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The membership of the lodge began at once to increase, and thus continued until it numbered 188, among whom were the best men and women of the town and vicinity. The war coming on it was discontinued. Another Good Templars Lodge was organized June, 17, 1869, and received a charter under which to labor, but continued to work only a short time.
Memphis Lodge, No. 106, A. O. U. W., was chartered Feb- ruary 11, 1879, with the following members: Samuel. A.
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Allen, Eli H. Brumbaugh, Parly H. Bennett, William H. Bus- kirk, George T. Collins, Francis M. Cowell, William A. Cox, John P. Craig, George W. Caster, Milo Cowan, James B. Don- nell, W. Don Fowler, Thomas J. Givens, W. D. Guinn, Washing- ton Hudson, William J. Jackson, William A. Monroe, Thomas D. Moore, Lewis Myers, Robert S. McCandless, William W. Purmort, Albert H. Pitkin, Victor H. Rees, Lorenzo W. Record, James A. Shipp, John D. Smoot, C. F. Sanders, I. N. Smallwood, William D. Sigler and Wendell Gumsteg. The first officers were Samuel A. Allen, P. M. W .; William A. Monroe, M. W .; W. Don Fowler, G. F .; William A. Cox, O .; Milo Cowan, Recorder; C. F. Sanders, I. W .; William D. Guinn, O. W. The lodge has now about fifty members, and the present officers are C. F. Sanders, M. W .; Milo Cowan, G. F .; R. D. Cramer, O .; D. Wetherspoon, R .; I. N. Smallwood, Receiver; B. F. Cody, Financier; W. C. Chenault, G .; T. B. Gunn, I. W. and Med. Ex .; W. Gumsteg, O. W., and C. G. Mety, P. M. W. The financial condition of the lodge is good.
Memphis Lodge, No. 90, K. P .- This lodge was in- stituted August 27, 1883, with the following list of officers: A. H. Pitkin, P. C .; J. A. Cassidy, C. C .; J. H. Mott, V, C .; J. M. Penny, P .; C. W. Sevier, K. of R. S .; A. Simon, M. of E .; L. D. Nuckols, M. of F .; H. E. Dougherty, M. at A .; D. Webber, I. G .; L. E. Byrne, O. G. Trustees: H. G. Pitkin, W. Don Fowler and H. G. Poe. This society was organized in Pitkin's Hall, where it continues to hold its meetings on every Wednesday evening. It has a membership of about twenty-three, and its present officers are C. F. Sanders, P. C .; H. E. Dougherty, C. C .; C. W. Sevier, V. C .; A. H. Pitkin, K. of R. & S .; A. Simon, M. of E .; H. G. Pitkin, M. of F .; J. W. Kroes, M. at A .; D. Webber, I. G .; and M. C. Courtney, O. G. The lodge is out of debt, and has lodge property and cash on hand to the amount of $250. Like kindred orders it is a charitable insti- tution, and is doing good work.
THE PRESS.
The first newspaper published in Scotland County was the Memphis Journal, the first number of which was issued on the
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5th of August, 1855, by A. J. Laurence & Co. It was a seven-column paper, printed on a sheet 22x32 inches in size. This company continued its publication nearly a year, then Charles Mety became its owner; in the fall of 1856 he sold it to Martin & Allen; they continued its publication until the summer of 1859, when they discontinued it, and moved their press to Harrison County, Mo. It advocated Democratic princi- ples. The next paper published in the county was the Memphis National Democrat, which was established in 1859, by Rufus Summerlin, who continued to publish it with some interruptions, until the close of the war, when his press was purchased by the first publishers of the Reveille.
The Memphis Reveille was established September 9, 1865, by Lem. Shields and G. A. Henry, two Union soldiers, who had recently returned from the war. In their salutatory address they said: "The Reveille will be devoted to the agricultural, educa- tional and local interests of Scotland County and Northeastern Missouri, and to the general diffusion of news and useful information. We are no politicians, but we love our country. *
We simply remark that we are for the 'Union, now and forever, one and inseparable'. We have just returned from a four years' service in the army of the Union; have marched under the old Stars and Stripes from the northern border of Missouri to the Atlantic Ocean; have faced the enemy's bullets in every State of the late so-called Southern Confederacy, except Texas and Virginia; have stood among the defenders of that flag in more than fifty battles, and have never seen it lowered to an enemy yet; and we love that flag."
