Pike County, Missouri - The whole text, 1883 (part 6 of 13)

i Machine Shop of Louisiana city, was born near Vicksburg. in Hine county. [ Mississippi, May 7, 1>33. His father dying when he was five years of age, I he was sent to relatives living in Dedham, Massachusetts, where he lived and attended school until he was ten, when he was sent to New York City and was aj^j^reuticed to the IS'cw "i'ork City Novelty Iron "Works Company to learn tlie trade of niacliinist and engine bniider and served seven years) and 'hiring the latter ])art of lii.s term of apjirenticeship he was m^de assistant^draughtsnian in the office of the Novelty Company. lie left the Novelty Coni))any the fall of 1S5+, becoming a cadet in the Marine Engineers' Corj)S at tliel'. S. Naval Academy at Annri]>oli5, Maryland, and gi'aduatod as marine engineer in the class of IbSG, and v/as at tlie same time commissioned second assistant on board the U. S. steamsiiip Mi6sissi])pi, and served a cruise of eight months on the Mediterranean Sea. Indian Ocean, and other African waters. He was then granted a leave of absence, at the cx[)iration of v.-hich he re. signed. In the fail of 1^:57 he came to Missouri and engaged in the foundry business i'ov a short time at Hannibal, when he came to Louisiana city, and founded the Louisiana Foundry. In 1S5T he married Laura Holt of Hannibal, ^lissonri.

. R(>]>ert Hayciaft Vi'illinni;-, merchant of Louisiana, Missouri, was born near La Grange," Lewis county, Missouri. ]\[arc1i 31, 1852. He is the son of William Y. and Sarah C. (Simpson) Williams. When he was four years old his parents removed to La Grange where he was raised. From his fourteenth year up to his nineteenth he worked in his father's tobacco factory, when, in ls71, he become associated with his brother, Horace N., in the dry goods business at La Grange, in the lirm name of Williams Brothers. In 1872 they removed to Loiiisiana, In August, 1SS2, Horace N. retired from the lirni, and he continued the business alone. May 23, 1877, he married Ora B.,dangh.ter of J. N. Cryson, of Louisiana, Missouri, by whom he has one child, Itussell. He is a Knight of Pythias, and member of Unison Lodge No. 1875, of Louisiana, of wliich he is one of the past dictators. In 18S2 he represented Jiis lodge in the Grand Lodge of the state that met at St. Louis. . '

Levi Hall Woods, grocer, of Louisiana, was Viorn in Brookville, Franklin county, Indiana, April 16, 1828, where he was raised, and educated in the public schools. At the age of fifteen he began clerking and was employed as such by his father and others up to 1850, when he made a trip to California vrith a mule toam. where he succes-sfnlly mined on the Yuba and Feather rivers until J 852. when he went to Portland, Oresron, and eno-ac^ed in the auction business, first as clerk and then as j»roprietor, until May, 1S55, when he returned to Indiana, and soon after he became associated with F. G. Taylor, of Covington. Kentuoky, and ran a peddler's wagon through j)ortions of Ohio and Indiana, wholesaling Yankee notions, until the fail of 1S5G, when he came to Missouri and was employed as a clerk at Savannah until the fall of 1S5S, when lie purchased a farm near Savannah and ])nrsucd farming until lSi31, when he joined the Confederate army under Gen^ eral Sterliiig I'rice. Three months after his enlistment ho was injured, and boon after he accepted the terms of President Lincoln's proclamation and o-ave up his arms. He then went to St. Loui.s where ho was employed as second mate on the steamer -' oieardstown " for two seasons. Durin;^ IS65 and loUO he sold fanniiig mills thror.t;li the southern jsortlon of I.llin(jis for a Cinciniiati rirm. In 1SG7 he came to CllH-k^v-ille, Missouri, wiiere he clerked until 1^69, when he came to Louisiana and eni;-aged in the grocery businesss until trie spring of ISTO, when he failed in business on account of Suintr security f(_ir othei'S. Pie then went to Illinois and farmed near Alton until 1S7-, when he ^\-enL to St. Louis and was engaged in huckstei'ing for j

Bloomington, Illinois, and was employed as foreman in the nursery of F. j K. Phenix until 1S5!>, when he came to Missouri and worked in the nursery of Xorman J. Coleman, of St. Louis, six months, when he went to St.. Charles and became associated in the nursery business with A. Conagan, in at Wobile. After the war in ISOO he ciiine to Lonisiiuia and worked in the nursery of William Stark nutil ISOO, when ho became associated with Mr. Stark in a vineyard and in raising small fruit, and was with him until 1S73, when he began to work his present (.garden, one mile west of Lonis^iana. Ho grows everything in hit; line, including flowers, his market being Louisiana. November i^.v), JS39, he married Mary Oliver, of Pike county. Jle is a member of the Lutheran Church, and his wife of the M. E. Church South.

Robert F. Ayn-s, a farmer and stock-iaiscr of Lnffalo township, is the only surviving sou of th-j late llichie Ayres, an old and highly esteemed resident of Pike connty, wlio settled on Gra&sy Creek in 1S2S, where he lived nntil his death, which occurred August 5, 1S7S. Our subject was born f>n his father's hotr.'^stead, on Grassy Creek, January 22, 18:1:2, where he still resides, and is actively engaged in breeding pure Short-Horn cattle, in which he has been very successful. In iNovember, 1SS2, he was elected county judge of Pike county on the regular Democratic ticket. March 9, 1865, he was married t-v Anna, daughter of "William Brjson, late of Pike county. They 'nave six children living: Anna Isabelle, Lena, Helen, iLary Grace, and Lilian. They had one, Robert F., Jr., who died very suddenly October, 1882, when four years of age. Himself and wife are members of the Ebejiezer Presbyteri.m Church, on Grassy Creek, of which he has been ruling elder for sixteen years. He is a Master Mason, and member of the lodge at Louisiana.

John James Arthur, a farmer of Putialo township, is the eldest of two sons of ]Ma6ton H. and Bersheba (Puu) Arthur. He was born near Clarksviilc, May 2, 1830. When he was only a few months old his ])arents removed to Clear Creek, near Louisiana, where he lived with them until becoming of age. When he left home to do for himself he engaged in farming as a renter on Salt Piver, in Putfalo township, where, in 1854, he purchased sixty-three acros of land, which was the nucleus of his present farm, containing 20t'» acres. With farming and growing fruit he is to some extent engaged in raising stock. He has tilled the position of school director for fourteen years. He has been three times married. Lie married for his first wife, Rhoda Xalley, October 21, 1852, and she died August 20, 18t>3, by whom he has six children. His second wife was Elizabeth Spencer, whom he married JL^rch 3i, ISGL who died January 25, 1875, by whom he has five children. He married for his last wife, Mrs. Eliza A. Spencer, June Hi,

1876. THinfcir rtivl wife are nicnibcrs of tlio Suit Kivor Brvptist Chnrclu of whicli he has been clerk for six ye^v^. Diirinr^ the late war he was a Fnion man, and, althongh exempt from military duty, became a home guard under Captnin McGurry, but was called out on guard only oocasionally.

Jolui 3ril)'sliall Allen, grocer, of Louisiana, was born on a farm in the vicinity of Louisiana, February 5, 1845. His fathci-, Sauiucl E. Allen, catne to Pike county in 181S, from St. Louis county, Missouri, where he was born in January, ISIL He was raised in this county, and from maturity until 1S50 followed farming in the vicinity of Louisiana, and in that year Ik; established himself in the boot and shoe business in Louisiana, following it some two or three years, when he clianged from that to the grocery business which he followed until his death, iii 1S70. The subject of this sketch was |. raised in Louisiana, and educated in the private and ])ublic schools, and by \ during that summer, when he went to Washington Territory and established j a ranch near the'mouth of the Klikatat River, and remained until the spring of ISSO, when, disposiTig of his ranch he returned to Louisiana and established his present grocery business. October 29, 1873, he married Ollie

AVilliaui Newton Ih'j'son. a farmer of Buifalo township, is of an old pioneer family. His grandfather, John Brj-.son, came from the York district, South Carolina, in 1816, and settled in Pike county (then a part of St. Charles county), l.e bein;:^ the ori2:inal owner of the site of Louisiana city, j.re-empting it from the government, which he sold. He then, about 1S19, entered the Iruu.l tliut is now tlie Bryson hoinestead, on Grassy Creok, five miles we=t of Louisiana, which, at his death, in 1821, was inlieriied by his son William, who was born in Yorkville, South Carolina, December 1:3, IS'.)!, and came with b.is parents to Missouri in 1^1G. lie married -Mi?s KHza Yeater in 1S2S. They had two sons: Jolin. and the subject of this sketch, who was born on the homestead, September 21, ISW, where he was raised. He was educated by attendino- the public school, the AYatson zVcademy at Ashley, Missouri, iuxd Sliurtliti' College, at Upper Alton, Illinois. During the war, in 18G1, he was employed as a clerk in the pay luaster f;:eiierars ofhce 0+' the state of i^[issouri, at Jetierson City. At the death of ids fatlier. May 5, 18(34, he inherited the homestead, where he s Jon after engaoed in farming, and so continues. In ISTO. in connection with fanning, he engaged in breeding Siiort-Ilorn cattle, and in that year started his herd, known as tb.e Ashland Herd. Xovember 11, IsG'J, he married Miss Sue M., daughter of .John Reading, of Pike county, by whom he has two cliildren, Ora and Eiiza. He is a member of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, on Grassy Creek.

