A history of northeast Missouri, Vol. 2 pt 2, Part 81

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. Waugh has often served as a trustee of the town of Columbia and as chairman and treasurer of the board of trustees. From 1867 to 1873 he was treasurer of the board of curators of the state university. Politically, he was a Whig until 1861. During the Civil war he was a Union man and after the restoration of peace he was active in the ranks of the Democratic party. In his church relations Mr. Waugh was an old school Presbyterian and a liberal contributor to the various enterprises projected by that denomination to advance the interests of the church.

Mr. Waugh was married on May 3, 1859, at Arrow Rock, Saline county, Missouri, to Miss Sophia Sidney Venable, daughter of Dr. Hampton Sidney Venable. Of the children born to their union, a son and a daughter died in infancy. A daughter, Mary E., is the wife of Charles B. Sanders, formerly a member of the firm of R. L. McDonald & Company of St. Joseph, Missouri, now a citizen of Mont Clair, New Jersey, where Mr. Sanders is an officer of the Union Bag & Paper Company. Mrs. Sanders was educated in Christian College. She and her husband have three children,-Mabel, who married Walter W. Howell, of Mont Clair, New Jersey; Sophia, who married H. C. John- son, also of Mont Clair; and James Waugh, who is in the employ of a New York steel company.

The grandfather of Mrs. Waugh, who was James Venable, was one of the founders of Hampton Sidney College in Virginia, for which her father, Dr. Hampton Sidney Venable, was named. He was taken to Kentucky in early life, educated at Transylvania University, Lexington, and after his graduation therefrom practiced medicine at Richmond, Kentucky. In 1838 he removed to Missouri, and settled near Arrow Rock, in Saline county, where he died some eight years later. He was an original member and elder of the First Presbyterian church in Saline county, the Union church in the country. Dr. Venable married Amelia Irving Goggin, and they had a family of ten children, Mrs. Waugh being the youngest and the only survivor. Mrs. Waugh has resided in Columbia for a period covering fifty-three years, and is widely known and highly respected. Although domestic in her tastes and exceedingly fond of her home, she has given freely of her time and means to movements of a religious nature, and her many charities have

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endeared her to the worthy poor. Mr. Waugh departed this life on March 3, 1901, at San Diego, California, where he had gone with his wife for his health.

During a residence of forty-seven years in Columbia, Mr. Waugh accumulated a handsome competency, the just reward of his own intel- ligent and unaided effort. During that long period he afforded gen- erous support in effort and means to the many important enterprises that contributed in so great a measure to the prosperity of the city and county, and he was esteemed among the most substantial and useful residents of his community. The advantages of a college education were not his, it is true, but inspired early in life by a commendable ambition to add to his stock of knowledge and to render himself useful to the community in which he lived, he cultivated his splendid natural abilities and instinctive judgment, so that he was long regarded as among the most intelligent and influential citizens.

JAMES HENRY DOOLEY, son of the late Judge Henry Dooley, of Stoutsville, and a brother of Alonzo Dooley of the same place, mentioned at greater length in other pages of this work, is cashier of the Old Bank of Stoutsville, and one of the leading live stock men of this section of the state. He was born something like two miles distant from the little metropolis of Jefferson township, on the 27th of October in 1861, and his youthful exercise came to him in the discharge of the duties of farm life, attending the district schools the while, and later gaining his academic education of a higher nature from his work in the State University.

Beginning his active career, the young man turned to farming for a brief time, then became a clerk for Alonzo Gilbert Dooley. He later became one of the firm of H. Dooley & Sons, and still later, was asso- ciated with his father under the appellation of H. & J. H. Dooley. When the Bank of Stoutsville was organized he was chosen cashier of it and he has continued in that position since 1889. When his second son was ready for active business he came into the bank, and the father then relaxed his daily vigil and has since devoted himself to matters about the farm, with daily inspection of the affairs at the bank.

The well known Dooley politics have applied to James H. as well as to the other members of the family. Responsibility for the success of the business interests with which he is connected lies nearest to his heart, however, and exclude political or other considerations, which some- times attract ambitious and capable men, to the detriment of other inter- ests intrusted to them.

