Columbia Township (part 3 of 7)

The college having no buildings in which to open instructions, the two-story frame, which was then a very unpretentious structure, and now occupied as a residence by Dr. W. T. Maupin, was improvised for the occasion. In August, 1851, the board purchased the then incompleted residence belonging to the estate of the late Dr. Jas. H. Bennett and the grounds thereto attached, estimated at thirty acres, for |5,500 on twelve months' credit without interest; and proceeded through the agency of L. B. Wilkes and H. H. Ready to raise funds by voluntary subscription to pay the debt and to finish and enlarge the buildings. By the fall session of the college, which opened on September 15th, 1851, the buildings were in such condition as to be occupied ; and on that day the first regular session of Christian College commenced.

The institution grew rapidly upon the public favor from its very foundation and during its whole history, except a few years, while the civil war was raging, was very prosperous. Liberal contributions of money have again and again been made by its friends, which enabled the board of trustees not only to extinguish the original debt, but very largely to add to the improvements and to the ornamentation of the grounds.

President Williams resigned in 1856 and was succeeded by Elder L. B, Wilkes, who, resigning in 1858, was succeeded by the late lamented Elder J. K. Rogers. President Rogers retained the presidency luitil 1877 when, on account of failing health, he resigned. During his administration of the college, embracing a period of nearly twenty years, he was remarkably successful in commending the institution to public favor and patronage ; and his name will live as a pleasant memory in the minds of hundreds of the most accomplished and cultivated women of our state.

On the retirement of President Rogers in 1877, the board unanimously elected Geo. S. Bryant to fill the vacancy, since which period to the present time he has most ably and successfully conducted the institution, which is now regarded as one of the most reputable for the education of young women in the Mississippi Valley.

The college edifice is a large two-story brick, lighted with gas, and is most beautifully located in an elm and maple grove just within the northern limits of Columbia. A more lovely or eligible site for a female college could not have been selected. It was originally designed by the late Dr. Bennett as a residence for himself and family. Before it Avas completed, however, he went to California, like thousands of others, in search of gold, and in 1850, died at Placerville, in that State.

A Walking Statesman

At the election of 1878, Capt. J. W. Kneisley was elected to the legislature from this county. During the canvass he promised the people that if elected he would walk to Jefferson City to attend the session of the legislature. Being elected by an ovewhelming majority, he left his home in Columbia at 10 a. m. January 2, 1879. The day chanced to be the coldest of the season. Capt. Kneisley reached Ashland at 3 p. m,, having made the distance, 15 miles, in five hours. Here he remained over nioht, leavino- the next mornino; at 10 and arriving at Claysville at noon. Here he was given a reception and made a speech, after which he continued his tramp, reaching Cedar City, opposite Jefferson, at sunset. He crossed the river on the ice and reached the capital in safety. Capt. K. was 54 years of age at the time.

Leading Business Interests Of Columbia

The Columbia Milling Company was incorporated February 6, 1882,. with a cash capital of $60,000. Its members are Gen. O. Guitar,, president; G. W. Henderson, vice-president and superintendent; F. Pannell, secretary ; J. M. Baker, treasurer, and W. T. Anderson.

The company owns the Columbia flouring mills, which have a capacity of 150 barrels daily ; the Columbia wheat elevator, with a capacity of 100,000 bushels, and the Centralia corn elevator, with a capacity of 50,000 bushels. The Columbia flouring mills have five stones, one pair of rolls, 22 hovels, and run night and day. The engine is of 80 horse power.

The Farmers' Mills are situated on a one and a half acre lot in the northwestern part of the city. The main building is 24x40 feet, with a wing 12x20. The flouring mill contains three run of burrs, and uses the Morse elevating bolt. The machinery is driven by an engine of forty-horse power. The mill has a capacity of 40 barrels of flour in ten hours, and 150 bushels of corn meal. The saw mill cuts 6,000 feet of lumber per day. Ten men are employed in the mill. The mill building is entirely new, completed in the summer of 1882. It is three and one-half stories high including the basement. Maupin, .Smith & Co., proprietors. Superintendent, R. H. Smith, a practical miller of 35 years experience.

Newspapers . The ' ' Statesman . ' '

[For a history of the Missouri Statestncm, the reader is referred to the first chapter of the general history. For history of the Sentinel see biographical sketch of Wallace J. Davis, Esq.]

On February 5, 1869, C. P. Anderson & Sons, who had recently removed from California, Missouri, issued in Columbia the first number of the Boone County Journal, an eight column Democratic paper. Dr. E. W. Herndon was the editor, but had no pecuniary interest in the paper. The Journal grew rapidly in circulation. On April 13, 1870, Edwin W. Stephens of Columbia purchased a half interest in the Journal newspaper and job ofiice and succeeded Dr. E. W. Herndon as editor. He also made a number of important changes in the typographical arrangement and appearance of the paper and enlarged and improved its news departments. On January 1, 1871, the name was changed to the Columbia, Missouri, ZTeraZcZ and has so continued since. The circulation of the Journal doubled during the first six months after Mr. Stephens became editor and the Herald, its successor, has maintained constantly during its whole history a circulation probably unsurpassed by any country paper in the State. In December, 1872, Mr. Stephens purchased the interest of his partner, Mr. C.

P. Anxierson, and has remained sole proprietor to this time. The paper Avas increased from eight to nine columns, being 29x44 inches, folio, and has continued that size since. In 1879 the Herald, which,. from its origin, had been printed on small pica and brevier type,, appeared in an entirely new and beautiful dress of long primer and brevier, and has been since that date the handsomest newspaper in the State. The Herald has always had a liberal subscription and advertising patronage. Few papers not of metropolitan pretensions are so extensively patronized at home or abroad. In addition to a liberal patronage from its immediate community, it has received annually since under the present management an average of $1,000 worth of advertising from St.Eouis, an achievement no less creditable to the Herald as a medium than to the excellent business standing of its section of the State in the evidence thus given the appreciation of it abroad. In 1881 Mr. Marcellus Dimmitt, a o-entleman of fine business and literary accomplishments, became associate editor of the Herald and pays special attention to the advertising department. The Herald has probably done more than any other paper in Central Missouri to develop the feature of local news in country journalism. Some ten years ago county papers in this section contained not onetenth the local news as at present. The Herald opened at once several columns of county correspondence, local brevities, personals and other items of local news, in which it was soon followed by other papers of the section until now the local feature is the overshadowing one of country journalism. The Herald has always been Democratic in politics.

The Public Schools

The academies and other graded schools in Columbia that w^ere in existence at an early day are described in the general history. It only remains to speak of the private schools of less pretensions. These were of the character known as subscription schools and were attended by small children or those of parents in modest circumstances. The number of these schools between 1820 and 1840 cannot now be computed, nor can the names of the teachers be ascertained, so as to set' them down in the order in which they taught. There are yet living in Columbia old men, gray and bald now, who were roguish boy-students at these same schools.

For many interesting anecdotes of the early schools let the reader interview R. L. Todd, John M. Samuel, Odon Guitar, and James L. Stephens. Particularly let him call on Gen. Guitar for a narration of the manner in which he wilfully assaulted a schoolmate on one occasion and came near putting out his eye, because the aforesaid schoolmate jeered at " Ode," who was then a prisoner, immured behind the school room door.

In was not until in the '50's that the public schools of Columbia amounted to much in the way of educational institutions. The school board rented houses in different quarters of town from time to time. Even after the war there was the " Broadway school," the " Mission school," and other schools. In 1871 the old Methodist church, on lower Broadway, was purchased and used as a school house for some time.

January 13, 1881, the board of education instructed one of its members, Capt. Jas. A. Adams, to get up plans and estimates for the cost of a new school building. February 22d, the board ordered an election to be held on the 5th of April for the purpose of authorizing said board to make a loan to the amount of $12,500 to be used in purchasing a site, erecting a new school building and furnishing same for said district at a tax of forty cents on the one hundred dollars. At the same time two sites were presented to the voters at the annual election, to choose from as to fixing the location of the new building. One of these sights was known as the Turner property, containing four acres, which was offered to the board for $2,500. The other was the Dimmitt property, which contained five acres, and was offered for $3,250.

The proposition to build a new house was carried : Ayes, 455 ; na3^s, 58. For the site known as the Gabriel Turner property, 356. For the sight known as the Fred K. Dimmitt lot, 75. Whole number of votes cast on the loan, 528, of which 352 are two-thirds. Majority for loan over the two-thirds, 108. On the question of site the Turner property, carried by 4 votes over the two-thirds. Therefore the election settled affirmativelv both the loan and site, and the board proceeded at once to issue bonds for the amount voted, to agree upon a plan for the building, and to make a contract for its erection.

The bonds issued under this authority were sold at par and accrued interest, bringing $12,604.16, which with the money derived from the sale of the old school house, amounting to $1,055, raised the building fund to $13,659.16. Much difficulty was experienced to erect with the means at hand a building at once appropriate, commodious, safe and strong, as $2,500 had been paid, according to vote, for the site alone, and four acres of ground, leaving as available funds

The building is on an elevated and most beautiful and commanding site in the northern suburbs of the town, overlooking the town on the south and the adjacent country on all sides. Briefly described, it is a two-story brick structure, 65 feet front by 70 feet deep, with two wings, one north, the other south, 14 by 32 feet. Height of building to the square, 35 feet, covered by a shingle roof, hipped on all sides (43,000 shingles), and deck and belfry covered with tin, 28 squares. In the whole building there are 60 large windows with Venetian shutters and three double doors, one at the front or eastern entrance, and one each at the western side of the wings, in which are the stairways. On the lower floor of the building there are four recitation rooms 24 by 28 feet, with 14 feet ceMings. Hallway from front door, 12 feet wide, communicating with the hallway (running north and south between the rooms on the east and west), Avhich is 10 feet wide and 65 feet long. At either end of this hall, in a wing of the building, is a platform stairway 4V2 feet wide communicating with the upper story. On the west side of the upper hall are two recitation rooms, 24 by 28 feet, 16 feet ceilings, with a library room 12 by 28. On the east side of the hall is the chapel, 28 by 65 feet, 16 feet ceiling, two doors and 12 windows. Oiled and varnished yellow-pine wainscoting and patent-mortar blackboards are in every room and in the chapel, and each recitation room has a cloak and hat room attached. Large coal stove furnaces, a new and highly approved patent for which many merits are claimed, warm each room and the chapel. All the recitation rooms, and the chapel in part, are provided with the latest improved seats. Surmounting the building on the east and above the front entrance is a handsome belfry - the whole building presenting architecturally a symmetrical and commanding appearance, a fitting monument to the cause of education, an honor to our people and a credit to the builders.

