Greene County Biographies


From  The History of Greene County, Missouri," 
St. Louis: Western Historical Company, 1883



Capt. William S. Johnson
Capt. Wm. S. Johnson, U. S. A.  Captain Johnson is the son of James J.
and Julia (Graham) Johnson, who were from Pennsylvania, and of Scotch-
Irish origin.  His parents moved to Fulton County, Illinois, in 1835,
and it was there that William S. was born, May 7th, 1841.  He was edu-
cated in his native county, and, upon the 8th of April, 1861 enlisted 
as a private in Company A, 4th battalion, District of Columbia, under
President Lincoln's first call, and served three months.  In August,
1862, he came to Springfield, Missouri, and enlisted in the 1st Arkan-
sas cavalry as private, but was promoted to the first lieutenancy in 
October, and in February, 1863 was again promoted to the captaincy of
his company.  He was wounded in the right arm at the battle of Fayett-
ville, Arkansas, and the arm was saved by taking out a section of bone
four and one-half inches in length.  September, 1864 he was transferred
as first lieutenant of the veteran reserve corps at Washington City,
where he was also regimental quartermaster in the provincial cavalry at
K street barracks.  He was at the theatre when Lincoln was assassinated
and had charge of the battalion that acted as escort of the body to the
White House.  In 1866, he was superintendent under Col. J. M. Moore, 
for the building of national cemeteries in the State of Virginia, and
was on duty until June 12th, 1867, when he was transferred to the reg-
ular army and assigned to duty at Fort Wayne as quartermaster.  May 20,
1871 he retired with rank of captain, mounted.  January, 1871 he came
to Springfield and engaged in the photograph business, and followed it
until 1882.  He was married December 28th, 1863 to Miss Nora Oustott.
Their union has been blest with six children, three of whom are living,
viz.: William H., Julia G. and Harry D.  The captain is a Mason, and a
member of the A. O. U. W.



Michael Johnston
(Deceased).  Mr. Johnston was born in St. Louis County October 3, 1823.
His parents emigrated to Greene county, when he was six years old, and
settled upon Whittenberg prairie, where he grew to manhood.  He was 
married April 13, 1848 to Lydia Simmons.  Their union was blest with
six children, five of whom are now living.  Mr. Johnston settled upon
the place where his widow now lives.  He entered two hundred and forty
acres of land in his home place and resided upon it until his death,
which occurred February 1, 1872 in the forty-ninth year of his age, and
is buried in the cemetery at Cave Spring.  He was a consistent member 
of the Baptist church, being a deacon of Mount Pleasant Church, where 
he died.  He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the 
lodge at Ash Grove.  Mr. Johnston was a Republican in politics, and was
an honored citizen of the county.



Fidelio Sharp Jones
Col. Fidelio Sharp Jones.  Col Jones is the son of Col. Joseph and Mat-
ilda (Sewell) Jones, and was born in Tazewell, Claiborne County, Tenn.,
July 19, 1835.  His father and mother were both Virginians, and the
former was once colonel of militia in times of peace.  Fidelio S. was
the oldest of ten children, eight of whom lived to be grown.  In 1837,
his parents moved to Greene County, Missouri, locating at Springfield,
where the subject of this sketch was reared and educated, and where 
both parents died, the father in 1865, and the mother in 1881.  In 1852
he began his business career as a live stock trader, and made a success-
ful turn on cattle and mules.  His father had purchased a farm in the
country, and Fidelio went on the farm where he remained till 1856.  He
then began clerking for Sheppard & Kimbrough, and three years later
bought an interest in the store, the new firm being Layton, Jones & Co.
Selling out this interest, he opened a general merchandise stock at
Springfield, with a branch at Fayetteville.  A. B. Stevenson was in
charge of the latter, and Jones received no proceeds till after the war
when Stevenson, who had been a Confederate soldier, brought him $3,000
in Confederate money, which he had carried with him through the war 
after having closed out the stock.  After the battle of Wilson's Creek,
when Lyon's men were retreating, Mr. Jones went with them to Rolla, 
sent for his family to join him there, and then to St. Louis.  In Jan-
uary, 1862, he and Wm. McAdams brought a small stock to Rolla and temp-
orarily opened out a little store, removing it to Springfield when Gen.
Curtis came, selling from their wagons to needy persons on the way.
Subsequently, he was associated in mercantile business with Wm. Massey
till the organization of the militia in 1862.  He sold out to J. T.
Keet, and organized company I, of which he was chosen captain, and when
the regimental officers were appointed he was promoted to major of the
72d E. M. M.  Holland was colonel and Henry Sheppard lieutenant colonel.
When Sheppard became colonel, Jones was lieutenant colonel, and after-
wards became colonel. (See general history.)  Col. Jones resigned in
the fall of 1864, and again began merchandising.  He sold out again in
1865, and with three partners, that summer drove work cattle to Leaven-
worth for the freighting market.  They had 300 head left on hand, and 
purchasing wagons, they took a subcontract for freighting supplies 
westward.  They started one train to Salt Lake City and one to New
Mexico.  The latter reached its destination, but the former was snowed
in at Fort Bridger, and the goods and some of the wagons used by the
garrison, which had been poorly supplied by the government.  Their
cattle mostly died, and they got pay for the wagons and supplies used.
They lost heavily on this venture, chiefly because of death of cattle
and having to sell at much less than they paid when they bought at war
time prices.  Returning to Greene County, Col. Jones bought a farm four
miles south of twon, where he lived two years.  He was chosen president
of the Southwestern Agricultural Association, and held the position two
years.  He was president of the stock company, let all contracts and
paid out all funds in the building of the Metropolitan Hotel, and for
eighteen months was its proprietor.  During the most critical period of
rivalry between the two cities of Springfield he was a member of the
city council and chairman of the committee on street improvement, under
whose direction the four principal streets were macadamized.  After
another period of live stock trading, he went into the livery business
with Mr. Denton till April, 1882, when he leased the entire stable and
fixtures, and has since done the leading business in his line, esp-
ecially in the transfer department to and from all trains.  He operates
the only water works the city has at this writing.  Col. Jones was
married in 1859, to Miss Sarah R. Hackney, daughter of Wilson Hackney,
deceased.  They have three daughters and two sons living, and one son
dead.  He is a Mason, and he carries a life policy in the Northwestern
Mutual and also in the N. Y. Mutual.  Col. Jones has worked as hard and
spent as much in building up the town as any other citizen.



George M. Jones
Capt. George M. Jones.  Capt. Jones is the son of Henry F. and Mary 
(Waller) Jones, and was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, October 19,
1836.  His father is still living there, aged eighty-one, his mother
died in 1856.  George M. grew up on the farm, receiving his education
at the common schools of the county where he lived.  At the age of 
seventeen he went to Memphis, Tenn., and sold dry goods for the firm
of Cossitt, Hill & Talmadge.  He remained with them something over
three years, receiving for his first year's service, $75.00 and board;
for the second, $100, and the third, $150.00.  He came to Springfield,
Missouri, in January, 1858, but went back to Tennessee after a short
time.  In the fall of the same year he returned to Springfield and
engaged in the general merchandising business, the firm being Miller,
Jones & Co.  He only remained here a year when he went to Dillon,
Phelps County, Missouri and embarked in the forwarding and commission
business, which he carried on until the war broke out in 1861.  In June
of that year he enlisted as a private, in Capt. Dick Campbell's company
of independents, Mo. State service, in the interest of the South.  He
was next transferred to Foster's regiment, Company A, McBride's divi-
sion, C. S. A.  He was shortly afterward made quartermaster, with the
rank of captain.  On account of ill health, he was honorably discharged
at Jacksonport, Arkansas, in August, 1863.  In 1864 he re-enlisted, and
was for some time acting provost marshal in Chicot County, Arkansas. He
next engaged with Col. Campbell in the recruiting service until Gen.
Price's last raid in 1864.  He surrendered and received his parole at
Monroe, Louisiana, in the spring of 1865, and saw the cause he had es-
poused forever lost, and the flag he had followed so long and so faith-
fully uprolled, never again to be unfurled over the land he had fought
for and loved so well.  Capt. Jones went back to his native county in
Tennessee, in 1865, and remained until 1868.  On the 15th of October,
1868, he was married to Mrs. Elizabeth (Berry) Campbell, widow of Col-
onel Campbell.  They were married in Lee County, Arkansas, and their
union has been blest with three children, two girls and one boy.  In
December, 1868, they came to Springfield, locating on the property 
where they now live, in the eastern part of the city.  For two or three
years he was engaged in the real estate business here, but has since
devoted his time and attention to his farm, a part of which lies in the
city limits.  His home place contains three hundred and fifty acres,
and his farm at Campbell Station, three hundred and sixty acres.  Capt.
Jones has been one of the board of curators of the University, and is
now upon the executive board of Drury College.  He is a member of the
Masonic order, and is president of the Confederate Cemetery Association
here at Springfield.  He and his wife are members of the M. E. Church
South, and he has been a steward of the church for twelve years.  He
was also a member of the last three general conferences of that church.
Greene County has no better citizen or truer gentleman than George M.
Jones.



Isaac Julian
Among the prominent names that figured conspicuously in Greene's 
history, none is of greater note or better known than that of Julian.
Isaac Julian was born April 2, 1786 in North Carolina.  His parents
brought him to Knox county, Tennessee, when he was ten years of age,
and there he grew to manhood.  He then went to Indiana and lived
there three years, killing bear, deer, etc., near where Bedford now
stands, in Lawrence county.  In 1821 he moved back to Monroe county,
Tennessee, and lived there sixteen years.  He moved to Missouri in
1837, and settled upon Grand prairie, in Greene county, where he 
lived until his death, July 27, 1872.  He married Nancy Wood, of Knox
county, Tennessee, by whom he had twelve children, ten of whom, six
girls and four boys, lived to be grown.  Seven of his children are
now living.  Two of his sons, Isaac and Stephen, were captains in the
U. S. army in the late war.



Capt. Stephen H. Julian
Capt. Julian is the son of Isaac and Nancy (Wood) Julian, and was born
in Monroe County, Tennessee, April 4, 1822.  When he was fifteen years
of age his parents moved to Greene County, Missouri, and settled the
farm in Cass Township, where they both afterwards died.  Stephen grew
to manhood upon the farm, and on May 15, 1842, was married to Miss
Sarah L. Vestal, of Putnam County, Indiana, but a native of North Caro-
lina.  They were blest with six children, Flavius C., Melcena M., Mary
L., John C. (deceased), Robert F. and William R.  He built a house
where he now lives, and in 1852, he took a drove of cattle across the
plains to California.  He returned by the isthmus of Panama to New
Orleans and reached home in 1853.  In 1857, he made another trip for
the same purpose, returning via New York, reaching home in 1858.  When
the war came he espoused the Union side, and raised a company of cav-
alry for three years' service in April, 1862, for the M. S. M.  He
commanded that company a year, and was then appointed recruiting agent
for this district.  In January, 1864, he was elected captain of a
battery, and was with Gen. A. J. Smith, who followed Price when that
general was on his last raid into Missouri.  In the fall of 1864 his
battery was ordered to Paducah, Ky., and from there to Nashville, Tenn.
and was at the battle of Nashville against Gen. Hood, and followed him
into Mississippi.  He was at Johnsonville, Tenn., when Lee surrendered
and was mustered out at St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 5, 1865, and since that
time has been engaged in farming and stock raising.  In politics he is
a Greenbacker, though before the war he was elected justice of the
peace on the Democratic ticket, and served twelve years, and elected
upon the Republican ticket in 1872, as public administrator of Greene
County, serving eight years.  He owns a large ranch in Kansas, besides
his property here in Greene County.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F.,
and he and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church at Cave Spring.



A. J. Kanada
Mr. Kanada was born in Franklin County, Mo., January 21, 1847.  He 
lived upon the farm until the civil war.  In 1863 he joined Company H,
4th Missouri cavalry, Confederate service, and served until the close
of the war.  In 1866 he began firing upon the Missouri Pacific rail-
road, which he continued for a year, and then went to braking.  He was
promoted to conductor and has been braking and running a train alter-
nately until the last year, since when he has had charge of a regular
train.  In 1873 he went upon the Iron Mountain R.R. and stayed about a
year, and then ran upon the I. and St. L. for nine months, and then 
upon the Salem & Little Rock R.R. for about eight months.  He worked
for a short time at the yards at Pacific.  Mr. Kanada was married June
9, 1876, to Miss Virginia Lavender, a native of Franklin County, Mo.
Their union has been blest with five children, three of whom are now
living: Charles P., Emma E., and Cora M.



Henry Kanning
Mr. Kanning was born at Kiel, Denmark, where he was educated and learn-
ed the tailor's trade.  In 1849, he was drafted into the army, and 
served two years.  He came to the United States in 1852, landing at New
Orleans.  In 1861, he enlisted in the 6th Kentucky volunteers as second
lieutenant, Company H.  He was mustered out in the winter of 1864.  In
1865 he went to Leavenworth, Kansas, and carried on a tailoring estab-
lishment, working about sixteen hands.  In 1870 he went to Oswego, 
Kansas, and resided there until the fall of 1882, when he came to 
Springfield, Missouri.  Mr. Kanning was married at Louisville, Kentucky
in 1857 to Miss Mary Kimmel.  They have six boys and five girls, all
living.  He is a member of the A. O. U. W.  His parents died in Denmark,
his father at the age of sixty-nine, and his mother at the age of sixty
three.  His father was a German soldier, and fought against Napoleon 
the Great.



Herman H. Kaufholtz
Mr. Kaufholtz was born in Oldensburg, Germany, February 2, 1832.  In
1845 his parents emigrated to the United States and settled at Balti-
more, Md., where Herman grew to manhood.  In 1853 he went to Galveston,
Texas where he remained a few years and then located at San Antonio,
Texas, where he sold groceries until 1870.  During the war he was con-
stable at San Antonio.  In 1870 he came to North Springfield and engag-
ed in merchandising.  He carries a large stock of groceries and does a
flourishing business.  In 1872 he lost heavily by fire but has since
recovered, and is now one of the solid business men of the place.  He
was a member of the first city council and has filled the office seven
years.  He was married in 1854 to Miss Elizabeth Banks, of Galveston,
Texas.  They have five children now living, viz.: Bertha, Henry, Annie
W., Lena F. and Ada K.



Michael Kearney
Mr. Kearney is a son of Thomas and Ann (Bussing) Kearney.  His father
was a native of Ireland, and his mother of New York.  Michael was born
in Providence, Rhode Island, October 8, 1839, and was reared in the 
State of New York.  At the age of sixteen he went to work in the mach-
ine shops of the Hudson River Railroad Company, where he worked until
the war broke out.  He was then employed as a mechanic by the govern-
ment until the war ceased.  He then accepted the position of foreman in
the railroad shops at Nashville, Tenn., where he remained two years. 
Then he filled the same position at Marshall, Texas, for the Southern
Pacific railroad for over a year.  He next went to New Orleans and 
worked for the New Orleans & Jackson railroad a short time, and in 1870
he came to the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad and was foreman at
Pacific City, until the shops were removed to Springfield, and since
1875 has been master mechanic for that road.  Mr. Kearney is a self
made man and has fought his way unaided to the lucrative and respon-
sible position he now holds, and enjoys the confidence of the road
officials, and all who enjoy his acquaintance.  Mr. Kearney was married
in 1872 to Miss Mary DeLong, of New Orleans, formerly of the State of
New York.



Martin Keener
Mr. Keener is the son of Gottleib Keener, and was born at Batenheim,
Germany, May 9, 1846.  He came to the United States, landing at New
York on September 1, 1865.  He then went to South Bend, Ind., and then
to Michigan.  In the summer of 1869 he went to Davenport, Iowa and in
the Spring of 1870 he went to Fort Scott, Kansas, and in October of
that year he came to Springfield.  November 7, 1870 he bought out the
bakery of C. Woollmann, who had started the bakery the previous year.
Mr. Keener now has the largest bakery in the city, and has carried on 
the business successfully for thirteen years.  In 1870 he was married
to Mrs. Woolmann, widow of C. Woollmann.  They had by that marriage
one daughter.  Mrs. Keener died September 23, 1879.  Mr. Keener's par-
ents were natives of Germany.  His father died when he (Martin) was a
boy, and his mother died in 1876.  They had four sons and one daughter.



Josiah T. Keet
This gentleman is the son of Charles Keet, and was born in England,
September 8, 1822.  He emigrated to America and settled in Arkansas in
1839.  In 1840 he moved to Barry county, Missouri.  He began merchan-
dising before he was of age, and has been engaged in it steadily to 
the present, except about six months.  He came to Springfield in 1862,
and has been engaged in the wholesale and retail trade until within 
the last five years, when they concluded to do an exclusive wholesale
business.  The firm was at first Keet, Massey & Co., but now it is
Keet, Rountree & Co.  They have the only wholesale dry goods and boot
and shoe house in the city, and sell for about one hundred and fifty
miles southeast, south and southwest of Springfield.  Mr. Keet was
married in Barry county, Missouri, August 10, 1843 to Elizabeth P.
West.  They have been blest with six children.  He is a Mason, and he
and his wife are members of the Methodist Church.



I. J. Kelly
This gentleman is a son of T. J. Kelly, a native of Tennessee, who came
to Missouri in about 1830 and settled in Polk County, and was one of 
the pioneer Baptist preachers of this part of the State.  He came to
Greene County in 1858.  The subject of this sketch was born in Polk
County, February 16, 1849.  His mother was Jane (nee Lemon) Kelly, also
a native of Tennessee, and still resides in this county.  Mr. Kelly
received his education in the common schools of this county, and at an
early age began farming, which has ever since been his chief vocation.
In October, 1882, he and A. Buttram opened a livery stable in Ash Grove
since which time his interests have been identified with that town.  He
was married December 23, 1866 to Miss Mary L., daughter of James Brad-
ley, of Lafayette County, Mo.  Mr. Kelly and wife have three children,
all living at this writing, named Matilda, John and Polly, respectively.
Both Mr. and Mrs. K. are members of the Baptist Church. 



