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was not ashamed to own his allegiance to his God; he was, however, very unostentatious and unobtrusive. His profession of religion was made in 1851, and steadfastly maintained until death. For many years, he was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church. The internal evidences of the truth of Christianity sank deeply into his mind, and his faith, strengthened from year to year by careful study and reflection, only added to the strength of his convictions. "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou re- turn," with him is fully realized. He died May 16, 1879, at Richmond, Missouri, aged seventy-one years.
JOSEPH S. HUGHES.
Joseph S. Hughes is a native of Jessamine county, Kentucky, and was born January 11, 1820. He is the sixth son and seventh child of John Hughes and Elizabeth (Berry) Hughes. His grandfather, Joseph Hughes, whose father settled on the eastern shore of Maryland at an early day, was of Welch descent. He married Sarah Swann before the revolution, and afterwards served gallantly in that war. In 1777, he moved to Penn- sylvania, and settled in the old Red Stone Fort (now Brownsville), on the Monongahela river, where John Hughes was born on the 26th of Novem- ber, 1777. The family remained at that place till 1779, when they removed to Kentucky, and for a number of years lived at Bryant's station. After the Indian troubles subsided, they settled in Jessamine county, Kentucky. The father of the subject of this sketch, as well as his maternal grand- father, Samuel Berry, were soldiers in the war of 1812, and served with becoming bravery under General Harrison. In 1822, when Joseph was but two years old, his father emigrated to Missouri, and located in Boone county, becoming one of the pioneer farmers of that section. Joseph S. Hughes remained with his father on the farm until he was eighteen years of age, when, in 1838, he came to Richmond, Ray county, Missouri, where he now resides, and engaged as salesman in a dry goods store, and continued to act as clerk and salesman until the year 1844. In that year, by patient industry, self-denial and economy he had acquired sufficient means to begin merchandizing on his own account. He continued the business alone until 1849, when he and George I. Wasson, Esq., of Rich- mond, formed a copartnership for the purpose of carrying on a general mercantile business, under the firm name of Hughes & Wasson. This copartnership existed till 1859. March the 1st, 1856, Joseph S. Hughes was elected secretary of the Richmond Insurance Company, and continued to fill that position until June 23, 1859, at which time he was elected cashier of the branch of Union Bank, located at Richmond and served as such till the national banking law supplanted the state banks. The parent bank, organized under the national banking law virtually closed the branches, and on the first day of January, 1866, the subject of our sketch and Geo.
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I. Wasson, Esq., became the purchasers of the assets of the Richmond branch bank, and organized a private banking house, under the style of Hughes & Wasson, which continued till January 1, 1877, when George I. Wasson sold his interest to James Hughes and his son, Burnett Hughes. Since that time the business has been conducted under the firm name of J. S. Hughes & Co., private bankers and exchange dealers.
In 1869, when the St. Louis & St. Joseph railroad (now St. Joseph branch of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific), was completed to Richmond, Joseph S. Hughes, with Messrs. John Gibson and William Wilson, com- menced sinking a shaft for the purpose of developing the coal interests in the vicinity of Richmond. The undertaking was quite successful, and by energy, unyielding perseverance and close attention to business, they have built up a trade of exceeding magnitude, which greatly augments the busi- ness and material wealth of Richmond and surrounding country. It is individual effort, industry and enterprise that most largely contribute to the growth and prosperity of the entire country. While personal energy, incited by a laudable ambition, enhances one's individual interests, it, at the same time, promotes the welfare of the community. This being true, it is safe to say that there is not a more useful citizen in Ray county, than the subject of our sketch. Messrs. J. S. Hughes & Co., are now opera- ting three mines, and employ upwards of one hundred miners. Their coal is shipped to St. Joseph, whence, through their house at that place, it is distributed in large quantities to southern Nebraska and northern Kansas.
On the 2d day of October, 1844, Joseph S. Hughes was married to Miss Ann Laura Hughes, step-daughter of the late Major John H. More- head, of Richmond, Missouri. They have an interesting, intelligent fam- ily of six children, four sons and two daughters. Their oldest son, George A. Hughes, is book-keeper in the banking house of J. S. Hughes & Co., and is also interested with his father in the Richmond coal mines. Charles B., the second son, is also clerking in the same bank. Their elder daugh- ter, Martha S. (Hughes) Ferguson, is the wife of James M. Ferguson, Esq., a merchant of Columbia, Missouri. Their younger daughter, Mary E., now at school at Christian College, Columbia, Missouri, and their two youngest sons, Robert L. and John, are living with their parents and attending the public schools of Richmond. Mr. Hughes has lived in Richmond many years. He has seen the town grow from a rude hamlet to a business place of considerable importance; and to him, and such gen- tlemen as he, that growth, as well as the corresponding progress of the 'county, is largely due.