Mr. B. McAlester, was the architect. The contract for the whole building just as it stands, seats and warming apparatus excepted, was let to A. T. Duncan, James F. Stewart and John Crist, at $11,455, May 24, 1881. The brick, about 565,000, were manufactured and laid by J, D. Fay and Russell Berry; plastering by E. F. Arthur; painting by Mosley & Stewart, and roof of tin by Berry & Matthews, contractors, George E. Allgair and W. W. Hornberger doing the work. The building was commenced about the middle of June, and.

Columbia Public School

being completed and ready for occupancy, was turned over to the board and publicly dedicated on Monday, December 19, 1881. The Columbia Statesman oi December 23, 1881, contained a full account of the dedicatory ceremonies, from which account it is learned that the dedication took place in the chapel in the presence of the entire school, who with the teachers marched in a body from the old building on Broadway with music and banners, and a large auditory of citizens ; the Columbia brass band furnished music for the march and for the dedicatory occasion.

James A. Adams, president of the board, presided. After a song* by the children of the school, two or three hundred in number, prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Fisher, when Gen. Guitar one of the board of education, read a paper turning over the building to the people and giving a summary of the work of the board, its successful accomplishments, etc. Next followed a financial statement by Prof. Schweitzer, secretary. Following this were very appropriate speeches by President Bryant of Christian College, President Rider of Stephens College, President Laws of the State University and Maj. Rollins, President of the University Board of Curators. Mr. Adams, chairman of the board of education, then delivered a brief charge and the keys of the building to Prof. Iglehart, principal of schools, who responded in a befitting manner. After a closing song by the pupils the audience was dismissed, and thus ended another notable day in the history of Columbia.

At present the school contains about 400 pupils. It has six teachers - Prof. J. J. Iglehart, principal and teacher of the high school department; Miss Lizzie Bedford, teacher of the grammar department; Miss Alice Banks, teacher of the second intermediate department ; Miss Kate Hays, teacher of the first intermediate department ; Miss Amanda Lemon, teacher of the second primary department ; Mrs. J. J. Iglehart, teacher of the first primary department.

The first board of education of the town of Columbia of which there is a record was elected January 4, 1873, and held its first meeting three days later. It was composed of R. H. Clinkscales and W. T. Anderson, who held till September, 1873 ; J. M. Samuel and R. A. Moore, who held till September, 1874, andT. B. Gentry and J. S. Moss, who held till September, 1875. T. B. Gentry was the first president and John M. Samuel the first secretary. The present board is composed of Capt. J. A. Adams, president; Paul Schweitzer, secretary, and

The Colored. School

The first colored school house in Columbia was built in 1866, partly by the Freedman's Aid Society. The ground on which the building stands was donated by the colored church members of Columbia. The building was first erected for a Union church, but was occupied as a school house from the first. It was originally called Cummings Academy, in honor of its first principal, Prof. Chas. C. Cummings, who had charge of the school for ten years.

The house has three rooms. No. 1 will seat 100 pupils ; No. 2 seats 80 ; No. 3 seats 40. There are two rooms on the first floor. Room No. 3 is called the abecedarian department ; No. 2 is the primary department ; No. 1 the grammar and intermediate deparfment. There are four teachers - Prof. F. H. Lawther, principal and teacher of the grammar department ; Mrs. Hattie Lawther has charge of the intermediate department ; Miss Bettie Hoskins has room No. 2, primary department ; Miss Jennie Coleman teaches the abecedarians.

The school ranks as one of the best colored schools in Missouri. The rooms are very small, however, and during the last session were very much crowded. The terms are of the same length as those of the main public schools. In the matter of school privileges the colored children of Columbia have the same number as the whites.

Churches Of Columbia Baptist

The Baptist church of Columbia was first organized at the residence of old Charles Hardin, November 22, 1823. The original members were Hutchens Barrett, Wm. Ridgeway, Charles Hardin, Hannah Hardin, Harriet Goodloe, Abraham N. Foley, Wm. Jewell, George Jewell, Mary Jewell, Henry Cave and Hiram C. Phillips. From 1823 to 1828, services were held at private-houses. From 1828 to 1836 the congregation worshipped in the court-house. In 1836 Wm. Jewell (Baptist) and Moses U. Payne (Methodist) built a church which was used jointly by the Baptists and Methodists for many years. This church stood where was afterwards John Guitar's residence, lot 241 of the original town plat.

The records of this church from 1823 to 1844, and from 1844 to April, 1865, have been lost, and no authentic history can be given during those periods. This much is known, however, that in 1837, when the division in the Baptist church occurred on the subject of missions, this church almost unanimously sided with the Missionary Baptists.

The second church building was erected in either 1844 or 1845. Alfred Keene was the contractor. This building is still standing on the old public square, just west of the court-house. The site was deeded by the county court.

The first pastor of the church was Rev, Allen McGuire, who was elected in August, 1827, and served until his death, March 31, 1835. Then came R, S. Thomas, who served till 1843 ; and after him were president of Baptist College. Rev. H. M. Richardson was pastor from September 28, 1867, to May 4, 1871. Rev. B. T. Taylor from December 4, 1871, to December 4, 1872 ; Rev. E. D. Isbell from May, 1873, to June 26, 1876 ; Rev. H. W. Dodge from July 27, 1876, to the present time. Rev. Dodge refused a call to this church about forty years ago. The preseut membership of this church is 252.

Presbyterian Church

From a historical sketch in the Columbia Herald, of February 17, 1876, it is learned that the Presbyterian church of Columbia was organized September 14, 1828, by Revs. Wm. P. Cochrane and Thos. Durfee, missionaries, who had been sent out to the far West by the Home Missionary Society of New York. The constitutional meeting was held at a private residence. The second meeting was held at Robert Huston's, four miles northeast of Columbia. The original members were Peter Wright, John Sutton, Elizabeth Sutton, Caroline Wilson, Wm. Pierce, Harriet Pierce, Robert Huston, and perhaps others.

At the March meeting, 1829, Peter Wright was chosen first dele- ;gate to the presbytery, then held at St. Charles. September 1, 1829, the membership of the church had increased to twenty-five. A few days after the first meeting Peter Wright and Wm. Pierce were chosen the first ruling elders. John Vanhorn and Robert Huston were chosen the first deacons, in the year 1832. The first presbytery was held August 23, 1834, " on the Presbyterian camp ground," two miles north of Columbia. The first members disciplined were arraigued February 18, 1830. They were two sisters ( !) "who," saith the record, " common fame says, are not living on terms of

January 1, 1843, a great revival meeting occurred in this church, durino; v\rhich there were about one hundred additions. The meetins; was conducted by Rev. Isaac Jones, assisted by Revs, W. W. Robertson and David Coulter.

The first church building was erected on the northwest corner of Sixth and Walnut streets, in 1832. It was a brick and cost about $1,000. It was an unpretentious affair, and had neither-^teeple nor bell. It was afterwards used as a carding mill. The present church, which stands on the corner of Tenth and Broadway, was built in 1848. It is a brick, and quite a substantial structure. It contains a handsome pipe organ, which was purchased in February, 1860, at a cost of $700. Mr. J. L. Stephens generously paid one-fourth of this cost.

Christian Church

This now numerous and flourishing church was organized in 1832,^ the original members being Elizabeth Stone, Stephen Bedford, Elizabeth Bedford, Joseph Chiles, Elizabeth Ramsey, Susan Robinson, Jane Robinson, Wm. E. Ready, Catherine Teeter and Robert Teeter. Their first church building was a frame erected in 1841, which served as a place of worship through many years of success as a church. In 1860, the present large brick edifice was erected on lot No. 285, on the corner of Tenth and Walnut streets. The structure is commodious and well furnished, and cost $8,000. It was dedicated by Rev. Moses E. Lord in January, 1861. The following is a list of the names of pastors that have served the church, from time to time : Richard Cave, Marcus P. Wills, Thomas M. Allen, S. S. Church, D. Pat Henderson, James Shannon, L. B. Wilkes, Joseph K. Rogers,^

John W. Moiintjoy, Albert Myles, O. A. Carr, Richard W. Gentry and John W. Mountjoy again who is the present pastor. The present membership numbers 400. The church has its regular weekly meetings, twice each Lord's day, holds its prayer-meeting on Wednesday evening, supports a Sunday-school, contributes to missionary enterprises at home and abroad, and is especially identified with the organization and success of Christian Female College of Columbia, a history of which is given in this volume.

