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ROBERT PARKS GLENN.
The subject of this sketch is the son of Moses T. and Elizabeth (Cowan) Glenn, and was born May 24th, 1826, in Nicholas county,
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Kentucky. His father, Moses Glenn, was born March 26th, 1791, in Fleming county, Kentucky, and died in March, 1866. His mother was born in Nicholas county, Kentucky, May 15th, 1795 ; died in 1879, and is buried by the side of her husband in the county of her birth. They had eight children, six boys and two girls. Sarah P., born March 24th, 1825 ; Robert P., born May 24th, 1826; Nancy A., born November 24th, 1827 ; Thos. J., born May 5th, 1829 ; John H., born February 11th, 1831 ; Archibald M., born February 8th, 1833, and died at Memphis in 1867 ; Moses A., born December 15, 1834 ; and James M., born January 12th, 1837. Robert P., the second of the eight children, was educated in his native county. He lived upon the farm with his father, and took the general management of the farm, which was a very large one, being composed of just one thousand acres. He lived at home till he was twenty years of age, then, in 1855, he ran a saw and grist mill in Nicholas county, Kentucky, on Fleming creek, known as the Pleasant Valley mills. After running the mills satisfactorily for three years, he came to Audrain county, Missouri, and rented a farm upon which he raised one crop. He then bought a farm in Boone county, ten miles northeast of Columbia, between the old St. Charles and Mexico roads, known as the Fuller Allen farm, where he still resides. The farm contains four hundred and eighty acres, and is one of the best improved farms in Boone county, being regarded as the model farm of the Two-mile prairie. He has five miles of hedge upon the place, making an impassable barrier for unruly stock. He has a fine house, and his fields are all well-watered. His stock consists of pedigreed short-horn cattle, Cotswold sheep and Berkshire hogs. He is a dealer in mules, handling, on an average, eighty head per year. He was married, May 1st, 1856, to Miss Amanda F., daughter of John and Kitty (Squires) Hall, of Nicholas county, Kentucky. They have four children ; John H., Moses F., Sallie and Robert B., all living. Himself, wife and daughter are members of the Christian church. Mrs. Glenn's father, John Hall, was born in Nicholas county, Kentucky, May 8th, 1801. Her mother, Kitty Squires, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, March 15th, 1808. Their children were : Margaret Elizabeth, born December 30th, 1829 ; Cynthia Ealin, born January 16th, 1832 ; Mary Catharine, born July 27th, 1834 ; Amanda Frances, born July 26th, 1836 ; Mildred Ann, born June 23d, 1838 ; Harriet Stout, born April 18th, 1840; Caroline Amelia, born April 25th, 1842 ; Judith Ann, born July 1st, 1844 ; Laura, born September
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20th, 1846, and died January 29th, 1849 ; Sarah Jane, born January 4th, 1849 ; Robert Henry, born January 6th, 1855. Mrs. Glenn's grandfather was James Hall, born in Ireland, May 5th, 1753, and died February 7th, 1835. His wife, Elizabeth (Johnson ) Hall, was born December 28th, 1759, and died July 7th, 1839. Her grand- father upon her mother's side was Micajah Squires, born February 4th, 1770, and was murdered near St. Louis in 1819. His wife, Margaret Turley, was born October 3d, 1775, and died in August, 1858. They were both born in Virginia.
