Biographical Sketch of R. D. Hussey, Johnson County, Missouri,
Chilhowee Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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R. D. Hussey, one of Johnson county's most energetic and progressive
citizens, was born in Jackson county, Missouri, in 1867.  He is a son
of Daniel and Mary Hussey.  His grandfather, Robert Hussey, was an
Englishman.  He was a weaver and he followed his trade all his life in
England, where he was born and where he died.  Daniel Hussey was born
in England in 1830.  In early manhood, he emigrated from England and
came to America, where he located in Canada.  For four years, he serv-
ed in the English navy as ship carpenter.  In 1866, he came to Jackson
county, where he purchased a farm and on this place spent the remain-
ing years of his life.  His death occurred in 1902.  He was by trade a
baker, but he was very successful as a farmer and stockman.  Mr.
Hussey, of this review, received his education in the public schools
of Jackson county.  When he attained maturity, he became interested in
the construction of bridges and was for several years the foreman of 
the Kansas City Bridge Company.  He was employed for fifteen years in
bridge building.  In later years, he has been engaged in farming and
previous to 1904 owned a farm in Jackson county.  At that time, he
sold the Jackson county farm and purchased one in Johnson county in
Rose Hill township, which he sold within a short time to purchase
another there.  He sold the latter place, when he purchased one hund-
red sixty acres of land in Chilhowee township, which he now owns.  The
Hussey farm comprises a tract of land that has been worn out, but Mr.
Hussey is doing all in his power to bring the soil up to a high state
of cultivation.  He has practically all the place in grass land and
this year, of 1917, he had twenty-seven acres in oats, producing a good
crop.  He is raising Poland China hogs and Shorthorn cattle.  At the
present time, he is milking twenty-five cows and sells the cream from
his dairy in Warrensburg.  The farm is well watered by four excellent
springs.  One of the springs is a mineral spring and has never failed
to supply plenty of water.  People from all the country round haul
water from this spring in dry weather.  In 1894, R. D. Hussey was 
united in marriage with Etta Hinote, the daughter of Alexander Hinote,
one of Johnson county's honored pioneers.  To Mr. and Mrs. Hussey has
been born one child, a son, Lewis S., on May 14, 1916, Lewis S. Hussey
was married to Edith V. Sutton, daughter of H. J. and Allie (Godfrey)
Sutton.  Mrs. Sutton was born in Illinois.  Lewis S. Hussey is a
splendid, alert, young man.  He is associated with his father in
farming and stock raising and in the high endeavor to make their farm
one of the best and a profitable investment.

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