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present farm, three miles south of Columbia, for thirty-one years. He is a member of the Bonne Femme Missionary Baptist church. Mrs. Johnston is also a member of the same church.
FRANCIS MARION JOHNSON.
Francis M. Johnson is the son of Samuel and Margaret Johnson ; he was born in Boone county, Missouri, June 8, 1834, on the old home- stead settled and owned by his father, one mile north of where the subject of this sketch now lives. The old house is still standing on the Hinkson. Mr. Johnson was raised and educated in Boone county ; he was first married in May, 1858, his wife dying in the month of Jan- uary following. March 22, 1864, he was again married, this time to Miss Bettie, daughter of Thomas and Margaret ( Stewart) Cox. By this marriage they had eight children - two sons and six daughters : Maggie, born January 10, 1866 ; Mary E., born June 12, 1867 ; Wil- liam T., born May 29, 1869 ; Frank L., born November 13, 1872 ; Minnie D., born April 26, 1875 ; Mattie E., born April 8, 1877 ; Ame- lia B., born February 5, 1879, and Bertha G., born January 17, 1882. Mr. Johnson spent one year in California, returning to Boone county in 1850 ; farmed for two years, then erected a saw-mill, devoting four years to this business ; then, in partnership with a man named Parker, bought a herd of 1,400 sheep, which they took to Texas. Returning, he formed a partnership with Mr. Hickman for building and operating a steam grist mill near Stephens station ; was connected with this business for five years. In 1870 he traded his interest in the mill and a farm near Stephens station to Robert Smith for the farm which he (Mr. Johnson) now occupies, consisting of 370 acres, three miles northeast of Columbia, on the Mexico and Columbia road. There is a fine coal mine on this place, the vein being three and one-half feet in thickness, and of excellent quality. The farm is mostly in grass, and is well adapted to stock raising. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Christian church at Antioch. Mr. Johnson's father came to Boone county in 1824 ; he was a native of Scott county, Kentucky ; he died in 1868, and is buried at the old Hinkson Baptist church. Mrs. Johnson died in 1835 - about one year after the birth of Francis M .- and was buried at the same place.
ALFRED KEENE.
Alfred Keene is the son of John G. and Fannie ( Snell ) Keene, who emigrated from Kentucky to Missouri in the fall of 1826. John Keene
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was a native of Maryland, and was born and raised near Washington City. He once owned part of the land now incorporated within the city limits of the national capital. He was a bricklayer by trade, and worked at the business many years before coming to Missouri. After emigrating to Boone county he continued to work at the trade for several years. He built the Presbyterian church in Columbia. He died at the age of seventy-six years, and is buried on the grounds of the old Hinkson church, now owned by F. M. Johnson. The sub- ject of this sketch was born January 21, 1817, at Georgetown, Ken- tucky ; he came to Boone county with his parents in the fall of 1826 ; he never went to school a day in his life. Having learned the trade of bricklaying from his father, and being a good workman, he found no difficulty in procuring employment ; he was engaged to work on the State University, and helped to lay the front wall of that build- ing ; he also built the first brick house ever erected in the town of Rocheport. He assisted in building the Fulton Asylum ; he also built the president's mansion at Columbia, and superintended the work on the new public school building. He has been a bricklayer for fifty years. In 1837 Mr. Keene enlisted in the Florida war under Capt. Ellis, serving one year. He was married February 8, 1844, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Jane ( Johnson ) Hannah. By this marriage they have had four sons and two daughters. Their names are : James H., born March 3, 1845 ; George W., born September 2, 1846 ; Amanda, born September 26, 1848, died March 6, 1849 ; Eliz- abeth, born February 1, 1850, died February 6, 1850 ; Robert, born May 13, 1853, died February 23, 1860 ; Thomas, born July 24, 1856. Since 1850 Mr. Keene has followed farming in addition to working at his trade. He owns a small farm of sixty-one acres, five miles north of Columbia, on the Paris road.
