HOWARD COUNTY MISSOURI BIOGRAPHIES (Franklin Township)
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				FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
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				J. B. AINSWORTH.

	William AINSWORTH and family were among the earliest pioneers of Howard 
county—in fact they lived in a fort in this county for a time after their 
arrival.  His wife, before her marriage, was a Miss Lucretia SMITH, and both 
were from Kentucky.  J. B., the son, and subject of this sketch, was born a 
number of years after their emigration, April 7th, 1834; and two years after 
his birth his father, with the family, moved to Cedar county, Missouri.  There 
young AINSWORTH spent his boyhood days on the farm and in school, and when a 
youth sixteen years of age, returned to Howard county where he has since lived.  
Here he has followed farming and now owns a good farm of 190 acres with an 
excellent orchard and good substantial improvements.  In March, 1862, he was 
married to Miss Mary SMITH, of this county, and they now have one child, Alice.

				THOMAS S. ALSOP.

	If, as Macauley says, the biography of the people of a country is the 
history of the country itself, then the history of Howard county and 
particularly of Franklin township, in this county, can never be written without 
giving the ALSOP family a conspicuous place on its pages.  Thomas ALSOP, the 
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Spottsylvania 
county, Virginia, where he was reared and there married Miss Judith MINOR, 
after which, in 1804, they emigrated to Kentucky.  Of this union, Elliott, the 
father of Thomas S., was born.  Subsequent to this they moved to Louisville, 
Kentucky, where Miss ALSOP died.  There Mr. ALSOP married again a lady of his 
own name, but no issue came of his second marriage.  In 1818, he came with his 
family to Old Franklin, in this county, making the whole trip from Louisville 
in a keel boat, and here he lived until his death. At this place, he started 
the first hotel ever kept in the county, and was the sheriff of the county, 
executing during his tern of office, William G. SHORT, the first victim of the 
gallows by sentence of court after the admission of Missouri into the Union.  
He died in 1828, the same year the site of the old town was washed away by the 
river.  Elliott, the father of Thomas S., was born in Scott county, Kentucky, 
May 12th, 1804.  He was brought up to the plasterer's and bricklayer's trades 
and worked at these some time after he reached manhood.  By industry and 
economy he accumulated enough to engage in the mercantile business, which he 
did in 1833 in the town of New Franklin, and in this he continued until the day 
of his death, January 12th, 1872, a period of over forty years, thus 
establishing and building up the large business, since so well and successfully 
conducted by his sons.  He took an active part in building up the town of New 
Franklin, and in 1828 or 1829, erected one of the first houses, if not the 
first, built in that place.  He was widely known as a man of unswerving 
integrity and public spirit, and not only rose to wealth and social prominence 
himself, but contributed materially to the prosperity of the place in which he 
lived and of the surrounding country.  On the 6th of December, 1838, he was 
united in marriage to Miss Julia A., daughter of Shepherd GUM, an old settler 
of the county, and seven children were born of this union, three of whom are 
now living: Thomas S., John H. and Charles C.  Elliott, who was a leading 
farmer of the county, died some years subsequent to his father's demise.  He 
served for four years in the Confederate army under Generals PEMBERTON and Jos. 
E. JOHNSON, and was classed among the bravest of the brave.  The other sons 
constitute the firm of E. ALSOP's Sons, in New Franklin.  Thomas S., the 
eldest, was in partnership with his father a number of years prior to his 
death, and has been in business where he now lives for over thirty years.  Mrs. 
ALSOP, the mother, is still living, one of the venerable ladies of the 
community, known and esteemed for her many social and motherly virtues.  On the 
4th of October, 1870, Thomas S. ALSOP was married to Miss Mary A. HERNDON, of 
this county, who died, however, February 9th, 1874.  She left him two children, 
Luta H. and Mary C., the latter now deceased.  He was married the second time, 
October 10th, 1877, Miss Mary L. STRAINGE, of Pike county, becoming his wife.  
They have two children, J. Elliott and Anna B.

				THOMAS C. BOGGS,

proprietor of the Fairview farm.  In the biographical sketches of Howard 
county, Mr. BOGGS is entitled to more than a passing notice.  For many years he 
has been one of the most successful and prominent farmers of the county.  He 
was born in Washington county, Missouri, October 14th, 1822, and was a son of 
Joseph L. and Abigail (CARR) BOGGS, who were married in this state.  His mother 
was originally from North Carolina, but his father was a native of Virginia.  
His father, however, was reared in Kentucky, and came from that state to 
Missouri when a young man.  He was a man of great industry, untiring energy and 
more than ordinary intelligence, and although he started out in life for 
himself practically without a dollar, it was not long before he succeeded in 
acquiring a comfortable home, and subsequently placed himself in comparatively 
easy circumstances.  On coming to this state, no other employment more 
profitable offering, he worked for some time in the lead mines, and from this 
time gave his attention to farming, which he followed through the remainder of 
his life.  In about 1838 he moved to Howard county, where he lived until his 
death.  He is spoken of by all who knew him as an energetic, successful farmer, 
a worthy, useful citizen, a kind neighbor and an upright man.  Thomas C., now 
himself well advanced in years, was a youth but sixteen years of age when his 
father settled in this county.  He was brought up to the strictest habits of 
industry and frugality and taught the lesson in life which so many fail to 
learn that permanent, substantial success is the reward only of personal worth.  
Nor was his education neglected.  His father had learned from personal 
experience that the advantages of a good education could not be too highly 
estimated.  And, although school facilities in that early day were not of the 
best, the son had the full benefit of such schools as were in reach, and by 
pursuing his studies with the same zeal and energy that have characterized his 
subsequent life in everything he has undertaken, he succeeded in acquiring a 
good practical education.  Reared to a farm life, to the free and independent 
manner of living which only the farmer enjoys, on reaching the age that it 
became proper to adopt some permanent calling and to provide for himself, he 
not unnaturally concluded to follow that to which he had been brought up and 
which, withal was most congenial to his tastes.  Some time after having engaged 
in farming for himself he was married to Miss Levina KINGSBURY, of Howard 
county, the date of his marriage being September 15th, 1846.  The following 
spring, in March, 1847, he settled on what is a part of his present farm.  Here 
he has lived for over thirty-six years, and from a small beginning has come to 
be one the first farmers of the county.  Inheriting the strong qualities of his 
father's character to a marked degree, qualities that would have made him a 
successful man from almost any situation in life, it is perhaps not surprising 
that his career as a farmer has been one of unbroken success.  He has steadily 
increased the acreage of his possessions and year by year added to the value of 
his estate, until now he has over 700 acres of as fine land as there is in the 
county, and one of the best improved farms thoughout the surrounding country.  
As far back as 1868 he erected a fine commodious dwelling on his place at a 
cost of no less than $15,000.  Thus a life of industry and good management has 
not been without its reward.  But he has been more than personally successful.  
Above and beyond that he has been a useful citizen—one who has done a great 
deal for the advancement of the agricultural interests of the county and for 
the promotion of its general prosperity.  Seeking no office, averse to every 
form of notoriety, working out quietly and modestly his own useful and 
honorable mission in life, he has gone steadily forward in his career, and in 
making himself one of the first farmers of the county, has contributed more to 
its wealth and material interests than if he had held every office in its gift 
from representative to constable, or had led its citizens in a hundred useless 
battles.  Such men are the pillars of society, the real forces which impel 
civilization forward.  Mr. and Mrs. BOGGS have a family of six children, Robert 
J., John M., Levina, now the wife of H. W. HARRISS; Nannie C., now the wife of 
Dr. V. Q. BONHAM; Willie J. and Sallie M.  Mr. B. is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity.

				J. M. BOGGS,

son of T. C. BOGGS, whose sketch appears elsewhere, was born in Howard county, 
Missouri, March 24, 1850.  Mr. BOGGS was reared on his father's farm, and in 
youth was given excellent educational advantages.  Besides attending the 
ordinary common schools he took courses in Kemper's well-known school at 
Boonville, and in Central college, at Fayette.  At the conclusion of his last 
course in college he returned to the farm and has since followed that 
occupation.  He was married on the 3d of September, 1881, to Miss Anna M. 
HUNTER, of this state.  Mr. B. is a member of the A. O. U. W.  He is a young 
man of excellent qualities and of good business qualifications, and with the 
energy and resolution he possesses his future is a most promising one.

				R. J. BOGGS,

an elder brother of J. M., is now thirty-six years of age, and has therefore 
had a somewhat more extended experience in the world.  Like his brother, he was 
brought up on the farm and received a good education, attending both the common 
schools and Kemper's college.  He has devoted his time to farming and stock 
raising, in both of which he has met with excellent success.  In 1876 he went
to the republic of Mexico, where he dealt in stock between that country and 
Texas, also having important stock interests in the Lone Star state.  He 
remained on the Rio Grande—first on one side, and then the other—until 1881, a 
period of five years, and then returned to Howard county, where he has since 
lived.  For about a year after his return he was engaged in clerking in a 
business house, but in 1882 resumed farming, which he has since followed.  He 
and his brother own a farm of 209 acres.  R. J. was born in this county October 
26, 1847.  He is a member of the Masonic order.

				DR. N. M. BONHAM.

	In scanning the lives of the more useful class of men, one meets with 
much to incline him, if not to the views of the optimist—that everything is for 
the best, at least to the conviction that there is far more of good in the 
world than of evil.  We are drawn to this reflection particularly by tracing 
the life of Dr. BONHAM, extending through a long series of years, from early 
struggles to comparative ease, in which is visible throughout an earnest 
purpose to do good in the world, with constant efforts for the amelioration of 
the condition of the unfortunate in spirit as well as in body.  Passing the 
opportunities he has had to accumulate wealth, if he had availed himself of 
them at the sacrifice of the higher purpose which controlled him, he might have 
become, more than ordinarily, a wealthy man.  But pecuniary means was to him 
not the great object of life, and if a comfortable property has come to him, it 
has come only as an incident to a successful and useful life.  Of a refined and 
sympathetic nature, sensitive to the misfortunes of others, and suffering by 
them almost as much as if they were his own, the medical profession offered to 
him a field of labor which he felt it was his duty to enter.  Accordingly, he 
devoted all his energies to the acquisition of a thorough knowledge of 
medicine, which he continued until he obtained.  And having placed himself in a 
position to alleviate the physical suffering of men, a higher, grander field of 
effort opened up before him.  Called frequently too late to the bedside of the 
suffering, when the time for the human physician had passed, he there saw the 
transcendent importance of teaching the hygiene of the soul above and before 
that of the body.  Hence, with a disinterestedness and regard for the welfare 
of others, characteristic of his whole life, he also devoted himself to the 
ministry, in which he has done a noble service without reward, save the 
imperishable reward that awaits him when all earthly rewards shall have 
crumbled into dust.  Thus, as we have said, his life has been given to good 
works—a life studded and jewelled with noble deeds, and such a one as teaches 
the heart to feel that "Man is not all inhumanity to man."  Dr. N. M. BONHAM 
was born in Blount county, Tennessee, December 4, 1820.  He was a son of Martin 
L. BONHAM, of Tennessee, and a grandson of Benjamin BONHAM, of Virginia.  The 
father of Benjamin BONHAM was a native of England, and came over to Virginia 
many years before the revolution.  Benjamin himself was an officer in the 
revolutionary army, and served under WASHINGTON until the close of the seven 
years' struggle.  Dr. BONHAM's mother was a native of Virginia, and before her 
marriage was a Miss Orphia McDANIELS.  His parents reared ten children, of whom 
the doctor was the seventh.  He was reared on his father's farm in Tennessee, 
and was educated in the neighborhood schools and by hard study at home.  As he 
approached manhood he gave himself to the study of medicine, for to that 
profession nature seems to have devoted him, and by the time he was twenty-two 
years of age he found himself prepared to enter the lecture-room of a medical 
college as a student, though to the young men of to-day this may not appear to 
be of special credit to his energy and perseverance.  He entered the Missouri 
medical college, of St. Louis, in 1844, from which he was afterwards duly 
graduated.  In 1848 he came to Pike county, Missouri, and formed a partnership 
with Dr. W. W. FREEMAN in the practice of medicine, in which he continued until 
he came to Howard county.  He came to this county in 1850 and located in 
Boonsboro, where he continued to labor through summer's heat and winter's cold, 
in sunshine and in darkness, for fifteen long years, and until he moved to 
Franklin, where he now lives and still ministers to the sick and suffering.  
Dr. BONHAM has been an almost life-long member of the church, and for over 
thirty-five years he has been ordained and has officiated as a member of the 
gospel in the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination.  He was ordained by the 
Salt River Presbytery in 1848.  Death, the grim messenger, has not passed by 
his door without a call.  His first wife, Margaret A., to whom he was married 
April 1, 1849, was taken from him May 27, 1868.  She left four children—V. Q., 
R. V., N. Worth, and Maggie, now deceased.  Dr. BONHAM was again married, April 
13, 1870, to Sallie STEWART, but she lived to comfort her husband only a few 
months, passing away November 20, 1870.  Six years afterwards, November 9, 
1876, he was the third time married to a most excellent lady, Sue E. 
BURCKHARTT, of Randolph county.

				DR. V. Q. BONHAM

was born in Howard county, Missouri, October 18, 1856, and barring the time he 
was absent attending the Rush Medical college, of Chicago—the fourth college in 
which he has been a student—he has practised in this county since his 
graduation from Vanderbilt university, of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1877.  He is 
a son of Dr. N. M. BONHAM, of Franklin, a self-made man and self-educated 
physician, who has gone to the front in the medical profession regardless of 
all difficulties, because he was determined to take that position, and with 
whom Dr. V. Q. is now associated as a partner in the practice.  Dr. V. Q. 
BONHAM was reared in this county, and in early youth took the usual course in 
the common schools.  Subsequently he entered the State university in Columbia 
and studied the higher branches, after which he centred his whole mind and time 
on the study of medicine.  He took a long and severe course of preliminary 
reading and instruction under his father, and in 1875 entered the Missouri 
medical college, which he also attended in 1876.  He then entered Vanderbilt 
university, of Nashville, Tennessee, from which he was afterwards duly 
graduated.  Returning home after his graduation, he at once entered actively 
into the practice and continued in this until the spring of 1883, when he went 
to Chicago and took a course in the Rush medical college of that city, 
returning afterwards and resuming his practice in Howard county.  On the 29th 
of August, 1880, Dr. BONHAM was married to Miss Nannie C. BOGGS, a highly 
accomplished and most excellent young lady, and their union has been blessed 
with a bright and interesting little daughter—Maggie L.

