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Buckwheat
52
Timothy seed
44
Corn-meal .
48
Hemp seed .
30
Stone coal
80
Broom-corn seed
14
Corn, in the ear .
70
Blue-grass seed
45
Hungarian grass seed .
46
Sweet potatoes .
56
Castor beans . ·
·
46
Shelled corn
24
·
Dried apples ·
32
Lime
ries . ·
60
Osage-orange seed
. 32
45
Bran
Dried peaches
Cherries, grapes, currants or gooseber-
40
Strawberries, raspberries or blackber-
60
Potatoes
. 57
Onions
·
.
. There is a fine and penalty attached for giving false weights.
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LAWS OF MISSOURI.
MISSOURI GAME LAW.
There have been so many violations of the game law that its publica- tion is one of interest. Many persons violate this law through ignor- ance, and others wilfully. The penalty is here given for all such acts. Every good citizen and lover of hunting is interested in preventing the law from being trampled upon, and those wilfully breaking it should be forced to pay the penalty. A synopsis of the law is as follows :
It is unlawful to kill, catch or have in possession any deer between January 15th and September 1st.
Wild turkey between March 1st and September 15th.
Prairie chickens between February 1st and August 15th.
Quail or pheasant between February 1st and October 15th.
Woodcock between January 10th and July 1st.
Turtle doves, meadow larks and plover between February 1st and August 1st.
Wild song birds or insectiverous birds cannot be killed at any time.
It is unlawful to net or trap any quail, prairie chicken, or any of the birds named above.
It is unlawful to have in possession or purchase or sell any of the game or animals named above when the killing is prohibited.
It is unlawful to have in possession or to sell any of the game birds named that do not show shot marks, it being prima facie evidence that they have been trapped or netted contrary to law.
It is unlawful for any railroad, express company, or other carrier, to receive for transportation any of the birds or game mentioned, when the killing of the same is prohibited.
Every person who shall violate any of the above named laws shall be guilty of misdemeanor and punished by a fine not exceeding $20 for each bird or animal killed, netted, trapped or found in his possession ..
Any violators of these laws can be prosecuted before any police justice, recorder, or justice of the peace, or other court having juris- diction to try cases of misdemeanor.
One-half of any fines collected will be paid to the informer and the balance to the school fund of the county. It is the duty of all con- stables, marshals, market-masters and police officers, to arrest all persons violating any of the game laws, and take them before the- courts having jurisdiction to hear and try complaints.
California quail cannot be killed before October, 1883.
Messina quail cannot be killed before January 1st, 1886.
Hawks, owls, eagles and crows can be killed at any time, and the destruction of these birds and their nests is recommended.
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STATISTICS.
POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES BY RACES-1880.
STATES AND TERRITORIES.
1880.
White, 1880.
Colored, 1880.
Chinese, 1880.
Indians, civilized or taxed, 1880.
1 Alabama
1,262,794
661,986
600,141
4
213
2 Arizona
40 441
35,178
138
1,632
3,493.
3 Arkansas
802,564
591,611
210,622
134
197
4 California .
864.686
767,266
6,168
75,122
16,130
5 Colorado
194,649
191,452
2,459
610
241
6 Connecticut
135,180
133,177
381
238
1,384
8 |Delaware
177,638
118,236
59,378
18
6
10|Florida
267,351
141,249
125,262
18
37
11 Georgia
32,611
29,011
58
3,378
164
12 |Idaho
3,078,769
3,032,174
46,248
214
133
13 Illinois .
1,978,362
1,939,093
38,988
37
233
14 Indiana
1,624,620
1,614,510
9,442
47
464
15 Iowa
995,966
952,056
43,096
22
792
16 Kansas .
1,648,708
1,377,077
271,462
10
50
17 Kentucky
940,103
455,063
483,898
483
819
18 Louisiana
648,945
646,903
1,427
8
11
20 Maryland
1,783,012
1,764,082
18,644
29
7,238
22 Michigan
1,636,331;
