A history of northeast Missouri, Vol. 2 pt 2, Part 114

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 912

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Mr. Bond's home life began in 1895, in which year he was united in marriage with Miss Annie Baxter of Huntington, Missouri; she was a daughter of John and Minerva Baxter of this place. Two sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bond and were named Raymond and Baxter. The family was bereft of wife and mother, when on November 1, 1900, in Monroe City, Mrs. Bond closed her eyes forever on this life. The young sons of Mr. Bond are fortunate in their inheritance of ability and bid fair to be worthy descendants of their estimable family and their successful father.

ISAAC NEWTON CARMAN is cashier of the Farmers Bank of Stouts- ville, and one of the old teachers of Monroe county. He was born in Audrain county, Missouri, on April 30, 1854, and is the son of James H. Carman, who was born in Marion county, Missouri, in 1831, spent his life in farming and died near Florida in 1908. He had been a soldier

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of the Confederacy, was a Democrat and a consistent member of the Baptist church. He married Mary Shoults, a daughter of Alexander Shoults, a Ralls county farmer, originally from Pennsylvania, and they became the parents of the following children: Marcus L., a farmer of Monroe county who married Lucinda Finks; Isaac Newton, the subject of this review; Mary J., the wife of Robert P. Painter, of Monroe county ; Eliza, married John W. Letch; Alma, who became the wife of Micajah Brashear, of Oklahoma; Maggie, the widow of J. T. Painter, of Monroe county; Emily, the wife of Joseph Dowell, of Macon county ; Ella, the wife of George Rouse of Monroe county, and J. Edward of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

The family situation in the young days of Isaac N. Carman did not permit him to receive more than a superficial education at the hands of his father, and he himself provided the fund which carried him to a finished business education. He reached independence by way of the teaching route, as have so many of our most successful men, and he taught his first country school in the Crutcher district in 1876, for twenty-three years thereafter being actively identified with educational work. He finished his career as an educator with the principalship of the Florida schools in 1899, and his business training was secured in the Gem City Business College, in Quincy, Illinois, from which he was graduated in the year 1887.

Upon giving over educational work, Mr. Carman went to the office of the circuit clerk at Paris as deputy under John F. Smock. He then farmed for a short time before engaging in banking at Florida. He was cashier of the Florida Savings Bank for two years, and while a resident there he was owner of the old "Mark Twain" home, which has since become the property of the city, through the gift of one of her sons. In 1903 he came to Stoutsville and here organized the Farm- ers Bank, becoming its cashier. He was associated in the movement with Judge Clapper and other gentlemen of means, and was one of those who brought into existence an institution which has won a wide public confidence. It is capitalized at $10,000, with Judge Clapper as president and I. N. Carman, cashier.

Mr. Carman is a man who is very much alive to the affairs of Stouts- ville, civically and politically speaking, and he bears his full share of the burden of communal life as a citizen. He is a member of the town board and was city attorney of the village a quarter of a century ago when he was a teacher in the public schools, and a student of law at the same time. He and his family are Methodists in their reli- gious faith, and fraternally, Mr. Carman is a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. His political affiliations are with the Democratic party.

Isaac N. Carman was first married in Paynesville, Missouri. His first wife was Miss Rebecca Grimes, a daughter of John M. Grimes, one of the old settlers of that section of Pike county. The marriage took place on September 13, 1888. Mrs. Carman died on May 12, 1908, leaving two daughters, Claudie and Gladys. In April, 1911, Mr. Car- man married Mrs. Laura Girfin, a daughter of Jacob Llewellyn, of Monroe county.

J. DOUGLASS TULLY is a leading stock shipper of Monroe county and makes his home in Stoutsville, near to where he was born and reared. His father was James Tully, born in County Cavan, Ireland, in 1808. He left his home and native land when he was about twenty years old, or in about 1828, and he is the one member of his father's house- hold who identified himself with the state of Missouri. James Tully