D. W. B. KURTZ:
The subject of this sketch is a gentleman of fine culture, being a thorough graduate of the Missouri State University. He is a native of Howard county, Missouri, the son of Jacob and Permelia Kurtz. Was born February 17th, 1837. Mr Kurtz's life-struggle stamps him a man of superior worth. With few natural advantages, and little or no assistance, he marked out for himself, while yet a mere boy, a course of life which comprehended a thorough classical education, and in his case, to will, was to accomplish all that he aspired to. Master- ing all the studies taught in the district schools, he came to Columbia
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and entered the University in 1859. At the close of the session of 1860, Mr. Kurtz returned to Howard county and taught school for one year. He next went to Dover, Lafayette county, Missouri, where he taught for one session. He returned to the State University and resumed his studies during the session of 1862. The war had by this time almost broken up the schools of the county and Mr. Kurtz, finding nothing to do in his line, left the country, going first to Chicago and thence to Canada. While in Canada, he went to school and taught in the public schools of that province. At the close of the war he returned to Missouri and resumed his studies at the University, where he graduated in 1866, after which he was tutor of Latin for one year. In 1872 he was made first assistant in the normal department of the University. At the close of this session, he went to Montgom- ery City, Missouri, where he took charge of the college. When he entered upon his duties there were but thirty-six students in attend- ance. At the end of six years, when Mr. Kurtz retired from the in- stitution, there were 350. In 1878, Mr. Kurtz came to Columbia and engaged in the grocery business. Having been chosen principal of the Rocheport academy, he sold out his business in Columbia and took charge of that school. He remained in Rocheport until March 1st, 1881, when he bought the farm known as " Greenwood," two miles northeast of Columbia, where he now resides. Professor Kurtz was married December 23d, 1868, to Sarah L., daughter of Col. F. T. and Myra C. Russell, of Columbia, Missouri. By this union they have six children, four sons and two daughters. Their names are Russell L., Cannie May, D. W. B., Jr., Francis A., Lula May and T. Newton. Prof. Kurtz is a member of the Masonic order, also a men- her of the Baptist church.
GEORGE THOMAS LANGSTON
Is the oldest of four children of the late Jacob and Cornelia (North- cutt ) Langston, and was born March 1st, 1830, in Bourbon county, Ky. His father moved to Boone county Mo., in 1835 or 1836, and settled on a farm about seven miles northeast of Columbia on the old Columbia and St. Charles road, on Little Cedar creek. George was educated at the country schools in the neighborhood and has always lived upon the old place. In 1861, when the country was arming for the great civil war, he espoused the cause of the South and went out with the old State Guards from Boonville, in Shanks' regiment, Company K. Was in the battles of Lone Jack and Independence.
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Being sent by Col. Thompson to gather up recruits that were in hiding in the brush in the vicinity of his father's farm, he was captured by Col. Frank Russell and Captain Williams and taken to St. Louis and confined in prison for ten months, when he was tried as a spy and sen- tenced to be shot. Was under sentence of death for three months. He was granted a new trial and was tried by a military commission and sentenced to the military prison at Alton, Ill., at hard labor. Was released in the fall of 1864, after being in prison over a year. He then came back to the farm and has lived at his present home ever since. His is a good farm, containing 280 acres of good land, well timbered and watered, the Little Cedar running through the place. His father died February 20th, 1851, and his mother December 17th, 1878, at the age of 69. They are buried at Cedar Creek church, Callaway county, Mo. Only himself and brother, James F., are living of the children. Joseph W. was wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge, in 1862, and died from the effects of the wound. Nancy H., his only sister, died some time since. Our subject, George T., is a Mason, in good standing in the lodge, and is regarded by all as an upright, honest citizen. He deals almost exclusively in stock, only having thirty acres in cultivation for grain, all the rest in grass.
SLATER ENSOR LENOIR.
Mr. Lenoir is a son of Walter R. and Sarah E. ( Bouchelle ) Lenoir, and was born in Wilkes county, North Carolina, October 27th, 1833. He was brought by his parents to this county (Boone ) when scarcely a year old, and here grew to manhood and was educated. He finished his educational career at the State University of Columbia, and soon thereafter, in 1850, made an overland trip " across the plains " to California. He went with a train of ox-teams under charge of his brother-in-law, Col. F. D. Russell. He remained in California till January following, and then returned by water, via the Isthmus of Panama, arriving in Boone county, March 15th, 1851. Thirteen years later, April 21st, 1864, Mr. Lenoir was married to Margaret A., daughter of Austin and Lavinia Bradford, of Culpepper county, Vir- ginia. He has always been engaged in farming, and, up until 1877, continued to live on the old homestead settled by his father, three miles northeast of Columbia. At this writing he owns and resides on a fine farm of 427 acres, three miles southeast of Columbia, on the gravel road to Ashland. This place is finely improved, with residence, barn and other buildings to correspond. Mr. Lenoir is of a fine old family
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of Southern people, a worthy citizen and a member of the Christian church at Columbia.
ROBERT LEMON, JR.
