
Harrison County, MO
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SOME HARRISON
COUNTY
"FIRSTS"
SOURCE: HISTORY OF NORTHWEST
MISSOURI EDITED BY:
WALTER WILLIAMS ASSISTED
BY: ADVISORY AND
CONTRIBUTING
EDITORS COPYRIGHT:
1915
The
first house
erected in the
county seat
was built by William R.
Allen in the
fall
of
1845. It was a
hewed-log
house sixteen feet
square, built on the
block
northeast
of the
public
square.
John
and Clem
Oatman were
the
first
merchants
in the
county.
The
first
preachers in the
county
were
A.B.
Hardin,
Baptist,
and John S. Allen,
of the
Christian
Church
The
first
regular
attorney was William
G.
Lewis,
who came to the
county in
1874. He
was the
chief promoter
of
the
Cumberland
Presbyterian
Church of Bethany and
one
of
the
ruling
elders. He
died February 18,
1869
The
first hotel
in
the
county
was kept by Robert
Bullington on the north side
of
the
public square
in
Bethany.
It was a
one-story hewed log
house.
The
first
dramshop
kept in the county
was by
Dennis Clacy, who, in
1845, obtained license from
the
County
Court to keep a
"grocery" at
Harris' Mill
for six months,
paying
$10
state tax and $10 county
tax.
Joseph Hunt had
the first blacksmith
shop
in the
county on Big
Creek about
the year
1840. He did
horseshoeing
and
mended
plows, wagons and implements
for many
years.
John
S. Allen built
the first
brick business
house in
Bethany. He engaged in
business in
1848
and in
1851 erected a
frame
building and
subsequently
put up the brick
house.
The
first
postoffice in the
county was
established
at
Bethany in
1845. For
several years it went by the
name of Bethpage and
David
Buck
was
the first
postmaster.
submitted
by:
Melody
Beery mbeery@grm.net
ELECTIONS
SOURCE: HISTORY
OF NORTHWEST
MISSOURI EDITED BY:
WALTER WILLIAMS ASSISTED
BY:
ADVISORY AND
CONTRIBUTING
EDITORS COPYRIGHT:
1915
The first presidential contest in
which the citizens of
Harrison
County participated
was the
election of
1848. The vote of the
county was
as
follows:
Zachary
Taylor (whig), 63;
Lewis Cass (democrat),
144.
In 1864 the vote
of the county was as
follows; Lincoln 992
McClellan,
208. Harrison
County has always been a
republican county.
At
the
election of 1912 two
democratic county officers
were elected. The
vote for
President
was:
Taft, 2081; Wilson,
1,985;
Roosevelt,
965.
submitted by:
Melody
Beery mbeery@grm.net
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