Audrain County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1884 (part 11 of 17)

Rev. Thomas J. Gooch

presiding elder of the M. E. Church South; residence, Mexico. Those scientists who profess to be able to find, in the workings of the general laws of nature, solutions for all the mysteries involved in its varied phenomena, and independent of any personal interposition of Providence, either past or present, would do well to direct their atten¬ tion to the fact that in all ages and countries, and among all people, men of God have been raised up to admonish their fellow-creatures of a future life, and to exhort them to a correct way of living, as a prerequisite to happiness hereafter. Whether it is a part of the Divine economy that religions are adapted to the varied conditions of peoples, and that in the wisdom of God the Christian religion is car¬ ried to a people when they are prepared to receive it : however that may be, certain it is that by some Power universal on the earth and existent in all ages, explainable only in the merciful care of a Heav¬ enly Father, men are set apart everywhere and in all times to preach the immortality of the soul, the necessity of a just and pious life, and repentance as a condition to the remission of sins. Who has accounted for this - who will attempt to account for it, but he in whom the consciousness of a personal God is inherent, and who has received the wisdom of the soul from on His;h? To others it is inexplicable, unaccountable - and the fact that it is so stands out a monumental, adamantine proof that there are souls to be saved and that this great work has not been unprovided for in the providence of God. Well, therefore, might Atterbury, considering the sanctity of the high office of the ministry, say that the " Clergy hath in all nations, and at all times been held highly venerable." In this coun¬ try, as in others, men, from time to time, have been called to preach the word of God, and here no less, indeed, perhaps to a higher degree than elsewhere, they have ever been held in high veneration, and have exerted a potent influence in shaping the lives of the people and directing the destiny of the country. The members of our clergy, as a class, have been, and are, men, who, even aside from the high character and dignity of their office, would have wielded a marked influence in the community and upon the times in which they live. A worthy representative of this highest and noblest of all the orders into which society is separated, is the subject of the present sketch, Rev. Thomas J. Gooch. A man whom Dr. Johnson would have de¬ scribed as one of " large and general mental powers," in youth he had liberal advantages to fit himself for the higher activities of life, and in young manhood became a worthy and honored member of the legal profession. But impressed with the great truths of the Christian religion, and a man in whom the sentiments of humanity and spiritu¬ ality are largely developed, he soon felt called upon to devote his life to the great work of caring for the welfare and safety of the immortal souls of his fellow-creatures. Accordingly, having previously become a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, he studied for the ministry of that church, and in due time was ordained, and entered upon the career of his great life-work. From that day to this, for a period now of nearly thirty years, he has kept his faith, and fought the good fight as a worthy representative of Paul and John, and all the good ministers of the Church of God. Thomas Jefferson Gooch was born in Denmark, Madison county, Tennessee, June 4, 1832, and was a son of David Gooch, originally of Yirgina, who removed to Tennessee in 1821, and became a successful farmer and proprietor of a large flour¬ ing and cotton mill in his adopted State. Thomas J. Gooch grew up in Tennessee and received his higher education at the West Tennessee College, which was then under the presidency of that celebrated edu¬ cator, Lorenzo Lee, of that State. Subsequent to his college course young Gooch taught school, and while teaching read law, and for which profession he was educated. In 1853 he was admitted to the bar in Tennessee, but in the meantime his mind had taken a marked religious direction, and he soon began the study for the ministry. Some six months after his admission to the practice of law, he was licensed to preach, by the M. E. Church South, and in 1865 he was ordained a deacon. Two years later he was made elder. Mr. Gooch's first pastorate was at Dresden, Tennessee, he being at the time a mem¬ ber of the Memphis Conference. He remained in that Conference until 1868, when he came to Missouri, and joined the Missouri Con¬ ference, being given charge first of the church at Columbia. The following year he went to Glasgow. In 1873 Mr. Gooch came to Mexico where he was stationed for three years, and after that he was at St. Joseph for three years. Returning to Mexico in 1879, he has been pastor of the church at this place since that time, and for the last two years lie has been presiding elder of this district. The importance of the charge which Mr. Gooch has held in this State is a conclusive evidence of his standing and ability as a minister. It is not too much to say that he is recognized as one of the ablest min¬ isters, and most sincere and zealous workers in the cause of religion in his church in this section of the State. Favored with a mind of a high order, he has devoted all his energies to the understanding of the great truths of religion, and to making them known, as he is able to see them, to his fellow-creatures. A deep thinker and earnest, untiring student, in the doctrines of his church and the general prin¬ ciples of theology he has few superiors ; while as a speaker, he is clear, forcible and eloquent. Sincere and zealous in his work, and with a marked vein of enthusiasm in his nature, he enters upon the work he has before him with that zeal and spirit which cannot fail to impress those around him ; and in the pulpit he speaks with that manifest earnestness that challenges respect and gives weight to everything he says. Becoming fully animated with the spirit of the great truths he preaches, he addresses himself to his hearers with so much energy of conviction, and eloquence and aptness of language, that he drives home to their minds and hearts the necessity of living Christian lives, and becoming humbled before the Cross of the Re¬ deemer. Few preachers in this section of the State, if indeed any, have greater force and power in the pulpit. On the 23d of Septem¬ ber, 1857, Mr. Gooch was married to Miss Sophronia Burker, formerly of South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Gooch have but one child, a daughter, Henrietta, now grown up and the wife of Mr. C. C. Vories, of Chicago. Mr. Gooch's mother was, before her marriage, a Miss Lucinda Gooch, a cousin to her husband.

Richard Graham

photographer, Mexico, and the Nestor of his profession in the city, being; now the oldest artist in this line in duration of business in the place, is a native Missourian, born May 17, 1856. His father was Joseph B. Graham, who died here in 18 - , residing, at the time of his death, in the oldest residence in Mexico. His mother was a Miss Emeline Kennon before her marriage. They came to Mexico in 1856, where the mother still resides. Richard was reared in this city, and received a good ordinary education in the schools of the place. He learned the art of photography with his brother, and worked with the latter until buying him out in 1879, since which he has continued the business alone. Mr. Graham is a thoroughly experienced artist in his line, and produces some of the best work to be seen in Mexico or throughout the surrounding coun¬ try. He is naturally a gentleman of refined sensibilities, delicate tastes, and with an eye for the harmony of colors and form, and was well calculated to make a superior artist. Indeed, he has the natural faculties for a much higher place in the department of fine arts than he now occupies, and being still a young man, only fairly entered upon his career in active life, it is not improbable that the natural inclination which led him to become a photographer may lead him on to a higher sphere of work in the field of art. Be that as it may, it is a fact well known to every one that no artist in the city can surpass him in his present field of work. His gallery is well furnished, neatly and comfortably, and supplied with every convenience and appliance necessary or of use in the production of the very highest and best style of pictures and photographs. His prices compare favorably with the most reasonable, and it being his motto to let no work leave his gallery that is not only satisfactory to his customer, but entirely so to his own accurate and artistic taste, he naturally commands a large and steadily increasing patronage. In 1879 Mr. Graham was married to Miss Florence Carson, of this city. Their only child, a bright little boy, Ralph, is deceased. Mr. Graham, personally, is a sociable, genial gentleman, upright in act and word, and doubtless so in thought, and is much esteemed as a neighbor and citizen.

George W. Hamilton

a progressive farmer and stock raiser, formerly of the Blue Grass regions of Kentucky, came to this county in 1880 and bought a fine farm known as the Rollins' place, which contains 200 acres of beauti¬ ful land and is handsomely improved. Mr. Hamilton is making a specialty of raising fine merino sheep, and now has nearly 800 head on his place, having recently brought 500 head of thoroughbred ewes from Wisconsin. Mr. Hamilton is a gentleman cf advanced education, full of enterprise, and is an enthusiast in the sheep industry. He is much pleased with Audrain county, and feels highly hopeful of his success here as a sheep raiser. That he is a valuable acquisition to the citizenship of this county goes without saying. Mr. Hamilton was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1845. His parents were James and Martha J. (Martin) Hamilton, both na¬ tives of Pennsylvania, the father of Irish descent, but the mother of Scotch ancestry. George W. was educated partly in his native State, but principally in Kentucky. After the usual preparatory course he first attended Washington-Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, and then Bethany College in Kentucky ; but he was at the latter only a short time, quitting that to enter the Eminence College, in the Blue Grass State, where he continued a student for about two years. But during this time he met a young lady that also attended the college, who was destined soon to become his wife, and thus to alter all his former plans for the future. This was Miss Felicia (a very appro¬ priate name) L. Brown, an attractive and accomplished young lady of Owen county, Kentucky. They were married April 16, 1867. Mr. Hamilton then of course had to start out to establish himself in life. He became book-keeper at East Liberty, where his wife's people lived, in Owen county, where he remained for about five years. A year after beginning as book-keeper he became partner in the stock farm under which he previously worked, and was quite successful in the accumulation of means as a stock dealer. Dissolving his connection with the stock farm, he then went to Texas and became a member of a sheep stock company, in Williams county, and engaged largely in raising Merino sheep. In 1879 Mr. Hamilton sold out his sheep in¬ terests in Texas at a handsome advance, and returned to Kentucky on a visit, after which he came to Missouri in 1880, as stated above. Mr. and Mrs. H. have six children : Georgie, Jimmie, Brownie, Bes¬ sie, Hattie and Martin. Mr. Hamilton is a member of the Masonic order.

