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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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Baker Twp. -
DR. JAMES S. CANTWELL was born in
Indiana, Aug. 2, 1816. He is the son of Adam and
Sarah Cantwell, the maiden name of the latter being
Simmons. Dr. Cantwell began the study of medicine,
first in Indiana under Dr. A. H. Stewart, of
Louisville. In 1839 he and Dr. Stewart went to
Iowa together, and continued to read under his direction in
the latter State. He attended lectures at the Keokuk
Medical College, and first began the practice in that city,
in 1836. Dr. Cantwell was married on the ninth
of November, 1838, to Miss Catharine A. Everheart,
daughter of John and Elizabeth Everheart, and born in
the city of Cincinnati. Both her parents were natives
of Pennsylvania, and her father was for many years a
prominent minister and presiding elder of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Dr. Cantwell's father was a
Baptist minister. He and wife are the parents of
eleven children, seven of whom are still living. Their
names are, William H. (deceased), Edward J.,
Martha Jane, Harriet, Frances, May (deceased),
Emily, Louisa, Nancy, Minnie (deceased), Eva
(deceased), and James L. Dr. Cantwell belongs
to the Methodist Church, and his wife to the Presbyterian
Church. It was in 1849 that Dr. Cantwell came
to Linn county and located. He has been a citizen here
ever since, and has therefore practiced thirty-three years
in the county. During the war he was in the
Forty-second Missouri Infantry, and was first detailed for
the recruiting service, and subsequently to practice as army
physician and surgeon. He was part of the time in
Benton Barracks at St. Louis, Missouri. Was also in
the Clay Hospital, at Louisville, and in the general
hospital hospital at Nashville. Dr. Cantwell is
a Freemason, and belongs to the St. Catharine lodge.
His residence is in section twenty-six, township fifty-nine,
range nineteen.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean -
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Bucklin & Bucklin Twp.
ALEXANDER B. CARTER, a farmer and
stock-raiser, four miles northwest from Bucklin, was born in
Tazewell county, Virginia. When about six years of age
he came with his parents to Linn county, where he was raised
on a farm, and educated in the common schools of the
country. AT the age of twenty he began teaching
school, and continued at that avocation for six years.
He then engaged in farming, which occupation he has since
followed. Mr. Carter was married in 1873 to
Miss Elizabeth Riley, of Chariton county, Missouri, by
whom he has had four children, three of whom are living:
Ora Ella (deceased), Della May, Ira Inis, and
Elizabeth. His wife died Nov. 25, 1881. She
was a member of the Christian Church.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
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BENJAMIN F. CARTER. Mr.
Benjamin F. Carter was born in Delaware, Delaware
county, Ohio, Mar. 18, 1837. He is the son and third
child of Thomas Carter, who came to Missouri
in 1840. Mr. Carter was enrolled in
March, 1862, and served three years during the late war.
He was a Colonel McFerran's regiment, First
Cavalry Missouri State Militia, and first sergeant in the
company. Though he was seriously ill during the time
for about two months, he stuck to his post and did not quit
the service. His company was principally engaged in
several counties south of the Missouri River; was in a
skirmish with General Jo Shelby in
Saline county, and had quite a number of skirmishes with the
noted Quantrell, in fact almost daily. In the
fall of 1864 they had a good deal of skirmishing with
General Price at different points; at Boonville,
the Little and Big Blue, and Mine Creek, near Fort Scott,
General Price having from twenty-five to thirty
thousand men, and they, under the command of General
Pleasanton, of the Potomac army, consisting of about
twenty thousand. Mr. Carter was
discharged at Warrensburg, Johnson county, Missouri.
Since his release from the war he has been, with the
exception of a short period, in the milling business.
He first went to Scottsville, Sullivan county, where, in
partnership with Captain Hutchison, he
operated a saw and grist-mill for about five years.
Afterward he ran a portable saw-mill in Linn and Sullivan
counties up to 1878, when he removed to Browning and engaged
in the furniture trade. In 1879 he and Mr.