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stopped in Adams county, Illinois, for his first permanent location, became a farmer there and eventually married a daughter of a well known family of that location. It was in June, 1868, that he brought his family to Missouri and located east of Stoutsville on the John L. Thompson farm, dying there in 1900. He possessed the educational requirements necessary to intelligent, progressive citizenship, and ever manifested a strong interest in local politics as a Democrat. The father of this founder of the family in Missouri was John Tully, of County Cavan, Ireland, and his wife of the family of Carrolls of his locality, and they reared seven children. James was drawn to the New World by the signs of the times, and thus was established a new family upon American soil. James Tully married Mary Smith, in Adams county, Illinois, as has already been mentioned. He died, and his widow survived him until 1904. Their children were six in number and were named as follows: Mat, of Stoutsville, Missouri; James, of Ralls county ; Thomas, who died in Adams county, Illinois; Jane, who married Thomas Finnegan and resides in Monroe county ; J. Douglass, of this review; and Kate, who became the wife of Townsend Wright before her death, which took place in Florida, Missouri.

J. Douglass Tully was a boy of ten years when the family came to Missouri. He was born in Adams county, Illinois, on March 14, 1859, and his education began in the country. schools of his home com- munity and has continued steadily through long years of business experience-he being one who firmly believes that a man is "never too old to learn." He began life in real earnest on the cattle range of New Mexico, going out to the Two-Bar ranch between Raton and Las Vegas in 1880 and serving that company and the Circle O during the year he spent in the west.

Returning home, he turned his attention to farming and continued in that occupation for a year, then yielded to his desire to return to the saddle and the "round-up," and went to Montana. There he was employed by Patterson Brothers at Miller City for a time, and for the remainder of five years he was riding the range for Miller & Board- man in the vicinity of Fort Bend. Between the years of 1882 and 1887 he literally lived in the saddle. While he was earning a modest stipend as a cowboy, he was also gathering experience which served him well in after years when he began to devote himself to the cattle industry at home. An accurate diary of the incidents of personal interest kept during his life on the range would add zest to an article of much length, but only a passing notice of things was taken at the time, and the myriad ludicrous and other circumstances of the long drives, the stormy winters and the inspiring sights of the round-up have all dis- appeared with the lapse of time.

When Mr. Tully returned to Missouri a second time he gave up the excitement of the mountains for all time. He suffered for several years from a desire to return to the mountains, but the ties of kin held him to his old Missouri home, and he has passed almost a quarter of a cen- tury engaged in the stock business here. He began shipping in 1889 and has handled Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas cattle, in addition to the Missouri brand, during those years. He bought cattle in southern Kansas for a time, was located at Welch, Oklahoma, for two years, and in Texas he shipped from Dallas, Waco, Taylor and Austin. He handles cattle with Ashley C. Deaver in Monroe county as a member of the firm of Deaver & Tully, and is a heavy feeder at his barn at Stoutsville. His annual shipments are large and his is a familiar face in the markets of both Chicago and St. Louis.

On November 22, 1898, Mr. Tully married in Monroe county Miss

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Alice Dixon, a daughter of George Dixon. Mrs. Tully came to Mis- souri from Louisville, Kentucky, where she was born in 1868. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Tully are Charles, Martin and Georgie Beatrice.

F. W. STRICKLER. One of the most prosperous business concerns of Fayette, Missouri, is the Fayette Bottling Works, which also manu- factures ice cream and creamery buttery and retails natural ice. The proprietor is F. W. Strickler, a young man who came there in 1907 and soon gave evidence that he understood the principles of business success and not only knew how to conduct a plant of this kind but how to develop it. He put brains into his efforts and by his ability, energy and push has taken a foremost place among the successful business men of Fayette.

Mr. Strickler was born in Rockingham county, Virginia. June 20, 1879, and is a descendant of Swiss ancestors, which latter fact leads to an inference that probably ancestral inheritance has had some bear- ing on his choice of occupation and on his ability in this direction, for the Swiss people are recognized as the premium butter makers of the world. He is a son of Benjamin Strickler, who died at the age of fifty-six years in the Confederate army in Jackson Cavalry, and the re- mainder of his career was spent as a stockman and dairyman in Vir- ginia. His mother was Susan Cline as a maiden, and she also died at the age of fifty-six years. To the union of these parents were born seven children, all sons.

