Harrison County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1921 (part 14 of 15)

W. Powell, of Lincoln Township; Henry C. Heaston, of Lincoln Township; E. L. Donelson, of Hamilton Township; and George A. Powell, of Colfax Township. The bank opened for business with a capital stock of $10,000.00, and with the following officers: Riley W. Powell, president; E. L. Donelson, vice president; and J. H. Gatley, cashier.

In the year of 1910 the capital stock was increased from $10,000.00 to $20,000.00 while under R. W. Powell's management, he thinking the business justified the increase.

In the years of its existence the bank has justified the faith of the men who organized it and has served a valuable purpose in the county. The present standing of the institution is indicated by the official statement of June 30, 1921 which ran as follows :

The present officers of the bank are : Blaine Powell, president ; E. L. Donelson, vice president; and G. H. Adair, cashier. The directors are: Blaine Powell, E. L. Donelson, J. R. Hunsicker, J. L. Schardein and George A. Powell. These men are all efficient officers and have proved their loyalty and worth to the institution.

W. C. Humphrey, an attorney at Hatfield and a teacher in District No. 33, is one of the oldest teachers in Harrison County. He has served the schools in various ways and in many places. He taught at Martinsville and other places and was the principal at Allendale, Denver, Hatfield and Brooklyn. He has always been reckoned one of the successful teachers of the county.

W. C. Humphrey taught school at and near New Philadelphia and was principal at Philadelphia, Indiana, for four years. In 1886 he came to Harrison County and settled near Washington Center, Washington Township and again took up his life work of teaching. While he was in Denver, Missouri, he began the study of law with Mr. Miller. In this he became proficient and in 1895 he went to Bethany to appear before a committee for examination in law. Judge Wanamaker, the editor of this volume was a member of the examining committee which admitted Mr. Humphrey to the bar. Mr. Humphrey now combines his teaching with his legal work and is successful in both.

Mr. Humphrey was married in 1888 to Addie B. Smith, daughter of Solomon and Nancy Smith and to this union four children were born: Two children who died in infancy; Chauncey, now living at Kirk, Colorado; and Laura, deceased. She was an efficient teacher before her marriage.

Mr. Humphrey attended the State Teacher's Training School at Warrensburg, Missouri, in 1891 and 1892 and was licensed to teach in county institutes. He taught in Worth County institute in 1891 and Mercer County Teacher's Institute in 1892. He is the type of man who means much to a county, for he has practically devoted his life to the work of building up the county educationally. To such men we owe much of our present efficiency in citizenship.

Andrew J. Knott, a prominent citizen of Ridgeway, Missouri, who is now living practically retired after a successful career as a farmer and stockman in Harrison County, is a native of Indiana. He was born at Winchester, Randolph County, December 4, 1852, and is a son of William and Margaret (Clark) Knott.

William Knott came to Harrison County in 1884, and spent the remainder of his life here engaged in farming and stock raising. He died November 1, 1899. His wife was bom March 19, 1824, and died June 18, 1888. They were the parents of the following children: Smith A., who died in 1904; Mary E., died in 1918; John L., mairied Mary Richmond, and they live in Lincoln, Nebraska; William C, married Anna Smith, of Harrison County and they live at Shreveport, Louisiana; Charles H., married Emma Hass, and lives in Ringgold County, Iowa; Frank E., died in infancy ; and Andrew J., the subject of this sketch.

Andrew J. Knott went to Illinois with his parents when he was quite young. They located in Tazewell County and here he grew to manhood and received his education in the public schools and attended high school at Delevan, Illinois, for two years. He followed farming and stock raising for a time in Illinois and in 1876 came to Missouri and settled on a farm in Harrison County. Here he carried on general fanning and raised stock extensively, making a specialty of Poland China Hogs and Shorthorn cattle. His farm consists of 320 acres of well improved and productive land which he still owns. He retired from the active operation of his farm in 1900, although he continued personal supervision of the place. In 1919, he bought a comfortable home in Ridgeway and has since resided here.

Mr. Knott was married to Miss Ella LaBee, a native of Delevan, Illinois. She is a daughter of Wilham and Eliza (Holmes) LaBee, the former a French-Canadian, and the latter a native of England. To Mr. and Mrs. Knott have been born the following children: Charles W. married Clara M. Gruver and they live at Hatfield on his father's farm ; Myrtle, married George D. Heaston, St. Joseph, Missouri ; Gertrude G., married T. W. Peterson and they live near Ridgeway; Walter R,, married Eunice Hopkins and he died November 11, 1918, and his widow now resides in St. Joseph, Missouri; Mary B., married C. A. Butler, Decatur County, Iowa; and Clyde, died February 20, 1894, at the age of five years.

Mr. Knott is a Democrat and has always taken a good citizens interest in public affairs. He served as tovniship tinistee for a number of years (47) and for twenty years was a notary public. Mr. Knott is a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America at Hatfield, Missouri. He and Mrs. Knott are members of the Christian Church and are highly esteemed members of the community.

D. P. Moore, whose parents were among the early settlers of Harrison County, was born in Wapello County, Iowa, March 3, 1861, the son of Jasper and Mary (Stuttsman) Moore.

Jasper Moore was born in Indiana in 1833 but left that state when he was only a lad to go with his parents, Samuel and Mary (Sears) Moore to Illinois where they settled near Bloomington and the father followed the vocation of a tanner. Jasper Moore later went to Iowa and in the fall of 1867 he came to Missouri where he settled in Harrison County and bought 120 acres of land in Washington Township. He was married in Lee County, Iowa, to Mary Stuttsman, born in Iowa, June 30, 1833 and to this union five children were born: Ella, wife of J. H. Murphy, of Daviess County; S. A., living at Stanberry; D. P., the subject of this sketch; G. W., living east of Ridgeway; and Emma Sarah, the wife of G. C. Rice of Arizona. Mrs. Moore died in 1914 and Jasper Moore died August 7, 1919 at his home in Washington Township. He was a Democrat and was a member of the Church of God which he helped to organize in his community.

D. P. Moore came to this county with his parents and remained with them until the spring of 1882 when he was twenty-one years old. He bought his present farm of 3I6I/2 acres in Washington Township and has made all the improvements on it. Mr. Moore is a practical farmer who had excellent instruction in farm management when he was growing up by meeting the practical questions that arose on his father's farm. He therefore came to the work on his own land well equipped with valuable information.

D. P. Moore was married March 5, 1882 to Ara Hogan, who was bom in Union Township, the daughter of J. J. and Nannie (Fancher) Hogan, both natives of Missouri. To Mr. and Mrs. Moore thirteen children were born: A. C, Washington Township; Charlie, residing in Iowa; Blanch, married C. M. Ayers of Washington Township ; Ocy, wife of R. A. Snethen, of Winner, South Dakota; Ed, of Lincoln Township; Scott, living in Kan- sas City, Missouri; Chester, at home; D. P., Jr., at home; Ruth, Hving at home; Helen Eva, died at the age of six months. Mr. Moore's second marriage was to Sylvia A. Meeker to whom he was married March 15, 1899 at Stanberry, Missouri, and to this union one child, Albert L., has been born.

Mr. Moore is a Democrat and is a member of the Church of God. His recollections of the early days in Harrison County are very interesting. He says that it was simply all "out of doors" in his boyhood. Mr. Moore is an industrious and reliable man who well merits the esteem in which he is held.

Dr. B. R. Treasure, a well known and successful physician and surgeon of Bethany, Missouri, is a native of Gentry County. He was born March 23, 1871, a son of Jacob D. and Catherine (Gibbony) Treasure.

Jacob D. Treasure was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1818 and came to Harrison County from his native state about 1844. He first settled on a farm about four miles west of Ridgeway. Later he exchanged that farm with Judge Jeffries for a farm in Gentry County and spent the remainder of his life in Gentry County where he was engaged in farming and stock raising. He learned the blacksmith trade and worked at it in early life but later devoted his entire attention to farming. During the Civil War he served in the state militia. He died July 8, 1897. His wife was also a native of Kentucky and died in Gentry County, Missouri, December 30, 1910.

Doctor Treasure has one brother, Charles L. Treasure, who lives In Mercer County, Missouri. Doctor Treasure was educated in the public schools of Gentry County and the Stanberry Normial School at Stanberry, Missouri. He taught school for a time in Gentry and Harrison counties and then entered Central Medical College at St. Joseph, Missouri and was graduated from that institution in 1902 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then engaged in the practice of his profession in Mercer County and later removed to Gentry County where he successfully pi-acticed medicine until 1920. He then located at Bethany where he has a large general practice. While Doctor Treasure has been a resident of Bethany for a short time he has been well known as a successful physician in Harrison County throughout his professional career, having been located in adjacent counties his practice has extended into this county.

Doctor Treasure was married in 1895 to Miss Deborah Clark, a native of Harrison County, bom in Butler Township. She is a daughter of John T. Clark who was an early pioneer settler of that township. To Doctor and Mrs. Treasure has been born one child, Doctor Charles B. Treasure.

Doctor Charles B. Treasure is a successful practicing dentist of Bethany and he and his father occupy the same suite of offices. He was educated in the public schools and the State Teachers College at Maryville, Missouri. He then took the course in the Kansas City Dental College where he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. During the World War he served as first .lieutenant in the Dental Corps and during most of the time was stationed at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

During the World War, Dr. B. R. Treasure was commissioned first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and was stationed most of the time at Camp Henry Knox, Kentucky.

