Saline County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1910 (part 13 of 17)

Politically Mr. Stafford is a Democrat, and he takes a live interest in local public affairs. He has never been a seeker after public office, but he has been prevailed upon to serv^e his township as school director and road commissioner, in both of which capacities he gave eft'ective servdce to his fellow citizens. He is a man of broad views and public spirit and gives a hearty support to ever}^ movement calculated to advance the best interests of the community along any line. A man of pleasing address and fine qualities, he has long occupied an enviable position in the estimation of those who know him.

Alfred T. Allison

Among the industrious and enterprising citizens of Clay township. Saline county, the subject of this sketch occupies an enviable position, and because of his sterling qualities of character he enjoys the high regard of all who know him. Mr. Allison was born in the township in which he now resides, his natal day having been March 25. 1875. He is the son of Alfred J- and Mar}- F. (Ingram) Allison, who also are honored residents of Clay township, and who will be mentioned in subsequent paragraphs. The subject was reared on the paternal homestead and secured his education in the district schools of the neighborhood. He early became inured to the hard labor of the farm and remained as his father's assistant until the time of his marriage, in 1898, when he rented land of his father and moved into a house located on the land. He has since devoted his attention to the operation of this land and in his efforts he has met with a very gratifying degree of success. He had also learned the carpenter's trade and worked at that for about five years. He is practical in his methods and gives his personal attention to every detail of his work, so that he has been enabled to realize a good income as the reward of his labors. He had had good educational training in his youth, having supplemented his common school training by attendance at the jMarshall high school and the Central Business College at Sedalia. this state, and is thus able to give intelligent direction to his affairs.

On the 23d day of February, 1898. Mr. Allison was united in marriage to Fannie K. Hanna, who was born in 1876 at Hartford City. Virginia, the daughter of R. C. and Lucinda (Long) Hanna. Her parents also were natives of the Old Dominion state, but subsequently moved to Saline county, ^Missouri, locating in Miami township, where they gave their attention to farming, in which thev were successful. To Mr. and Mrs. Allison have been born the fol-

Alfred J. Allison, father of the subject of this sketch, is a native son of the state of Missouri, having been born in Cooper county, on the 8th day of September, 1828. He was the son of Thomas and Lydia (Jones) Allison, the former of whom was born in Tennessee in 1800 and the latter in Kentucky in 1802. Thomas Allison came to Missouri with his parents, Ephraim and Elizabeth Allison, when quite small. His maternal grandfather, David Jones, was a soldier of the war of the Revolution, having served as an officer under General Washington. On their arrival in Missouri, the Allisons first located in Howard county, but soon afterwards moved to Cooper county, where they spent their remaining days. They entered government land, which they cleared and improved, making of it one of the best farms in that locality. Lydia Jones was brought from her native state, Kentucky, to Missouri, by her parents, David and Annie Jones, who located below Arrow Rock, in Saline county. Here the^- lived on a farm, but during the Indian raids of those early days they were compelled to flee for protection to Cooper's fort in Howard county, being at that place at the time of Captain Cooper's death. Thomas Allison and Lydia Jones were married in Cooper county, and there Mr. Allison was engaged in farming until 1848, when he moved to Saline county, and rented a farm in Arrow Rock (now Clay) township, where the family lived about four years. In 1850 Mr. Allison went overland to California, where he remained about eighteen months, at the end of which time he returned to Missouri and moved to Henry county, where he made his home until i860. In the year mentioned the family came to Saline county, where Mr. Allison died in 1865. His widow sui-vived him many years, dying at the home of her son Alfred J., in, 1902. She was a member of the Baptist church. Thomas Allison, in the early part of his life, was a trader and made a number of trips from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico, on trading expeditions. He generally traveled with companies who were led by Kit Carson and other noted Indian fighters and guides. Thomas and Lydia Allison were the parents of the following children : Mrs. Josephine Claycomb, of Marshall, this county; Alfred J., father of the subject of this sketch ; Mrs. Sarah J. Dysart, of Texas: William H., of Cripple Creek, Colorado ; three children are dead.

At the age of twenty years Alfred J. Allison made a trip across the plains to Santa Fe, as teamster with John S. Jones, a trader. After making two trips in this capacity, he entered forty acres of land in Arrow Rock (now Clay) township, Saline county, later entered another forty acres, and to this he added by purchase from time to time three hundred and eighty acres. Mrs. Allison inherited forty acres of land from her father, making the total land holdings of Mr. Allison five hundred acres, all located in Clay township excepting one hundred and twenty acres in Marshall township. In 1851 he located his home on a part of this land, it being situated in section 3. township 50, range 20, and there he has continued to reside to the present time.

In December, 1850, Mr. Allison married Man^ F. Ingram, who was born in Mississippi August 6, 1832, the daughter of James S. and Mary J. (Coram) Ingram. To this union have been born the following children: Mrs. Sarah M. Kidd, of Marshall township, this county; Mary J., at home; James T., of Marshall township; Edwin B., at home; Addie L., at home; Alfred T., whose name forms the caption to this article; three members of this family are deceased. The mother of these children died on Februarv^ 11, 1908. Mr. Allison is an appreciative member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and enjoys the esteem of all who know him.

John R. Stafford

No citizen of Clay to\\iiship, Saline count}-, occupies a higher position in the esteem of his fellow citizens than does John R. Stafford, whose splendid farm is located in section 30. The Cjualities of keen discrimination, sound judgment and indomitable industry enter very largely into his make-up and have been contributing elements to the material success which has come to him.

John R. Stafford was born December 22, 185 1, in Crawford county, Missouri, and is a son of Jesse B. and Sarah A. (Butt) Stafford, both of whom were natives of Crawford county, the former born October 4, 18 t8, and the latter March 12. 1829. Their respective parents were farmers of Crawford county and were "people of the highest respectability in the community. Jesse and Sarah Stafford were married in 1846 and at once went to housekeeping on Mr. Stafford's farm, consisting of about four hundred acres, much of which, however, was rough and unproductive. In 1866 Mr. Stafford sold this tract for twelve hundred dollars and came to Saline county, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in sections 20 and 29, and forty acres in section 17, all in Clay township. On this farm he spent the remainder of his days, his death occurring on the i6th day of November, 1885. His wife had died May 14, 1858. She had borne her husband seven chil- drcn. four of whom survived lu-r, uaniely : Mrs. Matilda E. Richardson, who was the eldest of the family, was married before she came to Saline county, and a vear or so after comini;- here she and her husl)and removed to Arkansas. Later they removed to Texas county, Missouri, where she died in iS;^. William C. is mentioned elsewhere in this work. The next in order nf birth is ]uhn P.. the subject of this sketch. May C. was the wife of Stci)hen Craig, of Arrow Rock township, and her death occurred in June. 1898. After the death of his first wife Mr. Stafford married Mary A. Butt, a onisin of his first wife. Her death occurred in 1887. no children being born to this union. During the Civil war period Mr. Stafford was a staunch .su|)porter of the Union cause.

John R. Stafford receix'ed his early education in the district schools and he remained on the hcMiie farm with his father until the latter's death, after which he made his home with his brother, Williaixi C, until January, 1889. when he married, and immediately went to farming on land which he had previously purchased. He is the owner of tw'o hundred acres of splendid land lying in .sections 29 and 30. and is also the owner of one hundred and thirtysix acres in section 5, Clay township. He is progressive and up-to-date in his methods and raises all the crops common to this section of the country. His keeps the property in the best of shape and the general appearance of the place indicates the excellent taste and sound judgment of the owaier.

On January 9, 1889. Mr. Stafford married Lilla Gambrell, who was born in Clay township on October 6, 1865. the daughter of William J. and Ida R. { Rrown ) Gaml)rell. William Gambrell was born in Virginia and for a numljer of years he was the commanding officer and part owner of steamboats plying the Mississippi river between St. Louis and New Orleans. He was an officer on and part owner of the ill-fated steamer "Sultana," which was destroyed by an explosion of its boilers on the river below Memphis. Tennessee, in April. 1865, Mr. Gambrell losing his own life in the terrible disaster. His wife was the youngest daughter of Judge B. Brown, of Arrow Rock township, who was one of the pioneers of Saline county. To Mr. and Mrs. Stafford have been born four children, namely: Sara A., born January 7. 1891 ; Rowena K.. born December 18, 1892; James R.. born June 28. 1895; Robert R.. horn June 23. 1897. l" matters political the subject gives his support to the Democratic i^arty. though he has never aspired to local office of any nature. His fraternal relations are with the time-honored order of I'Veemasons. In every avenue of life's activities he has been true to his trust and as a man of unimpeached integrity and sterling rectitude, he has won and retains the unbounded confidence of his fellow citizens.

Frank H. Brockway

For a number of years Frank 11. Brockway, of Arrow Rock township, has occupied a conspicuous place among the successful agriculturists of Saline county. His career has been that of an honorable, enterprising business man, whose well rounded character has also enaljled him to take an active interest in education and social and moral affairs, and to keep well informed concerning the momentous cjuestions affecting the nation.

