Barton County, Missouri Biographies-William M. MAJOR

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Page 923

William M. Major, farmer, stockman, and grain and hay merchant at Kenoma,
Mo., was born in Polk County, Mo., March 2, 1842, being a son of Alfred
and Agnes (Adams) Major, a history of whom is given in the sketch of
Benjamin P. Major.  He was reared in St. Clair County, Ill., and was
married at Lebanon of that State to Miss Elizabeth Rowlett, who was born
in 1842, and died in Golden City, Mo., in 1878, having borne five children,
who are also deceased.  After his marriage Mr. Major resided and farmed
in St. Clair County, Ill., until 1877, when he came to Barton County, 
Mo., and lived near Golden City two years, moving to his present farm
in the fall of 1880, where he first engaged in sheep raising, having at
one time as many as a thousand head.  After a time he gave up this work 
and turned his attention to general farming, and is now the owner of 280
acres of land.  Since 1886 he has been engaged in shipping grain and hay
at Kenoma, and owns a large hay barn, and an interest in a mill.  He 
ships South about twenty tons of prairie hay per day, and has shipped 
timothy hay as far South as Augusta, Ga.  Mr Major took for his second 
wife Mrs. Mollie E. Gray, who was born in Holt County, Mo., in 1852, and
by her has the following children: Peter (deceased), Agnes, Jennie, Roy
and Willie.  Mr. Major is a Democrat in his political views.

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