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On the 27th of September, 1842, he was married to Miss Margaret H. Witt, she having been born in Howard county, March 20, 1825. She was a daughter of L. B. Witt, one of the early settlers of this county. Mr. and Mrs. McCrary have eleven children: Eliza A., Napoleon B., Olivia, Spencer H., Thomas W., Theodore H., Alonzo M., John C., Ludie P., Bell and May. Both parents are members of the missionary Baptist church. H. METCALFE. farmer. Like most of the residents of this county who come from Kentucky, Mr. Metcalfe's ancestors were originally from Virginia. He was a son of John P. Metcalfe, whose father came from Virginia in an early day and settled in Kentucky. John P. was born and reared in the latter state, and on reaching manhood was married to Miss Rebecca Pogue, also of Kentucky, but of a Virginia family. John P.'s father, Eli Metcalfe, was a brother to Hon. Thomas Metcalfe, formerly governor of Kentucky. John P. and Rebecca Metcalfe reared six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth. H. Metcalfe was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, June 6, 1829. He was reared on a farm and has made farming his occupation for life. He remained in Kentucky until 1857, when he came to Howard county and November 2- 5, 1858, was married to Miss Margaret B. Jackson, daughter of Wade M. Jackson, of this county. She was born June 13, 1839. He then went to Pettis county where he lived four years. In 1862 he returned to Howard county and has continued to live here since. Mr. and Mrs. Metcalfe have six children, Ida R., Harriet C., John P., Mary, Saber and Pearl. Both parents are members of the Baptist church. WILLIAM A. MEYER grocer, etc., and agent of the Missouri river packet lines at Glasgow. Mr. Meyer has led a successful business life, and in the notes from which this sketch is written is found this simple tribute to his mother: " My mother was well educated, and took great interest in my education. I owe a great deal to her." How much the successful men in every walk of life owe to the influence of their mothers upon their early education and character is, unfortunately, not understood as it should be, and therefore not often acknowledged; hence this tribute is worthy of special notice shows that he who paid it not only understands one of the principal sources of his success, but has the heart to appreciate it. "The mother in her office holds the key Of the soul; and she it is who stamps the coin Of character, and makes the being who would be a savage, But for her gentle cares, a worthy man; Then crown her queen of the world." Mr. Meyer was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, December 18, 1838. When still a child, his parents came to Missouri and settled in Chariton county, where he was reared and educated, attending the common schools and also receiving instruction at home from his mother, Mrs. Meyer being a lady of superior accomplishments and having devoted her whole mind and heart to the mental culture of her children and the care of her family. W. A. thus acquired more than an ordinary education. Having attained to manhood when the war broke out, he enlisted sometime afterwards in company H, 9th Missouri state militia, in which be served over two years, and in 1865 he came to Glasgow and engaged as clerk in a mercantile house, in which he was employed about five years. He then established his present business and soon became one of the prominent business men of the place. As a businessman he is deservedly popular, and has a large and increasing custom. He was married February 22, 1866, to Miss May C. Steinmetz of Glasgow. They have three children now living: Samuel L., George E. and Ettie. Mr. M.'s father, W. A. Meyer, was a native of Prussia and came to this country in 1832. In 1837 he was married to Miss Margaret Muench, of Pennsylvania, and in 1841 they came to this state, where the father died in 1851. CHARLES G. MILLER of Lehman & Miller, merchants. Of the above firm a somewhat extended notice is given in the sketch of the senior partner, Mr. Lehman, thus rendering unnecessary any mention of the business here, except the statement that Mr. Miller is a member of the firm. However, if the truth is always necessary to be told, it ought to be added in this connection that Mr. M. is one of the most thorough, accomplished and enterprising young business men in Howard county. He was born in Boonville, Missouri, May 13, 1857, and had the advantages afforded by the excellent schools of the place, in which he acquired an unusually good education. On reaching early manhood he commenced his mercantile experience in Boonville, then went to Chicago where he was employed as clerk in the mercantile business until 1880, when he came to Glasgow, and in 1881 became a member of the present firm as elsewhere stated. He has to an eminent degree all the qualifications for a successful business man, and one of the best evidences of this fact is the success he has achieved so early in life. His future seems to be a bright one. He was married, June 27, 1882, to Miss Hattie B. Briggs, a cultured and fascinating young lady of Howard county. Mr. Miller's father, George Miller, was a native of Saxony, and when a young man came to America, locating shortly afterwards in Boonville, where he married Miss Sophia Fox, of that city, of which union three children were born, the subject of this sketch being the only surviving one. Mr. M, is a member of the Knights of Pythias. ROBERTSON MOORE. Mr. Moore is a venerable and honorable landmark of the pioneer days of this section of the country, one that the present nor succeeding generation cannot afford to forget. His name figures prominently in the history of the "Boone's Lick" country, both in business and public affairs. Away back in the thirties he was connected with the mercantile interests of Old Chariton, and afterwards ran on the river for a number of years; was subsequently sheriff of Chariton county and then representative of the county in the legislature. In fact, the history of these early times could not be written without prominent mention of his name. He was born in Christian county, Kentucky, January 23d, 1812, and was one of three children born in that state to John and Rebecca Moore, his father coming originally from North Carolina, and his mother, whose maiden name was Robertson, having been born in Tennessee, but with parents came to Kentucky early in life, and after spending several years of their married life in that state, came to Missouri in 1817, and settled in Old Chariton. John Moore owned a number of slaves, and by their labor carried on the blacksmithing business; he also did farming. Subsequently he became sheriff of Chariton county, a position his son held a number of years afterwards, and was one of the prominent men of the county. Robertson, his son, and the subject of this sketch, was but five years old when his parents came to Old Chariton, and hence he was brought up in that place. In early life he obtained the best education he could iii the local schools and by study at home. Afterwards, and several years before reaching manhood, he became clerk for James Glasgow, in Old Chariton, a position he filled for a number of years. At the age of twenty- five, in 1837, he began clerking On a steamboat on the river, and ran the Mississippi and Missouri for eight years, becoming widely known as the best and most popular clerk in the steamboat service. Then quitting the river on account of his father's sickness he engaged in farming and now owns two farms iii Chariton county, containing 400 acres, well improved. After the close of the war he engaged in merchandising in Glasgow. His terms of sheriff extended from 1846 to 1850, and from 1854 to 1858, after which he was elected to the legislature and served two years in that body. Twice he has taken the census for the government in Chariton county, and has held other positions of trust. He was married on the 30th day of June, 1844, to Miss Clarinda G. Maddox, a native of Kentucky. She died June 30th, 1865, leaving him one child, John S., with whom he now lives and who is engaged in the livery business in Glasgow. HON. GARRETT W. MOREHEAD. The Morehead family is of Scotch descent, and come to this country by way of England. Hon. Garrett W.'s grandfather, Col. Turner Morehead, was a citizen of Virginia and served in the revolutionary army. He was in the principal engagements of the war, including that of Yorktown, and was an intimate friend of Gen. Washington. In the latter part of his life he emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky, and settled near Bowling Green in 1819. He reared a large family, and several of his descendants became prominent in the public life of the country; James T., cousin to Garrett W., was governor of Kentucky and senator from that state, a colleague with Henry Clay; Charles S., another cousin, was also governor of and congressman from the same state; and John M., still another cousin, was governor of South Carolina and a large manufacturer there, and was the founder of the city of Morehead of that state. Turner, a son of Col. Turner Morehead, and the father of Garrett W., was the eldest son of his father's first wife, formerly Miss Hoe, of the well-known family of Virginia of that name. His father's second wife was a Miss Payton of another prominent Virginia family. On reaching manhood Turner located in Maryland, and there, shortly afterwards, married Miss Martha Worthington, of the Worthingtons, who were among the first settlers of the state under Lord Baltimore, and a cousin to the celebrated Methodist minister, Freeborn Garrison. In Maryland he engaged in the mercantile business and became, and was for many years afterwards, one of the leading wholesale merchants of Baltimore. He continued in business in Philadelphia until the death of his wife, about 1868, when he came to Missouri, and spent his last days with his son, the subject of this sketch. It should have been stated, however, that he participated actively in the war of 1812, having the command of a company in that struggle, and was in the battle of North Point, in which Lord North was killed. Garrett W., his son, was born at his father's country seat near Baltimore, May 1, 1819. In 1836 he came to Ray county, Missouri. and became clerk to the firm of Morehead & Aull, of which his uncle, Charles R., was the leading member. In 1840 he commenced business on his own account in partnership with Mr. Jacobs, under the name of Morehead & Jacobs. About a year afterwards they moved their business to the Point, near Glasgow, and later sold off their stock and engaged in the tobacco trade; but shortly afterwards they returned to the regular mercantile business, this time establishing themselves in Roanoke, where they continued until the firm finally dissolved. Since 1851 Mr. Morehead has been engaged in farming and stock raising. He has a splendid farm of 466 acres, well stocked and well improved. November 