A history of northeast Missouri, Vol. 2 pt 2, Part 98

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

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In 1891 Dr. Mackey married Miss Cora Lee Jamison at Clarks- ville, Missouri. She is a daughter of Squire A. T. Jamison, one of the

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best known and most esteemed citizens of Clarksville at the time of his death. He was born near Paynesville, Missouri, on January 20, 1829, and three-fourths of his lifetime was spent in the vicinity of his birth- place. He was eighty-two years old when death claimed him. He was also said to be the oldest member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, of Clarksville, having had membership in that body for fifty-six years. He was long engaged in the harness, saddle and shoe business, and as mayor of the city for four terms gained some prominence as an official of Clarksville. He served two terms as assessor of Pike county, and many years as a justice of the peace, and was known to be one of the best informed men on general topics in the city and county. He was twice married. His first wife was Rhoda Huett, of Pike county, who died in 1867, and his second wife was Mrs. Anna Dawson, whom he married in 1870. Of the six children who were born of the first mar- riage, Mrs. Mackey was the youngest. Four children were the result of the later union.

Mrs. Mackey was reared and educated in Clarksville and there mar- ried her husband. Five children have come to them, namely: Virginia May, Alberta, Leora, Lula V. and Velma Lee. Mrs. Mackey is a woman of rare qualities and culture, and with the doctor, is a member of the Methodist church, in which they are active and efficient workers. The doctor is a big-hearted, whole-souled and honest gentleman, well fitted by nature and training for the work in which he is active, and is fast forging to the forefront in his profession. He is a member of Hannibal Lodge, No. 188, A. F. & A. M., and other fraternal societies.

COL. C. A. TATMAN. Noteworthy among Howard county's promi- nent and well-known citizens is Col. C. A. Tatman, an auctioneer of repute and one of the leading stockmen of the county, leasing and occu- pying a well-kept farm lying three and one-half miles south of Fayette. A son of the late J. W. Tatman, he was born May 24, 1868, in Peoria county, Illinois, where his boyhood days were passed.

During the Civil war J. W. Tatman enlisted as a soldier in the Union army, joining on Ohio regiment, in which he served faithfully until honorably discharged from the service on account of physical dis- ability. He subsequently engaged in farming in Illinois for a number of years, but later removed to Gage county, Nebraska, settling near Beatrice, where he remained a resident until his death in 1896, at the age of sixty-eight years.' He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and both he and his wife belonged to the Methodist Episco- pal church. He married Sophronia Barnes, who is now living in Fres- no, California. Eight children were born to their union, as follows : six boys and two girls; and C. A. Tatman, second son, the subject of this brief sketch.

C. A. Tatman attended school first in Illinois and later completed his studies in the public schools of Nebraska. When ready to begin the battle of life on his own account, he removed to Adams county, Ne- braska, and for a time was in business at Hastings, first as a retail grocer and later as a wholesale grocer. Going from there to Saint Joseph, Missouri, he conducted a furniture store for a time and then went to Chicago, Illinois, where he built up an extensive business as a real estate agent, a broker and an auctioneer. He subsequently con- tinued business as an auctioneer in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was also employed in other business for a while. Since locating in Howard county, Missouri, Mr. Tatman has been extensively engaged in agricultural pursuits, having a finely appointed farm three and one- half miles south of Fayette, where he is especially interested in rais- ing fine stock, including Poland China swine.

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Colonel Tatman married at Saint Joseph, Missouri, April 16, 1890, Miss Sadie Harris, daughter of J. T. Harris, who came to Missouri from Virginia, his native state. Mr. and Mrs. Tatman have one child, Charles R. Tatman, a young man of twenty-one years, living at home. Mrs. Tatman is much interested in farm life and has made a great success of poultry raising, having now, in 1912, a fine flock of Plymouth Rock fowls, three hundred in number, it being one of the best to be found in this section of the state.

Colonel Tatman is held in high regard as a man and a citizen and is popular in business circles, being honorable and fair in his dealings and having the confidence of his fellowmen. He is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters and takes great interest in promot- ing the good of the organization.

