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vey Company at Kansas City, Mo. By a second marriage of the father to Lydia Jane Beam, he had three children: Agnes, was Mrs. Homer and died in Nebraska; John L., address now unknown; and J. H., living at Clay Center, Kan.
W. P. Griffin attended the public schools, and at the age of 15 years, enlisted for service in the Civil War. He was assigned to Company H, 43rd Missouri Volunteer Infantry at Gallatin on Aug. 22, 1864, was mus- tered out of service at St. Louis on June 30th and discharged July 8, 1865. He took part in the fight at Glasgow, and was captured on Oct. 15, 1864. He was later paroled and sent to St. Louis, then to St. Joseph, and finally to Kansas City, on raids against the "bushwhackers." After the war, Mr. Griffin returned to Daviess County and that same year the family moved to Marion County, where they remained for two years. Mr. Griffin then came back to Daviess County, where he bought 80 acres of land just east of Altamont. He sold his land in 1918, and has been living at Altamont ever since.
Mr. Griffin was married, Feb. 10, 1876, to Artemesia Wolfinbarger, a daughter of George and Miranda (Matthews) Wolfinbarger, both na- tives of Meigs County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfinbarger came to Mis- souri in 1865, and settled at Chillicothe. They came to Daviess County in 1869, and located in Sheridan Township. In 1880, they moved to Winston, where Mr. Wolfinbarger died in 1895, and his wife, in 1899. The remains of both are buried in the Winston Cemetery. Mr. Wolfin- barger served on the board of education in his township for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfinbarger had the following children: Artemisia, now Mrs. Griffin ; Myrtle, now Mrs. Edwards of Winston; Nancy Ann, now Mrs. Rarick of Guymon, Okla .; J. F., died at Denver, Col .; Mrs. O. P. Walter, died at Chicago, Ill .; Mrs. S. M. Beaman, died in Denver, Col .; and Mrs. Charlotte (Myers) Lindsey, died at Guymon, Okla.
To the union of W. P. and Artemisia (Wolfinbarger) Griffin, the following children were born: Maude, now Mrs. F. A. Johnson of Clay Center, Kan .; George G., living at Enid. Okla .; Myrtle Viola, died in in- fancy : Bessie Artemesia, now Mrs. W. M. Thoresen of St. Joseph ; Ollie Gay, the wife of W. D. Moore of Alexandria, La .: W. P., Jr .. living at Chickasha, Okla., Louise May, Married to H. W. Mumford, of Chicka- sha, Okla .; Miranda J., died in 1918. at the age of 26 years : Finis Irene, at home; and Phoebe Sarah, the wife of W. O. Thompson of Altamont. Mr. and Mrs. Griffin have 12 grandchildren. Three of their daughters. Finis. Phoebe, and Louise, graduated from the Altamont High School.
Mr. Griffin is a member of the John A. Dix Post of the Grand Army
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of the Republic at Kidder, and for 21 years, he was the secretary of the board of education at Altamont. He is an alert and capable man, and a very interesting talker. He revisited the scene of his birth and early childhood in Ohio in 1917 and 1919, and his reminiscences of that visit and of his boyhood days in the war are both instructive and entertain- ing. The Griffin family is one of the highly esteemed families of the community.
Peter Galpin, a retired farmer of Daviess County and well known throughout the county, now lives at Altamont, where he owns 72 acres of land and a pleasantly situated residence. Mr. Galpin was born in Del- aware County, Ohio, Feb. 14, 1843, the son of William Riley and Eliza (Williamson) Galpin.
The history of the Galpin family in the United States dates back to 1648, when Philip Galpin came to New Haven, Ct., from Bristol, England, where he was born. He died at Rye, N. Y., in 1664. His third son, Ben- jamin, was an ancestor of Peter Galpin, the subject of this sketch, through two generations of sons named Samuel, and a great grandson, named Selleck. Peter Galpin's great grandfather was born in Wood- bury, Conn., and was a brother to Nathan Galpin, who moved to New York in 1801, and in 1830, went to Washington County, Mich. That branch of the Galpin family still lives in Michigan. Freeman Galpin of Ann Arbor, Mich., is a descendant of Nathan Galpin.