				WILLIAM H. BOWMAN, DECEASED.

	On the ninth day of June, 1879, Howard county lost one of her best 
citizens, in the death of William H. BOWMAN.  He was a man whose life had been 
useful and just.  As a citizen, he was public spirited, and a steadfast friend 
to law and order.  As a neighbor, he was hospitable and kind to all around him.  
And as a man, he combined, to more than an ordinary degree, the qualities of 
mind and health that make one respected and esteemed by all with whom he is 
associated.  William H. BOWMAN was born in Mercer county, Kentucky, February 
17, 1813.  He was a son of John BOWMAN and Fannie C., formerly a Miss PERKINS, 
who were married December 7, 1806.  His parents were natives of Virginia, but 
emigrated to Kentucky early in life, and settled in Mercer county, where they 
lived until their death.  William H. was reared in his native county.  His 
father having been a farmer, and he, himself, having been brought up to farm 
life, he naturally adopted that as his permanent occupation.  He continued to 
live in Mercer county, and follow his chosen calling until 1853, when he came 
to Howard county, and made this his home until his death.  However, before 
leaving Kentucky, he was married on the 27th day of October, 1840, to Miss 
Hannah F. READ, of that state, born November 17, 1821, a noble and devoted 
woman who died one year after reaching this state, July 18, 1854.  She left him 
four children — Anna, Fannie C., Nicholas and Ella.  On reaching this county, 
Mr. BOWMAN at once engaged in farming and stock raising, and soon took rank 
with the leading farmers and stockmen of the county.  He acquired a splendid 
farm of 320 acres, and had it improved in a thorough and complete manner.  In 
the stock business he showed broad-minded enterprise in securing the best class 
of stock from which to breed.  As both farmer and stock raiser he was regarded 
as one of the leading men of the county.  By the death of his wife, he was 
left, as has been observed, with four motherless children, and at that time 
among comparative strangers.  Mr. BOWMAN was too sensible a man,  as well as 
too warm hearted, and domestic in his nature to think of rearing his children 
without the care of one who could take the place of mother, or to go through 
the long journey of life without the tenderness and affection of wife.  
Accordingly, on the 30th day of October, 1855, he was united in marriage to 
Miss Mary KEILL, a worthy and excellent lady, born in this state August 4, 
1835.  By this union five children were born, and are now living—George A., 
William Taylor, Edwin P., Laura M., and Mary.  On the 9th day of June, 1879, as 
noted above, Mr. BOWMAN fell to sleep in death—God's finger touched him, and he 
slept.  Something over a year afterwards his second wife, she who had reared 
his children, and loved and comforted him through the circling seasons of near 
twenty-five years, followed him in death.  Her spirit passed from earth 
September 24, 1880. He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without 
him, liked it not, and died.  Both were members of the Christian church, and 
their lives and death exemplified the beauties and power of the Christian's 
faith.  Mr. BOWMAN was also a member of the Masonic order.

				JAMES W. BOWMER.

	Mr. BOWMER's father, Peter, came from Fauquier county, Virginia, to 
Howard county, away back in 1816, when forts and Indian camps stood where towns 
and cities have since been built.  Here Peter BOWMER married Miss Catherine 
MAHAN, of Cooper county, and of this union James W. was born and reared.  His 
mother was a native of Kentucky, but came to this state with her parents in an 
early day.  James W. was brought up in his native county, and was educated in 
the common schools of the period.  He lived in this county until 1869, then 
thirty-seven years of age, having been born on the 29th of February, 1832, when 
he went to California, where he remained nine years employed in store and 
warehouse establishments.  In 1877, he returned to old Howard, where he has 
since lived.  However, in 1855, he was married to Miss L. WILCOX, a true and 
noble woman, who died June 17, 1871.  Mr. BOWMER has two children living—Susan 
and George.  Mr. BOWMER is a member of the Masonic order, and is well respected 
by his fellow-members and acquaintances.

				L. S. BRASHEAR.

	Mr. BRASHEAR's parents came originally from Maryland, settling first in 
Scott county, Kentucky, where he was born, and afterwards emigrating to this 
county.  They were among the first settlers, however, of Howard county, having 
come here as early as 1816.  Judge BRASHEAR, his father, was for many years one 
of the most prominent citizens of the county, and Mrs. BRASHEAR, who before her 
marriage was a Miss Elizabeth LEACH, was a lady respected and esteemed by all 
who knew her.  Mr. L. S. BRASHEAR was born January 31, 1808, and was reared on 
his father's farm in this county.  His farm bringing up created for him the 
partiality for farm life, which controlled his decision in choosing an 
occupation, and hence he has always lived on the farm and followed that 
calling.  However, it should be stated that, like many others during the gold 
excitement in California, he went to the Pacific and spent two years in the 
mines, but returned more wedded to an agricultural life than ever.  He now has 
a fine body of land, embracing 360 acres.  His farm has a spring of salt water, 
highly recommended for its sanitary qualities.  His nephew, L. B. BRASHEAR, 
lives on the farm with him.  Mr. BRASHEAR is the only surviving member of a 
family of twelve children.  He is a member of the Christian church, and is 
regarded by all who know him as a conscientious and upright man.

				HENDERSON BROWN

was the fourth of a family of seven children born to L. BROWN and his wife, 
Mary M., whose maiden name was KIDD.  Mr. BROWN, the father, was a native of 
Kentucky, and in Frankfort, of this state, Henderson was born December 17, 
1823; but Mrs. Brown was a Virginian by birth.  In 1829 the family came to 
Palmyra, Missouri, and there the son, the subject of this sketch, was brought 
up, receiving a substantial education from the common schools of the place.  
After reaching manhood he learned the cooper's trade, which, when he had 
acquired it, he followed, first at La Grange, and then at Canton, Missouri, 
together, until 1851.  He then went to St. Louis county, where he was engaged 
as superintendent of a large farm not far from the city, and in that capacity 
he was employed four years.  In 1855 he began farming on his own account, and 
followed it in St. Louis county until 1864, when he moved into the city and 
resided there one year.  From St. Louis he came to Audrain county and farmed 
near Mexico a year, and then came to Howard county, where he has since lived 
and followed the occupation of a farmer.  In the meantime, in 1848, he married 
Miss Dorcas TODD, a young lady of Maryland birth, but she died in 1851, and 
four years afterwards he was again married, Miss May LONG, of St. Louis, 
becoming his wife.  Their family consists of four children: William H., Thomas 
L., Nellie (wife of John S. SEBREE), and Harry L.  Mr. B. is a member of the 
Christian church and of the I. O. O. F.

				C. E. BURCKHARTT.

	Mr. BURCKHARTT, as his name indicates, is of German descent.  His 
grandfather, Christopher, was brought to this country by his parents when an 
infant, the family settling in Maryland.  He enlisted in the Continental army 
during the revolutionary war, and served his country until the establishment of 
peace.  He afterwards returned to Maryland where he married Miss Elizabeth 
HOBBS.  From there he went to Kentucky.  On the first settling of the Boone's 
Lick country he was attracted to these new and inviting fields, and accordingly 
his name is found among those who arrived in this section in 1811.  By this 
time his family had all grown up and married, with the exception of James and 
Nicholas S., Mr. B's father.  His father died in this county about 1831, and 
his mother some fifteen years later, at the residence of her son-in-law, Judge 
DRAKE, of Henry county.  They were both members of the church and strict worthy 
and pious people.  Nicholas S., once a prominent citizen of this section of the 
state, was born in Maryland, June 16th, 1792, and was, therefore, about grown 
when he landed in Howard county.  From his first connection with the county he 
proved an active, public-spirited and energetic citizen, and was afterwards 
very successful as a business man.  Immediately after coming out from the fort 
he secured a comfortable home for his parents, which he deeded to them during 
their lives.  In connection with his father he early commenced the manufacture 
of salt at what has since been known as the "Burckhartt Lick," in Franklin 
township.  This business proved remunerative, as salt at that time brought as 
high as one dollar per bushel at the place of manufacture.  He afterwards 
bought the sixteenth or school section of township 45, range 16, most of which 
he improved.  On the organization of the county, he was appointed sheriff by 
Governor CLARK, the territorial governor, and performed the duties of this 
office for Howard county, when it embraced what is now thirty-one counties and 
fractions of nine others.  On the admission of Missouri into the Union in 1821, 
he was elected to the same office.  He was one of the delegates in the 
convention that framed the constitution of the state in 1820.  After the 
expiration of his second term as sheriff he was elected to the state 
legislature, where he served several terms.  He was afterwards elected to the 
state senate and was a candidate for re-election when death put an end to his 
earthly labors, June 14th, 1834.  He was taken from this life in the prime of 
manhood, in the very meridian of his usefulness and popularity.  He was widely 
known as an honest, public-spirited and highly gifted man, who, had he lived, 
would no doubt have been called to still higher positions in the state and 
nation.  February 22d, 1818, he was united in marriage to Miss Sallie ROSE, 
daughter of Mathias ROSE, of St. Louis county.  From this union there were 
eight children reared, of whom the subject of this sketch was one.  Christopher 
BURCKHARTT, our subject, was born in Franklin township, July 15th, 1829.  He 
followed farming in that township a number of years where he still owns a fine 
tract of land as a homestead.  In 1867, he was appointed deputy sheriff.  He 
was elected collector in the fall of 1872, and re-elected in the fall of 1874.  
He is a member of the Masonic order, of the I. O. O. F., and of the A. O. U. W.  
On the 17th of August, 1852, he was married to Miss Susan, daughter of Hugh and 
Elizabeth NEWKIRK STEWART.  They have four children living.  Bettie S., Hugh, 
Chris. E. and James M.  One infant son and two daughters aged respectively, 17 
and 19 are dead; Ada and Mattie R.  Mrs. BURCKHARTT was born in Bullitt county, 
Kentucky, June 29th, 1829.  Her father, Mr. STEWART, was a native of 
Pennsylvania, and her mother of Kentucky, but in 1831 her parents came from the 
latter state and settled in Howard county.

				JAMES M. BURRUS.

	Among the many good citizens of Howard county who claim the Old Dominion 
as the cradle of their families in this country, is Mr. James M. BURRUS, the 
subject of this sketch.  His grandfather, Michael BURRUS, was a native of 
Virginia and a soldier from that state in the revolutionary war.  His father 
(J. M.'s), Thomas, was also a Virginian, but emigrated to Kentucky in an early 
day, and there, in Madison county, James M. was born, February 5, 1809.  Mrs. 
Thomas BURRUS, before her marriage, was a Miss Mary A. MILLS.  The BURRUS 
family came to Missouri from Kentucky and settled in Howard county in 1816, and 
here the son, James M., grew to manhood.  He had the advantage of the ordinary 
country schools, and when he attained to early manhood, engaged in clerking in 
a store in Old Franklin.  This he followed two years, after which, he gave his 
attention to farming, and in that he has since continued.  He has a farm of 220 
acres well improved.  On the 21st of October, 1834, Mr. BURRUS was married to 
Miss Sarah HUGHES, of this county, and twenty-eight years of a noble, good life 
were devoted to his happiness and that of her children.  But on the 8th of 
February, 1862, the angel of death entered his home, and wife and mother were 
no more.  She left him five children—James C., William H., Nancy J., Mary A. 
and George N.  "'Tis a precious thing when wives are dead, To find such members 
who will serve instead, And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that 
precisely they would wish their own."  Mr. B. was again married on the 26th of 
May, 1864, to Miss Sallie WILKERSON, an excellent and worthy lady, born and 
reared in this county, and they have three children—Madison C., Frances J. and 
Mary.  He and his wife are both members of the Baptist church.

				JOHN Q. CALLAWAY,	

one of the oldest residents as well as one of the leading farmers and stock 
raisers of Howard county, was born in this county, October 18, 1819.  He was a 
son of Charles CALLAWAY and wife, Elizabeth, both of Kentucky.  His mother's 
family name was EUBANKS, and his parents came to this county in about 1812.  
Mr. C. was reared on the farm in this county and adopted farming as his 
occupation, which he has since followed in connection with stock raising.  
However, in 1861, he enlisted in Captain COOPER's  company, recruited in this 
county, and did service until the battle of Pea Ridge, where he was severely 
wounded, on account of which he was honorably discharged.  Returning home, he 
resumed farming after his recovery, and has met with marked success.  Miss 
Lucinda SWEMGENER became his wife on the 25th of September, 1852, and seven 
children have blessed their union—Gus, Willmoth, Charles, Bettie, Clabe, John 
and Bell.  Mr. C. has a large farm containing 840 acres, most of it improved 
and in a good state of cultivation.  He has a splendid herd of short-horn, 
thorough-bred cattle, numbering eighty head.  He is an enterprising, 
intelligent farmer, and one of the solid, substantial citizens of this 
county.	

				STEPHEN CALLAWAY,	

farmer.  Mr. CALLAWAY has led a somewhat stirring and active life, but now as 
old age begins to approach, he is settled down in a comfortable home to enjoy 
the comparative ease his industry has brought him.  He has a farm of 275 acres 
in a good state of improvement and cultivation.  He was born and reared in this 
county, but has been a soldier in two wars and has been twice on the plains.  
His father, Charles CALLAWAY, was a native of Virginia, but was brought up in 
Kentucky, where he married Miss Elizabeth EUBANKS and afterwards, in 1816, came 
with his family to Howard county.  Here Stephen was born, June 13, 1824.  In 
1846, he enlisted under Colonel DONIPHAN and followed the flag of stripes and 
stars to Mexico.  He was afterwards honorably discharged in New Orleans under 
the pine and orange, and returned to his home in Howard county.  In 1850, he 
went to California, but after an experience of about two years on the Pacific 
coast, he returned to this county and engaged again in farming, and in that, 
continued until the civil war, in which he served a short time, and afterwards, 
in 1865, hauled freight for the government on the plains for a year.  Since 
then he has given his whole attention to farming on his present place.  In 
March, 1849, he was married to Miss Ann EDWARDS, who died here on the 16th of 
April, 1861, leaving him six children—Elizabeth, California, Anna, William E., 
James C. and Charles C.  He was again married in October, 1868 to Miss Ann 
LAWTHAM, of this state.	

