Pike County, Missouri - The whole text, 1883 (part 1 of 13)

Economic Geologv

tlic clajs of the western states, Calumet may take her place in line with the other districts that will tlien successfully compete with the best European pottery and the finest English <jneens\vare. J'redicLions wilder than these who read this history will yet v/itnc^s such efforts in tliis direction as will i induce them to acce})t thete declarations as the voice of pro|)hccy. An door of Clarlcsvjllf, tlie fliicf'town of the to\\'ii?:iu|), tlic ao-ricultmal ])roJucl8 * of tlic vast l-ipfypt hing m lior roar. The stock for the construction of this I road was subscribed, one-lialf by the county, four thousand dollars by tlie 1 municipality of Clarksvillej a larj^e proportion of the balance by her private I citizens, and the remainder h\ fa'-niers reBidenc alonj.' t/ie line of the .^urvev '^ The first board of di roisters were x\cwton McDannold, John (). Eoberts, II. \ V. P. Block, Joseph Meloan, J. E. Forcjey, Peter Carr, and James T. Wil- i son. I

The fir.-=t ofilci'rs were Nev,'ton McDannold, pi'esident; John O. Roberts. f gecretarj, and ]]. Y. P. Plock, treasurer. The contract for its construction 1 was let to Jolm IT. Baily on the 4:th of Septeniber, 1S57, but he havini^ | failed, the cuutract was relet on the i^Sth of .Ai>ri], 1^58, to ^Nfichael F-ynch I aiid Patrick Comvay, and the road was conijduted July IG, 1860. Prior to i its completion, aiid as essential thereto, it became necessary to borrow money, 2 and the board of directors, oarrie^^t in the work undertaken, in tlio interests \ of the people, executed tlieir individual note for the sum of ten thousand 1 dollars. In tlio course of a few years it became necessary to procure a clmr- ! ter from the st.;te legi;;lature, at which time the name of the road wa?j * ehaniyed to Clarksville Iload Comiiiuiv. |

There has been expended in the construction of this road -$78,305.82, and j in repairs 842,1:31.79, while the expenses have aggregated Klo.ol-l.ol, and ] the receipts for tolls have been ^S2,7'il.02. This is beyond all question one j of the very best roads in the state, made so by the wisdom of its managers j in applying the toll receipts to the keeping of the road-bed in the highest 1 state of excellence demanded hy the vast amount of travel. Of this road | the people are ju.^tly proud. They pay their tolls cheerf ally, feeling that | they have one of the best ro'ids in the countrv, and i)enetrating one of tlie j finest countries on the continent. |

'J'o Judge Nevv'ton McDannold, who surrendered at his death, some two j years ago, the oftlce of its ]. residency, and whose duties he so long and faithfully performed, to John 0. Iloberts, who has been secretary of the company from the date of its organization, and to whose tact and abilities other enterprises of even greatiT moment owe their existence, no less than to II. T. P. Block, until a few montlis ago the only treasurer the road ever had, and whose financial skill and foresighi; aided largely in brido:ing the chasm.s along the route of a struggling directory, is most largely due the success of an enterprise of incalculable benetlt to the citizens of Calumet, as also of inestimable advantage to the people of both Pike and Lincoln coai\ties.

Another piiblio- high'A'uv oi' vast im])Oi-taiico to the ])eiTj)lc of the to\vnsliip is tlie Ciihiii'.ct road, which, starting IVoin Dover (Jhiircli, seven miles west of" the Mississippi, M'hcrc it iutersects t!ie .LouiBi-:uia and Prairicville inaeadain, follows the genei-al course of the creek of that name, and finds, like the C, P. & P., its terniiniis in thecity of Ciarksville. This road, under a like organization with tiie othei', was commenced in the same year. The route was vablly snpoiior to that over which the first road was constructed, the former I'cquiring some cuts and fills, with occasional carves, to avoid the heaviest grades, while the latter, following the smooth and even fiurface of the beauliful Calnmet valk-y, is almost an air line, and well nigh as free from grades as. the bed of tl(e fiowing stream near whose margin it has been constructed. After expending about thirteen thousand dollars the road was ahaudontd, and not until 1SG7 was the company reorganized. At this time tlie directory v/as partially changed by the inti'oduction of a few new and live m.cn into the board, v.-iien the Eip Van Winkle nap wa.- broken and a now impeius given to the entei'prisc. By the most strenuous efforts the new company succeeded in collecting between four thousand and five, thousand dollars, which being largely inadequate to the work to bo done, Mr. John O. J'oberts, on behalf of the company, proposed to turn over this amount to the county court with the understanding that thecountv would accept the funds and complete the road. So adroitly was the undertaking managed and so logically and eloquently presented to the learned bench that, much to the surprise of both the road company and the people, the court did accept the proj>osition and soon, thereafter completed the road. A few were inclined to complain at the action of the court, believinor that one township was thus made the recipieni of benefits which could not be disi)ensed to all. .Bat when it is remembered tiiat the country through which the road was built contributes almost as much to the revenue of the county as some of the western townships, that tlie county owns the road, and is entitled to all its receipts, after keeping it in splendid condition for its users, and that tew county justices are ca[»ab!e of rising superior to the power of Calumet diplomacy, it will readily be seen that there were strong reasons for the court's apparent bad legislation.

in qnosf.ion to some fann-liouse, creek, or church in the township. In ai!- otlier decade, should tlie spirit of enterprise keep pace with the acciiniiihition of wealth, tlie traveler through tlie borders of Caliunct can stalk with fearlees tread, dry ^Jiod, along the graveled road-beds of the murky valleys, or drive his iron-hoofed steed thuuderiiig over the rock-lined highways of tlie foot-hills and the uplands.

It is not alone in the building of her gravel roads that the persistent enterprise and indomitable pluck of her citizens have' been exhibited, but the nerve and energy of the people of Calumet have been conspicuously displayed in the undertaldng and final cori.struction of 8 line of raihvay throi;s2-h the township and the county. Feeling the vraut of other communication with the outside world tlian that afforded by the Mississippi Iliver, and believing tliat in action lay the hope of ullimato success, a few gentlemen proceeded, on the Cth of December, 1SG9, to organize, under the general railroad law of the state, the " Clarksvi lie I'v^ Western Kail way Co.-" So chimevic>il did the project then appear that the subscribers were limited to the members of the board of directors, which consisted of John O. Eobcrts, William Mcintosh, M. S. Goodman, James W. Stark, Joseph Meloan, J. E. | P^orgey, Xewton McDannold, C. W. Pliarr and J. C. Jamison. With scarcely | mo7iey enough for a pieliminary survey, but with much ardor in the enter- I prise, and great faith in each other, the board effected its organization by I electing John O. lioberts president, and choosing L. A. Welch, the bril- j liant and lamented editor of the Clarksville Sentinel^ as their secretary. A s subscri{>tioti of §18,000 was immediately sought and secured fro»n the I municipality of Clark-.ville. and the people of Calumet were asked to assist j the enterprise l)y voting an appropriation of slOO,000 in township bonds, j With such haste were the objects of the board pushed to their culmination ' that the last days of the same month that vvitnessed its organizatit)n saw the people of the township Hocking to the polls, eager to deposit their ballots in favor of a self-imposed tax, that the road, which as yet existed only in the luxuriant imaginations of the fanciful few, might be pushed to an. early completion. The northern limit of this road was to be the Louisiana & 2>Iissouri Iliver Tiailruad, and the phraseology of tiie articles of association was singularly happy in that the terminus could be made at Louisiana, Bowling Green, or any intermediate point. Had any specific p^int been desiirnated as the northern terminus, the result of the township election would doubtless have been different. But as the range of possible construe- tion swept the whole lioroscope of northern Calaniet, and as every farmer paw on his own })reini?es a natural location for an iron higliway, while hope, "] sisted of John O. Roberts, William Mcintosh, M. S. Goodman, C. W. ' ' I Pharr, J. 0. Jamison. William Stark, W. C. Orr, II. A. Campbell, and W. j tov.Miships of $100,000 each, in bonds, were the funds that constructed the ' road from. Salt IMver, in Pike county, to St. Peters, in St. Charles, and under the law tiiat authorized those subscrlptiop.s tiiese townships are entitled to all the taxes th^t may be collected from the railway company between these jioints in per]>etuity. This is the opinion of more than one of tiie ablest lawyers in the state and the subject is certainly of sutficient importance to invite the closest legal investigation. But should tlie people of Calumet receive no more than their township quota of taxes from tlie conrpany tlie time is not far distant when the collections from the road will vield a

Next to her soil and lier scenery, the pride of the towuship is the liomes of her citizens. From sha'led park, verdant lawn, or siuilit mound, rises the sons of toil have not labored in vain. liespojisive to their energies, the fer- 1 tile earth, pregnant with unlimited wealth, has yielded up her hidden treas- - . J or more in the community, tlie private schools of higher grade, the denominational colleges, or the state university are called into requisition, and the pupil furnished, when the parent is able, the best facilities for pui-suing a classical and scientific coui'se. There are not less than tliree schools in the towrxsliip devoted to the education of the colored yuutli, and while it is possibly unwise to predict much for them until the grade of the teacher shall be somewhat elevated, it is nevertheless true that in the strictly elementary branches the pupils have made some progress.

While the farms furnish the labor and exercise necessary to the physical development of the people of the rural districts and the schools provide for the intellectual wants of the children and the youth, the moral nature of all require? guidance and instruction atid this necessity is met in the five country churches which minister to the reli<(ioiis wants of the people of the township.

