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USA > Missouri > Knox County > History of Lewis, Clark, Knox, and Scotland counties, Missouri. From the earliest time to the present, together with sundry personal, business and professional sketches and mumerous family records > Part 67
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Upon the organization, at the first session of the county court, in April, 1845, the county was divided into four municipal town- ships, Benton, Center, Fabius and Salt River, whose metes and bounds were fixed as follows:
Benton-Beginning at the northeast corner of the county; then south to Congressional Township 61; then west to Range 11; then north two miles; then west two miles; then north two miles; then west to Range 12, then north to the county line, then east to the beginning.
Center-Beginning on the line between Townships 61 and 62, where the line between Ranges 10 and 11 crosses; then west to the Adair line; then north to the northwest corner of the county; then east to Range 11, then south seven miles to Benton Township; then east and south with the line of Benton to the beginning.
Fabius-Beginning at the southeast corner of the county; then west to the center of Section 32, Range 11; then north to Township 62; then east to the Lewis County line; then south to the beginning.
Salt River-Beginning at the southwest corner of Fabius Township; then west to Adair County; then north "in the middle of Range 13," to Township 62; then east to the northwest corner of Fabius Township; then south to the beginning.
The first justices of the peace, commissioned in April and August, 1845, were John Stephens, Thomas Robertson, Hiram Beach, and Levi Kizer for Benton; James W. Baker, Henry Cal- laway and Andrew Chilson for Center; George G. Hawkins, Vir- gil Pratt, Robert Nelson and William N. Shotten, for Fabius; James Beck, William Saling and John I. Taylor, for Salt River. The first constables who were commissioned in Novem- ber were Barney Rhodes, for Benton; Henry T. Howerton, for
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Center; John Allen, for Fabius, and John Townsend, for Salt River. The first "distributing justices"-whose duties were to divide their respective townships into road districts-were Will- iam P. Douglass, for Benton; Montgomery M. Proctor, for Cen- ter; Michael Hickman, for Fabius, and Thomas H. Hill, for Salt River.
As at present constituted the several townships of the county were organized July 3, 1872. At first they were designated by numbers, and named November 20, following, viz:
Township No. 1, Fabius, composed of Congressional Township 60, Range 10; Township No. 2, Jeddo, composed of Congressional Township 61, Range 10; Township No. 3, Myrtle, composed of Congressional Township 62, Range 10; Township No. 4, Colony, composed of Congressional Township 63, Range 10; Township No. 5, Bourbon, composed of Congressional Township 60, Range 11; Township No. 6, Bee Ridge, composed of Congressional Township 61, Range 11; Township No. 7, Liberty, composed of Congressional Township 62, Range 11; excepting the southwest quarter of Section 18, and the northwest quarter of Section 19; Township No. 8, Benton, composed of Congressional Township 63, Range 11; Township No. 9, Salt River, composed of Congressional Township 60, Range 12, and the east half of Congressional Township 60, Range 13; Township No. 10, Shelton, composed of Congressional Township 61, Range 12, and the east half of Congressional Township 61, Range 13; Township No. 11, Lyon, composed of Congressional Township 62, Range 12, and the east half of Congressional Town- ship 62, Range 13; Township No. 12, Greensburg, composed of Congressional Township 63, Range 12, and the east half of Congressional Township 63, Range 13; Township No. 13, Center, only a mile square in area, composed of the south- west quarter of Section 18, and the northwest quarter of Section 19, in Township ยท 62, Range 11, and the southeast quarter of Section 13 and the northeast quarter of Section 24, in Township 62, Range 12.
The important step leading to the municipal division of the county into its present townships was the adoption of township organization by the people at a special election, held June 29, 1872, pursuant to a petition presented to the county court by Reuben Rhoades "and more than 100 others." At that time there were seven townships in the county, and the vote was as follows: Center, for township organization, 175, against, 58; Fabius, for, 17, against, 157; Salt River, for, 178, against, 14; Greensburg, for, 104, against, 2; Benton, for, 115, against, 20; Jeddo, for, 29, against, 39; Lyon, for, 82, against, 17. Total, for, 710, against, 307.
The township organization plan met with much favor at first, but it soon demonstrated itself to be impracticable, unwise and not suited to the interests of this county at least. The thirteen
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men composing the " board of supervisors," as the county court was called, had thirteen minds, and it was impossible to transact the county business with anything like expedition and satisfac- tion. In May, 1873, a modification of the extended board of supervisors was adopted, and the county was divided into four districts, from each of which a county judge was to be chosen. The composition of the districts shows that their boundaries were the congressional township lines: District No. 1, composed of Fabius, Bourbon and Salt River; District No. 2, Jeddo, Bee Ridge and Shelton; District No. 3, Myrtle, Liberty, Center and Lyon; District No. 4, Colony, Benton and Greensburg.
