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BIOGRAPHIES.
History of Linn County,
Missouri
An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and A Compendium of
Actual Facts.
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It Contains
A Condensed History of the State of Missouri and Its Chief
Cities -
St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph;
A Reliable History of Lynn County -
Its Pioneer Record, War History,
Resources, Biographical Sketches and Portraits of
Prominent Citizens; General and Local Statistics of great
Value, and a Large Amount of Miscellaneous
Matter, Incidents, etc. Etc.
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ILLUSTRATED
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Publ. Kansas City, Mo.
Birdsall & Dean.
1882
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Benton Twp. -
GEORGE W. BAILEY. Prominent
among the rising young men of Linn county is Mr. George
W. Bailey, son of J. G. and Mary Bailey.
George was born near New Boston, Linn county,
Missouri, May 9, 1855, on the farm which his father settled
on in 1847, and where the old gentleman yet resides, a
well-to-do and highly respected farmer. George W.,
from his childhood, was noted as being an attentive and
careful student, and of late years has devoted considerable
time to the study of law and politics. Aug. 15, 1879,
he founded the Brookfield Advertise, which paper he
continued the publication of until June 21, 1881, when he
accepted the position of general agent and traveling
correspondent for the Commercial Advertiser, of
Detroit, Michigan, a position which he holds at the present
writing.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean -
1882 - Page 757 |
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Baker Twp. -
J. W. BAKER was born in this county,
Feb. 13, 1845. He is a son of Andrew and Catharine
Baker, his father having been one of the early
settlers of Baker township. Mr. Baker was
raised a farmer, and has always followed that vocation.
He was married Mar. 5, 1867, to Sarah Pace, a native
of Buchanan county, Missouri, and daughter of James and
Zerelda Pace, both of whom were born in Kentucky.
Mr. and Mrs. Baker are the parents of five children,
all living, named, H. R. Baker, W. Bertie, Edward G.,
Florence May, and Rose. Mr. Baker is of
English-Irish descent, that mixture of blood which rarely
fails to produce vigorous constitutions of both mind and
body.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean -
1882 |
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Bucklin & Bucklin Twp. -
DAVID PRESTON BEEBE, a farmer and
stock-raiser, four miles southwest of Bucklin, was born in
Springfield, Massachusetts. At the age of fifteen or
sixteen he left Massachusetts with his parents, and went to
Connecticut where he resided until 1867, where he was
engaged in farming. In 1867 he came to Linn county
where he has since resided. Mr. Beebe was
married in 1859, to Miss Martha J. Corsor, of
Connecticut, by whom he has six children: Clara G., Mary
P., Cora, William P., Edwin F., and one not named.
Mr. Beebe is a member of the Grange. Mr.
Beebe is a son of William and Mary Beebe.
His father was a native of Massachusetts, and his mother of
Connecticut. His maternal grandfather (Pease)
was a soldier in the war of 1812. Mr. Beebe has
a good farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and is an
industrious and energetic farmer.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean -
1882 |
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L. D. BINFORD, is a native of
Missourian, having been born in Linn county. When
quite small his parents moved to Chariton county where the
subject of this sketch was raised and educated in the common
schools of the country. He was in business in
Keytesville in 1872-73. In 1874, came to Bucklin and
clerked for R. J. Wheeler about six and one-half
years. In April, 1880, he went into business under the
firm name of Binford & Brainard. Jan. 1, 1881,
he bought out his partner and continued in the business.
He enjoys a liberal share of the public patronage.
Mr. Binford was married May 11, 1881, to Miss
Mollie Blaydes, of Cooper county, Missouri. His
father, Thomas H., was a native of Kentucky, and his
mother, Mary, a native of Missouri. He is a
member of the I. O. O. F.
Mr. Binford, although a
young man, enjoys the esteem and confidence of his townsmen,
and will surely make a success of his business.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean -
1882 |
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D. W. BISWELL. Mr. Biswell
was born in Randolph county, this State, Mar. 7, 1844.
He is the son of John Biswell, whose father, Major
Biswell, served in the War of 1812. His mother's
name is Rebecca. Both parents are from the
State of Kentucky. His father came to Missouri in
1823, and settled on a farm in Randolph county, where he
lived until the time of his death, which occurred in 1859.
His mother is still living.
Mr. Biswell lived at the old homestead till
1863, when he moved to Macon City. After
his father's death in 1859, he and his other brothers, among
whom was Y. J. Biswell, two years his senior, managed
the farm until his removal of Macon City. In this city
and county together Mr. Biswell was engaged at
different times in several avocations for a period of eight
or ten years. From Macon, in the year 1873, he removed
to Browning and went into the mercantile business with his
brother, above spoken of, in which pursuit he has ever since
continued. The facilities afforded by the common
schools of his boyhood days were but meager; and not having
an opportunity of securing educational advantages elsewhere
Mr. B. has had control of the house known as the store
of Y. J. Biswell & Bro. The business is carried
on at the same old stand and under the accustomed sign,
which has long since grown familiar to the numberless
persons who flock thither, to exchange the products of their
farms for something with which to replenish the wants of the
inner man, or shield them from the chilling blasts of an in
hospital winter. Having stood the test of an active
experience with the success already attained, and possessing
youth, energy, and a determined purpose, we think we may
safely say that nothing but prosperity can attend an
enterprise of which Mr. B. has control.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean -
1882 - Page 758 |
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Benton Twp. -
BEVERLY D. BOLLING. Mr.
