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After the close of the war, our subject returned home and began farming upon sections 4 and 5, where he remained for a period of seven years. At the expiration of that time he purchased the old homestead for $3,500, and now has a well-improved farm of two hundred and forty acres of land, which is valued at $60 per acre. Here he grows grain and hay, principally, and the gross receipts amount annually to $2,500. Mr. Duggins and his wife are consistent members of the Methodist Epis- copal Church South, and he is a liberal supporter of the same. His family has been reared to re- spect the church, and several, with their parents, have become members of it.
The marriage of our subject took place in 1866, to Miss Anna Pulliam, who was born in Saline County, Mo., and they became the parents of four children. Katie, born in 1867; Mary, in 1871;
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and Micajah, in 1871, are still under the home roof. Dera D., who was born in 1869. died in 1881. The. mother of these children died February 9. 1875. Politically. our subject is a Democrat, and has taken a deep interest in political affairs, but has never desired nor aspired to official honors.
AMES M. WILIIITE, an able and energetic agriculturist and successful stock-raiser, lo- cated in township 51, range 20, Sahne County, near the town of Norton. is one of the leading citizens of his neighborhood, and re- ceives the respeet of the people among whom he dwells. Ilis great-grandfather Wilhite emigrated from Germany in a very early day, and settled in Tennessee. Ile fought in the Revolutionary War, and lived to the remarkably advanced age of one hundred and twelve years. Grandfather James Wilhite was born in Tennessee, and removed to Missouri in 1815. Ile became one of the early settlers of Saline County and located on the Mis- souri River long before the Territory became a Statc.
The paternal grandmother was Charity llayes, a native of Tennessee, and a woman of strong char- acter, and of Scotch-irish descent. The sons and daughters of this pioneer household were: Elias, the father of our subject; Mary, Sarah, Martha, Elizabeth, Naomi, James Franklin and William Marion. James Wilhite fought bravely in the War of 1812. The grandfather died December 12, 1872, aged eighty-six, and his wife died in January, 1859. When Grandfather Wilhite journeyed from Tennessee to Missouri, he traveled hither by wagon with his wife and her father's family, and it took weeks to accomplish the long journey. Game was in abundance close by the wayside, and they killed as much as they desired. Numberless Indians were passed on their route, and the deeper they penetrated into the wilderness, the wilder became the scene.
Elias Wilhite, the father of our subject, was born in Saline County in 1816, and passed the
days of his boyhood upon his father's farm. In 1835, he married Nancy Baker, of North Carolina, whose father had emigrated to Missouri when she was a little child. After his marriage, Elias Wilhite remained upon his father's farm for two or three years. and then bought land near Slater, where he resided until his death in 1868. His wife died in 1858 and he married again in 1859, this wife being M. C. Cott. The children by the first marriage were: Mary Jane; James M., our subject; Charity F., William A., Daniel C., Finis R .; Nancy E., deceased; Laura B .; and Reuben K., deceased. The second family consisted of Sarah A., Amos, Luella, and Elias, deceased. Mary Jane married W. J. Cott. of Saline County; Charity married Amos Cott; Laura B. is the widow of Jasper Morgan, of Saline County; Sarah A. became Mrs. Richard Elder, of Saline County. The father of our sub- ject was always a farmer. He was a consistent member of the Baptist Church, in which denomina- tion he held the office of Deacon. Hle and his wife were charter members of the Fish Creek Baptist Church.
Our subject, James Montgomery Wilhite, was born in Saline County, Mo., in 1838, and remained at home with his parents until he was about twen- ty-three years old. Ilis wife was Miss Elizabeth, a daughter of David and Deborah (Compton) Ford. David Ford, a Virginian of Berkeley County, came to Missouri in 1811 with his wife and four chil- dren, the wife of Mr. Wilhite being the eldest of the family, which was afterward increased by the birth of four other children. They were as follows: Ehzabeth. the wife of our subject; Mary C .; James B., who lives in Texas; Naney E., Maria L. and Amelia A. (all three deceased); Susan M., who is married to O. S. Ford, of California, and William E., of Slater. The Ford family is of Eng- lish descent. David Ford is still living and resides with our subject. Mr. and Mrs. Wilhite have been the parents of eight children, namely: Minnie D., who married W. P. Willis and died July 29, 1891; Dora, the wife of R. I. Flippen, of Hill County, Tex .; James A., deceased; William Elmer; David E., deceased; Amelia A. married to C. B. Bening- ton, of Saline County: Samuel and Mertie E., de- ceased.