Catholic Church

As early as 1835 mass was celebrated in Columbia by Rev. Father La Fevre, at the residence of John H. Lynch, whose family was the only one of the Catholic faith in the town at the time. Those who attended from the country were- Cornelius Lynch and family, Mrs. Reed and family, the Keiths and the Robinsons, in all not more than 20 persons. For many years matters remained in this primitive condition. The members were true to their faith, and long distances were not barriers to their attendance on every occasion where the holy sacrifice was offered. Nor were the laity alone in their zeal. The pioneer priests will never be forgotten by those who saw them in the storms of winter and in the heat of summer carrvino- the "bread of life" from one cabin to another throughout the sparsely settled country. They knew no nationality, race or color. Almost without " coat or scrip, " they administered the sacraments of the church whenever proper and possible and " had souls for their hire. " The names of Rev. Fathers Alamande, Cusick, Murphy, O'Brian, O'Neal, Walsh, O'Shea and McKenna ought never to be forgotten for their great devotion to religion and the cause of humanity in the early days of Missouri. Archbishop Kendrick's visit to Columbia, in 1845, gave encouragement that a church would one day be built, but many years came and went and every one of the first settlers had joined the church triumphant before the structure was erected, and but few of their descendants have ever seen it. The first attempt at regular services was made by Father C.F. O'Leary, in 1876. He celebrated massin private houses until after Bishop Ryan's visit in 1877. June 3d, of that year, the bishop himself said massin the court-house. On the same day he delivered the baccalaureate sermon to the students of the University ; subject, " Christ as a Model. " From that time until the completion of the new church, services were held in the court-house.

now stands, on which they designed erecting a churcli some day ; but in 1858 the county court condemned this lot for street purposes and allowed damages in the sum of $80. No person appearing to claim this money it was converted into the county treasury, where it lay until in 1880, when it and the accrued interest, the total sum amounting to $180, were paid over to Mrs. Kate Clapp, the duly accredited agent of Archbishop Kendrick, and to her the credit is due for the investigation which led to the return of this money to the proper hands. In 1880 Mrs. Clapp, Miss McAfee, H. H. Hagan, and G. M. Baumgartner were authorized to solicit subscriptions for the building of the new church. August 16th, 1880, work was begun on the building, and June 19th, 1881, the first services therein were held.

The church stands on the corner of Locust street and Grand avenue, Columbia. It is a frame 30x60 feet in size, has a spire seventy-five feet high, and cost when completed, about $2,000. The lot, which is 125x165 feet in size, cost $400, of which sum Mrs. Clapp paid $200. Many of the articles used in the adornment of the altar and in the proper furnishing of the church, were contributed by ladies of Columbia, of various religious denominations. Many of the Protestant citizens of the town and county gave liberally toward the erection of the church, for which the little Catholic congregation desire it said that they are truly grateful.

In this connection it is but just to say that to Mrs. Catharine Lynch Clapp, before mentioned, more credit is due for the building of this church than to any other person. It was she who secured the greater portion of the subscriptions, who superintended, in a great part, the construction of the building, and saw to its proper furnishing and equipment, and who subscribed herself sums of money much beyond her means. She is still an active, zealous member of the congregation, foremost in every good work.

Practically, the first congregation was organized in 1876, with the following members : Mrs. Catharine Lynch Clapp, Peter Horan and family, Larry Rocheford and family, Chas. O'Donnell and family, Thos. Loftus and family, T. Freeman and family, O. Daily and family, - - Winterhalter and family, and G. M. Baumgartner. Mr. Ed. Farley, and Misses Robinson, McAfee and Lunsford have become members since. The present membership is not far from fifty.

Methodist Episcopal Church, South

The history of this church in Columbia had to be gleaned from the memory of persons who knew something of the facts, owing to the loss and destruction of the records, there being now no other source of information. This being the case, errors must of course appear, for which our friends will please make allowance.

The names of some of the original members were : Turner Daniels, Samuel Austin and wife, Moses U. Payne and wife, Mrs. Eliza Matthews and son, Milon S., and Thomas Phillips and wife. For some time after organization, the congregation worshipped in school houses and private dwellings. The first church was a union or partnership edifice, built of brick, the Baptists uniting funds with the Methodists for this purpose. It cost about $2,500. The congregation of the two denominations were both small and poor, and Rev. M. U.Payne, of the M. E. Church, and Rev. William Jewell, of the Baptists, agreed to build, jointly, a house of worship. They occupied the house for service, free from discord, till the erection of another house. In about 1848, the Methodists built them a brick church at a cost of about $3,000. It served as a meeting place for about twenty years. It stood on the south side of West Broadway, and has been recently torn down. In 1870, they began an elegant new church on the north side of east Broadway, which is built of brick and was finished in 1873, at a cost of $20,000 for lot and building. Just before going to press with this work, the inside was newly decorated with artistic paper-hanging and painting, which makes it now, both inside and out, one of the neatest and most comfortable churches in the county. It was dedicated in 1875, by the late eminent Bishop, E. M. Marvin. Columbia and Rocheport were made the same station in 1842, with Rev. Walter Prescott as pastor for two years. He was succeeded by Wm. A. Rush, for two years, and he by Zachariah Roberts, for one year. Revs. Joseph Cotton and P. M. Pinkard came next, the former for one year, and the latter for two. Then, in about 1850, Columbia was put on a large circuit, with Revs. Holt and Miller, jointly, on the work for a year. By some it is thought Pinkard came on again at this time, but all agree that B. H. Spencer was about that time pastor for two years. After Columbia was made a station of itself, J. S. Todd, two years ; Rev. Cope, one year ; William

Penn, one year ; Dr. Johnson, two years ; G. W. Miller, three years ; are the pastors that served up to the war. During the civil troubles, James Smith and Dr. De Moss, served one year each. Revs. Taylor, Gooch and Chapman came next in order, the first and last one year each, and the second for two years. The succeeding pastors served, each three years, as follows : Jno. D. Vincil, W. H. Lewis, G. W. Horn, and H. B. Watson, the latter being in charge at this writing.

In the o^reat division of 1844, the Columbia cono-regation went with the Southern wing of the church, and have so continued ever since. Among the most noted local preachers of early times, were Moses U. Payne and David Fisher, the former being, perhaps, the greatest benefactor the church ever had, building the "Methodists' half" of the first church almost entirely out of his own private means.

Did space permit, the names of the presiding elders and other church officials would be given, but they must be omitted in a work of this nature.

The Church at Columbia is in a flourishing condition and now numbers about 170 communicants with an interesting and well attended Sabbath school.

Episcopal Church

Calvary Episcopal church was organized May 25, 1855, with the following members : - Rev. John W. Dunn (missionary), E. N. O. Clough, Rebecca N. Clough, Thos. C. Phillips, Margaret Phillips, Robert Willis and Margaret Willis. The church building was erected in 1872, and dedicated December 8 of that year by Rt. Rev. C. F. Robertson, D. D., Bishop of Missouri. The building is a frame, and cost about $3,000. It stands on lot 209. The pastors of Calvary church have been : Revs. J. W. Dunn, W. R. Pickman, C. F. Loupe, F. R. Holman, J. C. Jackson, R. C. Wall, Dr. C. P. Jennings, W. H. Hopkins, Wm. C. Dawson, A. T. Sliarpe and Joseph R. Gray. The present membership is forty-eight. For fifteen years after its organization the church struggled along with only from three to five members. In 1870, however, it took new life, and its condition gradually improved until now (although without a rector) it is out of debt, flourishing and prosperous.

Colored Churches Second Baptist

Smith, Henry Oldham, Jane Myers, Polly Hickam, Mary Dorum and Vina Johnson. The church building was erected in 1873. It is a frame, and cost $2,500. It was dedicated in 1879 by Eevs. Edward Stewart and O. H. Webb. The pastors of this church have been E. Wildman, Barton Hillman, Jacob Dulin, D. S. Sawyers, J. H. Homesley, E. Stewart, and the present pastor, Eev. A. Johnson. In 1874 the church experienced a severe trial. Unfortunate dissensions arose, which resulted in a division, a portion of the members o:oino; over to the A. M. E. church, and some of these are still out. For the last two years, however, a vigorous spirit of prosperity has marked the church's career, both spiritually and financially. The heavy church debt, so long a grievous burden, has been thrown off by payment, and the outlook for the future is cheering indeed. Present membership, 194.

For the first five or six years of its existence the members of the church met for worship in the colored public school building. It was mainly due to the untiring efforts of Elder Henry WilUams that the present church was built.

African M. E. Church

St. Paul's A. M. E. church was organized in the old Sidney Maxfield blacksmith shop, in the month of February, 1867, by Kev. E. M. Doan, then presiding at Jefferson City. Some of the original members were : Caleb and Mary Bledsoe, C. H. and Ann Boyle, Dennis and Mary Lawrence, Lavinia Moss, Thornton and Ann Webb, Rebecca Rollins and about twenty others. June 10, 1868, the present church building was erected, H. N. Mclntyre, pastor. It was dedicated in 1871 by Rev. I. N. Triplett. The building stands on the corner of Fourth and Ash Streets, and cost about $2,500. Since its organization the church has had the following pastors: 1867, H. N. Mclntyre, pastor; 1868, T. A. Smith, one year; 1869, Schuyler Washington, one year ; 1870, I. N. Triplett, one year ; 1872, W. B. Ousler, three years ; 1875, R. Ricketts, two years ; 1877, G. W. Gaines, three years; 1878, J. M. Wilkerson, two years; 1880, W. H. Sexton, present pastor. The present membership of the church is two hundred and eio-ht.

Second Christian Church

Williams and wife, EliasNorris and wife, Louisa, Delphina and Mintie Lange, and Rosa Kimbrough. There were about forty members in all. The church building stands on Ash Street, lot 371. It was built in 1879, and is a comfortable frame building. The house and grounds cost about $1,200. The church was dedicated in May, 1879, by Elder O. A. Carr - A. B. Miller, pastor - in presence of Elders J. D. Orr, E. F. Henderson and Burrel Baskett. Rev. Burrel Baskett was the first pastor, serving from 1872 to 1878. A. B. Miller served from October, 1878, to September, 1879, during which period the church was built. The next year, owing to its indebtedness, the church was without a pastor. In October, 1880, Elder E. F. Henderson, the present pastor was elected. The present membership of the church is about seventy-five.

