Pike County, Missouri - The whole text, 1883 (part 5 of 13)

Ilia, New York, Illinois, and Missouri lie, with some acqnnintanccs, made an overland trip to California. Tlio caravan consisted of seven team? of oxen, each team eon.^istin^- c't" for.r yokes, starting from I'^nirlK-ld, IIIinoi^. ^\'ilile e)i route over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, their cattle peri.shiuc^ in a storm, thev were oblig-ed to abandon their wagons, provisions and clothing, and travel on foot to what was then known as l^awsoiTs llanch on the Sacramento Kivur, arris ing there de:-titnte of means ami j)rovisions, and uhere j they snbsisted on beef procured from the immeiiso herds uf cattle then -j roaming over the plains. Their only tools being a handax and an auger, they built a boat of the native limbei-, ten by thirty feet, on which tliey \ lloated to Sacramento City, arriving th.erc Dcceu)l)er 2-i. 1849. AVhile ])ass- j ing <]uwn tiiO Sacramento Kiver, elk being very numerous they killed eight, . | which they sold for twenty-iive cents per pound, which, with the proceeds ] of the sale of their boat, replenished their empty excliequer. Sojourning . j in ScicrainL-nto some three week^ they v\'ent on foot to I'Jacervillc v.diere they wintered in a government tent, their bedding being pine boughs and a blanket each. They mined there until the following March wheu thej moved to the South Fork of the American lliver where they made two unsuccessfal efiorts to turn the stream for mining purposes by fluming. In October, lS5o, they found a ricii lead in Indinn Canyon, where they built a double cabin, and successfully mined until September. 1S51. During the winter they saw no person excepting the Digger Indians of wdiom there were from 5i'>0 to 1,000. At the last date he returned to Fairfield, Illinois, where he eiig'iged in the mercantile business until the spring of 1S53, when i he returned to Louisiana, Missouri, where he has been engaged in the mer- 1 cantile busin.ess ever since. In 1872 he became associated with his present | partner, John li. Gamble, in the firm name of Irwin & Gamble. February t 25, 1R63, he married IMary Jane, daughter of John dordan, of Pike countv, Missouri. They h.ave four children: James C, clerk in the E.xchan^^-e Bank of l>ouisIana, Elizabeth, Charles, and Maggie, all living at home. Himself and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of j Louisiana. . l cated by nttei^ding the schools kept in nide log school-liouses where but little else was inlVised into tlic minds of the pupils, or instilled into their uutin-c, than the lact that they iiiusi be tiioroii^hly whipped it' they expected to rise to greiitnes.- in nOer lil'o. In the s])ring of lSi9 he left for California in company with James Brown and Enoch Emerson and others. Twenty miles east of Fort. Kearr.ey he joined the Wisconsin Star Company, composed of l.ncins Fairchild, then a boy, afterwards governor of Wisconsin, Captain "W". G. Monroe, aiid about thirty others. He arrived in Sacramento in October. He engaged in mining and other pursuits until th« Cuban excitement, when, in company with several other gentlemen, he left the mining district and started for Cuba, but on arriving at San Francisco he learned of the death of General Crittenden and abandoned the expedition. In Decembe)-, 1S55, in company with iil'ty otliers, besides Captain Koris's company of a hundred men, he took a steamer, being destined for the Nicaraguan army, kriown as filli busters. Before reaching San Juari Del Sur he was elected first lieutenant commanding, the captain (Luke) remaining behind for four days. "While at sea Captain Js^oris's men and half of Lieutenant Jamison's men mutinied and attempted to break into the steamer's storehouse, when, to prevent a collision between them and the ship's crew, he threw himself between (he enraged contestants and came near losing his life. W hen he arrive'd at Grenada, December lY, 1855, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the regular army and assigned to duty in the First Ivegiment of Light Infantry, and soon afterwards was ordered to !^[asagua wliere he v.-as stationed for several months. On the 11th da}- of April, 1S56, lie participated in the tei-ribly fought battle of Rivas between General Walker and General Mora, in which General Walker was repulsed. Lieutenant Jamisoii was left on the field severely wounded, but by chance secured a mustang ])ony, and rode, bareback, shoeless, hatless, and almost naked, to the cit}' of Grenada, sixty-five miles distant, without having his wounds dressed. Lieutenant Jamison was promoted to a captaincy for meritorious gallaTitry in this battle. Again he was in the severely contested battle fought by General Walker and the allied forces of five states under General Ballosa, which resulted in a victory for General Walker. Upon the close of these battles Captain Jamison was granted a furlough, and instructed to return to the United States and recruit men for the service, but when he arrived at Xevv Orleans and learned of the surrender of General AValker to Captain Davis of the United States Navy he proceeded no further. In the ]ate war he vv-as an officer in the Confederate army. For a long time he was held a pfisoner in the following places: Louisiana city, Quincy, Gra- tiot street, St. Louis, Johnson's Island, Fort McIFenry and Fort Xorfolk, and was finally exchanged at City Point. June 27, 1867, he, with William S. Pepper, bouy;ht tlie Clarksvillc Sentinel. He. afterwards bought Mr. Pcpjicr's intc'-ost and continued to ]>uljlish the paper, selling it in October, 1SG9. lie then bought the Rlvemult' I^resa of Louisiana, which he published until October, 1S7!), when he sold it, and in March, 18S0, made a prospecting four to Colorado. He returned to Louisiana July 1, 1880, and during that month Itonght the Pike Counin Express at Bowling Green and change<l the name to Boidinrj Green 2m<;.<f, which he sold October 1, 18sO, and the same day bought back the Riverside Press at Louisiana. June 10, 18G2, while a prisoner on }>arole, ho married Miss Sallle A., daughter of James M. White, of CJarksville; by whom ho has oiie daughter, Anne Block, lie was made a Master Mason in Ciarksvllle Lodge No. 17 in 1858, and is now a member of Globe Lodge Ko. 495, of Louisiana, and is a charter member of Riverside -Lodge Xo. 22, A. O. U.W., of Louisiana.

Heui'V Claj' Jolnisoi!, liveryman, v/as born on a farm in Pike county Missouri, four miles west of Boiling Green on the Mexico road. May 22, -1842. rie is the son of Benjamin H. and Maria (Langford) Johtison. His father dying when he was eleven years old he remained on the homestead with his mother until his twentieth year, when he went to farming for himself, which he followed for nine vears, when, in 1871, heeno-ao-ed in the livery business at Bowling Green. February 3, 1881, he engaired in the livery business at Louisiana in connection with his stable at Bowlincr Green. May 19, 1804, he married Miss Harriet Frier, of Bowling Green, by whom he has three children, Lizzie, ]jennie,and Willie. He is a member of lodge ]So. - , I. O. 0. F., at Bowling Green.

William Augustas Jordan, senior member of the milling firm of Jordan, Estes & Patrick, proprietors of the Diamond Flouring Mills at Louisiana. He is a native of Pike county, Missouri, and was born on a farm in the vicinity of LouiaiHua June 12, 1842. His parents both dying before he was nine years old, he lived with relatives until he was fourteen, when he came to Louisiana and attended school until he was seventeen, wlien, in 1S59, he began clerking in the drug store o( his brother and H. Richmond, and clerked for them and others up to 18t;5, when he became associated with H. Richmond in the dry goods business in the firm name of Richmond & Co., and was engaged in that business one year. He then rented the homestead farm of the other heirs and pursued farming until 1870, when he engaged in the grocery business in Louisiana, in which he continued either a'one or associated with others up to 1881, when he discontinued it.

In 1882 lie bonp^lit an interest in tlie Diamond Flouring Mills, in Louisiana aijd in August of that year he became associated \'/ith Jnracs A. Estesand J. ].eslie Fatrick, in the iirm name of Jordan, Estes e*c I'atrick. They are doing an cxten?i\-e businesr-, shipjiino' flour nut only to vuriuus states iu the Union, but to En<j^land. April lU, J8G7, he manied Miss Carrie M., daughter of the late Dr. Beverly Coalter of Clai-ksvillo, but who was raised by her uncle, Hon. Hamilton li. Gamble of St. Louis. They have three childi-en, Carson Gamble, Carrie, and l)everly. Himself and wife are member^ of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Louisiana. He is a member of Perseverance Lodge Ko. 95, A. F. & A. Af., of Louisiana.

Jrlliies ^lai'lon Jump, liveryman, of Jjouisiana, was born on a farm seven miles south of Louisiana. He is the son of Isaac N. and Susan (Stark) Jump. "When he was thirteen years of api;e his parents removed to the farm that was Lis birthplace, where he followed farming until 1882, wheri, renting his farm, he came to Louisiana and established hiiliself in the livery business. November 2, 1875, he married Miss Lizzie Pickens of near Louisiana.

Clayton Keitli, M. D., was born at Chillicothe. Missouri, March 7, 1817, ' where he was reared and educated up to his sixteenth year, when he entered the Kentucky L^niversity at Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from the literary, scientific, and classical department of that institute, June 26, 18G8. Having the miiiistry in view he graduated from the theological department of the same in tiie following year. He soon after became pastor of the Christian Church at Louisiana and preached acceptably one year. He then took charge of the Christiaii Church, at Hannibal, Missouri, where he preached six months, when, by the earnest solicitation of his father. Dr. "William Keith of Chillicothe, he resigned that charge and entered Pope's Medical College at St. Louis, taking two summer and two winter courses, and graduated as M. D. from the same, March 7, 1872. He then entered the Quarantine Hosj)ital of St. Louis as assistant physician under Dr. C. V. L. Brokavv', and six months after he was promoted to assistant surgeon in charge of the city hospital under Dr. T. F. Prewitt. He resigr.ed that position in 1873 after serving one year, and opened an ofhce in St. Louis and practiced medicine and surgery one 3"ear, and during that time was secretary of the St. Louis Medical Society and a reporter for the St. Louis Medical and Siirgieal Journal. In October, 1874, he removed to Louisiiana, Missouri, where he has an extensive practice. He makes the treatment of diseases of the eye and surgery a specialty. In 1882 he was chosen secretary and superintendent by the Pike County Loan c*j Building Asso-

Henry Kllhlniaiin, s^roecr, of Louisiana, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, June 3, ISlt). He cajne to Louisiana with his parents when he was ten years of ago, where he lived vrith them until innnhood, and was educated .1

Himself and wite are members of tlie Christian Church of Louisiana. He is a member of Unison Lodge No. 187, Iv. of IL. and Iliverside Lodge Xo. 22, A. O. L^. W. of Louisiana.