Robert Lemon, the subject of this sketch, is the son of Robert Lemon, Sr., a native of Virginia. The maiden name of his mother was Mary McCown. The elder Lemon was born October 6, 1752, and died July 12, 1848, at the advanced age of ninety-six. His father was a native of Ireland. Robert Lemon, Sr., emigrated to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1792. He was the youngest of nine children, eight sons and one daughter. He served in the revolutionary army, as did four of his brothers. Was under Washington and Lafayette at the surren- der of Lord Cornwallis. He came to Boone county in the fall of 1824, bringing with him his wife and a numerous family of children, and settled on 'Coon creek, three and one-half miles northwest of Co- lumbia, where he built a log cabin and commenced farming. He lived on this place till his death, which occurred as before stated. Mr. Lemon was a tailor, and followed the business previous to coming to Missouri. Mrs. Mary (McCown) Lemon died February 16, 1837, aged sixty-six years. Both the father and mother of Robert, Jr., are buried at the family burying ground on the old homestead, northwest of Columbia. The subject of this sketch was born in Scott county, Kentucky, June 15, 1811. Was educated principally in Kentucky, under the care of Beverly A. Hicks, one of the most noted teachers of Scott county. He completed his education in the common schools
of this county. His father settled the old homestead on Coon creek, three and one-half miles northwest of Columbia, in the fall of 1824. January 22, 1838, Robert Lemon, Jr., was married to Miss Amanda, daughter of Samuel and Mary ( Baker) Marsh. By this union they had ten children, five sons and five daughters, six of whom are now living. Mrs. Lemon died January 2, 1857. October 12, 1858, he was again married to Mrs. Harriet Price, daughter of John and Ann Riley. Mrs. Price was born in Philadelphia, May, 1810. There are no children by this marriage. From 1840 up to the beginning of the late civil war, Mr. Lemon was quite an extensive mule trader. He furnished the government with a great many mules during the war with Mexico. Has always been a farmer. Lived for many years on the old farm settled by his father, northwest of Columbia. In 1850 moved to the farm he now occupies, one inile west of Columbia, on the Rocheport and Columbia gravel road. He has a good farm of 400 acres, well watered and timbered. Mr. and Mrs. Lemon are mem-
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bers of the Christian church, at Columbia. Mr. Lemon had one son, Robert L., killed in the late war. He was a Confederate soldier, and fell at the battle of Grand Gulfin 1863. Another son, Dr. W. T., is practicing his profession at Ashland, Missouri. His fourth son, Will- iam C., is living at home with his parents. Mr. Lemon has in his pos- session an interesting relic, their old family Bible, published one hundred years ago.
ELI MARS.
The subject of this sketch is the son of Samuel and Mary ( Baker) Mars. . He was born in Franklin county, Kentucky, September 22, 1804, and came with his parents to this county in 1820. They settled three miles north of Columbia, on what is now known as the James Shock farm. Five acres of cleared land and a small log cabin consti- tuted all the improvement then found on the place. Mr. Mars greatly improved the farm, and remained on it until his death, which occurred May 10, 1850. Eli was educated partly in Kentucky, finishing his education in Boone county. He was married January 30, 1845, to Miss Emily Penington, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Hayes) Cowan. By this union they had four children, two sons and two daughters, two of whom are now living, Parton W. S., who is now farming on the Two-mile prairie, and Samuel C , who is living in Ari- zona Territory. The first wife having died February 20, 1857, Mr. Mars was again married May 26, 1860, to Miss Louisa, daughter of John M. and Mary (Witt) Salmon. By this union there were two children, a son and a daughter, both of whom are dead. Mr. Mars was the sixth of a family of twelve children, six of each sex, of whom he alone is living. Should he live to celebrate his next birthday, he will be seventy-eight years old. Mr. Mars has followed farming all his life. The farm upon which he is now living is situated one mile west of Columbia, on the Rocheport road. He was one of the original. members of the Old Bear Creek church. Mrs. Mars is a member of the Columbia Baptist church. His first wife was a member of Bear Creek congregation. In an early day Mr. Mars and his father used to carry freight in wagons between Columbia and St. Louis. He remem- bers many incidents connected with the dim past, which, but for the vigorous memories of such old citizens as Mr. Mars, had long since been forgotten.
COL. E. C. MORE.
The subject of this sketch is the son of Elijah and Caroline ( Owens ) More, and was born at Little Rock, Arkansas, December 27, 1837.