Hon. Charles Henry Hardin

Gov. Hardin is a native of Kentucky, having been born in that State in 1820. The branch of the distinguished family of which he is a worthy and honored representative, came originally from Vir¬ ginia. Gov. Hardin's father removed from that State at an early day to Kentucky, where he lived for many years. But while the son, Charles H., was still in infancy, the father removed to Missouri, and located in Boone county where young Hardin was reared. Gov. Hardin's mother, before her marriage, was a Miss Hannah Jewell, also originally of Virginia, and a sister to Dr. William Jewell, a distinguished physician of Columbia, who became the founder of William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. Besides Charles H. there were two daughters and two sons in his parents' family, namely : Mary, now the wife of Dr. T. R. H. Smith, at present and for years past, the well known and able superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum at Fulton ; Arethusa, who became the wife of John H. Stone, an able lawyer of Central Missouri, but both of whom are now deceased ; Dr. Thomas J., who died a few years ago, and Walter, who died when about 14 years of age. Gov. Hardin's father was a man in comparatively easy circumstances, and like most of the early citizens of Columbia and Boone county, he was fully alive to the importance of education. Indeed, a taste for mental culture has ever been a marked characteristic of the Hardin family. Excellent schools, as all know, were early established at Columbia, and to these young Hardin had easy access. Of studious habits, and having little to interfere with the gratification of his in¬ clination to study, he was therefore able to prepare himself thoroughly for an advanced, or university course. From Columbia, young Hardin matriculated at the Miami University, where he was subse¬ quently graduated with distinguished honor. He received the degree of A. B., and afterwards that of A. M. His course through school and college was characterized by close application to his studies, and by that clear and practical comprehension of the principles involved in the various branches which have marked his subsequent career, not only as a lawyer, but as a student and worker in the general affairs of life. Having, long prior to his graduation, decided to devote him¬ self to the legal profession, immediately after his return to Columbia he began the study of law under the late Judge James M. Gordon, a prominent lawyer of Columbia at that time. Pursuing his studies with assiduity under Judge Gordon, in due time, in 1843, he was ad¬ mitted to the bar, and the same year he located at Fulton and entered actively upon the practice of his profession. A young man of high character and of industrious habits, he made a most favorable impres¬ sion at Fulton, and soon began to accumulate a respectable practice. Attending to his business closely, and meeting with excellent success in the trial of causes intrusted to him, his reputation as a lawyer ad¬ vanced with steady strides, and in a few years he came to be recognized as one of the safe attorneys at the Callaway bar, as well as a pleader of more than ordinary ability. Early in his career at Ful¬ ton, young Hardin was called to the office of justice of the peace, the duties of which position he filled with efficiency and with great satis¬ faction to the public. His court was generally remarked for the correctness of its decisions and the dispatch with which business was transacted. In 1844 he was married to Miss Mary B., a daughter of Theodrick Jinkins, Esq., a leading farmer and fine stock raiser of Boone county. In the conduct of his practice Mr. Hardin was faithful and laborious almost to a fault. He spared no pains in the preparation of his cases, and allowed none to go to final adjudication until he had thoroughly investigated the points in dispute, the law bearing upon the decisions of the courts, and the testimony adduced. His papers were cautiously written and were models of conciseness and legal accuracy. Though a clear, forcible speaker, he depended less on the argument of a ease than on the plain, practical, commonsense manner in which it was presented to the jury. His method ot presenting a case to the jury was to draw out every strong point on his side discoverable in the facts, and then to sum up the testimony as applicable according to the law so as to make it perfectly tangible and clear to the understanding. Thus while laying no claim to flashy oratory, by appealing to the intelligence of a jury he was far more successful than those who rely upon their ability to play upon the passions and sympathies. His eminent success at the bar, a success recognized wherever he practiced, was mainly due to his in¬ dustry and to his clear-headed common-sense methods of practice. Five years after his admission to the bar, such was the prominence to which he had risen, that he was elected prosecuting attorney for the Third Judicial Circuit, his term of office being for a period of four years, or to expire in 1852. To the discharge of the duties of this office he carried the same care, close attention and industry which had characterized his career in the general practice. It is a matter of record that during his entire four years' term no indictment of his was ever ruled against by the court, this illustrates and proves most conclusively what has been said with regard to his ability as a pleader. Few offenders escaped during his incumbency, and none through any fault of his. In 1859 he was appointed one of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum at Fulton, and for twelve years acted as one of the managers and as secretary of its board. During this time the financial affairs of the institution were managed with consummate ability. In 1852, following the close of his term as prosecuting attorney, Mr. Hardin was elected to the Legislature from Callaway county, and served that constituency with great acceptability. In the Legislature, as in his private affairs, industry, economy and promptitude marked his course. That his services were appreciated is attested by the fact that he was returned for the next term, and at the close of the ses¬ sion in 1855, was chosen by the Legislature in connection with Hon. John W. Reid, of Kansas City, and Hon. Thomas G. Richardson, of Scotland county, to revise and compile the statutes of the State. His long study and thorough acquaintance with the State laws enabled him, in connection with these gentlemen, to make a unique and systemized volume of codified laws out ot a confused and complicated mass. Mr. Hardin was selected to superintend the print¬ ing and publication of the statutes, a duty which he discharged with great credit and ability. In 1858 he was for the third time elected to the Legislature. Although these public services occupied much of his time and necessarily took him from his practice and private business, his county felt that she had large interests at stake which no one could subserve so well as he. She therefore demanded his time and labor and they were contributed freely, although detrimental to his per¬ sonal interests. In 1860, after a service of six years consecutively, in the House of Representatives, he was elected to the State Senate from the district composed of Callaway and Boone counties, and by a large majority. This was a marked evidence of the confidence which the people reposed in him and of the high appreciation they had of his ability and fidelity in the public service, for he was chosen without his solicitation, as he has ever been, to the various positions which he has filled, and in this instance barely with his consent. In the formation of the Senate committee, he was given the first position of that body, the chairmanship of the judiciary committee. The session of the Leg¬ islature which followed, as every one knows, was an exceptionally stormy and exciting one, and one requiring of each member coolness, courage and discretion. Particularly did his position call for an ex¬ ercise of these virtues, and the manner in which he conducted the af¬ fairs of the committee showed that he was eminently fitted for that position. In 1861 Mr. Hardin removed from Fulton to Mexico, where he has ever since resided. Here, for a time, he withdrew altogether from politics and devoted himself exclusively to the practice of law and the discharge of his duties as a private citizen. In these he was suc¬ cessful as he had been elsewhere, and business crowded upon him and engaged his time. Although his legal practice was large, for many years he had a vast amount of other people's business on hand, and as administrator, executor, trustee or guardian, he has wound up many large estates with satisfaction and profit to the parties interested, and credit to himself. In all these varied transactions no accusation of infidelity to his trust and no taint of dishonor stains his reputation. In 1871 Mr. Hardin retired from the practice of law, having formally years maintained a leading position at the bar. One year later he was elected to the State Senate from the district composed of Audrain, Boone and Callaway counties. Recognized as one of the ablest law¬ yers in the State, and as a legislator of long and successful experience, he was again made chairman of the judiciary committee, and in addi¬ tion to this he was made chairman of the committee on the Lunatic Asylum. The onerous duties developing upon him by virtue of these positions were discharged with his accustomed thoroughness and abil¬ ity. Such was the distinction of his services in the Senate, that he came to be regarded as one of the ablest and most faithful public men in the State. His name became prominently mentioned for the office of Governor, and although he had decided to retire from public life, when the convention met, in 1874, he was nominated tor that distin¬ guished position. Presented with this flattering testimonial of the appreciation in which he was held for his high character and executive ability, he accepted the nomination of his party and was duly elected, receiving a majority of nearly 40,000. His administration marks the inauguration of an era in which, by economy, retrenchment and reform, the credit of the State, impaired by previous recklessness and mis¬ management, was entirely restored, and her bonds from being hawked about in the market at ninety-five cents on the dollar, rose to seven per cent above par, and are to-day among the best securities known in commercial circles. It is conceded by all that his administration was one of the best, not only in point of financial management, but in the maintenance of law and order, and the general character and dignity of the Commonwealth, ever known in its history. After the expira¬ tion of his term as chief executive of the State, Gov. Hardin returned to Mexico, and has since been living in retirement, blessed with all the substantial comforts of life, and in the enjoyment of the esteem of the people. Gov. Hardin's whole life has been characterized by unceasing industry and unswerving integrity. Outside of his profession, and in business affairs, he is regarded as one of the most capable and suc¬ cessful men in the State. By economy and good management, though his habits of economy have never gone to the point of parsimony, he has accumulated a large estate. This has come to him, not that he has made the acqusition of wealth a controlling aim of life, but rather as the result of industry and economy. Gov. Hardin has long been a member of the Baptist church, and his life has been in strict accord with the faith he professes, or as nearly so as frail humanity supported by an honest heart and a clear intelligence can approach. He is a man ot large and generous charities. His connection with Hardin College, at Mexico, is known wherever the reputation of that able and successful institu¬ tion has gone. A true friend to education, and as charitable as he is liberal-minded, he was chiefly instrumental in founding the college at this city, which now bears his name. He first endowed it with nearly $40,000 in land and well secured notes, making safe provisions for the proper management of the funds for the future. After the erection of the building, etc., a sum was left which now brings to the institution in interest about $8,500 annually. Nearly two years ago Gov. Hardin made another donation to this institution amounting to $18,750 in cash. Hardin College is now one of the most flourishing and ably conducted female institutions of learning in the State, and it stands a monument to his name nobler than a column of marble and more en¬ during than a statute of bronze. Gov. Hardin and his good wife have never been blessed with children. Mrs. Hardin is a lady of great re¬ finement and superior culture, and is esteemed by a wide circle of friends, who have been drawn to her by her many excellent traits of character. Although in his sixty-fourth year, Gov. Hardin is still vigorous and well preserved. His mental faculties, strengthened by study and experience, are remarkably active, and have kept up unimpared even by the most protracted tension, his habits having ever been frugal and temperate.

