Biographical Sketch of Joseph Mathers, Center 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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Joseph Mathers, farmer and stock raiser, section 35, post office
Willow Brook, is one of the early settlers of the township. He was
born in Belmont county, Ohio, December 12, 1822, and resided there
and in Harrison County till he was eighteen years of age, when he
came to Missouri with a Dr. Townsend, who settled in Crawford Town-
ship, and for whom he sold goods about a year. Then he returned to
Ohio, and at the expiration of another year, in company with his
father, again visited Missouri, settling in Crawford Township. At
the beginning of the Mexican War he was employed in the government
service, freighting stores to a line of forts then being established
across the mountains in Oregon. On April 22, 1849, he married Miss
Sarah Underwood, daughter of William Underwood, a resident of
Bloomington Township. In 1850, he visited Oregon and California,
returning via Panama and New Orleans in 1852 to Buchanan County, MO,
where he had a good farm. During the civil war he served in the
Union Army two years as Lieutenant in a company of Buchanan County
Militia. He was elected county assessor in 1866 and again in 1868.
Mr. Mathers has a family of eight children living: James, Mary H.,
Emily J., John W., Franklin O., Alexander S., Lizzie E., and Arthur.
In politics he is a Republican, and during the war was a member of
the Union League and of the G.A.R.

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