Biographical Sketch of Jerome Causin Berryman, Washington County, MO

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Jerome Causin Berryman, one of the oldest South Methodist Ministers of
Missouri, was born in Nelson County, Ky., February 22, 1810.  He was
educated in the old log schoolhouse and, at the age of nineteen, having
been converted to the Methodist faith there joined the conference on
trial.  At the end of five years he was appointed to the Indian mission
work in the Indian Territory, now Leavenworth, Kas., spending fourteen
years in that work.  The last four years he had charge of all the 
mission work extending from the Missouri River on the North to the Red
River on the South.  In the fall of 1847 he was recalled to the regular
work in Missouri, and established a boarding school for both sexes at
Arcadia, (now) Iron County, Mo., which he conducted for sixteen years.
The school was known as the Arcadia High School, and had an average 
yearly matriculation of 150.  Having severed his connection with that
school he labored as an itinerant minister till 1884.  Notwithstanding
his limited early opportunities he acquired a good education.  In 1831
he married Sarah Cessna, a native of Kentucky, who bore him six child-
ren, four of whom are living.  She died in the Indian Territory.  For
his second wife he married Mrs. M. M. Wells, nee Watts, who had a dau-
ghter by her first husband.  His second wife died in 1869, and he then
married Mrs. M. E. Truehart, nee Dufuy.  Father Berryman, though 
seventy-eight years old, has a strong and clear voice, and his intell-
ect is but little impaired.  Hon. John W. Berryman, son of Rev. Jerome
C. and Sarah (Cessna) Berryman, was born about fifty miles west of
Kansas City (the Indian Territory) in 1839, but was reared principally 
in Iron County, Mo.  He received a good education in the Arcadia High
School, and in 1861 enlisted, in the First Missouri Volunteers, Confed-
erate States army, and was chosen second lieutenant of Company C.  Soon
after he was promoted to first lieutenant of Company B, and later to
captain of his old company.  He participated in the battles of Shiloh,
Corinth, Granada, Iuka and Port Hudson.  After the consolidation of his
regiment he was home recruiting and was taken prisoner and paroled.  He
then went West and mined gold in California, and also superintended 
salt works.  In 1865 he returned home and engaged in the saw milling
business which he followed for twenty-one years in Iron County.  In
connection with this he also carried on a store for many years.  During
his milling career he sawed about thirty million feet of lumber.  In
1886 he quit the milling business and located at Osage, where he built
a fine dwelling and a good store and other buildings.  The name of the
place where he resides is called Berryman, in his honor.  He owns seven
dwellings, a blacksmith shop, 320 acres of land, etc.  In 1866 he marr-
ied Laura A., daughter of Elijah B. and Sarah (Powell) Matthews, who
were among the early settlers of this county.  Mrs. Berryman was born
in the county in 1843.  Both she and Mr. Berryman are members of the
Missionary Baptist Church.  Mr. Berryman is a Democrat, and for two 
terms represented Iron County in the State Legislature.  He is one of
the most stirring and successful business men of Washington County.

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