Audrain County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1884 (part 7 of 17)

Woodford Talley

farmer, and one of the oldest residents, though not one of the oldest men by any means, in Audrain county, was a son of Daniel W. and Sarah J. Talley, who came to Missouri as early as 1819, and settled in what is now Audrain county some years afterwards, and before it was organized as a county. Prior to coming to this State, and after their immigration to Missouri, they lived in Boone county, where Woodford, the subject of the present sketch, was born on the 6th day of March, 1829. They were from Kentucky to this State, but the father was originally from Virginia. He lived to an advanced age, and died in 1879 in Vernon county. Woodford Talley was reared in this county, and was brought up to the occupation of farming, which his father followed through life. In 1855, Woodford was married to Miss Juda E. Talley, a second cousin of his, and a daughter of George and Patsey Talley. They were also early settlers in Audrain county, coming here as early as 1832. Woodford Talley has followed farming continually since his marriage, and has been satisfactorily successful. His homestead is a part of the old George Talley farm and is sub¬ stantially improved - a comfortable home and a good grain and stock farm. Mr. Talley is well thought of by those among whom he lives, and is looked upon as one of the substantial, good citizens of the township. He has long been a member of the Christian Church.

Wiley Talley

farmer, and a second cousin to Woodford, whose sketch precedes this, comes of oue of the pioneer families of Audrain county. His parents, George and Patsey Talley, settled here over a half a century ago, and each spent a long and worthy life within the borders of the county. His father entered land here away back in 1832, when the choice lands of Audrain county could be had for $1.25 an acre. He entered a large body of land and improved a good farm, on which he and his worthy wife lived until their death. He died in 1863, and is buried on the old family homestead. His wife died eleven years afterwards, and sleeps by his side under the green sod familiar to their footsteps for so many years. Wiley Talley was born in Boone county in 1831. His brother, B. W. was born nine years before. Wiley was reared on his father's farm, and after he grew up engaged in farming for him¬ self on the old homestead, which he has since followed. He is an industrious, hard-working man and commands the respect of the com¬ munity in which, practically, his whole life thus far has been spent. He had five brothers and five sisters ; Sallie, William J. James M. Harriett, Martha, George W. Elizabeth, Jane, and Judy E. Only four are now living. The mother was a kind-hearted Christian old lady, and was for many years a member of the Baptist Church.

J. Frank Wilfley

one of the prominent farmers and stock men and respected, influential citizens of Prairie township, was born in Callaway county, August 24, 1835, and was a son of James and Elizabeth (Kelso) Wilfley, formerly of Tennessee. Mr. Wilfley's parents, later along, re¬ moved to Audrain county, where he grew to manhood. They are remembered as old and respected residents of the county, and the father was a successful, substantial farmer. J. Frank received his education in the local schools, which was a good practical one for farming and business purposes, and being brought up on a farm, he naturally acquired that taste for agricultural life which controlled his choice of a calling when it became proper for him to start out in the world for himself. Devoting himself definitely to farming and stock raising, his career since has been one against which he has no cause to complain. Known as one of the thorough-going agriculturists of the township, by his industry and enterprise he has accumulated a substantial property. Mr. Wilfley has one of the choice farms of Prairie township, and is a man who stands high in the esteem of his neighbors and acquaintances. He is looked upon as one of the best judges of stock in this part of the county, and his success as a stock man fully justifies the opinion held of him in this regard. In 1862, Mr. Wilfley was married to Miss Sallie R. Pindall, a daughter of Gen. E. S. Pindall, of Monongalia county, West Virginia, and sister of Col. L. A. Pindall and Maj. K. J. Pindall, of the Confederate army. Mrs. Wrilfley is a lady of superior intelligence and culture, and is singularly entertaining in manners and conversation. Her father's family was one of the best in that section of the State, and she had all the advantages of polite society and the best schools. Mr. and

Mrs. Wilfley have four children living: E. S. Pindall, Lebbeus R., Xenophon P. and J. Douglas, Mary Morgan, the third child and only daughter, being deceased. Mr. and Mrs. W. are members of the M. E. Church South. Mr. W. is a member of the Masonic Fraternity. He served as Lieutenant in the Confederate army during the war. He is and has always been an uncompromising Democrat.

Edward C. Wilson

farmer, is a native of that cordiac center of the Blue Grass regions, Clark county, Kentucky, and was born on the lltli day of September, 1816. His father (who was the only child in the family, his parents mother's family, the Mullinses, were among the pioneer settlers of Kentucky, though her father was originally from Virginia, having gone to Kentucky in 1802. Indeed, his father's family came to that State in an early day (1811). His mother's maiden name was Mary Mul¬ lins. In 1852 Mr. Wilson's parents came to Missouri and settled in Audrain county, where they lived until their death. His father died August 29, 1861. He had served in the War of 1812, and was at the River Reason in 1813. He returned in 1814. His mother was called to her final rest on the 15th of November, 1865. They had a family of 12 children : Henry A., Edward C., Jacob G., Jesse N., Elizabeth M., Anthony M., Sallie A., James M., David A., Mary A., John S., and William T. Henry A. and William T. are now deceased. Prior to his father's removal to Missouri, Edward C. Wilson had grown to manhood and himself come to this state. He came here in 1838, and first located in Monroe county, where he followed farming and was married. Mr. Wilson married there on the 18th of February, 1840. His wife's maiden name was Clamentna D. Simms. She was born in Christian county, Ky., in 1818, and was a daughter of William and Mildred Simms. Her father died in Kentucky, and her mother after¬ wards removed to Boone county, Mo. In 1850 Mr. Wilson removed to Audrain county and bought the land on which he now resides. He has a good place of 160 acres, and has it well improved. His life has been one of industry, and has been spent to good advantage ; and now approaching the sunset of his earthly career, he has brought down with him to old age the confidence and esteem of the people among whom he has lived for nearly half a century ; and when he shall have passed beyond the silent river, from which no echo is ever heard, his name will be remembered as that of a good man who lived a useful and honorable life. This world has no truer and richer reward than the memory of a good name. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson had six children : Sarah Elizabeth, Martha Jane, Santippi Angeline and Cornelia Fran¬ ces living, and David James and Mary M. are now deceased. Mr. Wilson has been an earnest and faithful member of the Christian church for over 40 years.

until recently composing the firm of Bane & Bane, proprietors of the Martinsburg elevator and corn-sheller. These gentlemen became engaged in this business in the fall of 1882, and gave it their entire at¬ tention until Wm. H. Bane & Son, Johnston Bane, followed as their successors. Besides their elevator business, which is of considerable importance, handling as they do a large portion of the grain shipped from this point, their corn-shelling industry has developed into an important branch of their business. They have perhaps the largest and best shelling machine in the county, it having a capacity of about 170 bushels per hour or over 12,000 bushels per week, counting twelve hours to the day. The senior partner, William H. Bane, was born in Giles county, Virginia, October 8, 1831, and was a son of John and Polly (Chapman) Bane, both old and life-long residents of the Old Dominion. William H.'s youth was spent on a farm and occupied with farm work, attending the neighborhood school and working in a mill. In 1861 he engaged in the milling business in Virginia, which he continued until all business became practically paralyzed by the war; being a worthy son of Virginia, he himself, joined her army in 1862, and served until the South went down in '65. He was in the 36th Va. Inf. C. S. A. After the war he resumed milling, and followed it until 1868 in West Virginia. He then came West and located in Callaway county, Missouri, where he engaged in farming, which he followed until the spring of 1882. Soon afterwards Mr. Bane came to Martinsburgh and engaged in the elevator business as stated above. On the 15th of July, 1858, he was married ill Mont¬ gomery county, Virginia, to Miss Mary E. Johnston, of the well known Johnston family of Virginia. She was born August 24th, 1840. Mr. and Mrs. Bane have six living children: George R., Johnston, John W., Mattie V., Hugh A. and Wade Hampton. Two, Charlie and Walter, are deceased. The two elder sons are now residents of Callaway county. Mrs. Bane's father, who had been a citizen of Culpeper county, Virginia, for many years, came to Boone county, Missouri, with his wife and family in 1836 and died in the spring of 1840. Mr. and Mrs. B. and their daughter are members of the Baptist church. Jackson H. Bane, the late junior partner of the above-named firm and a nephew to William H., was born in Mercer county, Virginia, November 28, 1848. In 1857 his parents, Johnson and Julia A. (Grayson) Bane, came to Missouri, locating first in Grundy county, but soon afterwards settling permanently in Callaway county. There they lived to old age and died, the mother September 20, 1878, and the father March 21, 1882. Jackson H. was reared on his father's farm near Bachelor post-office in Callaway county. His educational advantages were those of that vicinity - sufficient for young Bane to acquire, which he did, a good ordinary education. On the 31st of October, 1878, he was married to Miss Sarah F. Renfro, of the well known Renfros of Callaway county. Mr. and Mrs. Bane have three children : Charles Jackson, Carl and Julia A. Mrs. B. is a member of the Christian church. Mr. Bane followed farming in Callaway county until 1872, when he removed to Kansas and was engaged in selling goods at Belmont in that State for about a year. Returning thereafter, he resumed farming in Callaway county, which he followed with success until his marriage. Following this he came to Martinsburgh and engaged here in the elevator and cornshelling business, which he has since followed, his uncle Willian becoming his partner in the fall of '82, as already stated, he being suc¬ ceeded by Johnston Bane.

