Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. I, Part 85

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors
Number of Pages: 856

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courthouse was built by J. S. Ferguson, and was completed in the early part of 1827. It was of brick, two stories in height and thirty- six feet square, and cost about $1,400. This was one of the finest courthouses west of the Mississippi River at that time. Much of the money used for building it was derived from a forfeited bond. Hiram Bryan stole a horse, and William Bryan furnished a large bond for his appearance in court. The accused horse thief ran away, and the money forfeited by his surety was appropriated for building the courthouse. The courthouse was used until 1856, when it was sold at public auction for $400 to D. M. Tucker, who utilized the brick it contained in building a part of his residence at Fulton. The present courthouse was then built Some repairs have since been made. The building is in excellent condition. The first railroad built in the State was con- structed in Callaway County, from Cote Sans Dessein to a point five miles north, to reach the extensive beds of cannel coal located there. The enterprise was poorly managed, the shipment of coal to ouside markets found unprofitable, and in a short time the Eastern capitalists who had fostered the ven- ture abandoned it, and the rails and rolling stock were. during the Civil War, sold under execution. Rev. William Coats, a regular Baptist, was the first resident minister, and in 1817 preached the first sermon in the county. The same year Rev. John M. Peck and Rey. James E. Welch preached in the county. The first expositor of Presbyterian- ism was Rev. David Kirkpatrick, who was killed afterward by being thrown from his horse while traveling through the county to hold a meeting. Abraham Ellis, who lived in the western part of the county, was one of the first active Methodists, and near his home was the first camp meeting ground, where Rev. Andrew Monroe, the pioneer Methodist preacher, and a distinguished minister of the church, exhorted the people to become good Christians. For a number of years religious meetings were held in the houses of settlers. In 1826 the first church was built. It was a log building, twenty by thirty-six feet, and was located on the Big Aux Vasse, about twelve miles northeast of Fulton.

built by the Presbyterians, and the church at It was

that time had thirteen members. The con- gregation prospered, and in a few years the log church was replaced by a brick structure,

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for which, later, was substituted a stylish frame building. The Catholics at an early day built a small church on Hancock Prairie. No record is obtainable of the first schools of the county. Among the first teachers was Theoderick Boulware, a native of Essex County, Virginia, who settled in Callaway County in 1827. Upon his arrival in the county he taught a school for young men and women about two and a half miles north of Fulton. For forty years he was pastor of the Old School Baptist Church at Fulton. The first paper in the county was published, in 1839, at Fulton, and was called the "Banner of Liberty." Later it was changed to the "Telegraph," and is still published. Callaway County, at the outbreak of the Civil War, was strongly in favor of the Southern cause. Nearly all the citizens of the county were dis- franchised during the war, but nevertheless they persistently sent to the Legislature men who represented their political faith, but who were not admitted by that body. It was dur- ing this period that the name "Kingdom of Callaway" became attached to the county. Incursions of soldiers and guerrillas caused the county to suffer much, but recovery from depression and disturbances was rapid. Cal- laway County is divided into seventeen town- ships, named, respectively, Auxvasse, Bour- bon, Caldwell, Calwood, Cedar. Cleveland. Cote Sans Dessein, Fulton. Guthrie, Jackson, Liberty, McCredie, Nine Mile, Round Prai- rie. Saint Aubert. Shamrock and Summit. The assessed value of real estate and town lots in the county in 1899 was $4,065,330; es- timated full value, $12.195.990 ; assessed vahnte of personal property, including stocks, bonds, etc., $1,848,905 ; assessed value of merchants and manufacturers, $211,520; estimated full valne, $423,040: assessed value of railroads and telegraph, $868.311.40. There are 76.60 miles of railroad in the county, the Jefferson City branch of the Chicago & Alton entering the county at the center of the northern boundary and passing in a southwardly direc- tion to the southwest corner, and the Mis- souri, Kansas & Texas passing along the southern border, near the Missouri River. The number of public schools in the county in 1899 was 135 ; teachers employed, 150 ; pu- pils enumerated, 7.665 ; permanent school fund, county, township and special, $66,- 419.60. The population in 1900 was 30,000.