O. E. WALKUP. Scientific agriculture is no longer only a high- sounding phrase, and farming, formerly an occupation in which the surplus sons of the old-time large families engaged as their natural and only means of livelihood, has been brought to the front as one of the professions and one that demands careful preparation and returns sure and generous compensation. Each year witnesses remarkable progress along this line and the farmer who would attain a full measure of suc- cess from his fields must be constantly on the alert to take advantage of the startling discoveries in his chosen vocation. It is, therefore, those who have adopted the new scientific methods of tilling the soil in pref- erence to the old hit-or-miss style that are the leading agriculturists of their several communities. Northeastern Missouri has many of such progressive men and in this class may be mentioned O. E. Walkup, of Randolph county, the owner of a fine tract of 180 acres located in Union township. Mr. Walkup was born in Green county, Illinois, Sep- tember 21, 1870, and is a son of J. S. and Louisa (Reno) Walkup, the former a native of Missouri and the latter of Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Walkup, who still reside in Randolph county, have been the parents of nine children, of whom eight survive.

O. E. Walkup received a common school education and spent his boy- hood in a similar manner to that of other youths of his day and locality, attending school during the winter months and devoting the summers to work on the home farm. On completing his education he began assist- ing his father in his agricultural work and remained on the homestead until his marriage, at the age of twenty-four years, at which time he rented a property of his own, which he subsequently purchased. To this he has added from time to time, and now has 180 acres, all in a high state of cultivation, devoting his land to general farming. He has also given a good deal of attention to stock raising, and is considered an excellent judge of thoroughbred cattle. He has always used modern methods in tilling his fields, thus assuring large crops, and his pro- gressive operations have won a due measure of success, he being consid- ered one of the substantial men of his community.

In 1894 Mr. Walkup was married to Miss Ada Secrist, who was born in Illinois, daughter of A. and Priscilla (Clark) Secrist, who was whom are deceased, and two daughters and five sons have been born to this union : Otis Lee, Lola G., Ada Pearl, John R., Harl E., Virgil G. and Oka Estil. With his family Mr. Walkup attends the Christian church. He is a Democrat in politics and has served as road overseer and school director, giving his fellow citizens excellent service in both offices. He has always treasured the privileges of membership in Ma- sonic lodge No. 151, at Milton, in which he has passed through several of the chairs and also engages in the routine activities of Odd Fellows lodge No. 7, of Leesburg. A public-spirited, enterprising and indus- Vol. III-42

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trious citizen, he has done much to materially advance his community along various lines, and his many pleasing personal attributes have drawn about him a wide circle of warm friends.

MAJ. JOSEPH HUGHES FINKS, an old and honored citizen who is widely known and highly respected throughout this part of the state. Born near Stanardsville, Greene county, Virginia, August 7, 1838, he belongs to a family that traces its ancestry back to ante-Revolutionary days, and whose members have ever been prominent in the professions and in business, in military and in civic life.

Mark Finks, the American progenitor of this distinguished family, emigrated from Switzerland and sought a home in Madison county, Vir- ginia, where he was married to a Miss Fisher, whose family later be- came prominent in the history of Kentucky. During the War of the Revolution he served as a captain under Gen. LaFayette, and after an active and useful life, passed away when cighty-four years of age.

In the fall of 1862 Maj. Joseph Hughes Finks volunteered in the Confederate service, thus casting his fortunes with his Southern breth- ren. He continued a brave and gallant officer until the unhappy struggle was over and then surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana, in October, 1865. Although he was suffering from an illness at the time, he, with six others, among whom was General Parsons, started immediately for Mexico, the others of this illustrious party being Colonel Standish, Colonel Williams of the staff of General Buckner, Hon. Mr. Conroe, a member of congress from Richmond, Missouri, and Capt. George Lewis. This party traveled by ambulance, but on reaching San An- tonio, Texas, Major Finks became so ill he could go no further and by the advice of physicians remained there. His particular friend, Cap- tain Lewis, remained with him, while the balance of the party continued on their way, but they were all subsequently murdered by the Mexi- cans. The major has always considered that a special intervention of providence saved him from a like fate. While in the army Major Finks won for himself a reputation as an officer and soldier of which he has no reason to be ashamed. His commission as major was given him by President Jefferson Davis, and he occupied positions on the staffs of Gens. D. M. Frost, John B. Clark, Sr., John B. Clark, Jr., Drayton and M. M. Parsons, and was a member of the staff of the last named at the time of the surrender.

After the return of Major Finks he engaged in farming until 1870, when he was elected clerk of the circuit court and recorder of Howard county, and in 1874 he was re-elected by a large majority, thus serving in that capacity for eight years. At the end of this second term he was elected a member of the state legislature of 1878-79, from Howard county, and in this distinguished body he was known as a working member. He was elected marshal of the state supreme court in 1895 and is still holding the office at this time.