Pyrrhus W. Harding

dealer in groceries, queen's-ware, wood and willow-ware, pocket and table cutlery, lamps, provisions, etc., Mexico. Mr. Harding has been engaged in his present line of business at this city since 1872, or for a period of some twelve years. This fact alone is proof con¬ clusive of the character of man he is, both as a citizen and merchant, for unless his life had been one to meet the approbation of his fellowcitizens and his business qualifications of a high order, his house, like many that he and every old citizen could name, would long since have passed into the hands of creditors. A man who can carry on business with uninterrupted success, for nearly twenty years, is one whose citizenship is not to be regarded lightly or as of little value. Of such men the business prosperity of every place is made up, and on this depends the prosperity of every other interest in a town or city. Mr. Harding has one of the best selected and neatest stocks of goods in the city, and being thoroughly familiar with the wants of the trade at this place, he is able to supply to his customers, and at the lowest prices the state of the markets will allow, exactly the goods they desire. This thorough knowledge of the trade is one of the principal reasons of his success in business. Mr. Harding is a native of Indiana, born in Hendricks county, August 31, 1844. His parents were Aaron B. and Hannah (Payne) Harding, the father originally of Kentucky, but the mother formerly of Ohio. When Pyrrhus W. was a lad six years of age his parents removed to Illinois and settled in Jasper county, where the son grew to manhood, and continued until 1867, at which time he came to Mexico. In the year 1867 Mr. Harding was married to Miss Mary J. Harding, also originally of

Indiana. They have four children: Charles O., William A., Orestes W. and Eddie C. During the war Mr. Harding served three years in the Union army, being a member of Company E, of the 97th Illi¬ nois Infantry. Mr. H. is a member of the A. O. U. W., and Select Knights A. O. U. W. order, and of the Knights of Honor and Sons of Temperance. He and wife are both members of the Christian Church.

Andrew M. Harrison

manufacturer of brick, Mexico. Mr. Harrison, one of the largest brick manufacturers of Mexico, if indeed not the largest, and one of its well respected and public-spirited citizens, is a representative of that old and highly esteemed family, whose name he bears, so promi¬ nently represented in this history. A sketch of the Harrison family is given in connection with a review of the life of John B. Harrison, which appears on another page of this work ; so that it is unnecessary to dwell here on the antecedents of the family. Mr. Harrison, the subject of this sketch, was a son of Abner and Mary (Ellis) Harri¬ son, both originally of Virginia. They came to Missouri in an early day, and lived here until their death, the mother dying July 22, 1844, but the father surviving until the 22d of July, 1877. Andrew M. Harrison was born in Montgomery county, Missouri, February 7, 1842, and when four years of age the family removed to St. Charles county, but finally settled in the Kingdom of Callaway. Andrew M. learned the brick-maker's trade at Fulton, and afterwards came to Mexico, where he has since resided. On the 15th of October, 1878, Mr. Harrison was married to Miss Louella Green, of Macon county, Missouri. She was born August 19, 1855. They have two children : Paul and Luke. Mr. Harrison has been engaged in the brick business at Mexico for many years, and that has been the means of his success in life. He now works about twenty-five hands, and manufactures annually an average of two million brick. Having had a long expe¬ rience in this line, it goes without saying that he is master of his business, and has brought the manufacture of brick to such a degree of perfection that his brick have acquired a very high reputation in the market, and are sought after by all intelligent builders and buyers in preference to those of any other yard throughout the surrounding country. Mr. Harrison is a worthy member of the Knights of Honor, and of the Mutual Life Insurance Association. He and wife are also members of the Methodist Church South.

John B. Harrison

farmer and stock raiser. The Harrison family is one of the oldest and most distinguished in this country, and its ancestry in England is not less eminent and honorable. U. S. Senator Harrison, of Indiana, a son of President William Henry Harrison, of that State, or " Old Tippecanoe," as he was called, traces his lineage back to one of the noble families of England, and has adopted the historic coat-of-arms of his family, in that country. John B. Harrison, the subject of the present sketch, is a fourth cousin to Senator Harrison by their respective agnate lines of descent, and of course has the same right to assume the coat-of-arms which Senator Harrison has adopted. Mr. Harrison's father and President Harrison had the same second great-grandfather, that is, their great-grandfathers, Thomas and Benjamin Harrison, were brothers. There were three of these brothers, John being the other and the eldest. Thomas was the youngest of the three. From Benjamin Harrison (all three of the brothers being natives of England, where they lived and died) came Benjamin, Jr., and Robert Harrison, both of whom came to America, the first settling in Virgina and the second in Maryland. From the Virginia Benjamin came the Hon. Ben. Harrison of that State, a signer of the Declara¬ tion of Independence ; and from him came William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States; and from him Senator Ben. Harrison, now representing, in part, Indiana in the U. S. Senate. From the Maryland Robert Harrison came Gov. Robert Harrison of that State, who was Chief Justice of Maryland, and declined the appoint¬ ment of Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, recognized in history as one of the ablest jurists America ever produced ; his descendants are prominent in public life in Maryland and several of the other States. Now, from Thomas Harrison, the youngest of the three English brothers mentioned above, came John Harrison (John's mother being Hannah Morrinson, also of England), as well as five brothers, Benjamin, Thomas, Jr., Samuel, Daniel and James, all of whom came to America, and likewise settled in Maryland. From John Harrison, the eldest of these brothers, descended the subject of this sketch ; John Harrison became a captain in the colonial army during the Revolution ; his second brother, Thomas, became a colonel in the army during the same war; the other four were killed in the colonial army during that struggle, but each left families. Capt. John Harrison married Miss Malone, of Maryland, and afterwards settled in Bottetourt county, Virginia ; he had six sons : Thomas, Samuel, John, Benjamin, Daniel and James. Col. Thomas Harrison, mentioned above, also removed to Virginia where he became very wealthy and died unmarried, leaving his estate to Thomas Harrison, Jr., the eldest son of his brother, Capt. John Harrison. This Thomas Harrison, Jr., married Margaret Billops, of Virginia, and many years afterwards, in 1819, came to Missouri, and settled on the Boone's Lick road, in Callaway county, where he died July 3, 1840, in his seventyfifth year ; he and his first wife (Margaret Billops), for he was married three times, were the grandparents of John B. Harrison, our subject. By his first marriage, Thomas Harrison, Jr. (the grandfather), reared eight children : Edward, John, Thomas, Samuel, James (Judge James Harrison, of Audrain county, the father of John B.), Elizabeth, Sarah and Polly ; his second son, John, married Mary Crockett of the well known Crockett family, and came to Missouri in 1817, settling on Harrison's branch, in Callaway county, two years afterwards, where he subsequently died, leaving a family of five sons and two daughters ; he was a brave soldier in the War of 1812, and by his gallantry, rose to the rank of major. Thomas Harrison, the next brother to Major John Harrison, married Sarah Potts, of Virginia, settling on Harrison's branch, in Callaway county, in 1819, where he subsequently died, leaving three sons and four daughters. Thomas Harrison, Jr.'s (the nephew of Col. Thomas Harrison of Revolution¬ ary fame, mentioned above), second wife was formerly Nancy Crawley, of Virginia; they had three children, two daughters and a son; his third wife was Jane Childress - they had tvvo sons and two daughters ; all these children subsequently married and settled in different States. Now, Judge James Harrison (the father of John B.) the son of Thomas Harrison, Jr., mentioned above, by Margaret Billops, came to Missouri with his brother in 1819 and settled finally in Audrain county, in 1830, where he lived to an honored old age, reaching his eightieth year, dying in 1875. He had married Rebecca Crockett, a sister to his brother's (Major John Harrison's) wife. He left twelve children: Thomas J., Samuel C., John B. (the subject of this sketch), James, William, Margaret R., Jane, Mary A., Nancy, Sarah, Virginia and Lucy. Judge James Harrison, like nearly every one of his ancient and honorable lineage, became wealthy and influential. In 1831 he was appointed judge of the county court of Audrain county, by Gov. Boggs. He was a county magistrate many years, and represented the county in the Legislature a number of terms. Now, of course, in giving an outline of the history of this family, we have only mentioned the names of a very small number of its repre¬ sentatives which might have been included with interest and value to this sketch - only such as have a direct bearing on the ancestry of our subject. Its representatives are now found dispersed over most of the States of the Union, and wherever they are settled, they almost invariably hold a respectable and esteemed position in the communities where they live. The three English brothers, mentioned above, were men of character and distinction. John was a great inventor, and devised, among other things, the celebrated sea-chro¬ nometer, for which as a mark of appreciation, the British Government voted him a gratuity of £20,000, or nearly $100,000. The other brothers were conspicuous in civil and military life. John B. Harrison, the subject of this sketch, was born in this county, March 23, 1837, and was reared on his father's farm in the county. Of course he has in¬ herited the characteristics of intelligence and enterprise which have ever distinguished his family. Coming up in an early day in this then new country, his school advantages were not such as to prepare him for what the world regards as the higher activities of life. But in the wisdom which is not of a day, nor of a year, nor a generation, but is of all time and eternity, it must be the wisest and best life which looks upon our career here as only a fleeting and shadowy transition, and measures our existence according to the standard of the illimitable future, compared to which that days of mortality are as,