Thomas Walter Lock, grocer, of Louisiana, was born near Charlcstown, Jefferson county, A'irginia, December S, 1S12. In 1851 he came with his parents to Missouri, they settling near Truxton, ]\Iontgomery county, where Le lived with them until manhood and received an education by attending the Truxton high school, under Prof. Frank Williams, several years. On leaving home, in 1S62, he vrent to St. Louis, where he was employed as weigher in the Xorth Missouri Stock Yards until 1S05. He then engaged in farming near Manchester, St. Louis county, Missouri, until 18o8, when he went to Italls county and engaged in general merchandising on the pike road running from Hannibal to Puris, up to L?TO, and while there was appointed postmaster. He then came to Louisiana city and became associated with John D. Field in the grocery business. They discontinuing that business in 1872 lie Mont to Garrolton, Missouri, and engaged in the same business until 18T1, when he returned to his fnrm in St. Louis county and followed farming a short time, when he sold out and removed to ClarksvIIie,

Missouri, and engaged in the grain and commission business nntil 1878, wlien lie, witli 1>. F. Yale?:, Nvent ir)to (he grocery bu&iness until ]&80, '.vlien he retired tVuni the business and came to Louisiana. In ISSO, before leaving Clai'hsvillt;, he was appointed euMuierutor and took the census of Chirh.sville. At Louisiana he became associated M'ith E. IL Gniley in the grocery business in the firm name of Lock S: Gniley, and so continues. May 16, 1871, he married Miss Amanda Long, of St. Louis, Tiiey have <;ne child, Ethel Mary. He is a iCnight of lienor and Uicmber of the lodge at Louisiana, and a Master Mason and member of the lodge at Clarksville.

Wiiliaiii Yincent Loiiei'^'aii, is the son of Patrick and Ellen (Driscoll) Loncrgan, and was born at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, September 7, lSi7. He lived with his parents at h.is birthplace, Pittsburgh, and Cinciu- .nati, up to 1855, when they came to Louisiana, where he lived with them nntil attaining his majority, lie was educated by attending St. Yincent'e Academy, at Cape Girardeau, Dtlissouri, and Pardee College, at Louisiana. Li ISGS he was deputized sheritT by his father and served two years. ] n 1 S71 he w>is employed as a clerk in the store of Dreyfus Sc Waracek, of Louisiana, and was with them one year. In 1872 he attended the commercial college, at Quincy, Illinois,' from which he graduated in May of that year. He was then employed as clerk in the grocery store of E. F. Mathews, of Louisiana, until the following year, when he took charge of the ferryboat "City of Louisiana," and run it until 1S76, when he was employed as a clerk in the grocery store of Dreyfus t*c Co., and was with them and their successor, Joseph I\)llock, uj) to 1S79, wlien he became associated with his brother, Albert C, in the drug busiiiess at Louisiana, in the firm name of Lonergan Brothers, November 12, 1879, he married Tiuty K., daughter of J. TV. Soward, of Louisiana. They h.ave one child, Ilaymond. He is a member of St. Josepdi's Catholic Church, of Louisiana.

Albert C. Lonerg'ail, M. I),, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2, 1852. When he was three years old his parents, Patrick F. and Elleu D. (Driscoll), came to Louisiana, where he was reared and lived with them until manhood. He was educated at St. Vincent's Academy, at C'ape (-lirardeau, Missouri, and :it the College of the Christian Brothers, of St. Louis, Missouri. Tti June, 1SG8, he began the suuly of medicine in the office of L>rs. Peytiolds, Gatewood A: Peynolds, of Bowling Green, Missouri. After taking two courses of lectures at the St. Louis Medical College, he graduated from that institution as ^L D. in March, 1S73. He at once began the practice of medicine at Louisiana and 60 continues at this writing. ^Sovember 10,1881, he married Jennie

L., daiigliter of Colonel John M. Milroj, Jecciiscd, late of Lonisiaua. Tbcy liave one child, John Milroy. Durijig 1874 he held the ])ORitioii of citv ]>liysiciaii of Louisiana. Ja 1S70, in coniieetiun -with his j.iactice, he became associated with his brother. William Y.. in the drus: business in the coup.ty, Kentiicky, where ]ie, with liis brother John, eni;aged in ninniifivcturiiio; chewing tobacco, in the firm iinnie of John & William L. McQuie, they shipping their tobacco to New Orleans and other sontherri cities. In 1819, after rjiiitting the tobacco business, he rented a farm four miles south of Lexington, Kentuchy, and pursued fanning one 3'eai', wlion he purchased a tract of Umd in Jessamine county, Kentucky, which he had cleared by his slaves, and where he ]>ursued farming until 1829, when lie came to Missouri, and settled in Tike county. In 1S20, while living near Lexington, he came near losing his lite, by being poisoned by a ehive woman, who importuned him to ]»urcha^e her to save her froia,beiiig sent to the slave market in New Orleans. He had owned her but a day when she tried to poison him, b}' putting some unknow"n substance iu his food, aiid the same night she, with her husbund, vc.ii av;a_y. They starCed for Canada, and were overtaken some forty miles on their way and arrested, and sent to New Orleaivs, "where they were sold on the block. Though narrowdy escajjiiig, his life was endangei'ed for tliirty yei.rs afterwards. I'he expense of his sickness and the mismanagement of his overseer depleted his means to such an extent that when he came to I'ike county ho hrui to begin almost emj^ty h.anded. During the first winter he taught school in Louisiana, and in the following spring settled on his present farm, two and a half miles west of Louisiana city, where he still resides, and wdiere, for fifty years, he has pursued farming, It'r.ding a quiet, ]ieaceable life. During the late war he was a conservative Union man, but, being a southerner by birth and education, and a slave-owner, he could not approve of the enuancipatiou of slaves without leuraneration. Many inieitsting events of his life could be narrated, but our space will not permit us. September 1, 1SV.\ he married Martha A,, daughter of Major Archibald Morrison, of Woodford county, Kentucky, who died on the homo,-: tend October S. 1873, in her seventy-fourth year. Early in life she became a member of the N. S. Presbyterian Church, and when she came to Pike county slic joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Louisiana by letter, of which she was a consistent member until her death. By her Christian graces she moulded the character of her family, and drew around her many friends, who deeply felt her loss when she passed away. Tliey had seven children: John ]\r., of Louisville, Kentucky; William A., of Pike county; Mary J., wife of Dr. A. C. Pobinson, of Louisiana city; Archibald B., of Pike county; Edward B., superintending the homestead; and tv/o unmarried daughters, Sarah and Pebecca, v/ho

Still live witii their father. Mr, McQuic ^va^ baptij^ed when nu infant and brought up a Methodist by Ins mother, but was a member of no church ijnti! after the death of iii- wife, in IST-j, wlion he joined the Cumberland '

Ellen (Lock) Morrow, and was born near Charlestown, the coutity seat of Jefferson county, Yir^^inia, November 1, LS37, where he was reared and lived with his pai-ents niitil he was nineteen. He was educated at Charle?town AcadeTny and at the Ai^ricultural Institute at Aldie. Yiririnia. When he left home, in 1S7<>, he came to ^lissouri and e!i:;-aged in teaching- scliool at Louisiana, following it some two years, when lie began the study of law in tlio office of Dryden <!s: Lipscom, at Paltiiyra, ^Missouri, and was admitted to the bar, at the stune place, in 1?G0. wlien he began the practice. In 1S(U he returned to Charlestowii, Virginia, where he enlisted in the Confederate service as a member of Cotnpany A, Twelfth Hegiment Virginia Cavalry, and served during the war. He was promoted, thi'ough all the varioiis grades, from private up to major <>f his rcgiaient. lie participated in many battles, the most important being Bull Run, AVinchcster, Manassas Junction, Antietam, Gettysburg. Fredericksburg, and Petersbui-g. Vriien his brigade Wcis retreating from Peterslnirg io Appomattox he was wounded and lel> at a country residence, and could not be present at the general surrender tc> General Grant, but when he had partially recovered he went to Charlestown, Virginia, where he surrendered to MMJor-General Eagen, to whom he is indebted for kind treatment and generous aid. As soon as he had recovered from his wounds lie began teaching a private school in Charlestowu, Virginia, and contin.ned it np to 1S6S, when he had accumulated means enough to return to Louisiana and resume the ])ractice of law. In ISTO he became associated with Tiiornas L. Anderson, Sr,, and Thomas L. Anderson, Jr., in the law p;rac?ice in the firm name of Anderson, Morrow lV Anderson; they remaining together until 1ST3. In 187G he became associated with W. O. Gray, forming the present law firm of Morrow & Gray. February 4, LSi.M. he married Julia, daughter of A. Wilson, of West Virginia* They have two children, Minnie Ola and Norval. Himself and wi.^e are members of the M. E: Church South. lie is a ]\[aster Mason, and member of Perseverance Lodge Xo. 92, A. F. ^ A. M., of Louisiana.

V.'illiaiil Car.SOil3rodl.sott, station agent at Louisiana for the St. Louis, Keokuk and Xortli western Lranch uf the Chicago, Purlington lV: Quincv Hailroad. Mr. Modisett was born in Marion county, Missouri, near Palmyra, May 31, ISoti. When two years of age he catne with his parents to

Loiiisiaiin, wlicre he \va>: raised and educated. At the ai^e of sixteen he began to learn telegraphing^ in tlie Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company's olfice. aiid was su engaged for i'oav nioiiths, when he was employed as night 0})eraror in tht- Chicairo ^Ni: Alton IJailroad ollicc at Louisiana for one year, M'hon lie was j>r» inoted to second clerk and day operator, and about one year after was ag-ain ]»roTncted agent's assistant, serving the company in all six years, when in August, 1S79, ho received the appointment of station agent at Louisiana on the St. Louis, Keokuk and Xorthwestern Branch of the Chicago, Jiurlingron <fc Quincy Eailroad. He is a Master and Royal Arch Mason, and a member of Globe Lodge Xo. 425, and of Bond Chapter No. 23, of Louisiana. He has served his lodge three years as senior warden and four years as worshi]..fui masier, and now holds that position.

William Henry 31i(cliell was bom Jiear Lynchburg, Amherst county, Virginia, October 18, li522, where lie was i-aised a farmer and lived until October S, 1848, when lie came to Louisiana city and was employed as a clerk by Ilobinson, Casli & Co., until the spring of 1S53. He v'as then employed in the tobacco manufactory of Gash, Henderson, Straiige iSr Co. until ISoS, when he became associated with James .Gray in the grocery business, doing business one }ear. Li 1S5S he was elected and served as constable of Buffalo township until 1861, when he engaged in the livery business and dealing in iiorses and mules until LSG4, wlien he went overland to California with a stock of horses and mules. After disposing of Ins stock he returned to Louisiana in 1865. In 1SG6 he v.-as appointed tobacco inspector for the fourth disti'ict of ^lissouri, and served until ISGS. He then dealt in liorses and mules until 1S70, when he purchased a farm in the vicinity of Bosvling Green, wliere he lived and pursued farming until 1ST8, when lie sold his farm and became the proprietor of the Hendricks Hotel, at Bowling Green, vrliicli he kept until the sumnicr of 1SS2, when ho" sold out and came to Louisiana and was employed as an agent for tl.e marble works of John L. Cole. He was married August 30, 1S5L Tiiey have seven children; Jenftie, Lulu May, James Note, Clara Lee, Nellie Norai Maud Myrtle, and Julia. Himself, wife, and two elder children, are members of the Christian Churcl!, of Louisiama. He is an Odd Fellov*- and member of Evening Star Lodge No. 28, of Louisiana.