One of Selleck Galpin's sons, Ebenezer, was the grandfather of Peter Galpin. He was married twice. To his first marriage the follow- ing children were born: William Riley; Selleck, who died at the age of 16 years ; Elizabeth, deceased ; and Sarah Ann, deceased. To his second marriage these children were born : Polly ; Curtis, probably living in Cal- ifornia ; Amanda, who died at the age of 19 years; Edward; Lucinda, living in California; Mary, deceased; Emmaline, died Sept. 5, 1902; Jane, married first to a Mr. Dillon, and a second time to a Mr. Holstead and she is now deceased ; David, who was accidentally shot and killed.
William Riley Galpin was born in Delaware County, Ohio, March 12, 1819, and died on Oct. 11, 1909, in Sheridan Township, Daviess County, Missouri. His remains are buried in the Mccrary Cemetery. His wife, Eliza (Williamson) Galpin, was born in Ohio on Aug. 9, 1817, and died in Ohio, Feb. 26, 1862. Her remains are buried in Ohio. Their children were: Peter G., the subject of this review; John, born April 22, 1845, and now living at Long Beach, Calif., married Rebecca Jane Culver ; Ebenezer, born Feb. 19, 1847, and died in August, 1919, in Los Angeles, where his widow, Mary Olive (Swisher) Galpin, still
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lives; Mary, now Mrs. Brobst of Oakland, Calif .; and Florence, now Mrs. Jennings, Oakland, Calif .; and Almeron C., living in California. Ebenezer Galpin served for three years in the 121st Ohio Infantry dur- ing the Civil War. While he was in the hospital at Campbellsville, Ky., he was captured by Morgan and his men, but was afterwards paroled.
By a second marriage of William Riley Galpin to Sarah Ann Place, he had three children: Frankie Ann, the widow of Adam Hiel of Ohio; Findley, a resident of Columbus, Ohio; Gertrude, now married.
Peter Galpin attended the schools of Ohio in the little town of Sun- bury, and later went to a subscription school at Olive Green, walking 2} miles each way to attend the school.
On July 5, 1864, Peter Galpin, his brother, and a neighbor boy, Al- vin Rosecrans, left Delaware County, Ohio, and drove 1,500 sheep to Powesheik County, Iowa. They were 58 days making the journey. The dust was at least two inches thick most of the way, and they made only ten miles a day. Peter Galpin got a dollar a day as his wage for the trip. He stopped in Decatur County, Iowa, at the home of his grand- father, Ebenezer Galpin, and remained there a year.
In the fall of 1865, Mr. Galpin came to Missouri, and located in Daviess County, where he has spent most of the time ever since. He and his brother, John, bought 80 acres of land in Sheridan Township. Their brother, Ebenezer, was at first a partner with them in the transaction, but later sold his interest in the land. Peter Galpin now owns 281 acres of land in Sheridan Township, which is operated by his youngest son. Mr. Galpin farmed the land from 1872 to 1912, when he moved to Gal- latin. The fall of that year, he went to Altamont, where he bought his present home.
Peter Galpin was married on Dec. 8, 1870, to Victorrene Swisher, born on Dec. 8, 1845, the daughter of Isaac and Amanda (Dennison) Swisher of Sheridan Township. Isaac Swisher was born on Feb. 13, 1815, in Virginia, and died in Daviess County, Missouri, Feb. 13, 1886. His wife, a native of Delaware, was born Aug. 16, 1817, and died in Caldwell County, Missouri, May 3, 1881. The remains of both are buried at Hamilton.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Galpin have three sons: Claude H., born on July 28, 1875, married Cora Scott, May 22, 1898, and now lives at Galla- tin ; Victor S., born Aug. 24, 1880, married Maud Gallamore on Dec. 25, 1901, and now lives at Gallatin ; and Peter Fletcher born April 15, 1890, married Clara Snyder on July 15, 1911, and lives on the home place. Claude H. Galpin has five children: Roy, Grace, J. P., Harold, and
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Jewell; Victor S. Galpin has two children, Audrey and Heath; and Fletcher Galpin has the following children, Junior, Viola, Doris, and James Alva.