This is the oldest reh'<;ious organization within the limits of Pike county. More than sixty years ago it was ])lanlod in the ahnost unhroken forests of Calumet, aiul through tlic la])So of years t]i;it has succeeded it has been vocal the praises of the Christian's God, h'rom the best data to be had this church was organized about the year 181'^ or 1819 by Tlev. Stephen Ituddcli, formerly of Kentucky. The land upon wliich the first church, a structure of hewn logs, was i)Dilt, was deeded by lulmoTid Tvionutjoy to the Baptists, and it is claimed by many of the oldest citi?.eiis that it .remained as one church (Baptist) until May, 1823, v.-heu Hughs and Kodgers, known as "i^ew Lights," came out from Kentucky and a protracted effort was held at Karasey, and several having ap])lied tor membership a dit.pnte arose as to who should administer the ordinance of baptism, the Baptist pastor or the "Kew Light'' ])reacher, and. Mr. llodgers having officiated, Eev. Euddell surrendered his charge of the church and a split at once ensued. AVhether this be fiction or fact, certain it is as shown by the records that the Baptists reorganized formally on the 2Gth day of April, 1823, and that about the 6au)e time Lh-. TL Hughs was sent by his father from Kentucky to looic | after the S])iritual wants of those, who difVering from the Ba])tist teaching>, j now organized under the name of'' Jleformers." x\mong the earliest mem- j bers, as shov.n by the old records as belonging to the Baptist Church at Ramsey- may be mentioned Edmond Moutitjoy, Michael Tilson, Thomas Buchanan, Mary ilountjoy, Xancy Garter, Susan Flunket, Ann Buchanan, Nancy Leah, Gibson Jenkins, Robert Burns, Matthew Sapp, Elizabeth r»oxley, Tiichard Sanders, Jeptha Jeans, Daniel Moss, and others. At this time the Hev. Davis iiiggs, who succeeded Kev. Stephen Ruddell, was the pastor in charge. That this view of a controverted subject is correct would also appear from the fact that the records of the Christian Church at Paynes- . ville, which continued to v\'orship in the liouse at Ramsey Creek until the year 1S52, trace their origin to the braucli of the Church of Christ which the said records state was instituted at Ramsey Creek on the 2d day of February, 1823. Thus while the organization of the Reformers was earlier than the formal reorganization of the Baptists, it is still manifest that a church organization of some kind antedated the institution of theirs by not less than four or five years, and hence the conclusion that the Baptist

Church was orif^inally organized at Ramsey and that the other, or Christian, was a di:?henting branch, ap}>ears alike reasonable and U^i^ical. Tiiis church, a larofc and solid brick structure, is now under the exciusive control t>f' the Ba]->tist 'Icnoniination, is entirely out of debt, has a rncnibersliip of seventyfive sonls, and i? possessed of considerable spiritual vitality. It has contrii)-

Dover Churc)', which is situated ii; the northwestern portion of the township, was organized by Eevs. J. B. Fuller, A. G. Mitchell, and M. }^l. Mo- ; disfctt, on September Sth, 1862, in a beautiful grove belonging to the late - ,. !. ^Villiara C. Goodman. Tlicir house of worshij), a large and well constructed 'I frame edifice, was erected at the junction of the Louisiana & Prairieville | and the Calumet i^ravel roads, in the fall and winter of ISGo. The constitut- -^'1 ing membors v/ere Jatnes A. Sanders<-»n and wife, James Anderson and - --j wife, Kathaniel E. Smith and wife, E. 15. and J. R. Smith, 11. T. Ogden, -i and Mary E. Goodman, with Mary, servant of James Anderson, and George, j servant of W. C. Goodman. This church has at present liincty-thrce mem- ' ! bers in good standing, conducts a successful and well attended Sunday- '\ school, under the superintendency of W. 'N. Goodman, and has had for its pastors some of the best ])ulpit talent in the state. Rev. Dr. J. F. Cook is | preacher in charge at this time, and James E. Grifnth liolds tJie position of ' 1 church clerk. This church, like Ramsey, is within the biiunds of the Suit /- River Association, and is one of the mo-t flinirishing metnbers of that old ] and respectable religious body. ]

Saiali .McJ^oed, Klizabetli Xelley, aDcl Edna Triplott. ]vev. Dr. Tucker was thy lii>L pastor in tiliar^c and cuiitinucd until liis death to ably and faithfully serve tiie chuich which Ins own etlbrts had so lari^ely assisted in plantin^^ liere. TIic church lias a larixc membership at tliis time, is b'jth tinancially and spiritually stron>,^, givin<.i^ liberally toevelT cause worthy of Ohristi.m support, and livinu" in the bond> of peace and unity with each other. Since their organisation the church a'ld Sunday-school have togeihorcx)>ended the sum cf S4,510.()0 in their endeavors to meet their Christian obligations and advance the cause of morality and reli;2;ion. Jiev. Taylor Bernard is the pre:>ent pastor, S. F. Mackey the eilicicnt su]ierintendent of the sabbathschool, and John T. XLackt-y the clerk of the churcli.

This church, named for the township in v/liose Tiorthern extJ-emity it is situated, was oro-anized as a Cumberland Presbvterian Church in the vear 1857, by Rev, M. M. Tucker, while riding as a missionary withiii the limits of this Presbytery. The original members were dohn Turner and wife, Warren Gni3ith and wi!'e, j\Lartha Pharr, Lucinda Putts, Cyrus Mackey and wife, and llachael.Estes. On account of the house having fallen into a low state of repair, and the location being somewhat inaccessible, the Ghureh disorganized about the year ISTl, and the members attached themselves to the churches at Buffalo and Corintli. In ISSO the church was rebuilt, but never reorgani/'.ed, and although the control of the house is in the hands of the Presbyterians it is to all intents and purposes a free church. The Presbyterians worship liere statedly and have a minister, Pev. T. EerjQard, in charge, although the attendants upon service here belong to the congregation at Corin.th. The business of the church is done as though it was a distinct organizatioii, with no connection with nor dependence upon another, and so harmonious have the two congregations been nothing has ever occurred to mar the fcciiugs of either. No regular sabbath-school is kept u}) at this church. Mr. W. J. Warmsley acts as auxiliary clerk and reports tlie p^-oceedings of Calumet, the child, to Corinth, the mother.

Salkm Christian Cuurch

The organization of this church was effected at Kissinger school-house on August the 5th, 1:^.71, by Elder V/m. IL Martin. Tiie original members were liendly Kissinger, James IL Kissinger and wife, George Wells and WM"fe, T. B. Amos and wife, J3. E. Amos and wife, J. W. Beauchamp and wife, John il. Grimes and wife, Richard Hall and wife, Mordecai

Amos and wife, Mi^s E. J. Wolls, and others. TLo fir^t and prt-eent elders are T. 13. Amos, John M. Grimes, and Jamos JI. Kissinger. The deacons were AYilliani Wells, William iJeanchanip, Jt. F. Atxios, George Wells, and James P. Gallo\vay. Soon after their organi/:ation, and in tlie same }ear, the members proceeded to build them a church, and an excellent frame building thirty-six by tiity-four feet was put u}) at u short remove iiX'Ui the school-house where they had lirst \vorshiped. 'I'lie church is in a prosperous condition, gradually extending its borflers and widening the circle of its Christian influence. Elder J. M. Henry was its (irst pastor, and Elder J. B, Corwine is the present minister in charge. Mr. George Wells occupies the position of clerk of the church.

The hiptory of Clavl^srille is coeval with the history of Alis.souri. Even before this then western territory had taken her place in the sisterhood of states, the hardy pioneer had ])itched his tent and reared his cabin U]jon the present site of the city. It is impossible to tell with perfect accuracy who v/ere the earliest settlers, or the exact order in which they came. But from tlie best data to be had it appears that James Burns and Samuel Ewing were the lirst to locate here, and that the former built his cabin not later than the year ISIG, on the lot upon which the Carroll House now Btands. Had we time for sentiment it n.iight be pleasant, if not profitable, to contrast the few and meaner necessities of that humble hut with the numerous and costly luxuries of this splendid hostelry. Following Biu'ns and Ewing, with but a few years intervening, came Capt. John Storh, Warreu Swayne, Willium Sitnonds, Maj. Ja^. W. Bootlie, Jeptha Ousley, Ephraim

James C. Eieiden, and others, whose names, in the lapse of time, have been forgotten. As early ns 1817 this little settlement was known as Clarksville, and LIusic and Brown had engaged in the business of the merchant, For vrhom the town was named cannot he stated with absolute certainty, some asserting that it was for the first territorial Governor, while others, and with apparently better reason, allirm that it was called after General George Bogers Clark, who vras associated with LcNvis in the first exploration ever made as far wei^tward as the Bock}' Mountains. Tlie i(\ijend is that bctwen 1S15 and 1S20 General Clark was en route from the. south to one of the northern forts with a company of eoldiers. on a keel boat, and that on account of the heavy ice wiiich met him at this place he was forced to come adioro anJ winter lierc. Jlis encanipinent was near the southern limits of the ]>rescnt city, and lovers of the romantic say that an old and giant sycamore, wliose trunk had hven hollowed out near tlie surface of tlie earth by tlu; action of fire, furnirihcd the few and eim]>le comforts of a soldier's bedroom. About ISIS James Fielden engaired here in the mercantile business, nnd two years 'hereafter the venerable John 11. Carter, now a resident of Monroe county, started a general store on. the coriier of Front and Howard streets. Mr. Carter's eneri;-y -uvc a new impetus to the business of the place, and the little produce then raised in tiie country sought its market here, while the simple wants of the early settlers vrere readily supplied. Early in tlie twenties Mr. Carter took to New Orleans, on a flntboat, sixty hogsheads of tobacco, a part of which was shipped to Europe, and about the same time tiie iirst steamboat that ever came this far north of St. Louis, seeking freight, was loaded from liis warehouse. The next object of interest in tlie early history of the town was the Augur Mill, l>uilt by Mr. Simonds in 1S27, wliich was succeeded in 1830 by a steam flouring mill, whose owners were Warren Swayne, John R. Carter, "Wm. S. Hough, Samuel l'e]>per, a7;d Capt, John Mackey. This proved a losing venture, seriously involving its owners, some of whom -were ultimately ruined by long and vexatious litigation. The mill burned in 1842, and upon its site was subsequently built the Blutf Mills. One of the earliest enterprises of which the town can boast was the horse ferry, started and operated by Warren Swayne, between the years 1826 and 1830. After Mr. Swayne's death, Wm. Simonds came into possession of its franchises, and long after his death, and wlien it had passed through many hands, it returned again in the sliape of a splendid steamboat to the partial ownership of the heirs of Swayne, and now, after more than fifty years, it is operated again by a son of Simonds. It is possible that it may continue through the amplitude of time to swing from the descendants of one family to those of the otlier until the last of their almost innumerable progeny sliall have been ferried by the spirit boatman across the river Styx.

The town of ClarksviUe was laid out by Governor John :Miller on land which was pitented to him by President Jam.es Monroe. Gov. Miller soon after disj^osed of a portion of his interest to Richard Graham, Judge Wash and others, and they subsequently sold it in lots to the early settlers, the first gale reported to have taken place in I^IS. The town was incorporated in 1817 by the county court, when Perry Johnston, H. T. Kent, and an- , other, unknown, were selected as trustees. Emanuel Block was the first clerk of the town, and John M. Clifford its first treasurer.

