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GEORGE M. ISLEY
(Of Morgan & Isley, Millers, Holt).
Mr. Isley has been in active business life for over thirty years, and is a man, who by experience, energy and business qualifications, is justly entitled to be classed among the better class of business men - of the county. He is a North Carolinian by nativity, born in Ala- mance county, June 27, 1832. He was the eldest in a family of
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children of Austin and Polly Isley, both of early North Carolina families. On his father's side the family is of German descent, but has been settled in this country for generations. The father is still living and is a retired stock-raiser, having been quite successful in life. The mother died only about four years ago. Mr. Isley, Jr., or the subject of this sketch, was reared in his native county, and at the age of 21 engaged in merchandising at Gibsonville, that county. He continued in business as a merchant for about five years, at the expiration of which he was appointed postmaster at Gibsonville and also station agent on the railroad. Mr. Isley had charge of these offices for some seventeen years. He then removed to Raleigh, where he bought and took charge of a large distillery. Two years later, however, he sold out at Raleigh and removed to Missouri, locating in the vicinity of Holt. Here he also established a distillery and carried on a farm, which he purchased on coming to this county. He still owns the farm, and is engaged in farming, in addition to his milling business. He bought a half interest in the flouring and grist mill at this place, becoming a member of the firm of Morgan & Isley in 1875. He has ever since been engaged in milling. In 1855 Mr. Isley was married to a Miss Shoffner, a daughter of Daniel and Barbara Shoffner, of Alamance county, N. C. Her par- ents are both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Isley have had seven children, all living and residents of Holt. Thomas and Augustus are engaged in the livery business at this place and are young men of energy and enterprise. Mr. and Mrs. Isley are members of the Christian Union Church. Mr. I. is a member of the Masonic order and is one of the Democrats who has been voting the straight ticket (except while North Carolina was out of the Union ) ever since 1856, without seeing a Democratic President inaugurated. That interesting event he was fortunate enough to enjoy on the 4th of March last.
WILLIAM H. LARUE, (Of Stowers & LaRue, Druggists, Holt).
Mr. LaRue was a teacher by profession, having come from Indiana to this State, and after coming here taught some three years in Clay county before engaging in the drug business. However, he had had experience in handling drugs and in pharmacy and had a good knowl- edge of the business before he became a member of the firm with which he is now connected. The firm of Stowers & LaRue have a neat drug store, keeping constantly in stock a full assortment of fresh and pure drugs. They also carry other lines of goods usually found in a first-class drug store. Being both good business men and upright and obliging in their dealings, they have of course succeeded in at- tracting a good trade. Mr. LaRue was born in Greene county, Ind., April 18, 1860. His parents were Jesse and Nancy (Dugger ) LaRue, his father being a carpenter and contractor by occupation. The family on either side was from Tennessee and Virginia, respectively. The mother died in 1883, but the father is still living. William H.
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was reared in Indiana and educated at the common and Normal Schools and the State University. Prior to entering the Normal School, how- ever ( at which he graduated ), he had taught school and after concluding his educational course he resumed teaching, coming West to Missouri for that purpose. He came to Holt, Clay county, Mo., in March, 1881. The following year after coming to Missouri Mr. LaRue was married to Miss Lura L. Harris, a daughter of William Harris, of Clay county. They have one child, a daughter, Jessie, Mr. and Mrs. L. are members of the M. E. Church South. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
WILLIAM B. LEACH
(Dealer in Hardware, Tinware, Cutlery, Farm Implements, Wagons, Buggies, Etc. Kearney).
Mr. Leach engaged in his present business in 1880, as a successor in the business to George Spears. Mr. Spears had previously carried it on for some years, but in the spring of 1880 committed suicide in his store by shooting himself. Mr. Leach afterwards bought the stock and continued the business. He has materially enlarged and im- proved the stock of goods and added much to the patronage of the house. It is now one of the leading houses of this class in the northeastern part of the county. Mr. Leach was born in Scott county, Ky., July 23, 1840. When he was a lad about seven years of age his parents removed to Missouri and settled in Platte county, where young Leach grew to manhood. In 1867 the family removed to Clay county, where they still reside. In the meantime William B. had grown up and gone out into the world for himself. In 1861 he enlisted in the army, but after a term of service of less than a year, returned to Platte county, and the same year went to New Mexico. He came back, however, in 1862, but in June of that year went to Montana Territory, and was engaged in trading in stock for the following six or seven years. He was also in Utah, Idaho and British America. He went to the noted Koot- ney mines on a prospecting tour. In 1869 he returned to Mis- souri, and as his father's family had removed to Clay county, he stopped at Kearney. Here he engaged in farming and handling stock to some extent, which he continued until 1880, when he bought out the Spears stock of goods as stated above. While handling stock in the West Mr. Leach wes also engaged in farming. In 1876 he was married to Miss Cassie McGinnis, daughter of James McGinnis, of Kearney, but formerly of Kentucky. They have one child, a little son. Mrs. L. is a member of the Christian Church and he is a mem- ber of Lodge No. 311, A. F. and A. M., at Kearney.
