BONHAM BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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BONHAM, Marcus L. - b: 1836 Blount Co, TN
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 500
residence: Clinton

Marcus L. Bonham, proprietor of Oak Hill Nursery, was born in Blount County, 
Tennessee, February 20, 1836. At the age of four years he was taken by the 
family to Henry County, Indiana, where he was reared and received his education, 
following from his twentieth year the occupation of school teaching. This 
profession he continued for five years, and about the year 1860 he became 
engaged in the photographic business. For two years he gave his attention to this 
art, then resuming his farming operations, till March, 1866, at which time he 
moved to Carroll County, Missouri. After residing there for two years he went to 
Newton County, and in one year, or the spring of 1869, came to Henry County and 
established the present Oak Hill Nursery. He has twenty-one acres of land well 
adapted for his business, and he raises all varieties of trees, plants, etc., which 
thrive in this locality, and he supplies mostly our home market. Mr. Bonham was 
married November 23, 1862, to Miss Margaret Hendricks, a native of Indiana. They 
have five children : Franklin M., Lyton L., Josephine E., Maude and Margaret F.

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