Biographical Sketch of Alfred O. Downing, 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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Alfred O. Downing, P. O. Page City, Mo.  The young gentleman whose name
heads this sketch, and who is one of the enterprising farmers of the
vicinity of Page City, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, May 3, 1849.  He
is the son of Samuel Downing, Sr., who died in this county in 1876.  His
mother was Miss Amanda Offatt, a native of Kentucky, where she also died.
His father then, in 1856, married Miss Margaret Combs, of Lexington, Ky.,
his second wife, who, after his death married Judge Walker, of Lexington,
Missouri.  In 1857, when between seven and eight years old, Alfred moved
with his father to Boonville, Missouri, and after a year's residence 
there, they moved to this county, and settled on a tract of 440 acres of
land in Dover township, upon part of which Alfred now lives.  He was 
educated at White's Seminary at Dover.  He was too young to take part in
the Civil War, though his sympathies were with the South, and a brother
served four years under Shelby.  On the 22nd of September, 1880, he was
married to Miss Lura Logan, daughter of Henry Logan, deceased, of Parker-
sburg, Va.  They have one child, a daughter named mary, born June 27, 
1881.

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