L. W. LEAVELL
(Farmer, Fine Stock Raiser and Stock-dealer, Post-office, Kearney, Mo.).
Clay county has long had the reputation of being one of the best stock-raising counties in the State. Not only do the farmers here
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give their principal attention to stock-raising, for which the county is remarkably well adapted, but they are generally a class of men of enterprise and information, who take pride in securing the best stock for breeding purposes to be had. This practice has had a beneficial result in two ways: it has not only been profitable to the farmers themselves, but has given the county an enviable name as a fine stock county. Prominent among the farmers who have done their full share toward advancing the stock interests of Clay county is the subject of the present sketch, Mr. Leavell, who came here in 1854. He was a well-to-do fine stock raiser of Kentucky, and after coming here bought about 1,700 acres of fine land. Having some forty odd or fifty ne- groes, he improved a large farm, and engaged in farming and stock- raising quite extensively. His negro property was soon afterwards taken from him by operation of the war, but he has, nevertheless, had a prosperous career in other respects. For years he has been recognized as one of the leading farmers and stock-raisers of the county. He is a man of high character and superior intelligence and information, and occupies a prominent position in the community. He was born in Todd county, Ky., December 12, 1821, and was reared to a farm life, receiving a common-school education as he grew up. In 1838 he was married to Miss Harriet D. Winn, a daughter of George Winn, of Christian county, Ky., a prominent and wealthy citizen of that county. Eight children have been the fruits of their union, namely, Frances, now the wife of Rev. G. W. Rogers, of Dallas, Texas ; Sarah, the wife of Samuel C. Greenfield, of this county ; Georgia A., the wife of Dr. Silas Denham, of Clay county, Mo .; Daniel W., now a resident of Kansas; Eugenia S., wife of William Rust, also a resident of Kansas ; Leonidas, W. Llewellyn, Lane and Robert Ernest Lee. Three others are deceased, who, however, lived to mature years. Lycurgus L., their eldest son, who died in California ; Harriet L., who died whilst the wife of John J. Eastin, and Montgomery D. Mr. and Mrs. Leavell are members of the Baptist Church, and Mr. L. is a Royal Arch Mason. Mr.
Leavell's farm contains 860 acres. The balance of his land is divided up among his children. He has a handsome homestead, in- cluding a commodious and tastily built residence, and substantial, neat appearing barns and other outbuildings, He is very comfortably situated in life.
ALBERT LINCOLN
(Retired Farmer, Post-office, Kearney).
Only the few who have given the subject any thought and investi- gation have any idea of the important part Virginia has taken in the history of the country, and of the vast influence she still exerts, per- haps now not so much directly as indirectly. Leaving out of the account what she has done directly and is still doing, her indirect in- fluence in affairs is not even approached in importance by that of any other Commonwealth in the Union. She not only gave to the country its great Northwest Territory, out of which have been formed some
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of the most populous, prosperous and progressive States of the Union, but largely gave the sturdy pioneers and brave settlers who founded these States and made them what they are. Besides this she peopled Kentucky, presenting the territory and the population of the Blue Grass State to the Union as a proud and free and generous gift. All Southern Ohio was mainly settled by her sons, or the sons of her eld- est and fairest daughter, Kentucky, as were also most of Indiana and Illinois, and a large percentage of the other Northern States, and of the Pactolian Commonwealth of the Pacific coast, California. So, the younger States of the South were largely peopled from the Old Dominion, including Missouri and Arkansas. Likewise there is Texas, settled almost exclusively by Virginians, Kentuckians, Missourians and West Tennesseeans, settlers who sprang originally, almost with- out an exception, from Virginia families. Any comprehensive genesis of the population of the West and Southwest would show that more then 75 per cent of the people are of Virginia descent. But it is not in this respect alone that the Old Dominion holds a distinguished and pre-eminent position in the history of the country. Take the names of the great men that shed the brightest lustre on our career as a na- tion, and they are in a large majority of cases the names of Virginians, either by nativity or descent. Hardly less is this true of the present, than of the past. At the beginning, the " Father of our Country " was a son of the Old Mother Commonwealth. So, also, with most of the other early characters of prominence and distinction. Nor has there been an important epoch in the history of the country since that time in which the name of a Virginian has not stood out above and brighter than all others. In the great crisis of the Civil War the brightest names that illuminated that dark period were either of or from the Old Dominion. This was true on both sides. To the North and the Nation, Virginia gave Abraham