The present members of the firm are both men of character and enterprise, and have the industry and qualifications to succeed in their present business. Both were reared to know what work is and not to shirk it, and were brought up to principles of honor and integrity, learn¬ ing by the example of their fathers that only by personal exertions and upright dealings can men win the confidence of those among whom they live, and ultimately succeed in life. The principles to which they were brought up they have steadily adhered to, and although they have not been engaged in business at Martinsburgh a great while, they have established for themselves a name as honest, reliable busi¬ ness men which is of the first importance to successful enterprise of every kind. The community has perfect confidence in their word, with regard to the business in which they are engaged, and the farmers in all the surrounding country come to them to learn the prices of grain and other products, feeling assured that perfect reliance can be placed in the quotations given. Hence, when farmers have grain to sell they naturally look to this firm as the purchaser, for they know they will be offered the highest prices the state of the market will admit. Messrs. Bane & Bane are prepared to handle grain in large quantities.

Matthias L. Barker

dealer in general merchandise, Benton City. Mr. Barker was brought up to the mercantile business and has followed it for about ten years past with uninterrupted success. He is a son of Lewis and Hester (Presley) Barker, his mother now deceased, but his father at present a resident of this place. The family formerly lived at Truxton, in Lincoln county, where the father was engaged in merchandising for many years. Matthias L. was born at Truxton on the 29th of May, 1845. His youth was spent in his father's store and in the schools of Truxton. As he grew up, therefore, he not only acquired a fair general education, but also learned the business of merchandising thoroughly. Of Southern family, at the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the State Guard under the call of Gov. Jackson, and became a member of Gen. Harris' command. While in this service he participated in the battle of Lexington and numerous skirmishes, and at the engagement of Rose Hill he was taken prisoner, and after¬ wards confined at Gratiot Street Bastile for several months. At a later period of the war he became a member of Col. Dorsey's recruit¬ ing service, and in 1864, after having been with Dorsey for about a year, he joined Col. Slayback's regiment under Gen. Joe. Shelby, and was a member of the latter's command, in which he was orderly sergeant of his company, until the close of the war. Mr. Barker was in all the conflicts in which the fearless Shelby led his men during the last twelve months of the great struggle. In the summer of 1865 he returned to his home in Missouri, but soon afterwards engaged in the contract business for railroads, carrying on work in Arkansas, Mis¬ sissippi, rKentucky and Tennessee for about five years following. During this time he held contracts under the Memphis & Little

Rock, Little Rock & New Orleans and the Iron Mountain roads. Subsequently Mr. Barker engaged in the timber business in Kentucky, furnishing persimmon wood to Chicago houses for shoe-lasts, etc. After following this for about two years he returned to Missouri, and having; been successful in his affairs, he engaged in business in Benton City in the grocery line, which he followed for about three years. In November, 1882, Mr. B. M. Britt bought an interest in the busi¬ ness which previously Mr. Barker and his father had carried on, and the firm became Barker & Britt. They carry a large stock of goods, and are doing an excellent and steadily increasing business. On the 26th of July, 1879, Mr. Barker was married to Miss Jennie L. Enos, formerly of New York. They have two children: Hester and Lucy.

Joseph Boyd

farmer and stock raiser. Mr. Boyd's life has been one of great activity and industry, not unspiced with some thrilling adventures, and, withal, substantially successful in a material point of view. He is a native Missourian, born on the Missouri river, in Callaway county, near Jefferson City, on the 21st of November, 1836. His father was Col. John Boyd, well known in this State in the early days of the country, and prominent in public life. His mother's maiden name was Mary Scott. She is still living in Callaway county, a motherly old lady, noted for her kindness of heart and her many other excel¬ lent qualities. When Joseph was 15 years of age his father settled at Auxvasse, where he grew to manhood. He remained at home until the outbreak of the war, when, being a Southerner in sympathy and by conviction, and having the courage to fight for the faith that was in him, he threw himself into the struggle for the maintenance of Southern rights and Southern institutions. He enlisted in Capt. Berry's company of the State Guard, and after the close of that term entered the regular Confederate armv under Col. Gates, the brave old one-armed soldier, as honest in public life as he was gallant in the field. Following the standard of the Confederacy without flinching, through all the baptisms of fire through which his command passed, he was at last captured at Vicksburg, and was started en route to a Northern bastile in which it was expected he was to languish as a prisoner until the close of the great conflict. But he resolved to dare everything, even to the risk of death, rather than to submit to the horrors of prison life. While on the way to Indianapolis he jumped through the window of the car while the train was under headway, and having the good fortune not to be seriously hurt by the fall, he escaped out of sight before the train could be stopped, and subse¬ quently made his way through the lines to the Southern army, under¬ going the greatest hardships and privations on the trip, being afraid to ask for food only when absolutely necessary to prevent starvation. In the South again, he became 1st lieutenant of Co. B, Perkin's regi¬ ment, and did his duty at the front of his men until the close of the war. He was in many of the greatest death-duels of the struggle, but escaped unscathed. Returning to Missouri, he engaged in farm¬ ing in Callaway county, and on the 27th of February, 1876, was married to Miss Minerva Jamison, of the well-known and highly respected Jamison family of Callaway county. His wife is a sister to the widow of the late Col. Jeff. Jones, and also to the wife of William Harrison. In 1870 Mr. Boyd located on his present farm in Audrain county. Here, since that time, he has been engaged in farming and stock raising, and has been very successful. Up to within the last year he handled mules quite extensively, not without substantial results. His place contains about 500 acres, and is excep¬ tionally well improved. In fact it is one of the finest stock farms in this part of the county. He has just erected a new house and a new barn, at a cost of about $3,500. He and wife have three children: Mary, Malinda and Jalev G. Mr. Boyd went to Pike's Peak in 1859.

James S. Brown

farmer and stock raiser. Mr. Brown, one of the leading agriculturists and prominent, influential citizens of the south-eastern part of the county, comes of two old and well-known families in the history of the country - the Browns of Pennsylvania and the Pickens of South Carolina. On his father's side Mr. Brown comes of the family of his name of the old Keystone State which has given to the country four distinguished representatives in Congress: Hon. Robert Brown, who served in the National House of Representatives from December 4, 1798, to March 2, 1815 ; Hon. John Brown, who served from Penn¬ sylvania in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses ; Hon. Charles Brown and Hon. Jeremiah Brown, who also served with distinction for a number of years each in the National Legislature. Mr. Brown, the subject of the present sketch, is a descendant of the Kentucky branch of the family. His grandfather settled in Bourbon county, Kentucky, in the pioneer days of the country. Mr. Brown's great grandfather, Coulbourn Brown, was killed bv Indians near Red Stone

