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cousin of Daniel Boone, and was with him during the early settlement of the Kentucky wilderness, and his wife was one of the first white women in the state. They came ont with the first party of settlers brought out by Daniel Boone. The trials and privations of those hardy pioneers have passed into history, and are familiar to all who have read the different works published which treat of the carly settlement of Kentucky. Jacob Boone died in 1826, at the age of seventy-two years. Ilis devoted wife had died a year or two previous. They are buried in the state which they helped to convert from a "howling wilderness" to what all who have been born within her borders speak of with pride as "the garden spot of the world." Wil- liam Boone was married in Fleming county, Kentucky, August 22, 1819, to Miss Clarissa M. Wallingford. She is the daughter of John and Prudie Wallingford, both natives of Virginia. By this union they had eleven chil- dren: Harriet, Joseph, Daniel D., William P., Mary, Clarissa, John, Frank, Henry, Elizabeth, and Theodore. Six of whom are now living; viz. Daniel D., William P., and Frank; Mary, Clarissa, and Elizabeth. Mary is the widow of Dr. J. W. Hemphill. Clarissa is the wife of Samuel Sinith. Esq., of Col- umbus, Nebraska; Elizabeth is the wife of Alexander Vaughn, of Paynesville. The three brothers all live in Clarksville. William Boone came to Clarks- ville, Missouri, April 5, 1829. Hle lived two years in Pike county, and then moved to Lincoln county and settled on a tract of twenty-four hundred acres of land, which he had bought from Chatean, of St. Louis. He lived there .
until his death, February 6, 1863. He followed farming all the time he lived in Missouri. While he lived in Kentucky he was engaged with his father in running a ferry-boat and warehouse at Maysville. He took a ride on the first steamboat that ever passed up the Ohio River. He paid a dol- lar to ride four miles, and walked back. When he died, he and his sons owned four thousand acres of land in Lincoln county. He is buried at the Clarksville cemetery. His widow is still living, and is over eighty years old. She is living with her son Frank, in Clarksville. She is a member of the Christian Church. In 1850 Daniel D. and William P. Boone went to Cali- fornia. They went with an ox-team, and were three months and five days on the road. This was considered a remarkably quick trip. They did not remain there but a few months, and reached their home again in the fall of 1851, after an absence of fourteen months. After they came back their father gave each of them farms and they followed farming until 1865, when they sold their farms and moved to Clarksville. Daniel D. Boone was mar- ried September 16, 1858, to Miss Elizabeth Waters, daughter of William and Catharine Waters, of Lincoln county, Missouri. She was born at War-
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renton, Fauquier county, Virginia. They have no children. They raised a nephew and niece of Mrs. Boone. Their names were Ella and James Waters. James is now in Denver, Colorado. Ella is the wife of Benjamin Clayton. After Mr. Boone come to Clarksville he was in the livery busi- ness one year. He now devotes his time to real estate in Clarksville. He owns a number of houses which he rents. He has a splendid house where he lives, furnished in good style. He is a worthy member of the Masonic order, holding membership in Clarksville Lodge No. 17. He was born January 3, 1824. Mr. Boone has a portrait of his grandfather, Jacob Boone. It is an oil painting, done over sixty years ago. He also has an eight-day clock, which gives the day of the month and the changes of the moon. It was bought by Jacob Boone over sixty years ago, and cost eighty dollars. It is in perfect order, and a good time-keeper. The family brought it from Kentucky when they came to l'ike connty, in 1829.
Richard B. Campbell. of the firm of Hughes & Campbell, is a native of Pike county, Missouri, and is the son of Rev. James W. Campbell. He was born November 16, 1843. His mother, Sophia A., was the daughter of Col. Malcolm Henry, of North Carolina. Richard B. received his pri- mary education at the subscription school and later attended the Watson Seminary, at Ashley, and afterwards completed his commercial course at the Commercial College of Quiney, Illinois. Returning home he accepted a clerkship with the firm of Boone & Bro., holding the position for four years, at the expiration of which he purchased W. P. Boone's interest, the style of' the firm being Boone & Campbell, which continued until 1875, when Mr. Campbell disposed of his interest and soon after associated himself with Benjamin Hughes in the Ininber business, under the firm name of Hughes & Campbell. In 1871 Mr. Campbell was married to Miss Ella, daughter of Andrew Cochran, of Auburn, Missouri. The result of this union has been one daughter, Nellie Douglas. Mr. Campbell is a worthy member of the Knights of Honor, lodge No. 1768. In politics Mr. Campbell is a Demos erat; but his affability and integrity have won him a host of friends among all parties.
