Montgomery County, Missouri - Biographical sketches (2 of 2 so headed), 1885 (part 5 of 8)

The tobacco business has engaged most of Mr. Brown's time and - energy from youth. He came to Montgomery City in this line in 1880, as a member of the firm of Lacy & Brown, and they then erected a large factory building and entered actively and extensively upon buying, putting. up and shipping tobacco. In 1881, the present stock company was incorporated, F. H. Lacy, P. Brown, L. W. English, and A. C. Hudson being the original incorporators, and Mr. Brown was elected president of the company. Under the new system of management, the business has had a steady and substantial growth, and they now put up from~ 450,000 to 500,000 pounds of tobacco annually. This has proven a valuable interest to Montgomery City, and has done much for the importance of the place as a business center. Mr. Brown comes of an old North Carolina family of that name, though his father, Warner Brown, lived a part of his life and died in Arkansas, and he, himself, was born in the latter State. Warner Brown was married three times and reared three families of children, twenty-four in all. Paul Brown was by his father's third wite, who -was a Miss Annie Spain when a young lady, originally of Culpeper county, Va., when his father married her. He was the twenty-first of his father's children and was born in Union county, Ark., August 20, 1848. In youth he attended the district schools, and also a select male school of Eldorado, Ark. From there he entered the Wesleyan College, Warrenton, Mo., where he remained one year. After this, he worked in a tobacco factory for a short time, and then became a traveling salesman for the firm of W. H. Mizzy & Co., of Wentzville, Mo. Since that time to the present, he has been engaged in the tobacco business (with 'a few digressions into farming, merchandising, etc.), either as salesman, proprietor, or manufacturer. He has had one or two reverses resulting from fire and other causes, but on the whole, his career has resulted successfully. Mr. Brown is a man of good education, superior business qualifications, thoroughly enterprising, and of sterling character and trustworthiness. He stands high in the esteem of all who know him, and is justly popular with all. He has been married twice. In 1868 he was married to Miss Annie Hudson, a daughter of J. W. Hudson, of Warren county, Mo. She died in 1881, having borne him six children ; five of these are living. September 6, 1882, he was married to Miss Florence Clare, a daughter of Dr. Clare, a sketch of whom appears in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have one child. He and wife are both church members and much esteemed as members of society in Montgomery City and vicinity. _

George W. Bruner

Mr. Bruner, an energetic and progressive business man of Mont- - gomery City, is a son of that highly respected and worthy old citizen of this place, Squire David Bruner. The family came originally from New York, where 'Squire Bruner was reared, and in 1844 was married to Miss Rachel E. Salisbury. Of this union George W. was born in Cayauga county, N. Y., October 1, 1845. When he was five years of age his parents removed to Huron county, O., and lived there until 1854, when they came to Missouri. '*Squire Bruner bought a quarter of a section of land near Montgomery City, which had then just been laid off and platted as a town. He improved his land and resided on his farm until he came to Montgomery City, where he became post- - master, a position he held for over 20 years. George W. was about 14 years of age when the family came to town, and he remained here attending school, clerking, etc., until he was about 20 years old. The last two years of this time, however, he was engaged in the tin and hardware business on his own account. He then sold out and went to Kansas City, where he became book-keeper for a large English porkpacking house, a position he held for two years. After this he engaged in the grocery business in Lafayette county, and two years later went to Lincoln county. In 1871 he went to Sherman, Texas, where he obtained a position in a cotton commission house. From there he returned to Montgomery City, and in 1877 established his present real estate business. The following year Mr. H. C. Lewis was admitted to a partnership in the business, and since then they - have conducted it together. They have been satisfactorily successful in their business, and have a large amount of fine land for sale in the vicinity of Montgomery City and throughout the surrounding country. They are also the agents for heavy Eastern capitalists in the loan business, and are prepared to supply applicants who have good security, on terms alike just and fair to lender and borrower. June 18, 1879, Mr Bruner was married to Miss Jennie A. Welch, a daughter of Gen. Aikman Welch, an eminent lawyer of Western Missouri and former Attorney-General of the State, but who has been dead for many years. Mrs. Bruner was born and reared at Warrensburg, Mo., and received an advanced general education, as well as taking : a thorough course in music. She was a teacher of instrumental music in the Montgomery City College for some time prior to her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. B. are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.

in their line and command a good trade, which is steadily increasing with the growth of the country and the improvement of Montgomery City. Francis M. Busby was born at Palmyra February 27, 1847, and James P. at Fulton, February 3, 1836. They are sons of Lewis Busby and wife, who was a Miss Eliza McClanahan before her marriage. The family came to Missouri in about 1835 and located at Fulton, but the father is now settled on a farm in this county ; he is a cabinet maker by trade and followed that for many years. James P. received a common-school education as he grew up and after starting out for himself until 1856 was engaged in different pursuits ; he "and George Bruner then formed .a "partnership at Montgomery City in his present line of business, and his brother,

Francis M., learned the tinner's trade under him. Later along Bruner retired from the firm and Francis M. succeeded to his interests. In 1871 they sold out, but in about a year afterwards Kemp & two years, and then Dr. Varnum bought Kemp's interest, the firm becoming J. P. Busby & Co. In 1876 James P. sold out to Dr. Varnum, and after this the firm underwent different changes, until finally the business came back into the hands of the Busby brothers in the fall of 1882, as stated above. During much of the time included between the above dates Francis M. was engaged in painting, and for two years he was clerking for Gordon & Hance. During this time, also, they were burned out in business once, suffering a heavy loss. Both brothers are married. Francis M. was married January 12, 1876, to Miss Wenowa -Mallerson, a daughter of M. N. Mallerson, of this city. They have one child, Francis M. Mrs. B. is a member of the M. E. Church South and Mr. B. of the Presbyterian Church. He is also a member of the A.O. U. W. James P. Busby was married September 11, 1860, to Miss Elizabeth Alexander, a

1881, leaving three children: Effie T., who is now the wife of Rocky Uptegrove, of Moberly ; Leonidas A., now in Colorado, and William L., still at home. WALTER CALDWELL, M. D. (Physician and Surgeon, Montgomery City).

he engaged in the practice of medicine. He resided there for many years and until his death was a leading physician of the county. His wife was a Miss Eliza L. Briggs, also from Kentucky. Of their family of children they reared five are living, namely: James D., now of: Shelby county ; Martha, now Mrs. Charles C. Carter, of New the subject of this sketch. Reared at New, London, Dr. Caldwell received a.good common English education, and a young man in his twenty-first year at the outbreak of the Mexican War, he enlisted in the army under Col. Willock, of Price's command. He was in the service for about 18 months, and at Santa Fe., N. M., he was appointed sergeant-commissary and quartermaster for 'the battalion, a position he "held for six or seven months, or until the close of hig service.

then located at Hannibal, "but in the fall of 1852 went to Wisconsin, where he was successfully engaged in the practice for about seven years. Returning to Missouri he located at Middletown, and continued there for 14 years, building up a large practice and taking war, or rather at its first outbreak, Dr. Caldwell joined the Southern army under Gov. Jackson's call, and was appointed regimental surgeon, a prisoner all that time, but was allowed the freedom of the city. Some six months after his capture he was released on a $5,000 bond, and took no further part in the war, but resumed his practice at Middletown. On the 28th of February, 1851, he was married to Miss - Sarah J. Burford, of Pike*county. They have reared a family of four of the State, County and District Medical Societies. Dr. Caldwell isa geutleman of character and influence, an able and successful physician, and a man and neighbor who is highly respected by all.

William N. Cason

Dr. Cason, who has been engaged in the drug business continuously at Montgomery City for the last fifteen years, and is the oldest druggist, in duration of business, at this place, is well known to the people of this and surrounding counties. He carries a large gists' sundries, and has a large and well established trade. He is justly popular with the public both as a business man and as a citizen | and neighbor, and has -been quite successful as a druggist; and in - a field where he has witnessed the failure or retirement 'of nearly - 50 others, he alone has. stood the test of time and has made his business an established success. In the preparation of prescriptions - he is particularly safe and efficient, and on this account is largely patron-_ ized by the physicians of Montgomery City and in the territory tribu- - town Academy, both in the higher English branches and in Latin and Greek. He then engaged in the drug business at Williamstown, and during his leisure at the same time read medicine; and also soon afterwards resumed the drug business, which latter finally required his whole time and attention. In 1869 he emigrated to Missourl, locating in Montgomery City. Here he has since been successfully engaged in the same line of business. December 13, 1868, Dr. Cason was married in Grant county, Ky., to Miss Addie De Jarnette. They have a family of three children: Arthur L., Hugh N. and Harry G. Mrs. C, is a member of the Christian Church. The Doctor is a prominent member of the local Odd Fellows' lodge, and is treasurer of the lodge. Dr. Cason is at this time erecting a handsome dwelling onthe corner of Sixth and Sturgeon streets, which, when completed, will be one of the most commodious, comfortable and tastily built residences in Montgomery City. He also owns his business house, an excellent two-story brick building. Dr. Cason is one of the public-spirited citizens of the place, and is ever to the front to help along by his counsel, personal exertion and means, any and all movements calculated to promote the best interests, material or otherwise, of Montgomery City and the surrounding country.

