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and fact appear not to agree, for there are few healthier persons than tho -.. who reside in the immediate vicinity of those very malarial regions an .. death-producing swamps. The ponds of which we have spoken are the re- sorts of almost every variety of water-fowl, and sportsmen from every part of the county, and from other counties as well, camp here for days ats! weeks during the spring aud fall seasons to enjoy the gunning and amnse. ment incident to a life in the woods or on the prairie.
OLD SETTLERS.
There were but few settlers in Salt River township before 1820. A few however, had come into the township before that time. Among these was John Williams, who is conceded to have been the first white man who ever built his cabin near the margin of the classic Salt River. He came as early as 1817 and remained in the township until his death. George T. Ashburn. of Kentucky, was among the earliest to settle here. He came just after Williams, in 1817 or 1818. William Tompkins, a Virginian, settled in the township in 1818, and James Kinnsey about the same time. William and Samuel Gilbert, who came from Kentucky, settled here in Is18 or 1- 19. William HJumes came abont 1819, and Canada Fryer in 1820. About this time, or perhaps in 1821 or 1822. came -- Swain, while in 1820 Enoch Matson. Walker and Leander Eoff. with some others, whose names are not remembered, settled in the township. Henry Robinson, with a few others. came in 1820. Like the pioneers of other new countries these early settlers were destined to many hardships. The forests enveloped them and were to be cleared away before the crops, upon which they inst depend, could be planted. The facilities for education were of the poorest character-indeed. they were none. There were no church-houses nor church organizations. But the settlers had brought with them their religious ideas, and they were not long in perfecting an organization and arranging for a place of worship.
SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS.
Rude structures were soon erected, designed to be used as school-houses. and the little knowledge of books of the early teacher was soon called into requisition in iniparting his own knowledge to the few youth of this new settlement.
Among the first teachers of Salt River township may be mentioned Mrs. Williams, now a resident of Clarksville, who is believed by many to live been the first to teach in the township. William Tompkins also taught at a very early day, and, some believe, before Mrs. Williams. Mr. Tompkins
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taught his first school, a term of nine months, in a small round log-house, situated about half way between the home of Enoch Matson and the resi- dence of Mr. Tompkins. John Epper on may also be named as one of the first teachers of Salt River. He taught for quite a while in the township, and, it is said, gave to both pupil and patron the highest satisfaction. But the teachers and the homes have somewhat improved since the early days of 1520. Good school buildings are now to be found in the township, and teachers of like qualifications with others of the county are now ci- ployed. The Salt River schoolhouse. located in section thirty, township fifty-five, range twenty-two, was built in 1551. The house now on this site is a substantial one, and sufficiently conunodions to meet the wants of the district. The Union school house is also suficient for the neighborhood it. which it is located. It was built in 1×59. and school has been continually taught during the fall and winter months since the time of its construction. There is one other school bailling in the township, the one situated in what is known as the Vernon district. This house is comparatively new, having been built in 1979, and is a very neat and substantial frame structure.
CHURCHES.
There are several religious organizations in the township, among them the Baptiste, Methodists, and a seet known as the Free Methodists. The Bay- tists were organized by Stephen Ruddell, who once officiated at Ramsey Creek, in Calumet township, and the alleer cruch in Pike county. The original members of the church organiz I in Salt River were William Tomp- kins and wife, William Gilbert and wife, and a few others. The meetings were first held at the house of Samuel Gilbert, as were all meetings of a re- ligious character for many years. At this time there is a nice church, called Taylor's Chapel, belonging to the southern Metholists, situated in. the township. This is a frame structure, and was opened in 1850 at a cost of about five hundred dollars. Simon Hallows Jolan Benson, and C. Cherry, were the building committee. The church was organized in 1579, the year before the house was completed, with the following members: John Benson, wife, and daughter; Simon Halawa, Martha Hallows, Ellen Weeks, William Hallows, C. Cherry, twee Setter, Sarah Smithers, Miss D. Robinson, and David Wooten. 'The prior in charge is the liev. Mr. Holland.
