Caldwell County MO Archives History .....THE ESTABROOK FAMILY IN BRECKENRIDGE TOWNSHIP 1867 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Karen Walker khw4@yahoo.com August 30, 2008, 4:06 pm

THE ESTABROOK FAMILY IN BRECKENRIDGE TOWNSHIP 1867

     Edward Wilson Estabrook and his wife Mary E. Wagner came into Caldwell 
County 1867 and settled on a farm near Breckenridge now owned and operated by 
a son Wilson and a grand son Edward.  E.W. was born 1827 in Massachusetts and 
was a cabinet maker by trade.  First he tried his work in Wisconsin but moved 
from there to Caldwell County in the land and building boom of 1867-8.  The 
father died in 1885 and the mother 1900.  The sons Elery and Wilson went to 
Wolf Grove school near their home and Elery afterwards was a school director 
there.
     The house occupied by the Estabrook family was built 1884.  The sons by 
the instruction of their carpenter father cut, sawed, and planed native oak 
for the frame work and burnt rock to use in the plaster of the house.  It is 
still in fine condition and shows what people can make out of materials 
already on their place.
     The Estabrooks now own a stock farm of 540 acres near Breckenridge and 
are breeders of Ramboulette sheep of which they usually have 600 head.  This 
pioneer Estabrook family has made a name for themselves far beyond the limits 
of Caldwell County.  When a family sees its fourth generation in one community 
like the Estabrooks one can call it a well established family.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/caldwell/history/other/estabroo79gms.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mofiles/

File size: 1.9 Kb