Bowling Green Township (part 2 of 3)

These com[)anies were coniiiosed of about eightv-tive men each. All of the otHc-ers of the tir^t ccunpany are now livinir, but a few privates, however, survived ihi.' wjv. The names of the otiicers are: - A. McCampbcll, John T. Burnett. John Nolkhai'dt. David Thompson, Alexander Staples, ,io!in AVithers. and J. C. \A'allace. This company partici[)ated in the engagements at Carthage, Springfield, Dry Wood, Lexington, Prairie Grove, Little Eock, Cvpress Bend, Gaines Landing, Pleasant Hill, Elk Horn, and Jenkins Ferrv. It entered th(^ service, as stated, on the 10th of May, 18(51, and was mastered out of service on the 10th of M-.iy, 1865, having served four years. Many of the men of the second company joined the first company. Captain Thomas H. Price continued in the armv as major of ordinance. J. C. Wallace was promoted to u captaincv in October, 18l)2 ; his men composed a part of the Eighth Battalion of the Missouri infantry, and afterwards a part of tlie Ninth ilissouri infantry. Captain E. W. Price became a l)rigadier-general in the State Guards.

Oti the i=;inie dute, Octobcr'lO, ]8i!l, ;i tliird company, which was raised in the neighborhooil of the present town of Salisbury, was enlisted in the State Guards. This is Company B:

Thomas H. Walton, cnptain, John Lampkin, Hrst lieutenant, William Ewiug, second lieutenant, John Taylor, tiiird lieutenant, H. Poland, sergeant. G. Botts, corporal, , Frank Payne, second corporal, C. C. Crewens, flag bearer.

A^> will he Seen, this I'ompanv \\'as c(mi[)0-eil of olghty-five men, ill! mouiited. After going to MiMnphi-, Tennessee, the com[jaiiy w;i? dis' hriigel and re-euli-ted in tlie Coiit'ederate armv in l.Sli2, remaining iu the servii^e until the close of the war, and was musiered out at Shrcvcport, Louisiana, a portion of the com[)any - all who were living - returning home in June and July, iMlo. Ahout one-third of the men survived the v/ar; fourteen of the eom[)any were killed and -wounded at the hattle of Pea liidge. The men parlieipatetl in the battle of l^ea Kiijge, Lcxinuion, Prairie Cirove, Lone Jack, Helena, Independence, Clark's Mill, Jenkiu's Ferry, Poison Spring, Little Hock, Pino Blulfs and a few small skirmishes. C'a[Uaiu Walton was [)romoted to a major <if a regiment, and belonged to General Elliott's liattalion, of General Joseph Shelby's brigade. Captain Walton now resides in S^alisbnry.

A Kecoiio Of Bloody Dkkds

The following pages constitute the darkest portion of the history of Chariton count v : the darkest, because they tell of the cold-blooded butchery of innoeent victims by men who were devoid of the common instincts of humanity ; by men who distinijuished themselves by their acts of UHijaraileied brutality : by men whose names are immoitally linked with an infamy as odious and execrable as ever disgraced the annals of any country, ilen of low, brutish instincts and ignoble aspirations are unfortunately found in all wars ; in fact, a war without its Kirks and its Ilessbriggs is something that has never yet existed, even in the most civilized countries.

Horatio Philpott was an early settler, coming to the county in 18o7 from Kentucky, but foimorly from Virginia. He came out first horseback, and bought his farm, and then returned with his family and slaves in 1837. Here he raised a large family. Twelve of his children lived to be grown. Their names, in the order of their ages, were Permelia, Hezokiah, David, Elizabeth, Columbus, Lafayette, Barton, Francis, Belle, Ferdinand and Laura. Mr. Philpott owned and o|)erated a mill on the east fork of the Chariton river for many years. He, during the civil war of 18(51, like nearly all of his neighbors, was a Southern sympathizer. He was, however, a quiet and inoffensive man, never thrusting his opinions upon others wh(» differed with him, and, at the same time, ncvei' concealing his views, when called upon to express tlieni.

About the close of the war, and in the njcmth of October. lSli-1, Mr. Philpott, who was then an oh! man, ncarh' sevenlv vears of age, was sitting quietly with his family, four men dressed in Federal uniforms, came to his h(»use. Mr. Philpott had been in his orchard during the forenoon of the day, and had gathered and l)roni;lit in some a[)i)les in a bucket. Of these the soldiers ate freely, and left the house. About an hour afterwards they returned and asked the old gentleman to go out with them. He went with them without saying a word, his daughter, Belle, following along behind him. After reaching the }ard fence, the soldiers told her to go back to the house. She told thinn that she would, and remarked, "I will trust father in your hands." After a few moments had elapsed, gun shots were heard in the direction in which the soldiers luul taken him. Mrs. Susan Hogan. a neighbor of Mr. Phil))ott, happened to be standing at her window, ahout a qii:ivlcr of" a mile- distant, iiiid saw tlie soldiers who had the old man in chargu. Some tiiice or tour hundred yards from Philpott's house there were three hundred soldiers, knoun as " Piitnani's militia," who came from the direction of Macon county, sitting on their horses. Tlie four soldiers incn.tioned were a portion of this command, the men all being under the command of Colonel Keutzncr. As soon as the old man was taken to the place where these men were waiting, they immediately shot liim. When his family and neighbors reached him they found on his person five gunshot wounds and two bayonet thrusts. Two of the gunshot wounds were in the head, and the others, together with the iiayonet thrusts, were in the breast. These men, after having been treated kindl}' at the house, and after paiiaking of the old man's lio-pitaiity. had the meanness, brutality, and cowardice to murder liim in cold blood ; an old man, whose sands of life had nearly run.

Dr. James Brummall was killed the same day, and by the same parties. Among the soldiers was said to have been one or two of his neighbors, who boasted in the town of Roanoke after the bloody deed liad been committed, that they had killed Dr. Bruninial. The doctor, like his friend Pliilpott, was an old man and a Southern sympathizer, IVnt was quiet an<l highly respected liy all who knew him. The soldiers had gone to his house looking fur him ; he had, however, irone to a neighbor's house and was returning home when they met him in a woodland. Sei'ing them, he ran and secreted hiniscif in a brush jiile, but they had seen him and gave pursuit. They t'ound him and made him come out and then sliot him. Tin; doctor wa-^ one of the earliest settlers in this [XMlion of Chariton cdunty. lie left two sous, James and Bascom, who are still living in the county.

Jesse Rodgers, another aged man, was killed by the same parties. He was, at the time he was shot, a short distance t'rom his home, digging roots for medical purposes for his family. I'iiey shot him and endeavored to prevent the neighbors from burying him. Claiborne F. Warsaw and Ned Jackson, the latter colored, were digging his grave when the soldiers returned and drove them away; the residt was, two or tiiree days passed before the body was interred. Mr. Rodgers left a large family.

Theophilus Edwards was another victim of this remorseless and brutal horde of soldiers, whose vandal tracks could be traced in the blood of their innocent and aged victims all along the line of their march through tlie county. Edwards was met in the road by them.

One ot'tho nio.-t reni:ukai)le iVats nf hravery and one of the most Christi;inixAHl and niaiinaninioiK-; derds that marked the hi'-torv (if those ill-fated times, was the han;j;ini:- of James Stark. James was a mere boy about seventeen years of aire. For this aet of heroism the world is indebted to a modest, }et gallant eaptain who was at the time serviiiii' his eountry in the command of a squad of militia - a band of men, who like their noble leader, were inspired by pure love of country in all they did. If a horse was pressed into serviee, if ;i dwelling with its contents was JninuiJ to tlie ground ; if a man was roItOetl, if a woman was raped, if an unotlending citizen was killed: in fact, if all the crimes known to CTTe catalogue were perpetrated l)v tills band of heroes, iliey were committed by them in the name of patriotisrii. They fought aged and maimed men, and little l)ovs, from principle, and not from a desire to shed innoctMit blood : thev robbed and plundered from principle, not that tliey iiad any desire to |)Ossess what did not lielong to them. They acted so exclusively from unselfish motives, wdien fighting for their ccnintry, that it wouh.l be entirclv consistent with their characters as soldiers when dead, t(j inscribe n[)on their toudi the following beautiful inscripti(jn : -

" How s'eep the brave, wlio sink to rest, By all ihuir countrv's wishes blest! When sprinir, with dewy tSiiiiers cold, Retiiru^^ to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's fert have ever tr(Kl. By fairy hands their knell is rnns, 'By forms uiiseeu their dirj;e is suns; There Honor comes, a piljirim ^ray. To bless the turf tliat wraps their clay; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there."

This captain of militia had been sent into the county, with from tliirU' to tiftv men, witli the ostensible purpose of su[iprcssinii' bu-lnvhackers. James St:irk, Sr., was a Southern s\nipathizer. This captain and his men went to Stark's house and called foi' the old man. He was luit at home. The family was i.sked where Stark could lie found, but no one could tcil anything about him. Determined not to l>e disa[)pointcd in their fvil purposL', tliey took tlic tir.v J:imps to the woods and bung him to ;i tret' to make him tell the wheroahoiits oC hi- iather. They huiicr liim several time-, hut the i)o_v protested, lellini; tiieiii tliat he did not k^o^v. They tinally determined to take his life and after swinging lii?n up the hist time they went off and lefl Inm hanging. His liody was found the second ov tliird dav afterwards, Ijv a small hoy, who was out hunting cow.-. It was taken down hv M. Ij. Hurl and Ahner Hinnel, who gave it deeeiit sepulture.

Robert Carnion was killed Septeinher 22d. ist!-!, hy guerillas, under the command of two noted cut-throats and rohhers - Threldkill and Todd.

The guerillas, nundiering aliout one hundred, came into Keytesville after daylight on the morning of the '22(\ and surrounded the court-house, which ^vas occupied at the time by Ca])tain Berry Owens with forty or fifty militiamen. The militia surrendered, some of them, it is suid, joining the Inishwhaekers. ^Ir. Carnion, who wsis there at the time, was placed un>Jer arrest by Todd.

Hciu. Andrew INiackay, one of the prominent citizens of the town, did all he could to siive Carmon"s life. Carnion, after his arrest, was taken by Todd's men to INIackay's hotel, where some of the party had ordered their breakfast. Mr. Mackay had an interview with Todd in reference to saving Cannon, and had presented matters in such u light to the guerillas, that he was going to order Carmon's release, and went out of the room to give orders to that ctlect. Upon going to the front portion of the Jiouse, where Cannon was held a prisoner, it was ascertained that two or three of Todd's men had already started out of town with Carnion. Markay and Todil, however, each started horseback in the directi(Ui the men had taken, l)ut had not proceeded far, when they met two of the bushwhackers returniu'j; to town. These men informed them that the prisoner had been shot and that Carmon's body was then lying in the road bevond Mr. Maekav's house. When the bui-ly \vas found, it was noticed that Carnion liad been shot through the temple, this i)eing the only wound he received. Cannon was a native of Pennsylvania. At the time of his death he was sheriff of Chariton county, was a Union man, conservative in hi.s views and highly esteemed.

