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Mr. Markland married, March 27, 1890, Ella P. Harris, a daughter of Thomas B. Harris, a well-known citizen of Howard county, and they are the parents of four children, namely : Leon E .; Margaret H .; Levi H. Jr .; and Sarah V.
ELLIOTT W. MAJOR, governor of Missouri was born in Lincoln county, Missouri, October 20, 1864. He was educated in the public schools and at Watson Seminary. He studied law in the office of the Honorable Champ Clark in Bowling Green and was admitted to and began the practice of law on attaining his majority. In 1896 he was elected state senator from the eleventh district, comprising the counties of Pike, Lincoln and Audrain. In 1899 he was chosen a member of the commission to revise the Missouri statutes. He was nominated for attor- ney-general of Missouri on the Democratic ticket at the state primary August 4, 1891, without opposition, and was elected at the following general election. In 1912 at the state primary he was nominated by the Democrats for governor and in November of that year was elected by the largest plurality ever given a candidate for that office. His home is in Bowling Green, Pike county. He is married and has three children.
WALTER S. THOMPSON, M. D. Within the pages of the History of Northeast Missouri will be found specific mention of many of the rep-
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resentative physicians and surgeons of this section of the state, and to such consideration Doctor Thompson is eminently entitled. He is engaged in the successful practice of his profession at Armstrong and through his ability and personal popularity has built up a large and representative practice, the while he is known as a liberal and public- spirited citizen. His standing as one of the popular physicians of Howard county is the more gratifying to note by reason of the fact that he is a native of the county and a scion of one of its well known and highly honored families.
Doctor Thompson was born in the village of Fayette, Howard county, Missouri, on the 12th of October, 1865, and is a son of John W. and Mary Elizabeth (Anderson) Thompson, both of whom were born in Kentucky. The lincage of the Thompson family is traced back to stanch Scotch-Irish origin, and representatives of the name settled in Virginia in the colonial era of our national history. John W. Thompson was reared to maturity in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and there his marriage was solemnized, the ancestral line of his wife like- wise tracing to Scotch-Irish stock. Mr. Thompson was identified with the agricultural and live-stock industries in the fine old Blue Grass State until about 1860, when he came to Missouri, where he became one of the prosperous farmers and stock-growers of Howard county. For many years he maintained his home on a farm near Fayette, and he attained to special success and prominence in the breeding of high- grade Durham and short-horn cattle, in which line of industry he gained more than local reputation. He was a Democrat in his political alle- giance and was a most earnest and zealous member of the Christian church, in which he served many years as deacon, his wife likewise having been a devout member of the same church and both having com- manded secure place in the confidence and high regard of all who knew them. John W. Thompson died at the age of seventy-two years and his cherished and devoted wife was summoned to the life eternal at the age of sixty years. They became the parents of eight sons and one daughter, namely : Ormond B., who is a resident of Glasgow, Howard county ; Willard, who now resides in Oklahoma; Charles, who died at the age of thirty years; Dr. Jasper Newton, now deceased; Dr. Walter S., who is the immediate subject of this review; John and James, who reside at Fayette, the judicial center of Howard county; Lucius, also a resident of Fayette; and Catherine, who died at the age of nine years.
Dr. Walter S. Thompson has continued to maintain his home in Howard county from the time of his nativity and is indebted to its public schools and the Central College at Fayette for his early educa- tional discipline. He began the study of medicine under effective pri- vate preceptorship and finally entered the Missouri Medical College, in the city of St. Louis, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1890 and from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He avails himself of the best standard and peri- odical literature of his profession and thus keeps well informed in regard to the advances made in medical and surgical science. In 1897 he took a post-graduate course in one of the leading medical colleges in the city of Chicago. He has been engaged in practice in his native county from the time of his graduation and is recognized as one of the able and representative physicians and surgeons of this favored sec- tion of the state. He controls a large practice and subordinates all else to the demands of his exacting and responsible profession, which he has honored by his character and services. He is identified with the American Medical Association, the Missouri State Medical Society, the
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Northern Missouri Medical Society, of which he has served as president, and he is held in unequivocal esteem by his professional confreres in his home county. He served four years as a member of the state board of health, and he has secure prestige in the profession of his choice.