1,614,078
14,986
54
2,254
23 Minnesota
780,806
776,940
650,337
52
1,832
24 |Mississippi
2,168,804
2,023,568
145,046
94
96
25 Missouri
39,157
35,468
202
1,737
1,750
26 Montana
452,433
449,805
2,376
18
233
27 |Nebraska
62.265
53,574
465
5,423
2,803
28|Nevada
346,984
346,264
646
14
58
30 New Jersey
118,430
107,188
907
55
783
32 New York
1,400,047
867,467
531,316
1
1,216
33 North Carolina
3,198,239
3,118,344
79,655
117
1,679
35|Oregon
4,282,786
4,197,106
85,342
170
67
37 Rhode Island
995,622
391,258
604,325
9
326
39 Tennessee .
1,592,574
1,197,493
394,007
142
932
40 Texas
143,906
142,381
204
518
11
42 Vermont
1,512,806
880,739
631,996
6
65
43 Virginia
75,120
67,349
857
3,227
4,187
44 Washington
618,443
592,433
25,729
14
17
46
Wisconsin
1,315,480
1,309,622
2,724
16
3,118
47 Wyoming
20,788
19,436
299
914
139
Total United States
PER CENT OF INCREASE FROM 1870 TO 1880.
Total population ..
.30.06 per cent.
Chinese population ............. 67.07 per cent ..
White population .. .28.82
34.78
or taxed).
156.02
Colored population
50,152,866 43,402, 408
6,577,497
105,679
65,880
29|New Hampshire
1,130,983
1,091,856
38,796
182
10,280
31 New Mexico
5,033,810|
5,017,142
64,943
.942
113.
34 Ohio
174,764
163,087
493
9,508
- 168
36 Pennsylvania
276,528
269,934
6,503
27
114
38 South Carolina
1,542,463
1,139,120
402,992
26
804
41|Utah
322,286
331,243
1,032
6
607
19 Maine
934,632
724,718
209,897
256
341
21 Massachusetts
622,683
610,884
11,422
130
7 |Dakota
146,654
120,198
26,456
9 District of Columbia .
1,539,048
814,218
724,654
17
94
1,558
1,131,592
479,371
60
45 West Virginia
Indian population (civilized
128
Total population,
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STATISTICS.
The inhabitants of Alaska and the Indian Territory (both unorgan- ized as yet) are not included in the above total. The census of Alaska in 1880 showed : White, 392 ; Creoles (issue of intermarriage between the whites and natives), 1,683; Aleuts, 1,960; Innuits, 17,488 ; Indians, 8,655 ; total, 30,178.
The Indian Territory is estimated to contain 60,000 to 75,000 in- habitants.
The Indians included in the census in each State and Territory are those reckoned as civilized, or outside of tribal organizations. Indians not taxed are by law excluded from the census. Estimates of their numbers vary widely -from 200,000 to 350,000 (the latter as esti- mated in the census of 1870).
In the Chinese column (for want of space elsewhere) have been reckoned a very few Japanese, East Indians and Sandwich Islanders, not exceeding 250 in all.
MILES OF RAILROAD IN THE UNITED STATES.
1850
9,201
1870 52,914
1855
18,374
1875
74,374
1860
.30,635
1880 84,715
1865
35,085
There were in the whole world, January 1, 1881, 192,952 miles of railway.
TELEGRAPH LINES AND WIRES.
In 1866, there were 37,380 miles of telegraph line in the United States, and 75,685 miles of wire; in 1870, 54,109 miles of line and 112,191 miles of wire; in 1875, 72,833 miles of line and 179,496 miles of wire; in 1880, 85,645 miles of line and 233,534 miles of wire.
There were 29,216,509 telegraph messages sent in the year 1880.
COTTON CROP OF THE UNITED STATES, YEARS ENDING SEPTEMBER 1.
Year.
Bales.
Year.
Bales.
Year.
Bales.
1841
1,634,945
1854
2,930,027
1867
2,019,774
1842
1,683,574
1855
2,847,389
1868
2,593,993
1843
2,368,375
1856
3.527,845
1859
2.439,039
1844
2.030,409
1857
2.939,519
1870
3,154,946
1845
2,394,503
1858
3,113,962
1871
4,352,317
1846
2,100,537
1859
3,851,481
1872
2,974,351
1847
1,778,651
1860
4,669,770
1873
3,930,508
1848
2,347,634
1861
3,656,006
1874
4,170,388
1849
2,728,596
1862
No rec'd.
1875
3,832,991
1850
2,096,706
1863
66
1876
4,669,288
1851
2,355,257
1864
66
1877
4,485,423
1852
3,015,029
1865
66
1878
4,811,265
1853
.
3,262.822
1866.
2,193,987
1879
5,073,531
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STATISTICS.
The crop for 1880 is given by States, as follows : -
States.
Bales.
States.
Bales.
Mississippi.