Air. Brockway was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, on the 13th day of September. 1864. and is a son of Uriah and Helen J. (Anderson) Brockway. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania, but her mother was a native of Scotland who came to the United States with her parents in her childhood, the family locating in Pennsylvania. There she grew to womanhood and was married to Uriah Brockway. Sometime later they moved to Ohio, and in Alarch, 1865, they came to Missouri, the trip being made by boat and location being made in Arrow Rock township. Here Mr. Brockway rented land and was successfully engaged in the dair\- business. He was a man of fine personal qualities and gained a high standing in the community. He was a Republican in politics, but took little interest in political matters. He Avas a member of the Presbyterian church, which he had joined in young manhood, while his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a very devout woman. They were the parents of ten children, the subject of this sketch being the seventh in order of birth, and of these children five are now living, namely : Mrs. Hattie Morrison, of Katy, Texas ; Mrs. Elizabeth L. Scott, of Vernon county, this state; Frank H., the subject of this sketch; Edward A\ \ makes his home with his brother Preston, who is a farmer in Clay township, this county.

Frank H. Brockway received his mental discipline in the common schools of Saline county and he remained on the farm with his father until he was twenty years of age. He then rented land in Clay township, in the operation of which he was engaged during the next four years. In 1889 he bought forty acres of land in Clay township, a half mile south of Saline City, but two years later he sold this and bought the splendid one-hundred-and-sixty-acre farm in section 2^, township 50, range 19, where he now resides. He has been prospered in all his undertakings and he has added to his landed possessions from time to time as he was able until now he is the owner also of the five hundred and six acres known as the Smith farm and four hundred and ninety-six acres of bottom, land, making a total of eleven hundred and sixtytwo acres owned by him. Mr. Brockway carries on general farming, raising iUl the cr()])s 0)mni..n lo iln^ .secUuii of the state, and he also gives considerable attention to livestock, feeding annually about two hundred cattle and four hundred hogs. He also handles many mules, being considered the heaviest dealer in this line in this part of the county. His home farm is finely improved and stands in unmistakable evidence of the fact that he is progressive and practical in his ideas.

In iM)litics Mr. Brockway is allied with the Democratic party and takes an active interest in the success of his party, being a member of the county central committee from Arrow Rock township, and rendering appreciated service during campaigns. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America. His religious connection is with the Christian church.

On the 5th day of April, 1885, Mr. Brockway was united in marriage w ith Marv AI. Sappington, of Clay township, this county, where she was born September 28, 1863. She is the daughter of Marshall and Caroline (Howard) Sappington, natives respectively of Saline county, Missouri, and Virginia. To Mr. and Mrs. Brockway have been born six children, of whom fi\e are living, naniel}- : ]\lrs. Myrtle Wade, born November i. 1886, now living in Arrow Rock township, this county; Earl H., bom July 17, 1888, at home; Rowena H.. born August 29, 1889, died January 18, 1898; Franklin Eugene, born October 15, i8qi, at home; Theodore H., born February 11, 1893, '^t home, and Jennie K., born July 8, 1894, also at home. The members of this family are all highly respected in the community and the attractive home is the center of a large social circle. Air. Brockwav has, because of his many sterling qualities of character, long enjoyed the unbounded confidence of all who know him. being numbered among the representative citizens of his township.

Isaiah Garrett

Isaiah Garrett was born about four miles west of Frankfort, Saline county, Missouri, on the 5th day of January, 1844, and is a son of James D. and Alarietta (Durrett) Garrett. The subject's paternal grandparents were -Abel and Nancy Garrett, both of whom were natives of A'irginia, the former born August 25, 1766, and the latter Alarch 2, 1769. After their marriage they moved from their native state to Tennessee, and from there to Saline county, Missouri, where they were numbered among the early settlers. Al)el Garrett died November 11. 1838, and his wife on Alay 19, 1843. They were people of moderate circumstances, though probably as wealthy as the majority of their neighbors. It is said they owned several stoves which they had brought with them from the Southland. They were the parents of ten children, of whom James D., the subject's father, was the seventh in order of birth. One son, Laban, was the first country-school teacher in Saline county.

James D. Garrett was born January i6, 1805. in either Virginia or Tennessee, it is not positively known which. But little is known of his early life. He was a farmer, but is supposed to have also conducted a store at Tonesboro (now Napton), in Arrow Rock township, for a short time. When his father first came to Saline county he located in the northern part, west of Frankfort, where he had a farm of about six hundred acres. When James D. married he occupied this farm, and lived there until his death, which occurred April 8, 1847.

James D. Garrett was married on May 22, 1834, to Nancy C. Durrett, who was born November 20, 18 17, in Virginia. She died July 7, 1836, leaving one son. Richard A., who was born June 10. 1836, and died July 28, 1836. On August 29, 1839, Mr. Garrett married Marietta Durrett, a distant relative of his first wife. She was born February 21, 1822, in Virginia, and was a daughter of William L. and Elizabeth (Roberts) Durrett. Her parents were both natives of Virginia, the father born November 24, 1797, and the mother on December 24, 1798. Mr. Garrett was survived by four children, of whom but two are now living, the subject of this sketch and Mrs. Anna Eliza Robertson, who was born March 31, 1842, and now lives in Arrow Rock township. William H., the eldest son, died about 1858. at the age of eighteen years, and John R., the youngest son, died June 27. 1864, while serving" in the Confederate army, having received a wound in battle three days previously. He was born May 7, 1845. After the death of her husband, ]Mrs. Alarietta Garrett became the wife of Richard Marshall Durrett, the ceremony being performed on September 5, 1848. He was a brother of Air. Garrett's first wife, Nancy. To Richard and IMarietta Durrett were born four children, of whom three are living, namely: Marcellus, of Marshall, this county: James D.. of Clay township, this county, and Airs. Ella H. Mitchell, of Alarshall. Richard M. Durrett died about 1858 and Airs. Durrett died during the later years of the Civil war.

Isaiah Garrett secured his education in the schools of Arrow Rock township and also attended about one year in the George Newton school, Pettis connty, this state. He remained with his mother at home until April. 1861, when he became a member of one of the first companies of cavalrv raised in

>;iiiiR- uiUiiiN, ilic 1.. .iiipauN licing- under the comiuand uf Capt. William P.rcwn. After the battle of Boonville, the company became a part of a regiment of which Captain lirown was made the colonel. After the battle of Cartha"-e. Missouri, the regiment was commanded by Colonel McCullough. The subject remained with the regiment until after the battle of Lexington, Missouri, when he was taken sick and returned home. In January, 1862, he rejoined his regiment at Cove Creek, Arkansas, and remained under Colonel McCullough's command until the close of the war. At the conclusion of the war Mr. Ciarrett returned to his home and w-ent to farming- on rented land, though at that time he owned a part of the old homestead near Frankfort. Soon after his marriage, in 1869, he bought one hundred and twenty acres of land in Marshall tow-nship, this county, and lived on this place until 1876, when he traded that farm for eighty acres in section 12, towaiship 50, range 20, Clav township, where he has since made his home. He has sold all his other real estate holdings and is confining his attention exclusively to the operation of this farm.

On February 22, 1869, Mr. (larrett married Sallie M. Brown, who was born in Clay township, this county, March 16, 1845, the daughter of James B. and Eliza (Durrett) Brown. These parents were natives of Kentucky and Virginia respectively and came to Saline county with their parents, being united in marriage here. To Mr. and ?^Irs. (larrett ha\e been born four children, namely: James P., who died in infancy, was born January 5, 1870; Lewis, born May 13, 1873, lives on his father's farm; Maurice, born June 14, 1876, lives at home; Annie L., born April 8, 1880, is the wife of A. C. \ enable, of Clay tow^nship.

Archibald Gregory

Among the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of Arrows Rock township. Saline county, is the gentleman whose name appears at the hearl of this .sketch. A native of this county, be has been a witness and a participant in the wonderful development wdiich has characterized this section during the past half century. He has passed through some unique experiences ami his reminiscences of the eariy days are exceedingly interesting.

Mr. Gregory was born near Marshall, this county, August 2, 1840, and received his education in the common schools of the neighborhood. He is a son of William and Jane (Merrill) Gregory. William Gregory was born near Kiioxville, Tennessee, and his father was a soldier of the war of the Revolution. Details of the early life of William Gregory are unknown. In 1825 he married Jane Merrill, who was born in Knox county, l>nnessee, June 9, 1807. They came to Saline county, Missouri, in 1830, driving through in a wagon. They located near Marshall, where ]\Ir. Gregory bought forty acres of land. This original purchase was never added to, as the condition of Mrs. Gregory's health was such that they constanth' feared they would be compelled to return to Tennessee. Mr. Gregory was a hard wori<ing man and enjoyed the esteem of all who knew him. Though not a member of any church, he was a conscientious and God-fearing man and had a host of friends. He was a Democrat in politics and was deeply interested in the issues of the day, though not in any sense an aspirant for public office. His wife was a devoted member of the Baptist church. They were the parents of eight children, of whom those living are as follows : Mrs. Sarah West, of Clay township, born in November, 1826; Mrs. Matilda Odell, of Marshall, this county; Samuel, of College City, California; Archibald, the subject of this sketch; Henry, of College City, California, died in May, 1909; William also died in 1909 in Nevada. William Gregory, senior, died in July, 1844. having been preceded several years by his w?ife, who died in August, 1840.

