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Mr. Cowles has made a success of his paper. which has now been running about five years, and
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in addition to that he has also given considerable attention to real estate and loans, doing a remun- erative business in that direction. and being prin- cipally engaged in handling farm land in Ray and adjoining counties. In accord with his polit- ical faith he deposits his ballots in favor of the nominees of the Democratic party.
ANIEL W. BARCLAY. residing on section 24. township 60, range 20. Linn County, owns a valuable farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and makes a specialty of stock-raising. particularly the breeding of fine hogs. Hle is a native of the Empire State, born in Lyons in 1842, and until nine years of age was a resident of that State. lle then removed with his parents to Adams County, HIL., where he was reared to manhood.
Daniel Barelay. our subject's father, who was also born in New York State, located in Illinois about the year 1852, on a farm about sixteen miles from Quincy. Ile was engaged in farming until his death, which occurred near Mendon. Ili. Ilis wife bore the maiden name of Phobe E. Per- rine, and their family comprised five sons and six daughters. Those living are: John P., a dealer in farm implements in Allegan, Mich .: Ira C., a farmer in Knox County, Mo .; Caroline E., wife of John C. Austin, of New York, now a resident of Mendon, Ill .; Catherine E., wife of Jonah Austin (deceased), and now a resident of Lyons. Wayne County, N. Y .; and Letitia S., who married Abra- ham Chittenden (brother of Senator S. R. Chit- tenden ), who is a retired farmer of Adams County, Ill. The father of these children was in active service during the War of 1812, and at the ex- piration of his enlistment received an honorable discharge.
In the spring of 1862 Daniel W. Barelay en- listed in the One Hundred and Eighteenth Illinois Infantry, becoming a member of Company K, at Mendon. He was in the service for over three years, and was mustered out in July, 1865, at New Orleans, La. After the siege of Vicksburg he was ;
transferred to the United States Signal Service. In 1865 he returned to Mendon, near which city he engaged in farming for two years. after which he emigrated to Linn County, Mo., buying a farm near Browning. In 1891 he purchased his pres- ent farm at the rate of $20 an aere. and since he- coming its owner has made many valuable im- provements upon the same. As a farmer, Mr. Barelay's efforts have met with signal success, his farm being a model of fertility and neatness.
In Linneus. Linn County. the year 1867 witnessed the marriage of Mr. Barelay and Miss Emma North- cott. daughter of B. F. Northeott. a native of Ken- tucky, who was a Methodist minister. traveling and preaching throughout this country for many years. The union of this couple has been blessed with a family of eight children, six of whom are boys. They are as follows: Edwin IL .. Ben N .. William P., Herbert W .. Guy A., John 1. Phic E. and Bessie B. Ben N. is married and engaged in farming in Adams County, Ill .; Edwin is a teacher of music, and is also engaged in farming: and Phoebe is a school teacher of more than ordi- nary talent.
In his political views Mr. Barclay is attiliated with the Republican party, and is a member of the Grand Army post at Browning. With his wife and daughter Phoebe he is a member of the Pres- byterian Church, in the work of which they are actively interested.
FINK, general merchant in Ilale, is a na_ tive of Germany, his birth having occurred in 1838 in Prussia. His parents, Christian and Louisa (Yaeger) Fink, with their family of eight children. of whom our subject is the sixth in order of birth, crossed the Atlantic in 1850. their destination being New York. They settled on a farm in Genesee County, not far from the eity of Buffalo.
On leaving the scenes of his early childhood. the subject of this sketeh was but twelve years of age, and he wa- reared on his parents' farm in the Empire State. He attended the common schools
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at Darien and afterward those in Buffalo. After completing his studies he engaged in clerking for a number of year- in Buffalo. Chicago and Quiney, and there acquired the practical knowledge and experience of merchandising which have proved invaluable to him in later years.
When the Civil War broke out. Mr Fink was manager of a general store in Quincy, Ill., but his devotion to the cause of the I'nion caused him to : resign his position. Ile enlisted as a Sergeant in ; Company A, Twenty-seventh Illinois Infantry, but was promoted to be First Sergeant and afterward to be First Lieutenant. In the capacity of Captain he commanded his company through the Atlanta campaign, participating in all the important bat- tles thereof. among which we mention the battles of Belmont. Farmington, siege of Corinth. Stone River. Chickamauga. Mission Ridge. Kenesaw Mountain. Peach Tree Creek, At! nta, etc. Hle was considered by his superiors, as well as his fel- low-officers and the men under him, one of the most energetic and competent officers in the ser- vice. Ile was ever found at the post of duty, and his superior officers felt that they could repose the utmost confidence in his courage and strict atten- tion to duty. Ile was mustered out September 20, 1864.