B. GORDON.
Boyle Gordon is a native of Madison county, Kentucky, the home of many of our best citizens, and the native county of the parents or many more. There is scarcely a neighborhood in Boone but has representatives from this good old county, which gave so liberally of her best citizens to people Boone and other counties of Missouri. It seems strange that so many people could have left one county without in a great measure depopulating it. Visitors from that portion of Kentucky are forcibly impressed with the similarity of the people of Boone as compared with their own. The reason is obvious : Central Kentucky is virtually the parent of Boone county, and the resem- blance is the natural result of a natural cause. Mr. Gordon was born December 8th, 1825, and came to Boone county in the fall of 1826. He remained in Columbia until 1840, when he returned to Kentucky, where he remained for three years attending school. He returned to Boone, and entered the old Columbia Seminary, finishing his education at the State University. At the age of twenty-five he commenced the study of law in the office of his father, John Boyle Gordon, then a prominent attorney at the Columbia bar. Was admitted to the practice of law when twenty-seven years of age, and followed the profession without intermission until he retired from practice in 1872. He was appointed assistant professor of law in the State University, which position he holds at this writing. Mr. Gordon was first married, in 1863, to Miss Susan Watson, of Ralls county, Missouri. She did not survive their marriage but one year, dying in 1864. He was elected to the Legislature from Columbia district in 1864, serving two sessions. In 1875, Governor Hardin appointed him judge of the Boone county court, which office he declined. Mr Gordon has been quite successful in the practice of law. From 1856 to 1862, he was in partnership with General Guitar,
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the firm commanding all the practice they could well attend to. July 10th, 1867, Mr. Gordon was married to Ann Gentry, daughter of Col. Richard Gentry, who was killed in the Florida war. Mr. Gordon owns a nice farm one and one half miles southeast of Columbia on the Columbia and Ashland gravel road. The farm contains three hundred acres well improved and pleasantly situated. During the war Mr. Gordon was a consistent Union man, but took no part in the struggle. Since the war he has voted the Democratic ticket. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, having united with that denom- ination more than forty years ago. Mr. Gordon has had two children by his second wife. His daughter Annie, died April 5th, 1879. His son Marshall, born April 6th, 1869, is still living. The remains of the old Black mill, one of the first water mills ever erected in Boone county, is situated on Mr. Gordon's place. It was built as far back as 1839. It is situated on the Hinkson Creek. Mr. Gordon has a fine collection of Indian pottery, arrow-heads and stone axes, and takes much interest in those relics. He is an affable gentleman, firm in his opinions and resolute in maintaining them.
CAPT. DAVID GUITAR.
The subject of this sketch was born in Richmond, Madison county, Kentucky, May 1st, 1827, and came to Boone county, Missouri, in the fall of 1829. His parents were John and Emily ( Gordon ) Guitar. John Guitar was born in Agen, France, and emigrated to the United States in 1819, landing first in New York, where he remained for two years. From New York he went to Richmond, Kentucky, where he was married, in 1824, to Miss Emily Gordon, daughter of David and Mary Jane (Boyle) Gordon. The mother of Mrs. Guitar was a native of Madison county, Kentucky, and a sister of Judge Boyle, of Danville, Kentucky. John Guitar was engaged in the mercantile business previous to coming to Columbia, Missouri. On his arrival here, he resumed his former occupation, selling dry goods and jewelry. He was actively engaged in this business from 1829 up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1848. He is buried at the old family burying ground on what is known as the Old Widow Gordon farm, east of Columbia. Mrs. Guitar died in 1847, and is buried by the side of her husband. Capt. Guitar was educated partly at the old Columbia College, finishing his studies at the Missouri State University, being one among the first students of that institu- tion. In 1847 he enlisted in the Mexican war, serving for one year.
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In 1849 he went overland to California, where he remained for three years. Returning to Columbia, he engaged in the mercantile business under the firm name of Baker & Guitar. He followed this business for seven years, when he sold out to his partner, G. F. Baker. In the spring of 1860 he removed to the farm he now occupies, two miles northeast of Columbia. During the war he was captain of a militia company under Gen. Douglass. After the war, he continued farming until 1869, when he entered the firm of Anderson, Conly & Co., proprietors of the Columbia Mills. He followed this business for eight years, returning to his farm in 1876. Capt. Guitar was married, October 25th, 1854, to Miss Harriet, daughter of Ferdinand and Martha (Bradley) Herndon, of Nashville, Tennessee. The father of Mrs. Guitar was an officer in the war of 1812. He was born in Fredricksburg, Virginia. By this union they have had ten children, eight of whom, five sons and three daughters, are still living. Their names are : James G., David G., Elizabeth, William, Martha H., John, Harriet and Eddie.
ISAAC LOYD HADEN.
The subject of this notice is the son of Turner R. and Sarah Ann (Loyd) Haden, and was born August 11th, 1854, in Boone county, Missouri. His father came from Scott county, Kentucky, to Boone county, Missouri, about 1825 or 1826, and settled on what is now known as the Bedford farm. He was a farmer, and died in January, 1879. Mrs. Haden, the mother of Isaac Loyd Haden, is still living, aged fifty-seven. They reared a family of nine children, three boys and six girls. Our subject, Isaac, is the fourth child and second son. Isaac was born four miles northeast of Columbia. He was educated in his native county at what is known as the Kennan school house. He lived at home until he was twenty-one years of age, when he mar- ried Miss Myra Gillespie, daughter of Robert and Sophia (Barnes) Gillespie. By this union they have two children, a boy and girl, Wm. Porter and Sallie. He and his wife are members of the Chris- tian church at Hickory Grove, Callaway county, Missouri. He has a good farm upon the Columbia and Concord road, ten miles northeast of Columbia. The soil is a black loam, and raises the very finest wheat and corn in the vicinity.
