Biographical Sketch of Chapman Walker Wade, Texas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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Chapman Walker Wade, dealer in flour and feed, lumber, fence posts and
piling, was born in Bath County, KY., February 27, 1830, and is the son
of Greenberry B. and Mary (Kelso) Wade, and grandson of James Wade, who
served with distinction on the staff of Gen. Anthony Wayne, as a spy 
and scout, in his battles with the Indians.  He was a man of hardy con-
stitution, and afterward settled on a farm in Bath County, KY., where 
he died at a good old age.  His son, Greenberry B., was a physician of
good standing, and came to Missouri in 1839, made a settlement in 
Franklin County, and practiced medicine there for many years.  He was a
man of more than ordinary ability, and was an official of the county 
for many years.  He was for several years presiding judge of the county
court of Franklin, sheriff of that county for four years, assessor four
years, and held many other honored positions.  He died there at the age
of seventy-eight.  The boyhood days of Chapman W. Wade were spent in 
Franklin County, where he obtained a fair education.  When in his twen-
tieth year, or in 1850, he joined a party and went overland to Califor-
nia, spending four months and ten days in making the trip.  He spent
thirteen years in California engaged in mining and the lumber business,
meeting with good success.  In 1863 he returned to Franklin County, MO.
and here embarked in merchandising and farming, which he continued for
several years.  In 1882 he went to Springfield, MO., spent a year there
and in 1883 he moved to Cabool, where he engaged in the flour and feed
business, wholesale and retail, and has added to it the lumber and 
other business interests.  He has built and improved largely upon city
property of Cabool, and has given a cordial support to many other in-
terests besides, with which he is individually identified.  He has 
served as president of Cabool City Council two terms, and is a promi-
nent citizen.  He was married in Franklin County, MO., to Miss Fannie
Omohundro, a native of Virginia, whom he buried in Franklin County, in
full communion with the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
leaving a daughter, Fannie W., who is now the wife of I. W. Rennick, of
Franklin County, and farmer and merchant of Japan, MO.  Mr. Wade took
for his second wife Miss Helen M. Cook, a lady of estimable attainments
a leader in Sabbath school work in Cabool, and a devout member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.  Their domestic circle has been 
blessed by the birth of a son and daughter, Ben C. and Julia B., both
of whom are deceased.

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