JOHN HATCHER was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and afterwards served 21 years in the Legislature of Virginia. He married Nancy Gentry, of Cumberland county, Va., and they had 16 children of whom the following lived to be grown: Nancy, Susan, Polly, Joseph, Samuel, John, Elizabeth, Martha, Henry and Frederick. John and Henry came to St. Charles county in 1837. John had previously married a Miss Flippin, and after remaining in St. Charles county a short time he returned to Virginia. Henry married Susan A. Spears, daughter of John Spears and Margaret Bates. They had 12 children: Ann M., Caroline, Charlotte V., Frederick, Martha, Mary E., Sally M., Permelia, Wortley, John H., Henrietta and Samuel. Ann M. married Strother Johnson; Caroline married Hon. Barton Bates, son of Hon. Edward Bates; Charlotte V. married Daniel H. Brown; Frederick never married; Martha died in childhood; Mary E. married George W. Jackson; Sally M. married Peyton A. Brown; Permelia married William E. Chaneyworth; Wortley died when she was a young lady; John H. married Caroline Harris; Henrietta and Samuel are unmarried.


A MR. HEALD, of England, settled in Massachusetts at a very early date. He was married twice, and by his first wife he had two sons, Nathan and Jones. Nathan was born in April, 1775. He received a military education, and entered the army as lieutenant, but was soon promoted to the rank of captain, and at the commencement of the War of 1812, he was placed in command of Fort Dearborne, where Chicago now stands. Here they were attacked by a large body of Indians, who captured the fort, murdered the garrison, and carried Capt. Heald and his young wife away as prisoners into their own country. During his captivity he was promoted to the rank of major, but did not receive his commission until after he had been exchanged. In 1827 Maj. Heald came to Missouri with his family and settled in St. Charles county, not very far from the town of O'Fallon, where he spent the remainder of his life. He died in 1832 leaving a widow and three children: Mary, Darius and Margaret. Mary married David McCausland. Darius is now living on the old place. He was married twice; first to Virginia Campbell and second to Mattie Hunter. He had seven children. Margaret died unmarried in 1837. Jones Heald, brother of Maj. Nathan Heald, never married. He lived in St. Louis until after the death of his brother, when he went to St. Charles county, and lived part of the time at the house of his sister-in-law and part at Judge Balis'. He died in St. Louis not many years ago.




EDWARD P. HEHNER* is now occupying  the responsible position of Clerk and ex-officio Recorder of St. Charles County, having his residence at St. Charles. He has made a good record for himself in these trustworthy positions, and well merits the commendation he receives from all concerned. A native son of Missouri, his birth occurred at Lake Creek, Pettis County, February 21, 1860.
The father of Edward P., Philip J. Hehner, is a native of the province of Nassau, Germany, his birth having occurred February 1, 1827. He set sail for America in 1847. and soon after reaching the United States located in St. Louis, where for a time he worked at his trade of a cabinet-maker. He was very industrious and studious, and made the best possible use of his opportunities. Later he attended college, fitting himself for the ministry, and about 1851 took charge of a Methodist Episcopal Church near 8k Joseph. Mo. He continued for thirty five years engaged in active pastoral duties, and until 1860 occupied pulpits in western Missouri. From that year until 1863 he was located at Warsaw, III., and was then sent to Pekin, in the same state. From 1864 to 1867 he was in charge of the congregation of Iowa City, Iowa, the following year was located in Wapello, in the same state, and then until 1869 held a charge in Burlington. The next three years were spent in Davenport, and he subsequently preached for congregations in Des Moines, Iowa, Edwardsville and Boody, Ill., and Baldwin, Mo. Then for a short time he was in charge of the McNair Avenue Church in St. Louis, after which he was city missionary for three years, this last service closing his active ministerial career.
On retiring from the ministry, Philip Hehner went to make his home upon a small farm he had purchased near Brighton, Ill., where he has continued to reside since 1886. In 1855 he was married to Miss Josephine Kassner, a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, born about 1834. With her mother she came to the United States about 1846, her father having previously died in his native land. Mrs. Kassner was afterward married, and made her home in Burlington, in which city our subject's father met and married his future companion and helpmate. To them were born five children: Matilda, who became the wife of Henry J. C. Dorman, of Buffalo, Iowa; Josephine, who died in infancy; Edward P.; Emma, Mrs. William Morehead, of Buffalo, Iowa; and Lydia, who lives with her brother, our subject.
Edward P. Hehner was educated in the schools of the various towns in which his father was stationed up to the fall of 1876, when he entered the Methodist College at Warrenton, Mo. He graduated there from in 1879, after pursuing a commercial course, and then for a year took a scientific course of study. August 28, 1880, Mr.. Hehner came to St. Charles County, and for two terms taught the Dugdeil School, six miles northeast of this city. Succeeding this he had charge of a school three miles north of St. Charles for one term, the Phelps School, eight miles northwest, for five terms, and for two terms was in charge of tie Black Walnut School, ten miles north of this place. In the spring of 1889 he was elected County Commissioner of Schools, and ably met the requirements of the office for a period of two years. During his incumbency he made a directory of Pike County, being assisted therein by G. B. Walker. On the 1st of January, 1890, he was officially employed by the Directors of the St. Charles Savings Bank, in which institution he had been employed as a clerk for the preceding nine months.
November 18, 1886, occurred the marriage of E. P. Hehner and Miss Maggie Wilke. The lady was born in St. Charles, October 29, 1864, and is the daughter of John and Louise (Beumer) Wilke. The young couple move in the best social circles of the place, and have many warm friends. Mrs. Hehner is a member of St. Paul's Evangelical Church, and is a lady of good education and attainments. By her marriage she has become the mother of two children, Harry J. and Omar Marten. Socially Mr. Hehner is a member of the St. Charles Hunting and Fishing Club. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, and is Prelate of that order, and has been Sergeant in the order of the Knights of the Maccabees. In politics he is identified with the Republican party. A musician of more than ordinary merit, he is President and manager of the St. Charles Cornet Band and Harmony Orchestra.

