Biographical Sketch of Christopher C. Catron, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Christopher C. Catron, postoffice Waverly, Mo.  Was born near Lexington,
in this county, June 30, 1837.  His father, Stephen Catron, came to 
Missouri in 1820, and settled in this county in 1822, and married Eliza-
beth Smith, a native of Kentucky.  They had six children, five boys and
one girl, of whom the subject of this sketch is the second son.  He was
raised and educated in this county.  At the age of twenty years he went
to Kansas, and engaged in merchandising for several years.  In 1862 he
enlisted in the 1st Missouri Cavalry, under Gen. Shelby, and served to
the end of the war, surrendering in the last organized confederate 
command.  After the war he returned home, and turned his attention to
farming, which he has followed ever since.  He has now a splendid farm
of 340 acres.  He was married November 6, 1860, to Miss Eliza E. Shroyer,
daughter of William W. and Jane V. Shroyer, of this county, natives of
Kentucky.  By this union he has three children:  Lucy M., Fannie E. and
Jessie.  He is a member of the Waverly lodge of Masons, and also a
member of the Grange, and master of the county Grange.

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