History of Boone County, Missouri., Part 64

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Publication date: 1882
Publisher: St. Louis, Western Historical Company
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Is the son of Levi and Charlotte (Graham ) Hagans ; was born August 27, 1846. His father came to this county from Allen county, Ken- tucky, in 1843, and settled in Boone county, near Burlington. His father died in 1854, after farming in this county for eleven years. Thomas is a bachelor living alone on his farm. He devotes his time to farming and gardening, making the cultivation of watermelons a specialty. He lived four years in Buchanan county, four in Callaway and one year in Miller county, thence back to his present home where he has since lived. He is one of the yeomen of the country, such men as are relied upon by all governments to make them strong at home and respected abroad.

JAMES S. HICKAM.

The subject of this sketch is the son of John and Lucinda (Collier) Hickam and was born in Boone county, September 18, 1835. His father was a native of Virginia and emigrated to Cole county, Mis- souri. In 1834 he came to Boone where James was born. At the age of nine, his father moved to Henry county, and then to Barry county. From Barry he moved back to Henry and from thence he moved to Cass county. From Cass he moved to Bates county and finally back to Cole county again where he died in 1856. At his father's death James went to Maries county, where the three counties of Maries, Osage and Miller corner upon each other. He lived there 12 or 13 years engaged in farming. From there he moved to Cooper county and lived there about four years, when he moved back to Boone, the county of his birth. He has been engaged in farming all his life until the spring of 1882, when he rented out his farm and engaged in the grocery business. He married, March 13, 1856, Miss Elizabeth Barnhart, daughter of Hoover and Elizabeth Barnhart. Seven chil- dren are living, viz., Salina Frances, Minerva C., John W., Radford,

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Eliza Evelyn, Eleanor and Conley. Mr. Hickam was a Confederate soldier under General Parsons, 9th Missouri, company C. He was captured at Rolla and taken to St. Louis and incarcerated in McDow- ell's college. He was afterward sent to Alton until the war was nearly over, when he was exchanged at Vicksburg.

THADDEUS HICKMAN.

The subject of this sketch is the son of William Hickman, of Bour- bon county, Kentucky. His mother was Mary Tureman, a native of Mason county, Kentucky, Thaddeus Hickman was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, February 14th, 1828, and was educated in the dis- trict schools of his neighborhood, He was one of two sons of a family of eleven children, six of whom are now living. After becoming of age he managed an estate belonging to his father and brother. After- wards he commenced farming on his own responsibility in Pettis county, Missouri. The war having commenced, he left his farm and returned to Boone county, but did not actively engage in business- until the close of the war. In 1867 he opened a store at Burlington, where he remained until the spring of 1875, when he moved to the old Tyre Martin farm, south of New Salem Church, where he now resides .. He now turned his attention largely to breeding thoroughbred cattle. His stock was selected with great care from the best herds in Kentucky. By close and careful attention to business, he has attained much celeb- rity as a breeder of short horn cattle. His herd is one of the best. in the country. One of his cows, Jenny Lind 7th, is winner of many prizes, among others a prize in Scotland ; first prize as two-year old at. Michigan (1872) State fair, and fine prizes subsequently. He has always purchased of the leading importers and keeps none but the best. He has cattle from the best herds of Kentucky, also from the herds of John P. Sanborn, Michigan ; Ben Sumner, Connecticut, and D. S. Pratt, of Brattleboro, Vermont. Mr. Hickman is a member of the Ash- land grange.

T. B. HICKMAN.

Thaddeus Bryan Hickman is the son of David M. Hickman, one of the old pioneer settlers of Boone county. He visited this section of the county as early as 1817. Mr. Hickman did not return until 1822, when he came to stay. He was married in Kentucky to Miss Corne- lia Bryan. He purchased a large body of land in this county, his real estate consisting of 3,000 acres. Thaddeus was born November 22d, 1829. He was the fourth son and fourth child of a family of six sons

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and one daughter, all of whom, except one son, are now living - four in Boone county. He was educated at Bonne Femme Academy, completing his studies in 1849. Since 1860, Mr. Hickman has fol- lowed farming. He lives about midway between Columbia and Ash- land. He has traded largely in stock. He is now engaged in raising thoroughbred stock. He was married in Louisiana, May 1st, 1860, to Miss Louisa Hickman, of Rapides parish. He is a member of the Bonne Femme Baptist church.

GEORGE HUBBARD.