Peter Galpin filled the office of justice of the peace in Sheridan Township for two terms and was township trustee two terms. He is one of the prominent men in his community. The Galpin family has been held in high regard ever since Mr. Galpin first settled in Daviess County, and has always been accounted an asset to the county. Mr. Galpin was for many years, a progressive and energetic farmer, and since his re- tirement from active duty on the farm, he has given much thought ot matters pertaining to community progress and civic welfare.
W. W. Ament succeeded Buchanan and Sons in the general mer- chandise business at Winston, Daviess County, Dec. 4, 1915. The store is located in the Foxworthy Building, and Mr. Ament carries an excellent line of dry goods, groceries, queensware, shoes, stationery, and school supplies. He is assisted in the store by Mrs. Ament, who is competent and enthusiastic in the work. The business is one of the thriving indus- tries of the community.
Mr. Ament is a native Kentuckian. He was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, Nov. 11, 1878, the son of J. H. and Rachel Ament. J. H. Ament and his wife now live at Kidder, where Mr. Ament is widely known as a successful merchant. He has been in the mercantile busi- ness at Kidder for the past 35 years.
W. W. Ament came to Missouri with his parents in 1881. They set- tled in Caldwell County, and Mr. Ament attended the public schools and then was a student at Thayer College at Kidder. When he was 17 years old, he began to work for the firm of Beaumont and Larrabee, mer- chants at Kidder. He remained in that position for 33 years, receiving for his first salary $8.00 per month. He worked diligently and was de- termined to succeed. He went to California, and worked as an engineer for the "20 Mule Team Borax" firm. While in that position he suffered the loss of his left hand, but this calamity did not deter him from his ambition to succeed. He came back to Missouri, and entered the livery business at Chillicothe, in which work he remained for two years. At the end of that time, he went to Kidder and entered into buisness with his father and brother. In 1910 he and his wife went to California, where Mr. Ament became the bookkeeper for the Petaluma-San Fran- cisco Transfer Company at Petaluma. They remained there for three years, and in 1914 went to San Francisco, where Mr. Ament was in bus- iness for two years at the corner of Scott and O'Farrell streets. He sold
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that business and returned to Missouri because of the illness of members of his family, and bought his present business at Winston in 1915.
W. W. Ament was married Nov. 27, 1907, to Lillian W. Vallanding- ham, a daughter of R. L. and Amanda (Woodruff) Vallandingham.
R. L. Vallandingham died in 1899 at Kidder. He was a veteran of the Civil War in which he served as a Confederate soldier. He was wounded in the left wrist while in service. After his death his widow and two daughters operated the home farm; they were left with nothing but the land and on account of sickness of Enolia, the widow's daughter, they mortgaged the farm to get money; and they succeeded in paying off the mortgage by raising and feeding hogs. The widow still lives at Winston. Mrs. Ament was born near Gallatin, Jan. 1, 1881, was edu- cated in the public schools, and attended Thayer College, from which institution she graduated in music in 1905. She taught music for six years, and then taught school in Daviess County for two years. Later she became the manager of the art and music department in a store in Petaluma, Calif. She has a brother, H. C. Vallandingham, who owns a part of the home farm in Colfax Township, where he lives.
Mr. Ament is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Lodge, and both he and his wife are members of the Order of the Eastern Star Lodge. Mr. Ament served as township collector for a term in Cald- well County. Both he and his wife are energetic and ambitious. They enter with zeal into the life of the community and are both strong fac- tors in all of the civic activities of the neighborhood. They are assets to the town of Winston, where they are both held in high regard.
