Biographical Sketch of Col. John W. Lisenby, Greene County, Missouri,
Springfield

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Colonel Lisenby was born March 22, 1836 in Washington County, Tenn.,
and is the son of Charles and Susan (Carr) Lisenby.  He was the seventh
of a family of twelve children.  His father dying when he was thirteen
years of age, the remainder of the family moved to Monroe County, Ken-
tucky.  John W. received his education at Columbia, Adair County, Ken-
tucky, and taught school about three terms.  In April, 1859, he came to
Springfield, Missouri and soon after taught school in what was then
known as the Lane school house, three miles southwest of town.  He acc-
epted a clerkship in the general store of Logan & Morton, in the fall
of 1859 and when the war began was a member of the Home Guards. In 1861
he enlisted in Company D, Missouri volunteers, Phelps' regiment, and 
was fist lieutenant of that company, and afterwards promoted to the 
captaincy.  He was sounded severely at the battle of Pea Ridge, March 
7, 1862, being shot in the left shoulder, and through both legs.  This
was in the six months' service, and upon the 30th of August, 1862 he 
was mustered in Company A, 8th cavalry, Missouri volunteers, as captain
and afterward as major.  His health becoming poor, he resigned his com-
mission in February, 1865, but was promoted to lieut. colonel in a few
months afterward.  At the close of the war he was appointed clerk of 
the county, probate and common pleas courts, and in 1866 was elected 
upon the Republican ticket as clerk of that court, and served in that
capacity for four years.  In 1873 he was elected mayor of the city, 
which office he filled with satisfaction to his constituents and honor
to himself.  He was in the real estate business here since 1865, and
the firm of Milner & Lisenby did the largest business in that line in
Springfield.  Col. Lisenby was married to Miss Columbia, daughter of
John H. Jennings, Esq., upon the 9th of May, 1865.  Mrs. Lisenby, died
October 13, 1872.  The firm of Milner & Lisenby dissolved in the early
part of 1883, and the captain still carries on the business.

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