Biographical Sketch of Allen Phleger, 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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Allen Phleger, P. O. Dover; of the firm of Hickman & Co., merchants and
stock dealers, is a native of Missouri, born in this county, July 10, 
1829.  Was raised and educated in his native county.  His father owning
a large farm, kept the young man out of mischief by training him in
agricultural pursuits.  At the age of 21 he engaged in operating a saw
mill, which business he followed at times for twenty years.  Afterward
was engaged in farming and stock raising.  In December, 1877, he became
identified with the firm of J. P. Hickman & Co., merchants.  In 1856 he
was united in marriage to Miss M. Fox, of this county.  They have one
child: Mattie B., wife of J. P. Hickman.  Mr. Phleger's parents were
natives of Virginia, and came to this county in 1828, settling on Tabo
creek, two miles west of the present site of Dover.  They belong to that
class who endured trials and hardships, in the early settlement of this
county, of which the present generation, in their comfortable homes, 
know very little of.  "All honor to the hardy pioneers."  His wife's
parents came from Tennessee to Missouri in 1817 and in the spring of
1818, came to this county, therefore being one of the first families 
here.  Mr. Fox died at the ripe age of 76, having lived beyond the full
time allotted to man.  He came here in the same year that Solomon Cox
did, 1818.

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