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JOHN P. GRIMES.
Was born in Campbell county, East Tennessee, June 3, 1838. His father, Henry C. Grimes, was a farmer, and raised a family of seven children, of whom our subject was the third in order of birth, and the first son. His father first came to Ray county, Missouri, in 1836, but remain- ing only one year, went back to Tennessee and remained there five years longer. He came back to Missouri, and settled in Ray county, in the year 1851. John was then in his fourteenth year, and he spent the suc- ceeding eleven years on the farm, with his father, about ten miles from Richmond. The principal part of his education he obtained in Tennessee, though he attended school after coming to this county until he was grown. In the spring of 1864, he bought a farm about seven miles north- west of Knoxville, and lived there four years. He then sold this farm and began merchandising at Knoxville, and continued the business until Feb- ruary, 1870, when he traded his stock of goods for a farm near Millville, and lived there, until the following August, raising one crop. He then bought the store of Carter & Davis, at Millville, and removed thither with his family. 'In August, 1878, J. F. Cramer became a partner in the busi- ness, and the firm is styled Grimes & Cramer. They continue to do a thriving business at Millville. Mr. Grimes was married in the month of October, 1860, to Miss Mary E. Cramer, daughter of Judge David Cramer, of Ray county. Seven children have been born of this union, all now living at home with their parents. Mr. Grimes is a member of the Masonic lodge at Millville, and has several times served his lodge in an official capacity. He is also a Good Templar, having been a charter member of the lodge where he lives. He has belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church South since 1868. He has frequently represented his church as a delegate to conference, etc.
J. M. CARTER.
The subject of this sketch was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, January 3, 1830. His father, Mr. Ira Carter, was a farmer and stock-raiser of that county, and the possessor of considerable property. Ira Carter removed with his family to the state of Illinois, and there our subject was educated. His father died when James was sixteen years of age, and the next year he came to Richmond, Ray county, Missouri, and began clerking in the general merchandise store of Carter & McGhee. The senior partner of this firm was his half-brother. After remaining in this position for about eighteen months, he went, at the heat of the gold excitement in 1849, to California, where he spent a year at mining, and then went to Oregon, and engaged in the lumber business. This enter- prise was very successful, and in 1852 Mr. Carter returned to Missouri.
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He located at Albany, Ray county, and engaged in merchandising and milling with his brother, Mr. Eli Carter. He continued the business until 1859, when J. M. Carter sold his interest to his brother and others, and bought, in partnership with Mr. W. R. Shotwell, the mill located at the town of Millville. They operated this mill together until Mr. Carter went to Colorado, in 1860. In Colorado, Mr. Carter operated a saw-mill for another party, for about one year, and then came for his family, and took them to Colorado with him, leaving Mr. Shotwell again in charge of the mill they owned in partnership. During the time he was in the state of Colorado Mr. Carter engaged in farming and stock-raising, and by his industry and enterprise made the business very successful. He returned to Millville, Ray county, Missouri, in the autumn of 1865. Mr. Carter was married on the 4th day of May, 1854, to Miss Susan R. Har- rison. They became the parents of seven children, two sons and five daughters, all now living. One daughter, Ida B., is the wife of Mr. John A. Fletcher. The others are at home with their parents. Mr. Carter resides at Millville, where he owns and operates a large flouring-mill. He is a leading member of the M. E. Church South, and belongs to the Masonic lodge at Millville. His business is very prosperous, and he has a handsome home, surrounded by modern conveniences and comforts. As a man and a citizen he is highly esteemed and respected by all who know him.