Henry S. Carroll. This gentleman is a native of Pike county, and at present a citizen of Clarksville, with many of whose most important business interests he is intimately connected. Mr. Carroll is a son of E. L. and Eliza- beth Carroll, his mother being a daughter of the late Judge James Stark, a soldier of the War of 1812 and a participant in the battle of Lundy's Lane. His father, E. L. Carroll, was also a native of Pike, where he continued to reside until the time of his death, October, 1862. His mother is still alive, 36
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in the sixtieth year of her age, and continues to live at the old homestead where the early years of her married life were so happily passed. Henry S. Carroll, the subject of our sketch, was born on the farm on the 25th day of June, 1844. Here his early youth was spent, giving his attention to the details of the farm and receiving his education at the district school. At the age of seventeen years he joined the "Home Guards," with which he re- mained but a short time when he entered the state service, and soon after- wards the U. S. Volunteer Infantry. Clinton B. Fisk commanding the regi- ment. From 1862 till 1865 he was a member of Company D, and partici- pated in all the battles and sieges in which the regiment was engaged. During the latter year he was severely wounded, having had a portion of his foot shot away. For five months he was confined to the hospital, suffer- ing intensely. In November. 1861, he rejoined his regiment and was pro- inoted sergeant-major of the regiment, and maintained this position until commissioned first lienterant. With his command he was mustered out of service on the 11th day of Angust, 1865. He now returned home to the farm where he remained until the following fall, when he removed to Clarksville, accepting a clerkship, at the small salary of 825 per month, with the fina of E. B. Carroll & Co., a firin composed of E. B. Carroll, B. P. Clifford, and John O. Roberts, where he remained until December, 1870. In January, 1871, be became a member of the banking house of B. P. Clif- ford & Co. Here he performed the duties of cashier until the death of Capt. Clifford, when the bank was incorporated under the name of the Clif- ford Banking Company, with Mr. Carroll as its president. Mr. Carroll is at this time also treasurer of the Imperial Mill Company and likewise of the Clarksville Paper Mill Company. In each of these enterprises Mr. Carroll is a large stockholder. He is a partner in the Vinegar Works and Alden Drying Process, conducted under the firin name of Carroll, Wirick & Co., and also in the firm of Win. McIntosh & Co. and of Win. N. Meri- wether & Co. Mr. Carroll is at this time president of the Clarksville Gravel Road Company, and was for several years treasurer of the Clarks- ville & Western Railroad Company. He was married in March, 1872, to Miss Lucy, daughter of Capt. B. P. Clifford, an old, wealthy and prominent . citizen of Clarksville, by whom he has one child, Harry, five years of age. Mr. Carroll is at this time engaged in efforts to secure other interests for his town, among these the building of a railroad from --- in Illinois to Kansas City in Missouri, and if the result attends his efforts now as in the past the success of the enterprise will be merely a matter of time.
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Capt. Benj. P. Clifford, Clarksville, was born July 9, 1817, in Logan county, Kentucky. His parents were poor people, and to better their con- dition they moved to Missoni in 1825, settling on Gwinn's Creek, in this county. On the 6th day of August, 1833, he moved to Clarksville. In 1838 Captain Clifford, then just of age, went as first clerk on the steamer Astoria. in the Missouri River trade. In 1840 he assnined command of the Shawnee, and run the boat ou the Missouri River. Afterwards he built the steamer Julia Chauteau, and commanded her in the St. Louis and New Or- leans trade. In 1844 he quit the river and went on his farin near this city. Two years later, in 1846, he began merchandising in the city of Clarksville, and continued the business until 1857, when he was elected cashier of the . Louisiana Branch Bank of the State of Missouri, then being established. The institution was very successfully managed by Captain Clifford for four years, when, by reason of too close application to business, his health became impaired, and he again took up his residence on his farm, near the city. Afterward he again engaged here in the mercantile business, until 1868; he then established the present banking house of B. P. Clifford & Co., re- tiring from active business in 1871. In 1862 he was elected to the legisla- ture, and served during the sessions of 1862 and 1864. Ile was twice mar- ried. He was first united in marriage with Lucinda Pepper, about the year 1842, who died December, 1857, and to his second wife, Lizzie Alexander, March, 1860, she dying May 22, 1873. For many years Mr. Clifford was an invalid; he visited many localities in search of health, but died of heart disease on the 6th day of January, 1881.
