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"The grand scenery of Cass County, her high, rolling prairies, her broad, fertile valleys, her rich groves of timber, all beautifully blended, are calculated to impress and educate the mind with ideas of enlarged and liberal views. Even from the place we now occupy, in whatever direction we turn our eyes, we meet a grandeur in the landscape that irresistibly impresses the mind with a nobleness of thought and liber- ality of views that must make those who look upon them better men and women, and inspire them with higher and nobler aims in life. Nature has been most lavish in bestowing her choicest blessings upon Cass County. It requires no spirit of prophecy to foretell that the day is not far distant when Cass County will be among the first, if not the very first, agricultural counties in the great State of Missouri."
LIST OF OLD SETTLERS.
The following is a list of the names of old settlers who have attended the reunions at Harrisonville since 1879 :
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Joel M. Cummins, from Kentucky; came to Cass County in 1855. Jeremiah Jones, from Virginia; came to Cass County in 1841. R. Wilmot, from Kentucky; came to Cass County in 1841. Isaac T. Smith, from Missouri; came to Cass County in 1846. Irvine Parker, from Kentucky; came to Cass County in 1846. J. J. Francisco, from Tennessee; came to Cass County in 1853. J. D. Cooley, from Missouri; came to Cass County in 1846. John S. Underwood, from Missouri, native of Cass County, 1844. Griffin Thomas, from Kentucky; came to Cass County in 1855. John B. Agnew, from Virginia; came to Cass County in 1844. Sidney Adams, from - -; came to Cass County in 1835. John L. Jackson, from Missouri; came to Cass County in 1840. H. C. Parker, from Missouri, native of Cass County, 1848. A. B. Hammontree, from Missouri; came to Cass County in 1835. J. D. Walker, from Missouri; came to Cass County in 1843. David Holloway, from Tennessee; came to Cass County in 1841. Joseph F. Brooks, from Kentucky; came to Cass County in 1844. W. H. Myers, from Kentucky; came to Cass County in 1853. Lewis H. Huff, from Illinois; came to Cass County in 1852. Abraham Dunn, from Kentucky; came to Cass County in 1856. Joshua Talbott, from Virginia; came to Cass County in 1838. Esquire Dudley, from Missouri; came to Cass County in 1842. Daniel Gloyd, from Virginia; came to Cass County in 1842. Daniel Lyon, from Kentucky; came to Cass County in 1839. Phillip Fulkerson, from Kentucky; came to Cass County in 1855. J. H. Miller, from Missouri ; came to Cass County in 1840. John M. Belcher, from Virginia; came to Cass County in 1842. Henry Jerard, from England; came to Cass County in 1855.
The following is a list of old settlers registered at the old settlers meeting, Pleasant Hill, in 1914:
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John C. Smith
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William Cashner
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W. S. Sloan
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J. B. Cabness
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A. D. Prater
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John B. Landers
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R. W. Sloan
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B. Zick, Sr.
