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OLD MEN'S ASSOCIATION.
At a meeting of the old citizens and soldiers of the war of 1812, held August 4, 1868, at the residence of Mr. James Hicklin, on motion of Henry Wallace, it was agreed that an "Old Men's Association " should be formed, comprised of persons of seventy years of age and upwards; that all persons present should record their names, age and place of nativity, which was done. On motion, Henry Wallace w is elected president and Jabez Shotwell, clerk.
On motion, Henry Wallace and Jabez Shotwell were appointed a com- mittee to draft and present to the consideration of the association, a con- stitution, which duty was duly performed; the committee reporting the following which was unanimously adopted by the members present:
CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE 1. A president shall be elected at each meeting, whose duty it shall be to preside and keep order.
ART. 2. A clerk shall be elected at each meeting, whose duty it shall be to keep a record of all the names of the members, their age and nativ- ity, and the proceedings of each meeting.
ART. 3. Meetings shall be held during the months of May and Sep- tember of each year, at the houses of the different members, for mutual conversation and enjoyment.
ART. 4. All members of this association must be seventy years of age, or upwards and must be elected by the unanimous consent of the associa- tion.
ART. 5. It shall be the duty of each member when requested, to relate his experience, either verbally or in writing.
ART. 6. Each member's name shall be enrolled, with his age and nativity.
ART. 7. It shall be the duty of all the members to visit each other, particularly in sickness or distress.
ART. 8. Each meeting shall be opened with prayer.
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The following is a complete list, as far as can be obtained from the records, of all who have joined up to the present time, with date of birth, place of nativity, and date of death if not living:
Name.
Date of birth.
Where born.
Date of death
Edward Minnis.
Oct. 13, 1784.
N. Carolina . .
Wm. Robinson
Feb. 25, 1791 .
Virginia. . Tennessee
*1869.
Lewis Green.
July 12, 1791 . . .. Nov. 28, 1791 ... March 24, 1792 .. Feb. 7, 1792.
Kentucky . 6.
*1871 or '72.
Henry Wallace. . . John Nelson . .
Sept. 26, 1794. . . John Vaughn.
Sept. 3, 1795.
Kentucky Virginia
May 3, 1879. April 14, 1877 *1871.
James H. Graham.
Dec. 5, 1798.
Georgia New York .. . Kentucky.
July 9, 1881 .
Howard Williams. G. T. Chrisman
Dec. 5, 1797.
. . .
Dec., 1873. *1875.
Jesse Roberts
June 11, 1795
Wm. Helms
June 18, 1795 -1795.
Daniel Sims.
-
*1793
Jan. 17, 1871.
Lucien Dumaine
March 25, 1800 ..
France
John R. Ford
May 8, 1801
Kentucky
May 28, 1881 *1875 or '76. *1877 ..
Thos. Callaway.
Nov. 26, 1789 ..
Virginia
N. J. Carter ...
Nov. 21, 1807
Kentucky
Oct. 25, 1876.
Hiram M. Bledsoe .. J. G. Suddath. .
April 2, 1798. April 12, 1800
Virginia.
Ireland Dec. 26, 1876
Robert Renick David Locke
Sept. 3, 1799
Jesse Schofield
July 15, 1801. .
Penn.
*1880
Philip Prather
Feb. 27, 1799.
Kentucky.
Elias Wheatly Levi Simpson .. Isaac Chanslor.
Jan. 23, 1799.
Kentucky
Joel P. Wiles. .
Sept. 12, 1804.
Thos. C. Bledsoe
Kentucky Sept. 18, 1879
Gideon Flournoy.
April 15, 1802. .. April 25, 1805. .. July 11, 1803.
Kentucky. June 10, 1876
James Baird . . . .. Alexander Cheatham Rev. F. R. Gray. ..
*1801 ....
Virginia . . Dec. 1, 1879.
July 30, 1806. .. . .
Virginia . S. Carolina .. Virginia 66
George Buckner Street Hale.