John E. Chadwick

Mr. Chadwick, one of the successful business men of Montgomery City, engaged in the grocery business here in 1877, on a small capital, but by close attention to business, fair dealing and enterprise, succeeded in building up one of the substantial business houses of this place. Mr. Bibb became his partner in 1883, and they continued until the fall of 1884. Mr. Chadwick is the present mayor of Montgomery City, having been chosen to this office at the spring election, but without any effort on his part. His election, however, was a compliment to him as an evidence of the high esteem in which he is held by his neighbors and fellow-townsmen. He was also appointed justice of the peace in the summer of 1882. He is a New Englander by nativity, and was born at Hanover, N. H., April 29, 1852, he was yet in tender years his parents removed to Wisconsin, and afterwards to Chicago, Galesburg, Kansas City, and finally to Lawrence, Kan., where they resided for a number of years. At the age of is a practical telegraph operator, but was also engaged for some time as superintendent of construction of telegraph lines. He constructed lines along different railroads, including the St. Joe & Denver, the Kansas Pacific, the M. K. & T., the Wabash, and others. In 1875 he was married to Miss Elizabeth L. Spinsby, a daughter of Maj. Henry Spinsby, of Montgomery City. Mr. and Mrs. C. have three children, May E., Lottie M. and John E. Mrs. C. is a member of the Catholic Church.

In the sketch of Dr. Clare's brother, Walden G. Clare, of Bear Creek township, something of an outline of their family history is given, so that it is unnecessary to repeat here whatis said there. The children of the family, besides himself, were Francis, still of Lincoln county ; Jacob, who died in 1849, at the age of 35; Thomas, who died at the age of 21, in 1844; John S., a resident of Montgomery county ; William, who died at the age of 50, in 1870; Margaret, who died whilst the wife of Armisted Uptegrove, but who had previously - been married and lost her first husband, Hiram Palmer; Susan, who ~ died whilst the wife of J. W. Jamison, and Horatio, a resident of Lincoln county. Dr. Clare, the sixth of the family, was born on the family homestead in Lincoln county, February 11, 1833, and like his brothers was brought up to a farm life. In 1853, then a young_ man 20 years of age, he came to Montgomery county and put himself under the instruction of Dr. Pearson, a leading physician of this county, as a student of medicine. After a thorough course of read- ~ ing under Dr. Pearson, he matriculated at the St. Louis Medical ~ College in 1854, and was graduated with marked credit in the class : of 56. After his graduation Dr. Clare located at Middletown and engaged in the practice of his profession. Thoroughly qualified as a - physician, he built up a large practice which kept him in the saddle most of the time. Not aman of the most vigorous constitution, the hardships and burdens of his practice began to tell seriously on his © general health, so that after about 10 years of hard work in the pro- - fession he was compelled to seek rest in retirement. In order not to - be idle he engaged in merchandising at Middletown, and conn that with success for 10 or 12 years. In 1872 he was nominated and ~ elected to the responsible office of county collector, and two years later he was elected circuit clerk of the county, serving in the two - positions for a period of six years. While in office he necessarily resided at the county seat, Danville. On laying down the enstgnia - of office in 1878, he removed to Montgomery City, and engaged in merchandising at this place. Afterwards he retired to his farm near - Montgomery City, where he has since been occupied with the inter- - ests of his place. He has a handsome farm of 320 acres in his homestead. Dr. Clare has been married twice. His first wife was a Miss Hannah C. Hogue, a daughter of Samuel Hogue, of Middle- - town. To her he was married in 1856. She died in 1882, and had borne him five children: Floy, who is now the wife of Paul Brown; _ Minnie, now the wife of Warry Palmer; Fulton and Montrose. Dr. - Clare's present wife was a Miss Manda Orr. She was a daughter of

Philip Orr, of Middletown. They. have been married less than a year. The Doctor is a member of the Christian Church; his wife is a Methodist.

Judge William Clark

Judge Clark has been a resident of Montgomery county for 17 years, "and his life here has been one of marked energy and industry, directed by good business judgment and not. without the rewards that usually attend such activity. He has been largely interested in grain shipping besides farming. A man of thorough intelligence, good judgment and excellent busmess qualifications, as well as a man in whom the people have implicit confidence, in 1876 he was elected to the office of presiding justice of the county court, a position he held for four years, and the duties of which he discharged with efficiency and ability, and with general satisfaction to the public. Judge Clark is a native of Ireland, born in county Westmeath, in December, 1830, and was a son of Patrick and Margaret (Killmeary) Clark, the ancestry of each of whom had been settled in Ireland as far back as the family records can be traced. When a lad seven years of age, how ever, he was taken by some relatives in Scotland to rear, and grew tomanhood in that country. When about 22 years of age, he came to America, and for some years made his home in St. Louis. There he was employed at teaming, and afterwards in a commission house. Later along he engaged in the grocery trade and made gratifying progress in obtaining a start in life. He continued business in St. Louis with success until 1867, when he had accumulated some considerable means. From that city he came to High Hill and engaged in the retail grocery trade, having for partners R. T. Matthews and James Conran. In a few years 'he bought Conran out, and subsequently bought out the interest of Matthews i in the firm, tid then carried on the business alone until 1876. Meanwhile, in the fall of 1856, he was married, Mrs. Ellen Dullard, a widow lady, becoming his wife, She died in the fall of 1878, leaving a son by her first marriage, whom the judge has reared, and one by her last marriage, William EL: the Judge's only son. In 1876 his step-son became his partner in business, and two years later William H. also became a partner, the firm now taking the name of William Clark & Sons. Thus it continued for four years, when the Judge retired from the firm, his sons continuing it under the name of Clark Bros. While merchandising at High Hill, Judge Clark was also engaged in handling tobacco, and was an extensive grain buyer and. shipper of hay. He was likewise engaged in handling railroad timber, buying timbered land for that purpose and establishing saw inills, of which latter he had several. He also dealt in lands, and he still has some valuable mineral lands. He owns a fine farm near High Hill, which he has had run for a number of years, and he has another exceilent place in the county. Judge Clark and Mr. Woolfolk formed a partnership in the livery business in June of the present year, and are successors to Scott Kimble. Judge Clark was matried a second time, in the fall of 1881, Mrs. Nancy J. Lovelace becoming his wife, the widow of Judge Walter Lovelace, deceased, who was a member of the Supreme Court at the time of his death. She was a daughter of the Hon. Mr. Bush, of this county. Mrs. C. is a member of the Baptist Church, and he is a member of the Catholic Church. They are highly esteemed residents of Montgomery City. HENRY CLARK,

Mr. Clark was born and reared in this county, and was a son of Henry Clark, Sr., a pioneer settler of the county, and one of its successful farmers and stockmen. The latter was the first sheriff of criminal ever hung within its borders under the forms of law. He was quite an active and prominent man in his day, and accumulated a comfortable fortune, leaving a large estate at his death, in 1841. He was a Virginian by nativity, and, indeed, he remained in his native State until after his marriage. His wife was a Miss Katharine Jacob before her marriage, also of Virginia. They came to Missouri in 1831, and settled in the southern part of Montgomery county. There Mr. Clark, Sr., improved a large farm and engaged, somewhat extensively, in raising and handling stock, He was one of the prominent slave-holders of the county, and also became a large land-owner. In youth, his educational opportunities had been better than those of the generality of young men among whom he was reared. Henry Clark, Jr., the subject of this sketch, was born on his father's hace stead in the southern part of the county, January 29, 1841. He was reared on the farm and given excellent advantages fn an education, having the benefit of a course at the Missouri State University, and of one, also, at St. Louis. After concluding his studies, Mr. Clark family homestead. February 22, 1863, he was married to Miss Fan nie, a daughter of Col. D. D. Mitchell, deceased, late of St. Louis. Two years after his marriage, he removed to the farm on which he now resides, a mile north of Montgomery City. Here he has a fine tract of 400 acres, all under fence, and otherwise in an excellent state of improvement. Mr. Clark is quite extensively engaged in raising specialty of fine short-horn cattle, a breed of which he has some of the best representatives to be seen in the county, His farm is exceptionally well adapted to stock-raising. Mr. Clark also still owns the old family homestead in the southern part of the county, a tract of about 800 acres of land. He also has some 400 acres in the vicinity of his present homestead ; nearly all of his lands are improved and either in cultivatiou or used for stock pastures. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have

Henry, Jr., Martha E., Ninette, Georgia and Arthur (twins), Christy 'and Myrtle. Mr. Clark, himself a man of education and culture, fully appreciates the value and importance of early mental training in the schools, and is seeing to it that his own children are not permitted to grow up without good educational advantages. His eldest daughter is a graduate ofa female institution of learning of high reputation in St. Louis, and she has also been given the benefit of foreign travel, having just returned from a somewhat extended tour in Europe. Mr. Clark also takes an active and commendable interest in public affairs, -and is one of the leading men of the county in politics, and as a private citizen. He has never sought nor desired any official advancement for himself, but has exerted himself solely that none but worthy men conviction and affiliation he is a Democrat, and has represented his party from time to time in its different conventions. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are members of the Episcopal Church.

