Caldwell County MO Archives History .....CHESTER I. LONG  U.S. SENATOR FROM KANSAS FORMER HAMILTON  
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CHESTER I. LONG  U.S. SENATOR FROM KANSAS FORMER HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL PUPIL
          Narrators:  Frank Filson of Okla., Mrs. Belle Aplin, 
                      and Minnie Ogden of Hamilton

     Mr. Filson said that he remembered Senator Chester I. Long very well.  He 
attended the Hamilton High School in the years 1875-6.  He came down from 
Daviess county.  He was about 18 or 19 years old, for pupils were older then 
in high school.  His home was somewhere near Winston.  He was under Professor 
D.M. Ferguson and being a lad after Uncle Davy's heart, he was one of his 
favorite pupils.  The pupils liked him too.  They did not call him Chester 
then but Isaiah, his middle name.
     He batched it, when he attended school with two or three other boys 
somewhere in his home vicinity.  That meant that his home folks provided the 
provisions and the boys did a little warming over or even cooking in their 
room.  They roomed in Wm. Evans' home afterwards the Wm. Austin home near the 
Dr. Lindley brick.  "We had no idea of future greatness in him then." his 
classmates all say.  One of his former classmates Sam L. Filson lived in 
Kansas in his congressional district and recognized him in a political 
campaign.  Professor Ferguson his teacher here, visited Mr. Long in Washington 
by his invitation and the latter by Prof Ferguson's influence was made an 
honorary member of the Hamilton High School alumni, altho he did not finish 
the course.
     Minnie Ogden said that as a student he was quiet and retiring and a model 
pupil, no inclination for sports or girls.  He was a veritable farm boy, raw 
boned and tall.  He was a member of B class (next to highest) when Miss Ogden 
was in the same.  Mr. Long was reared on section 10 of Jefferson county in 
Daviess county, the farm being for years owned by his brother W.C. Long.  Mrs. 
Belle Eggleston Aplin who lived here in town a long time, at that time lived 
with her parents on an adjoining farm to young Long and knew Chester 
or "Isaiah" well, and her brother Olin Eggleston married a niece of the 
senator Miss Mary White.
     Interviews  1933-5.


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