Harrison County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1921 (part 6 of 15)

Theodore A. Smith first settled in Pattonsburg, when he came to Missouri in 1856 and in 1866 he came to Harrison County and settled in Grant Township. He learned the carpenter's trade in earily life and was a very fine workman. He worked at his trade after coming to Harrison County and a number of houses which he built are still standing. He built the house where Peter A. Smith now lives in 1857 for BeiTy Music, who then owned the place which Mr. Smith afterwards bought and lived here until the time of his death. This was the first frame house built in this part of the county. The lumber used in this construction was sawed at Lock's Mills which was located on the Grand River. Mr. Smith did all the work in connection with building this house even to making the window sashes and doors which are of walnut and the siding is of the same material and also the interior finishing. The main building of the house is now occupied by Peter A. Smith and family and is in an excellent state of preservation.

Theodore A. Smith also built the Burdine Taylor house and the Reakaecker house, which are also still standing, occupied, and in a good state of preservation.

Theodore A. Smith remained in Harrison County until the Civil War broke out when he went to Illinois. He was unfit for military service and remained in Illinois until the close of the war. He then returned to Harrison County where he was engaged in farming and stock raising until the time of his death. He died October 13, 1903, at the age of seventysix years.

Peter A. Smith was the only child born to the marriage of Theodore A. Smith and Mary (Brown) Durham. By a fon^ier marriage of Theodore A. Smith to Catharine Stapleton, the following children were born: Anna, married James Reakaecker and is now a widow and lives in Oklahoma ; Berry E., Linn County, Kansas ; Mary, married D. W. Killen, Grant Township; Winifred, married A. D. Brunner and now lives in California; John M., Marionville, Missouri; Sarah C. married James McElhiney and she is a widow and now lives in Bethany, Missouri and Christina, married Isaac Phillebaum, Bethany, Missouri.

The mother was first married to Martin Durham and three children were born to that union as follows: Edwin R., Kansas City, Missouri; Jennie, married John M. Smith, Marionville, Missouri; and Emma, married W. M. Swain and is now deceased. The mother died December 20, 1909, at the age of eighty-one years.

Peter A. Smith was reared on the home place in Grant Township and educated in the public schools. He has lived on the home place all his life except six years, when he lived at Bethany. He has always followed farming and stock raising and is one of the successful men in this line of endeavor in Harrison County. His place consists of 200 acres of well improved and productive land and he carries on general farming and stock raising.

Mr. Smith was married February 2, 1902, to Miss Addie Spence, a native of Harrison County, who was also bom in Grant Township. She is a daughter of Marion and Lucinda Spence, early settlers of Harrison County who are now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been born two children: Howard M. and Earnest E., both of whom reside at home with their parents.

Mr. Smith is a Republican and a member of the Christian Church. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge of Bethany, and the Brotherhood of American Yeoman. He is a substantial citizen and the Smith family rank among the best citizens of Harrison County.

Chester Hershel Casebolt, second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Casebolt, was born November 12, 1881, in Harrison County, near Bethany, Missouri, where he lived until the year of 1914, when he went to Merryman, Nebraska, at which place he has resided ever since.

In the year of 1917 he was called into service of the World War.. On the 25th of September, 1917 he was called to Camp Funston, Kansas, for training. He was placed in the 35th Company 164th Depot Brigade. He remained thei-e but a short time then he was sent to Camp Pike, Little Rock, Arkansas, and transferred from the 35th Company, to the 87th Division, Battery C, 335th Field Artillery. On July, 1918, he was sent to Camp Dix, N. J., remaining there till he was sent across to France, landing there, September 13, 1918, taking twelve days to cross.

He served five months in France. On February 16th, 1919, he started for America, landing here the 5th of March at Camp Merritt, N. J. He remained there for a short time then was sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa, where he received his discharge and went to his home in Merryman, Nebraska, where he still resides. On July the 3rd he was married to Miss Edith McCrav and has one child, a daughter, Lena Fern Casebolt.

Jesse F. Gibson, a highly respected and enteriii'ising farmer of White Oak Township, was born in Ringgold County, Iowa, October 10, 1863, the son of Larkin A. and Elizabeth (Lytle) Gibson both deceased. Larkin Gibson was born in Hendricks County, Indiana in 1832 and died in 1908, and his wife was born in the same county about 1830 and died in July, 1900 at the age of seventy-one years ; both are buried at Kober Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson were the parents of the following children: John C. of Worth County, Missouri; George W. of Colorado; Jesse F., of this sketch ; William S. of Colorado Springs, Colorado and James G. of California.

During the Civil War, Larkin Gibson was with the Iowa State Militia and after the war, he came to Missouri and located in Washington Township, Harrison County. He lived in a log cabin at first and knew all of the hardships of early days. He made trips to St. Joseph, Missouri, for salt, sugar and other supplies, and while there on one trip, his oldest son, who was with him, contracted scarlet fever, and after arriving home, the entire family also took the disease. Mr. Gibson's second home was a two story frame building, the lumber being hauled from Leon, Iowa. This was the first good frame house in that vicinity.

Jesse F. Gibson spent his boyhood days on his father's farm and attended the Zimmerman school in Washington Township. He remained at home until twenty-one years of age, and then for four years ran a hack line and carried mail from Siloam Springs to Albany, at the end of which time he began farming in this county, and bought 160 acres of land, which he improved and on which he lived until 1895, when he moved to Bethany and bought property, but returned to the farm and bought his present home from N. A. Johnson in 1919. This place consists of 122i acres, one and one-fourth miles northwest of New Hampton, and is well improved with good residence, bam and other buildings. There are five good wells on the farm, as Mr. Gibson appreciates the worth of plenty of good water, as during his early experiences in farming, when he handled stock a creek was the only source of stock water.

Mr. Gibson was married in November, 1888 to Flora Carver, a daughter of J. E. and Martha J. (Jones) Carver, both deceased. J. E. Carver was born in St. Francois County, Missouri and was a veteran of the Civil War, having been in the Confederate Army under General Marmaduke. He died in 1917 in Washington Township at the age of seventy-six years, and his wife died at Siloam Springs, Gentry County in 1902 at the age of forty-seven years. Mrs. Jesse Gibson was born in Gentry County and is the only child of her parents.

Mr. and Mrs. Gibson have had three children : Wade Alby, who died at the age of three years; Edward 0., who lives at home; and Sheldon on the home place. Sheldon Gibson married Marjorie Van Houten, a daughter of John and Anna Van Houten of Dallas Township.

Mr. Gibson is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Denver Missouri. He is an energetic man and prominent in the affairs of his township, and his family stand high in the community.

George R. Miller a successful attorney, with offices in Eagleville, Missouri, and also secretary of the Jefferson Highway Special Roard District, was born near Hatfield, Missouri, November 16, 1893, the son of Judson D. and Myrtle B. (Fletcher) Miller, who now live at Eagleville, Missouri. Judson Miller is a retired farmer. He came here with his parents, Jacob A. and Malissa A. (Hill) Miller from Lowell, Indiana. Jacob A. Miler was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted from Illinois in the Union army. His wife died in 1878.

Judson D. Miller and wife were the parents of two children: Charles A., now prosecuting attorney of HaiTison County ; and George R., the subject of this sketch.

George R. Miller was educated in the Eagleville High School, and was graduated therefrom in 1910 ?.nd then attended the Maryville State Teachers College for three years. He received his professional education in the Kansas City School of Law. Charles A. Miller is also a graduate of the Maryville State Teachers College and of the Kansas City School of Law.

Mr. Miller was married August 29, 1917 to Lola Riley of Eagleville, Missouri, a daughter of C. L. Riley, (a druggist) and lona (Travis) Riley. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have one child, a daughter, lona Myrtle.

Mr. Miller is secretary of the Jefferson Highway Special Road District and is also secretary of the Bethany Abstract and Title Company. He is an able lawyer and has an extensive practice in this section of the state.

George R. Miller was in service during the World War. He entered the army June 20, 1918, and was mustered out February 10, 1919. He was with the medical detachment of the 210th Field Signal Battalion and stationed at Camp Funston. He was with the 10th Division, ready to go overseas when the antiistice was signed.

Sergeant Levi C. Wilkinson, a well known young man of Bethany, was born at Mitchelville, Missouri, May 4, 1895, the son of John B. and Jane (Kinkade) Wilkinson, both of whom now live on a farm six miles northwest of Eagleville. John B. Wilkinson was a native of this county, and his wife was born in Ohio. They were married in this county, are the parents of the following children: Mrs. Wing Hacker of Bethany; Mrs. John Walker of Bethany ; Harlan of Eagleville, Missouri ; Mrs. John York and Mrs. Joe Sullivan of Bethany ; Mrs. Charles Hall of Essex, Iowa ; Levi C, the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Ralph Lynch of Bethany, and Callie who lives at home.

Levi C. Wilkinson was educated in the public schools of Bethany, and after finishing school, worked in a garage here until the beginning of the World War, when he enlisted May 28, 1917, as a private, and was first sent to Camp Clark at Nevada, Missouri, where he was stationed until September 26, 1917, and was then sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma and remained there until April 13, 1918. He was promoted to Corporal, Jannary 10, 1918. From Fort Sill he went to Long Island, New York, at Camp Mills and started overseas with the 35th Division, May 24, 1918, and landed at Liverpool, England, thence to Romsey, England and then to South Hampton, and from there, was sent to LaHavre, France. He went into the trenches June 28, 1918. He was with the Wesserling sector tember 13th to September 16th, and in the Argonne, September 26th to October 2nd. He was promoted to Sergeant, October 17, 1918 an was at Verdun, October 26th to November 2nd, and was entitled to two W. S. Chevrons. He was mustered out May 8, 1919, at Camp Funston.

Levi C. Wilkinson was married September 23, 1919 to Letha Snead of Bethany, a daughter of N. H. and Lydia (Allen) Snead, who live at Nevada, Missouri.

Mr. Wilkinson is the only one of the enlisted men from Bethany that was with Company G, during the entire war, and has the distinction of having never missed a day of service and was not transferred to any other company from the day of his enlistment until his discharge.