				CHARLES B. CANOLE.

	William CANOLE, the father of Charles B., was a native of Virginia, and 
his mother (C. B.'s), whose maiden name was Elizabeth BARB, was born in 
Maryland, but they went to Tennessee in early life and settled in Sullivan 
county, where Charles B. was born September 15, 1822.  He was brought up in 
that county and educated in the common schools, and lived there until twenty-
two years of age, when he came to Howard county, Missouri, and engaged in 
farming in Franklin township.  He followed farming until the gold excitement in 
California broke out, and in fact for two years afterwards, and in 1852 started 
for the gold fields on the far-off Pacific coast.  He remained in California 
four years, engaged in mining, etc., and in 1856 returned to his adopted home 
in Howard.  Here he resumed farming, believing that the majority of those who 
succeed in life by honest toil owe more to the soil and to the sky than to the 
hidden treasures of the earth, and, so far as his own experience is concerned, 
his faith has not misled him, for he is now comfortably fixed in life.  He has 
about 200 acres of good land. In 1880 he was married to Miss Sarah MULLINS, a 
lady of Johnson county, Missouri, a daughter of Moses MULLINS of that county.  
Mr. CANOLE's father died in 1863; his mother in 1843.

				F. G. CANOLE,

a younger brother of Charles B., whose sketch appears elsewhere, like his 
brother, is a farmer by occupation, and has a neat farm of 116 acres, 
containing an excellent orchard and otherwise well improved.  He was born in 
Sullivan county, Tennessee, August 10, 1840, and was, therefore, but four years 
of age when his father, as noticed in Charles B. CANOLE's sketch, came to 
Howard county in 1844, the mother having died in Tennessee the year previous.  
F. G. grew up on his father's farm in this county, and received a good 
practical education in the neighborhood schools.  In 1862, then twenty-two 
years of age, he enlisted in the Confederate army as drummer in the 9th  
Missouri infantry, and followed the three-barred flag of the south until it was 
furled to float no more at the final surrender in 1865.  Then returning home he 
resumed farming in this county, and two years afterwards, December 4, 1867, was 
united in marriage to Miss Nannie G. SMITH, a beautiful and accomplished lady 
of Howard county, and they now have two children, Ada B. and William A.  Mr. C. 
is an enterprising farmer and ranks among the best citizens of the county.  He 
is a member of the M. E. church south, of the I. O. O. F., and of the A. O. U. 
W.

				BROWN M. CHANCELLOR.

	Like so many other of the best class of citizens of Howard county, Mr. 
CHANCELLOR is a Virginian by birth.  He was born in Fauquier county, of the Old 
Dominion, December 24, 1832, and there he lived until he had grown to early 
manhood.  But in 1852 he came to Howard county to cast his fortunes with the 
newer and more fertile country on this side of the Mississippi.  He now owns a 
fine farm of over 500 acres of better land than he could have ever had in his 
native county, all in a good state of cultivation and improvement, besides 
large stock and personal property interests.  He is one of the substantial and 
well-to-do farmers of Howard county, and as a neighbor and citizen he is 
respected and esteemed.  On the 9th of February, 1866, he was married to Miss 
Hannah E. GEARHART of this state.  They have five children: Ella, John G., 
Sallie, Ernest and Horace W.  Mr. C. is a member of the A. O. U. W.  His 
father, John CHANCELLOR, and mother whose name before her marriage was 
Elizabeth ROGERS, were both natives of Virginia.    

				DR. GEORGE E. CHINN

is what may be fairly called a self-made man, and withal, he is one of the 
leading physicians and prominent farmers of Howard county.  He was born in 
Fayette county, Kentucky, June 16, 1834, but was mainly reared in Scott county, 
that state, where he also acquired a good practical education.  When a young 
man he was not situated to that he could attend medical college (for he felt 
that his mission in life was to be a physician); but he procured books and read 
medicine under the direction of local physicians, and in a few years became 
thorough, so far as private study could make him, in that science.  With his 
books and his duties on the farm, his time was closely employed, but his early 
years, so well improved, could not fail to produce gratifying results; so, that 
in 1855, when he came to Johnson county, Missouri, he found himself not only in 
a position to follow farming successfully, but also well qualified to enter 
upon the practice of medicine.  His life was a busy and energetic one in his 
new home, and in a few years he had so shaped his affairs that he could leave 
home and attend medical college, which he did in 1861.  Accordingly, he entered 
the St. Louis medical college that year, from which afterwards he was duly 
graduated.  He continued practicing in Johnson county, and farming there, until 
1863, when he came to Howard county and settled.  Here he has since been 
engaged in the practice and in farming.  Determined to stand second to none in 
his professon, in name as well as in fact, in 1867, he attended the Missouri 
Medical college, from which he was also afterwards graduated.  Though well 
advanced in life at this time, he is still a student in his chosen 
profession—to him the science of medicine is a constant source of pleasure as 
well as interest, and he pursues its study with unabated zeal.  In 1852, he was 
married to Miss Polly GLINN, from Kentucky, but in 1865, she died, leaving him 
three children—Wm. E., E. H. (now Dr.), and Emmett.  He was again married in 
1868, Miss A. L. SETTLES, of Cooper county, Missouri, becoming his wife, and 
they have two children—Elmina and George.  Dr. CHINN is a member of the Masonic 
order and of the Chapter of that order; also of the Christian church.

				BENJAMIN H. COX,

blacksmith, and manufacturer of wagons, plows, etc., Franklin, Missouri.  One 
of  the respectable and well-to-do citizens of Franklin, is Mr. Cox, the 
subject of this sketch.  By industry and perseverance he has worked his way up 
in the world, always regulating his life by honest and honorable principles, 
until now he is regarded as one of the most substantial citizens in the 
community in which he lives, and is as much respected as any man in it.  
Besides attending to the duties devolving upon him in connection with his wagon 
and plowmaking and blacksmithing establishment, he was called to the 
responsible office of justice of the peace, of this township, the duties of 
which he discharged for four years with intelligence and uprightness, and to 
the entire satisfaction of the people.  He is a worthy member of the Baptist 
church and is also a member of the I. O. O. F.  He commenced the active duties 
of life as an apprentice to the blacksmith's trade when but fifteen years of 
age, in 1849, with Wm. R. DICKERSON, of Fayette, this county.  After working 
there five or six years he came to Franklin, where he has since lived and 
followed his trade, in connection with wagon and plow making, etc., and with 
gratifying success.  Mr. C. has been three times married.  On the 10th of  
September, 1856, he was married to Miss Lucy J. SPENCER, a native of Buckingham 
county, Virginia.  She was taken from him by death, July 11, 1857.  He was 
again married, June 4, 1859, Miss Martha BRADSHAW becoming his second wife.  
She died June 10, 1867, leaving him three children—William O., Effie G. and 
Ethel A.  On the 4th of February, 1869, he married Mary A. KIRKPATRICK.  They 
have one child living—Maggie B.  Mr. Cox is a native of Buckingham county, 
Virginia, and was born, November 22, 1834.  He was a son of Francis COX and 
wife, Hester A., whose family name had been SEARY, both natives of Virginia.  
When Benjamin H. was but a year old his parents came to Boone county, Missouri, 
where he grew up and was educated in the common schools

				ISHAM R. CREWS.

	Mr. CREWS' father came to Howard county from Kentucky with his family 
when Isham was but eight years old, but here the father shortly afterwards 
died. And Mrs. CREWS, with her children, thereupon returned to Kentucky, and 
settled down in the county of their old home—Madison.  But young CREWS had seen 
the country which his father had brought him to and had thought was so 
desirable to live in, and, although young as he was, he had the intelligence 
and judgement to appreciate its advantages over that of his native county.  
Accordingly, in 1855, he returned to Howard  county and cast the die of his 
destiny with the new country.  He now has a farm in 187 acres of rich land in a 
good state of improvement and cultivation.  He also has an abundance of stock 
around him and other personal property, and withal, is comfortably situated for 
a substantial competence in life.  He was married, October 9, 1860 to Miss Mary 
TURNER, of this county, who was born July 17, 1842.  Her father was Edward 
TURNER, a well-known and highly respected citizen of Howard county.  Mr. C. and 
wife have eight children living—Edward T., Sallie M., Minnie E., Milton, Mattie 
R., Evalina, Oscar W. and Maggie F.  Mr. CREWS is a native of Madison county, 
Kentucky, having been born there in August, 1844, and was the son of Milton and 
wife Rhoda P. CREWS, formerly Miss FOX; both were also natives of Kentucky.  
Mr. C. is a member of the A. O. U. W.

				IRA C. DARBY.

	A four hundred and ninety acre farm, well improved and well stocked, an 
honorable name, and an intelligent and respectable family, are the results of 
nearly fifty well-spent years of the life of Ira C. DARBY.  He was sixteen 
years old in 1834, when he went from his birthplace, in Montgomery county, 
Maryland, to Virginia, and began work at the blacksmith's trade.  For seven 
long years he toiled over the anvil in the Old Dominion, until in 1841, when by 
frugal management he found himself in a situation to cast his fortunes with the 
new empire, then rapidly springing up along the shores of the Missouri.  
Accordingly, he came to Howard county and worked at Glasgow for some time, and 
then, in 1843, settled on his present place, where he has since followed 
farming and blacksmithing.  On the 5th of October, 1843, he was married to Miss 
Catherine LONG, of Howard county, a daughter of Reuben and wife, Nancy HOCKER 
LONG, of this county, both now deceased.  Mr. LONG was born April 14, 1797, and 
was one of the first settlers in Howard county.  He died here November 26, 
1842.  His wife, born in this county February 21, 1827, followed him in death 
September 22, 1845.  Mr. DARBY's father, Thomas, and mother Rebecca, whose 
family name before her marriage was ALLNUTT, were both natives of Maryland.  
Mr. DARBY, the subject of this sketch, and his wife now have seven children 
living—Thomas L., Anna E., Mary J., Ira C., Jr., Gabriella, James N. and Pensa.

				IRA C. DARBY, Jr.

	Mr. DARBY's father, for whom the son was named, was a native of Maryland, 
but came to this county early in life, and afterwards married Miss Catherine 
LONG, and of this union Ira C., Jr., was born June 16, 1853.  Young DARBY was 
reared on his father's farm, and as common schools had been established, he 
enjoyed excellent advantages to obtain a practical education, which he did not 
fail to improve.  Having been reared on a farm, he has adopted that occupation 
as his permanent calling.  He and Mr. Gabriel LONG own jointly an excellent 
farm of 314 acres.  Mr. DARBY was united in marriage February 15, 1883, to Miss 
Anna M. LONG, of this county and daughter of Mr. William LONG, one of the many 
good citizens of Howard County.  She was born November 6, 1857.  Mr. DARBY is a 
member of the Masonic order.

				GEORGE C. EDWARDS.

	Mr. EDWARDS is one of the prominent and enterprising young farmers and 
stock raisers of Howard county.  He was born in this county December 1, 1852, 
and was reared on his father's farm.  His father, Captain Wm. G. EDWARDS, was 
one of the remarkably successful men of central Missouri.  When he married, in 
1851, then a young man twenty-one years of age, he was practically without a 
dollar, and he began his career at farming and followed it until his death.  
When he died, in 1875, he owned over 500 acres of fine land.  Mrs. EDWARDS, the 
mother of George C., before her marriage was a Miss Amelia MONROE, daughter of 
William MONROE, one of the first pioneers in Howard county.  The MONROE family 
figure prominently in the early history of the county, for they had much to do 
with opening it up to immigration and with its improvement and development.  
Both of Mr. EDWARD's (George C.'s) parents were from Kentucky, and their 
parents, in turn, were among the early settlers of that state.  George C., in 
early youth, had the advantage of the common schools of the neighborhood where 
his father lived, and afterwards he was sent to Kemper's college, at Boonville, 
and an institute at Glasgow, thus securing more than an ordinarily good 
education.  After his college course he gave his attention to farming and stock 
raising, which he has since followed.  The farm now contains 600 acres of land, 
well improved.  He has a large amount of stock, and gives this branch of his 
interests special attention.  He was married in the spring of 1878 to Miss 
Sallie WIRTHEIMER, of Boonville, and they have one child, Morris W.  Mr. 
EDWARDS is a member of the Masonic order and a Knight Templar; also a member of 
the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W.

				COLONEL NEWTON G. ELLIOTT, Deceased.

