Salt River Township (part 1 of 2)

Salt River Township

John Stratum was the son of Robert Strahan*and Nancy Scott, of county Down, Ireland. When John was three years old, his mother died, and in 1812 his father came to America, bringing his son with him, and settled in Beaver county, Pa. His brother William and sister Nancy also came with them. John lost his father when he was only eleven years old, at which time he was bound out to learn the carpenter's trade. But that trade did not suit him, and he left the man he was bound to and learned the boot and shoe business. He also procured books and acquired such an education as he could by. his own efforts. He was naturalized in 1824, and settled in Lincoln county, Ky., in 1832, where he married Celia Canterbury, by whom he had four sons and four daughters. He came to Missouri in 1841, and settled first in Platte county, but removed from there to Audrain county in 1844. In 1849 he went to California, and during his ab¬ sence his wife died. He returned home in 1854, and married Cynthia Eubank. He was elected justice of the peace in 1846, but resigned his office when he went to California. He was re-elected upon his return, and continued to hold the office lor many years. He has been a great friend of public improvements, and when the North Missouri Railroad was built he subscribed largely to the capital stock, saying that if he could not pay his railroad tax when it was due, he would take his spade and work it out. The Esquire is now living on his farm in Audrain county, and is a worthy and respectable citizen.

Ya. His children were Mark, Henry, Daniel and Louis. Daniel married Lucy Lane, and settled in Carroll county, Mo., in 1836. Louis married Jane Davidson, and they had Frank, David, William, Eliza, Henry, John and three others. Mr. Russell lived for many years on the Ohio river in West Virginia, and made regular trips to New Orleans with flat boats. He settled in Audrain county in 1835, and died in 1872, in the 84th year of his age.

Barnard Spencer and his wife, Mary Hampton, of Gallatin county, Ky., had Preston H., Sarah A., Joseph D., James H., Eliza, Rosa, Susannah, Henry H. and Barnard H. Joseph D. married Elizabeth Bishop, and settled in Audrain county in 1839. Barnard H., Eliza and Susannah also settled in Audrain county. Henry H. was married twice, and settled in Audrain county.

George Rose and his Avife, of Germany, had three children - Louis, Martin and Matthias. Louis was colonel of a regiment in the battle of Blue Licks, Ky., and was captured and taken to Detroit where he was exchanged, and returned home in August, 1783. Matthias married Nancy Hickman, of Loudoun county, Va., and settled in St. Louis county, Mo., in 1818. His children were Louis, Elga H., Rolley F., Elizabeth, Sarah and Angeline. Louis married Elizabeth Massey, and they had one son, Frank E.

Elga H., better known as Judge Rose, lives in Mexico, Mo. He married Ellen B. Sullivan, and they had Matthias D. and Lucy E. Rolley F. was married first to Mary Clark, by whom he had Louis, .William, Franklin and Nancy. He was married the second time to Adeline DeHare, a French lady. Elizabeth married James McClure. Sarah married Nicholas S. Burckhardt, Angeline married Benjamin D. Ray.

Robert Mansfield and Mourning Clark, his wife, of Virginia, had William H., James W., Thomas M., Robert C., Joseph, Mildred, Elizabeth, Nancy H., Mary, Sarah and Susannah. William H., James W. and Joseph were Baptist preachers. Thomas M. was a Methodist preacher and Robert C. was a Presbyterian preacher. The latter set¬ tled in Audrain county in 1836, and he and Mr. J. H. Smith entered the land on which the city of Mexico now stands. Robert C. Mans¬ field married Elizabeth S. Beatty, and they had Malinda, Mary, William, Edward, Charles and Lelia. Mildred, Elizabeth, Nancy H. and Sarah, daughters of Robert Mansfield, Sr., remained in Virginia. Mary married and settled in Illinois ; Susannah married and settled in Monroe county, Missouri.

Daniel Mclntire and his wife, who was a Miss Weaver, were natives of Virginia, but removed to Kentucky, and settled near Lexington. They had Charles W., Roland, Duskin, William, Catherine, Frances, Jane and Elizabeth. Charles W. settled in Callaway county, Mis¬ souri, in 1819, and in Audrain in 1836. He was married in July, 1829, to Margaret Harrison, of Callaway county, and they had Donald, Thomas, William, Eliza, Cynthia and Nancy. Mr. Mclntire was very fond of a joke, and never let an opportunity pass to indulge in one ; but he got badly sold on a certain occasion. The people of Callaway county had been taunting the citizens of Audrain, and say¬ ing they had no money, and in order to convince them that there was some money in Audrain, he gave a man a $20 gold piece, and told him to go into Callaway and show it to everybody he could see, and tell them it was from Audrain. The fellow took the money and de¬ parted, and is doubtless showing it around yet, as he never returned it to its owner. On another occasion Mr. Mclntire endeavored to borrow the entire revenue of the county from the sheriff, who was conveying it to Jefferson City. It consisted of $32 in money and six wolf scalps. Roland Mclntire was born in Fleming county, Ky., in 1800. He married Maria Hunter, of Ohio, and settled in Audrain county, Mo., in 1831. He hewed the logs to build his house, and while they were lying in the woods some Indians set the woods on lire, and the logs were burnt black, rendering them unfit, in that con¬ dition, for use. Mr. Mclntire and a party of his neighbors pursued the Indians, and caught and whipped them, to teach them not to do so another time. He then hewed his logs again and built his house. He had eight children - Roland, Jr., Marvin, Amanda, Laura, Mary, Fleming, Catherine and Redmon. Duskin and William Mclntire remained in Kentucky. Catherine married Lewis Day, who settled in Audrain county in 1830. The widow of Frank Mclntire lives in Ful¬ ton, Mo. Jane married James McClannahan, of Callaway county. Elizabeth married Wiley Reynolds, of the same county.

William Murray, of Georgia, had five children - Nancy, Timothy, William, Douglas and Samuel. The latter volunteered as a soldier in the War of 1812, when he was only seventeen years of age. After he was grown he married Mary A. Binns, and settled in Audrain county, Mo., where he died in 1861, in the 65th year of his age, leaving a widow and five children.

Drury Mayes, of Ireland, settled in Halifax county, Va. His children were Drury, William, Gardner and Beverly. Drury married Nancy Douglass, who had seven brothers in the American army during the Revolutionary War. They settled first in Tennessee, and removed from there to Kentucky, where Mr. Mayes died in 1828. He had six children, and his widow and five of the children settled in Boone county, Missouri, in 1832. The names of the children were Sally, Drury D., Nancy, Beverly S. and William M. Sally married Marion Pate, who settled in Audrain county in 1835. Drury married Mary A. Barnes, and settled in Audrain county in 1833. Nancy married Hiram G. Miller, who also settled in Audrain county. Beverly S. was married first to Martha Ridgeway, and settled in Audrain county in 1833. He was married the second time to Emelia E. Bladus. William M. married Elizabeth H. Barnes, and settled in Audrain county in 1834.

Rev. William M. Jesse, of Cumberland county, Va., was an Old School Baptist preacher. He married Polly A. Parker, and they had sixteen children : John P., Isham T., Mary A., Susan, Sally G., Will¬ iam J., Jesse S., Royal A., Paulina E., Cyrus S., Maria H., Alexander and James M., several of whom died in childhood. John P., Isham T., William J. and Royal A. are all Baptist preachers, and live in Audrain county.

Jonathan Kilgore, of Ireland, emigrated to America and settled in South Carolina. He removed from there to Caldwell county, Ky., where he and his wife both died, the latter being 81 years of age at the time of her death. Their children were John, David, William, Hugh, Jane, Samuel, Mary and Jonathan. John and Hugh came to Missouri, the former in 1827 and the latter in 1837. John was mar¬ ried first to Polly Willingham, and they had John, Samuel, Polly, Jane, Elizabeth, Nancy and Margaret. He was married the second time to Phoebe Tart, of North Carolina, by whom he had Permelia, Amaretta, Lucinda, James B., Erretta, Nathan F. and Parthena. Nathan F. married Margaret J. Eller. Permelia married John H. Kilgore. Amaretta married Alfred Powell. Hugh, brother of John Kilgore, Sr., married Phoebe Bowlin, and they had several children, all of whom are dead. John Hampton, Casana and Isabella, children of David Kilgore, of Caldwell county, Ky., settled in Missouri. John Hampton settled in Audrain county in 1830, and married Margaret Willingham, who died, and he afterward married Permelia Kilgore. He had eighteen children in all. Casana married Isham Kilgore, who settled in Boone county in 1826, and in Audrain in 1827. They had six sons and six daughters. Isabella married William Wood, why settled in Callaway county in 1837, and in Audrain in 1838. Theo had two sons and four daughters.

The parents of George and Jane McDonald were murdered by the Indians in the early settlement of Virginia. George and his sister were in the lot, playing in a horse trough, when the attack was made. They lay down in the trough and were not discovered by the savages, but both of their parents, who were in the house, were murdered. When George was grown he married Mary Murdock, of Ireland, and they had John, Peter, Thomas, James, William, Elizabeth and Ann. In 1795 they settled in Nicholas county, Ky., where Mr. McDonald died, and his widow removed with her son William to Illinois, where she died. Thomas McDonald married the Widow Gray, whose maiden name was Sarah Franklin, and settled in Missouri in 1831. They had Malinda, William H., Zerelda, Arthur, Margaret, George, Elizabeth, Amanda and Nancy, all of whom, except Zerelda, settled in Missouri.

John McClure, of Scotland, settled in Virginia, and afterward re¬ moved to Clark county, Kentucky. He had John, Andrew, Sam¬ uel, and two daughters. John married Polly Redmon, and settled in Missouri in 1832. They had John, William, Louisa, Polly A., Lu¬ cinda, Sally, Mary and Margaret. Samuel McClure married Emily Brown, and settled in Missouri in 1831. They had James, David, John, Joseph, Clay, Elizabeth Mary and Sallie.

