BOONE BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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BOONE, Banton G. - b: 1838 Callaway Co, MO
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 351
residence: Clinton

Banton G. Boone was born in Callaway County, Mo., October 23d, 1838. His father, 
Banton G., was a native of Madison County, Kentucky, and his mother, Elizabeth 
Boone, was a native of the same state. He received such educational advantages 
as his own indomitable energies afforded. At the age of fourteen he entered a 
printing office in Troy, Lincoln County, to learn the printing business. In 1856 he 
became a resident of Clinton, Henry County, Mo., and soon after was appointed 
deputy circuit clerk, and held the position four years. He improved his leisure 
hours of day, with hours of night, fitting himself for the practice of law, and in 
1859 he was admitted to the bar by Judge Foster P. Wright. His standing in the 
legal profession has been gained only by hard and unremitting study. A laborious 
student with a clear analytical mind, clearness and quickness of perception, and 
prompt in application he has every element which combine the lawyer and 
counselor. Mr. Boone has become prominently connected with the political history 
of the state. In 1874 he was nominated by the democrats as a candidate for the 
legislature, and elected by a handsome majority. He was declared the nominee of 
his party in the caucus for speaker, his opponents being General James Shields 
and M. V. L. McLelland. He was subsequently elected by a vote of ninety-six to 
twenty-four, J. L. Bittinger, of Buchanan, being his republican opponent. He proved 
to be a man well fitted for the position, and his impartiality and unpartisan 
conduct, together with his uniform fidelity to the public good won for him the 
regard of the entire general assembly. In 1872? he was a candidate before the 
convention for attorney general, and came within one-third of a vote of being the 
nominee. Politically he is a staunch democrat, and from boyhood he has taken an 
active interest in all political matters. He is a close student and fondly devoted 
to the profession of his choice, and his future eminence lies in the legal arena, 
where his natural and acquired qualifications opens up to him a nobler aspiration 
and more enduring fame. He was married June 4th, 1874, to Miss Irene C. Rogers, 
a daughter of the late Dr. John A. Rogers, a prominent physician and one of 
Clinton's early settlers. Their family consists of two children, Bessie and Britts 
Gorman.

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