PFOST BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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PFOST, W. A. - b: 1837 Jackson Co, WV
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 740
residence: Davis Twp

W. A. Pfost was born in Jackson County, West Virginia, January 8, 1837, being the 
son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Reader) Pfost. He was the third in a family of ten 
children, and one brother, Henry Clay, is in Montrose. Mr. Pfost was married at the 
age of twenty-two on February 17, 1859, to Miss Caroline Harrison, sister of 
Judge J. M. Harrison. In 1869 he came to Henry County and began to farm in Davis 
Township, where he now lives, having 160 acres of land, nicely situated and well 
improved. He has been dealing extensively in live stock, and usually feeds two or 
three car loads of beef cattle and aims to handle a superior grade of stock. More 
men like our subject is what has made Henry County take its place among the 
first counties of the state in a comparatively short space of time. Having but a 
very little property when he came from Virginia a few years ago, he has managed 
to acquire a fair competency by industry and good management. Mr. Pfost is 
Democratic in politics, and himself and wife are members of the M. E. Church 
South. They have a family of eight children: Lewis William (who has married Miss 
Katie Mullin), Theodore Henry, Geneva, Charlie, Nancy E., Erastus, Maude and an 
infant.

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