Biographical Sketch of Wilburn Smithpeter, Dallas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Wilburn Smithpeter.  The milling interests of Dallas County, MO., are
represented by Mr. Smithpeter, who is the proprietor of the Buffalo
Roller Mills, and is a dealer in flour and meal and native lumber. He
was born in Laclede County, MO., on July 2, 1849, his parents, Alfred
and Mary C. (Dugger) Smithpeter, having immigrated from their native
State of Tennessee to that county in 1840.  Here the father purchased
700 acres of timber land, and succeeded in improving a great portion
of it previous to his death, which occurred in 1861, he being killed
by bushwhackers.  His widow and six of his ten children are still
living, the latter's names being Angeline (wife of G. Dethurum), 
Albert, Wilburn, Ellen (wife of M.H. Case), Marietta and Florence.
Wilburn Smithpeter, whose name heads this sketch, was reared and ed-
ucated in Laclede County, MO., and remained with his parents until 
twenty-one years of age.  In 1870 he came to Buffalo and engaged in 
the drug business, which business he followed until 1883, when he 
purchased the mill he is now operating.  In 1887 he put in the roller
process, and now manufactures as fine flour as can be had in any city,
and supplies the demand for many miles around.  His mill is a three-
story frame building, run by steam, and has a capacity of fifty barrels
per twenty-four hours.  He also owns a valuable and well-improved farm
of sixty acres, and is engaged in the lumber business, having a saw
mill attached to his grist mill.  Mr. Smithpeter is one of the pro-
gressive citizens of the county, and has done all in his power to en-
courage worthy enterprises.  He is a member of the Masons, the I.O.O.F.
and the A.O.U.W., being a Select Knight in the latter.  In 1873 he was
married to Lydia A. Shemberger, a native of Indiana, by whom he has 
two children:  Charles W. and Herbert V.  He and wife are worthy and
consistent members of the Christian Church.
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