W. M. QUARLES, M.D.
William M. Quarles was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, on the 19th day of September, 1840, and lived there until he was eleven years of age. He then came with his father in March, 1851, to Ray county, Missouri, and has lived here ever since. His father received the appointment of postmaster at Richmond, and lived there until the outbreak of the civil war, conducting a small farm half a mile from town, in connection with the postoffice. Our subject worked on this farm during summer, and attended Richmond College in winter. He received the greater part of his education at this school. In the year 1856, he began clerking in the dry goods store of Hughes, Wasson & Stewart, at Richmond, and con- tinued with them for two years. Becoming imbued with the determina- tion to fit himself for the practice of medicine, he entered the drug store of Dr. Mosby, and remaining with him two years, devoted the time to studying his chosen profession. At the beginning of the civil war he espoused the cause of the south, and responded promptly to Governor Jackson's call for volunteers by enlisting in the 1st Missouri cavalry. At the expiration of the time, six months, for which he had enlisted in the state guards, he entered the regular Confederate service for three years, in Colonel Reeves' 3d Missouri regiment of volunteers. In the spring of
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1862 he was sergeant and ensign, and afterwards was promoted to a first lieutenantcy. He served with great credit throughout the entire war, and was paroled after the surrender, on the 16th day of May, 1865. He at once returned to his home in Richmond, Missouri, and again entered Dr. Mosby's drug store as clerk, and resumed the study of medicine. By close economy he after awhile, saved money enough from his salary to defray the expense of a course of lectures. He accordingly entered the St. Louis Medical College for the term of 1866-7. At the expiration of the lecture course in the spring of 1867, he went to Millville, Ray county, and began the practice of his profession with such success that in about a year and a half he had secured means enough to return to college, which he did, graduating in the spring of 1869, from the St. Louis Medical Col- lege with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Quarles was married on the 17th day of March, 1868, to Miss Octavia Fowler, daughter of T. B. Fowler, Esq. Five children have been born of this union, two sons and three daughters. Their first son and one daughter, died in infancy, the others are living at this time, April, 1881. In 1874 Dr. Quarles engaged in partnership with his father-in-law, in the dry goods business at Mill- ville. He employed a clerk in the store to enable him to give his indivi- dual attention to his professional labors. Mr. Fowler was soon after elected to the office of county collector, and they sold the dry goods store to John P. Grimes. Dr. Quarles then went to Richmond, and engaged in the drug business with Dr. Holman, in connection with the practice of his profession. This partnership was broken up by the election of Dr. Hol- man county treasurer, and Dr. Quarles returned to Millville. Here he now enjoys a large and remunerative practice.
AMI HUGHES.
The gentleman whose name heads this sketch is a native of Ray county, Missouri, and was born on the old homestead of the Hughes fam- ily, June 5, 1857. He laid the foundation of his education in the common schools of his neighborhood, and then entered Richmond. College, from which institution he graduated, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, on his birthday, 1877. He spent the first year after leaving college, at home with his father, in Richmond, occasionally assisting with work on the farm in the county. In March, 1879, then in his twenty-second year, was given the entire management and control of the large farm owned by his. father, Mr. James S. Hughes, of Richmond. He conducted the business of this place alone, until his brother, Allen, who had been doing busines in St. Louis, came to his assistance, and they now operate the farm together. This place, consisting of 880 acres of excellent land, is situ- ated eight miles northeast of the town of Richmond. In fertility of soil, abundance of water, woodland and pasture, it is not surpassed by any in
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the county. It is well improved, having a commodious and handsome brick dwelling house, a large, roomy and conveniently constructed barn, and a fine, thrifty bearing orchard. Mr. Hughes and his brother are devoting special attention to stock raising, and have now some of the best varieties of fine-bred stock upon their farm. Mr. Hughes, though young in years, is a practical farmer, and bids fair to gain, in after years, wealth, and a position of great usefulness in the community. He is a courteous, affable gentleman, and highly esteemed by all who know him, for his many excellent qualities of head and heart.
JULIUS A. MADDUX.
Julius Augustus Maddux was born in Ray county, Missouri, three miles southeast of Millville. His father had been a farmer in Ray county some forty-four years at the time of his death. Mr. Maddux was educated in the district schools and grew up on his father's farm, and has ever since followed the business of farming. He was married in the year 1860, to Miss Mary Fields. The issue of this union was one child, Nancy W., now the wife of Mr. John Manley. Mrs. Maddux died when her child was but ten days old, and, in the spring of 1863, Mr. Maddux was married to Martha J. Turnadge, daughter of John Turnadge. They became the parents of seven children, five of whom, one girl and four boys, are living at this time, April, 1881. Four years after his mar- riage, Mr. Maddux bought a farm on Crooked river, and lived upon it three years. He then traded it for a place near where he was born. After living there for about three years, he removed to his present loca- tion, sections fifteen and twenty-two, township fifty-three, range twenty- eight. Mr. Maddux is a member of Charter Oak Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and also of the Farmers' Club. He is a practical farmer, and takes great interest in everything pertaining to agriculture.
