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Joseph M. Hardman, circuit clerk and recorder of Knox County, Mo., is a native of the same county, where he was born December 23, 1856, and is a son of Squire and Elizabeth (Por- ter) Hardman, both natives of Kentucky. [See sketch of father.] Our subject was reared and received his education in his native county, where he clerked in the drug business in Newark and Edina for five years, until 1875, when he was engaged in the postoffice at Edina, where he remained for three years. He next accepted a position as bookkeeper and assistant in the Knox County Savings Bank, where he remained until 1882, when he was elected circuit clerk and recorder of Knox County, the duties of which office he performed in a faithful and efficient manner,
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and at the expiration of the term of four years, was re-elected, and is now holding the same office. October 12, 1880, he mar- ried Ella B. Bradley, of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Hardman have one son living-James Harold. Mr. Hardman has always been an unyielding Democrat in politics, and was elected to his present office by that party. He is a Master Mason. Mr. Hard- man is justly recognized as one of Knox County's most enter- prising and public-spirited citizens, and is a well-known and pop- ular public official.
`William Harvey, of Edina, Mo., was born in South Berwick, York Co., Me., August 2, 1837, and is a son of Stephen and Mary (Andrews) Harvey, both natives of Maine, where they lived and died. Our subject was reared to manhood in that State, secured a good English education, and, being a natural mechanic, learned and followed the carpenter's trade in connection with farming. He spent four years of his early life in Massachusetts, part of the time being passed in Boston. In 1858 he came west to Missouri, and settled in old Paultown, near Brashear, in Adair County, where he worked at his trade until 1861. Upon the outbreak of the late war he became a member of the Home Guards, and when the militia was called out in 1862 he joined the Fiftieth Regi- ment, East Missouri Militia, Capt. Pogne's company. In 1863 he enlisted in Capt. Parson's company, Second Provisional Regiment, serving as private and non-commissioned officer until the regiment disbanded. In the meantime, in the year 1862, he had started his present furniture and undertaking business upon a small scale in Edina, and after the war gave his entire atten- tion to his business, which he has increased from time to time, until, at the close of a quarter of a century, by hard application, honesty and economy, he has succeeded in gaining an enviable po- sition among the leading merchants of Knox County. In 1876 he built his present three-story fire-proof brick block on the south- west corner of the public square, the second and third floors of which are occupied by his furniture and undertaking business, . the largest and best establishment of this character in the town or in the county. He also does a leading undertaking business . in Edina. February 8, 1865, he married Elizabeth Ijams, a na- tive of Fairfield County, Ohio, and daughter of the late John Ijams, for some years a citizen of Knox County. Four children born to this union are living: Carrie I., wife of William James, of Ozawkie, Kas .; Emma L., Fred W. and Lottie L. Mr. Har- vey was a Democrat by education, but when Sumter was fired upon he became a Republican, and affiliated with that party until 1880, when he became a warm advocate for Gen. Weaver, a can- didate on the Greenback ticket, and is still in sympathy with that
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party. Mr. Harvey is recognized as one of the prominen and successful business men of this county.
David C. Hawkins, one of the highly respected citizens of Knox County, is the deceased husband of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hawkins. His life was an active and earnest, but changeful, one, and as a citizen and neighbor he had no superior. He was born December 13, 1813, in Woodford County, Ky., where he was partly reared and educated. He early exhibited a fine business talent, and while yet a young man he immigrated with his mother's family to Missouri, when they settled in Marion County. Here he engaged in the hay and commission business, and was married September 9, 1845, to Miss Caroline Nance, also a native of Ken- tucky. By her he had three children; the eldest a daughter, Mrs. Susan (Hawkins) Thompson, who resides in Knox City, Mo., with her husband; the other two being twin boys, William W. and Thomas L. The former is a lumber merchant in Arcola, Ill., and the latter is a practicing physician in Mullinville, Kas. Their mother died in 1851, after which Mr. Hawkins removed to Lewis County, when he embarked in the river commission busi- ness at La Grange. After a time he returned to Marion County, and engaged with a Mr. Holtzclaw, in buying and pressing hemp for the market, While thus employed he was united in mar- riage, in 1856, to Mrs. Elizabeth M., widow of the late Henry S. Johnson, of Knox County. The latter was a native of New Jersey but, owning a body of land in Knox County, had emigrated thither. Here he died in 1851. After Mr. Hawkins was married to Mrs. Johnson he returned to La Grange in 1858, when he was elected clerk, and opened the books of a branch of a St. Louis bank in the following year. In 1863, on account of excitement growing out of the war, he removed with his family to Illinois. Here he remained until after the close of the war, when he came to their farm in Knox County, Mo., in 1866, where he died in 1868. By his second wife he had three children, only one of whom is still living-John H. After the death of Mr. Hawkins his widow re- mained on her farm, which she conducted in a business manner until March, 1882, when she removed to Knox City, where she still resides.
