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USA > Missouri > Warren County > History of St. Charles, Montgomery, and Warren counties, Missouri, written and comp. from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of their townships, towns and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri > Part 83
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THOMAS H. FORD (Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Wall Paper, Notions, etc., etc., New Florence).
Mr. Ford was the next younger son after Dr. James C. Ford, whose sketch precedes this, of William and Martha A. (Epperson) Ford, formerly of Danville, this county, who came to Missouri from Camp- bell county, Va., in 1838. Thomas H. Ford was born near Danville October 9, 1840, and was reared in the town of Danville, to which his father removed when Thomas H. was about five years of age. He received a commercial school education, and learned the blacksmith's trade under his father, with whom he worked until the outbreak of the war. He then enlisted in the Union service, becoming a member of Co. C, Ninth Missouri cavalry, under Gen. Odon Guitar. He was in the service for three years. Mr. Ford engaged in his present busi- ness at New Florence in 1869. In this same line of business for the last 15 years, by close attention and fair dealing, he has become thor- oughly established as one of the representative, responsible business men of New Florence. He is a druggist with whom the public like to deal, and physicians generally patronize him on account of his care and accuracy in compounding prescriptions. Mr. Ford owns the business house he occupies, and has the additional advantage in the trade of having no rent to pay. He also has a comfortable residence property in the county. On June 18, 1873, Mr. Ford was married to Miss Mary H., a daughter of Joseph F. Webb, formerly of Indiana. She died, however, about five years afterwards, June 15, 1878. He has not since remarried. His father made his home with him until the former's death in 1884. Mr. Ford is a member of the Presbyter- ian Church.
JOHN FRAZIER,
(The Oldest Living Resident of the County, New Florence) .
Grandfather Frazier, for so he is called by all who know him, will shortly complete his eighty-fourth year, and was reared in St. Charles county when that county included the present county of Montgomery and a number of other neighboring counties. He has been a con- tinuous resident of the territory now included in Montgomery county since prior to the organization of this county, which was affected in 1837. He is therefore justly and properly known and recognized as one of the fathers of the county. In recognition of this fact the Old Settler's Association of the county at one of the meetings a short time ago voted and donated him an easy chair, which he now uses. Grand- father Frazier was a child only in his third year when his parents, James and Jane ( Anderson ) Frazier, came to this part of what was then known as Upper Louisiana territory, early in 1804. They were from what is now Kentucky, and near the mouth of the Little Sandy ; and on coming to what is now Missouri they settled in the Missouri
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river bottom, about 30 miles above the town site of St. Charles. For a number of years the nearest trading point for Mr. Frazier's father was St. Charles. As he grew up he often met Daniel Boone and his fellow pioneers, and remembers the old Indian fighter and path-finder of civilization very distinctly. Mr. Frazier's parents reared a family of 12 children, namely : Sallie, Betsy, David, James, Polly, John, Jane, Thomas, William, Abagail, Martin and Caty, all of whom . married and themselves became the heads of families. The subject of this sketch was the sixth in the family of children, and was born at his father's homestead in Kentucky, about a mile above the mouth of the Little Sandy, on the 20th of February, 1801. After he grew up in this new country of Missouri, he was married February 21, 1822, to Miss Mary Shirk, of St. Charles county, a daughter of John Shirk, from Virginia. She died in about 1837, leaving six chil- dren : David, James, Anthony, Martha, Mary and Amanda. Mr. Frazier's second wife was a Miss Sallie T. Hall, who survived until 1878, dying on the 4th of July of that year. There were no children by this union. Mr. Frazier followed farming almost continuously through life up to his retirement from active work some years ago. He came to Montgomery county in 1870. A participant in the great work of building up the country, he is familiar with many of the lead- ing events, and relates many interesting incidents worthy of a place in history, but mention of these is made elsewhere. He now finds a welcome and pleasant home in his old age in the household of his nephew (by marriage with his last wife), Mr. Benjamin E. Wilson, a sketch of whom appears on another page. Considering his advanced age and the hardships of his early life, he is well preserved both in mental vigor and bodily strength and activity. He is one of the last old landmarks of the early history of the country who remain.
ROBERT G. GOODRICH (Farmer, Post-office, Big Spring).
