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nia, New York, Illinois, and Missouri he, with some acquaintances, made an overland trip to California. The caravan consisted of seven teams of oven, each team consisting of four yokes, starting from Fairfieldl, Illinois. While en route over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, their cattle perishing in a storm, they were obliged to abandon their wagons, provisions and clothing, and travel on foot to what was then known as Lawson's Ranch on the Sacra- mento River, arriving there destitute of means and provisions, and where they subsisted on beef procured from the immense herds of cattle then roaming over the plains. Their only tools being a handax and an anger, they built a boat of the native timber, ten by thirty feet, on which they floated to Sacramento City, arriving there December 24. 1849. While pass- ing down the Sacramento River, elk being very numerous they killed eight, which they sold for twenty-five cents per pound, which, with the proceeds of the sale of their boat, replenished their empty exchequer. Sojourning in Sacramento some three weeks they went on foot to Placerville where they wintered in a government tent, their bedding being pine bonghs and a blanket each. They mined there until the following March when they moved to the South Fork of the American River where they made two un- successful efforts to turn the stream for mining purposes by fluming. In October, 1850, they found a rich lead in Indian Canyon, where they built a double cabin, and successfully mined until September. 1851. During the winter they saw no person excepting the Digger Indians of whom there were from 500 to 1,000. At the last date he returned to Fairfield, Illinois, where he engaged in the mercantile business until the spring of 1853, when he returned to Louisiana, Missouri, where he has been engaged in the mer- cantile business ever since. In 1872 he became associated with his present partner, John H. Gamble, in the firm name of Irwin & Gamble. February 25, 1863, he married Mary Jane, danghter of John Jordan, of Pike county, Missouri. They have four children: James C., clerk in the Exchange Bank of Louisiana, Elizabeth, Charles, and Maggie, all living at home. Himself and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Louisiana.
Captain James Carson Jamison. editor and proprietor of the Ricer- sid. Press, was born on Guinn's Creek near the village of Paynesville, Pike county, Missouri, September 30, 1830. He is the second son and fifth child of John Cowden and Margaret (Torence) Jamison, and is of Scotch-Irish descent. His parents came from North Carolina about the year 1826 and settled on Guinn's Creek, where they lived until about the year 1837 or 1838, when they removed to near Louisville, Lincoln county. He was edu-
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cated by attending the schools kept in rnde log school-houses where but little else was infused into the minds of the pupils, or instilled into their nature, than the fact that they must be thoroughly whipped if they expected to rise to greatness in after life. In the spring of 1819 he left for California in company with James Brown and Enoch Emerson and others. Twenty miles east of Fort Kearney he joined the Wisconsin Star Company, com- posed of Lucins Fairchild, then a boy, afterwards governor of Wisconsin, Captain W. G. Monroe, and about thirty others. He arrived in Sacramento in October. He engaged in mining and other pursuits until the Cuban excitement, when, in company with several other gentlemen, he left the min- ing district and started for Cuba, but on arriving at San Francisco he learned of the death of General Crittenden and abandoned the expedition. In December, 1855, in company with fifty others, besides Captain Noris's com- pany of a hundred men, he took a steamer, being destined for the Nicaraguan army, known as fillibusters. Before reaching San Juan Del Sur he was elected first lieutenant commanding, the captain (Luke) remaining behind for four days. While at sea Captain Noris's men and half of Lieutenant Jamison's men mutinied and attempted to break into the steamer's store- house, when, to prevent a collision between them and the ship's crew, he threw himself between the enraged contestants and came near losing his life. When he arrived at Grenada, December 17, 1855, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the regular army and assigned to duty in the First Regi- ment of Light Infantry, and soon afterwards was ordered to Masagua where he was stationed for several months. On the 11th day of April, 1856, he participated in the terribly fought battle of Rivas between General Walker and General Mora, in which General Walker was repulsed. Lieutenant Jamison was left on the field severely wounded, but by chance secured a mustang pony, and