The M. E. Church South was first onguten in Sit River township at Union school-house as early as 1550, with the following constituting mem- bers: George T. Ashburn, Ann Prosti, Jeme Komay, Robert Lowe,
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Elizabeth Swain, Mrs. Gillum, Catharine Scroggins, George Eoff. and Nancy Eoff. The congregation which now worships at Taylor's Chapel is the our. growth of this little church, planted in the wilds of Salt River more than sixty years ago.
The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes called in the township the Free Methodist. was organized June 16. 1880, by Rev. Harry May. the minister then in charge. The constituting members were as follows: W. H. Tompkins 'class leader. Fanny Tompkins. Robert Porter, Sarah E. Porter, Julia Ann Stephens. I. G. Miller. Theresa Wheeler. E. J. Seibert. J. H. Jeffrey, J. H. Stout. Martha Stout. John HI. Stephens, Hattie Stephens. Cassandra Tompkins, and John Ogden. The present minister is B. F. Smalley, who entered upon his pastoral duties September 1. 1862. There are at present from twenty seven to thirty members. This church holds its meetings at Union school-house.
FIRST STORES, MILLS, ETC.
The first store over established in Salt River township was located at Mundy's Landing and conducted by a party named Freeman. There is at this time no business done at Mundy's, but the stores, and, in fact. all the business of Salt River, is now at Ashburn Station. which was established as a trading point in the year 1575. This station is situated on the St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railway, about fifteen miles northwest of the city of Louisiana. There is a store and a blacksmith shop here. and considera- ble trading and shipping are done here. George T. Ashburn was the first . postmaster of the place, and John W. Johnson the first station agent.
The first mill ever located in the township was a saw-mill brought in by Enoch Mation and located near his home on Salt River. The mill was run by water power and was a great convenience to the people of the township. Mr. Matson also had a grist-mill which was also the first of its kind ever brought into the township. This appears to have first been a tread mill, and was afterwards arranged so as to be driven by water. The first tannery was begun by F. Petty at a very early period in the history of the township. He continued to operate it for about one year when it was bought by Jon- athan J. Bird. who conducted it quite successfully until 1849, when both he and his wife died with cholera.
CHARACTERISTICS OF SETTLERS-INCIDENTS.
Probably the first justice of the peace of Salt River township was William Tompkins, who served the people in that capacity for a period of twenty
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successive years. The people of Salt River township. like those of other portions of Pike county, are orderly and law abiding citizens, though occa- sionally diffientties have ensued here in which the loss of life has been sus- tained. In a quarrel between George Miller and John Kenney, which hap pened quite a number of your Bg. Kenney was stabbed by Miller, and some three weeks thereafter died from the effect of his wounds.
The difficulty originated in a dispute alon a log chain. and, as is too fre- quently the case, the trivial care led to an altercation and bloodshed. There has been one other quarrel in tor township which assumed greater propor- tions and which resulted in the sharing of two men. A family by the name of Walters, of which there were several grown male member-, resided in the township, just after the war, between whom and a man named Divers some feeling of hate led been engendered. Notiers were posted on the trees in Divers's neighborhood notifying him to leave, and intimating that if at the end of thirty days he should be found in the township, that he would be killed. Just before the time expired and about daylight on the 20th of August, 1866, one of the Walters was shot dead in his own yard and near his own door. Divers was suspected though no immediate attempt was made to molest him. But within just one month from the killing of Wal- ters, Divers was waylaid and fired upon as he was returning home. His arm was broken at the first fire and as he was running down the hill, en- deavoring to escape, quite a number of chots were fired at him and his body . was riddled with ballets. The citizens now determined that this state of things should case, and a dare was not sufficient proof to convict the Walters of this crime, and s- they were even before suspected of being con- nected with transactions of a doubtful character, they were advised by the citizens to close up their business and to retire from the township and the county. The advice, when given in a very cool but emphatic manner, was apparently kindly received and arted upon in a manner as prompt as the citizens could have desind! Neither before nor since these troubles has there been anything in the hispey ot Sult River that would detract from the peaceful and orderis che ater of her citizens.