Returning from the scenes of conflict. Mr. Fink at once embarked in the general merchandising business at Utica, Mo .. and later opened a branch house in Mooresville, which business he carried on successfully for twenty years. In May, 1885. he opened a general mercantile establishment in Hale, which he has conducted up to the present time. Ile also owns and carries on a branch house at Lud- low, Mo., and another in Dawn, of this State. In , summer.
his business relations he has proved himself pro- gressive and enterprising and makes friends of all his customers as a result of his fair and square dealings. He has largely contributed to the growth and prosperity of the town. and his resi- dence and grounds are considered among the tin- est in the county. 1hs stores are also models and attract attention from all visitors. le is the owner of three large general stores. all in a flour- ishing condition and conducted under the follow. ing names: C. Fink. at Hale: C. Fink & Co .. at
Dawn; C. Fink & Son, in Ludlow. Among his promineat characteristics may be mentioned his unswerving integrity, together with correct habit- and business experience, which entitle him to the confidence of all who may have business relations with him.
In 1853, Mr. Fink and Miss Settie Romei-er were married. Mis. Fink is the daughter of John Rom- eiser, one of the first settlers of Quincy, IL .. and by her marriage has become the mother of five children. as follows: Edward W .; Pearl, who is the wife of II. C. Freed. of Unionville, Mo .; Ida, now the wife of S. F. S. Hudson. Cashier of the bank at Dawn; Birdie, who resides at home with her parents: and Arthur C. Socially, Mr. Fink is a member of Hale City Lodge No. 184, F. & A. M., and the Grand Army of the Republic. Since becoming a voter he has used his right of franchise in favor of the Re- publican nominees and is a loyal supporter of that party.
G EORGE W. LAVELOCK, Judge of the Pro- bate Court, residing at Richmond. was born in Ray County, Mo., in January. 1860. and is the youngest son of Thomas and Dorcas ( shoup) Lavelock. Ilis boyhood was passed in an un- eventful manner on the home farm. and upon completing a common-school education. he entered the State University of Missouri at Columbia. Ile was graduated from the law department in 1881, after which he engaged in teaching during the winter season and operated as a farmer in the
In partnership with his brother T. N .. our sub- ject commenced the practice of law in 18st. the firm name being Lavelock & Lavelock. This con- nection continued until the appointment by Gov. Francis of George W. Lavelock to fill out the un- expired term caused by the death of the Judge of the Probate Court. He was re-elected to the salle position in 1890, and in January of the following Year entered upon the duties of the office for a term of four years. He retains his legal practice and is prominent at the Bar as well as on the
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Bench. Ile has also served as City Attorney with credit to him-elf and satisfaction to his constit- uents.
January 4, 1887, occurred the marriage of Judge Lavelock to Miss Mattie S., daughter of Richard Francis Bohannon, of Richmond. In politica! matters the Judge affiliates with the Democratic party and is prominent in public matters. Ilis so- cial connections are with Richmond Lodge No. 57, A. F. & A. M .; Cyrus Chapter No. 36; and Richmond Commandery No. 47, K. T.
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D AVID FRAMPTON is a native con of this county, having been born in 1839, and being a son of Jonathan A. and Mary Frampton, the former of Virginia and the latter from Kentucky. They removed in 1833 to this State and made a settlement in Clay County, where the father engaged in farming and was also an extensive stock-raiser for his day. Our subject is one of ten children, of whom six are living and with the exception of one are married and have families of their own. The father died of cholera in 1866, at the age of sixty-eight years. His wife, who was several years his junior. died about the year 1875.
David Frampton was reared to the life of a far- mer's boy but left home at the age of seventeen to face the battle of life. He learned the trade of a wool-carder, at which he worked for many years, or until the inventive genius of man did away with the old-fashioned carding-machine and the spinning wheel. In December. 1860, he was married to Miss Isabella V .. daughter of William M. Jenkins, of this county. To them were born two children: Birdie, born in March, 1863, and Ida Mary, in August. 1864. The former married James B. Withers, and the latter is the wife of James B. Webb, both resident- of this county.
