Caldwell County MO Archives History .....SOME BUSINESS MEN FIFTY YEARS AGO IN KINGSTON MO. 
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SOME BUSINESS MEN FIFTY YEARS AGO IN KINGSTON MO.
	Narrator:  Mrs. Wm. McAfee, Hamilton

     Mrs. McAfee, as a girl, lived in the country near Mirabile and they did 
their trading there, hence she knew little of the stores in Kingston till they 
moved there in the early 70s.
     She recalled the Heiser furniture store, the store kept by D.G. McDonald 
(sr.) on the corner east of the courthouse, the very corner where some 25 
years later, his sons had a general store in Kingston.  The millinery store of 
Mrs. Costello-Smith (Costello being her first husband) was a block west of the 
courthouse, the Fenn store was on the west end of Main (the street at front of 
the courthouse).  She remembered that the McDonald store, the Fenn store and 
the Costello-Smith store all went to Hamilton in the 80s.  One of the Fenn 
girls married Chas. Boroff.
     The Switzer livery barn stood in her time and burned down three times in 
the same spot.
     Her memory of the Northup Lewis firm is interesting.  Mr. Northrup's 
daughter married Mr. Lewis and this couple were the parents of Mrs. Harry 
Sloan of Hamilton and Rev. Glenn Lewis, and other children.  After the general 
store business which they had was ended, Northup and Lewis ran a big vineyard 
and had a wine press on the lots now owned by Mrs. Altha Crockett in north 
Kingston, where a wine parlor was located, and much frequented.  It was the 
last house on this street.
     She recalled old Augustus Mack who was a while in early 60s ran a harness 
shop in partners with Wm. Goodman in the town.  Goodman moved to Hamilton and 
Mack went on by himself for a long time.  The Goodman family ran a hotel in 
Kingston in the early 60s but left town 1864 to start a hotel at Hamilton.  It 
was while working on the 1860 courthouse that Enos Dudley, one of the early 
carpenters, met a Goodman girl and married.
     She recalled that Mr. Boucher who lived near the Heiser wagon shop, had 
two daughters, both musicians.  One married Wm. Spivey of Kingston and she 
gave lessons in organ (Mrs. McAfee took of her).  The other married Dr. 
Stevens of Hamilton, and she had a music class in that town.
     Ed Gapen was a carpenter in the 70 and 80s till he fell to his death from 
a ladder.  Mr. Rhea kept a blacksmith shop at the corner east of the present 
hotel.  Tickey Johnson's father had a saloon in the middle of the block south 
of the courthouse.
     In the early 70s, T.D. Clarkson grandfather of Mrs. James Kautz of 
Hamilton, edited the Caldwell County Citizen and with him at times was one 
Lenzy who afterwards became a lawyer in New York City.  Mills and Spivey ran 
the Kingston Sentinel.  John T. Botthoff had a drug store in the late 70s and 
previously was a well known drug clerk for other drug stores.
     There was no bank in Kingston for years and years.  The first bank that 
Mrs. McAfee recalls was the one organized in early 80s in the south room of 
the Commercial Hotel by the Cox family.
     Interview  February 1935.


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