Lincoln, a man who, on the Union side, was nearer than all others after the pattern of Washington, a brave, pure, true, great man. On the side of the South we had Lee and Stonewall Jackson, names that any country might well be proud to boast. Now and at all times Virginians have occu- pied the first places in the history and in the hearts of their countrymen. Jackson, the " Iron President," Harrison, the " Hero of Tippecanoe," of Indiana, the great Clay, and hundreds of others traced their lineage back to Virginia. And it is a re- markable circumstance that the Washingtons, Lincolns and Lees were all orginally settled in Northern Virginia. From there branches of these families spread out into other parts of the State and into other States. But in the present sketch we have only to do with the Lin- coln family - Albert Lincoln, whose biography is here given, being one of the descendants of that family. The Lincolns came to this country from England in early colonial times and settled, in the first place, in Northeastern Virginia. - Lincoln, of that section of the Old Dominion, was the great-grandfather of President Lincoln and the grandfather of Abraham Lincoln (the father of the subject of this sketch ), who became one of the pioneer settlers of Western-Central
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Missouri. Judge James E. Lincoln, of Liberty, is also a descendant of the same family. His father, George Lincoln, was a son of Thos. Lincoln, of Fayette county, Ky., but originally from Rockingham county, Va. Thomas Lincoln was a brother of Abraham Lincoln, the grandfather of President Lincoln. Judge Lincoln's father and Albert Lincoln's father were brothers. George Lincoln was one of the pioneer settlers of Clay county. He and Albert Lincoln's father, Abraham Lincoln, who were brothers, were both blacksmiths by trade, and both from Kentucky to this State. Abraham Lincoln, however, came to Missouri at an earlier day than the removal of George Lin- coln. He, the former, settled in Saline county, or what is now Saline, before the county was formed, and in early territorial times. Subsequently he removed to Clay county, in about 1823 ; and later still ( but yet at an early day ), he settled on the Platte Purchase, where he located a claim; but while temporarily absent his place on the Platte Purchase was taken possession of or " jumped," as they termed it then, by another party, who hadn't even a color of right to it. Still, Mr. Lincoln being a quiet, upright man, preferred to lose his claim rather than engage in a lawsuit, or have any personal trouble with the claimant. He therefore decided to make his permanent home in Clay county, and afterwards resided here for many years, until his death, engaged at his trade and in farming. He was a man of sterling worth, strict integrity and strong, natural good sense - characteristics everywhere of the Lincoln family. His wife came of an old and re- spected family of Kentucky, but originally of Virginia. Her Chris- tain name was Agnes Feming. They had a family of five children, all of whom lived to reach mature years and to become the heads of families themselves. Only three are now living. Albert Lincoln, whose name stands at the head of this sketch, was born in Saline county, April 18, 1819, but as his parents subsequently removed to Clay county, he was partly reared in this county. He learned the blacksmith's trade under his father, as he grew up, and afterwards followed it for some years. In 1844 Mr. Lincoln was married to Miss Armilda Soper, a daughter of Benjamin Soper, formerly of Kentucky. In about 1850 Mr. L. engaged in farming, and soon afterwards quit blacksmithing altogether and turned his entire attention to farming and stock-raising. Ever since that time he has made agricultural life . his sole pursuit. A man of industry and good intelligence, he has always lived comfortably and has never been embarrassed by the re- verses that often overtake men of more venturesome disposition. His greatest desire has been not to accumulate large means, but to live an upright, quiet, unobtrusive and respectable life, and to rear his family of children in comfort and creditably ; but above all to rear them with the ideas of personal honesty thoroughly instilled into their minds, and with the conviction that only by honest industry should success be sought or hoped for. In all this he may be truthfully said to have been successful to the utmost of his desires. No man has traveled down the pathway of life to the shades of old age with a name more spotless than his. Albert Lincoln stands as high in the
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esteem of all who know him for integrity and personal worth as any man whose citizenship ever did honor to the country. Mr. Lincoln has a comfortable farm of 160 acres, and is now living in retirement from the severe activities of life. Nevertheless, he is a man of indus- try and perseverance and still assists, when necessary, at farm work. Though closely approaching the allotted age of three-score and ten, he is well preserved and is unusually active, considering his years. He and his good wife have reared a family of four children, one of whom is now deceased. The living are: John W., Newton H. and Benjamin F. Archibald died in young manhood in 1860. Mr. and Mrs. L. are members of the Christian Church.
