Caldwell County MO Archives History .....TAYLOR ALLEE IN HAMILTON IN 1865 1934
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TAYLOR ALLEE IN HAMILTON IN 1865
	Narrator:  Taylor Allee, 85, of Hamilton, Missouri

     Mr. Allee's parents were Isaac Reed Allee (1812 War soldier) buried at 
Kingston and Mary Ann Parks Allee buried in Highland Cemetery Hamilton.  He 
was born in Henry County Indiana.  In 1865 Taylor Allee, his sister and half 
brother came to Caldwell County, the father and mother came 1866.  The 
children had come because a near relative Sarah Smith and her husband 
Philander Smith had located in the county.  Their father's farm was a half of 
the later Waterman farm three miles west of Hamilton, the other half was the 
P. Smith farm.  Later Allee sold to W.H. Henry, a relative, and bought in 
Daviess County.  Isaac Allee was an herb doctor and doctored many people here 
and in Indiana.  In Indiana he had his own herb garden and always compounded 
his own medicine.  The Taylor Allee family still have some of his old bills in 
which his charges are shown as 12 1/2 cents for medicine, 16 2/3 cents for a 
visit.
     Taylor Allee with five other Allees enlisted in the Union army from their 
county in Indiana.  He declared he was 18 but really was 15.  He was a big boy 
five feet seven inches weighed 143 pounds, and got by with it.  They examined 
him by giving him two big thumps on the chest and having him jump over a box.  
His job was to hunt down bush whackers.
     He well recalls Hamilton of the 1865 day - which was the time he first 
saw the town.  Then, Kidder was a better town than Hamilton.  There were not 
five hundred people here.  He came fresh from the war - age 16.
     He as all the other older citizens begins the description of early 
Hamilton by going to the corner now occupied by the Picture Show north west of 
the depot.  This in 1865 was occupied by the Brosius Brothers (George and Jim) 
in a general store and Otis B. Richardson had his Post Office in the store.
     Then came a space and then Charley Manuel Saloon, then a space and Aiken 
Dry Goods and Saloon then a space and a Drug Store which might be Jas. A. 
McAdoo or he might have come a little later.
     On the south east corner of this little street in 1865 was a vacant lot 
but it was soon to have the Dry Goods Store of Bye and Gibson.  Due south of 
the depot on a high bank was the Hamilton House with Uncle Jake Brosius 
(father of George and Jim) as landlord.  On north Main just north of Bye and 
Wilson was the Van Buren grocery.  It was a few years later that Phil 
Covington opened a restaurant in a poor building located where Hopson is now 
(and about the same time John Minger had one across the street).  About the 
time of Mr. Allee's coming, the Goodmans had built a hotel south of Covington 
and Sain had a saloon in the back room.  It was in the brick now owned by 
Whitman and erected as a part of the Goodman block.
     On the east side of Davis (Main) was the Kemper-Paxton store (a frame on 
the Bram site) first building in 1865, then came a space and the livery stable 
of Thurston Green brother of Harvey who ran the stage coach line which 
originally ran from Richmond to Gallatin with Hamilton as a middle point.  As 
the railroads developed to the north it was shortened from Richmond to 
Hamilton.
     In the middle sixties Dr. Nunn was the only doctor.  Before 1870 Bennett 
Whitely built a mill due east of what is now the park on the south west corner 
of the block.  This was afterwards used for church and school.  He was an 
ordained Baptist Elder, a merchant and Editor in his time.  There was the 
Goodman lumber yard on Broadway on present Ralph White home.
     Before 1870, on Mill street about the site of Parker's grocery, Austin 
Dodge had a blacksmith shop.  His wife soon opened up a millinery shop on the 
corner of Mill and Broadway.  At his death, she married R.D. Dwight and the 
shop became known as Mrs. Dwight's Millinery Shop.
 
     After Mr. Allee's father bought the Daviess County farm Taylor went there 
and worked ten years, so he knew little of Hamilton in the seventies.  It was 
about 1870 that the elevator by the right of way on Main was put up, Guy and 
Naugle ran it, Love and Lamson, Love and Eugene Eugene Low, were some of the 
early men there.
     When he came back to Hamilton after living in Daviess County he worked 
for Schaffer-Tanner in the hard lumber business, site of Alec Warden's home 
south of the tracks on Broadway.  Then he worked seven years for Lamson and 
Love in the elevator.  Then he began clerking for Emmet White who bought out 
Deaerick on north Main.
     Mr. Allee played on the first baseball team in Hamilton about 1870.  Dr. 
King was captain, another player was Roy Bowman (Alston Bowman's son).  They 
played in Dudley's pasture.  There were some differences in the old game.  The 
pitch was underhand pitch, not a throw.  The pitcher had to give the batter 
whatever kind of a ball he asked for, as a knee ball, a waist ball.
     Interviewed  June 1934.



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