George Hubbard is the son of John and Mary (Ballou ) Hubbard, natives of Kentucky, where their son George was born November 17th, 1805. They emigrated to Callaway county, Missouri, in 1831, and to Boone the year following, settling the place where Mr. Hub- bard now resides. The subject of this sketch is the fourth son and fourth child of a family of four boys and two girls, two sons and one daughter of whom are now living. Mr. Hubbard has been a farmer all his life. He was married in Kentucky, August 12th, 1829, to Miss Patsy H. Gibbs, daughter of Alexander Gibbs. They have three sons and six daughters, of whom two sons and four daughters are living, all in Boone. Has been a member of New Salem Baptist church since 1840. His farm consists of 400 acres, situated six miles northeast of Ashland and fifteen miles southeast of Columbia.

E. D. ISBELL, D. D.

Rev. E. D. Isbell, a prominent Baptist minister, and, at this writing, pastor of New Salem church, Cedar township, is a native of Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky, where he was born October 17th, 1825. His parents, James and Fanny Isbell, were natives of Virginia, having emigrated to Kentucky about the year 1820. Mr. Isbell was educated at Georgetown, Kentucky, where he grad- uated in 1846. He then attended the Baptist Theological Semi- nary, graduating in 1851. The year following he commenced the regular pastorate with the Beal Street Baptist church, Memphis, Tennessee. His health having failed, he returned to Kentucky in the summer of 1854. Was afterwards pastor of several churches in Kentucky, and president of Augusta College, Bracken county, for several years, and professor in Georgetown College. He came to Missouri in the winter of 1873, and stopped at Macon City until called to the pastorate of the Baptist church at Columbia, where he:

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labored quite successfully for four years. During this time there were about three hundred additions to the church. He next served the church at Fayette, Missouri, for two years, during which time the membership was doubled. In 1879 he took charge of the New Salem church, and has preached for that congregation ever since. He has here met with about the same success that attended his labors elsewhere. Mr. Isbell was married March 5th, 1846, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of Joab and Jane Wheat, of Paris, Kentucky. They have one son, Harvey W., who was educated at Georgetown College, Kentucky, and at West Point military academy, New York. He afterwards studied law, but never practiced his profession. He is also a journalist and a writer of ability. He has been connected with a number of papers in Missouri, but is, at this writing, engaged in teaching. He is married, and now makes his home at Nevada, Mis- souri.

E. D. JOHNSON

Is the son of - Johnson and Mary (Turley ) Johnson, and was born May 10th, 1826. He is a posthumous child, his father hav- ing died before he was born. His father settled in what is known as the Boone's Lick country, in Howard county, Missouri. After his father's death his mother came to Columbia, and, being poor, the older boys were " bound out," and an aunt took the only daughter. The subject of our notice was adopted by L. L. Pace, and reared upon the farm which Mr. Johnson now owns. He went to the country schools and what was then called Rockbridge Academy, and, later, he attended the University for three years. He has been a farmer all his life, and is one of Boone's well-to-do, staunch citizens. In 1849 he went with a party to New Mexico, when the Far West was the Eldorado of all the young, and many of the old men of the country. Shortly after leaving Missouri he took the cholera, and died, as his comrades thought. All preparations were made for his burial, when they discovered that their cattle had strayed off. So they postponed the obsequies until the wandering oxen had been found. Upon their return, great was their joy when they saw signs of life in the friend they were about to bury alive. By careful nurs- ing he was restored to health, and continued his journey to New Mexico. He only stayed in the West a short time, when he set his face toward the rising sun, and came back to Missouri, the garden of America. He was married to Miss Dorothy Ann Payne, daughter of James and Lois Payne, of this county. His wife died July 27th,

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1865. He has three children, all living : Laura Alice, Spurgeon G. and John E. Miss Laura went several years to the University, and is a regular graduate, taking the full classical course. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Baptist church at Nashville, this county.

JOSEPH WATERS JOHNSTON.

John T. M. Johnston, father of Joseph, came from Kentucky to Boone county when a boy, and settled, with his parents, near Colum- bia, being among the pioneers of this county. His wife was Minerva Waters, and of this pair the subject of this sketch was born, August 29th, 1848. He first saw the light on his father's farm, and was the second son and third child of a family of four sons and four daughters, all but two of whom still reside in Boone county. He acquired his education in the neighborhood schools in the vicinity of his old home, in the Ashland school and in Jones' Commercial College of St. Louis. In the fall of 1866, he first engaged in business for himself, opening a general store in Ashland, which he conducted for three years. In 1869 he formed a partnership with A. G. Paine, and they did business till the fall of 1871. He then formed a partnership with J. G. Wise- man, which lasted till 1880. Mr. Johnston then became a member of the firm of Bass, Johnston, Brooks & Harris, with whom he is still in business at this writing, their business depot being known as the " Trade Centre." He is also a member of the Ashland Mill Company, and a director of the Farmers' Bank. In 1870, he built the Johnston Hotel, and in '77 erected the livery stable at Ashland. He was one of the originators of two important enterprises of his town, viz., the mill project and the bank. He is also secretary of the " Ashland Stock Sales." [See history of Ashland]. Mr. Johnston was married at Bonne Femme church, November 5th, 1880, to Miss Julia Harris, daughter of Judge James Harris, deceased. They have one child, a daughter. He is a member of the Baptist church, and also belongs to the Masonic fraternity and A. O. U. W.