Mr. Goodrich is a native of Virginia, born in Amherst county, No- vember 16, 1827. His father was Gideon C. Goodrich, and his mother Elizabeth Carter, before her marriage, he born August 27, 1785, and she March 14, 1793. They were married in Virginia in 1809, and had a family of ten children, eight of whom lived to reach years of maturity. However, in 1830 the family came to Missouri and settled in Callaway county, but later along they removed to Monroe county, where the parents made their permanent home. The father died there in 1835; the mother in Danville, Mo., in 1859. Robert G. was partly reared in Monroe county, and after the death of his father had very limited advantages for an education, - his whole term of tuition, in fact, not exceeding 12 months. He early became a farmer on his own account, and was actively engaged in farming until after the war broke out. During the second year of the war he enlisted in the Union army, or, rather, in the State militia, becoming a member of Judge Lovelace's company, Co. D, afterwards com-
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manded by Capt. Kelley. In 1865 he became a member of a provis- ional regiment, in which he served until the close of the war. After this Mr. Goodrich resumed farming, and also followed carpentering, a trade he had learned prior to the war. In 1851 he was married to Miss Margaret Hart, of Montgomery county, and he then settled on the farm where he now resides. He has a neat place and is a farmer of industry and energy. Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich have been blessed with a numerous family of children, 14 in all, 11 of whom are living. He and wife are members of the Christian Church. The children of their family are as follows: Hugh G., born September 29, 1852, and now in the milling business at Jonesburg ; Annie E., born De- cember 9, 1854, and now the wife of John W. Pratt, a farmer of Pike county ; Junius, born April 17, 1857, now engaged in milling at Readsville, in Callaway county ; Emma, born February 16, 1859, a popular teacher of this county ; Mary, born May 24, 1861, also an accomplished teacher; Abram C., born May 2, 1863; Nellie, born' August 10, 1865 ; James L., born October 2, 1867; Ida, born November 2, 1869; Thomson W., born February 13, 1876; and Samuel B., born March 10, 1878. The daughters, who have grown up, are all young ladies of excellent educations, and the eldest daughter, now Mrs. Pratt, was a successful teacher for some nine or ten years before her marriage. Hugh G. was also a popular teacher for several years before going into the milling business. Mr. Goodrich's brother, Martin P., was an officer in the old Missouri militia before the war. He rose to the rank of captain, then to that of major and finally to the command of his regiment. Another brother, Abram, is a well known and eloquent minister of the Baptist Church in Texas.
D. F. GRAHAM
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Mineola).
Mr. Graham, one of the leading agriculturists and land-holders of Danville township and one of its highly respected and influential citi- zens, is a son of Dr. Robert Graham, a well known, prominent and honored old pioneer settler of the county. The Graham family of which Mr. Graham is a representative came originally from Scotland, and were of the better class of intelligent, well-to-do people in that country. Mr. Graham's grandparents came direct from the song- famed valley of the Doon, in Scotland, to North Carolina, where they settled and reared their family. Being in comfortable circumstances when they came to America, they also prospered in this country, after the manner of the substantial comforts of those days. Mr. Graham's father, Dr. Robert Graham, born in North Carolina, grew up on his father's farm in that State and received an excellent general education, both from a private tutor and by the instruction of his father. He early discovered a taste for the medical profession and decided to devote himself to it. He read medicine under a promi- nent physician in North Carolina and in due time became a regular licentiate in the practice. With a natural taste and aptitude for the
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profession, his zeal as a student and his close attention to the prac- tice soon gave him a prominent position among the physicians of the country. Dr. Graham became a physician from a love of the science of medicine and from a high sense of duty to suffering humanity, and it is a fact known by all who know anything of his career as a physi- cian that never, in an extensive and arduous practice that lasted for a lifetime, did he charge a single cent for his services. He was married in Kentucky, where he had removed in young manhood, and as early as 1816, away back in the territorial and wilderness days of this part of the country, he cast his fortunes with those of Missouri and made his home in what is now Montgomery county. His nearest neighbor is said to have been at St. Charles on the east, and on the west the nearest one was at Columbia. The nearest neighbor south was one mile, at old Loutre Lick; the next at Loutre Island, a distance of 18 miles. The nearest mill was at the first-named place, a distance of 70 miles. He had resided in Kentucky some years before coming to Missouri. He died here in 1855 at a ripe old age, widely and pro- foundly mourned, for he was well known far and wide, and as highly esteemed as he was well known. His wife was a Miss Isabel Galbreath before her marriage, whose parents were also from Scotland to North Carolina. She survived her husband ten years, one of the worthy, highly respected old pioneer mothers of the county. She was an earnest and faithful member of the Primitive Baptist Church from early life. They left a large estate, including over 2,500 acres of land and considerable other property. There were eleven children in the family, namely : John G., Alexander W., James W., Benjamin R., Robert D., Franklin D., Doctor F., Patrick H., Mariam, Catherine, who married I. V. Boon, and Florann. The subject of this sketch, D. F. Graham, was born ten years after the settlement of his parents in Montgomery county, and on the farm on which he now resides, the date being July 16, 1826. Good schools have been kept at Danville from an early period, and young Graham had the benefit of instruc- tion in these. His tastes have been agricultural from boyhood, and farming and handling stock early became his fixed pursuit. These he has ever since followed with industry and enterprise and with good success. Mr. Graham has not only become a worthy representative of the better and more intelligent class of citizens of the county, but one of its thorough-going, progressive agriculturists. He has a fine place of 1,360 acres, a large part of which is well improved. This land has passed through the hands of two grantees, or rather . it has been transferred but twice -first, by the Spanish government to Nathan and Daniel H. Boone, sons of the old hero-pioneer, and from them to Dr. Graham, from whom it was inherited by the latter's son, D. F. March 20, 1860, Mr. Graham was married to Miss Susan R. White, a daughter of Benjamin White, another early settler and esteemed citizen of the county, who came originally from Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. G. have three children : Susan W., Mary F. and Ben R. The eldest is the wife of R. A. Baker, of this county. Mrs. G.
