The following contains brief biographies of men from Jefferson Township, Missouri. You can search the entire listing using the search at the bottom of the page. Alexander, J. H. Black, John W., Rev. Elisha Frost Gamble, M. W. Harrison, Charles Hughes, William T. Kincaid, John Lee, Wesley Mallory, Joseph H. Matchett, J. T. Osborn, Robert S. Searcy, John H. Taylor, Wright
The following contains brief biographies of men from Salem Township, Missouri. You can search the entire listing using the search at the bottom of the page. Brown, Charles W. Brown, N. B. Feurt, Gabriel, Judge Githens, Henry W. Handy, D. W. Keown, Henry T. McClung, M. B., M. D. McIntire, Edward Pugh, William J. Rupe, J. W. Weldon, James I.
The following contains brief biographies of men from Washington Township, Missouri. You can search the entire listing using the search at the bottom of the page. Cole, Charles O. Cole, E. H. Dowell, H. M. Flint, William F. Netherton, John L., Elder Scott, Martin G. Scott, Martin, Elder Smith, Gideon Smith, Jonathan, Elder Tourney, Ferdinand Walls, Eli J.
Benton township lies in the northwest corner of the county, and is in area seven miles north and south and six miles east and west and contains within its borders 26,695? – acres of laud. The township is heavily timbered, there not being over three or four sections of prairie land in the township out of the forty-two sections it contains. The magnificent forests are a mine of wealth to the inhabitants, and they are aware of its value. Oak, hickory, walnut, elm, etc., are the principal varieties of timber, although almost every kind that grows in this latitude can
The following contains brief biographies of men from Harrison Township, Missouri. You can search the entire listing using the search at the bottom of the page. Bennett, Fisher Rice Dale, Lawrence T. Dunnington, William P. Hall, Robert Samuel Hershberger, Noah Miller, Samuel N. Ramsbottom, Obadiah Trosper, Gilley N. Trosper, James B. Trotter, George May, Col. Weldon, James H.
The following contains brief biographies of men from Benton Township, Missouri. You can search the entire listing using the search at the bottom of the page. Atkinson, William C. Bailey, Jasper N. Best, H. B. Casebolt, John W. Christie, E. B. Deskin, W. H. Dillon, N. G. Earl, William Ellis, E. Jr. Erwin, William P. Gagan, John Hill, Charles E. Lockwood, Jane Mrs. Mattingly, Thomas J. M. D. McMillion, James Meadows, James A. Meadows, Nancy Mrs. Miller, W. T. Newcomb, Mary A. Mrs. Persinger, Obadiah Shaw, C. R. Smith, David M. Utz, George M. Venable, F. E. Dr. Walker, Thomas
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Benton township is bounded on the north by Harrison county, on the east by Salem township, on the south by Marion, and on the west by Gentry county. The territory occupies all of township sixty-one of range twenty-nine, and also sections thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five and thirty-six of township sixty-two, range twenty-nine. It is the fourth township in size and the second in point of population, the census of 1880 giving it 1,875 in number. It was originally a part of Grindstone township, one of the three original townships organized when the county was formed in 1837, and remained
Two suicides have taken place in this township and both in the same year. It is not the right way to meet the troubles and trials of this life, but as the world is made up of all manner of people, it is to be expected that different views of this life and the life to come will be manifested. It is hard for some to live when all hope has fled, when not a ray of sunshine is to cross their paths, and the question arises with portentous force, why live ? Just so, even those who see only
Bancroft History The town of Bancroft is pleasantly situated in the northwest corner of the township, and is located in townships sixty-one and sixty-two, being on the township line dividing them, and about one mile from the Sullivan county line and the same distance from the west line of the township. Is is principally built upon sections five and thirty-two. It was laid out in the year 1857, by John Oram and Thomas Mikels, each giving five acres of land for the site of the town. The first merchant being Washington Nichols and the first blacksmith shop was that of
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Business Directory Mitchell & Thornberg, general merchandise Weldon & Hendricks, general merchandise H. E. Gibson, hardware store W. R. Hendricks, drugs, paints and oils John Gordon, blacksmith Samuel L. Turley, shoe shop A. F. Hendricks, postmaster C. H. Weldon, drugs Gibson & Johnson, blacksmiths Agricultural store Dr. D. B. Hill, spoken of in the early history of the township; Dr. R. L. Green, of the eclectic school, who deservedly stands high Dr. G. A. Lierlie, a young man of solid sense and attainments, reared in the township, and enjoys a good practice The grangers have a fine hall over one
