Biographical Sketch of Edward M. Trotter, Tremont 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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Edward M. Trotter, section 21, post office Frazer, was born in Guilford
County, North Carolina, September 9, 1812.  His father was a soldier of
the War of 1812.  He was raised within seven miles of Greensboro, North
Carolina, and at the age of nineteen began to learn the trade of carri-
age making, at Jamestown, in his native county.  He was married January
5, 1835, to Miss Nancy Johnson, a native of Randolph County, North Car-
olina.  She was born in 1817.  He emigrated to Missouri in 1839, settl-
ing first in Caldwell County, whence he moved to Clinton County and in
1841, to Buchanan County.  He entered eighty acres of land, under the
state right, on Platte River, in Tremont Township.  He then possessed 
but slender means.  Working hard at farming, he, occasionally as a 
matter of accommodation, repaired wagons for his neighbors.  He also
farmed two years on Casteel Creek.  In 1858, he purchased the 200 acre
farm on which he now lives.  Originally an old line Whig, on the demise
of his party, he joined the Republican ranks.  On landing in Missouri,
his entire cash capital amounted to but fifteen dollars.  His subsequent
means were acquired by his own personal efforts.  Mr. Trotter and wife 
are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  They have raised 
five orphan children.

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