Who will doubt that he lives to the best purpose who leads a life true to his family, true to society, valuable in itself for the good that he does, and faithful to his fellow-men and his God, dying, though perhaps unknown to the great world beyond his neighborhood, yet certain by the plighted faith of his Maker, that in the Great Beyond he is to receive a reward as great as the greatest, and as high as the punishment of some whom the world has delighted to honor will be severe? Such is the philosophy of religion, such the wisdom that is not hedged about by the small vanities of this life. Whatever may be our little ephemeral distinctions here, hardly before a pulse-beat of time, the grave will level all, and beyond, Heaven will raise distinctions which eternity will not be able to sweep away. In 1863 Mr. Harrison went to California, where he remained for six years, and after returning, followed farming. This he has since continued. He has lived a quiet, honorable, worthy life, and has not been unsuccess- ful in accumulating the substantial rewards of honest industry. He has a handsome farm of nearly 500 acres, and is as comfortably situated as any man in the township. He makes a specialty of sheep raising, aside from general farming and stock raising. He has a fine flock of Cotswolds, numbering nearly 300 head. In 1878 he was married to Miss Rosa B. Hunter, of California, being on a visit at the time to that State. She, however, was formerly of Boone county, Missouri. They have one child, Yada. Mr. Harrison and wife are much esteemed in the community, and exercise a marked influence for good both as neighbors and as members of society among those around them.

Col. Isaac N. Hathaway

for many years one of the leading business men of Toledo, Ohio, and a prominent agriculturist of Lucas county, in which that city is situ¬ ated, came to Missouri in 1875, and in connection with his son bought a large farm in Audrain county, their tract of land numbering nearly 1,000 acres, on which they settled and engaged in farming and stock raising, and where they have since resided. Col. Hathaway is a native of New York, born at Lockport, March 16, 1825. His father was Capt. Sylvester R. Hathaway, an old and leading contractor on the Erie canal, and a man of more than ordinary prominence in his day and section of the country. Col. Hathaway's mother was, before her marriage, Miss Mary Payne, a lady of great strength of mind and singular amiability. In 1839 the family removed to the vicinity of Toledo, Ohio, where the father located 500 acres of fine land, and where the parents both lived until their death. Four of their sons and four daughters are still living in the vicinity of Toledo. Col. Hathaway grew up from early youth in Lucas county, Ohio, and was educated at Toledo and at Adrain, Michigan. Soon after quitting college, he was married on the 13th of November, 1847, to Miss Mary Stowell, of Monroe county, Michigan, a young lady of one of the best families in the Peninsula State, and possessed of a superior mind and of rare culture and accomplishments. Immediately following his marriage he engaged quite extensively in the commission business at Toledo, being a member of the firm of May & Hathaway, in which he continued, handling grain principally, for about two years. He then disposed of his grain interests and engaged in the grocery jobbingtrade, which he carried on with success for some ten years, and up to the outbreak of the war. When Fort Sumpter was fired on he was one of the first to advocate putting down rebellion at all hazards, and, conforming his actions to his words, he organized a regiment of Union volunteers, which became the celebrated 67th Ohio. Col. Hathaway was commissioned lieutenant-colonel in the organization of that regiment. On the removal of the regiment to Camp Chase, Col. Hathaway was appointed drill-master, a position he held for about six months, and under him the troops over which he was placed became noted for their superior drill. It is worthy of remark here that Col. Hathaway had had fine opportunities to become a thorough drillmaster and disciplinarian, having served as chief of the fire depart¬ ment of Toledo for many years. Col. Hathaway tendered his resignation as lieutenant-colonel of the 67th regiment to Gov. Todd, refusing to organize and drill American regiments for imported Dutch officers to command, as he was required to do. However, at a later date, when Cincinnati was threatened by a rebel raid, he was earnestly solicited to organize volunteers and discipline them for the service. He accordingly accepted the position of colonel by appointment from Gov. Todd, and organized and fitted for the service about 10,000 volunteer recruits, forming them into battalions and otherwise prepar¬ ing them for active service. These became a part of Gen. Lew. Wallace's historic command. After filling out this commission Col. Hathaway returned to Toledo, and occupied his time up to 1871 in looking after his property interests, being also identified with various business and industrial enterprises. In the meantime, his son, W. S., had graduated from Ann Arbor College, Michigan, and was anxious to engage in business pursuits. In order to give him the benefit of his experience, he formed a partnership with his son in the commission business, handling principally grain and clover seed, which they con¬ ducted for some four years. In 1875, his son becoming anxious to engage in the stock business, Col. Hathaway removed to this State with him for that purpose, when they bought the place where they now reside, owning it in partnership and carrying on their stock raising and stock business generally together. They have one of the finest stock farms in the county, and have about 600 head of sheep and 250 head of cattle, of which lines of stock they make specialties. Col. Hathaway has been prominently identified with the Masonic order since 1852, and is now a member of a Mexico lodge. On the 6th of December, 1882, Col. Hathaway was called upon to bear the heaviest and saddest bereavement that can befall one in this life, the loss of the beloved wife of his bosom. She died on that day after a long and painful illness. But parting from her loved ones was the only regret she had in leaving this world, for she had long been in ill health, and to her the land beyond the grave was one of sunshine and hope. She had been a devout member of the Presbyterian Church for thirty years. She left but two children : Wendell S. and Lucy Ella. Wendell S. was married January 1, 1874, at Toledo, Ohio, to Miss Addie L. Case, of that city.

John H. Hayden

real estate, insurance and loan agent, Mexico. To all old Missou¬ rians the Hayden family is well known as one of the most worthy and respectable in the State, and it has given to the professions and other walks of life some of the most prominent representatives in their re¬ spective callings. At the bar and in public life particularly, this fam¬ ily has produced a number of leading men. Mr. John H. Hayden, the subject of the present sketch, was a son of Mr. Hayden, well known in Central Missouri less than a generation ago. John H. Hayden was born in Carroll county, Ky., August 3, 1839, and as he grew up had good educational advantages. Possessing the quickness of intelli¬ gence and taste for mental culture characteristic of his family, he made unusually rapid progress at school. He was early sent to the State University, and, although having too much impatience to re¬ main there long enough to take a thorough course, being full of spirit and ambitious to get out into the world and mingle with its affairs, he yet, by the time he was seventeen years of age, had studied higher mathematics and the sciences, and was accounted thorough in these, besides having taken a more than ordinarily advanced course, consid¬ ering his age, in the other branches. Young as he was, on quitting the University he was well qualified to teach, and followed that occu¬ pation with increasing success and reputation for about twelve years. During this time he went to California and taught there for some time. Subsequently he taught in Audrain county, and in 1877, being a thor¬ ough mathemetician and proficient in the science of surveying, he was appointed county surveyor, and served in that office until 1881. Mr. Hayden then engaged in his present business. A man of good judgment and thoroughly posted in the qualities and market val¬ ues of lands in Audrain county, as well as being a good business man and full of energy and enterprise, he has justly taken a prominent position among the real estate men of the county. Affording both sel¬ lers and buyers every facility and advantage for transacting their bus¬ iness with dispatch, safety and perfect reliability, he has naturally built up a large business in this line, and commands the confidence of the whole community as a real estate agent. His loan and insurance interests are also important, for in one he represents large capitalists and in the other some of the best insurance companies in the country. He is, therefore, able to offer terms in both these lines which attracts to him a large business. In 1860 Mr. Hayden was married to Miss Nellie Martin, of this county. They have three children: James W., now a popular teacher of the county; Miss Annie, an accomplished teacher in Hardin College, and Miss Dora, a student in the same in¬ stitution. Mr. and Mrs. Hayden are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. H. is a member of the Masonic order, of the Knights of Honor and of the Sons of Temperance.