13, 1841, he was married to Miss Sarah A., a daughter of Sinclair Page, an early settler of this county. After thirty-seven years, devoted to the happiness of her family, she passed away July 9, 1878, leaving four children now living: Worthington, Henry C., Garrett W., Jr., and Sallie A. January 27, 1881, Mr. Morehead was again married, Mrs. Sallie J., widow of the late Gen. Lucien J. Eastin, becoming his second wife. She was born in Boone county, Missouri, May 29, 1829, and was the daughter of Geo. C. and Ellen Barnes Dale, of that county, George C. being originally from Kentucky. In 1875 Mr. Morehead was elected to the legislature from this county, in which he represented the people with fidelity and ability, and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. For many years he has been a prominent member of the Baptist church, and served through several sessions of the association as moderator. He was a director of the old Exchange bank in Glasgow during its entire career, and is now serving in a similar capacity in the directorship of the Glasgow Savings hank. He was the first W. M. of the Livingstone Masonic lodge of Glasgow, and is still, of course, a member of that order. THOMAS W. MOREHEAD, retired farmer and capitalist. Mr. Morehead is a brother to the Hon. Garrett W., in whose sketch mention is made of their ancestry. Thomas W. is two years younger than his brother, having been born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 21, 1821. About five years afterwards his parents moved to Philadelphia, where he was reared to his nineteenth year, receiving a good practical education in the schools of that city, and also acquiring an excellent knowledge of mercantile business in his father's store. In 1840, he came to Missouri and was employed in selling goods in Richmond, Ray county, in which he continued about one year. On the 13th of May, 1841, he was married to Miss Ann E. Miller, of Howard county, after which he engaged in farming in this county. Coming of the family he did, and possessed of the qualities of industry, frugality and superior intelligence he was, it was to have been expected that he would succeed as a farmer, or, indeed, in any line to which he might give his attention. The result has been that he soon became one of the leading farmers of the county, and, by good management and enterprise, accumulated a handsome estate. He followed farming until 1865, when, having moved to Glasgow the year before, he withdrew from all active pursuits, and now, with an ample competence, and in the midst of family and friends, he is leading a life of ease and honorable retirement. "Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks; He bears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience." Mr. and Mrs. Morehead have four sons and four daughters now living: Robert T., William W., James 0., Eugene, Matilda, Sallie, Bettie and Stella. Both parents are consistent and exemplary members of the Baptist church. Mr. M. is also a member of Lodge No.51, A. F. and A. M. and of the I. O. G. T. Mrs. M. was born in this county in October, 1823. Her father was a native of Kentucky, and her mother was originally from Virginia. Mr. Morehead is a public-spirited citizen, and, by his enterprise and liberality, Glasgow and the whole western part of the county have often been materially and greatly benefited. He has not only striven for his own prosperity, but he has exerted himself on all proper occasions for the prosperity of the whole community in which he lives, and his life thus far has been more than ordinarily a useful and valuable one. JUDGE ALFRED W. MORRISON. It is sixty-three years ago since Alfred W. Morrison, then a young man some eighteen years of age, came to Howard county. These three score and more years have been years of honor and service to the County and state in which he lives. Few men have led more honorable and useful lives. While his has not been so brilliant as some, it has marked, with a clearness of intelligence, a substantial ability, and above all, an unswerving integrity of purpose that stamps one's success with a durability and real honor not always characteristic of more striking and brilliant results. His father, William Morrison, was a native of Wales, and, shortly after coming to this country, made his home in Jessamine county, Ky., where he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Alfred Williams, formally of Virginia. Six children resulted from this union, of whom Alfred W., the only son, was born November 25, 1802. When he was a small boy, his father died and his mother married Lawrence J Daly, an accomplished teacher of that day, under whose tuition Alfred received a liberal education, particularly in the department of mathematics. In 1820, the family moved to Missouri and settled in Howard county, and in 1822, Mr. Daly became surveyor of the county, whereupon Alfred became his deputy and thus acquired a thorough practical knowledge of surveying. After reaching manhood, Alfred Morrison's acknowledged ability and unswerving integrity, recommended him to the people and to the public authorities for various official positions, in which he served almost continuously and always acceptably, for nearly forty years. For ten years he was county surveyor, during which he laid off the towns of Franklin, Fayette, Boonsboro and Roanoke, as well as filling several government contracts on the western boundary of the Platte purchase, on the northern boundary of the state adjoining Iowa, and in Camden county, on the Big Osage. He subsequently held the offices of sheriff, assessor and judge of the county court, and for four years was receiver in the land office at Fayette, by appointment of President Polk. He was also appointed, by General Clark, commissary to the expedition sent out to expel the Mormons from the state, and without a dollar of public money, but by using the personal acceptances of the general commanding, involving the expenditure of over $200,000, which was subsequently refunded, however, by the state - he earned the expedition to a successful conclusion. In 1851, he was appointed state treasurer by Governor Ring, to fill out the unexpired term of P. G. Glover, deceased, and he discharged the duties of this office with such fidelity and ability that he was three times in succession elected to the same position, and he finally resigned it in 1861, against the earnest remonstrance of Governor Gamble, rather than take the political test oath then required by the party in power. Shortly after returning to Howard county from Jefferson City, in 1861, he bought the Joel Hayden farm, a fine estate of 800 acres, where he has since lived in honorable and comfortable retirement. Judge Morrison has been twice married. First, March 15, 1825, to Miss Minerva, daughter of Captain Jackson, an early settler of this county, but originally of Tennessee, and a soldier under General Jackson in the battle of New Orleans. Five sons and four daughters were born of this union; of his children, only three are still living - John L., former sheriff of this county, Samuel M., editor of the Daily Standard, of Shreveport, La., and Preston E., a1so of this county. On the 17th of September, the mother of these having died two years before, Judge Morrison was married to his present wife, previously Mrs. Martha C., widow of the late James H. Johnson, of Platte county, and a daughter of John Henderson, originally of Virginia. Judge Morrison, although eighty-one years of age, is still in vigorous health physically and mentally, and personally supervises his large farming and other interests, and can, if occasion requires it, stand as much exertion and fatigue as men ordinarily at forty years of age. F. POIRIER, blacksmith, manufacturer of wagons, etc., and dealer in agricultural implements. Mr. Poirier is a Canadian by birth, but has lived on this side of the St. Johns nearly thirty-five years, and since he was thirteen years old, except a period of five years afterwards spent in his native land. His grandparents were originally from France, but his parents, Peter and Shersite, were Canadians. The subject of this sketch was born, November 11, 1832, and at the age of thirteen, came to St. Louis, Mo., where he learned the blacksmith's trade and where he continued to live until 1860, when he returned to Canada. In 1865, however, he came back to St. Louis, and during the spring of the following year came up to Glasgow, where he has since lived. Here he has followed his trade with success and has also engaged in the manufacture of wagons, plows, etc., and is now dealing in agricultural implements, in which he has a good trade. He is in industrious, energetic man, a good citizen, and is well respected in the community. He is a member of the Masonic order. In April, 1870, he was married to Miss Cleomatra Minor, of Chariton county, Mo. They have one child - Eleanor E. L. WILLIAM H. PRITCHETT, A. M., Professor of languages, Pritchett School Institute. Professor Pritchett, although a young man but twenty-four years of age, has already taken rank among the prominent educators of the state. He adopted the profession of teaching with a full appreciation of its dignity and importance, believing that it is the great calling upon which all other interests depend, and that people advance in social development and material prosperity in proportion to their advancement in general education and in the higher departments of learning. For a time he thought of devoting himself to the law, and even began the study of that science, but upon mature consideration, and after weighing deliberately in his own mind the relative merits of the two walks of life, satisfied himself that advanced education performs a service to society far more important, a service in itself, more elevating and ennobling than the licentiate in the legal profession, or indeed, in any other secular calling. Thus impressed with the dignity and importance of his profession, he determined to make himself worthy of it - ultimately to ornament it if it be possible to add lustre to a calling so noble and exalted. In youth, he prepared himself to begin it by a thorough course in college. William H. Pritchett was born in Leavenworth, Kan., on the 19th day of December, 1858, and is a son of Rev. Pritchett, then a Missionary Methodist minister in that state, but now president of Pritchett School Institute, of Glasgow, Mo. At the beginning of the war, the father returned with his family to the old homestead farm in Warren county, but a part of the time afterwards lived in St. Charles county. On the restoration of peace he moved to his farm in Jackson county, where he remained until 1876. Hence, the early youth of the son, except while absent attending school, was spent on the farm. But in 1876, his father moved to Fayette, Mo., and there Wm. H. subsequently entered Central college, and in l88l, received the highest degree conferred by that institution. In Fayette, he became professor of languages in the Howard