History of Caldwell and Livingston counties, Missouri, written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of their townships, towns and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri; a reliable and detailed history of Caldwell and Livingston counties--their pioneer record, resources, biographical sketches of prominent citizens; general and local statistics of great value; incidents and reminiscences, Part 101

Author: Pease, Ora Merle Hawk, 1890-
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: St. Louis, National Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1260

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ELIJAH L. TREDWAY

(Farmer and Sheep Grower, Post-office, Farmersville).

Although Mr. Tredway is not yet what may be called a middle- aged man, there is a valuable lesson in his career for young men who have ambitions to rise to prominent and influential positions in life. He has had no advantages that any young man in the land may not

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have and, indeed, he perhaps suffered greater drawbacks than any of the present generation, at least, can possibly suffer. Born in Coshoc- ton county, O., August 31, 1849, he was the son of Corbin and Mary (Fry) Tredway, the latter a native of Ohio but the former origin- ally from Maryland. He settled in the Buckeye State with his father in 1808, theirs being the first wagon brought into the county in which they located. Ten sons and four daughters, all born in Ohio, blessed this union. Of these Abram now lives in Nebraska ; Phrispine was killed by the Indians while in the Government service; Thomas lives in Neosho county, Kan. ; Calvin W. also resides in that county ; Eli- jah L. is our subject ; Martha Jane died soon after her marriage to Ephraim Flemmings ; Elizabeth is now Mrs. Joseph Markley, of Iro- quois county, Ill. ; Daniel resides in Cowley county, Kan. ; Aaron also makes his home in the same locality ; Charles was drowned about 1880 ; William Harry is a citizen of Cowley county, Kan., and so is Reason ; Mary is now Mrs. Court Skinner and Nancy married Doc. Cale, these two last named residing in Cowley county, Kan. Up to his twenty-first year Elijah L. remained with his parents and then married a Miss Graham, whose father died when she was 12 years old, leaving five children. In the spring of 1863 Mr. T. moved to Iroquois county, Ill., and remained there some five years, coming next to this county in the spring of 1868 and settling on his present excellent farm of 430 acres 11 miles north of Chillicothe. Until 1879 he gave his attention almost exclusively to farming and the rais- ing of cattle, but in the year mentioned he commenced sheep hus- bandry, an industry which has reached vast proportions and rendered him one of the most prominent breeders of this stock in this portion of Missouri. His flock of fine wool sheep is the largest in the county and the representative males and females have taken premiums at five different fairs, together with the sweepstakes. At the head of the flock is the famous " Rip Van Winkle," from which he sheared at two years old 30 pounds and one ounce of wool, his live weight being 117 pounds. Mr. T. also has about fifty others of the same kind. He and his worthy wife have three children living : Howard, born October 7, 1861 ; John Franklin, born February 14, 1863, married October 8, 1883, Miss Molly Johns, and they have one child: and Alice, born November 19, 1867 ; one son. Grant, is deceased. Mr. T. is a member of the M. E. Church South. It is not an empty com- pliment to say that he is acknowledged to be one of the foremost men in the entire county of Livingston, esteemed and respected by all.

FAYETTE D. WARD

(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Farmersville).

The agricultural affairs of Livingston county and particularly of this township are ably represented among others by the subject of this sketch, who comes of an old established family in this commun- ity. Archibald Ward, his father, a Kentuckian by birth, was born in 1790 of Irish origin, and in 1880 was married to Miss Caroline M.