Z. T. Melvin, a well known citizen of Ridgeway, who is now living retired, was bom in Morgan County, Ohio, in 1848 and is a son of George P. and Mary Ann (Brown) Melvin, both natives of Ohio. The father was a soldier in the Civil War, serving in Company D, 18th Wisconsin Infantry. The parents are both dead. The father died in Tennessee and the mother in Wisconsin. Z. T. Melvin is one of the following children born to his parents: John P., married Armilda Beck, deceased, and he lives near Bloomingdale, Wisconsin ; Winfield Scott, married Lucy Roberts and they live in La Farge, Wisconsin ; Mary L., married John Brow, Viroqua, Wisconsin; George W., married Allie Showen, deceased, and he lives in Mesby, Wisconsin; and Z. T., the subject of this sketch; A. L., died in Montana.

Z. T. Melvin removed to Wisconsin with his parents when he was a child six years old. They settled in Vernon County, that state, and there he grew to manhood and attended the public schools. He came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1889 and engaged in fanning and stock raising at Lorraine. He was successful in his undertakings and actively engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1920, when he sold his farm. He then bought a home in Ridgeway where he is now living retired after a successful career.

Mr. Melvin was married in 1872, to Miss Jane Silbaugh, of Vernon County, Wisconsin, a native of Perry County, Ohio. She is a daughtef of Edward and Catherine (Aker) Silbaugh, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of New York. Mrs. Melvin's parents spent their lives near Viroqua, Wisconsin, and are buried at Asbury Cemetery. To Mr. and Mrs. Melvin have been born the following children: George E., died November 13, 1913 ; William H., married Lizzie Shroff and they live in Union Township, near Eagleville; and Addie G., married Fred Hillyard and they live near Bethany in Jefferson Township.

Mr. Melvin has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge for over forty years and is one of the dependable citizens of Harrison County. He has always been a Republican.

George F. Perkins, a Civil War veteran, of Ridgeway, Missouri, who for many years was engaged in contracting and building is now living retired. He was born in Belmont County, Ohio, December 25, 1847, and is the son of Louis and Lucinda (Forest) Perldns, the former a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and the latter of Guernsey County, Ohio. The father was a carpenter and died August 5, 1864, and the mother survived him many years. She died in Ridgeway, Missouri, in 1913. They were the parents of the following children : Jennings, died at Parsons, Kansas, in 1911; John A., died in California, in 1918; Mary, died at Ridgeway, Missouri, in 1917; Minerva, resides at Ridgeway, Missouri; and George F., the subject of this sketch.

George F. Perkins was educated in the public schools of Illinois, where his parents had located when he was young. When the Civil War broke out, he was too young for military service. However, he enlisted in the Union army, December 28, 1864, and sei^ved until after the close of the war and received his honorable discharge, September 13, 1865. Mr. Perkins began life as a bridge builder and later worked at the carpenter trade. When he came to Harrison County, he settled on a farm of forty acres where he remained for eight years. He then removed to Ridgeway, where he has a six acre tract of land. He has been interested in contracting and building all his life but for the past six years has been living practically retired.

Hopkins and they live in Montana; Albert, a Spanish- American War veteran, who is now engaged in the real estate business at Akroii, Ohio; Josephine married Dr. W. E. Merrihew, D. D., and they now live in Nebraska; William L., a civil engineer and architect, of Chariton, Iowa, married Jessie Yeater.

Mr. Perkins is a member of the Masonic Lodge and has been clerk of the Ridgeway Lodge for twelve years. He is a Republican and sei-ved as township collector for ten years and was census taker of Grant Township in 1900. Mrs. Perkins is a Democrat. They are members of the Methodist Church.

Wesley Bowman, a prominent fanner and stockman of Marion Township, and a former county judge of Harrison County, is a native of Illinois. He was born in Logan County, Illinois, December 28, 1867, and is the son of Isaac and Mildred (Kampmann) Bowman. Isaac Bowman came to Harrison County in 1869 and here followed farming and stock raising during the remainder of his life.

Judge Wesley Bowman was reared in Harrison County and educated in the Round Grove district school and the subscription schools of three months taught by Prof. H. S. Birgon, of Ridgeway, Missouri. He engaged in farming and stock raising in early life and has met with success. He was elected a member of the county court of Harrison County in 1912, and held that office until 1917. He made a good record as a public official and always gave the closest attention to the duties of his office and performed the public business in the same careful and conscientious manner which has always characterized his attention to his own private affairs. He gave the people of Harrison County a good administration as county judge.

Judge Bowman was married in 1898 to Miss Lillian M. Pittman, a native of Ohio, and to this union were born the following children : Cecil, married S. F. Booth and they live in Trail Creek Township; Nada R., married Earl Chapman and they live in Marion Township; Audry, died in infancy ; Faye, died when nine years old ; and Marion A., died in infancy.

Judge Bowman is a member of the Christian Church and holds membership in the Modern Woodmen of America and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a Democrat and has been an active worker in the ranks of the local organization for many years. He has always taken an active interest in local affairs and has served as township trustee of Marion Township and has been justice of the peace for twelve years. He is a public spirited man and has an extensive acquaintance in Harrison County.

Noah Snell, a well known and highly respected citizen of Ridgeway, who is now living retired after a successful career as a farmer and stock raiser in Harrison County, is a native of Missouri, and a member of a pioneer family of this state. He was born at Snell's Mills, December 16, 1852, and is a son of Noah and Mary A. (Jobe) Snell.

Noah Snell, the father, was born in Greenbriar County, now West Virginia, in 1805, and his wife was a native of Daviess County, Missouri. Noah Snell, Sr. came from Virginia to Missouri and settled near Liberty, Clay County, in 1840. He was a trapper in early life and later operated a saw mill and conducted a general store. He died in 1854 and his widow departed this life in 1902.

Noah Snell was first married in 1874 to Anne Bonner, a native of St. Louis, Missouri. She died in 1910, leaving one daughter, Claudia M., who married Charles Buzzard and they now reside at Long Beach, California. Mr. Snell was married the second time to Mary B. Cook, a native of Andrew County, Missouri. No children have been bom to this marriage.

Henry A. Rinehart, a prominent farmer of Marion Township, is a member of a pioneer family, of Harrison County. He is the son of Peter and Eliza (Johnson) Rinehart.

Peter Rinehart settled in Marion Township in 1856 and engaged in farming and stock raising and has had a successful career and he and his wife now reside in that township. They are the parents of the following children: Harvey, who died at the age of twenty-five years; Frank, lives in Marion Township ; Elmer, who also lives in Marion Township ; and Henry, the subject of this sketch.

Henry A. Rinehart was reared to manhood on the home place in Marion Township and began his independent career as a farmer and stockman at an early age. He first started with fifty acres of land and has increased his acreage from time to time and is now the owner of 190 acres of well improved and valuable land. He carries on general farming and stock raising and is one of the successful men in his line in Harrison County.

Mr. Rinehart was married in 1895 to Miss Mary E. Taylor, of Ridgeway, Missouri, where her parents now reside. To Mr. and Mrs. Rinehart have been born the following children: Letha, married Carl E. Bone and they reside in Ridgeway, Missouri, and Garland A., who resides on the home place with his parents.

Mr. Rinehart has always been identified with the Republican party and has served as township trustee of Marion Township for four years. He is a member of the Christian Church and holds membership in the Masonic Lodge, Modern Woodmen of America and the American Brotherhood of Yeomen. He is a stockholder in the Commercial State Bank of Ridgeway and a member of the board of directors of that institution. He is a progressive and enterprising citizen and is known for his integrity.

J. T. Jefiferies, popular manager of the Farmers Produce Company, at Ridgeway, Missouri, was born in Union Tov^^^ship, Harrison County, Missouri, December 23, 1866, the son of G. B. and Mary (Lindsay) Jefiferies.

G. B. Jefiferies came to Harrison County from Kentucky in 1862. His wife was a native of Henry County, Kentucky. Their children were : Herbert L., now married to Clara Hefener and living in Marion Township; L. D., died of heart failure; and J. T., the subject of this sketch.

J. T. Jefiferies was educated at Lorraine in Jeflferson Tovraship. After he completed his schooling he" rented a farm. He continued to rent for fifteen years when he bought the sixty acres known as the old Bain place. He farmed this place for twenty years then moved to Ridgeway and worked for O. P. Bennett for ten years. At the end of that time, he bought the Bridges grocery store and ran it for a year, when he sold the store and took charge of the Farmers Produce Company, which position he has filled capably and efficiently. Mr. Jefiferies owns a ten acre tract of ground on which he has a nice home.

J. T. Jefiferies was married in 1866 to Anna Briggs, a native of Iowa, in which state her parents lived. To J. T. and Anna (Briggs) Jefiferies the following children were born: Bertha, now married to Homer E.

Gutridge and living in St. Joseph, Missouri; Clarence, who died at the age of ten; and Truman D. Leo, thirteen years of age and now in the seventh grade of the Ridgeway public school.

Mr. Jefferies is a member of the Yeoman Lodge and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is also a member of the Methodist Church and is a Democrat in politics. Mr. Jefferies is one of the men who by pluck and energy, succeeded in the days when Harrison County was being built up.