rode, bareback, shoeless, hatless, and almost naked, to the city of Grenada, sixty-five miles distant, without having his wounds dressed. Lieutenant Jam ison was promoted to a captainey for meritorious gallantry in this battle. Again he was in the severely contested battle fought by General Walker and the allied forces of five states under General Ballosa, which resulted in a victory for General Walker. Upon the close of these battles Captain Jamison was granted a furlough, and instrneted to return to the United States and recruit men for the service, but when he arrived at New Orleans and learned of the surrender of General Walker to Captain Davis of the United States Navy he proceeded no further. In the jate war he was an officer in the Confederate army. For a long time he was held a prisoner in the following places: Louisiana city, Quincy, Gra-
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tiot street, St. Louis, Johnson's Island, Fort McHenry and Fort Norfolk, and was finally exchanged at City Point. June 27, 1867, he, with William S. Pepper, bought the Clarksville Sentinel. He afterwards bought Mr. Pepper's interest and continued to publish the paper, selling it in October, 1869. He then bought the Riverside Press of Louisiana, which he pub- lished until October, 1879, when he sold it, and in March, 1880, made a prospecting tour to Colorado. He returned to Louisiana July 1, 1880, and during that month bought the Pike County Express at Bowling Green and changed the name to Bowling Green Times, which he sold October 1, 1880, and the same day bought back the Riverside Press at Louisiana. June 10, 1862, while a prisoner on parole, he married Miss Sallie A., daughter of James M. White. of Clarksville, by whom he has one daughter, Anne Block. Ile was made a Master Mason in Clarksville Lodge No. 17 in 1858, and is now a member of Globe Lodge No. 495. of Louisiana, and is a charter member of Riverside .Lodge No. 22, A. O. U. W., of Louisiana.
Heury Clay Johnson, liveryman, was born on a farm in Pike county Missouri, four miles west of Bowling Green on the Mexico road, May 22, .1842. Ile is the son of Benjamin H. and Maria (Langford) Johnson. His father dying when he was eleven years old he remained on the home. stead with his mother until his twentieth year, when he went to farming for himself, which he followed for nine years, when, in 1871, he engaged in the livery business at Bowling Green. February 3, 1881, he engaged in the livery business at Louisiana in connection with his stable at Bowling Green. May 19, 1864, he married Miss Harriet Frier, of Bowling Green, by whom he has three children, Lizzie, Bennie, and Willie. He is a member of lodge No. - , I. O. O. F., at Bowling Green.
William Augustus Jordan, senior member of the milling firm of Jordan, Estes & Patrick, proprietors of the Diamond Flouring Mills at Lou- isiana. He is a native of Pike county, Missouri. and was boru on a farm in the vicinity of Louisiana June 12, 1842. His parents both dying before he was nine years old, he lived with relatives until he was fourteen, when he came to Louisiana and attended school until he was seventeen, when, in 1859, he began elerking in the drug store of his brother and H. Richmond, and clerked for them and others up to 1865, when he became associated with H. Richmond in the dry goods business in the firm name of Rich- Inond & Co., and was engaged in that business one year. He then rented the homestead farm of the other heirs and pursned farming until 1870, when he engaged in the grocery business in Louisiana, in which he continued either alone or associated with others up to 1881, when he discontinued it.
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In 1882 he bought an interest in the Diamond Flouring Mills, in Louisiana and in August of that year he became associated with James A. Estes and J. Leslie Patrick, in the firm name of Jordan, Estes & Patrick. They are doing an extensive business, shipping flour not only to various states in the Union, but to England. April 10, 1867, he married Miss Carrie M., daugh- ter of the late Dr. Beverly Coalter of Clarksville, but who was raised by her unele, Hon. Hamilton R. Gamble of St. Lonis. They have three children, Carson Gamble, Carrie, and Beverly. Himself and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Louisiana. He is a member of Perse- .
verance Lodge No. 95, A. F. & A. M., of Louisiana.
James Marion Jump, liveryman, of Louisiana, was born on a farm seven miles south of Louisiana. He is the son of Isaac N. and Susan (Stark) Jump. When he was thirteen years of age his parents removed to the farm that was his birthplace, where he followed farming until 1882, when, rent- ing his farm, he came to Louisiana and established himself in the livery bus- iness. November 2, 1875, he married Miss Lizzie Pickens of near Lonis- jana.