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After the war, our subjeet established a perma- nent home and settled upon a farm in September, 1865. Ile now cultivates eighty acres, and raises excellent stock. In political affiliations. he is in- dependent, and during the war was a Union man, belonging to the Home Guards. He and his good wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and the latter was a charter member of what is now the Mt. Iloreb Church. The daugh- ter, Mrs. Willis, at her death left two children: Le Roy C., aged eleven, and Ota, aged eight, at the time of their mother's death. James A., who died September 19, 1891, left two daughters: Mabel. aged three and a-half years, and Marietta, then two. Their mother, who still survives, is Eliza- beth (Trimble) Wilhite, daughter of J. W. Trimble, of Saline County, Mo. Our subject has numerous descendants, all of whom occupy positions of honor and usefulness. In the evening of his days, he has the consciousness of having passed a well- spent life and deservedly won the competence which he now enjoys.
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R OBERT S. DINWIDDIE, an honored and upright citizen, and for more than a half- century a successful general agriculturist of Dover Township, La Fayette County, passed away April 10, 1891, deeply mourned by his sor- rowing family and a large circle of friends who had known him for many years. Mr. Dinwiddie was born in Madison County, Ky., March 4, 1812. The year of his birth was one of the most exciting in the history of his native State, Kentucky-whose sons have ever been noted for bravery and courage -they taking an active part in the War of 1812. Upwards of five thousand volunteers were called into service, and more than seven thousand Ken- tuckians are said to have been in the field at onee.
the best citizens of Kentucky were killed and the entire State. became a land of mourning and desolation. Our subject was named in honor of his father, Robert Dinwiddie, a native of old Vir- ginia, but for a long time a resident of Kentucky. His wife was Miss Anna Barnett, a lady of worth and intelligence. The early years of our subject were spent upon the family homestead, where he industriously assisted in the work of the farm, and was trained into habits of self-reliance which were a capital to him in after years. The schools of those primitive times were mostly supported by private subscription, and each family did all they could to enable their children to gain at least a rudimentary education.
At the age of twenty-one years, Mr. Dinwiddie began to make his own way in life. For some time he remained in his native State, variously employed, but finally determined to try his chanees in a new location and came to Missouri. The home of his entire future life was selected by him with much thought and care, and at last he decided in favor of La Fayette County, which seemed to him a specially advantageous portion of the State. From the period of his settlement here up to the day of his death, he gave his attention to the pur- suit of general agriculture, but was also successful in raising stock, and thoroughly understood the details of a farmer's life.
In 1859, nineteen years after he located in Mis- souri, Mr. Dinwiddie was joined in the bonds of matrimony with Miss Elizabeth T., daughter of Robert C. Tevis, a native of Kentucky. The Tevis family is of Irish descent, but their ancestors early emigrated to America, and have ever been among the highly esteemed and progressive citizens of the United States. The mother of Mrs. Dinwiddie was Elizabeth (Stone) Tevis, a native of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Dinwiddie became the parents of five children, two of whom died in infancy, and Mary E. passed away October 4, 1876. The surviving chil- dren, James and Elizabeth, were born and reared in La Fayette County.
Mr. Dinwiddie had long been connected with the Presbyterian Church, and for many years was among the most active members of that religious
The parents of our subjeet woll remembered those dark days, when at the battle of Frenchtown and the barbarous massacre that followed it, many of | organization, always ready to aid in the advance-
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ment of its social and benevolent work. Though not a politician or office-seeker. he took an active in- terest in politics, and was an ardent Democrat. His pleasant home was located upon section 30, town- ship 51, range 26, and there, where he spent so many years of his useful life, and made of his land one of the best farms in this part of the county. his bereaved widow still resides. She is widely known among a large circle of lifetime friends, who esteem her for her excellence of character. kindly heart, and consistent Christian life. Mr. Dinwiddie, a strict- ly temperate man, throughout lus life did unto others as he would that they should do unto him. An earnest, faithful and public-spirited citizen, he greatly aided in promoting the best interests of the community,and his fellow-citizens united in mourn- ing the loss of this sincere and upright Christian husband, father and friend.