Mark L. Belden, an enterprising business man, of Ridgeway, who is engaged in the grain business there and conducts the Ridgeway Elevator, is a native of Michigan. He was born March 24, 1868 and is the son of Francis J. and Helen (Mabie) Belden.

Francis J. Belden was a native of Vermont and his wife was born in the state of New York. Early in life they removed to Michigan and in 1884, when Mark L. Belden was sixteen years old, the family came to Missouri and settled in Lincoln Township, Harrison County, and here the parents spent the remainder of Hieir lives.

To Francis J. and Helen (Mabie) Belden were born the following children: John S., who married Effie Graybill, and she is now deceased, and he was married again and now lives at Anthony, Kansas ; Frank, married Lizzie Clouse and lives at Cambridge, Kansas; Ella, married 0. J. Nelson and is now deceased; Clara, married G. A. Lloyd, of Hillsdale, Kansas ; Kate, married A. C. Nelson, Ford City, Missouri ; and Mark L., the subject of this sketch.

Mark L. Belden received his education in the public schools of Michigan and early in life engaged in farming. He owns 150 acres of land and followed farming and stock raising for a few years. He then engaged in business at Eagleville, where he remained seven years and was afterwards located in business at Hatfield for five years. In 1917, he took charge of the Ridgeway elevator and has conducted the grain business there to the present time. This elevator affords a good market for the farmers in the vicinity of Ridgeway and Mr. Belden does an extensive business.

Mr. Belden was married in 1892 to Miss Lillie Armstrong and the following children have been bom to them: George mamed Gertrude Adair and lives in Bethany, Missouri; Lois, lives with her father; Lee, who served in the aviation section of the navy during the World War, and at the time of his death in 1920, he was connected with the Donelson Motor Company, of Ridgeway, Missouri.

Mr. Belden is a Repubhcan and has always taken an active interest in local affairs. He served as collector of Lincoln Township for three terms and served in the same capacity for two terms in Grant Township. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen of America and the Brotherhood of America Yeomen and holds membership in the United Brethren Church.

John Alfred Lilly - The country home of John Alfred Lilly, now deceased, is located four and one-half miles southeast of Ridgeway in Harrison County and still the home of his widow, Emma B. Lilly. It has always been a home which once visited is not soon forgotten. The name was identified with this section before the war. It has been associated with some of the most progressive features of farming enterprise and as home makers and people of intrinsic value, culture and morality and high ideals few families in northwest Missouri have a better record, if any.

John Alfred Lilly was born in Livingston County, Missouri, April the 15, 1860, but lived in Harrison County since 1861, and the present fami contains land that was entered by his grandfather as early as 1856. The family came to Missouri about 1850 and located in Livingston County. Grandfather John Lilly had lived in several states before he came to Missouri. He was born in Maryland in 1796, was reared in Virginia, and when a young man moved to Park County, Indiana, where he married Rebecca Storms, moving later to Ross County, Ohio, and thence to Hancock County where his wife died. In that state he married for his second wife Rebecca Mathews and in moving out to Missouri, they came with teams and wagons, the only mode of travel in that day and attended with many dangers. They located at what was known as Muddy Lane in Livingston County. The grandfather died there in 1863 and his wife died later at the home of her son, P. H. Lilly, at Jamesport. The old Lilly Church still stands by the cemetery, near Jamesport.

The children of the first union were Joseph M., who died in Livingston County and with his wife sleeps in the home burial grovmd; Allie Rose, left a large family ; Elizabeth, married John T. Carnes and died in Jasper County, Missouri; Mary A., married John Browning and died in Hancock

One of the venerable and highly respected citizens of Harrison County was John Lilly, son of the above John and father of John Alfred. He was born December 14, 1833, in Ross County, Ohio, and died in Ridgeway, Missouri, August the 4, 1916. Most of his youth was spent in Hancock County, Illinois, where he attended the country schools. He was one of the best informed men in the county. In early life he became a farmer and followed it all through his vigorous career. He grew to manhood in northwest Missouri and in 1861 enlisted in the army at Bethany, in Capt. John A. Page's company of the Sixth Missouri Infantry, under Col. E. C. Catherwood. His command saw service in Arkansas, Missouri and Indian Territory, was at Fort Smith when it was captured from the enemy, and was in the fight at Newtonia, Arkansas. He was mustered out at the close of the war with an honorable discharge and escaped wounds or capture. Although he spent the last twenty years of his life in Ridgeway, living a life of quiet and retired from the farm, yet he achieved many things to his credit. He had a knack of succeeding often where others failed, and came to own and control 600 acres of land and at one time was the largest fruit grower in Harrison County. He planted extensive orchards of apples, pears, peaches, plums and cherries and also derived revenues from stock raising which at that time was a very remunerative business, as the country was all free range. His father before him was of Whig affiliations and he regularly gave his own support to the Republican party.

John Lilly married Artimissa Westfall, who was born at Quincy, Illinois, and daughter of Alfred Westfall. She died at the old Lilly homestead in Harrison County, October 21, 1892. The children born of this union were Angeline, who is now the wife of Lycurgus Edwards, of Howell County, Missouri. She was first married to Newton Beeson, who was the father of her children ; Jane, man-ied Joel Harrold, of Blythedale, Missouri ; Elizabeth is the wife of Alfred C. Sellers, of Ridgeway ; John Alfred, the subject of this sketch; Joseph Milton died at Ridgeway, leaving a widow and children ; Clara R., married Caleb Young, of Ridgeway ; Catherine, married Woodson Baber, of Jamesport; Rose, married Norman Johnson, of Ridgeway and lives on the old homestead, and Charles died in childhood. At the death of their son, Charles, they platted and deeded to the public a portion of ground at the northwest corner of the home- stead and he was the first to be buried there at the Lilly Cemetery in Harrison County. For his second wife John Lilly married Alice Burwell, who is the mother of one child, Mrs. Vesper Ann Dodd, of St. Louis, Missouri.

John Alfred Lilly grew up on the farm he bought from three generations of heirs and spent the thirty-seven years of his mamed life there. He was educated in the district schools. The home quarter section where the buildings are, being a part of the original Lilly homestead but when passing into his possession became known as "Lillyhurst Hereford Farms." Mr. Lilly lived with his parents until of age and the day after his marriage at Ridgeway, moved to the place which was to be the scene of his successes and failures, with which all the memories and associations of his mature life were identified. The land when first occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Lilly was a piece of wild prairie. It had never produced a crop under cultivation, and the house they lived in for several years was a single room 14 x 15 feet. All their children were born while they lived there except one.

As a farmer, Mr. Lilly was both a grain and stockman. By purchase and additions his farm came to contain 460 acres; he also owned town property. Like his father before him, he planted large orchards. One plat, containing twenty-five acres, had all varieties of fruit that would grow in this locality, and in one respect was the most interesting feature of the homestead. The family always made a specialty of flowers, both annuals and perennials, and their home was always a place of delight to flower lovers. Shrubs and trees also grew in profusion. The lawn is shaded with maple, elm, box elder and the beautiful redbud, while in the garden are found the chestnut and white walnut, the latter a disappointment as far as fruiting is concerned.

As a stockman, Mr. Lilly bred Herefords for over twenty years; his cattle were all registered stock and he held a membership in the Hereford Association. The old "Defender" blood headed his herd in the beginning and in later years he bought the prize winning blood for the sires of his herd. The poultry yards of the farm at one time, not only contained geese, turkeys, guineas and ducks, but nine different varieties of chickens which were kept in separate yards and sold for breeding purposes. They were among the first people in Harrison County to have a revenue of from five to six hundred dollars from their poultry in a single year, while at the present time that amount would be a common average over the country, Harrison County being first in the state in poultry.

Mr. Lilly was always a Republican, though voting- for Roosevelt in 1912. He declined the nomination for representative in the legislature, believing his work at home worth more to the people and his home than elsewhere. He was an elder in the Christian Church for many years and for many years was janitor, chorister and superintendent of the work at the Midway Church, close to his home. Some years he paid three-fourths of the minister's salary.