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JAMES HUGHES.
James Hughes was born March 30, 1814, in Jessamine county, Ken- tucky. He was the fifth son, sixth child, of John and Elizabeth Hughes. His mother was a daughter of Samuel Berry, who served as a soldier in the war of 1812. His father was born in the old Red Stone Fort, (now Brownsville) in Pennsylvania, in the year 1777, whence he was taken with the family to Bryant's station, Kentucky, where they lived for several years. Afterwards, for many years, his father resided in Jessamine county, Kentucky. In 1822, when James was eight years old, his father removed with his family to Missouri, and settled in Boone county, where he was a pioneer farmer. James Hughes' father was a soldier in the war of 1812, and served under General Harrison. His maternal grandfather served under the same distinguished officer. His grandfather, Joseph Hughes, was a soldier in the revolutionary war. James Hughes spent his boyhood days in working with his father on the farm, and received his education at a country school, which was subsequently known as Bonne Femme Academy. When he was sixteen years old, he came, in 1830, to Richmond, Ray county, Missouri, and engaged as clerk and salesman in a dry goods store, continuing as clerk and salesman for different leading mercantile firms in Richmond until 1837, when he engaged in merchandis- ing on his own account, in partnership with his brother, Willis Hughes. The firm continued to do an extensive, profitable business, till 1845, when, closing his career as a merchant, our subject removed to the country, and engaged in farming and dealing in live stock, which pursuit he followed steadily, energetically and successful for more than thirty years. During all that period he occupied the front rank among the best farmers in the state. He was even more successful as a farmer than as a merchant. In January, 1877, he returned to Richmond and entered into the banking business in partnership with his brother, Joseph S. Hughes and his son, Burnett Hughes. His two sons, Ami and Allen Hughes, are farming and dealing in live stock on the old homestead in the country. This is a model farm of eight hundred and eighty-two acres, improved on the most modern plan, and well stocked with the finest breeds of stock of all kinds. Mr. Hughes is also largely interested in other real estate in different parts of the county.
James Hughes was married in 1842, to Miss Elvira Smith, of Ray county, Missouri, formerly of Pittsylvania county, Virginia. His wife died on the 16th day of January, 1877. They raised a family of eight chil- dren, six sons and two daughters. Their oldest child, Elizabeth V., is the wife of William H. Mansur, cashier of the Bank of Salisbury. Their son, Newton Hughes, is a clerk in the same bank. Henry Clay Hughes, their oldest son, is a successful farmer, in Carroll county. Berry Hughes,
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another son, is a farmer, and resides near Richmond, Ray county. Their youngest child, a daughter, Louisa R. Hughes, is living with her father, in Richmond. In politics, James Hughes was a Henry Clay whig, but since the death of the great Kentuckian, and the dissolution of the whig party, he has been, and continues to be a firm, but consistent, democrat. He feels, as he has ever felt, a deep interest in the welfare, prosperity, and future greatness of his county, state, and country. Such men are the bul- warks of free government. James Hughes, in all the avocations of life in which he has been engaged, has displayed energy, integrity, and a just regard for the rights of his fellow-man. He, therefore, enjoys the confidence of all who know him. He is spending even his declining years in active business, as a banker, and in promoting the comfort, com- petence, and happiness of his children. Estimating James Hughes by the good he has done, he deserves to be more highly eulogized than many whose names have been emblazoned in history. The same honorable career our subject has pursued is open to thousands of young men every- where. The name of James Hughes will be a rich heritage for his chil- dren, when he shall have ceased from his earthly labors, and his good deeds shall be embalmed in their memories.
CHARLES J. HUGHES.