Hon. Niciiolas Peter 3Iiiior, probate judge of Bike county, was born in Charlottsviile, Virginia, August 20, l'*;23. He is the youngest of six sons of Samuel C. and L}dia L. (Lewis) Minor. When twelve years of age he came with his parents to Bike county, who engaged in farming. In his boyhood, our subject feeling the importance of having an education, early applied Iiiniself to attain tluit end. By private study and attending the ordinary subscription ecliool.s of that da}' and two sessions of a select echool tai'iz'ht by J. B. Carr, he prepared hiin--elf for teaching. He linislied his education by attendiii*;- at Illinois College, at Jacksonville, Illinois, two terms. Ecfore he was sixteen years of age he had lost both of his parents by death, and was thus early thrown upon the ^vorld to care I'oi- himself. At the age of seventeen he taught the public school at Jr^wling (ireen, alter which, in j the spring of 1841, he began to read law in the otKce of A. II. Buckner, at Bowling Green, and in the fall of 1S12 was admitted to the bar in Camden , he entered the Confederate army as a private under General Price, and served during the war. Keturning to Louisiana, he was debarred from the practice of law by provision of the Drake constitution. He then went to Callaway county, wliei^e that law was not enforced, and as soon as that restriction was removed by the Supreme Court he returned to Louisiana and engaged in the ]>ractice of the law until 1878, when he abandoned it and eno-atred in farmintr near Louisiana until the fall of 188-2, when he was elected probate judge of Pike county, when he removed to Bowling Green. December 2, 184S, he married Susan H. Lewis, of Virginia, who died October 14, 1859, by whom he had one son, Lewis, of Clarksville. He married for his second wife, Lizzie, daughter of Thomas 11. Bootes, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, June 2G, J8GG. They have one son, Merri wether, still at Lome. Himself and wife are members of the Calvary E])iscopal Church, of Louisiana, of which he has been senior warden since 1858. He is a Mason and meml)er of Perseverance Lodge Xo. \)2, A. F. & A. M., of Louisiaiui.

Jame.S Edward 3Iiller, 3L I)., was born on a farm near ]\[ilan, Sullivan county, Missouri, March '24, 1849. Wlien he was one year old he came with his parents to Pike county, they settling on a farm near Spencersburg, where he lived with them until he was fourteen, when he v/ent with them to ^[arion county, tlsey settling on a farm near Palmyra, where he lived with th.em until manhood. He left home in lsT<» and went to Versailles, Illinois, where he was employed as a druggist's clerk until 1874, by his brotiier, when h«>;.4xame to Louisiana and engaged 111 the drug business on Main street. In 1878, while still carrying on the drug business, he began the study of medicine privately. In tlie winter of 18T9-S0 he took a course of lectures at tlie Missouri ]\[odic;il College, at St. Louis, and also in the winter of 1S80-S1, graduating as M, D. from that college in the spring of 1881, wlien he Ijcgan the practice in connection with the drug business at Louisiana. The Doctor is an energetic man and knows no failure in what be undertakes. November 3, 1875, he was wedded to Mary K., daughter of the late Joseph T. Nelson, of Lewis county, Missouri. They liave one child, Ira IlamiltoTi, born at Louisiana, October IG, 1877. He is a member of Kiverside L.-dge, Xo. 32, A. O. U. W.

Benjamin Fi'unLliii Miller, manager of the City Flouring Mills, of Louisiana, Missouri, was born in York, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1852, where Ijc vras roared and educated. When sixteen he boixan to learn the trade of milling, and worked at that trade at i^ork wp to 1S77, when in April of that year he came to Louisiana, Missouri, and was employed in the City ]\Iil!s by Luce & Murray until 1S70, when he, with George Blair and George Estes, rented the Diamond Alills, at Louisiana, for four years. He then purchased unethird interest in the Diamond Mills, and became associated with X. r>. Griffith and ^Y. A. Jordan in the firm name of Griffitli, Jordan & Co. Selling out his interest in tlie mills October 1, 15S1, he engaged in the grocery business until September, 1882, when he discontinued the grocery business and became manager fur the City Mills. He is a member of the German lleformcd Church, of York, I'eonsylvania. He is a ]\Iaster Mason and member of the lodge at Louisiana.

Samuel Michael, Jr., member of the firm of Dreyfus c^' Michael, merchants, of Louisiana, v.'as born in Kolraar, Germany, October 20, 1851. His parents emigrated to the L'nited Stat^-s in 1853, and located in Quincy, Illinois, where he was reared. He was educated in the public schools of Quincy up to his sixteenth year, when he began clerking in the clothing house of his uncle, M. Jacob, at Quincy, and v/as in his employ until he v/as twentytwo, in 1873, when he went to Trenton, Missouri, as manager in a store for his uncle until 3 871:, and from there he went to .ililexico, where he remained a short time, when he came to Louisiana, and was employed as a clerk in the store of Joseph Younger until February, 1875, when he engaged in the mercantile business in a small way on Georgia street, between Main and Third. In March, 1876, Marcus Dreyfus became associated with him in the firm name of Dreyfus d' Michael. They are now doing business in a block of two stories, recently-erected i)y Mr. Dreyfus, on Georgia street, between Main and Third, and rank among the largest business firms of Pike county.

Kev. John Hubert 3Iay, rector of St. Joaeph's Catholic Church, of Louisiana, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, October 20, 18.50, where he received his elenie.ntary education. When fourteen, in 1S70, he entered St. 33enedict's ColleiJce, at Atcliison, Kansas, attendinc^ one year, and in 1S71 lie went to Milwaukee, Wifccon?in, and entered tlie St. Francis' Seminary, vfiere he tinisheu his theological course in 1S75, wheii he went to Home, Italy, where he graduated from the American Catholic College as D. D. in June, 18S0. In Alay ])reviout. to his graduation he was ordained a priest by Cardinal Monaca La Valetta. lie then made an extended tour throiigli Italy, France, 13e]gium, Germany, IloUand, and England, returning to America in November, ISbO, where, after a visit of a fev,- weeks with his parents at St. Louis, he was sent to Crystal City, Missouri, by Bishop Kendrick. where he gathered a congregation composed of GormaTis, Irisli, French, and Italians, and built the church of the Sacred Heart, where lie ofiiciated as pastor nine nionlhs. 'When he left the church was completed and the congregation out of debt. Lie was then sent to a new field - 131oomsdale, St. Genevieve county, Missouri - where he olhciated six months, when, in the fall of 1SS2, his bishop sent him to Louisiana, Missouri," and placed him in charge of St. Joseph's Church, and is most probably permanently located.

John W, Martilh clerk of the Louisiana court of conunon pleas, ib a native of Virginia, and is the son of James .M. and Mary S. (Edwards"^ Martin. He was born ncir Louisa Court House, Louisa county. 'July 6, 1834. His parents came to Missouri, when he was three years ohl, and located on a farm in Pike county near Louisiana where he lived with them until l&-iTj when his father, being elected clerk of the circuit court and recorder of Pike county, removed to Bowling Green, the county seat, wliere he lived with them until attaining his majority. When he was fifteen, in IBlOj he become hi^ fathei's assistant in the clerk's oflice, filling that position under him until 1801. when he, being a Union man, became a member of Company G., Forty-seventh Regiment Missouri State Militia, and was elected captain of his company and commissioned as such by Governor Thomas C. Fletcher, and served until the regiment was disbanded in 1803, when he again l>ccame his fath.er's assistant in the clerk's office and was under him until 1S06. In 1877 he was em.ploycd as a clerk in the store of Woods cl' Ilostetter at Louisiana, and was with them until 1870. when he returned to Bowling Green, and in tlie fall of that year he went to^ I'rankford and engaged in the grocery business until the fall of 1S72, wlicajiaviug closed out that business, he was erriployed to clerk in the store of Lowe <Sr Wood at Louisi};na uiitil the spring of 1ST3, when he was employed in the store of Le?etn i.V l>ro., and while with them in Novetnber of that year he was elected clerk of the court of common ])leas of Louisiana, assuminn; tlie duties of that olHce, January 1, 1874, and has been re-elected and is still the incnnjbent of that oflice. So{)teniber 2'J, 1S57, he married Eva M., daughter of Dr. W. ^Y. Wise, of Fikt; county. They have two children, Uomer W., of Chicago, Illinois, and Miuy E., wife of J. D. Purse of Louisiana, Missonri. ITe is a meinber of River Side Lodge Xo. 22, A. O, IT. W., of Louisiana.

Asbiiry Caldwoli 3Iarsh, proprietor of the Hotel Marsh and an insurance agqrit of Louisiana, was born in Springvale, York connLy, Maine, September 22, 1S84, where he lived with his parents until he was sixteen years old, when he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and was employed as a hotel clerk a few niontlis, when he returned home and remained a year, when he agaifi went to Boston and engaged in clerking in a lioiel for several months, wlien he came we^l, prosjiecting through Illinois, and arriving in St. Louis, Missouri, in the fall of 1S52, where he remained two months, when he went to Lincoln county and remained until the follov.-ing spring, when he returned to Maine. In 1S55 he again came to J^lissouri and M-as employed as a clerk at Ca{> An Gris, Lincoli> cuunty, until ISSS, when he went to Troy, Missouri, and engaged in the mercantile business with B. Crun:ip, as Crump & Marsh, until 1S62, when he retired from the firm arid became major of the Second Provisional Jvegiment of Missouri, He served as such for seven months, wiien he recei\'ed the a]>pointment of j)rovost marshal for the fourth subdistrict of Missouri, with headquarters at Troy, Missouri, and served untilthe close of the war in 1865. He remained at Troy and was engaged in t.^aching and in the insurance business until 1S74, when he came to Louisiana and followed the same avocation. From 1S71* to 18S1, he was employed in the abstract office of x\.. C. Sheldon, in connection with bis insurance business. In ISSl he opened the Hotel Marsh, v.hich he still keeps.- January 18, 1857, he married Mary E. Gore of Troy, Missouri. They have fi-.c cliihiren: Nellie, wife of William II. Barnum, of Louisiana, Missouri; Flora, Gertrude, Etnma S., and Claude Winthrop. He is a member of the Seventh Street M. E Church of Louisiana. He is a leading Good Teuiplar and member of Louisiana Lodge ISo. 278, and is a P. W. C. T. Pie is also a member of James Wilson Pest No. 20, G. A. R., of which he is adjutant.

James Thornton 3Iatsou, jL I)., is a native of Missouri. lie was b.->rn near Frankford, Tike county, JJeccmbcr 1, 1821. He is the sixth of ton son-; of Enoch iiiul Jane (Shobc) Matron. He was raised at his birthplace, and educated in the coiuuKm schools. In 1S47 lie begaii to- study medicine in the otMce of Dr. John C. Webber at Frankford, and was under his preceptorship until the sprint^ of IS-i'J, when, after taking two courses, he graduated ns M. I>. from the Miiisouri State Medical College, St. Louis -.]

lie then practiced one year at Frankford, when he went to Maeon county, .] and practiced in the country near Blooniington one year, when he went to ;j v.'hich his wife inherited from her father. In ISGl he was a member of the Missouri Provisional Convention, and represented ]\rarion, Kails, and ^lon- J

States. He located at York, York county, Pennsylvania, v.here he served three years as a carpenter's apprentice, and worked four years after the ex- | iiess and became associated with Aaron Martin, and engaged in the manufacture of plug tobacco as Marzolf. ^lartin c\: Seibert. In 18G7 Mr. ]\Iartin retired from the firm, changing the name to Marzolf cV Seibert. In 1870 they discontinued the manufacture of plug tobacco and began that of cigars, changing the name of the firm to John Seibert ^'c Co. During 1SG6 and 1867 Mr, Marzolf was elected and served as councilman in Louisiana city. He has been twice mariied. His first wife was Mary E, Renner, of York, Pennsylvania, whom he married February 15, 1835, and who died at Lou- i and three daugliters. lie married for liis second wife, Mrs. i\lciry A. Young, of Louisiana, Septonibor 24-, 1ST8. Iliniself and wife are members of the Cumk'iland Presbyterian Ciuircli of l-ouisiatia, Missouri.