JOHN HENDRICKS was a blacksmith, and had a shop, first at Audrain's mill on Peruque creek, but afterward removed to Mr. David K. Pittman's. He married a daughter of Phillip Sublett, and sister of William Sublett, the noted mountaineer. Hendricks was an eccentric genius and fond of playing pranks on other people. While he was living at Audrain's mill he played a trick on his neighbor, Mr. Robert Guthrie, that came near being the cause of his death. A stream of water ran through Mr. Guthrie's farm, across which he had felled a log that he used as a foot bridge. One night Hendricks sawed the log nearly in two, from the under side, and next morning when Mr. Guthrie went to cross the creek upon it it suddenly sank with him into the water, and he had a narrow escape from drowning, as the water was very deep at that place. At another time Hendricks found some buzzard's eggs and sold them to Mrs. Felix Scott for a new kind of duck eggs. She was very proud of her purchase, and took a great deal of pains to hatch the eggs under a favorite old hen. But when the "ducks" came, and she saw what they were, she passed into a state of mind that might have been called vexation. Hendricks had a large wen cut out of his hip, and during the operation he coolly smoked his pipe, as if nothing unusual was transpiring.

LEANDER T. HENRY (Farmer, Post-office, O'Fallon). Mr. Henry was a young man 21 years of age when he came to St. Charles county from Virginia in 1865. He was without means and went to work at farm labor by the month. Later along he returned to Virginia, but came back in 1867, and was married here the following fall, October 14. Miss Maggie Miller became his wife. She was a daughter of Jacob Miller. Mr. Henry shortly engaged in farming on his own account. January 24, 1878, he had the misfortune to lose his first wife by death. She left a family of five children: Minnie B., Lacey G., Edna M., Marcellus W. and Kittie. To his present wife Mr. Henry was married May 13, 1879. She was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth E. (Gill) Miller, a sister of his first wife. She was educated at Fairview Seminary. Three children have been the fruits of this union: Clarence (deceased), Clara and Cleveland, named for the next President of the United States.

Mr. Henry rented land for about five years, and then was able to buy a tract of his own. He now has a good farm of 200 acres, a place in a superior state of improvement and cultivation, one of the choice farms in fact in the township. He is steadily prospering by honest industry, as all good Democrats do, for, unlike their opponents, they do not have to resort to ways that are dark and tricks that are sometimes vain to make a living and secure a competence.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry are members of the Presbyterian Church. He was born in Marshall county, W. Va., March 4, 1844, and was reared in the same county. His father was William H. Henry, and his mother's maiden name Catherine A. McDowell. They were both born and reared in Brook county, Va. They came to Missouri in 1867, and in a short time settled in Lincoln county, where the father engaged in farming, but died in 1876. The mother finds a welcome and pleasant home with her son, the subject of this sketch. They had a family of 10 children, eight of whom are living.

JAMES L. HENSELL (Farmer, Post-office, O'Fallon).  When the War of 1812 broke out Mr. Hensell's father, David Hensell, was a young man a resident of Frederick county, Va., where he had been born and reared. Full of the fire of patriotism that warmed his patriotic ancestors in the action for the defense of their liberties and the rights and institution of the Colonies during the struggle for Independence, he promptly offered himself as a volunteer to uphold the old Flag which his father under the leadership of Washington had carried in triumph to Yorktown a generation before. He served throughout the war and afterwards returned home and was married to Miss Nancy Miller, of Frederick county. He continued in farming until 1839, when he removed to Missouri and settled in St. Charles county. Here he was a substantial farmer and a citizen of consideration. He served as justice of the peace for a number of years, and was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church. His death was profoundly mourned. His wife died in 1864. They had a family of eight children, six of whom are living. James L. Hensell was the third in their family of children and was born in Frederick county July 17, 1823. Sixteen years of age when the family came to St. Charles county, he completed his adolescence in this county and in 1850 was married to Miss Martha Ferrell, a daughter of Hutchings B. Ferrell, formerly of Mecklenburgh county, Va. Meanwhile, Mr. Hensell had engaged in farming for himself, and this he has ever since continued. Having been an energetic farmer all his life, frugal and a good manager, he has not failed to reap the rewards of well directed industry. He is now comfortably situated with a good homestead of over 300 acres, well improved and well stocked. He and wife are worthy members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is an elder in the church. They have 10 children: Annie O., David L., Caroline M., Nancy C., Mary V., Alberta, James W., Walter S., Pauline W., Fannie M. and Robert Ferrell. David L. is deceased.

JOHN HOFFMAN  (Farmer, Post-office, Cottleville). The Hoffman family, though long settled in America, having been here for a number of generations, is of German descent, and the branch of it to which the subject of the present sketch belongs descended from John Hauffmann, who was one of the early Hanovarian settlers in the early colonial days of the country of New York. Representatives of the family subsequently became dispersed over Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and several other States. Mr. Hoffman, the subject of this sketch, was a son of George Hoffman and a grandson of Peter Hoffman, the latter of whom was one of the pioneer settlers of St. Charles county. Mr. Hoffman's mother was a Miss Mary McConnell, a lady of Irish descent, but of an early family of this country. So in the veins of the subject of the present sketch course the blood of the sturdy Teuton and of the volatile, patriotic Celt. He was born in this country, March 12, 1838, and was reared to a farm life. In 1860 he was married to Miss Mary Schiller, distantly related by collateral descent to the great German poet, Schiller. She was a daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Schiller, her father a native of Germany. Mr. Hoffman has followed farming continuously from boyhood, and is comfortably settled on a good homestead in this county of 175 acres. He and his good wife have had 10 children, all but two of whom are living: Isaac, Mary, Elizabeth, Katie and George (twins), Laura, Alexander, Henry Schiller, Rosa and Ella.

JOHN HOWELL was born in Pennsylvania, but moved to North Carolina, where he had three sons: John, Thomas and Francis. John moved to Tennessee, where he died, leaving a widow and four children. Thomas lived in South Carolina until after the Revolutionary War. He married a Miss Bearfield. Francis married Susan Stone, daughter of Benjamin Stone, of South Carolina, and emigrated to what is now the State of Missouri in 1797. He first settled 30 miles west of St. Louis in (now) St. Louis county, where he lived three years, and then removed to (now) St. Charles county and settled on what has since been known as Howell's Prairie. Soon after his settlement there he built a mill, which was called a "band mill," because it was run by a large band. This was doubtless the first mill erected north of the Missouri river, except perhaps a small one of St. Charles. Some time afterward Mr. Howell built another mill on his farm, which was run by a large cog-wheel, and was called a "cog mill." His place was a noted resort during early times. Musters and drills were frequently held there, and Indian agents, in conducting Indians to and from St. Louis, often stopped there for supplies. Mr. Howell died in 1834, in his seventy-third year, and his wife died eight years afterward. They had 10 children: John, Thomas, Sarah, Newton, Francis, Jr., Benjamin, Susan L., Lewis, James F. and Nancy. John was married three times, and died in his eighty-seventh year, leaving nine children. He was a ranger in Capt. James Callaway's company. Thomas married Susannah Callaway, sister of Capt. Callaway, in whose company he also served as a ranger. They had 14 children. Mr. Howell died in his eighty-fifth year. Newton married the widow Rachel Long. They had 10 children, and he died in his seventy-fourth year. Francis, Jr., married the widow Polly Ramsey, who was the daughter of James and Martha Meek. He died in his eighty-second year, and his widow is still living in her eighty-seventh year. They had no children. Mr. Howell served as a ranger two years, part of the time in Capt. Callaway's company, and was colonel of militia for five years. Benjamin married Mahala Castilo, and they had 12 children. He died in his sixty-third year. He was captain of a company of rangers for two years. Susan married Larkin S. Callaway, son of Flanders Callaway, and died at the age of 33 years. She had seven children. James F. married Isabella Morris, and died in his thirty-third year. Nancy was married twice; first to Capt. James Callaway, and after his death married John H. Castilo. Lewis received a classical education and followed the profession of a teacher for many years. Some of the best educated men and women of the State received instruction from him. His life has been an eventful one, dating back to the very earliest period of our Commonwealth, and as it cannot fail to be of interest to the reader we here present the following autobiographical sketch, which he kindly prepared for this work at the solicitation of the compilers: --