Loyd McIntosh, of Logan county, Kentucky, married Catharine Harper, by whom he had John, George L., Julia, Rachel and Jane. John married Elizabeth Gillum, and afterward his widow settled in Missouri. George L. married Sarah Harper, and settled in Missouri in 1838. Rachel married William Mclntire, of Fulton, Callaway county.

Abraham Levaugh, of Woodford county, Kentucky, was of French descent. He had Rebecca, Sally, Jane, William Isaac, James and Elizabeth. William married Polly Murphy, of North Carolina, and settled in Montgomery county, Missouri, in 1823, and in 1832 he set¬ tled in Audrain county. He had but one child, a son, who married Elizabeth Hall, by whom he had three sons. He was married again to Minerva Jones, and they had three sons and one daughter. Mr. Levaugh was a partner of the first merchant in Mexico, Missouri.

James Lockridge was born in Virginia, but removed to and lived in Nicholas county, Kentucky. His children were James, Jr., Rob¬ ert, Andrew, William and John. James and John settled in Calla¬ way county, Missouri, in 1828. The former married Lavinia Hall, and they had Margaret, Martha, James, Cynthia, Elihu, John, Eliz¬ abeth, Perlissa A., Robert and Melvina. John, son of James Lock-

Samuel Mundy, of Albemarle county, Virginia, married Mildred Croswhite. Two of their sons, Logan and Isaac, settled in Missouri in 1846. Isaac afterward removed to California, where he died. Lo¬ gan married Lucinda Creed, and lives in Audrain county. He came to Missouri poor, but has prospered and is now possessed of a goodly supply of worldly effects.

John C. Martin, of Lincoln county, North Carolina, married Phoebe Allen, and settled in Audrain county, Missouri, in 1830. They had Allen, Thomas, Rufus, Robert, Nelson, Polly, Nancy, Elizabeth and Patsey. Mr. Martin was a devout Methodist, and held family prayers regularly, night and morning, but no one could understand his pray¬ ers, as he used language which he alone could interpret. One of his daughters married Henry Williams who, at the time, was so poor he could not pay the minister, but gave him an old spinning wheel for his trouble. Mr. Williams afterward represented the county in the Legislature.

Yosty Myers was of German descent, and lived in Maryland. His children were Louis, Jacob, John, Mike, Benjamin, Rebecca and Mary. Louis married Elizabeth McKay, of Virginia, and settled in Kentucky at a very early date. His children were Isaac M., Silas William, Lewis, Elias B., Meredith, Harvey S., Abishai M., Mary A., Elizabeth, Sally and Rebecca. Meredith married Nancy P. Jen¬ nings, a daughter of Gen. William Jennings, of the War of 1812, and settled in Audrain county, Missouri, where his wife died. He af¬ terward married Emeline Blue. By his first wife he had two sons and four daughters. Louis Myers came to Missouri and bought land, intending to remove his family here, but he died on his wray back to Kentucky. His family came to Missouri after his death.

John Eubank, of England, came to America and settled in the State of Maryland. His children were George, John, Thomas, Richard, William, Mary, Lamar and Sophia. George married Re¬ becca Heringdon, of Maryland, and they had David, Martha, George, Polly, Ellen, Rebecca and Rhoda. David was a soldier of the War of 1812, and when the war was over he removed with his father to Kentucky, and from thence to Ohio. He subsequently re¬ turned to Kentucky and married Anna Wyatt, and settled in Audrain county, Missouri, in 1837. His children were Cynthia, Julia, Lina, George, Rebecca, Jonathan, David, Loyd and Ambrose.

Jacob, Joseph and Daniel Eller were born and raised in Maryland. Jacob married Margaret Willard, and they had Philip, George, Daniel, John, Sally, Susan, Margaret, Jacob, Jr., and Elias. Jacob, Jr., married Elizabeth Grimes, and settled in Callaway county, Mis¬ souri, in 1837. His children were Warner, Willard, John T., Ann M., Martha and Elizabeth. Elias Eller settled in Audrain county in 1838. He married Mary Standerford, of Virginia, and they had Abraham, Lizzie, Eleanor H., Margaret J., Mary A., Susan V., George E., Rachel and Joseph.

John Gilmer and Margaret Berry, his wife, settled in Mercer county, Kentucky. They had Joseph, James, William Alexander, Ann and Jane. James was the only one who came to Missouri. He married Nancy Wilson, and settled in Monroe county in 1831, and in Audrain in 1842. His children were Mary A., Margaret L., Eliza J., Sallie A., Harriet M., Emma C. and John J.

Thom as Hook and Sally Long, his wife, were natives of Maryland. They removed first to Kentucky, and from there to Missouri in 1828. Their children were Elizabeth, William, James, Samuel, Thomas, Patsey, Polly, Nancy and Matilda. James married Cynthia Summit, and settled in Boone county, Missouri, in 1826. Samuel married Mary Simms, and settled in Boone county in 1828. He died in 1829, and his widow married Thomas Hook, who died in 1850. The first husband's children were Martha, Mary and Samuel T., and the children of the second were Graham, Robert S., Lucullus, William H., Joseph and Martha E.

James Cauthorn, of England, came to America, and settled in Virginia. He had but one child, a son named Charles, who served seven years in the American army during the Revolutionary War. He was married first to Elizabeth Williams, and they had one son, whom thev named Asa, and who was a soldier in the War of 1812. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Cauthorn married Mary San¬ ders, of Virginia, and they had seven sons and three daughters. Their names were Asa, Jr., David, Paul, Silas, Richard, Stephen, Celia W., Elizabeth and Martha. David and Paul married and set¬ tled in Andrew county, Mo. Peter married the widow of George Eubanks, and settled in Andrew county in 1835. Silas married Mary Jerman, and settled in Audrain county in 1835. Richard and Ste¬ phen and their three sisters settled in Indiana. Peter and Paul Cau¬ thorn were twins, and very devoted to each other. They married widows of the same name (Eubanks), but who were not related in

Jonathan and Delilah Cunningham were natives of the State of Massachusetts. They had a son named Elliott P., who came to Mis¬ souri in 1840, and settled in Audrain county. He obtained the con¬ tract for building the State University at Columbia, and was after¬ ward elected a member of the county court of Audrain county. He married Cynthia Slocum, and they had Ellen, Clara, Russell S., Earle C. and Emmett R., all of whom live in Audrain county.

Hezekiah I. M. Doan, of Harrison county, Ky., married Matilda Berry, and removed to Boone county, Mo., in 1827, from whence they removed to Audrain county in 1831. Mr. Doan was appointed one of the first judges of the county court of that county, and was justice of the peace for many years.

Edward Dingle, of Maryland, settled in Scott county, Ky., where he married and had seven children. Three of them, Richard, Winder C. and Julia, settled in Marion county, Mo. Mr. Dingle settled in Audrain county in 1840. He was married the second time to Frances Sallee, of Virginia, by whom he had Samuel, Carter B., William S., John G., Polly S., Nancy C, and Mary A. Samuel was killed in Mexico, and left a widow and five children. Mary A. married Taswell Johnson. Carter B. married Nancy Ward, and died leaving a widow and three children. William S. Dingle died in his youth. Polly S. married Kinzey Hardister, and she is now a widow in Cali¬ fornia. Nancy C. married a Mr. Landrum.

Hugh Crockett, of Virginia, was a colonel in the Revolutionary War, and was distinguished for gallantry. He married Rebecca Lorton, and they had Samuel, Walter, Robert, Hugh, Nancy, Jane, Mary and Rebecca. Samuel married Margaret Rayborn, of Virginia, by whom he had Hugh, Rebecca, James, Joseph, Jane, William, Margaret, Walter, John D., Robert and Randall. Mr. Crockett removed first to Williamson county, Tennessee, where he lived nine years, and then came to Missouri, and settled in Boone county. His eldest son, Hugh, now resides in Audrain county. He has been mariied three times ; first to Mary A. Wright, second to Rhoda B. Fin¬ ley, and third to the widow Turner, whose maiden name was Nancy Price. Rebecca married Judge James Harrison, of Audrain county. Jane married John B. Morrow, and Margaret married James G. Morrow. Joseph married Nancy Kright, and settled in Audrain county in 1840. John married Mary Pool, and settled in that county the same year. The members of the Crockett family are a jovial

Robert Calhoun, of Virginia, settled in Audrain county, Missouri, in 1838. He married Elizabeth Bright, a sister of Judge Michael Bright, of Callaway county, and they had Austin, Sarah, Margaret, Virginia, Samuel and William. Mr. Calhoun was an industrious, energetic man, kind and affectionate in his family, and highly respected by his neighbors. Like all the early settlers, he was fond of hunting, and was one of the best marksmen in the county.

Richard Cauthorn, of Essex county, Virginia, was a school-teacher and silversmith. He married a Miss Fisher, by whom he had Vin¬ son, James, Reuben, Leroy, Godfrey, Amos and Patsey. James married Leah Allen, and they had Allen, Carter, James, Jr., Ross,

, Alfred, Nancy, Henrietta and Frances. Allen settled in Audrain county, Missouri, and married Elizabeth Harmon. At his death he left two sons and two daughters. Carter married Elizabeth Calvin, and settled in Audrain county in 1835. They had eleven sons and two daughters. James, Jr., married Frances Calvin, and settled in Audrain county in 1835. They had four sons and five daughters. Ross, Nancy and Henrietta lived and died in Virginia. Alfred married Emily Brooks, and settled in Audrain county. They had seven sons and five daughters. Frances married William Garrett, who settled in Mexico, Missouri. They had three sons and three daughters.

John Charlton, of Ireland, came to America and settled in Monroe county, Virginia. His children were Joseph, Thomas, John, Isa¬ bella, Ella, Letitia and Polly, all of whom, except John, lived and died in Virginia. John was a soldier of the War of 1812. He mar¬ ried Isabella Humphreys, and came to Missouri in 1820. The journey was made on a flat-boat as far as Shawneetown, Illinois, where they disembarked and came by land to St. Charles county. They settled first on Dardenne prairie, and removed from there to Audrain county in 1830. Mr. Charlton built the first hewed log house in that county, and had to go 25 miles to get hands to assist in raising it.

