Biographical Sketch of John Lenox, 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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John Lenox.  The success which has attended the career of Mr. Lenox as
an agriculturist is a striking illustration of what can be done in
Missouri by a young man who possesses pluck, energy and a determination
to succeed.  He was born in Kentucky in March, 1831, and is a son of
John and Susannah (Hutson) Lenox, the former of whom was born in Ken-
tucky in 1796, and died in 1849.  In 1814 he came to Missouri with
Daniel Boone, with whom he hunted and trapped for several years.  He 
then returned to Kentucky, and after his marriage resided in that State
for several years, and again came to Missouri, settling in Crawford 
County, with his family.  He and an elder brother, William, assisted in
laying out the town of Jefferson on his first visit to the State, and 
when he returned he engaged in farming, entering 160 acres of Govern-
ment land.  The following are his children who are living: Thomas, 
John, Taylor, Hamilton, Elizabeth (Mrs. Dutton), Susannah (Mrs. Adams),
and Margaret A. (Mrs. Bassett).  The paternal grandfather, Charles
Lenox, was born in Scotland, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
War.  The maternal grandparents were Kentuckians.  John Lenox, whose 
name heads this sketch, was brought to Missouri when four years of age,
and spent his early life in Crawford, afterward Pulaski, and now Phelps
county.  Miss Sarah A. D. Kidwell, who was born in Callaway county, Mo.
in October, 1831, became his wife in 1854.  She is a daughter of Will-
iam and Hester (Armitage) Kidwell, both of whom were born in Kentucky.
The father was a book keeper in some iron works, and served as sheriff
of Calloway county for several terms.  Mrs. Lenox is the only surviving
one of their five children.  The father died in 1834, and the mother in 
1865.  In 1861 Mr. Lenox enlisted in Capt. Frank's company, Colonel
Johnson's regiment, Confederate states army, and during his six months'
service operated in Southern Missouri and Arkansas.  He is a Democrat
in politics, and cast his first presidential vote for Franklin Pierce 
in 1852.  The following are his children: Mary J. (Mrs. Faulkner), 
Henry E., Samuel H., Willie, Ann, Francis E., Sarah L. and Harriet E.

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