Immediately after his marriage, our subject pur- chased a part of the farm on which he now resides and to which he has added at different times ad- joining land until at one time he owned two hun- dred acres. When his daughters were married, he
gave to cach of them a farm, so he now retains oniy eighty acres of his old homestead. He has good farm: buildings, and leases the place to his son-in-law, Mr. Webb, who takes charge of the farm, while our subject takes life easy and occupies his time in many ways, taking great pride in his apiary, composed of many stands. During the Civil War, our subject was in the Confederate army . having enlisted under Gen. Price in Septem- ber, 1861, but served for less than a year. Ile was in the battle of Lexington, Mo., and also in the engagement at Pea Ridge, Ark .. but was not wounded during the entire campaign.
Fraternally, our subject is a Mason but is not connected with any lodge. He had always been a Democrat until two years ago, when his influence was cast with the People's party, and in the fall of 1892 he made the race for the County Judgeship on that ticket.
RS. DINAH AYRES ALLEN was born in Estill County, Ky .. February 19. 1803. She was a daughter of the late Gen. Stephen Trigg+, of Saline County, Mo. Gen. Trigg was a son of Maj. John Trigg. of Virginia, who was an officer of distinction in the Continental army. and served under Washington at Yorktown. It is the tradition in Mrs. Allen's family, based on un- exceptional sources of information. that Maj. Trigg was often employed by Washington on special ser- vice. particularly against the Tories. He was a Representative from Virginia in the Fifth, Sixth Seventh and Eighth Congresses, and was, in and 1 out of Congress, an uncompromising opponent of the famous "Alien and sedition Laws." She was a second cousin of that Maj. Trigg who was killed I in 1782 at the battle of Blue Lick, in Kentucky. Her mother was Ehzabeth Clarke, of Virginia. who was a kinswoman of Gen. George Rogers Clarke, and of Capt. William Clarke, who, in 1804. in
*In a sketch of Col. Shubael Allen, which appears in the Mis- souri volume of the United States Biographical Dictionary, p 212, and in a sketch of Mr. Allen m the Liberty (a ) .Le tree, of July 2, Jest, it is stated that Gen. Trung was late of Howard County. It should have been Sthoe County. Gen Trigy. on Te. nastal to Missout. first located in Henrard County, but afterward removed to Saline County , and there died.
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connection with Capt. Meriwether Lewis, made the expedition across the continent, under the di- i rection of President Jefferson, known as Lewis and Clarke's Expedition. Her mother was also a sister of the late Gov. James Clarke, of Kentucky, and an aunt of the late Hon. John B. Clarke, of Howard County, Mo.
The first ancestor in America of this family of Triggs was named Abram Trigg, and he came to America and settled in Virginia about the year 1710. The unbroken tradition in the family is that he came from Wales, but the probability is that the family originated in Cornwall, England. It is an ancient British name, and existed as a local name in Cornwall perhaps before the inva- sion of England by the Anglo-saxons. One of the hundreds of Cornwall is now, and time out of mind has been, named Trigg. The name, in connection with the word seire-making the com- pound name Triconscire-occurs in the will of Al- fred, King of England, written about the year A. D. 880. It is believed that all of the Triggs of Virginia, as well as throughout the Southern, Cen- tral and Western States of the Union, are de- scended from this same ancestor, Abram Trigg. The Clarke family was of English descent, and is of older settlement in Virginia than the Trigg family. The Trigg and Clarke families were con- nected by marriage or blood with the Moorman, Ayres, Preston, Henderson. Jolins, Anthony and Leftwich families of Virginia.
The mother and father of our subject were na- tives of Bedford County, Va., and were married in 1790. They removed from Bedford County. Va., to Estill County, Ky., and there settled in 1794, going by way of the old emigrant trail through Cumberland Gap. In 1818 Gen. Trigg removed with his family to Howard County, Mo., ! and there made his home for some years. Ile came to Missouri in the old patriarchal mode. bringing with him his docks and herds, his man- servants and maid-servants. The emigration to Missouri was accomplished in about three weeks, Mrs. Allen and her sisters and brothers, in the innin, riding on horseback. She accounted the re- moval to Missouri, with its multiplied incidents, as one of the most delightful portions of her life,
her tenacions memory retaining every incident of it. and frequently, of winter evenings in old times, recounting them, with infinite merriment. to her children and friends. assembled before the huge fire of logs in the family room. Her mother died in lloward County, Mo., in May, 1822. and her father in Saline County, Mo., in 1834.