In time the district system gave way to the present plan of direct county government of three county judges, chosen one from each of the two county judicial districts, and one presiding justice, elected by the people of the county at large. This is the old system which has been in use in Missouri since its admission as a State, and which was borrowed and brought from Kentucky.
After the four original townships, the first civil township was Greensburg, which was organized May 3, 1859, on petition of Joseph Fetters and forty-four others. Its limits were the same as at present. In October of the same year Jeddo Township was organized on petition of Horace Huce and fifty others. Its bound- aries, too, were identical with the present.
Patrick Jarvis is claimed to have been the first Irish settler in the county, and that he made his location here in the fall of 1837. The date of his settlement can not now be determined, but as shown above he did not enter his land until in 1840.
The townships were named for various reasons. Fabius and Salt River were named for the streams; Colony, Greensburg and Jeddo for the villages; Benton was a part of one of the old town- ships, and named for Missouri's great senator, by the Lewis County court; Lyon was named for Hezekiah Lyon, a former judge of the county court; Shelton, for Medley Shelton, another old-time county judge; Bee Ridge, for the natural elevation within its limits, which in pioneer days abounded in bee trees; Bourbon, for the number of "straight " Democratic voters it con- tains; and Central for its position in the county; Liberty and Myrtle are fanciful names bestowed for no especial consideration.
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The population of the several townships and towns of the county, according to the census of 1880, was as follows:
Townships-Bee Ridge, 669; Benton, 843; Bourbon, 800; Center, outside of Edina, 22; Colony, 945; Fabius, outside of Newark, 791; Greensburg, 1,166; Jeddo, 624; Liberty, 859; Lyon, outside of Hurdland, 1,384; Myrtle, outside of Knox City, 724; Salt River, 1,421; Sheldon, 1,087. Towns-Edina, 1,156; Newark, 304; Knox City, 234; Hurdland, 108. Total population of the county, 13,047.
Here, as well as elsewhere, the race population of the county, according to the last three national censuses, may be given:
Years.
Native.
Foreign.
Total.
1860.
8,353
374
8,727
1870.
10,368
606
10,974
1880.
12,338
709
13,047
In 1880 there were 51 manufacturing establishments in the county, with a capital of $87,995. They employed 71 operatives, and the value of their products during the year 1879 was $137,137.
THE COUNTY INVESTIGATION OF 1887.
For some time prior to the spring of 1887 there was much complaint upon the part of the people regarding the condition of the county finances, and of the public and official interests gen- erally. County warrants were below par, and in addition to the large railroad indebtedness, it was known that the county was in arrears with its various funds; affairs were in bad shape. There was no courthouse, no jail; the bridges and roads were inferior and, half incredible as the statement may seem, no statement of the actual financial condition of the county had been made or published, as required by law, for four years. The debt of the county, therefore, was an unknown quantity, its condition an un- certainty.
Charges of mal-administration, and even of corruption, were made against the county officials, and certain other parties were believed to be in collusion with them. The Knox County Inde- pendent called week after week for an investigation, alleging that there had been most serious mismanagement of the county affairs, if not actual criminality on the part of the officers, and that all
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of the facts should be laid before the people as fully, as correctly, and as speedily as possible. The citizens seconded the demand and there was much comment and some controversy over the subject.
The county court considered the matter in February, 1887, and at last on the 9th of April issued an order for an investiga- tion, and appointed a committee for that purpose. The report of the committee, containing as it did important accusations and. disclosures, created much excitement throughout the county, and led to public meetings of an intensified character, and to charges and counter charges which yet continue to be reiterated and to stir up bad blood. Severe charges were brought against certain public officials, who issued prompt denials and explanations, in some instances clearing themselves from imputations of crimi- nality or negligence. Law suits of various kinds have been threatened or commenced. Public feeling has since continued high and uncertain. Those against whom corrupt charges have been made uniformly deny criminal conduct. In about this un- happy condition the matter remains to-day. Knowing the im- portance of not placing upon the permanent page of history the record of incomplete events, comprising corrupt or criminal charges not yet fully substantiated, the publishers deem it pru- dent not to anticipate what the future may disclose concerning the charges of mal-administration of the county finances, and therefore drop the subject, leaving the future historian to write the final result.
NEWSPAPERS.
