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Since then the business of Silex has undergone some changes. At the present writing, Porter & Crider occupy four business rooms on the first floor of the Moseley Hotel building, with their immense stock of general merchandise. Judge H. T. Mudd &
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Son keep a general store, and also a lumber-yard. The other business of the town is as follows: Hardware, J. S. Donaldson; grocery, J. B. Henry; furniture and undertaking goods, W. S. Henry; drugs, Dr. G. P. Smiley; grocery and restaurant, L. C. Kimbler: blacksmithing, H. W. King; harness and shoemaker, Samuel Wirz; hotel, T. J. Mattingly; millinery, Miss Bettie Hudson; agricultural implements, J. E. Cummins; livery, Walker & Hall; hardware and blacksmithing, J. N. Mudd; grain dealers, H. T. Mudd & Son, and J. Overstreet; postmaster, L. C. Kimbler; corn mill, T. B. Duncan; wool-carding mill, Gus Elder. On the railroad stands a neat and convenient passenger and freight depot, the water-tank and a large grain warehouse. There is also one church (Baptist) and a public schoolhouse. Silex is situated on a beautiful, level site in the valley of the Cuivre, about half a mile from the big iron bridge on the road leading to Millwood and Olney. It is the principal outlet for a large tract of good agricultural lands, especially in the western part of the county, and consequently will remain a permanent business place, and improve with the country around it.
STERLING.
Sterling is a landing on the west bank of the Mississippi River. It was laid off November 9, 1836, on a Spanish grant of 800 arpents, confirmed by Congress to Louis Brazeau, being Sur- vey 1679, Township 50 north, Range 3 east, on lands of Francis Withington and Joseph Cochran. The plat was acknowledged before Lawrence B. Sitton, justice of the peace. Like the other landing on the river in Lincoln County, Sterling has become, since the building of the railroads, a place only in name.
TROY.
Troy, the county seat of Lincoln County, is situated on the St. Louis & Hannibal (Short Line) Railway, 68.4 miles south from Hannibal, and fifty-seven miles northwest from St. Louis. It lies one mile north and the same distance west of the south- east corner of Township 49 north, Range 1 west. It was sur- veyed and laid out September 16, 1819, by Deacon Joseph Cot- tle, Lee F. T. Cottle and Zadock Woods, the original proprietors.
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The survey was made on an angle of thirty-one degrees west of North Main Street, on which nearly all the business of the town is located. Main and Monroe Streets were surveyed sixty feet wide, those running parallel with Main fifty, and the cross streets thirty-three feet wide. It is hard to conceive why such intel- ligent men as the original proprietors of Troy should lay out a town, prospectively, as they did, for the county seat, with such narrow streets, the cross streets (running north fifty-nine de- grees east) being less in width than ordinary country highways. The insufficient width of the streets detracts very much from the appearance of the town. It might have been made much more attractive had the streets been given sufficient width. The orig- inal town contained 200 lots. The spring on the west side of Main Street and a small tract of ground surrounding it were do- nated to the public when the town was laid out by Joseph Cottle and Azubah, his wife.
Additions to Troy .- In October, 1825, J. N. Robbins, E. Collard, J. Ruland and Samuel Wells laid out an addition to Troy, adjoining the original town to the westward, and lying be- tween Boone and Collier Streets. It appears on the map of Troy in the county atlas as a part of Woods' addition. Collier's ad- dition, adjoining the latter on the northward, was laid out in 1837 by George Collier, the original proprietor. It was sur- veyed by John M. Hopkins. The block where the jail stands is the southeast corner block of this addition. The schoolhouse is also on this addition. Brown's addition was laid out on Febru- ary 29, 1872, by James D. Brown and wife. It contains lots numbered 401 to 424, inclusive, all being 90x100 feet in size except Nos. 401 and 402, which are 100 feet square. It lies on the right hand of the street leading to the railroad depot. Per- kins' addition, in the extreme western part of Troy, was laid out in April, 1875, by Walton Perkins. Avery's addition, adjoining the original plat to the eastward, was laid out in May, 1882, by Samuel W. Avery. Woolfolk's addition, joining Avery's on the east, was laid out in November, 1881, by Shapleigh R. Woolfolk. It was surveyed by John F. Wilson, county surveyor. Bonfils' addition, adjoining the original plat on the south, was laid out in June, 1882, by E. N. Bonfils. Some other tracts have been platted and added to the original town.