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His father was born in Danville, Kentucky, and died in 1878 at Colum- bia, Missouri. His mother was born in Arkansas, and died at Little Rock in 1839. They were blessed with two sons. Dr. Livingfield, the elder, died in 1859, and Col. E. C. More alone survives. He was educated mostly in America, but spent several years upon the conti- nent of Europe at schools and universities. He first went to school at Little Rock, Arkansas, then at St. Louis, and next at Shurtleff College, Illinois. At the age of fifteen he went to Europe, and went to school at Paris, France, then at Hanover, Germany, and at Cadiz, Spain. In 1856 he returned to America, and entered the junior class at Yale College and graduated in 1858. He studied law at home for a short time, then entered the law school at Lebanon, Tennessee, and graduated from that institution in 1861. He next went to St. Louis and entered the law office of Lackland, Cline & Jamison. In the spring of 1865 he went to Helena, Montana, and entered regularly into the practice of the law, in partnership with Col. Aleck M. Wool- folk. In 1866 he took quite an extensive trip through Oregon and California, and after traveling some time in Central America, returned to Missouri, and settled down permanently at Columbia, Boone county. He practiced law three or four years at the Columbia bar but finally abandoned it entirely for farming, which occupation he has followed up to the present. His is a very large farm adjoining the city limits He has a beautiful place, decorated in and with everything that culti- vation, refinement and wealth could suggest. His farm is stocked with thoroughbred cattle and sheep as well as the best graded horses, hogs, ete. He has been president of the State Board of Agriculture and for several years of the Boone County Fair Association. His resi- dence is one and one-half miles north of Columbia. He has been twice married, the last time to Elizabeth, daughter of Judge Logan Hunton of St. Louis county. The Colonel takes an active part in politics, being unanimously chosen as Boone's choice for congress in 1882. He enjoys the confidence of those who know him, and is a polished, thorough gentleman, dispensing hospitality at his elegant home in the true Southern manner. His residence has all the appoint- ments that true elegance and cultivated tastes can suggest, and he, his wife and his home are always pleasantly remembered by those that enjoy their acquaintance.
LEVI M'GUIRE (DECEASED ).
Levi McGuire, one of Boone's earliest pioneers, was born in Henry
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county, Kentucky, August 1, 1801, and emigrated to Boone county, Missouri in 1818, and settled upon the land now owned by Mrs. Stew- art. He was educated in his native county in Kentucky, and in his young and vigorous manhood, he learned the carpenter's trade, but never followed the calling after coming to Missouri, as he chose farm- ing as his occupation in his new home in the then far West. In 1820 he married Miss Susan Martinie, daughter of Jonathan and Durrett Martinie. By this union they had eight children, seven boys and one girl. Dr. J. E., Jonathan M., a Baptist minister living in Boone county ; Robert L., a lawyer and ex-mayor of Springfield, Illinois ; William D., a lawyer and ex-representative of Grundy county, Mis- souri ; Benjamin F., living upon the old homestead with his mother, Dr. Julius E. McGuire, of this township, and - McGuire, of -, and Ann E., deceased. Mr. McGuire died in August, 1873, in his 73d year, and is buried in the old family burial ground at the home place. His wife is still living, in her 77th year, at this date, 1882.
JULIUS EARNEST M'GUIRE, M. D.
Dr. McGuire is a son of Levi and Susan (Martinie ) McGuire and was born March 22, 1826, in Boone county, Missouri, on the farm now owned by Mrs. Sarah Stewart, eight miles east of Columbia, and a mile and a half south of St. Charles road. He lived upon the place until he was about ten years of age when his father bought the place where he is now living and removed his family thereto. He was edu- cated principally in Boone county, beginning at the age of six at Roh- erts' school house on the gravel road. , His teacher there was a man named Beatty. Afterwards he went to school at Boonsboro, then on the eastern border of the county. He resided at home with his parents until 1851, when he went to Columbia and studied medicine with Drs. Lee and Spotswood. After reading with them two years, he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and took two courses of lectures. In 1869-70 he attended Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. In 1861 he took sides with the South in her struggle against the North, and joined Price's army. He was at the battles of Dry Wood and Lexington. After the fight at Lexington he came back to Boone to recruit and was in all the little engagements in Boone county. In 1864 he went to Kentucky and joined Morgan's command and stayed there until peace was declared and the flag he loved was forever furled. He began the practice of his profession at his old home and has lived there to the present time. He has a fine practice in a good neighborhood and is
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esteemed by all as a thorough gentleman. He is a Mason and his wife is a member of the Missionary Baptist church.
