Biographical Sketch of James M. Wilhoit, Greene County, Missouri,
Springfield

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

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Mr. Wilhoit is the son of Andrew and Jane (Gentry) Wilhoit, and was 
born in Clay County, Missouri, January 12th, 1834.  He was educated in
Clay, and at High School in Andrew County, Mo.  He lived upon the farm
until he was twenty-one years of age, and then taught school in Clay
County for about five years.  He learned the trade of carriage and
wagon-maker from his father.  July 2nd, 1863, he enlisted in Company C,
6th Missouri State Militia Cavalry, but saw no active service.  He was
married November 23rd, 1865, to Miss Nannie, daughter of Z. M. Rountree
Esq.  They have had seven children, five boys and two girls.  In the
spring of 1870, he and F. J. Underwood organized the Springfield Wagon
Company.  In 1874, he was elected on the temperance ticket as marshal
of Springfield, but has followed his trade most of the time since com-
ing to Greene County.  He took a contract to furnish meat to the Gulf
railroad in April, 1882.  Mr. Wilhoit has been a Mason for twenty-five
years, and is a member of the A. O. U. W.  He and his wife are members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  His father died in 1868, and
his mother died in 1874.  They had a family of seven children.

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