Callaway, James, a pioneer and noted Indian fighter, of St. Charles County, was born September 13, 1783, in Lafayette, Kentucky. Ile was the son of Flanders and Jemima (Boone) Callaway. The mother was a daughter of Daniel Boone. When a girl, living at Boonesborough, Kentucky, she and two daughters of Richard Callaway, while gathering wild flowers, were captured by In- dians. Boone and Callaway led a pursuit and recaptured the girls the following day. Callaway came to Missouri with his parents when he was a child. but soon returned to Kentucky to attend school, acquiring a lib- eral education for those days. In 1805 he again came to Missouri, married Nancy Howell, whose family settled Howell's Prai- rie, and established his home in what is now Dardenne Township, St. Charles County. Farming was not to his taste, and he gave time to business for neighbors and service as deputy under Sheriff Wherry. In 1813 he or- ganized a company of rangers and operated against the Indians in the region of Rock Is- land, Illinois, but being outnumbered, was obliged to return, skirmishing constantly with the pursuing Indians, but without loss of life. In 1815 he organized another company, which performed active service in protecting the settlers and pursuing marauding bands. He was killed in the battle on Loutre River (which see), March 7, 1815, and was buried near where he fell. He is described as tall and erect, but very bowlegged, with high forehead, prominent cheek bones and keen eyes. He was of dauntless courage, but im- petuous to the verge of recklessness. His widow married John H. Castlio, of the same neighborhood.

Cambridge .- A village on the Missouri River. in Saline County, twenty-two miles northeast of Marshall, the county seat. It has a public school, and a Southern Meth- odist Episcopal Church. Coal and limestone abound in the vicinity. In 1899 the popula- tion was 200. The town was formerly an important steamboat landing : it was settled in 1846, and was incorporated in 1847.

Camden. - A city of the fourth class in Ray County, located on the Wabash, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroads, seven miles south of Richmond, and thirty-

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seven miles from Kansas City. The city is located on the north bank of the Missouri River. It is one of the oldest settled points in the county. It has two churches, a public school, two hotels, a sawmill, and is con- nected by telephone with Kansas City and immediate towns. Large coal mines are located near by, and the business of the town is represented by sixteen stores and miscella- neous shops. Population, 1899 (estimated), 650.

Camden, Peter G., was born in Am- herst County, Virginia, May 23, 1811. He was educated at Washington College, Vir- ginia, and after studying law removed to Missouri, in 1827. After two years he re- moved to Kentucky, where he lived until 1837, when he returned to Missouri and settled in St. Louis, and engaged in mer- chandising. In 1846 he was chosen mayor of the city, and it was during his administra- tion that the city issued bonds to the amount of $25,000 for protective work on the Illinois shore to prevent a deflection of the current of the river to the injury of the harbor.

Camden County. - A county in the south-central part of the State, bounded on the north by Morgan ; northeast by Miller ; east by Pulaski; south by Laclede and Dal- las ; and west by Hickory and Benton Coun- tics ; area 437,000 acres. Camden is a county of hills and valleys, scarcely any prairie lying within its limits. It is well watered and drained by numerous streams. Traversing its entire northern portion is the Osage River, navigable as far as Linn Creek, and which marks two-thirds of the northern boundary line. From the southwest it re- ceives the waters of Maries, Fork of Rainey, Pearson's Creek and a number of smaller streams. From the west flows the Little Niangua, which unites with the Osage in the northern-central part of the county. Mack's Creek flows from the southwest into the Little Niangua, and the Big Niangua re- ceives from the west the waters of Ausburis Branch and a number of smaller streams, and from the east Woolsey's, Bank Branch and Spencer Creeks. In the southeast are Dry Auglaize, Miller's Creek, Wet Auglaize and smaller streams, that find their way to the Osage. These streams afford excellent water power. Along them are bluffs and hills