Dec. 25, 1798
66
Feb. 15, 1800. . Wm. McCormack .. Wm. Frick
May 4, 1792. .
Germany
Wm. McCausland . . James Sommerville. . R. C. Johnson
Feb. 27, 1793.
Oct. 23, 1876
Nov. 19, 1789. March 16, 1798 ..
Virginia. 66 Kentucky
*1875
*Record defective; dates and place of birth or death not given.
Kentucky ..
Arthur G. Young .. James Hicklin .
Jan. 7, 1795.
Washington Johnson Robert N. Smith. .. R. H. Bradley .
July 10, 1795.
June 6, 1794.
Feb. 19, 1790
March 8, 1797.
George Houx. Wm. Houx.
Feb. 22, 1799
May 7, 1794.
Virginia
Oct. 9, 1797.
July 2, 1803.
Jabez Shotwell.
Tennessee ..
HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY.
268 Rev. J. L. Yantis. . .
Sept. 14, 1804. . .
. . .
Wm. M. Whitsett ...
Sept 11. 1805.
. . .
Alex. P. Hogan .. ...
*1788
*
Sept. 15, 1806 ..
Tennessee
May 11, 1800.
Feb. 9, 1878.
James H. Norfolk.
Oct. 26, 1799.
Maryland.
Isaac Ruffner
Jan. 21, 1804. West Virginia
Lawson Grant ..
July 1, 1810.
Kentucky ....
Paschal A. Gibbs. Aug. 6, 1810.
Virginia. . ..
Wm. F. Bradley .... Col. James Young . . John Prico.
Feb. 21, 1807 .. ...
Kentucky .. ...
HENRY WALLACE, SR., founder of the " Old Men's Club " association. Mr. Wallace was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, March 24, 1792, and died in Lafayette county, Missouri, May 27, 1875. His father, Hon. Caleb Wallace, a physician and Presbyterian minister of considerable eminence, was one of the earliest settlers of that region of territory afterwards formed into the State of Kentucky, residing there as early as 1782, when it formed a part of Virginia. His father was a native of Vir- ginia, and was a member of the several conventions held preparatory to the formation of the state of Kentucky, as well as of the constitutional · conventions of 1792 and 1799, under the former of which, Kentucky was admitted into the union. He was appointed judge of the court of appeals of Kentucky in 1792, and filled the position with honor till 1812. The maiden name of the mother of the subject of this sketch, was Rose Ann Christian, who was a daughter of Col. Israel Christian, a revolutionary soldier and highly respected citizen of Virginia. The subject of this notice had seven brothers and one sister, and was the survivor of them all. The sister, Priscilla, became the wife of Judge Wm. Logan, a well known citizen of the state of Kentucky, also, a member of its court of appeals.
Mr. Wallace was raised to manhood in his native county, with only such opportunities for an education as a new country then afforded. At the age of twenty, he volunteered into the cavalry regiment of Col. McDowell, for the war of 1812, and served under Gen. Wm. H. Harrison, in a vig- orous winter campaign against the Indian allies of Great Britain, in Ohio and Indiana. After the expiration of his term of enlistment, he became a farmer within his native county, and soon after, on August 18, 1814, led to the marriage altar, Miss Elizabeth C. Carlyle, daughter of George Carlyle, an old veteran of the revolutionary war, and also, an early settler of Kentucky, from Virginia. This estimable Christian lady is still living near the city of Lexington, Missouri. Mr. Wallace united with the Bap- tist church in Woodford county, Kentucky, in 1823, and ever after lived in the communion of that denomination, a consistent Christian, character- ized by deep piety and wide benevolence. He immigrated to Missouri and settled in Lexington, Lafayette county, in the spring of 1844, and
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resided in the city till 1853, when he removed to his farm a mile and a half south of Lexington, where he spent the remainder of his days. He enjoyed, in a high degree, the respect and confidence of his fellow-citizens, both in Kentucky and Missouri, a tribute won by his exemplary life, pub- lic spirit and unimpeachable Christian character. He was endowed with great force of character; had a vigorous and well cultivated mind, and maintained to the end of life an abiding faith in the truth of the Christian religion, and the government and providence of God.