JOEL HARRIS HADEN.
Joel H. Haden, one of Boone county's most successful citizens, is
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the son of Turner R. and Rebecca Haden, and was born in Scott county, Kentucky, September 12th, 1811. He came to Boone county in the fall of 1828, and rented a farm two and a half miles northeast of Columbia, now known as the Lenoir farm. He was first married to Miss Sarah Cave, daughter of Richard and Martha ( Cave ) Talbott. By this marriage they have one child, Margaret, who is the wife of John W. Carter, of Boone county. Mr. Haden's first wife died May 15th, 1835. He was again married July 4th, 1838, to Miss Zerelda, daughter of James and Maria Kirtley. Two sons were born of this union, James W. and Turner R. S. The second wife having died No- vember 3d, 1870, Mr. Haden was married September 28th, 1872, to Sarah, sister of the second wife. Mr. Haden has always followed farming. His farm is one of the best in the county. He has a fine residence, beautifully situated on the Columbia and Blackfoot rock road, one and a half miles north of the city. Mr. Haden is in every sense of the word a self-made man, having accumulated a large for- tune by his individual effort. His home place contains 900 acres. In addition to this he owns 600 acres elsewhere, besides much other valu- able property, all of which he accumulated by hard labor and good management. Mr. Haden is at this writing seventy-one years old, but looks to be not over fifty.
EDWARD D. HENRY.
The subject of this sketch is the son of John Todd and Sarah ( Keene ) Henry. He was born in Scott county, Kentucky, March 14, 1812. Was educated in the common district schools of the country. Came to Boone county, Missouri, with his mother, in the fall of 1826, and settled on a farm five and one-half miles northeast of Columbia, where he remained until he was twenty-two years old. Then went from home to learn the trade of brick-laying under J. G. Keene and David Neal. In 1837 returned to Kentucky, in company with his brother, where he remained for one year. When work was com- menced on the Missouri State University he was employed to lay brick, building the front wall of that institution. He helped to lay the first brick that were placed in the University. In 1841 he, in company with Henry Keene, formed a partnership for making and laying brick. He continued in this business for about six years. He was married July 7th, 1852, to Miss Susan, daughter of Gabriel and Elizabeth Parker. By this union they have had three sons and two daughters. Lizzie L., born May 2d, 1853 ; Mary, born October 15th,
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1856 ; Edward P., born September 7th, 1860; William Todd, born March 11th, 1867, died October 15th, 1877 ; Robert, born May 10th, 1862, died May 11th, 1864. In 1849 Mr. Henry bought the farm upon which he now lives, containing 216 acres. This farm is well watered and timbered, and is in every respect finely improved. Mr. Henry is an official member of the Presbyterian church and has been for thirty-three years. Mrs. Henry is also a member of the same. Her father, Gabriel Parker, died February 24th, 1880, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. Her mother, Mrs. Parker, died March 1st, 1864.
JOHN TODD HENRY, JR., DECEASED.
John Todd Henry, Jr., deceased, was the son of John Todd Henry, Sr., and Sarah (Keene) Henry. John Todd Henry, Sr., was a native of Charlotte county, Virginia, and was born in 1762. He graduated at Prince Edward College, Virginia, now Hampden Sid- ney. He emigrated to Scott county, Kentucky, and was president of a college in Georgetown, where he died, February 23d, 1822. His wife was born in Maryland, in 1782, and moved to Scott county, Kentucky, with her parents, when a child. She came to Boone county, Missouri, in 1826, where she died in 1860. They had four sons and four daughters. Two children, one son and one daughter, are dead. The living have all resided in Boone for fifty-six years, and in the same neighborhood. The oldest member of the family is Samuel L. Henry, who is now in his eighty-second year. John Todd Henry, Jr., was born in Scott county, Kentucky, August 5th, 1803, and was educated at the common schools of his native county. In early manhood he was constable of his township, and from 1826 to 1828, was deputy sheriff of Scott county, Kentucky. He was mar- ried, February 25th, 1834, to Miss Harriet, daughter of Capt. Francis and Elizabeth (Gordon) Coleman. The father of Mrs. Henry was a captain in the Revolutionary army. She was born December 21st, 1811. She is the only one living of a family of seven children. Mr. and Mrs. Henry have had seven children, two of whom died in infancy. The names of the living are John T., Samuel W., Sarab. E., Robert E., and Emma. Mr. Henry came to Boone county in 1834, and set- tled on the farm upon which he died, August 5th, 1882. The farm is situated six miles northeast of Columbia, and consists of 440 acres, finely improved. When he settled this place there were but twelve acres of cleared land, the rest of the farm being in the woods. Mr.