	Colonel ELLIOTT was born in Howard county, Missouri, March 3, 1812, and 
died in his native county, where his whole life had been spent, January 3, 
1877.  Between these dates was lived a life, if not as conspicuous as some, by 
no means obscure, and as useful to those around him and as honorable as any 
whose name deserves a place in the history of Howard county.  He was a man 
possessed to a marked degree of the stronger and better qualities of mind and 
heart.  Reared at a time when school advantages in this section of the state 
were very indifferent, and so situated that it was impracticable to attend 
distant schools, such was his thirst for knowledge and his force of character 
even in early youth that, mainly by study at home and while not employed in 
farm duties, he succeeded in acquiring a good, practical education.  Nor did 
this taste for the refining and elevating influence of learning desert him in 
later years.  Through his whole life he was a devoted lover of literature and 
an unfaltering and ardent friend to general education.  He supplied himself 
with an excellent library, in which many of his happiest hours were spent, and 
when he became surrounded by a family of children he was careful that they 
should not suffer for the want of opportunities, as far as his means would 
justify, to qualify themselves for the active duties of life.  But while he was 
more than ordinarily attached to letters, he was also a man of the world — 
industrious and restlessly enterprising, and above all, just and generousin his
dealings with men.  Having been brought up on a farm, not unnaturally 
much of his after life was devoted to agricultural pursuits, although trading 
and public affairs claimed a large share of his attention, and later he became 
extensively interested in railroad matters.  In a business point of view his 
life was a marked success, and as a man and neighbor, as a citizen and public 
officer, none around him stood higher than he.  Having lived a life of nearly 
three score and ten years in one community—a life of unusual activity—he died 
without a known enemy, sadly regretted by a wide circle of friends and
acquaintances and deeply mourned by family and relatives.  His unyielding 
honesty, his generosity and hospitality, his open, frank and candid bearing, 
his kindness for all, both in word and deed, shone forth with undiminished 
brightness from the morning until the closing hour of his life.  That such a 
man was popular with those around him, it is needless to say.  And possessed of 
unusual ability, and industrious and enterprising almost to a fault, his 
success in life followed as a matter of course.  His public spirit and earnest 
interest in all matters relating to the general welfare made him always a 
leader in movements designed for the public good, and thus, when the railroad 
interests became matters of importance to the people, he was naturally called 
upon to take a prominent and responsible position in the management of the road 
then projected, now the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, for the final success of 
which the public is largely indebted to his foresight and resolution.  Colonel 
ELLIOTT's father, John ELLIOTT, was born and reared in Virginia, and when quite 
young came to Kentucky with his father's family and settled in Madison county.  
There he afterwards married Miss Polly GLASGOW, and in 1811 they removed to 
Howard county, making the entire journey on horseback, bringing their bedding, 
cooking utensils, etc., with them.  This fact illustrates one of the strong 
points in his character — unfaltering resolution — so conspicuously shown in 
the life of his son.  Coming here at so early a day, John ELLIOTT bore a 
leading and brave part in the Indian wars that followed.  As a man and as a 
citizen he was exceptionally popular, but had no taste for public life and 
steadily refused the many solicitations of his friends to enter the sphere of 
politics.  Colonel ELLIOTT's first diversion from farm duties was when quite a 
young man.  Full of enterprise, he was naturally attracted to the business of 
stock driving to the south, and made as many as thirteen trips to that section 
with mules and horses for the southern markets.  His wide popularity advanced 
him to many leading positions in local and public affairs.  Politically he rose 
from the position of a justice of the peace in 1837, when quite a young man, to 
that of representative of his county in the legislature in 1852, holding, in 
the meantime, other responsible offices, among which was that of sheriff for 
two terms, from 1848 to 1852.  In 1838 he was elected captain of a company 
enlisted against the Mormons, and subsequently became commander of the 
expedition that expelled them from the state.  In October, 1839, he was elected 
major of the 14th regiment, 1st brigade, Missouri state militia, and in the 
fall of 1840 was made lieutenant-colonel of that regiment, which was then of 
the 1st division, Missouri state militia.  He prominence in public enterprises 
was well recognized, and in 1869 he was made a director of the Tebo and Neosho 
railroad, now the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, in which he served with great 
ability for five years, and in 1872 he was made a director of the Boonville 
bridge company, the position he held at the time of his death.  Colonel ELLIOTT 
was twice married.  His first wife, formerly Miss Elizabeth WILKERSON, was 
taken from him by death, and six accomplished and beautiful daughters, the 
children of that union, all of whom grew to womanhood, also passed away.  Miss 
Martha W. STEWART, daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth STEWART, became his second 
wife.  She still survives her lamented husband, and six sons and two daughters 
of this marriage are living.

				JAMES R. ESTILL.

	Mr. ESTILL, on the father's side, is of Scottish origin, the founder of 
the family in this country, having come over from Scotland prior to the 
revolution.  His grandfather, Captain James ESTILL, was one of the early 
settlers of Kentucky, to which he emigrated as early as 1780.  The following 
extract concerning his life in that state is taken from Collin's Kentucky:  
"Captain James ESTILL, in honor of whom ESTILL county was named, was a native 
of Augusta county, Virginia.  He came to Kentucky at an early period and 
settled on Muddy creek, in the present county of Madison, where he built a 
station which received the name of ESTILL's station.  In 1781, in a skirmish 
with the Indians, he received a rifle shot in one of his arms by which it was 
broken.  In March, 1782, with a small body of men, about twenty-five, it is 
believed, he pursued a similar number of Wyandotts across the Kentucky river 
and into Montgomery county; there he fought one of the severest and most bloody 
battles on record when the number of men on both sides are taken into account.  
Captain ESTILL and his brave Lieutenant SOUTH, were both killed in the retreat 
which succeeded.  'Thus fell,' says Captain MOREHEAD in his Boonsboro address, 
'Captain James ESTILL, one of Kentucky's bravest and most beloved defenders.'"  
He was only thirty-two years of age when he fell in defence of the state by the 
bullet of the savage.  He was married in Virginia, to a Miss CAMPBELL, by whom 
he had five children.  Wallace ESTILL, James R.'s father, was in his infancy at 
the time of his father's death.  He was reared to habits of industry by his 
mother, and when he reached manhood had acquired a good education and was a 
practical surveyor.  He was twice married.  His first wife, Miss Mary HARDIN, 
daughter of Colonel HARDIN, survived their marriage only about three months.  
About five years afterwards he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth, 
daughter of Robert RODES, a prominent business man and a large farmer of 
Madison county.  From this union five sons and a daughter were reared.  Between 
1815 and 1819, he visited Missouri several times, buying lands in Howard and 
Boone counties.  On one of this visits he, with some others, laid off the town 
of Columbia, the present county seat of Boone county.  Though he often 
expressed a purpose so to do, he never settled in Missouri, but continued to 
reside in his native state until his death, which occurred in Madison county.  
His wife preceded him to the grave about five years.  Early in life they both 
connected themselves with the Baptist church, but after the Christian 
denomination was established they united with that church, with which they ever 
afterwards held the closest and most exemplary relationship.  James R. ESTILL, 
the subject of this memoir, was born in Madison county, Kentucky, January 30th, 
1819.  He was reared to manhood in his native county and there afterwards 
served as sheriff two years.  In 1843, he came to Howard county, and here, two 
years subsequently, purchased 460 acres of land on which he still resides.  
This purchase embraced the farms improved by DRAKE, BROWN and COOLEY.  Some of 
it has been in cultivation since 1816, sixty-seven years, and is said to be as 
productive now as when first broken.  His farm, however, at this time, contains 
1,450 acres, all finely improved and in excellent condition.  What is not in 
cultivation is in grass, either blue grass, clover or timothy.  He has several 
large orchards—one of fifteen acres, devoted to a single variety of fruit 
exclusively, the "Ben Davis" apple.  He also feeds for the markets several 
hundred head of cattle every season.  Mr. ESTILL now owns in this county about 
2,800 acres of land.  He also owns large amounts of real estate in Chariton and 
Saline counties, and valuable property in the city of St. Louis, besides his 
landed interests in Kentucky.  As a citizen he is as useful to the county and 
as public-spirited as he has been successful in his private affairs.  But he 
has never sought office nor aspired to any position of prominence except as a 
leader in the development of the resources of the county, and in this he has 
taken conspicuous and active parts.  He was prominently identified with the 
movement that resulted in the construction of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas 
railway through this county, and contributed as much and perhaps more than any 
other citizen of the county to that result.  In recognition of zeal for this 
enterprise and of his special fitness for the position, he was appointed agent 
for the county by the county court, to manage its stock subscribed to the road.  
And in further recognition of his services in this enterprise, ESTILL station, 
on the road in this county, was established and named in his honor.  His chief 
ambition has been to make himself a useful citizen, and to contribute his share 
toward the material development and social elevation of the community in which 
his life and fortune have been cast.  He is a steadfast friend of education and 
of every movement that tends to enlighten or ameliorate the condition of the 
people.  As a farmer and stock raiser he belongs to the advanced progressive 
school that believes in farming on intelligent principles and raising none but 
the best class of stock.  Such has been his business and social life—his life 
as a citizen.  Mr. ESTILL was united in marriage to Miss Mary TURNER, daughter 
of Talton and Sallie TURNER, March 20th, 1845.  Eight children were born as the 
fruit of this union, four of whom are still living: Wallace, married and 
settled in Franklin township; Ellen, William R. and Mary C.  Alice died about 
six months after her marriage to Mr. Lewis C. NELSON, son of James NELSON, of 
Boonville, and at the time a banker in Fort Scott, Kansas.  The others died in 
infancy.  Talton TURNER, the father of Mrs. ESTILL, was a native of Kentucky, 
but came to Missouri in an early day, and for many years was one of the leading 
citizens and traders of central Missouri.  He was a practical surveyor also, 
and surveyed several counties of this part of the state for the government.  He 
was a man of more than ordinary ability, enterprising and energetic, and was a 
leader among the men of his time.

				WALLACE ESTILL,

of ESTILL & ELLIOTT, breeders of thoroughbred and high grade Aberdeen-Angus and 
high grade Hereford and Shorthorn cattle, ESTILL.  One of the enterprising 
citizens and business men of Howard county is Wallace ESTILL of the above firm.  
He is a son of James R. ESTILL, of whom mention is made elsewhere, and was born 
and reared in this county.  Being the son of such a father, it goes without 
saying that he had the best advantages in youth, educational and otherwise, 
ample means and good judgement could afford.  In boyhood he always occupied a 
seat in the neighborhood schools, and later on he entered the higher 
institutions of learning.  He first attended Kemper's well known school, and 
subsequently enjoyed the advantages afforded by the schools of Lexington, 
Kentucky.  After his school days were over he returned home and engaged in 
farming and raising and dealing in blooded stock, which he has since followed.  
However, he began his present business, breeding and dealing in Aberdeen-Angus 
cattle, in 1878.  As an intelligent, broad-minded stockman he has been studying 
the adaptability of the different breeds of cattle to our climate, grasses, 
etc., for a number of years, and as the result of careful investigation and a 
thorough knowledge of all the conditions entering into the consideration of the 
matter, has become convinced that the Angus breed is incomparably preferable to 
all others.  This conviction was strongly fortified by the fact that a 
representative of this breed was awarded the premium at the world's exposition 
in Paris, France, in 1878, as the best beef producing stock of cattle in the 
whole catalogue of thoroughbred and high grade animals.  Since then they have 
grown in popularity everywhere with wonderful rapidity, and nowhere so fast as 
in the west, from the fact that our climate and feed seems to be better adapted 
to them than the climate or feed of any other country; and hence Mr. ESTILL and 
his partner have begun their business with great energy and on a large scale.  
Believing, as he says, that "the best is always the cheapest," he has spared no 
time, pains or money to get the very finest quality of Aberdeen-Angus stock 
that can be had in Europe.  The nature of this work forbids us from entering 
into the details of his herds, but suffice it to say that he has one of the 
finest selections of stock, if not the very finest, in Missouri.  Mr. ESTILL 
also owns 590 acres in a high state of cultivation.  He was born in this county 
April 6, 1849, and on the 16th of May, 1871, was married to Miss Ettie FORBIS, 
a most excellent and accomplished lady, also of this county.  She is a daughter 
of James B. FORBIS and wife, Mary, whose family name prior to her marriage was 
HURT.  Mr. and Mrs. ESTILL have a family of four bright children: Alice, 
Florence, Wallace and Clifton R.  He and his wife are both members of the 
Christian church.

				WILLIAM R. ESTILL.

	One of the most progressive, enterprising and intelligent young farmers 
and stock raisers in Howard county, is Mr. ESTILL, the subject of this sketch.  
He is a son of James R. ESTILL, of this county, who has been as prominently 
identified with its development and prosperity as any man in it.  James R. was 
born in Howard county, Missouri, March 20, 1860.  He had a thorough preparatory 
course in the elementary schools, after which he entered Kemper's well known 
school in Boonville, where he applied himself with great resolution and energy.  
Subsequently he entered Central college in Fayette, and there took a useful and 
profitable course in the more advanced studies, thus rounding up a substantial 
and practical education.  Having been reared on the farm, to the farm his 
tastes naturally inclined him, and accordingly, after his college course, he 
directed his whole attention to agricultural interests.  He has a splendid farm 
of 720 acres.  He makes a specialty of blooded stock of all kinds, and there 
are few farms in central Missouri that can present a finer array of the best 
class of stock than may be seen on his place.  Mr. E. is quite a young man yet 
and, with the enterprise and public spirit he has evinced, he will doubtless 
prove a valuable citizen to Howard county — worthy to bear the name he inherits 
from one of the most useful citizens the county has ever had.  He is a member 
of the Masonic order.

				W. W. GRAY.

	The GRAY family, to which the subject of this sketch belongs, has been 
represented in each of the three principal wars of this country—the revolution, 
the war of 1812, and the civil war.  Richard GRAY, the grandfather of W. W., 
was a soldier under General WASHINGTON in the struggle for independence, and 
crossed the Delaware with him on that memorable Christmas night, 1776, which 
resulted in the triumph at Trenton the following day.  William, the father of 
W. W., was a soldier in the war of 1812, and W. W. himself, followed the 
intrepid MORGAN of Kentucky, in his perilous career through the late unhappy 
strife.  Robert GRAY was a native of Virginia, but after the close of the 
revolutionary war emigrated to Kentucky, and was one of the first settlers of 
Fayette county in that state.  His house occupied the site where the court 
house in Lexington now stands, and there William GRAY, the father of W. W., was 
born — the first child born in the capital of Kentucky.  The mother of W. W., 
before her marriage to William GRAY, was a Miss Maria LAMME, a lady of French 
extraction, her father having come over as a volunteer with LAFAYETTE, and 
remained here after the close of the war, where he married and reared a family.  
W. W. GRAY was born in Fayette county, Kentucky, February 10, 1837.  He was 
reared in his native county, and after a thorough course in the primary and 
intermediate schools, entered the State university, from which he was duly 
graduated in 1854.  He followed farming in Kentucky until 1867, when he removed 
to Howard county, where he has since lived and continued to follow his chosen 
occupation — farming.  He has an excellent farm in a good state of improvement 
and cultivation.  In 1857 — July 14 — he was married to Miss Harriet REDD, of 
Fayette county, Kentucky, and they now have four children living—Ida, Archie, 
Mary and Birdie.  Mr. G. is a member of the Christian church and of the A. O. 
U. W.