At the time of Mrs. Gregory's death her eldest daughter, Sarah, took upon herself the care of the younger children, and the two youngest, twins, of whom the subject was one, became her special care. One of the couple died at about a year old. but Archibald grew strong and healthy. His sister Sarah married, and still he made his home with her, looking to her as to a mother for counsel and advice. In September, 1861, Mr. Gregory joined Capt. George Mason Brown and his Confederate troops and w-ent to the second battle of Boonville. The subject was not enlisted as a soldier, but went with the Captain for the novelty of the experience. Before the battle the colonel of the regiment placed him with others in care of the horses and supplies, but as Captain Brown was going into action he espied his young friend and requested the colonel that Archie be sent to the front with him. The permission was granted and while in the thick of the fight the subject heard a bullet strike someone near him and, turning, found his friend. Captain Brown, on the grotmd, mortally wounded. He assisted in bearing the wounded man to the hospital, and then he secured of the colonel permission to take the Captain's horse and accoutrements home. He started at once for Arrow Rock, arriving there the following morning, at which time word was received that the Captain was dead.

and secured a position with a wealtliy farmer, Squire Bennett by name, at lliirtv dollars per month. Soon afterwards he \vas sent to Lincoln, with three wat>()ns. for Ixjards. Being- accustomed to calling everything planks except clapboards, when he reached tlie lumber yard he asked for clapboards. He was sent several miles to the mill for the material and did not reach home until after midnight. The next morning he was awakened by Squire Bennett, who was roundly cursing him for being many kinds of a fool, saying that he wanted fence boards. The sul)ject was at once discharged and fifteen dollars of his salary was held back to pay for the boards. Mrs. Bennett, who had taken a liking to the young man, gave him the fifteen dollars and insisted on his remaining as her guest, also furnishing him with a gun and ammunition, with which he killed wild duck and other game, which he sold to the markets in Lincoln. At the end of a w-eek. Squire Bennett sent for him and asked him to return to work. Mr. Gregory refused to return for less than fifty dollars a montli. which the Squire agreed to give, and in addition made him general manager of his estates, which w-ere large. Mr. Gregory retained this position about three months, when he was compelled to resign and return to his sister Sarah, her husband having enlisted for military service. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett were loath to part with their eflicient and gentlemanly manager and upon his leaving presented him with many tokens of their regard.

Mr. Gregory remained with his sister until the close of the war, and during this time he rented and w^orked land for himself. The first year he raised ten tons of hemp, which he hauled to the warehouse at Arrow Rock, where Wood & Huston offered him two hundred dollars a ton for it. Believing he could get a better price by shipping his hemp, he refused to sell. As the steamboat which was to take his hemp drew up to the wharf sparks from her smokestacks blew into the warehouse, which caught fire and the hemp was completely destroyed, together with a five-hundred-dollar bill, which Wood & Huston had put in their safe for him. Nothing daunted by this discouraging experience, Mr. Gregory borrowed money from Wood & Huston and entered the cattle business. He bought and sold large numbers of livestock and always so managed as to end every transaction with a profit. He has continuously since that time been to some extent engaged in the same business, and has been uniformly successful. About 1870 Mr. Gregory bought his first land, comprising one hundred and sixteen acres located four miles west of Saline City, Clay township. Subsequently he w^ent into partnership with his brother-in-law% John B. West, and together they owned one thousand and thirty acres. Mr. West died in 1907 and since that time Mrs. West Hiis sister") and he have ow-ned the property in partnership. Mr.

Gregory lives on his farm of three hundred and sixty acres in section 21, Arrow Rock township, but he still calls Mrs. West's residence his home. He has remained unmarried, but despite this handicap he has enjoyed life, being of an optimistic temperament, which always sees the bright side of things. He is large hearted and generous and has been a friend to all who have needed his friendship and assistance. He has in his employ a negro man by the name of Edward Taylor who has been with him twenty-three years. Mr. Gregory is a Democrat and gives a stanch support to the tickets of his party. Of a genial disposition and possessing those innate qualities which attract men to him, he has never wanted for friends, and today few men in the township enjoy as large a circle of appreciative acquaintances as does he.

Burell L. Thompson

Among the large land owners, successful farmers and highly esteemed citizens of Saline county, none are more deserving of mention in this work than Burell L. Thompson, whose fine homestead is located in section 26, Arrow Rock township. A lifelong resident of the county, he has had much to do with its material development and is today numbered among the representative citizens of the county.

The subject's paternal grandparents were Philip W. and Brunette (LaAvless) Thompson. The former was born in Virginia, July 3, 1790, and at the early age of six years he was left an orphan, practically raising himself after that time. He was a soldier in the war of 18 12. It is supposed that he came to Missouri soon after the close of that conflict and located in Howard county, where he owned considerable land and a number of slaves. He was amongthe first Santa Fe traders and at a very early day established a trading post in what then was old Mexico, near Santa Fe. He had a Spaniard for a partner, the latter conducting the business at the post while Mr. Thompson brought the hides, furs, etc., to Old Franklin, Missouri, and thence by water to St. Louis, where he traded them for supplies for the post. Each of these trips usually required about three years, and during each return east he stopped for a month or more at his Howard county farm. He was ver}- highlv educated in the Spanish language, but could hardly read or write in English. He was, however, a shrewd and sagacious man and was well adapted to the business enterprises in which he engaged. During the Mexican war he again entered the service of his country, being a major in the quartermaster's de- parmienl of the regular army. For services rendered by him in this capacity the government gave liim a large tract of land in Texas, but, considering it practically worthless, he never proved his claim and it is supposed the property revertctl to the government. Mr. Thompson conducted personally some \ery large freight trains or outfits to Santa Fe and other points in the Southwest and on several of these trips he was attacked by hostile Indians, suffering hea\v material loss. About the lieginning of the Civil war he started for New Mexico with his usual outfit, including a herd of cattle, but was stopped by General Price's Confederate troops, \vho 'took his cattle and all his goods. He abandoned this trip and never afterwards started on a similar expedition.

Aljout the time he located in Howard county. Missouri, Mr. Thompson married Brunette Lawless, a native of Kentucky and a sister of Burton Lawless, who located in Arrow- Rock township, Saline county, about 1817. They became the parents of several children, not one of whom lived to be thirty years of age, although several of them were married at the time of their death. Soon after the close of the Mexican w-ar Mrs. Thompson secured a divorce from her husband, who gave her property in How^ard county, and in 1844 ^^^ built a large house in Arrow Rock township, where he ow^ned fourteen hundred acres of land. This land, the first of which he bought about 1828, was located about one mile from the town of Arrow Rock, and the house referred to above is now occupied by his grandson, the subject of this sketch. About 1 85 1 Philip Thompson niarried Mrs. Penelope .Alexandria, wliose death occurred in 1884. Mr. Thompson died in January. 1870. He was a Republican in politics and a slave holder in practice, but during 'the Civil war he gave his sympathy and support to the Federal government, saying: "Having fought under the Stars and Stripes twice. 1 could never do otherwise than remain lo}al to them." He was very religious and for manv years was a member of the Christian church.

Of the children of Philip and Ih-unette Thompson. Burell L. Thompson was born in Howard county, Missouri, in 1825. He was educated priniaril>- in the common schools of his native county, and deciding upon the medical profession, he studied in a St. Louis college, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1846. He was then married and at once located at Georgetown (now Sedalia), Missouri, where he for a time was engaged in the practice of his profession. Later he took charge of the hospital at Lexington, Missouri. He died at the hotel in Arrows Rock in August, 1849, oi cholera after an illness of but six hours. He left a wddow and one son, Burell L., Jr., the subject of this sketch. After Doctor Thompson's death, his wddow kept house for Philip Thompson until the latter's marriage, in 185 1, at which time she

Biirell 1^. Thompson, Jr.. was born on the old homestead in Arrow Rock township, in the house in which he now hves February 15, 1849, ^^""^^ received his education in the pubhc schooLs of Arrow Rock township. When his mother, after her second marriage, went to Cahfornia, the subject went to ]i\'e with his grandfather, Phihp Thompson, at the latter's urgent request. He remained there but a short time, however, going to hve with his grandmother Brunette in SaHne county. He remained with her until about the beginning of the Civil war, when he returned to his grandfather, but a \ear later he left because the old gentleman placed a small United States flag on his horse's bridle. The subject returned to his grandmother, with whom he remained until the fall of 1865, when he returned to his grandfather, with whom he remained until the latter's death, at which time he inherited three hundred and fifty acres of the estate. In 1883 Mr. Thompson bought two hundred acres more, including the old homestead, which had been owned l^y his step-grandmother, whose death occurred the following year, 1884. Subsequently the subject bought another tract of ninety-two acres, making his total landed possessions five hundred and thirty acres. He is applying his effc'rts to the management of his farming interests and has met with uniformly gratifying results. He follows general farming, raising all the crops common to this section of the country, and in addition to the tilling of the soil he also gi\es considerable attention to the raising and fattening- of livestock, principally cattle and hogs, for the market. He is practical and energetic in his operations and is numbered among the successful and representative farmers of the county.