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Henry was a member of the Methodist church. Mrs. Henry is a member of that church also.
JAMES LAWRENCE HENRY.
James Lawrence Henry, Jr., son of Dr. James L. and Mary A. (Barnard ) Henry, was born in Easton, Washington county, New York, September 22d, 1839, and was educated at Greenwich, which is also in Washington county. In 1856 he left his native State, going first to Farmington, Iowa, where he worked one year in the machine shops, then to Knox county, Missouri, where he worked in the milling business eighteen months under the firm name of Hill & Henry. Selling out his interest in the mill he went to Macon City, Missouri, where he acted as superintendent off a livery stable owned by Harry Wortz. He remained in this business until 1859, when he came to Boone county and drove the Columbia and Sturgeon stage for Leonard & Burks until the spring of 1860, when he engaged in the steam saw- mill business. He removed the mill from near Centralia to Hinkson creek, ten miles northeast of Columbia. He ran this mill until March, 1861, when he went to farming one mile east of Brown's Station. He was married March 10th, 1861, to Frances S., daughter of James and Louisa (Ridgway ) Lampton. By this union they had seven children, two sons and five daughters. Mary L., born February 5th, 1862, died August 23d, 1866 ; Eunice B., born November 12th, 1868 ; John L., born April 13th, 1871 ; Susan G., born July 6th, 1873 ; James C., born July 19th, 1876, died May 11th, 1878 ; Marion L., born Feb- ruary 7th, 1879, and Elizabeth R., born February 23d, 1881. Mr. Henry enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861 under Capt. Robert L. Maupin, then again under Capt. Amos Hulett. After several at- tempts to reach the army, he was captured in the summer of 1862, and confined in prison at St. Louis, Alton and Washington City. In the spring of 1863 he was exchanged and sent to City Point, Virginia. From there he went West and joined Capt. Harvey G. Mckinney's company, of which he was made first sergeant. Was ordered to Boonia station, near Vicksburg, where he was attached to company H, of the Fifth regiment, commanded by Col. James McCown. Was in the battle near Vicksburg, May 15th, 1863. May 18th, 1864, joined Johnston's army at Kingston, and participated in the battle of New Hope church. He also took part in Hood's raid on Nashville. Was wounded at Altoona station. His brigade was captured at the siege of Fort Blakely and sent to Ship Island, in the Gulf of Mexico.
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They were afterwards taken to Vicksburg and exchanged. He sur- rendered under Gen. Dick Taylor, May 12th, 1865. In 1873 he built the mill called by his name, situated on Rocky Fork, six miles north of Columbia. Since returning from the war he has followed milling and farming. He is now engaged in the milling business at Brown's Station, in partnership with J. C. Dysart. In 1878 he made the race for assessor, but was beaten seventy-nine votes by M. G. Quinn. He was a candidate in 1880 before the primary election, but was again defeated. He is master of the Hallsville Grange, also a member of the Hallsville Masonic lodge, and of the K. P. lodge, Columbia. He and his wife are members of the Christian church. His father died in Troy, New York in 1843. His mother is now living at Fox Lake, Wisconsin.
L. P. HICKAM.
Lycurgus P. Hickam's parents, Ezekiel and Nancy ( Sims ) Hickam, were natives of the " Old Dominion," but emigrated to Missouri in an early day. L. P. Hickam was born in Boone county, February 26th, 1830. He was raised on the farm, and is himself a well-to-do farmer. His farm, consisting of 430 acres, is situated three miles southwest of Columbia, on the old Providence and Columbia plank road. His land is all under fence, and is well watered and timbered. The homestead is conveniently situated and is esteemed one of the most desirable in that vicinity. Mr. Hickam is a member of the Masonic order and a communicant of the Baptist church. He has been a church member for fifteen years, and at this writing is a deacon of the Bethel church.
JUDGE JOSEPH W. HICKAM.
