Caldwell County MO Archives History .....HAMILTON IN THE MIDDLE AND LATE SIXTIES 1934
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HAMILTON IN THE MIDDLE AND LATE SIXTIES
	Narrator:  Mrs. Mary Jane Holliday, 94, Hamilton, Missouri

	The Bowman Family
	The Early Main Street
	The Episcopal Church

     Mrs. Holliday was born 1840 in Illinois.  Her maiden name was Mary Jane 
Kendall and her first husband's name was Glasner, the second Holliday.  In 
1865 just after the war the Glasner family came to Hamilton, drawn here by the 
fact that her mother married Vincent Bowman and already lived here.  The 
Bowmans were early settlers in this town.  Alston Bowman had a lumber yard and 
his brother Vincent built many of the early houses here, the Art Lollis house, 
the old Cochran-Spratt house in the north west part of town, and the house 
formerly standing at the south west corner of the High School lot.
     In 1865 Mrs. Glasner lived on the present Harry Lampton home and her 
closest neighbors were two ex-slaves who lived in white washed shanties across 
to the south east - Uncle Charley Dunn and Uncle Lewis Butts.  The old Henry 
Thornton family lived near them on Mill Street.  Much of that district was 
empty.
     When she came in 1865, most of the business was done on the street north 
of the depot-now treated as an alley.  On that street were:  Kempers, 
Richardson, McAdoos (druggist) and later on there was a Jew, Lombosaky, who 
had a jewelry store there and hired a clerk named Mitchell.  Mitchell had a 
store there later on.  She recalled Marion Hines running a lumber yard on the 
Higgins property (now the Tooley Mill site).  Some after this time, there was 
a yard on the Cash corner on south Main where the Witwers had a wagon store.  
At the north end of this block Mr. Davis had a one story frame (location of 
Bank today) where he had a office.  Later he rented it to Squire Holliday his 
relative (no relative of her second husband).
     In the early sixties Mrs. Glasner was cook for the Western Hotel kept by 
the Goodman family and located at the middle of the first block north of 
railroad on Main west side.  When she was cook, Bill Kemper, Lee Cosgrove, Ben 
Langshore boarded there at times.  It was quite a fine hotel in its day.
     Mrs. Glasner-Holliday was a charter member of the Episcopal church which 
stood there on the site of the present Mrs. Harry Sloan home.  It was sold 
some years ago and now is the Catholic rectory in the south end of town.  
Other early members were Mr. and Mrs. George Reddie, Mrs. Brosius, Miss Alma 
Clark, the Rook family, the Waterman family and a few others.  The Tuttle 
family came in a little later.  When the monthly services were held, outsiders 
who attended sometimes giggled when the rector came in with his white robes.  
The chant music too seemed queer and sometimes aroused a grin from those not 
used to the service; likewise the frequent "getting up and getting down 
	" of the members.  Some people then thought the Episcopal church was 
the Catholic church because they both used a prayer book and there was a cross 
on the church.
     Interviewed  June 1934.



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