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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Buchanan County, Missouri
Containing
A History of its Citizens, Buchanan County in the Late War,
General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers
and Prominent men, History of Missouri,
Map of Buchanan County, Etc., Etc.
- ILLUSTRATED -
Publ. St. Joseph MO
Union Historical Company.
1881
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City of
St. Joseph and Washington Township -
CABLES & OZENBERGER,
Proprietors of a grist mill, better known as the Corby
mill, Section 6. This mill is a substantial brick
building, four and one-half stories high, and contains
the three runs of burrs and a new and complete set of
machinery. The present proprietors took possession
in January, 1881. Mr. Cables has been
raised to the business and understands it thoroughly,
and patrons may rely on their work with safety.
Source: History of
Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881 - Page 698 |
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Wayne Twp. -
WM. J. CALHOUN - See
JOHN KOGER and WM. J. CALHOUN
Source: History of Buchanan County, Missouri,
Published 1881 - Page 1004 |
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City of St.
Joseph and Washington Township -
B. F. CALLAWAY
was born in Winchester, Virginia, Feb. 10th, 1827.
His father, Thomas B. Campbell, also a native of
Virginia, was, by occupation, a goldsmith. The
subject of this sketch was one of five children, two of
whom were boys. He received an excellent education
in a private academy of his native town, and embarked in
mercantile pursuits, selling goods first in his native
city, for a period of about three years, to 1846, when
he started for the West, and landed in Louisville,
Kentucky; from there he came to St. Joseph, February,
1849. His first business experience in this, then
embryo city, was in the capacity of clerk for Donnell,
Saxton & Duval, dry goods merchants.
He remained in this house for some time, when, in
partnership with William T. Duval, he opened a
general stock of merchandise in St. Joseph. He
remained in this business about three years. About
1855, he moved to Rock House Prairie, in Buchanan
County, where he engaged in general merchandise, first
in partnership with Duval, and afterwards alone.
He also, about this period, purchased and operated a
farm in the neighborhood of his store. He
subsequently received in partnership in his mercantile
business his brother, T. Ed. Campbell, a well
known business man of St. Joseph, and now (1881) of the
wholesale dry goods house of R. L. McDonald & Co.
In 1857, he traded his stock of merchandise for a
plantation in Clinton County. In 1861, being a
heavy loser by change of times at the breaking out of
the war, his plantation was disposed of, and he returned
to St. Joseph, where he engaged in business with
Tootle, Fairleigh & Co., wholesale dry goods
dealers, and as an active partner with Tootle,
Craig & Co., whole sale dry goods dealers, and,
subsequently, in the same capacity with Tootle,
Hosea & Co., in the same line of business, of
which firm he is now (1881) an active member. In
1854, Charles W. Campbell married Miss
Sarah Jones, daughter of Harvey Jones,
an old settler of Buchanan County, and niece of
Robert W. Donnell. The result of this union
was eight children, seven sons and one daughter.
Of these, all but two sons are living. Mr.
Campbell has been, all his life, an active public
spirited citizen, and for several years past an
influential member of the City Council. His effort
has ever been to promote the interests of the city of
his adoption. Among the number of beneficial acts
of which he is the author, are the ordinances changing
the city warrants to what are known as ones and twos,
creating a circulating medium, which at once caused the
floating warrants of the city to advance from
eighty-five, interest bearing, to par, non-interest.
As chairman of the Water Works Committee, he was
influential and active in securing to the city its
admirable system of Gravitation Water Works. He is
also (1881), as chairman of the City Finance Committee,
successfully engaged, in connection with the Mayor and
the committee, in exchanging the bonded indebtedness of
the city, bearing interest from six to ten per cent.,
into twenty-year four per cent, bonds. This was,
at one time, deemed impracticable, but nearly $1,000,000
have been exchanged, and the matter is now pronounced a
complete success. In politics, since the death of
the old Whig Parly, Mr. Campbell has been, and is
now, a staunch Democrat, and, as such, is frequently
called to preside over its city and county conventions
and central committees.
Source: History of Buchanan County, Missouri,
Published 1881 - Page 698 |
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Wayne Twp. -
RICHARD CAPP,
farmer and carpenter, section 25, postoffice St. Joseph,
was born in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, Sept. 14,
1837, and when fifteen years of age he began to learn
the carpenters trade serving as an apprentice about
three years. After this he traveled working at his
trade over the states of Ohio and Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, Iowa, Minnessota, Nebraska, Missouri and
Colorado, finally in the fall of 1862, locating in
Buchanan County, Missouri. Since he became a
citizen of this county he has in connection with his
trade been engaged in agricultural pursuits; his farm
contains fifty-seven acres and is well improved.
He was in the State Militia nearly three years. Mr.
Capp was married Aug. 7, 1867, to Miss Martha
Moser. She was born in Knox County, Tennessee,
Nov. 7, 1841. They have five children living:
Abigail E., born Sept. 7, 1865; Wm. H., born
Aug. 14, 1867; Michael A., born Sept. 14, 1871;
Anna B., born Nov. 7, 1876; James M., born
Aug. 14, 1879. Two are deceased.
Source: History of Buchanan County, Missouri,
Published 1881 - Page 1001 |
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City of St. Joseph and
Washington Township -
A. M. CHESMORE, dealer in standard
farm machinery, wagons and grass seeds, general agent
for manufacturing company's goods. Buckeye grain drills,
Barley's reversible tooth harrow, D. M. Osborne's
goods, Minnesota Chiefthresher, Garr, Scott & Go's,
threshers, engines, etc. Mr. Chesmore
established this business in 1878. He is a native
of Massachusetts, and emigrated to Missouri in 1863.