Bolling was born at Perryville, Boyle county, Kentucky,
on the eighteenth day of April, 1852, and is the son of
James P. Bolling. His mother's name prior to her
marriage was Lucinda Kenley. There were only
two children, himself and a younger sister. When he
was born his father was engaged in farming and
stock-raising. His grandparents on the paternal side
were from Petersburg, Virginia, his father being the
youngest child, with whom they lived until he left Kentucky,
and removed to Missouri. He first moved to Johnson
county and commenced merchandizing at a place called
"Prairie Home," where he lived about two years. He
moved in 1860 to Nodaway county, where he remained, engaged
in the milling business, till the latter part of 1861, when
he left for the war, and joined the Thirty-fifth Regiment,
Company B, Missouri Infantry Volunteers. He remained
in the service until he died from an illness
contracted therein, on the twenty-fourth day of February,
1864, at Cairo, Illinois.
Not long after his father joined the army, Mr. B.
went with his mother and sister to Sullivan county, where he
remained about a year; and from there proceeded to Bryant
& Stratton's Commercial College, Louisville,
Kentucky. He there took a commercial course, and
afterward obtained a position in the United States Custom
House as steamboat admeasuring and recording clerk, which he
held two years and three months. But the confinement
and close application the duties of the office rendered
necessary began to tell upon his health. He became
much reduced in flesh, and thinking it better to make a
charge of climate, he came west and settled near Enterprise,
in Linn county, where he remained two or three years, and
then in the spring of 1873, moved to Texas. After
rambling over the State he settled in the northern part,
taking a position as commissary for three months with a
grading company on the Trans-continental Railway.
He then took another trip over some parts of the State
and located in Madison county, where he was appointed deputy
clerk of the District Court, a position which he held for
three years, and improved the leasure moments
afforded him in the study of law. He was admitted to
practice in November, 1874, by Judge James Burnett,
of that district. He practiced about one year.
Whether or not Mr. B. found it as unprofitable in
business as some young men in the State of Missouri, we are
not prepared to say; but after the lapse of a year, he bade
farewell to Texas and the law, moved to Browning, and opened
a lumber yard, keeping also a stock of farm machinery,
implements, etc. Beginning with the town and having
but little capital, his business, small at first, has
gradually grown, till now he and his brother-in-law, Mr.
F. A. Fleming, whom he took into partnership about two
years ago, handle annually about one hundred car loads of
lumber, and several of farm machinery.
On the twenty-fifth day of February, 1877, he was
married to Miss Sarah O. Fleming, daughter of
Judge J. T. Fleming. He is a member of the A. O.
U. W. Lodge No. 187, at Browning; also of the I. O. O. F.,
Browning Lodge No. 173.
In politics he is a Republican, but too deeply immured
in business to indulge much therein.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean -
1882 - Page 757 |
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JOHN BROWN. In passing down the
Burlington & Southwestern Railroad, looking over toward the
headwaters of Locust Creek, the traveler can but be
impressed with the scope of country which is one of great
beauty and surpassing fertility. Nature has done much
for this country, but the effect produced by art, wuch as
used by the enterprising husbandman of the region, is most
marked. Among the energetic farmers of this section is
one known by the common and unassuming name of John Brown.
He was born in the county, July 23, 1849, and is the son of
Henry T. and Susan Brown, both of whom are still
living, respected and honored, and the more so as these
noble representatives of pioneer times become fewer and
still fewer. Mr. Brown has confined himself for
many years to the improvement of his farm, and there finds
exercise and diversion enough, without seeking either in
travel. Though now in the full tide of manhood, he has
but once been outside the boundaries of his native State.
He was married to Miss Fannie Runnels, June 4, 1877.
Have two children.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean -
1882 - Page 759 |
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Enterprise Twp. -
WILLIAM BROWNING. This gentleman
is the son of Francis and Jeannette (Alexander) Browning,
and was born in Russell County, Virginia, Apr. 17, 1820.
He received his education at Abingdon College, and continued
to reside with his parents till their death, when he was
about sixteen years old. Soon after this, although
barely in his seventeenth year, he took charge of a
woolcarding machine and saw-mill, and ran them till he was
thirty-five years of age. He was married on the
twenty-first of April, 1842, to Miss Rebecca Fuller,
a daughter of Isiah and Mary (Burk) Fuller, and she
was born in Russell county, Virginia, on the first of
September, 1823. Mr. Browning came to Missouri
in 1855, and bought a farm in Linn county, where he has
since resided. He owns one hundred and twenty acres in
Enterprise township, on which he and his family still
reside. His place is all under cultivation, and is in
food fix as a comfortable home. Mr. and Mrs.
Browning are the parents of eleven children, seven of
whom are still living. One son and two daughters still
live with their father. John Marion Browing,
who is still with his parents, was born Jan. 14, 1858, in
Sullivan county, this State, and received his education in
the common schools. He is a young gentleman endowed
with fine business qualifications, and will, doubtless,
achieve success in life. Mrs. Browning is a
member of the Methodist Church, and marched forward in the
cause of Christianity for over thirty years. Mr.
Browning may well be proud of his family, and of their
fair reputation he has built up as an upright citizen and
faithful man.
Source: History of Linn County, Missouri - Publ.
Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean - 1882 - Page 803 |
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