In politics Dr. Thompson accords a stanch allegiance to the cause of the Democratic party and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church South. He is affiliated with the local lodge of Knights of Pythias and has passed the various official chairs in the same. As a citizen the doctor has shown a deep interest in all that concerns the general welfare of the community and he is liberal and progressive. He has done much to further the upbuilding of his home town of Arm- strong, where he erected, in 1912, a substantial brick business block and where he also owns the brick building in which he conducts a well ordered drug store, to which he gives a general supervision in connec- tion with the work of his profession. In this section of the state he is well known and it may be said with all of consistency that his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances.
JOHN A. DENNY, JR. The cashier of the Bank of Armstrong, in the organization of which he was the leading spirit, John A. Denny, Jr., is one of the ablest representatives among the younger men of Howard county citizens. His family has long been prominently indenti- fied with this section of the country and the name has stood for solid business integrity and good citizenship. John A. Denny has been asso- ciated in the Bank of Armstrong with some of the best known men in the county. The president of the institution is W. O. LaMotte; the vice-president, John A. Denny, Sr., the cashier who has already been named, the assistant cashier, W. L. Markland; the directorate of the bank includes the names of W. O. LaMotte, J. A. Denny, Sr., J. A. Denny, Jr., W. L. Markland, D. C. Walker, David Bagby, R. B. Hume and J. C. Taylor. This bank was organized in 1899, its capital stock being $12,000 and its present surplus about $12,600. The bank is one of the solid institutions of Howard county, and most of its officials were born in this county, and their entire careers are familiar to all the public.
Mr. Denny was born on the old plantation in Randolph county, May 2, 1872. His father was Humphrey B. Denny, one of the men of prominence of this county, whose wife was Margaret Snoddy. He died April 20, 1893. The home farm was one mile southeast of Mt. Airy, where his death occurred at the age of sixty-six. As a farmer and stock- man and in general business affairs he stood very high, and was very prosperous throughout his career, and accumulated some five hundred acres of land. Nine children comprised the family and seven of them are mentioned as follows: Narcissa is the wife of David Bagby, and she is now deceased; James M .; David R .; Nannie Hume; Bettie Denny ; John A. Jr .; Humphrey B .; Maggie Mayo; and Maurice Hicks. In politics the father was a Democrat and an elder and a liberal supporter of the Presbyterian church.
John A. Denny, Jr., was reared in his home vicinity, educated in the district schools of Mt. Airy, and Missouri Valley College and finished in the Kansas City Business College. His experience in business has been extended, and he has acquired a reputation for efficiency and hon- orable dealings which has not been the least factor in the success of the institution with which he is officially connected. He is an elder in the Presbyterian church and one of its liberal supporters; fraternally is a member of the blue lodge of Masons of Armstrong and the Knight
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Templars of Fayette. His career in this county is one of the most successful among those of young business men.
WILLIAM L. MARKLAND. In early life a teacher, for many years a successful merchant and now chiefly connected with active business as assistant cashier of the Bank of Armstrong, Mr. Markland is a Howard county citizen whose career has been passed here from birth and has always been honorably and influentially identified with the successful welfare of his community.
He was born on his father's old plantation, where he now lives, February 18, 1847, a son of Matthew Markland. His father, whose career was one of influence and prominence in the county, was for sixteen years a judge in the county court and the justice which he dispensed in that position was worthy of a higher court. He was noted especially during his early life for his feats of strength and his prowess in all contests of jumping and wrestling and other athletic per- formances. He was a man of fine military appearance, stood six feet in height and weighed two hundred pounds. His wife's maiden name was Loretta Harvey, a sister of Dr. Harvey and a daughter of John Harvey, who was one of the early settlers of this county. By this mar- riage there were born six children. The three now living are Frances A., the wife of A. C. Finnell; William L; and John H., who resides near Armstrong. Sarah B. M. Armstrong and Elizabeth Finnell and Loretta are deceased. The father was born in Kentucky in 1820 and his death occurred when he was seventy-six years old. He was a member of the Methodist church and was a Mason.