Twilight Lodge (Masonic) was organized June 28th, 1866, and the following officers duly installed : James C. Orr, W. M. ; F. D. Evans, S. W. ; John W. Carlisle, J. W. ; W. H. Gilman, S. D. ; Jesse A. Hollis, J. D. ; Alex, Robinson, Sec; John P.Horner, treasurer^ R. J. Booth, tyler. Brothers present on this occasion : W. T, Lenoir, J, M, Samuel, R, Maddox, Robt, Beasley, At this meeting committees were appointed to provide the necessary furniture for lodge and to make contract with lodge of Good Templars then meeting here for the use of their hall,

June 7, 1867, furniture and fixtures for hall were purchased, at an expense of about $500, This organization continued with marked and rapid success until November 5th, 1867, when R, W. John D, Vincil (P. G, M.) was deputized to dedicate the hall and install the officers of Twilight Lodge 114, which was done in public, at the Baptist church, in the morning, dinner being had at the Virginia Hotel, the day being observed as a holiday and devoted to Masonic work. The following list of officers were the first duly elected in the lodge : F, D, Evans, W, M, ; Well, T. Maupin, S, W. ; E, W, Herndon,"j, W, ; John C. Conley, S, D, ; R, J. Booth, J, D. ; J, Theo. Fifer, Sec. ; I, O. Hockaday, Treas., since which time the following have served the lodge as W. M., some more than one term : J. C. Orr, Oren Root, Jr., J.. M. Samuel, W, T, Lenoir, James A. Adams, D, D, Berry, W, W. Garth, W, T, Anderson and A, T, Duncan,

Odd Fellows

Columbia Lodge (I. O. O. F.), No. 207, was instituted at Columbia, Missouri, on the 22d day of April, 1869, by D. D. G. M. William Crump, of Boone Lodge No. 121, by authority of the R. W. Grand Lodge of Missouri, with the following charter members : S. Frankford, F. Mayfield, Wm. Livingston, P. Hubbard, J. W. Kneisley and Thomas McCormack. The lodge started with the following officers for first term : P. Hubbard, N. G. ; J. W. Kneisley, V. G. ; Robert C. Dyson, secretary ; George M. Baumgartner, treasurer. Five initiations first night. Receipts of evening, $113. There have been one hundred and twenty initiations since the lodge was organized.

S28 History Of Boone County

Boone Lodge, No. 77, Ancient Order of United Workmen, w^as organized September 24, 1873, by John A. Brooks, Mexico district deputy, with the following as charter members : A. T. Garth, James M. Boswell, James F. Stewart, D. P. Richards, Frank Thomas, J. Sam. Moss, W. W. Batterton, W. F. Hodge, George M. Bearing, Dr. W. T. Maupin, Eli Hodge, G. M. McConaughey, W. I. Roberts, O. Davis, J. R. Campbell, J. C. Hall, E. L. Dimmitt, W. W. Garth, Dr. G. S. Morse, J. H. Potts, Dr. A. W. McAlester, Dr. W. E. Stone - 22. The first officers were : D. P. Richards, P. M. W. ; W. W. Garth, M. W. ; J. C. Hall, G. F. ; Frank Thomas, O. ; A. T. Garth, guide ; E. L. Dimmitt, recorder; W. F. Hodge, financier; J. S. Moss, receiver ; G. F. McConaughey, F. W. ; J. R. Campbell, O. W. ; Dr. W. T. Maupin, M. E. ; Eli Hodge, W. W. Batterton and Dr. W. E. Stone, trustees.

Knights Of Honor

" Prudentia " Lodge, No. 1919, K. of H., was organized on Wednesday night, December 10, 1879, by Deputy Grand Dictator W. A. Halstead, of St. Louis, who had been in Columbia several days canvassing the interest of the Knights of Honor, and by the courtesy of the Knights of Pythias, several meetings were held in their hall, resulting in the organization of "Prudentia" Lodge, K. of H., on Wednesday night, December 10, 1879, with the following as charter members: Dr. W. E. Stone, Fred. Bihr, A. I. Fentem, Dr. G. W. Eiggins, L. E. Eshart, Irvin Switzler, Dr. W. T. Maupin, W. H. Thomson, G. W. McConaughey, Dr. E. W. Herndon, Eev. J. R. Gray, P. J. Barron, Elder N. Hockensmith, Josiah W. Stone, Eli Hodge, R. E. Kirtley, Prof. Paul Schweitzer. The following were chosen and duly installed as officers for the term ending in June following: Dictator, E.W. Herndon ; vice-dictator, P. Schweitzer ; assistant dictator, G. W. Riggins ; reporter, Irvin Switzler ; financial reporter, W. E. Stone ;. treasurer, Eli Hodge; chaplain, Rev. Joseph R. Gray; guide, G. M. McConaughey; guardian, R. E. Kirtley; sentinel, Fred. Bihr; past dictator Elder N. Hockensmith ; trustees, J. W. Stone, G. M. McConaughey, P. J. Barron ; medical examiner. Dr. W. T. Maupin.

Dirigimus Lodge, No. 37, K. Of P. Capt. Jajmes A. Adams

The subject of this sketch is the son of Robert and Margaret (Bowie) Adams, of Scotland, in which country he was born November 23, 1833 ; he came to the United States in 1848, and settled at Canton, Massachusetts, where he was educated, attending the public schools of that city. He afterwards learned the carpenter's trade, at a town called Maynard, in that State. He came to Boone county, Missouri, in 1858, and formed a partnership with M. M, Bixby for contracting and building. They built the mansion now owned and occupied by Gen. Guitar. At the breaking out of the war they dissolved partnership. Mr. Adams enlisted as a private in Company B, Ninth Missouri cavalry, commanded by Gen. Odon Guitar. When the company was finally organized he was elected first lieutenant, and was afterwards promoted to the position of captain. He had his leg and collar bone broken in a surprise while in pursuit of bushwhackers ; his horse became unmanageable and dashed against a tree, injuring him as above stated. After coi^valescing he was made provost marshal, with headquarters in the president's mansion. University campus. His company was ordered to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1864, and he was appointed a member of Gen. risk's staff, with duties pertaining to the ordnance of that department. He was mustered out of service at the close of the war, and remained in St. Joseph until 1867, when he returned to Boone county, where he has lived ever since. He is a member of the firm of Broughton & Adams, manufiicturers and dealers in wagons, plows and agricultural implements. They have a large and constantly growing business - the largest of the kind perhaps in the State outside of St. Louis. They make repairing of machinery a specialty. They have a forty-horse engine and a sixty-horse boiler. They average one hundred wagons a year. Besides the making of wagons, they prepare material for a vast deal more than they manufacture outright. This material is shipped to Kansas, Colorado, and Iowa. This timber is all procured in Boone county. They employ twenty hands the year round in their shops, besides a number of people in the country who are enofaofedin orettins out and haulino; timber to be worked into wagon stuff at their shop. This shop is the largest industry in Boone county. Capt. Adams lives on a nice little fruit farm of twenty acres near town, with a beautiful hedge in front, presenting to the passer-by a neat and cosy prospect. He is president of the school board of Columbia, which position he has held for several years ; he is a member of the Masonic order, and has been master of the lodge for three terms. He was married January 8, 1864, to Miss Kate, daughter of Andrew and MaryLuken. By this union they have four sons and two daughters.

John William Ammons

The subject of this sketch is the son of John L. and Mary Pace (Irvin) Ammons, and was born near Kichmond, Madison county, Kentucky, February 5th, 1818. His father emigrated to Missouri in October, 1822. They lived about four years in Montgomery county, where his wife, the mother of John W., died. John W. and the next oldest boy lived with a gentleman named Baker for about three years, and then went to Old Franklin, Howard county, where their father had preceded them. In September, 1835, John W. went to Fulton, Callaway county, and commenced to learn the cabinet maker's trade. In February, 1836, he returned to New Franklin and worked at the trade he had commenced to learn. His sight becoming impaired, he abandoned the idea of learning a trade, and went to work upon the farm of Simeon Switzler. He next went to Rocheport and worked for a short time at the carpenter's trade ; then removed to Fayette and assisted in rebuilding Central College which had burned. By an accident, upon the 21st day of April, 1842, he broke his leg, caused by a falling scaffold, and was unfitted for regular work for six years. He then taught and went to school alternately until April 1st, 1848, when he went to the Indian manual labor school, about seven miles from where Kansas City was afterwards built. He started to California, but stopped at Kansas City, and assisted in building the first grist mill ever put up in that city. He next opened an extensive lumber yard in the city, and prospered finely for a few years, when failing to make collections to meet his large obligations, he lost everything under the sheriff's hammer. He was elected a member of the city council in 1855, and was elected its president upon its organization. The mayor resigning, Mr. Ammons became ex-officio mayor until he ordered a new election to fill the vacancy. He was mayor of Kansas City during the turbulent times of the border troubles, and did much to prevent open rupture between the factions. He opposed secession as a matter of policy, but never doubted the right of a State to withdraw from the Union. He went to Chicago during the war, as he was lame and not fit for military duty, and worked at his trade several years, then returned to Missouri. His handiwork is seen upon many of the large buildings of Kansas City, Fulton and Columbia, and of late years he has done only light work at his trade. He has invented several useful articles, among which is a revolving bookrack. He has been married three times. The first time to Miss Julia Franklin, of Howard county, June 30th, 1846. The second time to Miss Isabel Kelsoe, of Decatur county, Iowa, on the 23d of March, 1864. She died September 28th, 1865. The last time he was married to Miss Mary E. Herndon, of Boone county. Mr. Ammons has had an eventful life, few men having had the experiences and seen the changes he has. He is still in possession of his faculties and enjoys the confidence and respect of all.