Fort, in Pennsylvania, three months before his son was born. Mr. B., in company with a Mr. Roberson and another man, was about five miles from the fort pulling flax. Having gotten wet, he had taken off his shirt and hung it up to dry, the guns being near. The Indians intended to make the three men prisoners, but seeing Mr. B. prepared, as they thought, to run for his life, shot him, seven bullets piercing his body. Mr. Roberson was captured when about half a mile from the fort, the other also being taken prisoner, but subsequently escaping. At the age of fourteen James S. Brown's grandfather moved to Hinkston Station, Bourbon county, Kentucky, and while young married his first wife, Clarissa Rudler, who bore him one son, William, February 14, 1797, now living in Pike county, Mo., on the place which he settled in 1818, at the age of eighty-seven. After the death of his first wife he married Jane Taylor, daughter of Samuel Taylor, from Ireland, who served with or under Washington five years, until the close of the Revolution. By his second marriage there were eleven children - eight sons and three daughters. Five of the sons followed William to Missouri. Samuel, the oldest, came in 1836, and settled in Montgomery county, later removing to Callaway, where he now lives at the age of eighty-two, active in mind and body. George W. (father of James T. ) and L. T. came the next year, 1837, and there were also Coulbourn and Milton, the former of whom settled in Audrain county, the latter casting his fortune with Boone county. George W. Brown was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, August 22, 1810, and after he grew up was married October 6, 1830, to Miss Elizabeth Pickens. His wife was a direct descendant from Gen. Andrew Pickens, of the Revolutionary War, who, a resident of South Carolina, was a major-general in the Colonial armies under Washington. Gov. Pickens, of South Carolina, also came of the same original ancestor. In January, 1837, George W. Brown im¬ migrated to Missouri, locating at first in Knox county, but prior to the organization of that county. Later along he removed to Pike county, and from there he went to Marion county, but shortly returned to Audrain, which became his permanent home. Here he settled on Loutre, where he lived until his death, which oc¬ curred the 20th of July, 1883, at the ripe old age of seventy-two. He was a man of great force of character, of a fine physical constitu¬ tion, and of more than ordinary intelligence. He became a successful farmer and prominent citizen of the county. He was for many years justice of the peace in the early days of the county, and kept the post-office at Shy Post for a number of years. He has handed down some thrilling anecdotes of his experience as a peace officer or judicial magistrate of the county, which we regret we have not here the space to relate. His first wife died in 1842, leaving four children : James S., the subject of the present sketch ; William, who has been in the mountains of the West for the last thirty years; Margaret, the wife of Joseph H. Rutledge, now of Washington Territory, and Matilda, the wife of J. D. Pitt, of Pike county. He was married a second time, September 6, 1849, to Miss Sarah E. Harris, of an old and respected family of Montgomery county. She died January 17, 1881, leaving six children: Ollie J., the wife of C. E. Thompson, of Montgomery county; Mary Ellen, Milton, Charles, Lucy C., and Augustus. All but the first still reside on the old family homestead on Loutre. This place consisted originally of nearly a half section of land, but has since been reduced by sales, etc., until it now contains a quarter section. James S. Brown, the eldest by his father's first marriage, was born in Harrison county, Kentucky, on the 6th of October, 1831. He was therefore about seven years of age when his parents removed to Missouri. In 1847, then sixteen years of age, he became a member of the family of his uncle, Laban Brown, who had settled in Audrain county and lived about half a mile east from the present site of Martinsburgh. Remaining with his uncle about three years, he then went to Callaway county and apprenticed himself to B. O. Austin, of Bloomfield, and worked in that county for about four years. In 1854 he returned to Audrain and soon began contracting as builder, making his headquarters at Mexico most of the time, for about five years. As a contractor he was satisfactorily successful and succeeded in accumulating some means. On the 15th of November, 1859, he was married to Miss Nancy J. Oliver, a daughter of William Oliver, of Montgomery county. Following his marriage Mr. Brown retired from the carpenter's business and turned his attention to farming. In 1861 he located on the place where he now resides. His tract of land consisted at first of 160 acres, but to that he has since added until he now has a fine body of 720 acres in his farm. Mr. Brown has been abundantly successful as a farmer. Far above the average in intelligence and enterprise, a stranger to indolence, full of goaheadativeness, he has made his place one of the best injproved and one of the handsomest in the county. His land is all under fence, and, devoting a large share of his attention to stock raising, he has set apart nearly 500 acres for pasturage. His buildings, residence, barns, etc., are large, commodious and tastily constructed. In short, his farm presents a handsome picture of farm life and prosperity.

Mr. Brown's stock are generally of a high grade, and he handles large numbers of cattle, sheep and hogs. In his family Mr. Brown is even more highly favored than in his material affairs. He has eight worthy children : Maggie Pickens, Lula Clanton, George Marion, Nannie Jane, Oliver Scott, Lloyd James, Laura Clyde and Mattie Belle. The eldest, Miss Maggie, is a highly accomplished young lady, and the three elder daughters are all young ladies of singular attractiveness, both of mind and person. Entertaining in conversation, the writer, who had the pleasure of spending an evening at the hospitable home of Mr. Brown, cannot recall an experience more delightful than that which he enjoyed in the society of these accomplished and charming young ladies. On the 23d of August, 1882, Mr. Brown was made to suffer the saddest misfortune that can befall one in this life. On that day his devoted wife, with whom he had spent over twenty years of a happy married life, was taken from him by death. She was a woman of the rarest qualities of mind and heart, and was beloved by all who knew her. Mr. B. has been a worthy member of the Masonic order for over thirty years.

Coulbourn Brown

farmer. The history of the Brown family has been so fully given in that of James S. Brown, whose sketch precedes this, that but little is necessary to be said here in regard to its origin. Coulbourn Brown, the subject of the present sketch, was a brother to George W., the father of James S., and was born in Harrison county, Kentucky, Jan¬ uary 1, 1813. Mr. Brown's father died in 1849, while en route to Missouri on the Mississippi, from Kentucky, to see his children. Mr. Brown's mother, before her marriage, was a Miss Jane Taylor, a daughter of Samuel Taylor, an old Revolutionary soldier under Wash¬ ington, and one of the first settlers of Kentucky. In 1838 Mr. Brown, then twenty-five years of age, came to Missouri and located at first in Palmyra, but two years afterwards came to Audrain county and set¬ tled in the neighborhood in which he still resides. A resident of this vicinity for the last forty-four years, he has witnessed the progress of the country from an almost trackless wilderness to a scene of unend¬ ing lanes, and a landscape tessellated as far as the eye can reach with fields and pastures, ornamented with handsome farm houses, the homes of a happy and prosperous people. On coming to the county he en¬ tered a tract of land, and engaged in farming. On the 15th of October, 1848, he was married to Miss Susan D., a daughter of Jared Harris of Montgomery county, and a sister to George W. Brown's second wife. Mrs. Brown was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, September, 2, 1826. Her parents came to Missouri in 1836. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have a family of four children : Eliza J., now the widow of Daniel T. Walker ; Sallie A., Harris Lee and Frank Palmer. They have lost three, Laban Taylor, who died in 1878, in his twentyfifth year ; Lucy Ellen who died in 1863, in her thirteenth year and Jared Coulbourn who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have been members of the Christian Church for the last twenty years. Their second daughter is a popular teacher of the county. Mr. Brown has followed farming through life and has long been known as one of the industrious farmers and worthy citizens of the county. His name is a synonym for honor and integrity wherever it is known.

Robert H. Brown

farmer and stock raiser. Mr. Brown is a representative of the younger generation of farmers who have settled in this county, and, by their energy and intelligence, give every promise of proving citizens of the highest value to its material and other interests. He was born in Callaway county, near Concord, on the 29th of January, 1857, and is a son of Robert and Mary A. (Fry) Brown, whose family is one of the most highly respected in that county. Robert H.'s youth was spent on the farm, occupied with farm work and attendingthe local schools. Subsequently he entered Westminster College, where he took a regu¬ lar course of study. In 1879 young Brown, having completed his college course, began the improvement of his present place in Audrain county. He has made the improvements on his farm himself, and has a place of about 360 acres, all in a body. He has given his attention both to grain growing and stock raising, particularly to handling mules and feeding hogs. He raises about 200 acres of corn and feeds annually about 75 head of hogs. He also buys young mules and sells them after they are grown up, which he has found a very profitable business. In a word, he is one of the enterprising, go-ahead young farmers of the county, and has to all appearances a more than ordi¬ narily bright future for prominence as an agriculturist and for useful citizenship.

Milton T. Brown

farmer, and one of the worthy, substantial citizens of Loutre town¬ ship, was born on his father's homestead in this county, on the 3d of July, 1857. His father, George W. Brown, was originally from Bour- bon county, Kentucky, as was also his mother, whose maiden name was Sarah E. Harris. Both came out to Missouri with their parents' families respectively, in a comparatively early day, and were married in Montgomery county, of this State. The father was for many years a resident of Audrain county and lived here until his death. He was a farmer by occupation and was fairly successful, leaving a comfortable estate at his demise. He was twice married and in the two families of children were five sons and five daughters, as follows: James J., William H., Milton (the subject of this sketch), Charles, Augustus, Maggie, Matilda, Mary, Olive and Lucy. He was a man peculiarly fond of home and much devoted to his family, caring little beyond the interests which every good citizen takes, 'for public affairs, and having no taste or ambition for official life. He was for many years a member of the Christian church and was an elder in that de¬ nomination at the time of his death. Personally, he was greatly re¬ spected by his neighbors and acquaintances and enjoyed the confi¬ dence and esteem of all who knew him. Milton T. Brown, the sub¬ ject of this sketch, was reared on his father's farm in this county and received a good ordinary education in the common schools. Since attaining his majority he has been steadily engaged in farming, and is looked upon as one of the energetic, worthy young men of Loutre township. Most of his father's family, who are living, are residents of this county, and all worthily bear the good name which he left them unsullied by a wrong act. Mr. Brown has a good farm of his own and is coming to the front as one of the successful young farmers of this vicinity.

Charles E. Burchard

railroad agent, Martinsburgh. Among the worthy young men of Audrain county, whose merits are such as to entitle them to a sketch in the present work, is young Mr. Burchard, the subject of the present biographical notice. His father, Charles H. Burchard, was born near Oswego, New York, September 21, 1831, and his mother, Clarinda D. (Durbin) Burchard, was born in Marion county, Missouri, July 5, 1842. His father moved to Missouri when about 21 years old and settled in Hunnewell, where he married Clarinda D. Durbin, on March 1, 1859. At the commencement of the Avar the family moved to McDonough county, Illinois, Avhere Charles was born December 12, 1864. They returned to Hunnewell, Missouri, at the close of the war, but changed their residence in 1875 to Martinsburgh, in which they made their permanent home. The father died here the 29th of

June, 1880, of consumption, contracted in the Union army. In youth Charles E. attended the common schools and acquired the elements of a good ordinary education. While still young he began to learn the telegraph business at Martinsburgh, under C. A. Durbin, and contin¬ ued it under Mr. Martin, and was shortly employed in the office as extra help. Following this he worked two years in the telegraph office at Ferguson, and in February, 1883, obtained the position of railroad agent at Martinsburgh, which he has since held. Young Mr. Burchard deserves great credit for the success he has had in bringing himself up in life. Now just nineteen years of age, he has attained to a position by his own energy and personal worth which would hardly be expected of one even much his senior. He is a young man of up¬ right character, steady habits, industrious and intelligent, and has every promise of becoming a useful and valuable citizen. His mother is still living and Charles E. is the mainstay of the family. Well and worthily he discharges his duty as a son. With him it is a labor of pleasure to keep the family together and to provide for them in the place of his lamented father.

