PAXTON BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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PAXTON, Samuel - b: 1834 Kanawha Co, VA
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 618
residence: Deepwater Twp

Samuel Paxton, grain dealer, and a prominent business man of Montrose, as well 
as a pioneer of the county, is a Virginian by birth, and was born in Kanawha 
County September 21, 1834. William Paxton, his father, was born in Rockbridge 
County, Virginia, in 1808, and his mother, formerly Eliza Atkinson, was also of 
Virginia birth. Samuel moved with his parents to Missouri in about 1842, and 
settled in Cooper County, being among the pioneers of that vicinity. There the 
subject of this sketch grew to manhood, his youth being spent on the farm. In 
1856, he came to Henry County, bought land and improved a farm, and was one of 
the first settlers in this part of the county, there then being not enough 
inhabitants in Deepwater Township to support one school. Mr. Paxton was married 
September 8, 1861, to Miss Amanda Bailey, originally of Edgar County, Illinois, 
and a daughter of George Bailey. They have a family of three children, George B., 
May G. and Frank L. Himself, wife and daughter are members of the Missionary 
Baptist Church. Soon after Montrose was laid out Mr. Paxton built the Montrose 
Steam Elevator, and has since been engaged in buying and handling grain. This 
elevator has a capacity of 2,000 bushels per day, with a corn sheller and a corn 
grinding burr. He is doing a large shipping business which will compare favorably 
with any in Henry County. He still owns his fine farm adjacent to the town, which 
consists of 115 acres, all in good cultivation with comfortable out buildings, 
etc., and an orchard of 400 bearing apple trees of select varieties. This farm is in 
section 14. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

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