Daniel C. Kennedy
Mr. Kennedy was born in Queens County, Ireland, February 14, 1841, and
is the third child of Michael and Elizabeth (Condron) Kennedy.  His
parents emigrated to America in 1843, and in 1848 his father went back
to Ireland to assist his countrymen in their struggle for independence.
The agitation being suppressed by the government, he returned to Amer-
ica, and settled permanently with his family in St. Louis, where he 
died in 1863, in the sixtieth year of his age.  Daniel C. received a
common school education in the city of St. Louis, and at the age of
fourteen entered the printing office of Keith & Woods, and imbibed a
taste for work of that nature, which ultimately led to his being one 
of the leading journalists of the Southwest.  He worked in different
offices and read law in his leisure moments.  At the beginning of the
late war he espoused the cause of the South, and joined the St. Louis
militia, and was captured by Captain Lyon at Camp Jackson.  When ex-
changed young Kennedy went to Memphis, Tennessee, where he joined an
artillery company, which was ordered to reinforce Gen. Price at Spring-
field, Missouri.  His company was with Price when he retreated to the
Boston Mountains, Arkansas.  After the battle of Pea Ridge it was 
ordered to reinforce Johnston at Shiloh.  At the fall of Vicksburg, 
upon the 4th of July, 1863, he was taken prisoner.  Again being exch-
anged he re-entered active service and was again captured at Hernando,
Mississippi, paroled and sent to St. Louis.  In 1865 he came to Spring-
field and entered the Missouri Patriot office, but in a few months took
charge of the Southwest Union Press.  That office being destroyed by
fire in 1867, he, in partnership with Captain O. S. Fahnestock, estab-
lished the Springfield Leader.  He is now editor of the Leader, one of
the leading Democratic papers in the State.  Mr. Kennedy was married 
November 20, 1866, to Miss Lula, daughter of Hon. Marcus Boyd.



A. F. Kerr
The popular merchant and postmaster is the son of Jesse and Polly A.
(Henry) Kerr, and was born in Blount County, Tennessee, December 18,
1854.  His parents were also natives of Tennessee, and emigrated to
Missouri in 1869, and settled in Greene County.  They are yet living 
in Walnut Grove.  Their son, A. F. Kerr, was educated in the common
schools, and at the High School at Greenfield.  He taught school until
February, 1879, when he embarked in the hardware business at Walnut
Grove, and is now one of the leading business men of the place.  The
postoffice was located at Walnut Grove in July, 1881, and his store
was selected as the house, and himself as postmaster.  He has filled
the office with credit to himself, and given satifaction to all.  Mr.
Kerr was married January 30, 1879, to Miss Carrie R., daughter of John
Hursh, Esq., a prominent citizen of Springfield, who died in 1874. 
Their union has been blest with one child, Amelia A., born March 17,
1881.  Mr. Kerr, though a young man, is one of Greene's most trust-
worthy business men, and a gentleman of whom all speak well.



Thomas W. Kersey
Mr. Kersey is the son of Benjamin and Amanda (Van Gilder) Kersey, and
was born in Knox county, Illinois, June 28, 1851.  He was educated at
the State Normal University, and at Eureka College.  He entered the 
law office of F. A. Willoughby, at Galesburg, Ill., and next in the
office of Robert Dollard, Yates City, Ill.  He was admitted to the bar
September 10, 1874 at Ottawa, Ill., before the Supreme Court.  In Nov-
ember, 1874 he came to Springfield, Mo., and is now of the firm of
Kersey & Price, attorneys.  He was married April 25, 1876 to Miss 
Lizzie, daughter of A. A. Powell, of Springfield.  Their union has 
been blest with three daughters.  Mr. Kersey is a member of the Mason-
ic fraternity, and he and his wife are members of the Calvary Presby-
terian Church.  His parents are living in Springfield.  They had but
two children.  The firm of Kersey & Price enjoys a good practice and
deserve the confidence they receive.



William A. Killingsworth
Mr. Killingsworth was born in McMinn County, Tennessee, January 6, 1827.
His parents were William and Matilda (McClure) Killingsworth, who came
to this county in 1839, and settled in section one of Boone township.
The father died in 1865, though the mother still survives at this writ-
ing, and is living on the old homestead.  William, Jr. received his 
education in the common schools, and earlyu in life chose the vocation
of farming.  In 1845 he purchased the place where he now resides, three
miles southeast of Walnut Grove, his farm containing 171 acres of good
land and well improved.  During the civil war of 1861-65 he was one of
the first to volunteer his services for home protection, and served
faithfully till the close of the war.  Mr. Killingsworth was first
married February 17, 1848, but his wife died in 1865, and he was again
married September 6, 1866, to Miss Rebecca Jordan.  By his first marr-
iage Mr. Killingsworth had seven children, and three by the last marr-
iage.  Five of the first and all of the last children survive at this
writing.  The present Mrs. Killingsworth belongs to the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Killingsworth is one of the early settlers,
as he came to this State with his parents in 1839.  Having passed 
through many changes and privations, he has at last, by industry and
economy, amassed a competency sufficient for comfortable living and
stands well in the community where he is known.



Dennis Kime
Mr. Kime was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, September 25,
1836.  He is the son of Abraham and Eliza (Brower) Kime.  He came to
Missouri in 1854 and settled in Cass township, Greene county.  He was
married August 11, 1859 to Miss Barbara C. Spoon, of this county. She
was from the same part of North Carolina that her husband was, but 
came to Missouri three years later.  Their union has been blest with
four children, viz.: Mary Ellen, now the wife of Theodore Kelso, of
Center township, this county; William H., George W., and King Asa, 
all living.  Mr. Kime is one of the best citizens of the county.  He
is a good farmer and deals largely in stock, particularly cattle. He
and his wife are members of the Baptist church at Tatum's chapel. 
During the war Mr. Kime enlisted in the Missouri State Militia, and
served nine months.  He has always been a Democrat.



W. H. King
Mr. King is the son of Jonas L. and Mary King, and was born in Polk
County, Missouri, January 8, 1837.  His father was a native of Tenn.,
born in 1807, and died in Polk County, Mo., November 30, 1880.  His
mother was also a Tennesseeean, born in 1808, and is still living upon
the old homestead in Polk County.  W. H. King was educated in the 
common schools of the country, and when he was twenty years old, in 
1857, he took the "gold fever," and went to California, where he re-
mained for two years, having good success in mining.  He returned to
Polk County, Missouri, in 1859, and followed farming until 1880, when
he removed to Greene County and engaged in the mercantile business at
Walnut Grove, and is one of the most substantial business men of the
place.  He enlisted in the 6th Missouri U. S. Cavalry in 1862, and was
with that regiment until discharged in February, 1863.  He was married
March 7, 1865 to Miss Mary, daughter of Jonathan Rice, a prominent
citizen of Polk County.  Mr. King is a member of the A. F. & A. M. in
good standing.  He does a large business in Walnut Grove and enjoys 
the respect of all.



Thomas M. Kinney
Mr. Kinney is the son of John and Mary (Roach) Kinney, and was born
November 1, 1850 in county Limerick, Ireland.  His parents emigrated 
to America when he was an infant, and when he was still a small boy,
they moved to Lafayette, Indiana.  Thomas was educated at Notre Dame
College, and at the age of sixteen he went to St. Louis and worked at
his trade.  In 1869 he went to Hannibal, Mo., and worked at his trade
two years and then went to Columbus, Ky., and lived there over two
years.  He then returned to St. Louis and remained there until 1877.
In November of that year he came to Springfield and worked some six
months for Shipley, the tailor.  He then embarked in business for
himself with only a hundred dollars worth of stock.  He now owns the 
building, No. 238 Boonville street, where he carries a splendid stock
of piece goods, and employs about ten of the best tailors, and where
the best work is done in the city.  His stock and building is worth
about six thousand dollars.  Mr. Kinney was married April 16, 1872,
at Hannibal, Mo., to Miss Mary A. Nevatt, a native of England.  Her
father was Isaac Nevatt, for many years editor and publisher of the
Lancaster "Advertiser" in England.  Their union has been blest with
two sons and two daughters, all living.  Mr. Kinney's father died in
1862, and his mother when he was some five or six years of age.



James M. Kirby
Mr. Kirby is the son of Hendley and Elvira J. (Gilbert) Kirby, and was
born in Robertson county, Tennessee, August 24th, 1844.  In 1857 his
parents moved to Arkansas, coming via Springfield.  In November, 1863,
he came to Springfield and enlisted in Col. J. E. Phelps' 2nd Arkansas
regiment, cavalry, in Company K.  He was mustered out at Memphis, Tenn.
August 20th, 1865 and returned to Springfield where he has since resid-
ed.  He was for a long time a wholesale liquor dealer, and has accumu-
lated considerable property.  He was married to Alvira J. Williams, of
Indiana.  Their union has been blest with seven children, five of whom
are now living.  Mr. Kirby is a member of the Knights of Pythias.  His
mother died in 1861, and his father in 1876, at their home in Arkansas.



Moses A. Kirkham
Mr. Kirkham is the son of Moses A. and Elizabeth (Warren) Kirkham, and
was born in Davis County, Iowa, June 27, 1851.  His father was a native
of Ohio, and his mother of Kentucky.  His grandfather was a soldier in
the War of 1812, and his father was an Indian agent.  His father moved
to Kansas in 1857, and was the nearest neighbor of John Brown, and also
took an active part with Brown in the Kansas troubles.  When Moses was
about fifteen years of age, he started out for himself and learned the
plasterer's and bricklayer's trade.  Since then he has worked at his
trade in Kansas, Iowa, Texas and Missouri.  During the year 1876 he 
mined for lead at Galena, Kansas.  In 1881, he moved to Springfield, 
and in 1882, he went to Bois D'Arc, where he now resides and works at
his trade, and is proprietor of the Bois D'Arc Hotel.  He was married
November 20, 1870, to Miss Lucinda, daughter of Squire and Lucinda 
(Hawkins) Owens, of Franklin County, Kansas.  Their union has been
blest with four children, three of whom are now living, viz.: Geneva,
Tyrena and Pearl.



Charles Kroff
Capt. Charles Kroff is the son of John and Elizabeth (Derry) Kroff, and
was born in Monroe county, Ohio, December 11th, 1837.  In 1853 he went
to Decatur county, Indiana.  He was educated at Milford, Indiana, and 
at Asbury University, located at Greencastle, Indiana.  He studied law
at Asbury, and in February, 1866 he graduated at the Indiana State Uni-
versity, and was then admitted to the bar.  In July, 1866 he came to
Hermitage, Hickory County, Missouri and there practiced his profession
until March 1, 1883, when he came to Springfield.  During the time he
was in Hickory he was prosecuting attorney for seven years, upon the
Republican ticket.  Captain Kroff was married at Quincy, Hickory county
Missouri, July 21st, 1867 to Miss Mary Green.  Their union is blest 
with two sons and two daughters.  He is a member of the A. F. & A. M.
and I. O. O. F.  Captain Kroff's parents were from Switzerland, and
came to this country in 1808 and settled in Ohio.  His father died in
1852 and his mother on December 25th, 1875.  They had thirteen children
ten of whom are living.  In 1861 Captain Kroff enlisted in Company F,
11th Indiana volunteers, as private and was in the following engage-
ments:  Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Port Gibson, Raymond, Champ-
ion Hill, Siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Carrion Crow Bayou, Lake Tasse,
Halltown, Va., Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek.  He was 
mustered out as captain of the company in which he first enlisted,
August 10th, 1865.  He is now engaged in the law practice and real
estate business.



Rufus H. Lacy
Mr. Lacy is the son of John T. and Mary E. Lacy, and was born in Tioga
County, New York, March 3rd, 1842.  He grew to manhood and was educated
in his native county, and, upon the breaking out of the civil war, he
enlisted August 3rd, 1861, in Company H, 3rd New York regiment, infan-
try, and served in the army of the Potomac.  He was at Fort McHenry in
1862, and at the seige of Vicksburg in 1863.  He then veteranized, and
re-enlisted in the 50th New York, and served until the end of the war.
He was in the battles of the Wilderness, Weldon Railroad, and at Lee's
surrender.  He then went to Michigan, and returned to New York in 1867
and engaged in farming.  In 1877 he came to North Springfield, Missouri
and in 1879 embarked in his present business of restaurant and boarding
house, where he is now doing a good business.  Mr. Lacy is a member of
the Temple of Honor, and an active worker in the temperance cause.  He
was married in 1867 to Miss Mary E. Vangorden, of Tioga County, New
York.



Frederic W. Laker
The subject of this sketch was born in Germany, on the 24th day of Oct-
ober, 1844.  He is a son of Peter H., who died October 9th, 1873, and
Anna M. I., who died August 31st, 1858.  When Fred was an infant his
parents brought him to America, with whom he lived until November 5th,
1861, then enlisted in Company I, 43rd regiment Indiana infantry, and
served until June 24th, 1865.  After the close of the war, he came to
Greene County and engaged in farming until 1873, then commenced firing
on an engine on the St. L. and S. F. Railway, at which he worked until
September 6th, 1878; then was promoted to engineer, and has been runn-
ing an engine ever since.  He is king of Springfield Royal Arch No. 15,
and a member of Gate of the Temple No. 425, A. F. & A. M.  He is dis-
trict lecturer for the 30th Masonic district of Missouri, composed of
Greene, Webster and Wright counties.  He is chief of the North Spring-
field division of the Oriental Order of the Palm and Shell.  He is a
member of Pacific City Division No. 83, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers.  On the 25th day of December, 1870, Mr. Laker married Miss
Madora E. C. Kite.  They have a family of five children living.



William Lamb
This gentleman is the son of John and Sarah A. (Thomas) Lamb, and was
born in Maury county, Tennessee, in 1839.  His parents emigrated to
Greene county, Missouri in 1852, and settled five miles north of 
Springfield, where they lived several years, and moved to Jackson town-
ship, where they now reside.  William was educated in the county school
and has made farming his occupation.  He purchased the farm upon which
he now lives in 1865, containing two hundred and twenty acres.  He was
married March 15, 1860, to Miss Martha Jane, daughter of Thomas and
Margaret Forester of this county.  Their union has been blest with four
children, three of whom are still living, all boys.  Mr. Lamb went to
California in the spring of 1870, where he spent eighteen months in the
mines of Nevada county.  He returned home in 1872, and in the spring of
1879 he went to Colorado, and has spent every summer there since, work-
ing his mines, and returning to Missouri to spend the winters with his
family upon the farm.



Jennings W. Lambeth
Mr. Lambeth is a son of Josiah and Robecca Lambeth, and was born in
Guilford County, North Carolina, May 8, 1842.  He was left an orphan 
when but three years old, and was reared by his grandmother, and re-
ceived his education at the Monticello Academy, of his native State.
At the age of twenty, in the spring of 1862, he enlisted for the Con-
federate service in the Second N. C. Cavalry, but was transferred the
following fall to Gen. Lee's command, and served under Stewart and
Hampden till the close of the war.  He participated in the battles of
Newberne, Culpepper, Fedricksburg, and all other important movements
of that active army.  He was once seriously wounded, and disabled for
ten months, and was subsequently captured, just before the surrender.
Returning home after the war, he went to Henderson, Texas and engaged
in merchandising.  In 1868, he went to Montgomery County, and there 
married Miss Julia Bymaster.  Removing thence to Lebanon, Mo., he was
engaged as engineer in locating the "Frisco" R. R. to Springfield. 
In 1870, he moved to Christian County, Mo., and engaged in farming and 
stock raising till 1882, when he sold out and came to Bois D'Arc, this
county, and began merchandising with John Bymaster.  Mr. Lambeth is the 
father of four children, two of whom, Virgil C. and Fannie O., are 
still living at this writing.  He is a consistent member of the Christ-
ian Church.



B. H. Langston
This gentleman was born upon a farm three miles southeast of Spring-
field, Missouri, and was educated in the log school houses of his 
native county.  At the age of fourteen he enlisted in the 8th Missouri
Cavalry, Col. W. F. Geiger, U. S. A., and served three years, having
enlisted in August, 1862.  He was mustered out at Little Rock, Ark.
In 1872 he was appointed deputy U. S. marshal, and served until 1877.
He was then appointed deputy revenue collector, and in 1881 received
the appointment of collector.  Mr. Langston was was married in 1867,
to Miss Martha, daughter of John Pursley.  Their union has been blest
with six sons.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F., K. of H., and the
A. O. U. W.  He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church.



Joseph W. Langston
This gentleman is the son of R. N. and Martha A. (Galion) Langston, and
was born in Logan County, Kentucky, October 5, 1829.  He is of Scotch
descent, and his grandfather was a colonel in the Revolutionary War. 
Joseph's parents moved to Greene County, Missouri, in 1831, and settled
first upon what is now known as the Turner place, on the Rockbridge 
road, upon the James.  In 1859 they moved to Howell County, Missouri,
where Mr. Langston, Sr., was killed in 1863, by "rebel" bushwhackers.
Joseph W. grew to manhood in this county, and in 1859 removed to Howell
County.  He returned to Greene County in 1862, where, as a Union man,
he was much safer.  He represented Greene County in the Legislature in
1872 and 1873, and was one of the most intelligent men of that body. He
is a minister of the Methodist church, and has preached for twenty-
seven years, and organized churches all over the Southwest.  He owns a
fine farm of two hundred acres.  Mr. Langston was married in 1853, to
Miss Mary A., daughter of Joel and Elizabeth (Collins) Cargile, of this
county, formerly of Alabama.  Their union has been blest with ten chil-
dren, eight of whom are living: William M., Thomas H., Willis J., 
Martha A., Mary E., James H., Edward A. and Robert R.