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J. R. Colville
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W. H. Justin
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W. T. Hudson
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Ellen Hudson
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Z. T. Aldridge
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John Lancaster
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Robert Mahaffa
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C. C. Haynes
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Mrs. May Cabness
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Dad Chandler
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50
S. E. Martin
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John Banker
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James M. Roupe
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60
J. C. Vanhay
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W. H. Hon
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W. B. Taylor
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Harry McAnninch
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J. N. Aldridge
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Kim Anderson
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Martha J. Aldridge
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E. J. Stultz 1
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Dr. T. H. Gregg
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Zenas Leonard
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Billy Mekner
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Taylor Kenedy
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J. S. Underwood
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R. Hirscher
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C. W. Allen
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Thomas Roupe
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Mont Roupe
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Mrs. Mary Aldridge
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Samuel Hamilton
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Polk Hamilton
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Paul Schindorff
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J. W. Walker
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B. C. Collins
P. W. Shelton
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Frank Moore
A. R. Stayers
James Campbell
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J. H. Roupe
J. A. Shackleford
Mrs. Zenas Leonard
Mrs. Alice Walker
Mrs. Mat Prater Jacob Ketterman
Mrs. A. W. Young A. W. Young
T. F. Amos J. S. Yankie
R. W. Henley J. R. Arnold
T. H. Cloud
William Caloway
Lizzie Holcomb
Riley James
Mrs. Clawson
Dick Shelton
J. C. Pelsor
Joe Moore
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J. L. Trindle
P. H. Marriott
Monroe Thompson
R. W. Williams
H. C. McCullough Mary MeCloud
G. M. Netľ
H. B. Hook
Mrs. Josephine Underwood
Mrs. Mary E. Henley
J. A. Henley
Ben D. Stephens S. A. McPherson
Earl Parker
C. R. Bush
J. V. Hon
William A. Walker
C. D. Shasholzec
W. L. Shumaker
George N. Dunn Abe Hess
D. B. Thomson
W. W. Montgomery
Winfield S. Taylor
Julia Taylor
Paul Schindoff
B. F. Moore A. A. Whitsitt
R. B. Bronaugh
Rube Cook
Mrs. Mollie Cook
Mrs. Maggie Burgess
Charles Sloan
Mrs. James Allen
Mrs. John Stonestreet
Miss Cora West
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Mrs. S. J. Parker
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Below we publish in this connection a poem entitled, "An Old Set- tler's Talk," which was read at the Old Settlers' Meeting at Harrison- ville, September 30, 1880, by Martin Rice:
AN OLD SETTLER'S TALK.
In the autumn of life, in the evening's decline As the shadows are lengthening fast, We meet here together, old friends of lang syne, To recall, and to speak of the past.
'Tis forty olld years-near fifty, I trow- (No doubt you remember it well)
Since some of the men that I see here now, First came to the county to dwell.
Pioneers of the west, in an untrodden wild, A home and a resting place sought ; In a wilderness land, they labored and toiled, And we see what their labors have wrought.
When we think of the wide spreading prairies, that lay In silence and grandeur so lone- The unbroken forest-we wonder where they, The prairie and forest, have gone.
We see them not now, as we saw them of yore; The trees in the groves are cut down ; The green sward of grass and the flowerets no more The vales and the sunny hills crown.
Where are those cabins, those rude dwellings gone? We look for them now all in vain; The roof made of clapboards, with poles weighted down- We never shall see them again.
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We pass by the spot, but the cabin is not, And solitude silently reigns ;
A mound where the chimney stood, points out the spot, And that is all now that remains.
Perhaps it was there that our children had birth, Or sported around us in glee ;
Those children have wandered away from the hearth- No cabin, no children we see.
The cabins so rude, that were builded here then, Gave place unto dwellings more grand; And some of those children are gray-headed men, Away in a far-distant land.
Ah, what are life's changes! How many since then The old pioneer has passed through?
The country has undergone changes; and men, And manners, and customs change too.
But still we remember those things as they were, And can vividly call up each scene ; A settlement here and another one there, With a stretch of prairie between.
In passing those prairies, the traveler found His way by a trail through the grass; But farm after farm now covers the ground, And lane after lane we must pass.
Not only a change in the landscape appears ; The settlers are fast giving way ; But few, very few, of the old pioneers, Can be found in the county today.
Where are those men, the brave sons of toil, Who trod down the nettles and grass? Where are the men who first turned the soil Of the beautiful County of Cass ?
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A few of those gray-headed ones have today Met together once more to exchange The greetings of friendship; and well may we say "Our surroundings are wondrously strange !"
And now that we are together once more, Let us talk of the days that are past; Let us speak of those friends and call their names o'er, Whose fortune with ours was cast.
Let memory go back through the period of years That has borne us on life's stormy wave, And call to our mind those old pioneers, That long since have gone to the grave.
A host of those worthies, even now while I speak, Are passing the mind's eye before :
There's Butterfield, Dunnaway, Riddle and Creek, And Warden, and Butler and Moore.
There's Wilson, and Williams, and Burris and Myers- They pass as a will-o'-the-wisp; There's Miller and Savage in homespun attires, With Gibson, McCarty and Crisp.
