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JOHN W. EDWARDS,
was born April 18, 1831, in Bond county, Illinois; son of William Edwards an Illinois farmer, who moved to Prairie Bottom in Carroll county, Miss- ouri, and died in this county in 1865. John was at home with his father until he was thirty-three years old, when he began farming on a place he had bought in 1856. He built some improvements on the place in 1868, and has made it his home ever since. The family lived in Ray county for eight years, with that exception they have made Carroll county their home since they have been in the state of Missouri. His present house is in sec- tion 7, Egypt township, three miles northwestof Norborne. Mr. Edwards enlisted in the late war in defense of the Union, under Col. Mulligan, but was captured at Lexington, Missouri, in the first fight he took part in. He was sworn out of service by the Confederates. He was married in April, 1865, to Miss Catharine Robinson of Carroll county; one child only, a son, was born of this union, named Andrew Jackson. He was born in August, 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards are both members of the Missionary Bap- tist Church., Mr. Edwards is one of the oldest settlers in his section of the county and has killed a great many turkeys and deer in his section during the time of the early settlement of the county. In 1873 he had the misfor- tune to lose his left leg by getting it caught in a wagon wheel, the wagon being loaded with hay at the time. He is still full of energy and does as much work as many men who are physically sound.
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HENRY C. BRENNEMAN,
was born in Fairfield county, Ohio. He is a son of John and Nancy Bren- neman. Henry was the fifth child that was born to his father's third marriage. He was educated and raised in Fairfield and Allen counties, Ohio. He came to Missouri in June, 1869, and bought a farm in section 5, Egypt township. The farm contains 140 acres, all well fenced, three sides of the farm have fine hedge fences. There is a frame dwelling and barn on the place, and a fine peach and apple orchard. He was married in Ray county, Mo., November 25th, 1870, to Miss Elizabeth Wicher, daughter of Caleb Wicher. Three daughters and one son have been born to them, all living, and named as follows: Maud, J. Ernest, Bertha V. and Leona A. Mr. Brenneman and wife are both members of the Christian church. Mr. Brenneman is one of the substantial farmers of his locality; he pays considerable attention to buying and feeding cattle.
DANIEL HEINEY,
was born July 12th, 1842, in Wayne county, Indiana. His father, George Heiney, was a farmer, and Daniel was raised a farmer, which business he has since followed. He began farming for himself when 22 years of age; his father died in 1850, and he rented his mother a portion of the land and lived with her on the place. In 1870 he moved to Carroll county, Mo., and purchased a farm of 80 acres in section 8, of Egypt township; he improved this, and by making subsequent purchases of adja- cent lands has obtained in all, 320 acres. It is all well improved, and lies four miles north-west of Norborne; he has thrived well since coming to Missouri. Mr. Heiney was married September 12th, 1867, to Miss Mary C. Reade, daughter of George W. Reade, of Indiana. They have one son and one daughter, named Horace and Dottie. Mr. Heiney is a mem- ber of the A. O. U. W. order at Norborne, and also of the Patrons of Husbandry, Carroll Grange, No. 2060, which has its hall at Norborne. He has his property insured in the Continental Fire Insurance Co., and his life is insured in the A. O. U. W. fraternity. He is a very successful farmer.
LEWIS W. OVERHOLTZ,
born November 28th, 1830, in Preble county, Ohio, and raised and educa- ted in the same county. He has been raised a farmer and has always been engaged in farming. He moved to Carroll county in 1869, and bought a piece of land in section 7, Egypt township, five miles north-west of Norborne; he has improved his place, and lived on it since he pur- chased it. He married Miss Nancy Frum, daughter of David Frum, of Preble county, Ohio, February 1st, 1854; five children, four sons and one daughter, have been born to them: Andrew, Emily Ann, George Wash-
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ington, Francis Marion and Elmer Ellsworth. Emily and Francis are still living; Emily is now the wife of George W. Reed, of Ray county, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Overholtz and both children are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Overholtz is also a member of the Patrons of Husbandry Grange at Norborne.
GEORGE W. METCALF.