Leonidas H. Hightshoe

of Reed & Hightshoe, proprietors of the Highland Dairy, Mexico . Mr. Hightshoe, an experienced and successful dairy-man of Audrain county, is a native of Indiana, born in Hendricks county, April 18, 1839. His parents, David and Elizabeth (Burns) Hightshoe, both old and respected citizens of that county, are remarkable for their longevity, both being still living, the father in his eighty-first year, and the mother now seventy-two years of age. In their old age, how¬ ever, they find a welcome and pleasant home with their son, Leonidas H., in this county. Leonidas H. Hightshoe was reared in his native county, and received a more than average education, having had the benefit of a course at Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Indi¬ ana. When nineteen years of age, young Hightshoe began teaching school and kept it up with success for a number of terms. He then went to Wisconsin, and was engaged there in handling lumber for some time, and until the outbreak of the war. In 1861 he enlisted in the mechanical department of the Government service and worked at bridge building, which position he filled for about six months. Subsequently, he was transferred to the freight department, where he remained until the expiration of his term of service. Re¬ turning to Wisconsin, he now engaged in the milling business, and carried this on with satisfactory success until he removed to Missouri, which was in June, 1866. For about eighteen months after coming to this State, Mr. Hightshoe had charge of a portable shingle ma¬ chine, and was engaged in the manufacture of shingles. In the win¬ ter and spring of 1868, he began the dairy business at Mexico, and has since continued it, with the exception of three years, during which he was otherwise engaged - farming, etc. In 1874 Mr. Hightshoe and Mr. J. P. Clark formed a partnership in the dairy business, and carried it on in the vicinity and south of Mexico with success for about eight years, or until August, 1882, when William F. Reed be¬ came his partner. They keep a school of 105 cows, and their sales aggregate annually about $10,000. Their farm, run in connection with their business, numbers 800 acres, and is the property of his partner, Mr. Reed. They are the leading dairy-men of the county, and among the foremost men in this line of busines in North-east Mis¬ souri. On the 13th of October, 1868, Mr. Hightshoe was married to Mrs. Mary Case, a widow lady, relict of Harvey Case, who died in the Union service, and a daughter of Alfred Hopkins. Mr. and Mrs. Hightshoe have four children: Mabel L., Frederick A., Arthur and Frank. Mr. and Mrs. H. are members of the M. E. Church, and Mr. H. is a member of the Masonic order at Mexico.

inventor and manufacturer of Hite's Heat Fender, Mexico. When the war broke out in 1861, Mr. Hite was a young married man of Fulton, in Callaway county, having come out to that countv from Virginia one year before, and having married there in 1859. A Virginian by nativity and bringing up, he was of course an enthusiastic Southern man on the question between the North and the South. Accordingly, hardly before the sound of the bombardment of Fort Sumpter had died away, he offered himself as a volunteer in the State Guard of Missouri under the first call of Gov. Jackson for volunteers. After serving out a six months' term in the State service, under Col. Dan McIntyre, he became a member of Col. Porter's command, under whom he served for about twelve months. At this time he was in no regular company, but acted as a Southern scout, doing service for the cause which he held so dear wherever duty called. Those who know anything about the kind of warfare carried on in this State between 1861 and the spring of 1865 have a very good idea of the dangers and hardships of scout-life during that period. Mr. Hite was wounded near Waynesville by the enemy, and left for dead, being shot three times, once across the bridge of the nose, and up across the fore¬ head which has disfigured his face somewhat. Subsequently he and his comrades were surrounded on a hill near the Gasconade river, and' by Col. Sigel's men, and were compelled to cut their way out. Mr. Hite's horse was shot from under him, and being thus thrown on foot, he was overtaken by a body of twenty-five militia, who came from thevicinity of Boonville, and finding escape impossible, he took refuge behind a large tree, and opened fire on the whole posse, killing two and wounding three of them, and thus holding them at bay. Finding that they could take him only at a heavy loss of their own men, they resorted to deception and perfidy, telling him that if he would sur¬ render they would treat him as a prisoner of war - that is, not kill as they always did those in arms, under the pretext that all such were " bushwhackers ; " promising to treat him as a prisoner of war, Mr. Hite came out, throwing down his arms, and they at once formed a circle and opened fire on him. He saw that it was their purpose to shoot him to death, and he then folded his arms, telling them to do so quickly. They shot him a number of times, and he fell down and made out that he was dead, one turning him over and shooting him after he was down, and another, as they were leaving, in order to make assurance doubly sure, shooting him after they had started off. They of course left him for dead, but none of his wounds proved fatal, and he went to a neighboring house and was kindly cared for by a lady whose husband was in the Union service. He was now taken charge of by a regular United States troop and held a pris¬ oner for some time. Mr. Hite was then taken to Rolla, where he fell into the hands of the scabby Missouri Militia again, and he was most inhumanly treated, being left without a physician and exposed to the sleet and snow of winter. Several of his fellow-prisoners, including Duncan, of Callaway county, died there. Subsequently he was re¬ leased from Rolla, and returned home and was re-arrested and taken to St. Louis and incarcerated in McDowell's College prison, and from which he soon made his escape. Having no means of getting South, on account of the cordon of Federal pickets and troops that cut off all communication with that section, he went to Illinois, and finally went to California, where he remained until after the restoration of peace. At the close of the war, Mr. Hite returned to Callaway county, and located at Fulton, and being a machinist by trade, fol¬ lowed that occupation in Callaway until 1879. In the meantime he invented his well known heat fender, and began the manufacture of this now important article. From Callaway county he came to Mexico, and later along a company was formed here of leading men with large capital for the manufacture and sale of the heat fender. The following are the officers of the company : Rev. John A. Brooks, president; John P. Clark, vice-president; J. M. Marmaduke, treas¬ urer, and B. F. Dobyns, secretary. Mr. Hite is master-mechanic and business manager of the establishment. As said, Mr. Hite is a native of Virginia, born in Frederick county, April 16, 1837. He was mar- vied in Callaway county, November 3, 1859, when Miss Virginia Allen became his wife. She was a daughter of James Allen, of Callaway county. Mr. and Mrs. Hite has seven children: Francis M., Alice A., Carrie M., Rosa M., Homer L., James W. and Bvron M. ; two are deceased, Mattie S. and Charles V. Mr. and Mrs. Hite are members of the M. E. Church South. Mr. Hite's brother, Major Martin Hite, was private secretary to Gen. R. E. Lee during the war.

Thomas B. Hitt

proprietor of Hitt's grist mills, Mexico. Away back in the territorial days of Missouri, when the map of this State looked like the map of New England, the counties being so large, William Y. Hitt and his wife, Elizabeth (nee Jewell), came from their native State by wagons, hundreds of miles, following a road then but little more than blazed through the uninhabited wilderness, and spread their tents on the green banks of the Missouri, in Boone county. That county became their permanent home, and both lived there to ripe and honored old ages, living to see the country develop into one of the wealthy, pros¬ perous, great States of the Union. It was in the days that the red men of the forest were in the countiy, when the family came to Boone county, and the panther, the bear and the trim-footed deer were here. But now these are gone, and, alas, the spirits of William Y. and Elizabeth Hitt have passed away, too, but to their happy and eternal home on high. They reared a worthy family of children, and in every way acquitted themselves faithfully and well of the duties and responsibilities of life. Thomas B. Hitt, the subject of this sketch, the third of four children, was born on the 21st of February, 1882. He came up in the early days of the country, and of course did not have all the advantages for education and mental culture which modern society affords. His time was rather taken up with hard work on the farm, for then the Scriptural injunction that all should live by the sweat of their own brow was literally true. Still, in the occasional schools they had, he succeeded in acquiring a sufficient knowledge of books for all the practical purposes of ordinary affairs. He then followed farming for some time, but in 1849 crossed the plains to the gold fields beyond the snow-capped height of the Cordilleras. Re¬ turning later along, he finally turned his attention to milling, and is now one of the proprietors of the Mexico City merchant flouring mills in this city. This is a good mill, including excellent machinery, and has a large local and jobbing trade. Mr. Hitt was married on the 20th of March, 1856, to Miss Mary Ann Mosely. They have three chilren : Ella E., now the wife of John E. Sallee, of Callaway county ; William Y., connected with his father in the milling business, and Katie J., at home. Mr. Hitt stands high in the esteem of the people, and takes a commendable interest in educational affairs. He is a member of the board of directors of Hardin College, and he and wife are members of the Baptist Church.