Madison Fourman built the mill at Browning which
he is now running. Shortly afterward Mr. Forman
sold his interest to Mr. John Mairs, and Mr. Mairs
leased his interest to Mr. Carter, who has ever since
operated and controlled it alone. The mill is a
four-run mill, new process, and is driven by the Atlas
engine made at Indianapolis. The mill is running
constantly, doing a good, paying business, and does custom
work on Friday and Saturday of each week. It is well
built, three stories and a half high, nicely painted and in
good trim. In justice to Mr. Carter we must say
it is the best mill in the county.
Mr. Carter was first married on the __ day of
____ to Miss Rebecca Myers.
He was married the second time on the ninth day of
May to Miss Martha J. Jacobs, daughter of Wesley
Jacobs, of Sullivan county. They have had five
children, three boys and two girls, all living. In
October, 1881, Mr. Carter is also a member of the
city council and of the school board, and of the A. O. U. W.
lodge Browning.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
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Bucklin & Bucklin Twp.
JAMES CARTER, a farmer, in 1823, where
he was raised on a farm, and educated in the common schools
of the country. Came to Missouri in 1854, and settled
in Linn County, where he has since resided and has been
engaged in farming. Mr. Carter was married Feb. 12,
1846, to Miss Sallie Hendrickson, of Tazewell county,
Virginia, by whom he has five children: George,
Alexander, Preston, Napoleon, and Sallie.
His wife died June. 13, 1880. He again married, Oct.
27, 1880, Mrs. Jemima Warren, of Linn County, though
a native of Kentucky. He and wife are both members of
the church. Mr. Carter was elected justice of
the peace of Bucklin township, in the year 1871, on the
people's ticket; served two years. His uncle
William Carter, was in the War of 1812. Mr.
Carter's boys are married and settled around him, and
are an honor to the community in which they live.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
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THOMAS CARTER (Deceased). Captain
Carter was a native of Virginia, born Sept. 10, 1810.
When he was quite small, his parents moved to Kentucky,
where they resided till Thomas was fifteen years old.
They then moved to Delaware county, Ohio, where Thomas
served five years as a millwright's apprentice, and became a
scientific workman. His son John has a fine
case of tools formerly owned by his father, some of which
have been in use for fifty years. Mr. Carter
was, perhaps, the first millwright who operated in this part
of the State. He left Ohio in the spring of 1829, and
moved to Livingston county, Missouri, where he remained four
years and built several mills. In 1834, he moved to
Linn county, and settled at the old Botts mill, and
was living there during the flood of 1844, when the water
rose so high he had to get his family out in a flat-boat.
From there he moved to Mile's mill in 1848, which
here built; and also built a bridge across Locust Creek,
just below the mill. In 1851, he bought a farm three
miles from the mill, and lived there till 1854, when he
broke up housekeeping. He assisted in building and
operating too many mills to make mention of all. The
last milling enterprise in which he engaged in a partnership
with his son Frank, they having bought out Beckett
& Trumbo, in Benton township. Mr. Carter
enlisted in the Union service in August, 1861, in Company F,
Twenty-third Infantry, of which he was elected captain.
He resigned, however, again becoming a private, and served
two years and nine months. He was in the battle of
Shiloh, and was in the thickest of the fight. After
the war, he never engaged in active life, to an great
extent. He had been twice married. His
first wife was Annie Conkling, to whom he was married
in Ohio, Sept. 18, 1833. After her death, he was again
married to Mrs. Martha A. Moore, of Linn county.
By his first union he had ten children, eight of whom still
survive. In 1868, he was elected county treasurer,
beating his opponent three or four hundred votes. On
taking sick, he resigned this office; his son John
was appointed to fill the vacancy. Captain Carter
departed this life June 5, 1868, and was buried at Linneus.
In religion, he was a Cumberland Presbyterian, and in
politics he was formerly an old line Whig, but latterly a
Republican. He was always a Free-soiler, and fully
believed in both religious and political liberty.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
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WILLIAM H. CARTER, son of J. B. and
Mahala Carter. His father was a native of South
Carolina, and his mother of Kentucky. In 1855 he came
with his parents to this county, where he has since resided,
and has been engaged in farming and tobacco-raising.
Mr. Carter was married in 1853 to Miss Lucy
Lampkin of this county, by whom he has two children:
John R. and Sarah F. W. His wife died 1864.