Judge Joseph W. Hickam has probably spent more years in public life than any other man now living in Boone county. From early manhood to old age he has served his county in almost every capacity. He is the son of John and Christian Hickam, and was born in Wash- ington county, Virginia. When about twelve years old he came to the territory of Missouri, and to what was then called Howard county, the Territory being then divided into four or five grand divisions, of which Howard county was one of the subdivisions. All of Boone county was then included in Howard. Judge Hickam landed at Head's Fort in the fall of 1816, and the spring following came to Boone county, and settled on the farm now owned by Birch Hunt, situ- ated in the river bottom. He remained on this place until the spring of
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1819, when he moved to a place four miles south of Columbia. This farm, consisting of 320 acres, was bought from the government by Judge Hickam's father. The elder Hickam had five sons and four daughters. Of this family, only four are now living. John Hickanı was one of the earliest settlers of Boone county, and was an indus- trious enterprising citizen, a man possessed of many strong points of character. He left his children about ten thousand acres of land. Judge Hickam's opportunities for securing an education were quite limited, from the fact that he left Virginia at an early age, and there were no schools in Missouri at the time he came to this State. He attended a subscription school for six months. Was afterwards for twelve months a pupil of a school taught by Elijah Hart, an uncle of Thomas H. Benton. He next attended Washington College at Jones- borough, Tennessee, for a few months. His public life commenced at the age of sixteen, when he was elected captain of a militia com- pany. He cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson, and has always been a Democrat. Was commissioned a justice of the peace by Gov. Miller in 1827, and served in that capacity for many years. In 1832 he was elected county court judge, and was presiding justice during a portion of the term. Was engrossing clerk of the lower house of the Missouri legislature from 1834 to 1839. From 1839 to 1858 he was superintendent of bridge building in Boone county. He also held the office of school commissioner until 1859, when he was ap- pointed assessor by the county court. During the war he held no position but that of justice of the peace. Judge Hickam was first married to Miss Turley, of Madison county, Kentucky. By this union they had one daughter, Emeline, now the widow of Cornelius Maupin. The first wife having died in 1865, he was again married, July 4, 1867, to Mahinda J., daughter of Maj. John and Temperance (Wright) Barclay, of Boone county. They have no children. Judge Hickam is not a member of any church nor of any secret society. His recollections of border life are of the most interesting and thrill- ing nature. Since retiring from the active duties of life he has lived quietly on his fine farm of 600 acres, one mile west of Columbia and one-fourth mile south of the gravel road, which has been his home for fifty-four years. He has been a prominent man all his life and is widely known and universally respected, as he deserves to be. Nearly the whole of his busy life has been spent in the service of his fellow-men, and his labors will survive him. Such men cannot be forgotten.
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DAVID A. JACOBS
Was born in Boone county, Missouri, July 29, 1856, on the old home- stead settled by his father, Dr. G. R. Jacobs, whose biography is also published in this volume. David was educated at the Virginia Mili- tary Institute and at the St. Louis University. He also attended school at Lexington, Kentucky. He was married on the 14th of March, 1878, to Miss Belle Rollins, daughter of John C. Rollins (deceased ), and niece of the Hon. J. S. Rollins, of Columbia. They have two children - Wayne R. and Louisa M. Jacobs ; has always been a farmer, and owns a large farm of 520 acres six miles east of Columbia, most of which is sown in blue-grass. At this writing Mr. Jacobs is giving his attention to raising live stock, both sheep and cattle. He is a mem- ber of the Catholic church, and Mrs. Jacobs belongs to the Episcopal church, of Columbia.
DR. GEORGE RODNEY JACOBS, DECEASED.
The eminent gentleman - now numbered with the dead - whose name heads this sketch was a native of Nelson county, Virginia, and was born February 20, 1802. He was educated at New Glasgow Acad- emy, Amherst county, Virginia, and studied medicine in the office of an eminent physician of that State. After a two years' course of read- ing, he attended the medical college at Philadelphia for two years ; he received the degree of M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania,. and returned to his old home to begin the practice. He quit the med_ ical practice in 1832 and emigrated to Missouri. Dr. Jacobs was mar- ried in 1835, in Hampshire county, Virginia, to Miss Louisa Parsons. In 1845 he moved to Louisiana and located twenty miles from New Or- leans, where he remained seven years. Returning then to Missouri, he settled in Boone county, where he resided till the time of his death, which occurred February 24, 1877.
R. T. JOHNSTON.
Robert Thomas Johnston is the son of Robert and Ann Johnston, and was born in Howard county, Missouri, January 10, 1829. In 1831 he came to Boone county, where he remained until he was fifteen years old ; he returned to Howard county and clerked for two years in his brother Joel's store, at Fayette. He then returned to his home in Boone county, where he was married, December, 1851, to Julia, daugh- ter of Joseph and Elizabeth Johnston. Mr. Johnston has lived on his
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