Dr. Darnell, of the above-named firm, was born in St. Charles county, May 29, 1849, and was reared in the vicinity of Wentzville. At an early age he discovered a taste for medical study and read such books as he could avail himself of in that direction. At the age of 14 he decided to make.a physician of himself and began the regular study of medicine at home. Later along he put himself under the instruction of Dr. Northcutt, a successful alopathic physician of Lincoln county, and during this time was engaged in the drug business at Fairview, in that county. In 1877 he engaged in the drug business at Americus and continued the study of medicine at that place under Dr. Bibb, an eclectic physician. A few years later he sold his drug business in order to attend medical college at St. Louis, where he took a course in the American Medical College. From there he went to Kansas, and on examination for admission became a member of the Kansas State Medical Society, being located at the time at Hollywood, in Ellsworth county, in the practice. After about 18 months at Hollywood he returned to St. Louis and took two more

- Varnette at Montgomery City. From Dr. Darnell's long and close study of medicine and from his experience at medical college, as well as. his success in the practice, it goes without saying that he is a physician of. thorough qualifications and ripe scholarship. Drs. Varnette & Darnell are said to have a larger practice than any firm in the.county. Dr. Darnell was a son of Jesse A. and Susan F. (Sullivan) Darnell, a daughter of Jeremiah Sullivan, her father originally of Virginia, as was also her husband. He had been previously married to a Miss Lizzie Hutchinson, who died, however, soon afterwards. He died at Mechanicsville, St. Charles county, in 1872. He

Mr. Devinna has been engaged in business in Montgomery City on his own account since 1880, though he has been known to the people of this place and vicinity inthe mercantile line for the last 10 years. Merchandizing has been his occupation, either as clerk or proprietor, since before he attained his majority. He commenced as a clerk at Versailles, Mo., some 15 years ago, and in 1875 came to Montgomery City in the employ of Mr. W. H. Godlove, for whom he had been previously clerking about two years, and with whom he continued at this place for five years afterwards. In 1880 he engaged in merchandising for himself, with John Barker as a partner. - " Afterwards , that firm was dissolved and he started in business alone. Ina _ short time Mr. C. D. Harper became his partner. After their dissolution the present firm of Devinna & Brown was organized, Mr. E. R. Brown in their line and have a good and steadily increasing trade. Their house is one of the substantial arid popular business houses of Moutgomery City. In the fall of 1878 Mr. Devinna was married to Miss Nannie E. Harper, of this city, a daughter of A. Harper, formerly editor of the Standard. Mrs. D. was educated at the Montgomery City College. They have three children: Maurice, Frank and Bertha. Mrs. D. isa member of the Baptist Church, and Mr. Devinna is a member of the Chapter and Blue Lodge of the Masonic order. He is also city clerk and assessor, and has been for the last three years. Mr. Devinna was a son of John and Elizabeth (Lampton) Devinna, formerly of Howard county, but his father originally of Tennessee.

Frederick H. Dryden

If anything approaching a satisfactory sketch of the life and family antecedents of the subject of the present brief mention were written, it would necessarily include a long and interesting chain of facts intimately interwoven with the history of the county. The family. of which Mr. Dryden is a representative is well known to be one of the pioneer and most highly respected families of the county.

a leading and influential citizen. He had held different official positions of local prominence in the county, and had represented it with distinction in the State Legislature. On coming to Montgomery county, he settled near High Hill, where he bought land and afterwards entered additional tracts on which he improved a valuable farm. In Montgomery county he became quite prominent in_ its affairs. He was early elected a judge of the county court and afterwards served as sheriff of the county. Again he was placed on the county bench by the voice of the people, and for a number of years he was presiding justice of the county court. In the later years of his life he was a victim to great physical suffering and died at his farm near High Hill in 1858. The life of none of its citizens reflects greater credit upon the history of the county than that of Judge Dryden. He and his good wite were blessed with a family of 13 children, seven of whom lived to become the heads of families 'themselves, and all highly respected residents of their respective communities. Among the others is Judge John D. 8S. Dryden, the second son, a distinguished lawyer of St. Louis, and for a term one of the ousted judges of the Supreme Court of the State. Frederick HD. Dryden, the subject of this sketch, was born in Washington county, Va., July 8, 1812, and was therefore quite a youth when the family came to Missouri. He became a farmer by occupation and on the 11th of January, 1838, was married to Miss Catherine Sharp, a daughter of Mr. James F. Sharp, a pioneer settler of Warren connty. "Mr. Dryden lived on the farm with his father until he was 23 years of age, when he went to St. Louis, where he spent two years, engaged most of the time at milling. This was prior to his marriage, and, two years following this event he lived with his father-in-law, J. F. Sharp, in Warren county, near Pinckney; he then improved a farm near High Hill, where he remained successfully engaged in farming pursuits until 1869. However, during this time he was also for four years engaged in merchandising, and. handling stock on a small scale. In 1870 he improved a farm four and a half miles east of Montgomery City, where he resided for 10 years; he then came to Montgomery City to spend the remainder of his days in comparative retirement and take the rest which advancing years and the life of unremitting industry render necessary. Mr. and Mrs. Dryden have had a family of 10 children, namely : James F., nowin Texas ; Mary, Mrs. P. M. Audrain, of Eldorado Springs; Margaret, who died in young maidenhood ; Catherine, now the wife of Judge Henry Parker, of Warrenton ; _ Jane, a young lady at home; Nathaniel, a resident of Texas; Alice, who died in tender years; Susan, Mrs. Charles Winnegar; Artemus, who has charge of the farm, and Robert, a practicing physician of Lafayette county. Mr. and Mrs. D. are members of the Presbyterian Church. Before the war Mr. Dryden was Whig in politics, but - since that time he has acted with the Democratic party.

Capt. Daniel L. Duffy

in the care of himself and family, and now in his old age he is possessed of a comfortable estate which enables him to live in easy retirement,: notwithstanding he has met with heavy losses, resulting from the generosity of his nature and his over-confidence in friends. Nearly half a century of Capt. Duffy's life was spent on the sea, where indeed he was born, and on the river. Reared on the ocean, by his efficiency and fidelity in seafaring life, he rose from the humblest position of an apprentice to the command of a vessel. Before quitting the sea he was captain of different vessels, and became known as one of the most capable and faithful commanders on the water. Capt.Duffy was of Irish parentage, and his father, Capt. Charles Duffy, was an old and well known sea captain. Capt. Duffy, Sr., was reared in Ireland and educated fora priest, receiving an advanced university education, distaste for the sanctuary, and early went tosea. He followed seafaring for a number of years, principally as commander of a ship, and latterly he owned his own vessel, the '' Mary Ann.'' But, finally, he left the sea and settled in America, first settling in Pennsylvania, but ultimately, in 1848, in Warren county, } Mo. He died there in 1857. His first wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was a Miss Mary MecNfchol, a daughter of Daniel McNichol, and of Irish birth. She died when Daniel L. (Capt. Duffy, Jr.), was yet quite young. Daniel L. Duffy was born on his father's ship, the << Mary Ann,' * in Delaware river, opposite Wilmington, November 21,1810. At the early age of 7 years he entered upon his career as eon and he continued it until after he was grown to mature manhond! In 1834 he was married to Miss Catherine Roach, her father | for many vears afterwards a well known citizen of St. Louis. About the time of his marriage, or a short time before, Capt. Duffy, Jr., quit the sea and went on. the river. He became a pilot on the Mississippi, and ran the river for over thirty years. He accumulated a respectable fortune and retired from the river in 1867. Meanwhile Capt. Duffy had lost his first wife, in 1850. She had borne him seven children, namely: Walter, who died in boyhood ; Charles J., souri; Daniel J., a resident of Chattannooga, Tenn. ; ; James J., who has a narge of the farm in this county, and "Mary and Eliza, bon of whom died in infancy. In 1851 Capt. Duffy was married to Mrs. Margaret Angevine, of St. Louis, a niece of Alexander McNair, the first Governor of Missouri, Five children are the fruits of this union: Maggie C., Lewis A., Joseph'A. and Stella M. In 1858, having bought a handsome homestead in Montgomery county in the mean- time, Capt. Duffy removed his family to his farm in this county. Nine years later, as stated above, he also came to the farm. He has a fine homestead of about 500 acres, handsomely improved, one of the best farms in the county, and besides this he has other valuable property. He served four years and nine months in the War of the Rebellion as pilot in the Mississippi squadron.

