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COUNTY CLERKS.
1821. Hampton, L. Boon, clerk 1845. James H. Saunders. pro tem. 1846. Leland Wright.
1821. Armstead S. Grundy, ap- 1847. Andrew J. Herndon.
pointed in May. 1874. Sid. B. Cunningham.
1823. John B. Clark. 1882. Henry C. Tindall.
1842. Nathaniel Ford.
CIRCUIT COURT CLERKS.
1816. Gray Bynum. 1870. John C. Woods elected ; 1842. S. Bynum. Jos. H. Finks filled the office.
1856. Andrew Cooper.
1860. C. H. Stewart.
1879. Walter C. Knaus, present incumbent.
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SHERIFFS.
1816. Nicholas T. Burckhartt.
1822. Benj. R. Ray.
1826. David Prewitt.
1829. Nathaniel Ford.
1832. Alfred W. Morrison, and collector, ex-officio.
1840. Lewis Crigler, and collector.
1844. Jacob Headrick, and collector.
1848. Newton G. Elliott, and collector.
1852. Bird Deatherage, and collector.
1856. Boyd Mccrary, and collector.
1860. James H. Feland, and collector.
1862. Thomas G. Deatherage, and collector.
1865. Prior M. Jackson, and collector.
1866. John L. Morrison, and collector.
1867. Rice Patterson and collector.
1871. James G. Maupin, and collector.
1873. Wm. O. Burton ( office of collector separated ).
1874. V. J. Leland.
1878. Nestor B. Cooper.
1882. V. J. Leland.
COLLECTOR.
1821. Joseph Patterson. 1825. David Prewitt.
1822. Benj. B. Ray. 1826. Samuel Shepherd.
1827. Enoch Kemper.
1822. John Harvey appointed in August. 1831. Wm. B. Warren.
The sheriff's were then ex-officio collectors till 1873. 1873. C. E. Burckhartt.
1883. Nestor B. Cooper.
1879. Stephen Cooper.
ASSESSORS.
1821. Nicholas T. Burckhartt. 1832. John S. Rucker.
1822. Price Prewitt, Glenn Owen, 1833. Lewis Wilcoxon. Watts D. Ewin, Geo. 1834. James Turner. Jackson, J. Meyers, 1837. Strother Bramin. Benj. H. Reeves, John 1845. Andrew Crews, Newton G. Rooker. Elliott.
1823. Watts D. Ewin. 1847. John W. Patton.
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1826. Joshua W. Redman. 1848. John Swetnam.
1826. Watts D. Ewin appointed 1850. Boyd M. MeCrary. in July. 1853. Joseph F. Hughes.
1830. Alfred W. Morrison. 1857. James H. Feland.
1858. County divided into four assessment districts. John W. Mor- ris, assessor first district ; Jas. H. Feland, second ; Wm. E. Hackly, third ; Stephen Stemons, fourth. 1859. Jno. R. Hitt, first district ; Jas. H. Feland, second ; Wm. B. Yager, third ; John Q. Hicks, fourth.
1860. Jno. R. Hitt. 1866. Harrison P. White.
1861. Miles Baldridge. 1872. Harrison Cross.
1861. Boyd M. MeCrary, ap- pointed December.
1874. Wm. H. Moss.
1879. J. R. Gallemore.
1862. Prior M. Jackson.
1883. H. B. Watts.
1865. W. Con. Boon.
TREASURERS.
1823. John B. Clark, pro tem. 1858. Walter Adams.
1825. Robert Wilson. 1862. Thomas Ray.
1830. John B. Clark. 1865. John E. Ewin.
1833. John H. Turner. 1867. Thomas W. Radford.
1840. Alfred W. Morrison. 1868. John M. Reid.
1845. Leland Wright.
1876. Jacob Fisher.
1846. Adam Hendrix.
1882. Wm. A. Dudgeon.
SURVEYORS.
1821* Elias Bancroft, 1843. H. T. Fort.