Mr. Thompson has twice been married. In August, 1872, he married Celeste B. Amsbur}-, who was born in Rockland, Maine, in 1854, and came to Missouri with her parents when a very small girl. She and the subject were schoolmates and earlv sweethearts. She died in 1882, leaving four children, one ha\'ing died in infancy. Those now living are Charles E., born in 1873, who resides on his father's farm; Mrs. Media A. Gibson, born in 1875, now living in Arrow Rock township; Mrs. Maude Pickering, born in 1877, now ]i\ing in Higginsville, Missouri; Mrs. Catherine Grow, born in 1880, living in Xew York. In April, 1886, Mr. Thompson married Airs. Rachel A. (Casey) Dysard, who was born in Adams county, Illinois, in 1858, and to this union were born two children, namely; Robert L., born February 17, 1887. who remains with his father, and Airs. Jessie Rummans, born in 1889, who resides in Higginsville, this state. The subject is the only member of Philip Thompson's family now living, all of the others having died at early ages.

lU- is himself the grandfather of nine children. The subject's grandmother, ^Irs. Bninette (Lawless ) Thompson, lived on her farm in Howard county for a number of years after her separation from her husband, but sometime in the latter fifties she became the wife of Judge Joseph Huston, of Arrow Rock, Missouri, and made her home in that place until her death, which occurred in the fall of 1873, at the age of about seventy years. Her husband had died soon after their marriage. In politics Mr. Thompson is a stanch Democrat and takes a commendable interest in public affairs, though not a seeker after public office. He is public spirited in his attitude toward all public enterprises and gi\'es a hearty support to every movement that promises to be of benefit to the community. He is a man of splendid personal qualities and enjoys the highest regard of all who know him.

Leland B. Green

Prominent among the worthy representatives of the pioneer element in the county of Saline is the well known gentleman to a review of whose life the attention of the reader is now invited. For many years Leland Green has been a forceful factor in the growth and prosperity of Arrow Rock township, and his name and reputation have extended far beyond the limits of the locality where his life has been spent.

Leland B. Green was born on the same farm in Arrow Rock towaiship where he now^ resides, his natal day having been during Christmas w^eek of December, 1837. He is the son of Samuel H. and Elizabeth (Cain) Green, of Madison county, Kentucky, before their emigration to Missouri. The subject's mother w^as born in Virginia, but their marriage occurred in the Blue Grass state. About a year after that event, in 1818, they came to Missouri, locating in How^ard county. The long, tiresome and dangerous trip was made by horseback, in which w^ay they conveyed, besides themselves, their first baby, a feather bed and all their clothing. On their arrival at their destination, they took an invoice and found that one dollar v^^as the sum total of their cash capital. They were undaunted, however, and the father bravely went to work to make a living for his family. They remained in Howard county until 1833. when they came to Saline county and located in Arrow Rock township, where they bought eighty acres of land located in section 39, towmship 50, range 19, this land being that now occupied by the subject. Mr. Green was energetic and possessed a large fund of good common sense, so that in his operations he was prospered to a degree that enabled him to increase his landed estate as the years went by until he became the owner of four hundred acres of land. Of this, he afterwards gave each of his sons eiglity acres. J\Ir. and Mrs. Green were faithful and earnest members of the Christian church, being honest and God-fearing people. Mr. Green was a strong Republican in politics and took a great interest in the political affairs of the country, though he never sought office for himself. Mr. and Mrs. Green became the parents of nine children, all of whom lived to mature years excepting a daughter who died at the age of twelve years. Those living, besides the subject, are : Samuel H., aged seventy-eight years, living near Napton, Arrow Rock township, and Mrs. Emily Forson, aged ninety-one years, living in Ray county, Missouri. Samuel H. Green died in 1869, aged seventy-two years, and was survived more than two decades by his widow, wdio died in 1890, at the remarkable age of ninety-six years.

Leland B. Green, who is the youngest of the children born to his parents, was reared on the home farm and remained with his parents until their deaths, at which time he came into possession of the old homestead of eighty acres, wdiich he has since operated successfully. The place is well improved and is recognized as one of the best farms in the township. Mr. Green has been a hard working man all his life and his efforts have been rewarded by a gratifying measure of success.

Mr. Green is public spirited in his attitude towards all movements which promise to benefit the community and is a man of force and influence in the community. His political affiliation is wath the Republican part}-, and, like his father, he takes a keen and intelligent interest in the trend of public events. Mrs. Green is a member of the Christian church, Mr. Green being prevented from attending- religious worship by the fact that he is very hard of hearing; nevertheless, he is a man of finer feelings and is orthodox in his beliefs.

On the 14th day of January, 1858, Mr. Green was united in marriage to Nancy E. Rummans, who was born in Boone county, Missouri, in 1834. She is the daughter of Stephen and Susan (Eastin) Rummans. natives of Kentucky, who moved to Saline county, Missouri, in i860. They died in Arrow Rock township, the father in 1862, at the age of fifty-five years, and the mother in 1867. They were the parents of six children, of which number Mis. Green w-as the second in order of birth. Those living are, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Eliza Hill, of Pittsburg, Kansas, Abraham, of Marshall, this county, and Mrs. Susan J. Myers, of Warsaw, Missouri. To Mr. and Mrs. Green have been born eight children, of whom three are living, namely : Elihu L., l^ihvard E. Green, son of the subject of this sketch, was born September (i, iSho. on the farm which his father now occupies. He was educated in the schools of Arrow Rock townshi]), and hved at home w-ith his parents until 1890. when he moved to a farm of forty acres in section 34 which he had bou.q-ht in 1875. He is now devoting his attention to the operation of this jjlacc and is meeting- with a good measure of success. He is in politics a Republican, but has never aspired to public office. His religious membership is with the Presbyterian church.

In fnne. 1890, Air. Green married Lulu O. Black, who was born in Howard county, Missouri, in March, 1875, the daughter of Newton and Mar}- (Tanner) Black, natives of Kentucky. To Mr. and Mrs. Green have l^een born the following children: John, born in November, 1892; Paul E.. born AFav JO. 1894; R. Elmer, born in August. 1898, and \Mllard L., born in Septi'inliiM-. 1906.

John Percy Huston

The life history of him whose name heads this sketch is closely identified with the history of IMarshall and Saline county. His life has been one of untiring activity and has been crow'ued with a degree of success attained b}- tliose only who devote themselves indefatigably to the work before them. He is of a high type of Intsiness man and none more than he deserves a fitting recognition among the men w-hose genius and abilities have achieved results that are most enviable and commendable.

John Percy Huston, banker, is descended from one of the earliest and most prominent of the pioneers of central Missouri. His paternal grandfather. Joseph Huston, a native of Augusta county, A^irginia, niarried a Miss Brow.nlee, and in 1819 moved to Saline county, settling on a farni in Arrow Rock township. There he built a hotel, the first in the neighborhood, which he conducted for many years, later in life establishing a commercial business there \\hich he conducted in connection with the hotel. After his first wife died, he married the widow of Bradford Lawless. He was a man of great influence in Saline county, and for many years in the early history of that place was the only justice of the peace in his township. His reputation for probity, integrity and strength of character descended to the son Joseph, and IS als(j the heritage of the grandson. Joseph Huston, Jr., son of the pioneer.

was born and reared on the farm in Saline county. In youth he entered his father's store as a clerk and for some time continued in that business. In 1859 he formed a partnership in the same business with Will H. \\'ood and in 1865 they added a commission business to their joint interests. The firm was dissolved in 1869. and four years later a new partnership was organized by them, as Wood & Huston, for the purpose of engaging in the banking business in ^Marshall. In 1874 they opened their bank for the transaction of business, on the northeast corner of the public square in Marshall, their capital being twenty thousand dollars. The institution was conducted as a private bank until 1882, when the capital stock was increased to one hundred thousand dollars, stock issued for that amount, and incorporation under the laws of Missouri effected. Of this bank Joseph Huston served as president until his death in 1884. ]\Ir. Huston was twice married, first in 1849 to Virginia Thompson, daughter of Philip Thompson, an early settler of Howard county. His second wife, to whom he was united in 1857. was ]\Iary C. Smith, the daughter of G. S. Smith, who was a nati^-e of Kentucky. They had ten children, of whom six are living, namely: John Percy, Bettie, Harry L., ^^'ill S., Louise (wife of Charles L. Bell, of ^Marshall) and Arthur E. Joseph Huston was a quiet, unostentatious man, of great integrity and iron-clad business principles. He seldom made an error in judgment and was equally correct in his clerical work. He was a quiet and retiring man, of generous impulses, giving liberally of his means to worthy causes. He was public spirited to a marked degree, and from every point of view a valuable member of the community.

John Percy Huston was born in Saline county, ]^Iissouri. Xovember 28, i860. At the age of fifteen years he was graduated from Kemper Military School at Boonville, being the youngest graduate to leave that institution. The year following his graduation he entered his father's bank as bookkeeper and in 1882 was made assistant cashier and in 1885 cashier. Since the death of Will H. Wood, in 1890, the management of the institution has been in his hands. So successful has his conduct of its affairs been that he is recognized by the bankers of Missouri as one of the most sagacious financiers of the state, with a masterly grasp of questions pertaining to this most important interest. In 1895 he was complimented by election to the oftice of president of the Missouri Bankers' Association. In 1897 he was elected vice-president from Missouri of the -\merican Bankers' Association, and in 1900 was elected a member of the executive council of that association. At its meeting at Cape Girardeau in 1898, he read a carefully prepared paper on "The Banking Department of the State of Missouri and the Laws Governing the

Same."' which was awarded a prize of one hundred dollars, as the best paper on the new Ijank inspection law. At the meeting of the American Bankers' Asscx'iation at Denver, Colorado, in August, 1898, he delivered an address on liie "Resources and Banking Statistics of Missouri," which was applauded as tiie i)cst address on a kindred subject delivered before that session. For several years he has been treasurer of the Sappington fund for the education of poor children. In 1885 he Ijecame one of the incorporators of the Ridge Park Cemetery Association, which laid out the present attractive burying grounds at Marshall. Fraternally he is a Freemason, having taken the degrees up to and including that of Knight Templar. In the Methodist Episcopal church South he is president of the board of stewards, and was elected in I goo a trustee of Central College at Fayette, Missouri. Politically Mr. Huston is a Democrat, and he was a member of the military staff of Governor Stephens, with the rank of brigadier-general.