James Beatty was born in Maryland in 1742. He married Elizabeth Ramer, whose father fled from Germany to avoid religious persecu tion by Charles V. Mr. Beatty settled in Fayette county, Kentucky, among the first white people who sought homes in that State, and he experienced all the dangers and trials of the long and bloody Indian war that followed. After the return of peace, he gave his assistance to the development of the country, and was one of the party who opened the first road to Ohio. His children were Mary, Michael, James E., Lydia, Edward, Jonathan, Ann, Ruth, Amy and Barbara. James E. married and lived in Mobile, Alabama. Edward married Malinda Price, by whom he had James E., John P., Elizabeth S., and William. He was married the second time to Anna S. Smith, and they had Joseph and Martha J. He was married the third time to Eliza J. Holmes, but they had no children. Mr. Beatty settled in Audrain county in 1837. John P. Beatty married Elizabeth J. Clarke, and they had Edward H., John W., Lycurgus, Mary E., Leonidas, Helen S., Lawrence, James and Oliver, all of whom live in Mis¬ souri.

John Barnett, of England, had a son named Hutchins, who married Polly Matthews, of Virginia, and settled in Boone county, Missouri, in 1820. Their children were John W., Thomas M., Jane W., Mildred A. and Sarah R. John W. married Arretta Willingham in 1822, and settled in Audrain county in 1831. They had Sarah J., Mary M., Mildred A., Martha E., William J., Napoleon B., Sanders, Hutchins, Athanasis, John W., Thomas and Jesse E. Thomas, son ot Hutchins Barnett, Sr., settled in Audrain county in 1831. He never married. He possesses a remarkable memory, and can relate past events with great accuracy. Sarah R., daughter of Hutchins Barnett, Sr., married Daniel Ellington, of Boone county, Missouri.

Thomas R. Cardwell, of England, came to America and settled in Richmond, Virginia. His children were John, Perrin and George. John married Keziah Low, and they had John, Jr., Thomas, Will¬ iam, James, Wiltshire, George, Elizabeth, Nancy, Martha, Lucy and Mary. George, son of Thomas Cardwell, Sr., married Anna Hamil¬ ton, and they had John, Elizabeth, William, Keziah, Martha, Mary, George, Jr., Jane, Rebecca, Wyatt and James. George, Jr., married IdaVansdoll, and settled in Missouri in 1832. Martha married Will¬ iam Shelley. Wyatt married May Woods and settled in Audrain county in 1834. Jane married William Woods. William married Barbara Sanford and settled in Audrain county in 1837. He was married the second time to Elizabeth Watts.

Jacob Helper was of German descent. He was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, but married and settled in Ohio, where his wife died. Their children were Obediah, John, Elizabeth and Anna. Mr. Helper was married the second time to Catharine Miller, of Ohio, by whom he had Joseph, Edward, William H., Mitchell, Rebecca, Eliza and Barbara. All of the children by his second wife settled in Aud rain county.

James Hall, of Nicholas county, Kentucky, had Elizabeth, Polly, Cynthia, Melvina, James, John, Henry, Elihu and Moses. John and Elihu came to Missouri in 1835. The former married Kitty Squires, and they had one son and ten daughters, viz. : Cynthia, Margaret, Mary, Amanda, Robert, Ruth, Liney, Mildred A., Judith A., Sally and Caroline. Elihu Hall married Susan Bradshaw, and settled in Callaway county, Missouri, in 1835, and in 1839 he settled in Audrain county. His children were William, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Polly, Robert, John, David and James. James, David and Amanda died in Indiana. Mr. Hall died in 1850.

Stephen Pearson, of Burch county, North Carolina, married Mary Potts, and they had two sons, John A. and Joseph, both of whom settled in Audrain county, where the city of Mexico now stands, in 1835. When the town was laid off the following year, Joseph do¬ nated three acres of land to help it along. John A. married Nancy Carlton, of North Carolina, by whom he had Rufus S., Leander P., John V., Marshall C., Joseph W., Clinton P., Julia A., Mary E., Emily L. and Elizabeth L. He served eight years as a member of the county court, and was an esteemed and influential citizen.

Thomas Powell and Nancy Chancy, his wife, were natives of Mary¬ land, but settled in Nicholas count}7, Kentucky, in 1796. They had eleven children, nine of whom lived to be grown : John, Charles, Jerry, Thomas, Isaac, William, Robert, Polly and Nancy. John, Isaac and Nancy settled in Indiana. Charles, Thomas and William lived in Kentucky. Polly married and she and her husband lived in Illinois. Robert was a soldier of the War of 1812, and became an early settler of Audrian county. He was married, first, to Celia Murphy, of Ken¬ tucky, by whom he had Alvin, Alfred, Monroe, Jefferson, Jameson, Columbus, Jackson, Robert T., Julia A., Nancy and Grezella. Mr. Powell was married twice beside, his last wife being the widow Hunt.

Jackson Thomas was born and raised in Mercer county, Kentucky, but moved to Monroe county, Missouri, in 1834, and to Audrain county in 1838. He married Sarah D. McGee, and they had Ida C., James S., Mary J., Louisa A., Sarah E., Susan F., Martha E. and William J.

John Wayne, of Virginia, had a son named Temple, who was of a rovino- disposition and passionately fond of hunting. He settled in Audrain county, Missouri, in 1827, and killed six deer the first day he stopped there. During the hunting seasons no one killed more deer and wolves than he did, and he lived for years entirely on wild nme. He was never satisfied except when he was in the woods, where he spent nearly all of his time, night and day - Sunday being like any other day to him. He was married first to Lorinda Peyton, by whom he had William, Mary, Temple, Jr., Joseph, Lorinda, Jane and James. He was married the second time to Elizabeth Gregg, and they had Lucy A., George, Elizabeth, Emily, Alfred, Franklin and Martha S.

Moses Wilson married Mary Russell, of Virginia, and settled in Boone county, Kentucky. They had John H., Sarah, Martha, William, Elizabeth, Samuel, Susan and Chrine. John H. was a sol¬ dier in the War of 1812. He married Susan Simmons, and settled in Audrain county, Missouri, in 1834. They had Sally, Martha A., Esther, William W., Mary, Joseph R., Susan C. and Samuel M.

Cobb Williams was a native of Virginia, but settled in Lincoln county, N. C., where he married Patsey Brown. He settled in Audrain county, Missouri, in 1830. His children were Polly, Pat¬ sey, Delilah, Granderson, Caleb, John, William L., Gideon and Absa¬ lom. John and Delilah died in North Carolina. Polly married John Allen. Patsey married John Kilgore. Granderson and Abraham live in Monroe county. Caleb is in California. William L. was married first to Cordelia Kilgore, and second to Mary E. Evans. Gideon mar¬ ried Elizabeth Gulley. Caleb Williams, Sr., died in 1832, and his funeral was the first preached in Audrain county. The services were conducted by Rev. Robert Younger, a Methodist minister of Boone county.

Franklin Armistead was a soldier of the War of 1812. He married Hannah Rice, of Virginia, and their children were William, Frank¬ lin, Jr., Hannah and Delpha. Franklin, Jr., married Martha Faulk¬ ner, and settled in Audrain county in 1833. They had Franklin W., Martha, Lucy, Mary, Joseph, John, Virginia, James and Eliza.

James Bybee, of England, came to America and settled in Clark county, Kentucky. His children were Alfred, James, Thomas, Louis, John and two daughters. Alfred and John came to Missouri. The former settled in Cas3 county, and the latter in Howard. John was married six times ; first to Polly Adams, of Kentucky, by whom he had six children ; second to Nancy Adams - two children ; third to Mary Myers - one child ; fourth to Mary Kyle - four children ; fifth to Nannette Creed - nine children ; sixth to the widow McGee. He had twenty-two children in all. He settled in Audrain county in 1833, and two of his sons, Martellus and John, are still living there. One of his daughters, Mrs. Bloom, a widow, also lives in that county. Martellus is a great wit and humorist. He was the principal witness for the defense in the celebrated Boggs breach of promise suit that came oft' in Mexico, Missouri, many years ago, and created a great deal of fun.

Samuel Watts, of Halifax county, Va., was born in England. He married Sally Burchett, and they had Rebecca, Daniel, Lizzie f Gillum, John, Roland, Joseph, Berry, Brackett and Sally. Roland married Polly Lane, and settled in Audrain county in 1833. Joseph was married first to Dorothea Comer of Virginia, and second to the widow of Henry Burnes, whose maiden name was Narcissa Johnson, daughter of Richard Johnson and Ann Withens, who came from Bourbon county, Ky., to Callaway county. Mo., in 1824.

Andrew Woods, of Mercer county, Ky., married Mary McGee, and they had John, James and William. John and James settled in Monroe county, Mo. William married Jane Cardwell, and settled in Audrain county in 1837. They had George A., David, James, William, Mary A., Joseph, John, Albert, Olivia, Martha J. and Susan.

The parents of Archibald Woods were Irish. He was married in Virginia, and removed to Kentucky during the early settlement of that State, where he was killed by the Indians during one of their attacks upon the fort where he and his family were staying. He lett a widow and four children - William, Franklin, Nancy and Archi¬ bald. William was married in Kentucky, and settled in Missouri in 1820. Frank died unmarried in Boone county, Mo. Nancy mar¬ ried William Mullins, who settled in Howard county in 1820. Archi¬ bald married Fannie Hill, and settled in Callaway county in 1826. His children were David H., Elizabeth, John, Nellie, Nancy and Patsey. David H. married Sarah Reynolds, and lives in Audrain county.

