Montgomery County, Missouri - Biographical sketches (2 of 2 so headed), 1885 (part 3 of 8)

Ir. Graham is called a physician by Rose, and some of the old settlers yet living call him '* the old doctor,'' but he was not a regular physician. A scarcity of physicians in this country when he came here led him to be his own doctor, and he procured some medical works, which he easily mastered; and afterwards he bought a small stock of drugs, and gradually acquired an extensive practice, but not a very profitable one, for his services were uniformly given without money and without price.

When Graham first came he brought two slaves with him, ' Billy '' and Mildred, or ¢* Milley.'' The latter is still living near Montgomery City. The three cleared off a * patch,'' and then Graham brought his family to Loutre Lick, June 1, 1816. He resided here until. his death, September 29, 1855, aged 75. His wife died August 11, 1865, aged 76.

After Robert Graham perhaps the next settler was James Beatty, who came in 1818 and located on section 20, township 48, range 6, two miles west of Loutre Lick, and where D. P. Davis now lives.

Daniel Morgan Boone, son of the old pioneer, came to the south-east quarter of section 28, township 48, range 6, a mile or more north-west of Loutre Lick, on the west side of the stream, in 1819, and built a large cabin one-fourth of a mile east of the present residence of Alexander Graham. Col. Boone had several important positions under the government, and during the Indian Wars - - 1812 to 1816 - was colonel of the militia. He made many government surveys in the. present counties of St. Charles, Warren, Montgomery and Lincoln. He is said to have resembled his father more than any other of the, children. -

Col. Boone had a considerable family of slaves and children. He had married in St. Charles county a Miss Lewis, a beautiful and accomplished lady, amiable, kind and charitable. They subsequently removed to what is now Jackson county, where, we believe, they lived the remainder of theirlives. Col. Boone died in Jackson county, : July 13, 1839, aged 71.

While he lived in Montgomery county Daniel M. Boone: received frequent visits from his distinguished father. Alexander Graham and others saw him on these occasions. eb, section 29, township 48, range 6, a mile or so south of James Beatty's. He built a cabin, which is still standing, at the present residence of his son, Daniel B. Davis. James Davis had married Jemima Hays, a grand-daughter of Daniel Boone.

Col. David Craig, though unmarried at the time, was an early arrival in the Loutre Lick settlement. He came to the Lick in 1817, and made his home for two years with Maj. Van Bibber. Col. Craig was a soldier of the War of 1812, and served in Gen. McCarthy's division on the battle of Brownsville, Canada. He also was called out under Col. Nathan Boone, in 1832, during the Black Hawk War, and was elected colonel of the militia in 1834.

Perhaps the first settler in the eastern part of Danville township was Col. Amos Kibbe, who settled in 1823, 'in a little prairie, 11 miles from Camp Branch, where the Boone's Lick and Cote sans Dessein roads forked.'' Here was where the town of Lewiston, the second county seat of the county, was laid out.

Hon. Natbaniel Dryden settled a few miles west of Lewiston, on the Boone's Lick road, in 1829. He came immediately from Washington county, Va., which county he had represented in the State Legislature. After coming here he represented Montgomery county in the Missouri Legislature for several terms.

Mr. Dryden built a horse mill near Danville soon after his arrival in Montgomery county, which, being something unusual for those times, attracted a great deal of attention. It was situated on a high point of ground, where the wind had a fair sweep against it, and several persons came near freezing to death while grinding grain during cold weather; its capacity for grinding was from three to five bushels per day.

John H. Dutton, Thos. T. Elton and Philip Glover, all Marylanders, settled on North Bear creek in 1820 or 1821. Drury Clanton and Henry Clanton, Tennesseans, settled on ' Pinch '' branch, ! about five miles south of Danville, in 1818. Drury Clanton was a Methodist minister, and it was at his house that the first Methodist congregation in Montgomery county was organized, in 1819, by him-

Items Of Early History

The first ministers in Danville township were Drury Clanton and Robert Baker, Methodists,-and William Coates, Dr. Hubbard, William Davis and James Barnes, Baptists.

Pioneer Families makes the following mention of Jabez Ham: '¢ Jabez Ham, brother of John, was born in Madison county, Ky., in 1797, and came to Missouri in 1817. He had no education, and was of a roving disposition. His mind was naturally bright, and if he had been educated he would have made aremarkable man. Rev. Aley Snethen and Lewis Jones taught him the alphabet, and in 1824 he began to preach, having united with the Old or Hard Shell Baptist Church. In 1826 he organized a church of that denomination on Loutre creek and called it New Providence. * * * He wasa large, stout man, and often added emphasis to his opinions by the use of his fists."

Soon after the arrival of old Charles B. Harper in Montgomery county, in 1830, he went over to -Callaway county one day to get a load of corn, and wore his usual every-day clothes, made of homespun cloth. On his way back the road led him by a house where Jabe Ham was preaching, and he stopped to hear the sermon. During the service the minister called on the congregation to kneel in prayer, and all knelt except Mr. Harper, who leaned his head upon his hand, and remained in that position. Ham noticed him, and prayed the Lord would bless '' that Virginia man who had on see clothes, and was afraid or too proud to get down on his knees.'

The first school in Loutre Lick settlement was taught in 1820 or 1821 by John Skinner in a small house that stood south of Robert Graham's.' Some of the scholars were John C. Holland and Lucinda Whitesides, John, Marian, Catharine and Alex. W. Graham; Isaac, Elvira, Erretta, Pantha and Ewing A. Van Bibber; oe John, Daniel, Sally Ann and Margaret Galbreath.

The first mills resorted to were the mill at St..Charles, Best's horse mill, on Loutre, and Alexander Persinger's horse mill, below Loutre island.

mouth of Prairie fork. The mill stood some distance from the stream, and was turned by a race of some huudreds of yards in length. When cutting this race the workmen found many archeological specimens, arrow-heads, pottery, etc. The mill was owned and operated by Sylvester and Capt. John Baker. It was the first in all this section, and was kept running night and day at times, being resorted to by settlers from Callaway and Warren, as well as from this county.

There was a saltpeter cave near Robert Graham's and in the year 1817 William and Robert Graham made salpetre and sent it to St. Louis. In 1826-27 saltpetre was obtained here and manufactured into gunpowder. The cave was well known in early days. It. was in the south-eastern part of the township where Marcus Hatton, Chris. Logan, John Anderson, Ira Tatum and John Marlow were killed by the militia, after the Anderson raid.

Loutre Valley Missionary Baptist Church

This church now hasa membership of 68. The church building cost $800 when erected in 1879, and it is a frame house. Robert D. Graham, Robert W. Page, John A. Walker, George L. Walker, Malon A. Bibb, Charles W. Bibb, George W. Taylor, Robert Gibson, Polly Ann Graham, Sarah M. Bibb, Sallie C. Bibb, Emma V. Bibb and Martha C. Taylor comprised the original members and formed the organization on December 10, 1876. James F. Smith and Rev. M. T. Bibb have served as pastors, the latter being the present incumbent. The location of this church is in section 10, township 47, range 6 (Danville township). A Sabbth-school of 40 pupils has for its superintendent J. A. Walker.

Judge Olly Williams settled on the farm east of where Danville now is (known now as the Woodruff farm) about 1820. He afterward sold out to Conrad Carpenter, who built the large brick house, still standing, on the eastern border of town, and opened a tavern 'stand. In 1834, when the county seat was located at Danville, Conrad Carpenter owned the land comprising the eastern part of town, and Henry Davault that including the western portion. Dr. Wm. Newland had built a house on the western border of town (now owned by J. M. Barker), on Davault's land. Carpenter and Davault donated

Charles Drury, a merchant at Loutre Lick, removed to Danville in 1834 and opened the first store in a log house, in the eastern part of town. His daughter, Susan B. (now the wife of Dr. W. B. Adams), was the first child born in the place.

Perhaps the second house was built by Dr. Mordecai M. Maughs, and after him came Capt. John Baker and Richard Timberlake. The first tavern-keeper after Carpenter was Esq. Diggs. Col. Kibbe was also at Danville at an early day. .

The court house was built of brick and made ready for occupation in 1836, but the inside finishing was never completed ; however, it - answered to hold court in and for the offices, and steod until torn down in 1864. It was in the public square, nearly on the site of the present building. The jail was built after the court house and two men named McClintic were the builders. It was of logs, but was fairly safe and comfortable.

Lewiston, the former county seat, is defunct. Danville, the present county seat, was laid out about three years ago. It is pleasantly and advantageously situated on the Boone's Lick road, in Loutre prairie, and isa thriving village, having a handsome new brick court house, a jail, several stores, groceries and mechanic establishments. Montgomery and Danville are increasing in wealth and population, and still offer higher inducements for emigrants than many other places that are much more resorted to.

In time, as the capital of the county, Danville grew to be a place of much notoriety and of considerable importance. Around the square _ there were blocks of brick business houses of respectable size and, character,. while many an elegant residence was situated on the back streets. The county officials, for the most part, resided here during their terms of office. .