McClellan, and Blakely, and Dickeys and Cooks, The Bledsoes, with Adkins and Briens, Adams, and Harris, and Porter, and Brooks, Mckinney, and Tuggle and Lyons.
Arnett, and Parsons, and Bewly, and Finch, Holloway, Sharp, and Malone, Campbell, and Story, and Burford, and Lynch, And Jackson, and Farmer, and Sloane.
They're coming, still coming, and passing me by ; Is it fancy, or really all true ? Do I see them again, with the natural eye, Those friends that I long ago knew? (17)
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Is it Davis, and Massey, and Griffin and Wade? Is it Baily, and Smith, and McCord?
Those friends who have passed through the portals of shade, And gone to receive their reward.
Ah, no, it is fancy, all fancy, no doubt- By fancy alone are they clad ; Let us talk of their virtues, and say naught about Their failings, if failings they had.
We are old and gray-headed old fogies, they say ; Young America's left us behind ; The world has grown wiser in this latter day, And swifter the march of the mind.
'Tis true, very true, that the old pioneers Didn't move like a railroad train, But only as fast as a yoke of good steers Could carry them over the plain.
Though slow was their progress, those bold, hardy men Accomplished their purpose somehow ; They didn't burst boilers and smash up things then, As the fast ones are doing it now.
The great iron horse they hadn't yet known ; Knew little of steam or its power; Nor dreamed that the work of a day could be done, By machinery in less than an hour.
To quick correspondence though some might aspire, The methods to them were unknown; We couldn't then write with the telegraph wire, Nor talk on the wire telephone.
The reaper, the thresher, corn planter and drill, And such labor saving machines Were unknown; but their work, by the hand with a will Was performed, and by much safer means.
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Ah, yes, my old friends, we will talk of those days, And their plain, simple customs as well; And the young men may smile at our old fogy ways, Or laugh at the stories we tell.
Perhaps they may pity the old pioneer, When he tells of the hardships he bore, The thousand discomforts experienced here, The thousand vexations or more.
Conveniences many were wanting, and when We got them, we brought them from far; Not even a friction match had we then, With which we could light a cigar.
Cigar; did I say; myself I'll correct; We did not such articles use ; And the few that would smoke, if I well recollect, The cob pipe, or clay one would use.
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To the flint and the steel, or the sun glass, you know, We resorted when fires were out; But those old fogy ways, so tedious and slow, Our boys know nothing about.
Another discomfort, remember we still; From week unto week did we dread, That task unavoidable-going to mill; We could not do well without bread.
Those primitive mills-the boys, I'll be bound, Would smile at the simple concern- When the horses or oxen would pull the wheel round, And we drove till we ground out the turn.
Our news and newspapers were then scarce enough, Denied unto us, so to speak; The nearest postoffice was thirty miles off, And the mail came but once in a week.
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The Washington Globe-Democrat by the way- The doings of congressmen told ; But the speeches of Benton, and Webster, and Clay When twenty to thirty days old.
But that mattered not; it was news unto us, Though a month on the road it had been ; And we formed an opinion of things, and could guess Whether Clay or VanBuren would win.
And later on yet, I remember-don't you? In the coon-skin and cider campaign, When the songs of log cabin and Tippecanoe Were sung from Missouri to Maine.
Backwoodsmen we were, plain farmers, and such As moved without clatter or noise ; Of books and book knowledge, didn't have half as much As some of our fast modern boys.
As ignorant though as those pioneers were, Of all that is taught in the schools,
Their minds were as strong, and their heads were as clear As those who now reason by rules.
Yes, some of those clod hopping farmers, I trow, Could calculate problems by head, That students in algebra cannot do now, On paper with pencils of lead.
There were other things also, I think that they knew, The youth of today doesn't know; Necessity taught them to persevere through, Where he would stop short in his row.
With the bar share, or carey, we broke up the land, A wooden mould board to the plow, And cut our wheat down with a sickle by hand; But nobody uses them now.
