Biographical Sketch of Otho J. Hurley - Andrew County, Missouri >From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com) ********************************************************************** Otho J. Hurley, postmaster at Savannah, MO., and editor and proprietor of "The Democrat", was born at Hagerstown, MD., and educated at Mount St. Mary's College, near Emmettsburg, in that State. At the breaking out of the war he was studying law with Hon. R. H. Alvey, the present presiding justice of the supreme court of Maryland, and after the present presiding justice of the supreme court of Maryland, and after completing his studies in 1862 he entered the Confederate army, joining Company K, First Virginia Cavalry, which company, during the latter part of the war, was transferred to the First Maryland Cavalry, the captain of Company K being commissioned colonel of the regiment. At the time of Lee's surrender Mr. Hurley was acting adjutant of the regiment. After the war he returned to his home in Maryland, and remained there until June, 1867, when he started west, stopping in Indiana, where he remained between five and six years, engaged for the greater part of the time in teaching. He married an Indiana lady, and went to St. Louis, where he remained during the winter of 1872 and spring of 1873. In October, 1873, he located in Savannah, and in August, 1876, established "The Democrat", a weekly newspaper, Democratic in politics, which he still edits. His appointment as postmaster at Savannah he received on the 14th of January, 1886.