Mr. Huston married, November 14. 1889, Nellie Cary, a native of Kansas City and a daughter of the late Judge Lucius and Martha (Stone) Cary. They are the parents of three children, Lucius Cary. John Percy. Jr., and Mary Louise. Genial in disposition and of pleasing address. Mr. Huston easily makes friends and throughout the community he enjoys unljounded confidence and esteem.

Holding worthy prestige among the leading farmers and enterj^-ising citizens of Marshall township, C. W. Downs fills a large place in the public eye and is entitled to specific notice in a work devoted to the lives of the representative men of Saline county. His father. Benjamin F. Downs, was a native of Kentucky and his mother, whose maiden name was Letitia Neely. came from Indiana. This couple were married in Saline county, Missouri, and reared a family of seven children, the subject of this sketch being the oldest of the number; the others were Margaret, who married a man by the name of Folck; EHzabeth, wife of A. J. Wilson; Alvin F., of Vernon county, Missouri; Virginia, wife of A. J. Wilson; Mrs. Laura Sandridge. and Cynthia, who first married Thomas Sparks, after whose death she became the wife of Clarence Fant.

Benjamin F. Downs grew to manhood in Indiana and in 1820 came to Missouri and settled in Saline county, where he afterwards married and became a prosperous tiller of the soil. He was a prominent citizen, took an active interest in all public matters and as a Democrat became a leader of his party in Saline county and was also actively identified with the Christian church and all laudable measures and movements for the moral advancement of the community in which he spent so many years and in which his death occurred in 1867, his wife surviving him until December 18, 1898.

The subject's paternal grandfather was Thomas Downs, a native of Kentucky and a man of high character and sterling worth. He had a family of three sons, whose names were as follows : Thomas, who died many years ago in Indiana, Benjamin F., and James A., who came to Missouri in an early dav, and departed this life in the county of Pettis.

C. W. Downs was born October 20, 1843, in Saline county, ^Missouri, and received his educational training in the public schools and the high school of Marshall. Reared amid the wholesome discipline of rural life, he early became familier with the rugged duties of the farm and grew up to the full stature of well developed manhood with a proper conception of life and its responsibilities. He remained with his parents, assisting in the cultivation of the farm, until the age of twenty-five, when he chose a wife and helpmeet in the person of Susan Ramsey, to whom he was united in the bonds of wedlock in 1869, and immediately thereafter engaged in agriculture for himself which useful calling, with other pursuits at intervals, he has since followed. ^Meantime, 1864, he entered the Confederate Army, Col. Bob Woods' cavalry regiment, of General Shelby's command, and saw considerable active service during that and the following year in southwestern Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, taking part in several battles and a number of skinnishes until the surrender of General Lee, when he and his comrades laid down their arms and, after being paroled, were given free transportation home.

Mr. Downs resumed the pursuit of agriculture on the home farm at the close of the war and remained there until 1870, when he purchased and improved a farm of his own. on which he has since lived and prospered. His place is admirably situated in one of the finest agricultural districts of the county and, being only two and a half miles from the court house, has steadily grown in value and is now considered one of the most beautiful and attractive homes in the vicinity of the county seat. Mr. Downs is a self-made man and. in the full sense of the term, the architect of his own fortune. He has been engaged in various kinds of occupations, including the breaking of prairie, operating a threshing machine, working on the farm for wages, renting land and running a dairy, farming on his own responsibility and other lines of work, in all of which he met with reasonable success, as his present independent position abundantly attests. He has dealt considerably in real estate in his tuvn and other couniics and at iln^ lime owns a fine farm of two hundred and sixtv acres, which is highly improved and in an excellent state of cultivation, also property in Marshall and Eldorado Sprinos, besides owning stockin ihe .Marshall Creamery Company and other enterprises.

in his i)olitical faith Mr. Downs is a Democrat and as such keeps well informed on the questions of the day and in close touch with his party in local, state and national affairs. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd I'ellows. in which he has filled the chairs in both subordinate lodge and encampment, and is now treasurer of the organization in Marshall. He is also identified with the Ancient Order of United \V(M-kmen. and in religion subscribes to the plain and simple teachings of the Christian chiu-ch. his wife also being a member of the same l^od}-.

Mrs. Downs was born in Saline county in 1854. being a daughter of Higinbotham and Jeannette (Guyer) Ramsey, both natives of Missouri and descendants of old Virginia families, which were represented in this state earlv in the ]Moneer period and took a ])rominent part in the development of the country's resources.

Higinbotham Ramsey was an influential citizen and prominent farmer and stock raiser and for many years wielded an influence for the Democratic party, which made him one of its leaders in the central part of the state. He sympathized with the South during the Civil war, and was brutally murdered by i'ederal Inishwhackers in 1864. after suffering tortures which savages would have hesitated to inflict. Ivlrs. Ramsey died in the year 1894. She was the mother of the following children; Mrs. Susan Downs, James, Thomas. William and Mrs. Anna Harris, the last named and Mrs. Downs being the only survivors of the family.

Mr. and Mrs. Downs are the parents of the following children: Benjamin, a farmer of Saline county and also running a general delivery in Marshall; Ida, who died at the age of two and a half vears ; Lulu died in infancy; lA-a. wife of Paul Evans; Harris and Jeannette. still memliers of the home circle.

.Missouri has been especially honored in the character and career of her i;ublic and jirofessional men. In every county there are to be found in the vari<ius vocations and professions men who dominate not alone by superior nuelligence and natural endowment, but by natural force of character. It is profitable to study their lives, weigh their motives and hold up their achievements as incentives to greater activity and higher excellence on the part of those just entering upon their first struggles with the world. These reflections are suggested by the career of one who. h\- a strong inherent force and superior professional ability, directed by intelligence and judgment of a high order, stands today among the representative men of Saline county.

Thomas Hudnall Harvey, who occupies a leading position at the Saline countv bar. is a native son of Missouri. ha\ing been born on a farm seven miles northwest of the city of Marshall, on the 22d day of February, i860. His paternal grandfather. Thomas H. Harvey, was of English descent and was born in Northumberland county. Virginia. February 20. 1799. He received a good education and in mature life became a successful and prominent agriculturist. He was appointed by President Tyler as superintendent of Indian affairs, and was re-appointed to this position by President Polk. He held the rank of major in the state militia of Virginia. In 1836 he came to Saline county, Missouri, and two years later he was elected to the lower house of the State Legislature. His services in that body were eminently satisfactorv and in the election of 1840 he was chosen a member of the State Senate. He followed the vocation of farming all his life. From his early youth he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church South. His death occurred February 6. 1852. He was twice married. On August 19, 1817, he married Sallie C. Harding, of his native county, who died shortly after their marriage, and on January 30. 1820. he married Elizabeth S. Edwards, whose death occurred January 25, 1853.

Thomas R. E. Harvey, father of the subject, was born in Northumberland county, Virginia, December 16, 1827, and in 1836 he accompanied his parents on their removal to Saline county, Missouri. He was then a boy of nine years and he was reared on the parental farmstead. He received a preparatorv education in the common schools of the neighborhood and later a classical course in the University of St. Louis, graduating with honor in 1850, and receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He further enjoyed the advantage of attendance in the law school of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, that state. He immediately engaged in the practice of his profession in St. Louis, but at his father's death he returned to Saline county and took up the operation of the home farm, which engaged his attention until 1891, when he removed to Marshall, where he died on August 30, 1902. at the age of seventy-five years. He stood high in the opinion of his fellow citizens and he represented Saline county in the lower house of the State Legislature in 1872. He married Virginia E. Yerby, who was born in Fau-

(initT c<ninly. Virginia, in 1825. When but a child she came to Missouri with her parents, who located in Lafayette county. She now makes her home with her son. the subject of this sketch, and is eighty-three years old. To Thomas and Virginia Harvey were born four children, namely: Maud L., the wife of Prof. B. G. Shackelford, professor of physics and chemistry in the Cape Girardeau (Missouri) Normal School; Thomas H., the subject of this sketch : Emest Y., who is engaged in the manufacture of white pressed brick in Jacksonville. Florida; Dr. Horace G., of Denver, Colorado.