Stephen Bertels

farmer and stock raiser. Mr. Bertels is a German-American and a farmer, and that is enough to carry the assurance that he is one of the solid men of Loutre township, where he resides. Thrift is the leading characteristic of the German people, and when they have good soil and favorable seasons, as they do in this country, they almost in¬ variably become well-to-do and prosperous. Mr. Bertels was born in Westphalia, Prussia, September 12, 1835, and was a son of Frank and Angeline (Schreve) Bertels. His parents came to this country in 1850, and Stephen came with them. His father was a blacksmith and settled in Osage county, Missouri, where he carried on his trade. For the first two years Stephen completed his adolescence there and learned the trade under his father and at Jefferson City. He worked for several years at Jefferson City, and then went to St. Louis, where he was engaged in work for the Government for some time. Return¬ ing to Osage county, he lived at Westphalia in that county up to 1880, and then came to Martinsburgh, during the fall of which year he bought the William Martin farm which contains 400 acres of fine land. Mr. Bertels is engaged in grain raising and the stock business. He is a man of untiring industry and has achieved his own success by his own energy. On the 4th of May, 1865, he was married to

Miss Christian N., a daughter of Joseph Nake of Osage county. She survived her marriage only a few weeks, and the 30th of October of the following year, he was married to Miss Clara H., the daughter of Henry Heckemieyer. Mr. and Mrs. Bertels have a family of six children : Mary, who, while attending the Convent Seminary at Belle¬ ville, Illinois, perished in the Belleville Convent tire, the 5th of Jan¬ uary, 1884 ; Christine, Katie, Fannie, Lizzie and Theressa. Mr. and Mrs. Bertels are both members of the Catholic Church. Mr. Bertels served in the Missouri State Militia during Price's reign, and held the rank of 2d lieutenant.

Henry Buscher

farmer. Mr. Buscher is another one of the many farmers of Audrain county of German-American lineage, who have contributed by their industry and thrift so largely to the development of the material re¬ sources of the county, and to its agricultural progress. He was born in Prussia on the 14th of November, 1841, and was a son of Henry Buscher, who immigrated to America in 1850, and settled in Osage county, Missouri. Henry grew up in that county to the age of twentyone, and then joined the army, and kept step to the music of the Union for three long and thrilling years of privation and danger. He became a member of the 10th Mo. Cavalry under Col. Cornelius, and remained with his command until he was captured at Memphis, Ten¬ nessee, on the first of November, 1864. He was confined in a Con¬ federate prison-pen in Alabama for three months, and was then paroled. He at once rejoined his command and remained with it until he was honorably mustered out in July, 1865. Returning to St. Louis, he made that city his home until the fall of 1876, and in the meantime, in November, 1871, was married to Miss Annie Fennewald. Five years afterwards he came to Callaway county, and en¬ gaged in farming, which he has since followed. Mr. Buscher, although physically disabled for hard labor by disease contracted in the army, has succeeded in making himself a comfortable home. He has a neat farm of 120 acres and has it fairly improved. He and wife are mem¬ bers of the Catholic Church.

Major Cave, whose whole life, practically, was spent in this section of the State as a worthy farmer and esteemed citizen, fell a victim to the terrible internecine strife which raged between the sections and between neighbors during the late war. He came to Missouri with his parents, Henry and Margaret (Hawkins) Cave, while he was still in infancy, in 1814. They were from Kentucky and located, on coming to this State, first in St. Charles county, but soon afterward settling permanently in Boone county where they lived until their death. Henry Cave became a well-to-do farmer of Boone county and died greatly regretted by those who knew him. Major Cave, his son and the subject of this sketch, was born in Kentucky on the 12th of July, 1812. After he grew up in Boone county, Missouri, he was married on the 15th of April, 1846, to Miss Margaret Harrison, a daughter of Thomas and Sallie (Potts) Harrison, that old and honored family of Callaway county which occupies so prominent a position in the history of that county, just published, and is also referred to in the sketch of the life of James M. Harrison in the present volume. After his marriage Major Cave settled in Boone county, where he lived until his death engaged in farming and stock raising. He was a man whose life was without reproach, and who is remembered as one of the best citizens Boone county ever had. He took no part in the war, but was heavily preyed upon by the camp-followers and evil characters of both sides, and at last fell between the contending parties and lost his life. Some bushwhackers "pressed" several horses of his into their own service without consulting him and indeed entirely without his knowledge. Merrill's Horse, a body of men in the Federal service celebrated for their bad character, robbers and cut-throats in fact, hearing this, at once jumped to the conclusion that he had voluntarily contributed the horses for service to the Southern bushwhackers ; and coming on to his house, they put him under arrest, accused him of what they pretended he was guilty, and took him out a short distance from the house and shot him down in cold blood. Thus, guilty of no crime, but a man whose name for a lifetime had stood as a synonym for honor and integrity, he was infam¬ ously and brutally murdered. This was on the 5th of September, 1864. Such was one of the sad incidents of that unhappy war. Major Cave was a quiet, peaceable, law-abiding citizen with no taste for public life or public station, but devotedly attached to his family and home. Though a man qualified for any office in the county, he never sought nor held any of importance. The only official position he ever occupied was that of Major of militia in the old muster days. Mrs. Cave, his widow, and at whose instance this sketch of her hus¬ band is given in the present volume, continued to reside in Boone county until 1871, when she removed to her present place across into

A. u drain county. She has a comfortable homestead here and is spend¬ ing the evening of her life in ease and surrounded by several children of her family. Her farm contains 320 acres and is handsomely located and well improved. She is now in her sixty-first year, one of the venerated old mothers of the county. She was born in Callaway county, March 1, 1823. She has long been a member of the Christian church. Mrs. Cave has reared a family of seven children: The eldest, Thomas H., was killed in the battle of New Market in Virginia, May 15th, 1864, in his seventeenth year; William H., the fourth in the family, is now in Texas; Edward S., the sixth, is in St. Louis attending medical college ; Charles, Fannie P., Lutie H. and John S. are at home. Three others, Angeline, Addia and James, died in tender years.

Charles B. Clark

a worthy resident of Martinsburgh and an old citizen of Audrain county, was born in Sullivan county, Tennessee, February 28, 1813. H is father's name was Lewis Clark, and he was originally from North Carolina. His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Baskett. Charles

B. Clark was reared in his native county and was married there on the 11th of October, 1838, to Miss Elizabeth Payne. She was for¬ merly of Virginia, born in Patrick county, September, 22, 1820, and was a daughter of Vincil and Margaret (Thompson) Payne. Mr. Clark continued to reside in Tennessee until 1842, when he removed with his family to Missouri and located in Ralls county. He entered land in Ralls county and improved a large farm, and lived there for about thirteen years. In 1866 he came over into Audrain county and settled on Hickory Creek ; there he entered a tract of land and im¬ proved another place. He lived on his Hickory Creek farm for about ten years, at the expiration of which time he bought land a mile north¬ east of Martinsburgh, on which he located and where he lived up to the time of removing to town. As a farmer Mr. Clark was more than ordinarily successful. He was long one of the leading stock men of the county, and at one time owned nearly 200 acres of fine land. About two years ago Mr. Clark met with a severe accident. He was suddenly struck by a railroad engine while on the track and on horse¬ back and was severely injured, being crippled for life. His horse was killed outright. Since then he has not been able to carry on any busi¬ ness requiring vigorous physical exercise or labor. For some four months after the accident he was confined to his bed, hardly being able to turn over during the entire time. After he became able to knock about, being of a stirring, energetic disposition and not con¬ tent to sit around and do nothing;, he engaged in selling; washing machines, which he followed for about two years and sold nearly $2,000 worth in Audrain and neighboring counties. Mr. Clark sold his farm several years ago, and now has a neat comfortable homestead property in Martinsburgh. One of the old citizeus of the county, he is replete with many interesting incidents of the pioneer days of the country which are well worthy a place in the history of the county, but which Ave regret we have not the space here to relate. When he settled on Hickory Creek his nearest neighbor lived over twenty miles away, so that he has Avitnessed the settlement of the country from the time the Avolf and the deer Avere its principal inhabitants. Through a long and active life Mr. Clark has preserved a character untarnished by a wrong act, and now in his old age he can look back seeing but little to regret, and to the future Avith but little to fear. He has but one son, Lewis D., now living in the county near Laddonia. A second son, William, died in boyhood. Mr. C. is a member of the Christian Church, and has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for nearly forty years.

Shelby Clark

farmer and stock raiser. Among the better class of Kentuckians Avho came out to Callaway county in the early days of the country, was the family of John Clark, who settled in that county during the Avinter of 1824-25. He entered land three miles Avest of Williamsburg, and im¬ proved a large farm ; but he had hardly more than succeeded in get¬ ting his place well improved when he was called away from all earthly activities and from his lo\Ted ones in this life, by the still, small, yet, inexorable voice of death.

