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BIOGRAPHIES
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History of Pettis County, Missouri
including an Authentic History of Sedalia and other Townships.
Illustrated
1882
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Sedalia -
WILLIAM J. BAGBY.
Dealer in groceries, provisions, etc. Mr. Bagby
was born in 1854 in Buckingham Co., Virginia. His
father, James M. Bagby, and his mother were both
natives of Virginia. William J. Bagby early
engaged in the grocery business as a clerk and traveling
salesman and was constantly in the business until 1878, when
he opened a store in Sedalia. In December, 1881, he
removed to the new brick block on Osage street near the
corner of Second street, where he has one of the largest and
most beautiful rooms in the city, a cut of which appears on
page 523. Mr. Bagby is a most excellent
business man, and stands in the front rank of Sedalia's most
excellent business man, and stands in the front rank of
Sedalia's business men. He is a member of the K. P.
He was married in 1880 to Carrie A. Barley, of
Sedalia.
Source: History of Pettis County, Missouri
including an Authentic History of Sedalia and other Townships.
Illustrated - 1882 - Page 608 |
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Sedalia -
ANDREW
G. BROWN One of the popular
conductors of the Missouri Pacific, is the subject of this
sketch. He is the son of Green Brown, a native
of England, but who emigrated to the United States in an
early day, settling in New York, but afterwards in 1849
moved to California and is supposed to have been killed by
the Indians. The subject of this sketch was born Aug.
25, 1849, in Paw Paw, Mich. He received his education
from the schools of his native State. After quitting
school he engaged in farming for a few yeas, then he learned
the blacksmith trade, working at his trade for three years.
Then he accepted a position as brakeman on the St. Louis &
San Francisco R. R. Of Mr. Brown's railroad history we
copy the following complimentary notice from The
Railroader, of November, 1881: "Mr. A. G. Brown,
the retiring Grand Island Sentinel, is with the Missouri
Pacific, and at present the Secretary of the Queen City
Division, No. 60, Sedalia, Mo. Mr. Brown is
young, energetic and active, very popular with a wide circle
of acquaintances, and is decidedly one of the most valuable
members of the order. * * * * * *
Mr. Brown has filled nearly every office in the
Division, and all trusts confided to him have been
faithfully executed. Though still young he has been
railroading for twelve years, his first service having been
performed on the St. Louis & San Francisco. At a later
period he changed to the Missouri Pacific, and is at present
in charge of a passenger between Sedalia & Hannibal."
He was married, Mar. 26, 1874, to Miss Amelia Craft,
a native of New York, but her residence was in Michigan at
the time of her marriage. From this union there are
two children, viz: Ada and Leah.
Source: History of Pettis County, Missouri
including an Authentic History of Sedalia and other Townships.
Illustrated - 1882 - Page 623 |
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Dresden Twp. -
DR.
DAVID F. BROWN. He was born in Davidson County,
N. C., Oct. 22, 1845, and at the age of fourteen left his
native county, and with his parents lived in different parts
of the country. In 1865 he came to Missouri, and after
one year's residence, returned to his native State, where he
remained till 1870, when he returned to Missouri and settled
in the beautiful little town of Dresden, and engaged in
business with his brother, Dr. J. A. C. Brown, now of
Sedalia. The subject of this sketch attended medical
lectures at St. Louis and graduated in the spring of 1873,
commencing the practice of his profession at Dresden, where
he has since received a large partronage. He
was married in 1874 to Virginia E. Shultz, daughter
of R. A. Shultz, Esq. She is a native of
North Carolina, though principally raised in this State.
The Doctor engaged in the mercantile business in 1874 with
Jacob Thomas, and continued till 1879, when Mr.
Brown opened a general store for himself. He also
owns a farm of 320 acres, dealing quite extensively in
stock, and growing corn and wheat. Mr. and Mrs.
Brown are worthy members of the M. E. Church, South.
Source: History of Pettis County, Missouri
including an Authentic History of Sedalia and other Townships.
Illustrated - 1882 - Page 915 |
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Blackwater Twp. -
H.
C. BROWN. Post-office, Houstonia. Among
the representative young men of Pettis County, we find none
more worthy of mention than the subject of this sketch,
H. C. Brown. He is the son of Haley Brown,
a native of North Carolina, being born in Davidson County,
N. C., Apr. 9, 1854, and is the youngest child in a family
of nine children. He was educated in the common
schools of his native State. In the spring of 1874,
Mr. Brown moved to Missouri, settling in Pettis County,
near where he now resides. Dec. 16, 1877, Mr. Brown
was married to Mrs. Nannie Williams, a daughter of
Rev. Tyre Berry, a native of Missouri. They have
one child, Mary Dempsey. Since Mr. Brown's
residence in Missouri, he has been engaged in farming and
the feeding of stock, in partnership with his brother, D.
