LIONBERGER BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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LIONBERGER, Ralph - b: 1885 Buffalo Co, NE
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 706
residence: Big Creek Twp

Prof. Ralph Lionberger, principal of the public schools of Blairstown, Missouri, is 
prominent in the teachers' profession of Henry County and for the past seven 
years has been principal of the Norris High School. Mr. Lionberger was born in 
Buffalo County, Nebraska, October 30, 1885. He is a son of T. R. and Etta 
(Thornton) Lionberger. The father is a native of Illinois and the mother of Iowa. 
They now reside in Leesville township, Henry County. T. R. Lionberger went to 
Nebraska when he was a young man and remained in that State until 1895, when 
he came to Henry County, which has been his home since that time. To T. R. 
Lionberger and wife have been born the following children: Ralph T., the subject 
of this sketch; Carrie, married Thomas McCown, Leesville township; Nellie, 
married Hugh Randel, Calhoun, Missouri; Calvin, died May 14, 1908; Gaylord, 
Etoile, Edwin, Otis and Harry, all residing at home. Ralph T. Lionberger was 
educated in the public schools and was graduated from the Appleton City High 
School in the class of 1908. He has studied in the State University at Columbia, 
Missouri. He taught his first term of school in the Turner district, Leesville 
township. He afterwards taught one year at the Appleton City Academy and one 
year in St. Louis County, Missouri. In 1910 he became principal of the Norris High 
School, and held that position for seven consecutive years. He then taught one 
year in high school in Benton County, and in 1918 was elected principal of the 
Blairstown school, which position he now holds. Professor Lionberger was united 
in marriage August 28, 1910, with Miss Audrey E. Smith, a daughter of J. H. and 
Ellen (Nichols) Smith, of Leesville township. The Smith family are pioneers of 
that section of Henry County. Mrs. Lionberger was born in Leesville township and 
educated in the public schools of that township, Windsor High School and 
Appleton City Academy. Joseph H. Smith is a Virginian and served in the 
Confederate army with the Virginia troops. Shortly after the Civil War he came 
to Henry County. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Ellen Nichols, was born 
in Leesville township. Her mother, Catherine Parks, came to Henry County with 
her parents in 1835 when she was ten years of age, and they were among the very 
first settlers of Henry County. To J. H. and Ellen (Nichols) Smith were born the 
following children: Ida, Fort Collins, Colorado; Hugh, Madison, Wisconsin; J. M., 
Brownington, Missouri; Elmer, lives in Iowa; Pickney, Nevada, Missouri; Audrey E., 
the wife of Prof. Ralph Lionberger, the subject of this sketch; Jewette, Lincoln, 
Missouri; Norma, a teacher, Fort Collins, Colorado; Winifred, a teacher in Henry 
County, and Helen, also a Henry County teacher. To Professor and Mrs. Lionberger 
have been born two children, Herbert and Lowell. Professor Lionberger is 
interested in farming as well as his educational work and owns a valuable farm 
of fifty-one acres adjoining the townsite of Norris. He has an extensive 
acquaintance in Henry County and he and Mrs. Lionberger have many friends. 

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