Under the board of trustees tlic taxes were not met very promjttly, and in tlie jear 181S. ulien the incorporatioii was about tMclve uiontlis ohl, the clerk and treasurer proceeded in a somewliat surnnuiry manner to crather in man u fact u red here arc sold from Butte City to Baltimore and Boston, from the lakes to the ^;ulf, and from Montreal in Canada to Glast^ow in Scotland.

This L'lill wa-- IniiU in 185'-;, priiieipally bv K. B. Carroll, B. P. Clifford, and dohn 0. R ^heris. It Wi^s put in operation in 1857 by G. W. Wells v.^:. Co., burned in ISCO, vras immediately rebuilt by Wells vS: Co., v/ho continued to coTitrol it until 1S62, when it was rejiurchased by the old firm of E. B. Carroll & Co., who remained in possession until 187G, when Mr. Carroll retiring, the lirm name was changed to Clifford, Roberts & Co. This company successfully conducted the business until ISSO, when Capt. Clifford havino; died, it was incorporated under the laws of the state as the Imperial Mill Com})an3', with John O. Boljerts, pi-esident, and lienrv S. Carroll, secretary and trc-.isurer. The company has a cash capital of thirty thousand dollars, all paid in, while tlie mill itself is one of the best to be found in tlie state, having in place all tlie best and newest machinery known to the business, including tlie novel and custly attachments necessary to the pro- ' ductioi! of ilour in ;.cco/d.utr'.e with what is known as the "new process." This mill handles substantially all the wheat grown on eithei' side of the river contiguous to Clarksville, embracing a radius of nearly fifteen miles, ])csides drawing a part of tl.ieir suj)ply frotn abroad, a^ygregatin^" in their purchases from two hundred and fifty thousand to two hundred and seventvfive thousand bushels per annum. The ca[)acit3'' of the mill is sixty thousand barrels a year and the largest market for the flour is the New England States, though nmcli is sold along the upper ]\[ississi]jpi. embracing the states of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, while a G-ood market for the surplus is found in ('hicago. Some of the product of this Lnill is also exported, going to Liverpool and other cities of England, and the company iv-5 just now engaged in loading live hundred and .seventy barrels for Glasgow in Scotland. The standard brand of this mill is "Imperial," though several others are made and extensively haiulled. Concord, Portland, and other seaboard cities purchase most of the bran and shipstutT produced by the mill, while the demand fr^Mn other sections is greater than its capacity to supply. No ].roper estimate of tlie advantao:e5 of this enterprise to the people of the city or the farmers of the country can be made. Year after year tije mill is constantly and successfully o]M}rated, furnishing a home market, at St. Louis prices, for all the wheat delivered at its doers, and paying cash on receipt of the same. Tiio economy or addition made to the wheat croj) will aggregate near twenty per cent more than it would be if sold out of the county, for the reason that tlie \vood wliich supplies the fuel is furnished by the people of the country; the barrels which contain the llour are uianufaotured here and by iutnie labor, while the fifteen to twenty-five men employed iTi the mill are also deriving thcii- su]ip(->rt from this thriving business enterprise. - .

The mannfiictnvc of vinegar was first undertaken in Clarksville, when in ISCS, II. S. Carroll and Fred Haywood formed a co-partnership for that purpose, and erected a sniall building, thirty-three by fortvlive feet, t^vo stories liigh. For one year these parties continued together, and in ISOT John M. ClilTord purchased ]Mr. Haywood's interest. \ wlien the firm name of Carioll it Haywood v/as changed Ij 11. S. Carroll tfc ] Co. In 186S Joh.n Siraonds bought out Mr. Clifford, and in ]S69 John A. VTirick was adinittedas a uiemler of ti'>e fiiiii, and it was at this time that the business began to assume sliape and to take on the semblance of its present success. In 1S70 an addition of thirty-four by forty-five feet, three aiid four stories high \\'as built, and in IS^'2 another addition, sixty by forty- - ] five feet, three and four stories high, added and thefirst building of 1S66 raised '' one story higher. In 1 873 two large Alden evaporators for evaporating fruit \ were put in. and in 1879 two more were added. In 18S1 Carrol tt Wirick \ bought Mr. Simonds' entire interest, also his beautiful private residence, sit- 1 nated near the bank of the river and known as "P>luif Dale.'' The style of 1 the firm was then changed to- Carroll, Wirick & Co., and in 18S2 they in- 1 creased their tankage capacity to one hundred thousand gullous. IMany ' ] thousand barrels of cider and vinegar are made and ship]>ed yearly by this ] company to all parts of tlie United States, as is also tlieir popular evaporated 1 fruits. In 18S0 two additional evaporators were put into the fruit dryino- I department f.nd not less than fifty tons of evaporated aj>ples were made and { shipped. In 1SS2 this firm bought and shij)ped thirty thousand barrels of i green apples, some of which went north to the British possessions some i south to Georgia, others east to Europe, and one car west to Uutte City in Arizona, the company prepaying the freight at a cost of >^G30. The cider I capacity of this foctory is two hundred barrels per day, which like the fruit is sold throughout tiie length and breadth of the country. For cidei apples ' alons this firm has paid to the farmers of the county hundreds of thousands ! of dollars, wliich is almost a <?lear gain, as apart from the vinegar mill there 1 is no one who could atibrd to ])urcha3e them, and the grower would be forced i to sustain the loss. About fifty hands, men, women, and boys are now cm.- I ployed by this coinpauj, while the constnntly increasing doinaiid for their good? gives ample evidence tliat both the capacity and the labor must ere long be largely increased.

Stave And Barkel Fagtoky

Thip factory wiis established in 1S50 by L. 'W. Haywood and T. C. Kel- Bey. AVhen it had been operated but a few years Mr. Kelsey sold out and the style of the firm was changed to L. W. Haywood & Co., under whicli imxne it continues to do business. Mr. Haywood has had several partners, the last being J)r. C. W. Pharr. w]io bought an interest in the cstublishment in 1870, and who is still the ovvner of one-half of the entire intore.-t. At the time that Dr. Pharr became a partner the property-, Including the buildings, machinery, and real estate, inventoried about six thousand dollars, wdiile the stock on hand swelled the amount to more than eight thousand dollars. Since llien not less than six thousand dollars more have been invested in realty, additional machinery, and general improvements, and the factory has grown into one of the roost extensive and successful of the many manutact'iring enterprises of the place. The factory is devoted almost exclusively to the manufaciure of floui- and apple barrels, for vvdiich there is an immense demand, the Imperial Mill Company alone using about two hundred barrels per day. During the present season the company has been unable to snp])ly tlie demand for apple barrels, and often their surplus stock of staves for lim.e and other barrels have been exhausted by the demands made upon it by dealers from abroad. They also manufacture headings, with the staves, are shipped both up and down the river and along the line of the railroad from Quincy to St. Charles, as also westward over the Chicago & Alton to Eowding Green, Mexico, Tarieton, and other railroad towns. These parties draw their stave timber in lar^e measure from pv»i7)ts along the line of railroad south of Clarksville, while many of their logs are rafted down the river from points near to and south of Hannibal. This tirm lias recently built a liraiich establishment at Ellsberry, with the special view of supplying the mill at that place with barrels, as well as to meet the o-.-owiP'-'- demand of the Lincoln orchards. When their time will permit the company also manufactures liat hoops, having provided for this purpose some very -ingenious and costly maciiinery. This factory has a capacity of twentv thousand stavea per day, euiploys in both factory and cooper shops fifty two men, and is usually kept running from about the first of March to tlie middle of December. Mr. L. W. Haywood, the originator of the business in the town, is the sole >upervisor and eflicient manager oi' the entire establishment.

City Of Clakkgvillk

1870, by J. G. Anderson, then editor of the Sentuhd, and Henry S. Carrol], cashier of the Olilford Bankini^ Coinpany. The latter gentleman, while at the centennial exhil)ition later in tlie same year, ga\'e the matter his es- ] pecial attention, and arrived at the conclr.sion that a mill tur the manufactnre of straw vrrapping-paper, frotn wheat straw, might be built with reas- \

$:iO,000, which had proved a losing venture from the lirst, owing, doubtless, to had location for procu}ing the raw nsaterial and the high freights de- | offer by tlic j^ariies ownirig the mill tu sell out the entire machinery at a ' i low figure, and a personal examination of the condition of th.e same was \ terns were put in, and some parts of the machinery rebuilt with great care and the closest attention given to even the minutest details. By !March, ISSl, the mill was ready to start, when there occurred a sad and fatal accident, j

Capt. Head having been instantly killed by being caught in some part of the machinery. The company had now lost their onlj- practical man and it almost seemed that the enterprise must fail, bat the projectors pushed , aliead and were, after some delay, n^aiii well under way v/ith new and practical men to operate t)ie difficult ]-)i\r[& of the macliinery, and by the iiiiddle iif A}>ril the mill was running" full time, day and night, turning' out an article of pajXT of hii;]i grade, which was soon sought aft'"^r by dealers and tb.e general trade, li \vai> thought at the time tl)C mill was being built that it would iiave a capacity of two and a-hali tons of ]>aper each twentyfour hours, or fro?n twelve to fifteen tons per week, but soon under good management it made an average of eighteen tons. A steady run was made until the lirst of December, when a stoppage was ordered to add some machinery, wiicn it was again started and continued running until June, 1SS2. It now hecam.e apparent to the stockholders that by the introduction of B0!ne foi'tlier machinery its cai>acity coiild be increased several tons per week', and the additions were ordered to be made, which was accordingly done about the 20tli of July of this year. Since this time the mill has lost no tin^c, ami !o tlie great satisfaction of the stoclvhuhlers and the astonishment of mill owners everyv.-here, has made from twenty-four to twenty-seven tons of paper each week of six fall days running, when working On light weights, and a greater qiiantiiy on heavy or hanr paper, the largest yield of any known forty-two inch mill. -

Thro\!gh the very fortunate purchase of the machinery above referred to, tlie mill is worth double the amount of iis ])aid up capital stock, and indeed even this amount of SoO,000 would be insufficient for its yuirchasc. The first incorporators were Uenry S. Carroll, S. A. Drake, J. M. ClilTord, John O. lloberts, J. A. Tvirick, B. G. Read, Walter Keightley, and William Mcintosh, all of whom were directors except J. M. Clifibrd, who has acted as secretary of the company. S. A. Drake v/as president until its increasing duties requiring too much of his attention from his private business, he tendered his resignatio!i and J. A. ^7irick was chosen to succeed him. Henry S. Carr'^ll has been treasurer since tlie organization of the company, and to Ills ejiterprise and indomitable perseverance is almost entiiely duo the credit of the erection, while with his associates he has been largely instrument;'.! in the successful operation of the first and only paper mill in the great commonwealth of Missouri. ' ,. , ^ -