AVilliani Campb*'!! Orr. Vrilliam Orr, tlie grcat-gmndfather of W. C. Orr, wa^ of Irish bii-th, and eamo to America about the niiddle of the seventeenth century and settled in tlie state of Pennsylvania and there married Miss Mar}' Gill, also of Irish origin. By this marriage there were three sons: Pobert, -.vho settled in Illinois; Thomas, v.'ho settled in Tennessee; and James, who was born in 1750, and in early manhood mo red to Caswell county, ^orth Carolina. In January 20, 1779, he married Miss Agnes Walker, of Scotch descent. He was a soldier in the Revolnti-mary War, and at bin do.^tli was presiding justice of th.e county coiirt of his county. He had eleven children, seven sons and four daughters. Isaac , Orr, tlie eighth child and sixth son emigrated from Xorth Carolina in the year 16iS and arrived in Pike county, Missouri, in the fall of 1819. In 182G lie was married to jNIiss Joann Campbell, daughter of "Win. Cami)bell. The Campbell family was of Scotch descent and immigrated to Ameiica i]i the latter part of the sixteenth century. William Campbell was born in North Carolina in 1770. He afterwards removed to Tennessee, and later to Kentucky, and Unally to Missouri. In 1S18 he settled in Pikti county near Bo\\ding Green, where he died in 1S40, and was buried at Antioch. W. C. Orr, the oldest child of Isaac Orr and Joann Campbell, was born on the fifth day of February, 1S27, on the old home place, on which was afterwards located the Antioch church, said to be the oldest C. P. church organization in the state. He remained on the tarm till 1849, when in couipany with the gold seekers, he made the overland trip to California. He returned in 1852, and in 1653 was married to Miss Eliza Jane Jordan, the daughter of Kobert Jordan and Isiphine Allison, and granddaughter of Capt. Ilobcrt Jordan, wlio moved from South Carolina to Pike county in 1809, and who v;as shoi by a band of hojcile Indians between his farm and the P)uffalo fort on the 3'»th of March, 1813. W. C. Orr made a second trip to California in 1851:, taking a large herd of cattle, and returned to Missouri in 1S5G and settled in Louisiana, April 27, 1857. Here he engai^ed in mercantile business under the firm name of A. J. Dismakes l^ Co., and continued in business untd 18tJl, when, the firm being unsuccessful, the partnership was dissolved and the business closed out. Since then lie has followed with varying success confractinj^ on public w^.-irks. During the late civil war, his jmigment arid sympathies were with the govenunent. Under the provisional government of the state he vras appointed by acting Governor ^V il-

Biograi'Iucal Sketches

):irc] P. ilall, county jiistico for Pilve county on Jcanuary 29, 1862. ITe was elected to the same olHcc in Xoveiriber of that year and commissioned by Gov. II. R. Gairil>]e, Deccjp.ber 10, 1SG2, for six yeuis. By the adoption of the new constitution in 18(54: he was removed, but was rcap[>ointed and coraniissioned by Gov. T. C. Fletcher, xVpril 4, 18G5, and liekl liis office until his successor was elected, lie also lield the office of miiyor of the city of Louisiana from JNIarcli, ISGl, to March, ISdS; and was director and vicepresident in the Louisiana & M. R. 11. from the organ i.-^ation of the company until the road-bed v;as completed throu;^]i Pike and Audrain counties to Mexico, Missouri. Then he withdrew to make room in the board for represeutntives frum tlie more western counties. He wa> more or less connected witli all of the public roads and railroads projected in the interest of Louisiana. His family consists of iive children: Joann C, Emma I., Isaao 11,, Jrunes M., and Charley J. lie has for a number of years been connected, with th.e C. P. Chui'cli. His political beliefs and convictions are I'or a stronsr government and one that will give perfect pnitection to individuals and. equal protection to all classes of proj)erty.

when he began to work at the trade as a lournevman , tailor, and worked in I Xew Castle, England, and Edinburgh, Scotland, until 1S72, when he came - I ried Ella M. Kincaid, of Erankford, Pike county, Mis.-ouri. He is a Master ! Mason and member of Perseverance Lodge Xo. 92, A. E. & A. M., of Louisiana, of which he is secretary.

Jolm "William Paliuer, of the firm of McCune, Palmer & Knight, manufactuiers of plug tobacco, was born near Shelbyville, Shelby county, Kentucky, January 1, 1S39. When he was two years of ago his parents removed to Bowling Green, Kentucky, and from there to Missouri when he vvas sixteen, where they settled on a farm in Lincoln county, near EHsburv, where he lived with them until manhood. In 1861 he began to work at the ' carpenter's trade, following it a short time, when he settled on a farm near Ellsbury, where, with farming, he engaged in saw-milling, and run a threshing raachiue up to 1677, when he came to Pike county, and tirst settled on a farm iicnr Prairlevil!*'. and fiirtiied one year, when he came to Louisiana and become i\ member of the tobacco niannfacturing company of McCimc, Pj'Jmef ct Kni^l'.t, and is also its general manager. He has been three times married. His first wi*e v/as Mildred A. Uarvej, of Lincoln county, Missouri, whom he married January 25, ISCA, who died August 17, ISCO, by whom he has one child, Virginia ]j. His second wife was Alice M. Edwards, of Pike county, Missouri, whom he married December 16, IST'l, who died February IS, 1S76, by whom he had one cliild, Xonie A. He married for liis tiiird wife, Mrs. Margaret R. Woodson, of Pike county, Missouri, May 15, 1S78. They have two children, twins, Joseph and lulizabeth.' He is a member of the First Baptist Church, of Luuisiana. He is a member of L^nison Lodge Xo. 1.!>T5, K. of H., of Louisiana.

Williaui Orr Parks, dealer in sewing machines, was born in Lironia, Livingston coursty, N. Y., February 28, 1820. When lie was twelve years old he went with his parents to Euclid, New Tork, where his mother died, in 1837, and in 1S3S he came with his father to Louisiana, Missouri, where, in 1840, he engaged in the tanning busiriess, with a brother, about one year, when he engaged in plastering, having learned that trade of his father, who was a plasterer by trade. He followed plastering in Louisiana until the fall of 1854, wlien, becoming associated with A. Sladek, he establisiied the first bakery in Louisiana. Mr. Sladek retired from the business in 1859. In 1SC9 he introduced dealing in sewing machines with liis bakery, and continued so until 1870, when he discontinued baking and continued in dealing in sewino machines and kcepiuir the Parks Hotel. During the late war he was a L^nion man, and served in the M. S. M. as baker, on detached services. He is a Master, Royal Arch, and Knight Templar Mason, and belongs to the lodge, cliapter, and commandery at Louisiana. He has been worshipful master of his lodge ten years, and high priest of his chapter twelve years. December 3, 1843, he married Eliza A. Robinson, of Louisiana, Missouri, by whom he has five children: Edgar, in business in Louisiana, i^Iissouri; Julia C, relict of the late Nicholas W. Parks; William S., late of r,i>uisiana; Mollie A., wife of J. N. Hazelbaker, passenger conductor on the C. & A. R. R.; and William Wort.

Edgar AIoiizo Parks, general dealer in mnsical instruments and mnpical merchandise, and leader of Parks Military Band and Orchestra of Louisiana, was born in Louisiana, Missouri, March 19, 1845. He is the eldest of three sons of William O. and Eliza A. (Robinson) Parks. He was raised and educated at Louisiana. He began his musical education, when very young, under the instruction of Prof. M. Lebondi,he first appearing as a vocalist when only eii;;lit years of age. Ilis instruction on the piano was given by (^/hai-ic? More, a well-known merchant of Lonisiana, who l)ein<> a good pianist was persuadeu to gi\'e young Parks his first lesson on that instrument. After taking lessons of ]\Hps J.ou IJart, of Fahnyra, and others, he, in IStjO, went to Hannibal and took lessons of Prof. Wolneron the piano and violin, and during that year was connected with an amateur coricert company known as the "Hannibal Calliopeans." In ISOl lie enlisted as a mnsif.iau in t-ie Tentli liCgiment M. S. M., and served in the resfimcntal band six months, when he became a member of the band of the Eleventh Ilegiment Illinois Cavnliy. and sei'ved in it oidy a short time, when it was cut to pieces at the battle of Shiluh, he being present at that battle, and it being the duty of the musicians to assist in caring for the wounded. After that he was bugler in Captain Clint. Allison's Company of M. S. M., and j served si.x months. In October, 1S63, he organized a concert troupe and traveled tlirough Illinois, lou'a, and Wisconsin, it disbanding at Griimell, Iowa, the following" Novcuilier, He thou wont to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, j

1864, when ho returned to Louisiana and organized the Silver Cornet Band of that city, and was its leader until ISGC, when he gave band instrnctiuns !

established his present business in Louisiana. October 1, 1867, he married Miss Emma M. McCormick, of Milwaukee. They have one child, Edgar j

A. He is a prominent Mason, and men^ber of Perseverance Lodfje No. 92. Bond Chapter No. 23 of Louisiana, and of Cj'rene Commandery No. 13 ot Bowling Green.

Atlglistus Ouiy Par.SOllS, of the firm of Parsons ik Hoss, editors and proprietors of the Louismna Journal. Mr. Parsons was born in Louisiana, Missouri, June 14, 1851. He is the son of Benjamin F. and Susan W. (Oury) Pars'jns, with whom'he lived until attaining his majority. In 1862 he went with his parents to Washington, Y). C, where his lather iield a position in a department of the United States Treasury until 1809, where be ; was mostly educated by attending the Georgetown Academy, lloturning with his parents to Louisiana in 1869 he entered the oflice of the Louisiana j Journal to learn the art of printing, and C'.>ntinued to work in that office ' n.Mtil 1874, wlicn he was employed as a compositor in the liiverside Press office until Fcbrnary, JSSl; he then went to JSIaysville, ColoraOo, and took cliarge of tlie Aiiiysville Chronide for a short time, when he returned to Louisiana, and ueeouiing associated with A. i). Huss purcliased tlie Louisiana Journal. The Joiiriial is a Democratic paper, and tlie oldest one in the coimtv. In July, 1SS2, \\n was elected one of the Democratic central committee of Buffalo township. April 11, 1870, he married Alice S., daughter of the late J)r. Elijah Thurman, of Louisiana. They have one cliild, Ralph W. lie is a member of Lnison Lodge Ko. 1S75, of Louisiana.