Female college, a position he held about two and a half years, his father being, during that time and altogether, about five years the president of the college. In 1881, his father was elected president of Pritchett School Institute, and Prof. Wm. H. was elected to the professorship of languages in this institution, one of the endowed chairs of the institute, the position he now holds. In this chair be has now served two years, and during this time has been offered enviable positions in other colleges, which he has uniformly declined, preferring to remain with, and to continue to build up, the institution with which his and his father's names and reputations are so intimately and honorably associated. REV. J.H. PRITCHETT President, Pritchett School Institute, was born in Henry county, Virginia, on the 8th of February, 1835. In the fall of the same year his father immigrated to Missouri, stopping first in St. Charles county, but settling permanently one year afterwards on the eastern border of Warren county. There the father, who was a farmer by occupation, lived until his death, and the Son remained with the family on the farm up to the age of seventeen, receiving such instruction in the meantime as could be provided in private schools, which were principally supported by the father and kept in a building erected by him on his own farm. At the age of seventeen the son entered the Howard high school, in Fayette, Missouri, and having completed its curriculum in 1854, he spent the following year in charge of the preparatory department of the same institution. In 1855, he became a licentiate in the M.E. church south, and in the latter part of that year joined the Missouri conference of itinerant Methodist preachers, going thereupon to Kansas territory as a missionary, where he remained until the fall of 1866. Returning then to Missouri, he remained with his family on the old homestead in Warren county, during the civil war serving the various pastoral charges that were convenient. In the spring of 1865, he went without his family to Montana territory, remaining there until January, 1866, engaged for the most part in preaching and teaching. Concluding it best not to have his family join him in that section of the country, and affairs in Missouri, in the meantime becoming more settled, he then returned to this state, and the last seventeen years he has spent partly in the ministry and partly in school work : six years in the regular pastorate, four in the presiding eldership, and seven in the school room. In this last capacity he was five years president of Howard college, and the past two years he has been President of Pritchett School Institute, the position he now holds. The active, energetic, and useful life marked out in this sketch renders it unnecessary to say anything with regard to the value of such a man to society in general, and particularly to the community in which he lives. Striking, well-rounded sentences could add nothing to the eloquence of the plain facts. REV. CARR WALTER PRITCHETT, Director of the Morrison Observatory, was born in Henry county, Virginia, September 4, 1823. Until the completion of his twelfth year his parents resided in the counties of Henry and Pittsylvania. In 1835, they removed to Missouri, and settled in Warren county. The oldest of ten children, his boyhood and youth were spent in the arduous labor of opening and cultivating a farm. No time or means could be afforded for attending school. In his twenty- first year he attended St. Charles college, under President John H. Fielding, for eight months. In 1844, he began to teach, and in 1846, became a licentiate in the ministry of the Methodist church. In 1846-47, he labored on the old Fulton circuit with William P. Nichols. In 1847-48, he resumed teaching in a private academy, known as Pleasant Hill in Warren county. In 1849, he became principal of the Danville academy, in Montgomery county, and in the fall of that year was married to Miss Bettie Susan Smith, of Pike county, Missouri. In 1851, he became principal of the female department of Howard high school, Fayette, Mo., in association with William T. Lucky and William T. Davis. In 1857-58, he was associated with Rev. Nathan Scarritt, now of Kansas City, in the organization of Central college, and part of the year officiated as president. In 1859, lie resided at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was engaged in astronomical and mathematical pursuits. In 1859-60, he resumed his professorship of mathematics and astronomy in Central college, and again officiated as president, part of the year. During the year he conducted a collegiate school, in the Central college building, at Fayette, in association with Dr. William H. Anderson. In 1864-65, he labored in the statistical department of the United States sanitary commission at Washington, with Dr. B. A. Gould. In 1865-66, he revived the old Howard high school, Fayette. After one year of great prosperity, he became principal of Pritchett School Institute, Glasgow, in 1866. After seven years, he resigned, and became director of the Morrison Observatory, in 1874-75. RALL BROTHERS, carpenters and builders, and dealers in lumber and building material. This firm is composed of three brothers - Lewis, Gustave and Edward - all Originally from Wurtemburg, Germany. They were reared in their native country, where they received good, ordinary educations, and also learned the carpenter's and the cabinet maker's trades, of the last named of which their father was a master. Lewis served a two years' term in the regular army, and in 1866 came to America, landing at New York, but pushed on to Detroit, Michigan, where he remained for a short time and then went to New Orleans, Louisiana. In the spring of 1867, he came back north and located in Evansville, Indiana, where he remained about a year. In 1868, he came further west, to Missouri, settling finally in Glasgow, in 1869, where he has since lived. Here he followed his regular trade exclusively until 1870, when he began in his present business. He was married August 16, 1870, to Miss Julia Hessrich, a native of Boonville, and they have five children - Robert, Ermen, Fannie, Nora and Sophia. Gustave came to America in 1867, and met his brother at Evansville, Indiana. Thence they came to Missouri, and on to Glasgow together. In 1874, Gustave went to St. Louis, where he remained about five years working at the carpenter's trade. During his residence there he took lessons in mechanical and architectural drawing, making a specialty of the latter, in which he became thorough, and he is now conceded to be one of the finest experts, if not the finest, in this line in central Missouri. Gustave was married July 23, 1878, to Miss Emma Traubel, of St. Louis. They have two children - Rebecca and Cora. He has been a member of the school board of Glasgow for three years. Edward came to America after his brothers' emigration, and worked in Glasgow for a time, and then went to St. Louis, where he remained until 1877. That year he returned to Germany, but came back to Glasgow in 1880, where he has since lived. He was married in Germany, to Miss H. Passauer, and two children have been born to them, both of whom are living - Helen and William. The Rall brothers are all thorough mechanics, untiringly industrious, and intelligent and honorable, and they justly command a large share of the building contracts in this part of tile country, and have a profitable and increasing trade in lumber and building material. G. W. RHEA, farmer and stock raiser. Mr. Rhea is an Ohio farmer, who settled in this county after the war, and his farm bears out the reputation the farmers of the Buckeye State have, that of being among the best tillers of the soil in the whole country. He has what may not improperly be called a fine farm, for it is all splendid land and is well and handsomely improved. Although not a large place, containing only 131 acres, it is regarded as one of the best farms in the county. He gives special attention to raising stock, paying closer regard, however, to the quality than the quantity of the stock handled. Although Mr. Rhea is an Ohioan, he comes of Kentucky and South Carolina parentage, his father, James Rhea, having been a native of the former state, and his mother, whose name was originally Miss Mary Gray, having been born in South Carolina. However, in an early day and when a young man, his father came from Kentucky to Preble county, Ohio, where he met and married Miss Gray. Twelve children were the result of this marriage, among whom was G. W., the subject of this sketch. G. W. Rhea was born in Preble county, Ohio, September 17, 1834, and was reared and educated in his native county. On reaching the age that it became necessary for him to begin the active duties of life on his own account, he adopted farming as his occupation, which he has since followed. He remained in Preble county until 1863, and from that time until 1865, travelled extensively in Canada and the United States, but during the last named year settled in Butler county, Ohio, where he engaged in farming and continued until 1870, when he came to Missouri and made his home in Howard county. While residing in Butler county, Ohio, he was married January 11, 1868, to Mrs. Mary Kimmage, originally of Brooklyn, New York, and formerly a Miss Malona. By her first marriage she has two children living - William J. and Mary E. Mr. and Mrs. Rhea have by their union two children also - Elizabeth A. and James G. RICHARD M. ROBERTSON, farmer. Mr. Robertson's father, James Robertson, was a native of Ireland, but came to this country early in life, and for a time lived in Kentucky. From there he came to Howard county, and here, in March, 1828, married Miss Hannah Wilson, Richard M. being one of a family of seven children flow living of this union, viz., William H., John F., Jasper, Richard M., Mary and Robert. The father was a farmer by occupation, which he followed from his first settlement in this county until his death, in 1851. His wife still survives him, and now makes her home with her son, Richard M., the subject of this sketch. Richard M. was born in this county February 11, 1842, and was reared here on his father's farm, which occupation he adopted and has continued in thus far through life. He obtained a good ordinary education in the common schools, which has served him for all practical purposes in farm life. When nineteen years of age, in 1861, he enlisted in the Missouri state guards, raised under Governor Jackson's call for the defence of the state against threatened invasion, in which he served six months, and then enlisted in the regular Confederate service and followed the ill-starred banner of the south through four years of hardships and dangers until it was furled to be unfurled no more. In 1871, on the 13th of December, he was married to Miss Georgia Gibbs, daughter of Stephen Gibbs, formerly of Virginia, now deceased. They have two children, Bernice and Alice. Both parents are members