Dr. D. M. Clagett, for the past 50 years a practicing physician at Winston, is one of the interesting pioneer professional men of this part of Missouri. He is a native of Mississippi, where he was born in Natchez County on March 24, 1846. His parents were Dr. Hezekiah and Eliza- beth (Shipp) Clagett.
Dr. Hezekiah Clagett was born in Maryland, and died in Kansas City, Mo., in 1912, at the age of 95 years. He was a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pa., and was the first dent- ist to make artificial teeth west of Philadelphia. He practiced in St. Louis for several years, and retired from professional life when he left that city. His wife was born in Kentucky, and died in St. Louis in 1856.
D. M. Clagett attended the public school, and graduated from the Medical Department of Washington University, St. Louis, in 1872. He located at Victoria four miles northwest of Winston and in 1874, located at Winston. He made the journey from St. Louis to Daviess County on
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horseback. He had no particular destination in mind when he left St. Louis, but felt that if he rode long enough he would find a suitable loca- tion. When he opened his office at Winston, Dr. F. C. Eastman was lo- cated at Alta Vista, and the Gallatin physicians were; Drs. Robertson, Givens, Brosius, Folmsbee, Black, and McFarland. All of those men are dead after years of active service to their communities.
Dr. Clagett gives some interesting recollections of the early days of the medical work in the county. The doctors all dispensed their own medicines, and made their visits under difficulties. They rode horse- back; there were no buggies outside of Gallatin in Daviess County. People rode in linchpin wagons and used splint bottom chairs for seats. There were few settlers on the prairies, and most of them lived at the edge of the timber land. The prairie grass was often as high as a horse, and the sod plows had not yet been introduced into this part of the country. The roads were mere trails very often, and were hard to fol- low when there was a snow storm. Dr. Clagett tells that one snowy eve- ning, Robert Caster started on the two-mile trip for Dr. Clagett to at- tend a sick member of the Caster family. After wandering around on the prairie for a long time he saw a light and went to the back door of the house. To his inquiry of "Who lives here?" a neighbor woman, who was attending the sick person, replied, "Bob Caster." Mr. Caster had simply circled around in the storm to his own home.
Dr. Clagett was the coroner of Daviess County at the time of the famous Winston train robbery in 1878, which resulted in the killing by the robbers of Dr. Westfall and one other man, and in the trial of Frank James for the murder. Several other men were suspected of complicity in the crime, but only the one was tried. He was acquitted. Dr. Clagett summoned the jury which held the inquest over the murdered bodies, and was a witness at the trial, the details of which stirred the entire state.
Dr. Clagett was married on Jan. 1, 1874, to Mary A. Wood a daugh- ter of James and Martha (Osborn) Wood, early settlers of Daviess County. James Wood was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1826, and came to Missouri in the fifties. He located in Colfax Township, Daviess County. He was a member of the Missouri State Militia. He died in 1878 in the 52nd year of his age. His wife was born in Boone County, and died in August, 1920, at the age of 87 years. The remains of both are buried in the Victoria Cemetery. Besides Mrs. Clagett, the living children of James Wood and his wife are: Mrs. J. M. Pringle of Cameron; Mrs. Luvina Spaulding of Kansas City, Mo .; and Alvin, living in Oklahoma.
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Dr. and Mrs. Clagett have a son, O. F., a practicing physician of Carbondale, Col. He was born, Aug. 7, 1881, and attended the school at Winston. He later went to school at Cameron, and graduated from University Medical College at Kansas City, Mo. He was married in August, 1904, to Effie Stevens of Trenton, and to their union the follow- ing children were born; Eleanor, John Malcolm, Oscar Theron, Helen Louise, and Bettie. Helen Louise Clagett died of influenza at the age of five years.