Charley T. Clifford, assistant cashier of the Clifford Banking Company, of Clarksville, Missouri. Although Mr. Clifford is quite young, few men have attained the prominence in business circles greater than our subject, the youngest son of Capt. B. P. and Lucinda Clifford. Both of his parents were from Kentneky, having emigrated to Missouri in a very early day. Charley T. Clifford was born and reared in the city of Clarksville; the greater portion of his early education was obtained at the city school under Prof. M. S. Goodman, a most distinguished educator. He completed, however, his education at the Washington University of St. Louis, Missouri. Soon after returning from school he assumed his present position which he has filled with much satisfaction to the patrons of the bank, and with much credit to himself. Mr. Clifford is one among the largest stockholders in the bank, and is also interested largely in the Imperials Mills, one of the largest enterprises of the kind in this county.
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John M. Clifford was born February 29, 1820. He is the youngest of a family of three brothers and the only one of his father's family now living. He is the son of John B. and Margaret (McAfee) Clifford. His father was born in North Carolina, February 14, 1784. He moved to Kentucky when a boy, and was married, June 2, 1811. His wife was a native of Scott county, Kentucky. She was born February 1, 1791. They came to Pike connty, Mis- souri, in 1825. John B. Clifford died November 12, 1865, and Margaret, his wife, March 7, 1868. The names of the two oldest boys were Wm. M. Clifford, born November 1, 1812, and Benjamin Patton Clifford, born July 9, 1817. They both became prominent business men and accumulated a ยท great deal of property. Wm. M. Clifford died June 25. 1830. Benjamin P. Clifford died December 30, 1880. John M. Clifford came to Pike county with his parents in 1825. His father was a farmer and he lived on the farm with him until he was sixteen years old. Ile then went on the river where he remained for several years. He first went on the "Arrow" and was on her when she sunk on the lower Mississippi in Morgan's Bend, a few miles above Bayou Sara. He was afterward on the "Rhine," "Shawnee," "Julia Chauteau," "Edua," and " Richmond." He was on the latter when she sunk in the Ohio River, just below Grand Chain. He was clerking while on the river. In 1846 he and his brother, Benjamin, went into business to- gether in Clarksville, and a short time before his death his brother William also became a member of the firm, which was B. P. Clifford & Brother. Afterward John W. Davis bought into the firm and the name was changed to Clifford, Davis & Co. They kept a large stock of all kinds of goods, in- eluding dry goods, groceries, glass and queensware, iron, drngs, etc. They also kept a Inmber yard and did a large commission business. They dealt largely in wheat, coin, tobacco, hemp, apples and all the different products of the country. They remained in business about nine years. Mr. Clifford is now book-keeper in the paper mill. He is a stockholder in the mill and also in the Clifford Banking Company of Clarksville. Hle was married June 20, 1882, to Miss Sue Cobell, of Pike county. She is a native of Indiana.
Sheldon P. Cochran. He is a native of Missouri, born in St. Charles county, June 7, 1835. His father, George Cochran, was a native of Ken- tucky; immigrated to Missouri at an early day. Our subject spent his youth on a farm. When ten years of age he entered school, continuing until eighteen years of age, when he entered a dry goods store of his uncle, An- drew Cochran, where he remained as clerk for five years. then went to Troy, Missouri; thence to St. Louis, where he was employed in a wholesale boot and shoe house. In 1867 he came to Clarksville and engaged in business
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for himself, opening up a general stock. In 1879, under the administration of President Grant, he was appointed postmaster and express agent. In 1871 he was married to Miss Kate, daughter of Dr. Hemphill, who was one of the most eminently successful physicians of his day. Mr. Cochran, also his wife, are members of the Episcopal Church. Their family consists of two children, Ida May and Laurena. In 1860 Mr. Cochran associated him- self with Mr. Mayes, a worthy gentleman of this city, in a general mercantile business. At the outbreak of our late war Mr. Cochran entered the Con- federate army, and belonged to the cavalry of General Joe Shelby's com- mand. During his term of service he took part in sixty-two regular en- gagements, some of the most important ones being Lexington, Springfield, Lone Jack, and many others, and received two severe wounds. Ilis rank was that of first lientenant and staff officer. Upon his return from the army he resumed his business, and to-day is in the enjoyment of a prosperous trade, which, together with his affable ways, has won for him an enviable position among the worthy people of Pike county.