F. W. Strickler was reared on the farm and grew up familiar with the part which work takes in successful industrial or business activity. After completing his education at West Central Academy in Virginia he came to Howard county, Missouri, where he became proprietor of the Fayette Bottling Works at Fayette. That was in 1907, and in the five intervening years since then he has built up a business that is the leading one of its kind in Howard county and by the excellence of its manufactured products has become known all over Missouri. Recog- nizing that quality and cleanliness are two of the absolutely essential points in making his products desired by trade, he has concentrated his efforts in those directions and has been well rewarded, for his busi- ness, already of large proportions, is rapidly increasing and thus far he has been unable to keep pace with the demand for his products. His plant occupies a room 24 by 120 feet, which is kept spotlessly clean and in the most sanitary condition, and he pays a higher price for cream than does any other like firm in Missouri. His success has been the premium of merit and he well deserves the high esteem in which he is held at Fayette both as a business man of efficiency and a citizen of worth. He has established that record for integrity which makes his word as good as his bond with all who know him.

On November 9, 1909, Mr. Strickler was happily united in marriage to Miss Claudie Robinson, whose home was near Glasgow, this county, and who is from one of the well known families of this community. Her father is deceased but her mother is yet living and continues at the old home. Mr. Strickler is a member of the Presbyterian church, and Mrs. Strickler is a member of the Christian church.

JOHN LEGENDRE. Among the foreign-born residents of Northeastern Missouri · who have contributed materially to the agricultural import- ance of their adopted communities, natives of France are fully repre- sented, and in this connection may be mentioned John Legendre, of Chariton county, whose residence here covers a period of nearly thirty

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years and who at at all times has demonstrated his loyalty and good citizenship. Mr. Legendre, now the owner of a productive and well- cultivated tract of land lying three miles northwest of Salisbury, was born in Lothringen, France, in the village of Lauterfauger, not far from the German border and from the French city of Metz, August 18, 1856. As a youth he was educated in both the German and French lan- guages, grew up on a farm, and as a youth often saw companies of German soldiers, and at the time of the battle of Gravelotte was liv- ing about ten miles from that point, and about twenty-four miles from Metz. At the age of twenty-one years he enlisted as a private in the German army, and was sent with his command to the Province of Magdeburg, Saxony, where he acted as interpreter, and won his promotion to the rank of corporal, but on the expiration of his term of enlistment, in 1880, returned to his father's farm, and there re- mained until emigrating to the United States, in 1884. Four of his father's brothers and sisters had lived in America for some years, being engaged in farming in Illinois, and all had done well here and sent back enthusiastic reports as to the opportunities to be found in this country for ambitious youths, and Mr. Legendre eventually de- cided to try his fortunes here. For two years after his arrival he was engaged in working as a farm laborer in Illinois, and in 1886 he came to Chariton county, Missouri, which has since been his home.

In 1887 Mr. Legendre was married to Mrs. Katie Jensen, widow of Lucien Jensen, who had come two years before and whose husband had died eighteen months after marriage. She was born in Illinois, and came to Randolph county, Missouri, when four years of age, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Schuennemann, the former of whom died in Randolph county, while the latter still survives. After his mar- riage, Mr. Legendre purchased eighty acres of his present land, located on the Chariton river, second bottom lands, and to this he has since added forty acres. He has made numerous extensive improvements, and has made his farm one of the most productive of its size in the county, has erected modern, substantial buildings and stocked it with good cattle and hogs. He is known as an intelligent, industrious citi- zen and able agriculturalist, and the interest he has displayed in the matters of a public nature stamps him as a progressive, public-spirited citizen.

While crossing the ocean Mr. Legendre became convinced that the principles and policies of the Republican party were best suited to his ideas, and he has been a hearty supporter of these convictions to the present time. During the forty-third and forty-fifth assemblies he served as sergeant at-arms in the legislature, held the same position in two state conventions, had been a delegate to several state conven- tions, and in 1912 was alternate to the national convention held at Chicago. For two years he has served as justice of the peace, and for the past eight years has been president of the township board, which has just completed the building of $4,000 worth of corrugated iron bridges and $2,000 worth of concrete bridges in the township. He is especially enthusiastic in his support of good roads movements, has attended a number of conventions of good roads bodies, and his advice is sought frequently on matters of this nature. Known as one of his party's wheel-horses in Chariton county, he is chairman of the county, congressional, judiciary and senatorial Republican committees. With Mrs. Legendre he attends St. Joseph's Catholic church at Salisbury.