Mr. and Mrs. Lilly were married at Ridgeway, Missouri, November 25, 1883. In addition to the cares of a home and a family Mrs. Lilly has shown her ability in acquiring a more than local reputation as a journalist. Money was not plentiful in those days and she took to writing for those periodicals which they so much wished for but had not the money to pay. From that she became ambitious to have the checks mean more than the price of the papers and began contributing to such magazines as Mc- Clures, The Century, McCalls, the Brown Book, the Christian Evangelist, Standard and many others. Mrs. Lilly was formerly a school teacher and for many years a deaconess in the church. She is a graduate of the White Cross School of Nursing at Jamestown, New York, of the military sisterhood and like every other mother during the war, worked incessantly to alleviate in any way the suffering here or abroad. She wrote hundreds of letters to those who were without mothers, the homey letters that make a boy wish he could live a better life and go home to those he loved with a clean record and as a reward, the home legion boys. Company G, and especially the old National Guard honored her by asking her to dedicate a war song of which she is the author to them. Their major (Maj. Randal Wilson) wrote the words which dedicated the song to the home boys. The title of the song is to "My Sweetheart Sue" and is full of the heart throbs of a soldier boy on Flander field, written by Mrs. Lilly because a buddie was afraid his sweetheart would forget him while he was away.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Lilly belonged to all temperance movements and Mrs. Lilly has been in the secret service for that organization for many years. Mrs. Lilly was born December 25, 1862 at LaFayette, Wisconsin, her maiden name being Emma Burwell. Her parents were Jediah Burwell and Lucinda Wilcox Denton Burwell. The former was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, September 1, 1826; in 1850 went to LaFayette County, Wisconsin, where he married and ten years later moved to Missouri, locating in Daviess County at old Civil Bend. In 1872, he moved to Harrison County. A cooper by trade, he followed farming in Missouri. He was an ordained exhorter in the Free Will Baptist Church, but finding none of the organization in his locality, he joined the close communion order but never lived up to that tenet of their church, claiming- for himself the right to commune with all Christian orders and work with all churches for the welfare of mankind. He never amassed wealth but left to his children a far greater inheritance; he schooled all so they were able to take their place among the teachers and scholars and left them a memory of a life filled with good works. He died January 25, 1891 and is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery at Blythedale, Missouri. His first wife was a Miss Haver, of Pennsylvania and their children were Sarah, who married John Ethridge, of Monroe, Wisconsin ; Anna, who married Edmond Opdyke, of Ridgeway, Missouri ; Henry C, of Little Rock, Arkansas; Ella, who married J. T. Travis and lives at Lincoln, Nebraska; James H., who married Ida McCoy, of Lincoln, Nebraska and where they make their home. Lucinda Wilcox Denton, a widow with one son, Jason Denton, was his second wife and was born at Pittston, Pennsylvania, September 12, 1832. Mrs. Burwell died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Lilly, December 22, 1912, near Ridgeway and sleeps beside her husband in Cedar Hill Cemetery at Blythedale. By her marriage to Jediah Burwell there were the following children: John, who died in infancy; Mrs. J. A. Lilly, of Ridgeway ; A. G., of Lane, Kansas, who married Emma Brown, of Kansas ; Melissa, who married George Jones of May, Oklahome; Ira B., who married Minnie Roper of Civil Bend, Missouri, and whose home is at Excelsior Springs, Missouri ; Lewis, who died in infancy and Charles H., who married Sarah Jones of Ridgeway and whose home is Laverne, Oklahoma; the j'oungest child, a son, died at birth.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Lilly are John Ralph Lilly, a farmer near the old home, married Ida J. Reeder and their children are Clarence Leroy and Ernest Raymond (the first time in six generations that the first son in every generation had not been named John) ; Nellie is the wife of C. M. Reeder, of Ridgeway, a Baptist minister and their children are Esther Charlotta, Esta Claire, Charles Washington, John Wilbur, William Paul and James Lawrence; Charles Burwell, married Lelie Henry, of Ridgeway and their child is Elizabeth Mei'lin, Flag, Arkansas ; Jeanne is the wife of G. W. Newell, of Richlea, Saskatchewan, Canada, and their children are Helen Emily, Georgia Ann, and William John; Joseph Westfall, married Hazel Arvin, of Blythedale and their daughter's name is

Kathalene Irene ; and an infant son died at birth ; they too are farmers and live near the old home. The daughter, Mrs. Reader, was educated in the Bethany High School and was a teacher until her marriage. Mrs. Newell finished the four year course at Ridgeway and the Warrensburg Normal and was also a teacher until she married and moved to Canada. The sons' schooling quit with the Ridgeway school, as they all returned to the farm and all have good homes.

Mr. Lilly's health was failing at the beginning of the war and his health failed so rapidly that death came to him unexpectedly in a stroke of paralysis and he departed this life September 6, 1920, just one week after the stroke came, but never was at any time able to make known a single want or wish in any way. He was buried September 9, 1920, in the home cemetery beneath the pines he loved.

E. G. Kemp, an enterprising farmer of Grant Township, was bom in Henry County, Kentucky, March 14, 1853, the son of John and Fannie (Hutchinson) Kemp, both natives of Kentucky. They were married in Kentucky and came to Harrison County with their two children in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Kemp drove overland from Kentucky along with four or five other families and the grandfather of the present subject. They settled on the Old Trail and John Kemp preempted forty acres of land southwest of Lorraine. He later bought other land and carried on farming and stockraising most successfully. He died in 1910 and his wife died in 1918. They are buried in Morris Chapel Cemetery.

E. G. Kemp was one of twelve children. The others now living are: Eliza, now Mrs. Ramey, living near Lorraine; James Taylor, deceased; William, living in v/estern Kansas; Jefferson, of Harrison County; Perry, deceased; Henry, living in this county; Thomas, a resident of Oklahoma; Lestie, now Mrs. McDougal, of Jefferson Township; and Rose, living in this county.

E. G. Kemp grew to manhood in Harrison County. He attended the old McCollum school, one of the pioneer schools of the state with the old slab benches and desks around the outer walls. He began to plough at the age of eight years, doing a man's work driving four yoke of oxen and breaking the prairie land. When he was twelve years old, he worked in the harvest field along with the men. His father reached Missouri with only seventy-five dollars as his cash asset, and his family experienced all the hardships that were the heritage of the sturdy pioneers who built up homes in Missouri in the early days. The family lived in Missouri during the Civil War and experienced all the vicissitudes of that trying period. In 1880, E. G. Kemp went out to the mountains. As a young man he had gone to Kansas, but did not remain long. In 1883, he went to Kingman County, Kansas, and took up a homestead which he farmed for five years when he returned to Harrison County after selling his Kansas land. He was at Lorraine, Harrison County, for a year and then bought eighty acres of his present place, later adding to it until he now owns 1521/2 acres. He has improved his farm, remodeling the house and adding to the farm buildings. He carries on general farming and stock raising, keeping mostly black Poll-Angus cattle.

Mr. Kemp was mamed in 1881, to Rosetta Rakestraw, now deceased. To this union six children were born, four of whom are now living: Mary, married Oscar Baker, of Grant Township; Charles, a resident of Kansas City, Kansas ; Minnie, married to Nelse Hahn, of Grant Township ; and EfRe May, married to John Morris of Salt Lake, Utah. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Kemp married Alberteen Bridges, whose first husband was Lon Eaton. Mrs. Alberteen (Bridges) Kemp was a resident of Ridgeway at the time of her second marriage. A son, Elza Eaton, was born to her first union, now living at Holly, Colorado.

Mr. Kemp is a member of the Methodist Church and has been a Democrat all of his life. Mr. Kemp is one of the substantial citizens of his community.

Harry Thomas, a progressive and enterprising farmer and stockman of Grant Township, is one of the successful men of Harrison County. He began life as a poor boy and by hard work and close attention to business he has become one of the well-to-do men of the county. He is the owner of 280 acres of valuable and productive land.

Mr. Thomas was born in Monroe County, Indiana, May 2, 1875, and is a son of James Benjamin and Amanda (Foreman) Thomas. The father was a native of Indiana and the mother was born in Ohio, and both spent their lives in Indiana. They were the parents of six children.

Harry Thomas was reared to manhood in Indiana and came to Missouri in 1904, and located in Harrison County. He first worked as a farm hand for Mr. Ines and was thus employed for two years. He then operated rented land for eight years and in 1914 he bought 160 acres of land which constitutes his home place. Later he bought 120 acres more and now owns a splendid farm of 280 acres. His place is well improved and he carries on general farming and stock raising. He usually has on hand about twenty-five head of cattle and now has forty head of sheep and forty-five head of hogs and keeps nine horses and mules. In addition to operating his own place he operates some rented land and the past season he raised twenty-five acres of oats on land which he rented.

Mr. Thomas was married in 1904 to Miss Pauley, of Indiana, and three daughters have been born to them: Edith Merle, Nellie Agnes and Nora Belle, all of whom reside at home with their parents.

Mr. Thomas is a Republican and a member of the Methodist Church. He is a dependable citizen and is well known and highly respected in Harrison County.

Dr. E. L. Stoughton, a prominent physician of Harrison County, who is engaged in the practice of his profession at Ridgeway, Missouri, is a native of this county and a descendant of early settlers here. He was born in Trail Creek Township about three miles west of Moriah, Febiiiary 16, 1881, and is a son of N. N. and Emma (Stodden) Stoughton. both natives of Ohio.

The Stoughton family is an old American family of English origin. N. N. Stoughton was reared in Ohio and served in the Union army in the Civil War. Shortly after the close of that conflict he came to Missouri and settled in Trail Creek Township, Harrison County, where for a number of years he was engaged in farming and stock raising. However, during the last fifteen years of his life he was engaged in the mercantile business at Mount Moriah. He was a Democrat and took an active part in local politics. He served as Democratic committeeman of Trail Creek Township for a number of years. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He died June 11, 1904 and his wife preceded him in death a number of years. She died in 1886 when Doctor Stoughton, the subject of this sketch was about five years old. They were the parents of seven children, four of whom are now living.

Doctor Stoughton was reared in Trail Creek Towaiship and received his education in the public schools. After acquiring a good public school education he entered the Keokuk Medical College at Keokuk, Iowa. After studying medicine in that institution two years he entered the College of Physicians at Chicago, Illinois, where he was graduated with a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1903. He then entered the Kansas City of Pharm- (48) acy and Natural Science and was graduated from that institution in 1904. He then engaged in the practice of medicine at Mount Moriah and at the same time conducted a drug store there. He continued the practice there until 1906 when he removed to Ridgeway and engaged in the practice and conducted a drug store until 1917. During that year he disposed of his drug business and since that time he has devoted himself exclusively to his large and growing practice. He is a capable physician and has won the well merited confidence of the public by his exacting devotion to his professional duties.