On the 28th of April, 1866, the Reveille was enlarged from a twenty-four to a twenty-eight column paper, and on the 16th of the following March Mr. Shields purchased his partner's interest, and continued the publication of the paper on his own account until July 30, 1868, at which time he sold out to S. R. Peters. In November of that year, Eugene Williams became connected with the paper, as one of its editors. He was succeeded in March, 1869, by John A. McGrindley, when the paper was again enlarged, this time from a twenty-eight to a thirty-two column sheet. In August, 1870, Cy. W.Jamison purchased an interest in the paper, and it then
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continued to be published by Peters & Jamison, until February 1873, when the latter purchased the interest of the former, and be- came sole proprietor. He continued its publication until 1885, and then sold it to the present proprietor, James Gillespie, who pub- lished his first number January 22, of that year, it being No. 2 of Volume XX. It continues to be a thirty-two-column paper, and is handsomely printed and well edited. It is the oldest paper in the county, has a large circulation, and is Republican in politics.
The Memphis Conservative was established on the 3d of Au- gust, 1866, by John Gharkey, its first editor and proprietor. It was printed on a press planned and made by the publisher, its size was 22x32 inches, and remained so for six years. It was the first Democratic paper that appeared in the county after the close of the war, and its subscription price was $2 per year. In 1872 the Conservative was increased in size to a seven-column paper, printed on a sheet 24x36 inches in size, and the subscrip- tion price was reduced to $1.50 per year. On the 29th of July, 1875, the publisher purchased of George P. Rowell & Co., of New York, a No. 6 Washington press, enlisted S. G. McDowell as local editor, and enlarged the paper to eight columns, printed on a sheet 28x42 inches in size. Thus it con- tinued to be published until about 1881, when its owner discontinued it, and moved his press to Parkville, Mo.
The Memphis Democrat was established in the fall of 1873 by Samuel Dysart. It was established under the name of the Scotland County News. Dysart was succeeded in its publication by James Donnelly, and he by McDowell & Birch, and they by Felix Lane, and he by J. C. Kirby, who gave the paper its pres- ent name. The present editor and publisher, Mr. Eugene P. Moore, purchased the office March 26, 1887. The Democrat is a thirty-two-column paper, and is neatly printed on a clean white sheet. It is ably edited in the interest of the people in general, and of the Democratic party in politics.
The National, which is published at Memphis, was established June 1, 1882, by J. T. Trebilcock and C. W. Sevier. The former remained with the paper, only about a year and a half. Mr. Sevier, the present publisher became sole owner of the paper
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in March, 1884. The National is an eight-column folio. It was established as a Greenback organ politically, and thus continued until January, 1884, when it was changed to a Democratic peri- odical, and such it continues to be. It is, however, somewhat independent in county politics, and has a large circulation among the tax payers. A few other papers have been established in Scotland County at different times, and continued for a few months only, one among them being the Agitator, which was established in August, 1879, by Brumbaugh & Lyons. It was a monthly published in the cause of temperance.
The following is a complete directory of the business of Memphis at this date, October, 1887: Dry goods-Cole & Mety, J. F. Whitacre & Co., A. P. Patterson, Paxson & Hudson, George T. Myers and A. H. Pitkin; gents' furnishing goods-David Secord and Gorin & Allen; groceries-Bennett & Rudy, Will- iams & Reddish, Cody Bros. & Co., Pile & Israel, Barker Bros., L. C. Sigler, Smith, Bourn & Co., John O'Conner, William Hoover and Brandenburg & Co .; drugs-Brown & Dawson, John C. Leach and S. M. Smith; harness and saddles-A. Simon and C. A. Gerhold; furniture-Mrs. S. A. Jewett & Son, H. D. Wel- lington and Mulch & Hammond; jewelry-William Sandoz and H. C. Courtney; millinery-Miss Antonette Kirk, Miss Etta Gearing and Mrs. C. E. Davis; photograph artist-J. M. Simington; washing machine manufacturer-H. Seaman; agri- cultural implements-Jud. S. Collins and W. W. Purmort; hardware-Benjamin Morris and McCandless & Mount; restau- rants-W. T. Ballow, C. L. McConnell, H. Daugherty and Charles Raddatz; hotels-Central House, by A. C. Drew, and Star House, by George Reid; livery stables-Roadster Breeding Co., J. N. Walker and Drew & Thompson; meat markets-Pile & Israel and Arnold & Stine; sewing machines and musical instru- ments-S. F. Chew, J. A. Lehew and Israel & Hendricks; mer- chant tailor-J. E. Stout; confectionery-Ed. Summerlin; tin shops-H. R. Courtney; blacksmith shops-H. M. Gorin, Jr. and F. M. Lovell; carpenter shops-T. Broadwater, Martin & Thompson and D. Witherspoon; cigar factory-George Ebelee; billiard hall-A. McDole; dealer in poultry-C. R. Combs; shoe shop-John M. Schuler; cooper shop-C. B. Blake; ax handle