On the 8th day of February, 1885, Mr. Dooley married Miss Mary Hoare, daughter of Henry and Mary (Dixon) Hoare, who came to Missouri from England. Mrs. Dooley was born at Cambridge, Illinois, in 1863. She and her husband are the parents of six children, con- cerning whom the following brief data are here offered: Orpha L., is a rural mail carrier out of Stoutsville, and is also engaged in the live stock business with his father; Henry Russell, second assistant cashier of the Old Bank of Stoutsville, also state bank examiner; Arnold, a teacher in the public schools of Stoutsville; Chester and Lester, twin brothers, who are identified with the activities of farm life; and Bessie, the youngest of the family. Two of the sons are married, Henry R. having chosen Miss Bessie Schlinger of his native town, and Arnold marrying Bessie Buffington.

JAMES L. DOUGHERTY, of Howard county, Missouri. A prosperous and prominent citizen of Howard county, James L. Dougherty, who owns and occupies a finely improved farming estate on section twenty-

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four, Bonne Femme township, is widely known, not only as a successful farmer and stockman, but was elected public administrator in 1892, an office which he has held for many years. He was born, August 13, 1853, in Bonne Femme township, on the homestead belonging to his father, the late James Dougherty, the descendant of a Kentuckian family of note, his grandfather, John Dougherty, having spent his entire life in Kentucky.

A native of Kentucky, James Dougherty was born in Jessamine county, Kentucky, his birth occurring there in 1815, on August 4th. Active and energetic as a young man, he thought to better his condition by moving to a newer country. Making his way to Missouri, which was then on the western frontier, he bought wild land in Howard county, and with true pioneer courage began the improvement of a homestead. He became successful as an agriculturist, and continued a resident of Bonne Femme township until his death, at the venerable old age of ninety-six years. He was a member of the Baptist church for fifty years. He married Elizabeth Moberly, who was born in Howard county, Missouri, a daughter of John Moberly, a pioneer of this part of the state, and into the household thus established twelve children were born, eight sons and four daughters, all of whom are living, and all are married and have families, there being fifty-two grand- children, and eighty-four great-grandchildren. The names of the children are as follows: Mrs. Anna Atkins; Mrs. Sarah J. Williams; S. R .; John D .; James L., the subject of this brief sketch; S. E .; W. W .; Mrs. Madora Dyer; Timothy; Jefferson M .; Joseph F .; and Mrs. Elizabeth E. George.

Brought up on the home farm, James L. Dougherty acquired his early education in the district schools, and while yet a boy became well trained in the agricultural arts. Succeeding to the occupation of his ancestors, he has met with undisputed success as a general farmer and stock-raiser, his large farm of two hundred acres, on section twenty- four, Bonne Femme township, being under a good state of cultivation, and highly productive. As a business man Mr. Dougherty shows great ability and tact, and in addition to being a director of the Commercial Bank, at Fayette, and a director of the Fair Association of his county he has for many terms served faithfully, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, as public administrator. He is broad in his religious views, being a member of the Christian church for thirty years, and . as an intelligent and public-spirited citizen has ever evinced a warm interest in local progress and improvements, heartily endorsing all enterprises calculated to benefit town and county.

Mr. Dougherty married, April 2, 1874, Miss Nancy J. Kirby, daugh- ter of George and Rhoda Kirby, who reared four sons and four daugh- ters. Four children have been born of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Dougherty, one of whom, Luther F., died in Fayette, at the age of nineteen years and ten months. The three living are Mrs. Lucy Francis Dickinson, of Ashfork, Arizona; W. B. Dougherty, of the same place ; and Floy D., wife of Thomas I. Blakemore, of Bonne Femme township, Howard county, Missouri. All the children are married and have families, there being eight grandchildren.

ROBERT M. BAGBY, city attorney of Fayette, Missouri, is a gradu- ate of the law department of the University of Missouri, class of 1882. In 1900 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Howard county, serving in that office two terms, and then being elected to his present position. He has a firmly established reputation in his chosen profession, and enjoys a good practice.

