Biographical Sketch of William H. Schmalhorst, Laclede County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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William H. Schmalhorst, one of the leading citizens of Union township,
Laclede county, residing one mile east of Conway, was born in the King-
dom of Prussia in 1825, and is a son of Henry Christopher and Ann Maria
Schmalhorst, both natives of Prussia, who came to the United States 
about 1839, by way of New Orleans, and located in Perry county, Mo.,
where they engaged in farming, but lived only a few years after their
arrival in this country.  Of their six children, four were living at 
the time of the parents' death.  William H. was employed most of the
time working out at farming in his early life.  January 17, 1847 he
married Isabella Whybark, who was born in Perry county, Mo., in 1830,
and is a daughter of Samuel P. Whybark, a farmer of that county, who is
now eighty-seven years of age.  In 1854 our subject and wife located on
their present farm in Laclede county, where he bought a claim of forty
acres, with improvements, for $500, to which he has since added the 
balance of a section of some of the best land in that section of Miss-
ouri.  Mr. and Mrs. Schmalhorst are the parents of eleven children, all
of whom are living, viz.: Nancy N., wife of J. C. Leonard, a farmer of 
Barton county, Mo.; Mary E., who married J. J. Miller, a farmer of
Webster county, Mo.; Cordelia I., now Mrs. John A. Durbie, a farmer 
near Marble Falls, on the Rio Grande River, Texas; Frances Patterson,
wife of James T. Patterson, a farmer of Webster county, Mo.; Margaret,
married Frank P. Knight, a farmer of Laclede county; Samuel H., who is
living near Conway, Mo., a farmer and stock raiser; Levi, also a farmer
of Laclede county; Victoria C., at home; Moses D., who will graduate
at Drura College, Springfield, Mo., in the spring of 1890; William L.
and David E.  Mr. and Mrs. Schmalhorst and all but two of the children
are members of the Prebyterian Church, and Mr. Schmalhorst has been an 
elder in the church for twelve years or more.  He is a Republican in
politics, and during the late war served as orderly sergeant in the
State Militia.  He was justice of the peace of his township a short 
time, but has never aspired to political office.  He is one of the most
prominent citizens of Laclede county, and is ever ready to support all
educational and religious enterprises for the good of the community. 
He built a grist mill on his farm in 1867, which he successfully opera-
ted until 1887, when he sold out.  The family have the respect and high
esteem of all who know them.

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