W. W. Langston
Mr. Langston is the son of Jackson P. C. and Mariel (Gallian) Langston,
and was born Jan. 1, 1842, three miles southeast of Springfield, Mo. 
He remained at home until the civil war, and in August, 1861, he en-
listed in Holland's company, three months' service.  He was afterwards
appointed second sergeant of the 26th Missouri infantry, Col. John S.
Phelps.  He served with that regiment six months, and in July, 1862,
enlisted in Company D, 8th Missouri cavalry.  He was first lieutenant,
but was afterward promoted captain.  They were mustered out at St.
Louis in August, 1865.  He returned to Greene county, and farmed upon
the old homestead.  In 1880 he was elected to represent the eastern
district of Greene county in the Legislature, and is now deputy inter-
nal revenue collector for his brother, Bryant H.  He lives upon the 
farm where he was born.  He was married August 15, 1862 to Miss A.
Ingram.  Their union has been blest with two sons and four daughters.
He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.



James Larew
Mr. Larew was born in Cocke County, Tennessee, April 23, 1814, receiv-
ing his education in the common schools of those primitive times.  
George Larew, father of James, was a Pennsylvanian by birth, and died
in Tennessee, in 1856.  James' mother was Sophia (nee Chilton) Larew,
a native of Virginia, who died previous to 1850.  At an early age James
began farming and followed that calling in his native State until 1872,
when he came to Bates County, Mo.  From Bates he moved to Polk County,
and in 1876 removed to this county, where he has since resided with his
family.  April 20, 1843 Mr. Larew was married to Elizabeth Inman, a 
native of Jefferson County, Tenn., born February 10, 1818.  Her parents
were Jeremiah and Prudence Inman, both natives of Virginia.  Nine chil-
dren have been born to Mr. Larew and wife, five of whom survive at this
writing.  Their names are: Mary C., Catherine, Charles P., Ann E., and
Chilton.  At this writing the family reside two miles west of Walnut
Grove village, and are held in high esteem by their neighbors.



Clay L. Leslie
Mr. Leslie is the son of A. H. and Sarah L. (Bailey) Leslie, and was
born in Roane county, Tenn., August 1st, 1843.  His father was born in
Kentucky in 1816, and came from Tennessee to Greene county, Missouri in
the spring of 1847.  He was engaged in farming, stock raising and mer-
chandising in this county until 1866.  He then removed to Marshfield 
and sold goods there for ten years, and then came back to Greene and
settled at Fair Grove, where he is now engaged in the same business.
Clay's mother was a daughter of William Bailey, Hawkins county, Tenn-
essee.  Her mother is still living, having reached the advanced age of
nearly one hundred.  Clay came with his parents to this county in 1847,
and has since made it his home, with the exception of selling goods
with his father at Marshfield from 1867 to 1875.  He is engaged in 
farming and stock trading, buying and shipping large numbers from 
Strafford.  During the war Mr. Leslie was in the Missouri State Militia
Company E, 72nd regiment, for eighteen months.  He was at the battle of
Springfield, when Gen. Marmaduke attacked the place, January 8th, 1863.
He was honorably discharged the following summer.  He was married in
April, 1864, to Eliza J., daughter of J. G. Wharton, formerly of Saline
now Lawrence County, Missouri.  They were blest with seven children, 
all sons, five of whom are now living.  Mr. Leslie is a member of 
A. F. & A. M., I.O.O.F., Knights of Pythias, Grange and Brothers of
Freedom, but is too far from the lodges to attend regularly.



Judge Charles H. Likins
Judge Likins is the son of William and Sarah (Squibbs) Likins, and was 
born June 13, 1828, in Green County, Tennessee.  His parents were nat-
ives of that State.  They reared a family of four children, viz.:
Charles H., Hannah, Elvina, and George S., all of whom are yet living
save Elvina, who died in 1875.  She was the wife of L. B. Whinrey, of
Greene County, Missouri.  Mrs. Likins, the mother of this subject, died
in 1840, and is buried at the old Quaker church burying ground, in the
county of her birth.  His father married the second time to Rachel Horn,
also of Green County, Tennessee.  That union was blest with two child-
ren, viz.: James and William, both living.  They moved to Greene County,
Missouri, in October, 1843, and settled about six miles south of the
present site of Ash Grove, upon the Sac river.  He lived there about
twenty-nine years, when he moved to Lawrence County, Mo., near the
Chalybeate Spring, where he still resides.  Judge Likins grew to man-
hood in Greene County, Missouri.  He received his education in Tenn-
essee, and carried on farming until he was twenty-two years of age,
when he learned the hatter's trade under his father, working at the
trade for five years.  He then bought a mill known as the Harrelson 
Mill, and milling has been his occupation ever since.  He was married
the first time to Miss Amanda H. Gray, November 4th, 1860.  This union
was blest with but one child, Amanda H., who is the wife of John Sisk,
living near Ash Grove.  His first wife died in September, 1861, and is
buried in the cemetery at John's Chapel.  At the beginning of the war
Judge Likins opposed secession, and became a pronounced Union man. When
Gen. Sterling Price occupied Greene County he went to Fort Scott and 
became a scout for Col. Judson, of the Sixth Kansas, for four months.
The next November he volunteered in the regular U. S. service in the 
8th Missouri Cavalry, and served until the close of the war.  He was in
the battles of Prairie Grove and Little Rock, and in many small skirm-
ishes.  He returned to peaceful life in 1865, and on the 14th of Octo-
ber, 1866, he was married to Miss Eliza Jane Adams, of this county.  By
this marriage they had four children, viz.: Emma Elizabeth, Charles D.,
John L., and James W., all living except Charles D., who died in March,
1879.  His last life died in March, 1878, and is buried at John's Chap-
el.  Being a leading Republican, possessing the confidence of his party
and his friends, he received the nomination of that party for associate
justice of the county court for the western division of Greene County.
His opponents were W. C. Garoutte, Greenbacker, and Columbus Headley,
Democrat.  Judge Likins was elected by a plurality of 170.  He served
two years, and was renominated and re-elected.  His opponents were C.
Headley, Democrat and Grenwade, Greenbacker.  His plurality was 216 
votes.  Judge Likins served his county well and faithfully making a 
record that will be a proud heritage for his children.  He was urged to
run again, but declined because he did not wish to antagonize himself
with his friends by being forced to levy the tax to pay the railway
bonded indebtedness.  He is a large land owner, and a partner in the
Likins Mill.  The judge is conservative in politics, and is regarded as
one of Greene's most substantial and upright citizens.



Col. John W. Lisenby
Colonel Lisenby was born March 22, 1836 in Washington County, Tenn.,
and is the son of Charles and Susan (Carr) Lisenby.  He was the seventh
of a family of twelve children.  His father dying when he was thirteen
years of age, the remainder of the family moved to Monroe County, Ken-
tucky.  John W. received his education at Columbia, Adair County, Ken-
tucky, and taught school about three terms.  In April, 1859, he came to
Springfield, Missouri and soon after taught school in what was then
known as the Lane school house, three miles southwest of town.  He acc-
epted a clerkship in the general store of Logan & Morton, in the fall
of 1859 and when the war began was a member of the Home Guards. In 1861
he enlisted in Company D, Missouri volunteers, Phelps' regiment, and 
was fist lieutenant of that company, and afterwards promoted to the 
captaincy.  He was sounded severely at the battle of Pea Ridge, March 
7, 1862, being shot in the left shoulder, and through both legs.  This
was in the six months' service, and upon the 30th of August, 1862 he 
was mustered in Company A, 8th cavalry, Missouri volunteers, as captain
and afterward as major.  His health becoming poor, he resigned his com-
mission in February, 1865, but was promoted to lieut. colonel in a few
months afterward.  At the close of the war he was appointed clerk of 
the county, probate and common pleas courts, and in 1866 was elected 
upon the Republican ticket as clerk of that court, and served in that
capacity for four years.  In 1873 he was elected mayor of the city, 
which office he filled with satisfaction to his constituents and honor
to himself.  He was in the real estate business here since 1865, and
the firm of Milner & Lisenby did the largest business in that line in
Springfield.  Col. Lisenby was married to Miss Columbia, daughter of
John H. Jennings, Esq., upon the 9th of May, 1865.  Mrs. Lisenby, died
October 13, 1872.  The firm of Milner & Lisenby dissolved in the early
part of 1883, and the captain still carries on the business.



August Lohmeyer
This gentleman is the son of Henry and Louisa (Vittenberg) Lohmeyer, 
and was born in Ahmsen, Kingdom of Lippe Delmold, Germany, March 2, 
1846.  At the age of fifteen years he learned the cabinet trade.  At
the breaking out of the Franco-Prussia war he enlisted in the 55th
regiment infantry, and served throughout the war.  He was at the 
battles of Varbach, Gravelotte, and seige and battle of Metz, and many
smaller engagements.  After the war he worked in an organ factory, and
in 1872 he came to the United States.  He worked at his trade in New 
York City, until 1876, when he went to Philadelphia, and was foreman 
in the street car factory of J. S. Brill.  In 1877 he, with Wm. Sutton,
came to Lebanon, Mo., and carried on contracting and building until 
1879.  Mr. Lohmeyer then came to North Springfield and worked for the 
Frisco railroad, as pattern-maker, until the fall of 1882.  He then, in
partnership with M. F. Sibley, went into the furniture and undertaking
business, where they do a fine business, and the firm is one of the 
best in the city.  Mr. Lohmeyer was married in 1870, to Miss Ernestine
Klingenberg.  Their marriage has been blest with three boys and two 
girls.



Rev. George Long
Mr. Long is the son of Maples and Mahala (Atchley) Long, and was born
in Sevier county, Tenn., October 30, 1829.  His grandfather was a sold-
ier in the War of 1812.  George grew to manhood and was educated in the
common schools of his native county.  He was reared upon a farm, but
worked some at the carpenter's trade. In 1857 he moved to Boone county,
Arkansas, and in 1863, he came to this county, where, for a time, he
served in Company H, 8th Missouri State Militia.  Mr. Long has been an
ordained minister in the Baptist church since 1860, and since the war,
has devoted most of his time to that most noble calling.  He has organ-
ized quite a number of churches in Southwest Missouri.  He owns a fine
farm of four hundred and eighty acres, and enjoys the love and confi-
dence of all.  Mr. Long was married in 1848 to Miss Elizabeth, daughter
of John and Elizabeth (Atchley) Lindsey, of Sevier county, Tenn.  Their
union has been blest with thirteen children, ten of whom are living,
and six are married.



Jacob Longcrier
Mr. Longcrier was born in Lincoln County, N. C., June 28, 1818.  His
father, Jacob Longcrier, Sr., was also a native of North Carolina, and
died shortly after the civil war, closing an eventful life.  Catherine
Longcrier (nee Bollich), Jacob Jr.'s mother, was a native of Pennsyl-
vania, and died in North Carolina during the war.  Jacob was educated
in the common schools of his native county, and at an early age began
farming.  In 1846 he commenced blacksmithing, which he carried on in
connection with farming till he came to Greene County and purchased
the place where he resides at this writing, one mile southeast of Wal-
nut Grove.  He there owns a well improved farm of 160 acres, nearly
all in cultivation.  In 1862 Mr. Longcrier went into government employ
at Springfield, his engagement being mechanical, that of blacksmithing.
He had been one of the foremost in 1861 to volunteer for home protect-
ion, serving with the Home Guards till his engagement as a mechanic in
1862.  In the last named year, his son, Jones A. Longcrier, enlisted
under General Phelps, and was at Springfield at time of the battle at
Wilson's Creek.  He was killed March 10, 1863 at the battle of Pea
Ridge.  Jones was the eldest child of his parents, born October 28,
1845.  Mr. Longcrier was married February 11, 1845, to Miss Lydia Har-
mon, daughter of Peter and Lydia Harmon, natives of Pennsylvania, but
both deceased.  Mr. and Mrs. Longcrier have had ten children, five of
whom survive at this writing, all residents of Greene County.  Both 
husband and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of
which he is an elder, and are highly respected by many friends of this
county, where they have spent many years of their useful lives and be-
come identified with the development and prosperity of the country,
and especially Walnut Grove Township.



Addison Love
Addison Love was born in Buffalo, N.Y., September 7, 1857.  His parents
are Jesse and Margaret Love, who now live in Randolph County, Indiana.
At the age of 17, Mr. Love began firing on the western division of the 
Fort Wayne, Pittsburg and Chicago railroad, and, with the exception of
about one year, has been railroading ever since.  In December, 1881, he
came to North Springfield, and was engaged as fireman on an engine of
the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad, where he is still employed.
He is an active member of the Frisco Lodge, No. 51, B. of L. F., and
also of the Locomotive Firemen's Mutual Benefit Association.



Alfred A. Lowdermilk
Alfred A. Lowdermilk, M. D.  Dr. Lowdermilk is the son of William and
Martha (Rhodes) Lowdermilk, and was born in Greene County, Tennessee,
June 24, 1848.  In 1856, his parents moved to Sangamon County, Illi-
nois, taking young Alfred with them.  At fourteen years old, he start-
ed out to make his own living and learned the trade of tinsmith, which
he followed till he was twenty-one years old.  He then, in 1869, en-
tered and took a course of lectures in the Louisville Medical College.
The next year he began the practice in Vernon and Barton counties, 
this State, thus acquiring the means to complete his professional
education.  Returning to Louisville in 1875, he took a second course
of medical lectures, graduating therefrom in 1876.  Soon after this he
began the practice in Illinois and continued till 1880, when he located
at Bois D'Arc in this county, where he practiced actively till the fall
of 1882.  His failing health there necessitated his quiting active
practice, and he opened a drug store, and has done only office practice
since then.  Dr. Lowdermilk has been a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge
since he was twenty-one years old in which he has filled various offi-
ces.  He is also a member of the Grand Lodge.  February 13, 1866, he
was married to Miss Lizzie Burton, of Scott County.  She died April 13,
1870, leaving two children: Martin and May.  Dr. L. was again married
January 1, 1882, to Miss Ellen Cravens, of Greene County.  He is a 
gentleman of fine business qualifications, in whom the good people of
that vicinity repose entire confidence.



James Lydon
Mr. Lydon was born in Warren County, Ohio, August 8, 1857.  December 
12, 1873 he commenced firing upon an engine on the St. Louis & San
Francisco R.R.  He was promoted engineer August 30, 1879, and has ran
an engine ever since.  He is a member of the Gate of the Temple lodge,
No. 422, A. F. & A. M., and also of Wentworth lodge, No. 113, A.O.U.W.
and Legion of Select Knights, A.O.U.W.  Mr. Lydon was married January
21, 1883 to Miss Helen T. Stewart, of North Springfield.  Although 
young in years, he is one of the best engineers upon the road.



John Lydon
Mr. Lydon was born in Warren County, Ohio, August 25, 1853.  In 1875
he went upon the St. Louis & San Francisco R.R. as brakeman, and was
promoted conductor in 1877.  He is a member of Pacific Lodge, No. 122,
Ancient Order of United Workmen.  Mr. Lydon is one of the reliable and
efficient officials of that popular road.



Asa Lyman
This gentleman is the son of Asa and Sarah (Davis) Lyman, and was born
in New Hampshire, April 25, 1811.  His grandfather was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War.  When Mr. Lyman was a small boy his parents moved to
St. Lawrence County, New York, where he grew to manhood.  At the age of
sixteen he learned the blacksmith's trade, which he has followed until
a few years ago.  In 1834 he moved to near Cleveland, Ohio.  In 1840 to
Parke County, Indiana, from there to Arkansas, and in 1844 he came to
Greene County, Missouri, where he has since resided.  He had the first
shop in that part of the county.  He owns a good farm, and spends most
of his time reading at home.  He was postmaster for about eighteen 
years, and has been a consistent member of the Christian church for
forty years.  He enjoys fine health, which he attributes to his temper-
ate habits.  Mr. Lyman was married in 1831 to Miss Rhoda, daughter of
Ezra and Nancy Young, of St. Lawrence County, New York.  She died in
1839.  He was married the second time in 1840 to Miss Margaret K., the
daughter of Peter and Isabella Myers, of Parke County, Indiana.  By his
first marriage there were three children: Calvin, John and Mary.  Five
children bless the last union, viz.: William, Lawson, Susan, Isabella
and Margaret.



William D. Lyman
Mr. Lyman is the son of Asa and Sarah Lyman, and was born in St.
Lawrence county, N.Y., May 19, 1823.  His parents were natives of New
Hampshire, but went to Ohio when William was a boy, where he learned 
the blacksmith's trade.  In 1843 he went to New Orleans, where he was
stricken with yellow fever, and for six years after his recovery, his
mind was a blank as to his early life.  He then traveled in Mississ-
ippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, where he 
was married to Miss A. M. C. Ward, daughter of Samuel R. and Martha E.
(Brown) Ward.  He then moved to Greene county, Tenn., and soon after 
to Grainger county, where they lived until coming to Greene county,
Missouri, in 1868.  In April, 1862, he was incarcerated in the rebel
prison at Madison, Ga., because of his outspoken Northern sentiments.
After his release he enlisted in Company C, 4th Tennessee Cavalry, 
Lieut. Col. Thornburg.  He was at the battles of Chattanooga, Mission
Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Fesacca, Big Shanty, Atlanta, Ft. Blakely,
and Nashville.  He was mustered out July 12, 1865.  He was appointed
veterinary surgeon in 1863, and served in that capacity until mustered
out.  Since coming to this county he has lived some time in Clay town-
ship, where he owns a farm of eighty acres.  In September, 1873, he
removed to where he now resides, carrying on his trade.  He is a 
member of the Methodist Church, and his wife of the Christian Church.



