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Pitman, John, 566, 587
Pitt, James D., 1581
Pitts, 676 Plains, William C., 1759
Platte, Purchase, 154 Platter, A. Edson, 978 Poindexter. Col. J. A., 62
Point, The, 316
Political institutions, 17
Politics, early, 153
Pollard, Braxton, 486
Pollard, Robert L., 822 Pollock, Anna E. D., 1445 .
Pollock, Ira O., 1518
Pollock, Perry C., 1447
Pollock, William, 1284 Pollock, William L., 1820
Patton, Francis W., 1458 Patton, L. E., 1808 Patton, Robert L., 1709 Payne, John W., 1892 Payne. Pharis K., 880 Payne, R. J., 1892
Payne, Robert W., 1750
Porter, Colonel Joseph, 59, 62, 63, 68. 175, 366, 487 Porter, E. S., 1977
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Payne, William, 1891
Pearson, W. B., 1859
Peeler, John A .. 1860 Peeler, William H., 1911 Peers, Charles E., 680 Pemberton, William J., 1793
Porter, Edward W., 1173 Porter, George T., 790 Porter, J. B .. 1671
Portland, 295 Postmasters, pioneer, 20
Post roads, 79 Potts, Willard, 929 Powers, Theron B., 1710
Powersville, 530
Pratt, Albert B., 897 Pratt. Arthur L., 406, 1025 Preachers, pioneer, 16, 17 Presbyterians, History of, 120
Preston, J. S., 1368
Prewitt, Moss, 281, 282
Prewitt, William C., 1532
Price, Sterling, 11, 47, 53, 54, 55, 58, 68, 1537 Priest, Henry .J., 1401 Pritchett, Claude P., 1616 Pritchett College, 355
Proclamation Admitting Union, 170 Proctor. David M., 1894
Missouri to
Proctor, James M., 1902 Proctor, Thomas, 1873 Prosser, Paul P., 2005 Prough, Sherman L., 712
Provines, John G., 297 Pulis, Stephen A., 939 Purdin, 412 Purnell. Joseph B., 1150
Putnam county, 1. 75, 86, 89, 104; his- tory of, 523: physical features, 523; population, 523; first settlers, 523; pioneer life, 525; organization, 525: officers, 525; county court, 526; circuit court, 526; Civil war, 527; politics, 528; railroads and schools. 529: churches, 529; towns, 529
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Overall, Nelson L., 585 Overton Run, Battle of, 303
Page, Ben F., 2038 Page, Robert J., 884 Palmer, Walter P., 1139 Palmyra, 459, 621 Palmyra, Massacre, 64, 456 Paris, 465, 469 Parker, John H., 727 Parker Memorial Hospital, 250 Parks, Edgar A., 1629 Parks, Theron B., 2030 Parks, (Mrs.) T. B., 2030 Parrish, Edward E., 948
Parrish, John E., 949 Parsons, E. O., 801
Parsons, Henry R., 798 Parsons, William, 2069 Patrick, Wiley J., Jr., 1073 Patrick, The Rev. W. J., 89 Patriot, Columbia, 35
Pondfort, 559 Pool, Charles O., 1625
Pope, Gen. John., 55. 57, 58 Population, growth of, 47 Population, increase of, 155
Porter, Addison P., 1173
Pendleton, 676 Penix. James J., 793 Periodicals, Baptist. 96 Pershing. General John J., 417 Persia, 234 Perry. 536 Peterman, Elias, 1376 Petersburg, 235 Pettibone, Rufus, 534 Pettingill, Newland M., 1280 Pettit, Alfred, 1224 Pew, James W., 1105 Phelan, The Rev. D. S., 98 Phelps, John S., 165 Phillips, Joseph J., 1212 Pierce, Don, 1083
Pike county, 1, 3, 8. 74, 85, 89, 100, 108; history of, 507; Garden of Eden, 507: older than its mother, 508; sources of history, 509; beginnings, 509; not the home of Indians, 510; first white set- tler, 511; early settlers, 511; trouble with the Indians, 512; some pioneer settlements, 514; Revolutionary sol- diers, 515; records of a pioneer mer- chant, 516; court proceedings, 518; court and school. 518; life and cus- toms, 519; churches, 521; laying out of towns. 521 Pike. General Zebulon M., 8, 508 Pike's Peak, 8 Pile, John S .. 1108 Pile. Oscar F., 1236 Pile, Schuyler W .. 848 Pile, Thomas M., 1235 Pinckney, 499