1868. Joshua T. Allen.
1821. Lawrence J. Daley, ap- pointed in November. 1872. Henry C. Shields.
1841. James Jackson. 1880. Willard Cloyd.
CORONERS.
1816. John Monroe. 1867. John M. Pierce,
18211 Jeremiah Rice. 1870. Isaac Hamilton.
1841. Nathan H. Stephenson. 1872. June . Williams.
1849. Joseph Cary. 1878. Richard Enyart.
1856. R. T. Basye. 1880. Von. Bonham.
1862. James H. Saunders.
1882. H. K. Givens.
* The early records were very meagre in reference to the surveyors of the county. + Early records meagre in reference to coroner.
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS.
1841. Samuel C. Majors. 1854. Samuel C. Majors. 1850. John W. Henry. 1880. Thomas Owings.
1853. Thomas M. Perkins.
COMMISSIONER OF SCHOOLS.
1841. Owen Rawlings. 1866. W. H. Watts, appointed in August.
1856. John F. Williams.
1856. E. K. Atterbury, resigned. 1870. John B. Hairston.
1857. Wm. T. Lucky, appointed. 1872. Thomas G. Deatherage.
1860. James R. Saltonstall. 1874. J. B. Hairston.
1861. Thomas G. Deatherage. 1876. Thomas Owings.
1866. C. W. Pritchett, appointed 1881. A. F. Willis. in July.
PROBATE JUDGES.
1824. Robert Wilson, appointed by the governor, and served until 1827, when the duties of that office were transferred to the county court, which tribunal continued to have jurisdiction of pro- bate matters until 1878, when the probate office was again created. 1879. J. T. Smith. Present incumbent.
COUNTY ATTORNEYS.
The office of county attorney was created in 1872. Prior to that time the business of that office was done by the circuit attorneys.
1873. James H. Robertson. 1881. Robert C. Clark.
1875. R. B. Caples. 1882. Robert C. Clark.
1879. James H. Robertson.
The following in reference to the history of Boonsboro, Boone's Lick township should have been placed on page 156; but owing to the fact that it was handed us too late for insertion in its proper place, we insert it here.
BOONSBORO,
named, also, in honor of Daniel Boone, was laid out in 1840 by Col. N. G. Elliott, Joseph Cooper, Achilles Callaway and Lindsay P. Marshall, on section four, township forty-nine, range seventeen, and twelve miles southeast of Fayette, the county seat.
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The first house in the place was erected by Achilles Callaway, soon after the laying out of the town. It was built of logs, and in it Callaway opened a small stock of goods, consisting principally of tobacco and whiskey. He was a native of Howard county, but his pa- rents were from Kentucky. He died in Boone's Lick township, since the late war. He left a widow and several children.
The first dry goods and general stock of merchandise was kept by R. H. Turner ; Turner was also the first mail contractor. The first mail facilities enjoyed by the town was during the year 1853, when the people supplied their own mail by the way of New Franklin. The first post-office was established there in 1856, John A. Fisher post- master. The first church edifice was erected about the year 1850, but was not completed until 1853. This was built as a union chapel by the Methodists, the Christians, the Cumberland Presbyterians and the Baptists. Wm. K. Woods was the Baptist minister, - Morrow was the Presbyterian, James Penn the Methodist, and Wm. M. Bur- ton was among the early Christian ministers. About the year 1868, the building was taken down and a new one erected in its place by the Christian denomination principally, but with the understanding that it was to be free to all religious bodies. This is all the church building in the town.
Hamp. Carson was the first blacksmith. W. J. and F. M. Baugh were two of the first merchants. Stephen Bynum sold goods there soon after the war of 1861. The town contains a population of one hundred and fifty souls. It contains beside the house of worship above mentioned, a school house, two general stores, two drug stores, one blacksmith shop, one wagon and carriage shop, two saloons and a post-office. The postmaster at present is Henry A. Deistelhorst.