Mrs. Allen was married to the late Col. Shubael Allen, of Clay County, Mo., in Howard County. Mo., September 19, 1822. She removed at onee to her husband's home in Clay County, making the journey on horseback in three days. staying the first night in Saline County and the second night at the town of Bluffton, in Ray County. Bluffton was situated in the Missouri Bottom (a mile or so west from the site where the town of Camden is now located), but has not appeared on the maps for fifty years, and its former existence has wholly pa -- ed out of general knowledge in Missouri. During the first three years of her married life she and her husband, and her sister. Mrs. Elizabeth Thornton. and the latter's husband. the late Col. Jolin Thornton, lived in the same house. about four or five miles southwest from Liberty, in Clay County, on the farm now known as the "Old Thornton Place." In 1825 her hus- band moved to and improved the place in Clay County. Mo., thereafter known as Upper Lib- erty Landing or Allen's Landing. The place. or. more properly, plantation, embraced the west- ern portions of the bluffs on the Missouri River. about three and a-half miles south from Liberty. with some hundreds of aeres of the bottom lands ly- ing west of the same, and portions of the hill lands adjoining the bottom lands on the north. From St. Louis steamboats began making regular trips on the Missouri River as far as Allen's Landing as early as 1828, and that point was for many years after the great place of ingress and egress by river for northwestern Missouri. Her husband's residence there was in the bottom, near the west- ern extremity of the bluffs, and was a type of the best class of early Missouri dwellings, that is, it was constructed of logs, weather-boarded. two storie- high, with halls or passages between the rooms on each story. She resided there until 1850, when she removed to Liberty. Her immediate neigh-
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bors at Allen's Landing were the Collins, Ew- ing, Robertson, Murray, Arthur. Withers and Mitchell families; and it is a pleasing fact that between her family and all the members of those families there has subsisted an unbroken friend- ship and intimacy for the period, in some cases, of sixty, and in others, of seventy years. An equally pleasing fact may be told of her paternal family-the Triggs. Members of that family and of the Park, Bush. Todd, Fugitt and some other familes of Platte or Clay Counties, Mo., and the Noland family, of Jackson County, Mo., have been continuously associated for at least one hun- dred years, and always in friendship. They pur- sued the same route in the emigration from Vir- ginia through Kentucky to Missouri, and, while always in amity toward each other, have usually also agreed in religion and politics.
Of the marriage of our subject with Col. Allen. there were born eight children: Augustus Evans, who died at the age of five years; Shubae!, Jr., who died at the age of twenty-three years; Eliz- abeth Bathsheba, who married Lieut. (afterward Gen.) Alexander B. Dyer, U. S. A., and died De- cember 22, 1891; Eugene B., of Webb City. Mo .; Robert E., of Rich Ilill, Mo .; and Trigg T., Dr. John M., and De Witt C., of Liberty, Mo. All of her children were born in Clay County. She lost her husband January 18, 1841.
Mrs. Allen professed religion in the fall of 1811, and was baptized into the fellowship of the Second Baptist Church of Liberty, Mo., by the late Rev. Alvin P. Williams, Of all the members of that congregation at the time she became a mem- ber of it, only her niece, Mrs. Caroline M. Moss, who was born in Thornton, but is now of St. Joseph, Mo., survives. The distance of her residence prior to 1850 from the church edifice, and after April 1 of that year a fearful injury received by her at that time, which produced partial deafness and much physical debility during the remainder of her life, made it impossible for her to discharge with reg- ularity all of the publie functions of a religious life; but she had. in the highest degree, the evi- denee of conversion and consecration to God. and that consisted of a perfect conviction of the truth of the Divine Word and a humble, eager willing- ness to obey its every law.
Reared at an early day in Kentucky and Mis- scuri, our subject could only receive the benefit of the common schools of the country, but it was her good fortune to have been under the in-true- tion of one teacher of superior attainments-a Mr. Moore, an irish gentleman, who was, perhaps. com- pelled to abandon his native country by reason of connection with the Rebellion of '98. But she was of an inquiring mind and a most assiduous reader from childhood until she suffered partial loss of sight a short time before her death. She had also the example of her father and mother, who were persons of superior minds and extensive informa- tion. She often repeated, as a saying of her fa- ther's, the words: "Russell's History of Modern Lurope' is the cream of history." Inspired by ex- ample, and induced by her own taste, she became intimately acquainted with history and general literature. Her admiration for Sir Walter Scott's writings (except his "Life of Napoleon"), and, above all, of his novels, was very high. Her de- light in reading his novels began in her girlhood and continued unabated during life. To read them herself, or to have them read aloud by one of her children, and to point out beauties as the reading progressed before the fire during long winter evenings, was to her the acme of social en- joyment. With the resources of reading, aided by sprightliness of wit and quick faney, as well as by a genial, kindly temperament. she was always interesting in conversation.
