City of St. Joseph and Washington Township -
E. W. RAY, of the firm of Dougherty, Ray & Co., lumber dealers, St. Joseph, was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, July 2d, 1832.  His parents emigrated to Missouri, settling on a farm in Buchanan County in 1841.  Inclined by nature to mercantile rather than to agricultural pursuits, he determined to abandon the plow, and in 1866, embarked in general merchandise, in partnership with Mr. Morris, in St. Joseph.  After a successful and highly satisfactory experience of four years in this connection he sold out his interest in the same, and associated himself in the lumber trade with Dougherty and others, thus instituting the firm of Dougherty, Ray & Co., now (1881) one of the representative firms of St. Joseph.  Nov. 18, 1858.  Mr. Ray married Miss Fannie J. Snyder, a native of Indiana, born in 1838.  The result of this union was two children: Mary F., born Aug. 5th, 1859, died July 13, 1870, and Mark E., born Nov. 3d, 1861.  Mr. Ray had the misfortune to lose his first wife.  June 24, 1879, he married Miss India Cowden, a native of Indiana, and a lady who achieved an enviable reputation as an instructor of youth.  She went to St. Joseph in 1860, and there opened a private school, which she taught with success till 1864.  She afterwards accepted a position in the public schools of St. Joseph, discharging, with distinguished ability, the duties of principal of the Everett School in that city, during a period of seven years, retiring from the profession in 1879, to the universal regret of the many who knew and appreciate her sterling worth.
Source:  History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881 - Page 869

     This gentleman is a native of Canada, and was born May 8, 1838.  Was there reared and educated, learning his profession in the State of New York, and there he conducted studies for a number of years; also, in Canada and Michigan.  Previous to this he was in the employ of some of the brightest lights of the photographic world. In 1876, he located in St. Joseph.  He does all kinds of photo work - India ink, crayon, etc., and has well appointed and furnished rooms.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F. Encampment.
Source:  History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881 - Page 869

City of St. Joseph and Washington Township -
REV. T. S. REEVE was born in Massachusetts Oct. 5, 1806, and resided there till he was twenty-one years of age when he emigrated to the state of Vermont, where he was engaged in farming for the space of three years.  At the end of this period, he returned to his native state, and entered as a student a school at Wilbraham where he remained one year, when he went to Hartford, where he attended school two years.  He then located in Troy, where he began his first experience as a teacher, continuing for two years, when he removed to Vermont, where he took charge of another school.  His next move was to Richmond, Virginia, where he enlisted as city missionary, serving one year.  He then took up his abode in Stanton, and from that place moved to Roanoke.  After a brief residence in the latter town, he moved to Louisburg, where he engaged in the study of law and practice of the same till 1840.  In 1837, he was married to Miss Elizabeth J. Huff, a native of Virginia, and daughter of James P. and Elizabeth Huff.  They have had five children, of whom two are (1881) living, James E., a druggist of Kansas City, and Mary B. Reeve, who continues to reside with her parents.  In 1840, Mr. Reeve moved to Hannibal, Missouri, where he practiced his profession till 1843, in the fall of which year he abandoned the law and was licensed by the Palmyra Presbytery to preach.  He immediately moved to Gentry County, serving there and in Holt County as an itinerant minister till the spring of 1844, when he moved to St. Joseph, where he located, in company with a number of others, and immediately set to work to build a church out of logs, which they cut in the neighboring woods.  This primitive structure was the "old log church" referred to in the body of this history, and the first ecclesiastical structure ever erected within the limits of the town.  During the building of this church, and till the following year, Mr. Reeve, with his family, lived in a stable.  He then cut, with his own hands, the timbers and reared a little log hut for a residence for himself and family.  His entire capital in money amounted, at that time, to but three dollars.  He subsequently received a salary of two hundred dollars per anum from the American Missionary Society.  He discharged, during the space of twelve succeeding years, the duties of pastor of this church, during which period he had the satisfaction of noting the development of the obscure village into the great and prosperous city of St. Joseph. In the fall of 1855, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri; thence to Syracuse, New York, where he was pastor of a Presbyterian Church one year.  He then returned to Missouri and located at St. Charles.  At the end of two years he removed to St. Louis, and thence to Ironton, Ohio, where he remained in charge of a church four years.  His next move was to Hannibal, Missouri, where he resided six months in the capacity of agent for a missionary society.  He subsequently moved to Rushville, Illinois; thence to Lincoln, Illinois, where he had charge of a Congregational Church one year, when he moved to Savannah, Missouri, and there became pastor of the Presbyterian Church.  At the end of two years, the church becoming financially embarrassed, he resigned, and moved to Kansas City, where he erected a dwelling house and store in which he embarked in the drug and dry goods trade with his son, James E., to whom, at the end of a year, he sold out. He has since continued to live in Kansas City a quiet and retired life.
Source:  History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881 - Page 869

Tremont Twp. -
JAMES A. RODMAN, farmer, section 31, postoffice Frazer, was born Mar. 17, 1826, Washington County, Indiana, and was married Mar. 22, 1863, to Frances E. Kinniard, a native of Kentucky.   By this union they have had six children: Frances J., Mary E., Jima D., Samuel H., Sarah E. and Charles K.  He endured all the hardships subsequent to pioneer life, but by his own industry has saved 160 acres of land, improved, and with good buildings.  He has held the positions of constable and school director.
Source:  History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881 - Page 971