and  joined  Capt.  Harvey  G.  McKiiiuey's 
company,  of  which  he  was  made  first  sergeant.  Was  ordered  to 
Boonia  station,  near  Vicksburg,  where  he  was  attached  to  company 
H,  of  the  Fifth  regiment,  commanded  by  Col.  James  McCown.  Wa» 
in  the  battle  near  Vicksburg,  May  15th,  1863.  May  18th,  1864, 
joined  Johnston's  army  at  Kingston,  and  participated  in  the  battle  of 
New  Hope  church.  He  also  took  part  in  Hood's  raid  on  Nashville. 
Was  wounded  at  Altoona  station.  His  brigade  was  captured  at  the 
siege  of  Fort  Blakely  and  sent  to  Ship  Island,  in  the  Gulf  of  Mexico. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  769 

They  were  afterwards  taken  to  Vicksburg  and  exchanged.  He  sur- 
-endered  under  Gen.  Dick  Taylor,  May  12th,  1865.  In  1873  he  built 
iliemill  called  by  his  name,  situated  on  Rocky  Fork,  six  miles  north 
of  Columbia.  Since  returning  from  the  war  he  has  followed  milling 
Aud  farming.  He  is  now  engaged  in  the  milling  business  at  Brown*s 
Station,  in  partnership  with  J.  C.  Dysart.  In  1878  he  made  the  race 
for  assessor,  but  was  beaten  seventy-nine  votes  by  M.  G.  Qninn.  He 
was  a  candidate  in  1880  before  the  primary  election,  but  was  again 
defeated.  He  is  master  of  the  Hallsville  Grange,  also  a  member  of 
the  Hallsville  Masonic  lodge,  and  of  the  K.  P.  lodge,  Columbia.  He 
ind  his'  wife  are  members  of  the  Christian  church.  His  father  died  in 
Froy,  New  York  in  1843.  His  mother  is  now  living  at  Fox  Lake, 
n^isconsin. 

L.    p.   HICKAM. 

Lycurgus  P.  Hickam's  parents,  Ezekiel  and  Nancy  (Sims)  Hickam, 
'ere  natives  of  the  *'Old  Dominion,"  but  emigrated  to  Missouri  in 
11  early  day.  L.  P.  Hickam  was  born  in  Boone  county,  February 
6th,  1830.  He  was  raised  on  the  farm,  :ind  is  himself  a  well-to-do 
inner.  His  farm,  consisting  of  430  acres,  is  situated  three  miles 
)uthwest  of  Columbia,  on  the  old  Providence  and  Columbia  plank 
)ad,.  His  land  is  all  under  fence,  and  is  well  watered  and  timbered, 
he  homestead  is  conveniently  situated  and  is  esteemed  one  of  the 
lost  desirable  in  that  vicinity.  Mr.  Hickam  is  a  member  of  the 
[asonic  order  and  a  communicant  of  the  Baptist  church.  He  has 
een  a  church  member  for  fifteen  years,  and  at  this  writing  is  a 
eacon  of  the  Bethel  church. 

JUDGE   JOSEPH    W.    HICKAM. 

Judge  Joseph  W.  Hickam  has  probably  spent  more  years  in  public 

fe  than  any  other  man  now  living  in  Boone  county.     From  early 

anhood  to  old  age  he  has  served  his  county  in  almost  every  capacity. 

e  is  the  son  of  John  and  Christian  Hickam,  and  was  born  in  Wiish- 

gton  county,  Virginia.     When  about  twelve  years  old  he  came  to 

le  territory  of  Missouri,  and  to  what  was  then  called  Howard  county, 

le  Territory  being  then  divided  into  four  or  five  grand  divisions,  of 

hich   Howard  county  was  one  of  the  subdivisions.     All  of  Boone 

muty   was   then    included    in    Howard.     Judge   Hickam   landed   at 

[ead's  Fort  in  the  fall  of  1816,  and  the  spring  following  came  to 

oone  county,  and  settled  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Birch  Hunt,  situ- 

bed  in  the  river  bottom.     He  remained  on  this  place  until  the  spring  of 
49 


770  HISTORY   OF   BOONB   COUNTY. 

1819,  when  he  moved  to  a  place  four  miles  south  of  Columbia.    This 
farm,  consisting  of  320  acres,  was  bought  from  the  goverument  bj 
Judge  Hickam's  father.     The  elder  Hickam  had  five  sons  and  four 
daughters.     Of  this  family,  only  four  are  now  living.     John  Hicktn 
was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  Boone  county,  and   was  an  indus- 
trious enterprising  citizen,  a  man  possessed  of  many  strong  points  of 
character.     He  left  his  children  about  ten  thousand  acres  of  Itnd. 
Judge  Hickam's  opportunities  for  securing  an  education  were  quite 
limited,  from  the  fact  that  he  left  Virginia  at  an  early  age,  and  then 
were  no  schools  in  Missouri  at  the  time  he  came  to  this  State.    Hi 
attended  a  subscription  school  for  six  months.     Was  afterwiCrds  for 
twelve  months  a  pupil  of  a  school  taught  by  Elijah  Hart,  an  uncle  of 
Thomas  H.  Benton.     He  next  att.ended  Washington  College  at  Jones- 
borough,  Tennessee,  for  a  few  months.     His  public  life  commenced 
at  the  age  of  sixteen,  when  he  was  elected  captain  of  a  militia  com- 
pany.    He  cast  his  first  vote  for  Andrew  Jackson,  and  has  always 
been  a  Democrat.     Was  commissioned  a  justice  of  the  peace  by  Got. 
Miller  in  1827,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  many  years.     In  1832 
he  was  elected  county  court  judge,  and  was  presiding  justice  during 
a  portion  of  the  term.     Was  engrossing  clerk  of  the  lower  house  of 
the  Missouri  legislature  from  1834  to  1839.     From  1839  to  1858  he 
was  superintendent  of  bridge  building  in   Boone  county.     He  also 
held  the  ofBce   of  .school   commissioner  until  1859,  when  he  was  ap- 
pointed assessor  l>v  the  county  court.     During  the  war  he  held  no 
position   but  that  of  justice  of  the  peace.     Judge  Hickam  was  first 
married    to  Miss  Turley,  of  Madison    county,  Kentucky.     By  this 
union  they  had  one  daughter,  Emeline,  now  the   widow  of  Cornelius 
Maupin.     The  first  wife  having  died  in  1865,  he  was  again  married, 
July  4,  1867,  to  Malinda  J.,  daughter  of  Maj.  John  and  Temperance 
(Wright)  Barclay,  of  Boone  county.     They  have  no  children.    Judge 
Hickam  is  not  a  member  of  any  church  nor  of  any  secret  society. 
His  recollections  of  border  life  are  of  the  most  interesting  and  thrill- 
ing nature.     Since  retiring  from  the  active  duties  of  life  he  has  lived 
quietly  on  his  fine  farm  of  600  acres,  one  mile  west  of  Columbia  and 
one-fourth  mile  south  of  the  gravel  road,  which  has  been  his  home 
for  fifty-four  years.     He  has  been  a  prominent  man  all  his  life  and 
is  widely  known  and  universally  respected,  as  he  deserves   to  be. 
Nearly  the  whole  of  his  busy  life  has  been  spent  in  the  service  of  bis 
fellow-men,  and  his  labors  will  survive  him.     Such  men  cannot  be 
forgotten. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  771 


DAVID   A.    JACOBS 


Watiborn  in  Booue  county,  Missouri,  July  29,  1856,  ou  the  old  home- 
flfeead  settled  by  his  father,  Dr.  G.  R.  Jacobs,  whose  biography  is  a)so 
kpnblished  in  thisWolume.     David  was  educated  at  the  Virginia  Mili- 
taiy  Institute  and  at  the  St.  Louis  University.     He  also  attended 
•ehool  at  Lexington,  Kentucky.     He  was  married  on  the  14th  of  March, 
1878,  to  Miss  Belle  Rollins,  daughter  of  John  C.  Rollins  (deceased), 
and  niece  of  the  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins,  of  Columbia.     They  have  two 
children  —  Wayne  R.  and  Louisa  M.  Jacobs  ;  has  always  been  a  farmer, 
Md  owns  a  large  farm  of  520  acres  six  miles  east  of  Columbia,  most 
of  which  is  sown  in  blue-grass.     At  this  writing  Mr.  Jacobs  is  giving 
hk  attention  to  raising  live  stock,  both  sheep  and  cattle.    He  is  a  mem- 
R.    berof  the  Catholic  church,  and  Mrs.  Jacobs  l)elong8  to  the  Episcopal 
ohurcb,  of  Columbia. 

DR.    GEORGE    RODNKY   JACOBS,    DECEASED. 

The  eminent  gentleman  —  now  numbered  with  the  dead  —  whose 
name  beads  this  sketch  was  a  native  of  Nelson  county,  Virginia,  and 
was  lK>m  February  20,  1802.  He  was  educated  at  New  Glasgow  Acad- 
ismy,  Amherst  county,  Virginia,  and  studied  medicine  in  the  office  of 
aa  eminent  physician  of  that  SUite.  After  a  two  years*  course  of  read- 
ing, he  attended  the  medical  college  at  Phihidelphia  for  two  years ; 
he  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  ITnivernity  of  Pennsylvania, 
mnd  returned  to  his  old  home  to  begin  the  practice.  He  quit  the  med« 
ical  practice  in  1832  and  emigrated  to  Missouri.  Dr.  Jacobs  was  mar- 
ried in  1835,  in  Hampshire  county,  Virginia,  to  Miss  Louisa  Parsons. 
In  1845  he  moved  to  Louisiana  and  located  twenty  miles  from  New  Or- 
leans, where  he  remained  seven  years.  Returning  then  to  Missouri, 
he  settled  in  Boone  county,  where  he  resided  till  the  time  of  his  de;itli, 
which  occurred  Februarv  24,  1877. 

R.    T.    JOHNSTON. 

Bol>ert  Thomas  Johnston  is  the  sou  of  Robert  and  Ann  Johnston, 
and  was  born  in  Howard  county,  Missouri,  January  10,  1829.  In 
1831  he  came  to  Boone  county,  where  he  remained  until  he  was  fifteen 
years  old  ;  he  returned  to  Howard  county  and  clerked  for  two  years  in 
his  brother  JoeFs  store,  at  Fayette.  He  then  returned  to  his  home  in 
Boone  county,  where  he  was  married,  December,  1851,  to  Julia,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  Johnston.     Mr.  Johnston  has  lived  on  his 


772  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   OOUNTT. 

pretjent  farm,  three  miles  south  of  Columbia,  for  thirty-one  years.  Hi 
is  a  member  of  the  Bonne  Femme  Missionary  Baptist  church.  Hn. 
Johnston  is  also  a  member  of  the  same  church. 

FRANCIS   MARION   JOHNSON. 

Francis  M.  Johnson  is  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Margaret  Johnsoo; 
he  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  June  8, 1834,  on  the  old  home- 
stead settled  and  owned  by  his  father,  one  mile  north  of  where  tin 
subject  of  this  sketch  now  lives.     The  old  house  is  still  standing  m 
the  Hinkson.     Mr.  Johnson  wa?  raised  and  educated  in  Boone  county; 
he  was  first  married  in  May,  1858,  his  wife  dying  in  the  month  of  Ju- 
uary  following.     March  22,  1864,  he  was  again  married,  this  time  to 
Miss  Bettie,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Margaret  (Stewart)  Cox.    Bj 
this  marriage  they  had  eight  children  —  two  sons  and  six  daughters: 
Maggie,  born  January  10,  1866 ;  Mary  E.,  born  June  12,  1867;  Wil- 
liam T.,  born  May   29,  1869;  Frank  L.,  born  November  18, 1872; 
Minnie  D.,  born  April  26,  1875  ;  Mattie  E.,  born  April  8, 1877 ;  Aii». 
lia  B.,  born  February  5,  1879,  and  Bertha  6.,  born  January  17, 188S. 
Mr.  Johnson  spent  one  year  in  California,  returning  to  Boone  coun^ 
in  1850  ;  farmed  for  two  years,  then  erected  a  saw-mill,  devoting  fbar 
years  to  this  business ;  then,  in  partnership  with  a  man  named  Parker, 
bought  a  herd  of  1,400  sheep,  which  they  took  to  Texsis.     Returning, 
he  formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.  Hickman  for  building  and  operating 
a  steam  grist  mill   near  Stephens  station  ;  was  connected   with  this 
business  for  five  years.     In  1870  he  traded  his  interest  in  the  milland 
a  farm  near  Stephens  station  to  Robert  Smith  for  the  farm  which  he 
(Mr.  Johnson)  now  occupies,  consisting  of   370   acres,  three  milw 
northeast  of  Columbia,  on  the  Mexico  and  Columbia  road.     There  is 
a  fine  coal  mine  on  this  place,  the  vein  being  three  and  one-half  feet 
in  thickness,  and  of  excellent  quality.     The  farm  is  mostly  in  grass, 
and  is  well  adapted  to  stock  raising.     Mr.  Johnson  is  a  member  of 
the  Christian  church  at  Antioch.     Mr.  Johnson's  father  came  to  Boone 
county  in  1824  ;  he  was  a  native  of  Scott  county,  Kentucky;  he  died 
in   1868,  and  is  buried  at  the  old   Hinkson  Baptist  church.    Mrs. 
Johnson  died  in  1835  —  about  one  year  after  the  birth  of  Francis  M.— 
and  was  buried  at  the  same  place. 

ALFRED  KEENE. 

Alfred  Keene  is  the  son  of  John  G.  and  Fannie  (Snetl)  Eeene,who 
emigrated  from  Kentucky  to  Missouri  in  the  fall  of  1826.     John  Keene 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  773 

was  a  oative  of  Maryland,  and  was  born  and  raised  near  Washington 
City.     He  once  owned  part  of  the  land  now  incoi*porated  within  the 
olty  limits  of  the  national  capital.     He  was  a  bricklayer  by  trade,  and 
Worked  at  the  business  many  years  before  coming  to  Missouri.    After 
emigrating  to  Boone  county  he  continued  to  work  at  the  trade  for 
Several  years.     He  built  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Columbia.     He 
died  at  the  age  of  seventy-six  years,  and  is  buried  on  the  grounds  of 
the  old  Hinkson  church,  now  owned  by  F.  M.  Johnson.     The  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  born  January  21,  1817,  at  Georgetown,  Ken- 
tucky; he  came  to  Boone  county  with  his  parents  in  the  fall  of  1826 ; 
lie  never  went  to  school  a  day  in  his  life.     Having  learned  the  trade 
t)f  bricklaying  from  his  father,  and  being  a  good  workman,  he  found 
no  difficulty  in  procuring  employment ;  he  was  engaged  to  work  on 
the  State  University,  and  helped  to  lay  the  front  wall  of  that  build- 
ing; he  also  built  the  first  brick  house  ever  erected  in  the  town  of 
Bocheport.     He  assisted  in  building  the  Fulton  Asylum  ;  he  also  built 
the  president's  mansion  at  Columbia,  and  superintended  the  work  on 
the  new  public  school  building.     He  has  been  a  bricklayer  for  fifty 
years.     In  1837  Mr.  Keene  enlisted  in  the  Florida  war  under  Capt. 
Ellis,  serving  one  year.     He  was  married  February  8,  1844,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Johnson)  Hannah.     By  this 
marriage  they  have  had  four  sons  and  two  daughters.     Their  names 
are:  James  H.,  born  March  3,  1845  ;  George  W.,  born  September  2, 
1846 ;  Amanda,  born  September  26,  1848,  died  March  6,  1849  ;  Eliz- 
abeth, born  February  1,  1850,  died  February  6,  1850;  Robert,  born 
May  13,  1853,  died  February  23,  1860 ;  Thomas,  born  July  24,  1856. 
Since  1850  Mr.  Keene  has  followed  farming  in  addition  to  working  at 
his  trade.     He  owns  a  small  farm  of  sixty-one  acres,  five  miles  north 
of  Columbia,  oii  the  Paris  road. 

D.    W.    B.    KURTZ. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  gentleman  of  fine  culture,  being  a 
thorough  graduate  of  the  Missouri  State  University.  He  is  a  native 
of  Howard  county,  Missouri,  the  son  of  Jacob  and  Permelia  Kurtz. 
Was  born  February  17th,  1837.  Mr  Kurtz's  life-struggle  stamps 
him  a  man  of  superior  worth.  With  few  natural  advantages,  and  little 
or  no  assistance,  he  marked  out  for  himself,  while  yet  a  mere  boy,  a 
course  of  life  which  comprehended  a  thorough  classical  education,  and 
in  his  case,  to  will,  was  to  accomplish  all  that  he  aspired  to.  Master- 
ing all  the  studies  taught  in  the  district  schools,  he  came  to  Columbia 


774  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

and  eutered   the  University  in    1859.     At  the  close  of  the  aeaaionof 
1860,  Mr.  Kurtz  returned  to  Howard  county  and  taught  school  far 
one  year.     He  next  went    to    Dover,  Lafayette  county,   Mittomi, 
where  he  taught  for  one  session.     He  returned  to  the  State  Univeniif 
and  resumed  his  studies  during  the  session  ot  1862.     The  war  hadlij 
this  time  almost  broken  up  the  schools  of  the  county  and  Mr.  Eurti, 
finding  nothing  to  do  in  his  line,  left  the  country,  going  first  to  Chictg* 
and   thence  to   Canada.     While  in   Canada,  he  went  to  school  tnd 
taught  in  the  public  schools  of  that  province.     At  the  close  of  thewir 
he  returned  to   Missouri  and  resumed  his  studies  at   the  UuivenitT, 
where  he  graduated  in  1866,  after  which  he  was  tutor  of  Latin  for  om 
year.     In  1872  he  was  made  first  assistant  in  the  noi*raal  departmeflfc 
of  the  University.     At  the  close  of  this  session,  he  went  to  Montgom- 
ery City,  Missouri,  where  he  took  charge  of  the  college.     When  be 
entered  upon  his  duties  there  were  but  thiity-six  students  in  attend- 
ance.    At  the  end  of  six  years,  when  Mr.  Kurtz  retired  from  the  in- 
stitution, there  were  350.     In  1878,  Mr.  Kurtz  came  to  Columbia  and 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business.     Having  been  chosen  principal  of  the 
Rocheport  academy,  he  sold  out  his  business  in  Columbia  and  took 
charge  of  that  school.     He  remained  in  Rocheport  until  March  l8t, 
1881,  when  he  bought  the  farm  known  as  '^  Greenwood,"  two  mile^ 
northeast  of  Columbia,  where  he  now  resides.     Professor  Kurtz  was 
married  December  23d,  1868,  to  Sarah  L.,  daughter  of  Col.  F. T. 
and  Myra  C.  Russell,  of  Columbia,  Missoun.     By  this  union  they 
have  six  children,  four  sons  and   two  daughters.     Their  names  are 
Russell  L.,  Cannie  May,  D.  W.  B.,  Jr.,  Francis  A.,  Lula  May  andT. 
Newton.     Prof.  Kurtz  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Baptist  church. 

OKORGK  THOMAS  LANOSTON 

Is  the  oldest  of  four  children  of  the  late  Jacob  and  Cornelia  (Norti- 
cutt)  Langston,  and  was  born  March  1st,  1830,  in  Bourbon  county, 
Ky.  His  father  moved  to  Boone  county  Mo.,  in  1835  or  1836,  and 
settled  on  a  farm  about  seven  miles  northeast  ol  Columbia  on  the  old 
Columl)ia  and  St.  Charles  road,  on  Little  Cedar  creek.  George  wis 
educated  at  the  country  schools  in  the  neighborhood  and  has  always 
lived  upon  the  old  place.  In  1861,  when  the  country  was  arming  for 
the  great  civil  war,  he  espoused  the  cause  of  the  South  and  went  out 
with  the  old  State  Gnards  from  Boonville,  in  Shanks'  regiment, 
(/ompany  K.     Was  in  the  battles  of  Lone  Jack  and  Independence. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  775 

Being  sent  by  Col.  Thompson  to  gather  up  recruits  that  were  in  hiding 
in  the  brush  in  the  vicinity  of  his  father's  farm,  he  was  captured  by 
Col.  Frank  Russell  and  Captain  Williams  and  taken  to  St.  Louis  and 
confined  in  prison  for  ten  months,  when  he  was  tried  as  a  spy  and  sen- 
tenced to  be  shot.  Was  under  sentence  of  death  for  three  months. 
Qe  was  granted  a  new  trial  and  was  tried  by  a  military  commission 
tnd  sentenced  to  the  military  prison  at  Alton,  111.,  at  hard  labor. 
Was  released  in  the  fall  of  1864,  after  being  in  prison  over  a  year. 
He  then  came  back  to  the  farm  and  has  lived  at  his  present  home  ever 
lince.  His  is  a  good  farm,  containing  280  acres  of  good  land,  well 
timbered  and  watered,  the  Little  Cedar  running  through  the  place. 
His  father  died  February  20th,  1851,  and  his  mother  December  17th, 
1878,  at  the  age  of  69.  They  are  buried  at  Cedar  Creek  church, 
Dallaway  county.  Mo.  Only  himself  and  brother,  James  F.,  are  living 
>f  the  children.  Joseph  W.  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge, 
n  1862,  and  died  from  the  effects  of  the  wound.  Nancy  H.,  his  only 
lister,  died  some  time  since.  Our  subject,  George  T.,  is  a  Mason,  in 
rood  standing  in  the  lodge,  and  is  regarded  by  all  as  an  upright, 
lonest  citizen.  He  deals  almost  exclusively  in  stock,  only  having 
:,hirty  acres  in  cultivation  for  grain,  all  the  rest  in  grass. 

SLATER    ENSOR    LENOIR. 

Mr.  Lenoir  is  a  son  of  Walter  R.  and  Sarah  E.  (Bouchelle)  Lenoir, 
iud  was  born  in  Wilkes  county.  North  Carolina,  October  27th,  1833. 
He  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  this  county  (Boone)  when  scarcely 
11  year  old,  and  here  grew  to  manhood  and  was  educated.  He  finished 
liis  educational  career  at  the  State  University  of  Columbia,  and  soon 
thereafter,  in  1850,  made  an  overland  trip  **  across  the  plains"  to 
California.  He  went  with  a  train  of  ox-teams  under  charge  of  his 
!>rother-in-law.  Col.  F.  D.  Russell.  He  remained  in  California  till 
lanuary  following,  and  then  returned  by  water,  via  the  Isthmus  of 
Panama,  arriving  in  Boone  county,  March  15th,  1851.  Thirteen  years 
later,  April  21st,  1864,  Mr.  Lenoir  was  married  to  Margaret  A., 
laughter  of  Austin  and  Lavinia  Bradford,  of  Culpepper  county,  Vir- 
ginia. He  has  always  been  engaged  in  farming,  and,  up  until  1877, 
continued  to  live  on  the  old  homestead  settled  by  his  father,  three  mides 
lortheast  of  Columbia.  At  this  writing  he  owns  and  resides  on  a  fine 
'arm  of  427  acres,  three  miles  southeast  of  Columbia,  on  the  gravel 
•oad  to  Ashland.  This  place  is  finely  improved,  with  residence,  barn 
md  other  buildings  to  correspond.     Mr.  Lenoir  is  of  a  fine  old  family 


776  HI8TORT   OP   BOONE  OOUNTT, 

uf  Southern  people,  a  worthy  citizen  and  a  member  of  the  Christiu 
church  at  Columbia. 

ROBERT   LEMON,  JR. 

Robert  Lemon,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,   is  the  son  of  fiobeit 
Lemon,  Sr.,  a  native  of  Virginia.     The  maiden  name  of  his  motlwr 
was  Mary  McCown.     The  elder  Lemon  wixs  bom  October  6, 1752, sal 
died  July  12,  1848,  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-six.     His  fiEttherwtt 
a   native  of  Ireland.     Robert  Lemon,  Sr.,  emigrated  to  LexiDgton, 
Kentucky,  in  1792.     He  was  the  youngest  of  nine  children,  eight  som 
and  one  daughter.     He  served  in  the  revolutionary  army,  as  did  four 
of  his  brothers.     Was  under  Washington  and  Lafayette  at  the  surren- 
der of  Lord  Cornwallis.     He  came  to  Boone  county  in  the  fall  of  1824, 
bringing  with  him  his  wife  and  a  numerous  family  of  children,  and 
settled  on  'Coon  creek,  three  and  one-half  miles  noilhwest  of  Co- 
lumbia, where  he  built  a  log  cabin  and  commenced  farming.     He  li?ed 
on  this  place  till  his  death,  which  occuiTed  as  before  stated.     Mr. 
Lemon  was  a  tailor,  and  followed  the  business  previous  to  coming  to 
Missouri.     Mrs.   Mary  (McCown)  Lemon  died  February   16,  1837, 
aged  sixty-six  years.      Both  the  father  and  mother  of  Robert,  Jr.,  are 
buried  at  the  family  burying  ground  on  the  old  homestead,  northwest 
of  Columbia.       The  subject  of  this  sketch  wivs  born  in  Scott  countv, 
Kentucky,  June  15,  1811.     Was  educated  principally  in   Kentucky, 
under  the  care   of  Beverly  A.  Hicks,  one  of  the  most  noted  teachers 
of  Scott  county.     He  completed  his  educfition  in  the  common  schools 
of  this  county.      His  father  settled  the  old  homestead  on  Coon  creek, 
three  and  one-half  miles  northwest  of  Columbia,  in   the  fall  of  1824. 
January  22,  1838,  Robert  Lemon,  Jr.,  was  married  to  Miss  Amanda, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Baker)  Marsh.     By  this  union  thev 
had  ten  children,   five  sons  and  five  daughters,  six  of  whom   are  now 
living.     Mrs.  Lemon  died  January  2,    1857.       October  12,  1858,  he 
was  again  married  to  Mrs.  Harriet  Price,  daughter  of  John  and  Ann 
Riley.     Mrs.  Price  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  May,  1810.     There  are 
no  children  by  this  marriage.     From  1840  up  to  the  beginning  of  the 
late  civil  war,  Mr.  Lemon  was  quite  an  extensive  mule  trader.    He 
furnished  the  government  with  a  great   many  mules  during  the  war 
with  Mexico.     Has  always  been  a  farmer.      Lived  for  many  years  on 
the  old  farm  settled  by  his  father,  northwest  of  Columbia.     In  1850 
moved  to  the  farm  he  now  occupies,  one  mile  west   of  Columbia,  on 
the  Rochcport  and  Columbia  gravel  road.     He  has  a  good  farm  of 
400  acres,  well  watered  and  timbered.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lemon  aremenj- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  777 

bers  of  the  Christian  church,  at  Columbia.  Mr.  Lemon  had  one  son, 
Bobert  L.,  killed  in  the  late  war.  He  was  a  Confederate  soldier,  and 
fell  at  the  battle  of  Grand  Gulf  in  1863.  Anothei^  son,  Dr.  W.  T.,  is 
practicing  his  profession  at  Ashland,  Missouri.  His  fourth  son,  Will- 
iam C,  is  living  at  home  with  his  parents.  Mr.  Lemon  has  in  his  pos- 
8e8sion  an  interesting  relic,  their  old  family  Bible,  published  one 
hundred  years  ago. 

ELI    MARS. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Baker) 
Mars.  He  was  born  in  Franklin  county,  Kentucky,  September  22, 
1804,  and  came  with  his  parents  to  this  county  in  1820.  They  settled 
three  miles  north  of  Columbia,  on  what  is  now  known  as  the  James 
Shock  farm.  Five  acres  of  cleared  land  and  a  small  log  cabin  consti- 
tuted all  the  improvement  then  found  on  the  place.  Mr.  Mars  greatly 
improved  the  farm,  and  remained  on  it  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
May  10,  1850.  Eli  was  educated  partly  in  Kentucky,  finishing  his 
education  in  Boone  county.  He  was  married  January  30,  1845,  to 
Miss  Emily  Penington,  daughter  of  James  and  Elizabeth  (Hayes) 
Cowan.  By  this  union  they  had  four  children,  two  sons  and  two 
daughters,  two  of  whom  are  now  living,  Parton  W.  S.,  who  is  now 
farming  on  the  Two-mile  prairie,  and  Samuel  C  ,  who  is  living  in  Ari- 
zona Territory.  The  first  wife  having  died  February  20,  1857,  Mr. 
Mars  was  again  married  May  26,  1860,  to  Miss  Louisa,  daughter  of 
John  M.  and  Mary  (Witt)  Salmon.  By  this  union  there  were  two 
children,  a  son  and  a  daughter,  both  of  whom  are  dead.  Mr.  Mars 
was  the  sixth  of  a  family  of  twelve  children,  six  of  each  sex,  of  whom 
he  alone  is  living.  Should  he  live  to  celebrate  his  next  birthday,  he 
will  be  seventy-eight  years  old.  Mr.  Mars  has  followed  farming  all 
his  life.  The  farm  upon  which  he  is  now  living  is  situated  one  mile 
west  of  Columbia,  on  the  Rocheport  road.  He  was  one  of  the  original 
members  of  the  Old  Bear  Creek  church.  Mrs.  Mars  is  a  member  of 
the  Columbia  Baptist  church.  His  first  wife  was  a  member  of  Bear 
Creek  congregation.  In  an  early  day  Mr.  Mars  and  his  father  used  to 
carry  freight  in  wagons  between  Columbia  and  St.  Louis.  He  remem- 
bers many  incidents  connected  with  the  dim  past,  which,  but  for  the 
vigorous   memories  of  such  old   citizens  as  Mr.  Mars,  had  long  since 


been  forgotten. 


COL.    E.    C,    MORE. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Elijah  and  Caroline  (Owens) 
More,  and  was  born  at    Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  December   27,   1837. 


778  HISTORY  or  boonk  county. 

Hi8  father  was  born  in  Danville,  Kentucky,  and  died  in  1878  at  Colum- 
bia, Missouri.     His  mother  was  born  in  Arkansas,  and  died  at  Little 
Rook  in  1839.     They  were  blessed  with  two  sons.     Dr.  Livingfield,  the 
eider,  died  in  1859,  and  Col.  E.  C.  More  alone  sui-vives.    HewM 
educated  mostly  in  America,  but  spent  several  years  upon  the  conti- 
nent of  Europe  at  schools  and   universities.     He  first  went  to  school 
at  Little   Rock,  Arkansas,  then   at  St.  Louis,  and  next   at  Shurtleff 
College,  Illinois.     At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  went  to  Europe,  and  went 
to  school  at  Paris,  France,  then  at  Hanover,  Grermauy,  and  at  Cadiz, 
Spain.     In  1856  he  returned  to  America,  and  entered  the  junior  clan 
at  Yale  College  and  graduated  in  1858.     He  studied  law  at  home  for 
a  short  time,  then  entered  the  law  school  at  Lebanon,  Tennessee,  and 
graduated  from  that  institution  in  1861.     He  next  went  to  St.  Louis 
and  entered  the  law  office  of  Lackland,   Cline  &  Jamison.     In  the 
spring  of   1865  he  went  to  Helena,  Montana,  and  entered  regalarly 
into  the  practice  of  the  law,  in  partnership  with  Col.  Aleck  M.  Wool- 
folk.     In  1866  he  took  quite  an  extensive  trip  through  Oregon  atid 
California,  and  after  traveling  some  time  in  Central  America,  returned 
to  Missouri,  and  settled  down  permanently  at  Columbia,  Boone  county. 
He  practiced  law  three  or  four  years  at  the  Columbia  bar  but  finally 
abandoned  it  entirely  for  farming,  which  occupation  he  has  followed 
up  to  the  present.     His  is  a  very  large  farm  adjoining  the  city  limits 
He  has  a  beautiful  place,  decorated  in  and  with  everything  that  culti- 
vation, refinement  and  wealth  could    suggest.     His  farm    is  stocked 
with  thoroughbred  cattle  and  sheep  as  well  as  the  best  graded  horses, 
hogs,  etc.     He  has  been  president  of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture 
and  for  several  years  of  the  Boone  County  Fair  Association.     His  resi- 
dence is  one  and  one-half  miles    north  of  Columbia.     He  has  l)een 
twice  married,  the  last  time  to  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Judge  Logau 
Hunton  of  St.  Louis  county.     The  Colonel  takes  an  active  part  in 
politics,  being  unanimously  chosen  as  Boone's  choice   for  congress  in 
1882.     He  enjoys    the  confidence  of  those  who  know  him,  and  is  a 
polished,  thorough  gentleman,  dispensing  hospitality  at  his  elegant 
home  in  the  true  Southern  manner.     His  residence  has  all  the  appoint- 
ments  that  true  elegance   and   cultivated   tastes    can  surest,  and 
he,  his  wife  and  his  home  are  always  pleasantly  remembered  by  those 
that  enjoy  their  acquaintance. 

LEVI    m'oUIRE  (deceased). 

Levi  McGuire,  one  of  Boone's  earliest  pioneers,  was  born  in  Henry 


flISTORY    OF    BOONE    COUNTY.  779 

oouuty,  Kentucky,  August  1,  1801,  and  emigrated  to  Boone  county, 
Misdouri  in  1818,  and  settled  upon"  the  land  n6w  owned  by  Mrs.  Stew- 
irt.  He  was  educated  in  his  native  county  in  Kentucky,  and  in  his 
irouDg  and  vigorous  manhood,  he  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  but 
lever  followed  the  calling  after  coming  to  Missouri,  as  he  chose  farm- 
ng  as  his  occupation  in  his  new  home  in  the  then  far  West.  In  1820 
le  married  Miss  Susan  Marti  nie,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Durrett 
tfartinie.  By  this  union  they  had  eight  children,  seven  boys  and  one 
^1.  Dr.  J.  E.,  Jonathan  M.,  a  Baptist  minister  living  in  Boone 
souDty ;  Robert  L.,  a  lawyer  and  ex-mayor  of  Springfield,  Illinois; 
tVilliam  D.,  a  lawyer  and  ex-representative  of  Grundy  county,  Mis- 
souri;  Benjamin  F.,  living  upon  the  old  homestead   with  his  mother, 

Dr.  Julius  E.  McGuire,  of  this  township,  and McGuire,  of , 

iudAnn  E.,  deceased.  Mr.  McGuire  died  in  August,  1873,  in  hin 
^3d  year,  and  is  buried  in  the  old  family  burial  ground  at  the  home 
ilace.     His  wife  is  still  living,  in  her  77th  year,  at  this  date,  1882. 

JULIUS    EARNEST    m'guIKE,    M.    D. 

Dr.  McGuire  is  a  son  of  Levi  and  Susan  (Martinie)  McGuire  and 
va«  born  March  22,  1826,  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  on  the  farm 
low  owned  by  Mrs.  Sarah  Stewart,  eight  miles  east  of  Columbia,  and 
i  mile  and  a  half  south  of  St.  Charles  road.  He  lived  upon  the  place 
intil  he  was  about  ten  years  of  age  when  his  father  bought  the  place 
vhere  he  is  now  living  and  removed  his  family  thereto.  He  was  edu- 
cated principally  in  Boone  county,  beginning  at  the  age  of  six  at  Rob- 
erts' school  house  on  the  gravel  road.  His  teacher  there  was  a  man 
lamed  Beatty.  Afterwards  he  went  to  school  at  Boonsboro,  then  on 
.he  eastern  border  of  the  county.  He  resided  at  home  with  his  parents 
jntil  1851,  when  he  went  to  Columbia  and  studied  medicine  with  Drs. 
Lee  and  Spotswood.  After  reading  with  them  two  years,  he  went  to 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  took  two  courses  of  lectures.  In  1869-70  he 
ittended  Jefferson  Medical  College  at  Philadelphia.  In  1861  he  took 
iides  with  the  South  in  her  struggle  against  the  North,  and  joined 
Price's  army.  He  was  at  the  battles  of  Dry  Wood  and  Lexington. 
ALfter  the  light  at  Lexington  he  came  back  to  Boone  to  recruit  and  was 
in  all  the  little  engagements  in  Boone  county.  In  1864  he  went  to 
Kentucky  and  joined  Morgan's  command  and  stayed  there  until  peace 
ivas  declared  and  the  flag:  he  loved  was  forever  furled.  He  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession  at  his  old  home  and  has  lived  there  to  the 
present  time.     He  has  a  fine  practice  in  a  good   neighborhood  and  is 


780  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

esteemed  by  all  as  a  thorough  gentlemau.     He  is  a  Mason  and  his 
wife  is  a  member  of  the  Missionaiy  Baptist  church. 

T.  c.  m'intibe. 

Thomas  C.  Mclntire  is  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Elsie  Mclntire,  o{ 
Fleming  county,  Kentucky,  where  he  was  born  October,  1822.    He 
came  to  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  in  the  fall  of  1836,  and  from 
Callaway  to  Boone  in  1849.     He  was  educated  in  the  latter  couotj. 
Ill  the  spring  of  1850  he  was  married  to  Margaret  Simmons,  whoM 
parents  were  of  Fleming  county,  Kentucky.     By  this  union  they  had 
four  children,  three  girls  and  one  boy.     Their  names  are  Eliza  C, 
Margaret  A.,  Mary  L.,  and  William.     Mrs.  Mclntire  died  in  the 
spring  of  1867,  and  in  1869  he  was  again  married.     His  second  wife 
was  Mary,  daughter  of  William  and  Lucy  Atkinson.     By  this  anion 
they  had  one  son,  Albert  G.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mclntire  are  members  of 
the  Columbia  Presbyterian  church.     Previous  to  his  marriage  Mr. 
Mclntire  taught  school  in  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  and  clerked  iD  » 
store  at  Mexico  for  a  number  of  years.     He  has  followed  farming  and 
is  also  largely  interested  in  the  nursery  business.     Since  1867  he  has 
raised  on  an  average  about  20,000  apple  trees  a  year.     He  has  sixty- 
five  acres  in  orchard  and  ships  a  great  deal  of  fruit  every  year.    His 
farm  and  nursery  of  170  acres  is  situated  on  the  St.  Charles  road,  two 
and  a  half  miles  east  of  Columbia.     He  has  a  fine  vineyard  of  600 
vines,  besides  other  fruits  in  the  greatest  abundance.      There  \s  one 
apple  tree  on  the  farm  that  was  planted  forty-five  years  ago.    Il  is 
still  thrifty  and  bears  abundant  fruit. 

HARVEY    W.    PEMBEUTON. 

Mr.  Pemberton  is  the  son  of  John  and  Lucy  (Vivion)  Pembertoii, 
and  was  born  April  22,  1807,  in  Clark  county,  Kentucky.  When  he 
was  nine  years  of  age  his  parents  moved  to  Woodford  county,  Ken- 
tucky. At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  learned  the  cabinet-maker's  trade 
in  Fayette  county,  same  State.  In  1826  he  came  to  Boone  county, 
Missouri,  and  staid  one  year  and  then  went  to  Fayette,  Howard 
county,  and  worked  at  his  trade  in  the  shop  of; Samuel  C.  Major.  In 
1829  he  returned  to  Kentucky  and  induced  his  father  to  come  out  to 
the  new  and  growing  West.  He  then  settled  in  Columbia  and  worked 
at  his  trade  for  two  years.  He  then  moved  six  miles  northeast  of 
Columbia,  and  farmed  on  a  small  scale,  carrying  on  his  trade  at  the 
same  time.     He  lived  there  about  four  years,  and  then  went  to  Millers- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  781 

'  bui^,  ('allaway  county,  Missouri,  where  be  worked  exclusively  at  his 
trade.  In  1838  he  bought  the  farm  upon  which  he  is  now  living, 
eight  and  one-half  miles  east  of  Columbia,  on  the  Richland  road.  He 
has  a  fine  farm  of  240  acres,  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Nancy,  daughter  of  James  and  Mildred  (Cave)  Kirtley,  on 
the  3d  of  May,  1832.  By  this  marriage  they  have  nine  children, 
three  boys  and  six  girls :  Frances,  wife  of  Hiram  Philips,  of  Boone 
County  ;  Anne  E.,  the  wife  of  Wm.  Truett,  of  Callaway  county,  Mis- 
souri;  Eveline  (deceased);  John,  a  physician,  of  New  Bloomfield, 
Callaway  county,  Missouri ;  Flora,  wife  of  Frank  Wilcox,  of  Colum- 
bia; Rella  P.,  widow  of  Thomas  Lynes,  of  Boone  county;  Maggie, 
wife  of  Winfield  Potts,  and  two  children,  a  boy  and  a  girl,  who  died 
in  infancy.  His  first  wife  died  February  6th,  1855.  He  mar- 
ried again  on  the  8th  of  September,  1870,  Mrs.  Louisa  Shields,  the 
widow  of  John  Shields.  Mr.  Pemberton  is  one  of  Boone's  staunch, 
reliable  citizens,  and  has,  by  industry  and  good  management,  acquired 
a  fair  competency,  and  is  revered  and  respected  by  all.  His  parents 
were  from  Virginia.  His  father  died  in  1838  and  his  mother  in  1845. 
They  were  buried  in  a  family  burying  ground  on  the  Stark  farm,  in 
Boone  county.  They  were  the  parents  of  eleven  children,  five  boys 
and  six  girls. 

JOSEPH    B.    PHILIPS. 

Mr.  Philips  is  the  son  of  Warner  and  Catherine  (Hutchings) 
Philips,  and  was  born  April  30th,  1826,  in  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
near  Stephens'  station.  His  father  was  born  in  Virginia,  Novembei; 
24th,  1794,  and  died  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  March  24th,  1881. 
His  mother  was  born  November  5th,  1807,  and  died  August  29th, 
1876.  They  are  buried  in  the  family  burial  ground  upon  the  old 
homestead.  They  were  blest  with  eight  children,  six  boys  and  two 
girls,  only  two  of  whom  are  now  living,  Mrs.  Ann  E.  Roberts,  of 
Centralia,  and  Joseph  B.,  our  subject.  They  settled  about  eleven 
miles  northeast  of  Columbia,  on  the  Columbia  and  Concord  road, 
where  Joseph  was  born.  Joseph  lived  at  home  with  his  parents  until 
the  spring  of  1850.  He  concluded  to  join  the  army  of  California 
gold-hunters,  and  accordingly  went  to  the  famous  gold  fields  of  that 
renowned  territory.  At  the  end  of  his  fourth  year  spent  in  mining 
in  California,  he  returned  to  old  Boone,  and  remained  with  his  parents 
until  he  married,  January  4th,  1857,  Miss  Virginia,  daughter  of 
Walker  and  Lucinda  Walden,  of  Virginia.  By  this  union  they  have 
but  one  child,  Lou  Ann,   born  February  27th,   1859.      In  the  fall 


782  HI8TOKY  OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 

of  1859  Mr.  Philips  moved  h\s  family  to  Texas,  but  only  stayed  a  yev^ 
when  he  once  more  turned  his  face  toward  Missouri.  He  purchued* 
his  father's  old  homestead,  and  has  lived  upon  it  until  the  present 
Mr.  Philips  is  one  of  Boone's  earliest^born  children,  and  has  lived  to 
see  some  wonderful  changes  in  the  aflfairs  of  his  native  county.  His 
farm  contains  240  acres  of  good  land,  well  improved.  He  is  a  Masou, 
and  his  wife  and  daughter  are  members  of  the  Christian  chui*ch. 

JAMES    WILI.IAM    PHILLIPS. 

Augustine  Phillips,  the  father  of  James  W.,  was  born  in  Boone 
county,  May  Ist,  1823.  He  was  the  son  of  Hiram  and  Elizabeth 
Phillips,  both  natives  of  Kentucky,  but  amoug  the  earliest  settlers  of 
this  county.  Augustine  Phillips  died  February  2l8t,  1876,  and  is 
buried  at  the  old  Phillips  burying  ground,  in  Columbia  township. 
His  widow,  Mary  Ann  (McQuitty)  Phillips,  is  still  living  on  the  home 
farm  with  her  oldest  son,  James  W.  She  was  born  July  31st,  1825, 
She  is  the  daughter  of  George  W.  and  Elizabeth  McQuitty,  and  was 
born  in  Boone  county.  Her  father  died  about  nine  years  ago,  and  is 
buried  at  Walnut  Grove  church,  near  Rocheport.  Mrs.  McQuitty  is 
still  living  on  her  farm,  six  miles  north  of  Rocheport,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-four,  being  still  in  excellent  health  and  able  to  dispense  with 
her  glasses  in  reading  or  in  executing  the  most  difficult  needlework. 
James  W.  Phillips,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  the  oldest  one  living 
of  a  famil}' of  four  children.  Elizabeth  F.  was  born  January  10th, 
JL846,  and  died  July  13th,  1864.  She  is  buried  in  the  old  Phillips 
burying  ground.  James  William  was  born  April  2d,  1849.  He  has 
lived  all  his  life  on  the  farm  where  he  was  born,  except  two  ycaw 
spent  in  Henry  county,  Missouri.  Both  his  brothers  are  residents  of 
Boone  county.  John  H.  was  born  January  1st,  1855.  He  married 
Laura  C.  Grey.  They  have  two  children,  Nanny  Maud  and  Minnie 
May.  Jasper  A.,  the  youngest  of  the  brothers,  was  born  February 
20th,  1857.  He  was  married  March  5th,  1876,  to  Ellen  Singleton. 
They  have  three  children:  Virgil,  Augustine,  Albert  Hiram  and 
Ruth.  James  W.  Phillips  was  married  February  26th,  1870,  to 
Miss  Jennie  Hart.  But  one  child  was  born  of  this  marriage,  Mary 
C,  who  died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Phillips  lived  but  three  years  after 
their  marriage.  Mr.  Phillips  was  married  April  13th,  1876,  to  Misi 
Rebecca  Edwards,  of  Montrose,  Henry  county,  Missouri.  They 
have  three  children  :  George  Augustine,  William  Eklwards  and  Lillie 
Bell.     Mr.  Phillips  is  an  active,  enterprising  farmer  and  an  excel- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  783 

lent  citizen.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Grange  and  Masonic  orders. 
Both  himself  and  wife  are  members  of  the  Christian  church. 

PHILIP   PRATHEU. 

Philip  Prather,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Cowan)  Prather,  was 
born  May  3d,  1834,  in  Boone  county,  Missouri.  He  was  raised 
on  his  father's  farm,  now  occupied  by  his  brother,  James  Prather, 
and  was  educated  at  the  '*01d  Bear  Creek  school  house,"  under 
the  instructions  of  Judge  J.  A.  Boulton.  He  was  married,  December 
25th,  1856,  to  Miss  Georgie  A.,  daughter  of  Maj.  James  B.  and  Cyn- 
thia (Riley)  Nichols.  The  father-in-law  of  Mr.  Prather  was  no  ordi- 
nary man,  and  deserves  more  than  a  passing  notice.  He  was  the  son 
of  George  and  Rebecca  (Davis)  Nichols,  and  was  born  in  Montgom- 
ery county,  Kentucky,  September  10th,  1796.  Came  to  Boone 
county,  Missouri,  in  the  fall  of  1824,  settling  on  the  W.  C.  Robnett 
farm,  on  the  Two-mile  prairie.  In  1826  he  removed  to  Columbia. 
In  1836  he  bought  the  farm  where  W.  H.  Robnett  lived,  finally 
moving  to  the  William  Orear  place,  five  miles  north  of  Columbia, 
where  he  remained  until  the  death  of  his  wife  in  1867.  He  was  mar- 
ried, in  1818,  to  Miss  Cynthia,  daughter  of  John  Riley,  of  Clark 
county,  Kentucky.  They  had  ten  children,  of  whom  eight  are  now 
living.  John  died  in  California.  Mary  Osborne,  wife  of  George 
Osborne,  deceased,  —  who  died  in  the  Sandwich  Islands, — came  back 
to  Missouri  and  married  Dr.  John  T.  Bailey,  of  Fayette.  She  is  also 
dead.  The  living  are  J.  A.  Nichols,  of  Audrain  county  ;  Huldah,  wife 
of  R.  V.  Bailey,  deceased,  Susan  Reed,  wife  of  Frederic  Reed,  of 
Columbia,  Elizabeth  Orear,  wife  of  Joseph  B.  Orear,  of  Audrain 
county  ;  Caroline,  wife  of  Henry  Brown,  deceased,  of  Boone  county  ; 
Fannie,  wife  of  John  Crump,  of  Fayette;  Georgie  Ann,  wife  of 
Philip  Prather,  of  Boone  county  ;  Sarah  R.,  wife  of  Francis  M.  Grant, 
of  Columbia.  Mr.  Nichols  was  a  Master  Mason.  The  subject  of  this 
sketch  has  had  four  children,  one  son  and  three  daughters.  Lula,  born 
February  21st,  1858,  now  the  wife  of  B.  J.  Brown ;  Fannie  F.,  born 
June  13th,  1862  ;  Katie  B.,  born  October  3d,  1864,  died  August  14th, 
1866 ;  Frank  Grant,  January  24th,  1868.  Mr.  Prather  has  always 
followed  farming,  and  now  owns  160  acres  of  excellent  land,  situated 
on  the  Columbia  and  Blackfoot  rock  road.  He  moved  to  this  place 
in  1857.  The  farm  is  well  timbered  and  watered,  and  by  the  energy 
and  industry  of  Mr.  Prather  it  has  been  well  improved  and  made  ag 


784  HI8TOBY   OP  BOONE   CX)UNTT, 

productive  as  possible.  There  is  an  excellent  coal  mine  on  the  land, 
the  vein  of  which  averages  nearly  three  feet  in  thickness.  Mr.  Pn> 
ther  has  taken  out  about  three  thousand  bushels  of  coal  aDnuallj 
since  the  mine  was  opened.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Prather,  and  their  daugh- 
ter, Miss  Fannie  F.,  are  members  of  the  Christian  church  at  Oakland 

SAMUEL   HAYS   PRATHER. 

Samuel  Hays  Prather  is  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Elizabetk 
(Cowan)    Prather.       He   was   born   in   Pulaski   county,  Eentacky, 
March  15th,  1824,  and  came  to  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  with  hit 
parents  in  1832.     The  year  following,  they  moved  to  Boone  coimtj 
and  settled  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  William  J.  Brown,  four  and 
one-half  miles  north  of  Columbia.     They  lived  on  this  place  one  year, 
when  they  purchased  a  farm  four  miles  north  of  Columbia,  on  the 
gravel  road,  which  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by  James  C.  Pmtlier. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  at  the  public  &;hools,  princi- 
pally at  the  Bear  Creek  school  house,  under  the  instructions  of  Jesse 
A.  Boulton.     Mr.  Prather  was  married,  April    15th,  1844,  to  Miss 
Mary  J.,   daughter  of  William  and   Elizabeth   (Johnson)   Ritchey, 
natives   of  Scott  county,  Kentucky.     By  this  union  they  have  had 
seven  children,  four  sons  and  three  daughters :  William  T.,  bom  Majr 
20th,  1845,  died  March  25th,  1857;  Mary  E.,  born  October  30th, 
1848,  died  March  31st,  1879;  Catherine  R.,  born  May  26th,  1851; 
James  S.,  born  June  27th,  1854,  died  in  infancy;  Margaret  S.,  born 
August  it)th,  185G;  Edward,  born  December  3d,  1859;  Charles  C, 
bom  February  27th,  1863.     Mr.  Prather  bought  the  farm  where  he 
now  lives  in  the  spring  of  1847.     When  he  took  possession,  there 
were  but  fifteen  acres  of  cleared  land  and  no  other  improvements. 
He  first  built  a  log  cabin,  in  which  he  lived  while  preparing  the  land 
for  cultivation.     The  farm  consists  of  207  acres  of  excellent  land, 
now  finely  improved.     The  natural  advantages  of  the  place  can  hardly 
be  surpassed.     There  are  a  number  of  excellent  springs  on  the  land 
and  plenty  of  excellent  timber.     Mr.  Prather,  his  wife  and  all  their 
children  are  members  of  the  Christian  church.     During  the  war  he 
was  drafted  to  servo  in  the  State  militia,  but  hired  a  substitute.    Mr. 
Prather' s  father  was  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  the  county.    He 
was  the  father  of  eight  children,  six  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  of 
whom  are  living  except  one  son,  John,  who  died  about  thirty  years 
ago.     Thomas  Prather  died  April  26th,  1840,  and  is  buried  on  the 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  785 

farm  now  owned  by  John  M.  Keen.  Mrs.  Prather  died  April  12tb, 
1861,  and  is  buried  by  the  side  of  her  husband.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Prather  were  both  members  of  the  Christian  church. 

MALCOLM   G.    QUINN.  * 

Malcolm  G.  Quinn,  assessor  of  Boone  county,  was  born  on  Foster's 
prairie,  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  November  23d,  1844.     He  is  the 
son  of  Thomas  and   Zarclda  (Tomlinson)  Quinn.     He  attended  the 
common  schools  of  Howard  and  Randolph,  completing  his  studies  at 
Mt.  Pleasant  College,  Huntsville,  Missouri,  from  which  institution  he 
graduated.     In   1860  he  assisted  as  one  of  the  corps   of  engineers  on 
the  North  Missouri   railroad.     In  the  spring  of  1861  he  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  the   Confederate  army.     Thos.   G.    Lowry,   of  Randolph 
county,  was  his  captain.     In  the  regular  organization  Mr.  Quinn  was 
made  a  sergeant  of  Company  K,  3d  Missouri  Infantry,  1st  Missouri 
Brigade.     He  served  through  the  whole  of  the  war.     At  the  battle  of 
Poll  Gibson,  Mississippi,  he  was  shot  through  the  right  leg,  and  was 
afterwards  wounded  in  the  left  leg.     He  participated  in  the  follow- 
ing  battles :  Elkhorn,  Corinth,    Vicksburg,   Nashville,  Franklin   and 
Mobile,  surrendering  at  the  last-named  place  in  1865,  his  commander 
being  Col.    Elijah  P.  Gates.     After   the  war  Mr.  Quinn  returned  to 
Howard  County,  Missouri,  and  went  into  business  at  Fray's  mill  with 
James  Robinson,  keeping  a   store  of  general  merchandise,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Quinn  &  Robinson.     He  remained  in  this  business  about 
six  months,  then  sold  his  interest   and  accepted  a  position  under  Maj. 
George  C.  Pratt  in  locating  the  Columbia  and  Jefferson   City  rock 
road,  acting  as  leveler  and  division  engineer.    In  1869  he  took  charge 
of  the  various  gravel  roads  in  Boone  county.     He  was  afterwards  ap- 
pointed county  surveyor,  serving  in  that  capacity  for  two  years.     He 
was  then  elected  for  four  years.     Afterwards  served  as  deputy  collec- 
tor under  J.C.  Gillaspy.     In  1878  he   was  elected  assessor,  and  has 
held  the  office  ever  since.     Mr.  Quinn  is  a  member  of  the  K.  of  P., 
and  a  director  of  the  Boone  County  Fair.     He  was  first  married  No- 
vember 23,d,  1872,   to  Miss  Caroline,   daughter  of  Abram  and  Nancy 
(O'Neal)  Turner.     They  had  one  son  and  one  daughter.     The  first 
wife  having  died  July  4th,  1876,  he  was  again  married  May  3d,  1879, 
to  Miss  Katie  Turner,  sister  of  his  deceased   wife.     Mr.  Quinn  owna 
a  nice  farm  of  220  acres,  five  miles  east  of  Columbia,  on  the  western 
border   of  the    Two-mile   prairie.     Seventy  acres   of  his  land   is  in 
50 


786  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   OOUNTT. 

timber.     He  is  quite  pleasantly  situated.     In  public  and  private  life 
Mr.  Quinn  is  highly  esteemed  by  the  people  of  his  adopted  eounty. 

JOHN   REED. 

John  Eeed  is  the  son  of  John  and  Jane  (McMurray)  Reed,  andwti 
born  in  Washington  county,  Kentucky,  September  4th,  1805*  Inl8» 
he  came  with  his  parents  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  and  settled 
twelve  miles  northeast  of  Columbia  on  the  old  St.  Charles  road. 
He  received  his  education  in  the  country  schools  of  Kentucky  and 
Boone  county,  Missouri.  In  April,  1837  he  freighted  goods  from 
Columbia  to  Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico,  j^hcn  crossing  the  great  plunswii 
both  a  tiresome  and  dangerous  trip.  He  returned  in  October,  having 
been  gone  just  seven  months,  a  remarkably  quick  trip  in  tliote 
•days.  He  dealt  largely  in  mules  for  the  next  few  years,  and  in 
1839  made  a  trip  South  with  quite  a  drove  of  those  most  excellent 
and  often  most  treacherous  work  animals,  returning  in  March,  1840. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  is  the  only  mem- 
ber now  living  of  that  congregation  when  he  joined.  On  the  15tli 
of  September,  1831,  he  married  Miss  Prudence,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Waller  of  Union  county,  Kentucky.  He  and  his  faithful  bride  started 
immediately  for  their  Missouri  home,  upon  horseback,  which  they 
reached  in  safety.  Men  and  women  had  stout  hearts  in  those  davs, 
and  dared  all  dangers  and  obstacles  for  those  they  loved  and  for 
honest  success.  Their  union  was  blessed  with  thirteen  children, 
four  boys  and  nine  girls.  Thomas  W.,  a  dentist  of  Macon  City, 
Mo. ;  Mary  J.,  married  to  Robert Bratton,  of  Callaway  county,  Mo.; 
John  W.,  a  dentist  at  Mexico,  Mo. ;  Wm.  F.,  a  merchant  of  Mexico, 
and  a  landowner  of  Audrain  county,  IVCssouri ;  Lucy  A.,  died  in 
18(>2  ;  Laura,  married  to  Dr.  Thomas  Robinson,  of  Audrain  county; 
Lizzie  J.,  married  to  Madison  McMurray,  a  lawyer  of  Quincy, Ills.; 
Martha,  married  to  John  Cravens,  of  Boone  county ;  James  A., 
drummer  for  a  Chicago  house ;  Margaret,  married  to  a  Mr.  Davis, 
of  Mexico,  Mo.  ;  Ella  P.,  married  to  Robert  Chappell,  of  Audrain 
county.  Mo.  Mr.  Reed's  father  died  in  1849,  and  his  mother  in  1835. 
They  are  buried  near  the  head  of  Cedar  Creek,  in  a  family  burial  ground. 
They  had  nine  children,  and  our  subject,  John  Reed,  is  the  youngest 
and  only  one  living.  He  is  seventy-seven  years  of  age,  and  retains 
his  faculties  splendidly.  His  memory,  as  to  dates  of  important  events, 
is  perfectly  reliable  and  trustworthy.  He  has  lived  continuously  since 
1825  within  a  mile  and  a  half  of  his  present  home. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  787 


P.    H.    ROBNETT. 


The  subject  of  this  biography  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  agricul- 
ralists  in  Boone  county.  He  has,  perhaps,  not  so  much  capital  in- 
sted  as  some  who  are  similarly  engaged,  but  few,  if  any,  get  larger 
turns  for  the  amount  of  capital  and  labor  involved.  His  home 
ice,  situated  eight  miles  east  of  the  Columbia  and  Cedar  creek 
ftvel  road,  contains  900  acres  of  finely  improved  land.  He  is  pre- 
red  for  wintering  from  two  to  three  hundred  head  of  cattle.  His 
ra  is  probably  the  best  building  of  the  kind  in  the  county.  It  con- 
Qs  one  hundred  stalls,  arranged  either  for  horses  or  cattle.  Besides 
8  farm,  Mr.  Eobnett  owns  in  other  parts  of  the  county  700  acres  of 
d,  making  in  all  1,600  acres.  He  also  has  a  fine  sheep  ranche  near 
eblo,  Colorado.  He  is  largely  interested  in  thoroughbred  stock, 
•ecially  short  horn  cattle  and  Cotswold  sheep.  P.  H.  Robnett  is 
son  of  David  and  Margaret  Hunt  Robnett,  of  Kentucky,  and  was 
•n  in  Bourbon  county,  September  10th,  1824.  He  was  brought  to 
ssouri  in  1825.  Attended  school  at  Little  Cedar  creek  school 
ise,  finishing  his  studies  at  the  Bonne  Femme  Academy.  He  was 
rried  January  24th,  1865,  to  Sallie,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Win- 
}d  Sims.  They  have  five  children,  all  girls.  Mr.  Robnett  is  a 
mber  ^  the  Masonic  order  at  Millersburg.  He  was  director  and 
^master  of  the  Columbia  and  Cedar  Creek  rock  road  com- 
ly  while  the  turnpike  was  in  course  of  building,  and  is  at  this 
ting  president  of  the  road. 

ALEXANDER   C.    ROBINSON. 

Alexander  C.  Robinson,  is  a  son  of  John  M.  and  Lucian  (Butler) 
binsou,  and  was  born  January  8th,  1821,  in  Bourbon  county,  Ken- 
ky.     His  father  was  born  in  South  Carolina,  February  14th,  1800, 
I  came  with  his  parents  to  Kentucky  when  quite  young.     He  came 
Howard  county,  Missouri,  in  the  fall  of  1821,  and  lived  for  a  short 
e  near  Old  Franklin,  and  afterwards  removed  to  Boone   county, 
died  October  12th,  1862,  and  is  buried  at  Ashland  church  in  How- 
county,  Missouri.     Mrs.  Robinson,  the  wife  of  John  M.,  was  born 
luaiy  10,  1802,  in  Davidson  county,  Tennessee  ;  she  also  went  to 
ntucky  when  a  child.     They  had  ten  children,  five  boys  and  five 
Is  ;  Alexander  C,  our  subject,  being  the  second.     In  1841,  Alexan- 
went  to  school  at  the  Robnett  school  house  for  one  year.     In 
fall     of    1844    he,  like    all    young    men,    concluded     to    see 


788  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

more  of  the  world,  and  accordingly  set  out  for  Louisiana,  where  he 
remained  for  some  time  in  the  interior  of  the  State,  and  then  to}(ew 
Orleans.  From  New  Orleans  he  went  to  Nashville,  Tennessee,  where 
he  was  employed  as  a  guard  of  the  State  prison  until  the  spring  of 
1847,  when  he  came  back  to  Boone  county,  and  has  remained  here 
ever  since.  In  1852  he  moved  to  the  northern  portion  of  the  county, 
where  he  lived  for  about  twelve  years.  In  February,  1864,  he  moved 
out  upon  the  Two-mile  prairie,  and  lived  there  five  years.  In  1869 
he  moved  upon  the  farm  where  he  is  now  living,  a  farm  of  one  hun- 
dred and  sixtv  acre,  ten  and  one-half  miles  northeast  of  Columbia. 
December  19th,  1850,  he  married  Miss  Mary  J.,  daughter  of  John 
O.,  and  Jemima  (Conley)  White.  By  this  union  they  have  had  nine 
children,  three  girls  and  six  boys.  John  D.  E.  W.  is  now  with  White, 
Barron  &  Co.,  of  Centralia  ;  James  W.,  of  Stephens'  Store,  Callaway 
county,  Missouri,  general  merchandise;  Thomas  O.,  who  is  of  the 
firm  of  Loeb,  Cook  &  Co.,  grocery  store,  Columbia;  Wm.  B.,  wlio 
is  also  at  Stephens'  Store;  Alexander  (deceased),  Lucy  J.,  Isaac 
N.,  Annie  M.  and  Mattie.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robinson  are  members  of 
the  Christian  church,  and  are  considered  by  all  as  worthy  of  all  con- 
fidence in  their  social  and  business  relations. 

DAVID    HURST    SHOCK,    DECEASED. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  one  of  the  hardy  pioneers,  of  the 
county,  though  he  was  not  among  the  first  comers.  Mr.  Shock,  was 
the  son  of  John  and  Mary  Shock,  and  was  born  in  Fayette  county, 
Kentucky,  October  8th,  1800.  He  came  to  Howard  county,  Missouri, 
in  1820,  and  to  Boone  county,  in  the  spring  of  1822.  He  was  mar- 
ried August  7th,  1823,  to  Miss  Cynthia,  daughter  of  Martin  Gibson. 
Thirteen  children,  eight  boys  and  ^se^  girls,  were  born  of  this  union, 
named:  John  M.,  James  H.,  Hawkins  G.,  William  T.,  David  H., 
George  W.,  Robert  L.,  Walter  C,  Zerelda  A.,  Martha  E.,  Rebecca, 
Mary  C.  and  Laura  A.  Mr.  Shock  settled  in  1825  on  the  farm  oc- 
cupied at  this  writing  by  his  widow  and  two  sons,  David  H.  and  Wil- 
liam T.  His  death  occured  March  18,  1880.  He  was  deacon  of  the 
Old  Rocky  Fork  Baptist  church  for  many  years,  and  raised  a  large 
and  exemplary  family.  Only  one  —  Mary  C.  —  of  these  children 
has  died  up  to  this  time.  All  the  sons  reside  in  Boone  county,  but 
one —  Hawkins  —  who  lives  in  Oregon.  Mrs.  Shock  is  a  member  of 
the  church  of  which  her  husband  was  so  long  deacon,  she  havingbeen 
a  communicant  of  that  congregation  about  44  years. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  789 


JAME8   HURST   SHOCK 


8  a  son  of  David  H.  Shock,  deceased,  and  was  born  in  this  county, 
Tovember  28,  18^7.  His  education  was  received  in  his  native  county, 
irhere  he  grew  up  and  was  married,  September  1st,  1863,  to  Miss 
>asan  A.,  daughter,  of  John  H.,  and  Catherine  Keith.  Four  chil- 
Iren,  two  sons  and  two  daughters  were  born  of  this  marriage,  named  : 
i?irillard  C,  Mary  C,  Emma  P.  and  James  W.  His  first  wife  died 
n  1873,  and  Mr.  Shock  was  again  married  to  Miss  Martha  A. 
Bradley,  daughter  of  James  aud  Zerelda  (Gibson)  Bradley.  By  this 
inion  they  have  three  boys  —  Roy,  Guy  and  Frank.  Mr.  Shock 
las  always  been  a  farmer.  He  owns  a  good  farm,  of  160  acres  on 
the  Columbia  and  **Blackfoot"  gravel  road,  three  miles  north  of  the 
3ounty  seat.  Mrs.  Shock  belongs  to  the  Missionary  Baptist  church, 
md  is  a  consistent  Christian. 

SOLOMON   8HOBE 

Is  a  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (Parsons)  Shobe,  and  was  born  April 
16,  1828,  at  Loutre  Island,  Warren  county,  Missouri.  He  received  a 
common-school  education  at  the  log  school  house  upon  the  island. 
His  father  died  September  14,  1845.  In  1846  he,  in  company  with  his 
mother,  two  brothers,  and  a  sister,  was  crossing  the  Missouri  river 
at  Loutre  Island  in  a  skiff,  when  they  ran  upon  a  snag  and  upset,  drown- 
ing his  mother  and  his  two  brothers,  Abraham  and  John  D.  Caroline 
V.  drifted  down  the  river  about  three  miles  and  was  rescued  by  a  fer- 
ryman. Solomon  lived  upon  the  old  home  place  in  Warren  county 
until  1856,  when  he  started  for  Boone  county  in  a  one-horse  wagon, 
with  his  wife  and  a  faithful  negro  woman.  He  settled  upon  a  piece  of 
land  containing  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  which  he  had  bought  the 
fall  previous.  In  1867  he  purchased  another  160-acre  tract  adjoining, 
und  now  his  is  considered  one  of  the  best  farms  on  Two-mile  prairie ; 
bis  improvements  are  all  new  and  substantial.  In  1876  he  built  a  good 
:wo-story  house,  and  in  1877  built  quite  a  large  barn.  He  deals  mostly 
in  cattle,  feeding  about  fifty  head  for  market  every  winter.  Mr. 
Shobe  was  married  December  18,  1855,  to  Miss  Susan  H.,  daughter 
3f  Larkin  Callaway,  of  Warren  county,  Missouri.  By  this  union 
hey  have  four  children  —  two  l)oysand  two  girls,  Larkin  D.,  George 
R.,  Annie  B.  and  Mary  V.  His  wife  died  January  14,  1881,  and 
is  buried  at  Prairie  Grove  church.  Mr.  Shobe  is  a  Mason  in  ffood 
standing. 


790  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

SAMUEL    BROWN    SPENCE. 

Samuel  B.  Spence,  son  of  Andrew  and  Rebecca  (Lemon)  Spence^ 
was  born  in  Scott  county,  Kentucky,  May  22,  1819  ;  he  came  to  Boone 
county  in  the  fall  of  1824  with  his  father,  and  wintered  in  Columbia,, 
in  a  small  log  house  on  the  ground  now  occupied  by  J.  P.  Horner's 
lumber  yard.  The  spring  following  his  father  moved  to  Jefferson 
Garth's  farm,  close  to  Columbia,  and  stayed  there  one  year;  he  then 
bought  a  farm  three  and  a  half  miles  north  of  Columbia,  on  the  old 
Paris  road.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  at  the  common 
schools  of  the  neighborhood,  his  principal  instructor  being  Jo- 
seph Carpenter.  He  was  married  November  2,  1852,  to  Miss  Mar- 
garet E.,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Johnson)  Ritchey. 
By  this  marriage  they  had  four  children  —  three  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter:  Andrew  R.,  born  August  15,  1855  ;  Robert  S.,  born  October  4, 
1858;  James  A.,  born  November  10,  1860;  Mary  C,  born  March  19> 
1864.  His  first  wife  having  died  September  13,  1867,  he  was  again 
married,  January  13,  1871.  The  second  wife  was  Ann  M.,  daughter 
of  Marcus  P.  and  Sarah  G.  (Smith)  Wills,  formerly  of  Kentucky. 
Mr.  Wills  was  one  of  the  first  pastors  of  *'  Old  Bear  Creek  church." 
Mr.  Spence  bought  the  old  Samuel  Crockett  farm,  eight  miles  north- 
east of  Columbia,  on  the  old  Crockett  road.  This  place  was  some- 
what noted  in  the  early  history  of  the  county  as  being  the  great  camp- 
meeting  ground.  The  place  was  then  called  Mount  Moriah.  The 
farm  contains  240  acres  of  very  good  land,  well  watered  and  timbered 
and  nicely  improved.  In  early  life  Mr.  Spence  worked  at  the  tanner's 
trade  with  his  father,  on  the  old  home  place,  three  and  one-half  miles 
north  of  Columbia.  From  1848  to  1850  Mr.  Spence  was  extensively 
ensraored  in  the  mule  trade,  buvin^r  in  Missouri  and  selling  in  the  Lou- 
isiana  and  Texas  markets.  In  1864,  having  previously  bought  his 
father's  old  farm,  three  and  one-half  miles  north  of  Columbia,  he 
removed  to  that  place,  remaining  there  about  seven  years.  Not 
likins:  the  chanofe,  he  came  back  to  his  former  home  on  the  Crockett 
road,  eight  miles  northeast  of  Columbia,  where  he  now  lives.  In 
January,  1853,  he  had  the  misfortune  to  break  his  leg,  and  was  a 
cripple  for  about  a  year,  being  unable  to  get  about.  Andrew  Spence, 
father  of  Samuel  B.,  was  born  in  1790.  He  married  Rebecca  Lemon, 
of  Scott  county,  Kentucky,  sister  of  Robert  Lemoii,  of  Boone  county. 
They  had  eight  children  —  six  sons  and  two  daughters:  John  L., 
(deceased),  Mary  A.,  Margaret  E.,  Robert  M.  (deceased),  William 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  791 

seph  A.,  James  F.,  and  Alexander  P.  Andrew  Spence  is 
on  the  old  farm  settled  by  him.  Mrs.  Spence  is  buried  by 
e  of  her  husband.  Mr.  Spence  owned  and  operated  one  among 
\t  lanyards  ever  established  in  this  county.  Samuel  B.  Spence 
his  family  are  members  of  the  Christian  church ;  he  is  also 
ber  of  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry.  He  is  a  useful  citizen  and 
V  neighbor,  honored  arid  esteemed  by  all  who  know  him. 

ZEPHANIAH   SPIERS. 

laniah  Spiers  is  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Nancy  (Logan)  Spiers, 
s  born  May  8,  1822,  in  Fayette  county,  Kentucky.  His  father 
ative  of  Maryland,  and  died  in  Boone  county,  August  9, 1843. 
>ther  died  November  20,  1859.  They  are  buried  in  the  family 
5  ground,  upon  the  old  homestead.  They  were  both  members 
Christian  church.  Zephaniah  was  educated  in  Kentucky  and 
le  county,  Missouri,  in  the  country  schools.  He  came  to  Boone 
I  with  his  father,  who  bought  the  place  upon  which  his  son  is 
ing.  It  is  ten  miles  east  of  Columbia,  on  "Spiers'  road." 
•m  contains  260  acres  of  good  land.  He  went  to  California  in 
ind  returned  in  the  fall  of  1851,  believing  that  there  is  no  place 
ssouri.  While  in  California  he  worked  in  the  gold-diggings, 
heart  turned  back  to  the  land  of  peace  and  plenty.  He  moved 
rain  county  in  1856,  but  returned  to  Boone  and  bought  the  old 
ead  settled  by  his  father  in  1830,  and  is  now  living  upon  it.  He 
irried  August  1,  1849,  to  Miss  Lucy  A.,  daughter  of  Colonel 
•  and  Lucinda'(Walden)  Allen.  They  have  had  five  children — 
)oys  and  two  girls:  Z.  M.  (deceased),  Maud  A.  (deceased), 
a  N.  (deceased),  Samuel  W.  (deceased),  and  William  H.,  now 
at  home  with  his  father.  Mr.  Spiers  is  the  first  of  a  family 
it  children,  but  two  of  whom  are  now  living  —  Zerelda  and 
)ject.  Mrs.  Spiers  died  July  30,  1866,  and  is  buried  in  Calla- 
unty,  Missouri.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Christian  church, 
iers  is  also  a  member  of  the  same  denomination.  He  wascap- 
iuring  the  war,  taken  to  Mexico,  Missouri,  and  thence  to  St. 
from  there  to  Alton,  Illinois.  He  was  in  prison  at  the  latter 
bout  six  months.  He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  best  citizens  of 
county  —  a  warm-hearted,  hospitable  gentleman. 

N.    p.    STARK. 

man  Payton  Stark  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  April 


792  HISTORY  OF  BOOKS   COUNTY. 

28th,  1841.  His  parents,  Newman  B.  and  Percilla  Thornton  Staik, 
were  natives  of  the  **  Old  Dominion,"  emigrating  from  Stafford  county, 
Virginia,  to  Boone  county  in  the  fall  of  1828.  Newman  Stark,  Jr., 
was  bom  and  raised  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Wm.  McDonald,  niM 
miles  southeast  of  Columbia.  He  was  partly  educated  at  the  common 
schools,  finishing  his  studies  at  the  State  University.  He  is  a  practi- 
cal farmer  and  deals  largely  in  live  stock:.  Few  men  have  been  more 
successful  in  this  line  of  business  than  Newman  Stark.  He  pays  lib- 
eral prices  and  is  fair  in  his  dealings.  Such  business  men  are  needed 
in  every  farming  and  stock  raising  community.  By  furnishing  his 
neighbors  with  a  home  market  for  their  surplus  stock,  Mr.  Stark  hia 
been  of  much  service  to  the  community  in  which  he  lives.  He  owm 
840  acres  of  land  which  is  well  adapted  to  the  business  he  is  engaged 
in  and  it  is  utilized  to  the  best  advantage. 

ALEXANDER  F.   STEPHENS. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  John  L.  and  Mary  (Sams) 
Stephens,  and  was  born  August  5th,  1828,  in  Garrard  county,  Ken- 
tucky. His  father  and  mother  were  married  in  Virginia,  in  1806,  and 
emigrated  to  Kentucky  some  years  after.  In  1838  they  again  turned 
their  faces  to  the  Groat  West,  and  settled  in  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
and  in  1839  they  removed  to  the  place  upon  which  Alexander  F. 
now  lives,  just  one  mile  south  of  the  place  they  first  settled.  John 
L.  died  February  3d,  1863,  at  the  age  of  83,  and  his  wife  died 
August  2d,  1877.  They  are  buried  at  Cedar  Church,  Callaway 
county,  Missouri.  They  had  eleven  children,*  seven  boys  and  four 
girls.  Rice,  Elizabeth,  James,  Nancy,  Sarah  W.,  Eliza  G.,  John  L., 
Wni.  P.,  Lucy  A.,  Alexander  F.  and  James  H.,  only  three  of  whom 
are  living;  Eliza  G.,  is  living  in  Jasper  County,  Missouri,  James 
H.,  at  Centralia,  this  county,  and  our  subject,  Alexander.  Mr. 
Stephens  was  educated  at  Boouesboro,  and  at  Cedar  Hill  Academy.  In 
1849  he  went  to  California,  and  returned  to  Boone  countv  in  1851. 
He  has  a  fine  farm  of  four  hundred  and  eleven  acres.  Cedar  ci*eek 
forms  his  eastern  boundary  line,  being  also  the  county  line  between 
Boone  and  Callaway  counties.  In  1862  Mr.  Stephens  had  twenty- 
five  acres  of  corn  which  made  twenty-four  barrels  per  acre.  Mr. 
Stephens  relates  that  when  he  was  thirteen  or  fourteen  years  of  age 
he  saw  his  father  have  twenty-six  half  dollars  in  silver.  He  asked  his 
father  to  let  him  have  them,  saying,  after  his  father  had  placed  the  money 
in  his  hands,  *•  If  this  was  mine  I  would  never  need  any  more  money 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  793 

along  as  I  live."  To  him  it  seemed  a  fortune.  His  ideas  of  wealth 
ave  changed  very  materially  since  then,  forty  years  ago,  for  he  now 
»ays  taxes  to  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and  ninety  dollars  each  year. 
dr.  Stephens  lives  just  nine  miles  due  east  of  Columbia. 

CHARLES   Y.    TRICE,   JR. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  has  not  been  a  citizen  of  Boone  county 
»Qtafew  years,  yet,  notwithstanding  this  fact,  he  is  already  more 
lioroughly  identified  with  the  business  interests  of  the  county  than 
lany  of  the  oldest  citizens.  Possessing  remarkable  energy,  good 
idgment,  and  afikble  manners,  he  has  succeeded  in  building  up  a 
usiuess,  and  in  much  less  time  than  it  usually  takes  to  accomplish 
ach  important  results.  Mr.  Trice  was  born  in  DeKalb  county, 
Ussouri,  October  28th,  1853,  and  came  to  Boone  county  in  1877. 
e  first  located  in  Rocheport,  where  he  remained  for  three  years.' 
rom  Rocheport  he  removed  to  his  present  home  on  the  grounds  of 
s  nursery,  three-fourths  of  a  mile  north  of  town.  He  was  married 
3vember  19th,  1878,  to  a  daughter  of  Alfred  R.  Steele.  He  is 
anager  and  senior  proprietor  of  the  nursery  farm  of  Trice  Brothers 
Co.,  also  general  agent  for  all  sorts  of  nursery  stock.  They  have 
rty  acres  in  nursery,  surrounded  by  a  beautiful  hedge  of  osage 
ange.  In  addition  to  young  stock,  they  have  3,000  apple  trees 
st  beginning  to  bear.  This  orchard  covers  twenty  acres.  They 
Lve  a  plum  orchard  of  seventy-five  trees  and  a  pear  orchard  of 
>0.  The  nursery  grounds  have  a  natural  slope  in  all  directions. 
Fording  natural  drainage,  which  adds  greatly  to  the  fertility  of  the 
il  as  well  as  to  the  beauty  of  the  place.  They  have  a  general  as- 
rtment  of  nursery  stock,  including  shrubbery,  evergreens,  roses,  etc. 
r.  Trice  also  owns  a  cattle  ranche  in  Butler  county,  Kansas. 

CHARLES    R.  TURNER. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  upon  the  farm  where  he  now 
es,  on  the  11th  day  of  July,  1853.  His  father,  Wm.  Turner,  was 
rn  June  6th,  182D,  and  died  in  Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico,  May  26th, 
80.  A.  W.  Turner,  the  father  of  William,  and  grandfather  of 
larles  R.,  moved  from  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  to  Columbia, 
)one  county,  Missouri,  about  1832,  when  William  was  three  or  four 
ars  old.  He  practiced  law  in  Columbia  for  some  time  and  then 
ught  a  farm  on  Bear  creek,  where  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  days. 
3  and  his  wife  are  buried  upon  the  old   Turner  homestead  in  the 


794  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUMTT. 

family  burying-ground.  Wm.  Turner  was  married  March  25th,  1852, 
to  Miss  C.  F.  McLean,  whose  father  was  the  first  Baptist  preacher  in 
Missouri.  She  was  bom  and  reared  in  Boone  county,  Missouri.  Her 
parents  were  natives  of  Kentucky.  By  their  marriage  Mr.  and  Mn. 
Turner  had  two  children,  Charles  B.  and  Matilda,  who  died  Mij 
18th,  1875,  and  is  buried  beside  her  father  in  the  family  graveyud. 
Wm.  Turner  was  a  member  of  the  Christian  church,  and  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  lodge  at  Hickory  Grove.  He  went  out  to  New  Mexico 
to  restore  his  failing  health.  The  trip  failed  to  benefit  him.  He  died 
at  Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico,  on  the  26th  of  May,  1880.  Charles  B., 
the  only  surviving  child,  is  living  upon  the  old'  homestead.  He  at- 
tended the  State  University  two  years  after  receiving  a  good  commoD 
school  education.  He  was  reared  upon  the  farm,  and  when  he  reached 
manhood  chose  farming  as  his  occupation.  He  handles  stock,  prind- 
pally  cattle,  and  his  chief  crop  is  corn.  He  has  a  magnificeut  Jfiirm 
of  seven  hundred  and  twenty  acres  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  His 
house  is  near  the  center  of  section  29,  township  49,  and  range  11. 
He  was  married  December  14, 1881,  to  Miss  Belle  Rogers,  daughterof 
James  and  Lizzie  (Philips)  Rogers,  of  this  county.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Odd  Fellows  lodge  at  Columbia,  and  withal  is  an  affable,  enterpris- 
ing young  gentleman. 

I.    C.   VIVION. 

Irvin  C.  Vivion  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  on  the  farm 
settled  by  his  parents,  nine  miles  southeast  of  Columbia,  on  the  Colam- 
bia  and  Cedar  Creek  gravel  road.  He  was  educated  partly  iij  Boone 
county,  finishing  his  studies  at  Westminster  College,  Fulton,  Missouri. 
After  completing  his  studies  he  returned  to  his  farm  in  Boone  county. 
He  was  married  January  24th,  1865,  to  MoUie,  daughter  of  Robert 
and  Nancy  B.  Wallace,  of  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky.  Seven  chil- 
dren were  born  to  them,  three  sons  and  four  daughters.  Two  sou& 
are  dead.  Mr.  Vivion  is  a  practical  farmer  and  a  dealer  in  cattle.  He 
owns  540  acres  of  excellent  land,  well  situated  and  in  a  high  state  of 
cultivation.  Mr.  Vivion's  parents,  John  G.  and  Rebecca  Eobuett 
Vivion,  emigrated  to  Boone  county  in  the  fall  of  1825. 

WILLIAM    LITTLETON   VICTOR. 

William  L.  Victor  was  born  in  Nicholson  county,  Kentucky,  August 
19th,  1818.  He  is  the  son  of  William  and  Eleanor  Victor,  and  wa* 
educated  in  his  native  State.  Coming  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in 
the  fall  of  1845,  he  settled  on  a  farm  iive  miles  northeast  of  Columbia. 


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HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  795- 

Mr.  Victor  was  married  February  20th,  1845,  to  Miss  Frances,  daughter 
of  Cumberland  and  Elizabeth  Snell,  of  Paris,  Monroe  county,  Mis- 
souri. By  this  imion  they  were  blessed  with  eight  children,  six 
daughters  and  two  sons,  four  of  whom  are  living.  Mary  F.  died  No- 
vember  18th,  1860;  William  W.,  August  26th,  1869;  Lee,  January 
22d,  1872;  Elizabeth  E.,  May  22d,  1873.  Julia  A.,  Amanda  G., 
Eugenie  and  Samuel  E.  are  alive  at  this  writing.  In  1841  Mr.  Victor 
accepted  a  situation  in  the  dry  goods  store  of  James  G.  Fox,  at  Paris, 
Missouri,  with  whom  he  remained  two  years.  He  then  went  to  Han- 
nibal, Missouri,  where  he  assisted  in  a  wholesale  and  commission  store, 
remaining  in  that  business  about  one  year.  Leaving  Hannibal,  he  re- 
turned to  Kentucky.  In  1845  —  as  before  stated  —  he  came  to  Boone 
county,  Missouri,  and  settled  on  a  farm  owned  by  his  wife.  Mr.  Vic- 
tor was  deputy  county  collector,  under  Sheriff  Hickman,  in  1849-50, 
retiming  a  delinquent  list  of  but  a  fraction  over  $500.  He  has  also 
officiated  as  assessor  for  his  district.  Was  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
order  before  the  dissolution  of  his  lodge  years  ago,  and  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Columbia  Granore.  Is  an  elder  of  the  Christian  church  at 
Antioch.  He  has  held  this  position  since  the  organization  of  the 
church.  Mr.  Victor  owns  a  fine  farm  of  570  acres,  well  watered  and 
well  improved.  Mr.  Victor  has  resided  on  this  place  since  1845.  He 
is  largely  interested  in  agriculture.  His  farm  is  well  calculated  for 
stock  raising,  being  well  adapted  to  the  growth  of  bluegrass.  Mrs. 
Victor  died  January  25th,  1874,  from  a  hurt  received  a  few  days 
previous,  she  having  been  thrown  from  a  horse  while  going  to  church. 
Mrs.  Victor  was  forty-nine  years  old  at  the  time  of  her  death. 

MAJ.    NATHANIEL    W.    WILSON. 

Maj.  Wilson  is  a  native  of  Kentucky,  and  was  born  in  Mason 
county,  December  29th,  1811.  His  parents  were  Augustus  N.  C.  and 
Caroline  R.  W.  Wilson.  Mrs.  Wilson  was  a  native  of  Virginia.  She 
was  born  in  Goochland  county  in  1792,  and  removed  to  Mason  county, 
Kentucky,  in  1807.  In  1810  she  married  Dr.  Augustus  N.  C.  Wilson, 
of  Maysville,  Kentucky.  Five  years  after  the  death  of  her  husband, 
which  occurred  in  1820,  she  came  to  Missouri,  settling  six  miles  east 
of  Columbia,  on  the  farm  of  her  brother,  James  W.  Wilson.  After 
remaining  at  this  place  about  three  years,  she  moved  to  Columbia^ 
where  she  built  a  log  cabin  in  what  was  then  the  eastern  portion  of  the 
town,  but  now  the  center  of  the  city.  Mrs.  Wilson  was  a  zealous 
Presbyterian,  a  member  of  the  first  organization  of  that  name  and 


796  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

faith  in  the  town  of  Columbia.  She  was  loved  and  honored  for 
hospitality  and  many  Christian  virtues.  Maj.  Wilson  came 
Missouri  with  his  widowed  mother  in  1825.  His  education,  wl 
had  been  commenced  in  Kentucky,  was  finished  at  Bonne  Fei 
Academy,  under  the  instructions  of  Rev.  Robert  S.  Thomas.  Befo 
completing  his  studies,  however,  he  went  to  Old  Franklin,  then  i| 
flourishing  town  in  Howard  county,  Missouri,  opposite  Boon?ille,ii! 
Cooper  county,  where  he  assisted  Mr.  David  S.  Lamb  in  the  merctt* 
tile  business.  Returning  to  Boone  county  after  a  brief  abseuce,  In 
resumed  his  studies  under  Mr.  Thomas,  remaining  at  the  academf 
about  two  years.  Having  completed  his  education,  he  returned  to  hii 
former  place  in  the  store.  In  1828  one  of  the  firm  removed  to 
Columbia,  and  Mr.  Williamson  came  with  him.  In  1829  Mr. 
Wilson  and  his  brother,  Josiah  W.  Wilson,  formed  a  partnership 
with  Robert  S.  Barr,  for  the  purpose  of  engaging  in  the  general 
mercantile  business.  In  1832  he  sold  out  his  interest  in  the  busiDea, 
and  enlisted  for  the  Blackhawk  war,  under  Capt.  Sinclair  Kirtiey. 
After  serving  two  months  he  was  honorably  discharged,  and  returned 
to  his  home  in  Boone  county.  His  next  business  venture  was  a 
partnership  with  his  brother-in-law,  Caleb  S.  Stone,  father  of  the 
present  sherifi*  of  Boone  county.  They  engaged  in  the  mercantile 
business  at  Columbia.  The  firm  remained  intact  till  1852,  when  Mr. 
Wilson  sold  his  interest  to  John  H.  Field.  On  quitting  the  store, 
Mr.  Wilson  removed  to  the  farm  where  he  now  resides,  two  and  a  half 
miles  southwest  of  Columbia.  Previous  to  the  war,  and  for  some 
time  after  the  struggle  commenced,  Maj.  Wilson  was  a  Union  man, 
and  might  have  remained  such  but  for  persecutions  of  the  Federal 
soldiers.  He  lost  heavily  by  the  war,  being  largely  interested  in 
slave  property.  At  the  close  of  the  struggle  he  had  nothing  but  his 
farm.  He  did  not  fold  his  arms  in  despair,  however,  but  went 
bravely  to  work  to  retrieve  his  shattered  fortunes.  His  fine  farm  of 
320  acres  has  been  made  to  blossom  like  the  rose.  He  has  one  of  the 
largest  orchards  in  the  county,  numbering  nearly  one  thousand  fruit 
trees.  His  mansion  is  centrally  located,  overlooking  his  farm. 
Surrounding  his  residence  are  many  beautiful  evergreens  and  forest 
trees,  presenting  to  the  eye  a  scene  of  rare  beauty.  Maj.  WilsoQ  has 
always  taken  an  active  part  in  all  public  enterprises,  especially  such 
as  were  calculated  to  promote  the  educational  interests  of  the  people 
of  his  own  county.  He  was  at  one  time  treasurer  and  trustee  of  the 
Columbia  college,  which  formed  the  nucleus  of  the  State  University. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  797 

He  also  assisted  in  building  up  the  Columbia  Female  Academy.  He 
has  always  taken  an  active  part  in  the  manaorement  of  the  Boone 
County  Agricultural  and  Mechanical  Association.  He  was  seventy 
years  old  on  the  29th  of  December,  1881.  Maj.  Wilson  was  first 
married  in  1837  to  Miss  Mary  J.,  daughter  of  James  and  Catherine 
Stone,  of  Richmond,  Kentucky.  Mrs.  Wilson  lived  but  one  year  and 
a  half  after  her  marrias^e.  In  184-  he  was  again  married.  His 
second  wife  was  Mary  Ann  Burnam,  of  Richmond,  Kentucky,  sister 
of  John  F.  Burnam,  formerly  of  Columbia,  now  of  Raton,  New 
Mexico,  also  Eld.  E.  H.  Burnam,.  of  St.  Louis,  and  Maj.  C.  F. 
Burnam,  of  Richmond,  Kentucky,  a  distinguished  lawyer  and  former 
assistant-secretary  of  the  United  States  Treasury. 

JOHN   FREDERICK   WILKINSON. 

This  gentleman,  one  of  the  leading  agriculturists  of  the  county, 
was  born  in  Charlotte  county,  Virginia,  December  9th,  1834.     His 
parents  were   Samuel   and  Martha  (Cook)   Wilkinson,   who   moved 
from   Virginia    to    the    neighborhood    of  Jefferson    City,    Missouri. 
From  there  John  Frederick  went  to  Franklin  county,  this  State,  where 
he  lived  till  he  was  21  years  old.     He  then  moved  to  Morgan  county, 
and  after  remaining  three  years,  went  to  Warren  county,  where  he 
continued  seven  years.     Returning  to  Franklin  county,  he  came  from 
there  to  Boone  county  in  1868.     His  education  was  received  chiefly 
in  Washington,  Franklin  county,  and  he  was  married  September  1st, 
1868,  to  Miss  Sarah  C,  daughter  of  Anderson  and  Elizabeth  Burges. 
Four  sons  and  three  daughters  have  been  born  of  this  union  :  John 
W.,  Anderson  B.,   Martha  E.,  Arthur  E.,  Alice  M.,  Carrie  A.,  and 
Huorh.     Mr.  Wilkinson   has  been  a  farmer  all  his  life.     He  owns  a 
very  excellent  farm  of  226  acres,  with  fine  improvements,  and  a  good 
supply  of  timber  and  water,  situated  five  miles  east  of  Columbia,  on 
the  St.  Charles  road.     His  place  is  indeed  a  model  farm,  and  there  are 
few  better  appointed  places  anywhere.     He  also  owns  160  acres  one 
and  a  half  miles  south  of  his  homestead,  and  a  fine  farm  of  252  acres 
in  Henry  county,  this  State.     All  the  improvements  on  his  place  have 
been  made  within  the  last  fourteen  years.     Mr  Wilkinson  is  a  self- 
»made  man  in  every  sense  of  the  term,  and  had  the  pluck  and  energy  to 
acquire  the  nucleus  of  his  present  fortune  by  chopping  and  selling 
cordwood  to  the   Missouri  river  steamers.     Mr.   Wilkinson  and  his 
son,  John  W.,  belong  to  the  Methodist  church,  in   which  the  former 
is  steward.     Mrs.  Wilkinson  also  belongs  to  the  same  church. 


798  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 


BENJAMIN    8.    WILSON. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  son  of  William  S.  and  Matilda 
(Hearn)  Wilson,  and  was  born  in  Woodford  county,  Kentucky,  May 
24th,  1857.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  born  in  1831, 
and  died  in  1861.  His  mother  was  born  in  1832,  and  died  in  1868, 
in  Adams  county,  Illinois,  to  which  State  she,  and  her  only  child,  3en- 
jamin,  had  removed  in  1866.  They  were  members  of  the  Episcopal 
Church.  Benjamin  S.  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  April,  1874, 
and  bought  a  farm  of  170  acres,  ten  miles  northeast  of  Columbia,  and  five 
miles  east  of  Brown's  Station.  He  received  his  education  in  Illinois. 
He  was  married  January  24th,  1876,  to  Miss  Etta  Lee,  daughter  of 
W.  H.  and  Elizabeth  (Skinner)  Winn,  of  this  county.  Both  himself 
and  wife  are  members  of  the  Missionary  Baptist  Church  at  Grandview. 
Mr.  Wilson  is  a  worthy  member  of  the  Masonic  Lodge  No.  81,  of 
Hickory  Grove.  He  is  one  of  the  most  enterprising  young  men  of 
Boone  county,  taking  an  active  part  in  the  politics  of  his  county.  In 
1882  he  entered  the  race  for  the  assessorship,  but  was  compelled  to 
withdraw  in  the  middle  of  the  campaign  by  reason  ot  a  severe  illness, 
which  prevented  his  continuing  the  canvass.  Such  men  as  he  are  the 
country's  life-blood  and  hope  in  the  years  to  come. 

L.    E.    WRIGHT. 

This  orentlemaif  was  born  in  Boone  countv,  Missouri,  in  1838.  He 
is  the  son  of  James  K.  and  Myra  Wright.  His  father  was  born  iu 
Bourbon  county,  Kentucky,  May  ^^6^  1809.  He  came  to  Boone 
county  in  the  fall  of  1826,  and  settled  upon  the  Two-mile  prairie. 
He  was  married  in  Columbia  in  1836,  to  Miss  Mira  J.,  daughter  of 
Peter  and  Jeannette  E.  Wright.  Mrs.  Wright  was  born  March  17, 
1815.  They  had  six  children,  four  boys  and  two  girls,  only  two  of 
whom  are  now  living,  L.  E.,  and  Paul  M.,  both  in  Boone  county. 
The  Wrights  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  the  county,  when 
the  Indians  were  yet  lurking  in  the  forests,  and  were  ready  to  toma- 
hawk their  unwary  foes.  L.  E.  Wright  was  married,  November  30,  1865 
to  Miss  Kate  E.  Turner,  daughter  of  Barney  and  Mary  Turner  of 
Boone  county.  She  was  born  in  Kentucky,  but  came  with  her  parents 
to  Missouri  some  years  before.  They  are  blessed  with  three  children. 
Peter,  Myra  and  Mary.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wright  are  members  of  the 
Christian  church  at  Oakland,  and  he  is  a  worthy  member  of  the  Odd 
Fellows  lodge.     His  residence  is  five  and  one-half  miles  northeast  of 


HI8TOBY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  799 

bia.  Mr.  Wright  has  quite  a  curiosity  in  an  old  atlas  published 
9  by  Matthew  Carey.  It  was  bought  by  his  grandfather,  William 
t,  the  price  paid  being  ten  dollars.  He  has  also  quite  a  coUec- 
f  very  old  letters.  One  was  written  by  his  grandfather  from 
larles,  he  being  a  member  of  the  legislature  there  at  that  time, 
to  his  wife  and  was  directed  to  "  Mt%.  Jane  Wright ^  Two-Mile 
fe,  Boone  County^  Missouri^  to  be  left  at  Maj.  JEstilVs  house 
n  Fayette  and  Boonville,^*  This  will  give  the  readers  of  this 
an  idea  of  the  mail  facilities  in  Boone  in  those  early  days.  In 
bter  was  a  profile  of  the  writer  himself,  cut  out  of  a  piece  of 
paper,  and  a  piece  of  black  satin  placed  behind  it.  Mr.  Wright 
rmer  and  an  extensive  dealer  in  stock.  His  father  James  K. 
t  was  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  all  his  life. 

GEORGE  M.  WRIGHT. 

subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
3d,  1839.  He  was  the  son  of  Wesley  and  Polly  (Potts)  Wright 
as  born  upon  the  farm  where  he  is  now  living.  His  father, 
y  Wright  was  bom  within  five  miles  of  Nashville,  Tennessee, 
me  with  his  parents  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  1819,  where 
)d  until  1850,  when  he  went  to  California.  He  died  on  his  way 
md  was  buried  at  Cape  Girardeau,  Mo.,  in  1852.  Mrs.  Wright, 
ither  of  George  M.,  was  born  in  West  Tennessee,  in  1808,  and 
to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  when  she  was  eight  years  of  age. 
ed  in  1879,  and  is  buried  at  Hickory  Grove  church.  George  M. 
t  was  thrown  upon  his  own  resources  when  quite  a  child,  and 
nanfully  did  he  fight  the  battle  of  life.  He  went  to  school  dur- 
le  winter  months,  and  in  summer  he  worked  to  earn  money  for 
xt  winter's  schooling.  He  afterwards  went  two  terms  of  nine 
IS  each,  to  Professors  Hurt  and  M.  G.  Duncan,  of  Mexico, 
in  county.    Mo.,    taking  a  very  liberal  course,    but   declining 

prevented  his  graduating  as  he  had  intended.  He  lived  with 
)ok  care  of  his  mother,  more  especially  after  the  negroes  were 
When  the  war  broke  out  he  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Con- 
ey and  joined  Capt.  Nimrod  Norton's  company,  Clark's  brigade. 
18  in  the  battles  of  Boonville,  *'  Fulton  Races,"  Lone  Jack,  Pea 
,  Drywood,  Cane  Hill,  Helena,  Independence  and  many  skir- 
5.  Under  Gen.  Joe  Shelby,  he  was  in  several  days  continued  fight- 
ar  Little  Bock,  Arkansas,  fighting  Gen.  Steele's  division  U.  S- 
J.     Mr.  Wright  was  commissioned  an  oflScer  to  rank  as  Colonel, 


800  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

to  raise  a  regiment  in  Missouri  during  Shelby's  last  raid,  but  the  sur- 
render of  Lee  in  the  following  spring  put  an  end  to  the  war,  and  Col. 
Wright  was  mustered  out  and  surrendered  to  Capt.  Cook.  He  re- 
turned home  without  a  dollar  and  went  to  work  upon  the  old  place. 
He  was  married  September  16th,  1868,  to  Miss  Minerva,  daughter  of 
Garland  Sims,  Esq.  By  this  union  they  have  six  children,  Garland  Sims, 
Lena,  Elizabeth,  Wesley,  George  Walter  and  Ancil.  The  year  he 
was  married  he  moved  to  Audrain  county,  and  lived  there  until  the 
spring  of  1879,  when  he  moved  back  upon  the  old  place.  His  house 
is  on  the  north-east  quarter  of  section  16,  township  49,  range  11, 
and  his  farm  contains  two  hundred  and  seventy  acres.  Mr.  Wright  is 
an  energetic,  active  business  man,  enjoying  the  confidence  of  all  who 
know  him. 

ANDREW    D.  WRIGHT. 

Andrew  D.  Wright  was  born  in  Botetourt  county,  Virginia,  Novem- 
ber 24th,  1823.  He  is  the  son  of  Peter  and  Sallie  (Persinger)  Wright 
who  emigrated  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  the  fall  of  1825.  They 
settled  on  the  farm  now  owned  and  occupied  by  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  five  miles  north  of  Columbia.  Mr.  Wright  was  brought  up  on 
the  farm  and  educated  at  the  public  schools  in  the  neighborhood  of  his 
home.  He  was  married  January  2d,  1853.  He  is  the  father  of  six 
children,  one  son  and  five  daughters:  Ella  L.  (deceased),  Mary  A.» 
Alexander  P.,  Varina  D.,  Anna  V.  and  Sallie  L.  (deceased).  Mr. 
Wright  has  followed  farming  all  his  lite,  and  has  lived  on  the  farm  he 
now  occupies  for  fifty-seven  years.  When  he  came  to  Boone  county 
it  was  almost  a  wilderness.  There  were  but  ten  or  fifteen  acres  of 
cleared  land  on  the  farm  now  owned  and  cultivated  by  Mr.  Wright. 
They  were  two  mouths  on  the  road  in  moving  from  Virginia.  The 
first  mill  ever  established  in  his  neighborhood  was  erected  by  John 
Shock  and  was  run  by  horsepower.  The  first  water-mill  on  the  Hink- 
son  was  erected  by  a  man  named  Hannah.  Old  Bear  Creek  church 
was  the  first  house  of  worship  he  ever  attended  in  Boone  county. 
The  elder  Wright  died  about  the  year  1835  and  is  buried  on  the  old 
Gray  farm.  His  mother  died  during  the  war  and  was  buried  by  the 
side  of  her  husband.  Mr.  Wri^fht  was  twice  married.  He  had  seven 
children  by  his  first  wife  and  nine  by  his  second.  All  the  children  by 
his  first  marriage  are  dead.  The  sons  of  the  second  marriage  are  all 
dead,  except  the  subject  of  this  sketch  —  the  daughters  are  still  living. 
Mr.  Wright  and  his  family  are  all  members  of  the  Christian  church. 


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CHAPTEK    XIX. 

THE    CITY    OF    COLUMBIA. 

History  —  General  Notes  —  War  Notes  —  Confederate  Raids  —  Broadway  Block 
>u8e  —  The  Terrible  "Tigers'* — Business  During  the  War  —  Death  of  Warren 
oodson  —  Price's  Addition  —  Stephens  College  —  Christian  College  —  A  Walking 
fttesman  —  Business  Interests  —  Newspapers  —  History  of  the  "  Herald  "  —  The  Pub- 
Schools  —  Churches  —  Secret  Orders  —  Biographies  of  Old  Settlers  and  Prominent 
tizens. 

EARLY     HISTORY. 

)  much  of  the  early  and  general  history  of  the  city  of  Columbia 
veil  in  other  chapters  of  this  volume,  that  but  little  is  left  to  be 
here.  A  few  additional  facts  remain  to  be  here  stated.  The 
3lete  history  of  the  city  would  alone  make  a  large  volume,  and  no 
npt  will  here  be  made  to  present  it  in  extenso.  Certain  matters 
nportance  will  be  put  on  record,  and  many  things  of  interest  must 
>rce  be  omitted. 

FIRST    DEEDS. 

le  land  on  which  the  first  town  plat  of  Columbia  was  located  was 
Qted  by  the  United  States  to  Anderson  Woods  in  the  spring  or 
mer  of  1817.  November  14,  1818,  Anderson  Woods  and  others 
eyed  the  land  (the  southeast  quarter  of  section  12,  township  48, 
e  13)  to  Thos.  Duly,  Gerard  Robinson,  Taylor  Berry,  David 
i  and  Richard  Gentry.  April  6,  1821,  Duly,  Robinson, 
1  and  Gentry,  a  majority  of  the  board  of  trustees,  con- 
d  to  Lawrence  Bass,  David  Jackson,  John  Gray,  Jefferson  Ful- 
,  **  commissioners  to  fix  upon  and  locate  a  permanent  seat  of  jus- 
in  the  county  of  Boone,"  fifty  acres  of  land,  *'  and  other  public 
commons  and  streets."  June  26,  1828,  Wm.  Jewell,  George  Sta- 
m,  Gerard  Robinson  and  Thomas  Story,  for  a  consideration  of 
►.25,  conveyed  another  portion  of  the  town  site  to  John  Grey, 
rson  Fulcher,  Lawrence  Bass  and  David  Jackson,  the  commis- 
3r8  of  Boone  county.  This  deed  of  conveyance  is  still  in  exist- 
,  in  the  possession  of  Thomas  L.  Bass. 

1822  there  were  but  a  few  houses  in  town,  mostly  one-story  log 
lings.  Among  the  business  men  were  Chas.  Hardin,  who  kept  a 
rard  down  on  Flat  Branch ;  Sam  W.  Scott,  who  had  a  blacksmith 

on  Broadway ;  John  H.  Van  Horn,  a  cabinet  maker,  and  Daniel 
51 


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802  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

Wilcox,  a  physician  and  surgeon.     Doubtless  there  were  others  whose 
names  cannot  now  be  learned. 

In  1823  the  number  of  inhabitants  in  Columbia  was  130 — fourteen 
more  than  there  were  in  Boonville  at  that  time.  By  1824  Columbii 
had  grown  to  be  a  village  of  considerable  size  and  enterprise,  h 
addition  to  those  heretofore  published,  stores  had  been  established  by 
Oliver  Parker  and  Robert  Hood  on  the  northwest  comer  of  Broadway 
and  Seventh  streets,  by  Robert  S.  Barr,  James  I.  Tilton  and  Joseph 
B.  Howard,  on  the  northeast  corner  of  Broadway  and  Eighth  streets, 
and  the  first  brick  store  had  been  built  by  Richard  Estes,  on  the 
southeast  corner  of  Broadway  and  Seventh  streets.  The  only  lawyers 
known  to  have  resided  here  at  that  time  were  A.  B.  Lane,  Samuel 
Wheeler  and  Jesse  T.  Wood,  and  the  only  physicians,  Doctors  William 
Jewell  and  Daniel  P.  Wilcox. 

Stephens's  sketch  says  that  the  first  church  built  in  Columbia  was 
the  Presbyterian,  which  was  situated  on  the  southwest  corner  of  Sixth • 
and  Walnut,  and  was  erected  in  1830.  Its  first  pastor  was  Rev.  Wm. 
P.  Cochran.  At  the  same  time,  however,  Methodist  and  Baptist 
organizations  were  in  existence  and  held  regular  services.  The  Bap- 
tist minister  was  the  Rev.  Allen  McGuire  ;  the  pastor  of  the  Metho- 
dist church  was  Rev.  John  Greenlagh.  The  first  presbytery  held 
in  Columbia  convened  October  4,  1829,  Rev.  John  S.  Beel,  mod- 
erator. 

The  first  temperance  society  was  organized  in  the  spring  of  1830. 
Its  officers,  were  Rev.  John  Greenlagh,  president;  James  Callaway, 
treasurer;  Andrew  Hannah,  auditor;  Rev.  Wm.  P.  Cochran,  secre- 
tary. The  organization  was  auxiliary  to  the  American  Temperani-e 
Society.  At  that  time  the  organization  found  the  field  white  for  the 
harvest.  Whisky  was  a  common  beverage,  and  sold  under  scarcely 
any  restrictions  of  law.  Drunkenness  and  ruffianism  were  rife,  and 
there  were  frequent  scenes  of  disorder  and  violence.  The  temper- 
ance society  did  much  good  in  the  way  of  reforming  divers  and  sundry 
drinkins:  men  and  makinor  good  citizens  of  them. 

In  1830  the  population  of  Columbia  was  about  600.  The  principal 
business  men  were  Dr.  Alex.  M.  Robinson,  Dr.  Jas.  H.  Benson, 
James  C.  Boggs,  druggists,  and  Oliver  Parker,  Wm.  Barr,  Joseph  B. 
Howard,  A.  J.  Williams,  Moses  W.  Miller,  Jacob  Payne,  Wm.  Cor- 
nelius and  Samuel  Stone,  proprietors  of  dry  goods,  grocery  and  gen- 
eral stores.  The  ministers  were  Reverends  John  Greenlagh,  Wm.  P. 
Cochran,   Christopher  Gentry  and  Allen  McGuire,      The  attorneys 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  803 

jre  W.  K.  Van  Arsdall,  B.  F.  Robinson,  Sinclair  Kirtley,  John  B. 
>rdoD,  Jesse  T.  Wood.  The  physicians  were  Wm.  Jewell,  A.  M. 
>binson,  J.  H.  Bennett  and  Daniel  P.  Wilcox.  Taverns  were  kept 
'  E.  McClelland,  Edward  Camplin  and  Samuel  Wall.  During  this 
ar  Gen.  Richard  Gentry  succeeded  Chas.  Hardin  as  postmaster, 
pon  Gen.  Gentry's  death,  in  1837,  his  wife,  Mrs.  Ann  Gentry, 
rough  the  personal  exertions  of  Senator  Thos.  H.  Benton,  was 
pointed  postmistress,  and  held  the  office  for  many  years. 
In  1831,  in  addition  to  those  in  business  in  Columbia  in  the  previous 
ar,  there  were  the  following :  Attorneys,  Calvin  L.  Perry,  Austin 
King  (afterward  Governor),  E.P.  Mills  and  Washington  Jenkins  ; 
)rchants,  Wm.  H.  White  (associated  with  Wm.  Cornelius),  John 
rnett,  and  Wm.  Provines ;  saddlers,  John  Bostick  and  George 
rrison ;  jewelers,  Shelton  Jones  and  Thomas  L.  Barrett ;  shoc- 
kers, J.  &  J.  Martin. 

'n  1839  the  State  University  was  located  at  Columbia,  full  particu- 
j  of  which  event  are  given  in  other  chapters  of  this  history.  From 
15  to  the  present  date  no  event  of  historic  importance  occurred  in 
iumbia,  not  already  noted.  Meanwhile  the  town  grew  slowly  and 
ely.  Those  who  came  to  the  place,  as  a  rule,  were  wealthy,  cul- 
ed  and  refined  people,  attracted  by  its  educational  and  kindred 
antages,  and  in  consequence  Columbia  society  came  to  be  known 
^eing  of  the  very  highest  order,  and  this  reputation  it  has  never 


«. 


)uring  the  period  from  1847  to  1850  the  following  were  some  of  the 
icipal  citizens  of  the  place :    Ministers,  Isaac   Jones,  Robert  S. 

)mas,  Thos.  M.  Allen,  S.  S.  Church,  D.  P.  Henderson  and 

cson  ;  teachers,  John  H.  Lathrop,  W.  M.  Hudson,  Prof.  Leffing- 
1,  Geo.  C.  Pratt,  J.  D.  Perryman,  Dr.  Litton,  Geo.  H.  Matthews ; 
)rney8,  James  S.  Rollins,  John  B.  Gordon,  Saml.  A.  Young,  A. 

Turner,  H.  F.  Garey,  L.  W.  Robinson;  physicians,  Wm.  H. 
mean,  T.  R.  H.  Smith,  Wm.  Provines,  Wm.  H.  Lee,  N.  B.  Spots- 
>d,  Wm.  Jewell,  James  H.  Bennett,  H.  M.  Clarkson,  J.  W.  Goodin, 

P.  Thomas.  The  leading  merchants  were  W.  W.  Wilson,  J. 
kbride,  J.  B.  Howard,  G.  G.  Schoolfield,  R.  S.  Barr,  Moss  Prew- 

John  Field,  Parsons  &  Moult,  James  L.  Stephens,  R.  C.  &  M. 
nham,  J.  C.  Kuykendall,  Wm.  W.  Stone,  Townshend  Stewart, 
R.  Boyce,  Alexander  Douglass,  Wm.  H.  Bast,  S.  A.  Maupin,. 
)8.  J.  Hardin;  tavern-keepers,  James  Richardson,  Mrs.  Ann 
itry  and  Thomas  Selby. 


804  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

SOME   NOTES   OF   WAR  TIMES. 

In  April,  1861,  about  three  men's  hats  covered  the  unconditionil 
Union  men  of  Columbia  who  had  the  nerve  to  proclaim  their  principles 
at  all  times  and  under  all  circumstances.  Gen.  Odon  Guitar  was  the 
l)08sessor  of  one  of  these  hats.  He  avowed  himself  to  be,  at  all  hi- 
jirds,  on  the  side  of  the  Federal  Government,  against  which  he  de- 
<^lared  it  would  be  treason  to  fight.  A  petition  was  presented  to  tie 
-county  court  to  appropriate  $10,000  to  arm  the  militia  of  the  county  to 
defend  the  sacred  soil  of  old  Boone  from  Federal  invasion.  Guitar 
was  county  attorney  at  the  time.  The  court-room  was  crowded  with 
the  friends  of  the  petition,  whose  attorney  made  a  strong  speech, 
urging  the  court  to  make  the  appropriation.  Guitar  denounced  the 
scheme  as  treasonable  in  the  highest  degree,  mincing  no  words  and 
polishing  no  phrases.  His  speech  is  declared  to  have  been  a  most 
hold  and  eloquent  efibrt,  and  one  that  tended  to  make  many  a  half-way 
Union  man  fully  confirmed  in  his  faith.  The  court  refused  to  make 
the  appropriation. 

The  merchants  of  the  city  kept  their  powder  in  a  magazine  near  the 
<;ourt-house.  The  secessionists  concluded  to  capture  it.  The  major- 
ity of  the  merchants  were  quite  willing  that  their  powder  should  be 
<5aptured  by  the  friends  of  the  Confederacy,  but  one  or  two  Union 
men  were  opposed  to  this.  Odon  Guitar  and  a  few  others  interviewed 
one  merchant  and  obtained  his  permission  to  guard  his  powder  in  the 
magazine.  They  posted  themselves,  well  armed,  one  night,  resolved 
to  fire  upon  any  squad  that  might  approach  the  magazine.  Guitar 
was  called  up  town  at  one  time,  being  about  half-an-hour  away. 
While  he  was  gone  the  Secessionists  came  up  to  the  magazine,  opened 
it,  and  bore  away  some  dozen  kegs  of  the  powder,  in  triumph  and 
in  safety.  The  Union  men  had  their  guns  trained  on  the  Secessionists, 
but  would  not  fire  without  orders  from  Guitar,  who  was  absent.  It 
was  lucky  that  no  collision  did  take  place.  Had  one  Secessionist  been 
killed  the  fight  would  have  opened  between  fellow-citizens,  and,  dread- 
ful as  the  war  turned  out  to  be,  in  such  an  event  it  would  have  been 
still  more  dreadful. 

When  the  Confederates  raided  the  town  in  1862,  one  Southern  lady 
hung  out  a  Confederate  flag  and  stood  in  her  door-way  and  waved  a 
handkerchief.  In  a  few  minutes  the  Confederates  had  retreated,  and 
Merrill's  cavalry  were  in  the  town.  Then  the  lady's  husband  hauled 
in  the  rebel  flag  and  ran  out  the  stars  and  stripes.  This  was  not  the 
only  Columbia  family  equal  to  every  emergency  during  the  war. 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE    COUNTY.  805 

Very  many  of  the  Confederate  sympathizers  were  forced  by  Col . 
[errill  and  Col.  Shaffer  to  feed  rebel  prisoners  and  sick  confined  in  the 
fuiversity  and  the  hospital  at  Columbia.  The  unfortunate  **  rebels  " 
'ere  thus  sure  of  a  good  meal,  and  the  Federals  obeyed  the  injunction 
fthe  Duke  of  Wellington,  to  "  forage  off  of  the  enemy  in  every  way 
on  can." 

The  upper  rooms  of  the  University  were  used  as  prisons  for  the 
)nfineraent  of  Confederate  prisoners.  On  one  occasion  they  sought 
)  break  out.  The  attempt  was  a  failure.  Two  or  three  made  their 
ay  into  the  garret,  where  they  were  discovered  and  assaulted  by  their 
uards,  and  desperately  wounded. 

The  Federals  used  the  cupola  of  the  court-house  as  a  look-out. 
!ere  two  or  three  sentinels  were  kept  on  the  watch  continually,  as 
le  point  commanded  a  view  of  all  the  roads  leading  into  the  town. 
he  cupola  of  the  University  was  also  used  as  a  watch-tower. 
Jast  after  the  invasion  of  the  county  by  Todd's  and  Anderson's 
lerrillas,  and  the  massacre  and  battle  of  Centralia,  Columbia  was 
aced  under  martial  law.  The  able-bodied  male  citizens,  irrespect- 
Bof  party  or  political  sympathy,  formed  a  company  to  defend  the 
wrn  against  an  expected  and  much-dreaded  raid  of  the  bushwhack- 
3.  A  block  house  was  built  in  the  middle  of  the  street,  at  the  cor- 
r  of  Eighth  and  Broadway,  to  be  used  as  a  tower  of  refuge  and  of 
•ength  in  the  day  of  battle  and  of  raid.  The  military  company  was 
lied  by  the  terror-inspiring  name  of  '<  Tigers,"  the  cognomen  being 
pposed  to  indicate  the  fierce  and  desperate  nature  of  the  members, 
d  giving  fair  warning  to  all  bushwhackers  to  keep  away  from  their 
r  and  to  beware  of  their  cruel  fangs,  as  it  were.  Really,  however, 
3  company  might  with  propriety  have  been  called  the  '' Snow- 
hite  Lambs,"  so  harmless  were  they,  and  so  gentle,  and  withal  with 
ch  an  aversion  to  the  smell  of  "  villainous  saltpetre."  They  could 
rdly  be  called  **  tigers,"  having  in  view  the  fitness  of  terms. 
The  ''Tigers"  had  barrels  of  fun  all  the  same.  It  was  such  jolly 
ort  to  shirk  duty,    such  as  standing  picket,   patroling  the  streets, 

mounting  guard.  The  penalties  for  any  infractions  of  duty  were 
t  very  severe.  Capt.  Rollins  was  of  a  kindly  nature,  and  when 
ch  fierce  warriors  as  J.  S.  Dorsey,  J.  Th.  Fyfer,  John  Samuel  and 
jorge  W.  Trimble,  were  brought  before  him  for  breaches  of  military 
jcipline,  it  may  be  imagined  that  the  severity  of  his  sentences  was 
•t  very  extraordinary. 
Throughout  the  entire  civil  war,  even  in  the  most  perilous  times> 


806  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

business  was  kept  up  and  transacted  in  Columbia  with  almost  usual 
regularity.  The  town  was  often  under  military  occupation,  withFed- 
eral  pickets  out  on  every  road,  but  citizens  were  permitted  topas8  in 
and  out  freely  for  the  purposes  of  trade  and  commerce.  Goods  ad* 
vanced  rapidly  in  price  as  the  war  progressed  and  greenbacks  depre- 
ciated, and  all  of  the  merchants  made  money. 

On  the  first  of  January,  1860,  after  a  continued  service  of  nearly 
thirty-nine  years  as  county  clerk,  Warren  Woodson  retired  from  that 
office,  giving  place  to  Joseph  B.  Douglass,  his  worthy  successor,  and 
delivered  to  the  court  a  most  appropriate  valedictory  which  was  spread 
upon  the  records  and  ordered  to  be  published. 

In  April,  1860,  Prof.  Sterling  Price,  Jr.,  projected  an  enterprise  of 
no  small  moment  to  Columbia,  namely,  the  purchase  of  William  T. 
Hitt  of  165  acres  of  land  adjoining  the  town  and  lying  immediately 
southeast  of  it,  and  laying  it  off  into  streets,  avenues  and  town  lots. 
It  was  known  as  '*  Price's  addition." 

After  the  close  of  the  war,  the  town  began  to  build  up  verj  sub- 
stantially. Broadway  and  other  streets  were  macadamized  and  put 
in  first-class  order,  and  from  year  to  year  new  and  substantial  brick 
business  houses  were  built  along  Broadway  and  other  streets,  until 
now,  as  previously  stated,  there  is  not  a  handsomer  town  in  Missouri 
than  Columbia.  There  is  a  good  system  of  sewerage  and  the  town  is 
lio:hted  with  ^ns. 

Its  three  colleges,  all  of  the  highest  order,  attract  hundreds  of 
people  to  the  place  from  year  to  year  and  cause  it  to  be  well  and  fav- 
onihly  known  abroad.  Sbwdents  attend  these  institutions  from  States 
and  Territories  hundreds  of  miles  away.  Recently  there  have  been 
graduated  from  the  female  colleges,  Indian  maidens,  whose  standing 
in  their  classes  was  high,  and  whose  orations  merited  and  received 
the  heartiest  applause.  The  college  commencements  uniformly  at- 
tract many  visitors  from  different  parts  of  the  country.  In  this  con- 
nection, historical  sketches  of  the  two  female  colleges  of  Columbia, 
the  Christian  and  the  Stephens,  will  be  given.  The  University  has 
its  history,  full  and  elaborate  to  exhaustion,  in  other  chapters  of  this 
volume. 

STEPHENS    COLLEGE. 

This  school,  like  all  similar  institutions  of  modern  learning,  has  had 
a  irrowth  and  development  from  one  of  smaller  pretensions,  to 
its  present  status  of  importance  among  the  colleges  of  the  State.  The 
nucleus    of    Stephens    College,    was    the    old    *' Columbia    Female 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  807 

Jkieademy/'  which  was  organized  in  1833,  and  was  the  outgrowth  of 
Itbe  first  denoLands  of  the  times  for  a  school  of  more  extended  culture 
I  tlum  Columbia  and  vicinity  had  yet  hud.     Miss  Lucy  Wales  first  had 
..<diarge  of  the  academy  after  its  organization,  and  she  was  succeeded  in 
torn  by  Prof .  Eleazar    [no^  Edward]    Root,  Oliver  Cunningham,  D. 
Penyman  and  Tyre  C.  Harris.     While  the  school  was  thus  in  oper- 
atioD,  some  denominational  difi*erences  sprang  up,  which   resulted  in 
changing  the  academy  from  a  non-sectarian  to  a  Baptist  school,  under 
the  name  of  the  **  Baptist  Female  College."     The  same  course  gave 
rise  to  the  establishment  of  '*  Christian  College,"  a  history  of  which 
is  given  in  this  work.     The  academy  passed  out  of  existence  in  1853, 
t    *n(i  was  succeeded  by  the  denominational  school  above  named,  which 
Was  organized  in  1856,  and  chartered  in  1857.     Several  thousand  dol- 
lars was  subscribed  towards  purchasing  buildings,  etc.,   and  several 
thousand  more  was  donated  to  pay  ofi*  an  old  mortgage  debt  on  the 
property  and  to  improve  the   buildings  and   grounds.     Among  the 
more  liberal  contributors  of  the  early  days  of  the  school  were  James 
l^.  Stephens,  Noah  Flood,  J.  M.  Robinson,  Warren  Woodson,  John 
ifoss, 'David  Hickman,  WiHiam  Hickman,  Thomas  Hickman,  Judge 
James  Harris,  Moss  Prewitt,  Robt.  T.  Prewitt,  Eli  Bass,  and  others. 
The  first  board  of  curators  were  David  H.  Hickman,  Warren  Wood- 
son, James  Harris,  Eli  E.  Bass,  William  T.  Hickman,  R.  C.  Branham 
and  Moss  Prewitt.     D.  H.  Hickman  was  president  of  the  board,  and 
Warren   Woodson  secretarv.      Rev.   W.  R.    Rothwell    was  the  first 
president  of  the  Baptist  Female  College,  but  retired  in  1857,  and  was 
succeeded  by  Rev.  X.  X.  Buckner,  who  presided  till  1859.     Rev.  Mr. 
Pendleton,  of  Illinois,  was  president  from   1859  till  18(50,  and  Rev.  J. 
T.  Williams  from  1860  to   18G6,  who  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  J.  H. 
Hollis,  who  held  the  position  till  his  death,  in  1869,  when  he  was  suc- 
ceeded by  E.  S.  Dulin,  who  presided  during  the  transition  period  be- 
low mentioned. 

In  1870,  the  school  was  changed  from  one  local  in  its  nature  to  a 
college,  under  control  of  the  Baptist  General  Association  of  Missouri. 
The  history  of  the  adoption  by  the  association  is  as  follows  :  — **  At  a 
meeting  of  the  Baptist  General  Association  of  Missouri,  in  1869,  the 
necessity  of  establishing  a  denominational  school  for  tl^e  higher  educa- 
tion of  our  daughters  was  made  the  subject  of  earnest  consideration. 
A  committee  was  appointed  to  report  upon  this  subject  at  the  next  meet- 
ing of  the  General  Association.  In  1870  this  conmiittce  reported  in 
favor  of  establishincr  such  a  collejre,    and  it  was  decided   bv  the  dele- 


oOtS  HISTORY  OP   BOONK   COUNIT. 

gates  then  in  session  to  take  immediate  steps  toward  accomplishing 
this  end.  At  this  juncture  the  eiitutors  of  the  Baptist  Female  College 
at  Columbia,  Mo.,  ofiei'ed  their  buildings  and  grounds,  valued  at  $35,- 


000,  to  the  ikssociation  for  this  purpose.  In  addition  to  this  offer, 
and  with  the  provision  that  the  Baptist  College  was  accepted  as  the 
State  school.  Brother  James  L,  Stephens,  of  Columbia,  munificently 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  809" 

offered  to  start  an  endowment  fund  by  giving  $20,000  to  the  college. 
The  offers  were  accepted,  and  the  Female  College  became  the  property 
of  the  General  Association."  The  name  was  changed  in  October, 
1870,  to  that  of  **  Stephens  Female  College, V  in  honor  of  the  liberal 
gentleman,  James  L.  Stephens,  who  gave  it  its  largest  endowment. 
Rev.  Dulin  was  succeeded,  in  1879,  by  Prof.  R.  P.  Rider,  who  con- 
tinues to  preside  at  the  present  writing.  The  college  is  beautifully 
located  in  the  suburbs  of  Columbia  on  East  Broadway,  and  with  its 
wide  lawn  and  majestic  forest  trees,  is  in  itself  an  educating  medium. 
The  buildings  are  spacious  and  convenient,  lighted  throughout  with 
gas,  and  sufficiently  commodious  to  furnish  ample  room  for  a  hundred 
boarders.  The  **Home  Department"  is  under  supervision  of  tlio 
president  and  his  wife,  and  so  conducted  as  to  render  it  truly  a  Ziow/^ 
to  those  consigned  to  its  care. 

The  following  departments  into  which  the  school  is  organized,  show 
it  to  be  an  institution  meeting  all  the  requirements  of  modern  culture  : 
Ist,  School  of  English,  leading  to  degree  oi  Baccalaxirea  Litermmm ; 
2d,  School  of  History  and  Literature,  leading  to  the  same  degreo  ; 
3d*,  School  of  Natural  Science,  leading  to  degree  oi  Baccalaurea  Sci- 
entarum;  4th,  School  of  Mathematics,  degree  B.  S. ;  5th,  School  of 
Languages,  degree  B.  L;  6th,  School  of  Philosophy,  degree  B.  L.  ; 
7th,  School  of  Biblical  History,  degree  B.  L.  ;  8th,  School  of  Genernl 
Culture,  degree  Baccalaurea  Artium,  In  addition  to  these  is  the 
Post-Graduate  School,  for  a  course  still  in  advance  of  the  colleiro 
course,  and  School  of  Didactics,  for  special  benefit  of  those  desirous 
of  becoming  teachers.  The  schools  of  music,  art  and  elocution,  arc 
up  to  the  standard  of  any  of  the  rival  institutions  of  the  State.  The 
daughters  of  ministers  who  have  died  in  the  service  of  the  Baptist 
church,  and  of  those  living  ministers  who  devote  their  entire  time  to 
ministerial  labors,  are  here  permitted  to  enjoy  special  advantages, 
and  are  educated  at  a  nominal  cost.  All  things  considered,  this  col- 
lege takes  rank  with  the  best  institutions  of  general  culture  in  the  West  ; 
and  few  schools,  if  anv,  can  offer  better  advantages  to  those  desirinir 
a  thorough  education  and  Christian  training  for  their  daughters. 

CHRISTIAN    FEMALE    COLLEGE. 

On  the  resignation,  in  1849,  of  the  presidcnc}^  of  the  State  University 
by  John  H.  Lathroj),  the  board  of  curators  elected  to  that  position 
James  Shannon,  LL.  D.,  of  Bacon  College,  Ilarrodsburg,  Kentucky. 
In  November  of  the  same  j^ear  Samuel   Hatch  and  H.   IL  White  of 


eio 


HISTOUT  OF   BOONE   CODNTT. 


Harrodsburg,  who,  with  Presideut  Sbaanon,  were  membera  of  the 
Christian  church,  proposed  on  certain  conditions  to  establish  in  Colum- 
bia a  "Female  College  Institute"  of  the  highest  grade,  and  Dr. 
Hatch  visited  Columbia  with  a  view  of  inaugurating  the  enterprise. 
Much  general  public  interest  was  awakened  on  the  subject,  and  sev- 
eral meetings  of  our  citizens  of  alt  parties  and  denominations  were  held 
to  consider  the  proposition.  Irreconcilable  differences  as  to  details 
were  disclosed,  especially  among  members  of  the  several  churches, 
and  the  result  was  tbat  the  enterprise,  on  the  couditious  proposed  by 
Hatch  and  White,  was  abandoned. 

It  is  due  the   truth  of  history,  however,  to  say   that  out  of  these 


differences  arose,  on  the  part  of  the  members  of  the  Christian  Church, 
a  commendable  determination  to  establish  a  female  college  under  the 
special  patronage  of  that  church,  and  a  like  determination  on  the  part 
of  members  of  other  churches  to  resuscitate  and  reorganize  the  old 
Columbia  Female  Academy. 

Rev.  Tyre  C.  Harris,  a  Baptist  minister,  was  called  to  the  presi- 
dency of  the  latter  institution ,  and  out  of  it  grew  the  Baptist  College) 
called  afterwards,  and  now,  Stephens  Female  College. 

Out  of  the  other  enterprise  grew  Christian  Female  College ;  so 
that,  in  truth,   the  proposition  of  Hatch  mid  White  to  establish  a 


HISTORY  or  BOONE  COUNTY.  811 

*  Female  Collegiate  Institute  "  finally  resulted  in  the  establishment 
>f  two  female  colleges  in  the  town. 

Christian  College  was  chartered  by  the  Legislature »  January  18 , 
L851,  with  the  following  corporators:  James  Shannon,  T.  N.  H. 
Smithy  Thomas  M.  Allen,  D.  P.  Henderson,  W.  W.  Hudson,  Robt. 
S.  Barr,  Thomas  D.  Grant,  Levi  T.  Smith,  Dr.  William  McClure, 
Elavil  Vivion,  John  Jamison,  Weston  F.  Birch,  J.  J.  Allen,  J.  C.  Fox, 
Lewis  Bryan,  Elijah  Patterson,  John  S.  Phelps,  WaymanCrow,  S.  S. 
Church  and  Moses  E.  Lard,  all  of  whom  are  dead  except  four. 

The  first  meeting  of  the  corporators  or  trustees  was  held  in  Colum- 
bia, February  3d,  1851.  T.  M.  Allen  was  elected  president,  and  D. 
P.  Henderson,  secretary,  and  T.  R.  H.  Smith  treasurer  of  the  board. 
John  Augustus  Williams,  of  Harrodsburg,  Kentucky,  was  elected  pres- 
ident, and  Miss  Rebecca  Jane  Galbraith,  of  Jacksonville,  HI.,  prin- 
cipal of  the  department  of  mathematics  and  natural  science. 

The  college  having  no  buildings  in  which  to  open  instructions,  the 
two-story  frame,  which  was  then  a  very  unpretentious  structure,  and 
now  occupied  as  a  residence  by  Dr.  W.  T.  Maupin,  was  improvised  for 
the  occasion.  In  August,  1851,  the  board  purchased  the  then  incom- 
pleted residence  belonging  to  the  estate  of  the  late  Dr.  Jas.  H.  Ben- 
nett and  the  grounds  thereto  attached,  estimated  at  thirty  acres,  for 
$5,500  on  twelve  months'  credit  without  interest ;  and  proceeded 
through  the  agency  of  L.  B.  Wilkes  and  II.  H.  Ready  to  raise  funds 
by  voluntary  subscription  to  pay  the  debt  and  to  finish  and  enlarge 
the  buildings.  By  the  fall  session  of  the  college,  whieh  opened  on 
September  15th,  1851,  the  buildings  were  in  such  condition  as  to  be 
occupied ;  and  on  that  day  the  first  regular  session  of  Christian  Col- 
lege commenced. 

The  institution  grew  rapidly  upon  the  public  favor  from  its  very 
foundation  and  during  its  whole  history,  except  a  few  years,  while  the 
civil  war  was  raging,  was  very  prosperous.  Liberal  contributions 
of  money  have  again  and  again  been  made  by  its  friends,  which  en- 
abled the  board  of  trustees  not  only  to  extinguish  the  original  debt, 
but  very  largely  to  add  to  the  improvements  and  to  the  ornamentation 
of  the  grounds. 

President  Williams  resigned  in  1856  and  was  succeeded  by  Elder  L. 
B.  Wilkes,  who,  resigning  in  1858,  was  succeeded  by  the  late  la- 
mented Elder  J.  K.  Rogers.  President  Rogers  retained  the  presidency 
until  1877  when,  on  account  of  failing  health,  he  resigned.  Dur- 
ing his  administration  of  the  college,  embracing  a  period  of  nearly 


812  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

twenty  years,  he  was  remarkably  successful  in  commending  the  institu- 
tion to  public  favor  and  patronage  ;  and  his  name  will  live  as  a  pleas- 
ant memory  in  the  minds  of  hundreds  of  the  most  accomplished  and 
cultivated  women  of  our  state. 

[See  biography  of  S.  K.  Rogers.] 

On  the  retirement  of  President  Rogers  in  1877,  the  board  unani- 
mously elected  Geo.  S.  Bryant  to  fill  the  vacancy,  since  which  period 
to  the  present  time  he  has  most  ably  and  successfully  conducted  the 
institution,  which  is  now  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  reputable  for 
the  education  of  young  women  in  the  Mississippi  Valley. 

The  college  edifice  is  a  large  two-story  brick,  lighted  with  gas,  and 
is  most  beautifully  located  in  an  elm  and  maple  grove  just  within  the 
northern  limits  of  Columbia.  A  more  lovely. or  eligible  site  for  a 
female  college  could  not  have  been  selected.  It  was  originally  de- 
signed by  the  late  Dr.  Bennett  as  a  residence  for  himself  and  family. 
Before  it  was  completed,  however,  he  went  to  California,  like  thou- 
sands of  others,  in  search  of  gold,  and  in  1850,  died  at  Placerville, 
in  that  State. 

A   WALKING   STATESMAN. 

At  the  election  of  1878,  Capt.  J.  W.  Kneisley  was  elected  to  the 
'  legislature  from  this  county.  During  the  canvass  he  promised  the 
people  that  if  elected  he  would  walk  to  JeflFerson  City  to  attend  the 
session  of  the  legislature.  Being  elected  by  an  ovewhelming  majority^ 
he  left  his  home  in  Columbia  at  10  a.  m.  January  2,  1879.  The  day 
chanced  to  be  the  coldest  of  the  season.  Capt.  Kneisley  reached 
Ashland  at  3  p.  m.,  having  made  the  distance,  15  miles,  in  five  hours. 
Here  he  remained  over  night,  leaving  the  next  morning  at  10  and 
arriving  at  Claysville  at  noon.  Here  he  was  given  a  reception  and 
made  a  speech,  after  which  he  continued  his  tramp,  reaching  Cedar 
City,  opposite  Jefibrson,  at  sunset.  He  crossed  the  river  on  the  iee 
and  reached  the  capital  in  safety.  Capt.  K.  was  54  years  of  age  at 
the  time. 


LEADING  BUSINESS  INTERESTS  OF  COLUMBIA. 

MILLS. 

The  Columbia  Milling  Company  was  incorporated  February  6,  1882, 
with  a  cash  capital  of  $60,000.  Its  members  are  Gen.  O.  Guitar, 
president;  G.  W.  Henderson,  vice-president  and  superintendent;  F. 
Pannell,  secretary;   J.  M.  Baker,  treasurer,  and  W.  T.  Anderson. 


t 


HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTY.  813 

'he  company  owns  the  Columbia  flouring  mills,  which  have  a  capacity 
f  150  barrels  daily  ;  the  Columbia  wheat  elevator,  with  a  capacity  of 
00,000  bushels,  and  the  Centralia  corn  elevator,  with  a  capacity  of 
0,000  bushels.  The  Columbia  flouring  mills  have  five  stones,  one 
air  of  rolls,  22  hovels,  and  run  night  and  day.     The  engine  is  of 

0  horse  power. 

The  Farmers'  Mills  are  situated  on  a  one  and  a  half  acre  lot  in  the 
orth western  part  of  the  city.     The  main  building  is  24x40  feet,  with 

wing  12x20.  The  flouring  mill  contains  three  run  of  burrs,  and 
ses  the  Morse  elevating  bolt.  The  machinery  is  driven  by  an  engine 
f  forty-horse  power.     The  mill  has  a  capacity  of  40  barrels  of  flour 

1  ten  hours,  and  150  bushels  of  corn  meal.  The  saw  mill  cuts  6,000 
3et  of  lumber  per  day.  Ten  men  are  employed  in  the  mill.  The 
aill  building  is  entirely  new,  completed  in  the  summer  of  1882.  It 
)  three  and  one-half  stories  high  including  the  basement.  Maupin, 
Imith  &  Co.,  proprietors.  Superintendent,  R.  H.  Smith,  a  practical 
ailler  of  35  years  experience. 


NEWSPAPERS . THE    * '  STATESMAN . 


>  J 


[For  a  history  of  the  Missouri  Statesman ,  the  reader  is  referred  to 
he  first  chapter  of  the  general  history.  For  history  of  the  Sentinel 
ee  biographical  sketch  of  Wallace  J.  Davis,  Esq.] 


HISTORY   or   THE    *' HERALD. 


>9 


On  February  5,  1869,  C.  P.  Anderson  &  Sons,  who  had  recently 
amoved  from  California,  Missouri,  issued  in  Columbia  the  first  num- 
er  of  the  Boone  County  Journal,  an  eight  column  Democratic  paper. 
)r.  E.  W.  Herudon  was  the  editor,  but  had  no  pecuniary  interest  in 
he  paper.  The  Journal  grew  rapidly  in  circulation.  On  April  13, 
870,  Edwin  W.  Stephens  of  Columbia  purchased  a  half  interest  in 
he  Journal  newspaper  and  job  oflice  and  succeeded  Dr.  E.  W.  Herndon 
s  editor.  He  also  made  a  number  of  important  changes  in  the 
ypographical  arrangement  and  appearance  of  the  paper  and  enlarged 
nd  improved  its  news  departments.  On  January  1,  1871,  the  name 
^as  changed  to  the  Columbia,  Missouri,  jfferaZd and  has  so  continued 
ince.  The  circulation  of  the  Journal  doubled  during  the  first  six 
nonths  after  Mr.  Stephens  became  editor  and  the  Herald,  its  suc- 
essor,  has  maintained  constantly  during  its  whole  history  a  circulation 
•robably  unsurpassed  by  any  country  paper  in  the  State.  In  Decem- 
er,  1872,  Mr.  Stephens  purchased  the  interest  of  his  partner,  Mr.  C. 


814  ,  HISTORY   or  BOONE   COUNTY. 

P.  Anderson,  and  has  remained  sole  proprietor  to  this  time.  The 
paper  was  increased  from  eight  to  nine  columns,  being  29x44  inches, 
folio,  and  has  continued  that  size  since.  ^In  1879  the  Herald^  which, 
from  its  origin,  had  been  printed  on  small  pica  and  brevier  type, 
appeared  in  an  entirely  new  and  beautiful  dress  of  long  primer  and 
brevier,  and  has  been  since  that  date  the  handsomest  newspaper  in 
the  State.  The  Herald  has  always  had  a  liberal  subscription  and 
advertising  patronage.  Few  papers  not  of  metropolitan  pretensions 
are  so  extensively  patronized  at  home  or  abroad.  In  addition  to  a  lib- 
eral patronage  from  its  immediate  community,  it  has  received  annually 
since  under  the  present  management  an  average  of  $1,000  worth  of 
advertising  from  St.  Louis,  an  achievement  no  less  creditable  to  the 
Herald  as  a  medium  than  to  the  excellent  business  standing  of  its 
section  of  the  State  in  the  evidence  thus  given  the  appreciation  of  it 
abroad.  In  1881  Mr.  Marcellus  Dimmitt,  a  gentleman  of  fine  busi- 
ness and  literary  accomplishments,  became  associate  editor  of  the 
Herald  and  pays  special  attention  to  the  advertising  department.  The 
Herald  has  probably  done  more  than  any  other  paper  in  Central  Mis- 
souri to  develop  the  feature  of  local  news  in  country  journalism. 
Some  ten  years  ago  county  papers  in  this  section  contained  not  one- 
tenth  the  local  news  as  at  present.  The  Herald  opened  at  once  sev- 
eral columns  of  county  correspondence,  local  brevities,  personals  and 
other  items  of  local  news,  in  which  it  was  soon  followed  by  other  pa- 
pers of  the  section  until  now  the  local  feature  is  the  overshadowing 
one  of  country  journalism.  The  Herald  has  always  been  Democratic 
in  politics. 

THE    PUBLIC    SCHOOLS. 

The  academies  and  other  graded  schools  in  Columbia  that  were  in 
existence  at  an  early  day  are  described  in  the  general  history.  It 
only  remains  to  speak  of  the  private  schools  of  less  pretensions. 
These  were  of  the  character  known  as  subscription  schools  and  were 
attended  by  small  children  or  those  of  parents  in  modest  circum- 
stances. The  number  of  these  schools  between  1820  and  1840  can- 
not now  be  computed,  nor  can  the  names  of  the  teachers  be  ascer- 
tained, so  as  to  set  them  down  in  the  order  in  which  they  taught. 
There  are  yet  living  in  Columbia  old  men,  gray  and  bald  now,  who 
were  roguish  boy-students  at  these  same  schools. 

For  many  interesting  anecdotes  of  the  early  schools  let  the  reader 
interview  R.  L.  Todd,  John  M.  Samuel,  Odon  Guitar,  and  James  L. 
Stephens.     Particularly  let  him  call  on  Gen.  Guitar  for  a  narration  of 


HISTORY  or  BOONE   COUNTY.  815' 

emanner  in  which  he  wilfully  assaulted  a  schoolmate  on  one  occasion 
id  came  near  putting  out  his  eye,  because  the  aforesaid  schoolmate 
Bred  at  *'  Ode,"  who  was  then  a  prisoner,  immured  behind  the  school 
om  door. 

In  was  not  until  in  the  '50's  that  the  public  schools  of  Columbia 
lounted  to  much  in  the  way  of  educational  institutions.  The  school 
ard  rented  houses  in  different  quarters  of  town  from  time  to  time, 
'en  after  the  war  there  was  the  *'  Broadway  school,"  the  "  Mission 
lool,"  and  other  schools.  In  1871  the  old  Methodist  church,  on 
vev  Broadway,  was  purchased  and  used  as  a  school  house  for  some 
ie. 

January  13, 1881,  the  board  of  education  instructed  one  of  its  mem- 
rs,  Capt.  Jas.  A.  Adams,  to  get  up  plans  and  estimates  for  the  cost 
a  new  school  building.  February  22d,  the  board  ordered  an  elec- 
n  to  be  held  on  the  5th  of  April  for  the  purpose  of  authorizing  said 
[ird  to  make  a  loan  to  the  amount  of  $12,500  to  be  used  in  pur- 
ising  a  site,  erecting  a  new  school  building  and  furnishing  same  for 
d  district  at  a  tax  of  forty  cents  on  the  one  hundred  dollars.  At 
J  same  time  two  sites  were  presented  to  the  voters  at  the  annual 
ction,  to  choose  from  as  to  fixing  the  location  of  the  new  building, 
le  of  these  sights  was  known  as  the  Turner  property,  containing 
ir  acres,  which  was  offered  to  the  board  for  $2,500.  The  other  was 
J  Dimmitt  property,  which  contained  five  acres,  and  was  offered  for 
,250. 

The  proposition  to  build  a  new  house  was  carried  :  Ayes,  455  ;  nays. 
For  the  site  known  as  the  Gabriel  Turner  property,  356.  For 
>  sight  known  as  the  Fred  R.  Dimmitt  lot,  75.  Wh(5le  number  of 
:es  cast  on  the  loan,  528,  of  which  352  are  two-thirds.  Majority  for 
n  over  the  two-thirds,  108.  On  the  question  of  site  the  Turner 
)perty,  carried  by  4  votes  over  the  two-thirds.  Therefore  the  elec- 
n  settled  affirmatively  both  the  loan  and  site,  and  the  board  pro- 
ided  at  once  to  issue  bonds  for  the  amount  voted,  to  agree  upon  a 
,n  for  the  building,  and  to  make  a  contract  for  its  erection. 
The  bonds  issued  under  this  authority  were  sold  at  par  and  accrued 
erest,  bringing  $12,604.16,  which  with  the  money  derived  from  tlie 
e  of  the  old  school  house,  amounting  to  $1,055,  raised  the  build- 
:  fund  to  $13,659.16.  Much  difficulty  was  experienced  to  erect 
,h  the  means  at  hand  a  building  at  once  appropriate,  commodious, 
e  and  strong,  as  $2,500  had  been  paid,  according  to  vote,  for 
I  site  alone,  and  four  acres  of  ground,  leaving  as   available  funds 


^16  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

$11,159.16.     There  was  spent  on  the  building  $11,706.88,  overrun- 
ning the  fund  $547.72. 

The  buildinor  is  on  an  elevated  and  most  beautiful  and  commandins 
site  in  the  northern  suburbs  of  the  town,  overlooking  the  town  on  the 
south  and  the  adjacent  country  on  all  sides.  Briefly  described,  it  is 
a  two-story  brick  structure,  65  feet  front  by  70  feet  deep,  with  two 
wings,  one  north,  the  other  south,  14  by  32  feet.  Height  of 
building  to  the  square,  35  feet,  covered  by  a  shingle  roof, 
hipped  on  all  sides  (43,000  shingles),  and  deck  and  belfry  cov- 
ered with  tin,  28  squares.  In  the  whole  building  there  are  60  large 
windows  with  Venetian  shutters  and  three  double  doors,  one  at  the 
front  or  eastern  entrance,  and  one  each  at  the  western  side  of  the 
wings,  in  which  are  the  stairways.  On  the  lower  floor  of  the  building 
there  are  four  recitation  rooms  24  by  28  feet,  with  14  feet  ceilings. 
Hallway  from  front  door,  12  feet  wide,  communicatiug  with  the  ball- 
way  (running  north  and  south  between  the  rooms  on  the  east  and 
west),  which  is  10  feet  wide  and  65  feet  long.  At  either  end  of  this 
hall,  in  a  wing  of  the  building,  is  a  platform  stairway  4Va  feet  wide 
communicating  with  the  upper  story.  On  the  west  side  of  the  upper 
hall  are  two  recitation  rooms,  24  by  28  feet,  16  feet  ceilingSi  with  a 
library  room  12  by  28.  Ou  the  east  side  of  the  hall  is  the  chapel,  28 
by  65  feet,  16  feet  ceiling,  two  doors  and  12  windows.  Oiled  and 
varnished  yellow-pine  wainscoting  and  patent-moi"tar  blackboards  are 
in  every  room  and  in  the  chapel,  and  each  recitation  room  has  a  cloak 
and  hat  room  attached.  Large  coal  stove  furnaces,  a  new  and  highly 
approved  patent  for  which  many  merits  are  claimed,  warm  each  room 
and  the  chapel.  All  the  recitation  rooms,  and  the  chapel  in  part,  are 
provided  with  the  latest  improved  seats.  Surmounting  the  building 
on  the  east  and  above  the  front  entrance  is  a  handsome  belfry  —  the 
whole  building  presenting  architecturallv  a  symmetrical  and  com- 
manding appearance,  a  fitting  monument  to  the  cause  of  edueatiou,  au 
honor  to  our  people  and  a  credit  to  the  builders. 

