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John Fielder, deputy sheriff and constable, was born on a farm near Clarksville, February 8. 1839; he is the oldest of two sons of George and Maria (Ford) Fielder; he was raised at his birthplace and lived with his parents notil attaining his majority. Being raised a farmer, he began life for himself by following that avocation. In 1863 he quit farming and en- gaged in the mercantile business at Paynesville, Pike county. In 1869 W. M. Guy became associated with him as Fielder & Guy. In 1871 F. W. and J. H. Patton succeeded Mr. Guy, changing the firm to Fielder, Patton, & Co. In 1875 the Messrs. Patton withdrew from the business and he continued until 1877, when on account of the pressure of the times he was obliged to suspend business. In 1878 he was elected constable of Calumet township, when he removed to Clarksville, and in the same year he was deputized sheriff by sheriff Thomas B. Ford, and has been deputized by and served under all the sheriff's of Pike county since that year, and has also been elected and served as constable of Calumet township. March 8, 1861, he married Celia A. Mulhern of Calumet township, by whom he has nine children: Annie, wife of Henry Ganden of Paynesville; Eliza Jane, wife of Walter Edwards of Silex, Missouri; and Kate, Roxie, Fritze, George, Isaac, May, and Grace still at home. Himself and wife are members of the Chris- tian Church. He is a member of Clarksville Lodge No. 58, I. O. O. F.
William Alvin Fletcher, machinist, is a native of Worcester county, Massachusetts, born in the town of Dudley, March S, 1834. He spent his early years in his native town, where he learned his trade, and afterwards worked in the shops of the Columbus & Xenia Railroad Company in Ohio, where he worked for five years; from there he went to Kentucky, where he was employed by the Louisville & Frankford Railroad Company about four years; then he went to Centralia, Illinois, and worked for the Illinois Rail- road Company; from there he went to Calhoun county, Illinois, and started the first steam threshing machine ever built in the United States. He after- wards built and operated a steam threshing machine in Calhoun county and vicinity for five years. In the fall of 1866 he came to Clarksville and started his present business. His shop and business have now become one of the important features of the city of Clarksville. He has a large business, and is prosperous, as he deserves to be. In 1862 he was married to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of M. Kightley, of Calhoun, Illinois. They have one son, Roswell Alvin Fletcher, who is now at school. Mr. F. is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He spent some five years in Colorado, during which time he acquired valuable experience in mining.
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Lucius W. Haywood came to Pike county in the fall of 1855. He is a native of Vermont; born in 1826. He is the son of Lyman and Maria Haywood. When our subject was ten years old his parents moved to Mas- sachusetts. Ilis parents are both dead, his father having died in 1842, and his mother in 1862. In 1846 Mr. Haywood went to Connecticut and lived there until he came to Pike county, Missouri. Ile received his educa- tion in Massachusetts, in the common schools of that state. He has always been engaged in manufacturing. He first worked in a carding mill, and when he went to Connecticut he went into the immense ax factory of Col- lins & Co., at Collinsville, Connecticut, and remained with them almost ten years. The last five years he was foreman in one department of the works. Ile started the stave factory in Clarksville in the spring of 1856. He had a partner, Mr. Kelsey. They cut the first stave July 4, 1856. IIe was in partnership with Kelsey three years, then alone for one year. In 1860 Mr. Brown went in with him, and put in machinery for the manufac- ture of ax handles, but had no interest in the stave factory. Mr. Brown was in two years, and from 1862 to 1866 Mr. Haywood was alone again. Then his brother, George P. Haywood went in, and after two years he sold to another brother, F. L. Haywood, who was in two years. And after he retired Dr. Pharr bought a half interest, and with Mr. Haywood is the present owner. Mr. Haywood was married September 24, 1850, to Miss Lovisa E. Smith. She is a native of Haddom, Connecticut, and daughter of Samuel and Lucy Smith. They have one child, a daughter, Lucy Maria, born in 1866. She is now attending school. Mr. Haywood is a member of the Masonic order. His parents were both members of the Congregational Church. They had a family of eight children, only four of whom are now living. L. M. is a carpenter and builder in Greenfield, Massachusetts; Maria, wife of Royal S. Bailey, of Putney, Vermont; Laura is the wife of Hibbard Ripley, of Denver, Colorado.