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The first house in Troy was a log cabin, erected about the year 1801 by Deacon Joseph Cottle. It stood a short distance south of the public spring. Soon thereafter a corn mill, operated by horse-power, was erected by Mr. Cottle near his residence, it being on the property now occupied by Mrs. Sedlacek. After- ward Col. David Bailey erected a distillery on the spring branch at the southeast corner of the lot occupied by the fine resi- dence of Henry Havercamp. He also erected a horse-power corn mill on the same lot, the latter within the inclosed yard just east of Mr. Havercamp's house, and between the distillery and the street. Zadock Woods erected a double log house (on the present burnt district) just in front of the dwelling house on the lot known as the Miller or Nichols property, and about thirty- five yards north of the spring. It was in this house where he kept the first tavern in the place, and where the officers first met and organized the county of Lincoln.
Woods' Fort .- This fort, of which mention is made else- where in this work, in connection with the War of 1812-15, con- sisted of a stockade made of strong oak timbers, set in the ground and extending perpendicularly a sufficient height above to afford protection from the Indians. In the stockade thus constructed, port-holes were made, through which the brave pioneers and sol-
diers could fire when attacked. The line of the stockade extended from a point near the southeast corner of the present spring park, being the corner of the brick building now standing on Lot 166 (according to the original plat of Troy ), and extended up what is now Main Street to a point about fifteen feet south of the brick block owned by Mr. Buchanan and now occu- pied by T. W. Simonds with a grocery store; thence westerly and parallel with the south wall of the said brick block to the Miller or Nichols property ; thence in a southerly direction, pass- ing in front of the Methodist Church, and extending far enough to inclose Joseph Cottle's house; and thence in an easterly direction to the place of beginning. Thus it will be seen that the stockade inclosed the spring, the residence of Joseph Cot- tle, and the residence and tavern of Zadock Woods. Small block-houses stood on each corner of the stockade, and a larger one stood in the center of the inclosure near the spring.
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Several cabins were built within the stockade for the occupancy of the early settlers who were compelled to take refuge therein during the war. This was the most extensive fort erected in the territory now included in Lincoln County. Capt.
Callaway, Jonathan Riggs and a son of the famous Daniel Boone were among the officers stationed in this fort during the war, Capt. Callaway being mostly in command. Lieut. Zachariah Taylor (afterward President Taylor) was also in this fort with his command for a time during the war. At that time all that part of Troy west of the fort had been recently cleared and was under cultivation. While some worked in the fields others stood guard. " The boys would. watch for the gates to be opened and would then slip out to get slippery-elm bark to appease the cravings of hunger." Quite frequently during the War of 1812-15 the settlers in this fort were in a continual state of siege. Farming was almost entirely abandoned, thus making provisions very scarce, and the inmates of the fort suffered much with hunger. These facts pertaining to the fort have been mostly obtained from John S .. Null, who was with his father's family in the fort.
After the war closed and the fort was no longer needed for protection, it was abandoned for that purpose, but some of the cabins continued to be occupied for some years thereafter. Wal- ton Perkins, who published some reminiscences a few years ago said with reference to the time that he settled with his parents near Troy, in 1818, that "there were quite a number of cabins around the spring lot-mostly grog-shops. J. R. Robbins was the only merchant and Zadock Woods kept hotel. People came here to mill from all parts of the county. Us boys were delight- ed at an opportunity to go to Mr. Cottle's mill. Often the patrons would give us a quarter to put our horse in and grind their grist-and a quarter was then considered no small amount of money."