Henry P>eiiJ;niii;i Hiitts, M. D., a retired physician, is the oldest of five sons of liev. Daniel P. Putts. He was born near Hume, Xew York, July 31, 1S34. His father being a minister and making frequent changes, he was raised at nu one place. He was educated by attending the public schools of the various places where he lived with his parents, until he was sixteen years of age, when he began clerking in a drug store in ^STew Haven, Connecticut, and was so employed for four years, when he went to New York City and engage'] hi the drug bu^-iness, which he followed there and at Rome. ^^Tew York, and St. Louis, Missouri, until 1SG3, when, having studied medicine - privately, he graduated as M. D. from the McDowell Medical College, of St. liOuis. He then began the practice of medicine in St. Louis, and in 1SG3 he founded the Dr. Putts Dispensary, of St. Loui^, of which he was pro]jrietor until 1ST4, when he sold his dispensary, and retiring from the practice of medicine, came to Pike county and settled in the vicinity of Louisiana city, on his Hill Side stock and dairy farm, and is engaged in breeding Jersey cattle and makes the "Crovvn Jersey Herd Patter,'' which he ships weekly to St. Louis. October 9, 1854, he married Lucinda, daughter of Samuel S. Bishop, Esq., of iSew Haven, Connecticut. By her he has three children: Ada L., Sherman H., of Ashland, Pike county, and John A. Himself and family are members of the Eirst Presbyterian Church of Louisiana city, of which he is one of the ruling elders. He is a prominent Mason, having taken all the degrees up to the ninety-fifth of the "Egyptian miles south of Louisiaiia city, where his father died in 1S22. He remained j with h\> mother until manhood, and, as soon as he was old enough, helped ' | school in Buffalo townshij) one year, lie then tfinght a ^subscription school for nine months tVir sl-2 per mouth, und -'hoarded around.'' The next year he pureliasod his mother's homeelCiid, goint; in debt for tlie whole of the purohaso-money. lie lived there t\rc years when, in lSiS,he sold and purcliased his ]>resent farm two miles south of Louisiana city, where he has pursued farming and h.orticdturc ever since, isovember 27, lS4i, he married Miss KHzabetli C. Jordan, dauohter of .Robert Jordan of I'ike county, by whom he liarr five childiea living: James 11., a farmer of Eufl'alo townshij); Cortes M.. a commercial traveler for the wholesale hat and cap house of J. Meyberge t<: Co. of St. Louis; AYilliani W., an attorney at Mexico, Missouri; Octa I^.I., at hon^e; and P>arber W., a sLudont at the Missouri State Cniversity at Columbia, Himself and wife are members of the Buffalo Cumberland Presbytei'ian Church, of long staiiding, of v.-liich he has been one of the ruling elders since 1:^50, and has served as clerk of the session fur eight years. During the late war lie was a Union man and served as a home guai'd under Colonel Fagg. . . - ,

«1 nines Xortoni Heiulersoii, horticulturist and dealer in fruit, is the son of James and ^[aiy (Dcwvson) Henderson. lie was born near Danville, Virginia, December 25, 1S32, and in the year following his birth he came to Missouri witli his parents, who settled in Lincoln county, where they both died in 1SP)'>. He was then taken by friends and raised until old enough to provide for himself He was educated by attending the ordinary subscription school then in vogue. When eigliteen years of age, in 1S50, he v.ent to Caliloi-nia where ho mined succetsfully uiitil lb52, y.-hen he returned to Pike county, Missouri, and engaged in teaching school in Calumet township in the vicinity of Clarksville up to 1S5L, when he came to Louisiana and was em"})loyed in the law oHice of his brother, Hon. John B. Ilendersuu, as a clerk and an assistant for nearly two years, when in the summer of 1855 he engaged in the rnanutacture of plug tobacco, being associated with G. W. Thurmon, Thomas Cash, and John B. Strange in the tirm style of Cash, Henderson, Strange Sr Co., who were tlie pioneer tobacco manuftcturers of Louisiana, 'ihey did a profitable business up to Isovember 11, 1867, when their factory was burned, iiivolving a los^s of '^30,000. In ISOS lie went to Iveoknk, Iowa, where, with Messrs. Cash and Strang.-, he again engaged in the manufacture of tobacco in the tirm name of J. X. Henderson A: Co. Thev discontinuinir the business in 1S70, he then entray;ed in buying leaf tobacco at various points on the Missouri River and shipping it to the St. Louis market up to 1S78, when he began to deal iu and raising fruit in the vicinity of Louisiana city. During 1857, 1858, 1859, and UCO, p^(h>ai'd A. i\[c(|uie, a farmer of liuffalo township, was horn near Louisiana, Pike county, Missouri, March 1, 1833. He is the son of William L. McQuie, a pioneer of Pike county, who came from Kentucky in 1829. He lived with his parents until manhood, when, becoming of age, in 1859, he made a trip to California, after which he returned to his father's homestead and remained until Maj-ch, ISGl, when he, with Dr. A. C. liobinson and William Griffith, went to Idnho Territory. En route they encampeid at Plumb Creek, in Nebraska, where he was accidentally shot in the arm. They arrived at Bannock City in July, 1864. During that .sumn.}er they prospected in the vicinity of Paunock City, and during the fall he and Dr. Eobinson built a house for the use of the first legislature of Montana Territory, that territory having been recently formed out of a part of Idaho. In March, 1SG5, he left Bannock City and went to German Gulch, where he remained until the fall, when he received the intelligence that his father, on account of failing health incident to old age, could not carry on the farm, and he was requested to return home. Being eighty miles from Bannock City, he contemplated purchasing a horse to ride that distance, and lieing jotierod one at a price much lower than horses were selling at, suspecting the men, six of them, of being horse thieves, asked tlie question: ''GcTitlemen, ^ had headed him off, and evidently designing to take his life, fearing expo- ' i sure, but being on his guard and well armed, he succeeded in reaching Ban- j the gang were hung at Virginia City fur stealing the same horses offered to him the day before. He, with Dr. Ilobinson, undauntedly, set out for Missouri, and on their way they were lost in tiie mountains one day. Finding their way to Fort Collins they there joined a company of ninety-six men for self-protection against the Indians. On th.e Platte Kiver they were attacked by the Indians. Xo one v.-as killed but they lost eleven horses. They arrived safely in Pike county iu October, 1865. He then assumed the control of the homestead farm and the care of his aged parents. His father is still livii^g at the advanced age of ninety-three. His mother died October 8, 1S73, at the age of seventy-four. Se[itember 8, 1870, he was united in marriage with Fannie W., daughter of J udge Hubert Field of Saline county, j

Williimi Alexniifler 3lcQuie is the second son of "William L. and Martha (Morrison) ilcQuie, and was born near Hickman, Jessamine countv, Kentucky, November 13, 1827. lie came with his parents to Missouri when he was nine months old, they settling in Pike county, in the vicinitv of Louisiana where he was raised. He v,-as educated by attending the common subscription schools in his l:>oyhood and the Wood's Academy at l^ouisian. After becoming of age, in 1849, he went overland to California, his associates and camp-mates being John Burnett, now Governor of Oregon, E. "B. Kule, deceased, late of Louisiana city, and Charles L>uke, a revenue collector of Calitbrnia. They let't Louisiana city, .April 9, with a train of nine wagons, and wei'e en route some six months wlicn they reached SacraracTito, where they equipped themselves for mining. After mining on the American and Yuba rivers some eighteen months, he, v\-ith T. Ford and J. Burnett, engaged iii butchering and dealing in mining supplies, which business he followed until the fall of 1851, when he returned to Pike county. He then purchased the farm on which he nov.- lives, and has enuafed in farming ever since. ]\[arch 29, 1855, he married Fanny Lingcnfelter, of Fayette county, Kentucky, who died near Louisiana, August 24, 1871. October 15, 1878, he married for his second wife Mrs. Ilebecca lit'.der, relict of Capt. Alhambra lluder, an old and highly esteemed jlissonri River steamboat pilot and captain, and daughter of Frederick J. Wiseman, Esq., deceased, an uhl resident of Louisiana city. In 1871, he with others, established the Bank of Pike County, he being a stockholder and one of the directors, which unfortunately was oliliged to suspend in 1875 on account of the misappropriation of money in }>i'ivate speculation by the cashier, by which transaction he with otliers lost lieavil}'. He enjoys one of tlie most pleasant homes in Pike county. Its surroundings show thrift and taste, and its interior, though unostentatious, indicates culture and refinement, and the presence of a skillful housewife. Himself and wife are tnembers of the M. E. Church South, of Louisiana city, of which he has held the otiice of trustee and :>tev,-f:rd f<jr a nuuiber of years.

Thomas Jcftersoii Xalley, a farmer of Bullalo township, is a son of the late James S. and Matilda (Pector) Nalley. They came to ;Mi6Souri in 1825, and settled for a short time at Bowling Green, Pike county, when they located on a farm five miles west of Louisiania, where the subject of this sketch was born January 27, 185'), and was there raised. His father dying February 25, 1875, he continued to live with his mother until becuiuini,^ of age, when he inlierited the homestead, lie was educated in tlio public schools of his neighborhood. Octol)er 11, 1S7G, lie Tiiarried Clarissa ].)., dau'i'hter of William Brysoii, of Pike county. They have two children, James William and Thomas Jeffersun, Jr. lie is a member of the Xalley Cliapel. M. E. Church South, of which lie is recoi'ding steward.

Geoi'^'C Kt*<\scck(*i Pllzcr, afarmerof Jluilalo township, was born near Falling Waters, Berkeley county, Yirginia, September 12. 1S14-, where he was raised a farmer and lived until October, 1836, when lie came to ^lis- i ivObert Barber Price, a t>.rn-ier of Buffalo township, is the third of four sons of John and Anna (Barbej") Price, who were natives of Xorth Carolina aiid came to Missouri in ISIO and located in Pike county, on land three and a half miles southwest of Louisiana city, wliere he was born, January 19, 1S21, and raised. He lived on the homestead with his parents until October b, 1816, when he married Phebe, daughter of Xicholas and Pegc'-y (Cox) Gremmett, pioneers of Pike county, who came from Virginia in 1832. He then farmed a part of the homestead as a renter after the death of his parents, his fatlier dying in 1861 and his mother in 1873. He purchased the inttrest the other heirs had in tlie homestead, where he still lives and ]varsues farming. Having spent his whole life on the farm on which he was born it is not varied or eventful. They have four children: .fohn X. and Wm. H., farmers of Pike county, and E'lna and Edward, at home.

Edward 1>. Rule. 3L T>., of Buftalo township, was born on a farm in Spencer township, Pike county, August 2, 1848. He lived with his parents in Pike, Audrain, and Palis counties until ISC)S, he being mostly educated in Ralls county. In that year he begaii ihe study of mtxlicine in the office of Drs. Puckner ^V: Ayres, at Louisiana, and was under their preceptorship until he graduated as M. D. from the St. Louis Mt-dical College in 1S71, after taking two courses of lectures. He then located on Grassy Creek, in the vicinity oi' the Ecadiug nost-office, and where he has been in constant practice ever since, ifiucc 1873 he has also been engaged in breeding SiiorL-

Horn cattle. ]\[arch 7, 1872, lie was married to Miss Narcissus T., daiiolif<.r of John IJoiulinir. of I'niiUlo township. JTiiaself and wife are members of the IS'ujlcy Clia])el, M. 1']. Cliurch Suiith, of Giar^sy Creek.

