Polk County, Missouri Biographies - Hugh BRITTAIN
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri 1889, published by Goodspeed, pages 626, 627
Polk County Biography Section

   Hugh Brittain is the son of Robert and Margaret (Cain) Brittain,
the father a native of Guilford County, N.C., born in 1802, though
his father, William Brittain came from Wales.  The mother was born
in Hawkins County, Tenn., in 1803, but came of Irish ancestry.
When a lad Robert Brittain moved with his parents to Tennessee
and was there, later in life, married to Margaret Cain.  After
marriage they settled in Roane County, and here he died in 1837.
The father was a successful tiller of the soil; was a Whig in
politics, and was a soldier in the Creek War.  Both parents were
members of the Methodist Church.  In their family were six 
children, four sons and two daughters.  After the death of the
father, the mother married Ezekiel Alexander, and with him came
to Missouri.  She died in Webster County, in 1861.  Hugh Brittain
was born in Roane County, Tenn., April 18, 1832, was reared on a
farm, and educated in the old subscription schools.  At the age of
seventeen he began for himself by working on a farm for wages.
In 1850 he and a brother came to this county, and in December, 
1861, he went into Government service as teamster in the commissary 
department, being with Gen. Curtis most of the time.  He operated
in Missouri, Arkansas, Minnesota and Dakota, being out about 
three years.  He then remained at Springfield, Ill., until 1867,
when he returned to this county, and for some time traded in 
wagons, mules, etc., in Kansas and Texas.  In 1869 he married Miss
Tinie Lane, a native of Polk County, Mo., and the daughter of
John W. Lane.  Four children were the result of this union, two
now living: Thomas W. and Mary E.  In 1871 they moved to Grayson
County, Texas, remained there for about ten years, and then, after
a visit with his family to California, settled in Polk County, Mo.,
buying the farm where he now lives.  He owns 278 acres of land,
with 180 under cultivation.  Politically, he is a Republican.
He and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Brittain
has made all his property by his own exertions and is in very
comfortable circumstances.  He has traveled in twenty-three States
and six Territories.

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