"When I was eight or nine years old, I went to school to an Irishman, about a year and a half, who taught school near where I lived. In about a year and a half after this, I went to school a few months to a gentleman named Prospect K. Robbins, from Massachusetts, and when I was nearly 12 years old I went to the same gentleman again for a few months and made considerable progress during this term in arithmetic. The War of 1812 then came on, and I was nearly stopped from pursuing my studies. I studied as I had an opportunity. After the war, I was placed by my father in a school in the city of St. Louis, taught by a Mr. Tompkins, who afterward became one of the Supreme Judges of this State. I did not continue in this school long, but was brought to St. Charles and placed in care of Mr. U. J. Devore, with whom I remained several months. English grammar was my principal study while at St. Louis and St. Charles. I was now about 16, and when about 17, as my old teacher, U. J. Devore, had been elected sheriff, he selected me for his deputy. I was accordingly sworn in and entered the service, as young as I was. There were but two counties at this time north of the Missouri river -- St. Charles and Howard -- the former of which embraced the counties of St. Charles, Warren, Montgomery, Lincoln and Pike. There were no settlements any further west at this time until you came to the Boone's Lick country, embraced in Howard. I had to ride over the five counties before named, collecting taxes, serving writs, etc. I continued in this business a few months, when I relinquished the office of deputy and entered the store of J. and G. Collier, in St. Charles, as one of the clerks. I remained with them a few months, and as my father and Mr. John Collier, the elder of the brothers, could not agree on the terms of remaining with them, I went back to my father's farm, where I labored a short time, when my father, having some business in Kentucky, took me with him to that State. On our return to Missouri, we overtook a small family on the road, moving to our State, by the name of Reynolds, originally from the city of Dublin, in Ireland. Reynolds and my father got into conversation, and he appeared so well pleased with the description my father gave him of this section, that he determined, before we separated, to come to the neighborhood where we were living. With this gentleman, whom I believe was a profound linguist, I commenced the study of the Latin language. I can say without egotism, that I am very certain I was the first person that commenced the study of Latin between the two great rivers. Missouri and Mississippi. I found it difficult to get the necessary books, and had to send to Philadelphia for the author my teacher recommended. With him I read Ovid, Caesar, Virgil, Horace and a few others. Shortly after this (as Mr. Reynolds had left the State) I went and spent a few months with my old teacher, Gen. P. K. Robbins, where, and with whom, I studied a few mathematical branches, and this closed my literary studies at school. I finally gave up studying medicine, which I had contemplated, and came home to my father. I was now about 21 years of age, and several of the neighbors and some of my relations being very anxious that I should teach school for them, I at last yet somewhat reluctantly consented, and accordingly taught school a few months, and was not very well pleased with the avocation.

"About this time there was considerable talk about the province of Texas, and about the inducements that were held out for persons to emigrate to that country. In consequence of this stir about Stephen F. Austin's colony, a company of us agreed to pay it a visit and examine the country and ascertain the prospects of getting land; but finally gave out going except my brother Frank and myself. We, therefore, alone left Missouri, January 22, 1822, for the Spanish province of Texas, which, however, we never reached. Having gone 50 or 60 miles south of Red river, my brother, who was seven or eight years older than myself, and of more experience, thought it was imprudent to proceed further, on account of the difficulties in the way. We therefore retraced our steps and arrived home between the first and middle of March. I labored on my father's farm until fall, and in October, when a few months over 22, I left home for the State of Louisiana. I took a steamboat at St. Louis and landed in Iberville early in November. This place was about 90 miles above New Orleans, where I remained until spring, having been employed by a physician (a prominent man of the parish) to teach his and a neighbor's children, and to regulate his books, etc., he having an extensive practice. I was treated rather badly by him, and in the spring I went down to the city of New Orleans and took passage on a steamboat, and returned to Missouri and commenced farming, my father having given my a piece of land which I commenced improving. A year or two previous to this, I went a session to a military school, taught by an old revolutionary officer. I took, at this time, a considerable interest in military tactics, and a year or two after this, was appointed and commissioned adjutant of the St. Charles militia, my brother Frank being colonel of the regiment. This office I held for several years, when I resigned, it being the only military office I ever held; and the only civil office I ever had was that of deputy sheriff, as already stated. After this time, I turned my attention to farming and teaching, and in June, 1833, I married Serena Lamme, the daughter of William T. and Francis Lamme, and great-grand-daughter of Col. Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Kentucky. I was then in my thirty-fourth year. We have had six children, three of whom have already gone to the grave; the youngest of those living being now about 31 years old. I still continued teaching, and kept a boarding school; and had my farm also carried on, until the close of the Civil War when I stopped farming, as the servants I owned had been liberated. I therefore rented out my farm, moved to the little village of Mechanicsville, where I built and commenced a boarding school, being assisted by an eminent young lady, a graduate of the female seminaries of Missouri. This school was carried on for five sessions, the last two or three mostly by the young lady before named, as my health had somewhat failed. I have relinquished all public business whatever; I cultivate my little garden with my own hands; am now in my seventy-sixth year; enjoy tolerable good health for one of my age; can ride 35 or 40 miles in a day, and I believe I could walk 20. I am a member of the Presbyterian Church, to which I have belonged for upwards of 50 years. I attribute my health and advanced age to my temperate habits, having never yielded to dissipation of any kind."

