Sketch of James C. Lackland, 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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James C. Lackland, a native of Montgomery County, MD., came to Missouri
in the fall of 1833, and brought his family, consisting of his wife and
nine boys.  He settled first near Florissant, in St. Louis County, but
in 1835 he removed to St. Charles, where he engaged in the saw mill 
business until within a few years previous to his death, which occurred
in July, 1862, at the age of 71 years.  Mr. Lackland was a model man 
and citizen, and made friends of all who became acquainted with him. 
The names of his boys were: Richard, James, Jeremiah, Augustus T., Ben-
jamin F., Eli R., Norman J., Henry C. and Charles M.  Jeremiah died the
first year after the arrival of the family in Missouri, sometime be-
tween his sixteenth and twenty first year.  Benjamin F. was killed in
St. Charles, at the age of twenty one, by P. W. Culver, who was intox-
icated at the time.  Culver was tried and sentenced to the penitentiary
but was pardoned without serving his term.  Norman J. and Charles M.
live at Mexico, MO., the former engaged in the mercantile business, and
the latter in the cattle trade.  Eli is chief clerk of the Scotia Iron
Mines, near Leasburg, Crawford County, MO.  Henry C. is a prominent
attorney at St. Charles.  He was Professor of Mathematics in St. Char-
les College from 1856 to 1859, and also taught classes in Greek and
Latin.  He held the position of School Commissioner from 1859 until the
office was abolished.  In 1875 he was elected a member of the State
Constitutional Convention for the district composed of the counties of
St. Charles, Warren and Lincoln, receiving almost the unanimous vote of
the district.  Only eight votes were cast against him in his own county.
He was one of the leaders of that able body of men, and made an envia-
ble record for himself as a legislator and parliamentarian.	

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