Dr. Clagett has been a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Lodge for 40 years, and served as the treasurer of the lodge at Winston for 35 years. He served four years as the coroner of Davies County. His period of half a century of service in Daviess County makes him one of the promiennt figures in the community. He has been es- teemed by more than two generations in and around Winston, and his name rightly belongs in Dr. Clagett's work is worthy of mention in such a book.
George A. Olsen, proprietor of Plain View Farm near Winston in Jefferson Township, Daviess County, was born in Iowa on Aug. 13, 1873, the son of C. M. and Catherine E. (Van Dyke) Olsen.
C. M. Olsen and his family moved to Dakota in 1897 where they remained for five years. They came to Daviess County and settled in Jefferson Township, later moving to Devon, Bourbon County, Kan. From there they went to Hugo, Lincoln County, Col., and took up a claim upon which they lived ten years; they now live in Hugo, Col. The children of C. M. Olsen and his wife were: George A., the subject of this review; Henry, deceased; Josephine, now Mrs. Stegeburg of Woon- socket, S. Dak .; W. W., living at Hugo, Col .; John C., a resident of Hugo, Col .; and Cora, now Mrs. Broadbeck of Fort Scott, Kan.
George A. Olsen attended the schools of Iowa, and has been a farmer and stockraiser all of his life. In 1902 he came to Daviess County and bought his present farm of 120 acres two miles north of Winston. The residence was on the farm at the time Mr. Olsen purchased it, but he has made the other improvements, including a barn, farm buildings, and set out an orchard. Besides his home place, Mr. Olsen owns eighty acres of land adjoining the Fulton place on the south and 40 acres west of the home place. He has made improvements on both of those places. Mr. Olsen raises Shorthorn cattle, Poland China hogs, and White Leg- horn, Plymouth Rock, and Brahma poultry. He has achieved a marked success in his line of work and is accounted one of the able and energetic farmers of the township.
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George A. Olsen was married on Oct. 18, 1894, in Winneshiek County, Iowa, to Alta Stone, a native of Fayette County, Iowa, and a daughter of James and Ann (Reed) Stone. Mr. Stone died in Iowa and his wife died in Daviess County, Missouri, at the home of her son, Frank Frederick. Her remains are buried at Winston. Mrs. Olsen is the only child of her parents, but by a former marriage her mother had the fol- lowing children; Samuel Frederick; Frank Frederick; and Helen and Ellen, twins, the former now Mrs. Loop and the latter now Mrs. Leslie; and Flora dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Olsen have six children: Earl, married Zella Downs, and lives on a farm south of Winston; Vay, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan .; Orla, a teacher at Fairview School; Harry, married Nora Carey, and lives on the home place ; Vira, living at Fort Scott, Kan .; and Viola, a student in the Winston High School. Mr. and Mrs. Olsen have two grandchildren, Geneva Fern and Verlin Wayne Olsen.
The Olsen family is held in high regard in the community. Mr. Ol- sen is competent and reliable and an excellent farmer.
James M. Mallory, a farmer of Jefferson Township, Daviess County, is a native Virginian. He was born on March 1, 1866, near Hillsville, Virginia, the son of Moses T. and Virginia (Allen) Mallory.
Moses T. Mallory was born in 1832 and his wife was born in 1838. They were married in Virginia, and came to Missouri in 1869. They made the trip by wagon and were more than two months on the road. They settled north of Altamont, where they bought 40 acres of land from the railroad company. In 1877, Mr. Mallory moved to the farm now owned by his son, James M., the subject of this sketch. He re- mained on the farm for 25 years, and then moved to Gallatin, where he died in 1908. Mr. Mallory was a shoemaker by trade as well as a farmer. He served in the Confederate Army for three and one-half years. He enlisted in Virginia, and was in Gen. Jubal A. Early's forces in Lee's Di- vision. He was with that division at the time of Lee's surrender.
Virginia (Allen) Mallory died at Altamont in 1874, and Mr. Mal- lory later married Susan Rawlins, who died in 1915. To his first union three children were born : Stephen A., living in DeKalb County ; James M., the subject of this review; and Virginia, the wife of Thomas Patton of Spokane, Wash. To his second marriage one child was born, a daugh- ter, Julia, who died at the age of five years.