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Putnam county militia, 528 Putnamville, 526
Quantrelle, 50, 65, 66 Quarles, Dr. James A., 124 Quarles, John A., 478 Queen City, 604 Quilting parties, 423 Quinn, Francis H., 1999 Quinn, Malcolm G., 751 Quinn, Pierre S., 1552
Race degeneration, No., 21 Ragland, William T., 1909 Raible, Joseph C., 1926 Railroads, 23, 50, 84, 85, 159, 182, 275, 301, 303, 332, 339, 367, 387, 410, 410, 421, 433, 454, 481, 506, 527, 529, 535, 547, 614, 631, 653 Raine, Cyrus O., 834 Raleigh, Richard J., 1223 Raleigh, Thomas E., 1289 Ralls county, 1, 5, 75, 84, 86, 89, 98, 108; history of, 531; first American settlers, 531; Indian troubles, 531; organiza- tion, 532; Daniel Ralls, 533; first county and circuit courts, 533; first officers, 534; railroads, 535; topog- raphy, 535; resources, 535; schools, 535; towns, 536; statistical, 536 Ralis, Daniel, 532, 533
Ramsey, Jonathan, 286, 294 Randolph, 538
Randolph county, 1, 75, 86, 90, 103,. 109; history of, 537; location and topog- raphy, 537; organization and area, 537; first white men, 538; the firsts, 539; during war times, 543; cholera, 545; search for gold, 545; churches and schools, 545; finances and railroads, 546; roads, 548; agriculture and min- ing, 549; cities and towns, 550 Randolph, John, 15 Ratliff, Louis, 1651 Ravenel, Samuel W., 69, 1075
Read Hall, 38
Reading, James L., 1366 Rebo, F. A. S., 885 Rebo, J. D., 890 Redd, John T., 1371 Redman, Rev. William W., 501 Reeves, Charles W., 1802 Reid, James H., 1206 Rensselaer Academy, 126, 535 Reorganization, Financial, 167 Revolutionary soldiers, 515 Rex McDonald, 194 Reynolds, Thomas, 23 Rhineland, 503 Rice, Charles, 1799 Rich, Mrs. M. A., 1354 Rich, Samuel S., 1353 Richard, Thomas, 1334 Richards, Thomas C., 1469 Ricketts, John T., 1347 Riddick, Thomas F., 4 Riddle, Charles F., 1498 Ridgway, Walter, 1753 Riggs, Turner S., 864 Riley, Thomas, 1489 Ringer, Rufus M., 1246
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Ritzenthaler, Joseph, 1941 Riverside Scripture Institute, 96 Riverways and roadways, 69 Roadways, 76 Roanoke, 357
RoBards, A. S., 22, 24 RoBards, John L., 13, 24, 1392 RoBard's Mill, 22 RoBards, William A., 23 Robbins, William O., 1093
Roberts, B. L., 2039 Roberts, John O., 1521 Roberts, L. P., 606 Roberts, Lee P., 1005 Robertson, Bishop C. F., 113 Robertson, George, 184, 1027 Robertson, J. B., 2010 Robertson, J. W., 1910 Robertson, William M., 1806
Robertson, Dr. W. W., 127
Robertson, The Rev. W. W., 300
Robey, John D., 1898
Robinson, Addison L., 1355 Robinson, John, 1728 Robinson, Matilda, 1728 Robinson, William H., 865 Robinson, Willis F., 1009 Robnett, Pleasant H., 857 Robnett, Thomas, 1486 Robyn, Ernest, 915 Rocheport, 233 Roden, Thomas F., 1056
Rodes, William R., 1172 Rodgers, Capt. Charles B., 295
Rodgers, Robert D., 1477
Rodgers, Rueben B., 1010
Roehrig, Emil, 681, 1197
Rogers, Julius F., 1605 Roland, Sevilla, Iulow, 31 Rollins Aid Fund, 256 Rollins, C. B., 1174 Rollins, James S., 11, 156, 1174 Roosevelt. Theodore, 169 Ross, Charles A., 1290 Ross, James E., 1805
Rothville, 332 Rothwell, Fountain, 1479
Rothwell, G. F., 537 Rothwell, Gideon F., 1926 Rothwell. Wade H., 1655 Rouner, David A., 1030 Rouse, Harry S., 825 Rowland, Joshua T., 1698