Capt. Abijah Johns, saddle and harness-maker, Clarksville, was born at Sharonville, Ohio, August 23, 1825. Having served apprenticeship at the saddle and harness trade in his native town he, at the age of eighteen. began to travel as a journeyman, and worked in Port Gibson, Lafayette. Vicksburg, and Natchez, Mississippi. At the last named place he, in 1847, volunteered in the Second Regiment Mississippi Volunteer Rifles, to serve during the Mexican War. After rendezvousing in camp at Vicksburg un- til June 15, 1848, he was mustered ont of the service. He then worked at his trade at various places in Mississippi, and for a time located at Florence. Kentucky, and carried on this trade, and while there, in 1853, he married
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Miss Emarilla Derr. He emigrated from there in 1855 to Missouri and located in Louisiana City for one year, when he permanently located at Clarksville, in 1856, and established himself in the saddle and harness-mak- ing business. December 1st, 1861. he closed up his shop, and after assist- ing to raise a company of men entered the Union army as a private in com- pany A, Third Regiment Missouri Volunteer Cavalry. June 15. 1862, he was promoted and commissioned first lieutenant, and to captain February 10, 1863. In command of his company he was on duty through north Mis- souri until after the battles of Kirksvillle, Moore's Mill, and Dunar Church, when his command was ordered to Pilot Knob, and after participating in the battle at that place was ordered to Patterson, Wayne county, thirty miles south of Pilot Knob, ou outpost duty, and while scouting was at- tacked by a band of bushwhackers under Col. Rieves. His clothes were riddled with buckshot. A few of his men were wounded and several horses were killed. He was then sent into Greene county, Arkansas, to break up and to scatter Sam Hildebrand's band of desperados. With a hundred men he scoured the swamps thoroughly and finally found his headquarters on Crowley's Ridge, in Arkansas, where he was attacked by Hiledbrand's men, who tried to divert the attention of the pickets by driving cattle so as to get within his lines, so as to capture them, but being on the alert himself he discovered the ruse and a simultaneous attack took place. In the first fire his clothing and the tree of his saddle were riddled with balls and slugs and his left arm broken. Several of Hildebrand's men were killed and his band dispersed. While on the expedition he captured several wagons loaded with ammunition and stores of different kinds, being conveyed from St. Louis to rebel camps, and about $5,000 worth of contraband property be- longing to Confederates hid in the swamps. He was known as "Old Bizzy," and was sometimes called "Old Yaller," as he was mounted on a elaybank or yellow horse. He served until the expiration of his term of service in 1865, when, in February of that year, he was mustered out at Macon City, Missouri. He then returned to Clarksville and resumed the saddle and har- ness business. In 1860 he was called to mourn the death of his wife, she leaving him two sons, Jesse F. and Charles W. He married again Decem- ber 23, 1869, his second wife being Miss Margaret Stark, a daughter of James W. Stark, Esq., of Clarksville.
James Allen Polk Knox, M. D., of Clarksville, was born near New Hope, Missouri, July 18, 1834, where he lived with his parents until his eighteenth year, when they sent him to Pittsfield, Illinois, to attend the se- lect school of John D. Thompson. He attended one year, when he taught
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school for six months, and then, in the spring of 1854, began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. William C. Duncan, at New Hope, with whom he studied nearly three years. In the fall of 1856 he took one course of lectures at the St. Louis Medical College, and then practiced until the fall of 1858, when he took his second course, and graduated as M. D. in the spring of 1859. He continued his practice at New Hope, becoming associ- ated with Dr. J. W. Welch in the firm style of Weich & Knox. Dr. Welch retiring from the firm two years after, he continued there up to 1868, when he came to Clarksville and established himself in his present practice. During 1872 and 1873 he served as councilman, and was mayor ex officio during the latter year. September 22, 1857, he married Margaret Watters, of Lincoln county, who died at New Hope, April 2, 1861. He married for his second wife, Celia McDonald, of near Clarksville, June 2, 1864, by whom he has four children, Maggie, Nettie, Beulah H., and Mary G. Himself and wife are members of the Christian Church of Clarksville, of which he has been an elder for several years.