				H. C. HAWKINS

was born and reared in Howard county, and has followed farming all his life.  
His father came to this county in an early day and settled in Franklin 
township, where he made his permanent home.  H. C., the subject of this sketch, 
was born in that township, September 10, 1825, and in youth received a good 
common school education.  He was married March 4, 1855, to Miss Lavinia 
ALEXANDER, and they have five children living — Mary, William B., Sarah C., 
Judith F. and John F.  He owns an excellent farm of 230 acres.  His orchard is 
one of the best in the township and contains a large variety of excellent fruit 
trees.  His parents were both natives of Kentucky, but spent most of their 
lives in the state of their adoption — Missouri.  His father, William HAWKINS, 
died July 8, 1845, and his mother, whose name before her marriage was Lydia T. 
FRANCIS, died in 1860.  John L. HAWKINS, brother of H. C., served through the 
Florida war.

				THOMAS J. HEATH,

son of Judge W. R. HEATH and wife, Mary P., whose maiden name was TURPIN, was 
born in Howard county, Missouri, July 29, 1851.  Mr. H. was reared on his 
father's farm, in this county, and was educated in the common schools of the 
town of New Franklin.  He began active life when a young man by engaging in 
merchandising, which he followed, one year.  Afterwards, in 1872, he went to 
California and farmed there a season, and then returned to Howard county, and 
here he has since given his attention exclusively to farming and stock trading.  
He is a capable, enterprising business man, and thus far his career has been a 
successful one.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F.

				JOHN G. HERNDON.	

	Mr. HERNDON was twenty-three years of age when he bid goodbye to his old 
home and the friends and acquaintances of his boyhood in the Old Dominion, in 
1838, and started for the more inviting fields of labor on the Missouri river.  
On reaching this section, he first settled a short distance northwest of 
Glasgow, in this county, where he engaged in farming, but eight years 
afterwards he moved to this place, where he now lives.  He has a large farm of 
400 acres, well stocked and well improved.  His place is an excellent stock 
farm on account of its adaptation to grass of all kinds and its water 
facilities.  Mr. HERNDON was born in Goochland county, Virginia, July 8, 1815.  
His father, James, was also a native of Virginia, as was his grandfather, John 
HERNDON.  His mother's name before her marriage was Nancy PERKINS, and she was 
of the same state.  John G. received a good practical education in his native 
county before coming to Missouri.  On the 6th of November, 1837, he was married 
to Miss Lucy STRANGE, of Sullivan county, Virginia, where she was born November 
23, 1819.  They have five children — Gideon S., William J., John H., Birdie and 
Maggie C.

				G. S. HERNDON.

	Mr. HERNDON was reared in this county, his parents having immigrated here 
when he was an infant, and having been brought up on the farm, he adopted that 
as his permanent occupation, which he has since followed except about three 
years, between 1863 and 1865, that he spent in the mines of California.  He 
owns an excellent farm of 100 acres, well improved, and is regarded as a 
successful, enterprising and energetic farmer.  On the 21st of November, 1868, 
he was married to Miss Mary E. STEWART, an excellent and worthy lady, and they 
now have five children—Bettie L., Emma, Carrie, Susan and Gabe.  Mr. H. is a 
member of the A. O. U. W.  His post-office is Franklin, Howard county, 
Missouri.

				WILLIAM HOCKER.

	For nearly thirty years, from 1832 to 1860, William HOCKER followed 
school teaching in Howard county.  His parents came to this state in an early 
day, in 1824, when William was but ten years old, and he was reared on his 
father's farm.  In those days not all the young men enjoyed good school 
advantages in their youth, and the subject of this sketch was one of them that 
did not.  He only attended school a few months, but by study at home he 
acquired a better education than most of the others did who had good school 
advantages, so that at the age of eighteen years he was well qualified to 
commence teaching.  He made teaching his regular occupation, and followed it 
until he was able to fix himself on a farm comfortably for life.  He has 
followed farming since 1860, and has a splendid place of 600 acres in an 
excellent state of cultivation and improvement.  He was born in Lincoln county, 
Kentucky, September 8, 1814.  His father, William HOCKER, and his mother, whose 
maiden name was Sarah ALLNUTT, were both natives of Maryland.  They emigrated 
to Lincoln county, Kentucky, in 1790, and there reared a family of nine 
children, of whom William, Jr., was the eighth.  They came to Howard county in 
1824, and here the father died July 12, 1849, and the mother November 19, 1852.  
When the war broke out in 1861, Mr. H. identified himself with the south, and 
was taken prisoner subsequently and sentenced to be shot, but made his escape 
from the detail of soldiers ordered to shoot him—under the fire, however, of 
the whole posse.  On the 7th of April, 1836, he was married to Miss Margaret, 
daughter of Philip TURNER, of Howard county.  She was born in this county 
November 24, 1819.  They have six children living — William R., Gerard C., 
Juliet B. (now Mrs. Wm. MOONS), Hattie H. (now Mrs. Jack WHITE), Emma G. (now 
Mrs. S. L. HIGGINS), and Ina.  Philip TURNER, the father of Mrs. HOCKER, died 
April 22, 1827, and her mother January 28, 1856.  Her mother's maiden name was 
Miss Brezell HYATT, and both her parents were natives of Kentucky and came to 
Missouri in 1815.  Mr. HOCKER is a member of the I. O. O. F. and of the 
Christian church.

				MAJ. H. H. HUGHES,

a soldier of three wars, and one of the most successful farmers of Howard 
county, now passed the allotted age of three score and ten years, is living in 
the slippered ease of retirement from all the active labors of life, blessed 
with a well preserved mind and body, and respected by all who know him.  He is 
a native of Kentucky, but his home has been in Missouri for more than sixty 
years.  His father, Samuel HUGHES, and family, settled in this state from 
Kentucky, in 1820.  They first open what is now known as the home farm of 
Colonel J. R. ESTILL, and there the son was principally reared.  At the age of 
twenty-two, in 1834, he enlisted in the 1st Missouri regiment and was made 
major of the regiment.  Afterwards the regiment went into quarters in Jefferson 
barracks, and thence it was sent to Jackson barracks, New Orleans.  From there 
it entered into active service in the Florida war, in which it continued until 
the authority of the government had been established in that peninsula.  
Subsequently it did service against the Seminoles in the Carolina and Georgia 
war, after which it was mustered out.  In 1837, having been absent three years, 
Major HUGHES returned home to Howard county, where he followed the peaceful and 
quiet life of a farmer until 1846.  Then the hostile camp of the Mexicans was 
pitched under the shadow of the national ensign, and the brave sons of Missouri 
sprang to arms to make them honor its authority.  Major HUGHES was among the 
first to take up the march for the halls of the Montezumas.  He was made 
captain of company G, under Colonel DONIPHAN, and followed the starry flag to 
the City of Mexico.  At the conclusion of this war, he again returned home and 
gave his attention to farming until 1861.  Then he enlisted in the Confederate 
service and was made major of the 9th Missouri infantry, serving through the 
entire war, and finally stacking arms with the last to leave the field at 
Shreveport, Louisiana.  In the three principal wars in which he did service 
(for he was in several Indian wars), viz.: the Florida, the Mexican and the 
civil, he was in many of the hardest fought battles, and received wounds in 
both the Florida and the civil wars.  Notwithstanding he has been a soldier 
among the soldiers of this country, he has found time and proved the business 
ability to lead a successful career as a private citizen, and having by 
industry and intelligent management, accumulated an ample competence for old 
age, in order that the evening of his life might be passed in the most serene 
tranquility, he withdrew some years ago from all business cares, disposing of 
his farm, so that now he enjoys "An old age serene and bright And lovely as a 
Lapland night."  Major HUGHES was born in Jessamine county, Kentucky, October 
11, 1812.  His father was also a native of Kentucky, but his grandfather, 
Joseph, came from Virginia and settled, where Daniel, the father of H. H., was 
born and reared.  Major HUGHES' mother, before her marriage, was a Miss Nancy 
PRICE, of Kentucky, and to his father she bore ten children, of whom Major H. 
H. was the second.  Both parents died in this state.  In 1823 Major HUGHES was 
married to Mrs. Sarah DAVIS, a widow lady, of Virginia.  Mrs. HUGHES, who 
before her first marriage, was a Miss COBB, daughter of James COBB, of 
Virginia, by her first husband had two children — Alice W., afterwards Mrs. 
EDWARDS, and Lena, afterwards Mrs. CREWS.  Mrs. C. died in 1880, leaving one 
child — Enoch CREWS — now being reared by his grandparents.  Major HUGHES is 
now past seventy-one years old, but "Age sets gently on his brow."

				DR. W. D. JACKSON.	

	Dr. JACKSON is a Virginian by birth and in that state he was reared and 
educated, receiving his medical education in the Richmond Eclectic Medical 
college.  He began the practice of his profession in 1836, in Louisa county of 
his native state, where he was born July 18, 1812.  His literary education was 
obtained in the ordinary schools of the time and by private study at home.  By 
close application to his books he became qualified, in the later years of his 
youth, to teach school, which he began and followed a number of years, thus 
obtaining the means upon which to prosecute his medical studies.  His medical 
tutor was Dr. William MEREDITH, an able physician of Virginia, under whom he 
studied several years.  Dr. JACKSON continued the practice of medicine in 
Louisa county from 1836 to 1845, when he came to West Virginia, where he 
located and practised about thirteen years.  From there, in 1858, he came to 
Missouri, settling in Franklin, of this county, and here he has since continued 
the practice of his profession. In 1832 he was married to Miss Eleanor 
THOMPSON, of Virginia, but she was taken from him by death in 1837, leaving him 
two children — Robert and Mary.  He was again married December 10, 1838, Miss 
Mary E. CHEWMUG, originally of the same state, becoming his wife.  She lived to 
gladden his home for nearly forty years but on the 12th of November, 1877, fell 
to sleep in death.  She left one child — Anna V.  Dr. JACKSON was the third 
time married in 1878; Mrs. Felicia AGNEW, widow of John AGNEW, became his third 
wife.  She was the daughter of Hawkins and Sallie SLAUGHTER BROWN, of this 
county, and was born in West Virginia, March 15, 1828.

				LILBURN S. KINGSBURY, DECEASED.

	"Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand Waves o'er the world, and 
beckons us away."  In the meridian of life and the vigor of manhood Lilburn S. 
KINGSBURY was suddenly cut off.  He was born in this county December 13, 1838, 
and here yielded up his spirit to the Giver, May 11, 1877.  Though his life was 
a short one, it was an unusually active one, and, what is better than all else, 
it was such that when his summons came he was not unprepared to receive it.  He 
was reared on his father's farm, in this county, and under that good man, Dr. 
KINGSBURY, no less respected and esteemed as a neighbor than loved and 
venerated as a father, he was brought up to habits of industry, frugality and 
Christian morality.  Hence the life he led was without a stain, and the name he 
left his children they may very gladly bear.  Lilburn S. had good school and 
college advantages, and when he left the college walls he was well prepared to 
enter upon the active duties of life.  He first engaged in farming in this 
county, which he followed until 1864, when he went to Montana.  There he gave 
his attention to the stock business, and continued in that for two years.  In 
1866 he returned to his old home in Howard county, but only to remain a couple 
of years, for, in 1868, he was attracted to Texas by the opportunities there 
offered for the profitable exercise of enterprise and ability in almost every 
line of business.  He engaged in beef packing, and also in the manufacture of 
ice in Victory, of that state, and was rewarded with satisfactory success in 
both enterprises.  In 1871 he again returned to this county, this time to 
remain until the sands of his life ran out; for "There is a strange something 
planted in man To bind him to that earth in dearest ties From whence he drew 
his birth."  Here he was occupied with farming and stock raising, and was in 
the very noontide of success when his summons came, and he entered upon that 
rest, that — "Sinless, stirless rest, that never changes."  Mr. KINGSBURY left 
a wife and five children to mourn his loss.  On the 20th of February, 1861, he 
was married to Miss Minnie E., daughter of W. J. and Elizabeth GERHARDT SMITH 
of this county.  She was born February 23, 1842.  Their children are Ferdinand 
D., Lillian A., Bessie, William W. and Ophelia M.  He was a member of the 
Masonic order and of the I. O. G. T.  He was also an exemplary member of the M. 
E. Church south.

				DR. HORACE KINSGBURY, DECEASED.

	Dr. KINGSBURY lived a useful and honorable life and died a Christian 
death.  No nobler epitaph can be written for the dead.  Yet this his memory 
deserves, and it but tells in modest phrase the real worth of the man.  He was 
born in Randolph county, North Carolina, April 7, 1813.  When four years of age 
he was brought by his parents to Howard county, who immigrated here in 1817.  
Here he was reared and educated, and after reaching manhood studied medicine.  
In 1846 and 1847 he attended medical college in Cincinnati, and was graduated 
with distinction from the Eclectic medical institution, of that city.  Besides 
being a physician he was a farmer, and soon took rank with the foremost farmers 
of the county.  With his farm and stock interests, and his large practice in 
the surrounding country, his life was an unusually active and busy one.  But he 
was also a man of great enterprise and more than ordinary sagacity.  He began 
farming in the Missouri river bottom a short distance above Old Franklin.  In 
that district were situated some of the finest lands in Missouri, but at that 
time much of them was overflowed, but he conceived the idea of draining them on 
a large scale.  The means of no one man was adequate to the enterprise, so he 
obtained an act of incorporation from the legislature authorizing him and 
others, whom he had induced to join him, to undertake the work.  He was made 
the president of the company, and the scheme proved an eminently successful 
one.  Thousands of acres of the finest class of lands were reclaimed, which 
have since yielded up their annual harvests of grain to their possessors — 
tributes to his sagacity and enterprise.  He began farming with 160 acres of 
overflowed land; for many years before his death he had over 2,000 acres of the 
rich alluvial soil of the Missouri, in cultivation — two as handsome farms as 
ample means and good taste could make — and this notwithstanding he lost 
heavily by the war; more, in fact, than an ordinary fortune.  Though blessed by 
a competence of this world's goods, sorrow was not a stranger in his heart and 
home, for — There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen	
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath And the flowers that grow between.  In 
1832 he was united in marriage to Miss Eliza BRASHEAR, a noble and true woman, 
daughter of Judson BRASHEAR, an old settler of the county, but in 1857 she fell 
to sleep to wake no more in this life.  He married again some years afterwards, 
Mrs. Isabina, widow of David ALLEN, deceased, becoming his second wife; but 
she, too, was taken from him and laid to rest in 1864.  On the 3d day of June, 
1880, Dr. KINGSBURY himself passed away, surrounded by friends and loved ones 
and mourned by all who knew him.  His third wife, formerly Miss Mary A. 
CHANDLER, a most excellent and worthy lady, still survives him, and now resides 
on the farm where her husband lived and died.  For forty years of his life Dr. 
KINGSBURY was a professor of religion and an active, earnest worker in the 
church.  In 1840 he joined the Methodist church south at Clark's chapel, in 
this county, and became a trustee in the congregation to which he belonged, and 
which then erected its first church building.  In that position he continued 
until his death.  His church-life was faithful and sincere, and his death was a 
noble testimony of the comforting power of the Christian's faith.  He was a 
member of the county court when he died.