John W. D. L. F. Mack
Judge John W. D. L. F. Mack.  This gentleman is the son of John and
Sarah V. (Mack) Mack, and was born in Maury County, Tennessee, January
15, 1821.  His great grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution, and
his great uncle was one of the men killed at the battle of New Orleans.
His father was a native of North Carolina, and his mother of Virginia.
He grew to manhood in his native county and lived there until 1852,
when he moved to Greene County, Missouri, and located at Springfield. 
In 1855 he accepted the position of deputy circuit clerk, which posi-
tion he held until 1859, when he was elected circuit clerk and served
until 1861.  He read law before and during his clerkship and was admit-
ted to the bar in 1856.  From 1863 to 1866 inclusive, he was a member
of the State Senate, and for some time was adjutant of the 46th Miss-
ouri regiment, U. S. A.  He was editor of the Springfield Journal from
1862 to 1865, and from 1867 to 1870 he was prosecuting attorney for
Greene County.  He then practiced his profession until 1875, when he
retired from law and politics and moved out to his farm in Clay town-
ship where he has since given his time and attention to farming.  He 
has a fine farm of three hundred and forty acres.  He is a Royal Arch
Mason, and has been a member of the Christian church since the age of
twenty-two.  He is a self educated, self made man, never having gone to
school a day in his life.  He was married in 1842 in Maury County, 
Tennessee, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of Nathaniel G. and Charlotta
Murphy.  She died in 1849 leaving three children: Francis J. R., Sarah
R., and John D. L. W.  Judge Mack was married the second time in 1850,
to Mary J. Murphy, a sister of his former wife.  Their marriage was
blest with nine children, seven of whom are now living: Nathaniel C.,
James B., Mary M., Robert A., Charles L., Minnie L. and William F.



Joseph F. Macloskey
Was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 24th, 1859.  His parents
moved to Champaign, Illinois, in 1870, where Joseph was educated in the
high school of that place.  He then engaged in farming until 1875, when
he carried on the bakery business.  In November, 1876, he removed to
Sullivan, Franklin county, Missouri, where he was engaged in the iron
business until 1878.  On the 8th of November of that year, he came to
Greene county, and with his father, carried on farming.  In August, 
1882, he formed a partnership with his brother, B. R. Macloskey, in the
provision business in Strafford, where he is now engaged.  It is just 
such young men as he that is the life blood of a country, and who will
push themselves to the front in every laudable enterprise.  His name 
will soon appear among the leading business men of the county.



Charles Mannel
Mr. Mannel was born in Prussia, November 15, 1832, where he was educa-
ted and learned the tinner's trade.  He came to America in 1853, and
settled at Quincy, Illinois, where he lived until 1863, and then went
to St. Louis.  He worked at his trade in that city until 1869, when he
came to Springfield.  He was in business there two or three years, and
then came to Ash Grove and engaged in the hardware business, and also
carries a large stock of tinware.  He has built up a splendid trade,
and is one of the best merchants in the place.  Mr. Mannel was married 
in 1858 to Miss Annie Smickle, of Cairo, Illinois.  They have a family
of three children, two girls and one boy.  Mr. Mannel is one of the
substantial citizens of the county, and is held in high esteem by all.



Walter W. Mansfield
W. W. Mansfield is a native of Illinois, born in Chemung, McHenry
County, on the 18th day of July, 1849.  He lived with his parents until
June, 1871, then came to Missouri and went to firing on an engine on
the St. L and S. F. railway, where he worked two years, then worked in
the railway yard at Vinita, I. T., until June 4th, 1874, then returned
to Springfield and married Miss Mirian A. Noyes.  They have one child
living; Walter Randol, born August 25th, 1878; and one dead, Arthur 
William, born November 23rd, 1880 and died July 16th, 1882.  After his
marriage he ran a switch engine in the railway yard at North Spring-
field a few weeks, then went on the road, where he has run an engine
ever since.  Mr. Mansfield is a member of Gate of the Temple Lodge, No.
422, A. F. & A. M., and also belongs to Pacific City Division, No. 83,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.



John R. Marsh
John R. Marsh was born in Greene County, East Tennessee, January 5, 
1852.  He is a son of James and Deliah Marsh, the father being a man of
considerable prominence, who was born in Tennessee in 1802, and died in
Greene County, Mo., in 1855.  John attended the schools of his native
county in boyhood, and in 1866, came out to this county, remaining the
first time but little over a year.  Returning to Tennessee, he attended
college there until the spring of 1869, when he went to Washington Co.,
same State, and engaged in farming until the fall of 1870. After Clerk-
ing awhile in a store in Tennessee, he went to Dalton, Georgia, and
there was similarly engaged.  He then returned to his native State, but
made only a short stop, when he emigrated to this county, in 1871.  The
next year he went back to Tennessee to "fetch his bride," and was marr-
ied to Annie E. Dobson, daughter of Rev. J. B. Dobson.  They are the
parents of six interesting children, four boys and two girls. Mr. Marsh
has served as constable and deputy sheriff, and still holds the latter,
having been appointed in 1878.  He was engaged for two years in the
mercantile and livery business in Ash Grove, but now, after a varied
life, has moved, in 1880, on the old homestead four miles southeast of
Ash Grove, and is engaged in farming.  He is both a Free Mason and an
Odd Fellow in good standing in each order.



Joseph Martin
Mr. Martin was born in Alabama, March 28th, 1822.  When he was about
four years of age his parents moved to Tennessee, and afterwards to
Illinois.  In 1846 he enlisted in the 2nd Illinois regiment, Company
F, as a private, but was soon promoted to the first lieutenancy of his
company.  He served about fifteen months and was at the sanguinary
battle of Buena Vista.  He went to Texas in 1861, and engaged in farm-
ing and stock raising.  In 1862 he enlisted in Bowland's frontier reg-
iment, and afterwards was in Relaford's battalion, Henry McCulloch's
division, and served about eighteen months.  In the fall of 1865 he
left Texas and spent the winter in Arkansas, and in the following Aug-
ust came to Greene county, Missouri, and now owns a fine farm of over
three hundred acres.  Mr. Martin has been twice married, the first 
time August 30th, 1843, to Lucinda Meneese.  She died in September,
1844, leaving one son, Lafayette, now in Texas.  He was married the
second time August 31st, 1849, to Lucinda Beets, a native of Tennessee.
That union has been blest with eleven children, viz.: Elizabeth R.,
Jane K., Josephine, James H., Lucinda, Jerome B., Andrew J., Kenith B.,
Joseph, Victoria Lee and Samuel F.



M. F. Martin
This gentleman is the son of Parley and Eliza J. (Potter) Martin, and
was born in Erie County, N. Y., February 9, 1850.  In 1858 his parents 
moved to Vermillion County, Illinois, where he grew to manhood and was 
educated.  At the age of seventeen he engaged in teaching school, which
he followed three years, and then learned the carpenter's trade under
his father.  He worked at that trade six years, spending one year in 
Kansas and one in Iowa.  In 1878 he came to North Springfield, and 
worked for J. J. Henkey, lumber merchant.  In 1880 he embarked in the
lumber business for himself, and is now doing a good business, being
regarded as one of the substantial citizens of the city.  Mr. Martin 
was married October 22, 1872, to Mrs. Sarah J. Clawson, formerly a Miss
Wright, of Vermillion County, Illinois.  They have two children, Effie
J. and Francis L.  Mr. Martin is a member of the I. O. O. F.



Samuel G. Martin
Samuel G. Martin (deceased).  The subject of this notice was born in
Cabarrus county, North Carolina, February 19, 1808.  He was educated in
the common schools of his section, and in 1829 he, with his parents,
emigrated to Greene county, Missouri.  He entered eighty acres of land
in section 13, township 29, and range 20.  He was married January 10,
1840, to Miss Cynthia, daughter of John and Rachel Riley, by whom he
had seven children, viz.: Rachel E., born November 4, 1840; Daniel F.,
born July 30, 1842 and died in the army in July, 1864; James S., born
September 20, 1844; Margaret M., born February 20, 1848 and died Sept-
ember 22, 1853; William C., born July 6, 1851; John A., born January 
27, 1854; and Thomas R., born June 19, 1856.  Soon after his marriage,
Mr. Martin bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in section 22, 
and made his homestead upon it, where he lived until his death, which
occurred on the 20th of October, 1874, and Mrs. Martin and three of 
her sons still live upon the home place.  Mr. Martin was one of Greene
counties early pioneers, and was one of her substantial citizens.



Jake Marx
This gentleman was born in Prussia, November 13, 1850 and is the son of
Emanuel and Hannah Marx.  In 1867 he came to America and located in
Louisville, Kentucky, where he was a clerk in a dry goods clothing
house for two years.  He then went to Paducah, Kentucky, and sold the
same line of goods for about eight years.  He came to Springfield in
February, 1878 and was a partner in the dry goods and clothing house of
Cohn Bros. & Co.  He bought out his partners and has since carried on
the business alone.  He carries an immense stock of fine goods and is
deservedly popular.  Mr. Marx was married at Louisville, on the 19th of
September, 1877, to Miss Francis Cohn.



William Wesley Mason
(Deceased).  Mr. Mason was born in Maury county, Tennessee, April 4,
1837.  In 1847 he came to Greene county, Missouri, with his mother, 
Mrs. Ruth Mason, and settled on Roger's prairie in the northern part
of Jackson township.  Here he lived until after the war and then moved
to section 9, township 30, range 20, where he lived eleven years.  He
then moved to section 13, township 30, range 21, in Franklin township,
where he died March 10, 1880.  Mr. Mason was married in 1860, to Miss
Martha McGehee.  She died April 10, 1882, leaving eight children, viz.:
James A., born July 10, 1861, a well known teacher of this county; 
Harvey N.; William R., deceased; Josie L., Clementina, Mollie, George
Lee, and Stella.  During the war Mr. Mason was a Union man, and served
in Capt. Herd's company of Federal militia.  Both he and his wife were
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  Mr. Mason was an ex-
tensive dealer in stock, and a man of sterling integrity.



William Massey
This gentleman is the son of James and Faithful (Strickland) Massey,
and was born March 19, 1824 in South Carolina.  His parents moved to
Middle Tennessee in 1825, and to Greene County, Missouri in 1835, and
settled three miles east of Springfield.  In 1838 William went to Fort
Smith, Arkansas, and then to St. Louis, Missouri, and back to Spring-
field.  In 1849 he again went to St. Louis where he remained three
years and then came back to Springfield, where he has been actively 
engaged in business ever since.  He was one of the company that built
the Metropolitan hotel, and has also built several large stores upon 
the square.  He has been city treasurer for two terms, and has always 
been prominently identified with the building interests of Springfield.
Mr. Massey was married in 1845, to Miss Almarinda C., daughter of Jos-
eph Rountree.  That marriage was blest with seven children, four sons
and three daughters.  His first wife dying, he married Miss Laura 
Oustott, by whom he had one son and one daughter.  His father was born
in Ireland, and came to the United States when a child.  During the
Indian wars he was captain of a company.  His wife died in 1837, and 
he died in 1864.  They had nine children, but three of whom are now
living, viz.: Mrs. McAdams, Mrs. Z. M. Rountree and William, who during
the war, was a quartermaster in the Union army.



William McAdams
The subject of this notice is the son of William and Gabella (Barnes)
McAdams, and was born in 1815, in County Down, Ireland.  His parents
emigrated to America when young William was about nine years old, and
settled in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.  His mother died soon after, and 
his father in 1839.  William, Jr., out subject, learned the saddler's
and harness maker's trade in Pittsburg, serving five years at the bus-
iness.  In 1840 he came to the new and growing West and settled down
permanently in Springfield, Missouri.  Here he opened a shop for the
manufacture and repairing of saddles and harness, and has been in the
business for over forty-two years.  He had the first shop of the kind
in Springfield, and probably in Greene County.  He built up a large
and lucrative business, and wishing to retire, he sold out his stock
of goods to Smalstig & Co.  Mr. McAdams was elected county treasurer 
of Greene County in 1858, and served until 1864.  He was married Oct-
ober 31, 1841, to Miss Margaret Massey, daughter of James Massey.  By
this union they have been blest with eight children, five boys and 
three girls, of whom two boys and two girls are now living.  Mr. Mc-
Adams has been a member of the city council several terms.  He is a
member of United Lodge, No. 5, A. F. & A. M., and Royal Arch Chapter,
No. 15.  He is secretary of both the lodge and chapter.  Himself and
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  He is one
of Greene's landmarks, and is regarded as an upright Christian gentle-
man.



Joseph McAdoo
Dr. Joseph McAdoo.  The subject of this sketch was born in Donegal Cou-
nty, Ireland, August 9, 1832.  His parents were Thomas and Esther (Ran-
kin) McAdoo, and Joseph was the oldest of six children, four brothers
and two sisters.  He came to America with his parents in 1838, locating
near West Greenville, Mercer County, Penn., and there resided till he
completed his education, which was partially obtained in the common
schools of the county, and completed at Westminister College, and at
Philadelphia.  He began teaching school at eighteen, teaching in sever-
al districts, where others failed because of bad order in the school
room.  Young McAdoo's executive ability enabled him to bring order out
of chaos and to pass class after class through the advanced arithmetic-
al course in the short term of three months.  For four years he carried
on coal and ore mining operations quite successfully, but quit to fin-
ish his education.  He located in Tiffin, Ohio, in 1856, where he began
the successful practice of medicine.  During the civil war, he was, a 
part of the time, connected with the Ohio National Home Guards, and, in
1864, was chosen first lieutenant of Company A, 164th Reg. Ohio Vol.
Infantry, and at the close of his term, was complimented by President
Lincoln.  In 1865 he came to Missouri in search of a dryer climate, lo-
cating at Huntsville, Randolph County, where he remained till 1867.  He
then came to Springfield and built the first brick store house on Coll-
ege street, being the third or fourth erected in the city, where he has 
for several years conducted a wholesale and retail drug and grocery
business.  Though he has invariably avoided politics and theology, his
turn of mind fits him for such pursuits, as he is physically and ment-
ally combative, and of argumentative and positive character.  He was
elected to the city council from the 3d ward in 1870 and served through
1871.  In 1879, the Republicans headed their city ticket with his name
for mayor, and for the first time in 13 years, the entire ticket was
elected.  Dr. McAdoo was married January 1, 1857, in Sandusky, Ohio to
Mrs. Mary A. Smith, of Tiffin, Ohio.  To this union there were born two
daughters and one son, the latter of whom died when six years old. Mrs.
McAdoo and daughters are members of the Calvary Presbyterian Church.
The doctor's father and mother died several years ago.  Both his grand
and great-grand ancestors lived to be over a hundred years old; and the
uncle, after whom Joseph was named, is living at this writing and is 
upwards of 96.  He was born in the same house as Joseph, which house is
over 500 years old.  All the Rankin family seem to have been born
mechanics, and all were of strong mind and positive character.  When 
but five years of age, Dr. McAdoo had small pox, and was sick nine
months and blind for six weeks.  His strong constitution, however,
brought him through that spell as it did also during the civil war in
this country, when he was given up to die at Fort C. F. Smith on
Arlington Heights.



John McCabe
Mr. McCabe was born in Lycomic county, Pennsylvania, January 10, 1834,
and is the son of John and Rosa McCabe.  He went to Philadelphia in 
1843, and was educated in the parochial schools of that city.  He serv-
ed an apprenticeship at engineering at Jamacia, Long Island, and on the
P. W. & B. railroad.  He was employed for some time upon Eastern roads
in construction of tracks.  Upon the breaking out of the late war he
enlisted in a volunteer company of independent rangers on the 22nd of
April, 1861.  He served three months upon the body guard of General
Patterson, and was in the battle of Falling Waters.  He then enlisted
in Company C, 23rd Penn. Regiment, as corporal, and participated in the
battles of Yorktown, Williamsburgh, Fair Oaks, and the seven days figh-
ting in front of Richmond, where he was slightly wounded.  He was in 
all the great battles while Grant was commander-in-chief, and was cap-
tured at Cold Harbor, and kept prisoner for four months, when he was
released.  He then joined Company G, 7th regiment, Hancock's corps. Mr.
McCabe received medals for gallant conduct at the battle of Malvern
Hill and the storming of Maries' Heights.  In 1866 he came to St. Louis
and engaged in the construction of street railroad tracks for some time
and then on the construction of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad as far
as Strafford.  He was married November 2nd, 1866, to Mrs. Sarah Lane,
widow of Lieut. William Lane, who was wounded at the battle of Spring-
field, and died ten days afterward.  Mrs. Lane was the daughter of 
Joseph and Tabitha Rudd.  She gave thirty-one acres to the railroad for
the town site of Strafford.  She now owns two hundred and sixty-five
acres in Jackson township.  Mr. McCabe owns twelve acres in section 2,
township 29, range 20.



John P. McCammon
Mr. McCammon is a son of Samuel and M. E. (Brown) McCammon, and was
born May 25, 1853, near Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and was educated at Wes-
leyan University, located at that place.  He graduated from that 
institution in 1877, and taught at the university one year.  During
the years 1878 and 1879, he was superintendent of public schhols at
Brooklyn, Iowa.  He resigned and came to Ash Grove, Mo., where he
taught school two years.  He then came to Springfield and studied law
in the office of Hubbard & Simmons.  He had read law previously in 
the office of Gen. Weaver, of Iowa.  Mr. McCammon was admitted to the
bar in this city, June 22, 1881, and was appointed notary public on
January 30, 1883.  His father was a native of Pennsylvania, and moved 
to Iowa about 1851.  He died in 1864, at Pulaski, Iowa.  His wife is
still living.  They had three sons and two daughters, John. P. is the
oldest.  He is a member of the Masonic order, and a young lawyer of
good promise.