John Eastin Sliaiilion, ;"i farmer of JJuffahj town^hij), was born on a farn^ nc;\r liOxini.'ton. ili^^onri, September 10, 1S21. AYlien lie was one year old he came with his pareiiis, William and Margaret (^Eastin) Shannon, to Pike county, they settling- on Peno Creek, twelve miles west of Louisiana, where he was raised and lived until manhood. Wlien he was twentythree years of age his father gave him 2-10 acres of unJm])roved land, of which he made a farm, where he lived six years, up to 1851, wlien he exchanged it for the farm on which he now lives, on Noix Creek, four miles west of Louisiana, then containing 420 acres, to which he has added by subsequei;t purcliases .oOO acres, making in all OSO acres. ]Mr. Shannon beinoraised from the time he was one year old ii] Pike county, and not seeking any political honoi'S, but devoting his life to the pursuits of husbandry, the history of his life is uneventful. With the exception of his 'usual huntinoexcui-sions,of wiiicli from boyhood he has been fond, and a trip to California of several months, he has never absented himself from his farm. On foing' to California, in 1SG4, he was accompanied bv Marion and Pichard TAo-o's and AVilliam ITolliday. Their train consisted of eighteen v;agons and 200 head of horses and mules, which they were taking there to sell, requiring forty men for teamsters and assistants. They arrived in Sacramento in June, and after disposing of their stock, returned in October, via Panama. Although past sixty years of age, he takes liis yearly autumn hunts in the wilds of sotuhern and western Missouri, and the Indian territory, and Arkansas. He loves to recount his adventures, and jokingly claims to be the only man in Pike county who has killed a bear. He is a careful, prudent man, and his liome and its surroundings indicate taste and thrift. October 24, 1S44, he married Margaret P., daughter of William Piggs, and a granddaughter of Pcv. Pavis Piggs, a pioneer Paptist preacher of Pike county. They have seven children: Emma, wife of Dr. William Salmons, of Louisville, Missouri; William O., of Audrain county; McCune, of Montgomery county; Pichard M., of Audrain county; Minnie, wife of 3*1. P. Halliday, of Pike county; John P., a student of the ]\Lissouri State University; and Peggie, at home. Himself, wife, and four of his children are members of the ISoix Creek Paptist Church, of which he has been clerk since 1S45.

John Johnson Smith, a pione+.'r mill-wright and carpenter of Pike county, was bor'i near Owensburgh, Kentucky, October 2S, IS 12. He came with his parents to Z^P.-souri in 1817, they settling in tlie following year on

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Gmssv Creek, thou St. Charles county. His father dying when he was tourteen years of age, he continued to make his home with his mother on tlic lioine farm, but learned, milhvrlghting with his uncle, John Johnson, which trade lie followed until lSo7, when he began t.) work at the carpenter's trade, and has follo\ve<l it ever since. October ]<J, 1S37, he married Martha W. Yeater, of Pike county, who died on Grassy Creek, in r>uf. ialo towiibhip, December 19, 187S. By her he had seven children: AVilliam B.; Mary E., wife of "William L. Caverly; Medora Ann, wife of Lafiyotte Beading; Martha J., wife of Horace McLeod ; Bena, wife of AVilliam Bove; Zachary T., and Josepli IB, all residing in Bike county, lie is a member of the Grassv Creek Baptist Church. lie is a member of Perseverance Lodge Xo. 9J, A. B. iN: A. M., of Bouisian?. city.

Josopll HoDTV Suiitll, ii farmer of B\iiialo townshij). was born on the farm on which he now lives, iive miles west of Bouisiana, October 13, 1853. He is the son of John J. and Martha "\Y. [ Veater) Smith, and was raised at his birthplace and lived with his parents until manhood. After becoming of aire lie remained on the homestead, which, he farmed on the shares for his father, and in March, I'^Sl, he purchased a one-half interest of his father. Being born and raised on the same place his life is not an eventful one. Being raised a farmer he follows that avocation exclusively. Janua?w 6, 1SS<J, he married Ella Collins, of Bouisiana city. They have one child, Arthur Bay. He is a member of Grassy Creek Baptist Church, and his wife of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Bouisiana.

Saimiel Allyil Stlllnum v.-as born in Enfield, Hartford county, Connecticut, May 21. 1S21. He was raised at his birthplace and in the city of Hartford, Connecticut. He finislied his education at tlie latter place when he was seventeen. He then entered the hat store of his cousin, Peter D. Stillman, as a clerk, and was with him until becoming of age in 1842, when he returned to Enfield and engaged in farming on his father's homestead until his death in 1S4'J, when he took charge -^jI' the homestead as one of tlie heirs, where he lived atid imrsued farming until ISHl: when, the homestead being sold, he went to Iowa and purchased a farm near Garnavillo, and followed farming there until selling his farm in IStj*-), wher^ he came to Bouisiana city, and became the first ])roprietor of the Globe ILjtel, which he kept until ISSO, when he retired from the hotel and engaged in horticulture and agriculture in the vicinity of Bouisiana. He prides himself in bee culture, and has the most extensive apiarv in the county. He yearly supplies the market with' about 2,000 pounds of honey, there being a great demand for liis brand, lie is also a successful fruit-grower, and ownc an excellent young orchard. May 21, 184^5, Jie married Miss Jane Eliza Burt of Massachusetts, by whom he has eight children: ^Mabel E., wife of C. S. Gleason, of Lincoln, Kebraska; Emma J., wife of J. M. Guile, of Louisiana city; William Burt, of Texas; Kibbie. at home; Cora F. F., wife of T\' . E. Tower, of Boodhouse, Illinois; Allyn J. and Gena, at home; Liska, attending the Nebraska State University at Lincoln, Nebraska. lie also has an adopted daughter, Lottie, wife of W. jl. Guillam, of Vandalia, Missouri, who is dearly beloved by the family, and is considered one of them.

Clayboi'iJC Martin Thiu'fuan, a pioneer of Pike county, is a native of Kentucky, and was born near Stanford August 4, 1807. "^""hen he was tvvelve years of age, his father being dead, he came to Missouri witli his mother aud grandparents, who settled in Lincoln county, at Woods's Fort, now Troy, |

Pike county in 1821, and lived with him in Buffalo township until 182G, when he with four of his neighbors went to Galena, Illinois, on foot, to find employment in the lead mines. He worked in the lead mines on Fever lliver four mouths, when he enlisted in tl;e U. S. armv under General Dodi-'e as a soldier in the "Winnebago Indian War, and served live months, when peace was declared. He then returned to Galena where he continued to mine until 1S2S, when he returned to Pike county. He soon after entered a quarter of a section of land six miles south of Louisiana. He afterwards , entered several parcels of land amounting in all to 3,000 acres. He then engaged extensively in farming, at one time having 300 acres of wheat. He also became quite a slaveholder, owning twenty-one at the breaking out of the late war, all of which were emancipated. In 1S66 he abandoned farming and purchased the steam ferry-boat at Louisiana city, which he owned and run up to ISTG, when he sold it aud then built a steam freight boat which he run one season, when it was suid; by the ice the following winter, after which he resided at Louisiana and was engaged in settlinor np his business and making an effort to save his property, he having become deeply involved by domestic trouble and losing heavily on account of the war. ' In 1S80 he ]eft Louisiana city to reside with his son Joseydi near that place, where he still lives. March 14, 1S33, he married liebecca Mackey. daughter of Capt. John Mackey of Calumet townsip, Pike county, who died Marcli 1, l^b2, by whom he has two children living: Jose[)h M. and George W. In 18(32 he married Mrs. Susan Ann Grirhth, they living together two years wlien they separated.

Joseph 31. r.iul Ge.'Oi'AT W. Thuriiian, sons of C. M. Tluirman, were born in Jlufralo township, I'ike county, October S, ISiT, and .lulj' S, 185i.', respectively. They lived with their fiitlier until manhood. They are botli I'anners of l^uttalo townshij). December 12, IST-S, Joseph M. married Mrs. Ellen Thurman, and lives on the hoine?tead. In June, ISSO, George married Miss Kate Johnson of Illinois. Thej' have one child, Susie Iicbecca.

Jollll Tuviier, a farmer of UuIihio townshij-. was born in St. Louis county, Missouri, September 11, iSl-i. His fither. Jolm 'J'urnor, came from South Carolina in 1811 to Pike county, Misr-ouri, and located on land that is now the Louisiana fair ground, but on account of the hostility of the Indians in lbl3 he, with his fellow ])ioneers, built a f )rt near a spriiiL^;, on land that is now the Tsi^rii;- farm. The fort is known as Bull'alo Fort. lie remained in the fort until the spring of ISl-l, when he removed to St. Louis countj^, where our subject was born as before stated. He caine with his parents to Pike county in ISIS, thev settlinof seven miles soutli of Louisiai\a, where he ! was raised and lived with them until 1S?.9. wlien he began to do for himself .| as a farmer, on a tract uf land given him by his father, containing eighty -] acres, to vrhich he has since added 200 acres more. He pursued farming .j until 1S5I, when he CTigaged in coopering, and the farm was carried on by 'i his sons. March 21, 1S39, he married Martha Shy of Pike county, by whom "j he lias live children: Minerva Jane, wife of Jose])h M. Anderson of Ycrnon county, Missouri; Samuel W.; Mary Louisa, wife of John McLeod; James A.; aiid Mariha P., wife of Samuel Scott, all of Pike county, Missouri. Himself and wli'e are membci's of the Buffalo Cumberland Presbyterian Church of which he has been a ruling elder for thirty-six years.

This is the uiicldle or central town<hij> of the eoimty, and within its limits and near the center ol' tlie same is situated the tow.-.i of Bowling Green, the capital of Pike. Cuivre is irregular in form, and is bordered by six of the other townships of the county. It embraces one hundred and one sections and has an aggregation of over 64,000 acres of land.

The mean elevation of tlie townshiji is not far from SOO feet above the tidu, which gives both tone and rarity to the atmosphere; wiiile the absence of swamps and iagoons contributes much to the liealth of the peo})Ie. The western, southei-n, and central ])ortions of tlie township are made up uf broad stretches of prairie whose undulating surface contributes alike to the drainage of tlie lands and the beauty of the scenery. In the northern and eastern ])ortions of Cuivre are to be found some timber, covering" the hills that proj<^ct then)£elve5 above the surrounding country and lining the margins of the streams, whose clear waters hasten to mingle with those of the Hississippi. The soils of this township, while not to be compared to tlie rich lands of Calumet, are bv no means either poor or unproductive, but on the contrary yield a rich return for tlie labor bestowed. Indeed the prairie lands, once regarded a*^ almost worthless, arc gradually and constantly developing elements of productiveness which sur]M-ise even the oldest and best farmers of every portion of the county.

