Polk County, Missouri Biographies - James P. SLAGLE

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri; 1889, published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 695, 696
Polk County Biographies Section

James P. Slagle, judge from the Eastern district of the Polk County
Court, and who now resides a short distance from Slagle, Looney 
Township, was born November 22, 1828, in Henry County, West Tenn.,
and is the son of Jacob and Frances (Dunlap) Slagle.  The paternal
grandparents were originally from Virginia, but emigrated to Polk 
County, Mo., where they passed their last days, he dying some time 
in this forties, and she three years previous to his death.  The 
maternal grandparents were originally from Virginia, lived for some 
time in Kentucky, and afterward moved to Henry County, Tenn., where 
they passed their last days. The parents of our subject were 
both natives of Kentucky, born in 1796 and 1801 respectively, were 
married in their native Stae about 1818, and soon afterward moved 
to Mississippi (1820).  Here they remained a short time, and then 
moved to Henry County, Tenn., where the father followed farming for 
twelve years.  In in 1832 he emigrated to what is now Polk County, 
Mo., locating eight miles south of Bolivar, and soon after served 
in a company engaged in fighting the Indians.  He died on the old 
homestead in 1851, and the mother died in 1856.  James P. Slagle is 
the sixth of eight children, six now living, and grew to manhood in
Polk County, where he received an ordinary common school education.  
Miss Barbara L. Barham, a native of Kentucky, born in 1833, became 
his wife in 1855, and to them were born nine children, eight now 
living: William F., Alice E,. Benjamin P., Fannie B., Charles C., 
Wade H., Ella C. and Emma V. (twins).  Mrs. Slagle is the daughter 
of James F. and Margaret (Holbrook) Barham, and emigratd to Greene 
County, Mo., with her parents at an early day.  She is a member of 
the Baptist Church.  Under the township organization Judge Slagle
was elected judge of Looney Township in 1872, but before taking his
seat the Legislature repealed the township organization system.  At
the general election of 1888 he was elected an associate judge from
the Eastern district of Polk County on the Democratic ticket, in
which capacity he is now serving.  He is a member of the Baptist 
Church also.
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