William Young, another Union man, w.as arrested and shot at the same time with Carnion. Young had, by his extreme views and his acts as a jiartisan, I'endered himself obiio.xious to his neighbors, a great majority of whom were Southei'u sympathizers. His death,

Young utteinpted to get awav from his inuiderers hy running through the woods ; tlu\\-, lionover, siiot him before lie had jiroceedej very far.

George II. F;nvks was a sohlier in the Confederate army, having enh'sted under tlie call of Governor C. F. Jaekson in l<Sfil. lie was badly wounded at the battle of Wilson's creek, being shot through the left lireast. After recovering from his wound he rejoined his command at the battle of Pea Eidge. Serving his time out. he came home, but thiid\ing it unsafe to I'eniain, he joined the command of Colonel Poinde.\ter, who soon disbanded liis men. Young F;iwkf> again returned home to await an opportunity to go South. Being at Joseph \\'ayland"s, about two miles from his home, he was surprised and taken a pristmer by Captain Thomas Gilstra]) from Macon City, who returned to Macon City and gave Fawks into the hands of General Merrill, who had hini [nit under a strong guard and informed that he would be shot next morning at ten o'clock. He had friends in the militia, who did all they could in his behalt, and were [jromised Fawk's release, provided he would i)e sworn into the service with the militia. This, he indignantly refused to do, saying that he could never deny his principles. He was accordingly shot, witlniit even the seniblauee of a trial. Fawks was just twenty-one years ohl.

William K. Redding was another unfortunate victim of this wholesale butchery upon the part of the militia. He, like many others whose lires were taken for opinion's sake, was a man of some wealth and intiuencc in the community where he lived. Kedding's body was found by Doctor Dewey, the ne.Kt day after he \vas killed, about a half mile from his home in the timber. He had been shot through the head and robbed, ami it is su[iposed from the circumstances, that have since come to light, that he w;is taken to the woods by the militiai and there made to get his money, whicli had been Iniried for safe-keeping, and then killed. Redding was the fither-in-law ot' \Vm. E. Hill, of Keytesville.

soldiers, w;is the nuinlor of the boy, John Leonard. In fact, the circumstances of his takinji' oti", the reckless, cold blooded, heartless, cruel manner, in which lie M'as fuadc to forfeit hi.s young life, stamps the crime as among the blacke.-t iu all the annals of time, and his assassins as among tlie fonU'st and mo.st iniiuman wretches that ever imbrued tiieir liands in the Idood of their foUow-beings.

John Leonard was about sc\'eiitcen years of a<;c, and had acted as a guide, as it was claimed, to a squad of bushwhackers. Whether he was forced to do tliis. or did it voluntarilvi we are not informed. It makes no ditTerence in his ca^e. This, however, was the oU'ence with which the boy was charged. He was arresteil In' soldiers stationed at Brunswick and taken to that place. This was during the winter, when the rivers and streams were covered with ice. While a prisoner at Brunswick, it was determined by tiiose having the boy in charge that he should be put to death, but just how to dispose of him, they did not know, until it was suggested, that he should be drowned in the river. They accordingly took their victim, it is said, to Grand river, and having broken the ice, the}' thrust tiie boy under, by raain force, and held him tlure until life became extinct. It is stated, that oue of his murderers afterwards said, when relating the facts in reference to the matter, that " the bo\' squealed like a j^ig when they were putting him under tlie ice."

Peter Fo.x, George Veal, De Jarnett, and Jennings were killed, and were all citizeu.s of Keytesville township. George Veal was hung to a tree in Biidge Street, in Keytesville.

Judge John J. Flood was shot in 18G4 in his own door. John T. McAshan, of Brunswick, was taken to the river and shot while standing upon the bank, and his l)ody thrown into that stream. The men who shot Flood and McAshen had partaken of their hospitality the night before. Pixley was sh(jt and killed on the road between his house and Brunswick, and his face, when his body was found, had l)een partially eaten by hogs. Franklin was killed in Brunswick and his

"\\'o did not succimmI in pottini.'' the naine^ ut' all t lie non-eonihatants, who were killed in the eonnty during the war, l)ut was told that the iuinil)or of persons, including men and l>o}-s, annuinted to ahout Ht'tyfive. This harvest of death was sometiiing like the bloody assizes. memorable in English historv and inaugurated liv Jefl'reys after the defeat and capture of Monmouth an<! Argyle. These American Jeffreys, like their infamous prototyiie across the sea, left some of their victims dangling in mid-air, wlicro they hung imtil their bodies were devoured by t lie beasts and birds of prey ^ - no one daring to give them even the seml)lanee of a decent burial. The ditference, if unv, between the Eni;lish tyrant and the American butchers seems to have been in favor of the former, as he v,enL through the farce of a tri.nl before taking the blood of his victims, while the latter shot them down like dogs wherever thej could be found, without trial, judge or jury.

They meet :it tlie Fair (Jroimdr. ;it Keyte>ville in 1677-1881 - Biographical Sketch of Cha-s. J. Cubfli - liis atldress at the Uld Settlera Keuaion, iu 1877 - Names of Old S.'ttiers - A Poem by an (_^id Settler -

There has l)eeii no moetiiijr. which could he distiiu'lively <;alled an Old Settler's Kt'iiiiioii. Dufiim' the pi-oLTfc^s of the Fair, held at Keytcsvjlle ill 187 7, a luniiber ot' the eaviicst tiiid tildest settler;- were in attendance. These were called toirether by a committee selected for tiiat purpose and wevc feasted and toasted, after which Major Daniel Aslihy, one of tiic [)ioncers of the county addresseil the audience and Ch;is. J. Cabell, read an interesting paper upon the early settlement of the count}', which we give in full.

Certain prizes were otlered to the old settlers - to those who had been living in the country the longest. No man could enter the list for the prize, without he had been :i resident for forty years continuously. At a Fair held at Keytcsville in October, 1881, there was another asseml>ling of old pioneers. John P. Williams was awarded a cane, the oldest settler in the county, he having been here at that time sixty-two years. A china tea-set, was given to Mrs. Samuel

Before sri vino- th(- address of Charlos J. Cal»eli, we shall first jjresent a brief sketch of his life, which was taken from Tlie Weekh/ Brnn.'iir'ul.tr hearing dali; October ^Oth, 18iS2.

Biographical Sketch Of Chas. .T. Cabeix

who departed, this life at his residence in Brnn^\vi(;k on the 10th day of October, 1882. after a brief but painful illness. He was born April 2tJ, ]81?>, at Ashland, Fayette county, Kentucky, and was in the seventieth year of his age. Mr. Cabell's father, Edward Bhiir Cabell, was of an old family of Virginia and Ijorn in Prince Edward county. His mother was Harriett F. Monroe, dtiughter of Joseph Jones Monroe and neice of President James Monroe from the county of Albermarie. The sister of Edward B. Cal)ell married Mr. Breckenridgc, of Kentucky, and was the mother of the late John Cabell Breckenridgc, formerly Vice- President of the United .States.

In 1818, wlien but five vcars of age, Mr. Cabell came with his father to Missouri and settled at Old Chariton, in the county of Howard and the territory of Missouri. His subsequent life was an epitome of the history of Chariton and of the State. He was familiar iii early life with that primitive phase of Western society which evolves all that is good, true, manly and honest in human nature.

It may he said Mr. Cabell had known our country since the Indian, the bear, and the squatter held it peacefully and harmoniously in possession. He was familiar with the habits of simplicity and hardihood, the hospitality and honesty of early squatter life from his childhood, and earlv iinbil)cd a love and admiration for the poetry antl romance it atlbrded. In after life, Mr. Cabell, in the social circle delighted to tell of the adventures and scenef of this primitive phase of squatter life. Hi.s memory and heart delighted to dwell with that innocent l)ast, when men were pure and honest, and lived with nature and walked with " nature's God." Much of the early history of the men and circumstances of that period, has been preserved by him, in written and oral sketches, which will perpetuate what ought most to be remembered, but wa.s most liable to be forgotten of the manly race who peopled the territory of the early State of Missouri.

iVoin ttn' Mis-;rniri rivt-i- to the Iowa line. In L^i'O tlit' State was adiiiittcil into the Uiiiim amid a stoi-ni ol' st'Ctinnal ^trifo and liiltoincss, and .-iioi1l\ at'tei' the eonntio.s wci'e carved into ninnicipalilies, and v.hen the connty ot" Chariton was omaui/ed, ^^r. Edward 15. Cabell was appointed clerk of the Circuit Couit. Tliis position he held for nearly tiiirtv years, and to within a few years before his death, -\vliich occurred in ISfiO, at Brunswick. Charles J. Caliell was reared in this count}- till a time of life necessary to lie sent to the schools which could atl'ord the higlier academic instruction, and in the mean time had acquired such of the rudiments as the primitive country schools could afford. He was sent to Kentucky where he conijih^tcd his studies at Augusta College, an institution which has furnished some of its brightest alumni to Missouri, of which General Doniphan was the first graduate, and where General Bela ]\I. Hughes, now of Colorado, was Mr. Cabeil's classmate. In 1837, Charles J. Cabell mai'ried at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Susan B. daughter of Thos. Allen, P>sq., then the clerk of the county court of Mercer county. Kentucky, who with a widowed daughter, and Mrs. Charles Ilanimond and three sons settled in Leadville, Colorado, constituted liis family. "With his wife, he settled in ^Missouri and studied law. For this profession he had little taste, and his love for higher mathematics led him to engage in the l)usiness of surveying and engineering. In 1848, he went South with his family to Louisiana, and engaged under contract with the surveyor general in surveying. This occupation requiring skill, patience, and great exactness, as well as physical labor and perseverance, was just suited to his taste and habits. For ten years he was in the field, tracing old Spanish lines and surveys thr<Higli swamps and cane breaks, establishing old and obliterated corners, and extending tiie surveys into the then unoccupied lands. The faithfulness and accuracy with which this work was done have prevented many lawsuits, and established pernuinently the rights of parties. The arduous labors of these years yielded to Mr. Cabell as their fruit, a modest eonq)eteTice, and with his earnings he established himself in ease and comfort on his farm, north of Brunswick. Devoted to hospitality and the educational comfort of his children, Mr. Cabell, in competency and content renniincd on his farm till the war broke out. It is needless to say much of means and his estate was lost during the war. In 18G4 he was in Louisville. Kentucky, because the unsettled and dangerous state of things at home rendered it neeessar}' for him to leave ]Miss(niri. Mr. Cabell joined the Christian church and was immerseil by F.lder

The c<in.sisteiiey and iiiteiri'ity of Mr. Calioll's life, lioth as a Christian !uid a citizen, is l)est evidenced in tiie esteem in which he \va-: li(>ld liy his neiglihors who knew him l)est and longest. They came ti> his funeral and testified thi'ir love and respect at his <_Mave. (Jhl and venerable citizens triim vaiions parts ot' the c(niiity, and his neiL:hii()rs iuiinediately coiitiii'iinns came to s\-in[)athize with his luoiirninLT I'amily and sustain tlieni in their sorrow; he was buried with his children in the cemt^tery at Brunswick.