The first tobacco factoiy was started in Clarksvilie by W. D. Major and Yv". N. Ogden, under the Urn) name of Major v."v: Ogden in the year 1SG3. Mr. Ogden liaving died, James M. ]\[ajor and John M. Woods became the purchasers of his interes*' and continued the business with W. D. Major, nndcr the iu-m name of Jaines Major & Sons for a period of two years, when they sold (heir iiiachinery and eii^aL^'cd in inorcantile pursuits. Tlie Major & Mackev Tobacco Co., one of ilio lar^-cst estahlishineiits of the kind in tlie county, was incorporated in JSSO, W. D. Major, W. J. Mackey, and J. M. Major bein_ijf the incorporator;.-. The cai)ital stock of the company, all paid in, is $0,00(.i. Since tlie incorporation of the company, James II. Kissenger, of Linwood Farm, a gentleman well known as a breeder of Short Horns, has been admitted as a member of the firm. The otiicers of the com[)ariy are W. D. ilajor, president, W. J. Macke}', secretary, and Joini ^[. ^Major, treasure)'. This company irianufactures abcoit one tlionsijid pounds per day, althoup;h tiiis amount i& much below their actual ca])acity. The niachii)ery of this large establishment is all run by e.team, even the immense cutters and powertul hydraulics derivins; their motor power from the engines liidden away in a remote portion of the spacious building. Tlic facto;y is one lunidrod and ten by thirty feet, fowr stories hi/^-h, includin<^ basen^ient, and it is in contemplation to n^aterially enlarge it at an early day. It is well supplied with all the latest and best improved machinery, which has cost in place about 8S,000, and with the use of which most of the goods of the factory are n>ade. About forty hands are employed here, under ] and Montana. The outlay is necessarily enormous, the government tax alone approximates one hundred dollars per day. Besides this the stock is to be purchased, the employes to be paid, and innumerable items of expense are to be constantly met. 1

This factory was established in the spring of 1S71 in a building on Front or Mater street, and has since that time been kept in constant operation during those seasons of the }ear at which it was ])03sible to successfully manufacture. The bnihling itself is tliirty-five feet wide by one hundred and ten feet deep and two stories high, with rooms for drying purposes built above the second story. At first Mr. Boone manufactured much less than he has fur quite a i)nml)er of years since that time. In the beginning fifty thousj. and pounds a year was about the capacity- of the factory, but since that time with the use of additional and improved machinery he lias increased the . capacity to almost one hundred and thirty thousand pounds a year. Year aftor yoai- itnproveinents liave been constantly made, iintii o.t tin's time lie has one of ti)0 licst arran;:^ed and eqni])])ed lactorics to be found in tlie county. The sjdcndid hydraulic machinery in ]:)l!tce in this establi.slinicnt is ini'erior to none in the county, and accrdiiifj: to the capacity of the factory, as good as any in the state. Air. l)00i!e has always had ample capital witii which to conduct his business f.ud Iience liavS had no partner in the factory. At this time alter having built u]>a S])lendid trade and won for his goods quite nil enviable rejiutation, he has turned over the use of his factory and his name to his son, Col. . I). Boone ar.d Ids son-in-hiw, Jiunes T. Smith, who are vevy successfully conducting the business under his casual supervision. The factory lias for years employed fiom ihirt}' to fifty l}ands wlio are well and promptly paid for the service I'eudercd, while it disburses thousands of dollars for the raw material and other articles necessary to the successful coiiducfc of the business. The stock required for use here is purchased for the most part in Pike county, while quite a quantity of the finest leaf, especially for wrappers, is bought in St. Louis or Louisville; among the justly popular brantls manufactured by Mr. Boone may be mentioned his fine "Katural Leaf.'- '^Booiie\s B.ost," "Old Virginia Weed," several kinds of "Navies," as 3s, 4s, etc., together with quite a «umber of other and v/ellknown brands. These goods are sold in St. Louis and other cities of Missouri; in Ai-kansa^, Texas and other states of the south, and also in Iowa, Blinois, and Kansas, as well as others of the northern and western states. It is gratifying to know that from the beginning the enterprise has been successful aiKl t}:at the pi-oprictor has made a handsome interest or profit on his iuvestmerit, and that at this time, after twelve years of experience in the manufacture of these goods, they are even more pofiular than before, and the business is now in a more flourishing and j)rosperous condition than at any previous time in its history. This factory has been of much benefit to the city of Clarksvilie, aijd as it continues to grow from year to year will contribute more and more to its pros]>erity and material wealth. >

Tlio Clarksvilie Foundry was established in 1S65 by William A. Fletcher, its present proprietor. At first there was but little capital invested, but as occasion required additional machinery has been added until now its costaggregatcs not less than ten thousand dollars. Mr. Fletcher is prepared to do any work within the limit o^ the capacity of his macliinery, and while he has devoted his attention principally to repair work, such as farm implements, portable and statiouary engines, merchant, planing, and other mills, he has also ing machine, which is kept runtiing dnrini:,- tho caidin;:^ season. We failed '! to niention that an air coin]>ressor, for use in the miueB of ('olorado, had

The first lumber-yard was started in Clarksvillo in the year 1S57 by T. ! C. Keisey and L. W. Haywood, who had a )nonopo!y of the business until the year succeeding the close of the war, wIk'u II n;^h=: S' V»'^ell'?, Denny & ing, siding, etc., etc., are manufactured at their ]>laning mill situated in f, their own yards. These gentlemen have invested 1^^20,000 in lumber, $5,000 in mill, and $2,000 in yards. They do a business aggi-egating from $30,000 to $4:0,000 per annum, handling about two and a half million feet of lumber each year. They employ from live to tifteen hands constantly, while . ' the increasing demand for lumber must, ere long, make additional help a necessity. r. :....--,' f' ^ . -

Formerly most of the products grov.-n in the country were shipped from Clarksville to find their markets i'l St. Louis a!;d other manufacturing cities. At th.is time, stock and fruits excepted, the produce of the farmer i& fiold at home, and Clarksville manufactures the wheat, tobacco, and straw, with a large per cent of tlic ri]i])les raised uitliin fi radius of fifteen miles of her coiju".i-ate limits. The facilities for shi])].)ii)>^, however, have been incrcfit^ed, not impaired, and the railroad is made to assist the river in heariiipj to other markets the products of both our farms and factories.

Dr. J. I). Davis was the first to undertake tlic cultivation of _i:i;rape& on the blufl's near the river. Ptartiui^ a small vineyard in 1SG5, he coiitiuucd to increase his acreage until in 1S72 he had planted not less than tit'icen acres, embracing the Concord, Delaware, Goethe, and other po])ular varieties. In ISGO he built a substantial brick cellar with a capacity of 20,000 calh>n=;, at a cost of S2.500. and in the fall succeeding.'- he manufactured 10,- 000 gallons of v;ine, the iirst ever made at Clarksville. Since ISGC J. "Winn Davis and other parties have plaiited vineyards, ranging in area IVuin two to eii:;ht acres, until now not less tlian thirty-live acres of vines may be seen growing luxuriantly upon the bluH's adjacent to the town, and yielding about 125,000 pounds of grapes, or about 12,0o0 gallons of wine, worth on the market riot le£S than $6,000. This is alrnosi: a clear gain to the town, as the cost of cultivation is merely nominal, v.-hile the lands upon which the grapes are produced are totally unlit for the production of any other crop.

Cakkoi.I, Housk

The history of Clarksville would be ineouiplete without at least a passing notice of this spleiidid hotel. This liouse was built in the summer of 1S76. It is forty-eight feet front by one hundred and eiglit feet deep, three stories high, and with a splendid basement under the entire building. 1 he house was built by Ilenry D. Eurghardt, with sonie assistance contributed by the citizens, and at a cost closely ap]iroximating twenty thousand dollars. It is well furnished and well kept, Jind is now recogrnzed by the traveling public as OTie of tlic vary best hotels in northeast Missouri. The north bound train on the C, B. vfe Q. Kailroad stops here each day for dinner, and apart from this the house is su]iported by a large and growing patronage. }iir. B. F. YatPS is the present polite and accommodating proprietor, and his guests all speak in the highest terms of the excellent acconunodalions and considerate attention which they receive while &top])ing here.

The growth of Clarksville has never been rapid, and at this time, with a population of sixteen hundred souls, it is probably as large as flie surround- in^ connlry is able to suj>port. The business interests of the place arc, including it:- nianutactoi'ies, in excess of tliose of towns of its size, and slie is rrprescnteJ by no;ir]y every branch in a greater or less (leo;ree. l^elow will be found a list of the business houses, churches, etc., at this tinic: liberallv patronized by the citizens of the t<nvn, and drawing largely from Pike and adj')ining comities, tbis school ibr noarly live successive years fully sustained the object of its creation, the preparitig of young men for tlie best institutions uf thiO coiintn', and cstablislicd the schools of the city upon a more permanent, S'-'lid, and successful basi^; than they had ever befoi'C enjoyed. V\'iicn this |>rivate enterprise had rightly })re})ared liie v\-ay and the public school law of the state having at this time b;.^0!i in.augurateil, the people of the city availed themselves of its provisions and erected a magnificent building on a commanding site near the western limits of the city, at a cost of $15,000. At iirst this school gave little promise oi" ultimate success; much prejudice was entertained against the system, and the attendance the first year v.-as comparatively small; an additional dravvback v^as inflicted the 6econd year by confining the course of study to the primary English branches. During the third year, under the management of a liberal boai-d, an edicient principal, surlalned by a corps of intelligent teachers, thoroughly trained to the work and with the hearty indorsement of all the peojde, together with a curriculum of study in keeping with the wants of pupils, the school moved forward on the high road of positive success. The languages, both ancient and modern, mathematics and cognate branches, with the sciences, belles-lettres and everything ap])ertaining to thorough mental training were then successfully taught. The school numbered 300 pupils, with a gradual continued increase from month to month, and independent of its home patronage was beginning to be liberally patronized from abroad. From under the instruction of parties wlio then controlled the school young men passed directly to the classes of Yale College and other institutions recognized as among the best in the country. In the ofhces as lawyers and physicians; in the counting-rooms as clerks and book-keepers; in the field, as practical surveyors; and on the public works as efficient engineers, are to be found men who have gone out from the school at Clarksviile, to discharge aright th.g duties which their stations imposed and to fill up successfidly their mission in life. In the year 1S75 the curriculum of study was again reduced to the branches prescribed by the law for common district schools, and Clarksviile surrendered her former high j^osition in tiie field of education and took her place with the poorer class of country schools. This humiliating position slie maintains to-day, and the ambitious few of her many children are forced to seek abroad that character of useful knowledge denied them at liorae.