INCIDENT.
Many years ago - before the late war - a young married man by the name of Cassius Nelson, was riding along very fast, horseback, into Boonsboro, and after reaching the town his horse in making a short turn in the road threw him against a stump, killing him almost instantly.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
RICHMOND TOWNSHIP.
DR. JOHN T. BAILEY,
one of the oldest members of the medical profession in Howard county, was born in Campbell county, Va., January 25, 1824. His parents were also natives of the Old Dominion, and were both de- scended from early colonial families. His father, Robert V. Bailey, was born in that state, December 2, 1799, and was married in early manhood to Miss Lncy L. Buster, of which union, Dr. John F., the subject of this sketch, was the first of a family of twelve children. In 1837, the family came to Missouri, and settled in Boone county, and there Dr. Bailey, then a youth thirteen years of age, attended the local schools and received a substantial English education. He then, in 1844, entered vigorously upon the study of medicine, under the in- struction of his uncle, Dr. Buster, of Rocheport, Mo., in which he
continued four years. In the meantime he attended the medical school in the University of Louisville, Ky., and, in 1848, located at Miami, Mo., in the practice of his profession. There he remained until the fall of 1849, when he returned to Boone county ; but, in 1850, he went to California, where he practised until in 1854. Re- turning then to Missouri, in June of that year, he came to Howard county, locating at Bunker Hill ; and four years afterwards, in 1858, he came to Fayette, his present home. He was married February 1, 1858, to Mrs. Marv E. Nichols, a widow lady of the most excellent worth, and two children were born to them - Robert V., now deceased, and Fannie L. Dr. Bailey is a member of the I. O. O. F., and of the Masonic order, in which he is also a Knight Templar. His life has been an active and eminently useful one. Visiting the sick and admin- istering to the suffering for a period of nearly forty years, he has attained and long held a position in his profession as an able and suc- cessful physician.
ROBERT W. BASKETT.
Nearly all the old settlers of Howard county are either Virginians by birth or by descent, for those who came from Kentucky and the other states were generally of Virginia parentage. But many came directly from the Old Dominion, that mother of pioneers as well as of
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presidents, and among these were Robert W. Baskett and his parents. Robert Baskett, the father of Robert W., was born in Virginia, in 1790, and when a young man was married in that state to Miss Lu cy Crewdson, who was born in 1788. They had five children, of whom Robert W. was one. In 1839, they came to Howard county, settling near Fayette, where the father subsequently died. Mrs. Baskett died in 1844. Robert W. was born in Fluvanna county, Va., April 18, 1820, and was therefore nineteen years of age when he came to this county. Having been reared on a farm, he naturally chose farming as his ocen- pation in life, which he has since followed. On the 18th of February, 1845, he was married to Miss Emeline P., daughter of Uriah Sebree, who came to Howard county in 1818. They have two children - John S. and William C. In 1850, Mr. Baskett settled on the farm where he now lives. It contains 470 acres of superior land, and is one of the best improved farms in the county. As a farmer, Mr. B. has been more than ordinarily successful. Industry, enterprise and intelligent management have made him one of the solid men of How- ard county. Aside from his success in a pecuniary point of view, he is a man that commands the respect and wins the good opinions of all who know him. Conservative and fair in his views, and careful not to form unjust conclusions, when he does determine upon a course as a proper one, he is the most resolute and inflexible of men. And be- cause of this firmness of character, resulting from strong and intelli- gent convictions, he is a man whose opinions are not only respected but are felt to be a potent force whenever and wherever given.
REV. WILLIAM F. BELL.