Rowland, William, 931 Rowland, William P., 932 Rowley, Robert R., 1097 Rowley, William J., 695 Roy, S. J., 2102 Rubey, Web M., 441 Rucker, Roy W., 2063 Rucker, William H., 1202 Rucker, William W., 2061 Ruffin, Lemon H., 1387
Rule, Edward B., 1092
Rule, John W., 1244 Rush Hill, 229 Rutherford, Hayden L., 1602 Rutherford, William T., 859 Rutledge, 612 Ryland, John F., 543
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Sacred Heart Convent, 559 St. Catharine, 412 St. Charles, 4, 5, 9, 16, 554 St. Charles College, 559
St. Charles county, 1, 54, 75, 86, 90, 97, 107; history of, 553; the village of the hills, 553; the firsts, 555; the Indian tribes, 555; the province, 557; Lewis and Clark, 557; schools, 559; the old wind mill, 559; topography, 559; Daniel Boone, 561; the district, 564; the first legislators, 565; letter from Onward Bates, 566; beginning of Amer- ican colonization, 581; early court pro- ceedings, 582; great men in pioneer days, 583; pioneer citizens, 584; mili- tary record, 588; the Edwards family, 589; German immigration, 589; agri- culture and progress, 590 St. Clair, W. S., 1323
Ste. Genevieve, 1
St. James Academy, 427 St. John, Horace H. H., 1242
St. John, Wilson E., 1227 St. Louis, 4, 9
Salisbury, 327
Sallee, James H., 1241 Salt river, 72 Salt river road, 77 Salt springs, 5, 75
Sampson, F. A., 144, 146 Sampson, Francis A., 792 Sampson, John H., 1640 Sampson, Thomas W., 1641 Sampson, William A., 1641 Sanders, Culvin F., 951 Sanders, James L., 961 Sanderson, Daniel T., 811 Sanderson, John E., 1442 Sanderson, J. E. & Company, 1444 Sanderson, Lewis T., 1444 Sanderson, Newman M., 1047 Sanderson, Samuel M., 832 Sanderson, Walter H., 1444 Sand Hill, 606
Sandison, James, 1362 Santa Fe Trail, 78, 82 Sapp, George B., 1200 Sapp, Joseph W., 801 Sapp. William H., 1200 Sawyer, Tom, 38 Schacklett, Jacob K., 1033
Schaefer, Frederick, 1307 Scheetz, Harry C., 111, 1686 Schenck, David, Jr., 1514 Schnelle, Benjamin F., 913 Schofield, F. L., 389 Schofield, Rufus B., 1146
· Schools, 20, 35, 43, 93, 114, 124, 178, 225, 250, 273, 299, 320, 331, 345, 359, 373, 393, 401, 426, 471, 500, 529, 535, 545. 559, 599, 609, 615, 627, 654, 669 Schools, provision for, 20 Schriefer, Madam, 29 Schriver, C. F., 2009 Schurz, Carl, 165
Schuyler county, 1, 75, 86. 90. 105, 110; history of, 592; before the white man, 592; first settlements, 592; pioneer homes, 593; early customs, 594; the grinding of corn, 594; pioneer life, 595;
organization, 596; first court proceed- ings, 596; census, 597; churches, 597; schools, 599; fairs, 600; jail, 600; press, 601; war, 601; court proceed- ings, 603; towns, 603; the county to- day, 605
Scofield, Elias, 947
Scotland county, 1, 76, 86, 90, 99, 108; history of, 606; territory and popula- tion, 606; organization-county seat, 606; Memphis, 609; other county towns, 611; debt, 614; schools and churches, 615; Civil war, 616; agricul- ture, 617; old settlers, 618; fair, 618; tallest woman, 619; officers, 619 Scott, Eugene, 1194 Scott, James S., 1879
Scott, John, 4 . Scott, William, 23
Scovern, John, 441
Scurlock, N. J., 140
Sebree, 357 Sedelmeier, Antone F., 757
See, Jacob, 495
Seitz, E. B., 1976 Selby, William H., 1885
Settle, W. D., 2101
Settlements, before 1804, 147
Settlements, extension of, 151
Sever, Franklin P., 1288 Sevier, Joseph D., 1798
Shacklett, William F., 1070 Shaffer. George B., 1264 Shafroth, William, 1736
Shannondale, 332
Shannon, Easton A., 930 Shannon, Richard M., 1329 Sharts, Roy, 1034 Shattuck, Allen B., 1333 Shearman, John, 1896