In about 1847 Prof. James H. Robinson came to Danville and es-: tablished a female college. Large and commodious buildings adapted for the purpose were erected in he southern portion of the town, ae soon the reputation of this college was established.

Prof. Robinson was not only efficient and popular as a teacher, bie. was worthy and honored as acitizenand a man. He was a native of Virginia, and educated at St. Charles College. His school was con- tinued with but slight intermissions until after the Anderson raid, but in a short time it was closed. In about 1860 Wm. C. Lovelace removed the Montgomery City

In 1867, after the war, Dan M. Draper established the Danville Star, a Radical Republican paper, and continued its publication about two and a half years, when the material was sold to J. B. Ellis, of the Montgomery Standard. The Ray was established December 7, 1871, by Col. L. A. Thompson, published here nearly five years and then moved to Montgomery City. (See History of Montgomery City - <¢ Newspapers.'' )

When the war came on a majority of the people of Danville were for the Union, but there were a number of strong secessionists. The sad fate of Robt. P. Terrill and Granville Nunnelly, killed July 22, 1861, detailed elsewhere, shocked the people of both sympathies. Then afterward came the murder of Gilbert and Moore and Diggs and Simons and the lad Ira Chinn and the burning of the town by

The first Federal troops in Danville were Hammer's company ; then MeNulta's red-shirted company of the Second Illinois cavalry, then Kirby's company, of the Eighth Missouri. All these came in the summer of 1861, but remained only a short time.

In December, 1861, Alvin Cobb, with his Confederate raiders or partisans, held the town a few hours, but evacuated upon the appearance of the Tenth Missouri and Eighty-first Ohio. These two regiments came in on Christmas day, and were welcome visitors to many of the citizens who distrusted '' rebel '' occupation.

It was at Danville where the famous Co. C, Ninth M. S. M., was recruited, and also where Co. D, Forty-ninth Missouri infantry, was organized by Capt. Geo. J. Smith. The town was not only the scene of some exciting events during the war, but its citizens took a liberal hand in the great contest itself. The building of the North Missouri Railroad, leaving Dawals five prosperity of the town, and this was followed by the war, during which the place was visited literally by fire and sword, and its best institutions destroyed and some of its best citizens butchered.

cured ; but it was not long until efforts were made to take the county capital to Montgomery City and to New Florence. The uneasiness among property holders in Danville has not yet been removed, for every year seems to be a nearer approach to the period when the county seat must go.

Some of the best men and women in Missouri have lived in Danville. Its citizens have graced the council halls of the State, have been renowned in the various walks and pursuits of life, and have been honorable and worthy members of society, but the dry rot of unimprovement has nearly finished what the torches of the Confederate guerrillas spared. Large and commodious residences sell with the ground on which they stand for one-fourth of the cost of the buildings.

Danville has been twice incorporated, first as a town by the Legislature, March 2, 1855, after which its affairs were governed .by a mayor and four councilmen' until its incorporation as a city of the fourth.class, in April, 1878. The first officers under the new incorporation were W. D. Bush, mayor; D. B. Huddleston, S. M. Barker, E. M. Hugh and John Barker, cauncilmen; H. Potts, clerk ; Thos. M. Johnson, marshal; John M. Barker, street commissioner.

some 35 or 40 residences. There are two church organizations - the Disciples and Methodist South - but for failure of those who promised information concerning the former to give it, no history of it can be stated. The present population of this town is about 225.

M. E. Church South

The M. E. Church South at Danville was organized in 1836, probably by. Rev. Andrew Monroe. Of the first members there were Charles Drury and wife, Capt. John Baker and wife, Ira H. Ellis and wife, Joseph P. Wiseman and wife, and James Robinson and wife. Revs. Andrew Monroe, Dr. Richard Bond, who died in Danville; W. W. Redman, who also died in Danville; W. A. McNeily, Wesley ; Miller, L. T. McNeily, George Penn, George Smith, J. O. Edmonson and W. F. Bell have all served this church. The present membership is 50. The first church building, a brick structure, was commenced in 1848, and dedicated in 1850 by Bishop E. M. Marvin. During the war it was used for soldiers' quarters. It is now owned - by the negroes as a church building. The present house of worship is a frame building, and was constructed in 1859 for Prof. Robinson's school chapel at a cost of $2,000. There are 80 scholars in the Sabbath-school, which is superintended by J. M. Barker.

Masonic Lodge

In about 1842, under a charter issued from the Masonic Grand Lodge of Missouri, this lodge was organized under the name of Danville Lodge No. 72. The dispensation was issued from Troy Lodge, Lincoln county. The lodge held its first meetings in a room in the court house, and then in Stewart & Robinson's brick building. Until October 14, 1864, the lodge prospered and worked harmoniously. Then the Bill Anderson raid was made, and the lodge room and all the records, books and papers were destroyed. The charter members of this first organization were Overly, David Rice, Jas. H. Robinson, John Scott, D. W. Baker, S. M. Baker and A. O. Forshey. Of these there are none now living except S. M. Baker. Of the first officers John Scott was probably master, and S. M. Baker, tyler. There were, perhaps, 50 or 60 members when the lodge was strongest. May 26, 1865, charter No.72 was reissued and the lodge authorized to proceed as if no interruption had occurred. In reissuing the new charter the Grand Lodge appointed Jas. H. Robinson, master, and Ira H. Ellis and Wm. D. Bush, wardens. The first meeting under the new charter was held July 11, 1865, and the following officers elected: A.C. Stewart, master; W. D. Bush and R. B. Mcllhany, wardens; J. W. McDaniel, treasurer; L. A. Thompson, secretary. The present officers are E. M. Hughes, master; Geo. W. McCarty -iand John M. Barker, wardens; B. T. Adams, treasurer; John B. Harris, secretary ; W. B. McCall, tyler. At this writing there are 29 members. The hall in which the lodge meets is owned in partnership with the Christian Church. Danville Lodge is the oldest Masonic lodge in the county. It is in good financial condition.

New Florence

_The town of New Florence stands on section 23, township 48, range 5, and is situated in the eastern part of Danville township. The Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad runs through the place.

'New Florence was laid out in 1857 by Hon. E. A..Lewis. The land was formerly owned by Mortimer MclIlhaney, but was sold by him to Judge Lewis. At first it was called Florence, after the only daughter of Judge Lewis,! and was so platted and recorded, but after a time it was discovered that there was a town of the same name in Morgan county, this State, and so by act of the Legislature in March, 1859, the name was changed to Vew Florence.

The first house in town was a dwelling built by James Wood, and stood in the western part of town. It was a small one-story frame. Mr. Wood's was the first family in town. 'The first storehouse was built opposite the depot in 1856.

The depot building was erected soon after Wood's house, and Nathaniel Patton was the first station agent, and a Mr. Van Orden the second. The post-office was established in 1857, and kept in a little confectionary store run by Duncan Hughes. a

Nathaniel Patton built the first hotel, opposite the depot, in about 1858. The first school house was built in 1859, and stood on the site of the present academy building. -It is now used as a storehouse on

In 1861 the town numbered about a dozen houses, nearly all of which stood on the south side of the track. In the fall,of this year a fire broke out and consumed all of the important buildings of the place but four.

In December, 1861, or about January 1, 1862, a company of the Third Iowa infantry, commanded by Capt. Herron, was sent into New Florence. This was after the road had been torn up by the,Contederates, and while the Tenth Missouri and Eighty-first were at High Hill and Danville. For a time the soldiers were quartered jin the schoolhouse. Other detachments of Federal troops and militia were here from time to time during the war.

The most notable incident in the history of New FlorenceJduring the troubles of the civil war was the raid of Bill Anderson{and his band upon the place, in October, 1864, and the burning of the;depot. The particulars of this affair are narrated elsewhere. a4

In the year 1862 Messrs. Hunter, Ellis & Powell built a store, but with this exception there was but little other improvement in the place during the war. Soon after, however, the place took a fresh start and improved very fairly for a year or so.

In 1869 there were but three or four houses north of the a and the population of the village did not exceed 200. Some time in 1866 a joint stock company built a frame building, which wasgused as an academy. The first school in this building had for principal Mr. Abram Davault, who had nearly 200 scholars under his {charge for some time. The school was u very good one, but in time other schools .were established, the attendance fell off, and in #1868 he closed. In 1869-70 Prof. Carl Vincent (now of Texas) had charge, but in the latter year he, too, closed the school, and thereafter the building was not occupied except by the Good Templars and for lectures, etc.

In 1870-71 the public school building was put up. The citizens voted to withdraw the funds which had been previously given to the academy and build the new school-house, which is a two-story frame, and yet stands north of the track. The Masonic lodge room was built in the second story. This building was used until in 1882 - 83, when the academy building was rented for school purposes.

In April, 1884, the academy building was purchased by the school district, of T. J. Powell, for $1,500. The building is now the second best school-house in the county. The first principal was (and now is) W. H. Fields, with an assistant, Miss Effie Davis. The number of scholars in average attendance is 90; total enumeration in the _ district, 112. A colored school has been taught in the colored church for some time. With the exception of one year Elijah Cooper has taught this school for the past ten years. There are 18 colored children in the district and an average attendance at the school of 15.