Mr. Wilkinson, although a quiet, unassuming, young man, has many friends in Bethany. In relating his experiences in the battle of Argonne Forest, with Company G., he says that fifty-seven of the men were surrounded by Germans, and in this battle Lieutenant Moser, Sergant Arthur Bowers, Otto Harris, Cecil Harris, George Mew and a gunner by the name of Green and several other were killed. Mr. Wilkinson escaped during the night. Lemuel Parks of New Hampton and Russell Gale of Bethany with about twenty-five others were taken prisoners.

Ellis Hill, a well known farmer and stockman and owner of Walnut Row Stock Farm near New Hampton, White Oak Township, comprising the northeast quarter of section twenty-nine, township sixty-three, range twenty-nine, was bom in Gentry County, Missouri, one-half mile from Harrison. March 17, 1863. He is the son of J. Frank and Susan T. (Baxter) Hill. J. Frank Hill was born near Bedford, Trimble County, Kentucky, April 17, 1836 and died November 3. 1908. He located in Gentry County, near New Castle in 1853 and bought a farm. He also entered forty acres of land, and traded for another forty acres. In the spring of 1865, he came to Harrison and settled in White Oak Township. His wife, who was a native of Clinton County, Missouri, born near Plattsburg, November 28, 1834 and died November 10, 1910. Both are buried at Jones Chapel, which is now called Stafford Chapel.

David R. Hill, grandfather of Ellis Hill, lived on a farm in Gentry County, north of New Castle, until his death which occurred when he was past eighty years old.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Hill were the parents of the following children: George Newton, who was born March 13, 1861 and died March 15, 1861; Adelia Hill, born March 16, 1852 and died March 19, 1862; Ellis, the subject of this sketch; William H., born November 12, 1864 and who lives at Albany, Missouri ; Amanda M., born August 2, 1867 and died September 13, 1868 ; Amos Victor, born February 16, 1870, who lives in White Oak Township; Virginia E., born January 22, 1872 and died August 30, 1873.

Ellis Hill received a limited education in the schools of his community, but through observation and experience, has a varied and useful knowledge. He moved to his present farm in 1886, bringing all of his possession in two wagons, and he says he could have hauled considerable more if he had had it. He now owns 160 acres of well improved land, having put all of the improvements on the place himself. He has a fine two story residence of seven rooms with a basement, 14x18 feet, four bams, poultry and hog houses and five wells which furnish plenty of water for farm and stock use. He raises registered pure bred Shropshire sheep, Missouri mules, Jersey cows and White Plymounth Rock chickens.

Mr. Hill was married the first time April 15, 1886 to Lenore Parsons of Bethany, Missouri, who died in 1 902 and is buried at Foster Cemetery. They were the parents of four children; Leroy, born April 4, 1887, a fai-mer in Butler Township ; Loren, born March 4, 1889, the wife of C. L. Youngs of Cypress Township; Lena, bom December 20, 1890, the wife of A. R. Magee of White Oak Township and Lovell, born September 11, 1894 and who married in 1915 Beatrice Bales of Albany, Missouri.

The grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Hill are: Goldie .Lester, Donald and Luther Youngs; Wilhelmina, Dwain and Leroy Jr. Hill; Mahl, Dorryl, Russell and Kathleen Magee; William, Margaret and Jerrold Hill.

Mr. Hill was married the second time July 2, 1905 to Amanda Robertson, a daughter of Jeremiah and Matilda Parks, both deceased, her mother, who was bom in Gentry County, having died when Mrs. Hill was four years old. Her father was a native of Kentucky.

Mr. Hill is one of the progressive and public spirited citizens of the county's substantial men. He has filled the office of township collector of White Oak Township one term and for twenty-five years has been a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge. Mr. Hill has lived in his school district longer than anyone here and has never missed but one school election, which shows the interest he takes in the affairs of his township.

George W. Ward, a leading and successful farmer of White Oak Township, who has lived her for many years, was born on Big Creek, January 31, 1852, the son of Joseph and Ann (McMurphy) Ward. Joseph Ward came to Harrision County with his parents when Indians were still here and Joseph Ward, when a young man, assisted in moving the Indians from this county to reservations in Kansas. He died in 1888 and is buried in White Oak Cemetery. A few months after his death, his widow moved to White Oak Township, where she married Mr. Evans and they entered land here. They both died just prior to the Civil War.

George W. Ward is a self made man and early in hfe rented land for a few years, working by the day splitting rails for fifty cents to a dollar a day and also for seventy-five cents per hundred. By thrift and good management, he was soon able to buy seventy-nine acres of land, paying therefore $1,060.00. He now owns 160 acres in this township, and has put all of the improvements on the plac^ himself. He is engaged in general farming and stock raising and ships some stock. He raises registered Shropshire sheep and Spotted Poland China hogs. His farm is five and one-half miles southeast of New Hampton and eight miles southwest of Bethany on the old California trail to St. Joseph, Missouri.

The first home of Mr. Ward was a cabin 14x16 feet, made of clapboard roof, and this was held down by weights as no nails were used. The floor was made of punching.

Mr. Ward is a well preserved man and appears fifteen years younger than he is, and has had occasion for a doctor but twice in his sixty-eight years.

Mr. and Mrs. Wai'd have eight children and the following grandchildren : Beulah Bell, Bernice, Jesse, Foy, Forest, Frank, and Alberta Ward ;

Mr. and Mrs. Ward have lived a useful life, living not alone for themselves, but for their friends and neighbors, and therefore have many friends who honor and respect them.

Peter Tanner, a retired farmer and stockman and the owner of 600 acres of land in Madison Township, is one of the men who by dint of hard work, good management and unceasing perseverance has achieved marked success in life. He was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, January 23, 1842, the son of David and Catherine (George) Tanner who were the parents of ten children, five of them still living: Julia, wife of George Tanner, of Hoopston, Illinois; Catherine, the widow of Radley Shockley, of Pickaway County, Ohio; John, living in Columbus, Ohio; Martha, the widow of Harry Adams, of Hollywood, California: and Peter, the second child among those living and the subject of this review.

David Tanner was born in New York and went to Ohio with his pai"- ents. His father, Peter Tanner, was a German farmer who was reared in New York. David Tanner was a fai-mer in Pickaway County, Ohio, where he died February 1, 1878 at the age of sixty-eight years. His wife, Catherine (George) Tanner was born, reared and died in Ohio.

Peter Tanner received his education in the common school of Pickaway County and learned to farm there. He left Ohio in December, 1880, came to Harrison County and bought eighty acres of land in Madison Township, five miles west of Cainsville. He added to this land from time to time as he was able until he, at one time, owned 800 acres. He made extensive improvements and always found that they paid even if he had to go in debt. He went into the stock business feeding hogs, cattle and mules and in this line he was very successful. He now has three farms which are operated under his super\dsion. In October, 1919, Mr. Tanner retired from active farm life and he and his wife went to California, but returned to Missouri, December 20, 1919 and settled in Ridgeway. Both Mr. and Mrs. Tanner feel that Missouri snow is preferable to California flowers and they grew homesick for their own state.

Peter Tanner was twice married. His first marriage was June 25, 1871, to Matilda Lane who was born in Franklin County, Ohio, December 15. 1848 and died in Madison Township, July 7, 1886. To this union five children were born: G. A., a resident of Kansas City, Missouri; Clara, -wife of Jacob Frost, of St. Joseph; Cora, married to W. H. Cooper, of Sand Springs, Oklahoma; W. V., of Ridgeway; and Catherine, married to Russell Morrain and living on the old home place in Pickaway County, Ohio. Mr. Tanner was married the second time, May 13, 1888, to Lovica Wilson, who was born in Morgan County, Indiana, February 20, 1863. To this union also five children were born: Clifford, living on the home place in Madison Township ; Florence, wife of E. B. Foxworthy, of Marion Township; Robert, a resident of Laramie, Wyoming; Alva, living at Marshalltown, Iowa; and Herbert, on a farm in Madison Township. By the children of his first marriage Mr. Tanner has sixteen grandchildren and by his second marriage, there are seven grandchildren.

Mr. Tanner is a Republican in politics but says that he never had time for local offices. He and Mrs. Tanner recall vividly the hardships of their early days on the farm when Mr. Tanner fed stock in the snow and Mrs. Tanner sat up often until two o'clock in the morning sewing for the children. She often stayed at home for six months at a time, without even a trip to the neighboring town. Mr. Tanner has made his own way since boyhood and while the struggle seemed hard at times, both he and his wife say that, now since they are out of debt and have made a success of their work, it has been a pleasure as well as toil. They smile at the idea of the people of today having hard times and say that this generation knows nothing of real trials and privations. They are two interesting people whose recollections of their early days are worth hearing.

Dr. Roy L. Grun, a well known and successful osteopathic physician and surgeon of New Hampton, Missouri, was born in Breckenridge, Missouri, February 4, 1896, the son of Charles D. and Viola M. (Burger) Grun; his parents have been residents of Breckenridge for many years, where his father is a barber. Their children are: Ray D., a pharmacist of Kansas City, Missouri; Leafy May, who lives at home; Roy L., the subject of theis sketch; and Juanita Margaret, the wife of Russell F. Good of Chillicothe, Missouri.

Roy L. Grun received his education in the schools of Breckenridge and was graduated from the high school in the class of 1914. He then attended the Warrensburg State Teachers College one year prior to entering the Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery, where he took (28) a professional course, and was graduated from this College in 1918. He then enlisted in the U. S. Navy, May 18, 1918, as hospital apprentice and was attached to Company B. Hospital Corps at the Great Lakes Naval Station where he remained until February 14, 1919, returning at that time to New Hampton where he has practiced since, meeting with excellent practice and success. Dr. Grun is a very able physician and is well equipped for the wide field which his general practice embraces.

Dr. Grun takes an interest in lodge affairs and is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Breckenridge and of the Knights of Pythias at Nev/ Hampton. Dr. Grun is a young man with a bright future in his chosen profession.