AViihin tlie last few years public opinion respecting the relative intrinsic values of the wooded and prairie j)ortions of t!ie township has undergone a very radical change, and at this time ttic pi'eference is largely given to the prairie, especially when these lands can be bought at less than half the cost of the good timbered lands of the county. This township, which is already t'airly settled and developed, is ci>nstantly receiving new accessions i>f farmers from the be.->t class of inimigrants. coming from Illin*-!?, Kentucky, Ohio, and otlier states, attracted here by the cheapness and fertility of the land and the beauty of the peaceful and ]iastoral landscape. The manner of cultivation is every year improving and the generous soil liberally responds to the farmer's care. With surface drainage, subsoiling, and the use of an alkali, the time is not far distant when tlie ])rairie Linds of (viiixre \vill be sought after as the ne j^^'^s ultra in thie portion of the comnionweallli of ^Lissuurl.

As a graziui^' district this township is unsurpassed. The native grasses arc highly nutritious and as a fat-pruducing element arc unexcelled, while the beautiful blr.e-grass. which appears indigenous to the soil, is sure to succeed the eating out or disappearance of the former. Timothy also grows luxuriantly, and while sa])plying tlie hay necessary to winter use likewise furnishes tlie late or early pasturage. .-

The stone snpjdy of the township is both varied and abnndfint. Near Bowling Green ai-e sevei-al <juarries of building stone whose beauty and durabilitv are unsurpassed, and nothincf but an unfortunate location witli respect to facilities for traiisportatiou lias prevented the investment of large | the springs and cisterns meet the demands of the people for drinking, culi- ' I nary, and other family purposes. The watershed wdiicli divides the waters -!

of the above named streams is made up of a good part of the town of Dow- " j ling Green, whose highest point is on Centennial avenue, near the C. & A. j found its market in Kansa)^ and nortliwcst ^Missouri. The capacity of tliis kiln docs not exceed two liundrcd bu.-liels ]ier day, and during tlie first season pales at low fio-nres were found for nio;;t of the linre inanui'acturcd. In February, 1^81', M. S. Goodman bought a lialf interest in the above named property and remained associated with Ca]>t. Parker until the September lollowino;, v;hen on account of tlic dulness of the lime market, the small demand, and the conviction tliat the business could not be made to pay two men, he sold his intej-est to Parker at a small advance over the original cost. Some lime from this kiln has been sold in the St. Pouis market, but, on account of the sharp competition and the more favorable location of other kibis, at prices that did not justify its maimiacturc. The lime is everywhere acknowledged to be first class, and those who have used it once arc certain to try it again, and nothing but the unlbrtunate location of the quarry, at a great and abrupt remove from the railroad, can prevent tlie general introductiori aiid uso of this very superior and necessary article. The late state geologist, Hon. G. C. Swallow, says " it will make a a cry fine quick lime which will slake very quickly and completely." 'You can rest r.ssured no limestone in ^^he country will make a better mortar than the subcrystalline limestone you sent me." The quarrying of ruck, burning of lime, and manufacture of barrels gives em]'lovment to about fifteen men, and Capt. Parker is now preparing to enlarge the works, and will, possibly, during the ensuing season, add such improvements as will Very loaterially enlarge his capacity for supplying the demands of all who desire a quick, strong, pure, and cool-wojking mortar, and whose whiteness and hardness alike recommend it as plaster and mortar of superior beauty and durabilit}'.

In the general history of the county mention is made that the Basyes came in ISIS. From J. C. Pasye we learn that his father, J. W. Basye, came to Missouri in 1791 and settled in St. Louis county, coming to Pike as stated in 1818, and settling in what was then a veritable wilderness. Tlie map of original entries shows that he took up as his claim, in December 23, 1818, the very ground on which the county seat is now located. As the county was not organized until December 14-, 181S, he was here and had located his claim when the county was just nine days old. Neighbors were then few and far between, but fortunately through the a=sistance of such elderly gentlemen as the Pev. J. W. Campbell, Cyrus Watson, J. C. and "W. M. Basye, we can give our readers some clue as to who these neighbors were from 1815 to 1S20. Three miles west of J. ^V. Basye was Giles Til- lott, and ouc mile southeast of G. Tiliott was "WiiHain Caini)bcll. Joseph Hell lived three miles south of Bowling Green, and two miles further ?oulh wa.'i William McPile, who came in 1817. Bell had both a farm and store. 'J'wo miie;^ south of Bell M-a& alf^o Elijah Hendricks. Six milef^ west of jjowh'ui,' Green were TJobcrt Irvine and Samuel A. Tombs, adjoining farms. A little west of these again were .David Tombs and Daniel Ilaynes, joining farms. From that point for sixteen miles west there was no house. Joseph llollidav and John Tullv were not far oft', north.west of Bowling Green. Eight miles northwest of Bowling Green were Gilbert Thompson and Davis and William Biggs. This Davis Biggs was the father of William Biggs, and the grandfather of AVilliam K. Biggs, near Curryville. About one mile further was John McOune, father of Joe McCune of McCune's Station, Further to the east were John and Thomas Hedges. These were the principal families up to the Louisiana road on Xoix Creek. Here tliree miles from Bowling Green was settled "Willis Mitchell, and joining him John Watson, father of C, B. Watson, still living on the same ground, north of his residence, and John Lindsay.

Kev. John Mattjiews'S School

While Mr. Patton lays claim to the honor of having tanglit the first school within the limits of the county, in 1S12, and that, too, in a place of no less renown than Butlalo Fort, all concede that the second school was taught by Bev. Jolni Matthews.- I. iS^. Bryson was liis pu.pil in 181S. A year or two later, however, J. C. Basye enjoyed the instructions of this eminent divine and rigid pedagogue. This latter pupil still lives to tell of this primitive school and its old-tin)e teacher.

The house was about twenty by thirty feet, p.nd was l>uilt of hewed logs. H was covered with clapboards held in their places by weight poles. The walls of the house were cliinked and daubed with mud. It was heated with an old tin-plate stove, which stood on a floor of puncheons. The seats were hewed logs with wooden legs. The writing de>>ks consisted of large linn logs s})lit, hewn level, and pinned to the v.-all on one side, and supported by long wooden pegs on the other. For windows one log was t.'iken out almost its entire length on each side of the bouse. Instead of glass, foolscap pajier was oiled and inserted in^i-eniousiv all alon^. The door was about six feet wide, made of clapboards, fastened to cross-pieces with wooden pins. This building once stood near the }>resent site of the old cemetery at Louisiana.

Beading, writing, and spelling were the principal branches in the curricnlnm of this first "people's college.'' Xoah Webster's speiling-bcok then, as many years afterwards, was the standard in orthography. Tliis book, too, pioneered tlie way lor our ]aro;e unabrid^^cd quarto dictionary of to-day. Pike's arithmetic was tlie authority in mathctnatics.

It seems that this reverend gentleman, wit]\ all his Christian graces, was somewhat stern and even severe, if not cruel, to pupils who failed to recite well or behave properly. His faults, however, if he had any, were like the crimes of the Puritans, the blemishes of the age in which he lived. Life here, as well as in New England, is nut now what it was then, and school discipline, likewise, has changed for tlic better. He evidently did much good in his day, not only v,-hen he preached the gospel of love and peace, - but when he united many hearts by Hymen's silken ties, of v\-hich lie had well nigh a monopoly; for, in those early days, preachers were scarce, and it sometimes fell to the lot of those who were neither divines nor justices to celebrate these sacred ceremonies. There are doubtless many living now vrho owe, porhp.j'S, their legitimate being to his kindly offices, and are ready to rise and call him blessed. - .' - '' : -

Eaely Modes Of Living

"Whatever uncertainty there may be about dates and genealogies, thcrevis no question as to the manner in which these old pioneers lived. All of tlie survivors of the period of which we are writing agree in testifying to the mortar and pestle in which their corn was prepared for meal or hominy. The mortar was made out of a large block or the stump of a tree. The cavity was made by first boring a few holes of ditierent depths, and then completing it by burning away wliat was necessary to give it the cup-like form. Sometimes, for a pestle, an iron wedge was driven into a piece of wood, secured from spli!:ting by an iron ring. One pioneer is said to have had a hole burned into the top of a stump for a mortar, the heavy pestle being attached to a sweep, by means of which much manual labor was avoided. In this way was their corn pre])ared as a matter of necessity, for there was no mill at first nearer than St. Charles. At first hand-mills were very common. There was then, as in the still more "olden time," the '- upper aiid the nether millstone.'' The upper one had a wooden peg in it, which served as a haiidle for women and others who knew how to turn it about. This mill was superseded by the horse-mill. Of this there were at least two kinds. Jn the one case the horse moved in a circle, turning a vertical shaft, which had a wheel overhead -which moved the burs. In the other kind the horse was kept walking on an incline plane which kept moving from iinder htm. Thus motiou was com.raunicated to the driving wheel.

Ouivke Tow.Nsuip

The ineal was bolted by means of a box about two by six feet, M'ith a cloth b.ittKin. Tliis was shoved by hand to and fro, with sufficient celerity to answer the purposes of a t-,i(n-e, at least.

A novel tuibstitute for bread consisted in slicing;- tolerably thin the hams cf deer, placing these slices on thin pieces of wood, su[)j)orted by forked timbers set in the ground for posts. A gentle fire beneath was sufficient to drv the verdson, which would then make a savory substitute for br^ad, and was fainiliarly known as "jerked veiiison."

Mount Pisi^ali was the first organized Baptist Church in Cuivre town--l)ip. It was instituted December 5, 1S33, at the house of Harmon Ilavrkins, sonie four and a half miles northwest of the town of Bowling Green, and within three hundred yards of where the church-house now stands.