Samuel T. Hook

farmer and stock raiser. Mr. Hook, who is one of the substantial property holders and highly respected citizens of Audrain county, was left an orphan from birth by the death of his father, and from an early age not only had his own way to make in the world without means or friends to help him along, but also had the care, for a number of years, of his mother's family. Those who have had the advantages in bringing up of a father's advice and assistance, know of what im¬ portance they were to their advancement, and many who have suc¬ ceeded in life will gladly testify that they owe as much, and perhaps more, to the early counsel and help of their father than to any other cause. But notwithstanding Mr. Hook was deprived of the benefit of his father's encouragement and assistance, the material that make successful men and useful citizens was in him, and with the strong character and clear intelligence observable throughout his whole life, he went to work in a steady, sober way, not only to ac¬ quit himself worthily of the responsibilities of the family which fell upon him, but to get a start in life, and to rise to a position of worth as a citizen. How well he has done this, the loved ones for whom he has cared will gladly testify, and his own standing as a citizen and neighbor prove. Mr. Hook was born in Callaway county, December 19, 1830, and was a son of Samuel Hook, Sr., and wife, whose maiden name was Mary Sims. They were both of respectable fami¬ lies in Kentucky, and were married in 1826. They came to Callaway county the same year of their marriage, and removed to Audrain county in 1833. The father subsequently died in Boone county. On the 18th of February, 1868, Mr. Hook was married to Miss Mary S. Snell, a daughter of Granville and Emily Snell, of Monroe county. Mr. and Mrs. H. have two children, Thomas E. and Mary E. Mr. Hook has made farming and stock raising his regular occupation and, as intimated above, has been very successful. Commencing a poor bov, he now has a fine farm of over half a section of as <jood land as there is in the county. His farm is situated five and a half miles north-east of Mexico, and is handsomely improved. It is one of the choice places of Audrain county. He, himself, with his family, re¬ sides in Mexico. Mr. Hook, having been reared in this county, is rich in reminiscences of the more important events in its early history. He remembers an exciting political campaign made before the county was organized, when Col. William H. Russell was the Whig candidate for the Legislature, but we have not the space to give these entertain¬ ing incidents in this connection. Mr. H. is one of the public-spirited citizens of the county, and takes an intelligent interest in all matters relating to its general affairs and the welfare of the public. In a word, he is one of the citizens whose citizenship is of value to its best interests and a credit to the county. Left a poor boy, he had prac¬ tically no school advantages, and he was therefore not able to gratify the ambition of his early life, that is, to acquire an advanced educa¬ tion so that he could make his life of greater usefulness to his fellowmen. In his life is another poem, though unwritten, that in the hands of a Gray would become immortal. Though his noble ambition was chilled by the icy needs of penury, he yet bravely faced his ad¬ versity and carved out a career as a good and useful citizen, that neither his children nor the county where he has lived so long, will ever be ashamed to own. During the war Mr. Hook occupied the position of a conservative constitutional Union man, but took no part on either side. He did not believe in secession, but at the same time he did not think that the blame for the trouble was all on one side. He therefore staid at home, and wherever he found one, in that lono-, terrible struggle, in distress, he helped him, according to the dictates of humanity, without asking on which side he fought. He was thus of great value to the unfortunate of both sides, and he had the esteem and gratitude of all. His good deeds will be sacredly cherished long after his body shall have moldered into dust and his spirit crossed the silent river.

farmer. The Hopkins family was originally from Wales, and there¬ fore belonged to the Celtic race which includes the Welsh, Scotch and Irish, as contradistinguished from the Teutonic which includes the English, German, etc. The branch of the family to which the sub¬ ject of the present sketch belongs established itself in New York during the reign of James II, or during the latter part of the seven- teenth century, now some two hundred years ago. Representatives of the family have continued to reside in the State to this day, and many of them have become prominent there in public, and in the other departments of life. L. S. was born in Chautauqua county, New York, September 30, 1840, and when he was four years of age his parents, Alfred and Diana (Griswold) Hopkins, removed to Ohio, locating in Toledo. L. S. spent his early youth at Toledo. In 1854 the family removed to Bremer county, Iowa, remaining there ten years, and coming thence to Missouri, locating on a farm in Audrain county, where L. S. now resides. The father died here on the 12th of November, 1882, aged sixty-nine, but the mother is still living, now also sixty-nine years old. L. S. was with his father in Iowa when the signal shot of the rebellion shook the Union, and with the patriotism and gallantry of a true son of his country, he flew to the defense of the old Flag, and plighted his honor with his life as the forfeit to follow it wherever it led, and to uphold it in triumph from the shores of the Great Lakes to the sunlit waters of the Southern Gulf, and from the quays of New York to the golden sands of the Pacific. Young Hopkins became a member of the 4th Iowa Cavalry, and served with valor and fidelity until the hero of Appomattox had received the sword of the chieftain of the Confederacy. He was in many hard-fought battles, and amid all the dangers and death-duels of the conflict, where duty called, he bore himself bravely as a true soldier. Returning to Iowa after the war, he remained only a short time, and then came to Missouri, having during his service as a soldier become acquainted with the superior advantages of this section of the country for agricultural and other pursuits, and as a place of residence. In the meantime, Mr. Hopkins had married, having celebrated his happy nuptials on the 25th of December, 1865, when Miss Augusta Case became his loving and beloved bride. But she was spared to make his domestic life one of unalloyed happiness for only two short years, being withdrawn from this life to her home above on the 30th of De¬ cember, 1867. She left one child, a little daughter, Lena, a sweet picture of her mother's own fair features, and a tender memento of the love and devotion of her own life to her husband. Lena is now a young lady seventeen years of age. Six years after his first wife's death Mr. Hopkins was married June 1, 1878, to Miss Emma Fitzwater, a daughter of William M. Fitzwater, of Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. H. have three children : William, Clarence and Ernest. Since com¬ ing to this county, Mr. Hopkins has been engaged in farming almost continuously, and has a good farm of 160 acres. Mr. H. has three sisters residents of this county: Sarah, now the widow of Samuel Grove, Esq., late postmaster at Mexico; Marv, the Avife of L. H. Hightshoe, and Ella, the Avife of William Barnes, of Fulton.

Maj. E. Livingston Hord

proprietor of the Hotel DeFerris, Mexico. Major Hord, Avell known in North-east Missouri, and generally by the traveling public, as one of the most popular and accommodating landlords in this section of the State, comes of that generous and chivalrous State, Kentucky, where hospitality is second nature, if indeed, not first nature, to all who are reared within its borders. Major Hord is one of those genial, whole-souled men, calculated not onlv on this account to be a suecessfid hotel proprietor, but furthermore, because he is a good busi¬ ness man, full of energy and enterprise, and makes everything move and stir about him. He rests the reputation of his house not alone on his personal popularity, but he strives to make his hotel desirable to guests by giving them first-class accommodations, both of bed and board. And thus it is, that the Hotel DeFerris, under his manage¬ ment, has become one of the most popular hostelries in this section of the State. His rooms are all neatly furnished, immaculately clean and comfortable, and his table is such as to gladden the heart of an epicure and make the man of stalwart appetite smile Avith delight. Major Hord, as has been said, is a native of the Blue Grass State, born in Mason county, March 18, 1834. His parents, being a family in Avell-to-do circumstances, Avere able to give him good school advant¬ ages. In addition to instruction in the common and intermediate schools, he attended Bethany College, in West Virginia. In 1853 Mr. Hord came to Missouri and settled in Lafayette county. There he was eima^ed in farming until a short time before the war. Returning then to Kentucky, he engaged in the commission business at Coving¬ ton, Avhicli he folloAved with success until the outbreak of hostilities in 1861. A Southern man by birth and education and by sympathies and interests, as Avell as believing that the South avus right on the issues between the tAvo sections, he volunteered in the Confederate army, and Avas made a staff officer, Avith the rank of major. Subse¬ quently he Avas in the quartermaster's department of the Army of the Tennessee, Avhere he continued until 1862. He Avas then Avith Gen. Lee until the surrender. After the war Major Hord came to Missouri and in 1868 located in Callaway county, Avhere he resided until March, 1882 - then moving to Mexico, Audrain county. Major Hord is a man of more than ordinary abilities, and is well educated, besides being possessed of a large fund of general information by reading; and he is therefore an entertaining conversationalist and a most agreeable companion. He takes an intelligent interest in public affairs, and wields a marked influence on the opinions of those around him. He was a very prominent member of the Grange, and was lecturer for that organization, conceded to be the best one in his district. In 1855 Major Hord was married to Miss Mary D. Gorham, of Kentucky. They have one child, Ella. While a resident of Lafayette county, this State, Major Hord held the office of district county assessor, and has been since 1855 a prominent member of the I. O. O. F. His father, Lewis Hord, died at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1837, and his mother in Callaway county, in 1880.