Thomas H. Harvev received his elementary education in the schools near his home. In 1878 he entered the Central College at Fayette, Missouri, where he was graduated in 1882. After his graduation he became a member of the facultv of this institution for one year as adjunct professor of Greek and Latin. He then began reading law with Yerby & Vance at Marshall and in November, 1885. he was admitted to the bar. In the same year he began the practice of his profession at Miami, Saline county, and reniained there until 1890, at which time he was elected prosecuting attorney for this county and removed to Marshall. He was re-elected to the office in 1892. He made a most commendable record as prosecutor, and in this connection it is worthy of note that he secured the first conviction in the state of Missouri for rape where the death penalty was inflicted. Fie has from the beginning enjoyed a splendid practice and has been connected with some of the most important litigation in the Saline courts. Of mature judgment and keen discrimination, he possesses the valuable faculty of getting quickly at the heart of whatever engages his attention, and in the trial of cases he has proved himself an antagonist to be feared. He has met with very gratifying success in the practice an.d is numbered among- the leaders in his profession in Saline county. Mr. Harvey has been a member of the board of curators of Central College, of l-'ayette, this state, for a number of years. He is a director in and attorney for the Bank of Marshall, the Central National Savings and Loan Association of Marshall, and the Saline County Telephone Company, and is also a director of the Marshall Floral Company.

Politically Mr. Harvey is a stanch Democrat and takes a keen interest in the success of his party, being numbered among the influential counselors in the organization. Fraternally he belongs to the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Religiously his membership is with the Methodist Episcopal church South, of which he was formerly a member of the board of trustees. Mrs. Harvey is a member of the Episcopal church. They are both liberal in the support of their respective churches, as well as all other benevolent and worthy objects.

On July 29, 1903, Mr. Harvey was united in marriage to Linnie M. Montague, who was born in Marshall, the daughter of E. D. and Mary L. Montague, of that city. This union has been blessed in the birth of two children, Edward Montague and Harold Lee.

The gentleman whose life history is lierewith outlined is descended from stanch old German stock, though all of his immediate ancestors have lived in Virginia. The Armentrout family is numbered among the pioneer families of the Old Dominion, and the land first entered by the family in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 175-3, during the reign of King George, is still in the possession of the family, a record remarkable in these days of constantly changing land titles. The subject's paternal grandfather, George Armentrout, was born, reared and died in Rockingham county, where he followed farming and was a highly respected citizen. The subject's parents were Jeremiah and Sarah J. (Miller) Armentrout, who also were born, reared and lived their entire lives in Rockingham county. The father also followed the tilling of the soil and his death occurred in 1886, his wife having died in 1868. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom nine are still living. The subject's maternal grandfather was Peter Miller, who, like the other members of this connection, was a successful farmer in Rockingham county, Virginia, where he was born, lived and died.

P. C. Armentrout was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, on the 4th day of November, 1849, and was reared under the paternal roof, receiving his education in private schools in the neighborhood, and spending his vacation periods in assisting in the labor of the farm. On September 28, 1869. before he had attained his majority, he came to Saline county, Missouri, and for four years was employed in teaching school. During the following four years he was engaged in farming near Shackelford, this county, meeting with fair success. At the end of the period noted he sold his farm and duringthe following five years he was in the grain and general mercantile business at Shackelford. Desiring a larger field for operations, he removed, in 1881. to Marshall and, in partnership with B. F. Naylor, went into the grocery business. He was also for six years engaged in the hardware and furniture business, also in partnership wdth Mr. Xaylor. In all these enterprises ]\Ir. Armentrout was steadilv successful and makino- substantial advances in a iiiiancial and material way. his shrewdness and business sagacity being exhibited in every business transaction in which he engaged. On May i, 1894, he was tendered and accepted the position of vice-president of the Farmers' Savino-s Bank at Marshall, and. selling his mercantile interests, he has since that time devoted his attention to the banking business, in which he has also demon.strated lousiness qualities of a high order. The Farmers' Savings Bank is one of the strong and popular monetary institutions of Saline county.

On March 8, 1871. Mr. Armentrout w^as united in marriage to Rachael V. Kiser. who is a native of Saline county, Missouri, and a daughter of Tames Kiser. The latter \vas one of the old pioneers of this county, his father having brought his family here in a very early day. To the subject and his wife have been born four children, namely : Ida, who is the wadow of the late Dr. Melvin Young; W. J., wdio is a successful farmer living about five miles from Marshall ; Lotta and Edna, the younger children, remain at home.

Politically Mr. Armentrout is a stanch Democrat and takes a healthy interest in the trend of public events, though in no sense an office seeker. Fraternally he is a member of the /Vncient Free and Accepted Masons, belonging to the blue lodge of Master Masons, the chapter of Royal Arch Masons and the commandery of Knights Templar. In religion Mr. and Mrs. Armentrout are members of the Baptist church, to which they give an earnest and liberal support. Combined with business qualifications of a high order, unimpeached integrity, a public spirited attitude toward all local interests and a genial personality, have combined to gain for Mr. Armentrout a deser\'ed ])opularitv in the community in which he so long resided, he being justly numbered among the representative citizens of Saline county.

Henry Claude Young

Among the enterprising farmers and successful business men of Saline county none were better known or exercised a more beneficent influence than the worthy and high-minded gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch. In all that constituted upright manhood and progressive citizenship, he was easily the peer of any of his fellowmen and his name will go down to posterity as one who gave impetus to the great agricultural and livestock interests of his county and added to the good name and reputation of a community long noted for its high standard of morals and respect for law and order. Like the majority of the men of central Missouri, Henry C. Young was descended from Southern ancestry, although a native of SaHne county, where his birth occurred on the 21st of November, 1862. He was a son of George and Virginia (Gihiam) Young, a sketch of whom appears upon another page of this work.

Henry C. Young, whose name introchices this review, was reared to agricuhural pursuits and received a good elementary education in the common schools, this training being afterwards supplemented by a course in Central College at Fayette, where he earned an honorable record as a diligent and critical student. On arriving at the age of life to do so, he chose agriculture as his life work and, directing all of his energies thereto, soon became one of the leading farmers and local stock raisers in his part of the country, as well as one of the representative citizens of the community in which he resided. His knowledge of live stock made him an authority on this important branch of farming and in addition to raising and feeding a large number of cattle he bought and shipped quite extensively and in due time reaped the reward which keen intelligence, well balanced judgment and wise foresight are sure to bring- to their possessor. Mr. Young was a good trader as well as an excellent and up-to-date farmer, and his business affairs were invariably successful. He possessed unusual energy, also the ability to foresee with remarkable accuracy the future outcome of his various plans, and during his active years his mistakes were few and he seldom failed to realize abundant returns from his time and labors. In 1899 he turned his farm over to other hands and moved to Marshall, to afford his children better school privileges, and he made that city his home during the remainder of his life.

Miss Willie Standard, who became the wife of Mr. Young on November 15, 1885, was born in Saline county, Missouri, in 1868, being the only child of George W. and Elizabeth (Romine) Standard, natives of Illinois and Missouri respectively. Mrs. Young is a lady of sound intelligence and beautiful character and possesses to a marked degree those practical ideas which made her a fit companion and helpmeet to her husband and after his death enabled her to take charge of his interests, which, with those inherited from her parents, she still manages with commensurate ability and skill. She is the mother of three children, whose names and years of birth are as follows, Nadine, 1891, Virginia, 1893, and Henry C, who was born in 1896.

In politics Mr. Young was a stanch Democrat and firm believer in the principles of his party, but at no time did he seek office or aspire to public honors. Personally he was sociable and of a kindly disposition, charitable to the poor and unfortunate, a loyal friend and obliging neighbor and an excellent and high-minded citizen whose influence did much to promote the welfare of his icllownien. His home life was almost ideall}- ha])])y and all witii whom he associated were ijrofuse in their praise of his admiral)le (|iialities and sterling worth. He died on the first day of September, 1905, and left not only a sorrowing- family Imt an entire commnnity to mourn his loss.

Mr-. Voting's paternal grandfather, (Jideon Standard, was a native of Kentuck'N and a man of sturdy character and high repute. Sometime after his marriage he moved to Illinois, where he became a prominent stock farmer and spent the remainder of his days, dying a number of years ago, respected l)y all who knew him. He reared a large family, all of whom remained in Illinois excepting George W'.. who came to Missouri wdien a young man and engaged in the cattle business in Saline county. A few years after his arrival he married IClizabeth Romine and in due time accumulated a handsome estate and became one of the leading farmers and stock raisers in this part of the countv. In addition to his large agricultural interests, he acquired considerable city property and was a stockholder in the Bank of Marshall, besides being identified with various other enterprises which added to his fortune and made him one of the solid men of the community. A Democrat in politics, he was an influential factor in his party, Imt never an office holder, and, though strictly moral and U|)right in all of his dealings and honorable in his relations with his fellow men, he belonged to no church or religious organization, believing that each man was a law unto himself and that a kind and merciful creator would deal justly with all. The death of this estimable man and public spirited citizen occurred in December, 1907, his wife preceding him to the grave in 1872. ]\irs. Standard was the daughter of Jesse Romine, an early settler and well-to-do farmer of Saline county. She lived an earnest and consistent Christian life and was long a w^orthy member of the Presbyterian church, and her kindl}- words and many good deeds are held in grateful rememljrance by those with whom she formerlv mingled.