Avilliam Thomas Anderson

The parents of William T. Anderson, Benjamin and Sarah (Westlake) Anderson, are natives of Virginia, but for many years citizens of Boone county, Missouri. The subject of this sketch was born in Howard county, November 24, 1842. He was educated at the public schools, completing his studies at the Missouri State University. December 8, 1868, he was married to Miss Bettie, daughter of John F. and Sarah (Gordon) Baker. By this union they have three children, Dorsey, ClilFord and James P. Mr. Anderson followed the grocery business from 1862 to 1869, under the firm name of Anderson, Garth & Co. After quitting the mercantile business in 1869, he followed the milling business, as one of the firm, owning and operating the Columbia mills. At present, however, he is principally engaged in buying and selling grain. He has been very prominently identified with the business interests of Columbia, and has held various municipal positions. He has been actively engaged in business since early manhood, and has prospered in all his undertakings. He owns a nice farm of 143 acres, and residence, one mile north of town, on the Mexico road. He has been a member of the Boone county Democratic central committee for the last two years ; he is a Mason, also a member of the Methodist church. Mrs. Anderson is a member of the same church. The reader will find additional mention of Mr. Anderson's business relations elsewhere in this volume.

Benjamin M. Anderson

Is the son of Benjamin and Sarah (Westlake) Anderson, and was born in Columbia, December 4, 1854. He went to school in Columbia until he was fourteen years old, when his father moved to Callaway county and engaged in farming. Young Anderson worked on the farm until he was eighteen, when he came hack to this city in 1872 and took a clerkship in the drug store of Oilman & Dorsey, for whom he worked four mouths, giving entire satisfaction. He then took another and more profitable clerkship in the dry goods house of A. S. Campbell, which position he held three years ; then in same capacity for Fyfer,, Trimble & Laforce for some years. Feeling that he was competent to carry on business for himself, he, in partnership with James A. Kinibrough, embarked in the stock business and in selling general merchandise at Stephens' store, in Callaway county. In 1880 he and his partner came to Columbia and engaged in the livery business, which they continue to the present time. Mr. Anderson is regarded as one of the staunch business men of the city, and is courteous and gentlemanly to all, plainly showing his Virginia ancestry. He is a member of the lodge of Knights of Pythias, The firm deal in horses, mules, and cattle, and are reaping the reward of attention to business andhonesty in dealings that such gentlemen deserve. They do a leading business, and their stables are a part of Boone's boasted and necessary institutions.

Calvin .1. Austin

Calvin J. Austin, son of Eansom S. and Agnes (Gregory) Austin^ was born in Halifax county, Virginia, October 1st, 1823. When six years old, his parents removed to Pearson county, North Ctl^rolina. For the next sixteen years they lived in this and the adjoining county (Caswell), during which time Mr. Austin learned the tailor's trade at a town called Milton, in Caswell county, serving an apprenticeship of four years. In 1845 he came to Prairieville, Pike county, Missouri, where he opened a tailor's shop under the firm name of Warmic & Austin. Eemained there until 1847, when he enlisted in the Mexican war, joining Company E, Third regiment, Missouri cavalry. Was mustered into service at Independence, Missouri, June 7th, 1846. Was in the battle of Vera Cruz, March 16th, 1847, and was mustered out of service at Independence in December, 1847. Returning to Prairieville, he resumed his former occupation, remaining in that place one year. In the spring of 1850 he came to Columbia, Missouri, and established himself in business under the firm name of Nutt & Austin. In the autumn of 1853 his partner died, and the spring following he took W. H. Tellery as a partner. In 1856 he sold his interest in the business, and, with John W. Watson, went into the saw and grist mill business, four miles south of Ashland. Followed this business for one year, when they sold out and removed to St. Louis, where they rented a small farm of seventy-five acres, and engaged in raising vegetables for the city market. Ran this business one year. Returned to Columbia and, in partnership with Watson, opened a store of fancy groceries. They conducted this business until 1863, when Mr. Austin sold his interest to his partner, and entered the mill of R. H. Smith, where he learned practical milling. He commenced as a work-hand, receiving twenty-five dollars per month, and worked up until he now holds the position of head-miller of the Columbia Milling Company, which has a capacity of one hundred and fifty barrels of flour per day. Mr. Austin was married. May 3d, 1861, to Miss Parmelia, daughter of James and Martha (Hulen) Duncan. They have two sons, Frank D. and William A. Mr. Austin is a member of the Masonic and Good Templar orders. He and his wife are both members of the Christian church.

Rev. Barnabas Baker

The subject of this sketch is the son of John and Ann (Canfield) Baker. He was born in Alfriston, county of Sussex, England, July :26th, 1817, and was reared and educated in England, where he also learned the trade of a shoemaker, serving an apprenticeship under his brother, John Baker. He came to America in 1843, and first settled at Jefferson City, Missouri, removing the year following to Callaway -county, where* he remained until 1845, when he returned to Jefferson City. His next move was to Franklin county, where he taught school for one year. The next two years were spent at St. Charles county. In the spring of 1848 he moved to Boone county, and settled near Ashland, where he was engaged to teach school. Spent one year in that locality, removing in 1849 to Providence, Boone county, where he worked at his trade. In the spring of 1851 he moved to Columbia, :and has lived there ever since. In 1850 he was engaged by the American Tract Society, and has been with them ever since. He has also acted as agent for the Boone County Bible Society since 1851, and since that time he has circulated some seven or eight hundred thousand Bibles and religious books. He also preaches when called lupon to do so. He is now president and treasurer of the executive board of the Little Bonne Femme Association, which position he has held for three years. Mr. Baker was married June 28th, 1838, at the Baptist Church, in Lewis, county of Sussex, England, to Miss Leath, daughter of Henry and Jane A. (Hope) Smith. They have had five children, two sons and three daughters : Mary A., Hattie (deceased), Wilh'am K. (deceased), Elizabeth J. and Samuel H., who is one of the firm of Trimble, Fyfer & Co. He was educated at the Baptist College and State University. In 1866 he commenced clerking for T. B. Gentry, and remained with him for two years. In December, 1868, he went in with J. R. Garth & Co., and was in the grocery business until January, 1880, when he entered the store of Trimble, Fyfer & Co. as a clerk. In 1881 he became a partner in the business. He is a member of the Baptist Church and a Good Templar. He is an excellent business man, and has won the confidence and esteem of the entire community. He has a bright future before him, and deserves no less.

John F. Baker

Was born in Norfolk, Virginia, August 1st, 1824. He is the son of Sylvester and Elsey Baker, both natives of Virginia. When he was a child only a few years old they moved to the plain where the city of Nashville now stands. Thev settled on eightv acres of land where the city now stands. They remained there a short time and then came to St. Louis county and after a few months moved to Montgomery county. Mo., and settled on the Loutre and built a mill a quarter of a mile below the plain where Capt. Callaway was killed by the Indians at the junction of Dry Fork and Loutre. In connection with the mill Mr. Baker had a cotton o-in and inhaling- the lint was the cause of his death, which occurred about five or six years after he settled in Montgomery county. He was judge of the county court at the time of his death. John F. was at that time about nine years old. Mrs. Baker lived about twenty years after the death of her husband ; she died at Danville, Montgomery county, about 1850, at the age of eighty-one years. They were both members of the Methodist church. John F. Baker lived in Mongomery county about ten years after the death of his father. In 1845 he came to Columbia and was engaged as a salesman in the employ of Wm. H. Bass. In 1847 and 1848 he was deputy sheriff under Chas. C. Maupin. He was married in 1848 to Miss Sarah Ann Gordon, daughter of George M. Gordon, of Columbia. By this union there were four children - .Tames M., Bettie, Odonand Sallie. Odon died in infancy, all the others live in Columbia. James M. is a member of the Columbia Millino; Co. Bettie is the wife of Wm. T. Anderson. Mrs. Baker died in 1861 and is buried at Columbia. Mr. Baker was in mercantile business from 1848 until the break- in^ out of the war. He was sutler of the 9th Missouri cavalry durino- the war. In 1865 he was elected sheriff of Boone county and held the office two years. He then went to St. Louis and lived there seven years. He sold goods on the road and collected money for several firms throughout the South and West during that time. In 1875 he came back to Columbia, where he has since resided. He was a member and chairman of the board of trustees of Columbia for several years. He is now street commissioner. Mr. Baker is now working up a new enterprise in the way of an establishment for canning fruits, vegetables, etc. He has only put up comparatively small quantities, but has been very successful so far. His intention is to organize a stock company and open the business on a large scale. He uses the process employed by the Oneida community of New York.

Dr. J. W. Banks is a native of Tennessee, having been born in Sumner county of that State, September 26th, 1835. In 1836 his father removed to Missouri, settling at Tebo Grove, Lafayette county, where the subject of this sketch was reared. He attended Dr. Yantis' Institute, at Brownsville, Saline county, Missouri, and the State University, graduating in 1855. He then read medicine under Dr. Hudson, of Kentucky, and graduated as M. D. from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1857. He then returned to Missouri and located in Lafayette county, where he practiced his profession until 1861, when he returned to Tennessee and enlisted in the Confederate army as surgeon of the 2d Tennessee regiment, with which he remained until the close of the war. He was at Sl;iloh, Murfreesborough, Chickamauga, Mission Eidge, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope, Kenesaw, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville, Bentonville and many other engagements of less note. He removed the body of Gen. Polk from the battlefield at Kenesaw Mountains, and surrendered with Gen. Joe Johnston. At the close of the war he went to Texas, where he practiced medicine until 1869, when he returned to Missouri, and in 1872 came to Columbia, where he has remained ever since in the active discharge of his professional duties. Dr. Banks was married in 1866 to Sallie Luckett, of Pettis county, a native of Kentucky and a niece of Col. McGoffia, a distinguished Confederate officer. They have five children, all living. Their names are William M., John S., Anna Mc- Goffin, Luther L. and Hiram Franklin. Mrs. Banks is a member of the Presbyterian church.