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Our lumber we sawed with a whip saw, you know, Out of timber much harder than pine ; When one man above, and another below Kept the eye and the saw on the line.
The old fashioned tools, that we handled so well, Have gone out of use long ago; And the modern young man, their use couldn't tell, And even their name would not know.
Young America now may smile at our ways, Our slow going methods condemn ; If they envy not us, in our pioneer days, We will certainly not envy them.
Although so much wiser the world has now grown, So much faster 'tis rushing along, We'd rather live over the race that we've run Than join in the mad rushing throng.
They may boast of their many improvements, and all- The inventions of these latter years ; our thoughts will go back, and our minds will recall The days of the old pioneers.
We had friendships and sociability then, And neighbors were neighbors indeed; And all of those qualities noble in men, Had not given place unto greed.
With homespun attire and plain simple fare, The men of that day were content; And in hunting the deer and the turkeys that were, Many hours of leisure were spent.
And now to the ladies-God bless 'em they're here; And they have not forgotten, I know, The lives that they lived on the western frontier, In the years of the long time ago.
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I am sure those matrons some truth could reveal, To the fine, dashing belles of today, Of the old cotton cards, and the old spinning-wheel, And the loom, with its harness and sley.
They learned how to weave and to sew in their teens, And they spun their own cord, be it said ; They hadn't yet heard about sewing machines, And the Coats, or the Clark patent thread.
In those days, you know, 'twas a housekeeper's pride When her own counterpane she had wove; And her skillet and pot by the fire place wide, She used without ever a stove.
If to meetings on Sundays they went, you'd confess Their apparel was simple and plain ;
They didn't have twenty yards then in a dress, And half as much more in the train.
Yes, yes, we had meetings and preaching here then, But no churches, with steeples above; We met in the dwellings of pious, good men, And the preaching was that of pure love.
No doubt you remember those preachers so plain- Their dressing of deer-skin and jeans- Who asked not for money, and preached not for gain, Nor knew what "collegiate" means.
There was good Johnny Jackson-you all know him well- As plain as the plainest could be ; First preacher was he in the county to dwell, And few ever better than he.
And then there was Savage, and Ferrill, well known; And Powell and Ousley, you know; With Farmer, and Williams, and Talbot, and Sloane, And others as good and as true.
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You remember the old fashioned hymns that they sung, From Wesley, and Watts and Dupuy ;
And the music that came from the heart by the tongue, For no organ or choir had we.
Forgive me, old friends, if I cannot forbear, In speaking of days past and gone,
The past with the present fast age to compare, If comparisons truly are drawn.
My mind to the present, I cannot confine ; Ever backward fond memory will turn; To the scene of our youth, the heart will incline, So long as on earth we sojourn.
Though Mollie or Mamie the organ may thrum, And its music may fill the whole room, In fancy I hear the old wheel and its hum, And the tune Polly played on the loom.
And oftentimes now to the church, when I go, My thoughts, so rebellious, are turned Away from the service to times long ago, And those pioneer preachers unlearned.
Though the sermon may be by the greatest DD., And with eloquence truly sublime, I cannot forbear the man to compare With some in the good olden time.
And as oft as I visit your fast-growing town, This city with prospect so bright, The thought will arise, and I can't keep it down, Of the first time I stood on its site.
'Twas then, in embryo, the town lay concealed ; Its dimensions did not yet appear ; A squatter's log cabin, a little cornfield, And that was all then that was here.
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Ah, yes, my old friends, gray-haired pioneers, How many such changes we've seen? How many the changes in forty odd years, And how wondrous those changes have been !
Some changes were pleasing, and some have been sad; We've passed through peace and war, too; Ah, many's the "ups" and the "downs" we have had, In passing life's wilderness through.
And now let the few, in reunion today, Give thanks to the Ruler on high, That though he has taken our comrades away, In his goodness He's spared you and I.
And when we reflect on the many that's gone, The few pioneers that remain, Let us pray that His goodness may still lead us on, Till we meet our old comrades again.
Not long will it be until that time will come, Our reason admonishes us ;
Death's messenger soon will summon us home- In nature 'tis evermore thus.