Neither the size not the section of this township is such as to ever give it special prominence in the heart of Pine county, nevertheless it is an important factor in the count . Much valuable timber is annually ent in the township. which i want- of the citizen- of Louisiana and the stave fretesy : Cni .. ... wer quantities of wheat and corn are annually grown love; et corpore tak is annually sent to the markets of the country. la m'el ger. vi! morally the people compare very favor-
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ably with those of other sections of this old and wealthy county, while in al that appertains to liberality of sentiment and whole-souled prosperity the. are inferior to no people on earth.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
SALT RIVER TOWNSHIP.
George L. Ashburn, of Ashburn Station, was born in Pike county. Missouri, on the 5th day of February, 1852. His father, Henry R. Asl .. burn, was a native of Kentucky, born October 4, 1819, and was brought b; our subject's grandfather. George T. Ashbmn, who was originally from Virginia, to Missouri in the same year, 1819. On coming to this counts he settled near what is now Ashburn Station, ou the St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railway, the land being cleared by Ilenry R. Ashburn. The grandfather of our subject died in 1868. Henry R. Ashburn, the father of George L., was reared from infancy in this county on a farm. He owned & tract of some 500 acres of land, and vas one of the successful farmers and stock- raisers of Salt River township. He had been three times married; his firs: wife being Amanda Ayers, daughter of Richard and a sister of Judge Ayers. of Grass Creek, of this county. She died in 1841. Mr. Ashburn married for his second wife Miss Mildred Collins, who died March 10, 1859, leaving three children, two of whom are still living, Samuel M. and our subject. George L. Mr. Ashburn was married to his third wife in 1861, who was a Miss Sarah E. Cooper, daughter of Noah Cooper, of Illinois. The resul: of this union was six children, two of whom still live, Robert E. and Amanda J. Mr. Ashburn served some time as deputy postmaster, under his father, who was, doubtless, the first postmaster of Salt River township and was, at the death of his father, appointed postmaster in his stead, and served until his death, which occurred in 1881. George L. Ashburn, whi was reared on the old homestead settled by his grandfather, and still held sacred, spent his youth on the farm, and received a moderate education at the common schools. He has full charge of the farm, comprising. over 700 acres of land; is yet single, and a young man of taste and energy, widely known and much esteemed.
W. A. Craven, M. D .. Ashburn. Dr. Craven is a native of Missouri, born in the year 1843. He was principally reared in Clark county, this state. On arriving at his majority he commeneed the study of medicine.
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entering the office of Dr. John F. Henry, a successful practitioner of Frank- ford, this county. Ile took his course of lectures at the Keokuk Medical School, graduating in 1862, and soon after entered the Union army, serving until the close of the war, filling the office of sergeant-major in the Second Missonri Cavalry. He participated in the battles of Athens, Kirkville, Mo- bile, and many others. In 1865 the Doctor was honorably discharged, and immediately returned to Clark county, and for a short time engaged in the stock business. In 1875 he came to Ashburn, and at once began the practice of medicine, which he has successfully followed till the present. In 1862 the Doctor was united in marriage to Miss Margaret E. Howard, of St. Louis. They have one daughter, Nettie M.