He again married, in 1865, Miss Elvira S. Warren, of
this county, by whom he has five children: Orlando,
Jessie, Walter, William and Nannie. He and
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
HE is a member of the Grange. His father was in the
War of 1812. Mr. Carter is a man that stands
high in his community.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
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JUDGE JOSHUA M. CASH was born in
Hardin county, Kentucky, Feb. 1, 1829. He is the son
of Abraham and Deborah Cash, and was reared and
educated in his native county, receiving such an education
as the schools then afforded. He came with his parents
to Chariton county, this State, in 1843 and resided there
till 1849, when he came to Linn county and settled on the
farm where he still resides, two and a half miles from
Bucklin. In August, 1846, he was mustered for service
in the Mexican War, in the Second Missouri Mounted
Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Sterling Price.
He was out about fourteen months and was engaged in the
battles of La Canyaga and Taos. During the great civil
war he served in the Forty-second Missouri Volunteer
Infantry from august, 1864, to March, 1865. Judge
Cash's paternal grandfather and two or three uncles (his
father's brothers) served in the War of 1812. In 1878 he was
elected on the Democratic ticket County Court Judge from the
first district and was reelected in 1880. He has
served eight or ten years as justice of the peace of Bucklin
township.
Judge Cash was first married on Dec. 30th, 1847,
to Miss Martha J. Mills, of Chariton county.
She died on the third day of January, 1854, and he was again
married on the fourteenth of September, 1854, to Miss
Martha A. King, of Linn county, by whom he has two
children, named Louis and Ermina F. His
second wife died Sept. 3, 1869, and he was a third time
married Jan. 27, 1870, to Miss Elizabeth Hainds, of
Linn county, Judge Cash and wife both belong
to the M. E. Church South. He is a gentleman of
unsullied reputation.
Source: History of Linn County,
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LOYD CASH. This gentleman is the son of
Abraham and Deborah Cash, and was born in Hardin county,
Kentucky, on the 27th of February, 1827. He was reared
and educated in the county of his birth and came to Missouri
in 1844, the year following that in which his parents came
to this State. They all settled in Chariton county,
where Loyd became engaged in farming. In 1846
he and a brother were enrolled into service for the Mexican
War at Fort Leavenworth, under command of Colonel
Sterling Price. They were out fourteen months in
the Mexican campaign. Mr. Cash returned to
Chariton after quitting the military and engaged in farming
till 1849, when he came to Linn county where he has since
resided. His paternal grandfather served in the
Revolutionary War, and he (Loyd) had two uncles in
the war of 1812. Mr. Cash served several years
as justice of the peace in Bucklin township.
Source: History of Linn County,
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Bucklin & Bucklin Twp.
LUTHER T. CATON, a farmer and
stock-raiser, five miles northwest of Buckland, is a native
Missourian, having been born in Warren county, Missouri,
where he was raised on a farm, and educated in the common
schools of the country. After he became of age he went
to Texas, where he remained four years. He spent two
years in California, engaged in the stock business. He
also took a trip to New Mexico.
Mr. Caton settled in Linn county in 1854, where he has
since resided, and has made a success of farming and
stock-raising as his premises now indicate. Mr.
Caton was married in November, 1852, to Miss Margaret
H. Hubbard, by whom he has three children living:
Sarah T., Missouri B., and Henry L. His
wife died Apr. 8, 1858. He was again married, Aug. 31,
1859, to Miss Sarah F. Switzer, of this county, by
whom he has four children: Ida B., Ada L., Carrie M.,
and Leo T.
Mr. Caton is a member of Bucklin Lodge No. 233, A.
F. & A. M. Served six months in the forty-second
Missouri Infantry. He is the son of Jonas and Ora
Caton. His father was a native of Kentucky and his
mother of Illinois.
Mr. Caton is one of the largest and most
successful farmers and stock-raisers in Bucklin township,
and is one of the staunch men of his community.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
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TAYLOR P. CHRISTY, was born in Fleming
county, Kentucky, May 4, 1845. His parents were
Philip W. and Nancy Christy, both of whom were
Kentucky-born. When he was eight years old his parents
moved to Missouri, and settled in Benton township, this
county, where Taylor P. grew up and was educated.