The Address

The following is the admiraiile address delivered by Mr. Cabell in the presence of the old pioneers. It is replete with the names of eiirly settlers, and is invaluable as a document of future reference: -

" History deals in epochs - and we are here to give our reminiscences of an epoch in the history of Chariton county, extending from the year 1818 to about ISoO - a period of twelve years. Removals, deaths, fires, and other causes have liatl their iuHnence in mouUlingthe history of this period, a matter of pure tradition. Ibit we bo[)t' to reduce it to such certainty that our children may bt^ correctly informed concerning it. In the month of October, 181.S, my father, Edward !>. Cabell, with his family, C::ptain ^^' . W . ^Monroe and family, Daniel Duvall ami family, reache<l the town of Cliariton ami united their destinies with the people of what is now the county of Cliariton. My parents now sleep beneath its soil.

Soon afterwards Major Daniel Ashby, Abram Sportsman, James Leejier, Samuel Williams and Colonel Henry T. Williams, son of Samuel Williams, then a \-outh, selected this county as their future home, and returned in ISIP ^vith their own families and many relations. They settled on what is now called the blurt's, all except Mr. Samuel Williams, Colonel Henrv Williams' father, who selected the southwest corner of the Bowling (jreeu prairie for his abode.

At that time what is now Chariton county belonged to Howard, and remained such until about the time that Mi-isouri sought admission aii State.

The town of Chariton was then the rival of St. Louis, and was nearly, if not quite, as large. This oi)inion was so strong tluit many persons flocked to Chariton, believing it would l)econie the largest: city ill tlie tunitoiT. I'lic-h' I'>ili\- Oahceii exchaiiued lots in St. ]>i>uis for lots ill Chariton, tout for foot. He improved tlio lots in C'luuitoii, li\eil Kiaiiv years on tliein, and died on them, res|)cctpd l)v a larire eirele of friends and liv al! who kn(>\v him. Cliariton (icoupie<l a level of more than half a mile north and south, lyinjj: hetween lai-ire hills on the east and the C'hai-ilon river ou the west - or soniethinLT less than half a mile in width. In some portions of the town the houses wi-re veiy close tooether. and wei'e hnilt of hriek. It was supposed to contain nearly 3.0IH) inhahitaiits. If Yankee Dooille was to pass thronuh the place now he could not see the houses for the town - the re\erse of which was the c.a~c with him on a former occasion. The town of Chariton couhl hoast of as eood society as any city in America, having: men ofi^i'eat literary attainments, of skill in their professions, and of great social endowments, representing almost all the noted institutions of learniii'/ in this counti'v - even Edinburgh, Scotland, was reiiresented. 1'he brothers Asa and Jonathan Fin<lk'y, who lived in the southern part of the town, and built a saw mill on the second or upper bank of the river - Doctors ^^'oods, ILdeman am.! Delanev, especially the two tirst, were men of gi-e;i.t skill and were men of letters. S:)on Doctor Folgor and Doctor John Bull were .added to the profession. James Semple, a man of hne social powers, owned and conducted a large tanncr\' on a creek that entered the level of the town at its northern extremit\'. Mr. Semple mov<'d to Illinois and was a Senator in Congress from that State for a full term of six years. On the north side of the creek above alluded to, diagonally northwe-t of the tannery, was a pottery (piite largely operate<l by a man liy the name of Clements. Mr. Clements was a devoted churchnnui. Hi' prayed long .and loud at almost :ill places of public w-or>hip. Hut he butchered the English to such a degree that .a wag suLigested to liini to get some one to tix him up a good prayer and in good laniina^e. Clements caught at the ide.a, and the arrangement was made. Alwavs after that Clements prayed the LonI to pull down thedevihs kingdom and build it up again on a sure and more permanent foundation.

Above the [lottery about half a mile or more, on that same creek, was a distillery owned by the Camerons, or McCorkles, or both. It was purchased by the Gaitheis in 181!> or 182(.), Imt did not continue to be used very long. There was another distilleiy, ou'ne<l bv Bavlor Banks, about a mile below the town, and continued to be uscd for man_v years by Richard Baidjs Thornton. There was a blacksniilh shop kept by a num by the name of Dunlap. A cabinet shop owneil

About 1819 Doctor Ben Edwards, brother of Goveinor Ninuian Edwards, of Illinois, itecame a citizen also. John Moore and Isaac Campbell kept a hotel e.-ich, and died in the town. The Fistors and (lillets lived there. Ivichard Plolenian, John and Henry Wigginton. Beebout and others were carpenters, all doing heavy work. OM Captain White kept a whiskey shop for a great length of time neai- the centre of the town. Colonel John B. White made saddles there for many years, and if I remember correctly, the celebiated Kit Carson worked with him some time. The Ivcv. Ebenczer llogers, a Baptist minister, and a Mr. Pierce were the school teachers of the town and its neighborhood, and almost ail the children that belonged to the vicinity l>egan their training under these two men. In 1819 my grandfather, Colonel Joseph J. Monroe, brother of the then President, the compeer of William A\'irt, a man of vast learning and a gi-aduate of P^dinburgh, became a citizen and liccame distinir'uished for his successful defence of Ccdouei Picharfl (ientiy, who was tried for the killing of young Carroll, of Franklin. He purcha.sed land about three miles west of Fayette, and lived but a short time after moving to it. I)Ut the most prominent citizen Of the place was Geiieral Duff Green, who seemed to be tlie pro|)rietor of the to\\n, and gave tone and direction to nearly all its leading iudusirie.s. General Green lived in a long framed house, located on a small Ijranch that ran due west through the centre of the town, dividing the large hills east of it and along which the public road ran going east and west. He built the walls of a large two story brick house, containing fourteen rooms, Ir.id it covered in, but left the house untiiiished to engage in the management of a ne>vspaper in St. Louis, which was to promote the interest of Mr. Calhoun for the Presidency. But this enterprise failed, ant! General (jreen established a i)aper called the I'deyrapk in Washington City in advocacy of General Jackson's claims. General Green took a leading position in politics at once, and was thought to have

General Green died recently in Dalton, Georgia. Milton Sublett was a clerk in General Green's store for several years, hut joined his brother William in his mountain trading and became distinguished as a trapper and Indian iigliter. Andrew Sublett, another brother, lived ill Chariton for some time, when he also became a mountain.cer. Southeast of the town lived the Douglasses, Loughliiis, Hookers and Warrens. But near them there lived the family of Burlesoiis, who went to Texas at an early day and became prominent citizens of that State, or rather Mexican province. Ned Burleson took a leading position there, and after the independence of Texas was achieved he became Vice-President of the Lone Star State.

In 1818, Colonel John :\I. Bell and Archibald Hix lived on the southern edge of the Bowling Green prairie. Lower down on the Missouri bottom land lived Richard Woodson, Heniy Lewis, James Earickson, Perry Earickson, Alexander Trent, John iloss, AVilliam !Moberly, Nat Butler, Jesse Clark and others. Colonel Hiram Craig, Captain James Hery ford, William Crawford, F. A. Bradford, Foulers, Locks, Campbells. M;irtin^, Davises, Parks, and Hay lived in the t'orks of Chariton, and soon the McCoUums. Dinsmores, IJyans, Vance, Watsons, ^IcDaniels and Andersons settled there. Colonel Martin Palmer lived in the western edge of the Bowling Green prairie, on a ereek to which his name is given. Colonel Palmer went to Texas, tried to raise a revolution, failed and had to come back to Arkansas, where he prospered. From Roanoke towards Chariton, lived the Fosters, who gave name to the prairie near tliat town. Collins, Kirtleys, Curtises, ^laggards, Ned Farr, Pages, Morrises, Burtons, Ligards and Drinkards. Still nearer the Chariton lived the celebrated Dr. John Sappington. Still nearer were the Maddoxs, Longs, Bailey, Gords, and Johu Doxy, who gave name to Doxy's fork, that empties in the Chariton river, above the town. Farther west was the Forresters, Tooleys, Moores, and others. Captain P. Browder lived about half a mile north of the Bowling Green [)rairie, and his was the outside dwelling on the North Imagine, a line drawn from the northern part of Foster's prairie, northwesterly to Grand river ferry, and it would be the northern boundary of all the settlements in what is now the couutv. Indeed there was not a house on the north of that

Mr. Littlehy was the first sottlor on tlio wost side of tlio Chaiiton. ;iiKi north of the Musolo I'ork. Ho hnill above White's mill, and it became the house of William Holly, ami of old Unole l?on Lano, afterwards. The town of Chariton was the sniiiilv point for all the persons and sottieinonts I have named. Kut its business was laii;-ol_v augmented by the arrival of James Koss, John Awll, James Glasgow, John G. Graves and Sto|ihen Donohue, Comfoi-t Titfany and his brother Otis Tillany, all of whom engaged in mereantilo |inr<uits.

Dr. Bull joined Mr. Graves in business, following his profession succe.ssfully, and was finally elected to Congress, when Missouri was entitled to but one Keprt'sontaiive. Dr. Dull deserves the entire credit of the Platte purchase. Thomas Perry, Esq.. kept ferry across the two Chariton rivers at their junction, and while so occupied, t.'inned his first side of leather in a trough. He went to what is called the Hurricane*, and engaged in tanning extensivel}'. It will lio seen by the manner in which the old sottlors were located, as I have atttmpted to show, that they all followed the timber - there were no prairie farms. It took years of labor to clear land. Timber cutting. log-rollings and quiitings by day. and vorn shuckings and dances by night, with an al)Un<lanoc of whiskey. made things merrv. Who dfxs not remombei- tlie c(U-n-songs that tilled the air for miles, as the crowd joined in the chorus at th'stmerry-makings. The celebration at night, of tlic admission ot Missouri as :i State in the Union, excelled all that I had ever seen or heard, then a boy of eight years. Bonfires ])hized on the liills and iit the street. Houses were lighted and windows sparkled. Music floated in grand accord, and the hills sent the echoes westwardly to gladden the hearts of our pooido that Mis-nuri was a sovereign Slate. I have an instrument now that sent forth its sweetest strains, berause of the sentiment that entered into them in announcing a new i)ori\ State.