It was during the years 1872 and 1873 that New Florence had its '<boom.'' The principal houses in the place were built then. A good hotel had been built and opened in the fall of 1869 by Albert Pullington. The Montgomery County Fair Association was formed here in 1866, and gave several exhibitions. It died about 1869, and the grounds and other property were purchased by Mr. Jacob See, its leading member and president.

The Cyclone Of 1867

August 19, 1867, a cyclone struck the village of New Florence and destroyed the partially erected amphitheater of the fair grounds belonging to the County Fair Association, besides killing two men and wounding others. The particulars of this incident were thus narrated by a correspondent of the Montgomery Standard and published in that paper August 23, 1867 : -

On the morning of the 19th inst. our village was visited by one of those ''simoon winds'' or hurricanes so usual after extensive drouth. The dark clouds '' passed in fury,'' gathering strength in each * whirl,'' burst in violence about one mile west of our village, and directing its course east and north, came in contact with the partially erected amphitheater of the County Fair grounds, where the entire corps of hands had taken refuge, and, in one sudden moment, a crush, a wreck, a wail. The entire amphitheater: was swept to the earth, and nearly every man more or less injured and two killed in the moment: Mr. James G. West and a colored man named Wiley | Graham. Among the severely wounded were Mr. D. H. Nunnelly, in head and hip; Mr. Miles Johnson, in spine; Mr. John E. Loyd, arm broken and otherwise bruised ; Mr. J. Fisher, in head and hip; Master Tommie See (son of Mr. Jacob See), in face and head ; Master Jimmie Powell (son of Mr. T. J. Powell), bruised in several places; L. H. Fleet, in head ; Toleson Hunter, in face; Mr. Fred. Davault, in back ; Mr. George Ramsey, in leg ; Thomas Graham (colored ) ; Isaac Jenkins (colored): one man name unknown was severely injured in back ; Mr. George H. Sparks, the foreman, was bruised very much from the fall.

In 1878, according to McCleary, the town had four dry goods stores, one drug store, two furniture stores, one hardware and agricultural store, three millinery establishments, two blacksmith and wagon shops, one grist and saw mill, three churches, two hotels, one seminary building, one good public school house and one newspaper. Population - about 350.

In 1884 it had a population of about 425 ; contained three churches, Christian, M. E. South and Cumberland Presbyterian ; three lodges of secret orders, Masonic, Odd Fellowsand Good Templars ; one newspaper, the Optic; a good creamery, two hotels, a first-class school house and school, five general stores, two drug stores; one furniture, one hardware, one boot and shoe and one millinery store; a livery stable, blacksmith and wagon shop, marble yard, two lumber yards, two grain dealers and two saloons.

New Florence was incorporated as a town August 2, 1869, '* on the petition of Riley H. Mansfield and others.'' The first board of trustees was composed of Nathaniel Patton, James A. Simpsons Melvin © Guthridge, Thos. J. Wiley and John T. Hunter.

The first newspaper in New Florence was started in October, 1869, by Melville Guthridge, who employed as editors T. H. Musick and C. E. Dwyer, of Wellsville. The editorial '* copy'' was sent down by mail, although Dwyer was here in person frequently. The paper was - called the New Florence Plaindealer. It was a seven-column folio - and Republican in politics. Really it was started to assist in the -

During the political campaign of 1870 the Plaindealer espoused the Liberal Republican cause and worked against the election of McClurg. Musick and Dwyer resigned as editors, but Guthridge was still the publisher, and the real editor was unknown. In a year or so the Piaindealer passed into the hands of M. J. Jones, and then in a few months Nat. Patton took charge, to be succeeded in a short time by C. H. See, who ran the paper about three months, when it suspended. The material of the office was stored for a year and then purchased by Mr. Harris, who removed it to Jonesburg and established the Jonesburg Leader.

October 17, 1877, Riley H. Mansfield issued the first number of the New Florence Optic, a six-column folio, independent in politics. This paper is still in existence, and is yet presided over by its original proprietor. It is fairly supported and deserving of its general popularity in the town and community where it is published.

The New Florence Creamery

This institution was put into operation June 4, 1884. It is owned by the New Florence Creamery Company, an incorporated association with a capital.of $6,500. The officers are T. J. Powell, president ; Dr. Kallmeyer, secretary; C. E. Stewart, treasurer. The superintendent of the institution is a Mr. Stewart. The creamery makes 300 pounds of butter daily, but has a capacity of 2,500 pounds.

Churches And Sunday Schools

The first church in New Florence was a union church built after the war by the Methodists, Baptists and Christians, and purchased by the Christians some ten years ago. Probably the first sermon in the place was preached by Rev. W. S. McNeiley, the well known Methodist divine.

An Episcopal Church was built, perhaps in 1871, and services held therein a few times; but it was never dedicated, and in 1877 was 'purchased by the M. E. Church ('' Northern Methodists'') and used by that denomination until in the spring of 1883, when it was sold to its present owners, the Cumberland Presbyterians.

Some years since the Sunday-school at New Florence had a widespread and an enviable reputation. It was organized on the second Sunday in April, 1865. The first meetings were held in Marshal . 44

McElhany's residence ; afterwards in the railroad depot, in the academy, and elsewhere. The first superintendent was Joseph Stewart, who served for three months, and was succeeded by P. P. Ellis, who served very efficiently until in December, 1871. The school never missed a Sabbath except on an occasion of two or three unusually heavy storms.

After Mr. Ellis left he Srphieed a Sunday-school in connection with the M. E, Church South, and into this most of the scholars afterwards went. The former school was called for a time the New Florence Union Sunday-school, but it gradually passed out of existence.

Cumberland Presbyterian Church. - A church of this denomination was formed at New Florence in 1872, the original members being Mrs. I. H. Bernard, Taylor Bernard, S. P. Shaw, D. Janssen, Miss Mollie Webb, M. Guthridge, Mrs. Guthridge, Francis Bryant and James Nelson. From 1872 to 1884 J. R. Patton was the pastor in charge. Rev. Ingram is the present pastor of the congregation of 24 members. In 1871 the house of worship which they now occupy was erected by the Episcopals. It isa frame structure, and is valued at $600.

M. E. Church South. - Information and data concerning the history of this church has not been furnished up to the time of going to press with this volume, although faithfully and repeatedly promised. All that can here be stated is that the church A was dedicated in July, 1871, by Bishop E. M. Marvin.

Christian Church. - J. C. Ford is clerk of this church, which now numbers 45 members. Its organization occurred in 1871, Bro. Thomas Marlow taking an active part in its formation. The members then were E. W. Howell, W. Y. Howell, S. Broadwater, Elihu - Milliken, Orlena Milliken, A. J. Ward, Margaret Goodrich, J. Av Smith and wife, Elizabeth McClure, Ellen M. Ford, J. A. Burton, A. French and wife, Mary C. Cullurn, Eliza McMahan, J. A. Simpson and wife and Miss Lizzie Goodrich. The first pastor of the church, Thomas Marlow, was followed by W. B. Gallaher, and he in turn by the present incumbent, W. T. Sallee. This house of worship is val- | ued at $1,000. ,

Secret Orders

Odd Fellows. - November 7, 1865, Zenith Lodge No. 157, I. O. O. F., was instituted with the following members: W. R. West, Richard McCormack, Mathew Moore, John Morgan, Joseph Hibbert, g Harris Keeney, P. P. Ellis, J. R. Bodine. The first officers were:

Good Templars Lodge. - May 10,1865, New Florence Lodge No. 34, I. O. G. T., was organized, with Rev. Marshal Mcllhany, Joseph M. Stewart, John A. 'Franklin, Stephen §S. Kuettle, Fannie Franklin, Mary C. Jasper, Bettie Nunnelly, P. P. Ellis, John T. Hunter, Mollie J. Hunter, George W. Howell, Jesse B. McMahan, Hannah A. MclIlhany, Bettie W. Milton and Joshua B. Morris as members. The lodge has now a membership of 55, with the following officers: E.D. Woollem, worthy chief; Lizzie Woollem, worthy vice; Clark Morris and Robert See, recording and financial secretaries ; Lizzie Stultz, treasurer; V. P. Marmaduke, chaplain ; Ed. Allen, marshal; K. Marmaduke, inside guard; Elijah Owens, sentinel; G. A. Stultz, past worthy chief; B. McCoy, lodge deputy. P. P. Ellis was for seven years grand worthy chief templar of the State Grand Lodge. This is one of the oldest living lodges in the State of Missouri. It owns the hall in which it meets - valued at $500 - and is in a flourishing condition generally.

The little village of Mineola occupies the site of the far-famed Loutre Lick, of pioneer notoriety, and even of later-day prominence, whose name was mentioned in the United States Congress as early as 1824 by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun as '¢the Bethesda mentioned by the honorable Senator from Missouri "' (Hon. Thos. H. Benton). }

In the winter of 1812-13 Thomas Massey, Sr., of the settlements in St. Charles, rented the land abeut Loutre Lick of Col. Nathan Boone, came up and cleared off the land on the south side of the lick and the little stream now called Sallee's Branch, and built a cabin on the north side, now occupied by the residence of Mr. Haines. It was the next spring that Massey's boy, Harris, was killed by the Sac Indians, as related elsewhere.