James McCarty
Mr. McCarty is the son of James and Bridget (Coakley) McCarty, and was
born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in January, 1827.  He lived in that city 
nineteen years, and then learned the trade of a slater at Harrisburg,
Pa.  In 1856 he went to Saline county, Mo., and in 1861, he came to
this county and settled in Pond Creek township.  In early times Mr. Mc-
Carty freighted goods from Rolla to Springfield and Fort Smith, Ark. 
He was married in Iowa City, Ia., in October, 1858, to Miss Margaret
Kennedy.  Their union was blest with nine children, seven of whom are
now living.  Mr. McCarty's father was a native of county Cork, Ireland,
and came to the United States in 1833, landing at New Orleans.  He died
at Cincinnati, Ohio, in August, 1859.  His wife died in the same city
soon after coming to this country.  They had a family of nine sons and
one daughter, James being the only one born in America.  He has been a
property holder in Greene county for over twenty years.



George E. McCauley
This gentleman is the son of Mathias and Matilda McCauley, and was born
in Howard County, Maryland, April 12, 1844.  In 1863 he enlisted in 
Company C, 2nd Maryland Cavalry.  After he returned from the war he
went to Baltimore and worked in the machine shops of the Northern Cen-
tral R. R. , where he learned the machinist's trade, working three.  He
then worked for the Cumberland & Pennsylvania R.R. at Mount Savage, and
in the shops of the Iron Mountain R.R. at St. Louis, and other places.
In 1870 he came to Springfield and went to work for the St. Louis & San
Francisco R.R., repairing engines in their round house until 1872, when
he was promoted to round house foreman, or engine dispatcher, and he 
now has charge of the company's large round house.  Mr. McCauley was
married December 18, 1872, to Miss Susan E., daughter of H. S. and 
Clara Blankenship, of Springfield.  Their union has been blest with 
four children, viz.: William Robert, George Eugene, Clara Matilda and
Edwin Mathias, deceased.  Mr. McCauley is an agreeable, genial gentle-
man, and by his faithful discharge of responsible duty, enjoys the con-
fidence of the railway officials and he rully merits the trust commit-
ted to his care.



William McCleary
Mr. McCleary is the son of Joseph C. and Margaret (Smith) McCleary, and
was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, March 31st, 1840.  He was educated
at Liberty academy, Virginia.  He emigrated to Iowa, where he remained
four years, and then came to Greene County, Missouri, where he engaged
in farming, making a specialty of wheat.  His health becoming impaired
he moved to Republic, engaging in the hardware and agricultural imple-
ment business.  There was no station upon the road where Republic now
stands when Mr. McCleary first came, not even a switch.  He has been
largely instrumental in building up the town, and had a highway estab-
lished to Springfield.  He was married the first time in Morgan County,
Ohio, to Miss Annie, daughter of Robert Gray.  Their union was blest
with three girls, all living.  He was married the second time to Eliza
K., daughter of David Smith, of Belmont County, Ohio.  They have had
three children, one boy and two girls.



Rev. M. L. McCluer
The subject of this sketch, who is as well known perhaps, in Polk and
Webster counties as in Greene, was born in Loudon county, East Tenn.,
November 9th, 1839.  He is the only son, now living, of Joseph McCluer,
who formerly lived on Little Tennessee river, in the county above named
and owned there a large farm of eight hundred acres.  Rev. Mr. McCluers
mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Greenway, died when he was only 
three months old.  He grew up and was educated in his native State, 
continuing with his father and engaging in farming till 1859.  In April
of that year, he started for the silver region of Pike's Peak.  Having
got as far west as Springfield, Greene county, this State, he concluded
to forego his trip to the mountains, and he remained one year in Spring-
field.  In 1860, the father, Joseph McCluer, sold out in Tennessee and
came to Greene county, where the son had arrived the year before.  They
bought a large farm on Sac river, fifteen miles north of Springfield,
lying partly in Greene and partly in Polk county.  It contained seven
hundred and fifty acres, and they at once began extensive farming oper-
ations.  On the 25th of September, 1861, Mr. McCluer married Elizabeth
Beckley, of Polk county.  He continued to live with his father during
the civil war, which came on about the time he was married.  After the
war he purchased a hundred and fifty acre farm near his father's, but
on the Polk county side.  Here he cleared one hundred acres of heavy
timbered land, built a good house, barn and out houses, and made other
necessary improvements.  In this place he made his home; but concluding
that he would have better health on the prairie, he moved to a farm
that he purchased, one and a half miles south of Springfield, on Kicka-
poo prairie.  This removal was in September, 1873, and he has ever 
since resided there.  His occupation has been that of a farmer and 
minister of the gospel, he having been licensed to exhort by the M. E.
Church South, at Hickory Grove, November 24th, 1867.  In March, 1868, 
he was licensed to preach, and has done a great deal for the upbuilding
of the church since then.  Chiefly through his instrumentality, assist-
ed by a few others, a church, costing $18,000, was erected at Hickory
Grove, he going around and collecting the neighbers, who convened at 
his house, where most of the money was subscribed in one day.  Mr. Mc-
Cluer organized the first Y.M.C.A. at Hickory Grove ever organized in 
this part of the country, of which he was elected president.  At Nevada
in October, 1872, he joined the West St. Louis Conference, and was sent 
to Hermitage circuit, in Hickory county, which he traveled until locat-
ed at his own request, in 1873, because of ill health.  Soon after this
he began operations at intervals as an evangelical worker, and held a
number of revivals, which resulted in large accessions of membership.
In the years 1875-6 he traveled Henderson circuit as "supply."  Though 
the circuit was in a demoralized condition when he began labors there,
with only one organized church and two or three partly organized, and a
membership of scarcely fifty, he left it with nine church organizations
and a membership of two hundred and fifty, and two established "camp
grounds," with sheds, etc., for the convenience of the worshiping camp-
ers.  In 1876 he joined the Southwest Missouri Conference, and was sent
back to Henderson circuit, where the Lord had so abundantly blessed his
previous efforts.  In the fall of 1877, he was sent to Ozark mission,
which he traveled one year.  He was again located in 1878, since when
he has labored only on the evangelical plan.  Mr. McCluer has a family,
two sons and four daughters living, and one daughter deceased.  The
surviving children are: Ola J., Samuel J., Rebecca E., Flora P., Lafay-
ette H. and Stella G.  Mr. McCluer has labored more for the good of
others and less for his own financial aggrandizement than most men are
inclined to do.  Still, he has seen good and abundant fruits from his
labors, and will have his reward here and hereafter.  "The laborer is
worthy of his hire," and the faithful need not fear but that the prom-
ise will be kept.



James W. McCollah
Mr. McCollah is a son of John W. and Nelcenia (Short) McCollah, and
was born at Kingston, Tenn., January 25th, 1845.  His parents came to
Greene county, and settled about ten miles southwest of Springfield.
In 1852 his parents removed to Stone county, Mo., and remained there
until 1866.  Upon the 13th of January, 1865, James enlisted in Company
A, 1st Missouri regiment.  At the close of the war he came to Spring-
field, and from 1866 until 1878 he was deputy postmaster of the city.
In 1880 he was elected city treasurer upon the Republican ticket,
which office he still holds, dischargin the duties of that responsible
office in a most acceptable manner.  Since 1878 he has been connected
with the government mail service.  He was married in November, 1869, 
to Miss Anna Stevens.  That union was blest with three sons and one
daughter.  His first wife died March 14th, 1880, and he was married
the second time to Miss Catherine H. Greene, of St. Louis, Mo.  Mr.
and Mrs. McCollah are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  His
mother died in November, 1860 and his father died October 13th, 1864,
and he had been in the State service for two years, and was a strong
Union man during the war.  They had six children, four sons and two
daughters.  Mr. James W. McCollah is the second child.



Albert G. McCracken
Albert G. McCracken (deceased).  This gentleman was the son of Thomas
and Elizabeth (Holmes) McCracken, and was born in Williamson County,
Tennessee, January 28, 1823.  His parents were natives of North Caro-
lina, but were reared in Tennessee.  Albert was one of a family of
thirteen children, and the ninth son in rotation.  His grandfather was
a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and his father in the War of
1812.  When Albert was twelve years of age he hurt one of his legs, 
and as it gradually grew worse he had it amputated after he came to
Polk County, Missouri, in 1844.  He came to this county in 1845.  He
went to school after he lost his leg and fitted himself for business. 
In 1854 he was elected clerk of the circuit court, which office he 
held until 1860.  In 1855 he bought out W. H. Anderson, in the nursery
business, then the only nursery in the Southwest, and carried on that
business until 1875, having branches in Kansas and Arkansas.  In 1859
he went into partnership with S. M. Ingram in the milling business,
upon the James river, and so continued until his death, September 28,
1878.  The last fifteen years of his life he was a devoted Spiritua-
list, and died in that belief.  He left a handsome estate.  Commencing 
life a poor boy and a cripple, he rose to wealth and honor by his 
energy and good management.  Mr. McCracken was married January 23, 1855
to Miss Jane, daughter of Martin and Annie (Howard) Ingram, of this
county.  Their union has been blest with six children, all living:
William F., James S. R., Laura E., Edward E., Benton H. J. and Albert G.



J. L. McCraw, Jr.
John L. McCraw, Jr., was born in Taylor township, Greene county, Miss-
ouri, September 30, 1838 and till he left, the oldest man in the town-
ship who was born in it.  He received such education as the log cabin
schools afforded at that early date.  In July, 1861, he enlisted in
Captain F. E. Watterson's company of Home Guards.  On the 10th of Aug-
ust, 1861 he was taken prisoner by rebels while reconnoitering near the
Wilson Creek battlefield.  He was held prisoner five days, and fed upon
raw roasting-ears once a day by his captors.  He was exchanged in the
early part of 1862, and in May of that year he enlisted in Colonel 
Wood's battalion, 6th Missouri cavalry, but was mustered out in July,
because the battalion had two more companies in it than were allowed. 
In the same month he enlisted in Company L, 5th Missouri cavalry, under
Capt. Robert V. Keller, and served as first sergeant.  He was at the
battles of Prairie Grove, Springfield, and Little Rock.  He was in act-
ive service until the close of the war, the last was at the surrender 
of the Confederates at Camden, Arkansas, where there was a general hand
shaking and division of rations.  He was mustered out at Little Rock,
in August, 1865, and returned home, where he resumed farming.  Mr. 
McCraw was married in September, 1869 to Miss Virginia A., daughter of
Martin Ingram.  He moved to Dakota in the spring of 1883.  April 18,
1880 his place in Taylor was struck by a cyclone, buildings, fences and
everything that would break, was swept away and crushed.  Himself and
wife found shelter under a bluff and escaped unhurt.



John L. McCraw, Sr.
John L. McCraw, Sr. (deceased).  Mr. McCraw was born in Hawkins county,
Tenn., in 1808, where he was reared and educated.  In 1836 he married
Elizabeth H. Kenner, of the same county, and the same year he immigrat-
ed to Greene county, Mo., and bought the farm in Taylor township, where
he lived and died.  In farming and stock rearing he encountered all the
hardships incident to pioneer life. The stock did well upon the prairie
grasses, and sheep and pigs found natural enemies in the wolves that
infested the country at the time.  Mills were few and far between, 
coffee and biscuits luxuries that could be only indulged in Sunday
mornings and when "company" came.  The clothing for the family was all
made from the raw material by the ladies of the household, Mr. McCraw,
himself, making the shoes from leather tanned by a neighbor.  Game ab-
ounded, but he never killed but one deer, and that with his Jacob-staff
while out surveying.  He was elected county surveyor in 1839 and in 
1840 surveyed the eastern boundary of the county.  In 1849 he visited
his parents in Tennessee, making the entire trip upon horseback.  His
wife died in 1855, leaving him six children, four boys and two girls,
all of whom are yet living.  Two children, a son and daughter, died be-
fore her.  At the beginning of the rebellion he espoused the Union 
cause, having previously been a Whig.  He was too old to take an active
part and tried to remain quietly at home, but in the latter part of 
1861 was arrested by a party of young "bloods," calling themselves Con-
federates, and taken before the commander of the post, but was released
the same day.  He was a charter member of the Union League with John W.
Smith, Frank Plummer and D. L. Turner.  In 1866 he was appointed, and 
in November of the same year elected, supervisor of registration.  In
1872 he was again elected surveyor, and in all, held that office thirty
years.  He voted the Republican ticket after 1861 until his death.  The
Marshfield cyclone of April 18, 1880 struck his place, unroofed his
buildings, destroyed a large amount of timber, but not one of the fam-
ily, who were in the house, were seriously hurt.  After an illness of
seven days, Mr. McCraw died, upon the second of April, 1882, and was 
buried in the family burying ground in sight of the house he had so 
long occupied.  Thus one by one the noted landmarks fall.



James McCrory
Mr. McCrory is the son of William and Mary (Hubbard) McCrory, and was
born in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in 1829.  His father was born in
Ireland, December 25, 1792 and died in Wilkinson County, Mississippi in
1843.  His mother was a native of Tennessee, and died in 1829.  James
was educated in the common schools of his native State, and was engaged
in farming until his removal to Louisiana.  He remained there until 
1867, most of the time farming in Catahoula parish.  He then came to 
Missouri and stayed a year in Saline County, and then removed to Greene
and located where he now lives, three miles east of Ash Grove, upon a
fine farm of one hundred and seventy acres.  He has been engaged in 
farming and stock raising ever since.  He was one of the first in his
section to help organize a grange in 1874.  Mr. McCrory was married in
1855 to Miss Moss, daughter of George Moss, Esq., of Wilkinson County,
Mississippi.  Mrs. McCrory died February 14, 1868.  They reared a fam-
ily of three children, all of whom are married and living in Greene
County.



John W. McDaniel
Mr. McDaniel is the son of William and Sarah A. (Blades) McDaniel, and
was born in Greene County, Mo., March 21, 1839.  His parents were nat-
ives of Tennessee, and his grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812.
His father was one of the pioneers of Greene County, and when he sett-
led in Pond Creek Township, there was but one other family, that of 
David Reynolds, in that part of the county.  John W. grew to manhood
upon the farm and has always followed that occupation, being very succ-
essful and owning two well improved farms, and a half interest in a 
tract of mining land.  In 1861 he enlisted in Phelp's regiment and ser-
ved out his time of six months, and at the organization of Capt. Red-
feran's company of militia, in 1862, he was appointed first lieutenant,
and was afterward promoted to captain, serving with that rank until the
end of the war, doing efficient service for the government in Southwest
Missouri, in scouting, etc.  He is a member of the Methodist Church,
and is one of Center's best citizens.  He was married July 3, 1866, to
Miss Sarah Virginia C., daughter of Silas and Jane Ray, of this county,
formerly of Tennessee.  Their union has been blest with eight children,
five of whom are living: Hannah A., Amanda E., Jesse O., Dora A. and
Mary B.



William McDaniel
This gentleman is the son of Thomas and Rebecca (Britain) McDaniel, and
was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., June 23, 1810.  His father was a
soldier in the War of 1812, and was with Gen. Jackson at the battle of
New Orleans.  In 1818 they moved to Roane County, Tenn., and in 1821 
they again moved to McMinn county and lived there and in Monroe county
until 1836, when they came to Greene County, Missouri, and settled in
Pond Creek township.  When he came, there was but one man living in the
township, David Reynolds.  He has passed through all the experiences,
hardships and excitement of pioneer life.  He had his milling done 
forty miles south of him, taking a week to make the trip with an ox
team.  He settled the place upon which he now lives in 1838, and im-
proved a fine farm of two hundred forty acres.  He reared a large 
family.  four of his sons were in the Union army, and one rose to the
rank of captain.  Mr. McDaniel has been a member of the Methodist 
Church for over forty years, part of the time class leader.  He was
married August 28, 1836, to Miss Sarah A., daughter of Edward and
Penelope (Maynard) Blades, of McMinn County, Tenn.  Her parents were
originally from North Carolina, and came from Tennessee at the same
time, 1836, and settled in Pond Creek township.  Mr. and Mrs. McDaniel
were blest with ten children, nine of whom are living: Jackson, John
W., James C., Jesse W., Ransom T., Elijah A., William, Henderson C.,
and Sarah J. M.



William Jasper McDaniel
(Deceased).  Mr. McDaniel was the son of Samuel A. and Sarah (Bray)
McDaniel, and was born May 12th, 1832, in North Carolina.  When he was
about twelve years of age his parents came to Missouri and settled in
Christian county.  At the age of twenty-one Jasper came to Springfield
and accepted a clerkship in the store of Maj. McElhany at eight dollars
per month.  He was married in this county November 11, 1863, to Miss 
Emma Evans, a native of North Carolina.  Three sons and two daughters
bless the union.  Mrs. McDaniel is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South.  William J. McDaniel's father was a native of North Caro-
lina also, and died in April, 1876.  His mother died in March, 1865. 
They had a family of three sons and four daughters, the oldest son,
Alfred, was killed by bushwhackers near Ozark, Missouri.  Jasper was
the sixth child, and at his father's death received a handsome patri-
mony, and being one of the most careful, far seeing business men of the
county, he had already accumulated a fine estate, to which was added 
his portion of his father's property, and made him one of the wealth-
iest men of the city.  He was enterprising and progressive, many of the
best buildings in Springfield being built by his money and judgement. 
He died in the spring of 1883.