of the Christian church. Mrs. Robertson's mother, formerly Miss Martha Milton, was originally from Kentucky, but Mrs. R. herself was born in this county; and Mrs. James Robertson, the mother of Richard M., was also a native of that state, having been born in Bath county, Kentucky, October 28, 1811. She came to Howard county with her parents when about nine years of age. Mr. R. has a neat farm of 140 acres. JOHN W. ROCK, farmer. Mr. Rock, who is one of the substantial farmers of Howard county, and who has served as justice of the peace of his township for the past seven years, has been a resident of this county for over twenty-five years. He was born in Barren county, Kentucky, September 5, 1829. His father, Joshua Rock, was a native of Virginia, but came to Kentucky and was there married to Miss Mary Farhis, and lived in Barren county until 1841, when they immigrated to Missouri and settled in Linn county. Two years later they moved to Macon county and lived there ten years; then, in 1853, moved to Grundy county. John W. was twelve years old before his parents left Barren county, namely, 1841, and consequently spent most of his youth in this state, and particularly in Macon county, where he attended the common schools, receiving a good ordinary education. When a young man he worked for a time at the carpenter's trade, but was reared on a farm and has followed that occupation thus far through life. In 1857 he came to Howard county, where he has since resided, and now owns a farm of 181 1/2 acres in a good state of improvement. He served for a while in the enrolled militia, and afterwards in the Missouri state militia. On the 15th of May, 1857, he was married to Miss Mary M., daughter of Peter and Polly Page Ford, of this county, but originally of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Rock have two children, Mary B. and Laura. Both parents are members of the Baptist church. JOHN A.J. ROOKER. About 1750 William Rooker, then a mere boy, left his father's hearthstone in England and took passage on a vessel for America. Landed here, he first made his home in Alabama, where he afterwards married and lived a number of years, but later on settled in Tennessee, and during his residence in the two states reared a large family. His descendants settled in the various states and it is believed all of that name in this country may trace their origin back to him as their common ancestor. Three of his sons and one of their sisters settled in. the vicinity of Indianapolis, Indiana, and that city was originally laid off on the land which then belonged to their sister's husband. John Rooker, another son and the father of the subject of this sketch, came to this county from Tennessee in 1816. He was born March 2, 1785, and married in Tennessee before leaving that state, his wife having before her marriage been a Miss Mary A. Gillespie. On their arrival here they spent their first winter in Fort Hempstead, but in the following spring settled on the place near Glasgow, where he died forty-four years afterwards, December 20, 1850, his wife having preceded him to the grave about two months. They reared a family of eight children. John Booker was a man of the greatest enterprise, industry and resolution, and withal he was possessed of unmistakable business ability. As soon as he became settled in his new home he embarked in trading by flat-boats, between Old Chariton and New Orleans. He accompanied his own boats down the river on which he transported tobacco, corn, hides, etc., and selling his stocks and also the boats at New Orleans, he would then return by steamboat to St. Louis and thence often walk up the Missouri to Old Franklin. This he continued for over twenty years and succeeded in accumulating a comfortable estate for old age. His son, John A. J., the subject of this sketch, was born and reared in this county, his birthday having been the 5th of November, in the year 1820. Farming became his regular occupation, and he was married on the 3d of December, 1842, to Miss Mary A., daughter of Samuel and Jane Maddox. In 1843 he moved to Linn county, Missouri, but his wife dying there about two years afterwards, he returned to Howard county in 1845. Here, November 2, 1847, he was married to Miss Nancy T., daughter of William and Margaret Jackson, and then moved again to Linn county. He remained in that county for nearly twenty years and until after the late war, when he emigrated to Iowa, but returned to Missouri one year later and settled in Howard county, where he has since lived. He has an excellent farm of 264 acres, and besides giving his attention to this, he was for a number of years extensively engaged in buying and shipping tobacco to distant markets, including Liverpool and London, to which he made direct shipments. By his first wife he has a daughter, Clasinda; and by his second, nine children are now living: Lizzie, Alice, Erasmus, Thomas J., Octavia, James, Nannie, Willie and Lucy. GRANVILLE C. SARTAIN, farmer. For many years Mr. Sartain was engaged in handling and training fast horses. In 1849 he went to Texas, where he remained three years. He was long accounted one of the best trainers and judges of running stock in central Missouri. In this business he was engaged in connection with farming, and the last mentioned occupation he still follows. He has a farm of 282 acres improved. He was born in Montgomery county, Tennessee, December 10, 1829, and was one of a family of ten children, born to Wright and Nancy Duncan Sartain, the father originally from Kentucky, but the mother a native of Virginia. When Granville C. was about five years of age his parents carne to Missouri and settled in Howard county, where he was brought up. When twenty-nine years of age he was married in July, 1856, to Miss Mary B. Golden, of this county, but six years afterwards she died leaving him four children: William, Matthew, Sarah and Mary B. In 1864 he joined General Price's command in this state, and served for a short time in the Confederate army. In October of the same year, he married again, Miss Rebecca Peacher then becoming his wife. They have six children, Joseph, James, Clarence, Harvey, Addie D. and Maudie. DR. F.M. SCROGIN, physician and surgeon. In youth, the future for young Scrogin seemed no brighter than for most of the other boys in his neighborhood who had their way to make in the world unaided by means of influential friends. Yet, through a vista that many did not look, he saw a brighter light than they - a future when he would be blessed by an ample competence of this world's goods, would be a prominent and useful citizen of his community, a physician respected and welcomed for his skill in his profession, and surrounded by a devoted and worthy family; but it was a vista that could be seen through only by determined purpose, and it revealed a future that could be realized only by constant effort, untiring, increasing industry. And thus he has kept his eye steadily on the light, has struggled on bravely through all difficulties and overcoming all obstacles, until, at last, he has reached the goal of his ambition, has become a physician esteemed for his ability, a citizen comfortably situated and highly respected in his community. Dr. Scrogin was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, August 8, 1819, and in youth had the advantages afforded by the ordinary schools of his neighborhood, by which he received a good, substantial education. Being brought up on a farm and under the influence of life in the country, he acquired those habits of industry and grew into that regularity and manner of life that are the secret of so many successful careers. At the age of eighteen he commenced the study of medicine under Drs. Price and Perkins, of Lexington, Kentucky, in which he continued several years, and in due time entered the medical department of the Transylvania university, of that city, and afterwards graduated at the close of the session for 1843-44. He then entered regularly upon the practice of his profession in Lexington, in which he continued until 1844, when he came to Missouri, and located at Switzer's Mills, in Chariton county. There he remained and prosecuted his practice with marked success for seventeen years and until 1861, when he came to his present location in this county, where for the last twenty-two years he has never failed to answer the call of the suffering. Nor has his labor of life gone unrewarded. He has an ample, comfortable estate of 700 acres of fine land, and his homestead is one of the best improved farms in Howard county. He was married on the 20th of July, 1854, to Miss Martha Switzer, formerly of Virginia, daughter of Daniel Switzer, founder of the Switzer mills. Dr. and Mrs. Scrogin have four children - Ollie., Arthur, Dixie and Daisy. The doctor is also a member of the I.0.0.F. His parents, Robert C., and Sidnie Terrill Scrogin, were both natives of Virginia, but came to Kentucky early in life. HON. THOMAS SHACKELFORD. To those who are to come after us, and who shall know anything of the history of this section of the state, the name of the subject of this sketch will not be unfamiliar. For many years he has been prominent in public life, at the bar, in business affairs and as an agriculturist. His father was a Virginian by birth, and by occupation a stone mason, but subsequently he became a large farmer in Saline county, Missouri; and he had those sterling qualities about him and that broad-minded, plain, vigorous intelligence, which, even without the advantages of a good education, bring success where industry, enterprise and strong common sense can win it; and which, when combined with mental culture, place the individual in the front of the thought and more advanced life of the community in which he lives. The native force of the father was transmitted in a marked degree to the son, and besides this, he has had the advantages of an excellent education obtained by private instruction. He was born in Saline county, Missouri, February 6th, 1822. His father, Judge Shackelford, whose name also was Thomas, first settled in Kentucky after leaving Virginia, where he followed his trade, but afterwards, in 1821, came on to Missouri, and settled in Saline county. In the meantime, however, he had married Miss Eliza C. Pulliam, a young lady originally from North Carolina. Here they reared their family which consisted of eight children. Transferred from the rock quarries of his former home to the fertile prairies of Saline county, Judge Shackelford's success was speedy and ample, and he soon took rank as one of the leading citizens of a wealthy county. He was appointed to the bench of the county court, and otherwise figured prominently in public and business affairs. The remainder of his life, and that of his excellent wife, was spent in the home of their adoption, and the remains of both now rest in the neighborhood cemetery near where they lived and died. Thomas Shackelford, the son, on reaching early manhood, or rather during the later years of