In 1819 and ISiO a bill wa-. [)resented to Congre-s for the admission of Maine and Missouri. The first section admitted Maine, the second admitted Missouri, to which was added a proviso that -lavcry or involuntary servitmle should never e.xist north of the parallel ot -)tJ : 30, except within the limits of Mi.ssouri. Much bitter discussion ensued. The Abolitionists resorted to every ex|)edient to defeat tlie admission of Missouri without making their reasons public. The friends of Missouri labored hard for its success. A vote was ordcM-ed, but before it 'iva:? taken ;i motion was made to strike tlic -eeond section tVcnii the hill, down to the word pro\ ided."" That motion carried, when the hill became a law, admittini: !Maiiio as a State, with the provisi' attached. ^^'hat is generally known as the " Missonri Coniproniise '" is realh' the [Maine compromise.

Missouri was remanded to her territorial condition. This took place in ^larcli, 1820.3 Some time alter this action Mr. Clay and General "\\'m. II. Harrison. jhoth strong friends of ^Missouri, had a conversation with one of the most jironiinent op|)oncnts of Missouri, in which they learned tliat the enemies of Missouri opposed its admission because they believed tliat a clause in the constitution of Missouri, which had been sulimitted, prohibited the settlement (A' free persons of color within her limits, and that if tliat objeftion was now overcome, that they would cease their opposition. Mr. Clav and General Harrison repeated this to the friends of Missouri, and they so arranged that the convention of ^Ii:-,-.()uri should re-a.-seuibk', rc[)ea! or blot out the obnoxious clause, and a bill was brought in declaring that when that shotdd be done, the Presitlent should issue a proclamation admitting [Missouri as a State within tluee mouths from the time that the aiiieuded constitution of [Missouri shi>uld reach the Secretary (;!' State, all of which being done [Missouri \\as atlmitti'd !>}- })roclaination of the President in August, 1821. During thesei'X<iting times the county of Howard was organized in its [)resent shape, and tJliariton county began in the river, at the northwest corner of Howard, followed the north line of Howard to a certain point, tlienee north to Iowa, west to Grand river, down that ri\"er tij the Missouri, and to the beginning. This eml)raced a huge territory, which now forms some of the largest and most thiifty counties in North [Mis-oiiri. Then the only occupants were tlie wild beasts and roving Indiati-. J have seen hundreds of them as they moved their cani[)s at will, or came to Chariton to exchange their peltries for needed su[)plies. When the organization of Chariton county was complete, Samuel ^^'illialus, Escp, father of our esteemed fellow-citizen John B. Williams, was the representative in the Legislature ; he had been one of the delegates to the constitutional convention. He died before his time of representation expired. Ephraim Moore was the tirst sheritf, James Earickson. David Ashley. and John N. Bell composed tlie tirst Cdtinty court. David Todd w.as judge of the circuit court, and my father, Edward B. Caliell, was clerk of both courts, cdunty treasurer, notary public, and postmaster. I am satisfied that tor se\eral years he coidd carry the majority of the papers of the two clet'k-^liip^ in Iiik IkU. The tirst det'd Ixiok was made by my motlier, hy sewiiiij; quires of foolscap tojrether. I have ii\ my possession now the seal thai lie used, until the courts provided oiKcial seals. Pardon me for saying that to him more than any other man that ever lived in Chariton are its citizens indebted for perfection of titles to their lands. For \ve occui)\' ihe central pait <if the military land district, arul iiint-tcinhs of nur lands are military, and foi- years he gave advice to all who called on him tor his opinions, never charging one dollar tor it. During a period of al)out six years theie was not a huvj-er resident in Cliuriton counvy. say from abf)ui the year 18i7 to I800. Colonel li. T. \\'illiams preached law from ISll* to about 1829, when he went South, and was appointed surveyor-general of public lauds in the State of Louisian.i. Major \V. II. Havls was tlie next permanent resident attorney. He came to the county as a lawyer in 1S33 or 183-4, after the court had been moved to Keytesville. His father's family had been old residents of the county, returned to Chariton in 1831 or 1532, and our late worthy sheriti", H. H. lJavi», is a native of Chariton county.

The <ourts of Cliarilim were attend.ed l)y some of tlie most distinguished men in America - the brothers Archiimld and Hamilton ii. Gamble, Judges McGirk, Wash. Tompkins, Kyland, Leonard, Generu! John B. Clark, John Wil-on, and otli.-rs.

The first man that was killed wa> by the name of Drinkaid.in a feud with the Inyards. 'f he next that I rememljer was Goodman (j. Oldham, in Keytesville, in 183-1, a period of about fifteen years intervening.

About the time that the county was organized the great influx of po|)ulation commenced that has resulted in reducing the county to its present limits.

During all the time that Chariton was the business jioint we depeuded o'n heavy road wagons and keel boats for supjilies, and upon flat boats to carry of!" our surplus, especially our tobacco, which had to be sent to New Orleans as the only market for it. I rememijer well what a long time it totik to get returns from it. Man-\- of us remember Captain Jack Minn, Jesse Spense and Andrew Thrask ;is Hat boat pihns, and many of us can show the boat yards where the boats were built that took our corn and juirk and tol)acco to market. 'Would you like to know what sort of people those men were that cleared up the bush and heavy timber, and fought manfully with de|)rivation and want, and made an empire out of this vast wilderness? I knew them at their firesicies. in their families and their homes. No cuie was ever turned from their doors hunirrv or naked, if the;- hail the food and clotliiiig. No, Dot even l!ie Indian savage. Their doois \vei-e always open ; they kept no locks nor bars. Their trusty rifles and faithful dogs were the onl}' safogunrds they had around them. They were a l)and of brothers having a common interest, and enjoj'ed a conmioii home. There was no law-breaking, no violence, no rush for moneymaking beyond their wants judiciously indulged. 1 have seen them wiien the 'war-whoop was sounded, with all things ready, set ofl' at only a moment's warning, to rescue their neighbors from the Indian torch and Indian scalping-icnife, andl have seen tiiem return to the quiet of their liomes as if war had no dangers. To one who sits with us 1 can point as one of the solid men of that day, the central figure in many an adventure, a legislator for sixteen years, an ofiicer of the federal government, and now almost a ceiiteuarian. Still a citizen, I can point to him as tiie living embodiment of the characteristics of the meia of iifty-uine years ago. I have seen him take his life in fine hand and his rille in the other, and go out to the triumph of law over anarchy and disorder. .Vnd I deem it not im[)roi)er to say tiiat whereever the name of Daniel Boone may be proiioun<'ed as the greatest jiioneer of llic Western world, that of Daniel Asiili\' mav properlv be coupled with it, for the scenes of the leading ad\cntures of each have now become empires larger than many of the countries of the Old World.

We are licforc yim as a connecting link lietu'een the past and the present. We have seen this great country reclaimed froin the wilderness that reigned supreme sin(^e time began, and become tin- home of civilization, refined and intelligent. We have seen the lieavy road wagon give place to the jmtf of the engine and the flutter of the wheel of the steambo;a which bionght us our supplies and look our surplus to market. We have seen the iron horse, with clanginghoof and l)reath of flame, hissing contempt for the space lying before it, make neighbors of distant cities and almost supplant the steamboat. We have seen the electric telegraph enter the race with light, and beating the tardy sunbeam, deliver messages ahead of time. \\'e have seen school houses dot the country and education brought to everv cliild. We have seen churches erecting their ?]iires heavenward in places wliere the pagan, on bended knee, a\\'aited the first glittering of the rising sun, and we can remember, too, the time when

" The .«ounil of the church-iroinf; bell These vallejs aud hills never heard, Nor sighed at the sound of a kuell, Nor smiled when a Sabbath appeared."

Wc b-dVQ seen tlie star o'l' empire tiiiisli its western course, ;uni, iKUiging hii;"li above the I'aeitie, send haek its r:i_vs in milden splemlmupon nearly tifty niilliniis ot' Anieriean eitizens. Few of ns Iktc represent territiirial tiine.s. A\'(' Iiave liceii law-abiding citizens. alwa\s setting a good exanipK; liel'ore our associates. No indictment or charge of disorder was ever hronglit against any of us, and it may he that we are spared liy an All-\vi<e Providence :is sentinels npcjn the watch-tower of time, to witness still greater blessings to the human race. "\Ve have seen dome-tic war in its horror of blood, ^^'e iiave seen tlie scum that the i)olitical cauldron casts to the surface whi'U set to i)oiling by passion ruled with tyranic - with revengeful t«'ri-or. But thank God (who rule>^ the destinies of governments and ol' men ) wo are seeing the [leople gradually, but surely, retuining to rea>on and wise government. Young America is giving wav to wiser and more experienced heads, and hearts are becoming more tender towards the public good. Our ranks are thinned by death and removals, l)nt we indulge the hope that this remnant may be spared to witness yet farther advances in human progress."

Najiks Of Old Settlers

In this connection, we give below the names of a number of old settlers, who located in (.'hariton county between the years 181 'S and 1833. The list embraces 2(.)5 names.

The first settlers in any new county [lass thriaigh an expeiience which no succeeding generation will ever l)e able to fuliv apjtreciatc. The time is already i)ast when tlie youth of the present even have any proper eonce[>tinns of the vicissitudes, dangers, and trials. whi<!i the pioneer fathers and mothers were compelled toundergo to maintain a footing in tlie States west of the great Mississi}>pi. Ever\- new ^ntlement wrote a history of its own, which differed from otlier> in the nature of its surroundings, but the aggregate of the e.xi.iericnce of all was one never again to I)e repeated in the same terrilor\- or country. The mighty woods and the soletnn prairies are no hmuei' shromled in mystery, and their effect on tlie minds of the early comers, are sensations which will be a sealed book to the future. Year by year the circle of tliese old veterans of civilization i-^ narrowing. Ail that is most vivid and valualile in meniorv is ra|iidl\ disappearing. Gray hairs ami bowed forms attest the march of time. Jt is for this reason, therefore, that no personal sketch of pioneer -I'llirsTOKY OK IIDWAIIU AND (HAKITON COLNTIKS. OOrf tk'i'.-, Imuever rudely <.h';i\vii, or iinn!;itin\' in dotail. can be club-ed ns tho work of mere vain ^lory. On the conLrary, the future will and more ohjeets tjf interest and real value. The nienibry of the jiioneer is one that the world will ne\er eoirsent to let fade. Its transmission is a priceless gift to the future.