J. G. JONES.

Joseph Glenn Jones is the son of Mosias Jones, a native of Kentucky, who emigrated to Missouri in 1805, settling first in St. Louis county. In 1818 he came to Boone county, then almost a wilderness. He was a member of the first grand jury ever empanelled in the county. He settled on the south end of the Two-mile prairie. On this farm the subject of this sketch was born, June 7th, 1825. He is the fourth son

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and seventh child of a family of six sons and six daughters, all of whom lived to maturity and became members of the New Salem Bap- tist church. Of this family four brothers are alive at this writing. Three brothers and one sister are living in Boone county. Mr. Jones lived on the home place until 1848, when he purchased and removed to a farm near where Claysville now stands. He resided on this place until the spring of 1878, when he removed to Ashland, intending at the time to give up business. He bought a fine farm adjoining the town, which he still cultivates. . During the war he was arrested by the Federal authorities and taken to Jefferson City. From there he was sent to Gratiot street prison, St. Louis, where he remained for several months, being finally transferred to Alton. When released from prison he returned home and was allowed to remain with his family until the troubles were over. Mr. Jones has handled a great deal of stock, and devotes much attention to diseases of horses and cattle. He is now a member of Mount Pleasant Bap- tist church, also a member of the Masonic order, meeting with the Ashland lodge. He also belongs to the Ashland Grange. Mr. Jones's wife is a native of Tennessee. They were married in Cedar township, May 11, 1847. They have three children, two sons and one daughter, the latter by adoption.

W. E. JONES.

William Elijah Jones, is the son of Christopher H. Jones, a native of Madison county, Kentucky. He came to Boone county with his brothers, Mosias and Lyne Jones in 1818, being among the very ear- liest settlers of this county. Christopher Jones was married in Ken- tucky to Miss Martha Yates. Emigrating to Boone county, soon afterwards he settled on the farm now occupied by Elijah, at which place all his children were born. The subject of this sketch was born October 23d, 1841. He was the sixth son and twelfth child of a family of six sons and seven daughters, of whom three sons and three daughters are now living - four of them in Boone county. Mr. Jones was reared on the farm and educated at the common schools of the neighborhood. In 1861 he enlisted in Gen. Clark's Division of Missouri State Guard, being a member of the Sixth regiment. He served in this regiment for six months, when he was transferred to the Ninth Missouri Infantry with which command he remained until the close of the war. He participated in the battles of Lexington, Pea Ridge, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, Jenkins' Ferry, and numerous skir-

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mishes of less note. Surrendered in June, 1865, and returned to his home in Boone county, where he has remained ever since. His farm is situated two miles west of Ashland. Makes the breeding of fine hogs a specialty. He was married, February 26th, 1867, to Miss Mary S. Forbis, daughter of E. W. Forbis, of Boone county. They have one son and two daughters.

J. A. KERR, M. D.

Dr. James Albert Kerr is the son of Wm. Kerr, a farmer and a native of Frederick county, Va., and Isabella Castlemane Kerr, born in Clark county, Va. The doctor was born on his father's farm March 6th, 1838. He was the youngest child of a family of fifteen children, nine boys and six girls. Three of the boys still survive. The doctor was educated chiefly at the Winchester (Va. ) University. In the spring of 1854 he entered the drug store of David Ricketts, of Balti- more, and remained one year. The next year he served with J. B. Moore, in the same business, in Washington, D. C. The next year he was with John Keeshan, Cincinnati, and the next two years with Alex. Leitch & Co., St. Louis. In the spring of 1859 he became book-keeper for Rufus Fitch & Co., stationers. He then made a trip to Texas and was absent six months. On his return, in 1861, under Dr. J. N. Edwards, of Jefferson City, he continued the study of medi- cine, which he had already begun while serving as a druggist. He received his diploma from the St. Louis Medical College, in 1862. In March, 1863, he began the practice of his profession at Cedar City, Callaway county. He remained there two years, or until the spring of 1865, when, having been drafted into the Federal service as a com- mon soldier, and not wishing to fight against the South, his sympathies being with that section, he excused himself ( !) and went to Salt Lake City. Here he practiced for thirteen months. From the spring of 1866 till the ensuing fall he was in Helena, Montana. He then came to Boone county, and settled in Ashland, and here and in the sur- rounding country he has ever since been actively engaged in the prac- tice of his profession.

