ANGLE BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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ANGLE, George N. - b: 1855 Pike Co, MO
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 304
residence: Davis Twp

George N. Angle. The Angle farm in Davis township is one of the finest farms in 
Missouri. The home farm upon which the residence is located on a sloping hillside 
and overlooking a vast tract of country stretching away on every hand, consists 
of three hundred sixty acres. In addition to this tract another farm of ninety-five 
acres lies in the Grand River bottoms and is noted for its fertility. Mr. Angle has 
made this place his home since 1883 and has gradually built improvements until 
it is one of the beautiful places in Henry County. The residence of seven rooms 
was erected in 1903, supplanting the old house which had stood on the site for 
many years. On the Angle farms have been sown for this season's crops one 
hundred fifty-six acres of wheat, one hundred fifteen acres of oats and one 
hundred five acres of corn. Mr. Angle's sons are farming one hundred eighty acres 
of their own land and one hundred eleven acres which they are renting. The Angle 
farm is a very productive one, which boasts a heavy output of live stock each 
year. Only recently Mr. Angle has disposed of a carload of cattle and one of hogs 
(April, 1918). The average output of Hereford or white face cattle from the place 
is about one hundred five head. The yearly production of Duroc Jersey hogs is over 
one hundred eighty head. Fifteen head of work horses and mules are maintained on 
the place. George N. Angle was born August 7, 1855, in Pike County, Missouri, and 
is the son of John and Sarah Elizabeth (Ferguson) Angle, who settled in Henry 
County in 1866. John Angle was born in Pike County, Missouri, February 4, 1830, 
and died in Clinton, Missouri, November 18, 1914. He was the son of Jacob Angle, 
a native of Germany who emigrated to America and settled in St. Louis in 1812. 
Some years later he went to Pike County, Missouri, and settled on Salt River, not 
far from the city of Louisiana. John Angle was reared in Pike County and there 
married Elizabeth Ferguson, October 26, 1854. Elizabeth (Ferguson) Angle is a 
daughter of John and Rebecca (Stevenson) Ferguson, natives of Kentucky who 
were pioneer settlers of Pike County, Missouri. Mrs. Elizabeth Angle was born 
September 3, 1835, and is now living in Clinton, one of the oldest of the pioneer 
women of Henry County. The Angle family came to Henry County in 1866 and first 
settled a few miles northwest of Clinton and some time later settled in Davis 
township, where John Angle improved a splendid farm and became fairly well-to-
do and highly respected. John and Elizabeth Angle were parents of eleven 
children, five of whom are living, as follow: George N., the subject of this 
review; Sarah, died in 1855; John Richard, residing in Clinton; Harvey, deceased; 
Ernest Angle, died in 1905; Solon, lives in Canada, and has a family of eight 
children; Mrs. Orpha Dooley, lives in Clinton and has a family of four children, and 
Daisy Jeffries, lives in Oklahoma. John Angle became owner of two hundred sixty 
acres of land in Davis township and resided there until he removed to Clinton, 
where he died four years later. George Angle was eleven years of age when he 
accompanied his parents to Henry County. He received his early education in the 
Fields Creek school. He located in Davis township in 1879 and remained with his 
parents on the home farm until he was twenty-five years old. He began to make 
his own way when he attained his majority and has been successful from the 
start of his career. He purchased his first land in 1883 and with his wife's 
assistance and the joining of their respective capitals he became owner of one 
hundred twenty acres. With the exceptions of forty-seven acres, which was Mrs. 
Angle's by inheritance, all of the Angle lands have been purchased on time. Mr. 
Angle found it a good business policy to go in debt for land and make the land pay 
for itself with wise cultivation and good business management. His large farm of 
four hundred fifty-five acres is one of the best in Henry County and one of the 
most productive. He has deviated considerably from the old time methods of 
agriculture and is progressive. March 20, 1881, the marriage of George N. Angle 
and Miss Ella Rogers was solemnized. This marriage has been blessed with the 
following children: Albert F., born April 20, 1882, married Miss Marie Bassaird of 
Sonora, California, February 12, 1918, and resides at Sonora; John Ferguson, born 
April 17, 1883, died at the age of twelve years; Leslie, born April 25, 1885, 
resides in Isabelle, South Dakota; Bertha, born October 4, 1887, married W. L. 
Coonrod in October, 1915, and lives at Carterville, Missouri; Earl, born October 
30, 1889, Fairfield, Montana, married Alma Zimmerman August 20, 1917; Ralph, a 
farmer of Davis township, born November 11, 1891, married Clara Ogan in 
October, 1916; William A., born November 19, 1893, graduated from the Clinton 
High School, studied at the State University and is now engaged in farming on the 
home place; Clarence, born January 19, 1896, enlisted in the United States Navy 
in December, 1917, and was located at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, 
and is now a member of the crew of the United States battleship Wisconsin;. 
Donald, born April 28, 1898, is a graduate of the Clinton High School; Mary, born 
February 9, 1901, is a student in the Clinton High School; Velma, born May 3, 
1903, died January 4, 1905. The mother of this fine family of children was born 
December 2, 1860, in Henry County, and is the daughter of Thomas and Lucinda 
(Fletcher) Rogers, the latter of whom was born on December 4, 1831, at 
Lexington, Missouri, a daughter of James Fletcher, a pioneer settler of Henry 
County. She died in 1866. Thomas Rogers was born at Winchester, Kentucky, 
February 18, 1824, and died May 16, 1883. He was among the earliest of the 
Henry County pioneers and established one of the first stores in Clinton. He was 
the first postmaster of Clinton and came from Kentucky to Henry County in the 
late thirties. His wife was the first to be buried in the old Clinton Cemetery. 
After her mother's death, Mrs. Angle was reared by her aunt, Mrs. Jane Trotter of 
Carrollton, Missouri. Mr. Angle is a Republican and he has generally taken an 
active and influential interest in civic matters in his home township. For over 
thirty-one years he has been school trustee. He and Mrs. Angle and their children 
are members of the Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church. Mr. Angle is affiliated with 
the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a charter member of the Mt. Carmel 
Presbyterian Church and has served as an elder for thirty years and has been 
Sunday school superintendent for past thirty years.

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