Maj. Robert J. McElhany
This gentleman was born in Grainger county, Tenn., about the year 1815,
the family records being lost upon his father's death, when young Rob-
ert was seven years of age.  Being thrown upon his own resources when a
mere child, he faced the world and fought through all obstacles, and 
came out victorious.  He would carry his book in his hat, and read at
noon and other odd times, while his horse was resting during the day, 
and took advantage of every spare hour he had to improve himself intel-
lectually.  He came to Missouri in 1835, penniless, in company with a
blacksmith.  He helped the blacksmith burn a coal pit, and then secured
a position on the U. S. survey at forty-five dollars per month, for 
three months.  He soon returned to Springfield and accepted a position
as clerk in a store, where he worked for one year.  Then three friends
advanced him one hundred dollars each, and with that sum he bought a
stock of groceries, and opened out in the business here, which he foll-
owed three or four years, and next engaged in the dry goods business, 
which he followed until 1865.  He then sold out, engaged in banking,
organizing the first national bank of Springfield in 1870, and has been
its president to the present.  He was postmaster of Springfield, under
Polk's administratioin, and had been a major of militia in 1840. During
the late civil war he was captain of Co. A, 46th infantry; the company
was called out late and saw no active service.  He was one of the prime
movers in the wagon factory enterprise of Springfield, which is one of
the noted industries of the place.  Major McElhany was married November
9, 1838, to Miss Cordelia M., daughter of John and Margaret Bunch, of
Polk county, Missouri.  Mrs. McElhany is a native of Grainger county,
Tenn., and is a neice of Gen. Clement C. Clay, one of Alabama's sena-
tors, who resigned his seat at the commencement of the late war.  They
have three children living, viz.: Margaret M., wife of Hon. S. H. Boyd,
Robert L., and Lucy, wife of the late Col. L. A. Campbell, of Mississ-
ippi.  Major McElhany is a Royal Arch Mason, and has been a member of
the Methodist church for thirty-four years.  He is one of Greene's most
substantial citizens, and upright in all dealings with his fellow man.



James B. McElhanon
James B. McElhanon was born in Jackson County, Georgia, May 19, 1810.
His parents were Christopher and Margaret (Bell) McElhanon, the former
a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of North Carolina.  The family
moved to Greene County, Mo., in 1834, where both parents died, the 
father in 1851, and the mother in 1865.  James was educated in the
common schools, and early in life began farming, and came to Missouri
with his father.  They located near the present site of Springfield,
and James carried the chain in the location of that city.  Lots could
then have been purchased near the public square for from three to five
dollars each.  In 1840, Mr. McElhanon moved one mile northeast of Ash
Grove, and engaged in farming and stock raising till he bought the 
place where he now resides, two and one half miles southeast of Walnut
Grove, where he owns a nicely cultivated farm of 102 acres.  Though he
took no active part during the civil war, he saw many hardships and
privations growing out of the war troubles.  June 24, 1840, Mr. McEl-
hanon was married to Miss Dorcas F., daughter of Thomas McKoun, a
native of North Carolina, who died in Greene County, Mo., in (about)
1870.  Mr. and Mrs. McElhanon have no family, except an adopted daugh-
ter they took to raise in 1872.  Both husband and wife are consistent
members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and are held in great
esteem by a large circle of acquaintances in the county where they
have spent so many years of their life.



Alfred M. McGown
This gentleman is the son of Luther and Mary F. McGown, and was born
August 10, 1860, in Greene County, Missouri.  His father was a native
of Tennessee, and died near Ash Grove, Mo., in November, 1860.  His
mother was a native of Kentucky, and is still living five miles south-
west of Springfield.  Alfred was educated in the common school at and
near Ash Grove, and as soon as large enough began farming, which has
since been his occupation.  His parents moved to Illinois when he was
a small boy, where they lived several years in McLean County.  Return-
ing to Ash Grove, Alfred farmed for about ten years, five miles south-
west of Springfield, and in July, 1882, he purchased a farm of forty
acres of land three miles south of Ash Grove.  He was married November
23, 1879, to Miss Martha A. Wood, daughter of Benjamin Wood, Esq.,
formerly a farmer near Springfield, who died during the war.  Her
mother was Nancy E. Abney.  Mrs. McGown was born March 15, 1826, in
this county.  They are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
and enjoy the confidence of all.  They are blessed with two children,
Myrtle B., born November 22, 1880 and Estella F., born February 27,
1882.



Capt. Peter McKenna
Capt. McKenna was born in county Monaghan, Ireland, March 5, 1836, and
is the son of Owen and Mary (Kelly) McKenna.  He emigrated to New Brun-
swick and soon after to the United States.  In July, 1856, he settled
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and shortly after he volunteered to go with
the troops in pursuit of the Indians who were connected with the Spirit
Lake massacre.  Subsequently he was in the employ of the government 
with companies E and F of the 2nd regulars, from Fort Ridgely to Fort
Kearney.  In the spring of 1860 he went to Pike's Peak, Colorado.  In
the fall of the same year he went to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he re-
mained until February, 1861, and then went to St. Louis, from there to
New Orleans, thence to Havanna, and thence to New York.  He then joined
the 12th regulars and started for the seat of war.  He was in the 
following engagements, part of the time in command of two companies,
Siege of Yorktown, Gaines' Mill, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Mal-
vern Hill, 2nd Bull Run, Groveton, Antietam, Fredricksburg, Chancellor-
sville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Laurel Hill,
Bethesda church, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and the Siege of Petersburg,
besides many skirmishes.  He was promoted to a captaincy, and during
the war received five wounds.  He received especial mention in the
official reports for his coolness, bravery and good judgement.  He was
discharged August 8, 1864.  In 1868 he enlisted in the 12th infantry,
for three years, and during the time was in Georgia and Arizona.  He
was, after his discharge, connected with Q. M. department in Texas, and
was Q. M. agent for Gen. S. B. Holabird.  In July, 1874, he was appoin-
ted superintendent of the cemetery at San Antonio, Texas.  In 1875 he
was appointed superintendent of the National Cemetery at Springfield,
Missouri, which position he now holds.  Captain McKenna was married on
November 29, 1877, to Margaret McInness, who was born in New Brunswick,
March 24, 1851.  They have two sons and an infant daughter living: John
Owen, Edward A., and Mary.  The captain is a member of the A.O.U.W., 
and himself and wife are members of the Catholic church.



William McKerall
Judge William McKerall.  This well known subject was born in Orange
County, N. C., June 17, 1824.  At sixteen he received the appointment
to West Point Military Academy, and entered same class with Gen. Han-
cock.  He was compelled to leave school, however, on account of ill
health, and returned to North Carolina.  There he entered Caldwell
Institute, John Wilson, D. D., president, and took a regular collegi-
ate course.  At the outbreak of the Mexican War, young McKerall vol-
unteered and was elected first lieutenant of Co. E of the North Caro-
lina regiment, which company he served with during the war, latterly
as acting captain.  On one occasion, Lieut. McKerall commanded a 
detachment on escort, and conducted a supply train 180 miles without
loss or mishap, except guerilla skirmishes.  He was introduced to Gen.
Taylor, and made his report on the same day the Missouri volunteers
under Col. Doniphan were returning from the arduous compaign in New
Mexico.  After the battle of Buena Vista, his regiment encamped 14
months on the plains there, and was subsequently garrisoned at Salt-
illo, where Lieut. McKerall studied Spanish under Dr. Gregg, of St.
Louis.  Still later, he served as regimental inspector and commissary.
He was honorably discharged at Old Point Comfort, Va.  He then settled
in Louisiana, where he studied law.  In 1850, he went to Texas, loca-
ting near San Augustine (East Texas), where he practiced law, and
there joined the I.O.O.F.  He moved to Waco in 1854, and engaged in
merchandising and cattle raising.  The same year he was appointed to
fill an unexpired term as judge of the probate and common pleas courts
of McLennan County.  In 1859, he was elected to same office.  A stock
company of seven was formed in 1863 to operate a cotton and woolen mill
and Judge McKerall was for some time financial agent of the concern. At
the close of the civil war he was appointed district deputy G. M. to
reorganize the I. O. O. F. lodges in the western district of Texas.  In
the summer of 1868, he came to Greene County, Missouri, and on November
1st of that year, married Mary A., only and accomplished daughter of
Josiah F. Danforth, and settled on lands inherited by his wife from her
father, eight miles northeast of Springfield.  Judge McKerall has added
to this by subsequent purchases till he now owns an estate of 700 acres
one of the finest in the county, including the well known "Brick House
Farm," formerly owned by Josiah F. Danforth.  Besides farming, Judge
McKerall also runs a steam saw-mill and threshing machine.  He is the
father of two sons and two daughters, named Fannie E., Josiah, Daisy
and John Wilson, all except the last and youngest attending the Spring-
field schools at this writing.



James T. McKibben
Mr. McKibben was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in December, 
1824.  His father, Joseph McKibben, moved with his wife and child in 
1824, settling in Richland County, Ohio, where he "cleared" a new farm 
in a newly and sparsely settled district.  With willing hands the "new
comers" (other families besides his own being so styled by first com-
ers) made fences, built houses, opened shops, and organized schools and
churches.  In this new and active community, Mr. McKibben grew up, re-
ceiving his education in the home circle, on the farm and in the public
school.  There were eight other children in the family, all girls and
all younger than J. T.  His help was needed on the farm, and he cheer-
fully gave it till he went to attend school at Oberlin, in 1847.  From
an article written by Mr. E. M. Leonard, it appears that Mr. McKibben
spent two years at Oberlin the first time, then taught two years, and
then, in 1851, made a fourteen months' tour in the West.  Returning to
his father's farm, he assisted him till the spring of 1854, when he re-
turned to Oberlin, took the course and graduated from the commercial
college, in the meantime studying law.  In the fall he went back to
assist his father, but returned to Overlin the following spring, and 
continued his study of law.  In the fall of 1855, he married Nancy M.,
daughter of Stephen and Lydia Potter, of Courtland County, N. Y.  They
remained in New York till 1863, when they came to his father's, in Ohio
and spent the winter with him on the farm, the last that he (the father)
spent on the farm.  His father has since died in Ohio.  In 1864 Mr. Mc-
Kibben took a flock of sheep to Iowa for another man, and in 1865 took
out a flock, part of which were his own.  He wintered in Iowa, and in 
1866 came to Missouri, stopping at Osceola till the fall of 1867, when
he drove his sheep to Greene county and let them out "on shares" to S.
F. Gibson.  He then improved a farm on a tract of railroad land on 
Grand Prairie, on which he still continues to reside.  He joined the
Presbyterian Church in Springfield, and also the Patrons of Husbandry
and Brothers of Freedom.  He has held the most important offices in his
subordidate grange and also in the county grange.  His health failing
in early life caused him to become a "vegetarian" and diets himself
accordingly on the hygenic system.  He neither drinks, uses tobacco, 
nor takes medicine.  Mr. McKibben has no use for Pharisaical religion,
but believes in the religion of right doing vs. wrong doing, because it
is right..believes in a religion of action, not merely of profession.
In politics he is independent, and opposed on principle to monopolies
in general and government favors to pet corporations.  In appearance
Mr. McKibben is a man of medium build, height and weight, of the blonde
type, and is some older looking now than the portrait we publish would
indicate.  The following is quoted from a delineation given by Prof.
Sanford in 1849: "J. T. McKibben has a predominance of the mental
motive temperament, with the vital moderately indicated.  His constitu-
tion is naturally strong with more than ordinary powers of endurance.
He has a fondness for the grand, the sublime and the ideal in nature 
and art.  He has a taste for the equisite and the embellished, and is
fond of painting, drawing and the fine arts.  He is original, and with
application, might almost excel as an inventor and mechanic.  He is
disposed to examine, search out, and investigate.  Is fond of order,
system and refinement, and compares and analyzes to advantage.  He is
benevolent, humane, kind in disposition, and wishes to benefit those
around him."



Mrs. Nancy M. McKibben
This lady was born at Solon, Cortland County, New York, in the year 
1820.  Her ancestors were Quakers, who came from Europe at an early
day, and were probably in the Penn Colony.  Her parents, Stephen and
Lydia Potter, were natives of Washington County, New York, and they
were born in 1776, and were afterwards married.  They removed as early
as 1800 to Cortland County, and were among the pioneers of that sec-
tion.  Here they made a home and lived in this new country till they 
had reared to majority five sons and six daughters.  The Potters drop-
ped the Quaker religion and became Baptists, being charter members of 
the first church organized in that region, and their latch string al-
ways hung out to the itinerant preacher, the only kind then known
thereabouts.  Educational advantages were limited.  Schools were of the
primitive kind, and as people then raised, spun, wove, and made up
their own clothing material, the time of both boys and girls was deman-
ded largely at home, to the necessary neglect of the schools.  Notwith-
standing these disadvantages, seven of the Potter family became school
teachers, the oldest son finally becoming eminent as a Baptist minister.
Still another son became an eminent physician and medical author.  The
subject of this sketch was the tenth child, and began teaching at the
age of seventeen, and taught her first school in her native town.  For
this labor she received the astounding sum of seventy cents per week,
and "boarded round!"  On becoming more experienced, her salary was act-
ually raised to one dollar per week.  As late as 1845, she taught in 
her native town for the last named price per week. Her higher education
was acquired at the academies of Courtland and Courtlandville (two 
different institutions in the same county) and teaching in the intervals
of her attendance.  She gave up the principalship of the Union Schools
at McGrawville to care for her aged father in his decline, who died in
February, 1849.  After next teaching a select school, she secured a
position in Elmira Female Academy, where she taught and studied two 
terms.  In the summer of 1850, she opened a female seminary in Penn Yan,
but abandoned that enterprise to care for her aged and infirm mother
till her death in 1851.  In the spring of 1851 she began teaching as
the principal of Syracuse Female Seminary, continuing till the winter
of 1852-3.  She entered Oberlin College, Ohio, the following fall, in 
which institution she remained till the fall of 1855, studying Greek
and Latin, while herself teaching the higher English branches.  In Nov-
ember of that year she married Mr. J. T. McKibben, a former student of
Oberlin.  Mrs. McKibben continued teaching in Oberlin till 1864, when
she accompanied her husband on his tour to Iowa and Missouri, finally
locating with him in Greene County (See Biog. of J. T. McKibben.)  Here
her time and attention were taken up in the discharge of duties inci-
dent to the opening of a new farm, in which she took great interest.
Still attached to her former vocation, in 1878, 1880, and 1882, she 
again taught in the intervals of her other duties.  On account, however,
of a partial deafness, she was forced to abandon teaching, and has 
since given close attention to her household duties.  Though still she
visits schools and writes and canvasses for educational journals in her
spare time.  Mrs. McKibben is a member of the Calvary Presbyterian
Church of Springfield, and is a member of the order of Patrons of Hus-
bandry. In early life, at the age of fifteen, she had connected herself
with the Baptist Church.  She took great interest in Sabbath Schools 
and missionary enterprises, organizing such schools, societies and
benevolent institutions, and was often selected to write essays on 
anniversary occasions of missionary societies.  Since joining the P. of
H. she has held important offices in the subordinate and county grange.
She was elected secretary of Springfield district grange in 1878, and
has held that position for five consecutive terms.  In 1880 she was 
chosen lecturer by the last named grange, and also deputy of Greene
County, and was recommissioned for the same in 1881.  In 1879-80, she
was delegate to the State Grange, at each session of which she deliver-
ed the address.  She has delivered many addresses at grange meetings,
picnics, Farmers' alliance meetings, etc., always with a view of bene-
fiting her race.  Want of space forbids the extended mention, together
with quotations from many favorable press comments, that Mrs. McKibben
has received and so justly deserves.  She has studied well the laws of
correct living, and has put her hygienic theories into beneficiary 
practice.  This has made her a woman of great physical endurance and 
mental activity, and it is a remarkable fact that during a life of
forty-five years as student and teacher, she never lost a day on acc-
ount of sickness.  The winter of her sixtieth year, this remarkable
woman taught a school two and a half miles from home, to which she
walked back and forth every day for four months, aggregating a distance
of 400 miles, at the same time doing her own housework, including laun-
dry!  Taken all and all, this lady is one of the most decided characters
in Greene County; and her many labors of love in the cause of human 
elevation, will be remembered here and hereafter.



Thomas B. McLean
Mr. McLean is a native of England, born December 6th, 1848.  His
parents and their family came to America in 1850, and settled in 
Paterson, N. J.  At the age of fourteen, the subject of this sketch
went into the machine shops of the Iron Mountain R.R. at South St.
Louis, to learn the machinist trade.  He worked in those shops three
years, then went to firing on an engine on the I. M. R.R., and fired 
four years; from there he went to the Texas Pacific and fired one year,
then returned to the I. M. R.R., and fired until July, 1871, then was
given an engine which he run on that road six years.  In July, 1877 he
took an engine on the St. L. & S. F. railway, where he is running at
present.  September 16th, 1872, he married Miss Annie E. Hewitt, of St.
Louis.  They have one child, Alice M., born October 24th, 1873.  He is
a member of Gateway Lodge, No. 110, A. F. & A. M., at Frederick, Mo.
He belongs to Pacific City Division, No. 83, Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers.  He is the president of the Frisco Locomotive Engineer 
Health Association, and a member of the Locomotive Engineer Mutual 
Insurance Association.



A. J. McLemore
A. J. McLemore was born in Monroe County, East Tennessee, September 10,
1829.  His father, Mr. A. McLemore, was a native of North Carolina,
born March 11, 1787.  He died in Tennessee.  The subject of this sketch
was the youngest child of his parents, there being nine older than he.
When fifteen years old, he came to Greene County, Mo., and after a 
short stay at Springfield, went to Dade County. In 1851, he, with other
adventurers, took the gold fever and went to California.  Here he re-
mained some five years, and accumulated a considerable sum of money.
Returning to Dade County, Mo., in 1857, he speculated in live stock a
short time, but returned to California in the spring of 1857, accomp-
anied by his wife (Dialtha Alexander) to whom he had been married in
February 5, 1857.  They drove a large herd of stock through to the West
on which Mr. McLemore realized handsomely.  They located in Eldorado
County on a stock ranch, remaining eighteen months.  Returning to Miss-
ouri, Mr. McLemore bought the old Alexander homestead near Ozark, on
which he remained till the civil war.  He then sold out and made a trip
to Texas, but returned almost immediately, and located again just north
of Ozark, where he remained till he moved to where he now lives, near
Walnut Grove.  He has one of the best improved farms in the northwest
part of Greene County, his residence being elegant and well located.
Seven children have been born to Mr. McLemore and wife, six of whom,
Ida F., John S., Detroit M., Maggie M., Greeley N. and Myrtle O., are
still living.  The deceased child was their first born, a son named
Cornelius A., born June 23, 1859 and died March 23, 1863.