"Biuo Lodge," Clarksville Lodge No. 17, A. F. iSc A. jSf., was organized 6ome time during the year 1830. Tiie cliarter bears date, Octolier S, of this year. This lodge is thought to he the third organized in the State of

Bell, S. W., and J-'hu I^. Carter, J. W. The portraits of these good and -'u veuera'.tle men, two of whom have been called to work in the tem])le aliove, said to have colonized to a large extent the country in northeast Missouri, ^ for from her membership liave gone out masons who have aided in the or- / ^

1S52, by District Deputy Grand Alaster Theodore Betts, aided by B. II. Boone, Flem Calvert, and others. The- charter members were Dr. J. M. Porter, W. K. Sturgeon, AA"". AY. Wilson, George F. Turner, Solomon Pollock, H. S. Uershey, Wm. Partridge, John M. Clitford, AVilliam Sparrow, Daniel Douglass, and Jasper Jewell. The first othcers were Dr. J. M. Porter, X. G.; AY K. Sturgeon, Y. G.; AA''. AV. AVilson, secretary; George 1

F. Turner, treasurer; Daniel Douglass, P. G. The present officers are: Lee [Middleton, X. G.; Thomas II. Edwards, Y. G.; F. M. Brasin, secretary; T. E. Derr, P. S.; John Fern, treasurer; T. II. Edwards, Lodge D. " | The lodge lias thirty-one members and is said to be woiking harmoniously, !

fully rirul prompth' the insurance cirried on the life of thoir deceased meuibers, and to supply the pressing' wunts of many households v^hose heud luis forever passed away.

This, tlie oldest church in the city of Clarkevillo, was organized in the year lS3->. Tlie house, a substantial frame structure, forty by fifty feet, was built in the same year at a cost of twenty-live hundred dollars, and was dedicated in 183G by llev. Jacob Lanins. The house is well located, being situated on Main street and near the center of the town, and is for this reason eligible to almost the entire population of tlie city. The ministers who have ofticiated here within the past half century are Pevs. Jacob Lanins, ^Yw. A. Rush, C. I. Yandeventer, A. P. Linn, C. E. Sexton, W. A. Mayhew, Tiiomas B. King, W. A. Tarwater, P. D. Yandeventer, J. F. Shores, J. H. Ledbetter, and J. M. O'Brien, the present minister in charge. The original members were Dr. Thomas Booth, Henrietta Booth, AVilliam Ballenger, Elizabeth Ballanger, Agnes Guathmey, Ezekiel Ferrili, Eliza Ferrill, John Davis, Margaret Davis, W. S. Hough, Martha Hough. Jeremiah Roberts, Mildred Roberts, and Mavy Swain. This ch.urch has a membership of one hundred ommunicants, and more than fifty scholars regularly attend th.e faabbath-school. J. M. Clifiord is tlie church clerk, and W. L. Teny euperinleudent of the Sunday school. In this connection it may be proper to remark that tbo M. E. Chnrcli South has in Pike county ton cliurchcs, with sittings for four thousand people, live pastors, eight hundred and fifty members, and ])ropcrty valued at $21,000. Few churches have done more for any cotninunity tlian lias this for tlie people of Clarksvilje. Planted here at a time when the ]>opulation was meairer and wlicn there wore but few churches in tb.o country, it became at an early day the one sacred ])lace where pious Christians for miles around assembled to worship. To himdreds, perliaj^s to thousands, its solemn ordinances have been administered and multitudes that have passed away learned here to believe those sacred truths that make life and duty and death a joy.

This churcli was organized by Revs. A. G.-lMitchell, S. W. Marston, and J. D. Biggs, on Januai-y 22, 1874. The constituting members were James Major, W. D. IMaj^.T, Kate I\rajor, B. F. Yates, Margaret Yates, G. ^V. Pendleton, Susan E. Pendleton, S. A. Edwards, Mar}- J. Edwards, Emily Limerick, C. C. Kunkel, Mary Kunkel, Martha Berry, Theodore Berry, W. II. Bibb, JN^artlia J. Bibb, Elizabeth Beamcr, Jeptha Ferrill, Elizabeth Ferrill, Madncia Edwards, and W. IL iNicklin. The first minister called to this churclt was liev. W, IL Jjurnhani, the Ilev. Bibb having ofliciated l)efore as a supph\in]^thc absence of a regular ])astor. The Revs. Wm. English and D. "W. Morgan have since ])reached to this congregation, the latter for nearly two years, and continues at this time to serve them very acceptably. The Baptists worshiped in both the C. P. Church and tiie M. E. Church South previous to tiie time of providing their own house, which v. as erected in ISTG, and dedicated by Bev. M. IL Pogson in April, 1ST7. Their church building is a beautiful semi-Gothic structure, built of brick, forty-two by fifty-four feet, vrell provided with suitable furniture, aisles carpeted, and pews comfortable and free. As an incident connected with the building of this cliurch it is but just to state that the bell, which is a very superior one, was mostly paid for with moriey contributed and solicited by Master Albert Yates, a very young boy, and who is now a meniber of this churcli. May we not indulge the hope that the earnings of his maturer life may be as well expended as the slow accumulations of his almost infantile years? The church is at this time in a flourishing condition, numbering about sixty communicants, v.ith sixty-five Sunday-school scholars in regular attendance, and the prayer'meetings not only kept up but well and regularly attended. The officers of the church are S. A. Edwards, B. F. Yates, and W. D. Major, deacons. The latter gentleman is also clerk of the church and superintendent of the sabbath-school.

City Of Clarrsville

Previous to the time of the orirAnization of the chuixh in Clarksville the eommutiiciintfi of the Christian Church worshiped at Rninsey Creek, a church now owned by the Baptists, situated on a creek of that name about five miles soutli of Clarksville. In the year J 851 or lSn2 Elder John Mulherrin ori::ani;',ed a c]iur?.li in Clarksville, and tliosc wlio Iiad wor.-liipcd at Ramsey and who resided north of that stream transferred tlieir membership to Ch^rksville, and for a wdu'le conducted their services in an old brick school-house situated near the western limits of the town. In tlieyear 1552 tliey erected on a beautifnl lot in the southern portion of the city a commodious and substantial brick structure, forty by sixty feet, where tlsey have ever since convened and where many additionsfrora the clrildren of itsfoundei'sajid others of the community linve been made, until now it is one of the strongest churclies witlu'n the limits of Pike county, liaving a membership of about one lumdred and twenty-five communicants. Amono; the original members may be mentioned the names of such men as Ilendley Kissinger, William Davis, Samuel Dennv, Jeptha Onsley, ^.lordecai Atnos, and others of sterling qualities of niind and heart. The ministers who have served this church since its establishment in Clarksville are IClders John Mulherrin, J. Errell, E.Y. Pice, J. J. IZice, Timothy Ford, J. M. Henry, Peter Donan, J. H. Matthews, and E. B. Cake, representing some of the best pulpit talent in this portion of the state. Sunday-school has been regidarly kept up and is at present in a flourishing condition, with S. A. Drake as superintendent. Mr. T. H. Teague is the clerk or secretary of the church. Tte present elders are S. A. Drake.. J. A. Shaw, and J. C. Gillurp. The deacons are T. H. Teague,. John Middleton, C. Johnson, B. F. Boone, and J. T. Smith.

brick edifice liad originrJlj cost about §3,000. This church is in a reasunably prosperous condition, liavin<; about sixty nieaibers, with ]>reacliin'^'- twice each montii, weuklj prayer mcetiri*^, and a well attended sabbathschool. The ministers who liave served tliis church are Kevs. M, E. Tucker, W. .B. McKlwee, Taylor Oeriiard, Jatnes Duvall, T. L. Love, and T. Eornard u;:;ain in charg'e, lu 1S7.5, lor the iirst time in the history of tlie town, this church observed the " week of prayer" according to tlje regulations of the " Evangelical Alliance,"' and tlie ])raetice has been kept up since that time. The chuich owns a pitrsonage costing $1,000, which, like their house of worship, has been paid for. They have au excellent organ, and such furniture and library as is necessary to the interest of the service and tiie nse of the sabbath-school. The nieinbership has long labored together in perfect harinony, atid the object of its uiission.s, the impartation of religious instruction, and the editication of each other has, in large measure, been accomplished.

Episcopal Church

Grace Episcopil Ciuircli was organized March 21, 1869. The building is a neat little frame of Gothic style of architecture, costing $1,500, and situ-- ated on Main street in the extreine southern part of the, city. The house was consecrated in the year above named by lu'ght Itev. ]3ishop Ilobertson. Tlje original members were Hon. G. Porter, wife and three daughters, K. H. Norris, wife and daughter, C. jST. llickersun, wife and daughter, John L. Luke, Frank T. Meriwether, W. A. Luther and wife, "W, B. Carlisle and wife; IL J. Phillips and tv,-(t daughters, Mrs. George Johnson, S. P. Cochran and wife, Ada Hemphill, W. C. McFarland, John Winn Davis, James Plain, Miss Liza Lee, J. W. Buchanari and Mrs. Charles Logan. The first vestry was composed of the following gentlemen: Jolm L. Luke, senior warden; "W. I>. Carlisle, junior warden; F. T. Meriwether, treasurer; J. AV. Buchanan, secretary: Ju.jge G. Porter, Capt. B. P. Clifford and C. M. Hickerson. The following ministers have ofticiated here: Pevs. A. J. Yeater, Dr. Jennings, Abiel Leonard, B. F. Matran and J. M. Curtis.

St. Joseph's Catholic Church was organized in the fall of 1S6S by Rev. Thomas Clcary, and the house of worship, a frame building, thirty by seventy feet, was erected during the same year atid dedicated in the year succeeding. TIic original meml)ers were Michael Pickard, Eugene Rickard, Bartholomew Cole, Tiiomas Cole, John Kinney, Patrick Fiynn, P.