T. S. Hedges was born in Bourbon County, Ky., October 3, 1829, and accompanied his parents to Adams County, Ill., where he was reared, and where he received but a limited education, as he, being the eldest son, was obliged to assist in the farm work, and had but little time to spend in study. In 1857 he settled in Knox County, Mo., and began to improve a farm which was then the property of his father. Soon after this the war began, and he enlisted in Company F, Thirty-ninth Missouri Infantry under
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Capt. Poe, where he remained in service about a year. He then received an honorable discharge, returned to his home in Knox County, and again commenced work upon the farm. In May, 1869, he was united in marriage to Miss Laura Cowen, from whom he separated soon after. In 1873 he married Miss Nellie Wild- man, a daughter of John Wildman, a farmer of Lewis County. To this union one son, Jim, was born. He is now about ten years old. During a thirty years' residence in Knox County Mr. Hedges has established a wide reputation for upright business methods, and now ranks among the most enterprising and intelli- gent farmers of the country, owning over 600 acres of valuable land. In politics he is a Republican.
Dr. Henry Herriford, a prominent physician of Knox County, was born in Putnam County, Mo., October 7, 1852, and is the son of Andrew J. and Frances M. (Donadson ) Herriford. The former was born in Kentucky, in 1832, and died in Putnam County, Mo., March 12, 1882. The mother was born in Monroe County, Mo., in 1834, and is now living in Sullivan County, Mo. Our subject remained at home with his parents until seventeen years of age, and then commenced the study of medicine in Adair County, Mo., remaining there five years. He then attended the Medical College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Keokuk, Iowa, for nine months, when he graduated, and also attended a course of lectures at Rush Medical College, Chicago, post graduate course, in 1882. In 1876 he returned to Adair County, Mo., and formed a partnership with Dr. W. G. Pierce, formerly of Ohio. He remained with him four months, and then went to Sullivan County, Mo., where he practiced about eighteen months, and then went to New Cambria, Macon Co., Mo. After a year's residence here he went to Scotland County, Mo., where he remained about five years. After that he came to Knox County, and located in Greensburg, where he has since resided, and enjoys an extensive and lucrative practice. June 17, 1880, he was married to Rachel Howe, daughter of John and Harriet (Mourhess ) Howe. The father was a native of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Her- riford was born in Missouri, March 7, 1862. This union has been blessed with one daughter-Cassa Lee. Dr. Herriford is a strong Republican, but has never held or sought office. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, a generous donator to all laudable enterprises, and ranks among the leading physicians of Knox County. His wife is a member of the Christian Church at Greensburg, Knox Co., Mo.
Joseph Hirner, a resident of Edina, Mo., is a native of Wurtemburg, Germany, where he was born June 28, 1855, and came to the United States in 1870. He located at Palmyra, Mo.,
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where he learned the shoemaker's trade with an uncle, and came to Edina in 1879. Here he engaged in the shoe business, at which he has remained ever since, meeting with good success. At his store, on the extreme northwest corner of the square, he carries a full and well-selected stock of boots, shoes, trunks, hats, caps, etc., and also manufactures boots and shoes, having the largest boot and shoe store in Edina, and controlling a large city and country trade. Mr. Hirner was married September 12, 1876, to Wilhelmina Jacobi, of Marion County, Mo., a native of Germany. They have four children: Joseph S., Henry A., Ignatz F. and Elizabeth. In politics our subject is a Democrat, and served two years as a member of the city council. He is a mem- ber of the C. K. of A., and himself and family belong to the Catho- lic Church. He is regarded as one of the enterprising and suc- cessful business men of Edina.