Joseph Slocum, of England, settled in North Carolina, where he married Mary Riley, and they had Riley, Nancy, Robert and Cyn¬ thia. Riley married the widow Potts, whose maiden name was Nancy Crockett, of Tennessee, and settled in Boone county, Mo., in 1819. They had Nancy, Robert and Cynthia. Nancy, daughter of Riley Slocum, married Joseph M. Gray, and they had two children. Cynthia married Elliott P. Cunningham. Robert is a bachelor, and lives in Audrain county. Riley Slocum was married the second time to Annie Herring, by whom he had William, Alfred, Joseph, Susan, John C. and Amanda J. The first four died young. Amanda J. was married first to Charles V. McWilliams, and second to Oliver C. Cun-

Isham Bradley, of Ireland, came to America and settled in Virginia. His wife was a Miss McGee, by whom he had John, Thomas and William. John was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He married Martha Mosbey, and they had David, Thomas, Edward, Isham, Nancy, Sally, Polly and Martha. David and Thomas were both soldiers in the War of 1812, the former serving in and near Norfolk, and the latter below Richmond. Thomas became tired of the smell of gunpowder, and hired a substitute at $100 per day. He married Frankey Wilder, and they had nine children. Mr. Bradley and his family settled in Audrain county in 1838.

William West married a Miss Bybee, and removed from Virginia to North Carolina, and in 1800 he settled in East Tennessee. Mr. West was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and while he was in the army his wife kept all the pewter ware, of which she had quite an amount, buried to keep the soldiers from molding it into bullets. Their eldest son, Jolley H., married Nancy Williams, of North Caro¬ lina, by whom he had James, John, Emily, William, Elizabeth, Jeremiah J. and Louisa. After the death of Mr. West his widow came to Missouri with three of her children, Jeremiah J., William and Elizabeth, and settled in Audrain county in 1834. Mrs. West afterward married Elias Gilpin, who removed to Texas. William West married Polly Mullins, of Tennessee. Jeremiah J. married Jelpha Hatton, of Kentucky, by whom he had ten children, nearly all of whom are named for Methodist preachers. Louisa West mar¬ ried B. A. Frield, and died in 1856, leaving seven children.

The names of the old settlers that have not already been mentioned above, as residents of San, River township at an early day, will be found below. The list embraces the names of all the men who voted at an election, held at the court-house in 1844, for President and Vice-Pres¬ ident ot the United States. The entire township then, including Mex¬ ico, cast only 205 votes : Isaac Black, J. F. Miller, John McDonald, C. V. Williams, Presley Davis, Chas. McIntyre, R. R. Lee, W. L. Williams, Newton Berry, Henry W. DeJarnett, J.K. Malory, Edward Botey, John Green, Roland Watts, Thomas Kilgore, G. F. Muldrow,W. flames, Reuben Pulis, Isaac Kelsow, Joseph Surber, Joseph Hepler, Ca¬ leb Williams, Thomas Pate, Monrow Powell, J. F. McIntosh, J. P. P. Pearson, Isham Willingham, E. R. Daniel, John Lockridge, W. C. Bug, V in. Eubank, W. P . Harrison, J. P. Beaty, Elijah Adams, Shelton Pear¬ son, M. Myers, William Joy, Granville Reed, G. W. Willingham,

Salt River Tigers

Just before the organization of Audrain county there was an election held during the month of August, 1836, in the counties sur¬ rounding the territory, which was afterwards called Audrain. A number of men who were, at the date mentioned, residing in this territory, and especially in that portion of it now known as Salt Kiver township (so named after a small stream which enters it from the north-eastern part of the same), with Jack Willingham at their head, desired to vote, and not having a chance to exercise this pre¬ rogative at home, they went in a body to the neighboring county of Boone. Having arrived at the precinct, they attempted to vote for the men of their choice, but the judges refused them the privilege, because they were not legitimate voters. The men, however, insisted upon what they conceived to be their right, and were so pertinacious, as well as imperative in their demand, that their votes were recorded. After this was done, the parties mounted their horses and left for their homes. As they were riding away, one of the judges of the election remarked, "Ain't those men tigers? " Hence the sobriquet " Salt River Tigers."

In 1831 an old fashioned horse mill was built by John C. Martin, one and a quarter miles north-west of Mexico. This Avas the pioneer mill of this part of the county, and although it was inadequate to the demand, it was kept busy many years, from early dawn until some¬ times late at night, grinding the small grists of corn which were ever in constant waiting.

About the year 1837, a man by the name of Caleb Williams erected a mill in the northern suburbs of Mexico. Williams now resides in California.

First School

Mr. John Gregg says : About the year 1832, the few families that had located in what is now the southern part of Audrain county and the northern portion of Callaway county, concluded to build a school house. Matthew Scott, Temple Wayne, Thomas Boyd, Mrs. Jane Gregg, Ackley Day and Lewis Day were the parties who led off in this important enterprise, and by their united efforts a house of small round logs was constructed on the north-east corner of section 35, township 50, range 9. It was covered with four-foot clapboards, and had a dirt floor. Linn logs, split open and hewn on one side, made the seats, and a piece hewn and laid on stout wooden pins or pegs, driven into augur-holes bored into one of the logs, constituted the writing bench. The teacher employed was Archibald Gregg. This was the first school taught within the present limits of Audrain county. The teacher was fond of his gun and dog. One day at noon (having his gun at the school-house), he went into the woods and killed a wild-cat. It was a great curiosity to the pupils. The first sermon ever preached in this settlement was delivered by Rev. Hoxie, a Presbyterian minister, who was at that time pastor of the Auxvasse church, in Callaway county. This was in the fall of 1832. About the same period, Rev. Robert A. Younger and Rev. Taze, of the M. E. church, commenced holding meetings at the house of Madison Dysart, which is now known as the Calhoun place, and loca¬ ted about eight miles south-west of Mexico.

Mr. Gregg says : It was often the case that the settlers lived for days at a time on the meat of wild game. In every family there was some one fond of hunting, and it was amusing to hear a hunter tell of his exploits. A Mr. Davis, who took much delight in hunting, told about his killing a large fine buck ; said he saw the buck in a patch of hazel brush aud he quietly crept up until he got within gun shot, when he shot and killed the buck, and continued with a signifi¬ cant shake of his head: " That buck don't know to this day who killed him." At an early day, there was a quarter race track, the course of which ran south, beginning about where Promenade street now is in Mexico. One day, at the race track, a difficulty occurred between two men. An officer, who happened to be present, com¬ manded the parties in a loud voice to keep the peace, and then stepped up to one of the " would be combatants," and said in a low voice: " But if he comes, John, d - n him, stretch him."

In those davs of the early settlements, we were obliged to pen our hogs and sheep every night to prevent the prowling wolf from killing them ; large hogs could defend themselves. The wolves have often been known to catch and kill pigs and sheep in open day within a few hundred yards of the settlers' cabins. We have often been asked the question why the first settlers all located at first in the timber near^ the creeks and streams. That was nothing more than natural ; our reason was that nearly all the first settlers were comparatively poor people and did not have teams sufficient to break the prairie, as it took from three to four good yoke of oxen to draw the plow, and as the most of the settlers came from timbered countries they knew nothing about prairie land ; another reason is, they had to be near a creek or stream so as to have water. It appears that the nature of the prairie soil has undergone a great change for the better since the first settling of the county; it then appeared to be of a cold, wet, clammy nature, and did not have the same productive quality. As the country became settled, and the prairies were grazed and tramped by stock, and its wild nature killed out, the productive qualities improved, and with the much improved agricultural implements, and the great improvement in the science of farming, there is now no land that excels in producing all kinds of grain, vegetables, and grasses the prairies of Audrain county.

is a city of 5,000 souls and the capital of the county. This brightest of all the towns of its class in Central and North Missouri has a charming location upon the crown of the " divide," near the center of the countv, at the junction of the three railways, and covers a group of fine commanding elevations, with pretty intervening valleys and ravines that give admirable natural drainage. It abounds in graceful slopes and delightful natural groves, affording scores of elegant building sites, most of which command fine, half-rural exposures. The delightful suburban surroundings abound in the finest lines of grace and beauty. Beyond them, to the eastward, is Salt creek with its accompanying woodland and valley, while northward and south¬ ward roll long reaches of graceful, billowy prairie to the timberfringed horizon. A dozen elegant suburban farms and homes, each with its retinue of beautiful orchards, vineyards, gardens, hedge-rows, groves and blue grass lawns, lend practical and aesthetic interest to the situation. The city itself is regularly laid out and substantially built. The charming public square, like the streets and avenues, is platted with mechanical regularity on a scale that impresses the visi¬ tor with a sense of amplitude and leisure. Upwards of 80 of the mercantile, banking and hotel buildings surrounding and neighboring to the square, are solidly built of brick, stone and iron. The public and private architecture of the city is generally a decided improve¬ ment on that of the antique, old river towns, much of it indicating the good taste and culture of the builders. The court-house is one of the finest public buildings in North Missouri and cost $50,000.

The High School building cost $25,000, and with several of the churches and Hardin College indicates a high measure of public taste and enterprise. The Ringo and Commercial hotels, and a dozen of the newer business houses are built after modern and metro¬ politan styles, many of the later and finer residences also expressing the later tendency to effective syle and elegance of finish. Among other characteristic features of this live and progressive city are the enterprising and influential daily and weekly newspapers, ten churches, three banks, two flouring mills, the woolen mills and several fine hotels. The fraternities are finely represented too, by the two Masonic blue lodges, a chapter and commandery, an Odd Fellows' lodge and encampment, flourishing lodges of the A. O. U. W., Knights of Honor and Sons of Temperance.