LARZ A. LOGAN
(Farmer and Stock-raiser and County Assessor, Post-office, Kearney).
Among the officials of Clay county L. A. Logan, the subject of the present sketch, is deserving of more than a passing notice. Though only having been elected to his present office in 1882, sufficient time has elapsed to judge of his ability for the position to which he was chosen, and doubtless the people of this county will show their ap- preciation of his services by electing him to discharge the duties of this office for another term when it becomes necessary to do so. He is a Kentuckian by birth, having been born June 17, 1832, in Shelby county. After leaving there in 1857, he came to Missouri, but sub- sequently went to Colorado and Montana where he remainded until 1866, then returning to Platte county, Mo. In 1872 he took up his home in Clay county and here, on the 18th of January, of that year, he was married to a daughter of one of the old pioneers of Clay county, Miss Jennie E. Duncan, whose father was Alexander Dun- can. They have been blessed with four children, one of whom, how- ever, is deceased, Mary Ann. Those living are Gwathmey P., Matt. D. and Aytchmonde. When Mr. Logan came to this county he settled on 80 acres of land, but in 1879 moved to the place on which he now lives. Here, in addition to his agricultural pursuits, he is occupied to some extent in the stock business, more especially in the breeding of short horn cattle. His landed estate embraces some 300 acres. He and his wife are members of the Mount Gilead Christian Church.
JOHN S. MAJOR
(Farmer, Fine Stock-Raiser and Cashier of the Kearney Bank, Kearney).
Mr. Major, in addition to his duties as cashier of the Savings Bank, is interested on his farm near this place in breeding and raising fine stock of different kinds. His interest in stock includes horses, cattle and hogs, and he deals to a considerable extent in all of these. He makes a specialty of Pure Bates and Bates Topped short horns cattle, of which he has some unusually fine representatives. His other stock also are generally of superior grades and his experience with fine stock
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and in the stock business, generally, has been one of success and en- tire satisfaction. Mr. Major became identified with the Kearney Bank on its first organization. Indeed, he was one of its original stockholders and was instrumental in organizing the bank. It was organized in 1882, with a paid-up stock of $10,000, and has since had an entirely prosperous career. It has ever since paid an annual divi- dend of 25 per cent. It is one of the well-conducted, substantial bank- ing institutions of the county, and is the only bank at this place. Mr. Major is a native of Clay county, born in this township February 22, 1852. His father was Dr. Herman S. Major, a leading and success- ful physician of this part of the county, originally from Kentucky, but now deceased. Dr. Major was also extensively engaged in farm- ing and stock-raising and was prosperous. He graduated at the Louis- ville Medical College in 1850, and came to this county the following year. The same year of his graduation he was married to Miss Mary L. Swearingen, of an old and highly respected Kentucky family. The Doctor died here in 1869. His widow, Mrs. Major, is still living and residing on the old family homestead near Kearney. They had a family of nine children: Charles S., a farmer of Clinton county ; Will- iam W., now in the bank at Kearney ; Mary R., a twin sister to Will- iam W., and the wife of R. E. Bevins ; Slaughter G., a farmer of this county, with whom his mother resides on the old homestead ; Susan Y., a twin sister to Slaughter G. ; Sallie B., Reuben H., Hermonetta, now deceased, and John S. John S. was reared in this county and educated at Kentucky Military Institute, near Frankfort, Ky., and at William Jewell College, of Liberty. In 1876 he was married to Miss Jennie Anderson, a daughter of Joseph and Mary Anderson, who came to this county from Clark county, Ky., in 1843. The father died .
here in 1859. Mr. and Mrs. Major have one child and have lost one.
SLAUGHTER G. MAJOR
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Kearney) .
Mr. Major was born in this county in July, 1860, and was the fifth in the family of children of Herman and Mary Major, reference to whom is made in the sketch of John S. Major, another son of theirs, which precedes this. Slaughter G. was reared on the farm and re- ceived his primary education in the common schools. In 1878, at the age of 18, he entered William Jewell College, in which he took a course of three years, graduating in the class of '81. Besides taking a general English and classical course, he graduated in German and French. After his graduation he returned to the farm where he was reared, and resumed farming and stock-raising, to which he was brought up. He has continued occupied with these industries ever since that time. He and his brother, Reuben, and their sister, Sarah B., remain at home with their mother, their father having previously died. Mr. Major is at the head of the affairs of the farm and is showing marked good judgment and enterprise in its management. The place contains 240 acres and is well improved. He has about
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75 head of good cattle on the place aside from a small herd of short horns and other stock, and he feeds annually for the markets about 40 head of beef cattle and a larger number of hogs. The younger brother, Reuben, is now completing his course at college.