Edwin 8S. Eames

Mr. Eames is a native of England, born in the county of Hereford, on the 7th of January, 1852, a son of John and Sarah Ann Eames, of that county, who, in company with his father, Samuel Eames, who was born in the town of Bristol, Monmouthshire, in the year 1791, made necessary preparations to emigrate to the United States in the spring of 1854. Three days previous to the time intended to sail for New York City, Sarah A., wife of John E., became sick and died, consequently John E. declined emigrating to America until the summer of 1868, when he, with his aged father, went West and became engaged the Territory of Utah, where they both died in 1869. John E. wasa contractor and builder and an architect by occupation. Edwin S. came to Lincoln county, Mo., in 1868, where his uncle, James Eames,

He then came to his present place, a neat farm of 120 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Eames have one child, James W. Sarah Castle died sbout a year ago, at the age of three years. Mr. and Mrs. E. are members to this country. Before coming to the United States he had begun to learn the machinist's trade, and he continued in this afterwards at Geneva, N. Y:, and at Waterloo, that State. He learned the trade _and worked at it some 12 years, during the last three years of which he was foreman of a shop at Geneva. He then, early in 1864, enlisted in the United States navy, becoming assistant engineer on the war steamer Chippewa, serving until after the close of the war. He was in the Atlantic squadron 'and participated in the battles of the blockade of Wilmington, N. C., until the fall of Ft. Fisher; both battles of Atlanta (five days in all); the battles of Ft. Anderson, Ft. Strong, and the bombardment of the forts around Richmond. Honorably discharged in May, 1865, he went into the oil regions of Pennsylvania and became superintendent of the Elk County Improvement and Mining Company. In 1866 he returned to New York and again became foreman of the machine shop at Geneva. Aftera year there he came to St. Louis in the summer of 1867, and the following fall came up to Montgomery City. Here he bought a half interest in the Montgomery City flouring mill, with which he was connected as an active partner for about. 11 years. He was also during a part of this time dealing in grain, and was the proprietor of a "blacksmith and machine shop, Ld was. vies handling agriculture al implements on a large scale. Selling out his interests in the mill and machine shop, he established another machine shop, which he also sold after operating it about a year. In the spring of 1863 Mr. Evered, in partnership with another man, built the elevator which he and Mr. Cluster now own, and since then he has been in the grain business. He is one of the principal grain dealers' at Montgomery City and has had excellent success in this line of business. Mr. Evered has been married twice. His first wife was a Miss Mary A. Huke, formerly of -

England, to whom he was married at Geneva, N. Y., in 1856. She died at Montgomery City, October 13, 1879. To his present wife he was married December 23, 1881, at this place. She was a Mrs. Mary V. Thomas, widow of a Mr. Thomas, and daughter of John Martin, tunities, in this part of the country at least, have attained.- A son of that old and substantial citizen of the vicinity of Montgomery City, Maj. Thomas Ferguson, or Uncle Tom, as he is familiarly but respectfully called, and "who is abundantly able and willing to help those of his own family along who need it, he depended "not upon parental assistance for a start in life, but with the self-reliance and independence characteristic of.,his name and family, started out for himself at an early age. He was born at Cleveland, September 3,

1849, and was therefore quite young when the family removed to this . State. His early education was limited to only that afforded by the ordinary district schools. At the age of 16, in 1865, he entered the railway station office at Montgomery City for the purpose of learning telegraphy under C. A. Paxson, the agent and operator at this place. In less then a year by quick and energtic aptitude he became a skillful operator, and before he was 17 years of age he was entrusted with the control of the office and became the regularly appointed station agent and operator at this place. This position he continued to fill for over 15 years, and until his voluntary retirement from the office. Unlike many others, a man of energy and enterprise, he soon began to interest himself in other matters and occupied his time and thought, when not necessarily engaged by his duties as agent, with outside business. By economizing his salary he saved up some means and thus his interests continued to grow in importance. He resigned his position in 1881, and has not been connected with the road since that time. Mr. Ferguson has from time to time been identified with various business interests, not necessary to mention bere. He built a telegragh line from this place to Danville at a cost of $60 a mile, which he sold to C. A. Bruner several years ago. He has been engaged in the milling business for some years, and is sole proprietor of the large saw mill "at this place, run under the name of Ferguson & Co., which doesa heavy and profitable business in manufacturing and supplying railway timbers ind other lumber. In 1883 he bought the large lumber and flour. mills at New Florence, which is being successfully run for him by an experienced miller at that place. Since buying that mill he has made a number of valuable improvenents on it and has greatly added to the reputation which it had previously born. The two mills have a combined capacity for 10,000 feet of lumber a day, and the New Florence mill turns out about 50 barrels of flour daily. The flour manufactured at the New Florence mill has a high and enviable standing in the market, and its own use is its highest and best recommendation. Mr. Ferguson's experience in the milling business has been an unqualified success. He is to-day, though less than 35 years of age, generally recognized as one of the responsible business men and substantial citizens of the county.

George J. Ferguson

Concededly among the more efficient and popular station agents along the line of the Wabash Railway is the subject of this pre esent 'sketch. He is a son of Thomas Ferguson, an old and respected citizen of Montgomery City, mention of whom is given elsewhere, and was born at Cleveland, O., July 5, 1854. But his father removing to the vicinity of Montgomery City, this State, soon afterwards, young Mr. Ferguson was therefore reared at this place. His youth was spent on the farm in the suburbs of Montgomery City and at school, having the benefit. of several terms at college, in this place.

While yet a youth, however, he entered the station office at Montgomery City, then in charge of his brother, James Ferguson, to learn the business of telegraph operator, where he continued until he mastered it and indeed for some time afterwards. He was appointed night operator and held this position until going to St. Louis, where he operated for the Wabash company, or then the St. L., K.C. &N., for about two years. Subsequently he operated at other points and for different companies in this State, Illinois and Nebraska until 1881, when he returned to Montgomery City and received the appointment of general station agent, a position he has since continued to hold.

Krank Field

engaged in teaching school. In 1865 they came to Missouri and resided in St. Louis county for some five years, coming thence to Montgomery City. The mother died here in the spring of 1883, and the father is now a resident of Florida, engaged in the orange culture. Four of their children lived to reach mature years. One is now a photographer of Atlanta, Ga., and James C., Jr., is a photographer at Tampa, Fla. ; Frank, the subject of this sketch, was principally reared in Ohio and St. Louis county, and as he grew county, but originally from England. She was educated at the Mont- - gomery College where she graduated in the class of 771. Mr. and © Mrs. F'. have one child, Percy, aged seven years. Mrs. F. is amem- - compliment, to say that the life-record of the subject of the present - sketch has been one which reflects only credit upon himself, upon the name he bears and upon the public in whose interests much of his time, means and best energies have been spent. Pn early life his outlook an old and excellent family, one which had been in 'good circumstances and that occupied an enviable position both for character and , intelligence, when he was quite young his father was broken up b than destitute of means, so that young Gatewood, as was the case with the other children of bis father's family, was not only deprived of early advantages for self-improvement, but was compelled to spend most of his early years at hard labor and to begin in life for himself with nothing to rely upon for success but his own industry, intelligence and personal worth. Nor is this all. A man of the most generous impulses and of the warmest sympathy and affection for those allied to him by the ties of kindred, it has been his peculiar fortune to be so situated, almost continuously from the time he first became old enough to do for himself,that he has had those dependant upon him in a measure, whose misfortunes and circumstances he would not ignore, and the care of whom he undertook as a personal responsibility. To them he has been one of the truest friends and most generous of kindred. Not only have they been the beneficiaries of his liberality and kindness of heart, but others,and ofttimes strangers,the poor and unfortunate, and every movement for the betterment of the condition of those around him, religious, moral, educational and otherwise, have shared of his generosity. All public improvements, moreover, have found in him one of their warmest and most liberal supporters. Indeed, it is but voicing the general sentiment of the community where he has resided for many years to say that no one among them all has done so much for the growth and prosperity of his place, has given so much of his time, means and personal attention to public works and enterprises as he. And if his life were to be viewed in the light of the public-spirit he has shown and his private generosity, it might well be said that he has seemed to labor for his own advancement .and the accumulation of property only that he might become the better able to help the unfortunate and make himself useful as a citizen. The wonder is that one so liberal and public-spirited as he has shown himself to be, should continue able to be of assistance to others and of service to the community.

But, notwithstanding all this and not a few misfortunes which no human sagacity could have foreseen or averted, he has become a successful man, reasonably successful in the accumulation of property and eminently so as a man of character and personal worth. Mr.

county, as he is one of its leading, representative citizens. He isa lawyer of recognized experience and ability, and for four years he represented. his district, consisting of the counties of Montgomery, Pike with politics for many years, but more as a public-spirited citizen and a man of honest, positive convictions on public questions than otherwise. Rarely a candidate for office, indeed, not more than two or less contributed, probably, as much time and means for the success of - the principles supported by him, as any of his political associates in the state.