William Hayden Bass

The subject of this sketch is a son of Eli E. and Margaret M. (Johnson) Bass, and was born January 18th, 1836, in Boone county on what is now known as the Bass homestead. He received his education at the State University and chose farming and stock raising as his occupation. He deals largely in shorthorn cattle and mules, shipping many mules to Mississippi and Louisiana. He was the originator of the Ashland stock sales, which take place the first Saturday in every month, sales running from $1,750 to $6,000. He has been a director of the Boone county agricultural and mechanical association for the past ten years, and during the years of 1880 and 1881 he was its president. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was married September 11th, 1858, to Miss Irene, daughter of Wm. and Mary (Trueman) Hickman. By this union they have eight children, seven boys and one girl, all living. In May, 1882, he moved into Columbia to have better educational facilities for his children. His eldest son, Everett E , will graduate from the University in 1883. He has a fine residence in a pleasant location on BroadAvay, east end. Mr. Bass is one of Boone's most thrifty, enterprising business men, and takes an interest in whatever will

J. & V. Barth

J. & V. Barth, the well-known proprietors of the Star clothing houses of Columbia and Mexico, Missouri, are brothers. They were born in Rhenish Prussia. Victor, the youngest of the firm, was born January 4th, 1850, and was educated both in German and* Hebrew. When fifteen years old he left his native land for America, landing first in Philadelphia. From that city he came to Columbia in 1866. He engaged in clerking for a while, then peddled, selling general merchandise from house to house, travelling on horseback. In the spring of 1868, in company with his brother Joseph, opened the Star clothing house, on Broadway, where he has remained ever since. Victor Barth was married August 23d, 1876, to Miss Nettie Barth, daughter of Moses Barth, of Rocheport. They have one child, Irvin Victor, born November, 1877. Mr. Barth is a Royal Arch Mason, a K. of P., and a member of A. O. U. W. In April, 1880, the Barth Brothers opened a branch store at Mexico, Missouri. Joseph Barth has charge of this establishment. They carry a very large stock of ready-made clothing, and are doing a good business, Victor Barth has in his employment a corps of competent and courteous salesmen, among whom is Mr. Clyde Cunningham, who has been with him for seven years. He has also two of his younger brothers, Solomon and Moses.

William Wallace Batterton was born in Boone county, August 11th, 1833. He is the son of Lemuel and Mary (Lynch) Batterton, and his father was one of the first settlers of Boone county, coming here from Kentucl^y in 1820. Mr. Batterton received his education in the common schools of Boone county and at the University. After leaving school he followed teaching for about seven years, farming at intervals. In 1859 Mr. Batterton was elected School Commissioner, being the first elected to that office in this county. He was removed from office in 1861 because of his refusal to take the " Gamble oath." In 1867 he was again elected school commissioner, and served one term. In the fall of 1874, he was elected county clerk of Boone county ; he was re-elected in 1878. His record while in office is an excellent one, and one of which he may well be proud.

During the civil war Mr. Batterton' s sympathies were more or less with the Confederates. He was for a time, during the first year of the struggle, in McKinney's company of the Missouri State Guards. He returned home upon the expiration of his term in the State service, and took no further active part in the war of his own free will. At the " Gosline Lane fight," in this county, in September, 1864, (see account elsewhere) Mr. Batterton was badly wounded. He had 'been pressed into the service by the Federals to drive his team from Sturgeon to Rocheport, and was shot down by one of Todd's bushwhackers when the attack began. Mr. B.'s wound was through the right shoulder, and w|p made by a bullet from a heaivy dragoon revolver. His life was spared only by the intervention of John Thrailkill, who commanded one company of the guerrillas on this occasion.

Angus* 31st, 1859, Mr. Batterton married Miss Mary Winn, of this county. Their union has been blessed with twelve children, nine of whom are still living. Mr. B. is a member of the Baptist Church. He is also a member of the following secret orders : Masonic - Blue Lodge and Chapter; Odd Fellows - Subordinate and Encampment ; Knights of Pythias and Ancient Order of United Workmen.

William J. Babb

The father of the subject of this sketch, Rev. R. F. Babb, was a prominent Baptist minister of South Carolina, of which State he was a native, born October 26th, 1816. He married Miss Virginia A. Cooper, also a native of the Palmetto State, born October 8th, 1822. In December, 1858, Rev. R. F. Babb, with his wife and six children, removed from Abbeville district, S. C, to Audrain county, Mo. From thence he came to Boone ; then back to Audrian, and finally, in 1872, located in Columbia. His children consisted of five sons and one daughter, viz. : Joseph C. Babb (since deceased), Wm. J. Babb, James F. Babb (since deceased), Henry B. Babb, Jerry Gr. Babb, and Eugie P. Babb.

Wm. J. Babb, the second son named above, and the subject of this sketch, was born in Laurens district, S. C, October 28th, 1846. He was reared on a farm, and up to the age of twenty-one his education was superintended by his father, who was a successful and prominent teacher for more than twenty years. In the year 1869, and from that date until the year 1873, Mr. Babb was an irregular attendant at the Missouri University. He engaged in teaching, and when not employed in the school-room was to be found in the halls of the University and industriously engaged in the acquirement of those attainments in which he afterward became proficient and noted. In 1873 he graduated in the academic course, and in June, 1874, from the normal department. In 1873-4 he taught in the public schools of Columbia. In 1875-6 he attended the law school of the University, and in the latter year graduated as the valedictorian of the Centennial class. In the spring of the same year he was admitted to the bar. In 1876-7 he continued teaching in Columbia.

At the November election, 1876, Mr. Babb was elected by a large majority to the position of public administrator of Boone county. The same efficiency and competency which had signalized his course as a teacher marked his conduct as an official, and so well were the people satisfied with his administration that in November,, 1880, he was re-elected for another term of four years. He is still an incumbent of the office, which he fills to the universal satisfaction of the people. In 1878 he was elected a justice of the peace, but resigned the position in the spring of 1882, in order that he might have more time for attending to the practice of his profession and to devote to the duties of his office.

July 29th, 1879, Mr. Babb married Miss Minnie E. Clough, the accomplished daughter of Albert W. and Isabella Clough. Mrs. Babb graduated from Stephens College in the class of 1879, about one month before her marriage. They have one child, Albert F., born June 16th, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Babb are members of the Baptist Church, Mr. B. dating his membership from December, 1865. At present he is the moderator of the Little Bonne Femme Association, which is composed of the Baptist churches of Audrain, Callaway and Boone counties. This position he has held for three years past, having been clerk of said body three years prior to his election as its presiding officer. Honest, upright, intelligent and capable, with a good record behind him and a bright future before him, no man has more friends in Boone county, or should be better content with his life than the gentleman whose career is here imperfectly sketched.

Leander G. Biggs

Mr. Biggs was born in Springfield, Missouri, June 4th, 1851. . His parents were Seton T. and Louisa C. Biggs, the father a native of Tennessee, born March 9th, 1827, and the mother of North Carolina. They both came to Missouri when very small, and were married near Springfield, Greene county, April 13th, 1848. They have five children, four of whom survive at this writing. They continued to live in Greene county till 1861, when they moved to Jerseyville, Illinois. The senior Biggs was a carriage-maker by trade. His health so failed that, in 1877, he Avent to Brownsville, Mo., to try the effects of the Sweet Springs water. He died while at the springs, and lies buried at Brownsville. He died August 30th, 1877. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Biggs bought a farm three miles east of the springs, where she still resides with the three youngest children. Mary Frances and Finis E. are married. Sylvester was the name of the son who died at Palmyra, Mo. L. G. Biggs, the immediate subject of this sketch, learned his trade as carriage painter at Jerseyville, 111., subsequently going to St. Louis, Avhere he learned fancy sign-writing. He was married November 21st, 1872, to Miss Lizzie E. Jones, of Gillespie, 111., and a daughter of David M. and Lucinda Jones, the former still living at Gillespie, the latter dead. Mr. and Mrs. Biggs have one son and one daughter, named, respectively, Leon E. and Linnie E. For two years Mr. B. followed portrait painting. He came to Columbia, this county, on the first train that came in after the " great strike" of 1877, and has made his home here ever since. He is cer- tainly one of the best sign writers and ornamental painters in the State, and follows that vocation exclusively. He and wite are both members of the Methodist church, and he also belongs to the A. O. U. W. and Knights of Pythias. His education was chiefly received at Jersey ville, Illinois.

James Shannon Blackwell, A. M., Ph. D.