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factory-D. T. S. Jack; stud of horses-Scotland County Breed- ers' Association; insurance-John C. Moore, George H. Lawton & Son, Collins & Allen and E. R. Bartlett; physicians-Skid- more & Stone, Murphy & Parrish and T. B. Gunn; dentists- N. A. Thompson and T. B. Carr; lumber yards-George H. Law- ton, Jr. and Joseph and Wesley Rees. These yards are large and extensive, and the lumber and building material is kept under roof. The yard of Rees Bros. covers half a block, or six lots, and their sheds and buildings aggregate 560 feet in length by 32 feet in width. Both yards do an extensive business. In addition to the foregoing there are two barber shops, several boarding houses and other minor industries. There are also the public schools (white and colored) and the following churches : Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal South, Christian, Presbyterian, Congregational, Baptist, Catholic, Colored Baptist and Colored Methodist. Also the Citizens' Bank, established in 1874, and the Scotland County National Bank, established in 1879, each with a capital of $50,000. The officers of the Citi- zens' Bank are H. G. Pitkin, president; J. E. Billups, vice-presi- dent; N. V. Leslie, cashier; Milo Cowan, assistant cashier, and C. E. Leslie, teller. The officers of the National Bank are James W. Harris, president, and J. W. Barnes, cashier. The shipments of products from Memphis for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, were as follows: grain, 66 cars; live stock, 218 cars; lumber (principally walnut), 3 cars; brick, 1 car; hoops, 6 cars; rags, 2 cars; provisions, 63 tons; agricultural products (other than grain), 37 tons; manufactured articles, 159 tons; other merchandise, 428 tons.
Mills .- In 1869 Capt. C. B. Leach and James H. Rigg built a large frame flouring-mill, with three runs of stone, in the val- ley west of Memphis, at a cost of $17,000. It burned down April 8, 1871, and the same parties 'immediately built a brick mill, with two runs of stone, on the same ground, at a cost of $16,000. About the year 1873 Mr. Rigg sold his interest to Jeremiah Hamilton, since deceased. The property now belongs to Capt. Leach and the Hamilton heirs. It is a first-class mill and a valuable property.
The Memphis Roller Mills, in the northeast part of town,
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were established in 1879 by J. P. Craig, the present proprietor. These mills do a merchant business. The Little Mills, in the northern part of town, Hanson & Son, proprietors, do a general business in grinding all kinds of grain for the custom, and also do a retail business.
Manufactories .- J. M. George & Son, manufacturers of wagons and carriages, have a new two-story frame building in the east part of town, and turn out a large amount of hand- made work, but are preparing to manufacture more with machinery. Their business was established in 1864. In the year 1874 J. J. Townsend, manufacturer of wagons, carriages and sleighs, established his business in a small frame building, and with a small capital, on the second block west of the public square. His buildings now consist of a two-story brick factory 85x60 feet in size, and a two-story frame warehouse 40x120 feet. He employs eighteen workmen, and manufactures and sells about 200 vehicles per year, and has a capital of $15,000 invested. R. Roesler is the proprietor of the Memphis Creamery, which was established in 1883. It is a valuable addition to the enter- prise of Memphis. Hanson & Son have a wool-carding machine in connection with the Little Mills. Martin Humphrey manu- factures and deals in marble and granite monuments on West Monroe Street, and sells about $10,000 worth of work per year.
Mackley's distillery, located near the railroad, on the street leading to the cemetery, was completed in 1876, commenced operations on the 18th of April of that year, continued a year or more, and then collapsed.
The town of Memphis was first incorporated on the 22d of June, 1853, under an act of the General Assembly of the State entitled " An act for the incorporation of towns, and to prevent the circulation of town and city scrip," approved March 2, 1843. A petition of two-thirds of the taxable inhab- itants of the town was presented to the county court, whereupon the following order was made: "That the said town of Memphis be and the same is hereby declared incorporated, the metes and bounds thereof as follows: Beginning one-fourth of one mile west of the center of the public square of said town; thence north one-fourth of one mile; thence east one-half of one
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mile; thence south one-half of one mile; thence west one-half of one mile; thence north one-fourth of one mile to the place of be- ginning; thus making the corporate limits a half mile square, and that henceforth the inhabitants within said boundary shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The Inhabitants of the town of Memphis," and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law-have perpetual suc- cession, with power to sue and be sued and that Jacob Gray, William G. Downing, Elbridge G. Richardson, Walter P. Ellis and Jacob Elliott be and they are hereby appointed trus- tees of said town, to continue in office until their successors are elected and qualified."