Doctor Stoughton was married August 31, 1904 to Miss Edna Mae Riley, of Kansas City, and a native of Chicago. To Doctor and Mrs. Stoughton has been born one son, Riley.

Doctor Stoughton is a progressing and enterprising citizen and has a number of interests outside of his profession. He was one of the five citizens of Ridgeway who built the new Ridgeway Hotel. As a matter of civic pride and public convenience. He is a director in the First National Bank of Moriah and takes an active part in all movements, the object of which is for the betterment and upbuilding of the community. He is a member of the Masonic lodge.

William S. Walker a well known merchant of Bethany and pioneer of this county, was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina, October 16, 1842, the son of Daniel and Mary Jane (Edmonson) Walker, who came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1843, driving through by wagon and were three months on the road. When they first settled here the postoffice at which they received mail was Liberty, Missouri, more than 100 miles south of here. They located one-half mile east of the present site of Matkins in Butler Township and entered 160 acres of land, which he improved, but later sold and bought the Edmonson farm adjoining. He died there about 1864 and is buried in Matkins Cemetery. His wife died in Andrew County, Missouri and is buried at Flag Springs.

Daniel and Mary Jane (Edmonson) Walker were the parents of the following children: William S., John G., of near Matkins, Missouri; David N., who died in New Haven, Connecticut; and James M., who died in Clay County, Missouri.

at Flag Springs in Andrew County, going in partnership with John L. Yates. He was there for eight years and sold out and moved to King City, Missouri, where he was in business for eight years. He came to Bethany in 1898 and opened a general store on the south side of the square and moved to the present location in April, 1916.

William S. Walker was married the first time November 1, 1866 in Concord, Kentucky, to Catherine Calvert, a daughter of Clifton and Mary J. Calvert. Mrs. Walker died April 30, 1902 and is buried in Bethany, Missouri in Miriam Cemetery. Their children were Mary J., the wife of J. B. Slemmons of Bethany; Robert L., of Kansas City, Missouri; James M., a partner of this firm; and George P., also a partner. By a second marriage in 1903 to Emma Hubbard, a daughter of E. L. Hubbard and wife of Bethany, Missouri, Mr. Walker had two children: Walter, who died at the age of seven years and Ralph, a student in the Bethany High School.

Mr. Walker was postmaster of Bethany, Missouri for seven years under Woodrow Wilson's administration, being appointed in 1913. He made an excellent official. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

William S. Walker served three years in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He enlisted from Harrison County with Company G under Captain Patterson. This company was reorganized at Springfield, Missouri, at which time Mr. Walker was put in Battalion No. 1 under Captain Chiles and later was under Colonel Gates. He was wounded in the neck at the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, by a grape shot. At Champion Hill he was taken prisoner and a month later escaped while at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on his way to Point Lookout. While at Harrisburg he met an Irishman who came to the train and asked the prisoners if they wished a drink. The Irishman indicated to Mr. Walker that he would assist him to escape if he and one other could manage to get out of the car that night. Mr. Walker and a Mr. Lynn climbed out as the train was leaving the yards and lay down on the track until the train was out of sight and then met the Irishman at a nearby hedge. He took care of them in his home, procured clothing for them and assisted them in getting out of town and also in getting work. After the war closed Mr. Walker returned to Bethany, Missouri, where he has since lived. He has many friends throughout the county and is one of the highly respected and honored citizens.

The Slemmons-Walker Department store occupies three floors and carries a Une of dry goods, clothing, ladies* ready-to-wear, groceries, queensware and is one of the fine stores of northern Missouri. James B. Slemmons, James M. Walker and George P. Walker comprise the present firm, the brothers being sons of William S. Walker.

George P. Walker, a prominent citizen of Bethany, and a member of the firm of Slemmons and Walker, leading merchants of this city, was born in Andrew County, Missouri, December 5, 1875, the son of William S. and Catherine (Calvert) Walker. George Walker was educated in the King City grade school and spent one year in the high school there. At the age of fifteen he began working in his father's King City store and has been engaged in the mercantile business all of his life. George P. Walker is in charge of the dry goods department, Mr. Slemmons the clothing department and James M. Walker is head of the grocery and queensware department.

George P. Walker was married April 3, 1910 to Lois E. Barnes, a daughter of C. S. and Emma Barnes of Bethany, Missouri. Mrs. Walker was born near Bethany and was educated in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have a daughter, Emma Nadine.

Jackson E. Walker, with the Slemmons and Walker Company, of Bethany, was born in Bethany November 14, 1898, the son of R. L. and Bettie Walker of this city. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Walker were the parents of the following children: Catherine, the wife of Kenneth Robinson; Fred, Robert Lee and Bert, of Bethany, Missouri.

Jackson E. Walker received his education in the public schools of Bethany and enlisted January 29, 1914 in the 4th Regiment of the Missouri National Guards, and served until February 4, 1919, being mustered out when a member of the 69th Infantry of the 10th Regiment at Camp Funston, Kansas. He went to the Mexican border with Company G under Capt. Randall Wilson and on January 29, 1917, was furloughed to the reserve. He reenlisted in Company G May, 1917 and went ovei-seas ahead of the division, leaving in March, 1918. He attended the musket and bayonet school at Chauta Sur Seine and was transferred back to the 35th Division and was with them in the Alsace Lorraine sector and was in a trench raid while on duty there. He was transferred back to the United States in August, 1918 as an instructor at Camp Funston, where he remained until the close of the war. Since then he has been with the present firm.

William Thornton Templeman, member of the firm of Cuddy and Dunn and a director of the Bethany Trust Company, is well known in the business circles of Harrison County. He was born at Bethany, December 27, 1872, the son of William A. and Emeline (Allen) Templeman. His father is now deceased and his mother lives at Bethany.

Mr. Templeman was educated in the public school of Bethany. He has served in various capacities in coimection with the business world, beginning as a delivery boy for the Cornelison grocery when he was only a boy. Later he, with his brother John A., bought the Bethany Democrat which they conducted for some time. While he was working on the paper, Mr. Templeman was appointed a messenger in the House of Representatives in Washington, D. C. He held this position for two years and was then made the private secretary of Hon. Alexander M. Dockery, Representative from the Third Congressional District of Missouri. Mr. Templeman remained in this position for four years when, in 1899, he returned to Bethany and took up work with the Cuddy and Dunn department store. His business experience, as well as his broad knowledge of commercial affairs, made his services valuable to the finn and in 1906, he was made a member of the well known and historic company. He is now the head of the clothing department in the store.

His father, William A. Templeman, was born February 14, 1835, in Fauquier County, Virginia and was brought to Moniteau County, Missouri in 1839 by his parents, Thornton Hume Templeman and wife, Harriet (Patton) Templeman. In 1851, the family moved to Grundy County, Missouri and in 1854 to Bethany, Missouri.

William A. Templeman was one of the leading merchants of Bethany for many years and in the early sixties conducted a newspaper, the "Weekly Union", which was afterwards sold to Henry Howe. Mr. Templeman was also county collector of this county for a term of two years. He died at Bethany, Missouri, September 11, 1909. On August 9, 1855, William A. Templeman was married to Emeline Allen, daughter of John

S. and Nancy (Childress) Allen, of Bethany, Missouri. Of the life of John S. Allen and his part in the pioneer business and official life of the county frequent notice appears elsewhere in this volume. The family of William A. and Emeline Templeman consists of the following named children: Mrs. Rosa A. Vandivert, deceased; Bessie, wife of George W. Wanamaker, of Bethany; John Allen, of Austin, Texas; Harriet, wife of Taylor E. Stone, of Bethany; Nancy Elizabeth, who died in childhood; Mrs. Emma Oxford and William Thornton each of Bethany, and Marion, wife of Virgil E. Yates, of Bethany.

Thornton Hume Templeman was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, May 20, 1806. He was the son of Fielding Templeman and his wife, Hannah (Hume) Templeman. He came to Bethany in 1854, at which place he resided until his death in 1873. Here he engaged in the mercantile business with his son, William A. Templeman, and also held the office of postmaster for fourteen years. At one time he held the office of mayor and also served the county as probate judge for four years. He was a man of excellent education and at an early day was president of Bethany Collegiate Institute. He was married to Harriet Patton December 17, 1833, in Stafford County, Virginia.

Fielding Templeman's father was Edward Templeman, who was a Revolutionary soldier and was in the battle of Yorktown. He also was a soldier in the War of 1812. The Templemans were an English family and the Humes were Scotch.

Harriet (Patton) Templeman was a daughter of William Patton, a soldier of the War of 1812 who died of camp fever. His father, Sgt. George Patton, born in Inverness, Scotland, was a Revolutionary soldier and was in the battle of the Brandywine.

William T. Templeman, the subject of this review, was married to Mary Smith, November 9, 1898. She is a daughter of William and Emma Price Smith, both deceased. William Smith was a son of Robert and Mary Smith and was born in County Antrim, Ireland, April 20, 1845. He came with his parents to the United States when seven years of age, living at Akron, Ohio until about 1870, when he came to Missouri. During the Civil War he enlisted at the age of eighteen years in Company I, 11th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After coming to Missouri he was engaged in mercantile pursuits almost continually until his death in 1897; at one time he and William A. Templeman were business partners.