highly picturesque. A mammoth spring, called Lower Big Spring, and a "big cave," both in Township 37, Range 17, are places that will interest the seeker after natural curiosities. The land in the valleys is highly productive, the soil of a rich loam, while the clayey, gravelly hillsides and uplands con- stitute the choicest horticultural tracts. About forty per cent of the land is under cul- tivation, the greater part of the remainder being well timbered with the different species of oak, black and white walnut, sugar maple, elm, ash, hickory, locust, basswood and less valuable woods. Stock-raising and fruit- growing are the most profitable industries. According to the report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the year 1899; in 1898 the surplus products exported from the county were : cattle, 2,768 head ; hogs, 7.705 head ; sheep, 1,966 head; horses and mules, 120 head; wheat, 1,150 bushels; oats, 500 bushels; hay, 34,500 pounds ; flour, 4.550 pounds ; shipstuff, 7,250 pounds ; lumber, 175,000 feet ; walnut logs, 6,000 feet ; cross- ties, 200,454; cord-wood, 804 cords ; gravel, 20 car loads; lime, 110 barrels; wool, 3.550 pounds ; tobacco. 450 pounds ; potatoes, 150 bushels ; poultry, 86,995 pounds ; eggs, 99.710 dozen ; butter, 530 pounds; dressed meats, 1,200 pounds ; game and fish, 32,710 pounds ; tallow, 640 pounds; hides and pelts, 940 pounds ; fresh fruit, 13,650 pounds ; dried fruit, 1,635 pounds; onions, 200 bushels ; honey, 265 pounds ; cider, 780 gallons ; nur- sery stock, 3.978 pounds ; furs, 1.390 pounds ; feathers, 1,290 pounds. Coal, Icad, iron and zinc have been found in the county. In 1873 an iron smelter was built near the Osage, about twelve miles above Linn Creek, but was never operated. Recently efforts have been made to develop lead and zinc mines. When white men first settled in the region now forming Camden County, about the year 1827, it was occupied by tribes of Osage Indians. While they did not heartily welcome the white settlers, they were peace- ful, and it is not related in tradition that they lived on any but the most friendly terms. The first settlers were from Kentucky, Vir- ginia and Tennessee, and were a sturdy class, inured to the hardships of frontier life. Early in the forties the "Slicker War." which was confined to a section of the country now em- bracing Benton and Morgan Counties, ex- tended to the Camden County territory, and

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there was much trouble and some bloodshed. (See "Slicker War.") On the Dry Auglaize, the first settlement is said to have been made by Reuben Berry, and about the same time William Pogue settled on the Osage. In 1830, Keaton Murray settled on the Osage and died about two years later. Aaron Crain, a Virginian, who for a few years had resided in Boone County, Missouri, settled with his family and other adult relatives on the Osage opposite the mouth of the Big Niangua. These are now supposed to have been the earliest settlers. In the next ten years a large number made homes for them- selves in the county. On January 29, 1841, Kinderhook County was organized by legis- lative act, and the county seat was located at Oregon. February 23, 1843, the name of the county was changed to Camden, after a county in North Carolina, and Oregon, the county seat, became known as Erie. Some years later the county seat was changed to Linn Creek. The commissioners appointed to locate a permanent seat of justice were Bartholomew W. Keown, of Benton County ; Edwin Swink, of Pulaski ; and John B. Fisher, of Morgan County, and they were directed to locate the county seat on the Osage. The commissioners met at the house of Thomas L. Pollard on the second Monday of April, 1841, and accepted from James G. Gunter and his wife, Mary Gunter, a tract of forty acres of land, and from Aaron Crain seven acres in Section 25, Township 39, Range 17 West, for county seat purposes. On Septem- ber 6, 1841, the commissioners filed with the county court their report and a plat of the town of Oregon. A public sale of lots was held, and from this sale $2,107.93 was realized for seventy-one lots. In 1843 the name of the county seat was changed to Erie. In 1846 a courthouse was built of brick at a cost of $4,046. This was used until the county seat was removed to Linn Creek. At the April term of the county court, 1855, a petition was presented for the removal of the county seat to Linn Creek. This was acted upon favorably, the conditions being that land for county buildings be donated to the county and that money by subscription be raised for the building of a courthouse, the same to be presented free of all expenses to the county. For a year after the removal of the county seat, the courts met in the counting room of Vernon & Churchill. in

Linn Creek, and then purchased the building, which was continued in use until the present courthouse was built, in 1867. May 10th of that year an order was inade appropriating $6,500 for a courthouse, which was completed the following year. The first jail was built in 1841, of logs, at a cost of $125. Upon the removal of the county seat to Linn Creek another jail was built, at a cost of $400. This was burned during the war, and carly in 1866 another jail was built, at a cost of $1,150. In 1882 this jail was burned by a prisoner who tried to escape. About 1893 the present jail was built. The judges of the first county court were Laban Joy, David Fulbright and Miles Vernon, with James N. B. Dodson, clerk, and Martin Fulbright, sheriff. Their first meeting was at the house of Thomas M1. Pollard the first Monday in March, 1841. For one year the court met at Pollard's, then began to hold sessions at the house of O. D. Moffeit in the town of Oregon, which was the place of meeting for about a year; then the meetings were held in the house of Laban Joy, which continued the regular meeting place until the completion of the first courthouse. The first meeting of the circuit court for Camden County was held at the house of Thomas M. Pollard, July 12, 1841, Honorable Foster P. Wright, presiding judge, Martin Fulbright, sheriff. and J. N. B. Dodson, clerk. The first indictment was against a number of persons for "riot." A trial by jury resulted in a verdict of "not guilty as alleged," and the parties were dis- charged, only to be arrested on assault and battery charges and "intent to kill." It is on record that these charges were not sustained and the accused were dismissed at the November term, 1842. Only trivial cases came before the court in its early period in Camden County. There have been a num- ber of murders-one which created unusual interest being the shooting, in 1870, of United States Marshal Moses, by a moonshiner, named Felix Whiteworth, who was sub- sequently arrested and escaped from jail at Sedalia, and was never recaptured. In all, Camden County's criminal record is not a long one, and the citizens generally well be- haved, peaceful and zealous in sustaining the good character of the county. The senti- ments of the people of Camden County at the outbreak of the Civil War were very nearly evenly divided. During the struggle

