Biographical Sketch of Brown Wyatt, 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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Brown Wyatt, stock trader, of Mountain Grove, Wright Co., was born in
St. Clair County, of that state, December 9, 1843, the son of John J.
and Christiana (Duckworth) Wyatt, and grandson of John Wyatt, a native
of Kentucky, and a farmer by occupation.  The great grandfather was 
also named John Wyatt.  The Duckworth family are of Irish descent. 
John J. Wyatt was born March 20, 1811, in Kentucky, and died in Wild 
Cherry, Ark., in November, 1880.  He was a merchant by occupation, but
was also a minister in the Christian Church.  By his own individual 
efforts he obtained a good education, and became a very prominent 
minister in the Christian Church in Missouri and Arkansas.  He would
never accept any money for his services in the church.  His wife,
Christiana Wyatt, was born in Illinois in January, 1822, and was the
mother of eight children, of whom our subject is second in order of
birth.  He attained his growth in Arkansas, and has acquired by appli-
cation, a fine business education.  He was married at the age of 
twenty-three to Miss Paulina Haughn, a daughter of Peter Haughn, who
was born in Germany, and who was a soldier in the War of 1812.  By 
this union Mr. Wyatt became the father of eight children: Henry Clay,
Maggie, Jemima C., John, Dollie, Ada, Oliver and May Leora.  These
children are now in school.  Mr. Wyatt is the owner of 160 acres of 
land and a residence in town.  He ships stock, and has been following
shipping to St. Louis for more than twenty years.  He is a Republican
in politics, and was in the Union army during the war, in Company G,
Phelps regiment, one of six companies organized in Fulton County, Ark.
 
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