S. Brown. These young men own a fine farm of 700
acres. The home is well improved with good dwelling
house, barns and other buildings. These young men are
spoken of by their neighbors in the highest terms. In
business they are honorable and straightforward, enjoying
the confidence of all.
Source: History of Pettis County, Missouri
including an Authentic History of Sedalia and other Townships.
Illustrated - 1882 - Page 814 |
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Sedalia -
DR. J. A. C. BROWN.
One of Pettis County's influential business men, and
Sedalia's most honored citizens, is the subject of this
sketch. He is the son of Haley Brown, of Randolph
County, N. C. The subject of this sketch was born in
Davidson County, N. C., Mar. 31, 1834, and is the oldest
child in a family of nine children. He received his
education from Trinity College, North Carolina, and the
Emory and Henry College, Virginia. He graduated at the
University of North Carolina in the collegiate year of
1857-8, in a class of ninety-six. The Doctor read
medicine with Dr. S. G. Coffin, of Jamestown, N. C.,
and graduated at the Jefferson Medical College at
Philadelphia. After completing his medical education
the Doctor went to Texas, where he remained until the fall
of 1860, when he returned to his home in North Carolina.
After remaining at home a short time he enlisted in the
Confederate army, under Col. Pettigrew, who
afterwards became General. The Doctor was with
Stonewall Jackson in his celebrated campaign to
Virginia. Dr. Brown participated in all of the
hard-fought battles of Stonewall's campaign. He
was wounded at the seven days' fight at Richmond, and
afterwards received a second wound at Shepherdstown.
When peace had been declared in 1865, Dr. Brown moved
to Missouri, settling at Dresden, in Pettis County; here he
resided and practiced his profession until the summer of
1877, when he received the appointment of Collector of
Pettis county, which office he acceptably filled until the
spring of 1881. Since that time he has been engaged
agriculture and the stock business. Since that time he
has been engaged in one of the finest farms in Dresden
Township, containing 646 acres well improved. He also
owns a fine residence on Ohio street, south of Broadway,
where he and family reside. In business Dr. Brown
is honorable and just, and is highly esteemed and
respected by his many friends.
Source: History of Pettis County, Missouri
including an Authentic History of Sedalia and other Townships.
Illustrated - 1882 - Page 622 |
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Dresden Twp. -
JAMES
BROWN. Was born in Clark County, Indiana, on
the 26th day of December, 1823. He was the son of
John D. Brown and Eleanor Brown. His father
was born in New York and his mother was a native of
Kentucky. When James was about sixteen years of
age his parents moved to Howard County, Indiana, where they
lived until their death. His mother died at the age of
eighty-three years. His father was killed many years
before by a team running away with him. James Brown
was married on the 10th of April, 1850, to Miss Phoebe
Odell, of Carroll County, Indiana. She was born,
Nov. 26, 1826, and was a daughter of Wm. Odell and Mary
Odell. Mr. Odell was a native of North Carolina,
and Mrs. Odell was born in Virginia. In 1856
Mr. Brown moved to Missouri and bought a farm five miles
west of Sedalia. He lived on this farm until his
death, which occurred on the 1st day of May, 1880. His
widow still lives on the farm. Her youngest son,
Milo H. Brown, is still at home, and is managing the
farm. He was born, Mar. 19, 1856. The other
children, four in number, were born as follows:
John D., Dec. 25, 1846. He is living in Sedalia.
Richard, July 17, 1848. He lives in Lyon
County, Kansas. Wm. Henry, Feb. 19, 1852.
He died while the family were moving to Minnesota. James
L. Brown, June 11, 1854. He lives in Green Ridge,
in this county. John D. and Richard are
the children of Mr. Brown's first wife, Mrs. Sarah
Brown. All the children are married. Milo,
who lives on the old homestead was married on the 26th day
of December, 1878, to Miss Mollie
Quisenberry, of this county. They have two
children, Walter and Ray. Mr. Brown
was a member of the Christian Church for twenty years before
his death. His widow is a member of the same church.
Source: History of Pettis County, Missouri
including an Authentic History of Sedalia and other Townships.
Illustrated - 1882 - Page 915 |
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Sedalia -
JOHN
D. BROWN Proprietor of the Western Telegraph
Institute, Sedalia. Mr. Brown was born in
Howard County, Ind., in 1848. His father, James
Brown, came to Sedalia in 1865, and in 1870, John D.
went to St. Louis, where he learned telegraphing in the
Metropolitan Telegraph Institute. In after hears he
operated on various lines of railroad. In 1874 he
established the Institute of which he has ever since been
proprietor and manager. Over one hundred young men
each year are here fitted to fill positions in telegraph
offices. The school is supplied with about twenty-five
sets of telegraph instruments. Mr. Brown is a
member of the I. O. O. F. He was married in 1874 to
Lida McClung; they have one child, Earnest M.