Mr. and Mrs. Legendre have had eight children: Charles, who is engaged in farming near Salisbury ; Victor, who is married and resides on the home farm; Goldie, wife of William Wiedey; Anna, Minnie and

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Edrie, all at home; and two died in infancy. The present home of Mr. and Mrs. Legendre is at Salisbury.

JAMES O. BARROW. Having worked against tremendous odds to gain an education sufficient to equip him for his life's work, James O. Barrow has come to be one of the most successful lawyers, not only of Vandalia, but of Northeast Missouri as well. Mr. Barrow was born at Ashley, Pike county, Missouri, on July 20, 1871, the son of Francis M. and Elizabeth A. Barrow.

Francis M. Barrow was born in Virginia, and as a young child moved with his parents to Jacksonville, Illinois, where he lived until he reached early manhood. While in his young manhood he removed to Missouri, where he met his wife, then Elizabeth A. O'Bannon, in Pike county. She, like her husband, was a native of Virginia, having moved to Missouri in girlhood days with her parents. Her father, Joseph O'Bannon, was a wealthy farmer and stockman of Pike county, and was the owner of several slaves. Although he was not a man who ever sought publicity, or was desirous of appearing in the public eye in any manner, taking no part in the official life of the county, yet he was well known throughout his district, especially in Pike county, which represented his home for many years.

Francis M. Barrow still lives at Ashley. Like his father and mother who were blessed with unusual longevity, he and his brothers have enjoyed long and useful lives.

Of the four children of Francis M. and Elizabeth Barrow, James O. Barrow was the third born. He received the major part of his early education at the public schools and was later a student at Wat- son Seminary, in Ashley, in that place studying under Prof. J. P. Blanton, who was later president of the Kirksville normal school. Among his schoolmates in the old seminary, was Elliott W. Major, the present governor of Missouri, who presented Mr. Barrow's appli- cation, and stood sponsor for him when he was admitted to the bar. When he had finished school, it was the wish of the elder Barrow that James continue in the pursuit of agriculture and for a time he did acquiesce in the plan of his father. The life was not to his taste or suited to his general make-up, and a short time was all sufficient to convince himself and his parent of the futility of trying to "fit a round peg into a square hole," as the saying goes. However, the young man experienced numerous disappointments before his dream of a higher education sufficient for the realization of his ambition became a possibility. There were no funds forthcoming from the family ex- chequer for any additional education and as he had decided to become a lawyer, the young man found that further education he must have. Nothing daunted by the difficulties that beset his path at every hand, like Abraham Lincoln, he borrowed law books and read in his leisure moments. The excellent foundation he had received at Watson Sem- inary stood him in excellent stead, and he succeded so well in his study of the law that in the year 1897 he was admitted to the bar before Circuit Judge Roy, who is now one of the judges of the supreme court of Missouri.

In beginning his struggles in the profession Mr. Barrow was not entirely without influential friends. He had been known to Champ Clark from boyhood, and the man who later became speaker of the house and is yet a power in national politics showed him many favors in the early days of his career. When he was admitted to the bar, Clark & Dempsey were recognized as the leading law firm of Bowling Green. Mr. Barrow was given a key to the offices and permitted to make such use of their books as he would.

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Mr. Barrow remained in the office of his friends for two years. He practiced in Bowling Green until 1902, and in that year moved to Vandalia, where he has remained ever since, absorbed in his practice which has included many important cases, both civil and criminal. In one case, that of Metts vs. Wright, involving land titles, Mr. Barrow was instrumental in establishing a precedent. And this case, which he won for his clients, has perhaps done more towards doing away with some of the technicalities of law pertaining to land titles than any other one decision of the higher courts of Missouri.

Among other important cases which Mr. Barrow fought may be mentioned the criminal cases of the state vs. Anderson, in which Mr. Barrow, as special counsel for the state, secured conviction, and a life sentence for the guilty person, after a long fight to establish justice in the case. A will case in which the decision depended on the con- struction of the testator's language, was decided in his favor after a hard-fought battle. In many other cases Mr. Barrow has taken an active part, and his practice has been of a wide and varied nature which has enabled him to take a front rank among the leading attor- neys of Northeast Missouri. He is a man thoroughly devoted to his profession and has no ambitions beyond those which will aid him in his professional advance.