Rev. Erasmus Darwin Poai'.son, was bom in Saline county, Missouri, June 6, 1830. He v,-as the youngest of five children, two boys and three gi.rls. Ilis parent.-: were Aluuzo and Eliza W. Pearson, the latter the dau^'hter of Dr. John Sappington. Tlis father was a lawyer by profession and died in 1835. JMrs. Pearson, his mother, married ex-Govcruor Claiborn F, Jackson, in 1S3P. His boyhood days were spent in Fayette, Howard county, and Arrow Rock, Saline county. His collegiate education was obtained in Cumberland Uriiversity, Lebanon, Tenn.. graduating in 1852. He professed j'eligion at a camp-mceting near Lebanon, Tennessee, in August, 1848, and united with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In March, 1854, at the Buftulo clmrcli, Pike county, j\Iissouri, he was licensed to preach by the Salt River Presbytery. For six nionths he rode the circuit and j^-euched almost ever}' day. In October of 1854 lie was sent by an order of the presbytery to Louisiana to preach, arid to build a church-house. The house ^v-as completed and dedicated by the second sabbath in October, 1855. He preached to the Louisiana congregation until the sad wave of our civil war unsettled the interest, and business relations of our people in a very large degree, in June, 1861, he moved to Marion county and re^inained there on a farm - yet continuing to })rcach - for three years. In 1864 he moved near Si-encej-sburg, and in LSG7 ho moved back to Louisiana to take charge of that congregation, and has been preaching to them since thst time. He has preached in Louisiana twenty-four years the first of October 18S3. lie was married to Miss OrphaM. Dysart, daughter of Colonel John Dysart, of Howard county, Missouri, on the 5tli of January, 1S59. They liave a taniily of \o\\v boys and one girl. . ' .

John Snpi5iii'j;{<rii Peai\S(Mi, 31. I)., is a native of Missouri, and the son of xVIonzo and Elizabeth (Sajipington) Pearson. He was born at Glasgow, Howard county, April IG, 182C. His father dying when he was three or four years old, he w:is raised by his grandfather, Dr. John Sappington, near Arrow Rock, Missouri. He received his literary education by attending tliG CninVtoilavnl University at Lebanon, Tennessee. ITo stiiclied medicine under his irt'iwid father, with whom lie lived, comj^lctinf^ his course hj graduating a;^ M. D. at tli;^ medical departmenL of tlic University of Pennsyh vania at Phihidclphia, April 1 2, 1819. His first practice was at Lexington, Missouri, where he remained two years, wdien, on account of failing health he went to Memphis, Tennessee, .and practiced until 1801, when he was commissioned burgeon in Gen. McCoIlough's Brigade, C. S. A., and served during tlie war, InTSGT he returtjed to Missouri and permanently settled at Louisiaiia, where lie still has an extensive practice in \joih city and country. From ISGS to ISSO he was associated with ]Jr. J. T. Bell, as Bell & Pearson. He has beeii twice n^iarried, his tlist marriage being with Mary Ellen, daughter of Rev. ]:>octor F. K. Cossitt of Lebanon, Tennessee, October a, ISiO, wdio died at the same place, Kovember 5, 185L His present wife was Mrs. Sarali Ellen, relict of Captain George Herring, late of the U. S. A., to whom he was joined iii wedlock July 8, 1S7L He has four cl.'ildro]! living: Alonzo. a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, who recently graduated fi'uni the theological department of the Cumbeiland College at Lebanon, Tenues:>ee; and Ida E., John E., and Orpha R. Himself, wife, and three of his children, are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Louisiana, of which he has been a ruling elder for some twentyfive years. Lie is a Master Mason and member of Perseverance Lodge No. 92, A. F. & A. M., of Louisiaiia.

Hon. Enocll Pe])l»er, attorney at law, Louisiana, Missouri, was born at Flemingsburgli, Kentucky, January 8, 1815. At the age of seven he came to Missouri witli his parents, th.ey settling at Clarksville, Pike county. He was educated at St. Paul's College, Palmyra, Missouri. In L8CS he began tiie study of law in the otiice of Redd & McCabe, of Palmyra, and was with them until 1S70, when he was admitted to the bar. He began his law practice, the same year, at Kansas City and coutinucd it there until 18TT, when he returned to Pike county, and, after a short stay at Clarksville, came to Louisiana, where lie has practiced ever since. In 1878 he was elected, on the Greenback ticket, a member of the Missouri state legislature and served one tertn. He ran for member of the legislature again in November, 18S-J, as an independent candiditte on the Greenback and Republican ricket against fearful odds, the county being overwlielmingly Democratic, and his opponent an old resident and p.ortizan. He was defeated, but by a small majority. He has been twice m.arried. His first wife was Alberta BceGon, \ formerly of \Yes{ Virginia, whom he married in 1808, and who died at in infancy. Tic married for his second wife, Alice Lnkc, danglitcr of John L. Luke of Clarksville, MUsonri, in 1872. They have two cliildren, Sarah Tebbs and Eiizibetli S. lie is a Mason and has taken al! the degrees up to Knight Temphir. llo is a moniher of Perseverance Lodi^e Ni^. 02, A. F. & A. M., and has been the vvort:hi}>fnl master for two years, and represented liis lodge in the grand loigc of the state of Missoui'i in 1881 and 1SS2. He is a member of Bond Chapter No. - Iv. A. M. of I.onisiana, and of Cyrenc Coinmaiidery Mi>. 13, K. T., of Lowling Green. In the summer of 1882 he built the extensive brick busine^^.s l^lock on the southwest cor?ier of Georgia and Third streetn.

birth, who at tiio age of eighlceD, in 1850, i:nmigrated to the United States. He settled in St. Jvouis wlsere he worked at butchering until March, ISfiS, when he came to Louisiana and engaged in butchering until his death, September 19, 1876. AS'hile at St. Louis, January 7, 1850, he married Miss Christiana Kcsler of that city, whece th.e subjects of this sketch were born; viz., John J., November :M-, 1855; Albci t E., December 25, 1857; and Frarjk J., February 20, ISCO. Jchn lived with his parents, and when old enough be assisted his father in the meat market, attending school part of the time until his father's death, afiei which he was variously en)ployed at Louisiiina and St. L'>uis until IS'^0, wljen he went to Helena, .^^fontana Tenitory, where lie was em])loyed at butchering and cattle driving until 1882. Albert E., up to his ninth year, was an invalid, but by the time he was twelve years of age his health had so im[»roved that he went to Clarksville and worked in the tobacco factory of Winri vfc Mackey, where he worked one year, when he returned to Louisiana where he worked in the various tobacco factories during the summer seasons and attended school duriuir winters, until he was sixteen years old, when he began to clerk in the grocery store of Zuzak t^ li&hell, and was so employed two years, when he then worked in his fatiier's meat market for six months, when he was employed as a clerk in the grocery store of Block & Brother, and was so employed until hi^ father's death when he was placed in charge of his father's business. Frank J., at the age of twelve, began to work in the tobacco factories of Louisiaiia, and when sixteen he erigaged in buying hides, furs, rags, etc. Soon after their father's death they found they were left penniless, and they have strong suspicions that they were wronged out of what they were justly entith:d to. In the spring of 1S77 the two younger brotlicrs worked in the tol.acco factory until they, together, earned $50, when they went to Clarksville, and engaged in butchei'ing for a short time, when they retui'ned to Louis- iaiia and established their present meat market. Beginnins^ with a capital of $50, their books show that the first year's business amounted to ^0,000, the sccuid 87,800, t!ie third 611,000, and ihe fourth, just closed, si 2,500. In 1SS2 tlie elder ])rother returned from Montana, where lie met with good success, and became associated with them, thus foi'ming tlie fivm of ]-*ollak Brothers. January 1, 1S70, Albert Iv married ]\[i?:s Emina Brngonia, of Mexico, Missouri, by whom he has one child, Frank A.

Cupt. William Hcsiry Purse, ])ostm:i.ster at Louisiana city, was born in New York City, September 6. 1S21-. lie lived with his parents until he was sixteen and was educated up to that age. On leaving home he went to Payson, Illinois, and worked as a farm hand about four years, when he* came to Ashley, Pike county, ]\Ii-souri, where he worked In the tViundiy aiid machine-shop of his uncle, S. iS. Purse, for six years, up to JS52, v/hen he became associated in the business with his uncle, in the firm name of S. >r. oc W. H. Purse, they having purchased the right to manufacture the Manny reaper and mower, were the lirst to uiake the manufacture of reapers and mowei's a success in the state. They continued to nnumfacture the Manny reaper until it vais superseded by other improved machines. In the enrollment of the militia in 1S62 he was among the first, and was elected cajnain of Com]'any F, Forty-ninth Ilegimcnt Mitsouri State Militia, and served d.uring the war. Ashley being a military post and rendez- i vous, he was made post commander. August 28, 18C2, when all his command excepting nineteen men were on guard duty, the post was suddenly attacked by 130 men under Major Snvder. Capt. Purse placing his men in adjacent buildings for protection bravely repelled the assault. The assaulting party meeting with such determined resistance pursued a citizen, A. M. Ehnore, and ordered him to convey the following note to Capt. Purse, master of the tlcld, and the dead and wounded uncfu-ed for. Two of the captain's men were killed and nine wounded. In tlie fall of 1804 he was as-i^-neJ to dulj at Louiditina as reg-inicutal (jiiartermaster, and about the same time was eoannissioued captain in the U. S. voluuteor service, but the war soon closing- he was never v.ssigned to auv company. After being mustered out of the service at J^or.isiaua, in 1805, he returned to Ashley, and resumed the business of foundryman and ni;u'.hini-:.t, and was eni'^aged until 1870, when he came to Louisiana. Iii 1S72 he received the ai)j)o:ntment of mail agent on the C. 6z A. .U. 11., an.d "was so employed for two years, w)ien he for one year had charge of the Louisiana Glass Works. January, lS7o, he received tlie a]5pointment of postnnister at Louisiana, a position he lias faithfiilly, lioi^jrrJ^iy, a!:d satisfact(^ri!y filled ever since. Tie j\as married to Mary Kerr of Asliley, ?vL\y 15, 1852. Tliey have two children living: John, a jnaii agent on extra mail service, and Lizzie an assistant in tiie Louisiana post-ofllce. Tney lost one, Henry, who died in Louisiana in 1S77, at the age of twenty two. " ' -

George Davi*! Rcifl, painter, of Louisiana, was born near St. Louis, Missouri, on a farm, Octol,>or 20, 1S27. fie was reared at liis f irthplace and on a farm iicar Aubui'u, Lincoln county, Missouri. When he was nineteen lie went to 8t. Louis, where he learned the paiu-ter's trade with Bolton & Wilson, working with th.em three years, wlien he began to work in the same city as a journeyman and worked three years, when in 1S53 he went to New Orleans, l.ouisiana, and worked at journey work one year. Tie then came to Louisiana and worked in a sliop until 1S59, when he returned to xSew Orleans and became associated with his brother in the firm name of G. D. i-V J. Y. Jleid. They did business about one year, when his brother Avas killed liy the falling of a ladder. Soon after liis brother's death he returned to ]y:>in'siana and permanently settled, where he carried on his business alone until 1S70, whei' his son, J. B., became associated with liim in (the tirm name of J. D. Jieid & Son. October 20, 1S52, he married Eh';:abeth Ann Benson, a native of Manchester, England, by whom he has six children: Joseph 13., associated with him; Leota, wife of Fremont Todd, of Louisiana, Missouri: William S., Lizzie L., Cora A., and Jeanette. Diiring 1S59 lie served as city marshal of Louisiaiux. Himself, wife, and children, CKCepting the two younger, are members of the First Presbyterian Churcli of Louisiana.

