Barton County, Missouri Biographies-J. M. HERLOCKER

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 903, 904

J. M. Herlocker, one of Barton County's prosperous merchants, was born
in the State of Pennsylvania in 1842, and made his home with his father
until twenty years of age, when he joined the Eighty-fourth Illinois
Infantry, Company F, under Col. Waters, and served until receiving his
discharge in June, 1865, having been in the engagements at Perryville,
Danville, Stone River, Chickamauga, where he was wounded in the leg by
a gun-shot, Franklin and Nashville.  After the war he taught school
until about 1881 in Illinois and Missouri, coming to the latter State
in 1878, and purchased a partially improved farm in Newport Township.
Then he engaged in his present business, his stock of goods being 
valued at from $3,000 to $4,000.  He is doing a thriving trade, and has 
increased his capital about $3,000 his annual sales amounting to $6,000.  
In 1881 he was married to Miss Ida M. Hickman, of Pennsylvania, by whom 
he has two children, Bertha and Reed.  Mr. Herlocker is a Democrat
politically, and has served his party as justice of the peace and 
township trustee.  His early opportunities for acquiring an education 
were not of the best, but by self-application he became a well educated
man, and acquired a thorough knowledge of public affairs.  His parents,
Josiah and Margaretta (Swartz) Herlocker, were born in Pennsylvania in
1807 and 1817, respectively, and the former has always taken a deep
interest in church work, being, as was his wife, a member of the 
Christian Church.  They were married in 1834, and were engaged in 
agricultural pursuits in Pennsylvania until about 1849, when they moved
to Illinois, and settled on a farm in McDonough County.  He is now 
eighty-three years of age, but is yet strong and active, and has recently
gone on a visit to his old home in Illinois, a distance of about 500 miles.  Five of his
eight children are living: Mary J., wife of W. A. Griffin, of McDonough
County, Ill,; Henry in Marshall County, Iowa; J. M.; George, also of
Marshall County, Iowa; and D. A. a druggist, of Fulton County, Ill.  The
mother of these children died in December, 1887.

====================================================================
     USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing
         free information on the Internet, data may be used by
         non-commercial entities, as long as this message
         remains on all copied material. These electronic
         pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit
         or for presentation by other persons or organizations.

         Persons or organizations desiring to use this material
         for purposes other than stated above must obtain the
         written consent of the file contributor.

         This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb
         Archives by: Kay Griffin Snow <kgsno@primary.net>
====================================================================