This incorporation did not last until the town was again in- corporated, but was discontinued some time before the late war.
Memphis was reincorporated by the county court at its February term, 1864, at which time a petition signed by two- thirds of the citizens and tax payers of the town was presented, praying the court to incorporate the said town with metes and bounds as follows: extending one-half mile in each direction from the center of the public square of said town, under the provision of an act of the General Assembly of the State, entitled "An act for the incorporation of towns, and to prevent the circu- lation of town and city scrip," approved November 23, 1855. In compliance with this petition the court ordered "That said town of Memphis be and is hereby incorporated under the pro- visions of said act, with metes and bounds as aforesaid, and it is further ordered that James S. Best, Charles Mety, James M. Scott, Wilson F. Harle and Mitchell McCandless be and are hereby appointed trustees of said town, to serve as such until the first regular election on the first Monday in April next, and until their successors are elected and qualified." It was intended to incorporate the town a half mile square, but the language used in the description of the boundary could only be construed to mean a circular tract one-half mile in diameter. By common consent, however, the corporate limits were considered to take in a tract one-half mile square.
Again at the June term, 1870, of the county court, Maj. R. D. Cramer presented a petition, signed by two-thirds of the tax
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payers of the town, praying the court to incorporate it with metes and bounds as follows: "Commencing one-half mile due south of the center of the public square of said town of Memphis, running thence west one-half mile; thence north one mile; thence east one mile; thence south one mile; thence west one-half mile to the place of beginning. Under the general statutes of the State entitled "An act for the incorporation of towns and the election of officers and powers of trustees revised and amended and passed March 20, 1866." In answer to the prayer of this petition the court ordered "That said town of Memphis be and is hereby incorporated under the provisions of said act with metes and bounds as aforesaid; and it is further ordered that Harrison H. Byrne, George W. Stine, Philip Payne, Henry D. Wellington and Loammi Mott be and they are hereby appointed trustees of said town, to serve as such until the first regular election on the first Tuesday in April, next, and until their successors are duly. elected and qualified." Under this order the town remained incorporated until 1882, when the people concluded that it was time to assume "city airs." The question of incorporating as a fourth class city, under the general statutes of the State, was submitted to the electors of Memphis at an election held in said month of April, and when the votes were canvassed the question was found to be decided in favor of such incorporation. At the same election S. C. Knott was elected mayor and C. R. Combs, W. Hudson, P. Payne and J. M. Penny were elected aldermen of the new city. The revised ordinances of the city, consisting of forty-two in all, were passed and adopted July 28, 1885. The officers at this writing are N. A. Thompson, mayor; A. H. Pitkin, George H. Lawton, F. Cole and C. W. Cole, aldermen, and Thomas A. Rees, clerk. The corporate limits remain the same as they have been ever since the year 1870-one mile square.
Finances .- At a meeting of the board of trustees of the town of Memphis held on the 26th of January, 1871, a special election was ordered to be held on the 7th of February fol- lowing, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors the following question for their decision: "Shall the town of Memphis subscribe stock to the amount of $30,000 to the
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M. I. & N. Railroad Company ?" The election was held accordingly, and at a special meeting of said board of trustees held on the 16th of February, 1871, it was found, upon canvassing the vote, that 135 of the electors answered the question in the affirma- tive, and only one in the negative. Thereupon the board ordered that the town of Memphis subscribe $30,000 to the capital stock of said railroad company, and that bonds of the denomination of $500, to run for twenty years with interest at the rate of 8 per cent, payable annually, should be issued and delivered to said company when their railroad was completed from Alexandria to Memphis, provided that the same be thus completed on or before January, 1872. In accordance with said order the said bonds were issued and delivered. Afterward the town repudiated the debt, in consequence of which suit was brought by the holders of the bonds to enforce the payment of the interest due thereon, and the court decided that the bonds were illegal and void, for the reason that the board of trustees had no authority under the law to issue them. A portion of these bonds have been secured by the town, and the balance are still in the hands of the holders.
The following is a statement of the receipts, expenditures and balances on hand of the town of Memphis, for the fiscal year end- ing April 11, 1887:
Receipts.
Expenditures.
Balances.
Contingent fund.