DAVID O. HUDSON, M.D. (Physician and Surgeon, St. Peters). Dr. Hudson graduated in medicine in 1879 and located in St. Peters, where he has been in the practice ever since; he had received a collegiate general education before he commenced the study of medicine, which was, of course, of material advantage to him in the prosecution of his medical studies. A young man of good ability, bright and active, and quick to learn, and having had the best advantages the country affords, both for a general and professional education, it goes without saying that he has succeeded in making himself a physician of superior qualifications. This fact soon became manifest after he engaged in the practice. His success has been rapid and unqualified, and to-day he justly ranks among the popular and prominent physicians of this part of the county; he has built up a large practice, and personally his is not less esteemed than he is popular as a physician. Dr. Hudson's father, James W. Hudson, came to Warren county in an early day; he came there a young man practically without a dollar; indeed, he walked all the way from Virginia; but he is now one of the well-to-do farmers and substantial citizens of that county; he is still living, and is highly respected by all who know him. The Doctor's mother was a Miss Eliza Reynolds, also originally of Virginia. His parents were married in Warren county. They were blessed with a family of 15 children, of whom the Doctor was the eighth. He was born in that county August 30, 1856. His general education was received at the Central Wesleyan College, where he graduated in 1874. He then read medicine under Dr. Oates, of Wright City, and entered the Missouri Medical College, of St. Louis, in the fall of 1877. He took a regular course there of two terms, and graduated with honor in the class of 1879. August 22, 1883, Dr. Hudson was married to Miss Emma V. Bibb, a daughter of the Rev. M. T. Bibb, of Montgomery City. She was educated in that city and is a graduate of Montgomery College. She is a member of the Baptist Church.

GEORGE HUFFMAN was a native of Pennsylvania, but removed to Buckingham county, Va., where he married and lived until 1789, when he brought his family to Missouri. He had five children: Peter, Christiana, George, Catherine and Elizabeth. Peter was a soldier in the War of 1812. He married Susan Senate, of Kentucky, and they had 13 children (the names of 11 of them were Elizabeth, Margaret, John, Sarah, George, Abraham, Maria, Lucinda, Lucretia, Elijah and Cassander). Christiana married Daniel Baldridge; George married Catharine Wolf, and they had five children: Peter, Elizabeth, William, Abraham and James; Catharine married Henry Haverstakes; Elizabeth married John Weldon.

CHARLES AND PETER HUTCHINGS lived in Virginia. Peter married Elizabeth Brim, and they had eight children: John, Peter W., Elizabeth W., David, Washington, Charles, Ann and Sally. David, Washington, Charles, Ann and Sally all came to St. Charles county, in 1831. Susan married William Peebles, and settled in Williamson county, Tenn. The other two children remained in Virginia. David married twice, first to Sally Butler, and second to Polly Lett. Washington also married twice, first to Nancy Wooten, and second to the widow Brumwell, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Harris. Ann married Hutchings Ferrell. Sally was married twice, first to Benjamin Ferrell, and second to Robert McIntosh.

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DANIEL IRION (Pastor of the Evangelical Church, Cottleville). For the last four years Rev. Daniel Irion has had charge of the Evangelical Church of this place. A thorough theologian and a minister of approved experience, as well as a pastor who possesses to a marked degree the qualities which inspire respect and esteem, and a preacher of great force and eloquence in the pulpit, his service here has been productive of great good and has added much to the prosperity of the church and the advancement of the cause of religion. Mr. Irion was born in Warren county, Mo., February 21, 1855. His father was Rev. Prof. Andrew Irion, originally from Germany, and for many years professor of theology in the Evangelical Seminary near Marthasville, Warren county, Mo. He was married in New York in 1852 to Miss Minnie Keck, a young lady from Strasbourg, in Alsace. He died in Warren county, in 1870; she is yet alive. Mr. Daniel Irion, the subject of this sketch, was educated for the ministry, taking a thorough course at Elmhurst College, Du Page county, Ill. He studied theology in the Evangelical Theological Seminary, then in Warren county, but located in St. Louis county, near the city of St. Louis, since 1883, where he graduated in 1877. The same year he was ordained a minister of the Evangelical Church, and was shortly afterwards chosen to the chair of ancient languages at Elmhurst College, which he filled with success and ability for about three years. He was then called to take charge of the church at Cottleville, where he has ever since continued. In 1880 Mr. Irion was married in Washington county, Ill., to Miss Friederica Stanger, of Illinois. They have three children: Oscar and Rudolph; the other one is deceased. Mr. Irion is greatly esteemed in Cottleville as an able and pious minister, and as an upright man and good citizen.

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AMUEL R. JOHNSON, M. D.*, ex-Coroner of St. Charles County, is engaged in paretic in the city of the same name. Formerly he held a very important position as Division Surgeon of the Wabash Railroad, his territory lying west of the Mississippi River, while his headquarters were at Kansas City and Moberly. While acting in this capacity his time was so occupied with his varied duties that he had little or no leisure for outside practiced The birth of Dr. Johnson occurred on the old Daniel Boone homestead in Femme Osage Township, St. Charles County, March 20, 1864. His father, C. M. Johnson, whose history appears elsewhere in this volume, is a member of an old Virginia family, and a native of Culpeper County. About 1840 he removed with his family to this county and became a resident of St. Charles, where he is well known and highly esteemed.
The childhood and early school days of the Doctor were passed in St. Charles, whither his parents removed from Femme Osage Township when he was about one year old. At the age of sixteen he entered the Kempcr Family School of Boonville, Mo., from which institution he graduated two years later. The youth soon after became enrolled as a student in the medical department of Kansas City University. He attended for two terms, and served as assistant druggist in the hospital for a time. After his graduation he was appointed Assistant Surgeon for the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and occupied that position for three years, having his headquarters at Kansas City and Sedalia, Mo. Subsequently he was for six years Surgeon for the Wabash Road, as we have previously mentioned. In 1890 he resigned his place with the Wabash Road, and now for nearly five years has been successfully conducting a general family practice in this city. Among the members of his profession he is considered a young man of promise and superior ability. October 1, 1884, Dr. Johnson married Miss Effie Adams, who was born in Boonville, this state, September 28, 1865. She is a daughter of Andrew and Sarah (Flournoy) Adams, natives of Kentucky, from which state they removed to Boonville about thirty years since. Mrs. Johnson, a cultured and refined lady, is well received in social circles, and is a valued member of the Episcopal Church. To the Doctor and his wife have been born two children, Sallie B. and Martha. In politics the Doctor is a Democrat. In 1892 he was elected School Director, but as he had not resided in the city the length of time sufficient to legally qualify himself for the position, he could not accept it. In the fail of 1892 he was honored with election to the office of Coroner. Fraternally be is a Mason, and belongs to the Knights of Pythias. He holds membership with Palestine Lodge No. 241, A. F. & A. M.; and Chapter No. III, R. A. M. He is presiding officer of Palestine Lodge, and holds a like position in Riverside Lodge No. 227, K. of P.