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the county furnished many troops to the Federal side and a few to the Confederacy. There were lively times in the county, there being much skirmishing and guerrilla war- fare. On October 13, 1861, there was a lively fight on the Wet Auglaize, between Companies "A" and "C," of the Sixth Mis- souri Cavalry under Captain T. A. Switzler and a Confederate force under Major M. Johnson. It was a victory for the Federals, who surprised the Confederates. The first religious denomination to establish a church in Camden County was the Baptist, which started a church on the Little Niangua in 1846. At present the Baptists, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal South, Chris- tian, United Brethren and Presbyterian de- nominations have churches in the county. Little progress was made along educational lines in Camden County until the close of the war, soon after which the public school system was inaugurated. The first schools were few, and, according to tradition, not of a high standard, the children receiving the best training at the firesides of their homes. The first newspaper of the county was the "Weekly Stet" established about 1873, in Linn Creek. by L. S. Wright. About the same time a newspaper called the "Rustic" was established at Stoutland, and a year later moved to Linn Creek. Camden County is divided into seven townships, named re- spectively: Adair, Auglaize, Jackson, Jas- per, Osage, Russell and Warren. The only municipal corporations in the county are Linn Creek and Stoutland. incorporated vil- lages. In 1897 the assessed value of real estate in the county was $1.153.952; esti- mated full value, $2,550,000. Assessed value of personal property. $109.877 : estimated full value, $185,000: assessed value of stocks, bonds, etc., $82,131. Assessed value of rail- roads, $11, 100. There are only three and a half miles of railroad in the county, the St. Louis & San Francisco, which crosses the southeastern corner. In 1897 the number of public schools was So; teachers employed. 89 : pupils, 4785; and the permanent school fund amounted to $17.817.61. The popula- tion of the county in 1900 was 13.113.

Camden County Caves. There are numerous caves in Camden County, some of which are of considerable size and beauty. One on the west side of the Auglaize River.

near the hamlet of Glaize City, in the eastern part of the county, was discovered more than half a century ago. It extends half a mile from the opening and contains some large chambers, festooned with beautiful forma- tions of lime. At what is known as Gunter's Springs, eight miles south of Linn Creek, there are a number of caves in the rocky hills. In one of these caves Indian ornaments and flints have been found. Another cave near by is called Robbers' Cave, near which is a mammoth spring that gushes forth more than 5,000,000 cubic feet of water a day. Coming from the spring, the water forms a large creek, which after flowing a short dis- tance forms a lake, crescent in form, about one-half mile in length and a quarter of a mile wide. A short distance from this lake is a natural bridge over a chasm of some 150 feet in depth. A wagon road has been built through the chasm and under the bridge. Near this chasm is what is called the "Red Link," a circular basin about 300 feet in diameter and 150 feet deep. In this neigh- borhood are numerous other interesting natural formations.

Camden Point .- A town of 300 in- habitants in Green Township, Platte County, seven miles northeast of Platte City, the county seat, on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. It was laid off in 1848 by M. M. Logue. It was first called Cam- den, but when it became a postoffice the name was changed to Camden Point. It was the scene of a battle fought on July 13. 1864. between a force of four hundred Fed- erals from Kansas, under Colonel Jennison and Colonel Ford, and a body of Confed- erates under Colonel Thornton, in which the Confederates were routed with a loss of six men killed and others wounded. \ mont- ment was erected to the Confederate dead. Camden Point has an orphan school, under the management of the Christian denomina- tion, a military institute, a public library and a Baptist and a Christian Church. The Bank of Camden Point has a capital and sur- plus of $5.270 and deposits of $25,000.