He was the founder of the " old soldiers' club," afterwards known as the "old mens' club " of Lafayette county, most of the members of which, like himself, have passed away from the battles and foils of this life. He raised ten children. The eldest son, Caleb B. Wallace, a well known lawyer and once state senator of Kentucky, died in Missouri while on a visit to his parents and friends in 1855.
Three sons, Hon. H. C. Wallace, a prominent lawyer of Lexington, Missouri; Charles C. Wallace, of the same place, and Curtis O. Wal- lace of St. Louis, still survive him. One of his surviving daughters resides in Mound City, Illinois, and another in Jackson county, Missouri, and one, unmarried, at home with her mother; Three others, Mrs. G. W. Carter, Mrs. Dr. P. H. Chambers, and Mrs. F. C. Short, died some years ago, all leaving descendents.
OLDEST PERSON IN THE COUNTY. 1-
Mrs. Marie Uphans, who resides in Freedom township, near Concor- dia, was born in Prussia, March 11, 1780. Her 100th birthday was cele- brated by a gathering of about three hundred persons. She is still living, October 1, 1881, aged 101 years and 7 months, and is doubtless the oldest living person in the county.
Alexander C. Hogan, of Davis township, was born March 1; 1783, near Richmond, Virginia. He came to Davis township in 1839, and has lived there ever since.
Dr. Robert W. Rankin, now residing with Judge F. E. Barnet, in Snia- bar township, was born in Kentucky, August, 1790. Served as magis- trate in Lillard county several years before the name was changed, in 1825, to Lafayette.
Bettie Langhorn, a negro woman who died in Lexington, March 29, 1880, was born in Buchingham county, Virginia, during the winter of 1876-77. This was vouched for by Mrs. A. F. Brown, of Malta Bend, Mo., whose grandmother's family originally owned Betty as a slave and knew her age. Old Betty was the mother of eleven children, and finally raised a child of her own granddaughter. She was over 104 years old when she died.
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Richard Collins Johnson, of Sniabar township, is over 98 years of age. He was a soldier under Gen. Jackson, and was in the battle of Talladega during the war against the Creek Indians in Florida.
The following persons, now living, August, 1881, have resided in Lafayette county since 1819, a period of 62 years:
Clay Township .- Mrs. Ish, widow of Wm. Ish.
Dover Township .- Mrs. John Lovelady, who was the bride of the first wedding in the county, and the mother of the first child born in the county. Jesse Cole, also of Dover.
Lexington Township .- John Catron, and Mrs. Rebecca Robinson, widow of Wm. Robinson.
Lexington City .- Thomas B. Wallace.
Washington Township .- Mrs. Dolly Marshall, widow of Absalom Mar- shall.
There is a sort of " Early Settlers Association " in existence, of which every person who has resided forty years in the county is ex-officio a mem- ber; but no statistics of the organization were furnished.
THE OLD WHIG PARTY OF LAFAYETTE.
In 1861 that patriarch of the press in Lafayette county, Mr. Charles Patterson, wrote for the Waverly Visitor, some political reminiscences which have a historic interest and value. We here quote the main facts, after eliminating sundry personal and partisan matters that were local to the time:
When Lafayette county was first organized out of old Lillard, she had only thirteen whigs in her limits. *
* The county never exhibited signs of returning reason until 1838, when Mr. Burden and his compeers in the " good cause," at the sacrifice of much precious time, " bush- whacked" every neighborhood, and Mr. Burden, young as he was, mounted the "stump " in opposition to Democracy's champion, Col. James Young, who had had the field almost to himself.
Two years passed over, and the campaign of 1840 approached. * The whig cause increased in enthusiasm; 'log cabins' were built, 'hard cider' was drank, 'latch strings' were hung out side; and 'mass meetings' were held. 'Tippacanoe and Tyler too' were the watch words, and the "union of the whigs for the sake of the union' was the great motto of the land. Previous to the state election in August, 1840, the whigs of Lafay- ette in mass meeting nominated Drs. J. B. Vivion and Wm. Ward for the legislature. The canvass was an interesting one, and was conducted with enthusiasm.