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JACOB KEISER (Dealer in General Merchandise, Cottleville). Mr. Keiser was born in this county, February 6, 1857, and was a son of George and Anne (Haslepp) Keiser, both originally from Germany. His father came here a young man when 19 years of age, and soon afterwards enlisted for service in the Mexican War. After the expiration of his term of service he returned to St. Charles county and engaged in farming, which he followed until his death, in 1882. His first wife died in 1864, and he was afterwards married to Catherine Greene, formerly of Germany. She is still living. George Keiser was also in the late war on the side of the South. Jacob Keiser was the only child by his father's first marriage, and there was only one by his father's second marriage. Jacob was reared in this city and in 1880 was married to Miss Emma Morgerkort, a daughter of Charles Morgerkort, formerly of Germany. Mr. Keiser came to Cottleville in the spring of 1875 and engaged in his present business. He carries an excellent stock of goods and has built up a good trade. He is also postmaster at Cottleville. Mr. and Mrs. Keiser have one child, George. He and wife are members of the Evangelical Church.

JACOB, JOHN, JOSEPH, DANIEL AND SAMUEL KEITHLY came from North Carolina, and settled in Bourbon county, Ky. John married and raised a large family of children, some of whom settled in Texas and California. Joseph married in Kentucky, and had but one son, John, who settled in Boone county, Mo. Daniel married Mary Mooler, and the names of their children were: Joseph, John, Isaac, Daniel, Jr., William K. and Katy. Samuel lived and died in Tennessee. Jacob married Barbara Rowland, and moved to Warren county, Ky., where he died. His children were: Absalom, Jacob, John, Samuel, Obadiah, Rowland, William, Levi, Daniel, Tabitha, Isaac, Polly, Elizabeth, Katy, Patsey, Sally. Daniel Keithley, son of Daniel, Sr., married Miss Hostetter, and they had a daughter named Kate, who was the largest woman in the world, weighing 675 pounds. She died when 22 years of age (children of Jacob Keithley, Sr.). Abraham married Tennie Rowland, and settled in Missouri in 1806. He had four children, and was killed by his horse in Cuivre river, 1813. His widow afterward married John Shelley. John married Polly Claypole, and lived and died in Kentucky. Joseph married Elizabeth Burket, of St. Charles county, Mo. Samuel settled in the city of St. Charles in 1808. He was married twice, first to Polly Burket, and second to Mrs. Nancy Pulliam. He had 22 children by his two wives, and shortly before he died he gave a dinner to his children and grand-children, of whom there were 82 present. He died in 1871. Rowland was married twice. He settled in St. Charles county in 1816, where he remained two years and then moved to Pike county. William came to St. Charles county in 1812. He joined the Rangers under Nathan Boone, and served with them one year, when he joined Capt. Callaway's company. He was married first to Charlotte Castlio, who died in 1857, and he then married the widow Duncan, who was a daughter of James Loyd. Mr. Keithley was still living, in his eighty-fourth year, in 1875. He had eight children, four of whom are living, viz.: Mrs. Pauline Sharp and Mrs. Elizabeth Wray, of St. Louis; Mrs. Ruth Savage, of Wentzville, and Mrs. Adeline Ward. The names of those who are dead, were: John, Samuel W., Lucy and Francis M. Samuel came to St. Charles county, in 1818, and died in 1862. He was married twice; first to Miss Owens, and second to Emma Wellnoth. He had six children. Absalom settled in St. Charles county in 1818. He married Cenia Castlio, and they had 11 children. Obadiah settled in St. Charles county in 1825, and moved to Texas in 1869. He was married twice. Polly married Isaac Hostetter, of Kentucky, who settled in St. Charles county in 1806. Elizabeth married Joseph Rowland, who came to Missouri and remained one year, and then returned to Kentucky, where he died. Katy married Peter Graves, and lived in Tennessee. Patsy married Alfred Dithmyer, and settled in Illinois.

JOHN KING*, one of the native sons of St. Charles County, followed steam boating for over forty years, mainly on the Upper Mississippi.   He worked his way upward from the lowly position of cabin boy to the responsible place of pilot, and only retired about seven years ago on account of failing health.   The varied experiences which come to the traveler fell to him is. no small degree, and from his early years life on shipboard possessed unusual attractions for this gentleman. Since 1887 he has made his home in township 48, range 6, this county, where he owns a good farm.
Born February 7, 1827, Mr. King is a son of John and Cecile (Tesau) King, the former of whom was born in Ireland, which country he left on arriving at his majority. He settled in St. Charles soon after his arrival in the United States, and there followed his trade, that of bricklaying. He had the distinction of building the first brick house ever erected in St. Charles, though he only remained in that city a short time. Removing to Portage Des Sioux, he lived in that vicinity until his death. This was caused indirectly by an accident when he was in middle life, being only forty one years of age. To himself and wife, who was of French Canadian parentage, were born four sons and five daughters. Only two of the family circle are now living. A sister of our subject, Mrs. Octavia Lafave, is a widow, whose home is in Portage Des Sioux. Their mother was formerly the wife of a Mr. Warren, by whom she had one child, now deceased, and after the death of her second husband, Mr. King, she became the wife of Frank Novoul, who died in 1874.
The boyhood of John King was passed in the usual manner of farmer lads, and his education was extremely limited. This was owing largely to his own fault, however, as be was only thirteen years old when he ran away from home and secured a position as cabin boy on a steamer plying the Upper Mississippi. He was greatly fascinated with the life, and had that fondness for the business which insures success in any calling. He secured promotion by his willingness and attention to his employers' interests, and was made steward and finally pilot. For four decades his home was mainly on the river, and he has a host of interesting anecdotes which he relates, particularly of earlier days, when railroads were few in the West. Though the life which he led is frequently more closely associated with a latitude of action than the regular lines of business, and gambling and drinking prevail to a great extent among sailors and river men, Mr. King is deserving of great credit, in that he rigorously abstains from all such practices.   He may well be proud of the fact that he has never taken a drink of intoxicating liquor, never smoked a cigar nor used tobacco in any form, nor even does he indulge in the
luxury of tea and coffee. It will thus be seen that his life has been strictly temperate, and that he deserves the high esteem in which he is held by all
who know him.
January 31, 1853, Mr. King married Louise, daughter of Frank and Louise (Prugh) Novoul, who were French Canadians. Mr. and Mrs. King have had born to them five daughters and four sons, and in the order of their birth they are named as follows: James, Mary, Frank, John, Louise, Cecile, Irene, Mary and Theodore. James, Mary, Irene and Theodore are all deceased.
Religiously Mr. King is a Catholic, and with his wife and family is a member of the Catholic congregation of Portage Des Sioux. In politics he uses his ballot in favor of Democratic nominees and the support of his party measures.