John W. Johnson. This gentleman is a native of Missouri, born in 1851. His father, James W. Johnson, who was by birth a Kentuckian, im- migrated to Missouri many years ago and settled in Marion county, where he remained until 1852, when he removed to Pike county and settled on Sugar Creek, where he owns a large tract of land, in Peno township, and which is known as the old Spanish claim, near the old Matson ford on Salt River. John Johnson, our subject, spent his youth on a farin and was somewhat of a student. At the age of nineteen he began teaching, which he followed some three years. . He then embarked in the mercantile busi- ness, continuing this about two years, after which he returned to the farm. In 1878, at the completion of the St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Rail- way, he was appointed station agent at Ashburn. a position which he still holds. During the same time he ran a store, until 1852, and in connection with it served as postmaster. In November, 1877, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Belle Bradley of Frankford. They have one son, Wil- liam A. Mr. Johnson's mother was before marriage Miss Hannah S. Wad- dell, danghter of Mr: Waddell, one of -the first settlers of this county. Mr. Johnson is a Mason, and a member of the Knights of Honor. At the age of sixteen he became a member of the Sugar Creek Baptist Church. Mrs. Johnson is a consistent member of the Christian Church. Although a young man in years Mr. J. is possessed of a large amount of experience which fits him for almost any field in a business life.
Frederick Long, of whom we write, is a man noted for his energy and enterprise, and is foremost among the successful farmers of Salt River town- ship. He was born in Germany in the year 1838. His youth was spent in his native country, where he early in life acquired habits of industry and economy. At the age of sixteen he bid good-bye to his old home and friends and came to America, stopping in Pennsylvania some eighteen 65
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months, and then came to Louisiana, Missouri, in about the year 1858, where he engaged in various kinds of work until 1861. when the war broke ont. He entered the Union army as a private and served faithfully during the war. Throughout his long term of service and hardship he un- flinchingly performed his duty as a soldier and participated in many hothy contested battles. While performing picket duty he was taken prisoner by General Reeve's command, and was held three and a half days, expecting hourly to be taken out and shot. but on the fourth day he was re-captured by the Federals. This was Christmas morning, and one of the happiest spent during his life. At the close of the war Mr. Long was honorably discharged. Returning to Missouri he engaged in farming, and soon after was married, and now has around him an interesting little family, prosper- ons and happy.
Hugh Love, farmer and stock-dealer, was born in South Carolina. Sep- tember 13, 1812. His father. James Love, was a native of Ireland. and his mother, whose maiden name was Mary Donnahue, was also a native of the same country. They came to America and settled in South Carolina, where they resided until 1819, when they immigrated to Missouri, bringing with them the subject of this sketch. They located on the waters of Noix Creek, at which place they continued to reside natil the year 1828, when they moved to Salt River township, purchasing a large tract of land which at that time was one dense forest. There he opened and cleared a farm upon which he lived and reared a family of eleven children, eight boys and three girls, all of whom are dead except our subject. James Love died October 10. 1828, and Mary Love in January. 1817. Hugh Love, our subject, was reared on a farm and received a limited education at the common schools of that day. At this time the woods abounded with all kinds of game, the hunting of which afforded fine pastime for youthful days. In 1851 Mr. Love was married to Miss Martha, daughter of Lorenzo Schroggins of South Carolina. Mr. Love is one of the leading farmers and stock dealers of his township. He owns one of the best farms in Salt River township, comprising over 700 acres of choice land, first and second bottom, of a rich limestone soil, facing to the south, and is well adapted for the growing of all kinds of grain. He has planted a very extensive vineyard. His residence, a large two-story frame. is built upon a sightly spot commanding a fine view of the surrounding coun- try. In 1966 Mrs. Love died. leaving four children: viz., James D., Mary, Hugh, and Mattie B. For his second wife Mr. Love married Mrs. Sarah C. Willard. Of this union he has one son, Robert Love. Mrs. Love had four children by her former husband: Nancy C., William W., Mattie May,
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and Norie A. Mrs. Love is a lady much extremed in her neighborhood, social in her nature and possessed of many domestic virtues.