Massey made no further attempts to live at the Loutre Lick after his family was driven away by the Indians, and in 1815 Col. Boone sold the land to Maj. Isaac Van Bibber, whose father was killed at the battle of Pt. Pleasant, Va., in 1774, and when less than three years old he was adopted into the family of old Daniel Boone, who raised him to manhood. When 'but 13 years of age young Van Bibber served as a scout against the Indians in Virginia. He cameto Missouri with Nathan Boone in 1800, settled first in Darst's Bottom, and during the War of 1812 served as major in the militia under Col. Daniel. M. Boone. Col. Nathan Boone married Olive Van Bibber, a cousin of Isaac Van Bibber. It is claimed that Van Bibber's wife, Susanna Hays, was the first white child born in Kentucky. She was born at Boonesborough, in 1776.

Maj. Van Bibber repaired the Massey cabin, and put up what it is cJaimed was the first frame house in Montgomery county, or in this part of Missouri. This was in 1821. The lumber was whip-sawed.. For many years this building was used as a hotel. A few years since it was remodeled and converted into the large frame building owned by Mr. Haines and still standing under the hill, just north of the Boone's Lick road. Van Bibber also added one or twe cabins to his' collection and a row of stables. Here also the first elections were conducted after Missouri emerged from her territorial condition. Loutre Lick was a favorite ground for the holding of celebrations, barbecues, etc. . ?

Not long after settling here Maj. Van Bibber attempted to make salt from the saline water of the lick, but without satisfactory results. All attempt at salt-making was abandoned. But the medicinal virtues' of the spring came forward for recognition, and it was in olden times, as it is to-day, that the waters of Loutre Lick had an enviable reputation for the cure of certain stomachic and bowel diseases, as en as certain kidney affections. | a

Maj. Van Bibber died in 1836 ; his wife some time previously. Old 'Thomas Massey and wife died at the residence of their son-in-law, Hugh Logan, on Bear creek, about 1820 or 1821 (according to Alex. Graham). They were buried on the south side of the lick, nearly half a mile from Sallee's branch.

A store was opened at Loutre Lick by Charles Drury in about 1830. It stood on the north side of Sallee's branch, nearly opposite the lick and just under the hill. In 1834 Mr. Drury removed this store to Danville. It is said that other stores were here from time to time. Dan Robinson had one here at a very early day.

The village of Mineola was laid out on the site of Loutre Lick in the year 1879 by H. E. Scanland, the owner of the land, and named for Mineola, Tex. The surveying was done by J. C. McClearey. It was the intention of Mr. Scanland to make of it not only a trading and milling point, but a place of resort for invalids who should come to drink of the medicinal spring and spend a season of recreation and rest. The first house in the place was built by John R. Pate in April, 1880, and stands on the side of the hill north of the Boone's Lick road and 150 yards east of the Loutre. Dr. D. B. Huddleston's house, south of the branch, came next.

In 1879, however, Thomas Johnson had a temporary saw mill south of the present steam mill, and Mr. Wilson had a blacksmith's shop ; the latter is still in operation, but the former has been removed.

In the summer of 1880 the spring, or lick, was improved by being cleaned out and dug into the character of a well, and was enclosed and a building erected over it. G. W. Taylor opened a stock of goods in the spring building soon after its completion. The post-office was established in the fall of 1880, and G. W. Taylor was (and now is) the postmaster.

In July, 1882, the fine steam saw mill and grist mill was begun, and completed in the spring of 1883. The proprietors were J. W. Windsor and Charles Woodruff. It has three run of buhrs, and is new and complete in all of its appointments.

The village now:(1884) contains two stores, the mill, a blacksmith shop, a wagon shop, a wine and beer saloon and a dozen dwellinghouses. A daily hack line runs to Montgomery City. At present there is no bridge across Loutre, but the county court has ordered the letting of a contract to build a first-class iron bridge over the stream.

James R. Appling

Some philosopher has said that poets and hotel-keepers are born, not made; the laconist should have included sheriffs also, for no man can ever be a sheriff without the born qualities of a sheriff, and every one who meets Mr. Appling will recognize this fact in him at a glance. No man in the county is personally more popular, nor justly so. For a number of years he was a successful school teacher of the county, and while teaching he became generally acquainted with the people in different localities. Indeed, so favorable an impression had he made that, in 1882, he was.war 'mly urged to run for the office of sheriff. Finally consenting, he made 'the race and was elected by over 300 majority. In office he has-had still better opportunities to meet the people of the county. Mr. Appling was born and reared in this county. His primal birthday was the 29th of July, 1852, and his parents were Thomas and Louisa (Broughton) Appling, both still residing on their homestead in this county, south of Wellsville, highly esteemed residents and neighbors in that part of the county. They reared but two children, the other being a daughter, Miss Emma, now a young lady at home with her p: urents. Reared on the far m, Mr. Appling attended the district school of the neighborhood and succeeded i in obtaining a good commov-school education. At the age of 20 he began teaching school' himself, und centinued that as _ his regular oceupation for some ten years, or until his election to the office of sheriff in 1882.

He taught for five years in one district and three years in his home district, facts which show how well he was appreciated as a teacher by those who had an opportunity to judge of his qualifications and. efficiency. During much of this time he was engaged in farming in the summer, or when not occupied in the school-room. On _ the 28th of September, 1876, he was married to Miss Emma, a refined and estimable daughter of William Newlee, Esq., of the vicinity of Wellsville. Mr. and Mrs. A. have three children: Bertha Madge, Allison and Jua. Mr. Appling is a member of the Masonic order.

Judge Robert Brower

Judge Brower is a worthy representative of an old and honored Knickerbocker family of New York. The founder of the family in this country settled on Manhattan island from Holland, when the Empire State was a Dutch colony.., Judge Brower's father, Nicholas B. - Brower, was a prominent merchant of New York for over 50 years.

He was married twice, first to Miss Ruth Prince, by whom there is but one child living, a son, Edgar; to his second wife he was married in 1816. She was a Miss Sallie Hurlbut. There were six chil- _ dren by this union, five sons and a daughter, all of whom are living, namely: Hurlbut, a leading farmer of Woodbury county, Ia. ; Cecelia, the wife of George M. Hollister, of Grand Rapids, Mich. ; Nicholas B., Jr., an attorney and editor at Hannibal, Oswego county, N. Y.; Jacob., who was a gallant soldier inthe Union army during the late war, having been severely wounded, and is now a resident of Montgomery county, Mo.; Judge Robert Brower, the subject of this sketch; and Putnam, now of. Bridgeport, Conn. Judge Robert reer was born in New York City, in 1825, and was about 10 years of age when his father died. On account of this misfortune he was soon afterwards thrown upon his own resources. Obtaining a situationina store, he clerked for a time, and was afterwards employed at farm labor in the country. He worked at this until he attained his majority, and he also learned the carpenter's trade. Following carpentering in New York as his principal occupation until 1868, he then removed to Missouri. Here he settled in Montgomery county, where he bought land and engaged in farming, which he has followed continuously ever since, an d with good success. Judge Brower is one of the better class of farmers of the county, and, withal, he is a man of sterling character and marked popularity and influence: In 1882 he was nominated and elected to the office of judge of the county court, a position he is now filling. He has made an efficient and conscientious judge, and his official record meets with general approval. In 1848 Judge Brower was married to Miss Henrietta Church, a daughter of Onin S. Church, of New York, and sister of Hon Sanford E. Church, the distinguished jurist of that State, and the late able Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of New York. Judge and Mrs. Brower have four children: Robert, Jr., who is married and resides on the farm with his father; Sandford C., clerk of the Carroll House, at Clarksville, Mo.; Ozias P., still a resident of Montgomery county, and at home with his parents ; Emily P., the wife of Russell B. Dill, a prominent architect of Anna, Ohio. Judge Brower's grandparents on his father's side lived to the advanced ages, respectively, of 98 and 96 years.

