Biographical Sketch of John T. Pope, Wright 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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John T. Pope, attorney at law and prosecuting attorney elect of Wright
County, Mo., was born in Davidson County, N. C., January 24, 1849, son
of Thomas and Mary A. (Hale) Pope.  The father was also born in North
Carolina, in November, 1819, and was a tiller of the soil.  To his
marriage were born seven children, four now living.  Mr. Pope is still
living, and is a resident of North Carolina.  His wife, Mrs. Mary A.
(Hale) Pope, died in 1862, at the age of thirty-seven years.  The Pope
family are of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, and the grandfather, Isaac
Pope, was born in Maryland, and immigrated to North Carolina at an 
early date.  He was one of the early settlers of that State, and was a
farmer by occupation.  The maternal grandfather, John Hale, was of
Scotch descent.  Edward Hale, uncle of subject, published the Fayette-
ville Observer, at Fayetteville, N. C., and his son is Hale, the 
publisher at New York City.  John T. Pope left North Carolina at the 
age of nineteen years, and came direct to Wright County, Mo., where he
located and received a good common school education in Davidson and
Bethany Academy, North Carolina.  He taught school, read law at the 
same time, and when his term of school was over, he commenced the prac-
tice of law.  He served as superintendent of public schools from 1870
to 1872, and then county attorney for four years.  He was elected 
prosecuting attorney of the county, and re-elected in 1878.  He has
dealt extensively in real estate in Wright County, and now owns more 
than 1,000 acres with good titles.  He was married, in Wright county,
to Miss Mattie A. Bryant, a native of Phelps County, Mo., who bore him
six children: Charles E., Guy C., Otto D., Thomas A., Alith, and Ruth,
who died at the age of four months.  Mr. Pope is a Republican politic-
ally, and one of the representative men of the county.
 
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