ZENAS F. MILBOURN
(Proprietor of the Kearney Livery, Feed and Sales Stables, Kearney).
Mr. Milbourn has a first-class establishment in the livery line, in- cluding a capacious and neatly built stable and a full stock of riding and driving horses and buggies, carriages, drummers' wagons, etc. He has been in this line of business some years and has had a suc- cessful experience as a liveryman. His stables have an established reputation and a patronage which is steadily increasing in extent and profit. Mr. Milbourn is a native of Maryland, born July 4, 1848. His father was Zenas F. Milbourn, Sr., formerly of Virginia, and his mother's maiden name was Adeline C. Marcellus. She was born and reared in Maryland. Mr. Milbourn Sr., went from Loudoun county, Va., to Maryland, where he was married, in Baltimore, to Miss Mar- cellus, a young lady of French descent. After some years' residence in Maryland he returned to Virginia. During the war he served in Co. A, Eighth Virginia regiment, and was wounded at Ball's Bluff, October 21, 1861, by which he was disabled for the service, and thereafter returned home. He is still living in Virginia but his wife died in 1856. Of their family of children three are living. Zenas F. Milbourn was reared in Virginia and in 1861 entered the Southern army. He was a member of Mosby's command and was out until the close of the war. Just before the breaking out of the war he had begun to learn the shoemaker's trade, and after the war he finished his apprenticeship at Baltimore. In 1868 Mr. Milbourn, Jr., removed to Ohio, where he followed his trade a year and then came to Mis- souri, working at different points until 1870, when he came to Clay county. Here he worked at his trade until 1878, and then engaged in the livery business at Kearney in partnership with Z. M. Tapp. Five years later he sold his interest in the stable and built the one he now occupies, where he has ever since been engaged in the business. June 23, 1871, he was married to Miss Mary L. Peper, a daughter of William Peper, of Mason county, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Milbourn have one child, Zenas F., Jr. They lost one child in infancy. Mr. Mil- bourn has a good farm of 180 acres, where he is engaged in raising fine short horn cattle. Mr. and Mrs. M. are members of the Christian Church.
REV. GEORGE W. MITCHELL (Christian Union Minister, Holt).
Rev. Mr. Mitchell's father's family was one of the early families to settle at Independence, in Jackson county. They remained there, however, only a short time, removing thence to Lafayette county, where they resided for a period of about 25 years. The father,
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Benjamin F. Mitchell, was a farmer and carpenter, and removed from Kentucky to this State. After farming some years in Lafayette county, he made his residence at Lexington. But in 1866 he re- moved to Haynesville, in Clinton county, where he resided until his death, which occurred at the age of 70, in 1877. The mother, the wife of Mr. Mitchell, Sr., preceded her husband to the grave in 1860. She was a Miss Margaret Franklin before her marriage. At her death there were five children, including the subject of this sketch, who was about 17 years of age. He was born in Lafayette county in 1842. As his parents shortly removed to Lexington, he had the advantages afforded by the schools of that place, and received a good general English education. However, at the age of 18 he went to work at the blacksmith's trade, which he afterwards followed for some six or seven years. In 1866 he engaged in general merchandising at Haynes- ville, remaining in business there for about 13 years. Mr. Mitchell then removed to Holt, and became a member of the firm of Mitchell & Huffaker, general merchants, with which he has ever since been connected. He has long been a member of the Christian Union Church, and in 1875 he felt that it was his duty to prepare himself for the ministry and exert whatever power and influence in the pulpit he might have for the highest and best interest of humanity, the salva- tion of souls. He accordingly studied the Scriptures thoroughly, and informed himself in general theology, particularly the theology and polity of his own church, and in 1876 he was licensed to preach. Two years later, Mr. Mitchell was regularly ordained a preacher of the Gospel. Ever since becoming a licentiate of the church he has been an active preacher, and has done much good for the cause of religion and of the church. In 1864, Mr. Mitchell was married to Miss Josephine Harris, a daughter of Solomon Harris, a farmer of the vicinity of Excelsior Springs. Mr. M. and his good wife are blessed with a family of ten children. Mr. Mitchell has a good farm of 120 acres on the Clay and Clinton county line. He is a member of the A. F. and A. M., including the Royal Arch Chapter, and is a member of the school board at Holt. At a series of revival meetings, held by Mr. Mitchell in 1883, and extending over a period of 47 days, 35 at Haynesville, and 12 at Holt, no less than 160 converts were made.
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