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G. Webber, of the same State as himself, her birth having occurred March 4, 1800; she was descended from a family well known in the affairs of the Revolutionary war. Nine children were given this worthy family, four only of whom survive: James A., living in Sonoma county, Cal. ; Charles W., Joseph and Fayette D., residents of Cream Ridge township. Archibald Ward, upon leaving the Blue Grass State, located in Sangamon county, Ill., remained there until 1837 and then settled in Livingston county, Mo., near Chillicothe, before a house was built in that now flour- ishing city. He departed this life in 1847, sincerely mourned, for he was a good man, and a zealous and prominent member of the Presbyterian Church. A great lover of vocal music, he often gathered the young people together to instruct them in this accom- plishment. One of his sons, Fayette D., was born in Gallatin county, Ky., February 24, 1826, and was reared to a farm experience in this county. He was married October 20, 1862, to Miss Emily E. Graves, daughter of James C. Graves, of Kentucky parentage. They had one child, Mary F., born December 29, 1864, wife of Orliff Garr, of this township. Mrs. Ward, dying March 4, 1865, he was again married October 18, 1867, to Miss Mary E. Minor, whose father, Joel Minor, of Cream Ridge township, came formerly from Kentucky to Illinois, thence to Iowa and from there to Missouri. Five of his ten children are now living in Livingston county. Mr. and Mrs. Ward have had five children, three of whom survive and make their home with their parents. They belong to the Cumberland Presbyte- rian Church, the former having been a member for 35 years. Though no political aspirant he favors the Republican party. He owns 300 acres of valuable land and devotes all his time and energies to the improvement and cultivation of his comfortable and substantial home- stead.

PRENTIS WATE

(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Section 30, Township 59, Range 23, Post-office, Chillicothe).

For over eighteen years Mr. Wate has been a resident of this town- ship or county, and long ago did he gain for himself the reputation of being an agriculturist of decided merit. It seems doubtful if it could have been otherwise, for he came originally from a locality where farming and kindred pursuits are carried on according to advanced ideas and customs. His parents were Warren and Mary (Hooker) Wate, both natives of Londonderry, Vt., the latter being an aunt of Col. George W. Hooker. Prentis was one of eight children, and of this number he is the only one now living. Their names were : Warren, who was accidently drowned in Grand river ; Mary Ann F., Maria E., Abigail, Joseph C., Prentis, John R. and Solomon. He was the fifth child and third son, and was born in Londonderry, Vt., January 23, 1834. His first schooling was received in a log cabin in this county when he was five years old, his parents having come to Missouri in the spring of 1838, and soon settled in Livingston county. He continued to remain on the old family home-

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stead until 10 years of age, learning thoroughly the details of farm life, and with his family he went to Texas in 1844, and about 1854 to Tipton, Ia., being engaged with his father in the mercantile business there, under the firm name of W. Wate & Son, for 11 years. On account of the war they disposed of their interests in this establish- ment, the senior Wate going to Canada and Prentis visiting Montana, from whence he returned in 1867 to this county. Previous to this, March 1, 1864, he was married to Mrs. C. S. Hicks, daughter of Lee and Lydia Wate, née Stearns, descendants of a Scotch family ; the pater- nal grandfather was Maj. Wate, of Revolutionary fame, and the great- uncle of Mr. Wate's father was killed while attempting to escape from a British fort. Mrs. Lydia Wate's father, Ashel Stearns, was also in the Revolutionary War ; her grandmother, Captivity Johnson, was born while her mother was a captive among the Indians on the borders of Lake Champlain. Mrs. Prentis Wate accompanied her husband on his trip to Montana, above referred to, and were it not for the space to which we are necessarily limited, an interesting account of their journey might here be given. Suffice it to say that they reached Virginia City in safety, and upon their return visited several Eastern localities before settling permanently on their present homestead. Here Mr. W. has over 228 acres in one farm and 14 acres in another near Chillicothe. He is now serving as director and clerk of his school district, being especially interested in educational matters.

CHAPTER XVII.

MOORESVILLE TOWNSHIP.

Position and Description -Coal - Stone -Soil - Early History - First Land En- tries - Tragedies of the Civil War -Organization - The Town of Mooresville - General Historical Sketch -Murder of Brock and Bloom - Churches - Secret Orders - Mineral Springs - Biographies.

Mooresville municipal township comprises that portion of Congress- ional township No. 57, range 25, lying south of Grand river, except in the east line of sections and fractional parts of sections 31 and 32 in the township 58-25. The northeastern and northwestern and southwestern portions are timbered and hilly lands, in some places bluffy and broken. The south-central and southeastern portions are the best in the township and contain many fine fertile farms.