Another reunion we'll have, and we'll greet The loved and the lost ones again ; Ah, yes, in a grander reunion we'll meet, And no parting or sorrows have then.
We've had many meetings and partings, old friends, But soon will those partings be o'er ; Perhaps when this social reunion shall end And we part, we will meet here no more.
When another twelve months, brother Brown, shall elapse, And you meet in reunion again, The friend who addresses you now will perhaps Be numbered no more with you then.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
OFFICERS.
UNITED STATES SENATORS-MEMBERS OF CONGRESS-STATE SENATORS-CIR- CUIT JUDGES-REPRESENTATIVES-CIRCUIT CLERKS-COUNTY CLERKS- JUSTICES OF THE COUNTY COURT-TREASURERS-SHERIFFS-RECORDERS -SURVEYORS-PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS-JUDGES OF PROBATE.
UNITED STATES SENATORS FOR MISSOURI FROM 1820 TO 1917.
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Politics.
Residence.
1820
David Barton
Whig
Howard
1820
Thos. H. Benton
Democrat
St. Louis
1824
David Barton
Whig
Howard
1826
Thomas H. Benton
Democrat
St. Louis
1830
Alexander Buckner
Democrat
C. Girardeau
1932
Thos. H. Benton
Democrat
St. Louis
1834
Lewis F. Linn
Democrat
St. Genevieve
1836
Lewis F. Linn
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1838
Thos. H. Benton
Democrat
St. Louis
1842
Lewis F. Linn
Democrat
C. Girardeau
1843
David R. Atchison
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1844
David R. Atchison
Democrat
Platte
1844
Thos. H. Benton
Democrat
St. Louis
1849
David R. Atchison
Democrat
Platte
1851
Henry S. Geyer
Whig
St. Louis
1857
James S. Green
Democrat
St. Louis
1857
Trusten Polk
Democrat
St. Clair
1861
Waldo P. Johnson
Democrat
Andrew
1862
Robert Wilson
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1862
John B. Henderson
Republican
St. Louis
1867
Charles D. Drake
Republican
St. Louis
1869
Carl Schurz
Republican
St. Louis
1870
Daniel F. Jewett
Republican
St. Louis
1871
Francis P. Blair.
Democrat
St. Louis
1873
Louis V. Bogy
Democrat
St. Louis
1875
Francis M. Cockrell
Democrat
Johnson
1877
David H. Armstrong
Democrat
St. Louis
1879
James Shields
Democrat
Carroll
1879
Geo. G. Vest
Democrat
Pettis
1881
Francis M. Cockrell
Democrat
Johnson
1885
Geo. G. Vest.
Democrat
Jackson
1887
Francis M. Cockrell
Democrat
Johnson
1891
Geo. G. Vest
Democrat
1
1
Jackson
1893
Francis M. Cockrell
Democrat
Johnson
1897
Geo. G. Vest.
Democrat
Jackson
1899
Francis M. Cockrell
Democrat
Johnson
1903
William Joel Stone
Democrat
Jefferson City
1905
William Warner
Republican
Kansas City
1909
William Joel Stone
Democrat
Jefferson City
1911
James A. Reed
Democrat
Kansas City
1915
William Joel Stone
Democrat
Jefferson City
1917
James A. Reed
Democrat
Kansas City
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FROM MISSOURI.
From 1820 to 1917.
Year. Dis. Name.
Politics.
Residence.
Session.
1821
John Scott
Dem
Ste. Genevieve Co _.
_Seventeenth
1823
John Scott
Dem
Ste. Genevieve Co
Eighteenth
1825
John Scott
Dem
Ste. Genevieve Co.
Nineteenth
1827
Edward Bates Dem
St. Louis
Twentieth
1829
Spencer Pettis. Dem
St. Louis
Twenty-first
1831
William H. Ashley __ Whig.
St. Louis
Twenty-second
1833
William H. Ashley __ Whig
St. Louis
Twenty-third
John Bull Dem
Howard Co.