Prof. Blackwell is now, and has been for four years, connected with the University in the capacity of teacher of " Hebrew and Semitic Literature and of Modern Languaa^es." He is a native of Henderson county, Kentucky, and was born November 30th, 1844. His parents, James J. and Mary (Jeffress) Blackwell, were natives of Virginia, and the ancestry of Prof. B. have been " to the manner born " in the Old Dominion for 200 years. Excepting the years of his collegiate course as a student, he lived in Kentucky till he came here to take his present position in the University. He graduated at Hanover College, Indiana, in 1868, with the degree of A. B. ; in 1871 he took the degree of A. M., and in '76 that of Ph. D. He was made president of Ghent College, Ghent, Kentucky, in 1868, and held that j)osition altogether for four years. Purchasing an interest in Forrest Academy, a private school at Anchorage, Kentucky, he remained there three years. Subsequently he was four years in the Kentucky Military Institute at Frankfort, having been placed in that institution by the appointment of the Governor, with the commission of major. That was the position he quit when he took his present chair in the Missouri University. As a linguist, Prof. Blackwell is a study to his friends, and even his intimates scarcely comprehend him, so great is his gift of acquiring language. He has spoken German from childhood, and also speaks fluently French, Spanish and Italian, besides being well versed in a number of other languao-es. On one occasion, in a paper read before the American Philological Association at Cleveland, Ohio, he made quotations from upwards of twenty different languages. He took a two-years' course of Chinese from a native master, and has also studied the Egyptian and Assyrian, and is constantly adding to his linguistic stock by beginning the study of new ones, his latest being Arabic, which he began September 11th, 1882^ His method of acquiring language is a modification (his own) of what is known as the Hamiltonian system. He has a Bible in which the text is Hebrew, with a translation into Chaldee, and commentaries in Eabbinic. Prof. Blackwell was married July 8, 1870, to Miss

Mary E., daughter of Milton Smith, of Ghent, Kentucky. She was a native of that State, and a niece of ex-Go v. Henry S. Lane, an U. S. Senator from Indiana. She died September 6, 1881, having borne five children, two only of whom - Laura Cherry and Paul Preston - are living. Prof. B. is a member of the Presbyterian church, and was an elder therein while at Anchorage, Kentucky. He is the author of quite a number of articles on language and literature,, and has written several small books and pamphlets, including " Yiews on the Study of Language," and "Some Observations on the Hebrew Grammar of Dr. Alexander Meyrowitz." Since the days of the "Learned Blacksmith," few men have developed more o:enius in, and love for, the study of language than the subject of this sketch ; and perhaps when he has attained the age at which Elihu Burritt died, he may be the peer even of that greatest of the great masters of language.

James Bowling, Sr

The subject of this sketch is one among the oldest citizens of Boone county. He is a native of Amherst county, Virginia, where he was born August 7th, 1797. He was educated at the public schools of his native county. In 1828, at the age of thirty-one, he left Virginia, going to what is now known as West Virginia, where he stayed four years. In 1832 he came to Missouri, stopping for awhile in Callaway county. He next came to Boone county, and bought a farm in the forks of Cedar, where he lived from 1833 to 1855, when he built the house now occupied by P. H. Eobnett, and in which he lived till 1866. He has foil owed -farming all his life, and his labors have ever proved successful. He has by industry, prudence and economy accumulated a large amount of property. When quite a young man,, he took charge of his father's plantation, one among the largest and most productive in the country. He had control of this property for ten years, from 1818 to 1828. He was married, November 11th, 1819, to Miss Margaret, daughter of James and Mildred (Monday) Davis. Eight children were born of this marriage, three sons and five dauo-hters, four of whom - two of each sex - are now livino\ Martha A., Parmelia J. and Sallie are dead. Charles L. died in Price's army. The surviving members of the family are : Mildred, who first married Abraham Gillaspie, of Kentucky, and, being left a widow, afterwards married Wiley Roy, of Carroll county, Missouri. James D., who married Martha McAllister, of Columbia ; and Mary F., widow of the late J. L. Matthews, of Columbia, and Roderick, now of Texas. Mr.

Bowling's father was born in St. Mary's county, Maryland, in 1752, and died in Amherst county, Virginia, in 1832. He was the father of eight children, three sons and five daughters. His wife was Laticia Gilhispie. [She died in 1850, and is buried in Amherst county, Virginia.

James Monroe Boswell

James M. Boswell, a well known and popular business man of Columbia, was born in Bedford county, Virginia, February 14th, 1842. Hejis the son of William H. H. and Elizabeth A. (Compton) Boswell. He attended school at Liberty, Virginia, commencing in 1854 and ending in 1857. He came to Boone county, Missouri, in the fall of 1858, and attended school at New Prospect Academy until the breaking out of the war, in 1861. He enlisted in Company B, of Callaway county, commanded by Maj. J. M. Kobinson, being a portion of the elder Gen. John B. Clark's regiment.^ Was in the battles of Wilson Creek, Drywood, Lexington, and Moore's Mill. Went to Ham's Prairie, Callaway county, Missouri, and sold goods for a short time, but owing to the excitement and troubles growing out of the war, had to quit the business. He came to Columbia, and was engaged to teach the public schools. He followed teaching for fifteen months, when he was employed as a salesman in the store of Kirkbride & Co., Columbia, Mo. Stayed with this firm until 1868, when he went in business with James I. Hickman, under the firm name of Hickman & Boswell, dealers in family groceries. They sold out their business in 1870 to Allen, Maupin & Co. Was elected constable of Columbia township, and served for two years and four months. After the expiration of his term as constable, he went into the family grocery business under the firm name of Smith & Boswell. He sold out this business in 1874, and engaged as salesman with Loeb, Meyer & Co., dry goods and clothing. He stayed with this firm for four years. Quitting their store, he engaged once more in the family grocery business, this time by himself. Sold out the business, August 15th, 1881, to Hume & Brothers. Mr. Boswell owns considerable real estate in Columbia, also an excellent farm of sixty acres. He is a member of the Masonic order, also of the United Workmen. He was married, November 14th, 1872, to Miss Sarah J., daughter of Edward and Kissih (Fortney) Easley. They have two sons and two daughters: Annie W., William E., Gertrude L. and James M. Mr.

Joshua H. Brady

Joshua H. Brady, son of William and Catherine Brady, was born in Washington county, Maryland, August 5th, 1837. He was educated at a neighboring town called Hancock, and learned the miller's trade of his father, serving an apprenticeship of eight years. In 1861 he went to work for Samuel Bowles, of Washington county, Maryland, and stayed with him two years. He was next employed by William H. Eads, of Georgetown, District of Columbia, whose mill had a capacity of one hundred and fifty barrels a day. He stayed with Eads a year and a half. In 1864 he was engaged to run a mill in Morgan county, Virginia, at a point called Sir John's Run. Remained in this position for four years, then went to Sleepy Creek, same county, where he stayed six months, and from there to Frederick county, Maryland, where he entered the Red Spring Mills owned by J. M. Bushy, where he remained two years. The mill was sold to E. Zimmerman and Mr. Brady remained with him seven years. He then rented the mill at Middletown Valley, in Frederick county, Maryland, and remained in charge of this mill until the autumn of 1881, when he came to Columbia, Missouri, July 10th, 1882, and went to work for the Columbia Milling Company. He is a practical miller, thoroughly acquainted with every department of the business. In 1864 he was drafted into the Federal awny, but by paying three hundred dollars he was excused from serving. He was married, August 1st, 1865, to Hester Ann Wharton, daughter of Samuel Wharton, of Sir John's Run, West Virginia. They have six children, three of each sex: Aquila C, born February 19th, 1869 ; Katie R., born August 16th, 1871 ; George William, born March 30th, 1873 ; Annie O., boru June 11th, 1875 ; Charles J., born November 25th, 1877 ; Hester M., born July 4th, 1880. They are all living.

President of Christian Female College, Columbia, is a native of Jessamine county, Kentucky, born April 2d, 1841. His parents. Dr. John and Martha Ann Bryant, with their family immigrated to Jackson county, Missouri, in 1850, and settled in Independence, where they yet reside. The subject of our sketch received his primary education in the Independence High School, M. W. Miller, now in charge of Webster school in St. Louis, then being its principal. After being prepared for college by this institution of learning, Mr. Bryant went to Bethany College, Virginia, then under the management of Eev. Alexander Campbell, its president. At the expiration of two years, Mr. Bryant graduated with honor, and then returned and entered the Independence High School as assistant to M. W. Miller. Mr. Miller soon thereafter resigned, and Mr. Bryant succeeded him, and successfuly managed the school for ten years. During that time he graduated a large number of pupils, some of whom now fill the principal commercial, educational and political positions of the State. On the 29th day of August, 1871, Mr. Bryant married Miss Margaret Frances Ferguson, daughter of James and Mary Ferguson, of Boone county. Mo. After his marriage he accepted a professorship in the Christian Female College under the presidency of Joseph K. Rogers, and held the position for about five years. Owing to the failure of Mr. Rogers' health, in 1877, he resigned the presidency and recommended Professor Bryant to the board of trustees, who unanimously elected him Mr. Rogers' successor, which position he has satisfactorily filled to the present day, the last session of the school having been one of its most prosperous.

James Reyburn Campbell was born in Mexico, Mo., October 1st, 1846. He is a son of John and Sallie (Turner) Campbell. His father was a native of Kentucky and came to Missouri when a boy. He died in December, 1870, in Audrain county. Mrs. Campbell is a native of Boone county ; she is still alive. Mr. Campbell was a farmer. J. R. Campbell, the subject hereof, was reared on a farm and received a common school education. In the fiill of 1862, when but sixteen years of age, he went South and took service in the Confederate army under Gen. Price. His first enlistment was in Company A, of the 1st Missouri brigade (afterwards Company B). During his term of service Mr. Campbell participated in the second fight at Carthage, in Taylor's engagements with and defeat of Gen. Banks in Louisiana, and in Price's last raid. He was under Gen. Price all of his term. The hardest battles in which he was engaged were Big Blue, Jackson county, and " Big Prairie, " near the Arkansas line, both on Price's raid into Missouri. Upon first enlisting Mr. Campbell was in the cavalry, but was afterwards transferred to the infantry. He did a great deal of post duty in Arkansas and Louisiana, guarding the forts at Shreveport and at other points on Red river. He surrendered with the main body of Gen. Price's array at Shreveport in the spring of 1865, and returned home June 25th, of that year, and began life without a dollar.

Soon after coming home Mr. Campbell engaged with the Wilcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company, of St. Louis, for which he w^orked about eighteen months, when he entered the service of the Singer company, and was given their agency for four counties. This territory he has held ever since. In November, 1875, he came to Columbia, where he has since resided. In addition to his sewing machine house, Mr. Campbell also conducts a first-class confectionery store, and since January, 1882, has owned a one-third interest in the large grocery and provision house of Bruce, Moberly & Co.