He died on the 25th of January, 1830, just five years to a day from the time of his arrival in Callaway county. He had been three times married. By his first wife there Avere nine children. His second Avife survived her marriage only a short time. She left one child. His last wife Avas previously Mrs. Elizabeth Read (Chick). She lived for many years after her husband's death. By this union there Avere seven children, including Shelby Clark, the subject of the present sketch. He was born two years before his parents left the Blue Grass

State, in Christian county, on the 28th of August, 1823. He was therefore reared in Callaway county, his mother continuing after her husband's death to reside on the old Clark homestead. After Shelby Clark grew up he engaged in farming for himself, and when twentytwo years of age bought and entered 280 acres of land in Audrain county, which he improved. Later along he added to this, and from time to time has increased his landed estate, until he now has a fine body of 600 acres, nearly all under fence and handsomely improved, one of the finest stock farms in Audrain county. Such is the reward, in a material way, of a life well spent in industrious farming and good management. Mr. Clark is turning his attention mainly to stock raising, for which he has every advantage and facility. Still, not be¬ yond the age of energetic activity in agricultural and business affairs, he is nevertheless already so situated that if he chose to, he could sit down and enjoy himself in ease and comfort without further troubling himself for additional means beyond what he already has. In other words, he is comparatively a wealthy man as the average run of far¬ mers goes, and is now able to take life easy. On the 27th of Septem¬ ber, 1849, Mr. Clark was married to Miss Virginia Jones, formerly of Kentucky, a daughter of Hezekiah Jones, afterwards of Callaway county. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have a family of nine children ; Betsy J., wife of George Payton; Miss Fannie M., Miss Mary E., Mrs. Lucy A., the wife of James W. Dunn in California; Henry S., Isaac L., Virginia A., Thomas J. and Johft L. Mr. and Mrs. C. are members of the Christian Church, and Mr. Clark has been a member of the Ma¬ sonic order for many years, being now an initiate of the Chapter degree.

The name that heads this sketch was borne by a man well and favor¬ ably known to the people of Audrain and Callaway counties, particu¬ larly iu the north-eastern part of the latter, and the central and south¬ eastern part of the former. A successful farmer of Audrain county for a number of years prior to his death, from an early day up to the time of settling on his farm, he had been engaged in mercantile pursuits, principally at Mexico, Shamrock and Marti nsburgh. He was born in Bourbon, Kentucky, February 25, 1826. He was a son of John and Diana (Bradford) Coil, who settled here from Kentucky as early as 1836. His father died in March, 1865. William H., after he grew up, was married on the 5th of December, 1865, to Miss Carolina Vaughan, a daughter of Henry and Evaline (Ford) Vaughan, who came to Missouri from Kentucky in 1857. Mrs. Coil was born in Old¬ ham county, Kentucky, November 26, 1835. However, Mrs. Coil's father died before the family removed to Missouri. Her mother died here July 1, 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Coil reared a family of two children : Samuel O. and Annie E., both unmarriei, reside at the old home¬ stead. Mr. C., the father of these, died on his farm in this county, on the 20th of August, 1877. Mrs. Coil still survives him, and resides on the old homestead. She has a place of 213 acres. Mrs. Coil is a lady of great strength of character and superior intelligence, as well as a wom¬ an of many amiable and neighborly qualities. She is carrying on the farm herself, superintending her entire affairs, and she manages her place with a degree of energy and success that would reflect credit on some of our best farmers. Personally she is much beloved by her neighbors, and is in every sense a Christian hearted, good woman, one of the worthy mothers of the county. She has long been a member of the Christian Church. Her husband was a man worthy to have been the partner of life of such a wife. A man of high character and of the most generous impulses, he is remembered by all who knew him with kindness and with sorrow for his death.

and an elder brother of the late William H. Coil, whose sketch pre¬ cedes this, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, on the 17th of October, 1824. He was therefore thirteen years of age when his parents removed to Audrain county in 1836. He early learned the blacksmith's trade and worked at that, with success, for about twenty years. He was not married until rather late in life - until he was nearly forty years of age. But on the 26th of June, 1864, he was married to Miss Lizzie P. Romans, born in Tazewell county, Virginia, on the 25th of August, 1838. She was a daughter of John and Mary P. Romans, who were early settlers in this section of Missouri, from the Old Dominion. In August following his marriage, Mr. Coil settled on the farm where his widow still resides. Here he followed farming until his death, which occurred on the 4th of July, 1879. He and his good wife reared a family of eight children : Mary L., Angie B., Lucy G., John G., Eunice P., Linnie D.,<> William H. and Allen A. Mrs. C. and her daughters were members of the Christian Church, as was also Mr. C. for twenty years. He was one of the honest, worthy men of Audrain county. His life was one of great industry, spent striving, as a good man, to bring up his family in a creditable way, and to leave a record of his career which would cause no blush of shame to mantle the face of those near and dear to him at the men¬ tion of his name. If to have spent one's life in honest toil, to bring up a worthy family, to live according to the principles of honor and morality, and to keep steady in view the great precepts of the Ten Commandments, dying finally in the faith of the true Christian - if to do this is to have filled a high and noble mission, then George A. Coil may be said to have come up to the full measure of man's truest aim in life. Such a father no descendant will ever wish to forget. Mrs. Coil, his wife, is a woman worthy to have held the place she oc¬ cupied by the side of her husband during their happy married life. A lady in the better sense of the word, true-hearted, generous and kind, affectionate in her family and hospitable in her home, she is loved by her neighbors less only than by her own children. She is a sincere and faithful follower of the Cross, a true and pious mother in Israel. She resides on Section, 29, Township, 50, Range, 7.

Jacob W. Douglass

farmer, and the fourth of Rev. William B.'s family, was born on the old Douglass homestead in Loutre township where his mother still resides, on the 28th of June, 1842. He was reared on the farm and given a good common school education as he grew up. While still a youth his father instilled into his mind the principles of Christianity and integrity, and taught him by precept and example that the safest and best way to get along in the world is by honest industry. The force of these lessons was not lost on the son. In every way he is worthy of the ancestor to whom he owes his being and the sterling character he possesses. On the 8th of December, 1870, Mr. Douglass was married to Miss SerreldaL., a daughter of James R. and Martha F. (Wigginton) Ridgeway. After his marriage he settled on the farm where he now resides. His father had entered the land which was given to the son, and on which the latter has made his permanent home. He has 290 acres, 240 of which are in one body. Mr. Doug¬ lass has a good farm, especially well adapted to stock raising, to which principally he is turning his attention. He is one of the better class of farmers and highly respected citizens of the township. Mr. and Mrs. D. have three children : Clarence Riley, Robert Shelton and Homer French. Two are deceased, the eldest, Eugene E., who died July 10, 1881, in his tenth year, and Linnie W., who died July 22, late minister of the Christian Church. On the 12th day of Decem¬ ber, 1880, died at his home in Loutre township, the good man whose name heads this sketch. He had been a resident of the township and had lived on the same place for nearly fifty years. His life from its morning until the last ray of its evening had faded into darkness, was one without a tarnish. From an early age his mind was turned to serious thoughts, and it was a constant study with him how he could best serve his fellow-creatures and make his life most useful. Born in Bedford county, Virginia, on the 27th of January, 1810, he was reared to habits of industry, and came up under influences both parental and otherwise which tended to direct him in the path of rec¬ titude and develop a strong and sterling character, and a disposition to strive for some useful mission in life. When twenty years of age, in 1830, he came to Missouri and located in Callaway county. Here, at first, he engaged in school teaching near Readsville, and was mar¬ ried soon afterwards to Miss Lucy Chick, formerly of Kentucky. In 1833 Mr. Douglass crossed over into Audrain county, on moving here, entered a body of land on which he opened a farm and made his home. Here he followed farming and for many years, prin¬ cipally during the winter months, taught school. Of his religious work we shall speak hereafter. As a farmer and in business generally, although the reverse of avaricious, being, indeed, one of the most liberal and generous-hearted of men, laying little store to the wealth of this world, he was nevertheless very successful, and at one time was the possessor of over 1,500 acres of fine land, besides important values in other property. In his family he was blessed with ten children: David W. and Sallie A., who died early in life; Edward, Nancy J., now Mrs. Robert Sallee; William A., Jacob W., Joseph C., Martha C., now the widow of the late William S. Bullard ; John W. and Samuel H. Mr. Douglass was a citizen of more than ordinary value to the community in which he lived. Settling on Loutre in the pioneer days of the country, his home was a stopping place for those who subsequently moved to the county. One of the most hospitable of men, and appreciating the disadvantages under which new-comers labored until they could establish themselves at least a temporary home, his door was always thrown open to them, and he gladly favored them in every way he could. As a neighbor he was the soul of kindness, and was respected and esteemed by all among whom he lived. As has been said, he earlv turned his thoughts to serious subjects. He was brought up in the Presbyterian faith, but waiting to mature his ideas of his duties as to the denomination with which he should identify himself, he had not yet become a member of that church at the time he came to Callaway county. The first meeting he attended in Missouri was conducted by Rev. Marces P. Wills. He studied his Bible faithfully, and decided to cast his lot with the Christian Church. Accordingly, at the next meeting held by Rev. Wills in Callaway county, he made a confession of his faith and was received into the church. He soon decided to devote himself to the ministry, and being already well grounded in theology, he commenced preaching as early as the third Sunday in July, 1832. From that time up to the beginning of the war he was an almost constant worker in the ministry. No preacher in this part of the country was more zealous and active in the sacred cause, and few, if any, were more successful in bringing souls to Christ. His life was a valuable one also to the material interests of the church. He was as generous of his means in furthering the cause of religion as he was zealous in the pulpit and his pastoral work. He was largely instrumental in organ¬ izing the Liberty Church, for which he preached many years. After the war he still kept up his work, more or less, up to the time of his death, though not continuously, particularly during the last years of his life. Of his ministry another has said, " His co-adjutors in the ministry, nearly all of whom are now dead, and all known to the writer, were none of them his equal in the elements of power and usefulness, except perhaps in exhortation, though he was not deficient in this. Humility and modesty were perhaps his strongest points. He would be the last in the social circle to speak, but when he did speak all were glad to listen. Under his labors a church was planted in his neighborhood, called Liberty Church, which numbered at one time probably more than 250 members. Though he preached there with more or less regularity for over forty-five years, he never accepted a thing for his services from the church. To prevent those under his ministry from becoming covetous, however, he often compelled them to employ some other preacher, during which he would neverthe¬ less occupy his usual day. During all the time of his service for the Liberty Church, his popularity, always enviable, never slackened. There was no time when he would not have been the choice of his brethren as their constant preacher. His prudence, good sense, and sound judgment gave his decisions in council almost the authority of law." His widow, who died November 4, 1883, aged 74 years, 11 months and 1 day, was " one of the best of Eve's daughters, and a model for preachers' wives." She was a noble hearted woman and an earnest, faithful Christian, and was beloved bv all who knew her.