Our subject's circle of acquaintance in the Southern. Western and Pacific States of the I'nion was large, and in it she was held by all in the highest esteem. With her death were forever lost many of the social. as well as historical. incidents connected with the advent of civilzed men m western Missouri. She saw western Missouri in its state of nature, fresh from the occupancy of the Indians, and witnessed every step of its pro- gression from the wilderness to its present culture and civilization.
Perhaps, from words dropped by our subject some two months prior to her death, her wish was to have gone in May-for her mother had died in May-but the time of her departure could not have been far from her desire, for it was in
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midsummer, while the face of nature was wreathed in its freshest, brightest smiles, and when the wild roses-her own wild roses that she loved so well and that welcomed her to Missouri-were beauti- fying with their bloom every nook and dell and bosky bourne in the country. She died on Fri- day, June 25, 1886, at the residence of her son, Eugene B. Allen, in Leavenworth, Kan. (he re- sided there at the time), and was buried on the Sunday following (June 27th), after funeral ser- vices at the Second Baptist Church, conducted by the Revs. Grandison Black and Benjamin G. Tutt, in the new cemetery in Liberty, Mo. The mem- ory of her good deeds will live and bear rich fruit during many a year after her life's pilgrimage for-
-"Only the memory of the just Smells sweet, and blossoms in their dust."
ICKSON HI. O'BRYAN, a prominent res- ident -of Chariton County, located on seetion 8, township 53, range 16, has not only been a successful agriculturist, but also has gained prominence in various offices of honor which have been entrusted to him. Hle was born in Cooper County, Mo., in 1829 and is a son of Turner and Elizabeth (Hall) O'Bryan. The father was born in North Carolina in 1790, and the mother in Bourbon County, Ky., in 1803. The grand-par- ents of our subject were born in the States above mentioned, but the great-grandfather, Thomas O'Bryan, came from Ireland to America and fought in the Revolutionary War under Washington. . Our subjeet's father had two brothers who fought in the War of 1812 under Gen. Harrison, and one of the uncles of our subject has been very prominent in the political life of the State of Missouri, where he has held a position in the Leg- islature.
Our subject is one of a family of eleven chil- dren, six of whom are now living. the record of the brothers and sisters of our subject being as follows: Naney, who was born in Kentucky, is de-
ceased; Redick, who was born in 1819. married Miss Allie Bell and resides in Randolph County. Mo .; Eveline, born in 1821, married Eli Ferri- and resides in Missouri; James, whose birth of- curred in Kentucky in 1823, died at the age of fifty-five; Perry, born in 1825, married Elizabeth Mitchell, who died in 1888; Caleb, born in 1827. married Catherine Robinson, and they reside in Arkansas: Thomas, born in 1831, died in 1832; llenry, who was born in 1833, died in 1835; Turner, who was born in 1839, married Miss Mary Givens and they reside in Morgan County, Mo .; and Jourdan, born in 1811, married Matilda Giv- ens, and they live in Indian Territory.
In 1853, our subject married Miss Mattie Harrel- son, who was born in Sheridan County. Mo., in 1835, a daughter of James Harrelson. The follow- ing is the record of the children born of this union: Emma J. was born in Chariton County in 1854. and resides in this county; Cassius was born in 1857 and died in 1876; John, whose birth oceurred in 1859, resides in Johnson County, Mo .; Xerxes. born in 1861, married Martha O'Bryan: Mary E., who was born in 1863, married William Eston and resides in Sheridan County, Mo .; Jourdan. born in 1865, is a resident of this State; James was born in 1867 and died in 1870; Andrew, who was born in 1869. died in 1891; and Nancy. born in 1871, married Willie Bradley and restdes in Randolph County, Mo. These children have all had the advantages of the common schools and have grown to maturity intelligent and upright.
Our subject was educated in the common schools of Cooper County, Mo., and completed his course at the age of twenty-three. when he began farming in Cooper County for his father. The first piece of land which he owned was in Sheridan County. It was purchased in 1853 and consisted of eighty acres of unimproved land, for which he paid $3.75 per aere. The next tract purchased was located in the same seetion and compri-ed forty acres, the price being 86 per acre. Later a tract of eight acres was purchased at $12.50, and then a forty-acre traet at $1.50 an acre. At the present time he owns a farm of one hundred and seventy-three acres, which he values at $30 per acre. his gross receipts being $1,000 per year.
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