813,965
Tennessee
380,624
Georgia
801,090
Florida
54,997
Texas.
699,576
Missouri
19,783
Alabama
606,980
Indian Territory .
17,000
Arkansas ..
522,548
Virginia.
11,000
South Carolina.
1,367
Louisiana.
506,764
Kentucky
AREA OF THE COAL FIELDS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND ANNUAL PRODUCTION.
STATES AND TERRITORIES.
Area, square miles.
Tons produced in
1869 (U. S. cen-
Tons produced 1879, (Saward's esti-
mate).
1 Pennsylvania
Bituminous
12,302
7,798,518
14,500,000
2 Ohio .:
36,800
2,624,163
3,500,000
4 Maryland, Bituminous.
16,000
608,873
1,250,000
West Virginia
18,000
263,487
1,600,000
6 |Iowa ...
6.450
436,870
1,000,000
7 Indiana
26,887
621,930
900,000
8 Missouri
12,871
150,582
1,000,000
9 Kentucky.
5,100
133,418
450,000
10 Tennessee
600,000
11 California
4,500
400,000
12 Colorado
22,256
32,938
400,000
13 Kansas.
200,000
14 Oregon .
5,330
11,000
250,000
15 Alabama
17,844
170,000
16 Washington
50,000
175,000
17 |Wyoming
185
61,803
90,000
18 Virginia
6,700
28,150
35,000
19 Michigan
3,000
1,425
75,000
20 Nebraska
21 Utah ..
509
22 Rhode Island.
12.000
23 Arkansas.
20,000
100,000
25
Georgia
32,863,690
59,808,398
Total
472
15,664,275
26,142,689
§ Anthracite.
10,000
2,527,285
5,000,000
Illinois
550
1,819,824
1,730,709
...
5,800
225,000
14,000
15,900
24 Texas ..
955,808
North Carolina.
389,516
sus 1870).
1
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STATISTICS.
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE FROM 1789 TO 1880.
Year.
Candidates.
Party.
Popular Vote.
Vote.
States.
No.
1789 George Washington
Federal.
71 Arkansas
6
1796
Thomas Jefferson.
Democrat.
60 California
6
*Thomas Jefferson
Democrat.
73 Colorado.
3
1800
Aaron Burr ..
Democrat.
73 Connecticut.
6.
( John Adams
Federal.
65 Delaware.
3
1804
C C. Pinckney
Federal.
28 Georgia
11
1808
C. C. Pinckney
Federal.
47 Indiana.
15
1812
DeWitt Clinton.
Federal.
89 Kansas
5
1816
Rufus King.
Federal.
34 Louisiana.
8
1820
James Monroe.
Democrat.
1 Elect'l vote
Maine ..
7
*John Quincy Adams
Federal.
105,321
84 Massachusetts
13
Andrew Jackson.
Democrat.
155,872
99 Michigan
W. H. Crawford
Democrat.
44,282
41 Minnesota
Henry Clay.
Whig.
46,587
37 Mississippi
Andrew Jackson.
Democrat.
646,231
178 Missouri
1828
John Q. Adams
Federal.
509,092
83 Nebraska.
3
Henry Clay.
Whig.
530,189
49 New Hampshire.
5. 9
1832
John Floyd.
Whig.
11 New Jersey.
35
1836
Wm. H. Harrison et al.
736,656
131 Ohio .. .
22 3
1840
Martin Van Buren.
Democrat.
1,135,761
60 Pennsylvania.
29
James K. Polk.
Democrat.
1,337,243
170 Rhode Island .
4
1844
Henry Clay.
Whig.
1,301,382
105 South Carolina
7
1848
Lewis Cass ...
Democrat.
1,220,554
127 Texas.
8-
( Martin Van Buren
Democrat.
291,26;
..
Vermont
5
1852
Winfield Scott et al.
1,542,403
42
West Virginia
5
1856
John C. Fremont ...
Republican.
1,215,768
122
1860
J. C. Breckenridge et al .. Democrat.
2,810,501
123
Abraham Lincoln.
Republican.
2,216,067
213
1864
George B. McClellan
Democrat.
1,808,725
21
1868
Horatio Seymour
Democrat.
2,709,613
80
1872
Horace Greeley
Democrat.
2,834,079
66
R. B. Hayes ..
Republican.
4,033,950
185
1876
Samuel J. Tilden
Democrat.
4,284,855
184
( Peter Cooper et al.
Greenback.