R. B. ELLIS, M. D.
Robert B. Ellis was born in Sussex county, Virginia, December 4, 1812. When but six years old his father removed with him to Kentucky. Here he was educated, chiefly in Transylvania University, at Lexington, from the literary and classical department of which institution he gradu- ated with high honor. After leaving college he began the study of medi- cine, with the distinguished Doctor Benjamin Dudley for preceptor. He subsequently went through the usual course of instruction, and received the degree of doctor of medicine from the Pennsylvania Medical College. He soon after began to practice the healing art. Doctor Ellis came to Ray county in the year 1837, and, locating at Richmond, opened his doc- tor's office there. Here he soon made a host of friends, and rapidly built up a good practice. His success as a physician was such that he gained
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the confidence of the people all over the county, and his services were in almost constant demand. He possessed the happy faculty of making himself pleasant and agreeable to all classes, and rapidly rose in the popu- lar esteem in consequence. His fame as a physician spread throughout the state, and the extent of his practice was not excelled, perhaps, by that of any physician, at that time, in Missouri. After staying at Richmond for four years, Doctor Ellis removed to the suburbs of the town of Galla- tin, Missouri, at that time just being built up, and improving a fine farm, established his home upon it, and always afterward, during his residence in northwest Missouri, though frequently away traveling with his wife for the benefit of her health, he kept his home upon this farm. Doctor Ellis was twice elected to the higher branch of the general assembly of Mis- souri, and was a member of the national democratic convention that nom- inated James K. Polk for the presidency, at Baltimore, in 1844. His first wife died at Jefferson City, in 1842, whither she had accompanied her husband, who was there in attendance, as a member, upon the session of the state senate. During his second term as state senator, Doctor Ellis was married again, at Jefferson City. The lady becoming his wife this time, was a daughter of Hiram P. Goodrich, D. D., a distinguished educator and divine of Missouri. After the expiration of the senatorial session, Dr. Ellis returned, with his bride, to his home at Gallatin. Here he remained for one year, and then moved to St. Louis, and practiced his profession in that city for some time. During his residence there, he delivered a course of lectures to the students of the McDowell Medical College, upon "Cholera; its Origin, Progress, and Treatment," with partic- ular reference to its ravages, at that time, in this country. These lectures were delivered during the years 1848-9. As an evidence of appreciation of his valuable services, the college conferred the honorary degree of M. I). upon Doctor E., already a graduate of two popular institutions. In 1849 he went to California, and pursued the practice of medicine at the city of Sacra- mento. Here the second Mrs. Ellis died. The doctor remained at Sacra- mento until about the year 1860. During this time he was married again, to Miss Sarah J. Buckner. About the year 1860, Doctor Ellis removed from Sacramento to Carson City, Nevada. Here, eight years after her marriage, the third Mrs. Ellis died, and her husband was again left alone, and remained unmarried until his death. He was a member of the California legislature, and, at one time, was president of the medical university of that state. The issue of his first marriage was three children: Robert H., Mary E., and Adrian C .; of his second, two: Sallie and Rosa G .; and of the third, four: Paris B., Ada M., John G., and William W. Dr. R. B. Ellis died at Carson City, Nevada, in the month of January, 1873, and was buried with Masonic honors, and the legislature adjourned out of respect
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to the memory of the man who had figured so prominently in the affairs of the state, and attended the funeral in a body.
ROBERT H. ELLIS.