During the civil war Mr. Christy entered the government
service in company F, Second Missouri Provisional Cavalry,
in which he served six months. After that he went to
recruiting for the Twelfth Missouri Cavalry, United States
Regulars, and went with that regiment to St. Louis in
January, 1864. He was made commissary-sergeant, and
went south with his regiment, participating in the Memphis
and Guntown fights. He was taken sick and soon
afterwards returned home. After eight months he
rejoined the service and was assigned to duty in the
Forty-second Missouri Infantry, and after quite a campaign
in the South, returned to St. Louis, and was soon afterwards
sent with the regiment west for the frontier service.
He was as far out as the Black Hills, and had several
brushes with the Indians. He returned in the spring of
1866, and in August following, was united in marriage with
Miss Lucilla E. Ellicott, daughter of Dr. James
Elliott, of Clayton, Illinois. Have had four
children, Agnes Belle, and Julia Etta, living,
Julian W. and James Grant (twins), deceased.
Mr. Christy engaged in farming for two years
after his marriage, and then began merchandizing. At
present he is in the grocery and implement business at
Browning, though his business experience has not been
confined to this State. He spent some time in the far
West, part of which time he was in the hotel business at
Piedmont, Wyoming Territory, and subsequently in the fur and
robe trade at Greeley, Colorado. After that he started
a robe tannery at Kansas City, which he operated one year.
He and his brother then went down to western Texas and
hunted buffalo on the Staked Plain with the Comanche
Indians. They returned to Kansas City, bringing seven
hundred robes and a lot of furs, and again started up the
robe tannery; a fire struck the concern, however, and burned
them out of business, when the subject of this sketch
returned to Linn county, and is still here in business.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
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JAMES E. CLARK was born in Linn
county, Missouri, Sept. 7, 1841, and was here reared and
educated; has always followed farming, and now owns a well
improved farm of four hundred and fifty-four acres. He
was married in this county, Nov. 19, 1865, to Miss
Virginia, daughter of Bowling R. and Elizabeth
Ashbrook. They have had by this marriage six
children, five of whom are living: Ella M.,
born June 16, 1867, and died Oct. 24, 1867; Annie L.,
born Sept. 11, 1868; Virginia B., born Apr. 14, 1870;
Edgar H., born Oct. 4, 1871; Oscar L., born
Oct. 17, 1873; Cordelia J., born Aug. 3, 1875.
Source: History of Linn County,
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ZACHARIAH W. CLARK was born in
Indiana, Oct. 29, 1838. Two months later he came with
his parents to Linn county, and was among the first
settlers. Mr. Clark has always been engaged in
farming and now owns a well improved farm of three hundred
and forty acres. He was married in Linn county, June,
15, 1865, to Miss Jane E. Fore, daughter of Silas
Fore, one of the pioneers of the county. By this
union they have five children: Emma L., born
April 5, 1866; John S., born Aug. 20, 1867; Daniel
R., born Apr. 17, 1869; Claudia L., born Sept. 3,
1873; Arthur S., born Sept. 13, 1875.
Source: History of Linn County,
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JAMES M. CORNETT. The name which
heads this sketch is that of a native Missourian who was
born in Howard county on the third day of October, 1828.
His father, whose name will be found on many pages of this
work, was one of the pioneers of this county. He came
to this county in 1836. Here our subject was reared
and educated. He has always been engaged in farming
and now owns a well improved farm of four hundred and
twenty-seven acres. Mr. Cornett was married in
Linn county, Nov. 2, 1860, to Miss Clarinda R. Frost.
By this union they have had five children, three of whom are
still living: John J., born Aug. 2, 1861; Joseph
M., born July 12, 1865; Sarah P., born Oct.
11, 1869.
Source: History of Linn County,
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TRUMAN CHAUNCY CORY was born in
Plattsburg, Steuben county, New York, Feb. 8, 1823, but his
father removed to Saratoga county, New York, when the
subject of this sketch was about one year old, where they
resided until Mr. Cory was fourteen years old, and
when he first attended school. In the spring of the
year 13837 his father again moved, and this time to
Comstock, Kalamazoo county, Michigan. There he
finished his schooling, and when of age was in the employ of
the Michigan Central Railroad Company until 1864. He
then purchased a farm and remained on it two years, or until
July, 1869, when he sold out and with his family removed
direct to Linn county, where he purchased a splendid farm of
two hundred acres about one and one-quarter miles north of
the county seat. From that day Mr. Cory has
followed the occupation of farming, devoting most of his
time to general productions, with a tendency to
stock-raising. Mr. Cory was married at the age
of twenty-seven years. They have five children:
Eugene S., Ellery A., Joseph W., Albert, and
Frederic.