physician and surgeon, also member of the firm of Douglass & Bro., Martinsburgh. Dr. Douglass, who has nearly 20 years' experience in the practice of medicine, and is a man of thorough general and professional education, removed to Martinsburgh a few months ago from his former place of residence in this county, and is now engaged in the mercantile business, to which he expects hereafter to devote his entire time and attention, or at least as nearly so as his old patients and friends will permit, desiring as he does to withdraw from the hard work and exposures incident to a country practice. Dr. Douglass is a native of Audrain county, born on the old Douglass homestead on Loutre creek, on the 24th of April, 1836. He was a son of Rev. William B. Douglass, whose sketch precedes this, and this fact is assurance enough that he had every advantage that one of the best of fathers could afford a son. Reared, therefore, under the care and direction of that good man, whose name is an ornament to the history of Audrain county, it would have been strange indeed if the son had failed to lead a worthy and upright career as a man and citizen. Dr. Douglass' youth was spent on his father's farm, occu¬ pied with assisting in the work about the place and in attending the excellent public and private schools kept in the neighborhood, from time to time. At the age of 20 he had made such progress in his preparatory studies that he was qualified to enter college, and accord¬ ingly his father sent him to Bethany College, Virginia, that noble in¬ stitution of learning which has been presided over by some of the ablest men of the age, including that great theologian and distin¬ guished divine, Alexander Campbell. Dr. Douglass took a thorough course at Bethany, but on account of sickness (failure of health), left college November 1, 1860, but would have graduated had he remained, as he had passed most of his examinations. After his college course, he engaged in teaching in Audrain county, which he followed almost continuously for about four years, being connected at one time with the public schools of Mexico. His purpose had long been to devote himself to the medical profession, and during this time, while teach- ing, he was diligently engaged in reading medicine. In 1874 he accordingly matriculated at the St. Louis Medical College, where he took a course of study and lectures. During the fall of the following year, Dr. Douglass returned to Audrain county and engaged at once in the practice of his profession in the vicinity of his old home. In the meantime, on the 2d of April, 1862, he had married - Miss Jane Taylor, of Callaway county, having become his wife - and he con¬ tinued to reside where he had first located and to devote himself to the sick and suffering uninterruptedly for a period of 18 years. Dr. Douglass, a man whom the people of that vicinity have known from infancy, and as favorably as he was well known, built up a large prac¬ tice, and was not less successful in accumulating the substantial evi¬ dences of faithful work in his profession, than in healing the sick and relieving the suffering. In 1883, Dr. Douglass feeling the necessity of rest after so many years of hard work through all seasons of the year, and at all times of day and night, decided to retire from the practice and in order not to be idle, to engage in some indoor busi¬ ness. He being a partner with his brother in merchandising at Martinsburgh, removed to this place. Of excellent business qualifications and of unusually popular manners and address, he will doubtless be entirely successful in his present business venture. The firm of which he is a member carries an exceptionally good stock of goods, and offers every inducement for custom in the way of low prices, fair deal¬ ing and obliging, accommodating treatment. The firm already has a fine trade. Dr. Douglass is one of the highly respected citizens at Martinsburgh and a prominent man in the community. The Dr. and Mrs. Douglass have four children : Mary Lee, Margaret Della, Mar¬ tha A. and Hay Dillard. Three are deceased: William T. died at the age of 16 years, a youth of unusually bright promise; Lucy A. died at four years, and an infant died unchristened. Both parents are members of the Christian Church.

Judge Andrew J. Douglass

farmer and presiding justice of the county court. Judge Douglass, now a substantial and prominent citizen of Audrain county, was left an orphan by the death of both parents, while he was yet in infancy, and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed at Mexico to the wagonmaker's trade. He served an apprenticeship of three years at his trade, and then set up a shop of his own, which he carried on, with ^success, until 1860. In the meantime, on the 28th of February, 1858, lie was married to Miss Mary Collins, a daughter of Barba and Mar¬ tha (Johns) Collins, of Shamrock, in Callaway county. Two years after his marriage he settled on land which his father had entered, and opened a farm, where he lived, engaged in farming and stock raising for over twenty years. In 1881 Judge Douglass came to his present place, which he had previously improved, and where he has since resided. As a farmer he has been entirely successful. His home¬ stead place contains 340 acres of good land, and he has it substan¬ tially improved. Judge Douglass has for many years been engaged in stock raising, and this has been not an unimportant source of his prosperity. The Douglass family is of Scotch descent, but has for many generations been settled in Virginia. David Douglass, a lineal ancestor of the Judge, was a soldier from the Old Dominion in the Revolutionary War. David Douglass left fourteen children at his death, three of whom came to Missouri: Rev. William B., whose sketch preceeds this ; Edward H., and Sarah, now Mrs. Robert Douglass, of Johnson county. Edward H. became the father of the Judge. The Judge's mother was, before her marriage, a Miss Mary J. Ogden, formerly of Bedford county, Virginia, a daughter of Henry Ogden, who is still living and is now in his ninety-second year. The Judge's parents were married in Virginia and came to Missouri in 1837 (W. B. Douglass having come to the State in 1832). Edward H. Douglass entered land and located on Loutre Creek, near his brother's, but he and wife both died the following year from the effects of a dose of poison which they took, through mistake, be¬ lieving it to be calomel. They left two children : James W. and Andrew J.,the former born June 24, 1835, and the hitter May 7, 1837. Judge Douglass was, therefore, not a year old at the time of his parents' death. Their uncle, Rev. William H., took the children and cared for them in their tender years. James W. is now living near Guthrie, in Callaway county, and is a substantial blacksmith. The Judge's life has already been traced. Though his school advan¬ tages were by no means favorable, yet, such was his desire for the knowledge afforded by books, that he applied himself to study with so much energy and diligence during his leisure hours, that he succeeded in acquiring a better general education than many whose opportuni¬ ties were far superior to his. A man of natural ability above the average of men, he became one of the well informed and influential citizens in the part of the county in which he lived. He became known for his high character and sound judgment, and was generally advised with as he still is, by those around him, in regard to business affairs, matters of public interest, etc. Such was his position in the esteem and confidence of the community that in 1873 he was called upon to serve as justice of the peace of his township, a position he accepted and filled with marked ability and general satisfaction. Such, indeed, was the credit with which he discharged the duties of magistrate, that two years afterwards he was urged to become a can¬ didate for a seat on the bench of the county court. Accepting the candidacy, he was elected by a large majority, and on the death of Judge Morris, in 1876, he became presiding justice of the court. Following this, in 1878, he was re-elected to the presidency of the court, and four years afterwards was elected the second time to the same position. The greatest eulogy that can be - pronounced upon his official career, and upon those of his associates, is written in the record of their court. When the Judge came upon the bench the county was staggering under a heavy indebtedness. So wisely and faithfully have its affairs been managed that the whole debt has been paid off, taxes have been reduced and the county now has a large fund in its treasury. During this time, also, handsome and costly public buildings have been erected, good bridges have been built and the roads vastly improved. In a word, the county has risen from an almost wilderness, burdened with debt, to one of the wealthiest and most populous in the State. The Judge and wife have a family of nine children: Fannie, wife of Milton H. Williams; David, Mary J., Henry, John, Edna, Henrietta and Andrew (twins), the latter de¬ ceased, and Lucy. The Judge and wife are members of the Chris¬ tian Church, and the Judge is a Mason of long standing.