Is the eldest son of Doctor R. B. Ellis, whose biography appears in this work, and was born near Paris, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, Janu- ary 8, 1836. His father removed with him to Missouri in 1837, and he received his early education at the towns of Richmond and Gallatin. When his father went to live in St. Louis, he was placed under the charge and instruction of Doctor Goodrich, then a prominent educator of that city. In 1850 he accompanied his father to California, and there finished his education. After spending seven years in the state of California, he returned to Richmond, Missouri, and engaged in merchandising until the war began, in 1861. He enlisted under the first call of Governor C. F. Jackson, and remained as long as General Sterling Price was in Missouri, though he did not, after the state guard was disbanded enter the regular Confederate service. In 1860 Captain Ellis was a candidate on the Breck- enridge democratic ticket for representative of Ray county in the general assembly, and was defeated by a majority of only thirty-five votes. Except four years spent in the state of California, Mr. Ellis has lived con- tinuously, since the war, in Ray county. In 1860 he was married to Miss Emma Mansur, daughter of Charles Mansur, Esq., of Ray county. Five children are the result of this union, all of whom are now living. Mr. Ellis was admitted to practice law at the bar of Richmond in 1867, and pursued the legal calling for about two years, but preferring a farmer's life, he quit the law and became a tiller of the soil. Captain Ellis is des- cended from one of the best of old Virginia's families, and is a gentleman in every way worthy of his ancestry.
LEONIDAS DUVALL.
Is descended from the early French settlers of the "Old Dominion state." He was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, on the 26th day of September, 1838. His father, Isaac Duvall, removed with him to Ray county, Mis- souri, in the fall of 1844. He received his early education at the common schools, attending, as was the custom of the boys of the neighborhood, during the winter months, and assisting his father on the farm through the summer. In 1859, he entered the new college at the town of Richmond, and here completed his education. Mr. Duvall was married on the 26th day of November, 1865, to Mrs. Mary Gross, a widow lady, whose maiden name was Nuckols. She only lived about a year, and in Septem- ber, 1871, Mr. Duvall was again married to Miss Virginia M. Payne, of Clinton county, Missouri. Of this union two children, twins, were born, on the 9th day of February, 1877. They were named respectively:
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Albert Payne and Willie Payne, in honor of their grandfather. Mr. Duvall owns a fine farm of 200 acres of good, fertile, land, chiefly devoted to growing grass, and raising cattle and fine stock. He has been a trader in mules since 1860, and in this business has accumulated the prin- cipal part of his property. He owns the fine draft stallion, Loch Fergus Chief, of the celebrated Clydesdale stock, imported from Scotland in 1879, at a cost of more than a thousand dollars, and also is the owner of the large black jack, Bourbon Chief, purchased in Kentucky, at a cost of one thousand dollars. Mr. Duvall is making laudable efforts for the improve- ment of the live stock of the county. Mr. Duvall's farm lies near the old oil wells of the St. Louis Petroleum Company, and the entire place and adjacent lands were pronounced by Prof. Swallow, then state geolo- gist, to be underlaid with coal. He is a member in good standing of the Richmond Lodge, of the order of Free Masons, and one of Ray's most progressive, practical and successful farmers, and occupies an enviable position in. the respect of the good people of the section in which he resides.
J. F. DUVALL.
Was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, on the 20th day of February, 1840. He came to Missouri with his father who immigrated to Ray county in the year 1844. Mr. Duvall obtained the greater part of his education in the common schools of his neighborhood; he did, however, attend the college at Richmond for the space of eighteen months. After leaving this institution, Mr. Duvall began working at the saddle-maker's trade at Richmond, and continued in this work for four years. At the outbreak of the great civil war, he responded to the first call of Gov- ernor Jackson for volunteers, and when the six months for which he joined the state guards had expired, he entered the regular Confederate army for the war, in the Third regiment of Missouri infantry. He fought in every battle in which his regiment was engaged, except two. After the surrender of the Confederate army in 1865, Mr. Duvall returned to Ray county and resumed work on the farm with his father, until he was married. His marriage to Miss Kate Forbes, daughter of John Forbes, Esq., of Ray county, Missouri, took place on the 20th of February, 1873. Of this union three children, Isaac, Fannie and Bettie, have been born to them. Mr. Duvall occupies and owns a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, all in an excellent state of cultivation, except about twenty acres of woodland. He is also a stock raiser and takes great pride in his good breed of live stock, more especially of hogs and cattle. He is not a member of any religious denomination, but he belongs to the brotherhood of A. F. & A. M. He has held the position of worshipful master of his lodge at Millville for some years. Mrs. Duvall
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belongs to the congregation of the Mount Hope M. E. Church. Mr. Duvall is a prosperous farmer, a highly respected citizen, a kind neigh- bor and an honorable gentleman.