Thirty-two years devoted to the service of God and humanity, sums up in a line the career, thus far, of Rev. William F. Bell. Having now passed the meridian of life, and as the shadows of old age approach, it cannot but be the consolation of consolations to look back over the path he has trodden, rough and thorny though it may have been, and reflect that the world has been made better and purer and brighter, by his having travelled it. Rev. William F. Bell was born in Old Franklin, Howard county, Missouri, February 16, 1831. John W. Bell, his father, was a native of Virginia, and was born in Augusta county, July 4, 1805. Having emigrated to Missouri in 1830, settling first at Old Franklin and subsequently at other points, he died in Mexico, this state, in 1880. Mrs. Bell, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Combs, the mother of Rev. William F., was also a native of Virginia, having been born in that state in 1803. She preceded her husband in death six years. The first nine years of the Rev. William F. Bell's life were spent in Old Franklin, where his father's family then lived. In 1840, the family moved to Macon county, Missouri, and there he was reared and educated. In 1851, having qualified himself for the ministry in the meantime, he returned to Howard county, the home of his childhood, and during the same
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year was admitted to the Missouri conference of the Methodist Epis- copal church, south. Thereupon, he entered actively upon the duties of the ministry, which he has since followed. Among the prominent fields in which he has labored may be mentioned the following : Fulton cirenit, Callaway county ; Maryville circuit, Nodaway county ; Oregon circuit, Holt county ; also Savannah circuit, and Chillicothe circuit. In 1859, he was appointed to the New Franklin circuit for two years ; and for the next succeeding two years he was on the Columbia circuit. Continuing in the ministry, in 1867-68-69, he was on the Fayette circuit. The last two years immediately preceding his present charge, he occupied the Roanoke circuit ; and now he is again on the New Franklin circuit, where he was nearly twenty-five years ago. In 1854, August 2d, he was married to Miss Martha L. Kenyon, of Nodaway county, Missouri, and of this union two children were born, both of whom are now dead. Having lost his wife, who shortly followed her children to the grave, on the 1st of April, 1861, he was again married, Miss Sarah D. Ridgeway, of Howard county, becoming his wife. Of this union eight children were born, five of whom are still living, namely : John B., Anna L., William C., Marvin P., and Ada P. Mr. Bell never used liquor or tobacco in any form, or played a game at cards. As a man and citizen, Rev. William Bell occupies the place in the esteem of the people a minister of the gospel should hold, and as a clergyman he is one
Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine aud whose life, Coiucedent, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
JOHN B. BELL,
groceries and hardware. John B. Bell, son of Rev. William F. Bell, a sketch of whose life has just been given, is perhaps the youngest man engaged in business on his own account, in Fayette, being now but twenty-one years of age. He began business in July, 1880, and his career thus far has been characterized by marked success, and he carries a large and well-selected stock of goods. He was born in Howard county, Missouri, February 3, 1862, and was reared and educated in this county. Besides excellent school advantages in early youth, young Bell had the benefit of constant instruction from his father, not only in the knowledge derived from books, but in the deeper and better lessons of life which go to form and strengthen character. And it is due to this, doubtless, more than to any other cause, that at so early an age he is qualified to conduct, with success a large and important business.
CHARLES BERKLEY,
the eldest of a family of five children, was born in Clark county, Kentucky, March 5th, 1841. His father, John W. Berkley, was a native of the same state, born August 13th, 1813. His mother,
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whose maiden name was Sallie A. Lisle, was also a native of Ken- tucky, the date of her birth being February 3, 1824. Their marriage occurred January 6, 1840. The former died May 23, 1862, and the latter March 19, 1862. Charles was reared on a farm at his birth place and remained there until 1861, when he came to Howard eoun- ty, Mo. In 1867 he settled where he now lives in section thirty. His farm consists of 276 acres of land. He was married February 8th, 1865, to Miss Anna E. Patterson, daughter of J. W. A. Patterson, of this county. They have a family of four children living :- Stella, Mary, William, and Thomas L., three being deceased.
