Biographical Sketch of Thomas H. Ensor - Andrew County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888

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Thomas H. Ensor, one of the leading young members of the Andrew County
bar, and a citizen of Savannah, MO., is a native of Baltimore County,
MD., where he was born on November 13, 1856.  He is the son of Joseph
and Lavina (Boring) Ensor.  Joseph was born in Baltimore, in October,
1823, and is the son of Nicholas Ensor, who was also a native of
Baltimore.  The latter was the son of Nathan, whose parents came to
America with Lord Baltimore, and for them one of the streets in the
original plat of that city was named - Ensor.  They Ensors were of a
mercantile class, yet Nathan served in the Revolutionary War, and 
Nicholas in the War of 1812.  Joseph, the father, has followed
merchandising all his life, up to 1868, when he removed to Nodaway
County, MO., where he now resides.  Lavina Boring was born in 1821, on
Commodore Barney's manor, in Baltimore County, MD.  She was a 
descendant of the Commodore, and is the daughter of Richard Boring
and Catherine (Wheeler) Boring, both of whom were nativees of Baltimore
County, MD.  The Wheelers are immediate descendants of Commodore Barney,
and are at present a prominent family of that county.  Both parents are
living.  Until his eleventh year our subject lived in Baltimore County,
and then with his parents came to Nodaway County, MO.  His early 
education was acquired in the common schools, but in 1873 he entered 
the Missouri State Normal, which he attended for three years.  In 1876
he began the study of law in the office of I.V. McMillan, in Nodaway
County.  The same year he came to Andrew County, began teaching school,
and continued regularly for three years, meanwhile studying law with
Col. L. I. White, of Maryville.  Also, while pursuing his studies, he
was for a year and a half engaged in the mercantile business in Nodaway
County.  Although he was admitted to the bar of Andrew County in April,
1881, he taught the Fillmore school a year, and then taught in the
Savannah school half a term.  Resigning his position, he entered the
circuit clerk's office at Savannah, where he remained for three years.
He then purchased the practice, office and library of William W. Caldwell,
and engaged in the practice of his profession.  Soon after he formed a 
partnership with W. B. Allen, in the loan and abstract business, under
the firm name of Allen & Ensor.  He was married, April 3, 1879, to 
Maggie J. Phillippe.  She was born in Boone County, MO., September 13,
1861, and is the daughter of Hiram Phillippe.  To them two children
have been born- J. Guy, a boy of seven years, and LuLu E., a girl of 
four.  He is a brother of Dr. E. B. Ensor, who is a citizen of Savannah,
MO. also, and engaged in the practice of medicine at that place.