Cameron. - A city of the third class, in the northeastern part of Clinton County, extending over the line into De Kalb County." It had a population in 1900 of 2,870. and is the largest town in Clinton County, and

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being at the point of junction of the Kansas City Branch of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, and the crossing of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, is the center of a large and profitable trade with the adjoining region, and is one of the best built towns in the State. It was laid out in 1855 by a com- pany composed of the original owners, E. M. Samuels, S. MeCorkle, B. H. Matthews. G. M. Smith and F. M. Tiernan, and took its name from Colonel Cameron. of Clay County, father of Mrs. McCorkle, wife of one of the founders. The first sale of lots was had in 1856, and the first building was erected by A. T. Baubie, who also opened the first store ; the first physician was Dr. J. F. King; the first blacksmith and wagon shop was that of Abadie Smith : the first attorney was F. M. Tiernan ; the first postmaster was A. T. Baubie ; the first school was taught by Mrs. Duncan ; and the first mill was erected by H. Lyon and R. C. Packard, in 1868. The town was incorporated in 1867 as a village, with A. T. Baubie as the first mayor. In October, 1871, it was visited by a destructive fire, which burned forty-five buildings, in- flicting an aggregate loss of $150,000: but great as the calamity was, the people tri- umphed over it and rebuilt the town in better style and substance than before. It now con- tains a public schoolhouse : several blocks of substantial buildings ; ten churches-Baptist. Congregational, Methodist Episcopal. South- ern Methodist, Christian, Presbyterian. Ger- man Methodist. Catholic, Protestant Epis- copal and African Methodist : three banks- the First National, with capital and surplus of $54.850 and deposits of $85,000 : the Park Bank, with capital and surplus of $5,000, and deposits of $35,000 : and the Farmers' Bank with capital and surplus of $59.000 and de- posits of $165,000-and lodges of the differ- ent fraternal orders. In 1900 there were three public schools in operation in Cameron, with 15 teachers and 793 pupils enrolled. There were 500 volumes in the school library, valued at $500. The estimated value of school property was $20,000 ; the receipts for school purposes were $12.688. and the expenditures $10.327. It is the seat of the Missouri Wesleyan College. a Methodist academical school for both sexes. In 1900 5 teachers were employed, 150 pupils were enrolled, and the property was valued at $5.000. Newspapers are the "Sun," Demo-

cratic, the "Observer" and the "Republican," both Republican. The city contains a park, is lighted by electricity, and is substantially built. Business interests include flourmills, a foundry and machine shops, a cheese factory, and many well built business houses. The bonded indebtedness of the city in 1898 was $12,000, consisting of twenty-four $500 5-per-cent bonds, issued in ISON, and run- ning fifteen years, the interest being promptly paid semi-annually.

Campbell, Given, lawyer, was born December 1. 1835, at Salem, Livingston County, Kentucky, son of James and Mary (Given) Campbell, both of whom resided for many years at Paducah. Kentucky. lli- pa- ternal grandfather was James Campbell, born in the Parish Breadalbane, in the western part of Perthshire, Scotland, and a member of the Ardkinglas branch of the Campbell family. This James Campbell, who was the only member of the family to come to the United States, settled at Petersburg, Virginia, where he was engaged in milling operations and in foreign commerce. lle served his adopted country in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and was a citizen of high repute and much influence in the "Old Dominion." He married Marie Jeane Victoire De La Porte, a French lady (and the daughter of General De La Porte), who became a refugee from France during the "reign of terror." The mother of Given Campbell was a daugh- ter of Dickson Given, who came from South Carolina to Kentucky at an early day, and her mother was Nancy Davis, who belonged to the old Kentucky family of that name. Reared in Kentucky, Mr. Campbell obtained his early education there, and finished his scholastic and law studies at the University of Virginia. from which institution he was graduated with the degree of bachelor of laws. Soon after leaving the university he came to St. Louis to begin the practice of his profession, and for a short time was in the office of Charles D. Drake, later a United States Senator from Missouri. He was then examined by Judge James R. Lackland and admitted to the bar in 1858. After that he practiced in the St. Louis courts until the spring of 1861, when he temporarily aban- doned civil for military life. When the State troops assembled at Camp Jackson in May, of 1861. he was in command of Company G

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Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. I, Part 85

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n Publication date: 1901 Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors Number of Pages: 856

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors
Number of Pages: 856