William Smith was married November 5, 1873 to Emma Price, a daughter of Benjamin and Maria (Jackson) Price. She was born October 28, 1854 in Wabash County, Indiana and died in Bethany, Missouri, September 5, 1891. Their children are Mary, wife of William T. Templeman; Blanche, wife of B. P. Sigler and two sons, Ross and Charles, both of St. Joseph, Missouri

The children of William T. and Mary Templeman are: Alexander Dockery, born October 5, 1899, now a student at the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, and Robert Smith, born August 7, 1901, now a student at the University of Missouri.

Jacob J. Francis, deceased, was a native of New York, where he was born near Buffalo in Erie County, May 22, 1833, the son of George and Lucy (Earl) Francis. He was a descendant of an English lord whom the English King had chosen to colonize a coloney in America near where Buffalo, New York was afterwards built.

Jacob J. Francis' father, George Francis, was born May 4, 1799, of English-French and Irish descent and a native of New York colony. He died near Plymouth, Indiana, February 22, 1875, at his old homestead. Jacob J. Francis' mother, Miss Lucy Earl, was born September 24, 1806, of Dutch-Scotch descent and a native of New York colony. She died at her son Jacob J. Francis' home near Ridgeway, Missouri, January 2, 1879.

Jacob J. Francis was three years of age when his parents moved from New York to Indiana, near where Plymouth was afterwards built. Here they took a government homestead. His playmates, when a child, were Indian children, for out of their seven neighbor families, four were Indians. His parents' association and friendship with the Indians saved their lives in many Indian massacres.

He lived with his parents in Indiana until manhood, helping to cultivate the old homestead. And at the age of about twenty-three he went to Illinois where he met Miss Violet A. Brock, to whom he afterwards was married.

Violet A. Brock, deceased, was born near Atlanta, DeWitt County, Illinois, October 23, 1841, the daughter of Francis Marion Brock and Mary Ann (Ackerson) Brock. Her father, Francis Marion Brock, was bom in Ohio, February 6, 1819, of German-Irish descent and a native of Ohio. He died January 4, 1901, near Ridgeway, Missouri at his son

Charley Brock's home. Her mother, Miss Mary Ann Ackerson, was born in Ohio, November 22, 1822, of Irish-German descent, and a native of Ohio. She died October 24, 1864, at her home near Atlanta, Illinois. Violet A. Brock grew to womanhood near Waynesville, Illinois, in the neighborhood where her parents first settled after marriage. They moved but once during her youth and that less than one-fourth mile from their old government homestead. She remaining at her home with her parents until meeting Jacob J. Francis, to whom she was afterwards married.

Jacob J. Francis and his wife, Violet A. (Brock) Francis, followed farming in Illinois for about ten years, then moved overland to Indiana, where they followed farming as before until about 1873, or four years, when they again moved overland to Illinois. Here they followed farming and stock raising until 1876 when they moved, as before, overland, bringing about six horses and about eight milch cows to Harrison County, Missouri. When first reaching their destination in June, 1876, they rented a small house and some land on the north side of the road from what was called the old Buckley Farm, about three and one-half miles south of Eagleville, Missouri. Here they lived until the following March, when they moved upon a 240-acre farm, known as the old Hunt Farm, about two miles east of Lorraine and two and one-half miles southwest of where Ridgeway, Missouri was afterwards built. At this time their family consisted of five girls and three boys. The oldest about sixteen and the youngest less than one year of age. The entire family having quite good health and ready to take part in the farm life of such a primitive country as it was at that time. One could stand near the house and see and hear wild turkey gobblers as they would strut along the bank of an old buffalo wallow, less than three-fourths of a mile west of the house. Besides the wild turkey, there were many other wild animals, such as the antelope, panther, wild-cat, gray and brown wolf and fox, besides many smaller animals which are plentiful in the country today.

Jacob J. Francis and wife's home consisted of a log house of one large room and a large garret above it. Also a frame kitchen attached to the log house. Soon after locating here, they built a large one and one-half story frame room joining the old log house on the east. This house they lived in for many years until about the time Ridgeway, Missouri was started, when they built the nine-room house that is now on the farm. The old log bam was large enough to hold four horses in each end and contained a space between to store away grain. The barn also had a hay-mow large enough to hold about eight tons of unbaled hay. This barn was used until about 1890, when a frame barn 36x40 feet and containing mow room for about sixteen tons of unbaled hay was built. The other improvements were very scant, a few light poultry houses, only about seventeen acres of land broke and about the same number of acres fenced, some of the fence being what they used to call brush fence, a row of brush piled quite high, expecting it to serve as a protection against stock. The entire farm was fenced and cross-fenced in a few years, there being seven miles of fence. The blue grass sod and hazel brush gave away to the plow, until there was about 200 acres in cultivation. Jacob J. Francis was a successful farmer and stockraiser. He was a horticulturist of local fame and had one of the largest orchards in this part of the state at that time. Mr. Francis and family took great pride in the orchard and constantly improved it by the use of progressive methods.

Jacob J. Francis and wife moved to Ridgeway, Missouri, in 1908 and made their home the remainder of their lives, she dying there January 26, 1916, at the age of seventy-four years, three months and three days. He dying at the same house March 31, 1917, at the age of eighty-three years, ten months and nine days. They were buried in the Ridgeway Cemetery. To them were born ten children: Mary L. Francis, deceased; Mrs. Lillia B. Rakestraw, of Prosser, Washington; Orren W. Francis, of Lakin, Kansas; Mrs. Alice A. Peters, of Kansas City, Missouri; George M. Francis, of Ridgeway. Missouri; Mrs. Edith J. Tuggle, of Ridgeway, Missouri; Oscar S. Francis, of Ridgeway, Missouri; Mrs. Maud B. Hefner, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Mrs. Jeanette G. Korte, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Dr. Harry H. Francis, of St. Joseph, Missouri. Before the death of the parents a part of the old farm was sold to Mr. Dick Glenn, a neighbor, Oscar and George Francis buying 160 acres, Oscar Francis now, December, 1921, living on the old farm.

Dr. George M. Francis was reared in Grant Township, where he attended the rural school, later attending the Ridgeway High School and also attending college at Stanberry and Business College at Bethany, Missouri. He taught in the rural schools for a while and then went to Kearney County, Kansas, where h homesteaded land and taught school in Lakin and Hartland. His services as a teacher covered nineteen years in Kansas and Missouri, two years of which time he taught shorthand and typewriting in the Merwin Normal College at Merwin, Missouri. He was a student in Carver Chiropractic College, from which he graduated in the three year D. C. course in December, 1920. Since that time he has engaged in the practice of his profession at Ridgeway.

Doctor Francis is a member of the Modem Woodmen of America and attends the Methodist Church. He is a thorough, capable man in his profession and is building up a good practice. As Ridgeway is his old home town, he has an extensive acquaintance both there and in the surrounding community, and he has the confidence of the public. He is a worthy son of his father, Jacob J. Francis, who was one of the highly esteemed men of his day in the community where he lived.

Charles L. Osmon, a veteran of the World War, whose home is in Union Township, is a native of Harrison County. He was born July 21, 1892, and is a son of Charles L., Sr., and Lucy A. (Peasley) Osmon. Charles L. Osmon, Sr., served in the Union Army during the Civil War, having enlisted in 1862, and served until the close of the war.

Charles L. Osmon, Jr., entered the United States Army during the World War, April 1, 1918, and after a period of training at Camp Funston, Kansas, where he served as a member of the Depot Brigade, and on April 24, 1918, he was transferred to the 89th Division. On June 4, 1918, he sailed with his command on the United States Transport, Coronia, and landed at Liverpool, England, June 18th. Shortly afterwards they crossed the English Channel, landing at La Harve, France. From that point they went by train to the interior of France, and soon after took a position at the front.

He was in the Beaucouville Xavier trenches from August 8th until September 19th and afterwards on the Verdun front. Mr. Osmon was at the battle of Argonne Forest, the Meuse River engagement and St. Mihiel. When the Armistice was signed he was at Bueford, not far from Sedan. He then went to Germany with the American Amiy of Occupation. On the march into Germany the army traveled thirty-five miles per day. He was in a hospital from December 29, 1918, until February 19, 1919. He then joined his old outfit and remained with the Army of Occupation until April 1, 1919, when he returned to France, and after taking a course in Agriculture in one of the Universities there, he went to Marseilles, France. He embarked at that port for the United States, sailing through the Mediterranean Sea, along the coast of Africa and

E. H. Frisby, a prominent lawyer of Bethany who has extensive interests here, is a native of Harrison County. He was born at Bethany, Missouri, October 17, 1862, and is a son of Jonathan C. and Sarah (Briggs) Frisby, both natives of Ohio who came from that state to Harrison County in 1858. They spent the remainder of their lives in this county after coming here.

E. H. Frisby was one of a family of eight children born to his parents. He was educated in the public schools of Harrison County and the University of Michigan where he was graduated in 1883. He then engaged in the practice of law at Bethany, and has practiced here since that time.

Mr. Frisby has various other interests besides his extensive law practice. He was one of the incorporators of the Harrison County Bank in 1888 and has been one of the directors of the bank since that time; he has also been secretary of the bank all these years. He is also a director of the Bethany Savings Bank, president of the Bethany Printing Company and president of the Harrison County Abstract Company. During the course of his practice he has specialized in real estate law and dealt extensively in land, and is a large land owner in Harrison County..