He was raised a farmer, and was married in 1864 to
Miss Lucy E. Brown, a native of New Hampshire.
They have six children. He is a Mason and a member
of the Missionary Baptist Church. By a fire, in
1879, he sustained a severe loss.
Source: History of Buchanan County, Missouri,
Published 1881 - Page 705 |
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City of St. Joseph and
Washington Township -
CHARLES CHESNUT, of the firms of
Chesnut & Son, dealers in stoves and tinware,
C. & P. E. Chesnut, grocers, and C. & P.
E. Chesnut, livery. Few of the representative
business men of St. Joseph have been more actively
engaged in various branches of industry than Charles
Chesnut. He is a native of Laurel County,
Kentucky, and was born in 1834. His father
Abraham, was among the early settlers of that state,
and died when Charles was young. In 1850,
our subject came to Missouri, locating in Chariton
County, where he was raised to manhood and educated.
His boyhood days were spent in tilling the soil.
In 1863, he became a resident of Buchanan County,
farming one year, after which he located in Platte
County, residing there until 1865, when we find him in
St. Joseph, engaged in the grocery trade, which he still
pursues with a considerable degree of success.
In 1876, he became the senior member of the firm of
C. & P. E. Chesnut, liverymen. In 1851,
Miss Mary E. Blakely, a native of Kentucky, became
his wife, and by this union they have one son living,
William, a promising young gentleman, and the junior
member of the firm. Mr. Chesnut is a member
of the Masonic fraternity, being a Master Mason and a
member of the Chapter, and also a Forester.
Source: History of
Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881 - Page 705 |
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City of St. Joseph and
Washington Township -
P. E. CHESNUT, of the firm of
C. & P. E. Chesnut, livery. Among the
popular gentlemen of St. Joseph, Pleasant, as he
is usually called, occupies a front rank. He was
born in Laurel County, Kentucky, Apr. 4, 1840, and was
raised in the agricultural district, his father,
Abraham, being a farmer In 1859, he removed to
Platte County, Missouri. Here he remained until
the breaking out of the rebellion, when, his sympathies
being with the South, he tendered his services in
defense of the Confederate cause, and enlisted as Second
Lieutenant in General Parson's Brigade,
Tenth Missouri Infantry, participated in many of the
notable events of the memorable conflict, being
honorably discharged at the close. In 1865,
he engaged in the grocery business, and, in 1876, became
the junior member in the livery business of C. & P.
E. Chesnut. He is a member of the Blue Lodge,
Chapter and Council. His wife, formerly Miss
Allie Kirby, of St. Joseph, he married in December,
1877. They have one son, Guy.
Source: History of
Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881 - Page 705 |
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City of St. Joseph and
Washington Township -
JAMES T. CHURCHILL, one of the
pioneer and first-class artists who for twenty-seven
eyras has been catering to the wants of the St.
Josephites, is our subject. He was born in Shelby
County, Kentucky, Mar. 6, 1829, and was there raised and
learned his trade. He came to St. Joseph in 1853,
and has done much of the superior sign and ornamental
painting here.
Source: History of
Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881 - Page 706 |
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City of St.
Joseph and Washington Township -
W. B. CHURCHILL.
A veteran printer and painter in St. Joseph is found in
the person of W. B. Churchill, who was born in
Shelby County, Kentucky, Feb. 23, 1837. In early
life he learned the printer's trade, and came to St.
Joseph in 1855, arriving on the 19th of May; he
commenced to learn the trade of painting with his
brother, James T., which profession he followed
until 1861. When the St. Joseph Herald was
established, he took the foremanship of the office, and
was in that employ at different times for over five
years. Aside from that he has confined himself to
painting. He has been twice married. On the 25th
of February, 1858, Miss M. A. Williamson, of
Shelbyville, Kentucky, became his wife; she died Aug.
15, 1857. Mr. C. was again married, in
1875, to Miss Mary J. Fulton, of Shelbyville,
Kentucky. By his first marriage he had one
daughter, Lenora. By the latter union he
had three children, Fulton, Willie and
Virginia.
Source: History of
Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881 - Page 706 |
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City of St. Joseph and
Washington Township -
EMILY SIBLEY COLT, M. D., wife of
C. C. Colt, Esq., of St. Joseph, is a daughter of
Elisha Sibley, of Henrietta, Monroe County, New
York, and here she was born Feb. 27, 1839. After
receiving a fair business education at the common
schools, she entered the Wesleyan Seminary, of Lima, New
York, and was in due time graduated from this
institution, with honor. In 1864, she married in
Monroe County, New York, C. C. Colt, Esq.
They have by this marriage two chilren
children - Gertrude Agatha and Irving
Sibley. In 1865, they went West, and
settled on a farm near Easton, Buchanan County,
Missouri. In 1872, they moved to St. Joseph.
Endowed with an excellent education, and inspired with
an ardent desire of devoting the means afforded by
literary and scientific opportunities, to the benefit of
suffering humanity, Mrs. Colt determined to a
qualify herself for the profession of medicine.
She accordingly devoted the energies of her intellect
and two years of her time to the pursuit of his study,
under the guidance of a skillful physician of St.
Joseph. She afterwards attended the lectures of
Hahnemann Homoeopathic Medical College, Chicago, from
which institution she was graduated with high honor and
the degree of M. D., in February, 1881.
Source: History of
Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881 - Page 709 |
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