Biographical Sketch of Menzo House, Phelps 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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Menzo House, farmer and stock raiser of Phelps county, Mo., was born in
Herkimer County, N. Y., in 1834, and is a son of Abraham P. and Eliza-
beth (Shaut) House, who were also born in Herkimer County, where they
married and lived until 1834, since which time they have resided in
Steuben County, N. Y., the father being eighty-six years of age and the
mother eighty-four.  They have been worthy members of the Wesleyan
Methodist Church for many years, and the father is a prosperous farmer.
His brother, Coonrod P., was a soldier in the War of 1812, and his 
father, Peter, aided the colonists in their struggle for liberty during
the Revolutionary War.  The maternal grandfather, Jacob Shaut, was of 
German origin, and spent his entire life in Herkimer and Steuben count-
ies, N. Y.  Menzo House is the sixth of eleven children, eight of whom
lived to be grown, and in his boyhood days acquired a common school
education.  He was married in February, 1856, to Harriet Helen, a 
daughter of Hiram and Mary Weeks, of Herkimer County, N. Y.  Here, it 
is supposed the father died, but the mother's demise occurred in 
Steuben county in 1870.  Mr. and Mrs. House became the parents of six
sons and four daughters, four sons and two daughters of whom are 
living.  They made Steuben county their home until 1867; when they came
to Phelps county, Mo., and settled on their present farm, which now 
consists of 200 acres, with 150 acres under cultivation, on which is
erected a handsome and commodious residence.  During the late war Mr.
House served three years in the Federal army as a volunteer in Company
K, One Hundred and Seventh New York Infantry, about fourteen months of
the time being spent with the Army of the Potomac, and participated in
the battles of Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, Dallas, New Hope Church and
Atlanta.  He was captured at Rutledge, Ga., November 19, 1864, and was
taken to Florence, S. C., where he was retained until March 3, 1865, at
which time he returned home on furlough, and soon after rejoined his
regiment.  While serving with the Army of the Potomac he was in the 
battle of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Falling Water and 
many others of less note.  Mr. House has been a Republican all his 
life, and has served as justice of the peace a number of terms.  He and
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  For a number of 
years he has been agent for the W. A. Wood binders and mowers.

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