Mr.  B.  McAlester,  was  the  architect.  The  contract  for  the  whole 
building  just  as  it  stands,  seats  and  warming  apparatus  excepted,  was 
let  to  A.  T.  Duncan,  James  F.  Stewart  and  John  Crist,  at  $11,455, 
May  24,  1881.  The  brick,  about  565,000,  were  manufactured  and 
laid  by  J.  D.  Fay  and  Russell  Berry;  plastering  by  E.  F.  Arthur; 
painting  by  Mosley  &  Stewart,  and  roof  of  tin  by  Berry  &  Matthews, 
contractors,  George  E.  Allgair  and  W.  W.  Hornberger  doiug  the 
work.     The  bnilding  was  commenced  about  the  middle  of  June,  and, 


A 

PUBLIC  SCHOOL. 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  817 

5  completed  and  ready  for  occupancy,  was  turned  over  to  the 
d  and  publicly  dedicated  on  Monday,  December  19,  1881.  The 
mbia  Statesman  of  December  23,  1881,  contained  a  full  account 
le  dedicatory  ceremonies,  from  which  account  it  is  learned  that 
ledication  took  place  in  the  chapel  in  the  presence  of  the  entire 
ol,  who  with  the  teachers  marched  in  a  body  from  the  old  build- 
on  Broadway  with  music  and  banners,  and  a  large  auditory  of  citi- 
; ;  the  Columbia  brass  band  furnished  music  for  the  march  and  for 
dedicatory  occasion. 

imes  A.  Adams,  president  of  the  board,  presided.     After  a  song 
;he  children  of  the  school,  two  or  three  hundred  in  number,  prayer 
offered  by  Rev.  Dr.  Fisher,  when  Gen.  Guitar  one  of  the  board 
ducation,  read  a  paper  turning  over  the  building  to  the  people  and 
ng  a  summary  of  the  work  of  the  board,  its  successful  accomplish- 
its,  etc.     Next  followed  a  financial  statement  by  Prof.  Schweitzer, 
etary.     Following  this  were  very  appropriate  speeches  by  Presi- 
t  Bryant  of  Christian  College,  President  Rider  of  Stephens  Col- 
I,  President  Laws  of  the  Sttite  University  and  Maj.  Rollins,  Presi. 
tof  the  University  Board  of  Curators.     Mr.  Adams,  chairman  of 
board  of  education,  then  delivered  a  brief  charge  and  the  keya  of 
building  to  Prof.  Iglehart,  principal  of  schools,  who  responded  in 
(fitting  manner.     After  a  closing  song  by  the  pupils  the  audience 
dismissed,  and  thus  ended  another  notable  day  in  the  history  of 
imbia. 

t  present  the  school  contains  about  400  pupils.  It  has  six  teach- 
—  Prof.  J.  J.  Iglehart,  principal  and  teacher  of  the  high  school 
artment;  Miss  Lizzie  Bedford,  teacher  of  the  grammar  depart- 
it ;  Miss  Alice  Banks,  teacher  of  the  second  intermediate 
artment ;  Miss  Kate  Hays,  teacher  of  the  first  intermediate  de- 
:ment;  Miss  Amanda  Lemon,  teacher  of  the  second  primary 
artment;  Mrs.  J.  J.  Iglehart,  teacher  of  the  first  primary  de- 
tment. 

'he  first  board  of  education  of  the  town  of  Columbia  of  which  there 
record  was  elected  January  4,  1873,  and  held  its  first  meeting  three 
8  later.  It  was  composed  of  R.  H.  Clinkscales  and  W.  T.  Ander- 
,  who  held  till  September,  1873  ;  J.  M.  Samuel  and  R.  A.  Moore, 
)  held  till  September,  1874,  andT.  B.  Gentry  and  J.  S.  Moss,  who 
i  till  September,  1875.  T.  B.  Gentry  was  the  first  president  and 
n  M.  Samuel  the  first  secretary.  The  present  board  is  composed 
[3apt.  J.  A.  Adams,  president ;  Paul  Schweitzer,  secretary,  and 
52 


818  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

John  M.  Samuel,  treasurer.     The  other  members  are  D.  D.  Bern, 
B.  A.  Watson,  and  O.  Guitar. 

THE    COLORED   SCHOOL. 

The  first  colored  school  house  in  Columbia  was  built  in  1866,  partly 
by  the  Freedman's  Aid  Society.  The  ground  on  which  the  building 
stands  was  donated  by  the  colored  church  members  of  Columbia. 
The  building  was  first  erected  for  a  Union  church,  but  was  occupied  as 
41  school  house  from  the  first.  It  was  originally  called  Cummings 
Academy,  in  honor  of  its  first  principal.  Prof.  Chas.  C.  CummiDgs, 
who  had  charge  of  the  school  for  ten  years. 

The  house  has  three  rooms.  No.  1  will  seat  lOO  pupils ;  No.  2  seats 
80 ;  No.  3  seats  40.  There  are  two  rooms  on  the  first  floor.  Room 
No.  3  is  called  the  abecedarian  department ;  No.  2  is  the  primary  de- 
partment ;  No.  1  the  grammar  and  intermediate  department.  There 
are  four  teachers  —  Prof.  F.  H.  Lawther,  principal  and  teacher  of  the 
grammar  department ;  Mrs.  Hattie  Lawther  has  charge  of  the  inter- 
mediate department ;  Miss  Bettie  Hoskins  has  room  No.  2,  primary 
department ;  Miss  Jennie  Coleman  teaches  the  abecedarians. 

The  school  ranks  as  one  of  the  best  colored  schools  in  Missouri.  The 
rooms  are  very  small,  however,  and  during  the  last  session  were  very 
much  crowded.  The  terms  are  of  the  same  length  as  those  of  the 
main  public  schools.  In  the  matter  of  school  privileges  the  colored 
children  of  Columbia  have  the  same  number  as  the  whites. 

CHURCHES    OF    COLUMBIA BAPTIST. 

The  Baptist  church  of  Columbia  was  first  organized  at  the  resi- 
dence of  old  Charles  Hardin,  November  22,  1823.  The  original 
members  were  Hutchens  Barrett,  Wm.  Ridge  way,  Charles  Hardin, 
Hannah  Hardin,  Harriet  Goodloe,  Abraham  N.  Foley,  Wm.  Jewell, 
George  Jewell,  Mary  Jewell,  Henry  Cave  and  Hiram  C.  Phillips. 
From  1823  to  1828,  services  were  held  at  private-houses.  From  1828 
to  1836  the  congregation  worshipped  in  the  court-house.  In  1836 
Wm.  Jewell  (Baptist)  and  Moses  U.  Payne  (Methodist)  built  a  church 
which  was  used  jointly  by  the  Baptists  and  Methodists  for  many 
years.  This  church  stood  where  was  afterwards  John  Guitar's  resi- 
dence, lot  241  of  the  original  town  plat. 

The  records  of  this  church  from  1823  to  1844,  and  from  1844  to 
April,  1865,  have  been  lost,  and  no  authentic  history  can  be  given 
during  those  periods.     This  much  is  known,  however,  that  in  1837, 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  819 

"vhen  the  division  in  the  Baptist  church  occurred  on  the  subject  of 
Vdissions,  this  church  almost  unanimously  sided  with  the  Missionary 
JBaptists. 

The  second  church  building  was  erected  in  either  1844  or  1845. 
Alfred  Keene  was  the  contractor.  This  building  is  still  standing  on 
the  old  public  square,  just  west  of  the  court-house.  The  site  was 
deeded  by  the  county  court. 

The  first  pastor  of  the  church  was  Rev.  Allen  McGuire,  who  was 
elected  in  August,  1827,  and  served  until  his  death,  March  31,  1835. 
Then  came  R.  S.  Thomas,  who  served  till  1843 ;  and  after  him  were 

£lder  Keep, Macy  and  J.  A.  HoUis,  the  latter  afterwards  the 

president  of  Baptist  College.  Rev.  H.  M.  Richardson  was  pastor 
from  September  28,  1867,  to  May  4,  1871.  Rev.  B.  T.  Taylor  from 
December  4,  1871,  to  December  4,  1872;  Rev.  E.  D.  Isbell  from 
May,  1873,  to  June  26, 1876  ;  Rev.  H.  W.  Dodge  from  July  27,  1876, 
to  the  present  time.  Rev.  Dodge  refused  a  call  to  this  church  about 
forty  years  ago.     The  present  membership  of  this  church  is  252. 

PRESBYTERIAN    CIIURCH. 

From  a  historical  sketch  in  the  Columbia  Herald^  of  February  17, 
1876,  it  is  learned  that  the  Presbyterian  church  of  Columbia  was 
•organized  September  14,  1828,  by  Revs.  Wm.  P.  Cochrane  and  Thos. 
Durfee,  missionaries,  who  had  been  sent  out  to  the  far  West  by  the 
Home  Missionary  Society  of  New  York.  The  constitutional  meeting 
was  held  at  a  private  residence.  The  second  meeting  was  held  at 
Robert  Huston's,  four  miles  northeast  of  Columbia.  The  original 
members  were  Peter  Wright,  John  Sutton,  Elizabeth  Sutton,  Caro- 
4ine  Wilson,  Wm.  Pierce,  Harriet  Pierce,  Robert  Huston,  and  per- 
haps others. 

At  the  March  meeting,  1829,  Peter  Wright  was  chosen  first  dele- 
gate to  the  presbytery,  then  held  at  St.  Charles.  September  1,  1829, 
the  membership  of  the  church  had  increased  to  twenty-five.  A  few 
days  after  the  first  meeting  Peter  Wright  and  Wm.  Pierce  were 
chosen  the  first  ruling  elders.  John  Vanhorn  and  Robert  Huston 
were  chosen  the  first  deacons,  in  the  year  1832.  The  first  presby- 
tery was  held  August  23,  1834,  "  on  the  Presbyterian  camp  ground," 
two  miles  north  of  Columbia.  The  first  members  disciplined  were 
arraigned  February  18,  1830.  They  were  two  sisters  (  I)  '*who," 
^th  the  record,  '<  common  fame  says,  are  not  living  oi)  terms  of 


820  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

Christiau  friendship."     A  committee  visited  them  and  a  reconciliation 
was  effected. 

January  1,  1843,  a  great,  revival  meeting  occurred  in  this  chmth, 
durino^  which  there  were  about  one  hundred  additions.  The  meeting 
was  conducted  by  Rev.  Isaac  Jones,  assisted  by  Revs.  W.  W.  Rob- 
ertson and  David  Coulter. 

The  first  church  building  was  erected  on  the  northwest  corner  of 
Sixth  and  Walnut  streets,  in  1832.  It  was  a  brick  and  cost  about 
$1,000.  It  was  an  unpretentious  affair,  and  had  neither  steeple  nor 
bell.  It  was  afterwards  used  as  a  carding  mill.  The  present  church, 
which  stands  on  the  corner  of  Tenth  and  Broadway,  was  built  in  1848. 
It  is  a  brick,  and  quite  a  substantial  structure.  It  contains  a  hand- 
some pipe  organ,  which  was  purchased  in  February,  1860,  at  a  cost  of 
$700.     Mr.  J.  L.  Stephens  generously  paid  one-fourth  of  this  cost. 

The  following  have  been  the  pastors  of  this  church  since  its  organiz- 
ation : 

1828-33,  Wm.  P.  Cochran;  1833-34,  no  pastor;  1834-35,  F.  E. 
Gray  ;  1835-36,  no  pastor ;  1836-38,  J.  L.  Yantis  ;  1838-40,  no  pas- 
tor;  1840-46,  Isaac  Jones;  1846-48,  no  pastor:  1848-49,  Frank 
Hart;  1849-51,  James  T.  Paxton ;  1851-58,  N.  H.  Hall;  1858-61, 
S.  A.  Mutchmore;  1861-62,  M.  M.  Fisher;  1864-67,  David  Coulter, 
1868-70,  B.  Y.  George;  1870-71,  no  pastor;  1871-76,  R.  S.  Camp- 
bell. 

Rev.  Wilkie  is  the  present  pastor. 

CHRISTIAN    CHURCH. 

This  now  numerous  and  flourishing  church  was  organized  in  1832, 
the  original  members  being  Elizabeth  Stone,  Stephen  Bedford,  Eliza- 
beth Bedford,  Joseph  Chiles,  Elizabeth  Ramsey,  Susan  Robinson, 
Jane  Robinson,  Wm.  E.  Ready,  Catherine  Teeter  and  Robert  Teeter. 
Their  first  church  building  was  a  frame  erected  in  1841,  which  served 
as  a  place  of  worship  through  many  years  of  success  as  a  church.  In 
1860,  the  present  large  brick  edifice  was  erected  on  lot  No.  285,  on  the 
corner  of  Tenth  and  Walnut  streets.  The  structure  is  commodious 
and  well  furnished,  and  cost  $8,000.  It  was  dedicated  bv  Rev. 
Moses  E.  Lord  in  January,  1861.  The  following  is  a  list  of  the 
names  of  pastors  that  have  served  the  church,  from  time  to  time: 
Richard  Cave,  Marcus  P.  Wills,  Thomas  M.  Allen,  S.  S.  Church,  D. 
Pat  Henderson,  James  Shannon,  L.  B.  Wilkes,  Joseph  K.  Rogers, 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE    COUNTY.  821 

ahn  W.  Mountjoy,  Albert  Myles,  O.  A.  Carr,  Richard  W.  Gentry 
id  John  W.  Mountjoy  again  who  is  the  present  pastor.  The  present 
embership  numbers  400.  The  church  has  its  regular  weekly  meet- 
gs,  twice  each  Lord's  day,  holds  its  prayer-meeting  on  Wednesday 
'^©ning,  supports  a  Sunday-school,  contributes  to  missionary  enter- 
rises  at  home  and  abroad,  and  is  especially  identified  with  the 
'ganization  and  success  of  Christian  Female  College  of  Columbia,  a 
story  of  which  is  given  in  this  volume. 

CATHOLIC  CHURCH. 

As  early  as  1835  mass  was  celebrated  in  Columbia  by  Rev.  Father 
%  Fevre,  at  the  residence  of  John  H.  Lynch,  whose  family  was  the 
ily  one  of  the  Catholic  faith  in  the  town  at  the  time.  Those  who  at- 
nded  from  the  country  were  Cornelius  Lynch  and  family,  Mrs.  Reed 
,d  family,  the  Keiths  and  the  Robinsons,  in  all  not  more  than  20 
rsoQS.  For  many  years  matters  remained  in  this  primitive  condition. 
le  members  were  true  to  their  faith,  and  long  distances  were  not 
rriers  to  their  attendance  on  every  occasion  where  the  holy  sacrifice 
18  offered.  Nor  were  the  laity  alone  in  their  zeal.  The  pioneer 
iests  will  never  be  forgotten  by  those  who  saw  them  in  the  storms 
winter  and  in  the  heat  of  summer  dtrrvincr  the  "bread  of  life" 
3m  one  cabin  to  another  throughout  the  sparsely  settled  country, 
ley  knew  no  nationality,  race  or  color.  Almost  without  **  coat  or 
rip,"  they  administered  the  sacraments  of  the  church  whenever 
oper  and  possible  and  *'  had  souls  for  their  hire.  "  The  names  of 
3v.  Fathers  Alamande,  Cusick,  Murphy,  O'Brian,  O'Neal,  Walsh, 
Shea  and  McKenna  ought  never  to  be  forgotten  for  their  great  devo- 
)n  to  religion  and  the  cause  of  humanity  in  the  early  days  of  Mis- 
uri.  Archbishop  Kendrick's  visit  to  Columbia,  in  1845,  gave  en- 
uragemeut  that  a  church  would  one  day  be  built,  but  many  years 
me  and  went  and  every  one  of  the  first  settlers  had  joined  the  church 
umphant  before  the  structure  was  erected,  and  but  few  of  their  de- 
Bndants  have  ever  seen  it.  The  first  attempt  at  regular  services 
is  made  by  Father  C.  F.  O'Leary,  in  1876.  He  celebrated  mass  in 
ivate  houses  until  after  Bishop  Ryan's  visit  in  1877.  June  3d,  of 
Eit  year,  the  bishop  himself  said  mass  in  the  court-house.  On  the 
tne  day  he  delivered  the  baccalaureate  sermon  to  the  students  of  the 
liversity  ;  subject,  ''  Christ  as  a  Model.  "  From  that  time  until  the 
mpletion  of  the  new  church,  services  were  held  in  the  court-house. 
Years  ago  the  Catholics  owned  a  lot  near  where  the  court-house 


822  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

now  stands,  on  which  they  designed  erecting  a  church  some  day ;  but 
in  1858  the  county  court  condemned  this  lot  for  street  purposes  and 
allowed  damages  in  the  sum  of  $80.  No  person  appearing  to  claim 
this  money  it  was  converted  into  the  county  treasury,  where  it  lay  un- 
til in  1880,  when  it  and  the  accrued  interest,  the  total  sum  amounting 
to  $180,  were  paid  over  to  Mrs.  Kate  Clapp,  the  duly  accredited  agent 
of  Archbishop  Kendrick,  and  to  her  the  credit  is  due  for  the  investiga- 
tion which  led  to  the  return  of  this  money  to  the  proper  hands.  In 
1880  Mrs.  Clapp,  Miss  McAfee,  H.  H.  Hagan,  and  G.  M.  Baumgart- 
ner  were  autliorized  to  solicit  subscriptions  for  the  building  of  the  new 
church.  August  16th,  1880,  work  was  begun  on  the  building,  and 
June  19th,  1881,  the  first  services  therein  were  held. 

The  church  stands  on  the  corner  of  Locust  street  and  Grand  avenue, 
Columbia.  It  is  a  frame  30x60  feet  in  size,  has  a  spire  seventy-five 
feet  high,  and  cost  when  completed,  about  $2,000.  The  lot,  which  is 
125x165  feet  in  size,  cost  $400,  of  which  sum  Mrs.  Clapp  paid  $200. 
Many  of  the  articles  used  in  the  adornment  of  the  altar  and  in  the 
proper  furnishiufi^  of  the  church,  were  contributed  by  ladies  of 
Columbia,  of  various  religious  denominations.  Many  of  the  Protestant 
citizens  of  the  town  and  county  gave  liberally  toward  the  erection  of 
the  church,  for  which  the  little  Catholic  congregation  desire  it  said 
that  they  are  truly  grateful. 

In  this  connection  it  is  but  just  to  say  that  to  Mrs.  Catharine  Lynch 
Clapp,  before  mentioned,  more  credit  is  due  for  the  building  of  this 
church  than  to  any  other  person.  It  was  she  who  secured  the  greater 
portion  of  the  subscriptions,  who  superintended,  in  a  great  part,  the 
construction  of  the  building,  and  saw  to  its  proper  furnishing  and 
equipment,  and  who  subscribed  herself  sums  of  money  much  beyond 
her  means.  She  is  still  an  active,  zealous  member  of  the  conffreira- 
tion,  foremost  in  every  good  work. 

The  church  has  had  for  pastors,  Fathers  C.  F.  O'Leary,  W.  T. 
Stack  and  John  T.  Twohey,  the  present  pastor.  Services  are  held 
monthly. 

Practically,  the  first  congregation  was  organized  in  1876,  with  the 
following  members :  Mrs.  Catharine  Lynch  Clapp,  Peter  Horan  and 
family,  Larry  Rocheford  and  family,  Chas.  O'Donnell  and  family, 
Thos.  Loftus  and  family,  T.  Freeman  and  family,  O.  Daily  and  family, 

Winterhalter   and  family,  and  G.  M.  Baumgartner.     Mr.    Ed. 

Farley,  and  Misses  Robinson,   McAfee  and    Lunsford    have   become 
members  since.     The  present  membership  is  not  far  from  fifty. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  823 

METHODIST   EPISCOPAL   CHURCH,    SOUTH. 

le  history  of  this  church  in  Columbia  had  to  be  gleaned  from  the 
loiy  of  persons  who  knew  something  of  the  facts,  owing  to  the 
and  destruction  of  the  records,  there  being  now  no  other  source 
formation.  This  being  the  case,  errors  must  of  course  appear, 
7hich  our  friends  will  please  make  allowance, 
was  organized  before  the  great  political  split  of  1844,  the  exact 
of  its  organization  being  unknown,  but  was  prior  to  1838. 
le  names  of  s6me  of  the  original  members  were  :  Turner  Daniels, 
uel  Austin  and  wife,  Moses  U.  Payne  and  wife,  Mrs.  Eliza 
ihews  and  son,  Milon  S.,  and  Thomas  Phillips  and  wife.  For 
3  time  after  organization,  the  congregation  worshipped  in  school 
es  and  private  dwellings.  The  first  church  was  a  union  or  part- 
hip  edifice,  built  of  brick,  the  Baptists  uniting  funds  with  the 
lodists  for  this  purpose.  It  cost  about  $2,500.  The  congrega- 
of  the  two  denominations  were  both  small  and  poor,  and  Rev.  M. 
ayne,  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  and  Rev.  William  Jewell,  of  the 
ists,  agreed  to  build,  jointly,  a  house  of  worship.  They  occupied 
louse  for  service,  free  from  discord,  till  the  erection  of  another 

e.  In  about  1848,  the  Methodists  built  them  a  brick  church  at  a 
of  about  $3,000.  It  served  as  a  meeting  place  for  about  twenty 
8.  It  stood  on  the  south  side  of  West  Broadway,  and  has  been 
itly  torn  down.  In  1870,  they  began  an  elegant  new  church  on 
lorth  side  of  east  Broadway,  which  is  built  of  brick  and  was  finish- 
i  1873,  at  a  cost  of  $20,000  for  lot  and  building.  Just  before 
g  to  press  with  this  work,  the  inside  was  newly  decorated  with 
tic  paper-hanging  and  painting,  which  makes  it  now,  both  inside 
out,  one  of  the  neatest  and  most  comfortable  churches  in  the 
ty.  It  was  dedicated  in  1875,  by  the  late  eminent  Bishop,  E.  M. 
7in.     Columbia  and  Rocheport  were   made  the   same  station  in 

f,  with  Rev.  Walter  Prescott  as  pastor  for  two  years.  He  was 
eeded  by  Wm.  A.  Rush,  for  two  years,  and  he  by  Zachariah 
3rt3,  for  one  year.  Revs.  Joseph  Cotton  and  P.  M.  Pinkardcame 
,  the  former  for  one  year,  and  the  .latter  for  two.  Then,  in 
it  1850,  Columbia  was  put  on  a  large  circuit,  with  Revs.  Holt  and 
er,  jointly,  on  the  work  for  a  year.  By  some  it  is  thought  Pink- 
jame  on  again  at  this  time,  but  all  agree  that  B.  H.  Spencer  was 
^that  time  pastor  for  two  years.  After  Columbia  was  made  a 
^n  of  itself,  J.  S.  Todd,  two  years  ;  Rev.  Cope,  one  year ;  William 


824  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Penn,  one  year  ;  Dr.  Johnson,  two  years  ;  G.  W.  Miller,  three  years; 
are  the  pastors  that  served  up  to  the  war.  During  the  civil  troubles, 
James  Smith  and  Dr.  De  Moss,  served  one  year  each.  Bevs.  Taylor, 
Gooch  and  Chapman  came  next  in  order,  the  first  and  last  oneyear 
each,  and  the  second  for  two  years.  The  succeeding  pastors  served, 
each  three  years,  as  follows :  Jno.  D.  Vincil,  W.  H.  Lewis,  6.  W. 
Horn,  and  H.  B.  Watson,  the  latter  being  in  charge  at  this  writiDg. 

In  the  great  division  of  1844,  the  Columbia  congregation  went  with 
the  Southern  wing  of  the  church,  and  have  so  continued  ever  sinee. 
Among  the  most  noted  local  preachers  of  early  times,  were  Mosea  U. 
Payne  and  David  Fisher,  the  former  being,  perhaps,  the  greatest  bene- 
factor the  church  ever  had,  building  the  **  Methodists'  half"  of  the 
firsf  church  almost  entirely  out  of  his  own  private  mean?. 

Did  space  permit,  the  names  of  the  presiding  elders  and  other 
church  officials  would  be  given,  but  they  must  be  omitted  in  a  work  of 
this  nature. 

The  Church  at  Columbia  is  in  a  flourishing  condition  and  now 
numbers  about  170  communicants  with  an  interesting  and  well 
attended  Sabbath  school. 

EPISCOPAL   CHURCH. 

Calvary  Episcopal  church  was  organized  May  25,  1855,  with  the 
following  members: — Rev.  John  W.  Dunn  (missionary),  E.  N.  0. 
Clough,  Rebecca  N.  Clough,  Thos.  C.  Phillips,  Margaret  Phillips, 
Robert  Willis  and  Margaret  Willis.  The  church  building  was  erected 
in  1872,  and  dedicated  December  8  of  that  year  by  Rt.  Rev.  C.  F. 
Robertson,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of  Missouri.  The  building  is  a  frame,  and 
cost  about  $3,000.  It  stands  on  lot  209.  The  pastors  of  Calvary 
church  have  been :  Revs.  J.  W.  Dunn,  W.  R.  Pickman,  C.  F.  Loupe, 
F.  R.  Holnian,  J.  C.  Jackson,  R.  C.  Wall,  Dr.  C.  P.  Jennings,  TV. 
H.  Hopkins,  Wni.  C.  Dawson,  A.  T.  Sharpe  and  Joseph  R.  Gray. 
The  present  membership  is  forty-eight.  For  fifteen  yeai'S  after  its 
organization  the  church  struggled  along  with  only  from  three  to  five 
members.  In  1870,  however,  it  took  new  life,  and  its  condition  grad- 
urilly  improved  until  now  (although  without  a  rector)  it  is  out  of  debt, 
flourishing  and  prosperous. 

COLORED    CHURCHES SECOND    BAPTIST. 

This  church  was  organized  in  the  year  1866.     Some  of  the  original 
jnembers  were :    Henry  Payne,   Albert  Delno,  Thos  Johnson,  Jack 


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HI8TOBY  OP  BOONE   COUNTr.  825 

Smith,  Henry  Oldham,  Jane  Myers,  Polly  Hickam,  Mary  Dorum  and 
Tioa  Johnson.  The  church  building  was  erected  in  1873.  It  is  a 
frame,  and  cost  $2,500.     It  was  dedicated  in  1879  by  Revs.  Edward 

'  Stewart  and  O.  H.  Webb.  The  pastors  of  this  church  have  been 
E.  Wildman,  Barton  Hillman,  Jacob  Dulin,  D.  S.  Sawyers,  J.  H. 
flomesley,  E.  Stewart,  and  the  present  pastor.  Rev.  A.  Johnson. 
In  1874  the  church  experienced  a  severe  trial.  Unfortunate  dissen- 
sioDS  arose,  which  resulted  in  a  division,  a  portion  of  the  members 
|[oiDg  over  to  the  A.  M.  E.  church,  and  some  of  these  are  still  out. 
For  the  last  two  years,  however,  a  vigorous  spirit  of  prosperity  has 
marked  the  church's  career,  both  spiritually  and  financially.  The 
ieavy  church  debt,  so  long  a  grievous  burden,  has  been  thrown  off 
by  payment,  and   the   outlook  for   the   future   is   cheering  indeed. 

Present  membership,  194. 
For  the  first  five  or  six  years  of  its  existence  the  members  of  the 

church   met  for  worship  in   the  colored   public  school   building.     It 

was  mainly   due   to  the  untiring   efforts  of  Elder  Henry   Williams 

that  the  present  church  was  built. 

AFRICAN   M.    E.    CHURCH. 

St.  Paul's  A.  M.  E.  church  was  organized  in  the  old  Sidney  Max- 
field  blacksmith  shop,  in  the  month  of  February,  1867,  by  Rev.  E. 
M.  Doan,  then  presiding  at  Jefferson  City.  Some  of  the  original 
members  were :  Caleb  and  Mary  Bledsoe,  C.  H.  and  Ann  Boyle, 
Dennis  and  Mary  Lawrence,  Laviuia  Moss,  Thornton  and  Ann  Webb, 
Bebecca  Rollins  and  about  twenty  others.  June  10,  1868,  the  pres- 
ent church  building  was  erected,  H.  N.  Mclntyre,  pastor.  It  was 
dedicated  in  1871  by  Rev.  I.  N.  Triplett.  The  building  stands  on 
the  corner  of  Fourth  and  Ash  Streets,  and  cost  about  $1,500.  Since 
its  organization  the  church  has  had  the  following  pastors:  1867,  H. 
N.  Mclntyre,  pastor;  1868,  T.  A.  Smith,  one  year;  1869,  Schuyler 
Washington,  one  year ;  1870,  I.  N.  Triplett,  one  year ;  1872,  W.  B. 
Ousler,  three  years ;  1875,  R.  Ricketts,  two  years ;  1877,  G.  W. 
Oaines,  three  years;  1878,  J.  M.  Wilkerson,  two  years;  1880,  W. 
H.  Sexton,  present  pastor.  The  present  membership  of  the  church 
is  two  hundred  and  eight. 

SECOND   CHRISTIAN   CHURCH. 

The  Second  Christian  church  of  Columbia  was  organized  in  1872, 
hy  Rev.  Burrel    Baskett.     Some  of  the   original  members  were :  H. 


826  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   OOUNTT. 

Williams  and  wife,  Elias  Norris  and  wife,  Louisa,  Delphina  and  Mintie 
Lange,  and  Rosa  Kimbrough.  There  were  about  forty  members  in 
all.  The  church  building  stands  on  Ash  Street,  lot  371.  It  was 
built  in  1879,  and  is  a  comfortable  frame  building.  The  house  and 
grounds  cost  about  $1,200.  The  church  was  dedicated  in  May,  1879^ 
by  Elder  O.  A.  Carr  —  A.  B.  Miller,  pastor — in  presence  of  Elden 
J.  D.  Orr,  E.  F.  Henderson  and  Burrel  Baskett.  Rev.  Burrel  Basket! 
was  the  first  pastor,  serving  from  1872  to  1878.  A.  B.  Miller  serred 
from  October,  1878,  to  September,  1879,  during  which  period  the 
church  was  built.  The  next  year,  owing  to  its  indebtedness,  the 
church  was  without  a  pastor.  In  October,  1880,  Elder  E.  F.  Hen- 
derson, the  present  pastor  was  elected.  The  present  membership  of 
the  church  is  about  seventy-five. 

SECRET   ORDERS^  —  A.  F.  AND  A.  M. 

Twilight  Lodge  (Masonic)  was  organized  June  28th,  1866,  and  the 
following  officers  duly  installed :  James  C.  Orr,  W.  M. ;  F.  D.  Evans, 
S.  W. ;  JohA  W.  Carlisle,  J.  W. ;  W.  H.  Gilman,  S.  D. ;  Jesse  A. 
HoUis,  J.  D. ;  Alex.  Robinson,  Sec. ;  John  P.  Horner,  treasurer; 
R.  J.  Booth,  tyler.  Brothers  present  on  this  occasion :  W.  T.  Le- 
noir, J.  M.  Samuel,  R.  Maddox,  Robt.  Beasley.  At  this  meeting 
committees  were  appointed  to  provide  the  necessary  furniture  for 
lodge  and  to  make  contract  with  lodge  of  Good  Templars  then  meet- 
ing here  for  the  use  of  their  hall. 

June  7,  1867,  furniture  and  fixtures  for  hall  were  purchased,  at  an 
expense  of  about  $500.  This  organization  continued  with  marked  and 
rapid  success  until  November  5th,  1867,when  R.  W.  John  D.  Vincil  (P. 
G.  M.)  was  deputized  to  dedicate  the  hall  and  install  the  officers  of 
Twilight  Lodge  114,  which  was  done  in  public,  at  the  Baptist  church, 
in  the  morning,  dinner  being  had  at  the  Virginia  Hotel,  the  day  being 
observed  as  a  holiday  and  devoted  to  Masonic  work.  The  following 
list  of  officers  were  the  first  duly  elected  in  the  lodge :  F.  D.  Evans, 
W.  M. ;  Well.  T.  Maupin,  S.  W. ;  E.  W.  Herndon,  J.  W. ;  John  C. 
Conley,  S.  D.  ;  R.  J.  Booth,  J.  D.  ;  J.  Theo.  Fifer,  Sec.  ;  I.  O.  Hocka- 
day,  Treas.,  since  which  time  the  following  have  served  the  lodge 
as  W.  M.,  some  more  than  one  term  :  J.  C.  Orr,  Oren  Root,  Jr.,  J. 
M.  Samuel,  W.  T.  Lenoir,  James  A.  Adams,  D.  D.  Berry,  W.  W. 
Garth,  W.  T.  Anderson  and  A.  T.  Duncan. 


^  Derived  from  the  Columbia  Statesman  of  January  14,  1881. 


HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  827 

R.    A.    CHAPTER   NO.    17. 

Columbia  Royal  Arch  Chapter  was  organized  June  19th,  1867,  by 
7.W.  Robinson,  P.  H.  P.,  with  the  following  as  oflScers:  O.  Root, 
r.,  H.  P. ;  James  C.  Orr,  E.  K.  ;  B.  McAlester,  E.  S. ;  J.  Theo. 
•yfer,  P.  S. ;  F.  D.  Evans,  C.  H. ;  J.  C.  Conley,  R.  A.  C  ;  H.  W. 
lyei:,  M.,  3d  Veil ;  C.  J.  Austin,  M.,  2d  Veil ;  E.  W.  Herndon,  M., 
BtVeil;  W.  H.  Gilman,  Sec. ;  J.  M.  Samuel,  Treas  The  Chapter 
ras  duly  chartered  as  No.  17,  October  10th,  1867,  and  the  oflScers 
uly  elected  and  installed  November  4th,  1867,  by  Martin  Collins, 
frand  High  Priest.  The  Chapter  increased  rapidly  in  numbers, 
Qd  had  on  its  rol)s  many  of  the  leading  and  most  influential  citizens 
r  this  and  adjoining  towns,  including  the  names  of  McBride,  Hollis, 
iggs  and  others,  who  are  now  among  the  dead.  The  following  have 
Bciated  as  High  Priest  of  the  Chapter:  O.  Root,  Jr.,  E.  W.  Hern- 
m.  Well.  T.  Maupin,  Jas.  A.  Adams,  W.  W.  Garth,  O.  Davis, 
.  L.  Batterton. 

ST.    GRAAL   COMMANDERY   NO.  12. 

Organized  under  dispensation,  June  1st,  1869,  with  the  following 

arter  members:    O.  Root,  Jr.,  E.   H.  Peck,  R.  W.  Johnson,  J. 

eo.   Fyfer,  E.  C.  More,   F.  B.  Young,  E.  C.  Shortridge,  R.  J. 

oth,  J.  G.  Norwood,  Dep.  Gr.  Com.  J.  D.  Vincil.     Chartered  Oc- 

)er  5th,  1869.  October  28th,  1869,  first  oflBicers  elected  after  char- 
was  granted :  O.  Root,  E.  C. ;  J.  M.  Samuel,  Gen. ;   J.  C.  Orr, 

pt.  Gen.  ;  E.  C.  More,  prelate ;  F.  B.  Young,  Sr.  Warden ;  R.  J. 

oth,  Jr.  Warden ;  I.  O.  Hockaday,  Treas. ;  J.  Theo.  Fyfer  Rec.  ; 
Bateman,  sword  bearer ;  W.  T.  Shock,  standard  bearer ;  W.  W. 

rth,  warden. 

ODD  FELLOWS. 

Columbia  Lodge  (I.  O.  O.  F. ),  No.  207,  was  instituted  at  Colum- 
I,  Missouri,  on  the  22d  day  of  April,  1869,  by  D.  D.  G.  M.  William 
ump,  of  Boone  Lodge  No.  121,  by  authority  of  the  R.  W.  Grand 
dge  of  Missouri,  with  the  following  charter  members :  S.  Frankford, 
Mayfield,  Wm.  Livingston,  P.  Hubbard,  J.  W.'  Kneisley  and 
omas  McCormack.  The  lodge  started  with  the  following  officers 
'  first  term :  P.  Hubbard,  N.  G. ;  J.  W.  Kneisley,  V.  G. ;  Robert 
Dyson,  secretary  ;  George 'M.  Baumgartner,  treasurer.  Five  ini- 
tions  first  night.  Receipts  of  evening,  $113.  There  have  been 
e  hundred  and  twenty  initiations  since  the  lodge  was  organized. 


€28  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Present  membership,  sixty-five.  There  have  been  eighteen  deaths 
out  of  the  number  initiated.     Cash  on  hand,  $2,300. 

LEE   ENCAMPMENT   NO.    74,    I.    O.    O.    P., 

Was  duly  instituted  by  P.  C.  P.  J.  W.  Peach,  D.  D.  G.  P.,  by  author- 
ity of  the  M.  W.  Grand  Patriarch  of  Missouri,  at  Columbia,  Missouri, 
on  the  26th  day  of  February,  1874,  with  the  following  duly  qualified 
patriarchs  as  charter  members:  J.  W.  Kneisley,  J.  E.  Larkin,  J.  W. 
Ficklin,  J.  P.  Mullen,  W.  P.  Boothe,  Fred.  Mayfield  and  Frank 
Thomas.  The  following  are  the  first  officers :  J.  E.  Larkin,  C.  P. ; 
J.  W.  Kneisley,  H.  P. ;  W.  P.  Boothe,  S.  W. ;  J.  W.  Ficklin,  J.  W. ; 
Frank  Thomas,  scribe;  F.  Mayfield,  treasurer.  Seven  additions  the 
first  night. 

I.    O.    G.    T. 

Banner  Lodge,  I.  O.  G.  T.,  No.  180,  was  organized  Sunday  uight, 
February  9,  1879,  in  Presbyterian  church,  by  J.  J.  Hickman,  P.  K. 
W.  G.  T.  of  the  world,  by  the  election  of  the  following  officers :  T. 

B.  Gentry,  W.  C.  T.  ;  Mrs.  Mattie  Bates,  W.  V.  T. ;  Rev.  H.  W. 
Dodge,  worthy  chaplain ;  F.  R.  Dimmitt,  recording  secretary ;  Mrs. 

C.  B.  Wells,  W.   A.  S.  ;  Mrs.  J.  L.   Matthews,  treasurer;  Gordon 

Garnett,  financial  secretary;  Scott  Hayes,  marshal;  Miss  Kate  Rider, 

A.  M.  ;  Miss  Fannie  C.  Rogers,  I.  G. ;  Samuel  H.  Baker,  O.  G.  ;  W. 

T.  Waters,  P.  W.  C.  T.     The  number  of  charter  members  was  between 

two  and  three  hundred. 

A.  o.  u.  w. 

Boone  Lodge,  No.  77,  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  was  or- 
ganized September  24, 1873,  by  John  A.  Brooks,  Mexico  district  dep- 
uty, with  the  following  as  charter  members :  A.  T.  Garth,  James  M. 
Boswell,  James  F.  Stewart,  D.  P.  Richards,  Frank  Thomas,  J.  Sam. 
Moss,  W.  W.  Batterton,  W.  F.  Hodge,  George  M.  Dearing,  Dr.  W. 
T.  Maupin,  Eli  Hodge,  G.  M.  McConaughey,  W.  I.  Roberts,  O.  Davis, 
J.  R.  Campbell,  J.  C.  Hall,  E.  L.  Dimmitt,  W.  W.  Garth,  Dr.  G.  S. 
Morse,  J.  H.  Potts,  Dr.  A.  W.  IVIcAlester,  Dr.  W.  E.  Stone  —  22. 
The  first  officers  were:  D.  P.  Richards,  P.  M.  W. ;  W.  W.  Garth,  M. 
W.  ;  J.  C.  Hall,  G.  F.  ;  Frank  Thomas,  O.  ;  A.  T.  Garth,  guide ;  E. 
L.  Dimmitt,  recorder;  W.  F.  Hodge,  financier;  J.  S.  Moss,  receiver ; 
G.  F.  McConaughey,  F.  W.  ;  J.  R.  Campbell,  O.  W. ;  Dr.  W.  T.  Mau- 
pin, M.  E. ;  Eli  Hodge,  W.  W.  Batterton  and  Dr.  W.  E.  Stone, 
trustees. 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  82^ 

KNIGHTS   OF   HONOR. 

'*  Prudentia  "  Lodge,  No.  1919,  K.  of  H.,  was  organized  on  Wednes- 
|r  night,  December  10,  1879,  by  Deputy  Grand  Dictator  W.  A.  Hal« 
ad,  of  St.  Louis,  who  had  been  in  Columbia  several  days  canviissing 
I  interest  of  the  Knights  of  Honor,  and  by  the  courtesy  of  the 
lights  of  Pythias,  several  meetings  were  held  in  their  hall,  resulting 
the  organization  of  **  Prudentia  "  Lodge,  K.  of  H.,  on  Wednesday 
:ht,  December  10,  1879,  with  the  following  as  charter  members : 
.  W.  E.  Stone,  Fred.  Bihr,  A.  I.  Fentem,  Dr.  G.  W.  Riggins,  L. 
Eshart,  Irvin  Switzler,  Dr.  W.  T.  Maupin,  W.  H.  Thomson,  G.  W. 
Conaughey,  Dr.  E.  W.  Herndon,  Rev.  J.  R.  Gray,  P.  J.  Barron, 
ler  N.  Hockensmith,  Josiah  W.  Stone,  Eli  Hodge,  R.  E.  Kirtley, 
)f.  Paul  Schweitzer.  The  following  were  chosen  and  duly  installed 
Dfficers  for  the  term  ending  in  June  following:  Dictator,  E.W. 
rndon ;  vice-dictator,  P.  Schweitzer ;  assistant  dictator,  G.  W. 
gins  ;  reporter,  Irvin  Switzler ;  financial  reporter,  W.  E.  Stone ; 
isurer,  Eli  Hodge ;  chaplain,  Rev.  Joseph  R.  Gray ;  guide,  G.  M. 
Conaughey;  guardian,  R.  E.  Kirtley;  sentinel,  Fred.  Bihr;  past 
ator  Elder  N.  Hockensmith  ;  trustees,  J.  W.  Stone,  G.  M.  McCon- 
hey,  P.  J.  Barron;  medical  examiner.  Dr.  W.  T.  Maupin. 

DIRIGIMUS    LODGE,    NO.  37,    K.    OF   P., 

s  instituted  May  12,  1875,  by  B.  P.  Swygard,  of  Kansas  City,  as- 
ed  by  members  of  Moberly  and  Kansas  City  lodges,  with  the  fol- 
ing  charter  members  :  A.  O.  Runyan,  J.  R.  Holmes,  J.  R.  Phillips, 
B.  Hays,  G.  M.  McConaughey,  T.  L.  Donovan,  Wm.  Alexander^ 
O.  Mahoney,  E.  H.  Peck,  A.  R.  Martin,  J.  A.  Thom,  F.  M.  Peck, 
tor  Barth,  A.  J.  Harbinson,  J.  L.  Graham,  R.  C.  Rogers,  W.  B 
liher,  J.  D.  Bowser,  O.  P.  Peck,  C.  E.  Seplart,  G.  T.  Mason  ;  only 
en  of  whom  are  now  members,  namely  ;  A.  O.  Runyan,  J.  R.  Phil- 
;,  G.  M.  McConaughey,  F.  M.  Peck,  Victor  Barth,  Wm.  Alexander 
I  J.  D.  Bowser.  After  the  lodge  was  instituted,  the  following  oflS- 
3  were  installed  :  A.  O.  Runyan,  P.  C. ;  J.  R.  Holmes,  C.  C.  ;  J. 
Phillips,  V.  C. ;  E.  B.  Hays,  P.  ;  J.  L.  Donovan,  M.  of  E.  ;  G. 
McConaughey,  M.  of  F. ;  W.  B.  Kelliher,  K.  of  R.  S. ;  F.  H. 
;k,  M.  of  A. ;  R.  C.  Rogers,  I.  G. ;  J.  A.  Thom,  O.  G. 

For  further  historical  matter  pertaining  to  the  history  of  the  town 
Columbia,  the  reader  is  referred  to  the  general  history.] 


^30  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

■ '-:  ^ 
BIOGRAPHIES. 

OAPT.    JAMES   A.    ADAMS. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Robert  and  Margaret  (Bowie) 
Adams,  of  Scotland,  in  which  country  he  was  born  November  23,1833; 
he  came  to  the  United  States  in  1848,  and  settled  at  Canton,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  was  educated,  attending  the  public  schools  of  that 
city.  He  afterwards  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  at  a  town  called 
Maynard,  in  that  State.  He  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  1858, 
and  formed  a  partnership  with  M.  M,  Bixby  for  contracting  and  build- 
ing. They  built  the  mansion  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Gen.  Guitar. 
At  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  they  dissolved  partnership.  Mr.  Adams 
^.nlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  B,  Ninth  Missouri  cavalry,  com- 
manded by  Gen.  Odon  Guitar.  When  the  company  was  finally 
organized  he  was  elected  first  lieutenant,  and  was  afterwards  promoted 
to  the  position  of  captain.  He  had  his  leg  and  collar  bone  broken  in 
a  surprise  while  in  pursuit  of  bushwhackers ;  his  horse  became  un- 
manageable and  dashed  against  a  tree,  injuring  him  as  above  stated. 
After  convalescing  he  was  made  provost  marshal,  with  headquarters 
in  the  president's  mansion,  University  campus.  His  company  was 
ordered  to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  in  1864,  and  he  was  appointed  a  mem- 
ber of  Gen.  Fisk's  staff,  with  duties  pertaining  to  the  ordnance  of  that 
department.  He  was  mustered  out  of  service  at  the  close  of  the  war, 
and  remained  in  St.  Joseph  until  1867,  when  he  returned  to  Boone 
county,  where  he  has  lived  ever  since.  He  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Broughton  &  Adams,  manufacturers  and  dealers  in  wagons,  plows  and 
agricultural  implements.  Thc}^  have  a  large  and  constantly  growing 
business  —  the  largest  of  the  kind  perhaps  in  the  State  outside  of  Sti 
Louis.  They  make  repairing  of  machinery  a  specialty.  They  have  a 
forty-horse  engine  and  a  sixty-horse  boiler.  They  average  one  hun- 
dred wagons  a  year.  Besides  the  making  of  wagons,  they  prepare 
material  for  a  vast  deal  more  than  they  manufacture  outright.  This 
material  is  shipped  to  Kansas,  Colorado,  and  Iowa.  This  timber  is  all 
procured  in  Boone  county.  They  employ  twenty  hands  the  year  round 
in  their  shops,  besides  a  number  of  people  in  the  country  who  are  en- 
gaged in  getting  out  and  hauling  timber  to  be  worked  into  wagon  stuff 
at  their  shop.  This  shop  is  the  largest  industry  in  Boone  county. 
Capt.  Adams  lives  on  a  nice  little  fruit  farm  of  twenty  acres  near  town, 
with  a  beautiful  hedge  in  front,  presenting  to  the  passer-by  a  neat  and 
cosy  prospect.     He  is  president  of  the  school   board  of  Columbia, 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  831 

th  position  he  has  held  for  several  years  ;  he  is  a  member  of  the 
mc  order,  and  has  been  master  of  the  lodge  for  three  terms.  He 
married  January  8,  1864,  to  Miss  E^te,  daughter  of  Andrew  and 
j^Luken.     By  this  union  they  have  four  sons  and  two  daughters. 

JOHN   WILLIAM   AMMONS. 

• 

le  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  John  L.  and  Mary  Pace 
in)  Ammons,  and  was  born  near  Richmond,  Madison  county, 
;ucky,  February  5th,  1818.  His  father  emigrated  to  Missouri  in 
ber,  1822.  They  lived  about  four  years  in  Montgomery  county, 
•e  his  wife,  the  mother  of  John  W.,  died.  John  W.  and  the 
oldest  boy  lived  with  a  gentleman  named  Baker  for  about  three 
9,  and  then  went  to  Old  Franklin,  Howard  ^county,  where  their 
>r  had  preceded  them.  In  September,  1835,  John  W.  went  to 
on,  Callaway  county,  and  commenced  to  learn  the  cabinet  maker's 
3.  In  February,  1836,  he  returned  to  New  Franklin  and  worked 
te  trade  he  had  commenced  to  learn.  His  sight  becoming  im- 
jd,  he  abandoned  the  idea  of  learning  a  trade,  and  went  to  work 
i  the  farm  of  Simeon  Switzler.  He  next  went  to  Rocheport  and 
:ed  for  a  short  time  at  the  carpenter's  trade ;  then  removed  to 
5tte  and  assisted  in  rebuilding  Central  College  which  had  burned, 
^n  accident,  upon  the  21st  day  of  April,  1842,  he  broke  his  leg, 
ed  by  a  falling  scaffold,  and  was  unfitted  for  regular  work  for  six 
8,  He  then  taught  and  went  to  school  alternately  until  April  1st, 
I,  when  he  went  to  the  Indian  manual  labor  school,  about  seven 
8  from  where  Kansas  City  was  afterwards  built.  He  started  to 
fornia,  but  stopped  at  Kansas  City,  and  assisted  in  building  the 
grist  mill  ever  put  up  in  that  city.  He  next  opened  an  extensive 
ber  yard  in  the  city,  and  prospered  finely  for  a  few  years,  when 
ag  to  make  collections  to  meet  his  large  obligations,  he  lost  every- 
g  under  the  sheriff's  hammer.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
council  in  1855,  and  was  elected  its  president  upon  its  organiza- 
.  The  mayor  resigning,  Mr.  Ammons  became  ex^fficio  mayor 
1  he  ordered  a  new  election  to  fill  the  vacancy*  He  was  mayor  of 
sasCity  during  the  turbulent  times  of  the  border  troubles,  and  did 
h  to  prevent  open  rupture  between  the  factions.  He  opposed 
ssion  as  a  matter  of  policy,  but  never  doubted  the  right  of  a  State 
'ithdraw  from  the  Union.  He  went  to  Chicago  during  the  war,  as 
vas  lame  and  not  fit  for  military  duty,  and  worked  at  his  trade 
ral  years,  then  returned   to  Missouri.     His   handiwork   is   seen 


832  HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

upon  many  of  the  large  buildings  of  Kansas  City,  Fulton  and  Colum- 
bia, and  of  late  years  he  has  done  only  light  work  at  his  trade.   He 
has  invented  several  useful  articles,  among  which  is  a  revolving  book- 
rack.     He  has  been  married  three  times.      The  first  time  to  Wn 
Julia  Franklin,  of  Howard  county,  June   30th,   1846.     The  second 
time  to  Miss  Isabel  Kelsoe,  of  Decatur  county,  Iowa,  on  the  23d  of 
March,  1864.     She  died  September  28th,  1865.     The  last  time  he 
was  married  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Herndon,  of  Boone  county.     Mr.  Am- 
mons  has  had  an  eventful  life,  few  men  having  had  the  experiences 
and  seen  the  changes  he  has.     He  is  still  in  possession  of  his  faculties 
and  enjoys  the  confidence  and  respect  of  all. 

WILLIAM   THOMAS   ANDERSON. 

The  parents  of  William  T.  Anderson,  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (West- 
lake)  Anderson,  are  natives  of  Virginia,  but  for  many  years  citizens 
of  Boone  county,  Missouri.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  bom  in 
Howard  county,  November  24,  1842.  He  was  educated  at  the  pub- 
lic schools,  completing  his  studies  at  the  Missouri  State  University. 
December  8,  1868,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Bettie,  daughter  of  John 
F.  and  Sarah  (Gordon)  Baker.  By  this  union  they  have  three  chil- 
dren, Dorsey,  Clifibrd  and  James  P.  Mr.  Anderson  followed  the 
grocery  business  from  1862  to  1869,  under  the  firm  name  of  Ander- 
son, Garth  &  Co.  After  quitting  the  mercantile  business  in  1869,  he 
followed  the  milling  business,  as  one  of  the  firm,  owning  and  operat- 
ing the  Columbia  mills.  At  present,  however,  he  is  principally  en- 
gaged in  buying  and  selling  grain.  He  has  been  very  prominently 
identified  with  the  business  interests  of  Columbia,  and  has  held  vari- 
ous municipal  positions.  He  has  been  actively  engaged  in  business 
since  early  manhood,  and  has  prospered  in  all  his  undertakings.  He 
owns  a  nice  farm  of  143  acres,  and  residence,  one  mile  north  of  town, 
on   the  Mexico  road.     He  has  been  a  member  of  the   Boone  county 

* 

Democratic  central  committee  for  the  last  two  years  ;  he  is  a  Mason, 
also  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church.  Mrs.  Anderson  is  a  member 
of  the  same  church.  The  reader  will  find  additional  mention  of  Mr. 
Anderson's  business  relations  elsewhere  in  this  volume. 

BENJAMIN   M.  ANDERSON 

Is  the  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Westlake)  Anderson,  and  was 
born  in  Columbia,  December  4,  1854.  He  went  to  school  in  Colum- 
bia until  he  was  fourteen  years  old,  when  his  father  moved  to  Callaway 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  833 

y  and  engaged  in  farming.  Young  Anderson  worked  on  the  farm 
he  was  eighteen,  when  he  came  back  to  this  city  in  1872  and  took 
kship  in  the  drug  store  of  Gilman  &  Dorsey ,  for  whom  he  worked 
nonths,  giving  entire  satisfaction.  He  then  took  another  and 
profitable  clerkship  in  the  dry  goods  house  of  A.  S.  Campbell, 
I  position  he  held  three  years  ;  then  in  same  capacity  for  Fyfer, 
>le  &  Laforce  for  some  years.  Feeling  that  he  was  competent  to 
on  business  for  himself,  he,  in  partnership  with  James  A.  Kim- 
;h,  embarked  in  the  stock  business  and  in  selling  general  mer- 
lise  at  Stephens'  store,  in  Callaway  county.  In  1880  he  and  his 
er  came  to  Columbia  and  engaged  in  the  livery  business,  which 
continue  to  the  present  time.  Mr.  Anderson  is  regarded  as  one 
3  staunch  business  men  of  the  city,  and  is  courteous  and  gentle- 
1  to  all,  plainly  showing  his  Virginia  ancestry.  He  is  a  member 
3  lodge  of  Knights  of  Pythias.  The  firm  deal  in  horses,  mules, 
cattle,  and  are  reaping  the  reward  of  attention  to  business 
mesty  in  dealings  that  such  gentlemen  deserve.  They  do  a 
ig  business,  and  their  stables  are  a  part  of  Boone's  boasted 
lecessary  institutions. 

CALVIN   J.    AUSTIN. 

vin  J.  Austin,  son  of  Ransom  S.  and  Agnes  (Gregory)  Austin^ 
orn  in  Halifax  county,  Virginia,  October  1st,  1823.  When  six 
old,  his  parents  removed  to  Pearson  county.  North  Carolina, 
he  next  sixteen  years  they  lived  in  this  and  the  adjoining  county 
?ell),  during  which  time  Mr.  Austin  learned  the  tailor's  trade  at 
n  called  Milton,  in  Caswell  county,  serving  an  apprenticeship  of 
?^ears.  In  1845  he  came  to  Prairieville,  Pike  county,  Missouri, 
J  he  opened  a  tailor's  shop  under  the  firm  name  of  Warmic  & 
n.  Remained  there  until  1847,  when  he  enlisted  in  the  Mexican 
joining  Company  E,  Third  regiment,  Missouri  cavalry.  Was 
5red  into  service  at  Independence,  Missouri,  June  7th,  1846. 
in  the  battle  of  Vera  Cruz,  March  16th,  1847,  and  was  mustered 
»f  service  at  Independence  in  December,  1847.  Returning  to 
ieville,  he   resumed  his  former  occupation,   remaining  in  that 

one  year.  In  the  spring  of  1850  he  came  to  Columbia, 
uri,  and  established  himself  in  business  under  the  firm  name  of 
&  Austin.  In  the  autumn  of  1853  his  partner  died,  and  the 
y  following  he  took  W.  H.  Tellery  as  a  partner.  In  1856  he 
bis  interest  in  the  business,  and,  with  John  W.  Watson,  went 

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834  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

into  the  saw  and  grist  mill  business,  four  miles  south  of  Ashland. 
Followed  this  business  for  one  year,  when  they  sold  out  and  remoyed 
to  St.  Louis,  where  they  rented  a  small  farm  of  seventy-five  acres, 
and  engaged  in  raising  vegetiibles  for  the  city  market.  Ran  tliis 
business  one  year.  Returned  to  Columbia  and,  in  partnership  with 
Watson,  opened  a  store  of  fancy  groceries.  They  conducted  this 
business  until  1863,  when  Mr.  Austin  sold  his  interest  to  his  partner, 
and  entered  the  mill  of  R.  H.  Smith,  where  he  learned  practical 
milling.  He  commenced  as  a  work-hand,  receiving  tweuty-five 
dollars  per  month,  and  worked  up  until  he  now  holds  the  position  of 
head-miller  of  the  Columbia  Milling  Company,  which  has  a  capacity 
of  one  hundred  and  fifty  barrels  of  flour  per  day.  Mr.  Austin  was 
married,  May  3d,  1861,  to  Miss  Parmelia,  daughter  of  James  and 
Martha  (Hulen)  Duncan.  They  have  two  sons,  Frank  D.  and 
William  A.  Mr.  Austin  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  and  Good 
Templar  orders.  He  and  his  wife  are  both  members  of  the  Christian 
church. 

REV.    BARNABAS    BAKER. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  John  and  Ann  (Canfield) 
Baker.  He  was  born  in  Alfristou,  county  of  Sussex,  England,  July 
26th,  1817,  and  was  reared  and  educated  in  England,  where  he  also 
learned  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker,  sei-ving  an  apprenticeship  under  his 
brother,  John  Baker.  He  came  to  America  in  1843,  and  first  settled 
iit  Jetferson  <City,  Missouri,  removing  the  year  following  to  Callaway 
<:ounty,  where  he  remained  until  1845,  when  he  returned  to  Jeflerson 
City.  His  next  move  was  to  Franklin  county,  where  he  taught  school 
for  one  year.  The  next  two  years  were  spent  at  St.  Charles  county. 
In  the  spring  of  1848  he  moved  to  Boone  county,  and  settled  near 
Asiiland,  where  he  was  engaged  to  teach  school.  Spent  one  year  iu 
that  locality,  removing  in  1849  to  Providence,  Boone  county,  where 
he  worked  at  his  trade.  In  the  spring  of  1851  he  moved  to  Columbia, 
and  has  lived  there  ever  since.  In  1850  he  was  engaged  hy  the 
American  Tract  Society,  and  has  been  with  them  ever  since.  He  has 
also  acted  as  agent  for  the  Boone  County  Bible  Society  since  1851, 
and  since  that  time  he  has  circulated  some  seven  or  eight  hundred 
thousand  Bibles  and  religious  books.  He  also  preaches  when  called 
upon  to  do  so.  He  is  now  president  and  treasurer  of  the  executive 
board  of  the  Little  Bonne  Femme  Association,  which  position  he  has 
held  for  three  years.  Mr.  Baker  was  married  June  28th,  1838,  at  the 
Baptist  Church,  in  Lewis,  county  of  Sussex,  England,  to  Miss  Leath, 


HI8TOBY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  835 

daughter  of  Henry  and  Jane  A..  (Hope)  Smith.  They  have  had  dve 
children,  two  sons  and  three  daughters :  Mary  A.,  Hattie  (deceased), 
William  K.  (deceased),  Elizabeth  J.  and  Samuel  H.,  who  is  one  of 
the  firm  of  Trimble,  Fyfer  &  Co.  He  was  educated  at  the  Baptist 
College  and  State  University.  In  1866  he  commenced  clerking  for 
T.  B.  Gentry,  and  remained  with  him  for  two  years.  In  December, 
1868,  he  went  in  with  J.  R.  Garth  &  Co.,  and  was  in  the  grocery 
business  until  January,  1880,  when  he  entered  the  store  of  Trimble, 
^jfer  &.Co.  as  a  clerk.  In  1881  he  became  a  partner  in  the  business. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  Church  and  a  Good  Templar.  He  is 
«n  excellent  business  man,  and  has  won  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
the  entire  community.  He  has  a  bright  future  before  him,  and 
deserves  no  less. 

JOHN   F.  BAKEB 

Was  born  in  Norfolk,  Virginia,  August  1st,  1824.     He  is  the  sou  of 
Sylvester  and  Elsey  Baker,  both  natives  of  Virginia.     When  he  was  a 
child  only  a  few  years  old  they  movjed  to  the  plain  where  the  city  of 
Nashville  now  stands.     They  settled  on  eighty  acres  of  land  where  the 
city  now  stands.     They  remained  there  a  short  time  and  then  came  to 
St.  Louis  county  and  after  a  few  months  moved  to  Montgomery  coun- 
ty. Mo.,  and  settled  on  the  Loutre  and  built  a  mill  a  quarter  of  a  mile 
below  the  plain  where  Capt.  Callaway  was  killed  by  the  Indians  at  the 
junction  of  Dry  Fork  and  Loutre.     In  connection  with  the  mill  Mr. 
Baker  had  a  cotton  gin  and  inhaling  the  lint  was  the  cause  of  his  death, 
which  occurred  about  five  or  six  years  after  he  settled  in  Montgomery 
county.     He  was  judge  of  the  county  court  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
John  F.  was  at  that  time  about  nine  years  old.     Mrs.  Baker  lived  about 
twenty  years  after  the  death  of  her  husband ;  she  died  at  Danville, 
Montgomery  county,    about    1850,    at   the  age  of  eighty-one  years. 
They  were  both  members  of  the  Methodist  church.     John  F.  Baker 
lived  in  Mongomery  county  about  ten  years  after  the  death  of  his 
father.     In  1845  he  came  to  Columbia  and  was  engaged  as  a  salesman 
in  the  employ  of  Wm.  H.  Bass.     In  1847  and  1848  he  was  deputy 
sheriff  under  Chas.  C.  Maupin.     He  was  married  in  1848   to  Miss 
Sarah  Ann  Gordon,  daughter  of  George  M.  Gordon,  of  Columbia. 
By  this  union  there  were  four  children — James  M.,  Bettie,  Odonand 
Sallie.     Odou  died  in  infancy,  all  the  others  live  in  Columbia.     James 
M.  is  a  member  of  the  Columbia  Millins:  Co.     Bettie  is  the  wife  of 
Wm.  T.  Anderson.     Mrs.  Baker  died  in  1861  and  is  buried  at  Colum- 
bia.    Mr.  Baker  was  in  mercantile  business  from  1848  until  the  break- 


836  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

ing  out  of  the  war.  He  was  sutler  of  the  9th  Missouri  cavalry  dur- 
ing the  war.  In  1865  he  was  elected  sheriff  of  Boone  county  and  held 
the  office  two  years.  He  then  went  to  St.  Louis  and  lived  there  seven 
years.  He  sold  goods  on  the  road  and  collected  money  for  several 
firms  throughout  the  South  and  West  during  that  time.  In  1875  he 
came  back  to  Columbia,  where  he  has  since  resided.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber and  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Columbia  for  several 
years.  He  is  now  street  commissioner.  Mr.  Baker  is  now  working 
up  a  new  enterprise  in  the  way  of  an  establishment  for  canning  fruits, 
vegetables,  etc.  He  has  only  put  up  comparatively  small  quantities, 
but  has  been  very  successful  so  far.  His  intention  is  to  organize  a 
stock  company  and  open  the  business  on  a  large  scale.  He  uses  the 
process  employed  by  the  Oneida  community  of  New  York. 

J.  W.  BANKS,    M.  D. 

Dr.  J.  W.  Banks  is  a  native  of  Tennessee,  having  been  born  in  Sum- 
ner county  of  that  State,  September  26th,  1835.  In  1836  his  father 
removed  to  Missouri,  settling  at  Tebo  Grove,  Lafayette  county,  where 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  reared.  He  attended  Dr.  Yantis'  Insti- 
tute, at  Brownsville,  Saline  county,  Missouri,  and  the  State  University, 
graduating  in  1855.  He  then  read  medicine  under  Dr.  Hudson,  of 
Kentucky,  and  graduated  as  M.  D.  from  Jefferson  Medical  College, 
Philadelphia,  in  1857.  He  then  returned  to  Missouri  and  located  in 
Lafayette  county,  where  he  practiced  his  profession  until  1861,  when 
he  returned  to  Tennessee  and  enlisted  in  the  Confederate  armv  as 
surgeon  of  the  2d  Tennessee  regiment,  with  which  he  remained  until 
the  close  of  the  war.  He  was  at  Shiloh,  Murfreesborough,  Chick- 
amauga,  Mission  Ridge,  Resaca,  Dallas,  New  Hope,  Kenesaw,  At- 
lanta, Jonesboro,  Franklin,  Nashville,  Bentonville  and  many  other 
engagements  of  less  note.  He  removed  the  body  of  Gen.  Polk  from 
the  battlefield  at  Kenesaw  Mountains,  and  surrendered  with  Gen.  Joe 
Johnston.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  went  to  Texas,  where  he  prac- 
ticed medicine  until  1869,  when  he  returned  to  Missouri,  and  in  1872 
came  to  Columbia,  where  he  has  remained  ever  since  in  the  active  dis- 
charge of  his  professional  duties.  Dr.  Banks  was  married  in  1866  to 
Sallie  Luckett,  of  Pettis  county,  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  a  niece  of 
Col.  McGoffin,  a  distinguished  Confederate  officer.  They  have  five 
children,  all  living.  Their  names  are  William  M.,  John  S.,  Anna  Mc- 
Goffin, Luther  L.  and  Hiram  Franklin.  Mrs.  Banks  is  a  member  of 
the  Presbyterian  church. 


HI8TOBY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  837 

WILLIAM   HAYDEN   BASS. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  son  of  Eli  E.  and  Margaret  M.  ( John- 
n)  Bass,  and  was  bom  January  18th,  1836,  in  Boone  county  on 
liat  is  now  known  as  the  Bass  homestead.  He  received  his  education 
the  State  University  and  chose  farming  and  stock  raising  as  his  oc- 
ipation.  He  deals  largely  in  shorthorn  cattle  and  mules,  shipping 
any  mules  to  Mississippi  and  Louisiana.  He  was  the  originator  of 
e  Ashland  stock  sales,  which  take  place  the  first  Saturday  in  every 
onth,  sales  running  from  $1,750  to  $6,000.  He  has  beerv  a  director 
'  the  Boone  county  agricultural  and  mechanical  association  for  the 
ist  ten  years,  and  during  the  years  of  1880  and  1881  he  was  its  pres- 
ent. He  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen. 
e  was  married  September  11th,  1858,  to  Miss  Irene,  daughter  of 
'm.  and  Mary  (Trueman)  Hickman.  By  this  union  they  have  eight 
lildren,  seven  boys  and  one  girl,  all  living.  In  May,  1882,  he 
oved  into  Columbia  to  have  better  educational  facilities  for  his 
lildren.  His  eldest  son,  Everett  E  ,  will  graduate  from  the  Uni- 
trsity  in  1883.  He  has  a  fine  residence  in  a  pleasant  location  on 
roadway,  east  end.  Mr.  Bass  is  one  of  Boone's  most  thrifty, 
iterprising  business  men,  and  takes  an  interest  in  whatever  will 
Ivance  her  material  welfare. 

J.    A  V.    BARTH. 

J.  &  V.  Barth,  the  well-known  proprietors  of  the  Star  clothing 
>u8es  of  Columbia  and  Mexico,  Missouri,  are  brothers.  They  were 
>rn  in  Rhenish  Prussia.  Victor,  the  youngest  of  the  firm,  was 
>rn  January  4th,  1850,  and  was  educated  both  in  German  and 
ebrew.  When  fifteen  years  old  he  left  his  native  land  for  America, 
nding  first  in  Philadelphia.  From  that  city  he  came  to  Columbia 
1866.  He  engaged  in  clerking  for  a  while,  then  peddled,  selling 
meral  merchandise  from  house  to  house,  travelling  on  horseback. 
I  the  spring  of  1868,  in  company  with  his  brother  Joseph,  opened 
e  Star  clothing  house,  on  Broadway,  where  he  has  remained  ever 
ice.  Victor  Barth  was  married  August  23d,  1876,  to  Miss  Nettie 
»rth,  daughter  of  Moses  Barth,  of  Rocheoort.  They  have  one 
lild,  Irvin  Victor,  born  November,  1877.  Mr.  Barth  is  a  Royal 
rch  Mason,  a  K.  of  P.,  and  a  member  of  A.  O.  U.  W.  In  April, 
(80,  the  Barth  Brothers  opened  a  branch  store  at  Mexico,  Missouri. 
>seph  Barth  has  charge  of  this  establishment.     They  carry  a  very 


838  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

large  stock  of  ready-made  clothing,  and  are  doing  a  good  business. 
Victor  Barth  has  in  his  employment  a  corps  of  competent  and  cour- 
teous salesmen,  among  whom  is  Mr.  Clyde  Cunningham,  who  has 
been  with  him  for  seven  years.  He  has  also  two  of  his  younger 
brothers,  Solomon  and  Moses. 

WM.    W.    BATTERTON. 

William  Wallace  Batterton  was  born  in  Boone  county,  August  llth^ 
1833.  He  is  the  son  of  Lemuel  and  Mary  (Lynch)  Batterton,  and 
his  father  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Boone  county,  coming  here 
from  JS!entucky  in  1820.  Mr.  Batterton  received  his  education  in  the 
common  schools  of  Boone  county  and  at  the  University.  After  leav- 
ing school  he  followed  teaching  for  about  seven  years,  farming  at  inter- 
vals. In  1859  Mr.  Batterton  was  elected  School  Commissioner,  being^ 
the  first  elected  to  that  office  in  this  county.  He  was  removed  from 
office  in  1861  because  of  his  refusal  to  take  the  '*  Gamble  oath.'*  In 
1867  he  was  again  elected  school  commissioner,  and  served  one 
term.  In  the  fall  of  1874,  he  was  elected  countv  clerk  of  Boone 
county ;  he  was  re-elected  in  1878.  His  record  while  in  office  is  an 
excellent  one,  and  one  of  which  he  may  well  be  proud. 

During  the  civil  war  Mr.  Batterton's  sympathies  were  more  or  less 
with  the  Confederates.  He  was  for  a  time,  during  the  first  year  of 
the  struggle,  in  McKinney's  company  of  the  Missouri  State  Guards. 
He  returned  home  upon  the  expiration  of  his  term  in  the  State  ser- 
vice, and  took  no  further  active  part  in  the  war  of  his  own  free  will. 
At  the  '*Gosline  Lane  fight,"  in  this  county,  in  September,  1864^ 
(see  account  elsewhere)  Mr.  Batterton  was  badly  wounded.  He  had 
been  pressed  into  the  service  by  the  Federals  to  drive  his  team  from 
Sturgeon  to  Rocheport,  and  was  shot  down  by  one  of  Todd's  bush- 
whackers when  the  attack  began.  Mr.  B.'s  wound  was  through  the 
right  shoulder,  and  was  made  by  a  bullet  from  a  heavy  dragoon  re- 
volver. His  life  was  spared  only  by  the  intervention  of  John  Thrail- 
kill,  who  commanded  one  company  of  the  guerrillas  on  this  occasion. 

August  31st,  1859,  Mr.  Batterton  married  Miss  Mary  Winn,  of 
this  county.  Their  union  has  been  blessed  with  twelve  children » 
nine  of  whom  are  stiR  living.  Mr.  B.  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
Church.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  following  secret  orders :  Ma- 
sonic—  Blue  Lodge  and  Chapter;  Odd  Fellows  —  Subordinate  and 
Encampment ;  Knights  of  Pythias  and  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen. 


HI8TOBY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  839 


WILLIAM   J.    BABE. 


The  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Rev.  E.  F.  Babb,  was  a 
prominent  Baptist  minister  of  South  Carolina,  of  which  State  he  was 
a  native,  born  October  26th,  1816.  He  married  Miss  Virginia  A. 
Cooper,  also  a  native  of  the  Palmetto  State,  born  October  8th,  1822. 
In  December,  1858,  Rev.  R.  F.  Babb,  with  his  wife  and  six  children, 
amoved  from  Abbeville  district,  S.  C,  to  Audrain  county,  Mo.  From 
lience  he  came  to  Boone ;  then  back  to  Audrian,  and  finally,  in  1872, 
ocated  in  Columbia.  His  children  consisted  of  five  sons  and  one 
laughter,  viz.:  Joseph  C.  Babb  (since  deceased),  Wm.  J.  Babb, 
fames  F.  Babb  (since  deceased),  Heni-y  B.  Babb,  Jerry  G.  Babb,  and 
Sugie  P.  Babb. 

Wm.  J,  Babb,  the  second  son  named  above,  and  the  subject  of  this 
ketch,  was  born  in  Laurens  district,  S.  C,  October  28th,  1846.  He 
ras  reared  on  a  farm,  and  up  to  the  age  of  twenty-one  his  education 
ras  superintended  by  his  father,  who  was  a  successful  and  prominent 
eacher  for  more  than  twenty  years.  In  the  year  1869,  and  from  that 
late  until  the  year  1873,  Mr.  Babb  was  an  irregular  attendant  at  the 
liissouri  University.  He  engaged  in  teaching,  and  when  not  em- 
ployed in  the  school-room  was  to  be  found  in  the  halls  of  the  Univer- 
ity  and  industriously  engaged  in  the  acquirement  of  those  attain- 
nents  in  which  he  afterward  became  proficient  and  noted.  In  1873 
le  graduated  in  the  academic  course,  and  in  June,  1874,  from  the 
lormal  department.  In  1873-4  he  taught  in  the  public  schools  of 
^lumbia.  In  1875-6  he  attended  the  law  school  of  the  University, 
tnd  in  the  latter  year  graduated  as  the  valedictorian  of  the  Centennial 
tlass.  In  the  spring  of  the  same  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
[n  1876-7  he  continued  teachinoj  in  Columbia. 

At  the  November  election,  1876,  Mr.  Babb  was  elected  by  a  large 
najority  to  the  position  of  public  administrator  of  Boone  county, 
rhe  same  efficiency  and  competency  which  had  signalized  his  course 
,8  a  teacher  marked  his  conduct  as  an  official,  and  so  well  were  the 
leople  satisfied  with  his  administration  that  in  November,  1880,  he 
fas  re-elected  for  another  term  of  four  years.  He  is  still  an  incum- 
bent of  the  office,  which  he  fills  to  the  universal  satisfaction  of  the 
»eople.  In  1878  he  was  elected  a  justice  of  the  peace,  but  resigned 
he  position  in  the  spring  of  1882,  in  order  that  he  might  have  more 
ime  for  attending  to  the  practice  of  his  profession  and  to  devote  to 
he  duties  of  his  office. 


840  .  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

July  29th,  1879,  Mr.  Babb  married  Miss  Minnie  E.  Clough,  the 
accomplished  daughter  of  Albert  W.  and  Isabella  Clough.  Mrs.  Babb 
graduated  from  Stephens  College  in  the  class  of  1879,  about  one 
month  before  her  marriage.  They  have  one  child,  Albert  F.,  bora 
June  16th,  1880.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Babb  are  members  of  the  Baptist 
Church,  Mr.  B.  dating  his  membership  from  December,  1865.  At 
present  he  is  the  moderator  of  the  Little  Bonne  Femme  Association, 
which  is  composed  of  the  Baptist  churches  of  Audrain,  Callaway  and 
Boone  counties.  This  position  he  has  held  for  three  years  past,  hav- 
ing been  clerk  of  said  body  three  years  prior  to  his  election  as  its 
presiding  officer.  Honest,  upright,  intelligent  and  capable,  with  a 
good  record  behind  him  and  a  bright  future  before  him,  no  man  has 
more  friends  in  Boone  county,  or  should  be  better  content  with  his 
life  than- the  gentleman  whose  career  is  here  imperfectly  sketched. 

LEANDEB   G.    BIGGS. 

Mr.  Biggs  was  born  in  Springfield,  Missouri,  June  4th,  1851.  His 
parents  were  Seton  T.  and  Louisa  C.  Biggs,  the  fathe;r  a  native  of 
Tennessee,  born  March  9th,  1827,  and  the  mother  of  North  Carolina. 
They  both  came  to  Missouri  when  very  small,  and  were  married  near 
Springfield,  Greene  county,  April  13th,  1848.  They  have  five  children, 
four  of  whom  survive  at  this  writing.  They  continued  to  live  in 
Greene  county  till  1861,  when  they  moved  to  Jerseyville,  Illinois. 
The  senior  Biggs  was  a  carriage-maker  by  trade.  His  health  so  failed 
that,  in  1877,  he  went  to  Brownsville,  Mo.,  to  try  the  efiects  of  the 
Sweet  Springs  water.  He  died  while  at  the  springs,  and  lies  buried 
at  Brownsville.  He  died  August  30th,  1877.  After  the  death  of  her 
husband,  Mrs.  Biggs  bought  a  farm  three  miles  east  of  the  springs, 
where  she  still  resides  with  the  three  youngest  children.  Mary  Frances 
and  Finis  E.  are  married.  Sylvester  was  the  name  of  the  son  who 
died  at  Palmyra,  Mo.  L.  G.  Biggs,  the  immediate  subject  of  this 
sketch,  learned  his  trade  as  carriage  painter  at  Jerseyville,  111.,  subse- 
quently going  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  learned  fancy  sign-writing.  He 
was  married  November  21st,  1872,  to  Miss  Lizzie  E.  Jones,  of  Gil- 
lespie, 111.,  and  a  daughter  of  David  M.  and  Lucinda  Jones,  the  former 
still  living  at  Gillespie,  the  latter  dead.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Biggs  have 
one  son  and  one  daughter,  named,  respectively,  Leon  E.  and  Linuie 
E.  For  two  years  Mr.  B.  followed  portrait  painting.  He  came  to 
Columbia,  this  county,  on  the  first  train  that  came  in  after  the  **  great 
strike'*  of  1877,  and  has  made  his  home  here  ever  since.     He  is  cer^- 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  841 

Ihunly  one  of  the  best  sign  writers  and  ornamental  painters  in  the 
^  "^tate,  and  follows  that  vocation  exclusively.     He  and  wife  are  both 
^mbers  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  he  also  belongs  to  the  A.  O. 
TJ.  W.  and  Knights  of  Pythias.     His  education  was  chiefly  received 
^  Jerseyville,  Illinois. 

JAMES  SHANNON  BLACKWELL,  A.  M.,  PH.  D. 

Prof.  Blackwell  is  now,  and  has  been  for  four  years,  connected 
with  the  University  in  the  capacity  of  teacher  of  **  Hebrew  and  Semitic 
Literature  and  of  Moderu  Languages.''  He  is  a  native  of  Henderson 
<sountyf  Kentucky,  and  was  born  November  30th,  1844.  His  parents, 
James  J.  and  Mary  (Jeflress)  Blackwell,  were  natives  of  Virginia,  and 
the  ancestry  of  Prof.  B.  have  been  '*  to  the  manner  born  "  in  the  Old 
Dominion  for  200  years.  Excepting  the  years  of  his  collegiate  course 
as  a  student,  he  lived  in  Kentucky  till  he  came  here  to  take  his 
present  position  in  the  University.  He  graduated  at  Hanover  College, 
Indiana,  in  1868,  with  the  degree  of  A.  B. ;  in  1871  he  took  the 
degree  of  A.  M.,  and  in  '76  that  of  Ph.  D.  He  was  made  president 
of  Ghent  College,  Ghent,  Kentucky,  in  1868,  and  held  that  position 
iiltogether  for  four  years.  Purchasing  an  interest  in  Forrest 
Academy,  a  private  school  at  Anchorage,  Kentucky,  he  remained 
there  three  years.  Subsequently  he  was  four  years  in  the  Kentucky 
Military  Institute  at  Frankfort,  having  been  placed  in  that  institution 
by  the  appointment  of  the  Governor,  with  the  commission  of 
major.  That  was  the  position  he  quit  when  he  took  his  present 
ehair  in  the  Missouri  University.  As  a  linguist,  Prof.  Blackwell  is  a 
study  to  his  friends,  and  even  his  intimates  scarcely  comprehend  him, 
so  great  is  his  gift  of  acquiring  language.  He  has  spoken  German 
from  childhood,  and  also  speaks  fluently  French,  Spanish  and  Italian, 
besides  being  well  versed  in  a  number  of  other  languages.  On  one  oc- 
casion, in  a  paper  read  before  the  American  Philological  Association  at 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  he  made  quotations  from  upward§  of  twenty  different 
languages.  He  took  a  two-years'  course  of  Chinese  from  a  native 
master,  and  has  also  studied  the  Egyptian  and  Assyrian,  and  is  con- 
stantly adding  to  his  linguistic  stock  by  beginning  the  study  of  new 
ones,  his  latest  being  Arabic,  which  he  began  September  11th,  1882. 
His  method  of  acquiring  language  is  a  modification  (his  own)  of  what 
is  known  as  the  Hamiltonian  system.  He  has  a  Bible  in  which 
the  text  is  Hebrew,  with  a  translation  into  Chaldee,  and  commentaries 
in  Babbinic.     Prof.  Blackwell  was  married   July    8,  1870,  to   Miss 


842  HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTT. 

Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Milton  Smith,  of  Ghent,  Kentucky.  Shewai 
a  native  of  that  State,  and  a  niece  of  ex-Gov.  Henry  S.  Lane,  an 
U.  8.  Senator  from  Indiana.  She  died  September  6,  1881,  having 
borne  five  children,  two  only  of  whom  —  Laura  Cherry  and  Pan! 
Preston  —  are  living.  Prof.  B.  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  and  was  an  elder  therein  while  at  Anchorage,  Kentucky.  He 
is  the  author  of  quite  a  number  of  articles  on  language  and  literature, 
and  has  written  several  small  books  and  pamphlets,  including  <*  Views 
on  the  Study  of  Language,"  and  **  Some  Observations  on  the  Hebrew 
Grammar  of  Dr.  Alexander  Meyrowitz."  Since  the  days  of  the 
**  Learned  Blacksmith,"  few  men  have  developed  more  genius  in, 
and  love  for,  the  study  of  language  than  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
and  perhaps  when  he  has  attained  the  age  at  which  Elihu  Burritt  died, 
he  may  be  the  peer  even  of  that  greatest  of  the  great  masters  of 
language. 

JAMES   BOWLING,    SR. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  one  among  the  oldest  citizens  of  Boone 
county.  He  is  a  native  of  Amherst  county,  Virginia,  where  he  was 
born  August  7th,  1797.  He  was  educated  at  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  county.  In  1828,  at  the  age  of  thirty-one,  he  left  Virginia, 
going  to  what  is  now  known  as  West  Virginia,  where  he  stayed  four 
years.  In  1832  he  came  to  Missouri,  stopping  for  a  while  in  Calla- 
way county.  He  next  came  to  Boone  county,  aud  bought  a  farm  in 
the  forks  of  Cedar,  where  he  lived  from  1833  to  1855,  when  he  built 
the  house  now  occupied  by  P.  H.  Robuett,  and  iu  which  he  lived  till 
1866.  He  has  followed  farming  all  his  life,  and  his  labors  have  ever 
proved  successful.  He  has  by  industry,  prudence  and  economy 
accumulated  a  large  amount  of  property,  When  quite  a  young  man, 
he  took  charge  of  his  father's  plantation,  one  among  the  largest  aud 
most  productive  in  the  country.  He  had  control  of  this  property  for 
ten  years,  from  1818  to  1828.  He  was  married,  November  11th, 
1819,  to  Miss  Margaret,  daughter  of  James  and  Mildred  (Monday) 
Davis.  Eight  children  were  born  of  this  marriage,  three  sons  and  five 
daughters,  four  of  whom  —  two  of  each  sex  —  are  now  living.  Martha 
A.,  Parmelia  J.  and  *Sallie  are  dead.  Charles  L.  died  in  Price's  army. 
The  surviving  members  of  the  family  are :  Mildred,  who  first  married 
Abraham  Gillaspie,  of  Kentucky,  aud,  being  left  a  widow,  afterwards 
married  Wiley  Roy,  of  Carroll  county,  Missouri.  James  D.,  who 
married  Martha  McAllister,  of  Columbia  ;  and  Mary  F.,  widow  of  the 
late  J.  L.  Matthews,  of  Columbia,  and  Roderick,  now  of  Texas.    Mr. 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  843 

owling's  father  was  born  in  St.  Mary's  county,  Maryland,  in  1752, 
id  died  in  Amherst  county,  Virginia,  in  1832.  He  was  the  father 
f  eight  children,  three  sons  and  five  daughters.  His  wife  was 
laticia  Gillaspie.  She  died  in  1850,  and  is  buried  in  Amherst 
oiinty,  Virginia. 

JAMES   MONROE   BOS  WELL. 

James  M.  Boswell,  a  well  known  and  popular  business  man  of 
Solumbia,  was  born  in  Bedford  county,  Virginia,  J^ebruary   14th, 
842.     He  is  the  son  of  William  H.  H.  and  Elizabeth  A.  (Compton) 
kwwell.     He  attended  school  at  Liberty,  Virginia,  commencing  in 
854  and  ending  in  1857.     He  came  to  Boone  county^,  Missouri,  in 
16  fall  of  1858,  and  attended  school  at  New  Prospect  Academy  until 
16  breaking  out  of  the  war,  in  1861.     He  enlisted  in  Company  B,  of 
'allaway   county,   commanded   by  Maj.   J.   M.   Robinson,  being   a 
drtion  of  the  elder  Gen.  John  B.  Clark's  regiment.^     Was  in  the  bat- 
es of  Wilson  Creek,  Drywood,  Lexington,  and  Moore's  Mill.    Went 
>  Ham's  Prairie,  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  and  sold  goods  for  a 
lort  time,  but  owing  to  the  excitement  and  troubles  growing  out  ot" 
le  war,  had  to  quit  the  business.     He  came  to  Columbia,  and  was  en- 
iged  to  teach  the  public  schools.     He  followed  teaching  for  fifteen 
onths,  when  he  was  employed  as  a  salesman  in  the  store  of  Kirkbride 
Co.,  Columbia,  Mo.     Stayed  with  this  firm  until  1868,  when  he  went 
business  witli  James  I.  Hickman,  under  the  firm  name  of  Hickman 
Boswell,  dealers  in  family  groceries.     They  sold  out  their  business 
1870  to  Allen,  Maupin  &  Co.     Was  elected  constable  of  Columbia 
•wnship,   and   served   for  two  years   and  four  months.     After  the 
:piration  of  his  term  as  constable,  he  went  into  the  family  grocery 
isiness  under  the  firm  name  of  Smith  &  Boswell.     He  sold  out  this 
isiness  in  1874,  and  engaged  as  salesman  with  Loeb,  Meyer  &  Co., 
•y  goods  and  clothing.     He  stayed  with  this  firm  for  four  years, 
uitting  their  store,  he  engaged  once  more  in  the  family  grocery 
isiness,  this  time  by  himself.     Sold  out  the  business,  August  15th, 
181,  to  Hume  &  Brothers.     Mr.   Boswell  owns  considerable  real 
tate  in  Columbia,  also  an  excellent  farm  of  sixty  acres.     He  is  a 
ember  of  the  Masonic  order,  also  of  the  United  Workmen.     He 
18  married,  November  14th,  1872,  to  Miss  Sarah  J.,  daughter  of 
iward  and  Kissih  (Fortney)  Easley.     They  have  two  sons  and  two 
kughters  :'  Annie  W.,  William  E.,  Gertrude  L.  and  James  M.     Mr. 


^  In  the  Confederate  service. 


844  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY, 

and  Mrs  Boswell  are  both  members  of  the  Christian  church.  He  has 
been  an  auctioneer  for  years ,  and  has  sold  a  great  deal  of  property. 

JOSHUA   H.  BRADY. 

Joshua  H.  Brady,  son  of  William  and  Catherine  Brady,  was  born  in 
Washington  county,  Maryland,  August  5th,  1837.  He  was  educated 
at  a  neighboring  town  called  Hancock,  and  learned  the  miller's  trade 
of  his  father,  serving  an  apprenticeship  of  eight  years.  In  1861  he 
went  to  work  for  Samuel  Bowles,  of  Washington  county,  Maryland^ 
and  stayed  with  him  two  years.  He  was  next  employed  by  William  H. 
Eads,  of  Georgetown,  District  of  Columbia,  whose  mill  had  a  capacity 
of  one  hundred  and  fifty  barrels  a  day.  He  stayed  with  Eads  a  year 
knd  a  half.  In  1864  he  was  engaged  to  run  a  mill  in  Morgan  county, 
Virginia,  at  a  point  called  Sir  John's  Run.  Remained  in  this  position 
for  four  years,  then  went  to  Sleepy  Creek,  same  county,  where  he 
stayed  six  months,  and  from  there  to  Frederick  county,  Maryland, 
where  he  entered  the  Red  Spring  Mills  owned  by  J.  M.  Bushy,  where  he 
remained  two  years.  The  mill  was  sold  to  E.  Zimmerman  and  Mr. 
Brady  remained  with  him  seven  years.  He  then  rented  the  mill  at 
Middletown  Valley,  in  Frederick  county,  Maryland,  and  remained  in 
charge  of  this  mill  until  the  autumn  of  1881,  when  he  came  to  Colum- 
bia, Missouri,  July  10th,  1882,  and  went  to  work  for  the  Columbia 
Milling  Company.  He  is  a  practical  miller,  thoroughly  acquainted 
with  every  department  of  the  business.  In  1864  he  was  drafted  into 
the  Federal  army,  but  by  paying  three  hundred  dollars  he  was  ex- 
cused from  serving.  He  was  married,  August  Ist,  1865,  to 
Hester  Ann  Wharton,  daughter  of  Samuel  Wharton,  of  Sir  John's 
Run,  West  Virginia.  They  have  six  children,  three  of  each  sex: 
Aquila  C,  born  February  19th,  1869  ;  Katie  R.,  born  August  16th, 
1871 ;  George  William,  born  March  30th,  1873  ;  Annie  O.,  born  June 
11th,  1875  ;  Charles  J.,  born  November  25th,  1877  ;  Hester  M.,  bom 
July  4th,  1880.     They  are  all  living. 

GEORGE    SMITH   BRYANT,    A.  M., 

President  of  Christian  Female  College,  Columbia,  is  a  native  of  Jessa- 
mine county,  Kentucky,  born  April  2d,  1841.  His  parents.  Dr.  John 
and  Martha  Ann  Bryant,  with  their  family  immigrated  to  Jackson  coun- 
ty, Missouri,  in  1850,  and  settled  in  Independence,  where  they  yet  re- 
side. The  subject  of  our  sketch  received  his  primary  education  in  the 
Independence  High  School,  M.  W.  Miller,  now  in  charge  of  Webster 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  845 

pcbool  in  St.  Louis,  then  being  its  principal.  After  being  prepared 
Cor  college  by  this  institution  of  learning,  Mr.  Bryant  went  to  Bethany 
Ck>llege9  Virginia,  then  under  the  management  of  Rev.  Alexander 
Campbell,  its  president.  At  the  expiration  of  two  years,  Mr.  Bryant 
graduated  with  honor,  and  then  returned  and  entered  the  Indepen- 
dmice  High  School  as  assistant  to  M.  W.  Miller.  Mr.  Miller  soon 
thereafter  resigned,  and  Mr.  Bryant  succeeded  him,  and  successfuly 
managed  the  school  for  ten  years.  During  that  time  he  graduated  a 
laige  number  of  pupils,  some  of  whom  now  fill  the  principal  commer- 
dal,  educational  and  political  positions  of  the  State.  On  the  29th  day 
of  August,  1871,  Mr.  Bryant  married  Miss  Margaret  Frances  Fergu- 
son, daughter  of  James  and  Mary  Ferguson,  of  Boone  county,  Mo. 
After  his  marriage  he  accepted  a  professorship  in  thfe  Christian  Female 
College  under  the  presidency  of  Joseph  K.  Rogers,  and  held  the  posi- 
tion for  about  five  years.  Owing  to  the  failure  of  Mr.  Rogers*  health, 
in  1877,  he  resigned  the  presidency  and  recommended  Professor 
Bryant  to  the  board  of  trustees,  who  unanimously  elected  him  Mr. 
Sogers'  successor,  which  position  he  has  satisfactorily  filled  to  the 
present  day,  the  last  session  of  the  school  having  been  one  of  its 
iBost  prosperous. 

J.  R.  CAMPBELL. 

James  Reyburn  Campbell  was  born  in  Mexico,  Mo.,  October  1st, 
1846.  He  is  a  son  of  John  and  Sallie  (Turner)  Campbell.  His 
&ther  wasa  native  of  Kentucky  and  came  to  Missouri  when  a  boy. 
He  died  in  December,  1870,  in  Audrain  county.  Mrs.  Campbell  is  a 
native  of  Boone  county ;  she  is  still  alive.  Mr.  Campbell  was  a  farmer. 
J.  R.  Campbell,  the  subject  hereof,  was  reared  on  a  farm  and  received 
a  common  school  education.  In  the  foil  of  1862,  when  but  sixteen 
years  of  age,  he  went  South  and  took  service  in  the  Confederate  army 
under  Gen.  Price.  His  first  enlistment  was  in  Company  A,  of  the 
1st  Missouri  brigade  (afterwards  Company  B).  During  his  term  of 
service  Mr.  Campbell  participated  in  the  second  fight  at  Carthage,  in 
Taylor's  engagements  with  and  defeat  of  Gen.  Banks  in  Louisiana, 
and  in  Price's  last  raid.  He  was  under  Gen.  Price  all  of  his  term. 
The  hardest  battles  in  which  he  was  engaged  were  Big  Blue,  Jackson 
county,  and  *'  Big  Prairie,  "  near  the  Arkansas  line,  both  on  Price's 
raid  into  I^issouri.  Upon  first  enlisting  Mr.  Campbell  was  in  the 
cavalry,  but  was  afterwards  transferred  to  the  infantry.  He  did  a 
great  deal  of  post  duty  in  Arkansas  and  Louisiana,  guarding  the  forts 
at   Shreveport    and  at  other   points  on  Red  river.     He  surrendered 


646  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

with  the  main  body  of  Gen.  Price's  army  at  Shreveport  in  the  spring 
of  1865,  and  returned  home  June  25th,  of  that  year,  and  began  life 
without  a  dollar. 

Soon  after  coming  home  Mr.  Campbell  engaged  with  the  Wilcox 
&  Gibbs  Sewing  Machine  Company,  of  St.  Louis,  for  which  he 
worked  about  eighteen  months,  when,  he  entered  the  service  of  the 
Singer  company,  and  was  given  their  agency  for  four  counties.  This 
territory  he  has  held  ever  since.  In  November,  1875,  he  came  to 
<Jolumbia,  where  he  has  since  resided.  In  addition  to  his  sewing 
machine  house,  Mr.  Campbell  also  conducts  a  first-class  confectioneiy 
store,  and  since  January,  1882,  has  owned  a  one-third  interest  in  the 
large  grocery  and  provision  house  of  Bruce,  Moberly  &  Co. 

He  was  married  December  12th,  1868,  to  Miss  Amelia  Turner,  a 
native  of  Audrain  county,  and  daughter  of  John  Turner,  Esq.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Campbell  are  the  parents  of  three  children  — Mary  Pearl, 
Eula  Gertrude  and  Laura  Belle.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  are  both  members 
of  the  Baptist  church,  and  Mr.  C.  belongs  to  the  United  Workmen 
and  Knights  of  Honor. 

MR.    AND   MRS.    O.    A.    GARR. 

The   subjects  of  this  sketch  are  natives  of  Kentucky,  the  former 
having  been  born  in  Lewis  county,  February  5th,  1845,  the  latter  in 
Stanford,  Lincoln  county,  September  8th,  1847.     Mr.  Carr's  pater- 
nal grandparents,  Daniel  Carr  and  Richard  Clary,  were  sturdy  pioneer 
farmers   of  their  respective  counties.      Daniel   Carr  lived  sixty-four 
years  of  his  married  life  in  one  home  in  Lewis  county,  near  which 
began  the  wedded  lives  of  William  Carr  and  Elizabeth  Clary,  to  whom 
were  born  eight  children,  the  fifth  bearing  the  name  of  Oliver  Ander- 
son Carr.      In  early  youth  Oliver  attended  school  of  winters  at  the 
rude  log  school-house  of  the  neighborhood,  the  term  usually  lasting 
but  three  months  in  the  year.     The  elder  Carr  was  not  satisfied  with 
the  limited  facilities  thus  aflTorded  his  children,  as  he  had  early  resolved 
to  give  them  as  good  an  education  as  his  means  would  aflford.    For 
this  reason  he  abandoned  his  farm  and  removed  to  May's  Lick,  Mason 
county,  where,  from  the  age  of  eleven  to  sixteen,  Oliver  attended  the 
academy.     After  five  years'  hard  study,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  had 
won  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  all  who  knew  him,  and  when  it  was 
known  that  he  wished  to  further  prosecute  his  studies  at  college,  and 
that  his  means  were  limited,  the  young  student  did  not  lack  for  assist- 
ance, which  came  without  personal  solicitation.     He  was  thus  enabled 


HISTOBY  OF  BOON£   COUNTY.  847 

attend  the  Kentucky  University,  then  situated  at  Harrodsburg, 
entucky.  While  a  student  of  this  institution,  the  university  build. 
g  was  burned  and  the  school  was  removed  to  Lexington,  where  Mr. 
arr  graduated  in  1867,  at  the  age  of  twenty-two.  He  was  the 
[>ungest  graduate  of  the  university  at  that  time  and  the  youngest  of 
le  class,  being  the  first  to  receive  the  degree  of  A.  B.  after  the 
dmoval  of  the  university  to  Lexington.  His  labors  in  the  gospel 
«gan  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  when  he  travelled  and  preached  during 
&e  summer  months  in  Northeastern  Kentucky — one  season  in  com- 
lany  with  Eld.  J.  W.  Mountjoy — preaching  in  school-houses  and 
Drest  groves  to  multitudes  who  assembled  to  hear  the  gospel.  Five 
tundred  people  acknowledged  the  Savior  under  his  preaching,  and 
ix  churches  were  established  by  him,  one  within  two  miles  of  his 
irth  place.  In  the  midst  of  these  labors  there  was  a  call  for  mis- 
ionaries,  and  Elder  Carr  was  selected  for  the  Australia  mission, 
^revious  to  commencing  his  long  journey,  he  was  married  in  the 
Christian  church  at  Lancaster,  Kentucky,  to  Miss  Mattie  Myers, 
farch  26th,  1868.  Immediately  after  their  marriage  they  departed 
)r  Melbourne,  Australia.  They  sailed  from  New  York  to  Liverpool, 
nd  after  remaining  three  weeks  in  the  British  Isles,  left  Liverpool  in 

sailing  vessel,  and  after  a  voyage  of  one  hundred  and  four  days 
mded  safely  at  Melbourne.  Mr.  Carr  at  once  began  his  labors  in 
lat  city.  He  established  a  church,  and  used  the  press  and  pulpit 
)ntinuously  during  the  period  of  his  labors  in  that  country.  In 
Idition  to  preaching,  he  taught  a  class  of  young  men  who  were  pre- 
mng  for  the  ministry.  Excessive  toil  and  the  enervating  influence 
r  the  climate  told  seriously  upon  his  health,  and  he  was  advised  to 
sit  Tasmania,  two  hundred  miles  south  of  Australia  for  the  benefit 
r  the  climate.  Soon  after  landing  at  Hobart  he  was  urged  to  preach 
id  did  so,  establishing  a  church  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  members. 
fter  one  year's  labor  at  Hobart  they  sailed  for  home  by  way  of 
eylon,  the  Red  Sea  and  the  Suez  Canal,  visiting  Egypt  and  the  Holy 
and,  stopping  at  Naples  and  Rome,  passing  through  the  Mount  Cenis 
mnel  to  Paris  and  Versailles,  thence  to  Southampton,  and  after 
iree  weeks*  stay  in  England  sailed  for  New  York,  and  thence  over- 
md  by  way  of  Niagara  Falls  to  Maysville,  Kentucky,  where  Mr. 
arr's  parents  were  living,  landing  at  home  in  August,  1873.     After 

brief  rest  Eld.  Carr  resumed  his  labors  in  Kentucky,  travelling 
Ktensively  in  the  interest  of  Sunday-schools.  In  1874  he  responded 
3  a  call  from  a  St.  Louis  church  for  a  specified  time,  at  the  expira- 


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848  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTT, 

tion  of  which  time  he  and  Mrs.  Carr  came  to  Fulton,  Missouri,  the 
former  to  preach  and  the  latter  to  take  charge  of  Floral  Hill  College. 
It  was  thought  best  to  unite  this  institution  with  Christian  College, 
Columbia,  Missouri,  which  union  was  consummated  in  1878.  Mr. 
Carr  has  devoted  his  time  to  evangelical  labors  in  Missouri,  except 
while  occupying  the  pulpit  of  Eld.  L.  B.  Wilkes,  at  Columbia,  durii^ 
the  illness  of  the  latter.  Mr.  Carr's  labors  in  the  last  few  years  have 
been  directed  towards  securing  church  cooperation  in  promulgating 
the  gospel,  and  to  this  end  he  has  travelled,  preached  and  writt€a 
continuously  since  coming  to  Missouri.  During  the  last  yearofhia 
labors  in  this  State  he  has  established  a  church  at  Laddonia,  Audrain 
county,  and  another  at  Ashland,  in  Boone  county,  where  they  have 
recently  completed  an  excellent  church  edifice.  Mrs.  O.  A.  Carr, 
the  earnest,  zealous  partner  of  Elder  Carr  in  all  his  missionary  and 
evangelical  labors,  is  the  youngest  daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary  (Bur- 
dette)  Myers,  and  was  born  at  Stanford,  Lincoln  county,  Kentucky, 
September  6th,  1847.  Her  father  was  of  German  origin,  her  mother 
of  English  extraction.  Mrs.  Carr  was  a  pupil  of  Daughter's  College, 
Harrodsburg,  Kentucky,  for  six  years,  under  the  management  of 
President  John  A.  Williams,  afterwards  president  of  Christian  College, 
Columbia,  Missouri.  Having  finished  the  junior  course  in  Daughter's 
College  she  was  sent  to  St.  Catherine  de  Sienna,  Washington  county, 
Kentucky,  where  she  graduated  with  the  highest  honors  of  her  class. 
The  following  year,  1865,  she  returned  to  Daughter's  College  and 
graduated  there  in  1866  with  high  honors.  Soon  after  leaving  college 
she  was  called  to  the  principalship  of  Franklin  College,  Lancaster, 
Kentucky.  After  nearly  two  years'  prosperous  labor  she  resigned 
and  was  married,  March  26th,  1868,  to  Mr.-O.  A.  Carr,  since  which 
time  her  history  has  been  thoroughly  identified  with  his  in  their  labors 
for  the  cau§e  of  Christ  both  in  this  country  and  in  foreign  lands. 
During  the  three  years  spent  in  Australia,  Mrs.  Carr  had  charge  of  a 
college  for  young  ladies,  and  worked  with  her  husband  in  his  church 
relations  until  the  failure  of  her  health,  when  they  removed  to  Tas- 
mania, where  she  continued  her  labors  in  the  church  and  school  which 
they  organized  at  that  place.  After  their  return  to  America  she  was 
appointed  associate  principal  of  Hamilton  College,  Lexington,  Ken- 
tucky. She  did  not  remain  long  with  this  institution,  however,  as 
the  work  became  excessive  after  the  resignation  of  the  principal. 
Consequently  she  resigned  and  joined  her  husband,  who  had  preceded 
her  to  St.  Louis,  having  taken  charge  of  the  First  Christian  church  of 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  849 

it  city.  In  1876  she  assumed  the  management  of  Floral  Hill  Col- 
^,  Fulton,  Missouri,  where  she  remained  until  that  institution  was 
nsolidated  with  Christian  Female  College,  Columbia,  Missouri, 
le  then  came  to  Columbia  as  associate  principal  of  Christian  Col- 
^.  In  this  capacity  she  labored  for  one  year,  at  the  expiration  of 
rich  time  she  received,  in  1879,  the  appointment  of  lady  principal 
the  Missouri  State  University,  which  position  she  now  holds.  She 
JO  has  control  of  the  work  department,  established  for  the  benefit 
the  young  lady  pupils  of  the  University.  Besides  her  weekly  labors 
the  church  and  in  the  school,  she  has  contributed  to  religious  peri- 
icals,  and  has  delivered  frequent  lectures  in  the  interest  of  literary 
d  religious  culture. 

CAPT.    H.    N.    COOK. 

Benry  Nixdorff  Cook  was  born  at  Palmj^ra,  Marion  county,  Missouri, 

itober  30,  1838.     He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools,  and  at 

.  Paul's  College.     In  1851  he  came  to  Columbia,  and  has  ever  since 

sn  a  resident  of  Boone  county.     His  first  occupation  in  Columbia 

s  that  of  jeweler  and  watchmaker. 

Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war  Captain  Cook  announced  him- 

f  an  unconditional  Union  man,  and  ready  to  fight  for  his  principles. 

ml  22,  1862,  he  received  a  commission  as  captain   of  company  F, 

I  Cavalry,  M.   S.   M.   (Guitar's  regiment),  afid  in  this   capacity 

•ved  for  three  years.     During  his  term  of  service  Captain  Cook  par- 

ipated  in  the  engagement  at  Moore's  Mill,  Kirksville,  Independence, 

1  in  the  other  leading  battles  of  General  Price's  last  raid  into  Mis- 

iri,  besides  innumerable  fights  and  skirmishes  with  Confederate  guer- 

las  and  bushwhackers.     In  one  engagement  with  Jim  Carter's  band 

this  county,  in  the  winter  of  1865,  he  killed  four  of  the  guerrillas 

i  eflTectually  broke  up  the  band.     In  April,  1865,  he  received  a  com- 

3sion  as  captain  of  the  '*  Boone  County  Company  "  of  militia,  and 

ved  some  months.     He  received  the  surrender  of  the  notorious 

Q  Jackson  and  his  band  in  the  spring  of  1865,  and  gave  them  writ- 

\  paroles.     Jackson  was  afterwards  killed  by  the  militia  with  his 

role  on  his  person.     The  captain  passed  through  all  the  dangers  of 

)  war  without  a  scratch. 

[n  the  fall  of  1868  Captain  Cook  was  appointed  county  clerk  of 

one  county,  to  which  office  he  was  elected  in  1870  as  a  Republican, 

hough   the   county  was  Democratic  at  the  time.     He   served   as 

jnty  clerk  till  January  1,  1875.     In  June,  1881,   he  was  appointed 

stmaster  of  Columbia,  and  is  still  in  that  position. 
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850  HISTORY   OP   BOONE    COUNTY, 

In  March,  1859,  Captain  Cook  married  Miss  Hettie  Scott,  of  Arrow 
Rock,  Saline  county.  They  are  parents  of  two  children,  a  son  and 
daughter,  both  of  whom  have  reached  maturity.  Henry  Guitar,  the 
son,  is  deputy  postmaster,  arid  Mary,  the  daughter  is  now  Mrs.  Wage, 
of  Columbia. 

HENRY   CRUMB AUGH. 

Henry  Crumbaugh,  a  prominent  business  man  of  Columbia,  and  one 
of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  the  place,  was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Ken- 
tucky, May  16,  1814.  He  is  the  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Snyder) 
Crumbaugh ;  he  was  raised  and  educated  in  his  native  county,  and 
learned  the  saddler  and  harness-maker's  trade  at  Lexinffton,  servinsr 
an  apprenticeship  of  five  years.  After  completing  his  trade  he 
came  to  Columbia,  Missouri,  and  located,  opening  a  shop  in  the  spring 
of  1838.  His  first  shop  was  situated  on  Broadway,  where  the  Exchange 
Bunk  now  stands.  He  landed  in  Columbia  without  money,  possessing 
only  his  trade  and  a  laudable  resolution  to  win,  which,  coupled  with 
industry,  prudence,  and  economy,  soon  laid  the  foundation  for  a  suc- 
cessful business.  His  property  was  not  rapidly  accumulated,  but 
surely  and  steadily,  until  now  in  his  old  age  he  finds  himself  the  pos- 
sessor of  a  handsome  estate,  earned  by  the  labor  of  his  own  hands. 
For  many  years  he  served  as  town  trustee  ;  he  was  also  city  collector 
for  fifteen  or  sixteeS  years.  He  was  married  April  30,  1840,  to  Doro- 
thy A.,  daughter  of  Col.  Richard  Gentry.  They  had  three  children  — 
one  son  and  two  daughters.  Mary  A.  married  J.  V.  C.  Karnes,  a 
prominent  lawyer  of  Kansas  City ;  Dorothy  A.  married  J.  H.  Lips- 
comb, also  a  lawyer  of  Kansas  City;  Luther  H.  married  a  daughter 
of  Major  Harbinson,  a  prominent  lawyer  of  Southwest  Missouri. 
Mrs.  Crumbaugh  was  born  March  13,  1816,  and  died  March  9,  1854. 
On  the  13th  of  December,  1855,  he  was  married  to  Mary  C.  Reynolds^ 
of  Columbia,  Missouri.  They  have  three  children  —  James  E.,  city 
attorney  of  Columbia,  and  a  promising  young  lawyer,  being  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  literary  and  law  departments  of  the  Missouri  State  Univer- 
sity ;  Roberta  Lee  —  named  in  honor  of  Gen.  Robert  E.  Lee  —  and 
Mary  C.  In  1833  Mr.  Crumbaugh  joined  the  Presbyterian  church  at 
Lexington,  Kentucky,  under  the  preaching  of  Dr.  Hall ;  he  was  elected 
an  elder  of  his  church  in  September,  1844.  His  motto  through  life  has 
been,  '*  Every  day  something  learned  ;  every  day  something  done." 

WALLACE   JACKSON    DAVIS. 

Wallace  J.  Davis,  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Boone  County  JSen^ 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  851 

rf,  is  a  native  of  this  county,  having  been  born  in  Perche  township^ 
>ril  14,  1850.  He  is  the  younger  son  of  Linnseus  and  Nancy  T. 
leaver)  Davis.  His  father  was  a  native  of  New  York,  but  eini- 
fitted  in  early  youth  to  Missouri,  where  he  was  principally  raised  and 
ucated.  Mrs.  Davis  is  a  native  of  Alabama.  The  subject  of  this 
etch  was  reared  and  educated  in  Boone  county.  At  the  age  of 
renty  he  entered  the  office  of  the  Democratic  Banner^  published  at 
a-vette,  Missouri,  by  James  H.  Robinson.  He  remained  with  Mr. 
obinson  over  a  year.  His  next  engagement  was  with  the  Columbia 
feraW.  He  afterwards  worked  on  the  Columbia  Statesman^  Cedar 
ity  Clarion^  and  all  the  papers  published  at  Fulton,  Missouri,  hav- 
ig  served  as  foreman  of  the  Fairplay  and  the  Mail  of  that  city.  In 
J74  he  worked  on  the  Jefferson  City  THbune.  The  year  following 
5  was  engaged  on  the  Daily  Times^  and  the  Dispatch^  then  under 
le  management  of  Stilson  Hutchins.  In  June,  1876,  he  established 
%  Centralia  Sentinel^  a  Democratic  paper,  which  he  soon 
terwards  removed  to  Columbia,  changing  the  name  to  Boone 
mnty  Sentinel,  The  first  number  of  the  new  edition  was 
ted  February  4,  1877.  The  Sentinel  has  been  a  fearless, 
tspoken  paper,  and  has  carried  the  Democratic  banner  to  the 
►nt  in  every  political  campaign  since  the  day  it  was  started.  When 
liad  a  preference  it  did  not  hesitate  to  say  so.  If  it  believed  an 
rirant  for  office  unworthy  of  the  support  of  the  party,  it  proclaimed 
5  fact  regardless  of  consequences.  F.  F.  Davis,  brother  of  Wallace 
Davis,  is  associated  with  him  in  the  management  of  the  Sentinel. 
e  subject  of  this  sketch  was  married  May  24,  1880,  to  Miss  Alice, 
lighter  of  Charles  Ustick,  of  Dover,  Lafayette  county,  Missouri,. 
ey  have  one  son,  Kenneth  Forrest,  born  December  5,  1881.  Mr. 
.vis  and  wife  are  members  of  the  Methodist  Church  South.  His 
)ther,  F.  F.  Davis,  was  born  July  31,  1842.  He  is  also  a  member 
the  Methodist  church.  The  oldest  brother,  Leander  B.  Davis,  was 
led  in  the  Confederate  service. 

PROF.    CONRAD   DIEHL. 

Prof.  Conrad  Diehl  was  born  near  Landau,  Germany,  July  16, 
42.  His  father,  Conrad  L.,  was  a  notary  and  a  leader  in  the  revo- 
ion  of  1848,  for  which  he  forfeited  his  estate  and  was  sentenced  to 
ath.  He  fled  to  America  and  settled  in  St.  Clair  county,  Illinois. 
)ung  Conrad  was  educated  principally  at  Oakfield,  Franklin  county,, 
issouri.     At  the  age  of  seventeen  his  father  sent  him  to  Munich^ 


852  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Germany,  to  complete  his. artistic  education.  He  studied  for  five 
jears  under  the  most  celebrated  artists  of  that  city,  among  whom 
were  Kaulbach  and  Foltz.  It  was  while  attending  the  art  school  at 
Munich  that  Prof.  Diehl  produced  his  celebrated  picture,  "  Hamlet," 
representing  the  Prince  of  Denmark  in  one  of  his  most  dramatic  atti- 
tudes. This  picture  at  once  established  his  reputation  as  an  artist  of 
very  high  order.  He  brought  this  picture  with  him  to  America,  and 
presented  it  to  the  Chicago  Art  Association.  It  was  consumed  in  the 
great  fire  of  1871.  Prof.  Diehl  attended  the  Paris  Exposition  in  1867, 
and  while  there  painted  another  fine  picture,  **  Macbeth,"  which  is 
now  in  an  art  collection  in  St.  Louis.  In  1871  he  went  to  St.  Louis 
and  taught  art  in  the  public  schools  until  1877.  While  a  teacher  in 
that  city  he  introduced  a  new  mode  of  instruction  which  became  very 
popular,  but  was  finally  driven  out  by  ignorant  prejudice.  He  has 
since  reduced  this  system  to  writing,  and  it  is  now  ready  for  the 
press.  He  thinks  his  book  will  revolutionize  the  study  of  art  in  this 
-country.  He  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Chicago  Academy  of 
Design.  In  1879  he  succeeded  Gen.  Bingham  in  the  art  department 
of  the  State  University,  and  has  been  connected  with  that  institution 
ever  since.  He  uses  no  text  books.  His  mode  of  teaching  is  wholly 
practical,  and  his  pupils  advance  very  rapidly.  In  addition  to  art. 
Prof.  Diehl  possesses  a  thorough  literary  education  ;  speaks  English, 
German  and  French.  He  was  married  in  Paris,  France,  to  Miss  Isa- 
bella Dupont,  the  marriage  ceremony  being  performed  by  Gen.  John 
A.  Dix,  then  United  States  minister  to  France.  Mrs.  Diehl  is  also  an 
artist  of  considerable  ability.  Specimens  of  her  work  may  be  seen 
in  the  art  rooms  of  the  University.  She  is  devoted  to  her  husband 
and  her  children,  and  has  been  of  great  help  to  him  in  his  chosen  pro- 
fession. They  have  had  seven  children,  five  of  whom  are  living. 
Their  names  are  Rose,  Alice,  Felix  Conrad,  Conrad  Lewis  and 
Mignon.  Prof.  Diehl  is  not  a  church  member.  Mrs.  Diehl  is  a 
Catholic. 

J.    S.     DORSE Y. 

Jere.  Spires  Dorsey  is  a  native  of  Nicholas  county,  Kentucky,  where 
he  was  born  November  11th,  1834.  He  lived  in  his  native  county  and 
at  Mt.  Sterling  until  he  was  nineteen  years  old.  He  was  educated  at 
Mt.  Sterling  under  the  instructions  of  Hugh  B.  Todd,  an  eminent 
teacher,  afterwards  principal  of  Camden  Point  Academy,  Platte  county, 
Missouri,  In  1854  Mr.  Dorsey  came  to  Columbia,  where  he  started  the 
first  hardware  store  in  the  place.     In  1857  he  took  in  Dick  Carter  as 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  853 

partner.     Continued  the  business  until   1862,  when  he  was  banished 
.   liy  order  of  Gen,  Merrill.     Went  to  Cincinnati,  where  he  was  en- 
r  gigged  to  sell  hardware  as  a  commercial  traveller.     Returned  to  Colum- 
I    bia  in  1863  and  engaged  in  the  dry  goods  business  with  Samuel,  Conley 
L    ^  Strawn.     In  1864  went  to  St.  Louis  and  engaged  in  selling  hardware 
j    Ma  commercial  traveller.     In  the  fall  of  1865  returned  to  Columbia 
*:    and  bought  the  drug  store  of  Swallow  &  Gilman,  in  which  business  he 
has  continued  ever  since,   adding  a  jewelry   department   in  1867. 
Was  the  first  railroad  agent  in  Columbia,  receiving  his  appointment  in 
1867,  holding  the  position  for  one  year.     He  established  the  first  in- 
Burance  agency  in  the  county  in  lS54,  representing  the  Home,  of  New 
York.     He  also  sold  the  first  reaper  and  mower.     The  purchasers 
were  Messrs.  Beatty  &  Simmons,  and  the  reaper  one  of  the  Atkins 
patent.     He  was  first  express  agent  for  Richardson's  Express  Com- 
pany at  Columbia,  appointed  in  1857.     Afterwards  was  agent  for  the 
XJnited  States  Company,  and  the  Merchants*  Union,  filling  the  office 
of  express  agent  continuously  for  fifteen  years.     He  has  been  presi- 
dent of  the  Boone  County  Insurance  Company  since  its  organization 
in  1875.     He  is  curator,  trustee  and  treasurer  of  Christian  College. 
September  lt)th,  1857,  Mr.  Dorsey  was  married  to  Miss  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Samuel  W.  Williams,  of  Kentucky.     They  have  six  chil- 
dren living  and  one  dead.     Mr.  and  Mrs.   Dorsey  are  both  members. 
of  the  Christian  church. 

GEN.    J.    B.    DOUGLASS. 

Gen.  Joseph  Beeler  Douglass  was  born  in  Mercer  (now  Boyle) 
oounty,  Kentucky  November  12th,  1819.  His  father,  William  Douglass,. 
was  a  native  of  Maryland,  born  in  1775,  died  in  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
June  3d,  1843.  He  came  to  this  county  in  1827,  and  settled  near 
Harrisburg,  where  he  lived  out  the  remainder  of  his  days.  Gen. 
Douglass  remained  on  his  father's  farm  until  1848,  when  he  came  to 
Columbia  as  deputy  sheriff  under  Wm.  P.  Hickman.  In  1850  he  was 
elected  sheriff  and  in  1852  was  re-elected.  In  1856  he  was  elected  to 
the  Legislature  with  Col.  William  F.  Switzler.  In  1859  was  elected 
elerk  of  the  county  court,  which  office  he  was  holding  when  the  war  com- 
menced. In  1862  was  commissioned  colonel  of  the  Sixty-first  E.  M.  M» 
The  year  following  he  was  commissioned  a  brigadier-general  by  Gov. 
Hall,  and  assigned  to  the  Eighth  military  district,  embracing  several 
counties  in  this  part  of  Missouri.  Left  the  service  in  1865.  He  was 
of  much  service  to  the  citizens  of  this  county,  protecting  their  lives 


854  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

and  property.  Was  severe  on  men  in  arms,  especially  bushwhackers, 
but  guarded  the  rights  of  non-combatants.  After  the  war  (in  1866) 
he  was  appointed  United  States  assessor  of  the  Fourth  district,  which 
position  he  held  for  two  years.  'Afterwards  followed  the  nursery  busi- 
ness, at  the  same  time  acting  as  general  agent  of  the  horticultural  de- 
partment of  the  State  University.  He  is  now  living  in  Columbia. 
Oen.  Douglass  was  married  in  1849  to  Miss  Nannie  Wirt,  of  Boone 
-county.  She  died  in  1875.  They  had  six  children,  of  whom  only 
two  are  now  living,  Joseph  L.  and  Fannie  D.  Two  children  died  in 
infancy.  One  son,  William  Wirt,  a  graduate  of  medicine,  died  in 
1877,  aged  twenty-three  years.  Mary  A.  died  in  1882,  aged  twenty- 
eight.  She  was  a  graduate  of  Christian  College,  and  possessed  a 
bright  intellect  and  fine  culture.  She  excelled  in  music  and  mathe- 
matics, and  was  quite  proficient  in  all  the  accomplishments  that  con- 
stitute a  refined  and  cultivated  lady.  She  was  universally  loved  by 
all  who  had  the  pleasure  of  her  acquaintance,  and  her  death  cast  a 
gloom  over  the  entire  community.  Gen.  Douglass  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Church  South. 

HON.    SHANNON   CLAY   DOUGLASS. 

The  subject  of  this  biographical  sketch  is  the  son  of  Alexander 
Douglass,  a  prominent  citizen  of  Columbia  and  for  many  years  iden- 
tified with  the  business  interest  of  the  people  among  whom  he  lived 
and  died.  He  was  a  native  of  Harrison  county,  Kentucky,  where  he 
was  born  and  reared  to  the  age  of  twelve  years,  when  he  came  to  Co- 
lumbia, Missouri,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  active 
business,  dying  in  February,  1866.  In  October,  1851,  he  was  married 
to  Ann  M.  Shannon,  eldest  daughter  of  Kev.  James  Shannon,  LL. 
D.,  then  president  of  the  State  University.  Five  children  were  born 
of  this  marriage:  Shannon  C,  William  H.,  Alex.  E.,  Fannie  B.,  and 
Mary  Evalina  Douglass,  all  of  whom  are  now  living.  The  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  born  December  29,  1852.  He  entered  the  State  Uni- 
versity in  early  youth  and  graduated  in  June,  1870.  Although  but 
■eighteen  years  of  age,  he  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  and 
was  chosen  valedictorian  of  his  class.  Two  months  later  he  com- 
menced reading  law  with  Gen.  Odon  Guitar,  and  remained  in  his  of- 
fice for  about  five  years.  In  the  spring  of  1871  he  was  appointed 
town  attorney,  at  which  time  he  was  licensed  a  member  of  the  bar. 
Was  city  attorney  for  four  years  in  succession.  In  June,  1873,  ho 
graduated   in    the   law   department  of  the  State  University,  taking 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  855 

the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws ;  also  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 
He  was  elected  Aprosecutiug  attorney  for  Boone  county,  November, 
1874,  and  was  jeelected  three  times  in  succession,  holding  the  office 
from  January  1,  1875,  to  January  1,  1881.  At  the  State  Democratic 
oonvention,  July,  1878,  Mr.  Douglass  was  made  a  member  of  the 
Democratic  State  central  committee,  for  the  eleventh  congressional 
district.  In  1880  he  was  reelected  and  chosen  chairman.  Declined  a 
reelection  at  the  State  convention  in  July,  1882.  Previous  to  resign- 
ing this  position  he  addressed  the  convention,  making  an  able,  logical 
and  eloquent  appeal  in  behalf  of  unity  and  harmony  within  the  party 
and  excoriating  the  malcontents  and  traitors,  who  had  twice  betrayed 
Ihe  party  in  the  hour  of  its  greatest  peril.  Mr.  Douglass  was  mar- 
ried, September  8,  1880,  to  Miss  Hattie  H.,  daughter  of  Col.  Wil- 
liam E.  Burr,  of  St.  Louis.  One  child,  William  Burr,  was  born  to 
them,  May  28,  1882.  Mr.  Douglass  has  been  a  member  of  the  Chris- 
tian church  since  he  was  eleven  years  old.  He  united  with  the  Ma- 
sonic ord^r,  December,  1878.  Mr.. Douglass  is  thorough  in  his  pro- 
fession, and  as  an  advocate  he  has,  perhaps,  no  superior  of  his  age  in 
the  country.  His  profound  knowledge  of  the  law,  his  earnest,  can- 
did, logical  mode  of  speaking,  coupled  with  an  excellent  knowledge  of 
human  nature,  gives  him  remarkable  prestige  at  the  bar  and  generally 
insures  a  victory  for  his  client,  even  under  the  most  unfavorable  cir- 
cumstances. He  has  already  accomplished  more  than  the  average 
professional  man  achieves  in  a  lifetime,  yet  in  the  order  of  nature  and 
according  to  the  rules  that  govern  human  life  and  effoii,  his  career  of 
osefulness  has  just  commenced. 

J.    H.    DRUMMOND,  A.    B. 

Joseph  Hudson  Drummond  was  born  October  29, 1853,  near  Zanes- 
vill^Ohio.  He  is  a  son  of  Samuel  Baxter  and  Mary  Jane  (Tingle) 
Dri^Kiond.  The  Drummond  family  is  of  Scottish  origin.  Mrs.  D.'s 
fami|f  was  from  the  Isle  of  Guernsey.  S.  B.  Drummond  was  a  na- 
tive of  Pennsylvania,  from  which  State  he  removed  to  Ohio  in  an  early 
day,  and  from  thence  to  Johnson  county,  Missouri,  in  1869.  He  was 
a  merchant  in  Ohio,  and  a  farmer  in  Missouri.  He  died  July  4,  1876, 
on  Independence  day  of  the  centennial  year.  Mrs.  Drummond  is  still 
living  in  Johnson  county. 

The  subject  hereof  Jiad  received  a  good  education  for  a  young  man 
prior  to  his  coming  to  Missouri,  but  he  attended  the  University  at 
Columbia  and  graduated  therefrom   in  the  class  of  1880.     He    ob- 


856  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTT. 

tained  the  means  to  defray  the  expenses  of  his  education  by  engaging 
in  well-boring.  In  April,  1880,  he  was  appointed  librarian  and  proc- 
tor of  the  University,  which  position  he  still  worthily  fills.  He  wm 
tendered  a  position  on  the  U.  8.  coast  survey,  but  preferred  to  accept 
his  present  position,  whose  multifarious  duties  he  fulfils  to  univenil 
and  complete  satisfaction. 

ALONZO   T.    DUNCAN. 

Alonzo  T.  Duncan  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  December 
18,  1845.     Was  educated  at  the  common  schools  of  Columbia  and  at 
the  State  University.'     Served  an  apprenticeship  of  three  years  at  the 
cabinetmaker's  trade  under  T.  E.  Powers  and  followed  the  businefls 
for  four  years,  then  went  to  Litchfield,  Illinois,  in  1864,  and  remained 
there  one  year.  Came  back  to  Columbia  and  went  to  work  for  Racket 
&  MoAiister,  builders  and  contractors,  as  foreman  in  their  establish- 
ment.    Was  with  this  firm  for  three  years.     He  was  next  employed 
as  foreman  by  Kneisley  &  Lukens,  contractors  and  builders,  and  re- 
mained with  them  three  years.     He  then  formed  a  partnership  with  J. 
D.  Stewart  in  the  same  line  of  business.     In  1874  he  went  to  St. 
Louis  and  acted  as  foreman  for  Dryden  &  Reid,  builders.     Bemain- 
ing  with  this  firm  one  year.     Came  back  to  Columbia  in  1875  and 
built  the  R.  B.  Price  residence.     In  1876  went  into  the  furniture  busi- 
ness with  Lukens,  under  the  firm  name  of  Duncan  &  Lukens.    Re- 
mained in  this  business  for  two  vears,  when  he  sold  out  and  went  back 
to  the  old  business  of  contracting  and  building,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Duncan  &   McDaniel.     In   1880   they   dissolved  partnership  and 
Mr.  Duncan  followed  the  business  alone  for  a  short  time.     In  Julv, 
1881,  he  formed  a  partnership  with   B.  F.  Stewart,  for  building  and 
contracting  in   Columbia  and   Boone  county.     They  built  the  public 
school  building,  for  which  they  receiyed  twelve  thousand  dollars ;  also 
the  elevator  and  the  Whittle  building,  hesides  many  other  business 
houses  and  private  residences  in  Columbia  and  vicinity.     The  firm  has 
built  up  a  reputation  second  to  none  in  the  country,  and   their  work 
shows  for  itself  both  in   style,  quality  and  durability.     Mr.  Duncan 
was  married,  June  30,  1875,  to  Miss  Annie,  daughter  of  Frederick 
Scragg.     They  have  one  son  and  one  daughter,  Permelia  and  Fred- 
erick. 

SAMUEL    H.    ELKINS. 

Samuel  H.  Elkins  is  the  son  of  Philip  and  Sarah  (Withers)  Elkins. 
He  was  born  in  Henry  county,  Missouri,  April  13th,  1847,  and  was 


HISTORY   or  BOONE   COUNTT.  857 

lucated  at  Westford  High  School,  Jackson  county,  Missouri,  com- 
eting  his  studies  in  the  State  University.  From  1850  to  1861  his 
kher  resided  at  Westford,  Missouri.  In  the  latter  year  he  crossed 
w  plains  to  Fort  Lyons,  where  he  stayed  one  Winter,  returning  to 
[issouri  in  the  spring.  In  the  fall  of  1862  they  removed  to  Santa 
e,  New  Mexico.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  then  went  to  Mesilla, 
here  he  clerked  in  a  dry  goods  and  grocery  store.  Remained  there 
>out  eighteen  months.  He  went  from  there  to  Fort  Union,  where 
\  was  engaged  in  the  quartermaster's  department.  In  the  spring  of 
164  he  came  to  Kansas  City,  where  he  attended  Spaulding*s  Com- 
ercial  College  for  about  twelve  months,  then  returned  to  New 
exico,  and  was  engaged  as  government  store-keeper  at  Mora,  Mora 
unty.  Was  there  a  year  and  a  halfi  In  1868-9  he  and  his  brother, 
Am  T.  Elkins,  ran  a  cattle  ranche  on  the  Pecos  river.  Was  after- 
irds  with  Commissioner  John  Hiltson,  who  was  employed  by  the 
nited  States  government  and  Mexico  to  hunt  up  cattle  that  had  been 
olen  by  the  Mexicans  during  the  war.  They  succeeded  in  restoring 
ght  thousand  six  hundred  head  of  cattle.     In  1874  Mr.  Elkins  came 

Columbia,  and  attended  the  University  for  two  years.  In  1880  he 
itered  the  grocery  trade  in  Columbia,  and  followed  the  business  for 
K)ut  eighteen  months.  Was  married,  October  17th,  1878,  to  Miss 
a  Smith,  formerly  of  HaiTison  county,  Kentucky.  They  have  two 
lildren,  a  son,  Philip  D.,  and  a  daughter,  Hattie  M.  Mr.  Elkins' 
ther  is  in  Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico.  His  mother  died  in  Nebraska 
ity.  There  were  six  children,  five  sons  and  one  daughter.  The 
tree  oldest  are  living.  Stephen  B.  is  a  large  capitalist  of  New  York 
ity.  He  graduated  at  the  Missouri  State  University  in  1860,  at  the 
re  of  eighteen.  He  formerly  represented  New  Mexico  in  Congress, 
e  has  been  twice  married.  His  last  wife  is  the  daughter  of  Senator 
avis,  of  West  Virginia.    John  T.  Elkins  is  living  in  Kansas  City.     He 

also  a  capitalist,  and  largely  interested  in  Western  mines.     He 
larried  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Hereford,  of  Kansas  City.     The  subject  of 
lis  sketch  is  the  youngest  of  the  family.     His  wife  is  a  member  of 
16  Christian  church. 

MA  J.  FRANK   D.  EVANS. 

Major  Evans  is  the  son  of  Green  and  Mary  (Westlake)  Evans,  and 
as  born  April  7th,  1834,  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  nine  miles  west 
f  Columbia  and  three  and  one-half  miles  east  of  Rochepoil.  His 
ither  was  born  in  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  and  came  to  Howard 
3unty,  Missouri,   in   1816,  and  died  in   1844,  three  miles  east  of 


Sb8  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

Rocheport,  on  the  homestead  where  Frank  was  born,  in  the  thirty- 
seventh  year  of  his  age,  and  is  buried  at  the  Brick  Chapel.  His 
mother  is  from  Point  Pleasant,  West  Virginia.  She  is  still  living  in 
Callaway  county,  Missouri,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine.  They  were 
married  in  Boone,  and  their  union  was  blessed  with  seven  children  — 
all  boys.  Thomas  (deceased);  James  H.,  a  farmer  in  Randolph 
county,  Missouri;  F.  D.,  our  subject;  Henry  C.  (diedin  1845); 
Wm.  M.,  died  in  1864,  at  Hastings,  Minnesota;  John  F.,  farming  in 
Callaway  county,  Missouri;  and  Melville  G.,  who  died  in  1845. 
Frank  D.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  educated  in  this,  his  native 
<50unty,  at  the  country  schools.  He  lived  upon  the  farm  with  his 
father  until  the  age  of  nineteen,  when  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth  M., 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Nancy  (Mitchell)  Cropper.  He  bought  a 
farm  in  1853,  and  lived  upon  it  until  1855.  In  the  spring  of  1856  he 
removed  to  Johnson  county,  Missouri,  and  followed  farming  there  for 
two  seasons.  In  the  fall  of  1857  he  came  to  Rochepoit  and  entered 
the  dry  goods  house  of  T.  D.  Jackman  as  book-keeper.  He  remained 
with  the  firm  until  July,  1860,  when  he,  in  partnership  with  Henry 
W.  Crow,  embarked  in  business  for  himself,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Crow  &  Evans.  In  September,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  the  Missouri 
militia.  Company  E.,  Captain  Tyre  G.  Harris.  At  the  end  of  forty- 
five  days  he  received  an  adjutant's  commission  to  rank  as  captain,  and 
upon  the  organization  of  the  first  provisional  regiment,  he  was  retained 
as  adjutant.  In  1863  he  was  made  Gen.  J.  B.  Douglass'  adjutant- 
general,  with  the  rank  of  major,  and  so  remained  until  January,  1865, 
when  he  was  relieved  from  active  duty.  He  then  took  charge  of  the 
enrolling  clerk's  office  of  the«Ninth  district,  with  headquarters  at  St. 
Charles.  In  July  of  the  same  year  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  taking 
charge  of  the  books  of  the  district  until  1866.  He  was  in  no  engage- 
ments, his  work  being  entirely  office  work.  In  1866  he  came  to 
Columbia  and  accepted  a  position  as  book-keeper  for  Barth,  Victor  & 
Meyer,  and  continued  with  them  until  the  failure  of  the  firm  in 
October,  1869.  In  February,  1870,  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
Maupin  and  Allen,  the  style  of  the  firm  being  Allen,  Maupin  &  Co., 
in  the  grocery  business.  In  November  of  the  same  year  he  sold  out 
to  his  partners,  and  took  the  position  of  book-keeper  in  the  Boone 
County  National  Bank,  which  position  he  has  held  until  the  present 
time,  and  until  July  22d  had  not  lost  a  day  from  business  in  twelve 
years.  He  was  married  September  14th,  1852,  and  is  the  father  of 
eight  children,   five   boys   and  three  girls.     Silas  D. ;  Tyson  D.,  a 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE -COUNTY.  859 

^sician  at  Cedar  City,  Missouri ;  Hugh  R.  (deceased)  ;  Lanius  D. ; 
ul  H.  (deceased)  ;  Ida  6.  and  Jessie  Gertrude.  He  is  a  Mason, 
1  both  himself  and  wife  are  members  of  the  Methodist  church. 
ijor  Evans  is  one  of  Columbia's  staunch,  reliable  business  men,  and 
regarded  by  all  as  a  conscientious  Christian  gentleman. 

JAMES   D.    FAY. 

Tames  D.  Fay,  bricklayer,  Columbia,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Orange 
mty,  New  York,  April  20,  1852 ;  he  came  to  Sedalia,  Missouri,  in 
65,  and  in  1867  went  to  Covington,  Kentucky,  where  he  was  edu- 
:ed  ;  he  attended  school  in  the  winter  and  worked  at  his  trade  in  the 
mmer.  He  learned  bricklaying  at  this  place,  serving  an  apprentice- 
ip  of  three  years.  He  came  to  Columbia  in  1870,  where  he  has  re- 
led  ever  since ;  he  has  devoted  most  of  his  time  since  coming  to 
lumbia  to  his  trade  and  to  the  making  of  brick,  for  which  work 
is  well  prepared.  The  brick  furnished  by  him  is  of  the  very  best 
ulity.  He  has  the  largest  brickmaking  establishment  in  the  county, 
d  is  now  working  twelve  hands.  The  kiln  will  average  about  300,- 
0  brick  annually.  It  is  located  northeast  of  Christian  college,  within 
3  city  limits.  He  has  all  the  modern  appliances  for  making  pressed 
ick,  such  as  our  people  were  formerly  compelled  to  ship  from  a  dis- 
ice ;  he  is  prepared  to  make  all  the  brick  needed  in  Columbia  and 
3  surrounding  country  ;  he  makes  estimates  and  takes  contracts  for 
ikling  brick  houses.  Mr.  Fay  was  married  October  16,1873,  to 
ss  Henrietta,  daughter  of  William  Wingo.  They  have  two  sons 
i  two  daughters  living.  Mr.  Fay  is  a  member  of  the  K.  P.  lodge, 
lumbia.     Mrs.  Fay  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church. 

EDWARD   FARLEY. 

Edward  Farley,  son  of  Edward  and  Mary  (Smith)  Farley,  was  born 
county  Cavan,  Ireland,  September  23,  1832  ;  he  came  to  the  United 
ites  in  the  spring  of  1852,  and  settled  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri;  he 
s  educated  in  Ireland,  but  learned  the  marble  trade  in  St.  Louis, 
•ving  an  apprenticeship  of  three  and  a  half  years ;  he  remained  in 
.  Louis  for  seven  years,  when  he  went  to  Fulton,  Callaway  county, 
ssouri,  where  he  stayed  for  one  year,  removing  from  there  to  Mex- 
»,  where  he  was  married  June  6,  1860,  to  Miss  Mary,  daughter  of 
illiam  Montgomery.  By  this  union  they  had  six  children,  one  of 
lom  (John  S.)  is  dead.  The  names  of  the  living  are  Henry  A., 
ank  L.,  William  E.,  Lewis  R.  and  Robert  E.     In  the  spring  of  1861, 


860  HISTORY   or  BOONE   COUNTY. 

Mr.  Farley  went  to  Iowa,  where  he  remained  during  the  war.  In  1865- 
he  came  to  Macon  City,  Missouri,  where  he  opened  a  marble  shop  in 
partnership  with  D.  E.  Wilson.  He  remained  there  one  year,  when 
he  returned  to  Mexico  and  engaged  in  the  marble  business,  removing 
to  Columbia  the  year  following,  where  he  remained  in  business  for  five 
years.  From  Columbia  he  went  to  Marshall,  Missouri,  where  he  re- 
mained for  nine  years  in  the  marble  business.  In  the  year  1880  he 
came  back  to  Columbia  and  erected  a  large  brick  marble  shop  near 
the  court-house,  where  he  is  now  actively  engaged  in  his  line  of  busi- 
ness, employing  two  hands  besides  himself;  he  has  three  agents  oa 
the  road.  He  does  work  in  the  most  artistic  manner,  using  the  finest 
Italian,  Vermont  and  Pennsylvania  marble  ;  he  makes  monuments  and 
headstones  at  prices  ranging  from  ten  to  one  thousand  dollars  each  ; 
his  work  is  widely  known,  being  represented  in  nearly  all  the  ceme- 
teries of  Boone  and  adjoining  counties.  He  is  doing  a  prosperous 
business,  which  is  well  merited  and  generously  bestowed.  In  addition 
to  his  marble  works,  he  owns  considerable  real  estate  in  Columbia. 
Mr.  Farley  is  a  member  of  the  Catholic  church. 

JAMES   M.    FERGUSON. 

This  gentleman  is  the  son  of  James  and  Martha  (Vaughn)  Fergu- 
son, and  was  born  on  his  father's  farm,  five  miles  southwest  of  Colum- 
bia, on  the  old  Providence  road,  February  25,  1846.  He  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  the  county  and  at  the  State  Univer- 
sity. In  1861  he  began  clerking  for  Dr.  S.  A.  Victor,  and  served  in 
that  capacity  for  about  one  year.  In  1861-2  he  was  in  the  employ  of 
T.  B.  Gentry,  Esq.,  as  deputy  postmaster  (and  clerk  in  his  business 
house).  In  1863  he  went  to  Jacksonville,  Illinois,  where  he  remained 
until  the  following  year,  when  he  returned  to  Columbia  and  engaged 
as  clerk  and  salesman  in  the  house  of  Moss  &  Prewitt.  With  this  firm 
he  engaged  five  years. 

In  1869  Mr.  Ferguson  began  business  for  himself,  forming  a  part- 
nership in  the  groceiy  trade  with  James  S.  Hickman,  the  firm  name 
being  Hickman  &  Ferguson.  Two  years  later  he  disposed  of  his  in- 
terest in  the  business  to  Hickman  &  McKim,  and  clerked  for  Strawn, 
Hedden  &  Co  for  about  a  year.  Returning  from  a  visit  to  Kentucky 
in  the  fall  of  1872,  he  served  as  a  salesman  for  the  dry  goods  house 
of  Wells  &  Marks  in  the  years  1873-4.  In  the  fall  of  1875  he  became 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Scott,  Kennan  &  Ferguson  in  the  grocery 
trade,  which  partnership  was  continued  for  four  years,  or  until  1879, 


HI8TORT   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  861 

vhen  J.  W.  Strawn  was  taken  in.     August  1, 1882,  the  firm  became 
Strawn,  Ferguson  &  Bouchelle,  which  is  its  present  style. 

This  firm  occupy  new  and  spacious  quarters  in  Whittle's  block,  cor- 
ner of  Ninth  and  Broadway.  They  have  two  departments,  one  devoted 
Bxclusively  to  the  grocery  trade,  and  the  other  to  dry  goods,  notions, 
slothing,  etc.  They  carry  full  lines  and  a  large  stock  in  every  depart- 
tnent  and  branch  of  the  business.  Six  clerks  and  salesmen  are  em- 
ployed in  the  grocery  department ;  eight  are  at  work  in  the  dry  goods 
room.  The  area  of  both  rooms  is  92  by  4OV2  feet.  The  firm  is  com- 
posed of  James  M.  Ferguson,  J.  W.  Strawn  and  R.  J.  Bouchelle,  and, 
a8  at  present  constituted,  was  organized  August  1,  1882. 

January  28, 1880,  Mr.  Ferguson  was  married  to  Miss  Mattie  Hughes, 
the  accomplished  daughter. of  Joseph  S.  Hughes,  the  well-known 
banker  of  Richmond,  Missouri.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ferguson  are  the  par- 
ents of  one  child,  named  Joseph  H.  Mr.  Ferguson  is  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  order ;  he  is  also  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 
Mrs.  Ferguson  belongs  to  the  Christian  church. 

The  father  of  Mr.  Ferguson  died  and  was  buried  in  Mexico  in  the 
year  1846.  His  mother  died  in  St.  Louis  in  1872,  but  was  buried  in 
the  Columbia  cemetery.  The  subject  hereof  was  the  youngest  child  of 
a  family  of  children  composed  of  three  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  of 
whom  are  still  living. 

PROF.    JOSEPH   FICKLIN,    A.    M.,    PH.    D. 

Joseph  Ficklin  was  born  in  Winchester,  Clark  county,  Kentucky, 
September  9,  1833 ;'  his  father,  Joseph  Ficklin,  Sr.,  was  also  a  native 
of  Kentucky,  born  in  Mercer  county  in  1811.  When  Joseph,  Jr.,  was 
an  infant,  his  father  removed  to  a  farm  near  the  little  town  of  Salvisa, 
Mercer  county,  Kentucky,  and  here  the  subject  of  this  sketch  learned 
to  read  and  to  write.  At  Salvisa  also  he  obtained  his  first  mathemat- 
ical knowledge,  learning  the  multiplication  table  from  the  back  part 
of  an  old  copy  book.  This  was  before  he  was  eight  years  of  age.  In 
1841  Mr.  Ficklin,  Sr.,  removed  to  another  farm  between  Pleasant  Hill 
and  Harrodsburg,  the  former  a  village  inhabited  by  the  Shakers.  On 
this  farm  Joseph  lived  until  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age,  employing 
his  time  at  farm  work  and  at  labor  in  his  father's  wagon  shop.  He 
became  a  good  wagon  maker,  for  one  of  his  years.  Meanwhile  all  of 
his  leisure  time  had  been  devoted  to  the  acquirement  of  an  education, 
a  cherished  object  with  him,  and  one  to  be  pursued  under  difficulties. 
His  father  was  poor  and  had  a  large  family  to  support,  and  the  path 


862  HI8TOBY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

of  a  poor  man  was  not  a  pleasant  one  in  Kentucky  at  that  day.  But 
by  the  time  '*  Joe  "  Ficklin  was  seventeen  years  of  age  he  had,  almost 
unaided,  completed  common  arithmetic,  made  some  progress  in  Latin, 
and  had  begun  the  study  of  Davies'  Elementary  Algebra. 

In  the  autumn  of  1851  the  senior  Ficklin  removed  from  Kentucky 
to  Grundy  county,  Missouri.  Joseph  accompanied  the  family  to  St. 
Louis,  and  then  went  down  the  river  to  New  Madrid,  and  there  taught 
his  first  school.  In  February,  1852,  he  returned  to  Kentucky  and 
lived  with  his  grandfather,  where  he  had  the  opportunity  of  attending 
a  good  school  until  in  September,  1853.  Up  to  this  period  he  had 
studied,  if  not  mastered,  algebra,  geometry,  trigonometry,  surveying, 
Csesar,  Virgil,  Horace,  and  had  made  some  progress  in  Greek.  He 
bought  his  books  with  money  paid  him  by  his  grandfather  for  work 
done ;  the  generous  old  gentlemiui  charged  him  nothing  for  his  board. 
September  18,  1853,  he  came  to  Trenton,  Grundy  county,  where  his 
father  then  lived.  Here  he  borrowed  money  and  went  to  the  old  Ma- 
sonic college  at  Lexington,  entering  the  sophomore  class  in  all  the 
departments.  At  the  close  of  the  sophomore  year  his  funds  became 
exhausted,  and,  unable  to  procure  more,  he  was  reluctantly  compelled 
to  leave  the  college,  which  he  never  after  attended  as  a  student.  Sub- 
sequently, however,  it  co)iferred  on  him  the  degree  of  A.  B. 

In  the  fall  of  1854  he  began  teaching  in  the  high  school  at  Trenton, 
Grundy  county,  as  principal.  One  of  the  trustees  of  the  school,  Mr. 
James  Terrill,  did  not  look  with  much  favor  on  the  selection  of  Mr. 
Ficklin.  "  I  prefer  a  married  man,"  said  Mr.  T.  '« I  have  two  daugh- 
ters who  will  attend  the  school,  and  I  prefer  that  they  be  taught  by 
one  of  mature  years,  settled  in  life.  This  Mr.  Ficklin  is  a  single  man, 
and  will  be  falling  in  love  with  one  of  his  young  lady  pupils  one 
of  these  days."  Mr.  Terrill' s  worst  fears  were  afterwards  realized. 
Mr.  Ficklin  did  conceive  the  tender  passion  for  one  of  his  **  young 
lady  pupils,"  who  was  Miss  Penelope  Terrill,  the  daughter  of  the 
prophetic  trustee  himself!  Who  says  there  are  no  such  sensations 
as  premonitions  of  danger?  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ficklin  were  married 
March  3,  1856.  They  are  the  parents  of  six  children  —  Octavia,  Nel- 
lie, John  Bowman,  Thomas  Allen,  Walter  H.  and  Mary.  Mrs.  F.  is 
a  native  of  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  born  October  10,  1837. 

