Biographical Sketch of B. M. Squires, Johnson County, Missouri, Rose Hill Township. >From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell, Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918. ********************************************************************** B. M. Squires, a prosperous and widely known farmer and stockman of Rose Hill township, is a member of a prominent pioneer family of Miss- ouri. He was born in 1867 in Carroll county, Missouri, a son of W. O. and Frances (Hancock) Squires, the former, a native of Kentucky and the latter, of Carroll county, Missouri. W. O. Squires was born in 1842 in Kentucky and in early manhood moved to Missouri and settled on a large tract of land in Carroll county, where he became very successful and influential. At one time, Mr. Squires was the owner of more than one thousand acres of land in Carroll county. Frances (Hancock) Squires was the daughter of Stephen Hancock, an honored pioneer of Carroll county. To W. O. and Frances Squires were born nineteen children: S. P., of Oklahoma; Mrs. Mary Barker, Pratt, Kansas; S. J., Bosworth, Missouri; Mrs. Belle Kyle, Neosho, Missouri; Mrs. Eveline Singleton, Long Beach, California; Mrs. Louvina Morrow, Hardy, Montana; Mrs. Roberta Brooks, Hardy, Montana; E. A., Bosworth, Missouri; S. P., of Wichita, Kansas; Mrs. Ruth Ainsley, Dewitt, Missouri; Mrs. Eliza Fritzlau, Liberty, Missouri; Mrs. Emma DeShoug, Long Beach, California; B. M., the subject of this review; H. C., of Florida; J. D., who is deceased; Mrs. Mildred Withers, Carrollton, Missouri; and three child- ren who died in infancy. Sixteen of the nineteen children were reared to maturity and fifteen are now living. Those who died in infancy were Susan, Frances and Walter. The mother died in 1882 and seven years later the father departed this life. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Squires were fine, worthy, and estimable citizens who bravely and nobly did their part well in the upbuilding of the state of Missouri. In 1889, B. M. Squires was united in marriage with Margaret Grant, a daughter of Rich- ard and Anna Grant, of Carroll county. Mr. Grant was a successful and enterprising farmer of Carroll county. He died in 1906, one year after the death of his wife. Margaret (Grant) Squires is a graduate of Carrollton Academy, Carrollton, Missouri and for several years prior to her marriage was engaged in teaching school. She is one of the seven living children of the family of nine born to Mr. and Mrs. Grant and the only one not residing in Carroll county. To B. M. and Mrs. Squires have been born two children: Walter R. and Mildred B. Their son is in partnership with the father in farming and stock raising and the daughter is engaged in teaching school at Chilhowee. Miss Mildred is a graduate of the Warrensburg State Normal School in the class of 1917. Both Mr. and Mrs. Squires are valued members of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1904, the Squires family came to Johnson county and purchased the old Clifford homestead. After three years, Mr. Squires sold this place, realizing a fair profit, and he then purchased one hundred acres of land near Medford for thirty-eight dollars per acre which he sold after three years for sixty-five dollars per acre. He bought one hundred fifty acres of land in Rose Hill township at that time for which tract he paid thirty-seven and a half dollars an acre. He was recently offered one hundred dollars an acre for his farm, one hundred acres of the place being in fine grass land, fifty acres good corn land, producing an excellent crop this season, of 1917. The place is well equipped and watered, making an ideal stock farm considering the size and Mr. Squires is devoting much time to the raising of cattle hogs and horses. This year he has sixty head of cattle, seventy-five to eighty head of hogs, and fourteen head of horses. He prefers Poland China hogs and Shorthorn cattle. Mr. Squires is an enthusiastic advo- cate of the manure spreader and of crop rotation. Besides farming and stock raising, Mr. Squires is engaged in dairying to a certain extent and at the present time is milking ten cows. Mrs. Squires is an indus- trious and energetic woman and she has had splendid success with her department of the farm labor, poultry raising, having between seven and eight hundred Rhode Island Red chickens. She takes keen pleasure in her work and enjoys watching the growth of her charges and attending to their marketing. Both Mr. and Mrs. Squires are highly intelligent, capable and splendid citizens and Johnson county is to be congratulated for having been the chosen home of this family. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: <> Penny (Eisenbarger) Harrell ====================================================================