History Of Howard And Chariton Col'Nties A Poem By An Old .Skttler

The rough hewn puncheon floor; The chimneys made of stick and clay Are seen no more: g(jne to decay; The men that built them, where are they?

And thou - ah, yes, what then? The world will still be moving on ; Bat we, whose cheeks are growing wan. Will not be here : we'll all be gone

The land will be bereft. The places which we here have tilled. The fields which we have cleared and idled, Our barns, though empty or though tilled. To others will be left.

When we were blithe and young ; When hope and expectation bright Were bouyant, and our hearts were light: And fancy, that delusive sprite. Her ^iren sonnets sun-:.

The way in which «t ch'an our wheat, When two strong men with bhinlii't sheet Would wiunow out the chafl and cheat, And twice or tlirhv the tbiu;z repeat, Until the grain will clean.

We knew no better ways; And now our sens would laugh to scorn Such pobv ways of making corn, And bless their stars that they were born In more enlightened days.

And yet I do not know but what The pioneer enjoyed his lot. And lived as much at ease. As men in these enlightened days - With all their strange, new-fangled ways. Which wealth and fashion now displays. The mind of man to please.

Although our homes were mean. Onr neighbors then were neighbors true, And every man his neighbor knew. Although those neighbors might be few

Or wear the victor's crown : Thousrli fur above the cloiuls we tread, There's other clouds still overhead, And on the mind there i> the dread,

.Although their coats were plain; And when in ollice they were placed, They proved themselves not double-faced - The people's trust was not misplaced,

Chapter Xy

In the whole history of the industrial world tliere is nothing to compare to the enterprise shown in raih-oad building in the United States. But little more than half a century ago the practicability of railroad transportation, according to the present principle of traction, was for the first time successfully demonstriited. To George Stephenson, of England, a man of humble birth and forttnie, l)iit of the greatest natural genius, behnigs the lion<n' of this crowning triumph of the utilization of steam. On tlie 27th of Septemlter, 1625, he made the first really successful trip ever made on a railroad by steam, by running a locomotive drauing a train of cars at tlie rate of twelve miles :tn hour on the railway from .Stockton to Darlington. His success electritied the world. Ail Kuropc; and America rushed into railroad building. The Quincy liailroad in the United States was commenced during the winter oi tlie same vear and was comj)leted the following year. Other parts of the country quickly followed tiie example there set. and the United States soon distanced all other countries in railroad building. We now have in regular operation over 25,000 miles of road, or within a few thousand miles of as numy as there are in all the balance of the world.

As population jnished on out West railroads were extended into the interior, and Missouri, although at that time a frontier State, showed commendable enterprise and liberality in encouraging railroad V)uilding. Various railroad enterprises were discussed and advocated in this State as early as 1835, and two rears afterwards charters were granted by the Legislature to the St. I^ouis and Bellevue Mineral and the Louisiana and CoIuml)ia Railroad Companies. These were afterwards merged into the charters of the Iron Mountain and the Flaunibal and St. Joe companies. After the close of the Mexican war, the (5G2) building of a railroad to the Pacitic coast hciiaii to he agitated, and the people of Missouri, and particularly of St. Louis, were among the first to advocate the enterprise. The policy of St. Louis was to Ituild three grand trunk lines from that cit}', one directly west up the Missouri into Kansas and to the Pacitic ; another towards Arkansas and the Southwest; and the third toward.s Iowa and the great Northwest. For these roads charters were granted hy the Legislature, and they ultimately became the Missouri Pacific, the Iron Mountain and the North Missouri, rcsjiectively.

The North Missouri Railroad was chartered on the 1st of March. 1851. The company was authorized to build, equip and operate a railroad from .St. Louis via St. Charles, thence on the dividing ridge between the Missouri and ilississippi rivers througli this State to the Iowa line and in the direction of Dcs Moines. The road was completed to St. (.'liarles in August, 1S55 ; to A\'avrenton in August, 1S37 ; to Mexico in May, 18.58 ; to Moberlv in November of the same year ; and to Macon in February, 1859.

The Chariton And Randolph Railroad Company

Chariton county was not touched by the route taken l)y this road. But her citizens were equal to the euiergeney. In 185.5 the Legislature had passed a general railroad law authorizing the formation of railroad companies by articles of association, et(.'., and conferring upon the companies so formed very liberal powers and privileges. Varifuis meetings of the citizens of the eountv were held looking to the building of a railroad from some point on the North. Mississiii])! through this county and on u[) the Missouri river to the Kansas State line.

LT::der the general law, before a certificate of incorporation could be issued at least $1,000 had to be subscril/cd and five per cent thereof actually paid into the treasury of the coin[)any for every mile of road proposed to be built. The tirst movement in the county taking tangil^le shape for building the road was the oiranization r.f tiie Cluiritiin and Randolph Railroad Company, which was ell'eeted on the 20th day of November, 1858. This was organized under the general law, and the building of the road from the North Missouri in Randolph county, a given point on the North ilissouri Railroad in Randolph county, to Brunswick, a distance of forty-three miles, re- qiiii'iiii: :i siilisi-iiptidu of stock to the ;uiiouiit ot'$4-'!,000, was all tha.t was attiiat timo pi'oposetl. CoiisiilcriiiL!' tlic limited pojiulatioii of tho county, and that its citizens were ni'arh' all " new coiiiei-.s '' and men of small means, tliis was certainly a large amount to raise ]>\ lu'ivate .subsci-iption. That the stock was readily taken Ity the people of the county i:i in the hiiihest deuree ere(lital>le to their pul)lie spirit . A copy of the oriiiinrd articles of association, together with the .subscriptions uiiule is here given.

§ "2. The object of this association is to construct, maint.ain and operate a railroad for public use in the convey.ance of persons and property between the city of Biuuswick in the count}' of Chariton and sonie point on the North Missouri Kailroad in Randolph county, tlirough the counties of Chariton. Howard, and Randolph, or solely through the eounlies of Cliaritou .and Jtandi>l]ih.

§ 5. Sterling Price, Adamantine Johnson, John Ballentine, William C. Moberly, Isaac Brinker R. H. iNIusser, Thomas li. Price, Lucius Salisbury, Willis H. Plunkett and John P. Williams, of Chariton countv ; Rice Battersou, of Howard couiitv ; Giiorge Burckhartt, of Randolph county, and Lisbon A|)[)lcg;ite, of Chariton county shall coniprije its first board of directors, wh<i shall hold their office for the period of one year, oi' until their successors are aiipointed.

§ t;. The stockholders of the company shall elect the board of directors once every year on ad.iy to be appointed and lived liy the bv-laws of the association.

§ 7. This ussocitition is organized under iuid subject to the general laws of the State of .Missouri known as .in act to authorize the formation of railroad .is-ociatioiis and to regulate the same, approved December 13, 1X55.

We, the undersigned suii-cril)ers to the ca[)ital stock of the' Chariton and Kandol[ih Kailroad Comii.m}-, hereliy agree to be governed by the above articles of association and to pay the several sums set opposite our names to the president and directors of said company iu such inshiUmouts as iiiny lie required, to iiioct the expenses of the .-(iiistruetion oftlie almve mentioned railroad wlienever called ui)on by thcni to do so, and to pa} live i)er centum on said stock on subscriliinir for the same : «

Nij. Of Shakes

Richard H. ^Nlusser, Adamantine Johnson and John Ballcntine, thi'oe of the diiectors of tiie Chariton and Randolp'a Railroad Company named in the foregoing articles of association, hcing first duly sworn upon their respective oaths, state : That the foregoing articles of association herewith tiled contain the true and original list of subscribers to the, capital stock in said railroad company; aud that four hundred and seventy shares of the capital stock of said railroad company are therein by them :?nbscribed in good faith ; and that fi\ e per cent has been paid in cash thereon to the directors of said company ; and that it is intended in good faith to construct, maintain and operate tlie road mentioned in said articles of association. Affiants further state that the said four hundred and seventy shares subscribed as aforesaid make an amount equal to one thou.-and dollars of stock for evei'v mile of railroad proposed to be made In' said company, and upon five per cent has been paid in good faith as aforesaid.

Fi>llii\vinL: ui' this, au'l with ;i v'ww of extending the vo-.ul oa \ve>twiir.L on the 5tli ot'M:i_v, l.'^GO, an tiei of tlie Legishitiire \va< |)!o<nir''i_l, ineorporatin^' th^e Mi^sonii IJiver Valk\v Eailroad Coni|)aii_v with " full powei' to survev, locate, eoiistruet and operate a railrt)n(.l tVoin any point on tlie North Missouri Railroad in Itandolph eounly, l>y \\a\- of Brunswick,- Chariton county, thence lhrou<rh Carroll and Clav counties, to anv point on the ilissouri river in Platte conrity." The capital stock of this company was fixed at $5,000,000, and Sterlinir Price, Adamantine Johnson and W. E. ilobcrly were appointed from Ctiariton coiintv as tl\e first directors. The two companies, the Chariton and Randolph and the Missouri River Valley, were incorporated and intended for the same purpose, to huild a road from the North Mi.->ouri, in Randolph county, through Brunswick, and up the Missouri rivoi', tiic former to liuild the load between the North Missouri and Brun.^- wick, and the latter to continue it uji on the river.

Both the Chariton and Randolph and the Missouri River Valley Railroai.l CoiniKinies wer.- authorized to l.iuild hranches and to recei\e subscriptions oi' stock from counties, cities and towns interested in the con->truction of the roads.