The first newspaper in Knox County was the Edina Eagle, which was established at Edina in the winter of 1857, by Albert Demaree and others. It was a six-column folio, Democratic in politics. It ran about one year, when it suspended. Mr. De- maree was from Illinois, and is presumed to be now a citizen of Quincy. The Eagle was succeeded in 1858 by the Edina Demo- crat, of which Robert R. Vanlandingham was proprietor and John M. Robinson the editor. Mr. Vanlandingham, who was commonly called "Jack," was a shoemaker, but at one time county surveyor, and was at all times a politician. He died a year ago in Arkansas.
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During the squabble in the Democratic family in 1829 the Knox County Argus was founded, by Warner Pratt, the regular candidate for county and circuit clerk, with William S. Benning- ton as editor. It "died " soon after the "regular " defeat, and was resurrected by Frank M. Daulton and Charles Newnam, who called the new series, or rather the new paper, the Herald. The Herald was a "red hot " Democratic paper, and when the war came on advocated secession. Late in the summer of 1861, as an informant says, "Daulton and Newnam went to the rebel army, and the Herald office went to the devil."
During the Civil War Thomas Reid and John Wirt, two stanch Unionists of Edina, used the material of the Herald in getting out irregularly a sheet which they called the " Rebel and Copper- head Ventilator." This publication was sometimes printed on brown wrapping paper, and was properly not a newspaper in the correct sense of the term.
In the fall of 1865, John B. Poage and S. M. Wirt having purchased the Herald press and material began the publication of the Knox County Gazette, a Republican paper, which ran until June, 1866, when the office material was bought by Alfred Cooney and Rev. Father D. S. Phelan, who started the Missouri Watchman, an imitable and peculiar paper, Democratic in politics and Catholic in religion. In January, 1869, the subscription list of the last named paper was taken to St. Louis, and Father Phelan established the well-known Western Watchman.
On the 15th of April, 1868, the first number of a paper called The Sentinel was issued at Edina, by Taylor, Porter & Stephen- son. It was a seven-column folio, Republican in politics, and was edited by Gen. T. T. Taylor, who had come to the county from Brown County, Ohio, and who is now a resident of Hutchinson, Kas. In 1869 there was issued semi-occasionally a temperance edition of the Sentinel. In 1870 Gen. Taylor became sole pro- prietor, and in the spring of 1873 sold the entire property to its present editor and publisher, J. C. Claypool. Mr. Claypool is the oldest printer in Edina. He was for a time associated with John B. Poage in the conduct of the Gazette, in 1866.
A paper called the Independent was published in Edina for six weeks, in the fall of 1870, during the Gratz-Brown campaign.
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The editor was Hiram Shamp; the backer William H. Motter, the Liberal candidate for county clerk. Mr. Motter was defeated, and the paper died in six weeks.
On the 4th of March, 1871, Clancy & Coony issued the first number of the Knox County Democrat; William Clancy, editor, and Theodore A. Coony, publisher. In September, 1874, Judge Clancy disposed of his interest to his partner, and in January, 1874, the latter leased the office to Griffin Frost, who became the sole proprietor a year later, and is still its editor and publisher. Upon taking charge of the Democrat, Mr. Frost states, it had a circulation of 500; its present circulation is 1,128. The pro- prietor added to the material of the office in 1881 a first-class Campbell press, which has been driven since May, 1885, by a Shipman petroleum engine, a most unique but very practical motor, admirably adapted for its present use. The Democrat has an excellent job department, and receives a good patronage.
In 1878 a Greenback paper, Edina National, was published in Edina, by R. W. McNeill, who came from Milton, Iowa, to as- sist the Greenback party of the county in the pending campaign. The party was successful in the county beyond its expectations, capturing the two best offices, but it proved ungrateful, gave Mr. McNeill a meager support, and in a year that gentleman went to Minnesota, where he is yet engaged in journalism as the editor of a Republican paper.
The Knox City Independent was established at Knox City, by J. R. Horn, on the 1st of January, 1885. Mr. Horn brought his press and material from Shelbyville. On the 1st of May, 1886, he removed his office to Edina, and changed the name of the paper to the Knox County Independent, of which he is still the editor and publisher. Its present circulation is about 1,000, and the publisher asserts that his exchange list does not number twenty-five, leaving about 975 bona fide subscribers. The Independent has many friends and admirers, and contains few dull and uninteresting paragraphs.
BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX,
LEWIS COUNTY.