William L. Markland was reared in the old home vicinity and edu- cated chiefly at Armstrong, after which for nine years he was a suc- cessful teacher. He then entered business and for twenty years had a first class general merchandise store at Armstrong.
When he was twenty years of age his marriage occurred to Sarah Einbree, who died in a little over one year. When twenty-four years of age he was married to Miss Martha Jane Gilliam, a daughter of Joseph and Mary E. Gilliam of Saline county. Her family was descended from Virginia. Seven children, three daughters and four sons, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Markland, as follows: Edna Earl, John Guy, Rollo V., Matthew H., Mattie J., and Rozzie, wife of George Hulett of Mexico. These were all well educated and four of them became successful teachers.
Outside of his connection with business in Armstrong, Mr. Mark- land has a fine farm of two hundred and ten acres near town. This place has a beautiful situation which is well improved with residence and barns, and productive fields make it one of the show places in this part of the county. Mr. Markland is a member of the Methodist church, which he has served as clerk and trustee; he is affiliated with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has passed all of the chairs, and is a charter members of the Knights of Pythias lodge. His large experience with business affairs, the fact that he has lived in this county all his life, and is known to its citizens as a man of ability, integrity and. good judgment, has been an important factor in the success of all enterprises with which he has been connected. .
W. O. LAMOTTE. For more than half a century a resident of How- ard county, W. O. LaMotte has been a business man and citizen whose enterprise and service have been valued factors in the progress of the community. Mr. LaMotte has for some years been president of the Bank of Armstrong, and during the first thirty years of his residence
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followed the trade of blacksmith and iron worker. He is also a veteran of the war and has been honored with public offices. Mr. LaMotte was born in Carroll county, Maryland, on the 25th of August, 1838. The county in which he was born was named for the honored John Carroll, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The LaMotte family has long been represented in America and its first ancestor came from France, and was a friend of General LaFayette, who gave such valued service to America during the Revolutionary war. The father of Mr. LaMotte was named John LaMotte, and his wife's maiden name was Rachel Hoover. The father died when about ninety years of age, leaving nine children.
W. O. LaMotte received his early education in Maryland and there learned the trade of blacksmith and became an expert workman in iron and steel. This was the business which he followed for thirty years. In the fall of 1860 he came to Howard county, Missouri, locating at Roanoke, where for thirty years he had a successful business. During the war he served in the state militia under Capt. Alex Denny, a non- commissioned of his company, making an excellent record as a soldier. He was a member of the Forty-sixth Missouri Infantry, which had many hard fights with bushwhackers.
In 1867 occurred his marriage to Miss Catherine Althouse, a native of Randolph county, this state. At her death she left four children, three of whom are now living, as follows: Millie, who is the wife of Rev. Willingham, of Hobart, Oklahoma; Mrs. Gertrude Penick, of Mar- shall, Missouri; Dr. George A., who is a graduate of the Philadelphia Medical College and took post graduate work in Europe, is a promi- nent physician of Oklahoma City. Mrs. LaMotte died at the age of thirty-nine. The second marriage of Mr. LaMotte occurred in 1894, when Lillie Duntley, the daughter of Judge Duntley, became his wife.
Mr. LaMotte's public service includes that of presiding judge of Randolph county, Missouri, and he has always been a citizen willing to promote public enterprise in every way. He has for years been an elder in the Presbyterian church. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic order. He is a man of pleasing appearance and his frank and genial personality have made many friends in this county.
JOHN O. HUME, the proprietor of the beautiful Lake Park Farm, five miles nortwest of Armstrong in Howard county, represents a promi- nent name and family which has been identified with this section of Missouri for nearly seventy years.
The Hume family was planted in the old Virginia commonwealth during the colonial period and a number of years before the American Revolution, and one of the direct ancestors of the present branch was a soldier of the war for independence. Joel Hume, Sr., one of the seven sons of Reuben Hume and wife, was a Kentuckian and in 1844 brought his family and possessions, consisting of a number of slaves and other property, to Howard county, and in Chariton township established a homestead of over seven hundred acres, which he devoted to the pro- duction of hemp and tobacco and stock. He was a man of more than ordinary ability and influence in his community, and left a large estate for the benefit of his children. During the war he was made prisoner as a Confederate sympathizer, was taken to Glasgow and sentenced with a number of others to be shot, and although the sentence was not exe- cuted he died while in prison largely from the shock of seeing his friends put to death under the terrible reign of martial law then pre- vailing in this section of Missouri. Besides himself he gave three of
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his sons to the cause of the Confederacy, John G., Joel L. and Reuben, all of whom saw active service and came home after the war.