Clayton Keith, M. D., was born at Chillicothe, Missouri, March 7, 1847, ยท where he was reared and educated up to his sixteenth year, when he entered the Kentucky University at Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from the literary, scientific, and classical department of that institute, June 26, 1868. Having the ministry in view he graduated from the theological department of the same in the following year. He soon after became pastor of the Christian Church at Louisiana and preached acceptably one year. He then took charge of the Christian Church, at Hannibal, Missouri, where he preached six months, when, by the carnest solicitation of his father, Dr. William Keith of Chillicothe, ho resigned that charge and entered Pope's Medical College at St. Louis, taking two summer and two winter courses, and graduated as M. D. from the same, March 7, 1872. He then entered the Quarantine Hospital of St. Louis as assistant physician under Dr. C. V. L. Brokaw, and six months after he was promoted to assistant surgeon in charge of the city hospital under Dr. T. F. Prewitt. He resigned that position in 1873 after serving one year, and opened an office in St. Louis and practiced medicine and surgery one year, and during that time was secretary of the St. Louis Medical Society and a reporter for the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal. In October, 1874, he removed to Louisi- iana, Missouri, where he has an extensive practice. He makes the treat- ment of diseases of the eye and surgery a specialty. In 1882 he was chosen secretary and superintendent by the Pike County Loan & Building Aeso-
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ciation of Louisiana, and is now holding the position. In 1876 he wrote the Centennial History of Pike County for the Old Settler Association of Pike county. June 5, 1873, he was united in marriage with Mary, daughter of Capt. George Barnard of Louisiana. They have three children: Barnard C., William F., and Leon G. Himself and wife are members of the Chris- tian Church of Louisiana, of which he is teaching elder.
Henry Kuhlmann, grocer, of Louisiana, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, June 3, 1846. He came to Louisiana with his parents when he was ten years of age, where he lived with them until manhood, and was educated by attending the schools of Louisiana. When he was eighteen he began to roll tobacco in the factories of Lonisiana, working three seasons, when, in 1867, he began to work in the lumber yard of George L. Carson and worked for him until 1869. after which he worked one year in the lumber yard of Dreyfus & Hill. In 1871 he began clerking and continued so up to 1881, when he bought out his employer. Philip Zuzak, and established his present grocery business. Mr. Kuhlmann, like several other young business men of Louisiana, began his business career with a small capital saved up from his earnings while clerking. He has laid the foundation for future success and possesses the vim and enterprise requisite for a successful business man. . May 24, 1874, he married Azelia, daughter of J. C. Rose of Louisiana. They have four children: John William, Harry, Maggie Rose, and Frank. Himself and wife are members of the Christian Church of Louisiana. He is a member of Unison Lodge No. 187, K. of II., and Riverside Lodge No. 22, A. O. U. W. of Louisiana.
Thomas Walter Lock, grocer, of Louisiana, was born near Charlestown, Jefferson county, Virginia, December 8, 1842. In 1851 he came with his parents to Missouri, they settling near Truxton, Montgomery county, where he lived with them until manhood and received an education by attending the Truxton high school, under Prof. Frank Williams, several years. On leaving home, in 1862, he went to St. Louis, where he was employed as weigher in the North Missouri Stock Yards until 1865. He then engaged in farming near Manchester, St. Louis county, Missouri, until 1868, when he went to Ralls county and engaged in general merchandising on the pike road running from Hannibal to Paris, up to 1870, and while there was ap- pointed postmaster. He then came to Louisiana city and became associated with John D. Field in the grocery business. They discontinuing that busi- ness in 1872 he went to Carrolton, Missouri, and engaged in the same business until 1874, when he returned to his farm in St. Louis county and followed farming a short time, when he sold out and removed to Clarksville,
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Missouri, and engaged in the grain and commission business until 1878, when he, with B. F. Yates, went into the grocery business until 1880, when he retired from the business and came to Louisiana. In 1880, before leav- ing Clarksville, he was appointed enumerator and took the census of Clarke- ville. At Lonisiana he became associated with E. II. Gailey in the grocery business in the firm name of Lock & Guiley, and so continues. May 16, 1871, he married Miss Amanda Long, of St. Louis. They have one child, Ethel Mary. He is a Knight of Honor and member of the lodge at Louisiana, and a Master Mason and member of the lodge at Clarksville.