Rufus R. Young, deceased, a pioneer citizen of Harrison County, was born in Blunt County, Tennesse, November 22, 1829, the son of Jeremiah S. and Ruth (Boring) Young, who came to Missouri in the early days and settled first in Jackson County and then moved to Harrison County in White Oak Township in 1842, where both Rufus R. Young and his father entered land. Jeremiah Young was in the Black Hawk and Indian Wars and he died here in 1882 at the age of seventy-six years, and he and his wife, who died in 1877, and buried in Doanes Chapel Cemetery.

Rufus R. Young entered 120 acres and later bought more land, owning at the time of his death 210 acres, and on this farm, all of his children were born, who are as follows : Lucy D., Jacob S. of Heppner, Oregon ; Lizzie P.. the wife of Albert Morgan, both deceased ; James G., who lived in Pueblo, Colorado prior to his death; Robert R., a druggist in Kansas City, Missouri; and Ella R. McNatt, who lives near McFall in Gentry County, Missouri.

Lucy D. Young received her preliminary education in the public schools of White Oak Township, and at Albany, and afterward attended the Kirksville State Teachers College. After finishing her education, she taught her first school at the Burton school house and then next taught the second primary department in Bethany in 1877-1879. She then taught in Harrison and Gentry Counties, three years in Oregon State, and one year in Comanche County, Kansas, and then took a claim near Heppner, Morrow County, Oregon, and taught there while proving the claim, on which she lived during her summer vacation. This was

Miss Young has lived in New Hampton for the past twenty years and intends making this Her permanent residence. She has led a busy and useful life and has done much to encourage the youth who attended the many schools she has taught, to make good citizens. Coming from one of the prominent and respected pioneer famihes of the county and having been connected with the early schools of forty years ago, she accomplished a great deal toward improving the system of education, the fruits of which are being reaped by the present generation.

J. A. Christie, a prosperous farmer and stockman of near New Hampton is a native of Daviess County, Missouri. He was born January 8, 1861, the son of H. B. and Martha E. (Burton) Christie, the former having died in New Hampton about 1907 and the latter in 1913. Martha Christie's father was a native of Kentucky, but settled, at an early day, near McFall, Missouri. Both Mr. and Mrs. Christie are buried in Foster Cemetery. H. B. Christie, in early life, was a school teacher, and also taught music, but later followed stock raising and farming.

Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Christie were the parents of the following children: C. C. of Olathe, Colorado; J. A., the subject of this sketch; John F. of Olathe, Colorado ; Laura J., the wife of G. W. Bell of Gentry County, Missouri; Elizabeth, the wife of J. Z. Spiers of Olathe, Colorado; Lucy Mary, the wife of F. W. Savage of Spearville, Kansas ; Mattie, the wife of Dr. J. K. Chipp of St. Louis, Missouri ; Lettie, the wife of J. W. Smith of Hari'ison County, Missouri, and Abraham B., who died at the age of twenty-four years. He married Bertha Carter of Gallatin, Daviess County, Missouri, and had one daughter, Martha Elen, who lives with her mother, who is now Mrs. C. S. Twedell of New Hampton.

J. A. Christie was educated in the public schools of Daviess and Harrison Counties, Missouri, and, in early manhood, followed farming in Butler Township. He bought his present home of 200 acres of good land in 1888, paying therefor $10.50 per acre. The site where the house now stands was formerly a brush patch at the time of the purchase, and the old St. Joseph Bethany trail ran through the yard, this being the road which was used in pioneer days for freighting with ox teams. The residence now occupied by J. A. Christie and family was built in 1910, and is a good, substantial farm house, six miles south of New Hampton. The old bam, which rendered service for thirty years, was replaced in 1920 by a new building. The farm is nicely improved and productive.

Mr. Christie was married December 27, 1883 in Butler Township to Martha Ellen Humphreys, a daughter of Elcana and Rachel (Flint) Humphreys, both of whom are deceased. Her father was born in Tennessee and located, when a young man, near Gallatin, Missouri, and, in 1866, moved to Harrison County and settled in Butler Township, where he died in 1877, and his wife, who afterward married T. H. Green, died in 1913, both being buried at Matkins. Mr. and Mrs. Humphreys had the following children: Mary, the wife of S. L. Johnson, deceased; Mrs. Christie; Alice Maria, the wife of Ed. Taggart of Montgomery County, Kansas; Thomas F. of Iowa; George F., who died at the age of forty-four years at Liberal, Kansas and is buried at Matkins ; Margaret L., the wife of J. L. Hammons of Butler Township.

Mr. and Mrs. Christie have had the following children: Delia, the wife of C. K. Buchanan, and who died at the age of twenty-seven years, leaving two children: Dwain Eldon and Delores Ellen; Henry Edward, who was accidentally killed in Missouri, and who is survived by his wife, formerly Minnie Rice, and four children ; Lillie May, who lives at home ; Eva Eliza, the wife of J. B. Chipp of Butler Township; Thomas F., and Raymond H., both at home; Olney, who married Edna Chipp and lives in Butler Township; and James Webb, who lives at home and attends the New Hampton High School.

Thomas F. Christie enlisted in the U. S. Army during the World War, July 24, 1918 and was sent to Camp Funston with Company I., but was prevented from going overseas because of the flu, and he was released in February, 1919 and returned home.

Raymond H. Christie enlisted May 24, 1918 and was sent to Camp Dodge May 24th and then to Camp Mills August 10th. with the 88th Division, Company K. of the Infantry. He started overseas August 16,

1918, arriving at Liverpool August 28th and arrived in France at Scherburg August 28th. On October 9th, he entered the trenches and one week later was sent to the trenches for the second time. He was on his way to Metz when the armistice was signed. Altogether he spent ten months in France and embarked to the United States May 20th, arriving here the 31st, and was mustered out at Camp Taylor, Kentucky June 9,

Both Thomas F. and Raymond H. Christie are members of the Duncan-Browning Post of the American Legion at New Hampton. This post was named in honor of Wilbur Duncan and Caroll Browning, two New Hampton boys who lost their lives in France.

Oakley Manring, one of the prominent and enterprising citizens of Butler Township, was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, June 6, 1858, the son of Maschil and Ann (Love) Manring. His father was an expert pig iron maker and also engaged in farming. He served three years and nine months in the Union Army during the Civil War, enlisting in 1862. He was captain of Company A., 56th Ohio and was with this Company during the battle at which General Prentice was captured. He came to Missouri May 9, 1865 and settled near McFall, Gentry County Missouri, and ten years prior to his death, in 1907, he moved to McFall, Missouri. His wife died at the homestead near McFall in 1917. They were the parents of the following children : Oakley the subject of this sketch ; Flavins, deceased ; Ellen, who died in infancy ; Ed D., of McFall, Missouri, a graduate of the University at Columbia, Missouri, Maschil, who lives on the home place; Frank, who died in 1898 at McFall, and who had finished his education at Columbia, Missouri; William Sherman, who lives on the old homestead ; and Eva, who died in 1870.

Jordon Manring, the grandfather of Oakley Manring, came from Virginia to Ohio in pioneer days. His wife was a niece of General John Knox of Revolutionary fame, and was also one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Jordan Manrings' father was captain of a company in the Revolutionary War, and his son was a captain in the War of 1812.

Oakley Manring was educated in the public schools and spent one year at Columbia, 1878-1879. He then entered the lumber business at Stanberry, Missouri, going from there to north central Nebraska where he lived ten years, returning then to Harrison County, and locating on the farm where he now lives, in 1895. He has a farm of 240 acres, good bottom land, well improved, with residence, bam, silo and other buildings suitable for farming and stock use. He does general farming and stock raising, feeding cattle and hogs, and, because of his industry and thrift has made a success. He has also always found time to take a live interest in politics, belonging to the Republican party. While in Nebraska, he held the office of county commissioner for six years, and has also filled the office of justice of the peace.

Mr. Manring was married the first time in 1887 to Inez Adams of Nebraska, who is now deceased. They were the parents of four childdren : H. G. of Harrison County ; John Franklin, who was accidentally killed; Orville M., of South Dakota and William Harold of Harrison County. Mr. Manring married his present wife ,Eliza C. McCulloch of Gentry County, Missouri, in 1903. She was born in Indiana, the daughter of Porter and Sarah Ann McCulloch, both of whom located near McFall, Missouri in 1868. Her father was a veteran of the Civil War from Indiana.

Two of Mr. Manring's sons H. G. and Orville wei-e in the U. S. Army during the World War. H. G. Manring enlisted in September, 1917 and was with the 91st Division overseas. He was with the Heavy Artillery 348 and was in the Meuse Argonne in October, 1918 and north of Verdun about five kilometers, and at Hill 304 when the armistice was signed. He was with the army of occupation from November until March 19, 1919, returning to the States in April, 1919 and was mustered out at Cheyenne, Wyoming, having been in service nineteen months. He is a member of the Duncan-Browning post at New Hampton.

Orville Manring was in service about six months. He had a difficult time in enlisting, being refused at American Lake, Camp Lewis, Washington, at Bethany and at Jefi'erson Barracks, but finally passed muster at South Dakota.

Oakley Manring and two sons, H. G. and William H. are members of the Masonic Lodge at McFall. The Manring family have many friends in the county and stand high in the community.

Andrew Jesse Rowhuff, a prosperous farmer and substantial citizen of Butler Township, and a native of Daviess County, Missouri, was born February 4, 1860, the son of James H. and Matilda (Green) Rowhuff. His mother was also a native of Daviess County, born in 1836, and a daughter of Jesse and Mary (Groomer) Green, early settlers of this county, coming from Kentucky. Matilda Rowhuff' died in 1882 and is buried at Matkins Cemetery. James H. Rowhuff died in 1892 at the age of eighty-two years. He was a veteran of the Civil War, enlisting at the age of fifty years, and serving nearly three years with Company G, in a volunteer infantry regiment from Missouri. He came to Harrison County in 1864 and settled on the farm now owned by Oakley Manring, but lived in McFall, Missouri, eighteen months prior to his death.