ADE HICKLIN, an enterprising and pros- perous farmer of La Fayette County, re- siding upon section 32, township 51, range 27. where he cultivates and owns a valuable property containing four hundred and thirty-five aeres, all under fine cultivation, is numbered among the substantial and progressive citizens of the county. His entire life and history are closely identified with the upward growth and develop- ment of La Fayette County, within whose borders he was born August 22, 1848. His parents, James and Naney (Patterson) Hicklin, were among the very early pioneers of the State of Missouri, and have ever commanded the respect and esteem of the entire community.
James Hicklin, the father of our subjeet. was a man well fitted to overcome the dilliculties of pioncer life. Energetic, ambitious, and a man of strong character and powerful will, his industrious habits and excellent judgment enabled him to successfully win his upward way unaided by | capital or influential friends. Moving from Tennessee, the State of his nativity, to the Terri-
tory of Missouri in 1818, three years previous to its admission as a State into the Union. he entered into the details of the life of a settler upon the frontier, and in making the improvements in the wilderness, split the first rail ever used in La Fay- ette County. His wife, a true helpmate, was a native of Kentucky, and was edueated in the sub- scription schools of her birthplace, and readily adapted herself to the duties of her new home.
Our subject was reared upon his father's farm, and, aiding in the necessary duties of the home- stead, passed his boyhood, attending dining a portion of cach year the little rude log school- house, and continuing his studies until he had reached his fourteenth year. Afterward he de- voted himself to the work of tilling the soil, and claimed his place among the self-supporting and self-reliant farmer boys who are the nation's pride and strength. In 1868, he resolved to try a new field of action, and began life for himself upon a farm in Saline County, Mo., where he remained for eleven years constantly engaged in agricultural duties, and successfully adding to his store of worldly goods. In 1877, circumstances induced him to return to La Fayette County, where he lo- eated upon his present farm. and has since re- mained here.
Aside from the pursuit of general agriculture, and the annual round of sowing, planting and reap- ing, Mr. Ilieklin has profitably engaged in raising Pohled-Angus cattle, and has long been known as an extensive producer of this celebrated variety of cattle, regarded by many experienced farmers as one of the safest and best-paying investments for all who handle stock. The fine farm is pleasantly located, and is the happy home of a large family. Our subjeet was married in 1873 to Miss Nannie George, of Howard County. Mo. the daughter of Calvin A. George, a native of Kentucky. Mrs. lieklin is widely known and highly respected, and is the mother of six children, the light of the household.
The bright and intelligent sons and daughters of the lieklin home are: Mamie W., James C., Lulu, Lockey, Sallie C. and Thurman M. Attain- ing manhood and womanhood amid the increasing advantages of the neighborhood, the brothers and
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sisters may all enjoy the benefit of excellent edu- eations, and are already taking high places among the youthful society and growing interests of their childhood home. United and earnest in purpose, the coming years will find them worthily filling positions of trust and influence. Mr. and Mrs. Ilicklin are ever ready to assist in all good work of their locality, and engage in social, benevolent and business enterprises with the characteristic energy of all publie-spirited citizens. Our subject is an earnest and sturdy Democrat, defending with zeal the principles of his party, and desires in national and local issues the appointment of men well fitted to satisfactorily discharge the duties intrusted to their care and guidance.
S ANDFORD T. LYNE. The pretty town of Slater is an enterprising business place, where a good deal of capital is in circula- tion. Naturally the guardians of finance take a prominent position in the affairs of the town, and among the chief of these is our subject, who is Cashier of the Slater Savings Bank. Ile was born in this county December 16, 1861, and is a son of the late Thomas Lyne, one of the early settlers in the county, who came from Woodford County, Ky., where he was born April 14, 1821.
Thomas Lyne was married in Boone County, Ky., to Eliza G. Garnett, who was a native of the same locality as himself and born December 16, 1828. They settled in Cambridge Township, Sa- line County, Mo., in March, 1853, and continued to make that their home until the time of the death of Mr. Lyne, which occurred May 26, 1889, in St. Louis, where he had gone for medieal treat- ment. He had given his attention exclusively throughout his career to farming, and was a prom- inent and enterprising citizen, to whom all local interests assumed a personal aspect. At the time of his decease his estate was considerable. Ile was a stockholder in both the banks of Slater and had numerous other large interests.