In iNoli tlie counlv court of this couut\' voted to the Chariton and Randolph Railroad Comjiany .$150,000 in bonds : luit tht> road not being completed within tlie time specitietl in its contract uium which the subscription was made, the fronds were not issued. This subscription was subsequently declared null and void by an act of the Legislature. However, active steps had been taken for the construction of both roads, a considerable portion of the Chariton ami Randoli)h track iieiug gi-aded. But the war coming on soon alter the work was commenced, all active ojierations were su.^pendc(l. Bv act of the I^cgislature in 1804, the Chariton and Randol[>h and the .Mi~souri Ri\cr X'alloy Uailroad Compauie> were consolidated with the North Missouri Railroad Company, a.nii the latter completed the entire line to Kansas City during the year 1^09. From Mobetly to I5run^wick the road was complcied December 15th, 1«<I7 : to Carrolltou, Au-'u-t 15th, ISiJS ; to LexiuLiton

.Junction, October Ist. 1808 ; to the Junction with the ILuiniUal uad ,St. Joseph Riiiii'oad, Xovetnlicr 28, IHtiS : und on to K:ui^;;is (.'itv in 18'"'J. Th" citizens of the eounty tiirouLrh wliose lands the road passes had ah'eady donated the right of way to tiie original companies. Since the eompletion of the road in 18ii!*, it has followed the fortunes of the old North ^Missouri, and has heconie an important section of one of greatest railroad s_v>tenis on the glohe.

The Chillicothe and Brunswick itailroad, now also a part of the system with which the Chariton and Kandolph and the^Iissouri Ki\'er Valley roads are connected, was built in 1870 li}- the Chillicothe and Brunswick Raih-oad Company which was incorporated by act of the Legislature approved January 26, 1804. The first board of directors of tlie eon;panv were J. 15. I..upeii, J. B. Bell, Benjamin Berry, D. G. Saunders, S. K. Alexander, Thomas T. Eagles, W. A. Love, A\'. S.Davis, S. B. DcLaud and Jolm Smith, of Livingston county : A\'ill. H. Plunk.ett, Thomas Anderson, John IL Blue, A. Johnson, A\'. E. Moberly, J<din Eiallentine, John II. Davis, James McEari-en and David Loud, of Chariton county, and W. Ix. Creel and W. A. I)alanv, of C-arroilton county. The Chillicothe and Brunswick became a i)art of the prestMit Wabash system in 187;).

The Salisbury And Brunswick Branch

What is now known as the Salisbury and Glasgow Branch Road was built under the charter ot the old Missouri and Mississippi Railroad wdiich was granted by tlie Legislature as early as l.s48. This road was to run from Keokidv, Iowa, to Glasgo'.v, Missouri. The road was not commenced, however, until 1873. Becoming involved in financial trouble ou account of the pauic, it was sold out under foreclosure of mortgage and became the pro[)ei't3' of the Keokuk and Kansas City Railroad Company. That com|)auy in turn sold it to the Salisbury and Glasgow Company, and in 187ti it was again sold, this time becoming a part of the Kansas City and Northern, an outline of the history of wliich appears further along.

(formerly tlic Mississippi ainl Missouri Railro.ul Company) llie county voted $-200,000 or 100,000 lo each comiKiiiy. Tiie t'ollon-in-- are the orders ot" tlie county court relating to the subscription of tiie stock sO taken : -

Ordrr Book A, Pnye GSl. - Ou moliou of S. E. Taylor, it is ordered tliat an flunion he held in the several election districts of said county, on the 2Sth day of November, ISiJT, for the purpose of submitting to a vote of the resident tax-payers, ^viTnouT KF.GAKD TO irvcE, SEX OK COLOR, of said county, a proposition authorizing thecounty court of said county to subscribe one hundred thousand dollars stock in the Brunswick and ChilHcothe Railroad Corporation, and one hundred thousand dollars in the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company, each of said roads to run througii Chariton county. Said propositons to be jointly voted upon, and stock taken as si on as an affirmative vote is iiivon by a majority of the tax-payers of said county.

Order Book A, 701. - Ordered by the court that the time for holding an election for the purpose of authorizing the county court to take stock in certain railroads mentioned in previous orders, calling an election on the 28th day of November, 1SC7, be and it is hereby extended one week, or until tie 5th day of December, lSi'>7.

The election was held in pur.suance of the order of t!ie court, and as soon as the otlicial returns were tiled in the otHce of the county clerk, the following proceedings were had : -

The county ciuirt met pursuant to adjournment: ollicers: John F. Cunningham, Presiding justice; George Young and Henry F. Grotjan, associate justices; George Keuchler, sheriff; E. .\. Holcomb, clerk.

Order Book A, p'Vjcs 70 'J and 707. - Ordered by the court that one hundred tIio\isand dollars be and is hereby subscribed to the capital stock of the Chlilicothe and Brunswick Railroad Company iu bonds of said county, at par, and suljject to the following conditions : -

1st. The said ChilHcothe and Brun>uirk Railroad Company shall locate and construct their road beginning in the City ot Hrunswick aud continuing on the eastern side of Grand river to the City of ChilHcothe, there connecting with the ChilHcothe and Omaha road.

That when the president of said Chlilicothe and Brunswick Railroad Company shall present to the county court of Chariton county, or its authorized representatives, certiticates of paid-up stock in said Chlilicothe and Brunswick Railroad, duly signed and attested, to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars; then the said

Said bonds shall bear iuten-st at the rate of eight per cent per annum, the interest oomniencina; with the date of sale; or when hypothecated for not less than half'tlieir value, and with coupons of interest attached. Both principal and interest beinp: made payable at the Merchants' National B.inii of JIi>sonri, in the City of St. Louis, Mi-souri. Tlie said bonds shall be of the denomination of SlOO each, to the amount of (-S-.5,000) twenty-five thoiisaiul dollars; and of 8500 each to the amonni of twentytive thousand dollars, and of 81,000 each to the auiount of tifty thous:uid dollars. They shall be held oy t!ie ilireclory of the Xorth Missouri Ktilroad Comijany, in trust, to be applied to the construction of the Chillicothe and Eriinswick liailroad Company, and for no other purpose. The said bonds shall be made payable as follows: Those of the flenoraiuation of one hundred dollars in eight years after date: those of the denomination of five hundred dollars in nine years after date ; and those of tiie denomination one thousand dollars in ten years after date, and both bonds and coupons shall be receivable at maturity for all county dues.

It is further ordered that a special tax of sufllcient amount siiall be levied, to provide for the interest on these bonds, to provide for the payment of the principal. Five years after the date of issue of the bonds, a suflicieut sum shall he assessed on the taxable property of the county, to amount to one-tifth of the said sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and the amount so raised shall be applied to the purcha.-e, at market price, and cancellation of said bonds, or held as a sinkinir fund to redeem Iheni at maturity, a> may seem best to the county court. The court shall appoint a commissioner to cast the vote of the county at the annual election of ollicers of the railroad company, and to receive dividends arisinjr from the prolits of the road.

Conditioned further, that within ninety days from the sale or hypothecation of said bonds, that the said Chillicolhe and Brunswick Railroad shall commence work in the City of Brunswick, in connection with the North Missouri Railroad, and shall push the road to completion to Chillicothe, and shall put iron on the 2;r.vdc as soon as each ten miles are ready for it ; and that the whole shall be completed within twenty-fcuir months from the sale or hypothecation of the bouds, and that before sale or hypothecation the said bouds shall be adv^M'tised in two newspapers in New Vork City, Democrat and Republican, ia St. Louis; Union, in Keytesville, ami Brnnfxcirki'r, in Brunswick, and copies be sent to the court.

Order Book A, Pages 707 and 70S. - Ordered by the Court that the sum of ime hundred thousand dollars be and is hereby subscribed to the capital stock of the Jlississippi and Missouri Railroad payable in bouds of said county, at par, and subject to the following conditions : -

Isl. The said Mississippi and Jlissouri Railroad Company locate and construct their road in sucli a manner as not to cross the North Missouri Railroad at a point east of Salisbury, nor shall they cross a greater distance than one mile west of Keytesville, and shall cross the Missouri river between Cambridge and Keytesville Landing.

2Qd. That when the president of the said Missis.sippi and .Missouri Railroad Company shall furnish to the county court of Chariton county, suttlcient evidence of their abilitv, v,-ith the addition of these bonds, to construct their said road tliron-ih Chariton county, and that they will expend the same for this and for no other purpose, and shall present certiticates of paid up stock iu the said Mis-<ouri and .Mississippi

Railroad to tlie aiiioiint of SIi"-',noO: then the court will issiif to tlie authorized ;i5ent of the said Mississippi and Missouri Railroad, bonds to the amount of ylOu.OOii.

Said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of eisht per cent per annum, the interest commencing with the date of sale: or when hypothecated for not less than half their value, and ivilh coupons of interest attached. Both interest and principal beiua: made payable at s\ich places as may be asreed on when the necessary securities ar*^ given. Said bonds of the denomination of -9100 each, to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars, of SSOO to the amount of twenty- live thousand, dollars, and of each to the amount of five thousand dollars.

They shall be payable as follows: Those of the denomination of SlOO in eij^ht years after date ; tliose of the denomination of -S.^uO in nine years after date, and those of the denomination SI, 000, in ten years after date, and both coupons and bonds shall be received at matuiity for all county dues.

It is further ordered that a special tax of sufficient aniount shall be levied, to provide for tlie interest on those bonds, for the payment of the principal. Five years after the date of issue a salficient sum shall bo assessed on the taxable property of the county, to the amount of one-tifth of the said sura of §100,000, and the amount so raised shall be applied to the purchase at market pri:e, and cancellation of said bonds, or held as sinking fund to redeem them at maturity, as may seem best to the court. The court shall appoint commissioner to cast the vote of the county at the annual election of orlicers of the company, and to receive dividends arising from the profits of the road.

Conditioned further, that within ninety days from the sale or hypothecation of said bonds, that the said Mississippi and Mis-ouri liailroad Company ^hall commence work on the road somewhere iu Chariton county, within three months from the sale or hypothecation of the bonds, and shall put iron on the grades as soon as each ten miles of grade is completed and ready for it; and that the whole shall be completed within twenty-four months from the date of the sale or hypothecation of the bonds> and that before the sale or hypothecation the said bonds shall be advertised in two newspapers in Xew Vork City, the Democrat and Itepxihlio'ni, in St. Louis, the Union, iu Keytesville, and the Bntnsicicker in Brunswick, and copies forwarded to the court.

Afterwards the comity fourt saw tit to chaim-e the Oriijlnal order .suh.scrihiiiir stock to the Mississippi Jl;rilroad Company, as appeals Uy the tbliowino; order of record : -

Order Book B, Page i^''- - Ordered that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby subscribed to the capital stock of the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad, payable in bonds of said county at par, and subject to the following conditions :

1st. The said Mississippi and .Missouri Railroad Company locate and construct their road in ^uch a niauuer as to run not less than twenty-one miles in Chariton county.