John G. Miller, an enterprising farmer of Salt River township, was born in Germany, in 1836. At the age of eleven years he came with his parents to America. After a tedious and hazardous voyage they landed at New Orleans. From there, in company with his parents, he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where they settled, and in a few years they both died, leaving onr subjeet, John G., who then was thrown on his own resonrees. to carve out a fortune for himself as best he could. He continued to reside at Mil- waukee until 1851. when he came to Missouri and settled near Clarksville, and engaged in rafting logs down the Mississippi River, following this till 1856; then he went to Salt River town-hip, where he rented a farm and eu- gaged in farming, which he conducted successfully for a few years, when he purchased his present farm, consisting of Til vores, the largest portion of which is in cultivation. In 189! Mr Miller mirriel Sarah M., daughter of Edward Hall. In 1878 she died, leaving four children. In the following year he was married to Elizabeth Keurer. She died in the year 1882. In 1868 Mir. Miller joined the M. E. Church South, of which he is an active member, and at present fills the position of class-leader. Mrs. Miller, at the time of her death, was a member of the same church and was a de- voted Christian.
William Reed, was an old settler of Salt River township, who died at the residence of A. M. Matson, on the weth day of February, 1883. le was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, My 15, 1797. the son of John S. and Jane Reed. He came to Pike county and settled on Peno Creek, two miles northeast of Frankford, in October, ISIT. In April, 1921, he walked back to Kentucky, making the trip in twenty one day , returning in the fall of the same year. In 1828 he went to live with Mr. Ernest Matson, and assisted him to construet an ox-mill, which dof the grinding of the neighborhood for many years. He was in the Black Hawk War, with Captain Dick Mat- son. Mr. Reed was a man respected and honved by all who knew him.
William Swalley, is a native of Crestand cants, Ohio, born on the 12th day of January, 1AF. He obralar! I'd education at the district school. , At the age of sixteen year- be moved with his parents to lowa. where they settled in Davis city. In JEG they removed to Missouri, and settled in Salt River township. Og rewhing bis majority our subject married, in 1SSP. Mary A. E af: Mr. koff', tonfly bemy one of the first who settled in this town-hip. Mr. Skulley, soon after his marriage. en- gaged in agricultural pursuits. In Ises he parchind his present farm, com-
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prising 160 acres. He has a large two-story frame residence, with comfort- able ont-buildings. He is a hard-working and industrious man, attending closely to his duties on the farm, and has an interesting family of five chil- dren. He is a member of the M. E. Church, of which he is steward.
Richard D. TTompkins is one among the oldest and most successful farmers of his neighborhood. He was born in St. Louis county, Missouri, September 11, 1815. His father, William Tompkins, was a native of Vir- ginia, born in the year 1700. He came to Missouri when a young man, in 1810, and stopped for some time at St. Louis, where he acted as sutler. He served two years in the War of 1812, and while in fort on the bank of the Mississippi River, at Cape Gray, he married Martha Gilbert, daughter of Sammel Gilbert, Esq. After peace was declared he moved to St. Louis county, where he remained until the fall of 1818, when he removed to Salt River township, and settled ou a tract of land near what is now Tompkins Station, on the Keokuk, St. Louis & Northwestern Railway, where he erected a small log-lonse in a dense forest, which at that time might be termed a bowling wilderness. There he opened ont a farm and reared a . family of six children, living to see them all grown and married. He was popular with his neighbors. He was elected justice of the peace of his township, and held the office for a period of twenty years. He was a mem- ber of the Episcopalian Church. and the prayer book given him by his mother was at his death turned over to our subject, who has it yet in his possession. He died in April. 1875, at a very advanced age. Richard W. Tompkins, onr subject, spent his youth on a farm. His school days, all told, did not exceed nine months. He remained with his parents until at- taining the age of twenty-five years, when he married Mary A. Howland, a native of Massachusetts. During the same year Mr. Tompkins moved to his present farm, consisting of 318 acres, a larger portion of which at that time was in timber. In January, 1857, he lost his wife, leaving him a wid- ower with seven children. In the following year (1855) he married his pres- ent wite, Mary A., daughter of J. H. and Nancy Stout, who came to Pike county in 1835. The result of this union has been three children. two of whom are living. Jatnes D. ang Kasander. In politics Mr. Tompkins is a staunch Republican. In matters of religion he is a strong believer in the faith known as Holiness.