William E. Agee was born in this county July 12, 1849, the son of Robert L. and Virlinda A. (Brown) Agee, natives of Vir- ginia. The former, coming to this county in 1836, was a brick mason by trade, engaged in farming for several years near Mon- ticello, came to Canton in 1845, and for thirty-five years followed contracting and building, and up to within eight years ago, built nearly every brick building in Canton. He retired from active business in 1879, and is now in his seventieth year, a highly respected pioneer of this county. The grandfather, Joseph Agee, came to this county in 1839, and bought a large farm near Monti- cello. He died in 1849, in his eightieth year. Jacob Brown, the maternal grandfather, was a pioneer near Canton. Our sub- ject and Reuben M., the youngest son, are the only survivors of three sons and one daughter. William E. was educated at Chris- tian University, and in 1866 entered the dry goods and general store of A. L. Richart, as clerk, remaining in his employ ten years, the last five years as buyer and general manager of the business. In 1876 he began his present business with his brother, Reuben, as special partner, which is now one of the larg- est establishments in Northeastern Missouri. They dissolved partnership January 8, 1887. Our subject now conducts the clothing and furnishing department, and Reuben M. the shoe and hat department. In 1869 he married Miss Ruth F. Henton. She died in 1872, leaving one son, now deceased. July 15, 1885, he married Miss Louise C. Cluskey, formerly of St. Louis, Mo. They have one child-a daughter-Grace Marie. Our subject is a Democrat, an encampment member of the I. O. O. F., and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Erasmus P. Allen, farmer, was born August 31, 1837, the son of Richard and Martha A. ( Alford) Allen, natives of Kentucky ; the former born in 1808. The grandfather, Erasmus, was a Virgin- ian, and a pioneer of Kentucky. The father had few advantages, and was married at the age of twenty-four. He came to this township in 1834, and has since made it his home, where he is
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one of the oldest and most respected pioneer farmers. He had nine children by his first wife, and by his second wife he had two children. The latter died in 1863. Both held the faith of the Christian Church. Our subject attended common schools, and in December, 1860, was married to America, the daughter of William and Alvira Stagg, and a native of Kentucky. Their children are John L., Charley P., Rosa, Lizzie, Anna D., William H., Nathan E., Wilbur, Cassie, Blanche and Hugh. He lived for a long time in Marion County, and spent two years in Com- pany E, under Col. Porter, and afterward under Col. McCul- lough. He fought at Kirksville, Moore's Mill, Palmyra, and other places. After his return he went to Pike County, Ill., and after the war removed to Shelby County, Mo. Three years later he came to this county, and soon after bought eighty acres of his present farm. . His estate consists of 200 acres of well improved land. He has been urged to become a justice, but has declined. He was formerly a Whig, and voted for Fillmore, but since the war has joined the democracy. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church.
Williamson G. Allen, retired merchant, was born in 1819 in Garrett County, Ky., the son of Samuel and Mary (Lamb) Allen, the former of Scotch-Irish origin, born in Virginia in 1793. He was a farmer until his later years, in merchandising. He mar- ried in Kentucky, and in 1829 went to Marion County, Mo., and three years later, came to this county, with his nearest neighbor, thirteen miles distant. He died in 1838, after a year as mer- chant in La Grange. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and in the battle of New Orleans. The mother, of English origin, was born in Garrett County, Ky., in 1796, and died in 1832. Our subject, the fourth of eight children, was educated by a private instructor, and when nineteen years old, taught the first school in Knox County. In 1849 he married Providence Carter, of Dubuque, Iowa, born in Hardin County, Ky., in 1831. Their only child, Ida, was the wife of Robert C. Brennan. She died in 1852 in Texas, and in 1858 he married Susan J., a daughter of Robert Muir, born in 1835, in Henry County, Ky. Their children are Mamie; Eva B., the wife of J. E. Thompson; Mag- gie L., and Cora, the wife of Charles E. Blair. In 1849 he went to California, and mined for two years, going overland on a five months' trip. After a time in Dubuque, Iowa, he spent a year in Texas, and in 1857 located at Williamstown, this county, as a merchant. In 1870 he came to Monticello, was elected sheriff, and in 1882 was elected both sheriff and collector, serving altogether four years. He then resumed mercantle life until June, 1886, when he resigned the postmastership to which he
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was appointed in 1877. Since then he has been a retired citizen. He is a Democrat, and first voted for Taylor. He is a Knight Templar, and the entire family are Free-Will Baptists.