John W. Douglass

of the firm of J. W. Douglass & Co., dealers in general merchandise, Martinsburgh. This firm, one of the prominent business houses of Martinsburgh, was organized in the fall of 1881, and is composed of John W., William A. and Edward R. Douglass, brothers. They carry a large and well selected stock of dry goods, clothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, queen's-ware etc., and have built up an extensive and lucrative trade. The senior partner, John W. Douglass, is a man of long and successful experience in merchandising and having been reared, as indeed all of them were, in this vicinity, he is well known as a man of unquestioned integrity and an accommodating disposition, such a man as wins and retains the confidence of a community, so that his personal popularity goes very far towards his success in busi- ness. Buying almost exclusively for cash and therefore at the lowest possible figures, they are enabled to sell at prices highly favorable to their customers, and which place them beyond a fear of injury from competition. They buy their goods usually in large quantities and thus get important reductions, which those who buy in small install¬ ments can not obtain. In short, they can and do sell goods of a superior class and quality at unusually low prices, and this is one of the main secrets of their success. They have recently erected a handsome new brick business house in Martinsburgh at a heavy cost, which is a gratifying evidence of their rapidly increasing prosperity. Mr. Douglass' parents, William B. and Lucy A. (Chick) Douglass, were early sattlers in the vicinity of Martinsburgh, the former having come from Virginia in 1831, and the mother originally from Ken¬ tucky. After a residence in this county of half a century, his father died on the family homestead near Martinsburgh in the fall of 1881. He was well known by all old citizens of the county, and was as highly respected as his acquaintance was general. He was a success¬ ful farmer and public spirited citizen, one of the worthy men who helped to develop the county and place it in the rank of the best counties in the State, John W. was born on the farm July 7, 1848, and as he grew up, being of steady, studious habits, he succeeded in getting more than an average common school education. In early manhood he taught school in the county for some years. In 1873, then about twenty-five years of age, he engaged in business as a part¬ ner with P. H. Gantt at Martinsburgh. This firm continued for about five years. Later along the firm of J. W. Douglass & Co., of which Mr. D. is the senior partner (but Jr., in years), was formed, and he has since stood at the head of this house. On the 16th of June, 1878, Mr. Douglass was married to Miss Maggie Henson, of Monroe county. They have a family of two children : Birtie Green farmer and stock man. On both his parents' sides Mr. Fennewald is of German descent. His father, whose name was George Fennewald, was born in Europe, and upon emigrating to the United States settled in Osage county, Mo., where Adolph was born on the 20th of March, 1850. His mother, Margretha Fennewald (born Hanne), was also originally from the old country. When about ten years of age Adolph was quite an orphan, and was then thrown into the world to find his own way, from the first hiring himself out for hard labor. He worked in both Missouri and Illinois, and in 1872 came to Audrain county, this State, here helping his brother to improve a farm. H aving the natural qualities of true manhood, his career has been one that reflects great credit upon his character and personal worth. He early strived to obtain for himself a home, and with this object in view purchased 100 acres of land. This was before securing a part¬ ner for life, and on account of the loneliness of the surroundings he sold out and for two or three years traded in stock. After his mar¬ riage he bought eighty acres adjoining Martinsburgh and continued farming, and also turned his attention to handling stock, in both of which he has proved entirely successful. He has since added to his farm until he now owns 200 acres of good land. He is one of the most industrious and energetic citizens of the township, and has made him¬ self one of the substantial farmers, occupying, as he does, a position in life to which not every one attains who starts out in the world with advantages to make a successful career. Mr. Fennewald is a promi¬ nent farmer. He keeps on his place a nice Tunnerbold horse and a fine-bred Nero jack, from Kentucky, and other excellent stock. His farm is about 300 or 400 yards north-east of Martinsburgh. Mrs. Fennewald (born Kemno) is also of German descent, born the 27th day of September, 1855. They were married on the 23d day of January, 1877, in Westphalia, Osage county, Mo. They, 'have three children: Henry, Joseph and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Fennewald are members of the Catholic Church.

Hubert M. Fennewald

farmer, and a brother to Bernard S. Fennewald, of Cuivre township, whose sketch appears on a former page of this work, was born in Osage county in the month of August, 1855, and was reared on his father's farm, near Westphalia. On the 4th of September, 1880, he was married to Miss Mary Kuinstring, of Osage county. They have two children : Theresa and Minor. Mr. and Mrs. Fennewald are members of the Catholic Church. Mr. Fennewald, when nineteen years of age, went to Carrollton, Ill., where he lived five years, and came thence to Audrain county in 1879 and cropped here with his brother for two years. He then bought his present place. Mr. Fen¬ newald has 160 acres of good land and has his farm substantially im¬ proved. He has just erected a house at a cost of $1,000, and has built a neat and commodious $300 barn. Mr. F. is a man of inde- fatigable industry and of great energy, and has made all he has by his own exertions and good management. He is a worthy citizen of the township, and his life promises to be one of no ordinary value to the agricultural and material interests of the county. Such men as he is, who accumulate property by their own industry, are the wealth producers of every community, and on them its prosperity depends. They are the factors in the great work of building up the county.

Edward Pinkney French

one of the old citizens and prominent business men of Martinsburgh, is by nativity a son of the Blue Grass State. He was born in Chris¬ tian county, Ky., November 28, 1833. Mr. French's parents were Pinkney and Deborah (Clark) French. The mother died when Ed¬ ward was quite young, and his father was afterwards married to Miss Elizabeth Jones. In 1838 the family removed to Missouri, and set¬ tled in Audrain county, near the Callaway line, but soon afterwards moved across into Callaway county, where the father died in 1860. When a youth Edward P. returned to Kentucky, and made his home with his grandfather, in Christian county. There he attended school, and afterwards learned the carpenter's trade. In 1850 he returned to Missouri, and worked at his trade with industry and success at Mexico for a number of years. By having practiced economy he wTas able in 1857 to engage in business on his own account, and accord¬ ingly he and John G. and William H. Coil formed a partnership and opened a store at Martinsburgh, the first store ever established at this place. After doing business here a couple of years he went to Cal¬ laway county, and was engaged in selling goods there for about two years. Following this Mr. French engaged in farming, and continued it with industry for six or seven years. In 1868 he returned to Mar¬ tinsburgh, and followed clerking in a store for some time, after which he engaged in the dnu business here, and carried on his drug store for about two years. Mr. French has been a continuous resident of Martinsburgh since 1868. Most of the time he has been engaged in business for himself, and has been identified with the trade of this place, either as clerk or proprietor, during the whole time. He is one of the most thorough and experienced druggists in the county. Having long been identified with the drug business, he has made the study of pharmacy a specialty, and has become conversant with it both as a science and an art, being not less familiar with its abstract principles than with the practical work of the laboratory. A man of more than ordinary intelligence and general information, he has not confined himself to the duties of one business alone, but being called on bv his neighbors for information and assistance in other matters, has become somewhat a public man in the community. He is now serving his second term as a notary public, and renders efficient ser¬ vice in drawing up deeds', contracts, etc., and transacting other public business for his neighbors and acquaintances. Mr. French's life, in a material point of view, has not been an unsuccessful one. He is in comparatively easy circumstances and does considerable business in the way of loans, discounts, etc., there being no bank regular at Mar¬ ti nsburgh. Mr. French was married in 1874 to Miss Lou Hatchett, an intelligent and amiable young lady of Montgomery county. They have one child, a son, Henry Pinkney, now about eight years of age. Mrs. F. is a member of the Christian church. Mr. French is a mem¬ ber of the Masonic order, and is treasurer of the home lodge. He has been a Mason since 1855.

composing the firm of Gantt & Fish, dealers in general merchandise, Martinsburg. These gentlemen, who constitute one of the leading business firms of the south-eastern part of the county, are both repre¬ sentatives of old and respected families of this section of the State. They engaged in business here together in January, 1881, since which they have been conducting their store with marked success. They carry a stock of about $8,000, and have an annual trade of nearly five times the value of their stock. Both having been reared not far from Martinsburg, they are well known here and have the reputation of being not only good business men, but men of high character and great personal worth. Of popular manners, having the traits not only to make friends but to retain them, they have built up an unusually large and flourishing trade. On such men the prosperity and growth of every business center mainly depend, and these gentlemen worthily acquit themselves of their duties and responsibilities in these particu¬ lars. They have done as much for the development of the general trade of Martinsburgh as any firm who ever did business in the place. Biographical sketches of such men well deserve places in the present work .