Tiie church Nvas a colony, principally from the old Beno Church, about four miles north, which was organized in territorial times, or in the year 1S19. In the organization of ^Lount BIsgah Church there weie nineteen members, all of whom save three - Colonel William G. Hawkins, Mrs. She]'herd,of Bowling Green, and BenjamJn B. Moore, of Audrain county-- have " passed over the river" and into the "great beyond.'' To preserve the names of the noble men and women who CDUstltnted the early membership of this old church, we give them below in full: Harmon Hawkins, Kdward Bondnrant, Benjamin B. Moore, Benjamin F. l[awkins, Thomas T. Johnson (afterwards their pastoi-), Diggs Luck, William G. Hawkins, George Hardin and sisters, Jincy Hawkins and jS^ancy C. Moore, Lavina Bentle3', Elizabeth Tinker (nou- Shepherd), Jemima Tiiomas, Lucy Luck, Mary Luck, ^largarct M. Johnson. Rachael Moore, and Jane and Milly, two colored women. Elder ] )avis Biggs, William Fuqua, and Walter ^Fc- ^^nie were present by invitation, and assisted in the organization. At^er the usual exercises and inquiries by the above-named ministers, and satislactory answers by the brethren, they proceeded to organize upon the articles of faith, church covenant, and rr.les of decorum then and there set forth. After the organization the church was named, and Harmon Hawkn.s and Thomas T. Johnson were elected deacons, and William G. Hawkins ''chosen as church clerk. On the first sabl>ath in February, IS34-, the church caiicd Thomas T. Johnson to become their pastor, after he should have been '"tt apart by ordination, and agreed to call a presbytery to meet at the -liurch on the first Wednesday in April to attend to that service. After meeting on the day Jiun'ed Mr. Johnson urged a postponement, which was agreed to. At the following Jiuie meeting, however, a presbytery, consisting of Elder Davis Biggs and "Walter McQiiie, met with the church and proceeded in the nsual form to set r.pvirt Thomas T. Johnson to the Gospel ministry by ]irayer and the laying on of hands, wIk) vras then recognized as the duly installed pastor of the chundi. In June, 1835, Edward Bondnrant was chosen deacon, to supply the place made vacant by the promotion of Mr. Johnson to tlie ministry. I'or twelve years Elder Johnson continued to serve this congregation faithfully and acceptably. At the Ecbruary meeting, in ISf-E Elder Walter McQuie was chosen to succeed Mr. John- \ son, the latter declining to serve longer, and for five years lie served as the overseer of the church. In Eeliruary, 1851, Elder dames E. Smith became the ])ast<.>r of tlie church, and in the same year, having removed his family into the neighborhood, he and liis family became members here. Elder Smith resigned his pastorate in 1855, and was succeeded by Elder William W. M-itelicll, wht) resigned his cliarge, ^fter having ofriciated as pastor for the peiiod of one year and eight'months. Elder Johi\ T. Williams was now called by the church, and after serving the church for one year, was succeeded by Elder A. P. Bogers, v^dio had but a short time before been ordained a minister. At the May meeting, in 1SG2, Elder Rogers resigned, after a term of three years' service, and at the June meeting following Elder Rogers was recalled and accepted.

Eaily in 1864 the church, owing to a military order of General Rosecrans, decided to suspend business meetings, which suspension continued nntil December of tlic same ycai'. In the meantime Elder Rogers had again resigned, liaving served the last time about two years, or in nil about five years. In Xovember, lSG-4, the church employed Elder M. M. Modissett. who remained in cliarge nnfil 1872, a period of eight years, Erom \ October, 1S72, until Xovember, 1876, Elder Albert G. Mitchell was the prf-aclier in charge. In December, 1876, 'the church, by a unanimous vote, called Elder V.'iley J. Patrick, who accepted, and who continues to serve the church at the present time.

At the Eebruary meeting in 1844, Deacons Hawkins and Johnson having taken letters and left the church, Henry Sisson" and Robert Gooch were chosen in their stead. In July, 1S51, the church took steps looking to the erection of a better house of worship, tlie old one, a structure of hewn logs, i having served it.^ day. A building committee of three members was appointed, namely, A. P. Miller, Henry Si6son,and James M. Erier, who were instructed to build a substantial frame house, forty by sixty teet, and to push it to as. earl} completion as possible. In May, 1852, the church held its first meeting in the new house, allhoiiirh in an unfinished condition; but in llie August following the committee reported the liouse completed. The fObt t){" the house in csisli was §1,036. A considerable amount of the matcriiL->, such as shingles, laths, and building stone for the foundation, were furnithed, while much of the work, esj>ccially the hauling and putting in of the foundation, was not taken into the account of cost, but was done by the friends and members of the church outside of their cash subscriptions, in February, 1S52, Colonel W. G. Hawkins tendered his resignation as church clerk, and Judge A. P. Miller was elected to succeed him, and continued to discharge that duty in the most satisfactory manner until 1S77, when he also resigned, and was succeeded by his son-in-law, AV. B, McPike. hi 1S71 Benjamin JI. Mc.Piko and M. 11. K. Biggs were elected deacons I') Hi! the vacancies occasioned by the death of Deacons Rowland Gooch and Ileni'y Sisson.

In September, 1851, the church dismissed twenty-five members by letter to form a new church on North Culvre, afterwards called Concord, but in a few years the church y.lanted here dissolved its organization. In June, 1S54:, the church again granted lottcrs of dismissal to fifteen or twenty members to enter into a new constitution, or church organization, at Bowling Green. This church has prospered, and is in a healthy state of spiritual life. In Octol'cr, 1S75. letters were granted to ten or tv.-elve member.-; to enter into a new organization tor the purpose of establishing a church at Curryville. The oliject of their withdrawal has been fully accomplished, and a good church has been built up by the efforts of these few members, assisted by their brethren of the motlier church. Thus has ]\l(.iunt Pisgah, after fifty years of laborious etlbrt, accomplished some effective work in the "'Yineyard of the Lord.'" Commencing with but nineteen meml^ers, she now has about one hundred and furty communicants, while no less than four hundred and sixty-seven persons have held their membership with this grand old church. Into her fellowship two hundred and seventy persons have been received by baptism, one hundred and sixty-fuur by letter, five by relation, two hundred and tv.enty-one dismissed by letter, forty-one excluded, four restored, and seventv-eic-lit died out of the church militant to enter the j the history of this church that were noticeable events in the religious world, and to which many refer as the occasions when they passed from darkness . | into the " ii'lorious liirht and ifrivilefje of the Son of God." 1

Ti^e schools of tliis towtirihip dilTcr in no essential respect from those of othicr portions of the cor.nty. In the lon^^ ag-o. ^vllen the settlers were few, and the facilities for acquiring an education were alike ])oor and meager, the people adojVied such methods as they believed to be adequate to the intellectual wants of the few chikhen of tlie dilTercnt settlements, or communities, and the log-house, with its low ceiling, rude seats, its single window, and . enormous fireplace, constituted alike the common school, the academy, and tlie college.

The teachers who presided over these schools were in perfect harmony their surroundings. They were men of limited acquirements, but what they lacked in education they made up in vigorous eotnmou st-nse. If thev tau'dit but little, thev tauL-'lit that little well and thorouo-hly; if their reading was confined to r. few books, tiieir thinking powers were exercised npon innumerable subjects. They were probably not classical, but no one "will deny that they were eminently practical. AYith the increase of population, and the general development of the country, the schools gradually improved, although for masiy years the system remained uncliaiiged. With the accumulation of weaUh came better houses, an enlarged curriculum of study, and men of more liberal education. The regular district school now succeeded tho^e which the exigencies and necessities of an earlier period h.id forced tk.ejieople to adopt. In these latter institutions, destitute of either prptension or ambition, many of the beet and strongest men of the county were educated. But progress is the watchword of the nineteenth, century, and the claims of education have been pushed with wondrous rapidity from one di'gree of excellence to another. The private school was soon made to succeed the otlier systems, and those who were seeking admis>ion to the learned ])rofe33ions became its earliest patrons.

This is a brief outline of the schools of the country ]>rior to 1S70, when the public school law as it now exists was adopted by the state. Under its wise and liberal provisions, predicated u})on the conviction that the property of the state should educate its children, the people have since acted, and such care and attention have been bestowed upon these ''colleges of the ]!eople," that at this time the opiiortunities of a thorough Eni^lish education are brought within the reach of all the children of the state. Under this system of education Cuivre township is now j)roceeding. and the intellectual training which the youth have, and are receiving, is conclusive evidence of the wisdom of t!ie chantje. Within the township are no less than ten sciiool-houses where pujnis daily attend from five to eight months of each year, and vvhci-e the brandies ])rescrlbed by the law are patiently and successfully taught by teachers of liberal culture and large experience. The eutieation hero acquired very fully meets the business wants of the masses, uliilc those desirous of clas'-ieal and scientific instructtion can bo acconiinodatcd at other sclicols v.-ithin the litnits of tfie county.

The school at Bowlinir Green, under the eilicient manai^ement of Prof. AV. J. Rowley, assisted by a corps of competent and painstakini^ teachers, i jiiid is in a manner the academy for the further prosecution of the studies of those \\\iu have been in attendance at the public schools of the county.

otHciated in that important position. Prof. Lawry, the present chief assistant, has, however, contrived to serve the people for eight of the eleven years mentioned, and still continues to do work of which he need not be ashameil.

Besides the schools above enumerated there is a school in Bowlin;; Green for the education of the colored youth which has for years been conducted with the use of the money derived from taxation, as wisely provided by the legislature of the state. The school has been fairly taught, is generally ^vell attended, and c<.>nsiderable proficiency has been made in the ordinary t-nglish branches by niany of the pupils.

Bowling Green, tliecapitalof Pike county, it: sitr.fitcd in the center ofC^^ui. vre township and .at no great remove from the center ot'tlie county. Its h)c;ition is ail tliat could be desired so far as elevation and beauty of scenerv are coTicerncd. More than fuur hundred feet above tlic surface of the ^lissis. sippi, and tv.elve miles diciant from it, with neither .swami^s nor lac^oons iii its immediate iieip^hborliood, it is i'ree from mahiria and other disease producing causes incident to the proximity of submerged lowlands and sta<:- rant waters. On the west and south are grand stretches of beautiful undulating prairie; on the nortli tlie timber Vine approaches to within a mile of the town; while on the cast the hills, covered with forests, partiallv ^-ird the city. Viewed from either side the town, with its magnificent reach of country, presents a beautiful, peaceful, and pastoral ]-)icture. Bowlino- Green was laid out as early as 1S26 by 0. C. Trabue ana William McPike, coniriiissioners, and embraced but a small area, being in length but 100 poles, or 2,04:0 feet, and in width 75 poles, or 1,237^ feet. Since that lime sundry additions have been made and the territory now embraced within its limits is anijily sufticient for the iriowth of a cit}- of twenty thousand souls. In 1S71 both Parkers and Moseley's additions were made to the town; in 1872 A. C. Sheldon's addition was attached; in 1S7C Dr. S. J. Reynolds's addition was annexed, and in 1S77 James M. Martin's and D. L. Caldwell's were added. Sliould the time ever come when tlicse several additions sliall be crowded with factories,' stores, or residences, there will be found waiting miles of rolling prairie and acres of beautiful woodland ready to be admitted as a part of a growing and prosperous municipality.

