Biographical Sketch of Samuel H. Headlee, 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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Dr. Samuel H. Headlee.  Among the men of Phelps County, Mo., who have
attained prominence in the healing art, and who are worthy of special
mention, is Dr. Headlee, who was born in Maury County, Tenn., in 1826,
and is the eldest of eleven children born to the marriage of Judge 
Elisha Headlee and Rachel Steele, who were born in North Carolina in
1801 and 1803, respectively.  Elisha immigrated with his parents to
Tennessee after becoming grown, and there married and lived until 1836,
when they located in Greene County, Mo., when the country was in a very
wild and unsettled state.  They improved a good farm, and here the 
father died in 1876, having lived a long and useful life.  He served as
justice of the peace, public administrator and county judge, and was at
one time candidate for the Legislature on the Democratic ticket, but
owing to the party's minority was defeated.  His father was probably 
born in New Jersey, of Welsh descent, and was a soldier in the Revolu-
tionary War.  He died in Greene County, Mo., in the 30's, his wife 
having previously died in Tennessee.  The maternal grandfather of Dr.
Headlee, Samuel Steele, removed from his native state of North Carolina
to Tennesee at an early period, and in 1836 came to Greene County, Mo.,
where he died at a ripe old age, his wife also having died in Tenn.
Dr. Headlee resided in Greene County from the age of ten years up to
manhood, and received a common and high school education.  His clothing 
until he reached manhood, even to the buttons, was made at home.  About
1848 or 1849 he began the study of medicine, continuing three years, 
and then entered the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis, from which
institution he graduated in 1857, after having practiced in the mean-
time to some extent.  He first entered upon his practice in Wright Co.,
and in 1863 located in Lebanon, and the following year came to St.
James, which was then situated almost in the wilderness, and has since
been actively engaged in practice.  He served a short time as surgeon 
in the Confederate army during the late war, and was one of the 
curators of the University of Missouri for some years, but resigned the
position in 1878, being that year elected to represent his senatorial
district, which then consisted of Phelps, Crawford, Dent, Pulaski,
Maries, Miller and Camden Counties, in the State Senate, and served
one term of four years.  He has also been a member of the town council
and school board.  He is a Democrat in politics, and is a member of
the Masonic and I. O. O. F. fraternities, having held all the offices
in both lodges.

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