Mr. Barrow has won and retained an excellent reputation in and about Vandalia and throughout the county, as the following excerpts from an article which appeared in a local Vandalia paper will amply attest : "Among the prominent members of the Audrain county bar is James O. Barrow of Vandalia. Mr. Barrow came from a position of comparative obscurity, started in life without money or aid. But he had in him the primary elements of success-ambition, industry and a determination to succeed in his chosen profession. He is a man actu- ated by the highest principles and it is a pleasure to meet a man who has the ideas of life and its duties entertained by Mr. Barrow. When one comes to know the kindness of his feelings and actions towards others and the honesty of the motives that prompt them, one no longer wonders why James O. Barrow is so popular, why he has so many friends and why his law practice extends over the greater por- tion of Northeast Missouri."

On May 17, 1899, Mr. Barrow was united in marriage with Miss Emilie Lewis Martin, of Frankford, a daughter of one of Pike county's most prominent families, as well as one of the oldest in that district. Her grandfather was familiarly known as Judge "Jimmy" Martin, and was one of the judges of the first county court of Pike county. He was a descendant of the ancient and wealthy Hume family of Ireland and England. Her father, James L. Martin, was one of the leading farmers and stockmen of Pike county, where every man was his friend.

Mrs. Barrow previous to her marriage was engaged as a teacher in the Pike county schools. One son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bar- row, Reginald Martin Barrow, whose great ambition in life is to be- come a lawyer, and to take his place in the office with his father. The Barrow home is one of the new modern residences recently erected in Vandalia, and it is there where the genuine old fashioned hospitality still reigns supreme.

SAMUEL H. K. MCMASTER. As the years relentlessly mark the mile- stones on the pathway of time, the older generation slowly gives way to the new and gradually there passes from our midst the men who made our country what it is and who built up this western empire for the men of now. In every generation and in every community some few men

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leave an indelible imprint upon the history of that community and upon the memories of those who have known them by their ability to fight and win even against great odds, and by that kind of character which wins lasting friends because of that innate quality which people know as loyalty. Samuel H. K. McMaster, who passed to the life eternal June 10, 1861, was one of those. A pioneer farmer in Missouri, he did much in the way of introducing improvements in his home locality, near Han- nibal, where he owned seven hundred acres of most arable land and where he was a man of mark in all the relations of life.

In Accomac county, Virginia, September 10, 1810, occurred the birth of Samuel H. K. McMaster, a son of Dr. James and Charlotte (Henderson) McMaster. In the agnatic line Mr. McMaster traced his lineage to stanch Scotch extraction, his grandfather, Samuel McMaster, having immigrated to Virginia from Scotland in the early colonial era of our national history. History records that Samuel McMaster an- swered the first call of Lewes (Delaware) Presbytery for religious labors.

Samuel H. K. McMaster lost his father at an early age and as a young boy assumed the responsibility of his own existence. After reaching manhood he was engaged in the mercantile business in his native state for a few years before coming west. In the meantime his mother and step-father, Dr. Ezekiel James, had settled in Marion county, Missouri. In 1842, after the death of Dr. James, Mr. McMaster removed from Iowa, where he had settled about 1836, to Missouri, to care for his mother. On the 16th of September, 1845, he was united in marriage to Miss Ann Eliza Garrard, who was born near Paris, Kentucky, November 16, 1825, and who accompanied her parents to Missouri in April, 1833, at the age of eight years. She was a daughter of Massena and Elizabeth (Fry) Garrard, the former of whom was a son of General James Gar- rard, of the War of 1812, and a grandson of Gen. James Garrard, of Revolutionary fame. The grandfather Garrard was second governor of Kentucky and it was in his honor that Garrard county, Kentucky, was named. Gen. James Garrard, Jr., served with the utmost valor in the War of 1812 and during the course of hostilities was captured and taken a prisoner from Lake Erie to Canada, whence he eventually escaped and returned to the states over the ice.

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A history of northeast Missouri, Vol. 2 pt 2, Part 114

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 912

Author: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 912