Francis M. Lail

Ihe gentleman of whom the biographer writes in this connection is not only a successful farmer and prominent citizen of Saline county, but is also widely known throughout Missouri and other states as a breeder and raiser of high-grade swine, a business in which he has outdistanced all competitors and in which he has few ecjuals and no superiors in the entire union. Like nianv enterprising residents of Saline connty, F. M. Lail hails from the state of Kentucky, where his l)irth occurred on the 6th day of February, 1844, having- first seen the light of day in Harrison county, of which his parents, Charles and Louisa Lail, were also natives. His grandfather, John Lail, the son of German parents, was born while the family was moving from Virginia to Kentucky overland by ox teams. Li due time he became a prominent planter and distiller, and to him belongs the credit of constructing the first steam copper still of the type which afterwards came into general use in Harrison county, Kentucky. He was a man of great energy, stern integrity, did much to promote the material progress of his county and died many years ago, leaving a family of ten children, of whom the subject's father was the fourth in order of birth.

Charles Lail was born in 1807 and when a young man married Louisa Ligles, whose parents, Joseph and ]Mary (Bryan) Ingles, were among the earliest pioneers of Kentucky, the mother of Mary Bryan having been a sister of Daniel Boone, the noted hunter and backwoodsman and the first white man to penetrate the wilderness of what is now one of the finest states of the federal union. Mr. Lail was a successful planter, a large slave holder and, by reason of his standing as a citizen and sterling worth in every walk of life, became widely and favorably known throughout his native county.

Charles and Louisa Lail reared a family of eight children and died in Vlay, 1861, and February, 1880, respectively, the names of their offspring )eing as follows : Joseph, John, George, James, Francis M., Charles, Alvin and Edwin, all of whom grew to maturity and bore well their parts in life.

F. M. Lail was reared on the home farm and at irregular intervals attended such schools as the country afforded. By reason of his services being recjuired in the fields, his education was limited, nevertheless he made the best of his opportunities in after years and by general reading and keeping in touch with the leading questions of the day he in due time became one of the well informed men of this community. He remained in his native state until 1877, ^vhen he moved to California and in 1879 came to Saline county, Missouri, and little later purchased a farm on which he still lives and which, under the name of College Hill Stock Farm, is now one of the finest country homes as well as one of the best known places in the county. Mr. Lail at once l^egan improving his swine and it was not long until his hogs were by far the best in the neighborhood and the source of a handsome income. Realizing the necessity of an im]:)roN'ement in this important branch of farming, he not only opened communication with the leading hog raisers throughout the county, but travelled quite extensively, visiting the best stockmen, observing

Ihcir niclhocis and l)U\ing- at different places the "finest animals he could procure. Raising- onlv the higiiest grade and breeding with the greatest care, he achieved in a few ^-ears a wide and enviable reputation and wherever his animals were exhibited they invariably won the first premiums and increased the demand for them on the part of those who made fine stock hogs a

Mr. Lail has devoted twenty-nine years to the raising of the best highbred, standard and registered swine and to him more than to any other man are the farmers of the central part of the state indebted for the introduction of a breed of hogs that have proven far superior to the older and indifferent varieties, besides adding greatly to the income of the owners. Through his efforts the standard of stock in Saline county has been raised until the hogs in this part of Missouri have a state-wide reputation, in addition to which manv fine animals have been shipped from here to distant sections of the Union to be used for breeding purposes. Mr. Lail has received as high as three thousand dollars for a single male animal, and not infrequently the demand for his stock hogs at handsome top notch prices far exceeds his ability to supply. He has demonstrated that it is just as easy and a hundredfold more valuable to raise good animals than inferior ones and for his activity and influence in this respect he commands the esteem of the families of his own and other counties and is considered in the light of a benefactor to the agricultural classes throughout the entire country. He has always been modest in his claims for recognition and notwithstanding his enviable reputation as a stockman and the wide notoriety to which he has attained he makes no boast, but lets his achievements speak for themselves. In his specialty he stood not on price and in searching for the best he spared no time nor expense, so determined was he to raise the standard of his animals higher than that of any other in his section of the state. The reputation accorded him of being the best breeder and raiser of fine Poland-China hogs in the United States he wears with becoming, though modest dignity, and that he is today without a rival in this important and far-reaching branch of business is freely admitted by all.

Politically Mr. Lail is a Democrat, but not an office seeker, and religiously his family belongs to the Baptist church. He was married in Kentucky, in 1874, to Elizabeth Bell, a native of the same county in which he was born and a daughter of William and Nancy (McNees) Bell, whose paternal ancestors came to this country from Scotland and settled originally in Butler county, Ohio. Mrs. Lail, who is the only living representative of her famil\-. is a lady of high character and sterling worth and enjoys the confidence and esteem of the large circle of neighbors and friends with whom she mingles. She has borne her husband two daughters, Ida B. and Nellie, who are still members of the home circle.

Edwin Moore Haynie

Edwin M. Haynie, an ex-soldier and highly esteemed citizen, now living in honorable retirement after a long and useful life devoted to the pursuit of agriculture, is a native of Saline county and a son of Edwin and Polly (Moore) Haynie, both born in Virginia. Lawrence Haynie, the subject's grandfather, was a prominent planter and slaveholder of Northumberland county, that state, and a man of great influence in the community in which he lived. He died there many years ago and left a family of five sons and two daughters, whose names are as follows: Austin, Max, Lawrence. Jr., Edwin, Walter, Lydia and Juda. The four older migrated in an early day to Missouri, and settled in Saline county. Austin served in the war of 1812, and died in his native state; Lydia remained near the place of her birth, and Juda, after marrying a Mr. Frisby, came to Saline county, Missouri, and later moved to Howard county, where she spent the remainder of her life.

Edwin Haynie married, in Virginia, Polly Moore, and in 1836 moved to Missouri and located in Miami township. Saline county, where he purchased a farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Later he entered land and in due time became a large farmer and slave holder and one of the leading citizens of his community. During the late war he sympathized with the South and had three sons in the Confederate service, on account of which he was subjected to not a few indignities and dangers, which caused him to leave his farm and take up his residence in the town of Miami, where he remained until the war closed and conditions resumed their normal aspect. He then returned to the farm, where he spent the rest of his days. A man of strict integrity and sterling worth, he did much to promote the material interests of the country, stood for law, order and good citizenship, and will long be remembered bv the people among whom he spent so many years. His first wife. Pollv, a daughter of Nathaniel Moore, a farmer and slaveholder of Virginia, died in 185 1, after bearing him four children: Rufus, who served through the Civil war and now lives in Miami ; Edward M., the subject of this sketch: Austin H.. also a soldier of the South during the late unpleasantness, and Ethelbert, a farmer and enterprising citizen of Saline county. In i860 Mr.

l-lavnie entered the marriage relation with Mrs. Lanrana Williams, daughter of Mr. Jones, who came to Saline county in pioneer times and became a leading fanner of the locality in which he settled. Three children were born to the second union. John E., Sallie and Rebecca, the latter now the wife of John F. Carr.

Edward M. Haynie was born, in Saline county September 24, 1838. and remained with his parents until the breaking out of the Civil war, attending school at intervals during his minority and while still young Ijecoming familiar with the practical duties of farm life. On May 13, 1861, he entered the Confederate army, under Captain Marmaduke, being among the first of the Cduntv to tender his sei^vices to the Southern cause. \Vidiin a short time he was made captain of his company, and later at Jefferson City rose to the rank of colonel. His men, being armed with nothing but shotguns, could not withstand the well drilled Federal troops and at the first engagement they gave way, scattered and finally disbanded, some going south and joiningother commands, others returning home, among the latter being the subject, who remained until another opportunity for enlisting presented itself. Joining Captain Brown's company of cavalry, he went to southern Missouri, where he spent about six months, doing little else than scouting- and at the end of that time entered Parson's brigade, which operated for a time in the southern part of the state, and later returned and took part in the battle of Lexington. Afterwards Mr. Haynie went south, but, being taken quite sick, was carried soon afterwards to King's Point, in Greene county, Missouri. He then returned to Saline county, where he remained until sufficiently recovered to be about, when he joined the command under Captain Robertson, but shortly after taking the field the entire company was captured while in camp on the Black Water, and sent to St. Louis, thence to the Federal prison at Alton, Illinois, where he remained until liberated upon taking the oath three months later.

Returning home in the spring of 1862, Mr. Haynie put in a crop, ])ut in July of that year was obliged to leave the neighborhood owing to the persecution of certain parties who knew of his sympathy for the South and the part he had taken as a Confederate soldier. It was owing to this that he again entered the sennce, joining Shelby's command, which participated in several battles and considerable skirmishing, the main engagement being at Springfield, Missouri, where Mr. Haynie received a flesh wound in the leg, which laid him up for a few days. He afterwards took part in the battle of Hartsville. thence marched to Cape Girardeau, where another battle was fought v-liere he received a severe wound, a grape shot passing through his left thigh and leaving him disal)led on the field, again to fall into the enemy's hands. After spending some time in a hospital at Cape Girardeau, he was sent as a prisoner to St. Louis and later to Camp Douglas, Chicago, where he was kept in confinement for a few days before the Federal commander learned that he had violated his oath on entering the Confederate service the last time. The latter fact coming to the knowledge of the authorities, Mr. Haynie was incarcerated in a dungeon for a few days and w^as held as a prisoner until February, 1865, when, with a number of other prisoners, he was sent to Richmond, Virginia, and paroled for forty days, before the expiration of which time the Confederate forces under General Lee surrendered, which ended the war and gave him his liberty. Receiving one hundred dollars from his father with which to buy clothes and pay his way home, he returned to Missouri as soon as possible, rejoiced that the long struggle was over and that peace had again come to his distracted state. Renting land near his home, he devoted the vear 1866 to farming, managing his own house the meanwhile, doing his own cooking and keeping w-hat is popularly termed "bachelor's hall." Not pleased with the experience and believing in the scriptural admonition that "It is not good for man to be alone," Mr. Haynie in the following year, 1867, chose a wife and helpmeet in the person of Sarah E. Grayson, of Virginia, daughter of Henry M. and Jane (Price) Grayson, who also were born in that .state, but came to Missouri in 1856, settling in Saline county.