James H. Rowhuff was married four times, and to the union with his first wife, who was Margaret Sharpe, six children were born, as follows: Leonard, a veteran of the Civil War, serving in the Confederate Army, and died in the service in Southern Missouri; Napoleon B., who, when heard from last, was living in South Missouri; Nathaniel, who died in Denver, Colorado in 1906, as the result of a street car accident; Mrs. Phoebe Lyons, who died in Idaho in 1876; Mrs. Nancy Brown, the widow of Thomas Brown and who lives in Hamburg, Iowa; and Catherine Johnson, of La Russell, Missouri, the widow of Harvey Johnson.

By his second wife, Mr. Rowhuff had two children: Charles G., who died when twelve years of age; and Andrew Jesse, the subject of this sketch.

Andrew Jesse Rowhuff received his education in the district schools, and grew to manhood on his father's farm, remaining there until twentyfour years of age, when he purchased forty acres in 1888. He now owns an excellent two-hundred-acre farm, which he bought at different times, buying and paying for the land as he was able. His residence is two and one-fourth miles southwest of Matkins. Other improvements are, one barn and cattle shed, ice house, two ponds, etc. He has one of the best watered farms in the county and the water is piped in the pasture from a shallow well. By thrift, hard work and good management, Mr. Rowhuff has been very successful.

January 18, 1888, Mr. Rowhuff was married to Lydia Daniel, a daughter of Frank and Ruanna (Salmon) Daniel. She was born in Butler Township. Her father died at the age of thirty-one, in 1870, and her mother died in 1907 at the age of sixty-four years, and both are buried in Daniel Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Rowhuff have three children: Bessie, the wife of Howard Gill of Butler Township; Walter, who married Ellen Ives, of Fort Madison, Wisconsin, now residing at Emporia, Kansas, and James, who lives at home, and who was at Camp Funston, Kansas, when the armistice was signed. He went there in July, 1918, and was mustered trustee. He is at present secretary -^ -asm ^^^^^^ .^ independent. Hampton Telephone ^^^^^^^^J-J^^^Tt^, township, and widely known. He is one of the enterpnsmg citizens tion of Missouri. He was born "^^^J"^ ^^ ^^ ^hat section of HarnatTves'of Illeghany County, ^-""^^1;;";^"^ ^^^^^^ied in Pennsylvania and Ruben Donelson and Margaret Hall - - Center, Harrison owner and a successful farmer. In the early days their post-office was at Amos, Missouri, a distance of four miles from the Donelson home. Amos Jewett kept a store and the post-office there. Allendale, the nearest town, was nine miles distant. Mr. Donelson hauled goods from St. Joseph to Allendale, a distance of about 100 miles during the winter seasons. In those days the trails across the prairie were at times almost impassable and to make one of these trips required several days.

Vv^hen Mr. Donelson purchased his homestead right there was a pioneer log cabin on the place, and this was the home of the Donelson family for a number of years. Their furniture was of the crude pioneer type, consisting of home made chairs and bedsteads built in connection with the walls of the cabin in true pioneer fashion. The nearest gristmill was the old Comer stone mill which was twelve miles away and the pioneers took their corn there to be ground into meal and frequently the pioneers converted their corn into coarse meal with a crude home made tin grater and C. H. Donelson remembers of having eaten corn bread which was made from meal that was prepared in that wav. Although comparatively a young man his life has spanned the crude pioneer past and the present day convenience and progressive methods. When the Donelson family settled in this county and for many years afterward native wild animals of the prairie were plentiful. Prairie chickens, deer, wolves and wild turkeys were here in their native haunts.

To Ruben and Margaret (Hall) Donelson were born twelve children, eleven of whom grew to maturity as follows: Lucinda, married George Jordan, Washington Center; Eugene, lives near Hatfield; Thomas C, Salisbury, Missouri; U. G., St. Joseph, Missouri; C. H., the subject of this sketch; Mary Belle, married Will Young, of Salisbury, Missouri; Minnie, married Lewis Bumgardener; John M., lives in Kansas; Jordan, Hatfield, Missouri; Frank, Creston, Iowa; and Lawrence, Salisbury, Missouri. Ruben Donelson and his wife are now deceased and their remains are buried in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, near Washington Center. They were true pioneers of Harrison County and as such their memory is well worthy of perpetuation in a work of this character. Ruben Donelson gave his service to the cause of the Union during the Civil War, having been a member of the state militia and at one time was with his command on an expedition as far west as Colorado.

engaged in farming and stock raising and also bought and fed cattle. He specialized in buying calves and feeding them until they were three years old which he found to be a very profitable business. He lived in Washington Township for a number of years and later removed to Lincoln Township which was his home for thirty years. In 1913 he left the farm and moved to Hatfield, where he was engaged in the automobile business. In 1917 he came to Ridgeway where he has since been engaged in the automobile business. He has handled the Ford cars for the past nine years and during that time he has sold more cars than any other dealer between St. Joseph and Des Moines. He also handles the Fordson tractor. He also conducts a complete repair department in connection with his storage garage.

The Donelson garage is one of the best equipped and most complete garages in the state. The south part was built in 1917 and the north part in 1920. The building has a frontage of 120 feet on Main street and is ninety-six feet deep and is constructed of concrete and brick. The floor slopes gently from the center to the sides where gutters are provided which carry away all drippings from the machines, such as water and oil. This plan is original with Mr. Donelson and automobile men from all over the country have been interested in this feature of garage construction and many who were contemplating building new garages have visited the Donelson garage to familiarize themselves with this plan. The south half of the Donelson garage is devoted to storage and the repair department and the north half is devoted to the stock room and offices. The storage department has a capacity of 100 cars and there are usually about six men employed. This is one of the important business concerns of Harrison County and Mr. Donelson is deserving of much credit in the enterprise and progress shown in its rapid development.

Mr. Donelson was married February 25, 1878 to Miss Minnie Adair, daughter of David Adair, who was one of the pioneer settlers of Harrison County. To Mr. and Mrs. Donelson have been born three children as follows: Arthur, who conducts a garage at Lamoni, Iowa; Effie, married Everett Bell, Lamoni, Iowa, who is engaged in the automobile business there in partnership with Arthur Donelson; and Clella Mae, who is a student in the Ridgeway High School.

Mr. Donelson is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is one of the widely known business men of Harrison County and always stands for progressiveness and citizenship of a high standard.

Otis G. Butler, a well known farmer and member of a pioneer family of this county, and proprietor of Riverview Stock Farm, was born in the residence where he now lives March 30, 1885, the son of Albert and Ella (Sutton) Butler. Albert Butler was born on the same place March 21, 1845, and died March 23, 1913, and his wife, who was born February 23, 1861 in Ohio, is now living in Bethany, Missouri.

Asaph Butler, the grandfather of Otis G. Butler, was a native of Vermont; he came to Missouri in 1840 from Illinois via ox team, accompanied by Mr. Maize, now deceased citizen of this county, and entered the farm now owned by his grandson. He was the first county judge of Harrison County and the first court was held under an elm tree on the Slaughter farm in Bethany Township. Asaph Butler's first home was a cabin, which he replaced after a few years with a frame house and he was the first settler in the county to have window glass in his house. He built a third home, now the residence of Otis G. Butler in 1866. The weather board of this building is hand dressed and of native walnut and the frames are of oak. Albert Butler lived in this house all of his life with the exception of two years prior to his death. Asaph Butler is buried in Butler Cemetery, a part of his home fami and Harmon Butler, a son, was the first one buried there in 1853.

Mr. and Mrs. Asaph Butler were the parents of the following children : Harmon, deceased; Clarista, the wife of Austin Brown, both deceased; Orlin, a veteran of the Civil War, now deceased, who married a Miss Mc- Intyre ; Horace, a Civil War veteran, who lived in Gentry County, and later moved to Kansas where he died, and who mairied Ida Young; Clarinda, the wife of Michael Price of Gentry County; Oscar, who died while serving as prosecuting attorney of Harrison County ; Norton, a veteran of the Civil War, who died in Bethany Township, and who was married three times and reared a large family ; Mary, the widow of Thomas Allen, who had formerly married a Mr. Chapman; and Alice, the wife of Charles Seymour of Estacada, Oregon.

Albert Butler was a prominent stockman and farmer of Cypress Township and is buried in Butler Cemetery. He and his wife were the parents of the following children: Ovid H., of Bethany Township; Otis G., the subject of this sketch; and Bettie E., who died in infancy.

Otis G. Butler was educated in the Maise School district and has made his home in Cypress Township all of his life. He has a farm of 120 acres, all upland, and one of the best fai-ms in the community and it is named the Riverview Stock Farm. The place is well improved with good residence, barn and other buildings suitable for general farming and stock raising.

Mr. Butler was married February 26, 1911 to Florence Meadows, a daughter of W. H. and Mary E. (Bardrick) Meadows. W. H. Meadows was born in Daviess County and his wife is a native of Ohio. They now live in Pattonsburg and are the parents of the following children: Mrs. Butler; an infant, deceased; James Jesse, deceased; Joseph R., who married Irene Miller and lives in Kansas City, Missouri ; and Roxie E., of Kansas City, Missouri.

Mrs. Butler was born in Daviess County, Missouri, near Pattonsburg and was educated in the county and Pattonsburg schools. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have three daughters: Mary E., Helen Meadows and Ruth Garnett.

William Madison Clark, who is successfully engaged in farming and stock raising in Bethany Township, was born in Clay County, Missouri, near Kearney, June 15, 1869, the son of B. P. and Mary Elizabeth (Arnold) Clark, both deceased. B. P. Clark was married in Clay County, Missouri, and came to Harrison County about 1872, and bought 160 acres of land, which is now owned by Charles Hix and Argil Tilley. He improved this farm and reared his family here. During the Civil War he was a member of the Home Guard of Missouri and saw service at the time of Price's raid. He died in April, 1919, at the age of seventy-five years, and his wife died about 1905 ; both are buried in Matkins Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Clark were the parents of the following children: William M. ; Mrs. Callie Vance, the wife of C. M. Vance of Butler Township; Elizabeth, the wife of W. C. Cole of Bethany, Missouri; Walter of White Oak Township ; Lillie, the wife of Walter Francis of Colorado ; Cordie, the wife of Jacob Youngman of Butler Township; Aubrey of Lockwood, Missouri; Jesse of Bethany, Missouri: Benjamin of Hamilton, Missouri; Manley of Hamilton, Missouri; and Glenna, the wife of Fred Cooper of Bethany Township; Idas Ira and Gladys, deceased, and buried in Matkins Cemetery.