Wlieelcr, James Flannigaii, Samuel Fl;uiiii^;an, A. llirt, liridget Riclard, Thomas IS'ickorsoii, ^V. Walton, J. Curly, Jrunes O'Doniicll, John Ghiss, Arm Kickard, Ishxry Jvinney, Bridget Fijnn, Bridget Nickerson, Kate Flannigan, Kate Glass, Marj' O'Donnell and Kate Decker. There are about thirty ineinhcrs at this time. This clip.rch lias been served ministerially by the lievs. Fathers Kelly, x\'"urray, Kcan, Gleason, Calmii, Francis, Victor, and Nulty.

preacher shall have been j-repared by proper education for the proper dis- '] charge of ])is clerical duties, they will be made to contribute much to the !

ture, Tlie cit}* retains in its employ a sexton, who by the provisions of its i ordinances is, as city officer, permitted to reside v»'ithout its limits, but udio 1 ie responsible to the city council, wlio^e servant lie is, for nil his oificial acts, A neat house, sitiuited within the limits of the cemetery, furnisli the sexton with a comfortable home, and here he lives and labors, devoting all )iis ti»jie to tiie interment of the dead, the making of removals from other cemeteries to this or adding;' additional ornamentation to tlie beautiful home of the sleepint^ dead. Up to the present time iive hundred and eleven inter- i nients, including removals, have boon made in the cemetery ])roper, while two hundred and seven have been buried in the "potter's field.*' To eacli of the several churches of the city a lot lias been donated, while ihe Masons and Odd Fellows have each purchased Iwo lots for the benefit of their respective orders. One or more lots are sold to those desiring them at a mere j nominal cost, and the owners are permitted to beautify the graves of their 1 loved ones in such matmer as their own sense of propriety may suggest, provided that nothing is done to conflict with the rights or convenience of otherSj and where such ornamentation cannot prove hr.rtf'ul to the marble or other surroundings. Tiiere is a registry of every internment, giving name, j Dationality, age, cause of death, and number of both block and lot in wjiich the deceased lias been buried. The blue-grass, which here grows spontaneously and luxuriantly, is kept reduced to an evenly shaven lawn, and in the early springtime beautiful flowers perfume the soft air with their fragrance, while blooming immortelles speak eloquently, if silently, of a life beyond the tomb, whose joy is unending but whose gateway is death.

This village of four hundred inhabitants is situated in the southern portion of C;duiuGt tcwnsliip, iji a beautiful little valley partially hemmed in by a circular range of hills which furnish a fitting background to one of nature's most charming pictures. The fertility of the soil, the am])le supply of good, pure water, and the beauty and picturosqueuess of the scenery were inducements Vvdiich the early settlers could not resist. As early as 1819 a few '"newcomers" had settled upon the lands adjacent to the present vilhigt-, and Thomas Buchanan, who was evidently the first settler upon the present site of the tov.-n, had built his cabin and located here. Following h'lin came Andrew Forgey, who settled at Paynesville as early as 1S23, buying out Euchanan and preparing at once to engage in merchandising with the view of sujqdying the few and simple wants of the early settlers. The town did not increase very rapidly in population, for, as late as 1S31, j there were hut three families in the place; viz, A. Foro-ev's, Alfred Smith's ajid Thomas Palmer's. For^'cy was a irjercliaiit; Smitli a tan nor, and Palmer to his other acconiplishiucnts added the usefal avocation of a blackstnith. i\bout lSl.^;> tlie town lirst came into the possession of a name, which it received from Andrew For;^-e}', who called it Pajnesville after a Mr. Payne, of St. Louif, from whom ho bouo;ht his first stock of goods. At tills early doy the town had neither post-ollice nor public road, hut suoii thereafter it was regularly laid out by 'Squire ]N^oyes, at the instance of Judge Forgey, and, as the village commenced to j^row, the facilities for reaching the place and receiving the mails w^ re alike improved. Mr. Wm. Yaughau was the first postmaster of Paynesvillc, and for several years retained the situation, more as a convenience to the ])ublic tlian from any considerations of profit, Paynesville has never had any town organization and hence ]i'.>ne of her citizens have been dignified wiih the questionable honor of trustee or alderman, bat nowhere within the limits of the state has there been city, town, or i village, in which more peri'ect order has prevailed or where there is a better 1 moral or religious infinence exerted. But while the village is small, its cit- :\ izens are public si)iriced and some of the mo.-t important enterprises of the j county have recci.ed their moral and active support. They gave eounten- .{ ance to the building of our gravel roads and lent their assistance to our i railways. The first agricultural fair ever held in the county was at Paynes- i ville, and here also convened the first medical association ever called to meet

Prior to the year 1S50 tliere were no schools in Payne.-ville other tlu-iri those conducted on tlie old and common district jdaii. In this year, ji^jwever, T. J. Forney commenced a school of a higher order, which lie successfully conducted for several years, when he v/as Ruccceded by Prof. Marcellus Gorin, who was employed at a salary of one hundred dollars per month and who. Tor a term of yea; s, taught a very successful and satisfactory ?chool. After Mr. Gorin had given up his charge of the school, the old system, for a short time, was again pursued, but in 1SG7 Forgey Acadeiny was built, and for a series of years, under the control of Mr. Nicholas Thurmond, this.institution continued to flourish and a new impetus was given to the educational interests of the community. From thih lime until the iall of 1S70, the public school, under the management of some of the best teachers in the county, was jnadc to meet th.e wants of the people; but at this time the citizens organized r. hi<rh school and employed Prol". Pirkey, of La Grange, a gentleman of sch.olarly attainments, to take charge of the same, and at the expiration of one year he resigned his place and was succeeded by Prof. Collins, who has also given place to Prof. J. P. Gass, a gentleman of liberal culture and large experience, nntler wliose cautious guidance the school has been piloted to a higher place of usefulness than it. has ever before attained. This school under its present management deserves more than a passing notice. "With a curriculum of study more comprehensive than that of many of the so-called colleges; with a system of training calculated to develop the physical, intellectual, and moral natures, and recognizing the individnalit}' and idiosj'ucracy of every student and suiting their discipliTie and instruction thereto, Profs. Ga^is and Schell are successfully training their pupils in harmony with that system which is at the same time the most rational and valuable. There are about seventy young ladies and gentlemen receiving instruction here, and the wisdom of the parents who propose to educate their children at home and thus avoid both the expense and possible vicious influences of the boarding school cannot be gainsayed. The music department is under the control of ^Hss L. C. Errett, an accomplished musician who has tor th.e last four years successfully taught in the Academy. She has at this time a class of iifceen young ladies, to whose instruction she devotes her time and attention. Put as the University follows the Academy, so also the Academy follows and depends upon the common or public Bchool, and in this regard Paynesville is well supplied. There is a good public school building in the village, supplied with suitable furniture and with fcixty pupils in attendance. The length of the school term is five montlife and the braiiches tautjht are those prescribed bj tlie school law of the state. Pruf. J. A. Grimes is in char^-e, with ]\Hss Sallie Deanchanip as assistant. The school has been well conducted and is meeting the expectations of its patrons. '' '

Ii.-Vsoxic Kllte Lodge Good Templars

Qneen, Robert McDowell, liieliard Wells, Mary "VVells, Perry Wells, Mordecai Ainos, Susan Amos, Mmj Carr, Win. Vanglian, John and Joseph Long, liichard l.ilcs, Richard Kerr, Peggy Clifford, and ]\[ary Lawrence, almost all ofwliom have passed away. Among the iirst preachers of this early period ate k.und the names of Revs. AYilliam Patton, G. C. Light, Andrew Monroe, Richard Bond, John Thatcher, and Conley Smith, men whose deep pifty and vigorous coramon sense would be as couBpicnous now *as when speaking from the platform in the forest they engaged the attention and won the hearts of the early settlers. x\ot until 1S32 did the Methodists build tluir church at Paynesville, when the membership scattered over that portion of the county was organized into one religious body. In 18 - the old church, badly in need of expensive repairs and too small to meet the want:? of a congregation that was rapidly increasing, was torn away and a splendid brick church was erected on its site. The church is now both numerically and spiritually strong, and through the preaching of tlie word, the attendance upon the prayer meeting, and the closest attention tot he wants of a prosperous sabbath-school, the people of this religious organization havu dune, and are doing, a work for the elevation of our common humanity and for the advancement of the religious interests of the community, winch has not only been felt in the lives of hundreds but which will yet tell in the destiny of thousands.

The Christiafi Church was organized at Ramsey Creek on February 2, 1S23. It continued its organization here, gaining new accessions and promulgating the essential principles of a vital Christianity until the year 1852, when, becoming numerically strong and feeling themselves financially able to prepare better houses of worship, they agreed to divide the congregation into two &e]iarate bodies, those north of Ramsey Creek to convene and worship at a house to be built in Clarksville, and those living south of the creek to build a house of worship at Paynesville. This was accordingly done, and in l>:5-2 a splendid church editice was erected and soon thereafter founally dedicated to the service of God. Among the members of the Ramsey Creek congregation are found the names ot Paul Ilarpool, John Mrilherrin, Francis Watts, P.enjariiin Barton, Stephen Mulherrin, Rebecca Mulherriu, W. W. W. Watts, and Jane Barton, the last of whom still survives and is a resident of Paynesville, within tiiree miles of the old church where she first worshiped sixty years ago.

The church at Paynesvilo 1ms been nnn-^ually prosperous. Under the ministration of able and pious |);istors, it lins continued to grow until now the membership numbers almost two liundred and fift}' coniinunicants. Tiie fiabbath-school which was coeval with with the church and whose members arc constantly supplying the places of tlie pious dead, now number seventylive scholars, and what is at least unusual if not reuiarkalile, one superin- i tendent, Mr. J. T. Duvall, lias served the school for a period of fifteen years. i Mr. Frank W. Patton acts in the capacity of clerk of the church and has -+. long had charge of its records. .1 In connection with the history of this church a brief notice of the life and j labors of its late able, devoted, and much loved pastor would seem eminently | fitting. Elder J. J, Errett was born in New York City in the vear 1315. ' i

He preached to hiri jieople in bif? own chiircli. Two days later tlie summons came and Ibutul him waiting. Death was inr>taiitaneous, and a pure spirit, freed from its tenement of elay, soiii;,ht its " mansion in the skies."