In  1859  Prof.  Ficklin  accepted  the  chair  of  mathematics  in  Bloom- 
ington  Female  College,  Illinois.  He  did  not  remain  here  long,  how- 
ever, and  in  the  early  spring  of  the  following  year  returned  to  Mis- 
souri.    In  the  autumn  of  1860  he  took  charge  of  the  public  school  at 


HI8TOBY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  865 

.  IdnneuSy  Linn  county.     At  the  close  of  the  term  he  opened  a  select 
I  fichool,  but  the  civil  war  breaking  out  and  continuing  while  he  taught, 
*.   his  school  and  his  income  were  comparatively  small. 
I        In  September,  1^64,  he  left  Linneus  to  accept  the  chair  of  mathe- 
[    matics  in  the  Christian  Female  College,  at  Columbia.     About  this  time 
I   a  similar  position  was  tendered  him  in  Eminence  College,  Kentucky. 
Prof.  Ficklin  had  been  in  Columbia  about  one  year  when  the  professor- 
.    ship  of  mathematics  in  the  State  University  became  vacant.     Mean- 
time he  had  been  a  contributor  to  the  mathematical  departments  of 
certain  scientific  journals,  and  had  published  solutions  of  certain  intri- 
cate and  difficult  problems,  which  indicated  superior  and  profound 
knowledge  of  mathematics  on  his  part.     One  of  these  solutions  fell 
under  the  observation  of  President  Lathrop,  of  the  University.     At  a 
meeting  of  the  officers  of  that  institution  to  fill  the  vacancy  in  the 
mathematical  chair.  Dr.  Lathrop  said:  *«  Gentlemen,  are  you  aware 
that  we  have  the  very  man  for  the  place  right  here  in  Columbia?  That 
little  fellow  over  at  Christian  college  is  the  very  man  we  want."  This 
led  to  invesitigation,  and  resulted  in  the  election  of  Prof.  Ficklin  to 
the  professorship  of  mathematics  and  astronomy  in  Missouri's  great- 
est, noblest  school,  which  position  he  now  holds. 

In  1874  the  **  little  fellow  from  Christian  college  "  received  the  de- 
gree of  Ph.  D.   from   the   University   of  Wisconsin.     The   Univer- 
sity of  Missouri  had  previously  made  him  an  artium  magister^  or 
Master  of  Arts.     He  is  also  a  Fellow  of  the  American  Association  for 
the  Advancement  of  Science,  whose  sessions  he  attends  when  practi- 
cable, and  before  which  organization  he  has  read  valuable  papers.     In 
1869  he  assisted  Prof.  Snell,  of  Amherst  college,  in  a  revision  of  the 
college  edition  of  Olmsted's  Natural  Philosophy,  himself  revising  the 
entire  mathematical  portions  of  the  work.     In   1874  he  published, 
through  Ivison,  Blakeman,  Taylor  &  Co.,  New  York,  his  Complete 
Algebra  and  his  Algebraic  Problems;  also,  keys  to  both  works.     In 
1881  appeared  from  the  house  of  A.  S.   Barnes  &  Co.,  New  York, 
Ficklin's  Primary  Arithmetic,  Ficklin's  Practical  Arithmetic,  Ficklin's 
National  Arithmetic,  and  Ficklin's  Elements  of  Algebra,  with  keys  to 
the  last  three  named.     Prof.  Ficklin's  mathematical  works  have  been 
well  received  throughout  the  country,  and  his  fame  as  a  scientist  is 
already  well  established  in  the  United  States  and  in  Europe.     No  man 
ought  to  be  more  proud  of  reputation  honestly  gained  and  fairly  main- 
tained than  this  '*  little  fellow,"  and  yet  no  man  is  less  so.     The  La 
Place  of  Missouri,  he  is  "  as  common  as  an  old  shoe,"  as  unassuming 


^64  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   OOUNTT. 

and  accessible  as  if  he  were  still  a  country  wagon-maker  instead  of  i 
learned  professor  and  philosopher,  and  as  genial  and  agreeable  a  com-  |^ 
panion  as  you  shall  meet  anywhere,  '*  on  any  summer's  day." 

Prof.  Ficklin  has  been  a  member  of  the  Christian  church  for  twenty- 
six  years.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order.     In  politics  he 
takes  no  very  active  part,  but  votes  the  Democratic  ticket  when  he  goes 
to  the  polls.     He  was  a  non-combatant  during  the  civil  war,  the  only 
skirmishes  in  which  he  was  engaged  being  with  the  *'  rebellious"  and 
refractory  boys  of  his  school  at  Linneus,  infrequent  in  number  andnot 
serious  in  character.     His  father  served  under  Gen.  Sterling  Price  a 
portion  of  the  time  during  the  war. 

The  fine  telescope  now  in  the  University  observatory  was  adjusted 
by  Prof.  Ficklin,  who  is  its  chief  master  and  most  frequent  visitor. 
He  is  a  thoroughly  practical  astronomer ;  is  at  home  in  every  depait- 
ment  of  mathematical  science,  whether  it  relates  to  the  solution  of 
arithmetical  problems  or  a  discussion  on  the  precession  of  the  equi- 
noxes. It  is  too  early  yet  to  write  an  appropriate  sketch  of  the  life, 
character,  and  career  of  Joseph  Ficklin. 

PROF.    M.    M.    FISHER. 

Professor  Michael  Montgomery  Fisher  was  born  in  Parke  countj, 
Indiana,  October  8th,  1834.  He  was  educated  atWaveland  academy, 
Montgomery  county,  completin«:  his  studies  at  Hanover  College,  In- 
diana, from  which  institution  he  received  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  in  1855; 
and  from  the  same  college,  in  1858,  the  degree  of  A.  M.  In  1868  he 
received  the  degree  of  D.  D.,  from  Westminster  College,  Fulton,  Mis- 
souri. At  the  age  of  sixteen  taught  in  Pleasant  Hill  academy.  Cape 
Girardeau  county,  Missouri,  to  get  money  to  attend  college.  After 
graduating  in  1856,  was  chosen  professor  of  Latin  and  Greek  in  West- 
minster College,  Fulton.  In  1857  was  assigned  to  the  Latin  chair, 
which  he  held  until  1861,  when,  with  W.  W.  Hill,  D.  D.,  he  estab- 
lished Bellwood  Female  academy,  near  Louisville,  Kentucky.  In 
1862  was  recalled  to  Westminster  and  made  chairman  of  the  faculty 
of  that  institution,  at  the  same  time  filling  the  chairs  of  Latin  and 
Metaphysics.  In  1870  he  resigned,  to  accept  the  presidency  of  a  fe- 
male college,  at  Independence,  Missouri,  and  at  the  same  time  assum- 
ing the  duties  of  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church  of  that  city.  His 
labors  in  this  field  proved  most  successful,  but  he  did  not  remain  long 
at  Independence.  He  was  recalled  to  Westminster  on  the  resignation 
of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Rice  in  1874,  and  took  charge  of  his  professorship. 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  865 

a  1877  he  was  elected  professor  of  Latin  in  the  Missouri  State  Uni- 
ersity,  which  position  he  has  filled  with  great  ability  ever  since.  Few 
leu  are  more  closely  identified  with  the  educational  interests  of  this 
Itftte,  and  not  one,  perhaps,  of  his  age,  has*  taught  so  long,  he  hav- 
ng  been  a  teacher  in  Missouri  for  twenty-six  years.  Prof.  Fisher 
3  not  only  justly  distinguished  as  a  teacher,  but  equally  so,  perhaps, 
s  an  author.  In  1878  he  published  a  pamphlet  entitled  «*  The  Three 
Vonunciations  of  Latin,"  which  excited  much  controversy.  In  1879, 
J  response  to  numerous  requests  from  American  teachers  of  Latin, 
e  published  a  taore  comprehensive  work  on  the  same  subject,  entitled 
Fisher  on  the  Three  Pronunciations  of  Latin."  This  work  has  al- 
iiid  passed  through  two  editions,  and  the  demand  for  it,  both  in  this 
>untry  and  Europe,  is  very  great.  We  have  numerous  testimonials 
efore  us,  from  which  we  can  make  but  a  few  brief  extracts.  The  St. 
ouis  Republican  says  of  it :  — 

We  BhaU  not  attempt  a  synopsis  of  a  book  that  strikes  us  as  handling  most  ably  and 
oroughly  this  question,  in  which  scholars  everywhere  are  so  deeply  interested.  Of 
|tial  interest  to  all  scholars,  to  all  professional  and  scientific  men,  and  may  be  regarded 

indispensable  to  teachers  of  Latin. 

In  addition  to  the  above  there  are  a  number  of  other  press  notices, 
iken  from  the  most  influential  papers  of  the  country,  published  in  al- 
most every  State  of  the  Union  ;  also  many  flattering  testimonials  from 
jachers,  of  which  we  select  the  following  from  Prof.  T.  W.  Coit,  of 
[iddletown,  Connecticut: 

I  am  a  total  stranger  to  you,  but  take  the  liberty  of  a  brother  professor  to  offer  you 
y  best  thanks  for  your  capital  book  on  the  pronunciation  of  Latin.  But  one  thing  I 
n  fully  persuaded  of,  and  that  is  that  our  would-be  classical  reformers  will  not  only 
urder  Latin,  but  slaughter  English  in  the  bargain. 

Prof.  Fisher  is  now  a  regular  contributor  to  the  New  England  Journal 

f  Education.     He  is  also  engaged  on  a  complete  series  of  Latin  text 

ooks.     He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Philological  Association, 

nd  has  read  papers  at  its  meetings.     Prof.  Fisher  has  been  married 

iree  times.     First,  in  1856,  to  Anna  E.  Atwood,  daughter  of  Dr. 

r.  T.  Atwood,  of  St.  Louis.     She   died  in  1864.     In  1866  he  was 

larried  to  Miss  Bettie  Blair  Coleman,  cousin  of  Gen.  Frank  P.  Blair. 

•he  died  in  1872.     December,  1874,  he  vvaS  married  to  Miss  Eliza 

ramble,  daughter  of  Judge  John  W.  Gamble,  of  Louisville.     By  the 

rst  marriage  he  has  three  children,   Lizzie,   Hamilton  and  Ernest. 

\y  the  second  marriage,  one  son,  Samuel  Blair.     By  the  last  marriage 

hey  have  had  four  children,  of  whom  three  are  living.     Their  names 

re,  James  M.,  Mary  and  Julia.     The  dead  son  was  named  Gamble. 
55 


866  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

Hamilton  is  now  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  at  Terre  Haute, 
Indiana.  Ernest  is  studying  medicine  at  Sedalia,  Missouri.  The 
other  children  are  with  their  parents.  Dr.  Fisher  and  his  wife  are 
both  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  is  also  a  Royal  Arch 
Mason.  ^ 

GEORGE   E.    FLOOD. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  only  surviving  son  of  Rev.  Noah  and 
Jane  L.  (Ayers)  Flood.  He  was  born  three  miles  north  of  Fulton, 
Callaway  county,  Missouri,  November  2,  1848.  Rev.  Noah  Flood, 
the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  one  of  the  ablest  and 
most  useful  preachers  of  his  church,  and  the  history  of  his  eventful 
life  would  fill  a  volume  if  written  in  detail.  He  was  born  in  1809, 
and  landed  in  Missouri  at  the  age  of  twenty  with  only  his  trade  and 
fifty  cents  in  money.  He  had  learned  the  tailor's  trade  in  Kentucky, 
and  from  time  to  time  worked  at  the  business  in  defraying  his  ex- 
penses while  struggling  for  an  education  such  as  might  well  fit  him 
for  the  high  calling  to  which  he  aspired  and  finally  attained,  but  not 
by  the  easy  paths  usually  pursued  by  modern  divinity  students.  He 
obtained  his  education  mostly  at  Alton,  Illinois.  Entering  the  minis- 
try at  an  early  age,  he  travelled  extensively  for  several  years,  mostly 
in  Missouri,  preaching  and  organizing  churches.  He  was  pastor  of 
Walnut  Grove  Church,  near  Rocheport,  for  twenty  years.  He  was 
also  pastor  of  Bethlehem,  Bonne  Femme  and  New  Salem  churches, 
all  in  Boone  county.  He  organized  the  church  at  Grand  View,  also 
in  Boone.  He  was  an  earnest  friend  and  promoter  of  educational 
enter[)rises,  and  did  more  in  his  hum])le  way  towards  buildinir  up 
Baptist  institutions  of  learning  than  most  any  other  man  of  his  de- 
nomination. Stephens  College,  William  Jewell,  and  Mt.  Pleasant 
all  owe  him  a  debt  of  gratitude  as  one  of  their  principal  benefactors. 
He  died  August  11,  1873,  and  is  buried  at  Richland,  Callaway  county, 
Missouri.  Mrs.  Fh)od  is  still  living  at  the  age  of  sixty-two.  She  re- 
sides in  Columbia  with  her  children.  There  were  eleven  children  in 
all  born  to  Noah  Flood,  five  sons  and  six  daughters,  of  whom  only 
one  son  and  five  daughters  are  now  living.  George,  the  only  surviv- 
ing son,  was  educated  •at  the  Missouri  State  University,  graduating 
with  first  honors  in  the  agricultural  department  in  1873.  He  was 
awarded  the  prize  medal  on  the  day  he  graduated.  He  afterwards 
took  the  degree  of  B.  S.,  and  in  1875  took  his  degree  in  the  engineer 
department.  After  completing  his  studies,  he  received  the  appoint- 
ment of  deputy  surveyor  under  M.  G.  Quinn.     In  the  fall  of  1875-76 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  867 

e  taught  school  in  Boone  county,  and  the  summer  following  was  a 
andidate  for  county  surveyor,  but  was  defeated.  In  1877  taught 
chool  in  Boone,  and  in  1878  taught  in  Callaway  county.  He  also 
cted  as  deputy  surveyor  under  Thomas  H.  Haley,  of  that  county. 
Setumed  to  Boone  county  and  taught  school  in  1879-80.  In  the 
uinmer  of  1880  acted  as  street  commissioner  of  Columbia.  In  1881 
le  again  attended  the  University  and  took  another  degree  in  higher 
oathematics.  Was  appointed  deputy  surveyor  under  W.  E.  Wright, 
rhich  position  he  still  holds.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church 
ind  a  Master  Mason.  He  is  a  fine  civil  engineer  and  a  practical  sur- 
eyor,  having  devoted  the  best  years  of  his  life  to  the  studies  neces- 
ary  to  fit  him  for  such  duties. 

JOHN   T.    FYl'ER. 

John  Thylo  Fyfer  was  born  in  Quebec,  Canada,  February  3,  1835. 
Tas  educated  at  the  French  and  English  college  of  that  city,  learned 
erman  and  French,  and  was  early  initiated  in  the  wholesale  trade^ 

being  intended  that  he  should  represent  his  firm  in  the  European 
•ade.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  went  to  Orange  county,  Virginia, 
here  he  remained  for  three  years.  Afterwards  came  to  Columbia 
ad  enojaged  in  business  with  Jonathan  Kirkbride.  In  1860  formed  a 
artnership  with  Mr.  Trimble.  He  was  married  in  1868  to  Miss 
laura  Berry,  of  Springfield,  Missouri.  Three  daughters  were  born 
>  them  :  Lizzie  Kirkbride,  Laura  and  Lou.  They  have  developed 
ansiderable  skill  in  music,  having  a  family  predilection  that  way. 
Irs.  Fyfer  died  July  12, 1882,  aged  forty-seven.  She  was  a  graduate 
f  Visitation  convent,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  a  lady  of  rare  culture. 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopalian  church.  Mr.  Fyfer  is  also  a 
lember  of  the  Episcopal  church.     He  is  also  a  Knight  Templar. 

W.    W.    GARTH. 

Walter  Warren  Garth  was  born  in  Columbia,  January  27,  1848. 
lis  father  is  Jefierson  Garth,  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  prominent 
itizens  of  Boone  county,  who  came  from  Scott  county,  Kentucky, 
.nd  settled  here  in  1836.  Walter  Garth  was  educated  at  the  common 
chools  and  at  all  three  of  the  Columbia  colleges  —  the  University,  the 
baptist  and  the  Christian.  At  the  age  of  eighteen,  or  in  the  year  1866, 
le  was  appointed  deputy  circuit  clerk  by  John  M.  Samuel,  the  then  in- 
lumbent  of  the  oflSce.  He  held  this  position  until  1874,  when  he  was 
elected  to  the  office,  and  became,  at  the  age  of  twenty-six,  circuit 


868  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

clerk  and  recorder  of  Boone  county.  In  1878,  after  a  close  and  excitr 
ing  contest,  he  was  reelected  over  Mr.  Woodson,  one  of  the  most  popo- 
lar  men  in  the  county.  Mr.  Garth  has  filled  the  office  to  the  genenl 
satisfaction  of  all  the  people,  and  has  made  for  himself  hosts  of 
friends  by  his  courteous,  accommodating  conduct  as  a  public  officer 
and  as  a  man. 

Mr.  Garth  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Masonic  order.  He  hu 
tiiken  all  the  degrees  up  to  and  including  that  of  Knight  Templar. 
He  has  been  master  of  the  blue  lodge ;  T.  I.  G.  M.  of  the  council; 
H.  P.  of  the  chapter,  and  E.  C.  of  the  commandery.  He  and  Mrs. 
Garth  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 

October  7,  18GY,  when  but  nineteen  years  of  age,  Mr.  Garth  mar- 
ried Miss  Eva  Samuel,  a  daughter  of  Hon.  John  M.  Samuel,  and  a 
most  accomplished  young  lady,  and  a  graduate  of  Bellwood  seminary, 
Kentucky.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Garth  have  had  born  to  them  six  children, 
four  of  whom  are  yet  living,  viz. :  Mary,  Jefferson,  Lucy  and  William. 
Their  oldest  son,  John,  a  bright,  promising  lad  of  thirteen,  the  pride 
and  fond  hope  of  his  parents,  and  a  favorite  with  all  who  knew  him, 
was  one  of  the  victims  of  the  Samuel's  pond  disaster,  November  29, 
1881,  mention  of  which  heart-rending  circumstance  is  to  be  found 
-elsewhere  in  this  history. 

The  Garth  family  were  Unionists,  but  not  Radical,  during  the  civil 
war.  Samuel  A.  Garth,  a  brother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  com- 
manded a  company  in  the  Federal  service.  Walter  Garth  is  iu  poli- 
tics a  Democrat,  fully  in  accord  with  and  strong  in  the  faith  of  the 
party  founded  by  Thomas  Jefferson  and  James  Madison.  Possessed 
of  a  genial,  kindly  nature,  an  active,  intelligent  spirit,  troops  of 
friends,  a  splendid  record  as  to  past  conduct,  ''Wat."  Garth's  future 
is  promising,  and  his  life  can  hardly  fail  of  being  a  success. 

JEFFERSON    GARTH. 

Jefferson  Garth  was  born  in  Scott  county,  Kentucky,  May  22, 1803. 
He  is  the  son  of  John  and  Sally  (GriflSth)  Garth.  He  came  to  Boone 
county,  Missouri,  in  the  fall  of  1836.  Nine  years  previous  to  emi- 
grating to  Missouri,  he  married  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Geti.  Robert 
S.  Russell.  By  this  marriage  they  have  had  eight  children,  seven 
sons  and  one  daughter,  of  whom  two  sons,  Robert  and  Thomas  Allen, 
are  dead.  Walter  W.  Garth,  clerk  of  the  circuit  court,  is  the  young- 
est of  the  family.  William  is  a  farmer  in  Clay  county.  Samuel  has 
41  cattle  ranche  in  the  Indian  Nation,  where  he  is  now  living.     Henry  H. 


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HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTY.  869 

liYing  in  Rocheport,  where  he  has  a  grocery  store.  James  M.  is 
lining  on  a  farm  four  miles  north  of  Rocheport.  Lizzie,  the  only 
dmaghter,  is  the  wife  of  Col.  C.  T.  Worley.  Mrs.  Worley  is  living  with 
her  parents.  Mr.  Garth  has  followed  farming  all  his  life.  He  has  a 
fine  farm  of  600  acres,  lying  partially  within  the  suburbs  of  Columbia. 
It  is  well  watered  and  timbered.  Mrs.  Garth  is  the  only  child  of  the 
Kussell  family  now  living.  She  is  seventy-seven  years  old.  Mr.  Gailh's 
Cither  died  in  1836,  and  his  mother  a  few  years  later.  John  Gaith 
was  one  of  the  largest  farmers  and  slaveholders  in  Scott  county. 

MAJOR   GENERAL   RICHARD   GENTRY,    DECEASED. 

One  of  the  most  prominent  characters  of  Boone  county  and  of  Mis- 
louri  in  early  days,  was  the  distinguished  citizen  and  soldier  whose 
name  heads  this  sketch.  Gen.  Gentry  was  born  in  Madison  county, 
Ky.,  August  21st,  1788.  He  was  a  son  of  Richard  Gentry,  Sr.,  Esq., 
>f  Virginia,  and  one  of  a  family  of  nineteen  children,  sixteen  sons  and 
iiree  daughters.  This  family  has  numerous  members  and  representii- 
aves  throughout  Missouri,  the  majority  of  whom  are  or  have  been 
prominently  connected  with  the  political  history  and  the  financial , 
Dommercial,  and  other  vital  interests  of  the  State. 

Early  in  life  Richard  Gentry,  Jr.,  evinced  a  fondness  and  talent 
for  military  service.  When  but  nineteen  years  of  age  he  received  a 
commission  from  Gov.  Christopher  Greenup,  of  Kentucky,  appointing 
Mm  a  lieutenant  in  the  19th  Regiment  of  Kentucky  militia.  This  com- 
mission bears  date  March  27th,  1808.  Subsequently,  June  18th,  1811, 
be  was  commissioned  captain  by  Gov.  Chas.  Scott.  September  1st, 
1813,  he  was  appointed  by  Gov.  Isaac  Shelby  ensign  of  volunteers, 
md  in  this  capacity  served  in  the  war  of  1812.  He  was  under  the 
command  of  Gen.  Harrison  and  his  service  was  rendered  on  the 
aorthem  border.  He  took  part  in  difierent  engagements  with  the 
British  and  Indians,  including  the  battle  of  the  Thames,  in  Canada, 
October,  1813.  After  his  removal  to  Missouri,  Gen.  Gentry  received 
ihe  following  commissions  in  the  military  service  of  the  State  :  — 

From  Gov.  Alex.  McNair,  April  20th,  1821,  as  captain  of  the  4th 
company j  2d  battalion,  14th  regiment,  1st  brigade,  1st  division  of 
Missouri  militia. 

From  Gov.  McNair,  September  5th,  1822,  as  colonel  of  the  26th 
regiment,  1st  brigade,  Ist  division. 

From  Gov.  John  Miller,  January  26th,  1832,  as  major-general  of 
the  3d  division. 


870  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

From  Gov.  Lilburn  W.  Boggs,  July  11th,  1837,   as  colonel  of  the  J^ 
1st  Missouri  volunteers. 

From  Gov.  Boggs,  September  12th,  1837,  as  major-general  of  the 
12th  division  of  Missouri  militia. 

In  1816,  Gen.  Gentry  came   to  Missouri,   and  located  first  in  St. 
Louis  county.     In  1818  he  came  to  Old  Franklin,  Howard  county, 
and  in  1820  to  Boone   county,  settling  near   Columbia.    He  was  a 
member  of.  the   Smithton  town  company.     Upon  the  removal  of  the 
county  seat,    he  settled  permanently    in    Columbia,    which  was  Iris 
home  while  he  lived.     From  1826  to  1830  he  was  the  State  Senator 
from  this  district.     In  1832  he  commanded  the    Missouri  troops  on 
the  expedition    to  northeast  Missouri   during  the  Black  Hawk  war. 
(  See  general  history. )     Five  years  later  he  was  authorized  by  the  Sec- . 
retary  of  War,  Joel  R.  Poinsett,  to  raise  a  regiment  of  Missouri  vol- 
unteers for  service  in  the  Florida  war    against  the  Seminoles,  which 
he  did.     (See  general  history    for  full  and    interesting  particulars.) 
It  is  generally  known  that  Gen.  Gentry  fell  at  the  battle  of  Okeecho- 
bee, Florida,  Christmas  day,  1837.     The  Missouri  troops   were  dis- 
mounted, and  with  their  colonel  at  the  head,  were  crossing  a  swamp 
to  attack  the  Seminoles.     Col.  G.    waved  his  sword  and  cried  out  to 
his  men:  *'Come   on,  boys!"     Immediately  he   was    struck  by  a 
bullet  from  an  Indian  rifle  and  mortally  wounded.     His  wound  was 
through  the  bowels  ;  a  silk  handkerchief  was  drawn  through  it,  which 
circumstance  will  indicate  its  character.     He  died  at  about  the  ensu- 
ing midnight.     Before    his  death  he  sent   for  Gen.  Zachary  Tajlor, 
the  commanding  officer,  and  requested  him  to  do  the  Missouri  regi- 
ment full  justice    and  give    it   proper  credit    for  its  services.    Col. 
Gentry's  son,  Harrison  Gentry,  who  was  sergeant-major  of  theregi- 
mciit,  was  wounded  in  the  arm  in  the  same  engagement. 

The  history  of  the  services  of  Gen.  Gentry  is  so  interwoven  with  the 
history  of  Boone  county,  and  set  out  so  fully  on  other  pages  of  this 
volume,  that  it  would  be  a  work  of  superogation  to  write  it  here. 
What  is  here  written  is  partly  a  repetition  of  matter  to  be  found  else- 
where.    His  remains  lie  in  Jeflferson  Barracks,  St.  Louis,  and  he 

Dreams  of  battle  fields  no  more — da3^s  of  danger,  nighti  of  waking. 

They  were  brought  from  Florida  and  interred  by  the    General  Gov- 
ernment, Brig-Gen.  Atkinson  having  especial  charge  of  that  duty. 

Prior  to  the  Black  Hawk  and  Florida  war  —  say  about  1830  —  Gen. 
Gentry  was  engaged  in  the  Santa  Fe  trade,  and  made  several  trips  to 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  871 

Uew  Mexico  in  the  prosecution  of  his  business,  in  which  he  was  fairly 
successful. 

Iq  person,  Gren.  Gentry  was  about  six  feet  in  hfeight,  and  weighed 
200  pounds.  He  was  of  a  robust  physique  and  of  an  active  tempera- 
ment. His  eyes  and  hair  were  dark,  if  not  black,  and  he  was  a  fine 
specimen  of  noble  manhood  both  in  appearance  and  reality.  His  por- 
trait, by  Geo.  C.  Bingham,  now  in  the  possession  of  his  son,  T.  B. 
€rentry,  Esq.,  is  said  to  be  a  good  likeness.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  and  belonged  to  the  order  of  Free  Masons.  In 
politics,  he  was  a  Jackson  Democrat,  and  a  warm  personal  and  politi- 
<^1  friend  of  Col.  Thos.  H.  Benton,  who,  from  his  seat  in  the  U.  S. 
Senate,  sent  numerous  letters  of  condolence  to  Mrs.  Ann  Gentry,  the 
eolonel's  widow,  upon  her  husband's  deaith,  and  secured  for  her  the 
position  ot  postmistress  at  Columbia,  which  position  she  held  for  more 
than  thirty  consecutive  years,  being  first  commissioned,  February 
20th,  1838,  by  Amos  Kendall,  postmaster-general.  Gen.  Gentry, 
himself,  had  previously  held  the  oflSce,  being  first  appointed  January 
12th,  1830,  by  P.  M.  Gen.  Wm.T.  Barry. 

Gen.  Gentry  had  a  family  of  interesting  children,  all  of  whom  at- 
tained greater  or  less  distinction,  that  arrived  at  maturity.  Harrison 
Gentry,  who  was  wounded  at  Okeechobee,  died  in  Columbia  in  1871. 
Nicholas  H.  Gentry  took  service  under  Gen.  Price,  upon  the  outbreak 
of  the  civil  war,  and  died  from  wounds  received  at  the  battle  of 
Wilson's  Creek.  O.  P.  Gentry,  a  prominent  citizen  of  Monroe 
county,  died  at  Paris,  Mo.,  in  1881.  Thos.  B.  Gentry,  the  only 
surviving  son  of  the  family,  resides  at  Columbia ;  his  biographical 
sketch  will  be  found  elsewhere.  Miss  Ann  Eliza  Gentry  was  a  lady 
of  rare  talents  and  attainments ;  a  woman  renowned  as  well  for  her 
accomplishments  as  for  her  general  qualities.  She  was  celebrated  as 
a  teacher,  and  was  at  first  assistant  to  Miss  Lucy  Wales,  of  Colum- 
bia, and  afterwards  connected  with  other  educational  institutions  in 
different  parts  of  the  State,  notably  with  Grand  River  College, 
Grundy  county.  She  first  married  a  Mr.  Bryan  and  afterward  be- 
came the  wife  of  a  gentleman  named  Elliott.  She  died  in  Vernon 
county,  in  1879. 

Gen.  G.  was  married  February  13th,  1810,  to  Miss  Ann  Hawkins, 
of  Kentucky,  a  daughter  of  Nicholas  Hawkins,  an  old  soldier  of  the 
Revolution.  They  became  the  parents  of  thirteen  children,  only  two 
of  whom  are  now  living,  Thos.  B.  and  Mary,  now  the  wife  of  Boyle 
Gordon,  Esq. 


872  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 


TH08.    B.    GENTRY. 


Thomas  Benton  Gentry,  Esq.,  son  of  Gen.  Richard  Gentry,  ww 
born   in    Columbia,  October  13th,    1830,  and  was  educated   in  the 
schools  of  his  native  county.     Upon  the  death  of  his   distinguished 
father  his  mother  was  given  the  post-office  at  Columbia,.and  in  1855, 
he  entered  the  office  as  head  clerk,  which  position  he  held  for  several 
years,  including  the  period  of  the  civil  war.     Previous  to   this  he  had 
engaged  in  merchandising  for  a  period  of  about  twelve  years.    From 
1868  to  1878  he  was  justice  of  the  peace.     He  served   as  one  of  the 
trustees  of  the  town  of  Columbia  for  many  years,  and  has  twice  been 
chairman  of  the  board.     For  five  years    he  was  the  treasurer  of  the 
State  University. 

October  30th,  1860,  Mr.  Gentry  married  Miss  Mary  Todd,  a 
daughter  of  Roger  North  Todd,  the  pioneer  clerk  of  Boone  county,  a 
sketch  of  whose  life  appears  elsewhere.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gentry  have 
two  sons,  promising  youths,  who  are  in  attendance  at  school  in  Colum- 
bia. The  family  lives  in  a  pleasant  and  comfortable  home  in  the  sub- 
urbs of  Columbia,  with  all  the  elements  necessary  to  constitute  hap- 
piness —  health  and  strength,  a  fair  competence,  and  hosts  of  warm 
friends.  In  this  home,  Mr.  Gentry  has  certain  articles  of  historic  in- 
terest and  value  pertaining  to  his  renowned  father.  He  has  Gen. 
Gentry's  sword,  epaulets  (those  of  a  major  general),  coat,  chapeau, 
numerous  commissions  etc.,  together  with  the  flag  of  the  regiment 
commanded  by  Col.  G.  at  the  time  of  his  death.  A  sketch  of  thid 
banner  will  be  found  in  another  part  of  this  history. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gentry  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  of 
which  Mr.  G.  has  been  an  elder  for  nearly  twenty  years.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  order  of  Good  Templars.  In  politics  Mr.  Gentry 
is  conservative  and  not  the  slave  of  any  party.  Prior  to  the  civil 
was,  he  was  a  Democrat.  During  the  war  he  was  an  unconditional, 
uncompromising  Union  man  with  no  sympathy  at  all  for  recession. 
He  voted  for  Gen.  Grant  in  1868  and  1872,  but  since  the  latter 
named  period  has  generally  acted  with  the  Democratic  party,  voting 
for  Tildenin  1876  and  Hancock  in  1880.  In  1874  Mr.  Gentry  was 
graduated  from  the  law  department  of  the  State  University,  but  is 
not  now  an  active  practitioner.  He  lives  in  semi-retirement,  in  his 
beautiful  little  home  in  the  bosom  of  his  excellent  family,  and  is  well 
known  as  an  estimable,  honorable  gentleman,  generous  and  hospitaWe, 
meriting  and  receivino^  universal  esteem. 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE  COUNTY.  873^ 

JOHN  BOYLE  GORDON,  DECEASED. 

John  Boyle  Gordon  was  bom  in  Milford,  Madison  county,  Kentucky, 
[is  father,  David  Gordon,  was  a  native  of  North  Carolina  who  emi- 
rated  to  Kentucky  in  an  early  day,  and  by  shrewd  management  and 
aergy,  laid  the  foundation  of  a  considerable  fortune.  After  estab- 
sbing  himself  in  business,  in  Madison  county,  he  married  Miss  Jane 
loyle,  sister  of  John  Boyle,  chief  justice  of  Kentucky.  Mrs.  Adams, 
lotber  of  Judge  Washington  Adams,  of  Missouri,  is  also  another 
ster.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  brought  up  on  the  farm  and 
as  early  inured  to  all  the  hardships  of  farm  life,  but  had  little  appre- 
iation  of  agricultural  pursuits.  He  attended  the  country  schools  of 
inters  and  studied  hard  between  sessions  until  he  was  prepared  to 
jach  school.  He  taught  until  he  had  procured  means  to  place  him- 
jlf  at  Transylvania  University,  Lexington,  Kentucky,  some  twenty 
liles  from  his  father's  home.  There,  under  the  instructions  of  Horace 
[olby,  he  made  rapid  progress  in  his  chosen  profession.  He  spent 
wo  years  at  this  institution,  being  limited  to  that  period  for  the  want 
f  means.  He  returned  home  sorely  puzzled  as  to  what  course  to 
ursue,  as  his  father  seemed  not  at  all  disposed  to  further  his  designs 
I  procuring  a  legal  education.  In  this  dilemma,  he  approached  W. 
[.  Caperton,  an  eminent  lawyer  of  the  Richmond  bar,  who  generously 
^ponded  to  his  appeal,  giving  him  all  the  instruction  in  his  power, 
ttd  advancing  him  the  means  he  stood  so  much  in  need  of.  Return- 
ig  to  Transylvania,  be  completed  his  course  and  was  admitted  to 
le  bar.  He  commenced  his  professional  career  at  the  Richmond  bar 
y  forming  a  partnership  with  Col.  John  Speed  Smith,  brother-in-law 
)  Cassius  M.  Clay.  When  thoroughly  established  in  business,  he 
laiTied  Miss  Sophia,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Hawkins,  a  well-to-do 
irmer  of  Madison  county.  In  1826,  David  Gordon,  the  father  of 
ohn  B.,  resolved  to  emigrate  to  Columbia,  Missouri,  and  his  son  came 
1th  him.  At  the  time  of  their  advent,  Columbia  contained  but  two 
r  three  houses,  rude  cabins  hardly  worthy  the  name  of  houses, 
•hey  found  the  people  of  Boone  county,  even  at  this  early  date,  very 
luch  absorbed  in  politics,  being  about  equally  divided  between  the 
^hig  and  Democratic  parties.  The  subject  of  this  sketch,  being  an 
rdent  Whig,  at  once  entered  the  arena  of  politics.  He  was  directly 
bosen  candidate  for  the  legislature  and  elected.  At  the  subsequent 
lection  he  was  returned,  and  so  on  for  five  or  six  times  in  succession, 
'his  was  between  1830  and  1840.     He  was  never  beaten  for  office. 


874  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

During  this  time  he  was  associated  in  the  law  business  with  Austin  A. 
King,  afterwards  governor  of  the  State.  King  was  a  Democrat  and 
was  once  beaten  by  his  partner.  In  1839-40,  when*  the  location  of 
th^  State  University  was  to  be  settled  between  Cole,  Cooper,  Gallic 
way,  Boone  and  Howard  —  the  county  subscribing  the  most  to  get  the 
institution — John  B.  Gordon  took  the  stump,  assisted  by  Hon.  James 
S.  Rollins.  By  their  united  efforts,  and  the  unprecedented  liberality 
of  the  people,  Boone  secured  the  University.  About  this  time  Mr. 
Gordon  took  his  younger  brother,  James  M.  Gordon,  into  his  office 
and  prepared  him  for  the  bar  and  for  a  life  of  future  usefulness  and 
honor.  In  1840  Mr.  Gordon  returned  to  Kentucky,  and  resumed  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  His  great  success  as  a  lawyer  drew  about 
him  a  number  of  young  men  eager  to  learn  of  him  and  to  profit  by  his 
profound  knowledge  of  law,  among  whom  was  Judge  Samuel  Miller, 
now  one  of  the  Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States. 
Mr.  Gordon  remained  in  Kentucky  for  about  three  years  when  he 
returned  to  Columbia  and  gradually  retired  from  the  active  duties  of 
his  profession.  He  had  six 'children,  four  sons  and  two  daughters. 
Martha,  the  eldest  of  the  daughters,  married  Judge  Robert  H.  Clink- 
scales,  formerly  a  prominent  business  man  of  Columbia,  and  for  a  brief 
period  judge  of  the  county  court.  Ida,  the  second  daughter,  married 
Prof.  Oren  Root,  Jr.,  formerly  connected  with  the  State  University. 
Boyle,  the  eldest  son,  has  been  an  able  practitioner  at  the  Columbia 
bur  for  many  years,  and  a  professor  of  law  in  the  State  University. 
Wellington  and  Carey  arc  also  well-known  attorneys  of  Columbia, 
Missouri.  John  B.  Gordon,  or  '*  Jack,''  as  he  was  familiarly  called, 
died  on  his  farm,  near  Columbia,  February  13th,  1855,  (  ?)at  the  age 
of  tifty-five  years. 

CAREY    H.    GORDON. 

Carey  H.  Gordon  is  the  sou  of  John  B.  and  Sophia  (Hawkins) 
Gordon.  He  was  born  in  Columbia,  Missouri,  June  10th,  1844,  and 
was  educated  at  the  State  University,  attending  the  literary  depart- 
ment of  that  institution  for  three  years,  and  afterwards  the  law  de- 
partment for  two  years.  Commenced  the  practice  of  law  in  1872  Nrith 
his  brother,  Wellington  Gordon,  at  Columbia.  In  1864  he  enlisted 
as  a  private  in  company  B,  9th  Missouri  State  Militia,  and  served 
three  years,  leaving  the  army  in  March,  1865.  In  August,  1863,  he 
was  transferred  to  a  newly  organized  company  of  which  he  was  made 
second  lieutenant.  Was  at  the  battle  of  Kirksville,  in  Adair  county, 
August,  1862.   Was  afterwards  on  a  scout  with  ten  men,  some  ten  miles 


**  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  875 

from  Liberty,  in  Clay  county,  Missouri,  when  they  came  in  con- 
flict with  Jesse  James  and  his  band.  Two  of  Gordon's  itien  were 
wounded  and  two  horses  shot.  Three  of  the  James  band  were 
wounded,  the  noted  outlaw  being  of  the  number,  losing  one  of  his 
fingers.  He  sent  Gordon  word  the  next  day,  offering  him  a  horse  and 
a  suit  of  clothes  if  he  would  come  to  Kearney,  Clay  county,  by  him- 
self. Gordon  returned  answer  that  he  was  not  in  need  of  a  horse  nor 
of  clothing.  Mr.  Gordon  resigned  and  left  the  service  in  March,  1865, 
to  prosecute  his  studies  at  the  State  University.  He  was  married  in 
1876  to  Miss  Julia  Long,  of  Bridgeton,  St.  Louis  county,  Missouri. 
They  have  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters:  Boyle  Jr., 
Edwin,  Clara  and  Sophia.  Mr.  Gordon  is  a  member  of  the  Christian 
church.  Mrs.  Gordon  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church.  He. is  also 
a  member  of  the  order  of  K.  of  P.  He  has  followed  farming  in  con- 
nection with  his  law  practice  since  entering  upon  the  active  duties  of 
Jife.  He  has  a  good  farm  of  332  acres  situated  two  miles  east  of  Co- 
lumbia, on  the  Fulton  gravel  road.  Mr.  Gordon  has  a  liberal  share  of 
practice  at  the  Columbia  bar.  His  father,  John  B.  Gordon,  was  in 
his  day  one  of  the  ablest  lawyers  in  central  Missouri.  He  represented 
his  county  in  the  legislature  for  sixteen  years. 

WELLINGTON    GORDON. 

Wellington  Gordon  is  the  son  of  Hon.  John  B.  and  Sophia  (Haw- 
kins) Gordon,  and  was  born  in  Columbia,  Mo.,  January  31st,  1838. 
His  father,  John  B.,  was  boni  in  Milford,  Madison  county,  Kentucky, 
and  was  educated  principally  at  Transylvania  University,  of  Lexing- 
ton, Kentucky.  He  studied  law  in  the  office  of  W.  H.  Caperton,  of 
the  Richmond  bar,  and  was  admitted  to  practice,  forming  a  most 
happy  partnership  with  Col.  John  Speed  Smith,  one  of  Kentucky's 
ablest  lawyers.  After  a  few  years  of  successful  practice  he  married 
Miss  Sophia  Hawkins,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Hawkins,  who  had  emi- 
grated to  Kentucky  from  Virginia  some  years  before  — 1826.  The 
whole  family  of  Gordons  came  to  Columbia,  Boone  county,  Missouri. 
Missouri,  about  this  time,  was  receiving  the  best  class  of  immigrants, 
and  Boone  county  a  very  large  proportion.  Politics,  being  the  legiti- 
mate, honored  business  of  the  most  enlightened,  soon  called  forth  all 
the  energies  and  talents  of  John,  who  carried  the  county  for  the 
Whigs,  and  was  elected  to  represent  Boone  county  in  the  Legislature 
for  five  successive  terms,  from  1830  to  1840.  It  is  to  the  eloquence 
and  energy  of  John  B.  Gordon  that  Columbia  is  indebted  more  than  to 


876  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  ' 

any  other  man  for  the  location  of  the  State  University  at  Columbia. 
In  1840  he  returned  to  Kentucky,  practicing  his  profession  and  lec- 
turing on  law  to  the  young  men  of  the  State,  who  came  to  sit  at  hU 
feet,  ''  learning  the  law  their  fathers  loved."     Returning  to  Missouri, 
he  retired  from  active  practice,  and  devoted  his  time  to  the  instruction 
of  his  children,  who  have  since  shown  themselves  worthy  such  a  sire. 
He  died  February  13th,  1853,  (  ?)  at  the  age  of  fifty-five  years.    He 
left  a  family  of  six  children,  four  sons  and  two  daughters.     Martha,  the 
eldest  daughter,  married  Judge  Robert  H.  Clinkscales.     Ida  married 
Prof.  Oren  Root,  Jr.     Boyle,  the  oldest  son,  is  now  professor  of  law 
in  the  University.     Emmett,   Wellington,  our  subject,  and  Carey. 
Wellington  was  educated  at  the  University,  taking  the  full  classical 
course  of  four  years.     When  a  boy  he  was  deputy  circuit  clerk  in  the 
office  of  R.  L.  Todd  for  about  fifteen  months.     Then  he  studied  law  in 
the  office  ot  his  brother  Boyle,  completing  the  course  in   1«59,  and 
opened  aii  office  in  Kansas  City,  where  he  remained  until  the  spring 
of  1860.     He  then  went  to  Carrollton  and  practiced  his  profession 
for  about  a  year,  when  he  returned  to  Columbia,  and  practiced  in  the 
office   of  Guitar  &  Gordon    until    1865.     In    1866    he    was  elected 
county  attorney,  and  served  until  1872,  when  he  was  endorsed  by 
an  election  to  the  office  of  prosecuting  attorney,  which  office  he  filled 
acceptably  for  two  years.     Since  that  time  Mr.  Gordon  has  devoted 
his  time  and  talents  to  his  lucrative  practice  in  conjunction  with  his 
brother,  C.   H.  Gordon.     He  was  married  December  13th,  1866,  to 
Miss  Laura  Amonett,   daughter  of  Judge  James  Amonett,  formerly 
of  Virginia.     Mrs.  Gordon,  nee  Amonett,  was  born  in  Louisiana,  and 
at  the  age  of  thirteen  removed  to  the  city  of  Memphis,  Teim.,  where 
she  was  living  at  the  time  of  her  marriage.     Their  union  has  been 
blessed  with    five    children — Kate,   Reverdy,    Fleetwood,   Ida   and 
Mattie.     Mr.  Gordon  has  a  fine  residence  in  the  northeastern  part  of 
Columbia.     He  is  regarded  as   an   able  lawyer  and  a  thorough  gen- 
tleman . 

W.    A.    OOODDING. 

W.  A.  Goodding  is  the  son  of  J.  C.  and  Elizabeth  (Dameron) 
Gooddiiig,  the  former  of  Kentucky,  the  latter  of  North  Carolina. 
W.  A.  was  born  in  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  October  26th,  1846. 
His  father  removed  to  Macon  in  1847.  Youn^  Gooddinff  was  educated 
at  the  Mount  Pleasant  College,  Huntsville,  and  at  the  Kirksville  Normal 
College.  He  returned  to  Randolph  in  1865,  and  in  1872  came  to 
Boone  county.     He  engaged  in  coal  mining  on  a  large  scale  at  Brown' s^ 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNT Y,  877 

Station:  He  was  married  December  25th,  1873,  to  Martha  E.,  daugh- 
ter of  Lewis  G.  Berry,  of  Boone.  They  have  four  children :  Nettie 
E.,  Lena,  Charlie  R.  and  Bessie.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Goodding  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Baptist  church.  He  is  a  Mason,  K,  T.,  H.  P.  of  chapter, 
also  K.  of  P.  He  is  also  a  member  of  A.  O.  U.  W.  He  was  a  no- 
tary public  for  six  years.  His  home  is  in  Columbia.  He  has  always 
voted  the  Democratic  ticket,  and  at  the  primaries  in  August,  1882, 
after  an  animated  canvass,  received  the  nomination  of  his  party  for 
sheriff  by  a  decided  majority. 

GEN.    ODON    GUITAR.  ^ 

Gen.  Guitar  is  of  French-English  extraction,  his  father,  John  Guitar, 
being  a  native  of  Bordeaux,  France,  and  his  mother  being  of  English 
blood.  She  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  and  a  daughter  of  David 
Grordon,  deceased,  one  of  Boone  county's  pioneers.  Her  given  name 
was  Emily,  and  she  was  a  niece  of  Chief  Justice  Boyle.  Gen.  Guitar 
was  born  in  Richmond,  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  August  31st, 
1827.  His  parents  moved  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  1829,  bring- 
ing the  two-year-old  Odon  with  them  to  Columbia,  where  they  located, 
and  the  elder  Guitar  did  business  as  a  merchant  till  his  death  in  1848. 
Gen.  Guitar  was  educated  wholly  in  Boone  county,  attending  the 
common  schools  till  his  fifteenth  year,  when  he  entered  the  University 
of  Missouri  at  its  first  opening  session  in  1842,  and  graduated  in-1846 
with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  His  degree  was  conferred  while  he  was  on 
his  way  to  Santa  Fe.  He  had  volunteered  for  the  Mexican  war  in 
Col.  (afterwards  Gen.)  Doniphan's  regiment,  and  did  not  remain  at 
college  for  commencement,  but  left  his  graduating  speech  to  be  read 
by  a  classmate.  Gen.  Guitar  served  through  the  entire  Mexican  war, 
and  on  his  return  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  his  uncle, 
Hon.  John  B.  Gordon,  then  one  of  the  leading  members  of  the  Mis- 
souri bar,  and  recognized  as  the  first  orator  of  the  State  at  that  time. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1848  before  Judge  William  Hall,  of  the 
circuit  court,  and  at  once  began  the  practice,  which  he  prosecuted  as 
his  chief  vocation  till  April,  1882.  When  the  great  civil  war  came 
on.  Gen.  Guitar  was  Union  in  sentiment,  and  was  commissioned  in 
May,  1862,  by  Gov.  Gjirable  to  recruit  a  regiment  of  volunteers  for 
the  Federal  service.  This  regiment  was  from  several  different  coun- 
ties, and  was  mustered  in  as  the  Ninth  Cavalry,  M.  S.  M.  He  com- 
manded the  regiment  till  his  promotion  in  June,  1863,  when  he  was 
<;ommissioned   brigadier-general  of  the  M.  S.  M.,  and  also  of    the 


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HISTOBT    OF    BOONE    COUNTT. 


E.  M.  M.  Both  these  promotions  were  for  gallant  and  meritorious 
service  in  the  field.  For  a  complete  record  of  the  campaigns  in  which 
Gen.  G.  participated,  the  reiuler  is  referred  to  the  war  history  dqmrt- 
ment  of  this  volume.  He  was  the  first  commandant  of  the  central 
Sub-district  of  Missouri,  with  headquarters  at  Jefferson  City.     After 


the  war,  he  resumed  his  pmctice  in  tlie  law,  and  continued  it  ut  Co- 
lumbia till  tlie  date  above  nictitioncd.  In  1853-4,  and  again  in 
1857-8,  he  represented  his  coinity  in  the  General  Assembly,  having 
been  elected  on  the  Whig  ticket.  Since  the  dissolution  of  that  party, 
he  has  been  a  Liberal  Re|>nblican,  though  he  has  taken  no  active  part 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  879 

in  politics,  and  has  not  sought  either  the  honors  or  emoluments  of 
public  trusts.  Gen.  Guitar  was  married  in  December,  1865,  to  Kate 
L.,  youngest  daughter  of  Judge  Abiel  Leonard,  deceased,  formerly 
of  Howard  county.  They  are  the  parents  of  five  children,  four 
daughters  and  one  son,  all  of  whom  survive  at  this  writing.  Gen.  G. 
is  not  a  member  of  any  lodge  or  society  of  any  kind.  He  owns  several 
farms  in  Boone  county,  but  the  principal  part  of  his  estate  is  in  town 
property  in  Columbia.  He  is  one  of  those  citizens  of  prominence 
who  take  an  active  interest  in  all  public  aflfairs  and  in  everything  per- 
taining to  the  country's  welfare.  While  in  the  practice  of  the  law 
G«n.  G.  paid  most  attention  to  criminal  cases,  and  defended  in  a  large 
number  of  homicide  cases.  Only  one  of  his  clients  was  ever  hanged, 
and  but  five  sent  to  the  penitentiary.  The  others  were  all  acquitted, 
four  of  whom  were  saved  by  the  adroit  management  of  their  counsel 
after  conviction  and  sentence  to  execution. 

Altogether,  the  life  of  Gen.  Odon  Guitar  has  been  a  success,  and 
his  record  is  one  of  which  any  man  might  well  be  proud. 

HUGH   M.  HALL. 

The  subject  of  this  notice  is  the  son  of  Mortimer  and  Mary  (French) 
Hall,  and  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  October  5th,  1847. 
When  quite  a  child  he  went  to  live  with  an  uncle,  S.  L.  French,  and 
lived  with  him  until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age,  when  he  commenced 
teaching  school  and  taught  from  1863  until  1872.  Two  years  of  his 
teaching  was  in  Morgan  county,  Missouri.  He  then  followed  farming 
for  four  years,  until  March,  1882,  when  he  was  appointed  deputy  coun- 
ty clerk  of  Boone  county,  which  position  he  still  retains.  He  had  the 
misfortune  to  lose  an  arm  on  the  12th  day  of  October,  1861,  by  get- 
ting it  crushed  between  the  rollers  of  a  cane-mill  on  the  farm  of  J.  D. 
French.  •  He  was  elected  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  November,  1872,  of 
Kockyfork  township  and  served  as  justice  for  ten  years.  He  was  mar- 
ried September  7th,  1871,  to  Miss  Sue  T.,  daughter  of  Jackson  Hern- 
don.  By  this  union  they  have  had  five  children,  one  boy  and  four 
girls — Mary  L.,  born  September  17th,  1872  ;  Carrie  E.,  born  March 
26th,  1874;  Sallie  A.,  born  April  18lh,  1875;  Hugh  E.,  bom  Janu- 
ary 12th,  1877,  and  Wilmuth,  born  July  8th,  1879.  Mr.  Hall  and  his 
wife  are  members  of  the  Christian  church  and  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias.  His  father  is  a  native  of  Virginia  and  is  still  liv- 
ing near  Hallsville,  Boone  county.     His  mother  is  dead.     Hugh  was 


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^80  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

the  only  child.     He  is  one  of  the  most  efficient  of  Boone's  county  of- 
ficers and  is  a  genial  pleasant  gentleman. 

DR.  E.  W.  HERNDON. 

Dr.  Eugene  Wallace  Herndon  was  born  February  4th,  1836.  He  was 
educated  at  Franklin  College,  Tennessee,  graduating  as  A.  B.  in  class 
of  1852.  In  1855  he  received  the  degree  of  A.  M.  from  the  same  insti- 
tution. Graduated  at  the  Nashville  Medical  College  in  1855,  being  at 
the  time  but  nineteen  years  old.  After  completing  his  medical  educa- 
tion he  came  to  Clarksville,  Missouri,  and  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession.  In  1859  he  commenced  the  study  of  law.  Took  the  degi'ee 
of  LL.  D.  at  Harvard  University  in  1861.  In  1859  he  began  the 
pui)lication  of  the  PeA;e  County  Union^  at  Clarksville,  which  he  con- 
tinued until  1860.  He  supported  Bell  and  Everett  for  president  and 
vice-president.  Dr.  Herndon  was  a  Union  man  at  the  beginning  of 
the  war,  but  the  violent  expression  of  Northern  sentiment  caused 
him  to  take  sides  with  the  South.  He  was  not  a  *'  secessionist,  "  but 
entered  the  army  as  a  rebel.  Assisted  Col.  Caleb  Dorsey,  of  Pike 
county,  in  raising  a  regiment  for  service  in  the  Missouri  State  Guard. 
Was  appointed  surgeon  of  this  regiment.  Left  Pike  county  in  De- 
cember, under  Col.  Dorsey,  to  join  Price's  army,  and  was  in  the  bat- 
tle with  Gen.  Prentiss  at  Mt.  Zion  church,  in  this  county,  an  account 
of  which  may  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  Reached  the  Confed- 
erate army  at  Cove  Creek,  where  he  was  regularly  commissioned  a  sur- 
geon by  Governor  Jackson  and  assigned  to  duty  under  Gen.  Martin 
Green.  He  was  afterwards  division  surgeon  under  Gen.  Parsons. 
Afterthe  battle  of  Pleasant  Hill,  was  made  chief  surgeon  of  all  the  forces 
in  West  Louisiana  and  a  member  of  Gen.  Bagley's  staff.  Was  at 
Elkhorn,  Farmington,  Prairie  Grove,  Helena,  Mansfield  and  Pleasant 
Hill.  Surrendered  at  Shreveport,  Louisiana,  in  the  spring  of  1865  and 
returned  to  Missouri.  For  the  next  year  or  two  he  followed  farming  in 
Pettis  county,  after  which  he  came  to  Columbia,  where  he  has  re- 
mained ever  since.  From  1869  to .  1870  was  editor  of  the  Boone 
County  Journal.  Dr.  Herndon  was  married  in  1865  to  Miss  Laura  E. 
Ruby,  of  Randolph  county.  She  died  in  1881,  leaving  no  children. 
Dr.  Herndon  is  a  Mason .  He  is  a  member  of  the  Council,  of  which  he 
was  first  high  priest,  and  also  first  high  priest  of  the  Chapter.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Christian  church  and  is  now  editor  of  the   Christian 

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HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  881 


GEORGE   W.  HENDERSON. 


George  W.  Henderson,  son  of  E.  F.  and  Catherine  (Brinkman) 
lenderson,  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  March  10,  1847.  Was  educated 
t  the  public  schools  of  St.  Louis.  Commenced  his  business  career 
Q  1857,  clerking  in  a  candy  store  in  St.  Louis.  In  1859,  he  clerked 
or  John  Barnhurst,  of  St.  Louis,  in  a  dry  goods  store,  continuing 
hus  until  1869,  when  Barnhurst  moved  his  store  to  Columbia,  Mis- 
ouri,  and  Mr.  Henderson  came  with  him  and  remained  in  his  em- 
ployment until  the  latter  part  of  1870,  when  he  went  into  the  grocery 
lusiness  under  the  firm  name  of  Gentry  &  Henderson.  Continued 
he  business  thus  for  about  seventeen  months  when  he  took  William 
?.  Shock  into  partnership,  under  the  firm  name  of  Shock  &  Hender- 
on.  The  business  was  conducted  thus  for  about  two  years,  then 
(banged  to  Henderson,  Shock  &  Co.,  and  so  remained  until  1876, 
ehen  Mr.  Henderson  sold  out  his  interest  to  Lafayette  Hume.  In 
Tune,  1876,  he  became  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  Columbia  Mills, 
lis  partners  being  Messrs.  Anderson  and  Smith.  In  1878  the  firm 
(hanged  to  Anderson,  Henderson  &  Co.,  and  so  remained  until  Feb- 
Tiary  6,  1882.  Asa  business  man  Mr.  Henderson  has  few  equals, 
ind  perhaps  no  superior  in  this  section  of  the  country.  He  com- 
nenced  life  without  anything,  and  has  by  energy,  and  good  manage- 
nent  accumulated  a  handsome  estate,  and  this  too  in  a  brief  period  of 
;ime.  His  father  is  living  in  Columbia  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  year.s. 
His  mother  died  in  1875.  He  is  one  of  six  children,  five  sons  and  one 
laughter,  all  of  whom  are  living  but  one  son,  who  died  in  childhood. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  youngest  of  the  family.  Mr.  Ilen- 
lerson  was  married  September  10,  1874,  to  Miss  Mary,  daughter  of 
Judge  Henry  and  Mary  (Depew)  Dusenberry.  They  have  one  son^ 
Benjamin  E.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henderson  are  members  of  the  Meth- 
xlist  Church  South.     He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity. 

COL.    JOHN    J.  HICKMAN. 

Col.  Hickman  is  known  to  the  entire  West  as  one  of  the  greatest 
temperance  advocates  living.  He  was  born  in  Lexington,  Kentucky, 
May  26,  1839,  his  parents  —  Hon.  James  L.  Hickman  and  wife  — 
being  also  natives  of  Kentucky.  The  family  was  originally  from  Vir- 
ginia, and  the  colonel's  father  was  a  gallant  soldier  of  the  war  of 
1812.  Thomas  Metcalfe,  uncle  of  John  J.'s  mother,  was  governor  of 
Kentucky  from  1828  to  1832.     Col.  H.  received  hfe  earlier  education 

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882  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

in  the  city  of  his  birth,  and  after  the  death  of  his  father  (which  oc- 
cured  while  John  was  still  quite  young),  he  went  with  his  mother  (a 
refined  lady  of  the  true  American  type)  to  southern  Kentucky,  where 
at  the  early  age  of  nineteen,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Lizzie  HoUings- 
worth,  a  lady  one  yeai*  younger  than  himself,  and  every  way  worthy 
of  so  distinguished  a  husband.  In  early  married  life  he  engaged  in 
agricultural  pursuits,  afterwards  studying  law  and  medicine,  but 
abandoned  his  professional  studies  at  the  commencement  of  the  war. 
After  the  war  he  enoraored  in  the  life  and  fire  insurance  business  of 
which  he  made  an  emiuent  success,  always  commanding  the  highest 
salaries.  In  May,  1867,  he  joined  the  South  Carrollton  Lodge  No.  20, 
and  at  once  became  an  active  worker  in  the  temperance  cause.  Soon 
afterwards  he  was  commissioned  State  deputy  with  headquarters  at 
Louisville  and  did  valiant  service.  In  October,  1868,  he  was  himself 
elected  G.  W.  C.  T.,  and  quit  a  lucrative  employment  to  devote  his 
entire  time  to  the  work  of  the  order.  He  held  the  office  three  succes- 
sive years,  and  retired  with  the  gratification  of  knowing  that  under 
his  administration  the  order  had  increased  from  3,000  members 
with  sixty  working  lodges,  to  25,000  members  with  more  than  500 
working  lodges.  In  one  of  these  years,  he  organized  100  lodges  with 
a  chartered  membership  of  more  than  4,000,  besides  adding  thousands 
to  the  lodfijes  alreadv  established.  He  first  entered  the  Right  Worthy 
Grand  Lodge  at  its  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  session  in  May,  1869,  and  imme- 
diately took  rank  as  a  representative  Good  Templar,  and  was  ap- 
pointed R.  W.  Grand  Marshal.  At  Baltimore  he  was  elected  R.  W. 
O.  Counsellor,  and  unanimously  reelected  at  the  Madison  session  in 
May,  1872.  He  did  not  attend  the  London  session  in  1873,  but  was 
elected  R.  W.  G.  T.  the  next  year  at  the  Boston  session.  He  was 
reelected  in  1875,  and  yet  again  in  1876,  and  in  the  latter  year  was 
sent  as  a  **  missionary  "  to  Great  Britain,  where  he  spent  several 
months  reorganizing  the  Grand  Lodges  of  England,  Ireland,  Scot- 
land, Wales,  and  the  Isle  of  Man.  On  his  return,  he  declined  a  re- 
nomination  at  the  Portland  session,  in  1877,  and  was  succeeded  by 
Theo.  D.  Kanouse,  of  Wisconsin,  who  retired  after  two  years,  and 
•Col.  Hickman  was  again  elected  R.  W.  G.  T.  He  is  the  second  man 
who  has  been  recalled  to  that  high  office,  after  having  gone  out  of  it 
for  any  reason. 

Col.  Hickman  is  beyond  question,  the  best  known  citizen,  person- 
iilly,  of  Boone  county,  his  reputation  as  a  temperance  worker  being 
world-wide,  and  his  personal  acquaintance  being  enjoyed  by  maQV 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  883 

eminent  temperance  people  of  Europe.  His  presence  is  com- 
manding, and  is  of  that  easy  dignity  that  invariably  bespeaks  a  born 
j^ntleman.  He  is  recognized  by  all  as  one  of  the  greatest  temperance 
•orators  living,  and  he  certainly  merits  the  full  measures  of  the  distinc- 
tion to  which  he  has  attained.  His  family  consists  of  his  wife  and  two 
sons — James  K.  and  Newton  H.  ^James  K.  married  Miss  Anna 
Woods,  daughter  of  Adam  Woods,  of  Howard  comity.  Col.  Hickman 
18  now  a  citizen  of  Columbia,  and  is  as  zealous  and  untiring  in  the 
temperance  cause  as  in  the  days  of  his  earlier  manhood. 

Great  in  heait,  deed,  and  morals,  Columbia  should  be  proud  that 
he  18  numbered  with  the  other  distinguished  citizens  of  the  "Athens 
of  Missouri." 

COL.    ELI    HODGE. 

Col.  Eli  Hodge  was  born  in  Montgomery  county,  Kentucky,  Octo- 
ber 28th,  1839,  and  came  with  his  father  to  Boone  county  in  1857. 
He  followed  farming  until  1861,  when  he  cast  his  fortunes  with  the 
South,  joining  Peacher's  company  of  what  was  then  known  as  the 
Missouri  State  Guard.  He  enlisted  as  a  private  and  participated  in 
the  battles  of  Drywood  and  Lexington.  In  the  spring  of  1862 
became  adjutant  of  Col.  Gid.  Thompson's  regiment.  Was  in  the 
Lone  Jack  fight  and  at  Elkhorn,  wherfe  he  was  wounded  in  the  thigh. 
Took  part  in  the  battle  of  Prairie  Grove,  where  his  horse  was  shot. 
Was  at  Springfield,  Cape  Girardeau  and  Hartville,  and  in  fact  all  the 
battles  in  which  Gen.  Joe  Shelby  took  part.  In  the  fall  of  1864  came 
into  Boone,  Audrain  and  Howard  recruiting  for  Confederate  service. 
At  Waverly  was  placed  in  command  of  485  men  and  started  for 
Price's  army,  but  failed  to  join  it  on  the  retreat  from  Independence. 
He  went  in  a  southwest  direction.  En  route  was  attacked  by  Feder- 
als at  Cassville,  where  he  lost  150  men,  killed,  captured  and  missing. 
Finally  reached  the  Confederate  army  at  Clarksville,  Texas.  On  the 
reorganization  of  Col. D.  Williams'  regiment  he  was  made  a  lieutenant- 
colonel.  When  the  army  disbanded  he  was  at  Corsicana,  Texas. 
He  went  into  Old  Mexico,  where  he  stayed  for  three  years.  Returned 
to  Boone  county  in  1868.  In  1874  was  elected  collector.  On  assum- 
ing the  duties  of  this  oflice,  removed  to  Columbia  where  he  still  re- 
sides^ Served  two  vears  as  collector.  Was  a  member  of  the  board 
of  trustees  for  two  vears  and  a  school  director  when  the  new  school- 
house  was  contracted  for.  Col.  Hodge  was  married  September  1, 
1868,  to  Mary  L.  Craig,  a  native  of  Virginia,  but  at  the  time  of  her 
imarriage  a  resident  of  Boone  county.     They  have  had  five  children, 


884  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

four  of  whom  are  now  living.  Col.  Hodge  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
order,  a  K.  P.,  A.  O.  U.  W.  and  K.  of  H.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Baptist  church.     Mrs.  Hodge  is  a  Presbyterian. 

C.  C.  HOPPER. 

This  gentleman,  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  C.  C.  Hopper  & 
Co.,  dealers  in  groceries,  provisions,  etc.,  Columbia,  is  a  son  of  James 
E.  and  Mary  (Herrington)  Hopper,  and  was  born  in  Boone  county, 
November  13,  1842.  His  parents  were  natives  of  Madison  county, 
Kentucky,  born  in  1818  ;  his  father,  James  Hopper,  Jr.,  is  still  livii^ 
on  his  farm,  five  miles  south  of  Columbia;  his  mother  died  in  1877. 
On  his  father's  side  Mr.  Hopper  is  of  Irish  descent,  and  his  immediate 
ancestors  were  among  the  pioneers  of  this  county.  His  grandfather, 
James  Hopper,  Jr.,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  and  came  to  Boone 
about  the  year  1824. 

C.  C.  Hopper  was  raised  on  his  father's  farm  and  received  a  good 
common  school  education.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  he  started  in 
life  for  himself,  first  working  for  James  McConathy,  the  noted  Boone 
county  miller  and  distiller.  Two  years  later  he  bought  a  farm,  six 
miles  south  of  Columbia,  on  which  he  lived  some  ten  years,  when  he 
came  to  Columbia  and  engaged  in  the  grocery  and  drug  trade.  After 
following  this  business  some  three  years,  he  abandoned  it  on  account 
of  failin2r  health  and  returned  to  his  farm.  In  1879  he  a^ain  came  to 
Columbia  and,  after  runninir  a  meat  market  for  about  a  vear,  been- 
ga^jed  in  his  present  business.     He  still  owns  his  farm,  however. 

October  22,  1863,  Mr.  Hopper  niarried  Miss  Annie  Groom,  a  native 
of  Boone  county,  and  a  daughter  of  James  and  Maria  (Payne)  Groom, 
of  Kentucky.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hopper  are  the  parents  of  six  livinjr 
children,  viz.  :  Robert,  Wiliiau),  Virginia,  Ida  Lenoir,  James  Hender- 
son and  John  Bingham.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  are  both  members  of  the 
Methodist  church,  and  Mr.  H.  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Honor. 

COL.  MAJOR   HORNER,  DECEASED. 

Was  born  in  Chesterfield  county,  Virginia,  December  29,  1787. 
His  parents  were  agricultural  people,  and  he  was  reared  on  the  farm. 
In  1812  he  was  married  to  Miss  Keturah  Morgan,  near  Richmomi, 
and  soon  afterwards  moved  to  that  city,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  barrels  for  the  large  flouring  mills  there.  While  liv- 
ing in  Virginia  he  served  in  the  war  of  1812,  in  the  commissary  J^ 
partment.     In    1819    he   moved   to   Howard   county,  Missouri,  and 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  885 

bought  a  farm  eight  miles  east  of  Fayette,  and  remained  there  20 
jrearsy  next  removing  to  Randolph  county  and  locating  three  miles 
^ast  of  Huntsville,  on  which  farm  he  remained  till  1864,  when  he 
moved  to  St.  Louis.  Remaining  there  two  years,  he  ne^t  moved  to 
Columbia,  Boone  county,  where  he  remained  until  his  death.  He 
died  March  8,  1867,  while  on  a  visit  to  his  son,  James  S.  Horner, 
of  Huntsville,  being  in  his  seventy-ninth  year.  After  coming  to  Mis- 
souri he  enlisted  in  the  militia  for  the  purpose  of  repelling  some  In- 
dian attacks  in  Missouri.  He  was  colonel  of  the  militia  in  Howard 
county  for  eight  years,  and  on  leaving  was  succeeded  by  Col.  Joe 
Davis.  In  1838,  during  the  Mormon  war,  he  was  appointed  pay- 
master by  Gov.  Boggs,  with  the  rank  of  colonel.  In  paying  off  the 
troops,  after  payment  was  made,  his  clerk  informed  him  that  a  con- 
siderable amount  remained  to  his  credit  on  account  of  the  odd  cents 
not  being  paid  to  the  soldiers  on  settlement.  Col.  Horner  instantly 
directed  the  clerk  to  return  it  to  the  State  treasury,  which  was  done, 
being  the  only  instance  of  the  kind  on  record,  and  fully  exemplifying 
the  character  and  integrity  of  the  man.  He  was  also  appointed  to 
pay  off  the  Missouri  troops  after  the  Black  Hawk  war.  He  served 
one  term  in  the  State  legislature,  and  was  a  member  of  the  State 
senate  when  the  civil  war  came  up,  and  was  among  the  number  who 
repaired  to  Neosho  pursuant  to  the  call  of  Gov.  Jackson.  Though  a 
pronounced  Southern  man  in  his  feelings,  he  was  too  old  to  take  any 
active  part  in  the  war.  On  account  of  his  sympathies  he  was  com- 
pelled to  leave  his  farm  and  move  to  St.  Louis. 

Col.  Horner  became  the  father  of  ten  children,  five  sons  and  five 
daughters,  eight  of  whom  lived  to  be  grown:  Sarah  A.  E.,  Edward 
B.,  John  P.,  Lucy  J.,  Fannie  H.,  Laura  R.,  James  S.,  and  Rebecca 
J.  Only  Sarah,  John  P.  and  Lucy  J.  are  living  at  this  writing,  and 
all  reside  in  Columbia.  John  P.  Horner  is  one  of  the  most  substan- 
tial business  men  of  the  county,  and  has  held  several  important  ofli- 
cial  and  political  trusts  since  his  residence  here.  He  is  a  leading 
Democrat,  and  one  of  the  most  efficient  members  of  the  M.  E.  Church 
South.  Col.  Major  H.  was  also  an  active  member  of  the  same  church, 
having  united  therewith  when  about  twenty  years  of  age.  He  was 
likewise  a  Democrat,  prominent  in  politics,  and  so  rigid  a  temperance 
man  that  from  the  age  of  twenty-five  years,  he  never  so  much  as  tasted 
liquor  even  for  medical  purposes.  He  was  one  of  the  earliest  curators 
of  the  University,  and  assisted  in  selecting  the  site  on  which  the 
lunatic  asylum  is  located  at  Fnlton,  and  participated  in   laying  the 


886  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

comer  stone  of  that  institution.  At  one  time  he  was  one  of  the  county 
court  judges  of  Randolph  county,  which,  like  all  other  trusts,  he 
discharged  faithfully.  He  lies  buried  at  the  family  buryiug  ground 
at  Sugar  Creek  church,  in  Randolph  county,  having  passed  a  life 
of  honor  of  which  his  children  and  friends  may  ever  speak  with 
pride  and  gratitude. 

DR.    NEWTON    HOCKEN8MITH. 

Dr.  Hockensmith  is  a  son  of  Newton  and  Jane  (Palmer)  Hocken- 
smith,  and  was  born  June  18,  1846,  in  Independence,  Jackson 
county,  Missouri.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Jessamine  county, 
Kentucky.  He  first  settled  at  Richmond,  Ray  county,  Missouri, 
and  from  there  he  moved  to  Independence,  Missouri.  His  mother, 
Jane  Palmer,  was  a  daughter  of  Elder  Frank  Palmer,  a  noted 
divine,  and  a  member  of  the  board  of  curators  of  the  State  Uni- 
versity. She  was  also  a  neice  of  ex-Gov.  Robinson,  of  Kentucky. 
When  the  cholera  scourged  Independence  so  terribly  in  1852,  Dr. 
Hockensmith' s  family  were  sorely  stricken,  himself,  wife  and  one  daugh- 
ter dying  of  that  dread  disease  within  forty-eight  hours.  He  was  a 
leading  physician  of  Independence.  By  their  marriage  they  had  four 
children,  three  boys  and  one  girl,  none  of  whom  ar6  living  save  our 
subject,  who  was  the  second  child.  Dr.  Hockensmith  has  a  thorough 
education — going  first  to  the  Dover  High  School,  Liberty  High  School, 
Missouri;  Westminster  College  at  Fulton,  Missouri,  and  at  the  Ken- 
tucky University,  Lexington,  Kentucky.  While  at  Lexington  he 
studied  for  the  ministry,  and  was  ordained  to  preach  in  the  Christian 
Church  at  Independence,  Missouri.  He  preached  occasionally  at 
Kansas  City,  but  his  first  regular  charge  was  at  Plattsburg,  Missouri, 
where  he  remained  two  years.  He  then  came  to  Columbia,  and  did 
evangelical  work  in  Boone,  Callaway  and  Howard  counties,  practicing 
dentistry  when  not  actively  engaged  in  his  nobler  work.  While  liv- 
ing at  Independence  he  studied  medicine  under  Dr.  Bryant,  father  of 
President  George  S.  Bryant,  of  Chrisitian  College,  Columbia,  Mis- 
souri. He  attended  one  session  of  the  medical  department  of  the 
State  University  in  1873  and  1874,  and  has  been  practicing  dentistry 
for  three  years  in  Columbia.  He  enjoys  a  large  and  remunerative 
practice,  and  is  a  gentleman  in  the  fullest  sense.  He  was  married 
November  1,  1866,  to  Miss  Jennie,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Martha 
(Jefiries)  Watson,  of  Callaway  county,  Missouri.  By  this  union  they 
have  had  four  children,  two  boys  and  two  girls.     Frank  (deceased), 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  887 

owena,  Faunie  and  Watsou.  He  is  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  Chris- 
an  Church  at  Columbia,  and  is  also  president  of  the  board  of  county 
>mmi8sioner8  of  Boone  county. 

PROF.    WILLIAM   P.  HURT. 

Prof.  William  P.  Hurt  is  a  native  of  Montgomery  county,  Ken- 
icky,  where  he  was  born  November  22,  1824.  His  parents,  John 
.  and  Elizabeth  (Pebworth)  Hurt,  moved  to  Sangamon  county > 
linois,  in  1839,  but  did  not  remain  there  but  one  year,  when  they 
turned  to  Montgomery  county,  Kentucky,  where  the  subject  of  this 
:etch  received  such  education  as  the  common  school  could  impart, 
t  the  age  of  eighteen  he  taught  school  in  Clark  county,  Kentucky. 
i  1844-45,  attended  school  at  the  Highland  Institute,  Mount  Ster- 
ig,  Kentucky.  In  1846  he  resumed  teaching  in  his  native  county. 
I  the  summer  of  that  year  he  enlisted  in  the  Mexican  war,  in  Com- 
iny  I,  Second  regiment,  Kentucky  volunteers.  He  volunteered  as 
private,  but  was  elected  a  sergeant.  Was  in  the  battle  of  Buena 
ista,  and  was  mustered  out  of  service,  June  9th,  1847,  at  New  Or- 
ans.  He  returned  to  his  native  county  and  resumed  teaching,  con- 
Quing  in  this  business  until  1849.     He  was  married  June  9th,  1849, 

>  Miss  Kitty  Ann,  daughter  of  David  and  Rebecca  (Jackson)  Bru- 
in. They  have  had  seven  children,  two  sons  and  five  daughters, 
^e  taught  school  in  his  native  county  until  1850,  when  he  moved  to 
reencastle,  Indiana,  where  he  taught  one  year.  Returning  to 
[ontgomery  county,  he  continued  to  teach  until  1852,  when  he 
lOved  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  and  settled  near  Hallsville.  His 
ther-in-law,  David  Bruton,  accompanied  him.  He  taught  in  the 
mntry  until  the  year  following,  when  he  was  engaged  as  professor 
r  mathematics  in  Christian  College,  Columbia,  Missouri.  He  held 
lis  position  for  two  years.  This  was  during  the  presidency  of  John 
.  Williams.  In  1855  he  was  engaged  as  principal  of  Prairie  Insti- 
ite,  Audrain  county,  Missouri,  which  position  he  held  for  two  years. 
I  1857  returned  to  Christian  College,  and  taught  mathematics  for 
le  year,  under  President  Wilkes.  From  1858  to  1877,  taught  under 
resident  Rogers.  He  was  also  a  partner  with  the  president  from 
J71  to  1876.  In  1878,  was  associated  with  President  Bryant  in  con- 
Licting  the  institution.  At  the  close  of  the  collegiate  year  he  retired, 
id  has  not  taught  any  since.     He  recently  traded  his  town  property 

►  F.  Wilcox,  for  a  farm  five  miles  east  of  Columbia. 


888  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

DR.    PAUL   HUBBARD. 

Dr.  Paul  Hubbard,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  the  son  of  Moses 
and  Abigail  (Titus)  Hubbard,  of  Schoharie  county,  New  York,  where 
he  was  born,  August  14th,   1818.     He  was  educated  in  his  native 
county, attending  Schoharie  Academy, afterwards  graduating  at  the  med- 
ical college  of  Castleton,  Vermont.     He  practiced  his.profession  in 
Windham  Center,  New  York,  for  ten  years,  afterwards  at  Albany, 
New  York,  for  a  short  period.     November  24th,  1841,  he  was  married 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  M.,  daughter  of  Peter  Dominick.     By  this  marriage 
they  had  three  children,  two  sons  and  one  daughter:  Lorenzo  Dona- 
inick,  who  died  at  the  age  of  nine  years,  and  Socrates,  now  an  officer 
in  the  United  States  navy,  with  commission  of  lieutenant-commander. 
His  vessel  is  connected  with  the  South  American  fleet.     He  entered 
the  navy  in  1861  and  is  esteemed  one  of  the  best  educated  and  most 
competent  officers  in  the  service.  He  was  born  March  18th,  1844.  Min- 
nie E.,  their  only  daughter,  was  born  November  24th,  1849.     She  was 
married,  November  29th,  1871,  to  Paul  Waples,  and  is  now  living  in 
Sherman,  Texas.     The  first   wife    having  died  June  8th,  1879,  Dr. 
Hubbard  was  again  married  August  25th,    1880,  to  Mrs.  Lucy  B. 
Shields   (nee  Field),  widow  of  William  C.   Shields,  formerly  profes- 
sor of    ancient    languages  in  the   Missouri    State    University.    Dr. 
Hubbard  came  to  Columbia  in   the  fall  of  1854,  having  previously 
spent  several  years  in   California,  where  he  was  assistant  surgeon  of 
the  marine  hospital,  his  brother,  Lorenzo,  being  resident  surgeon.    On 
arriving  in   Columbia   he  commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession 
—  dentistry  —  which  he  has  foUowed  most  of  the  time  since.     He  ac- 
quired the  theoretical  part  of  his  profession  at  Philadelphia  Dental 
College,  in  Pliiladelphia,  Pennsylvania,  but  long  practice  and  careful 
study  has  added    greatly  to  his  skill   as   a  practitioner,    and  he  has 
now  perhaps  no  superior  in  the  country.     He  was  military  surgeon 
for  three  years  during  the  war,  with  headquarters  at  Columbia;  was 
also  surgeon  of  Gen.  J.  B.  Douglass'   command.     He  was  State  Sen- 
ator  in    1867  and    1868.     While    a    member   of  the    legislature  he 
introduced    the   bill    providing    for    the    establishment   of  a  normal 
department  in  connection  with  the  State  University  ;  also  a  bill  pro- 
viding for  the  repairing  of  the  president's  mansion  and  the  University 
building,  and,  with  Mr.  Spaunhorst,  representative  from  St.  Louis, 
drafted  and  put  through  a  bill  requiring  that  one  and  three-fourths  of 
seventy-live  per  cent  of  the  State  revenue  be  appropriated  to  the  Uui- 


HI8TOBY   or   BOONE   COUNTY.  889 

versity.  The  bill  passed  and  the  University  received  from  $10,000 
to  $12,000  a  year.  Dr.  Hubbard  was  a  curator  of  the  University 
from  1867  to  1877,  and  was  business  agent  of  the  institution  from 
1871  to  1877.  Has  held  the  position  of  United  States  pension  sur- 
geon since  the  war,  but  resigned  because  it  interfered  with  his  profes- 
sional duties.  He  was  city  recorder  in  1857,  or  1858.  Before 
coming  to  Missouri,  was  coroner  of  Green  county.  New  York,  for 
four  years  ;  also  school  commissioner  for  the  town  of  Wright,  Schoharie 
county.  New  York.  In  1880  he  bought  a  farm  of  fifty  acres  in  the 
suburbs  of  Columbia,  which  he  has  improved  until  it  is  now  one 
of  the  handsomest  homesteads  in  Boone  county.  He  has  an  office 
for  the  practice  of  dentistry  at  his  home,  where  he  is  prepared  to 
do  all  kinds  of  work  in  his  line. 

J.    p.    HUBBELL. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Georgetown,  Kentucky,  June 
4th,  1825.  He  moved  with  his  father,  Capt.  W.  D.  Hubbell,  to 
Howard  county  in  1839.  Captain  Hubbell  was  an  old  steamboat 
man,  having  gone  on  the  river  as  early  as  1818.  Was  clerk  of  the 
"first  steamer  that  ever  passed  up  the  Mississippi  river  above  Old 
Franklin.  This  was  in  1819.  In  1841  J.  P.  Hubbell  went  to  Lib- 
erty, Missouri.  In  1849  he  went,  into  business  as  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Hubbell  &  Brothers,  and  continued  in  this  business  until  the 
war  broke  out.  He  then  moved  to  Ray  county,  where  he  remained 
until  the  war  closed,  taking  no  part  in  the  struggle.  In  1865  he 
went  to  Carrollton,  Illinois,  where  he  remained  until  the  fall  of  1868, 
when  he  came  to  Columbia,  Missouri,  where  he  has  resided  ever 
since,  engaging  in  the  drug,  livery  and  dry  goods  business.  In  1881, 
became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hubbell,  White  &  Co.  Mr.  Hubbell 
was  married  November  20th,  1849,  to  Miss  Ann  Maria,  daughter  of 
Thomas  M.  Morton,  a  native  of  Kentucky.  The  town  of  Morton, 
Ray  county,  Missouri,  was  named  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Hubbell.  They 
have  three  daughters  and  two  sons  living.  Two  of  the  daughters  are 
graduates  of  Christian  College.  Anna  M.  is  the  wife  of  J.  B.  John- 
son, of  St.  Joseph,  Missouri.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hubbell  are  members  of 
the  Christian  Church.  Finley  D.,  a  promising  youth  is  with  his 
father  in  the  store,  ^v.  Hubbell  is  an  active  business  man,  and  not- 
withstanding some  bad  luck  —  he  had  a  security  debt  of  $5,000  to 
pay  about  the  close  of  the  war  — has  prospered  in  all  his  undertak- 
ings. 


890  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

LAFAYETTE   HUME. 

Lafayette  Hume,  for  many  years  a  prominent  business  man  and 
farmer  of  Boone  county,  is  the  son  of  Lewis  and  Henrietta^  McBain) 
Hume,  of  Madison  county,  Kentucky.     They  came   to  Missouri  in 
1819  and  settled  six  miles  south  of  Columbia,  on  the  Providence  road. 
He  died  December  24th,  1874,  aged  sixty-nine  years.     He  is  buried 
on  the  home  place.     Mrs.  Hume  is  a  native  of  Maryland.     She  is 
now  living,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two.     Lafayette  Hume  was  bom  in 
Boone  county,  July  18th,  1834,  and  was  reared  on  the  farm  and  edu- 
cated at  the  common  schools,  attending  what  was  then  known  as  the 
Pace  district  school,  six  miles  south  of  Columbia.     He  is  one  of  a 
family  of  six  children,  five  sons  and  one  daughter.     He  was  married. 
May  26th,  1857,  to  Miss  Lemira  Ann,  daughter  of  G.  L.  and  Sallie 
(Sims)  Hickam.     Six  children  have  been  born  to  them,  five  sons  and 
one   daughter.     Mr.    Hume   commenced   business   in   Columbia,  on 
Court-house  street,  in  1849,  dealing  in  dry  goods  and  general  mer- 
chandise.    He  continued  in  this  business  for  sixteen  years.     During 
this  period  he  passed  safely  through  several  panics  that  brought  dis- 
aster and  ruin  to  thousands.     The  firm  consisted  of  Lafayette,  Reuben 
and  James  R.  Hume,  brothers  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch.     In  the 
midst  of  the  war  they  closed  out  their  business.     At  the  close  of  the 
war,  Mr.  Hume,  in  company  with  Allen  Park,  deceased,  opened  a 
store  under  the  firm  name  of  Hume  &  Park,  which  they  continued 
for  three  or  four  years.     In  1868  he  dissolved  partnership  with  Mr. 
Park  and  opened  a  general  grocery  house  for  himself,  conducting  this 
business  until  1876,  when  he  took  in  W.  T.  Shock  and  George  W. 
Henderson  as  partners,  the  firm  name  being  Henderson,  Shock  &  Co. 
Continued  with  this  firm  four  years,  then  returned  to  his  old  stand  on 
Court-house  street,  where  he  opened  a  grocery-store  under  the  firm 
name  of  Hume  &  Brother.     His  extensive  acquaintance  and  popularity 
as  a  business  man  has  already  brought  to  the  new  firm  a  large  and 
profitable  trade.     The  subject  of  this  sketch  has  been  in  business  for 
thirty-three  years  and  has  never  failed  nor  seen  the  day  that  he  could 
not  satisfy  all  business  demands  against  him,  dollar  for  dollar.     For 
the  last  twenty-two  years  he  has  owned  several  fine  farms,  which  he 
runs  in  connection  with  his  other  business.     The  home  place,  upon 
which  his  family  now  resides,  contains  320  acres.     It  is  situated  two 
miles  west  of  Columbia.     He  owns  another  farm  of  235  acres,  four 
and  one-half  miles  southwest  of  Columbia.     The  third  farm,  consist- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  8^1 

ing  of  160  acres,  is  located  five  and  one-half  miles  southeast  of  Co- 
lumbia, making  in  all  715  acres  of  excellent  land,  well  improved  and 
in  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  Mr.  Hume  is  an  Odd  Fellow  and  a 
member  of  the  Christian  church.  Mrs.  Hume  and  one  son,  George, 
are  also  members  of  the  same  church.  Mr.  Hume  has  been  town 
tmstee  for  ten  years,  and  treasurer  of  his  lodge  for  four  or  five  years. 
He  was  in  the  Columbia  and  Centralia  stage  at  the  time  of  its  capture 
by  Bill  Anderson,  on  the  day  of  the  massacre,  of  which  he  was  an 
eye-witness.  There  were  with  him  at  the  time  Maj.  Rollins,  James 
Waugh,  Boyle  Gordon  and  several  others  from  Columbia.  He  lost 
one  hundred  and  forty  dollars  in  cash  and  an  overcoat  valued  at  forty 
dollars. 

JOSEPH   JAMES   lOLEHART. 

Prof.  Joseph  J.  Iglehart,  principal  of  the  Columbia  public  school,  is 
the  son  of  Dr.  Joseph  and  Mary  (Welling)  Iglehart,  and  was  born 
near  Clarksville,  Howard  county,  Maryland,  August  5, 1841.  He  was 
raised  in  his  native  county,  and  after  taking  a  full  course  at  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  his  neighborhood,  entered  White  Hall  Academy,  near 
Harrisburg,  Cumberland  county,  Pennsylvania,  intending  to  complete  a 
course  of  studies  at  Dickinson  College,  preparatory  to  entering  upon 
the  duties  of  his  medical  profession,  but  the  breaking  out  of  the  war 
changed  all  his  plans  for  the  future.  From  1865  to  1867  he  taught 
the  public  school  in  his  native  district.  In  1867  he  emigrated  to  the 
West.  Spent  one  year  teaching  in  Illinois  and  one  in  Iowa.  He  came 
to  Missouri  in  1869,  and  settled  in  Washington,  Franklin  county, 
where  he  held  the  position  of  principal  of  the  public  schools  for 
two  years,  during  which  time,  and  mainly  tKrough  his  individual  ef- 
forts, he  influenced  the  building  of  one  of  the  finest  public  school  edi- 
fices in  the  State.  In  1873  he  was  appointed  to  the  position  of  professor 
of  English  in  the  German  Institute  of  St.  Louis,  a  position  previously 
occupied  by  the  famous  Gen.  Franz  Sigel.  In  1874  he  moved  to 
Linn  county,  where  he  followed  teaching  until  1876,  when  he  received 
the  appointment  of  principal  of  Prairie  high  school  of  Monroe  county. 
In  1879  he  took  charge  of  the  Ashland  public  school,  in  Boone  county, 
Missouri,  and  here,  as  at  all  other  points,  he  met  with  excellent  suc- 
cess. In  1880  he  was  elected  principal  of  Columbia  public  school, 
which  position  he  has  held  ever  since.  Of  his  management,  since 
taking  charge  of  this  school,  there  has  been  no  complaint,  but  much 
praise.  He  is  certainly  one  of  the  most  popular  teachers  that  ever 
had  charge  of  the  Columbia  public  school,  and  has  given  a  lively  im- 


^92  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

petiis  to  the  cause  of  public  instruction  within  the  sphere  of  his  own 
labors.  Mr.  Iglehart  was  married  at  Washington,  Missouri,  in  1871, 
to  Miss  Sue,  daughter  of  Jilson  and  Eveline  Payne.  They  have  two 
daughters.  May  and  Kittie.  Mrs.  Iglehart  is  also  an  excellent  teacher. 
She  has  met  with  great  success  in  the  primary  department.  She  is 
now  assistant  in  the  Columbia  public  school.  Prof.  Iglehart  ranks 
very  high  as  an  inventor,  having  originated  and  patented  a  lock  at- 
tachment for  the  school  desk,  piano  tops,  etc.  A  company  has  been 
organized  and  a  manufactory  put  in  operation  at  New  Haven,  Counec- 
ticut,  and  agents  put  on  the  road  for  the  purpose  of  introducing  this 
invention  into  all  parts  of  the  country.  Prof.  Iglehart  is  preparing  a 
grammar  which  mil  be  ready  for  publication  in  1883. 

JAMES    E.    JOHNSON. 

James  E.  Johnson,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Entrekin)  John- 
son, was  born  in  Scott  county,  Kentucky,  January  26,  1809.  He  was 
educated  at  the  common  schools  of  the  county.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  he  entered  an  apprentice  under  Job  Stevenson  to  learn  the 
saddle  and  harness  maker's  trade.  Aft«r  finishing  his  trade  he  came 
to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  October  22, 1833.  The  year  following  he 
worked  for  George  Harrison  at  Franklin,  Howard  county,  Missouri. 
Coming  back  to  Columbia,  he  was  employed  to  work  in  James  Rich- 
ardson's shop  and  continued  with  him  for  eight  years.  In  the  summer 
of  1841  he  started  a  shop  of  his  own,  and  has  worked  continuously  at 
his  trade  ever  since,  except  a  portion  of  the  year  1850,  spent  in  Cali- 
fornia. At  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he  owned  several  slaves. 
Their  loss  proved  a  sevefe  blow  to  him  financially.  Mr.  Johnson  was 
married,  December  2,  1841,  to  Miss  Sallie,  daughter  of  Judge  Alex- 
ander and  Ann  (Simpson)  Persinger.  Six  children  were  born  of 
this  marriage,  three  sons  and  three  daughters.  Mrs.  Johnson  died 
August  27,  1870,  and  is  buried  in  the  Columbia  cemetery.  Mr.  John- 
son has  an  excellent  business,  and  by  industry  and  good  management 
he  has  succeeded  in  accumulating  considerable  property,  mostly  real 
estate,  situated  in  Columbia.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Christian 
church.     His  children  are  also  members  of  the  same  church. 

MAXIMILIAN    G.    KERN. 

Prof.  Kern  is  a  native  of  Stuttgart,  Germany,  and  was  born  in  1825. 
His  father,  Prof.  Christ.ian  G.  Kern,  occupied  the  chair  of  theology 
in  the  University  of  Wurtemburg.     Maximilian  G.  was  educated  at 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  89S 

the   BotaDical  Gardens  and   University  of  Tubingen,    and  was  em- 
ployed in  the  King's  gardens  and  conservatories  near  Stuttgart  for 
two  years.    He  then  travelled  through  Belgium,  Holland,  Germany,  and 
also  went  to  France,  and  was  three  years  in  the  **  Garden  of  Plants,"  in 
Paris,  St.  Louis  and  Versailles.     During  the  revolution  of  1848,  he 
and  some  friends  were  in  Versailles  ;  and  hearing  the  cannonading  at 
Paris,  they  went  up  into  that  city  and  were  on  the  streets  during  the 
fighting  between  the  soldiers  and  communists,  having  to  remain  in 
the  city  nineteen  hours  before  they  got  out  again.     In  July,  1848,  he 
came  to  America,  landing  at  New  York  City,  where  he  took  charge 
of  the  grounds  and  gardens  of  a  wealthy  merchant,  with  whom  he 
remained  nine  months.     Going  next  to  Cincinnati,  he  remained  four 
years  engaged  in    horticulture  and  landscape   gardening.     Here    he 
learned  the  English  language,  and  in  1853,  published  a  book  on  land- 
scape gardening.     He  next  accepted  a  position  to  teach  that  subject 
for  the  faculty  of  Farmers'  College,  near  Cincinnati,  where  he  remained 
till,  /in  1857,  he  came  West,  and  located  at  Alton,  Illinois,  and  open- 
ed a  fruit  farm  and   nursery  in  1858.     For  several  years  succeeding 
his  services  were  called  into  requisition  in  decorating  the  floral  hall 
of  the  St.  Louis  Fair.     He  superintended  the  decoration  of  the  Sani- 
tary Fair  in  St.  Louis  in  1864,  and  drew  a  complimentary  testimo- 
nial from    Gen.    Rosencrans,  the  commandant  of  that  department. 
He   was    then    engaged  by   the    commissioners    of   Lafayette  Park 
to  take  charge  of  that  resort.     He  continued  to  reside  at  the  park  for 
several  years,  from  1864,  and  designed  the  present  ornamentation  and 
improvements  of  that   beautiful    place.      This  secured    him  the  ap- 
pointment  by  Mayor  Brown  of  general   superintendent   of   parks, 
which  position  he  held  four  years.     He  designed  the  grounds  of  Ben- 
ton park,  Laclede  park,  Washington  square,  Missouri  park,  St.  Louis 
place  and  Hyde  park.     Next  he  was  appointed  general  superintend- 
ent of  Forest  park,  which  he  held  two  years,  laying  out  the  grounds 
of  that  enchanting   retreat.      After  this  he  laid  out  two  cemeteries 
in  St.  Louis  and  one  at  Chattanooga,  Tennessee.     He  also  did  deco- 
ration work  of  a  similar  nature  at  Rome,  Atlanta,  Columbus  and  other 
places  in  the  South.     In  1881  Prof.  Kern  came  to  Columbia,  and  has 
since  that  time  been  connected,  in  his  professional  capacity,  with  the 
State  University.     H0  was  married  in  Cincinnati,  in  1852,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Pinger.     They  have  had  eight  children,  four  of  whom,  Min- 
nie, Julia,  Ida  and  May,  are  living,  and  four,  Ernest,  David,  Free- 


894  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

man  and  Henrietta,  are  deceased.     The  surviving  children  are  all  at 
home,  and  the  three  youngest  attend  the  University. 

SIMEON    BEAUFORD    KIRTLEY. 

S.  B.  Kirtley,  one  of  Columbia's  most  popular  and  enterprising 
merchants,  is  the  only  son  of  Wm.  Cave  and  Letitia  Gray  Kirtley, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Givens,  both  natives  of  Kentucky.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Audrain  county,  Missouri,  and 
was  reared  to  manhood  in  that  county,  receiving  his  education  at 
Mexico  and  the  university  of  Kentucky.  Leaving  college  at  the  age 
of  twenty-one,  he  entered  the  Savings  bank  at  Mexico,  Missouri,  as 
clerk  and  book-keeper.  He  remained  in  this  business  for  about  two 
years.  In  the  fall  of  1874  he  came  to  Columbia,  Missouri,  and 
opened  a  store  for  the  sale  of  books,  stationery  and  notions.  He 
also  acted  as  general  agent  for  the  Singer  Sewing  Machine  Company 
for  Boone  county,  which  position  he  held  for  about  two  years,  selling 
durino:  this  time  over  twelve  thousand  dollars'  worth  of  machines. 
His  business  increased  rapidly,  necessitating  his  removal  to  a  larger 
building.  He  now  occupies  two  store  rooms  on  University  street, 
using  one  of  the  upper  apartments  for  manufacturing  picture  frames, 
etc.,  having  a  large  trade  in  this  line  as  well  as  in  the  other  special- 
ties of  his  business.  He  has  one  of  the  largest  book  stores  in  Cen- 
tral Missouri,  selling  by  wholesale  and  retail.  In  connection  with 
books,  pictures  and  notions,  he  opened  a  large  stock  of  musical  in- 
struments in  1878,  including  some  of  the  finest  pianos  and  organs 
^ver  sold  in  the  Western  market.  Among  these  may  be  mentioned 
the  following  pianos:  —  Decker  Brothers,  Haines  Brothers,  Fischer, 
Chickering,  Mathushek  and  Story  &  Camp.  His  organs  are  manu- 
factured by  Estey  and  Story  &  Camp.  He  does  a  large  business  in 
the  above  line,  selling  all  over  Boone  and  the  adjoining  counties. 
He  has  all  the  popular  sheet  music,  and  deals  in  all  kinds  of  mu- 
sical repairs.  One  of  the  lower  store  rooms  is  devoted  to  the  sale 
of  books,  the  other  to  the  sale  of  musical  instruments,  Mr.  Kirtley 
is  the  youngest  child  and  only  son  of  a  family  of  six  children,  two  of 
whom  died  in  infancy.  William  C.  Kirtley,  father  of  S.  B.  Kirtley, 
moved  from  Harrison  county,  Kentucky,  to  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
in  November,  1845.  In  April,  1847,  he  removed  to  Audrain  county, 
where  he  has  resided  ever  since.  The  subject  hereof  is  thoroughly 
identified  with  the  best  interests  of  his  town  and  county. 


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HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTT.  895 


HON.    J.    W.    KNEISLEY. 


James  William  Kneisley  was  born  in  Shenandoah  county,  Virginia, 
A.pril  16,  1825,  and  there  grew  to  manhood,  receiving  his  education 
At  the  common  schools  and  at  Strasburg  academy.  In  1854  he  re- 
moved to  Marion  county,  Missouri,  locating  at  Palmyra.  This  was 
his  home  until  1866,  when  he  removed  to  Jefferson  City,  and  from 
thence  to  Columbia  about  the  close  of  the  year  1867,  where  he  has 
since  resided.  Capt.  Kneisley' s  chief  occupation  in  life  has  been 
that  of  a  carpenter  and  builder.  He  was  apprenticed  to  the  carpen- 
ter's trade  in  early  life,  when  possessed  of  ample  means,  and  at  a 
time  when  it  was  not  dreamed  that  a  resort  to  it  would  ever  become 
necessary.     He  is  regarded  as  a  thoroughly  excellent  workman. 

In  the  summer  of  1861,  upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  between 
the  States,  Capt.  Kneisley  espoused  the  cause  of  the  South,  and 
enlisted  in  the  Missouri  State  Guard,  as  captain  of  **  Kneisley's  Bat- 
tery," which  he  commanded  until  the  close  of  hostilities,  although 
he  was  in  the  State  of  Illinois,  on  important  private  business,  when 
his  commander.  Gen.  E.  Kirby  Smith,  surrendered.  During  his 
term  of  service  the  captain  participated  in  the  engagements  at  Mon- 
roe City,  Athens,  Shelbina  and  Lexington,  Missouri ;  Elk  Horn 
(Pea  Ridge)  and  Prairie  Grove,  Arkansas;  Mansfield  and  Pleasant 
Hill,  Louisiana.  In  these  actions  he  was  present  with  his  battery. 
On  Price's  last  raid  into  Missouri,  in  the  fall  of  1864,  he  was  present  as 
a  volunteer  in  the  most  important  engagements.  In  the  early  spring 
of  1865  he  made  his  wav  from  his  command,  then  in  Southern  Ar- 
kansas,  to  Illinois,  to  care  for  his  children  and  other  private  affairs, 
and  after  a  perilous  and  adventurous  journey  worthy  of  record  in  a 
separate  volume,  reached  his  destination  in  safety.  As  before  stated, 
he  was  in  Illinois  when  hostilities  entirely  ceased. 

President  Buchanan  appoined  Capt.  Kneisley  to  be  postmaster  at 
Palmyra,  and  he  held  that  position  upon  the  outbreak  of  the  war.  In 
1878  he  was  elected  representative  from  this  county  to  the  State  Legis- 
lature, and  in  1880  was  reelected,  running  on  the  Democratic  ticket 
€ach  time.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  the  State  University, 
and  has  done  a  great  deal  of  valuable  work  for  that  important  institu- 
tion. 

Capt.  K.  has  been  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Miss  Sophia 
McCloud,  to  whom  he  was  married  January  11,  1848.  She  died  Sep- 
tember 25, 1864.     His  second  marriage  was  to  Mrs.  Martha  Phelps,  and 


896  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

occurred  April  13,  1867.     He  is  the  father  of  six  children,  three  of 
whom  have  attained  maturity.     In  politics  the  captain  is  a  Democrat ; 
in  religion  a  Presbyterian  ;  in  all  things  honorable  and  upright. 

SAMUEL  SPAHR  LAWS,  A.  B.,  A.  M.,  M.  D.,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 

Dr.  Laws,  president  of  the  Missouri  State  University,  is  a  descend- 
ant of  one  of  two  brothers,  who  came  over  from  England  in  1672, 
and  settled  in  Maryland.  He  is  a  native  of  the  Old  Dominion  where 
he  received  the  rudiments  of  an  education  in  the  *'01dfield  school.'* 
He  afterwards  entered  Miami  University,  where  he  graduated  valedic- 
torian of  his  class.  Entering  Prhiceton  Seminary,  he  there  pursued 
his  theological  studies  for  three  years,  completing  the  course  and 
receiving  the  first  honors  "of  his  class.  He  began  his  ministerial 
career  in  St.  Louis,  but  was  soon  called  to  the  church  in  Lexington, 
Missouri,  but  before  accepting  this  charge,  he  was  elected  president  of 
Westminster  College,  Fulton,  Missouri,  and  at  once  assum,ed  the 
duties  and  responsibilities  of  that  position.  His  administration  was 
prosperous  and  highly  satisfactory  to  the  patrons  of  that  institution. 
When  the  late  civil  war  broke  out  he  resigned,  and  applied  himself  to 
the  quiet  and  congenial  task  of  translating  Aristotle.  While  in  the 
midst  of  his  labors,  he  was  arrested,  and  taken  to  prison  by  the  Union 
authorities,  on  account  of  his  Southern  proclivities.  After  being 
confined  in  several  prisons,  and  sufiering  great  hardships,  he  was 
finally  released  on  parole,  to  remain  in  the  loyal  States,  Canada  and 
Europe,  which  latter  country  he  visited,  remaining  some  time,  princi- 
pally at  Paris,  availing  hinself  of  this  opportunity  of  acquiring  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  the  French  language.  He  returned  to  the 
United  States  while  the  war  was  yet  in  progress,  landing  in  New 
York,  where  he  had  relatives  in  business.  He  was  there  made  vice- 
president  of  the  Gold  Exchange,  which  oflSce  he  filled  very  acceptably. 
The  institution  prospered  so  remarkably  under  his  management  that 
the  directory  presented  him  with  a  handsome  testimonial,  and  a  cer- 
tificate of  membership,  a  compliment  never  conferred  upon  another. 
After  resigning  his  oflice  at  the  Gold  Exchange,  Dr.  Laws  perfected 
an  instrument  for  telegraphing  the  variations  in  the  prices  of  gold  and 
stocks,  which  is  now  extensively  used  at  home  and  abroad.  By  this 
invention  ten  thousand  instruments  can  be  simultaneously  operated, 
and  the  value  of  coin  and  stocks  communicated  at  the  same  moment  to 
each  business  house  in  the  city  where  used.  During  his  stay  in  New 
York  City,  he  availed  himself  of  the  opportunities  there  offered  for 


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scientific  and  literary  research,  at  the  same  time  pursuing  courses  of 
professional  study,  graduating  in  both  law  and  medicine.     He  is  at 
present  a  member  of  the  New  York  bar.     His  medical  thesis  attracted 
J^o  little  attention,  and  became  the  theme  of  much  favorable  comment. 
I^r.  Laws  is  a  man  of  medium  height,  solidly  built,  and  is  in  the  prime- 
of  fresh,  vigorous  manhood.     The  nervous,   sanguine  temperament 
predominates  in  his  disposition,  but  is  well  blended  with  the  bilious 
^Od  phlegmatic,  giving  him  great  vitality  of  action  and  thought.     This 
Combination  of  forces  has  given  Dr.  Laws  a  mind  thoroughly  poised, 
Which  avoids  harshness  in  judgment,  and  extremes  in  action  ;  works 
calnaily  and   systematically,  and  is  capable  of  great   excitement,  on 
Supreme  occasions.     He  has  all  those  qualities  that  thoroughly  indi- 
vidualize a  man,  and  is  a  most  decided  type  of  himself.     While  ambi- 
tious of  distinction  and  approval,  he  is  far  too  manly  a  man  to  desire 
them  at  the  expense  of  his  own  convictions  of  right  and  truth,  and  is 
capable  of  the  most  heroic  self-sacrifice  for  an  opinion,  which  has  the 
sanction   of  his  own   deliberate  judgment.     He  is  one  of  the  best 
informed  men  of  the  age,  having  accumulated  vast  stores  of  informa- 
tion in  all  departments  of  knowledge,  and  is  ever  ready  with  facts  and 
dates,  no  matter  what  the  subject  under  consideration;  his  memory 
being  simply  prodigious.     As  a  general  scholar.  President  Laws  has 
no  superior  in  the   West,  and   this  is  the  more  notable  as  his  h.ibit 
of  exhaustive   study   makes  every  so-called   general   topic    special. 
His  travels  in  Europe  gave  him  the  advantage  of  intercourse  with 
the  ripest  scholarship  of  that  continent,  and  he  always  availed  himself 
of  every  opportunity  to  verify  his  facts  and  statements  by  undisputed 
authority.     As  a  metaphysician.  Dr.  Laws  stands  in  the  front  rank  of 
American  minds ;  his  rare   attainments  and   exceptional   talents  are 
universally  conceded  ;  his  features  express  great  executive  ability  and 
as  acquaintance  ripens  the  c(^nviction  deepens  that,  as  the  head  of 
some  great  corporation,  or  as  chairman  of  a  committee  on  home  or 
foreign  affairs,  he  would  have  acquitted  himself  with  no  less  distinc- 
tion than  in  his  present  most  honorable  and  responsible  office.     His 
position  at  the  head  of  our  State  University  is,  without  controversy, 
the  most  important  position  in  the  commonwealth,  and  Missouri  is  to 
be  congratulated  that  here,  where  the  largest  measures  of  ability, 
scholarship  and  executive  talent  are  demanded,  they  are  so  eminently 
combined.     Before    the    Missouri    legislature,    in    1877,   Dr.    Laws 
pointed  out  the  fact,  which  was  long  lost  sight  of,  that  the  University 
was  an  integral  part  of  the,  public  school  organization,  established  by 
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law  and  imbedded  in  the  sucoessive  constitutions  of  the  State.  It 
was  one  of  the  fundamental  conditions  of  Missouri's  admission  to 
the  Union,  that  her  general  assembly  should  take  measures  for  the 
improvement  of  public  lands  for  the  support  of  a  university.  For 
this  service  to  the  State,  Dr.  Xiaws  merits  the  thanks  of  all  lovers  of 
a  generous  system  of  education.  Strength  and  gentleness  are  by  no 
means  disassociated  in  PresidenULaws.  He  is  a  thorough  gentleman 
in  all  the  relations  of  life,  and  one  every  way  worthy  to  be  intrusted 
-with  the  formation  of  manners  as  well  as  mind.  His  personal  exam- 
ple and  influence  cannot  but  be  advantageous  to  those  who  enjoy  the 
benefit  of  association  with  him,  for  by  no  means  the  least  of  his  gifts 
is  the  transcendent  power  of  personal  quality.  The  firmness  and  can- 
dor displayed  by  Dr.  Laws  in  the  late  controversy  growing  out  of 
his  address  delivered  before  the  Press  Association,  at  St.  Joseph, 
Missouri,  is  not  only  characteristic  of  the  man,  but  creditable  to  his 
judgment  and  manhood.  Standing  upon  constitutional  grounds,  and 
speaking  for  the  millions  he  represented,  and  of  a  people  whom  it  had 
become  popular  and  convenient  to  malign  and  ridicule,  he  but  uttered 
a  truth  as  old  as  the  constitution  itseilf.  He  simply  affirmed  that, 
prior  to  the  civil  war,  according  to  the  compact  entered  into  by  the 
several  States  composing  the  Federal  Union,  the  question  of  secession 
was  an  open  one,  having  two  sides  ;  that  in  fighting  for  the.  sovereignty 
of  the  States,  as  guaranteed  to  him  and  his  people  in  the  fundamental 
law  of  the  land.  Gen.  Lee  was  no  more  a  traitor  in  the  eyes  of  law  and 
justice  than  was  Gen.  Washington,  the  hero  of  American  independence. 
This  address,  which  was  simply  a  philosophical,  dispassionate  review  of 
the  question  of  State's  rights,  called  down  upon  the  devoted  head  of 
Dr.  Laws  the  fiercest  wrath  of  those  who  snuff  treason  at  the  bare  men- 
tion of  State's  rights.  They  have  railed  at  the  president  for  months, 
showing  by  their  zealous  rage  that  the  address  was  all  the  doctor 
intended  it  should  be, —  a  masterly  defence  of  the  by  no  means  obso- 
lete doctrine  of  State's  rights.  Not  content,  however,  with  vulgar 
abuse,  some  of  his  critics  misstate  the  facts  in  the  grossest,  most 
indecent  manner.  There  being  nothing  in  the  address  upon  which 
to  base  a  bill  of  indictment  against  President  Laws,  his  traducers  are 
driven  to  the  desperate  alternative  of  manufacturing  a  man  of  straw,  at 
which  to  hurl  their  bitter  invectives.  They  declare  that  Dr.  Laws  justi- 
fied the  rebellion,  when  not  a  word  was  uttered  in  justification  thereof. 
They  are  careful  to  withhold  such  language  as  would  convey  the  real 


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idea  expressed,  as,  in  reference  to  the  results  of  the  war,  the  doctor 
declared  that  one  result  of  that  struggle  was  to  settle  for  all  time  the 
question  of  secession.  The  seceded  States,  having  suffered  defeat  in 
the  struggle  growing  out  of  secession,  the  principle  involved  had 
been  practically  settled  by  the  sword,  and  for  all  time  to  come. 

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DR.    WALTER   T.    LENOIR. 

Dr.  Lenoir  is  a  son  of  Walter  Raleigh  and  Sarah  E.  (Bouchelle) 
Xenoir,  and  was  born  October  4, 1827,  in  Wilkes  county,  Noi-th  Caro- 
lina. His  father  was  born  at  Fort  Defiance,  North  Carolina,  March 
15th,  1787,  and  died  October  15th,  1844..  His'  mother  was  born 
December  28, 1798,  in  Burke  county,  North  Carolina,  and  died  August 
3d,  1875.  They  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  November  4th, 
1834,  aud  settled  on  a  farm  two  and  one-half  miles  north  of  Colum- 
bia. They  are  buried  in  the  Columbia  Cemetery.  They  were  blessed 
with  six  children,  two  boys  and  four  girls.  Annie  E.  (deceased), 
wife  of  Boyle  Jewell;  Julia  E.,  wife  of  Elder  S.  S.  Church;  of  the 
Christian  Church  ;  Myra  C,  wife  of  Col.  F.  T.  Russell ;  Dr.  W.  F.  : 
Martha  L.,  wife  of  T.  A.  Russell,  attorney  at  law,  of  St.  Louis,  and 
Slater  E.,  a  prominent  farmer  of  Boone  county.  Their  grandfather 
"WQA  Gen.  William  Lenoir,  of  Old  Fort  Defiance,  North  Carolina. 
He  was  a  prominent  light  in  the  politics  of  the  old  North  State  for 
^ixty  years,  holding  offices  from  justice  of  the  peace  up  to  president 
-of  the  constitutional  convention  for  remodeling  the  State  constitution. 
'He  served  many  years  in  both  houses  of  the  legislature,  aud  was  for 
several  terms  respectively,  president  of  the  one,  and  speaker  of  tire 
other.  He  was  also  for  a  number  of  years  president  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas.  He  is  buried  at  Fort  Defiance,  where  an  elegant 
monument  was  erected  over  his  grave  by  an  appreciative  and  grateful 
constituency.  Dr.  Walter  T.,  our  subject,  was  educated  at  the  State 
University,  graduating  from  that  institution  in  the  class  of  '49. 
In  1850  he  wentto  St.  Louis  and  attended  medical  lectures  at  Pope's 
Medical  College,  where  he  graduated  in  1853,  and  returned  to  Colum- 
bia to  practice  his  profession.  From  1858  to  1861,  he  practiced  in 
co-partnership  with  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Duncanf  He  soon  took  rank  with 
older  physicians  than  himself,  and  to-day  is  reckoned  among  the 
State's  best.  He  has  held  a  number  of  positions  of  honor  and  trust. 
From  1855  to  1862  he  was  treasurer  of  the  State  University  and  a 
member  of  the  board  of  curators.     Since  1856  he  has  been  a  member 


900  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

of  the  board  of  curators,  physician  and  trustee  of  Christian 
College.  He  was  appointed  by  Gov.  B.  Gratz  Brown  manager  of 
the  State  Lunatic  Asylum  at  Fulton,  which  position  he  held  for  four 
or  five  years.  He  has  been  an  elder  in  the  Christian  Church  since . 
1856,  and  is  a  Knight  Templar,  being  at  one  time  master  of  the 
lodge.  He  has  been  married  twice,  the  first  time  to  Miss  Fannie  C.» 
daughter  of  James  Shannon  (at  one  time  president  of  the  Univer- 
sity) May  29,  1856.  By  this  union  they  had  four  children,  three 
girls  and  one  boy:  Anna  S.,  Eva  D.,  James  C,  and  Julia  C.  They 
were  educated  at  Christian  College 'and  at  the  University.  His  first 
wife  died  April  13,  1864.  She  was  a  devoted  member  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church,  and  a  graduate  of  Bacon  College,  Kentucky.  July  4» 
1866,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Nannie  J.,  daughter  of  Federal  and 
Sarah  Dunn  Walker,  of  Howard  county,  Missouri.  By  this  marriage 
they  have  one  son,  George  W.  Mrs.  Lenoir  is  a  graduate  of  Chris- 
tian College  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Christian  Church  since 
early  childhood.  Dr.  Lenoir  is  yet  in  the  prime  of  a  vigorous,  active 
manhood,  and' is  a  dignified,  courtly  gentleman  of  the  old  school. 

H.     B.    LONSDALE. 

Henry  Broughana  Lonsdale  was  bom  in  Leicester,  England, 
November  13,  1832.  He  came  to  America  at  an  earlv  ao^e  and  settled 
first  in  Wisconsin.  In  1853  he  went  to  St.  Louis,  and  the  year 
following  came  to  Columbia.  He  learned  the  tailoring  business  in 
boyhood  and  has  followed  it  ever  since.  At  present  he  is  engaged  in 
the  merchant  tailoring  business  and  dealing  in  sewing  machines.  Mr. 
Lonsdale  was  married  April  2,  1860,  to  Miss  Meron  G.  Mayhew,  of 
Grundy  county,  Missouri,  a  descendant  of  the  Mayhew  family  of 
Martha's  Vineyard,  Massachusetts,  where  Mrs.  Lonsdale  was  born. 
They  have  had  six  children,  one  of  whom  is  dead.  The  living  are  : 
Frank,  Kate,  Harvey,  May  H.,  and  Elston  Holmes.  The  dead  child 
was  named  Maggie  D.  The  two  first  named  are  graduates  of  the 
State  University — Frank  in  1881,  and  Kate  in  1882.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lonsdale  are  members  of  the  Christian  Church.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  I.  O.  G.^.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  school 
board,  and  is  now  clerk  of  the  board  of  town  trustees.  He  has  a 
nice  home  in  Columbia,  the  result  of  his  own  labors.  He  is  an  exem- 
plary member  of  society  and  is  highly  appreciated  by  all  who  know 
him. 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  901 

THOMAS  tTEFFERSON   LOWRY,  B.  S.,  N.  G.,  M.  S.,  G.  E., 

*rofe88or  of  Civil  Engineering,  Dean  of  Engineering  Faculty,  and  Secretary  of  Univenity 

Faculty,  Missouri  State  University,  Columbia,  Missouri. 

Prof.  X<owry,  the  present  able  dean  of  the  engineering  school  of  the 
•  University  of  the  State  of  Missouri,"  is  a  descendant  of  one  of  two 
brothers  who  came  over  from  Scotland  in  1747  and  settled  in  Philadel- 
phia, He  is  a  native  of  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  and  was  born  No- 
'^ember  29,  1850.  His  paternal  grandfather  was  Dr.  John  J.  Lowry, 
>f  Howard  county,  Missouri ;  his  father,  Dr.  W.  T.  Lowry,  was  a 
>hysician  of  eminence  and  a  man  of  extraordinary  ability ;  his  mother 
B  a  native  of  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  and  a  daughter  of  Judge 
(oseph  Turner,  who  was  a  native  of  Tennessee,  whose  parents  were 
rom  North  Carolina,  and  whose  ancestors  were  Irish. 

The  Christian  culture  and  training  from  his  mother  he  prizes  ^bove 
ill  the  wisdom  of  the  philosophers;  and  **  the  inflexible,  Roman-like 
character  of  his  grandfathers  is  the  best  part  of  the  family  inheri- 
iiance.*' 

In  early  boyhood,  studious  and  thoughtful  beyond  his  years,  his  par- 
ants  determined  to  give  him  a  thorough  education,  that  he  might  attain 
to  that  distinction  and  usefulness  of  which  he  seemed  to  give  promise. 
His  home  culture  and  early  school  training  were  all  that  could  be  desired 
it  the  hands  of  fond  parents  and  able  teachers.  He  entered  McGee 
College,  Missouri,  in  the  fall  of  1866,  standing  at  the  head  of  his  classes 
in  the  sciences  and  the  mathematics.  His  mathematical  instructor 
liere.  Prof.  W.  J.  Patton,  said  of  him :  **  In  the  class-room  I  feared 
Lowry,  for  I  felt  that  he  was  more  than  a  match  for  me,  with  his  won- 
ierful  mathematical  genius  ;  and  many  times  I  found  the  teacher  taught 
3y  the  learning  learner.*'  Desiring  to  pursue  a  more  thorough  course 
n  the  physical  sciences  and  the  mathematics  than  McGee  College 
>ffered,  he  entered  the  junior  class  of  the  Missouri  State  University, 
it  Columbia,  in  the  fall  of  1868 ;  he  graduated  from  the  University 
n  June,  1870,  and  was  awarded  the  first  honor  in  the  scientific  de- 
partment, and  also,  in  a  competitive  examination  on  international  and 
constitutional  law,  won  the  '*law  prize,"  receiving  the  degrees  of  bache- 
lor of  science  and  normal  orraduate.  President  Read  testified  to  the 
iccurate  learning  and  marked  ability  of  young  Lowry  in  pursuing  the 
subtleties  of  the  law.  He  said  to  the  senior  class  :  **  Gentlemen,  when 
Lowry  speaks,  it  makes  me  think  ;  '*  and  turning  to  young  Lowry,  he 
&dded :  *«  Lowry,  that  is  the  highest  compliment  that  I  could  pay 
jreu." 


902  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

For  his  proficiency  in  mathematics  (ranking  first  in  his  class),  he 
was  recommended  by  the  University  for  an  appointment  as  an  oflBcer 
in  the  United  States  coast  survey,  which  he  received  October,  1870. 
He  read  medicine  in  his  father's  office  in  1865  and  '66,  and  during  the 
summer  and  fall  of  1870  attended  lectures  at  St.  Louis  Medical  Col- 
lege, but  gave  up  his  medical  studies  in  order  to  devote  his  time  to 
the  more  congenial  pursuits  —  surveying  and  engineering  on  the  United 
States  coast  survey.  From  1870  to  1877  he  was  on  the  Atlantic,  gulf 
and  Pacific  coasts,  actively  engaged  on  the  United  States  coast  survey, 
in  the  following  classes  of  field-work :  Hydrography,  topography,  pri- 
mary triangulation,  magnetics,  reconnoissance  for  primary  triangula- 
tion,  latitudes,  azimuths,  and  also  chronometer  and  telegraphic  longi- 
tudes. During  these  active  and  arduous  labors  he  found  time  to 
exercise*  his  inve^itive  genius  in  bringing  order  out  of  chaos  in  the 
science  and  art  of  hydrographic  surveying.  His  discovery  of  new  and 
improved  methods  in  hydrographic  surveying,  and  his  invention  of  sex- 
tants and  protractors  more  perfectly  adapted  to  the  wants  of  the  hydro- 
grapher,  and  whereby  one  officer  is  enabled  to  make  the  measurement 
previously  made  by  three,  have  introduced  him  to  the  hydrographers 
of  all  civilized  nations. 

The  sextant,  as  it  came  from  the  brain  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton,  was 
imperfectly  adapted  to  the  wants  of  the  hydrographer,  failing  to  meas- 
ure angles  between  140  and  180  degrees,  and  also  failing  to  measure 
two  angles  at  the  same  instant.  The  hydrographers  of  England,  Ger- 
many, France  and  the  United  States  had  studied  for  a  half  century  to 
remedy  these  defects,  but  with  only  partial  success.  Young  Lowry 
invented  the  following  sextants  which  perfectly  solved  these  and  other 
problems :  — 

I.  A  sextant  to  measure  any  angle  from  0  to  180  degrees  without 
inverting  the  instrument,  and  while  reflecting  but  one  object. 

II.  A  sextant  capable  of  measuring  two  angles,  one  to  the  right 
and  the  other  to  the  left  of  the  central  object,  at  the  same  instant; 
either  angle  being  any  size,  from  0  to  140  degrees. 

III.  A  sextant  capable  of  measuring  two  angles  in  quick  succession, 
without  previously  estimating  their  relative  magnitudes,  or  inverting 
the  sextant,  or  lengthening  its  are. 

IV.  A  sextant  capable  of  measuring  two  angles  in  quick  succession, 
and  an  interrange  at  the  same  instant. 

V.  The  protracting  sextant,  which  enables  one  observer  to  measure 
and  plot  two  angles  with  a  facility,  ease  and  accuracy   not  now  at- 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  903 

aiued  with  two  ordinary  sextants,  and  one  protractor  in  tb'e  hands  of 
wo  observers  and  one  plotter. 

He  is  the  author  of  several  new  methods  in  hydrographic  surveying. 

Some  of  the  above  are  described  in  Volume  XIV  of  the  American 
Tyclopedia,  and  all  are  described  in  the  proceedings  of  the  California 
Lcademy  of  Science,  the  Analyst^  the  Mining  and  Scientific  Press ^  of 
San  Francisco,  and  the  Nautical  Gazette^  of  New  York. 

In  1874,  Prof.  Lowry  was  elected  a  member  of  the  California 
Lcademy  of  Science,  at  San  Francisco,  and  was  an  active  and  pro- 
[uctive  member,  as  the  academy  reports  of  1874-r5-6  will  show.  In 
Lii^st,  1877,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  American  Association 
or  the  Advancement  of  Science.  In  1878  he  was  elected  a  member 
>f  the  Engineers'  Club  of  St.  Louis.  In  June,  1873,  the  degree  of 
aaster  of  science  was  conferred  on  him  by  his  alma  mater. 

In  June,  1877,  Prof.  Lowry  was  elected  professor  of  civil  engineer-  - 
ng  in  the  University  of  the  State  of  Missouri.  The  University,  in 
Fune,  1878,  conferred  upon  him  the  honorary  degree  of  civil  engineer, 
created  the  engineering  department,  and  elected  him  professor  of 
jivil  engineering  and  dean  of  the  engineering  faculty.  Prof.  Lowry 
»ras  a  delegate  from  Columbia  to  the  Missouri  river  improvement 
3onvention,  held  in  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  November  29  and  30, 1881. 
[n  September,  1878,  Prof.  Lowry  was  elected  secretary  of  the  Univer- 
uty  faculty  for  the  school  year  of  1878-9,  and  was  re-elected  to  the 
jame  important  and  responsible  position  for  the  sessions  of  1879-80» 
1880-1,  1881-2,  1882-3.  ••  He  faithfully  and  efficiently  performed 
the  duties  of  this  position  during  the  four  years  of  his  alma  mater^s 
^eatest  prosperity,  from  October,  1878,  to  October,  1882  ;  and  then, 
though  re-elected  for  session  of  1882-3,  resigned  the  secretaryship  ii) 
order  to  devote  his  undivided  energies  to  the  growing  demands  of  the 
tree  planted  by  his  own  hands  —  the  engineering  department  of  the 
University  of  the  State  of  Missouri." 

In  1877,  the  engineering  limb  was  engrafted  on  the  academic  trunk 
of  the  University  tree  ;  it  gi'ew  from  the  first  and  flourished.  As  to 
the  fruit  it  has  borne,  we  quote  from  the  report  of  the  board  of  cura- 
tors to  the  XXXI  General  Assembly  of  Missouri:  **  Young  men 
have  already  gone  out  and  are  still  going  out  from  the  engineering 
department  of  the  Missouri  University,  thoroughly  educated  and 
trained  for  efficient  service  upon  the  great  works  of  internal  improve- 
ment and  foreign  commerce.  Conscious  of  their  individual  strength 
in  their  profession,  they  have  asserted  their  rights  and  assumed  their 


^04  HISTORY   OF   BOONB   COUNTY. 

places  on  road  and  railroad  engineering  parties,  and  on  the  survejB 
I:  and  improvements  of  the  Missouri  and  Mississippi  rivers,  aqd  whidi 

positions  they  now  hold  and  adorn  with  honor  and  distinctiott." 
President  Laws  said,  in  a  public  lecture :  **  This  school  of  engiaeeriiig 
is  a  pillar  of  strength  to  this  University,  and  an  honor  to  the  Uni- 
versity arid  to  the  State  of  Missouri." 

Professor  Lowry's  great  aim,  never  lost  sight  of,  in  this  school  has 
been  to  prepare  young  engineers  to  meet  fully  the  demands  of  their 
profession  in  this  the  last  quarter  of  the  nineteenth  century.  To 
this  end,  drawing-room  and  field  work  are  made  to  bear  a  large  pro- 
portion to  the' theoretical  instruction  of  the  class-room,  so  as  to  unite 
manipulative  skill  with  theoretical  instruction^  thus  avoiding  the  fatal 
blunder  of  so  many  of  our  engineering  schools,  viz. :  attempting  to 
teach  the  surveying  and  engineering  arts  without  putting  them  into 
practice. 

A  critic  says,  *'  Prof.  Lowry  is  never  guilty  of  speaking  or  writing 
on  a  subject  which  he  has  not  thoroughly  investigated.  He  is  a 
fluent  and  forcible  writer,  treats  every  subject  he  touches  with  clear- 
ness, frankness,  and  ability  ;  is  a  learned  and  scientific  educator,  and 
a  vigorous,  clear,  logical  and  comprehensive  thinker  practically  in 
the  department  of  education."  For  five  years  he  has  wielded  his 
able  pen  in  setting  forth  the  merits  of  his  alma  mater^  in  popular- 
izing science  and  scientific  pursuits,  and  in  persuading  the  young  men 
of  the  West  to  seek  educations  for  a  purpose.  In  these  effort:*  he 
has  been  untiring ;  seed-thoughts,  looking  to  a  useful  and  steady 
development  of  the  American  mind,  keeping  pace  with  the  march  of 
science  and  philosophy,  have  been  sown  broadcast  through  lectures, 
pamphlets,  and  the  daily  press,  anl  cannot  cease  to  vivify,  though 
the  source  may  be  lost  sight  of.  He  has  never  failed  to  command 
the  close  attention  and  hearty  approval  of  the  thinking  public.  As 
an  indication  of  the  spirit  with  which  the  productions  of  his  pen  are 
received,  we  quote  a  written  opinion  by  the  lamented  J.  K.  fiogers, 
LL.  D.  :  **  I  have  read  Prof.  Lowry's  lecture  on  *  The  Professional 
School  in  the  American  University  '  through  and  through  with  interest 
and  pleasure,  and  it  has  my  hearty  endorsement  and  approval.  It  is 
a  live,  wide-awake  lecture,  full  of  enthusiasm  and  vim,  abreast  of 
the  times,  and  with  its  face  set  in  the  risfht  direction.  It  is  an  admir- 
able  plea  for  the  particular  department  its  author  represents,  and 
cannot  fail  to  do  good  for  the  University  and  make  reputation  for  its 
author.     As  a  plea  for  the  sciences  and  for  professional  education  it 


HISTORY   OF  BOONB  COUNTY.  905 

IB  unanswerable^  and  no  one  ought  to  want  to  answer  it.  I  must  con- 
gratulate Prof.  Lowry  upon  the  success  of  this  lecture,  and  upon  the 
success  of  the  engineering  department."  Another  critic  says: 
••  Prof.  Lowry  is  a  man  of  great  ability,  unquestioned  genius,  won- 
derful energy,  thoroughly  up  in  his  profession,  fostered  under  the 
Administration  of  that  most  powerful  intellect  of  this  or  any  other 
age.  Dr.  S.  S.  Laws." 

Prof.  Lowry  is  a  man  of  not  quite  medium  height,  nervous-sanguine 
temperament,  dark  auburn  hair,  grayish  brown  eyes,  with  determina- 
tion written  on  every  feature,  and  is  in  the  prime  of  a  fresh  and 
vigorous,  young  manhood.  He  has  all  those  qualities  which 
thoroughly  individualize  a  man  and  is  a  most  decided  type  of  himself. 
He  is  a  Missourian  to  the  manner  born — with  him  it  is  '*  Missouri 
first  —  the  world  afterwards."  We  close  this  sketch  with  the  closing 
paragraph  of  a  lecture  he  delivered  on  **  Engineering  in  Missouri :" 
**  My  heart  is  in  this  cause.  My  soul  is  in  this  work.  My  life  and 
energies  are  consecrated  to  building  up  the  cause  of  the  exact  arts  in 
Missouri.  I  owe  my  all  to  this  University,  and  I  want  no  more  glory 
while  I  live,  no  more  glorious  heritage  when  I  come  to  pass  over  the 
great  river,  no  more  lasting  monument,  no  prouder  epitaph  than 
that  I  was  instrumental  in  building  up  the  exact  arts,  in  this  my  alma 
mater  in  this,  my  native  State." 

W.    T.  MAUPIN,    M.    D. 

Dr.  Maupin  is  a  native  of  Boone  county,  born  April  17,  1839.  His 
father,  Wm.  Maupin,  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Missouri,  coming 
here  from  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  in  1816,  settling  first  at  Old 
Franklin,  in  Howard  county.  In  1819  he  removed  to  Boone,  when 
there  were  but  a  very  few  habitations,  or  inhabitants  either.  He 
settled  in  Columbia,  and  was  a  wheelwright  and  housebuild^r. 

W.  T.  Maupin  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  Boone 
county,  and  at  William  Jewell  College,  Liberty.  In  the  summer  of 
1861  he  joined  Captain  Peacher's  company.  Col.  M.  G.  Singleton's 
battalion,  Missouri  State  Guards,  and  served  as  commissary  of  the 
battalion.  He  was  in  the  engagements  at  Boonville,  Drywood  and 
Lexington.  After  the  capture  of  Lexington,  while  General  Price's 
army  was  retreating  toward  Southwest  Missouri,  he  was  taken  sick 
in  Johnson  county  and  lay  ill  for  about  two  months.  Upon  his 
recovery  he  returned  to  this  county  and  spent  the  remainder  of  the 
fall   of    1861,   and    the    winter   of   1861-2   in    dodging  **  Merrill's 


906  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COONTT. 

Horse"  and  other  detachments  of  Federal  troops,     March  6, 1862^ 
while  on  his  way  to  Price's  army,  he  was  captured  in  Cooper  county  by 
some  soldiers  belonging  to  the  command  of  Col.  Eppstein,  of  Boon- 
ville.     He  was  held  a  prisoner  for  thirteen  months,  the  greater  portion 
of  the  time  in  McDowell  College,  St.  Louis,  and  at  Alton,  111.    Upon 
his  release  on  parole,  his  weight  was  reduced  to  eighty-seven  and  a 
half  pounds.     He  returned   home  and  took  no  further   part  in  the 
war.     Previous  to  his  service  with  the  Missouri  army  under  General 
Price  he  took  part  in  the  affair  at  Fulton,  known  as  the   "  Fulton 
races."     His  brother,   Robert  L.  Maupin,   a  graduate  of  the  law 
school  at  Lebanon,  Tenn.,   was  a  gallant  Confederate   officer,   and 
served   on   the   staff   of  General    (now   U.    S.    Senator)  Cockerill, 
although  he  had  but  one  arm,  the  other  having  been  lost  before  the 
war. 

In  1863-4  Dr.  Maupin  attended  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College. 
In  1864-5  he  was  at  Jefferson  College,  Philadelphia,  and  graduated 
from  that  famed  institution  in  the  class  of  1865.  He  located  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  at  Columbia,  where  he  has  since  resided, 
making  occasional  trips  to  the  far  West  for  recreation,  etc.  The 
doctor  has  been  very  successful  as  a  practitioner.  He  has  devoted 
considei*able  attention  to  gynaecology,  and  is  renowned  for  his  skill 
in  and  knowledge  of  that  particular  branch  of  medical  science.  He 
is  medical  examiner  of  all  the  insurance  organizations  connected 
with  the  secret  orders  of  Columbia,  and  is  examiner  for  the  Good 
Templars'  Mutual  Benefit  Association  of  America,  of  which  organiza- 
tion be  is  one  of  the  founders. 

Dr.  Maupin  married  Miss  Mary  A.  Matthews,  a  daughter  of  J.  L. 
Matthews,  Esq.,  an  old  citizen  of  this  county.  They  are  the  parents 
of  four  children,  Lulu  Bell,  James  Lawrence,  Bettie  and  Mary  Waugh. 
The  doctor  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist,  and  Mrs.  M.  of  the  Methodist 
Church.  He  has  taken  all  the  degrees  of  Masonry  up  to  uud 
including  the  commandery ;  is  an  Odd  Fellow,  a  K.  of  P.,  K.  of  H., 
United  Workman,  and  a  Good  Templar.  Of  his  connection  with 
the  latter  order  he  feels  especially  proud.  He  has  held  the  position 
of  W.  C.  T.  in  the  Columbia  lodge. 

Dr.  Maupin  is  a  member  of  the  great  family  of  Maupins  whose 
branches  are  to  be  found  throughout  Missouri,  and  whose  ancestors 
were  the  DeMaupins  of  France,  who  settled  in  Virginia  more  than  a 
century  ago.  He  is  a  nephew  of  Thos.  C.  Maupin,  the  pioneer 
sheriff  of  Boone  county.     One  of  the  doctor's  sisters  married  Gov- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  90 T 

ernor  Leslie,  of  Kentucky;  another  is  the  wife  of  Travis  Cockerill, 
a  renowned  lawyer  of  Glasgow,  Ky.  Two  of  his  sisters  reside  in 
Colorado,  and  his  brother  is  now  a  resident  of  Mobile,  Alabama. 

WILLIAM    D.    MAUPIN. 

William  D.  Maupin  was  born  in  Albemarle  county,  Virginia,  June 
6th,  1840.  He  is  the  son  of  Silas  B.  and  Mary  (Norris)  Maupin. 
He  left  Virginia  in  October,  1854,  and  came  to  Montgomery  county, 
Missouri,  where  he  lived  until  1859.  His  father  sold  his  farm  in 
Montgomery  and  moved  to  Truxtou,  Lincoln  county,  Missouri,  where 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated,  attending  the  seminary  of 
that  place,  under  the  instructions  of  Professor  F.  T.  Williams.  Was 
a  pupil  of  this  school  during  two  sessions.  In  the  spring  of  1862  he 
went  to  Loutre  Island,  as  an  overseer  for  William  I.  Talbott,  and  re- 
mained there  until  fall,  having  charge  of  thirty-eight  slaves  and  five 
hundred  acres  of  land.  '  He  next  went  to  Pike  county,  Missouri, 
where  he  took  charge  of  the  Tinsley  plantation  of  some  forty  slaves 
and  four  hundred  acres  of  land.  Staved  on  this  farm  until  the  fall  of 
1863,  when  he  crossed  the  river  and  engaged  in  the  tobacco  trade  dur- 
ing the  winter  following.     In  the  spring  of  1864  he  crossed  the  plains 

to  Nevada,  making  his  home  at  Empire  City,  three  miles  from  Car- 
son. Followed  mule  trading  and  teaming  while  in  Nevada.  Re- 
mained there  until  the  summer  of  1870,  when  he  returned  to  Missouri 
and  bought  a  farm  ten  miles  southwest  of  Chillicothe.  Was  married 
December,  1870,  to  Miss  Nancy  A.  Cochran,  of  Wentzville,  St. 
Charles  county,  Missouri.  They  have  one  daughter,  Effie.  After  his 
marriage  Mr.  Maupin  went  to  work  on  a  farm  in  St.  Charles  county, 
and  remained  there  until  February,  1882,  when  he  came  to  Columbia, 
Boone  county,  and  went  into  the  firm  of  Maupin,  Smith  &  Co.,  known 
as  the  **  Farmer's  Mills."  [See  city  history.]  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mau- 
pin are  both  members  of  the  Methodist  Church.  They  have  a  nice 
new  house  on  Price  Avenue,  and  are  well  pleased  with  their  new 
home,  and  with  their  future  prospects  generally. 

OEOKOE  HENRY  MATTHEWS,  DECEASED. 

The  outlines  of  the  biography  of  this  gentleman  could  not  be 
obtained  very  fully  nor  very  accurately.  The  date  of  his  birth  could 
not  be  learned.  He  was  married  November  23,  1858,  to  Miss  Olivia, 
daughter  of  Warren  and  Elizabeth  (McClelland)  Woodson.  Four 
children  were  born  of  this  marriage,  all  daughters,  two  of  whom  died 


S08  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

in  infancy.  The  deceased  children  were  Lucretia  B.  and  Lizzie, 
while  the  two  surviving  ones  are  Mary  G.  and  Jessie  O.  Prof.  Mat- 
thews came  from  Kentucky  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  1848  or  '49. 
For  about  seventeen  years  he  was  professor  of  ancient  and  modem 
languages  in  the  State  University  at  Columbia.  He  always  engaged 
in  teaching  as  a  vocation,  and  died  in  September  13,  1869.  He  lies 
buried  in  the  Columbia  Cemetery. 

JAMES   L.  MATTHEWS,    DECEASED. 

James  L.  Matthews,  deceased,  was  the  son  of  Robert  and  Eliza 
(Glascock)  Matthews.  He  was  bom  August  29,  1813,  in  Richmond 
county,  Virginia,  and  was  reared  and  educated  in  his  native  county. 
In  early  youth  he  learned  the  trade  of  carriage-maker,  and  followed 
the  business  while  yet  a  citizen  of  the  Old  Dominion.  In  1836  he 
<5ame  to  Columbia,  Missouri,  where  he  established  and  operated  a 
carriage  factory  up  to  the  year  1860,  when  he  sold  out  and  went  into 
the  hardware  business,  which  he  followed  until  his  death.  May  22, 
1880.  He  was  married  in  1833  to  Miss  Louisa,  daughter  of  Hilkiah 
Ball,  of  Lancaster  county,  Virginia.  They  had  five  children  born  to 
them,  two  sons  and  three  daughters.  Mary  A.,  wife  of  Dr.  W.  T. 
Muupin,  of  Columbia;  James  B.  (deceased)  ;  Bettie  S.,  wife  of  Maj. 
D.  D.  Berry,  a  prominent  business  man  of  Columbia,  and  Milton  S. 
(deceased).  The  first  wife' dying  July  8,  1852,  Mr.  Matthews  was 
again  married,  October  26,  1853,  to  Miss  Mary,  daughter  of  James 
and  Margaret  Bowling.  Three  children  were  born  of  this  marriage, 
two  sons  and  one  daughter.  Louisa  married  A.  R.  Berry.  Charles 
is  a  partner  in  the  hardware  business  established  by  James  L.  Mat- 
thews, and  now  conducted  by  Berry  &  Matthews.  Lawrence  is  dead. 
The  elder  Matthews  commenced  life  without  means  and  with  but  little 
education.  His  father  perished  at  sea  while  en  route  to  England  to 
settle  an  estate.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  oldest  son  and 
second  child  of  the  family,  and  the  burden  of  the  household  fell  mainly 
upon  his  shoulders,  but  he  proved  equal  to  the  task,  and  while  yet  a 
mere  boy  assumed  the  duties  and  responsibilities  of  a  full-grown 
man.  His  brother,  Milton  S.,  died  in  June,  1875.  His  sister  is  liv- 
ing in  Oregon,  the  wife  of  Mr.  Faucett.  James  L.  Matthews  was  a 
successful  business  man  in  the  strictest  sense  of  the  word.  Com- 
mencing life  with  nothing  but  his  trade,  he  accumulated  a  large  estate, 
and  was  enabled  to  do  much  good,  for  his  hand  was  ever  opened  to 
alleviate  the  sorrows  of  honest  and  virtuous  poverty,  and  those  who 


JAMES  L.  MATTHEWS. 


HISTORY   OP   BOONB   COUNTT.  909 

d  relief  never  applied  to  him  in  vain.     Mrs.  Matthews  is  a  mem- 
the  Baptist  Church.     Mrs.  Eliza  (Glascock)  Matthews,  mother 

)  subject  of  this  sketch,  died  in  Columbia,  April  17,  1851,  and  is 

d  in  the  Columbia  Cemetery. 

JOHN   MACHIR. 

ohn  Machir,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Mason  county^ 

itucky,  May  10th,  1820.     He  is  the  son  of  Henry  A.  and  Martha  A. 

oodson)  Machir.     He  was  raised   in  Kentucky  and  educated  in 

3^sville,  Mason  county.     In  1837  he  came  to  St.  Louis  with  his 

^ther-in-law,  Thomas  T.  January,  and  for  the  next  six  years  clerked 

the  wholesale  grocery  house  of  January,  Stetinius  &  Brother.    The 

Da  having  failed  in  1843,  Mr.  Machir  went  into  business  the  foUow- 

g  year,  under  the  firm  name  of  January  &  Machir,  wholesale  dealers. 

groceries,  and  so  continued  until  1852,  when  he  came  to  Boone 

>unty  and  settled  on  the  west  side  of  the  Two-mile  prairie.     His 

^rm  of  600  acres  is  situated  six  miles  southeast  of  Columbia.     In 

i.869  he  moved  to  Columbia,  but  did  not  sell  his  farm.     He  has  lived 

tU  Columbia  ever  since.     He  has  been  trustee  of  Christian  College 

for  about  eighteen  years.     Was  one  of  the   directors  of  the  school 

board  for  about  five  years.     Mr.  Machir  was  married,  December  25th, 

1847,  to  Miss  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  John  M.  and  Mary  (Taylor) 

January,  of  Cynthiana,  Harrison  county,  Kentucky.     They  have  had 

six  children.     Two   sons   died  in   their   infancy.     Mary  T.,  wife  of 

James  H.  Parker,  died  in  the  spring  of  1880.     Mattie  is  the  wife  of 

R.  W.  Dorsey,  of  Bunker  Hill,  Illinois.     Tiny  B.  and  Maria  J.  are  at 

home  with  their  parents.     They  are  all  graduates  of  Christian  Collegei 

Columbia,  Missouri.     Mr.   Machir  and  family  are  members  of  the 

Christian  church. 

CHARLES    A.    MILLER. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  May 
22d,  1848.  The  year  following  his  parents  moved  to  Portland,  Cal- 
laway county,  where  they  lived  for  the  next  five  years,  removing  in 
1854  to  Rocheport,  Boone  county.  In  1864  he  entered  the  store  of 
Clayton,  Miller  &  Co.,  and  clerked  for  that  firm  Until  July,  1868, 
when  he  commenced  the  livery  business  with  David  Bishop,  the  firm 
being  Bishop  &  Miller.  Remained  with  Bishop  one  year,  when  J.  W. 
Skinner  bought  his  interest,  thus  changing  the  firm  to  Miller  &  Skin- 
ner. The  business  was  thus  conducted  for  three  years,  when  Mr. 
Miller  bought  his  partner's  interest  and  continued  the  business  alone 


^10  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.      ' 

until  1875,  when  the  stable,  with  fourteen  bead  of  horses  and  all  the 
rolling  stock  belonging  thereto,  was  burned ;  loss  two  thousand  dol- 
lars.    While  in  the  livery  business  Mr.  Miller  ran  a  hack  line  between 
Columbia  and   Rocheport,   and  between    Rocheport   and  Boonville. 
In  1875  he  came  to  Columbia,  and  the  year  following  went  into  the 
tobacco  business  with  John  M.  Samuel  and  was  with  him  for  one  year, 
when  the  firm  changed  to  Conley,  Samuel  &  Miller,  and  so  continued 
until  1878.     In  the  spring  of  that  year  Mr.  Miller  went  into  the  liv- 
ery business  with  D.  G.  Clark,  under  the  firm  name  of  Clark  &  Miller. 
J.  H.  Guitar  afterwards  took  an  interest  in  the  business,  and  the  firm 
jiaine  was  changed  to  Clark,  Miller  &  Co.,  and  so  continued  until  the 
death  of  Mr.  Clark  in  1880,  when  Guitar  bought  his  interest  and  the 
firm  became  Miller  &  Guitar,  and  has  remained  such  ever  since.    The 
stable  is  called  the  Planters',  and  is  one  hundred  by  sixty-four  feet, 
fronting  University  street.     They  have  twenty-five  horses  and  their 
vehicles  are  of  the  finest  and  best  quality.     In  connection  with  the 
livery  business  they  buy  and  sell  mules,  shipping  them  to  the  West 
and  South.     Mr.  Miller  was  married  February  13th,  1872,  to  Miss 
Corney  J.,  daughter  of  James  C.  and  Mary  J.  (Thornton)  Orr.    They 
have  four  children,  James  R.,  Albert,  Mary,  and  a  younger  son  yet 
unmarried.     Mr.  Miller  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church.     He  is 
also  an  Odd  Fellow  and  a  member  of  the  Order  of  United  Workmen. 
Mrs.  Miller  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church. 

D^.    GEORGE    S.    MOR8B. 