Alexander W. Duke. druggist, of Clarksville, was born in Clarksville, Missouri, October 6, 1531, where he was raised and educated. He is the son of Jobn Louis Luke (who was born in Fairfax county, Virginia, April 5, 1800, and came to Pike county, Missouri, in 1832, where he married Elizabeth S. Nevil, June 19, 1834. He was among the first business men of Clarksville and was engaged in the mercantile business up to 1855, when he purchased a farm in the vicinity of Clarksville, where he lived until his death, which occurred July 12, 1869. He was a member of the Episcopal Church and was confirmed at Prairieville, Missouri, by Bishop Hawks, in 1850. He was one of the constitutional members of the Episcopal Church of Clarksville when that church was organized in 1869. After his father's death our subject remained on the farm in the vicinity of Clarksville with his mother until 1872. The estate was divided among the heirs, a portion of the farm falling to him. He remained on the farm until he sold it in 1878. He then went to St. Louis, and from there to Kansas City, where, in 1879, he took a commercial course in Spaulding's Commercial College, and remained there until 1880, when he returned to Clarksville and became associated with Dr. C. T. Pepper in the drug business, and so continues. He is a zealous Mason. He was initiated in April, 1876, and passed through all the degrees with proficiency in three months, and in 1877 was chosen and filled the position of senior deacon until 1879. He was then absent until 1880, and in 1SS1 he was chosen to fill the position of senior warden, and during that year, the worshipful removing from the lodge jurisdiction,
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he became worshipful master ex officio, filling the position with credit to himself and satisfaction to the lodge.
Judge John A. Mackey. The subject of this sketch was born in Caln- met township, Pike county, Missouri, on the 9th day of October, 1828. He is the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Mackey, who were among the first set- tlers of the township. His father was born in North Carolina in 1794: re- moved thence to Tennessee and afterwards, in 1817, to Pike county. Mis- souri, where he died in 1855. His mother, Elizabeth Davis, was born in St. Charles county, Missouri, in 1806, and removed with her parents to Pike county when about ten years of age. She is still living, and resides upon the farm to which she removed immediately after her marriage, about sixty years ago. James Mackey, the grandfather of the Judge, and who came with his two brothers to Pike county in 1817, was a soldier of the Revolu- tion and participated in the battle of Bunker Hill. The barrel of the old rifle which he used there and in other engagements of that memorable con- fliet is still preserved by his grandson and is one of the few remaining relics of that carly and stormy period of our country's history. Judge Mackey is one of a family of ten children, eight of whom, four of each sex, still sur- vive. He was reared on a farm and received only a common English edu- cation, such as the poor educational facilities of the times afforded. After reaching his majority he devoted some time to self culture and then began his career as a country school teacher. For one or two years he was thus engaged, when, abandoning the school room, he entered into mercantile pur- suits for a short time in the town of Clarksville, but this he soon gave up and retired to a farm, the active and successful management of which has since been the business of his life. In addition to growing large quantities of grain of different kinds, as also the splendid fruits to which his neighbor- hood seems specially adapted, he has occasionally handled large numbers of both cattle and mules, from the sale of which he seldom fails to realize band- some profits. By his industry and perseverance, no less than by the proper exercise of his remarkable judgment, Judge Mackey has succeeded in accu- mulating a very considerable fortune, and that without having once incurred the charge or even undergone the suspicion of ever having done anything in- consistent with the character of an npright and dignified Christian gentleman. In 1874 the subject of our sketch was chosen justice of the peace for Calu- met township. So satisfactorily did he discharge the duties of the office that before the expiration of his term of service he was elected county judge for a period of six years, and although by an act of the legislature the time of all the county judges was made to expire in 1878, Judge Mackey was re-
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elected without opposition as presiding judge of the county court for a term of four years. By his wise administration of public affairs the immense debt of the county was almost extinguished, and the people of Pike will long hold the efficient and faithful services of himself and his colleagues in grateful remembrance. Judge Mackey was first married to Miss Susannah MeLoed, November 23, 1553. No children survived this union. His wife having died, June 21, 1865, Judge Mackey was again married to Miss Su- sannah M. Kelly, on the 22d day of September, 1870. They have one child, a daughter, Serena J. Mackey, now nine years of age. Judge Mackey is a consistent member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, a man of lib- eral views, enterprising spirit, and most excellent qualities of both mind and heart.