Charles J. Hughes was born near Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky, June 27, 1822. His father, William Hughes, was a native of Culpepper county, Virginia, and with his parents moved to Kentucky, and was one of the early settlers of that state. He had no advantages of education, having early in life enlisted as a soldier in the United States army for the repression of Indian hostilities, where he served with due devotion and gallantry under General Arthur St. Clair. In the Indian fight, known as St. Clair's defeat, which took place near where Cincinnati now stands, November 4, 1791, he was wounded. He moved with his family to Boone county, Missouri, in 1827, and settled two and a half miles south of Columbia. Throughout his life he was esteemed for his high moral character, and his home was ever the seat of hospitality and a place of social enjoyment. In the year 1840 William Hughes died, respected by all his acquaintances. The maiden name of Charles' mother was Lucy Neal. She was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, and was of highly respected parentage. She died shortly subsequent to the death of her husband. The subject of this sketch had five brothers and three sisters, all of whom are now dead, except the youngest brother, Julius C. Hughes, of Colorado; Laura (Hughes) Sickles, widow of the late Doctor Sickles, of St. Louis, and Catherine, wife of Doctor A. M. Robinson, of Clinton county, Missouri. Charles received a good education from
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Columbia College, but pecuniary embarrassment compelled him to quit school. He, however, continued to be a close student. He was noted during his boyhood years as a bright and thorough scholar, so far as he had advanced in the college curriculum. After leaving school he hired out by the month, and was engaged six months with a surveying party on the Great Chariton river, in Adair county, Missouri. After his return home he entered the law office of Honorable J. B. Gordon, of Columbia, then regarded as among the most prominent lawyers of the state. After a severe course of some eighteen months' study in this office, he went to Monticello, and for some time studied law in the office of Honorable James S. Green, when he settled down to the practice of his profession, in Kingston, Caldwell county, Missouri, a stranger, without money and with- out friends. He soon acquired a good practice, being retained on one side or the other of all important litigated cases in the courts of his county, besides having a respectable practice in other counties of the fifth judicial circuit. Shortly after becoming a citizen of Caldwell he was appointed county seat commissioner of Kingston. In 1844 he was elected to represent his county in the lower house of the general assem- bly, and in 1846 was re-elected, and again in 1848, but resigned, and devoted his time and attention diligently to the practice of his profession till 1856, when he was again elected to the same position, and served faithfully and efficiently for two years. During his terms of service in the general assembly, he occupied prominent positions, being appointed a member of many of the most important committees. He was chairman of the committee on federal relations, a member of the judiciary commit- tee, and of the committee on constitutional amendments, etc. When the cloud of civil war hung like a pall of darkness over the country, he, like others, hoped in vain for compromise. He desired that bloodshed should be avoided, if possible, and consistent with the honor and dignity of the union.
In 1863, Charles J. Hughes, with his family, moved to Richmond, Ray county, Missouri, and after what was known as the test oath was required of lawyers, preachers and teachers, he looked upon it as a deep and dan- gerous scheme to subvert the rights of the people; refusing to take such oath, he removed to Kansas City in the fall of 1865, and engaged in the real estate business, which he continued till the spring of 1867, when the supreme court having declared the test oath unconstitutional, he returned to the city of Richmond, and resumed the practice of law, soon re-estab- lishing himself in an extensive lucrative practice. In the spring of 1871, he was elected mayor of Richmond. In 1872 he was elected by the Democratic voters of Ray county, judge of the court of common pleas. This court was abolished in 1874, and Judge Hughes was, that year, elected judge of the county and probate court. In 1878 he was elected
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judge of the probate court and presiding justice of the Ray county court. Judge Hughes held by appointment the office of county and circuit attorney, county school commissioner, and curator of the state university, and was, also, for a number of years director of the school board of the Richmond graded school. He is the ardent friend of education, regard- ing it as the paramount duty of our country to prepare, by liberal, free education, the youth of the land for useful and . honorable positions in life. Whilst a member of the legislature he aided in procuring the 500,000 acre land grant to the public school fund. Judge Hughes is, likewise, a warm advocate of internal improvement, as is evidenced by the fact that he introduced into the Missouri legislature the first memorial from his county, asking for the chartering of the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad, and aiding the same. He is a member of the Christian Church at Richmond, and in his habits is temperate, industrious and upright. He is widely known as a true friend, a generous neighbor, genial, obliging and kind. He began life without means, and has succeeded by dint of untiring energy and perseverance. It has always been his pride to aid the young when starting out in life; nor have the deserving indigent ever called on him in vain. In politics, Charles J. Hughes is a democrat of the strictest faith; always conceding to others, however, the right of enjoying and expressing their opinions. June 9, 1850, he was married to Miss Susan Catharine Pollard, daughter of William C. Pollard, who rep- resented Ray county in the legislature from 1834 to 1836, and who was captain of a company in Indian wars, and also in Colonel Richard Gen- try's regiment in the Florida war.