$3,616 14
$1,134 99
$2,481 15
Railroad interest.
31 50
31 50
Road and street fund.
1,298 02
864 32
433 70
Sinking fund.
2,127 94
2,127 94
Total balances on hand.
$5,074 29
The population of the city of Memphis is about 2,000.
WAR OF 1812.
Among the early and subsequent settlers of Scotland County there were a goodly number of the surviving soldiers of the war with Great Britain in 1812-15, and those living in 1870, together with the widows of a few others, assembled in council at the courthouse, in Memphis, on the 15th of January of that year. The meeting was organized by electing John Hostadt as chair-
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man, and John Oliver as secretary. Then, among a number of resolutions adopted by these grey-haired veterans, was the follow- ing, on the subject of pensions:
Be it Resolved, That the soldiers of the war of 1812 residing in Scotland County, Missouri, do respectively petition the present Congress of the United States to grant us by enactment, as also the surviving widows of our comrades. deceased, a reasonable pension for the remainder of our lives.
This memorial was then signed by the following named sur- viving soldiers and widows of their deceased comrades, each of whom annexed his or her age to their respective signatures, viz. : John Hostadt, age seventy-six; John Oliver, First Virginia, age seventy-three; Samuel Baker, Second Tennessee Cavalry, age seventy-seven; John Knight, age eighty-six; Richard Morris, Fourth Kentucky, age seventy-five; James Ammerman, age eighty; Joseph Graham, age seventy-four; A. Turner, age sev- enty-two; Mrs. Sarah Price, age seventy-five; Mrs. Elizabeth Lowther; Mrs. Martha Talbott, age eighty-four; Mrs. Barbara Hay, age sixty-four. The combined ages of the eleven persons here named, whose ages are given, amount to 836 years, thus making their average age seventy-six years, a remarkable case of the longevity of life, and worthy of especial note that so many aged survivors of that war could be found in one county so far in the West as late as 1870. On the occasion of this meeting these venerable men and women, and all in attendance, were addressed by the Hon. Samuel R. Peters, who was a surviving Union sol- dier of the late internecine war.
WAR OF THE REBELLION.
The first military bodies raised in Scotland County for actual service were those raised in the beginning of the war of the late Rebellion. After this war had commenced, in the spring of 1861, Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, commanding the department of Missouri, issued an order for the people of the State to organize the militia for the defense and preservation of the Government. In obedi- ence to this order Capts. Thomas McAlister, Matley and James S. Best each raised a company in Scotland County, in the month of June, 1861, and took them to Athens, Mo., and there joined the militia under Col. David Moore. These com- panies, with several from Clark and other counties, were formed
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into what was then known as the First Northeast Missouri Regi- ment, under the command of Col. Moore. This regiment ceased to exist in name after it was merged into the Twenty-first In- fantry, as per order, dated December 31, 1861. To trace it fur- ther, see history of the latter regiment elsewhere in this work. This regiment of militia was small when it was organized, and not being in the regular service many of its members were al- lowed to go home to take care of their crops, so that in the fall of 1861, when it occupied Memphis, there were less than 300 men at times present for duty; and with this small force Col. Moore was closely hemmed in, there being a considerable force, or forces, of the enemy prowling around through the country. This being the condition, it became necessary to send out scouts to discover the enemy's whereabouts, preparatory to ousting him. Accordingly, on the 27th of October, 1861, Capt. Thomas Mc- Alister and a squad of about ten men, volunteered and obtained orders to go out scouting. The Captain moved his men (mounted) directly westward, and when about one and a half miles out he entered what was known as McGary's woods pasture, where he was fired upon by the enemy, and slightly wounded in several places. He then ordered his men to retire to the valley toward Memphis, but one of them, Mr. David Justice, whose mother lived near by, attempted to go to her house, and deliver some goods which he took out from town, and when near the residence of Col. Purmort he ran into a squad of the enemy, who shot him, and landed ten buckshots and two balls in- to his body. His mother was standing in the road some distance away and saw him fall. Capt. Mccullough, a rebel officer, then took the cartridge box and belt from the body of Justice, retired with his company, and left the unfortunate man in the care of his mother and friends, who assembled and carried him back to Memphis, where the doctors concluded that he was mortally wounded, and consequently made no attempt to save him. The next morning, finding he was still alive, they dressed his wounds and gave him proper care. He recovered, and in the fall of the following year, returned to his regiment, the Twenty-first In- fantry, and served his time out. He now lives in Memphis, and has yet eight buckshots and one ball in his body. His was a
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