William Lemasters Gatewood was born on his father's homestead near Winchester, in Clark county, Ky., December 12, 1826, and was a son of Joseph Gatewood, Jr., and wife, nee Miss Lucy Clark Winn. His father was originally from Spottsylvania county, Va. - His mother, a daughter of Jesse Winn, Sr., and wife, whose maiden name was Johnston, was born and reared in Kentucky. Other particulars of his parents' families appear further along in the present sketch. :

Mr. Gatewood was the fifth child in a family of eight children by - his father's second marriage, six of whom lived to pass the middle of life, four sons and two daughters. His father was well situated in Kentucky, a well-to-do farmer and substantial slave owner. But when young William was still in childhood his father became involved as security on the paper of a friend for a large amount of - money, which he had to pay at the sacrifice of his own property. | He was thus broken up, and at a time when he was well advanced | in life and still with a large family to provide for; he therefore ~ decided to remove to Missouri, and accordingly brought his family - out to this State and settled in Pike county, on a tract of land © near Bowling Green, where he improved a small farm. This was - in the fall of 1833. Here the family underwent many hardships and - privations.

In that early day, in North-east Missouri, neighborhood schools were ~ of very rare occurrence, and those that occ: sionally were kept were by - no means of a superior grade. Young Gatewood's school oppor- ~ tunities, therefore, were 'extremely limited. Besides, most of his - time was required for work on the farm. His first knowledge of - books was obtained from lessons learned at home of nights by the - light of a'hickory bark fire and under the instructions of his eldest ~ brother; he thus persevered in his studies, after each day's work was ~ done, until he made appreciable progress in the elementary branches. - By and by, N. P. Minor, afterwards a reputable lawyer of Pike © county,-opened a school in the vicinity, which he kept for a term of - three months and which the subject of the present sketch attended. - Young Gatewood also attended a school for three months kept in the - neighborhood by a Mr. Charles Huntington, and in the winters of 1844-45 and 1845-46 he attended John Hubbard's school at Bowling ~ Green Seminary for a term of five months each, cr, rather, for three 4 days of each week ; for during the other three days he carried the United States mail from Bowling Green to Mexico.

Those were times when the youths of the country were compelled : to be self-reliant. When young Gatewood first went on the route - from Bowling Green to Mexico he was under 16 years of age, and nearly all the way, a distance of over 40 miles, lay through an_ unbroken wilderness. There were no bridges on which to cross the streams, often swollen out of their banks, and wolves were his frequent and by no means welcome or harmless companions. After concluding his second term at the Bowling Green Seminary, young Gatewood engaged in the occupation of teaching school in Pike county, and taught 'almost continuously for the following four years. Close confinement in the school- -room, however, soon began to show its effects on his health, and during the last two years of his experience as a teacher, he was sorely afflicted with dyspepsia. This, finally, became so serious that he was compelled to quit the school-room altogether, and on that account he determined to study law.

Col. James O. Broadhead was at that time a practicing attorney at Bowling Green, and he gave young Gatewood much encouragement in the way of advice and of mapping out the proper course of studies to be pursued. Indeed, Col. Broadhead loaned him the first volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, to which he at once applied himself. This read through, he entered Col. Broadhead's office as a student of the law, remaining a short time. About this time he was appointed school commissioner of Pike county, but nevertheless continued his legal

_ studies, and in due time was admitted to the bar by the circuit court at Bowling Green, in 1857. Thereupon he entered without delay upon the practice of his profession at that place. As a lawyer, Mr. Gatewood's early career was one of success and credit. But when the late war came on, the political party which then took possession of the State government by force, required an oath to be taken by attorneys, which he refused to take, and he was therefore compelled to give up the practice, for several years. The _ Drake Constitution, promulgated in 1865, also required a so-called test-oath was decided unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the _ United States, he resumed the practice of his profession, having in ~ the meantime removed to Montgomery county. But such was the _ intense hatred against attorneys of his political views by the partisan courts and jurors of that day, that for three years, or until 1870, when the Radicals of the county were voted out of office, he never ' gained a single case before a jury of the county. After that, his practice gradually imcreased until he was elected to the State Senate an 1872, 'when he had perhaps the largest number of cases on the circuit court docket among all the attorneys at the Montgomery a "county bar.

Mr. Gatewood's practice has been somewhat of a general character, _ but confined more particularly to real estate. For a period of about oy years, from. 1859 to 1879, he was engaged as attorney, in connection with Hon. Jolin B. Henderson, now of St. Louis, 1 in a number _ of suits involving the title to the Herrick lands in Audrain county. In litigating the. various branches of the title to these lands no less i than 20 suits were necessary, in nearly all of which they were suc-

Supreme Court Report, entitled, respectively, Musick v. Barney, and Briggs v. Henderson. | The Bowles suits were also cases of general interest. During the late war, a regiment of Federal troops drove an old man by the name © of David Bowles from his home and attempted to confiscate his pro- - perty, for the alleged reason that he was a Southern sympathizer. They took an inventory of his personal property and sold it all at public sale, including his household and kitchen furniture. This was done by the officers of the regiment, and the property was bought by ~ third parties. 7 After the war, Mr. Bowles returned to his home, near Middletown, in this county, without a dollar, and with no property left but his real estate, which was in the name of his wife. He then came up to Mr. Gatewood's office at Montgomery City and related his grievances, - asking whether or not anything could be done for him. Mr. Gate- - wood asked him if he could find any of his property, and he replied - that he knew where seven or eight of his horses were ; and that if he | could recover those he would be enabled to make a crop that.year - for the support of his family. But he frankly admitted that he had no money and no means with which to fee an attorney ; nor was he able to give the security required for costs, or the indemnifying bond - necessary in such cases. '* Never mind,'"' said Mr. G., 'Vl attend © to that, give me a description of your horses."" The old gentleman - described his stock with tears of gratitude in his eyes, and when he - had given the descriptions, Mr. G. drew up seven different replevin - petitions and prepared as many bonds, which latter the old gentleman - signed, Mr. G. signing them also, thus becoming surety on the bonds. ~ These petitions Mr. Gatewood filed in the circuit courts of Mont- - gomery, Warren, Lincoln and Pike counties respectively, in each ~ county of which some of the horses were found; and he went in per- - son with the sheriffs of these counties to see that the 'horses were © taken and returned to Mr. Bowles, as was directed by the writs. The - horses were promptly delivered to their rightful owner, in Mr. G.' spresence, near Middletown, Mr. Gatewood then prosecuted the suits, as attorney, in connection © with Hon. A. H. Buckner. In the case of David Bowles v. Enos Lewis, in the circuit court of St. Charles county, a test case, they were defeated; but they appealed the case to the State Supreme | Court, where they were successful. This case is reported in the~ 48th Missouri Supreme Court Report. Thus, Mr. Bowles gained all seven of his cases, and recovered sufficient damages to pa ra the full amount of the fee of his attorneys. Further space, however, can not be given to refer to particular cases in which Mr. G. has been engaged. Mr. Gatewood's political course has been one of earnestness and sincerity. In 1861 he voted against secession, and afterwards presided over a large Union méeting at which the policy of '* armed neutrality '' was warmly indorsed by resolutions. These meant that the people would resist armed force from the seceding States to pre- - vent the forcing of this State out of the Union, with armed force; and that likewise they would resist the authority of the Federal Government with armed force to prevent the administration at Washington from bringing this State into its support. Companies were organized at the meeting for home protection against all hostile comers, either from the South or the North.

But soon the affair at Camp Jackson and a change in the current of events favorable to the North, or to the authorities at Washington, worked a marked change with many in regard to the course to be pursued. Some of the members of the companies organized at the meeting referred to, openly avowed themselves in favor of sustaining Mr. Lincoln in his purpose to coérce the seceded States. When asked fer an explanation, in the face of the '¢ armed neutrality '' resolutions, under which the companies organized, they significantly answered that '' the resolutions meant arms for the Union men and neutrality for the rebels,'' as those opposed to coércion were then for the first time called.

Mr. Gatewood experienced no such change of heart in his political convictions as the success of Lyon at St. Louis, and the dispersion of the Legislature at Jefferson City worked in the breasts of some. He honestly and frankly continued to oppose coércion, as he had opposed secession, and was of course denounced as a rebel.

In 1862 the remnant of the State Convention left at that time assumed to provide a Provisional Government for the State, the forces of the National Government having, in the meantime, driven the officers of the regular State Government from the State capital. This convention also passed a so-called ordinance requiring every public official of the State and every attorney to take an oath to support the irregular and fatherless State government which it had set up. Mr. Gatewood refused to take the oath thus prescribed, and on that account was disbarred from the practice of his profession. He was then one of the leading attorneys at the Pike county bar. The other attorneys of Pike county, without exception, subscribed to the oath.