There is plenty of timber, water, coal, and stone in this township. A twenty-inch vein of bituminous coal, of fair quality, is exposed on the farm of C. W. Garlich ( ne. 1/4 sec. 8), and has been mined to some extent. It is claimed that there is a three-feet vein of excellent coal on section 10, of the same formation and quality as the coal at Hamil- ton, but it has not been developed or worked. This valuable mineral also exists at Mooresville, and in other parts of the township. The time is not far distant when the coal interests of this township will be fully developed and doubtless prove of great value.

The limestone in this township is very abundant and first-class in quality. Perhaps the largest and best quarry is that on the farm of E. Kirtley, in the southwest quarter of section 14, two miles east of Mooresville. This quarry has been worked by the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company for some years, and is considered one of the best on the line of the road. The strata are regular and increase in thickness in proportion to the distance from the surface. An- other quarry was opened by the railroad company on the farm of W. W. Clark some years since, and worked to some extent. Two or three other quarries of less extent have been opened in different parts of the township, notably one on the farm of John Stuckey.

Of the adaptability of the soil in this township generally for the growth of blue grasses, one of its former residents, Hon. H. C. Ire-

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land, who is yet a large land owner here, and a prominent stock- raiser and breeder says : -

I would say that I was raised in the blue grass region of Kentucky, and I am satisfied that this section is equal to that or any other country for blue grass. My reason for saying this is that I have bought and sown [in about 1876] on my land over 200 bushels of blue grass seed directly from Kentucky, and now [1880] have as firm and thorough sod as I ever saw in that State. This county is equal to the best of Kentucky soil. We have the same limestone, and also the red clay that underlies the blue grass of Kentucky.

EARLY SETTLEMENTS.

Settlements were made in this township as early as in 1833, and perhaps a few were made the previous year. The site was a favorite one with the pioneers, containing plenty of wood, water and game, with a sufficiency of good land for corn fields and " truck patches." By the year 1840 there were in what is now Mooresville township at least fifty families. A few of the carly pioneers and their immediate descendants, the Hudginses, the McCoskries and Tomlins yet live in the township.

An invaluable pioneer record is the following list of the land entries made in this township up to the year 1840. This list shows the names of those who were actual settlers, and describes the lands they entered, and the date of entry. Some of the settlers, however, settled on the tracts of land described a few years before they entered them -as did the McCoskries, the Woolseys, Wm. Hudgins and John L. Tomlin : -

TOWNSHIP 57, RANGE 25.

Name.

Description.

Date.

H. H. Gray

w. ¿ sw. sec. 4 and c. & se. sec. 5 . . Sept. 26, 1839 H. G. Lyou

w. ¿ se. sec. 5 aud w. ¿ se. sec. 18 .

July 5, 1838

Madison Fisk

e. ¿ sw. sec. 5 . May 15, 1838

Zeph. Woolsey .

sw. sw. sec. 5.

Oct. 8, 1836

Saml. Collins

w. ¿ se. e. ¿ sw.sec. 6.

May 7, 1839

Thos. Woolsey

nw. ne. sec. 6 and s. ¿ sw. sec. 31-58- 25. July 18, 1838

Nathan Freeman

w. ¿ sw. sec. 6

June 29, 1835

S. W. Reynolds

w. g nw. sec. 7

Howard Maupin

nw. s. sec. 7

Oct. 14, 1836

Gilbert Woolsey Giles Woolsey . Jas. W. Perman Wm. Mann

w. ¿ sw. sec. 8 ne. sw. sec. 8 .

Sept. 15, 1837

Wm. Mann

e. ¿ ne. and w. ¿ se. sec. 8

Jan. 17, 1838 March 9, 1836 Sept. 9, 1837

Thos. Fields

e. ¿ se. sec. 10.

Dec. 10, 1836

Jno. L. Tomlin

w. ¿ sw. sec. 11 ne. 4 sec. 14 and s. ¿ ne. sec. 22

Dec. 10, 1836

Seneca Wilson

June 10, 1835 se. nw. sec. 7 Henry Reynolds

June 30, 1835

e. ¿ sw. sw. sw. c. ¿ se. sec. 7

Jau. 2, 1837. June 29, 1835

w. ¿ se. sec. 7 .