Cyrus J. McMaster
This gentleman is the son of Dr. Edwin K. and Eliza J. (Bull) McMaster,
and was born in Dade County, Missouri, May 18, 1847.  His parents were
natives of North Carolina, and were among the pioneer settlers of Dade
County.  In 1851 his parents moved to Greene County, where Cyrus grew 
to manhood.  In 1864 he enlisted in the 14th Missouri Cavalry, and
served until the war closed.  During 1869-70 he carried on the saddle
and harness business at Walnut Grove.  In 1871 he came to North Spring-
field, and engaged in the produce and commission business.  In 1880 he
entered into partnership with Geo. O. Vick, and they have since done a
thriving business in produce and grain shipments, handling about a 
quarter of a million dollars worth of grain in 1882.  They are one of
the best firms in the city, and deserve the success they enjoy.  Mr. 
McMaster was married November 17, 1868 to Miss Isabel Weir, daughter of
James and Fidelia Weir, of this county.  Their union has been blest 
with two children.



James McMehen
Mr. McMehen was born in London Township, Middlesex County, Ontario,
April 26, 1826.  He is the son of George and Mary A. (Anderson) Mc-
Mehen.  His parents were natives of Ireland, born in the years 1800 
and 1802, respectively.  James was educated in the common schools of
his native county, and, at an early age commenced farming, and follow-
ed it in Canada until his removal to Illinois in 1865.  He settled in
Champaign County and carried on farming there until 1870, when he came
to Greene County, Missouri, and purchased the farm containing two hun-
dred and fifty acres of fine land near Walnut Grove where he still
lives.  He was married in March, 1856, to Miss Rebecca, daughter of
Andrew McConnell, of Ontario.  Their marriage has been blest with nine
children, seven of whom are now living.  Mrs. McMehen is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  Mr. McMehen is one of Greene's
substantial farmers, and enjoys the respect and confidence of all.



Dr. Alexander W. McPherson
Dr. McPherson is the son of Mark and Jane (Boggs) McPherson, and was 
born in Boone county, Kentucky, September 7th, 1820.  His father died 
when he was but eighteen months old, and his mother died at Helena,
Arkansas, in 1841.  They had five children, two boys and three girls,
only two of whom are now living, viz.: Alexander W. and Elizabeth A.
Dr. McPherson lived in Kentucky until 1840, when he moved to Helena,
Arkansas, where he was engaged in farming for some time, and, in 1841
he was second clerk upon a Red river steamboat.  He then removed to
Texas, where he lived some seven months, when he was summoned home to
attend his mother's funeral.  December 28th, 1843, he came to St. Louis
where he was married to Miss Almira Cummings.  Their union has been 
blest with nine children, five of whom are now living.  After his marr-
iage he went to Chent, Kentucky, and from there to Louisville.  In Feb-
ruary, 1845, he returned to Helena, Arkansas. He next moved to Norwalk,
Ohio, in 1848.  He graduated from Sterling medical college at Columbus, 
Ohio in 1851, and in January, 1853 he moved to St. Louis county, Mo.,
where he practiced his profession until 1862.  He then carried on farm-
ing until March, 1870 when he came to Springfield, and for ten years 
was extensively engaged in the cattle business.  He was elected in 1881
and 1882 city recorder of Springfield, and in November, 1882, was elec-
ted upon the Democratic ticket to the office of treasurer of this coun-
ty.  Dr. McPherson is a Mason, and is a member of the Baptist Church.
His brother, William M., was president of the Missouri Pacific railroad
for four years, and also of the St. Louis and Illinois Bridge Company.
He died November 2nd, 1872 in St. Louis, Missouri.  Dr. McPherson's 
wife died in November, 1882.



Elder Henry W. McPherson
This gentleman is the son of William and Mary (Stickney) McPherson, and
was born December 9, 1811, in Baltimore, Md.  His parents moved to La-
fayette county, Indiana, in 1824 where Henry received his education. In
1837 he was licensed to preach by the Christian church at Wabash, Ind., 
and preached in what is known as the old "Boundary Line church," one of
the first churches organized in the county.  He preaced at that church
until 1875, and then moved to Springfield, Mo., and is now an elder in
the Christian church at this place.  He was married May 1, 1834 to Miss
Martha Stone, of Scott county, Kentucky.  Their union has been blest 
with nine children, five sons and four daughters.  Mrs. McPherson has
been a consistent member of the Christian church for over fifty years.
Elder McPherson's father was a native of Scotland, and came to the 
United States in 1808 as a missionary of the Congregational church.  He
was educated in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, and in his work in
America he traveled from Maine to Georgia.  He died at the age of sev-
enty three.  His wife died when Henry was an infant.  Elder McPherson
is one of the "salt of the earth," and enjoys the confidence of all. 



Walter F. McPherson
Mr. McPherson is the son of H. W. and Martha (Stone) McPherson, and was
born at Wabash, Indiana, May 19th, 1849.  He was educated at the univ-
ersity at Indianapolis, but now located at Irvington, Indiana.  He 
graduated in the scientific course.  He learned the trade of carpenter
at Wabash and Indianapolis.  He came here in February, 1876, and the
first buildings of importance built by him were the residence of W. G.
Porter, on St. Louis street, and the school building at Ash Grove.  He
built the first year about twenty-five houses, and in 1882, between
seventy-five and a hundred.  He employs about twenty-five hands, and is
the largest contractor and builder in the city.  In 1882 he built the
residence of Col. Fellows.  He was married November 25th, 1871 to Miss 
Matilda Stephens, of Wabash, Indiana.  Their union has been blest with
two sons and one daughter.  Mr. McPherson is a member of the K. of H.,
and himself and wife are members of the Christian church.



James T. Means, M.D.
Dr. Means was born in Monroe county, Kentucky, September 4, 1824.  He
is the son of James and Sidney (Mayfield) Means.  His father was a 
native of North Carolina, and his grandmother on his mother's side was
born in Wales.  His father died in Monroe county, Kentucky, in 1854.
James T., our subject, came to Mt. Vernon, Lawrence county, Mo., in 
1846.  He was reared upon the farm, but began the study of medicine in
1844, and graduated in the medical department of the State University
in 1847, under the instruction of Dr. McDowell, who afterward estab-
lished McDowell's Medical College at St. Louis.  He commenced the prac-
tice of medicine at Mt. Vernon, and afterwards removed to Cassville,
Berry county, where he remained ten years, and then moved to Farmington
in St. Francois county, where he continued the practice until the war
broke out.  He was the surgeon of a cavalry regiment under Gen. Jeff.
Thompson, in 1861, after that he was with Gen. Sterling Price, and was
in most of the battles of the trans-Mississippi department.  He was not
actively engaged in military or professional duty during the war all 
the time, as he sometimes would be relieved for a few months.  His 
family returned to Kentucky during those trying times.  At the close of
the war he practiced medicine at Hodginville, Larne county, Kentucky,
for a short time, then went to Gallatin, Tennessee, where he lived two
years.  From there he moved to Pocahontas, Arkansas, where he remained
about eighteen months, when he came to Springfield in 1869, and has 
lived here ever since. He was married in 1862 to Miss Lizzie M. Curtis.
He is a member of Solomon lodge, A. F. & A. M., and is also a member of 
the Christian church.  Mrs. Means is an Episcopalian.



Col. Samuel Henry Melcher
Col. Samuel Henry Melcher, M. D., son of Woodbury Melcher, Esq., and a
grandson of Capt. Samuel B. French, was born in Gilmanton, N. H., Octo-
ber 30, 1828.  Was educated at Gilford and Gilmanton academies; gradu-
ated at medical department, Dartmouth College, 1850.  Practiced first 
in Grafton county, N. H.; then in Boston, Mass., until 1859, when he
traveled South and through Texas; and at the close of that year, sett-
led in Potosi, Washington County, Missouri.  On the breaking out of the
war, he offered his services at once to Gen. Lyon, at St. Louis arsenal;
and was mustered in as assistant surgeon 5th Regt. Mo. Vols. (three 
months), May 7, 1861. Was with his regiment at the battles of Carthage,
July 5, 1861; Dug Spring, August 2, 1861; Wilson's Creek, August 10,
1861, where he was the last officer on the field after the forces fell
back, and brought off the body of Gen. Lyon and delivered it to Gen.
Schofield the same night, as narrated on other pages of this volume. By
order of Gen. Schofield, he remained a prisoner in the hands of the 
Confederates, to take care of the Union wounded.  Was in Springfield
when the "Fremont Body Guard" made their terrific charge, and attended
the wounded on both sides; was furnished with wagons by Gen. Sigel,
and moved the wounded in all that region to Rolla, thence by rail to
St. Louis, arriving November 24, 1861, thus ending his first campaign.
He was commissioned brigade surgeon December 4, 1861, reporting to Gen.
Schofield; and during the spring and summer of 1862, was in charge of
the Hickory Street Hospital, and Gratiot Street Hospital for rebel
prisoners, and U. S. Marine General Hospital at the same time.  By re-
quest of Governor Gamble, he received temporary leave of absence to 
organize the Thirty-second Regiment E. M. M.; was commissioned colonel,
and commanded the regiment six weeks; during which time he dispersed
the guerilla bands in Washington and adjoining counties, captured sev-
eral rebel mails, and large quantities of arms, horses, and medical
stores.  October, 1862, he returned to his proper duty as medical dir-
ector of the "Army of the Frontier."  January 8, 1863, he was engaged 
in the battle of Springfield, Mo., against the forces of Marmaduke,
turning out 400 hospital convalescents, thereby saving millions of pro-
perty, the winter supplies for Gen Schofield's army.  About this time,
he performed a celebrated operation on the shoulder joint of Gen. E. B.
Brown, saving his life, and giving him a good arm.  April, 1863, the 
army being reorganized, he was assigned to duty in charge of the hosp-
ital at Ironton, Mo.  May 24, 1863, he was commissioned lieutenant
colonel 6th Cavalry Mo. S. M., and assigned to duty as assistant insp-
ector general of the department of the Missouri, and served in this
capacity until Price's raid in 1864, when he was ordered to the field
as aid-de-camp to Gen. Pleasanton, commanding the cavalry; and, in his
report of the destruction of Price's army, Gen. Pleasanton mentions 
Col. Melcher for "gallantry and fidelity."  Col. Melcher's last service
in the army was in command of the post of Jefferson City, Mo., where he
was active in forwarding troops to Gen. Thomas, at Nashville, Tenn.
Much debilitated from hard service, he resigned December 24, 1864.
After the war, he resided four years and a half in Tennessee, and was
in the Freedman's Bureau.  May, 1870, he was appointed Surgeon U. S.
Marine Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.  February, 1871, he was appointed by
the Governor of Missouri a manager of the State Lunatic Asylum.  In 
1873, he moved to Chicago, where he now resides.



Harry P. Merritt
Mr. Merritt was born in Detroit, Michigan, June 12th, 1859.  In March,
1873, he began learning the machinist's trade in the shops of the St.
Louis and San Francisco railway, at North Springfield, and served an
apprenticeship of three years.  He then worked in the shops a year
after he learned the trade.  He then began firing upon an engine, and
on the 8th of October, 1880, he was promoted to engineer, and has been
running an engine ever since.  He is a member of Pacific City Division,
No. 83, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.



Washington Merritt
This gentleman is the son of Samuel and Sallie (Ross) Merritt, and was
born in Williamson county, Tenn., January 30th, 1809.  His forefathers
were among the earliest settlers of North Carolina, his grandfather,
James Merritt, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.  His father was
a pioneer settler of Tennessee, and moved to Kentucky late in life,
where he died.  Washington was reared upon a farm in Tennessee, where
he early learned what is meant by hard work.  In July, 1833, he was
married to Louisa Owens, of his native county, and in the spring of 
1840 he emigrated to Greene county, Missouri, where he became a leading
citizen, and improved several farms in Campbell township.  His first
wife died in January, 1842 and he then married Mrs. Maria Chapman.  She
died in March, 1854, and in August, 1856 Mr. Merritt was married to 
Elizabeth Blakey.  Mr. Merrit is the father of twelve children, and
those that are now living are all doing well.  In politics Mr. Merritt
has always been a Democrat, and ever since his residence in this county
has been a consistent member of the Christian church.  No man in the
county stands higher in the regard of his fellow man than he, and is 
one of the few landmarks showing the character of the early settlers of
this part of the State, that is yet left in full vigor to show what 
manner of men it took to make the "wilderness blossom as the rose."



Ethan Miller
Mr. Miller is the son of David and Susan (Warner) Miller, and was born
in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, December 2nd, 1850.  His grand-
father was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.  Ethan grew to manhood
in his native county, and was educated at the Southwestern Normal Coll-
ege.  He then taught school for a short time, and in 1872 he came to
Greene County, Missouri, and followed teaching and farming.  In 1883 
he, in partnership with Mr. H. B. Hill, engaged in general merchandis-
ing business at Galoway Station in Clay township.  They are deserving
young men and enjoy the confidence of the people.



M. R. Miller
This gentleman was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, February 26th,
1850.  In 1869 he commenced braking upon the A. & G. R.R., and braked
about eighteen months, when he was promoted to conductor, and ran a 
train until November 24th, 1880.  He then came to North Springfield,
Mo., and on December 12th, 1880, began braking upon the St. Louis and
San Francisco railroad, and upon February 2nd, 1881, he was again pro-
moted conductor, and is now running a train.  Mr. Miller is a member 
of Springfield Chapter of Royal Arch Masons.



James R. Milner
This gentleman is the son of David M. and Mary A. (Chambers) Milner, 
and was born at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio, September 4th,
1845.  He attended the public schools of his native town until 1862,
when he enlisted in Company D, 98th Ohio regiment.  He served until the
war closed and was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky.  He was with
Sherman in his "march to the sea."  After the war ceased he attended 
the law department of the Michigan University for two years, graduating
in 1867.  In September of that year he came to Springfield, and prac-
ticed his profession for some time, and in 1869 was deputy United
States collector for Southwest Missouri.  In 1870 he was elected upon 
the Republican ticket to the office of county superintendent of public
schools, which office he held for two years.  Mr. Milner was president
of the board of regents of the State normal school from 1870 until 1874
and was deputy United States attorney for some time of this part of
Missouri.  In 1880 he was elected from the second ward, to represent
that ward in the city council.  He has been engaged in the real estate
business nearly ever since coming to the county.  He was married July
5, 1876 to Miss Hattie A. Cummings, who, at that time, was lady prin-
cipal of Drury College.  They were married at the bride's home at Ober-
lin, Ohio.  He and wife are members of the Calvary Presbyterian church,
of which he is a deacon.  Mr. Milner's father is still living at Mt.
Pleasant, Ohio.  His mother died in 1873.  They had six children, three
boys and three girls, all living, of whom James R. is the youngest son.



Mathias G. Moist
Mr. Moist was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, February 8th, 1843.  In
1866 he began railroading, and was with the civil engineering corps on
the Union and Logansport railraod.  Subsequently, he was with the corps
on the North Missouri railroad (now Wabash) survey.  He came to North
Springfield in 1868, and worked with the engineering corps after the 
St. Louis and San Francisco road was completed.  He was chief of the
corps on the Kansas branch of 'Frisco.  In 1869, he was appointed wood
and stock agent of the 'Frisco, which he holds at this writing.  Mr. 
Moist was married in 1871, to Miss Annie L. McCarty.  They have three
children.  He belongs to Hope Council, No. 5, R. T. of T.



John Monaghan
Mr. Monaghan was born in Rochester, New York, June 25th, 1845, and is
the son of Lawrence and Margaret (Sulvoy) Monaghan.  His parents emi-
grated to Michigan in 1849.  At the age of 16 John began farming for
himself, and followed the business for four years.  He then went to
Jackson, Michigan, and there fired upon a stationary engine for a few
months, and was then employed as engineer, and ran the engine for five
years.  In 1869 he went to Lebanon, Mo., and worked in the bridge 
department of the St. L. & S. F. R.R., for six months.  He then came 
to North Springfield and commenced work in the round house at wiping
engines.  After a few months he began firing upon an engine, and in
June, 1877, was promoted engineer, and he has been so ever since.  By
industry and economy he has saved quite a competence, and owns two 
nice dwellings in North Springfield.  In the fall of 1869, he married
Mrs. Margaret Riley, of Lebanon, Mo.  They have four children, William,
Nena, John and Ella.  Mr. Monaghan is a member of Wentworth Lodge, No.
113, A. O. U. W., and of Pacific City Division, No. 83, Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, of which he is Guide.



John H. Moore
Is a native of Giles County, Tenn., born August 2, 1829.  His parents
were John and Elizabeth Moore, the latter of whom died in Tennessee in 
May, 1838.  In November, 1840, his father and the rest of the family 
came and settled in Pulaski (now Webster) county, Missouri, where they
lived three years, then moved into Greene county, locating on a farm 
just east of Springfield. Three years later they moved to Stone county,
where the father died, and where John H. afterwards served as county
judge.  At twenty-two years old, the subject of this sketch began lear-
ning the carpenter's trade in Arkansas, at which he worked, off and on,
till the fall of 1865.  He then went to Cassville, in Barry county,
where he engaged in the dry goods business for a year.  In 1866 he was
elected sheriff, and re-elected in 1868.  In 1870 was elected county
treasurer, and at the expiration of his term, moved to Verona, Lawrence
county, Missouri, and engaged in the hotel business.  Mr. Moore came to
North Springfield in May, 1874, and has held several city officies 
since, being, at this writing, mayor of the city.  During the civil war
Mr. Moore served as a lieutenant in the Home Guards of Stone county, 
and in 1862 was enrolled in Company K, 72nd regiment, Enrolled Missouri
Militia, and served as captain for about a year.  He was then detailed
as captain of a company in the 7th provisional regiemtn, Missouri State
Militia, and served till November, 1864.  Subsequently, he joined the
15th Missouri cavalry, and was finally mustered out in August, 1865. On
September 25, 1853, he married Emeline Melton, of Stone county.  They 
have four children living: William B., John E., Eliza C. and Jeptha O.
They have lost five children.  Mr. Moore is a member of the Temple of
Honor, and R. T. of T.  He is an upright, trustworthy citizen, and has 
a strong hold on the good will of North Springfield citizens.