Archibald W. Hodges, a prominent citizen of Knox County, was born in Kentucky February 26, 1833, and is a son of John and Malinda (Stone) Hodges, born in Kentucky in 1804 and 1812, respectively. They were married in 1828, and twenty years later came to Marion County, Mo., and settled upon a farm, where the father died in 1857, his widow surviving him until 1886, her death occurring in Salt River Township. Our subject lived with his parents until twenty-five years of age, and soon after that time came to Knox County, Mo., arriving in the spring of 1859. He settled in Salt River Township, living at various places for about three years, and then purchased the farm of which he is now a resident, and which contains 2512 acres of finely improved land and twenty acres of timber. Mr. Hodges makes farming and stock raising his chief occupation, and ranks among the prosperous and enterprising farmer citizens of the county. In 1857 he was united in marriage to Ailcy Louderback, daughter of Daniel and Ailcy (Powell) Louderback. Mrs.
Louderback is now living with her son-in-law, and has arrived at the advanced age of eighty-four. To Mr. and Mrs. Hodges ten children have been born, all living save one. The living are Mattie E. (wife of Albert V. Kenoyer), William S., John M., David G., Lulle A. (wife of Robert Petree), Archibald P., Ida M., James A. and Zora A. Mr. Hodges has served as justice of the peace for twelve years, and has been postmaster at Goodland about four years, but has never aspired to political office, and has always refused the solicitations of his friends to accept the same. He was a Whig during the days of that party, but, since the organization of the Republican party, has been a member of the same. During the late war he served in the Thirty-ninth Missouri Regiment from August 11, 1864, to March 21, 1865.
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He is a public-spirited citizen, and his family is one of the most respected in the community.
Worden Cady Hollister, prosecuting attorney of Knox County, Mo., was born in Tompkins County, N. Y., December 2, 1832, and is a son of Hugh and Maria (Cady) Hollister, both natives of New York. The mother died in New York May 23, 1841, aged thirty-two years, eight months and thirteen days. The father, who was born June 8, 1808, afterward married Phoebe Hanchett, April 10, 1844, and in 1847 immigrated to De Kalb County, Ill., and in 1856 removed to Knox County, Ill. In 1870 he again changed his residence, this time moving to Carroll County, Iowa, where he now resides. Three children were born to his first marriage: Worden C., Mortimer D. and Lydia (now deceased). Our subject was reared a farmer, securing a com- mon-school education in New York, and later attending the com- mon schools in De Kalb County, Ill., and also attending Rock River Seminary, at Mount Morris, Ill. He then attended an institution of learning at Aurora, Ill., and, having by this time acquired a good English education, and a considerable knowledge of the languages, he decided upon law as his profession for life, and proceeded to read law for two years with Judge A. M. Craig, of Knoxville, Ill. He came to Knox County, Mo., in May, 1865. He was admitted to the bar at Mexico, Adrian Co., Mo., and returning to Edina commenced to practice. Here he has re- mained ever since, and has met with good and well-deserved suc- cess. In 1870 he was appointed county attorney, a position which he held for two years. In the spring of 1879 he was elected mayor of Edina, and served a term of two years. In 1886 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Knox County, which position he is now fill- ing in a highly satisfactory and efficient manner. Mr. Hollister has always been a stanch Republican, and as such was elected to his present office, and he is the only officer in Knox County serving on this ticket. May 1, 1865, he was married in Knox County, Ill., to Carrie M. Risor, a native of New Holland, Pickaway Co., Ohio, and born July 16, 1844. To this marriage one son, William Carl, born January 17, 1869: Mr. Hollister is a Knight of Honor, and a member of the A. O. U. W. Himself and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Hollister is recognized as a leading practitioner of the legal profession.
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Samuel G. Holmes, long a resident of Knox County, and a business man of Newark, was born in Kentucky, September 5, 1809, and is a son of Thomas Holmes, who was born near Pitts- burgh, Va., in 1787, but afterward came to Kentucky, and set- tled on a farm in Harrison County, where he ranked among the
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leading citizens. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving as a volunteer for six months under Capt. Brown (afterward a lawyer of Harrison County). He also served as justice of the peace in that county for many years, and after selling his farm in Kentucky in 1839 purchased one in Marion County, Mo., where he resided until 1861, and then sold all his possessions and came to Newark to spend the residue of his life with his son. He died in 1869. The mother of our subject, Jane (Vance) Holmes, was born in Virginia in 1786, and was married in Pen- dleton County, Ky., in 1808. She died one month before her husband, at the residence of her son in Newark, leaving many friends to bemoan their loss. Our subject is the eldest son, and came to Marion County, Mo., in 1837, his family following in 1838 ; here he entered land until he owned 200 acres, upon which he lived until the spring of 1857, when he sold his farm, and en- tered into mercantile life at Newark, where he is now in bus- iness, owning a nice stock of groceries, and controlling a good trade. While in Kentucky, in the year 1835, he was married to Judith E. Applegate, and to them the following children were born: William, Mary S. (wife of William M. Bromson), Eliza- beth and Samuel G. Mrs. Holmes died in 1856, in the month of December, and our subject then married Martha A. Bromson, and to them John M. and Addie have been born. Mr. Holmes is a Republican, and assisted in the organization of the I. O. O. F. lodge at Newark, and several other places. He is public- spirited, taking interest in the general welfare of his county, and donates to all laudable enterprises.