Dr.  Morse  is  the  son  of  Dennis  and  Sallie  (Whitcomb)  Morse,  and 
was  born  October  6th,  1828,  in  Madison,  Madison  county.  New  York. 
He  was  educated  at  Hamilton  College.  In  the  spring  of  1854  he 
graduated  from  the  medical  school  at  Philadelphia,  and  commenced 
the  practice  of  medicine  at  Oriskany  Falls,  Oneida  county,  New  York. 
In  the  fall  of  1855  he  moved  to  Wisconsin  and  practiced  his  profession 
for  throe  years  at  Ebadan,  Dodge  county.  Then,  in  1858,  he  moved 
to  Boonville,  Cooper  county,  Missouri.  While  in  Boonville  he 
studied  dentistry  and  practiced  it  there  three  years.  In  December, 
1864,  he  removed  to  Columbia,  Boone  county,  and  has  practiced 
dentistry  ever  since.  He  has  built  up  a  large  and  lucrative  practice, 
and  is  deservedly  popular  socially  and  professionally.  He  was  mar- 
ried, April  5th,  1855,  to  Miss  Ilattie  N.,  daughter  of  Frederick  and 
Mary  A.  (Nelson)  Brooks.  By  this  union  they  have  had  six  children, 
four  boys  and  two  girls ;  only  two  are  now  living,  George  M.,  mer- 


HISTORY.  OF  BOONE   CX>UNTY.  911 

<5handi8ing  at  Bound  Bock,  Williamson  couhty,  Texas,  and  Fred.  H., 
a  prominent  artist  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

Dr.  Morse's  father  was  born  November  28th,  1800,  in  Steventown, 
Benssalaer  county,  N.  Y.,  and  went  with  hia  parents  to  Madison,  New 
York,  in  March,  1806,  and  was  reared  a  farmer.  He  married,  August 
28th,  1820,  Miss  Sarah,  daughter  of  Calvin  and  Sarah  (Brownell) 
Whitcomb.  They  had  five  children,  three  boys  and  two  girls :  Elea- 
nor (deceased),  Joseph  H.  (deceased),  Asa  W.  (deceased,  died  in 
Denver,  Colorado,)  and  Sarah,  Our  subject,  is  the  third  child.  Dr. 
Morse  is  a  descendant  of  Samuel  Morse,  of  England,  who  was  born 
in  1585,  and  emigrated  to  New  England  in  1635,  and  settled  in  Ded- 
ham,  Massachusetts,  in  1637,  and  died  April  5th,  1654.  The  subject 
of  this  sketch.  Dr.  George  S.  Morse,  is  of  the  eighth  generation  from 
Samuel  Morse. 

JOSEPH   SAMUEL   MOSS. 

J.  S.  Moss,  a  prominent  merchant  and  capitalist  of  Columbia,  Mis- 
souri, was  born  in  Logan  county,  Kentucky,  January  31st,  1831.  At 
the  age  of  seven,  came  to  Greene  county,  Missouri,  where  he  was 
raised  on  a  farm.  He  was  educated  at  the  old  country  log  school 
house.  When  tifteen  years  old  went  to  Springfield  and  entered  the 
store  of  Sheppard  &  Jaggard,  dry  goods  merchants,  where  he  re- 
mained for  five  years,  when  he  became  a  member  of  the  firm,  and 
so  conthiued  for  fi^e  years,  when  he  commenced  business  under 
the  firm  name  of  J.  S.  Moss  &  Co.  Conducted  this  business  until  the 
close  of  the  war.  During  the  war  did  a  liberal  business.  Confeder- 
ates aud  Federals  took  what  they  wanted  and  gave  vouchers  in  return. 
Some  of  the  vouchers  were  afterwards  honored,  many  were  not.  He 
was  in  Springfield  when  the  battle  was  fought  at  Wilson  Creek,  and 
saw  the  body  of  Gen.  Lyon.  In  February,  1862,  he  went  South  into 
Arkansas  and  Tennessee.  In  June,  1863,  went  to  St.  Louis  and  from 
there  to  Columbia,  Missouri,  where  he  has  resided  ever  since.  Was 
married  August  10,  1854,  to  Miss  Clara,  daughter  of  D.  D.  Berry,  a 
native  of  Springfield,  Missouri.  Have  had  seven  children,  five  of 
whom  are  living:  Daniel  Dorsey,  J.  S.,  Jr.,  Laura,  Clara  and  Wil- 
liam. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moss  are  members  of  the  Christian  Church. 
Mr.  Moss  is  also  a  member  of  A.  O.  U.  W. 

DAVID    R.  m'aNALLY,  JR. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  has  for  five  years  been  professor  of 
English  literature  in  the  State  University,  is  a  son  of  the  eminent 


912  HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTT. 

Dr.  David  R.  McAnally,  well  known  to  all  as  the  editor  for  many 
years  of  the  /St.  Louis  Christian  Advocate.  His  mother's  maiden 
name  was  Maria  Thompson,  a  lady  of  refined  sensibilities  and  de- 
voted to  the  care  and  happiness  of  her  family.  David  was  born  at 
Knoxville,  Tennessee,  November  21,  1847.  Owing  to  the  great  war 
which  began  when  he  was  in  his  fourteenth  year,  he  never  entered 
college,  but  remained  home  under  the  tutorage  of  his  distinguished 
father,  which  probably  gave  him  greater  thoroughness  than  he  could 
have  obtained  at  the  schools.  He  has,  however,  received  honorary 
degrees  from  different  institutions,  including  that  of  A.  M.,  conferred 
by  the  Arcadia  (Missouri)  College.  When  only  four  years  old, his 
father  moved  his  family  to  St.  Louis,  and  that  city  has  been  the  home 
of  David  R.,  Jr.,  ever  since  ;  though  he  has  travelled  extensively  in 
the  United  States,  especially  in  the  West,  his  last  vacation  having 
been  spent  in  Colorado. 

Prof.  McAnally' 8  first  efforts  in  teaching  were  made  at  Carondelet 
High  School,  where  he  taught  three  years  as  subordinate  teacher  and 
two  years  as  principal.  In  1872,  he  took  charge  of  Arcadia  College 
and  remained  two  years.  From  that  time  till  he  took  his  present 
position  in  the  University,  he  was  engaged  in  newspaper  work.  He 
wrote  a  great  deal  for  his  father's  paper,  both  before  and  during  the 
time  he  was  teaching,  and  for  two  years  was  **  leader  writer  "  on  the 
Globe- Democrat.  His  newspaper  connection  ga\%  him  quite  a  trav- 
elled experience,  and  he  was  frequently  *'  on  the  move"  before  he 
came  to  Columbia.  Prof.  M.  comes  of  a  family  of  strong  South- 
ern proclivities.  His  father  is  a  native  of  Tennessee  and  his  mother 
of  Virginia,  which  makes  decidedly  a  Southern  combination.  They 
are  a  Southern  Methodist  fixmily,  though  at  the  beginning  of  the  war 
Dr.  D.  R.  McAnally,  Sr.,  was  a  staunch  Union  man  and  opposed  to 
slavery.  Young  David  early  developed  a  decided  taste  for  music,  and 
has  given  much  time  to  its  systematic  study.  While  connected  with 
the  newspapers,  he  was  regarded  as  a.  fine  musical  critic;  and  has 
been  much  engaged  in  writing  articles  on  that  subject.  He  has 
printed  several  songs  and  musical  compositions,  and  still  has  on  hand 
a  number  of  unpublished  musical  productions.  The  first  course  of 
lectures  on  English  language  and  literature  ever  given  in  the  Univer- 
sity was  delivered  by  Prof.  M.  in  1879-80,  and  were  as  well  at- 
tended as  any  course  of  the  institution.  Since  then,  he  has  continued 
to  give  annual  courses,  and  is  now  connected  with  the  president  and 
others  of  the  faculty  in   the  publication  of  the   University  Review. 


UIHTORT   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  913 

His  services  are  in  frequent  demand  in  lecturing  before  the  State 
Teachers'  Association,  and  no  young  gentleman  of  his  age  has  greater 
educational  prominence  in  Missouri.  His  articles  on  the  **  Turco- 
Russian  War/'  while  working  for  the  Olobe^Democrat^  created  a 
favorable  impression  all  over  the  country,  and  brought  forth  many 
complimentary  comments  from  press  and  public. 

DR.  A.  W.  m'ALESTER. 

Dr.  Andrew  Walker  McAlester  was  born  in  Rocheport,  Boone 
county,  Missouri,  January  1,  1841.  He  is  the  son  of  B.  McAlester, 
A  lumber  merchant  of  Columbia.  Dr.  McAlester  was  partly  educated 
at  the  common  schools,  completing  his  literary  studies  at  the  State 
University,  where  he  graduated  in  1864.  He  thea  read  medicine 
under  Dr.  Norwood  and  attended  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College  where 
he  received  his  degree  in  1866.  He  also  attended  Rush  Medical 
•College,  Chicago,  and  Bellevue,  New  York.  In  1873,  he  visited 
Europe  and  attended  the  medical  colleges  at  London  and  Paris.  He 
also  visited  the  schools  of  Germany.  In  1872  was  given  the  chair  of 
surgery  and  obstetrics  in  the  St^te  University,  which  position  he  still 
holds.  Is  president  of  the  Linton  Medical  Association,  flas  been  a 
member  of  the  American  Medical  Association.  Is  a«  Mason.  Has 
been  twice  married.  First  in  1869  to  Miss  Iza  Bell,  of  Springfield, 
Missouri.  She  died  in  1870.  He  was  again  married  in  1873  to  Miss 
•Sallie  McConathy,  of  Boone  county.  They  have  three  sons  :  Andrew 
W.,  Berry,  and  an  infant.  Dr.  McAlester  is  a  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist Church. 

BRIQHTBBRRT    m'aLESTEB. 

Brightberry  McAlester,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  the  son  of 
James  G.  and  Tempest  (Jackson)  McAlester.  He  was  bom  in  Simp- 
json  county,  Kentucky,  October  26,  1809*.  He  was  partly  reared  and 
educated  in  his  native  county,  attending  a  school  taught  in  a  rude  log 
house  durinor  the  winter  months  of  the  vear.  The  Commonwealth 
of  Kentucky  was  then  in  its  infancy,  and  the  resident  population  were 
the  first  settlers  and  their  children.  The  first  families  who  ventured 
into  the  wilds  of  Kentucky  had  all  they  could  do  to  protect  their  lives, 
and  of  course  gave  little  time  or  attention  to  education.  Mrs.  Mc- 
Alester, the  mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  spent  much  of  her 
early  youth  in  the  forts,  while  the  fierce  Indian  wars  threatened  ex- 
termination to  the  few  whites  who  had  dared  to  invade  their  hunting 

grounds.     Mrs.  McAlester  saw  Daniel  Boone  many  times,  having  oc- 
58 


914  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

cupied  the  fort  in  which  the  pioneer  chieftain  was  an  inmate  daring 
those  memorable  days  which  gave  to  Kentucky  the   name  of  "the 
Dark  and  Bloody  Ground."     The  family  emigrated  to  Howard countr, 
Missouri,  in  1828,  stopping  near  Glasgow.     Mr.  McAlester  had  pre- 
viously learned  the  carpenter's  trade  in  Kentucky,  and,  leaviiig  his 
widowed  mother  at  Glasgow,  he  sought  employment  at  New  Funk- 
lin,   Howard  county.     In   1830  Mr.   McAlester  went  to  St.  Lois, 
where  he  worked  at  his  trade  for  eighteen   months,  mainly  for  the 
purpose  of  perfecting  himself  in  the  business.     He  returned  to  New 
Franklin,  and  went  to  work  contracting  and  building.     He  also  man- 
aged a  steam  saw-mill.     In  1837  he  came  to  Rocheport,  Boone  county, 
where  he  worked  at  his  trade  from  1839  to  1846,  being  the  principid 
contractor  and  builder  in  that  section  of  country.     In  the  spring  of 
1846  he  came  to  Columbia  to  build  the  court-house,  being  one  of  the 
building  firm  of  Richardson,  McAlester  &  Keene.     In   1856  he  built 
the  county  jail,  and   in   1865  the  president's  mansion  in  counection 
with  the  State  University,  that  building  having  been  destroyed  by  fire 
durinof  the  war,  and  in  1872  had  the  contract  for  buildino^  the  scien- 
tific  building,  also  in  connection  with  the  State  University.     He  has 
been  actively  identified  with  the  building  interests  of  the  county  ever 
since  becoming  a  citizen  of  Boone.     He  has  also  dealt  extensively  in 
lumber  and  all   kinds  of  building  material.     In  the   spring  of  1870, 
James  D.  Bowlinof  bousfht  out  the   interest  of  James  B.  Ruckel,  Mr. 
McAlester's  partner,  and  since  that  time  the  firm  has  been  McAlester, 
Bowling  &  Co.     In  addition  to   their  lumber  yard,  they  handle  all* 
kinds  of  farm  machinery,  buiriri^s,  wao^ons,  and   the   like.     Thev  are 
doinir   a    lar<re    business.      Mr.   McAlester  was   married   in  October, 
1832,  to  Miss  Marv  A.  Walker,  of  New  Franklin,  Missouri.     Thev 
have    bad  five  children  :  James  N.  (who  was  lost  on  a  Missouri  river 
boat  at  Lexington  landing)  ;    Mary  F.,  Sarah  B.  (deceased),  Martha 
T.,  wife  of  James  D.  Bowling,  and  Andrew  W.,  wbo  is  a  professor  at 
the  State  University,  and  a  practicing  physician  of  Columbia.     Mr. 
McAlester  is  a  Mason  and  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church.     His 
wife  is  also  a  Methodist.     Mr.  McAlester's  mother  died  in  1834,  and 
is  buriedj  near  Glasgow.     His  father  died  in  Kentucky  when  the  su!)- 
ject  of  this  sketch  was  but  a  small  boy. 

GEORGE   M.    m'cONAUGHEY 

Is  a  son  of  David  and   Sarah   (Mitcheltree)   McConaughey,  and  was 
born   June  17,  1844,  in  Jefferson  county,  Ohio.     He  left  his  native 


HiSTOKY   or  BOONE   COUNTY.  915 

loimty  when  a  mere  child  and  went  to  Belmont  county,  Ohio.  In 
lis  twelfth  year  he  went  to  Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  and  in  1859 
irent  to  Burning  Springs,  same  State,  and  worked  in  the  oil  wells. 
Ixk  1861  he  enlistjed  in  the  Federal  army  in  the  Eighteenth  Ohio  Vol- 
(iQteer  regiment,  but  only  served  three  months.  In  1864  he  reenlisted 
inder  Capt.  Frank  Buell,  in  what  was  known  as  Buell's  Pierpont 
Battery,  Virginia  artillery.  He  was  honorably  discharged  in  1865. 
the  battery  was  in  twenty-three  battles  and  skirmishes.  He  waa 
irounded  while  on  a  scout  and  taken  prisoner  by  Col.  Mosby,  but  es- 
saped  the  second  night.  In  the  winter  of  1865-6,  he  went  on  the 
Baltimore  and  Ohio  railroad  as  fireman  for  three  or  four  years,  then 
w  engineer  for  one  year.  When  making  his  run  near  Moundsville, 
^rginia,  the  engine  jumped  the  track  and  he  barely  escaped  with  his 
fe.  In  December,  1870,  he  came  to  St.  Louis  and  worked  upon  the 
lird  pier  of  the  great  bridge  for  six  months.  In  August,  1871,  he 
ime  to  Columbia,  Boone  county,  Missouri,  and  clerked  in  the  hard- 
are  store  of  C.  C.  Newman  until  May,  1875.  He  then  went  back 
>  Belmont,  Ohio,  and  married  Miss  R.  J.,  daughter  of  Alexander 
id  Rebecca  Crossan.  •  They  have  had  four  children,  two  boys 
id  two  girls,  Minnie  M.,  David  B.  (dead),  AnnaB.  and  Sylvester W. 
pon  returning  from  Ohio,  he  obtained  his  old  position  as  clerk  in  the 
;ore  of  Newman  &  Garth  until  the  fall  of  1875,  when  he  went  into 
le  sewing  machine  business  for  about  a  year.  He  then  went  to  firing 
>r  the  Columbia  Gas  Company,  which  position  he  held  until  1878^ 
hen  he  was  appointed  superintendent,  and  has  been  there  until  the 
resent  time.  He  sold  and  set  up  the  first  gas  engine  ever  used  in 
le  county,  viz. :  the  one  used  in  the  Columbia  elevator.  He  does  all 
16  steam  and  gas  fitting  for  the  city,  and  is  engineer  and  superiu- 
mdent  of  the  Columbia  Gaslight  and  Coke  Company.  The  works 
ere  built  in  1875  by  a  stock  company,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $15,- 
00.  The  enterprise  was  put  on  foot  by  Sylvester  Watts.  Mr.  Mc- 
lonaughey  is  agent  for  the  Otto  Silent  Gas  Engine.  He  is  a  member 
f  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  Knights  of  Honor,  and  Ancient  Order  of 
Fnited  Workmen.  He  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Presbvterian 
burch. 

GEORGE   m'dANIEL. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  William  and  Sarah  A. 
Fitzhugh)  McDaniel,and  was  born  in  King  George  county,  Virginia, 
[e  was  educated  at  Caroline  College,  Caroline  county,  Virginia, 
lilerwards  learned  the  trade  of  carriage  making  in  King  George 


S16  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

county,  where  he  followed  the  business  for  several  years.  He  came 
to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  August,  1866,  and  was  married  August 
27,  1868,  to  Miss  Isabella,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Dailey) 
Lackland,  of  Lexington,  Kentucky.  By  this  marriage  they  had  three 
sons  and  two  daughters.  Rosa  E.  died  August  19,  1870,  and  George 
I.,  August  10,  1878.  After  coming  to  Boone  county,  he  opened  & 
shop  in  Columbia  under  the  firm  name  of  Homer  &  McDaniel.  Mr. 
McDaniel  is  now  a  member  of  the  firm  of  McDaniel,  Scruggs  &  Co., 
contractors  and  builders.  This  is  the  principal  firm  of  the  kind  in 
Columbia,  and  is  doing  a  large  business.  Mr.  McDaniel  is  a  member 
of  the  A.  O.  U.  W.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Missionary  Baptist 
church.  Mi*s.  McDaniel  is  likewise  a  member  of  the  same  church. 
William  McDaniel,  the  father  of  George,  died  at  his  home  in  King 
Oeorge  fcounty,  Virginia,  in  1879,  aged  eighty-two.  His  mother  is 
still  living  at  the  age  of  seventy-one. 

DR.    JAMES   m'NUTT. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  native  of  Ireland,  having  been  bom 
m  County  Donegal  about  the  year  1832.  He  came  to  this  country 
in  1841  and  settled  in  Newark,  Delaware,  where  he  grew  to  manhood 
and  received  most  of  bis  education.  In  1852  he  was  suiTeyor  for 
several  counties  in  Mar^'^Iand.  He  was  also  engaged  in  teaching  at 
the  same  time.  In  the  summer  of  1854  he  came  West  and  visited  the 
States  of  Iowa,  Nebraska,  Minnesota  and  Wisconsin.  Studied  medi- 
cine under  Dr.  Alrich,  at  Fort  Penn,  Delaware,  for  about  three  years 
and  took  several  courses  of  lectures  at  Jefferson  Medical  College,  Phil- 
adelphia. Travelled  for  sometime  as  correspondent  of  several  Eastern 
papers.  In  the  winter  of  1855  he  taught  school  in  Iowa.  The 
spring  following  came  to  Missouri  and  spent  about  one  year  in  St. 
Louis  county.  In  1857  went  to  Bowling  Green,  Pike  county,  where 
he  taught  a  private  school  for  one  year.  He  was  then  engaged  as 
principal  of  Bowling  Green  Academy  and  had  charge  of  that  institu- 
tion from  1858  to  1860.  Enlisted  as  a  surgeon  in  the  Federal  army, 
April  24th,  1863,  and  served  with  the  Gulf  Department  in  1864-5. 
Officiated  as  surgeon  at  Forts  Livingston  and  Jackson.  He  quit  the 
Federal  service  in  1866  and  came  to  Marshall,  Saline  county,  Mis- 
souri, where  he  practiced  medicine  for  several  months.  In  November 
1866  he  sold  his  property  at  Marshall  and  went  to  Malta  Bend,  iu  the 
western  part  of  Saline  county.  The  spring  following  he,  with  the 
-assistance  of  J.   R.  Lunbeck,  laid  out  the  town  of  Malta  Bend,  the 


BISTORT   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  917 

loctor  being  the  leading  spirit  in  this  enterprise  and  the  recognized 
bunder  of  this  town.  He  remained  at  Malta  Bend  for  two  years,  then 
sought  a  farm  two  miles  south  of  that  place.  He  lived  on  this  farm 
Util  the  fall  of  1874,  when  he  founded  the  town  of  Salt  Springs,  now 
Ml  the  line  of  the  C.  &  A.  railroad.  This  was  in  the  summer  of  1874. 
Be  and  his  brother-in-law,  Arthur  S.  Lawrence,  started  a  store  con- 
tuning  a  general  assortment  of  dry  goods  and  groceries.  Remained 
it  Salt  Springs  until  1876  when  he  came  to  Columbia,  Missouri^  but 
lOon  after  returned  to  Saline.  In  1877  he  came  to  Bocheport,  Boone 
M>anty,  and  in  the  spring  of  1878  came  to  Columbia  and  practiced  his 
profession  until  1880,  when  he  bought  a  farm  of  280  acres  seven 
miles  northeast  of  Columbia,  on  the  old  Mexico  ^road,  and  200  acres 
iouth  of  the  Fulton  road.  In  June,  1882,  he  was  appointed  United 
States  examining  surgeon  by  W.  W.  Dudley,  commissioner.  He  and  • 
his  wife  are  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  is  also  a  Mason. 
Was  married  August  16th,  1866,  to  a  daughter  of  Solomon  L.  and 
Biirriet  S.  (Morgan)  Lawrence,  of  Wilton,  Iowa.  They  have  had 
three  sons  and  two  daughters':  Fannie,  Sophia  D.,  Bernard,  Stewart 
(deceased)  and  Lawrence.  The  father  of  Dr.  McNutt  died  in  Ireland 
in  1836  and  his  mother  in  Iowa  in  1873.  Dr.  McNutt  was  the  third 
child  of  a  family  of  seven,  all  of  whom,  save  the  youngest,  are  living. 
The  doctor,  in  addition  to  his  medical  education,  is  a  fine  literary 
scholar  and  a  writer  of  considerable  ability.  At  one  time  he  was 
editor  of  the  Dubuque  Heraldj  his  brother,  Samuel  McNutt,  being 
ehief  editor. 

JOSEPH   GRANVILLE   NORWOOD,  M.    D.,    LL.    D. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  bom  in  Woodford  county,  Kentucky, 
December  20th,  1807.  His  father,  Charles  Norwood,  was  a  native  of 
Westmoreland  county,  Virginia,  and  the  son  of  John  Norwood,  an 
English  gentleman,  who  came  to  Virginia  about  the  year  1740. 
Charles,  the  eldest  son  of  John  Norwood,  was  born  in  1753  and  was 
married  in  1781  to  Ann  Dale,  of  Westmoreland  county.  He  was  a 
soldier  of  the  revolutionary  war.  Three  sons  and  two  daughters  were 
born  of  his  marriage:  Frederick,  John,  Frances,  Charles  and  Ann. 
Upon  the  death  of  his  first  wife  he  removed  to  Kentucky  with  his 
family  and  a  number  of  relatives.  He  first  settled  in  Franklin  county, 
but  after  several  years  he  purchased  and  removed  to  a  farm  in  Wood- 
ford, about  five  miles  from  Versailles  and  seventeen  from  Lexington. 
After  this  removal  he  married  Mildred  Dale,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife. 


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918  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Of  the  children  of  this  marriage  Joseph  G.   is   the  only  survivor. 
During   the   war   of  1812,  Charles  Norwood   built  and  operated  a 
powder  mill  for  the  purpose  of  supplying  the  American  army.   In 
1815  he  moved  to  a  small  farm  near  Lexington  where  he  spent  tlie 
remainder  of  his  life,  dying  in  1832.     When  quite  young  the  sabject 
of  this  sketch  became  a  pupil  of  the  graded  school  of  Aldrich  & 
Vaughn,  at  Lexington.     It  was  the  fixed  purpose  of  the  elder  Nor- 
wood that  his  son  should  become  a  physician,  while  the  boy  wib 
equally   determined   to  become  a  printer.      The   conflict  of  wishes 
between  the  father  and  son  resulted  in  the  son  being  placed  with  Mr. 
Jacob  Winn,  a  private  banker  and  manufacturer  of  bale-rope  and 
bagging.     He  remained   with  Mr.    Winn  for  one   year.     The  elder 
Norwood,  recognizing  the  bent  of  his  son's  mind,  now  made  arrange- 
•  ments   with  Mr.   John  Bradford,   of  the  Lexington  Advertiser^  by 
which  he  would  be  allowed  to  enter  his  printing  office  for  the  purpose 
of  learning  the  trade  for  which  he  had  previously  shown  such  an  earn- 
est  predilection.      After   working   several   years    in    this   office  he 
changed  to  the  Kentucky  Whig,  published  by  Nelson  Nicholas.    Mr. 
Nicholas  died  soon  after  young  Norwood  entered  his  office  and  when 
the  material  was  sold  he  bought  it  of  the  administrator,  Hon.  K. 
Hawes.     Seeing  an  opportunity  to  dispose  of  the  property  to  good 
advantage,  young  Norwood  soon  after  sold  the  office  and  subscription 
list  to  Thomas  Smith,  editor  of  the  Kentucky  Reporter.     Mr.  Non 
wood  now  left  Lexington  and  spent  nearly  a  year  in  travelling  in  the 
Southern  and  Eastern  States,  returning  in  the  fall  of  1827.      Soon  after 
his  return  to  Kentucky  he  went  to  Cincinnati,  and  purchased  material 
for  a  book  and  job  office.     There  was  no  lack  of  work  in  the  way  of 
books  and  periodicals  and  the  publishing  house  soon  became  a  popular 
and  paying  business.     In  1830  Mr.  Norwood  formed  a  partnership 
with  James  W.  Palmer,  who  insisted  on  moving  the  publishing  house 
to  Louisville,  which  in  the  end  proved  to  be  a  serious  mistake,  us  Mr. 
Norwood  hud  predicted  from  the  start.     Mr.   Palmer  oflered  to  pur- 
chase his  partner's  interest  in  the  business,  and  his  offer  was  accepted. 
Mr.  Norwood  then  entered  a  commission  house,  conducted  bva  rela- 
tive,  but  soon  found  that  he   knew  nothing  about  the  business,  with 
little  inclination  to  learn.     He  therefore  withdrew  from  the  firm  and 
returned  to  Lexington  with  the  fixed  determination  to  devote  himself 
to  the  study  of  medicine  and   the  cognate  sciences.     He  accordingly 
entered   Transylvania  College  and  earnestly  applied  himself  t^  the 
study    of  medicine.     He    opened  an  office  at  Madison,   Indiana,  in 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  919 

tfarch,  1835,  and  continued  to  practice  his  profession  until  about  the 
(lose  of  January  following,  when  be  returned  to  Lexington  and  gradu- 
ated the  spring  following.     In  1840  he  was    called  to  the  Madison 
tfedical  Institute  and  appointed  to  the  chair  of  surgery.     In  1843 
le  was  chosen  to  fill  the  chair  of  materia  medica,  general  therapeutics 
ind  medical  jurisprudence  in  the  medical  department  of  the  University 
>f  St.  Louis.     He  remained  with  this  institution  until  the  spring  of 
1847,  when  he  resigned  to  accept  the  place  of  assistant  United  States 
geologist  for  the  country  now  embraced  in  Wisconsin,  Iowa,  Minne- 
sota  and   Dakota.        The  survey   lasted  until    1851.      In  1851  he 
'eoeived  the  appointment  of  State  geologist  for  Illinois,  and  contin- 
led  in  this  survey  until  the  spring  of  1858,  when  he  was  removed  from 
iflBce  by  the  newly  elected  Republican  governor.    In  the  spring  of  1858 
le  was  invited  by  Prof.  G.  C.  Swallow  to  take  the  place  of  an  assist- 
mtin  the  geological  survey  of  Missouri,  and  accepted  the  offer.     He 
K>ntinued  in  this  survey  until  1860,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  chair 
>f  natural  science  in  the  University  of  Missouri.     He  accepted  the 
>lace  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  faculty  ever  since.     He  has  been 
.wice  married.     His  first  wife  was  Miss  Louisa  Taylor,  daughter  of  a 
nerchant,  formerly  ot  Richmond,   Virginia.     Her  mother's  maiden 
lame  was  Lotspeich,  being  of  Holland  origin.     Two  sons  and  one 
laughter  were  born  of  this  marriage.     The  daughter  is  living,  the 
ridow  of  Col.  J.  A.  Hendricks,  of  Indiana,  who  was  killed  at  PeaRido-e. 
The  eldest  son  died  of  small-pox  in  1831.     Mrs.  Norwood  and  her 
youngest  son  died  of  cholera,  at  Lexington,  Kentucky,  in  1833.     In 
[837  Dr.  Norwood  was  married  to  Mary  Frances,  a  daughter  of  Mr. 
fohn  Pugh,  of  Madison,   Indiana.     Three  sons  and  five  daughters 
irere  born  of  this  marriage.     Two  of  the  sous  and  one  daughter  died 
Q  infancy.     The  third  and  youngest  son,  Charles  J.  Norwood,  was 
or  some  years  engaged  in  the  State  geological  surveys  of  Missouri 
,nd  Kentucky,  and  was  formerly  professor  of  natural  science  in  Bethel 
College,  at  Russell  ville,  Kentucky.     He  is  now  editor  of  the  Herald- 
^rUei'pj'ise,  Russellville,  Kentucky.     He  married  Miss  Sallie  White, 
laughter  of  Hon.  Dougherty  White,  of  Lancaster,  Kentucky.     Four 
>f  the  daughters  of  this  last  marriage  are  living,  and  three  of  them  are 
narried.     Louise  is  the   wife  of  Mr.  Overton  A.  Fitch,  of  Madison, 
ndiana.     They  have  one  child,  now   in   his  sixteenth  year.     Eliza 
Joone  is  the  wife  of  Mr.  Henry  McConathy,  of  Columbia.     They  have 
our  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters.     Emma   is   the  wife  of 
fohn  D.  Vincil,  D.  D.,  of  St.  Louis.     Thev  have  one  son.     In  the 


920  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 

year  1862,  during  the  occupancy  of  the  University  building  by  Federal 
troops.  Dr.  Norwood  visited  the  building  every  day  and  remained 
there  protecting  the  property  of  the  University.  It  may  be  well  to 
say  that,  during  these  years,  he  has  the  reputation  of  having  always 
done  his  duty  according  to  his  strength  and  ability. 

JAMES   C.    ORR. 

James  Carson  Orr,  the  present  county  collector  of  Boone  county, 
was  born  in  Washington  county,  Virginia,  September  8,  1824.  At 
the  age  of  eight  years  he  went  with  his  father's  family  to  Sullivan 
county,  Tennesee,  where  he  resided  until  he  was  about  20  years  of  age 
(or  in  1844),  when  he  came  to  Boone  county,  settling  at  Rocheport. 
Here  he  engaged  in  merchandising  for  some  years.  In  the  winter  ot 
1858-9  he  removed  to  Columbia,  which  has  been  his  home  ever  since. 
When  he  first  came  to  Columbia  he  was  deputy  sheriff  under  John  M. 
Samuel.  During  the  civil  war  Mr.  Orr  took  no  active  part.  His  sym- 
pathies, however,  were  with  the  Southern  people,  and  he  was  placed 
under  bonds  by  the  Federal  authorities  for  his  **  good  behavior." 

In  1866  Mr.  Orr  was  elected  sheriff  and  collector  of  the  county, 
which  position  he  held  for  sixyeara,  or  until  1873.  In  1876  he  was 
again  elected  sheriff  and  served  one  term  of  two  years.  In  1880  be 
was  elected  county  collector.  The  frequent  elevation  and  reelection 
of  Mr.  Orr  to  positions  of  trust  and  responsibility  proves  the  estima- 
tion in  which  he  is  held  by  his  fellow-citizens  who  know  him  best. 

November  2,  1848,  Mr.  Orr  married  Mary  Thornton,  a  native  of 
Kentucky.  They  have  four  children,  one  son,  John,  a  clerk  and  book- 
keeper, and  three  daughters,  viz. :  Cornelia  J.,  now  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Miller  ;  Ida,  wife  of  N.  B.  Elkins,  both  of  Columbia  ;  and  Minnie,  sin- 
gle.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Orr  are  members  of  the  M.  E.  Church  South. 
Mr.  Orr  is  a  prominent  Mason,  having  taken  all  the  degrees  of  the 
order  up  to  and  including  the  Knight  Templars,  tie  is  generalissimo 
of  the  comraandery  at  present,  and  has  twice  been  master  of  the  lodge. 
He  is  also  a  Knight  of  Pythias  and  a  Good  Templar. 

The  father  of  the  subject  hereof  was  John  Orr,  a  native  of  Penn- 
sylvania, and  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.  His  father  was  a  native 
of  Ireland,  and  his  mother  was  born  in  "  bonnie  Scotland." 

FREDERICK   PANNELL.  . 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  native  of  England,  having  been  born 
in  London,  Februarv  18,  1830.     lie  is  the  son  of  Charles  and  Mary 


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HISTORY   OP  BOONS  COUNTY.  921 

&.nn  (Sparr)  Pannell.  Was  educated  at  Graveshead,  where  he  at- 
tended St.  John's  College.  He  was  chorister  at  St.  John's  Cathedral. 
Dmme  to  the  United  States  in  the  fall  of  1850,  stopping  for  the  first 
^ar  at  Quincy,  Illinois.  He  next  went  to  Hannibal,  Missouri,  where 
If  was  engaged  as  a  teacher  of  music.  He  afterwards  travelled  and 
:aught  music  in  almost  every  city  of  consequence  in  the  West.  In 
L858  he  came  to  Columbia,  and  was  professor  of  music  in  Christian 
College  for  two  years.  In  1879  he  bought  an  interest  in  the 
Columbia  Mills,  and  has  been  one  of  thai  firm  ever  since.  Was 
married,  in  Christian  College,  by  President  Rogers,  November  16, 
I860,  to  Miss  Fannie  E.,  daughter  of  Greorge  and  Ann  Milton, 
Datives  of  Vii^inia.  Six  children  were  born,  of  this  marriage,  five 
Bona  and  one  daughter:  Charles  F.,  born  October  16,  1861;  Al- 
fred K.,  born  January  18,  1865  ;  William  M.,  born  June  8,  186- ;  Ed- 
ward F.,  born  December  10, 1870  ;  Eva,  born  August  17, 1873,  and  died 
October  2l8t,  1874,  and  George  H.,  born  January  18, 1876.  Charles 
received  his  education  at  Christian  College.  The  other  children  are 
attending  the  University.  The  oldest  son,  Charles  F.,  is  now  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Trimble,  Fyfer  &  Co.,  Coluriibia,  Missouri.  He 
went  into  the  store  as  cash  boy  at  the  age  of  fifteen  or  sixteen.  Mr. 
Pannell  is  a  well-informed,  practical  man,  energetic  and  thoroughly 
in  earnest  in  all  his  undertakings.  He  is  a  very  fine  musician  and  a 
composer  of  acknowledged  ability.  Stfme  of  his  band  music  has  gone 
the  rounds  of  the  entire  country.  He  has  frequently  heard  his  music 
played  in  strange  places  and  by  strange  musicians,  note  by  note  as  he 
had  written  and  played  it,  years  before  in  teaching  his  classes. 

^  JUDGE   ALEXANDER   PERSINGER,  DECEASED. 

It  is  a  matter  of  much  regret  that  the  material  for  a  life-sketch  of 
so  worthy  a  subject  as  Judge  Persinger  should  have  been  supplied  at 
so  late  a  period  before  going  to  press  as  to  necessitate  only  a  brief 
mention  of  that  distinguished  man.  Yet  such  frequent  mention  is 
made  of  him  elsewhere  in  this  work,  that  this  and  that  will  sufiSce  where 
lack  of  space  so  compels  it.  Judge  Persinger  was  the  son  of  Jacob  Per- 
singer, a  name  given  the  latter  by  the  gentleman  of  that  name  in  Bo- 
tetourt county,  Virginia,  who  adopted  Jacob  when  a  captive  among  the 
Shawnee  Indians.  Alexander  was  born  in  Botetourt  county,  Virginia, 
July  11,  1790.  He  enjoyed  but  limited  school  privileges,  and  was 
largely  self-educated.  He  served,  when  a  young  man,  in  the  war  oi 
1812,  and  subsequently  came  to  Illinois,  and  then,  in  1818,  came  to 


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922  HI9TORT   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Missouri   and  settled  in  Montgomery  county,  where  he  resided  till 
1829,  when  he  came  to  Boone  county,  making  his  home  here  till  the 
day  of  his  death.     Though  he  spent  many  years  in  public  office,  he 
never  in  his  life  asked  or  sought  for  any  public  trust.     He  was  first 
appointed  judge  of  Montgomery  county  in  about  1821,  by  Gov.  Fred. 
Bates,  and  the   appointment  was  made  without   even   the    judge's 
knowledge.     He  yielded  to  the  importunities  of  his  friends,  however, 
and  accepted  the  trust  which  he  so  faithfully  discharged.     He  was 
twice  elected  and  served  that  county  in  the  legislature,  and  did  simi- 
lar service  one  term  for  Boone  county.    For  eighteen  years  he  served  the 
latter  as  county  court  judge,  and  it  was  as  presiding  justice  of  that 
court  that  he  achieved  his  most  endunng  fame.     No  man  ever  graced 
the  position  with  more  dignity,  or  filled  it  to  the  better  interest  of  the 
county.     Judge  Persinger  had  been  married,  while  living  in  Mont- 
gomery county,  to  a  Miss  Simpson,  by  whom  he  had  two  children, 
James  B.  Persinger,  who  died  on  his  way  to  California  in  1850,  and 
Mrs.  Sallie  A.,  who  died  in  1870,  the  wife  of  James  E.  Johnston,  of 
Columbia.     His  first  wife  died  in  Montgomery  county,  and  he  was 
again  married  in  18i^0,  to  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Spence,  widow  of  John  M. 
Spence,  though  no  children  were  born  of  this  union. 

Judge  Persinger  died  at  the  residence  of  his  son-in-law,  James  E. 
Johnston,  in  Columbia,  Missouri,  September  2,  1875,  in  the  eighty- 
sixth  year  of  his  age.  S\nc€  1836  he  had  been  a  member  of  the 
Christian  Church,  and  died  triumphant  in  the  hope  of  immortality. 
A  gentleman  of  Columbia  who  knew  him  well,  says  of  him  in  an  obit- 
uary sketch  :  **  The  Alexander  Persinger  who  so  recently  tottered  with 
trembling  steps  to  an  honored  grave,  is  dead  !  His  mortality  will 
decay  and  go  back  again  to  the  cold,  dull  earth  ;  but  that  high-eouled, 
chivalric  body,  descended  from  Revolutionary  loins,  who  twice  bared 
Iris  young  bosom  to  the  storms  of  relentless  war  waged  against 
his  weak  and  struggling  country  ;  that  bold  young  pioneer  who  made 
our  wilderness  bloom  ere  Missouri  became  a  star  in  the  constella- 
tion of  States  ;  that  sanguine  legislator  whose  prudence,  wisdom  and 
industry  contributed  so  largely  in  constructing  the  foundations  of  our 
Uirisprudence  and  civilization  ;  that  austere,  wise,  patient,  laborious, 
learned,  incorruptible  judge,  whose  long,  eventful,  righteous,  pros- 
perous and  happy  administration  of  justice  so  signally  blessed  aod 
elevated  our  peoi)le,  still  lives,  and  will  live  on  through  ages  uutQ 
gratitude  shall  cease  to  abide  in  the  well-springs  of  the  human  heart, 
and  generous  appreciation  be  banished  from  the  human  soul.     Pure, 


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HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  923 

great,  good  old  man  I     The  tearful  gratitude  and  love  of  a  whole 
people  bid  you  farewell." 

JAMES   L.  PRUETTE. 

James  L.  Pruette,  proprietor  of  the  Columbia  tobacco  store^isthe 
son  of  James  and  Permelia  (White)  Pruette.  He  was  bom  Novem- 
ber 8,  1817,  in  the  city  of  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  where  he  was  raised 
and  educated.  He  served  an  apprenticeship  at  the  tailor's  trade, 
working  four  years  at  the  business.  When  about  seventeen  years 
old  he  left  his  native  State  and  commenced  his  travels,  and  for  the 
next  forty  years  was  continuously  on  the  move,  visiting  almost  every 
State  of  the  Union,  Canada,  Mexico  and  the  tropics.  In  1850  he 
went  to  California  and  remained  there  for  two  or  three  years,  then 
came  back  to  the  States.  Returning,  to  California  in  1861,  he  re- 
mained there  until  1867,  when  he  came  to  Columbia  and  went  into  the 
grocery  trade  with  Robert  Shock.  Sold  out  his  interest  in  1875  and 
bought  the  tobacco  and  cigar  store  of  J.  M.  Baker,  and  has  remained 
in  this  business  ever  since.  Previous  to  this  he  was  weigh-master  of 
Oolnitibia  for  one  year.  The  citizens  of  Columbia  put  him  in  posses- 
sion of  the  tobacco  store,  and  he  wishes  to  express  his  profound 
gratitude  and  hearty  appreciation  of  their  kindness.  At  his  death  he 
means  to  give  all  that  he  may  then  possess  to  the  poor  of  Colombia. 
He  has  built  up  a  good  trade,  congenial  to  his  taste  and  sufficiently 
remunerative  to  make  him  independent  and  comfortable.  March  12, 
1871,  he  united  with  the  Methodist  Church  South,  under  the  preach- 
ing of  Rev.  John  D.  Vincil.  He  has  been  a  consistent,  conscientious 
member  ever  since,  B[is  father  and  mother  are  both  dead.  His 
father  died  when  he  was  an  infant.     His  mother  died  in  1832. 

ROBERT   THOMAS    PREWITT    (DECEASED.) 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  w^as  the  son  of  Moss  and  Nancy  (John- 
son) Prewitt.  He  was  born  in  Columbia,  Missouri,  July  23d,  1845, 
and  was  educated  at  the  State  University,  graduating  from  that 
institution  June  28th,  1865,  with  the  degree  of  A.  M.  He  was 
married,  September  7th,  1869,  to  Miss'  Sallie  W.,  youngest  daughter 
of  Woodson  G.  and  Lucy  J.  Rubey,  of  Columbia.  They  had  three 
daughters,  one  of  whom,  Iza,  a  lovely  child  of  six  years,  died  of 
diphtheria  in  1876,  The  surviving  children  are  Laura  R.  and  Lucille 
D.  Mr.  Prewitt  was,  until  his  health  failed  him,  an  active,  energetic 
man.     In  1866  he  eno^asred  in  the  mercantile  business  in  Columbia, 


924  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

being  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Moss  &  Prewitt.     He  remained  in  this 
business  until  1875,  when  he  left  the  store  in  the  hope  of  restoring 
his   health   by   travelling.     He   visited  the  South,  spending  several 
years  in  Florida  and  Texas,  but  to  little  purpose.     He  returned  to 
Columbia  in  feeble  health,  and  gradually  grew  worse  until  he  quietly 
breathed  his  last.  May  25th,  1880.     He  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church,  and  an  earnest,  devoted  Christian.     He  did  much  for  the  cause 
of   religion,    contributing    liberally    of    his    means    and    laboriDg 
personally  for  that  faith  which  was  ever  dear  to  his  heart.     He  was^ 
deacon  of  the  church,  afid  for  a  number  of  years  superintendent  of  the 
Baptist  Sunday  school,  and  an  active  member  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association.     He  was  also  one  of  the  trustees  of  Stephens 
College.     He  was  a  zealous  worker  in  the  cause  of  education  and 
temperance ;  in  fact,  every  cause  calculated  to  benefit  the  human  race 
found  in  him  an  earnest  supporter.     Moss  Prewitt,   the  father  of 
Robert  was,  in  his  day,  one  of  the  most  successful  business  men  of 
Columbia,  and  his  son  inherited   many  of  the  elements  of  character 
which  achieved  such  signal  prosperity  for  his  father  in  the  commercial 
activities  of  life.     Eobert  Prewitt,  though  cut  off  in  the  morniug  of 
promising  young   manhood,  yet   lived   long   enough   to  establish  a 
character  for  virtue,   devotion   to   principle   and   conscientious  and 
unswerving  maintenance  of  conviction  of  duty,  whose  influence  will  be 
felt  long  after  his  name  and  life  shall  have  faded  from  the  memories 
of  men. 

GEORGE  COOLEY  PRATT. 

The  subject  of  this  memoir  was  born  on  the  13th  of  January,  1815, 
at  what  is  now  known  as  East  Longmeadow,  in  the  county  of  Hamp- 
den and  State  of  Massachusetts,  His  father,  grandfather  and  great- 
grandfather were  large  farmers,  and  lovers  of  fat  cattle  and  fine 
horses.  His  grandfather  was  a  soldier  in  the  great  revolution  of  1776, 
serving  under  Washington  through  that  long  and  bloody  war,  which 
finally  terminated  in  the  liberation  of  the  American  colonists  from 
British  rule ;  and  his  grandmother,  whose  maiden  name  had  been 
Mary  Cooley,  was  one  of  the  young  wives  of  that  heroic  generation 
who  encouraged  the  patriotic  (Jevotion  of  their  husbands. 

Mr.  Pratt's  school  education  was  obtained  at  Jthe  district  school 
in  his  father's  neighborhood,  the  **  high  school"  at  Springfield,, 
the  **  academy"  at  Westfield,  and  the  college  at  Amherst,  from 
which  latter  institution  he  holds  the  diploma  of  master  of  arts. 

In  1836  Mr.  Pratt  entered  upon  the  profession  of  civil  engineerings 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  926 

f>6ing  employed  on  city  wprk,  on  the  survey  of  Fox  river  in  Wisconsin 
ibr  the  Federal  Grovernment,  and  on  the  location  of  the  railway  from 
Hartford,  Conn.,  to  Springfield,  Mass.  In  the  first  and  second  of 
these  engagements  he  served  under  a  French  engineer  who  had  been 
lieutenant-colonel  in  the  Imperial  Guard  of  the  great  Napoleon. 

In  August,  1841,  he  came  to  Missouri;  in  January,  1842,  he  was 
appointed  professor  of  languages  in  Bonne  Ferame  College  in  Boone 
county,  and  on  the  22d  of  December  of  the  same  year,  he  was 
married  to  Sarah  Maria,  daughter  of  William  Shields,  Esq.,  of  that 
neighborhood.  On  the  15th  of  June,  1843,  he  was  appointed 
assistant  to  Robert  S.  Thomas,  professor  of  languages  in  the  State 
University  at  Columbia,  and  on  the  6th  of  September  of  the  same 
year,  Prof.  Thomas  was  made  professor  of  metaphysics,  logic,  etc., 
and  Mr.  Pratt  was  appointed  professor  of  ancient  and  modem 
languages.  Here  he  taught  the  Latin,  Greek,  French  and,  on  one 
occasion,  the  Spanish,  languages  for  seven  years ;  and,  in  1850,  be 
resigned  his  position  and  went  across  the  plains  to  California.  The 
country,  from  the  western  boundary  of  Missouri  to  the  waters  of  the 
Sacramento  river,  in  California,  was  then  entirely  uninhabited,  except 
by  Indians.  After  spending  a  year  in  the  gold  mines,  he  returned  by 
way  of  Central  America,  Havana  and  New  Yort,  arriving  at  home  in 
January,  1852.  In  the  spring  and  summer  of  that  year  be  assisted 
his  father-in-law  in  re-surveying  a  portion  of  the  boundary  line 
between  Missouri  and  Iowa,  and  closing  up  the  land  lines  to  the  State 
line  on  both  sides  of  the  same. 

The  construction  of  railroads  having  commenced  in  the  State  of  Mis- 
souri, Mr  Pratt,  in  the  autumn  of  1852,  resumed  his  old  profession  of 
civil  engineering,  taking  employment  at  the  time  on  the  Missouri  Pacific 
Railroad,  and  during  the  next  twenty  years,  t.e.,  till  1872,  he  was 
engaged  for  most, of  the  time  in  the  location  and  construction  of  rail- 
roads, principally  in  Missouri,  but  doing  some  work  in  Iowa,  in 
Kansas  and  in  Arkansas.  While  on  the  Pacific  railroad,  he  also 
located  and  superintended  the  construction  of  the  old  plank  road  from 
Columbia  to  Providence  in  1854-5,  and  while  engineer  of  the 
Columbia  Branch  railroad,  he  also  located  the  turnpikes  from 
Columbia  to  Rocheport,  to  Ashland  and  to  Cedar  Creek  in  1867.  So 
also,  while  engineer  of  the  Helena  and  Iron  Mountain  railroad,  he 
superintended  the  construction  of  a  levee  on  the  Mississippi  river 
below  Helena,  in  1871. 

When   the    board    of    railroad    commissioners    for   the  State   of 


926  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTT. 

Missouri  was  organized,  April  27th,  1875,  Mr.  Pratt  was  appointed 
the  secretary  of  that  commission,  which  position  he  held  until  Janaary 
10th,  1881,  when  he  was  commissioned  as  railroad  commissioner  for 
six  years,  having  been  elected  for  that  o£Bce  at  the  general  election 
held  November  2d,  1880,  at  which  electron  he  received  the  largest 
vote  given  in  Missouri  for  any  candidate,  either  State  or  Federal. 

Mr.  Pratt  has  been  a  resident  of  Boone  county  ever  since  1842^ 
and  of  Columbia  since  1843. 

DR.  G.  W.  KIOOIN8. 

The  subject  of  this  notice  was  born  February  16th,  1825,  on  a  farm 
part  of  which  was  in  Callaway  and  part  in  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
the  house  being  in  Callaway  ;  he,  therefore,  is  a  native  of  that  county. 
His  father,  Joseph  Riggins,  was  born  in  North  Carolina,  but  when  quite 
a  young  man  emigrated  to  Kentucky,  where  he  married  Miss  Barzillia 
Lawless,  the  mother  of  the  doctor.  They  lived  in  Kentucky  for  sev- 
eral years  and  in  1816  came  to  Missouri  and  located  in  Howard  county, 
and  built  the  first  cabin  where  the  town  of  Old  Franklin  was 
afterwards  built.  The  site  of  the  present  city  of  Boonville,  opposite 
the  town  of  Old  Franklin,  was  then  a  dense  thicket,  and  the  Indians 
roamed  the  forest  and  killed  the  settlers  at  their  own  sweet  will.  Mr. 
Kiggins  had  no  neighbors  nearer  than  the  forts  above  and  below  his 
cabin,  at  too  great  a  distance  to  afford  his  constant  protection.  Several 
of  his  neighbors  were  killed  by  the  Indians,  after  the  neighborhood 
had  become  more  thickly  settled.  He' lived  at  Old  Franklin  about 
four  years  and  then  bought  the  farm  upon  which  the  doctor  was  born. 
He  shortly  afterwards  moved  to  Cole  county,  Missouri,  where  he  died 
in  1849  in  his  seventy-third  year.  His  widow  survived  him  several 
years  and  died  at  the  residence  of  her  son,  John  M.  Riggins,  of  Saline 
county,  Missouri,  at  the  age  of  eighty  years.  .  Dr.  G.  W.  Riggins  was 
educated  in  Cole  county,  Missouri.  He  studied  medicine  with  Dr. 
Wm.  Bolton  of  that  county,  and  afterwards  he  took  the  medical 
course  at  McDowell's  College,  St.  Louis.  It  was  connected  with  the 
State  University  during  his  first  year's  lectures  there,  but  before  his 
graduation,  in  1849,  the  connection  had  been  severed. 

In  1846  Dr.  Riggins  enlisted  in  Capt.  Monroe  M.  Parsons'  company, 
Doniphan's  regiment,  and  served  in  the  Mexican  war,  being  mustered 
in  at  Ft.  Leavenworth.  The  history  of  this  regiment  is  fully  set  forth 
on  other  pages.  The  doctor  was  a  participant  in  all  of  its  engage- 
ments,   marches,   skirmishes,  etc.     After  the  battle  of  Sacramento, 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  927 

I.  Doniphan  appointed  Dr.  Riggins  assistant  surgeon  of  the  regi- 
nt.  At  that  time  he  was  but  a  private  soldier.  He  refused  to  ac- 
>t  the  appointment  and  was  then  detailed  to  take  charge  of  the 
iinded,  which  he  did. 

Returning  to  his  home  in  Cole  county  he  practiced  medicine  for  three 
m,  when  he  removed  to  Callaway  county  and  continued  the  practice 
til  the  breaking  out  of  the  war.  He  took  sides  at  once  with  the 
nfederacy  and  went  into  the  Stiite  Guard  under  ex-Governor,  afber- 
pd  Maj.-Gen.  Sterling  Price  and  commanded  a  battalion  of  Calla- 
'-  county's  best  soldiers.  At  the  reorganization  of  the  army  at 
nphis,  he,  upon  the  urgent  solicitation  of  Gen.  Price,  went  into 
medical  department.  He  went  to  Jackson  and  Mobile,  and  pro- 
j<3  large  stores  of  supplies  for  the  sanitary  needs  of  Price's  army.  He 
binned  in  that  department  until  the  bright  star  of  the  Confederate 
•'ernnfent  set  to  rise  no  more  When  the  war  closed  he  had  charge 
L  hospital  near  Shreveport,  Louisiana.  He  remained  at  Shi'eve- 
b,  practicing  his  profession,  until  1874,  being  there  in  the  yellow 
ax  epidemic  of  1873,  when  he  had  charge  of  a  number  of  cases, 
made  up  his  mind  never  to  undergo  another  siege  of  the  terrible 
How  Jack,  and  in  1874  came  to  Columbia,  Boone  county,  Missouri. 

abandoned  the  practice  of  medicine  and  speculated  in  tobacco  for 
)iit  a  year  and  then  opened  a  family  grocery  store  and  sold   goods 

several  years.  In  the  fall  of  1881  he  went  to  Texas  and  engaged 
business  there,  but  soon  sold  out  and  returned  to  Columbia,  and  in 
tnership  with  a  gentleman  named  Moore,  opened  a  carriage  factory 
der  the  firm  name  of  Moore,  Riggins  &  Co.  Dr.  Riggins  was  a 
•cticing  physician  of  Jefferson  City  during  the  terrible  scourge  of 
>lera  there  in  the  years  1850-51.  He  was' the  first  physician  called 
m  to  attend  the  stricken.  Men  fell  upon  the  streets  with  the 
gue  and  died  before  they  could  be  taken  into  a  house.     Dr.  Riggins 

been  married  twice,  the  first  time  in  1849,  to  Miss  Tennessee 
tthews  Dean,  daughter  of  John  Dean  of  Jefferson  City,  Missouri. 
is  union  was  blest  by  four  children,  Augusta  B.,  George,  William 
I  Emmett.  Augusta  B.,  has  been  man-ied  twice.  Her  first  hus- 
id  was  Wesley  Cates,  and  her  second  was  Dr.  John  A.  Malcoum. 
)  is  now  a  widow  and  lives  at  Denison,  Texas.  George  is  now  in 
w  Mexico.  William  died  at  Vicksburg,  Mississippi,  in  1863.  Em- 
tt  lives  in  Columbia.  Dr.  R.'s  first  wife  died  in  1866.  He  was  mar- 
i  the  second  time  in  1870,  to  Mrs  Winans,  vridow  of  Col.  Winans, 
0  was  killed  during  the  war,  and  a  daughter  of  W.  W.  Harper,  of 


\)2S  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Boone  county.  By  this  marriage  they  have  one  child,  Mary  Haiper 
Biggins.  The  doctor  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  holding  his 
membership  at  Twilight  lodge,  No.  114,  at  Colnmbia.  He  and  his 
wife  are  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South. 

JOHN   DE  WILTON   ROBINSON. 

John  De  Wilton  Robinson  is  the  son  of  B.  F.  Robinson,  of  South 
Carolina,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Boone  county,  and  a  member  of 
the  Columbia  bar,  now  residing  at  Dallas,  Texas.  His  mother's 
maiden  name  was  Frances  De  Wilton  McLanahan,  also  a  native  of 
South  Carolina.  John  was  born  in  Boone  county,  city  of  Columbia, 
June  27,  1834.  He  grew  up  in  this  county  and  received  his  education 
at  the  State  University,  graduating  in  the  class  of  1853.  He  studied 
law  under  Judge  F.  P.  Wright  of  Warsaw,  Missouri,  and  was  admit- 
ted to  the  bar  of  that  place  in  1854,  Hon.  Waldo  P.  Jolfuson  and 
Judge  Ballon  being  his  examiners.  Locating  at  Kansas  City,  he  prac- 
ticed there  till  1861,  four  years  of  which  time  he  served  as  citj 
attorney. 

Mr.  Robinson  came  of  a  race  of  Southern  people,  and,  when  the  civil 
troubles  began,  naturally  he  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Confederacy, 
and  staked  his  all  upon  the  issue  in  favor  of  the  sunny  South.    In 
1861  he  made  tours  to  the  southern  part  of  Missouri  in  the  interest  of 
the  cause.     He  joined  Rucker's  company  in  August,  1862,  and  soon 
afterwards  figured  in  the  famous  Poindexter's  raid.     He  was  in  the 
actions   at    Switzler's  mill  and  Compton's    ferry    on    Grand    river. 
After  the  command  disbanded,  he  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  Federals 
ill  this  county  and  held  nine  months,  the  time  being  divided  betweeu 
Columbia,  St.  Louis,  Cairo,  Camp  Douglas,  and  other  Federal  pris- 
ons, during  which  he  endured  all  the  privations  and  indignities  of  a 
prisoner  of  war.     h\  the  spring  of  1863  he  was  exchanged  at  City 
Point,  Virginia,  and  joined  McKinney's   battalion  and  was  sent  to 
Pemberton's  army  in  Mississippi.     He  arrived  there  eight  days  before 
the  siege  of  Vicksburg  opened.     He  was  transferred  to  Lowe's  bat- 
tery (afterwards  Dawson's)  and  was  in  the  battles  of  Baker's  Creek, 
Big  Black,  siege  of  Vicksburg,  Mission  Ridge,  Kelly's  Cross  Roads, 
La.,  defence  of  Mobile  and  other  fights  and  skirmishes.     He  had  been 
captured  at  Vicksburg,  but  was  released  on  parole  and  was   in  the 
service  at  the  time  of  the  surrender.     He  served  as  private  *'  No.  4 
on  the  gun,"  and  never  lost  three  days  during  the  entire  period  of  his 
service  except  while  a  prisoner.     After  the  war  he  returned  to  Mis- 


JOSEPH  K.  KOQBBS,  LL.  D. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  929 

aud  bought  a  farm  iii  Howard  county,  which  he  operated  four 
He  then  went  to  Rocheport,  and  after  remaining  two  years, 
I  back  to  Columbia,  where  he  has  been  eyer  since  engaged  in 
ractice  of  the  law.  In  1880,  he  Was  elected  county  attorney 
e  Democratic  ticket,  which  office  he  still  holds,  and  has  en- 
red  always  to  do  his  duty  without  fear  o^  favor.  Mr.  Robin- 
as  married  July  5,  1854,  to  Miss  Sallie  Bedford,  a  native  of 
I  county  and  the  first  graduate  of  Christian  College,  being  the 
ctorian  of  1853.  They  have  had  two  children  Fannie  De 
II,  wife  ofBemm  Scott,  of  Clark  county,  and  Benjamin  F.  Mr. 
[rs.  Robinson  are  both  members  of  the  Christian  Church.  Mr. 
ilso  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  belongs  to  the  blue 
and  chapter. 

JOSEPH   KIRTLEY    ROGERS,  A.  B.,  A.  M.,  LL.  D. 

subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Kentucky, 
iber  19,  1828.  His  ancestry  emigrated  from  England  to  Vir- 
and  thence  to  Kentucky  soon  after  the  Boone  settlements  there, 
located  subsequently  at  Bryan  Station,  and  members  of  the  fam- 

now  scattered  through  all  the  Western  States.  His  father  and 
r,  William  and  Frances  Rogers,  removed  to  Missoiiri  in  the  fall 
0,  and  settled  upon  a  farm  about  ten  miles  west  of  Palmyra, 
unty  seat  of  Marion  county.     In  this  frontier  land,  where  the 

of  the  retiring  red  man  were  fresh  in  the  soil  and  the  embers 
camp-fires  still  smouldered  in  the  forests,  he  spent  his  child- 
ipd  youth.  He  grew  up  amid  the  trials  and  struggles  of  a  new 
y,  which  inure  to  hardships  and  train  to  habits  of  industry  and 
liance. 

education  was  commenced    in    the   traditional  frontier   **  log 

house  "  with  **  puncheon  floor,"  '*  slab  seats,"  and  a  log  cut 
•  a  window.  Mr.  Noah  Flood,  subsequently  a  prominent  min- 
f  the  Baptist  faith  in  Missouri,  presided  over  this  school.  Af- 
ving  the  country  school  he  attended  a  private  school  at  Phila- 
a,  Marion  county,  Missouri,  taught  by  F.  T.  Kemper,  one  of 
st  educators  in  the  State,  and  then  entered  Masonic  College, 
1  county,  Missouri,  presided  over  at  that  time  by  G.  J.  Woilh- 
Smith,  of  Virginia.  Archibald  Patterson  was  professor  of 
natics.  He  remained  here  two  and  a  half  years,  making  good 
ss  in  Latin  and  mathematics,  and  in  the  fall  of  1850  entered 
iri  University  at  Columbia,  and  graduated  July  4,  1853,  in  the 

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^30  HISTORY  or  BOONE   COUNTY. 

oourse  of  arts  with  the  deo^ree  of  A.  B.  He  received  the  honorary  de- 
gree  of  A.  M.  in  1856,  and  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  on  May  31,  1882. 
He  was  a  very  industrious  student  and  accomplished  the  work  in  three 
years  that  was  allotted  for  tour  years  at  the  University,  and  the^reby 
irppaired  his  health  which  he  never  regained.  In  the  fall  of  1854  he 
opened  the  St.  Joseph  Female  Academy  at  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  and 
successfully  managed  it  two  years,  and  then,  owing  to  his  feeble 
health,  he  gave  up  the  school  and  returned  to  Columbia. 

In  1856  he  accepted  a  position  as  professor  in  Christian  Coll^, 
Colunjbia,  under  L.  B.  Wilkes,  the  president  of  the  institution.  In 
July,  1858,  upon  the  resignation  of  President  Wilkes,  Mr.  Rogers 
was  elected  his  successor  as  president  of  Christian  College.  He  held 
this  important  and  arduous  position,  discharging  its  duties  with  signal 
ability  and  success  until  July,  1877,  when,  on  account  of  impaired 
health,  he  resigned.  The  popularity  of  the  school  during  this  time 
was  all  its  most  enthusiastic  friends  could  desire,  and  more  than  its 
best  and  most  substantial  friends  expected. 

Having  taken  charge  of  Christian  College  in  1858,  the  school  had 
just  arrived  at  a  happy  and  prosperous  period  when  the  war  broke 
out.  And  though  at  a  loss  financially.  President  Rogers  stood  faith- 
fully by  his  school  with  a  competent  corps  of  teachers,  never  losing  a 
day  or  swerving  from  duty. 

In  August,  1855,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Jennie  E.,  daughter  Cap- 
tain Archibald  S.  and  Amanda  Robards,  of  Hannibal,  Missouri,  an 
nccomplished  and  cultured  lady,  who  afterwards  became  a  most  im- 
portant aid  and  co-worker  with  him  in  his  protracted  and  laborious 
educational  work. 

She  now  resides  on  the  homestead  in  Columbia,  living  on  an  ample 
competence  left  by  her  husband  to  her  and  her  family.  Her  family 
consist  of  Lenoir  S.  and  A.  Bowen  Rogers,  who  are  now  in  business 
in  New  Mexico,  and  Fanny  and  her  husband,  A.  B.  Holland,  Jennie 
M.,  and  R.  Estell  live  with  her. 

After  he  resigned  his  presidency  he  made  several  trips  to  the  far 
West  with  hope  of  regaining  his  lost  health,  and  had  only  retunied 
the  morning  of  the  day  of  his  death,  which  occurred  at  12  o'clock  at 
night,  August  24th,  1882,  at  his  residence  in  Columbia. 

Immediately  after  his  death  there  was  a  spontaneous  move  on  the 
part  of  the  citizens  of  Columbia  and  vicinity  to  honor  the  man  whom 
they  loved,  which  resulted  in  the  following  meetings,  where  appro- 
priate and  lengthy  resolutions  were  passed  expressive  of  the  sense  of 


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HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  .       931 

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the  respective  assemblies,  viz. :  Board  of  trustees  of  Christian  Col- 
lege ;  executive  committee  of  the  board  of  curators  of  the  University 
of  the  State  of  Missouri ;  a  meeting  of  the  citizens  of  Columbia  and 
vicinity  held  at  the  court-house  in  Columbia ;  and  also  a  meeting  of  his 
pupils  held  at  the  Christian  church,  where  there  were  scores  present, 
some  who  had  sat  under  his  instruction  when  he  was  a  professor  in 
Christian  College  twenty-five  years  ago,  whose  locks  are  now  silvered 
with  gray,  and  some  who  attended  later.  The  classes  of  little  boys  of 
long  ago  had  their  representatives  in  the  stauucbest  citizens  of  to-day. 
All  ages,  ranging  over  the  entire  time  of  his  connection  with  the  col- 
lege, were  there  to  do  him  honor.  And  those  who  knew  him  best 
loved  him  most,  and  to  them  the  recollection  of  his  words  are  per- 
petual benedictions. 

WILLIAM   I.    ROBERTS. 

William  I.  Roberts,  city  marshal,  Columbia,  Missouri,  is  the  son  of 
Dr.  William  R.  and  Mary  E.  (Brown)  Roberts,  natives  of  Virginia. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Augusta  county,  Virginia, 
June  27th,  1847,  and  came  with  his  parents  to  Rocheport,  Boone 
county,  Missouri,  June  5th,  1859.  Completed  his  education  at  the 
Rocheport  Academy,  under  the  instructions  of  Prof.  Newton  Searcy, 
one  of  the  ablest  educators  of  the  country.  Enlisted  in  the  Confed- 
erate service  in  the  fall  of  1862  under  Col.  Poindexter,  and  partici- 
pated  in  the  raid  known  by  his  name.  Was  captured  and  taken  to  St. 
Louis,  where  he  was  confined  in  McDowell's  College,  and  afterwards 
at  Alton.  Was  released  from  prison  in  the  spring  of  1863,  and  in 
the  fall  of  1864  reenlisted  in  Company  E,  Searcy's  battalion.  Was 
afterwards  transferred  to  the  ordnance  department  and  was  assistant 
ordnance  sergeant  up  to  the  close  of  the  war.  Surrendered  at 
Shreveport,  Louisiana,  and  was  paroled  at  Alexandria.  Returning  to 
his  home  in  Rocheport,  he  was  engaged  as  a  clerk  by  H.  H.  Garth. 
Was  appointed  marshal  of  the  town  in  1867,  and  was  city  weigh- 
master  and  agent  for  the  Rocheport  stage  line.  July  18th,  1866,  he 
started  to  cross  the  plains,  but  went  no  further  than  Nebraska,  return- 
ing home  July  12th,  1867.  Was  again  appointed  marshal  of  the 
town,  which  position  he  held  until  1870.  In  February,  1870,  he 
came  to  Columbia  and  took  charge  of  the  Columbia  Hotel,  on  Broad- 
way, which  he  conducted  for  one  year.  For  the  next  three  years  he 
clerked  in  diflFerent  stores  and  acted  as  agent  for  the  Rocheport  ferry 
and  stage  line ;  was  appointed  city  marshal,  July  16th,  1874,  and 
was  re-appointed  in  1876,  holding  the  o£Bce  continuously  ever  since. 


932       ,  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  belongs  to  the  order 
of  United  Workmen  ;  also  K.  of  P.     He  was  married,  October  5th» 
1870,  to  Miss  Mintie,  daughter  of  George  and  Amanda  Knox.   By 
this  marriage  they  have  one  son  and  one  daughter,  Reuben  E.  and 
Mary  B.      Mrs.  Roberts  is  a  member  of   the  Presbyterian  churcli- 
The  father  of  Mrs.  Roberts  twice  represented  this  county  in  the  legiif-- 
lature  and  was  a  prominent  business  man  of  Rocheport.     He  died  somo 
time  in  1847  or  1848.     Mr.  Roberts  has  as  an  official  as  well  as  in 
private  life,  won  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  the  entire  community  iu 
which  he  lives.     His  excellent  judgment  and  cool   determination  iu 
dealing  with  the  lawless  class  stamps  him  as  eminently  fitted  for  the 
duties  of  his  important  and  dangerous  office. 

JOHN   ROGERS,    JR. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  probably  entitled  to  the  distinction  of 
being  the  oldest  citizen  now  living  in  Boone  county,  and,  notwithstand- 
ing his  great  age,  he  is  still  a  healthy,  vigorous  old  man.     With  all 
his  faculties  unimpaired,  he  looks  serenely  backward  to  the  time  when 
steam  was  unknown  as  a  motive  power,  and  steamboats  and  locomo- 
tives had  not  been  dreamed  of.     He  gazes  backward  over  an  extinct 
world  of  human  beings.     Of  all  the  millions  of  men  and  women  who 
were  breathing  the  breath  of  life  when  he  was  ushered  into  this  world, 
three  figures,  side  by  side,  would  more  than  express  the  number  who 
linger  still  upon  the  shores  of  time.     What  a  wonderful  vista !    How- 
remarkable  the  view  through  all  those  changeful  years,  from  1792  to 
1882 — four-score  and  ten  years!     John  Rogers,    Jr.,  was  born  in 
Culpepper  county,  Virginia,  March   14th,   1792.     His  father,  John 
Rogers,  Sr.,  was  born  in  England,  and  emigrated  to  the  United  States 
long  before  the  revolutionary  war.     He  afterwards  removed  to  Harri- 
son county,  Kentucky,  where  he  died  in  1821,  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
three  years.     His  wife,  Nancy  (Gregg)  Rogers,  was  born  in  Stafford 
county,  Virginia,  and  died  in   Harrison  county,    Kentucky,    at  the 
advanced    age   of  ninety-seven  years.     John  Rogers,    Jr.,  came  to 
Kentucky  with  his  parents,  and  in  1817  went  to  St.  Louis  county, 
Missouri,  where  he  remained   one   year,  going  from   there  to  Pike 
county,    Missouri,    where    he    remained    three    years.      Previous  to 
coming  to  Missouri  Mr.  Rogers  was  married  to  Mary,  daughter  of 
Edmund  Mountjoy,  of  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky.      By  this  mar- 
riage  they  had  nine   children,  four  sons   and   five  daughters,  only 
one  of  whom,  John  M.  Rogers,  of  Pike  county,  is  now  living.    Mr. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUKTY.  933 

Rogers  came  to  Columbia  in  1821.  There  was  at  that  time  but 
one  store  in  tlie  phice,  A.  J.  Williams,  proprietor.  The  hotel  was 
kept  by  Gentry.  Eld.  James  Barnes  was  then  sheriff  of  Boone  county. 
Mr.  Rogers  has  a  vivid  recollection  of  the  first  Fourth  of  July  cele- 
bration he  ever  attended  at  Columbia.  The  day  was  honored  by  a 
barbecue  just  east  of  Flat  Branch.  There  was  no  speaking.  The 
young  men  amused  themselves  with  foot  races,  jumping  and  wrestling. 
Mr.  Rogers  settled  on  a  farm  about  four  miles  south  of  Centralia, 
where  he  remained  for  four  years,  then  returned  to  Pike  county, 
where  his  wife  died,  January  19th,  1877,  in  the  eightieth  year  of  her 
age;  Returning  to  Columbia,  he  was  married,  December  6th,  1877,  to 
Mrs.  Mary  E.  Moody.  Since  his  marriage  he  has  resided  in  Columbia. 
Mrs.  Rogers  died  June  25th,  1882,  leaving  one  daughter,  by  the  last 
marriage,  aged  one  year  and  eight  months.  Mr.  Rogers  was  first  a 
member  of  the  Baptist  church,  having  united  with  that  denomination 
under  the  preaching  of  Rev.  Benjamin  Allen  in  1814,  In  1819  he 
joined  the  Christian  church  in  Pike  county,  Missouri,  under  the 
preaching  of  Eld.  Stephen  Ruddle,  at  Ramsey's  Creek  church.  He 
is  a  close  student  of  the  Bible.  Ho  believes  that  every  great  event  in 
the  world's  history  is  either  narrated  or  foretold  by  the  inspired 
authors  of  Holy  Writ.  He  holds  that  our  civil  war,  also  the  assas- 
sination of  President  Lincoln,  is  foretold,  and  can  cite  to  the  chapter 
and  verse.  He  is  a  fluent  talker,  and  on  such  topics  as  he  takes  an 
interest  in  is  quite  entertaining. 

HON.    JAMES   8.    ROLLINS,  LL.  D.^ 

James  S.  Rollins  is  a  native  of  Richmond,  Madison  County,  Ken- 
tucky, where  he  was  born  April  19th,  1812.  His  paternal  grand- 
father was  a  native  of  Ireland.  His  father.  Dr.  Anthony  Wajme 
Rollins,  was  a  prominent  physician.  His  mother,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Rodes,  was  a  native  of  Albemarle  county,  Virginia.  Maj. 
Rollins  had  six  brothers  and  sisters,  all  of  whom  are  dead,  except  his 
youngest  sister,  who  is  the  wife  of  Hon.  Curtis  F.  Burnam,  a  former 
assistant  secretary  of  the  United  States  treasury. 

In  early  youth  Maj.  Rollins  pursued  an  academic  course  in    his 


*  So  much  has  been  written  and  published  of  Major  Rollins,  and  such  frequent  mention 
is  made  of  him  and  his  connection  with  Boone  county  in  the  general  history  of  this  volume, 
that  a  condensed  sketch  is  deemed  sufl9cient  for  the  purposes  of  this  work.  Indeed,  to  pub- 
lish anything  like  a  complete  biography  of  so  distinguished  a  subject  would  require  a  volume 
in  itself,  and  far  transcend  the  limits  of  this  publication. 


934 


HlSTOnr  OP   BOONE   COCNTT. 


native  town,  and  in  1827  entered  Washington  College,  PennsyWania, 
but  at  tbe  end  of  the  junior  year,  he  left  this  institution  and  entered 
the  University  of  Indiana,  at  Bloomington,  where  he  graduated  io 
1830,  His  parents  having  removed  to  Boone  county,  Maj.  Kollini, 
after  graduating,  joined  them.  Coming  to  Missouri,  he  took  chai^ 
of  his  father's  plantation  for  one  year.  He  then  read  law  under  Hon. 
Abiel  Leonard,  and  spent  two  years  at  the  Transylvania  Law  School 
Lexington,  Ky.,  where  he  graduated  in  1834.  He  at  once  entered  upon 
the  duties  of  bis  profession  at  Columbia,  Missouri.  During  the  Black 
Hawk  war  he  served  for  about  six  mouths  on  the  staff  of  Gen. 
Biehard  Gentry.     In  1836    Maj.  Rollins  and  his  law  partner,  Thomn» 


IlE  SI  DEUCE  OF 


JAUES  S.  ROLLI>'5,  COLITHBIA,  HO. 


Miller,  became  editore  of  the  Columbia  Patriot,  a  Whig  paper,  which 
they  conducted  for  several  years, 

In  1836  Maj.  Rollins  attended  a  railroad  convention  at  St.  Louis, 
the  first  ever  Iield  in  the  State,  and  as  chairmau  of  the  committee  on 
resolutions,  drafted  and  submitted  a  memonal  to  Congress  asking  for 
a  grant  of  public  lands  to  aid  in  constructing  public  works,  which  the 
convention  favored. 

Mr.  Rollins  was  married  June  6th,  1837,  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Hickman, 
n  native  of  Howard  county.     They  have  had  eleven  children,  eight  of 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  935 

s 

whom  are  living.     The  oldest  son,  James  H.  Rollius,  is  a  a:raduate  of 
West  Point  and  a  captain  in  the  U.  S.  regular  army. 

Maj.   Rollins  commenced  his  public  career  in  1838  as  the  Whig 
candidate  for  the  legislature.     He  was  elected,   and,  though  quite 
young,  took  an  active  part  in  the  deliberations  of  that  body.     During 
the  sessions  of  1838-39  ho  was  very  active  in  regard  to  educational 
matters,  and  drafted,  introduced  and  ably  advocated  the  bill  to  found 
and  endow  the  State  University  of  Missouri.      He  was  reelected  in 
1840.     During  both  his  terms  of  service  in  the  legislature  he  was 
energetic  and  earnest  in  the  advocacy  of  the  prosecution  of  internal 
improvements,  and  especially  the  building  of  railroads  and  the  improve- 
ments of  rivers  at  public  expense.     He  cast  his  first  vote  for  president 
in  1836,  for  General  Harrison.     In  1844  he  was  a  delegate   to  the 
Baltimore   Convention  which  nominated  Henry  Clay  for  president. 
During  this  campaign  he  mdde  many  effective  speeches  in  support  of 
Mr.  Clay.     Two  years  following  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate, 
and  was  the  leading  advocate  of  the  bill  to  establish  the  first  lunatic 
asylum  at  Fulton.     In  1848  he  was  the  Whig  candidate  for  governor, 
and  polled  a  vote  far  in  excess  of  the  usual  strength  of  his  party, 
although  defeated  by  Hon.  Austin  A.  King.     In  the  general  assembly 
of  1847-49,    Maj.  Rollins  was  the  Whig  candidate  for  the  United 
States  Senate,  but  the  large  Democratic  majority  precluded  all  hope 
of  his  election.     In   1854  he  was  again  elected  to  the  legislature* 
during  which  session  he  boldly  opposed  the  extension  of  slavery  into 
the  territories.     He  voted  for  Col.  Doniphan  for  the  United  States 
Senate  and  made  an  eloquent  speech  in  support  of  his  favorite  can- 
didate.      In    1857  Maj.  Rollins  was  again  the  Whig  candidate  for 
governor  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  election  of  Governor  Polk 
to  the  United  States  Senate.     His  opponent  in  this  race  was  Hon.  R. 
M.  Stewart.     They  made  a  joint  canvass  of  the  State  and  the  excite- 
ment was  very  great.     Stewart  was  declared  elected  by  two  hundred 
and  thirty  votes,  but  many  of  Maj.  Rollins's  friends  thought  that  he 
was  really  elected.     At  all  events,  it  was  a  glorious  triumph  for  the 
Whig  candidate  who  had  pushed  a  forlorn  hope  to  the  very  verge  of 
victory.     In  1860  he  was  elected  to  congress  from  the  9th  district. 
He  supported  Bell  and  Everett,  while  his  opponent,  Hon.   John  B. 
Henderson,  supported  Douglass  and  Johnson.     He  took  his  seat  in  the 
special  term  called  by  President   Lincoln  to  convene  July  4th,  1861, 
to  take  measures  to  suppress  the  rebellion.     He   at  once  took  sides 
with  the  union.     He  made  many  thrilling  and  effective  speeches  both 


936 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY, 


ill  the  halls  of  congress  ;md  elsewhere  in  behalf  of  the  union.  He  was 
an  activu  iukI  ahle  supporter  of  the  bill  to  provide  for  agricultural 
colleges  in  the  different  Stateis  by  a  grant  of  public  lands.  February 
5th,  1862,  ho  introduced  a  bill  to  aid  in  the  construction  of  aniilroadand 
telegraph  line  from  the  Missouri  river  to  the  Pacific.   This  bill,  withsomo 


amendments  l)ecanie  a  law  in  July,  18()2,  and  under  its  |)rovi8ions  the 
Union  Pacific,  Central  Pacific  and  Kansiis  Pacific  railroads  were  built 
across  the  continent.  He  voted  for  and  advociited  the  adoption  of 
the  thirteenth  amiiiidment  to  the  Constitution,  abolishing  slav- 
«ri-  in  the  United  States,   although  at  the   time  he  waa  probably  the 


HI8TOBY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  .  937 

st  slave  owner  in  Boone  county.  This  amendment  had  been  in- 
ced  in  the  United  States  senate  by  Hon.  John  B.  Henderson,  of 
mri.  Maj.  Rollins  delivered  a  powerful  speech  during  this  ses- 
n  favor  of  freedom  of  speech  and  in  opposition  to  the  expulsion  of 
jong,  of  Ohio,  for  expressing  disunion  sentiments  in  the  House 
epresentatives.  Major  Rollins  declined  a  reelection  to  congress 
64,  and  returned  to  his  home  in  Columbia.  In  1866  he  was 
sent  to  the  legislature,  and  during  this  session  was  engaged  in 
ng  the  statutes  of  the  State,  to  adapt  them  to  the  new  Constitu- 
idopted  in  1865.  He  was  also  greatly  interested  in  perfecting 
>mmon  school  system  of  the  State  and  the  rehabilitation  of  the 
University  upon  a  firm  and  enduring  basis,  it  having  been  broken 
iring  the  war.  He  introduced  and  secured  the  passage  of  a  bill 
lishing  a  normal  department  in  the  State  University,  and  to  pro- 
br  rebuilding  the  president's  house,  which  had  been  destroyed 
■e.  In  1867  President  Johnson  appointed  him  a  director  of  the 
1  Pacific  Railroad  Company,  which  he  accepted,  but  resigned  in 
In  the  latter  year  he  was  again  elected  to  the  State  senate,  re- 
ig  a  very  decide^  n^ajority  of  the  votes  cast,  but  his  seat  was 
sted.  After  a  long  and  severe  contest  he  was  seated,  notwith- 
ing  a  majority  of  senators  were  opposed  to  him  politically. 
\'g  this  session  of  the  senate  Maj.  Rollins  introduced  a  bill  to  es- 
h  an  agricultural  and  mechanical  college,  endowed  with  330,000 
of  land  granted  by  the  general  government  to  the  State  for  that 
>8e.  This  measure,  after  extended  and  animated  discussions  in 
egislatures,  became  a  law  after  being  amended  so  as  to  give 
3urth  of  the  lands  to  the  School  of  Mines  at  Rolla.  He  is  also 
ithor  of  the  law  cutting  down  the  initiation  fees  to  the  State  Uni- 
;y,  making  that  institution  substantially  free  to  th^  sous  and 
iters  of  Missouri. 

ide  from  being  one  of  the  largest  subscribers  to  the  fund  to  se- 
bhe  location  of  the  University  at  Columbia,  Maj.  Rollins  has  been 
iithor  and  chief  advocate  of  every  important  bill'passed  by  the 
ature  providing  for  or  adding  to  the  nuuntenance  and  advance- 
of  Missouri's  greatest  school.  No  wonder  he  .has  received  the 
of  **  Father  of  the  University  of  Missouri.'*  The  history  of  the 
3rsity,  given  on  other  pages  of  this  volume,  sets  forth,  in  part,  his 
5es  in  behalf  of  the  institution.  Mr.  Rollins  is  also  the  author 
le  laws  creating  the  State  Normal  Schools  at  Kirksville  and 
ensburg,   having   reported   them,  when  chairman  of  the  com- 


988  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

mittee  on  educatiou,  to  the  legislature,  and  warmly  advocated  tlieir 
passage. 

Space  forbids  the  enumeration  of  the  many  public  acts  and  services 
of  Maj.  Bollins  in  behalf  of  his  country,  his  State,  his  county 
and  his  town.  Suffice  it  to  say  that  he  has  been  foremost  in  everj 
good  work,  and  that  his  hand,  his  purse  and  his  brain  have  ever  been 
at  the  service  of  his  people  in  every  laudable  undertaking.  Mr. 
Bollins  is  now  in  the  sere  and  yellow  leaf  of  life  — 

And  that  which  should  accompany  old  age. 
As  honor,  love»  obedience,  troops  of  friends. 

He  has  in  great  abundance.  He  spends  his  time  chiefly  in  retirement 
in  his  elegant  home  in  the  suburbs  of  Columbia,  a  view  of  which  is 
shown  elsewhere,  and  his  chief  delight  is  the  entertainment  of  the 
many  friends  who  call  upon  him.  Two  of  his  sons,  Curtis  B.  and 
George  Bingham,  and  an  accomplished  daughter,  are  at  home  with 
their  father  and  mother,  and  there  is  not  a  happier  household  in 
all  Missouri  than  the  one  whose  honored  head  bears  the  name  of 
James  S.  Bollins. 

Look  where  he  sits,  this  man  of  peace, ^ 

Upon  the  sward,  under  a  linden. 

Mark  you,  his  hair  and  beard  all  gray. 

His  face  a-wrinkled,  and  his  hand  half-palsied  that  doth  clutch  his  staff; 

But  yet  his  eye  is  bright  and  lights  as  when  he  led  his  legion.    «    *    * 

*  *    *    O !  what  a  change  in  him  and  all ! 
\          And  yet  to  him  it  seemeth  better. 

The  clamor  of  his  goats  and  sheep,  the  noise  of  plows  and  groaning  wains, 

Doth  please  him  more  than  did  aforetime  the  plaudits  of  galleries, 

The  acclaim  of  multitudes,  the  rumble  of  a  thousand  chariots  and  triumphal  cars. 

That  babbling  youngster — his  grandchild,  mayhap, — 

Who  climbs  upon  his  seat  and  plucks  his  beard, 

And  gets  a  hug  and  kiss,  then  shouts  in  triumph, 

Climbs  clumsily  down,  runs  away  and,  tumbling. 

Sprawls  upon  the  grass,  then  shouts  again, — 

That  romping  elf  can  his  attention  gain 

(Hear  him ;  he  cries,  "Come  help  me  up !  ") 

Sooner  and  surer  than  we,  who  sat  in  senate  with  him 

And  heard  his  voice  when  it  counseled  and  proclaimed  our  country's  policies. 

*  *    *    Look  you,  so  should  all  good  men  end  their  days. 

DR.    A.    W.    ROLLINS,  DECEASED. 

Dr.  Anthony  Wayne  Bollins  was  born  in  Westmoreland  county, 
Pa.,  March  5,  1783.  His  father,  Henry  Bollins,  was  a  native  of 
County  Tyrone,  Ireland,  and  came  to  America  during  the  Bevoliition- 
ary  war,  in  which  he  took  a  part  on  the  side  of  the  Colonies.    Among 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  939 

engagements  in  which  he  participated,  he  was  at  the  battle  of 
vwine. 

m 

A.  W.  Rollins  was  reared  amidst  the  disadvantages  of  poverty, 
18  thrown  at  an  early  period  upon  his  own  resource's  to  fight  the 
of  life.  Possessing  a  firm  physical  constitution  and  good  na- 
tellect,  he  went  resolutely  to  work  with  a  strong  purpose  to 
B  success  and  to  win  a  respectable  position  amongst  nden.  By 
itely  working  on  a  farm  and  attending  such  primitive  schools  as 
.t  that  early  day  to  be  found  in  the  country,  he  gained  the  rudi- 
of  a  good  common  school  education,  which  enabled  him  to  be- 
i  schoolmaster  himself.  In  this  useful  and  honorable  employ- 
le  was  engaged  until  he  got  sufficiently  ahead  with  ready  means 
3r  Jefferson  College,  at  Conuoushurg,  Pennsylvania,  where  he 
sfully  completed  his  education.  In  1803  or  1804  he  went  to 
cky  aChd  lived  successively  in  the  counties  of  Bourbon,  Fayette 
adison,  engaging  in  school  teaching  and  pursuing  the  study  of 
ne.  He  engaged  in  practice  as  a  physician  in  Richmond,  the 
r  seat  of  Madison  county,  which  he  made  his  permanent  home 
enty-five  years. 

the  18th  day  of  April,  1811,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Harris  Rodes,  the  second  daughter  of  Judge  Robert  Rodes,  a 
aent  and  distinguished  citizen  of  Madison  county,  and  a  sister  of 
nerable  Colonel  William  Rodes,  of  Richmond,  and  also  of  Major 
1  Rodes,  now  residing  at  Danville,  Kentucky.  She  was  a  lady 
tied  and  beautiful  character,  and  the  union  was  one  which 
t  great  contentment  and  happiness  to  the  parties.  By  this  mar- 
;here  were  seven  children,  of  whom  only  two  are  now  living  — 
Jest,  the  Honorable  James  S.  Rollins,  of  Columbia,  Missouri, 
le  youngest  Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Burnam,  the  elegant  and  accom- 
1  wife  of  the  Honorable  Curtis  F.  Burnam,  graduate  of  Yale 
;e,  and  a  distinguished  lawyer  of  Kentucky, 
he  spring  of  1830,  his  eldest  daughter,  Eliza,  having  made  a  mar- 
Bngagement  with  Dr.  James  H.  Bennett,  then  residing  in  Colum- 
[issouri,  and  the  health  of  Dr.  Rollins  failing,  he  determined  to 
ite  with  his  family  to  Missouri.  Having  purchased  a  fine  body  of 
partially  improved,  in  the  western  part  of  Boone  county,  about 
liles  north  of  the  Missouri  river,  he  came  and  took  possession  of  it 
spring  of  1830,  and  pursued  steadily  thereafter  the  profession  of 
Iture  until  his  dercth,  which  occured  at  Richland,  his  residence 
>ne  county,  on  the  9th  day  of  October,  1845,  in  the  sixty-third 


940  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CODNTT. 

year  of  his  age.  He  was  buried  at  the  family  cemetery  with  Masonic 
honors,  of  which  ancient  order  he  had  been  a  life-long  member;  bat 
his  remains,  with  those  of  his  affectionate  wife,  were  afterwards 
removed  to  the  Columbia  Cemetery,  where  they  now  rest. 

Dr.  BoUins  took  great  interest  in  the  establishment  of  schools,  in 
building  churches  and  in  all  other  enterprises  calculated  to  improve 
the  social  and  physical  condition  of  the  people  among  whom  he  lived. 
His  services  in  behalf  of  the  State  University  are  set  down  in  the 
history  of  that  institution,  on  other  pages  of  this  work.  What  is 
known  as  the  ''Rollins  aid  fund"  was  created  by  him  pursuant  to 
the  following  provision  of  his  last  will  and  testament: 

Item  7tb. —  Having  felt  the  great  disadvantages  of  poverty  in  the  acquisition  of  mj  own 
education,  it  is  my  will  that  my  executors,  hereinafter  named,  shall,  as  early  after  my  death 
as  they  may  deem  expedient,  raise  the  sum  of  $10,000  by  the  sale  of  lands  of  which  I  may  die 
seized,  and  which  I  have  not  especially  bequeathed  in  any  of  the  foregoing  items,  which  sum 
of  $10,000  I  desire  may  be  set  aside  for  the  education  of  such  poor  and  indigent  youths  of 
Boone  CQunty,  male  and  female,  as  are  not  able  to  educate  themselves. 

The  principal  of  this  sum,  by  careful  management  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  County  Court  of  Boone  county,  has  increased  to  $30,000, 
three-fourths  of  the  annual  interest  upon  which  sum  is  annually  ex- 
pended in  giving  aid  to  such  young  men  and  women  as  desire  to  ob- 
tain an  education  at  the  State  University,  and  the  remaining  one- 
.  fourth  of  the  interest  is  added  regularly  to  the  principal.  Already 
some  hundreds  of  pupils  have  received  substantial  aid  from  this  source, 
without  which  they  would  not  have  been  able  to  prosecute  their  studies. 

Dr.  Rollins  was  a  man  of  fine  presence  and  noble  mien,  and  cordi- 
ally admired  for  his  genial  manners  and  high  character.  The  engrav- 
ing on  another  page  is  from  a  portrait  by  Bingham,  now  in  the  library 
of  the  University, and  is  said  to  be  a  good  likeness  of  the  destin- 
guished  subject. 

COLONEL    FRANCIS    T,    RUSSELL. 

Col.  Francis  T.  Russell,  lawyer  and  prominent  business  man  of  * 
Columbia,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Cabell  county.  West  Virginia,  April 
24th,  1821,  and  was  raised  on  a  farm.  He  received  his  education  at 
the  Ohio  University,  under  Drs.  Read  and  McGufTey .  Studied  law  and 
was  licensed  to  the  bar  in  Virorinia.  Removed  to  Missouri  in  the  fall 
of  1841,  and  settled  in  Columbia,  Boone  county,  having  been  influ- 
enced to  do  so  by  the  location  of  the  University  at  this  place.  Com- 
menced the  practice  of  law,  which  he  kept  up  at  intervals  until  the 
close  of  the  late  war.  Was  married  May  6th,  1846,  to  M.  Caroline 
Lenoir,  a  native  of  North  Carolina,  with  whom  he  has   raised  seven 


HISTOBY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  941 

t       children 9  all  living.     Shortly  after  his  marriage  he  settled  at  his  pres- 
ent home,  in  West  Columbia,  where  he  has  resided  ever  since.    Crossed 
the  plains  to   California  in  1849,  with  a  Boone  county  company,  and 
remained  in  the  mines  until  the  winter  of  1850,  when  he  returned  and 
led  an  expedition  of  his  own  on  a  second  trip  of  great  exposure,  sick- 
ness and  loss.     He  returned  to  Columbia  in  the  winter  of  1851,  and 
resumed  his  law  practice.     For  the  next  ten  years  he  was  engaged  in 
*  mixed  business  requiring  great  labor  and  energy.     In  addition  to  the 
^ftw,  he  managed  his  farms,  a  saw-mill,  and  attended  to  the  duties  of 
public  administrator.     He  was  also  a  trustee  of  Christian  College,  and 
gave  that  institution  a  large  share  of  his  time  and  money.     At  the 
breakinor  out  of  the  civil  war  he  became  and  remained  a  decided  Union 
Haan.      He   organized  the    Union  clubs  of  the  county.     Was  com- 
Inissioned  a  lieutenant-colonel   of  the  61st  regiment  Enrolled   Mis- 
aouri   Militia,   by  Gov.  Gamble,    and  went  at  once  into  active  local 
service.     During  the  same  year  he  was  commissioned  by  President 
Lincoln  one  of  the  Home  Guard  commissioners   for  Missouri.     His 
associates  were  Charles  T.  Sherman,  of  Ohio,  brother  to  Gen.  Sherman, 
and  George  R.  Taylor,  with  Col.  James  H.  Moss  as  U.  S.  attorney. 
The  duties  of  this  office  lasted  for  nearly  seven  months,   and  nearly 
$1,000,000  of  claims  for  services  and  material  were  audited  and  al- 
lowed against  the  United  States,  in  favor  of  early,  irregular  service 
in  Missouri.     After  fulfilling  the  duties  of  this  position  he  returned  to 
active  military  service  at  home  in  the  autumn  of  1863,  but  early  in 
the  winter  following  he  was  detailed  for  duty  as  provost  marshal  at 
Columbia,  in  which  position  he  remained  until  the  office  was  closed 
in  1864.     He  was  elected  to  the  legislature  in  1868   on  the  Repub- 
lican ticket  and  served  two  sessions.    He  was  chosen  to  this  service  — 
with  Hon.  James  S.  Rollins  in  the  Senate  —  with  special  reference  to 
the  Agricultural  College  being  located  in  Boone  county,  and  so  com- 
pletely did  this  matter  absorb  their  time  and  attention  that  the  Boone 
members  could  take  no  part  in  any  other  legislation,  scarcely  even 
by  voting.     The  desired  result  was  finally  achieved  at  the  end  of  the 
second  winter,  but  not  without  great  labor  and  skilful  management 
on  the  part  of  both  the  Boone  members  and  their  friends.     It  may 
be  said  that  with  less  ability,  energy  and  perseverance  than  were  dis- 
played by  Qol.  Russell  and  Maj.  Rollins,  and  the  earnest  cooperation 
of  a  number  of  enterprising  citizens  of  Boone  county,  the  Agricultural 
College  would  never  have  been  located  at  Columbia.     Col.  Russell 
voted  for  the  emancipation  ordinance.     From  1860-to  1880  he  was  a 


942  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

curator  of  the  State  University,  and  as  such  was  justly  entitled  to 
credit  of  placing  his  old  preceptor,  Dr.  Daniel  Read,  at  the  head  of 
that  institution,  and  whose  earnest  and  devoted  labors  in  behalf  of  the 
University  are  well  known  and  universally  recognized  by  all  tiM 
friends  of  the  institution.  He  organized  and  carried  through  tbe 
present  system  of  cheap  club  boarding  houses  for  poor  students.  Be 
also  procured  the  appointment  of  Prof.  Ficklin  to  his  present  position 
in  the  University.  Was  also  one  of  the  committee  to  locate  the 
School  of  Mines,  and  to  visit  all  the  agricultural  colleges  in  the 
United  States  in  the  interest  of  the  Missouri  school.  R.  L.  Todd, 
of  Columbia,  and  A.  W.  Matthews,  of  Springfield,  were  alsomemben 
of  the  committee.  For  the  last  ten  years  Col.  Russell  has  devoted  his 
time  to  domestic  life  and  private  business  affairs. 

JOHN   BEDFORD    ROYALL   AND   FAMILY. 

The  distinguished  family  whose  history  is  briefly  outlined  in  this 
sketch   originated  in   Virginia,  the   grand    **01d   Dominion"  from 
whence  so  manv  of  the  finest  families  of  the  land  have  come  westward 
and  southward.     John  Bedford  Royall,  whose  immediate  family  are 
associated  with  the  history  of   Boone  county,  was  born  in  Halifax 
county,  Virginia,  May  23,  1788.     He  was  reared  in  his  native  county, 
and  finished  his  educational  course  at  Hampden-Sidney  College.    He 
was  commissioned  a  captain  of  cavalry  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  therein, 
as  all  through  his  long  and  useful  life,  did  creditable  service.     He  whs 
a  man  of  great  literary  tastes  and  oesthetical  tnrn  of  mind ;  and  he 
gratified   his  desires  in  this  particular  by  much  close  and  constant 
reading.     He  was  admitted  to  the  Virginia  bar  and  practiced  law  in 
that  State  for  some  years.     He  removed  to  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
in  1840,  though  he  only  lived  four  years  after  settling  in  this  hospitable 
clime.     Mr.  Royall  was  married,  January  29,  1817,  to  Miss  Pamelia 
Williamson  Price,   daughter  of  Pugh  W.   Price,  of  Prince  Edward 
County,  Virginia.     Mr.  Royall  had   been   long  connected   with  the 
Presbyterian  church,  and  died  firm  in  that  faith,  departing  this  life  in 
Columbia,  Missouri,  August  24,  1844.     Mrs.  Royall,  who  still  survives 
at  this  writing,  is  living  in  Columbia  with  her  son  and  daughter.     She 
was' born  August  11,  1800,  and  is  a  sister  of  the  lamented  Gen.  Ster- 
ling Price  of  Confederate  fame,  John  R.  Price,  Maj.  Robert  Pugh 
Price,  and  Dr.  Edwin  Price.     Her  brothers  all  became  more  or  leas 
distinguished.     The  generous  and  noble-hearted  Pugh,  though  less 
famous  than  some  of  his  brothers,  has  never  been  publicly  mentioned 


HISTORY  or   BOONE   COUNTY.  943 

A  sach  8  manner  as  his  many  estimable  qualities  entitled  him  to. 
4r8.  Royall  was  educated  at  Reed's  Academy  in  Virginia.  She  was 
ciarried  young,  and  became  the  mother  of  six  children.  Elizabeth 
lied  at  fifteen  years  old,  while  at  school  at  Danville,  Va.,  Academy. 
lAary  Jane  Royall  became  the  wife  of  Col.  William  F.  Switzler,  of 
Columbia,  and  died  September  11,  1879.  Wm.  Bedford  Royall  is  at 
his  writing  a  colonel  in  the  regular  United  States  army.  He  had 
erved  in  the  Mexican  war,  and  was  a  first  lieutenant  in  Captain 
iCcMillan's  Boone  county  company.  He  was  in  Texas  at  the  out- 
break of  the  civil  war,  and  remained  loyal  to  his  government,  doing 
Qost  of  his  service  in  Virginia.  He  was  six  times  wounded  in  an 
engagement  with  ''Jeb."  Stuart's  Confedej'ate  cavalry.  This  took 
>lace  in  Virginia,  and  was  a  hand-to-hand  fight,  in  which  Captain 
Ijataine  was  killed.  Capt.  L.  was  in  command  of  a  Confederate 
letachment  that  assailed  Capt.  Royall.  At  the  close  of  the  war  Wil- 
iam  B.  came  out  with  the  rank  of  major.  He  distinguished  himself 
n  June,  1876,  in  a  fight  with  Sitting  Bull  at  Rosebud,  Dakota  Terri- 
X)ry.  He  now  holds  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel,  and  is  with  his 
regiment  in  Arizona  Territory.  John  Price  Royall,  still  another  son, 
ind  now  teacher  of  book-keeping  in  the  State  University,  was  born  in 
Halifax  county,  Virginia,  July  11,  1831.  He  married  Miss  Nancy  C. 
Wells,  of  California,  June  4,  1868.  Prof.  Royall  went  out  to  California 
in  1850,  and  there  became  assistant  State  superintendent  under  O.  P. 
Fitzgerald,  D.  D.  He  was  engaged  in  teaching  mining  and  farming 
during  his  long  residence  in  that  State,  and  also  taught  book-keeping 
in  the  San  Francisco  city  schools.  He  returned  to  Columbia  in  1880, 
and  went  in  the  University  as  stated  above.  Victoria  Regina  resides 
in  Columbia  with  her  mother  and  brother,  while  Virginia  Lafayette 
(now  Mrs.  J.  A.  Henderson,  wife  of  Judge  Henderson,  of  St.  Louis 
Donnty),  is  now  a  resident  of  Clayton,  that  county. 

COL.    WILLIAM   F.    SWITZLER. 

Col.  Switzler  was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Kentucky,  March  16, 
1819.  His  paternal  grandparents  were  natives  of  Switzerland.  They 
emigrated  to  America,  settling  near  Harrisburg,  Pennsylvania,  subse- 
quently removing  to  Orange  county,  Virginia,  where  Simeon  Switzler, 
the  father  of  Col.  S.  was  born.  In  1826  Wm.  F.  came  with  his  father 
to  Fayette,  Howard  county,  Missouri,  and  here  resided  until  1832, 
when  .the  family  moved  to  a  farm  about  midway  between  Fayette 


I  • 


944  HISTORY  or  boone  countt. 

and  Boonville.  He  attended  school  at  Mt.  Forest  Academy  and  read 
law  at  home,  his  instructors  in  law  being  Col.  J.  Davis  and  Judge 
Abiel  Leonard. 

Col.  Switzler  early  evinced  a  decided  taste  for  politics.  In  1840, 
when  but  twenty-one  years  of  age,  he  was  a  strong  Whig,  and  wrote 
a  series  of  able  articles  in  the  Boonslick  Times  (then  published  at 
Fayette)  advocating  the  election  of  Gen.  Harrison.  January  8, 1841, 
he  came  to  Columbia  and  read  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  J.  S.  Rollins. 
In  1841  he  was  selected  to  deliver  a  public  address  on  the  occasion  of 
the  death  and  in  commemoration  of  the  life  and  services  of  Gen. 
Harrison.  In  the  same  year  he  became  editor  of  the  Patriot,  His 
admission  to  the  bar  occurred  in  1842.  In  July  he  retired  from  the 
Patriot^  but  in  December  following  he  purchased  a  half  interest  in  the 
office,  and  again  became  its  editor  (see  history  of  Columbia  Patriot), 
Col.  Switzler's  public  services  in  behalf  of  his  county  and  State  are 
set  forth  on  other  pages  of  this  volume  and  need  not  again  be  men- 
tioned here. 

As  stated,  he  was  an  old  line  Whig,  and  as  such  voted  for  and 
supported  Gen.  Harrison  for  president  in  1840  ;  Henry  Clay  in  1844; 
Gen.  Taylor  in  1848  ;  Gen.  Scott  in  1852  ;  Millard  Fillmore  in  1856; 
and  John  Bell  in  1860.  In  the  latter  year  he  was  a  candidate  for 
presidential  elector  on  the  Bell-Everett  ticket  and  made  a  thorough 
canvass  of  his  district.  During  the  war  he  was  a  decided  but  con- 
servative Union  man.  Since  1863  he  has  acted  with  the  Democratic 
party.  He  supported  Gen.  McClellan  for  president  in  1864;  Hora- 
tio Seymour  in  1868 ;  Horace  Greeley  in  1872 ;  Samuel  J.  Tilden  ia 
1876,  and  Gen.  Haucock  in  1880. 

In  1866  and  also  in  1868  Col.  Switzler  was  the  Democratic  nominee 
for  congress  in  his  district.  Notwithstanding  the  disfranchisement  of 
a  very  large  number  of  Democrats,  he  was  both  times  elected  by 
large  majorities  over  his  Radical  competitors.  The  Radical  secretary 
of  state  **  went  behind  the  returns,"  however,  and  each  time  gave  the 
certificate  of  election  to  Col.  S.'s  competitor.  Each  time  the  case 
was  carried  up  to  congress,  and  on  both  occasions  a  majority  of  the 
committee  on  election,  largely  Republican,  reported  in  favor  of  Col. 
Switzler.  The  Radical  majority  in  the  house,  however,  refused  to 
ratify  the  actions  of  the  committee,  and  both  times  awarded  the  seats 
to  the  sitting  members.  On  both  occasions  Col.  Switzler  presented 
his  case  to  the  house  in  speeches  of  great  ability  and  power,  which 


.     HISTORY  OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  945 

-aittracted  attention  and  comment  throughout  the  Union.  Previous  to 
-the  war  —  in  1846,  1848  and  1856  —  he  was  elected  to  the  legisla- 
tare  from  Boone  county. 

Col.  Switzler  was  a  member  of  the  State  constitutional  convention 
of  1865,  in  which  he  took  a  very  prominent  part  against  disfranchise- 
ment and  other  extreme  measures  adopted  by  the  Kadical  majority  of 
^that  body.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  constitutional  convention 
■of  1875,  and  was  chairman  of  the  committee  on  education.  To  him 
the  people  of  the  State  are  largely  indebted  for  the  article  on  that 
subject  in  the  present  constitution. 

January  1,  1878,  leaving  the  Statesman  newspaper  under  the  edito- 
rial control  and  business  management  of  his  brother,  Lewis  M.  Switz- 
ler, a  lawyer  of  Columbia,  and  of  his  eldest  son,  Irvin  Switzler,  he 
assumed  half  ownership  and  chief  editorial  charge,  in  conjunction 
with  M.  B.  Chapman,  of  the  St.  Joseph  Daily  Evening  Chronicle^ 
but  in  April  following  disposed  of  his  interest,  returned  t^  Columbia 
and  resumed  control  of  the  Statesman y  which  he  yet  maintains.  His 
history  discloses  the  remarkable  fact  of  more  than  forty  years'  editor- 
4ship  of  the  same  paper  in  the  same  town. 

A  few  days  after  he  left  Columbia  for  St.  Joseph,  as  it  was  supposed, 
there  to  make  his  permanent  home,  his  old  neighbors  and  countymen 
held  a  public  meeting  in  the  court-house,  which  was  presided  over  by 
the  late  Elder  J.  K.  Rogers,  and  which  was  addressed  by  Hon.  J.  S. 
Rollins,  Robert  L.  Todd,  Prof.  G.  C.  Swallow,  Rev.  W.  T.  Ellington, 
Capt.  H.  C.  Pierce  and  others,  each  bearing  testimony  to  the  high 
•character,  ability  and  services  of  Col.  Switzler,  with  personal  regrets 
at  his  leaving  Columbia.  Resolutions  were  passed  by  the  meeting 
•eulogistic  of  him  as  a  journalist,  legislator  and  citizen  —  such  resolu- 
tions as  few  men  of  any  State  live  to  see  passed  and  published  in 
•commendation  of  them  by  their  old  friends  and  countymen. 

In  1877  Col.  Switzler  wrote  "  Switzler' s  History  of  Missouri," 
universally  regarded  and  adopted  as  the  standard  history  of  our  State. 
Being  for  so  long  a  time  in  public  life  and  blessed  with  a  phenomenal 
memory,  he  is  a  perfect  animated  cyclopedia  of  facts  peilaining  to 
the  history  of  Missouri  and  Boone  county,  and  has  the  full  capacity  to 
put  them  on  paper,  as  is  evidenced  by  the  ''History  of  Missouri," 
and  by  this  volume,  the  general  history  in  which  was  chiefly  written 
by  him. 

In  August,  1843,  Mr.  Switzler  was  married,  in  Columbia,  to  Mary 
Jane  Royall,  a  daughter  of  John  B.  Royall,  of  Hiilifax  county,  Vir- 

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946  HI8TOBY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

giikii.     All-.  Swiizlt'.r  iliorl  S«»j)t«rnt'Hr  11,  1879,  leivvtnL  «i: 
'.  Liil«l!i*n,  t>\')  tons  jipii   ,>»;♦•  «lauiiliLei'.      i^Hi?  n(  tin*  -Mji-.  .   • 

lor,   M   i\.>v\    propi  !•  i(U'  di'  tiie    L''>Iii!ni>i:i   ySfiifi;<ti  tn.     }.    '•    "■ 
liiiiii^i'it'  rt?ni:i'uj.s  ijuniiirrie*!. 

It  www  Iu'^Ik  i"  anJ  i::  concln.  "   a  Ik)  .■^a'ul  ot"  i\)\.  \\'ii\.  \     •^.  ; 
Ui;it   iio  i^  ,1  .^t/lf-ni.ule  ;ii'^."     .\liO  lia*-   won    liouor:i)»Io  ui-i        ■    . 
iiHiu-^'v,  ^iijit-r  .i'.riMCii,  j)oiso:imI  puiiiy  and  vortli.     As  u  :•  •     ;\ 
ii:?irtri  Ii.;jli,  il  ••  >>tatr'Siiitn  l^'ini;  le^'iHed  as  a  J♦(J^^l•n.ll   •>,:.,  .: 
ti.ti   'ourii.ii  Avlii'  !i  \{\  tuili  ift^uo  i.s  ti!l«'«l  with  niattor ''nn;|u  r...  *.;  ; 

rf!n»".itu  by  thc>s"  -.vjio  inadt',  ^()M  .lad  dnink  spiritiii>u>  iiqiit'r    ■ 
nrvtw  tust   '1        n»  i'U')\i..;itiii:'  b-.  v'«m*;;;;l*.      He  has  bj^-?n  ftlvv;iVfi«  i*^'' 
uhiliiu'hirjr  advocjiiu  of  total  ubslinenoe,  and  Is   known  as  :i  .:.  •. 
workoi   ill  tlie  cau>:(^  ol  tonij •(•rune c  and  prohibition  iu  thi:i  biit. v. 
isl'jo^^i.  ^\  .  C  T.  ol*  Mjir  •>idor  of  (ioodlVmplari*  for  the  t/uni:  • 
(VjI.  Swuzier  iias  do!i<5  ii;(/od.  Mivico  for  Boone  oouiitv.      A^  it>  i 
resentiitlve  in  Ici^islat.ivc  cou: :«:iis  he  was  always  ready,  fjilrh:-: 
efficient;  during  tho  win  in,*  \va«  of  ^reat  a(Mist4Lnce  to  iht?  p<:f)>}- 
his  '  'Mintv  who  favorod  s^«^e!«!ji*Mi,  Ltnd  hftd'fallen  under  llic    •? 
Fcdoral  niilitary  auiiiorit^  ;  hi  overv  public  aatorpriae  he  wh.<  -xr 
aniohir  the  foremost;  in  ever,  L'>'«>d  work  hm  hts  n^er  been  • 
hand  ;  as  a  friend  he  is  !t>yal  :tnd  trustworthy^  as -a  eitizeu  ap^< 
he  is  ;:   mode?!,  and  whiJo  h.*  i?*  now  blessed  wth  troops  «''  ;■' 
:in«.!    '^iluurui^,  thero  iu*n  •:••»:<:  rat  ions    yet   unborn  th  it   v  ;''    ;r 
to  "'      i«  .Tii.tr  f.f*  ^1^1   rofni'?-  \  . 

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HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTY.  947 

for  the  bar,  he  now  determined  to  engage  in  the  mercantile  business 
and   devoted  all  his  energy  and   enterprise   in   that   direction,  being 
I^i^cly  interested  in  the  sale  of  merchandise  and  in' shipping  tobacco 
•nci  pork.     He  was  quite  successful  in  business  and  contributed  largely 
^^  tAie  prosperity  of  the  community  with  whom  he  traded.     Always 
liberal  in  his  dealings,  he  has,  while  prospering  himself,  promoted  the 
P^^osperity  of  others.      He  was  elected  sheriff  of  Boone  county  in 
^857  by   the  largest  majority,  perhaps,  ever  received  by  a  candidate 
^"^r  that  office,  in  this  county.     He  was  re-elected  in   1859.     He  was 
^^ected  clerk  of  the  circuit  court  in  1867,  and  re-elected  in  1871.     In 
X876  he  was  elected  county  treasurer,  and  now  holds  that  position, 
^e  has  given  entire  satisfaction  to  the  public  in  all  his  official  rela- 
tions, and  he  has  performed  all  his  public  duties  with  ability,  prompt- 
ness and  integrity.     He  is  a  gentleman  of  benevolent  and  kindly  im- 
pulses, a  public  spirited  citizen,  a  wise  counsellor  and  a  true   friend, 
and   is  deservedly  popular  in  the  community  which  has  known  him 
long  and  well.     Mr.  Samuel  was  married,  September  2,  1847,  to  Miss 
Elenora    B.,    daughter    of   the  late  Ishmael   Vanhorn,    of    Boone 
county.     They  have   three  daughters,  all   married.     Mr.   and   Mrs. 
Samuel  are  faithful  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  are 
usefully  and  actively  interested  in  the  general  good  of  society. 

PBOF.    PAUL   SCHWEITZER,  PH.  D. 

Prof.  Schweitzer  is  a  native  of  Prussia,  born  in  the  city  of  Berlin, 
March  16,  1840.  His  father  was  a  respectable  citizen  of  the  middle 
class  and  renowned  as  a  mathematician.  Prof.  Schweitzer  received  his 
education  in  the  Universities  of  Berlin  and  Goettingen,  graduating 
from  the  latter  institution  in  1869.  In  1864  he  came  to  America  and 
resided  for  a  time  in  the  cities  of  Philadelphia  and  New  York.  He 
was  a  teacher  in  the  polytechnic  school  at  Philadelphia,  and  also  taught 
in  the  school  of  mines,  Columbia  College,  New  York  City.  In  1867 
he  returned  to  Germany  and  remained  a  few  months.  In  1869  he 
again  visited  the  fatherland,  and  it  was  during  this  visit  that  he 
received  his  diploma  from  Goettingen .  He  returned  to  New  York  and 
resumed  his  place  in  the  school  of  mines  of  Columbia  where  he  was 
employed  until  in  September,  1872,  when  he  accepted  the  position  of 
professor  of  analytical  and  applied  chemistry  in  the  University  or 
Missouri ;  this  title  was  afterwards  changed  to  that  of  professor  of 
chemistry,  and  this  position  he  now  holds. 

Prof.  Schweitzer's  reputation  as  a  chemist  is  already  well  established. 


948 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   CODNTT. 


His  preceptoi'3  were  the  celebrated  German  scient 
'  Kose,  and  Woehler.  He  ia  a  corresponding  raei 
York  Academy  of  Science,  a  member  of  the  Americ 
ciety,  and  a  fellow  of  the  American  Association  for 
of  science.  He  is  the  author  of  many  important  pa 
jeets  connected  with  the  science  of  chemistry.  A 
by  him  on  the  subject  of  petroleum  has  been  pub] 
«ulated,  and  universally  commended,  being  frequent 
quoted  from  as  indisputable  authority.  The  profesi 
conservative  school  of  thought,  not  sharing  the  viet 
mun  scientists  and  philosophers.  He  accepts  only  wh 
to  be  true,  indulges  in  but  few  speculations  concernii 
iind  rejects  everything  that  will  not  bear  analysis, 
liis  science  and  is  constantly  discovering  new  beaut 
qualities  in  his  mistress. 

.  June  22,  1870,  Prof.  Schweitzer  married  Miss  Sai 
tive  of  England,  but  a  resident  of  New  York  City  a 
now  have  two  children,  Willis  and  Lizzie.  The  pr 
and  confirmed  in  the  Lutheran  church,  and  baa  nev< 
other  religious  organization.  Mrs.  Schweitzer  is  a  1 
was  naturalized  as  an  American  citizen  in  1872, 
tached  to  the  institutions  of  his  adopted  country, 
tions,  votes  to  please  himself,  and  is  not  a  partisan 
ing  himself  in  all  things.  "  with  malice  toward  none 
all." 

AUGDST   8CU11LT8. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Peter  and 
Schults.  He  was  born  May  28th,  1828,  in  Elberfel 
reared  and  educated  in  bis  native  town  until  1844, 
the  University  of  Boun,  where  be  remained  for  five  ; 
ated  at  that  institution,  July  4th,  1855.  After  tinisi 
Bonn  he  left  for  America,  landing  in  the  city  of  Nei 
kept  books  for  two  years.  In  1857  be  went  to  Bi 
where  be  enlisted  in  the  United  States  army  and  ^ 
He  belonged  to  the  regular  anny  for  five  years. 
the  Federal  army,  and  was  made  adjutant  of  the  Thi 
fantry.  Was  in  the  battles  of  Arkansas  Post,  Vicks' 
Ft.  Blakely  and  Port  Hudson.  Was  mustered  out  in 
in  1865.  In  the  spring  of  1866  he  went  into  the  pre 
«iou  business  in  Hi.  Louis,   Missouri,  and  remain 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  949 

came  to  Columbia,  in  1868.  He  engaged  in  farming,  one  and*  one- 
half  miles  northwest  of  Columbia,  untilJanuary,  1875,  when  he  moved 
to  town  and  entered  the  circuit  clerk's  office,  where  he  has  labored 
ever  since.  He  was  married  in  St.  Louis  to  Emma  Solier,*  daughter 
of  Louis  S.  Solier,  of  Switzerland.  His  father  died  in  Elberfeld, 
Prussia,  in  1845.  His  mother  died  in  1861.  Mr.  Schults  is  an  excel- 
lent clerk.  His  writing  is  as  plain  as  print  and  perfectly  uniform. 
His  books  will  compare  with  the  best  in  State  for  neatness  and  ac- 
curacy. He  takes  great  pride  in  his  work  and  has  always  given  per- 
fect satisfaction. 

WARWICK  MARTIN  SCOTT. 

Warwick  Martin  Scott,  son  of  Robert  E.  and  Anna  H.  (Oldham) 
Scott,  was  born  in  Boone  county,  October  8th,  1846.  A  sketch  of 
his  family  may  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  volume,  in  connection  with 
the  biography  of  Robert  E.  Scott.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
educated  at  the  Missouri  State  University.  He  commenced  business 
as  a  clerk,  October  8th,  1867,  with  Moss  &  Prewitt,  dry  goods  gier- 
chantSy  of  Columbia,  Missouri.  He  stayed  with  this  firm  for  five  years 
then  went  to  Paris,  Texas,  where  he  sold  dry  goods  for  J.  T.  Berry,  re- 
maining with  him  for  sixteen  months.  He  then  returned  to  Boone 
county,  in  August,  1874,  and  went  to  clerking  for  Samuel  &  Strawn. 
Remained  with  them  until  August,  1875,  when  he  became  a  member 
of  the  grocery  firm  of  Scott,  Kennan  and  Ferguson.  Was  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Strawn,  Ferguson  &  Co.,  dry  goods  merchants,  for 
several  years,  also  of  Scott,  Kennan  &  Co.,  groceries,  until  August 
1st,  1882.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Scott  &  Kennan,  one 
of  the  largest  and  best  equipped  mercantile  establishments  in  Central 
Missouri.  Messrs.  Scott  &  KennaMire  self-made  men,  born  apd 
raised  in  Boone  county,  and  from  early  boyhood  thoroughly  identified 
with  the  business  interests  of  Columbia  and  the  surrounding  country. 
Was  married,  October  8th,  1878,  to  Miss  Annie  B.,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Alfred  and  Percilla  Patton,  of  Vincennes,  Indiana,  They  have 
one  son  and  one  daughter, — Annie  P.,  bom  July  29th,  1879,  and 
Robert  Alfred,  born  July  18th,  1881.  Mr.  Scott  is  a  member  of  the 
Christian  church,  also  of  the  Masonic  order.  Mrs.  Scott  is  a  member 
of  the  Christian  church. 

GEORGE   p.    KENNAN. 

George  P.  Kennan,  a  prominent  business  man  of  Columbia,  was 
born  seven  miles   northeast   of  Columbia,  May  7,  1848.     He  is   the 


950  HISTOSr  OF  BOONE   CODHTr. 

son  of  Samuel  and  Hailriet  (Rogers)  Kennan.  Was  reai^d  od  the 
homestead,  attending  the  public  school  of  his  neighborhood  during  his 
minority.  He  commenced  his  business  career,  February  16, 1867,  when 
he  entered  the  dry  goods  store  of  Conley,  Strawn  &  Co.,  as  a  sales- 
man. He  continued  with  this  firm  six  years,  when  he  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  dry  goods  firm  of  Strawn,  Hedden  &  Co,  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  this  firm  for  two  years.  In  1874  he  was  engaged  as  a  sales- 
man in  the  dry  goods  store  of  Samuel  &  Strawn,  and  remained  with 
that  firm  one  year.  In  1875  he  left  the  dry  goods  trade  and  embarked 
in  the  grocery  business  with  Scott,  Kennan  &  Ferguson,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Scott,  Kennan  &  Ferguson.     Continued  with  this  firm 


W.  M.  SCOTT.  QEURUK  F.  KBNKAN. 

.  ProprleEora  Great  WaBtarn  Grocary  House,  Columbia,  Mo. 

until  1879.  From  1879  until  August  1,  1882,  he  was  one  of  the  part- 
ners of  Strawn,  Ferguson  &  Co.,  dry  goods,  and  Scott,  Kennan  & 
Co.,  grocers.  The  present  firm  is  Scott  &  Kennan.  They  employ 
four  salesmen  and  three  porters  and  run  three  wagons.  Their  stock 
consists  of  all  kinds  of  staple  and  fancy  groceries,  queensware,  glass, 
wooden  and  tinware.  Mr.  Kennan  has  been  remarkably  successful  in 
business,  having  commenced  without  a  dollar.  The  firm  of 
Scott  &  Kennan  is  doing  the  largest  business,  perhaps,  of  any  simi- 
lar establishment  in  the  connty.  The  firm  is  composed  of  youngmen 
born  and  raised  in  Boone  county,  each  of  whom  commenced  life  with 
little  or  no  capital  but  nerve,  energy  and  prudence.     They  have  mer- 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  ?51 

lied  and  won  the  confidence  and  patronage  of  the  public  and  have 
^Bstablisbed  a  business  second  to  none  in  the  country,  Mr.  Kennan 
was  married,  September  18,  1879,  to  Miss  Sue,  daughter  of  Dr. 
William  and  Matilda  (Colborn)  Garrard.  They  have  one  child,  Ma- 
tilda C. 

THOMAS   CALVIN   SCBUGGS. 

Thomas  Calvin  Scruggs  was  born  at  Sacramento  City,  California, 
October  30,  1852.  He  is  the  son  of  John  Calvin  and  Juliet  (Sexton) 
Scruggs.  His  father  was  a  prominent  stock  dealer  of  Sacramento, 
California.  He  bought  his  stock  in  Missouri  and  the  territories  and 
drove  across  the  plains.  He  had  also  invested  considerable  capital  in 
real  estate  at  Sacramento,  and  was  largely  interested  in  mining.  He 
died  at  sea,  three  day's  out  from  shore,  but  was  brought  to  the  city  of 
New  Orleans  for  interment.  His  body  was  afterwards  removed  to 
Independence,  Missouri,  and  deposited  in  the  cemetery.  Young 
Scruggs  came  with  his  mother  to  Kansas  City  in  1854,  where  he  was 
educated  at  the  high  school,  afterwards  learning  the  carpenter's  trade 
under  John  M.  Jackson,  a  prominent  builder  of  that  city,  serving  an 
apprenticeship  of  five  years.  Before  entering  upon  his  apprenticeship, 
however,  he  travelled  the  river  for  several  years  as  a  newsboy.  After 
quitting  Mr.  Bobinson,  he  visited  many  parts  of  the  country,  working 
at  his  trade  from  time  to  time  to  defray  expenses.  He  landed  at  Colum-"^ 
bia  in  the  autumn  of  1873,  and  has  remained  here  ever  since,  having 
been  actively  engaged  as  a  contractor  and  builder  since  becoming  a  citi- 
zen of  the  place.  He  was  married  November  13, 1873,  to  Miss  Sallie, 
daughter  of  Charles  E.  and  Mary  (McDaniel)  Sexton.  They  have 
one  son  and  one  daughter,  John  C.  and  Lillie.  Mrs.  Scruggs  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  church.  Mrs.  Juliet  Strong,  the  mother  of 
Mr.  Scruggs,  was  first  married.  May  25,  1848,  to  John  C.  Scruggs. 
She  was  married  to  William  A.  Strong,  December  27, 1855,  in  Kansas 
City,  Missouri.  He  was  born  and  educated  in  North  Carolina.  Dur- 
ing  the  summer  previous  to  his  marriage  he  established  the  Kansas 
City  Enterprise^  now  known  as  the  Journal,  He  had  control  of  this 
paper  for  about  two  years.  Mr.  Strong  afterwards  came  to  Boone 
county,  where  he  resided  for  nine  years.  He  returned  to  Kansas 
City,  where  he  died  in  1869.  He  was  a  brilliant  writer  and  an  able 
speaker. 

CHARLES   C.  SHERWOOD. 

The   subject   of   this   sketch  is  the  son  of  Morgan  and   Harriet 
(Brewster)  Sherwood,  dau<rhter  of  Hon.  Jonah  Brewster,  of  Pennsyl- 


952  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

vania,  which  State  he  represented  in  the  United  States  Senate  for  nine 
years.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  at  Wellsboro,  Tioga 
county,  Pennsylvania,  April  15,  1839,  and  was  educated  at  Oxford 
College,  New  York,  where  he  graduated  in  1856.  He  then  went  to 
Fon  du  Lac,  Wisconsin,  where  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business,, 
remaining  there  two  years,  when  he  went  to  New  Orleans,  and  for  the 
next  two  or  three  years  succeeding  was  first  clerk  of  several  river 
steamers,  remaining  in  this  business  until  the  beginning  of  the  war* 
In  1861  he  enlisted  in  Company  A,  Second  Wisconsin  cavalry,  and 
was  engaged  as  secretary  to  Gen.  C.  C.  Washburne,  and  subsequently 
became  a  member  of  his  staff.  He  served  as  aide  de  camp  until  1862, 
when  he  resigned  in  order  to  accept  a  position  in  the  revenue  depart- 
ment, where  he  remained  for  one  year.  He  was  next  engaged  as  chief 
clerk  in  the  United  States  engineer  department,  his  duties  pertaining 
to  fortifications.  Remained  in  this  position  until  1865,  when  he  re- 
signed to  accept  the  appointment  of  general  passenger  agent  of  the 
Atlantic  and  Mississippi  Steamship  Company,  with  headquarters  at 
New  Orleans.  Was  with  this  company  two  years.  In  1868  was  ap- 
pointed western  travelling  agent  for  Grand  Trunk  railroad  in 
Canada,  Vermont  Central  railroad  and  Royal  Mail  line  of  steamers* 
Held  this  position  until  1872,  when  he  went  to  Chicago  and  was  en- 
gaged as  commercial  editor  of  the  Chicago  Commercial  Advertiser 
for  two  years  ;  then  went  on  the  road  for  John  H.  Gather  wood  &  Co.> 
a  tea  firm  of  Philadelphia.  Was  with  this  establishment  until  1876. 
Afterwards  he  removed  to  Chicago  and  was  engaged  to  travel 
for  Grannis  &  Farwell,  wholesale  grocers,  remaining  with  this  firm 
some  time,  when  he  came  to  Columbia,  Missouri,  and  opened  a  milli- 
nery store  on  a  larger  and  more  attractive  scale  than  had  ever  before 
been  seen  in  the  place.  He  has  the  largest  retail  millinery  establish- 
ment in  Missouri.  Mr.  Sherwood  was  married,  August  1,  1876,  to 
Miss  Minnie  G.,  daughter  of  T.  T.  and  Elizabeth  (Wright)  Shoot- 
man,  of  Mexico,  Missouri.  They  have  one  son,  John  Morgan.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Sherwood  are  both  members  of  the  Christian  Church. 

•    CLINTON    B.    SEBASTIAN. 

C.  B.  Sebastian  is  the  son  of  Alexander  H.  and  Tabitha  A, 
(Jacobs)  Sebastian,  and  was  born  at  Clove rport,  Breckinridge  county » 
Kentucky,  March  24,  1852.  His  father  moved  to  Boone  county,  Mis- 
souri, in  1854,  and  settled  on  Two-mile  prairie,  six  miles  east  of 
Columbia  on  the  St.  Charles  road,  where  he  lived  until  his  death  in 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  953^ 

1876.  His  wife  died  the  same  year,  and  both  are  buried  at  the  old 
Cedar  Creek  Church.  They  were  consistent  members  of  the  Metho- 
dist Church.  Clinton  B.  was  educated  at  the  State  University,  and 
graduated  in  law  in  the  class  of  1876,  having  laid  the  foundation  for 
hie  profession  of  the  law  in  the  office  of  John  Overall,  now  of  St. 
Louis.  Since  graduating  he  has  practiced  his  profession  in  Columbia, 
building  up  a  reputable  and  lucrative  practice.  On  the  29th  of 
August,  1882,  he  received  the  nomination  at  the  hands  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  for  the  office  of  prosecuting  attorney  of  BoOne,  beating 
the  present  incumbent,  J.  DeW.  Robinson,  five  himdred  and  three 
votes  at  the  primary  election.  The  county's  interests  will  be  safe  in 
the  hands  of  Mr.  Sebastian,  and  criminals  may  expect  vigorous,  able 
prosecution  at  his  hands.  He  is  a  young  gentleman  of  sterling  integ- 
rity, and  one  whom  Boone  county  delights  to  honor.  He  is  an  exem- 
plary member  of  the  Methodist  Church,  also  a  member  of  the  Odd 
Fellows  Lodge  at  Columbia.  He  is  the  State  president  of  the  Phi 
Delta  Theta  society,  a  Greek  letter  college  fraternity. 

ROBERT    HUDSON   SMITH. 

Few  business  men  have  occupied  so  prominent  a  position  before  the 
people  of  Boone  county  as  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and  none,  per- 
haps, have  a  fiimer  hold  upon  the  confidence  of  the,  public.  He  is 
the  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Cress)  Smith,  originally  of  Millers- 
burg,  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky,  where  he  was  born  May  17,  182K 
He  came  vrith  his  parents  to  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  in  the  spring 
of  1826,  and  settled --near  Millersburg.  They  resided  in  Callaway 
county  until  the  fall  of  1844,  when  they  came  to  Boone  and  settled 
three  miles  north  of  Columbia,  at  what  was  known  as  Hannah's  Mill^ 
on  Hinkson  creek,  where,  they  remained  until  1848,  when  Mr. 
Smith  went  to  Santa  Fe,  taking  with  him  a  saw-mill,  the  first  ever 
erected  in  that  country.  He  remained  there  until  1850,  when  he 
came  back  to  Boone  county  and  located  two  miles  south  of  Columbia > 
taking  charge  of  the  Reuben  Black  grist  and  saw  mill,  which  he 
changed  from  a  water-power  to  steam.  He  remained  with  this  mill 
until  1855,  when  he  went  to  the  John  Keene  farm,  three  miles  east  of 
Columbia,  on  the  Mexico  road,  where  he  built  a  steam  mill  which  he 
operated  until  1862,  when  he  came  to  Columbia  and  bought  the  mill 
then  under  construction,  paying  the  proprietor,  Gaines  C.  Raney,. 
$10,000  for  the  property,  which  he  completed,  adding  from  time  to 
time  such  new  machinery  as  the  increase  of  business  demanded.     Ho 


954  HI8TOHY   or  BOONE   OOUNTT. 

sold  the  property  in  1871  for  $18,000,  to  Conley,  Anderson  &  Guitar. 
The  mill  is  now  valued  at  $60,000.     In  the  fall  of  1871  Mr.  Smith 
went  to  Bocheport,  Missouri,  and  bought  the  old  Stailey  mill,  which 
was  blown  up  a  few  months  later,  killing  A.  J.  Norris,  the  engiDeer, 
and  badly  injuring  a  man  named  Roberts.     He  at  once  rebuilt  the 
mill,  putting  in  new  machinery  and  sparing  no  expense  in  his  efforts 
to  repair  the  loss.     In  less  than  a  year  the  new  mill  was  in  ashes. 
The  cause  of  the  fire  was  never  known.     Mr.  Smith  was,  for  the  time 
being,   financially   ruined.     He  canie  to  Columbia  without  a  cent. 
The  people,  appreciating  his  active,  earnest  labors  in  the  past,  and 
feeling  a  generous  sympathy  for  his  losses,  elected  him  collector  of 
Boone  county,  which  position  he  held  for  two  years,  at  the  same  time 
conducting  a  livery  stable  and  stock  business  at  Columbia,  which  he 
continued  to  follow  for  four  years  after  his  term  of  office  expired. 
He  then  bought  a  third  interest  in  the  Columbia  mills,  for  which  he 
paid  $9,000.     He  remained  with  this  firm  for  one  year  and  a  half,  when 
he  sold  his  interest  to  Anderson,  Hubbard  &  Co.     He  now  turned  his 
entire  attention  to  trading  in  stock  and  real  estate,  which  he  followed 
until  April,   1882,    when  he  became  one  of  the   proprietors  of  the 
Farmer's  mill,  Columbia,  Missouri,  saw  and  grist  combined,  situated 
in  the  northwefstern  part  of  town.     Mr.  Smith  was  married.  May  25, 
1843,  to  Martha  A.,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Patsey  McCutchen. 
Mrs.  Smith  died  in  less  than  one  year  after  their  marriage.     She  was 
buried  in  the  old  Hinkson  Creek  church-yard.     He  was  married  to 
his  second  wife,   Caroline,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Williams) 
Cave,  of  Scott  county,  Kentucky,  July  17,  1850.     By  this  marriage 
they  had  two  sons  and  one  daughter,  Andrew  F.,  Thomas  C.  and 
Mary  E.,  all  of  whom  are  dead.     They  were  buried  at  the  Columbia 
cemetery.     Mr.  Smith  is  still  in  vigorous  health,  and  is  as  active  and 
enterprising  as  when  he  first  commenced   his  business  career,  years 
ago.     In  addition  to  the  mill   already  mentioned,  Mr.  Smith  owns  a 
nice  residence  in  Columbia,  and  a  half  interest  in  a  farm  of  four  hun- 
dred and  forty-four  acres,  one-half  mile   north  of  Stephens'   Store, 
Callaway  county,  Missouri.     It  is  hardly  proper  to  close  this  biographi- 
cal sketch  without  making  brief  mention  of  the  parents  of  Mr.  R.  H. 
Smith.     His  father,  William   Smith,  was  born  September  11,  1787, 
and  died  July  17,  1860,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two.     He  is  buried  in 
the  Bonne  Femme  church-yard.     His  wife,  Elizabeth,  was  born  May 
25,  1793,  and  is  still  living,  having  reached  her  ninetieth  year.     She 
is  living  with  her  son,  G.  W.  Smith,  in  Callaway  county.     William 


H0\  JAMES  L.  STEPIIB-JS. 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  955 

Snaith,  brother  of  Robert,  has  six  living  children,  five  sons  and  one 
^^^ighter.  One  son,  William  H.,  was  killed  in  the  Confederate  army. 
^^»  and  Mrs.  Robert  Smith  are  members  of  the  Baptist  Church, 
^^^  have  been  since  1850.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
^^x-der. 

HON.  JAMES   L.  STEPHENS. 

James  L.  Stephens  was  born  in  Girard  county,  Ke^tucky,  Novem- 
^r  17,  1815,  and  removed  with  his  father  (Elijah  Stephens)  in  the 
fall  of  1819,  from  Kentucky  to  Boone  county,  Missouri.  After  re- 
maining on  the  farm  with  his  father,  and  receiving  such  an  education 
as  the  schools  of  the  country  at  that  day  afibrded,  he,  in  the  spring 
of  1836,  entered  the  dry  goods  store  of  Parker  &  Barr,  of  Columbia, 
as  clerk,  and  has  continually  resided  in  Columbia  ever  since,  except 
one  year  in  New  York  City ;  two  years  in  Greensburg,  Indiana,  and 
one  year  each  in  Mexico  and  Fulton,  Missouri.  In  1843  he  engaged 
in  a  large  business  on  his  own  account,  conducting  three  dry  goods 
stores  in  three  county  seats,  one  in  Mexico,  one  in  Fulton,  and  one  in 
Columbia.  He  inaugurated  the  first  successful  cash  system  in  busi- 
ness in  Central  Missouri ;  and  while  largely  engaged  in  merchandising, 
he  also  conducted  a  model  farm,  and  for  more  than  twenty  years, 
bought  and  sold  annually  from  300  to  500  head  of  mules.  Few,  if 
any,  individuals  have  ever  transacted  more  business  in  Boone  county, 
und  none  in  his  section  have  more  generously  contributed^in  means  or 
labor  to  J)uild  up  and  establish  public  improvements,  scarcely  a  public 
enterprise  of  his  town  or  county  for  the  past  twenty  years  failing  to 
receive  his  cordial  and  hearty  co5peration ;  and  at  least  one-half  of 
all  he  has  earned  throuc:h  an  extended  and  successful  business  career, 
has  been  given  to  aid  in  building  roads,  churches,  schools,  etc.  He 
not  only  endowed  Stephens  College  with  $20,000,  but  advanced  $6,000 
besides  to  relieve  the  institution  of  a  mortgage  that  had  been  placed 
on  it  under  its  former  organization,  and  to  aid  in  erecting  its  build- 
ings. .At  one  time,  he  undertook  the  work  of  raising  $50,000  endow- 
ment for  it,  and  succeeded  in  securing  pledges  for  half  that  sum, 
which  failed,  however,  in  consequence  of  the  entire  sum  not  being 
subscribed  at  the  time  the  school  was  changed  from  a  local  institution  to 
oi»  which  received  a  patronage  throughout  the  State.  At  another 
time  he  raised  on  a  general  subscription  from  citizens  of  Boone  county 
$7,000  or  $8,000  towards  enlarging  and  itnproving  the  college  prop- 
-erty,  which,  with  other  kind  offices  in  the  interest  of  the  institution, 
caused  the  General  Baptist  Association  (whose  property  it  is),  at  its 


956  HISTORY  or  boone  countt. 

session  in  St.  Louis  in  the  fall  of  1870,  to  confer  his  name  upon  it 
In  1860,  Mr.  Stephens  was  the  regular  nominee  of  the  Democratic 
party  for  State  Senator  and  made  the  race  to  the  satisfaction  of  his  friendg 
against  ex-Gov.  Chas.  Hardin,  receiving  the  full  strength  of  the  party, 
which  was  then  a  decided  minority,  causing  his  defeat  by  some  500 
votes.  Twenty  years  after,  in  1880,  he  was  again  nominated  by  the 
Democrats  of  the  Ninth  senatorial  district,  composed  of  the  counties  of 
Audrain,  Boone  and  Callaway,  and  elected  by  an  overwhelming  ma- 
iority  against  the  combined  ticket  bf  Republicans  and  Greenbackers. 
Mr.  Stephens  not  only  circulated  the  petition  which  obtained  the 
largest  number  of  names  in  aid  of  the  railroad  and  the  rock  roads, 
which  are  of  such  incalculable  value  to  Boone  county,  but  his  was  the 
largest  individual  subscription  in  aid  of  those  enterprises,  —  amount- 
ing to  $2,600.  At  the  same  time  he  was  one  of  the  heaviest  tax- 
payers in  the  county. 

EDWIN   W.  STEPHENS. 

Edwin  W.  Stephens,  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Columbia  Herald^ 
was  born  in  Columbia,  Missouri,  January  21,  1849.  He  is  the  only 
son  of  Hon.  James  L.  and  Amelia  (Hockaday)  Stephens.  A  sketch 
of  his  father's  life  may  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  Mr. 
Stephens,  the  subject  of  this  biography,  was  reared  and  educated  in 
Columbia,  graduating  at  the  State  University  in  1867.  Soon  after 
completing  his  studies  at  the  University,  he  entered  Jones'  Commer- 
cial College,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he  completed  his  collegiate 
course,  adding  to  his  literary  attainments  a  thorough  business  educa- 
tion. Returning  to  Columbia  he  entered  the  newspaper  business, 
purchasing  in  1870,  a  half  interest  in  the  Boone  County  Journal,    In 

1871,  the  year  following,  ha  changed  the  name   of  the  paper  to  the 
Colurnbia  Herald,  which  name  the  paper  has  borne  ever  since.     In 

1872,  he  became  sole  proprietor  of  the  Herald,  which  he  eiilarged  and 
greatly  improved,  making  it  one  of  the  largest  and  most  popular 
country  newspapers  in  the  State.  Mr.  Stephens  was  married  Septem- 
ber 26,  1871,  to  Miss  Laura  Moss,  daughter  of  Col.  James  H.*Moss, 
of  Columbia,  and  grand-daughter  of  Judge  Warren  Woodson.  Mr. 
Stephens  has  been  a  curator  of  the  State  University,  and  is  at  present 
a  curator  of  Stephens  College.  He  is  an  official  member  of  the  Bap- 
tist Church.  Although  young  in  years,  comparatively  speaking,  few 
men  of  the  State  have  accomplished  more  in  the  same  length  of  time. 
The  Herald,  which  he  has  mainly  built  up,  affords  splendid  evidence 
of  his  energy,  ability  and  good  management.     To  say  that  it  is  one  of 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  957 

» 

he  most  powerful  and  influential  institutions  in  Boone  county  is  no 
lattery  of  Mr.  Stephens,  whose  labors  to  that  end  are  not  only  known 
>ut  appreciated  by  his  numerous  patrons.  Devoted  to  his  profession, 
earnest  in  his  efforts  to  promote  the  welfare  of  the  people  of  Boone 
30uuty,  consistent  and^  true  to  his  principles,  he  has  earned  and  re- 
ceived the  active  support  of  the  people  regardless  of  politics  or  opin- 
ion. With  a  bright  future  before  him  and  a  past  history  of  which  he 
may  well  feel  proud,  he  can  rest  assured  of  the  kind  support  of  a  gen- 
erous and  appreciative  public. 

JAMES   F.  STEWART. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Emeline  (Hol- 
man)  Stewart.  He  was  born  in  Lawrence  county,  Ohio,  October  18, 
1844,  and  came  to  Pike  county,  Missouri,  in  1850,  and  to  Boone 
county  in  1854,  where  he  was  principally  educated  at  the  public 
schools.  In  April,  1863,  he  enlisted  in  the  Federal  army,  joining 
Company  B,  Ninth  regiment  Missouri  militia,  under  Gen.  Guitar. 
His  company  was  commanded  by  Capt.  Adams.  August  4,  1864, 
he  reenlisted  in  the  ,  Thirteenth  cavaliy,  Missouri  volunteers, 
for  three  years;  but  was  mustered  out  January  3,/ 1866.  While 
a  soldier  he  participated  in  the  battles  of  Price's  raid.  His  com- 
mand met  Price  at  Pilot  Knob  and  pursued  him  to  Fort  Scott, 
-where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  placed  in  charge  of  Con- 
federate prisoners.  Next  went  to  Waynesville,  Missouri,  and  from 
there  to  Colorado,  where  the  Indians  had  been  giving  trouble.  Re- 
turned to  Fort  Leavenworth  and  were  ordered  thence  to  St.  Louis 
where  they  were  mustered  out  of  service.  Mr.  Stewart  came  home 
and  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  serving  an  apprenticeship  of  three 
years  under  Runkle  &  McAlister.  After  finishing  his  trade,  he  went 
to  work  as  a  builder  and  contractor  with  Tansey  &  Matheney,  who  built 
the  Methodist  church  and  the  brewery  buildings.  Was  with  this  firm 
for  about  one  year,  then  formed  a  partnership  with  George  McDaniel. 
"They  worked  together  for  three  years.  From  1873  to  1877  he  was 
alone  in  the  business.  He  next  formed  a  partnership  with  John  Crist, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Stewart  &  Crist.  They  now  employ  six  or 
eight  hands  and  do  a  large  per  cent,  of  the  contracting  and  building  in 
Columbia  and  surrounding  country.  Mr.  Stewart  was  married 
December  29,  1868,  to  Miss  Martha  Jane,  daughter  of  Miles  Bald- 
ridge.  Two  children  were  born  of  this  marriage,  James  E.  and  Mary 
L.     The  first  wife  died  October  10,  1872,  and  is  buried  at  New  Hope 


958  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 

church,  Audrain  county,  Missouri.     July  30,  1874,  he  was  marriecl 
to  his  second  wife,  Miss  Mattie  F.,  daughter  of  John  A.  Reed.     By 
this  marriage  they  had  three  children  :  Lawrence  F.  (deceased),  Eva 
and   Onie.     Mr.  and   Mrs.  Stewart   are  members  of  the  Methodist 
church.     He  is  a  member  of  the  order  of  Knights  of  Pythias.     Mr. 
Stewart's  father  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  died  in  Boone 
county,  Missouri,  January  19,  1877,  aged  fifty-five.     He  is  buried  on 
the  old  home  place.     His  mother  is  living  on  the  old  homestead,  five  • 
miles  west  of  Columbia,  on  the  Rocheport  gravel  road.     There  were- 
eleven  children  in  the  family,  James  F.  being  the  oldest.     Five  of  the 
children  are  living.     Mr.  Stewart  has  worked  at   his  trade  almost 
without  intermission  since  returning  from  the  war.     He  was  superin* 
tendent  of  plank  roads  while  a  citizen  of  Pike  and  Moniteau,  and  has 
held  the  same  position  in  Boone. 

BENJAMIN   r.    STEWART.  * 

Benjamin  F.  Stewart  is  the  son  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  (Lincoln) 
Stewart.  He  was  born  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  November  10th,  1845, 
and|Came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  the  autumn  of  1855.  He  grew 
to  manhood  and  was  principally  educated  in  this  county.  He  was 
married,  March  26th,  1868,  to  Miss  Sarah  M.,  daughter  of  William 
and  Martha  (Williams)  Milhollin.  They  have  five  children,  three 
sons  and  two  daughters :  Charles  W.,  Thomas  B.,  Mary  A.,  James  A. 
and  Linda  L.  Mr.  Stewart  learned  the  carpenter's  trade  with  Ruckel 
&  McAlister  in  1866.  Worked  at  his  trade  in  Columbia  until  1875 
when  he  went  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he  stayed  for  one  year. 
Came  back  to  Boone  county  and  worked  two  years  in  partnership  with 
his  brother,  J.  L.  Stewart,  in  the  saw-milling  business  at  Ashland.  In 
1879  he  went  to  Idaho  Springs,  Colorado,  but  did  not  remain  long. 
Came  back  to  Ashland  and  commenced  contracting  and  building, 
remaining  there  until  the  summer  of  1881  when  he  returned  to  Colum- 
bia and  entered  in  partnership  with  Alonzo  Duncan  as  contractors  and 
builders.  In  1864  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Federal  army,  join- 
ing Company  A,  Second  Missouri  cavalry,  under  Col.  Lewis  A.  Mer- 
rill. Was  in  the  army  thirteen  months.  He  is  a  member  of  the  K. 
of  P.  and  the  Odd  Fellow  orders.  Charles  Stewart,  the  father  of 
Benjamin,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1819  and  moved  to  Ohio  about 
the  year  1842,  and  from  there  to  Pike  county,  Missouri,  in  1850.  He 
returned  to  Ohio  soon  after,  and  finally  came  to  Boone  county,  Mis- 
souri, where  he  died  in  1871.     Mrs.  Stewart  is  still  living  at  the  age 


mSTOBY  or  BOONE  COUNTY.  95^ 

of  sixty-three  years.  They  had  eleven  children/ six  sons  and  five 
daughters.  Eight  of  the  children  are  now  living.  Mr.  Stewart 
18  a  superior  workman,  and,  as  a  contractor  and  builder,  has  won  the 
confidence  and  patronage  of  the  public.  He  has  all  the  work  he  can 
do  and  of  the  better  class  of  carpenter's  work. 