Source: History of Linn County,
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Benton Twp. -
WILLIAM COTTER. This gentleman,
who is a native of Tennessee, and son of Stephen W. and
Elizabeth Cotter, was three years in the government
service during the civil war. He was in the company
commanded by Captain Rice Morris, of the Twenty-third
Missouri, and he enlisted in August, 1861. Was in the
battle of Shiloh, and was with Sherman at Atlanta and
Jonesborough. Mr. Cotter lived in his native
State till he was about eight years old, and then moved to
Osage county, Missouri, where he lived two yeas, and thence
to Linn county in 1844. The date of his birth was Dec.
17, 1834. He has been engaged in farming all his life,
except the three years he was in the war. He was
married Nov. 4, 1858, to Mary Oxley, a native of
Indiana, and daughter of Eli H. and Mary Oxley,
natives of Kentucky. They have had eleven children,
ten of whom still survive: Amanda E., Mary J.,
James E. (deceased), Lydia E., Vina Melcena, Benjamin
S., Sallie O., Minnie B., Annie S., William and John
M. Mr. Cotter is perhaps as young a looking man of
his age as can be found anywhere.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
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HENRY WAYNE CRAWLEY was born in
Glasgow, Howard county, Missouri, May 7, 1852. His
father's name is B. F. Crawley; his mother's,
Louisa A. Crawley. Both parents were natives of
Virginia. His mother came with her parents to
Missouri, in 1833; she died when he was about three months
old. He is a graduate of Yale College, and was
principal for a number of years of the public schools at
Keytesville, Chariton county, and also the principal of the
school at Roanoke. He is quite proficient in Latin as
well as English literature. At present he occupies the
position of clerk and recorder of Chariton county. On
his mother's side Mr. Crawley is of French
extraction, his grandmother's name being Fountain,
originally written De la Fountain - a name prominent among
the early Huguenots of Carolina. She was the great
granddaughter of the illustrious Patrick Henry and
was raised by his oldest daughter. Mr. Crawley's
father was twice married. By the first marriage there
was besides himself a sister who now lives in Chariton
county. By his second marriage his father had two
children, one of whom still lives. His second wife
died in 1861. H. W. Crawley was raised by his
grandfather, the Rev. William Perkins, who was the
father of Doctors P. H. and E. F. Perkins, in
Linneus, and who was well known for a number of years to the
people of Linn county as a prominent minister of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South. When only a few
months old he was taken in charge by his grandfather, who at
that time, and for some years afterward, was engaged on the
circuit, and consequently did not reside at any one point
for a protracted period. After living one year at
Glasgow he spent two years at Brunswick Chariton county.
He then moved to Parkville, Platt county, and remained for
years, and from there went to Plattsburg, Clinton county,
and staid two years. The point was Richmond, Ray
county, where he remained two years, and from there went
Carrollton, Carroll county, and spent two years. From
Carrollton he moved to Linneus, Linn county, in the fall of
1865. In February, 1879, he moved from Linneus to
Browning, where he has since resided, engaged in the
business above spoken of. At nineteen he left the
school-room for the active duties of life. He first
clerked in the drug store of Perkins & Bradley, at Linneus,
where he remained about eight years, some changes taking
place, however, during that time in the members of the firm.
The principal portion of his instruction in pharmacy was
acquired under the especial care and management of Dr. E.
F. Perkins. In February, 1878, he was employed in
the recorder's office, where he remained several months.
In February, 1879, he and J. P. McQuown formed a
partnership, and moved to Browning and opened a drug store
under the firm name of J. P. McQuown & Co.,
which they are still running. He is a member in good
standing of the Scarlet Degree of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No.
51, at Linneus, which he joined in 1873. Considering
the success he has attained in so brief a period, and that
he is located in a thriving busy town which is rapidly
pushing ahead, we can but bespeak for him prosperity in the
future.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
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