NICHOLAS KREKEL (Postmaster, O'Fallon). Among the higher class of Germany who came to this country during the thirties was the family of which the subject of the present sketch is a representative. His parents, Francis L. and Catherine (Schuhmacher) Krekel, came from the district of the Rhine, near the ancient town of Cologne, in Prussia, to the United States in 1832, and settled in St. Charles county, Mo. However, the mother died while the family were en route to this country (at Louisville, Ky.), leaving her husband and six children, who came on and settled in St. Charles county. Here the father engaged in farming, and being a man of energy and good business qualifications, as well as of high character and good education, he became quite successful. He died here in 1871, one of the highly respected and influential citizens of the county. His children, of those who survived through school age, were given excellent educational advantages. But two of the original family of six children, are living, namely: Arnold and the subject of this sketch. Arnold received an advanceed education and became one of the most eminent lawyers at the Missouri bar. In 1863, such was his commanding position in his profession in this State, and, indeed, throughout all this part of the country, that the office of the United States District Judge being vacant, he was appointed to the vacancy by President Lincoln, the appointment being confirmed by a unanimous vote of the American Senate. Judge Krekel has continured in the office of United States District Judge ever since that time, for a period now of over 20 years, and by his learning and ability and his strict impartiality all high integrity as a judge, has won the confidence and esteem of all who have had busines sin his court, and has achieved a national reputation as a profound lawyer and conscientious, just judge. Nicholas Krekel, the second of the two survivors of the family, and the subject of this sketch, was born in Berghausen, Prussia, August 30, 1825, and was therefore a lad only about seven years of age when his father settled in St. Charles county. He was reared in this county and remained at home on the farm with his father until he was nearly approaching majority. He then went to St. Louis and was connected with the manufacture of shot at the shot-tower in that city, the first one established west of the Alleghanies, for some seven years. Meanwhile, however, the Mexican War having broken out, he enlisted for the service of his country under Gen. Price and served iwth conspicuous courage and fidelity until the triumphant close of that struggle. In 1856, still a young man, he located in O'Fallon, Mo., and built the first house that reared aloft its walls at this place. In 1858 he was appointed postmaster of O'Fallon, Mo., and he has continued to hold the office ever since that time. The same year he was appointed station agent on the railway at this place, the duties of which position he discharged until his resignation in 1861. During the Civil War Mr. Krekel was of course on the side of the Union, and rendered valuable service as a home guard and militia man for the preservation of the life of the Nation. September 15, 1857, he was married to Miss Wilhelmina Moritz, a daughter of Casper Moritz, a substantial settler and citizen of Florissant, St. Louis county, Mo., where he died in 1883. Seven of the ten children born of this union are living, one of whom is married and well settled in life, namely: Emma, Bertha, Albert, Sophia, Cora, Mary and Katie. Mr. and Mrs. K. and children are members of the Catholic Church.

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JOHN L. MARTIN, M.D. (Physician and Surgeon, Hamburg). Dr. Martin is a native of Tennessee, born in Monroe county, February 15, 1834. His parents were James and Elizabeth (Witten) Martin, both originally from Virginia. The father was born in the Old Dominion as early as 1777, and after he grew up and married removed to Knox county, Tenn., where he made his home for a number of years. His first wife was a native of Virginia and they were married in 1800. She died in Tennessee, leaving him eight children, of whom six are living, Subsequently he was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Tollett, whose maiden name was Witten, as given above. Meanwhile he had removed to Monroe county, Tenn., where his second marriage took place in 1825. Three children were the fruits of this union, two of whom, including the Doctor, are living. The father was an energetic and intelligent farmer of Monroe county, Tenn., and died there in 1850. The mother survived until 1864. She was a member of the M. E. Church South, and her husband of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Martin was reared in Tennessee and received a good general education, principally from a private instructor. In 1855, then 21 years of age, he came to Missouri and located first in Cedar county, but the following year crossed over into Camden county, and in 1856 located permanently in St. Charles county. In the meantime he had been engaged in the study of medicine and here he put himself under the instruction of Dr. Couch. His college education in medicine was received at the St. Louis Medical College, where he graduated with honor in 1857. He then returned to this county and entered actively into the practice of his profession, in which he has been continuously engaged ever since. Dr. Martin has been satisfactorily successful as a physician, and especially so in the treatment of cases, and has long had an enviable reputation as an able and faithful practitioner. His practice extends for many miles around Hamburg. In 1867 he was married in this county to Miss Orelia Paulina Anderson, a daughter of Peter and Mahala Anderson, formerly of Virginia. The Doctor and his estimable wife have six children: John M., Robert G., Mahala E., Waldo A., James N. and Virgie H. The Doctor has a comfortable residence property at Hamburg, and is otherwise pleasantly situated.

 
JAMES MCMILLIN
Died March 7, 1815, Loutre Creek, MO
Buried in Montgomery County, Mo
The story of James McMillin's death: On the morning of March 7th, 1815 Captain Callaway left Fort Clemson in St Charles with 14 of the men from his company of Rangers. Callaway and his Rangers were in pursuit of a band of Sac and Fox Indians who had stolen horses from settlers in the area. By 2:00 in the afternoon, they had recovered the horses and were on their way back to Fort Clemson when Leutannant Riggs became suspicious that they were heading toward and Indian ambush. Twice, Captain Callaway refused to acknowledge Riggs suspicions and the Rangers continued on. As the Rangers neared Loutre Creek, three men took the lead in crossing the creek, James McMillin, Parker Hutchings and Frank DcDermid. As the three men crossed the creek, they were indeed ambushed by the Indians. The rest of the company was 50-100 yards behind when the three were fired upon, and Callaway came racing up to defend his company. McMillin, Hutchings and McDermid were killed as they reached the opposite bank of the creek. Callaway was slightly injured, and his horse was killed in the battle. Callaway jumped into the creek and began to swim when he was fired upon again and killed. The remaining 10 men made it back to Fort Clemson. A few days later, a group of men recovered the 4 bodies of Callaway, McMillin, Hutchings and McDermid, and burried them beside Loutre Creek where they died. McMillin, Hutchings and McDermid were burried together in a grave not far from Callaway's' grave.

