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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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JAMES CAMERON TAYLOR is the son of
Ickiss and Elizabeth (nee Hatcher) Taylor, and
was born in this county, Apr. 10, 1841. He was reared
in Linn county, and received his education in the common
schools. Mr. Taylor, at the age of eighteen,
began life for himself as a farmer and stock-raiser, and
still follows that vocation. In May, 1864, he started
with his family for California, and made the trip with
wagons and teams. He had the misfortune to lose one of
his children on the road, which he buried in Nevada.
Arriving in California in October of the same year, he began
farming in Yolo county, where he remained four years.
He returned to Missouri, by water, in the summer of 1864,
and again began farming in Linn county, where he has ever
since resided. He owns a good farm of one hundred and
sixty acres, in Enterprise township, all under cultivation.
Mr. Taylor, Oct. 27, 1859, married Caroline
Bingham, daughter of William G. and Mary (nee
Hoover) Bingham. His wife is a native of Tennessee
and was born in Rutherford county, Jan. 15, 1840, and came
with her parents to Sullivan county, this State, in 1842.
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have six children living and two
dead. Mr. Taylor is a good farmer, and is known
to be a man of upright character. He has a promising
family of intelligent children, of whom their father may
well be proud.
Source: History of Linn County, Missouri - Publ.
Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean - 1882 - Page 804 |
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JOSEPH B. THORNE was born in Kentucky,
Oct. 30, 1846. When he was four years of age he came
with his parents to Linn county. He has always lived
on a farm and now owns a splendid farm of three hundred and
eighty acres. He was married in Linn county, Missouri,
Nov. 13, 1873, to Miss Lucy B., Sutherland, a
native of Missouri. They have a family
of three children: Mary, born Sept. 13, 1874;
Joseph T., born Aug. 22, 1877; William W., born
Mar. 6, 1880.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean -
1882 |
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Z. M. TITUS, was born in Onondaga
county, New York. When quite small he went with his
parents to Ohio, and there grew up and received a fair
common-school education. At the age of fifteen he went
into a mill to learn that business, and has continued in the
same calling all his life. From Ohio he went to Kane,
in Greene county, Illinois, and there had charge of the
"People's Mills" for twenty years. In 1879 he moved to
Bucklin, in this county, and took control of the "Bucklin
Mills," which he still continues to manage successfully.
Mr. Titus was married in 1848, to Miss Elizabeth
Shurts of Ohio, by whom he has four children, named:
William L., Kate D., Leonard L., and Smith M. His
first wife died in 1879, and he was again married in April,
1880, to Miss Jane Harper, of this county. The
mills, of which Mr. Titus is now proprietor, were
erected in 1867, at a cost of six thousand dollars.
They have a thirty horse-power engine and three run of burs,
with a saw-mill and carding-machine attachment. Mr.
T's long experience has made him every way a first-class
miller. His public spirit and enterprising disposition
make him a valuable acquisition to any community. He
is a Freemason, and is a worthy and upright citizen.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean -
1882 - Page 666 |
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JAMES TOOEY.
This gentleman, who is at this writing serving his third
term as county collector, is a native of County Mayo,
Ireland, and was there born in March, 1832. His
father, Mr. Augustine Tooey, was a farmer of that
country, and left there in 1839 and came to the United
States, and settled in Alleghany county, New York. The
family were frequently on the move, however, and Mr.
Tooey scarcely lived long enough in one place during his
boyhood to become a denizen of any one point till after he
came to Missouri. He spent six years in New York and
six in Canada, and then returned to the State of New York,
and there remained till November, 1852. His education
was acquired in New York, and the first business he ever did
was that of railroad contracting with his brother. He
had, however, before this, been engaged in working for three
years on the Erie Canal, as driver on the towpath, a calling
dignified by the fact of the late lamented President
Garfield's having been so engaged in his youth. He was
eight years railroad contracting, till 1860, when he began
merchandizing in Brookfield, Linn county, Missouri. He
had come to St. Louis in 1852, and to Linn county in July,
1856. He has lived here ever since. He was
twelve years merchandizing at Brookfield, till 1876.
He received the appointment by the governor as collector of
Linn county, when the township organization was annulled in
Linn county, in 1877. He was nominated and elected on
the Democratic ticket in 1878, and again in 1880. At
this time his term of office is unexpired, and he must go
out of the office at the close of the present term, for the
reason of the readoption of the township organization.
Mr. Tooey was married by the rites of the
Catholic Church on November 26th, 1859, at Hannibal,
Missouri, to Miss Catherine McCormick, Rev. Father James
Murphy officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Tooey have
had eight children, three sons and five daughters, three
sons and three daughters of whom are still living.
Mr. Tooey and his entire family are Catholic in
religion, and two of his children are at schools under
church control, one at Brookfield and one at Chillicothe.
Politically, Mr. Tooey is a life-long Democrat,
and has never vote any other ticket. Being of a race
of freedom-loving people, through oppressed by the iron hand
of British tyranny, Mr. Tooey could scarce be
an affiliate of any other party.
He built the first store in Brookfield after the town
was laid out, in 1860.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean -
1882 - Page 478 |
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FRANK L. TRACY was born in Indiana,
Oct. 24, 1854. He came to Linneus in 1866, where he
has ever since lived. He was married in Laclede, Nov.
24, 1873, to Miss Mary E. Gillespie. Their
family consists of two children: Ida L., born
Aug. 16, 18174; Frank L., Jr., born Aug. 10, 1877.
Source: History of Linn County,
Missouri -
Publ. Kansas City, Mo. by Birdsall & Dean -
1882 |
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