It is mo -c than seventy years ago since the Urst wliitc man built his cabin within the present limits of Calumet township. For a brief period these solitudes echoed to tlie voices of but few of the sons of civilization. But within a single decade from the coming of the first few families, tliere had been planted within tlie borders of the township several very promising settlements, and the cabins of the "new comers " could now be seen nestled at the foot of the beautiful hills or partially hidden by the undergrowth tliat fringed the margins of the streams. There is nothing peculiarly romantic in this early history. If a })rehistoric race once trod this fertile soil they have left few mementoes of their being. It is trub the Indians were here, but with the coming of the sons of toil, the children of the forest begun gradually to disappear. Once they traversed these flouery vales and roamed the ;e wooded hills, but they have long since g6ne, and gone forever, and their memory lives only in the traditions of the burning cabin and the records of the few victims of the tomahawk and scalping knife. After IBiio it was no longer the Indian who sought his subsistence from the prairie or the wildwood, but the white hunter who trod these wilds upon the track of his game, and who with steady nerve and unerring eye, guided the trusty ritlc that sent, speeding on its errand of death, the leaden missile.

The early settlers of Calumet township were intellectually and morally the equals of any class of men that has ever planted human habitation within the domain of state or territory upon tiiis western continent. There Vv'ere amonsr them no sinoflc one who was fleeiuf; from tlie terrors of the lav; or who had been driven out by social ostracism. They were men who* had been reared for the most part in happy homes, surrounded by the comforts of life, with the advantages of the best social relations and with that character of education furnished by the best facilities of the times. Morally, they recognized duty a privilege and right a law; socially, they made the interest of their neighbor paramount to the aggrandizement of self. Financially, but few of the early settlers were very rich and none were very poor. They had come seeking homes and with money to buy them. They had left the older states, not because they could no longer live there, but because they felt that they could do better here. To build homes for their children in the west they had disposed of their own in the east.

The fir.st settlers v.-ei'c principally from Yiri^inia'and Tventiicky, although some came trotn i^ortli Carolina and a tew from Tennessee. Many broii^^ht with thesn a o-j-eater or le.-s numl)er of slaves, and the ra|)id clearing away of tlie heavy forests and the preparation of the ground for the earliest crops is in large measure attribut-tV)le to their labor. Tender })roper care for their physical condition, the increase of tliis specie^ of proi)erty had been so rapid that at tiie commencement of the Civil War Pike county was one of tlie very largest 6la\'e-holding counties in the state.

It is difhcalt to assert with any degree of certainty who were the very earliest settlers, but the list given below will furnish accurate informatioa as to the time when many who were among the earliest first came to the townsliip. It is believed by many that Joe Scott was the first white mail that ever canje into ('alumet township, and that as early as 1805 he settled near the present site of Clarksville, where he remained for about two years, when he returned to Kentucky and some years thereafter came back and settled the "Scott's Springs" place in Cuivrc tovvnship. But it is as late as lolG and 1817 that any definite and authoritative data can be had respocLing sett''emeuts. In the year 1S16 James Burns settled on the present site of the city of Clarksville and Samuel Ewing at a remove of but a few miles from him. In ISl-i Jesse Huofhs settled about four miles southwest of Clarksville, and in 1817, his brother John Hughs located on a place adjoining his. The Paynesville neighborhood was settled from 1817 to 18-20 by the Mulherrins, liuddeils, McCues, Spears, Buikalews, Weldons, Harpools, Hansfords, Boxleys, Bartons, and others. The Mulherrins and Bartons Mdth AV^illiam Thomas and others canie in 1817, v.diile Andrew Forgey first settled in the neigliborhood in 1819, Samuel Shuck in 1820, Thomas i

Fatten about lS2i, Dr. C. C. Eastin in 1817, Abram Lear in the same year, while Mordecai Amos and other old settlers came a few years thereafter. The Clarksville neighborhood was settled about 1816 or 1S17 by Llewellen Brown, and James C. Fielden, with Robert Burns and Samuel Ewing; and i had^renioved from St. Louis county and settled upon the farm upon which Williaui now resides. In 1820 Slountjoy SchoU settled in the western part of the township, wliilc liincs Worshnm, with his tlirce sons located near Patterson, and in 1S23, William LaFurcc and othei's settled in its central portion. I'rom this time until 1S40 the yireara of immigration continued to flow in tl'is direciion, and A^irginia and Kentucky were sending out their best and most courageous sons to carve their fortunes out of tbese western wilds. In this time there had come tl\e (k.>lcs, Edwards, Givens, Wilsons Davises, Turners, Yaughans, Clarks, Meriwethers, Goodmans, Bankheads, Schoolers, Paxtons, and others, whose names are as household words, and whose descendants make up a large proportion of both Calumet township and Piko covinty. Probably the ilist marriage ever celebrated in the i^jwnship was that of Jnlia I\hiun to Dr. Lane about the year 1817 or 1818. Miss Munn was a daughter of Tiev. Munn, a reformed minister, and su])pt>sed by many to liave been the first preacher in the townsliip. Both the parties resided at or near Clarksville. Anotlier ver_v early marriage, and by some supposed to antedate the above, was dames Templeton to Miss Mackey, not later than the fall of IS 18. John Patterson and Jane Maxwell were married on September 2d, 1819, and this venerable and most estimable old lady is still living and continues to relate witii much quaintness and humor many of the happenings of sixty years ago.

Dr. Lane, who married Miss Munn, is supposed to have been the first physician in the township, although Drs. Stewart, Booth, and Eastin must have been very nearly contemporaneous with him.

The iirst man killed was John McGee, by the Indians, about the year 1816, and this is also probably the first death ever known in the township. Kancy Ewir.g was the first to die fr<.>m disease or natural causes. Tlie first serious accident was the breaking of the leg of John Duke by a falling tree. A man was dispatched to St. Charles for a surgeon, but the creeks were up and he was detained. After waiting for more than two days for the physician and amputation appearing imperative, two of his neighbors undertook the job, and with a butcher-knife and tenant-saw they successfully performed the operation, and the man recovered as readily from tlie effects of this pioneer surgery as though he had passed through the hands of the expert of to-day. This accident happened on the Tread way place, near Paynesville, in which neiglihorhood Duke continued to reside, doing the work of a cobbler and enjoying the liberal pay contributed by his generous neighbors.

The very earlietit school teacljers were Joel Alnsic mid Jolin Dennj', and Bucceediny; the latter, about ISJi, may be uicntioued Uriel Griffith, still a resident of the township and nov: in his ninety-second year. In these years, lron\ ISIG to 1&24:, Calnraet not only progressed in the cultivation of the soil, in the making of friiitl'nl farms and pleasant homes, but the car of i hood of Crow's Cross Eoads in tiie year 1820, and in lSi2 Hannah Patterson, residing in the same neighborhood, coinniittcd the same act, hangiiif^ lierself with a skeiu of yarn in. nn oUl sliop e.itnated on the farm.

The only person ever execu.ted under sentGnco of the law from the township, or even within tlie limits of Pike county, was a nep^ro man, Lewis, who was Ining for tlic murder of hit", master, Reason l^iackey, in August, 1841.

No mob law lias ever ])ven put into execulion in the townsliip, and the people have frequently attested their loyalty to good order and the provis- } ions of the statutes by refraining from acts of \iolence under circumstances '' of the greatest provocation.

The tirst tan-yard was on the ]>lace now owned and occupied by George Fielder and was conducted by Charles Mountjoy, The next was on the Graves farm, under the supervision of Thomas Patton, late of Pavnesvillc. |

Addenda

AVe add here some additional data respecting the old settlers, their cus- ] toms, etc., v^aich has been received since the foregoing was written, Mr. i George Fielder and otlier xery old settlers believe that the first cabin was | built in the township by old Mr. llaniEey, at tlie big spring on the farm afterwards owned by Samuel V/ilson. Pamscy v.a& driven off by the Indians and afterwards settled at Biyant's Lick. Thct^e gentlemen believe that Bnrkalevv- was the next comer after Ramsey. John, James, and Thomas Miickey, three brothers from North Carolina, also settled in the township as early as 181G or 1S17, and Joseph Mackey, whose most estimable widow still survives, living with her sou Thomas, on the old homestead, was married in 1S?:3 and immediately commenced to plant a home in the township. Edmund Mountjoy, who gave the land upon whicli Ramsey Creek Church was built, was also settled here as early as 1S16 or 1817. ' The Jamisons also came at a very early day. Among the earliest school teachers Mr. Fielder has heard of Snti, a Frenchman, who taught not later than 1818 or 1S19. Mr. Fielder, mIio came with his father, has also been here for but little less than sixty years. Mr. Fielder says ''our clothes were bark-colored jeans and flax shirrs for winter wear, aTid for summer tow linen pants." ""Wlien we learned to dress the deer skins our winter wear was partially changed, as we donned the buck breeches and encased our hardened feet in the soft and yielding moccasin." He says farther, "I never wore a boot nntil I was seventeen years of age." Amorig the early marriages in his recollection Air. Fielder remembers as the first that of John Jamison to Miss

Nancy Cantrell, the ceremony ho'm^ performed at liis father's house. Tiie settlers at first made their own clotliiiig. For a wliile cotton, in small patches, was grown, and flax was a common crop. The men would })\ill and break tlie flax and the women would pick the cotton, and from the two was spun and woven the wearing apparel of both soxe.s. Xettles, winch grew in rich luxuriance, were also gathered, bruken with the brake, hackled, and woven into cloth for pants and sacks. At this earlv dav colTee \va.=> fifty cents per pound and sugar almost as dear, so that the common table bever- ] miliar with ''rye coffee," wliose challcy a)")pe?'ruru'>o arid mpaly taste vvil I forever be associated with the recollections of that unfortunate war.

The O'Xeill family came to Calumet as early as 1811 and settled in the extreme northorn portion of the township jipon the farn^i now owned and cultivated by Peter Gaeger. In the hitter part of 1817 or 181S the Indians came down the opposite bank of the river and crossing to the Missouri side murdered tlie mother and eleven childreti. They were tomahawked, scalped, and stripped of tlieir clothing and their dead bodies left scattered about the yard. The family was engaged in making soap at the time of the appearance of the Indians, and it is said that the bodies of the mother and one child bore evidence of having been tortured to death by being repeatedly dipped into the boiling cauldron. Mr. O'l^seill was absent from home, at the time having gone to St. Charles, with his neighbor John Mackey, on business; he returned to find that his home had been invaded and all his loved ones slain; his great grief over his own sad loss did not prevent his cariu" for the satety of others: he notified Mr. Mackey whom he had left but a few hours before, and together they alarmed the .settlement. The bodies of the dead were hastily thrown into the cellar for burial, as there was time for no more decent or elaborate sepultre, and the few families of the 7ieighborhood hastened for protection to the nearest fort.