Judge Hughes and wife have six children, three sons and three daugh- ters, the eldest of whom, Charles James, Jr., graduated from Richmond College, and is a fine scholar. He is now a successful lawyer, having prepared himself for his profession at the State University, at Columbia. He was married to Miss Lucy Menefee, of Richmond, in September, 1874, and now resides in Denver, Colorado. The other five children are at home with their parents, to-wit: William Pollard, Margaret, Catha- rine, Luanna J., John, and Edna.
Judge Hughes is five feet nine inches in height, has black hair and eyes, and weighs one hundred and twenty pounds.
HON. JACOB TRIPLER CHILD.
Jacob Tripler Child was born in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1833. His father, Ezekiel Child, was a descendant of one of the Quaker familie's that came with William Penn to America. Some of them still live in Philadelphia, where they first settled. He was a natural mechanic, and spent much of his time in perfecting locomotive steam engines. He died of cholera, at Richmond, Virginia, in 1856. The
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mother of the subject of this sketch, Susan L. Child (whose maiden name was Tripler) was of a Danish family of pioneers that settled in Delaware at a very early day, but afterwards removed to Richmond, Virginia. Ezekiel and Susan L. Child had six children. The eldest, John T. Child, is a citizen of Wilmington, North Carolina; L. T. Child, of Worcester, Massachusetts; Jesse Child, of Richmond, Virginia; Elizabeth L. is now the wife of W. C. Tripler, of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania; Susan is the wife of Colonel James W. Black, a lawyer of Rich- mond, Missouri, and Jacob T., the subject of this sketch, who is the fourth son. Jacob T. Child received a common school education, and when fifteen years of age, entered the office of the Richmond (Virginia) Whig, where he served an apprenticeship of five years, at the expiration of which time, he was employed in the same office for three years, thus becoming an adept in the profession. In 1856 he, in company with a party of young men, emigrated to Kansas. During the border ruffian troubles, he left that state and went to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he engaged with the editor of the Cycle. In 1857, he established the tri- weekly fournal, which in a short time, he converted into a daily-the first in the Missouri valley. In 1861 he sold the fournal, and edited the Gazette a short time; after which he founded the Evening News, a strong democratic paper. He then removed to Richmond, Missouri, and pur- chased the Northwest Conservator, the name of which he changed to Richmond Conservator, of which he is still (1881) the editor and proprie- tor. The Conservator has never failed to appear at the appointed day each week-not even on July 14th, 1869, when a tornado unroofed the building. At the beginning of the late civil war, Jacob T. Child accepted the appointment of major, in Governor Stewart's regiment, which, how- ever, did not go into service. He was then appointed adjutant of the 35th Missouri volunteers, and served on the lower Mississippi, under General Grant. He was next promoted to be captain of company F, which position he resigned on account of ill health. He afterwards organized a company of Missouri militia (Papaws), and was chosen first lieutenant, engaging in active service until the close of the war. In 1874, he represented Ray county in the twenty-seventh general assembly, and served creditably on several important committees. At the close of his term, he was elected mayor of the city of Richmond.
Colonel Child has always taken an active part in politics, and has been a delegate to every democratic state convention since his identifica- tion with that party. Like many of our great men, he is not renowned for his oratory, but has wide influence with his party, intrepidly using the columns of his paper to advance those measures of state and national pol- itics, which he believes to be conducive to the general welfare of the people. He has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for
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more than twenty years; is now president of the Missouri press associa- tion, and has held many other important offices. Jacob T. Child was married April 23d, 1861, to Elizabeth Rebecca McRoberts, of Kentucky, whose father was Major Andrew McRoberts, one of the pioneers of the mountains, and resided at Cumberland Gap, where he was celebrated for his courage, strength and endurance. He and his wife, with whom he has lived for more than fifty years, reside with their daughter in Rich- mond, Missouri. Colonel and Mrs. Child have five children, four sons and one daughter. He is a member of the Christian Church, and is deeply interested in everything that has a tendency to promote the cause of edu- cation and religion in the community in which he lives, and his future is full of promise.
THOMAS D. BOGIE.