REV. HAMPTON L. BOON,
a relative of the distinguished Hampton family, of South Caro- lina, and whose father was a nephew of Daniel Boone, the pioneer of civilization in Kentucky and Missouri, lived a life and died a death worthy of his name and lineage. Hampton L. Boon was a man of strong character, yet a man of the most tender sympathies and of the most devoted domestic affection. His family he loved above all else on earth, yet in his heart there was a divine love that led him to adorn One above the earth, and to devote much of a well spent life to His service. In the time and the new country in which he lived, ministers of the gospel were compelled to provide mainly for their own support and for that of their families. Hence we find him alternating between the pulpit and secular employments, and often doing service in both for years at a time. Thus he lived out his lease of life, reared his family in the fear of God and finally died a death such as only the true Christian can die. He was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, June 29th, 1802. He was educated for the profession of the law, but nature intended him for the pulpit; so that instead of entering the former, he gave himself to the duties of the sanctuary. In the year 1818, he came with his father's family to Loutre island, in what is now known as Montgomery county, this state, where he sold goods for his father, William Boon, about two years. In 1820 he came on to Old Franklin in this county, where he also engaged in the merean- tile business, and on the 18th of December, 1822, he married Miss Maria Louisa Roberts. Subsequently, he followed merchandising in Fayette, and at another time was employed as clerk under Captain Whitmore, the agent of the government appointed to make certain payments to the Indians then due, and while thus employed made several trips up and down the river. He was then appointed register of the land office at Old Franklin and afterwards at Fayette, which position he held about twelve years and until the inauguration of Gen- eral Harrison as president, in 1841. In the meantime he had been giving much thought to religious matters, and, having joined the church in 1828, he entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry, in which he continued as a local preacher until 1840. Having studied closely the church tenets of the different denominations, his convictions of
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duty lead him to sever his relations with the Methodist church, which he did, and he then joined the Christian church, becoming a minister in that denomination, in which he continued the remainder of his life. About 1832 he came to Fayette and one year afterwards engaged in the mercantile business in this place, which he followed until 1840. In 1842 he was appointed clerk of the supreme court at Jefferson City, where he went the same year, and two years afterwards his fam- ily followed him. He was clerk of the supreme court about six years and until the court was divided about 1848. For several years during his official term in Jefferson City he was the editor of the Metropoli- tan, a democratic newspaper published there, and that paper, under his editorship, was the first paper in the state to take a stand against Thomas H. Benton. The winter of 1849-50 he spent in St. Louis, but, his health failing, he returned to Fayette in March of 1850, and here resumed work in the Christian ministry until his death, which occurred in March, 1851. Notwithstanding he led an active business life, for he was a man of great energy, he never lost sight of his duties as a minister ; and during much of the time that he was engag- ed in business pursuits, he also filled his place in the pulpit ; and the purity of the doctrines he taught was revealed in the purity of the life he led. Benjamin W. Boon, his son, was born in Fayette, Howard county, Missouri, December 2, 1843. In 1858 the family moved to Savannah, Andrew county, this state, where young Boon at- tended school, and received a practical English education. In 1863, he returned to Fayette and shortly afterwards entered a dry goods store as clerk, which business he continued until 1880, when he was appointed deputy county collector under Colonel Stephen Cooper. At the expiration of Colonel Cooper's terni, in 1882, he was again appointed by Mr. N. B. Cooper, who succeeded Colonel Cooper in office, and this position he now holds. Ben Boon possesses all the qualifications to make him a use- ful and popular man in any community. Generous, honest and genial, he naturally wins the good opinion and confidence of all with whom he comes in contact.
GEORGE H. BOUGHNER,
of Boughner, Tolson & Smith, dealers in grain, groceries, hard- ware and implements, a Canadian by birth and one of the self-made business men of Howard county, came to this county in 1865. He was born December 18, 1848. At the age of eighteen he resolved to seek his fortune on this side of the St. Lawrence. In 1862, there- fore, he came to the United States, pushing on before settling, to Memphis, Tennessee, where he engaged in the lumber business, con- tinuing there two years. Influenced by the recollections of his early home, which he cherished fondly, he then determined, with Hamlet, that -
" At night we'll feast together
Most welcome home!"