Cypress Township prior to buying his present home in 1904, purchasing at that time eighty acres. He now owns 137 acres of second bottom, good soil. The residence on the farm was built by Luther Tilley, and the barn was built by Mr. Clark. The farm is all under cultivation, and is one of the best places in this vicinity. Mr. Clark does general farming, and raises registered Jersey cows and Spotted Poland hogs.

Mr. Clark was married April 20, 1889, to Ermine Scofield, a daughter of David and Cornelia (Thackera) Scofield, both deceased, and who were early settlers of Cypress Township. Mr. Clark grubbed the stumps out of the Scofield farm twenty-five years after Mr. Scofield had cleared the land. Mr. Scofield saw service in the Civil War, and died when thirtyfour years of age. He and his wife are buried in Butler Cemetery in

Mr and Mrs. Clark are the parents of seven children: Zella, the wife of Herchel Sutton of Cypress Township; Roy. who married Blanche Williamson and who live on the home place; Hazel, the wife of Irlin Maize of Bethany Township; Artie, the wife of Argyl Tilley; Eva, the wife of Raymond Selby of Cypress Township; Jennie and Ray, both at

Mr. Clark is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America at Bridgeport, Missouri, and has served on the school board of his township for several years. He is well known in the township and has many friends.

Claude A. Endsley, a prominent farmer of Butler Township, and pioneer of Harrison County, was born at Bethany, Missouri, February 27, 1875, the son of John Henry and Adelaide (Sneed) Endsley, both deceased.

John Endsley came from Ray County, Missouri, in 1840, with his father Abraham Endsley, when the former was three years of age, and settled in Cypress Township. Abraham Endsley died two and one-half miles west of Matkins in 1882 and is buried at Matkins. His wife. Elizabeth Endsley died in 1884.

John Endsley moved to the present farm of Claude Endsley in 1859, and owned 140 acres on which he built a good residence and a barn 44x64 feet, which was torn down forty-one years later and a new one built. He was a stockman and farmer and raised Hamilton horses, mules, cattle and hogs. In the '50's, he earned mail on horse back from Chillicothe to Bethany, Missouri, and drove a wagon from Bethany to Montana across the

Mr. and Mrs. John Endsley were the parents of the following children : Henry and Charlie, deceased ; Edgar of Kansas City, Missouri ; Mrs. Elizabeth Yeater, deceased, who married Dr. H. P. Yeater; Clarence, deceased; Claude A., of this sketch; Catherine, deceased; Milton, of Whitewater, Kansas ; Tuna, deceased ; Ida, the wife of W. L. George, of Hotchkiss, Colorado, and who have five children, Helen, Howard, Everett, Ethel, Margaret; Horton, of Hotchkiss, Colorado, who married Julia George, and who has three children, Ida, Ruby and Evelyn.

Claude Endsley and his brothers and sisters were educated at the Tull school house in Butler Township. He was married in 1914 to Martha Dunkle, a daughter of John and Nancy Dunkle of Butler Township, both deceased. Mrs. Endsley was born in Dallas Township and died November 6, 1920 at the age of fifty-three years.

Mr. Endsley has lived on his present farm for about forty-six years. He has been very successful in general farming and stock raising and is well known throughout the county. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Martinsville, No. 547.

Oliver W. Curtis, an expert automobile mechanic, but who is at present farming in Butler Township, was bom in Van Buren County, Michigan, at Hartford, April 3, 1883. the son of Ezra and Julia E. (McNitt) Curtis. Ezra Curtis was born in New York, April 11, 1834 and is now living at Kalamazoo, Michigan, and his wife died in Hartford, Michigan, October 11, 1914.

Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Curtis were the parents of the following children : Barney, of California; Alva and Mrs. Leona Tiemey, both deceased; Mrs. Bertha Brague, of Kalamazoo, Michigan; John, of St. Joseph, Missouri; Harry, of California; Ada, of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Oliver W., of this sketch ; and Grover C, of Benton Harbor, Michigan.

Oliver- W. Curtis was educated in the public schools of Michigan, and spent three years in Lewis Institute at Chicago, a mechanical and mathematical school, and, after finishing his education, he was in the automobile business in Chicago and followed this line of work until recently, when he traded his garage in Blythedale, Missouri, for his present farm in Butler Township, in May, 1921. He has eighty-five acres one and one-half miles east of Matkins, formerly the C. M. Vance place ; fifteen acres are in oats, fifteen acres in corn, fifteen acres in hay and the remainder is in pasture.

Mr. Curtis was married in 1914 to Beulah Walton of Blythedale, Missouri, a daughter of J. W. and Rosa Walton, both of whom live at Blythesdale.

Although Mr. Curtis is an expert automobile man and a very efficient mechanic, he has always wanted a farm and is now doing the work he likes best. He can make an entire automobile and desires to study electrical work further.

Lewis F. Salmon, a well known farmer and stockman of Butler Township, and proprietor of Ackenside Stock Farm of near McFall, Missouri, was born in Gentry County, Missouri. August 10, 1874, the son of Eli and Clarinda J. (McGinley) Salmon, both of whom live in Butler Township. Eli Salmon was born in Butler Township in 1853, and his wife was bom in Gentry County in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Salmon are the parents of the following children: Lewis F., Elmer E., of Ft. Scott, Kansas; Mrs. Nona Yount, of St. Joseph, Missouri ; and Mrs. Ida Morris, deceased.

Lewis F. Salmon bought his present farm in August, 1910. This place was formerly owned by John A. Smith, but who is better known as "Yankee Smith." Mr. Salmon has improved the farm with a number of buildings, silo, two wells, poultry house, etc., and has fine water for the stock and home. He raises Duroc Jersey hogs registered, Shropshire sheep. Shorthorn cattle and pure bred white S. C. Leghorn chickens. His son Ross Salmon takes care of the hogs. They have the blood line of "Pathfinder Sensation" and "Orion Chen-y Kings", and all of the Durocs are registered. "Perfect Sensation," No. 378325 is the herd head and they have about 150 head of hogs on the farm now.

Mr. Salmon was married September 26, 1887 to Clara A. Rice, a daughter of Garrett and Harriet Rice. Mr. Rice died in Butler Township and is buried in New Hope Cemetery and his widow lives at McFall, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Salmon have two children: Velma V., who is now in her first year in Bethany High School ; and Ross R., a graduate of Bethany High School of class 1919, and who attended the State University of Mis-

Mr. Salmon is a member of the Butler Township board and is also a member of the following lodges : Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Modem Woodmen of America and Woodmen of the World.

Capt. Carlisle R. "Chuck" Wilson, who distinguished himself on the battle fields of France in the World War and gave his life to the cause, will long be remembered as one of the honored and favorite young men of Harrison County. "Chuck" Wilson was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. He always took a kindly interest in the welfare of friend and neighbor and vi'as possessed of the rare faculty of making loyal friends and many of them. This was because he was a sincere and loyal friend himself.

Carlisle Wilson was a son of James C. and Alice E. (Turner) Wilson. He was born in Bethany, July 28, 1891. He was educated in the public schools of Bethany, Wentworth Military Academy from which he graduated in 1910, University of Missouri, where he was in college from 1909 until 1913, and the Law School of Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri, where he spent the years 1914 to 1916.

Captain Wilson had an unusual athletic record and was one of the star foot ball players in the Missouri valley and the west, having been chosen all-Missouri valley center for years 1912-1913. He was captain of the foot ball team at the University for a year and was the greatest center Missouri has ever had, and also held the position of assistant coach at the university for a year.

Captain Wilson enlisted in Company G, 4th Missouri Infantry in July, 1915, and later went with his company to the Mexican border in 1916. He was mess sergeant for a time and on January 29, 1917 was promoted to the rank of first sergeant. On May 30, 1917 he was commissioned second lieutenant in Company G and was called into service of the United States government on August 5, 1917. He trained at Camp Doniphan with Company G, 139th Infantry. In February, 1918, he was commissioned first lieutenant and on April 19th of that year he was sent overseas. He participated in the defensive sector of Vosges, the battles of St. Mihiel and in the battle of Argonne Forest in which battle he was wounded on September 27 1918. He was awarded the Distinguished Sei-vice Cross for extraordinary valor and heroism in action near Montblainville, France, September 27, 1918. His citation reads: "In order to establish and maintain liaison with the adjacent division, Lieutenant Wilson, though wounded, led his men along the Cise River and across a bridge through the heaviest kind of artillery and machine gun fire. He died soon after this exploit from the wounds received." He was commissioned captain on October 24, 1918, but died from his wounds November 7, 1918, at Pogues Levaux, France, and was buried at Never, France.

The Wilson-Axline Post No. 216, of the American Legion, was named in honor of Capt. Carlisle Wilson and Lieut. Arthur A. Axline. Captain Wilson belonged to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Columbia, Missouri, and was a member of several fraternities at the university. Among them were A. T. 0., T. N. E., Quo Vadis and the Mystic Seven.

Joshua F. Selby, an enterprising young farmer of Bethany Township, was born on the farm where he now lives, January 12, 1886, the son of John F. and Mary F. (Sutton) Selby. The latter, who now lives in Bethany, Missouri, is a daughter of Capt. Simeon Sutton, a veteran of the Civil War.

John F. Selby was born in Harrison County, Missouri, and died in 1903 at the age of fifty-eight years. He was a stockman and farmer and was county judge of his district two or more terms. He was widely known and had many friends throughout the county.