The social order of the city is rational and enjoyable. Here, as in the entire county, are the liberalizing forces of a composite popula¬ tion that give breadth and frankness, with a good measure of free¬ dom from the narrow and meaningless social constraints that too often freeze all the naturalness out of social life. The people are sensible, cordial and hospitable, and accord a gracious and generous welcome to worthy new comers from eveiy land. They have much more than the average of social and mental culture, and with it a larger measure of public enterprise and unity than any people of our acquaintance in Missouri. They are united on everything that is likely to advance the material interests of the city, have a laudable pride in its prosperity and are zealous workers for their schools and churches. They are generous, too, in alms-giving, many of the representative men having given in public and private charities more than they are to-day worth in worldly possessions. Mexico has, in grand measure, the two elements of a successful city, viz., a group of splendid, active, aggressive and enterprising business men, and a first-class location. Without these, no town ever grew into com¬ manding volume and influence. The representative business men of Mexico have energy, faith and persistence enough to build a city on the border of Sahara. If some of them are wanting in large mon¬ eyed capital, most of them have a splendid stock of the higher capital of brain and heart and muscle, with the tact to bring it into the best possible use. They have sublime faith in the future of their city, because they have faith in themselves. They do not wait to be built up by extraneous forces, but they build themselves up by such agen¬ cies as are at their command. There never congregated, in a pioneer town, better and braver business men than they who planted their commercial standards on this beautiful divide more than a third of a century ago. Other men of kindred sympathies, impulses and habits were attracted hither by sympathetic magnetism, until the little pioneer village has grown to a strong, commanding city. The loca¬ tion of Mexico is a permanent good fortune. It has not only a fine railway system bringing close commercial relations with St. Louis, Chicago and the entire railway system of the State, but easily com¬ mands the largest tributary country of any town in North and Central Missouri, its trade extending over Audrain county and good portions of Monroe, Ralls, Montgomery and Callaway counties. And the sa¬ gacious business men of the city are making most of the situation. The pioneers were wise enough to lay out a broad and comprehensive work and the men of to-day, with characteristic spirit and energy, are carrying it to a splendid issue. In the quiet undercurrent of " the life they live," there is doubtless much of the ideal, but to the cas¬ ual visitor the town is thoroughly materialistic. They live by stern, practical, Roman methods, and are creating facts instead of fancies. Their purpose is to build a strong central inland city that shall worth¬ ily represent the best material phases of our advancing civilization, and the observant visitor, is compelled to believe in their success. It is refreshing to pass a day or a week in a city that gives no sign of halting or doubting. I confess to a life set mainly in the minor key, and to a love of sentiment that is sometimes all-absorbing ; but I am compelled to admire the bravery and self-assertion of these men who live and labor and love in the stearnest realism of a creative and pro¬ gressive life. There is nothing stinted or sordid in the make-up of a live commercial city. Commercial life is pre-eminently liberal, pro¬ gressive and humane. Commerce leads civilization. It gives the true cosmopolitan type to thought and action and begets a generous hos¬ pitality, such as I have an hundred times met in the workshops, offices, banks and sales-rooms of this driving young metropolis of the Grand Prairie. There is little hide-bound conservatism among the business men of this city, and fortunately few or none of the dead-and-alive capitalists who live upon the misfortunes of their neighbors, and to whom " 2 per cent a month " is a grander prerogative than founding and building a noble city. Mexico is a growing and prosperous city. Local capital is mainly absorbed in bricks and mortar and merchan¬ dise, in machinery and motive power and the manifold ways of mate¬ rial progress. During the year 1879 and the last half of 1878, eight handsome brick business houses and 150 residences, with many shops and outbuildings, were constructed at an aggregate cost of $200,000

Since then upwards of 100 new buildings, including stores, residences, shops, hotels and outbuildings have been erected at an aggregate cost of more than $140,000. And still the work goes bravely on. Sev¬ eral elegant brick blocks and many fine residences, a city hospital, and any number of minor buildings are now under construction, rents are in good demand, real estate is steadily advancing, and there are many indications of a prosperous future. These upward tendencies are in no wise speculative, but represent a healthful growth predicated on the steady development of the large and productive farm country that has still undeveloped resource enough to give impulse to a town of 8,000 souls. Mexico is the banner commercial city of its class in North Missouri and probably in the entire State. The trade of the city has nearly doubled within the last two years, and in many depart¬ ments has still a strong upward tendency.

The original town of Mexico was located in the central portion of the north-west quarter of section 26, township 51, range 9, and was laid out in April, 1836, by Robert C. Mansfield and James H. Smith, who entered the land at $1.25 per acre.

After laying out the town, these gentlemen offered to give every alternate lot and a public square to the county, provided the site was selected by the county as its seat of justice. Cornelius Edwards, William R. Martin and Robert Schooling were the commissioners appointed by the Legislature to locate the county seat, and they selected the town of Mexico. The first sale of lots by Mansfield and Smith occurred in the fall of 1836.

First Business Men

The pioneer business men of the town were Morris & White (J. B. Morris and William White).* They commenced business (general merchandise) in 1836, and after continuing until about the year 1840, they sold out to William Levaugh, who was quite an old man. Levaugh operated his store until his death.

As John B. Morris was the pioneer business man of the town we give in this connection a brief biographical sketch of his life, as pub¬ lished by one of the county papers, also the resolutions of respect of the Audrain County Bar.

burg, in Callaway county, where he continued to reside until 1836, when he removed to this point and erected the first house built upon the ground now included within the limits of Mexico. He afterwards built a store-room and was, for several years, engaged in mercantile pursuits ; he also held the office of postmaster for about fifteen years, - continuously from the time an office was established at this place.

When Audrain county was established, Judge Morris was appointed clerk of both county and circuit court, and after the separation of these offices he continued to hold the office of clerk of the county court until 1858, at which time he was elected judge of the same court. In 1862 he was re-elected and served until May 1, 1865, when his seat became vacant under the ousting ordinance of the State Con¬ vention. In November, 1866, he was again called to the county bench, and again in 1870, and still again in 1874 - being at the time of his death presiding judge.

In all the long years and varied experiences of his official life, he adhered tenaciously to whatever he thought to be right, and was equally determined in his opposition to whatever he thought inimical to the interests committed to his charge. So outspoken and inflexible was he, that we doubt if his motives were ever questioned by any who chanced to be brought in opposition to his views.

Judge Morris was the father of thirteen children, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood, and all of whom, save one, survive him, as also does his excellent wife. The descendants of this couple now number seventy, of whom three are great-grandchildren.

In social, as well as in business and official life, the deceased was affable and pleasant, and in all his relations he evinced that high type of manhood which always attracts and retains respect and esteem. His death is a public calamity, for he was, indeed, "The noblest work of God, an honest man !"

The members of the Audrain County Bar and county officers met in the county court room to take steps that might seem becoming to show their respet for the virtues of Judge Morris, and their grief at his death. JudgeS. M. Edwards was called to preside over the meeting.

The following report of the committee was adopted : " The mem¬ bers of the Bar and officers of the county of Audrain, being shocked to learn of the sudden death at his residence of the Hon. J. B. Mor¬ ris, presiding justice of the county court of Audrain county, a citizen of the county when organized ; a man of large and varied experience ; of sound judgment, undoubted integrity, large public spirit and enterprise, and who had, during a long life, labored for the development, prosperity and happiness of his county and fellowcitizens, - in public meeting at the court-house in Mexico, to con¬ sider of the public loss and private grief, so occasioned, do resolve,

" 1st. That in the death of Judge Morris, the county has lost an honest, faithful and valued servant; the community a kind, hospita¬ ble and precious friend, and his family an example in every domes¬ tic virtue.

"2d. That, as a mark of our sorrow for this public bereavement, we, the members of the bar and officers of Audrain county, attend the funeral services in a body.

" 5th. That John M. Gordon be appointed to present the proceed¬ ings of the meeting to the county court, and ask that they be made a part of the record.

Mansfield & Smith * opened the first grocery in the town, begin¬ ning business soon after Morris & White. A man by the name of Hickman was also one of the early business men. James L. Stephens sold dry goods as early as 1840. He purchased a great many hick¬ ory nuts during the fall of that year - amounting to several hundred bushels - and the price fell to almost nothing. Mr. J. B. Morris, of Mexico, purchased 100 bushels of these nuts for one dollar, and fed them to his hogs.

George W. Turley was among the first merchants. He was a large man physically, but possessed of a kind and genial disposition. He did business for many years. George Muldrow began business in 18 - t and continued for a number of years. Clark & Harrison were among the early and successful merchants ; as business men they were very popular. John Q. Pool, Thomas W. Gant & Co., Hord & Sander, McKee & Jeffreys, A. & C. Cauthorn (succeeded by Cauthorn & Pearson), Northeutt & Co., Henry Williams,' Williams & Reed, Dyer & Fish, N. Lackland, Increase Adams and John G. Coil were among the early merchants. Dr. L. N. Hunter established the first drug store in 1850. Dr. Matthew Walton was the first physician. One of the first blacksmiths in the town was C. R. Ward, who made augurs a specialty. So excellent were they, that they were sought after by a great many men, some of whom resided in other parts of the country. L. L. Ramsey was the proprietor of the first saloon ; his house stood about where E. D. Graham now lives. Thomas Stone was the first cabinet-maker. Fulcher, McGrue, Joseph Ma¬ lory and Mrs. Penny were the earliest school teachers in the town. McGrue died in the town, while his school was in progress.

Report Of Sale Of Lots

On the 5th day of November, 1837, the commissioner for the sale of lots presented his sale-book of the same. The record in reference thereto is as follows : -

This day, Ackley Day, town and county commissioner, presented his sale book of town lots, which was examined by the court and or¬ dered to lie recorded. Whereupon the number of lots sold, the amount they sold for, and the purchaser's name of each lot, read in the words and figures following, to-wit : Eli Smith purchased lot No. 1, in block No. 1, and Eli Smith purchased lot No. 8, in block No. 1, at the price and for the sum of five dollars each.

Lots 6 and 7, in block 6, were reserved for a seminary; lot 2, in block 16, was re¬ served for a market-house; lot 8, in block 21, for a school-house, and the block in the north-west corner of the first addition for a cemetery.

Additions To Mexico First Difficulty

The first difficulty of any note that occurred in the town, took place in March, 1841, on the Tucker corner, where James Hall kept a tav¬ ern. During the night preceding the difficulty several parties were drinking and playing cards in the house ; among these were James Hall and Samuel Dingle. On the following morning, Hall and Dingle had a spirited altercation of words, and finally struck at each other with chairs, which were demolished. Hall threw down his chair, and drew his dirk and struck Dingle several blows, one of them proving fatal - being a stab in the right breast in the region of the nipple. The parties then went out of the house. Hall got into the street. Dingle reached the edge of the porch and took hold of a post and swung himself down to the ground, but in attempting to rise, he sank upon his knees, and then fell forward on his face and expired. Hall was then tried before an examining justice, who held him over to be tried at the next term of the circuit court for murder. A change of venue was granted to Boone county. The sheriff, in company with the prisoner and several guards, started to Boone county, and while on their way thither, the party stopped over at a farmer's house for the night. The night was very dark, and while they were at supper, the prisoner stepped into an adjoining room, where there was an open door leading into the yard. Through this the prisoner swiftly passed, and was never seen or heard of afterwards.