On December 17, 1872, Major Finks was married in Chariton county, Missouri, to Miss Lizzie Harvey, daughter of William J. and Ellen M. Harvey, pioneers of Missouri and highly respected citizens of Chariton county, where Mr. Harvey was a successful farmer. Mrs. Finks was educated at the Visitation Convent, St. Louis, and was a lady of beauty, refinement and rare accomplishments. Much of her leisure time was given to charitable work of the church. There were two daughters born to this union, Helen and Lizzie, the only son, Joseph, Jr., dying at the age of six years. Socially, Major Finks has been an official of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a member of the encampment, a past officer in the Masonic fraternity and a member of Tancred com-

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mandery at Moberly, Missouri, and a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

WALTER N. BAGBY. Armstrong has in Walter N. Bagby one of her stanchest citizens and most successful business men. A native son of the county, he has long been a resident of the community which now represents his home. Since 1892 he has been engaged in the drug busi- ness at Armstrong, with the exception of a period of eight months when he was occupied as a salesman for a wholesale cutlery house, but later resumed his old-time business. He has experienced a generous meas- ure of success and enjoys the approval and friendship of a large circle of the best citizenship of the city and county.

Born on the 15th of December in 1858, in Roanoke, Howard county, Walter N. Bagby is the representative of one of the oldest families of the state. His father was Dr. R. J. Bagby, now deceased, and a prominent and successful physician in this state for many years. He was born in Randolph county, Missouri, on September 11, 1832, himself the son of John Bagby, long prominent in Virginia. John Bagby was a soldier of the War of 1812. He was a man of prominence and considerable wealth in his state and in his young manhood moved to Scot county, Kentucky, where he married Mildred Ward. In 1827 he migrated to Missouri, locating in Howard county, just north of Fayette, and bring- ing with him a number of slaves from Kentucky. Both died in Howard county and from 1827 until the present time the name of Bagby has been an honored one in this state.

Dr. R. J. Bagby was reared on the home plantation in Howard county and received a good education for his day. He studied medicine under Thomas Blake and was later an attendant at St. Louis Medical College, from which he was duly graduated, and after that event he located at Roanoke and continued there in successful practice for many years. In 1856 Dr. Bagby wedded Miss Pamelia Twyman, who was born in Virginia, and who died in 1872, leaving three children: Hugh B., Walter N., and William H. The second wife of the doctor was Alice Twyman and three children were born to this union: Mabel C., John W. and Robert J. The father, who stood high in his profession as well as in the esteem of all who knew him, died in 1900.

The youth of Walter N. Bagby was passed in the vicinity of his birthplace. He received his education in the public schools and in Roanoke Academy, an institution that ranked high in those days as a place of learning. It is probable that his strong taste for the drug business came to him from his father, and in his youth he was an earnest student of drugs and medicine. In 1892 he entered the drug business at Armstrong and here he has since been engaged, with the exception of an eight months' period when he was occupied as a travel- ing salesman for a wholesale cutlery house. Mr. Bagby has one of the most comprehensive establishments in his line, and carries lines of drugs, paints, oils, books, stationery and jewelry, and many druggists' sundries of all kinds and his place is one of the most popular in Arm- strong. An unerring business instinct has directed the activities of Mr. Bagby in his enterprise and he is known for one of the most successful men in the ranks of the veteran business houses of the city.

When Mr. Bagby was twenty-two years of age he was united in marriage with Miss Fannie S. Wayland, a woman of intelligence and culture, and from one of the finest families of the county. She was the daughter of John H. and Martha (Daysert) Wayland, both of whom came to this state from Virginia and Tennessee. respectively. Five children have come to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bagby, named as follows: Fosse P., Mabel, Roger M., Nicholas W., and Robert J.

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Mr. Bagby is a member of several of the local fraternal organiza- tions. He is a man who has a large circle of friends, won to him by his frank and genial manner and his sterling qualities of heart and mind, and retained by the same splendid qualities.