James Madison Collins, dealer in hardware, queensware, and tinware, Clarksville, was born near Dayton, Ohio, March 6, 1851. He came with his parents to Missouri in the fall of 1853, they settling at Gruxton. He lived with them at Gruxton and vicinity until he was sixteen, when they removed to Pike county and settled near Clarksville, where he lived with them until he was eighteen, when he began to learn the trade of black- smithing with J. C. Johnson, at Clarksville, and worked three years, when, in 1872, he became proprietor of the Central Hotel and run it until 1879, when he became proprietor of the Carroll House, which he ran up to January, 1882. July, 1882, he engaged in his present business. June 19, 1881, he married Leonora, daughter of S. A. Drake of Clarksville. They are members of the Christian Church. He is a member of Clarksville Lodge No. 17, A. F. & A. M.
John Winn Davis, justice of the peace and clerk of the council of Clarks- ville, was born in Charlottsville, Virginia, March 24, 1832. In the fall of 1336 he came with his parents to Missouri, they settling in Pike county eight miles southwest of Clarksville, where he was raised and lived with them until he was eighteen. He was educated by attending the neighbor- hood subscription schools and a select school one year at Bowling Green. When he left home he came to Clarksville and entered the store of B. P. Clifford & Co. as a clerk, and was in their employ until 1853, when he be- came associated with the firm, changing the style to Clifford, Davis & Co. He withdrew from the firm in the fall of 1854 and removed to Prairieville,
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Pike county, where he was engaged in the mercantile business until the fall of 1857, when he discontinued it and purchased a farm near Millville, Mont- gomery county, Missouri, where he pursued farming until 1862, when, his father having died, he returned to Pike county and took charge of the home- stead for his mother. In 1865 he returned to Clarksville, where he was en- gaged in manufacturing tobacco, and was at different times associated with several parties, until 1867. when he quit manufacturing tobacco and engaged for one year in the grocery business with W. W. Mackey. In 1879 he was associated with M. S. Goodman in the agricultural implement business. In 1870 he engaged in raising grapes and small fruits and wine-making in the vicinity of Clarksville, and is so engaged at the present. In the spring of 1871 he was elected city clerk of Clarksville and with the exception of one year has filled that position ever since. During 1872, 1873, and 1874 he was elected and held the office of justice of the peace, and in July, 1882, he was appointed justice of the peace to fill a vacancy, and is now the incum- bent of that office. June 6, 1856, he married Miss America Prewitt, of near Clarksville, by whom he has three children, Robert, John, and Wil- liam, all at home. Ife is a member of the Episcopal Church at Clarksville, of which he is senior warden. He is a Master Mason and a Knight of Honor, and belongs to the lodges in Clarksville.
James Polk Denny, Clarksville. This aged gentleman was born in Scott county, Kentneky, near Georgetown, April 9, 1803. His father, Win. Denny, was a native of the state of Maryland, and when quite young went to Kentneky; he had married Elizabeth MeGee. They immigrated to Mis- souri in 1$15, stopping for a time in St. Louis county. In May, 1817, they moved to Pike county and settled near Clarksville. The mother died in 1833; the father in 1870, at the advanced age of 96 years. They raised a family of four boys: John, Samuel, Jonas, and James, our subject, who is the youngest and the only survivor of the family. He is now in the eight- ieth year of his age, and is in the full enjoyment of all his faculties; his health is good, and he stands erect and his step is light and firm. He has always lived a life of single blessedness, aud followed farming for his prin- cipal business. Leaving the farm in 1864 he went to Clarksville and en- gaged in mercantile business. In 1870 he returned to the farm, which has been his home ever since. He has lived a temperate life, and bids fair to live a number of years yet. He saw the first steamboat that ever landed at Clarksville. He has been a justice of the peace for sixteen years, and was three times elected mayor of Clarksville. He has been a member of the Christian Church for many years.
