Biographical Sketch of Charles Chesnut, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Charles Chesnut, of the firms of Chesnut & Son, dealers in stoves
and tinware, C. & P. E. Chesnut, grocers, and C. & P. E. Chesnut,
livery.  Few of the representative business men of St. Joseph have
been more actively engaged in various branches of industry than
Charles Chesnut.  He is a native of Laurel County, Kentucky, and
was born in 1834.  His father Abraham, was among the early settlers
of that state, and died when Charles was young.  In 1850, our sub-
ject came to Missouri, locating in Chariton County, where he was
raised to manhood and educated.  His boyhood days were spent in
tilling the soil.  In 1863, he became a resident of Buchanan County,
farming one year, after which he located in Platee County, residing
there until 1865, when we find him in St. Joseph, engaged in the
grocery trade, which he still pursues with a considerable degree of
success.  In 1876, he became the senior member of the firm of C. &
P. E. Chesnut, liverymen.  In 1851, Miss Mary E. Blakely, a native
of Kentucky, became his wife, and by this union they have one son
living, William, a promising young gentleman, and the junior member
of the firm.  Mr. Chesnut is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
being a Master Mason and a member of the Chapter, and also a Forester.

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