Barton County, Missouri Biographies - Capt. M. Breeden
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889 Published By Goodspeed-Pgs. 859, 860

Capt. M. Breeden is one of the earliest settlers of 
Barton County, Mo., having located near where Golden 
City now stands in 1856.  He is a native of Putnam 
County, Ind., and was born January 28, 1830.  His 
father, who was a shoemaker by trade, and also a 
farmer, emigrated to Missouri In 1840, settling near 
Springfield, where our subject grew to manhood, and 
December 16, 1850, married Miss L. R. Ward, a native of 
Virginia.  He engaged in farming in Greene County, Mo., 
until 1856, when he removed to Barton County, settling 
one mile southeast of Golden City, where he entered 200 
acres of land, which he improved.  At that time the 
inhabitants of the county numbered not more than one 
hundred.  Mr. Breeden made this his home until the 
outbreak of the war, when he enlisted, April 1, 1861, 
serving as a scout until the battle of Wilson's Creek, 
when he went to Fort Scott, Kan., making that his 
headquarters, and acting in the same capacity, under 
Lane and Montgomery, until March, 1862; he then 
returned to Missouri, and raised Company G, Fourteenth 
Missouri State Militia, of which he was chosen captain.  
This company was subsequently consolidated with 
another, and Mr. Breeden became Captain of Company L, 
Eighth Missouri Regiment, where he served until the 
close of the war.  He then returned to Lawrence County, 
Mo., where he remained two years, and then located on 
his farm in Barton County, where he has since lived.  
He is now serving his fifth term as justice of the 
peace, and is serving his sixth term as Post Commander 
of the G. A. R.  Capt. Breeden has always taken an 
active part in public affairs, and is a leading citizen 
of the county.  He now owns a fine farm of 115 acres, 
and is at present devoting considerable attention to 
the real estate and loaning business at Golden City.  
His first wife died in 1862, the mother of five 
children; of whom John is a farmer in Dade County, Mo; 
Elizabeth (deceased); George D., a farmer of Lawrence 
County, Mo.; Delaney, a widow, living at Pittsburg, 
Kan.; and James, who died in childhood.  Mr. Breeden 
afterward married Margaret C. White, a native of Polk 
County, Mo., and eight children have been born to this 
union, viz.; Virginia, an accomplished musician, who 
died in March, 1886, aged twenty years; Abraham L., who 
died at the age of ten years; Lydia Belle, deceased in 
childhood; Sherman, now in St. Louis, Mo; Jackson, 
Peter Cooper and Alice, all at home; and Russell, who 
died in childhood.
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