his youth, read law under Judge Leonard, of Fayette, and made such progress in the study that he was admitted to the bar with marked distinction before he was twenty-one years of age. He soon went to the front in his profession and since then has been connected with most of the leading cases of this county, having practised in Glasgow for the last forty years. In a property point of view his success has been not less flattering. He has been a large stockholder in the Glasgow Savings bank since its first establishment, and has been the president of that institution during the whole time. He also owns a magnificent farm of 685 acres, one of the handsomest and best improved farms in the county, and does a large business in blooded stock and high-graded cattle. He is a man of great enterprise in whatever he engages, and he is as public-spirited and solicitous for the general welfare as he is enterprising. He has been among the foremost in building up Glasgow, and has contributed a leading share toward the development and prosperity of the surrounding country. In 1861 he was chosen to represent the people of this district in the constitutional convention which had to consider the action Missouri should take in the pending crisis, and was a steadfast friend to the Union. In 1875 he was again chosen as a constitutional delegate and sat in the convention that formed the present constitution. The facts that none but the ablest and best men are chosen to form constitutions, and that he has been selected by this district as their representative in the only two representative constitutional conventions that have been held in his life-time, are eloquent testimonials to his integrity, ability and popularity. He was married June 17th, 1851, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of John Harrison, one of the early settlers and highly respected citizens of this county. They have a family of three children. Ida E., wife of Rev C. C. Hemenway, of Auburn, New York, and Maud and George G. Mr. and Mrs. Shackelford are both members of the M. E. church south, and he is a member of the I.O.O.F. and of the I.O.G.T., and takes an active interest in both orders. SYDNEY SHACKELFORD, farmer. Mr. Shackelford, one of the most successful and enterprising farmers and business men of Howard county, began his industrial life in the mercantile business at the early age of seventeen, which he pursued with success for over ten years, and then engaged in farming and stock raising, which still occupies his attention, in connection, however, with the tobacco business. He was born in Saline county, Missouri, March 6, 1831, and was reared and educated in that county. In 1847 he came to Glasgow and engaged in merchandising, being a member of the firm of Baston, Hutchinson & Co., and in this he continued until 1856, when he went to St. Louis and began the wholesale grocery business. In that city he was the leading member of the firm of Shackelford, Finney & Co., in which he remained until 1858, when he sold out and commenced farming in this county on a large scale, and raising stock. His place embraces 700 acres of excellent land, and is one of the best grain and stock farms in the county. The improvements are of a very superior class, and he has some as fine stock as there is in the county. As a farmer and stock raiser he is progressive and full of enterprise, and believes that agricultural interests should be conducted on the same principles that govern other business. On the 2d of March, 1858, he was married to Miss Lucy Bouldin, daughter of I.E. Bouldin, of Austin, Texas, but in March, 1873, she was taken away by death. By this union he has one son living, Everett. He was married again, June 2, 1877, to Miss Flora Bouldin. By this marriage he has two children living, Sydney and Mizell. Mrs. Shackleford was born in this county March 28, 1853, and was a daughter of James L. Bouldin. WILLIAM H. SIGLER, merchant, lumber manufacturer and dealer. That there are ample and almost unsurpassed opportunities here for men to thrive by enterprise and good management is forcibly illustrated by the career of Wm. H. Sigler. He came to Glasgow six years ago with barely enough means to begin business on a small scale, and now he is one of the foremost business men in the county; is, perhaps, the largest lumber manufacturer in this whole region of country. He has two large mills in Glasgow alone, besides important milling interests elsewhere, and in west Glasgow, of which he is the postmaster, he also has a general store and deals extensively in grain. In one of his mills in Glasgow he has just added a complete plant of machinery for the manufacture of laths and staves, which he has begun on a large scale. He employs a large corps of hands in his various establishments. Such a man is of value to any community in which he lives, and a sketch of his career will well repay reading. He was born in Putnam county, Indiana, June 11, 1850. His parents, James and Elizabeth Sigler, were originally from Pennsylvania. When William H. was about five years old they moved from Indiana to Wayne county, Iowa, where the father carried on farming and the milling business, and to the latter occupation William H. was brought up, which he followed until the breaking out of the war. When hostilities began he, of course, took the side of his own section, and being as Courageous as he was sincere in his attachment to the union, he enlisted in company B, 6th Kansas infantry, which was afterwards changed to cavalry. He served three years, and at the expiration of his term returned home and resumed the milling business. In 1871 he went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he remained most of the time until in 1877, when he came to Glasgow. In January, 1874, he was married to Miss Emma J. Kingdon, a native of Illinois. WILLIAM H. AND KIRK P. SILVEY, farmers. William H. Silvey, the father of Kirk P., is a life-long resident of Howard county, and is one of the oldest, in point of continuous residence, in the county, having been born here February 26, 1819. He was the youngest of a family of six children born to Alexander and Sallie Silvey, only two of whom are now living. His father was a native of Virginia, and his mother, whose family name was originally Holmes, was from North Carolina, but they were married in Kentucky, whence, in 1818, they came to this state and settled in Howard county. His father died here in 1860, and his mother in 1863. William H. obtained a good ordinary education in his youth, and having been reared on a farm, he adopted that as his occupation. He has a farm of good land numbering 200 acres, comfortably improved. He is an intelligent, upright, well-to-do farmer, and is respected by all who know him. January 11, 1843, he was married to Miss Martha E. Yager, originally from Madison county, Virginia. Both are members of the Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. Silvey have two children living, Amanda, widow of the late Dr. Pile, and Kirk P. Silvey was also born in Howard county, his natal day being the 6th of December, 1848. In youth he had the advantages afforded by the common schools, and in these received a good practical education. His father brought him up to habits of industry and in the way to upright and honorable manhood, and his early training has not been thrown away. Like his father, he is a well-respected farmer and citizen. On the 16th of February, 1871, he was married to Pauline Broaddus, of this county. They have four children, Leroy F., William F., Bunyan and an infant. He has a farm of 171 acres. JOEL R. SILVEY, farmer. Mr. Silvey's father, Joseph H., who died January 23, 1883, was a son of Alexander and Sarah Silvey, and was brought with his father's family to this county when a small boy. Here he grew up and married and reared a large family, his wife having been formerly Miss Eliza J. Witt, a native of this state, who died February 4, 1881. Of their family of ten children, eight are now living, viz: Sarah F., wife of J. N. Robinson; Ledru, grocer, in Salisbury, Missouri; Alex. F., farmer, of this county; Joel R., subject of this sketch; Belle, wife of C. J. Simpson; James S., student in the law department of the state university; Ernest B. and Strange S. A son (Lecroy) died during the war in the military prison at Alton, Illinois, and Jennie died unmarried. The father, at his death, left a neat farm of 176 3/4 acres, on which Joel R. and his younger brothers now reside. Joel R. was born October 12, 1855, where he now lives. He has followed farming from boyhood, and is an intelligent and industrious and well-respected farmer and citizen. In youth he received a good ordinary education, and after he grew up was married, July 11, 1878, to Ella Estill, daughter of one of the old settlers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. S. are both members of the Christian church.DANIEL W. SKAGGS,farmer. Mr. Skaggs came to Howard county from Johnson county, in this state, in 1863, and now owns a good farm of 191 acres in a fair condition of improvement. He was the seventh of a family of eleven children born to Joseph and Effie Donham Skaggs, the father a native of East Tennessee, and the mother of Pennsy1vania. They were married in Kentucky, however, where both had gone early in life, and in Warren county of that state the subject of this sketch was born June 6, 1813. When Daniel was a boy seven years of age his parents moved to Henry county, Tennessee, where they lived about ten years and then immigrated to Missouri, settling first in Lafayette county, and two years afterwards in Johnson county. He was educated in the common schools of Tennessee and of this state, and was brought up to the occupation of a farmer, which he has since followed. In May, 1839, he was married to Miss Frances A. Wright, of Kentucky, but she died in 1862, leaving him four children - Mary, William, George and Laura A., of whom George is the only one living. He was again married in March, 1864, Miss Elizabeth Thorp, of this county, becoming his second wife. Of the last marriage four children are living - Effie, Willie A., Joseph F. and James E. Both are members of the Baptist church. THOMAS BERRY SMITH, Professor of natural sciences in Pritchett School Institute, was born in Pike county, Missouri, December 7, 1850. His father was a Virginian and his mother a Missourian. His boyhood was spent on a farm, engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising. He attended school a few months during the winter of each year. In his seventeenth year he was sent from home to a high school in Clarksville, Missouri. In 1869 he was allowed to begin a four years' course in Pritchett Institute, Glasgow, Missouri, from which he graduated in February, 1873, receiving the degree of B.A. After teaching a few months in the country he was elected to the chair of natural sciences in Pritchett School Institute in September, 1873. In September, 1875, by direction of the institute, he went to Yale college and entered the