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and accordingly he returned for a short visit to the scenes of his childhood. His stay was brief, however, for in 1865 he was again found journeying to the southward, or rather to the southwestward, and this time came to Howard county, arriving here in December of that year. Here he engaged in farming and the stock business with R. E. Earickson, in which he continued with marked success until 1876, when he became a contractor for convict labor from the Missouri penitentiary, employing it mainly in the manufacture of wagons at Jefferson City. This he discontinued after the expiration of a year and returned to Howard county, engaging in Estill in merchandising, which he followed two years from 1878. In 1880 he came to Fayette and became a partner in the firm of Boughner & Hughes, which, was the predecessor of the present firm of Boughner, Tolson & Smith. Enterprise and industry has stamped him as one of the self-reliant, successful business men of the county. December the 18th, 1878, Miss Mollie Burkhart became his wife. Mr. Boughner is a member of the Masonic order and is a Knight Templar in that order.
MORTIMER A. BOYD,
of Boyd & Shafroth, grocers, etc. A sketch of Mr. Boyd's life, so far as Howard county is concerned, covers a period of but twelve years, yet so thoroughly has he become identified with the business interests of Fayette that his biography justly claims a place in this work. He was born in Virginia December 8, 1844. His father, John Boyd, and his mother, Mrs. S. A. Boyd, whose maiden name was King, were both also natives of Virginia, where they were mar- ried ; and in Warren county, of that state, Mortimer A., the subject of this sketch, was reared and educated. In 1861, Mr. Boyd enlisted in the Confederate army in company E, 12th Virginia cavalry, and continued in the service until the close of the war. Returning to his native county in 1865, he remained but a short time, coming to Mis- souri in the spring of 1866. In this state he first settled in Roche- port and engaged there in the mercantile business, which he followed at that place until 1872, when he came to Fayette, Missouri. Here he at onee engaged in the grocery trade, Mr. Carson being his part- ner in business ; but a year afterwards he formed his present partner- ship, which has since continued without interruption. Mr. Boyd was married December 8, 1870, to Miss Mary E. Kirby, a native of Boone county, Missouri. They have one child, Ora W. He. is a Knight Templar in the Masonic order. As a business man he is regarded as a capable and successful merchant, and as a citizen, honorable and public-spirited.
REV. M. J. BREAKER,
pastor of the Baptist church of Fayette, one of the really able and thoroughly educated clergymen of this state, and a minister as emi- nent for his Christian piety and his zeal in the milpit as for his ability
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and attainments, was reared in South Carolina, but was partly edu- cated in this state, and here, principally, he has been engaged in his life-work since he entered the ministry. His father, Rev. J. M. C. Breaker, was a native of South Carolina, and he is at this time a prominent Baptist clergyman of Texas. His mother, however, whose maiden name was Emma Juhan, was originally of Milledgeville, Geor- gia. They were married in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1849. Rev. M. J. Breaker was born in Newberne, North Carolina, March 9, 1850. He was educated in Wofford college, South Carolina ; in Washington university, St. Louis, Missouri, and in William Jewell, Liberty, Mis- souri. He studied theology in the Southern Baptist college, now Theological seminary, of Louisville, Kentucky, from which he was graduated in 1873. In 1869 he was licensed to preach, and in 1872 was ordained a minister. He has since received the degree of master of arts from the LaGrange college of this state. His first charge as a minister was in South Carolina. Then, in 1873, he accepted a call from Glasgow, Missouri. In 1876, he was elected president of Mt. Pleasant college, at Huntsville, Missouri, which position he filled until 1879, when he came to Fayette as pastor of the Baptist church of this city. Mr. Breaker is a minister of superior ability, both natural and acquired, and, above all, he is a sincere, faithful and zealous Christian. On the 13th of May, 1873, he was married to Miss Mary Timms, of Clay county, Missouri, a young lady originally from West Virginia. They have three children, Mary, Paul T. and Emma.
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