2nd. That when the president of the .Missouri and i[ississip[ii Railroad Company shall furnish to the county court of Chariton county, sufficient evidence of their ability, with the addition of these bonds, to construct their railroad through Chariiiisj'ORY OF no\\A):D a>;d ciiAnnox countif.s. o/n ton county, and thnt tlifj- will Lxpriul the saiiio for that purpose no other purpose; and shall present certiticaics of paid up >tock in the said Missouri and Mississippi Railroad Company to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, then the court will issuu U) the authorized ayent of the said Missouri and Mississippi Railroad Company tlie amount of one hundred thousand dollars in bonds of said county. Said bonds shall bear interest at Uie rate of eight percent per annum, the interest commencing at the sale, or when said bonds are hypothecated for not less than one-half . their value, and with coupons of interest attached: both interest and principal being made payable at such places as may be agreed upon when the nece-^sary securities are given. Said bonds shall be of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, and payable in ten years. Interest payable semi-annually on the first day of January and OQ the lirst of July in each year, and after tl;e expiration of ten years after date, Ijotli bonds and coupons shall be receivable as county dues.

It is further ordered that a special tax of sntKcicnt amount shall be levied to annually provide for the interest accruing on the bonds, and for the payment of the principal: si.x years after the date of issue a sutlicient sum shall be assessed aud levied on the taxable property of the county, to amount to one-fourth, or twenty-live per cent of one htmdrcd thousand dollars, to be collected annually, and the amount so collected shall be applied to the purchase at market value and cancellation of said bonds, or held as a sinking fund to redeem said bonds at maturity, as may seem be>t to the court. The court shall appoint a commissioner to cast the vote of the county at the annual election of otlicers of the said Jlissouri and Mississippi Railroad Company and to receive di\ idends arising from the profits of said road. Conditioned further that within ni.ie y d;-ys fiom the sale of said bonds that the Missouri and Mississippi Railroad Company shall commence work of the road somewhere in Chariton county, and shall complete the entire work through the said county v.ithin twenty-four months from the sale of said bonds.

Judges Cunningham aiul Young concurred in the above order, and Judge Grofjan dissented, on account of the restrictions in tirst order being removed, and enters his protest.

The county court met pursuant to adjournment; officers - .John T. Cunningham, judge of probate and ex o,ficiii presiding justice; George Young and Henry F. Grotjau, associate justices and attendant officers.

Order Book I!, page 43. - Whereas satisfactory proof has been presented to the county court that the Cbillicothc and Brunswick Railroad Company have located said road beginning at the City of Brunswick and continuing on the east side of Gr:ind river to the City of Chillicothe, there connecting with the Chillicothe and Umaha Railroad, .-ind whereas, John II. Hammond, the president of said railroad company, has presented to the court certitjcates of paid up stock in said Chillicothe and Brunswick Railroad, duly signed and attested, to the amount of one hundred tliousand dollars. And whereas, proof being presented that the sale to be made of the Ixinds of said Chariton county was duly advertised in two newspapers published in tlu- city ofNewY'ork; Ihe Democrat and lii'imbliotn of St. Louis; tlie [')'/'_-«, in Keytes\ille, ami the Bninswicker \n Brunswick, and copies of said papers have been duly sent to tlic- court. Nii\v, thercfiiiv, all t!)e coinlitiini.s prtci'ileiit, lo the issuiiiir of the boiuls of said coiiuty of ClKuiton for tho sum of uue huLdrtd tluni^aiid dollars to Ihu .said Chillicothe a.ud Brunswick Railroad Company havinsj: been fully coinplicd with on the part of the said railroad company, it is therefore ordered by the court, that the bond.s of said county of Cliariton bo issued and duly sif;ned and attested, for the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, in bonds with coupons thereto attached, of the denominations specified in the order heretofore made by the court, subscribing said amount of cue hundred thousand dollars to the said " C. & B. R. R.," payable at the place or places, time or times, and in the way and manner specitied in said last mentioned order of this court and that said bunds so issued, signed and attested, to be delivered to the directory of the Nortii Missouri Uai'road Comjiany, or their representatives authorized in writing;. And be it further ordered by the court, that .said order subscribing; said one hundred thousand dollars to the said railroad company, be so chanijed as to make the interest on said bonds payable at National Bank of Commerce in New York City, on the first day of January and July in each year. A true copy of said order.

Kxow .VLT. MEX itv TiiES].', PRESENTS Tliat the county of Chariton, in the State of Missouri acknowled'jes itself indebted and firmly bound to the Chillicothe and Brunswick Railroad Company in the sum of dollars, which sum the said county hereby promises to pay the said Chillicothe and Brunswick Railroad Company or bearer at the National Bauk of Commerce in the City of New York, State of New day of July, l-StlS, at the rate of eiirlit per cent per annum, which interest shall be payable semi-annually on the 1st days of Jiuuary and July of each year on the presentation and delivery at said bank of the coupons of interest hereto attached. This bond being issued under and pursuant to an order of tlie county court of Chariton county, by authority granted iu the charter of said railroad company, and authorized by a vote of the people taken December 5th, ISil".

Ill Testimony Whereof, the said county of Chariton iias executed this bond by the presiding justice of the county court of said county, under the order of said court, signing his name hereto, and by the clerk of said court, uuder the order thereof, attesting tlie same, and atlixing thereto the seal of said court. This done at KeytesviUe, county of Chariton aforesaid, this first day of June,18i:3. Attest; E. A. HOLCOMB,

Know all Mlx r.Y these Presents That, the couuty of Cliaritoii, in the State of Missouri acknowk-clires itself indebted and tirmly bound to the Missouri and Missis.

hereby promises to pay the said Missouri and Mississippi Railroad Company or bearer at the National Bank of Commerce in the City of New York, State of New York, on

July, ISO*, at the rate of eight per cent per annum, which interest shall be payable semi-annually ou the 1st days of January and July of each year on the presentation and delivery at said bank of the coupons of iuterest hereto attached. This bond being issued under and pursuant to an order of the county court of Chariton county, by authority granted in the charter of snid railroad company and authorized by a vote of the people taken December 5th, lSiJ7.

In Testimony Whereof the said county of Chariton has executed this bond by the presiding justice of the county court of said county, under the order of said court, signing his name hereto, and by the clerk of said court, under the order thereof, attesting the same, and atlixiug thereto the seal of said court. This done at Keytesville, county of Chariton aforesaid, this lith day of May, IStJO. Attest: E. A. HOLCOMIi,

Court met pursuant to adjournment; with the following officers aud attendants present: John F. Cunningham, presiding justice; \{. F. Grotjan and George Young, associate justices; John Gastou, sheriff; E. X. Uolcomb, clerk.

Order Book B, Page IS-t. - On motion of the Missouri and Mississippi Railroad Company, and iu accordance with an order heretofore made, the court this day issues to the Missouri and Mississippi Railroad Company one hundred thousand dollars of Chariton county bonds, in the denomination of one thousand dollars each, uumheriug from one to one hundred, with twenty coupons att:iched to each, numbering from one to twenty. The interest payable semi-annually, at the rate of eight per cent per annum. The principal payable as provided for by an order of the court, heretofore made.

The Mississippi aiul Missouri Railroad Company l)einir unahlc to ooiii|)ly full}- nitli the terms oftho oriirinal oi-der of subscription niadi^ by the county court, application was made to the court for a second chani];c in the original order, when the following" proceedings were had: -

Order Book B, Page 117. - Be it ordered by the county court of Chariton county that an order tieretofore made and entered of record on tlie 'Jth day of December, 1867, subscribins one hundred thousand dollars stock to tbe capital stock of the Missi>sippi and Missouri Kailroad Company, be changed by striking out all restrictions relative to where or on what line it shall be built; provided, however, that it shall he located and built at least twenty-four miles throufih said county of Chariton. Also provided that if the said M. & M. R. R. Company by their own means, with the one hundred thou>and dollars stock taken by the county, with other stock taken by the counties of Chariton and Saline or by tovvn.ships along the proposed line of said M. & M. R. R., or by private subscription made to the capital stock of said R. R. company, shall on or before the Isl Monday in February, 18(i',t, show that sai<l company is able to grade and prepare the road-bed for said road throuj;h the said counties of Chariton and Saline within the iiuiits already designated in said Chariton couuty, and to extend through Saline county towards Sedalia, then this order shall be null and void, otherwise it is to be in full force.

The foregoing order being concurred in by Justices Cunningham and Young, and Henry V. Grotjau, one of the justices of the county court of Chariton county appears and enters his protest to the change made by the foregoing order.

The hoard issued under the above proceedings, not being fidly paid ott', on the 1st of July, 1879, the following funding bonds were issued to take up the old ones still outstaudiug. These constitute the present

One hundred and thirty si.x per cent 5-20 bonds of $100 each, issued July 1, 1879, interest payable annually at Laclede bank, St. Louis, $13,000.

One huudred and forty-two six per cent bonds of $1,000 each issued July 1, 1879, interest payable semi-annually at Laclede bank, St. Louis, $11:2,000 ; twenty eight per cent bonds of $100 each, issued June 1, 18G8, interest payable semi-annually at Bank of Commerce, New York, $2,000. Total, $157,000.

The original bonds were issued to tiid in the construction of the Mississippi and Missouri and the Brunswick and Chillicothe Railroads, excepting $2,000 ; these were funded under uu act approved April

1:2, 1877, entitled "An act to authorize counties, cities and towns to compromise their debts."' Interest ju-omptl}' piiiel ; interest tax on the $100 valuation, twenty cents; sinkin^^ fund tax live cents. Taxable wealth, $5,0S7,L^60.

The St. Louis, Kansas City and NortheinllailH ay Conipan}- was organized under the general laws of ilissouri, and in 1872 became the owner by purchase of the old North [Missouri Kailroad. Financial embarrassments having overtaken the North Missouri in 1871, it was sold out under foreclosure, and il. J. Jessup, of New York, became its purchaser. In Februiiry of the following year he sold it, as stated above, to the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Company. This comi)an\- o[ierated the road with marked ability and success until the 7tli of November, 1879, when it consolidated with the AVabash Kailway C(mipany east of the Mississippi, forming the present Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway, the third largest system of roads in the Lnited States.

This now includes in Chariton county all the roads formerly belonging to, or that were opei-ated by, the old North Missouri, and its successor, the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern ; or, in other words, all the roads mentioned on the preceding pages of this chapter.

The Wap.Ash St. Louis And Pacific

This road owns and operates in Chariton count}- over sixty miles of road, valued for the purposes of ta.xation in 1882, at $513, 948. .30. upon which it paid for that year a tax of $7, (1(35. 9(3, as shown bv the followiiiir statement taken from official sources : -

The main line of the road formerly known as the West Branch of North Missouri passes through the county from west to east, entering it directly west of IlnntsviUe and passing oLit at Brunswick on the same parallel, making a slight curve southward, however, between the eaitem and western borders. This road gives the citizens of this county tiie advantages accruing from being directl}' on the main line of one of the tinest and most extensive railways systems of the Union, advantages, the imi'ortance of which is understood by every intelligent person.