A motion of disbarment against Mr. Gatewood was made by Hugh Allen, Esq., Judge Fagg @ presiding. When called for an answer to the motion against him, Mr. G. replied that '* the proceedings of the convention prescribing the oath demanded were revolutionary, and were nothing less than treason against the properly constituted authorities of the State; that, therefore, he could not swear to support the so-called Provisional Government set up by the convention ; and that the court, as then constituted under the alleged authority of the said' convention, had taken possession of papers and other documents in suits pending, to which he, as an attorney, had the undoubted right ; and that in: appearing before this alleged < court,' he did so, not in recognition of its authority, but only to protect the rights of his clients, 'and for no other purpose.'' But the motion against him was of course sustained, and an order of disbarment was entered onrecord. He was not again in the practice until 1867, as stated

By the fall of 1864, that being in the midst of the war, the Democratic party of the county had become practically disorganized. Butin - this state of affairs a small coterie of politicians i in the 'county, most of | whom had never voted a Democratic ticket in their lives, formed themselves into an alleged Conservative convention and put out a ticket. It was then a time when it was almost worth a man's life to call himselfa Democrat. Nevertheless Mr. G. issued a call under hisown name _ for a regular Democratic convention to nominate candidates for the different county offices. In view of this meeting, the so-called Conservatives called another meeting for the same day and a compromise was effected between the two conventions by which the Conservatives withdrew one of their candidates for the Legislature and accepted in his place John I. Fisher, a representative of the regular Demecrats, and well known as an anti-coércionist. He had been one of those who responded to Gov. Jackson's call for volunteers to protect the State against invasion.

In the spring of 1865 affairs being thoroughly unsettled in Pike county, Mr. Gatewood. removed to 'St. Louis, 'and continued there until the following summer when he came to Montgomery City, where he has ever since resided. In this county, during all the dark days - of disfranchisement he stood up manfully forthe first and dearest - right of American freemen, the right to have a voice in the govern- - ment of their country. He boldly and fearlessly denounced disfranchisement and the desperate faction of political adventurers then in ~ control of public affairs, and worked unceasingly for the restoration of the ballot to the people, who represented the character, intelligence and property of the State. No manof his prominence and influence did more in this cause than he, or was more liberal of his time and means. a

In 1866 he established the first newspaper in Montgomery county, the Montgomery Independent, now the Standard, a Democratic paper - published at Montgomery City, and established almost exclusively in - the interest of the aDeniecenie: party. Four years later, through the a columns of the Standard, he was mainly instrumental in reorg ganizing the Democratic party in Montgomery county and placing a ticket iff a the field, much against the judement and opposition of many Demo- - crats, but which, nevertheless, was successful and proved the redemp- - tion of the county from Republican rule. In 1872 he bitterly opposed - the nomination of Horace Greeley. for the Presidency, a nomination - the most self-stultifying ever made by a party. He, nevertheless, - gave the Greeley electors a.passive support. But the political pill he - then took proved so nauseating that he has never entirely recovere from its effects, even to this day. That year he was nominated fo the State Senate, in the district composed of the counties of Mont gomery, Pike and Lincoln.

During the winter of 1873, while in the Senate-Mr. Gatemmenl too an hietivics and prominent part in the election of a United States Senato to succeed Gen. Frank Blair; and during his first two years' service was chairman of the Committee on Elections. In the session of 187 he introduced a bill calling a convention for the purpose of framing a new State Constitution, a take the place of the old Drake Coustiin tion, and was mainly instrumental in securing the passage of that bill in the Senate. During the winter of 1874 he led the opposition in the Senate to the passage of what was known as the Hannibal and St. Joe Railroad Renewal Bonds bill, the object of which was to further extend the credit of the State tothe Hannibal and St. Joe Railroad Company for a period of 20 years. In that fight he had the opposition of Gov. Hardin and Lt.-Gov. Brockmeyer, or, rather, they were the leading advocates of the bill.

During the second two years of his term he was chairman of the Senate Committee on the Penitentiary, and also chairman of the Joint Committee of the two Houses to investigate the condition of the State Prison. At that time he introduced a bill authorizing the construction of a branch State prison, which failed of passage by only a few votes. His last act of any importance in the Senate was in connection with Senators Strother and Halligan to defeat an adjourned session ot the Twenty- eighth General Assembly, as a matter of economy to the people. In that they were successful, and saved to the tax-payers about $100,000. That was the first time the Legislature failed to provide for an adjourned session in the history of the State.

In 1880, having in the meantime identified himself with the Greenback party, Mr. Gatewood was selected by the State convention of that party, without his knowledge or consent, as a candidate for Presidential elector in the Thirteenth Congressional district. In 1884 he was an Independent candidate for Congress from this district, but withdrew from the canvass several weeks before the election. His candidacy was not undertaken with any view of an election, but in order to discuss the leading political questions of the day before the people, with the candidates of the two parties, Democratic and Republican, and particularly to show how unfair and ridiculous is our present system of selecting candidates for public office. The other candidates, however, failed to meet him in public discussion after invitation to do so, as they studiously avoided each other, so that not succeeding in the only object for which he became a candidate, he withdrew.

In politics, as all know who know btn at all, Mr. Gatewood is a man of strong, honest convictions. When a principle is at stake he has no patience with those who would sacrifice it for expediency's sake. He believes that in politics, as in everything else, '' honesty is the best policy ;''? and a man who would trade on his political convictions he would not trust out of his sight with his boot-jack. He has no use for this modern school of politicians who play fast and loose with party questions. Should the Democratic party, however, ever return in his day to its old time-honored principles he would, doubtless, be found in its front rank, fighting valiantly the battles of his party. But, as affairs now stand, he may be considered Independent in politics, and opposed to conventions.

real estate, and has owned considerable land in North-east Missouri, and when he left Pike county he was a large property holder there, but sold most of his real estate in that county at comparatively nominal prices. These sacrifices were made on account of the war.

For many years Mr. Gatewood was also interested in mail contracts under the government. His father before him had had experience in that branch of business, as also had his eldest brother, James M. Gatewood. He has also been interested in banking. In 1870 he was one of the principal organizers of the International Savings Bank at Montgomery City, in which he was one among the principal stockholders. 'This was the first bank ever established in Montgomery county.

As a citizen Mr. Gatewood has always been prominent for his public spirit and enterprise. Not to.go further back than the period of his residence at Montgomery City, ample evidence of this may be found. When he came to this place in 1865, it was a small prairie waystation on the railroad of only a few hundred population, with a post-office, several small stores and a temporary depot. Few or no public roads to the place had been opened, and of course it had: not become recognized as an important local trade-center.

One of his first efforts was to assist in securing the location of the railroad hotel at Montgomery City. Mr. Gatewood, Mr. R. P. Gentry and others circulated a subscription paper, which they headed themselves with a liberal sum, and secured, in all, some $2,000 as a bonus to the railroad company for locating the hotel here. By this a new impetus was now given to the place, and its growth was rapid.

In the summer of 1866 he presented a petition to Judge Fagg, of the Circuit Court at Troy, asking an order of injunction "to prohibit the contractor from erecting the present court-house at Danville. This, however, was refused on the ground that the contract being let, it was too late to be heard against the erection of the building. "Sub-_ sequently he exerted himself with great energy to secure the "removal of the county seat to Montgomery City by vote of the people at special elections called for that purpose, but as the court-house had already been built, and as a two-thirds vote was required, his efforts failed by a few votes. During the session of the Legislature of 1868-69 he spent most of the winter at Jefferson City, at 'his own expense, endeavoring to secure the passage of a bill establishing a court of common pleas at this place. He succeeded in securing the passage of the bill through the House, but it failed in the Senate.

roads radiating from this place, he has always shown great interest and liberality and has been instrumental in opening near ly all the roads centering here. Furthermore, after much labor and expense, he succeeded in the establishment of three important stage lines centering respectively. He has also given liberally for the construction of the different churches at this place and to all other public improvements. But whatever else may be said of the subject of the present sketch, of his kindred that the truest and best estimate of his character is to be made. Though himself singularly blessed in a long and happy married life, he has never been favored with children of his own.

Nevertheless, he has been all of a father to others - to the children of those allied to him by the ties of nature. Indeed, if we were disposed to allow a vein of humor to associate itself with thoughts so worthy of earnestness and gravity as these are, we would say that to the children of his kindred he has been a veritable '* mother,'' of Mother Goose fame, '' who lived in a shoe and had so many children that she didn't know what to do.'' His nephews and nieces he has cared for and educated almost beyond number.

While Mr. G. was yet in youth his father died, thus leaving the mother, advanced in years and without means, a widow. His oldest brother was one of the kindest and best of sons and contributed a full part to the care of the family; but, in the meantime, he had married and had assumed the care of a family of his own, so that a large share of the responsibility of their mother's family fell upon young William.