Algernon S. Houston

dealer in lumber, lath, shingles, sash, doors, blinds, lime, plaster, cement, etc., Mexico. Like many of the young business men of this State, Mr. Houston was favored with a more than ordinary education as he grew up, having in addition to his other advantages the benefit of a course at Bethany College, West Virginia. He graduated from that old and eminent institution in 1872. In his educational course he made a specialty of civil engineering, and graduated in that depart¬ ment with marked honor. Subsequently he was engaged in the pro¬ fession of civil engineering for a time, and afterwards was a teacher for a number of years, or up to 1880, when he engaged in his present business at Mexico. Mr. Houston carries a superior stock of goods in his line, selected with great care and with an eye quite as much to the quality purchased as to the prices paid. Keeping the interests of his customers in view by selling them goods with which they must be pleased, he therefore succeeds in retaining their confidence and trade. Thus while his patrons are to be found throughout the sur¬ rounding country, as Avell as in Mexico, they constitute many of the best citizens, being men generally who transact their business on busi¬ ness principles, desiring always to get good goods and materials for the money they pay. Personally, Mr. Houston is well liked, and is justly quite popular in the community. On the 17th of November, 1880, Mr. Houston was married to Miss Sarah T. Buckner, a daugh¬ ter of W. F. Buckner, a prominent citizen of Paris, Monroe county. Mr. H. is a member of the Christian Church, and is an A. F. and A. M., a member of the A. O. U. W. and of the Select Knights. Mr.

Houston is a son of Dr. W. M. Houston, a prominent citizen of Mon¬ roe county, and was born in that county February 13, 1852. He was reared in his native county, and came to Audrain after the completion of his college course.

Jacob C. Huff

dealer in hardware, stoves, tin-ware, farming implements, etc., and manufacturer of the " Missouri Steam Washer." Mr. Huff, an in¬ dustrious, energetic business man of Mexico, is a native of New York, born in Sullivan county, August 2, 1852. He was a son of Jacob and Amelia (Gerbert) Huff, both originally from Germany, but who came over to this country a number of years before the Civil War, and set¬ tled in New York State. The father was a farmer by occupation and also handled lumber to a considerable extent. Jacob C., the son, was brought up to these lines of business, but followed lumbering mainly after his sixteenth year, until he attained his majority. He then was engaged in traveling until 1881, when he located in Mexico and engaged in his present business. Mr. Huff possesses to a marked degree, the stronger and better qualities of his German ancestry - energy, frugality and steady, sober application to business. These qualities have brought him from a youth without means to the posi¬ tion, before middle age is reached, of a substantial, prosperous busi¬ ness man of unquestioned integrity, and he commands the general confidence, and is much thought of by those who know him best. He carries full lines of goods in the departments mentioned above, and is prepared to accommodate his customers at the lowest possible fio-ures the state of the market allows. He is the manufacturer of what, under his management, has become the well-known and popular " steam washer," conceded to be the best washing machine ever in¬ troduced in this part of the country. These machines are in constant and increasing demand, and the business of manufacturing them promises to become one of the first importance. Mr. Hufi is a thor¬ ough-going business man, and is rapidly coming to the front as a property holder and influential citizen.

Harvey D. Hunter

contractor and builder, Mexico. Harvey D. Hunter was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, August 3, 1842, and was reared on his father's farm, and continued farming until he was twenty-six years of age. Mr. Hunter began the carpenter's trade in 1868, since which he has worked at that trade and been engaged in the contracting and building business up to the present time. He learned the trade under Welsh & Hebb, in Boone county, Indiana, and afterwards went to Astoria, Illinois. From there Mr. Hunter came to Missouri, and lo¬ cated at Mexico, where he has since resided. Mr. Hunter has been fairly successful in his business, and has an enviable reputation as a contractor and builder. At present he is engaged in erecting the buildings of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Fulton, Missouri. He is one of the oldest men in his line, in continuous residence, in Mex¬ ico, and has built many of the best houses in the place. He com¬ mands the confidence of the entire community, and from his long residence here and thorough acquaintance with the people has a de¬ cided advantage over new-comers, in the fact that his character is well known to be irreproachable, and that his reputation for good work and fair dealing is well established. During the war Mr. Hunter served two years in Company B, of the 5th Missouri Infantry, and as a soldier bore a high reputation for unflinching bravery and faithful per¬ formance of his duty. On the 11th of September, 1862, Mr. Hunter was married to Miss Rachel A. Sidle, originally of Harrison county, Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter are members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Hunter is a member of the Select Knights in the United Workmen order. Mr. Hunter's parents, James M., and Maria L. (Coons) Hunter, were both originally of East Tennessee.

W. D. H. Hunter

now of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, was born on the 8th of January, 1830, in that city, and is the only surviving son of James W. and Harriet Hunter. His father, who was prominent and influential among the early citizens of Lawrenceburg, died in 1835. His mother was after¬ wards married to Judge Isaac Dunn, of the same place, a wealthy and eminent citizen, who died in 1870, leaving her for the second time a widow. She is still living, at the advanced age of 77 years, and is greatly respected by all who know her. Dr. Hunter received his primary education in the best schools of his native city, and at the age of 18 years entered Asbury University, at Greeneastle, Indiana, where he took a scientific course. In the spring of 1851 he removed to Mexico, Missouri, where he read medicine with an elder brother. Later, he attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati. Returning to Missouri, he entered upon the practice of his profession.

but, owing to the exposure incident upon the discharge of his duties in that part of the country, and a predisposition to consumption in his family, he gave up active practice and engaged in the drug business in the young but thriving town of Mexico, Audrain county. There he conducted a successful business for some twenty years, during which time he gained many warm friends. He was several times mayor of the city, for a long time councilman, and served one term as clerk of the county court. He was also for some time postmaster of Mexico, under President Pierce's administration. In 1861 he was nominated by the conservative party to represent the district com¬ posed of Audrain, Pike and Lincoln counties in the Constitutional Convention called to consider the question of the position of Missouri in relation to the Civil War, but, on account of the excitement attending the election, he declined to run. In 1864 he was elected a represent¬ ative from Audrain county to the State Legislature. He immediately took a very prominent position in that body, being foremost in the counsels of the party, and the recognized leader of the Democracy in the House. In 1866 he was appointed by President Johnson, assessor of internal revenue for the Fourth District of Missouri. He repre¬ sented the Ninth Congressional District of Missouri in the National Democratic Convention of 1868, and was a member of the committee on permanent organization in that body. He was also for 14 years editor and proprietor ot the Mexico Ledger, a sharp, conservative paper, devoted to the political and agricultural interests of Missouri. While in the Missouri House of Representatives, Dr. Hunter made a memorable speech on the proposed amendments to the new Constitu¬ tion in regard to the " test oath," which was afterward printed by the State executive committee and used as a campaign document. He also introduced many important bills for the welfare of his constitu¬ ents, and, though belonging to the party in the minority in the House, held the following responsible positions : Chairman of the committee for visiting State asylums, a leading member of the committees on ways and means, internal improvements and State University ; also, of the committee appointed by joint resolution to examine the accounts of the State Auditor and Treasurer ; chairman of the committee of the whole House on the revision of school laws ; chairman of the com¬ mittee on the memorial of the St. Louis Medical Society, requiring physicians to give evidence of qualifications, etc. ; and a member of the committee to escort Hon. B. Gratz Brown to a seat within the bar of the House. Concerning his appointment as assessor of internal

We are gratified to learn that Dr. W. D. H. Hunter has been appointed United States assessor of the Fourth District of Missouri. He was a member of the last Missouri Legislature, where he achieved lasting honors, and is now promoted to a lucrative and responsible position, in which he will no doubt sustain himself and administer its affairs to the satisfaction of the Government.

We congratulate the people of the district and the department on this judicious selection. A place of honor, profit and trust we believe was never more fitly bestowed. Dr. Hunter is eminently qualified for the duties of the position, and is every way worthy. His friends will never cease to remember with pride the sublime heroism with which, in the last Legislature, he led a forlorn hope in opposition to the infamous Radical majority of that body ; and will rejoice to know that he has been suitably rewarded.