George W. Metcalf was born on the 10th day of February, 1839, in White county, Ind., near the famous Tippecanoe battle ground. In 1845 he moved to Carroll county, Mo., with the family. His father, J. E. Met- calf, was formerly of New York; he died in 1855, with cholera, leaving George W., who was the oldest son, to look after the support of the fam- ily. . At the beginning of the war he was in his 23d year, and enlisted in defense of the union, in the second regiment cavalry Missouri volunteers, under Capt. G. W. Marshall. He was engaged in a number of battles and skirmishes, as the soldiers' record of this work will show. He was discharged in St. Louis, and returned to Carroll county after the war; he lived upon the old homestead during three years after the war, and then purchased a farm for himself, in the same township, upon which he has ever since made his home, with the exception of three years he spent trav- eling through different western states. Mr. Metcalf was first married on the 21st day of May, 1868, to Miss Catherine Knippschild, of Carroll county. They became the parents of one child, John H., who died in infancy. Mrs. M. also died in about a year after her marriage, and our subject was afterwards married, October 22d, 1871 to Miss Eliza E. Davis, also of Carroll county. The issue of this union has been five chil- dren, three of whom, Mary E., Dora E. and Eliza J., are now living. Mr. Metcalf is a leading member of the Grange, and takes great interest in everything pertaining to agriculture.
THOMAS D. WHITE.
The gentleman whose name heads this article is a native of Pennsyl- vania, and was born in the city of Pittsburg on the 22d day of March, 1842. He was educated in his native town, and lived there until he was fifteen years of age. His father had died three years before, and Thomas was obliged to go to work for his own support. He accordingly secured a position at the Union Stock Yards at' Alleghany City, and remained there one year, during which time he acquired a knowledge of the stock shipping business, which no doubt influenced his choice of a calling in after life. In 1857 the familv removed to Scioto county, Ohio, and our subject and his brother engaged in farming there. The care and man- agement of the business devolved chiefly on. Thomas, who was the eldest son. After living in Ohio during nine years, our subject came
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with his mother's family to Missouri, and stopped at first in Ray county, where they rented a farm for one year, after which Mrs. White and her sons bought lands together, lying in both Ray and Carroll counties. After a residence of four years in Ray they came to this county and improved a farm in Egypt township (section 3), four miles northwest of Norborne. On this place the brothers have resided ever since. Their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth White, died in . Ray county, November 18, 1869. Thomas D. White was married on the 25th day of March, 1880, to Miss Jennie F. Loyd, of Indiana. One son, Joseph Ellsworth, has been born to bless this union. The subject of this sketch and his brother are among the most extensive stock dealers in Carroll county, and. ship more stock from 'Norborne than any other firm. During the year 1880 they shipped one hundred and seventy carloads of live stock out of this county. Mr. White is a leading member of Carroll Lodge No. 249, A. F. and A. M., and also of the grange at Norborne, and is a leading business man and prominent citizen of that community.
JOSIAH F. HUDSON.
The subject of this sketch was born in Stokes county, North Carolina, on the 23d day of January, 1823. When he was about six years old, his father, David Hudson, removed with his family to Patrick county, Vir- ginia, and there Josiah was educated and reared to the age of sixteen years on a farm. In 1839 the family immigrated to Illinois, and settled in Clinton county, where our subject. was engaged in farming. until 1843, when he came to Carroll county Missouri, and settled a short distance north of the city of Carrollton, and this county has been his home ever since. In September, 1859, Mr. Hudson bought the farm upon which he now resides. This place comprises one hundred and twenty-seven acres of fine prairie land, well improved, and enclosed by good hedge fences. In addition to this prairie tract Mr. Hudson owns ten acres of good wood-land. He was married in March, 1860, to Miss Eda A. Clowdis, daughter of George W. Clowdis, of this county. Four children have been born of this union, three of whom are now living. Their names are as follows: Josiah, Jr., Mary. Catherine and David C. In the year 1847 Mr. Hudson went to the " Lone Star State " and joined the Texas rangers, with whom he served in the war against Mexico during fourteen months, and was in many fierce battles with Mexican banditti and free- booters on the frontier. The recital of all of his interesting experiences would make a book in itself. When the war ended he returned to Car- roll county, Missouri, where he remained until the spring of 1850, and then went overland with a wagon train to California. There he engaged in mining for gold, but met with such poor success that in 1852 he returned to Missouri. Not satisfied with his first experience, he deter-
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mined to try his fortunes once more in the gold fields of the great new west, and accordingly went out again in the spring of 1853 to California. This time he remained in the mines until the fall of 1857, and made con- siderable money, which he invested in a store building and a stock of goods at Nevada City, only to lose it all by fire a few days later. He then spent about: two years in Sonoma county, California, engaged in farming. He came back to Carroll county Missouri, in July, 1859, and remained here until 1870, when he made another trip to the Golden State, and while there engaged in a variety of occupations. Upon this last trip his wife accompanied him, and when they returned they settled permanently upon the old homestead in this county, where they now reside. At the beginning of the civil war Mr. Hudson enlisted under Gov: Jackson's first call for volunteers, and served faithfully throughout the war in the confederate army. He is a member of the Baptist church and the Masonic fraternity at Norborne, and is well esteemed and respected by all his neighbors and acquaintances.