Josepll lienson Reid, of the firm of O. 1). Ileid Sz Son, painters, of Louisiana, was born in Louisiana, Missouri, July 7, 1S55. When he v\as foni years old he went with his parents to Xow Orleans, Louisiana, wliere he attended school until he was thirteen, when he clerked in the lumber yard of Cuttlor Oc Trnnncll tor one year. lie then went into tlic ])rintinc[ ollice of Isaac llinton and worked as a pj-inter until 1S70, when l;c i-etnrned to Louisiana, Missouri, with his parents. His father wishing hini to follow Bonie vocation other than viiutini^ he tried several occupations, but findin.^ tlieni not to suit his taste, and liaving an innate love for sign and fancy painting, when h^; returned to Louisiana he turned his attention to that art, in which he has ijecouie aii adept, and his reputation is not only at l-omc, " but lu; has calls to execute flue painting in Qiiincy. Illinois. St. Louis, and Kansas City, Missouri, and Denver, Colorado, and other western cities. He made a tour through Montana and Colorado in 1870, and in that year he also became associated with his lather, as G. I). lieid cV Son. He is a \ ing mannffK'turers of .Louisiana city. Ho is a member of the school boaio of the city, and in 1S75, bein^,'; a nicnibor of tlic Loan and Bnildiriij As.^ociation of Louibiana, he \va? ekctcd treasurer, but resigned the following year' and accepted tlie oltice of director, and served as sucl) until it disorganized in 1880, when he was one of the oi iginators of the present l*ike County Loan and Building Afsociatioi;. He has been twice married. He married for his first wife, Annie, d:iu<:hter of Addison Tinsley of Louisiana city, in September, 1S()9, who died, xVpril, 1871. His second wii'e was Ana Eliza, daughter of John A. Younii:, of Louisiana, whom he married January 19, 1S72, by whom he has live children: Julia, Anna, AVillard, George, and Florence. Himself and v/ife are meml'crs of the First Presbyterian Church of Louisiana, of which- he is deacon. He is a Master Mason and member of Globe Lodge Xo. 405, A. F. dc A. M., of Louisiana.

Ron. Matthew GiveiiS Ueyiiolds, attorney at law, of the firm of Fagg, Eeynolds cc Fa^'s:. is a native of Pike county, and is the son of Dr. Stephen J. and Sophronia L. (Glvens) Peynokls. He was born at Bowling Green, xs'ovember 19, 1851-. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools of his native town, and when fifteen, by the recommendation of Hon. D. P. Dyer, received the appointment of cadet in the U. S. ]^Iaval Academy at Annapolis. Maryland, graduating as midshipman May 30, 1874. Previous to his graduation he was placed in command of Company D. Battalion of Cadets, wliich, at tlie competitive drill of 1874, received a flag, the prize for the best drilled company in the acade(ny. After visiting liome on a ibur montiis' leave of absence he was ordered to report on board the U. S. steamer Plymouth, of the ISiorth Atlantic squadron", then at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In April, 1875, lie was detached from the squadron and ordered to ie}»ort at the ]N'ew i^ork navy 3'ard, on board the U. S. steamship Tennessee, the flag ship of tlie Asiatic squadron, under the command of Pear Admiral Williani Pf^noMs, and in the following June set sail for a cruise on the coasts of Lidia, China, and Japan, going out via the Mediterranean Sea, Suez Canal, and lied Sea, he acting as assistant executive otiicer and navigator. In September, 1870, he rt'turncd to the Naval Academy for examination and promotion. After passing the re- .quired examination he was promoted to ensign; his comuiission daring from July 5, 1875. lie then returned home on a year's leave of al)sence, and began the stu<iy of law in the othce of Pobinson tS: Smith, at Buwling Green. At the expiration of Ids leave of absence he was ordered to report for duty on board the receiving ship "Wyoming, at the Washington navy yard, Yv'aslungton, D. C. Xovemoer 30, 1877, he resigned his comniission, wlien lio went to St. Louis and took one course in the St. Louis Law School, '.vlien he returned to Bowling Green, whore lie was admitted to tlic bur iu MiiV, 18TS, and at once be;j,iiii to practice at that ])hice. in June, 1S70, he came to Louisiana, and became associated witli T. J. C. Fa^g & Son, forruiiig the present law firm of Fagij, Reynolds l*c Fagg. In November, 18S0, he was elected the i-eprei.eiitative ol' his district to the Missouri slate legislature on the ]lepublican ticket, being the iirst liepublic;in representative in sixteen years. Xoveniber 11, ]SbO, lie married Miss Maime K., daughter of lion. T. J. C. Fagg, of liouisiana. They have one child, Stephen Clark* He is a member of Globe Lodii-e No. 495, A. F. & A. M.: of Anchor Lod^o No. 60, K. of P.; of Unison Lodge No. 1875, K. of IL, and of Itiverside Lodge No. 22, A. O. U. ^Y .

Tlieodore Marion Rliea is the son of Silas and ilasina (Gihnore) Ilhea, who came to Fike county, Missouri, in January, LS2S, from South Carolina, and settled in the vicinity of Louisiana, where his father died in LS-iT. His mother died in Louisiana in 1856. Our subject was born in York district, near Yorktown, South Carolina, June 22, IS 19, and at the time his parents removed to Fike county he was about eight years old. lie was raised a tUrmer, and to obtain an education could only attend the winter terms of the cuuimun school, having to walk daily some three or four miles, as the country was sparsely settled and schools were not numerous. He remained ou tlie homestead until 1S19, when he came to Louisiana, and v^'as employed as foreman in the saw-mill of Draper & Brotlier until 1852, when he was employed as clerk in the store of F. G. McQuie until 1855, when, in the spring of that year, he became associated with Hugh F. Summers, and en-''a"-ed in the mercantile business m the tirm name of Summers & Khea. In the spring of 1857 E. G. McQuie became ]\lr. Summers's successor, clianging the style of the firm to McQuie ^ lihea. He retired from that firm in the fall of 1850, and in the spring of i860 became associated with his brother, H. L. Rhea, and C. G. Hunter, in the mercantile business, as Hunter, Rhea <fe Co., they discontinuing in 1875. In the sj)rin2: of 1879 he, with Joseph Rlock, organized the bank of Rhea &, Block, of Louisiana; they doirig a banking business until the spring of 1881, v.-hen they, with Matthew G. Reynolds, T. L. Anderson, Jacob Block, R. C. Few, and Dr. J.- W. Dreyfus, organized and incorporated the present Exchange Ijank of Louisiana. He was its first president, and served one year. In 1882 he became a stockholder in the Mercantile Bank of Louisiana, and during the same year was elected one of its directors. October 17, 1878, he married Mrs. Mary B. McCuen. Himself and wife are members of the Cumber- land Presbyterian Climcli of T,ouisiana. FTn is a Master am] TIovhI Arch Mason, and member ol" Feri^everancc Lodge ISTo. 92, anJ of Bond Chapter No. 23, of Louisiana.

lieury Clav Rice wa=5 born in Strawsbnrg, Lancaster connty, Pennsylvania, April 10, IS-t.'). When lie was two years old his parents renioved to Mount Sterling, Illinois, where he was raised. He began to maintain hiinseir when a lad by being variously employed. AVhcn fifteen he came with his })arei.ts to Louisiana, where he l.'Cgan to work in the tobacco factory of Cash, Henderson, Strange A: Co., and was so employed until 1S61, wlien for a short time he served as a soldier in the Missouri State Militia. In the spring of 1862 he became associated v.-ith his brother in the photograph business, in the firm nanu- of Rice Jlrotliers, they traveling and doing business until 1874, when ]ns brother retired frotn the business. In 1575 he quit traveling and established a gallery in Louisiana, which he sold out in 167G and abandoned the l)usiness. In that year he invented and had patented a filter for druggists' and photographers' use; nlso to be used in inakiuir tea and coffee. He now devotes his time in introducing and selling rights to maiiufacture and sell the same. His invention has been patented in the United States, Canada, England, France, and IVelgium. In October, 1S75, lie married Addie Hall, of Clarhsville, Missouri, by whom he has two hoys, six and four years old, Harvey and Claud.

Ahnoil C. Robiil.^on, D. S., was born near Buifalo, New York, A]>ril 2S, 1S2S. "When seven years old lie was' adopted by Ids uncle, Simuel Peabody, with wliom he lived until manh.ood. He began life for himself teaching in a district school and also teaching penmanship. He came to L<misiana in 1850, where he followed teaching and woi'king at the carpenter's trade until 1854, he bavins: tanrrht in one district in the vicinity of Louisiana nearly three years. In that year he learned the art of daguerreotyping under Satnel O. Minor, following that business until 185.5, wlien he went to St. Louis and learned the art of photographing under Mr. FitZijibbon, when be returned to Louisiana and followed photographing until 1850, when he sold out and returned to New York arul worked his uncle's farm until the fall of 1803, when he returned to J ouisinna, and in the following March, he, witli Edwin McQuie, went to Montana Territory, Mhere they mined and prospected, and at'ter locating and selling several claims they located one near p.annock City, which they still own and are preparing to work in the near future, as it contains silver in a {-aying (quantity. Iceturning to Louisiana in December, 18r,5, he was employed as pattern-maker in the Whitney Foundry until March, 1872, when he entered tiie dental office of Dr. Ed- ward McCune to t^tudy doutisfrj, uud in October, 1873, he became associated with his j^receptor in the })ractice of deuti-^fry, in the linn style of Jiobinson ix, 'McCune, but v»Ir. McC-uiie dying 0:10 month after, he has since thnt time carried on the practice alone. In ISTl'-SO he jnade trips to Montana and Colorado for pleasure and prospecting, October 13, 1854, he married Mary J., dangliter of Yv'illiam McQuie, of near Louisiana. They liave two chikiren living: Flora Viola and Nettie May. Himself and wife are members of the 2\I. E. Church South. , He is a niember of Jli\crbide l^odgc iSo. 22, A. O. U. ^Y.

born on the banks of the Licking Jviver near Falmouth, Pendieton county, Kentucky, October 16, ISPJ. lie i? the son of Edward B. and Mary (Eastin) j

Kule. When he was eii^ht years of aii'e his father died, and in the vear 1828 ' i his mother came, to -Missouri and settled on a larm m the vve^tern part ot \ until of age. He then went to "Wisconsin and engaged in lead mining, in th.e Pigeon lead diggings for ten years, up to 1850, when he went to Call- i fon.ia and mined for gidd on the Middle Fork of the American lvi\er until 1853, when meeting with success in his operations returned to Pike county and engaged in general merchandising at Louisiana, having associated with his brother as J. T. t^' E. B. Kule. They continued in the business until IStJo, when they became associated wi^h E. Carsti'.rphen in the lirm name of Pule vfe Company, they purchasing the May Flower llouring mills at I-ouisiana. His brother dying in 1SC9, the tirm was changed to J. T. Eule

& Co. Becoming financially involved they were forced to make an assignnient for the benefit of tlicir creditors in 1877. In l^TS lie was elected one of tlic justices of J^oni^ana, and held the {Position nntil the fall of 1SS2, when ho v/as elected treasurer of Pike county. January, 1S55, he married Eliza Ann, daughter of Adrian Ogle, who died at Louisiana June 17, 1S73, by whom he has four ch'hheu living: Laura E., wife of Dr. W. W. Birkhead of J.ouisiana; Samuel E., Adrian O., assistant librarian of the St. Louis Law Library of Si". Louis; and Yirgil Jl. He has lost two children : "Willie, who died in infancy in 1S63, and AEary E., who died August 10, ISSl, at the age of t'.venty-five. For several years she had been a prominent teacher in the public school of Louisiana, and her death was deeply felt by the community, Possessing rare abilities, amiable and kind in her intercourse with othei's, a consistent Christian, and member of the Christian Church, .she had drawn to her many friends. He is a membei- of the Christian Church of J^ouisiana, and has served as an elder since JS70.