James M. Mallory attended the rural schools and was a teacher in Daviess County for several years. He owns 190 acres of land in Jeffer- son Township, his residence being located five miles north of Winston.
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He does general farming and his own housework as well. Mr. Mallory is a Democrat in politics, and in 1898, he made the race for circuit clerk of the county. He has served as the township collector and constable.
The Mallory family is of Welch extraction. Members of the family have lived in Daviess County since the fifties, when two brothers of Moses T. Mallory, Joseph and Lanza M., came to Missouri and pre- empted land in Jefferson Township, Daviess County. They were among the first white inhabitants of the county. Joseph Mallory built the Seventh Day Adventist Church north of Altamont, to which organiza- tion he belonged. He died on his farm in 1900 and his remains are buried in the Union Cemetery. He was a believer in the cause of the Union during the Civil War strife, and his brother, Lanza M., supported the Confederate government. Lanza M. Mallory died on his farm near that of his brother in 1893.
James M. Mallory is a practical and competent farmer and is held in high esteem by his neighbors.
Charles Bruce Crowder, a well known farmer and stock raiser of Jefferson Township, Daviess County, has lived on his present farm of 155 acres for the past 36 years. He is a member of a pioneer family of the county. His parents, Hugh S. and Cassie Ann (Searcy) Crowder, were among the early settlers of this part of Missouri. They owned the land adjoining the farm, now held by Mr. Crowder, and he was born on that farm, June 5, 1856.
Hugh S. Crowder was born in Kentucky, March 21, 1822. He was a second cousin of Gen. Enoch Crowder of World War fame and a bro- ther of Judge Thomas B. Crowder of Daviess County. Hugh S. Crowder and his family came to Platte County, Mo., in 1852. His wife, Cas- sie Ann (Searcy) Crowder, was born in Kentucky on April 27, 1830, and her brother, S. P. Searcy, born in Kentucky on April 11, 1832, came to Missouri and joined the Crowder family. They all moved to Daviess County in 1854 and settled in Jefferson Township. S. P. Searcy married Sarah Hynes, a native of Daviess County, born on March 5, 1842, and they lived on their farm in Jefferson Township until their death. Mr. Searcy died in 1913 and Mrs. Searcy died in 1911. Their remains are buried in Cape Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh S. Crowder located on a farm near the Searcy farm, and at one time, Mr. Crowder owned 600 acres of land. Mrs. Crowder died on the farm on July 15, 1900, and Mr. Crowder died on July 12, 1907.
To the union of Hugh S. and Cassie Ann (Searcy) Crowder the fol- owing children were born : Sallie, born Dec. 9, 1850, and died March 7,
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1853; James, born Sept. 14, 1853, died Sept. 30, 1890; Charles B., the subject of this review; Anna, the wife of Hugh Smith of Rocky Ford, Col .; Ada, married to John Garner of Weatherby; Cora Lee, on the home place; Lizzie, the wife of Clarence Polk of Kansas City, Mo .; and Robert A., living on the home place. Harriett Crowder, a niece of Hugh S. Crowder, was reared in the Crowder home. She married Elmer Ross of Colorado. Of the children born to S. P. Searcy and his wife, the fol- lowing are living: Ada Frances, the wife of Sherman Sturgis; N. S., liv- ing in Oklahoma; Martha Ellen, married Henry Nevitt; J. F., living in Jefferson Township; George Allen, on the home place; W. B. address unknown; Effie May, the wife of John Boyer; and H. N.
Charles B. Crowder attended school in District No. 55, a district organized just after the close of the Civil War. The first school was taught by Ben Whitchurch. Mr. Crowder has always lived on a farm. His present farm comprises a part of the old Crowder home place. All of the improvements were made by the present owner. The residence lies 33 miles east of Weatherby.
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