Silas Carr

Among the public. men of this State, and indeed to not a 'few beyond its 'limits, the record of Mr. Carr in the public service is well and favorably known. Without advantages or opportunities more favorable than those of the generality of men, in fact from circumstances far less favorable than those of most others, he has risen to a position of creditable prominence and influence in public affairs. Mr. Carr's but little or no means to help them along in life. , Possessed, however, of clear, quick intelligence and of much force of character, combined with a worthy purpose to accomplish something for himself, by his own energy and his self-application to study during such leisure as he had, he succeeded in obtaining a sufficient knowledge of books for all practical business purposes. "When a young man 21 years of age he was married, Miss Mary J. Connor, of Lincoln county, becoming his wife. Just beginning by this time to get something. of a start, he now had the additional responsibility of a family to care and provide for. He had previously learned the tobacco business, having entered a factory at the age of 16. About the time of his marriage he engaged in business at Flint Hill, and two years later went to St. Louis, where he became a partner with S. W. Logan in the general commission business. This was continued until 1864, or until Price's raid into the State so unsettled affairs that it was deemed advisable to close out the business. Mr. Carr then returned to Wentzville, in the vicinity of which .he had been reared, where he now engaged in the tobacco business. Four years later he removed to Jonesburg, in Montgomery county. In 1870 he was a candidate for the office of sergeant-at-arms in the Missouri House of Representatives, and received a highly complimentary support by members of the Legislature from different parts of the State, but was defeated for the nomination by «*Co)."' J. D. Crafton, much to the regret of the House itself (as subsequents events proved), and, indeed, to the shame of the State. Mr. Carr, after his defeat, resumed his business at Jonesburg, which he continued until 18738, when he was appointed postmaster to the House of Representatives at Jefferson City, a position he filled for two sessions. The impression he made on the public men of the State at Jefferson City, when he was a candidate for sergeant-atarms, was most favorable, and afterwards his mingling with them at the State capital for two terms ofthe Legislature fully confirmed them in the impression they had formed of his character. A man of sterling intelligence, unquestioned integrity and honesty of purpose, and of pleasant, agreeable manners, respectful and courteous to all, though always dignified and self-respecting, he became one of the popular men-about the State capital. Such, indeed, was the consideration with which he came to he regarded and the personal esteem in which he was held, that shortly after the expiration of his term as postmaster and on thé meeting of the Constitutional Convention of 1875, he was elected by the Convention to the office of sergeant-at-arms of that body. This position he filled with efficiency and to the entire satisfaction of the Convention. Mr. Carr, a conscientious and ardent Democrat, has always taken a public-spirited interest in political affairs. He has been quite active in Montgomery county in assisting to advance the interest of his party ever since he has been a citizen of the county. Not often a candidate himself, his efforts have been mainly directed to securing good men for the various positions to be filled.-.In this way he has rendered valuable service' to different friends - men who appreciate the assistance he has rendered them. Among others he has been a warm supporter of Judge A. H. Buckner for Congress, and has frequently contributed materially to his election. It is therefore but natural that when in _ the winter of 1875-76 Mr. Carr was urged to become a candidate for assistant door-keeper of the United States House of Representatives at Washington City, Judge Buckner should warmly support his candidacy, a support that was gladly given, and which resulted in securing Mr. Carr the position. He was successively reappointed to that office for three terms, and held it until he voluntarily resigned it in order to give his attention to other interests. In 1882 Mr. Carr was a candidate for the office of Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives, but was defeated by a combination of candidates against him. On the death of R. L. Whitehead, Esq., recorder of Montgomery county, Mr. Carr was appointed to fill out his unexpired term by the Governor, the appointment being dated February 20, 1883. The duties of this office he is now discharging. It is no empty, unmeaning compliment to say that the duties of every position he has ever held, he has discharged with marked fidelity and efficiency. So, he has made a capable a popular county recorder, and there is no doubt that his administration of this office meets with general approval. Looking back over his career in public life, it must be manifest to the most casual observer that no one of mean ability or little force of character could achieve what he has accomplished. Mr. and Mrs. Carr have been blessed with a large family of children, 13 in all, nine of whom (the living) are still at home, except the eldest, William S., who is engaged in the tobacco business at St. Louis. The others are: Julia I., Ione B., Aylett Buckner, George S., M. E., Silas W., Charles C. and Houston W. Four are deceased. Mr. Carr is a prominent member of the Masonic order, and his wife is a member of the M. E. Church South. Mr. Carr is a Virginian by nativity, born in Halifax-county, September 29, 1839, and the youngest of a family of 13 children of Thomas and Sarah Carr, who came to Missouri in 1844, and settled in Warren county, where the father died the following year. The mother died December 17, 1871, in Wentzville. Four of their family of children are living: Dudley, in Virginia; John P., at Wentzville ; Joel E., also at Wentzville, and Silas.

Alfred Davault

Mr. Davault wasason of Peter and Mary (Hoss) Davault, early set- - tlers and old and highly respected residents of this county, formerly of 'Tennessee, who removed to Montgomery county, in about 1828. A historical sketch of this family appears elsewhere in the present work. Alfred Davault was the fifth in a family of nine children, five sons and four daughters, and was born on the family homestead in_ this county, near New .Florence, April 14, 1842. The others of the _ family are Henry, Abraham, Catherine, deceased, late wife of David _ Frederick Knox; Frederick, John, Emma Louisa, now the wife of

Charles Bast, and Mary V., who died at the age of eight. Alfred was raised on the farm, and received a good common-school education. He was actively engaged i in farming until 1870,when he was appointed. deputy sheriff and collector under David Knox. Two years later he was re-appointed in the same office, by George W. Gregory, sheriff. In 1874 he was himself elected to that office, and was reelected in 1876, serving two consecutive terms, or for a period of four years. Meanwhile, in 1867, he was married to Miss Corrinna MeNeiley, a daughter of Rev. L. T. McNeiley, a minister of the M. E.

Church. Mr. Davault's first wife died November 11, 1881. His present wife was a Miss Lizzie Gardner before her marriage. She was a daughter of P. M. Gardner of this county. They have one child, now in infancy. Mr. Davault, after the close of his second term in office as sheriff and collector, returned to his farm, where he resumed farming and raising stock. His farm contains 1385 acres and is neatly improved, a part of the old Davault homestead. He and wife are members of. the M. E. Church South.

In the paternal line of their ancestry the subjects of the present sketch are of Irish descent, the grandparents of William Elliott on his father's side having settled in Virginia from the Emerald Isle prior to the Revolution. From them came William Elliott, Sr., who, after he grew up, married Polly Cundiff, in Virginia, and of this union, William Elliott, Jr., the senior subject of this sketch, was born in Bedford - county, February 14, 1817. He was the younger of two children and was. principally reared in Howard county, Mo. While yeta young man and single, he came to Montgomery county to make his home in the vicinity in aan he now resides. He was a carpenter by occupation, and followed that in Howard county and after coming to this county for some years. For years past, however, he has been engaged in farming, and resides on a comfortable homestead of 120 acres, which he owns and has long been his permanent home. In the_ spring of 1848 he was married in this county to Miss Susana Hudnall; a daughter of William Hudnall. Mr. and Mrs. E. have had two children, one of whom died whilst still young, Martha E.; the other, Benjamin A., resides on the farm with his parents, and is engaged in farming. Bowing he follows teaching during the winter months, giving his attention to the farm during the summer. He has been encaged i in teaching for 15 years, and has a wide and enviable reputation asa teacher. He was born on the farm January 22, 1849, and received an excellent. general education, largely by his own efforts and by self-application to study outside of the school-room. The mother, Mrs. Elliott, has been dead for many years. She died March 13, 1853. She was a most estimable and excellent lady, and the place profession, is very properly ¢ given a short sketch of the life of Dr. Ford, and of his identific ation with the county, both as a physician and surgeon. Dr. Ford's parents came from Virginia to Missouri in 1838, and located first at New London, in Ralls _ county, where the Doctor was born March 11, of the following year. The family wasfrom Campbell county, a and the father, William C. Ford, a son of Hezekiah Ford, of the same county, was a blacksmith by trade. The mother, also born: and reared in Campbell county, was a Miss Martha A. Epperson before her marriage. The family resided at New London only a short time and then came to Montgomery county, settling eight miles south-west of Danville, where the father combined farming with blacksmithing. Years after wards they removed to the town of Danville, and some years ago to New Florence, where the father died in the fall of 1883. He was an industrious, energetic man, and did a good part by his children while bringing them up. Dr. Ford had the benetit of 1 course in the common schools, and also attended a select school kept at Danville, where he made some progress in the higher branches. In 1855 he began the study of medicine under Dr. G. R. Milton, a well known and successful physician of that place. 'T'wo years later he entered the medical college at St. Louis, and after a regular course of two terms graduated from the Missouri Medical College in the class of 759. After his graduation Dr. Ford located at Quincy, i in Hickory county, where he remained engaged in the practice of medicine until the outbreak of the war. He then promptly enlisted in the Confederate service, and was made captain services were needed as an army surgeon, and he was assigned to "duty as assistant surgeon of the Tenth Missouri infantry, a position he filled until the close of the war, or until the final surrender at Shreveport, La., in the spring of 1865. But he nevertheless combined the qualities of a soldier with those of a surgeon, and was always in front with a musket during an engagement, "when not engaged with the wounded. On account of his fighting qualities and bravery, he became known in the army as the " Fighting Doctor of the Tenth Mis- practice of his profession. He has since been continuously engaged in the practice at this place. Dr. Ford is the leading physician of New Florence, and is one of its substantial property holders, having had good success in property matters, as well as in the treatmént of his patients. After his return in 1865 he was married at New Florence to Miss Ellen M. Tull, a daughter of James W. Tull, of this