Henry Schooler was born in Fayette county, Kentucky, July 20, 170S. He lei't Kentucky Se])tember 3, and settled in Pike county, ^Missouri, September 30, 1S-2S. Three children were born to him, two of whom are yet living, one, Mrs. J. E. Bi'own, having died since this report was received. When Mr. Schooler first canje here P. IL McBride was circuit judge; J. Lindsey, sheriff; Levi Pettibone, circuit clerk; and Uriel Griffith, constable of CpIumet township. He has resided continuously on the farm he purchased of William Biggs, on upj^er Calumet, nntil recently, when he removed to Clarksville. He is a fanner and carpenter.

JollH Sei))ert, senior member of Seibert & Co., c'gar manufacturers of Louisiana, v.-as born at St. Goat, Germany, November 1, 1S37. When he was eleven years of age he came to the United States with his parents, who first settled at Philadeli)hia, Pennsylvania, and lived there and at Cincinnati, Ohio, nntil 1S52, when they removed to Keokuk, lov/a. While living at Philadelphia and Cincinnati, his father being engaged in manufacturing cigars, he learned cigar-making. He lived with his parents at Keokuk, and worked in his father's cigar manufactory up to 1S56, when he worked in various placps as journeyman cigar-maker until 1S57, when he came to Louisiana and engan^t'd in ci^ar manufacturinn'. In ISCO Georire Marzolf became as.soeifited with hini, in the firm name of Marzolf v*c Co., and they are still together, but have changed the firm name to Siebert & Co. May 30, 1860, he married Anna M., daughter of George Marzolf, of Louisiana, Missouri. They have three children livinrr: Aiina, Susie, and John. He is a

August C Sheldon, atlonioy at law, abstractor, and oxaniincr of land titles, was born in "\\''ill^b(jrough, E?sex count}', New York, September 3, lS37. lie is the son of Aiicor E. and riiebo (Perry) Sheldon, with whom , lie lived nntil manhood. He was educated at New I]ani])ton College, Fairfax, Vermont, graduating in ISC-O. Although living with his parents, he practical!}' began t') maintain himself at the age of seventeen by teaching eehool, which he followed a part of each year, and tlnis defraying the expense of his education. In the spring of 1SG2 he began the study of law in tlie office of Palmer E. Havens, of Essex, Nevv^ York, and was under his })receptorship ujitii the following Septcml>er when he entered tlie law department of Albany University, Albany, New York, from which he graduated in IMay, 1S73, when he returned to Essex and practiced in the oflice of his former precojUor until January, IS74, when he went to Albany and accepted an a]"ipointment under J. B. Oushna, chief of the New \ ork Assembly, and did service under him during the winters of lS()-i-G5 and 1866, and during the summer of i86i he compiled a digest of legislative claims ' ; i)y order of the leoisiature. In the fidl of 1SG6 he came west, and after prospecting in Wisconsin a short time came to Missouri and settled at Lou- | abstract books, and in order to have access to the county records removed to Bowling Green, where he resided until February, 1S73, when he returned to Louisiana where he resumed his law practice and with it opened an abstract office. With his law and abstract business, he is also one of the projectors and stockholders of the Freeman Box and Wooden Ware Factory of Louisiana. In June, IS^l, on account of impaired health, the result of overwork, he was obliged to susjjend his office labor, and partially retired from business. Politically, Mr. Sheldon is an avowed Republican, and is outspoken in his princi[des. He has been twice married. His first wife was Ellen, daughter of Palmer E. Havens, of Essex, New York, whom he married September 0, 1SG5, and who died at Louisiana March 1, 1872. By her f ter of Deacon M. T. Gushing, of Barriston, Canada, February, 1S76. They ^ have three children; Benjamin C. Don G., and one unnamed. He is a f member of Anchor Lodge No. CO, K. of P., and of L^nison Lodge No. 1875,

Alfrt'd Slaii;Lrlitor, ]>iesident of Uio McCuiie College of Louisiana city, vras burn near Wo(»<.hil]o, rJaiip.'vhiUHiock county, Yi?'ginia, Auguet 12, \'^2S. He is ilio fon of WiiJiaa; and J-'rances ii. (I'l-own) Slaughter, and was raised a fiivnier at Ids birthplace, lie was educated by attending private and public schools, but mostly by pjivato study. At the age of twenty he bcgnn to teach in his native Cfunty and taught one year. He then went to Fayette county, West \'ii-gi;!la, and purchased an in!}ti-oved farm, where he pursued farnung until 1.^54, when he ^\ent to Louisville, Kenluclcy, and taught in the public schools of that city until 1S57. During that time he was ]-»ronioted from an assistant teacher to tlic position of principal of the third ward school, having an attendance of 1,000 pupils. After leaving louisvilie he went to Johnson county, Ivansas. and enrriiged in survevin«', | and was aj.poinfced county surveyor by tiie governor, and held that position until the tail of 18G0, when he went to AVe*tport, Missouri, arid opened a school and taught it uiUil lbG2, when, by rcasou of the disturbed condition of tlie county on account of the war, he was oi)liged to discontinue it. He then went to Wellington, Lafayette county, Missouri, and opened another school and taught until ISfil, when he accepted the position of principal of the public schools of Lexington, Missouri, which he organized under the new stute law, and taught until 1S70. He then went to Lafayette county and organized the Texas Hrairie High School, aiid taught, until J8Ti, when he vras called to tlic presidency of the Home Institute of Cooper county, Missouri, filling that po-ition until ISSO. In 1S71 the college building of the Home Liistitute burned down, whereby he lost all he had accumulated during life, but by the aid of friends rebuilt a "large and handsome edifice and reopened the school in 1873. He left that school, in ISSO, in answer to a call to tahe charge of the Louisiana Collci/e, which under his man:^gement was reorganized and incorporated as the McCune College in 1881, he becoming president and manager. Under his managemetit the success of the school is far beyond rue expectations of its most ardent friends. December 19, 1850, he married Laura Wheaton Abbott, daughter of Isaac H. Abbot, of near Harrisonluirgh, Hockingham county, Virginia, by whom he has tiiree children: Laura A., relict of the late Dr. William H. Letterman of Texas; Louisa F., wife of Dr. AVilliam E. W^iatt, of Like county, Missouri; and Abbott W., a student of the St. Louis :Medical College at St. Louis, Missouri. Himself and wife are members of the Baj>tist Church of Louisiana. He is a Master Mason and a meniber of Globe Lodcje No. 405, of Louisiana. *

Tlioinas Sinith, carpenter and builder, of Louisiana city, was born near M.ount Sterling, Bath county, Kentucky, January 14, 1817. The same year of bis birtli his parents came to Missouri. They stopped at Troy, Lincoln county (then St. Charles), until the j^pring of ISIS, when they came to Pike county (tlien St. Charles') arul settled on a farm on Grassy Crceh, six miles \vo?t of Louisiana, where he was raised. At tlic age of fifteen he began to learn tlie carpenter trade by working at intervals, he hriving to v/ork on the farm. .He followed farn.ing and carpentering onGras.-y (^reek until ISKj, wlion he came to Louisiana and followed his trade exclusively to the present. Duri'lg 1SG4 and 1S65 lie was employed as ship carpenter on thu ]\fissis.-ippi I went to Colorado, where he worked on a stamp mill and mined at Silver Cliii', returning in tlie fall of that year. Li the spring of ISSI he again went to Colorado ?^nd was employed as before, and again rrturned in the fall. During the season of 18S2 he was employed as ship carpenter on the steamer Bald Eagle. Septem.bcr 9, ISJtl, he married ]N[iss Frances A. Mc- . i uated as midsiiipraan, standing fourth in his class, in Juno, 1SG6, after which he served in the L'nited States Navy ^hree years, under Admiral David D. Porter in the West India sspiadron. and a short time under Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis in the South .Atlantic squadron, and while under Admiral Davis he was promoted to ensign. In 1SG9 he resigned the position and returned home, and soon after acce|'ted a position in the banking house of B. ]S. Tracy A: Son, of Macon City, Missouri, remaining there until October 10, 1871, when he resigned to accept the position of deputy United States revenue collector under his father, who was then the United States revenue collector of the fourth district of Missouri, the office being located at Louisiana. In April. L^so, he, with his father, was retired by reason of the appointment of R. E. Lawler as collector by President Haves. He then engaged in manufacturing tobacco, being associated 46 ' with J. G. Myers and S. Carkener in the linn luime of J. G. Myers v*c Co., they doiiio- business part of 1S80 and during ISSl. July l^it, 1SS2, h(3 recei'.cd the apujiiilmcnt ol' co]lc-eror of United States re\'enue in the fourth district of ?di:-sonri from iVosident Arthur, and i-> supposed to be the youngest revenue collector in tlie Cnited States. October 10. ISTO, lie wedded Lizzie, daugliter of Ijcrianiin V. Hcrshcy, of Tort Smitli, xVrkan^as, of whom he was soon bereaved. >-^he dyin<^ at Louisiana A])ril 23, ]S&0. lie is a member of Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, of Louisiajia, of whicli he has been vestryman some ten years.

William Tlioma.s Stewart, 'M. D., is a native of Kentucky, and the son of David and Afai'i^aret (Jamison) Stewart, and was l)orn at Mount Sterling, Mari-h 14, InL'S. In 1S32 lii.: ])arcnts removed to Missouri, and first settled on a farm near Palmyra,' Marion county, subsequently moving to Lincoln county, and settled near Louisville, wliere he ^vas raised a farn;er, and received a commuu school education. On leaving home he began the study of medicine under ])r. J. IL Hughs, of Palm}ra, studying sume three years, and attending lectures at tlie Missouri Medical College at St. Louis in 1S4S and 18-19, and graduating as M. D. from the same college in 1S56. He began his practice at Louisviile, Missonri, continuing there until 1865, when he came to Louisiana, where he has pi-acticed ever since v.ithout interruption, excepting in the v.-inter of lSGO-70 when he made a trip to Stockton, California, and again in the winter of 1870-80 to San Antonio, Te.xas, for the benefit of Ids health, spending four months eacli trip. December 20, L8-49, ho married Lydia J. Morris, of near Louisville, Missouri, who died June 30, 1878, He has three children living: George R., of Oakland, Calitbrnia, and Bettie and Davie, still at home. He is a member of Globe Lodge No. 405, A. F. (Sc A. M., and of Kiverside Lodge Xo. 22, xV. O. U. "VV., of Louisiana, and of the Chri^^tian Church of Louisiana.