Shelbina, 632
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Shelby county, 1, 6, 76, 86, 90, 101. 109; history of, 620; location, 620; in pio- neer days, 620; early settlers, 621; pioneer life, 622; some of the pioneers, 624; residents in 1835; population, 625; schools and churches, 627; muni- cipalities, 629; early mills, 631; Com- munistic colony, 633; crimes, 634; political, 636; slavery, 638; Civil war, 639; miscellaneous, 643; conclusion, 645 Shelby, Gen. J. O., 59 Shelbyville, 631 Sheldon, Samuel, 786 Shelton, Judge N. M., 428
Shelton, Peachy G., 956 Shelton, William A., Jr., 910
Shepard, Austin H., 1012 . Shepler. John N., 647 Shibley, Brothers, 1046 Shibley, John W., 1046 Shibley, Lemuel. 1046 Shields, Henry C., 1781 Shoemaker, F. C., 46
Shoemaker, Floyd C., 1453 Sholtus, Bros., 1802 Sholtus, Edward T., 1802 Sholtus, John M., 1802 Short, William D., 1228 Sibley, George C., 11
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Silliman, William L., 1525 Sims, James E., 1473 Sims, James W., 1131 Sims, Orris B., 1675 Sinclair, James A., 1433 Sipple, Emitt M., 1900 Sisson, William B., 1125 Slavery, 14, 47, 48, 173, 206, 304, 342, 386, 544, 595, 630, 638, 651 Slicker War, 400 Smelser, Joseph E., 1869 Smiley, Samuel W., 1293 Smith, Albert R., 2015 Smith, Alfred D., 1115 Smith, C. B., 1990 Smith, Charles F., 1165 Smith, Claude M., 1255 Smith, David S., 1418 Smith, George G., 1734
Smith, James Green, 300 Smith, Robert L., 1416 Smith, Gen. Thomas A., 232 Smith, Thomas Berry, 144, 146
Smith, Thomas J., 1672 Smith, Willard, 1748 Smith, William, 2007 Smith, William A., 746 Smithton, 232 Snell, Ashy, 475 Snelling, Robert W., 1215 Social life, 17, 37
Sosey, Frank H., 141, 457 Southern, John N., 2050
Spalding, Sterling P., 2096 Spangler, Edward P., 682 Spanish settlers, 3. 6 Spaulding, R. M., 2103 Speed, Matthias W., 1832 Spelman, Dennis G., 834 Spence, James H., 2042 Spencer, Robert. 566 Spilman, Dora S .. 1231 Spilman, J. T., 1230 Spurling, Henry T., 1673 Stage drivers, 240 Stapleton, John E., 1744 Stark Brothers Nursery, 512 Stark, James O., 1238 Stark, William P., 1951 Starke, Newman P., 1701 Starr, James H., 1642 State Highway, 266
State Historical Society of Missouri, 46
State, The Story of the, 147 Statler, Johnson L., 1222 Statton, Frank F., 729 Steeples, Benjamin, 1026 Steele, George A., 761 Steffenville, 391 Stephens College, 36, 93, 274 Stephens, Edwin W., 837 Stephens, James L., 11, 94, 278, 838 Stephens, James Leachman, 735 Stephens, James T., 1656 Sterrett, James G., 1719 Stewart, Charles D., 1261 Stewart, Charles L., 1572 Stewart, Peter S., 681 Stewart, Robt. M., 160 Still, The Rev. Abraham, 597
Still, Dr. A. T., 176, 179 Stoddard Capt. Amos, 150 Stone, Barton, 467 Stone, Josiah W., 743 Stone, Governor W. J., 168 Stone, Walter K., 816 Stonesport, 234 Stoutsville, 480 Strickler, F. W., 2055 Strother, Prof. French, 476 Strother, Harry M., 891 Struble, George, 1278 Struckert, Otto, 912 Sturgeon, 236
Sullivan county, 1, 76, 86, 90, 104, 111; history of 647; the first settlers, 647; first land entry, 648; food of the pio- neer, 648; first birth, 649; organiza- tion, 649; at the county seat, 650; Civil war, 651; railroads, 653; schools, 654; churches, 655; towns, 656; the county as a whole, 657; close political contest, 657 Summerville, 235
Summers, John M., 1974
Sumner, 331 Sutton, Amos, 1322