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Selby were the parents of the following children: Edmund Roscoe, of Kansas City, Missouri; J. F., the subject of this sketch; Grace, who is employed in the census bureau at Washington, D. C. ; Gladys, the wife of J. C. Frisbie of Sherman Township ; John E., a farmer of Sherman Township; and Florence, who hves at home. By a former marriage of John F. Selby, he had a son, William 0. Selby, of Downs, Kansas, who is a traveling salesman.

any, Missouri. The farm is well watered and nicely improved. Mr. Selby raises cattle, hogs and has fed cattle. He raises the Chester White registered hogs.

Mr. Selby was married August 14, 1918 to Clarice Pearl Neff, a daughter of Jesse S. and Martha Neff, both of whom live in Bethany, Missouri. To Mr. and Mrs. Selby has been born one child, Frederick Earl, born June 23, 1921.

Mr. Selby has very capably filled the office of township trustee of Bethany Township for six years, his term expiring in April, 1921. He is a progi'essive and wide-awake young farmer and is meeting with success.

A pioneer school house, known as the Ground-hog school house, made of logs, stood on the farm when John F. Selby purchased the place. The school was located about one-eighth mile from the present residence of Joshua Selby, and was torn down by Mr. Selby after he came here. Many of the children of the early pioneers attended school here. It was very primitive and on the east side there was a log removed to let in light.

John W. Bacon, who is successfully engaged in farming and stock raising in Bethany Township, and a member of a pioneer family of this county, was born in Bethany Township, February 26, 1875, the son of Henry C. and Mary D. (Kinkade) Bacon. Henry C. Bacon was also born in this township, October 16, 1846, and is now living in Bethany, having retired from the farm in 1901. His father, Levi Bacon, came to Harrison County from Ohio, June 4, 1846, and settled in Bethany Township, entering land in section 34. Levi Bacon died here about 1879 and is buried at Antioch. His wife, Permelia (Wilkinson) Bacon, died a few years later, at the age of sixty-nine years.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bacon were the parents of the following children: John W., the subject of this sketch; Cora Catherine, the wife of Ben Hall, who lives on the Levi Bacon homestead; Clara Jane, the wife of W. R. Bartlett, who lives on the first farm of Levi Bacon ; Georgia E., Levi and Flora AUce, all three of whom died in infancy.

John W. Bacon was educated at Woodland School, and, with the exception of four years, has lived in Bthany and this township all of his life. Mr. Bacon ovms 440 acres of land, 100 acres in section 34 ; sixty acres in section 29, and the remainder in section 33. He does general farming and stock raising and has met with merited success. Mr. Bacon also has a modem residence in town.

John W. Bacon was married November 4, 1903, to Josie Howe, a daughter of J. C. and Emma (Sutton) Howe of Bethany. Mrs. Emma Howe was a daughter of Captain Sutton, a pioneer of Cypress Township. Mr. and Mrs. Howe were the parents of the following children: Lizzie, the wife of H. K. EUis of Baca County, Colorado; Mrs. Bacon; Myrtle, the wife of E. P. Reed of Nevada, Missouri ; Blanche, the wife of Warren Davis of New Hampton; James H. of Los Animas, Colorado; Ruth, of Kansas City, Missouri ; Doris, a teacher at Blythedale, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Bacon have four children : Mary Frances, now a student of Bethany High School; Ruth Elizabeth, Clara Kathryn and Henry Creighton.

S. S. Bacon of Bethany, Missouri, is an uncle of J. W. Bacon, and was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted for service from Harrison County.

The paternal great grandfather of J. W. Bacon started to California from this county in 1849 and, while on the way, when crossing the desert, was poisoned by drinking impure water. They had been out of water for several days previous to finding water of any kind.

Solomon Wilkinson, the great grandfather of John W. Bacon, was a drummer in the War of 1812, and was a pioneer of Cypress Township, and died here. His great grandson, Levi C. Wilkinson of Bethany, was in the World War, with the 35th Division in France, and a sketch of him appears in this volume.

J. R. S. Utterback, a highly respected and leading farmer of Cypress Township, was bom in Putnam County, Indiana, February 8, 1873, the son of John N. and Rachel Ellen Utterback. John Utterback died in June, 1920, in Brimson, Missouri, where he had lived for twenty-five years, and his wife died in Putnam County, Indiana, in 1873.

Mr. and Mrs. John Utterback were the parents of the following children: John William B. of Brimson, Missouri; and J. R. S., the subject of this sketch.

gaged in farming in Illinois, prior to coming to Harrison County, in 1896, where he rented land for about ten years, and finally bought eighty acres of land, and gradually increasing his acreage, until at the present tim'e, he owns 448 acres in Cypress Township, about 200 acres of which is in Big Creek bottom and second bottom, all in Cypress Township, with the exception of forty acres in Bethany Township. The entire farm is under cultivation, and is as fine a farm as the county affords.

Mr. Utterback was married in 1893 to Amanda C. Nees, of Edgar County, Illinois. She is a native of Indiana and a daughter of George and Mary Nees, both deceased. Mrs. Utterback was reared and educated in Illinois.

Mr. and Mrs. Utterback are the parents of the following children: Ruth, the wife of H. McQuerry of Cypress Township; Mabel, the wife of Walker Flint of Cypress Township; John Shelton and William Morton and James Wilbur, all at home.

Mr. Utterback is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has filled the office of Democratic committeeman of Cypress Township for several years, and is clerk of School District Number 125.

Nathan T. Slatten, a successful farmer and stockman of Cypress Township, was born August 25, 1888, in Sherman Township, the son of James L. and Rozetta (Bartlett) Slatten.

James L. Slatten was born March 24, 1860, in Sherman Township, where he now lives. His wife died October 4, 1918, and is buried in Bethany, Missouri. Tyre Slatten, grandfather of Nathan Slatten. was one of the earliest settlers of Sherman Township, where he entered land now owned by James Slatten. He died in 1912 at the age of eighty-eight years. Nathan Bartlett, maternal grandfather of Nathan Slatten, lives in Ridgeway, Missouri.

The children of James L. and Rozetta Slatten are: Lizzie, the wife of Bert Guyman of Bethany, Missouri; Essie, the wife of Cliff Selby of Sherman Township; Nathan T., the subject of this sketch; Edith, the wife of Forest White of Independence, Kansas ; Harlan and Amon of Sherman Township; and Elva, who lives on the home place.

Nathan T. Slatten was educated in the public schools of Sherman Township, and in Bethany, Missouri. He farmed in Sherman Township until 1913, when he moved to the W. H. Leazenby farm, where he now

August 30, 1911, Nathan T. Slatten was married to Bertha May Leazenby, a daughter of W. H. and Rhoda May (Neff) Leazenby of Mount Mariah, Missouri. W. H. Leazenby was bom in Trail Creek Township January 13, 1861, and his wife was born in Fox Creek Township. His father was one of the pioneer settlers of Yankee Ridge.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Leazenby were the parents of the following children: Albert B., who died at the age of twenty-six years; Charles E. of Mount Mariah, Missouri ; Eugene of Madison Township ; Mrs. Slatten; J. Harlan of Ridgeway, Missouri; Robert H., who lives at home; Ruth A., the wife of Jack Dale of Bethany, Missouri; and Mary Lucille, who died in infancy.

Ira Omar Thompson, a well known citizen of Cypress Township, was born in this township, November 9, 1879, the son of William A. and Mary E. (Keller) Thompson. William Thompson was born in Jackson County, Ohio, and died in CjT)ress Township, July 31, 1902, and is buried in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. His wife was also a native of Jackson County, Ohio, and was born April 6, 1853. She now lives in Bethany, Missouri. In 1872, William Thompson left Ohio and settled in this township, where he engaged in stock raising and farming.

Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson were the parents of the following children: William Ora, who died in infancy; Ira Omar, of this sketch; Etta Maude, the wife of C. J. Sutton, on the home place ; Essie May, the wife of Roscolia M. Slaughter of Daviess County, Missouri ; Minnie E., the wife of James F. Caraway, of Gentry County, Missouri; and Milton Arthur of Cypress Township, who married Elsie V. Claycomb.

Ira Omar Thompson was educated in the public schools of this township and has followed farming and run a sawmill and thresher since finishing his education. He farms twenty acres of land, and besides his numerous duties, has found time to serve the township in the capacity of township collector, having filled this position for seven years. Mr. Thompson has operated a thresher for twenty-eight consecutive seasons and ovoied

July 2, 1899, Mr. Thompson was married to Lizzie Harmon, who was born November 12, 1878 and died September 12, 1913 and is buried at Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. They were the parents of the following children: Nellie, the wife of Harvey Yost of Daviess County, Missouri; William 0., Beatrice and Bertha I., all at home; and Mettie, deceased.

Mr. Thompson was married the second time February 14, 1914 to Nellie E. Kirk, a daughter of Henry and Ella (Copeland) Kirk. Mr. Kirk lives in Pattonsburg, Missouri, and his wife died January 13, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have two children: Dorothy Lee and Milton I.

Mr. Thompson's grandfather, John Thompson, was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, April 2, 1806 and died June 26, 1879, in Madison County, Ohio, and is buried at Georgesville Cemetery. His wife, who was Eliza Joyce of Jackson County, Ohio, was born in 1854 and died at the age of twenty-nine years and is buried in Union cemetery at Liberty Hall, Jackson County, Ohio.

Hugh Thompson, a cousin of William A. Thompson, was a veteran of the Civil War and at battle of Chickamauga he was wounded and for eight years he did not regain consciousness, until February, 1871. He was a wanderer all that time with the past obliterated from his mind and a fall in Illinois relieved the pressure from his brain which was caused by a bullet, and his past then gradually returned to him, but it was not until 1887 that he established his identity through the G. A. R. Post in Meade County, Kansas.

Fourteen of the Thompson family have served in the wars of this country as soldiers as shown by the history of the Thompson family, which was printed in 1911 and this does not include those who were in the World War.

Mr. Thompson is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Coffey, Missouri, Encampment at Bethany and of the Modern Woodmen of America at Bridgeport, Missouri.