Nov. 10, 1837

Asa Mann

se. sw. sec. 8

Wm. Hudgins

w. ¿ se. sec. 9

July 8, 1837

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Name.

Description.

Date. Feb. 28, 1838

Reub. McCoskrie .

ne. se. sec. 14

Reub. McCoskrie.

se. sw. sec. 14 .

Jan. 7, 1835

Peter Irons .

se. se. sec. 14 and ne. ne. sec. 23

July 6, 1835

Henry Karsner

sw. se. sec. 14 .

Jan. 30, 1836

Wm. Mead

ne. sw. sec. 14 .

Feb. 28, 1838

Alex. Work

w. ¿ nw. and se. nw. sec. 14 ·

May 29, 1835

Elijah N. Guill

ne. nw. sec. 14

Thos. Fields

Wm. Parker

Josiah Taylor, Jr. Josiah Taylor

se. nw. sec. 15 e. ¿ sw. sec. 15

Jan. 30, 1836

Jacob Gobin

nw. sw. sec. 15

June 13, 1836

John Trotter

sw. sw. sec. 15

Sept. 24, 1836

J. W. Perman .

e. ¿ ne. sec. 17

June 19, 1835

James Lawson

sw. se. sec. 17

Sept. 24, 1836

Wm. Mann

nw. sec. 17 .

May 29, 1835

Wm. Mann

w. ¿ sw. sec. 17

e. ¿ ne. and nw. ne. ne. nw. sec. 18

Jan. 21, 1837 1838-9

James Barlow

ne. ne. sec. 21 and nw. nw. sec. 22

May 5, 1837

Fred Lyda

ne. nw. sec. 22

July 5, 1838

John Davis

ne. ne. sec. 22 .

Feb. 18, 1836

John L. Tomlin

ne. ne. sec. 22

Nov. 2, 1835

Peter Malone

ne. se. sec. 22 .

Sept. 6, 1839

Renb. McCoskrie

e. ¿ nw. n. ¿ ne. sec. 23

June 18, 1835

Russell Williams

e. & sw. sec. 23

June 1, 1837

John Fryer .

nw. 4 and sw. ne. sec. 31

Nov. 18, 1837

Thos. R. Bryan

e. & sw. nw. sw. sec. 31

Oct. 17, 1836

James Earl .

sw. sw. sec. 31

June 5, 1837

Roberson Bryan

w. ¿ se. sec. 31.

Nov. 2, 1836

Isaac McCroskie

e. ¿ se. sec. 31

Dec. 29, 1835

John Bryan .

ne. sw. sec. 33

July 5, 1838

Spencer H. Gregory

e. ¿ se. sec. 34 and sw. sw. sec. 35

. Nov. 5, 1836

Some of the prominent early settlers in this locality are not men- tioned in the foregoing list; they bought their lands from the parties entering them. Capt. Nehemiah Comstock and his brother Hiram are two of these. Capt. Comstock, as fully noted elsewhere, led his company in the Mormon War, and many of his men were from this township.

TWO MURDERS DURING THE CIVIL WAR.

During the Civil War there were four men murdered in this township. Rev. Isaac Lock was killed in the winter of 1862, as best remembered. A married daughter resided with him, and her husband, then in Cali- fornia, had sent to her a considerable sum of money to come to him ; this money was thought to be in the possession of Mr. Lock. One night, at about 9 o'clock, four men came to the house of Mr. Lock and informed him that they had been sent to summon him to Chilli- cothe forthwith to serve as a grand juror. Refusing all excuses they induced him to start at once, and two miles from home they shot him and then robbed the body of a few dollars in his pockets. The larger sum was not in his possession. The names of three of the miscreants

June 27, 1836

Gilbert Woolsey

Wm. Hudgins .

greater part of sec. 21 .

July 26, 1838

w. ¿ sw. sec. 14 &e. ¿ ne. &e. ¿ se. scc. 15 June 13, 1835 w. ¿ ne. & w. ¿ sc. sec. 15 June 13, 1835

March 22, 1836

Sept. 3, 1838

Gilbert Perman

ne. sw.sec. 17

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are said to be known. They were never arrested, however. That the motive for this murder was robbery was never doubted.