The names of the following witnesses are endorsed upon the back of the old indictment: Avery Hall, Levi Hall, E. B. Hall, B. G. Hall, James L. Stephens, J. B. Hatton, M. Walton, A. Powell, G. W. Turley, D. T. Day.

Mayors Of Mexico Banks And Bankers

The first bank that was established in Mexico was the private bank of A. R. Ringo. A. R. Ringo was the president, and J. E. Dearing was the cashier. He commenced business in 1861, and continued until about the year 1867, when a joint stock company was formed, called the Mexico National Savings Bank. The word "National" was immediately dropped, and the bank thereafter and since that time has been known as the Mexico Savings Bank.

The Mexico Exchange Bank - Was established May 20, 1876, by R. W. Tureman, as president, and R. R. Arnold as cashier. The directors were R. W. Tureman, R. R. Arnold, Edward Rines, B. B. Tureman and James M. Coons. After doing business for seven years, the bank was changed into the First National Bank of Mexico, with thirteen directors, and commenced business under this name February 13, 1883. The names of the directors at this time are R. W. Ture¬ man, president ; R. R. Arnold, cashier.

Statement Op The First National Bank

Mexico Southern Bank - Was organized in 1867. The directors are C. H. Hardin, VY. M. Sims, William Harper, James Callaway and H. A. Ricketts.

Last Official Statement

Paid up capital stock $75,000.00; with surplus of $20,000.00. This bank erected the block in which they do business, upon the south¬ east corner of the square, in 1878, and do a general banking business.

Mexico Hospital

Mexico Hospital, established in 1881, is located on South Jefferson street. It is an institution under the auspices and personal direction of resident physicians of Mexico.

The objects of the society shall be to constitute a representative body of the regular medical profession of the district, which may ad¬ vance the interests and encourage the unity and harmonious action of the entire profession throughout the district ; to suppress empiricism as much as practicable; to restrict the practice of medicine to regu¬ larly qualified graduates ; to develop talent, stimulate medical inven¬ tions and discoveries, and to maintain their rights and immunities as medical men.

The Audrain County Medical Society will celebrate its eleventh an¬ niversary at the Central-Ringo Hotel, Thursday evening, January 17, 1884.

12th. Doctor Hornbrook - Response by Judge J. M. Edwards. 13th. The Physician as a Visitor - Response by Rev. J. C. Armstrong. Parties present on the evening of January 17, 1884, and invited guests: Rev Drs. T. J. Gooch, A. Stoddert. Revs. John Wayman, J. C. Armstrong, J. E. Lee. Elders A. C. Walker, J. F. Llewellyn, Renfro Gibbs, S. S. Craig, L. P. Smothers, C. C. Keoppen. Drs. W. L. Reed, James L. McWilliams, J. T. Neale, Pinckney French, W. H. Lee, S. N. Russell, T. P. Rothwell, W. R. Rhodes, T. J. Baskett, W. V. Walker, A. M. Patterson, S. M. Dodson, J. H. Terrill, W. R. Blankenship, Samuel Welch. Judges W. O. Forrist, S. M. Edwards. T. B. Buckner, prosecuting attorney. J. N. Cross, editor Press ; R. M. White, editor Ledger. Judge J. L. Berry.

Mexico, like all other cities, has had some fires. The two largest and most destructive occurred in the same year ; the first on June 16, 1873, and the second September 7, 1873. The fire of June 16th de¬ stroyed eight business houses. Among these were the buildings of George Kunkle, John Schumacher, J. L. Llewellyn, Daniel Leonard, Mark Roberts and others. The fire in September was the more de¬ structive, consuming some nine or ten business houses with their contents. The damage to buildings and their contents aggregated (both fires) fully $200,000, three fourths of which was covered by insur¬ ance.

Mexico Fire Company Public Schools Of Mexico

We should have been pleased to have written more of the history of the public schools of Mexico, but could not get the records of the same further back than September, 1870.

The schools were organized soon after the Civil War, and were taught in the old seminary building, which occupied the site of the present Hardin College, until the erection and completion of the present beautiful and superb building, which was finished in 1874.

The school board sold the seminary and grounds to Ex-Gov. Charles C. Hardin, in May, 1873, for $3,500. Although the old site of the seminary was a handsome one, the location was considered too far away from the main portion of the city to be convenient for the great majority of the pupils who attended.

The lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, in block 3, county addition, were purchased of B. R. Cauthorn for $1,200, and during the month of September, 1873, the contract for building the new school-house was awarded to George H. Ribbles & Co., for $19,240. The building is three stories in height, and contains twelve rooms beside the basement, all of which are heated by a furnace.

The first superintendent employed by the board, after the school opened in the new building, was Prof. J. C. Davis. The schools have prospered from the beginning, and are growing more and more in favor with the people as they have become convinced of their im¬ measurable utility. The prejudice which at first existed among a few persons against the public school system has gradually died out, until at this time the entire community, and especially that portion of it that has witnessed its practical workings, speak of it in glowing terms of praise.

Mexico City Mills

This mill, owned by Pollock & Co., was* erected in 1879. It is a brick structure, four stories high above basement, with mansard roof. The building is 60x75 feet. Its machinery is propelled by a 60-.horse power engine, built by L. & E. Greenwood, of Cincinnati, Ohio. They use a shell boiler water purifier. Have four French burs, made at St. Louis ; double set of Stephens' rolls, manufactured at Buffalo, N. Y., by the John T. Noye Manufacturing Company; one corrugated roll for bran, three purifiers, one dollman, one Great Western bran duster, one Vandegriff smut mill, one grain separator, one centrifugal flour dressing machine, one Richmond grain cleaner, one pair scales and conveyancer in mansard room, corn-sheller in basement and con- veyancer to garret, thence to cars. The smoke stack of the mill con¬ tains 135,000 brick and is 112 feet high. Work ten men running 12 hours year round ; six months of year run day and night, doing strictly jobing business. Their mill is complete in all its parts. They have corn warehouse and dumper separate from mill, and corn is conveyed to the mill by means of belt.

Missouri And Kansas City Telephone Company

general office, Kansas City. The office in Mexico was granted by American Telephone Company in the autumn of 1881. A franchise was granted to J. A. Glandon, who commenced with 32 subscribers. The office was opened December 1, 1881, with 50 subscribers. In less than 30 days there were 68 subscribers. In June, 1882, this was sold out to the Missouri and Kansas City Telephone Company. Mr. Glandon managed business for them until December, 1882. Rev. Charles E. McClintock is their manager at present.

Below we present a review of the business of Mexico for the year 1874. It is important, because it shows the names of the parties who were doing business in Mexico at that time, how long they had been in business, and what their sales amounted to that year. It also gives something of an insight into the character of the men who were then the merchants and tradesmen of Mexico. We copy from the Messen¬ ger of December, 1874 : -

We lay before our readers and the general public a very extended report of the business of Mexico, "The Prairie City," for the year just closing. It embraces every mercantile house and every manu¬ factory, together with industrial agencies, but of course does not touch upon the business done by any in the learned professions. The aggregate of sales, including the incomes tb banks, and a fair per¬ centage to agents, but not including the amount paid to railroads, express companies and post-office, amounts to $1,546,600.

Essler & (Jo. - The members of this firm are A. S. Essler, Charles Essler and George W. Chase. The Messrs. Essler have been in busi¬ ness in our city but a few weeks, having come here from Macon, Mo. Mr. George Chase is well known as salesman for the last three years for P. W. Harding and H. W. VanGalder. The firm may be said to have already established itself, and is doing a business of $100 a day. They are successors to the popular house of Harding & Humphrey, and retain most of their customers while gaining many new ones. Harding & Humphrey were partners in business for only a year, and during that time did a leading grocery trade, their aggre¬ gate sales amounting to a full $80,000. Mr. Harding had been in ever made more friends in the same length of time, or built up by energy and integrity a better trade. He will remain with Essler & Co. for a few months, till he reduces his books to order and collects numerous outstanding accounts, and then may be expected again in the marts of trade over his own proper cognomen. Mr. Humphrey's future is unsettled, but he will likely form another "partnership" soon.

Barnes dc Winegard. - This firm, as successors to Nelson & Quisenberry - east of the square - have claimed the attention of the mer¬ cantile community for only the last three weeks. Mr. Barnes is an old hand at the bellows, however ; knows what good groceries are and how to sell them. They have a full stock of groceries - staple and fancy - provisions, grain, feed, etc., buy all that conies, pay liberal prices', sell as low as possible, and have encouragement for a large trade. Since they have been in business their sales for a single day have amounted to as much as $200. The firm which they succeed did during the last year a business of fully $30,000.

Null dc Reily. - These gentlemen have recently opened a new stock of groceries and queens ware on the north side of the square. They carry a full stock, are selling carefully to a cash standard, and buy at fair prices all kinds of grain and farming produce. Messrs. Null & Reily are both skillful traders, have a large circle of acquaintances, and are certain to control their proportion¬ ate share of business. For the four weeks that they have been engaged in business their sales have averaged $50 per day - an annual trade of about $17,000.

Wilson <fi Co. - This firm is successor to Null & Wilson, who purchased of S. W. Bickly last spring. Silas Wilson is the head of the house, and is an old and valuable citizen of Mexico, has hosts of friends, and though previously inexperienced in mercantile pur¬ suits, readily takes to the grocery business and is doing well. He carries a well-selected stock, sells reasonably, and is putting out at the rate of $15,000 worth of goods a year.

