Biographical Sketch of Capt. Arch. S. Bryan, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Capt. Arch. S. Bryan, of Washington, is a native of Warren County, Mo.,
born in 1831, the son of John and Hulda (Lamme) Bryan.  The Bryan fam-
ily originally came from Wales, and immigrated to America with Lord
Baltimore, locating in Pennsylvania, and afterward in Kentucky. John
Byran was of this branch.  He was born in Kentucky in 1804, and in his
youth came to Warren County, Mo., married and began merchandising at
Duke Prairie.  He died in 1836, while yet in the prime of life.  His
wife was of French extraction.  Her ancestors were driven from France
with the French Huguenots, and settled in North Carolina.  When Daniel
Boone immigrated into Kentucky they joined the party.  Boone was a
great-grandfather of Hulda Lamme.  The latter was born in Warren Co.,
Mo., in 1807, her parents having moved to Missouri from Kentucky at a
very early day.  Mrs. Bryan died April 1, 1881.  She was the mother of
four children, two of whom are living: Arch S. and Adaline (wife of
Hezekiah Moore).  Arch S. Bryan was but five years of age when his 
father died.  He was educated in St. Charles County, and was reared 
and grew to manhood on a farm, and in 1850, during the gold excitement
in the Far West, he determined to obtain his share of the hidden trea-
sure, and went overland with a train of about fifty men.  It took them
six months to complete the journey.  The Captain for the first year 
was engaged in mining, but the next two years followed mercantile pur-
suits.  In 1853 he returned to Warren County, Mo., by way of Nicaragua.
In the summer of 1854 he followed agricultural pursuits, and the next
year engaged in boating on the Missouri River, taking the position of 
captain, and has, for the past thirty-two years, been engaged in the
same business.  He has sailed the Missouri River from its source to its
mouth, and up the Yellowstone, on the Cumberland, Ohio, Osage and Gas-
conade.  He is one of the oldest captains on the "Big Muddy" who has 
been continuously in the same business.  His headquarters have been at
Washington since commencing.  He is the captain and owns one-half
interest of the "General Meade," and has been for the past four years
running from St. Louis to Rocheport, on the Missouri River, a distance
of 200 miles.  The "General Meade" has a capacity of 500 tons.  Capt.
Bryan has run as captain on the following steamers: "Wide Awake", 
"Mill Boy," "Calypso," "Hattie May," "Evening Star," "Washington,"
"Yellow Stone," "Western," "Phil E. Chappell," and "General Meade,"
and others.  January 28, 1857, Capt. Bryan married Miss Mary E. Ster-
igere, daughter of Judge David Sterigere (deceased).  Mrs. Bryan was
born in Franklin County, Mo., in 1839, and to her marriage were born
six children: William, Charles, Susie, Katie, John and Archie.  Our
subject is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Masonic Order, Lodge
No. 251, of Washington, and his wife is a member of the Presbyterian
Church.

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