In 1819 Woods' Fort was still standing, or at least portions of it, and Mr. Robbins kept the only store in Troy. Opposite this store, across Main Street, was a blacksmith shop. At the December term of the circuit court, in 1819, Benjamin Cottle was licensed " to keep a tavern in the town of Troy for twelve
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months," the fee being $10. From this time forward until 1829, when Troy became the permanent seat of justice of Lincoln County, it remained a rather insignificant trading point for the pioneer settlers, Having secured the county seat it then became a place of central importance to the people of the county, but on account of its being so far inland from that great line of trans- portation-the Mississippi River-it continued to grow slowly.
In 1830 Troy contained two general stores, kept respectively by J. N. Robbins ( the first merchant of the place ) and Emanuel Block; two hatter's shops, kept respectively by Perry G. Bur- rows and B. G. Martin; two tailor shops, kept respectively by John S. Besser and Jordan S. Sallee; and two "dram-shops," as they were called in those days, kept by Philander Powers and Thomas Park. Andrew Monroe, the noted and highly re- spected pioneer Methodist preacher, kept a hotel in the brick building on Main Street, at the southeast corner of the spring lot. There were also two blacksmith shops, kept by John Goodrich and William Howdeshell. Horace B. Wing, father of Frederick Wing, now living near Moscow, then owned and managed the tannery, which had been previously established on the spring branch, on the east side of the street, and nearly opposite the present Christian Church edifice. He also manufactured boots and shoes in connection with the tannery business, and did an extensive business in both lines. The hats then manufactured in Troy were peddled and sold to the southward, nearly down to the Arkansas line. The Bailey corn mill and distillery be- fore mentioned were then managed by John B. Stone, but neither of them did much business, and were discontinued soon thereafter. The Presbyterians and Christians both had church organizations at that time, but no church buildings. They worshiped in the courthouse.
In 1840 Troy contained two general stores, kept, respectively, by Block Bros. (Emanuel and Eleazer) and Snethen & Wells. About this time, and some years later, Walton Perkins kept the hotel formerly kept by Rev. Andrew Monroe, and in 1848 or 1849 he engaged in mercantile business with Frederick Wing. The town had grown a little during the decade of the thirties, so that there was some more business in it in 1840 than in 1830.
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About this period (1840) all religious denominations in Troy worshiped in the courthouse, and all worshiped together. They were not so allied to sectarianism as they have been lat- terly. It is said that nearly as many people attended divine services in Troy at that time as at present. If this be true, the whole population, or nearly the whole, must have attended. There is no doubt that a larger percentage of the people attended divine services in the pioneer days than at present.
The following is a list of current prices at Troy in 1840: Pork, $2 per hundred; milch cows, $6 to $8; horses, $30 to $50; butter, 6 cents per pound; corn, 1 " bit" per bushel; calico, 35 to 40 cents per yard; coffee, 30 cents per pound; axes, 25 cents ; coarse boots, $5. An old citizen, who gave these prices through the medium of the Troy Herald some years ago, said that at that time "Troy contained five or six saloons, no city council, and only a piece of a jail." Troy then had a tri-weekly mail from St. Louis. It is also said that Troy had many pretty girls in those days. It has more now, and is noted for the beauty of its women.
The following facts pertaining to Troy in 1855 are taken from a copy of the Lincoln Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 31, of that year. The paper contained a notice of the public exercises of the Lin- coln Academy, to be held at the Presbyterian Church, February 14 and 15, 1855. The faculty of the academy was then as follows: C. G. Jones, principal; Miss Sarah Kittredge, preceptress; Miss C. C. Adams, teacher of music; Sallie Bird, assistant preceptress ; James E. Hutton, assistant teacher. The paper also contained the business cards of the following parties: Merchants, Britton, Woolfolk & Co., D. W. Smiley, Snethen & Wells and Kouns & Murray; lawyers, William Porter, J. L. Blannerhassett and W. H. Merriwether; physicians, Drs. Wells & Johnson, Dr. Shad- burn and C. M. Edson. The paper also stated that the North Missouri Railroad (now the Wabash) was nearly finished from St. Louis to St. Charles.