Joseph Newton Mackey, grocer and dealer in queensware and tinware, Clarksvillle, was born near Clarksville, Missouri, April 28, 1855. He was raised in Lincoln and Lewis counties. His father dying when he was two years of age, he continued to live with his mother until he was fifteen, when he came to Clarksville and lived with his uncle, Dr. J. A. P. Knox, and when eighteen he began clerking in his drug store and was so employed for two years, when he went to Canton, Missouri, and attended school two years. During the winters of 1877-S-9, he accompanied his uncle Joseph Mackey on business trips to Natchez, Mississippi, and in 1879 he became associated with B. F. Yates in the grocery business in Clarksville, under the firmn name of Yates & Mackey, they doing business together up to February, 1882, when Mr. Yates retiring from the firm he has continued the business. He is a member of the Christian Church, is a Master Mason, and mem- ber of Clarksville Lodge No. 17, A. F. & A. M., and has served one terin as junior warden.
William Jackson Mackey, tobacco manufacturer, is a native of Missouri, born in Pike county, May 4, 1845. His father, Joseph Mackey, was a native of North Carolina, born in 1794, and was a planter by occupation. He moved to Tennessee, where he resided some time, but determining to go further west he immigrated to Missouri and settled in Pike county, some six miles from Clarksville, having come here with James Mackey, who was originally from North Carolina, and was an extensive land-holder. When our subject was a small boy his father came to reside on the farm where his mother is now living, and where his father died, May 26, 1855. Mr. Mackey (our subject) was educated at Watson Seminary at Ashley; he also took a com- mercial course in Jones's Commercial College at St. Louis. He was mar- ried to Miss Mollie Clifford, daughter of Capt. B. P. Clifford, November
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20, 1873. She died November 22, 1880, leaving three children: Lucy E., William C., and Charles T.
Albert II. McDannold, Clarksville, is a native of Pike county, born in 1857. His father was Andrew MeDannold, a native of Kentucky, born December 20, 1807. and immigrated to Missouri in 1835. He purchased and settled on the farin which our subject now owns in 1838, on which he continued until his death in 1880. He was married at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to Louisa M. Gaines, his first wife, a native of Kentucky, who died in April, 1847, leaving six children, five of whom are still living. He was married the second time to Martha McCune, a native of Virginia. They have two children living: Euoma (now Mrs. J. M. Givens), and our subject, who was raised on the farm and edneated in the common schools of the country. He was married January 30, 1879, to Lizzie Shaw, daugh- ter of William and Martha Shaw, of Louisiana, who was originally from Virginia, and came to Missouri in 1833.
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James Meloan, butcher, Clarksville, was born at Paynesville, Pike county, Missouri, October 8, 1830, where he was raised and lived with his parents, Andrew and Mary (nee Long) Meloan, until his father's death, which occurred in 1844, and afterwards with his mother until he was eighteen, when he began to do for himself. At that age, in 1849, he went to Wisconsin with a drove of cattle, in which he owned an interest, and in the summer of that year he went to Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and was em- ployed as a cattle driver by Robert Steel, a government contractor, return- ing to Paynesville in the fall. In the spring of 1850 he went overland to California, where he mined at different places, but mostly at Pilot Hill and Big Bar on the middle fork of the American River. Meeting with succes he returned to Pike county in the fall of 1851. He was then variously em- ployed until 1853, when he engaged in farming as a renter in the vicinity of Paynesville until the spring of 1859, when he started with a company of neighbors for Pike's Peak, which proved a failure, as the trip was aban- doned when about half made. Returning in the fall he resumed farming and handling stock, which he followed until 1864, when he came to Clarks- ville and established his present meat market. March 10, 1852. he married Miss Catharine Porter, of near Clarksville. They have eight children, Wil- liam A., Henry, associated with his father in the meat market, Samuel, Burkley, Charles, Walter, Sweeney, and Arthur.
John S. Mantipley, grocer, of the firm of M. Blain & Co., is a native of Virginia, bornlin Amherst county, December 6, 1845. His father being a farmer, he spent his boyhood days on the farm, and was educated in the
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schools of his native county, training himself for a teacher. At the out- break of the war he enlisted in the Confederate army and served two years, after which he came to Missouri. In 1867 he went to Paynesville and en- gaged in teaching for some time. In 1874 he came to Clarksville and was employed as book-keeper and salesman for the firm of Yates & McDannold which position he held about four years, when he embarked in business for himself in company with his brother, who after two years disposed of his in- terest to James Blain, and Mantipley & Blain now constitute the firm. Mr. Mantipley was married to Miss Margaret Shotwell, daughter of John Shotwell of this county. They have two children: William E. and Edward M. Mr. M. is a member of Lodge No. 1068 of the Knights of Honor; he also belongs to the A. O. U. W.