J.  W.    STONE. 

Josiah  Wilson  Stone,  a  son  of  Col.  Caleb  S.  Stone,  so  frequently 
mentioned  in  these  pages,  is  a  native  of  Boone  county,  born  in  Colum- 
bia.    He   was   educated   in  the  common  schools.     In  early  life  he 
engaiged  in   merchandising,  and  afterward  **  learned"  the  Missouri* 
river  and  ran  as  pilot  thereon  for  many  years.     On  the  breaking  out  of 
the  war  he  took  service  for  a  short  time  on  the  Southern  side.    He  was 
in  the  fight  at  Mt.  Zion  church,  in  this  county,  in  December,  1861,  but 
escaped  in  safety.     Soon  after  he  went  back  to  the  river  and  ran  as 
pilot  until  the  war  was  over.     In  1873  he  returned  to  Boone  county^ 
and  has  here  resided  ever  since.     In  1878  he  was  elected  sheriff  of  the   ' 
county  and  reelected  in  1880.  ^ 

In  1859  Mr.  Stone  was  married  at  St.  Charles,  Mo.,  to  Miss  Elvira 
Dozier,  a  daughter  of  Capt.  Dozier,  of  St.  Louis,  now  of  the  firm  of 
Dozier,  Weyl  &  Co.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stone  are  the  parents  of  two 
children.  Mr.  Stone  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church,  and 
belongs  to  the  Masonic  order  and  to  the  Odd  Fellows.  Boone  county 
never  had  a  more  faithful  ofiicial  or  a  better  citizen  than  Josiah  W, 
Stone.  At  the  Democratic  primaries,  in  August,  1882,  Mr.  Stone 
was  nominated  as  the  candidate  for  circuit  clerk,  after  a  long,  arduous 
and  closely  contested  canvass  against  such  a  strong  competitor  as  W. 
W.  Garth,  Esq. 

GEORGE   CLINTON   SWALLOW,   M.  D.,   LL.    D. 

The  worthy  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  has  served  Missouri  so  long 
and  faithfully  in  a  scientific  capacity,  was  born  in  Buckfield,  Oxford 
county,  Maine,  in  1817,  and  is  a  descendant  of  a  Norman-French 
family  named  Sevallieu,  whose  chief  marched  with  William  the  Nor- 
man into  England.  One  branch  emigrated  from  France  to  New 
Orleans,  while  another  came  from  England  to  New  England,  Prof. 
Swallow  being  a  scion  of  the  latter  family.  Early  in  life  young  George 
took  a  deep  interest  in  the  mysterious  science  of  geology.  He  entered 
Bowdoin  College,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1843,  with  high  honors 
and  was  immediately  chosen  lecturer  in  his  alma  mater  on  the  subject 


t)60  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

of  botany.      In  1848  he  established  an  agricultural  college  at  Hamp- 
den, Maine,  having  obtaiiied  aid  from  the  State  for  that  purpose.    He 
was  elected  professor  of  chemistry  and  geology  in  the  Missouri  Uni- 
versity in   1850,  and   1853  was  appointed  the   first  State  geologist 
Missouri  ever  had.     His  first  official  report  was  published  iu  1855. 
He  first  determined,  located  and  mapped  out  the  b.oundaries  of  the 
geological  formations  of  Missouri,  and  their  mineral  contents,  as  pub- 
lished in  his  reports  and  Campbell's  Atlas  of  Missouri,  which  reports 
have  been  followed  by  later  investigators  in  working  out  the  minor 
details  of  our  State's  geology.     During  the  war-time  the  business  of  the 
State  University  and  the  geological  survey  were  so  much  broken  up 
that,  in  1865,  Prof.  Swallow  accepted  an  appointment  as  State  geolo- 
gist of  Kansas,  and  continued  in  that  work  two  years.     He  had  pre- 
viously, in  1858,  discovered  and  determined  rocks  in  Kansas  belonging 
to  the  Permian  group  of  geological  series.     This  was  the  first  time 
that  rocks  of  this  age  were  shown  to  exist  in  America ;  and  this  dis- 
covery by  Prof.  Swallow,  together  with  his  reports  on  the  geology  gf 
Missouri  and  Kansas,  and  papers  read  before  the  American  Association, 
gave  him  a  high  rank  and  honorable  recognition  among  the  learned 
societies  and  savans  of  America  and  Europe. 

In  1870  the  University  of  Missouri  was  enlarged,  reconstructed  and 
reorganized  on  the  true  university  plan  —  with  coordinate  schools  or 
colleges  of  literature,  science,  ait,  law,  medicine,  mines  and  agricul- 
ture. Dr.  Swallow  was  appointed  to  the  chair  of  natural  history  and 
agriculture  and  made  dean  of  the  agricultural  college. 

In  June,  1882,  Prof.  Swallow  was  removed  from  his  chair  in  the 
University  as  he  claims  for  his  persistent  efforts  to  preserve  the  agri- 
cultural college  and  its  funds  in  their  integrity,  and  on  charges  which 
he  was  not  permitted  to  hear  and  rebut,  and  many  of  which  are  proved 
to  be  false  by  the  official  records  of  the  University,  the  agricultural 
college  and  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture.     [See  history  of  Univer- 
sity prepared  by  Col.  Switzler.]     For  nearly  thirty  years  past  he  has 
been  a  working  and  leading  member  of  the  agricultural  and  horticul- 
tural societies  of  the  State,  their  very  existence  having  grown  out  of 
his  urgent  and  eloquent  advocacy  of  such  organizations  as  early  as 
1852.     He  has  also  been  an  active  member  of  the  *'  American  Associa- 
tion for  the  Advancement  of  Science,*'  and  has  taken  an  honored  and 
leading  part  in  many  of  its  profoundest  discussions.     He  has  always 
been  a  staunch  opponent  of**  Darwinism,"  or  the  materialistic  phase 
of  the  doctrine  of  evolution.     His  most  persistent  and  useful  work  is, 


HISTORY  or  BOONE   COUNTr.  961 

perhaps,  bis  study  and  classificatioii  of  Missouri  soils  as  shown  by  his 
numerous  publications  on  tiieir  chemical  and  physical  properties,  and 
the  best  modes  of  culture  for  the  staple  crops  of  the  Mississippi  valley. 

FRANK   THOMAS. 

Mr.  Thomas  is  the  son   of  Christopher  and  Jemima  K.  (Detrow) 
Thomas,  and  was  born  July  1,  1836,  in  Frederick  county,  Maryland. 
He  was  educated  in  his  native  county,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  he 
came  to  Palmyra,  Missouri,  and  there  learned  the  carpenter's  trade. 
In  18«55  he  went  to  Keokuk,  Iowa,  and  in  1856  learned  the  ambrotype 
picture  business,   serving   an  eighteen-  months'   apprenticeship.      In 
May,  1857,  he  came  to  Columbia  and  worked  in  the  picture  gallery  of 
J.  T.  Redmond,  and  continued  in  his  employ  until  July  1,  1857, 
when  he,  in  partnership  with  E.  L.  Wright,  went  into  the  business 
for  themselves.     They  continued  the  business  for  about  eight'months, 
when  he  sold  his  interest  in  the  gallery  to  a  man  named  Bishop,  and 
worked  for  the  firm  about  three  months.     He  then  returned  to  Pal- 
myra and  worked  at  his  old  trade,  that  of  carpentering.     In  1868  he 
left  Palmyra  and  went  to  Jefferson  City  and  ran  a  picture  gallery  for 
W.  H.  Douglass  until  1859,  when  he  returned  to  Columbia  and  went 
into  the  picture  business  for  himself  until    1861.     He  next  resumed 
work  at  carpentering  until  1862,  when  he  took  his  gallery  to  Syracuse, 
where  there  were  several  regiments  of  soldiers,  and  went  with  them  to 
Jefferson  City,  Liberty  and  St.  Louis.     In  1864  he  returned  to  Colum- 
bia and  was  drafted  into  the  Federal  army,  Sixth  regiment,  company 
H,  Missouri  volunteers,   where  he  served  ten  months  and  was  dis- 
charged in  August,   1865.     He  then  came  back  to    Columbia   and 
worked  for  E.  R.  Childers  in  1866.     In   1867  he  worked  for  A.  R. 
Butts.     Butts  sold  out  to  R.  J.  Booth,  and  Mr.  Thomas  ran  the  gal- 
lery for  him  for  two  years.     In  1872  he  bought  out  Mr.  Booth  and 
bas  continued  the  business  ever  since.     He  was  a  member  of  the  Na- 
Jonal  Photographic  Association  of  the  United  States  until  it  col- 
apsed  m   1876.     He  is  now  a  member  of  the  Photographic  Associa- 
:ion  of  America,  organized  in   1880,  and  was  one  of  its  first  mem- 
bers.    He  attends  all  conventions  of  the  profession,  and  keeps  pace 
flrith  all  improvements  in  the  art.     He  was  married  September  14, 
1858,  to  Miss  Louisa  F.,  daughter  of  Andrew  Lukens,  of  Philadel- 
)hia.  Pa.     They  have  had  nine  children,  five  boys  and  four  girls,  but 
hree  of  whom  are  now  living.      He  and  his  wife  are  members  of 
61 


962  HISTOBY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

the  Episcopal  church,  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows,  Knights 
of  Pythias,  and  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  Societies. 

PBOF.    S.    M.    TBACY. 

Samuel  Mills  Tracy  was  born  in  Windsor  county,  Vermont,  April 
30,  1847.  In  1853  removed  with  his  father  to  Bloomington,  Wiscon- 
sin, where  he  was  partly  educated.  Graduated  at  Michigan  Agricul- 
tural College  in  1868.  After  completing  his  studies,  followed  horti- 
culture, and  was  editorially  connected  with  Colman^s  Rural  TForW, 
St.  Louis,  Missouri ;  was  also  editor  of  the  Practical  Farmer^  Philadel- 
phia. In  the  spring  of  1877  was  appointed  assistant  professor  of 
agriculture  in  the  Missouri  State  University.  January,  1881,  was 
made  professor  of  botany  and  entomology,  also  superintendent  of 
the  agricultural  department.  Was  honored  with  the  degree  of  M.  S. 
by  the  University  of  Michigan  in  1876.  Prof.  Tracy  was  married  in 
1874  to  Miss  Martha  A.  Terry,  of  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin.  They 
have  three  children.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tracy  are  members  of  the  Pres- 
byterian church.  The  professor  is  also  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Honor.  During  the  war  he  served  in  the  Fortv-first  Wisconsin  in- 
fantry. 

G.    W.    TRIMBLE.  ^ 

George  W.  Trimble  was  born  in  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  July 
21,  1839.  His  father  was  Maj.  Robert  Trimble,  of  Kentucky;  his 
mother,  Elizabeth  (Young)  Trimble,  also  of  Kentucky.  The  subject 
of  this  sketch  was  raised  on  a  farm  near  Fort  Henrv,  and  educated  at 
the  common  schools  of  the  countrv.  At  the  affe  of  sixteen  he  came  to 
Columbia,  Missouri,  and  entered  the  store  of  J.  Kirkbride  as  a  sales- 
man. He  clerked  for  his  employer  until  1860,  when  he  became  a 
member  of  the  firm.  He  was  married,  November  12,  1867,  to  Miss 
Martha,  daughter  of  Dr.  W.  H.  Duncan,  an  old  citizen  of  Columbia. 
They  have  two  living  children,  Susie  and  Margaret.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Trimble  are  members  of  the  Baptist  church.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  I.  O.  G.  T.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  city  council.  In  1880 
came  within  thirty-three  votes  of  being  elected  county  treasurer  in  a 
vote  of  3,000.  John  M.  Samuel  was  his  competitor.  Mr.  Trimble 
is  now  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Trimble,  Fyfer  &  Co.  He  has  a 
pleasant  home,  made  with  his  own  hands.  He  is  an  active,  energetic 
man.  In  addition  to  his  own  piivate  business  he  has  acted  as  admin- 
istrator for  a  number  of  estates,  besides  transacting  other  public 
business  of  a  similar  nature. 


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HISTORY   OP   BOONE   CX)UNTT.  .  963 

HON.    SQUIRE   TURNER. 

on.  Squire  Turner,  one  of  the  ablest  lawyers  of  Central  Missouri, 
born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  December  10,  1836.     He  is  the 
of  A.  W.  and  Matilda  (Stone)  Turner,  natives  of  Madison  county. 
Ducky.     The  elder  Turner  was  born  in  Richmond,  Kentucky,  Sep- 
)er  18,  1801.     In  early  manhood  he  studied  law  junder  his  brother, 
.  Squire  Turner,  member  of  Congress,  and  one  of  the  ablest  law- 
of  Kentucky.     It  is  worthy  of  mention  that  Mr.  Justice  Miller, 
le  United  States  Supreme  Court;  Hon.  WilHam  H.  Hatch,  mem- 
>f  Congress  from  Missouri ;  Hon.  Thomas  Turner,  member  of  Con- 
j  from  Kentucky  ;  ex-Governor  McCreery,  of  Kentucky  ;  John  B. 
ion,  late  of  Boone  county,  Missouri,  besides  many  other  lawyers 
minence,  read  law  out  of  the  same  books,  in  the  same  office,  and 
)r  the  same  distinguished  jurist.     Mr.  Turner  practiced  with  his 
lier  for  a  few  years.     After  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  was  mar- 
to  Matilda  R.,  daughter  of  William  Stone,  Sr.,  of  Kentucky.    In 
all  of  1831,  when  in  his  thirtieth  year,   he  emigrated  to  Boone 
tyj  Missouri,  and  at  once  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his  profession 
e  Columbia  bar.     As  a  commercial  and  probate  lawyer  he  never 
Gi  superior  at  the  Columbia  bar.     For  a  long  time  he  acted  as  pub- 
iministrator  of  Boone  county,  settling  up  during  the  time  very 
5  and  complicated  estates.     As  a  member  of  the  lower  house  of 
State    Legislature,    he,     assisted     by    Henry    S.     Geyer    and 
overnor   Gamble,    may    be  said  to    have   framed    the    adminis- 
3n  law  of  Missouri.     Mr.  Turner  was  a  Whig  in  politics  until  the 
lution  of  that  party,  after  which  he  co-operated  with  the  Democ- 
In  1836  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  Legislature, 
John  B.  Gordon,  Thomas  C.  Maupin  and  Michael  Woods.     In 
Mr.  Turner  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  in  conjunction  with 
nas  C.  Maupin,  Boone  county  then  being  entitled  to  two  senators, 
le  same  election  James  S.  Rollins,  David  M.  Hickman,  John  B. 
Ion  and  Alexander  Persinger  were  elected  to  the  lower  house.     It 
luring  the  ensuing  session  of  the  Legislature,  1838-39,  that  the 
roviding  for  the  location  of  the  State  University  was  passed,  under 
iro visions  of  which  Boone  county  secured  that  institution.     The 
ms  bitterly  opposed  in  the  Senate,  and  but  for  the  labors  and  influ- 
and  arguments  of  Senator  Turner,  the  bill  would  not  have  passed 
body.     The  bill  organizing  and  locating  the  University  was  the 
work  of  Mr.  Turner  and  Hon.  James  S.  Rollins.     The  original 


964  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTT. 

bill  was  first  offered  in  the  Senate  by  Mr.  Turner.     lu  the  struggle  to 
secure  the  location  in  Boone,  Mr.  Tunier  proved  a  to  wee  of  strength ; 
}ie  assisted  in  canvassing  the  county  for  subscriptions,  and  subscribed 
and  paid  out  of  his  own  funds  $1,500.     After  serving  two  years  in  the 
Senate,  Mr.  Turner  resigned  his  seat  in  1840,  on  account  of  sickness 
in  his  fanaily.     After  retiring  from  the  bar,  he  devoted  the  remainder 
of  his  life  to  agricultural  pursuits  and  to  raising  thoroughbred  stock. 
He  died  in  Boone  county,  March  4,  1874,  leaving  a  widow  and  three 
<3hildren  — the  subject  of  this  sketch,  William  Turner  and  Mrs.  J.  Rob- 
ert Garth.     Mr.  Turner  was  an  active,  enterprising  business  man, 
acquiring  by  his  own  industry  and  good  management  a  large  landed 
and  slave  estate  ;  his  farm  on  the  Two-mile  prairie  consisted  of  3,000 
acres  ;  this  farm  was  divided  equally  among  his  three  children.     Hon. 
Squire  Turner,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  reared  and  educated  in 
Boone  county,  graduating  from  the  State  University,  July  4,  1855. 
After  completing  his  literary  studies  he  entered  the  law  office  of  his 
uncle,  Squire  Turner,  Sr.,  at  Richmond,  Kentucky  ;  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  at  Frankfort  on  examination  by  Chief  Justice  Simpson, 
February,  1858;  he  practiced  law  with  his  uncle  until  1860;  he  was 
married  October  16,  1860,  in  Madison    county,  Kentucky,  to  Miss 
Stone,  soon  after  which  he  moved  to  Columbia,  Missouri,  where  he 
commenced  the  practice  of  law,  but  was  interrupted  by  the  war,  which 
closed  the  courts  and  put  an  end  to  business  in  his  line.     In  1862  Mr. 
Turner,  in  company  with  quite  a  number  of  the  most  prominent  citi- 
zens of  Boone  county,  was  banished.     He  went  to  Vincennes,  Indiana, 
where  he  practiced  his  profession  in  partnership  with  Hon.  William E. 
Niblaok,  for  many  years  a  member  of  Congress,  and  at  present  chief 
justice  of  Indiana.     In  1864  Mr.  Turner  was  permitted  to  return,  and 
has  resided  in  Boone  county  and  practiced  at  the  Columbia  bar  ever 
since.     In  1872  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  Missouri  Leg- 
ishiture,  after  a  long  and  hotly  contested   campaign   with   Col.  E.  C. 
More.     While  a  member  of  the  Legislature  he  was  made  chairman  of 
the  committee   on   criminal    jurisprudence  and  of  the  committee  on 
the  State  University ;  he  was  also  a  member  of  the  judiciary  commit- 
tee.    He  redeemed  his  pledge  made  to  the  people  during  the  canvass, 
that  if  elected  he  would  use  his  best  endeavors  to  secure  the  passage 
of  a  bill  calling  for  a  constitutional  convention  to  relieve  the  people  of 
certain  odious  restrictions  riveted  upon  them  during  the  war,  when  only 
Radicals  were  allowed  to  vote.     The  measure  failed  in  the  first  regular 
session,  but  with  untiring  energy  he  succeeded  in  getting  the  bill 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  965 

'through  the  adjourned  session.     It  was  during  this  struggle  that  Mr. 
Turner  delivered  his  great  speech  on  the  '*  infamous  Drake  constitu- 
tion," spoken  of  by  several  of  the  metropolitan  journals  as  one  of  the 
ablest  efforts  ever  delivered  in  the  Missouri  Legislature.     It  was  widely 
published,  and  raised  a  torrent  of  indignation  against  the  old  consti- 
tution.    This  speech  placed  Mr.  Turner  in  the  very  front  rank  of  de- 
baters—  a  position  he  holds  to-day.     The  bill  calling  for  a  new  con- 
stitutional convention  was  drawn  up  in  the  committee  of  which  he  was 
chairman.     In  addition  to  other  beneficial  results  of  the  new  constitu- 
tion may  be  mentioned  one  provision  in  particular,  which  puts  a  limit 
.  to  the  power  of  county  courts  in  appropriating  the  fund^  of  a  county 
towards  furthering  railroad  jobs  and  enterprises.     He  is  also  the  author 
of  the  bill,  passed  and  entered  as  a  statute,  making  seduction  a  felony, 
and  the  crime  of  rape  punishable  with  death,  at  the  discretion  of  the 
jury.     In  politics,  Mr.  Turner  has  always  been  a  Democrat  of  the  most 
rigid,  strict-construction  school.     His  course,  both  as  a  citizen  and 
representative,  has  always  been  one  of  undeviating  consistency.     He 
engaged  in  the  canvass  for  Hancock  and  English  in  1880,  and  made  a 
nuniber  of  speeches  in   1878.     He  refused  to  vote  for  Greeley  and 
Brown  in  1§72,  although  a  candidate  for  the  Legislature  at  the  time, 
and  well  aware  of  the  fact  that  this  opposition  would,  for  the  time 
being,  prove  prejudicial  to  his  canvass.     He  frankly  toldjthe  people 
that  he  could  not  support  Greeley  and  Brown,  both  of  whom  were  bit- 
ter, vindictive  Republicans,  having  spent  the  best  years  of  their  lives 
abusing  the  Democratic  party.     Few  men  have  the  nerve  and  power 
to  resist  a  popular  hobby  of  their  party  while  asking  its  support ;  yet 
Turner  not  only  did  this,  but  was  sustained  in  his  position  by  men  who 
voted  for  Greeley  and  Brown,  for  their  conscience  told  them  that  Tur- 
ner was  right.     Unlike  many  others  of  the  oldest  and  most  wealthy 
scions  of  the  early  pioneers  of  Boone,  Mr.  Turner  holds  fast  to  his 
family  real  estate  on  the  Two-mile  prairie  —  the  tine  homestead  which 
he  inherited  from  his  father,  A.  W.  Turner.     He  loves  his  home  and 
the  people  and  associations  of  his  childhood  with  a  warmth  and  fervor 
too  rarely  seen  in  this  commercial  age.     In  1878  Mr.  Turner  was  a  can- 
didate for  Congress,  but  his  county  being  divided,  he  withdrew  at  the 
Sturgeon  convention  to  avoid  a  squabble,  and  Gen.  John  B.  Clark,^ 
Jr.,  was  nominated.     He  was  urged  by  friends  in  Boone  and  Howard 
to  become  a  candidate  in  1880,  and  again  in  1882,  but  there  being 
other  aspirants  in  those  counties,  he  shrank  from  what  he  feared  would 
be  a  disagreeable  scramble  for  office.     As  a  lawyer  at  a  leading  bar  in 


966  HISTOBY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Kentucky  and  Missouri,  Mr.  Turner  has  always  maintained  an  honora- 
ble and  lucrative  position.     In  Boone  county  no  leading  criminal  case 
is  tried  in  which  he  has  not  been  counsel — always  for  the  defence. 
He  enjoys  such  standing  now  that  suitors  on  the  circuit  docket  do  not 
risk  the  chances  of  leaving  him  out  when  they  make  up  their  roster  of 
counsel.     As  a  scholar,  there  are  few  better  in  the  country.     His  read- 
ing has  by  no  means  been  confined  to  law,  but  covers  the  whole  field 
of  English  literature.     As  a  writer,  he  wields  one  of  the  most  vigor- 
ous, incisive,  and  logical  pens.     Having  a  thorough  con^mand  of  the 
language,  he  is  never  at  a  loss  while  writing  and  speaking.     His  style 
is  classical,  but  never  burdened  with  classical  allusions.     He  hasnev^ 
been  a  favorite  among  the  rich,  nor  with  corporations  ;  his  firmest  and 
truest  friends  are  found  among  the  middle  class.     He  has  a  thorough 
contempt  for  the  cringing,  truckling  sort,  who  worship  at  the  shrine 
of  fortune.     Of  him  it  may  justly  be  said  that  he  never 

'<  Crooks  the  pregnant  hinges  of  the  knee, 
That  thrift  may  foUow  fawning." 

JOHN   DAVID   VANHOBN. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Simeon  J.  and  Eliza  (White) 
Vanhorn  ;  he  wa^  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  August  22,  1821; 
he  was  educated  at  the  public  schools  of  Columbia,  and  served  an  ap- 
prenticeship at  the  carpenter's  trade,  working  with  his  uncle,  John 
Vanhorn.     In  1850  he  went  to  California,  where  he  remained  one  year, 
returning  to  Columbia  in  1851 ;  he  then  engaged  in  the  hotel  business, 
having  charge  of  the  Selby  House  for  about  two  years.     In  1853  he 
sold  out  and  went  to  work  at  his  trade,  which  he  followed  until  1872 ;  in 
the  spring  of  that  year  he  engaged  in  the  livery  business,  in  partner- 
ship with  R.  H.  Smith.     In  1874  the  stable  was  consumed  by  fire,  but 
the  horses,  twenty-six  in  number,  were  saved.     Mr.  Smith  remained 
in  the  business  one  year  after  the  fire,  when  Mr.  Vanhorn  purchased 
his  interest  in  the  stable,  and  has  conducted  the  business  alone  ever 
since.     He  was  married  December  1, 1850,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  J.,  daugh- 
ter of  Matthew  and  Prudence  (Lilly)  Culbert.     They  had  eight  chil- 
dren born  to  them  —  three  sons  and   five  daughters  —  only  two  of 
whom  (David  and  Susan)  are  now  living.     Mr.  Vanhorn's  father  was 
one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of  Howard  county  and  spent  several  years 
in  Head's  Fort;  he  was  a  native  of  Winchester  county,  Virginia;  he 
is  buried  some  three  miles  from  where  he  first  settled.     Mrs.  Vanhorn, 
mother  of  John  David,    died  about  twenty-three  years    ago  and  is 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE    COUNTY.  967 

buried  in  Howard  county.  Mr.  Vanhorn  is  the  oldest  of  nine  children, 
«11  of  whom  are  dead  but  three.  Joshua  is  living  in  Saline,  and  Ward 
in  Howard.  Mr.  Vanhorn  spent  a  large  portion  of  his  early  life  in 
the  family  of  his  uncle,  Judge  John  Vanhorn,  an  account  of  whose 
life  and  services  in  connection  with  the  early  history  of  the  county, 
appears  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  He  was  judge  of  the  county  court 
for  twelve  years.  In  1850  he  polled  the  largest  vote  ever  cast  for  a 
candidate  in  the  history  of  the  county.  He  died  in  1880,  in  the  eighty- 
fourth  year  of  his  age ;  he .  was  buried  in  the  Columbia  cemetery. 
He  was  twice  married,  but  had  no  children  ;  he  was  first  married  in 
1817,  to  Miss  Nancy  White,  a  native  of  Virginia ;  she  died  in  1877, 
and  is  buried  in  the  Columbia  cemetery.  John  Vanhorn  was  appointed 
jailor  when  the  war  broke  out,  and  held  the  position  until  its  close. 
He  was  a  Union  man. 

ABRAHAM   VICTOR. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Isaac  and  Caroline  (Lion) 
Victor,  of  Spiesen,  Prussia,  where  he  was  born  November  15,  1835. 
He  came  to  the  United  States  in  the  spring  of  1852  and  settled  in 
Rocheport,  Boone  county,  Missouri,  engaging  in  the  sale  of  dry  goods 
and  notions  which  he  peddled,  travelling  on  horseback.  In  1854  he 
left  Boone  county,  but  continued  the  business  of  peddling  until  1857, 
when,  in  partnership  with  Simon  Schiffman,  he  opened  a  store  of 
general  merchandise  at  Georgeton,  Missouri.  He  remained  in  this 
business  until  1863,  when  he  sold  out  and  returned  to  Prussia.  After 
a  stay  of  fifteen  months  he  returned  to  the  United  States  in  1864, 
settling  in  Columbia,  Missouri,  where  he  was  employed  as  a  salesman 
by  A.  &  M.  Barth.  In  1865  he  went  to  Rocheport  and  engaged  in 
the  mercantile  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Victor,  Myer  &  Co. 
They  failed  in  business  in  1869  and  again  in  1871.  They  also  had  a 
store  in  Columbia.  In  1872  Mr.  Victor  went  in  business  with  Loeb, 
Myer  &  Co.,  Columbia,  Missouri,  and.  remained  with  them  for  two 
years.  August  1st,  1874,  he  bought  Fred.  Mayfield's  liquor  store  on 
Broadway  and  Ninth  Street.  He  is  now  running  the  only  wholesale 
liquor  store  in  Boone  county.  He  is  exclusive  agent  for  the  wholesale 
trade  of  Anheuser's  lager  beer.  He  also  deals  largely  in  hides,  tal- 
low, furs,  etc.  In  addition  to  the  liquor  and  hide  trade  Mr.  Victor  is 
largely  interested  in  railroad  ties,  buying  from  forty  to  fifty  thousand 
annually.  He  has  a  tobacco  and  cigar  store  on  Broadway,  under  the 
firm  name  of  A.  Victor  &  Co.  The  liquor  and  hide  store  is  conducted 
under  the  indivichuil  name  of  the  proprietor!     Mr.  Victor  was  married 


968  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

March  2l8t,  1866,  to  Aurelia,  daughter  of  Abraham  Aniold.  They 
have  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters.  Their  names  are 
Bell,  Minnie,  Isadore  and  Albert.  One  child  died  in  infancy.  Mr. 
Victor  is  one  of  eicrht  children,  five  dauo^hters  and  three  8ons.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  youngest  of  the  family  and  the  only  one 
now  in  America.  Mr.  Victor  is  a  ipember  of  the  Masonic  order,  also 
an  Odd  i'ellow. 

JAMES    H.    WAUGH. 

Mr.  Waugh  is  a  native  of  Kentucky,  and  was  born  in  Nicholas  county, 
December  26,  1832.  His  parents  were  Archer  S.  and  Matilda  G. 
(Piper)  Waugh,  also  natives  of  Kentucky,  the  latter  of  whom  still 
survives  in  her  eightieth  year,  and  resides  near  Carlisle,  Kentucky. 
James  H.  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm  and  received  his  educatioD 
in  the  country  schools  and  the  town  of  Carlisle.  In  October,  1854, 
at  twentj^-one  years  of  age,  he  came  to  Columbia,  this  county,  and 
began  clerking  in  the  dry  goods  store  of  J.^  H.  Parker.  Subsequent 
to  this  he  was  deputy  sheriff  for  several  years,  and  in  January,  1862, 
was  appointed  sherifi*by  Governor  Gamble,  to  succeed  John  M.  Sam- 
uel, who  declined  to  take  the  required  oath  of  loyalty.  In  November 
following,  Mr.  Waugh  was  elected  to  the  office,  and  served  two  years. 
He  took  no  part  in  the  civil  war,  other  than  acting  occasionally  as  mili- 
tary escort  to  St.  Louis.  Associating  himself,  in  1865,  with  Mr. 
John  M.  Samuel,  Mr.  Wauirh  and  he  organized  the  Exchanore  National 
Bank  of  Columbia,  with  Mr.  Waugh  as  president  and  Mr.  Samuel  as 
cashier.  Besides  Mr.  Waujjh,  the  directors  were  R.  L.  Todd,  Gen.  J. 
B.  Douglass,  Sanford  F.  Conley,  John  Machir,  Dr.  William  H.  Dun- 
can and  William  W.  Tucker.  The  directors  were  subsequently  in- 
creased to  nine  in  number,  and  Mr.  Waugh  has  been  president  ever 
since  the  organization.  He  has  served  the  city  of  Columbia  in  differ- 
ent official  capacities  since  his  residence  here,  and  is  at  this  writing 
town  treasurer.  From  1867  till  1873,  he  was  treasurer  of  the  Uni- 
versity board  of  curators.  He  helped  organize  the  Valley  National 
Bank  of  St.  Louis  iu  187-  and  was  a  director  therein  till  1879.  He  was 
also  a  director  in  the  construction  of  the  Boone  Countv  and  Jefferson 
City  railroad,  built  from  Centralia  to  Columbia.  Mr.  Waugh  was 
married  at  Arrow  Rock,  Missouri,  May  3,  1859,  to  Miss  Sophia  Sid- 
ney Venable,  daughter  of  Hampton  Sidney  Venable,  deceased.  They 
have  one  daughter  living  (Mary  E.  wife  of  Chas.  B.  Sanders,  of  St. 
Joseph)  and  one  son  and  one  daughter  deceased,  each  dying  at  the 
age   of  sixteen  months.     Mr.  W.  belongs  to  no  church,  but  his  wife 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    C50UNTY.  96&^ 

and  daughter  are  Presbyterians.  Politically,  he  was  formerly  a  Whig, 
but  now  votes  the  Democratic  ticket.  He  has  made  his  own  business 
capital,  never  having  heiredany  patrimony.  His  success  as  a  business 
man  is  too  pronounced  to  need  any 'extended  comment  here. 

DR.  LEMUEL   WATSON. 

Dr.  Watson  belongs  to.a  family,  whose  male  members  are  or  have 
been,  to  a  considerable  extent,  prominent  physicians.  His  grand- 
father, Wm.  Watson,  was  a  native  of  London,  England,  and  a  cousin 
to  Sir  Thomas  Watson,  the  eminent  English  physician  and  medical 
author,  who  was  chief  physician  by  appointment  to  Her  Majesty  the 
Queen.  Sir  Thomas  still  lives  in  London,  at  an  advanced  age.  Wm. 
Watson  came  to  America  before  the  revolutionary  war.  He  settled 
in  North  Carolina,  on  Edenton  Sound,  near  the  Chowan  river.  Being 
a  stout  Whig,  or  «« rebel,  "  he  had  his  property  destroyed  and  his 
home  broken  up  by  the  British  soldiers  under  Cornwallis'  command. 
He  removed  to  a  plantation  on  the  James  river,  in  Virginia,  and  was^ 
again  burned  out  by  King  George's  men. 

Dr.  Lemuel  Watson  was  born  in  Orange  county.  North  Carolina, 
September  2d,  1824.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  his 
neighborhood  and  at  Jackson  College,  Middle  Tennessee^.  He  came 
to  the  latter  State  when  young,  and  remained  until  May,  1849,  when 
he  removed  to  Missouri.  His  first  location  was  in  Clay  county,  and 
he  afterwards  resided  iu  Clinton  and  Buchanan  counties.  He  came 
to  Columbia  in  the  fall  of  1863.  In  1874  he  located  in  Lexington  and 
remained  until  the  spring  of  1881.  Then,  April  1,  he  returned  to 
Columbia,  where  he  still  resides.  Dr.  Watson,  inheriting  the 
family  disposition,  decided,  upon  reaching  maturity,  to  become 
a  physician.  He  first  began  the  study  of  medicine  under  his  brother. 
Dr.  John  D.  Watson,  of  Clay  county.  In  1851  to  1852  he  at- 
tended lectures  at  Pope's  Medical  College,  St.  Louis.  After  practicing 
about  seventeen  years,  in  1869  he  attended  the  Jefferson  Medical  Col- 
lege, Philadelphia,  and  in  1870'received  a  diploma  and  an  honorary  de- 
gree —  the  best  thatJ  could  be  obtained  in  that  celebrated  school.  The 
doctor  is  a  believer  in  electricity  as  a  therapeutic  agent,  and  has  always 
employed  itwhen  practicable.  In  1879  he  added  the  vitalizing  electro- 
thereapeutic  cabinet  bath  as  an  auxiliary  to  his  ordinary  course  of 
treatment  of  disease.  The  doctor  is  well  versed  in  the  science  of  elec- 
tricity and  claims  for  his  bath  (for  which  he  is  the  sole  agent  in 
Boone  county)  that  it  is  made  for  the  use  of  physicians  in  their  prac* 


970  HISTORY  OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

tice  as  an  auxiliary  to  medicine  in  the  treatment  of  both  acute  and 
chronic  diseases,  thereby  increasing    their   armamenta   medicamefi' 
torum  a  hundred  fold,  enabling  them  to  treat  cases  successfully  that 
have   defied     the    most    skilful    treatment    with     medicine     alone. 
Owing  to  the  diversity  of  applications  that  can  be  made  with  electricity 
in  this  bath,  combined  or'uncombined  with  hot  vapor  and  hot  dry  air, 
many  diseases  yield  readily  to  the  bath  treatment  alone,  yet  a  judi- 
cious system  of  medication  is  approved  in  conjunction  with  the  bath. 
As  to  the  effect  of  the  bath  Dr.  Watson  maintains  that  in  diseased  con- 
ditions  of  the  body  it  cleanses  the  skin  and  opens  the  pores ;  equalizes 
the  circulation  and  relieves  congestion ;  preserves  health  and  prevents 
disease,  purifies  the  blood  by  removing  the  impurities  which  accumu- 
late in  the  fluids  and  tissues  of  the  body ;  impai*ts  vigor  to  the  system 
and  strength  to  the  mind  ;  removes  morbid  sensations  and  strengthens 
the  nerves.     If  you  are  tired  and  worn,  it  will  refresh  and  invigorate. 
Will  establish  more  natural  appetite,  complete  digestion,  pure  secre- 
tion, perfect  assimilation,  more  complete  nutrition.     Will  make  you 
richer  by  giving  you  health.     He  has  great  success  in  the  treatment 
of  disease  by  this  method. 

Dr.  Watson  has  been  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Miss  Susan 
Smith,  of  Ray,  to  whom  he  was  married  December  23d,  1853.  By 
this  union  there  were  four  children,  two  of  whom  are  now  living,  one, 
Dr.  Claude  Watson,  a  rising  young  physician  of  Kansas  City,  and 
the  other.  Miss  Lulu  Watson,  at  home  with  her  father.  Mrs.  Susan 
Watson  died  in  July,  1800,  and  the  doctor  was  swbsequeutly  married 
to  his  present  wife,  who  was  Mrs.  Anna  Stone,  a  native  of  Kentucky. 
There  are  no  children  of  this  marriage.  The  doctor  and  his  family 
are  members  of  the  Christian  church  and  useful  and  honored  members 
of  society. 

DR.  B.  A.  WATSON. 

Dr.  Berry  Allen  Watson  was  born  in  Charlotte  county,  Virginia, 
January  28th,  1834.  He  moved  with  his  father  to  Callaway  county  in 
1840.  He  graduated  at  Westminster  College,  Fulton,  in  1857,  with 
the  degree  of  A.  B.  After  graduating,  he  taught  school.  Was  princi- 
pal of  Dover  Academy,  in  Lafayette  county,  Missouri,  until  1860.  Dar- 
ing the  war  served  for  a  while  in  Capt.  Jo.  Shelby's  company.  From 
1863  to  1864  he  attended  Louisville  and  Bellevue  Medical  colleges, 
graduating  at  the  latter  place  in  1866.  Located  at  Millersburg,  Calla- 
way county,  where  he  practiced  for  three  years.  In  1871  came  to 
Columbia,  where  he  still  resides.     Dr.  Watson  was  married  Mav  4th, 


HISTORY  OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  971 

1864,  to  Clara  E.  Ward,  of  Callaway  county.  They  have  six  children, 
all  living.  Mrs.  Watson  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church.  Dr. 
Watson  is  a  Mason.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Boone  county  and 
District  Medical  Association. 

JAMES  STANSBURY  WHARTON.         • 

James  Stansbury  Wharton,  assistant  miller  and  book-keeper  of  the 
-Columbia  Milling  Company,  was  born  at  Bunker's  Springs,  West  Vir- 
ginia, June  8th,  1856.  He  was  educated  at  Frederick  City ,  Maryland, 
attending  the  academy  at  that  place  for  four  years,  graduating  at  the 
^[ge  of  sixteen.  In  1872  he  commenced  the  milling  business  at  a  place 
called  Sir  John's  Run,  entering  what  was  known  as  the  Morgan  Mills. 
Stayed  there  three  years.  In  1876  he  went  to  Tiffin,  Seneca  county, 
Ohio,  and  took  charge  of  the  Eureka  Mills,  owned  by  the  Parker 
brothers.  Stayed  with  this  firm  two  years.  Leaving  the  Parkers  he 
went  to  Buckeye  Town,  Maryland,  where  he  entered  a  mill  owned  by 
-C.  S.  Simmons.  In  1879  he  came  to  Columbia,  Missouri,  where  he 
was  engaged  by  Anderson,  Henderson  &  Co.,  proprietors  of  the  Colum- 
bia Mills.  He  is  now  acting  as  clerk  and  assistant  miller.  He  is  a 
practical  miller  and  book-keeper,  and  a  thorough  business  man.  He 
was  married,  April  21,  1881,  to  Miss  Katie,  daughter  of  James  and 
Mary  Jane  (Turner)  Brown. 

WILLIAM   EDMONSON   WRIGHT. 

William  E.  Wright,  the  official  surveyor  of  Boone  county,  is  the  son 
of  Peter  and  Jenny  Wright.  He  was  born  near  Nashville,  Tennessee, 
December  18th,  1818.  His  father  was  born  in  Virginia,  June  25, 
1787,  and  moved  with  his  father  to  Tennessee  in  the  early  settling  of 
that  State.  He  grew  to  manhood  on  the  farm  near  Nashville,  and 
was  married  September  20,  1810,  to  Jenny  Edmonson.  In  July, 
1818,  came  to  Missouri  and  selected  a  home  in  Boone  county,  to 
which  he  moved  with  his  family  the  following  year.  He  settled  near 
the  head  of  the  Two-mile  prairie,  about  nine  miles  northeast  of  Co- 
lombia. He  was  appointed  county  surveyor  in  1821,  and  was  also  one 
of  the  judges  of  the  county  court,  and  was  elected  to  represent  the 
county  in  the  Legislature  in  1822  and  1824.  He  died  May  28,  1847. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  but  eight  months  old  when  his  parents 
landed  in  Boone  county.  He  was  educated  at  the  Columbia  Academy 
and  at  Bonne  Femme  Academy,  under  the  instructions  of  Summer- 
field,  Roche  and  Cunningham.     Learned  surveying  under  Jiis  father  and 


972  HISTORY   0»  BOONE   COUNTY. 

his  uncle,  George.     Cannot  remember  when  he  could  not  give  courses 
from  the  compass.     Accompanied  his  father  and  uncle  on  government 
surveys  when  but  fourteen  or  fifteen  years  old  and  assisted  them  in 
their  labors.     He  has  followed  farming  and  surveying  since  he  reached 
manhood.     Was  elected  county  surveyor  in  1880.     Had  previously 
acted  as  deputy.     On  assuming  the  duties  of  his  office,  he  removed 
to  Columbia,  where  he  now  resides.     Had  previously  lived  in  Missouri 
township.     Mr.  Wright  was  married,  January  13,  1848,  to  Augusta 
C.  Siedikum,  of  Savannah,  Red  River  county,  Texas.     Mrs.  Wright 
is  a  native  of  Germany.     They  have   had  seven   children,  three  of 
whom  are  living.     Mr.  Wright  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  has  been 
all  his  life.     He  was  a  Union  man  during  the  war,  but  took  no  part 
in  the  struggle.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church  and  a  Mas- 
ter Mason. 

WILLIAM   POPE    TEAMAN. 

William  Pope  Yeaman  was  born  in  Hardin  county,  Kentucky,  May 
28,  1832.  His  father,  Stephen  M.  Yeaman,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania, 
but  while  a  small  child  emigrated,  with  his  father,  Samuel  Yeaman, 
to  Ohio ;  but  afterwards,  in  early  manhood,  sought  a  home  in  Ken- 
tucky, where  he  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  soon 
gained  for  himself  a  responsive  and  remunerative  practice.  At  the 
age  of  twenty-seven  he  married  Miss  Lucretia  Helm,  daughter  of 
Hon.  George  Helm,  of  Hardin  county. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  third  child  and  third  son  in  a 
family  of  nine  children,  eight  of  whom  were  sons.  He  studied  law 
in  the  office  of  his  uncle,  Gov.  John  L.  Helm,  at  Elizabethtown, 
Kentucky,  and  at  the  age  of  nineteen  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  At 
about  the  same  age  he  was  married  to  Miss  Virginia  Shackelford,  of 
Hardin  county,  Kentucky.  This  lady,  by  her  many  noble  and  ster- 
ling qualities,  has  proven  a  help-meet  indeed  to  her  husband.  A  large 
and  interesting  family  of  children  have  claimed  her  almost  undivided 
attention  and  afforded  her  a  real  pleasure.  For  nine  years  Mr. 
Yeaman  devoted  his  talents  and  energies  to  the  practice  of  law, 
and,  for  so  young  a  man,  he  attained  to  remarkable  eminence  in  his 
profession. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-seven,  after  a  severe  and  prolonged  struggle 
between  ambition  and  a  sense  of  duty,  he  yielded  to  his  convictiou  of 
duty  to  preach  the  gospel,  and  was  ordained  a  minister  of  the  Baptist 
church.     His  first  pastorate  was  at  Nicholasville,  Kentucky. 

In  1862  Mr.  Yeaman  was  called  from  this  church  to  the  pastorate 


HI8TOBY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  973 

of  the  First  Baptist  church  in  the  city  of  Covington,  Kentucky.  In 
this  pulpit  he  was  the  successor  of  many  of  the  leading  ministers  of 
his  denomination. 

In  December,  1867,  he  accepted  a  call  from  a  prominent  church  in 
the  city  of  New  York.  In  that  city  he  soon  took  high  rank  among 
his  brother  ministers,  and  the  church  of  his  charge — the  Central 
Baptist  church  —  was  greatly  increased  in  numbers  and  influence. 

In  March,  1870,  he  accepted  a  call  from  the  Third  Baptist  church, 
of  St.  Louis,  and  in  the  following  month  entered  upon  the  w6rk  of 
this  important  field.  In  the  same  year  the  faculty  and  trustees  of 
William  Jewell  College  conferred  on  him  the  merited  honor  of  doctor 
of  divinity. 

In  1875  Dr.  Yeaman  was  elected  chancellor  of  William  Jewell 
College,  and  two  years  afterwards  resigned. 

In  October,  1876,  he  resigned  the  pastorate  of  the  Third  Baptist 
church  of  St.  Louis,  and  gave  his  time  and  attention  to  the  duties  of 
the  chancellorship,  and  to  the  editorial  management  of  the  Central 
Baptist,  the  denominational  organ  in  the  State. 

In  April,  1877,  he  was  called  to  the  Garrison  Avenue  Baptist 
Church,  and  in  October,  1877,  he  retired  from  the  editorial  chair  to 
give  his  time  more  entirely  to  preaching. 

In  the  same  month  he  was  chosen  president  of  the  Missouri  Baptist 
General  Association,  at  an  annual  meeting  held  in  the  city  of  Lex- 
ington . 

In  1882  he  yielded  to  the  wishes  of  his  many  friends  and  became  a 
candidate  for  state  superintendent  of  public  schools  of  Missouri. 
Though  he  went  into  the  convention  with  the  strongest  following,  he 
was  beaten  for  the  nomination  by  a  combination  of  the  adherents  of 
weaker  candidates.  The  same  year  Dr.  Yeaman  removed  to  Co- 
lumbia, and  will  make  his  future  home  in  the  ''Athens  of  Missouri." 

DAVID   H.    YOUNG,    M.    D., 

Was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  July  3,  1856.  His  father, 
Archibald  L.  Young,  was  also  a  physician,  and  was  a  native  of  Jessa- 
mine county,  Kentucky,  born  September  30,  1829.  He  was  one  of  a 
family  of  seven  children,  six  sons,  and  a  daughter.  Himself  and  all 
his  brothers  studied  medicine,  and  five  out  of  six  became  practicing 
physicians.  Their  only  sister  married  a  medical  doctor,  and  their 
father  —  grandfather  to  the  subject  of  this  sketch  —  was  also  an  M. 


974  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

D.     Dr.  Archibald  L.  Young,  took  his  first  degree  at  the  Transyl- 
vania University  of  Lexington,  Kentucky,  and  the  iiext,  at  the  New 
York   (city)  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  graduating  from 
both  those  institutions.     He  practiced  in  the  city  hospitals  for  two 
years  after  his  graduation  before  returning  to  Kentucky.     He  only 
remained  a  short  time  in  his  native  State,  when  he  came  out  to  Mis- 
souri and  located  for  the  practice  at  Fulton,  Callaway  county.    Dur- 
ing his  residence   there,  he  was   physician  of  the   deaf  and  dumb 
asylum,  and  assistant  physican  of  the  lunatic  asylum.     His  coming  to 
Fulton  was  in  about  1849,  and  he  remained  till  the  spring  of  1856, 
when  he  moved  to  Columbia,  this  county,  where  he  remained  till  his 
death,  on  February  23,  1869.     He  had  married,  in  1853,  Miss  Sarah 
Hickman,  daughter  of  Capt.  D.  M.  Hickman,  one  of  the  early  settlers 
of  Boone  county.     Five  children  were  born  of  that  marriage,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  being  the  oldest.     The  others  were  named  respec- 
tively, Mattie,  Archibald,  Cornelia  and  Sallie,  all  living  except  Mattie, 
who  died  when  only  two  years  old.     Dr.  D.  H.  Young  was  educated 
at  the  Kemper  Institute,  Boonville,  Mo.  and  the  State  University,  at 
Columbia.     He   studied  medicine    with   Dr.   A.   W.    McAlester,  of 
Columbia,  and  also  took  the  medical  course  off  the  University.    He 
received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  Missouri  Medical  College,  of  St. 
Louis,  in  1877.     Returning  to  Columbia,  he  practiced  medicine  for 
two  years,  then  went  and  took  a  course  at  Bellevue  Medical  College, 
of  New  York,  from  which  he  came  back  to  Columbia,  and  resumed 
the  practice,  in  which  he  continues  at  this  writing. 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTT.  976 


CHAPTER    XX. 

MISSOURI  TOWNSHIP. 

Topography— "Terrapin  Neck'*  — The  "Pictured  Rocks "— Oaves  —  Borough's  Cave — 
Early  Settlera  and  SettlemenU— The  "Firsts"  — Lo  !  the  Poor  Indian  —  Killing  of 
Todd  and  Smith  hy  the  "Noble  Savages "— Statements  of  Joseph  Cooper  and  James 
Barnes — Persinger's  Account  of  the  Affair  and  of  the  Battle  on  the  fionne  Forame  (?)  — 
A  Bear  Hunt  — Organization— Early  Mills  — Tragedies  — In  the  Civil  War— Killing 
of  Sidney  Donham  —  Fight  between  Desperadoes  and  a  Deputy  Sheriff -Negro  Riot  — 
Country  Churches  and  Cemeteries —  The  Town  of  Rocheport,  —  Early  History — Notes 
of  General  History — Cholera  in  Rocheport  —  During  the  Civil  War — Bushwhacker 
;Raids— The  "Buffington"  Affair— Anderson's  Attack  on  the  "Yellowstone"— Since  the 
War  ^Tobacco  — The  Riot  of  April.  1882  — Town  Government  —  Public  Schools  — 
Cemetery — Churches  —  Secret  Societies  —  Business  Interests  —  Biographical  Sketches  of 
Old  Settlers  and  Prominent  Citizens  of  Missouri  Township. 

TOPOGRAPHY. 

Missouri  township  is  divided  into  about  three  well  defined  natural 
divisions:  The  Missouri  river  valley,  called  «•  Terrapin  Neck;"  the 
table  lands  lying  between  the  Perche  and  Callaham  hills  on  the  east, 
and  the  Moniteau  hills  on  the  west ;  river  hills  on  the  south,  and  a 
continuation  of  the  plateau  at  the  north  which  extends  far  into  Perche 
township.  The  table  lands  form  the  largest  subdivision  of  this  town- 
ship, and  there  is  perhaps  no  finer  land  in  the  State  of  Missouri ; 
certainly  none  finer  than  Thrall's  prairie  which  forms  the  heart  of 
this  plateau,  the  prairie  portion  of  which  lies  in  Perche  township. 
The  blue  grass  which  grows  upon  this  plain  is  equal  to  the  best  grown 
in  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky,  and  furnishes  ample  pasturage  the 
year  round  for  the  vast  herds  raised  in  this  section.  The  value  of  the 
farms  and  the  fertility  of  the  soil  has  attracted  to  this  section  a  class 
of  farmers  equal  in  judgment,  industry  and  skill  to  the  superiority 
of  the  soil  they  cultivate ;  hence  the  agricultural  interests  of  this 
section  of  the  county  have  been  developed  to  a  degree  of  excellence 
hardly  to  be  found  elsewhere  in  the  county.  As  a  rule,  stock  raising 
pays  better  than  anything  else,  and  when  the  plantation  is  once 
stocked  it  requires  less  outlay  of  money  to  keep  up  the  business. 
Most  of  the  land  is  in  blue  grass.  The  horses,  cattle  and  sheep  raised 
in  this  portion  of  the  township  are  nearly  all  thoroughbreds.  Many 
of  the  farmers  sell  almost  exclusively  for  breeding  purposes .  Nearer 
the  hills,  where  the  soil  is  less  adapted  to  blue  grass,  immense  crops  of 


"976  HISTORY   OP   BOONE    CX)UNTY.  ^ 

wheat,  corn  and  oats  are  annually  produced.  The  river  hills  them- 
selves are  very  rich  and  produce  the  finest  fruit  grown  in  the  country. 
Some  fine  vineyards  have  of  late  years  been  planted  and  produce  great 
quantities  of  grapes.  Peaches  and  apples  seldom  fail  along  the  high 
hills  and  sloping  ridges  near  the  river  bank.  The  soil  is  rich  enough 
to  produce  any  of  the  crops  grown  in  this  climate,  but  washes  badly 
when  plowed. 

''Terrapin  Neck"  is  a  long,  narrow  strip  of  river-bottom  land 
extending  from  a  few  miles  below  Rocheport  to  the  mouth  of  the 
Perche,  which  flows  into  the  Missouri  river  near  Providence.  This 
hody  of  land  is  very  rich,  producing  fine  corn  and  wheat.  Before 
the  war  large  crops  of  hemp  were  raised  in  this  section,  but  of  late 
years  the  principal  crop  has  been  com.  The  corn  crop  never  faik 
in  the  bottom,  and  the  hog  crop,  upon  an  average,  is  equal  to  twice 
the  production  of  a  like  area  of  territory  elsewhere  in  the  township. 
The  valleys  of  the  Moniteau,  Perche,  Callaham  and  Sugar  Creek, 
and  the  various  tributaries  of  those  streams  are  little  less  productive 
than  the  river  bottom  and  produce  a  greater  diversity  of  crops. 

Missouri  township  has  a  greater  variety  of  soil,  and  less  that  is 
wholly  unproductive,  perhaps,  than  any  other  subdivision  of  the 
county.  The  Perche  flows  from  north  to  south  directly  through  the 
eastern  portion  of  the  township.  The  valley  lands  along  this  stream 
are  densely  settled  and  the  farms  on  either  side  extend  almost  to  the 
water's  edo^e.  The  stream  drains  a  larjje  extent  of  territorv  and  is 
subject  to  overflows,  but  of  late  years  many  of  the  exposed  planta- 
tions have  been  enclosed  with  wire  and  post  and  rail  fences  that  are 
proof  against  the  floods. 

Missouri  is  well  supplied  with  bridges  and  is  connected  with  Colum- 
bia and  Rocheport  by  a  good  macadamized  road.  The  internal 
improvements  are  fully  upon  an  average  with  the  most  favored 
sections  of  the  county. 


REMARKABLE   NATURAL  FEATURES. 
THE    PICTURED    ROCKS. 

On  the  Missouri  river,  about  four  miles  east  of  Rocheport,  are 
what  are  known  by  the  local  name  of  *' the  pictured  rocks,"  called 
elsewhere  '*  the  Indian  pictographs  of  Boone  county."  They  consist 
of  a  number  of  drawings  of  a  rude  character,  toi^ether  with  some  sort 
of  hieroglyphics,  made  upon  the  surface  of  a  high  cliff"  of  rocks. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  977 

The  **  pictured  rocks"  are  upon  the  land  of  L.  Torbett,  Esq.,  on 
-whose  farm  are  also  some  eight  or  nine  mounds.  On  one  of  these 
mounds  stands  the  residence  of  Mr.  Torbett.  The  present  route  to 
the  cave  is  eastward  from  the  house  one  hundred  yards  or  more, 
thence  south  through  a  small  field,  at  the  edge  of  which  a  short  path 
leads  down  a  steep  ravine  densely  overgrown  with  trees  and  vines, 
from  which  the  visitor  soon  emerges  on  the  bank  of  the  river.  One 
hundred  yards  down  stream  is  a  large  spring  which  makes  its  appear- 
ance some  thirty  feet  above  the  surface  of  the  river.  Coming  out  of  a 
cavernous  opening,  it  rushes  in  a  series  of  tortuous  leaps  over  moss- 
covered  rocks  into  the  river.  The  volume  of  water  discharged  would 
drive  an  ordinary  mill.  The  cliff  of  rocks  here  is  about  one  hundred 
feet  in  height,  the  top  overhanging  some  ten  feet,  protecting  the  lower 
surface  of  the  cliff,  and  this  circumstance  is  one  that  accounts  for  the 
preservation  of  the  pictures  to  this  day.  All  along  the  face  of  the 
cliff,  under  the  overhanging  ledge  or  shelf,  are  the  remarkable  repre- 
sentations. At  the  height  of  nearly  fifty  feet  above  the  spring,  is  the 
largest  visible  group.  This  comprises,  among  other  pictures  and 
hieroglyphs,  two  rudely  executed  drawings  of  human  figures,  perhaps 
twenty  inches  in  height,  with  arms  extended  ;  one  small  human  figure 
with  a  staff  in  its  hand  ;  numerous  circles,  with  dots  and  crosses  in  the 
centre  ;  spots  within  semi-circles,  half  resembling  the  human  eye,  etc. 
Other  figures,  at  different  places  on  the  rocks,  are  those  of  a  wild  tur- 
key ;  of  a  man  wearing  a  jockey  cap,  from  which  a  plume  or  feather  de- 
pends ;  of  numerous  circles ;  fantastic  figures,  some  of  an  arabesque 
character,  others  plain ;  of  a  square  or  cube ;  of  a  Masonic  compass 
and  square,  etc. 

About  five  feet  below  the  most  of  the  figures  runs  a  narrow  ledge, 
on  which  the  artist  or  artists  must  have  stood  when  the  pictures  were 
made.  The  ledge  is  reached  from  points  east  and  west,  but  it  re- 
quires a  person  of  feome  nerve  to  climb  to  it.  Some  of  the  figures, 
however,  are  fifteen  feet  above  the  ledge,  and  could  not  have  been 
made  without  the  aid  of  a  ladder  of  some  sort.  The  drawings  seem 
to- have  been  made  of  a  paint  composed  of  ground  '*  keel  "  mixed  with 
water  or  grease,  and  applied  with  the  fingers  or  a  rude  brush.  Not 
all  of  the  pictures  can  now  be  seen,  as  a  great  portion  of  the  face  of 
the  cliff  is  covered  with  ivv. 

Who  the  artists  were  that  sketched  these  pictures,  and  what  (if 
anything)  they  represent,  cannot  now  but  be  conjectured.     They  have 
62 


978  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY, 

existed  since  the  first  white  men  told  of  this  country.  The  fii*st 
printed  mention  of  them  is  made  by  Lewis  and  Clark,  who  saw  them 
in  1804.  Doubtless  they  are  the  work  of  the  mound  builders,  or  of 
some  other  race  akin  to  them. 

Coal.  —  One  and  a  half  miles  northeast  of  Rocheport,  on  the  lands 
now  owned  by  David  Mead  and  Mrs.  Woods,  is  a  fine  bed  of  coal. 
The  vein  varies  from  twentv-six  inches  to  four  feet  in  thickness,  and 
lies  at  a  depth  of  from  eight  to  thirty  feet  from  the  surface.  Near 
the  bank,  and  on  the  same  lands,  is  a  fine  mineral  spring. 

Caves. — On  the  bank  of  the  Missouri  river,  three  miles  southeast 
of  Rocheport,  is  the  "  Sinking  Creek  Cave."  It  has  been  penetrated 
^nd  explored  for  nearly  a  mile.  It  contains  many  remarkable  and 
interesting  features.  It  abounds  in  beautiful  stalactites  and  stalag- 
mites, and  other  natural  features  delightful  to  contemplate.  The  cave 
is  divided  into  rooms  or  chambers,  some  of  which  are  fifteen  feet 
square.  At  the  entrance  the  inner  roof  of  the  cave  is  about  eight  feet 
high,  but  farther  in  the  interior  it  ranges  from  ten  to  fifteen  feet. 

boroughs' S     CAVE. 

One  mile  east  of  Midway,  on  the  old  Reuben  Hatton  place,  is  a  re- 
markable spring,  the  most  singular,  perhaps,  in  the  county.  It 
breaks  out  from  under  a  perpendicular  cliff  of  limestone,  some  twelve 
or  fifteen  feet  high,  and  flows  south  across  a  small  valley  hemmed  in 
on  all  sides  by  a  natural  wall  of  limestone.  At  the  distance  of  al)out 
one  hundred  yards  it  enters  the  earth  again,  running  for  one-fourth  of 
a  mile  under  a  high  ridge  of  table  land  bedded  upon  ledges  of  cavern- 
ous limestone.  The  second  time  it  bursts  forth  into  light  of  davit 
flows  into  a  large  branch,  a  tributary  of  Boroughs's  fork  of  Calla- 
ham,  which  heads  a  few  miles  northwest  of  Midway.  About  one  mile 
from  where  this  stream  enters  the  Callaham,  is  Boroughs's  cave, 
which,  next  to  Connor's,  is  the  greatest  natural  curiosity  in  that  sec- 
tion of  the  country.  A  short  distance  from  the  mouth  it  forks,  one 
prong  being  destitute  of  water,  while  a  large  stream  flows  through 
the  other.  This  cave,  in  the  early  settling  of  the  country,  was  a  great 
resort  for  bear,  and  the  pioneer  hunters  used  to  lie  in  wait  at  the  en- 
trance and  shoot  them  as  they  passed  in  and  out.  Some,  still  more 
daring,  would  light  a  torch  and  boldly  enter  the  cave.  When  the 
light  flashed  upon  the  astonished  animal.  Bruin  would  rise  upon  his 
haunches  and  gaze  bewilderedly  at  the  venturesome  hunter,  who  seized 


HISTORT   or  BOONE   COUNTY.  97J> 

the  precious  moment  to  his  own  advantage,  and  either  shot  the  bear 
or  plunged  a  bowie-knife,  tied  to  the  end  of  a  pole,  through  the  ani- 
mars  heart. 

EARLY  SETTLERS  AND  SETTLEMENTS. 

The  first  settlement  of  Boone  county  in  earnest  began  in  Missouri 
township,  in  the  year  1816.  True,  prior  to  this  date,  some  of  the 
Howard  county  hunters  had  established  temporary  camps  here,  but 
they  could  not  with  propriety  be  called  settlers.  Wm.  Pipes  lived 
in  the  township  in  1812.  It  was  from  Head's  Fort,  in  Howard 
county,  about  two  and  a  half  miles  northwest  of  Rocheport,  whence 
the  settlements  in  Boone  county  were  formed. 

From  Stephens'  sketch  it  is  learned  that  in  the  spring  of  the  year 
1816  a  number  of  the  inhabitants  of  Head's  Fort  located  near  Roche- 
port,  settling  on. what  was  afterwards  known  as  Thrall's  Prairie,^' 
aorth  of  the  present  site  of  Rocheport.  This  settlement  was  made 
by  Anderson  Woods,  in  company  with  the  following  other  persons^ 
viz. :  Robert  Barclay,  John  Barnes,  Wm.  Pipes,  Absalom  Hicks,  John 
Stephenson,  Jefferson  Fiilcher,  Jesse  Richardson,  a  family  of  Bartons^ 
and  several  others.  The  settlement  grew  rapidly,  and  soon  composed 
some  among  the  best  citizens  of  the  county  and  State. 

Among  the  pioneers  settlers  may  be  mentioned  Augustus  Thrall, 
Oliver  Parker,  Anderson  Woods,  Dr.  G.  B.  Wilcox,  Clayton  Heme, 
Tyre  Harris,  Overton  Harris,  the  Wilhites  (Sampson,  William,  and 
Stephen),  Henry  Lightfoot,  James  Ketchum,  William  Gosline,  John 
Slack,  Wilford  Stephens,  Jonathan  Barton,  James  Cochran,  Reuben 
Hatton,  and  Charles  Laughlin.  The  names  of  others  ought  to  'be 
given,  but  cannot  now  be  learned. 

For  the  most  part  the  first  settlers  located  on  New  Madrid  claims, 
or,  as  they  were  sometimes  called,  "Madrid  locations."  These 
claims  were  granted  to  the  settlers  in  the  New  Madrid  country  in  lieu 
of  the  lands  occupied  by  them  which  had  been  destroyed  or  damaged 
by  the  great  earthquakes  of  1811.  The  most  of  this  land  in  Missouri 
township  had  been  entered  by  Taylor  Berry  and  Greorge  Tennille, 
who  had  purchased  a  number  of  certificates  from  the  New  Madrid 
sufferers. 

Up  to  1820  the  following,  among  others,  had  settled  near  Roche- 
port and  Thrall's  Prairie:  John  Gray,  Gaven  Head,  John  Berry,. 
David  and  Andrew  McQuitty,   Samuel  Beatty,  Robert  Dale,  John 


^  So  named  for  Col.  Augustus  Thrall. 


580  HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTT. 

Copher,  Solomon  and  Zachariah  Barnett,  Wm.  Baxter,  James  Boggs, 
David  and  James  Pipes,  John  Copeland,  David  Kincaid,  Wm.  Lientz, 
John  G.  Phillips,  M'ichael  Woods,  J.  E.  Abernathy,  Robert  D. 
Walkup,  Tyre  Harris. 

East  and  southeast  of  Rocheport,  in  what  is  known  as  **  Terrapin 
Neck,"  there  lived  Granville  Bledsoe,  Daniel  Lewis,  James  Lewis, 
Wm.  Lewis,  Patterson  Y.  Russell,  Jesse  Lewis,  Wm.  Burch,  John 
Graves,  Ichabod  C.  Hensley,  Thomas  Williams  and  Richard  Ful- 
kerson. 

East  of  Rocheport  and  in  the  north  central  portion  of  the  township, 
in  the  region  around  about  where  Midway  post-office  now  stands,  the 
pioneer  settlers  were  John  Henderson,  Jonathan  Freeman,  Benjamin 
Mothershead,  Chas.  Laughlin,  W.  T.  Hatton,  George  Crump,  Wm. 
and  James  Y.  Jones,  John  Ogan,  Wm.  Douglass,  John  M.  Robinson, 
Wyatt  McGee,  George  Hersch,  Reuben  and  John  M.  Robinson. 

George  Hersch,  "  the  honest  man,'*  was  a  German,  and  a  remark- 
able character,  a  cabinet  maker,  who  lived  about  two  miles  north  of 
Midway,  on  a  small  stream  known  as  Barclay's  Fork  of  the  Callaham. 
He  was  something  of  a  poet  himself,  and,  although  a  German,  was 
a  great  admirer  of  Burns  and  Scotch  poetry,  which  he  was  fond  of 
quoting  on  every  occasion.  Hersch  had  the  weakness  of  his  favorite 
poet's  noted  character,  Tam  O'Shanter,  and  would  get  **  unco'  f u  '  " 
quite  frequently.  On  one  occasion  of  this  sort  some  wags  waylaid 
him  after  night  and  sought  to  make  him  believe  that  Old  Nick  was 
upon  him.  Nothing  frightened,  Hersch  drew  himself  up,  and,  im- 
provising a  rhyme  appropriate  to  the  occasion,  exclaimed :  — 

"  Here  stands  George  Herscb,  an  honest  man ! 
Take  him,  Devil,  if  you  can!" 

George  Hersch  died  many  years  ago,  respected  and  mourned  by  all 
who  knew  him. 

John  Carutbers,  an  old  soldier  of  the  war  of  1812,  was  for  many 
years  a  resident  of  this  township,  coming  here  in  1832.  He  was 
a  .native  of  Virginia,  born  in  1793.  By  reading  an  account  of  the 
surveys  and  explorations  of  Col.  Fremont  he  became  interested  in 
the  study  of  geology,  and  read  everything  he  could  procure  upon 
or  pertaining  to  that  subject.  He  became  well  versed  in  chemistry, 
botany,  mineralogy,  philosophy,  engineering,  and  his  knowledge  of 
geology  was  very  elaborate  and  thorough.  Mr.  Caruthers  died  in 
1879. 

Among  the  first   settlers  of  this  township  were  members  of  the 


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HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  981 

fVilhite  family.  Sampson  Wilhite  and  his  three  sons,  William,  Ste- 
phen and  Fielding  Wilhite,  came  from  Kentucky  to  this  township 
[then  Howard  county)  as  early  as  the  year  1818.  They  located  in 
the  neighborhood  of  Rocheport,  where  many  of  their  descendants 
^et  live.  They  were  all  farmers.  Stephen  Wilhite  was  a  blacksmith 
18  well  as  a  farmer;  Fielding  Wilhite  was  a  farmer  and  a  Baptist  min- 
ister. All  of  them  lived  reputable  lives  and  died  full  of  years  and 
lienors.  Probably  the  first  loom  was  brought  into  the  township  by 
Mrs.  Sampson  Wilhite  in  1818.  The  greater  part  of  the  clothing  for 
families  was  carded,  spun  and  woven  by  the  female  members,  and 
was  usually  made  up  of  wool  and  flax ;  the  latter  being  among  the 
first  crops  raised.  The  first  brick  house  in  the  township  was  built  by 
Sampson  Wilhite  in  the  year  1822.  It  is  still  standing  and  is  the 
house  now  occupied  by  J.  E.  Hart,  four  miles  from  Rocheport,  on  the 
Sturgeon  road. 

Reuben  Hatton  settled  on  a  farm  about  one  mile  east  of  Midway, 
about  the  year  1818.  He  came  to  Missouri  in  1816,  spending  over 
one  year  in  St.  Louis  county.  He  was  a  local  preacher  of  the  Meth- 
odist church,  and  was  mainly  instrumental  in  building  up  **  Brick 
Chapel,"  now  known  as  Locust  Grove  church.'  He  was  a  native  of 
Virginia  and  served  seven  years  in  the  revolutionary  army.  He  raised 
ten  sons  and  three  daughters,  of  whom  two  sons  and  one  daughter 
are  now  living.  Reuben  Hatton  died  about  the  year  1840.  Several 
of  his  sons  and  their  families  are  well  known  in  Boone  county.  Gen. 
S.  B.  Hatton,  Col.  William  Hatton,  R.  M.,  Fleming  and  Wesley  B. 
Hatton  all  raised  families  in  Boone  county.  The  wife  of  Reuben  Hat- 
ton was  Joan  Belean,  who  was  of  French-Huguenot  origin.  The 
Beleaus,  in  the  second  generation  after  their  banishment,  changed  the 
spelling  to  **Bellew/'  They  were  married  in  South  Carolina  where 
their  first  children  were  born.  They  moved  to  Madison  county,  Ken- 
tucky, and  from  there  to  Missouri. 


THR    **  FIRSTS. 


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Dr.  George  B.  Wilcox,  from  Tennessee,  is  said  to  have  been  not 
only  the  first  practicing  physician  in  Missouri  township,  but  the  first 
in  Boone  county.  He  came  to  the  township  as  early  as  1816,  when 
white  men  were  very  few  in  the  territory  now  comprised  in  Boone 
county.     Dr.  Wilcox  died  in  Rocheport  about  the  year  1860. 

Rev.  Thos.  Campbell,  a  Baptist,  it  is  alleged,  preached  the  first 
sermon  and  conducted  the  first  religious  exercises  in  the  township  at 


982  HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

the  house  of  Sampson  Wilhite,  in  the  fall  of  the  year  1818.    Field- 
ing Wilhite  was  cotemporary  with  Campbell. 

In  the  early  settlement  of  Missouri  township  the  leading  religious 
denominations  were  the  Baptists,  Presbyterians  and  Methodists. 
Morality  was  the  general  rule.  The  young  people  were  rather  strictly 
reared.  The  majority  of  the  first  settlers  opposed  dancing,  and  the 
amusements  of  the  young  folks  were  of  the  simplest  character,  con- 
sisting chiefly  of  innocent  games  and  plays. 

The  first  post-office  in  the  township  (and  probably  the  first  4n  the 
county)  was  established  at  Thrall's  prairie  in  1819,^  and  named  Lex- 
ington. Probably  Oliver  Parker  was  the  first  postmaster,  although 
this  distinction  is  claimed  by  Mr.  Lientz  for  Dr.  Geo.  B.  Wilcox. 
Others  assert  that  Parker  was  the  first  and  Wilcox  the  second.  In 
1828  this  post-office  was  removed  to  the  house  of  Wm.  Lientz.  The 
name  was  changed  by  Col.  Thos.  H.  Benton  from  Lexington  to  Boone- 
ton.  Mr.  Lientz  was  appointed  postmaster.  In  1832  the  office  was 
renjoved  to  Rochepoil.  When  first  established  the  mail  was  brought 
to  Lexington  from  St.  Charles  on  horseback.  Mr.  Lientz  lived  on 
the  old  Columbia  and  Franklin  road. 

The  first  store  in  the  township  was  established  by  Oliver  Parker,  at 
Thrall's  Prairie,  in  1818  or  1819.  His  stock  in  trade  was  small,  to 
be  sure,  but  it  was  none  the  less  valuable,  at  that  day.  He  kept  lead, 
powder,  sugar,  coffee,  cloths  and  a  few  other  articles.  Small  as  was 
his  beginning,  and  unfavorable  as  his  surroundings  were,  Mr.  Parker's 
business  grew  and  flourished  until  he  eventually  amassed  a  fortune. 

An  incident  showing  Mr.  Parker's  gallantry  and  bravery  will  bear 
relating  in  this  connection.  On  one  occasion  Mr.  Parker  started  for 
St.  Louis  to  replenish  his  stock  of  goods.  He  had  his  money  in  gold 
and  silver  in  his  saddle-bags,  as  he  travelled  on  horseback.  The 
ferry  boat  at  St.  Charles  at  that  day  was  a  small  aflTair,  capable  of 
carrying  over  one  wagon  at  a  time,  and  propelled  by  oars.  On  the  trip 
when  Mr.  Parker  was  a  passenger  the  boat  struck  a  snag  and  began 
to  sink.  He  seized  his  saddle-bags  and  prepared  to  save  himself,  but, 
seeing  a  lady  who  was  on  board  in  great  distress  and  peril,  he  threw 
away  his  treasure  —  every  cent  —  and  devoted  his  energies  to  saving 
her,  fortunately  with  success. 

In  1823  Mr.   Parker  built  a  residence  in  Columbia,  afterward  the 
nucleus  of  Stephens  Female  College.     He  became  one  of  the  leading 


^  One  account  says  in  ISIS. 


IH8TORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  983 

citizens  of  Columbia  and  of  the  county,  and  was  a  resident  of  Colum- 
bia at  the  time  of  his  death. 

When  Parker's  store  was  first  opened  he  handled  but  little  money. 
The  settlers  were  wont  to  exchange  produce  for  such  *'  store  goods  " 
as  they  were  compelled  to  purchase.  Bacon,  corn,  beeswax,  hides  and 
pelts,  were  the  chief  articles  of  barter  used  by  the  settlers.  About  all  the 
money  required  was  enough  to  pay  taxes ;  everything  else  could  be 
traded  for.  Prices  of  everything  the  people  had  to  sell  were  very 
low.  A  good  cow  brought  only  $5  ;  dressed  hogs  sold  for  $1.50  and 
(2  percwt. ;  a  day's  labor  could  be  had  for  25  cents,  etc.,  etc. 

Upon  the  first  settlement  of  the  township  the  settlers  made  their 
own  salt.  In  the  fall  months  they  would  visit  the  numerous  salt 
springs  in  different  parts  of  the  township  and  spend  some  days  in 
boiling  down  the  saline  waters  into  a  very  fair  article  of  salt.  It  was 
coarse,  to  be  sure,  but  it  was  strong,  and  answered  every  purpose 
very  well. 

The  first  school-house  was  located  at  the  Big  Spring.  It  was  built 
by  the  settlers  sometime  after  the  year  1820  and  prior  to  1825.  The 
house  was  a  very  simple  structure.  It  was  composed  of  round  logs, 
with  clapboard  rpof  and  puncheon  floor.  The  cracks  were  chinked 
and  daubed  with  mud ;  the  chimney  was  of  mud  and  sticks,  and  alto- 
gether the  structure  much  resembled  a  settler's  dwelling-house.  Who 
taught  the  first  term  of  school  in  this  house  cannot  with  certainty  be 
learned,  but  Asa  Brown  is  remembered  as  a  teacher  who  taught  at  an 
early  day. 

'  The  first  mill  in  the  township  was  a  horse  mill,  put  up  by  John  Cope- 
land  in  1819.  The  flour  was  bolted  or  sieved  by  hand.  The  mill 
was  so  well  patronized  that  customers  often  had  to  wait  days  for 
their  turn.  The  first  grist  mill  that  ran  by  water  power  was  built  by 
William  Stapleton  in  1835. 

The  first  road  through  the  township  was  the  old  St.  Charles  road, 
running  from  St.  Charles  to  Old  Franklin,  in  Howard  county.  It  was 
known  for  years  as  the  St.  Charles  and  Franklin  road.  The  road 
was  much  travelled  at  an  early  day,  it  being  the  principal  thorough- 
fare leading  from  St.  Louis  and  St.  Charles  to  the  Upper  Missouri 
country.  In  1830^  the  first  public  conveyances,  a  line  of  stage 
coaches,  were  put  upon  this  road,  it  is  said,  by  George  Sexton,  Esq. 
The  line  ran  from  St.  Louis  to  Old  Franklin.     Mr.  Sexton  also  Bstab- 


^  Another  date  is  given,  1826. 


984  HISTORY   OP   BOONE    COUNTT, 

lished  the  first  stage  line  from  Rocheport  to  Fayette.  Prior  to  the 
establishment  of  Sexton's  stage  line  the  mails  were  carried  on  horse- 
back. In  August,  1821,  the  county  court  established  a  road  "  to  run 
from  Columbia  to  intersect  the  St.  Charles  road  at  or  near  Augustus 
Thrall's  field."  John  Gray  was  appointed  the  commissioner  to  lay 
out  this  road. 

The  first  murder  by  a  white  man  of  a  white  man  in  the  neighbor- 
hood occurred  just  over  the  Howard  line,  as  is  believed,  since  no 
mention  of  the  case  can  be  found  in  the  records  of  this  county.  The 
case  was  the  killing  of  David  Copher  by  Bird  Lawless,  in  1831.  The 
affair  grew  out  of  a  cattle  trade  between  the  two  men,  resulting  in  a 
dispute,  then  a  quarrel,  then  a  killing.  Lawless  was  tried  at  Fayette,' 
before  Judge  David  Todd,  found  guilty  of  manslaughter,  and  sen- 
tenced to  six  moiiths'  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  and  to  pay  a 
fine  of  $500. 

THE    INDIANS. 

In  the  early  settlement  of  the  township  roving  bauds  of  Indians 
from  the  nortl>,  principally  from  the  Sacs  (or  Saukees),  Foxes,  lowas 
and  Pottawattamies,  visited  this  locality  from  time  to  time.  After 
the  war  of  1812  these  Indians  were  uniformly  friendly,  though  very 
troublesome  on  account  of  their  begging  and  thievish  propensities. 
Many  incidents  might  be  narrated  of  the  peculiar  conduct  of  the  savages 
when  in  the  Missouri  township  settlements,  and  the  adventures  of  the 
settlers  with  them,  but  are  omitted  for  want  of  space. 

As  early  as  1818,  upon  the  first  permanent  settlement,  there  were 
no  resident  Indians,  they  having  all  left  some  years  prior  to  that  date. 
Sometimes  when  they  came  into  the  locality  and  made  a  camp  they 
evinced  a  disposition  to  remain  permanently,  but  the  whites  would  in- 
variably give  them  to  understand  that  on  no  account  would  they  be 
permitted  to  stay  for  all  time,  and  then  would  command  them  to 
'«  puck-a-chee,  "  —  i.e.,  to  move  on  at  once. 

KILLING    OF   TODD    AND    SMITH   BY   THE    INDIANS    IN    1813. 

One  of  the  tragic  incidents  connected  with  the  early  settlement  and 
history  of  the  Boone's  Lick  country  was  the  killing  by  the  Indians  of  Jon- 
athan Todd  and  Thomas  Smith,  two  settlers  from  Fort  Hempstead,  in 
Howard  county,  in  the  year  1813.  Todd  and  Smith  had  gone  out  from 
the  fort  to  hunt  for  some  horses,  which,  they  thought,  had  strayed 
away.  The  country  was  infested  with  Iowa  Indians,  also  Sacs  and 
Foxes,  very  hostile  and  very  crafty.     The  settlers  wandered  away  in 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  985- 

search  of  their  animals  (which  had  really  been  stolen  by  the  Indians) 
until  they  were  beyond  the  reach  of  aid  from  their  comrades  in  the 
fort.  One  account  says  that  they  were  decoyed  away  by  the  Indians. 
When  the  settlers  had  reached  a  point  in  this  township  on  section 
27,  township  49,  range  14,  now  on  the  farm  of  Sampson  S.  Wilhite, 
Esq.,  they  were  fired  on  by  the  Indians,  and  after  a  hard  fight  both 
were  killed.  After  thev  were  killed  the  Indians  cut  off  their  heads 
and  cut  out  their  hearts  and  stuck  them  up  on  poles.  Todd  and 
Smith  were  the  first  whites  killed  in  the  Boone's  Lick  country. 

One  account  of  this  affair,  furnished  by  an  old  citizen  of  Missouri 
township,  is  to  the  effect  that  when  Todd  and  Smith  were  attacked  a 
desperate  combat  ensued,  ending  in  their  being  overpowered  and  mur- 
dered within  two  miles  of  Head's  Fort,  to  which  place  they  were  fight- 
ing their  way.  They  were  killed  half  a  mile  apart.  When  found 
Todd's  head  was  placed  by  the  body  of  Smith,  seemingly  to  let  the 
whites  know  that  both  had  been  killed.  The  bodies,  it  is  said,  were 
buried  on  the  farm  of  Mr.  Wilhite,  where  their  graves  may  yet  be 
seen. 

Capt.  Joseph  Cooper,  of  Howard  county,  son  of  Sarshall  Cooper 
and  an  inmate  of  Cooper's  Fort  at  the  time,  in  a  letter,  written  in 
January,  1874,  published  in  Campbell's  Gazetteer  (p.  244)  makes  the 
following  statement :  — 

Col.  Newton  G.  Elliott  :  Dear  Sir  —  The  letter  of  my  earlj  and  tried  friend,  Capt. 
Joseph  Cooper,  in  relation  to  the  early  settlement  of  the  Boone's  Lickc  ountry,  ha^i  been  read 
to  me  and  I  heartily  endorse  as  true  all  he  said.  My  eyesight  is  so  dim  that  I  am  unable  to 
read  it  myself,  being  86  years  old.  I  came  to  the  Boone's  Lick  country  in  1810,  and  was  a 
participant  in  very  many  of  the  incidents  mentioned  in  Capt.  Cooper's  letter.  Harrison 
Jameson  (my  brother-in-law)  and  myself  were  making  saltpeter  in  a  cave  Just  below  the 
month  of  Moniteau  Creek  the  morning  that  Jonathan  Todd  and  Thomas  Smith  were  killed. 
We  had  been  informed  by  the  Indian  agent  that  the  Indians  were  coming  to  kill  us,  and 
that  morning  we  threw  all  our  saltpeter  into  a  canoe  and  started  for  Fort  Kincaid,  arriving 
there  in  time  to  ge  out  with  the  command  to  get  the  dead  bodies  of  Todd  and  Smith  and 
ohaetise  the  Indians,  if  found ;  for  after  the  murder  they  had  set  fire  to  the  woods  to  destroy 
their  trail.  ♦  «  ♦  «  A  great  many  other  incidents  of  the  early  hi^ry  of  the  county 
might  be  given,  but  I,  like  others  who  participated,  am  getting  too  old  to  furnish  a  minute 
history.    Respectfully,  Jahks  Barnxs. 

PERSINGER's  ACCOUNT. BATTLE  ON  THE  BONNE  FEMME. 

Ill  a  little  pamphlet,  pnblished  in  1861,  by  Joseph  Persinger,  en- 
titled, **  The  Life  of  Jacob  Persinger,  "  appears  the  following  on  page 
20,  et  seq, : 

♦  ♦  ♦  Not  long  after  this  treaty  was  made,  some  hunters  went  down  on  the  Bonne 
Femme  Creek  to  find  some  game,  and,  in  traveling  down  an  Indian  path  in  pursuit  of  game, 
they  discovered  the  head  of  a  white  man  sticking  upon  a  pole.    They  became  alarmed,  im- 


586  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

mediately  went  back  and  reported  what  they  had  seen.    The  whites  collected  together  m 
quick  as  possible,  made  arrangements  to  catch  the  murderers,  and  started  off  to  where  the 
bead  was  found.     On  arriving  at  the  spot  they  found  two  men  had  been  killed,  which  exas- 
perated .them  very  much.    They  then  entered  into  a  compact  that  they  would  hunt  from 
day  to  day  until  they  found  the  murderers,  and  seek  revenge  by  taking  the  lives  of  thoie  who 
committed    the  atrocious    deed.    They  btarted  and  traveled  over  a  considerable  scope  of 
country,  and  at  length  saw  an  Indian  alone.    They  took  him  prisoner  and  interrogated  him 
in  regard  to  the  murder  of  the  two  men,  but  he  stoutly  denied  having  any  knowledge  of  the 
murder  at  all.    They  then  asked  him  if  he  knew  of  any  Indians ;  he  replied  that  he  did,  ind 
that  they  were  then  stationed  on  the  point  between  the  creek  and  the^Missouri  river. 

The  white  men  immediately  set  out  to  march  against  the  Indians.  They  proceeded  to  get 
as  close  as  possible  unobserved,  and  they  succeeded.  They  crossed  over  the  creek  as  noiie- 
lessly  as  possible  and  formed  a  line  that  extended  from  the  creek  to  the  river.  When  they 
came  upon  the  Indians  they  found  them  playing  **  bandy.  **  They  made  a  rush  and  got  be- 
tween them  and  their  guns.  The  Indians  knew  now  their  only  chance  for  safety  would  be 
either  to  to  swim  Bonne  Femme  creek  or  the  Missouri  river;  but  the  whites  were  too  fast  for 
them.  They  (the  whites)  made  a  charge  and  killed  off  all  the  Indians,  forty-nine  in  number, 
except  one,  who  escaped  with  a  broken  arm.  After  the  battle  was  over  the  whites  took  the 
Indian  prisoner  upon  the  bottom  or  low  ground  on  the  Missouri  river,  and  told  him  that  if  he 
wished  to  save  his  life,  he  could  do  so  by  out-running  any  one  man  in  the  company.  The 
Indian  readily  accepted  to  this  proposition,  and  started  off  at  full  speed ;  but  a  tdaii  named 
Fugate  started  after  him,  caught  him  immediately  and  led  him  back  to  the  company.  The 
whites  then  told  him  that  they  would  give  him  another  chance:  that  he  might  commence 
running,  and  after  he  got  a  certain  distance  from  them  they  were  to  commence  firing,  and  if 
none  of  the  balls  struck  he  should  go  unharmed.  The  Indian  started  at  full  speed  agsin. 
After  he  got  to  the  required  distance  he  ran  in  an  ang^ar  direction ;  but  the  poor  crettore 
did  not  get  far  until  he  fell  dead,  with  seven  bullet  holes  in  him.  This  defeat  of  the  Indians 
settled  the  war  with  them  for  some  time. 

From  Persinger's  description  of  the  ground,  it  is  evident  that  the 
fight  with  the  Indians  narrated  in  the  foregoing,  took  place  near  the 
mouth  of  Bonne  Femme  creek,  in  what  is  now  Cedar  township.  It  is 
worthy  of  note,  that  no  corrobor<Ative  statements  or  accounts  concern- 
ing the  killing  of  the  forty-nine  Indians  can  he  obtained  at  present, 
and  yet  this  remark  is  not  intended  as  a  denial  that  any  such  affair 
ever  came  off. 

A    BEAR   HUNT. 

In  the  year  1823  a  large  black  bear  came  into  the  neighborhood 
where  'Andrew  McQuitty  lived.  The  alarm  was  given  and  a  hunting 
party  was  soon  formed  to  give  chase  to  the  monster.  Among  those 
composing  this  party,  were  Andrew  McQuitty,  Bird  Lawless,  Joshua 
F.  White,  and  some  negro  men.  Bruin  was  soon  found,  and  chased 
into  a  sink-hole.  Here  the  dogs  were  set  upon  him,  but  he  soon 
and  very  easily  disposed  of  them,  and  they  at  last  refused  to  come 
to  time. 

Mr.  McQuitty  and  his  fellow-hunters  had  taken  a  drink  or  two  of 
pioneer  whisky   before   setting   out,  and  were  somewhat   under  its 


HI8TOBY   OF   BOONE   COXTSTf.  987 

inflaence.     Brave  at  all  times,  they  were  now  reckless.     One  of  the 
negroes  was  a  slave  named  Jeff,  who  belonged  to  McQuitty.     Jeff's^ 
master  called  out  to  him  :  — 

"Dim you,  Jeff,  jump  onto  him  with  an  ax." 

**  Good  Lawd,  massa  1"  replied  Jeff;  **  see  how  he  sarves  de  dogs  I 
What  would  he  do  to  me  ?' ' 

**  Never  mind  that,"  said  McQuitty :  *'  you  black  rascal,  jump  onto 
that  bear,  dim  you," 

•*  Golly  1  massa,  he'll  kill  me  sure,  an'  den  yon' 11  lose  more  dan  de 
ole  bar  is  wuff.     Better  jump  on  him  yourself ^  massa/** 

"Give  me  the  ax  then,  dim  you,"  and,  seizing  the  weapon,  Mr. 
McQuitty  walked  out  upon  a  log  that  lay  partly  across  the  sink-hole, 
and  luckily  enough  struck  the  savage  animal  with  the  blade  of  the 
AX  a  blow  in  the  neck  which  severed  its  jugular,  and  it  fell  a  quiver- 
ing carcass. 

Springing  to  the  main  land  McQuitty  shouted  triumphantly,  **  Now, 
Jeff,  you  gad  dim  nigger,  see  what  a  man  can  do  that  is  not  a  coward  I  " 

**  Yes,"  replied  Jeff,  shaking  his  woolly  head  meditatively,  but  what 
would  have  become  of  you,  massa,  if  you'd  fell  offde  log?" 

ORGANIZATION. 

At  the  first  session  of  the  county  court,  February  18,  1822,  Mis- 
souri township  was  organized.  When  the  territory  was  in  Howard 
'County,  it  had  comprised  a  portion  of  Moniteau  township,  and  Tyre 
Harris  was  justice  of  the  peace,  and  James  Harris  constable.  The 
Boone  county  court  appointed,  (or  recommended  for  appointment,) 
John  Gray  to  be  justice  of  the  peace,  Ichabod  C.  Hensley  constable, 
and  Jesse  B.  Dale,  assessor.  It  appears  that  the  appointment  of 
these  offices  did  not  operate  to  legislate  Tyre  Harris  out  of  office,  for 
there  is  a  record  of  his  having  performed  the  functions  of  a  magistrate 
for  some  time  afterward.  The  metes  and  bounds  of  Missouri  town- 
ship first  fixed  by  the  county  court,  are  the  same  to-day.  The  order 
of  the  court  establishing  the  township  reads  as  follows : 

"4th  township  to  be  denominated  Missouri  township:  Beginning  at  the  mouth  of  the 
Roche  Perche  creek,  thence  up  the  Missouri  river  to  the  mouth  of  the  Monitor  ^  creek ;  thence 
tip  sidd  creek  to  where  the  dividing  line  between  this  county  and  Howard  leaves  the  same ; 
thence  with  said  dividing  line  to  where  it  crosses  the  old  St  Charles  road ;  thence  eastwardly 
with  the  said  road  to  where  it  crosses  the  southeast  corner  of  section  16,  in  range  14,  and 
township  49;  thence  east  with  the  sectional  line  to  the  western  boundary  of  Columbia  town- 


^  Properly  spelled  Moniteau. 


988  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

ship ;  thence  south  with  eaid  boundary  to  the  northern  boundary  of  Cedar  township^  thence 
west  with  the  said  township  boundary  to  the  Roche  Perche  creek,  thence  down  said  cre«k 
to  the  mouth,  the  point  of  beginning." 

EARLY   MILLS. 

Among  the  earliest  improvements  in  Missouri  township  should  be 
mentioned  the  Dixon  and  Stapleton  mills  east  of  the  Callaham.  The 
first  mill  built  in  that  region  of  country,  other  than  the  old-fashioned 
horse-mills,  was  the  Dixon  water-mill,  on  the  Callaham,  about  three 
miles  above  the  junction  of  that  stream  with  the  Perche.  Robert 
Scott  was  the  mill-wright  who  built  it.  The  first  proprietor  was  a  man 
named  Dixon.  It  was  both  a  saw  and  grist-mill.  Soon  after  it  was 
completed  Dixon  sold  it  to  Gen.  S.  B.  Hatton,  who  employed  a  skillful 
millwright  named  Smith  to  add  a  number  of  improvements  thereto. 
It  ran  night  and  day,  but  could  not  supply  the  demand  for  lumber. 
Most  of  the  lumber  used  in  building  the  State  University  was  sawed 
at  this  mill.  Soon  after  it  was  started  Stapleton,  a  wealthy  young 
man  from  Howard  county,  commenced  building  a  large  steam  mill 
about  half  a  mile  below  the  Dixon  mill.  When  completed  it  was  the 
largest  and  most  complete  steam  mill  in  the  county.  This  mill  also 
furnished  a  large  amount  of  lumber  for  the  State  University,  but  Sta- 
pleton did  not  prosper,  from  some  cause  or  other,  and  soon  sold  the 
property  to  the  Sexton  brothers,  who  conducted  the  business  for  sev- 
eral years,  when  they  sold  the  mill  and  500  acres  of  land  to  R.  M.  & 
S.  B.  Hatton.  Gen.  Hatton  sold  the  machinery  to  a  man  named 
Renfroc,  who  moved  it  to  Moniteau  county.  The  machinery  had 
formerly  done  service  in  the  paper-mill  at  Rockbridge,  Boone  county. 

TRAGEDIES. 

There  is  a  tragedy  connected  with  the  history  of  each  of  those 
mills.  A  man  was  drowned  in  attempting  to  cross  the  Callaham  just 
above  Dixon's  mill,  but  the  name  of  the  individual  and  the  circum- 
stances of  his  death,  are  shrouded  in  mystery.  The  tragedy  of  Sta- 
pleton's  mill  is  of  a  more  thrilling  nature.  Two  boys,  sons  of  a  Mr. 
Kingsberry,  a  wealthy  planter  of  Howard  county,  had  come  to  spend 
the  Christmas  with  their  sister,  Mrs.  Stapleton,  whose  husband  was 
very  fond  of  hunting.  He  had  promised  to  take  the  boys  on  a  deer 
chase,  and  in  their  impatience  for  the  hunt  they  took  their  brother-in- 
law's  guns  and  proceeded' to  load  them.  While  thus  engaged,  one  of 
the  guns  was  fired,  accidentally,  the  ball  piercing  the  heart  of  one  of 
the  boys,  who  died  without  uttering  a  word. 


r 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  989 

IN  THE   CIVIL  WAR. 

During  the  civil  war  Missouri  township  bore  its  full  share  of  the 
l)urdens  and  endured  its  full  measures  of  the  distresses  incident  to 
that  sanguinary  strife.  The  Southern  element  predominated  in  num- 
bers in  the  township,  but  there  were  many  Union  men  staunch  and 
true.  Each  side  was  well  represented  in  the  armies  that  fought  in 
the  field.  Among  the  more  notable  incidents  of  the  war  in  the  town- 
ship was  the 

KILLING   OF   SIDNEY   DENHAM. 

Mr.  Denham  lived  four  miles  east  of  Rocheport,  on  his  farm.  He 
was  a  well-to-do  citizen  and  owned  a  number  of  slaves.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  war  he  went  to  Boonville  as  a  member  of  the  Missouri 
State  Guard,  but  returned  home  in  a  few  days  and  took  no  further 
active  or  open  part  in  the  strife.  In  the  fall  of  1864  he  had  collected 
some  guns  and  ammunition  which  he  had  hidden  in  a  vacant  house 
on  his  premises,  and  which,  it  was  charged,  were  intended  for  use  by 
the  bushwhackers.  Mr.  Denham's  negroes  informed  the  Federals  on 
their  master,  and  a  squad  was  sent  out  from  Columbia  to  arrest  him. 
Mr.  Denham  was  arrested,  his  premises  searched,  the  guns  and 
ammunition  found,  and  then  the  party  started  away.  A  Mr.  Boggs, 
who  accompanied  the  Federals  as  a  guide,  and  who  now  resides  in 
Terrapin  Neck,  states  that  Denham  was  well  mounted,  and  not  long 
after  the  party  had  started,  and  while  near  Walnut  Grove  church,  he 
put  spurs  to  his  horse  and  tried  to  escape.  The  Federals  gave  chase 
and  fired  on  him  and  killed  him.  It  was  charged  that  the  Federals 
induced  Mr.  D.  to  try  to  escape  in  order  that  they  might  have  an 
excuse  for  shooting  him.  The  body  was  buried  in  Walnut  Grove 
Cemetery.  The  Federals  who  did  the  shooting  are  believed  to  have 
belonged  to  the  42d  Mo.  Infantry,  a  detachment  of  which  regiment 
was  stationed  at  Columbia  at  the  time  commanded  by  Lt.  Col. 
Stauber. 

ASSAULT     BY     DESPERADOES    ON    A    DEPUTY    SHERIFF. — ONE    OF    THE 

ASSAILANTS   KILLED. 

About  the  last  of  November,  1866,  Addison  Adams,  John  Q. 
Adams,  James  Adams  and  Francis  Hornsinger,  were  in  Rocheport 
disturbing  the  peace  and  defying  the  authorities  of  the  town ;  and 
ineffectual  attempts  were  made  to  arrest  them  by  Deputy  Constable 
Charles   Myers  and  Recorder  Samuel  Scobee.     These  desperadoes, 


990  HISTORY   or  BOONE   COUNTY. 

among  other  things,  rode  up  and  down  the  streets  with  drawn  pistoU 
and  finally  evacuated  the  town,  firing  at  dogs  and  hogs  as  they  left  it. 
They  came  east  on  the  Columbia  road,  on  their  way,  it  is  supposed,  to 
the  house  of  one  of  the  parties,  John  Q.  Adams,  who  lived  about  four 
miles  from  Eocheport. 

When  about  two  miles  from  town  the  Deputy  Sheriff,  Mr.  James 
C.  Gillaspy,  who  had  that  day  been  to  Rocheport  on  ofiicial  business 
no  way  connected  with  either  of  these  parties,  ptissed  them  on  the 
road.  Having  no  business  with  either  of  them,  he  simply  spoke  to 
them  in  passing,  and  when  a  few  steps  in  advance  was  ordered  by 
James  Adams  to  halt.  Not  halting,  Adams  galloped  to  his  side  with 
a  drawn  pistol,  repeating  the  order;  whereupon  some  words  passed 
between  them,  Mr.  Gillaspy  requesting  Adams  to  desist  and  put  up 
his  pistol  as  he  knew  no  cause  why  he  should  be  thus  assailed  on  the 
public  highway.  Instead  of  desisting,  however,  although  Mr. 
Gillaspy  requested  his  comrades  ta  interpose  and  take  him  away, 
Adams  became  more  furious,  and  with  his  pistol  in  close  proximity  to 
Gillaspy  attempted  to  kill  him,  but  fortunately  the  pistol  missed 
fire. 

Immediately  on  this  deadly  assault  being  made  Mr.  Gillaspy  veiy 
properly  fired  upon  his  assailant,  the  ball  making  a  flesh  wound  in 
Adams'  shoulder.     The  report  of  the  pistol  frightened  the  horses  of 
both  Adams  and  Gillaspy,  and  both  were  thrown  to  the  ground.    In 
falling  Gillaspy's  pistol  was  again  fired,  accidentally,  and  this  was  the 
last  charge  in  it.     Finding  himself  thus  surrounded  and  unarmed, 
Gillaspy  leaving  his  horse  started  for  the  house  of  Mr.  Marion  Coch- 
ran,  not   far   off.      About   this  time   three  citizens   returning   from 
Columbia  to  their  homes  in  Rocheport,  viz ;    J.  H.  Thornton,  Dr.  H. 
E.  C.   Cowden  and   Michael  O.  Woods,  came  up ;  and  Mr.  Thornton 
being  the  constable  of  that  township  commanded  the  peace  and  ordered 
them   to  surrender  their  arms,   which   they   refused  to   do  —  James 
Adams  swearing  vengeance  against  Gillaspy,  and  others  of  the  party 
against  Thornton.     Mr.  Woods  passed  rapidly  on  to  Cochran's  house, 
whither  Gillaspy  had  gone,  to  assist  Gillaspy  ;  whereupon  Gilhispy, 
obtaining  a  navy  revolver,   and  Woods  a  rifle,  started  back  to  where 
his  horse  had  thrown  him.     Woods  soon  ascertained  that  the  rifle  was 
unloaded ;  Gillaspy,  however,  went  on.     Seeing  him  coming,  Addi- 
son Adams  and  Hornsinger  remarked  to  Jas.  Adams,  who  by  this  time 
had  remounted  his  horse  —  *'There  comes  the  damn  son  of  a  b  —  h; 
go   and    kill   him."      James   obeyed  and  rode  in  a  gallop  toward 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.     .  991 

Gillaspj,  pistol  in  hand,  and  firing  upon  bira  as  be  approached. 
Gillaspy  heroically  stood  his  ground  and  returned  the  fire,  several  shots 
being  exchanged.  In  the  inele^  Adams'  horse  was  killed  and  he  mor- 
tally wounded  —  Gillaspy  escaping  unhurt.  Adams  died  the  next 
morning. 

Mr,  Gillaspy  returned  to  Columbia  that  evening  and  immediately 
surrendered  himself  to  Sheriff  Baker ;  and  the  Circuit  Court  beins:  in 
session  the  grand  jury  summoned  witnesses  and  after  a  thorough 
investigation  of  the  case,  fully  acquitted  Gillaspy  and  found  indict- 
ments for  assaults  with  intent  to  kill  against  Addison  Adams  and 
Francis  Hornsinger,  and  they  were  immediately  arrested  by  Sheriff 
Baker  and  lodged  in  jail.  Neither  of  these  four  desperadoes,  except 
Jno.    Q.  Adams,  resided  in  Boone  county;  but  had  recently  come 

frqm   Southwest  Missouri. 

/ 

RECENT   NEORO   RIOT. 

About  the  Ist.  of  August,  1882,  the  colored  people  living  in  the 
southwestern  part  of  the  county  ,better  known  as  **  Terrapin  Neck,"  had 
a  picnic  at  Mr.  Burch  Hunt's  springs  not  far  from  the  river  and  some 
eight  miles  southwest  of  Columbia.  Whisky,  it  seems,  as  usual  w;is 
onliand  and  got  in  its  devilish  work.  A  negro  named  Sewood  Coch- 
ran, noted  for  his  desperate  deeds,  it  is  said,  with  his  two  brothers, 
George  and  Warreri,  came  upon  the  grounds  for  the  purpose  of  raising 
a  row  and  began  by  overturning  the  table.  A  general  fight  ensued  in 
which  a  negro  named  Joseph  Jackson,  one  of  the  managers  of  the 
picnic,  shot  Sewood  through  the  thigh.  Jackson  received  a  danger- 
ous and  probably  fatal  cut  in  the  side,  from,  it  is  thought,  Warren 
Cochran.  Sewood  getting  possession  of  the  pistol  with  which  Jackson 
shot  him,  in  aiming  to  return  fire,  shot  Alex.  Freeman,  colored,  a  by- 
stander in  the  neck,  inflicting  a  flesh  wound.  Constable  Newland,  of 
Missouri  township,  was  present  and  tried  to  preserve  the  peace,  but 
hadjbo  shoot  Sewood,  who  resisted,  the  ball  passing  through  his  chin 
and  entering  his  neck  and  chest.  Newland  wheeled  around  and 
arrested  George  Cochran  and  took  him  before  Ugenus  Boldin,  J. 
P.,  but  there  being  no  one  to  swear  out  a  warrant  he  was  released. 
In  the  mdee  Warren  Cochran  was  knocked  senseless  with  a  plank  by 
Jim  White.  The  scene  after  the  fight  was  over,  looked  like  a  battle- 
field, the  wounded  and  bleeding  negroes  lying  around  in  all  directions 
and  making  the  air  vocal  with  their  groans. 


^92  HISTOBY  OP  BOONE  COUNTY. 

COUNTRY  CHURCHES  —  OLD  BETHEL,  NOW  WALNUT  GROVE. 

The  first   church    organized    within  the  present  limits  of  Boone 
county,  was  a  Baptist  church  called  Bethel  located  near  the  centre  of 
section  16,  township  49,  range  14.*     This  organization  was  formed 
June  28,  1817,  by  five  persons,  whose  names  are  here  given.     Fortu- 
nately the  original  manuscript  of  the  church  covenant  is  still  in  existence 
and  a  transcript  is  herewith  set  out,  printed  as  it  was  written,  with  a 
few  unimportant  errors   in  orthography,  grammar,  and  composition, 
not  to  be  ridiculed,  but  to  give  record  to  a  paper  of  great  impoilance 
and  remarkable  interest.     For  sixty-five  years  has  this  paper  been  care- 
fully preserved,  and,  though  yellow  and  bronzed  by  age,  bids  fair  to 
exist  for  a  much  longer  period.     I^et  its  possessors  take  some  means 
to  permanently  preserve  it.     The  records  of  the  first  church  meeting 
and  the  names  of  the  orisfinal  members  are  also  «civen,   as  matters  of 
interest.     The  following  is  a  literal  transcript  of  the  first  church  cov- 
enant of  Old  Bethel :  — 

CHURCH    COVANANT. 

June  the  2S  A.  D.  1817 
We  the  Baptist  Church  called  Bethel  was  constituted  hy  Brethren  WiHiara  Tbarp 
and  David  McClain  on  the  Scriptures  of  the  old  and  new  testaments,  believing  them  to 
be  the  infallable  word  of  Gk>d  and  only  rule  of  faith  and  practice.  Believing  that  miIth- 
tion  is  of  God  alone,  also  that  Jesus  Christ  is  the  eternal  Son  of  God  the  Father  three 
persons  in  the  Godhead,  the  Father  the  son  and  the  holy  ghost,  those  three  are  ooe 
We  believe  .in  perticular  and  unconditional  Election  by  grace  and  baptism  by  imme^ 
tion,  Belevers  to  be  the  only  subjects  and  the  final  perseverance  of  the  Saints. 

[Signed] 
Andemon  Woods  Betsy  Woods  David  Maquitty  John  Turner  James  Harris 

The  first  pastor  of  the  congregation  was  the  Rev.  William  Tharp, 
of  whom  it  is  to  be  regretted  not  much  can  be  learned  at  this  late  day. 
Fielding  Wilhite  was  the  pastor  in  1829.  The  following  is  a  transcript 
of  the  first  meeting,  together  with  the  membership  list:  — 


'7 


Saturdav  181: 

We  the  Baptist  church  of  Christ  met   according  to  appointment  and  after  prayer  to 
God  for  his  blessing  proceeded  to  business  as  folows  — 

1.  Brother  Edward  Turner  was  chosen  moderator 

2.  A  door  was  opened  for  the  reception  of  members. 

3.  Brother  Joshua  Barton  was  received  by  letter. 

4.  Brother  Anderson  Woods  was  chosen  as  our  clerk. 

6.  On  motion  agreed  to  travel  for  a  decon  until  our  next  meeting. 
6.  On  motion  agreed  to    commune  two    time  a  year   in    the   the   month  of  May  and 
October 


*  Five  miles  north  by  east  of  Rocheport,  in  the  lower  part  of  Perche  township.    Land 
now  owned  by  Mr.  Huntington. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  993 

7.  On  motion  agred  to  appoint  Brethren  David  Mcquitty  Joshua  Barton  and  Ander- 
OD   Woods  to  form  a  church  deciplin  for  the  inspection  of [last  line  torn  off.] 

Persons'names  who  were  constituted  calling  them  selves  Bethel  Church  June  the  28  A  D 
817.     David  Mcquitty  John  Turner  James  Harris  Anderson  Woods  Betsy  Woods 

Persons  names  who  have  joined  since  the  constitution  by  letter;  Joshua  Barton  by  letter; 
JAsarus  Wilcox  by  letter;  John  Reid  and  Patsey  his  wife  by  letter;  PoUey  Pipes  by  letter; 
ietsey  Pipes  by  letter ;  Mourning  Harris  by  experience ;  Lucy  Willcox  by  experience ; 
'olley  Harris  by  experience ;  Mary  Mcquitty  by  letter;  William  McCarty  by  letter;  James 
licks  and  Sarah  his  wife  by  letter;  Jacob  Sowder  and  Libby  his  wife  by  letter;  Elias 
Ciston  and  Jamima  his  wife  by  letter. 

The  first  church  building  occupied  by  the  old  Bethel  congregation 
vas  built  of  logs,  sometime  in  the  year  1818,  and  this  was  used  until 
he  separation,  in  1835,  after  which  it  was  worshipped  in  by  the  anti- 
nissionary  or  Old  School  Baptists  and  the  Presbyterians  for  some  time. 
The  pulpit,  as  stated,  was  supplied  by  Rev.  Wm.  Tharp,  from  the 
irst  organization  until  the  year  1820,  when  the  regular  pastor,  Rev. 
Phos.  Campbell,  was  installed.  He  resigned  in  1829,  and  Fielding 
iViHiite  became  his  successor. 

The  first  cemetery  in  Boone  county  was  old  Bethel  burying  gro^ind, 
ocated  near  where  the  church  stood,  in  the  southern  border  of  Perche 
ownship.  The  first  interment  therein  was  that  of  a  man  named 
?ayson,  who  was  buried  in  1818.  The  cemetery  contains  some  300 
praves,  but  for  a  long  time  has  not  been  used,  and  is  now  the  centre 
>f  a  pasture. 

The  congregation  worshiped  in  harmony  until  in  1835,  when  occurred 
he  dissension  in  regard  to  foreign  missions.  The  anti-missionary  Bap- 
ists  withdrew,  and  the  remainder,  to  the  number  of  about  forty,  formed 
he  Walnut  Grove  Baptist  church.  Among  the  constitutional  mem- 
bers, as  well  as  can  now  be  remembered,  were  Fielding  Wilhite  (after- 
irards  pastor),  William  Wilhite  and  wife,  William  Pullman  and  wife, 
^uben  Elliott  and  wife,  Tyre  Harris  and  wife,  Elijah  Dale  and  wife, 
Jeo.  W.  McQuitty  and  wife,  Zachariah  Burnett  and  wife,  Newman  T. 
liitchell  and  wife,  Isaac  Doty  and  wife,  and  Henry  Dooley. 

In  1836  William  Wilhite  donated  one  acre  of  ground  for  the  present 
emetery  and  church  site  (which  has  been  increased  to  about  three 
cres),  whereon  a  stand  was  erected  and  where  the  first  services  were 
leld,  conducted  by  the  pastor.  Rev.  Fielding  Wilhite,  and  Revs.  A.  P. 
Villiams  and  Thos.  Fristoe.  The  first  meetings  were  protracted, 
oraetimes  for  a  period  of  two  weeks.  When  the  weather  was  inclem* 
nt  the  meetings  were  adjourned  to  and  held  in  the  Presbyterian  church 
t  Rocheport. 

In  1838  the  congregation  erected  a  brick  church  building,  20  by  50 
63 


994  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

feet  in  area,  and  of  moderate  height,  plainly  but  substantially  finished 
and  furnished.  Here  services  were  held  until  1847,  when  the  present 
church  was  built.  It  is  a  frame,  40  by  60  in  area  and  18  feet  in  height, 
without  spire  or  bell.  Within  the  same  inclosure  and  contiguous  to 
the  church  is  the  Walnut  Grove  cemetery.  The  first  interments 
therein  were  those  of  Mrs.  Enoch  Taylor,  in  1836,  and  Sampson  Wil- 
hite,  Sr.,  in  1837.  Subsequently  more  than  two  hundred  graves  have 
been  added.  As  no  records  have  ever  been  kept,  many  of  these  grave$ 
cannot  now  be  identified.  But  known  or  unknown,  recognized  or  un- 
recognized, the  tenant?  of  these  silent  abodes,  the  fathers  and  mothers, 
the  brothers  and  sisters  of  the  present  generation  of  the  communicants 
of  Walnut  Grove  sleep  well.  Whether  the  sun  of  summer  shines 
upon  them,  or  the  winds  of  winter  blow  over  them,  alike  they  silently 
lie,  awaiting  the  Great  Day ;  and  year  by  year  their  descendants  and 
posterity  are  gathered  to  them  to  become  in  their  turn  waiters  in  the 
silent  chambers. 

The  first  pastor  of  Walnut  Grove  was  Rev.  Fielding  Wilhite,  who 
first  began  his  labors  in  Old  Bethel  in  1829,  and  closed  them  in  Wahiut 
Grove  church  in  1844.     His  successors  have  been  :  — 

From  1849  to  1860—  Morton  Motherehead.    From  1861  to  1866  —  Noah  Flood. 
From  1860  to  1857  —  Noah  Flood.  From  1866  to  1871  —John  Murphy. 

From  1857  to  1858  — Green  Carey.  From  1871  to  1872  — Noah  Flood. 

From  1858  to  1860  — Kobt.  N.  Harris.  From  1878  to  1881  — Jno.  M.  Robinson. 

From  1881  to  the  present —  W.  Pope  Yeaman. 

The  present  oflScers  are  the  following:  Deacons  —  N.  G.  Mitchell, 
Sr.,  J.  H.  Sampson,  N.  G.  Mitchell,  Jr.,  and  Stephen  Elliott.  Clerk— 
J.  H.  Sampson.  Treasurer  —  J.  S.  Denham.  Present  membership, 
not  reported.  The  church  and  cemetery  are  located  about  the  center 
of  section  29,  township  49,  range  14. 

SUGAR   CREEK    ( BAPTIST)    CHURCH. 

The  Sugar  Creek  congregation  of  the  Baptist  church  was  organized 
November  2,  1823.  The  following  is  an  abstract  of  the  records  con- 
taining the  report  of  the  constitutional  meeting :  — 

November  the  second  (Saturdaj),  1823. 

We,  the  Baptist  Church  of  Christ  at  Sugar  Creek,  met  at  Brother  John  Berry^s,  accord- 
ing to  appointment,  and  being  constituted  on  25  members  bj*  Elders  Wm.  Tharp  and  Thomas 
Campbell,  Brother  Thos.  Campbell  chosen  moderator,  we  proceed  —  1.  And  agree  to  be 
known  by  the  name  of  Sugar  Creek.  2.  We  agree  to  hold  our  church  meetings  on  the  sec- 
ond Saturday  and  Sunday  in  each  month.  3.  A  door  was  open  for  the  reception  of  members. 
Keceived  by  experience,  Sisters  Rachel  Riddle,  Elizabeth  Huntsucker,  Susannah  Bledsoe^ 
and  Polly  Hawkins. 

By  order  of  the  church.  Levi  H.  Joxes,  (Uerk  pro  iem. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  995 

The  original  members  of  the  congregfitiou  were:  Wm.  Barnes,  Mark 
Reav|s,  Wm.  Jones,  Sr.,  Wm.  Jones,  Jr.,  Willis  Hawkins,  Levi  H. 
Jones,  John  Stemmons,  John  Berry,  John  Jones,  James  Reavis,  James 
Flemming,  Thos.  Hart,  Anthony  Crosby,  Benj.  Dale,  Gavin  Bledsoe, 
John  Hantsucker,  Thos.  Huntsucker,  and  Sisters  Lucy  Reavis,  Eliza- 
beth Berry,  Tabitha  Crosby,  Polly  Flemming,  Mildred  Hawkins,  Anna 
Jones,  Patsy  Jones,  and  Vilette,  a  woman«of  color. 

The  first  deacons  were  selected  on  the  second  Saturday  in  January, 
1824,  and  were  Levi  H.  Jones  and  Thomas  Hart.  They  were  ordained 
the  same  day  by  Elders  Thos.  Campbell  and  Elijah  Fgley .  The  first 
pastor  called  was  Elder  Campbell,  but  he  refused  to  accept  ^then  Elder 
Foley  was  called.  Saith  the  record  of  October  2  (Saturday), 
1824:—  , 

«  «  *  Beference  from  last  meeting  relating  to  this  church  calling  a  pastor  was  con- 
iidered.  2.  This  church  was  unanimous  in'calling  Bro.  Elijah  Foley,  and  he  accedes  to  their 
Irishes. 

The  first  church  building  was  of  logs,  and  was  put  up  on  the  farm 
of  John  Henderson,  in  1827.  It  was  never  completed,  however,  and 
was  only  used  during  pleasant  weather.  It  was  afterwards  taken  down 
and  removed  to  the  farm  of  James  H.  Lowrey,  and  again  removed  to 
the  farm  of  Sherman  Harris  and  used  until  1840.  In  this  year  a  double 
log  building  was  put  up,  24  by  40  feet  in  size,  which  was  used  until 
the  summer  of  1882,  when  the  present  structure  was  erected.  It  is  a 
frame,  36  by  56  in  area,  and  is  well  furnished.  Its  cost  was  about 
$2,000.  It  was  dedicated  June  18,  1882,  by  Rev.  W.  Pope  Yeaman. 
It  stands  on  the  northeast  quarter  of  section  22,  township  48,  range  14. 

[Information  concerning  the  pastors,  present  membership,  and  other 
matters  connected  with  the  history  of  this  church,  was  promised,  but 
not  furnished.] 

The  Sugar  Creek  Cemetery  was  originally  the  private  burying- 
ground  of  Owen  W.  Boggs,  arid  the  first  burial  was  that  of  his  infant 
daughter,  in  1830.  The  next,  soon  after,  was  that  of  a  negro  boy, 
belonging  to  Mr.  Boggs.  Subsequently,  by  consent  of  Mr.  Boggs, 
thei  ground  was  used  by  the  public,  and  in  1882  it  was  deeded  to  the 
trustees  of  the  Sugar  Creek  Baptist  church,  in  whose  name  the  title 
will  hereafter  rest.  The  church  site  was  also  donated  by  the  heirs  of 
Mr.  Boggs,  for  church  purposes. 

NEW    PROVIDENCE    CHURCH. 

This  church  is  of  the  Missionary  Baptist  denomination,  and  was 


996  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

organized  in  1838,  the  original  members  being  Joel  Wilhite  and  wife, 
Thomas  Allen  and  wife,  Elijah  Foley  and  wife,  Fannie  Foley,  and 
Arthur  Barnett  and  wife.     The  first  pastor  was  Fielding  Wilhite,  and 
the  first  officers  were  Joel  Wilhite  and  Andrew  Barnett,  deacons,  and 
Thomas  Allen,   clerk.     The  meeting  at  which  the   church  was  for- 
mally  consecrated  was  held  in  a  grove  at  McGee*s  spring,  near  where 
the  church  now  stands.     Services  were  held  at  the  grove  and  at  the 
houses  of  different   members  until   184.'),  when  they  built  a  meeting 
house  of  hewed  logs,  labor  and  material  being  donated  by  the  mem- 
bers.    It  was  forty-five  feet  long  by  thirty  feet  wide,  and  seated  with 
common    wooden    benches.      This  building  answered  as  a  place  of 
worship  till  1878,  when  it  was  torn  down  and  the  present  edifice  was 
erected  on  its  site.     The  new  house  is  a  frame,  plain  but  neat,  52x38 
feet  in  length  and  width,  with  a  good  stone  foundation  underneath. 
It  cost  $1,450,  and  is  comfortably,  though  not  expensively,  furnished. 
In  front  and  over  the  entrance  is  a  wooden  awning,  which  not  only 
ornaments  the  building,  but  protects  it  from  the  weather.     The  mem- 
bership numbers  160,  and  since  its  first  organization  in  1838,  there  have 
been  350  conversions.    The  following  is  a  list  of  names  of  the  young 
men,  formerly  members, of  this  church,  who  have  become  preachers: 
George  Oliver,   Lewis   Conner,  Elliott   Wilhite,    Morton   Modisett, 
James  Smalley,  D,  B.  Black,  Edwin  Walker,  and  William  H.  Nichols. 
The  present  pastor  is  Rev.  J.  M.  McGuire.     George  H.  Hutchinson, 
Thomas   H.  Caruthers  and  Joshua  Fenton  are   deacons,  and  James 
Bradley,   clerk,  at  the  present  writing.     New  Providence  Cemetery 
was  set  apart  for  burial  purposes  in  1845,  and  the  first  subject  in- 
terred was  Mrs.  Eveline  Barnes,  w^ife  of  David  Barnes  —  husband  also 
since  deceased.     It  now  contains  over  100  graves,  and  is  in  the  same 
enclosure  with  the  church. 

LOCUST    GROVE    CHURCH. 

This  is  another  of  the  numerous  Southern  Methodist  churches  in 
the  county,  the  nucleus  of  which  particular  congregation  were  the 
Hatton  and  Harriman  families.  The  circuit  called  "  Boone's  Lick 
Circuit"  was  organized  as  early  as  1816,  and  Joseph  Piggott  was  the 
first  itinerant  preacher  (**  circuit  rider  ").  The  Locust  Grove  church 
at  Midway  was  organized  early  in  1818,  but  services  had  been  pre- 
viously held.  The  first,  or  constitutional,  members  were  Beuben 
Hatton  and  wife,  John  Harriman,  wife  and  several  of  the  family,  Reu- 
ben M.  Hatton,  Thomas  Finley,  Margaret  Laughlin,  William  Doug- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  997 

lass  and   wife,  and  McMullin.     Subsequent  to  the  organization 

the  following  were  received  as  members :  Alexander  M.  Ellington 
and  wife,  Abram  Funk,  wife  and  two  daughters,  Mrs.  Jane  McGhee, 
Mrs.  Anderson,  and  Miss  Anderson  (afterwards  wife  of  Rev.  John 
Bennett.)  Services  were  heM  from  the  time  of  the  organization  up 
to  about  1824  at  the  residence  of  Reuben  Hatton,  and  from  that  time 
until  1830  at  the  house  of  William  Douglass.  In  that  year  the  Old 
Brick  Chapel  was  erected  near  the  site  of  the  present  church  at  Mid- 
way. It  was  a  small  house,  36  by  26  feet  in  length  and  width,  and  a 
12-foot  ceiling,  plainly  built,  heated  by  old-fashioned  **  fire-places," 
and  seated  with  plain  oaken  seats  without  backs.  The  land  (two 
acres)  was  donated  by  William  Douglass  and  William  Scott,  one  acre 
each,  for  a  chui*ch-yard  and  cemetery.  This  was  in  1829  or  '30,  and 
the  burying  ground  is  also  called  Locust  Grove  cemeteiy.  As  nearly  as 
can  be  ascertained,  the  first  subject  buried  there  was  Warren  Leonard. 
There  are  now  about  400  graves,  whose  little  hillocks  dot  the  ground, 
but  no  record  has  ever  been  kept.  The  prime  movers  in  building  the 
brick  chapel  were  Rev.  John  Bennett,  A.  M.  Ellington,  Stephen  G. 
Evans,  and  Peter  McLain.  The  old  church  was  in  time  found  to  be 
too  small  to  accommodate  the  increased  and  still  growing  congrega- 
tion. Accordingly,  in  1870,  it  was  torn  down  and  the  present  edifice, 
a  new  and  commodious  frame  structure,  was  built  near  the  old  site, 
the  dimensions  being  52x40x14  feet  in  length,  breadth  and  height. 
It  is  neatly  and  comfortably  furnished,  and  was  dedicated  in  1871  by 
Rev.  John  D.  Vincil,  then  of  Columbia.  The  pastor  in  charge  was 
David  Root,  and  the  membership  numbered  about  80,  and  still  con- 
tinues about  the  same.  The  old  records  are  unfortunately  lost,  and 
much  of  the  information  herein  given  had  to  be  collected  from  private 
and  unofficial  sources.  The  oldest  preacher  remembered  was  Rev. 
Bankston,  who  served  the  congregation  after  the  organization,  though 
he  was  not  the  first. 

MOUIST   NEED   CHURCH. 

The  history  of  this  congregation  of  Southern  Methodists  was  fur- 
nished the  historian  by  Mr.  Joseph  Williamson,  Rev.  Moses  U. 
Payne,  who  was  the  leading  spirit  in  the  organization  of  this  church, 
was  its  first  pastor  in  about  1840,  he  giving  it  the  name  it  now  bears. 
The  first  chapel  was  a  log  building  of  the  primitive  pattern,  built  on 
the  land  of  Joseph  Williamson,  who  now  uses  the  house  for  a  stable. 
The  original  members  were  Mary  Williamson,  Joseph  Williamson  and 
wife,  Mrs.  Burrilla  Pettis,  Wilson  Dennis  and  wife,  Cynthia  Bledsoe* 


998  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

Lizzie  Bledsoe,  Joseph  Bledsoe  and  wife,  Margaret  Melloway  and 
Samuel  Wood  and  wife.  Mary  Williamson  (mother  of  Joseph  Wil- 
liamson), whose  name  beads  the  list,  was  the 'first  Methodist  in  the 
neighborhood  of  Mount  Nebo.  The  establishment  of  the  church  at 
the  time  was  largely  due  to  her  zeal  in  the  cause.  Though  she  is 
long  since  dead,  and  the  old  log  structure  in  which  she  worshipped 
has  long  ago  been  put  to  baser  uses,  and  given  way  to  a  more  becom- 
ing house  of  meeting,  still  her  influence  and  the  church's  influence 
for  good  still  glide  down  the  path  of  time  and  produce  fruit  in  the 
Master's  vineyard.  All  honor  to  Mount  Nebo  for  the  good  it  has 
done,  and  all  hope  and  prayer  for  her  future  career. 

Mount  Nebo  Cemetery  contains  about  two  acres,  which,  together 
with  the  church  site,  were  donated  to  the  Baptist  church  for  church 
and  burial  purposes  in  1860  by  James  W.  Thomas.  The  first  inter- 
ment was  that  of  Alexander  R.  Williamson,  in  February,  1861.  He 
was  a  son  of  Joseph  Williamson,  and  died  at  the  age  of  seventeen. 


THE  TOWN  OF  ROCHEPORT. 
EARLY   HISTORY. 

The  land  comprising  the  present  site  of  the  town  of  Rocheport  was 
patented  by  the  United  States  to  David  Gray,  November  13,  1822. 
Gray  sold  it  to  Wm.  Kincheloe ;  he  sold  to  John  Gray.     March  2, 
1825,  John  Gray  (and  Sally,  his  wife,)  sold  to  Abraham  Barnes,  John 
Ward  and  Lemon  Parker,  who,  with  Wm.  Gaw,  composed  the  first 
town  company,  and  were  the  projectors  of  the  town  itself.     Rocheport 
was  laid  out  December  15,  1832,  by  Parker,  Barnes,  Ward  and  Gaw. 
The  latter  sold  to  Parker  a  portion  of  the  town   site.     Wm.  Shields 
was  the  surveyor.     Subsequent  additions  were  surveyed  by  James  H. 
Bennett.     In  the  various  transfers  of  the  land  on  which  the  town 
stands  it  (the  land)  is  uniformly  described  as  *'  a  part  of  section  1, 
township  48,  range  15." 

As  early  as  1820  there  was  a  warehouse  on  the  present  town  site, 
called  ** Arnold' 8  warehouse,"  which  was  managed  by  Robert  Hood, 
and  was  an  establishment  of  some  note.  The  locality  was  also  widely 
known  as  '*  the  mouth  of  the  Moniteau,"  and  was  a  favorite  landing 
place  for  the  settlers  of  eastern  Howard  and  western  Boone.  The 
Moniteau  creek  (or  '*  creek  of  the  Great  Spirit")  was  famed  for  the 
fish  in  its  waters  and  the  game  along  its  banks,     John  Gray  settled  in 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  999 

the  neighborhood  in  IS  19  and  established  a  ferry  across  the  river, 
which  he  operated  for  some  years  prior  to  the  laying  out  of  the  town. 
Many  flat-boats  and  keel-boats  were  built  and  loaded  at  **  the  mouth 
of  the  Moniteau  "  in  an  early  day. 

In  June,  1804,  the  Lewis  and  Clark  expedition  landed  at  the  mouth 
of  the  Moniteau  and  explored  the  country  along  the  river  and  for  some 
distance  inland.  The  **  painted  rocks  *'  were  particularly  noted  and 
mentioned  in  the  published  journal  of  the  expedition,*  as  being  **  very 
remarkable.  They  are  covered  with  strange  and  uncouth  hieroglyph- 
ics and  representations.  *  *  *  ^/^q  were  prevented  from  making 
a  careful  inspection  by  reason  of  the  presence  of  so  many  ferocious 
rattlesnakes,  which  are  very  venomous  at  this  season  of  the  year,  and 
which  were  crawling  among  the  rocks  in  great  numbers." 

The  name  of  the  place  was  first  intended  to  be  Sockporty  but  it  was 
changed  to  Hocheporty  at  the  instance,  it  is  said,  of  a  French  mission- 
ary who  was  in  the  neighborhood.  The  name  signifies  a  rocky  port, 
or  port  of  rocks,  and  the  town  ought  always  to  have  been  known  by 
the  name  first  given  it. 

The  first  merchant  in  Rocheport  was  one  Barlow,  who  established 
himself  in  1830  in  a  log  store-house  on  Moniteau  street,  north  of 
where  the  Star  mills  arc  now  located,  and  occupied  the  grounds  whereon 
stands  Wm.  Hulett's  residence.^  As  before  stated,  the  locality  was 
a  sort  of  shipping  port.  Boats  were  built,  loaded  and  set  sail  for  New 
Orleans  and  the  other  lower  Mississippi  markets  from  this  point,  and 
the  boatmen  landed  here  on  their  return.  Barlow  did  a  fair  business 
for  the  time  and  under  the  circumstances.  Other  venturesome  mer- 
chants, attracted  by  his  success,  located  here  from  time  to  time,  and 
soon  quite  a  number  of  houses,  chiefly  built  of  logs,  were  standing  in 
the  place.  Gary  Peebles,  Lark.  Bennett  and  others  came  next  after 
Barlow,  and  all  did  business  in  log  houses.  The  first  merchants  kept 
only  staple  articles,  such  as  were  needed  by  the  people  at  that  day  — 
cotton  goods,  sugar,  coffee  and  whisky,  the  latter  article  being  as 
much  of  a  necessity  in  early  days  as  either  of  the  former. 

The  first  hotel  or  tavern  was  the  log  house,  also  used  as  a  store 
building,  kept  by  Barlow.  This  house  was  built  by  John  Gray,  per- 
haps in  1819.     It  was  not  kept  as  a  regular  hotel,  with  bar-room. 


1  See  Lewis  and  Clark's  Expedition,  Vols.  I.  and  IL,  pp.  11-18  and  p.  482.  Philadel- 
phia :  Bradford  &  Inskeep,  1814. 

*  Another  account  says  Barlow's  store  first  stood  at  the  foot  of  Main  street,  on  ground 
since  washed  away  hy  the  river. 


1000  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CX)UNTY. 

office,  etc.,  but  was  merely  a  combination  of  store-room,  dwelling^ 
house  and  tavern.  The  first  regular  tavern  or  hotel  was  built  and 
kept  by  Jesse  B.  Dale  in  1833,  and  stood  on  Moniteau  street. 

The  post-office  at  Rocheport  was  established  in  1832.  It  was  the 
successor  to  Lexington,  upon  Thrall's  prairie,  and  to  Booneton,  kept 
by  Wm.  Lientz.  Lexington  was  removed  to  Booneton  in  1828,  apd 
Booneton  was  removed  to  Rocheport  in  1832.  The  first  postmaster 
in  Rocheport  was  Gary  Peebles. 

Probably  the  first  steamboat  to  land  on  the  present  site  of  B^iche- 
port  was  the  JR.  M,  Johnson,  of  Major  Long's  expedition,  which  came 
up  the  river  in  1819,  and  landed  at  the  mouth  of  the  Moniteau  for 
wood.  In  1821  a  steamer  owned  by  James  Johnson,  a  brother  of 
Vice-President  Johnson,  for  whom  the  first  boat  to  lund  was  named, 
tied  up  at  Arnold's  warehouse,  and  it  is  said  took  on  some,  freight. 
Between  1820  and  1825  a  boat  made  regular  trips  between  Old  Frank- 
lin and  St.  Louis,  stopping  at  all  the  principal  landings,  Arnold's 
warehouse  among  the  number.  All  these  landings  were  made  before 
the  town  was  laid  out. 

In  the  early  days  of  Rocheport  society  was  not  the  best  regulated. 
Whisky  was  used  as  a  common  beverage  throughoift  the  country.  If 
one  neighbor  visited  another  he  expected  to  be  *'  treated,"  of  course, 
and  if  he  was  not,  and  no  apology  or  excuse  ^as  given,  the  visitor 
considered  that  he  had  received  a  personal  affront.  Fights  and  fisti- 
cuffs were  common  in  Rocheport.  No  other  weapons  than  Nature's 
were  used,  however,  as  a  rule,  and  after  the  fight  a  speedy  and  lasting 
reconciliation  was  effected.  The  bottle  was  passed,  everybody  drank 
and  all  was  soon  forgotten.  Much  of  the  whisky  drank  in  early  days 
was  made  at  the  stills  in  the  neighborhood,  was  untaxed  by  govern- 
ment, unstamped  by  inspector,  and  uninspected  by  ganger,  and,  the 
word  of  an  old  settler  for  it,  would  make  a  man  fight  his  grandfather. 
People  exchanged  their  corn  and  rye  for  the  juice  thereof. 

At  first  coffee  was  fifty  cents  a  pound  at  Barlow's  store.  It  was 
seldom  used  by  the  people  except  on  Sunday  morning.  Tea  was 
rarely  used  at  all.  Most  people  used  maple  sugar  for  "  sweet^ing,'* 
made  by  themselves,  and  fit  food  for  the  gods.  Sassafras  tea  was  a 
common  table  drink ;  while  the  children  drank  good,  rich,  nourishing 
cow's  milk. 

For  a  few  years  after  the  town  was  laid  out  it  grew  rather  rapidly, 
and  in  1835  it  was  a  place  of  considerable  size  and  importance,  rival- 
ing Columbia.     Rocheport  contained  eight  stores,  two  tailor  shops, 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  ,  1001 

two  carding  machines,  a  steam  saw  mill,  five  brickyards,  two  tan- 
jards,  two  rope  walks,  two  blacksmith  shops,  a  tavern,  and  a  tobacco 
manufactory.  The  next  year,  or  in  1836,  thirty  new  buildings  were 
erected. 

In  the  exciting  presidential  contest  of  1840  the  Whigs  held  a  mon- 
ster mass  meeting  at  Rocheport.  The  meeting  was  on  a  hill  east  of 
the  town  in  a  dense  grove  of  sugar  trees,  where  three  speakers*  stands 
were  erected,  and  where  for  three  days  and  nights  the  friends  of  ''  Tip- 
pecanoe and  Tyler  too"  held  high  carnival.  During  the  meeting 
speeches  were  made  by  Chilton  Allen,  of  Kentucky,  Fletcher  Webster, 
son  of  Daniel  Webster,  Gen.  A.  W.  Doniphai^,  James  H.  Birch,  Abiel 
Lfeonard,  James  S.  Rollins,  Col.  John  O'Fallon,  James  Winston, 
George  C.  Bingham  and  others. 

In  the  year  1847  Rocheport  had  five  dry  goods  stores  and  several 
saddler,  tailor  and  blacksmith  shops,  together  with  a  large  number  of 
mechanics  and  persons  in  other  branches  of  industry,  and  had  a  popu- 
lation of  450.  The  next  year,  1848,  the  census  showed  the  popula- 
tion to  be  476.  In  1849  the  number  of  inhabitants  had  increased  to 
nearly  600.  Some  of  the  business  men  of  the  place  in  1849  were  A. 
L.  Robinson,  T.  H.  Ready,  John  W.  Harris,  Moses  U.  Payne,  George 

Enox,  Jas.  H.  Parker,  Thomas  Walker,  Ballentine  and  Out- 

calt.  In  the  year  1850  Mr.  H.  S.  Chalmers  had  a  flourishing  school 
in  the  place.  During  the  year  1849,  about  fifty  steamboats  wer^ 
making  regular  trips  up  the  Missouri  as  high  as  Rocheport,  and  fifty- 
seven  boats  made  600  landings  in  that  year,  and  a  great  deal  of  busi- 
ness was  transacted  at  this  point.  Many  tons  of  hemp,  corn,  wheat, 
tobacco  and  other  produce  were  shipped  weekly,  and  large  quantities 
of  merchandise  were  put  ofl^,  some  for  towns  in  Boone  and  Howard 
counties,  but  the  most  for  localities  far  north  in  the  interior. 

CHOLERA    IN    ROCHEPORT^ 

In  1833,  Asiatic  cholera  first  visited  Rocheport  and  carried  oflF  a 
prominent  citizen,  Mr.  Parker  by  name. 

In  1849  cholera  again  visited  Rocheport.  Several  cases  occurred. 
Alexander  Gmver,^  the  driver  of  the  stage  from  Rocheport  to  Colum- 
bia, came  near  being  buried  alive.  He  was  attacked  with  cholera  and 
to  all  appearances  died.     His  coffin  had  been  prepared  and  full  prep- 


*  The  name   is  also   remembered    as    O'Connell,    who  afterwards    married    a   Misa 
January. 


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I 


1002  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

aratioiis  made  for  his  burial,  when  a  Dr.  Buster  discovered  ngnstf 
life,  and  by  dint  of  fresh  blisters,  vigorous  rubbing,  etc.,  restoredAi 
alleged  '*  corpse  "  to  full  animation. 

In  July,  1852,  the  scourge  again  visited  the  place  and  theie  mn 
many  deaths.  Among  them  were  Miss  Jane  Morrison,  Mary  liidh 
lyter,  Mrs.  Shanks,  Thos.  A.  Taylor,  John  Harris,  John  A.  Hadwin, 
two  of  Taylor's  negroes,  a  negro  belonging  to  Taylor  &  Jackinan,aBd 
some  children.  Through  fear  and  in  consequence  of  the  intense a- 
citement,  the  dead  and  dying  were  frequently  abandoned  by  tUr 
nearest  relatives  and  fnends.  As  is  reported,  in  twentyn^ne  daji, 
during  the  prevalence  ©f  the  dread  contagion,  Henry  Tumy,  B.  6. 
Lyell,  and  four  or  five  others  buried  twenty-three  victims  of  cholen 
and  of  the  measles,  which  latter  disease  was  also  in  the  place  at  the 
«ame  time. 

From  1850  to  1860  the  town  did  a  good  business  and  flourished 
very  fairly.  It  had  become  known  far  and  near  for  years  and  at- 
tracted to  it  many  individuals.  The  building  of  the  North  Missoori 
railroad  affected  the  prosperity  of  the  place  no  little.  Goods  began 
to  be  shipped  into  the  county  by  rail  instead  of  by  river,  and  the 
commercial  interests  of  the  town  sustained  material  injury  thereby. 
The  iron  horse  has  always  been  the  mortal  enemy  of  the  steamboat, 
and  in  most  cases  the  victor  in  every  contest.  The  river  towns 
have  suffered  of  late  years  and  the  railroad  towns  have  flourished. 

DURING    THE    CIVIL   WAR. 

The  population  of  Rocheport  at  the  beginning  of  the  civil  war  was 
largely  in  sympathy  with  the  Southern  or  Confederate  cause,  and  so 
far  as  can  be  known  did  not  change  its  sentiments.  It  furnished  8 
considerable  number  of  men  for  the  Confederate  army  and  some  for 
the  Federal  service.  Of  the  latter,  Robt.  G.  Lyell  was  adjutant  of 
the  61st  Enrolled  Missouri  Militia,  and  Major  on  the  staff  of  Gen.  J. 
B.  Douglass. 

The  first  Federal  troops  in  Rocheport  were  a  portion  of  Gen.  Lyon's 
command,  who  landed,  when  on  their  way  to  Boonville,  the  day  be- 
fore the  battle  at  that  place,  June  17,  1861. 

The  Federals  occupied  the  town  from  time  to  time  with  a  garrison. 
In  1863-4,  the  bushwhackers  made  frequent  visits  to  the  place.  Bill 
Anderson's  guerillas  came  so  often  that  that  they  called  Rocheport 
-**  our  capital."  The  people  were  between  hawk  and  buzzard.  The 
Federals  plundered  them  and  the  bushwhackers  robbed  them.     On 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  1003 

occasion,  Anderson's  men  had  barely  lelEl  the  town  when  the 
3Ped6ral8  entered. 

Early  in  October,  1864,  when  Lt.  Col.  Matthews  of  the  3d  Cavalry, 
3f.  S.  M.,  was  in  command  at  Rocheport,  Maj.  Leonard's  command, 
.^f  the  9th  M.  S.  M.,  entered  the  town.  A  boat  loaded  with  Fisk's 
men  was  also  lying  at  the  wharf.  A  fire  broke  out  on  Main  Street  and 
-destroyed  one  of  the  principal  blocks  and  a  part  of  another.  As  soon 
418  the  fire  was  discovered  Col.  Matthews  ordered  out  a  strong  pro- 
vost guard  and  sent  every  other  soldier  to  his  quarters,  and  then  en- 
deavored to  check  the  flames.  There  was  no  pillaging  and  all  disorder 
was  repressed,  and  Col.  Matthews  won  golden  opinions  from  the  peo- 
ple for  his  exemplary  conduct.  The  fire  was  probably  set  out  by 
^some  of  the  Federal  soldiers,  but  just  by  whom  cannot  be  learned. 

Not  long  afterwards  some  of  the  bushwhackers  came  into  town  and 
«et  fire  to  the  fine  public  school  building,  and  it  was  burned  to  the 
ground.  The  building  was  valued  at  $6,000  or  $7,000,  and  was  a  fine 
structure.  One  statement  is  to  the  efiect  that  but  one  man  was  con- 
cerned in  the  burning  of  the  school-hbuse,  a  member  of  Anderson's 
•company,  who  crossed  the  river  and  applied  the  torch  one  night.    • 

BUSHWHACKER   RAIDS. 

The  first  **  bushwhacker  raid  **  as  it  was  called,  of  any  note,  was 
made  about  the  first  of  October,  1863,  when  twenty-five  or  thirty 

bushwhackers,  the  leading  characters  among  whom  it  is  said  were 

PuUiam,  John  Brown,  Buss.  Palmer,  and Turner,  came  into  town 

and  shook  it  up  considerably.  Several  stores  were  robbed.  Messrs. 
<Jl»yton  &  Wilcox,  Harris  &  Hubbard,  A.  &  M.  Barth,  and  H. 
Tumy  were  the  principal  losers. 

In  the  spring  or  early  summer  of  1864,  Anderson's  guerillas  made 
their  appearance  in  Rocheport,  and  until  late  in  the  following  fall  con- 
tinued to  visit  the  town  quite  frequently.  Indeed  they  soon  estab- 
lished friendly,  if  not  confidential,  relations  with  many  of  the  citizens, 
and  were  on  fair  terms  with  nearly  everybody.  They  took  a  great 
deal  of  property  in  one  way  or  another  from  the  people,  and  caused 
some  of  them  to  pay  $3,500,  but  so  long  as  nobody  was  killed,  the 
citizens  considered  that  they  had  escaped  very  well. 


THE    *  *  BUFFINGTON  '      AFFAIR. 


On  Tuesday  night,  August  30, 1864,  the  steamer  Buffington,  a  boat 
employed  in  transporting  supplies  to  the  State  Penitentiary,  and  com- 


1004  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

manded  by  Capt.  Tbos.  Waterman,  came  up  to  Rocheport  and  landing 
just  above  town  was  captured  by  Bill  Anderson  and  his  band  of  bush- 
whackers. Capt.  Waterman  was  killed  and  an  employe  of  the  boat 
badly  wounded.  By  orders  of  Anderson  the  boat  steamed  up  and 
crossed  over  to  the  Cooper  county  side,  when  the  guerillas  landed, 
went  into  the  interior  and  robbed  many  of  the  farmers  of  money, 
provisions  and  horses.  When  they  returned  they  compelled  the  boat 
to  recross  them  to  the  north  bank  of  the  river,  and  then  retired  into 
the  Howard  county  timber. 

The  citizens  of  Rocheport  were  wholly  irresponsible  for  the  capture 
of  the  boat  and  the  killing  of  Capt.  Waterman,  but  from  representa- 
tions made  to  Gen.  Rosecrans,  then  in  command  of  this  departoaent, 
that  officer  could  not  see  it  in  thai  light,  and  issued  the  followiog 
order :  — 

special  order  ko.  159. 

Headquarters  Department  of  the  Missouri,) 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  September  1,  1864.       / 

The  general  commanding,  satisfied  that  the  citizens  of  the  town  of  Rocheport,  Boone 
county,  Missouri,  have  countenanced,  tolerated,  and  fed,  if  not  encouraged,  gangs  of  baslh 
whackers  and  other  outlaws  for  the  last  six  weeks,  and  being  apprised  that  a  gang  of  these 
villains,  in  open  daylight,  shot  and  murdered  Thomas  Waterman,  the  only  support  of  a 
widowed ''mother  and  two  sisters,  on  the  steamer  Buffington,  at  the  landing  of  said  town, 
orders  that  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  dollars  be  collected  from  the  disloyal  citizens  of  Roche- 
port, and  paid  to  the  chief  quartermaster  of  the  department  for  the  use  of  the  widow  and 
sisters  of  said  Waterman.  The  district  commander  is  chare:ed  with  the  execution  of  this  or- 
der. By  command  of  Major  General  Rosecrans. 
O.  D.  Greene,  Asst  Adj.  Gen.  and  Chief  of  Staff. 

It  was  a  hard  tax,  this  $10,000,  upon  the  **  disloyal  "  citizens  of 
Rocheport  at  this  time,  but  the  amount  was  afterwards  reduced  one- 
half  by  Gen.  Rosecrans,  and  the  remaining  $5,000  assessed  to  the  dis- 
loyal citizens  of  Moniteau  township,  Howard  county.  Only  about 
$3,500  was  ever  collected,  the  remainder  being  remitted  by  the  com- 
mander-in-chief upon  representations  of  the  loyalty  of  those  assessed. 
If  culpability  in  the  affair  had  been  the  test  of  the  assessment,  and  the 
proportion  of  guilt  the  measure  of  each  citizen, s  share,  perhaps  not 
fifteen  cents  would  have  been  demanded  from  the  people  of  the  town- 
ship. They  were  no  more  responsible  for  the  firing  on  the  steamer 
than  the  people  of  any  other  part  of  the  county  or  State.  But  war 
sometimes  places  its  burdens  very  unequally. 

A  guerrilla  named  Tuck  Hill,  of  Johnson  county,  is  said  to  have 
been  the  one  that  killed  Capt.  Waterman,  at  least  he  robbed  the 
body. 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  1005 

ATTACK   ON   THE   STEAMER   **  YELLOWSTONE." 

On  Monday,  September  5, 1864,  the  steamer  Yellowstone  was  fired 
into  at  Rocheport,  while  passing  down,  by  Anderson's  band .  The  guer- 
rillas followed  the  boat  some  distance  down  the  river,  keeping  up  an 
ineffectual  fire  on  it,  with  their  revolvers.  At  last  the  Yellowstone 
stopped  in  the  channel,  and  appearances  indicated  that  she  had  sur- 
rendered. Two  of  Anderson's  men,  Harvey  Rucker  and  Jim  Ander- 
son, were  sent  to  the  boat  to  bring  it  into  shore.  A  citizen,  James 
Lfewis,  was  pressed  in  to  row  the  skiff.  As  the  party  reached  the  boat 
Rucker  attempted  to  climb  aboard  whpn  some  of  the  crew  fir^d  on  him, 
striking  him  in  the  arm  and  thigh.  He  fell  back  into  the  skiff,  which 
was  hastily  rowed  ashore,  and  the  boat  went  on  to  Jefferson  City. 
Anderson  was  greatly  enraged  at  the  failure  to  capture  the  boat,  and 
the  wounding  of  one  of  his  best  men.  Rucker' s  arm  was  so  badly 
shattered  that  it  had  to  be  amputated . 