Henry V. Tompkins, the principal merchant of Ashburn, is the de- scendant of one of the oldest families of Salt River township, and was born on the 15th day of March, 1854. His father, Christopher W. Tompkins, was by birth a Virginian, immigrating to Missonri in the year 1819, pur-
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chasing a tract of land near what is now the town of Ashburn. Here he opened out a farin, and has beeome an active trader in mules and cattle. In the absence of railroads Mr. Tompkins proved himself to be a public benefactor. Ile was married to Polly Ashburn, danghter of George T. Ash- burn, Esq., one of the pioneers of his neighborhood. They were the par- ents of thirteen children, four boys and eight girls, eight of whom are still living. Mr. Tompkins served four terms as justice of the peace. His landed estate numbered some eight hundred acres. He died in 1870, hav- ing led a moral and useful life. Ile was loved and esteemed by all who knew him. The mother is still living, making her home in Ralls county, this state, enjoying reasonably good health. Henry V. Tompkins, our snb- jeet, spent his youth upon the farm, receiving such advantages as were af- forded by the schools of that day. On arriving at his majority he engaged in agricultural pursnits, which he followed until 1SS2, when he quit the farm and embarked in the mercantile business, his store consisting of a gen- eral stock. Mr. Tompkins was married in 1878 to Laura Brothers, a na- tive of Ralls county, this state. They have two children: Ethel O. and Bartie. Mr. Tompkins and wife are members of the Christian Church.
Andrew A. Williams. This ontlines a sketch of one of the descend- ants of the first families who settled in Salt River township. His father, John Williams, was a native of Kentucky, and was born in Nelson county. In 1815 he emigrated to the state of Indiana, where, on the 18th day of February, 1818, our suljeet was born. During the same year the father immigrated to Missouri and settled one and one-half miles south of what is now Ashburn Station, in Salt River township, and here. in the dense forest, picked ont a spot on which to erect a small log-house, which should be his future home. He entered a tract of land consisting of some 500 acres, and then engaged in farming. In 1820. while at St. Louis, Missouri, on business, he was taken sick very suddenly, and died after a short illness. The maiden name of the mother of onr subject was Rebecca Me.Allister. She came to Missouri with her husband and died in 1846, leaving four children living, three of whom were by her second husband, Canada Tryar, who died about the year 1531. Andrew A. was reared on the farm. His father dying in his infancy had much to do with changing his course. Hav- ing a mother and three sisters to support threw him wholly upon his own resources. Aside from a few acres of land left him by his father he carved ont his own fortune, and now owns a good farm with a comfortable dwell- ing. In 1844 he was united in marriage to Miss C. Bailey, daughter of James Bailey. In 1:35 she died, leaving two children, one of whom is still
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living, Rebecca J., who was married to Mr. Taylor. Mr. Williams was married to his present wife in 1858; they have one child, William Andrew. In politics Mr. W. is a staunch Democrat, believing in the old Jacksonian . doctrine that the majority should rule. In 1844 he was elected to the office of justice of the peace, serving some three years.
C. E. Waynick is one of the most active, shrewd, and persevering citi- zens of Pike county; one who has had many successes and reverses, but is possessed of a large amount of pluck and energy, which will, before long, enable him to attain the summit of his ambition. Mr. Waynick is a native of North Carolina, born May 4, 1823. He lived in his native state until fourteen years of age, when, in company with his uncle, he went to Indiana, where he remained until the fall of 1841, when he went to Iowa and stopped at Iowa City. There he remained until 1845, when he came to Missouri. During the gold excitement of 1849 and 1850 he went to California, return- ing in 1854, and finally settling in Salt River township. In 1862 he was elected to the office of justice of the peace, which he held continuously for a period of over twenty years. He also taught school several terms, and ranked among the best teachers. Mr. Waynick has been twice married, first to Matilda Myers, who died in 1859, leaving one child. In 1860 he was again married to Margaret Cherry, by whom he had nine children. Mr. Waynick is an active politician, and is one of the staunch Democrats of Salt River township.
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