The following is a list.of advertisements which appeared in a Troy newspaper in 1860: Troy Seminary, G. G. Jones, principal; Miss Mary J. Strong, preceptress ; Miss Blanche Hughes, teacher of primary ; Miss Emily M. Hudson, teacher of music; board of
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trustees, J. S. Salle, president; William Young, secretary ; Fred. Wing, treasurer; C. W. Parker, Hon. T. R. Cornick, J. M. Heady, Col. Thomas G. Hutt, John W. Sydnor, Gen. David Stewart, S. R. Woolfolk, Rev. E. P. Noel, Gen. E. J. Peers. Merchants, D. C. Russell, stoves and tinware; Britton, Woolfolk & Co., gen- eral merchandise; Vance & Hawey, forwarding and commission merchants at Cap-au-Gris; Moritz & Love, cabinet shop; William Mohr & Co., carriage and wagon shop; Isaac Springston & William Crouch, carpenter, blacksmith and wagon shop; physicians, H. E. Jones, Douglas Morrison; dentist, A. E. Noel. It must not be inferred that this constituted all the business of Troy in 1860, but that which was advertised only. Like nearly all other Mis- souri towns, the business of Troy was much depressed during the period of the Civil War. However, Troy was not destroyed, neither was it sacked by either of the contending armies. It recovered from the depressing effects of that period as soon as could be expected.
The following is a list of the business houses of Troy in 1873, as published in the Herald of July 9, of that year: Cake & Rogers' Tannery. This extensive manufactory had been estab- lished about forty years before, by Horace B. Wing, and was in 1873 the most extensive business in the town, and gave employment to the greatest number of men. In connection with it the pro- prietors had a large boot and shoe, saddle and harness manufac- tory. Few towns in the west could boast of better hotels. The Laclede was built in the summer of 1870 by Thornhill & Bus- well, its proprietors, at a cost of from $8,000 to $10,000. In 1872 a large addition was erected, making it one of the most complete and convenient of modern hotels, a good bar and bil- liard room being in the basement story. The Planters' House, formerly a frame building, was replaced, early in the seventies, by its proprietor, J. F. Brown, with a large three-story brick. A bar was kept in the basement story. and the accommodations throughout were first class. Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, Walton Perkins, president; J. R. Knox, vice-president; E. N. Bonfils, cashier; Parker, Crews & Co., with a large stock of merchandise in a commodious brick building. A very old house, the firm name of which had been frequently changed-Norton,
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Harlan & Norton, in a large brick building on the east side of Main Street; Crump & Wing, with a fair stock of goods; Joseph Hart, with an immense stock in a large brick building on the east side of Main Street, and Walter S. Cooper. These houses under head of merchandise, kept a general stock of dry goods, groceries, etc. There were three stores which kept groceries principally, F. S. Sweeney, G. W. Mohr and M. T. Britton. The latter had a bakery connected with his establishment; J. P. Lynott, with one of the largest stores of hardware outside of the cities; Henry & Bro., with a large store and manufactory of boots and shoes; F. M. Brickey with a boot and shoe shop; Thomas W. Withrow, successor to his father in saddles, harness, trunks, etc., who established the business many years before in a little frame building; L. Wolfgram, with an extensive stock of jewelry and watches; Woolfolk & Co., and Dr. S. T. East, drugs; Miss S. J. Tentem and Mrs. M. Sadlacek, millinery; Mrs. Ogden and Mrs. Ward, dressmaking; H. W. Kemper, a very large furni- ture store; F. W. Harbaum, wagon factory; William Swan, A. Kuhne and T. H. Stephens, blacksmith shops.