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is a sister to Ben White, Esq., of Danville, treasurer of Montgomery county.
ALEXANDER W. GRAHAM ( Pere), AND WILLIAM A. GRAHAM (Fils)
(Farmers and Stock-raisers, Post-office, Mineola).
Something of an outline of the history of the Graham family, or the branch of it to which the subjects of this sketch belong, has been given in the sketch of D. F. Graham, a brother to Alex. W., which precedes this. Dr. Graham, the founder of the family in this county, in addition to being a prominent agriculturist and landholder and a successful physician, was to some extent identified with the official affairs of the county. He was for a number of years a judge of the county court, and held other positions of public trust. His large landed estate was the product of his own industry and good manage- ment. First, buying a tract of 300 acres, he added to his original tract until his estate numbered 2,500 acres. As shown above, Alex- ander W. Graham was the third in his father's family of children. He was born while his parents were residents of Christian county, Ky. (where indeed, they met and were married ), his natal day being the 6th of January, 1813. He was therefore three years of age when the family came to Montgomery county, Mo., in which he was reared, and, like his brother, D. F., has made this his permanent home. On the 10th of October, 1849, he was married to Miss Martha E. Crane, a daughter of George W. Crane, an early settler of the county. They have become the parents of five children, one of whom is deceased, Robert L. ; the others are William A., Annabel, who is the wife of George H. Jones, Catherine M., the wife of Thomas Vaughn, and one other. Mr. Graham has been largely en- gaged in farming and stock raising in this county for years. He has a fine tract of 1,500 acres of land, all improved, one of the largest and best farms in the county, and is now living in quasi retirement on his farm, having his lands largely rented, but yet reserving a considera- ble body for farming purposes under bis own management. Mr. Graham had the misfortune to lose his wife, in 1880, who died on the 10th of April. She had been a devout member of the Primitive Baptist Church for many years, and was one of the best of women, a devoted wife, loving mother, kind neighbor and Christian lady. Mr. G., himself, is a member of the same church of which his wife was so long an exemplary member.
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM, the eldest and only living son of Alexander W. Graham, was born on his father's homestead December 22, 1856, and was reared on the farm. His father being a man who appreciated the value and importance of a good education, gave his children ex- cellent school advantages. William A., after a course of preparatory instruction in the common and intermediate schools, was matriculated at William Jewell College, where he became proficient in the higher branches. On the 26th of December, 1877, he was married to Miss
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Epsie McGee, a daughter of Robert McGee of Montgomery City, but formerly of St. Louis. Mrs. Graham was principally educated at Montgomery City. They have three children, Emily, Martha and Robert Alexander. Mr. Graham, who has followed in the footsteps of his father and become a farmer and stock raiser, has an excellent farm of 460 acres, a part of his father's old homestead. He makes something of a specialty of shipping and feeding stock, and has been quite successful in this branch of industry. Mrs. G. is a member of the M. E. Church. Socially and otherwise they rank with the best people of Danville township, and are highly esteemed wherever they are known.
GEORGE W. GREGORY
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, and Ex-Sheriff, Post-office, Danville).