Source: History of Pettis County, Missouri
including an Authentic History of Sedalia and other Townships.
Illustrated - 1882 - Page 622 |
E. T. Brown |
Sedalia -
REV. EDWIN T. BROWN,
(deceased). Edwin T. Brown was born in
Columbia, Lancaster county, Penn., Mar. 22, 1818. He
was the son of Daniel and Emma Brown, nee
Vaughn. His maternal grandfather, Rev.
Joshua Vaughn, was a pioneer Baptist clergyman of great
eminence. The subject of this sketch was converted and
baptized by Dr. Elliott, of Pittsburg, at the age of
twelve years, and July 4, 1841, he preached his first
sermon. It was from Matt. 6: 24, "Ye cannot serve God
and Mammon." His school advantages were not numerous,
though he took a two years' courses at Fayette College in
Pennsylvania, and subsequently two years at Rector College
in Virginia, and such was his labor in his school duties
that his health became much impaired by his efforts.
He felt that the Lord had a particular work for him in the
ministry, and before his school days were fully ended his
friends persuaded him to begin preaching. In May,
1842, he was ordained in the full work of the ministry, and
became pastor of the Baptist Church at Connellsville,
Pennsylvania. He removed to Ohio in 1844, and was
pastor of the churches successively at Mt. Vernon, Wooster
and Warren, being among the largest churches in
Northeastern, Ohio. His churches were blessed with
large revivals, and many were added to the Redeemer's
Kingdome. During a portion of the war he was chaplain
of the Second Ohio Cavalry, where he won the love and
respect of officers and men. After he resigned his
commission in the army, Apr. 21, 1864, he resumed his
pastorate at Warren, Ohio, and continued till his stay
amounted to nine years and three months. As a
missionary of the Baptist Home Mission Society, he removed
to Missouri in 1865, settling in Sedalia where he spent the
residue of his life. Here he bought a considerable
tract of land where East Sedalia now stands, where he built
a commodious house. Immediately after his arrival he
applied at once his energies to the building up of the First
Baptist church; the edifice constructed principally by money
which he collected for that purpose from his former charges
in Ohio, and from private Christian friends in St. Louis,
John Hall, and others in Sedalia, and one thousand dollars
loaned by the Home Mission Society. After the First
Baptist church of this city had been put on a firm basis
with a good house of worship, Mr. Brown resigned, and soon
commenced building up a strong society of Baptists in
Clinton, and erected there one of the finest churches in
Central Western Missouri. The church cost $20,000, and
he introduced his successor to one hundred members, and a
salary of $1,500, and upon his resignation the members of
the church passed resolutions highly complimentary to the
labors he had bestowed upon them. Under his leadership
a number of churches were re-organized, which had been
scattered during the war, and he assisted in forming them
into a new association bearing the name of Central Missouri,
of which he was first moderator. That he might secure
religious advantages to the families of railroad men, he
erected, almost at his own expense, a commodious church in
East Sedalia, and bestowed gratuitously on this field five
years' labor, which resulted in the conversion of many
railroad men. He died at his own residence, of
apoplexy, after a brief illness of only half an hour, at 10
o'clock P.M., June 9, 1879. By his unswerving
allegiance to what he regarded right, Elder Brown
made some bitter enemies, but his benevolence and warm heart
won a host of devoted friends. His ministry was a
faithful one. The word of God was his text book.
He baptized nearly 1,900 during his thirty-eight years'
ministry, was pastor of seven churches, built three church
edifices, and accomplished untold good in the cause in other
directions. He was married to Miss Eliza J. Bryson,
May 10, 1841, at Uniontown, Penn. She is the eldest of
a large family. Her father was a native of Ireland,
Scotch-Irish descent, and died about eight years ago.
Her mother, whose maiden name was Anna Ayers, died about
twelve years since. Rev. Brown has two surviving
children. Bryson Brown, the eldest, with his
wife, nee Rhoda D. La Vergne, and two
children, Lillian L. and De La Vergne, now
live in the former homestead. Emma A. Brown,
their first daughter, died Jan. 28, 1861, aged sixteen
years. Mattie, their youngest daughter, was
married, Apr. 4, 1882, to Rev. J. M. Plannett, pastor
of the East Sedalia Baptist church. Mrs. Brown
has a fine residence in East Sedalia, where she lives with
her son-in-law and wife, and enjoys the income from a large
estate left by her husband, who was a good business man,
accumulating much wealth by the increased value of building
sites.
Source: History of Pettis County, Missouri
including an Authentic History of Sedalia and other Townships.
Illustrated - 1882 - Page 620 |
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