Mr. Frisby is a republican and has served as prosecuting attorney and state senator. He has taken an active part in the development of highways and was one of the promoters and organizers of the Jefferson Highway, having served as vice president of that organization for a number years and has been president since January, 1921.

Mr. Frisby was married April 20, 1885, to Miss Eva M. Tucker, a native of Harrison County and a member of a pioneer family here. To Mr. and Mrs. Frisby have ben born three children: Lane, who teaches music in St. Louis School for the Blind; Frank M., an attorney at Bethany; and Lottie, who died at the age of twenty.

Genevieve Bazan, Red Cross Nurse of the Department of Public Health of Harrison County, is performing a service of vital importance to Harrison County, although a field that has long been neglected. Her work is more especially directed to the schools of the county, although not exclusively so, as more fully set forth in another chapter of this work.

Miss Bazan is a capable young woman and a thoroughly schooled and skilled professional nurse, with a thorough training and broad practical experience in this field. She is a native of Missouri, bom at St. Louis, the daughter of Dr. L. A. Bazan, a well known and successful physician who is now engaged in the practice of his profession at Moberly, Missouri.

Miss Bazan had the following brothers and sisters: Thomas, St. Joseph, Missouri ; Helen, died in childhood ; Lieut. Theodore B., was killed in the Battle of Argonne Forest; L. Marion, married Robert Caldwell, Mobei'ly, Missouri ; Francis A., Moberly, Missouri ; and Margie J., at home with her parents, Moberly, Missouri.

Lieut. Theodore B. Bazan, in whose honor the American Legion Post No. 6, of Moberly, Missouri, was named, will long be remembered as one who gave his life to his country and died a heoric and self sacrificing death. He was bom at St. Joseph, Missouri, July 29, 1895, and attended the school there for five years. After the family removed to Saline County he also attended the school there and later at Salisbury, Missouri. He then attended the public schools of Clark and Moberly, graduating from the high school at Moberly. He then entered the State University at Columbia, Mo., where he took the medical course for two years and when the United States entered the World War he entered the OflScer's Training School at Ft. Riley, Kansas, in May, 1917, and after a period of training he was commissioned a second lieutenant in August of the same year and assigned for the 138th Infantry, and on April 20, 1918, he was promoted to first lieutenant. In May, 1918, he went to France with his command and was stationed in Vosges Mountains, and also participated in the engagement at Verdun. He also participated in the great drive in the Argonne Forest, and as that great battle raged on September 27th, he was mortally wounded during the evening between six and ten o'clock. His death was due to the explosion of a high power shell, which tore away the right side of his abdoman. As he lay mortally wounded a detail of soldiers came to care for him, and he, knowing that he was mortally wounded and that he could not live long, requested the detail to not give him any attention but ordered them to direct their attention to others less severly wounded, that their lives might be saved, and while waiting there he died and was buried on the field of honor. Lieutenant Bazan's remains were brought to America in 1921 and buried in the National Cemetery at Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis.

Genevieve Bazan graduated from high school and received a good preparatory education. She then entered training as a nurse in Woodland Hospital at Moberly, Missouri. She was afterwards employed at that institution as night supervisor for a time. She then engaged in private duty for awhile and then took a post graduate course of six months in the Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. From there she went to the Toledo Hospital, Toledo, Ohio, where she held an institutional position about a year. She then returned to her home at Moberly and was engaged in private duty until the United States entered the World Vv^ar. Miss Bazan then entered the service as nurse and was stationed at Jefferson Barracks until after the close of the war when she was discharged. She then returned to Moberly and after being engaged in private work for a time, she took a post graduate course in Public Health in St. Louis. This course is given in connection with the University of Missouri.

In May, 1921, Miss Bazan accepted her present position as Red Cross Public Nurse of Harrison County. She is thorough, earnest and conscientious in her work and is accomplishing good results. This is practically a new field, and much of the work is of a constructive nature which requires energy as well as ability, and Miss Bazan possesses both of these requisite qualities.

Charles B. Adams, of Trail Creek Township, Harrison County, Missouri, is the famous baseball player known as "Babe" Adams, the noted pitcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was bom May 18, 1882, at Tipton, Indiana, and came to Mount Moriah, in Harrison County, Missouri, with his parents, March 1, 1898. On March 2, 1909, he was manied to Blanche Wright, of Mt. Moriah, Missouri. They have two children: Mary Elizabeth, born June 19, 1916, and Virginia Lee, bom June 21, 1918.

land County, Indiana, March 11, 1846, and was married to Nancy Jane Tower in 1870, who was born in Switzerland County, Indiana, April 9, 1852. Of this marriage thirteen children were born; Zella, Aaron, Eva, Delcina, Minerva, Carrie, Charles, India, Grace, James, Elbert, Alonzo and Edna.

Mrs. Blanche (Wright) Adams is the daughter of George W. Wright and his wife Emza Jane (Gray) Wright. He was bom June 2, 1850, at Rockford, Illinois, and she was bom January 13, 1847, at Morgantown, Virginia. He came to Mt. Moriah from Iowa in 1870. They were married November 25, 1875, and have four children: Joseph Wright, now deceased; Marie (Wright) Wanamaker, wife of Ernest Wanamaker; Elizabeth Jane Gellispie, wife of Charles Gellispie ; and Blanche Adams, wife of Charles B. Adams, the subject of this sketch.

George W. Wright, the father of Mrs. Charles Adams, was the son of Jesse Wright, who with his father, David Wright, in 1844, come from Kennebec County, Maine, to Boone County, Illinois. David Wright married Polly Briggs Pettingill and Jesse Wright married Elizabeth Remick. He was born February 14, 1821, and died January 7, 1894, at Glenwood, Iowa. Jesse's wife, Elizabeth Remick, was born in Maine, February 7, 1826, and died January 3, 1908, at Glenwood, Iowa.

The Wright family came from England to Massachusetts. An ancestor of George named Josiah Wright was a Revolutionary soldier, and his son, Silas Wright, was a soldier in the War of 1812.

Elizabeth Remick was the daughter of Phillip and Abigail Remick, and was born in Maine. She was a descendant of Christian Remick, born in 1631, who emigrated from Holland to Old Kittery, Maine. The Remicks for four generations were shipbuilders, and they built the "Ranger and Kearsarge."

Eniza Jane Gray, who became the wife of George W. Wright, was the daughter of Joseph Gray and Jane (Lindsay) Gray. Joseph Gray was bom at Morgantown, Virginia, January 15, 1785 and was married July, 1822, to Jane Lindsay, who was born in 1803. They came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1855 where they resided until their death. He died in 1890 at the age of 105 and she in 1894. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the War of 1812, but peace was declared before he reached the field of action. His father William Gray was a Revolutionary soldier and was buried at Morgantown, Virginia. His wife was Ann Austin.

Charles Adams began playing professional baseball in 1904 with Parsons, Kansas. In 1906 he was given a trial with St. Louis Nationals and sent by them the latter part of 1906 to Louisville, Kentucky, in the American Association. In 1909 he was sent to Denver, Colorado, in the Western League. In 1908 Pittsburgh Nationals bought him and later farmed him out to Louisville, Kentucky. He was recalled and on April 27, 1909, began his National League career. He played with Pittsburgh for twelve years, with the exceptions of 1917-1918, when he was released from Pittsburgh and played in the Western League and the American Association, when Pittsburgh again bought him in 1918, and he has been with them since.

Last season this remarkable athlete stood second in the pitching averages of the National League and he fairly won the honor. With control that was marvelous, perhaps the like has never been seen on big league diamonds, for of the 1035 batsmen who faced him last season only 18 were permitted to walk to first base and in the last two seasons, or since he staged his comeback, some 2052 faced Adams and only 41 were granted free passes.

Adams always possessed good control, during his entire career in the big leagues he issued but 328 passes in 2476 innings, or equal to 275 full games that he pitched. In his full career in the National League, "Babe" pitched 256 games that counted in the won and lost columns and his percentage in games won stands .600.

Adams gained fame in 1909 when he beat Detroit in the World's Series and his pitching during the season of 1921 was equally marvelous. Harrison County is justly proud of "Babe" Adams.

A. F. Woodruff, now a resident of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was for forty-one years a citizen of Harrison and Mercer counties, Missouri; twenty-six of which were spent in Bethany. He removed to Colorado Springs May 31, 1899. He was born in Scioto County, Ohio, December 11, 1848; his father was A S. Woodruff", and his mother Martha (McCall) Woodruff. On the date of his birth his parents were living on the north bank of Ohio River, about nine miles below Ports- mouth, Ohio. He is of Scotch-English descent. His Woodruff forebears came to the United States several generations back from some place in England and settled on Long Island, New York, near Southhampton. From that place some of the family removed to Camden, New Jersey, among them being his grandfather, Benjamin Woodruff. While Benjamin Woodruff was living in Camden, and on March 24, 1793, he married Jane Shepherd, who lived at the time of the marriage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From Camden, New Jersey, Benjamin Woodruff migrated about the year 1810, to the southern part of Ohio, and settled in Adams County in a neighborhood called the Irish Bottoms, near the town of Buena Vista. Here he lived until his death, which occurred about twenty years later. He is buried in the Sandy Springs burying ground, near Buena Vista, Ohio.