After  Rucker  had  been  brought  ashore,  a  young  lad  named  James 
W.  Lyons,  now  a  merchant  in  Columbia,  who  had  been  pressed  into 
the  service  of  the  guerrillas  as  a  guide,  by  Jim  Carter  and  some  other 
bushwhackers,  attempted  to  return  to  his  home  in  Missouri  township. 
It  is  proper  to  let  Mr. -Lyons  himself  tell  the  story  of  what  followed. 
He  says :  — 

I  had  permission  from  Garter,  on  arriving  at  Rocheport,  to  return  home,  hut  was  not  al- 
lowed to  pass  outside  of  the  picket  lines,  and  had  made  up  my  mind  to  remain  in  town  until 
Anderson  should  leave.  As  I  was  passing  Smith's  Hotel,  near  the  river,  one  of  his  men  (who 
was  a  personal  enemy  of  mine)  standing  near,  told  Anderson  that  I  was  going  home,  and 
also  represented  that  I  was  deserting  them.  Anderson  then  asked  me  where  I  was  going. 
I  told  him  I  was  going  home,  and  attempted  to  explain  why,  informing  him  that  I  had  not 
joined  his  command  or  signified  any  such  intention,  and  could  substantiate  the  fact  by  Capt. 
James  Garter.  Whereupon,  without  any  provocation  whatever,  he  sei^d  a  chair  that  was 
near  by  and  struck  at  me.  I  caught  the  chair  and  held  it.  fle  then  drew  his  revolver  and 
struck  at  me,  which  blow  I  managed  also  to  ward  off.  Just  at  this  junction  Uncle  Benj. 
Mead,  who  knew  me,  and  knew  the  circumstances  under  which  I  was  at  Rocheport,  seized 
Anderson  and  told  me  to  run,  but  I  was  told  by  one  of  Anderson's  men  (whom  I  never  saw 
before  or  since)  that  if  I  ran  he  would  kill  me.  At  this  moment  Gapt.  Emery  came  to  my 
rescue,  and  caught  the  party  who  ordered  me  to  remain,  and  Emery  also  told  me  to  run.  I 
ran  through  the  hall  of  the  hotel  into  the  back  yard,  and,  having  lost  my  hat  in  the  encoun- 
tery>  ran  through  Henry  Smith's  house,  snatched  up  an  old  hat  of  his,  and  made  directly  for 
the  river  bank,  which  I  knew  would  conceal  me  from  any  one  in  town,  and  in  this  way 
made  my  escape. 

SINCE  THE   WAR. 

The  close  of  the  civil  war  found  Rocheport  scarred  and  blackened, 
and  considerably  prostrated  in  every.  It  **  picked  up  "  slowly  for  a 
considerable  length  of  time,  but  gradually  became  quiescent,  in  which 


1006  HISTORY   OR  BOONE   COUNTT. 

condition  it  has  remained  for  some  years.  It  is  still,  and  bids  fair 
long  to  be,  the  chief  river  town  in  the  county,  and  during  the  warm 
months  heavier  shipments  of  grain  and  stock  are  made  fi*om  here  on 
steamboats  than  from  all  other  ports  in  the  county.  The  town  is  con- 
nected by  telegraph  with  the  outward  world,  and  a  stage  runs  daily 
to  Columbia.  The  population  in  1870  was  823  ;  in  1880  it  was  728. 
The  present  population  is  estimated  at  about  seven  hundred,  of  which 
about  two  hundred  and  fifty  are  colored. 

Until  quite  recently  Eocheport  has  been  an  extensive  shipping  point 
for  leaf  ^tobacco.  In  1870  Col.  R.  A  Caskil  established  himself  in  the 
tobacco  trade,  and  for  some  yeare  shipped  annually  from  two  hundred 
to  one  thousand  hogsheads  of  leaf  tobacco  to  Liverpool  and  Bristol, 
England,  and  to  Glasgow,  Scotland.  The  shipments  were  increased 
or  diminished  as  the  crops  were  large  or  moderate.  Mr.  Caskil  has  a 
factory  capable  of  handling  1,500,000  pounds  of  tobacco  annually. 

THE    RIOT    OF   APRIL    1,  1882. 

On  the  evening  of  the  1st  of  April,  1882,  Jim  Mitchell,  a  drunken 
negro,   assaulted  Mr.  Marion  Wyatt,   of  near  Rocheport,  and  was 
promptly  knocked   down.     *«  Gen."   Wllhite,  another  negro  *Avith  a 
notoriously  bad  reputation,  together  with  some 'other  colored  loafers, 
came  to  Mitchell's  assistance  and  attacked  Mr.  Wyatt,  who  drew  his 
revolver,  and,  without  firing,  drove  his  assailants  across  the  street. 
The  negroes,  to  the  number  of  about  twenty-five  of  the  most  aban- 
doned class,  gathered  near  the  post-oflSce  and  acted  in  a  very  turbu- 
lent and  threatening  manner.     The  marshal,  Thos.  J.  White,  calling 
to  his  aid   some  other  white  men,  notified  them  to  disperse  or  they 
would  be  arrested  and  imprisoned.     All  left  but  two  or  three,  among 
whom  was  Bill  Barber,  who,  more  daring  (or  drunker),  remained. 
When  again  warned  to  disperse.  Barber  attempted  to  strike  the  mar- 
shal with  a  stone.     The  latter  drew  his  pistol  and  fired  at  the  negro, 
but  in  the  darkness  missed.     All  of  the  negroes  now  left. 

Quite  a  crowd  of  white  citizens  gathered  in  front  of  Chambers  Bros. 
&  Co.'s  store,  and,  believing  that  the  negroes  had  been  eflfectually 
quieted,  and  wholly  unsuspicious  of  any  danger,  were  quietly  dis- 
cussing the  episode  that  had  passed.  The  front  of  the  store  was  of 
glass,  and  the  interior  of  the  building,  being  brilliantly  lighted,  the 
sidewalk  was  as  bright  and  light  as  day.  Suddenly,  from  a  dark 
alley  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  street,  came  a  volley  from  pistols 
and  shot-guns,  and  several  citizens  were  severely  and  one  seriously 


k--. 


HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTY.  1007 

\ 

wounded.  The  windows  of  the  store  were  riddled  with  shot,  and  it 
was  remarkable  that  no  one  was  killed  and  that  no  more  were 
wounded.  As  soon  as  possible  the  whites  procured  arms,  and,  organ- 
izing, fired  at  the  place  where  they  supposed  the  negroes  to  be,  but, 
owing  to  the  darkness  and  the  fact  that  most  of  the  rioters  had  dis- 
persed, none  of  them  were  hit. 

Excitement  ran  very  high  during  the  remainder  of  the  night.  The 
negroes  were  drunk  and  were  yelling  about  their  haunts,  and  the 
whites  expected  the  attack  to  be  renewed  every  minute.  A  strong 
force  of  whites  was  kept  under  arms  throughout  the  night.  It 
chanced  that  Dr.  Jackman  was  the  only  snrgeon  in  town  at  the  time, 
and  he  was  kept  busy  the  rest  of  the  night  attending  to  the  wounded 
Indeed,  it  was  some  time  after  daylight  before  all  the  wounds  were 
examined  and  dressed.  In  all  of  its  history,  including  the  period  of 
the  civil  war,  Rocheport  had  never  passed  such  a  night  of  terror. 

On  Sunday  morning  early  the  authorities  began  to  move.  Marshal 
Evans  and  Constable  Barton  arrested  **Gen."  Wilhite,  Bill  Barber, 
Jack  Booth,  Ed.  Washington,  Benton  McClure,  Jim  Bellons,  Euss. 
Foster,  Jim  Beatty  and  Wm.  Watts,  on  a  warrant  charging  them 
with  assault  with  intent  to  kill.  The  next  morning  the  prosecuting 
attorney  changed  the  charge  to  assault  and  battery.  The  prisoners 
were  tried  before  Justice  Scobee,  convicted,  and  all  but  Foster,  Beatty 
and  Watts  were  fined  and  imprisoned  in  the  county  jail.  Afterward 
the  imprisoned,  together  with  Alex.  Gaw  and  Tom  Steele,  were  in- 
dicted at  the  April  term  of  court,  1882,  tried  in  a  few  days  thereafter, 
and,  with  the  exceptions  of  Mitchell  and  Washington,  all  were  con- 
victed of  assault  with  intent  to  kill,  and  sentenced  to  terms  in  the 
penitentiary  of  from  two  to  seven  years. 

TOWN   GOVERNMENT. 

Mayor,  Thos.  Chapman  ;  clerk,  Wesley  Scobee ;  treasurer,  W.  E. 
T.  Waddell ;  marshal,  David  Barton  ;  assessor,  A.  G.  Norris ;  council, 
Henry  Williams,  John  S.  Clayton,  W.  E.  Waddell,  Wesley  Scobee, 
Thos.  Chapman. 

PUBLIC   SCHOOLS. 

The  number  of  school  children  within  the  corporation  is  about  260,. 
and  of  these  120  are  colored.  The  white-school  building  is  a  brick, 
40x60  feet  in  area,  and  three  stories  high.  The  upper  story  is  occu- 
pied by  the  Masonic  and  Odd  Fellows'  lodges.  The  school  is  graded 
and  divided  into  three  departments.     About  nine  months  of  school 


1008  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

per  year  is  the  present  average.  No  building  is  owned  by  the  district 
that  is  occupied  as  a  colored  school.  One  is  rented  whenever  the 
occasion  demands. 

CEMETERY. 

The  Rocheport  cemetery  originally  contained  but  one  acre,  but  it 
was  afterward  extended  to  twice  that  area.  It  is  beautifully  located 
on  a  hill  overlooking  the  town.  The  ground  is  nicely  fenced  and  well 
kept,  and  therein,  sleeping  their  last  sleep,  lie  many  of  the  pioneer 
citizens  of  the  neighborhood,  the  founders  of  Rocheport,  and  the 
builders  up  ot  the  country  round  about. 

CHURCHES  —  M.    E.    CHURCH  (  SOUTH  ) . 

This  congregation  of  worsnippers  was  organized  in  1835  with  about 
tifteen  or  twenty  members,  all  of  whom  have  passed  a'vay  with  the 
ravages  of  relentless  time,  or  moved  far  in  the  distance  to  make  their 
homes  elsewhere.  There  are  no  records  of  sufficient  age  to  give  a 
history  of  the  church,  and  very  little  definite  information  can  be  ob- 
tained. The  church  building,  a  large  brick  with  spire  and  bell,  was 
erected  in  1844.  It  still  stands  and  answers  the  church  as  a  place 
of  worship.  Rev.  William  Rush  is  the  "  circuit  rider,"  and  holds 
services  there  one  Sabbath  in  each  month.  The  membership  numbers 
thirty-five. 

CHRISTIAN    CHURCH. 

The  church  of  Christ  at  Rocheport  was  organized  in  1837  with 
about  twenty  members,  the  only  one  of  whom  now  living  is  Mrs. 
Anna  Wheeler,  wife  of  Henderson  Wheeler,  who  still  resides  in  the 
town.  The  following  were  among  the  constitutional  or  first  members: 
Thomas  Hart,  wife  and  daughter ;  John  B.  Hill  and  wife  ;  Porter 
Jackman  and  wife ;  Dr.  Buster ;  Mrs.  Adams  and  Mrs.  Amanda 
Wheeler.  The  first  pastor  was  Thomas  B.  Allen.  They  built  a  brick 
house  of  worship  in  1845,  with  spire  and  bell,  the  dimensions  of  the 
building  being  35x50  feet,  with  a  fifteen  foot  ceiling.  The  edifice 
still  stands  and  is  in  good  repair.  They  have  a  membership  of  113, 
and  a  flourishing  Sabbath  school,  with  about  fifty  children  attending. 
At  this  writing,  Mr.  E.  C.  Gill  is  pastor  in  charge,  and  resides  in 
Rocheport.  Dr.  W.  A.  Jackman,  J.  W.  Morris  and  J.  W.  Champion 
are  elders  ;  and  J.  A.  Chambers,  J.  H.  Chambers,  C.  M.  Patterson 
and  J.  M.  Hern  are  deacons.  The  other  oflicials  are  T.  M.  Nichol- 
son, clerk;  R.  W.  Hubbard,  Sabbath  school  superintendent,  and  C. 
M.  Patterson,  Sabbath  school  clerk.     As  full  a  history  cannot  be«riven 


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as  this  church  merits,  owing  to  the  fact  that  some  of  the  records 
have  been  lost  or  destroyed. 

THE    PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH 

I 

Was  organized  June  3,  1839,  under  the  pastorate  of  Rev.  R.  L.  Mc- 
Afee. The  original  members  were  Rollin  Lyman,  Temple  E.  Bell 
and  Mary  Bell  (his  wife),  Miss  Mary  Lientz,  Mrs.  Reuben  Parker, 
Mrs.  Mary  Gaw,  Mrs.  Mary  Leintz,  and  Mrs.  Ellen  Knox.  They 
built  a  church  in  1845,  which  was  burnt  during  the  war,  February  20, 
1866.     They  have  never  re-built,  neither  had  any  regular  pastor. 

BAPTIST   CHURCH. 

The  Baptist  Church  of  Christ  was  organized  at  Rocheport  in  July, 
1861.  The  original  record  of  that  date  reads  as  follows  :  **  A  meet- 
ing  was  held  in  the  Presbyterian  meeting  house  in  the  town  of  Roche- 
port  to  take  into  consideration  the  propriety  of  organizing  a  Baptist 
church.     After  sermon  by  T.  C.  Harris,  Rev.  F.    Wilhite  was   called 

.  to  the  chair,  and  Bro.  A.  J.  Barnes  was  elected  clerk  pro.  tern.  A 
committee  previously  appointed  consisting  of  Ira  E.  Barnes  and  John 
F.  Calvert  to  ascertain  and  report  the  names  of  persons  desirous   to 

'  go  into  such  organization,  presented  the  following  names,  viz. :  C.  N. 
Worthington,  Ira  E.  Barnes,  John  F.  Calvert  and  lady,  Martin  Cal- 
vert and  lady,  Tom  Cooper,  lady  and  daughter,  Silas  Tipton,  Mrs. 
Wilson,  Mrs.  Lyell,  Mrs.  Cornelius,  Mrs.  Lewis,  Mrs.  Gentry,  Mrs. 
Pharris,  Sidney  Elliott,  E.  McClelland  and  lady  and  John  L.  Lewis. 
On  motion  of  Bro.  Ira  E.  Barnes  it  was  unanimously  agreed  to  go 
into  the  organization  of  a  church  to  be  called  the  United  Baptist  Church 
of  Jesus  Christ  in  Rocheport.*'  After  adopting  a  **  declaration  of 
faith  and  church  covenant,''  they  ''  on  motion,  adjourned  to  meet  on 
the  3d  Saturday  in  August,  1851." 

The  records  show  the  election  of  pastors  as  follows  :  Rev.  Robert 
HaiTis,  1853;  J.  M.  Robinson,  1855;  X.  X.  Buckner,  1856;  T.  M. 
Johnson,  1858;  R.  H.  Harris,  1860;  Noah  Flood,  1863;  J.  D. 
Murphy,  1866  ;  William  Tipton,  1872  ;  E.  D.  Isbell,  1876  ;  M.  L. 
Laws,  1877  ;  N.  T.  Allison,  1878  ;  J.  S.  Parmer,  1879  ;  J,  B.  Stark, 
1882.  From  the  time  of  its  organization  till  1861,  they  held  church 
services  in  the  Presbyterian  church  ;  in  that  year  they  built  a  church, 
which  was  dedicated  to  God's  service  by  RevR.  H.  Harris,  in  June, 
1861.  The  present  pastor  is  Rev.  J.  B.  Stark,  who  preaches  once  a 
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month.     The  congregation  now   numbers   a   membership  of  fifteei^ 
souls. 

CIVIC   SOCIETIES. MASONIC   LODGE. 

The  Rocheport  lodge,  No.  67,  of  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  is,  perhaps,  the 
most  venerable  secret  institution  in  the  town,  and  was  organized  as 
long  ago  as  October  20,  1843.  The  only  names  remembered  of  char- 
ter members  are  George  Knox,  William  Reid,  and  William  E.  Harris^ 
who,  after  organization  of  the  lodge,'  were  chosen  its  first  worthy  Mas- 
ter, senior  warden  and  junior  warden,  respectively.  The  reason  so 
little  of  the  early  history  of  the  lodge  is  accessible,  is  the  fact  that 
their  hall  was  destroyed  by  fire  m  1865,  and  all  of  their 
records,  books  and  papers  lost.  For  that  reason,  much  that 
would  be  both  valuable  and  interesting  will  uecessarily  have 
to  be  omitted.  The  present  officers  are:  W.  Scobee,  W. 
M. ;  J,  M.  McKee,  S.  W.  ;  J.  H.  Lowrey,  J.  W. ;  H.  Tumey,  Trea<».; 
Chas.  Myer,  Sec. ;  J.  W.  Bell,  S.  D. ;  C.  M.  Patterson,  J.  D. ;  H. 
F.  Williams,  Tyler.  None  of  these  are  grand  lodge  officers..  The 
hull  they  now  own  was  built  in.  J 868,  and  is  a  good  brick  structure 
erected  at  a  cost  of  $2,400.  The  membership  is  in  number  38,  and 
the  lodge  is  in  a  thriving  and  harmonious  condition. 

ODD  FELLOWS. 

The  Boone  lodge,  No.  121,  I.  O.  O.   F  ,  was  instituted   by  John 
McFarland,  and  their  charter  was  received   in    1858.     The   charter 
members  were  Ferry  Rockwell,  James  Bradley,  Thomas   H.  Bowen, 
Moses  Barth,  Solomon  Sticknell.    The  first  officers  were  James  Brad- 
ley, noble  grand  ;    Thomas  H.  Bowen,  vice  grand  ;    J.    S.    Clayton, 
secretary;  Moses  Burth,  treasurer ;    T.  Waddell,    O.    and    I.  guard. 
The    present    officers    are    Charles     Myer.    N.    G.  ;    Fielding    Tin- 
dall,  V.  G.  ;  A.  G.  Norris,  Sec.  ;    John  Dodson,  Treas.  ;    J.  S.  Clay- 
ton,   W.  ;    M.    D.   Lewis,   conductor,    and  James  O'Howell,  guard. 
There  are  no  grand  lodge  officers  of  this  lodge.     The    present  mem- 
bership is  thirty-three.     They  built  a  brick  hall  in   1868,   which  cost 
$2,000.     The  lodge  is  reported  in  a  prosperous  condition. 

GOOD   TEMPLARS. 

Rocheport  Lodge,  No.  147,  I.  O.  G.  T.,  was  organized  July  28th, 
1870,  the  first  officers  being:  — Chas.  Myer,  W.  C.  T.  ;  M.  E.  Root, 
W.  V.  T. ;  H.  C.  Mooth,  Sec. ;  D.  H.  Root,  P.  W.  C.  T.     The  char- 


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ter-members  were  Rev.  D.  H.  Root,  Sarah  Tumy,  Jennie  Root,  Mary 
Boot,  Chas.  Myer,  H.  C.  Mpoth,  H.  Tumy,  Mollie  Burkhardt,  Mary 
Jones,  William  Hill,  Robert  Boyze,  John  Scobee,  J.  L.  Root,  Ann 
Boot,  Ora  Root,  and  Sallie  Wheeler.  The  present  oflScers  are  J.  W. 
Champion,  W.  C.  T. ;  Clara  Dodson,  W.  V.  T. ;  Geo.  Hill,  R.  S. ; 
H.  A.  Henley,  F.  S. ;  H.  A.  Roberts,  M. ;  Mrs.  Henley,  I.  G.  ;  H. 
C.  Mooth,  O.  G. ;  J.  R.  Robinson,  S.  D.     Number  of  members,  40. 

UNITED    WORKMEN. 

Rocheport  Lodge,  No.  81,  of  the  A.  O.  U.  W.,  was  instituted  by 
John  A.  Brooks,  both  charter  and  dispensation  bearing  date  of  Octo- 
ber 9th,  1878.  The  names  of  charter  members  are  :  R.  W.  Hubbard, 
John  E.  Miller,  O.  J.  Miller,  T.  M.  Nicholson,  Charles  Myer,  Henry 
Hall,  Sylvester  Calvert,  U.  Baldwin,  S.  P.  Scobee,  W.  E.  iJlabry 
and  Robert  White.  The  first  officers  were  —  Robert  White,  P.  M.  W. 
O.  J.  Miller,  M.  W. ;  R.  W.  Hubbard,  G.  F. ;  T.  M.  Nicholson,  O. 
Chas.  Myer,  Recorder ;  Henry  Hall,  Financier,  J.  E.  Miller,  Re- 
ceiver; S.  P.  Scobee,  Guide;  U.  Baldwin,  I.  W.  ;  J.  S.  Palmer, 
O.  W.  The  names  of  the  present  officers  are :  John  Scobee,  M.  W. ; 
James  O'Howell,  P.  M.  W. ;  W.  F.  Potts,  Recorder;  A.  G.  Norris, 
Financier ;  R.  W.  Hubbard,  Receiver ;  James  Bradley,  I.  W. ;  F.  M. 
Nicholson,  O.  W.  ;  Wesley  Scobee,  Guide ;  Peter  Fine,  G.  F.  They 
have  a  membership  of  forty,  but  as  yet  own  no  lodge  building,  hold- 
ing their  meetings  in  a  rented  hall. 

BUSINESS    INTERESTS    OF    ROCHEPORT. 

Newspapers, — The  first  paper  published  in  Rocheport  was  the 
Times,  by  Isaac  N.  Houck  in  1868  and  1869.  In  1872  F.  B.  Bysfield 
established  the  JSnteipinse,  which  was  discontinued  in  1873.  The 
Rocheport  Commercial  was  started  in  1879.  It  is  still  published,  and 
does  excellent  work  for  the  town.  J.  W.  McQuitty  is  the  present 
editor  and  proprietor. 

Bank.  — The  Rocheport  Bank  has  a  cash  capital  of  $10,000,  and 
its  deposits  amount  to  about  $100,000  annually.  Present  officers : 
L.  Grossman,  president ;  F.  E.  Carr,  cashier ;  L.  Grossman,  David 
Pipes,  W.  B.  Hunt,  T.  H.  Winterbower,  F.  E.  Carr,  directors. 

Mills.  —  The  Boone  County  Star  grist  mills  grind  about  150,000 
bushels  annually.  They  have  four  run  of  burrs.  About  15,000 
barrels  of  first-class  flour  are  annually  shipped  to  St.  Louis.  The 
mills  are  owned  by  a  company,  ot  which  W.  T.  Anderson  is  president ; 


1012  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY, 

David  Pipes,  vice  president;  J.   S.   Clayton,  secretary  and  superin- 
tendent, and  E.  E.  Carr,  treasurer. 

Tlie  Moniteau  saw  and  grist  mills,  J.  W.  Champion,  proprietor, 
were  established  in  1875.  They  have  three  run  of  burrs,  do  a  large 
local  trade  and  custom  work,  grinding  severa  thousand  bushels  an- 
nually. The  saw-mill  has  a  capacity  for  sawing  2,500  feet  of  lum- 
ber daily. 

Miscellaneous, — The  oldest  business  man  in  the  place  is  Henry 
Tumy,  dealer  in  saddles  and  harness,  who  began  business  in  1842. 
Then  comes  W.  E.  T.  Waddell,  hardware  dealer  and  tinner;  estab- 
tablished  in  1853.  The  oldest  mechanic  is  Henderson  Wheeler,  a 
blacksmiths  who  has  struck  while  the  iron  was  hot  since  1838. 
Hubbard,  Prince  &  Co.  and  J.  A.  Barth  ship  annually  thousands 
upon  thousands  of  bushels  of  wheat  and  other  grain. 

The  Rocheport  pottery  was  originally  established  by  John  Cranson, 
in  1844.  W.  H.  Williamson  &  Son,  the  present  proprietors,  took 
charge  in  1860.  The  establishment  turns  out  50,000  gallons  of  an 
excellent  quality  of  stoneware  every  year. 

The  physicians  are  Dr.  William  J.  Jackman  (1873),  Bramlitt  & 
Lewis  (1882)  and  E.  H.  Chinn  (1882).  Dr.  T.  M.  Nicholson,  den- 
tist,  has  been  established  since  1871. 


BIOGRAPHIES. 
JAMES   DABNY   ARNETT. 

James  D.  Arnett  was  born  in  Louisa  county,  Virginia,  near  Louisa 
court-house,  May  8th,  1830,  where  he  was  raised  on  the  farm,  continu- 
ing in  that  business  until  he  came  to  Missouri  in  1857.  He  lived 
with  his  uncle,  T.  R.  Daniel,  near  Midway,  and  farmed  his  place  on 
the  shares  until  his  death  in  1869  and  continued  to  manage  the  fvm 
for  his  aunt  until  her  death  in  1879,  when  he  purchased  the  place  of 
their  administrators.  At  this  writing  Mr.  Arnett,  is  unmarried.  In 
1864  he  was  drafted  by  the  Federal  authorities  but  was  detailed  as  a 
carpenter  and  served  as  such  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Locust  Grove,  Methodist  church,  and  steward  and 
Sunday  school  superintendent.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  church 
since  1850. 

WILLIAM   F.    ANGELL. 

William  F.  Augell  was  born  on  the  old  Reuben  Elliott  homestead. 


HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTY,  1013 

October  18th  1846.  He  is  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Margaret  (Elliott) 
Angell.  His  father  having  died  when  he  was  an  infant,  his  mother 
remained  with  her  father,  the  late  Beuben  Elliott.  He  was  brought 
up  on  the  farm  and  educated  at  the  Rocheport  and  Walnut  Grove 
academies.  He  began  business  for  himself  when  eighteen,  cultivating 
jrented  land.  In  1871  he  purchased  his  grandfather's  farm  —  the  old 
Elliott  homestead  —  where  he  has  remained  ever  since.  He  was  mar- 
ried, December  14,  1871,  to  Miss  Luella,  daughter  of  Willis  G. 
Evans,  of  Boone  county.  They  have  two  children,  William  E.  and 
McClelland.  Mr.  Angell  is  a  member  of  the  Walnut  Grove  Baptist 
churcb. 

MOSE^  BARTH. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  one  of  the  leading  commercial  men  of 
the  county,  is  a  foreign  born  gentleman,  a  native  of  lUingen,  Ger- 
many, born  October  24th,  1824.  Though  Prussian  born,  he  is  of 
pure  Hebrew  extraction,  and  is  the  son  of  Michael  and  Saran  Barth. 
He  was  reared  and  educated  in  his  native  city  and  learned  the  business 
of  cattle  dealer  and  money  exchanger,  which  .was  his  vocation,  and 
continued  in  the  business  with  his  father  till  he  came  to  America  in 
1847.  Arriving  at  New  York,  June  15th,  of  that  year,  he  proceeded 
to  Philadelphia  and  supplied  himself  with  a  stock  of  goods  which  he 
"  peddled  *'  out  to  advantage  in  Berks  and  Lancaster  counties,  Penn- 
sylvania. He  then  came  to  Missouri  and  was  similarly  engaged  in 
Boone  and  Howard  counties,  making  his  headquarters  at  Fayette. 
He  then  became  associated  with  his  brother  in  the  dry  goods  businesii,. 
and  they  operated  as  both  local  and  itinerant  merchants  till  1850.  In 
that  year,  without  severing  his  connection  with  his  brother,  Moses 
made  a  trip  over  the  plains  to  the  gold  fields  of  California,  where  he 
remained  about  two  years,  engaged  principally  in  quartz- mining.  He 
sailed  from  San  Francisco  to  New  Orleans,  arriving  there  in  the  fall 
of  1852.  There  he  fell  sick  with  a  fever,  which  prostrated  him  for 
some  ten  weeks.  He  had  the  good  fortune,  however,  to  find  a  friend 
in  an  old-country  acquaintance,  to  whom  Mr.  Barth  is  much  indebted 
for  kindness  during  that  long  illness  among  strangers.  The  friend's 
name  was  Philip  Marx.  Returning  to  Fayette,  he  found  that  Alex- 
ander Greenabaum  had  bought  into  the  firm  during  his  absence.  Thia 
firm,  in  1853,  started  a  branch  house  at  Rocheport,  and  Moses  was 
placed  in  charge  of  it.  The  Barths  wound  up  their  afi*airs  with 
Greenabaum  in  1856,  and  centered  their  business  at  Rocheport. 
Two    years    later,   they    opened  a  branch  store   at   Columbia,   the 


1014  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY, 

brother  assuming  charge.  Thus  they  continued  Ull  1869.  In 
1863-4  they  handled  tobacco  quite  extensively,  and  also  est^ib- 
lished  a  shirt  factory  in  Philadelphia.  Eocheport  was  burned 
by  Federals  in  1864,  and  their  loss  in  buildings,  merchan- 
dise and  tobacco  was  almost  a  fortune  in  itself.  Besides  the  firm's 
losses,  Moses  lost  some  $7,000  in  slave  property  by  their  eman- 
cipation. They  managed  to  get  rebuilt  in  1866,  when  A.  Victor  and 
H.  W.  Myer  became  associated  with  the  firm,  and  the  company  thus 
continued  till  disasters  overtook  them  in  1869.  These  reverses, 
coupled  with  their  losses  by  the  war,  forced  them  into  bankruptcy. 
Being  released  thereby  from  all  indebtedness,  Mr.  B.  was  enabled  to 
start  up  again  by  the  assistance  of  friends,  and  is  now  doing  an  exten- 
sive business  in  the  mercantile  line,  and  is  a  large  shipper  of  grain, 
wool,  and  general  produce.  On  March  21,  1855,  Mr.  Barth  married 
Miss  Minnie,  daughter  of  Isaac  L.  Arnold,  of  Philadelphia.  They 
have  seven  children  :  Joseph  (in  business  with  his  father)  ;  Nettie,  wife 
of  Victor  Barth,  of  Columbia ;  Linda,  wife  of  S.  Hanauer,  of  Bis- 
mark,  D.  T. ;  Pauline  A. ;  Carrie  ;  Isadore  A. ;  Sadie  A.  Mr.  Barth 
is  a  member  of  Boone  lodge  No.  121,  I.  O.  O.  F.  at  Rocheport, 
and  is  also  a  demitted  Mason. 

DAVID    C.    BARTON. 

^Vas  born  on  a  farm  in  Audrain  county,  Missouri,  February  1,  1848, 
where  he  continued  to  reside  with  his  parents  until  he  was  twenty- 
two  years  old.  He  then  began  learning  the  blacksmith  trade  with  his 
father,  and  after  working  one  year,  went  to  Paris,  Monroe  county, 

and  there  did  journey  work  for  nearly  a  year.  He  worked  for  other 
men  as  a  journeyman  for  spme  time  and   in  various  places,  till   he 

finally  opened  a  shop  of  his  own  in  Perry,  Ralls  county,  Missouri.  In 
1877,  he  sold  out  there  and  went  to  Howard  county;  and  started 
a  shop  at  White's  store,  where  he  remained  one  year  and  again  sold 
out.  Opening  out  another  place  in  same  county,  he  operated  till 
1880,  when  he  went  to  Nevada  City,  Vernon  county,  and  there  car- 
ried on  blacksmithing  till  he  c&me  to  Rocheport,  in  Boone  county,  in 
the  fall  of  1881.  Here  he  purchased  property,  but  engaged  in  no  special 
business  till  1882,  when  he  was  elected  city  marshal  of  Rocheport, 
which  position  he  holds  at  this  writing.  Mr.  Barton,  when  a  boy, 
witnessed  the  famous  «*  Centralia  massacre,"  when  Anderson  and  his 
guerrillas  captured  and  killed  a  train  load  of  Federals.  Before  Mr. 
^  rton   became  marshal,  Rocheport  had  been  for  some  time  afflicted 


HISTORY   or   BOONE    COUNTY.  1015 

i?ithra  lawless  class  of  negroes  who  frequently  disturbed  the  quiet  of 
that  staid  old  place  ;  but  has  effectually  suppressed  that  class  and  has 
them  under  thorough  control.  He  was  the  man  who  arrested  the 
twelve  notorious  **  nigs  *'  after  the  **  Rocheport  riots  "  in  1882,  eight 
of  whom  were  sent  to  the  penitentiary.  (See  history  of  town  of 
Rocheport).  Mr.  Barton  certainly  deserves  the  thanks  of  the  citizens 
of  that  place  for  the  effectual  way  in  which  he  has  restored  order.  He 
was  married,  March  6th,  1870,  to  Miss  Maggie  Slough,  of  Cumber- 
land C^ty,  Maryland.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barton  are  Baptists,  but  not 
connected  with  any  church.  He  is  very  abstemious  in  his  habits,  not 
-even  using  tobacco ;  and  he  has  been  a  **  teetotaler/'  all  his  life,  and 
a  member  of  the  I.  O.  G.  T.  for  eight  years.  He  has  held  the  posi- 
tion of  Worthy  Templar  for  several  years,  and  was  for  one  term 
lodge  deputy,  under  authority  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri. 

UGENUS   BALDWIN. 

Capt.  Ugenus  Baldwin  was  born  in  Shelby  county,  Indiana,  near 
Shelbyville,  the  county  seat,  February  16th,  1833.  When  he  was 
four  years  old  his  parents  removed  to  Missouri  and  settled  in  Boone 
-county,  seven  miles  southeast  of  Rocheport,  where  he  was  raised, 
remaining  with  his  parents  until  he  reached  manhood.  In  1854,  when 
in  his  twenty-first  year,  he  went  to  Buchanan  county,  where  he 
engaged  in  teaching  for  one  year.  Returning  home  he  attended  La- 
throp  Academy  for  two  sessions,  afterwards  resuming  his  profession, 
teachingin  Moniteau,  Boone,  Cooperand  Howard  counties.  Heenlisted, 
August  11th,  1861,  in  the  Confederate  army,  under  Capt.  James 
Watson  and  Col.  John  B.  Clark.  He  was  made  second  lieutenant 
And  served  for  six  months,  part  of  the  time  as  captain  of  the  com- 
pany. In  1862  he  entered  the  regular  Confederate  service.  In  April 
of  that  year  he  joined  Company  C,  6th  Infantry,  and  in  September 
following  was  made  third  lieutenant,  rising  by  promotion  to  the  office 
of  first  lieutenant,  which  place  he  held  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He 
was  in  many  battles,  the  most  important  being  Lexington,  Pea  Ridge, 
Vicksburg,  Corinth,  luka  and  Port  Gibson.  His  command  was 
•captured  at  Vicksburg  and  exchanged  in  the  winter  of  1863-64, 
becoming  a  part  of  the  second  and  sixth  regiments,  Missouri  Infantry. 
He  held  the  position  of  first  lieutenant  in  the  re-organization.  He  next 
participated  in  the  battles  of  New  Hope  Church,  Kenesaw  Mountain, 
and  a  series  of  skirmishes  from  New  Hope  Church  to  v^tlanta.  From 
Atlanta  he  was  sent  by  Gen.  Hood  with  one  hundred  men  to  operate 


1016  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

in  the  rear  of  Sherman's  army,  as  the  latter  was  marching  on  that 
city.  At  the  battle  of  Franklin  he  had  command  of  the  infirmary  corps, 
and  was  employed  in  burying  the  dead  and  removing  the  wounded 
from  the  battle  field.  In  December  of  that  year  he  was  made  provost 
marshal  of  Cockerell's  brigade,  which  position  he  held  until  his  com- 
mand was  captured  in  Alabama,  April  9th,  1865.  They  were*  kept 
prisoners  until  the  close  of  the  war.  Mr.  Baldwin  remained  in  Mis- 
sissippi for  one  year  after  the  close  of  the  war,  engaged  in  teaching. 
He  returned  to  Boone  county  in  1868  and  went  to  farming,  teaching 
school  of  winters.  Mr.  Baldwin  was  married  in  the  fall  of  1868  to 
Miss  Laura,  daughter  of  William  Allen,  of  Boone,  county,  after  which 
he  purchased  the  farm  where  he  now  resides.  He  farms  during  the 
summer  and  teaches  of  winters.  They  have  four  children :  Minnie 
Lee,  Lillie  May,  Emmett  Allen  and  Mattie  Pearl,  all  of  whom  are 
living  with  their  parents.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Baldwin  are  members  of  the 
Mount  Nebo  Methodist  church.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Roche- 
port  lodge  of  Ancient  Order  United  Workmen.  In  1874  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  magistrate  to  fill  a  vacancy,  after  which  he  was  elected  to 
the  ofiice  and  has  held  the  position  ever  since. 

THOMAS   COLTER   BARNES. 

Thomas  C.  Barnes  was  born  in  Old  Franklin,  Howard  county, 
Missouri,  May  27th,  1819.  He  is  the  son  of  James  and  Nancy 
(Colter)  Barnes.  His  father  died  when  he  was  but  three  years  old 
and  his  mother  removed  to  Boone  county,  settling  on  a  farm  near 
Columbia.  He  remained  at  home  with  his  mother  until  1835,  when, 
in  his  sixteenth  year,  he  went  to  Columbia  to  learn  the  saddler's 
trade,  serving  under  James  Richardson.  He  remained  in  the  shop 
four  years  and  a  half.  During  this  time  he  attended  school  six 
months.  He  afterwards  went  to  school  five  months  at  his  own  ex- 
pense. In  1840  he  began  farming  as  a  renter  and  so  continued  for 
five  years,  when  he  bought  the  farm  he  now  occupies,  which  then 
contained  160  acres,  situated  five  and  one-half  miles  northwest  of 
Columbia.  He  has  added  to  this  by  subsequent  purchases,  and  now 
owns  240  acres.  Mr.  Barnes  has  been  twice  married.  His  second 
wife  was  Miss  Susan  Davenport,  of  Boone  county.  He  has  ten 
children,  five  by  each  wife.  The  children  by  the  first  marriage  are 
Margaret  U.,wifo  of  John  Davenport,  of  Boone  county;  James  S.,  a 
farmer  in  Audrain  county ;  Amanda,  wife  of  Richard  F.  Farthing,  of 
Audrain  county ;  William  H.,  of  Audrain  county,  and  Mary,  wife  of 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1017 

Edward  Farthing,  of  Audrain.  By  his  second  wife:  John  G.,  on 
the  homestead  ;  Minnie  A.,  wifeof  Joseph  Bennett,  of  Boone  county  ; 
David  D.,  Emma  E|leil  and  Mai issa  Jane.  Mr.  Barnes  and  wife  are 
members  of  the  Oakland  Christian  church.  Previous  to  changing  his 
membership,  he  served  as  elder  in  the  Friendship  Christian  church, 
for  nine  years.  During  the  war  he  remained  neutral.  Mr.  Barnes 
has  always  taken  a  deep  interest  in  local  school  matters  and  has 
served  on  the  school  board  of  his  district  for  many  years,  being  much 
of  the  time  chairman  of  the  committee. 

EDWARD   TURNER   BRAMLETT,    M.    D. 

"  Dr.  Bramlett  was  born  in  the  State  of  Mississippi,  near  Verona, 
December  4th,  1854,  and  grew  up  in  the  place  of  his  nativity.  His 
education  was  acquired  partly  in  the  State  of  his  birth,  at  Mississippi 
College,  in  Clinton,  and  partly  at  the  University  of  Kentucky,  at 
Lexington.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  began  the  study  of  medicine 
under  Dr.  B.  H.  Whitfield,  professor  of  natural  science,  in  the  above 
first  named  college.  Subsequently  he  attended  the  Louisville,  Ken- 
tucky, Medical  College,  and  graduated  therefrom  with  the  degree  of 
M.  D.  in  March,  1876.  Returning  to  Verona,  he  began  the  practice 
of  medicine  in  co-partnership  with  B.  H.  Armstrong,  at  the  same 
time  engaging  in  the  drug  business  in  partnership  with  John  A.  Arm- 
strong. He  remained  there  till  1879,  when,  having  closed  his  busi- 
ness and  practice  in  that  locality,  he  came  to  Boone  county,  Mis- 
souri, and  located  atRocheport,  where  he  resumed  the  practice.  On 
April  1st,  1882,  he  became  associated  with  Dr.  M.  D.  Lewis,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Bramlett  &  Lewis.  These  gentlemen,  though  still 
young  men,  are  thoroughly  educated  generally,  as  well  as  specially, 
and  are  building  up  an  extensive  practice  in  Boone,  Howard,  Copper 
and  Moniteau  counties. 

GEORGE   EDWARD   BROWN. 

George  E.  Brown,  blacksmith  and  farmer,  was  born  near  Front 
Royal,  Warren  county,  Virginia,  February  10,  1830.  His  father  be- 
ing a  blacksmith,  he  was  brought  up  to  that  trade.  He  commenced 
work  in  the  shop  when  he  was  but  ten  years  old.  He  remained  with 
his  father  until  1855,  when  he  was  twenty-five  years  old.  On  leaving 
home  he  established  a  shop  of  his  own  at  a  place  called  Happy  Creek, 
one  mile  south  of  Front  Royal.  Here  he  worked  at  his  trade  until 
1869,  when  he  sold  out  and  came  to  Missouri.     He  arrived  in  Boone 


1018  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

I 

county  in  November,  and  established  his  present  place  of  business  on 
the  Rocheport  and  Sturgeon  road,  four  and  one-half  miles  northeast 
of  Rocheport.  In  1875  he  added  farming  to  his  business  of  black- 
smithing,  and  has  labored  at  both  occupations  ever  since.  He  has  100 
acres  of  land  well  adapted  to  stock  raising.  He  has  made  farming 
and  the  handling  of  stock  quite  profitable.  Mr.  Brown  was  married 
January  3,  1856,  to  Miss  Mary  Shipe,  of  Warren  county,  Virginia. 
They  have  eight  living  children.  John  William  and  Charles  Edward 
work  in*  their  father's  shop.  Robert  Lee,  Carrie  Ella,  Hattie, 
Henry,  Rebecca  and  Moses  are  with  their  parents.  Mrs.  Brown  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  church  at  Locust  Grove.  In  1864,  Mr. 
Brown  enlisted  in  the  Confederate  army,  becoming  a  member  of 
Capt.  Davenport's  company,  Shelby's  cavalry.  He  remained  in  the 
army  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  is  a  member  of  the  RochepoTt 
lodge.  No.  147,  Independent  Order  of  Good  Templars. 

HENRY   JACKSON   BROWN. 

Henry  J.  Brown,  farmer  and  stock  raiser,  was  born  near  Front 
Royal,  Warren  county,  Virginia,  October  7,  1845,  where  he  lived  with 
his  parents  until  he  was  seventeen  years  old,  when  he  entered  the 
Confederate  army  as  a  private  in  Company  D,  Forty-ninth  Virginia 
infantry,  in  which  he  served  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  was 
in  many  engagements,  the  most  important  being  Manassas  Junc- 
tion, Seven  Pines,  Winchester,  Sharpsburg,  and  the  battles  in  the 
Shenandoah  Valley  under  Stonewall  J^ickson ;  also  Chancellorsville, 
where  Jackson  was  killed.  He  was  wounded  four  times.  His  brig- 
ade finally  surrendered  at  Appomatox  Court  House  in  1865,  when 
he  returned  to  the  old  home.  He  was  so  disabled  by  his  wounds 
that  he  was  compelled  to  go  on  crutches  until  1868,  when  he  be- 
gan to  work  as  a  farm  hand.  In  1873  he  came  to  Missouri,  and 
stopped  in  Boone  county.  For  the  first  eight  months  he  worked 
on  the  farm  of  John  W.  Harris ;  then  rented  a  farm  of  Fielding 
W.  Smith,  which  he  rented  on  shares  for  two  seasons.  In  August, 
1876,  he  purchased  the  farm  upon  which  he  is  now  living,  situated 
near  Walnut  Grove  church,  containing  168  acres.  He  was  mar- 
ried October  7,  1869,  to  Miss  Mary  Bell,  of  Warren  county,  Vir- 
ginia. They  have  three  children :  Henry  Esron,  born  in  Virginia, 
August  4,  1870;  Mary  F.,  born  in  Virginia,  June  8,  1872,  and 
David  Elias,  born  in  Boone  county,  March  4,  1874. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTT.  1019 

FRANCIS    ELLIS   CARR. 

This  gentleman,  cashier  of  the  Bocheport  Savings  Bank,  was  bom 
in  Cooper  county,  Missouri,  February  8,  1855,  his  parents,  Dr.  F. 
^nd  Ella  C.  Carr  being  old  residents  of  that  county.  He  was  educated 
at  William  Jewell  College,  a  Baptist  institution  located  at  Liberty, 
Missouri.  On  leaving  school  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  in  1873,  he  en- 
tered the  Rocheport  Bank  as  clerk  and  book-keeper,  serving  four 
jrears  in  that  capacity.  He  then  removed  to  Sturgeon,  Boone  county, 
where  he  was  cashier  of  the  Sturgeon  Bank  for  three  years,  up  to  1880. 
Beturning  then  to  Rocheport,  he  became  cashier  of  the  above  named 
bank,  and  still  acts  in  that  capacity  at  this  writing.  Mr.  Carr  was 
married  March  13, 1879,  to  Miss  Carrie  Harris,  of  Sturgeon,  Missouri. 
They  have  one  child,  a  son  named  Ellis  Marshall.  The  position  Mr. 
Carr  has  held  and  still  holds,  as  clerk  and  cashier  of  these  banks,  is 
fraught  with  a  responsibility,  that  might  be  be  considered  a  compli- 
ment to  a  much  older  man  than  he,  and  the  bare  fact  that  he  has 
faithfully  and  honorably  discharged  the  duties  pertaining  thereto, 
4Stamps  him  already  as  a  successful  business  man,  while  still  having  the 
greatest  portion  and  last  part  of  his  life  before  him. 

JEREMDIH  W.  CHAMPION. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  at  this  writing  is  manager  of  the 
**  Monitor  Mills  **  of  Rocheport,  was  born  in  Caldwell  county,  Ken- 
tucky, November  17th,  1826.  His  parents  moved  to  Missouri  when 
he  was  two  years  old  and  sfettled  in  Howard  county,  where  Jeremiah 
was  reared.  *  He  continued  with  his  parents  until  attaining  his  legal 
majority,  when  he  left  home  and  began  life  for  himself.  Purchasing 
a  farm  in  Howard  county,  near  the  Boone  line,  he  owned  and  lived  on 
it  till  1856,  excepting  two  years  spent  in  California.  In  1850,  he 
rented  his  place,  and  started  **  across  the  plains  *'  to  the  Eldorado  of 
gold  seekers.  He  and  his  father  were  together,  and  they  went  into 
the  butchering  business  at  Diamond  Springs.  The  father,  Drury  C. 
Champion,  died  there  in  January,  1852,  and  Jeremiah  started  home 
the  same  month.  Arriving  in  Missouri,  he  resumed  farming  on  his 
place  in  Howard  county,  remaining  till  1856,  w;hen  he  sold  out,  and 
erected  a  steam  saw-mill  in  partnership  with  his  uncle,  Jeremiah 
Backer,  and  his  brotl^er,  James  Champion.  He  bought  out  the  in- 
terest of  the  others  in  1858,  and  continued  to  operate  the  mill  in  dif- 
ferent localities  of  Howard  and  Boone  counties  till  June,  1875.     Com- 


1020  HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTY. 

ing  then  to  Rocheport,  this  county,  he  associated  himself  with  Mr.  L* 
Grossman,  and  they  erected  the  fine  flouring  mills,  known  as  the 
"Monitor  Mills,  "  of  which  Mr.  Champion  is  still  the  manager,  hav- 
ing rented  Mr.  Grossman's  interest  in  1878.  Mr.  Champion  entered 
the  state  of  connubial  bliss,  April  22d,  1848,  when  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Lucy  A.  Hill,  of  Boone  county.  They  have  seven  living  children  : 
Martha  Edna,  wife  of  A.  J.  Turner ;  Clarissa  B.,  wife  of  J.  T.  Suttles 
(Howard  county)  ;  William  Harvey  ;  George  H,  Samie  D.  and  Lena. 
Mr.  C.  has  been  a  member  of  the  Christian  church  since  he  was  sixteen, 
and  Mrs.  C.  since  she  was  fifteen  years  old.  All  the  children  but  two  be- 
long to  the  same.  He  is  a  member  of  Rocheport  lodge.  No.  67,  A.  F. 
and  A.  M.,  of  which  he  is  chaplain.  He  is  also  G.  W.  C.  of  Rocheport 
lodge  of  Good  Templars. 

JOEL  HAYDEN    CHALLE8. 

Though  Mr.  Challes  is  now  a  resident  of  Howard  county,  living  just 
across  the  line,  he  is  a  native  of  Boone  county,  and  so  thoroughly 
identified  with  the  former  history  of  the  county  of  his  birth,  as  to  de- 
serve biographical  mention  in  this  work.  He  was  born  on  a  farm  near 
Rocheport,  February  7th,  1830,  where  he  grew  up  and  received  his 
education.  He  continued  to  make  the  old  homestead  his  home  till  he 
was  near  thirty  years  old.  His  father  had  died  when  Joel  H.  was 
seventeen  years  old,  and  the  care  of  the  family  and  the  management 
of  the  farm  was  left  to  himself  and  his  brother  Andrew.  In  October, 
1864,  he  entered  the  Confederate  service,  in  the  regiment  of  Col. 
Perkins,  in  Price's  army,  and  served  till  the  war  closed.  He  had 
married,  in  February,  1861,  Miss  Sallie  W.  Forbis,  daughter  of  G.  B. 
Forbis,  of  Boone  county.  Soon  after  his  marriage  he  rented  the  farm 
which  he  now  owns  and  on  which  he  resides,  leaving  his  family  there 
while  he  was  away  in  the  war.  Returning  home  when  the  troubles 
were  over,  he  lived  as  a  renter  on  the  place  some  seven  years,  and 
then  bought  it.  There  were  103  acres,  to  which  he  has  added  by  8ul>- 
sequent  purchases  till  it  now  numbers  328  acres,  all  well  improved. 
Seven  children  still  survive  to  Mr.  Challes  and  wife,  named  re- 
spectively:  George  W.,  Sidney,  Sallie,  John,  William  R.,  Nannie  and 
Jennie.  They  lost  one,  Mary,  who  died  at  two  years  old.  These 
were  all  born  on  the  place  where  the  family  now  reside,  and  on  which 
Mr.  C.  will  probably  spend  the  remainder  of  his  days.  The  subject 
of  this  sketch  is  no  aspirant  for  political  honors,  but  much  prefers  the 
quiet  of  his  own  home  and  farm,  to  the  eclat  and  excitement  of  ofiicial 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  1021 

HsampaigDing.  He  is  one  of  those  substantial  citizens  who  has  amassed, 
what  property  he  has  by  thrift  and  economy,  and  takes  a  supreme 
pleasure  in  his  family,  and  his  surroundings  generally. 

JOHN   HOWARD    CHABIBERS 

Was  born  at  Old  Mines,  Washington  county,  Missouri,  February  10th, 
1824.  In  1827,  his  parents  moved  to  Union,  Franklin  county,  where 
John  H.  was  reared  and  educated.  During  his  boyhood,  he  clerked 
in  his  father's  store  at  Union,  in  the  interm  of  his  school  terms,  and 
thus  continued  till  he  was  twenty  years  old.  He  then  began  merchan- 
dising at  Union,  and  continued  there  till  1855.  He  then  came  to 
Rocheport,  this  county,  and  associated  himself  with  Clayton  Brothers, 
merchants,  under  the  style  of  Clayton,  Chambers  &  Co.  They  did 
business  thus  till  they  were  forced  to  discontinue,  owing  to  unsettled 
condition  of  things,  in  1862.  Mr.  Chambers  returned  to  Franklin 
county  and  opened  a  store  in  what  is  now  New  Haven,  where  lie  con- 
tinued to  do  business  till  the  war  closed.  In  1864,  he  was  raided  by  a 
portion  of  Price's  Confederates,  under  Gen.  Marmaduke,  and  relieved 
of  a  large  amount  of  supplies  such  as  boots,  shoes,  clothing,  dry- 
goods,  etc.  Returning  to  Eocheport,  in  1865,  he  became  associated 
with  his  old  partners,  and  continued  the  mercantile  business  thus  till 
1868,  when  they  closed  out.  Mr.  Chambers  then  became  connected 
with  J.  H.  Armstrong  and  R.  S.  Miller,  as  a  milling  company,  and 
they  built  the  **  Star  Mills  "  of  that  town.  He  withdrew  from  the  firm 
in  '73,  and  again  began  merchandising.  His  brother,  James  A.,  and  his 
son,  George  C,  became  connected  with  the  concern  in  1880,  the  firm 
being  styled  Chambers  Bros.  &  Co.  Mr.  Chambers  was  married  on 
the  11th  of  October,  1848,  to  Miss  Judith  S.  Clayton,  of  Union, 
Franklin  county.  They  have  two  children — Laura,  wife  of  J.  E. 
Miller,  of  Nevada,!  Missouri,  and  George  C,  junior  partner  of  the 
above  firm.  Mr.  Chambers  and  wife  both  belong  to  the  Christian 
cburch,  and  Mrs.  Miller  is  also  a  member  of  the  same. 

JOHN   8.    CLAYTON. 

The  gentleman  whose  name  heads  this  sketch,  one  of  the  leading 
business  men  of  the  county,  was  born  in  Union,  Franklin  county, 
Missouri,  June  21st,  1833,  and  there  grew  to  manhood.  His  father 
was  a  merchant  by  vocation,  and  when  John  S.  was  eleven  years  old, 
he  was  placed  in  the  store,  and  did  not  attend  school  afterwards  till  he 


1022  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

went  to  take  a  commercial  course.  He  acquired  his  education,  chiellj^ 
in  the  store,  and  when  seventeen  years  old,  attended  Jones'  Commer- 
cial College,  in  St.  Louis,  and,  after  finishing  his  course  there,  was 
employed  as  shipping  clerk  by  a  St.  Louis  house,  retaining  the  posi- 
tion until  1852.  He  then  went  to  Washington,  ^Missouri*  and  em- 
barked in  the  mercantile  business.  He  only  remained  one  year,  how- 
ever, when  he  came  to  Rocheport,  in  this  county,  and  engaged  in  mer- 
chandising with  his  father,  Thomas  F.  Clayton,  they  doing  business 
under  the  style  of  T.  F.  Clayton  &  Co.  until  1855.  The  father  then  re- 
tiring from  the  business,  John  S.  became  associated  with  his  brother, 
J.  R.  Clayton,  and  J.  H.  Chambers,  the  firm  being  styled  Clayton, 
Chambers  &  Co.  They  continued  business  till  1862,  and  were  then 
forced  to  discontinue  because-  of  the  war.  In  January,  1863,  he  and 
Capt.  W.  P.  Wilcox  ventured  in  the  general  merchandising  and  pro- 
duce business,  and  operated  till  January,  1865.  Owing  to  the  dis- 
turbed condition  of  the  country,  they  elosed  their  business  in  Roche- 
port  and  went  to  Omaha,  Nebraska,  where  they,  with  William  Ste- 
phens, organized  the  firm  of  Clayton,  Stephens  &  Wilcox,  and  opened 
up  in  the  general  merchandise  line.  Mr.  Clayton,  in  the  fall  of  1865, 
while  still  retaining  his  connection  with  the  Omaha  concern,  returned 
to  Rocheport,  and  formed  the  firm  of  Clayton,  Miller  &  Co.,  general 
merchants  and  tobacco  dealers.  They  also  built  the  grist  mill  known 
now  as  the  **  Boone  County  Star  Mills.  "At  the  death  of  Mr.  Miller, 
in  January,  1880,  a  stock  company  was  formed,  of  which  Mr.  Clayton 
was  made  superintendent  and  general  manager,  and  this  company  still 
carries  on  the  business.  In  addition  to  this,  Mr.  Clayton  acts  as 
steamboat  agent,  and  also  conducts  an  establishment  for  the  sale  of 
farm  machinery  and  operates  as  a  railroad  contractor.  On  November 
the  18th,  1857,  Mr.  Clayton  was  married  to  Miss  Fannie  Chambers, 
of  Union,  Missouri.  They  have  three  children,  named  respectively: 
Howard,  Belle,  (wife  of  Jno.  T.  Mitchell,  of  Centralia),  and  "  Tom.'* 
Mr.  C.  is  a  member  of  Boone  Lodge,  No.  121, 1.  O.  O.  F.,  of  Roche- 
port, and  he  and  his  wife  both  belong  to  the  Christian  church. 

MARCELLUS    D.    COOK. 

Marcellus  D.  Cook  was  born  in  Hopkins  county,  Kentucky,  near 
Madisonville,  January  20th,  1818,  where  he  lived  with  his  parents  un- 
til he  attained  his  tenth  year,  when  they  came  to  Missouri  and  settled 
on  a  farm  seven  miles  east  of  Rocheport,  where  he  resided  with  his 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1023 

parents  until  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age,  when  he  commenced 
farming  for  himself  as  a  renter.  He  followed  this  business  until  1842, 
when  he  purchased  a  farm  ou  which  he  now  lives.  August  27th, 
1839,  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Smith,  of  Boone  county,  by  whom 
he  has  seven  children :  Henry  S.,  of  Smithton,  Missouri ;  William 
Harrison,  of  Boone  county  ;  David  Willis,  of  Boone  county;  Charles 
M.,  merchant,  of  Columbia  ;  Amanda  Ellen,  wife  of  James  R.  Jacobs, 
of  Boone  county,  and  Jefferson  Price  and  Samuel,  at  home  with  their 
parents.  Mr.  Cook  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Sugar  Creek 
Baptist  church,  having  united  with  that  denomination  in  1835.  Dur- 
ing the  war  he  was  not  engaged  on  either  side,  but  was  Southern  in 
sentiment.  He  suffered  severe  loss  of  property,  but  escaped  without 
bodily  harm.  The  Federal  soldiers  took  from  him  about  six  hundred 
dollars  worth  of  horses,  and  he  was  not  even  spared  by  his  own  party. 

SAMUEL    DAVIS    COCHRAN. 

The  sifbject  of  this  sketch  was  born  on  the  old  John  G.  Cochran 
farm,  two  and  one-half  miles  east  of  Rocheport,  December  11th,  1832. 
He  is  the  son  of  John  G.  and  Delina  Cochran.  His  grandfather,  Will- 
iam Cochran,  emigrated  from  Scotland  before  the  revolutionary  war 
and  settled  in  Kentucky,  removing  from  that  State  to  Missouri  in  1818, 
settling  first  at  Boone's  Lick,  in  Howard  county,  coming  the  follow- 
ing year  to  Boone  county,  where  he  located  on  a  farm  four  and  one- 
half  miles  east  of  Rocheport.  His  son,  John  G.,  settled  the  farm, 
upon  which  Samuel  was  born,  in  1825.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  re- 
mained with  his  parents  until  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age.  He 
was  married,  October  16th,  1856,  to  Miss  Amanda  Boggs,  who  died 
December  22d,  1880.  After  his  marriage  Mr.  Cochran  purchased  a 
farm  which  he  cultivated  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  war.  In  1864 
he  joined  the  Confederate  army,  enlisting  in  Company  K,  9th  regi- 
ment, Jackman's  brigade,  of  Shelby's  division,  with  which  he  served 
until  the  close  of  the  war,  in  1865,  when  he  returned  to  Boone  county. 
Soon  after  his  return  he  sold  his  farm  and  bought  the  place  upon 
which  he  now  resides,  five  miles  east  of  Rocheport,  known  as  the 
William  Boggs  farrA,  consisting  of  160  acres.  He  has  four  children  : 
Mollie  D.,  Owen  W.,  Amanda  and  Eliza  B.,  all  of  whom  are  living 
with  their  parents.  Mr.  Cochran  is  in  faith  a  Cumberland  Presby- 
terian. One  son  and  one  daughter,  Owen  and  Amanda,  are  members 
of  the  Baptist  church  at  Sugar  Creek.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Roche- 
port  lodge  of  A.  F.  and  A.  M. 


1024  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

JAMES   NICHOLAS   DARBY. 

James  Nicholas  Darby,  druggist,  Rocheport,  Missouri,  was  born  near 
Fayette,  Missouri,  March  11th,  1855.  He  was  raised  and  educated  in 
Howard  county.  He  remained  with  his  parents,  IraC.  and  Kittle  (^nee 
Long)  Darby,  for  three  years  after  attaining  his  majority,  working  on 
the  farm.  He  left  home  in  1879  and  came  to  Rocheport  where  he  ap- 
plied himself  to  the  task  of  learmng  the  apothecary's  business  with  J. 
R.  Moss.  In  1880  he  bought  out  his  employer  and  established  him- 
self in  the  business.  In  the  fall  of  1881  he  sold  a  half  interest  to  Dr. 
E.  H.  Chinn,  an  old  school-mate,  who  was  born  and  reared  in  the 
same  neighborhood  as  himself.  The  business  is  now  conducted  under 
the  firm  name  of  Darby  &  Chinn.  Mr.  Darby  is  an  energetic  business 
man  and  has  a  host  of  friends,  both  in  Boone  and  Howard.  His  part- 
ner is  a  popular  young  physician  who  is  rapidly  building  up  a  large 
and  substantial  practice.  The  firm  has  the  confidence  and  good-will 
of  the  public  and  their  future  is  bright  and  promising. 

JOHN    SAMUEL   DENHAM. 

John  S.  Denham,  farmer  and  stock  raiser,  was  born  near  the  Model 
Farm,  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  June  18th,  1845.  His  father, 
Samuel  Denham,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  cam^  to  this  State  in  1830, 
and  settled  in  Boone  county.  He  lived  at  intervals  in  both  Boone 
and  Howard,  but  finally  settled  permanently  in  this  county,  where  he 
died  in  1872,  at  the  age  of  73.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  raised 
in  the  vicinity  of  his  birthplace,  and  received  his  education  at,  private 
schools  in  the  neighborhood  and  at  Lathrop  Academy  and  Central 
College,  Fayette.  In  1863  he  attended  Jones*  Commercial  College, 
taking  a  full  course.  He  afterwards  taught  mathematics  in  that 
institution.  In  1865  he  was  employed  as  book-keeper  by  the  firm  of 
Hume,  Park  &  Co.,  Columbia,  Missouri,  remaining  with  them  two 
•  years.  He  kept  books  for  Clayton,  Miller  &  Co.,  Rocheport, 
Missouri,  from  1867  to  1878.  Leaving  this  firm  in  1878,  he  returned 
to  the  old  homestead  where  he  farmed  for  one  year.  In  1869  he 
began  teaching.  He  taught  one  year  at  Lathrop  Academy  and  three 
years  at  Walnut  Grove  Academy.  His  father  dying  in  1872,  he  was 
obliged  to  abandon  teaching  and  take  charge  of  the  estate.  He  was 
married,  October  3d,  1871,  to  Miss  Meribah,  daughter  of  David  Isaacs, 
of  Howard  county.  They  have  three  children :  Butler,  Mattie  Lou 
and  Katy.     Mr.  Denham  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Walnut 


/  <  HISTORY  OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  1025 

3-rove  Baptist  church,  of  which  he  is  treasurer.  In  1874  he  purchased 
;he  old  homestead  of  400  acres,  upon  which  he  now  lives.  He  makes 
cattle  and  sheep  raising  a  specialty.  His  cattle  are  short-horns,  and 
yf  registered  pedigrees.  His  sheep  are  thoroughbred  Cotswold, 
imported  from  Canada  in  1876. 

BENJAMIN   F.    DIMITT^ 

Mr.  Dimitt  is  a  Kentuckian,  and  was  born  in  Bourbon  county,  that 
State,  January  19th,  1828.  He  continued  to  reside  in  his  native 
county  till  he  was  sixteen  years  old,  when  he  removed  with  his  parents 
to  Howard  county,  Indiana.  In  1847  he  came  out  to  Missouri  and,  at 
the  age  of  nineteen,  began  life  for  himself  as  a  teacher.  Subsequently, 
in  1851,  he  attended  Central  College  atsFayette,  Howard  county, 
Missouri,  and  was  for  some  time  a  student  of  that  institution.  In 
1852  he  was  employed  to  teach  in  the  preparatory  department  of  that 
college,  and  was  there  till  his  coming  to  Rocheport,  thiis  county,  the 
succeeding  year.  Here,  again,  he  engaged  in  teaching  for  a  year,  and 
then  established  himself  in  the  drug  business  in  the  same  town.  This 
was  in  1854,  and  he  has  continued  in  the  same  line  ever  since.  In 
1864,  when  the  militia  burned  part  of  the  town  of  Rocheport,  Mr. 
Dimitt's  store  was  burned,  as,  being  a  Southern  sympathizer,  he  could 
not,  of  course,  escape  that  disaster.  On  the  20th  of  October,  1852, 
he  married  Miss  Sarah  E.  McDonald,  of  Howard  county,  Missouri. 
They  have  three  living  children  :  Emma,  wife  of  Professor  Singleton, 
principal  of  the  Orange  College,  Texas  ;  Frank  C,  clerk  in  his  father's 
store;  and  Dixie  L.,  still  living  with  her  father.  Mr.  Dimitt  and  wife 
are  both  members  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  South,  and  he  also  belongs  to 
the  Masonic  fraternity,  with  membership  in  Rocheport  lodge.  No.  67, 
A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

JAMES   MONROE    DOUGLASS. 

James  Monroe  Douglass  is  the  youngest  son  of  Henry  L.  and  Susan 

(Jacobs)  Douglass,  pioneer  settlers  of  Boone  county.     He  was  born 

on  the  Douglass  homestead,  where  he  now  lives,  March  9th,  1852. 

H^8  father  bequeathed  the  home  place  to  him^n  1882,  a  short  time 

previous  to  his  death,  in  consideration  oi  the  latter's  maintenance  of 

bis  widowed  mother  and  invalid  sister.     He  is  a  thrifty  farmer,  and  is 

held  in  high  esteem  by  his  neighbors.     His  father,  Henry  L.  Douglass, 

deceased,  was  born  in  St.  Louis  county,  Missouri,  February  15th, 

1810,  where  he  lived  with  his  parents  until  he  was  ten  years  old, 

when  they  came  to  Boone  county  and  settled  at  Locust  Grove,  now 
65 


1026  HlflTORT   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.     , 

known  as  Midway,  where  he  was  raised.  He  remained  with  hi» 
parents  until  his  marriage  to  Miss  Susan  Jacobs,  December  20th, 
1832,  when  he  commenced  working  for  himself  as  a  farmer,  having 
purchased  a  small  farm  on  Perche  Creek,  near  where  the  Columbia 
and  Rocheport  road  crosses  that  stream.  He  remained  on  this  farm 
until  1837,  when  he  purchased  the  homestead  now  occupied  by  his 
son,  James  Monroe,  containing  480  acres,  four  miles  southeast  of 
Rocheport,  where  he  lived  until  his  death,  March  27th,  1882.  Mrs. 
Douglass  survives  him.  They  have  six  living  children:  William  G. 
and  Joseph  A.,  farmers,  of  Missouri  township  ;  Virgie,  wife  of  C.  M. 
Boggs,  and  Lizzie,  wife  of  C.  G.  Boggs,  both  of  Missouri  township, 
and  Fannie  and  James,  who  are  living  on  the  home  place.  Mr. 
Douglass  bad,  by  rare  energy  and  good  management,  accumulated 
considerable  property.  He  was  charitable  and  generous,  a  kiud 
neighbor  and  a  devoted  Christian,  being  for  many  years  a  member  of 
the  Locust  Grove  Methodist  Church  South.  He  united  with  the 
church  in  1837. 

JOHN     DODSON. 

Mr.  Dodsou  is  a  native  of  Missouri,  and  was  bom  in  Howard 
county,  near  New  Franklin,  September  7th,  1842.  He  continued  to 
reside  with  his  parents  till  he  was  nineteen,  receiving  his  education 
in  the  schools  of  New  Franklin,  and  at  Central  College,  in  Fayette. 
On  leaving  home,  in  1861,  he  went  to  Springfield,  Illinois,  where  he 
was  variously  employed  till  1866,  when  he  returned  to  Missouri,  locat- 
ing at  Rocheport.  Here  he  was  employed,  in  1868,  as  a  clerk  in  the 
store  of  J.  W.  Morris,  remaining  with  him  till  1870.  He  was  then 
taken  in  by  his  employer  as  a  partner  in  the  concern,  George  Calvert 
also  coming  in,  the  style  being  **  Dodson,  Calvert  &  Co."  They  dis- 
continued the  business  in  1872,  and  Mr.  Dodson  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  William  M.  Ridgeway  for  the  grocery  business,  in  which 
line  they  continued  at  Rocheport  till  1876.  They  then  sold  out  and 
went  into  the  livery  business,  in  which  they  are  still  engaged,  running 
a  daily  stage  line  to  Columbia.  Mr.  Dodson  was  married,  December 
18th,  1863,  to  Miss  Clara  Wheeler,  daughter  of  Henderson  Wheeler, 
one  of  the  oldest  settlers  of  Boone  county.  They  have  one  child,  a 
daughter,  named  Annie.  Himself  and  wife  are  both  members  of  the 
Christian  Church,  and  he  oelongs,  also,  to  the  Boone  lodge.  No.  121, 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  which  he  has  "  passed  through  all  the  chairs,"  and 
is  now  the  treasurer. 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE    COUNTY.  1027 

REUBEN   ELLIOTT,   SEN.,   DECEASED. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Boone 
county.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  at  the  age  of  nine- 
teen participated  in  the  battle  of  New  Orleans.  In  1818  he  was  mar- 
ried to  Elizabeth  White,  who,  like  himself,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky. 
The  year  after  their  marriage  they  emigrated  to  Missouri,  settling  in 
Boone  county.  At  first  he  rented  a  portion  of  the  land  now  included 
in  the  Model  Farm,  where  he  remained  until  1828,  when  he  bought  a 
farm  on  Callaham's  creek,  where  he  lived  for  five  years.  In  1833 
he  purchased  the  old  Elliott  homestead,  containing  217  acres,  situ- 
ated on  the  Columbia  and  Rocheport  turnpike,  two  miles  east  of  Roche- 
port.  Here  he  remained  until  his  death,  which  occurred  September 
25th,  1869.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  sixty-four  years  old. 
Mr.  Elliott  was  a  stone  mason,  and  is  said  to  have  built  the  first  stone 
house  ever  erected  in  Boone  county.  This  dwelling  was  built  for 
Joseph  Little,  in  1828,  and  is  still  standing.  He  also  built,  for  Dr. 
George  Wilcox,  the  first  brick  house  in  Rocheport.  In  1831  he 
crossed  the  plains  to  Mexico  with  wagons,  carrying  dry  goods  and 
groceries  to  Santa  Fe.  He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the 
Walnut  Grove  Baptist  Church,  remaining  a  faithful  member  of  thfe 
congregation  up  to  the  day  of  his  death. 

ISHMAEL   y.    EVANS. 

Ishmael  V.  Evans  is  the  son  of  Willis  G.  and  Jane  M.  (Vanhorn) 
Evans,  and  was  born  near  Rocheport,  Missouri,  August  3d,  1858. 
He  was  reared  on  the  farm,  and  educated  at  the  common  schools  of 
the  neighborhood,  completing  his  studies  at  the  Rocheport  Academy. 
He  resides  on  the  home  place,  and  supports  his  widowed  mother,  his 
father  having  died  in  1869.  Mr.  Evans  has,  by  his  excellent  manage- 
ment of  the  farm  and  sincere  devotion  to  his  mother,  sister  and 
younger  brothers,  won  for  himself  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  all 
who  are  familiar  with  his  labors.  Willis  Evans,  father  of  Ishmael  V., 
was  born  in  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  May  28th,  1818.  When  two 
years  old  his  parents  came  to  Missouri,  and  settled  on  a  farm  in 
Howard  county,  where  his  father  died  two  years  afterwards.  Willis 
was  then  taken  by  his  uncle,  Stephen  G.  Evans,  with  whom  he  lived 
until  he  reached  manhood.  December  14th,  1842,  he  married  Miss 
Jane  M.,  daughter  of  Ishmael  and  Evaline  Vanhorn,  of  Boone  county. 
After  his  marriage  he  settled  upon  the  farm  upon  which  his  son,  Ish- 


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1028  HISTORY   or  BOONE   COUNTT. 

mael  V.,  now  lives,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life,  dying 
January  19th,  1869.  He  left  eight  children  :  Alice,  wife  of  John  W. 
Carlisle,  of  Columbia;  Edward  H.,  a  physician  of  Boonville,  Mis- 
souri; John  G.,  of  Fayette,  Missouri;  Ella,  wife  of  Fielding  W. 
Angell,  of  Missouri  township,  and  Ishmael  V.,  who  is  conducting  the 
farm  and  caring  for  his  mother,  Eva,  Luther  and  Robert,  all  of  whom 
are  living  on  the  home  place.  At  the  time  of  his  death  Mr.  Evans 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church  South  at  Locust  Grove. 

OEOROE  BRYANT  FORBI8. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  one  among  the  oldest  citizens  of  Boone 
county.  He  was  born  near  Lexington,  Kentucky,  December  28th, 
1799.  When  in  his  thirteenth  year,  his  parents  removed  to  Kentucky, 
where  he  lived  until  his  nineteenth  year,  when  he  began  to  do  for  him- 
self by  teaching  school,  which  he  followed  continuously  for  fifteen 
years.  He  was  married,  August  13th,  1835,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Wilcox, 
sister  of  the  late  Dr.  George  B.  Wilcox,  of  Rocheport.  Mrs.  Forbis 
is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Daniel  Boone,  the  pioneer  hero  of  '^  the  dark 
and  bloody  ground."  She  was  bom  in  Shelby  county,  Kentucky,  in 
1£10,  where  she  lived  with  her  parents,  John  and  Sarah  (Boone) 
Wilcox,  until  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Forbis  in  1835.  They  emigrated 
to  Missouri  in  1836,  amving  in  Rocheport  November  19th.  Soon 
after  his  arrival  Mr.  Forbis  purchased  the  farm  upon  which  he  now  re- 
sides. It  consists  of  212  acres  and  has  been  cultivated  by  him  con- 
tinuously ever  since  it  passed  into  his  possession.  He  has  been  from 
early  manhood  a  consistent  member  of  the  Primitive  Baptist  church. 
When  he  came  to  Missouri  he  united  with  the  Missionary  Baptist 
church  at  Walnut  Grove,  as  there  was  no  congregation  of  Primitive 
Baptists  then  within  his  reach.  In  1871  he  withdrew  from  the  Walnut 
Grove  church  and  together  with  his  wife  assisted  in  the  organization 
of  the  Zoar  Primitive  Baptist  church  in  Howard  county.  He  has  been 
clerk  of  this  church  ever  since  its  organization.  He  is  an  ardent  de- 
voted Christian  and  a  firm  believer  in  the  Calvinistic  tenets  of  the  Old 
School  Baptist  denomination.  They  have  eight  living  children  :  Sarah, 
wife  of  Joel  H.  Challes  ;  Mary,  relict  of  the  late  A.  J.  Barnett ;  Harriet 
W. ;  George  W.  ;  Eliza,  wife  of  George  W.  Thompson ;  Emma ;  John 
E.,  of  Oregon,  and  William  P.,  who  still  remains  on  the  homestead 
and  superintends  the  farm.  George  W.  was  considerably  wounded 
by  the  bursting  of  a  shell,  while  serving  in  the  Confederate  army  at 
Pea  Ridge.     He  was  afterwards  taken  prisoner  at  Port  Gibson  and 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1029 

was  incarcerated  at  Alton  until  released  on  parole.  Mr.  Forbis  is  a 
zealous  advocate  of  popular  education.  He  served  as  school  director 
in  his  district  from  1840  to  1860. 

HENRY   HARRISON   GARTH. 

Mr.  Garth  is  another  citizen  who  can  boast  of  having  been  **  to  the 
manner  born."  He  is  the  son  of  Jefferson  and  Mary  Garth,  old  resi- 
dents of  the  county,  and  was  born  in  Columbia,  May  5th,  1841.  He 
was  reared  in  his  native  town  and  educated  in  the  University  there. 
His  first  business  experience  was  that  of  clerk  for  Stone  &  Son  in  the 
dry  goods  business  in  Columbia.  In  May,  1865,  he  went  to  Roche- 
port  and  engaged  in  the  grocery  business,  and  is  still  in  the  same  line 
of  business  at  the  same  place.  On  the  9th  of  October,  1862,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Bhodie  Turner,  of  which  union  there  has  been  born  one 
child,  a  daughter,  named  Lizzie.  Mr.  Garth  belongs  to  Boone  lodge ,^ 
No.  121,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  is  an  honored  citizen  of  Rocheport. 

LEOPOLD    GROSSMAN. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  son  of  Francis  and  Frederica  Gross- 
man, and  was  born  in  Baden,  Germany,  November  15th,  1817.  His 
father  was  proprietor  of  a  mill,  and  Leopold  learned  the  trade  of 
miller,  having  been  reared  to  that  vocation  from  earjy  boyhood.  At 
the  age  of  seventeen,  he  was  "  turned  out  "  for  two  years  to  learn  the 
art  of  baking,  so  that  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  he  found  himself  master 
of  two  trades — tbbse  of  a  miller  and  baker.  He  then  bes:an  travelino: 
in  these  vocations,  operating  as  a  journeyman  worker  in  first  one  and 
then  the  other  of  them,  traveling  in  Germany  and  France  for  some 
years.  While  thus  engaged,  he  operated  in  Heidleberg,  Stuttgart, 
Vienna,  Strasburg,  and  many  other  great  cities,  all  of  which  tended 
to  expand  his  mind  and  give  him  a  knowledge  of  the  business  world. 
In  1840,  Mr.  Grossman  came  to  the  United  States,  arriving  in  New 
Orleans  on  Christmas  of  that  year.  He  proceeded  to  Ohio,  and  was 
there  employed  about  three  months  in  a  grist  mill.  Then  he  and  his 
ancle,  Albright  Breslaw,  went  to  Fayetteville,  Arkansas,  where  they 
erected  a  grist  and  sawmill.  Here  Mr.  G.  remained  about  one  year 
when  he  left  and  went  to  St.  Charles,  Missouri,  where  he  had  relatives 
from  the  old  country.  Eenting  a  farm,  he  began  farming  in  St. 
Charles  county,  and  was  there  married  on  the  19th  of  August,  1842, 
to  Miss  Melinda  Wokely.  In  the  fall  following,  he  rented  a  sawmill 
near  St.  Charles,  and  followed    «« lumbering  "  till  1844,  when  he  was 


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1030  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

forced  to  abandon  it  because  of  ill  health.     He  came  to  Rocheport,  in 
this  county,  in  the  spring  and  here  engaged  in  the  bakery  business  on 
Water  street,  which  he  operated  successfully  till   December,  1845, 
when  he  sold  out  and  returned  to  St.  Charles,  his  wife  being  dissatis- 
fied with  Rocheport.     There  he  purchased  the  sawmill  he  had  form- 
erly rented,  and  ran  it  until  May,  '48.     He  then  sold  out  and  once 
more  returned  to  Boone  county,  and  has  been  a  citizen  here  ever  since. 
Again  starting  his  bakery,  he  continued  thus  until  1858,  when  he  pur- 
chased a  farm  near  Rochepoi*t,  and  began  operating  it  with  slaves,  of 
which  he   owned  a   considerable  number.     He  still  owns  the  farm. 
After  one  year  he  returned  to  town,  and  began  the  general  merchan- 
dise business  with  William  West,  firm  style  of  West  &  Grossman.    At 
this  time  he  had  amassed  considerable  property.     But  now  came  the 
period  of  reverses,  among  which  was  the  payment  of  one  security 
debt  to  the  amount  of  $4,000.     About  the  same  time  the  war  broke 
out,  paralyzing  business,  and  Mr.  G.  did  but  little  till  1863,  when  he 
and  Geo.  W.  Gregory  opened  up  the  bakery  and  grocery  business, 
which  they  continued  successfully  till  1871.     During  this  time  they 
built  two  large  store  houses,  and  a  warehouse.     Mr.  Grossman  still 
carries  on  this  business,  Gregory  having  retired  from  the  firm.    In 
1875,  Mr.  G.  and  Mr.  Champion  built  the ««  Monitor  Mills  "  in  Roche- 
port, which  they  still  own.     He  has  four  living  children:  Houston; 
Josephine,  wife  of    Dr.    Edward  Evans,    of   Boonville ;  Eliza,   and 
Annie,  wife  of  Dr.  Chinn,  of  Rocheport.     Mr.  Grossman    has  done 
much  to  build  up  and  keep  up  the  trade  of  Rocheport,  and  to  improve 
the  town.     He  has  been    a  member  of  the  town  board    for   twenty 
years,  about    half    that    time    serving     as   town    mayor.     He   was 
elected  president  of  the  savings  bank  in  1878,  and  is  still  in  connec- 
tion therewith.     He  belongs  to  the  Rocheport  lodge  of  A.  F.  &  A. 
M.,  and  is  one  of  the  most  esteemed  citizens  of  the  place. 

GEN.    STEWART   B.    HATTON. 

Gen.  Stewart  B.  Hatton,  one  of  the  oldest  pioneers  of  Boone 
county  and  a  man  of  distinguished  natural  ability,  popularity  and 
influence,  is  the  tenth  son  and  fourteenth  child  of  Reuben  and  Joan 
(Beleau)  Hatton.  His  father  was  born  in  1762,  of  English  parents, 
being  one  of  the  third  generation  after  the  removal  from  England. 
He  was  born  and  raised  to  the  age  of  nineteen  years  in  Amelia 
county,  Virginia,  receiving  an  excellent  common  school  education. 
At  the  breakins:  out  of  the  revolutionarv  war,  he  entered  the  American 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE  COUNTY.  1031 

army,  being  at  the  time  but  nineteen  years  of  age.     He  was  at  the 
battles   of  Guilford  Court  House   and   Eutaw  Springs,  also   in   the 
disastrous  engagement   with  Lord   Rawdon.     The  close  of  the  war 
found  him  in  South  Carolina.     Being  charmed  with  the  country  and 
the  climate,  he  resolved  to  remain  in  the  south.     Having  learned  the 
hatter's  trade   with   his  father   before   the   war,    he    applied   for   a 
situation,   &nd   was   employed   by   a   Frenchman   named    Beleau,  a 
descendant  of  a  Huguenot  family,  of  South  Carolina,  whose  wife  was 
of  the  same  faith  and  nativity.     This  proved  an  important  epoch  in 
the  life  of  Reuben  Hatton.     He  made  love  to  his  employer's  daughter 
and  was  accepted.     In  the  course  of  time  they  were  married,  and  the 
well-matched  couple  lived  happily  together  as  man  and  wife  for  over 
half  a  century.     Their  large  family,  with  but  two  exceptions,  lived  to 
old   age  and  left   large  families  of  their  own.     The  descendants   of 
Seuben  and  Joan  Hatton  now  number  over  a  thousand  souls,  and  are 
ficattered  over  almost  the  entire  South  and  West.     After  his  marriage, 
!^uben  Hatton  remained  for  several  years  in  South  Carolina.     His 
three  oldest   children   were   born   in   that   State.     Having  heard  of 
Daniel  Boone's  exploits  in  Kentucky,  he  joined  one  of  the  bands  of 
emigrants  which  that  daring  hunter  piloted  through  the  wilderness  to 
one   of  his  settlements  on  the  Kentucky  river.     They  were  several 
months  on  the  road.     Reuben  Hatton  settled  on  a  fine  body  of  land 
near  what  was  afterwards  known  as  Foxtown,  in  Madison  county.     He 
built   him  a  good  house  and  a  hatter's  shop.     Several  of  his  sons 
learned  the  trade,  and  they  did  a  good  business.     Real  estate  having 
rapidly  inci*eased  in  value,  Reuben  Hatton  found  that  he  could  not 
settle  all  of  his  largefamily  on  homes  of  their  oii^n  in  Madison  county, 
and  he  resolved  to  emigrate  to  Missouri.     Two  of  his  sons,  Mitchel' 
and  William,  having  volunteered  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  having  been 
sent  west  to  protect  the  frontier,  wrote  Back  to  their  parents  to  sell 
out  and  remove  to  Missouri,  describing  it  as  the  finest  country  they 
had  ever  seen.     Reuben  Hatton  was  pleased  with  the  idea,  and,  having 
disposed  of  his  home  in  Kentucky,  removed  to  St.   Louis  couilty, 
Missouri,  in  1814,  when  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  but  three  years 
old,  he  having  been  born  in  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  February  5th, 
1811.     They  remained  in  St.  Louis  county  nearly  three  years,  where 
Mitchell  Hatton,  the  fourth  son,  was  married.     His  wife  was  Anna 
Whitesides,  a  niece  of  Gen.  Whitesides,  under  whom  he  had  served 
during  a  portion  of  the  war  of  1812,  and  after  whom  Whitesides 
<K)unty,  Illinois,  was  afterwards  named.     Mitchell  Hatton  died  on  his 


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1032  HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTY. 

farm  in  Boone  county,  now  occupied  by  his  son,  Fleming  B.  Hatton, 
March,  1863,  aged  sixty-seven.     He  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  for 
twenty  years,  and  never  had  but  three  cases  reversed  by  the  circuit 
court.     Seven  children  were  born  to  him,  only  three  of  whom  are  now 
living:  Mrs.  Hester  Ann  Hatton,  Fleming  B.  and  John  W.  Hatton. 
Reuben  Hatton  came  to  Boone  county  in  1817,  and  settled  on  a  farm 
near  Midway.     It  is  claimed  for  him  that  he  built  the  first  house  in  the 
county  that  was  covered  with  shingles.     However  doubtful  this  may 
be,  there  cannot  be  the  least  shadow  of  doubt  that  he  established  the 
first  nursery  of  fruit  trees,  having  brought  his  stock  with  him  from 
Kentucky  to  St.  Louis,  and  from  St.  Louis  to  Boone  county.     Gen. 
Hatton  commenced  life  for  himself  ^  a  hatter,  having  a  shop  near 
Midway,  in  Boone  county.     He  afterwards  bought  the  Dixon  water- 
mill  on  the  Callaham,  and  removed  to  the  place  vacated  by  Mr.  Dixon. 
He  was  married,  April  5th,  1834,  to  Alitha  Barnes,  daughter  of  Amos 
Barnes,  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  volume.     He  was  married  by 
''  old  uncle  Jimmie  Barnes,"  a  pioneer  preacher  and  an  uncle  of  Mrs. 
Hatton.     Three  children  were  born  of  this  Inarriage,  one  son  and  two- 
daughters.      The    youngest,   Mrs.    Wilcox,    is    dead.      The    eldest 
daughter,  Mrs.  Jackson  Yeager,  is  living  on  a  cotton  plantation  in 
Arkansas.     The  oldest  child.  Rev.  William  A.  Hatton,  is. pastor  of  the 
Baptist  church  at  Memphis,  Missouri.     The  eldest  daughter  has  been 
twice  married.     Her  first  husband  was  George  W.  Milhollen,  who  was 
killed  in  Linn  county,  Missouri,  during  the  late  war.     From  earlj 
manhood  to  middle  age,  Gen.  Hatton  was  continually  in  ofiice,  mostly 
in  the  militia.     He  has  held  every  military  office  from  first  sergeant  ta 
brigadier-general.     In   1850  he  wag  elected  to  the  legislature.     He 
served  in  the  Black  Hawk  and  Mormon  wars,  and  took  an  active  part 
in  the  late  civil  war,  being  commissioned  to  raise,  organize  and  send 
forward  troops  to  Price's  army.     He  assisted  in  organizing  the  forces 
that  were  taken  south  bv  Gens.   Green  and  Harris.     He  was  with 
Gen.  Harris  at  the  Fulton  fight,  and  planned  the  ambuscade  by  which 
Harris  was   enabled  to   get  out  of  a  very  close  place,  after  inflicting 
severe  loss  on  the  enemy.     Their  orders  were  not  to  fire  a  gun  if  it 
could  be  avoided,  but  it  became  necessary  to  strike  terror  into  the 
hearts  of  his  pursuers.     It  was  through  his  advice  that  Jeff.  Jones 
was  enabled  to  dictate  his  own  terms  to  Gen.  Henderson,  who  had  a 
much  larger  force.     During  the  trouble*  in  Kansas  in  1856,  he  raised 
a  company  of  men  and  went  to  the  assistance  of  the  pro-slavery  party, 
but  the  difficulty  was  settled  without  serious  bloodshed.     During  the 


HI8TOBT   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1033 

latter  part  of  the  late  war,  he  was  taken  prisoner.  He  was  soon 
released,  however,  but  was  again  arrested  and  kept  a  close  prisoner 
until  near  the  close  of  the  war.  He  was  severely  blamed  by  some  of 
his  own  party  for  not  joining  the  regular  army,  but  in  remaining  north 
of  the  river,  he  was  but  obeying  positive  orders  from  Gen.  Price,  who 
sent  couriers  through  to  him  every  few  weeks.  Had  he  not  been 
ordered  to  remain,  he  would  certainly  have  gone  to  the  front  and 
remained  there.  .  He  always  advised  against  fighting  on  this  side  of 
the  river,  so  long  as  it  could  be  avoided,  and  in  so  doing  he  was  but 
obeying  the  written  instructions  received  from  Gen.  Price,  and 
reiterated  from  time  to  time.  The  labors  of  Gen.  Hatton  in  behalf 
of  the  South  are  not  historical,  but  are  none  the  less  sincere  and 
effective  on  that  account.  He  is  a  Mason  and  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Church. 

WILLIAM    DOUGLASS    HENDERSON. 

William  Douglass  Henderson,  one  of  the  most  substantial  farmers 
in  the  vicinity  of  Midway,  was  born  at  a  place  called  Big  Muddy,  in 
Illinois,  October  29th,  1817,  while  his  parents  were  en  route  from 
Kentucky  to  Missouri.  In  the  month  of  Noveufber  following  his 
parents  reached  Florissant,  St.  Louis  county,  Missouri,  where  they 
remained  during  the  winter.  In  the  spring  of  1818  his  father  came 
to  Boone  county,  and  purchased  the  land  now  known  as  the  Hen- 
derson homestead,  containing  306  acres,  situated  near  Midway.  Mr. 
Henderson  was  raised  on  this  farm.  The  opportunities  for  obtaining 
an  education  at  this  time  and  place  were  poor  indeed.  The  subject  of 
this  sketch  had  no  other  instruction  than  such  as  could  be  obtained 
by  attending  subscription  schools  for  a  few  months  of  the  year,  usually 
in  mid-winter.  In  1836,  his  father's  health  failing,  he  took  control 
of  the  farm  and  managed  it  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1843. 
The  farm  having  been  willed  to  Mrs.  Henderson,  he  remained  with 
her  until  her  death,  in  1871.  Previous  to  his  mother's  death,  Mr. 
Henderson  had  purchased  the  interest  of  the  other  heirs,  and  so  be- 
came sole  proprietor  of  the  old  homestead.  During  the  late  civil  war, 
Mr.  Henderson  was  avowedly  Southern  in  sentiment,  and  suffered 
financially  for  his  principles,  notwithstanding  he  took  no  part  in  the 
struggle.  Mr.  Henderson  has  been  twice  married.  His  first  wife 
was  Miss  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Warren  Leonard,  of  Boone  county, 
Missouri,  to  whom  he  was  married  March  29th,  1845.  By  this  mar- 
riage he  has  five  living  children.     His  oldest  daughter,  Sarah  C,  is 


1034  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

the  wife  of  Charlie  Hance,  clerk  of  the  Randolph  county  court. 
John  C.  is  married  and  is  living  on  a  farm  in  the  neighborhood  of 
Midway.  Agnes  is  the  wife  of  R.  P.  Jones,  of  Moberly,  Missouri. 
Nora  and  Richard  are  still  living  at  home.  Mr.  Henderson  was  again 
married  April  2d,  1868,  to  Mrs.  Arcena  Thurston,  of  Midway.  She 
died  April  7th,  1877/  Mr.  Henderson  has  been  an  active  member  of 
the  Methodist  Church  for  forty  years.  He  has  been  class-leader 
since  1844,  and  has  served  as  steward  and  Sunday  school  superin- 
tendent for  the  same  length  of  time.  His  house  is  one  of  the  old 
landmarks  of  Boone  county.  It  was  the  first  tavern  established  on 
the  stage  route  between  Columbia  and  Fayette,  and  was  the  voting 
place  for  Missouri  township  from  its  organization  up  to  1840. 

BRANUM   HERN. 

Branum  Hern  is  entitled  to  the  distinction  of  .being  one  among  the 
first  settlers  of  Boone  county.  Many  came  at  as  early  a  date,  and 
some  were  here  earlier,  but  perhaps  not  one  in  a  thousand  of  those 
old  pioneers,  take  the  county  and  State  over,  are  alive  to-day. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Madison  county,  Kentucky, 
December  23d,  1812,  and  when  a  lad  of  seven  years  came  with  his 
parents  to  Missouri,  arriving  in  old  Franklin,  January  6th,  1819. 
They  did  not  tarry  long  at  that  place,  coming  to  Boone  county  within 
the  same  month  of  their  arrival  in  Howard  —  but  there  was  no  dis- 
tinction in  those  days,  all  the  country  of  Central  Missouri  being  then 
known  as  Howard  county.  He  lived  with  his  parents  until  he  was 
seventeen,  when  he  began  to  provide  for  himself.  His  father  being  a 
mechanic,  he  became  one  naturally.  He  was,  even  at  the  age  of  seven- 
teen, very  skillful  as  a  wheel-wright,  and  found  plenty  of  work,  making 
spinning  wheels,  and  turning  bed-posts,  for  the  people  in  those  days 
depended  almost  exclusively  upon  their  own  mechanics  for  furniture, 
and  the  necessary  appliances  for  spinning  and  weaving,  there  being  as 
yet  but  little  communication  with  the  outer  world.  He  worked  in  the 
shops  until  1833,  when  he  turned  his  attention  exclusively  to  farming. 
In  1839  he  purchased  a  tract  of  land  containing  120  acres,  six  and  one- 
half  miles  northeast  of  Rocheport,  of  which  he  has  made  the  farm  upon 
which  he  now  lives.  He  has  been  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was 
Emeline,  daughter  of  John  Barnes.  They  were  married  in  January, 
1833.  His  second  wife  was  Lucy,  daughter  of  George  Crump.  They 
wore  married  in  September,  1859.  By  the  first  marriage  there  are 
four  living  children:  Mary  Ann,  relict  of  the  the  late  John  Hunter; 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE  feOUNTY.  1035 

Habbard,  of  Kansas ;  William,  of  Bates  county,  Missouri,  and   Sally, 
wife  of  Armstead  Gramard,  also  of  Bates  county. 

GEORGE   HINTON   HILL. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  James  A.  and  Sarah  H.  Hill, 
the  latter  being  a  daughter  of  Dr.  George  B.  Wilcox,pioneer  physician 
of  Boone  county.  George  was  born  in  Rocheport,  September  4th, 
1847,  and  was  reared  and  partially  educated  in  the  same  town.  When 
fifteen  years  old,  he  began  to  learn  the  blacksmith's  trade  with  Hen- 
derson Wheeler,at  Rocheport,with  whom  he  worked  several  years,  still 
making  his  home  with  his  parents.  At  the  close  of  his  apprenticeship 
he  went  to  Greencastle,  Indiana,  where,  after  working  at  his  trade  for 
A  short  time,  he  started  in  to  learn  the  harness-making.  He  held  on 
a  year,  but  found  that  close  confinement  was  impairing  his  health. 
For  the  sake  of  change  he  worked  on  a  farm  near  Greencastle  for  two 
jrears,  during  which  he  had  the  misfortune  to  have  bis  leg  broken  by  a 
runaway  team.  Returning  then  to  Rocheport,  on  his  recovery,  in 
1870,  he  made  his  home  with  his  mother,  his  father  having  died  during 
bis  absence.  A  year  later  he  moved  on  a  farm  near  Columbia,  which 
he  worked  two  years,  when  he  returned  to  Rocheport.  After  working 
awhile  for  his  uncle,  Judge  Hinton,  he  was  engaged  by  Mr.  Wheeler 
to  run  his  shop  in  Rocheport.  A  year  later  he  associated  himself  with 
H.  F.  Williams  in  blacksmithing.  They  continued  in  that  business 
till  this  writing.  Mr.  Hill  was  married  on  the  24th  of  March,  187i8, 
to  Miss  Georgia  Crump,  of  Rocheport.  She  died  September  20th, 
1879,  having  borne  one  child,  a  son,  named  George,  born  September 
18th,  1879.  Mr.  Hill  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church,  and  his 
wife,  at  her  death,  belonged  to  the  Baptist  church.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  Rocheport  Lodge  No.  147,  I.  O.  G.  T.,  of  which  he  is  record- 
ing secretary. 

WILLIAM   HULETT. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  Eentuckian,  and  was  born  in  Mercer 
<50unty,  June  15th,  1830.  His  parents,  Edward  and  Rebecca  Hulett, 
moved  tb  this  State  in  1832,  and  settled  in  Rocheport,  Boone  county, 
where  William  was  reared.  He  began  learning  the  saddler's  and  har- 
ness-maker's trades  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  his  **  boss"  being  Mr. 
Henry  Tumy,  with  whom  he  not  only  mastered  the  art,  but  worked 
for  him  eight  years  after  he  had  learned  it  and  become  a  skilled  work- 
man. In  1856,  he  went  to  Sturgeon,  this  county,  and  opened  up  in 
the  business  for  himself,  where   he  remained  till  1860.     Returning  to 


1036  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Bocheport,  he  did  not  again  go  into  business,  as  the  war  was  upon  us,, 
and  no  one  could  tell  what  the  end  would  be.  In  1862,  Mr.  Hulett 
enlisted  in  company  A,  of  Col.  Poindexter's  regiment  of  Confederates, 
and  served  eighteen  months,  when  he  was  discharged  on  account  of 
bad  health,  and  allowed  to  take  his  own  course.  He  was  out  of  busi- 
ness till  the  spring  of  '66,  when  he  started  a  shop  in  Rocheport,  and 
has  so  continued  ever  since.  In  the  fall  of '78,  he  established  the 
livery  business  in  connection  with  his  harness  shop,  and  does  a  sub- 
stantial business  in  both  lines.  Mr.  H.  has  been  twice  married.  His 
first  wife  was  Miss  Zerelda,  daughter  of  William  Phillips,  of  Roche- 
port,  to  whom  he  was  married  in  1852.  She  died  the  following  year, 
and  he  was  again  married,  in  1855,  to  Miss  Judith  Hunt,  daughter  of 
L.  B.  Hunt,  an  old  resident  of  this  county.  Mr.  Hulett  has  five  chil- 
dren: Effie  O.,  (wife  of  Ernest  Granberry),  Daniel  E.,  William  B., 
Pearl  and  Paul .  The  first  named  and  her  mother  belong  to  the  Chris- 
tian church.  Mr.  H.  belongs  to  the  Rocheport  lodge  of  A.  O.  U.  W, 
Early  in  life,  Mr.  Hulett  had  the  misfortune  to  contract  the  habit  and 
love  of  strong  drink  ;  and  though  he  made  money  rapidly,  he  failed  to 
hold  it,  being  fond  of  jovial  companions  and  the  cup  that  cheers. 
However,  he  was  fortunate  enough  to  see  the  folly  of  such  a  course  of 
dissipation,  and  formed  a  firm  resolve  to  stop  it  then  and  there.  .By 
the  force  of  a  strong  will  he  was  enabled  to  keep  his  resolution,  the 
result  of  which  was  complete  reformation.  Mr.  H.  deserves  much 
credit  for  thus  manfully  conquering  a  depraved  appetite,  which,  alas  I 
so  many  fail  to  do  ;  and  the  historian  records  this  by  permission  of  Mr. 
Hulett,  in  the  hope  that  there  are  ''  foot-prints,  which  perhaps  an- 
other, seeing,  shall  take  heart  again,  "  Since  his  change  of  life,  he 
has  prospered  exceedingly  well.  He  owns  one  of  the  most  pleasant 
residences  in  Rocheport, .  and  his  shop  and  livery  stable  are  models  of 
thrift  and  neatness.  The  rank  that  Mr.  H.  now  occupies  in  business 
and  social  circles,  shows  what  any  man  can  do  who  only  wills, 

COMMODORE   PERRY   HULTZ. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Delaware  county.  New  York, 
September  the  16th,  1813,  and  lived  there  with  his  parents  until  he 
married^^  which  was  on  the  22nd  of  June,  1837,  to  Miss  Acenith  W. 
Armstrong,  of  the  same  county.  He  came  to  Missouri  in  company 
with  his  father  and  on  the  19th  of  July,  1837,  reached  the  watermill 
upon  Perche,  at  Gillaspy's  bridge.  He  shortly  afterwards  moved  to 
the  farm  where  he  lived  the  rest  of  his  life.     He  was  without  means^ 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  1037 

Tirhen  he  arrived  in  Boone  county,  but  by  hard  work  and  dogged  per- 
serverance  he  soon  had  a  farm  of  his  own.  His  brother,  Hamilton  J. 
Hultz,  had  come  out  to  Missouri  the  year  before.  He  is  now  a  prom- 
inent physician  of  Louisville,  Kentucky.  C.  P.  Hultz  was  a  great 
reader  and  kept  his  mind  well  stored  with  literary  *<  good  things.  '* 
Though  no  politician,  he  was  a  ready  and  fluent  speaker  upon  the  cur- 
rent topics  of  the  day.  He  worked  his  way  up  from  a  poor  boy  and  at 
his  death  left  each  of  his  children  a  handsome  property.  He  farmed 
and  traded  in  stock  generally.  He  died  November  12th,  1878,  and 
his  wife  died  June  25th,  1876.  •  She  was  a  member  of  the  Missionary 
Baptist  church  at  Bethel.  They  left  four  ckildren  none  of  whom  are 
married  and  are  all  living  in  this  county.  Marshal  J.  is  living  upon  the 
northeast  quarter  of  section  thirty-four,  township  forty-eight  and 
range  thirteen ;  Manlius  E.  is  living  upon  the  southeast  quarter  of 
section  nine,  township  forty-eight  and  range  thirteen.  Edgar  M. 
and  Virginia  S.  still  live  upon  the  old  homestead.  Manlius  E.,  our 
subject,  was  born  in  Boone  county,  December  10th,  1849.  He 
lived  upon  the  old  home-place  until  the  spring  of  1882,  when  he 
moved  to  his  present  home.  He  was  educated  at  the  University 
going  imtil  he  reached  the  last  year  of  the  course,  when  he  went 
one  year  to  the  Medical  Department.  He  has  a  fine  farm  of  four 
hundred  acres,  and  is  building  a  handsome  residence. 

DANIEL   WEBSTER   HUNT. 

• 

Mr.  Hunt  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  May  16th,  1841,  and 
is  the  son  of  Linnaeus  and  Rebecca  (Brushwood)  Hunt.  He  received 
a  good  common  school  education,  and  grew  to  manhood  in  his  native 
county.  During  the  war  he  travelled  in  New  Mexico,  Colorado,  Ne- 
braska and  Iowa.  He  returned  to  Boone  county  when  the  war  closed, 
and  went  to  farming,  and  has  continued  in  the  business  ever  since. 
He  was  married  February  13th,  1879,  to  Miss  Ejite,  daughter  of  Solo- 
mon and  Pemecia  (Collett)  Stickell.  She  was  born  in  Troy,  Lincoln 
county,  Missouri,  tier  father  was  a  native  of  Maryland,  and  her 
mother  was  born  and  reared  in  Missouri.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hunt  have 
two  children,  both  living,  Nellie  Stickell  and  Robert.  Mrs.  Hunt  is  a 
member  of  the  Christian  Church  at  Rocheport,  and  Mr.  Hunt  is  a 
Mason,  holding  his  membership  at  Rocheport.  He  lives  on  the  north- 
west quarter  of  section  thirty-six,  township  forty-eight  and  range 
fourteen.  He  is  a  very  clever  gentleman,  and  his  house  is  noted 
for  old-time  hospitality. 


1038  HI8TOBY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 


WILLIAM    BURGH   HUNT. 


W.  B.  Hunt  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  September  IStb,. 
1831.  He  is  the  son  of  LinnsBus  and  Rebecca  (Brushwood)  Hunt,  who 
were  born,  reared  and  inarried  in  Fluvanna  county,  Virginia.  They 
came  to  Missouri  in  1821.  Wm.  B.  was  educated  at  the  common 
schools  in  his  father's  neighborhood,  and  grew  to  manhood  upon  the 
place  where  he  was  born.  In  1850  he  and  his  father  went  to  Califor- 
nia, where  his  father  died  in  1851.  ^e  was  married  in  1855,  in  Boone 
county,  Missouri,  to  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Conley.  By 
this  union  they  have  had  six  children,  five  living  and  one  dead.  M. 
Ella  married  John  H.  Alsop,  of  New  Franklin,  Howard  county  ;  Ben- 
jamin B. ;  Laura  F.  married  to  John  F.  Wilhite,  near  Rocheport ; 
Linnaeus  L.,  Sanford  Conley  and  Wm.  B.  (dead).  Mr.  Hunt  has  been 
engaged  in  farming  all  his  life,  save  the  four  years  he  spent  in  Cali- 
fornia in  mining.  He  has  been  until  recently  the  largest  wheat 
grower  in  the  county,  and  in  1882  made  the  largest  yield.  He  has  a 
splendid  farm,  handsomely  kept,  and  showing  unmistakable  signs  of 
thrift  and  culture.  He  raises  corn,  wheat  and  hogs,  making,  how- 
ever, a  specialty  of  wheat.  He  has  sown  the  same  piece  of  land  in 
wheat  for  fourteen  years,  the  last  crop  averaging  twenty-seven  and 
one-half  bushels  to  the  acre.  Mr.  Hunt  is  one  of  Boone*s  represent- 
ative men,  and  one  whom  all  respect. 

MALCOM   DUANE   LEWIS,   M.  D. 

Dr.  Lewis  was  bom  near  Glasgow,  in  Howard  county,  Missouri, 
July  24th,  1846.  He  is  the  second  of  three  sons  of  John  L.  and 
Mary  E.  Lewis,  who  moved  to  a  place  near  Rocheport,  in  Boone 
county,  in  1851,  and  located  in  Rocheport  in  1853.  In  that  town 
Malcom  D.  was  reared,  and  acquired  the  rudiments  of  his  education. 
His  education  was  completed  at  the  University  at  Columbia,  and  he 
began  life  for  himself  by  clerking  in  the  dry  goods  house  of  Clayton 
&  Wilcox,  in  Rocheport.  In  1865  the  firm  moved  to  Omaha,  Dr.- 
Lewis  going  with  them.  He  soon,  however,  returned  to  Rocheport 
on  account  of  ill  health.  Subsequently  he  went  to  St.  Louis,  and  was 
employed  in  the  notion  house  of  Gill  &  Murphy.  Returning  to  Boone 
county  in  1867,  he  clerked  for  two  different  houses  in  Columbia,  which 
was  about  all  the  business  he  did  till  he  began  to  study  for  his  pro- 
fession. In  1872,  he  commenced  to  read  medicine  under  Dr.  A.  W. 
McAlester,  Professor  of  Surgery,  etc.,  in  the  University.     Entering 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  103^ 

tl^e  medical  department  of  that  school,  he  applied  himself  closely  to 
his  studies,  and  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.,  in  Juae,  1875. 
He  first  located  for  the  practice  at  Woodlandville,  this  county,  where 
he  remained  till  1880,  wheu  he  removed  to  Rocheport  aud  established 
himself  there.  In  1882,  Dr.  E.  T.  Bramlett  became  associated  with 
Dr.  Lewis,  and  they  have  a  good  and  growing  practice  in  several 
counties  whose  boundaries  approach  near  Rocheport.  Dr.  Lewis  is  a 
member  of  Boone  lodge.  No.  121,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  Rocheport. 

0  WILLIAM   A.    LIENTZ 

Is  the  son  of  Montgomery  P.  Lientz,  and  is  the  oldest  child  aud 
only  son.  He  was  born  on  t^e  old  homestead,  four  miles  from  Roche- 
port, March  30th,  1848.  He  was  reared  at  his  bii'th  place,  and 
continued  to  live  with  his  parents  till  he  was  twenty-two  years  old. 
The  foundations  of  his  education  were  laid  in  the  country  schools, 
he  attending  in  early  boyhood  at  Walnut  Grove  Academy.  Subse- 
quently, he  attended  Union  Academy,  inPenu^ylvania.  He  completed 
his  course,  however  at  the  State  University  at  Columbia,  graduating 
from  that  institution  in  the  class  of  1868.  He  carried  ofr  two  honors 
at  that  time,  having  been  chosen  by  his  class  to  deliver  the  salutatory 
in  Latin,  and  also  winning  the  Stephens  prize-medal  as  the  best  orator 
in  the  contest  for  that  medal.  (See  history  of  the  University).  In 
1869,  he  began  reading  law  in  Columbia,  under  Col.  J.  R.  Shields, 
but  the  condition  of  his  health  forced  him  to  abandon  the  law.  Octo- 
ber 27th,  1870,  he  married  Miss  Margaret  S.,  daughter  of  John  L. 
Hickman,  Sr.,  of  Boone  county.  She  had  graduated  in  Stephens 
college,  Columbia,  in  the  class  of  1869.  Soon  after  his  mariage,  Mr. 
Lientz,  thinking  an  agricultural  life  would  be  conducive  to  his  good 
health,  moved  on  to  a  farm  that  he  had  purchased  five  miles  west  of 
Columbia.  He  lived  on  that  place  till  1880,  when  he  sold  out  and 
bought  the  farm  where  he  resides  at  this  writing,  three  miles  north- 
east of  Rocheport.  The  place  contains  two  hundred  and  sixteen 
acres,  and  is  chiefly  devoted  to  stock  raising  especially  that  of  sheep. 
Mi\  Lientz  has  four  children,  named  John  M.,  William  A.,  Jr., 
Beverly  Price,  and  Roger  H.  Himself  and  wife  both  belong  to  the 
Presbyterian  church  of  Columbia. 

MONTGOMERY   P.    LIENTZ. 

The  gentleman  whose  name  heads  this  sketch  was  born  in  Nash- 
ville, Tennessee,  October  22,  1815.     His  parents  were  William  and 


1040  HISTORY.  OP   BOONE    COUNTY. 

Mary  Lientz,  who  came  to  this  State  and  county  in  November,  1819, 
and  settled  four  miles  northeast  of  Rocheport,  wher^  Montgomery 
was  raised.  He  continued  to  reside  with  his  parents  aft«r  coming  of 
age,  and  when  they  became  old  and  infirm,  he  took  the  entire  man- 
agement of  the  farm,  and  thus  eased  them  of  their  burden,  caring  for 
them  till  their  death  like  a  true  and  faithful  son.  The  fathecdied  in 
1849,  aged  seventy-five  and  the  mother  in  1859,  at  the  same  advanced 
age.  Mr.  Lientz  has  been  three  times  married.  First,  in  1844,  he 
married  Miss  Calphurnia  Wetmore,  of  St.  Louis.  This  lady  died  in 
1849,  and  two  years  later,  he  was  wedded  to  Miss  Olivi^W.  McClure, 
daughter  of  Dr.  William  McClure,  of  Thrall's  prairie.  She  died  in  1856. 
Mr.  Lientz's  present  wife  was  a  widow  lady  —  Mrs,  Ann  E.  Whittaker, 
of  Virginia.  He  has  four  children.  William  A.  Lientz,  who  gradu- 
ated from  the  University  of  Missouri  in  the  class  of  18H8,  is  a  sou  of 
bis  first  wife.  Annie  O.,  wife  of  D.  W.  McQuitty,  is  a  child  of  the 
second  marriage.  Ella  R.,  wife  of  Harry  McCullough,  of  Howard 
county,  and  Blanche  S. -(unmarried),  are  the  other  two.  Mr.  Lientz 
was  in  the  Mormon  war,  and  served  under  Capt.  John  Ellis.  In  May, 
1846,  he  enlisted  for  the  Mexican  war  in  Company  F,  First  regiment 
Missouri  volunteers,  and  served  during  the  war  under  Capt.  Parsons 
and  Col.  A.  W.  Doniphan.  Returning  home  at  the  close  of  that  war, 
he  continued  to  pursue  the  arts  of  peace,  and  enjoy  pastoral  life  on 
the  old  homestead  till  1881,  when  he  moved  into  Howard  county.  His 
father's  old  home  was  for  many  years  a  stopping  place  for  travellers, 
and  many  weary  tourists  there  enjoyed  the  hospitalities  of  this  gen- 
uine Southern  family.  Among  the  celebrities  who  stopped  at  this 
place,  were  Col.  Thos.  H.  Benton,  Washingtcin  Irving,  Gov.  John 
Miller  and  Supreme  Judges  M.  McGirk  and  George  Tompkins,  the 
latter  of  whom  married  into  the  Lientz  family.  Mr.  L.,  belongs  to 
the  Presbyterian  church,  and  his  wife  to  the  Mount  Zion  Baptist 
church  of  Howard  county.  He  is  a  ruling  elder  in  his  church,  and 
labors  to  advance  the  cause  of  Christ's  kingdom  on  earth. 

ROBERT    GILBERT   LYELL 

Was  born  at  Rochester,  New  York,  in  the  mouth  of  April,  1817. 
When  he  was  two  years  old,  his  father  moved  with  his  family  to  a 
farm  two  miles  from  Rochester,  and  Robert  was  reared  to  agricultural 
pursuits.  His  education  was  acquired  in  the  common  schools  and  at 
Monroe  High  School  at  Henrietta  in  Monroe  county.  New  York.  He 
began  teaching  in  the  public  schools  at  nineteen  years  old,  and  later 


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HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  1041 

ill  life  worked  at  the  carpenter's  trade,  which  was  his  father's  vocation, 
iu  addition  to  farming.  In  1840  he  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
and  began  teaching  in  the  public  schools,  following  it  for  some  six  or 
seven^ years.  He  was  first  married  December  27,  1842,  to  Miss 
Emilia  M.  Bishop,  of  Thrall's  Prairie.  She  died  at  Harrisburg,  this 
county,  February  9,  1875,  having  borne  five  children.  Two  of  these, 
Alice  G.,  wife  of  James  A.  Chambers,  of  Rocheport,  and  Robert  L., 
of  Marshall,  Missouri,  still  survive.  He  was  a  second  time  married 
May  9th,  1876,  to  Mrs.  Mary  J.  Rawlings,  of  Rocheport.  In  the 
spring  of  1849^  Mr.  Lyell  went  to  California,  and  with  four  com- 
rades, kept  a  boarding  **  ranche,"  and  also  worked  the  mines  on  Deer 
Creek,  near  the  forks  of  Yuba  River.  On  his  return  from  California 
he  settled  in  Rocheport,  where  he  resided  till  1871,  when  he  and 
family  moved  to  Harrisburg,  where  he  was  engaged  for  some  time  in 
merchandising,  and  was  also  fortunate.  He  was  twice  commissioned 
a  notary  public  for  Boone  county  by  the  Governor.  In  1877  he 
moved  back  to  Rocheport,  where  he  resides  at  this  writing.  From 
18*58  to  '79,  he  occasionally  worked  at  the  carpenter's  trade  and  as 
an  undertaker,  working  at  times,  after  the  war,  as  many  as  from  six 
to  nine  men.  In  May,  1862,  Mr.  Lyell  enlisted  in  the  sixty-first  regi- 
ment E.  M.  M.,  Col.  Douglass  commanding.  Soon  after  he  was 
commissioned  quartermaster,  with  rank  of  captain,  by  Gov.  Gamble. 
He  served  in  that  capacity  till  the  full  of  1862,  when  part  of  his 
regiment  was  annexed  to  parts  of  other  regiments  and  formed  into 
the  First  Provisional  Regiment  of  M.  M.,  in  which  he  served  till  the 
officers  and  men  were  relieved  from  duty  by  order  of  the  Governor,  in 
1864.  In  August,  1864,  he  was  commissioned  Brigade  Q.  M.,  with 
rank  of  major,  under  Gen.  J.  B.  Douglass,  and  thus  continued  till  his 
final  discharge  from  service  by  order  of  Acting  Governor  Hall.  Mr. 
Lyell  has  served  as  magistrate  of  Missouri  township,  both  by  appoint- 
ment and  election,  and  is  at  this  writing  deputy  post-master  at 
Rocheport,  having  been  appointed  in  1881,  by  Mrs.  Susan  M.  Slade, 
post-mistress. 

JAMES   HORRY   LOW  RE  Y. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  second  of  three  living  sons  of 
James  Simpson  and  Nancy  Lowrey,  who  came  to  Missouri  in  1819, 
settling  in  what  was  then  known  as  Howard  county,  near  Walnut 
Grove  church,  and  afterwards  permanently  on  a  farm  located  on  the 
State  road  between  Rocheport  and  Columbia,  five  and  one-half  miles 
66 


1042  HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTY. 

from  the  latter  place.  It  was  on  this  farm  that  James  H.  Lowrey  was 
born,  October  14,  1829.  He  remained  with  his  parents  until  he 
attained  his  majority.  In  1850  he  made  an  overland  journey  to  Cali- 
fornia, where  he  followed  freighting  from  Stockton  to  various  mines, 
continuing  this  business  until  the  spring  of  1853,  when  he  returned 
home  by  way  of  Panama  and  New  Orleans.  He  returned  to  California 
the  same  year,  taking  a  drpve  of  stock  to  Stockton,  which  he  sold, 
returning  overland  to  his  home  in  1854.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he 
purchased  a  farm  in  Johnson  county,  where  he  resided  until  1861.  He 
was  married  March  1st,  1855,  to  Miss  Mary  J.,  daughter  of  John  and 
Jane  Maxwell,  of  Boone  county.  In  1861  he  enlisted  in  Capt.  Har- 
vey McKinney's  company  and  regiment  in  which  he  served  until  1862, 
when  he  returned  home  and  brought  his  family  to  Boone  cour^Jy. 
While  here  he  was  arrested  by  Federal  soldiers  and  imprisoned  in 
Columbia  for  several  months.  Having  taken  the  oath  of  allegiance 
and  given  bond,  he  was  set  at  liberty  and  allowed  to  remain  at  his 
home  in  thii?  county.  In  1864  he  went  to  Texas,  where  he  again 
joined  the  Confederate  army  and  was  made  second  Lieutenant  of  Com- 
pany K,  Col.  Williams's  regiment,  Shelby's  brigade,  remaining  with 
this  command  until  the  close  of  the  war,  June  16th,  1865,  when  he 
returned  to  Boone  county  and  resumed  farming.  In  1867  he  sold  his 
farm  in  Johnson  county  and  removed  to  Boone,  buying  the  farm  upon 
which  he  now  resides  containing  430  acres.  In  1879  he  went  to 
Montana  Territory,  taking  with  him  a  car  load  of  stock  which  he  sold 
to  good  advantages.  Mr.  Lowrey  has  eleven  children,  eight  daughters 
and  three  sons,  all  of  whom  are  living.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Rocheport  lodge  of  A.  F.  and  A.  M. 

MILTON   HUFF   LOWREY. 

Milton  Huff  Lowrey,  son  of  Milton  and  Martha  A.  (Hurst)  Low- 
rey, was  born  in  Missouri  township,  near  the  old  Hunt  farm,  March 
11th,  1847.  In  early  life  he  attended  the  public  schools,  finishing  his 
education  at  the  Missouri  State  University.  His  father  died  when  he 
was  an  infant.  He  remained  on  the  farm  with  his  mother  until  he  was 
sixteen  years  old,  when  he  began  to  work  for  himself.  He  made  an 
overland  trip  to  California  where  he  remained  for  four  years,  spend- 
ing most  of  the  time  farming.  In  1868  he  returned  to  Boone  county 
and  purchased  a  farm  near  his  birthplace.  He  worked  this  place 
until  1871,  when  he  purchased  the  farm  upon  which  he  now  lives,  con- 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1043 

taining  160  acres,  situated  near  Midway.  May  26th,  1874,  be  mar- 
ried Miss  Luella  Bedford,  of  near  Midway,  by  wbom  he  has  four  sons  : 
Claude,  Bedford,  Lenious  and  an  infant  not  yet  named. 

FRANCIS   MARION   LOWRBY. 

Hon.  Francis  Marion  Lowrey,  farmer  and  stock-raiser,  is  the  eldest 
of  the  three  living  sons  of  James  S.  and  Nancy  Lowrey,  old  pioneer 
settlers  of  Boone  county,  who  came  to  Missouri  in  1818  and  settled 
on  a  farm  near  Walnut  Grove  church,  in  1819.  In  1826  they  settled 
the  old  Lowrey  homestead,  five  and  one-half  miles  east  of  Rocheport, 
on  the  old  Columbia  and  Rocheport  road,  where  the  subject  of  this 
bketch  was  born,  October  20th,  1827.  There  were  no  public  schools 
in  his  neighborhood  during  his  minority,  hence  he  was  compelled  to 
educate  himself  by  hard  study  and  close  application.  He  remained 
with  his  parents  until  he  was  twenty-one  years  old,  when  he  com- 
menced working  for  himself.  In  1849  he  went  to  Calif9rnia,  where 
he  worked  successfully  in  the  mines  until  1851.  In  1853  he  returned 
to  that  State  in  company  with  his  brothers,  James  H.  and  Benjamin 
F. ,  taking  out  a  drove  of  stock  which  they  disposed  of  at  Stockton 
and  Seiji  Francisco,  where  he  and  his  brother  Benjamin  remained  and 
dealt  in  stock  until  1855,  when  they  returned  together  and  rented  the 
old  homestead  where  they  farmed  until  1867,  when  he  purchased  a 
stock  farm  in  Johnson  county,  Missouri,  which  he  cultivated  until  the 
breaking  out  of  the  war,  in  1861.  Mr.  Lowrey  enlisted  in  McCown's 
company  and  regiment.  Confederate  army,  where  he  served  for  six 
months.  For  the  next  four  months  he  served  in  Capt.  Branaugh's 
company.  In  the  spring  of  1862  he  was  elected  captain  by  Company 
F,  of  the  16th  Regiment  of  Missouri  Infantry,  serving  until  the  fall 
of  1862,  when  he  resigned  and  returned  to  Missouri  for  the  purpose 
of  recruiting  a  cavalry  regiment.  In  the  month  of  December  follow- 
ing, while  recruiting,  he  was  captured  by  the  Federal  soldiers  and 
imprisoned  for  a  few  weeks  in  the  State  University  at  Columbia.  From 
there  he  was  taken  to  St.  Louis  and  placed  in  the  Gi;tttiot  Street 
prison  until  July,  1863,  when  he  was  sent  to  Alton,  Elinois,  where  he 
remained  a  prisoner  until  the  spring  of  1865.  The  Alton  prison  was 
vacated  soon  after  the  assassination  of  President  Lincoln,  and  he  was 
once  more  taken  to  the  Gratiot  Street  prison,  St.  Louis,  where  he 
remained  until  July,  1865,  when  he  was  released  on  taking  the  oath. 
He  came  home  and  spent  the  next  year  in  Boone  and  Lafayette,  going 
by  steamboat  and  stage  to  Diamond  City,  Montana,  in  1866.     He 


1044  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

followed  mining  until  1870,  ,when  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Montana  legislature  from  Jefferson  county.  In  1872  he  returned  to 
Boone  county  and  purchased  the|farm  on  which  he  now  resides.  This 
farm  contains  240  acres.  Mr.  Lowrey  has  up  to  this  date  (1882) 
remained  a  bachelor.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Rocheport  Lodge,  A. 
F.  and  A.  M.,  and  a  member  of  Columbia  Chapter  INo.  18,  R.  A.  M. 

SAMUEL   WALLACE   MAXWELL. 

Samuel  Wallace  Maxwell  was  born  in  Madison  county,  Kentucky, 
May  26th,  1826.  He  is  the  son  of  John  and  Jane  Maxwell,  who  came 
to  Boone  county  in  1832  and  settled  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  F. 
M.  Lowrey,  near  Midway,  where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  raised 
and  lived  until  attaining  his  majority.  In  1850  he  went  overland  to 
California,  where  he  followed  mining  in  several  places  until  1852. 
Having  been  successful  in  his  labors  he  returned  home  by  way  of 
Panama  and  New  Orleans.  He  served  six  months  in  the  Enrolled 
Missouri  Militia,  under  Captain  Tyre  Harris,  of  Col.  J.  B.Douglass' 
regiment.  He  has  been  married  three  times.  His  first  wife  was  Miss 
Sallie  A.  Boggs,  of  Boone  county,  whom  he  married,  April  22d,  1852. 
Four  children  were  born  of  this  marriage,  James  O.  and  John  W., 
})oth  of  Oregon,  and  Amanda  and  Charles  C,  still  living  at  home.  He 
married  his  second  wife.  Miss  Lucy  J.Croswhite,  of  Boone  county, 
October  30th,  1871.  She  died  October  30th,  1874.  He  mamed  his 
third  wife,  Mrs.  Rosa  Noe,  February  17th,  1876.  Himself  and  wife 
are  members  of  Sugar  Creek  Baptist  church. 

I 

NEWMAN   THOMKIN8    MITCHELL,    FATHER    AND    SON. 

Newman  T.  Mitchell,  Sr.,  is  one  of  the  few  now  living  who  can  of 
right  class  themselves  among  the  pioneers  of  Boone  county.  He  was 
born  near  Dumfries,  Prince  William  county,  Virginia,  March  12th, 
1807.  His  parents  removed  in  1817  to  Madison  county,  Kentucky, 
and  a  few  years  later  to  Franklin  county.  He  remained  with  his  par- 
ents until  he  was  eighteen  years  old,  attending  in  the  meantime  such 
schools  as  were  within  his  reach.  Wishing  to  educate  him  for  a  pro- 
fession, his  father  proposed  sending  him  to  college,  but  the  young 
man  having  no  predilection  that  way,  declined  the  offer.  His  father 
then  gave  him  permission  to  do  for  himself  in  his  own  way,  and  he  ac- 
cordingly entered  the  boot  and  shoe  store  of  Daniel  Bell,  of  Wood- 
ford county,  Kentucky.  He  was  employed  to  keep  the  books  of  the 
-establishment,  and  remained  long  enough  to  learn  the  trade,  when  he 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1045 

returned  home.  He  and  hia  brother  now  took  charge  of  the  homestead 
devoting  their  time  to  fariping  and  trading  in  stock.  In  1827  he  went 
to  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  where  he  was  employed  by  Frank  Blair,  Sr., 
as  superintendent  or  overseer,  remaining  in  this  business  one  year. 
In  the  spring  of  1828  he  came  to  Missouri  with  his  father  and  settled 
in  Howard  county.  On  the  4th  of  September,  following,  he  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Priscilla  Hughes.  He  came  to  Boone  county  soon  after 
his  marriage  and  settled  on  a  tract  of  land  upon  which  he  now 
lives.  His  first  wife  having  died,  August  22d,  1856,  Mr.  Mitchell 
was  again  married,  December  10th,  1857  to  Miss  Kitty  Slack,  of 
Boone  county,  by  whom  he  has  two  children.  Pearl  and  Earnest.  By 
his  first  wife  he  had  four  children:  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Sidney  Den- 
ham,  deceased ;  Newman  Tompkins,  Jr. ;  Cordelia,  wife  of  S.  L. 
Wilhite,  and  William  J.,  all  of  whom  are  living  in  Boone  county. 
Mr.  Mitchell  has  been  a  member  of  Walnut  Grove  Baptist  church 
for  sixty  years,  and  has  served  as  deacon  for  forty-five  years.  His 
wife  has  been  a  member  of  the  same  church  for  twenty-five  years. 
His  first  wife  was  one  of  the  qriginal  members  of  Walnut  Grove 
church. 

Newman  T.  Mitchell,  Jr.,  was  born  near  Rocheport,  Boone  county, 
Missouri,  September  1st,  1832.  He  is  the  son  of  Newman  and  Pris- 
cilla (Hughes)  Mitchell.  He  was  educated  at  the  common  schools 
of  the  neighborhood,  and  commenced  business  for  himself  at  the  age 
of  twenty,  though  still  living  with  his  parents.  In  1852  his  father 
proposed  sending  him  to  the  Missouri  State  University,  but  he  pre- 
fered  remaining  on  the  farm  at  a  salary.  From  1853  to  1857  he 
worked  his  father's  farm  on  the  shares.  He  was  married,  October 
6th,  1856,  to  Miss  Hannah,  daughter  of  Porter  Jackman,  of  Howard 
county,  Missouri.  The  year  following  he  moved  to  a  tract  of  land 
given  him  by  his  father,  which  formed  the  nucleus  of  the  farm  he  now 
owns,  consisting  of  four  hundred  acres.  In  1866  he  became  one  of 
the  proprietors  of  the  Columbia  and  Rocheport  rock  road.  He  has 
sev.en  children.  John  T.  is  cashier  of  the  Centralia,  Missouri,  bank, 
and  Porter  J.  is  a  practicing  physician  ,^being  a  graduate  of  the  Mis- 
souri Medical  College,  St.  Louis.  Newman  T.,  William  M.,  Carter 
W.,  Exie  and  Orie  are  living  with  their  parents.  Himself  and  wife  are 
members  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Walnut  Grove,  of  which  he  has  been 
deacon  foi^  twelve  years.  He  has  also  filled  the  position  of  superin- 
tendent of  Sunday  school,  at  intervals,  for  fourteen  years.  During 
1879  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  executive  board  of  State  mis- 


1046  HISTOBY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

sions  by  the  general  association,  which  position  he  still  holds.  He  is 
also  one  of  the  curators  of  Stephens  Female  College,  Columbia,  Mis- 
souri, having  been  appointed  such  by  the  State  association  in  1880. 

WILLIAM  JEREMIAH   MITCHELL. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  bom  in  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
December  7,  1840.  He  was  raised  on  a  farm,  four  miles  northeast 
of  Rocheport,  and  educated  at  the  Walnut  Grove  school  house.  He 
is  the  son  of  Newman  Mitchell,  Sr.,  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of 
Boone  county.  When  twenty-one  years  old  he  began  working  on  a 
farm  owned  by  his  father.  This  place  was  given  to  him  in  1867,  and 
in  1874  he  exchanged  it  for  a  farm  in  the  same  vicinity,  and  in  1876 
exchanged  this  for  the  place  he  now  occupies,  one  and  one-half  miles 
east  of  Walnut  Grove  church.  His  farm  contains,  one  hundred  and 
thirty  acres.  He  is  actively  engaged  in  farming  and  stock  raising. 
During  the  years  intervening  between  1862  and  1872,  he  travelled  ex- 
tensively in  Illinois,  Iowa,  Nebraska  and  Colorado.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Walnut  Grove  Baptist  church,  and  has  been  since  1864. 

JAMES   HARVEY  m'GHEE. 

James  H.  McGhee,  son  of  Wyatt  and  Jane  R.  McGhee,  was  bom 
in  Washington  county,  Virginia,  near  Seven  Mile  Ford,  July  4,  1818. 
In  1824  he  came  with  his  parents  to  Missouri,  and  settled  near  what  is 
now  known  as  Walnut  Grove  church,  on  the  Rocheport  and  Columbia 
rock  road.  He  remained  with  his  parents  until  1839,  whefn  he  was 
married,  January  29th,  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Abram  Funk,  of  Boone 
county.  He  then  moved  on  to  a  farm  in  the  Perche  bottom,  belong- 
ing to  his  father,  situated  near  his  present  home,  which  was  given  to 
him  by  his  father.  In  1859  Mr.  McGhee  made  a  trip  to  Pike's  Peak 
in  quest  of  gold,  reports  of  rich  diggings  having  reached  Missouri  from 
that  region.  Finding  none  he  returned  home,  remaining  only  two 
weeks  in  the  mountains.  In  1838  he  was  commissioned  by  the  gov- 
ernor an  oflSicer  in  the  State  militia.  The  troops  were  called  out  to 
put  down  the  Mormon  insurrection,  and  Mr.  McGhee,  among  others, 
responded  promptly  to  the  call,  and  remained  under  arms  until  the 
difficulty  was  settled.  In  1836,  he  assisted  the  government  survey- 
ing party;,  under  William  Shields,  of  Boone  county,  while  surveying 
the  southwestern  portion  of  this  State.  During  the  late  war  Mr.  Mo- 
Ghee  was  an  earnest,  out-spoken  friend  of  the  South,  and  suffered 
scAerely  for  his  advocacy  of  Southern  principles.     He  was  early  idea* 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1047 

tified  with  the  South,  having  been  deputized  to  enroll  the  n^ilitia  of 
Missouri  township.  In  1863  he  was  arrested  by  the  United  States 
troops,  on  the  charge  of  giving  aid  and  comfort  to  Confederate  sol- 
diers. He  was  first  imprisoned  at  Columbia,  then  taken  to  St.  Louis, 
and  finally  to  Kichmond,  Virginia,  to  be  exchanged,  but  being  a  citi- 
zen he  could  not  be  disposed  of  in  this  way.  He  was  finally  dis- 
charged, but  as  he  was  returning  home  he  was  arrested  at  St.  Louis,~ 
and  made  to  give  a  bond  of  $2,000  before  he  was  allowed  his  freedom. 
He  has  five  children,  Mary  Jane,  wife  of  James  S.  Langdon,  of  Texas  ; 
-James  W.,  of  Columbia,  Mary  Ellen,  wife  of  Melvin  P.  McGhee,  of 
Leadville,  Colorado;  Henry  A.,  of  Boone;  and  William  Wallace,  of 
<3olambia,  Missouri.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McGhee  are  members  of  the 
Locust  Grove  Methodist  church. 

WILLARD   J.    M'QUITTY, 

The  genial  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Kocheport  Commercial^  is 
the  oldest  son  of  Thomas  F.  and  Elizabeth  McQuitty,  and  was  born 
on  a  farm  in  Boone  county,  near  Columbia,  September  15,  1857. 
When  he  was  thirteen  years  old  his  parents  moved  to  Columbia,  and 
there  Willard  J.  was  educated,  attending  the  University  till  his  eight- 
eenth year.  He  then  began  learning  the  printer's  trade  with  Ed,  W. 
Stephens,  in  the  office  of  the  Columbia  Hei'ald,  Soon  mastering  the 
mysteries  of  the  •«  typo's"  profession,  he  was  made  foreman  of  the 
Herald  establishment,  which  position  he  held  for  five  years.  In 
April,  1879,  Mr.  McQuitty  and  his  brother,  James  E.,  purchased  the 
Kocheport  Commercial ^  a  Democratic  paper  in  the  above  town,  and  a 
few  months  later  Willard  J.  bought  out  the  brother's  interest,  making 
liim  the  sole  manager.  He  has  continued  to  publish  that  journal 
^ver  since,  and  is  the  fifth  man  who  has  edited  it,  and,  so  far,  the  only 
one  who  seems  to  have  made  it  a  success.  Mr.  McQuitty  was  mar- 
ried Dec.  25, 1881,  to  Miss  Maggie  Hines,  daughter  of  J.  H.  Hines,  of 
Joplin,  Mo.  Mr.  McQ.  has  always  been  a  Democrat,  and  runs  his  paper 
in  the  interest  of  that  great  party.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Press 
Association,  and  his  youth  and  ambition,  combined  with  education 
and  energy,  will  certainly  place  him  in  the  ranks  of  successful  jour- 
nalists, should  he  continue  that  most  worthy  vocation. 

DAVID   W.  M'QUrrTY 

Is  also  a  native  of  Boone  county,  and  was  born  near  Rocheport,  Feb- 
xuary  10,  1853.     His  parents  were  David  and  Susan  McQuitty,  old 


1048  HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTT. 

residents  of  Boone.  He  continued  to  live  with  his  parents  on  the 
farm  till  in  his  twentieth  year,  and  there  obtained  the  rudiments  of 
his  education.  Subsequently  he  attended  Mount  Pleasant  College,  at 
Huntsville,  Randolph  county,  Missouri,  and  was  a  student  of  that 
school  for  three  years.  When  ready  to  begin  life  for  himself,  Mr. 
McQuitty  purchased  a  farm  of  240  acres,  three  and  one  half  miles 
northeast  of  Rocheport,  which  he  still  owns  and  operates.  In  addi- 
tion to  the  ordinary  routine  of  farming  and  stock-raising,  Mr,  McQ. 
has  made  a  speciality  of  fine  sheep  breeding,  chiefly  the  Spanish 
merino.  His  object  in  this  was  not  alone  to  improye  his  own  stock 
and  derive  a  profit  therefrom,  but  was  actuated  by  the  worthy  motive 
of  having  his  neighbors  get  the»  benefit  of  the  same.  In  the  winter 
of  1882  he  imported  a  flock  of  the  Robinson- Atwood  blood  from  Ver- 
mont. These  breeders  are  recorded  in  the  Vermont  Stock  Register, 
and  their  average  yield  of  fleece  is,  for  males  16  lbs.,  for  females  15  lbs. 
In  December,  1873,  Mr.  McQuitty  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Annie  O.  Lientz,  daughter  of  Montgomery  Lientz,  Esq.  They  have 
two  children,  Montgomery  L.,  and  Harry  W.  Mr.  McQ.  is  a  mem- 
ber  of  the  Walnut  Grove  Baptist  church,  and  is  an  exemplary  citizen 
and  kind  neighbor. 

JAMES   AUGUSTUS    M'QUITTY. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Perche  township,  Boone 
county,  Missouri,  December  1,  1830.  He  is  the  son  of  G.  W. 
McQuitty,  one  of  the  successful  pioneer  farmers  of  Boone  county. 
It  was  through  the  enterprise  and  industry  of  such  men  as  G.  W. 
McQuitty  that  Boone  county  received  an  impetus  which  placed  it  far 
ahead  of  all  the  neighboring  counties,  a  position  it  still  holds  in  point 
of  stability,  refinement  and  culture,  and  but  for  superior  railroad 
facilities  possessed  by  other  counties,  it  would  have  distanced  all  its 
competitors  in  wealth  and  enterprise.  The  father  of  James  A. 
McQuitty  came  to  Boone  county  in  1810.  The  subject  of  this  sketch 
remained  on  his  father's  farm  until  1849,  when  he  went  to  California. 
He  worked  in  the  mines  for  several  years,  returning  to  Boone  county 
in  1853.  He  was  successful  in  mining,  having  accumulated  sufiicient 
money  to  purchase  the  farm  upon  which  he  now  resides,  containing 
353  acres.  In  1864  he  enlisted  in  Capt.  John  Maxwell's  company, 
Williams's  regiment,  Shelby's  brigade.  Confederate  cavalry,  remaining 
with  this  command  until  the  close  of  the  war,  when  he  returned  home 
and  resumed  the  active  duties  of  life.  Mr.  McQuitty  was  married 
June  13,  1851,  to  Miss  Dicie  Emma,  daughter  of  Solomon  Barnett, 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1049^ 

of  Howard  ^county.  There  were  seven  children  by  this  marriage: 
Julia  A.,  wife|of  William  Hart,  of  Centralia,  Missouri ;  and  John  L., 
Lilly,  MayjJDoraJB.,  Joel  M.,  James  M.  and  George  B.,  yet  remain- 
"ing  at  home.  Mrs.  McQuitty  died  May  12,  1879.  Mr.  McQuitty  is 
a  member  of  the'^Walnut  Grove  Baptist  church,  and  has  been  since 
1853.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Rocheport  lodge  of  A.  F.  and  A. 
M.  At  the  time  of  her  death  Mrs.  McQuitty  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Walnut^Grove^church. 

THOMAS   FIELDING   M'QUITTY. 

Thomas  F.  McQuitty  was  born  near  Thrall's  Prairie,  now  known 
as  the  Model  Farm,  May  3,  1833,  where  he  lived  until  he  was  ten 
years  old,  when^his  parents  removed  to  the  farm  now  owned  by  Jam^a 
A.  McQuitty.  Thomas  grew  to  manhood  on  this  farm,  attending  the 
common  schools  and  availing  himself  of  6very  opportunity  of  procur- 
ing an  education.  He  began  life  for  himself  as'a  farmer,  renting  the 
land  he  cultivated.  In  1870  he  removed  to  Columbia,  where  he 
,.  worked  at  the  carpenter's  trade  until  1882,  when  he  purchased  and 
removed  to  the  farm  upon  which  he  now  lives,  known  as  the  old  Joel 
White  farm,  containing  160  acres.  Mr.  McQuitty  was  married  Octo- 
ber 18,  1855,  to  Miss  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Joel  and  Elizabeth  Wil- 
hite,  of  Boone  county.  They  have  eight  living  children.  The  oldest 
son,  Willard  G.,  is  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Rocheport  Commer- 
cicU.  The  second  son,  James  E,,  is  foreman  of  the  Columbia,  Mis- 
souri, Herald  oflSce.  The  other  children  are  at  home  with  their 
parent's.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McQuitty,  and  the  four  oldest  of  their  chil- 
dren, are  members  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Columbia.  Mr.  Mc- 
Quitty was  deputy  marshal  of  Columbia  in  1881.  In  1864-5  he  was 
a  soldier  in  the  Confederate  array,  being  a  member  of  Capt.  John 
Maxwell's  company,  Williams's  regiment,  Shelby's  brigade.  His  com- 
mand surrendered  at  Alexandria,  Louisiana,  in  the  spring  of  1865, 
when  he  returned  home  and  resumed  the  active  duties  of  life.  He  is 
a  firm,  resolute,  hard-working  man,  whose  principal  aim  in  life  has 
been  to  raise,  educate  and  prepare  his  children  for  the  active  duties 
and  responsibilities  of  life. 

ALEXANDER   ROBINSON   NICHOLS. 

Alexander  Robinson  Nichols  was  born  in  Missouri  township,  on  the 
Rocky  Fork,  a  tributary  of  the  Perche,  May  25,  1833.  When  quite 
young  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  a  farm  in  the  vicinity  of  Colum- 


1050  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

bia,  where  his  father  died.  When  ten  years  old,  his  mother  removed 
with  her  family  to  Buchanan  county,  Missouri,  where  they  lived  and 
cultivated  a  farm  until  1856.  He  began  po  do  for  himself  when  fif- 
teen years  old,  but  conti-ibuted  liberally  of  his  earnings  toward  the 
support  of  his  widowed  mother  and  such  members  of  the  family  as 
were  too  young  to  provide  for  their  own  wants.  His  mother  was  ever 
an  object  of  earnest  and  tender  solicitude  up  to  the  day  of  her  death  in 
1874.  From  1856  to  1860  he  worked  at  farming  in  various  places.  He 
finally  settled  upon  the  farm  he  now  occupies.  Mr.  Nichols  was  mar- 
ried April  12,  1860,  to  Miss  Angellne,  daughter  of  Winston  Via,  who 
came  to  Boone  county  in  1832,  and  bought  and  improved  the  farm 
upon  which  the  subject  of  this  sketch  now  resides,  known  as  the  old 
Winston  Via  place.  They  have  but  one  child,  Annie,  who  is  still  at 
home  with  her  parents.  Mr.  Nichols  is  one  of  the  most  substantial 
farmers  in  his  section  of  the  country.  All  the  affairs  of  life  seem 
tending  towards  his  prosperity  and  happiness,  and  justly,  for  his  has 
been  a  busy,  enterprising  and  exemplary  life. 

ELVIN   JEFFERSON   NICHOLS. 

E.  J.  Nichols,  farmer  and  stocktrader,  was  born  in  Barren  county, 
Kentucky,  April  29,  1825.  He  came  to  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
with  his  parents,  arriving  at  their  destination  in  the  month  of  Decem- 
t)Qr,  1829.  They  settled  five  miles  northwest  of  Columbia  on  a  small 
tributary  of  the  Perche,  called  the  Rocky  Fork,  where  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  grew  to  manhood.  The  little  education  he  received  was 
obtained  at  subscription  schools  which  were  attended  at  long  intervals. 
The  elder  Nichols  being  a  carpenter,  Elvin  was  brought  up  to  that 
trade,  and  assisted  )iis  father  in  the  shop  when  not  working  on  the 
farm.  He  remained  with  his  parents  until  he  had  attained  his  major- 
ity, when  he  began  to  work  for  himself.  March  25,  1845,  he  was 
married  to  Miss  Polly  Ann,  daughter  of  James  and  Nancy  Hawkins, 
pioneer  settlers  of  Boone  county.  After  his  marriage,  Mr.  Nichols 
settled  on  the  farm  he  now  occupies,  in  the  northern  part  of  Missouri 
township,  containing  450  acres.  In  1850  he  made  an  overland  trip 
to  California,  where  he  remained  one  year  working  in  the  mines.  He 
then  took  passage  on  a  sail  vessel  for  home.  While  off  the  coast  of 
Lower  California,  the  vessel  was  caught  in  a  fierce  western  gale  and 
was  blown  1,500  miles  to  sea,  prolonging  the  voyage  sixty-seven 
days.  There  were  370  passengers,  necessitating  a  short  allowance  of 
food  and  water  for  many  days.     The  portion  allowed  to  each  individ- 


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HI8TORT  or   BOONE   COUNTY.  1051 

ual  finally  dwindled  to  one  pint  of  water  and  two  crackers  once  in 
twenty-four  hours.  The  tropical  heat  was  severe  and  many  sickened 
and  died  of  fever  ere  they  reached  port.  Arriving  at  Panama,  he  and 
several  others  attempted  to  walk  to  Chagres,  but  gave  out  on  the  way. 
They  were  compelled  to  purchase  a  mule  ere  they  reached  their  des- 
tination. From  Chagres  he  sailed  for  New  Orleans  in  a  steamer,  ar- 
riving home  in  April,  1851.  From  1860  to  1872,  Mr.  Nichols  bought 
and  shipped  stock  to  eastern  markets,  his  shipping  points  being  Con- 
cordia, Columbia  and  Sturgeon.  In  1873  he  bought  and  fed  a  herd 
ot  cattle  in  Saline  county,  and  in  1878  he  handled  over  200,000 
pounds  of  pork  which  he  sold  in  eastern  markets.  In  1864  he  was 
drafted  as  a  soldier  in  the  Union  army,  but  hired  a  substitute.  During 
the  same  year  he  was  arrested  on  a  charge  of  giving  aid  and  comfort 
to  Bill  Anderson's  guerrillas,  and  was  taken  to  Macon  Citji  and  put  in 
prison.  He  soon  gave  bail  and  was  set  at  libe;i:y.  He  has  eight  chil- 
<lren.  The  oldest  son,  William  Hite,  is  a  Baptist  minister,  a  graduate  of 
the  Southern  Baptist  Theological  Seminary  at  Louisville,  Kentucky ; 
John  J.  ;  Nancy  A.,  wife  of  Henry  Naylor ;  George  Martin,  a  medical 
student  of  the  State  University ;  Rhoanna,  wife  of  Samuel  Morris ; 
Eddie  E.,  Robert  E.  L.  and  Overton.  Mr.  Nichols  and  his  wife  and 
their  children  are  members  of  the  Baptist  Church. 

JUDGE   DAVID   PIPES 

Was  bom  in  Washington  (now  Boyle)  county,  Kentucky,  near  the 
city  of  Danville,  March  31,  1811.  His  parents  moved  to  Missouri 
when  he  was  six  years  old,  and  settled  in  Boone  county,  then  a  part  of 
Howard.  [See  chapter  on  early  boundaries.]  Here  he  resided  with  his 
father's  family  and  worked  on  the  farm  till  he  was  18  years  old.  Then 
he  began  learning  the  gunsmith's  trade  with  John  G.  Phillips,  in  the 
locality  of  his  father's  residence,  and  worked  with  his  **  boss  "  far  three 
years.  He  then  established  a  shop  of  his  own  in  Howard  county,  in 
1831.  The  Black  Hawk  war  broke  out  soon  afterwards,  and  Mr. 
Pipes  enlisted  for  its  suppression  and  served  till  the  close  in 
the  battalion  under  Maj.  John  B.  Clark.  Returning  to  Howard 
county,  he  resumed  his  trade,  and  also  purchased  a  small  farm  which 
he  operated  in  addition  to  his  shop  work.  When  the  Mormon  war 
came  on,  he  again  volunteered  for  service,  and  was  in  a  short  time 
^«  orderly  "  in  the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Jared  Robinson. 
Returning  once  more  to  his  shop  and  farm,  he  drove  those  peaceful 
vocations  till  the  gold  fever  seized  him  in  1850.     He  crossed  the  plains 


1052  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

to  California,  where  after  mining  a  short  time  at  Placerville,  he  pro- 
ceeded to  Stockton-,  where  he  purchased  a  team  and  engaged  in  the 
then  lucrative  vocation  of  freighting  until  March,  1851,  when  he  came 
home.  He  sold  his  property  in  Howard  in  1852,  and  moved  into 
Boone  county  and  purchased  the  farm  where  he  now  resides,  in  Mis- 
souri township.  His  homestead  contains  350  acres,  and  he  also  owns 
another  2V2  miles  distant  from  the  former.  Judge  Pipes  was  married, 
December  23,  1832,  to  Mrs.  Mary  Williams,  a  widow  lady  of  Howard 
county.  They  have  three  children,  George,  Charles,  and  Julia  A., 
wife  of  George  W.  Drake,  of  Howard  county.  Judge  Pipes  has  al- 
ways been  a  successful  manager  in  his  private  affairs,  insomuch  that 
his  neighbors  and  the  public  were  constrained  to  demand  his  services 
oflBcially.  He  was  appointed  justice  of  the  peace  by  the  county  court 
in  1840,  and  elected  subseqjuently  and  retained  9  years.  In  1876,  he 
was  elected  associate  justice  of  the  county  court,  and  in  1878  was 
elected  presiding  justice,  which  position  he  still  holds.  Judge  Pipes 
and  all  his  family  are  members  of  the  Christian  church,  he  being  one 
of  the  elders  of  Big  Spring  church,  in  Howard  county. 