Election day came on, and when the polls were closed, Lafayette was redeemed-the two doctors were elected by 25 majority. The result added a new impulse to the whig cause, and all attention was then directed to the presidential canvass. An immense 'log cabin' was erected and a 'tall' Harrison pole was raised. Election day arrived, and when the votes were counted, Harrison and Tyler had 75 majority over Van Buren * John B. Clarke of Howard, was the whig candidate
and Johnson. *
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for governor, in August, and carried the county. Two years rolled by, and another county election was at hand. Mr. Burden was the nominee of the whigs for the legislature, the county having but one delegate under a recent apportionment. In 1844, Mr. Burden was returned to the legislature, and before the close of his second term, secured the loca- tion of the fifth branch of the state bank at Lexington.
* * In November, Clay and Frelinghuysen obtained 480 majority, the parties then being purely whig and democrat. In 1846, the opposi- tion to the whig party was only limited, and their candidates were elected without a struggle, and the year passed quietly. In 1848, the August election resulted in Lafayette, in large whig majorities for state and county tickets, and in November, over 500 majority for Taylor and Fil- more. Two parties still extant. In 1850, we had an excited canvass for the legislature-Mr. Burden again being a candidate, and almost desper- ate efforts were made to defeat him. But the whigs of old Lafayette were true to themselves, and saved their county and party, by electing their entire ticket.
In 1852, the county still remained firm, and in August returned the whig candidates to the legislature. Dr. I. S. Warten and Col. R. N. Smith were elected by a respectable majority. In November she gave Scott and Graham a handsome majority. In 1854, owing to certain movements among our foreign guests, and the manifest ambition of many ·naturalized citizens in the union, the 'American,' or 'know nothing' party was organized, and whigs and democrats abandoned their former associa- tions, and united with the 'dark-lantern' club. The elections all over the union were disastrous to any party that attempted to sustain the cause of foreign aspirants. Lafayette sent Wm. S. Field, Esq., and Maj. S. T. Niell to the legislature by large majorities. In 1856, at the August elec- tion, R. C. Ewing carried the county by upwards of 600 for governor, and the 'American' delegates to the legislature, Messrs. E. Burden and Wm. Morrison, were elected by nearly as large a vote. In Noveniber, Filmore and Donnelson carried the county by a large vote. During the years of 1854, '55, '56 and '57, the Kansas imbroglio occupied a considera- ble share of the public attention, and attempts were made to seduce the 'American' majority in Lafayette into new issues. All failed, however, and Lafayette remained true to her virtue.
In 1858 Messrs. S. F. Taylor and E. Burden were elected delegates to the legislature by large majorities. There was no particular excitement, and the "American" candidates met with only a limited opposition. In 1860, just past, our readers recollect all the events and results. August placed two constitutional union candidates in the legislature, all the union state and county nominees were successful; and in November Bell and Everett carried the vote by a triumphant majority. New issues springing up after the presidential election had been decided, all parties underwent a material change. The union party retained its organization, only losing a few of its former members, while at the same time large accessions were made from the Douglas party, and a few from Breckenridge side. The result on the 18th of February last proves conclusively that Lafayette is decidedly a constitutional union county.