JOHN W. CLATTERBUCK. The family of which this well known and honored citizen of Callaway county is a representative is one whose name has been identified with the development and upbuilding of this county in a most prominent and worthy manner, and the family rec- ords are concerned with the annals of the county since the early pioneer days. Reuben Clatterbuck, great-grandfather of him whose name ini- tiates this review, was the founder of the family in Missouri. He was a native of Kentucky and was reared to maturity in the fine old Blue- grass state. He served as a valiant soldier in the Continental line in the War of the Revolution and was a young man when he came to Missouri and numbered himself among the very early settlers of Calla- way county, where he obtained land from the government and devel- oped a productive farm, his landed estate comprising nearly three hun- dred acres and having been located about seven miles west of the present village of New Bloomfield. He was one of the sterling pioneers of Cal- laway county and aided in laying the foundation for the opulent pros- perity that marks this section in this second decade of the twentieth century.

William Getter Clatterbuck, grandfather of John W., of this re- view, was a youth at the time of the family removal from Kentucky to Callaway county, Missouri, and here was solemnized his marriage to Miss Caroline Leopard. He became the owner of a well improved farm of nearly three hundred acres and was one of the substantial agricul- turists and stock growers of the county. Prior to the Civil war he owned a number of slaves. He was originally an old-line Whig in politics but later espoused the cause of the Democratic party. He died in 1874 at the age of sixty-one years, and his wife survived him by a number of years. They became the parents of seven children, all of whom are living and the eldest of whom is now more than sixty years of age. Their names are as here noted: John L., Elizabeth, William S., Benjamin F., Walter, James H. and Caroline.

William Samuel Clatterbuck was born on the old homestead farm of his father, about seven miles west of New Bloomfield, on the 12th of July, 1841, and his entire active career was one of close and successful identification with agriculture and stock growing. He gave loyal and gallant service as a soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, in which he served under Generals Price and Cockerell, and during his long and faithful service he lived up to the full tension of the great con- flict. He took part in many important engagements, was wounded in battle at Franklin, Tennessee, and was once captured by the enemy, having been held as a prisoner of war for a period of about one month. He is now the owner of a valuable farm of two hundred and eighty- five acres, about one and three-fourths miles distant from New Bloom- field, and he there devotes his attention to diversified agriculture and the raising of live stock, including thoroughbred cattle of registered line and also high grade Duroc Jersey swine, as well as horses and mules. Industry and well ordered enterprise have brought to him a generous measure of success and he commands in his native county the unquali- fied confidence and esteem of all who know him. He is a stalwart ad- vocate of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor and both he and his wife hold membership in the Bap- tist church.

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William S. Clatterbuck wedded Miss Mary E. Curry, who was born in Callaway county in January, 1850, and who is a daughter of the late William and Mary J. (Snells) Curry. Of the four children of this union one died in infancy. Nancy J. is the wife of Edward L. Sheley, who is one of the representative farmers and stock growers of Callaway county ; John William is the immediate subject of this review; and Robert Gates, who married Miss Mayme Lynes.

John William Clatterbuck was born on the old homestead farm, about seven miles west of New Bloomfield, 'and the date of his nativity was November 28, 1872. He was afforded the advantages of the public schools and carly learned the lessons of practical industry in connec- tion with the work of the home farm. He continued to be associated with his father until 1896, when he married and established his home on his present farm, aboue one and one-half miles northwest of New Bloomfield, the place being the old Sheley farm, which was formerly owned by the father of his first wife. In the successful livestock en- terprise with which he is identified Mr. Clatterbuck is associated with Edward L. Sheley, his brother-in-law in a double sense, as the latter married a sister of Mr. Clatterbuck, whose first wife was a sister of Mr. Sheley.

On a finely improved farm of two hundred and forty acres Mr. Clatterbuck gives special attention to the breeding of registered Duroc Jersey swine, and he and his partner have exhibited many fine animals of this breed at county and state fairs, where they have captured grati- fying premiums and prizes. They also breed jacks and jennets, and this line of enterprise has been made specially successful under their progressive policies of breeding and selling the stock. Though Mr. Clat- terbuck has manifested no desire for the honors or emoluments of pub- lic office he takes a deep concern in all that tends to advance the best interests of the community and is a stanch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party. He is affiliated with the Knights and Ladies of Security and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Baptist church, of which he is treasurer.