Garland A. Miller, a successful farmer of Adams Towns/iip, and proprietor of Hickory Grove Farm, was born in Daviess County, Missouri, June 13, 1863, the son of Jacob E. and Elizabeth (Miller) Miller, both of whom died in Cypress Township, the former is buried at Bethany and the latter at Pleasant Ridge.

Jacob E. Miller was a veteran of the Civil War, enlisting from Bethany, Missouri, with Company E of Missouri Infantry, and serving four and one-half years. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Shiloh and was in prison for several weeks. After the war, he settled in Cypress Township and lived here until his death. Mr. and Mi's. Jacob E. Miller were the parents of the following children: R. H., of southern Missouri; Garland, the subject of this sketch ; Mrs. Martha Salmon, deceased ; Mrs. Mary Mooney, of Nebraska; and Charlie, deceased.

Garland Miller was educated in the schools of Harrison County, Missouri, and has made his own way in the world since he was thirteen years of age, at which time, he began working for his uncle, James Mitchen, for $13.00 per month. He worked by the month for several years before he bought his present fann in 1895, which consists of 140 acres. Mr. Miller has a fine farm, which he has extensively improved himself. He has a fine residence, barn, two poultry houses and other buildings. He raises pure bred Rhode Island chickens, black Poland-China hogs, also raises cattle and Shropshire sheep. His farm is well watered with three wells and a pond. This farm is situated six and one-half miles northeast of Coffey and four and one-half miles southwest of Blue Ridge.

Mr. Miller was married March 30, 1889, to Arminta Courter, a daughter of D. C. and Chloe Courter, pioneers of Cypress Township, who settled here in 1844. D. C. Courter was a native of Ohio and his wife a native of Virginia.

To Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born the following children: Altha J., the wife of E. J. Parette, who live on the home place, and who have three children, Grace Juanita, Fay Leone and Roberta Maxine ; Cleo Pearly the wife of Verne A. Boyles of South Dakota, and who have two children. Garland and Leon, and a daughter Pearl Arline, deceased; Kenneth C, a graduate of Bethany High School of class 1918 and who is a member of the class 1922, Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, and who was in the students' army training corps at the Northwestern University for three months in 1918 and 1919, discontinuing when the armistice was signed; Ethel, who died at the age of seventeen years, who was a student at Bethany High School at the time of her death ; and three children who are deceased.

Mr. Miller has been in favor of good schools all of his life and is a progressive citizen. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Coffey, Missouri. He is a stockholder of the Bank of Coffey, Missouri.

M. F. Oxford, well known business man and prominent attorney of Cainsville, was born on a farm two miles north of Bethany, November 10, 1848, the son of Jacob B. and Mary (McCany) Oxford, who were the pai'ents of nine children.

Jacob B. Oxford was born in Buncum County, North Carolina, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Rogers) Oxford who moved to Kentucky in early days and came to Grundy County, Missouri about 1840. They reared a large family before coming to Daviess County and died on their home place in that county. Their son, Jacob B., was a farmer and came to HaiTison County in 1845 where he engaged in farming. He died near Gallatin while on a visit in 1882, at the age of sixty-seven. His first wife was Mary Davidson and they had one child, a son, J. D. Oxford, who was a minister in the Christian Church in Harrison County for more than forty years. Jacob B. Oxford was married the second time to Mary Mc- Cany, a native of Virginia and a daughter of Andrew and Miss (Collins) McCany, both natives of Virginia who came to Daviess County, Missouri in pioneer days and suffered the hardships and privations of those early times. They were driven from their home during the Mormon War and the house was burned. Mrs. Oxford was a descendant of Terrance Mc- Cany who was a soldier in the American Revolution and the grandfather of Andrew McCany. Mrs. Oxford died in 1879 at the age of sixty-three. Jacob B. Orford was a Democrat in politics and at one time served as county assessor. He was a man with very strong and decided opinions in both politics and religion and had a strong faculty for making friends.

M. F. Oxford was reared on a farm and attended the district school until he was grown when he went to a select school at Cainsville conducted by Mr. ShaefTer. Mr. Oxford then taught school in Harrison and Mercer counties for four years and in 1872 he went into the grocery business at Cainsville with S. D. Rardin. After two years Mr. Oxford sold his interest in the business to his partner and then in company with C. M. Scott, James Moss, Sr., and H. T. Rogers he went to California with a view to locating in that state. None of the party was pleased with the country so they returned to Cainsville and Mr. Oxford, in partnership with his cousin, R. L. Oxford, bought the Moss and Hagan general merchandise stock. The two partners were brothers-in-law and the firm was known as the Oxford Brothers. In the fall of 1883, M. F. Oxford bought his partner's interest and conducted the store alone until 1900, when he took his son, 0. H., in as a partner. This firm continued in business until 1915 when Mr. Oxford closed out his interest to his son and began the practice of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1903, having studied law through text books. He has been a successful attorney in general practice and has been the attorney for the Cainsville Bank for twelve years. He was one of the men who helped organize the bank and has been on the official board for practically all the time since the bank started business. Mr. Oxford owns three farms which he manages efficiently, conducting the work on the 500 acres while attending to his other varied duties.

M. F. Oxford was married December 25, 1869 to Sarah Jane Chambers who was born on a farm near Cainsville in Mercer County, February 5, 1851, the daughter of Isiah and Miria (Kennedy) Chambers, both natives of Indiana and early settlers of Mercer County. To the union of M. T. and Sarah Jane (Chambers) Oxford the following children were born: Nora, deceased; Cora, now the wife of William J. Burrows, son of Congressman Burrows, and living on the old Burrows home place in Mercer County; Gertrude, married to L. B. Gillihan, a successful attorney at Gallitan; Oscar H., secretary of a land agency at Des Moines, Iowa; and Maude, married to 0. L. Fitterer, a banker and grocer in partnership with his brother at Gallitan. Mr. and Mrs. Oxford have also five grandchildren: Ruth, Bonnie and William 0. Burrows; Lewis Oxford and Kathelyn Gillihan.

Mr. Oxford is a Democrat in politics. He was a candidate for representative of the county in 1886, but was defeated. He has been an active member of the Baptist Church since he was eleven years old. He has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1872 and in all those years has never drawn money from the lodge except for one thirty days illness when he was in a hospital, and his standing in the lodge has never been questioned.

P. C. Puis, a successful farmer and stockman of Adams Township, was born in Knox County, Missouri, July 16, 1880, the son of J. A. and Margaret (Snooks) Puis. J. A. Puis lives in Harrison County, Missouri, and is seventy-six years of age, and his wife, who was born in Knox County, died in Scotland, Missouri, in 1885 and is buried in Knox County.

wife of Thomas Cunning of Scotland County, Missouri; Mabie, the wife of Charles Wagner of Sherman Township; Cora, the wife of John Nighthait of Cypress Township ; Perry of Eaglesville, Missouri ; Pierce of Lewiston, Idaho; Everett of Adams Township and P. C. Puis.

P. C. Pule was educated in the Scotland and Harrison County public schools and came to Harrison County when twelve years of age with his parents, who settled in Adams Township. He was reared on his father's farm, and, after finishing school, rented land for a few years, and bought his first farm of 160 acres twelve years ago, in Adams Township. He sold it and bought his present farm of 176 acres, forty acres in Cypress and the remainder in Adams Township. This was formerly the Clint Potter farm. The place has fair improvements, and the entire farm is under cultivation. Mr. Puis also rents his father's farm of eighty acres and does general farming and stock raising.

Mr. Puis was married September 7, 1900, to Pearl E. Nighthait of Sherman Township, a native of this township, and daughter of Philip and Elizabeth Nighthait. Philip Nighthait is deceased and is wife lives in Sherman Township.

Mr. and Mrs. Puis have four children: Vesta and Vera, who are in their second year at Bethany High School; Gerald La Verne and Gerard Pershing.

George Albert Fash, a successful farmer of Cypress Township, was born in Logan County, Ohio, November 13, 1849, the son of Richard and Hannah (Lease) Pash, both of whom died in Logan County, Ohio. Henry Pash, the father of Richard Pash, was killed in the War of 1812.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pash were the parents of the following children: Colbert Fenton, who died in 1919 at the age of eighty years; Nancy Ann, deceased ; John Richard of Logan County, Ohio ; William of Muncie, Indiana; George A., of this sketch; and Mead, a tinner of Logan County, Ohio.

George Albert Pash was educated in the public schools of Logan County, Ohio, and came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1887, and located on the farm where he now lives. His father-in-law, Oliver Raymond, had purchased this place about 1858, and lived here a short time, then returned to Ohio, and died in Mespotamia, Sheridan County, Ohio, November, 1889. He was born in New York, in 1826, and his wife, Savilla Koplin, was born near Akron, Ohio, in 1832, and died at the home of George A. Pash in 1896, and is buried in Coffey Cemetery. Mrs. George Pash is the only one Uving of the Raymond family, her sister, Mrs. Lucia Barr, having died in Phoenix, Arizona.

Mr. and Mrs. George Pash moved to their present home in 1887 and have resided here since that time. The farm, which consists of 160 acres, is situated three miles from Coffey, Missouri. Mr. Pash does general farming, and is very successful. Two acres of the farm are in orchard. Mr. and Mrs. Pash were married April 15, 1880, and they had the following children: Bertha, who died at the age of thirteen years; Harvey R., of Daviess County, who married Mamie Fields; Ernest of Julesburg, Colorado, who married Inez Magee ; Albert B. of Daviess County, who married Maud Nellie Adams ; Ola Grace, who died when six years of age ; Sherman T. of Bridgeport, who married Ava Strong; Lucia, wife of Fred Denham, of Gridley, Kansas; Richard Homer of Adams Township, who married Ova Foaster; Meade M. of Hancock, Iowa; Orval M. and Iva H., both at home; and Morris L., who lives in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Pash have twentynine living grandchildren and three deceased.

Homer Pash was in United States service at Camp Dodge, Iowa, during the World War, and was mustered out December, 1918. Meade M. Pash enlisted in the United States Army August, 1918, and was sent to Camp Pike, Arkansas, where he remained for six weeks, and was overseas for six months with Company L of the 12th Battalion. Upon his return from France, he was appointed assessor of Butler Township.