HENRY C. PILE.
On the 29th day of August 1843, Henry C. Pile was born in Adair county, Missouri. Six years after his birth, Milton K. Pile, his father, removed with the family to Carroll county, Missouri, and here the sub- ject of this article received his education and has resided ever since. He was reared to farming and has always pursued that vocation. When the great Civil war began, in 1861, Mr. Pile enlisted for the defense of the Union, in the 23d Regiment of Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and was in active service for three years. " He participated in a number of hard fought battles and was once captured by the enemy. He was one of "Sherman's Yankee Boys" on the famous march "from Atlanta (Georgia) to the sea." When the war was over and peace once more restored, Mr. Pile returned home to Carroll county, and at once resumed the peacable vocation of farming, which he has steadily continued to the present time. Mr. Pile was first married, in 1870, to Miss Martha B. Markham, daughter of Win. C. Markham, deceased, formerly of Carroll county. The issue of this union was four girls, three of whom are still living. Mrs. Pile died in the month of February 1880, and our subject was subsequently mar- ried to Miss Nancy C. Payne, a native of this county. Mr. Pile is a mem- ber of the I. O. O, F. Lodge at Norborne.
MICHAEL WAGNER.
The subject of this sketch was born in Baden, Germany, in the month of December 1810. He received his education in his native city and served an apprenticeship there, to the shoemaker's trade and worked at that occupation until 1836, when he came to America. In the year 1838, he
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settled in Lexington, Lafayette county, Missouri, and was married there, in 1842, to Miss Frances Meyer, a native of Germany, who came to the United States three years after the coming of her husband. Soon after his marriage, Mr. Wagner commenced a bakery business in Lexington, but at the end of one year quit it, and purchasing land in Carroll county, moved upon it with his family, and never afterwards engaged in any busi- ness but farming. He was'disabled by severe rheumatism, from which he suffered greatly, during the last eighteen years of his life. Mr. Wag- ner died on the 12th day of April 1867, of pneumonia after a short illness. He was a leading member of the Roman Catholic Church, and much esteemed and respected by his friends and neighbors. Two sons, William and John, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Wagner. The first named, is living with his mother at Norborne, and John is married and resides upon the old homestead, just north of that town. Mrs. Wagner is now keeping the "Wagner House," a very excellent hotel, at Norborne.
COLONEL CALVIN MINTON.
Calvin Minton was born in Washington county, Virginia, June 25, 1821. His father, James Minton, a leading farmer of Washington county, sold his property and removed to Knox county, Tennessee when Calvin was in his ninth year. The Minton family is of Scotch origin, Ebenezer Min- ton, great grandfather of our subject having been a native of Scotland. Calvin' Minton was chiefly educated in Tennessee, and lived there, engaged in farming for about twenty years. He was married in Roan county, that state, August 15, 1842, to Miss Rebecca. Thompson, daugh- ter of Robert Thompson, and three years afterwards removed to Indiana, and farmed in Morgan county for about seven years and then went to Iowa and settled upon a farm he had improved near Osceola in Clark county. He lived there at the outbreaking of the civil. war. Mr. Minton enlisted in the Union army. in July 1861, and was three years in active service. He was elected first lieutenant when his company was organ- ized, and was soon after promoted to the office of captain of company F, sixth Iowa, volunteer infantry. After quitting the regular service, in 1864, he was commissioned by Gov. Stone, Colonel of Iowa militia. During the time Col. Minton was on duty in the regular service he participated in a number of the chief engagements of the war. He was wounded at Jackson, at Mission Ridge, and also at Vicksburg. Col. Minton came to Carroll county from Iowa in the autumn of 1868, and settled in Egypt township upon the same farm that he now owns and occupies. Nine children have been born to Col. and Mrs. Minton, seven of them, three sons and four daughters, are now living, and have their homes in this state. Col. Minton has a good farm, a pleasant home and is an agreeable and clever gentleman.