93,898
( James A. Garfield
Republican.
4,442,950
214
1880
W. S. Hancock.
Democrat.
4,442,035
155
( James B. Weaver
Greenback.
306,867
* Elected by House of Representatives.
t Election November 2, 1880.
PRESIDENTS BORN.
Washington, February 22, 1732. J. Adams, October 30, 1735. Jefferson, April 2, 1742. Madison, March 16, 1751. " Monroe, April 28, 1758. J. Q. Adams, June 11, 1767. Jackson, March 15, 1767.
-
Van Buren, December 5, 1782. Harrison, February 9, 1773. Tyler, March 29, 1790. Polk, November 2, 1795.
Buchanan, April 23, 1791.
Lincoln, February 12, 1809.
Johnson, December 29, 1808.
Grant, April 29, 1822.
Taylor, November 24, 1784.
Hayes, October 4, 1822.
Garfield, November 19, 1831.
Chester A. Arthur, Oct. 5, 1830.
15. 3
Andrew Jackson
Democrat.
687,502
239 Nevada ..
William Wirt
Anti-Mason.
761,549
179 North Carolina.
10
Wm. H. Harrison.
Whig.
1,275,011
234 Oregon.
Zachary Taylor.
Whig.
1,360,099
163 Tennessee
12
( Franklin Pierce.
Democrat.
1,601,474
254
Virginia
11
James Buchanan
Democrat.
1,838,160
174 Wisconsin
10
Abraham Lincoln
Republican.
1,866,352
130
Total.
369.
Ulysses S. Grant.
Republican.
3,015,071
214
Ulysses S. Grant.
Republican.
3,597,070
300
Martin Van Buren.
Democrat.
From 1789 to 1824 electors!
chosen by the legisla-
ture.
148 Florida.
4.
James Madison.
Democrat.
122 Illinois
21
James Madison
Democrat.
128 Iowa.
11
James Monroe
Democrat.
180 Kentucky
12.
in opposi'n.
Maryland.
8.
1824
Electoral Vote 1880.t
Electoral
All. Alabama·
10.
John Adams ..
Thomas Jefferson.
Democrat.
11 5. 8
7|New York .
Whig.
Whig.
Fillmore, January 7, 1800.
Pierce, November 23, 1804.
COL. WILLIAM F. SWITZLER.
HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY, MISSOURI.
By Col. Wm. F. Switzler, author of the "The History of Missouri."
CHAPTER I.
Introduction - Boone originally a part of Howard-Boundaries of Howard as first Defined in 1816- An empire- Boone now larger than some of the States of Europe - Its History rich in Incident and Interest-The Boone's Lick Country - Early Stockade Forts - First White Settlement in Boone at "Thrall's Prairie " - "The old St. Charles Trail " - Progress of Settlement -Names of the First Set- tlers - First Churches - The First Newspaper and First Steamboat at Franklin - Public Dinner, Speeches and Toasts -The Second Steamboat, and a Description of it-Prices of Provisions - Mail Facilities - Immigration -Smithton and Co- lumbia - July 4 1819, celebrated in Smithton - Proceedings and Toasts.
INTRODUCTION.
At first view, and without thought or examination, it may be af- firmed by some that Boone county has no history which is worthy of the name, or at least which assumes such proportions and importance as to merit publication in an enduring form. It is not improbable that a hasty judgment would conclude that at best this history con- sists of few events of special interest, and that none of them have influenced the policy, development or destiny of the State.
Closer and more thorough examination, however, will disclose the fact that Boone county has nobly and courageously borne its part in advancing the progress, civilization and culture of our time, and the common prosperity and glory of the commonwealth of Missouri.
Originally its territory constituted a part of the county of Howard, which, as organized in 1816, was an empire in superficial area. The act of the General Assembly, approved January 13, 1816 (see Terri- ( 125)
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torial Laws, p. 460), organizing Howard county out of the territories of St. Louis and St. Charles, fixed its boundaries substantially as follows : Beginning at the mouth of the Osage river, which is about ten miles below the present Cty of Jefferson and opposite the village of Barkersville in Callaway county, the boundary pursued the cir- cuitous course of said stream " to the Osage boundary line," meaning thereby the eastern boundary of the Osage Indian territory, or to the northeast corner of Vernon county, where the Osage river, two miles east of the present town of Schell City, runs near said corner ; thence north (along the western line of St. Clair, Henry, Johnson, and Lafayette), to the Missouri river, striking that stream west of and very near Napoleon ; thence up said river to the mouth of the Kansas river, (now Kansas City, ) " thence with the Indian boundary line, (as described in a proclamation of the Governor [Wm. Clark ] issued the ninth day of March, 1815, ) northwardly along the eastern bound- ary of the " Platte Purchase " one hundred and forty miles, or to a point about 36 miles north and within the present county of Adams, Iowa, near the town of Corning in said county, on the Burlington and Missouri River railroad, " thence eastward with the said line to the main dividing ridge of high ground, to the main fork of the river Cedar Ewhich is the line between Boone and Callaway counties in Missouri], thence down said river to the Missouri, thence down the river Missouri and in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the mouth of the great Osage river, the place of beginning."