				L. L. KINGSBURY.

	As were in Dr. Horace KINGSBURY, the brother of L. L., so in L. L. 
KINGSBURY himself are combined the enterprising, progressive and energetic 
qualities of the New Englander, and the generous, hospitable and liberal-minded 
ideas of the Southerner.  And withal, the KINGSBURY's represent in an eminent 
degree the sturdy, frugal characteristics of the Hollanders, for there is also 
a strong Hollander element in their family.  That such men would succeed in 
life, was, and is but natural to be expected.  Mr. KINGSBURY owns 300 acres of 
splendid land, and his farm is one of the best improved in the county.  He is a 
systematic, neat, business-like farmer.  He has a flock of over 700 head of 
fine merino sheep, and of sheep raising he makes a specialty.  L. L. KINGSBURY 
was born in Howard county, Missouri, August 12th, 1824.  He is a son of Jerre 
KINGSBURY, a native of Massachusetts, and his wife Elizabeth, of Randolph 
county, North Carolina, whose name before her marriage was SCOTTON, a lady of 
Dutch extraction.  A sketch of the parents will be found in the memoir of Dr. 
KINGSBURY, elsewhere in this volume.  However, it is worthy, in addition to 
what is there said, to mention that Joseph KINGSBURY, the grandfather of L. L., 
lived to the advanced age of 109 years.  Jerre, the son of Joseph, and father 
of L. L., was born in 1785, and died April 12th, 1863, aged seventy-eight 
years.  His wife, Elizabeth SCOTTON KINGSBURY, was born in 1789, and died in 
May, 1852, aged sixty-three years.  Jerre KINGSBURY came to this county with 
his family in 1816, and remained in Fort Hempstead the first winter, and in the 
spring of 1818, bought a claim in Franklin township where he made his home.  
There L. L. was born August 12th, 1824, and grew to manhood on his father's 
farm, and received a good, practical, elementary education.  On reaching 
manhood, his father then being far advanced in years, he took charge of the old 
homestead and carried on the business of the farm with energy and excellent 
success.  On the 16th of January, 1849, he was married to Miss Catherine BOGGS, 
a native of Washington county, this state, she having been born there February 
28th, 1829.  They have four children living: John A., Edwin F., married Miss 
Lou WILHITE; Katie L. and Noah.  Mr. and Mrs. KINGSBURY are both members of the 
Baptist church.

				R. T. KINGSBURY.

	The fact that Mr. KINGSBURY was a son of Dr. Horace KINGSBURY, is some 
assurance, at least, that he is a good citizen, honorable, intelligent and 
enterprising.  And so he is.  He is a man on whose name no reproach has fallen.  
Besides, he is one of the progressive, business - like farmers of the county.  
He was born in Howard county, Missouri, July 25th, 1848, and was reared on his 
father's farm.  He had good advantages to acquire a practical education in his 
youth which he did not fail to improve.  He attended the common schools, and 
also took a course in Kemper's well-known and excellent school in Boonville.  
He has a neat farm of 156 acres of good land, and besides giving his attention 
to general farming makes a specialty of growing fruit for the markets.  He has 
an orchard of fifty acres of choice fruit, and he is still increasing his fruit 
industry.  Mr. KINGSBURY has been twice married.  First, to Miss Sallie D. 
SMITH, March 2d, 1870, but she survived their marriage only a year, passing 
away March 17th, 1871.  He was again married April 21st, 1872, Miss Alice V. 
SMITH, becoming his second wife.  They have five children: Horace, William, 
Ernest, Robert and Sallie.  Mr. KINGSBURY is a school director of his district, 
and is a consistent member of the M. E. church south.  He is also a member of 
Howard Lodge, No. 4, A. F. and A. M., and a Knight Templar.

				JOHN LEE.

	That the subject of this sketch is a LEE, and a native of Virginia, is a 
sufficient assurance that he is one of the best men in the county.  The purity 
of character and modest worth of the LEE family, is recognized wherever 
American history is read.  And whether in public or in private life, point to a 
Virginia LEE, and you will point to a man whose name is as unsullied as 
polished steel.  John LEE was born near Richmond, Virginia, March 5, 1816.  He 
was a son of John LEE, the elder, and the grandson of Joel LEE, both also 
natives of Virginia.  His father was a soldier under WASHINGTON.  His mother's 
maiden name was Susan OWENS.  In 1819, the family — the elder John LEE, his 
wife, Susan, and three children — came to Missouri, and settled in Old 
Franklin, this county, where John, Jr., was reared and educated.  Early in 
youth, he evinced a preference for life on a farm.  Accordingly, he has 
followed farming, and stock raising and dealing, ever since he attained to 
manhood.  He has gone steadily forward in his modest way, adding to his 
possessions, year by year, until now he is one of the wealthy men of the 
county.  Besides large stock interests, and other property, he has 1,000 acres 
of as fine land as there is on the Missouri river, and his farm of 500 acres is 
one of the best improved places in Howard county.  Mr. LEE has been married 
three times.  He was first married to Miss Matilda GRAHAM, April 12, 1842; she 
died in March, 1843.  He was again married, in August, 1847, to Miss Mary 
BAILEY, who lived twenty-nine years to cheer and comfort his life, but finally 
passed away, leaving three children — Samuel C., Ida V. (Mrs. Ed. SWINNEY, of 
Rich Hill), and Sallie (Mrs. C. THOMPSON).  Mr. L. was the third time married, 
October 7, 1877, to Miss Susan TALBOT.  They have three children — John, Holman 
and Martha.  Mr. LEE is a member of the Christian church, also of the Masonic 
order, and of the I. O. O. F.  In every relation in life, he is an upright and 
honorable man.

				JOHN W. LEE.

	Mr. LEE's parents were among the earliest settlers of Howard county.  His 
father, A. H., and mother, whose name before her marriage was Susan H. 
WILCOXSON, were both natives of Kentucky, but came to this county in early 
life, and here reared their family.  John W. was born July 6, 1832, and was 
brought up to the occupation of a farmer, which he has since followed.  In the 
common schools he received a good substantial education, and since he has been 
engaged in the active business affairs of life, he has been called to serve the 
people in the responsible office of justice of the peace.  He has a neat farm 
of ninety acres, all in cultivation, and well improved.  November 24, 1851, he 
was married to Miss Alice P. BLANKENBAKER, an excellent lady, a native of the 
Old Dominion.  They have six children — James A., M. M., L. L., Samuel C., Emma 
A., and Charles F.  Mr. L. is a member of the A. O. U. W..  I. O. O. F., and of 
the M. E. church south.

				R. A. LLOYD,

painter, was born in New Franklin, Howard county, Missouri, January 24th, 1851.  
He is a son of Pleasant H., born in North Carolina, August 21st, 1823.  The 
father came to Howard county in 1835, and worked at the wagon-maker's business 
until his death, which occurred November 3d, 1875.  He was married September 
6th, 1848, to Miss A. BATTON, who was born in Orange county, Virginia, February 
10th, 1833.  Six children were reared of this marriage: Thomas B., Robert A., 
Sarah A., Mary R., John and William E. J.  The father was a consistent member 
of the Christian church for many of the later years of his life and died in 
that communion.  Mrs. LLOYD is also a member of the same denomination.  R. A., 
the subject of this sketch, was reared and educated in this county, and early 
learned the painter's trade which he has since followed.

				WILLIAM H. LONG.	

	Except two years spent in California, during the gold excitement in that 
state, Mr. LONG has followed farming all his life, and his career as a farmer 
has been a decidedly successful one.  His farm contains 320 acres and the 
improvements are of a very superior class, the residence alone — a brick 
house—costing over $6,000.  Mr. LONG is a native of this county, having been 
born here November 24th, 1828.  His parents were both from Kentucky, but came 
to this county among the first settlers.  Reuben LONG, his father, was an 
energetic, successful farmer, and his wife, the mother of Wm. H., was Mary 
HOCKER.  Wm. H., the second of a family of seven children, was given a good 
practical education in the common schools of the neighborhood.  In 1858 he was 
married to Miss Elizabeth BRASHEAR, and six years afterwards she was taken from 
him by the grim destroyer, Death, leaving him four children, Annie M., Effie, 
Della and Willie.  Five years more dragged their slow length through his lonely 
home, and then it was again brightened by the tender love of woman—wife.  In 
December, 1869, Miss L. A. McCAULEY, became his wife, and to them three 
children have been born: Luella, Ida and Emmett.  Mr. LONG is a member of the 
Christian church and of the Masonic order

				REUBEN LONG.

	Mr. Long, besides being a leading farmer of the county, for his farm 
ranks among the best and most important, gives special attention to breeding 
and raising fine cattle.  His herd includes some as fine stock as there is in 
central Missouri, for he makes it a point to spare no time or expense in 
securing the finest blood that can be had.  He is a progressive, enterprising 
stock man and as such, well deserves mention in this volume.  He was the sixth 
of a family of seven children reared by Reuben LONG, the elder, and wife Nancy 
A., a native of Kentucky.  Reuben, Jr., was born in Howard county, Missouri, 
July 27, 1838.  His father was a well-to-do farmer and a man of intelligence, 
who gave his children good opportunities to qualify themselves for the business 
duties of life.  Young Reuben had the benefit not only of the common schools in 
his neighborhood, but he also took a course in the State university, thus 
acquiring an excellent education.  After returning from the university, he 
taught school awhile, but soon gave his attention to farming, which he has 
since followed.  His farm contains 325 acres, and is a model stock farm.  He 
was married June 18th, 1863, to Miss Nannie, daughter of John KNAUS, of this 
county, and now has a family of six children: Wm. E., Birdie B., John, James 
N., Dora D. and Walter T.  In 1846, Mr. LONG enlisted in the Mexican war in 
Captains SINGLETON's company, raised in this county, but did service only a 
short time.  He is a member of the A. O. U. W.

				THOMAS P. LONG,	

another son of Reuben LONG, Sr., and wife, Nancy HOCKER LONG, is also a farmer 
by occupation, and was born in Howard county, Missouri, April 10, 1836.  He was 
reared on his father's farm, in this county, and was educated in the common 
schools of the neighborhood.  In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army, 
becoming orderly sergeant in Captain MAJOR's company, and served until 1863, 
when he was honorably discharged.  He was in a number of hard-fought battles, 
among the rest those of Boonville, Lexington, Carthage and Pea Ridge.  On the 
10th of September, 1870, he was married to Miss J. TURNER, of Howard county.  
They have six children — Turner, Reuben, Arthur, Clara, Hattie and Buford.  Mr. 
L. owns a farm of 150 acres.

				GABRIEL LONG,

five years deputy sheriff and three years deputy assessor of Howard county, is 
one of the substantial farmers and highly respected citizens of the county.  He 
was born in this county April 21, 1834.  His parents were both natives of 
Kentucky, but came to this county in early life, where they afterwards lived 
and reared their family.  Gabriel was brought up on the farm and received a 
good education from the common schools, but after reaching manhood learned the 
carpenter's trade, which he followed some time.  However, he made farming his 
permanent occupation, and this he has followed with excellent success.  In 
connection with Mr. Ira C. DARBY, the partnership of LONG & DARBY own a fine 
farm of 314 acres of well improved land.  As has been suggested, Mr. L. was 
appointed deputy sheriff, and held that position five years, and at a different 
time was appointed to and held the office of deputy assessor three years.  He 
is a member of the Christian church, and besides being an exemplary church 
member and a popular citizen, is a good man.

				A. L. McCOLLOUGH,

a prominent farmer and stock raiser of Howard county, is of Irish descent, his 
father, John McCOLLOUGH, having come over to this country from the Emerald Isle 
of the sea early in life and settled in Ohio.  There the son, A. L., was reared 
and received an excellent education from the unsurpassed public schools of the 
Buckeye state.  And, what is of hardly less importance, he learned the thorough 
system of farming, which has made Ohio one of the first states of the union, 
and which distinguishes an Ohio farmer wherever he is found.  With these 
advantages, and placed on rich Howard county land - better even than that which 
he was used to in his native state - Mr. McCOLLOUGH was not long in going to 
the front among the leading farmers of this county.  He has 600 acres of land 
of a quality that produces from fifty to seventy-five bushels of corn, or from 
twenty to thirty-five bushels of wheat per acre.  His home place contains 380 
acres, and has a splendid class of improvements on it, including a brick 
residence and other buildings in accordance.  Much of his land is set in blue 
grass, and he also grows clover, timothy, etc.  His farm is well stocked, and 
some of his stock is of the best quality.  Especially is this true of his 
merino sheep, which are of an extra breed.  Mr. McC. was born in Jefferson 
county, Ohio, June 27, 1822, and lived in that state until 1872, when he came 
to Howard county.  His mother, whose maiden name was Jane RICHEY, like her 
husband, is a native of Ireland, but came to America when quite young, about 
1804.  On the 27th of March, 1843, Mr. McCOLLOUGH was married to Miss B. 
HAMMOND, of Ohio, a good and true woman and wife, but two years ago, January 
11, 1881, she was taken from him by death, leaving him seven children living - 
David, Mary J., Harry, Belle, George, Charles and Margaret.  Mr. McCOLLOUGH is 
a consistent, exemplary member of the Episcopal church.