JOHN   HUGHES   SAMPSON. 

John  H.  Sampson,  farmer  and  stock  raiser,  was  born  in  Richmond^ 
Madison  county,  Kentucky,  April  6,  1818.  His  parents  were  Richard 
and  Mary  (Watkins)  Sampson.  He  was  educlited  at  the  Richmond 
Seminary.  When  eighteen  years  of  age  his  parents  removed  to  Mis- 
souri and  settled  near  Rocheport,  arriving  at  t)ieir  destination  in  the 
fall  of  1839.  The  elder  Sampson  purchased  a  tract  of  land  containing 
360  acres,  now  known  as  the  Sampson  homestead.  The  son  remained 
with  his  parents  until  1842,  when  he  married  Miss  Martha  A.,  daugh- 
ter of  Michael  and  Martha  E.  Woods,  pioneer  settlers  of  Boone 
county  ,|haviug  emigrated  from  Kentucky  to  Missouri  in  1816.  After 
his  marriage,  Mr.  Sampson  removed  to  a  farm  of  126  acres  given  him 
by  his  father.  This  was  the  nucleus  of  his  present  estate,  to  which 
he  hasjadded  361  acres,  making  in  all  487  acres.  He  has  devoted 
mostjof  his  life  to  agricultural  pursuits,  allowing  nothing  to  interfere 
with  or  impedejhis  efforts  in  that  direction.  He  has  ten  children  : 
Richard  Henry,  Michael  Woods,  Mary  Watkins,  Martha  Denney,  Mar- 
garet Francis,  Sarah  Caroline,  John  Thomas,  Jnlia  Elizabeth,  William 
Arthur,  and  Walter  Irvin,  all  under  the  parental  roof.  Tbey  lost  one 
son,  James  D.,  who  died  in  1863,  aged  two  years  and  six  months.^ 
Mr.  Sampson,  wife  and  four  children  are  members  of  the   Walnut 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1053 

Orove  Baptist  church,  of  which  he  has  been  a  deacon  for  fifteen  years, 
and  clerk  for  twenty-four  years.  In  1868  he  and  seven  other  enter- 
prising citizens  of  Boone  county  bought  up  the  stock  of  the  Colum- 
bia and  Rocheport  turnpike,  assuming  a  debt  of  $7,000,  which  they 
have  since  paid,  and  have  maintained  the  road  ever  since. 

THOMAS   WATKIN8   SAMPSON. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Richmond,  Madison  county, 
Kentucky,  October  6,  1815.  He  is  the  son  of  Richard  and  Mary 
(Watkins)  Sampson.  His  father  was  born  in  Baltimore  county,  Ma- 
ryland, July  20,  1780.  Mary,  daughter  of  Absalom  Watkins,  and 
mother  of  Thomas  Watkins  Sampson,  was  born  in  Albemarle  county, 
Virginia,  March  15,  1789.  Richard  Sampson  and  Mary  Watkins 
were  married  in  Richmond,  Madison  county,  Kentucky, 
March  14th,  1811.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  in  rather 
feeble  health  in  early  manhood,  and  spent  several  years  travelling  in 
the  Southern  States.  He  spent  several  winters  in  New  Orleans  and 
Mobile,  and  in  the  fall  of  1848  was  stricken  down  with  the  yellow 
fever  while  in  New  Orleans.  In  the  spring  of  1849,  in  company  with 
the  distinguished  mountaineer,  guide,  and  Indian  fighter,  Capt.  Jim 
Kirker,  and  two  Delaware  Indian  scouts  and  hunters,  he  crossed  the 
plains  to  Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico,  passing  through  Colorado.  From 
Santa  Fe,  they  passed  through  the  State  of  Sonora,  old  J  Mexico,  and 
Arizona  Territory,  by  way  of  the  Pima  Indian  villages  andJTucson  ; 
then  across  the  desert  to  San  Diego,  and  thence  to  San  Francisco  by 
sea,  returning  home  in  the  spring  of  1852,  after  an  absence  of  three 
years.  This  trip  proved  very  beneficial  to  Mr.  Sampson,  his  health 
having  been  fully  restored  by  the  journey.  In  the  spring  of  1846  he 
assisted  in  raising  a  company  of  volunteer  cavalry  to  join  Gen.  Price's 
army  which  was  to  cross  the  plains  from  Fort  Leavenworth  to  New 
Mexico,  at  the  beginning  of  the  Mexican  war.  Mr.  Sampson  was 
elected  second  lieutenant  of  this  company.  Owing  to  the  large  num- 
ber of  volunteer  companies  offering  their  services  at  the  time,  his  com- 
pany was  too  late  to  be  accepted.  Mr.  Sampson,  however,  accepted  a 
situation  in  the  quartermaster's  department,  at  Fort  Leavenworth,  and 
remained  there  until  the  close  of  the  season,  forwarding  trains  across 
the  plains  with  supplies  for  Price's  army.  He  then  went  to  New  Or- 
leans, and  was  in  that  city  when  our  troops  returned  from  Mexico. 
Mr.  Sampson  seems  to  have  manifested  a  fondness  for  military  life  at 
quite  an  early  age.     He  was  commissioned  a  captain  of  militia  when 


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1054  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

but  nineteen  years  old,  by  Governor  James  Clar'k,  of  Kentucky.  At 
the  age  of  twenty  he  received  a  major's  commission  in  the  same  regi- 
ment, signed  by  Governor  James  Morehead.  He  cast  his  first  vote 
for  Cassius  M.  Clay  for  member  of  the  Legislature  in  1847.  After 
coming  to  Missouri  he  voted  with  the  Whig  party  until  1856,  when  he 
voted  for  James  Buchanan  for  President.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Democratic  State  Convention  at  Jefferson  Citv  in  1860,  and  voted  for 
C.  F.  Jackson  for  Governor ;  has  been  a  Democrat  ever  since,  but  did 
not  vote  for  Horace  Greeley  for  President ;  voted  for  Gen.  Grant  each 
time  he  was  elected  President.  Mr.  Sampson  was  married  in  Roche- 
port,  November  2,  1848,  by  Rev.  David  Coulter,  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  to  Miss  Lessie  B.,  daughter  of  G.  W.  C.  and  Jane  Melody. 
Mr.  Sampson  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church  at  Columbia, 
Missouri ;  Mrs.  Sampson  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 
Richard  Sampson,  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  baptized 
in  the  Episcopalfan  church,  in  Baltimore  county,  Maryland.  Mary 
Watkins  was  baptized  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church,  in  Virginia, 
in  1830.  She  afterwards  united  with  the  Presbyterian  church,  at  Rich- 
mond, Kentucky,  there  being  no  Episcopal  church  in  that  place. 
Richard  Sampson  never  united  with  any  other  church,  but  remained 
as  a  baptized  member  of  the  Episcopal  church  to  the  day  of  his  death. 
Thomas  Watkins  Sampson  is  a  farmer,  having  a  comfortable  home 
near  Rocheport.  He  has  a  large  collection  of  books,  and  derives  his 
greatest  pleasure  from  intellectual  pursuits.  He  is  a  great  reader, 
and  spends  much  of  his  time  with  his  books. 

ROBEBT   EVANS   SCOTT. 

Robert  Evans  Scott  was  born  in  Orange  county.  New  York,  Novem- 
ber 20th,  1809.  When  he  was  two  years  old  his  parents  removed  to 
Monongahela  county,  Virginia,  where  he  lived  with  his  mother  until 
1833,  his  father  having  died  when  he  was  nine  years  old.  Although 
making  his  home  with  his  mother,  he  began  work  for  himself  when 
about  sixteen  years  of  age.  In  1833  he  went  to  Ligonier,  Pennsylva- 
nia, where  he  followed  the  occupation  of  a  mill-wright.  When  not 
engaged  in  this  business  he  worked  at  the  cabinet  maker's  trade.  In 
the  spring  of  1836  he  returned  to  Virginia,  going  thence  to  Elkhart, 
Indiana,  where  he  worked  at  the  cabinet  maker's  trade  until  1839, 
when  he  came  to  Missouri.  He  stopped  for  a  shoii:  time  at  St.  Louis, 
going  from  there  to  Palestine,  Cooper  county,  where  he  remliined 
until  1840.     In  June  of  that  year  he  removed  to  Boone  county  and 


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HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  1055- 

settled  at  Columbia  where  he  and  his  brother,  George  W.  Scott, 
followed  the  trade  of  mill-wrights.     In  1840  they  built  a  grist-mill  for 
Keuben  Black   on  Hinkson  creek,  one  and  one-half  miles  south  of 
Columbia.     In   1841  they  built  a  mill  for  Noi-thcup  &  McCarty  on 
Perche  creek,  the  site  being  where  the  Gillaspy  bridge  now  stands. 
The  same  year  they  built  a  mill  for  Hersh  &  Stapleton  on  Callaham 
creek,  seven  miles  west  of  Columbia,  on  what  is  now  known  as  the 
Gen.  Hatton  place.     In  the  spring  of  1842,  Mr.  Scott  went  to  Farm- 
ington.  Van  Buren  county,  Iowa,  where  he  lived  two  years.     While 
there  he  built  a  lock  on  the  Des  Moines  river,  near  Farmington,  for 
the  Plymouth  Mill  Company.     On  leaving  Iowa  he  returned  to  Boone 
county  and  resumed  farming,  working,  al80,athi8trade,until  1849,  when 
he  went  over  land  to  California.     While  there  he  was  engaged  in 
trading,  mining  and  freighting.     He  also  built  a  hotel  for  Col.  R.  W. 
Noble  and  Archie  Stephenson,  at  French  Camp,  near  Stockton.     In 
1851  he  returned  h©me  by  way  of  Panama  and  New  Orleans.     On 
arriving  in  Boone  county  he  purchased  the  farm  on  which  he   now 
lives,  consisting  of  seven  hundred  acres,  three  miles  west  of  Colum- 
bia.    During  the  civil  war  he  was  arrested  and  imprisoned  at  Columbia 
for  about  two  months  on  account  of  his  Southern  proclivities.     Ho 
gave  bond  and  was  allowed  to  retlirn  to  his  home.     Mr.  Scott  was 
married  in  the  winter  of  1841  to  Miss  Ann  H.  Oldham,  of  Boone 
county.     Seven  children  were  born  of  this  marriage,  six  of  whom  are 
now  living.     Warwick  M.  is  a  prosperous  merchant  of  Columbia, 
Missouri.     Eugene  is  a  farmer,  and  lives  in  Boone  county.     Adolphus 
G.  is  a  clerk  in  a  fetore  at  Marshall,  Missouri ;  Frank  P.,  Wallace  W. 
and  Robert  Emmett  are  still  living  with  their  parents.     One  son, 
Lawrence,  was  killed  in  the  Confederate  army,  near  Springfield,  Mis- 
souri, in  1864. 

CHARLES   £.  SEXTON. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  George  and  Sarah  Sexton 
and  was  bornjon  the  old  Sexton  farm,  eight  miles  northwest  of  Co- 
lumbia, Februaiy  3d,  1819.  His  father  was  one  of  the  most  active 
and  enterprising  citizens  of  the  county,  and  was  widely  known  through- 
out this  and  the  western  portion  of  the  State,  being  for  twenty-four 
years  the  sole^contractor  for  carrying  the  mails  west  of  St.  Louis.  This 
was  a  large  business  for  one  man,  but  George  Sexton  was  always 
equal  to  all  his  undertakings.  He  came  to  Missouri  in  1817  and 
settled  on  the  farm  where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  bom  two 
years  later.     When   ten  years  old  Charles  was  put  on  a  mail  route,. 


1056  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  ^ 

carrying  between  way  stations  on  horseback.  He  carried  the  first 
mail-bag  ever  delivered  at  the  post-oflGlce  in  Rocheport,  Missouri.  As 
he  grew  older  he  was  intrusted  with  mxich  of  his  father's  business,  and 
travelled  extensively  over  the  various  routes  between  St.  Louis  and 
Leavenworth.  In  1835,  when  but  sixteen  years  old,  he  was  married 
to  Miss  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Gentry,  of  Boone  county. 
In  1839  he  began  to  work  in  his  father's  carriage  and  repairing  shops, 
situated  on  the  old  home  place.  He  remained  in  the  shops  until  1845, 
when  he  engaged  in  the  milling  business,  which  he  has  followed,  with 
slight  intermissions,  ever  since.  In  1850  he  engaged  in  the  mule 
trade  with  Moses  U.  Payne,  buying  in  Missouri  and  selling  in  the 
South.  He  followed  this  business,  in  connection  with  wagon  and  car- 
riage-making, for  ten  years.  His  shops  were  on  Thrall's  Prairie,  now 
known  as  the  Model  Farm,  a  portion  of  which  he  owned  for  fifteen  years. 
In  1860  he  resumed  saw-milling,  which  he  has  followed  at  various 
places  in  Boone  county  ever  since.  He  settled  at  Midway  in  the  fall 
of  1880.  He  has  been  twice  married.  His  first  wife  dying  in  1839, 
he  was  married,  in  1840,  to  Miss  Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Peter 
McDonald,  of  Howard  county,  by  whom  he  has  three  children ;  Gesse 
Green  and  Millard  Payne,  of  Millersburg,  Callaway  county,  Missouri, 
and  Sallie  J.,  wife  of  T.  C.  Scruggs,  of  Columbia.  By  the  first  mar- 
riage there  were  two  children,  William,  of  Columbia,  and  George  S., 
killed  in  the  Confederate  army  in  1864.  From  1840  to  1850,  Mr. 
Sexton  was  a  justice  of  the  peace.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sexton  are  members 
of  the  Methodist  church  at  Columbia.  He  has  been  an  active  member 
since  1835,  part  of  the  time  acting  as  steward  and  class-leader.  He  is 
a  member  of  Twilight  lodge.  No.  114,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.  of  Columbia. 

WILLIAM    SLADE,    DECEASED. 

The  deceased  gentleman,  whose  name  heads  this  sketch,  was  one  of 
the  old  settlers  of  Boone  county.  He  was  born  in  the  State  of  Ver- 
mont, March  I5th,  1810.  His  parents  moved  with  him  to  New  York, 
when  he  was  quite  young,  where  he  lived  with  them  until  reaching 
manhood.  In  about  1840  he  came  to  Missouri,  and  located  in  Colum- 
bia, Boone  county,  where  he  operated  as  a  mechanic,  and  assisted  in 
the  building  of  the  University.  In  1842,  he  went  to  Rocheport,  and 
there  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  for,  probably,  two  years.  He 
then  sold  out,  and  was  for  one  year  engaged  in  superintending  the 
erection  of  a  tobacco  factory  for  J.  A.  Hadwin.  Next  he  was  asso- 
ciated with  a  man  named  Collins  in  the  mercantile  business,  continuing 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1057 

thus  for  three  years,  when  CoUias  retired  from  the  firm.  T.  M. 
Smith  and  Fayette  Kirby  next  came  in  as  partners,  and  they  remained 
together  till  1850,  when  Mr.  Slade  sold  out  to  go  to  California.  He 
«pent  two  years  in  the  gold  mines  of  that  State,  and  on  his  return  was 
elected  justice  of  the  peace,  in  which  capacity  he  served  several  years. 
During  the  war,  he  was  postmaster  at  Rocheport  till  1863,  when  he 
iras  elected  (or  appointed)  representative  in  the  State  legislature. 
After  this,  he  was  again  elected  justice  and  also  commissioned  notary 
public,  which  he  held  to  the  time  of  his  death,  on  the  10th  of  May,  1869. 
His  works  go  to  show  that  he  was  a  very  ingenious  and  industrious 
man  ;  and  the  macadamizing,  guttering  and  crossings  made  by  him  in 
•Rocheport  are  models  of  artistic  skill.  In  the  fall  of  1869,  his  widow, 
Mrs.  S.  M.  Slade,  was  appointed  postmistress  to  succeed  her  husband, 
.which  position  she  still  holds,  transacting  the  business  connected  there- 
with by  the  aid  of  her  son,  William,  who  is  her  deputy.  Mrs.  Slade 
received  her  appointment  from  Gen.  U.  S.  Grant,  then  President. 

WARREN    A.    SMITH. 

Warren  A.  Smith  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  June  8th, 
1837.  He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Capt.  Wm.  Smith,  a  sketch  of  whose 
life  may  be  found  in  the  biography  of  his  youngest  son.  Fielding 
W.  Smith.  Capt.  Smith  was  the  fiither  of  nine  children,  five  of 
whom  are  now  living.  The  eldest  son  is  in  business  in  San  Francisco, 
California;  William,  the  next  youngest,  lives  in  St.  Louis.  Oliver, 
lives  in  Mexico,  Missouri.  He  is  the  son-in-law  of  Elder  James  Barnes, 
whose  biography  may  be  found  in  this  volume.  Two  sons.  Fielding 
W.,  and  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  are  citizens  of  Boone  county. 
Warren  A.  Smith  has  spent  most  of  his  life  on  the  farm.  During 
the  late  war  he  was  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  at  Quincy,  Illi- 
nois. Subsequent  to  this,  from  1855  to  1859,  he  was  engaged  in  the 
same  business  at  Columbia,  Missouri.  He  was  married  in  1863  to 
Miss  Mary  McKinney ,  daughter  of  John  C.  McKinney.  They  have  three 
<5hildren.  Mr.  Smith  purchased  a  portion  of  the  **  Model  Farm  "  in 
1882,  and  has  made  many  improvements  since  getting  possession  of 
his  new  home.  His  farm  contains  about  one  thousand  acres.  In  his 
home  place  —  the  '*  Model  Farm  "  — he  has  about  three  hundred  and 
forty  acres.  A  large  portion  of  his  land*  is  in  grass.  He  makes  a 
specialty  of  short-horn  cattle.  Mr.  Smith  is  a  man  of  excellent  taste 
and  culture  and  delights  in  the  beautiful  as  well  as  the  useful.  He  is 
surrounded  with  almost  every  comfort  a  man  could  wish  for.  He  is 
67 


1058  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTT.    , 

a  farmer  from  choice,  and  takes  the  greatest  pleasure  in  all  that  per- 
tains to  his  chosen  avocation.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
church  at  Everett,  and  contributes  liberally  to  the  support  of  the 
Gospel. 

HENRY   TUMY 

Was  born  in  Harrodsburg,  Mercer  county,  Kentucky,  Angu^  10, 
1819.  When  he  was  three  years  old  his  parents  moved  to  Peters- 
burg, Kentucky,  and  from  there  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  when  he  was 
six  years  old.  A  year  later  his  father  died  of  yellow  fever  at  New 
Orleans,  and  Henry  went  with  his  mother  to  Dayton,  Ohio,  where  she 
died,  leaving  him  alone  in  the  world  at  the  early  age  of  eight  years. 
He  was  bound  to  a  tanner  named  John  Kuntz,  with  whom  he  li?e(i 
six  years,  learning  son\ething  of  the  tanning  business.  At  fourteen 
years  of  age  he  set  in  to  learn  the  saddle  and  harness  maker's  trades, 
at  which  he  has  worked  ever  since.  In  September,  1842,  Mr.  Tumy 
camOkto  this  county  and  set  up  in  the  saddlery  and  harness  business 
at  Rochepoil,  and  has  continued  so  ever  since,  except  the  interrup- 
tions he  was  subjected  to  during  the  war.  At  the  burniug  of  Roche- 
port,  so  frequently  mentioned  in  this  volume,  he  lost  heavily  io 
buildings  and  goods.  Besides,  he  was,  on  another  occasion,  forced 
to  raise  $400  by  Bill  Anderson  and  his  **  bushwackers,"  which  he 
borrowed  of  his  neighbors  and  gavel  up  in  ransom  for  his  life.  On 
the  return  of  peace  he  resumed  his  business,  and  by  close  attention 
thereto  has  regained  his  losses,  conducting  a  tannery  also  in  con- 
nection with  his  other  business.  On  October  24,  1844,  Mr.  Tumy 
married  Miss  Georgia  Evans,  of  Rocheport.  They  have  eight  chil- 
dren :  Laura,  Sarah,  Nannie,  Deborah,  James,  John,  Henry  and 
Frank.  The  girls  are  all  married.  The  last  named  reside  at  home 
with  their  father  at  this  writing.  Mr.  Tumy  is  a  member  of  the 
Rocheport  lodge,  No.  67,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  of  lodge  No.  147, 
I.  O.  G.  T. 

REV.    MERIWEATHER    L.    A.    VIA. 

Rev.  Meriweather  Lewis  Arlington  Via,  farmer  and  minister,  was 
born  near  Charlottesville,  Albemarle  county,  Virginia,  Aiigust  27th, 
1813.  He  is  the  son  of  Pleasant  and  Margaret  E.  Via.  He  remained 
with  his  parents  until  nineteen  years  of  age,  when  he  began  doing 
for  himself  as  a  farm  overseer,  following  this  occupation  until  he  was 
twenty-four  years  old.  In  1837  he  engaged  in  blacksmithing,  fol- 
lowing this  business  until  1842,  when  he  sold  out  and  removed  to 
Missouri.      In  1845    he   purchased  a  farm  near  Everett,   in  Boone 


HISTORY  OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  1059 

county,  where  he  remained  until  1865,  when  he  sold  out  and  removed  to 
Callaway  county,  Missouri.  He  remained  there  four  years,  returning  to 
Boone  in  1869,  settling  on  the  farm  where  he  now  lives,  near  Colum- 
bia. In  addition  to  farming  Mr.  Via  is  a  local  minister  of  the  Meth- 
odist Church  South.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  in  1851,  and  was 
subsequently  ordained  a  deacon,  at  Louisiana,  Missouri,  by  Bishop 
Pierce,  and  was  made  an  elder  by  Bishop  Marvin,  at  Fulton,  Missouri. 
He  was  married  January  3d,  1832,  to  Miss  Mary  Ann  Watson,  of 
Albemarle  county,  Virginia,  by  whom  he  has  four  children  :  William, 
a  prosperous  physician,  whose  biography  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
volume  ;  John  U.,  who  is  now  superintending  his  father's  farm  ;  Mar- 
garet v.,  wife  of  Wingfield  Conley,  a  farmer,  of  Missouri  township, 
and  Meriweather  Benjamin,  also  a  practicing  physician.  He  was  born 
in  Albemarle  county,  Virginia,  December,  1839.  When  he  was  three 
years  old  his  parents  came  to  Missouri  and  settled  in  Boone  county, 
where  he  was  raised  and  educated.  He  remained  with  his  parents  un- 
til he  attained  his  majority,  when  he  commenced  teaching  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  Boone  county.  He  also  taught  penmanship  in  Boone 
and  the  surrounding  counties.  In  1873  he  began  the  study  of  medi- 
cine, under  his  brother,  W.  P.  Via.  From  1874  to  1875,  inclusive, 
he  attended  the  lectures  at  the  Missouri  SUite  University.  In  1876 
he  attended  a  course  of  lectures  at  the  Medical  College  in  St.  Louis, 
finally  graduating  from  Keokuk,  Iowa,  in  1881,  when  he  began  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  Missouri  township,  making  his  home  with  his 
father  three  and  one-half  miles  southwest  of  Columbia. 

WILLIAM   PLEASANT   VIA. 

William  Pleasant  Via,  M.  D.,  was  born  in  Albermarle  county,  Vir- 
ginia, August  12th,  1842.  His  parents  removed  to  Boone  county, 
Missouri,  in  1845.  He  was  raised  on  a  farm,  attending  the  common 
schools  until  1864,  when  he  commenced  the  study  of  medicine  under 
Dr.  John  M.  Shock,  of  Everett,  Boone  county,  Missouri.  In  1866-67 
he  attended  lectures  at  the  Ohio  Medical  College,  Cincinnati.  In 
1870-71,  he  attended  medical  lectures  at  Pope's  College,  St.  Louis, 
graduating  from  that  institution  in  March,  1871.  After  practicing 
his  profession  in  various  places,  and  making  a  tour  through  the  West- 
ern and  Northwestern  States,  he  returned  to  Boone  county  in  1877 
and  resumed  his  former  practice  in  the  vicinity  of  Midway,  at  which 
place  he  is  permanently  located.  He  has  the  patronage  of  a  fine  dis- 
trict of  country,  getting  all  the  practice  he  can  attend  to.     In  addi- 


1060  HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTY. 

tion  to  his  regular  practice,  h^  is  county  physician,  having  the  care 
of  all  patients  at  the  county  prison  and  infirmary.  He  was  married 
June  9th,  1877,  to  Miss  Emma  E.,  daughter  of  J.  H.  Ravenscraff,  of 
Boone  county.  They  have  two  children,  Hugh  Breinerd  and  Guy 
FoiTcst.  Dr.  Via  is  a  member  of  Twilight  lodge.  No.  144,  A.  F. 
and  A.  M.,  Columbia,  Missouri.  He  was  a  Confederate  soldier  during 
the  civil  war,  having  enlisted  under  Col.  Harvey  McKinney  in  1861, 
serving  until  the  winter  of  1864. 

^  JOSHUA    F.    WHITE.  • 

This  gentleman,  an  old  settler  of  Boone  county,  was  bom  in  Win- 
-chester,  Frederick  county,  Virginia,  March  27th,  1813.  When  he 
was  nine  years  old  his  parents  came  to  Missouri,  and  settled  one  mile 
north  of  Head's  Fort,  in  Howard  county.  Joshua  lived  with  the 
family  on  the  farm,  even  after  he  became  of  age  ;  and  when  his  father 
and  mother  became  old  and  infirm,  he,  like  a  dutiful  son,  cared  for 
their  comfort  and  support  till  the  time  of  their  death.  His  mother 
died  first,  at  the  age  of  eighty,  in  1851,  and  his  father  died  in  1858, 
aged  eighty-six.  Mr.  White  fell  heir  to  the  homestead,  which  he 
owned  till  1860,  when  he  sold  it  and  moved  to  Rocheport,  this  county. 
Besides  being  a  farmer,  his  father  was  master  of  the  cooper's  trade, 
which  Joshua  learned  also.  On  coming  to  Rocheport  he  set  up  in 
that  business,  and  has  continued  in  it  ever  since.  Mr.  White  served 
in  the  Black  Hawk  war,  in  1832,  as  scout  under  command  of  Captains 
Canowl  and  Pollard.  In  1837  he  volunteered  for  service  in  the 
Florida  war  under  Col.  Richard  Gentry,  and  was  commissioned  cap- 
tain of  his  company.  He,  however,  fell  sick  with  a  fever,  and  could 
not  move  with  his  command,  Lieut.  Jackson  taking  command  of  the 
<;ompany.  On  the  25th  of  October,  1838,  he  was  "married  to  Miss 
Mary  Hern,  of  Boone  county,  by  whom  he  has  at  this  writing  live 
living  children:  Susan  F.,  George  W.,  Ann,  Josephine,  and  Mary. 
Mrs.  White  died  June  30th,  1856.  Not  many  of  these  old  pioneers 
are  left,  and  the  time  must  speedily  come  when  all  that  we  know  of 
them  will  be  in  vague  tradition,  unless,  indeed,  their  names  should  be 
mentioned  in  history.  But  it  is  to  them  that  the  generations  of  this 
day  owe  their  comfort  and  prosperity  in  this  land  of  peace  and  plenty. 

THOMAS   WHITTLE. 

Mr.  Whittle  was  born  in  Staffordshire,  England,  April  24,  1825. 
In  early  life  he  learned  the  trade  of  boot  and  shoe  making,  at  which 


HI8TOET  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  1061 

he  has  worked  the  greater  portion  of  his  life,  or  until  1869.  When 
he  had  attained  his  majority,  or  in  the  year  1846,  he  made  a  tour  of 
•England,  visiting  some  of  the  principal  cities.  October  7,  1847,  he 
came  to  America,  landing  in  New  York  City.  This  was  the  first  trip 
of  the  vessel  in  which  he  sailed  ;  on  her  second  she  was  lost.  After 
travelling  through  various  States  of  the  Union,  Mr.  Whittle  landed 
in  Columbia,  Jime  6,  1852.  He  found  it  very  difficult  to  obtain  a 
house  in  which  to  do  business,  owing  to  the  indisposition  of  the  land- 
lords at  that  day  to  rent  to  newcomers,  but  in  time,  he  found  himself 
firmly  established,  and  became  one  of  the  county's  best  and  most 
respected  citizens. 

Mr.  Whittle  engaged  in  the  boot  and  shoe  business,  upon  his  first 
settling  in  Columbia,  and  steadily  pursued  his  calling,  making  a  full 
hand  either  on  the  bench,  or  behind  the  counter.  He  always  kept 
himself  employed,  and  never  found  time  to  **loaf."  By  industry, 
economy,  and  good  management,  in  time  he  acquired  the  handsome 
competence  which  he  now  possesses.  He  has  owned  one  of  the  best 
farms  in  BooneJ  county  for  fourteen  years,  and  on  this  stands  one  of 
the  most  handsome  and  comfortable  residences  in  Central  Missouri. 
In  May,  1882,  Mr.  Whittle  began  the  erection,  on  the  corner  of  Ninth 
and  Broadway,  Columbia,  of  the  fine  structure  known  as  Whittle's 
block,  probably  the  best  building  of  the  kind  in  the  city.  Mr.  Whit- 
tle's possessions  are  the  product  of  his  own  labor  and  honest  enterprise. 
He  inherited  nothing  from  his  father's  estate,  being  the  eighth  child 
of  a  family  of  twelve  children.  In  October,  1857,  Mr.  Whittle  mar- 
ried Mis^  Mary  Huleu,  daughter  of  John  A.  Hulen,  Esq.,  of  Boone 
county.  They  are  the  parents  of  four  children,  Hannah  L.,  John  E., 
Francis  L.  and  Thomas  William,  all  of  whom  have  been  educated  in 
Columbia,  at  the  Christian  College  and  the  State  University.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Whittle  are  both  members  of  the  ^Christian  church,  and  Mr. 
Whittle  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity. 

In  1865  Mr.  Whittle  made  a  trip  to  Europe.  He  crossed  the 
Atlantic  in  the  ill-fated  steamer  City  of  Boston,  which  was  lost  on  her 
next  trip,  and  never  heard  of.  He  has  made  several  narrow  escapes 
from  violent  deaths  by  ships  and  steamboats,  very  remarkable  in  their 
nature,  and  worthy  of  recording.  Besides  the  two  already  noted,  in 
1849  he  accidently  missed  a  steamer  at  Pittsburg  Pa.,  which  blew  up 
on  the  same  trip.  Afterward,  at  New  Orleans,  he  missed  taking  pas- 
sage  for  California  on  the  steamship  Louisiana,  which  blew  up  while 
in  port.     While  in  Europe,  in  1865,  Mr.  Whittle  made  the  tour  of 


1062  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

France,  and  spent  some  time  in  the  city  of  Paris.     He  came  home  in 
the  steamer  Louisiana,  and  on  the  next  trip  she  was  lost. 

Mr.  Whittle  has  much  to  be  proud  of.  A  well-spent  life  ;  a  com- 
petence of  this  world's  goods  ;  an  elegant,  tasty  home  ;  an  intelligent, 
cultivated  family,  appreciative  of  the  valuable  and  beautiful  in  life, 
and  hosts  of  merited  friends  are  things  of  which  any  man  may  be 
proud,  and  beyond  which  nothing  need  be  desired. 

BENTON   WHITE 

Was  born  near  Rocheport,  Boone  county,  Missouri,  January  10, 
1842.  When  he  was  ten  years  old,  his  parents  moved  over  into 
Howard  county,  settling  near  the  Boone  line,  five  miles  northwest  of 
Eocheport.  Here  Benton  was  reared,  and  learned  the  trade  of  black- 
smith under  his  father,  who  was  a  votary  of  that  craft.  At  nineteen 
years  old,  he  began  to  do  business  for  himself  as  a  blacksmith  and  farm- 
er, which  he  continued  until  1867.  He  then  opened  a  general  store 
at  what  is  known  as  White's  Store,  on  the  old  road  leading  from 
Rocheport  to  Fayette,  where  he  is  still  in  business.  In  March,  1862, 
he  took  in,  as  a  partner,  his  younger  brother,  George  H.,  who  had  been 
clerking  for  Benton  since  he  was  a  small  boy.  At  this  time  they 
opened  a  store  in  Rocheport, ,  one  brother  taking  charge  of  it,  while 
the  other  remained  at  the  old  stand.  In  1872  a  post-office  was  estab- 
lished at  White's  Store,  and  Benton  was  appointed  postmaster,  which 
position  he  still  holds.  Their  business  now  amounts  to  $20,000  in 
sales,  annually,  though  they  began  on  a  capital  of  only  $600.  On 
September  1,  1862,  Mr.  White  was  married  to  Miss  Susan,  daughter 
of  Ephraim  Turner,  of  Howard  county.  They  have  five  children: 
John,  Nannie,  Bettie,  Samuel  R.,  and  May  T.  Mr.  White  is  a  careful 
and  successful  business  man,  and  is  held  in  high  esteem  by  the  busi- 
ness men  of  Boone  and  Howard  counties,  being  ever  found  at  his  post, 
and  gradually  rising  in  business  prosperity. 

JOSEPH   WILLIAMSON. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  one  of  the  oldest  living  pioneers  of 
Boone  county.  He  came  to  this  county  with  his  father,  John  Wil- 
liamson, from  Virginia,  in  1828,  and  settled  near  the  Missouri  river, 
eight  miles  southeast  of  Rocheport.  The  first  year  after  their  arrival 
he  farmed  with  his  father,  but  the  year  following  bought  a  farm  of 
184  acres,  bis  father  assisting;  him  in  the  purchase.  He  was  married 
December  23,  1829,  to  Miss  Shelin  Brushwood,  and  commenced  the 


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HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  1063 

improvement  of  the  farm  upon  which  he  lived  until  1851,  when  he  re- 
moved to  the  farm  he  now  occupies,  in  the  near  vicinity  of  the  first 
purchase.  During  the  great  overflow  in  1844  his  farm  was  entirely 
flooded,  and  he  lost  all  that  he  possessed  except  the  land.  Mr.  Wil- 
liamson has,  by  industry  and  frugality,  accumulated  valuable  property, 
owning  about  500  acres  of  land.  He  was  once  the  largest  tobacco 
grower  in  the  country,  having  produced  as  much  as  10,000  pounds  in 
one  season.  At  first  he  shipped  to  New  Orleans,  but  afterwards  sold 
at  Bocheport*  In  1832  he,  in  company  with  L.  B.  Hunt,  built  a  flat- 
boat  at  Rocheport,  which  they  loaded  with  cattle,  tobacco  and  hemp 
for  the  New  Orleans  market.  While  making  the  voyage  down  the 
Mississippi  river,  which  had  overflown  its.  banks,  four  of  the  crew, 
who  had  landed  from  the  boat  in  an  effort  to  fasten  the  cable,  were 
left  on  the  shore.  Mr.  Williamson  went  to  their  rescue  in  a  canoe 
which  was  overturned  near  the  shore.  He  escaped,  but  the  men  on 
the  flat,  supposing  he  was  lost,  went  on  with  the  boat.  Mr.  William- 
son was  compelled  to  work  his  passage  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  was 
afierwarda  joined  by  his  friends,  who  had  made  a'  successful  voyage 
and  had  plenty  of  money.  Mr.  Williamson,  before  coming  to  Mis- 
souri, tmrelled  extensively  over  the  South,  and  has  visited  Texas 
since  settling  in  Missouri.  He  has  six  living  children  and  thirty-one 
grandchildren.  Himself,  wife  and  children  are  all  members  of  the 
Methodist  church. 

JOHN   8.    WILHITB. 

This  is  another  subject  who  was  *•  to  the  manner  bom."  Mr.  Wilhite 
is  the  son  of  William  and  Priscilla  Wilhite,  and  was  born  on  Thrall's 
prairie,  July  26,  1819.  His  parents  were  Kentuckians,  who  came 
here  in  the  pipneer  days  of  Boone  county — 1818.  John  was  reared 
a  farmer  in  the  neighborhood  of  his  birth,  and  received  his  education 
in  the  subscription  schools  of  the  proverbial  **  old  log  school-house.** 
On  coming  of  age,  he  began  to  work  his  father's  farm  **  on  shares," 
which  ha  continued  to  do  some  three  years.  He  then  began  improv- 
ing for  himself,  on  a  piece  of  wild  land  belonging  to  his  father, 
and  which  the  latter  subsequently  deeded  to  John.  He  resided  on 
that  place  till  1849,  when  he  purchased  the  farm  where  he  now  re- 
sides, in  Missouri  township.  In  February,  1849,  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Nancy  B.,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Mary  C.  McQuitty,  also 
pioneers  of  old  Boone  county.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  de- 
cidedly a  home  man,  as  he  was  never  out  of  the  State  but  four  times 


1064  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

in  his  life,  and  then  only  for  short  periods.  Mr.  Wilhite  owns  a  good 
farm  of  320  acres,  which  he  devotes  to  general  agriculture,  but  es- 
pecially to  stock  growing.  He  owned  some  valuable  slaves,  which 
the  war  freed,  and  which  were  his  sole  dependence  as  farm  bauds. 
The  negroes  never  left  him,  however,  and  continued  with  their  old 
master,  all  but  two  (who  are  still  with  him)  being  dead.  After  the 
war,  Mr.  W.  either  paid  them  wages,  or  gave  them  a  share  of  the 
crop,  at  their  own  option.  He  and  wife  are  both  members  of  the 
Walnut  Grove  Baptist  church,  of  which  he  has  been-  a  member 
since  1853,  and  she  since  1842.  Over  thirty  years  a  member  of 
the  same  church !  What  a  subject  is  this  for  the  pastoral  poet, 
who  might  show  them  now,  as  serenely  waiting  the  time  when 
they  shall  be  called  home,  to  remain  forever  in  a  glad,  unbroken 
congregation,  where  all  joy  is  worship  and  all  happiness  is  praise  I 

ANDREW   JACKSON   WOOD. 

Andrew  J.  Wood  is  the  son  of  James  R.  and  Jane  (Ogan) 
Wood,  pioneer  settlers  of  Boone  county,  who  came  from  North 
Carolina  in  an  early  day,  and  settled  on  a  farm  in  Missouri  town* 
ship,  seven  miles  southwest  of  Columbia,  where  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  born,  October  17,  1833.  His  father  having  died 
in  1849,  Mr.  Wood  took  charge  of  the  farm,  which,  at  the 
death  of  his  mother  in  1863,  became  his  property.  The  farm 
contains  230  acres.  He  was  married  June  24,  1877,  to  Miss  Susan 
A.  Vanlandingham,  of  Boone  county.  She  died  May  4,  1879,  leav- 
ing one  child,  Addie  P. 


BISTORT   OF   BOONE   CbUNTT.  1065 


CHAPTEK    XXI. 

PERCHE  TOWNSHIP. 

Topography  —  Remarkable  Natural  Features  —  Connor's  (or  Holton's)  Cave  —  Callaham's 
Lick  — Sketch  of  Wm.  Callaham— Organization— Early  Settlers  — The  "FirsU"- 
Manslaughter  —  The  "Blackfoot"  Country — Villagea,  Perchetown,  or  "Persia"  — 
Harrisburg — Bverett  —  Methodist  Church  —  pripping  Spring  —  Christian  Church  — 
Ammon  —  Germantown  —  Woodland ville.  War  Incidents,  Fights  and  Skirmishes  — 
Killing  of  Mr.  Drake  —  Guerrilla  Diabolism  —  Killing  of  Wm.  Rumans  —  Hanging  of 
Two  Federals— Shooting  of  •* Half-Witted "  Batey  — Mr.  Dimmitt's  Fight  with  Bush- 
whackers —  Biographies  of  Old  Settlers  and  Prominent  Citizens  of  Perche  Township. 

TOPOGRAPHY. 

Except  Thrall's  prairie,  whicli  was  but  a  few  miles  in  extent,  Perche 
was  originally  covered  by  a  dense  growth  of  timber.  Much  of  this 
timber-land  is  still  uncleared.  Comparatively  speaking,  the  timbered 
lands  of  Perche  are  far  in  excess  of  any  other  township  in  the  county. 

There  are  fine  coal  mines  in  the  neighborhood  of  Dripping  Springs 
and  on  Lick  Fork,  along  the  line  of  the  original  survey  of  the  Chicago 
and  Alton  railroad. 

The  township  is  finely  watered,  springs  abounding  in  almost  every 
neighborhood,  and  when  not  found  above  the  surface  can  be  easily 
reached  by  digging. 

The  township  is  thickly  settled,  and  while  not  so  rich  of  soil,  it 
possesses  many  material  advantages  that  render  it  a  most  desirable 
abode  to  those  who  have  chosen  homes  within  its  borders.  The 
southern  portion,  including  Thrall's  prairie  and  the  *'  Model  Farm,"  is 
perhaps  the  finest  body  of  land  in  the  county.  The  farm,  as  improved 
by  its  late  proprietor,  was  given  the  premium  as  the  best  in  the 
State. 

REMARKABLE    NATURAL    FEATURES — CONNOR* 8    (OR    HOLTOn's)    CAVE. 

Near  the  junction  of  the  last  named  stream  with  the  Callaham  is  the 
famous  cave  known  by  several  names,  but  originally  as  '•  Connor's." 
This  cave  is  just  over  the  township  line  which  separates  Perche  and 
Missouri,  being  in  the  latter  township.  As  it  naturally  pertains  to 
the  section  of  country  known  as  Perche,  with  the  sobriquet  of 
*•  Blackfoot,"  it  will  not  be  amiss  to  include  a  description  of  it  in  thia 
township  history.     It  is  situated  on  the  northwest  quarter  of  section 


1066  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

thirty,  township  forty-nine,  range  thirteen.  It  now  bears  the  name 
of  Holton's  cave,  having  taken  the  name  from  George  Holton,  senior, 
who  owned  the  land  for  twenty  or  thirty  years.  He  died,  a  few  years 
ago,  leaving  the  property  to  his  son,  George  Holton,  junior,  who  now 
occupies  the  old  homestead.  The  house  stands  within  three  hundred 
yards  of  this  remarkable  cave.  As  the  land  about  this  cave  was  not 
valuable  for  agricultural  purposes,  it  remained  vacant  for  many  years 
after  the  rich  valleys  and  level  uplands  were  entered  and  occupied. 
The  water-power  at  last  attracted  the  attention  of  one  of  the  neigh- 
bors, who  erected  a  small  grist-mill  at  the  mouth  of  the  cave.  A  few 
years  later  Lewis  Connor  bought  the  property  and  established  a  large 
tan-yard,  intending  to  utilize  the  water-power  for  grinding  tan-bark 
and  for  other  purposes.  When  everjrthing  was  ready  it  was  found 
the  motive  power  was  not  sufficient  for  all  purposes.  Horse-power 
was  accordingly  substituted  for  grinding  the  bark,  and  the  business 
went  on  for  years,  and  Connor's  tan-yard  became  one  of  the  land- 
marks of  the  country.  The  tan-yard  and  all  the  buildings  pertaining 
thereto  have  disappeared  before  the  **  devouring  tooth  of  time,"  and 
only  the  name  and  cave  remain  to  remind  us  of  Lewis  Connor,  whose 
life  of  earnest,  honest  toil  deserves  never  to  be  forgotten. 

The  entrance  to  the  cave  is  from  the  west.  To  the  right  and  di- 
rectly in  front  there  is  a  perpendicular  wall  rising  above  the  cave  to 
the  height  of  forty  or  fifty  feet.  The  wall  is  very  smooth  in  places, 
and  was  formerly  covered  with  rude  pictures  of  animals  and  birds  of 
all  sorts  and  sizes,  being  somewhat  similar  in  outline  and  finish  to 
those  found  on  the  river  blufl^  below  Rocheport.  They  are  now  indis- 
tinct. The  cutting  away  of  timber  above  has  changed  the  whole  face 
of  nature.  The  turf  and  moss  and  loose  rocks,  that  formed  an  awning 
above,  have  fallen  away,  allowing  the  rains  to  beat  upon  the  walls 
below  until  scarcely  a  trace  of  the  pictures  remain. 

The  entrance  to  the  cave  is  sufficientlv  larofe  to  admit  a  man  on 
horseback,  but  the  wall  overhead  varies  from  four  feet  to  seventy-five 
or  eighty.  From  right  to  left  the  walls  are  from  ten  to  twenty  feet 
apart.  The  country  traversed  by  this  cave  is  a  high  ridge  of  table 
land  lying  between  the  Perche  and  Callaham,  which  at  this  point  are 
about  three  miles  apart.  A  large  stream  flows  through  the  cave 
from  east  to  west,  but  the  course  is  very  tortuous.  This  cave  has 
been  traversed  for  several  miles.  One  party,  who  claims  to  have 
measured  the  distance  travelled,  reached  a  point  three  miles  from  the 
mouth. 


HISTORY   OP   BOONS   COUNTY.  1067 

• 

This  is  quite  probable,  but  owing  to  the  irregularities  of  the  channel, 
they  doubtless  did  not  reach  a  point  exceeding  one  mile  from  the 
place  of  starting.  The  scenery  within  this  cave  was  formerly  of  the 
most  novel  and  brilliant  character.  Stalactites  and  stalagmites  with- 
out  number  adorned  the  roof  and  floor.  Some  of  them  were  as  large 
as  a  man's  body,  as  white  as  snow  and  smooth  of  surface  as  a  piece 
of  porcelain.  All  of  the  finest  specimens  have  been  broken  and  carried 
away.  About  a  half  mile  from  the  entrance  the  roof  of  the  cave  rises 
abruptly  from  the  height  of  five  or  six  feet  to  seventy-five  or  eighty 
feet,  perhaps  higher,  as  the  dome  is  lost  to  view  in  total  darkness. 
About  one-fourth  of  a  mile  further  on  are  the  chambers,  two  in  num- 
ber. The  outer  one  is  approached  by  two  stalagmites,  one  lying 
above  the  other.  In  the  center  of  this  room  is  a  huge  stalactite  which 
meets  and  unites  with  a  large  stalagmite,  forming  a  beautiful  column, 
twelve  or  fourteen  feet  in  length,  reaching  from  the  floor  to  the  ceiling. 
The  inner  chamber  is  approached  from  the  outer  through  a  narrow 
doorway.  This  is  the  most  beautiful  scene  of  all.  In  the  center  is  a 
natural  basin  filled  with  water  as  clear  as  crystal,  but  so  strongly 
impregnated  with  lime  as  to  be  repugnant  to  the  taste.  A  few 
•daring  individuals  have  climbed  to  the  dome  of  this  chamber  and 
written  their  names  on  the  smooth  surface  overhead. 

The  full  length  of  this  cave,  and  the  extent  of  scenery  within,  is 
unknown,  and  will  probably  remain  a  mystery  forever,  from  the  fact 
that  deep  water  precludes  a  thorough  survey  of  its  wonders.  '  There 
are  names  and  dates  upon  the  walls  and  roof  of  this  cavern  reaching 
beyond  the  recollection  of  the  oldest  inhabitant.  Some  of  the  dates 
are  as  far  back  as  1812.  While  it  is  not  impossible  nor  improbable 
that  those  names  and  dates  are  genuine,  they  should  be  considered 
with  many  grains  of  allowance.  , 

gallaham's  lick. 

This  is  another  of  the* early  landmarks  of  this  section.  It  is  situ- 
ated on  the  farm  of  Joel  Hawkins,  which  is  on  the  northeast  quarter  of 
section  thirteen,  township  forty-nine,  range  fourteen.  The  salt 
springs,  some  fifteen  or  twenty  in  number,  are  on  the  east  side  of 
dallaham's  creek,  which  takes  its  name  from  William  Callaham,  who 
pitched  his  tent  near  those  springs  several  years  in  advance  of  the 
•earliest  settlers  of  this  portion  of  Boone  county.  Thaearliest  emigrants 
found  William  Callaham  domiciled  near  the  salt  springs,  and  he  had 
been  there  for  years,   how  long  it  is  not  known.     In  deference  to 


1068  HI8TORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTT. 

William  Callaham,  the  salt  springs  and  creek  are  called  by  his  name. 
He  was,  at  the  time  of  forming  this  settlement,  in  the  prime  of  life,  a 
large,  tall,  dark-skinn«d  man,  so  dark  in  fact  as  to  give  currency  to 
the  belief  that  he  was  part  Indian.  Whether  true  or  false,  William 
Callaham  was  never  heard  to  contradict  the  report  and  it  was  finally 
accepted  as  true.  He  brought  his  wife  with  him  to  the  lick  and  there 
they  lived  and  died,  both  reaching  a  good  old  age,  living  to  see  their 
sons  and  daughters  grown  up  men  and  women. 

Mrs.  Callaham  had  followed  her  husband  in  all  his  wanderings. 
They  stopped  first  at  Loutre  Island,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Loutre,  ii> 
Montgomery  county.  They  settled  on  the  island  for  protection 
against  the  Indians.  Callaham  felled  a  large  tree  and  with  his  axe  and 
fire,  burned  and  hewed  the  trunk  into  something  like  the  semblance 
of  a  boat.  When  game  became  scarce  on  the  island  he  visited  the 
mainland,  where,  leaving  his  wife  to  watch  the  boat,  he  would  plunge 
into  the  dense  forest  in  quest  of  game.  One  day  he  was  set  upon  by 
a  band  of  Indians.  Being  alone,  he  did  not  dare  risk  battle,  but  fled 
in  the  direction  of  his  boat.  It  became  a  race  for  life.  Callaham 
was  swifbof  foot  and  gained  somewhat  on  his  pursuers,  but  just  as  he 
was  in  the  act  of  jumping  into  the  boat  ^-  having  previously  thrown 
his  gun  into  his  wife's  lap  —  a  ball  from  one  of  the  enemy's  guns  went 
crashing  through  his  leg.  There  was  but  one  thing  left  for  the  brave 
pioneer  to  do  —  he  plunged  headlong  into  the  river.  Mrs.  Callaham 
seized  her  husband  by  the  collar  and,  by  main  strength,  lifted  him  in- 
to the  boat  and  rowed  safely  to  their  island  home.  As  soon  as  he  was 
able  to  travel,  they  pushed  on  further  west,  following  the  old  Indian 
trace,  intending  to  go  to  Boone's  Lick,  in  Howard  county,  to  which 
point  a  few  families  had  already  ventured.  While  en  route  for  this 
place,  he  discovered  the  salt  springs,  on  the  Callaham,  and  went  no  fur- 
ther. He  would  go  off  evenings  to  the  lick,  and,  climbing  to  the  lower 
branches  of  a  neighboring  tree,  would  wait  for  his  game.  After  dark, 
deer,  elk  and  buffalo  would  come  to  lick  the  earth  near  the  springs. 
Mr.  Callaham  would  then  select  the  game  he  wished  to  kill,  and  send 
a  ball  from  his  trusty  rifle  into  the  animal's  vitals.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Callaham  raised  seven  sons.  When  the  neighborhood  began  to  fill  up 
with  people,  Callaham  attempted  to  utilize  the  salt  springs  by  making 
salt,  but  the  brine  was  too  weak.  East  of  this  lick,  about  two  and  a 
half  miles,  was  another  salt  spring  on  the  Perche.  Callaham,  after 
failing  with  his  salt-works  at  his  own  home,  moved  his  boilers  to  the 
Perche  springs,  but  with  no  better  success. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1069 


ORGANIZATION. 


Perche  is  one  of  the  original  or  primitive  townships  of  Boone 
county,  having  been  organized  in  1821.  At  the  May  term  of  the 
county  court,  for  that  year,  the  following  order  was  made  relative  to 
the  metes  and  bounds  of  this  township  and  the  name  thereof: 

•*  The  fifth  township  to  be  denominated  Perche.  Beginning  at  the 
northwest  corner  of  Missouri  township,  on  the  old  St.  Charles  road  ; 
thence  northeastwardly  with  the  dividing  line  between  the  counties  of 
Boone  and  Howard  to  the  northern  boundary  of  the  county ;  thence 
east  with  the  said  boundary  to  the  western  (boundary)  of  Rocky 
Fork  township  ;  thence  south  with  the  said  boundary  to  the  northeast 
corner  of  Missouri  township  ;  thence  west  with  the  northern  boundary 
of  said  township  to  the  point  of  beginning.  And  it  is  ordered  that  all 
that  section  of  country  lying  and  [being]  north  of  the  said  Perche 
township,  and  not  included  in  any  other  county,  be,  and  the  same  is 
hereby,  attached  to  and  made  part  of  said  Perche  township." 

The  Perche,  or  Roche  Perche  creek,  or  river,  after  which  this  sub- 
division of  Boone  county  takes  its  name,  runs  through  the  township 
from  north  to  south,  the  course  being  a  little  east  of  south.  In  ad- 
dition to  the  Perche,  the  township  is  watered  by  Silver's  Fork,  Lick 
Fork,  Reeder's  Creek,  Prairie  Fork,  Slack's  Branch  and 
the  Callaham  —  mis-spelled,  of  late  years,  *«  CallahaTf."  This 
stream  and  the  Hinkson  are  usually  mentioned  apart  from, 
the  parent  stream.  The  other  tributaries  of  the  Perche 
are  always  spoken  of  in  connection  with  the  main  stream.  In  addi- 
tion to  the  Callaham,  which  heads  in  Perche  township,  there  is  also 
an  important  tributary  to  that  stream  called  Barclay's  Fork,  which 
heads  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  **Model  Farm,"  andflows  southeast  in- 
to the  Callaham,  about  four  miles  above  the  confluence  of  that  stream 
with  the  Perche.  This,  and  Sexton's  Branch,  are  the  only  tributa- 
ries of  the  Callaham  worthy  of  mention.  The  name  Roche  Perche^ 
or  more  properly,  Roche  Perce^  is  French,  and  signifies  pierced 
rock. 

EARLY   SETTLERS. 

The  Prairie  Fork,  Silvers,  Squire  Schooling  and  Bancaid  settlements 

date  back  as  remotely  as  the  most  primitive  elsewhere  in  the  county. 

There   were   settlements   on  Prairie   Fork  as   early  as  1816  of  the 

pioneers  of  this  section  of  Perche  township.     Silas  and  Jesse  Richard- 

.son,  Daniel  and  Samuel  Hodge,  Jerre  Biswell,  John  Stephenson, 


\ 


1070  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   CX)UNTT. 

Andrew  and  David  M'Quitty,  Parker  Sneddigor  and  Samuel  Fulcher, 
were  among  the  first.  In  the  Kincaid  neighborhood  were  John, 
Matthew,  Lewis,  Joseph  and  William  Kincaid,  Amos  Barnes,  Samuel 
Belcher,  John  Beeder,  after  whom  Reeder's  Creek  was  named,  and 
Mr.  McDaniel.  Hugh  Silvers  settled  what  is  now  known  as  the  Slice 
farm,  near  Dripping  Spring  church.  He  gave  his  name  to  Silvers 
Fork,  one  of  the  most  beautiful  streams  in  Boone  county.  From 
Perchetown  north,  along  the  Perche,  the  first  settlers  were  John 
Leftler,  George  Sexton,  Wilford  Stephens,  John,  Caleb  and  James 
Fenton,  William  Goslin,  Fountain  Toalson,  David  Prowell,  Nicholas 
and  Baillett  Gentry,  Robert  and  John  Barclay,  John  Corlew,'  senior, 
and  John  Corlew,  junior,  Jonathan  Graham,  John  and  Thomas  Ander- 
son, Bird  Wilburn,  Aquila  Barnes,  Presley  Wilkinson  and  John 
Evans.  Robert  Schooling  setttled  the  farm  now  occupied  by  Daniel 
Hall,  in  the  neighborhood  of  Union  church.  In  the  neighborhood  of 
Perche  meeting  house  were  Sinclair  Walden,  George  Lawrence,  Elder 
White  and  Eli  Lyon.  In  the  Everett  neighborhood:  Joshua  and 
Jonathan  Barton,  first  cousins  of  Senator  David  Barton.  In  the 
Wilbite  neighborhood :  Paris  Ellison,  Ben  Ferguson,  Thomas  and 
Berry  Workham.  Among  the  early  settlers  must  not  be  omitted  the 
names  of  Capt.  Woodruff  and  Lemuel  Searcy,  Henry  and  Allen  Coats, 
Solomon  Mordecai,  Thomas  Croswhite,  Thomas  Wingo,  Enoch  C. 
Orear,  John  Connelly,  Lemuel  Batterton,  James  Hawkins,  Zachariah 
Jackson,  Isom  Kilgore,  Smith  Turner  and  William  McCarty.  Jesse 
Dale  was  a  pioneer  preacher  of  the  Old  School  Baptist  church.  Henry 
Cave  and  Isaac  Newman  were  pioneer  teachers.  One  of  the  first 
children  born  in  the  county  must  be  accredited  to  Perche  township. 
India  Ann  Corlew,  daughter  of  John  Corlew,  junior,  was  born  March 
1st,  1818.  .She  was  the  first  female  child  born  in  Perche  township. 
The  first  male  child  born  in  the  township  is  believed  to  have  been 
Mastin  Corlew,  son  of  John  Corlew,  junior,  born  February  11th,  1821. 
A  biographical  sketch  of  Mr.  Corlew  may  be  found  elsewhere  in  this 
volume. 

The  first  marriage  known  to  have  taken  place  in  the  township  was 
that  of  Philip  Barnes  and  Jane  Corlew.  The  ceremony  was  performed 
by  Esq.  John  Slack,  November  11th,  1823. 

The  first  regular  physician  was  Dr.  John  W.  Roberts,  who  came 
from  Virginia  and  settled  in  Perche  township.     He  died  in  1875. 

The  first  minister  remembered  was  Rev.  James  Barnes,  a  Primitive 
Baptist.       "Uncle  Jimmy,"    as  he   was   familiarly  called,  was  one 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE    COUNTY.  1071 

among  the  first  sherifts  of  Boone  county.  Ho  was  also  a  teacher.  He 
lived  to  a  good  old  age,  loved  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him. 
It  is  stated  that  Revs.  A.  P.  Mussett  and  Matthias  Barron  were  the 
first  Cumberland  Presbyterian  ministers  in  Perche.  Revr  William 
Douglass  was  the  first  Methodist,  and  Elders  John  C.  McCuue  and 
William  Patton  the  first  Disciples. 

The  first  school  house  in  Perche  township  was  built  on  section 
thirty-five,  township  fifty,  range  thirteen,  and  William  Corlew  taught 
the  first  school  therein. 

John  Slack  was  the  first  justice  of  the  peace  for  Perche  township. 
He  was  the  father  of  Gen.  William  Y.  Slack,  of  the  Confederate  army, 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Pea  Ridge,  Arkansas,  March  6th,  1862.  Squire 
Slack  was  a  potter  by  trade.  He  had  been  one  of  the  justices  of  the  peace 
in  Moniteau  township,  Howard  county,  out  of  which  territory  Perche 
was  created,  and  he  was  continued  in  office  by  order  of  the  Boone 
county  court.  Samuel  Beatie  was  the  first  constable,  receiving  his 
appointment  from  the  county  court. 

MANSLAUGHTER. 

It  is  said  that  the  first  case  of  manslaughter  in  Boone  county  oc- 
curred at  Perchetown,  in  which  Daniel  Coil  was  the  victim  and  Amos 
Barnes  the  individual  who  struck  the  fatal  blow.  A  party  had  gath- 
ered at  the  village  store  and  were  drinking  pretty  freely,  and  at  the 
same  time  discussing  a  chase  in  which  a  number  of  them  had  partici- 
pated. Coil  possessed  a  well-trained  pack  of  hounds  of  which  he  was 
very  proud.  A  disparaging  remark  from  Barnes,  relative  to  his  dogs, 
was  met  by  a  blow  in  the  face  from  Coil's  heavy  wool  hat,  which 
caused  the  blood  to  flow  in  a  stream  from  Barnes'  nose.  Coil,  evi- 
dently, did  not  mean  to  hurt  Barnes,  but  the  blow  proved  a  severe 
one,  and  aroused  his  fiercest  indignation.  Barnes  sprang  to  his  feet, 
and  clenching  his  fist,  struck  Coil  a  fierce  blow  in  the  stomach,  killing 
him  almost  instantly.  Barnes  surrendered  himself,  was  tried  and  ac- 
quitted, it  being  evident  that  the  murder  was  wholly  unintentional. 


•*BLACKFOOT. 


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Thirty  years  ago  the  good  people  of  Perche,  a  portion  of  Missouri, 
Bocky  Fork  and  Bourbon,  resented  the  sobriquet  of  •*  Blackfoot "  as  a 
slur  at  their  section  of  the  county,  but  happily  for  the  impartial  his- 
torian, whose  duty  it  is  to  deal  in  facts,  they  have  not  only  become 
reconciled  to  the  inevitable  appellation,  but  glory  in  the  name.     There 


1072  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

are  three  or  four  traditions  relative  to  the  origia  of  the  name  «*  Black- 
foot."  Gen.  S.  B.  Hatton,  the  oldest  citizen  living  in  that  section, 
says  the  name  originated  at  Perchetown,  and  grew  out  of  a  general 
fight,  in  which  nearly  all  the  male  members  of  that  community  parti- 
cipated.  The  victorious  party  raised  the  war-whoop,  declaring  that 
they  were  the  **  Blackfoot  tribe,  from  the  headwaters  of  the  Perche.*' 
The  name  was  remembered,  as  ^well  as  the  sore  heads  inflicted  upon 
the  defeated  party.  One  side  applied  the  term  in  a  boasting  spirit,  the 
other  as  an  epithet,  and  between  the  two  factions  the  name  was  fixed 
upon  that  region  of  the  country  for  all  time  to  come.  Another  tradi- 
tion attributes  the  origin  of  the  name^to  a  dance  which  occurred  in 
the  Schooling  neighborhood,  where  the  boys  and  girls  danced  bare- 
foToted,  and  bantered  each  other  on  the  comparative  blackness  of  their 
pedal  extremities.  Gen.  S.  B.  Hatton  was  the  first  man  to  call  pub- 
lic attention  to  the  name,  having  many  years  ago  published  the  follow- 
ing announcement  in  the  Columbia  Statesman:  *'  We  are  authorized 
to  announce  Gen.  S.  B.  Hatton,  of  Blackfoot,  a  candidate  for  the 
office  of  judge  of  the  Boone  county  court  at  the  ensuing  August  elec- 
tion." Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  he  had  previously  represented 
the  county  in  the  legislature,  and  was  personally  very  popular,  this  an- 
nouncement caused  his  defeat  by  six  votes.  His  enemies  had  tickets 
printed  for  Perche  township  headed  **  Blackfoot,"  and  represented 
them  to  be  Hatton's  tickets,  declaring  with  affected  indignation,  that 
they  would  not  vote  for  a  man  who  would  thus  wantonly  perpetrate  a 
slur  upon  his  neighbors.  It  had  the  desired  efiect ;  the  general's 
opponent  was  elected  by  six  majority. 


PEKCHE  TOWNSHIP  VILLAGES. 
PERCHETOWN. 

Perchetown,  or  **  the  town  of  Persia,"  as  it  is  spelled  in  the  record 
of  deeds  in  the  clerk's  office,  gave  promise  at  one  time  of  becoming  a 
place  of  considerably  importance.  The  town  was  laid  oft'  and  a  very 
comprehensive  map  made  and  entered  into  the  record  of  deeds,  April 
2,  1821,  but  the  entering  is  made  in  the  name  of  the  corporation, 
without  mention  of  the  individuals  composing  the  corporation.  The 
record  shows  that  John  Lefler  sold  to  the  corporation  of  the  town  of 
"  Persia,"  nine  and  one-ninth  acres  of  land  in  section  eight,  township 
forty-nine  and  range  thirteen,  for  which  he  received  ninety-one  dollars 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE    COUNTY.  1073 

»nd  fifty  cents.  Of  same  date,  Obadiah  Babbitt  sold  to  same  parties, 
Sfby-eight  acres,  both  tracts  being  within  the  limits  of  the  town,  as 
Aown  by  the  map  which  is  entered  of  record.  It  was  on  both  sides 
oif  the  Perche,  situated  at  the  point  where  the  old  Boone's  Lick  road, 
connecting  St.  Charles  and  Old  Franklin,  in  Howard  county, 
crossed  that  stream.  Babbitt  and  Ludlow  threw  a  dam  across  the 
stream  and  erected  a  saw  mill.  Several  shops  were  built,  among 
others,  a  cabinet  shop,  by  Lemuel  Batterton,  and  a  store  of  general 
merchandise  was  opened  for  the  accommodation  of  the  local  trade. 
Perchetown  was  much  talked  of  and  much  visited  by  the  rural  popu- 
lation. Whiskey  was  cheap  and  plentiful,  and  the  village  became 
famous  for  its  fights,  horse-races,  shooting  matches,  indeed,  for  many 
things,  except  that  substantial  growth  which  its  founders  had  vainly 
hoped  to  realizfe.  About  the  year  1825,  Wilfred  Stephens,  of  Ken- 
tucky, the  father  of  Benjamin  Stephens,  of  this  county,  came  to  Perche- 
town and  opened  a  store.  George  Sexton  had  also  settled  in  the 
near  vicinity  of  the  place.  He  had  the  contract  for  several  thousand 
miles  of  mail  routes.  Upon  the  main  lines  he  ran  stages  and  hacks, 
and  the  amount  of  rolling  stock  necessary  to  carry  on  his  business 
was  immense.  He  built  carriage  and  repair  shops,  harness  shops, 
stables,  sheds  and  granaries,  giving  a  wonderful  impetus  to  this  primi- 
tive town  and  the  surrounding  country,  but  with  the  expiration  of  the 
mail  contract  and  the  removal  of  the  Sextons,  and  the  washing  away  of 
the  mill,  commenced  the  decay  of  Perchetown,  and  now  not  a  vestige 
of  the  pretentious  village  remains.  Strange  as  it  may  seem,  the 
neighborhood  of  this  town  contained  a  third  more  people  a  half 
century  ago  than  it  does  to-day. 

HARRISBUBG. 

Harrisburg,  situated  on  the  northwest  quarter  of  section  11,  town- 
ship 50,  range  14,  in  the  northwest  corner  of  the  township,  was  named 
in  honor  of  John  W.  Harris,  deceased,  late  proprietor  of  the  Model 
Farm.  It  was  laid  off  soon  after  the  survey  of  the  Chicago  and  Alton 
railroad,  and  gave  promise  of  soon  becoming  a  town  of  considerable 
importance.  Work  was  actively  going  on  all  along  the  line  of  the 
proposed  railroad,  which  was  actually  graded  and  made  ready  for  the 
mils.  The  town  prospered  in  anticipation  of  the  early  completion  of 
the  road ;  but,  to  the  surprise  and  disappointment  of  the  people  of 
Harrisburg  and  Perche  township,  the  road  was  suddenly  abandoned^ 
68 


N      1074  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

but  afterwards  completed  on  a  line  farther  north.  This  proved  almost 
a  death-blow  to  the  ambitious  hopes  of  Harrisburg.  With  better  facil- 
ities this  village  would  have  been  a  place  of  no  little  importance.  It 
is  beautifully  located  on  the  divide  between  the  Perche  and  the  Moni- 
teau, six  miles  north  of  the  Model  Farm,  on  the  main  road  leading 
from  Eocheport  to  Sturgeon.  The  Callaham,  which  flows  into  tie 
Perche,  heads  in  this  vicinity.  Prairie  Fork,  named  from  Thrairs 
prairie,  also  heads  in  this  vicinity,  and  flows  west  into  the  Moniteau. 
Harrisburg  contains  three  stores,  a  confectionery  shop,  church, 
mill,  blacksmith  and  repair  shop,  a  fine  public  school  building,  with 
Masonic  hall  above.  Dr.  Haller,  a  practicing  physician,  Hersman,  a 
justice  of  the  peace,  and  S.  O.  Puller,  constable,  reside  in  the  village. 
The  post-oflSce  is  in  Gentry's  saddler-shop.  Rev.  Green  Carey,  of 
rfear  Harrisburg,  came  to  the  neighborhood  in  1834,  and  had  preached 
for  the  i^eople  since  1836.  He  was  a  member  of  the  first  church  or- 
ganized in  this  portion  of  the  county,  Bethlehem  by  name,  which  he 
served  for  thirty-one  years.  He  has  joined  in  marriage  more  than  five 
hundred  couples.  Revs.  Thomas  Fristoe,  Fielding  Wilhite  and  Green 
<Jarey  dedicated  the  last  Bethlehem  church  building. 

EVERETT. 

This  little  hamletr,  now  almost  extinct,  is  situated  on  section  2,  town- 
ship 49,  range  14.  It  was  laid  out  in  the  year  1860  by  Charles  Sexton,  a 
sou  of  George  Sexton,  already  mentioned  in  connection  with  Perche- 
town.  Charles  Sexton  was  to  Everett  what  his  father  had  previously 
been  to  Perchetown — the  leading  spirit  in  the  enterprise — and  but  for  the 
war  he  would  have  given  such  an  impetus  to  the  place  as  would  probably 
have  secured  its  future  growth  and  prosperity.  In  partnership  with 
McKinney  and  others,  he  established  an  extensive  plow  factory,  raiin- 
ufacturing  the  **  Peeler  plows."  Parks  started  a  large  tobacco  fac- 
tory, and  Dr.  Dynes  opened  a  store.  There  was  also  a  planing  machine 
for  dressing  lumber.  The  Methodist  denomination  erected  a  nice 
church  edifice,  and,  in  addition  to  improvements  already  mentioned, 
there  were  over  a  dozen  private  residences.  Dr.  John  W.  Roberts  was 
the  resident  physician  ;  Dr.  J.  M.  Shock  lived  near  by.  The  surround- 
ing country  was  very  rich  and  productive,  and  the  little  town  sprung 
into  existence  with  the  brightest  hopes  of  future  prosperity.  It  now 
contains  a  mill  and  carding  machine,  owned  by  Wilson  Nicholson ;  a 
blacksmith  shop,  public  school  building,  and  church. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   (jJOUNTY.  '  1075 

EVERETT   CHURCH. 

This  church  is  situated  on  a  lot  coutaining  five  acres,  the  property 
•of  the  Methodist  denomination,  having  been  deeded  to  them  for  church 
purposes.  The  cturch  was  organized  September  2, 1859.  The  church 
edifice,  a  frame  building,  was  erected  in  1860,  at  a  cost  of  $1,500 .^  It 
was  dedicated  by  Dr.  Mc Anally,  of  St.  Louis,  May  12,  1860.  Since 
its  dedication  the  church  has  been  served  by  E.  H.  Jordan,  J.  S.  Smith, 
Tyson  Dynes,  T.  J.  Starr,  D.  R.  Shackleford,  B.  F.  Johnson,  James 
Pritchett,  William  Rush,  T.  Ellington,  R.  White  and  W.  Penn.  The 
7)resent  membership  is  sixty-five.  When  this  church  was  first  organ- 
ized, meetings  were  held  at  the  residence  of  J.  A.  Points.  The  first 
quarterly  meeting  was  held  at  his  house,  December  11,  1852,  E.  M. 
Marvin,  presiding  elder,  Walter  Toole,  circuit  rider.  The  official  mem- 
bers were  John  W.  Denny,  J.  A.  Points,  Matthew  Richards,  John  W. 
Walton,  Thomas  Wright  and  John  Reed. 

DRIPPING    SPRING. 

The  hamlet  and  post-office  known  as  Dripping  Spring  is  on  the 
southwest  quarter  of  section  27,  township  50,  range  13,  and  is  situated 
about  twelve  miles  northwest  of  Columbia.  It  derives  its  name  from 
a  spring  near  by  that  drips  from  the  rocks  into  a  large  branch  which 
empties  into  Silver's  Fork  of  Perche  creek,  about  fifty  rods  from  the 
spring.  There  are  several  mineral  springs  in  the  neighborhood,  said 
to  possess  medicinal  virtues.  It  is  alleged  that  some  cases  of  rheu- 
matism and  kindred  diseases  have  been  cured  by  the  free  use  of  these 
^waters. 

The  place  contains  a  store  and  post-office.  The  latter  was  estab- 
lished June  13,  1873,  and  Col.  Garnett  Duncan  commissioned  post- 
master. He  died  in  January,  1880,  and  Februaiy  13th  following  Dr. 
John  H.  Stover  was  appointed,  and  still  holds  the  position.  Mail 
semi-weekly  from  Columbia.  There  is  also  near  by  a  handsome 
church  building,  with  cemetery  grounds  adjoining,  the  site  being  on  a 
rolling  elevation,  neatly  enclosed  and  ornamented  with  evergreens, 
flowers  and  shade  trees.  The  church  is  controlled  by  the  Christians. 
There  are  two  flourishing  public  schools  in  the  vicinity,  with  good 
frame  houses,  well  furnished.  It  is  stated  that  in  these  schools,  with 
some  assistance  from  the  University,  there  have  been  fitted  for  the 
ministry  four  young  men,  and  for  the  medical  profession  six  others. 
Two  of  the  latter  returned  to  the  neighborhood  after  receiving  their 


lOTff  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

diplomas  and  engaged  in  the  practice.     One  has  since  died  ;  the  other 
is  still  actively  and  successfully  engaged. 

The  Methodist  Church  South  has  an  organization  of  some  sixty 
members,  but  as  yet  no  church  building.  They  wqrship  at  an  arbor 
at  a  point  called  Red  Rock,  two  miles  noithwest  of  Dripping  Spring. 
In  the  winter  they  meet  at  Prowell's  school-house  near  by.  They 
have  considerable  money  and  material  subscribed  for  building  a  church 
and  the  day  is  probably  not  far  distant  when  they  will  be  able  to 
worship  under  their  own  vine  and  fig  tree. 

CHRISTIAN   CHURCH. 

The  Dripping  Spring  Christian  church  is  situated  on  section  34^ 
township  50,  range  13.  It  was  organized  in  1858,  by  Elder  John  O. 
White.  Some  of  the  original  members  were  John  O.  White,  Jemima 
White,  James  and  Paulina  IJoffman,  Wm.  and  Mahala  Evans,  James 
and  Susan  Kelly,  Thomas,  Paulina,  Mary  J.,  and  A.  C.  Robinson^ 
Sarah  A.  Corlew,  Miriam  Brink,  Polly  March,  Isaac  Oliver,  Amanda 
Akeman,  Caleb  Davis,  R.  J.  and  Elizabeth  Wade  and  about  thirty 
others.  The  first  church  building,  a  frame,  was  built  in  1860.  The 
building  committee  was  Wra.  Evans,  David  Prowell,  Sr.,  and  Samuel 
Copher.  It  was  remodeled  in  1881.  The  total  cost  of  the  building 
was  about  $1,200.  It  was  dedicated  June  26,  1860,  by  Elder  John 
O.  White.     The  pastors  of  this  church  have  been  Elder  White,  Ste- 

phen  A»  Bush,  Hockensmith,  J.  T.  Burnham,  the  latter  the 

present  pastor.  Elders  Bedford,  Chrismau,  Cake  and  Hoffman  have 
labored  in  the  church  at  different  times  and  to  them,  in  part,  belongs 
the  honor  of  the  upbuilding  of  the  church  to  its  present  proportions. 
The  number  of  members  on  the  roll  is  about  150. 

AMMON. 

About  three  miles  northwest  of  Dripping  Spring  is  a  country  vil- 
lage  called  Ammon.  A  steam  saw-mill  was  the  principal  impetus  to 
the  growth  of  this  hamlet,  which  contains  some  twelve  or  fifteen  houses. 
A  vast  amount  of  lumber  was  manufactured  at  these  mills  and  shipped 
to  all  parts  of  the  country.  Since  the  removal  of  the  mill,  a  few 
years  ago,  the  place  has  ceased  to  be  a  point  of  interest  and  impor- 
tance to  the  community  in  which  it  is  situated. 

GERMANTOWN. 

Old  Germantown,  situated  in  section  5,  township  49,  range  13,  was 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  1077 

liud  off  in  1858,  by  Schultz  &  Fretter,  two  enterprising  Germans. 
They  erected  a  large,  substantial  store  building  which  they  filled  from 
cellar  to  garret  with  all  kinds  of  merchandise.  In  addition  to  the 
store  they  erected  a  large  two-story  warehouse.  They  bought  all 
kinds  of  produce  in  exchange  for  goods  and  soon  established  a  flour- 
ishing trade.  ^'  Boss  "  Forche  kept  a  saloon  and  lunch  house.  There 
were  some  six  or  eight  buildings  in  all,  including  a  shoe  shop.  The 
town  was  burned  during  the  war  and  was  never  rebuilt. 

WOODLANDVILLE . 

Woodlandville  is  situated  in  section  5,  township  49,  range  13,  being 
the  southwest  portion  of  Perche  township.  It  is  in  that  region  of 
country  known  as  the  Thrall's  prairie  district.  There  is  but  one 
store  and  a  blacksmith  shop.  The  post-office  is  kept  at  the  store.  A 
great  deal  of  business  is  transacted  by  W.  B.  Campbell,  proprietor  of 
the  store,  who  keeps  a  general  assortment  of  dry  goods,  groceries 
and  notions,  and  exchanges  goods  for  produce. 


INCIDENTS  OF  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 
FIGHTS   AND   SKIRMISHES. 

The  desperate  fight  between  George  Todd's  and  John  Thrailkill's 
Confederate  guerrillas  and  Capt.  McFadden's  Federal  train,  in  Gos- 
line's  lane,  September  23,  1864,  is  fully  described  in  the  general  his- 
tory. 

The  fight  between  Capt.  Cook's  Ninth  M.  S.  M.  and  Jim  Carter's 
bushwhackers  in  February,  1865,  is  also  noted  elsewhere.  It  may  be 
added  that  after  the  fight  and  dispersion  of  the  bushwhackers,  one  of 
them  made  his  way  to  the  house  of  a  lady  in  **Blackfoot,"  and  by 
her  was  put  to  bed,  arrayed  in  a  white  garment  and  passed  off  upon  a 
troop  of  pursuing  militia  as  the  lady's  sister,  whom  it  would  be  cruel 
to  disturb,  as  **  her  "  baby  was  but  three  days  old  I 

The  fight  at  Dripping  Spring  between  the  Federals  and  Holtzclaw's, 
Frost's  and  Todd's  commands,  September  16,  1864,  is  also  narrated 
elsewhere.  During  the  fight  a  Federal  soldier  named  James  Canada, 
belonging  to  Company  H,  Seventeenth  Illinois  cavalry,  accidentally 
shot  himself  while  in  Col.  Garnett  Duncan's  watermelon  patch.  The 
shot  proved  fatal. 


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1078  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 


KILLING   OF   MR.  DRAKE. 


^  About  the  Ist  of  September,  1864,  a  man  uatned  Drake,  who  had 
recently  come  into  the  township  from  Sullivan  county,  was  shot  from 
the  bush  as  he  was  passing  along  the  road.  Eight  buckshot  entered 
hfs  body.  The  bushwhackers  who  did  the  deed  gave  information  at  a 
house  near  by  that  the  dead  body  might  be  cared  for. 

GUERRILLA    DIABOLISM. 

In  1864  some  guerrillas  killed  a  Federal  soldier  in  the  *^  Blaokfoot" 
country,  cut  off  his  head,  passed  a  piece  of  bark  through  the  mouth 
and  throat  and  tied  it  to  one  of  the  saddles.  The  guerrillas  rode  for 
some  time  thus  bearing  their  horrible  trophy,  but  at  last  grew  tired 
of  it  and  threw  it  away  by  the  roadside.  Dr.  Davis,  of  Sturgeon^ 
now  has  the  skull  in  his  possession. 

KILLING   OF  WILLIAM   BUMAN8. 

In  the  fall  of  1864  Major  Jacob  Pugh,  of  the  Fiftieth  regiment, 
Enrolled  Missouri  militia,  from  Knox  county,  Missouri,  made  a  raid 
through  Boone  county.  On  coming  in  sight  of  the  residence  of  Wil- 
liam Rumans,  who  lived  in  the  neighborhood  of  Dripping  Spring, 
three  bushwhackers,  Mat.  Evans,  3am  Rowland  and  Abe  Rumans,  the 
latter  a  son  of  William  Rumans,  were  seen  to  hurriedly  leave  the 
place.  The  Federals  pursued  them  and  shot  Rowland  through  the 
body,  but  he  escaped  and  afterwards  recovered.  The  Federals  re- 
turned and  burned  Rumans'  house,  and,  placing  him  upon  an  old, 
jaded  horse,  started  in  the  direction  of  Columbia.  The  horse  soon 
gave  out,  and  Rumans  was  made  to  run  in  front  of  his  captors,  who 
spurred  their  horses  on  to  him,  wounding  his  feet  and  legs  with  the 
shod  hoofs  of  their  horses.  On  reaching  a  point  about  four  miles 
north  of  Columbia  Rumans  gave  out  and  was  shot  to  death  by  his 
captors.  In  connection  with  this  incident  it  is  worthy  of  note  that 
Maj.  Pugh  was  afterwards  dishonorably  discharged  from  the  Federal 
service.  Joseph  Graves,  of  Perche  township,  was  also  killed  by  this 
command  about  the  same  time,  and  under  circumstances  not  less  re- 
volting to  humanity  and  justice. 

TWO    MEN   HUNG. 

In  the  fall  of  1864  two  Federal  soldiers,  disguised  as  Confederates, 
came  to  the  house  of  Silas  Davenport.     There  happened  to  be  five 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1071^ 

armed  **  rebels  "  at  the  house  when  they  came  iu.  The  Federals  were 
taken  into  the  woods  and  huncr.  The  men  who  committed  this  act 
are  said  to  have  been  a  portion  of  Capt.  Farley's  command.. 

SHOOTING    OP   BATEY. 

In  1863  a  scouting  party  captured  a  half-witted  Englishman  named 
Batey,  at  Kincaid's  mill.  He  was  armed,  and  frankly  admitted  that  he 
had  been  with  the  ''rebels."  His  associations  had  been  such  that  he 
knew  nothing  of  the  war  save  what  he  had  seen  and  heard  of  it  in  his 
own  neighborhood,  and  had  been  led  into  the  struggle  wholly  from  a 
,  sense  of  duty.     Without  the  least  investigation  he  was  shot  dead. 

dimmitt's  fight  with  guerrillas. 

In  the  early  part  of  1865  four  men,  supposed  to  be  bushwhackers, 
visited  the  house  of  Mr.  William  Dimmitt,  who  lives  near  Everett, 
for  the  purpose  of  robbing  him,  as  he  was  known  to  have  received  a 
sum  of  money  the  day  before  in  payment  of  some  corn  sold  by  him. 
The  robbers  came  at  night,  and,  being  refused  admittance,  broke  the 
door  down  with  a  rail  taken  from  the  fence.  Mr.  Dimmitt,  being  a 
man  of  courage,  resolved  not  to  submit  to  the 'demands  of  the  thieves 
without  resistance.  After  breaking  down  the  door  one  of  the  robbers 
entered  the  room,  firing  as  he  advanced.  Dimmitt  returned  the  fire, 
wounding  one  of  the  robbers  in  the  side.  Another  of  the  party  was 
wounded  in  the  head  by  a  pistol  shot  fired  from  a  comrade's  pistol. 
The  firing  was  sharp  on  both  sides,  but  without  fatal  results  to  any  one. 
A  member  of  Mr.  Dimmitt' s  family  was  slightly  wounded  in  the 
melee,  but  he  came  out  of  the  fight  without  a  scratch,  saving  his 
money  and  vanquishing  the  enemy,  though  out-numbered  four  to  one. 
The  parties  making  the  raid  were  unknown  to  Mr.  Dimmitt,  but  the 
motive  for  making  the  assault  was  quite  evident. 


biographies. 

MATTHEW   BARNES 

Matthew  Barnes,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  probably  entitled  to 
the  distinction  of  being  the  oldest  natural-born  citizen  of  either  Boone 
or  Howard  counties.  He  is  the  son  of  Amos  and  Dorcas  (Kincaid) 
Barnes,  and  was  born  in  Kincaid's  Fort,  June  5,  1813.  He  was  the 
first-born  of  a  family  of  eight  children.     His  father  and  mother  were 


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1080  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

married  in  the  fort  by  Rev.  John  Tharp,  a  Methodist  minister^  who  had 
cast  his  fortunes  with  this  little  pioneer  band.  -Mrs.  Barnes  was  the 
daughter  of  David  Kincaid,  after  whom  the  fort  was  named.  Theirs 
was  the  first  marriage  solemnized  in  the  fort.  Amos  Barnes  was  a  na- 
tive of  Madison  county,  Kentucky.  Mrs.  Barnes  was  also  a  native  of 
Kentucky.  Amos  Barnes  died  in  1834,  but  his  wife  survived  him  for 
many  years,  having  lived  until  near  the  close  of  the  late  civil  war. 
Matthew  Barnes  has  spent  his  life  in  Boone  county.  He  is  now  living 
on  a  small  farm  in  the  northwest  corner  of  Perche  township.  He  was 
married,  December  14^  1834,  to  Miss  Jane,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Sanderson.  They  have  had  nine  children,  seven  of  whom  are  livings 
one  daughter  and  six  sons.     All  but  one  are  living  in  Boone. 

WILLIAM   EDWARD  BLAKEMORE. 

The  Blakemores  are  of  English  origin.  From  England  to  Virginia, 
from  Virginia  to  Kentucky,  and  thence  westward.  William  Edward 
Blakemore  is  a  grandson  of  James  Blakemore,  of  Virginia,  and  a  son 
of  Wm.  G.  Blakemore,  also  a  native  of  that  State.  He  was  born  in 
Clark  county,  Kentucky,  March  12th,  1837.  He  lived  on  the  farm 
until  he  was  sixteen  years  old,  then  entered  a  store,  remaining  in  this 
business  for  six  years.  Quitting  the  store  at  the  age  of  twenty-two, 
he  embarked  in  the  live  stock  trade  which  he  followed  for  nine  years. 
In  1853  he  again  entered  the  mercantile  business,  but  once  more 
abandoned  the  store  to  engage  in  the  stock  trade,  this  time  dealing  in 
mules  and  horses  for  the  Southern  market.  He  came  to  Missouri  in 
November,  1865,  and  settled  on  the  '*oldWiggam  farm,"  in  the 
vicinity  of  Harrisburg,  where  he  remained  till  1875.  In  1880  he 
came  to  Harrisburg  and  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  with  John 
W.  Hersman.  Mr.  Blakemore  was  married  to  Miss  Nancy  J.  Doyle, 
daughter  of  Dennis  Doyle.  By  this  marriage  they  have  had  eight 
children,  six  sons  and  two  daughters,  one  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 
Their  names  are:  Mary  V.,  George  W.,  Dennis  A.,  Richard  E., 
Sarah  E.,  Claudius  P.,  Thomas  C,  and  Shelton  L.  They  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Christian  Church  at  Harrisburg. 

THOMAS   H.    BLAKEMORE. 

Mr.  Blakemore,  like  many  of  our  substantial  citizens,  is  a  native  of 
Kentucky.  It  has  been  said  that  Virginia  is  the  mother  of  Kentucky. 
With  the  same  propriety  it  may  be  said  that  Kentucky  is  the  mother 
of  Missouri.     Mr.  Blakemore   was  born  in  Shelby  county,  January 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTr.  1081 

^th,  1828.  His  father  was  a  Kentuckian,  his  grandfather  a  native  of 
Virginia.  His  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Sanford  Payne,  of  Ken- 
tucky. Mr.  Blakemore  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  his 
native  State  and  assumed  the  active  duties  of  life  at  an  early  age. 
His  father  died  when  he  was  but  seven  years  old,  and  being  the  second 
son  of  a  family  of  six  children,  five  sons  and  one  daughter,  he  had, 
^ven  in  boyhood,  many  of  the  cares  and  responsibilities  of  manhood 
resting  upon  him.  He  commenced  active  business  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen. From  clerking  in  a  store  he  soon  passed  to  the  more  active 
duties  of  a  stock  trader,  buying  in  Kentucky  and  selling  in  Cincin- 
nati. He  followed  this  business  very  successfully  for  fifteen  years. 
In  1863  he  removed  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  having  purchased 
part  of  the  Newton  Short  farm  and  the  Harris  interest  in  the  town  of 
Harrisburg.  Mr.  Blakemore  was  married  November  15th,  1864,  to 
Miss  Ruth  Young,  daughter  of  David  Young,  of  Howard  county, 
Missouri.  Mrs.  Blakemore  was  born  January  27th,  1836.  ^  Her 
grandfather  was  Major  Edward  Young,  of  Boone  county.  By  this 
union  are  five  children,  three  daughters  and  two  sons,  all  of  whom 
are  now  living.  Their  names  are:  Cordelia  A.,  Robert  L.,  James 
N.,  Nora  and  Edna.  Mr.  Blakemore  was  previously  iparried  in  Ken- 
tucky to  Miss  Marion  Oldham,  daughter  of  Wm.  Oldham,  of  Madison 
ijounty.  There  was  one  child,  John,  by  this  marriage.  He  is  now 
maiTied  and  is  living  in  Howard  county,  Missouri.  His  wife's  maiden 
name  was  Stacia  Gillum,  daughter  of  Nathan  Gillum.  In  1880 
Thomas  Blakemore  removed  to  his  property  in  Harrisburg,  but  did 
not  remain  in  business  there  but  eighteen  months.  He  is  now  on  his 
farm  looking  after  his  fine  stock.  He  is  largely  interested  in  the 
Glenco  stock  of  horses,  noted  for  their  speed  and  other  excellent 
qualities.  Mr.  Blakemore  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Chris- 
tian church  at  Harrisburg,  and  are  highly  honored  and  respected  for 
their  liberal  support  of  all  public  enterprises  calculated  to  benefit  the 
-community  in  which  they  reside. 

JAMES   J.    BOYCE. 

• 

The  Boyce  family  are  of  Irish  descent.  The  paternal  grandfather, 
Robert,  was  a  native  of  Ireland.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the 
son  of  Willis  P.  Boyce  and  was  born  in  Warren  county,  Kentucky, 
June  15,  1819.  James  was  brought  to  Missouri  wlien  but  three 
months  old.  He  was  the  youngest  of  seven  children,  four  sons  and 
three  daughters.     Willis  Boyce  was  a  member  of  the  first  grand  jury 


1082  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTT. 

ever  empanelled  in  Boone  county.  The  court  was  held  under  a  tree. 
June  20,  1839,  Mr.  Boyce  was  married  to  Eliza  Orear,  daughter  of 
E.  C.  Orear,  a  native  of  Fleming  county,  Kentucky.-  Eleven  chil- 
dren were  born  of  this  union,  four  sons  and  seven  daughters,  ten  of 
whom  are  alive  at  this  writing.  Their  names  are  Margaret  J.,  Annie 
L.,  Rose,  Elizabeth,  Joseph  E.,  Laura* A.,  Benella,  Willis  L.,  Jerrie 
and  George  H.  Margaret  is  the  wife  of  George  W.  March.  They 
have  had  five  children.  Rose  married  Wallace  Maxwell.  Joseph  E. 
married  Katie  Keith.  The  father  of  Mr.  Boyce  entered  land  as  early 
as  1819.  The  place  he  entered,  170  acres,  has  changed  owners  some 
six  or  seven  times,  finally  passing  into  the  hands  of  Mr.  James  Boyce, 
who  is  in  possession  at  this  writing.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church,  and  has  been  a  communicant  for  forty  years.  Has  followed 
farming  for  thirty  years.  In  early  manhood  was  a  blacksmith,  which 
trade  he  followed  for  eight  years.  During  the  excitement  growing 
out  of  the  discovery  of  gold  in  California,  Mr.  Boyce  crossed  the 
plains,  but  did  not  remain  in  the  mines  but  a  few  months.  He  re- 
turned to  Boone  county  in  1850,  and  has  remained  quietly  on  his 
farm  ever  since.  Mrs.  James  Boyce  is  of  French  origin.  She  was 
one  of  a  family  of  four  children.  Her  sister,  Annie  T.,  married  Har- 
land  Sexton,  of  Boone  county.  Her  brother,  J.  B.  Orear,  is  in 
business  at  Hubbard  City,  Texas.  Another  brother,  Benjamin,  went  to 
California  in  1849.  He  became  a  prominent  citizen  of  that  State^ 
servino^  several  terms  in  the  leorislature.  He  was  laro^elv  interested 
in  mining,  and  while  looking  after  his  interests  in  New  Mexico,  in 
1873,  was  taken  ill  and  died.  He  had  won  considerable  distinction 
in  public  life,  and  his  death  was  universally  deplored  by  all  who  knew 
him. 

JAMES   BRADLEY. 

James  Bradley  was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Kentucky,  October  11, 
1810.  His  father,  Terry,  was  the  son  of  Leonard  Bradley,  a  revolu- 
tionary soldier.  His  great  grandfather,  on  the  mother's  side,  was 
Samuel  Boone,  one  of  the  noted  Boone  family,  famous  in  the  early 
history  of  Kentucky.  Mr.  Bradley  came  to  Missouri  in  1824,  and 
settled  in  the  neighborhood  of  Huntsville,  but  prior  to  the  location  of 
that  city.  Leaving  this  settlement,  he  went  to  Fayette,  Howard 
county,  where  he  remained  twenty  years.  From  Fayette  he  removed 
to  Benton  county,  Missouri,  where  he  remained  three  years,  return- 
ing to  Howard  county,  and  from  thence  to  Boone  county  in  1853, 
where  he  has  permanently   resided.      Mr.  Bradley  was   married  to 


HISTORr   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  108S 

Zerelda  Gibson,  daughter  of  Martin  Gibson,  of  Howard  county,  Mis- 
souri. By  this  union  they  have  been  blessed  with  eight  children, 
seven  of  whom  are  living.  Mr.  Bradley  is  a  carpenter  and  cabinet 
maker,  which  occupation  he  has  followed  all  his  life.  He  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Baptist  church  for  forty  years.  His  family  are  also 
members  of  the  same  denomination.  Mr.  Bradley  has  several  daugh- 
ters who  rank  very  highly  as  teachers.  Miss  Bettie,  of  the  Pike 
County  Institute,  has  achieved  a  fine  reputation  in  the  common 
schools  of  that  county.  Mr.  James  W.  Bradley,  third  son  of  the 
elder  Bradley,  was  born  July  4,  1855,  and  was  educated  partly  in 
Howard  county,  finishing  his  studies  at  the  State  University.  In 
1874  he  went  to  Texas,  but  did  not  remain  there  but  one  year.  Re- 
turning to  Boone  county,  he  married  Miss  Eva  A.  Fenton,  daughter 
of  Joshua  Fenton.  In  1880  he  commenced  the  culture  of  honev  on 
a  large  scale.  He  bought  the  large  apiary  owned  by  Dr.  G.  S. 
Morse,  of  Columbia,  which-  he  added  to  his  own  collection.  Last 
year  (1881)  was  one  of  the  hardest  seasons  on  bees,  yqt  the  yield  of 
Mr.  Bradley's  apiary  was  1,800  pounds.  The  year  previous  the  yield 
was  2,500  pounds.  He  is  thoroughly  posted  in  the  business,  is  never 
troubled  with  moth  and  seldom  loses  a  colonv,  notwithstanding  oth- 
ers,  less  skilled  in  the  business,  frequently  lose  all  their  stock  in  one 
season.  This  illustrates  the  difierence  between  a  professional  and  a 
novice.  Mr.  Bradley  is  thoroughly  read  on  the  subject,  and  takes 
great  pride  in  the  business. 

ELD.    JACKSON   T.    BURNHAM. 

Elder  Bumham  was  born  in  Howard  county,  Missouri,  December  6, 
1831.  His  father,  D.  S.,  was  the  son  of  Henry  Burnham,  a  native  of 
North  Carolina,  who  emigrated  to  Kentucky.  This  Henry  Burnham 
was  the  son  of  John,  the  first  member  of  the  family  born  in  the  United 
States.  His  father  came  from  England.  The  family  is  supposed 
to  be  of  German  origin,  as  the  former  spelling  of  the  name  would 
indicate.  The  second  syllable  was  originally  '^spelled  **h-e-i-m." 
Some  of  the  familv  still  discard  the  letter  *'  h."  The  Burnhams  are 
represented  in  the  States  of  Kentucky,  North  Carolina,  New  York, 
Texas  and  Missouri.  Elder  Burnham  was  educated  at  the  common 
schools  of  Howard  county,  and  at  Fayette,  where  he  attended  three 
sessions,  completing  hi?  studies  at  the  State  University.  He  followed 
teaching  until  1860,  when  he  was  chosen  clerk  of  the  Sturgeon  court 
of  common  pleas,  which  position  he  held  for  four  years.     He  was 


1084  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

married  February  5,  1861,  to  Mrs.  Henrietta  J.  Hill,  widow  of  Fran- 
CIS  M.  Hill,  and  daughter  of  John  Parker,  of  Illinois.  They  ha?e 
had  six  children,  three  sons  and  three  daughters,  two  of  whom,  Sob- 
ert  H.  and  Julia,  are  dead.  The  sumving  children  are  Wesley  P., 
John  M.,  Nannie  and  Emma  D.  Mr.  Burnham  united  with  the  Chris- 
tian  church  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  and  was  licensed  to  preach  in 
1879.  He  has  been  pastor  of  Dripping  Springs  church.  He  owns  a 
farm  of  160  acres,  and  divides  his  time  and  attention  about  equally  be- 
tween farming  and  teaching.  He  is  a  useful  citizen,  upright  and 
faithful  in  the  discharge  of  duty,  kind  and  accommodating  as  a  neigh- 
bor, and  earnest  and  zealous  in  the  school  room  and  pulpit. 

WILLIAM   H.  COOHRAN. 

William  H.  Cochran  is  of  a  family  of  successful  farmers  —  men  of 
excellent  judgment,  firm,  self-reliant  and  practical ;  farmers^  not  from 
necessity,  but  from  a  natural  love  of  the  business.  The  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  born  on  Independence  Day,  1847.  He  is  the  son  of 
Robert  Cochran,  deceased,  a  native  of  South  Carolina.  The  elder 
Cochran  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.  He  came  to  Boone  county 
in  1821.  He  died  when  his  son  was  but  twelve  years  old.  There 
were  five  other  children,  three  boys  and  two  girls,  all  younger  than 
William.  His  boyhood  was  spent  under  circumstances  that  did  not 
admit  of  his  getting  more  than  a  limited  common  school  education, 
but  he  applied  himself  diligently  to  reading  and  in  the  course  of  time 
acquired  a  large  store  of  useful  information.  He  reads  the  papers 
with  much  interest  and  keeps  thoroughly  posted  on  all  the  stirring 
events  of  the  period.  He  is,  politically,  an  earnest  and  consistent 
Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  the  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  has  200  acres 
of  fine  grass  land,  not  a  foot  of  which  is  ever  disturbed  by  the  plow. 
There  is  neither  plowing  nor  sowing  on  his  farm.  He  deals  exclu- 
sively in  live  stock,  buying,  grazing  and  selling.  He  has  been  very 
successful  in  the  cattle  and  hog  trade.  His  farm  is  well  watered. 
There  is  one  well  on  the  place  which  measures  225  feet  in  depth. 
Mr.  Cochran  is  a  bachelor  of  the  best  type,  a  kind,  genial  companion, 
a  good  neighbor  and  useful  citizen. 

ABRAM   H.  CONLEY. 

Abrani  H.  Conley,  farmer,  capitalist  and  trader,  was  born  in  Boone 
county,  Missouri,  June  9,  1838.  He  is  the  son  of  John  and  Belila 
{Weldon)  Conley.     He  was  raised  on  the  farm  and  educated  at  the 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1085 

public  schools,  completing  his  studies  at  the  Missouri  Stite  Univer- 
sity. In  1861  he  enlisted  in  the  Confederate  service,  joining  Com- 
pany B,  Major's  Battalion,  Harvey  McKinney  (afterwards  colonel, 
killed  at  Champion  Hill,  back  of  Vicksburg)  being  his  captain.  When 
the  company  was  regularly  organized,  he  was  elected  second  lieuten- 
ant. Company  B  was  composed  of  sharpshooters.  Ho  served  for 
six  months  in  the  old  Missouri  State  Guard.  He  then  joined  Col. 
Searcy's  Battalion,  and  was  chosen  first  lieutenant  of  Company  D, 
commanded  by  Capt.  Berry  Owens,  which  position  he  held  until  the 
close  of  the  war.  In  the  captain's  absence  the  company  was  com- 
manded by  Mr.  Conley.  He  was  at  the  battle  of  Lexington,  and  was 
with  Bill  Anderson  when  the  latter  was  killed,  near  the  mouth  of 
Fishing  river  in  Ray  county,  Missouri,  some  ten  miles  southwest  of 
Richmond.  He  had  command  of  twenty  men  on  this  memorable  oc- 
casion, which  he  was  taking  through  to  Price's  army.  The  next 
fight  was  at  Gasconade  river,  followed  by  a  severe  engagement  in 
Wright  county,  nine  miles  east  of  Hartsville.  There  about  three 
hundred  Federals  and  an  equal  number  of  Confederates  engaged. 
The  Confederates  were  forced  into  the  fight,  but  the  Federals  had  cause 
to  regret  their  rashness.  The  Confederate  lost  considerably  less  than 
the  Federals,  and  were  allowed  to  continue  their  march  unmolested. 
They  reached  Price's  army,  on  Red  river,  without  further  fighting. 
During  the  first  winter  of  the  war,  Mr.  Conley  was  taken  prisoner  at 
Rocky  Fork  bridge,  on  the  Blackfoot  rock  road,  and  was  held  at 
Centralia  and  Sturgeon  by  Gen.  Prentiss.  Was  kept  a  prisoner  for 
two  weeks,  when  he  was  paroled.  Was  also  captured  at  Lexington  ^ 
but  wad  soon  released.  He  surrendered  at  Shreveport  under  Col. 
Charles  S.  Mitchell,  now  of  Houston,  Texas,  formerly  of  Saline 
county,  Missouri.  Since  the  war  he  has  followed  farming  and  trading. 
At  one  time  he  owned  the  Model  Farm  of  400  acres,  which  he  sold  to 
Warren  A.  Smith,  September  1,  1881.  In  1872  he  was  elected  public 
administrator,  but  resigned.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order* 

CAPT.  MASTIN    G.  CORLEW. 

The  Subject  of  this  biography  is  of  French-Huguenot  extraction, 
his  paternal  great-grandfather  having  fled  from  France  after  the  revo- 
cation of  the  edict  of  Nantes.  He  settled  in  South  Carolina  and  from 
him  the  Corlews,  now  a  numerous  family,  trace  their  origin.  Capt. 
Corlew  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  February  11,  1821.  He 
is  the  son  of  John  Corlew,  Jr.,  who  came  to  Missouri  with  his  father 


1086  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

iu  1817»and  settled  on  the  southeast  quarter  of  section  three,  townghip 
forty-nine.  John  Corlew,  Jr.,  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812,  and 
served  under  Gen.  Jackson.  He  was  for  many  years  •constable  of 
Perche  township.  He  also  served  the  people  in  the  capacity  of  a  jus- 
tice of  the  peace.  He  was  a  public  spirited  man  and  took  a  deep  in- 
terest in  education.  He  was  a  strict  member  of  the  Primitive  Baptist 
church.  He  died  August  7,  1848,  and  was  buried  at  the  old  Rocky 
Fork  church.  Capt.  Corlew's  mother's  name,  before  marriage,  was 
<jore.  In  his  boyhood,  the  captain  had  few  opportunities  for  procur- 
ing an  education,  having  attended  school  but  nine  months  all  told. 
He  was  married  in  1853  to  Miss  Sarah  Cox.  By  this  union  seven 
children  were  born,  four  sons  and  three  daughters.  Their  names  are 
John  L.,  Deborah  E.,  Wra.  O.,  Sterling  P.,  Magdalena  and  Andrew 
J.  Deborah  married  Silas  S.  Davenport.  They  have  four  children. 
William  O.  married  Jennie  Boyce.  Capt.  Corlew  spent  four  years 
in  California,  from  1849  to  1853,  mining  for  gold.  At  the  breaking 
out  of  the  late  civil  wais  he  took  sides  with  the  South,  serving  as 
captain  under  Gen.  John  B.  Clark.  He  was  in  some  hotly  contested 
battles.  Among  others,  Lexington^  Drywood  and  Moore's  Mill.  Sur- 
rendered at  Shreveport  in  1865.  He  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the 
peace  in  1872,  and  has  held  that  office  ever  since.  His  eldest  son, 
John  L.,  is  a  successful  teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  Boone  county. 
Capt.  Corlew  is  an  official  member  of  the  Christian  church  at  Drip- 
ping Spring.  In  politics  he  is  a  straightout  Democrat.  He  is  very 
earnest  in  his  convictions  and  jealous  in  the  discharge  of  duty.  The 
county  of  Boone  can  boast  no  better  citizen  than  Capt.  Corlew,  and  his 
township  no  truer  type  of  honest,  conscientious  manhood. 

WILLIAM    R.    COWDEN,    M.    D. 

Dr.  William  R.  Cowden,  a  reliable,  competent  and  enterprising 
young  physician,  of  Perche  township,  was  born  in  Boone  county, 
Missouri,  November  7th,  1849.  He  is  the  son  of  Hezekiah,  a  well-to- 
do  farmer  of  Perche  township,  who  came  to  Missouri  in  1837.  The 
father  of  Hezekiah  was  Joseph  Cowden,  an  Irishman.  Hezekiah 
married  Miss  Elizabeth  Inglehart,  daughter  of  George  J.,  only  son 
of  George  Inglehart,  a  native  of  Germany,  who  came  here  during  the 
revolutionary  war  as  a  soldier  under  Lord  Cornwallis.  Dr.  William 
R.  Cowden  is  one  of  nine  children:  James  E.,  George  W.,  Joseph, 
Alexander,  Florenza,  Margaret  C,  John  N.  and  Mary.  The  father 
of  Dr.  Cowden  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-two.     He  was  a  zealous  mem- 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1087 

ber  of  the  Methodist  church,  SL\\d  lived  a'pious,  godly  life.  The  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  educated  at  the  common  schools  of  the  country. 
Afterwards  studied  medicine  under  Dr.  J.  M.  Shock,  of  Everett, 
whose  biography  appears  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  He  then  attended 
the  lectures  at  the  Medical  College  of  Virginia.  He  entered  college  in 
1874.  After  graduating  from  this  institution  he  took  a  course  of 
lectures  at  the  Bellevue  Hospital  and  Medical  College,  taking  his  de- 
gree from  this  institution  in  1876.  He  was  married  in  1876  to  Miss 
£mma  J.,  daughter  of  JohnBennett,  of  l^ichmond,  Virginia.  They 
have  three  children,  Virginia,  Willie  M.  and  Etta  Lee.  The  doctor 
is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church.  He  has  a  fine  practice,  and  is 
universally  esteemed  by  all  who  know  him.  He  has  accumulated 
considerable  property  and  all  his  surroundings  are  of  the  most 
pleasant  and  encouraging  nature. 

GEO.    W.    DENHAM. 

Geo.  W.  Denham,  son  of  Samuel  Denham,  a  native  of  Madison 
county,  Kentucky,  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  November 
11th,  1849.  His  father  was  an  energetic,  prosperous  farmer,  and  the 
son  has  followed  the  same  avocation,  and  with  like  success.  Mr.  Den- 
ham was  educated  at  the  common  schools,  but  pursued  his  studies  to 
better  purpose  than  most  young  men  of  like  opportunities.  Prepar- 
ing himself  for  a  teacher  he  engaged  in  that  business  and.  was  quite 
successful.  In  1872  he  settled  on  a  farm  near  Midway  where  he  re- 
mained until  1877  when  he  purchased  the  Stephen  Wilhite  farm, 
consisting  of  300  acres,  where  he  now  resides.  He  was  married  in 
1872,  to  Miss  Stevie  S.  Wilhite,  daughter  of  Hon  W.  R.  Wil- 
hite*. One  child  was  born  to  them,  a  son,  whom  they  called  Emmett. 
Mrs.  Denham  died  in  1874.  The  child  died  at  the  age  of  eleven 
months.  Mr.  Denham  is  director  of  his  school  district  and  an  official 
member  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Walnut  Grove.  He  is  also  super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday  school,  which  he  has  labored  long  and  zeal- 
ously to  build  up.  He  is  an  earnest,  devoted  Christian,  upright  and 
faithful  in  every  position  of  life. 

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WILLIAM   T.    DIMMITT 

Was  one  of  a  family  of  ten  children,  all  of  whom  lived  to  be  fathers 
And  mothers  of  families.  Joshua  Dimmitt,  the  father  of  William,  was 
the  son  of  Richard  Dimmitt,  a  native  of  Maryland.  The  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  born  in  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky,  April  26th,  1817. 


1088  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

He  moved  with  his  parents  to  Indiana,  where  he  resided  for  sixteeo 
years.  He  returned  to  Kentucky  and  married  Miss  Harriet  Talbott, 
who  died  in  about  one  year  after  the  marriage.  His  second  wife  was 
Miss  Margaret  M.  Long,  daughter  of  Judge  T.  A.  Long.  There 
were  eight  children  born  of  this  marriage,  four  daughters  and  four 
sons.  One  son  died  in  infancy.  Rev.  Thomas  F.  Dimraittis  a  min- 
ister of  the  M.  E.  Church  South.  He  is  now  a  member  of  one  of  the 
Texas  conferences.  Sarah  E.  married  Louis  Hoffman,  county  attor- 
ney for  Gasconade  county,  Missouri.  George  W.  is  in  the  lumber 
business  at  Lathrop,  Clinton  county,  Missouri.  Harriet  married 
Alexander  M.  Cochran,  of  Clinton  county.  One  son  and  two  daugh- 
ters are  still  with  their  parents.  When  Mr.  Dimmitt  came  to  Boone 
county,  in  1861,  his  position  was  rather  unpleasant  owing  to  the  bitter 
feelings  growing  out  of  the  war.  His  neighbors  were  intensely  South- 
ern in  sentiment  and  slow  to  believe  that  people  coming  from  a  North- 
ern State  could  be  other  than  Union  sympathizers,  and  to  that  extent 
enemies  of  the  South.  Their  disappointment,  to  say  the  least,  was 
most  pleasurable.  The  Dimmitts  werQ  Methodists  and  in  hearty  ac- 
cord with  their  brethren.  The  parents  of  Mrs.  Dimmitt  are  still  living 
Her  father  is  eighty-seven,  her  mother  eighty-four.  They  have  been 
living  as  man  and  wife  for  sixty-three  years. 

JOSHUA   FENTON. 

Joshua  Fenton  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  September  30th, 
1826.  He  is  the  son  of  Caleb  Fenton,  a  native  of  Virginia,  who  emi- 
grated first  to  Kentucky  and  then  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  where 
he  remained  until  his  death,  in  1840.  Joshua  was  brought  up  on  the 
farm  and  educated  at  the  district  schools.  In  1849  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Agnes  March,  daughter  of  Absalom  March,  of  Kentucky.  Ten 
children  were  born  to  them,  three  boys  and  seven  girls.  One  son  and 
five  girls  are  living.  All  are  married  except  Joshua  C,  w^ho,  at  this 
writing,  is  living  with  his  father.  Mr.  Fenton  is  a  member  of  the 
Baptist  church  at  New  Providence.  He  cultivates  an  excellent  farm 
of  300  acres  ;  is  an  enterprising,  public-spirited  citizen,  honored  and 
respected  by  all  who  know  him. 

WILLIAM   H.    H.    FENTON. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  June 
5th,  1835.  He  is  the  son  of  Caleb  Fenton,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  who 
came  to  Boone  county  at  an  early  period  of  its  history.     His  father 


HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1089 

ivas  also  named  Caleb.  William  was  educated  at  the  common  schools 
of  the  county.  The  first  teacher,  of  any  consequence,  was  Kobert  A. 
Younger,  under  whose  instructions  he  made  rapid  progress.  He  was 
married  in  1856  to  Miss  Lucinda,  daughter  of  Buford  Stice,  of  Boone 
oounty,  a  native  of  Kentucky.  By  this  union  they  had  five  children: 
Ada,  who  married  Washington  Mordica ;  James  T.  married  Miss  Cora 
Phillippie;  Andrew  B. ;  William  E. ;  Annie,  married  William  Pol- 
lock. The  first  wife  dying,  Mr.  Fenton  married  Miss  Belle, 
daughter  of  John  I.  Pollock.  Bythis  union  they  have  two  sons,  Hin- 
ton  and  Turner  G.,  namesakes  of  Judge  Hinton  and  Hon.  Squire  Tur- 
ner,  of  Columbia,  Missouri.  Mr.  Fenton  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
order.  He  purchased  the  farm  upon  which  he  now  lives  of  Allen 
Coats.  It  was  settled  i^  1819  ;  it  is  situated  on  Silver's  Fork,  of  the 
Perche,  and  is  very  productive.  Notwithstanding  the  severe  drought 
of  1881,  which  rendered  the  corn  crop  almost  a  failure,  Mr.  Fenton 
produced  more  of  this  cereal  than  he  could  consume. 

JAMES  J.  FENTON,  DECEASED. 

James  J.  Fenton  was  born  in  Kentucky,  June  5,  1820.  He  was 
raised  on  a  farm  and  chose  agriculture  as  the  future  occupation  of  his 
life.  He  came  to  Missouri  in  his  childhood.  Married  Sarah  A., 
daughter  of  Anthony  Drane.  They  had  nine  children,  eight  of  whom 
are  living.  Their  names  are  Caleb  A.,  James  A.,  Lawrence  E.,  John 
P.,  M.  A.,  Joseph  I.,  Albert  and  George.  The  dead  son  was  named 
Lee.  He  died  at  the  age  of  two  years.  Four  of  their  children  are 
married.  Caleb  married  Jennie  Hall.  They  have  five  children. 
James  A.  mamed  Carrie  Trunnell  and  have  one  child.  Laura  E. 
married  James  Wilhite  and  they  have  one  child .  John  P.  married  Susan 
Tucker  and  they  have  one  child.  Mr.  Fenton  was  a  member  of  the 
Bethlehem  Baptist  church.  He  died  in  1869,  aged  forty-eight  years 
and  eight  months.  Mrs.  Fenton  is  still  living  on  the  old  homestead. 
Mr.  Fenton  was  widely  known  and  highly  esteemed  by  all  who  knew 
him. 

ARCHIBALD   GOIN. 

Archibald  Goin  is  a  native  of  Kentucky,  having  been  born  in  Madi- 
son county,  June  5,  1812.  He  is  the  son  of  Francis  and  Nancy  Goin. 
Living  in  Kentucky  until  he  was  seventeen  years *old,  he  came  to 
Boone  county  in  September,  1829,  and  remained  one  year  in  Missouri. 
He  then  returned  to  his  former  home  in  Kentucky.     In    1831    came 

J^ack  to  Boone  county  and  settled  in  what  is  now  known  as   Centralia 
69 


1090  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

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township,  but  afterwards  removed  to  Perche  township,  where  he  now 
resides.  He  has  followed  agricultural  pursuits  all  his  life.  Was  mar- 
ried in  1830  to  Sophia,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Ellen  Hunter.  They 
raised  seven  children,  four  of  whom  are  now  living.  Lost  two  sons 
in  the  army.  The  names  of  the  living  are  William  H.,  Margaret^ 
James  Grandison,  and  Susan  P.  Three  of  their  children,  James, 
Martha  Ellen,  and  Franklin,  are  dead.  Mrs.  Coin  is  a  member  of  the 
Old  School  Baptist  church.     Mr.  Goin  is  not  a  church  member. 

THOMAS    FRANKLIN    008LIN. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  where  he  now  lives,  September 
7,  1837.  He  is  the  third  child  of  Sylvester  F.,  who  came  to  Boone 
county  in  1818,  with  his  father,  William,  from  Kentucky,  when  Syl- 
vester was  but  ten  years  old.  They  had  to  take  shelter  in  Cooper's 
Fort.  Thomas  is  one  of  thirteen  children,  eight  sons  and  five  daugh- 
ters. He  was  principally  educated  at  subscription  schools,  Robert 
A.  Younger  being  his  first  teacher.  Having  been  raised  upon  the 
farm,  he  naturally  chose  that  avocation  on  arriving  at  the  age  of  ma- 
turity, and  has  followed  the  business  ever  since.  He  is  also  a  carpenter, 
and  has  worked  considerably  at  this  trade.  He  inherited  his  father's  farm^ 
upon  which  he  now  resides.  The  farm  is  well  improved,  and  is  finely 
adapted  to  stockraising.  Mr.Goslin  keeps  some  very  fine  stock  and  takes 
a  lively  interest  in  the  business.  He  married  Nancy  E.  Hawkius» 
daughter  of  Joel  Hawkins,  of  Boone  county.  By  this  union  they  have 
six  children,  three  of  each  sex.  Their  names  are  James,  Joseph. 
John,  Dora,  Lou  Ellen,  and  Amanda.  Mr.  Goslin  is  a  member  of  the 
Baptist  church  at  Bethlehem.  He  takes  a  deep  interest  in  the  cause 
of  education,  and  is  an  enterprising,  clever  citizen. 

ISAAC    C.    HUNTINGTON. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  New  York,  July  24th,  1834. 
He  is  the  son  of  James  P.  Huntington,  and  of  English-French  origin. 
He  came  to  Missouri  in  March,  1866,  and  settled  in  Boone  county. 
He  purchased  600  acres  of  land  in  the  vicinity  of  the  *'  Model  Farm,'* 
where  he  has  since  resided.  Mr.  Huntington  is  largely  engaged  in  the 
live  stock  business,  making  Jersey  and  Durham  cattle  and  thorough- 
bred sheep  his  specialties.  Two  hundred  acres  of  his  farm  are  in 
blue  grass.  He  has  one  of  the  finest  orchards  in  the  county.  Mr. 
Huntington  was  married  to  Miss  Addie  Barton,  daughter  of  S.  Barton, 
a  merchant.     They  have  four  children,  three  sons  and  one  daughter. 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  1091 

Mr.  Huntington  is  a  member  of  the  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  order.  He  has 
always  taken  an  active  part  in  public  school  work,  but  has  no  political 
aspii-ations.  Was  in  the  United  States  service  during  the  late  civil 
war  and  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Bull  Run.  He  was  first  lieu- 
tenant under  Col.  Stiles.  Mr.  Huntington  has  a  substantial,  well- 
built  mansion  furnished  with  all  the  modern  improvements  and  con- 
veniences of  a  well-ordered  city  residence.  His  yard  and  lawn  are 
beautifully  ornamented  with  flowers  and  shrubbery,  arranged  in  the 
most  beautiful  and  tasty  manner.  Mr.  Huntington  is  highly  appre- 
ciated by  all  who  know  him.  He  is  a  good  neighbor,  a  genial  com- 
panion and  prompt  and  faithful  in  the  discharge  of  all  the  duties  of 
citizenship. 

WILLIAM   F.    m'QUITTY,    M.    D. 

Dr.  McQuitty  is  a  young  man  of  fine  attainments,  having  both  a 
classical  and  medical  education,  and  withal  the  confidence  and  esteem 
of  all  who  know  him.  He  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  Jan- 
uary 15th,  1852.  His  father,  Andrew  J.  McQuitty,  was  born  in  1825, 
being  the  son  of  David  McQuitty,  one  of  the  early  pioneers  of  Missouri. 
The  gi'andfather  of  Dr.  McQuitty  emigrated  from  Kentucky  in  1811, 
settling  first  in  St.  Louis  county.  In  1813  he  was  an  inmate  of 
Pond's  Fort.  David,  at  this  time,  was  with  his  father,  Andrew,  who 
subsequently  entered  the  lands  upon  which  Fielding  W.  Smith  now 
resides.  Andrew  J.  McQuitty,  his  grandson,  settled  part  of  the  old 
Sexton  farm.  Dr.  McQuitty  is  one  of  three  children,  two  sons  and 
one  daughter.  His-  brother,  James,  married  Miss  Annie  Dysart,  of 
Boone  county.  Since  graduating  at  the  Missouri  State  University, 
Dr.  McQuitty  has  been  actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion. The  first  year  of  his  professional  life  was  spent  at  Burlington, 
Boone  county.  Returning  to  his  own  neighborhood,  in  1882,  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  Dr.  Lewis,  at  Woodland ville,  at  which 
place  he  now  resides.  He  has  acquired  some  nice  property  at  this 
place  and  is  prospering  in  his  profession.  Dr.  McQuitty  is  firm  and 
devoted  to  his  principles,  resolute  and  determined  in  all  that  he  under- 
takes. He  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  at  New  Providence, 
and  has  been  earnest  and  devoted  in  his  religious  duties  from  early 
youth. 

GEORGE   WASHINGTON    NORRIS. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  native  of  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
bom  January  6th,  1834.  His  father,  William  Norris,  was  bom  in 
Albermarle  county,  Virginia.     George  W.  Norris  was  one  of  eight 


1092  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   CX)UNTr. 

children,  five  soils  and  three  daughters.  The  elder  Norris  died  when 
Oeorge  was  but  five  years  old,  leaving  the  latter  to  work  out  his  own 
destiny.  Under  the  circumstances,  his  education  was  somewhat  neg- 
lected. He  was  first  married  to  Miss  Amanda  I.  Short,  daughter  of 
•Cornelius  and  Sallie  Short,  of  Boone  county.  One  child,  Wilford  A., 
was  born  of  this  marriage,  and  is  now,  at  this  writing,  a  student  of 
the  medical  department  of  the  Missouri.  State  University.  His  first 
wife  having  died,  in  1861,  Mr.  Norris  has  since  married  the  second 
time,  the  last  wife  being  Mrs.  Sarah  F.  Watts,  nee  Rowland,  and 
widow  of  Wm.  Watts.  There  were  four  children  bv  this  marriacre: 
Ora  M.,  Mattie  L.,  Henry  J.,  and  George  William.  The  second  and 
third  named  are  dead.  Mr.  Norris  has  resided  since  1859  on  a  fine 
farm  of  160  acres,  situated  in  the  vicinity  of  Bethlehem  Baptist  church, 
of  which  organization  he  and  his  family  are  members.  During  the 
late  civil  war  Mr.  Norris  was  a  member  of  Company  I,  Second  Mis- 
souri infantry.  Confederate  army.  He  was  with  Pembeilon  at  Vicks- 
burg,  in  1863,  and  was  taken  prisoner.  Since  the  war  he  has  been  an 
active  farmer,  and  has  taken  much  interest  in  educational  matters, 
-especially  in  matters  peilaining  to  the  common  schools,  his  own 
district  school  in  particular. 

BENJAMIN    H.    OBEAR. 

Benj.  H.  Orear  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  September 
18th,  1846.  He  is  the  son  of  Joseph  B.  Orear,  a  native  of  Ken- 
tucky. He  was  reared  on  the  farm  and  educated  at  the  common 
schools  of  the  country.  Was  in  the  Confederate  army  under  Gen. 
Price  during  the  last  year  of  the  war.  He  married  Fannie  E.  Searcy, 
widow  of  the  late  Thomas  B.  Searcy,  who  was  a  son  q^*  Lemuel  B. 
Searcy,  a  prominent  and  influential  citizen  of  Boone  county.  Thomas 
was  born  in  Boone  county,  December  27th,  1838  ;  he  was  educated  at 
the  common  schools,  completing  his  studies  at  Lathrop  and  Roche- 
port  academies,  under  the  instruction  of  his  brother.  Prof.  Newton 
Searcy  ;  he  entered  the  Confederate  army  and  remained  in  the  service 
until  the  close  of  th6  war,  in  1865.  He  married  Miss  Annie  E., 
•daughter,  of  William  D.  Bullard.  The  following  children  were  born 
to  him:  Ethel  B.,  Stella,  Edna,  Earl,  Lemuel  B.  and  Nellie  T.  Mr. 
Searcy  was  the  choice  of  Boone  county  for  assessor,  and  was  twice 
•elected  to  that  office.  He  was  assessor  at  the  time  of  his  death  ;  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order  and  took  a  lively  interest  in  the 
grange,  of  which  order  he  was  an  active  member.     He  died  April  3d, 


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HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1093 

1877,  and  was  buried  in  the  Rocky  Fork  cemetery.  Thus  passed 
away,  in  the  vigor  and  prime  of  life,  one  of  the  most  popular  and 
influential  young  men  of  Boone  county. 

EDWIN   M.    PRICE. 

The  subject  of  this  memoir  is  a  son  of  R.  B.  Price,  president  of  the 
Boone  County  National  Bank.  In  discharging  the  duties  of  this  impor- 
tant trust  Mr.  Price  has  shown  remarkable  ability.  It  is  a  position  re- 
quiring prudence,  firmness  and  decision  of  character,  characteristics  for 
which  Mr.  Price  has  long  been  noted.  As  a  financier  he  has  few 
equals ;  his  long  and  successful  management  of  this  business  is  suf- 
ficient commendation  in  itself.  Edwin  M.  Price  was  bom  in  Co- 
lumbia, August  5th,  1856  ;  his  mother  was  Emma  Prewitt,  daughter, 
of  Moss  Prewitt,  one  of  the  pioneer  business  men  of  Columbia ;  he 
was  both  banker  and  merchant,  and  by  diligent  management  accumu- 
lated a  large  fortune.  He  once  owned  the  land  upon  which  a  large 
portion  of  Columbia  is  now  situated ;  he  was  also  largely  interested 
in  slave  property.  Just  prior  to  the  war  he  owned  more  negi'oes  than 
any  other  planter  in  the  county.  He  was  then  largely  engaged  in 
farming:.  When  the  war  commenced  he  turned  his  attention  to  bankino: 
and  merchandising.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  at  the 
Missouri  State  University,  taking  a  scientific  course;  he  received  his 
diploma  in  1880.  Soon  after  graduating  he  purchased  one  thousand 
•  one  hundred  and  eighty  acres  of  the  celebrated  *'  Model  Farm,"  pre- 
viously the  property  of  Hon.  John  W.  Harris.  Mr.  Price  is  now 
living  on  this  beautiful  farm  and  is  extensively  engaged  in  raising 
thoroughbred  cattle.  He  has  on  his  farm  one  hundred  and  ten  head 
of  imported  sheep.  He  is  also  largely  interested  in  the  mule  trade. 
The  farm  is  abundantly  supplied  with  all  kinds  of  labor-saving  machin- 
ery. The  '*  Model  Farm  "  is  situated  in  the  blue  grass  region.  The 
pastures  in  this  part  of  the  county  are  scarcely  inferior  to  those  of 
Bourbon  county,  Kentucky.  Mr.  Price  was  married  in  1881  to  Miss 
Mary  Lakenan,  daughter  of  Senator  R.  F.  Lakenan,  of  HannibaU 
Missouri.     They  have  one  son.     He  bears  the  name  of  R.  B.  Price,  Jr. 

CAPT.    DAVID   PROWELL,    SB. 

The  subject  of  this  biography  was  born  in  Adair  county,  Kentucky^ 
January  26th,  1809.  He  was  the  eldest  of  a  family  of  eleven  children 
born  to  James  and  Margaret  Prowell,  natives  ojf  Virginia.  The 
Pro  wells  are  of  Irish  descent.     William,  grandfather  on  the  father's 


1094  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

side,  was  a  soldier  of   the  revolution.     The   maternal   grandfather, 
Eobin  Fletcher,  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.      Mr.  ProwelPs 
opportunities  for  obtaining  an  education  were  few  and   of  the  most 
primitive  character.     He  obtained  the  rudiments  of  a  common  school 
education  in  a  rude  log  cabin,  destitute  of  floor  and   chimney.    The 
fire-place  was  in  the  center  of  the  room,  under  an  aperture  in  the 
roof,  through  which  the  smoke  escaped.     Capt.  Prowell  married  Miss 
Betsey  Booher,  daughter  of  Capt.  John  Booher,  a  native  of  Virginia, 
but  at  the  time  of  his  daughter's  marriage  a  citizen  of  Kentucky. 
Seven  children  were  born  of  this  marriage,  five  of  whom  are  alive  at 
this  writing.     One  of  his  daughters,  Nancy  W.,  married  Montgomery 
Cowden,  and  removed  with  him  to  Texas.     They  have  six  children. 
Elizabeth  married  John  M.  Phillippie,  of  Boone  county.     They  have 
ten  children,  two  of  whom  are  married.     The  names  of  the  other 
children,  living  and  dead,  are  Caroline,  Mary  J.,  David,  Jr.,  John, 
and  James.     Capt.  Prowell  came  to  Missouri  in  1834.     While  on  the 
road  his  oldest  child  sickened  and  died.     He  settled  near  where  he 
now  lives,  on  **  View  Hill,"  a  very  commanding  situation,  presenting 
a  fine  view  of  the  surrounding  country.      His  farm  is  located  ten 
miles  north   of  Columbia.     The  farming  land  lies  in  the  valley  of 
Silver's  Fork  of  the  Perche,  and  is  very  productive,  producing,  in  1881, 
forty  bushels  of  wheat  to  the  acre.     The  up-land  is  rolling  and  finely 
timbered,  being  well  adapted  to  the  growth  of  grass,  tobacco,  corn 
and  wheat.     The  farm  is  admirably  watered.     Notwithstanding  the 
corn  crop  of  Missouri  was  almost  a  failure  in  1881,  Capt.  Prowell 
produced   on   his  farm   a  surplus  of  500  bushels.     In  the  beginning 
of  the  civil   war,  Capt.  Prowell  responded  to  the  call  of  the  gover- 
nor for  volunteers,  but  the  array  was  soon  disbanded,  and  he  returned 
home.     When  the  second  call  was  made,  he  again  responded.     He 
was   detached  by  his  colonel   to  intercept  a  company  of  the  enemy; 
hence  did  not  reach  Boonville  till  the  battle  was  over.     Returning  to  his 
home  soon  after,  he  was  arrested  and  banished  from  the  State,  in  com- 
pany with  several  other  prominent  citizens  of  Boone  county,  known 
to  be  friendly  to  the  South.     Returning  from  Illinois,  where  he  had 
been  banished,  he  has  remained  quietly  on  his  farm  ever  since.     Capt. 
Prowell  has  always  lived  peaceably  with  his   neighbors,  having  never 
been  engaged  in  a  law  suit,  though  he  has  had  as  many  business  trans- 
actions with  his  fellow-men  as  usually  fiiUs  to  the  lot  of  a  single  indi- 
vidual.    He  has  always  been  a  positive  Democrat.     To  him  the  name 
is  a  synonym   for   honesty.     He   has  always  been  a  farmer,  but  in 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   CX)UNTr.  1095 

«arly  life  used  to  teach  school  during  the  winter  season.  He  taught 
but  one  term,  however,  after  coming  to  Missouri.  Capt.  Pro  well  is 
widely  known  and  universally  respected.  His  hospitality  is  proverbial. 
It  is  a  saying  of  his,  and  a  characteristic  one,  that  the  latch-string  of 
his  door  hangs  on  the  outside. 

ROBERT     PRO  WELL. 

Robert  Prowell  is  a  native  of  Adair  county,  Kentucky,  where  he 
was  born  December  10th,  1813.  His  father,  James,  was  the  son  of 
William  Prowell,  a  soldier  of  the  revolution.  The  Prowells  are  of 
Irish  origin,  the  great-grandfather  of  Robert  having  emigrated  to 
America  in  colonial  days.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  grew  up  to 
manhood  in  Kentucky,  emigrating  to  Boone  county,  Missouri,  in  1836. 
He  settled  on  a  farm  and  devoted  his  attention  to  agriculture  and  to 
breeding  extra  stable  stock,  keeping  a  special  grade  of  harness  and 
draught  horses.  He  has  followed  this  business  successfully  for  over 
forty  years.  Mr.  Prowell  was  married  December  19th,  1838,  to  Miss 
Charlotte  E.,  daughter  of  Leven  Bishop,  a  native  of  Maryland.  Eight 
•children  were  bom  to  them,  four  of  each  sex,  three  of  whom,  James, 
Lewis  and  Arabella,  are  dead.  The  surviving  children  are  Margaret 
J.,  Sarah  E.,  William,  Judah  A.  and  Joseph  B.  Margaret  J.  married 
Luther  V.  Caldwell.  They  have  had  three  children,  two  of  whom 
are  living.  Sarah  E.  married  William  Hayes.  They  have  six  chil- 
dren. William  married  Mary  E.  Lyon.  They  have  three  children. 
Judah  A.  married  William  Milhollen.  They  have  three  children.  Mr. 
Prowell  commenced  improving  his  present  home  in  1846.  It  was 
then  almost  an  unbroken  forest.  He  bought  the  land  from  David 
Booth,  who  had  entered  it  several  years  before.  The  farm  contains 
266  acres.  As  to  religion,  Mr.  Prowell  is  a  Methodist.  His  family 
are  also  members  of  that  church.  Mrs.  Prowell  has  been  a  devoted 
Christian  since  she  was  fifteen  years  old,  and  has  brought  up  her  family 
in  the  fear  and  admonition  of  the  Lord.  She  has  been  an  active  church 
member  for  fifty  years. 

SANFORD   REID,   DECEASED. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Madison  county,  Kentucky, 
January  26th,  .1843.  He  was  the  son  of  Orestus  Reid.  The  family 
are  of  English  origin.  Sanford  Reid  was  married  in  1862 
to  Miss  Martha  E.  Noe,  daughter  .of  James  S.  Noe,  of  Virginia. 
Eight  children  were  born  of  this  marriage.     Their  names  are  George 


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1096  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

M.,  W.  Orestus,  Samuel  Z.,  Lena  R.,  Ruth,  Clifton  B.  and  Rosa  L. 
Two  died  in  early  childhood.  Mr.  Reid  was  in  the  Confederate  ser-^ 
vice  during  the  first  year  of  the  war.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Christian  church  and  an  enterprising,  worthy  citizen ;  an  active  pro- 
moter of  education  a^d  a  friend  to  public  enterprise  generally.  He 
was  a  farmer. 

DUSKIN    SETTLES. 

Duskin  Settles,  son  of  G.  Settles,  of  Virginia,  was  born  in  that 
State,  September  15th,  1826,  and  emigrated  to  Boone  county,  Mis- 
souri, in  1860.  Mr.  Settles*  opportunities  for  acquiring  an' education 
were  very  ifmited.  It  was  scarcely  within  his  power  to  attain  the 
rudiments  of  learning.  He  was  married  at  the  age  of  twenty-six  to 
Miss  Mary  Shears,  daughter  of  James  Shears.  Thirteen  children 
have  been  born  to  them,  nineof  whom  are  alive  at  this  writing.  Mr. 
Settles  is  a  man  of  excellent  judgment,  industrious,  energetic  and 
faithful  in  the  discharge  of  every  duty,  whether  of  public  or  private 
import.  For  a  number  of  years  he  managed  the  Model  Farm.  He 
was  in  charge  of  the  farm  when  Mr.  Harris  died.  He  filled  this- 
responsible  position  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  his  employer.  Mr- 
Settles  owns  two  hundred  and  fifty-two  acres  of  land,  which  he  culti- 
vates to  the  best  advantage.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
church. 

JOHN   M.    SHOCK,    M.    D. 

Dr.  John  M.  Shock  is  a  native  of  Boone  county,  Missouri.     He  is- 
the  son  of  David  S.  Shock,  one  of  the  early  and  substantial  pioneers, 
a  Kentuckian  by  birth,  and  a  native  of  Fayette  county.     The  father 
of  David  Shock  was  a  Virginian  and  a  soldier  under  *'Mad  Anthony 
Wayne,"  in  his  famous  campaign  against  the  French  and  Indians.     He 
remained  in  the  army  for  three  years.     The  Shocks  are  of  French 
origin.     The  father  and  2:randfather  of  Dr.   Shock  were  members  of 
the  regular  Baptist  church.     The  subject  of  this  biography  was  born 
one  and  a  half  miles  north  of  Columbia,  August  16th,  1824.     He  was^ 
brought  up  on  the  farm  and  attended  the  common  schools  of  the  coun- 
try, which  in  his  day  were  none  of  the  best,  but  by  close  application 
he  mastered  the   studies   then  taught   in    our    district    schools  and 
became  a  teacher.     After  six  years  of  diligent  labor  in  the  school 
room,  he  attended  Pope's  Medical,  College  in  St.  Louis,  where  he 
graduated  in  1858.     Returning  from    St.  Louis,  he  commenced  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  the  neighborhood  where  he  now  resides. 
He  has  had  all  the  practice  he  could  attend  to  in  the  last  quarter  of  a 


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HISTORY   OF  BOONE    COUNTY.  1097 

century.  He  is  still  in  the  prime  of  vigorous  manhood,  and  at  this 
writing  is  equal  to  the  labor  of  the  busiest  year  of  his  life.  He 
has  prospered  in  business  almost  from  the  start.  He  owns 
over  five  hundred  acres  of  very  fine  land  besides  other  valuable 
property.  He  was  married  in  1852  to  Miss  Sallie  A.  Sheley» 
daughter  of  Ransom  Sheley,  of  Callaway  county,  Missouri. 
One  child  was  born  of  this  marriajje.  The  first  wife  died 
three  years  after  marriage  and  the  doctor  chose  for  his  second 
wife  Miss  Catherine  Ritchie,  of  Kentucky.  She  died  in  I860*,  leaving 
one  child.  He  was  married  the  third  time  to  Miss  Sallie  J.  M.  Mc- 
Quitty,  daughter  of  George  McQuitty,  a  prominent  farmer  of  Boone 
county.  They  have  four  children  by  this  marriage,  one  son  and  three 
daughters.  Dr.  Shock  is  a  zealous  and  influential  member  of  the 
Baptist  church  and  a  teacher  in  the  Walnut  Grove  Sunday  school. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Everett  Grange,  also  a  member  of  the  Roche- 
port  lodge  of  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  His  life  has  been  a  success.  He  is,  in 
the  strictest  sense  of  the  term,  a  self-made  man. 

FIELDING   W.    SMITH. 

Boone  county  has  been  blessed  by  nature  with  almost  every  variety 
of  soil  from  the  richest  and  most  sightly  to  the  roughest  and  most  ro- 
mantic. Rich  pasture  land  is  not  the  rule,  but  there  are  many  thou- 
sands of  acres  of  blue  grass  not  excelled  on  the  continent.  The  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  owns  over  300  acres  of  grass  land  situated  in  one 
of  the  richest  and  most  beautiful  sections  of  country  west  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi. That  this  is  no  exaggeration,  one  need  but  visit  the  farms  in 
this  section  to  be  convinced.  Mr.  Smith  is  a  practical  farmer  and  de- 
lights in  his  avocation  as  much  as  it  is  possible  for  a  man  to  delight  in 
his  business.  He  is  the  youngest  son  of  Capt.  William  Smith,  one  of 
the  earliest  settlers  of  Boone  county,  a  man  of  superior  intelligence 
and  sterling  worth.  He  came  to  Boone  county  a  poor  man,  but  by  in- 
dustry, prudence  and  energy  accumulated  a  fortune,  bequeathing  to 
his  sons  not  only  a  handsome  legacy  but  a  thorough  education.  Capt. 
William  Smith  was  a  native  of  Madison  county,  Kentucky.  He  was 
born  in  1794,  and  emigrated  to  Boone  county  in  1819.  He  was  of 
Irish  extraction  and  possessed  many  of  the  characteristics  of  that  race. 
He  was  jovial  and  witty,  and  loved  a  joke  for  its  own  sake.  Possess- 
ing a  fair  education  and  excellent  judgment,  his  services  were  urgently 
sought  for  in  public  life,  but  with  the  single  exception  of  representing 
his  county  once  in  the  legislature,  he  steadfastly  refused  all    offers    of 


1098  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

promotion.  BLis  colleagues  in  the  legislature  were  Dr.  Matt.  Arnold 
and  William  Rowland.  Claib.  Jackson  and  Sterling  Price  were  ako 
members  of  the  same  general  assembly.  The  latter  was  speaker  of 
the  house.  Captain  Smith  resided  on  a  farm  five  miles  west  of  Co- 
lumbia from  1819  to  1862,  removing  in  that  year  to  the  farm  now  oc- 
cupied by  his  son  Fielding  W.  Smith.  Here  he  died  in  1875,  at  the 
age  of  81. .  He  was  a  man  of  sterling  worth,  moral,  upright  and  dig- 
nified, commanding  the  esteem  of  all  who  knew  him.  Fielding  W. 
Smith  was  born  April  17,  1846.  He  was  educated  at  the  liijUissouri 
State  University.  He  was  married  in  1867  to  Miss  Mattie  A.  Mc- 
Kinney,  of  Boone  county,  daughter  of  John  C.  McBanney.  Their 
union  has  been  blessed  by  four  sons.  Their  model  home  is  noted  (bt 
and  wide  for  generous  hospitality  disp'ensed  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smith 
to  all  who  pass  the  portals  of  their  happy,  well-oi'dered  home.  Mr. 
Smith  makes  a  specialty  of  breeding  thoroughbred  stock,  especially 
Cots  wold  sheep  and  Hereford  cattle.  He  owns  the  only  herd  of 
Hereford  cattle  in  the  county,  and  the  second  herd  in  the  State.  His 
fine  bull,  <*  Dictator,"  number  1989,  weighs  2,000pouuds.  He  took 
the  sweepstake  premium  at  St.  Louis  in  1881 ;  first  premium  at  Eau- 
sas  City  in  1881,  and  the  first  prize  at  the  Western  National  Fair  at 
Lawrence,  Kansas.  Of  this  stock  he  has  six  females  and  two  males. 
Three  of  his  cows  are  imported  from  England.  His  herd  is  managed 
by  W.J.  Downing,  an  Englishman,  from  Hereford.  He  knows  the 
name  of  every  Hereford  breeder  in  England  and  America  and  can  tell 
the  pedigree  of  every  animal  of  the  Hereford  stock.  Mr.  Smith  owns 
900  acres  of  land,  one-third  of  which  is  in  blue  grass.  His  farm  is 
known  as  <*  Greenwood."  He  is  well  supplied  with  all  sorts  of  ma- 
chinery, in  fact  there  seems  to  be  nothing  wanting  that  heart  could 
wish  for.  Mr.  Smith  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Walnut 
Grove.  He  is  in  the  prime  and  vigor  of  young  manhood,  with,  evi- 
dently, a  bright  future  before  him. 

SOLON    E.    SMITH. 

David  Smith,  the  father  of  Solon  E.  Smith,  was  born  in  Madison 
€ounty,  Kentucky,  in  1806,  and  came  to  Missouri  in  1824,  settling 
permanently  in  Cooper  county.  He  was  afterwards  a  soldier  in  the 
Blackhawk  war,  rendering  substantial  service  in  that  campaign.  He 
has  succeeded  well  as  a  farmer  and  his  old  age  (he  is  still  living)  has 
been  crowned  with  quiet  ease  and  contentment.  He  is  a  worthy  and 
consistent  member  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian  church,    and  a 


'  HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  1099 

Democrat  in  politics.  David  Smith  is  a  brother  of  the  late  Capt. 
William  Smith,  of  Boone  county.  He  is  the  father  of  ten  children, 
six  ions  and  four  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  now  living.  Solon  E., 
was  bom  in  Cooper  county,  Missouri,  November  27,  1846,  and  came 
to  Boone  county  in  1880.  He  purchased  the  **  Rollins  farm  "  from 
R.  L.  Baker,  consisting  of  459  acres,  situated  in  the  blue  grass  region 
and  splendidly  adapted  to  stock  raising.  The  farm  is  elegantly  im- 
proved. The  situation  is  most  beautiful.  The  lawn  extending  south 
from  the  mansion  nearly  three  hundred  yards  is  set  in  grass  and  orna- 
mented with  all  kinds  of  evergreens  and  native  forest  trees.  The  place 
was  improved  by  the  late  John  Rollins,  son  of  Dr.  Rollins  and  brother 
of  Maj.  James  S.  Rollins.  It  is  pait  of  the  old  Rollins  homestead. 
The  view  from  the  mansion  is  distant  and  very  impressive  to  all  lovers 
of  the  sublime  and  beautiful  in  nature.  Mr.  Smith.is  a  bachelor.  He 
has  travelled  a  great  deal,  and  being  well  posted  on  all  the  leading  top- 
ics of  the  day,  is  a  most  entertaining  companion.  He  is  largely  en- 
gaged in  the  stock  business  and  deeply  interested  in  his  experiment, 
commenced  in  1882,  of  breeding  the  Hereford  cattle  with  the  short 
horns. 

JOHN    C.    STICE. 

John  C.  Stice  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  January  30, 
1844.  His  father,  Buford  Stice,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky  who  emi- 
grated to  Boone  county  in  an  early  day.  He  died  when  his  son  was  a 
small  boy.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  one  of  five  children,  who 
grew  up  on  the  home  place  originally  settled  by  the  elder  Stice,  near 
the  old  Dripping  Spring  church.  John  C.  Stice  was  educated  at  the 
common  schools  of  his  neighborhood,  his  first  teacher  being  James 
Kelly.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Confederate  army  during  the  last 
year  of  the  war,  and  was  in  several  battles.  He  married  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Schooler,  daughter  of  Alex.  Schooler,  of  Boone  county.  They 
have  four  ciiildren,  one  son  and  three  daughters.  Mr.  Stice  owns  a 
good  farm  of  about  120  acres,  situated  on  the  public  road.  He  is  a 
breeder  of  fine  horses  and  his  stock  is  much  praised  in  the  community 
where  he  lives.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Christian  church. 

JOHN   W,    THURSTON. 

John  W.  Thurston  is  of  English  extraction,  but  remotely,  his  fore- 
fathers for  three  or  four  generations  having  been  born  in  Virginia. 
He  himself  was  born  in  that  State,  being  a  native  of  Albemarle  county. 
He  is  the  son  of  Thomas  Thurston,  and  was  born  December  4,  1829. 


1100  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Walter  Watson,  a  revolutionary  sol- 
dier, and  a  native  of  Maryland.  Mr.  Thurston  came  to  Boone  county  ♦ 
Missouri,  in  1854.  In  1858  he  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  F.  Elliott^ 
daughter  of  Eppa  Elliott,  By  this  marriage  there  are  seven  children — 
three  sons  and  four  daughters  —  all  of  whom  are  living.  Their  names 
are  Ralph  E.,  Mary  L.,  John  T.,  Nora  M.,  Mary  F,,  Elsa  E.  and 
Hollis  H.  Mr.  Thurston  owns  an  excellent  farm  of  387  acres,  well 
situated  and  finely  improved.  He  is  an  enterprising,  useful  citizen. 
He  is  an  official  member  of  the  Everett  M.  E.  Church  South.  His 
oldest  son,  Ralph,  E.,  was  recently  married  to  Miss  Mary  Cowden. 
The  eldest  daughter,  Mary  L.,  was  for  several  years  a  student  of  the 
State  Universitv,  and  is  now  a  successful  teacher  of  the  common 
schools  of  Boone  county. 

REUBEN   JEFFERSON   WADE. 