1835
William H. Ashley __ Whig. St. Louis
Twenty-fourth
Albert G. Harrison __ Dem
Callaway Co.
1
1
1
1
267
HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY
1837
John Miller Dem Howard Co Twenty-fifth
Albert G. Harrison __ Dem.
Callaway Co.
1839
John Miller Dem Howard Co
Twenty-sixth
John Jameison Dem Callaway Co.
1841 John Miller Dem
Howard Co Twenty-seventh
John C. Edwards Dem Cole Co.
1843
James M. Hughes Dem Clay Co
Twenty-eighth
James H. Relfe
Dem Washington Co.
John Jameison Dem
Callaway Co.
James B. Bowlin Dem St. Louis.
Gustavus M. Bower_Dem Monroe Co.
1845
James B. Bowlin Dem
St. Louis
Twenty-ninth
James H. Relfe Dem Washington Co.
Sterling Price Dem
Chariton Co.
William McDaniel Dem
Marion Co.
John S. Phelps
Dem
Greene Co.
Leonard H. Sims Dem Greene Co.
1847
5 John S. Phelps Dem Springfield
Thirtieth
1849
5 John S. Phelps. Dem
Springfield
Thirty-first
1851
5 John S. Phelps Dem Springfield
Thirty-second
1853
5 John S. Phelps Dem Springfield Thirty-third
James J. Lindley Whig
Lewis Co.
At Large
Samuel Caruthers Dem Madison Co. At Large
1855
5 Thomas P. Akers
Lafayette Co
Thirty-fourth
1857 5 S. H. Woodson Dem Jackson Co
Thirty-fifth
1859 5 S. H. Woodson Dem Jackson Co Thirty-sixth
1861
5 John W. Reid. Dem Jackson Co Thirty-seventh
1863 5 Joseph W. McClurg __ Rep Camden Co Thirty-eighth
1865
5 Joseph W. McClurg __ Rep.
Camden Co
Thirty-ninth
1867
5 Joseph W. McClurg. .Rep
Camden Co
Fortieth
John H. Stover Dem
Morgan Co.
1869
5 S. S. Burdette Rep St. Clair Co
Forty-first
1871
5 S. S. Burdette Rep St. Clair Co
Forty-second
1873
8 Abram Comingo Dem Jackson Co Forty-third
1875 8 Benj. J. Franklin Dem Kansas City Forty-fourth
1877 8 Benj. J. Franklin Dem Kansas City Forty-fifth
1879 8 Sam L. Sawyer Dem Jackson Co Forty-sixth
1881 8 R. T. VanHorn Rep Kansas City Forty-seventh
1883
5 Alex. Graves .Dem Lexington Forty-eighth
268
HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY
1885 12 William J. Stone
Dem. Nevada
Forty-ninth
1887
12 William J. Stone.
Dem Nevada
Fiftieth
1889 12 William J. Stone Dem Nevada
Fifty-first
1891 12 David A. DeArmond_Dem
Butler
Fifty-second
1893
6 David A. DeArmond_Dem
Bates Co
Fifty-third
1895
6 David A. DeArmond_Dem
Bates Co
Fifty-fourth
1897
6 David A. DeArmond_Dem
Bates Co.
Fifty-fifth
1899
6 David A. DeArmond_Dem
Bates Co
Fifty-sixth
1901
6 David A. DeArmond_Dem
Butler
Fifty-seventh
1903
6
David A. DeArmond_Dem
Butler
Fifty-eighth
1905 6
David A. DeArmond_Dem
Butler
Fifty-ninth
1907
6 David A. DeArmond_Dem
Butler
Sixtieth
1909
6 David A. DeArmond_Dem.
Butler
Sixty-first
C. C. Dickinson
Dem
Clinton.
1911
6 C. C. Dickinson
Dem
Clinton
Sixty-second
1913
6 C. C. Dickinson
Dem
Clinton
Sixty-third
1915
6 C. C. Dickinson
Dem
Clinton
Sixty-fourth
1917
6 C. C. Dickinson
Dem Clinton
Sixty-fifth
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