William Vincent Lonergan, is the son of Patrick and Ellen (Dris- coll) Lonergan, and was born at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1847. He lived with his parents at his birthplace, Pittsburgh, and Cincin- nati, up to 1855, when they came to Louisiana, where he lived with them nntil attaining his majority. He was educated by attending St. Vincent's Academy, at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Pardee College, at Lonisiana. In 1868 he was deputized sheriff by his father and served two years. In 1871 he was employed as a clerk in the store of Dreyfus & Waracek, of Louisi- ana, and was with them one year. In 1872 he attended the commercial college, at Quincy, Illinois, from which he graduated in May of that year. He was then employed as clerk in the grocery store of E. F. Mathews, of Louisiana, until the following year, when he took charge of the ferryboat "City of Louisiana," and run it until 1876, when he was employed as a clerk in the grocery store of Dreyfus & Co., and was with them and their successor, Joseph Pollock, up to 1879, when he became associated with his brother, Albert C., in the drug business at Louisiana, in the firm name of Lonergan Brothers. November 12, 1879, he married Ruty K., daughter of J. W. Soward, of Louisiana. They have one child, Raymond. He is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, of Louisiana.
Albert C. Lonergan, M. D., was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2, 1852. When he was three years old his parents, Patrick F. and Ellen D. (Driscoll), came to Louisiana, where he was reared and lived with them until manhood. He was educated at St. Vincent's Academy, at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and at the College of the Christian Broth- ers, of St. Louis, Missouri. In June, 1868, he began the study of medicine in the office of Drs. Reynolds, Gatewood & Reynolds, of Bowl- ing Green, Missouri. After taking two courses of lectures at the St. Lonis Medical College, he graduated from that institution as M. D. in March, 1873. He at once began the practice of medicine at Louisiana and so continues at this writing. November 10, 1881, he married Jennie
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L., daughter of Colonel John M. Milroy, deceased, late of Louisiana. They have one child, John Milroy. During 1874 he held the position of city physician of Louisiana. In 1870, in connection with his practice, he be- came associated with his brother, William V .. in the drug business in the firm name of Lonergan Brothers, a business which they still follow.
Thomas McGinnis, grover, Louisiana, Missouri, was born near Waynes- burg, Green county, Pennsylvania, July 25, 1829, where he lived until he was twenty years of age. His parents both died before he was fourteen. When eighteen he began learning the carpenter's trade at Uniontown, where he worked over a year. He then went to Washington, where he worked at carpentering six months. In 1850 he came west and worked at St. Louis, Missouri, and Keokuk, Iowa, until 1851, when he came to Pike county and located at Lonisiana, where he worked at his trade until 1861, where, after serving three months as a home guard, he enlisted in company A, Fifth Regiment Missouri state troops, and served six months, when he enlisted in company D, First Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, for three years or during the war. May 5, 1864, he was discharged for disabilities, when he returned to Louisiana and resumed work at his trade until the fall of 1882, when he engaged in the grocery business. In February, 1852, he married Clara Minerva Webber, of Louisiana, Missouri, by whom he has seven children. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and his wife is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. He is a mem- ber of the Major Wilson Post, G. A. R., of Louisiana.