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JAMES CLEARY.
James Cleary was born in the county of Tipperary, Ireland, in the month of June, 1833. His father died when James was quite young, and our subject was taken to Brooklyn, New York, and put in the family of his uncle, Rev. Wm. P. Hogan, pastor of St Paul's (Catholic) church, to be reared. Two of his brother's had come to the United States some time before, and were placed by their Uncle in the university of Notre Dame, at South Bend, Indiana. As soon as James was old enough he was put to school at St. Paul's in Brooklyn and remained there during two years, and until his mother arrived from Ireland in 1850. Mr. Cleary, after leaving school began to learn the carpentering trade in Phil- adelphia, but did not complete his apprenticeship until after he joined his mother in St. Louis, whither she had gone and established her home. The family lived in St. Louis until 1854, and Mr. Cleary was steadily at his trade during the time they were there. In 1854, the subject of this article removed to Carrollton and engaged there as contractor and builder for three years, and then turned his attention to farming, which business he has ever since followed. He purchased the farm upon which he now resides, in Egypt township, in the year 1856 and began improv- ing it the year following. The tract at that time consisted of only one hundred and sixty acres, but Mr. Cleary has added to it from time to time since, by purchase, until it now comprises six hundred acres of excel- lent farming land, well improved, and well stocked. He is also the owner . of several other tracts of land in Carroll county. Mr. Cleary was first married in 1862 to Miss Catherine. Conway. They became the parents of three children: John Henry, William Thomas and James. Mrs. Cleary died five years after her marriage, and our subject was married to Miss Emma Jones, of Jackson county, Missouri. The issue of this union has been three children named as follows: George Walter, Pierce Emmett, Charles Carroll. Mr Cleary is a leading member of the Catho- lic church at Norborne, and is a pleasant, agreeable gentleman, a kind neighbor and a valuable citizen.
EDWARD P. MEEHAN.
On the 28th day of March 1844 Edward P. Meehan was born at Jersey City, New Jersey. His parents were both natives of Ireland. His father was a farmer in New Jersey and in 1852 left that state and removed with his family to Peoria county, Ills., where our subject acquired the greater part of his education, and lived upon the farm until he was sixteen years of age. He learned the blacksmith trade in Brenfield, Illinois, and worked at his trade until 1869 when he came to Carroll county and located at Norborne. Here he built a shop and set up a forge. Mr. Meehan con-
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tinued blacksmithing for some time in Norborne. In 1873 Mr. Meehan was elected collector of the Revenue for Egypt township under the then existing law and discharged the duties so acceptably that he was three times re-elected to the same office. During the year 1876 he served as a member of the Norborne council and in 1878 was elected Mayor of that place which office he has ever since filled. He has also filled the office of Justice of the Peace since 1880. Mr. Meehan was married on the 23d day of May 1871 to Miss Mary A. Lininger, of this county. Four child- ren have been born of this union all of whom are now living. Their names are as follows, viz: Edward P., Jennie E., George T. and Robert Emmett. Mr. Meehan is a member of Carroll Lodge, No. 249, A. F. & A. M., at Norborne. At present he is engaged in addition to his duties as mayor and Justice, in the real estate and insurance agency business. He has lately been elected president of the Farmers Bank in Norborne. The large number of times he has been elevated to positions of honor and trust bear ample testimony of the esteem and high regard in which he is held by his fellow townsmen.
GEORGE R. MA-GEE ..