Casey tfi Billings. - Mt*. T. J. Casey came to our city about a year ago and engaged in business with Mr. Hausdorf. After a few months, becoming dissatisfied, he tried Moberly as a point of trade, but soon becoming still more dissatisfied with that place, returned to Mexico as the El Dorado after all, and resumed the grocery business with Mr. William Billings. They have since been doing a really pleasant business, which is steadily increasing. They keep a full stock of groceries, provisions, grain, etc., and evince much industry and energy. They have attained a reputation for strict integrity, and have many warm friends. Their sales for the last five months they have been in business amount to $9,600, and they fairly estimate $25,000 worth of business in the year.

J. D. Tucker. - Mr. Tucker has been one of Mexico's foremost grocers for seven years past. He now is comfortably ensconced in his handsome new building, south-west corner of the square, occupying both the first and basement stories. He has always done a careful kind of business, selling discreetly to men of undoubted responsibility only, buying for cash and discounting his own bills, and priding him¬ self not only on doing a liberal share of the business but on having an excellent class of customers. His sagacious business habits have, of course, brought their due reward to Mr. Tucker, and a well filled exchequer places him considerably above want. He boasts of being steadily in the business longer than any other present firm, and his trade for the last year amounts to a snug $20,000.

D. Leonard. - This name is a familiar one in Mexico, he having resided here 18 years and being well known in business circles for the last ten years. Always successful, the fire of June, 1873, swept away the honest earnings of many years, and left him simply a good name and a stout heart. For the last year he has been in the grocery trade, and has done a fair business. In the past three months it has vastly increased, and has more than doubled on what it was pre¬ viously. He is now doing his full share, and the prospects for the next year are second to no other house in the city. His sales for 1874 amount to a net $12,000.

Bush. - James M. Bush, east side of the square, leads in his line of business, groceries and provisions. He also deals in grain and seeds, and farmers at his store find a certain market for all the kinds of produce they raise. Mr. Bush has been in business in our city for the past seven years, and no merchant has made a more creditable record for integrity and fair dealing. His sales for 1874 foot up be¬ tween $30,000 and $35,000.

Bassford & Co. - Mr. Bassford has been in the grocery business in Mexico, with interruptions, for nine years. He has a faithful line of tried and true customers who furnish him a steady and remunera¬ tive trade. The store of this firm on the south side of the square is well filled with groceries, queensware, willow and wooden ware, and other goods appropriate to their line, making this one of the largest stocks of the kind in town. They estimate their sales for the year at $27,000.

Morris. - T. T. Morris - the " Dollar Man " - has lately moved into his new building on Jefferson street, south of the square, and added to his stock of dollar goods a handsome stock of family gro¬ ceries. He is now doing a thriving trade, and while in business only about ten months in the year, his sales have amounted to $8,000.

Mori'is. - W. A. Morris was severely scorched by the fire of last June and thrown out of business till a week or two ago. He has re¬ sumed the grocery trade now in Dr. RothwelFs new store on Jefferson street, and has a small but select lot of staple groceries and provis¬ ions. During the six months of the year that he has been in busi¬ ness his sales have summed up about $11,000.

H. W. VanGalder. - This individual manages the oldest grocery house in Mexico, having been in business for the last eight years. His trade has always been fair, as he is considered a good judge of goods, a close buyer and a careful seller. He has warm friends and devoted customers who have adhered to him during all these years. We esti¬ mate his yearly trade at $18,000.

John Bickley. - This gentleman has been engaged in the grocery trade here for the last six years, and by integrity and straight-forward dealing has established a remunerative business. He keeps one of the largest grocery stocks in the city, and deals in grains, seeds, pro¬ visions, and, in fact, everything the farmers have to sell or the people want. His sales for the year 1874 amount to between $20,000 and $25,000.

Fowler cfi Coons. - This firm has been in business in this city for only about seven months. They are pleasantly located on the south side of the square, keep a general stock of staple and fancy groceries, and control a large trade from both Audrain and Callaway counties. Their trade for the length of time they have been in business figures up to the flattering sum of $18,000 worth, promising a yearly aggre¬ gate of more than $25,000.

Rawlings & Bourne were engaged in the grocery business, opposite the Ringo House, until the June fire, their business in 1874 till that time amounting to about $8,000.

Dry Goods

Williams & Reed. - This firm conducts the largest business of any house in the city. It occupies a mammoth store on the north side of the square, and has two stories well filled with dry goods, millinery, notions, boots and shoes, ready-made clothing, etc. Mr. Williams is next to the oldest merchant in Mexico, having come here when Mexico was but a cross-roads post-office, and having been in business for more than twenty years. Their establishment now gives employment to eight hands. Their sales in the briskest seasons often amount to from five to seven hundred dollars a day, and their cash sales during the year amount, in round numbers, to $80,000.

Johnson & Maddox. - One of the best stocks of goods and one of the best arranged stores in Mexico is that of Johnson & Maddox, now in West & Kabrich's new building. They keep an elegant stock of dry goods, notions, boots and shoes, hats, etc., and make piece goods and ladies' tine dress goods a specialty. Their business has very much increased during the year. The house is becoming widely known and very popular, and promises to do its equitable proportion of the business in future. Its sales for 1874 sum up from $23,000 to $25,000.

Woodward. - Mr. William H. Woodward has been in the dry goods business in our city since 1866. During the last year he has kept a reduced stock and has not crowded the business as in former years, his sales amounting to only $25,000, while heretofore they have reached $40,000. His stock now consists of dry goods, clothing, notions, millinery and boots and shoes. He keeps an excellent class of woods, and has always proved himself a discriminating buyer as well as a liberal and fair dealer. He is so much encouraged with the future outlook that he will be on hand for 1875 with an increased stock, claiming his equal share of all the business done.

Martin. - Septimus Martin commenced the dry goods trade in this city last spring. After a few months the fire reduced his store to ashes, but within 60 days he had resumed business in a new and solid brick structure, and for the last three months has driven a brisk and pleasant business. His assortment consists of dry goods, boots and shoes, notions, hats and caps, queen's- ware and a limited stock of family groceries. He is well liked and is building up a handsome

H. Jacobson. - This gentleman has been in the dry goods business in this city only since the 15th of October last. His store has gen¬ erally been thronged with customers, and he may be said already to have established himself in a good business. He keeps dry goods, notions, boots and shoes and furnishing goods, has enterprise and plenty of push, and his business since opening amounts to $3,500, or an estimated yearly business of more than $17,000.

West & Kabricli. - These gentlemen have lately taken possession of the handsome store-room in their new building, south-west corner of the square - one of the largest and best dry goods rooms in the State, outside of St. Louis. They keep an extensive assortment of drygoods, notions, hats and caps, boots and shoes, and a small but select stock of groceries. The firm has been engaged in business in Mexico for the last five years, and has done a liberal share of busi¬ ness. During the last year their business has amounted to $30,000.

W. W. Harper & Co. - This firm keeps a full stock of miscella¬ neous wares - dry goods, clothing, boots, hats, etc., on the north¬ east corner of the square. They deal largely in wool and trade for all kinds of country produce. During the eleven months that they have been in business their cash sales have amounted to $36,000. They do a careful business, sell cheap, and employ in all about six hands. Their trade promises to be much larger next year.

J. E. Stewart. - Mr. J. E. Stewart, north-east corner of the square, keeps a miscellaneous stock of dry goods, notions, boots and shoes, hats and caps, clothing, queen's-ware and groceries. He does a careful and conservative business and does a fair amount of trade, his sales amounting to some $28,000 or $30,000 in the past year. He has been in business in this city for the last eight years, is widely known and has warm friends.

Ricketts & Co. - This firm, on the east side of the square, has a stock ot miscellaneous goods - drygoods, boots and shoes, hats and caps, queen's-ware, etc. They have done a smooth and steady busi¬ ness, doing it quietly and unostentatiously, and their annual trade has been about eighteen or twenty thousand dollars. They have been in continuous business under the firm name since 1868. The death of Mr. Joseph Ricketts, a few months ago, led to the closing up of the estate and the discontinuance of business.

si general line of dry goods, boots and shoes, groceries and queen' sware. They take in exchange all kinds of country produce, and their customers come from all over Audrain and many portions of the adjoining counties. They have been in business in Mexico for the last nine years, and their trade is gradually on the increase. They give employment to four men regularly, and their sales for the year crowd hard on $40,000.

Ricketts & Emmons. - A very popular dry goods firm, command¬ ing one of the largest trades in the city, is that of Ricketts & Emmons, south side of the square. Their assortment includes boots and shoes, hats, gloves, queen's-ware and groceries. They buy large quantities of farming produce, and estimate the year's business at $40,000 to $50,000.

Scharlach & Hall. - The firm keeps one of the largest and neatest drug stores in North-east Missouri. They are located on the west side of the square, do a large retail trade with many of our best physicians and families, and have been engaged somewhat during the year in wholesaling to smaller towns. Mr. Scharlach is a skillful druggist, having been educated to that and the profession of physician in Germany, his native land. He has been in his present occupation for the last score and more of years, and for three years in this city. Mr. Hall has been long a resident of Mexico, and for the last year a member of this firm ; by intelligent attention to the details of the business he has become proficient. The house is doing an annual business of $10,000 to $12,000. Their trade is chiefly confined to prescriptions, drugs and toilet articles.

J. F. Llewellyn. - One of the squarest dealers, one of the politest business men of Mexico, is J. F. Llewellyn, druggist - west of the court-house. He has been in the business in this place during the last six years. Twice a sufferer by fire, he was nothing daunted by disaster, and his good nature and popularity never forsook him during those dark days. He is thoroughly educated in his profession. To a full stock of drugs and medicines he adds paints, oils and window glass, which he makes an important branch of his trade. His busi¬ ness for 1874 will fall not short of $12,000.

White & Craig. - This firm occupies a prominent store-room on *( the Ringo corner " - and has the best arranged and neatest appear¬ ing drug house in the city. This firm is confined quite exclusively to a drug and prescription business, and in this line alone do a trade amounting to about $10,000 a year. Mr. White is a graduate of a pharmaceutical institution, and an adept in his profession. The firm will soon remove to more spacious quarters in Fowles' new building and make arrangements to increase the extent ot its business.