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Robert M. Bagby was born December 8, 1860, in Grundy county, Missouri, and is a son of John W. Bagby, a lawyer and military officer who participated in two wars. He enlisted for service during the early part of the Mexican war, and when the Civil war broke out was commissioned captain of a company under Generals Price and Joe Johnson, and served with them until the close of hostilities. Capt. John W. Bagby married Elizabeth Terrill, and they both passed away at Roanoke, Missouri, when about sixty years of age. They had a family of four sons. Robert M. Bagby received his early education in the schools of Roanoke, and remained at home until entering the Uni- versity of Missouri as a law student. After his marriage, he also spent some time studying law in the office of his father. He was married in 1885 to Miss Elizabeth Viley, who was born, reared and educated in the schools of Roanoke, Missouri, daughter of John W. Viley, a native of Kentucky. Seven children were born to this union, as follows: David, born, reared and educated in Howard county, a graduate of Central College, was admitted to the bar in 1912, and the same year was elected county attorney of Howard county ; Logan, who is a student at Central College; Nellie; Stephen; Elizabeth; Fayette M .; and Lou Olean, who died in 1904, when three years of age.

Mr. Bagby is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias, in which he has filled all the chairs. A man of pleasing personality, he has numerous friends, in professional, public and social circles, and his reputation as an attorney is high. Among his associates he is known as a man who recognizes and respects the unwritten ethics of the legal profession, and his standing as a citizen who has his community's welfare at heart and as an official who is able in the discharge of his duties, is equally high.

JUDGE THOMAS F. HURD is an ex-probate judge of Monroe county and one of the active practitioners at the bar of Paris. To him belongs the distinction of having served continuously for a longer period in that office than any other incumbent of it. Judge Hurd is a native son of Monroe county, born near Florida, in Jefferson township, on the 15th day of January, 1863. His father, Thomas W. Hurd, was a farmer, born at Cynthiana, Kentucky, in October, 1820, and came out to Missouri in 1832 with his father, another Thomas Hurd, who settled two and a half miles northeast of Florida, where the senior Hurd died in 1860, at some seventy-six years of age. He was a man of Kentucky birth, and enlisted from that state for service in the War of 1812. It is of record in the family that he abstracted a razor from the knap- sack of a British officer at the battle of the Thames, the razor being handed down to his posterity to this day. This gentleman was a justice of the peace in his township, an ardent Whig and a member of the Presbyterian church. His wife was the daughter of Thomas Mullen, and they were the parents of sixteen children, of which number we name the following: Thomas W., the father of the subject; Joseph ; Caleb; Susan, who married Abe Utterback; Mary, died as the wife of Jacob Llewellyn; Cynthia married one William Smith; Patsy, wife of James Bell, and Sallie, the latter having died unmarried.

Thomas W. Hurd was practically deprived of an education at the hands of his country, not more than three months of his childhood having been spent in the schools of his community. However, he was a close observer and a splendid student of those things which make for practical education, and he possessed a decided bent for study. He studied history for the love of it, and delved deep in the best of literature-Shakespeare and Macaulay being favorites with him. He

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did not give all his time to these studies, however, but turned his atten- tion to a trade and learned carpentering as a young man. He followed it among the pioneers of his community in the improvement of the rural regions along Salt river, and he helped to build a number of water mills along that stream. He accompanied the first boat load of flour shipped from Hickman's Mill at Florida to St. Louis, which old mill is now defunct, but was operated until very recent years, and was the center of industrial activity for a long period.

When Thomas W. Hurd abandoned the carpenter trade he settled on a farm near to Florida, and thereafter until 1900 he gave his atten- tion to farming, retiring in 1900 and dying in 1902. He married Margaret I. Kerr, a daughter of John Kerr, who settled in Missouri from Staunton, Virginia, and lived in South Fork township, near Santa Fe. She, like her husband, was one of a family of sixteen children. She died in 1896, and with her husband was a member of the Florida Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Hurd was a deacon. Their children were as follows: Susan, who married John H. Clapper and lives in Montana; John W., who died in 1908; Martha E., the widow of Fred Clapper, of Monroe county; James P., of Gravette, Arkansas; Robert B., a Monroe county farmer; Laura E. is the widow of John M. Jones and makes her home near Nevada, Missouri; Judge Thomas F. of this review is the youngest child of his parents.

Judge Hurd was educated in the country schools and in the Monroe Institute, under Prof. A. Wood Terrill, later taking advanced work in the State University, in the law and academic departments. He was graduated in law in March, 1886, and one month later he located in Paris and opened practice.