Some years afterwards Mr. Gatewood's elder sister was left a widow by the death of her husband, with several children and with little or no means. . He of course assumed the duty of helping to care for her

Early in the war his other sister was made a widow by the murder - of her husband by the militia. Mr. Gatewood at once took the full' care and management of her affairs, and he has ever since seen to it that she was well provided for and her children properly educated. Also, his eldest brother lost his life in the early part of the war, material help from time to time, and assisted in the education of one of her sons and in giving him a proper startin life. With other relatives not allied to him by the ties pf blood he has been not less kind and generous. None who know him will question that he is a man of large heart and the most generous impulses, perhaps too unselfish to make a career in this world of pre-eminent individualism of the first he has, by avoiding the many obligations which a quick and sensitive heart led him to undertake. His own conscience and God only can know and appreciate this. Of the character of man, whose life is briefly and imperfectly outlined in these paragraphs, we can speak no further than the facts themselves go, but certainly these are enough. He who reads what has gone before and remains unmoved by the conviction that the faults, perhaps, but none the less genuine at heart, can not be touched by the kinder and better impulses that bind our common humanity together.

On May 3, 1860, Mr. Gatewood was married near Williamsburgh, in Callaway county, to Miss Fannie W. White, a daughter of Hon. Morgan B. White and wife, nee Miss Mary A. Marmaduke. Mr. White was born in Franklin county, Ky., May 31, 1800, and was married to Miss Marmaduke, a daughter of Samson Marmaduke, Esq., of Shelby county, that State, in 1821. Hermother's family-name was Young. Mr. White's wife was distantly related to Hon. M. M. Marmaduke, the former Governor of this State. Mr. White and family came to Missouri in 1824. <A sketch of himself and family appears in the present volume, in the biography of his son, Morgan B. White, Jr., of the vicinity of Middletown.

Mrs. Gatewood was principally educated at the Danville Seminary, of this county, where she took a somewhat advanced young ladies' course. She is a lady of superior culture and refinement, and of a decided literary turn of mind. She has been a constant reader of the best class of books, and is well informed. A lady of singularly prepossessing presence, her manners are extremely winning, and although somewhat reserved, she is nevertheless most cordial and sincere at heart. In conversation she is cultured and refined, but by no means affected, and always interesting and entertaining. She is much beloved as a neighbor and acquaintance. For years she has been an its original founder came to this country is not' definitely known. Certain it is, however, that the first settlement of the family here was made in Virginia. Branches are now found in all, or nearly all, of the Western and Southern States, and all trace their origin back to Virginia. As early as the early part of the last century the family was quite numerous in that State. Mr. Gatewood's father had the record of his family back for a number of generations, perhaps anterior to the immigration of its founder to this country. But resided in Central Virginia, probably Spottsylvania county, and left a family of five sons, Thomas, Leonard, Ambrose, John S., and Joseph, Jr., and two daughters.

| Joseph Gatewood, Jr., the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Spottsylvania county, near Fredericksburg, March 18, 1781; his father died when he was quite young, and when he was 14 years of age his mother was also taken away by death. At about the age of 16 he went to Fredericksburg, in Spottsylvania county, to learn the mercantile business under a merchant there by the name of age. Mr. Gatewood then made a trip through Virginia in search of employment as clerk, and while on this trip made the acquaintance of Miss Elizabeth Carter, a daughter of the well-to-do Johnny Carter, of that State, and of the old Garter family of Virginia. He was married to Miss Carter in about 1806.

and Joseph Edwin Gatewood. Some four years after his first wife's death Mr. Gatewood was married to Miss Lucy Clark Winn, of Bourbon county, Ky., a daughter of Jesse D. Winn, Sr., formerly of Virginia, as stated heretofore. Mrs. Gatewood was one of a family of nine children by her father's

~ Winn, who became the father of Ben. S. and George Winn, both 'formerly of Pike county, Mo., but the former died in Texas, (having, however, two, sons in Pike county), and the latter, now i" Be oased, having died at Clarksville, Mo., some years ago, leaving a

After his second marriage Mr. Gatewood, the father of the subject of this sketch, continued to reside on his farm, near Winchester, in Clark county, for some eighteen or twenty years, engaged in farm ing as security for a friend, which resulted in breaking him entirely up. While still residing in Kentucky his eldest son died, in his nineteenth year, in about 1823.

In 1833, largely on account of his losses, Mr. Gatewood removed to Missouri and settled in Pike county, near Bowling Green. Here he was practically without money or other means, and the experience of the family in this then new country was one of extreme hardships and trials. He and his second wife now had a family of six children, namely: James Minor, Richard Thomas, Elizabeth Catherine, Lucy Ann, Frances Bird, William Lemasters and. Robert Hay Taliaferro. Of these the eldest son was about 17 years of age, and at this time was the main reliance of the family for labor and support, as the father, though a man of great industry, was now well advanced in years. They located on a small piece of timbered land and began the improvement of a farm without money. Unaccustomed to hard labor, - to begin plowing for a small crop on about 10 acres of cleared land. The history of their subsequent experience, for a number of years, is one of almost continued hardships and privations, but can not be given -here.

best he could, with seemingly as much inclination and spirit as if it # had been the experience of his whole life. Like his son, the subject - friend even at the risk of his own financial ruin. He died in Pike county, near Bowling Green, on the 6th of February, 1848, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. His good wife followed him to the grave in less than three years.

pecuniary reward. For nearly twenty years he lived under the very shadow of the influence of Henry Clay, but invariably supported the Democratic party and was one of the leaders of the Andrew Jackson tics, and but for this he could have held any office in the gift of the people of the county. His good wife was one of the committee of ladies appointed to welcome Gen. Jackson when he visited Winchester, Ky., in 1828, on the part of the community. Her niece, the

Mr. Gatewood was a man of superior business qualifications. By his neighbors he was always called upon to prepare their contracts and other papers, which he invariably did free of charge. Atan early day, when a resident of Pike county,-he prepared the mail contracts for bids sent out from Bowling Green by the different contractors in that vicinity.

Mrs. Gatewood was a lady of a most amiable disposition and possessed of great fortitude and resignation. She had been reared in luxury and affluence, but she bore her reverse of fortune in this new country, without a murmur, and ever comforted her loved ones with words of consolation and encouragement. She was one of the queenly, good women who are thought of by those who knew them as angels are. Another, in speaking of her, has said, '* She was as kind hearted as her husband and a true Christian lady. But she had more caution and prudence than he. In the every-day affairs of life she would always look first to the welfare of her own family. Nevertheless her convictions of right were fully as strong as his. She had in early life joined what was known as the Campbellite Church (now the Christian Church), and up to the time of her death, while she resided near Bowling Green, there being no church of the Christian denomination nearer than twelve miles, she attended a Missionary Baptist Church within four miles of where she resided ; but often only to hear abuse of her own denomination, which she nevertheless bore with Christian forbearance. So strong, however, were her convictions of the truth of her own faith, that she never left the demonina-. tion with which she had connected herself early in life.''

The younger of the two sons of Joseph Gatewood, Jr., by his first wife, Joseph Edwin Gatewood, came to Missouri with his father and shortly afterwards located at New London, in Ralls county. While a resident of that county he was elected to, and served in the office as county assessor. Subsequently he removed to Louisiana, Mo., but died there in about 1848. He was never married.

_ The eldest son by Mr. Gatewood's second marriage, James M. Gatewood, was born in Clark county, Ky., December Cideed Rot Mase ts: many respects he proved to be a remarkable man. After the removal of the family to Missouri he was principally relied on for their care and support, although still quite young. While improving the farm, clearing away heavy oak timber and erubbing up the underbrush; he acquired his education by night. Every night he studied by a hickory-bark fire until about 10 o'clock. By this means he secured more than an average education, considering the country and the times in which he lived. He continued with his father in charge of the farm until his marriage, which occurred when he was about 24 years of age. After his marriage he was a resident of Pike county until 1856, by which time he had accumulated considerable means. He then entered a large amount of land in Vernon county, and began the improvement of a farm in that county. :

In 1858 he removed to his place in Vernon county, and two years. later was elected a member of the Legislature. He took a prominent part in the secession Legislature of 1861, and was commissioned by Gov. Jackson to organize troops for the defense of the State against invasion. Chiefly through his influence Vernon county furnished more men under Goy. Jackson's call than there were voters in the county, a fact true of no other county in the State. His company,' under Col. Hunter, was in the thickest of the fight at Wilson Creek, and two-thirds of his men were either killed outright or wounded. He, himself, finally died in February, 1862, from the effects of an' accidental wound received from his own pistol. His course ing a war was purely a matter of conviction. He did not believe the Federal government had the right to coérce a sovereign State, and re-_ sponded to Gov. Jackson's 'call on that issue alone. He believed it. to be the duty of every patriotic citizen to defend his State against | hostile aggression, either from other States or from the ceneral government. For conviction's sake he made every sacrifice man ug muke in this world - the sacrifice of his life and home, and of the interests of his family. All his property except his land was swept away by the war and most of that was afterwards filehed from his children by land sharks under cover of tax titles. Thus not unfrequently isa man rewarded in this world who stands faithfully and loyally by a principle! '

Richard Thomas Gatewood, the second son by his father's second marriage, born March 29, 1819, was never married. He died 7 Bowling Green in 1858.