The town is well laid olf and comparatively well built, both the business houses and residences comparing very favorably with towns of its size, either in Missouri or the west. The building of some houses upon the additions above named, which were not all contiguous to each other, has detracted somewhat from tlte regularity and compactness of the place. Put even this aj.'parent defect is being rapidly overcome, as the buildings constructed from year to year are gradually approaching each other and the t(«vvn is constantly presenting more and more tlis appearance of oneness and solidity. The town is possessed of excellent commercial facilities. The ChicH.go d: Alton Jlailroad and the St. Louis, Hannibal tfc Keokuk cross each other here, and each has a depot in tiie town for the transaction of its business. The "Louisiana & Ashley gravel road also passes through the town and furnishes admirable facilities for travel and local business. Within the last tive years the town has doubled its population, erected a number of substantial business bouses, added mnny excellent rcHidenecs, and largely increased its general business. It has a class of active, enterprisinfij, and <i(rgrressi\c business men, \\]\o are po-scssod of eneri^y. fnith, and persistence, who are employin_£r every means and agency within tlieir roach to j advance the i^Towth and prosperity of tlieir town. j this way wilb ere long, overcome the first complaint and make our present valuable, but vacant, lands to bluom with beauty and blossom wich fruit, j

The Cockt-Hodse

Wiietlicr the court-huusc at this time be regarded as an elegant temple or not the i)eople of Pike county deserve credit for having made an honest attempt at having a magniiicent structure for the administration of justice. The coutv-ict fur this building was let as early as 1SG6 to Conrad Smith, of Louisiana. The Ibundutioh was laid by John W. Allen and was constructed out of the Uowling Green building rock, pronounced by geologists to be excellent stone. That the building has given way some and discloses ungainly cracks is due to the peculiar nature of the ground itself rather than to defects in the foundation. The briclc work was comjilcted by William English.. Jones A:. Burris, of Hannibal, did the plastering, and Greenwood & Flesh, of St. Louis, had the contract for the painting. The excellent roof, constructed of Vermont slate, is the workmanship of one Wyte. The entire cost of the building was not much belovr 870,000.

In size, the building is eighty feet north and south and fifty-five feet east and west, with a vestibule on the east fourteen by fifty feet, surrounded by a cupola which reaches an altitude of ninety-live feet. Tiie main building is but two stories high, measuring forty -one feet from the foundation to the eaves. The lower story furnishes the accommodations for the county and probate courts and a number of rooms for county offices, while the upper story has the large circuit court room and smaller rooms for consultation and for the juries.

On the first floor are two capacious halls intersecting each other at right angles, providing easy access to any part of the first story, while on the east side, located in the vestibule, are double stairs leading to the large circuit court room, whose dimensions are fifty-one by sixty-two feet, the ceiling being twenty-one feet from the floor.

This building stands in the center of a grove of locust trees, interspersed by young and thrifty maples, furnishing ample shade and yet not sufficiently dense to intertere witii the grass beneath making a beautiful green sward. The locust trees at this time present a rather stubby appearance, owing to the fact that they were recently bereft of their branches by a heavy sleet and have not yet had time to regain their symmetry. That they survive at all is not perhaps due to the fact that they are tl)e fittest tree? for shade, or the m.ost ornamental, and it is to be hoped that, in the future, they wiii not be as popular as they have been in the past, but will yield their place to better and prettier trees.

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"While the town is not i\o\cd for it.^ nianufacturinj^ interests it has several establislnnouts of no littl.^ importance to the place, M-hich, if properly patronized by the community, are destined to grow materially. Amono; these ' establishment of Ikirke cV: Bagby, which turns out line carriages, barouches, pliaetons, spring-wagons, etc., of excellent finish and first-class material. Mr. W. T. Burke commenced in this bnsiness some eleven years since, and has the benefit of a wide experience. Tiie firm now employs, on an average, seven hands, and its output now amounts to about Sl0,000 worth of new work each year, and is on the steady increase. Aside from this, general blacksmithing and repairing is done.

It is the purpose of this firm to run a first-class machine shop, to which end they have already secured an engine, lathe, and all the machinery neces- Bary for a shop of this kind, which is to be opened in full blast carl}- in the coming s]iring of 1SS3. It will be in chaige of a macliinist who has made a specialty of tliis branch of business, and is eminently qualiiied for his work. The proprietors' propose to erect a commodious brick Ituilding for their enlarged business. These gentlemen are also general agents for all kinds of machine goods, such as outfits for saw-mills, steam-engines, mowers, etc., as well as for Thomas's Patent Harrow, the Casady Sulky Plow, and the Oliver Chilled Plows. All persons buying machinery of tliese merchants can procure all extras at-home, saving theniselves much needless trouble and burdensome commissions. Again, one man is constantly at hand to set up and start all machinery for the industrial community.

In the wood line we find that these gentlemen have also supplied themselves with planers, band-saws, and other machinerj' adapted to sawing out and dressing any kind of hai'd hnnber, sizing it to suit the purpose intended, running even a wood saw to prepare fuel.

Such enterprise as this deserves the patronage of the farmers especially, whose intere.--,t it is to build up home manufacturing interests, something often preached but too little practiced. A similar establishment is

This business wiis begun by tlie present iiroprictor as early ;i3 1SG6, at wliieh time be devoted bis attention priueipally to tbe manufacture of wagons, at tbe same time carrying on a repair shop for tlie convenience and benefit of tbe general public. A few years after be bad become firmly established in Bowling Green, ^[v. Piigb coniiiienced to build or manufacture | buggies, and bis work giving universal satisfaclion, and, tbere being demands made upon bim for more work than bis facilities then enabled him to supply, be at once prepared to engage in tbe business more extensively, and immediately supplied himself witb all the material, tools, and other articles essential to tbe safe and successful conduct of tbe business. From tbat time until the present be has every year made more or less buggies and wagons, at the same time carryijig on bis repair and blacksmith shops, until, at ibif- time. Ids eFtablisb.rnent is regarded as one of tbe important business enterprises of tins portion of the county. lie has invested about three tbousand dollars capital, employs from tlirec to six men, and last year turned out, in addition to wagons and other farm implements, fifteen new buggies and three spring wagons. Besides this be rebuilt a number of old buggies, and did much similar repairing for tbe citizens of botb tbe town and country. Another enterprise of public interest is tbe

Bowling Green Manufacturfng Company

This company was organized in -May, 1881, witb a cash capital of five thousand dollars. Its object was to manutacture plug tobacco, and from tbe time wben it was first operated it bas been engaged in supplying western Missouri and Kansas witb some exelleut brands, and bas, for tbe most part, been kept running up to its full capacity, about seventy tbousand pounds per annum. Tiie incorjwrators v/ere S. P. Grifiitb, D. L. Caldwell, Geo. W. Jacobs, R. Jl. Wright, C. F. Williford, J. L. Hendrick, J. B. Purnell, Gabriel Fbillips, Dr. E. II. Bourn, of Mexico; Elliott & Wyman, of Hannibal, and W. T. Jacobs, of Frairicville. ]Mr. IVrry A. Scroggins, who bas bought into the factory since its fii-st organization, is botb business manager and secretary of tbe company. Mr. 0. F. Williford bas. charge of the factory, | and attends to the details of the manutactaring. Tbe factory is well supplied witb macbiaery, by tbe use of wiiicb most of the goods are made, and its trade is graduallj- and cunstantly increasing.

Perhaps notliiiig indicates tlie financial status and business tlirift of a community better than the character of its banking institutions. Of these Bowling Green has two that command the confidence of the people in the hitrhest degree, representing, as they do, a large amount of capital and officered by men of integiity and genuine courtesy, 'i'hc banklngdiouse of the business, and withal a courteous gentleman. With such a record, not a ] cent thus far having been lost, it is safe to predict for this institution a brilliant future. ' ^ '

This biink, which is the oldest institution of the kind in the western portion of the county and which has long had the entire confidence of the community in which it is located, was organized in the fall of 1874 and chartered in January, 1875. Its capital stock antounted to fifty tiiousand dollars, with thirty per cent, or fifteen thousand dollars paid in. The original stockholders were Dr. U. H. Bourn, of Mexico; Moses ilendrick, J. L. j sition he ttill retains. Since its first organization some changes have been made in the way of the sale and jjurchase of stock, and at this time the stockholders are Dr. E. H. Bourn, of ]\rexico; S. P. Griilith, E. Robinson, W. G. Downing, of Menipliis. Missouri; and John E. Stonebraker, of St. Charles, who is also cashier of the First \ational bank of that city. During its term of business the bank has added to its capital a surplus in excess of eight thousand dollars; it has on hand at this time deposits agfrregatiuf over eighty-six tliousand dollars; is now doing, and has always done, a careful and successful business, upon the most liberal principles compatible with absolute safety; and is at this time in a promising and prosperous condition, and with a future full of usefulocss to the general public and of possible profit to the parties in interest.

about the year lSr»7. It was really a grist and saw-mill combined, and I stood near the present trsck of tlie Short Line IJaih-oad, and was run until I the war began, when it passed through numerous changes, when, finally the j old mill was abandoned. Afterwards Ueedy vt Purse built their mill and ran 'i it about two years, at the expiration of which time Mr. W. J. Sisson, who had for many years been in partnershij) witli Judge S. ^S. Kussell, of Ashley, in connection witliAV.B. and A. E. McAlister, bought it. This occurred in 1870. At this time the mill has been enlarged and greatly improved. The old mill ran two sets of burs, one for wheat and the other for corn, ajid had a daily capacity of lOS bushels of wheat and OC busliels of corn for a run of twelve hours each day. The present capacity is about three times as much for each cereal. Tiie building at this time is a two and a half story frame, besides tlie stone basement for engine and machinery.