In 1862 Capt. Chas. Cooper was killed. Reference to this incident is made elsewhere. After being taken prisoner in May he was sent off to St. Louis, and some time later he was released on parole and bond and allowed to return home. At the time his residence was a mile and a half from east of Mooresville. The night of his arrival at home three or four members of the militia from Utica came out, and demanding admittance into the house were refused. Whereupon they opened fire, and one shot passed through the door aud struck Mr. Cooper, inflicting a fatal wound. There was no other motive for this murder save that he was a " rebel," and his murderers alleged that he was a dangerous one. It is said that only two men did the deed, and that one of them on his death-bed confessed to the particulars.

The murder of Brock and Bloom is detailed on another page of this chapter.

ORGANIZATION.

Mooresville township was created as a distinct municipal organiza- tion by the county court, December 18, 1866, on petition of W. H. Gaunt, Adam Lydick and others. It was formed out of Greene and Monroe townships, with its metes and bounds as at present. It was named for the town of Mooresville.

THE TOWN OF MOORESVILLE.

The town of Mooresville was laid out by W. B. Moore, April 25, 1860. The plat was surveyed by D. R. Martin, then the county surveyor. Mr. Moore located on the site in 1844. There was then a cabin, which had been built by Capt. Nehemiah Comstock some time previously, and Mr. Moore lived in this cabin for a period. This cabin stood where Moore's residence now is, a little north of the railroad, and not actually on the town site proper.

On what is now the town plat the first house was a log building, which stood on lot 1, block 4, and was erected by Mr. Moore in 1849. To this house he brought a stock of goods and here he kept a small store until the following year, when he sold out and went to California. His successor was a Mr. Campbell, whose clerk was Pendleton Ellis. In a short time Mr. Campbell gave up the business. Mr. Moore re- turned from California and gave the building for a school-house, in a district which had been newly organized.

In the early spring of 1860 Mr. Moore put up a frame building, west of where the railroad depot now stands, which was used as a

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storehouse. When the town was laid off this building was found to be outside of the plat, but it was used as a store by S. A. Brock until in 1862, when it was moved to lot 6, block 3. The post-office was established in 1860, and S. A. Brock was the first postmaster. For some time the trains would not stop at the station to take on or deliver mail, but threw it off as they ran by.

When the Civil War broke out there were on the town Brock's store and the post-office, and a blacksmith shop. The latter was on lot 1, block 2, and was run by a man named Shope. He caught the war fever, and, as he could pound the thundering drum as well as the ringing anvil, he enlisted in the Southern army as a drummer, and one morning marched bravely and gaily away " in a crowd by him- self," vigorously beating his big drum " diddy-bum, diddy-bum, diddy-bum-bum-bum!"

In 1863 a detachment of militia was stationed here to guard the place. The citizens were notified to bring in several hundred bushels of corn for the use of the military; they did so and the corn was piled up in a huge heap ; all or nearly all of it was receipted and paid for by the Government. One night the big corn pile caught fire and after burning three or four days was entirely consumed. A lot of hay was burned at the same time. The same year the citizens of the surrounding neighborhood put down a side track ; that is they did the grading and the railroad company laid the iron and ties.

July 4, 1864, Mr. Moore laid the foundation for a large storehouse on lot 8, block 2; this building he still owns. The first dwelling house was built by Mr. Brock near his store and is still standing. In the year 1865 Mr. Geo. H. Nettleton, the then superintendent of the railroad, came up and made arrangements with Mr. Moore to establish a regular depot, etc. The railroad company took half of the unsold lots as a price for locating and building the depot. Moore was then running a store and so was Glenn & Matthews, at Brock's stand.

The town has had a slow but steady growth since the war. In 1870 the cemetery was laid out, there being a sufficiency of people here at the time to warrant the starting of a graveyard. In 1880 the busi- ness men of the village were C. Fink & Co., general merchants ; J. T. Hunter, stoves and tinware ; J. P. Albaugh, groceries, etc. ; J. G. Woodlan, furniture ; L. Holding saddles and harness ; Miller & Bower, lumber ; T. W. Donaldson, drugs, etc. ; J. M. Bullard, livery stable; R. B. Herriman, wagon-maker; T. R. Holding and J. Hoover, blacksmiths ; Joseph Owens, shoemaker; three hotels, the Albaugh

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House, Rhodes House and Dalbey House ; Mrs. A. A. Mathews, milliner.