Joel L. Hume, one of the trio of soldiers, was the father of John O. Hume. He was born in Kentucky and died on his homestead in Chariton township aged fifty years, in 1890. He married Louisa Lee, daughter of Thomas Lee, and their three children were: Eva, who died, aged seventeen years; Sadie, wife of D. Cuddy, of Glasgow; and John O. The mother died in 1880.
John O. Hume was born on the farm where he now resides, Novem- ber 23, 1877, and had the best of advantages during his youth, attend- ing the public schools of Glasgow and Pritchett College. As a farmer he has been unusually successful. The three hundred and twenty acres comprising Lake Park Farm give full employment to his energies and business ability, and he is one of the large producers of the grain and stock which make Howard county so notable among the agricultural sections of Missouri. The farm takes its name from a little lake situ- ated within its boundaries, and there is a quantity of native oak and elm timber which add both beauty and value to the acres. He has a com- fortable home and all the facilities for modern farming, and prosper- ous himself he takes a public-spirited interest in all movements that promote the continued prosperity of his community.
December 20, 1898, Mr. Hume married Miss Vada Smith, daughter of Horace and Lucia (Clark) Smith, both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Hume have one daughter, Esther A., born March 13, 1901. In politics he is Democratic, and his church is the Presbyterian at Glasgow. He is affiliated with the Masonic lodge at Armstrong and with the Knight Templar commandery at Fayette.
JOHN S. GARNER. The Garner family was established in Howard county in 1820, about the time Missouri adopted a state government. Howard county in that year marked almost the extreme western verge of the American settlements, so that as pioneers no family can present better claims than the Garners.
Mr. John S. Garner, who represents the third generation of the family residence in Howard county, is a citizen of high standing in Prairie township and has made a distinctive record as a stock raiser. His Locust Grove farm, situated four and a half miles northwest of Armstrong, is the home of a number of fine specimens of high-grade saddle horses, jacks, Chester White swine and Wyandotte chickens. Mr. Garner not only has the proper enthusiasm for the growing of stock but understands the business in theory and practice.
The Locust Grove farm was his birthplace and has been in the family possession for the greater part of a century. He was born January 30, 1854. His grandfather, Jesse Garner, founded the family in this region. Both he and his wife, whose maiden name was Docia Trigg, were natives of Kentucky, whence they emigrated to Missouri in 1820 and for a time lived on the General Clark farm. Jesse Garner was one of the early undertakers in this part of Missouri, and for several years held the post of undertaker for the state penitentiary, making all the coffins for the deceased prisoners. The children of Jesse Garner and wife were: C. T., an attorney, who at one time in his career defended the notorious Frank James; Dr. A. C., formerly of Richmond; Jesse, who died in Ray county; Susan E. Smith; Jane Graves; Elizabeth Samuels; and Stephen T.
Stephen T. Garner, father of John S., was born in Madison county, Kentucky, August 30, 1815, and was five years old when he came to Howard county, where he grew to manhood, received a practical educa-
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tion, and worked at his father's trade. He was married March 28, 1839, to Miss Nancy Snoddy, who was born in Howard county, a daugh- ter of Joseph Walker and Narcissa (Foster) Snoddy, her father being one of the first settlers. The children of Stephen Garner and wife were. aś follows: Joseph W., who became a Confederate soldier under Gen- eral Clark, was wounded in the battle of Pea Ridge and died the fol- lowing day, aged twenty-two; Narcissa, deceased; Susan, deceased, was the wife of W. J. Pemberton, of Prairie township; John S .; and Henry F., who died in 1882. The father, whose death occurred May 17, 1883, was in politics a Democrat, and in 1856 united with the Methodist church and for many years was steward in the Oak Grove church. He was a large man, weighing two hundred and fifty, and a citizen who commanded respect and esteem. The mother, who died at the age of eighty-three, was born October 4, 1820, and died November 13, 1903.