JOHN MADISON McMILLIN (Farmer, Post-office, Weldon Springs). John Madison McMillin was born in St. Charles county, Mo., December 16, 1829, and was a son of John Milton and Coanza (Howell) McMillin, both native Missourians. His father died when John M., Jr., was only about 10 years of age, and his mother afterwards became the wife of William R. Blacketer. By her first marriage there were eight children, seven of whom are living, and by her second marriage four children were born, only one of whom survives. She had the misfortune to lose her sight about eight years ago, but is still living, and otherwise from the loss of her sight is in comparative good general health. John M., Jr., was reared in this county, and was married in 1852 to Miss Margaret M. Gaty. She died three years afterwards, leaving one child, Hannah. Subsequently Mr. McMillin was married to Miss Mary J. Iler. She also died in 1865. She left one child, Jane E. After his second wife's death Mr. McMillin went to Montana and was engaged in mining out there for a period of two years. He then returned to Warren county and engaged in farming, and later was married to Miss M. Baltezer, formerly of Vermont. She died in 1883. She had borne him six children, four of whom are living, John M., William, Samuel T. and Robert F. Mr. McMillin's present wife was formerly a Miss Sarah Aubrey. She is a native Missourian and is a lady of rare excellence of character and attractiveness of person. Mr. McMillin has a good farm of nearly 100 acres. Mr. McMillin's grandfather was killed on Loutre creek, under Capt. Callaway, by the Indians in the early years of the present century.
Born: December 16, 1829
Place: St Charles Co, Missouri
Died: ???
Place of Death: ??
Cause of Death: ??
Buried: ??
John was Daniel Boone's Great Great Grandson
John Married: Marceline Baltezor of Canada, NY or VT
Marriage Date: 1867
Marriage Place: St Charles
John and Marceline's Children:
                1. John Milton 1869
                2. William Albert 1868
                3. Samuel T
                4. Robert Lee or F. 1876
John and Marceline's Divorce - 1879
John Madison's Father: John Milton McMillin
John Madison's Mother: Coanza Burilla Howell
Parents Marriage Date: 8/29/1827 in St Charles County
1st marriage: 1851 to Margaret Gates died 1854
Children from first marriage: Harry, Hannah OR Anna born 1852 StC
 second 2nd Marriage: Mary J Iler born 1835
Children from second marriage: Jane Elizabeth Ann born 1859 St C
John Madison's brothers and sisters:
Amandalia McMillin b. 1833
Harriet McMillin b. 12/1832
James McMillin b. 1833
Pizarro McMillin b. 1836
Ellen McMillin b. 1840
Mary McMillin b 1841
Addresses  John Madison Lived in St Charles: owned 100 acres in Weldon Spring, MO





JOHN MILTON McMILLIN
Born:1802 (1790-1800)
Place:  St Charles, Mo
Died: Before Dec 21, 1839
Place of Death: ??
Cause of Death: ??
Buried: ??
Will probated Dec 21 1839 Vol 2 Pg 120 Louis Howell Adm.
John Milton Married: Coanza Burilla Howell
Marriage Date: 8/29/1827
Marriage Place: St Charles County
 John Milton and  Coanza's Children: 
 Amandalia McMillin b. 1833
John Madison McMillin b. 12/16/1829
Harriet McMillin b. 12/1832
James McMillin b. 1833
Pizarro McMillin b. 1836
Ellen McMillin b. 1840
Mary McMillin b. 1841John Milton's Father: James McMillin
John Milton's Mother:??
John's Parents Marriage Date: ??
John Milton's brothers and sisters:??
Addresses  John Milton Lived: ??
was listed in the 1830 census in St Charles
owned 650 Arpents of land on Fee Fee's Creek District of St Louis
Spanish land-grant C- 476

WILLIAM ALBERT McMILLIN
Born: March 13, 1869
Place: St Charles Co,  Missouri
Died: May 21st, 1933 6:30 PM (64y, 2m, 8d)
Place of Death: City Hospital, St Louis, Missouri
Cause of Death: Septicemia (blood poisoning)
Burried: Memorial Park

William was Daniel Boone's Great Great Great Grandson
William Married: Catherine Lang of Waterloo, Illinois
Marriage Date: September 16, 1891
Marriage Place: St Louis, Missouri

William's Children:
     1.Laura (born 1892)
     2.William J. (born 1893)
     3.Marceline (Martha) (born 1895)
     4.Elmer (born 1898)
     5.Robert Lee (born 1903)
     6.Albert (born 1908)
     7.Samuel (born 1910)
     8.(1 child died before 1900- 1900 census)
     raised Granddaughter since 1916 = .Dorothy Lee Aubrey

William's Father: John Madison McMillin 12/16/1829 ,born in St Charles Co, Missouri, died:??

William's Mother: Marceline Baltezor 3/15/1840    Born Canada French, NY, or VT   died:2/27/1883 or 1884
William's Parents Marriage Date: approx 1867??  (this was John Madison's 3rd marriage)

William had 3 brothers from Marceline and John Madison:
            1. John Milton McMillin b 11/15/1866 st charles
            2. Samuel T McMillin b 1872 st charles
            3. Robert (L or F) McMillin b 1874 st charles
            2 other children from this marriage died

William had 1 stepsister from John Madison's 1st marriage:
            1. Hannah, Anna or Henry??? born 1851 or 1852

William had 1 stepsister from John Madison's 2nd marriage:
            1. Jane Elizabeth Ann born 1858

Addresses William Lived in St Charles:???

Addresses William lived in St Louis:
        2217 Scott Ave - 1889-90
        2129 Walnut - sept 1891
        1325 Monroe - 1900
        915A Madison - 1910
        2512 N 10th St. - 1920-32

William was described by his son Elmer in 1966 (30 yrs after his death):
He had been employed as a carpenter.........He was 5'9" tall and weighed 180 lbs.
He was starting to lose his dark brown curly hair. He had dark eyes and a medium complexion. His hobbies were fishing, playing the violin and singing.