John Middleton, blacksmith and wagon-maker and dealer in agricul- tural implements, Clarksville. He was born in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, September, 1833. When about four years old, in 1837, he came to Mis- souri with his parents, Thomas and Elizabeth (nce Wright) Middleton, they, settling in Pike county on the farm now known as the Shannon farm, where they lived until 1833, and then came to Clarksville, where his father died in 1848. He there continued to live with his mother, and as soon as old enough assisted her to maintain her family. His first work when a' mere lad was to hanl cord wood with a yoke of oxen, receiving twelve and one-half cents per day wages. In 1854 he began to learn the trade of black- smithing in the shop of his elder brothers, L. and J. Middleton, being with them until 1837. when he and John Fern bought his brothers' establish- ment and have carried on the business of wagon-making, blacksmithing, and dealing in agricultural implements ever since, under the firm name of Middleton & Fern. September 17, 1861, he married Miss Maggie, daugh- ter of Bird Price, of Clarksville. They have one son, James B., a merchant of Clarksville. Himself and wife are members of the Christian Church at Clarksville, of which he has been a deacon for eight years. He is a mem- ber of Clarksville Lodge No. 53, 1. O. O. F., of which he is past grand; also of Calumet Lodge 1968, K. of H., of which he is assistant dictator, and of Clarksville Lodge No. 94, I. O. G. T., he being the first worthy chief of the lodge. He has served as councilman at different times about ten years.
Kinzea H. Norris, grocer and commission merchant, was born in Bonr- bon county. Kentucky, January 16, 1831. His father, William J. Norris, was a native of the same state, and a planter by occupation; he immigrated to Missouri in 1832, and settled in Canton, Lewis county, then in 1836 moved
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to Jackson county; then in 1841 he went to Topeka, Kansas, where he now lives. The maiden name of the mother of our subject was Sarah Stevens, a native of Kentucky; she died in 1855. Our subject was educated at the State University at Columbia, Missouri. In 1856 he engaged in mercan- tile business in Weston, Missouri; leaving there in 15S he went to St. Joseph where he engaged in business until the war broke ont, during which he spent five years on the plains and in the mountains. In 1865 he came to Clarksville and established his present business. In 1554 he was married to Miss Martha J. Bankhead, daughter of John M. Bankhead, an old settler of this county. They have five children: Lizzie, Mollie, Ellen B., Charles A., and John B. Mr. Norton is a member of the 1. O. O. F.
Rev. John M. O'Bryan, pastor of the M. E. Church South, was born in Randolph county, North Carolina, at Trinity College. July 6, 1843, in which place he was principally reared and educated. In 1867 he came to Missouri and engaged in teaching, which he followed until 1870, when he was licensed to preach. In 1872 he entered the Missouri Conference, and was sent to Auburn, Lincoln county, where he remained two years; next to Wright City, three years; thence to Jonesburg, Montgomery county; and in the fall of 1879 came to Clarksville, having been returned until he is now serving his fourth year. Mr. O'Bryan has been twice married, first to Miss Serena Hall of Troy. She died September 16, 1875, leaving two children, Enoch M. and Joseph L. In 1877 he was again married to Miss Mary Ballard, daughter of William Ballard of Wright City, Missouri. They have three children, Carrie, Paul, and the babe, nnnamed.
Mr. O'Byran's present circuit extends to Paynesville, Smith Chapel, and Ellsburg. He has been for many years a prominent member of the Ma- sonic fraternity of Auburn Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M.
Charles TebbsPepper, M. D., was born at Flemingsburgh, Kentucky, September 21, 1847. He is the fourth of five sons of Enoch S. and Sarah R. (Tebbs) Pepper, both natives of Virginia, who in their younger days settled in Kentucky, from where they removed to Missouri in 1855, and lived at Clarksville until 1862, when they removed to Palmyra, Missouri, where they lived until their death. his father dying while on a visit to Kentucky in 1864, and his mother at Palmyra in 1865. The subject of this sketch was mostly educated in St. Paul's College at Palmyra. At the age of eight- een he entered the drug store of J. W. Hemphill, at Clarksville, as a clerk and was with him four years, and while with him studied medicine and after taking two courses of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from that institution as M. D., in the 37
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