				ROBERT E. McGAVOCK, DECEASED.

	At his residence, in Franklin township, on the 11th day of May, 1875, 
died Robert E. McGAVOCK, a leading farmer and highly respected citizen of 
Howard county.  Mr. McGAVOCK came to this county thirty-six years ago, when a 
young man twenty-one years of age, since which he continued to reside here 
until the day of his death.  He was born in Breckenridge county, Kentucky, July 
7, 1826, and was there reared and educated.  Robert E. was a son of Robert 
McGAVOCK, a native of West Virginia, and wife, Ann, daughter of Colonel Thomas 
HICKMAN, but their married life was spent in Kentucky.  Young McGAVOCK was 
reared on his father's farm, but in youth enjoyed the advantages afforded by 
the country schools, and in these received a good, practical education.  Having 
been brought up to the occupation of a farmer, he naturally adopted that as his 
permanent calling and followed it without intermission through life.  In 1847 
he came to Missouri and settled in Howard county.  On the 21st day of March, 
1855, Mr. McGAVOCK was married to Miss Matilda BONDURANT, a most amiable and 
excellent young lady.  But, alas!  "Death rides on every passing breeze And 
lurks in every flower."  In less than a year from the day she was made a bride, 
she was cold and still in death.  She passed away the 4th of January, 1856.  
But a warm and tender nature cannot live without one to love, cannot live 
without being loved, and while the memory of the departed may be cherished as a 
sweet dream, too fair to last, yet there is that in us all that leads us to 
love again, as naturally as the flowers brighten in the morning sun after the 
chill of night is passed.  On the 14th of February, 1857, Mr. McGAVOCK was 
married again, Miss Sallie CREWS, a daughter of Milton CREWS, of this county, 
becoming his second and worthy and devoted wife.  She was born in Madison 
county, Kentucky, August 8, 1839, but in company with her father's family was 
brought by him to this county in 1844.  Their union was blessed with seven 
children, five of whom remain to comfort their mother's widowhood - William C., 
James E, Rosa, Anna and Robert L.  Mr. McGAVOCK served for a time as justice of 
the peace of his township, and at the time of his death was, as he had been for 
a number of years before, a consistent, exemplary member of the Christian 
church.  In all the relations of life he was an upright, conscientious and God-
fearing man.
	Wm. C. McGAVOCK, son of the above, is largely interested in the raising 
of blooded stock, and his herd of Herefords is among the best in the county, 
embracing strains of the best families.

				GORDON C. McGAVOCK.

	Hugh McGAVOCK was a native of Virginia, and when the revolutionary war 
broke out, he was one of the first to shoulder his gun in defence of his 
country.  He followed the flag of the gallant young republic for seven long 
years, through dangers and hardships of untold severity, until finally the 
shout of triumph went up from three millions of people, and was joyfully echoed 
around the world.  Returning at the restoration of peace, he settled down in 
his native state, to the quiet but honorable and independent life of a farmer, 
and there reared a family.  Among his other sons was Robert, the father of the 
subject of this sketch, who went to Kentucky in an early day.  He settled in 
Breckenridge county of that state, and there lived until his death, rearing a 
family, of which Gordon C. was a member.  Gordon's mother, before her marriage, 
was a Miss Ann HICKMAN, a Kentuckian by birth; she also died in Breckenridge 
county.  Gordon was brought up on his father's farm in his native county, and 
in his youth acquired more than an average education among the young men of 
that day, both by close application to his books in school, and by study at 
home.  Later on he studied civil engineering, and became proficient in that 
science, and subsequently followed the profession as a business until he came 
to Missouri in 1857.  Arriving in this state, he settled in Howard county, and 
here he has since given his whole attention to farming, in which he has been 
successful.  He has a good good place of 283 acres of land, and has it well 
improved.  His orchard is an unusally good one, containing many varieties of 
the rarest and best qualities of fruit, etc.  Mr. McGAVOCK was married to Miss 
Lucy LEWIS, a young lady of Kentucky birth, December 14, 1859, and they have 
six children - John, Sallie, Mary, Louisa, Hugh and Robert.  He is a member of 
the Christian church.

				J. A. MAXWELL.

	Thomas Maxwell and his wife Elsie, a lady of Irish descent, whose maiden 
name was JARVIS, the grandparents of J. A. MAXWELL were both natives of 
Virginia, but emigrated to Madison county, Kentucky, in an early day, where the 
first station in the county was named for Mr. MAXWELL - "MAXWELL's station."  
They lived in their adopted county, where they reared their family, until 1825, 
when they immigrated to Missouri, and settled in Howard county.  The 
grandfather died the following year, but his wife survived him over thirty 
years, passing away at the residence of her son Robert, of Johnson county, 
Missouri, in 1858.  Bozewell, another son of theirs, and the father of J. A., 
was a youth about twelve years of age when they came to this county, and here, 
on reaching manhood, he married Miss Martha J. DINWIDDIE, who died a number of 
years afterwards, leaving him three children.  In 1852, he was again married, 
Miss Mary GAY becoming his wife, and of this union two children were reared, of 
whom J. A., the subject of this sketch, was the younger.  Mrs. Mary MAXWELL 
died in this county June 1, 1882, and her husband followed her in death seven 
months afterwards, January 22, 1883.  Both were for many years members of the 
Christian church.  Mr. MAXWELL was a strictly temperate man in all his habits, 
not using tobacco in any form, and he brought up his sons to the same manner of 
life.  In the active duties of life, he was industrious, energetic and a good 
manager, and many years before his death he had succeeded in accummulating a 
comfortable estate.  Besides an excellent farm, well improved and well stocked, 
he built, and was the owner of MAXWELL mills, that do the grinding and sawing 
for a large district of country.  J. A. MAXWELL was born in Howard county, 
Missouri, November 25, 1854.  He was reared on his father's farm in this 
county, and received his education from the neighborhood schools of the time.  
He followed farming until 1880, when he engaged in milling, in which he has met 
with excellent success.  He owns a good farm of 213 acres comfortable and 
substantially improved.  He is a member of the A. O. U. W.

				F. W. MICHELS,

general merchant.  Mr. MICHELS commenced in life without means or other help, 
and by industry, intelligent management, and perseverance, has succeeded in 
accumulating an ample competence.  He was born in Germany, September 9th, 1844.  
His father and mother were also both natives of that country.  He was but nine 
years old when he landed in American, and from boyhood he grew up in Glasgow, 
in this county.  When still a youth he commenced to work at the tobacco trade, 
manufacturing cigars and plug tobacco, and this he followed in Glasgow until 
1866.  In 1866 he began business on his own account in Glasgow, in which he 
continued until 1868, when he removed to Old Franklin, where he has since 
followed merchandising.  From 1871 to 1873, however, he was in St. Louis.  
Excepting the time he was absent in St. Louis, no man has given closer 
attention to his store than has Mr. M. for the last seventeen years in Old 
Franklin; nor has the reward of his merit been denied him.  He is now one of 
the substantial business men of the county.  In October (the 27th), 1877, he 
was married to Miss Anna GLAZIER, of Boonville, and they have one child living, 
Henry W.

				WILLIAM MILLER, DECEASED.

	The subject of this memoir was a native of Alabama, and was born June 5, 
1836.  Almost in the very dawn of life he was left an orphan by the death of 
his father, Samuel L. MILLER, of that state, and he was brought with his mother 
and family to Madison county, Kentucky, when only two years old, where he was 
reared and afterwards lived until he came to this state.  He was given a 
thorough education, taking, besides courses in the common schools and the 
schools of New Castle, Kentucky, a course in Berthany college of Virginia.  
After his college course he engaged in farming.  On the 27th of February, 1861, 
he was married to Miss Susan A. CHENAULT, a most estimable lady of Madison 
county, Kentucky, born March 1, 1842.  Of this union nine children were born, 
eight now living: Samuel L., Tellitha C., Mary, Joe, Edwin, Laura, William, 
Waller.  In 1877, Mr. MILLER, with his family, immigrated to Missouri, and 
settled on a farm in Howard county, where he subsequently died, September 10, 
1880.  Mrs. MILLER still survives her late husband, and now makes her home with 
her son, Samuel L.  Samuel L. was born in Madison county, Kentucky, December 
24, 1861.  The home farm on which they reside consists of 320 acres of 
excellent land, well improved and well kept and cultivated..  Mr. M. was a man 
whose life was just, from the beginning to the end.  Although cut off in the 
very meridian of manhood, by industry and intelligent management he had 
succeeded in accumulating enough to place him beyond the reach of want in old 
age, if he had lived to enjoy it.  This has been left to his family.  "Leaves 
have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And 
stars to set; but all - Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O, Death!"

				MATHEW MULLINS.

	Mr. MULLINS was reared in Howard county, in the pioneer days of the 
country, and he is now among the earliest and oldest inhabitants of the county.  
His parents came from Kentucky to Missouri in 1813, and stopping in St. Charles 
for a time, there his father died, leaving his mother a widow in a new country 
and among strangers.  But having acquaintances in Howard county, she came to 
this county, where her son was reared and where she afterwards lived and died.  
Brought up in those early days, when the monotony of the forests was broken 
only now and they by a "clearing" and a home, young MULLINS naturally shared in 
may adventures and not a few hardships incident to pioneer life.  But suffice 
it to say that the influences by which his youth was surrounded went far to 
develop in him that strong character and spirit of enterprise which has since 
marked his career.  Having been reared on a farm, he thus naturally acquired 
that taste for farm life, which controlled his choice of an occupation for 
after years.  But, although he became a farmer, he did not and could not 
confine his free spirit to following the plow alone, but he also entered upon 
the more animating and adventurous life of a stock dealer, and in this 
occupation has travelled through many southern states, supplying the markets of 
the land of cane and cotton with mules and horses, bought up in the great corn 
regions of the west.  He has also visited the southern republic of Mexico.  But 
whether as a farmer or stock dealer, in either occupation, his industry and 
enterprise have been rewarded with substantial success.  He owns a farm of 160 
acres of the best quality of land, and improved in a substantial, thorough 
manner.  Mr. MULLINS was born in Madison county, Kentucky, April 28, 1813.  His 
father, Richard MULLINS, was also a native of Kentucky, and his mother, before 
her marriage, was a Miss Susanna WOODS, of that state.  Mr. MULLINS, the 
subject of this sketch, received an ordinary practical education in the schools 
of the neighborhood where he was reared, and he is a man of varied information 
and superior natural intelligence.  He was married August 29, 1859, to Miss 
Mary A. JACKMAN of this county.  Matthew MULLINS is a good man, whose life has 
been useful and just.  He is a member of the Christian church.

				BENJAMIN E. NANCE,

a large land holder and leading farmer and stock dealer of Howard county, was 
born and reared in Bedford county, Virginia, where he lived and followed 
farming until he came to this county in 1855.  His grandfather, Richard NANCE, 
and his father, John, were both natives of the Old Dominion.  The former was a 
soldier in the revolutionary war, and the latter was in the war of 1812.  Mr. 
NANCE's (B. E.'s) mother before her marriage was a Miss Martha ESTISS, also of 
the same state.  Mr. N. was born February 17, 1830, and was therefore twenty-
five years of age when he came to Missouri.  He now owns 1,427 acres of 
splendid land, well improved and well kept and cultivated in every way.  He is 
a thoroughly live, enterprising and go-ahead business man, and ranks among the 
foremost citizens of the county.  On the 24th of December, 1847, he was married 
to Miss Elizabeth R. TINSLEY, a young lady of Virginia, and they now have two 
children living, Laura (Mrs. P. H. BURDEN), and Martha E. (Mrs. Thomas JORDAN).

				CHARLES R. OVERSTREET.

	Farmer, soldiering and merchandising have each claimed a share of Mr. 
OVERSTREET's time and energy since his youth.  He is now engaged in farming, to 
which most of his life has been devoted, and has a farm of 200 acres.  He was 
born in Albemarle county, Virginia, February 28, 1832.  His father, William B., 
was a native of Virginia, as was also his grandfather, Charles OVERSTREET.  
Charles, his grandfather, was a soldier in the war for independence, and served 
in the revolutionary army until the close of that struggle.  Mr. OVERSTREET's 
mother, before her marriage, was a Miss Sophia HARRIS, also of Virginia, and 
his parents were married in that state.  When the son, the subject of this 
sketch, was but four years old the family came to Missouri and settled in St. 
Charles county, where they remained until 1845.  They then came on to Howard 
county and here young OVERSTREET was reared and educated in the common schools 
of the neighborhood.  In 1854 Mr. OVERSTREET, the son, then being a young man 
twenty-two years of age, went to the town of New Franklin and engaged in the 
boot and shoe business, in which he continued until 1858.  During the last 
named year he resumed farming, and this business he has since followed except 
the time he spent in the army. In 1861 he enlisted in the Missouri state guards 
under the call of Governor JACKSON, and served about three months.  Again, in 
1864, he enlisted Under General Jo SHELBY, and served under him until the 
surrender in 1865.  Mr. OVERSTREET was married on the 14th of February, 1860, 
to Miss Rachel SWOPE, a Missouri lady by birth, and they have seven children, 
John H., Sophia E., Josephine, Charles F., Lou Ellen, Stonewall Jackson, Hugh 
Doniphan.

				DANIEL C. RAY.