Sheffield scientific school to prepare himself for the department of chemistry, physics and mineralogy in Pritchett School Institute. He remained until June, 1876, and visited the Centennial exposition on his way home. In September he entered again upon his school duties as professor of chemistry and physics in Pritchett School Institute. He has since that time been connected with the North Missouri Normal school at Kirksville, Missouri, Carleton college at Northfield, Minnesota, and McCune college at Louisiana, Missouri. He is now professor of natural sciences in Pritchett Institute, having been elected to that chair after the resignation of Professor S.H. Trowbridge in 1882. He received the degree of master of arts from his alma mater in 1879. He is a member of the M.E. church - joined at Glasgow in January, 1870 - and is a Sunday-school worker. He has been an active worker in the I.O.G.T., and is a member of the A.O.U.W. In 1881 he joined the American association for the advancement of science. He was married December 27, 1877, at Richmond, Missouri, to Miss Emma Marvin Newland, second daughter of the late Rev. W. M. Newland. He has written a good deal; has been a contributor in prose and verse to the Kansas City Review, St. Louis Christian Advocate, Ware's Valley Monthly, Visitor, and Teacher (Kirksville) and other periodicals. In 1880 he published a chart entitled " Circle of the Material Sciences," which has been highly commended by educators. He has travelled considerably over the United States, including three trips to Texas, three to Virginia, where he spent several weeks in the mountains, two by ocean steamer from Norfolk to New York, and two to St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota. After ten years in the school room as teacher and professor, working in his chosen field - Nature - he is satisfied with his vocation, and expects to spend his life in doing all he can to make better the human race, leading the young amid the mysteries of nature, and among them searching for the wondrous Designer of all. A. W. STANLEY, farmer, stock raiser and fruit grower. In farming it is the same as in any other business; some men lead in it, a great many move along in a mechanical sort of way, like marking time, and still others unfortunately fall victims to industrial asthenia and are counted out entirely. Mr. Stanley is in every sense one of the first class. His place is a revelation of neatness, taste and good management, and he is a progressive farmer. He is now going largely into apple culture, simply because it is a plain matter of figures that it pays better than corn and wheat growing. His place numbers 382 acres, and he has 18 1/2 acres in orchards, to which he is adding every year. In early manhood he was a school teacher, and this fact throws a deal of light on his subsequent intelligent, successful career. He has been, and is now, a leading man in his locality; was a director in the Howard county bank at Glasgow; has been a justice of the peace, and is now a notary public. He was born in this county September 6, 1830, and was here reared and educated. He commenced his career by teaching school, and after awhile became so situated that he could go to farming, and has gone on persevering in industry and intelligent management, until now he is one of the substantial men of Howard county. He was married November 28, 1854, to Miss Cynthia A. Crawley of this county, and they have eleven children: Newton, Laura, Mary A., Boyd, Cornelia, Ida, James, Wilmoth, William P., Emma, Leonard E. Mrs. Stanley was born January 20, 1834. Mr. Stanley's father, Thomas Stanley, was a native of Virginia. From there he went to Kentucky and thence to Tennessee, where he married Miss Alcie Wells, and then came to Howard county in 1817, where they made their permanent home. Here Aaron W.'s mother died when he was still a child, but his father lived until 1855, - nearly forty years after his arrival in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley are consistent members of the M.E. church south, and his father and mother were also earnest Christian people, and both families have been and are highly esteemed by all acquainted with them. JOSEPH STETTMUND, of Joseph Stettmund & Co., pork packers, butchers, etc. Mr. Stettmund is another of that large class of Germans who have come to this country, and by intelligent industry and good management have accumulated handsome fortunes. He is now one of the solid business men of Howard county, is a large stockholder and director of the Howard county bank, and is respected by all as an enterprising public-spirited citizen. He was born at Hohenzollern, Germany, April 6, 1826, and was married in his native country, where he learned the butcher's trade and lived until 1848. He then came to America, landing at New Orleans, whence he came to Cincinnati, where he remained a year, and then located in St. Louis. In 1852 he came up the river to Glasgow, and that year began his career in this place in the butcher business. He went to work with the energy that never fails to bring success when directed by good sound sense and accompanied by frugal habits, and the result has been as we have noted above. While some were idling and taking their pleasure in early manhood, he was at work and economizing. Now he is able to have all the comforts he desires, while they in their old age are forced to work, and are often without the necessaries of life. There is a lesson in this well worth study. He was married February 26, 1855, to Miss Wilhelmine Rushhause, of Germany. They have seven children Julia A., Joseph R., Emma C., Edward H., Louis J., Ernest and Varney. JAMES 0. SWEARINGEN, farmer and stock raiser. Mr. Swearingen is another of the many honest and worthy citizens of Howard county, who are the sons of the early settlers, and were born and raised in the county, and, true to the noblest instinct of man - love of country - have always made this their home. Mr. S. was one of a family of seven children born to Joseph and Nancy Short Swearingen, who came to this county from Kentucky among the early pioneers. James O. was born in this county on the 6th of September, 1840, and was reared on a farm, which occupation he has followed from youth. He acquired a good ordinary education in the common schools of the times, and on reaching manhood engaged in farming on his own account. When General Price, "full high advanced" the blood and tear-bathed standard of the south upon the plains and heights of old Missouri in 1864, he became a plighted soldier to the southern banner, and followed it to its Calvary, and until the door of its sepulchre was sealed forever. On the 14th of March, 1861, Mr. S. was married to Miss Nancy E. Wayland, of this county. They have a family of eight children : Elimelech, Obed C., Joseph W., Mary B., Mattie J., James K., Dollie A. and Addie S. Mr. S. is a member of the A.O.U.W. JOHN TATUM, farmer. Mr. Tatum's grandfather, Isham Tatum, whose father was from England, came from North Carolina to Virginia where he settled and reared a family, Isham Jr., the father of the subject of this sketch being one of his sons. Isham Jr., on reaching manhood was married in his native state to Miss Mary Hume, and of this union fourteen children were born, John, our subject, being the eldest. He was born in Madison county, Virginia, February 12, 1819. When about seventeen years of age, he in company with four other young men - his father, A.C., David Garnett and Frederick and William Kemper, the last two brothers of Governor Kemper, of Virginia, and Frederick, afterwards of the well-known Kemper school, of Boonville, came to Missouri in 1836, making the trip as far as Burlington, Kentucky, in a wagon, thence coming by stage to the Ohio river and thence by boat to St. Louis. At the last named point the company separated, the Kempers and Garnett going to Marion college, and John and A. C. Tatum coming to their uncle's, in St. Charles county. John remained in St. Charles until 1838, when he came up the river to Glasgow, but a year later returned to St. Charles county. In 1841 he came again to Howard county and entered the Fayette college, in which he continued as a student about a year. He then began teaching, which he followed until 1846. On the 12th of February of that year he was married to Miss Nancy Wilhoit, of this county, and then engaged in farming which he has since followed. He now has a good farm of 278 acres in an excellent state of improvement. Mr. Tatum has led an industrious and useful life, and he is respected by all who know him as an intelligent, upright citizen. He has held the office of justice of the peace for fourteen years. His first wife, who was born in 1821, lived to bless his home twenty-two years after their marriage, but in 1868 was taken from him by death. Three children of this union are now living - William H., John R. and Joseph. Mr. T. was again married, June 2, 1874, to Miss Helen A. Hume, who was born in Madison county, Virginia, in 1841. By his last marriage four children are now living - Edward T., Henry F., Mertis and Lee. On the mother's side Mr. Tatum is of Scotch descent, Lloyd Hume, the great grandfather of his mother, having come over to this country from Scotland in the pioneer days of the colonies. His grandmother was formerly a Miss Ann Clark, of Virginia. HENRY TILLMAN, a leading grocer and dealer in queensware, etc., in Glasgow, is a native of Germany, and was born in that country December 19, 1830. He there learned the baker's trade, which he followed principally until 1853, when he immigrated to America, landing in New Orleans, but pushing on shortly to St. Louis. He remained in the last-named city until 1856, when he came on up the river to Glasgow and located permanently in this place, where he has since lived. Here he was employed in different kinds of labor until 1857, when he engaged in the saloon business, in which he continued for sixteen years. In 1873 he began his present business, and now he has one of the largest grocery houses in Howard comity, and is doing an excellent and rapidly increasing business. In 1855 he was married in St. Louis to Miss Anna M. Kneuven, a young lady of German birth. They have six children - Lizzie, Mary, Ella and Nellia, twins, Litta and Vincent. JOHN H. TURNER, JR., farmer and Stock raiser. Mr. Turner, who is a lifelong resident of Howard county, and has a splendid grain and stock farm of 800 acres, besides giving his attention to the ordinary farm interests, is now making a specialty of raising and handling short-horn, high-grade cattle, of which he has some of the finest quality in the county. He has been engaged in this line for the past five years, hut is constantly adding to his stock by purchase of tile best breeds that can be had, and the present year bought several, including both sexes, of the celebrated Pole-Angus breed, imported direct from Scotland. Besides his large farm in this county, which is exceptionably well improved, he owns real estate also in Chariton and Macon counties, and is in every sense of the word a thorough-going, enterprising, educated farmer and stockman. He was born in Howard county, Missouri, June 9, 1837, and was reared in this county, where he has since lived. In youth he attended the ordinary schools of the county, and after his common school course had the benefit of two years' tuition in the State university at Columbia. Returning home after his university course, he engaged in farming, and his career as a farmer has been marked by the most gratifying success. On the 11th of May, 1860, he was married to Miss Bettie Jackson, a refined and accomplished young lady of this county, daughter of Thomas Jackson and niece of Governor Claiborne F. Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Turner have an interesting family of five children - Thomas J., Henry A., Lee, Lucile and Richard F. Mr. T. is a brother to William Turner, another leading farmer and stock raiser, and both are sons of Talton Turner, one of the old and highly respected citizens of the county. ISAAC P. VAUGHAN, M.D. Dr. Vaughan was born in Goochland county, Virginia, thirty miles above Richmond, on the James river, on the 27th day of February, 1816. His father was Dr. Nicholas Meriweather Vaughan, of the same county, and was a first cousin to Captain Meriweather Lewis, commander of the expedition of Lewis and Clark, sent by President Jefferson, in 1804, to explore the territory newly acquired from France, from the western boundary of Missouri to the mouth of the Columbia river. Dr. I. P. Vaughan's mother was a daughter of Isaac Pleasants, Esq., of the doctor's native county. Mr. Pleasants, although belonging to the denomination of Quakers, became a gallant soldier of the Continental army on the breaking out of the revolutionary war. He was a man of strong character, great resolution and of undoubted patriotism. When it became known that he had enlisted for the war, he was cited before his church, the laws of which prohibit its members from becoming soldiers on any account, for breach of its ordinances; but he sent his brethren word that they might go to - wherever the spirit moved them - but for him, he would go to the front and fight for his country. This message, of course, placed him outside of the Quaker denomination, but it was enthusiastically approved by the public, and made him something of a hero among the Virginia volunteers. He bravely followed the flag of the infant republic through the entire war, and was with Washington at the siege of Boston and it the battles of Camden and Princeton. He also crossed the Delaware with his old commander on that eventful, stormy night; participated in the campaign through the Jerseys; was in the battles of Germantown and Brandywine; passed through the trials and hardships of the winter at Valley Forge; and wound up his career at the glorious triumph of Yorktown. Dr. Isaac P. Vaughan graduated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, in March, 1837. In 1839 he located in Glasgow, Missouri, where he remained engaged in the practice of his profession until 1864, when went to St. Louis. But in 1866, his health having broken down, he went to Europe, and was absent from this country about six mouths. He returned to Glasgow in 1868, where he has since lived and has practiced continuously since in the various branches of his profession. It is the least that the plain, modest truth allows, to say that Dr. Vaughan is a scientific, successful physician, a useful citizen and a good man. But this is said advisedly and with a proper appreciation of the full significance of the words used. Before the war he had accumulated a handsome competence, but the war swept most of it away. Since then he has materially mended his fortune. JOHN WACHTER, gunsmith, and dealer in fire-arms, glassware, queensware, etc. Over thirty-two years ago, Mr. Wachter came from Switzerland to Glasgow, and went to work at his trade, that of gunsmithing, which he learned in the old country, and which he has ever since followed. For many years, however, he has had an establishment of his own, and about three years ago he also engaged in the glassware and queensware mercantile business. He was born in Switzerland, January 7, 1833. He had good school advantages in his youth, and acquired more than an average common school education. As is wisely the custom in that country, that every boy shall learn sonic occupation, either trade, profession, or other certain means of support, Mr. W. was apprenticed to the gunsmith's trade, which he learned thoroughly, as is there required. His father, Justice, having come over to this country and located in Glasgow, in 1849, two years later he came over, since which he has lived almost continuously where he is now engaged in business. On the 8th of January, 1854, he was married to Miss Margaret Taylor, a native of Indiana, whose parents were also of that state, but were of German descent. They have four children - Martha, Alice, John and Fletcher. Mr. and Mrs. Wachter are both members of the church, he of the Methodist denomination, and she of the Presbyterian. S. F. WALLACE. Mr. Wallace was the youngest of a family of ten children - five sons and five daughters - and was born in this county, August 15, 1822. His father, Samuel Wallace, immigrated to this county from Kentucky, in 1819, and was then forty- eight years of age, having been born in Virginia, January 29, 1771. When a young man, he immigrated from Virginia to Kentucky, and was there, afterwards, on the 14th of June, 1798, married to Miss Anna Snoddy, who was born in North Carolina, October 19, 1778. Twenty-one years afterwards, as stated above, they came to Howard county and here he died, in 1852, and Mrs. Wallace about ten years subsequent, March 4, 1862. On coming to this county, Mr. W. improved the farm on which his son, S. F., now lives and helped to improve. Mr. S. F. was married December 18, 1845, to Miss Galey, daughter of Robert and Anna James, both of Kentucky, but early settlers in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace have three children - John C., Hickman J. and Lizzie, (now Mrs. Tindall). Mrs. Wallace was horn December 22, 1823, in Howard county. Mr. Wallace has an excellent farm of 246 acres. He has been, and is now one of the successful farmers of the county. He is an intelligent, energetic farmer, and a highly respected citizen, and he and wife are both members of the Baptist church. DR. JAMES M. WALKER, physician and farmer. Dr. Walker was principally reared in Randolph county, although a native of Kentucky, his father, who was also a physician, having come from that state to Missouri, when the son was a small boy. Dr. W. W. Walker, the father, was of a South Carolina family, but was himself born in Kentucky, his parents having settled in that state in a comparatively early day. Mrs. Walker, Dr. J. M.'s mother, was before her marriage a Miss Susan Anna Schooling, and was born and reared in her husband's native state. On coming to this state, Dr. W. W. Walker first located in Boone county, but remained there only about two years, and then located in Randolph county, where he moved his family and practiced his profession for many years. However, his health failing him, he was compelled to retire from practice in 1854, and died subsequently at his son's residence, at the age of seventy-five years. Dr. James M. Walker was the eldest of a family of Seven children (all sons), and was born in Harrodsburg, Mercer county, Ky., August 25, 1824. His parents having come to Randolph county, Mo., he there attended the schools of the neighborhood, and, by close application to his books, acquired a good ordinary English education early in youth. But when in boyhood, he showed a decided preference for medical studies, and commenced reading the works in his father's library at an early age, which he kept up until he was old enough to attend medical school. Thus, his reading having extended through a long series of years, and with the advantage of constant instruction from his father, who took a deep interest in his progress, and supplied him with all the best medical works, when he entered the medical department of the University of Louisville, in 1848, he was unusually well qualified to begin his medical course. After his medical course, he at once entered actively into the practice of his profession with his father, in Randolph county, which he continued for some years; but anxious to keep up, not only in the latest knowledge to be found in books, hut also in that afforded by the schools, he took another regular course in a medical college in St. Louis also, where he graduated with marked distinction, in 1855. Then resuming his practice, he followed it with great success, professionally and otherwise, until 1860, when, in order to retire from practice, he settled in this county on a farm, in 1845, which he had previously acquired. His farm contains 320 acres, and is substantially improved, and well stocked. He was married on the 31st of March, 1850, to Miss Susan V., daughter of Robert James. They have three children - Fannie P., William W. and Robert J. The doctor and his wife are both members of the Christian church, and he is a prominent member of the Masonic order. CAPT. W.E. WARDEN. When the magic words, "Gold discovered in California," passed from lip to lip throughout the world, in 1850, and the following spring and summer, the subject of this sketch was then a young man twenty-five years of age, pursuing the even tenor of his way in Chariton county, whence he had gone from this county, in 1845, where he was born mid reared. But coming of an ancestry of pioneers and enterprising men, he could not remain quietly while the tread of thousands to the promised land was constantly echoing in his ear. Accordingly, like another soldier of the crusades, he joined the marching column of the westward bound pioneers, and made the journey across the plains to the golden coast of California. He remained in the far off regions of the west, digging, patiently digging, for what the "Merchant ploughs the main And the farmer Plows the manor," until 1851, when he returned to his home in Chariton county. He had then been married four years, having married April 16, 1846, when Miss Martha S. Ballew became his wife. She was born in June, 1827, and he August 4, 1824, both natives of Howard county. Up to that time he had followed the occupation of a farmer, which he has since pursued, except for a term during the war, when he did service in the Confederate army. He joined General Price's command during the latter's raid in this state, and served as captain of company C, 2d Missouri battalion sharp shooters, until the general surrender, in 1865. After the conclusion of the war, he came from Chariton county to this county with his family, where he has since lived. They have four children - Vinnie F., wife of Thomas A. Cason, of this county, William D., Walter H. and Stonewall J. Mr. and Mrs. Warden are both members of the