Biographical Sketch of Henry Corson, Johnson County, Missouri
Chilhowee Township 

>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

HENRY CORSON,
P. O. Chilhowee. Henry corson is the son of Richard Corson, who was a
native of Pennsylvania, and an early settler of Ohio. The subject of this
sketch was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, November 19, 1810, and was the
second child in a family of eleven children. He passed his boyhood on his
father’s farm, in Fayette county, Ohio. His school advantages were
somewhat limited. In the fall of 1855 Mr. Corson moved to Missouri,
settling in Cooper county, where he remained until the spring of 1867,
when he moved with his family, to Johnson county, where he has since
resided. When the war came on,, Mr. Corson’s sympathies were with the
Union, though he took no part in the conflict.  Three of his sons, viz:
William A., Richard B., and Mathias S. were soldiers in the Union army.
Mr. C was married April 9, 1840, to Miss Harrietta E. Smith, a daughter of
Mathias Smith, and a native of Ohio. From this union there were thirteen
children, of whom there are yet living, viz: John M., William A., Richard
B., Mathias S., Josephus, Thomas J., Mary A., Henry L., Alice and Eliza.
For the last thentu years, Mr Corson has been extensively engaged in
farming, raising and feeding livestock. He can truthfully be called the
“cattle king” of Johnson county, and will rank successfully with the
largest stock dealers in Missouri. Mr. Corson, with his sons, have put in
the markets, on an average, for the last ten years, 500 head of fat cattle
per year, of their own feeding and grazing. They have upon their lands
about 750 head of stock and feed cattle. Mr. C and and his sons cultivate
on their farms from 500 to 700 acres of corn; this corn they always feed,
besides buying for feed purposes, from 10,000 to 25,000 bushels per year.
Mr. Corson owns a fine farm of 1,080 acres; his residence is one of the
finest in Chilhowee township. Mr. Corson, from his early manhood to the
present time, has been an active business man,  and while he has, by his
industry, made himself a wealthy man, he has no less built up and helped
to make those around him.


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