Sketch of Col. Rufus Easton, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Col. Rufus Easton, a well known lawyer of St. Louis, removed to St.
Charles at an early date, and entered upon the practice of his pro-
fessiion there, in which he was very successful, and accumulated a
considerable fortune.  He raised a large family of children, whose
names were: Alton, Joseph, Langdon, Henry, Mary, Louisa, Joanna,
Rosella, Adda, Sarah and Medora.  Mary Easton, the eldest daughter,
married Major George C. Sibley, who served in the War of 1812.  He
was appointed by the Governor of Missouri, a number of years after-
ward, to survey the route to Pike's Peak and New Mexico.  During 
his residence in St. Charles he improved the beautiful place now
owned by Capt. John Shaw, and donated the land upon which Linden-
wood College is built.  His wife, before her marriage, traveled 
over a large portion of the United States, on horseback, in company
with her father.  She made several trips to New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore in that way.  After the death of her husband she 
visited Europe several times, and made preparations to go as a 
missionary to China, but death prevented her from carrying out her
intentions.  She and her husband did a great deal for the cause of
education and religion in St. Charles, and will long be remembered
by the citizens of that place.	

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