Kecently the mill has been supplied with much new and costly machinery. The new engine is a sixty-horse power, constructed by the Greenliei' Manufacturing Company, Quincy, Illinois. The boiler is twenty-two feet long, forty-eight inches in diameter, and has twelve six-inch flues, manufactured by John O'Brien, of St. Louis. The cost of the engine was si. -200, that of the boiler §781, exclusive of freight, which was $24. The cost of the wood work in enlarging the house was 81,000.

A personal inspection of the interior of the mill revealed the fact that it contained machinery in perfect harmony witli that of the engine and boiler room. Among this machinery was the " Becker brush,'' patented June 2, 1871, and manufactured by the Eureka Company at Eock Falls, Illinois;

"No. 2 Excelsior bran duster," luadc at Silver Creek, Chautaufjiia couut}- Xe\v- York; a '' wlieat separator and oat and weed extractor,-' uianui'actured hv l«arriard tt Company, Moline, Illinois; n jiue bolting cl)es«t, being a '' t'onr-reeled donble conve^'or," having a length ol' eighteen feet; also a three-reeled bolting chest: a "middlings parilier," .Xu. o, from Jackson, Michigan; a !No. 2 '' Victor smntter," made by Barnard & Leaf, Moline, lllinoie; and much otiier excellent macliinery, v/hosc description our limited space precludes. This mill has already gained a re|.'Utaiion that reflects credit upon the county at large, and more than merits the description given.

Commercial travelers certaii^ly liave no reason to complaiii of the facilities that the town afibrds in the way of livery rigs. Two establishments, with excellent turn-outs, are ever ready to supply every demand in their liue for transporting the living or burying the dead. The establishment of dates back to 1871, when he first began the business, in which lie remained until January 1, ISSl, when he went to Louisiana to engage, in the same employment, commencing there February 21, ISSl. lie sold out, however, November 4, of the following year, and returning to Bowling Creeu bought "j tion, there being no competing line. Finally, in November of 1SS2, H. C. Jolinson, the present proprietor, bought out W. X. Gibbs, and has resumed entire control of the business at the old stand. At this time he is employing ten horses, six buggies, two carriages, tv/o sj)ring wagons, and a fine hearse, valued at §S00. A more recent establishment is that of

K. vv. m'dannoi.d, who began the livery business, with O. A. Myers as his partner, L)ecembcr 1, 1S81, but boughr Myers out April 1, 18S2. His employment was remunerative until the destructive tire broke out, which consumed the frame buildings on the corner near by and also burned ui> the fine stables in which he was carrying on his bu.-iness. Through the exertion of his friends his stock and buggies were all rescued before he could reach the conflagration. He moved his stock temporarily into the buildings belongiti<2; to "Ward vS: Gibbf-. Determined not to he disheartened by adverse circumstances lie commenced to rebuild on tlje 20Lh oi" November and by the Stb day of the fb]lowin<< montli be ]jad liis etock moved into the new buildinir, and is now prejiared to furnisli the public with turn-outs tlmt would do credit to any stable in ihe county. Tlie establisiinient coiiJ]»ris('5 eleven horses, live buo-iries, one carriage, and one siiiuns; wairon. involviiia: a capital of more than $3,000.

The Telepiionk

The idea of building a telephone from Ashlej' to Bowling Green was conceived by M. T. Griggs, who. in the years 18S0 and 18S1, in traveling over the state, had observed the successful working of this novel instrument. As tlie distance between these two places was only eight miles, he felt confident that enough interest could bo awakened in the matter to put up the line, and mentioned the project to several men of means in I'owling Green, but received little or no encourao-ement, as no one seemed to be willinfr to invest means in a scheme that r.ronnfed no cei-tain I'eturns. Xor was this stranr>-c, as no one knew anything of the practical value of such a line of communication or the cost of its construction.

In the summer of ISSl Mr. Griggs went to St. Louis and called on the ag'ont ctf the Bell Telephone Company, who gave him all tlie necessary information touching the cost of building the line and the best means of securing its construction.. Another attempt was then made to forni a company. Having failed at Bowling Green certain enterprising men at Ashley %vere approached. iVs a result J. L. Elmore subscribed $.50, Bussell it Sons $100, and M. T, Griijirs $100. Thus a o-ood becjinninoc was made, and soon after S. F. Griffith, of the Farmers' Bank, of Bowling Green, subscribed $100, and the balance of the $500 stock was secured in good subscriptions.

The contract for the poles and the election of the line was awarded to P. P. Parker, who completed the work by January, 1882. The line was not, liowever, in working order until March 1, 1882. The first message sent over the line was from ^V. S. Bryant, Ashley, to C. ct A. depot.

So successful was the enterprise that the comj>any concluded in the following June to extend the line to Louisiana, eleven miles farther. For this purpose they secured the right-of-way from the Louisiana and Middletown liock Itoad Company to run the line along Said road. Meanwhile the Mutual L'fiion Telegraph Corripany had put up poles along this road for one of their own telegraph lines. The liock Koad Company having refused to allow the erection of any more poles, and the Telephone Company ha\ ing

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RfiL'urcd the riuht-of-way, which the Telegraph Company had not, an unwilliti^' coni]>ro!nise was forced upon the latter, which resulted in allowing the TelcjihoTie Company to put vhelr wire on tlie poles erected by the other company, the one t'urnishing the poles and the other the right-of-svay.

Tiir Masonk Fkatekmitv

Alorc than tliirty years ago the Ma^or.ic fraternity institnted a lodge introducing the nJy^tcries and rites of tliis time-honored institution. At this time it is represented by three organizations - one Blue Lodge, one Iloyal Arch Chapter, and one Commnndery.

bor 7,'1S75, and the lodge instituted under charter October 19, 1S75, by C. JB. Randolph, acting G. IE B. The lodge, thuugh small in the beginning, has made commendable progress, and now numbers thirty-eight members in goud standing.

Good Temtj-Ars

It has been steadily growing in numbers, receiving into its ranks uiembers from Prairieville, Edgewood, Ashley, Curryville, Frankford, and Louisiana. Provisions are made for insurance to both ladies and gentlemen between the ages of eighteen and fifty-five in amounts of from s500 to s5,000, the cost being in proportion to the age and amount of insurance. The examinations are exceediugly severe, none but the best risks being taken. xVs a result of this rigid ^ule almost one-third of all who apply are rejected. This makes the cost very light, while at the same tiuiC the order, with its ^',000 members, is no longer an experiment. The priiicipal officers at present are: S. P. Griffi.th. P. Com.; W. IP Campbell, secretary; and I. W. Pasye, commander and di.-.trict deputy.

The present membership, composed of the best and most substantial citizens, is thirty-eight. In respect to good material no lodge in the city is superior to it. During tlie three years of its existence there have been but tv^-o or three suspensioiis. The lodge at present is in a healthy and vigorous condition. It has been represented in Grand Lodges by S. P. GrifHth, John Farrell, and I. AY. Basye. The average cost of insurance on 8^2,000 for three years, to those under forty -five years, is Sl-i per annum. John AY. Hendrick lias served faithfully as reporter since its organization, and John P. AYise, as treasurer. Meetings second and fourth Thursdays.

This order is represented in Bowling Green by a thriving lodge known as Imperial Xo. C6. In the summer of ISSl Messrs. I. AY. Basye, Johu J'\arrell, P. J. Hawkins, M. h>. Goodman, and other leading citizens petitioned the Grand Chancellor of the Kniglits of Pythias, Jurisdiction of Missouri, to grant a dispensation lor the institution of a subordinate lodge of this order at Bowling Green. Accordingly, on the 31st day of August, 1S81, with the aid of one hundred and twenty Knights from Hannibal, Louisiana, and St. Louis ''Imj^erial Xo. CO" was ushered into existence with a membership of twenty-eight, as follows: I. \Y. Basye, P. C.; John Farrell, C. C; P. J. Hawkins, A. G.l). Bownum, P.; AY. B. McAlister, M. of E.; C. Lindeiiberger, M. of F.; C. C. Edwards, K. of P. & S.; F. P. Littlefield, M. at A.; I. B. Kirkland, I. G.; John Hughs, O. G.; S. E. Pugh, P. M. McXelly, H. G. Edwards, George H. Green, M. S, Goodman, J. G. Puds, John Porter, G. G. AVhite. George AY. AYylie, Charles E. Porter, Lucien ^sl.

!No lodge in the couutry can boast of better material, and as will be seen from the roll, the niajurity of it? luenibers being yonng men who can render personal aid at the sick bed of a brother, thus obviating the necessity of furnishing fraternal heiji or extending charity " by proxy.''

In the last report oi' the lodge, December 31, 18S2, the roll of members had swelled to forty-seven, indicating a gain of iiineteen since organization, Tlie additional members are: Joseph B. riirnell, James T. j.)avis, AV. W, English, Ferdinand Winkle, Gabriel Phillips, Y. Pngh, John Hettiek, J.

The church records in many instances having been lost, and in otliors poorly kept, it is almost impossible to get materials that are at all reliable. Tjio record best kept is that of the Cnmberlnnd Presbyterian Church and is one of the many fruits of painstaking labor on the part of Pev. J. W. Campbell. This record commences with the year JS3S and is quite valuable. The record of the M. E. Church seems to have been lost, leaving us no alternative but to resort to the recollections of the "oldest irdiabitant.'' Some other records are so meager as to furnish but little data for a history. It is well, however, to compile what facts are still in. reach of the historian, although some of them are furnished as matters of tradition.

This congregation was oiganized in the year 1S3^ by Kev. James W. Campbell. The old record contains the follov/ing names: James W. Campbell and Sophia A. Campbell, David McAlister and wife. Kinzie ]Vfc- Millen and wife, John McCune and wife, and Elizabeth Crow. The record itself intimates that there were some others whose names did not af>pear.

Johnson and wife, AVilliam AVatte. (Uncle Billie) and wife, and one Miller. Rev. James W. Campbell f.nj)plied the church with ]. reaching contiiuiously until the year jS52 when he went to California. Like most other churches this has had its seasons of prosperity and times of adversity. After 1S52, for want of rci^'ular ])reachin£r, the congregation gradually declined until it was left with but few members and but one elder, W. C. Downing.

After this revival Pt'\. James W. Campbell preached once a month for the congregation for one year. The following year the presbytery sent liev. Robert O. Elmore who })reached once a month for that year.