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NEWSPAPERS .*
Lexington Express .- In October of 1839, Mr. Charles Patterson issued the prospectus of the Lexington Express-the first newspaper published in Lafayette county-from the office of the paper published at Liberty, Clay county, Missouri, which at that time was the only paper published west of Boonville and Fayette. In November of the same year he went to Cincinnati and purchased printing material; but on account of the Ohio river being low his press was not shipped until February following, and reached Lexington in March. Mr. Patterson was assisted in his enterprise by Messrs. James and Robert Aull, Eldridge Burden, Samuel B. Stramcke and Gen. James H. Graham. On the 4th of March, 1840, the initial number of the Express was issued. When the prospectus was issued, Henry Clay was the expected whig candidate for the approaching cam- paign; but in the Harrisburg convention Gen. Harrison received the nom- ination for president, and the Express hoisted his name to its mast-head. This paper was published continuously until 1861, by the successive administrations of Charles Patterson; Patterson and Jacob M. Julian; Patterson, Julian and John R. Gaut; Patterson, Julian and Wm. Mus- grove, Sr .; W. M. Smallwood and Julian, and Julian and R. C. Vaughan. It was issued as a daily during portions of 1860 and 1861, by Smallwood and Julian. The paper was suspended early in 1861, and the material was in custody of Ethan Allen at the time of the seige or battle of Lexington. With it he printed an " Official Bulletin," containing the reports of all the confederate officers, the next day after Col. Mulligan's surrender.
Western Chronicle .- In 1848 a democratic journal was founded by Har- rison Branch; this was succeededby the Western Chronicle in 1850, which was published until after the Presidential election of 1852.
American Citizen .- This paper was founded in 1855 by William Mus- grove, Senior. It advocated the "Know Nothing" branch of politics; but after a brief existence of two years expired with its founder.
The Expositor was established in 1856, by Yost & Stofer, who were succeeded in 1858 by William Anderson, as editor. It was democratic in principle and its publication was continued until the latter part of 1861, when the greater part of their apparatus was carried away by the First Regiment Kansas Volunteers.
Missouri Cumberland Presbyterian was established in Lexington in 1850 and was edited by Rev. J. B. Logan. It was subsequently moved to St. Louis, where it was published until 1874; about this time it was pur-
* We are indebted largely to the very excellent centennial 4th of July address of Wm .. H. Chiles, Esq., for the facts embodied in this article. His address was delivered at the court house in Lexington, July 4, 1876, and afterwards published in pamphlet form as a "History of Lafayette County," from the Lexington Register office. But we have gathered many additional facts not before published.
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chased by the general assembly and removed to Nashville, Tennesse, where it is still published.
The Lafayette Pioneer, a German paper, was established in 1860, at Lexington by Phillip Reichert, but was soon discontinued.
The Visitor .- This paper was edited at Waverly by Charles Patterson, the founder of the Express. It was established in 1858 or 59 and existed a little more than one year. A paper called the Waverly Express was puplished awhile but we could not get particulars.
The Citizen's Daily Advertiser .- Howard S. Harbaugh started the above named paper in 1860, but his editorial career was soon cut short because of his advocacy of Abraham Lincoln for President. He was notified by the "Knights of the Golden Circle" to leave the State within six days of they'd hang him. He left, and afterwards became editor of the Chilicothe Constitution.
When the war broke out there were but two newspapers published in Lexington, the Express and the Expositor, which were discontinued as before stated, in consequence of the unsettled condition of the times, and for a while there was no paper published in the city. In 1862, however, H. K. Davis established the Lexington Weekly Union which supported Gen. McClellan for President in the campaign of 1864. In 1865 it was changed to the Lexington Weekly Express, and that in turn gave way to The Caucasian in 1866, owned by Jacob M. Julian, Ethan Allen & Com- pany (Wm. Musgrove, Jr.) The control of this paper was varied: Peter Donan and Allen; Donan and Charles J. Nesbit; Allen, Jacob T. Child, and Wm. Musgrove, Jr .; Donan, Reavis, Andrew Donan, and Wm. G. Musgrove, Jr., being successively its proprietors until it was merged into the Intelligencer in 1875. It was democratic in politics.
Lexington Weekly fournal .- This paper was started June 9, 1864, by C. C. Coffinberry, editor and publisher. It was republican in politics and supported Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson for president and vice- president. The way this paper was started is worthy of record. Some of the decisive Union men of Lexington, thought they ought to have a newspaper of their own, so they clubbed together and raised money for the purpose, Henry Turner being their treasurer; Wm. H. Bowen went to St. Louis and bought the printing material, and brought up with him a printer to take charge as foreman. It was soon discovered that they had not enough printing material, so they raised $300 more and sent the printer man to St. Louis to buy more types; but the printer got drunk, and never returned with either money or types. During Gen. Price's raid in 1864, the paper was stopped, and the types all knocked into pi by guerrillas.
