Biographical Sketch of Joel Grable, Jackson Township, 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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Joel Grable, farmer and merchant, section 26, postoffice Platte River.
The subject of this sketch has been a very successful man all through
life.  He was born July 26, 1816, in Wayne County, Ohio.  Emigrated to
Buchanan County, Missouri in 1843, returned to Ohio in 1844, then to
Missouri in 1845, returning to Ohio in the same year, and remained un-
til after the Mexican War, at the close of which he located permanently
where he now resides, in Buchanan County.  He was a builder and carder
by profession.  He had a carding factory in Bretz's Mill, which was 
consumed by fire in the winter of 1845.  He rebuilt in 1848, and con-
tinued business until 1860, when he sold out.  Since 1860, he has been
engaged in farming and stock raising.  October 12, 1840, he was married
to Miss Elizabeth Beals, a native of Wayne County, Ohio.  They had but
one child, it and mother died.  On October 12, 1848, he married Delilah
Seal, born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  By this union they have 
had three children: Odilin B., Cornelia A., Algernian S.  He owns 214
acres of land, all under a good state of cultivation, with good house
and barn thereon.  He has donated liberally to the building of school
houses, always assisting the needy.  On March 23, 1881, he formed a
partnership in general merchandise, under the firm name of Grable & 
Henshaw.  Cornelia A. was married December 23, 1879 to Joseph A. Hen-
shaw, who was born May 14, 1855, in Clay County, Missouri.  He was a
farmer until twenty one, since maturity a business man.

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