Thomas H. Ford

Mr. Ford was the next younger son after Dr. James C. Ford, whose sketch precedes this, of William and Martha A. (Epperson) Ford, formerly of Danville, this county, who came to Missouri from Campbell county, Va., in 1838. Thomas H. Ford was born near Danville October 9, 1840, and was reared in the town of Danville, to which his father removed when Thomas H. was about five years of age. He received a commercial school education, and learned the blacksmith's trade under his father, with whom he worked until the outbreak of the war. . He then enlisted in the Union service, becoming a member of Co. C, Ninth Missouri cavalry, under Gen. Odon Guitar. He was in the service for three years. Mr. Ford engaged in his present business at New Florence in 1869. In this same line of business for the last 15 years, by close attention and fair dealing, he bas become thoroughly established as one of the represent itive, responsible business men of New Florence. He is a druggist with whom the public like to deal, and physicians generally patronize him on account of his care and accuracy in compounding prescriptions. Mr. Ford owns the business house he occupies, and has the additional advantage in the trade of having no rent to pay. Healso has a comfortable residence property in the county. On June 18, 1873, Mr. Ford was married to Miss Mary H., a daughter of Joseph F. Webb, formerly of Indiana. She died, however, about five years afterwards, June 15, 1878. He has not since remarried. His father made his home with him until the former's death in 1884. Mr. Ford is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

John Frazier

shortly complete his eighty-fourth year, and was reared in St. Charles: county when that county included the present county of Montgomery and a number of other neighboring counties. He has been a continuous resident of the territor y now included in Montgomery county since prior to the organization of this county, which was affected in 1837. He is therefore justly and properly known and recognized as one of the fathers of the county. In recognition of this fact the Old Settler's Association of the county at one of the meetings a short time ago voted and donated him an easy chair, which he now uses. Grandfather Frazier was a child only in his third year when his parents, James and Jane (Anderson) Frazier, came to this part of what was then known as Upper Louisiana territory, early in 1804. They were river bottom, about 30 miles above the town site of St. Charles. For a number of years the nearest trading point for Mr. Frazier's father was St. Charles. As he grew up he often met Daniel Boone and his fellow pioneers, and remembers the old Indian fighter and path-finder of civilization very distinctly. Mr. Frazier's parents reared a family of 12 children, namely: Sallie, Betsy, David, James, Polly, John, Jane, Thomas, William, Abagail, Martin and Caty, all of whom married and themselves became the heads of families. The subject of this sketch was the sixth in the family of children, and was born at. his father's homestead in Kentucky, about a mile above the mouth of the Little Sandy, on the 20th of February, 1801. After he grew up in this new country of Missouri, he was married February 21, 1822, to Miss Mary Shirk, of St. Charles county, a daughter of John Shirk, from Virginia. She died in about 1837, leaving six children: David, James, Anthony, Martha, Mary and Amanda. Mr. Frazier's second wife was a Miss Sallie IT. Hall, who survived until 1878, dying on the 4th of July of that year. There were no children by this union. Mr. Frazier followed farming almost continuously through life up to his retirement from active work some years ago. He came to Montgomery county in 1870. A participant in the creat work of building up the country, he is familiar with many of the Teading events, and 'relates many interesting incidents worthy of a place in 'history, but mention of these is made elsewhere. He now findsa welcome and pleasant home in his old age in the household of his nephew (by marriage with his last wife), Mr. Benjamin E. Wilson, a sketch of whom appéars on another page. Considering his advanced age and the hardships of his early life, he is well preserved both in mental vigor and bodily strength and activity. He is one of the, last old landmarks of the early history of the country who remain.

Robert G. Goodrich

Mr. Goodrich is a native of Virginia, born in Amherst county, November 16, 1827. His father was Gideon C. Goodrich, and _ his mother Elizabeth Carter, before her marriage, he born August 27, 1785, and she March 14, 1793. They were married in Virginia in 1809, and had a family of ten children, eight of whom lived to reach years of maturity. However, in 1830 the family came to Missouri and settled in Callaway county, but later along they removed to Monroe county, where the parents made their permanent home. The father died there in 1835; the mother in Danville, Mo., in 1859.

his father had very limited advantages for an education, term of tuition, in fact, not exceeding 12 months. He early became a farmer on his own account, and was actively engaged in farming until after the war broke out. During the second year of the war ie manded by Capt. Kelley.' In 1865 he became a member of a provisional regiment, in which he served until the close of the war. After this Mr. Goodrich resumed far ming, and also followed carpentering, a trade he had learned prior to the war.. In 1851 he was married 'to Miss Margaret Hart, of Montgomery county, and he then settled on the farm where he now resides. He has a neat place and is a farmer of industry and energy. Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich have been blessed with a numerous family of children, 14 in all, 11 of whom are living.

and now in the milling business "at Jonesburg; Annie E., born Dee cember 9, 1854, and now the wife of John WwW. Pratt, a farmer of Pike county; Junius, born April 17, 1857, now engaged in milling at Readsville, in Callaway county ; Emma, born February 16, 1859, a popular teacher of this county ; Mary, born May 24, 1861, also an accomplished teacher; Abram C., born May 2, 1863; Nellie, born August 10, 1865; James L., born October 2, 1867; Ida, born November 2, 1869; Thomson W., born February 138, 1876; -and Samuel B., born March 10, 1878. The daughters, who have grown up, are all young ladies of excellent educations, and the eldest daughter, now Mrs. Pratt, was a successful teacher for some nine or ten years before her marriage. Hugh G. was also a popular teacher for several years before going into the milling business. Mr. Goodrich's brother, Martin P., was an officer in the old Missouri militia before the war. He rose to the rank of captain, then to that of major and finally to the command of his regiment. Another brother, Abram, is a well known and eloquent minister of the Baptist Church in Texas.

D. F. Graham

which Mr..Graham is a representative came originally from Scotland, and were of the better class of intelligent, well-to-do people in that country. Mr. Graham's gr andparents came direct from the songfamed valley of the Doon, in Scotland, to North Carolina, where they settled and reared their family. Being in comfortable circumstances when they came to America, they also prospered in this country, after the manner of the substantial comforts of those days. Mr. Graham's father, Dr. Robert Graham, born in North Carolina, grew up on his father's farm in that State and received an excellent general education, both from a private tutor and by the instruction of his father. He early discovered a taste for the medical profession and decided to devote himself to it... He read medicine under a prominent physician in North Carolina and in due time became a regular licentiate in the practice. With a natural taste and aptitude for the profession, his zeal as a student and his close attention to the practice soon gave him a prominent position among the physicians of the country. Dr. Graham became a physician from a love of the science of medicine and from a high sense of duty to suffering humanity, and it is a fact known by all who know anything of his career as a physician that never, in an extensive and arduous practice that lasted for a lifetime, did he charge a single cent for his services. He was married in Kentucky, where he had removed in young manhood, and as early as 1816, away back in the territorial and wilderness days of this part of the country, he cast his fortunes with those of Missouri and made his home in what is now Montgomery county. His nearest neighbor is said to have been at St. Charles on the east, and on the west the nearest one was at Columbia. The nearest neighbor south was one mile, at old Loutre Lick; the next at Loutre Island, a distance of 18 miles. The nearest mill was at the first-named place, a distance of 70 miles. He had resided in Kentucky some years before coming to Missouri. He died here in 1855 at a ripe old age, widely and _ profoundly mourned, for he was well known far and "wide, and as highly esteemed as he was wellknown. His wife was a Miss Isabel Galbreath before her marriage, whose parents were also from Scotland to North Carolina. She survived her husband ten years, one of the worthy, highly respected old pioneer mothers of the county. She was an earnest and faithful member of the Primitive Baptist Church from early life. They left a large estate, including over 2,500 acres of land and considerable other property. There were eleven children in the family, namely: John G., Alexander W., James W., Benjamin R., Robert D., Franklin D., Decor F., Patrick H., Mariam, Catherine, who married I. V. Boon, and Florann. The subject of this sketch, D. F. Graham, was born ten years after the settlement of his parents in Montgomery county, and on the farm on which he now resides, the date being July 16, 1826. Good schools have been kept at Danville from an early period, and young Graham had the benefit of instruction in these. His tastes have been agricultural from boyhood, and farming and handling stock early became his fixed pursuit. These he has ever since followed with industry and enterprise and with good success. Mr. Graham has not only become a worthy representative of the better and more intelligent class of citizens of the county, but one of its thorough-going, progressive agriculturists. He has a fine place of 1,360 acres, a large part of which is well improved. This land has passed through the hands of two grantees, or rather it has been transferred but "twice - first, by the Spanish < cvovernment to Nathan and Daniel H. Boone, sons of the old hero- -pioneer, and from them to Dr. Graham, from whom it was inherited by the latter's son, D. F. March 20, 1860, Mr. Graham was married to Miss Susan R. White, a daughter of Benjamin White, another early settler and esteemed citizen of the county, who came originally from Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. G. have three children: Susan W., Mary F. and Ben R. The eldest is the wife of R. A. Baker, of this county. Mrs. G.

