Biographical Sketch of R. H. C. Appleton, Camden County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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R. H. C. Appleton, a dealer in general merchandise and a farmer of
Adair Township, Camden county, was born in that county January 22,
1854, and is a son of John and Levina (Elmore) Appleton, both natives
of Tennessee.  John Appleton, who was a blacksmith and farmer, was 
born in 1823; he moved from Tennessee to Jefferson City, Missouri, and
afterward located at Linn Creek, Mo.  He was twice married, and was the
father of sixteen children, eleven of whom are still living.  The pat-
ernal grandfather of our subject was John Appleton, a native of South
Carolina, who afterward went to Tennessee, and was a farmer, millwright
and carpenter; he served in the War of 1812, participating in the 
battle of New Orleans, and his wife was Polly (Pepper) Appleton, of
Virginia.  John Appleton, Sr., died in 1843.  Mrs. Levina Appleton died
in 1863.  She was a daughter of Ebenezer Elmore, of Tennessee. R. H. C.
Appleton has devoted the greater part of his attention to the pursuit
of farming, but in 1879, as a member of the firm of A. J. Campbell & 
Co., he engaged in the mercantile business at Osage Iron Works Post-
office, which he continued until 1881; in the latter year he purchased
and moved to a farm of 150 acres in Adair Township, which he still owns
and has about 100 acres under cultivation.  He also owns other landed
property, in all amounting to about 622 acres.  In March, 1887, he
purchased a new stock of general merchandise, and in partnership with
Henry Dougherty opened a store at Osage Iron Works, which they still
conduct with success.  In 1881 Mr. Appleton married Miss Rosa E. 
Carroll, who was born in Camden county, Mo., in December, 1855, and is
a daughter of George and Cordelia A. Carroll, natives of Kentucky.  Of
the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Appleton only one survives, Myrtle
Eve.  In politics Mr. Appleton is a Democrat.

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