Game

There wa.s very much game in the early days of the township and almost every one was a hunter. It is true that the elk and the bnlialo had disappeared, but deer were very abundant, and droves of turkeys could be seen almost anywhere, while the drumming of the pheasant and the whirr of the partridge were sounds familiar to every ear; ducks, geese, brant, swans, and other water-fowl sought t}ien,as now, the lakes and stj-eanis of Calumet and in almost coiiutlcss numbers; the forests were alive with squirrels wliose constant barking became njonotonous and annoying while their raids upon the corn patches of the early settlers were fearfully destructive. In the camp hunts of llie early times it was not unusual ibr one company to kill as D:any as thirty deer, while the turkeys and smaller game were never reckoned in the count. Two men, Joe and lleuben ]^[cCoy, killed eighteen deer ' j in less than a week as late as 1S30, on and near the ground riow occupied by I

Hawkins and Bankhcad's ranch on Bryant's Creek, and Carson Jamison re- i ports that in 18:29 at ^'Cole's Point'' seven deer were killed in fifteen minutes | after the firing of the fii'.->t guji. But should we attempt the relation of even j one-half of the stories (facts) told in connection with the killing of gau.'C I during this early period, we would be regarded by the reader of the p.iesent j edition of the mendacious Eli Perkins. Wolves were also unpleasantly numerous and made many a raid upon the settler's sheep-folds and pig-j)ens, frequently carrying away tli':- lambs from the very chimney corners of the houses, where they had been penned for greater safety. But if they fattened upon the product of the fold, tiiey also furnished rare sport for the men and dogs, and after a few years the liound and the rifle had driven the skulking cowards into regions beyond the reach of civilization. The streams also abounded in the tinest iish, which were easily taken with hook or net and the tables of the early .settlers v/ere often supplied with this delicious and healthful article of diet. Bee trees were also plentiful and wild honey abundant. In every house could be found honey, clear and limpid and nectar-like to the taste. Surely if tho old settlors lacked a few of the luxuries, they possessed many of the comforts of life, and with the earth, the streams and the forests to minister to their wants, they could feel assured that the physical man was well provided for and gratefully accept all the good things bestowed by the liberal hand of the great an.d munificent giver.

The social life of the early settlers was as pleasant and agreeable as that of the people of to-day, and by many believed to have been even more cheerful and liappy. ^futual dependence naturally attracts men to each other, and the knowledge that tlie good of the commutnty depended upon the action of the individuals composing it, favorably affected the conduct of all. At times all needed assistance, and hence each felt willing to do what he could for his IcjIow man, wLotlier he v/as liis brother, hisneighbor, or a wayfaring man and a stranger witliin Iris g;',tes. When a lionse \vas to be raised it was un>lcrstoo'l that everybody that beai'd of it was invited and expceted to be present, unless unavoidably kept away; many a houce lias been raised in this j could be put up by a few men; but after a little while as the settlers grow wealthy and }\igh-toncd, (?) hewed-log-housee, a story and a halfhigb, and ] sometimes double, came into vogue, and to put uj; one oi' these required the assembling of about all of the male adults of the township; and, how cheerfully they came, how cordially they greeted each other as the horny hand of the one was jdaeed in the hardened peAm of the other. Our mod«M-n etiquette and artificial politeness has taught u-^ to lift the smoothly liru-jhed hat as we touch the kid covered lingers, v/hile our mere semblance of good will but shames the sincere friendship of our fathers. But apart fronj honseraisings, there were log-rollings and corn-huskiugs in abundance; and while the men were at their work, often the \\'omen would liave a quilting or a wool-picking in the house. These occasions generally terminated with a dance at night, where the ''old folks'' were not extra pious and did not hold dancing in abhorrence; but where the master and mistress "belonged to meeting," there was a "play-party" instead, with any amount of fun and "lots" of ])ro!niscnou3 kissing and vigorous lujgging, with jollity commin.- gled. Oh! for another settlement of this dear old township! Disturbances .seldom happened, though a fisticuff would occasionally occur, when each of the combatants was shown fair })'lay and the one that was defeated would ackno^vledge it, when both would wash the blood from their noses, shake hands and be as fast friends as before.

Tbe marriage of a young couple furnished another occasion for the joyous assembling of the early settlers. At that time the bride and groom seldom made a bridal tour, and the prospective happiness of the pair was never measured by the number or costliness of the presents. The}' usually remained at home, the young husband to labor in the field or the forest, and the blushing bride to keep the new-made liome and cook the frugal meal, No editors wore then liired with cakes and plums to say that the "groom was attired in conventional black,'' or to elaborate the beauty of the toilet of the bride. The suit of the hu.'?band came not from ivondon, nor the dress of the wife from Pans, but his costume was frequently drawn from the forest, while her trousseau v^as tbe product of the hand-loom. But their unpretentious dress detracted naught from their merit, and he was as brave in his viirorovis mauLood, and slie as pure in her noble womanhood as any who, attiicd in the t'aultlesa and cosily i^armenls of fasliion, have ever stood iu darkened church, at holy altar, or neath the liunging liiarrlage bell. 13uo no human cup is filled with joys, and with the pleasures of life are mingled sadness and tears. If it was a wedding one day it might be a funeral the uext, jind tliey who but Aostcrday reioieod with the haj)pyand light-hearted when the subject of our sketch was quite young. After the death of his father he v/ent to live with hi? grandfather, wliere he remained until ISGl. Ue received his primary education at the common school and then attended the Watson Soniinarv at Ashlev five years. After leaving school he engaged in preacliing. He attended the tlieological department of the Cumberland ^Diversity at Lelauun, Terintssee, graduating in June, 18S2. In September of the same year he assumed the duties of pastor of the C. P. churches at this j)lace and at Corinth in this county. Our subject's mother was originally ]\Iiss Helen Scanland, daughter of Charles Scanland, who was from Virginia, and came to Missouri iti 1810. She is still living and is quite active for her age. Her present home is in Montgomery county, this state.

IJenjaniill F. Boone, of the linn of Boone A: lJe.m].liill. Few men have been more thoroughly identified and have contributed more to the general character and financial standing of the mercantile status of Clavksville than |

Mv. Benjamin F. Buone, who is a native of this t^tato and v/as born in Lincoln county, near the town of IS'ow ll<»]ic, on tlic 22d day of Ajiril, lf<36. His father, William Boone, vvas by birth a Iventuchian and a distant , distinguished physician of Payur'svillc. They have by this union tlirce boys. Mr. Boone is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and lie and his estimable lady are both consistent members of the Christian Cluirch.

Daniel D. Boone. The Boone family in this country are tlie descendants of seven brothers of that name who came over with Williain Penn, and settled in Pennsylvania. They were from Devonshire, England. From Pennsylvania tbey scattered over the dillerent States. William Boone, father of the subject of this sketch, \vas born in the Territory of Ohio, April 15, 1797. He was the son of Jacob and Mary (Dehart) Boone. They were atuong the first white pc-ple to settle in Kentucky. Jacob was a first cousin of Daniel Boone, and was with liini during the early settlement of the Kentucky wilderness, and his wife was one of the first white women in the state. Thej came ont with the first party of settlers hrought out by Daniel Boone, The ti'ials and privations of those hai'dy pioneers have passed into history, and arc iatniliar to all who have read the diflerent works published which treat of the early settlement of Kentucky, Jacob Boone died in 1S2C, at the age of seventy-two years. His devoted v.ifc had died a year or two previous. They arc buj-ied in the state which tliey helj'cd to convert from a "howling wilderness'' to what all who have been born vrithin her borders speak of with pride as "the garden. S])ot of the world.-' William Boone was married in Fleming county, Kentucky, August 22, 1819, to Miss Clarissa ?d. Wailingford. She is the daughter of John and Priulie Wallingforu, bwtn natives of Virginia, By this union tiiey had eleven children: Harriet, Joseph, Daniel D., William P., Mary, Clarissa, John. Frank, ITenry, Elizabeth, :;.nd Theodore. Six of v.^hcm are now living; viz. Daniel D., "William P., and Frank; Mary, Chirissa, and l']iizabeth. Mary is the widow of Dr. J. W. Hemphill. CMarissa is the wife of Samuel Smith. Esq., of Columbua, XiJ)raska; Elizabeth is the wifeof Ahjxander A^'auirhn, of Pavnesville, The three brothers all live in Clarksville. Williaui Boone came to Chirksville, Missouri, April 5, 1829. He lived two years in Pike Cuunty, and then moved to Lincoln county and settled on a tract of twenty-four hundred acres of land, which he had bought from Chateau, of St. lA)uis. He lived there until his death, February 6, 18G3. He followed farming all the time he lived in Missouri, While lie lived in Kentucky he was engaged with his father in running a ferry-boat and warehouse at Maysville, He took a ride on the first steamboat that ever passed up the Ohio Kiver. He paid a dollar to ride four miles, and vv'alked buck. "When he died, he and his sons owned four thousand acres of land in Lincoln count}'. He is buried at the ** Clarksville cernecei-y. His widow is still living, and is over eighty years old. i She is liviiig with her son Frank, in Clarksville. She is a member of the Christian Church. In 1850 Daniel D. and William P. Boone went to California. They went with an ox-team, and were three months and five days on the road. This was considered a remarkably quick trip. Tliey did not remain there but a few months, and reached their home again in the fall of 1851, after an absence of fourteen months. After they came back their fatlier gave each, of them farms and they followed farming until 1865, when they sold their farms and moved to Clarksville. Daniel D. Boone was married September IG, 1858, to Miss Elizabeth Waters, daughter of William and Catharine Waters, of Lincoln county, Missouri. She was born at War- renton, Fnuquier county, Viri:^inl<a. The}' have no children. They raised a nephew and niece of Mrs. J>oone. Their names were Elhi and James Waters. James is now in Denver, Colorado. Ella is the wife of ]>enja:niii Clayton. After Mr. Boone come to Clurksville he was in the livery husiness 0!ie year. He now devotes his time to real estate in Clarksville. lie owns a number of houses whivh he rents. lie has a snlcndid house where he lives, furnished in i-ood st\te. He is a worthy member of the Masonic order, holding membership in Clarksville Lodge No. 17. lie was boru January 3, 1S24:. Mr. Boone has a portrait of his grandfather, Jacob Boone. It is an oil jtainting, doiie over sixty years ago. He also has an eight-day j was bought by Jacob Boone over sixty years ago, and cost eighty dollars. It is in perfect order, and a good time-keeper. The family brought it from Iventucky v\'lien they came to i'ike county, ii; 1S'20.