A. F. Woodruff's maternal grandfather, Solomon McCall, migrated from Argyleshier, Scotland about the year 1773. His father was opposed to his sons going to America, and refused to give them aid in the way of passage money. On account of this refusal Solomon McCall apprenticed himself to a ship captain to pay for his passage, and after reaching America he worked for a considerable time for this captain, a man named Barton, whose daughter, Sarah, he married on March 18, 1789. His descendants have always spoken of this apprenticship as his having "sold himself" to the captain for his passage. He landed at some point on the eastern coast of the United States, and gradually worked his way West to Scioto County, Ohio.

The subject of this sketch was left an orphan at the age of five years by the death of his mother, his father having died three years before. In 1858, at the age of ten years, he removed to Harrison County, Missouri, in company with his brother of the halfblood, A. J. Tucker, in whose family he grew to womanhood. He was without an estate, and the relatives with whom he lived were not forehanded, Ihence wei'e unable to give him good educational advantages, but he managed to get some education in the common schools of his neighborhood, and on arriving at the age of twenty-one years he went to Leon, Iowa, where he took a course of three years in the Leon High School. The course of study in that school was neither broad nor deep, but is served as an excellent foundation upon which to build in after years. Having completed this course, he taught school in the country districts for three years, but disliking this business very much he abandoned it, and in the spring of 1872

In the year 1872 he began the study of law at home, and afterwards continued the study to better purpose, first in the office of Hyde & Orton, and subsequently with C. M. Wright, attorneys at Princeton, Mercer County, Missouri, where on September 14, 1878, he was admitted to the Mercer County Bar in the Circuit Court, presided over at the time by Judge G. D. Burgess, who later became Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri. The firm of Hyde & Orton was composed of Ira B. Hyde and Hobart G. Orton. The last named is now deceased, but Mr. Hyde is still living, and is father of the present Governor of Missouri, Arthur M. Hyde.

Mr. Woodruff was married on October 7, 1878, to Alice E. Lewis, a native of Bethany, Missouri, a daughter of Wm. G. Lewis, deceased, formerly an attorney of that place, who had at one time held the oflSce of probate judge of Harrison County. He commenced the practice of law in Mercer County in partnership with Millard F. Robinson, under the firm name of Woodruff & Robinson. This partnership was continued until November, 1879, when he removed to Bethany, Missouri, and there formed a law partnership with D. S. Alvord, then one of the prominent attorneys in that section of the state; the firm name was Alvord & Woodruff.

On February 24, 1890 his wife, Alice E., died, and on July 12, 1893, he was married to Isola Lee Buckles, his present wife, who was then a teacher in the public schools in Bethany. She is a native of Illinois, and had fitted herself to teach by attending the State Normal School of Illinois, the Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana, and Shurtleff College at Upped Alton, Illinois. Prior to her marriage she had taught for a period of eight years.

In 1890, the partnership of Alvord & Woodruff was dissolved by mutual consent, and in 1897 Mr. Woodruff formed a partnership for the practice of law with A. S. Gumming, who is now one of the leading practitioners in Harrison County. This partnership was dissolved in May, 1899.

Mr. Woodruff, while a Republican of the old school, has never been a partisan, nor has he been given to office seeking or office holding, although he has held some minor offices. He was deputy assessor of Harrison County in 1872, under the then assessor, Jos. Bi Dill, deputy sheriff in 1873, under Sheriff George S. Graham, and deputy collector under James C. Baker in 1874-75. In the spring of 1886, he was elected one of the councilmen of Bethany, Missouri, and held that office one term. He was also city attorney in Bethany for eaveral terms. In April, 1890, he was elected a member of the Bethany School Board, and re-elected from time to time until 1899, when he left the state on May 31st of that year. While a member of the school board he did much to improve the Bethany schools by maldng a search all over the state to secure the very best teachers that could be had for the salaries his district was able to pay. This action greatly improved the corps of teachers and added much to the success and reputation of the Bethany schools. As a school director he attended some of the state meetings of school directors, which was inauguarated and carried out by John R. Kirk, then state Superintendent of schools, and wrote some papers which were read before these meetings. Some of these papers were published in the American School Board Journal of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and also in the Missouri School Journal.

While not a politician in the narrow sense of that term he has always been interested in public affairs, and has shown this by attending elections, both primary and regular, and voting. He was a prohibitionist many years before prohibition became popular, and in 1866, in connection with J. H. Burrows, John Woodward, J. Q. Chambers and others, protested successfully to the County Court of Harrison County, against the granting of saloon license in Cainsville, where he then lived. He also took an active part in connection with D. J. Heaston, G. W. Wanamaker, D. S. Alvord and others in securing the adoption, by the people of Harrison County, of the first local option law passed by the Missouri Legislature.

Mr. Woodruff's rating as a business man for promvness, integrity and fair-dealing has always been high. He has never taken pride in this rating, and in the further facts that he is almost entirely selfmade; that he has by industry, energy and the careful handling of his resources placed himself in the well-to-do middle class. He has at all times enjoyed the confidence of his clients in respect to their financial affairs, and a large part of his business since his admission to the bar has been that of assisting clients in the matter of making investments.

selor and office lawyer, not a trial lawyer. His briefs are made with much care and after painstaking examination and analysis of the authorities, and they have always been given the careful consideration of the courts before whom he practices. His specialties in practice are real estate, probate and commercial law. He readily admits that he is not an all-round lawyer, such a lawyer as is able to try a murder case one week, and an ejectment suit the next, and handle each with equal skill. In his dealings with other attorneys he is trustworthy and dependable. His parole agreements are sacredly kept. He never resorts to underhanded measures or tricks to win cases, preferring honorable defeat to dubious victory. He has a detestation of over-reaching in the matter of fees, and it is his boast that he has done more work for less pay than any of his contemporary lawyers.

Although he has never had a large appellate practice, he has been employed in some important cases in the Supreme Courts of Missouri and Colorado. One such case was Allen vs. White, 98 Missouri, 55; 10 S. W. 881. This was a suit in which the validity of a statutory tax deed issued under the Missouri Revenue Law of 1872, was an issue. The deed was sustained by the Court, it being the first, or among the first cases, where a statutory tax deed was sustained by the Supreme Court of Missouri. Another case was Russie vs. Brazzell, reported in 128 Mo. 92 ; 30 S. W. 526 ; 49 Am. St. Rep. 542. This case involved primarily the title to a house and lot in Eagleville, Missouri, used by the church as a parsonage, but finally it involved he title and disposition of all the property of the United Brethern Church in the State of Missouri. The case was a contest between factions in the church growing out of a change in the rules of the church; the faction favoring the change caled themselves "Liberals" and the faction opposed called themselves "Radicals". The Liberals won. In Callahan vs. Whitehead, 44 Colorado 396; 99 Pacific 57 ( he was employed by the plaintiff. This was an ejectment suit to recover possession of twenty-eight hundred acres of land held by the defendant under a tax deed. The Court held the tax deed void. He represented the defendant in the case of Turner vs. McKenzie, 31 Colorado 274; 72 Pacific 1075. This suit involved the construction of a contract for the sale of a mine in Cripple Creek. The decision of the Court was in favor of the defendant.

membership is in Pikes Peak Lodge No. 38, Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has never been a member of any church. In the clash and confusion of creed and dogma he has chosen to remain neutral.

Gen. Benjamin M. Prentiss. - For many years one of the most distinguished citizens of Missouri as well as of the nation was the late Gen. Benjamin M. Prentiss, who for twenty years lived at Bethany, where his death occurred on February 8, 1901. General Prentiss was a soldier of two wars, rose to the rank of major-general U. S. Volunteers during the Civil War and was the hero of the great battle of Shiloh. In his political career he was an associate of Lincoln and other distinguished leaders of Illinois, and in the later years of his life was one of the most admired orators and leaders in the Republican party of Missouri.

Benjamin M. Prentiss was born at Belleville, Virginia, November 23, 1819. He was a direct descendant from Valentine Prentiss who came to America from England in 1620. Another direct ancestor was the noted Elder Brewster of the Mayflower colony.

General Prentiss spent his early childhood in Virginia and from there his parents moved to Quincy, Illinois. His education came from the countiy schools of Virginia and afterwards from a private military school. Migrating west in 1836, he located in Marion County, Missouri, and engaged in the manufacture of cordage. In the spring of 1841 he went to Quincy and established himself in the same business with his father. During the Mormon excitement at Nauvoo, Illinois, he was in the service of the state and at the opening of the Mexican War he was appointed adjutant of the First Illinois Infantry. With this regiment he served through the entire war, first as first lieutenant and aftenvards as captain of Company I, which he commanded under General Taylor at the battle of Buena Vista.

After his return to Quincy and also after the war. General Prentiss was engaged in business as a commission merchant and also as a manufacturer of cordage. With the outbreak of hostilities between the North and South he was one of the first to respond with the offer of his services. At the first c^ll for troops he sent a telegram to the governor of Illinois, tendering two companies and has the distinction of having been the first officer commissioned by the state. Beginning as a captain he was pro- moted to major, from that to colonel, and then to the rank of brigadiergeneral before reaching the actual scene of hostilities. General Prentiss was placed in command at Cairo at the beginning of the war and established a blockade of the Mississippi River. While there he was waited upon by a delegation of Kentuckians, who protested against the landing of troops on Kentucky soil. This delegation reminded him that Kentucky was a sovereign state, the peer of Illinois, but to this General Prentiss replied that when the President called for troops to defend the Union, Illinois promptly furnished her quota, while Kentucky had failed to respond and consequently her wishes were not entitled to the same consideration.