On the east, the road leads directly to St. Louis, Chicago, Toledo, Detroit, and the East, making connection with all the great trunk lines centering at those cities and at intermediate points. On the west it leads to Kansas City and St. Joseph without change of cats for either [)lace, inaking C(jnnection \\ith all the great trans-Missouri systems of the West.

The Chillicothe branch has developed into one of the most important roads in the country. It now leads on through Northwest JNIissouri, and to Omaha, there connecting with the great Union Pacific and other roads.

As has been said, the St. Louis, Wabash and Pacific Kailway is the product of the consolidation of the old Wabash east of the Mississippi, and the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern. The general ofRces of the consolidated road are at St. Louis. Of these mention will be made further along. For convenience of management the road is divided into two grand divisions known as the " Western Division," and the "Eastern Division." The farmer, being that part west of the Mississippi, aggregates over 1,300 miles; the latte;-, that part east of the river, on the ohl Wabash Railway, has a total mileage of over 2,300 miles.

The old Wabash Railway originated in the Toledo and Illinois Railway, which was organized April '2b. 1853, under the laws of Ohio authorizing the company to construct and operate a road from Toledo to the western boundary of that State. On the nineteenth of August, following, the Lake Erie, ^Val>ash and St. Louis Railroad Company was organized under the laws of Indiana to build a roud from the east line of the State through the valleys of the Little river and Wabash river to the west line of the State in the direction of Danville, Illinois. The road from Toledo through Ohio and Indiana was constructed under the-e two charters. On the 25tli of June, LSJli, the two companies were consolidated un<ler the name of the Toledo, Wabasli and Western Railroad Company. This organization having become financially enil)arrassed in the piniic of lf^57, its property was sold in October, 1858, under foreclosure of mortgage and [)urcha^ed b_y Ozariah Bood}', wlio conveyed it to two new companies under the iKUiies, re>p(:elively, nt' tlie ToUhIo and Walta.-lj, of Ohio, ami the Wiibash iind Western, of Indian;!, tiic two Kuing con.solidatcd (Ictnlicr 7, 1S58, undoi- the style of the Toledo and Wabash Hailroad Company. This company operated the road throngh the States of Ohio, Indiana iiiid Illinois, until 1865, wlicn all interests between Toledo and the j\Iississip)>i river, at Qaincy and Hainillon were consolidated niidcr an arrreeraent between the Toledo and Wabash, the Great Western, of Illinois, the (^uincy and Toledo, and the Illinois and Southern Iowa Railroad Companies, under the name of the Toledo, Wal)ash and Western Railroad Com[)any. The Great Western Raili-oad Company of this combination was organized in 1859. and its mad extended from the Indiana State line to Meredosia, in Illinois, with a branch from l?hitf City to Naples. The road from ^Meredosia to Camp Point was owned by the Quincy and Toledo Company, and the road from Clavton, Iliinois, to Carthage, Indiana, was owned by the Illinois and Soutliern Iowa Company

In 1870 the Decatur and East St. Louis Railroad Company constructed and equipped a road betweeji Decatur and East St. Louis, which in the same year came under the management of the Toletlu, Wabash and Western Railroad Comi)any, ami in 1S71 this road was 0[)onedtoSt. Louis. The Hannibal and Xaides Railroad, including its branch from Pittstield to Maysville, was leased to the Toledo, Wabash and Western Company in 1870, and tln^ following year the same company obtained control of the Pekin, Lincoln and Decatur Railroad. In 1872 the Lafayette and Bloomington was added to the lines of the Toledo. Wabash and Western. But in 1874. when so many railroads were forced to the wall by tlie stringency in the money market, the Toledo, Wal)ash and Western was forced to go into tlie hands of a receiver, and John D. Coe was appointed liy the coiiit to conduct the affairs of the road. He retained control of it until 1877. when ii reorganization was effe(;ted under the .style of the Wabash Railway Company. While the road was in the hands of the reoeivt-r the leases of the Pekin, Lincoln and Decatur, and tin? Lafayette and Bloomington Railroads were set aside as well as that of the Quim-y bridsjo, which it had previously secured. In 1871* the Edwartlsville branch passed under the control of th(! Wabash, and in 1879 the consolidation between the Wabash and the Kansas City and Northern was effected, as stated above.

:m indelitedness of $r.o,4('!9.550, making the cajiital ami lioudo.l debt of the company, $75.4(")1.550. The present system ineliides twentvono originally distinet and independent lines of I'oad. Previous to Ihe eon^u^K!ation the Wabasii proper extended iVom Toledo to St. Louis, Hannibal, (Jnincy and Keokul^, with a braneii from liOgansport to Butler, Indiana, or a total length of 782 miles. Bui by the eonsolidation these roads were united with the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern and its brauehes, which gave the new comiiany a through line from Toledo to Kansas Citv, St. Joseph and Omaha, making the total at that time 1,551 miles. The same year of the consolidation entrance was made iuto Chicairo by its purchase of the Chicago and Paducah, extending from Effinoham and Altamont to Chester, Illinois, and by the construction of a br.anch from Strawn, ninety-six miles northward. Subsequent aequi- .sitions were tlie Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw, a distance of 246 miles, and before the close of the year the Quincy, Missouri aud Pacific, the Champaign, Havana aud Western, the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska, and the Centreviile, Moravia and AHiia, ail connecting at dilTevent points with tb.e main line. On the 1st of January, 18S1, the system embraced 2,479 miles of road.

The lines l)uilt and acquired during the year 18S1, were the Detroit and Butler, an extension of the Logansport and Butler division to the city of Detroit, 113 miles; the Indianapolis, Pennsylvania and Chicago, IGl miles in length; the Cairo and Vinceunes, the Danville and Southwestern, the (Juincy, Missouri Pacitic. the Des Moines, North^vestern, and the Attica and Covington, making the total mileage at the close of the year 3,384 miles. The Buller and the Detroit roads, in comiection with the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw, completed the second independent trunk line ot the system from the ilississippi river to Lake Erie, besides securing new and important connections upon its entrance into Detroit.

In 1872 several extensions and branches were finished, the most important of which were the Slienandoah aud the Des Moines divisions. The former continued the Detroit trunk line from the Mississippi to the Missouri. The latter which now extends to Spirit Lake, in the northwestern part of Iowa, opened up that great State to the tratilc of the Wabash System. The total length of the system in 1882 was .3,670 miles, as follows : -

History Of Howard And Charitox Counties Eastern Division

Dcciitur to Quiacv ..... Bliitls, Illinois, to llaunibal, ^Missouri Maysville, Illinois, to Pittstield Illinois Clayton, Illinois, to Keokuk, Iowa Logansport, Indiana, to Detroit, ?dirhigan Edwardsville, Illinois, to Edwardsville Crossing, Indianapolis, Indiana, to Michigan City, Indiana Havunna, Illinois, to Sprinirfield, Illinois West Lebanon, Indiana, to Le Roy, Illinois Vincennes, Indiana, to Cairo, Illinois Danville, Illinois, to Francisville, Indiana lloUis, Illinois, to Jacksonville, Illinois Toledo, Ohio, to Milan, Michigan Attica, Indiana, to Covington, Indiana State Line, Indiana, to Biiokington, Iowa La Harpe, Illinois, to Elveston, Illinois Ilaniilton, Illinois, to Warsaw, Illinois Chicago, Illinois, to AUamont, Illinois Streator, Ilhnois, to Streator Junction, Illinois Sluunway, Illinois, to Effingham, Illinois AVarsaw, Illinois, to Havana, Illinois White Heath, Illinois, to Decatur, Illinois Bates, Illinois, to Grafton, Illinois Champaign, Illinois, to Sidney, Illinois

Western Division

Brunswick, Missouri, to Council Bluffs, Iowa Rosebury, Missouri, to Clarinda, Iowa Moberly, Missouri, to Ottumwa, Iowa North Lexington, Missouri, to St. Joe, Missouri Centralia, Missouri, to Columbia, Missouri Salisbury, Missouri, to Glasgow, Missouri Ferguson, Missouri, to St. Louis, Missouri

During the year 18S3 considerable additions have been made to the road, including the extension from Fonda, Iowa, to Spirit Lake, Iowa, a distance of about eighty miles and others of importance, but the official figures have not yet been made public.

The controlling stockholders in the Wal:)ash, St. Louis and Pacific are also the leadini^; stockholders in the Missouri Pacific, and in the Iron Mountain, or the " Southwestern System," as the two last named roads, with their tributary lines, are called, so that virtu^dlv, the Wabash and the Southwestern constitute a single system of railwavs. Indeed, in April, 1883, the Wabash was leased to the Iron Mountain of the Southwestern System, so that the whole ten thousand nules of road are now practically under one management, making bv far the largest railway system in the world. These roads all traverse maLTuificent territory, and looking at these from the standpoint of the future development of the country, the}- are without doubt, the most \aluable railroad pro^'crty on the globe. This is particularly true as to the Wabash System. Where are there five States in the Union, equal to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa, the States in which the Wabash roads are located? Their elements of agrictdtural, mineral and forest wealth make them now, even under partial development, a region of unsurpassed value. In 1882, although constitutini!,- but nine per cent of the total area of the United States, thev i>roduced 19(1,244,100 bushels of wheat of the 502, 798, COO bushels raised in the whole country, or over thirty-nine per cent of the total crop of the Union. Of the 740,t;(;5,000 bushels of corn, they yielde<l 340,- 705,900 bushels, or forty-six per cent of the total cr.)[). Their oilier farm products were proportionally large. In manufacture^ thev are al.-() of the fir.-t iiij|i(n taiice. Of the $-T,3LlH,l!t")7.70() worth of ioaniifucUii'ed products tiinieil out in 1S8(), those States produced twenty per cent, or prodiicts valued ai ;J1 ,147 jiUl!, 1(15. Bitimiious coal is found in inexhaustible quantities in each of the five States named, and iitlicr minerals, jnirticuhuly in Missouri, are found in great aliundan<'e. With a i>opnlati(>n of only 1-2, 000,0(10 in 1880, what niav we not expect the value of their products to he when they contain (;(),000,000 iuhahitants, a;, they are certainly destined to do? AVitli such a territory to draw tViun. the Wahash Railway has little to fear in the future, so far as volume of traflii; is concerned.