May 17, 1870, Dr. Kerr married Miss Sophia A. Nichols, a daugh- ter of Robert Nichols, a farmer, and an old resident of Boone county. They have had born to them six children, three boys and three girls. Of these one boy and two girls are still living. The doctor is a mem- ber of the Ashland Baptist church and belongs to the Ancient Order United Workmen.

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WALTER THOMAS LEMON

Was the ninth born of a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters. His parents were Robert and Amanda (Mars) Lemon, and Walter T. was born on his father's farm, one-half mile west of Columbia, December 27, 1853. Two of his brothers and four of his sisters attended the first school under Prof. Tandy Orear, in the old brick house, repaired for the " model school " department of the Uni- versity. The subject of this sketch, took his course through the Uni- versity, graduating from the medical department in 1876. He began the practice at Vandalia, in Audrain county, Missouri, remaining there nine months, and then coming to Boone county, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. At Ashland, where he resides at this writing, he has been associated with Dr. J. T. Roth- well. In the winter of 1879-80, Dr. Lemon attended lectures at Bellevue Medical College, New York, and received his degree from that institution in the spring of 1880. He was married, March 15, 1881, at Mexico, Missouri, to Miss Nannie, daughter of Rufus Pear- son, a prominent merchant. They have one child, a daughter. Dr. Lemon belongs to the A. O. U. W., and is an earnest and consistent. man in whatever he believes to be right. His father is, at this writing, still living, and resides on the old farm. His mother, however, is dead, having departed this life in January, 1857.

LEASEL LITTLEBURY LINDSAY.

This gentleman was born October 24, 1814 in Spartanburg district, South Carolina. He is the son of John and Elizabeth (Warford) Lindsay. His parents being poor hired him out to the neighbors to help carry on their farms. He grew to manhood in the neighborhood of his birth, and is without text-book education. When he was twenty years of age he left home and learned the tanner's trade. Then he came to Boone county, Missouri, in 1834 and has resided here ever since. He located in the vicinity of Union settlement, near Union church on the Perche. He lived there a year and then moved to where he now lives or in close proximity to his farm. He is a farmer, but has carried on the business of milling for about seventeen of the twenty-three years since he moved to the old homestead. He was married June 4, 1837, to Miss Adeline A. V. Edwards, in this county. She was the daughter of Presley and Mary J. Edwards, who had moved to Missouri from Tennessee some years before. He is the father of

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twelve children, five of whom are dead. Mary E. (deceased ), born April 18, 1839 ; Eliza J., born March 1, 1841; Sarah Margaret, born December 18, 1842; Zerelda A., born January 1, 1845 ; Jezreel, born September 28, 1847; Jasper, born April 22, 1849; Cassy C. P. (deceased), born February 23, 1853; Newton, born February 15, 1856; Frances Ellen (deceased), born August 2, 1858 ; Adeline Lenora, born January 23, 1861 ; Leasel and James, twins ( deceased), born April 1, 1864. He is a Mason-mem- ber of the lodge at Ashland. Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist church. He is a good citizen, enjoying the esteem and confidence of his neighbors, as an evidence of which, he has been a justice of the peace for six years.

ABNER MARTIN, M. D.

Dr. Martin was born February 7, 1835. He received a good com- mon school education in the schools of his neighborhood. In 1854 he began the study of medicine, with his uncle, Dr. Meredith Martin, of. St. Louis, and graduated from the St. Louis Medical College four years later, or in 1858. After his graduation, he practiced in Boone county for about five years. He spent the winter of 1863-4 in Belle- vue Medical College, New York, from which noted institution he re- ceived a diploma in the spring of 1864. He then returned to Ash- land, where, and in the county generally, he practiced his profession extensively until 1881, when he became president and superintendent of the Ashland Mill Company, and this position he still holds. May 11, 1859, Dr. Martin was married at Providence, Boone county, to Miss Annie Tuttle, a daughter of Judge Gilpin S. Tuttle. Of this union two children, a son and a daughter, have been born. The doc- tor has been a member of North Salem Baptist church for about thirty years,

R. H. MARTIN.

Robert Hudson Martin is the son of Nathan and Mary (Hill) Mar- tin, natives of Kentucky, who emigrated to Boone county, Missouri, in 1838. Robert was born in Todd county, Kentucky, December 27th, 1820, and was educated at home, his father being his only teacher. As the elder Martin was a good scholar, the son's education was not neglected, as it might otherwise have been, for in Robert's boyhood there were no public schools in that section of country. He was the fourth son and seventh child of a family of eleven children, six sons and five daughters, of whom only five are now living. Mr.