Thoinason &' Lefier. jdiotographers, of Louisiana. The senior member, James A. Thomasou, Mas born in Steeleville, ICandolph county, Illinois, July 25, 1844, where he was raised. AVhen nineteen, in 1864, he enlisted in Company E, Thirtieth liegimcnt Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. lieturning Jiome, in 1805, he attended school, and was variously employed until 1807, when lie went to Grand Glaize. Arkansas, and clerked in a store six months, when be returned to Illinois and engaged in farming, up to 1800, when he began to learn the art of photographing under A. C. 2\[oore. of Areola, Illinois. He followed that business then, and traveled as an artist, up to 1877, when he located at Larsons, Kansas, and pursued the same business until 1870, when he sold out and not juimed. He isadimittcd Master and Tioyal Arch Mason. The junior niember of the lirni, Bcnjjiniin Franklin j.ciler, was born near Zanes- {

In 1S70, having learned the art of photographing, he traveled as an artist until 1875, wlien he took charge of a gallery in Burlington, Iowa, for J. H. Ileynohis, and leaving thei'O iji August, ISsi*, he came to Louisiana, < when the firm of Thomason Oc Lctler was formed. April 20, 1S76, h.c married Clara E.X-"atlin, of Burlington. Iowa. He is a M.aster JMason, and is a i member of Montgomery Lodge Xo. 270, Yilli^ca, Iowa. He is also an Odd "|

WilliaiJJ Xelsou 'J'iliyl«\v. secretary of tlic Sam lloid Tobacco Manufacing Company, of Louisiana city, is a son of liodney and I'oUy (Whittcii) Tinsley. lie was l)orn near Lynchburg, A''ir;^';inia, Aui:;ust l\5, 1830, where be lived with his parents until 1849, wiien lie came witli them to ^Missouri, they settling in Pike county, near Louisiana, where they Hvcd until 1852, when they went to Lincoln county, and settled on a farm near Louisville, where he lived until uttaiiiing his majority. He then towk charge of his father's farm, which he su])erintended for ten years, when in the spring of lvS67 he purchased a farm near Paynesville, Pike county, where he farmed until 1SG9, when in the spring of that year lie came to Louisiana and sj:>eculated in leaf tobacco, with his brother, S. Tinsley, as S. Tinsley cV: Brotlier, until 1871, 'v^ lien C. Bright became associated with them, as Tinsley, Bright & Co., and engaged in manufacturing tobacco, he retiring from the firm the following year. He then became associated with his brother, xi. Tinsley, and A. J. ]*^IcCune, in the firm name of A. Tinsley & Co., and so continues. October 14, 1858, he married Margaret Jane Goodman, who died August 21, 1SG4. August 22, 1865, he married for Ids second wife Margaret H. Morris, of Louisiana, who died June 26, 1872. His third wife was Allie S. LJobinson, vJiom he married June 2G, IBT::"*, by whom he has five children: Maggie Helen, Edward Henry, Anna Lulu, Mary Elizabeth, and one not named.

J. B. aiul B. F. Todd, comprising the firm of Todd Ihothers, grocers, of Louisiana. The elder, John Bankhead Todd, was born in Prairieville, Pike county, Missouri. January 22, 1852. He lived with his parents until his eighteenth year, when, in 1870, he went to Tipton, California, and engaged in raising and dealing in sh?.'ep. In 1875, he, in connection with his sheep ranch, engaged in the merc^.ntile business at the same place. In 1881 he discontinued tlie mercantile l>usiness. In 1SS2, leaving his sheep ranch in charge of a superintendent, he came to Louisiana, where, in September of that year, he became connected with his brother in the grocery business. Benjamin Franklin Todd was born near Ashley, Pike county, June 23, 1>59. He lived with his parents until manhood, luid remained with them uunl he was twenty-tvro and worked for wages. In (October: ISSl, he went to Tipton, California, and was employed by his brother until March, 1882, when he returned home. In May following, he became associated with B. F. Miller in the grocerv business at Louisiana. His brother bought out Mr. Miller

JOilii Hall Todd v^lcoeased), hitelv of Louisiana, ^[issouri, was born in St. Jahus county, near St. ].ouis, ]\rissouri, October 3, ISIO. lie is of Scotch and Frencli descent, and was tlic son of Benjainin and Sarah Todd. His niotlier was a siste)' of General Joe Calics, of Missouri. lie carae with his parents to Clarksville, Pike county, when he was very yonnir, wlierc he was raised. When fifteen he was apju-enticed to Joiiii Jlewitt, of Paynesville, to learn the saddle and harness makincr trade, witli whom he worked seven years, when, in iS-il, he returned to Clarksville and engaged in saddle and \

Walter James Yau Horn was bom near Campbell county, Kentucky, February 8, 181S, wliere he was raised and educated. His father dying when he was very young, he lived with his mother until manhood. He began life for himself by being variously employed until lS-±2, when he em- barked in the manufacture of tobacco at Pnion, Boone county, Kentucky, where he followed it only a ^hort time, when he went to Covington, Kentucky, where he continued in the same business until ISiS, when he removed to Louisiana, Missouri, where, with his brothers, William M. and Archibald, he enwao-ed in the manufacture of plug and fine cut tobaccos, they being the pioneer tobacconi&ts of Louisian;i. lu 1S03 they discontinued the busine-5 at Louisiana, when he, with the same brothers and Edward C. Murray, went to Chicago, Illinuis. and engaged in the manufacture ot tobacco as Yaii Horn, ]\I'airriy tl- Co. Their co-partnership was dissolved in 1S6G, when lie, with his son C;i;-sius, his brother Archibald, and J. H. Patterson, in the firm 6tyle of A. ]\[. Van Horn d' Co., en£^ai^ed in di^tillini^ at Chicafro, having a hirgo distillery, carryinf^ on an extensive business for one year, wher. tiieir distillery was burned. JvCturiiin;^' to Louisiana in 1S77 he, with his soii and brother, purchased the old tobacco factory at Lonisiana, which also burned down the same year. He and his son Cassins then engaged in the same buiiness at AYarsaw, Illinois, until 186!», when he retired from business and returned to Louisiana, where he died in 1879. In 1S59 Mr. Yan Horn invented a machine for manufacturing flat lump tobacco and is the original inventor of that kind of machinery. In lSi2 he married Sarah "W. Cluyd, of iioone county, Kentucky, by v/honi he has had six children, one of v> horn died in ini;u]cy; Cassius, of Louisiana; Cornelia, wife of W. W. Anderson, Louisiana; Addie, wife of W. F. Colton, of Salt Lake City, Utah; ]Mary S., wife oi' 3a.inc6 A. Chutes, of Lincoln, ^Nebraska, and Clara K., who died in Chicago in l>)0o, at four years of age.

Wald Brotbi'l'S, merchants of Louisiana, IMissouri, Louis, Adam, and David, are natives of Prussia. Louis came to the United States when a boy, in 1850, and was engaged as a clerk at Qu'incy, Illinois. The other two came in IStJG. In 1S70 Louis atid L)avid engaged in business at Mc- Comb, Illinois. Adam was a traveling salesman until 1S73, when he came to Louisiana and engaged in the commission business, and in 1874 he became associated with his bothers at ^IcComb, Illinois, in the mercantile business, he managing the store at Louisiana and they at McCoinb. In 1S7S they C(jnsolidated their business at J^ouisiana. These brothers have acted in unison since their boyhood and have shared in all their transactions. They began business on a small scale and have gradually increased it until they have the most extensive dry goods store in Pike county. They are located on the coiner of Georgia and Third streets, occupying three large store rooms elegantly fitted up in the most modern style.

Jolni Calhomi AValter.s, grocer of Louisiana, was born near German town, Pennsylvania, ^.'ovember 13, 1S4L When he was four years old he went with his parents to Akron, Ohio. He attended the high school of Akron until he was fourtren, when he was employed as a clerk in the store of M. Ballenger and was in Iiis employ until 1S(>1, when he enlisted in the l^. S. Y'olnnteer Marine service on l>oai'd the gunboat Tyler, of the Mississippi squadron, and served until September, 18G5. He held tlie position of boatswain's mate. He jmrticip.itcd in tlie bombardment of Forts Henry ;'.nd Donelson, battle of Shh'oh, bomburdinent of Island No. 10, naval battle near

Meinpliis, and the bombardment and siet^c of Vicksbiir^^, After being iMustert-'il out at Annapolis, ^Maryland, he went to Pike county, Illinois, where jiis father had removed in his aljsence, where he workiHl at the coopt-'r's trade until ISTO, when he came to Lo'iisiana and was employed as a foreman, in the cooper shop of E. M. Oraig. In TS70 lie became associated vv-ith Ins employer in the o^fO'.'erj business in the firm name of E. ]\r. Ci'aig i^j Co. In ISTi) Mr. CraiL;; retired from the iinn, and C. Anderson beconiinir his successor the firm was changed to "Walters S: Anderson. Novem- Ina' 24, 1S70, he married Sadie C, daughter of E. AI. Craig, by whom he lias oiic child, Annie. Himself and wife are members of the Ciiristian Church of Louisiana. lie is a member of (-Jlobe Lodge oSo. 49o, A. F. & A. J^[.; of Union Lodge Xo. 1875, K. of IL; and of Kiverside Lodge jN"o. 22, A.. (). IT. W., of Louisiana.

All^'USt William ^Velirinan, merchant tailor, was born in the village * Vrulthopen, Hanover, Germiui}-, December i?3,_ 18H2, where he was raised and lived with his parents until manhood. AVlien fourteen he began to learn the trade of tailoring and worked at that trade until reaching his majority, when in 1851 he came lo the United States. He first settled at Chicago, after making a visit in Wisconsin, where he worked until the spring of 1855, when he weiit to Eultun. Illinois, and worked as cutter and salesman in the merchant tailoring establishuient of Philip Goldsmitli until 1S5S, when he went to St. Louis, wh.ere he was employed as cutter and journeyman tailor . until Xovember, 1860, when became to Louisiana and was em ployed by Gunn & Barnum in the merchant tailoring department of the store for a sliort ; time, when he went to Ashley, Missouri, and engaged in the merchant tailoring business until 1863, vvheu he returned to Louisiana and carried on F- business until lbG5, when he suspended, and was employed as a cutter by ; Ayers ct Hawkins until 1S79, when he establislied his present business ; which has so increased that he now employs eleven hands. June 14, 1864, he married Bettie, daughter of Xicholas GritHth of Ashley, Missouri, by whom he has three children: Amelia, Maud, and Augustus. He is a mem- \ ber of the iiaptist Church of Louisiana. He is a Master Mason, a Knight I of Honor, and a Kniirht of Pvthias, and belouirs to the ludires of those orders f at Louisiana.