Mr. Hurd associated himself with Hon. J. H. Whitecotton as junior member of the firm, and remained so established until he was elected probate judge in 1890. He succeeded Judge Crutcher in the office in January, 1891, and served four full terms of four years each, making the longest continuous service on record in that office in Monroe county. Since his retirement he has continued in practice alone. Judge Hurd is a member of the Bar Association of the state. He is of a family of Democrats, and has done good work for his party as a member of judicial and other local conventions.

Judge Hurd is one of the active workers in behalf of Masonry and is a member of the blue lodge and chapter. He has sat in the grand lodge of the order and is grand master of the third veil of the grand chapter of Missouri, and has been grand lecturer for the seventeenth district for ten years. He is an elder in the Presbyterian church and was a commissioner to the general assembly of 1911, held in Louis- ville. He has served his church in synods and presbyteries, and he took the initiative in the organization of the Boy Scouts of Paris, com- posed of a body of twenty-five boys, of which he is scout commissioner. The organization came into life in Paris in July, 1911, and is equipped with uniforms, tents and a band, and is entirely self-supporting.

On September 27, 1887, Judge Hurd married Miss Maggie J. Mc- Creery, a daughter of Robert McCreery, a merchant of Florida, Mis- sonri. Mr. McCreery married Miss Elizabeth Yeakey, and both these families were originally from Kentucky. Mrs. Hurd was one of three children of her parents, the others being Amanda, the wife of George Powers, and C. M. McCreery, of Wenachie, Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Hurd have one son, Harold W. Hurd.

MATTHIAS W. SPEED is one of the few merchants of the old school left in Paris, still in active business. For more than fifty years he

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has been a resident of this city and during this time he has seen many changes both in his own commonwealth and in the national life, and the experience which he has gathered during these many years has made him wise with the wisdom that can only come from actual con- tact with men.

Matthias W. Speed was born on January 17, 1834, in Casey county, Kentucky, the son of Judge James Speed. The latter was the son of Matthias Speed, whose family scattered to many states of the Union, but who, with his wife, is buried near the old home in Casey county, Kentucky. His children numbered six, as follows: Thomas, who died in Texas; James, the father of our subject; William, who passed away in Illinois; Mrs. Mckinney, who died in Monroe county, Missouri; John, whose death occurred in Kentucky, and Mrs. Gartin, who spent her life in her native state.

Judge Speed was born September 29, 1809, in Casey county, Ken- tucky. He acquired only a moderate amount of knowledge from the schools of Kentucky in those early days, but he was naturally a student and added much to this early days during his later life. He came to Monroe county, and settled near Paris in the fall of 1834, where he became a farmer. He continued to live here until he was elected con- stable of the township, when he removed to the county seat. He was later elected justice of the peace and then county judge. He went upon the county bench in 1864 and served a number of years. Before he retired from active affairs altogether, he again served as justice of the peace. A Democrat in his political beliefs, the judge was in sympathy with the South in her struggle against the Federal govern- ment. He was not a slave holder himself, but he held that the slaves were the property of their owners and that such property could not be taken away from them without due process of law or compensa- tion. This opinion found many backers in Monroe county, and his attitude on this question made him even more popular than before. A man of few words, but a deep thinker and possessed of a keen sense of justice, Judge Speed was highly respected and liked by his fellows. It is believed that the family of which he was a member were of Scotch-Irish descent, the original founders of the family in this country being three brothers, who separated upon reaching American soil, one going to New York, one to Kentucky and the third in Virginia, the last named being the progenitor of this branch of the Speeds.

Judge Speed married Dorinda Weatherford, whose parents were natives of Kentucky, in which state Mrs. Speed was born, September 29, 1812. Mrs. Speed was one of four children, the others being Lucinda, who married Clinton Hocker; Sarah A. became Mrs. Jesse Elsberry and Eliza, who married James McGee. Judge Speed died in 1874, on the 20th of January, and his wife died June 9, 1892. They were the parents of the following children: Matthias W .; Lucinda, who married Nimrod Ashcroft and died in Paris; Eliza, who was twice married, her first husband being James Spalding and her second being William E. Spalding, died in Paris; Helen died as the wife of Joseph Bryan, and John Speed, who now lives in Paris, Missouri. Mrs. Speed died on June 9, 1892.