Joseph R. Moore
Mr. Moore is the son of James and Mary Moore, and was born at Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania, March 20, 1840.  His parents came to Missouri in 1858 and
settled in Miller County, and remained until 1861, when, on account of
the war, they removed to Franklin County.  Joseph R. Moore learned the
machinist's trade at Susquehanna, Penn., in the celebrated Erie railway
shops.  He then farmed for three years, and in 1861 enlisted in Captain
W. D. Bowen's Company, Missouri volunteers.  He was wounded in the left
leg at the battle of Wilson's Creek, and was therefore discharged.  He
returned to Susquehanna, and as soon as he was able, he again went to
work in the Erie shops in the fall of 1861, and continued there until
1867.  He then returned to Missouri, and ran an engine on the St. Louis
and San Francisco railway.  He now runs a passenger engine between
Springfield and Pacific.  Mr. Moore was married on the 21st of October,
1869, to Miss Del. S. Tallcott, of Belleville, New York.  He is chief
engineer of Pacific Lodge, No. 83, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
also a member of Wentworth Lodge, No. 113, A. O. U. W.



Col. Samuel Moore
Col. Moore is the son of Galihew and Rhoda (Lawrence) Moore, and was
born February 27, 1819, in Surry county, North Carolina.  He was educ-
ated in his native county, and remained at home upon the farm until he
was twenty one years of age.  He then married Miss Sarah Moore, of
Hawkins county, Tennessee, in January, 1842.  Their union was blest
with five children, viz.: Anna M., Laura E., Francis A., a physician
of Lamar county, Texas; Samuel, Jr., and Walter S., a lawyer, now 
judge of the common pleas court of Lamar county, Texas.  Col. Moore
lived in Dde, Polk and Cedar counties in Missouri, and in 1849, he
went to California, where he lived two years.  In 1852 he sold goods
in Greenfield, Dade county, Missouri, and remained there six years. In
1858 he moved to Osceola, St. Clair county, Missouri and lived there
until 1861, when he was burned out entirely by Jim Lane's Kansas
troops.  He then went to Fayetteville, Arkansas and remained there un-
til 1865.  His next removal was to Matamoras, Mexico and from there to
Paris, Texas where he lived until 1868.  Then he moved to Springfield,
Mo., where he has been city treasurer and street commissioner.  He and
his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  Col.
Moore's father died in 1864, and his mother in 1863.  The colonel's 
father represented Surry county in the North Carolina Legislature 
twice, and at an early day was colonel of the North Carolina State
militia.  At present, Col. Moore is City Recorder of Springfield.



Capt. Philip C. Morhiser
The captain is the son of J. P. and Mary M. (Fogelson) Morhiser, and
was born in Baltimore, Maryland, May 11, 1812.  He was educated in his
native city.  In 1836 he went with his parents to Dubuque, Iowa, where
Philip was chief of police for four years.  He afterward became a mem-
ber of the city council and president of the board of town trustees,
and after that received the appointment of city marshal.  In 1861 he
had charge of a force of detectives employed in the custom house for
the government.  In 1863 he was made captain of company G, 8th Iowa
cavalry.  He was wounded in the head at the battle of Noonan, where he
and his company were captured and taken to Macon, Georgia, and then to
Charleston, South Carolina, and there paroled.  He was chief of police 
on patrol under General Thomas at Nashville, and in the fall of 1865
was mustered out at Clinton, Iowa.  In 1866 he was appointed by the 
governor to take charge of a distillery.  During 1867 and 1868 was
again marshal of Dubuque.  In the fall of 1869 he came to Springfield,
Missouri, and sold goods for a year, and has been a member of the city
council from the first ward.  He was married November, 1834, in Balti-
more to Miss Amelia Buch.  They were blest with seven children, six
girls and one boy.  The captain is a Mason and his wife is a member of
the Episcopal Church.  His father came to Baltimore from Prussia in
1809.  He was a soldier in the wars between France and Prussia some
years before he died in 1849, and his wife in 1854.  They had eleven
children, three of whom are now living.  The captain was the fourth
child.



Leon Morice
Mr. Morice is a native of France, and came to the United States in 
1867.  In 1869 he went to St. Louis, and in May, 1876 he came to 
Springfield.  He was married to Miss Bourguenot, and by their marr-
iage have two children, Edmond and Eugenie.  Mr. Morice is by trade
an engraver, and worked at it for some time in Philadelphia.  He is
one of the firm of E. J. Bourguenot & Co., candy manufacturers of
Springfield, and do the largest business of the kind in the Southwest.



David E. Morrow, D.D.S.
Dr. Morrow is the son of James K. and M. E. Morrow, and was born in 
Wayne county, Ohio, March 25, 1856.  In 1865 his parents moved to Cass
County, Missouri, where he grew to manhood upon a farm, and was educa-
ted at the State Normal School at Warrensburg.  He began teaching 
school at the age of seventeen and taught until he was twenty-two.  He
had to depend upon himself to get his professional education.  In 1878
he commenced the study of dentistry with Dr. M. V. Johnson, of Holden,
Missouri, one of the leading dentists of Western Missouri.  He remained 
with him until 1880, and then took the course of dentistry at the St.
Louis Dental College.  He then located at Harrisonville, Missouri,
where he practiced until December, 1882, and then located at North
Springfield, where he is doing a fine business and is making a reputa-
tion in his profession.  He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and
is a young man of fine promise.



Judge Joseph T. Morton
This gentleman is the son of John and Mary Morton, and was born in 
Rutherford county, Tennessee, May 9th, 1808.  He was reared in Ruther-
ford and Williamson counties, where he received such education as the
country afforded in those early times.  He was married June 21st, 1832
to Lucinda Hancock, of Maury county.  Their union was blest with one
son, John A. Morton, who married Margaret V. Logan, and died June 11th,
1865, leaving three children.  Soon after his marriage Judge Morton 
began farming in Marshall (then Bedford) county, Tenn., and was also 
the proprietor of a mill.  In 1836 he came to Greene county, Missouri,
and settled upon the place where he still resides.  Before the war he
was extensively engaged in stock trading.  During the war his sympath-
ies were with the South, though not favoring a disruption of the Union.
For many years he was director of the branch at Springfield of the old
Missouri State Bank, and for four years was its president.  In the fall
of 1874 he was elected upon the Democratic ticket one of the associate
justices of the county court.  In 1878 he sent in his resignation to
Governor Phelps, but it was not accepted.  A few months after he again
tendered his resignation and it was accepted.  The presiding justice
and Judge Morton favored a compromise of the railroad bond indebtedness
by which it could have been effected for much less than the face value
of the original bonds, by new bonds bearing six percent instead of 
eight percent, the original interest.  A mass meeting was called by
citizens opposed to the measure, and, as strong opposing action was
taken by the meeting, Judge Morton, believing his plan was best, re-
signed his position.



Amos G. Mount
This gentleman is the son of Amos and Charlotta (Woodsmall) Mount, and
was born in Oldham County, Ky., May 17, 1841.  He was educated in the
common schools of his vicinity, and grew to manhood upon the farm.  In
October, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, 6th Kentucky Regiment, Infan-
try, U. S. A., and participated in the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro-
ugh, and Woodbury, Tenn.  January, 1863 he was severly wounded in the
right arm, breaking the bone and disabling him for active service for
some time.  After his wound healed he returned to his regiment and 
served until his three years' term of service had expired, and was dis-
charged at Nashville in October, 1864.  He then returned to Kentucky,
and in 1865 he came to Scotland County, Missouri, and in 1868 he came
to Greene County, where he has since resided and followed farming, own-
ing two farms of 100 acres each.  He has been a Mason since 1865, and
a member of the Baptist Church since 1858.  In 1869 Mr. Mount was marr-
ied to Miss Ellen Hacker, of this county.  She died December 25, 1870,
and November 3, 1872, he was married the second time to Mrs. Kate Fraz-
ier, nee Tatum, daughter of Lewis F. and Sarah (Robinson) Tatum, of 
this county.  She was born in 1846 and has never eaten a Christmas
dinner outside of her father's house.  She was first married to Samuel
Frazier, who died ten months thereafter.  Mr. and Mrs. Mount are bless-
ed with three children: Frank C., Sallie C. and Amos L.



John H. Murphy
This gentleman is the son of William and Isabella (Rider) Murphy, and
was born in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, December 11, 1807.  His 
parents moved to Edgar county, Ill., in 1819, and at the age of twenty
John went to Danville, Ill., and entered the law office of John J.
Brown, a prominent attorney of that place.  He was admitted to the bar
in 1833, and practiced there until 1853.  In 1836 he was elected, upon
the Whig ticket, to the Illinois Legislature, from Vermillion county,
and served until 1840.  In 1853 he moved to Alton, Ill., where he liv-
ed twelve years, and in 1865 went to Topeka, Kansas and was appointed
district judge for one term.  While at Alton he was a member of the
city council for seven years.  He was receiver of the land office at
Danville, Ill., appointed by President Taylor.  He has been U. S. 
commissioner both in Illinois and at Springfield, Mo.  He came here in
August, 1867, and practiced law for about five years, and has held the
office of city treasurer and recorder.  He was married in December,
1829, in Danville, Ill., to Miss Cynthiana Alexander.  Their union was
blest with four children, but one of whom is now living.  William, at
Alton, Ill.  His first wife died March 24, 1840, and upon the 8th of
December following, he was married to Miss Ada Pinson.  Mr. Murphy's
father died June 16, 1840 and his mother, at the age of eighty-eight,
upon the 16th of December, 1870, in Edgar county, Ill.  They had seven
children, three sons and four daughters.  Mrs. McCowan, of Edgar 
county, Ill., and John H., are the only children living.



A. H. Murray
Mr. Murray was born in Gibson County, Tennessee, January 11th, 1832. 
He learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed about twelve years
before his coming to Missouri in September, 1881.  He embarked in the
hardware business at Ash Grove, and has gradually increased his stock
until now, besides a general and complete stock of hardware, he has
added both dry goods and groceries in his stock, and his store is one
of the leading houses of Ash Grove.  He was married December 28, 1852,
to Miss M. J. Patten, also of Tennessee.  She was a daughter of Wm.
and Jane Patten.  Their married life has been blest with six children,
viz.: J. T., John W., Wm. R., Margaret A., Anna J. and Henrietta.  Mr.
Murray enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861, and was at the battles
of Perryville, Champion Hill, Grand Gulf and the siege of Vicksburg,
where he surrendered July 4th, 1863.  He came out of the war without a
scratch.  He is an old time Democrat and steadily adheres to the prin-
ciples of that party as taught by America's greatest statesmen.  Mr.
Murray is a Mason in good standing and himself and wife are members of
the Presbyterian Church.  For the length of time he has been in busi-
ness at Ash Grove he has made rapid strides to the front as one of the
safe, reliable merchants of the county, and no man stands higher in the
confidence of the people.



Daniel Murray
Mr. Murray was born in county Down, Ireland, October 12, 1854, and was
educated in the common schools of that country.  He emigrated to Amer-
ica, landing at Castle Garden in January, 1870.  He soon after came to 
St. Louis, but remained only a short time, and then went to Potosi,
Washington County, Missouri, where he served an apprenticeship at wagon
making.  In the fall of 1874, he went to Dade County and set up a shop
at the Pemberton mines, which he ran a year and then came to Ash Grove
and opened a shop, and does a good business.  He is the patentee of the
new adjustable vehicle wheel, for wagons and buggies, by which a wheel
can be set to any grade or dish desired.  It is a most useful invention
and likely to come into general use everywhere.  Mr. Murray's parents 
are yet in Ireland.  He has one brother in Manchester, England, and one
in Baltimore, Maryland.  Mr. Murray is a member of the Knights of Labor.



J. J. Murray
J. J. Murray was born in Monroe County, Tennessee, March 1, 1841, and
is the son of Renne and Rebecca Murray.  He was educated in the common
schools of his native county, and at an early age commenced farming
which has been the occupation of his life.  In 1863, he removed to
Bartholomew County, Indiana, where he lived until the fall of 1864. He
then moved to Iowa, and stopped in Lucas County, near Chariton.  He 
lived there until 1875, when he removed to Greene County, Missouri, and
bought a fine farm of one hundred and twenty acres of land about one
and one-quarter miles south of Ash Grove.  He was married February 25,
1866, to Miss Clara Henry, of Lucas County, Iowa.  Their union has been 
blest with three children, viz.: Renne A., born June 15, 1867; Zora A.,
born May 7th, 1870; and Almira E., born January 30, 1872.  Mr. Murray 
is a member of the I. O. O. F., and he and wife are members of the Bap-
tist Church, and at present, he is deacon in that church.  Mr. Murray
is one of the successful farmers of his section, and respected by all.



Lilburn H. Murray
Mr. Murray is the son of John and Sarah (Luttree) Murray, and was born
in Crawford County, Missouri, September, 1834.  His parents came to
Greene County, Mo., and settled seven miles northwest of Springfield,
where they lived one year and then moved to Grand Prairie, where L. H.
was reared and educated.  At the age of twenty-one, he went to Cali-
fornia, where he was engaged in the stock and mercantile business for
about ten years.  He returned to Springfield, Mo., in September, 1866,
and soon went into the hardware business.  The firm was McGregor &
Murray for some five years, and McGregor, Murray & Noe, until 1876.
During a part of this time he lived in the country upon what is now the
Judge Cowan farm.  In 1871 he was elected mayor of Springfield, and in
1874 was elected to the Legislature, being the only Democrat represen-
tative Greene had had since 1858.  He has been a councilman from both
the Second and Fourth wards.  He took active part in building of the
Gulf railroad.  John M. Richardson graded the road to Ash Grove and it
lay for several years unironed, until Mr. Murray, H. E. Havens and Maj.
Sheppard bought the roadbed and organized the Springfield and Western
Missouri Railroad Company.  They then took into the company, L. A. D.
Crenshaw, G. D. Milligan, Judge Ralph Walker, C. H. Heer and W. J. Mc-
Daniel.  Mr. Murray was elected president, and the road was run until 
1879, when it was sold to the present owners, L. H. Murray being a 
director for two years thereafter.  He was married, November 17, 1859,
to Miss A. L. Anderson, daughter of Young A. Anderson, of Napa County,
California.  She was formerly from this county.  They have been blessed
with five boys and two girls, all living.  Mr. Murray is a Mason, and
he, his wife and daughters are members of the M. E. Church South.  His
mother died in 1845, and his father in 1867.  They are buried in the
family burying ground up on Grand Prairie.



Thomas Murray
Mr. Murray was born in McMinn County, Tennessee, July 8th, 1825.  He 
was educated in the common schools of Monroe County, Tennessee, and
followed the occupation of farming until his emigration to Arkansas in
1848.  He came to Greene County, Missouri, in December, 1850, and took 
up a tract of government land.  He sold out in the spring of 1852 and
crossed the plains to Oregon, and went from there to California and
followed mining for two years with varying success.  He then went back
to Tennessee and stayed a year and then returned to Greene County, 
Missouri, and purchased the place upon which he now resides, about two 
miles southeast of Ash Grove.  He has a fine farm of three hundred and
twenty acres in his home place, besides a tract of one hundred and
seventy-nine acres on Sac river.  Mr. Murray was married November 16,
1856, to Miss Nancy E. Small.  She died March 12, 1876.  Their union
was blessed with eight children, four of whom are now living.  Mr.
Murray was married the second time, December 3, 1876 to Miss Sarah, 
daughter of Edward West.  They have two children.  He and his wife are
consistent members of the Baptist Church.  In making a home for him-
self in Greene Mr. Murray endured many of the hardships of pioneer 
life, and now enjoys the profits of his early labors.  Mr. Murray's
father, Renne Murray, was a native of North Carolina, born May 25, 
1801.  His mother was Miss Annie Elliott.



Thomas J. Murray
This gentleman is the son of W. C. and Malinda (Stone) Murry, and was
born December 5, 1857, two and one-half miles southwest of Ash Grove,
Greene county, Mo.  He was educated in the country schools and at Ash
Grove.  In the fall of 1880 he taught school upon Leeper prairie, and
from January 1, 1881 until November, 1882, read law in the office of
W. H. Davis, and was there admitted to the bar by Judge Geiger.  He is
a young man of much promise and is building up a good practice.  His
parents are yet living in this county.  They came from Monroe county,
Tennessee, and located in Dade county, Mo., in 1854, and in the summer
of 1855 they came to this county.  They had nine children, five sons
and four daughters, Thomas J., being the oldest child.



W. H. Murray
Mr. Murray was born in this county, March 30th, 1858, being the eldest
son of Thomas A. and Nancy E. Murray.  He laid the foundation of his
education in the common schools of the country, and at the age of 
seventeen entered Drury College, at Springfield, where he completed his
education.  On leaving school, he taught one term of school in Greene
County, after which he began farming and continued till July, 1880.  He
then, in connection with his father went into the grain business, under
the firm style of Murray & Son, and have done a large grain shipping
business from Ash Grove since that time.  In November, 1882, Mr. Murray
was elected justice of the peace for Boone Township, which position he
fills in a becoming manner, though few younger men then he have ever so
served the public.  He was married October 23, 1879, to Miss Fannie,
daughter of James McCrory, an old citizen of Greene County.  Mr. and
Mrs. Murray have two children, named Nora and Ethel, the former born
August 26th, 1880 and the latter, December 24th, 1881.  Mr. Murray is a
member of the A. O. U. W., and also of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church.








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