Besides being a pleasant and intelligent gentleman, he is an upright and honorable citizen, one who will discharge the duties of his office without favoring political friends or oppressing political op¬ ponents. In the late Legislature he was a decided, active and efficient conservative member. Notwithstanding his decision and activity, his integrity of purpose was never doubted. * * * In his new and

Dr. Hunter was a member of the State board of managers of the Missouri State Insurance Company, and president of the board of local managers for Audrain county ; he was also director of the Life Association of America at St. Louis. In 1875 he was appointed by Gov. C. H. Hardin, of Missouri, commissioner of deeds for the State of Indiana. Dr. Hunter during his residence in Missouri was an active friend to every enterprise that had a tendency to build up his county, and was, therefore, among the first to call the atten¬ tion of the people of his section of the country to the building of railroads. As early as 1854 he took an active part in securing the location of the North Missouri Railroad, now known as the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railroad, and was for a time director of the company. He was among the first proprietors of the Louisiana and Missouri River Railroad, now the western extension of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, of which he was several years a director, and took an active and successful part in raising subscriptions to its stock in the different counties through which the road was built. Dr. Hunter was married November 21, 1854, to Miss Lucy J. White, daughter of Rev. William White, of Audrain county, Missouri, who lived but a few months after her marriage. He was, October 15, 1857, married in Mexico, Missouri, to his present wife, Miss Fannie A. Cauthorn, daughter of Ross and Sarah Cauthorn, of Essex county, Virginia. They have two children, Hattie and Bessie, both accomplished young ladies. The Doctor is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lawrenceburg, and is a trustee and the treasurer of the church. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, and has attained the rank of senior warden. He is president of the board of education of the city of Lawrenceburg. Since 1877 he has been editor and one of the proprietors of the Lawrenceburg Register , and holds a high rank among the editors of the State of Indiana. He was in 1880 elected vice-president of the Southern Indiana Editors' Association, and president of the South-eastern Indiana Editorial Association, and in January, 1883, elected president of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association. At the Democratic State convention of Indiana, held at Indianapolis, June 9, 1880, he was chosen a member of the State central committee for the Fourth Congressional District, to serve two years, and in February, 1883, he was elected by the Indiana Legislaure, a director of the Indiana State Prison South, to serve four years. Since taking up his permanent residence in Lawrenceburg, the city of his birth, Dr. Hunter has in every way justified the record that he made among the people of Missouri. His culture and intelligence, his active temperament and untiring devotion to all that is noble and pure, make him a power for good in the community ; while his social nature and winning manners render him very popular even among those who differ with him in politics. In his domestic relations he is blessed with great happiness, and his home combines all that is at¬ tractive and pleasant in life.

of Hurd Bros.' livery, feed and sale stables, Mexico. It was in 1876 that Mr. Hurd came to Missouri. He was born in Noble county, Illinois, on the 24th of November, 1856, and was therefore twenty years of age when he cast his fortune with the great State on this side of the Mississippi. Reared in Illinois, he had good educational ad¬ vantages. Mr. Hurd not only attended the ordinary public schools.

but afterwards had a benefit of a course at Fayette College, in Iowa. His brother, H. E. Hurd, was a professor in the college at that time. Dr. Arnold E. Hurd, the father, was a man of fine intelligence and superior education, and appreciated the importance of the knowledge to be derived from the instruction of schools and colleges. His sons were therefore given good opportunities to prepare themselves, so far as education is concerned, for the activities of life. Dr. Hurd had a good farm in Noble county, and his son was brought up on the place. He thus acquired that taste for handling stock which has ex¬ ercised a controlling influence on his choice of an occupation for life. It is not surprising, therefore, that he should have a partiality for the livery business, and carrying out this inclination, he has become identified with this line of business. He and his brother have one of the leading livery stables in Mexico. Their building is a handsome, new brick structure, 50x94 feet in dimensions, and has a capacity for some 60 head of horses. They have a fine stock of riding and driving horses, and some of the handsomest and best vehicles to be met with in this section of the State. Several of their rigs, when they dash out of their handsome new brick stable, present a picture that would make any liveryman's heart feel proud, and any gallant beau pine away who could not have the felicity of driving with his dulcis puella behind the heels of the gay, silk-haired flyers, as they go glimmering off in the distance. These gentlemen do a very large business in the livery line, and are justly regarded among the leading men in this business in Mexico. On the 16th of October, 1882, Mr. Hurd was married to Miss Sallie Wooley, of this county. They have one child, Dauphin A. Mr. Hurd, it is worthy of remark, has a very distinct recollection of being born on the battle field of Stillman's fight, which was fought - that is, the fight was - during the Black Hawk war. The battle field then, however, at the time of Mr. Hurd's birth, was devoted to a much better purpose than man-slay¬ ing, being a part of his father's farm.

Prof. H. A. Ingram

of Hardin College, Mexico. Prof. Ingram, who occupies the chair of Natural Sciences in Hardin College, and is one of the prominent and popular young educators of this section of the State, is a native of Illinois, born in Hamilton county, March 10, 1856. He is a son of William C. and Lavina (Holland) Ingram, old and respected residents of that county. Prof. Ingram was educated at Hamilton College, Illi- nois, where he graduated with distinction in 1877. He also attended Bryant and Stratton's Commercial College of Illinois. Before his graduation from Hamilton College, Prof. Ingram entered the profes¬ sion of teaching, teaching one year in his Alma Mater and also for a time elsewhere. After his graduation he taught again in Hamilton College, and was subsequently principal of a high school at McClainsboro, Illinois. Remaining at the head of that institution for two years, he was then called to accept a position in the South-western Baptist College at Bolivar, Missouri, in which he occupied the chair of Natu¬ ral Sciences and also taught book-keeping until he was tendered his present professorship in Hardin College. Prof. Ingram has presided over the department of Natural Science in this well known and promi¬ nent institution since the fall of 1883. As an instructor he has an enviable reputation, being thoroughly qualified for the work and at the same time possessed of the peculiar quality of mind which enables him to perceive how information may best be conveyed to the minds of the young. Plain and practical in his methods, he is also clear and thorough in his explanations, making everything which he wishes to be understood as simple of comprehension as the nature of the subject renders possible. Teaching with Prof. Ingram is a matter of choice and special pride, for although qualified for other pursuits even more lucrative than this one, he has chosen the calling of the educator, as that of the field of the greatest usefulness. So regarding it, it is not to be wondered at that he shows more than ordinary zeal in his work and solicitude for the advancement of those under his charge. There are few young men whose careers as instructors have been more suc¬ cessful and productive of greater good than has his ; nor is the future of any in this noble calling more promising. On the 5th of October, 1872, Prof. Ingram was married to Miss Georga Bond, a daughter of Hon. W. P. Bond, a prominent citizen of Brownsville, Tennessee. Mrs. Ingram is a lady of culture and refinement, ivell worthy to pre¬ side over the home to which she has been called. The Professor and Mrs. I. have an interesting little son, James B. Prof. Ingram is a member of the A. F. and A. M., and of the Knights of Honor.

Mrs. Maria S. Jacobs

widow of the late Edward T. Jacobs, and a daughter of Levi and Mary (Fales) Lawrence, of Massachusetts, was born at Pittsfield, in Burkshire county, of the old Bay State, September 12, 1813. Mrs. Jacobs is a direct descendant from the Fales', of the Mayflower, who landed at Plymouth Rock, on the 21st of December, 1820. Representatives of this family have since become prominent in the history of Massa¬ chusetts, and others, settling in other States, have also distinguished themselves in the various departments of life. Mrs. Jacobs was reared in Cincinnati, Ohio, and when a young lady came out to Michigan with her parents who early settled in that State. She there met Edward T. Jacobs to whom she was afterwards married, on the 12th of September, 1834. Mr. Jacobs was a son of Joshua and Mary (Adamson) Jacobs, his father a native of Virginia, but his mother originally of Maryland. They became early settlers in Kentucky, and their son, Edward T. Jacobs, was born in that State, at the city of Lexington, on the 6th of January, 1809. There were several other children in their family, some of whom still reside in that State. Edward T. came out to Michigan in an early day, where he met and married Miss Lawrence, as stated above. After their marriage they continued to reside in the Lake-Peninsula State until 1840, when they removed to Missouri, and made their home in Howard county. Ten years afterwards they came to Audrain county, where Mrs. Jacobs still resides, and where her husband died on the 8th of November, 1880, In early life he was a school teacher by profession and taught with marked success in Michigan and Missouri. In Howard county, this State, he is to this day remembered by old citizens as one of the best teachers who ever presided over a school in that county. After coming to Audrain county, he was mainly occupied with farming, although he also taught a number of schools in this countv. Here he entered a large body of land, about 300 acres, situated two miles north-west of Mexico, where he improved an excellent farm and where Mrs. Jacobs still resides. This is one of the better, comfortable homesteads of the township, and Mrs. Jacobs, in her old age, is pleasantly situated, or at least, as much so as her widowed state ren¬ ders possible. They reared a family of four children of their own, and an adopted son, as follows: John A., now deceased, Levira L., now Mrs. Charles E. Gray, of Benton City, Audrain county ; Annie M., still at home; and Edward L., also at home. Cary Wood, the adopted son, who was taken in infancy, is now a young man nearly grown. John A., their eldest son, was highly educated, and was for a number of years president of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Dan¬ ville, Kentucky. He was a young man of the brightest promise, a fine scholar, proficient in Greek, Latin and French, and most of the sciences, and held high rank as an able, accomplished educator. He died December 27, 1878, aged thirty-nine - cut off in the flower of his manhood and the very meridian of his usefulness. The other son, Edward L., is at the head of the farm, and is a young man of great energy and superior intelligence. He is married and has a family ot his own. Mrs. Jacobs, a venerable old lady, now past her seventy- first year, is still remarkably well preserved in mind and health, and is much beloved by those around her for her motherly, kindhearted, neighborly qualities. She is a worthy descendant of the brave-hearted old Pilgrim Father from whom she sprang. She has for forty years been a devout and earnest member of the Presbyterian Church.