T. C. M'INTIRE.
Thomas C. McIntire is the son of Thomas and Elsie McIntire, of Fleming county, Kentucky, where he was born October, 1822. He came to Callaway county, Missouri, in the fall of 1836, and from Callaway to Boone in 1849. He was educated in the latter county. In the spring of 1850 he was married to Margaret Simmons, whose parents were of Fleming county, Kentucky. By this union they had four children, three girls and one boy. Their names are Eliza C., Margaret A., Mary L., and William. Mrs. McIntire died in the spring of 1867, and in 1869 he was again married. His second wife was Mary, daughter of William and Lucy Atkinson. By this union they had one son, Albert G. Mr. and Mrs. McIntire are members of the Columbia Presbyterian church. Previous to his marriage Mr. McIntire taught school in Callaway county, Missouri, and clerked in a store at Mexico for a number of years. He has followed farming and is also largely interested in the nursery business. Since 1867 he has raised on an average about 20,000 apple trees a year. He has sixty- five acres in orchard and ships a great deal of fruit every year. His farm and nursery of 170 acres is situated on the St. Charles road, two and a half miles east of Columbia. He has a fine vineyard of 600 vines, besides other fruits in the greatest abundance. There is one apple tree on the farm that was planted forty-five years ago. It is still thrifty and bears abundant fruit.
HARVEY W. PEMBERTON.
Mr. Pemberton is the son of John and Lucy ( Vivion) Pemberton, and was born April 22, 1807, in Clark county, Kentucky. When he was nine years of age his parents moved to Woodford county, Ken- tucky. At the age of seventeen he learned the cabinet-maker's trade in Fayette county, same State. In 1826 he came to Boone county, Missouri, and staid one year and then went to Fayette, Howard county, and worked at his trade in the shop of Samuel C. Major. In 1829 he returned to Kentucky and induced his father to come out to the new and growing West. He then settled in Columbia and worked at his trade for two years. He then moved six miles northeast of Columbia, and farmed on a small scale, carrying on his trade at the same time. He lived there about four years, and then went to Millers-
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burg, Callaway county, Missouri, where he worked exclusively at his trade. In 1838 he bought the farm upon which he is now living, eight and one-half miles east of Columbia, on the Richland road. He has a fine farm of 240 acres, in a high state of cultivation. He mar- ried Miss Nancy, daughter of James and Mildred ( Cave ) Kirtley, on the 3d of May, 1832. By this marriage they have nine children, three boys and six girls : Frances, wife of Hiram Philips, of Boone county ; Anne E., the wife of Wm. Truett, of Callaway county, Mis- souri ; Eveline (deceased ) ; John, a physician, of New Bloomfield, Callaway county, Missouri ; Flora, wife of Frank Wilcox, of Colum- bia ; Rella P., widow of Thomas Lynes, of Boone county ; Maggie, wife of Winfield Potts, and two children, a boy and a girl, who died in infancy. His first wife died February 6th, 1855. He mar- ried again on the 8th of September, 1870, Mrs. Louisa Shields, the widow of John Shields. Mr. Pemberton is one of Boone's staunch, reliable citizens, and has, by industry and good management, acquired a fair competency, and is revered and respected by all. His parents were from Virginia. His father died in 1838 and his mother in 1845. They were buried in a family burying ground on the Stark farm, in Boone county. They were the parents of eleven children, five boys and six girls.
JOSEPH B. PHILIPS.
Mr. Philips is the son of Warner and Catherine (Hutchings ) Philips, and was born April 30th, 1826, in Boone county, Missouri, near Stephens' station. His father was born in Virginia, November 24th, 1794, and died in Boone county, Missouri, March 24th, 1881. His mother was born November 5th, 1807, and died August 29th, 1876. They are buried in the family burial ground upon the old homestead. They were blest with eight children, six boys and two girls, only two of whom are now living, Mrs. Ann E. Roberts, of Centralia, and Joseph B., our subject. They settled about eleven miles northeast of Columbia, on the Columbia and Concord road, where Joseph was born. Joseph lived at home with his parents until the spring of 1850. He concluded to join the army of California gold-hunters, and accordingly went to the famous gold fields of that renowned territory. At the end of his fourth year spent in mining in California, he returned to old Boone, and remained with his parents until he married, January 4th, 1857, Miss Virginia, daughter of Walker and Lucinda Walden, of Virginia. By this union they have but one child, Lou Ann, born February 27th, 1859. In the fall
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