ANDREW WELLS.
A native of Ray county, Missouri, was born six miles south of the town of Richmond, on the 10th day of November, 1833. He lived here and continued at work on the farm with his father until the outbreak of the gold fever, and consequent rush to California. Our subject left home in 1853, and went to the gold fields of the great west. In California, Mr. Wells was chiefly engaged in mining, though he also operated a saw mill and possessed a hog ranch while there. He returned home in 1857, hav- ing been so successful in his quest of wealth as to enable him to buy a comfortable home. On the 9th day of December of the same year, he was married to Miss Susan F. Endsley, a daughter of Mr. John Endsley, of Ray county. Mr. Wells remained on his farm in Ray county until 1864, when he removed to Virginia City, Montana territory. While there he engaged in a trade in flour during the winter season, and mined in summer. Mrs. Wells accompanied him in his travels through the west, and they finally returned to Ray county and spent some months at the home of her father, after which they again took possession of their old home near Millville. Mr. Wells has been a member of the A. F. & .A. M. Lodge at Millville since 1870. He is a highly respected citizen, and a good, practical farmer.
J. H. HAYNES.
J. H. Haynes was born in Ray county, Missouri, five miles north of Richmond, August 29, 1849. He is a son of J. P. Haynes, Esq., whose biography we give elsewhere in this work. Mr. Haynes received his education, chiefly, in the common schools of his native county. In 1872, Mr. Haynes was married to Miss Sophronia E. McCuistion, daughter of William McCuistion, Esq., of Ray county. She was born upon the place where they now reside, in 1856. Their union has been blessed by the birth of two children: Bessie Ethel and William Elbert. Mr. Haynes is a member of Crooked River Grange, No. 1005, Patrons of Husbandry, and has given his lifelong attention to agricultural pursuits. He is engaged to a considerable extent in raising fine stock. He feeds and ships to market large numbers of hogs and cattle. Mrs. Haynes is a consistent member of the Christian Church, and of the order of Patrons of Hus- bandry. She was elected to the office of "Ceres" in the grange to which she belongs, a year ago, and yet, April, 1881, occupies that position. Mr. Haynes has been very fortunate and successful in his business affairs, and
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to-day is in a highly prosperous condition. His excellent farm is well supplied with everything necessary to his comfort and happiness, and he is highly respected and esteemed by his fellow citizens.
H. C. SMITH.
Henry Clay Smith is a native of Kentucky, born in Woodford county, on the 14th day of October, 1820. His father emigrated from Maryland to Kentucky at an early day. He died soon after the birth of our sub- ject, leaving his widow, with seven young children, in very straitened circumstances. Henry's advantages for obtaining an education were, in consequence of his father's death and the family's poverty, quite limited. He remained with his mother, working for the common support of the family, until his twenty-first year, when the whole family removed to Ray county, Missouri, and stopped for about a year on a farm near Rich- mond. This was in 1841. In 1842 Mr. Smith and his brother, B. F., bought a tract of land near the town of Millville. This land was in a wild state, covered with dense forest and underbrush. By their indomit- able industry the brothers cleared and improved this place, and made a living for themselves and their mother's family. They continued to clear and improve the place until, in 1849, Henry bought out the interest of his brother, and thus gained entire control of the place. His mother continued to reside with him until her death, which occurred in 1859. Mr. Smith was married in the autumn of 1870 to Miss Cynthia A. Smith, daughter of Peyton T. Smith, a prominent farmer of Ray county. Though their names were the same, they are not in anyway related to one another by ties of consanguinity. Two children were born of this union: Nora Belle and Lucy Rachel. Mr. Smith still resides on the farm which himself and brother improved. He has added to it from time to time until it now comprises some four hundred and forty acres. His residence, a large and handsome frame building, occupies a conspicu- ous location near the point where the Richmond, Russellville, Millville, and Tinney's Point roads intersect one another. Since the war Mr. Smith has turned his attention mostly to the raising of stock. Mrs. Smith is a member of the Millville M. E. Church. Mr. Smith is a self-made man, and one of the most properous and successful farmers in the county.
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