The following is a business directory of Troy, including the school and professions, on the 1st day of January, 1882: High and graded school, Prof. R. B. D. Simonson, principal; Miss Mary Buchanan, assistant principal; Mrs. W. S. Hutt, teacher of intermediate department; Miss Pinkie Woolfolk, sec- ond primary; Mrs. Walter Mckay, first primary ; Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, Walton Perkins, president; H. W. Per- kins, cashier; dry goods, W. L. Sturgeon, James A. Jackson, Charles M. Hamilton, Bragg Bros. & Co. and Joseph Hart; drugs, Dr. R. L. Robinson, J. J. and J. H. Alexander; hardware, Russell & Miller and E. N. Bonfils; groceries, J. W. Pilcher, F. S. Pilcher, F. S. Sweeney, Mrs. Ida Hellriegel, George Mohr and John A. Trail; jewelry, Henry Havercamp; furniture and coffins, H. W. Kemper; wagon manufactory, F. W. Harbaum; saddles and harness, Thomas W. Withrow and M. Sadlacek; mil- linery, Mrs. M. Sadlacek, Mrs. J. S. Thornhill and Mrs. T. M. Stephens; tailor shops, George O. Brickey, John Sykora and Jordan S. Sallee; boot and shoe store, Henry & Brother; hotels, " Laclede," by O. F. Buswell, " Planters' House," by J. S.
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Shannon, "College Street Boarding House," by Capt. William Coose: livery, Birkhead & Son, proprietors of the Laclede Liv- ery Stable, and Kabler & Kennedy, proprietors of Transfer Sta- ble; lumber-yards, Baxter Crawford and S. R. Woolfolk; Troy Mills, William M. Norton; blacksmith shops, Thomas M. Ste- phens, Augustus Kuhne and William Swann; meat markets, Avery & Stratton and Capt. William Coose; saloons, R. A. Trail and John Worsham; cigar manufactory, J. J. Cheeley; barbers, I. W. Clark and Frank Wulf; physicians, M. H. McFarland, D. W. Tice, A. H. Chenowerth, James A. Ward, R. L. Robinson and T. N. Bragg; dentist, E. L. Sydnor; lawyers, R. H. Norton, Charles Martin, Nat. C. Dryden, A. V. McKee, O. H. Avery, G. T. Dunn, George W. Colbert, Howard S. Parker, Jeptha Wells, James M. Mclellan, Josiah Creech, R. D. Walton and J. B. Allen; ministers, Elder D. M. Grandfield, of the Christian Church, Rev. C. R. Dudley, Presbyterian, Rev. J. N. B. Helper, Methodist Episcopal South, Rev. C. W. Carter, colored Methodist, Rev. Benjamin Guthrie, colored Baptist; wool-carding, Lewis Vertrees; ice and dairy, E. G. Hammond; brick-yard, Hammond & Krebs; newspapers, Herald, by W. T. Thurmond, and Free Press, by Ward & Childers.
The business of Troy, at the present writing, July, 1888, con- sists of the following: Dry goods and clothing, James A. Jack- son; general merchandise, Joseph Hart; groceries, John E. Worsham, Augustus Kuhne, George W. Mohr, J. W. Ruenzi, F. W. Simonds, John W. Pilcher, F. S. Sweeney, George B. Kempf, Nicholas Ebert; drugs, Hutchison & Perkins, Dr. R. L. Robin- son, Avery Bros .; hardware, Stanza & Carter, W. R. Holmes, D. C. Russell & Son; harness and saddles, Thomas W. Withrow, J. J. Hechler; millinery, Mrs. Mary Sedlacek, Miss Delia Cottle and Miss Emma Duey; furniture and coffins, H. W. Kemper; jewelry, Henry Havercamp; tailor-shops, John Sykora, M. Kaphan; cigar manufactory, Cheeley & Trail; hotel, Colbert Hotel, by Capt. William Colbert; restaurants, Fred. Meyer, Frank Wulf, Thomas U. Wright; boots and shoes, Henry Bros. ; barber-shops, I. W. Clark, Frank Wulf; meat-shop, Robert Schuchmann; blacksmith and manufacturer of wagons, plows, etc., F. W. Har- baum; blacksmith-shops, A. B. Ellis, William H. Swann; trans-
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fer and feed stable, Kabler & Shumate; livery stable, Duff & Brown; Troy Flouring mills, Elias Norton; lumber-yards, Thomas M. Fisher, D. Duback & Co .; grain dealers, Hart & Son, Jackson & Barley; dealer and shipper of live stock, Samuel W. Avery. In addition to the foregoing there are two parties who supply the town with ice, and two that supply it with milk. There are also several boarding-houses in the town.
