Biographical Sketch of Hon. Nathaniel J. Wollard, 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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Hon. Nathaniel J. Wollard.  Prominent among the leading and enter-
prising citizens of Dallas County, MO., stands the name of the
above mentioned gentleman, who was born in Dallas County, MO., on
October 16, 1844, and is the son of Nathaniel and Margaret (Abel)
Wollard, natives of North Carolina and Virginia, respectively. The
father was born August 6, 1792, and died in Dallas County, MO., on
September 1, 1863.  He was a Primitive Baptist minister, and in
connection with his ministerial duties carried on farming, at which
he was very successful.  At the time of his death he was the second
largest tax payer of Dallas County.  He was a soldier in the War of
1812; was in the battles of Horseshoe, New Orleans, Tippecanoe and
others.  He was in active ministerial duty for over forty years, and
preached in the greater part of Southwestern Missouri.  When twenty-
one years of age, poor and almost penniless, he walked 800 miles to
Tennessee, and located in Maury County, where he resided until 1837,
when he came to Missouri and located near where his son, Nathaniel
J. is now living.  He was married first to Margaret Hardison, in 
Tennessee, about 1816.  She died in Dallas County, MO., and Mr. 
Wollard married the mother of our subject in 1841.  She was born
January 12, 1808, and is now living with her son, Nathaniel J. Wollard.
She was the daughter of John David Abel and the widow of Calvin Newport.
She came with Mr. Newport from Roane County, Tenn., in 1836, and lo-
cated in Wright County, where she married Mr. Wollard.  To this union
were born four children:  Louisa P., Nathaniel J., Silas B. and James
M. (deceased).  Nathaniel J. remained at home until 1863, when he en-
listed in Company B of Woods' Battalion, Confederate States Army, and
served two years, or until the close of the war.  He was in many
battles, Dardanelle, Pine Bluff, Pilot Knob, Jefferson City, Big and
Little Blue, Neosho and others.  On October 22, 1865, he married Miss
Alice Randles, a native of Dallas County, MO., born December 6, 1846, 
and the daughter of James Franklin Randles.  The fruits of this union
were these children:  Mary L.M., died in infancy; James F., John S.,
Moses W., Sarah E.M., Robert P., Estella D., Quincy Lee, died at the 
age of six years; Martha, died in infancy; Permelia E. and Omega F.,
who died in infancy.  After the war Mr. Wollard engaged in farming and
stock raising, at which he has been unusually successful.  In 1881 he
engaged in mercantile business at Buffalo, the firm title being Randels
& Wollard, and at the end of one year the title was changed to Wollard
& Co.  He was in business about five years, when he sold out.  In 1872
he was elected justice of the peace, and served six years, when he was
elected by the Greenback party to represent the county in the Legis-
lature, and in 1884 he was re-elected by the Greenback and Democratic
parties.  In 1886 he was nominated for State senator by the Union Labor
party, but declined.  In 1881 he was instrumental in establishing the
Dallas County Fair Association, being elected vice-president of the 
same the following year, and afterward president.  Mrs. Wollard has
been a member of the Missionary Baptist Church from early childhood,
and recently Mr. Wollard has joined the same church.  He is a member
of the Masonic fraternity, is a member of the I.O.O.F., the Agricult-
ural Wheel, in which lodge he takes a great interest, is president of
the County Wheel, and a delegate to the State Wheel.  He was elected
in 1888 to represent the State of Missouri at the National Wheel at
Meridian, Miss.  Mr. Wollard is one of the representative citizens of
Dallas County, and at all times takes an active interest in Sunday
schools, he being vice-president of the Washington Township Sunday-
schools; now there are eleven, and over 900 scholars.  At the present
time Mr. Wollard is engaged in building a fine church house on his 
premises, which will be a credit to any locality, and as he leaves
out fail in his enterprises it doubtless will be completed.
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