George R. Ma-Gee was born in Lewis county, Missouri in the month of April 1845. His father Thomas L. Ma-Gee was a prominent farmer of that county and our subject was reared on a farm and assisted his father in its management until the commencement of the great civil war. Mr. Ma-Gee, then a youth of seventeen years, enlisted first in the confederate army under Colonel Porter, but was subsequently forced by General McNeal-notorious on account of the wholesale massacre of defenceless prisoners at Palmyra,-to enter the federal army. Prior to this he had been kept in close confinement at Palmyra, Lagrange and Alton. He was in service altogether about three years. After the close of the war Mr. Ma-Gee came to. Carroll county and located near Miles Point. He has been a resident of this county ever since. He was first married, in 1866 to Miss Mary L. Weatherholt. The issue of this union is two children, Henry T. and George, H., both still living. Mrs. Ma-Gee died in October 1869 and our subject was afterward married to Miss Mary A. Dawson. They became the parents of four children, two of whom, Edgar R. and Mabel G., are still living. In 1868 Mr. Ma-Gee entered the drug store of Brown & Garner at Norborne for the purpose of learning the business and after remaining with them for three years opened a drug store in the same town on his own account. He sub- sequently became interested in a dry goods and grocery store in addition to his drug trade and besides both of these enterprises he owns a good farm two miles south of the town of Norborne which he lets to tenants. Mr. Ma-Gee and his wife are both members of the M. E. church, south,
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and he is also connected with the Masonic Fraternity, the I. O. O. F. and the A. O. U. W. He is a prosperous merchant and an agreeable and affable gentleman.
WILLIAM H. BARRETT.
On the 5th day of March, 1837, Wm. H. Barrett was born in Oxford county, Maine. His father, John Barrett died when William was but three years old, and his maintenance and education devolved upon his mother, who never again married. He was educated wholly in Maine, though the family lived part of the time in Abington, Massachusetts. He attended Hebron academy at the age of nineteen years, and again after attaining his majority. While living at Abington, Massachusetts, our subject;learned the shoemaking trade. In 1858 he went to Mason county, Kentucky, and taught school at Sardis until his health failed. He then moved to Illinois and engaged in farming, which employment greatly improved his health, and after two years residence in Illinois he went to Washington county, Kansas, and engaged there in farming until 1862, and then sold out and went to New York city. He lived in that city three years, during the last two of which he served upon the' metropoli- tan police force. Mr. Barrett came to Carroll county in 1867 and bought
a farm in the western part of the county, and resumed that business. In 1871 he exchanged this farm for one in Ray county, which he still owns, and moved upon it. He lived there until 1876 when he came to Norborne and built a store house, and the succeeding fall moved his family to that town and opened a restaurant and fancy grocery store. . In 1880 he closed the restaurant department and Mrs. Barrett opened a millinery store instead. Mr. Barrett was married in Carroll county to Miss Margaret Coggburn, daughter of Rev. G. B. Coggburn, of the Missionary Baptist church. Mr. Barrett and his wife are both members of this church.
ANTHONY LIMBIRD,
was born in Linconshire, England, on the 11th day of August, 1833. His father, James Limbird, was a farmer and Anthony was reared to the same occupation, and was occupied with its duties until his twenty-first year, when he emigrated to the United States. He stopped first at San- dusky, Ohio, and worked on a farm near that city for one year, and then went to Van Wert county, same state, and, after working on a farm for some time, he bought lands and commenced farming on his own account. In 1858 he moved to Allen county, Ohio, and was soon afterward mar- ried to Miss Ermina Chapel, of that county. In 1861 our subject left his farm in Allen county and enlisted for the defence of the union under Major McLaughlin, an old Mexican soldier, who had been commissioned to raise troops in Ohio. Mr. Limbird continued in the service until the
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end of the war, and participated in many hard-fought battles. He was once.captured and held for seven months as a prisoner of war. After the close of the war Mr. Limbird spent only one year in Ohio, moving, with his family, to Carroll county, Missouri, and locating on a farm three miles south of Norborne. Upon this farm he lived eleven years and in 1877 moved to the town of Norborne and commenced the grocery business which he has ever since continued, very profitably, at the same place. He carries a large stock of staple and fancy groceries and family supplies. The first Mrs. Limbird died in 1869, and our subject was subsequently married to Miss Cynthia Read, daughter of Alvin Read of Norborne. Eight children have been born.to Mr. Limbird, four by each wife. Six of them are now living. Their names are as follows: Elizabeth, Josephine (now Mrs. Roselle), Ollie, Annie, Artie and Charles, Minnie, the third child by the first, and George, the first by the second marriage are dead. Mr. Limbird and wife are both members of the M. E. church, north, but have no connection with any church organization in their present locality. The subject of this sketch owns considerable property in Norborne, and is interested in the advancement and improvement of that town.
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