Patterson. - A. M. Patterson, south-east corner public square, keeps a general drug store and deals in paints, oils, glass, etc. He is an experienced physician and druggist and understands his business well. He now owns the proprietary of Reed's hair dye, and is manufacturing and shipping it quite widely. His sales for 1874 will foot up between $12,000 and $14,000.

P. M. Morris. - This gentleman occupies a neat and commodious store-room slightly away from the business center, on the corner of Promenade and Jefferson streets, and has a mixed stock of drugs, medicines, books, stationery, groceries and fruits. Mr. Morris is familiar with the business wants of Mexico, having been engaged in business here for the last ten years, and is, therefore, one of the oldest merchants in the city. He is a man of scrupulous honesty, exact in his dealings and favorably esteemed. His sales for the past year amount to about $15,000.

E . /S. Frost & Co. - This firm keeps a general stock of drugs and medicines on the south-west corner of the square. Mr. Frost was not born in a drug store, but has been in business for the last eleven years (since a mere lad), and understands it thoroughly. The firm is com¬ posed ol courteous gentlemen, who always greet their customers with a smile and make them happy by selling them goods cheap. Their business for 1874 tallies about $6,000 worth.

Hardware

Gleason. - Mexico has two excellent hardware stores. That of H. W. Gleason, on the west side of the square, is well filled with stoves, tin-ware, hardware, cutlery, and such like, as well as the smaller kinds of agricultural implements. The house has dealt but little during the last year in the heavier class of farming implements. It has sold about 250 stoves and has done 29,924 square feet of tin roofing and 2,000 feet ol guttering. Indeed, Mr. Gleason makes roofing, gutter¬ ing and tin-work a specialty, and keeps the best of mechanics and builder's tools. He has supplied most of the builders of Mexico with builder s hardware, and keeps none but the best of goods in all departments. His sales for the year amount to an even $30,000.

G. D. Ferris. They have a four-story building with large basement, on the east side of the square, filled from the ground to the highest loft with hardware, tin-ware, stoves, queen's-ware, and agricultural implements. They deal quite largely in the latter class of goods, selling more plows, cultivators, corn planters, reapers, etc., than all other houses in town. They have done considerable wholesaling during the year, having wholesaled in a single month $3,000 worth of goods. They buy their goods largely by car load. They have been occupied in business in our city for the last ten months, but during that time have laid broad and deep the foundation for a large future business. Their average stock on hand is about $18,000, and their sales, wholesale and retail, aggregate the grand total for 1874 of $60,000.

M'Kean. - S. L. M'Kean is the gentlemanly proprietor of a gun¬ smith shop, on Jefferson street, north of the square. He repairs all kinds of fire-arms and sewing machines, and keeps on sale guns, pistols and ammunition. He does a small but comfortable business, amounting to $2,000 in the past twelve months.

Furniture

Lupton & Potts. - These gentlemen have a large stock of furniture and cabinet ware, and occupy a handsome store-room on the north-west corner of the square. They buy largely and sell on favorable terms at only a moderate advance. Mr. Lupton has been in business in Mexico for the last seventeen years, and is widely known and respected. Mr. Potts is a native of Missouri, and one of the first residents of Mexico. They deserve a liberal support in business, and are receiving it to the extent of $12,000 or $15,000 annually.

W. T. Cardwell. - "Buck" is a capital fellow, and knows what good furniture is, for he has been all his life a " workman in wood." He occupies a large store-room north side of the square, and keeps a full line of upholstery, cabinet ware, coffins, etc. Anything in his line can be had of him, for he is enterprising, and if he hasn't got it, will send after it to accommodate a customer. He business is grad¬ ually gaining and extending, and aggregates some $12,000 to $15,000 during the year 1874.

Farmers dc Traders. - This bank occupies its own building on north side of the square. It has been in business but little over two years. During the last six months the business has increased a full 50 per cent, and its deposits now amount to about $60,000 per month. Its paid up capital is $50,000 and its outstanding loans about $80,000. The bank may now be said to be well established, and doing a profit¬ able and daily increasing business.

Southern Bank. - This bank was organized in 1869, and the stock¬ holders have built a handsome bank building east of the court-house. Its capital stock all paid in is $100,000 ; its average deposits for the past year amount to something over $40,000 per month, and its loans to $120,000. Its interest and exchange account for 1874 will be $15,000. The taxes paid by this bank this year are $3,200 - quite a revenue to the county. The institution is doing a good business, but making little mone}'.

Savings Bank. - This is the oldest banking institution in Mexico, being the legitimate successor of the old Exchange Bank, and under its present name has done business since the 1st of Jnty, 1869. It now has a capital and surplus of $85,000, and its deposits now are $80,000, but this is somewhat above the average. Its loans amount to about $120,000. The bank is well established in the hearts and on the substantial pocket-books of a host of friends, and is promised its due share of future business. .

Clothing

Frank. - Mr. I. Frank, on the west side of the square, keeps a large stock of ready-made clothing, hats and caps and gentlemen's furnishing goods. He has been in the business circles of Mexico for nearly seven years, and distinguished himself as a fair and honorable dealer. He is a modest man, makes little noise in the world, but has a reputation for keeping a good article of clothing and selling it at fair and just rates. His business for 1874 amounts to a round $15,000. '

Phillip. - One of the livest merchants of Mexico is Louis Phillip, the clothier. He is a close buyer and a shrewd salesman, keeps a good stock of excellent goods, and does a large trade. His sales for 1874 amount to between $23,000 and $24,000. He has been in Mex¬ ico tor the last half dozen years.

Harness And Saddles

Ryerson. - A. F. Ryerson has a handsome and excellent stock at his sales-room, north side of the square, second story. He manufac¬ tures largely and uses none but the very best material. His goods have attained a favorable reputation in all parts of Audrain and ad¬ joining counties ; the Ryerson horse collar, especially, has given the best of satisfaction and is in universal demand. Mr. Ryerson has been in business here for about five years, and his sales amount to some $6,000 or $8,000 per annum.

Pasqueth. - The oldest business house in Mexico is James Pasqueth - dealer in harness, saddles, trunks, whips, etc. - on east side of the square, he having been in business here for the last 25 years. It may with truth be said that he has made most of the sets of harness ever used within a circuit of 25 miles of Mexico, and scarcely a com¬ plaint was ever made of inferior quality or deception in any particular. He is an industrious, frugal, reliable mechanic and merchant, employs about four men continually, and has sold $10,000 worth during the last year.

Millinery

Mi's. Shootman - On north-east corner of the square, does the lead¬ ing millinery and dress-making business in the city. She has spacious rooms and a fine stock of all kinds of notions for ladies' and children's wear, from a necktie to a pattern for a baby's bib. She is also agent for Madame Demorest's patterns, and does a thriving business in the line of stylish dress-making. Mrs. Shootman has been engaged in this department of business for the last eleven years, and her annual sales amount to $3,000.

Mrs. Harding - Is an experienced milliner, one of the tastiest and most fashionable in Mexico, and occupies a modest suite of rooms on north side of public square. She has been occupied in the business in this city for the last seven years, has built up a handsome trade, and always gives the highest degree of satisfaction to her customers. She keeps a select stock of millinery goods, notions, hair goods and ladies toilet articles, and estimates her trade at $2,500 for the past year.

Mrs. Scott, Guy and Mountfort - Do a millinery business in the West & Kabrich building, second story, but have been engaged in it only a few weeks. Their prospects for trade are fair.

Mrs. Rodman - Has millinery rooms over Mr. Martin's store, and has been in business since last spring. She employs one assistant, and her trade will fall not far short of $1,500 a year.

Mrs. Maupin - Over Ricketts & Emmons', does a general millinery business, keeps a small but select stock of goods, employs one assist¬ ant, and her business amounts to about $1,000 in the year.

Mrs. Carroll - Has a neat millinery and dress-making establishment near the north-east corner of the square, is admitted to be a lady of excellent taste, and does a fair proportion of the trade in her line ; without definite figures, we presume it does not fall short of $2,000 a year.

Books And Stationery

Mexico boasts of one good book and stationery store - that of Sal¬ lee & Brooks, south side of the square. They keep a full line of school books, blank books, stationery, wall paper, picture frames and a fine circulating library. The proprietors are affable young gentle¬ men, and they do a pleasant trade, aggregating about $10,000 or $12,000 in the year just closing.

Jewelry

Beck. - The handsomest, gaudiest jewelry store in Mexico is the old and popular one of James H. Beck, in the Morris & Cauthorn building. Mr. Beck has been in business here for thirteen successive years, and has all this time done a prosperous trade. He keeps a large assortment of goods in his line, and his recommendations as to quality are always to be depended on. His sales during 1874 amount to $9,000.

MCIntyre. - Mr. W. B. McIntyre occupies cosy quarters in the elegant store-room at the " Ringo corner," and keeps a full assort¬ ment of jewelry, clocks, watches and silver ware. He employs none but competent workmen, is said to sell goods cheap, and is doing a fair share of the business in his line. He has been in our city for only a year, but has laid the basis of a large future trade.

Pilcher. - Mark Pilcher, south side of the square, keeps a largQ and varied assortment of jewelry, silver ware, clocks, watches, etc., and has lately been adding a stock of chromos. He is a good mechanic, a young man of much business energy, and is bound to succeed. His sales for the year just closing are $9,000.

Wagon-Making

D earing . - Mr. J. W. Dearing has been engaged in the business of making and repairing wagons in Mexico for the last fourteen years. During 1874 he has done little new work, his time being more profit¬ ably employed on repairs. He moderately estimates his income from this source at $25 a week, about $1,200 per year. He is known to bo

Nelson & Quisenberry. - This firm were engaged in the manufacture of lumber wagons at the Tincher shops, in this city, for about four months during the last half year. They employed principally handpower, and made fifty wagons, worth $3,000. Tincher & Co. were engaged in making and repairing prior to that, and the total value of work done during 1874 is estimated to be $5,000.