William Langley MeQuie. Esq., a pioneer of Pike county, and is sup- posed to be the oldest man now living in the county, is of Scottish origin. His grandfather, John McQuie, came from Scotland and settled in Virginia some time previous to 1753. William McQuie, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in that year, who also became a soldier in the Revolution- ary War when about sixteen years of age, and afterwards married Sallie Brooks, by whom he had nine children. William Langley, the third son, was born on a farm near Richmond, Amelia county, Virginia, February S, 1790, and when he was an infant his parents removed to Kentucky, and set- tled on a farm in Garrard county, near the mouth of Dix River, where he was raised and educated. When becoming of age. in 1811, he was employed as an overseer by his father, and superintended his father's plantation until 1814, when he fitted ont a keel-boat, which he loaded with whisky, and set out for St. Louis, then a small French village, where, after disposing of his cargo of whisky, he remained about a year, buying furs and buffalo robes of the Indians, who came there to treat with Governor Clark, who was governor of
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the territory, which, after obtaining a good supply, he shipped to Louisville, Kentucky. In 1815 he returned to his father's plantation, in Garrard county, Kentucky, where he, with his brother John, engaged in mannfac- turing chewing tobacco, in the firm name of John & William L. MeQuie. they shipping their tobacco to New Orleans and other southern cities. In 1819, after quitting the tobacco business, he rented a farm four miles south of Lexington, Kentucky, and pursued farming one year, when he purchased a tract of land in Jessamine county, Kentucky, which he had cleared by his slaves, and where he pursued farming until 1829, when he came to Mis- sonri, and settled in Pike county. In 1820, while living near Lexington, he came near losing his life, by being poisoned by a slave woman, who im- portuned him to purchase her to save her from being sent to the slave mar- ket in New Orleans. He had owned her but a day when she tried to poison him, by putting some unknown substance in his food, and the same night she, with her husband, ran away. They started for Canada, and were over- taken some forty miles on their way and arrested, and sent to New Orleans, where they were sold on the block. Though narrowly escaping, his life was endangered for thirty years afterwards. The expense of his sickness and the mismanagement of his overseer depleted his means to such an extent that when he came to Pike county he had to begin almost empty handed. During the first winter he taught school in Louisiana, and in the following spring settled on his present farm, two and a half miles west of Louisiana city, where he still resides, and where, for over fifty years, he has pursued farming, leading a quiet, peaceable life. During the late war he was a con- servative Union man, but, being a southerner by birth and education, and a slave-owner, he could not approve of the emancipation of slaves without remuneration. Many interesting events of his life could be narrated, but our space will not permit us. September 1, 1819, he married Martha A., daughter of Major Archibald Morrison, of Woodford county. Kentneky, who died on the homestead October 8, 1873, in her seventy-fourth year. Early in life she became a member of the N. S. Presbyterian Church, and when she came to Pike county she joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Louisiana by letter, of which she was a consistent member until her death. By her Christian graces she moulded the character of her fam- ily, and drew around her many friends, who deeply felt her loss when she passed away. They had seven children: John M., of Louisville, Ken- tueky; William A., of Pike county; Mary J., wife of Dr. A. C. Robinson, of Louisiana city; Archibald B., of Pike county; Edward B., superintend- ing the homestead; and two unmarried daughters, Sarah and Rebecca, who
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still live with their father. Mr. McQuie was baptized when an infant and brought up a Methodist by his mother, but was a member of no church until after the death of his wife, in 1573, when he joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Louisiana city.
William Hamilton Morrow, attorney at law, is the son of Joseph and Ellen (Lock) Morrow, and was born near Charlestown, the county seat of Jefferson county, Virginia. November 1, 1837, where he was reared and lived with his parents until he was nineteen. He was educated at Charlestown Academy and at the Agricultural Institute at Aldie. Virginia. When he left home, in 1ST6, he came to Missouri and engaged in teaching school at Louisiana, following it some two years, when he began the study of law in the office of Dryden & Lipscom, at Palmyra, Missouri, and was admitted to the bar, at the same place, in 1860. when he began the practice. In 1861 he returned to Charlestown, Virginia. where he enlisted in the Confederate service as a member of Company A, Twelfth Regiment Virginia Cavalry, and served during the war. He was promoted, through all the various grades. from private up to major of his regiment. He participated in many battles, the most important being Bull Run, Winchester, Manassas .Junction, Antietam, Gettysburg. Fredericksburg, and Petersburg. When his brigade was retreating from Petersburg to Appomattox he was wounded and left at a conntry residence, and could not be present at the general surrender to General Grant, but when he had partially recovered he went to Charles- town, Virginia, where he surrendered to Major-General Eagen, to whom he is indebted for kind treatment and generous aid. As soon as he had recor- ered from his wounds he began teaching a private school in Charlestown, Virginia, and continued it up to 1868, when he had accumulated means enough to return to Louisiana and resume the practice of law. In 1870 he became associated with Thomas L. Anderson. Sr .. and Thomas L. Ander- son, Jr., in the law practice in the firm name of Anderson, Morrow & An- derson; they remaining together until 1873. In 1876 he became associated with W. O. Gray, forming the present law firin of Morrow & Gray. Feb- rnary 4, 1864. he married Julia, daughter of A. Wilson, of West Virginia. They have two children, Minnie Ola and Norval. Himself and wife are members of the M. E. Church South. He is a Master Mason, and member of Perseverance Lodge No. 92, A. F. & A. M., of Louisiana.
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