Christian church. Mr. W.'s parents, Elijah and Frances Jackson Warden, were natives of Kentucky - the former came to Missouri to view the country in 1814 - but immigrated to the state in 1818, settling in Howard county later, where the mother died in 1852, and the father in 1856. His wife's parents, Hiram and Dorcas Ballow, came to Howard county in 1818. Mr. B. was a native of North Carolina, and his wife was born in Kentucky. E. N. WAUGH, farmer. Mr. Waugh was a youth sixteen years of age when his parents emigrated from Virginia and settled in Pike county, Missouri, in 1838, where they both subsequently lived until their death. His father, Thomas Waugh, was of Scotch descent, and was born and reared in the Old Dominion. His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Reynolds. E. N., the subject of this sketch, was born in Bedford county, Virginia, January 22, 1822. He received the elements of an ordinary education in the neighborhood schools 6f his early home. After reaching manhood he adopted farming as his occupation to which he had been brought up. He remained in Pike county, Missouri, until 1855, when he moved to Lincoln county, whence, two years afterwards, he came to this county, where he has since lived. He has a good farm of 233 acres. On the 25th of December, 1845, he was married to Miss Mary Graves, originally from Nelson county, Virginia, where she was born, October 11, 1826. They have two children, Minerva and Fame. Mr. and Mrs. W. are both members of the Christian church. JOHN H. WAYLAND, of Lewis & Wayland, grain merchants. Among the prominent business men of Glasgow, who were born and reared in Howard county, may be mentioned John H. Wayland, now extensively engaged with Mr. Lewis as his partner in the grain business. His father, William Wayland, was a native of Virginia, having been born in Osage county, of that state, January 13, 1816; but when only about ten years of age, he was brought by his parents to Missouri who immigrated to Howard county in 1826, where William was afterwards brought up. During the last thirty years of his life he was engaged in merchandising in Roanoke, where he died, August 2, 1879, leaving his wife, who still survives him, and six children - Aria, John H., James, Cecil, Roland and Elizabeth. He was an upright business man and enjoyed the respect and confidence of all who knew him. For many years he was a leading and exemplary member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. John H. Wayland was born February 6, 1849, and was reared in Roanoke, where he attended the common schools, but received more of a practical education in his father's store, in which most of his youth and early manhood were spent. His training was such as to make him a first-class business man, and the result has shown that his opportunities were not thrown away. In 1872, he came to Glasgow and engaged in selling goods, which he continued until 1876, when he formed his present partnership and began the grain business. He was married March 31, 1875, to Miss Virginia L. Iglehart, of this county. They have three children - Virlea, Elizabeth and William. Mr. W. is a member of Livingston lodge No.51, of the A. F. and A. M. N. B. WEAVER, engaged in the agricultural implement business and in the manufacture of wagons in Glasgow, is of German parentage on his father's side, but is himself a native of Ohio. His father, John Weaver, came to America when a young man and married in Ohio a young lady horn and raised in that state. When the subject of this sketch was six years old his father came with the family to Boonville, Mo., where N. B. was reared and educated. He there learned the blacksmith's trade, and in 1869, came to Glasgow, where he has since carried out his present business. He has a large trade in agricultural implements and his wagons are extensively used throughout the surrounding country. He was married February 26, 1872, to Miss Mary A. Nivert, of Glasgow. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., and has been a member of the town council for three years. He is an intelligent, progressive business man, and as a citizen lie is deservedly popular. WILLIAM WENGLER & SONS, manufacturers of and dealers in furniture. These gentlemen have a furniture establishment that is a credit to the place in which they do business and speaks a great deal for their own enterprise and business ability. Mr. William Wengler began business in Glasgow, in 1867, on a small capital, and by industry and good management increased his trade and enlarged his establishment until it became one of the solid business institutions of the city. They have just put in a plant of machinery for the manufacture of furniture on a more extensive scale than ever, and they reasonably look forward for a more rapid growth of their business than they have heretofore experienced. Mr. Wengler, the father, was born in Prussia, October 11, 1820. In youth, he had the benefit of the excellent public school system in his native country, and, as it is the rule in that country, for every boy to learn some useful occupation, he learned the cabinet maker's trade, and learned it thoroughly, which he has since followed. In 1851, he came to America, landing in New York, where he remained for a time, and afterwards settled in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He continued working at his trade there until 1865, when he came to Hannibal, Missouri, where he remained until the following year, locating then at Glasgow. He married before leaving Prussia, February 15, 1850, Miss Augusta Froelich then becoming his wife. She was born in that country, November 25, 1832. They have four children - Hermann W., born in New York City, June 13, 1852, and a member of the above firm; Edward A., also a member of the firm, born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, February 24, 1857, and married to Miss Rose Erdle, of this county, December 21, 1879; Bertha, also born in Ft. Wayne, January 9, 1859, and Adolph, born in Ft. Wayne, February 21, 1861. Edward A. and wife have one child - Edgar. D. V. WHITE, farmer, and dealer in mules and blooded horses. Mr. White's ancestors, both paternal and maternal, came originally from Virginia. His grandfather, G. White, was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and subsequently became one of the first pioneers of Madison county, Kentucky. His grandfather on his mother's side, James Moore, was also a pioneer to Kentucky from Virginia, and was all intimate friend of Daniel Boone. His father, Jerre White, was a native of Kentucky and was there married to Miss Anna Moore, of the same state, and of this union, eight children were born, D. V. being the youngest. D. V. White grew tip in his native county and followed farming and dealing in stock there until October, 1881, when he came to this county and settled on his present farm. He has a farm of 290 acres. Besides giving his attention to the ordinary farm interests, he deals in horses and mules and makes a specialty of handling blooded horses, in which line he is a thorough master of his business. In the early part of 1862 he enlisted in Captain Douglass' company, raised in his native county, and served until twenty-two months before the close of the war, when he was taken prisoner and held until the restoration of peace. He was married, May 5, 1865, to Miss Sallie Orvin, of Madison county, Kentucky, a daughter of Nathan and Melina Richardson Orvin. Mr. and Mrs. White have seven children - Wm. S., Melina, Allie, Jerre, Harry, Stephen and Martha. Both parents are members of the Christian church. JOSEPH WILHOIT, farmer. Except about three years during the war, from 1862 to 1865, when Mr. Wilhoit was engaged in clerking in Glasgow, farming has been his occupation through life, which he still follows. He now has a place of 240 acres in a good state of cultivation. He was born in this county September 21, 1837, and was reared on a farm. In youth he attended the schools of the neighborhood, and by close application acquired a good education for all the practical purposes of business. During his experience as clerk in Glasgow he also obtained an excellent knowledge of business transactions in the mercantile line, and in all business affairs he is a man of more than ordinary information. On the 1st of February, 1860, he was married to Miss Lucy Crigler, of this county, but a native of Madison county, Kentucky. They have two children, Mollie and Farris. Mr. and Mrs. Wilhoit are both members of the Christian church. WILLIAM WILHOIT, farmer. Mr. Wilhoit was born in Howard county, Missouri, September 28, 1830, and was reared in this county, where he has followed farming from youth, and now has a large farm of 535 acres, well improved and well stocked. He was married September 27, 1863, to Miss Mary E., daughter of J. V. Bastin, of this county. Mrs. Wilhoit was horn July 2, 1840. They have three children, John P., Alvin and Anna. Mr. Wilhoit's father, John Wilhoit, was a native of Virginia, but went to Kentucky early in life, where he married Miss Catherine Crigler. They reared a family of ten children. In 1820 the family came to Howard county, where William was born, and where the father died in 1855 and the mother in 1874. John Wilhoit was an energetic and industrious man, and was an intelligent, successful farmer. He was respected by all who knew him as a worthy, upright citizen. His wife was a good and true and noble-hearted woman, and both were exemplary members of the church. JUNE WILLIAMS, who in youth attended Hon. James G. Blame's school in Kentucky, and was born and reared in that state, has been a citizen of Howard county since 1853, and is one of the substantial and highly respected farmers of the county. He was born December 3, 1830, and at the age of nineteen, in 1849, bid good-bye to the dear ones of his native home in Scott county, and started for the gold fields of California. He remained in the Aladdin land of the Pacific until 1851, when he returned to "His old Kentucky home, far away." But on his trip he had passed through Howard county, this state, and had become impressed with the fertility of its soil and its other superior natural advantages, and accordingly, in 1853, he came to this county, where be settled and engaged permanently in farming. His place is about four and a half miles from Glasgow, and contains 212 acres of the best quality of land. On the 18th of December, 1854, Mr. Williams was married to Miss Martha Rucker, of Randolph county, but formerly of Virginia, and they have nine children living - Junie, Granville, Archie, Dabney, James, Mattie, Horace, Rena and Carrie. One, besides, is dead - Sidney. Mr. Williams is a member of the Masonic order. His father, Merrett Williams, was a Virginian by birth, but was reared in Kentucky. Mrs. Merrett Williams, mother of June, whose maiden name was Eliza Smith, was of Fayette county, Kentucky. SOURCE: History of Howard and Cooper Counties, St. Louis: National Historical Company, 1883, (Chariton township, pp. 456-486.)