Sutton, Robert L., 1164
Sutton, S. P., 1468
Sutton, Thomas F., 1573
Swain, E. E., 171
Swearingen, J. A., 878 Swett, Arthur M., 1501 Switzler Hall, 258 Switzler, Lewis M., 787
Switzler, Col. Wm. F., 137, 280
Synodical College, 126, 304, 1291
Synodical College for Women, 28
Talbot, C. B., 2004 Talbot, John, 2004 Tate, Benjamin, 1178 Tate, John M., 1413 Tatlow, Wm. J. M., 2060
Tatman, C. A., 1944
Taverns, 237
Taylor, Henry C., 1858
Taylor, James M., 783
Taylor, John D., 2088 Taylor, Joseph W., 1601 Taylor, William R., 1137 Tedford, Fred H., 1785 Teel. Ambrose W., 870 Terrill, Arthur P., 1882 Terrill, Robert G., 1580 Tharp, J. P., 1968 Thatcher, Becky, 38
Thole, John H., 1570 Thomas, D. Clark, 904
Thompson, 229 Thompson, Alfred B., 1668
Thompson, B. F., 389 Thompson, Green G .. 1620 Thompson, Jasper, 1737 Thompson, Walter S .. 1787 Thomson, Eliza E., 1276
Thornburg, George, 1767
Thornburg, Thomas O., 1812 Thrall's Prairie, 5 Thurmond, Nicholas D .. 1575 Tincher, Judge Hugh. 974 Tincher, James W., 974
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Tincher, John E., 1700 Tindall, N. Cordell, 1741 Tinsley, David A. S., 740 Tinsley, Gabriel N., 716 Tinsley, William H., 693 Tippecanoe, 603
Tipton, Charles W., 1949
Tipton, Jabez B., 1928 Todd, Judge David, 312 Todd, Robert L., 280 Todd, Roger N., 1372
Toll roads, 265
Tolson, Joseph, 1930 Torbit, Nathaniel, 1199 Torrance, Eli, 417 Torrey, Lafayette, 907
Treadway, John, 1691 Treloar, 676 Trigg, Thomas J., 1142 Triplett, 329
Troy, 404
Truesdale, 676
Tucker, Benjamin F., 820 Tucker, Henry H., 735 Tucker, John W., 1195 Tucker, Samuel L., 2093
Tucks, William A., 1067
Tully, J. Douglass, 2053
Tuohy, The Rev. J. T., 96, 98 Turk, William, 142
Turley, Edward D., 1933 Turley, Laura T., 1935 Turner, Charles C., 1490 Turner, Matthew A., 1193
Turner, Thomas, 276
Tuttle, Bishop Daniel S., 114
Unionville, 529 United States, relief map of, 2 University Military School, 250 University, State, 21, 38, 252, 257, 260
Valentine, Thomas B., 690 Van Bibber, Isaac, 496 Vandalia, 226 Velie, Alexander, 2029
Venable, Paul, 1196 Viles, Jonas, 147, 2092 Vince, Abraham, 1809 Violette, E. M., 141
Vote, for Governor 1861, 52; for presi- dent, 52
Waddell, Phenicious S., 1367 Wagner, David, 387 Wakefield, John J., 1466 Walden, James W., 1649 Walker, Edwin F., 1149 Walkersville, 632 Walkup, John J., 1776 Walkup, O. E., 1945 Wallace, David, 1583 Wallace, George, W., 1145 Wallace, Dr. John S., 306 Wallace, John S., 1049 Walters, Jacob S., 1917 Walton, R. S., 348 Walton, Robert S., 1352 War, Black Hawk, 25, 26, 172, 269, 295, 337, 453, 465, 673
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War, Civil, 38, 46, 160, 173, 210, 257, 270, 302, 324, 344, 358, 364, 383, 400, 430, 455, 466, 483, 497, 500, 527, 544, 602, 616, 639, 651, 673, 682
War, Kansas, 270
War, Mexican, 26, 157, 209, 270, 295, 322, 358, 543, 673
War, Missouri-Iowa, 343 War, Mormon, 26, 269, 358 War of 1812, 151, 396, 448, 469, 510, 531, 672 War, Revolutionary, 14, 399, 515, 660, 672
War, Seminole, 1269 War, Spanish-American, 223, 675 Warford, Bennett B., 1796
Warren county, 1, 6, 54, 76, 87, 90, 97; history of, 659; first white settlers, 659; early homes, 661; organization, 663; first circuit court, 665; churches, 666; Central Wesleyan College, 669; Central Wesleyan Orphan Home, 671; war, 672; towns, 675; geographical and topographical, 677; press, 678; banks, 678; crime, 679; bar, 680; mis- cellaneous, 681