He was married December 12th, 1868, to Miss Amelia Turner, a native of Audrain county, and daughter of John Turner, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are the parents of three children - Mary Pearl, Eula Gertrude and Laura Belle. Mr. and Mrs. C. are both members of the Baptist church, and Mr. C. belongs to the United Workmen and Knights' of Honor.

Mr. And Mrs. O. A. Carr

The subjects of this sketch are natives of Kentucky, the former having been born in Lewis county, February 5th, 1845, the latter in Stanford, Lincoln county, September 8th, 1847. Mr. Carr's paternal grandparents, Daniel Carr and Richard Clary, were sturdy pioneer farmers of their respective counties. Daniel Carr lived sixty-four years of his married life in one home in Lewis county, near which began the wedded lives of William Carr and Elizabeth Clary, to whom were born eight children, the fifth bearing the name of Oliver Anderson Carr. In early youth Oliver attended school of winters at the rude log school-house of the neighborhood, the term usually lasting but three months in the year. The elder Carr was not satisfied with the limited facilities thus afforded his children, as he had early resolved to give them as good an education as his means would afibrd. For this reason he abandoned his farm and removed to May's Lick, Mason county, where, from the age of eleven to sixteen, Oliver attended the academy. After five years' hard study, the subject of this sketch had won the esteem and confidence of all who knew him, and when it was known that he wished to further prosecute his studies at college, and that his means were limited, the young student did not lack for assistance, which came without personal solicitation. He was thus enabled to attend the Kentucky University, then situated at Harrodsburg, Kentucky. While a student of this institution, the university build> ing was burned and the school was removed to Lexington, where Mr. Carr graduated in 1867, at the age of twenty-two. He was the youngest graduate of the university at that time and the youngest of the class, being the first to receive the degree of A. B. after the removal of the university to Lexington. His labors in the gospel began at the age of nineteen, when he travelled and preached during the summer months in Northeastern Kentucky - one season in company with Eld. J. W. Mountjoy - preaching in school-houses and forest groves to multitudes who assembled to hear the gospel. Five hundred people acknowledged the Savior under his preaching, and six churches were established by him, one within two miles of his birth place. Li the midst of these labors there was a call for missionaries, and Elder Carr was selected for the Australia mission. Previous to commencing his long journey, he was married in the Christian church at Lancaster, Kentucky, to Miss Mattie Myers, March 26th, 1868. Immediately after their marriage they departed for Melbourne, Australia. They sailed from New York to Liverpool, and after remaining three weeks in the British Isles, left Liverpool in a sailing vessel, and after a voyage of one hundred and four days landed safely at Melbourne. Mr. Carr at once began his labors in that city. He established a church, and used the press and pulpit continuously during the period of his labors in that country. In addition to preaching, he taught a class of young men who were preparing for the ministry. Excessive toil and the enervating influence of the climate told seriously upon his health, and he was advised to visit Tasmania, two hundred miles south of Australia for the benefit of the climate. Soon after landing at Hobart he was urged to j3reach and did so, establishing a church of one hundred and twenty members. After one year's labor at Hobart they sailed for home by way of Ceylon, the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, visiting Egypt and the Holy Land, stopping at Naples and Rome, passing through the Mount Cenis tunnel to Paris and Versailles, thence to Southampton, and after three weeks' stay in England sailed for New York, and thence overland by way of Niagara Falls to Maysville, Kentucky, where Mr. Carr's parents were living, landing at home in August, 1873. After a brief rest Eld. Carr resumed his labors in Kentucky, travelling extensively in the interest of Sunday-schools. In 1874 he responded to a call from a St. Louis church for a specified time, at the expira- tion of which time he and Mrs. Carr came to Fulton, Missouri, the former to preach and the latter to take charge of Floral Hill College. It was thought best to unite this institution with Christian College, Columbia, Missouri, which union was consummated in 1878. Mr. Carr has devoted his time to evangelical labors in Missouri, except while occupying the pulpit of Eld. L. B. Wilkes, at Columbia, during the illness of the latter. Mr. Carr's labors in the last few years have been directed towards securing church cooperation in promulgating the gospel, and to this end he has travelled, preached and written continuously since coming to Missouri. During the last year of his labors in this State he has established a church at Laddonia, Audrain county, and another at Ashland, in Boone county, where they have recently completed an excellent church edifice. Mrs. O. A. Carr, the earnest, zealous partner of Elder Carr in all his missionary and evangelical labors, is the youngest daughter of Henry and Mary (Burdette) Myers, and was born at Stanford, Lincoln county, Kentucky, September 6th, 1847. Her father was of German origin, her mother of English extraction. Mrs. Carr was a pupil of Daughter's College, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, for six years, under the management of President John A. Williams, afterwards president of Christian College, Columbia, Missouri. Having finished the junior course in Daughter's College she was sent to St. Catherine de Sieniia, Washington county, Kentucky, where she graduated with the highest honors of her class. The following year, 1865, she returned to Daughter's College and graduated there in 1866 with high honors. Soon after leaving college she was called to the priucipalship of Franklin College, Lancaster, Kentucky. After nearly two years' prosperous labor she resigned and was married, March 26th, 1868, to Mr. O. A. Carr, since which time her history has been thoroughly identified with his in their labors for the cause of Christ both in this country and in foreign lands. During the three years spent in Australia, Mrs. Carr had charge of a college for young ladies, and worked with her husband in his church relations until the failure of her health, when they removed to Tasmania, where she continued her labors in the church and school which they organized at that place. After their return to America she was appointed associate principal of Hamilton College, Lexington, Kentucky. She did not remain long Avith this institution, however, as the work became excessive after the resignation of the principal. Consequently she resigned and joined her husband, who had preceded her to St. Louis, having taken charge of the First Christian church of that city. In 1876 she assumed the management of Floral Hill College, Fulton, Missouri, where she remained until that institution was consolidated with Christian Female College, Columbia, Missouri. She then came to Columbia as associate principal of Christian College. In this capacity she labored for one year, at the expiration of which time she received, in 1879, the appointment of lady principal' of the Missouri State University, which position she now holds. She also has control of the work department, established for the benefit of the young lady pupils of the University. Besides her weekly labors in the church and in the school, she has contributed to religious periodicals, and has delivered frequent lectures in the interest of literary and religious culture.

Capt. H. N. Cook

Henry Nixdorff Cook was born at Palmyra, Marion county, Missouri, October 30, 1838. He was educated in the common schools, and at St. Paul's College. In 1851 he came to Columbia, and has ever since been a resident of Boone county. His first occupation in Columbia was that of jeweler and watchmaker.

Upon the breaking out of the civil war Captain Cook announced himself an unconditional Union man, and ready to fight for his principles. April 22, 1862, he received a commission as captain of company F, 9th Cavalry, M. S. M. (Guitar's regiment), and in this capacity served for three years. During his term of service Captain Cook participated in the engagement at Moore's Mill, Kirksville, Independence, and in the other leading battles of General Price's last raid into Missouri, besides innumerable fights and skirmishes with Confederate guerrillas and bushwhackers. In one eno-ao-ement with Jim Carter's band in this county, in the winter of 1865, he killed four of the guerrillas and efiectually broke up the band. In April, 1865, he received a commission as captain of the " Boone County Company" of militia, and served some months. He received the surrender of the notorious Jim Jackson and his band in the spring of 1865, and gave them written paroles. Jackson was afterwards killed by the militia with his parole on his person. The captain passed through all the dangers of the war without a scratch.

In the fall of 1868 Captain Cook was appointed county clerk of Boone county, to which office he was elected in 1870 as a Republican, although the countv was Democratic at the time. He served as county clerk till January 1, 1875. In June, 1881, he was appointed postmaster of Columbia, and is still in that position.

In March, 1859, Captain Cook married Miss Hettie Scott, of Arrow Eock, Saline county. They are parents of two children, a son and daughter, both of whom have reached maturity, Henry Guitar, the son, is deputy postmaster, and Mary, the daughter is now Mrs. Wage, of Columbia.

Henry Crumbaugh

Henry Crumbaugh, a prominent business man of Columbia, and one of the pioneer settlers of the place, was born- in Fayette county, Kentucky, May 16, 1814. He is the son of John and Mary (Snyder) Crumbaugh ; he was raised and educated in his native county, and learned the saddler and harness-maker's trade at Lexington, serving an apprenticeship of five years. After completing his trade he came to Columbia, Missouri, and located, opening a shop in the spring of 1838. His first shop was situated on Broadway, where the Exchange Bank now stands. He landed in Columbia without money, possessing only his trade and a laudable resolution to win, which, coupled Avith industry, prudence, and economy, soon laid the foundation for a successful business. His property was not rapidly accumulated, but surely and steadily, until now in his old age he finds himself the possessor of a handsome estate, earned by the labor of his own hands. For many years he served as town trustee ; he was also city collector for fifteen or sixteen years. He was married April 30, 1840, to Dorothy A., daughter of Col. Richard Gentry. They had three children - one son and two daughters. Mary A. married J. V. C. Karnes, a prominent lawyer of Kansas City ; Dorothy A. married J. H. Lipscomb, also a lawyer of Kansas City; Luther H. married a daughter of Major Harbinson, a prominent lawyer of Southwest Missouri. Mrs. Crumbaugh was born March 13, 1816, and died March 9, 1864. On the 13th of December, 1855, he was married to Mary C. Reynolds, of Columbia, Missouri. They have three children - James E., city attorney of Columbia, and a promising young lawyer, being a graduate of the literary and law departments of the Missouri State University ; Roberta Lee - named in honor of Gen. Robert E. Lee - and Mary C. In 1833 Mr. Crumbaugh joined the Presbyterian church at Lexington, Kentucky, under the preaching of Dr. Hall ; he was elected an elder of his church in September, 1844. His motto through life has been, " Every day something learned ; every day something done."