Ray Endicott, an enterprising young man of Adams Township, was born near Bolton, east of Oilman, Missouri, February 7, 1891, the son of H. E. and Ottie (McLey) Endicott. Mrs. Ottie Endicott died near Bolton, Missouri, and her husband lives in Mitchell County, Kansas. Ray Endicott is their only child, but, by a former marriage of H. E. Endicott, he has three children: George, Charles and William, all of Mitchell County, Kansas.

Ray Endicott was educated in the public schools in Missouri and Nebraska, and, during the World War, attended the Rhae Auto School of Kansas City, Missouri, and, after finishing a course there, enlisted at Camp Dodge in the Mechanics Division of the United States Army Corps, and was retained there until the war closed. His division was due to go overseas on the 9th of November, but, owing to the armistice being signed, he was mustei'ed out at Bethany, Missouri.

Ray Endicott was married July 9, 1917, to Nora Justice, a daughter of T. A. Justice and wife of Cypress Township, who now live in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Endicott have two children: Harold and Reva Maxine.

For the past two years, Mr. Endicott has been with the Blue Ridge Garage, and is a very efficient mechanic. He is well and favorably known throughout the town.

Arthur Justice, a brother of Mrs. Endicott, was in the United States Navy for eighteen months, having enlisted from Harrison County. He was a gun pointer on the United States Battleship Oregon in the European waters. He married Georgia Richardson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Richardson, and they are now on a farm in CjTiress Township.

Heni-y G. Sutton, a successful contractor of Bethany, Missouri, was born in Daviess County, Missouri, August 5, 1870, the son of John Harvey and Ellen F. (Hubbard) Sutton.

John Harvey Sutton was born November 26, 1846 in Rush County, Indiana, the son of Jacob and Nancy A. (Durgin) Sutton. George Sutton, the paternal grandfather of John H. Sutton, spent his life as a farmer in Preble County, Ohio, and died there about the year 1860, when past seventy years of age. During the War of 1812, he saw service under General Hull. He and his wife, Hannah Sutton, were the parents of the following children: John, a carpenter in Franklin County, Indiana, and who taught this trade to Jacob Sutton ; Aaron, who died in Daviess County, Missouri, in 1867; Samuel, a fanner, who died in Harrison County in 1909; Noah, who died in Knox County, Indiana; Simeon, who died in Bethany, Missouri, in 1910; Harvey Jacob, who died in 1867; Benjamin, who died in Harrison County in 1902 ; Sarah, the wife of Williamson Pugh, who died in Indiana; Letitia, the wife of William Dickson, of Wichita, Kansas; Julia Orson Guard, who died in 1914. Harvey Sutton lived near Rutland, Ilhnois ; Simeon Harvey was a captain of volunteers in Missouri during the Civil War and was captured by the enemy at the Battle of Glasgow; and Benjamin Sutton was with General Sherman's army on its famous march to the sea. He was wounded at the Battle of Atlanta.

Jacob Sutton, the father of John Harvey Sutton, was born in Preble County, Ohio, May 2, 1823, and during his boyhood, acquired a fair eduation, and learned the trade of carpenter with his eldest brother. He moved to Indiana in 1844 and engaged in this work there for several years when he located in Missouri. Among his works of construction were the Hubbard and Westfieling residences in Harrison County, two well known houses in days before the Civil War. Jacob Sutton entered the Union Army, during the war, and enlisted with Merrill's Horse, Second Missouri Cavalry, Company F. His regiment served in Missouri and Arkansas and he participated in the battles of Wilson Creek, Kirkville and Little Rock, and in eastern Tennessee and Alabama, he did scout duty, taking part in minor engagements. He died in October, 1867, on his farm in Harrison County, Missouri. He was a Republican and cast his first vote for John C. Fremont. He was a member of the Christian Church and served the Coffey congregation as elder.

Jacob Sutton married Nancy A. Durgin in 1846, a daughter of Ahira G. Durgin of Daviess County, Missouri. Ahira Durgin was a farmer, millwright and carpenter and was born in Rutland, Vermont, October 12, 1804, and died November, 1864. He came to Missouri in 1841 from Decatur County, Indiana, and did much work as millwright in Daviess County. He was captain of Militia, Union troops, during the Civil War. Captain Durgin was a justice of the peace, a member of several commissions in laying out state roads, and a member of the Christian Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Sutton were the parents of the following children : John Harvey, father of Henry G.; Sarah E., who died; Ahira G., a fruit farmer of Branson, Missouri; Letitia A., who married William Bolin of Spencer, South Dakota; Mary, who died in childhood; Frances Caroline Reichel, whose husband is a dairyman in Puget Sound, Washington.

John Harvey Sutton was educated in the rural schools, Bethany Collegiate Institute and Old Chillicothe Seminary. He taught school in Daviess and Harrison counties and eventually learned the carpenter trade under the tutelage of his father, and entered the contracting business at Jameson, Missouri, where he built a school house and many other buildings. He lived there for fifteen years and then went to Pratt, Kansas, and, while there, erected some of the best buildings of the town. He came to Bethany, Missouri, in 1889 and continued to work here until his death in 1920. The Methodist, Christian and Baptist churches were built by him. From 1898 to 1903, he built, among other buildings, the court house and high school at Grant City Missouri, and from 1911 to 1913, he erected the Pythian Home at Springfield, two churches at Pattonsburg and the High School and Peoples Exchange Bank at Jamesport, Missouri. He was appointed assessor of Harrison County by Governor Folk in 1906, and was a delegate to the Missouri State convention in 1910. He served for eight years in the Bethany council, and was on the water works and finance committee during the construction of the water works.

John Harvey Sutton was married May 13, 1868, to Ellen F. Hubbard, a daughter of Captain Elijah Hubbard, and they are the pai-ents of the following children: Leonard H., who died at Liberal, Kansas, July, 1913; Henry G., the subject of this sketch; Fred K. of Liberal, Kansas; Ralph H. of Little Rock, Arkansas; Sadie, the wife of S. B. Stockwell; Nell K., former county superintendent of schools of Harrison County ; John H., Jr., contractor at Pattonsburg, Missouri ; and Herbert D. of Bethany, Missouri.

Henry G. Sutton was married in 1891 to Gertrude H. Thomas, who died in October, 1920. She was a daughter of Lon and Mary J. Thomas, both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Sutton were the parents of a daughter. Fay, the wife of Horace W. Dunn of Bethany, Missouri.

Mr. Sutton has been contracting for the past thirty years and was in partnership with his father until about fifteen years ago. He has constructed some of the best buildings in this city, among which are the Knights of Pythias Hall and the buildings of the Harrison County Fair Grounds. Mr. Sutton has also done sixty per cent of the paving in the City of Bethany. He now has the contract for the bridge work on the Jefferson Highway, which passes through this county. Among other buildings Mr. Sutton has erected are: The Barlow building. Deal building, Edson garage. Bridges, Webb, Jones, Walter Lingle, and Frank Cuddy residences, and a hundred others.

Mr. Sutton is a member of the Christian Church and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge. He is well known in Bethany and HaiTison County, and is a substantial and highly respected citizen.

W. H. Courier, proprietor of Fairview Stock Farm, is one of the successful and enter]3rising farmers and stockmen of Harrison County. He was born in Cypress Township, March 4, 1853, two and one-fourth miles west of where he now resides, in Adams Township, the son of D. C. and Chloey Jane (Miller) Courter. The latter was born in Jackson County,

Ohio, a daughter of Adam Miller and wife, pioneers of Cypress Township. D. C. Courter, Sr., was a stockman and farmer and owned 500 acres of land at the time of his death, in 1897.

Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt Clinton Courter were the parents of the following children: James I., who died in 1910 and who married Martha Jane Ballard ; W. H., the subject of this sketch ; J. M., who married Jennie Rice, and who died in 1919; Garland, who died in 1910; Dewitt C, Jr., of Coffey, Missouri; George, a farmer of Cypress Township, who married Pemelia Britcher; Minta, the wife of G. A. Miller, a sketch of whom appears in this book; Delcina, the wife of L. B. Binney of Gallatin, Missouri ; and Samuel, deceased, who married Lottie McClure.

W. H. Courter was educated in the public schools of Pleasant Ridge and Reynolds disti'icts, and lived with his parents until he was thirtythree years of age. He was married November 22, 1886, to Mary Fannie Iddings of Daviess County, a daughter of Lafayette W. and N. E. Iddings, both deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. Courter are the parents of the following children: Ezra L., of Daviess County, Missouri; Elinor, who died at the age of thirteen years; Iva, of Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Aura Everly, of Daviess County; Nova H., who lives at home; Norval, on the home place, who married Ethel Gardner; Judson C. and Orris D. both at home.

Ezra L. Courter enlisted in the United States Army in April, 1918, at Bethany, Missouri, as a mechanic. He was transferred to Camp Jackson, South Carolina, and to Alabama, and at Camp McLellan, Alabama, he was made top sergeant quite some time before the armistice was signed. Nova H. Courter enlisted at Bethany, Missouri, and was sent to Camp Funston, where he was kept with the Medical Corps of the 28th Field Artillery. He was mustered out January 24, 1919, and is now assisting with the farm work on the home place ; he is also left fielder for the Bethany base ball team.

Mr. Courter owns 500 acres of land, all of which, except eighty acres, is in Cypress Township. When he first began working for himself, he went in debt for his first eighty acres, which he sold later and bought 195 acres, and gradually added to his farm until he has his present valuable place. He rebuilt his residence, built new barn and fences, and has one of the finest farms in Adams Township. Mr. Courter has fed cattle and hogs extensively, and his farm is well watered. His farm is well improved with good buildings suitable for stock raising.

Mr. Courter has ahvays been a booster for schools and churches and is a man of progressive ideas. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Coffey, Missouri.

Maj. Randall Wilson, a well known and successful attorney at Bethany, was born May 26, 1889, in Bethany, Missouri, the son of J. C. and Alice E. (Turner) Wilson.