Biographical Sketch of Jonathan D. Whittenburg, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Jonathan D. Whittenburg, farmer and stock raiser of Ozark Township, and
one of the leading men of Webster county, is a native of Northern Geor-
gia, and was born November 26, 1836, being the son of James and Sarah 
C. Whittenburg.  The father was born in Tennessee in 1809, and now 
resides in Ozark township, this county.  In early life he removed from
Tennessee to Georgia, and in 1857 the family immigrated to Missouri,
settling on the Ozark, in Webster county.  The mother, whose maiden 
name was Davis, was born in Tennessee in 1804, and died in Webster 
county, Mo., in 1878.  Jonathan D. Whittenburg was reared on his 
father's farm, and was a pupil in the country schools.  He began farm-
ing for himself at the age of twenty-four years, and is now the owner
of 200 acres of good land, all well improved.  He is the inventor of
"Whittenburg's Safety Flood Fence," which was patented September 22,
1885, and which is one of the best fences of the kind ever placed on
the market.  Mr. Whittenburg was married in 1860 to Miss Mary J. 
Kilburn, who was born in Lawrence county, Tenn., in 1839, and who is
the daughter of Allen and Millie (Watkins) Kilburn.  Mr. and Mrs.
Whittenburg are the parents of four children: Thomas, born in 1861;
Martha, born in 1866; Margaret, born in 1867; and Dickey, born in 1875.
Mr. Whittenburg is a Democrat in politics, and he and Mrs. Whittenburg
are leading and much esteemed members of the Christian church.

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