After his marriage Mr. Havnie farmed with his wife's father for a period of seven years and later purchased land of his own, to which he added from time to time until he finally acquired a large farm and became one of the county's most enterprising and successful agriculturists and stock raisers. He continued as a tiller of the soil until 1900, when he turned his farm over to other hands and moved to Marshall, where he has since lived in retirement, although still giving personal attention to his various business interests.

Mr. Haynie is one of the substantial men of Saline county, owning a fine residence property in the city and a splendid fann of five hundred sixty acres and another somewhat smaller, both admirably situated in one of the most productive parts of the county, and from wdiich his income is much more than sufficient for the wants of himself and family. He has dealt quite extensively in livestock at various times, buying and shipping to the leading markets, this, as well as his farming interests conducing very largely to his success and contributing much to the ample fortune wdiich he now commands.

Mr. Haynie is a firm supporter of the Democratic party, and for twentyone years held a place on the local school board, besides filling various other positions at intervals. Since his retirement he has kept in touch with the times, is well informed on the leading questions of llic day and uses his influence for all measures and movements having for their object the material progress of the community and the moral welfare of his fellow men. To him and his good wife were born eight children, namely: Edward H., present .slieriff of Saline county; John R. ; Robert L. ; Elmer J., who died in 1902; Bessie, who died in T898, unmarried; Price G. ; Mary J., wife of Jesse Roberts, and Angie. widow of the late Shelby Porter and mother of one son by the name of William S. Mrs. Haynie, a devoted member of the Baptist church and a most worthy and highly respected lady, departed this life October 29, 1907. Her father, a very prosperous man and enterprising citizen, died in 1895. at the age of seventy-five, and her mother, who still survives, lives on the old family homestead, and is now (1909) in her ninety-sixth vea r.

Prominent among the successful medical men who from time to time have practiced their profession in the county of Saline, Dr. W. G. Fisher, late of Jonesboro and Marshall, held worthy prestige. He was born in the former place in February, 1845, ^^^ after obtaining his preliminary educational discipline in the public schools of the town, for some time attended the Kemper Military School at Boonville, where he laid the intellectual foundation for his subsequent professional career. After a course of reading in the office of a local physician, he entered the Medical College of St. Louis, and following his graduation from that institution, in 1866, he opened an office in his native town and in due time built up a very extensive and lucrative practice.

Doctor Fisher's professional career was successful from the beginning and within a comparatively brief period he forged to the front among the leading physicians and surgeons of the county and achieved a reputation much more than l(Kal. Disposing of his interests at Joncsbon^ in 1896. he found a larger and more favorable field for the exercise of his talents in the city of Marshall, to which he removed that year and where he continued the noble and humane work of alleviating the suffering, until October, 1901. when death put an end to his usefulness. He was a pronounced Democrat in politic«, kept in close touch with the leading questions of the times and. though never an aspirant for official honors, was a prominent worker in his party and an influential factor in public affairs, both local and general. In his young manhood he united with the Presbyterian church, of which he continued a faithful and consistent member to the end of his Hfe, and for many years served as ruhng elder in the local society with which he was identified.

Doctor Fisher was a son of J. B. and Mary (Gooch) Fisher, both descended from old families of Virginia, and highly esteemed in their respective places of residence. Mrs. Mary Fisher was the daughter of William Gooch, who migrated to Ohio in an early day and about 1842 came tO' Cooper county. Missouri, thence to Saline county, where his death occurred in 1854. The family to which he belonged was a prominent one and figured much in public affairs, several of its members filling positions of honor and trust in their state and in the service of the government. Of the five children born to J. B. and Mary Fisher, the Doctor was the third. He inherited to a marked degree the amiable qualities and sturdy attributes of his antecedents, and exemplified the same in his life of fifty-six years devoted to the good of his fellow men.

The domestic life of Doctor Fisher began in 1870, when he entered the marriage relation with Mary Field, who presided over his home with the grace and dignity becoming a true wife and helpmeet, and nobly seconded all of his endeavors professionally and otherwise. She bore him children as follows : William, Mabel and Nadine, all members of the home circle and, with their mother, belonging- to the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Fisher was born in Saline county and is a daughter of Joseph and Susan (Brown) Field, both natives of Virginia and representatives of the old aristocracy of that state. Her maternal grandparents, Edmund and Theodosia (Michie) Brown, moved to Saline county, Missouri, about 1835, and settled at Arrow Rock, where Mr. Brown purchased a large tract of land which, with the assistance of slaves brought from Virginia, he improved and in due time became one of the most extensive farmers and stock raisers in his part of the country. A man among men, he made his influence felt in the politics of the county, filled a large place in public esteem and will long be remembered as one of the founders of Saline county as well as one of its leading citizens.

Joseph Field became a resident of Saline county about 1835, and after his marriage engaged in agriculture and stock raising, which proved so successful that he. too, in the course of a few years, rose to a prominent position among the substantial and well-to-do men of the community in which he lived. He was a sympathizer with the South during the Civil war and as a result sufifered much from the self-constituted authorities of the countr}-. A Democrat of the old school, he was fearless in the expression of his opinions and upheld the soundness of his convictions, regardless of those who might differ iroin him. I hough never an ortice seeker, he served two terms as sheriff of Saline county and proved an able and conscientious public servant. He and his o-,x)d wife were faithful members of the Episcopal church and always lived so as to honor their Christian profession, their characters having always been above reproach and their names synonymous for all that was noble and ui>rioht in manhood and womanhood. The death of Mrs. Field occurred in 1900. her husband having been called to his eternal reward in 1890. Their children, seven in number, are as follows: Mrs. Margaret Fisher; Edmund; William; Mrs. Eva Hawley; Joseph; Marshall; Claude E., all except Joseph living and filling honorable stations in life.

Rev. M. F. X. Jexxixgs

The subject of this sketch, the well known and popular pastor of the church of the Immaculate Conce])ti()n at Shackelford, Missouri, was born in December, 1874, in countv Longford, Ireland, and spent his earlv life on a farm in hi.s native land, receiving his preliminary education in the common schools. Having decided to devote his life to the church, he began while still young to study for the priesthood and after passing through certain colleges and oilier institutions of learning in the old countr}-, he came to America and finished his theological course in St. Bonaventure. at Allegany, X^ew York, where he was graduated in 1902. The ensuing year he took a ])ost-graduate course in the Catholic University, at Washington, D. C, and in 1903 was assigned his first work in Kansas City, where he laljored with great acceptance until transferred in 1905 to a larger and more responsible charge at Boonville, this state. After six months in the latter place, he came in March of the year 1906 to his ])resent field of labor, taking charge of the church of the Immaculate Conception, at Shackelford, with about seventy families l)elonging. the majority prosperous farmers and among the most intelligent and enterprising citizens of the county.

In addition to the congregation at Shackelford, Father Jennings has charge of the mission at Mt. Leonard, about five miles distant, which has a total memliership of about sixty communicants, who, like those worshipping at tlie fonner place, are people of standing and consecjuence in the community aufl derive their livelihood principally from the soil.

1 he church at Shackelford had its origin among a few Irish families that settled in the village and vicinity in an early day and took an active part in the development of the country. Although pioneers and suhject to all the A'icissitudes experienced b}" the early settlers in a new country, they were loyal to the faith in which the>- were reared and amid the mg-ged duties of locating homes and developing farms the}- did not neglect those higher duties which the\- owed to their God and to the church. From time to time missionaries \isited the settlement and ministered to the spiritual needs of the people, the tirst services being conducted in private homes as early as the year 1847. Among the faithful priests who made periodical visits to the little congregation was Rev. Fathers ^leister, Heilman, Cusack, Ward and Donnellw under whose judicious ministrations the church grew rapidly in numbers and influence and became a power for good in the community. Father Heilman had an assistant. Father J. T. D. Murphy, whose labors proved very effective in unifying the church and adding to its strength l^y gathering in other families A\ho moved to the county at intervals. All the priests mentioned came from distant dioceses, some from St. Louis, others from St. Charles and Lexington.

Father Hamil was also among the early missionaries whose duty it was to break the bread of life to the little band of worshippers, visiting the locality from time to time while in charge of the church at Marshall. When Father Alurphy was transferred from the latter place to Sedalia, Father Lillis became assistant to Father Hamil, and it was under the joint efforts of these two able and enterprising" servants of the church that the first house of worship was erected and formally dedicated to the purposes for which it was designed. The building, a small frame edifice, but well adapted to the wants of the congregation, was commenced in 185 1 and finished the following year; it stood about two miles northwest of Shackelford and answered the purpose for which intended until the growth of the congregation made necessary a building of enlarged proportions; accordingly, in 188 1 a larger and more commodious structure was erected which served the congregation until replaced by the present imposing temple of worship in 1893.