The boyhood years of John S. Garner were spent partly in the stormy period of the Civil war and partly in the not untroubled time that followed, but he acquired the essentials of an education in the local schools and for forty years has been progressively identified with the great agricultural and stock-growing industry of this region. October 10, 1883, he married Miss Lydia B. Terrill, who was born in Chariton county, Missouri, September 25, 1866, daughter of William and Nora Terrill, who came from Tennessee. The four children born of their marriage were : William W., born August 20, 1884, who married Edna May Hayes, and has two children-Jesse Samuel and Margaret Bell ; Susan E., born July 17, 1886, now the wife of R. E. Fugate, of Howard county, has two children, Garner and Eldred V .; Stephen Pritchett, born January 29, 1889; and Jefferson M., born September 21, 1893. The good mother of these children died on July 27, 1898. She was an active member of the Methodist church. In 1899, Mr. Garner mar- ried his present wife, who was formerly Cornelia Jeffries, born in Chariton county, Missouri, April 17, 1878, daughter of J. G. and Nora (Pyle) Jeffries. Mr. Garner and wife are the parents of two children : J. G., born July 26, 1902; and Nancy E., born July 27, 1904. Mr. Garner's farm contains two hundred and seven acres of bluegrass pasture and grain fields, and about his comfortable residence he has all the facilities for modern stock farming. He is the owner of Purple Monroe Chief No. 3002, sired by Bourbon Chief No. 976, which sold for twelve thousand dollars. All his stock is kept at high grade, including the jacks which he keeps for breeding, and his White Wyan- dottes have won the blue ribbon at many fairs. Mr. Garner has been steward in the Methodist church since he was sixteen years, and has a public-spirited attitude toward all movements for the community wel- fare.
WILLIAM JEFFERSON PEMBERTON. A substantial and prosperous farmer and stock-raiser of Howard county, William Jefferson Pember- ton is carrying on his pleasant occupation four miles northwest of Arm- strong, in Prairie township, where he owns and occupies the valuable estate known as the Old Kentucky Stock Farm. A native-born resi- dent of Howard county, his birth occurred, July 25, 1846, on the paren- tal homestead, eleven miles northeast of Fayette.
His father, Tilford Pemberton, was born in Kentucky, a son, of Stephen Pemberton, who served as a soldier in the War of 1812. He migrated to Howard county, Missouri, in early manhood, and having bought land from the government in Howard county, cleared and improved a good homestead, on which he resided until his death, at the venerable age of eighty-nine years. He was a prosperous agriculturist,
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a Democrat in his political affiliations, and a trustworthy member of the Baptist church .. He married Sally Lee, a daughter of Richard Lee, an early pioneer of Howard county. She died several years before he did, passing away at the age of seventy-five years. They became the parents of six boys and eight girls, several of whom died in early life.
Brought up on the home farm, William Jefferson Pemberton was reared to habits of industry and thrift, as a boy becoming well versed in agricultural lore. Soon after the breaking out of the war between the states, he enlisted in the Confederate army, and was with General Price in many of his noted raids in Southwestern Missouri, and with him took an active part in the engagements at Independence, Missouri, Pea Ridge, Arkansas, in one battle being severely wounded in the left leg. With his comrades, he surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana, and soon after his return home embarked in the stock-raising business. Mr. Pemberton owns the Old Kentucky Stock Farm, which contains one hundred and forty-one acres of good blue grass land, all of which is fenced, a large part of it being under cultivation or in good pasture land. He has erected a good set of buildings, including all the neces- sary barns and sheds for successfully caring for his stock, of which he makes a specialty, raising cattle, horses and mules. He has in his possession one of the best jacks in all Missouri, "Black Monmouth, " a beauty, now, at three years old, weighing eleven hundred pounds, a weight that will surely be increased two hundred pounds within the next two years. Mr. Pemberton has been engaged in the stock business for a full quarter of a century, and is considered one of the best judges of jacks and mules in Howard county.
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