Something of an outline of the history of the Graham family, or the branch of it to which the subjects of this sketch belong, has been given in the sketch of D. F. Graham, a brother to Alex. W., which precedes this. Dr. Graham, the founder of the family in this county, in addition to being a prominent agriculturist and landholder and a successful physician, was to some extent identified with the official affairs of the county. He was for a number of years a judge of the county court, and held other positions of public trust. His large landed estate was the product of his own industry and good management. First, buying a tract of 300 acres, he added to his original tract until his estate numbered 2,500 acres. As shown above, Alexander W. Graham was the third in his father's family of children. He was born while his parents were residents of Christian county,

. (where indeed, they met and were married), his natal day being the 6th of January, 1813. He was therefore three years of age _ when the family came to Montgomery county, Mo., in which he was reared, and, like his brother, D. F., has made this his permanent home. On the 10th of October, 1849, he was married to Miss Martha E. Crane, a daughter of George W. Crane, an early settler of the county. They have become the parents of five children, one of whom is deceased, Robert L.; the others are William A., Annabel, who is the wife of George HH. Jones, Catherine M., the wife bf Thomas Vaughn, and one other. Mr. Graham has been largely engaged in farming and stock raising in this county for years. He has a fine tract of 1,500 acres of land, all improved, one of the largest - and. best farms in the county,and is now living in guas¢ retirement on his farm, having his lands largely rented, but yet reserving a considerable body for farming purposes under bis own management. Mr. - Graham had the misfortune to lose his wife, in 1880, who died on the | 10th of April. She had been adevout member of the Primitive Baptist - Church for many years, and was one of the best.of women, a devoted - wife, loving mother, kind neighbor and Christian lady. Mr. G., - himself, is a member of the same church of which his wife was so long an exemplary member. ,

Wi. A. Grauam, the eldest and only living son of Alexander W. Graham, was born on his father's homestead December 22, 1856, and was reared on the farm. His father being aman who appreciated ; the value and importance of a good education, gave his children ex- - cellent school advantages. William A. , after a course of preparatory - instruction in the common and intermediate schools, was matriculated Fe at William Jewell College, where he became proficient in the higher - branches. On the 26th of December, 1877, he was married to' Miss

Epsie McGee, a daughter of Thovt McGee of Montgomery City, but formerly of St. Louis. Mrs. Graham was principally educated at Montgomery City. They have three. children, Emily, Martha and Robert Alexander. Mr. Graham, who has followed in the footsteps of his father and become a farmer and stock raiser, has an excellent farm of 460 acres, a part of his father's old homestead. He makes something of a specialty of shipping and feeding stock, and has been quite successful in this branch of industry. Mrs. G. is a member of the M.

George W. Gregory

Born and. reared in Montgomery county, Mr. Gregory has spent his whole life thus far within its borders, excepting one or two temporary absences. Now. one of the substantial farmers of the county and one of its highly respected and influential citizens, he commenced life, however, for himself when a young man, practically without a penny. For 17 years he worked at the blacksmith's trade. He has a fine farm of over 400 acres, and is comfortably situated. In 1878 he was nominated and elected to the office of sheriff, to which he was re-elected, holding it four years. Mr. Gregory was a son of John and Elizabeth (Fuqua) Gregory, who came to this county from Virginia in about' 1831. His father had been a gallant old soldier of the War of 1812, and was much esteemed by all who knew him. He was a farmer by occupation, and he and his wife were exemplary members of the Missionary Baptist Church. George W. was born July 4, 1834, and was the youngest of a family of eight children. He early learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for nearly a score of years, as stated above. February 24, 1864, he was married to: Miss Mary A. White, daughter of Benjamin White, a pioneer settler of the county. Mr. and Mrs. G. have seven children, namely : Susan E., Anna P., Ben L., Georgia, Nellie, Stanley and Cecil. During the war Mr. Gregory served two years in the Confederate army. He takes an earnest and active interest in everything in his vicinity calculated to promote the general good, either material or otherwise. He is a prominent member of the A, F. & A. M. , and of the [.0.0. F. He is a Democrat in politics.

'The Gregory family is one of the oldest in history, and may be traced back through consecutive generations to almost the beginning of the Christian era. The earliest 1 representative of the family of whom we have any account is Thuamaturgus Gregory, a convert of Origen and distinguished by his writings and marvelous power in the conversion of the heathen. He died about A. D. 270. From him there is a nearly every known country. Perhaps the most famous branch of the family is the Scotch branch, members of which have become eminent in almost every department of thought and human activity.

This branch descends trom James Gregory, born in 1639, minister of Drumoack, in Aberdeenshire. He died at the early age of 36, but already had become a man of world-wide reputation as a scholar, philosopher and scientist. There are some eight or ten others of the Scotch branch who have become hardly less distinguished than their eminent predecessor. Several of the 'family have become prominent in this country. Mr. Gregory, the subject of this sketch, descends from the Scotch branch of the family, a representative of which early settled in the colony of Virginia. His father was William Gregory, a native of Virginia, and he himself was born in that State, July 12,

1819. His mother was a Miss Nancy Fuqua before her marriage, also of an old Virginia family. She died in Virginia when Richard "FR. was about two years of age. His father subsequently married Miss Nancy Robinson, of Virginia, He came to this State in 1835 and settled in Callaway county. He became a successful farmer of that county and resided there nearly 25 years, or until his death, in third in his father's first family of four children, and there were also four in the second family of children. He was 16 years of age when his father came to Missouri, and he completed his ephebiage in Callaway county, being brought up to farm life. On attaining his manhood he soon began to farm for himself, and continued in Callaway county engaged in farming until after his marriage, except.while absent on the Pacific coast. In 1849 he went to California and followed mining out there with measurable success for about five years. Returning in 1854, on the 26th of February, three years afterwards, he was married to Miss Rachel, a daughter of James and Nancy Oliver, formerly of Kentucky. Mr. Gregory settled on the land on which he now resides in 1858. He has been satisfactorily successful as a farmer and stock-raiser, and has a valuable stock farm of 500 acres. Mr. and Mrs. G. have reared-five children: James W., Hattie M., Anna, now a student at the State

William L. Gupton

Though a Kentuckian by nativity, Mr. Gupton was reared in Mont- | gomery county, Mo., and this has continued to be his home from - childhood. His parents were Stephen and Mary (Miller ) Gupton, | town, in this county. Two years later they removed to Middletown and made their permanent home in that place, or until after the father's death. He died, however, soon afterwards, in 1856. William L. was the eldest of two children. The other, also a son, is now deceased, having died in boyhood. The mother, some years after her

Wellsville, but they continued to reside at Middletown until 1873. William L. Gupton was reared at Middletown, and educated in the public schools of that place. At the age of 16, however, he quit and entered a drug store as clerk, in which line of business he continued to clerk until 1874. Having by economy succeeded in accumulating a nucleus of means with which to begin business for himself, he became a member of the firm of Ford & Co., of Danville, in which he remained until 1878, when he was elected to his present office of county clerk. As a business man he was quite successful at Middletown, considering the time he was engaged in business ; and such was his high standing, indeed, and the general esteem in which he was held, that in 1878 he was solicited to become a candidate for his present office. The result showed that his friends had not overestimated his popularity. He was elected by a handsome majority, and duly installed into office the following January. His duties in office were fore, remained untaurnished. Hence, at the expiration of his term, he wis heartily indorsed by a flattering re-election. He is now serving his second term in that office, and his popularity is steadily,increasing with the progress of his official experience. Mr. Gupton has just way to make in the world up to his present position, with a feeling of no ordinary satisfaction. Itis certainly a record of which he has no reason to feel ashamed. Mr. Gupton was united in marriage with Miss

White, of this county. They were married June 19, 1884. Mrs. Gupton is a lady of superior education and accomplishments, and was for five years previous to her marriage a popular teacher in Montgomery and Franklin counties. She is amember of the M. E. Church or nearly half a century, though not continuously, Judge Harris has been identified with the public affairs of Montgomery county. He was elected a member of the county court in 1850 for aterm of four years, and was thereafter re-elected for the next succeeding term, giving him in alla service on the county bench of eight years. He wis then elected to represent the county in the Legislature, and was

Meanwhile the war had come on, and his sympathies were with the South, having been born and reared in Virginia. He was therefore driven from the Legislature by means of "the notorious '¢ Ousting Ordinance,''? and was heard from no more until after the war, and until sometime after the dark shadow of disfranchisement it left had passed away, having remained quietly on his farm. About the close of the war, having been robbed and plundered of nearly every thing he had in the world: and threatened time and again with death,

Knox county, Ill. Afterward, i in 1866, he returned and went to work to repair his losses. Industry and good management were not slow in producing their usual results, substantial prosperity, and gradually he has become again comfortably situated. In 1871 he was once more called into the public service, and was elected to the Legislature to fill out the unexpired term of Hon. A. M. Hammett, who died while' in office. He served in the session of 1871-72. In 1874 Judge Harris was elected to the office of probate judge 'of the county, a position he has ever since continued to\hold by successive re-elections. Up to 1875 he resided on his farm, four miles south-west of Wellsville, an excellent place of about 400 acres, now under the management of his son, Jarrot. Since then he has been a resident of Danville. His success in life in accumulating a comfortable competency and in being accorded by the general voice of the people the enviable position he occupies in their esteem and confidence, as well as officially, is a suffi-. cient index of the character of man he is, and, as is known to all who - are acquatnted with the people of this county, he is one of its most - substantial and highly respected citizens. Judge Harris in early life was a school teacher by profession, mainly self- educated, and taught in all for over 20 years, but during much of that time was also engaged in farming and occupied with other affairs. As has been said, he is a Virginian by nativity and bringing up. He was-born at the base of the Blue Ridge, in Albemarle county, on the 31st of December, 1812, and was a son of. Jarrot and Jane (Ramsey) Harris, both of old and respected Virginia families, and of Welsh-English descent. Reared in Virginia, he came to Missouri in 1838, his parents having preceded him to this State the. year before, and settled on Little - Loutre creek, about four miles from Wellsville. They died on their homestead in that vicinity, his father at the age of 78, and his mother ~ aged 72. Judge Harris had taught school in Virginia for somie four - or five years before coming to Missouri. He resumed teaching n this - county, which he had followed in Virginia four or five years, and subsequently taught in Ralls county for some time. He was elected a judge of the county court in 1850, as stated above, and about this time, or a short time before, he engaged i in farming. Judge Harris was married in 1852, on the 2d of March, to Miss Margaret N.