The only education that Matthias. Speed obtained was that of a district school, for the country wherein his boyhood was spent was young. He was only a few months old when his parents moved to Missouri and so to all intents and purposes he is the same as a native born Missourian. He came to Paris when he was eighteen years of age and for several years worked at whatever he could find to do, trying various occupations, but settling to nothing. He was twenty- Vol. III-35

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seven years old when the Civil war inflamed the country, and he immediately ranged himself on the side of the Confederacy. He formed a part of Colonel Porter's command, which raided the country about Kirksville and he was in the minor engagement that took place at the latter place. It took only a brief service to satisfy his eagerness for war, and deciding that he was not meant to be a soldier he withdrew from the service. After the close of the long years of fighting Mr. Speed went into the livery stable business in Paris, but he only remained in the business for a few years. He was then in the drug business for eight years, finally becoming engaged in the grocery business. He remained at the latter occupation for one year, but in 1879 gave up his grocery business to go into furniture and the undertaking business. He has been thus engaged since that time, and his career as a merchant has been an honorable one, indeed.

He is a member of the Democratic party and he has cast his ballot for the Democratic presidential candidate for fifty-six years, voting in 1912 for Woodrow Wilson. The sixth president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was serving his second term when Mr. Speed was born and he has watched many men come and go in the White House at Washington. He himself has not cared to take a prominent part in politics, his sole public office having been as a member of the Paris school board. In spite of his having almost reached four score his

. powers both of mind and body seem still unimpaired and he is as keen a business man as ever.

As a family the Speeds have been identified with the Christian church, but Mr. Speed married a Presbyterian, and so he has given of his time and loyalty to the church of his wife. He has attended the presbyteries and synods and has been honored with an appointment as delegate to the general assemblies of the church, but has never been able to attend. He is a member of the subordinate lodge of the Odd Fellows and likewise of the "Camp," and has represented it as a delegate to the grand encampment of the state.

Mr. Speed married Miss Eliza Gartin, in Marion county, Kentucky, March 6, 1860. Mrs. Speed is the daughter of Uriah Gartin and Eliza (Payton) Gartin, and was one of three children, the others being Mrs. Mary J. Bosley, who died in Lebanon, Kentucky, in 1912, and Ann S., who married Thomas Tadlock and died in Perryville, Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Speed became the parents of four children; Uriah G., who is associated with the Studebaker Company, of South Bend, Indiana; James S., a member of the firm of which his father is the head in Paris, is married to Maud Nelson, and has a daughter, Lucile: Annie M., who married Philip Jackson, of Paris, and has a son, Speed Jack- son, and Maud, the youngest of the quartet. Mrs. Speed, the mother, died on July 14, 1910, having been born in 1834, on February 12th.

T. GUY MITCHELL has not only given of his business ability to the upbuilding of Paris, but he has also given of his personality and time to making the city a prosperous and progressive community. As one of the leading merchants in Paris, he occupies a position of influence in the commercial world, and in his various public positions as member of the council and mayor of the city he has been enabled to accomplish many things that have added to the civic welfare of the city where he has made his home since 1885.

T. Guy Mitchell was born at Hillsboro, Highland county, Ohio, on the 3rd of April, 1854, the son of James W. Mitchell and the grand- son of John H. Mitchell. The latter was one of the five children of his father, who was an only son and spent the last years of his life in

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Covington, Kentucky. Of his five children, the two elder sons, Guy and William S., enlisted in the American army for the War of 1812 and both were killed in battle. John H. and two daughters, who married men by the name of Henderson, completed the family. The two daugh- ters settled near Indianapolis, where their descendants are now living. John H. Mitchell was born in Covington, Kentucky, and became a cabinetmaker by trade. He was made major-general of the Ohio mili- tia, and followed his trade for years, though at the time of his death he was a farmer. He married Ellen Fenner and their children were Sarah, who became the wife of Wilson Miller; Lizzie, who married John Hearn; Belle, who was twice married, her first husband being John Eddenfield; Jane Douglas Keys; Samuel H., who died in Ohio, and Maggie, who became Mrs. Henry Duckwall, and resides in Missouri.

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A history of northeast Missouri, Vol. 2 pt 2, Part 81

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