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Isham C. Dempsey, attorney-at-law, is a native of Ross county, Ohio, born March 8, 1848. His parents were originally from Virginia. His father, Isham Dempsey, was a farmer and came to Missouri in 1854, set- tling in the western part of Pike county, where he remained until his death in 1851. Our subject spent his youth on the farm, receiving his primary education at the distriet school; he then attended the high school in Clarks- ville, after which he engaged in teaching, which he followed for several years, during which he prosecuted his studies in the law; he was admitted to practice in 1871, and began the practice of his profession in the city of Clarksville, and is to-day in the enjoyment of a very lucrative business. Ile received the appointment of city attorney in 1872, and has held the office continuously ever since. He was married in 1876 to Miss Sallie A. Coch- ran, of Sterling, Illinois. Mr. Dempsey is a member of the order of Knights of Honor. Mrs. D. is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. L. R. Downing, Clarksville.
Win. Dudley, Clarksville. This gentleman is a native of Alabama, and was born on the 22d day of November, 1832. His father, Peter Dudley and his mother Sarah, were both originally from Virginia, and moved to Columbus, Georgia, thence to Alexander, and in the town of Dudleysville, erected the first house, and in one end of it had a store and carried on a considerable trade with the Indians. Ilis father died in 1859 and his mother died in 1865. Our subject was born in the same village. He immigrated to Missouri, in the year 1841; stopping a short time in Clarksville, then moved to a farin some two miles south of Clarksville, where they remained until the great flood of 1844, when they were washed out, and they were also washed out again by the great flood of 1851, when our subject moved to Clarksville, and he went to California in 1852, in company with his brother-in- law, who was shot and killed by an Indian while they were crossing the plains. At the end of two years he returned to Clarksville. In 1857 he was mar- ried to Miss Sarah Mulherin, daughter of Stephen Mulherin, one among the earliest settlers of this part of the country. Mr. Dudley then engaged in the wood business. The flood of 185S washed off 1,200 cords of his wood. Ile furnished wood to the steamers in the spring; and in the fall his house took fire and burned upand everything in it. He then moved to Joe Mack- ey's farm, which he rented. In 1865 he purchased sixty-six acres, part of the old Mackey farm. He has been engaged in later years in farming and has been quite a successful wheat-grower. The family consists of six chil- dren, five boys and one girl; the oldest son Mettellis is now engaged in school teaching. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley and three children are members of the Christian Church.
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William Boone Elliott, farmer, post-office Clarksville. James I. Elli- ott, father of Wm. B., was a native of Kentucky, and was born about the year 1801, and immigrated to Missouri in 1828, settling on the farm now occu- pied by the subject of our sketch. He first purchased eighty acres, on which was a hewn log-house, in which our subject was born, and where his father continued to reside until the time of his death, which occurred in May, 1875. The mother of our subject died in 1882, in the eightieth year of her age; she was born in Kentucky. Wm. B. was born on the old homestead, and was educated in the subscription schools of the neighborhood, supple- mented by attending the school at Clarksville. At twenty years old he commenced teaching school, and followed this about six years, during the winter season. In 1856 he was married to Paulina Limerick, daughter of John Limerick, of this county, who was originally from Virginia. They have five children: Mattie (now Mrs. Dr. J. M. Duncan), John J., Noah Boone, and Frank. Mr. E. has a farm of five hundred acres, all under fence, and most of it in cultivation; he has a frame barn sixty by seventy feet in dimensions; his residence is a commodious, two-story, briek house, built in 1854. Mr. E. is fond of the amusement of hunting, is a good shot, and enjoys the sport greatly. He is a great lover of fine stock, of which he has a good share, all of the best blood.
John Fern, of the firm of Middleton & Fern, blacksmithis, wagon-makers and dealers in agricultural implements, Clarksville, is a native of Pennsylvania and was born November 13, 1833. It is not known where his birthplace is, but while he was an infant his parents moved to Clarion county, where he lived until he was twenty years of age. His mother dying when he was eleven years old, his home was broken up; he then went to Clarion, the county seat, and attended school until fourteen, when he began to learn the trade of blacksmithing and worked in various shops until he became master of it. When eighteen he became the foreman in the shop of James Mackey of Clarion and was with him until 1853, when he came to Missouri and set- tled in Clarksville and worked in the shop of L. & J. Middleton until April 1857, when he with John Middleton bought out thier employers and established their present business in the firm style of Middleton & Fern. March 3, 1859, he married Miss Luann Durr, formerly of Covington, Ken- tucky. They have nine children, all at home; he is a member of Clarksville Lodge No. 53, I. O. O. F., of which he is now and has been treasurer for ten years, and also a meniber of Calumet Lodge No. 1968, K. of H. of Clarks- ville.
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