They reared a family of four children, namely; John B., a merchant at Danville; Jarrot, referred to above; Joseph E., a practicing physician at McCredie, Callaway county, and Thomas R., clerk of the probate court at Danville. A physical characteristic of the family of which Judge Harris is a representative is their stalwart manhood. His father was six feet, six inches in height, and proportionally well built ; a cousin was six feet, ten inches in height. He himself is six feet, two inches, and his youngest son is six feet, five - worthy representatives of physical manhood, truly, as they are otherwise.

Alfred B. Hunter

Mr. Hunter, the present popular and efficient circuit clerk of this county, is a native of the county in which he still resides, and was born near where Americus now stands, on the 27th of November, 1844. His parents were Baylis E. and Elizabeth E. Hunter, both natives of this county, and were born and reared and both still reside on their homestead near Americus, the father being a sub-

'stantial farmer of that vicinity. Alfred B. was reared on the farm, and helped to open up the same in a dense wilderness, and as he grew up had only limited advantages for an education afforded at the log school houses of the period; even at these, schools were "kept only now and then, without much certainty as to time or duration, and of a very inferior quality at best. In short, young Hunter had to rely mainly on his own exertions and self-application for an education. But having a natural thirst for knowledge, he improved vall his leisure by private study (and often over the mid- 'night lamp ),.and succeeded in making such progress in the course of « common English education that he became sufficiently qualified to teach School: Prior to teaching, however, he had spent some time as clerk in a store at Portland, in Callaway county. From that time up to the present he had had a varied experience, which included clerking, teaching and farming - or, rather, up to the time of his election to his present office. In 1867 he met with a severe misfortune; he was stricken with a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism, from which he has since suffered very greatly, and has never fully recovered; he has been compelled to go on crutches since then as many as seven different times, and at ne time Tess than six weeks, and some times as long as three months. 'Several times, indeed, he has been almost entirely disabled for any active business pursuit. A man of excellent business qualifications, and full of energy, this has been a hardship to him of the greatest _ severity.- It has not only prevented him from accomplishing much that he would otherwise have been able to do, but has been a constant source of regret to him, being as he is a man of spirit and enterprise. Appreciating, however, his thorough fitness for the duties of the office of circuit clerk, in the fall of 1882, at a Democratic nominating convention for county officers, his friends put him in nomination, among others, betore the convention, and was by that convention made the nominee for circuit clerk, without his knowledge, consent, or the race as a candidate for circuit clerk, which, after due deliberation, he consented to do. He was elected over his Republican opponent, E. E. Sharp, Esq., who was then serving his first term as circuit clerk, and deservedly popular, by a handsome majority. Some one of the Sharp tamily had held this office (except two terms, or eight years ) continuously since the time when Missouri became a State, or, perhaps, before ; so far back, indeed, that the memory of man hardly runneth to the contrary ; and it was generally believed that no one had popularity sufficient to take it out of the family, for each of them made thoroughly capable, efficient and popular clerks. But Mr. Hunter ocrat, which goes a long way to help a good man along among Christian and God-fearing people.», His term extends over'a period of four years, and he is now serving his second year in office. Being a capable and efficient clerk, and personally popular, as well as being on the side of the Lord's people, politically, it requires no gift of prophecy to foretell for him a long and successful career in this office. Mr. Hunter is a man of family, having married on September 19, 1883, when Miss Minerva J. Crockett became his wife. She was a native of this county and a daughter of the late Dr. W. W. Crockett, an esteemed minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and also a physician by profession.

county and one of the enterprising, public-spirited, active citizens of - New Florence, is a Missourian by nativity and life-long residence, born and reared in St. Charles county. He was a son of John H. and Mary C. ( Bierbaum ) Kallmeyer, both originally from Germany, and was born November 8, 1855. - His parents came to America in 1836 and settled on land near Femme Osage, in St. Charles county, where the father improved «a farm and subsequently engaged in merchandising. He became one of the successful, substantial farmers and business men of that part of the county, and one of the well known and highly respected citizens of the county. He reared a family of five children (four having died when young), and gave them good tained to study medicine, and entered upon the regular study of medicine, placing himself under the preceptorage of Dr. W.S. McCall, a prominent physician of Call: AWAY, county. "In due course of study he was prepared to enter medical college, and in 1875 matriculated at the St. Louis Medical College. He graduated from that well known and able institution in the class of '77, and at once thereafter located

_ at Best's Bottom, in Montgomery county, were he engaged in the active practice of medicine. The following fall, November. A 1877 he was married to Miss Francis K. Heying, a daughter of Frank Heying of Montgomery county. In 1883, Dr. Kallmeyer came to New Florence, and made a permanent location at this place. His reputation as a capable, skillful physician had preceded him here, and hence the promptness with which the people of this place and vicinity have generally engaged his services as a'physician. Already he has a good ° practice and one that is steadily, not to say rapidly, increasing. He was largely instrumental in inaugurating the creamery enterprise at this place and is superintendent and secretary of the company, being also a liberal subscriber to its stock.. The Doctor and Mrs. Kallmeyer have three children; Aubrey S., Ida and Ami R.

Mr. Knox, a representative of one of the pioneer families of the county, is at the same time a man who by his own exertions and merits has placed himself among the leading, successful farmers and representative, influential citizens of the county. He now owns some

1,800 acres, and has one of the choice stock-farms of the township, a handsome place of some 400 acres, near New Florence. He has seyeral times been called into the public service of the county and has held the office of sheriff some six years. Indeed, there is, perhaps, no one in the county more generally or favorably known, or who more unquestionably has the confidence of the public. The general esteem in which he is held is the result of his high character and usefulness as a citizen, his many estimable qualities as a neighbor, and his well known integrity and upright life. Mr. Knox was a son of William and Sarah (Clark) Knox, both originally from Kentucky, his father a son of David Knox, of Boyle county, that State, and his mother, a daughter of Isaac Clark, an early settler in Montgomery county. His father was born and reared in Kentucky, and came to Missouri when a young - man, locating in Montgomery county in 1818. He was married in this county and reared a family of five children, of whom poe Ey was the eldest. The others were Isaac H., Mary I.(Mrs. Dr. Stevens) William S. and David Rk. Their father became a pie _ farmer of the county and one of its well known, highly respected citi-_ - zens. David F. was born on the family homestead in this county, October. 29,1826, and was reared there, receiving a good ordinary common-school education. In 1858 he was married to Miss Catharine Davault, a daughter of Peter Davault, and a sister to Alfred Davault, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. About _ the time of his marriage Mr. Knox settled on the farm where he now resides, and has continued in the occupation of a farmer which he had previously and so successfully followed, and has also been engaged. in raising stock and in dealing in them to some extent for many years.

Frederick Lionberger

Mr. Lionberger, who was born and reared in Switzerland, came to America with his brother, John U., now a prosperous farmer of Nebraska, in 1868. They were the sons of Nicholas Lionberger and wife, Anna Elizabeth nee Gammeter. 'Their father was a heutenant in the army of his native country. The two sons, Fred and John U., are the only ones of the family of three children now living. Frederick Lionberger was born in Switzerland, July 10, 1848, "and was, therefore, 20 years of age when he came to America. He first located in Nebraska, where his brother had settled, but after a residence there of seven years came to Montgomery county, Mo., in 1875. Om the 14th of February, 1878, he was married to Miss Emma Bridges, and they now have three children: John F., Albert M. and Henry H.- The same year of his marriage Mr. Lionberger bought 60 acres of - Jand on which he made his home the following year. Here he has since. resided, engaged in farming, and he is also interested in the nursery business. He and Mr. Gutmann are starting the Lionberger & Gutmann Nursery, with every prospect of success. Mr. Lionherger i is a man of sterling worth and with his perseverance can hardly fail of becoming, in a few vears, one of the successful and substantial prop- - erty owners of the community.

Riley H. Mansfield

That early advantages may be made to contribute materially to one's advancement in life,. to the giving of one's career a higher direction than it might otherwise te , indeed, they are indispensable to the success of some men, 'is not a can not be for a moment