Thomas Dudley Bogie, a native of Kentucky, was born on Silver Creek, in Madison county, August 26th, 1838. Paternal grandfather was born on board of a vessel, on the Atlantic ocean, between Europe and the United States. His father, Thomas Bogie, also a native of Madi- son county, Kentucky, was of Scotch descent, and was born in Decem- ber, 1804. His mother, Frances S. (Stephenson) Bogie, was born in the same locality in 1818.
Thomas D. Bogie, being the son of a farmer, was raised on a farm, and, performing the labor incident to that vocation, lived till he attained his majority, in the vicinity of his place of birth. The schools of his neigh- borhood were few and inferior, and hence his school advantages were quite meagre. He attended the common schools, such as they were, three months in the winter, and the rest of the year aided his father on the farm-a work from which he lost not a single season till he was twenty- one years of age. His attendance at school, altogether, did not exceed eighteen months. In September of 1859, young Bogie, then twenty-one, accompanied his father and family to Randolph county, Missouri, and the following spring embarked in the mercantile business in Huntsville, that county. He continued merchandising, with varied success, till 1869. The first year of his experience as a merchant, was, on account of the civil war, quite unprofitable; from 1866, however, till he abandoned the mer- cantile business, he was very successful. When, in 1870, he sold his inter- est in the dry goods store, Col. Bogie entered into the printing busi- ness, becoming the partner of J. S. Hunter, Esq., and with that gentle- man, was editor and proprietor of the Huntsville Herald, and so continued till January, 1875, when he bought Mr. Hunter's interest, and conducted the paper as sole proprietor until January, 1879. March 16th, 1872, he started, in connection with Hunter, the Keytesville Herald, which they con- ducted successfully for two and a half years, at the same time owning and
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editing the Huntsville Herald. In January, 1879, Col. Bogie sold the Huntsville Herald to Elmore Fort, Esq., and the following April moved to Richmond, Missouri, and here, April 5th, purchased the printing estab- lishment of S. J. Huflaker, editor and proprietor of the Ray Chronicle, the name of which he subsequently changed to Richmond Democrat, and under that name still (1881) owns, edits and conducts the paper. Decem- ber 8th, 1863, in Callaway county, Missouri, Col. Bogie was married to Miss Doratha Virginia Maughas, a native of Danville, Montgomery county, Missouri, and daughter of the late Dr. M. M. Maughas, of Calla- way county. They have four children, one of whom, Charles F., born September 26th, 1865, died February 13th, 1866. The living are: Dud- ley T., Mordecai M. and Rector S. Col. Bogie's father died in July, 1873, at his home in Randolph county, Missouri, aged sixty-nine. His mother died in May, 1874, at Keytesville, Chariton county, aged fifty-six. He has been a Mason since 1861; is a member of Blue Lodge and of the Royal Arch Chapter; he is also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Christian Church. The success achieved by Thomas D. Bogie is a striking exam- ple of what may be accomplished by devotion to duty, talent, industry and perseverance. The young man who emulates his example, will be happily rewarded, and his pathway to the grave will be all strewn with roses.
SILAS R. CRISPIN.
Silas R. Crispin was born August 28, 1837, in Fayette county, Ohio. When about ten years of age his parents moved with him to Highland county, that state, where he grew to manhood. His father, Abel Crispin, born in 1819, was a native of Pennsylvania. He died in Highland county, above mentioned, in 1856. His mother, Mary A. (Wilson) Crispin, was born in Mason county, Kentucky, and died in 1852. In 1857, when he was twenty years old, Silas R. Crispin moved to Lafayette county, Mis- souri, and has ever since been a resident of the state. He was first employed as overseer of a plantation, but afterward engaged in the freighting business across the plains for a time, running a train of wagons to Denver, Colorado. In the winter of 1858-'59 he went to Mexico, by way of St. Louis and New Orleans, and bought mules, which he brought to Lexington, Kentucky, and sold. In the spring of 1860 he again crossed the plains, to Denver, Colorado. In 1862 he joined the Confederate army, and served in company I, Colonel Gardner's regiment of General Joe O. Shelby's cavalry brigade. At the organization of his company, Mr. Crispin was elected second lieutenant. He participated, among others, in the following engagements: Camp Hurky, Lone Jack, Springfield, Prairie Grove, Newtonia, Hartsville, Little Rock, Spoonville, Mark's
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