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Martin crossed the plains to California in 1850, returning home in 1851. In 1852 he bought and moved to the farm where he now re- sides, one and one-half miles north of Ashland. He was married, December 14th, 1848, to Miss Nancy E. Harris, a native of Boone county. They have had ten children, eight daughters and two sons, of whom six daughters and one son are now living. Mr. Martin has given special attention to stock raising and has made the business quite profitable. He is a member of the New Salem Baptist church, also of the Ashland lodge, A. F. and A. M. Mrs. Martin died September 9, 1881.

ROBERT SIDNEY MARTIN, M. D.

The professional gentleman whose name heads this sketch is the son of Lincoln R. and Isabella Martin, and grandson of Wayne Mar- tin, who came from Madison county, Kentucky, to St. Louis, Mis- souri, in 1816, and to Boone county in 1818. His grandfather was, therefore, one of the earliest settlers of the county and was one of the founders of the Bonne Femme Baptist church, who left it to found the New Salem church. Dr. Martin's mother was a daughter of Abner Nichols, who came to Boone county in 1825, and he (Robert Sidney ) was born on a farm one-half mile from Ashland, this county, July 18, 1833. He was the second of a family of eight boys and two girls, five of the former and one of the latter still surviving, and all residing in this county. Dr. Martin attended the district schools in his boyhood, and thus acquired the elementary part of his education. In 1856, he began the study of medicine with his uncle, Meredith Martin, of St. Louis, and also attended the St. Louis Medical College, from which he gratuated in 1858. In the winter of 1859-60, he took a course of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, from which he received his diploma in the spring of 1860. He had begun the practice of medicine in Ashland, in 1858, and returning there, after finishing his course, he resumed the practice, which he has built up to be both extensive and lucrative. He had not practiced to any extent, however, when the war came on and he entered the Confederate service as surgeon of the 6th Missouri regiment of infantry, Clark's division of Gen. Price's army. He was in the battles of Boonville and Pea Ridge, and after the latter, was assigned to the hospital service until May following, when he returned home. Dr. Martin was maried, October 3d, 1860, to Mary L. Blanton, of Ken- tucky. Three sons and four daughters have been born to bless this

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union, all of whom survive at this writing. The doctor is a member of the New Salem Baptist church, and also of the Ashland lodge of A. F. and A. M.

W. T. MAUPIN.

Wellington Tilman Maupin is a son of W. C. and Elizabeth Scott Maupin, both natives of Albemarle county, Virginia. They came to St. Charles county, Missouri, in 1835, and to Warren county in 1837, where Mr. M. engaged in merchandising in addition to farming. Here Wellington T. Maupin was born January 16, 1838, being the third child and second son of a family of four sons and two daughters. In the spring of 1845 his parents removed to St. Louis, and in the fall of the same year to Boone, settling on a farm and also keeping a store at Nashville, ten miles southwest of Columbia. Here young Maupin improved the educational advantages afforded by the common schools of his neighborhood, and attended them whenever possible, his educa -. tion being mainly the result of his own efforts. In 1857 he entered the dry goods house of Stephens, Conley & Smith, at Columbia, and here remained one year, the next year becoming deputy postmaster. Afterwards he was for five years salesman for Hume & Park, dealers in general merchandise, and then became a member of the firm, which then took the name of Hume, Park & Co. In 1867 he engaged as salesman with Barth, Victor & Myer, general merchants. In 1870 he engaged in the grocery trade in partnership with Mr. Allen, the firm being Allen & Maupin. In 1875 he disposed of his interest in this business and for the next two years was a salesman, first for Riggins & Orear, and afterwards for Moss & Prewitt. In 1877 he came to . Ashland, where he has since been engaged in merchandising, at first " on his own hook," and subsequently, in September, 1881, becoming a member of the firm of Wiseman, Maupin & Co.

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History of Boone County, Missouri., Part 64

Author: Publication date: 1882 Publisher: St. Louis, Western Historical Company Number of Pages: 1220

Author:
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: St. Louis, Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1220