Warrenton, 676
Wars, Indian, 171, 188, 309, 444, 493, 510, 512, 531, 532, 543, 555, 601 Washburn, George S., 1824 Washington, President George, 14, 15 Wattenbarger, Jacob M., 1801 Waters, Mrs. Ann, 42
Waters, Edwin C., 1310
Watkins, John H., 971 Watthall, James W., 1500
Watts, Hamp. B., 1727 Watts, Sylvester, 1016
Watson, J. Sam, 1116 Watson, James T., 1611
Watson, Thomas, 585 Waugh, James H., 1827 Waugh, (Mrs.) S. V., 1828 Webb, John P., 1057
Webb, William A., 1022
Weber, Henry, 1024
Weeks, John H., 1406 Welch, J. B., 1374
Wells, Judge Carty, 680 Wells, Charles P., 1109
Wells, Robert W., 543 Wellsville, 502 Wentworth, F. H., 726 Werner, John H., 1007 West, Joseph A., 1247 Westcott, Lyman, 1234 Westminster College, 45, 125, 300
Wheat growers, pioneer, 22 Whig meeting at Rocheport, 243
White, Alonzo, 1958
· White, B. R., 1657 Whitecotton, James H., 466, 470 White, Edgar, 128, 1893 White, R. M., 210, 981 Whiteside, George W., 1052 Whiteside, John A., 903 Whittle, John E., 1462 Widner, Henry H., 1088 Wien, 332 Wight, Family, 2082 Wight, J. W., 2087
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Wight, J. W., Jr., 2088 Wilcoxon, George H., 1725 Wilfley, L. R., 490 Wilkerson, George H., 965 William Woods College, 30, 304 Williams, Abraham J., 4 Williamsburg, 295 Williams, James, A., 2071 Williams, John F., 429 Williams, J. M., 1650 Williams, J. T., 1059 Williams, Walter, Jr., 647 Williams, Zechariah, 784 Williamson, Charles R., 1061 Williamson, W. Luther, 1060 Williamstown, 391 Wilsey, P. I., 871 Wilson, Frank L., 803 Wilson, Guy N., 1196 Wilson, H. L., 752 Wilson, General Robert, 543 Wilson, R. E., 2079 Wilson, Thomas C., 1182 Wilson, William S., 1239 Wind mill, old St. Charles, 559 Winter, E. H., 659 Winter, Edward H., 1545 Wippermann, The Rev. F. H., 672 Wisdom, Carroll H., 899 Witt, John L., 1298 Witty, Lee T., 958 Woman, Part played by, 27 Woman, tallest, 619
Women, education of, 35; in Civil War times, 40; in pioneer homes, 41; in the church, 42; in the schools, 43; newspaper writers, 44 Wood, The Rev. C. N., 141 Wood, David P., 1086
Wood, Ernest H., 1542 Wood, William J., 772 Woodsmall, James C., 977
Woods, S. H., 1913
Woods Training barns, 467 Woods, Dr. W. S., 466 Woodson, J. B., 1484 Woodson, Richard, 1484 Woodward, John H., 1541
Word, John M., 1098
Worrell, R. D., 2100 Worthington, William D., 1107
Wright City, 676 Wright, James H., 882 Wright, J. Kelly, 1648
Wright, Uriah S., 1745
Wyatt, Anthony, 660
Yancey, Stephen B., 2000
Yates, Martin, 1361
Yeager, Grover C., 1890
Young, Rachel F., 1359
Young, Samuel N., 1051
Yowell, Daniel K., 1904
Zimer, Elizabeth, 2003 Zumwalt, Adam, 581
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History of Northeast Missouri
CHAPTER I THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE
Northeast Missouri comprises that part of the state of Missouri lying north of the Missouri river and east of the western boundary of Chariton county. In the territory thus embraced are the counties of Adair, Boone, St. Charles, Montgomery, Callaway, Marion, Audrain, Warren, Lincoln, Pike, Lewis, Clark, Knox, Sullivan, Macon, Chari- ton, Randolph, Howard, Monroe, Scotland, Ralls, Putnam, Schuyler, Linn and Shelby. It is not the oldest section of Missouri, as far as set- tlements by the white man make for age. That distinction belongs to southeast Missouri where is Ste. Genevieve, oldest of Missouri towns.
FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS IN MISSOURI
In Northeast Missouri, however, were the first permanent settle- ments of the English-speaking race in Missouri and the beginnings of its history antedate those of any other section of the state, excepting southeast Missouri. In area Northeast Missouri embraces 14,081 square miles. In all Missouri are 68,736 square miles. The population of all Missouri counties in the figures of the United States census of 1910 was 3,293,335. Of these 481,008 are in the twenty-five counties of Northeast Missouri.
In the Boon's Lick country, in St. Charles county and in the Salt River country were the first settlements in Northeast Missouri. As all the west, the country now Northeast Missouri had been peopled with Indians, Sacs, Foxes, Kickapoos, Pottawattomies, Missouris, tribes that roamed the plains and slunk through the forest shades even after the coming of the white man. The pioneers often found the red men troublesome and, on occasion, murderous neighbors. The Indians in Missouri were less savage, perhaps, than those of the far west, but their presence was a source of constant irritation. When Cols. Ben- jamin and Sarshall Cooper in 1808 led a band of Kentuckians to make their homes in Howard county they were called back by Governor Benjamin Howard nearer the older settlements because he could give them no protection against possible Indian outbreaks. In 1810 they returned and Col. Sarshall Cooper, seated by his own fireside, met death at an Indian's hand. There were no Indian wars of consequence in Northeast Missouri. The uprising, in 1832, of Black Hawk and his band of Indians to the northward stirred up the residents of the out- lying settlements, but the uprising, by the victory of the whites at the battle of Bad Axe, was soon at an end. The Indian disturbances were largely local and soon, with the growth of the white population, ceased altogether. The Indian struggled for a few years against white occu-
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pation, struggled in barbarous fashion and unsuccessfully, and, then, moved on to the west and southwest.
FRENCH AND SPANISH SETTLERS
The earliest successors of the Indian in Northeast Missouri came from France or Spain. Three gates opened wide to the Missouri ter- ritory in the early days. The Spanish came by the lower water gate of the Mississippi river-the Great Water of the Indians-in search of gold; the French first by the upper water gate of the Mississippi led by Marquette's noble missionary zeal and later by the lower water gate as well; through the mountain-gate from the eastward came the Vir- ginians, their children of Kentucky and, in later day, the Scotch-Irish of farther north. At yet later time came men and women from north
and east and from beyond the sea, all seeking homes where there was blue sky. and elbow room and freedom. No one, save the earliest Span- iards or an occasional trapper of the fur trade day, came to Northeast Missouri to make a fortune in mine or forest and return; he came to make a home and abide in the home. Home-making, English-speaking folk settled Northeast Missouri, not gold-seeking adventurers. The Spanish are remembered by an occasional name of town or river and the French in the same wise or by some ancient family tree.
THE REAL FOUNDERS
The colonists from east of the Appalachians seeking homes were the real founders of the, early state. They were of genuine pioneer stock. Some peoples will not bear transplanting; even in the wilderness others are the architects of states. Of the latter were the earliest set- tlers in Northeast Missouri, hardy, dominant and daring. Missouri, easily first of all the states in potential resource, is the product of their handiwork, while every state from the Mississippi river to the Golden Gate shows their skill in commonwealth construction. The name of Pike county, Missouri, has gone abroad in all the land. In struggles with savage beast and untamed man the pioneer Missourian showed persistent heroism and hardihood. They were his children who, in the strife between the states, enlisted to the number of beyond 100,000 in the Union army and more than 50,000 in the Confederate service, keeping the state's quota full without draft or enforced enlistment, not merely in one but in both armies, a record unexampled among the states, north or south. They were church-going and school-encouraging. Within its boundaries are a majority of the colleges of the state. They had respect for law. No vigilance committee was needed to preserve order even in the most primitive community in Northeast Missouri. In the earliest Missouri constitution Missourians recognized the provi- dence of God, provided for the establishment of free schools, and planned for a state seminary of learning, now the State University in North- east Missouri. One interior county in Northeast Missouri, Boone, with population of a scant few hundred, in 1839, gave, by voluntary sub- scription, $117,900 for the founding of a college, a farmer who could neither read nor write heading the subscription list with $3,000, a gift, considering time and circumstance, more princely than that of any modern millionaire.
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