The Lyne family included twelve children, eight of whom are still living. Of these, Sandford T. was the eighth in order of birth. He was reared on his father's farm and received the advantages common to the district schools of the home locality. lle remained with his father until nineteen years of age, and then entered the Bank of Slater as book- keeper and Teller. After a connection of about a year in this capacity he went to Kansas City, and was there employed for nearly a year as book- keeper in the Bank of Missouri.
On returning from Kansas City, Mr. Lyne at onee became a prominent factor in the organi- zation of the Citizens' Stock Bank. He was ap- pointed Assistant Cashier and retained that posi- tion for about three years. He then resigned it and spent the succeeding year in Kansas, during which time he was engaged in the loan business. On his return to Slater he organized the Slater Sav- ings Bank in 1886, and has ever since been its Cashier. Besides the duties incident to this posi- tion, he has the entire management of his father's estate, which comprises some eight hundred and sixty acres of land. In the intervals of attendance upon these business duties, he has found time to be an active participant in and supporter of such local enterprises as promise advancement to the interests of the town and locality.
Mr. Lyne was married in Macon, this State, Oc- toher 28, 1885, his bride being Miss Franky A. Purdom, a danghter of llez l'urdom. She was born on the 17th of April, 1865. They have one daughter, named Felicie, who was born in Slater, March 28, 1887. Mr. Lyne belongs to the Masonic fraternity, is Past Master of Cambridge Lodge No. 63; Past High Priest of Slater Chapter No. 112; Eminent Commander of Missouri Commandery No. 36, of Marshall; Deputy Grand Master and District Lecturer of the Twenty-fourth District, and belongs to the Ararat Temple Oasis of Kansas City. He is also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
Mr. Lyne does not immolate his whole taient upon the altar of business, but keeps the best of it for social life and religious obligations. He is an active member of the Baptist Church, and has been Superintendent of the Sunday-school. He is a
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Director and the Treasurer of the Slater Young Men's Christian Association. Director of the Slater Loan Association, and the Slater Milling Company. Ile belongs to one of the representative families of this locality, and maintains well the family dignity and honors in his own high position.
ON. HENRY S. VAN ANGLEN. a retired merchant of Waverly, La Fayette County, was born in the city of New Brunswick. N. J., October 16, 1819, and is a son of Cor- nelius and Syche (Suydam) Van Anglen. He is of Dutch descent, and his forefathers, two hun- dred years ago, were among the early settlers of New York and New Jersey. His father, who lo- cated as a merchant in New Brunswick in 1799, departed this life when our subjeet was about three years old, and the remaining members of the household removed to Kentucky in 1826.
The mother of our subject, upon removing to Kentucky, purchased a farm north of Danville, Mercer (now Boyle) County, near Harrod's Run, and adjacent to the lands and home of Capt. James Harrod, of pioneer fame. Upon this farm the fam- ily settled, and there the subject of this sketch grew to manhood, meanwhile receiving his educa- tion in the common schools of the county. In 1836 he entered a store as clerk, and four years later removed with his mother and brother Charles and family to Missouri, where they purchased a farm near Dover, La Fayette County, and settled thereon.
For several years after coming to this county, Mr. Van Anglen engaged in teaching school and dlerking, and in 1819 he entered the mercantile business at Dover and at Waverly, being associated with the late Col. George B. Warren and Dr. Isaac S. Warren, from near Danville, Ky., as equal part- ners in both houses. This venture proved very successful and was timely closed out and settled up before the war. Mr. Van Anglen did not en- ter the army on either side. Since the war he has
resided upon his farm, west of Waverly, and has been continuously engaged in general farming. fruit-growing, bee-keeping, etc .. with satisfactory results. He owns five hundred acres of unincum- bered land near Waverly, of which more than three hundred aeres are well improved and in a good state of cultivation, the balance being wood- land. The land is underlaid with coal, being a continuation of the Waverly bed, which shows from forty to fifty inches in thickness where mined.