The physicians of Troy are James A. Ward, D. W. Tice, C. D. Avery, T. N. Bragg and R. L. Robinson. The dentists are E. Sydnor and C. W. Knox.
The resident ministers are C. Van Oostenbrugge, of the Pres- byterian Church, Dennis Grandfield and J. W. Bouvee, of the Christian Church, O. B. Holliday, of the Methodist Church South, and Max Schroedel, of the Evangelical Zion's Church; also J. W. Cravens and Henry Bragg, of the colored Methodist Church.
The newspapers are the Troy Herald, by W. T. Thurmond, and the Free Press, by Boulton & Townsend.
The Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Troy was organized May 21, 1873, through the efforts of Walton Perkins, William Colbert, J. W. Welch, John R. Knox, F. C. Cake, E. N. Bonfils, John R. Britton, Judge C. W. Martin, W. M. Norton, M. R. Watts and Douglas Wyatt. At a meeting of the stockholders, the following officers were chosen: Walton Perkins, president; John R. Knox, vice-president; E. N. Bonfils, cashier ; R. H. Nor-
ton, attorney. Directors-Walton Perkins, William Colbert, James W. Welch, J. R. Knox, F. C. Cake, E. N. Bonfils, John R. Britton, Charles W. Martin, W. M. Norton, M. R. Watts and Douglas Wyatt. On the death of Walton Perkins, in 1885, Will- iam Colbert was chosen president. After serving as cashier for a few months, E. N. Bonfils was succeeded by H. W. Perkins, son of the first president of the bank. The names of the pres- ent officers are as follows: William Colbert, president; Charles Martin, vice-president; H. W. Perkins, cashier; R. H. Norton, attorney. Board of directors-William Colbert, Charles Mar- tin, R. H. Norton, Elias Norton, J. W. Welch, J. M. Mclellan and H. W. Perkins.
The bank has a paid-up capital of $10,000, backed by $70,- 000 of subscribed capital. It is a fact worthy of note, that dur-
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ing the fourteen years in which the present cashier has conducted the business of the bank, not a dollar has been lost by it. This is a very useful and necessary institution to the business interests of Lincoln County.
Incorporation of Troy .- At the November term, 1825, of the county court, Troy was incorporated upon petition of its citi- zens, and Joseph Cottle, John Chandler, Elisha Perkins, Edward J. Peers and Thomas Dozier, were appointed trustees of the cor- poration. The corporate limits were made to include the original plat, and the plat known as Woods' addition. The town was again incorporated in May, 1870, upon a petition of one hundred of its citizens. The order of incorporation provided that the town should be incorporated under the name and style of "The Inhabitants of the Town of Troy," and to have all rights and privileges of the bodies politic and corporate, except the right to purchase and own burial grounds and cemeteries. The corporate limits were described as follows: " Beginning at the center of the public spring, thence due north, south, east and west, one thou- sand yards in each direction to points; thence to form a square upon said points, of two thousand yards upon each side thereof." The court then appointed Charles W. Parker, Eugene N. Bonfils, William Frazier, John McDonald and James M. Mclellan, a board of trustees for the town thus incorporated.
Afterward, on the 15th day of May, 1877, a petition signed by E. N. Bonfils, George W. Colbert, A. B. Ellis and 110 others, was presented to the Court, asking for the incorporation of the town of Troy, with the following metes and bounds: "Beginning at the center of the public spring in said town of Troy; thence due north, south, east and west six hundred yards in each direction from said spring to points; thence to form a square upon said points of twelve hundred upon each side of said square." After consider- ing this petition, the Court made the following entry upon the record of its proceedings: " And it appearing to the satisfac- tion of the Court that two-thirds of the taxable inhabitants of said town have signed said petition, and that the prayer of the peti- tioners is reasonable, and that no tracts of land containing forty acres or more, which are needed exclusively for agricultural or grazing purposes, and which have not been laid out or platted as
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