INCORPORATED.

Moorsville was ineoporated, as a town, by the county court, April 20, 1874. The inhabitants, headed by Solomon Mix, represented to the court that they were compelled to work on the public roads outside of the town ; that their own streets were mere highways, along which men might and did drive furiously and recklessly " to the great dan- ger of our women and children ; " that they had no power to punish certain offenses, and so their prayer for incorporation was granted.

THE MURDER OF BROCK AND BLOOM.

On the 11th of December, 1863, Mr. Shelton A. Brock and Jerome Bloom were murdered at Mooresville by a band of four rebel bush- whackers led by Jim Nave, of Jackson township. Mr. Brock was a young merchant and a son-in-law of M. B. Moore. Bloom was a bachelor of middle age, a member of the militia, and had resided near Breckinridge ; at the time he was in the employ of Mr. Brock, having engaged to do some carpentering. Both Brock and Bloom were Ken- tuckians, and both stanch Unionists.

There were no militia near, and at about 3 p. m. the four bush- whackers : Jim Nave, Jr., Nicholas Weldon, Wm. Love and Wm. Turner suddenly made their appearance at Mr. Brock's store. Dis- mounting, three of them entered, leaving Nick Weldon to hold the horses of the party. There were in the store besides Brock and Bloom, Mr. Ammi Lawson and Mr. A. T. Kirtley. The brigands entered carelessly and spent a few seconds in conversation, when Nave drew his revolver and shot down Bloom. Mr. Broek was behind the counter and catching up a gun that stood by him fired at Nave, but missed his mark. Instantly Bill Turner fired and shot down Brock. The citizens were kept under guard and the robbers then plundered the store of whatever they wanted, and they seemed to want a great deal. Brock's watch was taken from his body and worn off by Turner. The robbers left at their leisure, riding off first to the westward, then turning north.

The alarm was given and some militia and citizens came in and organized a pursuing party, but the weather was very foggy and the night too dark to accomplish anything. Nave and his party passed through the Weldon neighborhood and the forks, stole some fresh horses and made their escape to Illinois. The next spring they were tracked and arrested near Mt. Sterling in that State, and brought to

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Quincy where they were placed in jail for safe keeping. Here Bill Turner either hung himself or was hanged by his companions in his cell. He was still wearing Brock's watch, which was restored to the family. The other prisoners were brought back to Chillicothe and taken thence to St. Joseph and placed in jail. At the May term, 1864, indictments had been found against all of them for murder and robbery, and they were in the hands of the civil authorities, though guarded a part of the time by the militia.

At St. Joseph all three of the robbers, together with a number of other prisoners succeeded in escaping from the jail, - it is said by the connivance of the jailor. On the 18th of June, Jim Nave was killed in a raid on Laclede made by Clif. Holtzclaw's band, which he had joined after his escape from St. Joseph. The guerrillas dashed into the town, robbed it, and held it an hour or two. Nave was mortally wounded by a discharged Union soldier named David Crowder, and died the next day at the house of a Mr. Stepp, near Laclede. Crowder was himself killed by a comrade of Nave's.

CHURCHES IN MOORESVILLE.

Cumberland Presbyterian Church. - The organization of this church was effected in the year 1871. Some of the first members were John J. Ireland, Elizabeth Ireland, John Amich, Susan A. Amich, Martin D. Mann, Amanda M. Mann, Sarah A. Holden, Lucy McGee, George J. Thompson, Elizabeth Thompson, James T. Mann and Lucretia Mann. Revs. John W. French, Elbert Ragan, Amos Coen and P. W. Wynn have been the pastors. In 1872, a frame church building was built, that cost some $800. The present mem- bership is about 25.

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Author: Pease, Ora Merle Hawk, 1890- Publication date: 1886 Publisher: St. Louis, National Historical Company Number of Pages: 1260

Author: Pease, Ora Merle Hawk, 1890-
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: St. Louis, National Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1260