In public affairs Mr. Van Anglen has for many years been prominent and influential. In 1877-78, he represented his county in the State Legislature. Being a thoughtful reader, he keeps posted upon the current events of the period, and is a elose ob- server of men and things. He is fond of general literature, and is the author of poems and prose articles evincing much literary taste and ability. Though by no means partisan, he is a firm adher- ent of the principles of Jeffersonian Democracy, and cast his ballot for Grover Cleveland for Presi- dent in November. 1892. Socially, he is a mem- ber of Waverly Lodge No. 61, F. & A. M. He has never married.
OHN C. YOUNG. The gentleman whose name is given above, is engaged in the livery and transfer business in the city of Lexington, La Fayette County, Mo., where he has been very snecessful. Mr. Young is a na- tive of Madison County. Ky .. and was born Ait- gust 21, 1838. Ile is the youngest son of the family that was born to John C. and Margaret (Mullens) Young, both of whom are natives of Kentneky, and have been devoted throughont life to the calling of agriculture. Our subjeet's ma- ternal grandsire was John Mullens, and the family is of Scotch extraction.
The original of this sketch was reared on a farm in his native place and attended the public schools.
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Ile remained under the parental roof until reach- ing his majority, and then embarked in the livery business, having come to this city. Mr. Young has been so engaged since 1864. When first here, he was in the undertaking business in addition to the livery and 'bus business, and carried this on until 1874. For the past three years he has con- fined his attention to the livery and transfer busi- ness.
Mr. Young owns fifty-seven horses, and keers fourteen men constantly employed about the sta- ble. He has four 'buses and five matched teams. He also has a number of good carriages, and can turn out as fine a display as any in his line in the city; indeed, he has the monopoly of the livery business in Lexington, and, being personally a genial and whole-souled man, is popular with all classes.
In October, 1862, our subjeet married Miss Ellen, a daughter of Washington Johnson, of La Fayette County. They have been the parents of two children, a son and a daughter. The former. who is known as John C., runs his father's Frank- Iin Street stable. Mamie E. is the wife of J. R. Moreland, of Lexington, Mo. In our subject's po- litical views, he is a decided Democrat, and has opinions of his own as to the men who vote the opposition ticket.
R EV. ALBERT A. MOORE. The declining years of one who bas devoted his life to making brighter and better the lot of his fellow-men should be filled with pleasant recollections and a glad promise of reward. Such an one has gathered to himself legions of dear friends whose best wishes and prayers are in his behalf. The life of our subject has been spent in doing good. He comes of excellent stock. his father, Peter Moore, a native of Maryland, born in 1780, and his grandfather, Abram Moore, a Revolutionary soldier, being both exeellent men. Abram Moore settled upon the eastern shore of
Maryland in the latter part of the eighteenth cen- tury, where he died at the age of eighty-eight years.
The mother of our subject was Sallie (MeKnight) Moore, a native of North Carolina, born in 1780, a daughter of William MeKnight, whose ancestors first settled in Virginia and, later, in North Caro- lina. Both families are of Scotch-Irish descent. The parents of our subject married in Ruther- ford County, Tenn., in 1803, and the father fol- lowed the occupation of a farmer until his death in 1832. Ilis widow, who survived him thirty years, dying in 1862, was the mother of nine children. The parents were members of the Cum- berland Presbyterian Church, the father being an Elder.
Our subject was born March 31, 1811, in Ruther- ford County, Tenn., where he grew to manhood, remaining on the farm until he was twenty-one. He finished his education in Central Academy, at Milton, and was there trained for the ministry, which he entered in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1834. Ilis first work was done in a mountain district as a supply, embracing Warren and White Counties, Tenn., where he remained until he removed to Missouri, in 1837. Ile settled in La Fayette County, near the site of Pleasant Prairie Church, where he entered a piece of land and resided for twelve years, the country being but very sparsely settled at that time. Ile was pastor of the Harrisonville Church from 1850 to 1854, also had the pastorate of the Westport Church for four years; later, returning to Harrisonville, he was pastor there until the war. Then he came to Well- ington and has made that place his home ever since. In 1857, he went to the Territory of Kansas, where he remained as a missionary for three years. Dur- ing the war he visited the camps, preaching to the soldiers, and in other ways sought to benefit those who were fighting to defend the principles they espoused.
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