Rev. James M. Holt, a leading citizen of Knox County, was born in Kentucky, January 19, 1818, and is a son of Richard and Nancy (Deshazer) Holt, both natives of Virginia, where they were married. The parents moved to Kentucky about 1810, re- maining in that State until 1835; then came to Missouri, locating in Marion County, and fifteen years later made a final move to La Grange, Lewis Co., where they died. Our subject was reared at home, living with his parents until he was thirteen years old, when he taught school a number of years very suc- cessfully, never having any difficulty in securing a position. The last school he taught was at La Grange, Lewis Co., Mo. Af- ter 1849 he devoted his time to the study of theology, was licensed in 1849 and ordained in 1850, and is now a faithful and earnest minister in the Baptist Church. For fifteen years he was moderator of the Wyaconda Association of United Baptists. In 1839 he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Luckett, and six children were born to this union, of whom four are living, viz. : James R., Edward L., Mary A. and Frank S. Mrs. Holt
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having died he was then married to Maggie A. Mobley, daughter of Thomas and Millie Mobley, by whom four children were born, the following three living: Charles M., Fannie E. and Katie L. Mr. Holt was a Whig, during the days of that party, but is now a Democrat, and has never aspired to office, although he is now the postmaster of Newark. He is a member of the Masonic fra- ternity, and has taken all the degrees in the Blue Lodge, chapter and council. He is now in his seventieth year, and still takes great interest in public matters, donating as far as he is able to all laudable enterprises.
J. R. Horn, editor and proprietor of the Knox County Inde- pendent, and a resident of Edina, Mo., was born near Winches- ter, Frederick Co., Va., November 7, 1846, and is a son of John and Maria (Howard), both natives of Virginia. The father came to Missouri in 1867, and has since resided in Shelby County, where he is one of the most prosperous and highly respected farmer citizens. Our subject passed his youth in his native State, where he secured a good, English education. He served in the Confederate Army as a private in Company K, Twenty-third Regiment Virginia Cavalry, less than a year, dur- ing the late war. He accompanied his father to Missouri, and afterward embarked in the newspaper business in Danville, Har- per Co., Kas., where he conducted the Danville Argus less than a year. In the spring of 1883 he returned to Shelby County, Mo., and started the Hunnewell Echo, which he moved a year later to Shelbyville, Mo., and changed the name to Shelby County Times, and there conducted that paper success- fully. In January, 1885, he came to Knox County, and estab- lished the Independent at Knox City, removing the paper to Edina in May, 1886. Mr. Horn has met with unprecedented and well-merited success as a journalist and newspaper man in this county. His paper, as the name indicates, is strictly independ- ent in politics. Mr. Horn was very instrumental in bringing up a revolution in the local political affairs of the county. Novem- ber 29, 1869, Mr. Horn was united in marriage to Miss Mattie J. Hicks, a native of West Virginia, but for many years a resident of Knox County, with her father, the late Elisha Hicks. Mr. and Mrs. Horn have five children: Franklin H., Elisha S., Lill- ian R., Charles E. and John E. As before stated, Mr. Horn is one of the most successful men in the county in his undertak- ings, and enjoys a well-earned reputation as an upright citizen and business man.