In April, 1865, Col. Casper Gruber bought the material, and on the 29th he issued the first number of a new paper called the
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Lafayette Advertiser .- This paper was edited by a Rev. Mr. Craw- ford, a Methodist preacher, although his name did not appear. Col. Gru- ber's name stood at the head as "proprietor and assistant editor." Some time in the latter part of 1865, the paper was bought by Dr. F. Cooley and Lewellyn Davis; Davis became its editor, and they changed the name to
Missouri Valley Register .- In 1867, Samuel S. Earle bought Dr. Cooley's interest. In 1868 Col. Mark L. DeMotte bought out Mr. Earle. In 1869 Edwin Turner, brother-in-law to Mr. Earle, bought out Mr. Davis. During the state election campaign of 1872, the Register being the republican paper and the Intelligencer (edited by L. W. Groves), the democratic paper, very sharp personalities were indulged in by the edi- tors on both sides. This resulted in personal exchange of harsh words between Mr. Turner and Mr. Groves when they met; and finally Edwin Turner shot Groves and instantly killed him, at the corner of Laurel and North streets, on November 8th, 1872. Turner immediately gave him- self up to the sheriff, Mr. Taubman, and was taken to Kansas City for confinement, from fear that Groves' friends would break into the jail and lynch Turner if he was kept at Lexington. By change of venue his trial was had at Kansas City; and after lying in jail there thirteen months he was finally acquitted on the ground of self defense, the testimony of Dr. J. F. Atkinson and others showing that Groves had a cocked pistol in his hand when he fell .* Edwin Turner still owns a half interest in the prin- ting office. DeMotte & Turner dropped the words "Missouri Valley" from the name of the paper, and called it Lexington Register, the name it still bears. In 1874 Henry W. Turner bought Col. DeMotte's interest although the latter continued as editor until 1877. During the winter of 1874-5 the office was burned out, losing everything; but the paper did not miss an issue. Two numbers were printed at The Caucasian office, and by that time new material had been obtained and they went ahead in their own office again. After Col. DeMotte left, in 1877, the paper was edited by Edwin Turner and Cam. B. Wilson, until August, 1881, when W. G. Phetzing took the editorial chair. The paper has always been straight republican in politics. H. W. Turner, one of its proprietors, was appointed postmaster of Lexington, in April, 1877, and was reappointed in June, 1881.
The Lexington Intelligencer, the organ of the democracy, was estab- lished in April, 1871, and was founded by Judge William Young, John T. Smith and R. B. Vaughan, with the first named as its editor. Soon after its commencement Lafayette W. Groves bought out Smith and suc- ceed to the editorship, which position he filled until his tragic death, in
*The court proceedings and testimony of witnesses were all published entire in the Kan- sas City papers at the time.
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November, 1872. During the fall of the same year, John S. Davis pur- chased an interest in the paper and became its publisher, it being edited successively, after the death of Mr. Groves, by Michael A. Steele and Henry L. Haynes, until its consolidation with the Caucasian, as previously stated, in 1875. The paper is now owned by the corporation known as the "Intelligencer Printing Company," managed by Ethan Allen and W. G. Musgrove, Jr. Since the consolidation. Capt. A. A. Lesueur has filled the editorial chair of the Intelligencer. In 1879 Capt. Lesueur was elected to the state legislature from Lafayette county, and at this writing is still the incumbent. In May, 1881, he was chosen president of the state press association, the most honorable position known to the newspaper frater- nity of Missouri. Under his management the Intelligencer has won the reputation of being the best local weekly newspaper in the state. The office is supplied with one Cincinnati cylinder newspaper press and two Gordon jobbers, all run by steam. The origial cost of their printing establishment as it now stands was $15,000.
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