January 22, 1896, recorded the marriage of Mr. Clatterbuck to Miss Annie Sheley, who was born on the 22nd of January, 1874, and who was a daughter of John J. and America (Morgan) Sheley, honored citizens of Callaway county. Mrs. Clatterbuck was summoned to the life eternal on the 31st of March, 1904, and is survived by two children, Mildred and Marian. Mr. Clatterbuck married Miss Van Della Vaughn, who was born April 8, 1885, and who is a daughter of Hamilton W. and Lee (Finley) Vaughn, well known residents of Callaway county. No chil- dren have been born of the second marriage.

CHARLES W. TIPTON. One of the well known farmer-teachers of Ralls county, Missouri, who has participated actively in the civic affairs of his county and has carved his destiny from an humble and indigent teacher to an enviable position among the educators of his locality and to a substantial place among the successful business men and farmers of Northeastern Missouri, is Charles W. Tipton, of Center, near which city he owns a valuable property of 410 acres of well cultivated land. Mr. Tipton was born near Baylis, Pike county, Illinois, January 17, 1867. His father, William Tipton, brought his family to Missouri in 1882. He was born December 31, 1830, at Gallipolis, Gallia county, Ohio, where his father, James Tipton, then lived. The family is of Irish origin, the father of James being the Irish emigrant who projected the name on American soil. James Tipton emigrated from Ohio to Illinois when the latter was a new and slowly developing country and settled in Pike

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county, where he died in 1865 at above eighty years of age. He and his wife had the following children: Sylvester, who went to Colorado many years ago with his family; James, who died near Farber, Missouri ; Joshua and Henry, who died as Union soldiers somewhere in Mississippi during the War of the Rebellion; Hannah, who became the wife of Hugh Davidson; and Damaries, who married Washington Coughenour of Pike county, Illinois; William, father of Charles W. Tipton, was the youngest of his parents' children.

The country schools of Gallia county, Ohio, educated William Tip- ton sparingly and he remained in the atmosphere of the home farm when he grew to manhood. His training and environment made him a lover of his country and when its life was threatened by enemies at home he responded to whatever service he was called upon to give. He was subject to call for guard duty about home and was on guard at Louisiana, Missouri, on one occasion when the Confederates threatened the town. Coming to Missouri, William Tipton settled near Cincinnati. His life was that of an unobtrusive citizen and modest farmer. He loved his church, the United Brethren, and took an active part for many years in the work of the Sunday school as a teacher. Politically he was a Republican. In 1859 Mr. Tipton was married to Catherine D. Stock- ton, daughter of Richard Stockton, and she died in 1904. The children born to this union were as follows: Oliver R., born in 1859, a farmer near Center, Missouri, who married Maud Elder and has a son, Will- iam D .; Anna, the wife of Howard Myers, whose farm is four miles from the Tipton estate, and whose children are Edith and Kenneth; Hannah, who became Mrs. J. B. Cobby and resides in Fresno, Califor- nia; Charles W .; Sarah, who married Ed. Myers and owns a farm in the Tipton community ; Henry, who is a resident of Fresno, California; Joseph, living in Portland, Oregon; and Alfred, whose home is in Sanger, California.

Charles W. Tipton received his education in the public schools of Pike county, Illinois, and Ralls county, Misouri, then a teacher's course at Perry Institute. He then spent one year in Cabool College, taking a course in higher mathematics and Latin, at the same time teaching penmanship and bookkeeping to defray his expenses. He taught one year at Cabool and fiften years in Ralls county, being principal of the Center schools for two years and doing his last work in the St. Paul district in 1910. During this period as an educator he served four years as a member of the county board of education and his success as a teacher and his popularity as a citizen brought him strong support toward the school commissionership of the county, the one time he con- sented to look in that direction. Mr. Tipton began farming soon after le embarked in teaching and the dollars he earned in the school room were invested in the ground near Center. The extent of his dominions and the advance in land values made capital for him while he developed the minds and made good citizens of the youths under his control, and he soon found himself able to own one of the best farms in the county. This is made up of the John K. Briggs land and a portion of the Dr. Frazer property and totals 410 acres within two and one-half miles of Center. Mr. Tipton is one of the stockholders of the New London Fair Association and was chosen a director of the Peoples Bank of Center when that institution was chartered. Mr. Tipton is a progressive Re- publican in his political views, but is not quite ready to accept the dras- tic policies of the new Progressive party. Fraternally he affiliates with the Odd Fellows and has many friends in the local lodge. His house- hold maintains a tolerant and liberal attitude in the matter of church

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A history of northeast Missouri, Vol. 2 pt 2, Part 98

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