Born and reared in Montgomery county, Mr. Gregory has spent his whole life thus far within its borders, excepting one or two temporary absences. Now one of the substantial farmers of the county and one of its highly respected and influential citizens, he commenced life, however, for himself when a young man, practically without a penny. For 17 years he worked at the blacksmith's trade. He has a fine farm of over 400 acres, and is comfortably situated. In 1878 he was nominated and elected to the office of sheriff, to which he was re-elected, holding it four years. Mr. Gregory was a son of John and Elizabeth (Fuqua ) Gregory, who came to this county from Virginia in about 1831. His father had been a gallant old soldier of the War of 1812, and was much esteemed by all who knew him. He was a farmer by occupation, and he and his wife were exemplary mem- bers of the Missionary Baptist Church. George W. was born July 4, 1834, and was the youngest of a family of eight children. He early learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for nearly a score of years, as stated above. February 24, 1864, he was married to Miss Mary A. White, daughter of Benjamin White, a pioneer settler of the county. . Mr. and Mrs. G. have seven children, namely : Susan E., Anna P., Ben L., Georgia, Nellie, Stanley and Cecil. Du- ring the war Mr. Gregory served two years in the Confederate army. He takes an earnest and active interest in everything in his vicinity calculated to promote the general good, either material or otherwise. He is a prominent member of the A. F. & A. M., and of the I. O.O. F. He is a Democrat in politics.
RICHARD F. GREGORY
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Prairie Fork).
The Gregory family is one of the oldest in history, and may be traced back through consecutive generations to almost the beginning of the Christian era. The earliest representative of the family of whom we have any account is Thuamaturgus Gregory, a convert of Origen and distinguished by his writings and marvelous power in the conver- sion of the heathen. He died about A. D. 270. From him there is a
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long line of the family name, branches of which spread out into nearly every known country. Perhaps the most famous branch of the family is the Scotch branch, members of which have become eminent in almost every department of thought and human activity. This branch descends from James Gregory, born in 1639, minister of Drumoack, in Aberdeenshire. He died at the early age of 36, but already had become a man of world-wide reputation as a scholar, philosopher and scientist. There are some eight or ten others of the Scotch branch who have become hardly less distinguished than their eminent predecessor. Several of the family have become prominent in this country. Mr. Gregory, the subject of this sketch, descends from the Scotch branch of the family, a representative of which early settled in the colony of Virginia. His father was William Gregory, a native of Virginia, and he himself was born in that State, July 12, 1819. His mother was a Miss Nancy Fuqua before her marriage, also of an old Virginia family. She died in Virginia when Richard F. was about two years of age. His father subsequently married Miss Nancy Robinson, of Virginia. He came to this State in 1835 and settled in Callaway county. He became a successful farmer of that county and resided there nearly 25 years, or until his death, in 1859. Richard F. Gregory, the subject of this sketch, was the third in his father's first family of four children, and there were also four in the second family of children. He was 16 years of age when his father came to Missouri, and he completed his ephebiage in Callaway county, being brought up to farm life. On attaining his manhood he soon began to farm for himself, and continued in Callaway county engaged in farming until after his marriage, except while absent on the Pacific coast. In 1849 he went to Cali- fornia and followed mining out there with measurable success for about five years. Returning in 1854, on the 26th of February, three years afterwards, he was married to Miss Rachel, a daughter of James and Nancy Oliver, formerly of Kentucky. Mr. Gregory set- tled on the land on which he now resides in 1858. He has been satisfactorily successful as a farmer and stock-raiser, and has a valu- able stock farm of 500 acres. Mr. and Mrs. G. have reared five children : James W., Hattie M., Anna, now a student at the State University ; Bella, a student at Christian College, Columbia ; and Blanche, the youngest, who is with her parents at home. Mr. and Mrs. G. have long been worthy members of the Christian Church.
WILLIAM L. GUPTON
(Clerk of the County Court, Danville).