Although these boundaries cannot be definitely traced on the map, it is nevertheless clearly seen that Howard county, as originally organ- ized in 1816,1 more than five years before the State was admitted into the Union, embraced not only the present territory of the county of Boone, but in addition a vast area north and south of the Missouri river, and including the present counties of Cole, north part of Miller, Morgan, north parts of Benton and St. Plair, Henry, Johnson, Lafay- ette, Pettis, Cooper, Moniteau, Saline, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb, Gen- try, Worth, Harrison, Daviess, Caldwell, Ray, Carroll, Livingston, Grundy, Mercer, Putnam, Sullivan, Linn, Chariton, Randolph, Macon, Adair, and probably parts of Shelby, Monroe and Audrain. And in addition the following counties in Iowa : parts of Taylor and.
1 The county was reduced to its present limits by an act of the Legislature approved February 16, 1825. See Revised Statutes, 1825. Vol. I, page 233.
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HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY.
Adams ; Union, Ringgold, Clarke, Decatur and Wayne, and probably parts of Lucas, Monroe and Appanoose.
A vast empire to constitute a single county, embracing at least five of the present counties of Iowa and probably parts of as many more, and in addition more than thirty of the present counties of Missouri, eight and parts of three others south of the river, and twenty-three and parts of several others north of it, this large expanse of territory, covering about fourteen million acres of land and presenting a super- ficial area of 21,875 square miles. An area larger than ancient Greece, and as large as Saxony and Switzerland combined, and larger . than the States of Vermont, Massachusetts, Delaware and Rhode Island.
In one respect, therefore, it might truthfully be said that as the present territory of Boone for five years and more constituted a part of this extensive empire, its history is properly the history of Boone county, and that this volume should embrace the entire county of Howard for that period.
But such is not the scope and character of the history which fol- lows, the simple, object being to record in chronological order the more important events which transpired within the present limits of Boone county from the earliest white settlement in 1815 to the pres- ent time, a period of sixty-seven years.
In superficial area - 674 square miles or 431,000 acres - Boone . county is larger than some of the states of Europe and the islands of the ocean, which stricken from the roll of empire or blotted from the annals of nations would so mar the history of the eastern hem- isphere as to leave it measurably without a history.
It is also about half as large as one of the States of the American Union, and one-third the area of several others ; and in the sphere in which it has moved, and to the extent of its opportunities and capacity, and the comparatively short period which has elapsed since its first settlement, will favorably compare in its achievements and prowess with some geographical divisions of our own and foreign lands, larger even in size and much older in years, whose history is canonized in poetry and song.
Located in the central part of the State, and settled nearly seventy years ago by a hardy and progressive race of pioneers, who then laid the foundations of its present prosperity, wealth and culture, it will be found that its history is an inexhaustible store-house of " moving incidents by flood and field," of events grave and gay, of steady ad-
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vancement in agriculture, education and a Christian civilization, and in all the arts of peace.
What is here claimed for it receives ample verification in its improved farms and farm machinery, its farm-houses and barns, its churches and schools, its newspapers and periodicals, its improved stock and thor- oughfares, the prowess of its soldiers in war and the eloquence and achievements of its statesmen and orators in council, the culture and beauty of its women, the qualifications and success of its scholars and teachers, the earnestness and ability of its clergymen, the learning and character of its lawyers, the genius of its authors, poets and novel- ists, and the general thrift, hospitality, and public spirit of its people.
In a word : No county in the State, St. Louis city and county ex- cepted, has contributed more vitality to the agencies which are solving for the State the problems of prosperity, wealth, and culture, or in a larger measure influenced the councils or shaped the policy of the com- monwealth, than " Old Boone."