H. T. Howerton, one of the leading stock farmers of Knox County, was born April 1, 1843, in Knox County, Mo., and is the third of seven children born to Henry T. and Sarah (Brooking)
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Howerton, natives of Bourbon County, Ky., and Gloucester County, Va., respectively. They were married in Lewis County, Mo., and after a few years' residence there came to the present site of Edina, which the father helped to survey and lay out, and built the first grist mill erected in the county, near that place. They remained on their farm near Edina until 1864, when they sold out and moved to a farm previously purchased, and situated on Salt River in the western part of Shelton Township. After a long life of hard labor, the father died at this place in June, 1876; the mother still lives with her son, Thomas. Our sub- ject was educated at the common schools near Edina, and the Catholic school of that place, and at the age of sixteen, enlisted in Company F, Second Missouri Regiment, Confederate Army, at Forest Springs, and remained in service until he received his discharge in February, 1862. In the spring of the following year he crossed the western plains to Idaho City, where he joined a pack train and engaged in mining. He returned to Missouri in November, 1865. January 9, 1868, he was united in marriage to Mary, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Somerville) Long, natives of Mason County, W. Va., in which county Mrs. Hower- ton was born February 5, 1848, and from where, when but six years old, she came with her parents to Knox County. To this union five children were born, four of whom are living: David L. (a school teacher, of Macon County), Tage Augustus, Wade H. and Mary Ethel. To the original 160 acres upon which our subject first moved, by persistent effort and careful management he has continually added until now he owns a fine farm of 580 acres, 560 acres being meadow land. The farm is under a fine state of cultivation, and well stocked, Mr. Howerton having proved himself a successful stock dealer, making most of his money in this business. He probably deals as extensively as any other man in Knox County in live stock, and at present has about 200 head of cattle on his farm. He is one of Knox County's prosperous farmers and enterprising citizens. He is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Horace Greeley in 1872.
William M. Hull, one of Knox County's most prominent, successful and influential citizens, now a resident of Benton Township, was born in Center Co., Penn., August 5, 1824, and is the son of John L. and Mary (Mccullough ) Hull. The father was a native of New Jersey, born in 1798. Shortly after his birth his parents moved to Pennsylvania, and he made that State his home until 1829, when he moved to Hamilton County, Ohio. In his boyhood he was bound out to a tailor, to learn that trade, and while following that he was drafted to serve six months,
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during the war of 1812, in the militia. After his time had ex- pired he volunteered into the navy, and was in the engagement on Lake Erie, when Commodore Perry gained a brilliant victory. In this engagement young Hull, though not wounded, had holes shot through his clothes. For his gallant behavior and bravery the governor of Pennsylvania presented him with a silver medal, and a letter complimenting him on his bravery. This medal is still in possession of the Hull family. He worked at his trade until he moved to Ohio, when he abandoned that, and engaged in farming. He died in Whitewater Township, Hamilton Co., Ohio, September 17, 1841. In 1814 he married Miss Mary McCullough, a native of York County, Penn., born in 1791. She died in Hamilton County, Ohio, September 16, 1880, at the advanced age of eighty-nine. She, like her husband, was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Of their family of eight children, four of whom are living, our subject is the fourth. He received a liberal education in the schools of Hamilton County, Ohio, and was but seventeen years of age when his father died. He, never- theless, took the reins in his own hands, provided for his mother, and helped to educate the younger members of the family. He remained in the State of Ohio until 1852, when he came to Knox County, Mo., and settled near Millport. Previous to this, Feb- ruary 13, 1851, he married Lavenia M. Rowe, born in Dearborn County, Ind., November 22, 1829, and the daughter of Conrad and Eliza (Lamden) Rowe. To this marriage were born seven children, six now living, viz .: Mary E., Louis C., William E., Elmer E., John R. and Estella. Thomas R. is deceased. In 1850 our subject moved to his present location, situated four miles north of Edina. He here owns 300 acres of splendid land. Our subject is a Republican in politics, and he, wife and family, with the exception of Mary E. and William E., are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
John Y. Hunsaker was born in Illinois, July 1, 1843, and is a son of John Hunsaker, who was born in Kentucky in 1800, and moved with his father to Union County, Ill., and later to Adams County, Ill., locating upon a farm, where he remained until his death, which occurred in 1874. Our subject's mother, Fannie (Limbaugh) Hunsaker, died in Adams County, Ill., in 1847. John Y. remained with his father until he became of age, and then commenced working for himself, in various places, by the month. In the spring of 1868 he cameto Knox County, Mo., and settled upon the farm of which he is now a resident, which consists of 120 acres of land, well cultivated, upon which is a substantial house and comfortable outbuildings. December 29, 1870, he was married to Margaret Potter, daughter of Samuel
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