Though a Kentuckian by nativity, Mr. Gupton was reared in Mont- gomery county, Mo., and this has continued to be his home from childhood. His parents were Stephen and Mary ( Miller) Gupton, originally of the Blue Grass State, and he was born in the vicinity of Campbellsville, Taylor county, on the 26th of January, 1853. During the same year his parents came to Missouri and settled near Middle-
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town, in this county. Two years later they removed to Middletown and made their permanent home in that place, or until after the father's death. He died, however, soon afterwards, in 1856. William L. was the eldest of two children. The other, also a son, is now de- ceased, having died in boyhood. The mother, some years after her husband's death, became the wife of John W. James, Esq., now of Wellsville, but they continued to reside at Middletown until 1873. William L. Gupton was reared at Middletown, and educated in the public schools of that place. At the age of 16, however, he quit and entered a drug store as clerk, in which line of business he continued to clerk until 1874. Having by economy succeeded in accumulating a nucleus of means with which to begin business for himself, he became a member of the firm of Ford & Co., of Danville, in which he re- mained until 1878, when he was elected to his present office of county clerk. As a business man he was quite successful at Middletown, considering the time he was engaged in business; and such was his high standing, indeed, and the general esteem in which he was held, that in 1878 he was solicited to become a candidate for his present office. The result showed that his friends had not overestimated his popularity. He was elected by a handsome majority, and duly in- stalled into office the following January. His duties in office were faithfully and efficiently performed, and his private life, as ever be- fore, remained untarnished. Hence, at the expiration of his term, he .. was heartily indorsed by a flattering re-election. He is now serving his second term in that office, and his popularity is steadily increasing with the progress of his official experience. Mr. Gupton has just cause to contemplate his career, from an orphan boy with his own way to make in the world up to his present position, with a feeling of no ordinary satisfaction. It is certainly a record of which he has no rea- son to feel ashamed. Mr. Gupton was united in marriage with Miss Linnie White, a refined and accomplished daughter of ex-Sheriff A. H. White, of this county. They were married June 19, 1884. Mrs. Gupton is a lady of superior education and accomplishments, and was for five years previous to her marriage a popular teacher in Mont- gomery and Franklin counties. She is a member of the M. E. Church South. Mr. G. is a member of the Christian Church, and a promin- ent Odd Fellow. He is interested in banking at Wellsville, and is a director in the savings bank at that place.
JUDGE WILLIAM R. HARRIS
(Probate Judge of Montgomery County, Danville).
For nearly half a century, though not continuously, Judge Harris has been identified with the public affairs of Montgomery county. He was elected a member of the county court in 1850 for a term of four years, and was thereafter re-elected for the next succeeding term, giving him in all a service on the county bench of eight years. He was then elected to represent the county in the Legislature, and was again elected in 1860, his second term to have expired in 1862.
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Meanwhile the war had come on, and his sympathies were with the South, having been born and reared in Virginia. He was therefore driven from the Legislature by means of the notorious "Ousting Ordinance," and was heard from no more until after the war, and until sometime after the dark shadow of disfranchisement it left had passed away, having remained quietly on his farm. About the close of the war, having been robbed and plundered of nearly every thing he had in the world, and threatened time and again with death, he left the country and went, in the spring of 1865, to Abingdon, Knox county, Ill. Afterward, in 1866, he returned and went to work to repair his losses. Industry and good management were not slow in producing their usual results, substantial prosperity, and gradually he has become again comfortably situated. In 1871 he was once more called into the public service, and was elected to the Legislature to fill out the unexpired term of Hon. A. M. Hammett, who died while in office. He served in the session of 1871-72. In 1874 Judge Harris was elected to the office of probate judge of the county, a position he has ever since continued to hold by successive re-elections. Up to 1875 he resided on his farm, four miles south-west of Wellsville, an excellent place of about 400 acres, now under the management of his son, Jarrot. Since then he has been a resident of Danville. His suc- cess in life in accumulating a comfortable competency and in being accorded by the general voice of the people the enviable position he occupies in their esteem and confidence, as well as officially, is a suffi- cient index of the character of man he is, and, as is known to all who are acquainted with the people of this county, he is one of its most substantial and highly respected citizens. Judge Harris in early life was a school teacher by profession, mainly self-educated, and taught in all for over 20 years, but during much of that time was also en- gaged in farming and occupied with other affairs. As has been said, he is a Virginian by nativity and bringing up. He was born at the base of the Blue Ridge, in Albemarle county, on the 31st of Decem- ber, 1812, and was a son of Jarrot and Jane (Ramsey ) Harris, both of old and respected Virginia families, and of Welsh-English descent. Reared in Virginia, he came to Missouri in 1838, his parents having preceded him to this State the year before, and settled on Little Loutre creek, about four miles from Wellsville. They died on their homestead in that vicinity, his father at the age of 78, and his mother aged 72. Judge Harris had taught school in Virginia for somie four or five years before coming to Missouri. He resumed teaching n this county, which he had followed in Virginia four or five years, and subsequently taught in Ralls county for some time. He was elected a judge of the county court in 1850, as stated above, and about this time, or a short time before, he engaged in farming. Judge Harris was married in 1852, on the 2d of March, to Miss Margaret N. Bethel, of the vicinity of Glasgow, in Barren county, Ky. Their union proved a long and happy one, but was at last broken, too soon even then, on the 5th of December, 1881, when she breathed her last at her home in Danville, in this county. Her loss was a heavy
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