	It is said that the three most important events in a man's life are his 
birth, marriage and death, and that the most important of the three is the 
second.  We shall not stop to philosophize on this, but shall state at once 
that Mr. RAY, the subject of this sketch, and one of the many good farmers and 
citizens of Howard county, was married on the 14th of October, 1869, to Miss 
Hattie AINSWORTH, a most excellent and worthy lady, who, so far as the 
happiness of her husband is concerned, has fully vindicated the truth of the 
proposition stated above.  Mr. RAY is a farmer by occupation, and owns a neat, 
well-improved and well-kept place of eighty acres in Franklin township.  He was 
born in this county April 5, 1848, and is now, therefore, thirty-five years of 
age.  His father, James RAY, was a native of Kentucky, but came to this county 
in an early day - in fact, was one of the pioneers in the county.  Here he 
married Miss Docia CANOLE, a native of Tennessee.  Daniel C. was brought up on 
his father's farm and received a good practical education in the neighborhood 
schools of the time.  He is a member of the M. E. church south, and is now 
school director in his district.

				WILLIAM J. SMITH, DECEASED,

	The subject of this memoir was born in Madison county, Virginia, August 
22, 1808.  He was a son of William SMITH and wife, whose maiden name was Diana 
YEAGER, both also natives of Virginia.  William J. grew up on his father's farm 
in Virginia.  When  eighteen years of age he went to Kentucky, where he 
continued until 1830, when he came to Missouri and settled on the farm where he 
subsequently lived and died.  On the 25th of March, 1841, he was married to 
Miss Elizabeth GEARHART, of this county.  Seven children are now living of this 
union - Minerva E., William W., Alice B., E. T., Bettie, Charles I. and Rose.  
Mr. SMITH died October 5, 1882, having reached four years more than the 
allotted three-score and ten.  Mrs. SMITH, his wife, born March 27, 1823, still 
survives her husband, and now resides on the farm where he lived so many years 
and finally died.  His life was an active and energetic one, and what is better 
than all else, it was a useful and good one.  Farming was his occupation, but 
he was also for some years interested in milling; but to whatever he directed 
his energies he succeeded, and succeeded honestly, without doing any man wrong.  
When he died he left a large estate, for he was one of the wealthy men of 
Howard county.  Through the morning and the noon of life, and to the last, when 
the evening shadows shut out the light, he was an humble, faithful follower of 
the Cross, in the communion of the M. E. church south.

				WILLIAM W. SMITH,	

son of William J. (deceased), was born in Howard county, Missouri, February 29, 
1844.  His father was a man who appreciated the importance of an education and 
determined that, so far as his own exertions were concerned, his children 
should avail themselves of the best school advantages then offered.  William W. 
had the usual course of the common schools, and, besides that, courses in 
Central college, in Fayette, and Kemper's college, in Boonville.  And he did 
not fail to improve his advantages, for he is one of the best educated farmers 
in the county - a county, by the way, of educated farmers.  In 1862, then 
eighteen years of age, he enlisted in the Confederate army, in company F, from 
this part of the county, and served until the final surrender.  Returning after 
the war, he resumed farming, and also engaged in dealing in stock, in both of 
which he has since continued.  On the 12th of January, 1871, he was married to 
Miss Fannie AGNEW, a native of Virginia, and they have two children - Nadine 
and Florence.  Mr. S. is a member of the A. O. U. W., of the Masonic order, and 
of the M. E. church south.  He has a farm of 200 acres in good condition with 
respect both to improvements and cultivation, and is a successful farmer and 
stockman.

				CAPT. J. H. STURDIVANT,

of STURDIVANT & MAXWELL, millers, Franklin.  Mr. STURDIVANT is a thorough, 
practical miller, having followed that occupation from early manhood, with but 
little interruption, nearly twenty years.  He was born in Edmonson county, 
Kentucky, October 2, 1841, and was a son of J. A. STURDIVANT and wife, Adaline, 
whose name prior to her marriage was SHACKELFORD.  J. H., the son, was reared 
in his native county, and received an ordinary practical education in the local 
schools.  In 1860, he went to Warren county, and there commenced his career as 
a miller.  But the war breaking out in 1861, he enlisted, in 1862, in company 
G, 8th Kentucky cavalry, and that term expiring, he re-enlisted, this time in 
company G. of the 17th Kentucky cavalry, of which company he was made captain, 
and with which he served until the close of the war.  He was in the battle of 
Stone river, and other important and hard-fought engagements.  In 1865, he went 
to Lewistown, Illinois, and there followed milling two years.  He then came to 
Benton county, Missouri, where he farmed for two years and milled one year.  
From Benton county he went to Windsor, Missouri, and remained until 1876, 
engaged in milling, coming that year to Boonville.  In Boonville, he followed 
milling until 1878, when he came over to Franklin, and here he has since lived 
and pursued his regular occupation - milling.  The firm of which he is a 
member, have a splendid mill, including building, machinery, e c., and as 
manufacturers of breadstuffs, they are deservedly popular.  Miss Olive H. 
McGEE, of Kentucky, became the wife of Mr. S., on the 1st of March 1866, and 
they now have a family of three children - James H., Charles H. and Mary E.

				SAMUEL B. TINSLEY,

deceased.  A useful and successful life, regulated by Christian principles, 
expresses in a line the earthly career of Samuel B. TINSLEY.  By industry and 
intelligent management he succeeded here, as the world measures success, but 
without imperilling the real success of the hereafter.  For, while he strove to 
gather around him a competence for old age, and that those he should leave 
behind might not be destitute, yet he kept a steady eye on the future - the 
star of eternity - and so lived, that when his mortal light should fade away, 
that star would guide him to immortality.  His life was such that the world was 
made better by his having lived in it, and, although it was a humble one, it 
was none the less true and noble and worthy, for the best good men do is that 
which is not made known.  He was born in Bedford county, Virginia, August 9, 
1834.  He was a son of Samuel G. and wife, Mary, whose family name before her 
marriage was ROSSER, both also natives of Virginia, and was reared and educated 
in Bedford county.  In 1854, when a young man twenty years of age, he came to 
Howard county, Missouri, and settled on the farm where he afterwards lived, and 
finally died.  Six years after coming to this state, December 19, 1860, he was 
married to Miss Mary LANGLEY, of Callaway county, Missouri, an accomplished and 
gentle-hearted woman.  She was born in Mississippi, April 1, 1834, but was 
brought with her parents to Callaway county, Missouri, in 1838, when but four 
years old, and was educated in the Baptist college of that county.  She has two 
children living - Thomas L., born January 1, 1862, and John W., born April 11, 
1866.  Mr. TINSLEY came to this county a young man without means, other than 
his own ability to work and manage, and the manhood to do both.  When he died 
he was one of the wealthy farmers and stock dealers of the county.  Besides a 
large stock, and personal property interest, he left a splendid farm of 700 
acres.  On the 3d day of June, 1880, there fell upon the loved ones around him 
a sudden gloom, and the spirit of Samuel B. TINSLEY passed away forever.  His 
wife still survives him.  He was a member of the Masonic order, and of the A. 
O. U. W.,

				T. H. TODD.	

	Mr. TODD is a leading farmer and stock dealer of Franklin township, 
Howard county, and owns a farm of 565 acres.  He was born in the township where 
he still lives, July 15, 1842, and since he was twenty years of age, has been 
engaged in farming and dealing in stock, on his own account.  From the 
importance of his farm, and the large amount of stock he handles, it is evident 
that his career has been an exceedingly successful one.  His parents were both 
natives of Maryland, but came out to Missouri, and settled in Howard county in 
1841, one year before T. H. was born.  His father's christian name was Joshua, 
and his mother before her marriage was a Miss Margaret JEFFREY.  They had six 
children, of whom T. H. was the eldest.  The father died in 1854, but the 
mother still survives.  In 1871 he was married, February 9, to Miss Dillie 
SUMMERS, an Ohioan by birth, and of this union three children are now living - 
Luther, Sallie and Maggie.  He is a member of the Masonic order, of the I. O. 
O. F., and of the A. O. U. W.

				G. S. TUTT,

general merchant, Estill, Missouri.  Mr. TUTT has been engaged in the 
mercantile business, either as clerk or merchant, since he was fifteen years 
old - nearly twenty years.  He is, therefore, thorough in his business, and he 
now has a large stock of almost every variety of goods, and has an extensive 
and profitable trade.  He was born in this county, February 5, 1849, and is a 
son of Philip TUTT and wife, Emaline, previously a Miss STEWART, both formerly 
of Howard county.  Philip, however, was a native of Virginia, and his wife was 
from Kentucky, but both came here in an early day, where they reared their 
family.  They now live in Idaho, where Mr. TUTT (the father) is probate judge, 
and has been for several years.  Prior to that he had been a representative in 
the territorial legislature.  Before commencing his mercantile career, young G. 
S. had acquired the elements of a good practical education, so that when he 
engaged in business with Mr. John S. ELLIOTT, in a country store, about 1864, 
he was well qualified for the position he assumed, so far as the knowledge was 
concerned that could be derived from school books.  One year subsequent they 
moved their store to Higby, or rather they built the first house in Higby, and 
moved their stock into it.  Mr. T. remained in Higby about one year and then 
returned to the farm.  But nature had made him more of a merchant than a 
farmer, so that he could not remain long content on the farm.  Accordingly, 
after eight months, we find him again on his way to engage in mercantile 
pursuits.  He followed merchandising and clerking - part of the time as 
merchant and part as clerk - until 1879, when he came to Estill and engaged in 
his present business, and has met with the most gratifying success.  Mr. T. 
also owns a farm of 100 acres.  He is a member of Howard lodge, No. 4, A. F. 
and A. M.

				W. B. WEBB.

	Mr. WEBB was a youth thirteen years old when his parents came from 
Tennessee and settled in Cass county, Missouri.  His father, Marshall WEBB, was 
a native of Virginia, but went to Tennessee early in life, where he 
subsequently married Miss Mary MILLS, of that state, and continued to live 
there (in Hawkins county) until 1849, when he came, with his family, to 
Missouri.  Young WEBB had attended the local schools of his neighborhood in 
Tennessee for several years before coming to Missouri, and afterwards his 
father gave him the best advantages his new home afforded - the common schools.  
On reaching manhood he began farming on his own account, which he continued 
until the outbreak of hostilities in 1861.  Then, like most other young men in 
Missouri of southern antecedents, he felt that his duty called him to the 
defence of the section where WASHINGTON lived and died, and where his kinsmen 
and antecedents were rallying to arms in a common cause.  He enlisted in 
company E, of the Cass county volunteers, and for four years followed the 
three-barred flag of the south, until it was furled to float no more as the 
emblem of the hope of ten millions of brave people.  He was in the battles of 
WILSON's Creek, Prairie Grove, Lone Jack, and numerous other hotly contested 
conflicts.  Returning home after the close of the war, he came to Howard 
county, and followed farming for one year.  Then he went to Vernon county,where 
he lived until 1875, when he returned to Howard county and improved the farm on 
which he now lives.  He has 190 acres of land.  In the meantime, prior to the 
war, he had married Miss Melissa JONES, in the year 1857, but in 1861 she died 
and left two motherless children, Johnnie and Jimmie.  In March, 1867, he 
married Miss Laura PEARSON, an excellent lady, and she has borne him four 
children, Samuel, Celia, Mattie and William.

				OSCAR R. WHITE

was born in Howard county, Missouri, January 31, 1823.  His father, John R., 
was a native of Kentucky, but came to this county in 1819 and settled in Old 
Franklin, where he followed the saddler's trade, which he had learned.  Having 
married after his immigration to this state, he subsequently settled in 
Fayette, and, after a well-spent life of fifty-four years in Howard county, 
died here November 23, 1873.  His wife died six years afterwards, July 6, 1879.  
He, the father, was a soldier in the Black Hawk war, and greatly distinguished 
himself by his gallantry in that struggle with the Indians.  Oscar R., the 
subject of this sketch, remained with his parents in Fayette until 1846, when 
he settled on the place where he now lives.  He owns a fine tract of land, 
embracing 650 acres, including a find orchard.  Of a family of six brothers and 
sisters, of whom Oscar R. was the eldest, but two now survive - his sister, now 
the wife of J. C. MOORE, of St. Louis, being the other.  Mr. W. is a member of 
the Christian church, and a man whose character is upright and whose life is in 
every way exemplary.

				F. WINN,

a prominent farmer of Howard county, was the sixth of a family of twelve 
children born to James WINN, of South Carolina, and his wife, Rebecca J., 
daughter of General James PARKS, of North Carolina, a distinguished officer in 
the war of 1812.  Mr. WINN, the father was a cousin of General Wade HAMPTON, of 
Confederate fame, and was born in Charleston, South Carolina, August 6, 1793.  
He also was a soldier in the war of 1812, under the command of DUDLEY, and was 
captured in what is knows as "DUDLEY's defeat," and compelled to run the 
"gauntlet," by the Indians.  In 1818, having emigrated to Kentucky in the 
meantime, he came from Madison county, of that state, to Missouri, and 
subsequently became one of the leading citizens and wealthy farmers of Chariton 
county.  His wife was born August 12, 1805, and they were united in marriage 
April 30, 1823.  Mr. WINN died April 6, 1864, but his wife survived him nearly 
twenty years, dying February 8, 1883.  Mr. WINN, the subject of this sketch, 
was born in Chariton county, Missouri, March 26, 1839, and was reared on his 
father's farm in that county, receiving his education in the common schools of 
the neighborhood.  In 1861 he enlisted in the Missouri state guards, under the 
call of Governor JACKSON, but his health failing him, he shortly afterwards 
went to Lexington, where he remained two years.  He then went to St. Louis and 
stayed in that city a short time, but in 1864 enlisted in the Confederate 
service under Colonel ELLIOTT, and continued in the southern army until the 
general surrender in 1865.  He then returned to the home farm in Chariton 
county, where he remained for several years, his health having been seriously 
impaired by the exposures he underwent during the war.  November 25, 1869, he 
was married to Miss Lizzie, daughter of R. W. BOGGS, of Howard county, and in 
1870 he came to this county and engaged in farming near Fayette.  In 1881 he 
located on the farm where he now resides, which includes 225 acres.  He has an 
adopted son, Joseph CARR BOGGS.


SOURCE: History of Howard and Cooper Counties, St. Louis: National Historical
Company, 1883, (Franklin township, pp. 486-529.)