William M. Allen was born in Kentucky in June, 1824. He is the son of William and Elizabeth W. (Baker) Allen. Our subject came to this county in 1834, and married Sarah J., a daughter of James and Ruth (Risk) Johnson. Their children are Sarah E., James W., John H., Mary F. (deceased), Robert M., Charles C. and Thomas L. James W. married Mary C., a daughter of George and Lucy Kerfoott; Robert M. became the husband of Sarah A., a daughter of Daniel and Eliza Roberts. Our subject is a Democrat and a granger. His wife was born in 1823, in Indiana, and came to Marion, Mo., in 1832; she died in Lewis County October 27, 1885. He and his wife have been members of the Christian Church for thirty syears. He has a fine farm of 340 acres, on which he has made a specialty of stock raising. His son, Thomas L., was married in 1885 to Lillie, a daughter of Daniel M. Roberts.
W. W. Allen, D. D. S., was born in Waterloo, May 25, 1861, the son of Oliver P. and Augusta P. (Kendel) Allen, the for- mer of English origin, born December 9, 1825, in Georgetown, Ohio, and the latter of similar lineage, born in Brown County, Ohio, August 7, 1829. The father's and mother's parents were natives of Virginia. Oliver moved to Waterloo in 1857, and from 1860 to 1863 was jailor. He then farmed for three years, and returned to Ohio, where he is engaged as a contractor for public works. June 4, 1846, he joined Company G, First Ohio Regiment, and was in the Mexican war at Monterey and Saltillo. He was discharged in 1847, at New Orleans. Our subject, the fourth of seven children, was educated in Ohio, and when nine- teen began medicine under Dr. O. N. Beck. In 1882 he came to Kahoka, studied dentistry under Dr. F. M. Harrison, and in 1883 and 1884 attended the dental department of the St. Louis Medical College. He located in Canton, but since February, 1886, has been in La Belle, where he has a large practice as the first resident dentist of the place. December 17, 1884, he mar- ried Susie, a daughter of J. P. Hampton, of Canton, Mo., born in Alexandria in 1866. Their only child is Edwin H. The Doctor has a cane taken from Commodore O. H. Perry's flag ship, when it was raised, twenty-three years after the Lake Erie fight, in 1813. The ship was occupied by Capt. Perry, and on the cane is in- scribed the following; " We have met the enemy and they are ours." The Doctor is a Republican and an Odd Fellow. He and his wife are Baptists.
Coleman R. Ammerman, farmer, was born in 1813, in Bourbon
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County, Ky., the son of Joseph and Rebecca (Reed) Ammerman, the former of German and English origin, born in the above county in 1790, and the latter in Virginia, in the same year. The father was a farmer, and after his marriage settled in Harrison County in 1825. He died in 1849. The mother went to Ken- tucky with her parents when a child, and died about 1863. Our subject, the second of twelve children, was reared, from his twelfth year to his majority, in Harrison County. March 15, 1836, he married Cynthia A. Wilson, who was born in Kentucky in 1819. Their children are Joseph C., Thomas W., Mary R., Lucy A. and Susan C. A few months after his marriage he came to this county, and entered 240 acres of land. He soon traded this for a farm in Dickerson Township, and in 1841 moved to La Belle Township. In 1860 he went to Grayson County, Tex., and two years later to Tarrant County. In 1866 he moved to Franklin County, Ark., but two years later returned and bought his present estate of 257 acres. His wife died in 1859, and the following year he married Mrs. Elizabeth Fugate, widow of John Fugate, a daughter of Stephen Perkins, and born in Kentucky in 1821. Their only child is Wesley. Stephen P. and Zebulon K. Fugate are children of her first husband. Our subject has been very successful, and owned at one time 1,300 acres, most of which he has given to his children. He is a Democrat, and first voted for Harrison. He and his wife are members of the Chris- tian Church, of which he has been a member for over half a cen- tury.
W. B. Anderson, A. B., M. S., president of Western Academy, was born in Verona, Boone Co., Ky., in 1857. He is the son of Thomas V. and Mary A. (Roberts) Anderson. The father is of Scotch stock, born in Boone County, Ky., in 1823. The mother is of German origin, a native of the same county, born in 1832. His ancestors came to America during the Reformation. The father was apprenticed to the wagon-maker's trade, under his father, William, at the age of seventeen. In 1854 he entered 260 acres near Edina, his present home. For eight years he was justice, and is an influential farmer. The mother, now fifty-five years old, reared three sons: Benjamin L., W. B. and Thomas B. Our subject was educated at the Kirksville Normal, graduating in 1881 in the classical course. He afterward studied languages and mathematics in Missouri University. In 1879 he became a teacher, and was principal of the Knox City High School. In 1882-83 his alma mater conferred the degree of M. S., and the same year he purchased Western Academy, which he has made one of the leading institutions of this region, and whose attend- ance he has doubled. He has students from various parts of the
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