Such a county and such a people have a history, and one which, if faithfully and accurately written, will disclose a wealth of incident, adventure and interest not excelled by any in the Great West.
The county comprises a part of that large area of inland territory which, in the earlier times, received the name of " The Boone's Lick Country," and which embraced " the nine upper counties on the Mis- souri River, Clay, Ray, Chariton, Howard, Boone, Cole, Cooper, Sa- line, and Lillard,"1 the name of the latter being changed to La- fayette, February 16, 1825, a circumstance which was no doubt in- spired by Lafayette's visit to St. Louis during that year.
Howard County was the largest, most populous, and at that period the most important of the counties belonging to " The Boone's Lick Country," and contained a small salt spring in Cooper's Bottom, now in Boone's Lick Township, in that county, and nearly opposite Arrow Rock, from which the name was derived.2
It is quite a prevalent error that Boon's Lick, or the salt spring above mentioned, was first occupied and utilized as a manufactory of salt by Daniel Boone, the old Kentucky pioneer. There is no evidence known to us that Daniel Boone ever owned or operated or saw the spring, or ever was in Howard County. Two of his sons, however,-
1 See Franklin '(Mo.) Intelligencer of November 26, 1822.
2 See Franklin (Mo.) Intelligencer of January 7, 1823. The spring or " lick " is about two miles northeast of the ferry landing opposite Arrow Rock, and is on land now (1882) owned by Wm. N. Marshall.
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HISTORY OF BOONE COUNTY.
Nathan and Daniel M. Boone, - during the summer of 1807, and in company with three other men, left the Femme Osage Creek settle- ment, in St. Charles County, where the elder Boone then lived, and came up to Howard County with a few kettles to manufacture salt at this spring, and, because of this fact, it was called " Boone's Lick."
Up to the close of the last war with Great Britain, which is known in popular parlance and denominated in the laws of Congress as "the War of 1812," nearly if not all the inhabitants of Howard county were confined to three small stockade forts -Cooper's, Hempstead's and Kincaid's 1 -and therefore the present territory of Boone was substantially without population, unless the hostile tribes of Indians - Sacs and Foxes, Kickapoos and Pottawatamies - which abounded in this part of the then territory, are accounted as such.
It is true, that as early as 1812-13, before the tide of flagrant war reached the interior of the territory, a few of the small hive of emigrant Kentuckians that settled in Cooper's bottom ventured to the rich lands on the east side of the Moniteau, at "Thrall's Prairie," as it was afterwards called ; and no doubt they were inspired to make the venture by the protection afforded by Head's Fort, a small stock- ade defence named in honor of Capt. William Head.
It was situated in a curve of the Moniteau, and on the east side of it in Howard county, about two miles north of Rocheport, a mile and a half south of where the old St. Charles road crossed the Moniteau, and about a half mile west of the Boone line and the same distance east of the creek. It was located at a spring of never-failing water, which is on land now owned by Mr. John L. Jones.
FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT IN BOONE.
The history of Boone County, not unlike the history of the largest empires on the globe, may be said to be funnel-shaped. Starting from
1 Cooper's Fort was two miles southwest of Boone's Lick; Kincaid's, nine miles south west of Cooper's and about one mile north of the present railroad bridge at Boonsville; and Fort Hempstead, about one and a half miles north of Kincaid's. All were built in 1812. (Campbell's Gazetteer, p. 246.) The spot on which Cooper's Fort was located is now (1882) about one and a half miles from the ferry landing opposite Arrow Rock, and the land is owned by John A. Fisher. Capt. Sarshell Cooper, after whom the fort was named, was killed in it on the night of April 14, 1814, by Indians, and buried near by, the precise place of interment being now unknown, and in a corn or wheat field. Mr. Eusebius Hubbard, who now (1882) resides on the two-mile prairie, ten miles southeast of Columbia, and who came to Howard county from Madison county, Ky., in 1810, aided in building Fort Hempstead.
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a single point of time (1815) and from a single locality (Thrall's. Prairie ), its contour diverges and widens as the years roll on until it embraces the population, growth and achievements of nearly three- quarters of a century.
In the beginning a paragraph, a line, a word would record all it had of history. After the elapse of seventy years, so rapid has been the succession and so countless the number of its events, so transform- ing the forces of its being, and so progressive and civilizing the nature of its achievements in art, in education, in religion, and in all the varied industries which characterize the civilization of our age, that an octavo volume is too small to perpetuate its annals.
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