Elizabeth C., the third in the family, was twice married - first to Thomas Hunter, who died leaving her two children. He studied medicine after his marriage and engaged i in the practice at Hamburg, Ill., where he was residing at the time of his death, which occurred in about 1850. Four years later his widow was married to Orson Reed, of Pike county, Mo., who subsequently died, also leaving her two children. She died on her homestead near Louisiana, Mo., in 1874. She was a most excellent, gentle-hearted Christian lady, a was profoundly mourned by all who knew her.

Lucy A. Gatewood, the second daughter of Joseph Gatewood by his second marriage, was born in Clark county, Ky., May 29th, 1824, and subsequently. married in Pike county, Mo., Jobe Gilmore, a farmer by occupation. He was murdered by the militia during the war against the protest of many good citizens. The company that committed this cowardly and dast: ardly act was commanded by a Capt. Carr, who afterwards died a miserable death, the mental agony of his last hours being attributed by many to the lashings of conscience for the murder ok. an old, white-haired, unarmed man. One other citizen he also caused to be shot at the same time, marching both into

3 HISTORY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 867 the graveyard at Ashley, in Pike county, where, in the dread presence of the dead, a place sacred even to the wildest of savages, he caused them to be 'brutally murdered, and without cause or excuse. Mr. Gilmore's widow was left with are children. She was a dutiful wife, as she is a devoted mother and Christian lady, and has had a hard struggle to rear her family of children.

William L. Gatewood, the next in his father's second family of children, is the subject of the present sketch and has already been spoken of.

Dr. R. H. T. Gatewood, the youngest of the family, is now a practicing physician in the vicinity "of Welisville, but across in Audrain county, where he is also engaged i in farming. He was born in Clark county, Ky., May 27, 1829. His school advantages, like his brothers', were very limited, but he nevertheless succeeded, almost exclusively by self-culture, in obtaining a good general education. He became a successful and popular school teacher and then read medicine. For a number of years he was one of the leading physicians of Pike county. He married and now has a family of "three children, all of whom are grown to mature years. In the history of Audrain county is contained a more extended sketch of his life.

Archie A. Gordon

Mr. Gordon has just (October, 1884) recently established himself at his present stand on Second street, and has opened out a new and exceptional choice stock of goods in his line. He keeps as good groceries as can be found in any town no larger than Montgomery throughout the surrounding country, and is liberally patronized. Mr. Gordon is not unknown to the people of Montgomery City as a business man, as he has been engaged in business at this place for nearly two years. He and his brother-in-law, T. T. Pitman, were first in the livery business here, and Mr. Gordon continued the business after Pitman's retirement from the firm. Finally, he, too, quit the livery business, and in the spring of 1884 he and Mr. Croke engaged i in the grocery trade. They continued in this until June, 1884, 'when the firm was dissolved, after which Mr. Gordon proceeded to establish his present store. Mr. G. was the son of Philip D. Gordon, who married a Miss Woolfolk, both formerly of Kentucky, and was born.at St. Louis, October 7, 1859. His mother died when he was quite young, and his father afterwards married again. He is now an enterprising business man of Pleasant Hill, but was formerly in the grocery trade at St. Louis. He wasalso for some years a resident of Montgomery county, engaged in farming here for nearly 20 years, up to about a year ago. Archie A. Gordon was reared in this county on the farm about a mile and a half from Montgomery City, which he and his only sister, now Mrs. T. T. Pitman, own. Their farm contains over 200 acres. Mr. Gordon is a young man of good business qualifications and thorough- ~ 'going enterprise.

John Green

Mr. Green's farm contains 283 acres, and is well improved - one of the valuable homesteads of the township. He is to some extent engaged in raising stock, and has good success in this line of industry. He also has other valuable lands in the county, and, in fact, is one of the substantial men of the community. Mr. Green came to this county in 1868, and has resided here continuously ever since. He was from Pike county, where he was born and reared. His parents were William and Elizabeth (Standford) Green, his mother a relative of the Standford, of this county. The family came from Kentucky and settled in Pike county in an early day. .The mother died there in | 1861, the father in 1869. John Green was born October 16, 1841, and was reared on the farm in Pike county. In 1863 he was married to Miss Elizabeth S. White, a daughter of William White, Sr., of this county, and a sister to Judge William White, whose sketch appears on another page in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Green have but. one child, an interesting and promising son, William S., now a fine lad some 10 years of age. They have two little orphan daughters: Ben-_ nie, aged 12, and Jessie Skinner aged nine years.

Stephen D. Ham

Among the old and respected families of Montgomery county, none are more highly esteemed by those who know them than Stephen D. Ham. His parents, Rev. Stephen Ham and wife (the mother having" been a Miss Jane Johnson before her marriage), were residents of this - county for over half a century, aud until their deaths and burials within its borders; and throughout their long residence here their lives were linked and associated only with good works. They were

Kentuckians - and they settled in the south-western part of the - county near Danville, on Prairie, fork. They resided there on their farm (for the father was a farmer as well as a minister) for several years, or until 1875, when he quit the farm (after his wife's death), and came to Montgomery City, where several of the children lived ; and having accumulated a neat competence by industry and economical, frugal living, he could well afford to retire with comfort, and without inconvenience. Mrs. Hrm died September 30, 1875; he March 30, 1879, both at ripe and honored old ages. He was a minister of the Primitive Baptist Church - had been in the service of his church, of his fellow creatures, his Maker, for over 30 years - _ preaching to those whose welfare here and hereafter were dearer to him than life itself, the faith of the Redeemer, the abiding, enduring hope of heaven. When Rev. Stephen Ham died, a good man passed - away from the councils of men, and so long as sich men are sent

- God and humanity, we may y feel assured that there is something Beyond greater and better and more enduring than this world affords to live for,

'strive for, die for. Rev. Stephen Ham and his good wife were blessed witha family of eight children, of whom five are living: John W., Hardin J., Stephen D. and Susana - Mrs. John W. Oliver. Of the others, William C. died in 1864, at the age of 39; James C. died at the age in 1868. Stephen D. Ham, the subject of this sketch, was born on the old family homestead, near Danville, March 4, 1843. He was reared on the farm and received a good general, though not advanced, education. During the war he served for about 14 months in the Missouri Enrolled militia, under Capt. J. W. Stewart, or in Co. B of Col. Douglass' regiment. Afterwards he was engaged in farming and then became a school teacher, an occupation he followed from time to time, and in all for about four years. He was also in the grocery trade for a time before coming to Montgomery City, but his principal occupation prior to this was farming. After coming to this place he assisted in the store of Ham & Bro. (the firm being composed of his brothers, John W. and Hardin J.), from 1875 until 1880, after which he embarked in the grocery business as above mentioned, continuing it until March, 1882, when he was appointed postmaster, the duties of which office have since occupied his whole time and attention. Mr. Ham makes an efficient and capable postmaster, and one entirely satisfactory to the department at Washington. In 1882 he was a candi- was lieutenant of a company. He died within five days of the adenced age of 80. The mother, who wasa Miss Sarah Craig previous to her marriage, died in October, 1854. There were ees brothers of the Hamiltons who came to Missouri, the other two being Andrew, who came in 1829, and Hugh, who settled in Saline county. John and distinct family from his own. She died in the fall of 1846, and he was married February 18, 1857, to Miss Sarah S. Moore, of Monroe - county. Mr. Hamilton continued farming up to 1866, when he en- - gaged in the grocery trade at Mexico. From there he came to Montgomer y City in 1869 and established his present furniture store. He - has since continued the business at this place, for a period now of 15 © trade. He was born in Knox county, January 19, 1861, and was a_ son of Elbert Hamilton and wife, who was a Miss Elizabeth Rutter, - before her marriage. The father was originally from Virginia, and ~ his mother from Kentucky, and the parents of each were early settlers - in North Missouri, where their families were reared, Mr. Hamilton's father in Knox county, and his mother in Marion county. After their marriage they made their home in the vicinity of Newark, in - Knox county, and during the war Mr. Hamilton's father, Elbert - shot at Macon city on the 26th of September, 1862, for no crime but that of sympathizing with the South, from which they were all descendants and whence their forefathers and-kindred came. The

Belle, in Lewis county, he established a store of his own at that place. In the fall of 1882 he sold out there and came to Montgomery City, - where he opened out in the same business. February 28, 1882, he