Reynolds County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Henry A. Newman, Huntsville, Randolph county (Democrat).--Born in 1837 in Augusta county, Virginia; educated in common schools; moved with his father at early age to Knoxville, Tenn.; learned trade of bricklayer and alternated between that and farming ; moved to Missouri in 1856, locating in Randolph county; entered Confederate army as a private at commencement of war and soon rose to captain and staff officer for Gen. Stovall; transferred to staff of Gen. O. H. Hill; elected to Twenty- seventh General Assembly; assistant secretary of State Senate in 1883; appointed Commissioner of Bureau of Labor Statistics for two years in 1883; special agent National Labor Bureau, 1885; elected without opposition to Thirty-fourth General Assembly in 1886 ; farmer. Married.

[Roster of State, District and County Officers of the State of Missouri By Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, 1888] submitted by Kim - 2009

George H. Burckhart, Huntsville (Democrat) —Born in Randolph county, Missouri, September 11, 1823; reared to agricultural pursuits; attended the common schools ; taught school for two years ; admitted to the bar in 1843; elected judge of the second judicial circuit in 1864; appointed by Governor Fletcher in 1865, and re-elected in 1868,1872-76-80-86. Married.

[Roster of State, District and County Officers of the State of Missouri By Missouri Office of the Secretary of State, 1888] submitted by Kim - 2009