The senior partner of the firm, Mr. Patrick H. Gantt, was born in this county, near Mexico, on the 27th of February, 1840. His parents, Josiah and Nancy (Faucett) Gantt, were among the very

C., in business at Martinsburgh, which they carried on together several years. Pie then sold out and went to Renick, where he car¬ ried on business for himself for a short time, but had the misfortune to be burned out there. Mr. Gantt, after quitting Renick, settled on a farm near Martinsburgh and followed farming up to about 1869. He then resumed business at this place and has since been identified with the trade here. His first partner was P. H. Vance, after whose retirement J. \V. Douglass became his partner in business. That firm having been dissolved, Mr. Fish, his brother-in-law, became his part¬ ner in business at the time stated above. On the 13th of December, 1865, Mr. Gantt was married to Miss Martha J. Fish, of one of the pioneer families of Callaway county. Three children are the fruits of this union : Ernest Sneed, Hattie Brown and Eustace Douglass.

John E. Fish, the junior partner of the firm, was a son of John and Margaret (Davis) Fish, who settled in Callaway county in the primi¬ tive days of the country. In 1853 the parents removed to Audrain county, locating on a farm near Martinsburgh, where they made their permanent home. John E., the subject of the present sketch, was born while they were residents of Callaway county, May 25, 1850. Three years of age when his father removed to this county, he was reared on a farm near where he is now engaged in business. His school advantages were those of the vicinity and at Martinsburg, which he improved with diligence. At the age of seventeen he ob¬ tained a position in Gantt's store at this place. But desiring to more thoroughly master the knowledge of business transactions to be had by study at school, he again attended the schools of Martinsburgh for a time. In 1874 he obtained a situation in the store of Ham & Bro., at Montgomery City, which he held with satisfaction to his employers for about a year. He then clerked again for Mr. Gantt, after which he returned to Montgomery City and remained with J. R. Hance for five years. Economical, at the expiration of this time he was in a situation to engage in business for himself. Accordingly, in January, 1881, he became a member of the present firm. The character of the business in which he is now engaged has already been spoken of. On the 10th of May, 1883, Mr. Fish was married to Miss Hattie A. Cox, of Monroe county. Mr. F. is a member of the I. O. O. F. at Mont¬ gomery City. He is a young man of fine business qualifications, and doubtless has a prosperous future as a merchant. His parents were originally from Fairfax county, Virginia. His mother is still living and a resident of Montgomery City, Missouri.

John T. Harrison

farmer and stock raiser. In 1852 Mr. Harrison, then a young man, and ambitious to get a start in life, concluded to cast his fortunes with the great West beyond the Cordilleras, and accordingly crossed the plains over to the Pacific coast and spent six years engaged in mining and teaming in California. Going for a purpose, and having, the industry and courage to persevere in that purpose - the accumulation of a start in life - he worked faithfully in season and out of season, and was not disappointed in his expectations or unrewarded for his toil. He had been reared in Callaway county, born there on the 10th of August, 1827, and at the end of his six years of hard work in Cali¬ fornia he gladly turned his course homeward. For besides desiring to spend his days in old Missouri, there was one here of whom he had long and fondly dreamed, and whom he hoped soon to make the wife of his bosom. Soon after his return, in 1857, he was married to Miss Sallie A. Bullard, the loved one of his boyhood days and, later, of the morning of his manhood. Married, and having by his own labor accumulated enough to establish himself as a farmer, he came to Audrain county and bought a tract of 300 acres on the Callaway line, where he went to work with courage and a light heart to make him¬ self a home which, with her whom he loved, he knew would be a happy one. He opened a fine farm, and as the years in after life came and went he prospered abundantly. But alas for human hopes of happi¬ ness in this life. With the blooming of the flowers in the spring of 1863, and the wafting of the zephyrs from the sunny Southland, came the messenger of death, and bore away the gentle spirit of his loving wife to its home beyond the grave. She left one child, a momento of the happy life she had lived with her devoted husband. It, too, was borne to the grave, while still in childhood. Mr. Harrison sustained himself in his lonely home with the fortitude such as only the man with a brave heart can do in the midst of so sad a bereavement. Wearing his sorrow for two years, he now saw that tender as was the memory of his buried love, the most of life was still before him, and that having been so happy in his home with her who was now gone, he might hope to restore that brightness in his household with another, who was in every way worthy of his affection. He was, therefore, in 1865, married to Miss Mary A. Baker. This union proved, also, a happy one, but was not of long duration. On the 28th of April, 1872, she was called away by the Angel of Death. Four children were born of his second marriage, Their names : Charles R., Lena and James Erwin. One died unchristened. On the 28th of May, 1874, Mr. Harrison was married to Miss Elizabeth H., an amiable daughter of Nicholas Harper, one of the early settlers of Callaway county. Mr. Harper came to the Kingdom of Callaway as early as 1824. He died there in 1850. His wife's maiden name was Lucy Jamison. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have two children : Sallie P. and Minnie L. Mrs. H. has long been an exemplary member of the Christian Church. Mr. Harrison is a prominent Mason, being a member of both the Chapter and Commandery, Mexico. As a farmer, as has been inti¬ mated, Mr. Harrison's career has been abundantly successful. He has added to his place until he now has 620 acres of fine land, 320 adjoining his original tract, but across the line in Callaway county. His farm is one of the best improved in this section of the county. He has just completed a handsome dwelling at a cost of about $2,500. He has long been engaged in the stock business, and keeps on hand regularly about 100 head of cattle. He is one of the prominent and influential farmers of this section of the county. Mr. Harrison's father was Thomas Harrison, a brother of Major Harrison, well known throughout Central Missouri. The mother was Miss Sallie Potts before her marriage, a daughter of Joseph Potts, of Kentucky. In the family were three sons and two daughters, the brothers of Mr. H. being William Harrison, of McCredie, and Samuel P. Harrison, of Williamsburg. The sisters are Margaret, now Mrs. Cave, and Lucy A., now Mrs. William H. French. Mr. Harrison was reared on Harrison's branch, on which his father was the earliest settler and for whom the creek was named.

James M. Harrison

the mother's side they come of the Crocketts, long settled on the Roanoke river of the Old Dominion. Mr. Harrison's great-grandfather was Jacob Crockett, the ancestor of David Crockett, and of the Crocketts of Central Missouri. Joseph Crockett came with his parents, who also had two daughters, from the North of Ireland during the early part of the eighteenth century (A. D. 1700), and settled in Virginia. One of the sisters married Patrick Calhoun, and became the mother of John C. Calhoun, the great American statesman. Joseph Crockett married Jane Liviney and settled on the Roanoke river, where some of his descendants still reside. He had five sons and four daughters : Walter, Joseph, Samuel, Robert, Hugh, Mattie, Mary, Bettie and Nancy. The father of these died in Virginia in about 1765. Of the family of children, the youngest, Hugh, succeeded to the proprietorship of the Roanoke river homestead, and married Miss Rebecca Lorton. They had ten children : Samuel, who came to Boone county in about 1820, where he reared a family and lived until his death ; Robert and Hugh remained in Virginia ; Walter came to Mis¬ souri, and settled in Oregon in about 1851 ; Joseph was killed by a negro when young; Polly married Major John Harrison; Nancy married, in Virginia, Joseph Potts, and afterwards removed to Tennessee ; her first husband died there, and she then married Riley Slocum, soon after which they came to Missouri and settled in Boone county, where both subsequently died ; Virginia, Rebecca and Katie, the remaining three, remained in Virginia. Of Nancy Crockett's marriage with Joseph Potts, her first husband, came Sallie Potts, who married Thomas Harrison, and of this union came seven children : Nancy, the wife of William P. Harrison, both afterwards dying in Audrain county; Margaret, now the widow of Maj. William Cave; Hon. William Harrison, of McCredie ; John T. Harrison, of this county; Samuel P. Harrison, of Callaway county ; Lucy A., now Mrs. William L. French, of Mexico, and Mary J., who died in tender years. James M. Harrison, the subject of the present sketch, came of the marriage of Polly Crockett, the grand-daughter of Joseph Crockett, the original Virginia ancestor, with Maj. John Harrison, mentioned above. In 1816 Maj. Harrison came out to Missouri with his family and settled at Old Franklin. Later along he removed to Boone county, and in 1827 he came to Callaway county. They reared a family of seven children: Thomas, Crockett, Rebecca, B. F., Samuel, Virginia and J. M. Crockett and Rebecca died unmarried ; the rest are living. James M. Harrison, the third youngest in this family, was born in Callaway county, and on Harrison's branch, on the 1st of December, 1827, soon after the family came to the county. Reared on the farm, in 1850 he went to California, and was engaged in mining on the Pacific coast for about eighteen months. Returning, he followed feeding and handling cattle in Illinois for some time. On the 17th of August, 1855, he was married to Miss JaneE., a daughter of Capt. Samuel Sayers, of Shamrock, Callaway county, but formerly of Virginia. Prior to this Mr. Harrison had entered land in Audrain county, and he now settled on his land in this county and opened a farm. Mr. Harrison has since been engaged in farming and the stock business. He has a fine farm of 400 acres well improved. He and his wife have a family of eight children: Ella V., Lucy M., Pea Draper and Helen S., all educated at Hardin College, and now teachers in the county. The others are Albert S., Crockett, Frank and James S. Mrs. H. and family are members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Harrison has been a member of the Masonic order since 1864. Their family is one of the oldest and best in the county.