Biographical Sketch of Arthur L. Eshbaugh, Jefferson County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Arthur L. Eshbaugh was born in Niagara County, N. Y., in 1858, and 
is a prominent farmer and stock dealer in Joachim Township.  He is the
youngest of two daughters and one son, born to Henry and Mary A. 
(Snell) Eshbaugh, natives of Northumberland County, Penn., and Niagara
County, N. Y., respectively.  Mr. Eshbaugh was born in 1822, and his
wife seven years later.  They were married in Niagara County, N. Y., 
in 1851, and there remained until 1867, when they removed to Ogle 
County, Ill., and in 1869 to Jefferson County, Mo., settling in Joach-
im Township, one mile southeast of Bailey, where he died in 1886.  He
was educated in the public schools of Pennsylvania and at Ewingsville
Academy, Penn.  He then studied law and made a successful practice of
the same at the Niagara County bar for five years; he was compelled to
abandon it on account of his health.  He then turned his attention to
farming, and held various prominent offices in Niagara County, and at
the opening of the Grange movement took a very active stand for the
success of the same.  He was master of the Missouri State Grange for
eight years, and was lecturer of the National Grange for six years. He
was president of the State Board of Agriculture at the time of his
death, and was one of the prominent men of Missouri, where he was fam-
iliarly known.  In 1884 his name was placed on the Prohibition ticket
for lieutenant-governor with John A. Brooks.  Although an active work-
er for the cause of temperance, he did not canvas the State in his be-
half, and was not in favor of a third party movement.  At his death 
the State lost one of its most active and enterprising citizens.  He 
was always interested in all public meetings, and did all in his power
to promote the welfare of the country, at the sacrifice of his person-
al interest.  A Republican in politics, he served in the New York
militia during the war as captain, but was familiarly called colonel.
His father, Solomon Eshbaugh, was also a native of Pennsylvania and 
his father, the great grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was
also an American by birth, but of German descent.  He served as pay-
master in the Revolutionary War, and when the continental money was
republished, he had barrels in his possession, some of which our sub-
ject still has.  The mother of young Eshbaugh is still living.  Her
father, Anthony Snell, was an Englishman, and of a very aristocratic
English family.  A. L. Eshbaugh received a common school education,
and at the age of seventeen began teaching, and followed this occupa-
tion two terms in Ste. Genevieve County.  He then farmed until 1879,
when he spent one and a half years in the Black Hills, after which he
returned to Jefferson County, and has since devoted his attention
largely to stock dealing, selling principally to Western feeders.  In
October, 1884, he married Miss Carrie Parker, who is a native of Jeff-
erson County, and who was left an orphan at an early age.  One child 
was the result of this marriage, Henry P.  He lived on his father's
farm until 1887, when he removed to his present farm, two miles north-
east of Hematite, where he has 190 acres under a good state of culti-
vation, all the result of his own exertions as he started on borrowed
capital.  He is one of the prominent and enterprising young men of the
county, is a Democrat in politics, casting his first vote for Hancock,
in 1880, and he and wife are prominent and active members of the 
Presbyterian Church.

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