Reuben  J.  Wade  was  bom  in  Cumberland  county,  Kentucky,  Octo- 
ber 4,  1816.  He  is  the  son  of  Pierce  Wade,  who  emigrated  to  Boone 
county  in  May,  1824,  settling  the  place  on  which  John  Grant  now 
lives.  Here  he  and  his  wife  lived  out  the  remainder  of  their  days. 
He  was  politically  a  Democrat ;  religiously  a  Primitive  Baptist.  Young 
Wade  was  educated  at  the  old  log  school  houses  of  the  county,  under 
teachers  who  really  knew  but  little  ;  but  education  being  at  a  low  ebb^ 
their  qualifications  were  seldom,  if  ever,  called  into  question.  Mr. 
Wade  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Wingo,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Wingo.  By  this  union  they  have  had  ten  children,  five  of  whom  are 
dead.  The  surviving  children  are  Thomas  B.,  Mary  J.,  Alice,  Mahala 
G.,  and  Lucy  E.  William  W.  died  while  a  soldier  in  the  Confederate 
army.  Thomas  B.  married  India  Rumans.  They  have  five  childi*en. 
Mary  J.  married  Harrison  Brown.  They  have  had  three  children » 
two  of  whom  are  dead.  Alice  married  John  T.  Holloway.  They 
have  no  children.  Mahala  married  James  W.  Benton.  They  have  one 
child.  In  politics,  Mr.  Wade  is  an  uncompromising  Democrat ;  in 
religion,  a  member  of  the  Christian  church. 

FOUNTAIN   F.    WAYLAND. 

Fountain  F.  Wayland  is  a  native  of  Virginia.  He  is  the  son  of  Joel 
Wayland,  a  soldier  of  the  war  of  1812.  They  are  of  English  origin. 
The  elder  Wayland  lived  to  be  eighty-eight  years  old,  and  for  three- 
score  years  and  ten  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church.  Foun- 
tain was  born  in  the  '<  Old  Dominion,"  November  17, 1821,     They  left 


HISTOBr   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  1101 

Virginia  in  1826  and  went  to  Ohio,  where  they  remained  twelve  years  ; 
thence  to  Howard  county,  Missouri,  where  they  lived  till  1842.  Com- 
ing to  Boone  county,  they  settled  on  the  farm  where  Mr.  Wayland 
now  resides.  He  was  married  to  Semira  M.  Smith,  of  Howard  county. 
They  have  had  eleven  children  —  eight  daughters  and  three  sons. 
Three  of  their  children  are  married.  Mr.  Wavland  is  an  official  mem- 
ber  of  the  Methodist  church. 

HON.    WILLIAM   BICE   WILHITE. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  practical  farmer.     Possessing  many 
of  the  characteristics  of  a  leader,  he  naturally  became  the  representa- 
tive of  that  worthy,  influential  and  powerful  class  of  citizens  who, 
collectively,  form  the  bulk  of  our  population.     This  too  without  any 
special  effort  of  his  own  in  that  direction.     The  farmers  showed  ex- 
cellent judgment  in  selecting  Mr.  Wilhite,  a  man  worthy  of  the 'hon- 
ors conferred  and  capable  of  discharging  the  trust  almost  unanimously 
imposed.     As  a  member  of  the  legislature,  Mr.  Wilhite  was  not  bril- 
liant.    His  speeches  were  few,  and  never  eloquent.     He  did  not  talk 
for  the  sake  of  talking.     Such  demagoguery  is  foreign  to  his  nature. 
He  strove  to  ascertain  his  official  duty  and  then  went  earnestly  to  work 
to  accomplish  his  purpose.     His   career  in  the   State  legislature  won 
the  esteem  of  every  honest,  conscientious  representative  in  that  body. 
His  integrity,    his  devotion  to   principle,  and,  withal,  his  excellent 
judgment,   made   him  a  useful  member  ;    useful  not  only  to  his   con- 
stituents, but  to  the  State  at  large,  and  to  the  party  whose  principles 
he  represented.     Mr.  Wilhite  was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri, 
April  13th,  1830,  and  is  at  this  writing  about  fifty-two  years  old,  but 
looks  much  younger.     His  father  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  but  came 
to  Missouri  in  1818,  when  our  State  was  yet  a  territory.     The  elder 
Wilhite  was  a  farmer,  and  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  brought  up 
iu  that  business.     His  chances  for  acquiring  an  education  were  poor, 
but  he  made  the  best  use  possible  of  every  opportunity  that  presented 
itself,  and  wheh  in  after  years  he  was  called  from  the  farm  to  repre- 
sent his  county  in   the  legislature  he  was  prepared  to  discharge  the 
duties  of  that  office  in  the  most  acceptable  manner.     Mr.  Wilhite  was. 
married  in  1853,  but  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  his  wife  in  th^ee  years 
after  their  marriage.     Their   union  was   blessed  with   one   child,  a 
daughter,  who  grew  up  to  womanhood  and  was  married,  but  died  in 
the  first  year  of  her  wedded  life.     In  1851  Mr.  Wilhite  purchased  a  farm 
in  Howard  county,   to  which  he  removed,  but  soon  returned  to  his 


1102  HISTORY   OF  BOOliE   COUNTY. 

father's  old  home  in  Boone  county.  In  1855  he  bought  a  farm  near 
Boeheport,  on  which  he  resided  for  about  three  years.  He  then  pur- 
chased his  present  farm,  near  Woodlandville,  consisting  of  540  acres 
of  very  fine  land.  He  has  resided  on  this  farm  since  1864.  It  is 
admirably  improved  and  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  In  1874  Mr. 
Wilhite  was  chosen  to  represent  his  county  in  the  twenty-eighth 
general  assembly.  While  a  member  of  the  legislature  he  was  chair- 
man of  the  committee  on  State  University ;  also  ways  and  means, 
penitentiary,  agriculture  and  scientific  and  benevolent  institu- 
tions. He  was  reelected  in  1876,  without  opposition,  an  endorse- 
ment without  a  parallel  in  the  political  history  of  Boone  county. 
Since  serving  his  last  term  in  the  legislature  Mr.  Wilhite  has  re- 
mained quietly  on  his  farm,  looking  after  his  interests  in  that  quar- 
ter, taking  no  part  in  politics  whatever.  He  has  frequently  been 
solicited  to  again  become  a  candidate  for  the  legislature,  but  he  seems 
rather  to  prefer  the  quiet  home  life  of  a  well-to-do  farmer  to  the 
anxiety  and  turmoil  of  political  strife.  Mr.  Wilhite  is  a  member  of 
the  Baptist  church  at  Walnut  Grove,  and  has  always  contributed  lib- 
erally to  the  support  of  the  gospel. 

MOSES   WUiHITE. 

Moses  Wilhite  was  born  in  Kentucky,  October  28th,  1824.  His 
father,  Joel,  was  the  son  of  Lewis  Wilhite,  of  Virginia.  Grandfather 
on  the  mother's  side  was  George  Elliott,  of  Irish  origin.  The  Wil- 
hites  are  of  German  descent.  Joel  was  born  in  Virginia,  and  served 
in  the  war  of  1812.  He  came  to  Missouri  in  1837,  when  his  son, 
Moses,  was  but  a  small  boy.  He  settled  on  a  farm  and  lived  to  a 
good  old  age,  rearing  a  large  family,  and  winning  the  respect  and  con- 
fidence of  all  who  knew  him.  Moses  was  married  to  Miss  Caroline 
A.  Little,  daughter  of  J.  M.  Little,  an  old  settler  from  Kentucky. 
Nine  children  have  been  born  to  them,  five  boys  and  four  girls. 
Their  names  are  Hattie  B.,  Mary  C,  James  L.,  Joseph  A.,  John 
P.,  George  B.,  Edwin  S.,  Stella  E.  and  Lela  M.  Mary  C.  married 
George  M.  Hawkins.  They  have  two  children.  James  L.  married 
Miss  Fenton.  They  have  one  child.  Joseph  A.  married  Lou  Ann 
Wade.  They  have  one  child.  Hattie  and  Mary  C.  died  in  their  23d 
year.  In  faith  Mr.  Wilhite  is  a  Baptist.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Bethlehem  congregation.  He  served  in  the  Mexican  war,  under 
Gen.  Doniphan.  His  farm  consists  of  295  acres,  finely  improved 
and  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation.     The  soil  is  well  adapted  to  the 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1103 

cultivation  of  blue  grass,  and  his  pastures  are  the  best  in  that  sec- 
tion  of  the  country.  His  land  produces  excellent  wheat  and  corn. 
Mr.  Wilhite  ias  made  farming  a  success,  and  takes  great  interest 
in  his  farm  and  stock. 

SMITH   WILHITE. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Kentucky,  December  21st, 
1822.  He  is  the  son  of  Joel  Wilhite,  a  native  of  Culpepper  county, 
Virginia.  In  1837  Joel  Wilhite  emigrated  to  Missouri,  and  settled  in 
Osage  county,  but  did  not  remain  there  but  one  season.  Coming  to 
Booue  county  in  1838  he  settled  for  the  remainder  of  his  life  on  a 
farm  near  New  Providence  church.  His  children  were  educated  at 
the  common  schools  of  the  country.  The  subject  of  this  sketch 
married  Rebecca  Grant,  daughter  of  Elijah  Grant,  of  Boone  county. 
Eleven  children  were  born  to  them,  three  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 
The  living  are  Mary  E.,  Robert  H.,  Boyle  G.,  Porter  C,  Myra  B., 
Nannie  A.,  Minnie  M.  and  Sallie  P.  Mary  E.  married  George  M. 
Hawkins.  They  have  had  two  children.  Boyle  G.  married  Laura 
Hawkins.  Mr.  Wilhite  has  a  fine  farm  of  250  acres  which  was  but 
partially  improved  when  he  bought  it.  It  is  now  one  of  the  best 
farms  in  that  region  of  country.  He  has  excellent  blue  grass  and  is 
well-fixed  for  raising  and  handling  stock.  Mr.  Wilhite  was  a  soldier 
in  the  Mexican  war  under  Col.  Eastman.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Baptist  church  at  New  Providence.  He  takes  a  great  interest  in 
education,  and  has  been  an  active  agent  in  building  up  one  of  the 
finest  district  schools  in  the  county. 

WILLIAM   WINGO. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  South  Carolina,  May  16th, 
1822.  He  is  the  son  of  Thomas  Wingo,  born  in  Virginia,  but  raised 
in  South  Carolina.  William,  the  father  of  Thomas  Wingo,  was  a 
soldier  of  the  revolution.  The  family  are  of  Dutch  ancestry.  Mr. 
Wingo  came  to  Missouri  with  his  father  in  1835,  being  then  in  his 
thirteenth  year.  They  settled  in  Boone  county  on  the  place  now 
•occupied  by  William.  The  elder  Wingo  was  a  member  of  the 
regular  Baptist  church.  William  Wingo  was  married  to  Miss 
Clarence  D.  Kelly,  daughter  of  James  Kelly.  By  this  marriage  they 
had  three  children,  one  son  and  two  daughters.  Mrs.  Wingo  dying 
in  1857,  he  married  Miss  Caroline  Corlew,  daughter  of  John  Corlew, 
They  had  no  children  by  this  marriage.  During  the  war  Mr.  Wingo 
spent  eight  months  in  the  Confederate  service. .   He  is  a  farmer,  but 


1104  HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTY. 

ill  early  life  taught  school.  His  children  are  all  married  and  settled 
in  life,  leaving  him  and  his  wife  alone  in  the  old  home.  His  daughter, 
David  Ella,  married  Marion  M.  Rowland.  They  had  two  children  by 
this  marriage.  Mr.  Rowland  having  died,  she  married  Albert  Wells, 
of  Montana.  They  have  by  this  marriage  three  children.  James  T. 
Wingo  married  Malinda  Winn.  They  have  four  children.  Henrietta 
maiTied  James  D.  Fay,  now  of  Columbia.     They  have  four  childreo. 


CHAPTER    XXII. 

ROCKY  FORK  TOWNSHIP. 

Position  and  Description  —  Early  History,  First  Settlers,  etc  —  Miscellaneous  —  Incidento 
of  the  Civil  War— The  Fight  at  Mt  Zion  and  near  Hallsville  —  Capture  and  Escape  of 
John  Roberts  — Capture  of  Maj.  Evans's  Shotguns  — Lt.  Hopkins's  Fight  with  Bush- 
whackers—  Fatal  Attempt  to  A^st  John  West,  a  Noted  Bushwhacker  —  Noted  Trage- 
dies—  Killing  of  Peter  Evans  by  Dr.  Keent  —  Killing  of  Dr.  Keene  by  Dr.  Austin— 
.  Churches  of  Rocky  Fork  Township :  Red  Top,  Pleasant  Grove,  Friendship,  Gilead,  Mt 
Zion,  Hickory  Grove — Hallsville  —  Masonic  Lodge  —  Lebanon  —  Biographies  of  Old 
Settlers  and  Prominent  Citizens  of  Rocky  Fork  Township. 

POSITION   AND    DESCRIPTION. 

The  boundaries  of  Rocky  Fork  township  are  as  follows  :  Beginning 
at  the  northeast  corner  of  section  two,  township  fifty,  range  eleven, 
thence  south  along  the  section  line  to  the  southeast  corner  of  section 
thirty-five,  same  township  and  range ;  thence  east  to  the  middle  of 
Cedar  creek  ;  thence  down  said  creek  until  where  the  section  line  be- 
tween sections  three  and  ten,  township  forty-nine,  range  eleven,  crosses ; 
thence  west  to  the  southwest  corner  of  section  one,  township  forty- 
nine,  range  thirteen  ;  thence  north  to  the  northwest  comer  of  section 
one,  township  fifty,  range  thirteen  ;  thence  east  to  the  place  of  begin- 
ning. *  Formerly  the  township  was  the  extreme  northeast  township  of 
the  county.     When  first  laid  out,  in  May,  1821,  its  northern  boundary- 
was  the  same  as  that  of  the  county.     The  creation  of  Bourbon  town- 
ship reduced  it  to  its  present  size  and  position. 

Rocky  Fork  contains  a  great  deal  of  broken  and  rolling  country, 
and  much  unproductive  soil ;  but  it  also  has  within  its  borders  some 
farms  as  fine  and  fertile  as  any  in  the  county.  There  are  much  veiy 
valuable  timber  and  stone.     The  Cedar,  the  Hinkson,  Silver  Fork  and 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1105 

the  Rocky  Fork  of  Perche  (from  which  stream  the  township  was 
named)  supply  plenty  of  water.  There  is  an  abundance  of  coal  in  the 
southern  part  of  the  township. 

EARLY   HISTORY. 

An  unauthenticated  story  is  current  to  the  effect  that  as  far  back  as  iu 
1815  an  old  abandoned  cabin  was  seen  in  the  southwestern  part  of  this 
township  by  those  early  pioneers  who  visited  the  country  at  that  day. 
No  one  knew  who  had  built  this  cabin  ;  but  one  theory  was  that  the 
French  explorers  had  put  it  up,  perhaps  in  1775.  A  few  persons, 
fond  of  wild  conjectures,  and  not  well  informed  in  the  premises,  be- 
lieved it  to  have  been  at  one  time  the^home  or  riendezvous  of  John  A. 
Murrell,  the  great  Western  land  pirate,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that 
it  is  uncertain  thkt  Murrell  was  ever  in  Missouri. 

In  1816  there  came  to  what  is  now  Rocky  Fork  towhship  Willis, 
Absalom,  John  and  William  Winn,  and  settled  in  township  fifty,  range 
twelve.  William,  John  and  Charles  Winn  still  live  in  the  same  neigh- 
borhood. The  Winns  were  from  Kentucky.  Eph.  and  Hibert  Brink 
came  from  Madison  county,  Ky.,  and  settled  in  Boone  county  in  1815. 
Ephraim  Brink  settled  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  J.  G.  Roberts,  on 
section  fifteen,  townshi[)  fifty,  range  twelve,  east  of  Red  Top  church  ; 
Hibert  located  near  where  old  Middletown  stood  ;  Hibert  was  a 
blacksmith  and  farmer ;  he  now  lives  in  Sturgeon,  past  eighty  years  of 
age. 

Thos.  McBride,  Sr.,  came  from  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  to  this 
county  in  1816.  He  had  three  sons,  who  had  nearly  attained  manhood 
when  they  came  to  the  new  country.  They  were  named  Jacob,  James  ahd 
Thomas,  Old  Thomas  McBride  was  the  first  preacher  in  Rocky  Fork, 
and  was  an  earnest,  zealous  one,  whose  text-book  was  the  Bible  alone. 
Of  his  sons  Jacob  was  a  farmer  and  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  many 
years;  James  was  a  physician;  Thomas,  Jr.,  was  a  school  teacher. 
Altogether  the  McBrides  were  men  of  more  than  average  learning  and 
ability.  The  father  and  James  and  Thomas  removed  to  Oregon  in  an 
early  day,  and  there  the  old  gentleman  lived  to  see  one  of  his  grand- 
sons governor  of  the  State  and  a  congressman.  Jacob  McBride  died 
in  this  township,  and  the  family  resides  in  the  county,  except  one 
member,  a  daughter,  who  removed  to  Oregon. 

Samuel  Caldwell  came  to  the  township  "with  the  McBrides  and  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of  Thomas,  Sr.     Caldwell  served  as  constable  of  the 
township  for  fifteen  years.     He  settled  on  section  nine,  township  fifty, 
70 


1106  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

range  twelve,  where  John  Philips  now  resides,  and  died  in  1881,  at  an 
advanced  age. 

Nathan  Koberts  came  to  the  township  in  1816,  settling  on  the  farm 
near  Red  Top  church.  He  gave  the  land  to  the  church  and  cemetery. 
Mr.  Boberts  had  first  settled  in  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  on  a 
tract  of  land  which  afterwards  proved  to  belong  to  Green  C],ay.  Aft^r 
losing;  his  farm  in  Kentucky  he  came  to  Howard  county,  Missouri,  and 
located  near  where  Ashland  church  now  is,  on  what  afterwards  was 
found  to  be  a  New  Madrid  claim.  He  again  gave  up  his  homestead 
and  crossed  over  to  Boone,  where  he  located  on  the  well-known  farm 
near  Red  Top.  Here  he  was  permitted  to  rest  in  peace,  there  being 
no  prior  titles  to  the  land  to  disquiet  him.  Mr.  Roberts's  family  con- 
sisted of  five  sons  and  three  daughters.  The  sons  were  Thomas,  John, 
Richard  T.,  James  and  David  B.,  all  of  whom  settled  in  the  neighbor- 
hood. Thos.  Roberts  died  in  a  few  years  after  the  last  settlement 
and  was  the  first  white  person  buried  in  Red  Top  churchyard.  He 
left  a  widow  and  one  daughter ;  the  latter  became  the  wife  of  A.  M. 
Roberts.  The  other  sons  were  farmers.  Richard  married  the  widow 
of  Thomas.  He  was  a  minister  of  the  gospel,  and  has  done  much 
good  in  the  community,  both  by  precept  and  example.  James  and 
David  are  still  living  and  have  families.  Wm.  Roberts,  a  brother  of 
Nathan,  came  to  Missouri  about  the  same  time.  He  was  a  preacher. 
He  brought  up  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters  and  lived  to  be  an 
old  man,  dying  amidst  troops  of  friends. 

Soon  after  the  first  Roberts  settlement,  there  came  from  the  same 
part  of  Kentucky  (Madison  county)  William  M.,  John  M.,  Larry  and 
Louis  Roberts.  All  of  these  lived  to  be  aged  men  except  Larry.  He 
lived  near  the  present  site  of  Harrisburg,  in  Perche  township.  These 
men  raised  large  families,  whose  descendants  are  scattered  over  the 
United  States. 

W.  Houston  came  from  Kentucky  in  1818,  and  settled  on  the  farm 
now  owned  by  A.  B.  Haggard.  He  was  a  hatter,  and  also  an  excel- 
lent Christian  citizen.  He  is  the  father  of  Cicero  Houston,  of  this 
township.  Elder  James  Williams,  Sr.,  came  to  the  township  from 
Kentucky  in  1817,  and  settled  and  lived  here  until  his  death,  in  1863. 
He  was  a  preacher  and  a  leading  worker  in  the  Christian  church. 

Old  Zadok  Riggs  had  three  sons,  viz. :  Zadok,  Silas,  and  Samuel 
KiiTiTS,  who  came  to  Rockv  Fork  from  Kentuckv  in  1816,  living:  to  be 
old  men.  Silas  Riggs  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  twenty  years,  and 
one  of  the  most  prominent  citizens  of  the  county.     He  was  the  father 


HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  1107 

of  James  Riggs,  of  Randolph  county.  Samuel  Riggs  was  bitten  by  a 
rabid  wolf  while  sleeping  in  a  cave  on  Perche  creek,  in  1817.  He  im- 
mediately returned  to  Kentucky  for  a  madstone,  whicTi  ho  applied 
with  success,  and  which  he  brought  back  with  him  to  Missouri. 
Joseph  Fret  well  now  has  this  madstone. 

Absalom  Hicks  emigrated  from  Kentucky  to  this  township  in  1816, 
and  settled  on  the  farm  where  Mrs.  O.  Reed  now  lives,  near  Middle- 
town.  He  was  the  father  of  Mattison,  Willis,  and  Young  E.  Hicks. 
The  latter  was  a  noted  Santa  Fe  trader,  and  freighted  many  a  train 
across  the  plains  to  New  Mexico,  loaded  with  dry  goods  and  other 
merchandise.  He  was  for  a  time  in  partnership  with  Amos  Marney, 
another  of  the  first  settlers  of  the  township.  Young  Hicks  was  the 
father  of  Hon.  Absalom  Hicks,  who  represented  this  county  in  the 
Legislature  in  1852.  Mattison  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  many 
years.  Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil  war  he  became  •*  disloyal,'* 
and  died  while  a  Federal  prisoner  at  St.  Louis. 

Joseph  Brown,  father  of  the  Joe  Brown,  of  near  Brown's  Station, 
came  to  the  township  in  1817,  and  settled  the  farm  where  Mrs.  G. 
Robinson  now  lives. 

James  Turner  came  from  Kentucky  in  1817,  and  located  on  a  farm 
near  Hallsville.  He  brought  up  a  large  family.  His  sons  were  Jesse, 
Tom  and  Enoch.  Thomas  Turner  was  the  father  of  Mordecai,  who 
lives  east  of  Hallsville. 

Isaac  Davis  came  from  Christian  county,  Kentucky,  to  this  part  of 
Missouri  in  1818,  and  settled  two  miles  east  of  Hallsville.  His  sons 
were  James,  Henry,  Isaac,  Benjamin,  John  and  Joseph.  One  of 
Isaac's  sons,  Joseph,  now  lives  on  the  old  Davis  homestead. 

Hugh  French  removed  from  Tennessee  to  Boone  county  in  1820, 
settling  in  Rocky  Fork  township,  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  his  son 
John.  He  was  also  the  father  of  S.  L.  French  and  Mrs.  Armstronsr^ 
and  grandfather  of  Hugh  H.  Hall,  the  present  deputy  county  clerk. 
Mr.  French  died  in  the  year  1845,  full*  of  years  and  honors,  and  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Christian  church. 

Nathan  Terry  came  to  the  township  from  Kentucky  in  1818. 
Peter  Stice  came  in  about  the  same  time  and  settled  on  the  farm 
where  John  C.  Eubanks  now  resides.  In  1823  Stice  sold  out  to  Am- 
brose Hulen,  who  lived  on  the  farm  till  his  death,  raising  a  large 
family.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Christian  church  at  Red 
Top,  and  a  well-known  citizen.  Mr.  Hulen  was  a  soldier  in  the  war 
^f  1812,  and  was  at  Dudley's  defeat  on  the  River  Raisin,  in  Michigan,. 


1108  HISTORY   OP   BOONB   COUNTY. 

where  be  was  taken  prisoner  by  tbe  Indian  allies  of  tbe  British.  He 
was  redeemed  from  tbe  Indians  by  a  kind  friend,  wbo  traded  a  pony 
for  bim. 

One  of  tbe  first  settlers  of  tbis  townsbip  was  Rev.  Elias  Newman. 
He  was  a  Baptist  minister.  Sometimes  be  was  connected  with  the 
organization  of  Mt.  Tabor  church,  near  where  Mt.  Zion  now  is. 
Hev.  Newman  had  three  sons,  James,  Elias  W.  and  Thomas.  The 
latter  was  murdered  during  tbe  civil  war,  while  lying  sick  at  the  house 
of  bis  father-in-law,  a  Mr.  Price.  It  is  reported  that  the  killing  was 
done  by  a  Federal  command  from  Mexico,  under  Maj.  Mitchen  (or 
Mitchell),  and  that  tbe  killing  was  simply  an  atrocity.  It  is  said  that 
Mitchell  was  not  a  *•  rebel,"  but  a  peaceable,  inofiensive  citizen.  The 
militia  came  to  the  bouse  and  surrounded  it,  and,  as  reported,  some 
of  them  went  in  aud  shot  Mr.  Newman  until  he  was  dead,  while  his 
wife  and  family  were  begging  for  bis  life. 

In  the  neighborhood  of  Hickory  Grove,  among  the  fii*8t  settlers 
were  B.  A.  Younger,  wbo  was  a  Methodist  minister  and  a  school 
teacher,  and  Charles  Helms,  who  came  from  Kentucky  in  an  early 
•day.  He  had  been  a  soldier  of  tbe  war  of  1812,  and  bad  endured 
many  privations  while  in  tbe  service.  He  bad  been  taken  prisoner  by 
tbe  Indians,  with  all  that  such  experience  implied  at  that  day,  and  it 
implied  a  great  deal  of  sufibring  and  torture  then,  as  now.  Mr.  Helms 
bad  a  remarkable  memory,  and  could  repeat  many  chapters  of  the 
Bible  by  rote.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Christian  church  and  belonged 
to  tbe  Masonic  order  His  death  occurred  but  a  few  years  since.  He 
prepared  his  own  funeral  sermon,  and  composed  tbe  hymn  which  was 
sung  at  his  grave.  He  also  prepared  the  coffin  in  which  be  was 
buried,  and  procured  bis  own  tombstones. 

Other  early  settlers  were  J.  D.  Bratton,  Dr.  Points,  Allen  Rouse, 
Alfred  Rouse,  Mr.  Carter,  Wni.  Thornton,  Roily  and  Calvin  Asbury 
and  Abraham  Waldou.  Barney  Dickerson  was  here  as  early  as  1817. 
He  lived   on  a  farm  east  of  Hallsville,     He  is  still  living,  but  is  old 

a,nd  blind.     A  man   named  kept  a  store  on  the  farm  where 

Mrs.  Rutledge  now  lives.  Wm.  Dunn  came  from  Kentucky  in  1820 
and  settled  east  of  Hallsville  ;  he  died  but  a  few  years  ago.  Reuben 
Pollard,  also  a  Kentuekian,  came  in  1820. 

Doctors  McMillan  and  James  McBride  were  the  first  practicing  phy- 
sicians in  the  township. 

It  is  stated  that  the  first  brick  house  in  Rocky  Fork  was  built  by 

Elijah  Winn. 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COTTNTT.  1109 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

About  twenty  years  since  Mr.  Wm.  Watts  was  accidently  shot  and 
killed.  The  incident  happened  in  the  eastern  part  of  this  township. 
He  and  another  man  named  Watkins  were  herding  cattle,  and  while 
the  two  were  carelessly  handling  a  gun  it  was  accidentally  discharged 
and  Watts  was  killed. 

Robert  Rowland,  a  child  four  or  five  years  old,  was  drowned  before 
the  war,  by  falling  into  a  well.  Wm.  Rowland  was  killed  at  Centralia 
at  the  time  of  the  massacre.     (See  account.) 

Mrs.  Conley,  a  widow  lady,  about  fifty  years  of  age,  committed  sui- 
'  cide  in  June,  1882.  She  had  been  sick  for  some  time,  and  her  mind 
had  become  much  impaired.  While  the  other  members  of  the  family 
were  outside  of  the  house  she  went  to  the  smoke-house  and  hung  her- 
self. 

NoTK.  —  In  order  to  get  this  book  within  a  reasonable  compass'  as  to  size,  many  anim> 
portant  incidents  in  the  history  of  this  township  hare  been  omitted.  —  Publishzbs. 

INCIDENTS   or   THE   CIVIL   WAR. 

The  skirmish  near  Hallsville,  and  the  battle  at  Mt.  Zion  church,  in 
the  latter  part  of  December,  1861,  are  fully  described  in  the  general 
history.  The  incident  of  the  killing  of  a  Federal  soldier  by  the  bush- 
whackers, the  soldier  having  been  taken  from  a  stage  coach,  is  also 
narrated  elsewhere. 

CAPTURE   AND   ESCAPBl   OF   JOHN    ROBERTS. 

During  the  war  John  Roberts,  a  Confederate,  was  taken  prisoner  by 
a  detachment  of  Merrill's  Horse.  When  he  and  his  captors  were  near 
Mr.  Jennings's  residence,  Roberts  attempted  to  escape.  The  Fed- 
erals fired  upon  him  and  brought  him  down  and  left  him  on  the 
ground  for  dead.  He  recovered  sufficiently  to  be  able  to  make  his 
way  to  the  house  of  Mr.  Jennings,  where  he  was  cared  for  until  he 
was  able  to  make  his  way  to  his  own  home.  Mr.  Roberts  now  lives 
in  Texas. 

CAPTURE   OP   MAJ.    PRANK   EVANS'S   SHOT-GUNS   BY   BUSHWHACKERS. 

About  the  20th  of  June,  1864,  an  escort  sent  out  from  Columbia, 
consisting  of  Maj.  Frank  D.  Evans,  of  the  Sixty-first  E.  M.  M.,  and 
five  men  of  Company  A,  Ninth  M.  S.  M.,  were  returning  from  Cen- 
tralia in  charge  of  fifty  double-barrelled  shot-guns  and  a  quantity  of 


1110  HISTORY   or   BOONE   COUNTY. 


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ammunition,  intended  to  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  citizens  of  Co- 
lumbia for  the  purpose  of  defending  the  town  in  any  emergency  of 
danger.  The  guns  and  ammunition  were  in  a  wagon,  a  negro  driving. 
About  one-fourth  of  a  mile  south  of  the  house  of  John  Lampton, 
between  the  mouth  of  a  lane  and  a  small  pond,  the  escort  was  fired 
into  by  a  party  of  bushwhackers  concealed  in  the  bushes.  A  soldier 
named  George  Conrad  was  struck  by  a  ball  in  the  right  side,  which 
passed  into  his  lungs,  causing  him  to  fall  from  his  horse.  A  second 
one,  named  Bird  Adams,  was  struck  by  two  buckshot  in  the  lower 
part  of  the  back,  the  shot  passing  internally.  A  third  one  was  thrown 
from  his  horse,  but  managed  to  make  his  escape,  with  no  other  dam- 
age than  a  few  bullet  holes  through  his  clothes.  Three  horses  were 
severely  wounded,  two  of  which  were  abandoned.  The  wagon  was 
now  hurried  forward  as  fast  as  the  horses  could  carry  it,  Maj.  Evans 
and  the  two  remaining  soldiers  following  in  its  rear.  Five  or  six 
bushwhackers  pursued,  and  a  running  fire  was  kept  up  between  the 
parties,  which,  however,  did  no  damage  to  either.  After  proceeding 
about  three  miles,  the  horses  attached  to  the  wagon  gave  out,  and  the 
escort  was  compelled  to  abandon  it  and  come  on  to  Columbia,  the 
driver  taking  to  the  brush. 

The  wagon  and  horses,  guns  and  ammunition,  all  fell  into  the  hands 
of  the  bushwhackers.  They  carried  the  wagon  a  short  distance  back, 
and  burned  it,  together  with  fourteen  of  the  guns.  They  retained  the 
horses.  Both  horses  and  wagon  belonged  to  Judge  Vanhorn,  of  Co- 
lumbia. After  leaving  the  wagon,  the  escort  came  on  to  Columbia. 
There  were  too  few  soldiers  there  to  make  any  attempt  at 
pursuit.     The  affair  occasioned  considerable  excitement. 

The  wounded  soldiers  eventually  recovered.  Conrad,  after  falling 
from  his  horse,  eluded  the  bushwhackers  and  reached  the  house  of 
Mr.  Spence,  some  three  miles  distant,  and  was  brought  in  in  a  car- 
riage. Harris,  though  more  severely  wounded,  rode  the  whole  dis- 
tance in  with  the  escort. 

SKIRMISH   WITH    BUSHWHACKERS. 

September  7,  1864,  a  Federal  scout  from  Columbia,  under  Lieut. 
S.  W.  Hopkins,  of  Company  F,  Third  M.  S.  M.,  came  upon  about  a 
dozen  bushwhackers  in  the  timber,  in  the  southwestern  part  of  the 
township,  about  ei<^ht  miles  north  of  Columbia,  and  a  brisk  little 
skirmish  ensued.  The  bushwhackers  were  soon  routed.  The  Feder- 
als captured  four  horses,  some  shot  guns,  and  some  clothing.     Two 


HI8TOBY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  1111 

bushwhackers  :iud  one  Federal  were  wounded.     The  bushwhackers 
were  supposed  to  have  been  commanded  by  Jim  (or  Tom)  Carter. 

i^TTEBiPT  TO  ARREST  JOHN  WEST   BY   SHERIFT   BAKER  —  LIEUT.  WILLIAM 

M'cLINTOCK   shot  —  WEST   ESCAPES. 

Indictments  for  murder  having  been  found  by  the  grand  jury  of 
Audrain  county  against  John  West,  a  notorious  desperado  and  bush- 
whacker, an  attempt  was  made  by  John  F.  Baker,  sheriff  of  Boone 
<3ounty,  and  a  posse  of  tour  men,  to  arrest  him  at  James  Chiles' s,  his 
father-in-law,  eight  miles  north  of  Columbia,  about  the  1st  of  Octo- 
ber, 1865.  The  sheriff's  posse  consisted  of  Lieut.  Wm.  McClintock, 
of  Mexico,  James  A.  Rogers,  James  Shanks  and  Henry  Bryan.  Xhey 
Arrived  at  Chiles's  after  bed-time,  dismounted,  disposed  of  themselves 
very  judiciously  to  effect  the  arrest,  the  sheriff  being  the  first  to  ap- 
proach  the  house.  To  omit  details  —  Mr.  Baker  aroused  the  occu- 
pants, became  certain  that  West  was  there,  when  Lieut.  McClintock 
and  others  came  to  the  house,  whereupon  West  with  a  shot  gun, 
through  a  crack  in  the  wall,  shot  Lieut.  McClintock  in  the  abdomen, 
very  badly  wounding  him.  From  another  **  port  hole  **  on  the  other 
side  of  the  house,  another  shot  was  discharged,  inflicting  a  slight 
wound  in  the  pantaloons  of  Mr.  Bryan.  The  dangerous  wound  in- 
flicted on  Lieut.  McClintock  and  the  confusion  which  ensued  afforded 
West  an  opportunity  to  escape,  and  he  was  soon  at  large. 

NOTED    TRAGEDIES  —  KILLING   OF    PETER    EVANS    BY   DR.    KEENE,  AND 

KILLING   OF   DR.  KEENE   BY   DR.  AUSTIN. 

In  December,  1869,  Dr.  Thos.  H.  Eeene,  a  practicing  physician  of 
Hallsville,  shot  and  killed  one  Peter  Evans.  The  affair  was  the  cul- 
mination of  a  bitter  feud  between  the  parties,  and  there  were  two 
opinions  as  to  the  justification  of  the  killing.  The  cause  and  origin 
of  the  trouble  need  not  be  stated  in  this  history .  Evans  was  killed  in 
Hallsville.  Dr.  Eeene  was  arrested  and  tried  on  preliminary  examina- 
tion before  Justices  R.  J.  Smith  and  Lewis  G.  Berry,  the  trial  lasting 
eight  days,  when  he  was  held  to  bail  in  the  sum  of  $8,000,  for  his 
appearance  at  the  March  term  of  the  circuit  court,  1870. 

At  that  term,  and  on  an  indictment  for  murder  in  the  first  degree, 
Dr.  Keene  was  found  guilty  of  a  lesser  offence  and  sentenced  to  six- 
teen years'  imprisonment  in  the  penitentiary.  His  counsel  appealed 
his  case  to  the  district  court  and  he  was  released  on  $15,000  bail. 
While  the  case  was  pending  in  the  district  court,  the  court  was  abol- 


1112  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

ished  by  an  amendment  to  the  constitution  adopted  by  a  vote  of  the 
people.  Proper  steps  not  having  been  taken,  after  the  abolition  of 
the  district  court,  to  get  his  case  into  the  supreme  court,  on  Wednes- 
day, February  21,  1872,  Keene  was  arrested  on  a  warrant  issued  by 
the  Boone  circuit  court,  and  the  Friday  following  the  verdict  of  the 
jury  was  confirmed,  and  on  Wednesday,  February  28,  1872,  he  was 
sent  to  the  penitentiary.  At  the  July  term,  1872,  of  the  supreme 
court  his  case  was  remanded  to  the  Boone  circuit  court  for  a  trial  de 
novoy  and  on  Monday,  August  19,  1872,  Keene  was  taken  out  of  the 
penitentiary,  and  admitted  to  bail  in  the  sum  of  $6,000,  to  appear  at 
the  next  succeeding  term  of  the  cFrcuit  court.  At  the  October  term, 
1872  ;  also  at  the  February,  June  and  October  terms,  1873,  the  case 
was  continued  by  the  defendant ;  and  at  the  February  term,  1874,  a 
change  of  venue  was  granted  to  Pike  county,  where,  in  September, 
1875,  he  was  tried  and  acquitted. 

August  29,  1876,  Dr.  Keene  was  shot  and  killed  by  Dr.  Benjamin 
Austin,  in  front  of  his  (Dr.  K.'s)  stable,  in  Hallsville,  and  near 
where  he  had  killed  Peter  Evans,  seven  years  befoi-e.  For  some  time 
previously  the  pers6nal  and  professional  relations  of  Drs.  Keene  and 
Austin  had  been  of  a  very  unfriendly  character,  to  an  extent  that  pre- 
cluded all  personal  intercourse  between  them.  A  few  days  before  the 
tragedy  there  was  received  at  Hallsville,  through  the  mails,  and  at 
other  places  in  the  county,  an  anonymous  publication,  in  circular 
letter  form,  very  scandalous  in  its  chanicter,  and  very  defamatory  and 
abusive  of  Dr.  Austin,  both  as  a  citizen  and  physician.  No  name  was 
attached  to  the  circular,  though  it  was  scarcely  doubted  that  Dr. 
Keene  was  not  only  the  author  of  it,  but  that  he  had  it  printed  — 
where,  it  is  not  known.  This  publication  was  thought  to  have  been 
the  immediate  cause  of  the  fatal  encounter.  The  killing  was  done  by 
Dr.  Austin  with  a  double-barrelled  shot  gun,  about  fifteen  buckshot 
taking  effect  in  Keene' s  face  and  head  and  killing  him  instantly. 
After  the  death  of  Keene,  a  young  man  by  the  name  of  Baker  Batter- 
ton,  a  son  of  Mr.  Samuel  Batterton,  and  who  was  living  with  Keene, 
came  out  of  the  stable,  ran  to  where  Keene  was  lying,  got  his  pistol, 
and  commenced  firing  at  Austin  and  at  Mr.  J.  O.  Pierce,  a  son-in-law 
of  Mr.  R.  P.  Waters,  and  a  clerk  in  Jones's  store.  Neither  shot  took 
effect.  The  firing  having  ceased  and  the  train  for  Columbia  being 
about  due.  Dr.  Austin  left  for  Hickman  station,  about  a  half  mile 
distant,  got  on  the  train,  came  to  Columbia,  and  surrendered  himself 
to  the  officers  of  the  law.     He  underwent  a  preliminary  examination 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  11  IS 

before  Esq.  T.  B.  Geatry,  and  was  by  that  magistrate  discharged. 
Esq.  Gentry  said  :  — 

I  find  the  case  to  be  one  of  justifiable  homicide.  The  dangerous  and  desperate  character 
of  the  deceased,  as  proyen,  his  known  habit  of  going  armed,  his  threats  to  take  the  life  of 
Austin,  his  declaring  that  he  would  kill  him  even  if  he  had  to  do  it  in  ambush ;  and  these 
things  all  being  known  to  Austin  —  the  threats  having  been  communicated  to  him  —  living 
in  the  same  neighborhood  and  liable  to  meet  Austin  at  any  time,  I  think  gave  him  reason- 
able  cause  to  apprehend  a  desini  on  the  part  of  Keene  to  do  him  some  great  bodily  harm ; 
and  gave  him  reasonable  cause  to  apprehend  immediate  and  constant  danger  of  such  design 
being  accomplished.  The  killing  under  such  circumstances,  even  though  Austin  sought  and 
advanced  upon  Keene,  was  done  in  the  lawfhl  defence  of  Austin's  person. 

Dr.  Keene  was  a  man  of  remarkable  person,  and  experienced  an 
eventful  and  remarkable  career.  With  prominent  features,  a  nose 
very  long  and  quite  thin,  and  thick,  sandy-colored  beard,  that  floated 
from  his  face  and  chin  like  a  banner,  he  attracted  attention  wherever 
seen.  He  was  born  in  Boone  county  in  1831.  He  was  a  man  of  un- 
controllable feelings  and  prejudices ;  had  many  implacable  enemies 
and  strong  friends,  and  was  often  involved  in  serious  criminations  and 
troubles.  Dr.  Benj.  Austin  has  lived  in  Boone  since  1860,  having 
come  to  this  county  from  Bath  county,  Kentucky,  where  he  was  born. 

OHURCHES  OF  ROCKY  FORK  TOWNSHIP  —  RED  TOP  (CHRISTIAN). 

The  Christian  church  at  Red  Top  is  one  of  the  oldest  churches  in 
this  part  of  Missouri.  The  germ  or  pirent  organization  was  founded 
Octobers,  1822,  with  the  following  members:  Elders  —  Wm.  Rob- 
erts, Thos.  W.  McBride  and  Richard  Cave.  Deacons  —  Nathan 
Roberts  and  Isaac  Davis.  Members  —  Peter  Stice,  Richard  Wainscott, 
Richmond  T.  Roberts,  James  Roberts,  Priscilla  Roberts,  Sally  Davis, 
Nancy  Wainscott,  Charlotte  Caldwell,  Charlotte  Stice,  Maiy  Turner. 
This  organization  was  before  the  formation  of  the  Christian  or  Disci- 
ples church.  The  members  took  for  a  guide  and  were  ruled  by  the 
Bible,  and  by  the  Bible  alone.  They  subscribed  to  no  creed  or  con- 
fession of  faith.  They  recognized  the  elders  of  the  church  as  pastors, 
and  to  them  all  questions  of  difference  were  referred.  Afterwards  the 
organization  was  merged  into  the  Christian  church. 

The  first  church  building  used  by  this  congregation  was  a  log  house, 
built  in  1822.  The  present  house  of  worship  was  built  in  1867,  at  a 
cost  of  about  $3,200.  It  is  a  frame,  and  stands  on  section  15,  town- 
ship 50,  range  12.     John  O.  White  did  the  first  preaching  therein. 

The  pastors  of  the  church  have  been  Thos.  McBride,  Richmond  T.- 
Roberts,  Joel  Hayden,  Richard  Cave,  Thos.  M.  Allen,  M.  Wills,  Wm. 
White,  Thomas  Thompson,  Elder  Davis,  Elijah  Chrisman,  John  T^ 


1114  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTT. 

McCune,  T.  J.  Marlow,  M.  M.  Davis,  Joel  A.  Heddington,  and  others. 
The  present  preachers  are  L.  L.  Norton  and  Elijah  Chrismau.  The 
number  of  members  is  very  large  —  330. 

PLEASANT   GROVE MISSIONARY   BAPTIST. 

This  church  was  constituted  April  18,  1853,  by  Elder  Wm.  Thomp- 
son. The  first  members  were  Wra.  James,  Margaret  James,  Isabella 
P.  James,  Wm.  K.  Sturgeon,  Margaret  Sturgeon,  James  M.  Wilhite, 
Sarah  W.  Wilhite,  Pleasant  Bush,  Edward  Silver,  George  W.  Silver, 
Thos.  J.  Jennings.  The  present  church  building  was  erected  in  1855, 
the  members  performing  nearly  all  the  necessary  work.  It  is  a  frame, 
and  stands  on  the  southwest  quarter  of  the  northwest  quarter  of  sec- 
tion 3,  township  50,  range  11.  It  was  dedicated  in  1835  by  Rev.  W. 
R.  Wigginton.  The  pastors  of  the  church  have  been  Wm.  Thomp- 
son, W.  R.  Wigginton,  Pleasant  Gentry,  James  Jackson,  J,  M. 
McGuire  —  the  latter  the  present  pastor.  The  clerk  is  M.  A.  Silver; 
deacons,  Geo.  W.  Silver,  Shelton  Quisenberry  and  R.  P.  Waters. 
Present  number  of  members,  about  85. 

TRIENDSHIP   CHURCH    (CHRISTIAN). 

An  old  organization  of  this  church  was  effected  in  1837,  one  mile 
south  of  the  present  church  building,  with  nine  members,  all  of  whom 
are  now  dead  but  one  —  Mrs.  Sophia  Hoffman.  It  was  disorganized 
in  1876,  the  members  going  into  other  organizations.  The  present 
church  was  formed  in  1878.  The  original  members  were  John  W. 
Ridgeway,  wife  and  daughter;  W.  Hulett,  wife  and  two  daughters; 
Wm.  Pigg,  wife  and  son;  James  Noe  and  wife;  Wm.  Goslin  and 
wife  ;  Maria  Turner  and  son  ;  Cyrus  Turner  and  wife  ;  James  A.  Ste- 
venson, wife  and  son  ;  Harrison  Croswhite  and  wife  ;  Edmond  Bi*at- 
ton  and  wife  ;  Marcus  Palmer,  wife,  son  and  daughter  ;  John  Williams 
and  wife  ;  John  S.  Hoffman  and  Mary  Crump.  Elder  Wm.  Mason 
had  charge  of  the  work  of  organization.  The  church  building  was 
erected  in  1878,  at  a  cost  of  $950.  It  is  a  frame,  and  stands  on  the 
southwest  quarter  of  section  20,  township  50,  range  12,  on  a  portion 
of  what  is  known  as  the  Bratton  farm.  The  first  sermon  preached  in 
it  was  by  Joel  Heddington,  in  October,  1878.  Among  the  pastors 
have  been  Elders  Mason,  Heddington,  Cave,  Burton, Roselle,Burnam, 
and  Elijah  Chrismau.  The  latter  preaches  once  a  month,  although  he 
is  seveuty-nine  years  of  age.  The  present  membership  is  83.  James 
A.  Stevenson,  John  W.  Ridgeway  and  Josiah  Jones  are  the  elders,  and 


HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  1115 

AViliis  Kobinsoii  and  Cyrus  Turner  are  the  deacons.     The  congregation 
meets  for  worship  every  Lord's  day. 

GILEAD    (REOULAB   BAPTIST)    CHURCH. 

It  is  located  on  the  southwest  quarter  of  section  12,  township  50» 
range  12,  in  Rocky  Fork  township.  Rev.  James  T.  Barnes  organized 
the  church  in  1832,  and  became  its  first  pastor.  The  first  members 
of  this  flock  were  Thomas  Turner  and  wife,  Taylor  Hulen  and  wife, 
John  Davenport  and  wife,  James  Williams  and  wife,  Macon  Purcell 
and  wife,  Thomas  Owens  and  wife,  Thomas  Cros white  and  wife,  James 
Croswhite  and  wife,  and  Elias  Newman  and  wife.  The  first  church 
edifice  was  a  log  structure,  erected  in  1832,  and  served  the  purpose  of 
-a  meeting-house  for  the  congregation  for  several  years,  having  been 
built  at  the  economic  cost  of  $125.  The  present  building  was  put  up 
in  1876  at  a  cost  of  $1,200,  and  is  a  neat  frame  structure.  It  was 
dedicated  the  same  yeai'  by  Elder  John  ^urnam.  The  following  gen- 
tlemen have  served  the  church  as  pastors  since  it  was  organized :  Jas. 
Barnes,  Thomas  P.  Stephens,  Allen  McGuire,  Benjamin  Jenkins,  Peter 
Kemper,  John  Burnam,  Edward  Burnam,  Ben.  Owens,  James  Atkin- 
son, Berry  Wren  and  W.'  H.  Powell,  the  present  pastor.  The  present 
membership  is  about  forty  souls. 

An  incident  connected  with  the  labors  of  **  Uncle  Jimmy  "  Barnes, 
In  this  township,  will  bear  relating.  At  an  early  day  he  was  baptizing 
^  number  of  converts  in  Bear  creek.  There  was  a  large  crowd  present 
to  witness  the  ceremony.  A  number  oi*  young  men  crawled  out  on  the 
limb  of  a  sycamore  tree  that  overhung  the  water,  to  get  a  good  view 
of  the  proceedings.  Suddenly  the  limb  broke,  and  all  of  them  were 
precipitated  into  the  water  and  involuntarily  immersed.  The  accident 
was  laughable,  even  if  the  occasion  was  a  serious  one. 

MT.    ZION   CHURCH  —  M.  E.  SOUTH. 

This  church  is  located  on  the  south  half  of  section  32,  township  50, 
range  11.  The  first  organization  was  in  1843,  and  some  of  the 
original  members  were  John  Reed,  Sr.,  John  Reed,  Jr.,  Prudence 
Reed,  Joseph  Points,  S.  C.  Points,  Wilson  Grady,  M.  A.  Grady,  R. 
A.  Younger,  Edith  Younger,  Thos.  Karnes,  Betsy  Karnes,  and  A.*  J. 
Younger.  The  first  church  building,  a  frame,  was  built  in  1848,  and 
stood  until  it  was  burned  by  a  detachment  of  the  Third  Iowa  cavalry, 
under  a  Lieutenant  Hartman,  September  22,  1863.  The  same 
soldiers  also  burned,  at  the  same  visit,  a  number  of  dwelling  houses 


1116  HISTORY  or  BOONE   COUNTT. 

in  the  neighborhood.  Lieut.  Hartman  said  that  the  reason  be- 
burned  the  church  was  because  it  had  ceased  to  be  a  church  and  had 
become  a  **  bushwhackers'  nest."  Another  account,  said  to  have 
been  furnished  by  D.  M.  Finley,  who  claims  to  have  been  a  sergeant 
of  the  Tenth  Missouri  State  Militia,  is  to  the  effect  that  that  regiment 
burned  the  church,  but  the  reports  of  the  adjutant-general  of  the 
State  do  not  show  that  such  a  regiment  ever  existed.  It  was  at  this 
church  where  the  battle  between  Gen.  Prentiss's  Federals  and  Col. 
Dorsey's  Confederates  took  place,  December  28, 1861,  a  full  account 
of  which  engagement  is  to  be  found  on  other  pages  of  this  history. 
The  present  church  was  built  in  1867  at  a  cost  of  $2,000,  and  dedi- 
cated by  Rev.  J.  D.  Vincil,  in  1872.  The  first  church  was  dedicated 
by  A.  Monroe,  in  1848.  The  pastors  of  Mt.  Zion  church  have  been 
Anthony  Scares,  P.  M.  Pinkard,  W.  Toole,  Wm.  Sexton,  Jesse  Fau- 
bion,  John  F.  Young,  Preston  Phillips,  George  Smith,  Geo.  Sexton, 
Wm.  Sutton,  Thos.  DeMoss,  Joseph  Metcalf,  Hiram  Groves,  D.  H. 
Root,  F.  A.  Savage,  Wm.  Rich,  Walter  Toole,  and  Robert  White. 
The  present  membership  is  large  for  a  country  church,  numbering  256. 
All  of  the  original  members  of  Mt.  Zion  are  gone,  except  the  follow- 
ing: John  Reed  (from  whom  much  of  this  ^information  has  been 
obtained),  S.  C.  Points,  M.  A.  Grady  and  A.  F.  Younger  and  wife. 

HICKORY   GROVE   CHURCH. 

The  Hickory  Grove  Christian  church  is  located  on  the  north  side  of 
the  northwest  quarter  of  sectio'n  2,  township  49,  range  11,  just  across 
the  Callaway  line,  though  its  membership  is  sufficiently  large  from 
Boone  county  to  warrant  its  being  mentioned  in  this  work.  It  was 
organized  in  1856,  and  the  first  members  were  John  E.  Chappell, 
Daniel  Mourning,  John  Gay,  Sr.,  John  D.  Gay,  Margaret  Chrismaii, 
Curtis  P.  Gay,  Catherine  E.  Gay,  Parlee  Chappell,  John  D.  Bratton, 
Sr.,  Elijah  E.  Chrisman,  Jane  A.  Chrisman,  Laura  F.  Chrisman, 
Mary  J.  Gay,  Ida  Bratton,  and  Nancy  Riggs. 

The  church  building,  a  frame,  was  erected  in  1857,  at  a  cost  of 
about  $1,000.  The  first  preacher  was  Rev.  Elijah  E.  Chrisman, 
who  was  followed  in  turn  by  Thomas  G.  Marlow,  E.  C.  Gill  and 
E.  B.  Cake,  the  latter  being  the  present  pastor.  The  membership 
now  numbers  about  twenty-five. 

HALLS  VILLE. 

This  town  was  named  for  Hon.  John  W.  Hall,  who   kept  a  post- 


HISTORY   OOP   BOONE   CX)UNTY.  1117 

•office  near  where  the  place  was  afterward  laid  out.  The  town  was 
never  platted.  It  was  a  cross-roads,  where  a  store  was  built  and 
a  blacksmith  shop  started,  and  other  houses  were  added  from  time  to 
time  until  it  reached  its  present  proportions.  The  first  store  was 
kept  by  a  man  named  Leach.  When  the  railroad  was  built  the  town 
of  Hickman  was  platted  and  a  depot  established  half  a  mile  south  of 
Hallsvi41e,  but  the  new  town  has  persistently  refused  to  grow  to  this 
day.  Hickman  is  the  station  where  the  Hallsville  people  take  and 
leave  the  cars. 

Hallsville  contains  five  stores  (two  dry  goods,  one  hardware,  one 
drug,  and  one  grocery  and  confectionery  store),  one  harness  shop  and 
two  blacksmith  shops.  Population  65.  There  is  a  daily  mail  from 
the  north  and  the  south.  W.  W.  Roberts,  postmaster.  There  is  no 
church  or  school  house  in  the  little  village. 

MASONIC   LODGE  —  HALX.8VILLE. 

This  lodge,  number  336,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  was  instituted  by  W. 
W.  Garth,  of  Columbia,  the  date  of  dispensation  being  October  11, 
1877,  and  the  charter  bearing  date  of  October  17,  1878.  The  charter 
members  were  W.  F.  Roberts,  Enoch  Hulen,  W.  T.  Summers,  John 
W.  Parish,  R.  P.  Roberts,  T.  T.  S.  Kemper,  Thomas  Barnes,  Josiah 
Hall  and  W.  W.  Roberts.  The  first  officers  upon  the  organization  of 
the  lodge  were  Wm.  F.  Roberts,  W.  M. ;  Enoch  Hulen,  S.  W.; 
W.  T.  Summers,  J.  W. ;  John  W.  Parish,  treasurer ;  W.  W.  Rob- 
erts, secretary;  T.  T.  S.  Kemper,  S.^D. ;  Josiah  Hall,  J.  D.,  and 
R.  P.  Roberts,  tyler.  The  present  officials  are  J.  T.  Henry,  W. 
M. ;  R.  P.  Roberts,  S.  W. ;  W.  H.  Brink,  J,  W. ;  John  A.  Elkin, 
treasurer;  Josiah  Hall,  secretaiy ;  W.F.Roberts,  chaplain;  R.  F. 
Hulett,  S.  D. ;  Thomas  Hulett,  J.  D. ;  Isaac  L.  McCaslin,  tyler ;  J 
W.  Horner  and  W.  W.  Roberts,  stewards.  None  of  these  are  as  yet 
grand  lodge  officers.  The  membership  at  this  time  numbers  about 
forty.  The  hall  is  a  frame  structure,  built  jointly  by  the  Masons  and 
Grangers,  at  a  cost  of  about  $500,  each  of  these  orders  owning  a  one- 
half  interest.  It  was  commenced  in  1876,  and  completed  1877.  The 
lodge  is  in  good  working  order,  and  peace  and  harmony  prevail. 

LEBANON. 

The  town  of  Lebanon  was  laid  oilt  on  the  southwest  quarter  of 
section  36,  township  50,  range  11,  about  1836,  by  John  W.  McBride. 
He  was  the  first  post-master.     There  was  a  blacksmith  shop  and  a 


1118  HISTORY  OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

family  gi*ocery  in  the  place.  The  first  lot  sold  in  the  town  was  bought 
by  a  man  named  Hewlett.  He  paid  $30  for  it.  He  built  a  house  od 
the  lot  and  afterwards  sold  out  to  John  M.  McGee.  There  is  no 
store  or  post-office  kept  there  now,  and  the  town  is  extinct. 


BIOOKAFHIES. 
ELDER   JAMES    BARNES. 

Of  the  many  brave,  generous,  self-sacrificing  ministers  who  came 
at  an  early  day  to  the  frontier  wilderness  of  Missouri,  bringing  the 
glad  tidings  of  salvation  to  sinful  men,  none  were  more  loved  and 
respected  than  Elder  James  Barnes,  who  was  first  in  the  presence 
and  first  in  the  hearts  of  the  primitive  settlers  of  Boone  county.  His 
was  a  three-fold  mission.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  cross,  a  soldier  of 
war  and  a  teacher.  He  was  neither  learned  nor  brilliant,  but  for  the 
age  in  which  he  lived,  and  the  field  in  which  he  toiled,  he  was  well- 
fitted.  The  fruits  of  his  labor  survive  him,  and  will  remain  throus:h 
untold  ages  yet  to  come. 

Elder  Barnes  was  born  in  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  September 
18,  1788.  He  made  a  profession  of  religion  when  but  fifteen  years 
old,  and  was  baptized  and  admitted  a  member  of  the  Yates  Creek  church, 
the  denomination  being  that  of  the  Old  School,  or  Regular  Baptist. 
In  the  year  1800  Elder  Barnes  emigrated  to  Missouri,  making  Fort 
Hempstead  the  objective  point  of  his  journey.  In  this  fort,  which 
was  situated  in  Howard  county,  he  was  afterwards  married.  He 
proved  a  useful  member  of  the  little  band  gathered  for  mutual  protec- 
tion, within  the  four  walls  of  this  rude  stockade.  When  assailed  be 
took  his  rifle  and  helped  defend  the  fort.  When  the  storm  of  battle 
was  over,  and  the  yell  of  the  merciless  savage  no  longer  called  the 
vigilant  pioneers  to  the  ramparts  or  the  port-holes.  Elder  Barnes 
turned  his  attention  to  other,  and  more  congenial,  tasks.  He  preached 
and  prayed  with  all  the  fervor  of  his  ardent,  God-fearing  nature,  for 
the  salvation  of  those  whom  a  special  providence  seemed  to  have 
placed  within  reach  of  his  warning  voice.  Another  duty  he  found 
both  leisure  and  opportunity  for,  and  he  discharged  it  faithfully. 
He  became  their  temporal  as  well  as  spiritual  teacher.  His  pupils 
were  eager  to  acquire  the  rudiments  of  education,  and  thankful  for 
this  their  first  and,  perhaps,  only  opportunity  of  learning  to  read. 

The  fertile  valley  of  the  Missouri  soon   attracted  sufficient  popula- 


HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  111^ 

tion  to  defend  it  against  all  threatened  danger,  and  the  forts,  once  the 
pride  and  hope  of  the  pioneer,  must  henceforth  remain  only  as  so 
many  relics  of  other  and  darker  days.  When  once  assured  of  safety, 
the  pioneers  left  the  forts  and  betook  themselves  to  the  choice  lauds 
of  the  surrounding  country.  Elder  Barnes  came  to  Boone  county  and 
was  soon  identified  with  all  the  best  interests  of  the  people,  who 
showed  their  appreciation  and  gratitude  by  making  him  their  sheriff* 
When  the  country  became  more  densely  populated  and  he  found  that 
he  could  well  be  spared  from  the  temporal  walks  of  life,  he  devoted 
all  his  time,  thought  and  energy  to  his  real  calling,  that  of  preaching 
the  gospel.  Being  a  man  of  much  physical  strength  he  was  equal  to 
all  the  hardships  and  trials  incident  to  his  ministerial  labors,  and 
never  under  the  most  trjing  circumstances  did  he  falter  or  com- 
plain. He  travelled  a  great  deal,  but  always  found  a  hearty 
welcome  whenever  he  crossed  the  humble  threshold  of  the  pio- 
neer, be  he  Christian  or  infidel,  Baptist  or  Methodist.  They  all  knew 
.and  loved  •'  Uncle  Jimmy  Barnes,"  and  his  «*  God  bless  you  !  "  when 
once  heard  was  seldom  forgotten.  In  his  old  age  he  narrowed  his 
field  of  labor,  and  for  many  years  seldom  went  beyond  the  limits  of 
Rocky  Fork,  Perche  and  Bourbon  townships.  He  organized  many 
churches  in  an  early  day,  old  Gilead,  in  Rocky  Fork  township,  being 
one  among  the  number-  While  venerable  and  dignified  in  bearing, 
he  yet  possessed  a  jovial  disposition,  and  was  never  so  happy  as  when 
promoting  the  happiness  of  others.  He  lived  to  have  his  second  eye- 
sight, but  was  blind  when  he  died.  He  scarcely  knew,  from  his  own 
experience,  what  it  was  to  be  sick.  When  death  came  at  last,  it  was 
painless.  Like  the  orb  of  day,  this  noble  life  went  down  to  us,  only 
to  rise  on  other  shores.  He  died  February  6,  1875,  in  the  eighty- 
seventh  year  of  his  age. 

DH.    BENNETT   H.    CLAHK,    8R. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Howard  county,  Missouri,. 
May  25th,  1825.  He  is  the  son  of  Bennett  H.  and  Susan  H.  Clark, 
the  latter  a  daughter  of  Gen.  Stephen  Triggs,  who  came  to  Missouri 
about  1815.  His  parents  were  natives  of  Clark  county,  Kentucky, 
but  were  reared  in  Montgomery  county,  that  State.  Dr.  Clark  was 
raised  on  the  farm,  and  acquired  his  education  in  Howard  county, 
being  placed  in  the  Fayette  High  School  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  and 
remaining  there  till  he  finished  his  course.  He  began  the  study  of 
medicine  in  Fayette  under  Dr.  Charles  R.  Scott,  in  1846,  and  read 


1120  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

there  about  two  years.  He  then  went  to  the  medical  college  at 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  graduated  there  in  1849.  Immediately 
on  returning  to  Missouri,  he  began  the  practice  at  Fayette.  The  next 
year,  however,  (1850),  he  was  borne  ofl  with  the  gold  excitement,  and 
went  to  California,  where  he  spent  a  year.  Returning  to  Missouri  in 
1851,  he  located  at  Buena  Vista,  and  was  there  married  in  May,  1852, 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  Winn,  daughter  of  Charles  H.  and  Eliza  Winn. 
Mrs.  Clark  was  born  February  1st,  1837,  on  the  farm  where  her 
father  still  resides.  Subsequently  she  and  Dr.  C.  moved  to  the  farm 
where  they  now  reside,  at  Middletown,  in  Rocky  Fork  township,  and 
here  the  doctor  practices  medicine  and  operates  the  farm  coiijoiutly. 
Five  out  of  seven  children  that  were,  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clark  still 
survive.  One  son,  Bennett  H.,  Jr.,  is  a  graduate  of  the  medical 
department  of  the  University,  but  is  now  settled  on  a  farm  in  Boone 
county,  as  is  also  his  brother.  During  the  civil  war,  Dr.  Clark 
enlisted  in  the  Confederate  army,  in  1861,  in  the  company  commanded 
by  Captain  Hicks.  He  was  in  the  battle  of  Boonville,  under  Gen. 
Marmaduke.  In  September,  1861,  he  was  commissioned  surgeon  of 
the  6th  regiment  of  infantry,  Missouri  State  Guards,  his  regiment 
being  in  the  third  division  commanded  by  his  cousin.  Gen.  John  B. 
Clark.  In  1862  Dr.  Clark  was  put  into  the  regular  Confederate 
service  and  appointed  assistant  surgeon,  and  served  for  a  time  under 
Gen.  Hindman  in  Arkansas.  He  was  then  sent  to  Gen.  Price,  in 
Missouri,  and  in  1864  was  appointed  regimental  surgeon  at  Richmond, 
Virjrinia,  and  remained  till  the  close  of  the  war.  He  surrendered  at 
Jacksonport,  Arkansas,  and  returned  to  his  farm,  where  he  has  ever 
since  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

For  several  years  Dr.  Clark  was  postmaster  at  Middletown,  and  one 
time  master  of  the  Union  Temperance  Lodge  organized  at  that  place. 
He  has  been  a  Free  Mason  since  1846,  and  he  and  his  wife  are  both 
members  of  the  Christian  church.  The  family  to  which  Dr.  Clark 
belongs  is  one  prominently  known  in  this  State,  Virginia  and 
Kentucky.  The  civil  and  military  record  of  his  uncle  and  cousin. 
Generals  John  B.  Clark,  Sr.  and  Jr.,  is  sufficiently  well-known  to 
Missourians  to  need  no  comment  here. 

Dr.  Clark,  though  formerly  a  Whig,  is  now  in  the  straight  Democratic 
harness,  and  votes  no  other  ticket,  nor  affiliates  with  any  other  party. 

RICHARD    M.    FLYNT. 

Richard   M.   Flynt,  though  forty-five  years  of  age,  is   a  native  of 


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Boone  county,  and  is  now  living  at  the  old  hom^  where  he  was  bom 
and  raised.  He  is  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Susan  C.  Flynt,  the  former 
a  native  of  North  Carolina,  and  the  latter  of  Virginia.  They  first 
emigrated  to  Callaway  county,  Missouri,  in  1833,  but  remained  there 
only  one  year,  removing  in  1834  to  Boone  county,  settling  on  the  farm 
where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  now  lives.  Thomas  Flynt  was  born 
in  Stokes  county.  North  Carolina,  in  1794.  His  father  was  also 
named  Thomas.  Richard  M.  bears  the  name  of  an  uncle  who  served 
on  the  staff  of  Gen.  Jackson  during  the  war  of  1812.  Both  of  his 
grandfathers  served  in  the  American  army  during  the  revolutionary 
war.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  June  2d,  1837.  He  was 
one  of  a  family  of  seven  children,  two  of  whom  died  in  childhood. 
The  oldest  member  of  the  family  now  living  is  the  widow  of  John  W. 
Love,  who  died  in  the  Federal  army  during  the  late  civil  war.  The 
other  sister  is  the  wife  of  John  D.  French.  The  oldest  of  the  brothers, 
James  W.,  went  to  California  in  1850,  and  has  never  returned.  He 
is  a  bachelor.  He  is  now  living  in  White  Pine  county,  Nevada. 
Martin  C.  Flynt,  the  youngest  brother,  is  a  native  of  Audrain  county. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  Cockrell's  brigade  during  the  late  war,  and  was 
twice  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Franklin,  Tennessee.  Richard  M. 
Flynt  was  with  Price  in  his  Missouri  campaigns  at  the  beginning  of 
the  war.  He  was  married  on  the  7th  day  of  June,  1860,  to  Miss  Mary 
F.,  daughter  of  Mordecai  and  Arethusa  Turner,  of  Boone  county. 
They  have  sev^n  children  living  and  one  dead.  Their  names  are 
Wilmuth  Ann,  Thomas  M.,  Joseph  F.,  Augusta  Jane,  William  R., 
Warren  A.,  Lena  Mabel  and  an  infant  yet  unnamed.  Thomas  M. 
died  in  infancy.  Their  children  are  all  living  at  home.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Flynt  are  members  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Grand  View.  Mr.  Flynt 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order.  His  home  is  situated  sixteen 
miles  northeast  of  Columbia,  and  four  miles  southeast  of  Hallsville, 
which  is  his  post-office.  Thomas  Flynt,  the  father  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  died  in  February,  1858  ;  Mrs.  Flynt  died  in  the  winter  of 
1866.  They  are  both  buried  at  Mt.  Zion  church,  which  was  built  on 
laud  donated  by  Mr,  Flynt,  and  the  church  was  named  by  him.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church  South.  Mrs.  Flynt  was  a 
member  of  the  Regular  Baptist  church. 

ROBERT  BRATTON  GAY. 

Robert  Bratton  Gay  was  born  in  Clark  county,  Kentucky,  Decem- 
ber 11th,  1834.     His  parents,  John  and  Rebecca  Gay,  were  born  and 
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1122  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

raised  in  Kentucky,  hut  emigrated  to  Missouri  in  1837,  when  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  a  small  boy.     They  settled  on  a  farm  in  Eockj 
Fork  township,  the  present  abode  of  their  son,  Kobert  B.  Gay,  where 
they  lived  and  died,     Mr.  Gay  was  married,  in  1861,  to  Miss  Laura 
F.  Chrisman,  a  native  of  Boone  county,  born  in  1840.     She  is  the 
daughter  of  Elijah  and  Jane  A.  Chrisman,  Kentuckians,   who  emi- 
grated to  Missouri  in  an  early  day.     Elder  Chrisman  was  one  of  the 
pioneer  preachers  of  the  country,  and  has  established  several  churches 
in  this  and  Callaway  counties.     He  is  still  living  and  preaching  to 
some  of  the  churches  he  established  when  he  first  came  to  the  State. 
He  is  seventy-nine  years  old.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gay  have  had  four  chil- 
dren, two  of  whom  are  living.     Mr.  Gay,  his  wife  and  one  son  are 
members  of  the  Christian  church  at  Hickory  Grove.     They  are  well- 
to-^do,  prosperous  farmers,  living  in  that  independent,  joyous  content- 
ment which  seems  ever  to  be  the  reward  of  virtuous  lives  and  honest 
toil. 

DAVID    NATHANIEL    HALL 

Was  born  in  Albermarle  county,  Virginia,  July  9th,  1831.    His  parents, 
John  W.  and  Sarah  H.  Hall,  moved  to  Missouri  in  1836,  when  David 
was  a  small  boy,  bringing  him  with  them.     They  settled  at  Hallsville^ 
in  Boone  county,  where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  lived  with  them  till 
he  was  nineteen  years  old.     He  then  went  West  to  the  mining  dis- 
tricts of  California,  and  was  absent  in  that  State  and  Oregon  for  three 
years.     Returning  to  this  county,  he  was  married,  November  3d,  18n3, 
to  Miss  Melinda  T.  Asbury,  a  native  of  Boone  county,  born  January 
19,  1833.     Her  parents  were  Calvin  and  Jane  Asbury,  who  were  born 
and  reared  in  Fleming  county,  Kentucky,  and  settled  in  this  county 
at  an  early  day.     Five  children  are  the  offspring  of  this  marriage,  oue 
son  and  four  daughters.     One  of  these  only  is  married  and  the  rest 
are  at  home  at  this  writing,  where  their  father  lives,  near  Hallsville. 
That  village,  by  the  way,  was  named  in  honor  of  this  family.      [See 
general  history  of  Boone  county.]     Mr.  Hall's  paternal  grandfather 
was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  but  under  whom  he  served 
is  not  known.     David  received  a  common-school  education,  and  has 
made  his  way  successfully  in  the  world  without  the  more  advanced 
education   attainable   to  the   present   youthful    generation  of  Boone 
county.     He  owns  a  jfine  farm  of  320  acres  in  Rocky  Fork  township, 
which  he  knows  well  how  to  cultivate.     He  is  a  good  citizen,  a  careful 
manager,  and    provides  well  for  the  support  and   education   of   his 


HISTOBY   OF   BOONE    COUNTY.  1123 

family.     His  mother  is  still  living,  at  an  advanced  age,  two  miles  west 
of  Hallsville,  on  the  place  wljere  his  father  died. 

COLUMBUS   D.    HULEN. 

Columbus  D.  Hulen  is  the  son  of  John  A.  Hulen,  a  native  of  In- 
diana, who  came  to  Missouri  in  1835.  The  grandfather  on  the  pater- 
nal side  was  Taylor  Hulen,  on  the  maternal  side,  Stephen  Hulett. 
Columbus  D.  was  one  of  four  children,  being  the  only  son  of  his  par- 
ents. He  was  educated  at  the  Missouri  State  University.  He  mar- 
ried Lucy  V.  Robinson,  daughter  of  George  Robinson,  of  Winchester, 
Clark  county,  Kentucky.  They  have  two  children,  Lyman  T.  and 
Lizzie  B.  After  graduating  in  1871,  Mr.  Hulen  taught  school  for  two 
terms  when  he  went  to  farming  and  has  followed  that  business  ever 
since.     He  owns  a  farm  of  120  acres. 

CICERO    HOUSTON. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  near  Hallsville,  Rocky  Fork 
township,  Boone  county,  Missouri,  July  18,  1823.  His  father,  Wm. 
L.  Houston,  was  born  in  Rockbridge  county,  Virginia,  removing  with 
his  parents  to  Knoxville,  Tennessee.  From  Knoxville,  Mr.  Houston 
went  to  Hopkinsville,  Kentucky,  where  he  learned  the  hatter's  trade, 
and  was  married.  His  wife  was  born  and  raised  in  North  Carolina. 
It  was  while  on  a  visit  to  friends  in  Kentucky  that  she  first  met  Mr. 
Houston  whom  she  subsequently  married.  In  1818  Mr.  Houston  em- 
igrated to  Missouri,  settling  near  Hall;^ville,  Boone  county,  his  primi- 
tive hom6  being  isolated  by  the  distance  of  five  miles  from  the  residence 
of  any  human  being  of  his  own  race.  Here  the  old  pioneer  lived  out 
the  remainder  of  his  quiet,  useful  days.  His  wife,  Rebecca,  survived 
him,  finally  dying  at  the  residence  of  their  son-in-law,  James  B.  Reed, 
in  Audrain  county,  Missouri,  May  19,  1882,  at  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty-five  years.  Mr.  Houston  was  the  first  hatter  within  the  range 
of  many  mil,es  of  Hallsville.  He  was  a  kind  .husband  and  father,  but 
austere  in  m*anner  and  of  most  solemn  deportment.  He  was  in  the 
organization  of  the  first  Christian  church  west  of  the  Mississippi  river. 
He  and  his  wife  were  of  the  original  members  of  Old  Red  Top  church 
which  still  exists,  being  to-day  one  of  the  most  flourishing  churches  in 
in  the  county.  He  was  buried  in  the  Red  Top  cemetery.  Mr.  Hous- 
ton was  the  first  cousin  of  Sam  Houston,  **  the  Washington  of  Texas." 
Cicero  Houston  was  married  first  in  1849  to  Miss  Mary  Ann  HalU 
born  in  Albemarle  county,  Virginia,  in  1830.     She  was  the  daughter 


1124  HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

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of  John  W.  and  Sally  Hall,  both  of  whom  were  raised  in  Virginia. 
The  parents  of  Mrs.  Houston  emigrated  to  Missouri  in  1835  and  set- 
tled near  Hallsville,  in  Boone  county.  Her  father  was  the  first  post- 
master at  Hallsville,  the  office  taking  its  name  from  him.  Mrs. 
Houston  died  April  20,  1870,  leaving  one  child,  a  son,  who  at  this 
writing  is  married  and  lives  near  Hallsville.  The  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  aorain  married  in  1874,  his  second  wife  beins:  Mrs.  Magme 
Fenton,  born  1832,  and  raised  in  Boone  county.  She  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Delila  Connelly  and  widow  of  Andrew  J.  Fenton. 
She  had  two  children  by  her  first  marriage,  one  of  whom  is  married, 
the  other  residing  with  Mr.  Houston.  Mr.  Houston  and  his  wife  are 
members  of  the  Christian,  church,  and  have  been  since  early  youth. 
Mr.  Houston's  first  wife  was  also  a  member  of  the  same  church. 
William  L.  Houston,  son  of  Cicero  Houston  by  his  first  wife,  is  a 
ojraduate  of  the  Missouri  State  University.  He  is  now  fiirming  near 
Hallsville.  Both  the  elder  and  younger  Houston  are  prosperous 
farmers.  They  have  about  60.0  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Boone  and 
^00  in  Audrain  county,  Missouri,  all  of  which  is  enclosed.  Their 
land  is  well  adapted  to  the  growth  of  wheat,  corn,  oats,  hay,  in  fact 
all  crops  indigenous  to  our  climate.  They  handle  considerable  stock, 
their  facilities  for  this  business  being  very  good.  The  elder  Houston 
has  spent  most  of  his  life  in  the  vicinity  of  Hallsville.  He  was  a  sol- 
<lier  under  Gen.  Price  during  the  Mexican  war,  and  afterwards  spent 
four  years  in  California. 

JOHN   KARNES. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  native  of  Boone  county,  Missouri. 
He  is  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Vanclief)  Karnes,  and  was 
l)orn  April  18,  1838.  Both  his  parents  were  natives  of  the  Old  Do- 
minion. His  maternal  relatives  were  of  Holland  origin,  and  related 
to  the  Van  Burens,  of  New  York,  one  of  whom,  Martin  Van  Buren, 
was  President  of  the  United  States.  Thomas  Karnes  and  Elizabeth 
Vanclief  were  married  in  Virginia  in  1832,  and  came  to  Boone  county 
three  years  later.  They  settled  on  the  head  of  the  Two-mile  prairie, 
being  among  the  first  settlers  of  that  neighborhood.  Mrs.  Karnes 
died  in  1867,  and  Mr.  Karnes  in  1876.  They  were  buried  at  Mt. 
Zion  church,  in  Rocky  Fork  township.  They  were  both  members  of 
the  Methodist  Church  South.  Four  children  were  born  to  them,  all 
of  whom  are  now  living.  Hai-vey,  the  oldest,  is  at  Eureka  Springs, 
Arkansas  ;  Robert  Payne  lives  on  the  old  farm  in  Columbia  town- 
ship ;  John,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  lives  in  Rocky  Fork  township ; 


HISTORY   OF   BOONB   COUNTY.  1125 

Joseph  Vanclief  is  practicing  law  in  Kansas  City.  John  Karnes  was 
married,  June  25,  1863,  to  Miss  Sarah  A.  Potts  of  Nicholas  county, 
Kentucky.  She  is  the  daughter  of  Henry  T.  and  Lorana  Potts. 
Her  father  died  in  1875.  Her  mother  is  still  living  in  Kentucky. 
Eight  children  have  been  born  of  this  marriage,  three  sons  and  five 
daughters.  Their  names  are  Jennie,  Mattie,  David  C,  Payne,  Lo- 
rana, Fannie,  Charles  T.  and  Mary.  David  C.  is  dead.  He  was 
buried  with  his  grandparents  at  Mt.  Zion.  Mr.  Karnes  has  lived  in 
Boone  county  all  his  life.  He  was  educated  at  the  State  University 
at  Columbia,  and  studied  law,  but  never  practiced  his  profession. 
He  has  a  fine  farm  of  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres,  six  miles  south 
of  Centralia,  which  is  his  post-office  and  shipping  point.  The  farm 
is  all  in  cultivation  and  is  well  improved.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Karnes  are 
both  members  of  the  Methodist  Church  South.  They  worship  with 
the  Mt.  Zion  congregation. 

JOHN   DUDLEY   KEMFEK. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  son  of  Peter  and  Rebecca  Kemper, 
and  was  born  in  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky,  September  17,  1828. 
His  parents  were  also  both  native  Kentuckians,  his  father  having 
beien  born  and  raised  in  Fayette  county,  that  State,  and  his  mother 
in  Bourbon.  They  came  to  Missouri  in  1829,  when  John  Dudley 
was  about  a  y^ar  old,  and  settled  in  this  county,  and  continued  to  re- 
side here  till  the  time  of  their  death.  Mr.  Kemper  was,  therefore, 
reared  and  educated  in  Boone  county.  In  February,  1852,  on 
the  17th  day  of  that  month,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Susan  Frances 
Ballinger,  a  native  of  this  county,  born  February  19,  1836.  Her  par 
ents  are  James  E.  and  Amanda  Kemper,  natives  of  South  Carolina, 
who  came  here  at  an  early  day  and  still  reside  in  the  county.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.'  Kemper  have  had  seven,  children,  five  of  them  still  living, 
three  of  them  are  married  and  settled  on  farms.  Both  Mr,  and  Mrs. 
K.  are  members  of  the  Old  School  Baptist  church,  and  two  of  their 
children  belong  to  the  same.  He  owns  a  large  farm  in  Rocky  Fork 
township  of  nearly  six  hundred  acres,  and  all,  except  forty  acres,  are 
well  improved,  a  large  part  of  it  being  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation. 
Like  many  others  now  living  in  Boone  county,  Mr.  Kemper  came  of  a 
stock  of  people  whose  ancestors  fought  for  our  freedom  in  the  war  of 
,  the  Revolution,  his  grandfather  having  served  as  a  soldier  in  that 
great  struggle  for  liberty. 


1126  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 


CHARLES   WILLETT  MA8TER8EN 


Is  a  native  of  Montgomery  county,  Kentucky,  born  April  25,  1819. 
His  parents  were  Jonathan  and  Mary  Masterseu,  the  former  a  Penn- 
sylvanian,  and  the  latter  a  Kentuckian,  by  birth.  Charles  W.  moved 
with  his  father's  family  to  Menard  county,  Illinois,  in  1835.  They 
settled  on  a  farm,  though  the  son  spent  most  of  his  time  working  in 
a  woolen  factory,  and  received  his  education  in  the  common  schools. 
He  was  married  September  30,  1840,  to  Miss 'Phoebe  M.  Houghton,  a 
native  of  Menard  county,  Illinois,  born  January  22,  182«^.  Her  par- 
ents, Elijah  and  Catharine  Houghton,  were  natives  of  New  Jersey,  the 
mother  being  still  alive,  residing  in  Illinois,  now  at  the  advanced  age 
of  90  years.  Mr.  Mast^rsen  and  wife  are  the  parents  of  thirteen 
children,  nine  of  them  still  living,  eight  of  whom  are  members  of  the 
Christian  church.  He  and  Mrs.  M!  have  been  members  of  the  same 
church  for  many  years,  he  since  he  was  sixteen,  and  she,  from  the 
time  she  was  fifteen  years  old.  Mr.  Mastersen  has  served  one  term  as 
commissioner  of  public  schools  in  Boone  countv. 

Two  of  his  sons  were  in  the  Federal  service  during  the  war,  one  in 
the  cavalry  service  for  four  years,  and  the  other  three  years  in  the  artil- 
lery. Mr.  M.  owns  a  good  farm  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-eight  acres, 
all  in  cultivation,  and  forty  acres  of  timbered  land.  His  farm  is  well 
adapted  to  raising  the  cereals  common  to  this  latitude,  and  Mr.  M. 
also  produces  live  stock  —  horses,  mules,  cattle  and  swine.  He  is  a 
successful  farmer  and  a  good  provider  for  the  maintenance  of  his 
family. 

HENRY   PALMER. 

This  gentleman  was  born  in  Clark  county,  Kentucky,  June  22d, 
1809.  His  parents  were  James  and  Elizabeth  Palmer,  both  of  whom 
were  born  and  reared  in  Kentucky.  They  came  to  this  State  when 
Henry  was  young,  and  settled  near  where  Sturgeon  now  is,  remaining 
ill  Boone  county  till  the  time  of  their  death.  Henry  was  raised  on 
the  farm,  and  received  his  education  chiefly  in  this  county.  He  was 
married  in  about  1844  to  Mrs.  Sarah  Stevenson,  a  widow  lady,  whose 
maiden  name  had  been  Ridgeway,  a  daughter  of  Zachariah  and  Sarah 
Ridgeway,  Kontuckians,  who  came  to  this  State  in  an  early  day.  She 
had  three  children  by  her  former  marriage,  but  none  by  Mr.  Palmer. 
She  died  in  1879,  and  Mr.  P.  was  again  married  in  1881,  to  Mrs. 
Margaret  J.  Wolf,  widow  of  Thomas  Wolf,  and  daughter  of  James 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1127 

aad  Eliza  Lampton,  who  came  from  Kentucky  to  this  State  in  1830, 
settling  in  Boone  county,  and  residing  here  till  their  death. 

Mr.  Palmer  had  no  children  by  either  marriage,  though  his  last  wife 
had  ten  children,  four  sons  and  six  daughters  by  her  first  husband* 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  are  both  members  of  the  Christian  church,  as  was 
also  his  first  wife.  He  has  been  a  member  for  about  twenty-three 
jears,  and  was  baptized  and  received  into  the  church  by  Thomas 
Allen.  Mr.  P.  owns  a  good  farm,  which  he  cultivates  successfully. 
To  these  old  settlers  who  came  to  the  county  as  early  as  did  Mr. 
Palmer,  it  must  be  a  great  source  of  satisfaction  to  look  back  and 
contrast  the  present  with  the  past.  The  county  which  was  then  but 
an  unsettled  wilderness,  abounding  with  bear,  deer,  wolves  and  other 
wild  beasts  of  the  forest,  has  been  touched  by  the  magic  wand  of 
progress,  wielded  first  by  these  pioneers,  till  now  it  blossoms  as  the 
rose,  and  has  become  the  home  of  thousands  who  now  enjoy  the  fruit 
of  the  toils  and  hardships  endured  by  their  first  comers.  Let  us  never 
forget  the  debt  of  gratitude  due  to  those  who  labored  that  we  might 
enjoy  —  the  early  pioneers  of  Boone  county. 

DR.    J.    W.     POINTS. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  son  of  Dr.  Joseph  Points,  who  was 
born  in  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky,  January  7th,  1797.  His  father 
and  mother,  Arthur  and  Ellen  Points,  were  old  settlers  of  that  State. 
Joseph  studied  medicine  in  Fayette  county,  under  Doctors  Wither- 
spoon  and  Ennis,  and  subsequently  practiced  his  profession  in  that 
locality,  remaining  in  Fayette  county  until  1836,  when  he  came  to 
Bpone  county,  Missouri,  and  bought  the  farm  where  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  now  resides.  He  continued  the  practice  of  medicine  until  his 
death,  July  28th,  1875.  There  are  now  over  forty  physicians  actively 
employed  in  the  territory  in  which  he  once  had  the  exclusive  practice. 
He  was  married  in  Fayette  county,  Kentucky,  September,  1819,  to 
Miss  Sallie,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Nancy  Robinson.  Eleven  child- 
ren, five  sons  and  six  daughters,  were  born  of  this  marriage.  Four  of 
the  children  are  now  living.  Mrs.  Points  was  born  December  28th, 
1798,  and  is  still  living,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-four  years,  re- 
taining much  of  her  former  vigor  and  cheerfulness.  Dr.  J.  W.  Points, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Kentucky, 
November  24th,  1834.  When  in  his  second  year,  his  father  removed 
to  Boone  county,  Missouri.  He  was  educated  at  the  common  schools, 
and  read  medicine  under  his   father  and  Dr.  Lee  Brown.     He  made 


1128  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 

his  home  on  the  old  Points'  homes'tead  and  has  succeeded  to  a  large- 
portion  of  his  father's  practice.  He  was  married,  December  7th, 
1855,  to  Miss  Cordelia  A.,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Jane  Huddeston, 
of  Boone' county.  They  have  two  children,  William  H.,  and  Mary 
Elizabeth,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  J.  W.  Grady,  of  this  county.  The 
first  wife  dying  in  1864,  Dr.  Points  was  again  married  in  1874,  to 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Schell,  of  Colo  county,  Missouri.  They  have  no  chil- 
dren by  this  marriage.  Dr.  Points  has  been  a  citizen  of  Boone  county 
all  his  life,  except  about  six  years  spent  in  Cole  county,  Missouri.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church  South.  His  father  was  likewise 
a  zealous  member  of  the  same  church.  His  mother  is  also  a 
Methodist. 

GEORGE  WASHINGTON  REAMS. 

George  W.  Reams  was  born  in  Fleming  county,    Kentucky.     His 
father,  John  Reams,  was  a  native  of  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  and  of 
German  origin.     George  W.  was  one  of  twelve  children,  six  qf  each 
sex.     He  came  with  his  parents  to  Boone   county,  Missouri,  in  the 
year    1839,   and   settled   near  the    spot  where   he  now  lives.     The 
mother  of  Mr.  Reams   was  of  Irish  origin.     Her  maiden  name  was 
Swain.     The   country  was  thinly  settled  when   they  came  to  Boone 
county  and  their  experience  was  about  the  same  as  those  who  emi- 
grated at  an  earlier  date.     The  subject  of  this  sketch  had   attended 
school  for  a  few  months  before  lea vino^  Kentuckv —  for  the  rest  of  his 
education,  he  is   indebted  to    no  one  but   himself.     He  commenced 
life  without    anything  but  health,  strength  and  indomitable  energy. 
He  now  owns  600  acres  of  fine  land,  well  improved,  mostly  in  grass. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church  South.     He  was    married 
in  1849  to  Miss  Pollj^  A.,  daughter  of  Charles  Helm,  of  Crab  Orchard, 
Kentucky,  who  died  a  few  years  ago.     They  have  had  eight  children, 
four  of  whom  are  living.     Their  names  are  Francis,  Elizabeth,  John 
M.  and  Mary  B. 

JUDGE    WM.    F.    ROBERTS. 

William  Franklin  Roberts  is  a  native  of  Boone  county,  and  was 
born  in  Rocky  Fork  township,  November  22d,  1831.  His  parents, 
John  and  Annie  Roberts,  were  natives  of  Madison  county,  Kentucky, 
and  came  to  this  county  at  an  early  day.  Judge  Roberts'  grand- 
parents also  were  Kentuckians,  and  came  early  to  this  county,  and 
died  in  the  township  where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  resides. 
William  was  reared  on  a  farm  in  the  locality  of  his  present  residence,, 
and  received  such  education    as    the    common   schools  of  that   day 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1129* 

afforded.     His  ediicatioD,  however,  did  not  cease  with  his  school  days, 
but  has  been^furthered  and  enlarged  by  close  and  systematic  read- 
ing and  study,  to  which  he  has  devoted  considerable  time  through  life. 
In  I860,  in  his  nineteenth  year,  young  William  Franklin  went  over- 
land across  the  plains    to  California.     He    was    there    nearly    four 
years,  engaged  in  mining  for  three  years,  and  in  merchandising  the 
rest  of  the  time,  having  bought  out  the  stock  of  the  well  known  *'  Old 
Uncle  Abraham  Barnes,"  on  the  Middle  Yuba.     He  sold  out  in  1853 
and,  while  collecting  up,  met  with  a  singular  adventure.     The  Digger 
Indians  tried  to  rob  him  while  he  was  travelling  alone  between  Middle 
and  North  Yuba.     He   escaped  by  a  free  use  of  his  spurs  and  a  shot 
from  his  Colt's  navy,  which  probably  sent  ope  Digger  into  the  happy 
hunting  grounds.     Returning  in  December  following,  he  located  on 
his  farm  in  Rocky  Fork,    where    he    has   ever  since   resided.     Mr. 
Roberts'   wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Miranda  Asbery,  is  a  native 
of  the  same  township  as  himself,  born  July  11th,  1836.     Her  father 
died  there  in  1881.     Mr.  R.  and  wife  are  the  parents  of  nine  children, 
seven  of  whom  still  survive.     The  oldest  son,  Jasper  Newton,  received' 
a  thorough  business  education nt  the  Commercial  College,  of  Savannah, 
Missouri,  and  is  now  maiTied  and  settled  on  a  farm.     The  Judge,  his 
wife,  and  the  four  surviving   children  are  members  of  the  Christian 
church.     He  has  been  a  member  for  about  thirty-five  yekrs,  and  she 
twenty-two  years.     In  1862,  Mr.    R.  was   ordained   an   elder  in  the 
church,  and  still  holds  the  position,  having  done,  in  his   time,  some 
very  effective  preaching,    always  laboring  faithfully  for   the    interest 
and  welfare  of  his  church  and  the  cause, of  religion   generally.     He  is 
a  member  of  the  Hallsville  Lodge,  No.  336,  of  the  Free  Masons,  hav- 
ing been  in  fellowship  for  twenty-two  years,  filling   some   important 
positions   therein.     In   the   Royal   Arch   Chapter,  he   has  held    the 
position  of  scribe  and  king.     He  also  belongs  to  the  A.  O.  U.  W., 
and   Knights    of  Pythias.      In    1878,    Mr.    Roberts    was  elected    a 
member   of   the    county   court,    and   reelected   in    1880.      He   was 
Southern    in   sympathy   during   the   civil    war,    and    in    1861,   vol- 
unteered, under  Gov.  Jackson's  call,  in  the  State  Guards,  and  par- 
ticipated in  the  battles  of  Lexington  and  Dry  Wood.     Receiving  a 
captain's  commission,  he  then  went- into  the  regular  Confederate  ser- 
vice in  November  following,  and  was  sent  out  to  recruit.     He  raised  a 
company  of  sixty  men  and  started  South,  but  was  detained  in  Boone 
county  by  Col.  McKinney,  till  December.     They  had  an  engagement 
at  Mt.  Zion  church  with  a  number  of  Gen.  Prentiss's  men,  the  Con- 


1130  HISTORY  OF  BOONE   COUNTY. 

federates  only  numbering  about  300.  (See  full  account  on  other 
pages  of  this  history. )  Here  his  company  disbanded  till  June,  1862, 
Capt.  Roberts  going  into  the  secret  service  of  the  Confederacy,  with  a 
colonel's  commission,  and  so  continuing  until  the  close.  Judge  Bob- 
erts  owns  a  fine  farm  of  530  acres  in  Bocky  Fork  township,  all  well 
improved,  which  he  has  supplied  with  high  grades  of  live  stock.  He 
is  a  successful  farmer,  and  provides  well  for  the  education  and  sup- 
port of  his  interesting  family. 

JOHN    ROBERTS 

Is  a  native  of  Madison  county,  Kentucky,  born  December  15th, 
1817,  and  is  a  son  of  William  M.  and  Martha  Roberts,  both  of  whom 
were  natives  of  Kentucky,  and  descended  from  the  pioneer  families 
that  came  at  an  early  day  from  Virginia  to  that  State.  The  father  of 
John  (Wm.  M. )  was  drafted  for  service  in  the  war  of  1812,  but 
managed  to  procure  a  substitute.  John  was  reared  on  a  farm,  and 
received  his  education  in  the  common  schools  of  the  country.  In 
1827  he  W21S  brought  to  this  State  and  county  by  his  parents,  and  settled 
in  Rocky  Fork  township,  when  the  county  was  new  and  comparatively 
unsettled.  Wild  game  —  elks,  deer,  bears  and  wolves  —  were 
abundant,  and  the  Roberts  family  helped  to  rid  the  country  of  such  pesibs 
as  wolves  and  snakes.  The  Indians  were  still  in  the  country,  but  had 
ceased  to  be  hostile.  Mr.  Roberts  was  married  in  September,  1839, 
to  Miss  Nancy  Johnson,  daughter  of  Anderson  and  Edith  Johnson, 
who  were  reared  in  Kentucky  and  came  to  Missouri  in  about  1814. 
The  wife  is  a  native  of  Missouri,  and  was  born  in  1818,  reared  on  a 
farm  and  educated  in  the  schools  of  that  primitive  period.  Eight  chil- 
dren have  been  born  to  this  couple,  two  sons  and  six  daughters,  the 
former,  and  four  of  the  latter,  still  living  at  this  writing.  Three  of 
the  surviving  daughters  are  married,  and  two  of  those  deceased  were 
also  married.  The  entire  family  are  members  of  the  Christian  church, 
Mr.  Roberts  and  wife  having  been  members  about  forty  years,  having 
joined  the  Red  Top  church,  of  which  they  are  at  present  members, 
under  the  preaching  of  an  old  Kentucky  preacher  named  Elijah  Chris- 
man.  Mr.  Roberts  owns  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  eighty-three  acres  of 
good  land,  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  which  are  improved  and  well 
adapted  to  raising  wheat,  corn,  hay,  oats,  etc.  Like  all  farmers  of 
this  section,  Mr.  Roberts  produces  live  stock  as  well  as  cereals  and 
lighter  produce.  He  has  raised  an  exemplary  family,  whose  good 
moral  habits  in  temperance,   virtue,  good  associations  and  freedom 


•     HISTORY  OP  BOONB   COUNTY.  1131 

from  profanity  are  remarked  by  all  who  know  them,  and  not  one  ot 
them  has  ever  been  called  upon  to  answer  for  any  violation  of  church 
discipline,  all  of  which  should  make  Mr.  Eoberts  feel  honored,  both 
4is  a  parent  and  a  citizen. 

WILLIAM   p.  ROBINSON. 

William  P.  Robinson  is  a  native  of  Boone  county,  having  been  bora 
in  Columbia  township  in  1839.  His  father,  Michael  Robinson,  was  a 
native  of  Virginia,  born  July  1,  1786.  He  was  twice  married.  He 
was  first  married  to  Mary  Magee,  July  4,  1809.  Eight  children  were 
born  of  this  marriage:  Robert  B.,  Hugh  Magee,  Walter,  Virginia, 
Hugh  Myms,  Lucy,  Michael  M.  and  John.  Michael  M.  and  John  are 
the  only  children  of  the  first  wife  now  living.  Mrs.  Mary  (Magee) 
Robinson  was  born  June  22,  1785,  and  died  November  3,  1837.  Mi- 
chael Robinson  was  again  married  April  5,  1838,  to  Miss  Mary  C. 
Phillips.  Three  children  were  born  of  this  marriage :  William  P. 
{subject  of  this* sketch),  Henry  T.  and  Addison  A.  They  are  all  liv- 
ing. Michael  Robinson  died  July  5,  1847,  and  was  buried  in  Colum- 
bia township.  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Robinson  died  October  20,  1878.  She 
is  buried  at  Mt.  Zion  churc'h.  William  P.  Robinson  was  married, 
April  16,  1861,  to  Miss  Sallie  A.,  daughter  of  Mordecai  and  Arethusa 
Tunier,  of  Boone  county.  Five  children  were  born  of  this  marriage: 
George  W.,  Mary  J.,  Lucy  E.,  Mordecai  T.  and  William  L.,  all  liv- 
ing. Mrs.  Robinson  died  September  3,  1877,  and  is  buried  at  J!dount 
Zion  church.  The  eldest  daughter,  Mary,  is  the  wife  of  J.  F.  Ed- 
wards, of  Audrain  county,  Missouri.  The  other  children  are  at  home 
with  their  parents.  Mr.  Robinson  was  again  married,  September  23, 
1880,  to  Miss  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  King,  of 
Boone  county,  formerly  of  Jasper  county,  Missouri.  Mr.  Robinson 
is  a  practical  farmer,  and  owns  a  fine  farm  of  200  acres  on  the  Cen- 
tralia  and  Jefierson  City  road,  seven  and  one-fourth  miles  south  of 
Centralia  and  four  and  a  half  miles  west  of  Hallsville.  He  took  no 
part  in  the  late  civil  war.  The  battle  of  Mount  Zion,  between  Gen. 
Prentiss  and  Col.  Dorsey,  began  at -his  house,  where  a  party  of  Con- 
federates were  eating  their  breakfast.  Mr.  Robinson  was  greatly  ex- 
posed, and  was  shot  through  the  clothing,  but  escaped  unhurt.  He 
is  not  a  church  member.  Mrs.  Robinson  is  a  member  of  the  Method- 
ist church. 

SAMUEL   MILTON   8TE VINSON 

Was    born   in   Clark   county,   Kentucky,   January   30,    1826.     His 


1132  HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTT. 

parents,  Isaac  and  Lucinda  Stevinson,  were  natives  of  the  same- 
(Clark)  county, [and  moved  to  Boone  county,  this  State,  in  1858^ 
settling  in  Kocky  Fork  township,  where  the  father  died,  and  the 
mother  still  resides  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-seven  years. 
Samuel  was  reared{on  a  farm,  receiving  his  education  in  the  common 
schools  of  the  country.  Hef  was  married  in  Montgomery  county, 
Kentucky ,f June  19,  1849,  to  Miss  Edith  Britton,  daughter  of  David 
and  KebeccafBritton,  and  moved  to  Missouri  in  1852,  locating  ou  the 
farm  on  which  he  still  resides  in  Kocky  Fork.'  Here  his  chief  voca- 
tion has  beenfthat  of  farming  and  stock  raising.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ste- 
vinson arejthe  parents  of  thirteen  childi'en  —  ten  boys  and  three  girls  — 
of  whom  eight  sons  and  two  daughters  ai'e  still  living,  one  son  mar- 
ried and  farming  in  California,  and  two  sons  in  business  at  Seligman, 
near  Eureka  Springs.  Both  parents  and  three  of  the  children  are 
members  of  the  Christian  church.  Mr.  S.  was  baptized  about  thirty 
years  agoj  by  Samuel  Kogers,  and  received  into  the  church  by  him. 
Mrs.  S.  has  been  a  member  about  the  same  length  of  time,  *' Rac- 
coon" John  Smith,  of  Kentucky,  administering  baptism  in  her  case. 
These  people  have  lived  thirty  years  on  their  farm,  and  there  reared 
their  large  family.  Mr.  S.  was  not  in  the  civil  war,  but  gave  his  at- 
tention to  farmins:,  in  which  he  has  been  successful  as  a  raiser  of 
grain  and  other  produce,  besides  horses,  mules,  sheep,  etc.,  those 
staples  whichjmark  the  successful  producer  in  this  latitude. 

WILLIAM    THOMAS    SUMMERS 

Is  a  native  of  Clarke  county,  Kentucky,  born  May  the  4th,  1829. 
His  parents,  William  and  Sallie  Summers,  were  also  born  in  Ken- 
tucky, but  came  to  this  State  and  county  in  1851,  and  settled  near 
Middletown,  where  they  lived  till  1865.  They  then  moved  to  John 
Summers's,  their  son,[and  lived  with  him  till  their  death,  the  father 
dying  in  1875  and  the  mother  in  1876.  The  subject  of  this  sketch 
did  notcomejto|Missouri  till  1853,  two  years  after  his  parents  came. 
He  was  married  in  Boone  county,  April  10,  1855,  to  Miss  Sallie  A. 
Hulen,  a  daughter  of  John  C.  and  Sallie  Huleii,  and  born  in  Ken- 
tucky, September  10,  1837.  Her  parents  were  likewise  Kentuckians, 
and  came  to  this  State  in  1843.  Mr.  S.  and  wife  were  reared  on  a 
farm,  and  have  mostly  resided  on  the  farm.  In  1855  he  sold  goods 
in  Hallsville,  but  since  that  time  has  been  farming  and  dealing  in  live 
stock.  Four  boys  and  live  girls  have  been  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Summers,  all  of  whom  survive  except  one  son.     The  oldest  daughter,. 


HISTORY   OP  BOONE   COUNTY.  1133 

Mary  B.,  was  educated  at  Camden  Point,  Mo.,  and  since  then  has 
taught  successfully  in  the  schools  of  Boone  county  for  six  years, 
^he  is  now  the  wife  of  a  thrifty  farmer  living  on  Grand 
prairie,  east  of  Hallsville.  The  second  daughter,  Nettie  B., 
graduated  from  the  normal  department  of  the  University  in  1879, 
iind  has  also  been  teaching  in  the  schools  of  Boone  county 
for  four  years.  Still  another  daughter  attended  Christian  Col- 
lege for  one  year,  and  George  R.,  the  oldest  son,  graduated 
from  Jones's  Commercial  College,  in  St.  Louis,  and  is  now  in  the 
mercantile  business  at  Hallsville,  all  of  which  shows  the  appreciation 
of  the  Summers  family  for  education  and  liaarning.  Mr.  Summers, 
wife  and  three  daughters  are  members  of  the  Christian  church,  the 
former  having  been  a  member  for  twenty-one  years  and  Mrs.  S.  for 
over  thirty  years.  Mr.  S.  was  in  the  late  civil  war  about  one  year, 
and  served  under  Gen.  Price,  participating  in  the  battles  of  Lexing- 
ton, Dry  Wood  and  Pea  Ridge.  His  grandfather  was  also  a  soldier, 
and  did  service  in  the  war  of  1812,  under  Gen.  Harrison.  Mr.  Sum- 
mers owns  240  acres  of  land,  about  170  of  which  he  has  improved 
into  a  comfortable  home.  He  is  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school  in 
point  of  liberality  and  charity,  and  his  many  generous  acts  are  re- 
membered in  grateful  recognition  by  the  recipients. 

JOHN   TOALSON. 

This  gentleman  is  a  native  of  old  Boone,  born  December  18,  1816, 
when  Boone  formed  a  part  of  Howard  county.  John  is  the  son  of 
William  and  Mary  Toalson,  the  former  a  native  of  Virginia,  but  both 
reared  in  Kentucky.  After  his  marriage,  the  father  moved  to  Mis- 
souri, first  locating  near  Fayette,  in  Howard  county,  and  then  re- 
moving to  what  is  now  Boone  in  1816,  settling  one  mile  south  of 
where  William  Toalson  now  lives.  After  several  other  removals,  all 
in  Boone  county,  the  father  finally  settled  four  miles  north  of  Colum- 
bia, where  he  died  in  1841.  At  the  time  of  the  first  coming  of  the 
Toalsons,  Boone  county,  then  almost  an  unsettled  wilderness, 
abounded  in  wild  game  and  Indians.  John  remembers  well  the  time 
when  his  father  used  to  hunt  with  the  red  men  of  the  forest,  who 
were  for  a  long  time  perfectly  friendly  till  they  were  driven  out  by 
the  uprising  of  the  settlers,  after  having  committed  some  outrages 
that  the  pale-faces  would  not  brook.  Though  it  can  not  be  said  that 
*'  locusts  and  wild  honey  **  were  the  *'  meat  **  of  those  early  settlers, 
it  can  be  truthfully  said  that  bear's  meat  and  wild  honey  were  the 


1134  HISTORY  OP  BOONE   CX>UNTr. 

• 

chief  food  on  which  they  for  a  time  subsisted.     The  subject  of  this 
sketch,  after  receiving  a  common  school  education,  was  united  in  mat- 
rimony,  in  1844,  to  Nancy  Allen,  a  native  of  Madison  county,  Ken- 
tucky, born  July  4,  1827,  and  a  daughter  of  Temple  and  Polly  Allen^ 
who  came  to  Missouri  in  1831.     Twelve  children  were  born  to  bless 
this  union,  seven  sons  and  five  daughters,  five  of  the  former  and  three 
of  the  latter  still  surviving.     One  son  and  one  daughter  are  married 
and  living  in  the  southern  part  of  the  State.     A  son  and  a  daughter 
were  educated  at  Sweet  Springs,  Mo.,  and  still  another  son  is  tele- 
graph operator  at  Plattsburg,  Mo.     The  entire  family,  except  two  of 
the  children,  are  members  of  the  Christian  church.     Mr.  T.  and  wife 
have  been   members  of  the   Ked  Top  church  for  upwards  of  forty 
years.     Two  sons  belong  to  the  Masonic  fraternity,  one  at  Centrnlia 
and  one  at  Hallsville.     During  the  civil  war,  Mr.  Toalson  was  for  a 
short  time  in  the  Confederate  service,  and  participated  in  the  fights  at 
Dry  Wood  and  Lexington.     He  owns  217  acres  of  land,  160  acres 
improved,  and  well  adapted  to  producing  all  the  cereals  of  this  cli- 
mate.    Mr.  T.  is  now  nearly  sixty-five  years  old,  having  spent  the 
most  of  his  time  right  here  in  Boone.     He  has  four  children  still  liv- 
ing with  him  to  comfort  and  to  cheer  the  declining  years  of  that 
father  who  has  endured  toil  and  hardship  that  they,  his  children^ 
might  enjoy  the  fruits  of  his  labor. 

JOHN    DODRIDGE    WILLIAMS 

Was  born  in  Boone  county,  Missouri,  March  30th,  1830.  His  father^ 
Isaac,  and  his  mother,  Dorcas  Williams,  were  natives  of  Pennsylva- 
nia, but  came  to  this  State  at  an  early  day  and  settled  in  Kocky  Fork 
township,  this  county,  two  miles  from  where  John  D.  now  lives.  His 
father  and  uncle  were  in  the  war  of  1812,  under  Com.  Perry,  serving 
till  their  discharge  at  the  close  of  hostilities.  It  was  by  **  laying" 
the  land  warrant  given  his  father  by  government,  that  Mr.  Williams 
got  possession  of  the  farm  on  which  he  first  settled,  on  Young's  creek. 
John  was  reared  on  a  farm,  and,  in  1850,  married  Miss  Eliza  Williams, 
daughter  of  Elder  James  Williams.  She  was  bom  in  this  county,  July 
6th,  1831.  They  have  three  children,  and  two  deceased.  Samuel  L, 
Williams,  their  son,  was  educated  at  the  University  in  Columbia. 
Soon  after  his  marriage,  Mr.  Williams  located  on  a  farm  two  miles 
east  of  Columbia,  where  he  lived  till  1862,  when  he  moved  to  the 
place  of  his  present  residence,  in  Kocky  Fork.  Mr.  W.  and  wife 
have  been  members  of  the  Christian  church  for  many  years,  and  he 


HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY.  1135 

has  served  as  deacon.  They  saw  some  exciting  scenes  during  the 
war,  among  which  was  the  killing  of  Dr.  Angell  by  the  Federals,  right 
at  Mr.  Williams's  gate.  Mr.  W.  owns  a  farm  of  142  acres,  well  im- 
proved, and  in  a  good  state  of  cultivation. 


CHAPTER    XXni. 

BOONE  COUNTY  LIVE  STOCK  INTERESTS. 

CaiiU,  Fielding  W.  Smith's  Herd  — Forest  Park  Herd  — Estes'  Greenwood  Farm — 
Glenwood  Farm  —  Eagle  Park  Herd  —  Horses,  The  Kinloch  Stud  of  J,  Lucas  Turner — 
J.  C.  Stice's  Stud— J.  S.  Croswhite-  C.  B.  Hulen  — 5A«ep.  McQuitty's  Flock— Bass** 
Flock.  ^ 

By  special  request  of  some  of  the  citizens  of  the  county  interested 
in  stock  growing  and  breeding,  1>he  subjoined  department  on  the  stock 
interests  is  added  to  the  history,  for  the  information  and  benefit  of  any 
and  all  persons  who  take  an  interest  in  or  derive  a  profit  from  this  great 
department  of  Western  production.  It  is  the  purpose  in  the  following 
article  to  give  names  and  location  of  breeders,  the  kind  of  stock  han- 
dled, with  pedigree,  etc.,  of  the  finer  class  of  animals;  it  being  un- 
necessary in  this  department  to  give  adaptability  of  climate  and 
surroundings  to  the  breeding  of  particular  kinds  of  stock,  that  having 
been  generally  set  forth  in  the  general  history  department.  Boone  as 
a  stock  county  and  Boone  county  men  as  stock-men  are  perhaps  as 
widely  known  as  any  in  this  State,  the  agricultural  fairs  in  Central 
Missouri  being  never  without  a  creditable  representation  from  Boone. 

CATTLE. 

jP.  W.  Smith's  Hey'd. — Forelnost  among  the  most  successful  im- 
porters and  breeders  of  fine  cattle  is  Mr.  Fielding  W.  Smith,  of  Perche 
township,  near  Woodlandville.  Previous  to  1879  Mr.  Smith  was  a 
breeder  of  short-horns,  but  having  heard  of  the  merit  of  the  Herefords 
over  other  breeds,  he  determined  to  test  the  matter  for  himself.  Ac- 
cordingly, at  the  St.  Louis  Fair,  of  1879,  he  purchased  of  T.  L.  Miller 
the  Hereford  bull  calf,  Dictator,  1989,  then  ten  months  old.  The 
offspring  of  this  bull  from  short-horn  and  high-grade  cows  proved  to 
be  of  the  most  thrifty  and  satisfactory  kind,  both  as  to  proportions  and 
rapid  and  healthy  growth  ;  and  Mr.  Smith  readily  found  sale  for  his 


1136  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

bull  calves  from  Dictator  at  eighty  dollars  each.  ^  In  the  spriug  of 
1881  Mr.  Smith  went  to  Beecher,  Illinois,  to  view  the  Hereford  herd 
of  Mr.  Miller,  just  after  the  arrival  of  his  large  importation  fromEog- 
l.ind.  He  was.  much  pleased  with  the  herd,  and  purchased  three  cows 
( with  calf)  and  one  heifer  calf  for  $2,000.  The  same  year  he  had  an 
increase  from  them  of  two  heifers  and  one  bull  calf.  There  will  be  a 
further  increase  this  year  (1882),  all  of  which  will  be  from  sire  Dic- 
tator. This  proves  the  Hereford  cows  to  be  good  breeders,  and  the 
manner  in  which  calves  thrive  shows  them  to  be  excellent  nursers. 
Tftey  are  easy  feeders,  laying  on  flesh  rapidly,  and  when  slaughtered 
their  beef  is  very  choice.  They  have  thick  hides,  protecting  them 
well  in  both  >vinter  and  summer.  Dictator  is  a  red  bull  with  white 
face,  calved  November,  22,  1878  ;  bred  by  T.  L,  Miller,  Beecher,  Illi- 
nois. His  sire  was  Seventy-six  (American  Herd  Book,  1093),  and 
his  dam  was  Victoria  (American  Herd  Book,  1053). 

Mr.  Smith's  fine  Hereford  cow.  Countess  9th,  is  a  red,  with  white 
face,  animal,  calved  May  2,  1877,  bred  by  T.  Middleton,  Shropshire, 
England.  She  was  sired  by  Baron  4th  (English  Herd  Book,  4326), 
and  her  dam  was  Countess  6th  (Eng.  H.  B.).  A  further  pedigree  of 
these  superior  animals  may  be  found  in  the  American  and  English 
Herd  Books. 

Mr.  Smith  sold  one  bull  calf  at  a  good  price  in  the  summer  of  1882, 
leavincj  his  herd  of  Herefords  numbering  eight.  He  has  of  short- 
horns and  grades  about  fifty  head  of  as  fine  cattle  as  any  in  the  West. 
Besides  his  cattle  interests.  Mi'.  S.  is  also  a  breeder  of  fine  Cot^wold 
sheep,  but  no  pedigrees  or  other  particulars  hitve  been  furnished. 

Forest  Park  Herd.  —  This  famous  herd  is  owned  by  H.  T.  Curtright 
&   Sons,  who   are  located  on  Forest  Park  farm,  six  miles  southeast  of 
Columbia,  near  Bonne  Femnie  church,  on  the  gravel  road  to  Ashland. 
Mr.  Curtright  moved  there  in  1855,  and  brought  with  him  from  Bour- 
bon county,  Kentucky,  fourteen   head  of  short-horn  cattle,  including 
Bolingbroke,    7596,  bred  by  Abe  Renick,  of  Kentucky,  and  also  the 
imported  cow  Amazon,  by  New    Market  (10563),  perhaps  the  finest 
imported  cow  ever  brought  to  the  State.     She  was  a  noble  animal,  and 
produced  four  bulls  before  becoming  barren.     Mr.  C.  sold  her  to  Maj. 
Jenkins  for  $1,000.     He  continued  to  breed  on  a  limited  scale  till  i-e- 
cently,  when  he  associated  his  sons  with  him  and  enlarged  his  herd 
with  some  fine  breeds,  among  which  are  Rose   of   Sharons,   Young 
Marys,  Belinas,  Red  Roses,   Rubies  and  other  noted  families.     These 
are  being  bred  to  Grand  Duke  of  Sharon,  owned  by  Parker  &  Co., 


HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1137 

and  one  of  the  best  bulls  ever  bred  by  the  famous  old  breeder,  Abe 
Renick.  For  thirty  years  Mr.  C.  has  been  breeding  Cotswold  sheep, 
and  for  eight  years  has  been  importing  from  Canada,  the  largest  num- 
ber for  any  one  year  being  223  head.  Mr.  Curtrightis  wholly  enrapt 
in  the  business  of  breeding,  and  will  doubtless  live  and  die  a  producer 
of  short-horns  and  long  wool,  preferring  that  to  any  other  vocation. 

Joseph  Estes's  Greenwood  Fai^m.  —  This  stock-farm  is  located  four 
miles  east  of  Columbia,  and  its  energetic  proprietor  has  done  his  full 
share  towards  improving  the  stock  of  the  county.  Mr.  Estes  has 
been  a  breeder  of  short-horn  cattle  and  Berkshire  hogs  for  twenty 
years,  bringing  some  choice  breeders  of  the  fgrmer  from  Kentucky, 
in  1853,  '55  and  '56.  Also  again  in  1869,  and  as  late  as  1874,  he 
made  importations  of  such  animals  as  the  bull,  Duke  of  Stoner, 
A.  H.  B.,  6691,  sired  by  Clifton  Duke,  3760,  dam  Bride  Third,  by 
imported  Duke  of  Airdrie,  E.  H.  B.,  12730,  tracing  to  imported 
Rose  by  Skipton.  His  Fourteenth  Duke  of  Goodness,  A.  H.  B., 
13949,  was  sired  by  thai  noted  Duke  bull,  Fourteenth  Duke  of 
Thorndale,  A.  H.  B.,  8031 ;  dam.  Seventh  Duchess  of  Goodness,  by 
Duke  of  Airdrie,  2743,  tracing  to  imported  Goodness  by  Orontes, 
E.  H.  B.,  4623  ;  also  Col.  Cook,  bred  by  W.  A.  Cook,  and  sired  by  im- 
ported John  O'Gaunt,  A.  H.  B.,  11621 ;  dam  Magnolia.  Among  Mr. 
Estes*  fine  cows  were  Lady  Franklin  Third,  by  Grand  Duke,  A.  H.  B., 
2933  ;  Fourth  Duchess  of  Goodness,  by  impoiled  Duke  of  Airdrie 
(12730);  Goodness  Fifth,  sired  by  Duncan's  Duke  of  Airdrie, 
A.  H.  B.,  2743,  dam  Goodness  Fourth,  by  Orontes,  A.  H.  B.,  4210. 
Mr.  Estes  has  had  several  other  fine  pedigreed  animals  in  his  importa- 
tions, from  which  his  present  Greenwood  herd  is  descended.  At  this 
time,  his  herd  numbers  twenty-five,  at  the  head  of  which  is  Phil 
Chew  (A.  H.  B.  44551,  S.  H.  R.  7779)  are  among  the  finest  sires 
in  the  State.  Mr.  Estes  has  raised  and  sold  one  hundred  head  of  these 
fine  breeders,  and  his  chief  pride  is  in  his  superb  live  stock. 

Glennwood  Farm.  —  This,  one  of  the  finest  stock  farms  in  Boone, 
is  located  at  the  head  of  Two-mile  prairie,  ten  miles  from  Columbia, 
and  is  owned  by  Mr.  R.  P.  Glenn.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  informa- 
tion from  his  herds  has  been  so  meagerly  supplied.  Mr.  Glenn  keeps 
about  thirty  head  of  fine  short-horn  breeders,  besides  a  flock  of  the 
finest  Cotswold  sheep,  and  a  supply  of  pure  Berkshire  hogs.  In  1871 
he  imported  five  cows  and  a  bull  from  Mason  county,  Kentucky,  bought 
of  Robert  I^age,  and  he  purchased  of  A.  Beich  cows  got  by  Duke  of 
Mason  and  bred  by  Mr.  Abe  Renick.  They  are  of  the  Cambria  and 
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1138  HISTORY   OP   BOONE   COUNTY. 

Harriet  families.  The  last  bull  Mr.  Glenn  has  used  in  his  herd  ia 
Pearl  Duke,  sired  by  Lord  of  the  Manor,  bred  by  mil  &  Taylor,  of 
Paris,  Kentucky.  Mr.  Glenn  raises  and  feeds  from  fifty  to  one  hun- 
dred head  of  mules  every  year.  He  keeps  always  on  hand  a  lot  of 
high  grade  cows. 

*^JEagle  Park*^  Herd  of  Jerseys  —  Is  a  prominent  feature  in  the 
live  stock  interests  of  Boone  county.  This  herd,  .the  property  of 
Gen.  O.  Guitar,  is  located  on  his  stock  and  dairy  farm,  *«  Eagle  Park,'* 
one  mile  south  of  Columbia,  and  adjoining  the  State  Agricultural 
farm,  and  consists  of  forty  females  and  five  bulls.  The  foundation 
of  this  collection  is  the  prize  herd  of  imported  cows  exhibited  by 
Messrs.  Churcham  &  Jackson,  of  Indianapolis,  at  the  St.  Louis  Fair, 
in  1878,  where,  in  competition  with  nine  other  selected  herds 
from  six  different  States,  they  bore  off  the  great  herd  prize,  although 
there  was  not  a  cow  in  the  lot  above  three  \'ears  old.  These  animals 
were  selected  on  the  Island  of  Jersey,  by  Mr.  Jackson,  aided  by  the 
superior  judgment  of  Mr.  Mackie,  president,  and  Mr.  Waring,  sec- 
retary of  the  American  Jersey  Cattle  Club,  and  no  cai'e  or  expense  was 
j  spared  in  securing  the  finest  specimens  of  the  breed  that  Island  could 

afford.  To  this  herd  Gen.  Guitar  has  added  from  time  to  time  fifteen 
other  females,  drawn  from  the  best  herds  in  the  country,  and  of  the 
most  noted  strains  of  blood,  and  some  of  these  cows  were  in  the 
prize  herd  at  St.  Louis  in  1877.  These  animals  and  their  produce 
constitute  the  present  herd.  Among  the  great  prize  cows  may  be  men- 
tioned Valentine  of  Trinity,  dam  Milkmaid  3d,  No.  4,  J.  H.  B.  ; 
sire  Duke  76,  ])cing  half-sister  to  Grey  King,  sire  of  Farmer's  Glory, 
being  the  granddaughter  of  Milkmaid  95,  J.  H.  B.,  she  being  the 
g.  g.  dam  of  Coomassie.  This  cow  is  a  16-pound  cow,  and  is  be« 
lieved  to  combine  a  richer  admixture  of  blood  than  any  other  cow 
on  the  continent.  This  cow  can  hardly  be  called  exceptional  in  the 
herd,  as  there  are  many  others  of  blood  and  lineage  almost  as  itcL. 
There  is  imported  Princess  2d,  dam  Princess,  sire  Noble,  104,  J.  H.  B. 
The  same  blood  of  Princess  sold  recently  for  $4,800,  the  highest 
price  ever  paid  for  a  Jersey  cow.  This  cow  has  a  daughter  now  three 
years  old,  by  Lebrony's  Prize,  a  very  gem,  making  twelve  pounds 
of  butter  at  three  years  old.  In  addition,  there  are  three  other  im- 
ported cows,  tracing  to  Neptune  and  other  distinguished  sires,  and 
six  cows  descended  from  Corona,  1796,  by  Potomac,  153,  all  of  them 
solid  calvers,  and  of  the  highest  butter  qualities.  The  bulls  now- 
used  in  the  herd  are  the  prize  bulls  imported  Knight  of  St,  Louis^ 


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HISTORY   OF   BOONE   COUNTY.  1139 

sired  by  a  grandson  of  Coomassiey  his  sons  Crown  Prince,  out  of 
Princess  by  Noble,  and  Alphero,  tracing  through  his  grandsire  Polo- 
nius  to  Alphea,  and  through  his  granddani  Couch* s  Lily  to  Pansy, 
It  is  admitted  on  all  hands  that  three  such  specimens  of  their  race, 
combining  such  rare  and  varied  blood,  are  not  to  be  found  on  the  con- 
tinent. In  addition  to  the  prizes  already  referred  to.  Gen.  Guitar 
took  the  great  herd  prize  at  the  St.  Louis  Fair  in  1880,  the  herd 
being  headed  by  the  Knight  of  St.  Louis.  There  were  many  very  fine 
herds  in  competition  from  different  States,  and  among  them  one  gotten 
up  expressly  for  show*^  and  advertising  purposes  by  H.  S.  Cooper, 
of  Pennsylvania,  headed  by  the  bull  Chelton  Diike.  This  victory  was 
won  at  the  hands  of  a  unanimous  committee.  Gen.  Guitar's  arrange- 
ments for  breeding  and  dairy  purposes  are  all  modern,  and  his  butter 
brings  the  highest  prices  in  the  market.  He  has  offered  no  females 
for  sale  yet,  desirous  to  breed  his  herd  up  to  fifty  productive  cows. 
He  is  breeding  bulls,  however,  of  the  highest  type  of  their  breed. 
His  herd  is  an  honor  to  the  county,  and  a  most  valuable  acquisition 
to  the  *<  Great  West"  and  its  results  will  be  found  interwoven  with 
the  future  history  of  the  great  dairy  interests  of  the  West. 

HORSES. 

The  Kinloch  Stud. — The  Kinloch  stud  is  located  near  Columbia, 
and  is  the  property  of  Mr.  J.  Lucas  Turner,  whose  imported  Athlete 
is  the  lord  of  the  harem.  He  is  a  chesnut  horse,  15.2  hands  high, 
was  foaled  in  1872,  is  by  Gladiateur,  dam  Kose  of  Kent,  by  Kingston, 
second  dam  England's  Beauty  (dam  of  Silver  Hair,  the  dam  of  Silvio, 
who  won  both  Derby  and  St.  Leger  in  1877),  by  Irish  Birdcatcher  out 
of  Prairie  Bird,  by  Touchstone,  etc.  Gladiateur  the  sire  of  Athlete,  is 
the  only  horse  that  ever  won  the  Two  Thousand  Guineas,  Derby,  St. 
Legar  and  Grand  Prix  de  Paris.  Athlete  was  bred  by  the  great 
Blenkiron  at  the  Middle  Park  stud,  Eltham,  Kent,  England.  He  is  a 
fine  horse,  of  good  shape,  and  from  his  breeding  his  colts  ought  to  be 
winners,  and  should  make  a  mark  in  Missouri,  for  which  its  future 
citizens  will  owe  an  eternal  debt  of  gratitude  to  the  enterprise  shown 
by  Mr.  Turner  in  his  purchase. 

The  matrons  of  the  Kinloch  stud  cannot  be  excelled  in  blood  and 
racing  lineage.  Barbary  (dam  of  Robert  Bruce,  a  prominent  candi- 
date for  the  Kentucky  Derby  in  1882)  is  a  brown  mare,  foaled  in 
1874,  by  imp.  Bonnie  Scotland,  dam  Tallulah,  by  Planet;  second 
4am  Mazurka  (dam  of  Zoo-Zoo),  by  Lexington  out  of  Miss  Morgan, 


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1140  HISTORY  OP  BOONE   COUNTY. 

by  imp.  Yorkshire,  etc.  Barbary  foaled  March  8, 1882,  a  brown  filly, 
by  Rhadamauthus,  and  has  stinted  to  imp.  Athlete.  Bryonia,  dam  of 
Bessie  Belle,  is  a  bay  mare,  foaled  in  1873,  by  Jack  Malone,  dam 
Arnica,  by  Asteroid;  second  dam  Iodine  (own  sister  to  Martha 
Dunn),  by  imp.  Sovereign ;  third  dam  by  Stockholder,  son  of  Sir 
Archy.  Bryonia,  has  stinted  to  imp.  Athlete.  Engenia  is  a  chestnut 
mare,  foaled  in  1869,  by  Jack  Malone ;  first  dam,  a  Shark  mare«  by 
Tilghman  (son  of  Hannibal  by  imp.  Priam  and  Prunella  by  imp. 
Priam)  ;  second  dam.  Fleet,  by  Shark  (son  of  Am.  Eclipse)  out  of 
Ariadne,  by  Bertrand.  Eugenia  foaled  a  chestnut  filly  April  22,  1882, 
by  Bold  Tom,  son  of  Tom  Bowling,  and  has  stinted  to  imp. Athlete. 

Eurydice  is  a  brown  mare,  foaled  in  1876,  by  imp.  Leamington, 
sire  of  Iroquois,  who  won  the  English  Derby  in  1881 ;  dam  Maud,  by 
imp.  Australian,  second  dam  Martha  Buford,  by  Wagner  out  of  Cub, 
by  Modoc,  etc.  Eurydice  has  stirBed  to  imp.  Athlete.  Sally  EJdwards 
is  a  bay  mare,  foaled  in  1874,  by  Panic  (son  of  imp.  Glencoe),  dam 
Optima  (dam  of  Peru),  by  imp.  Knight  of  St.  George;  second  dam 
Glenluce,  by  imp.  Glencoe;  third  dam  by  Am.  Eclipse,  etc.  Sally 
Edwards  is  with  foal  by  Eland  (son  of  Jack  Malone).  She  will  be 
put  to  imp.  Athlete.  Volante  is  a  brown  mare,  foaled  in  1872,  by 
Vandal,  dam  Belladonna,  by  Brown  Dick ;  second  dam  Anodyne,  by 
imp.  Albion,  out  of  Ann  Chase  (sister  to  Sarah  Bladen,  Jennie  Breeze, 
and  others),  by  imp.  Leviathan,  etc.  Volante  foaled,  April  10,  1882, 
a  bay  filly,  by  Khadamanthus,  and  has  been  put  to  imp.  Athlete. 
Arcadia  is  a  chestnut  mare,  foaled  in  1876,  by  John  Morgan,  dam 
Sally  Crow,  by  imp.  Albion ;  second  dam  Ann  Chase  (sister  to 
Sarah  Bladen,  Jennie  Breeze  and  others),  by  imp.  Leviathan,  out  of 
Morgiana  (sister  to  Jennie),  by  Pacolet,  etc.  Arcadia  is  with  foal  by 
Eland  (son  of  Jack  Malone).  She  will  be  covered  by  imp.  Athlete. 
Bazique  is  a  chestnut  filly,  foaled  in  1880,  by  imp.  Bonnie  Scotland, 
dam  Minerva,  by  John  Morgan  ;  second  dam,  Mary  Gowen  (dam  of 
John  A.  Norton),  by  Childe  Harold  ;  third  dam,  by  imp.  Priam,  etc- 

Mr.  Turner  is  exercising  sound  discretion  in  not  commencuvwith 
too  large  a  number  of  mares.  To  obtain  the  best  results  pi^iirable 
from  a  stallion  such  as  Athlete,  great  care  has  to  be  taken,  in  selecting 
mares  of  such  strains  as  will  nick  with  his  blood.  Athlete  as  a  foal 
at  foot  of  Kose  of  Kent,  in  the  Eltham  paddock,  displayed  every 
promise.  Like  West  Australian,  and  many  ^Hhers  of  the  best  horses 
of  modern  times,  Gladiateur  has  been  no  great  success  at  the  stud,  but 
it  is  believed,  that  with  a  careful  choice  of  his  mares,  he  is  yet  destined 


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to  shine  through  Athlete  in  the  same  way  that  West  Australian  has 
in  the  United  States  done  through  Australian,  Faugh-a-Ballagh 
through  Leamington,  and  King  Tom  through  his  son,  Phaeton. 

John  (7.  8t%ce  —  Located  on  his  farm  near  Dripping  Spring,  in  Per- 
che  township,  has  paid  considerable  attention  to  draft-stock  breeding. 
In  about  1874  he  purchased  a  fine^  two  year  old  stallion  from  John 
Pollard,  of  Randolph  county.  The  horse  was  one  of  great  power  and 
muscle,  of  the  Sampson-Arabian  stock,  and  stood  sixteen  hands  high 
at  two  years  old.  The  dam  was  a  Whip  and  Morgan,  brought  from 
Kentucky.  About  a  year  later  he  bought  a  fine  Illinois  jack,  which 
proved  to  bo  a  fine  breeder,  and  was  sire  to  some  of  the  best  mules  in 
the  county.  After  thoroughly  testing  the  breeding  qualities  of  these 
animals  to  the  satisfaction  of  every  one,  he  disposed  of  them  and  pur- 
chased a  coal-black  stallion  sixteen  and  a  half  hands  high,  and  four 
years  old,  weighing  sixteen  hundred  pounds.  The  horse  had  a  fine 
carriage  and  style  generally.  He  was  ^ired  by  Rattler  Morgan,  and 
he  by  Green  Mountain  Black  Ha^vk,  his  dam  by  Old  Highlander,  and 
her  dam  by  Messenger  GriKnd  Duke,  and  he  by  Cherokee,  also  having 
some  Norman  blood  in  him.  This  was  one  of  the  finest  colts  ever 
brought  to  Missouri.  Mr.  Stice  also  purchased  of  A.  Winn,  of  Boone 
county,  a  fine  young  jack,  bred  by  Mr.  Winn  from  stock  that  has 
never  been  surpassed  for  style,  bone  and  muscle.  He  shows  fine 
colts,  some  of  which  are  premium  stock.  Mr.  Stice  has  always  made 
a  practice  of  giving  premiums  on  the  best  colts  sired  by  his  animals, 
in  order  to  stimulate  breeders  to  take  good  care  of  stock,  thereby  im- 
proving the  grade  and  quality.  Mr.  Stice's  book  for  the  season  of 
1882,  shows  $1,250  booked  from  this  source.  He  has  his  farm  well 
stocked  with  good  grades  of  cattle,  hogs  and  sheep,  and  never  fails  to 
concern  himself  actively  in  behalf  of  stock  improvement. 

i.  S.  Croswhite  —  Of  the  vicinity  of  Sturgeon,  owns  one  of  the  best 
saddle  stallions  ever  brought  from  Kentucky.  Montrose  is  a  mahog- 
any bay,  sixteen  hands  high,  and  pretty  as  a  picture.  He  is  of  fine 
blood,  being  sired  by  Gay's  Demnark,  and  he  by  Gaines's  Denmafek, 
son  of  the  famous  racer  Dei^jffk ;  1st  dam  by  Hill's  Glencoe ;  2d 
dam  by  Postboy  ;  3d  dam  by  Jenkins'  Sir  William  ;  4th  dam  by  im- 
ported Diomede  ;  5th  dam  by  imported  St.  George ;  6th  dam  by  im- 
ported Fearnaught.  Montrose  is  a  premium  stiiUion,  and  took  the 
sweep-stakes  prize  at  Paris  in  1880,  as  the  best  saddle  stallion  of  any 
age,  and  has  also  taken  the  premium  at  the  St.  Louis  Fair,  as  best 
saddle  stallion. 


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1142  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

O.  B.  Ilulen^  —  Of  Sturgeon,  owns  a  fine  jet-black  stallion^ 
Blackbird,  sixteen  and  a  half  hands  high,  bred  and  raised  in 
Montgomery  county,  Kentucky,  and  of  the  best  *«  all  purpose" 
horses  to  be  found  anywhere.  He  is  of  the  old  Cannon  Whip  and 
Calk's  Halcorn  stock.  Mr.  Ilulen  is  also  a  great  stock  trader,  buyer 
and  shipper.  Sturgeon  is  one  of  the  most  famous  stock-shipping 
i  points  of  its  size  in  this  State,  and  Mr.  Hulen  aud  numerous  other 

dealers  there  contribute,  by  their  liberal  purchases,  to  make  it  one 
of  the  best  markets  on  that  line  of  road. 

SHEEP. 

McQuitty's  Flock, — Mr.  D.  W.  McQuitty,  of  Missouri  township, 
began  to  breed  sheep  in  1874.  He  imported  his  first  flock  of  Span- 
ish-Merinos from  Ohio  in  1877,  which  were  of  the  Atwood  &  Robin- 
son blood,  of  Vermont.  In  1882,  he  imported  a  flock  of  the  same 
blood  from  Vermont,  the  pedigrees  of  which  are  entered  in  the 
Vermont  Sheep  Register.  His  stock  buck,  Eureka,  whose  sire  was 
imported  direct  from  Spain,  was  purchased  by  Mr,  McQuitty  from  J, 
James,  of  Middlebury,  Vermont,  and  the  rest  from  S.  James  and  W. 
W.  Peet,  both  of  whom  were  breeders  of  Spanish-Merino  sheep. 
Mr.  McQuitty  makes  a  specialty  of  these  breeds,  first,  for  size; 
second,  for  constitution  ;  third,  for  length  and  fourth  for  weight  of 
wool. 

Bass's  Flock.  —  William  H.  Bass,  of  Cedar  township  (now  of 
Columbia),  brought  the  first  Southdown  sheep  to  Boone  county  in 
1855.  This  was,  perhaps,  the  first  importation  of  Southdown  into 
this  State. 

It  is  not  pretended  that  this  brief  chapter  is  anything  like  a  full 
statement  of  the  live-stock  interests  of  this  county ;  but  it  embodies 
such  an  outline  as  could  be  gleaned  from  the  meagre  notes  furnished. 
Many  persons  were  written  to  in  various  parts  of  the  county  who  did 
not  respond,  consequently  they  cannot  complain  because  no  mention 
is  made  of  their  stock.  Boone  is  one  of  the  best  stocked  counties  in 
Missouri,  and  comes  more  nearly  up  to  *'  old  Kentucky  "  realizations 
than  any  of  her  sisters. 


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1142  HISTORY  OF   BOONE   COUNTY. 

(7.  B.  Hulen^  —  Of  Sturgeon,  owns  a  fine  jet-black  stallion. 
Blackbird,  sixteen  and  a  half  hands  high,  bred  and  raised  in 
Montgomery  county,  Kentucky,  and  of  the  best  ««  all  purpose" 
horses  to  be  found  anywhere.  He  is  of  the  old  Cannon  Whip  and 
Calk's  Halcorn  stock.  Mr.  Hulen  is  also  a  great  stock  trader,  buyer 
and  shipper.  Sturgeon  is  one  of  the  most  famous  stock-shipping 
points  of  its  size  in  this  State,  and  Mr.  Hulen  and  numerous  other 
dealers  there  contribute,  by  their  liberal  purchases,  to  make  it  one 
of  the  best  markets  on  that  line  of  road. 

SHEEP. 

McQuitty^s  Flock,  — Mr.  D.  W.  McQuitty,  of  Missouri  township, 
began  to  breed  sheep  in  1874.  He  imported  his  first  flock  of  Span- 
ish-Merinos from  Ohio  in  1877,  which  were  of  the  Atwood  &  Robin- 
son blood,  of  Vermont.  In  1882,  he  imported  a  flock  of  the  same 
blood  from  Vermont,  the  pedigrees  of  which  are  entered  in  the 
Vermont  Sheep  Register.  His  stock  buck,  Eureka,  whose  sire  was 
imported  direct  from  Spain,  was  purchased  by  Mr.  McQuitty  from  J, 
James,  of  Middlebury,  Vermont,  and  the  rest  from  S.  James  and  W. 
W.  Peet,  both  of  whom  were  breeders  of  Spanish-Merino  sheep. 
Mr.  McQuitty  makes  a  specialty  of  these  breeds,  first,  for  size ; 
second,  for  constitution  ;  third,  for  length  and  fourth  for  weight  of 
wool. 

Bass's  Flock.  —  William  H.  Bass,  of  Cedar  township  (now  of 
Columbia),  brought  the  first  Southdown  sheep  to  Boone  county  in 
1855.  This  was,  perhaps,  the  first  importation  of  Southdown  into 
this  State. 

It  is  not  pretended  that  this  brief  chapter  is  anything  like  a  full 
statement  of  the  live-stock  interests  of  this  county ;  but  it  embodies 
such  an  outline  as  could  be  gleaned  from  the  meagre  notes  furnished. 
Many  persons  were  written  to  in  various  parts  of  the  county  who  did 
not  respond,  consequently  they  cannot  complain  because  no  mention 
is  made  of  their  stock.  Boone  is  one  of  the  best  stocked  counties  in 
Missouri,  and  comes  more  nearly  up  to  **  old  Kentucky  "  realizations 
than  any  of  her  sisters. 


'  Since  deceased. 


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HISTORY   OF  BOONE   COUNTY.  1145 


LIST  OF  BOONE  COUNTY  OFFICIALS  FROM  1822  TO  1882. 

LEGISLATURE. 

State  Senators. 

1822-26.    A.  J.  Williams.  1860-64.  Samuel  A.  Young. 

1826-80.    Richard  Qentiy.  1866-60.  L.  W.  Robinson. 

1830-84.    Wm.  Jewell.  1860-62.  Charles  H.  Hardin. 

1884-88.    A.  M.  Robinson.  1862-66.  Jas.  M.  Gordon. 

1888^0.    T.  0.  Maupin.  1866-68.  Paul  Hubbard. 

1888^0.    A.  W.  Turner.  1868-72.  Jas.  S.  Rollins. 

184042.    Sinclair  Kirtley.  1872-74.  Chas.  H.  Hardin. 

1840-42.    Hiram  Philips.  1874-76.  D.  H.  Mclntyre. 

1842-46.    Tyre  Harris.  1876-78.  John  A.  Flood. 

1846-60.    Jas.  S.  Rollins.  1878-«0.  J.  A.  Hockaday. 

1880-82.  Jas.  L.  Stephens. 

Representatives  in  Legislature, 

1822-24.  Peter  Wright.  James  M.  Moss,  David  C.  Westerfleld. 

1824-26.  Peter  Wright,  John  Slack,  Thomas  W.  Conyers, 

1826-28.  Tyre  Harris,  Thomas  W.  Conyers. 

1828-80.  Sinclair  Kirtley.  Wm.  S.  Burch. 

1830-82.  John  B.  Gordon,  Wm.  S.  Burch,  D.  P.  Wilcox. 

1882-84.  John  B.  Gordon,  Tyre  Harris,  Oliver  Parker. 

1834-86.  John  B.  Gordon,  Thomas  C.  Maupin,  Sinclair  Kirtley. 

1886-88.  John  B.  Gordon,  T.  C.  Maupin,  Michael  Woods,  A.  W.  Turner. 

1888-40.  John  B.  Gordon,  D.  M.  Hickman,  J.  S.  Rollins,  Alex.  Persinger. 

1840-42.  D.  M.  Hickman,  J.  S.  Rollins,  Alex.  Persinger,  George  Knox,  Tyre  Harris. 

1841M4.  Wm.  Smith,  M.  R.  Arnold,  Wm.  Rowland. 

1844-46.  George  Knox,  Sinclair  Kirtley,  Wm.  Jewell. 

1846-50.  Wm.  F.  Switzler. 

1860-52.  Absalom  Hicks,  L.  W.  Robinson,  S.  B.  Hatton. 

1852-64.  James  M  Gordon,  Stephen  Wilhite,  D.  H.  Hickman. 

1864-66.  Jas.  S.  Rollins,  Odon  Guitar. 

1856-68.  W.  F.  Switzler,  Joseph  B.  Douglass. 

1858-60.  Odon  Guitar,  James  Harris. 

1860-62.  John  M.  Harris,  J.  M.  Gordon. 

1862-64.  Wm.  Slade,  Wm.  W.  Dodd. 

1864-66.  John  W.  Harris,  J.  M.  Gordon. 

1866-68.  Jas.  S.  Rollins,  Eollin  Lyman. 

1868-70.  F.  T.  Russell,  Tyre  Harris. 

1870-72.  A.  G.  Newman,  John  L.  Bass. 

1872-74.  Squire  Turner. 

1874-78.  W.R.  Wilhite. 

1878-82.  J.  W.KneUley. 

JUDICIAL. 

County  Court  Judges, 

1821-22.  Anderson  Woods,  Lazarus  Wilcox,  Peter  Wright 

1822-26.  Wm.  Lientz,  Lawrence  Bass. 

1826-28.  Tyre  Harris,  Wm.  Shields,  John  Henderson. 

1828-29.  Priestly  R  McBride,  Joseph  Marshall,  Wm.  Lientz. 

1829-80.  James  McClelland,  James  W.  Moss,  Wm.  Lientz. 

1880-82.  James  McClelland,  Tyre  Harris,  J.  W.  Hickam. 

1882-88.  James  McClelland,  J.  W.  Hickam,  Michael  Woods. 


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1144  HISTORY    OF   BOONE    COUNTY. 

1888-84.  Joseph  W.  Hiokam,  J.  W.  Mosa,  Michael  Woods. 

1884-86.  Michael  Woods,  J.  M.  Gordon,  Jejse  Hart 

1885-^6.  James  M.  Gordon,  Michael  Woods,  Hiram  Phillips. 

1886-88.  James  M.  Gordon,  Alex.  Persinger,  Hiram  Phillips. 

1888-40.  Hiram  Phillips,  Matthew  R.  Arnold,  Overton  Harris 

1840-42.  M.  R.  Arnold,  J.  W.  Daly,  Overton  Harris. 

1842-46.  Alex.  Persinger,  J.  W.  Daly,  Gilpin  S.  Tuttle. 

1846-^8.  Alex  Persinger,  J.  W.  Daly,  John  Vaughan. 

1868-60.  Alex.  Persinger,  J.  W.  Daly,  John  W.  Hall. 

^f  1860-62.  J.  W.  Daly,  J.  W.  Hall.  James  Arnold. 

jil      ,  1862-()3.  J.  W.  Daly,  James  Arnold,  Hiram  Phillips. 

|i  -  186a-66.  .J.  W.  Daly,  James  Arnold,  David  Gordon. 

\  1866-66.  J.  W.  Daly,  David  Gordon,  John  Berkebile. 

1866-70.  James  Arnold,  John  W.  Hall,  James  Harris. 

^>  1870-72.  James  Arnold,  James  Harris,  David  Gordon. 

1872-74.  James  Harris,  David  Gordon,  J.  T.  Batterton. 

1874-76.  J.  Y.  Batterton,  Hail  T.  Wright,  Jease  A.  Boulton. 

1876-78.  James  Harris,  J.  Y.  Batterton,  David  Pipes. 

1878-80.  David  Pipes,  James  Harris,  W.  F.  Roberts. 

1880-82.  David  Pipes,  W.  F.  Roberts,  W.  P.  Tuttle. 

r  County  Clerks. 

^  1821-60.     Warren  Woodson.  1867-69.     Warren  Woodson, 

j  1860-67.    J.  B.  Douglass.  1869-74.     Henry  N.  Cook. 

1874  to .    W.  W.  Batterton  (present  incumbent). 

Circuii  Judges, 
1819-87.    David  Todd.  1840-47.    John  D.  Leland. 

;  1887-40.    Thomas  Reynolds.  1847-62.    Wm.  A.  Hall. 

1862  to  present,  George  H.  Burckhardt. 

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Circuit  Atiomer/9, 

r  1821-24.  H.  R.  Gamble.  1862-66.  R.  T.  Prewitt 

1824-26.  Abiel  Leonard.  1866-60.  John  F.  Williams. 

1826-27.  Charles  French.  1860-62.  H.  M.  Porter. 

1827-28.  John  Wilson.  1862-64.  A.  J.  Harbison. 

1828-86.  Robert  W.  Wells.  1804-68.  W.  C.  Barr. 

1836-57.  W.  B.  Napton.  1868-72.  John  H.  Overall. 

1837-38.  Samuel  N.  Bay.  1H72-74.  Wellington  Gordon. 

['  \  1838-48.  J.  M.  Gordon.  1874-80.  Shannon  C.  Douglass. 

I  1848-62.  C.  H.  Hardin.  1880-82.  J.  DeW.  Robinson. 


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,                                                          1821-47.     Roger  North  Todd.  18»)6-74.    John  M.  Samuel. 

I  I      '                                                 1847-66.    Robert  L.  Todd.  1874-83.    W.  W.  Garth. 

Sheriffs. 

1821-22.     Overton  Harris.  1850-54.    J.  B.  Douglass. 

1822-26.    James  Barnes.  1864-68.    Jere  Orear. 

1826-80.    H.  Jamison.  1858-62.    John  M.  Samuel. 

1830-82.    T.  C.  Maupin.  1862-64.    J.  H.  Waugh. 

1882-86.    Wm.  S.  Burch.  1864-66.    J.  F.  Baker. 

1836-40.    John  S.  Martin.  1866-68.    J.  C.  Orr. 

1840-44.    F.  A.  Hamilton.  18(>8-70.    F.  D.  Evans. 

1844-48.    T.  C.  Maupin.  1870-72.    J.  C.  Orr. 

1848-60.    W.  T.  Hickmao.  1872-76.    J.  C.  Gillaspy. 

1876-82.  Josiah  W.  Stone. 

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