After this time the congregation had no regular ministerial suj)ply until in March, iST7, when a revival was had in a meeting conducted by Revs. J. W. Campbell, E. D. Pearson, Robt. O. Elmore, and Dr. John W. Watts, of Oregon, who was the son of W. Watts, one of the early members of the congregation. At this meeting fifty new members were added, forty-one by profession and nine by letter. Dr. Watts did the most of the preaching and perhaps a greater interest was umnifested in the cause of religion than in any other meeting ever heJd in the town. At this re-organization the communicants numbered eighty-eight. A. R. McAllister was elected ruling elder ]\Iarch 3''', 1S77, and was duly ordained on Sunday, April 1.

After this re\ ival Rev. Robert P^lmore supplied the congregation with preaching from once to 'wice a month until October 3S81, when he resigned his charge, and Rev. James W. Duvall was employed aud still continues to preach for the church twice a month, and has proved to be an able minister and good pastor.

The Old Brick Cliurclt. - The house in Vv-hich the con^jregation worships was built in the year 184^5 by W. Watts, the brick work being done by W. W. Blaine. The edifice was intended as a house of worship for all denonnnations alike, with provisions in the title that the house should be free for the use of all denominations of Chrislians; that the sect contributing the most to the building fiuid should have charge of the building; that it was to be used exclusively ns a chr.vcli, with the uirtlicr provision that when this Ftipuhition should be disregarded the title should revert to ^lajorOury.

These terms were complied with nntil 1S*^»3, when the court-house in tlie tuwii was burned, soon rd'ter which the chuich was used as a court-house. It was thus utilised until 1S*>S, when the new buildings at the county seat wcj-e erected. It was also used as a kind of ])ublic hull, ail lectures, many "shows," etc., being held in it during; this period.

At one tin^e, in ISoG, when Eev. J. G. llodgers, had charge of the house, an agent applied to him for the privilege of using it for a great "moral cx- Ijibition," Permission v.-as granted, but just a little prcviou.? to the lime of beginning tlie entertainniont it was discovered tiiat a band of negro minstrels were about to occupy the sacred precincts of this house of worship, whereupon Dr. liodgers refused to admit them and they left the place deeply incense*!. The building having been used for such promiscuous purposes, the property reverted to Major Oury, wlio afterwards deeded it to the trustees of the Cumberland congregation :'.t this place. This transfer having been made, the house was still used by all denominations indiscriminately until ISCO, when the Baptist church was built.

In the foregoing sketch it will have been noticed that Eev. J. 'W. Campbell, who organized the church in 1S3S, was present and assisted in the revival and re-oriranization in ISTO and ac'ain in the great revival of 1ST7, thus extending ids sphere of usefulness over half a century, always ready to enecKtr«ge and assist in the great work to which he had devoted his m.arvel- 0U3 powers of head and heart. Self-educated he had risen from the common level of the peo])le and never lost his hold on the masses. It is not strange therefore that he is still familiarly spoken of as "Uncle Jimmie." he and Isabella McMillen, knov*-n. also as "Aunt Ibbie,'' being the only surviving members of the fiockof 1S3S.

The records of the Mt. Pisgah Church show that a number of its members left it by letter to form a new church at Bowling Green. This occurred in the year 1851. From Duncan's history of the Baptist Church justfrom the press (January, 1SS3) we learn tliat the Bowling Green Church was organized 1S51, by Elders \v. Ilurly and T. T. Johnson, with nineteen members ; and that the pastors have been Eiders ^V. Hurly, !M. 'M. ^lodisett, L. C. Musick, J. T. Williams, W. T. Luck, J. F. Smith and J. W. Haines. This church seems Pot to have survived the war, and hence in the absence of records we nov,- turn to . '

Histoky Of Pike Cointy

The records of tlie B;i]ttist. Churcli in Bowling Gri:ien arc full of important details and have been well koi)t. Tliere is, therefore, iibniulunt material in them for a, very complete sketch. A mere summary, hovvevcr, is all tliat the limits of ihi.-- article will admit of. The following is the history since the war: On the 2-lth day of February, 1SC6, a meeting was held in Bowling Green for the purpose of eflccting the organization of a Baptist Church. At this meeting Elder A. P. Ilodgers served as moderator and Thomas II. Luck as clerk. A sermon was preached by Elder John M. Johnson. The following persons presented church letters, weiednly received and became the constituent members at this place: ilendly Roberts, Eliza, AVilliam, and Bebecca Boberts, Teriissa and America Metier, W. -lohnson, Alcy JTawklns, Catharine Tisdale, jMary J. Bodgers, Soi)hronia Beynolds, Thomas Johnson, Mary Cotton, James P. Dickinson, Amanda Dickinson, Alcy Frier, John Parsons, C. K. Huntington, Mary M. Penn, Sarah Green, Church Sutton, Elizabeth Roberts, all of Bowling Green; an.d A. P. Rodgers, Uuldah Rodgers, Thomas H. Luck, and Louisa J. Luck, all of the Baptist Church at Mt. Pisgah. The first regular meeting of the church was held on the fourth Saturday in March, 1SG6, and a sermon was preaclied by Elder A. P. Rodgers. Rules for the government ot the church were adopted, atid steps taken looking to employment of a pastor to serve until the L>ecember meetitig, which resulted in the unanimous election of Elder ^L Johnson. In less than a montlj, however, he died and the minutes of the next meeting, Aj>ril 2-i, show tliat Elder A. P. Rodgers was elected as his successor in the ^lastorate.

From time to time additional members were received - many by letter - from Alt. Pisgah, Xoix Creek, and Louisiana churches, nor was it lone until a house of worship was needed fof this gro^ving congregation.

^ew Ciiurch. - At the meeting of March 2, 1S67, a paper was presented showing that already $1,150 were secured towards a new edifice. A committee was also appointed to select a site and submit plans and specifications. In May, 1^07, bids were received, and that of "\Y. W. English to do the brickwork for Sl,U9, was accepted. According to the specifications the house was to be 30x45, walls 10 feet high, etc., and to be built on a lot offered by :N. S. Ferguson, being lot Xo. 24, block 12. The work of building went steadily on and as usual a debt was incurred. The following statement w^as made September 5, ISOS: , .

The house was completed by September 3, ISTO, but tlic indebtedness was not removed until some time later. The pastor, A. P. Tlodgcrs, took great interest in advancing the sabbath-school of his church, and on the 4tli da}' of June, 18^)8, became its superintendent and at once organized with sixty-two scholars. Tl\e following report was made December 31, 1S68:

Tliis devoted pastor resigned his position April 3, 18G9. lie remained, however, nominally as jtastor until September 4th of the same year, when his resignation v/as accepted on account of prolonged ill health wliich incajiacltated him for speaking in public. His place was temporarily supplied by Elder J. F. Williams, who preaclied two Sundays in each month.

A protracted meeting coujmenced February 9, ISTO, wluch resulted in large accessions to the church. The report indicated that thirty-eight were received as candidates and baptized, three received as candidates without baptism, three by letter, and thirteen by relation, making a total of liftyseven members. In this meeting the services were commenced by holding prayer meetings for one wt-ek, when Kev. Pundall came and held regular services. A few sermons, however, by JIqv. Mu>ick preceded the regular --ervices.

The services of Pev. Pandall having ]>voved very efliclent ho was unanimously elected as pastor to serve during his stay, or until the services of a rt'gular pastor could be procured. On the 5th day of October, 1S70, A,

At, the meeting of February 11, 1S71, Kev. T. X. Sanderson was elected as pastor to preacli twice a month; but in October of the same year liov. A. P. Kodgers was re-elected to serve as pastor, in wliich cc^pacity he remained unlil July f'. 1S77. when Jicv, W. IT, lUirnhara succeeded liim, followed in July, ISSO, by Jiev. J. J). Higgs, who, however, resigned the charge November 12, ISSl. Kev. J. F. Cook took charge of the congregatioii March 15,JSS2. At the last recorded meeting Xovembcr 29, 18S2, Rev. J. D. Biggs was re-elected to the pastorate.

During most of these years the members of this church have been stru"-- glitig heroically with a church debt, which has been a source of some discouragement, but the work of the church is still being prosecuted v\'ith vigor.

The history of the M. E. Cliurch as fjir as written in this work will be fou]id in the general histor} of the county. Generally the histories of the M. E. Church South have been carefully written for each tovrnship, the writer, after repeated elTorts, having failed to obtnin the neces^^ary data for a special chapter on the Church South. But inasmucli as the separation did not take place until 1S44 what is said on the M. E. Church prior to that date applies of course to both branches equally well.

Again, the itinerent sj'stem of the churGb,.necess!tating freqaent changes in ministers, and tlie proverbial carelessness touching the records of individual churches, conspire to make"it very difficult to get reliable materials for a connected history of any particular society. Wc have, however, done what we could to fiirnisli a com[)lcte history.

This institution was oj^eiied for the rece])tion of students on September 19, ISSl. Tlie founding of it wti> the individual enterprise of Prof. J. P. Meriwether, the owner and princi{)al of the school. The speedy execution and success of the undertaking was greatly lacilitated by the encouragement and financial assistance rendered by the citizens of the town. *

The situation of the school was chosen with a view to health and freedom from the bustle and temptation of large towns. The building is new and commodious, and was planned expressly for the ]iurpose. The rooms are large, well veiitilated, and well lighted. Spacious grounds surround the bnildiuij: aifordin.fr amT-)le room for exercise and amusement within the inclosui'C. Since the opeuing of tlie institution constant endeavor has heen innilc to perfect its arrangements for educational advantages and domestic cM'iifort. The object aimed at is the development and culture of the mental fiicuUies, rather tliau the stoj'ing of the mind with aci|nired knowledge. '

A systematic course of mathematics, clatisics, and literature has heen urranged, which will prepare students to enter advanced classes in tlie lu'irher colleges of tlio country. Faithful and eilicicnt teachers devote them- J pelves exclusively to their respective departments. Students v.'ho desire to enter the school for a short period have the privilege of pursuing such parts of the course as they or their friends may think expedient. It is tlie aim of the school to aftord the best opportunties for the study of vocal and instru- I retired from teaching altogether, and became connected with the Missouii School Furnitare Association. In ISSO he perfected arrangements by which he now devotes his whole attention to the business. lie married, in j lStj7, Laura E. Avery, of Platteville, Wisconsin. They have two children. Otto and XoUie. Yiv. B, has always taken an active part in tlie Sunday- i school, and in all moral and religious matters. In politics lie has ever espoused the cause of IJe]>nblicanism. He and his worthy wife are members of the AI. E, Church. ?vlr. B. belonr^s to the order of the Kniglits of Honor, ahso the orij;aniz;ition of the Knig'hts of Pytiiias.