SAMUEL C. MUSCHANY (Farmer, Post-office, Dardenne). Dr. John B. Muschany came from Germany a young man and a graduate of one of the prominent German medical universities, and entered upon the practice of his profession in St. Charles county in an early year. He was first located at St. Charles, but afterwards changed to Dardenne, where he was successfully engaged in the practice of medicine until a short time before his death. In 1860 he returned to St. Charles, and died their two years afterwards. He was a man of marked intelligence and superior culture, and one of the really learned and skillful physicians of this part of the country. A man, however, of a singularly retiring and modest disposition, he never rose to that notoriety in his profession which some have obtained; among those who knew him well he was universally regarded as a practitioner of a profound knowledge of medicine and eminent ability. He married in this country, Miss Janetta McCluer becoming his wife. She was originally from Virginia and survived her husband until 1880. Nine children were the fruits of their married life and seven are living. Mrs. Muschany was an exemplary member of the Presbyterian Church. Samuel C. was born in this county, January 6, 1839. He was brought up to a farm life, and received a good general education at the common schools of this county, and at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo. In 1868 he was married to Miss Virginia Moore, a daughter of John L. and Malinda Moore, formerly of Virginia. Mr. Muschany's first wife died in 1871; to his present wife he was married May 6, 1880. She was a Miss Lucy Harris before her marriage, a daughter of Noah and Lucinda Harris, whose sketch appears in this volume. Mrs. Muschany is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. M. has a good farm of 250 acres and is comfortably situated. He is one of the energetic farmers of the township, and as a citizen stands well with all who know him. By his first wife he has one child, a daughter, Alexa.

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JAMES OHMES (Farmer, Post-office, St. Peters). Mr. Ohmes was 18 years of age when he came to Missouri with his parents, in 1846, and settled in St. Charles county. He had to make his own start in life, his father though a comfortable liver, not being a wealthy man, and being, therefore, unable to do much toward starting his sons in life. But young Ohmes went to work with courage and resolution and made steady progress in teh accummulation of property. He has an excellent farm of about a quarter of a section in the county, and also a quarter of a section of fine land in Kansas. He was born in Hanover, Germany, in May, 1828, and was a son of James and Mary (Garbs) Ohmes. His father was a farmer in Germany, and during the Napoleonic Wars, served with patriotic courage and fidelity in the German army. He followed farming after he came to this county, and died her at a good old age, in 1860. The mother died in 1865. They were members of the Catholic Church. James Ohmes was the fourth of nine children, and in 1853 was married to Miss Linkogel. She died in 1874, leaving 10 children, or rather five, for the other five had preceded her to the grave. Thsoe living are Joseph, Frank, John, William and Clement. His son John is a graduate of the Mound City Commercial College, of St. Louis, Mo. Mr. O.'s present wife is a Miss Catherine Mispagel. To her he was married in 1879. Mr. O. was a soldier in the Union army during the late war.

LEONARD A. ORF (General Merchant and Postmaster, Dardenne). Mr. Orf was reared on his father's farm in this county, but even in boyhood showed a decided preference for business life, a preference that finally led him to give up farming entirely and engage in merchandising. He came to Dardenne in the fall of 1882, and has since carried on a general store at this place. He has a full line of goods that are usually found in a general store, and has built up a good trade. Mr. Orf is one of the prosperous merchants of the western part of the county, and a graduate of Johnson's Commercial College, of St. Louis, Mo. In the fall of 1882 he was appointed postmaster of this place and has continued to hold that position ever since. Mr. Orf is a native of St. Charles county, born September 10, 1859. His father was Joseph Orf, who came over from Germany a young man, in about 1820. His mother was a Miss Katherine Mette, also originally from Germany. His father was a farmer by occupation, and reared a family of 10 children, nine of whom are living. In a later day after he grew up, he was married in 1882 to Miss Elizabeth Schmucker, a daughter of Henry Schmucker and Friderika Pauke, who settled in this county in about 1850. They had one child, Albinus, one of twins born to them, the other being now deceased.

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JOHANN M. PHILLIPS (Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Cottleville). Prominent among the sturdy, self-made and successful German-American farmers of Dardenne township is the subject of the present sketch. Mr. Phillips was born in Oberamt Offenburg, July 15, 1821, and was a son of Jacob and Barbara (Schiller) Phillips, who immigrated to this country in 1833 and settled at St. Louis. The father died there the same year, and the mother in 1849. They had a family of three children, two of whom are living. Both were members of the Lutheran Church. Johann, who was 12 years of age when the family came to America, went on a steamboat at St. Lbuis the following year, and was engaged in running the river for 12 years afterwards. He then came to St. Charles county and engaged in farming, taking unto himself a wife about that time. It was in 1846 that he was married, Miss Rosetta Fehr then became his wife. She was of German birth, and a daughter of Joseph and Christina Fehr. Mr. Phillips has continued farming in this county ever since his settlement here and has had good success. He now owns two good farms in the county and is comfortably situated. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have nine children: Elizabeth, John, Louis, William, Emma, George, Edward, Charles and Joseph. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips are members of the Lutheran Church.

RICHARD H. PITMAN, A.M. (Principal of Woodlawn Female Seminary, Post-office, O'Fallon). Prof. Pitman is a native of St. Charles county, born June 24, 1830. His parents are David K. and Caroline L. (Hickman) Pitman, both originally from Kentucky. David K. Pitman came to St. Charles county with his parents when a boy, back in 1811, and grew to manhood in this county. He has ever since continued to make his home within its borders. He was married the first time in Kentucky, when Miss Hickman became his wife. Some years after her death he was married a second time. Three children were the fruits of his first union, of whom Prof. Pitman was the only one to reach the mature years, the other two, Caroline and Lydia, having died at early ages. The father is still living, a retired farmer of this county. He has been quite successful as an agriculturist, and is provided with a substantial competence for old age. Prof. Pitman was the youngest of the three children, and the only son. His early years were spent on the farm and the neighborhood schools. While still a youth, however, he entered the St. Charles College, where he took a regular course and graduated with distinction in the class of 1849, receiving a degree of master of arts. Some time prior to his graduation he had formed a purpose of devoting himself to the medical profession, and on retiring from college began a regular course of study with that object in view. He studied medicine for about two years, but finally gave up the idea of becoming a physician. In a short time he engaged in the occupation of merchandising at Cottleville, where he carried on a general store for about four years. After this Prof. Pitman located on his farm, known as Fairview farm, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits up to 1861. A man of thorough education and high standing, as well as an enthusiast almost for the education of the young, he was now warmly urged by a large number of citizens in this vicinity to establish a seminary in this part of the county. Yielding to their solicitations Prof. Pitman had the Fairview Seminary school building erected, and in a short time succeeded in establishing a large and flourishing school. This was conducted with increasing success and reputation until 1876, when he was elected president of the Howard Female College, at Fayette, in Howard county, which position he accepted. In 1878 he erected the Woodlawn Female Seminary building and opened his present seminary, of which he is principal. This institution he has had charge of ever since and has made it a complete success; he has three assistant teachers. Prof. Pitman is an educator of unquestionable qualification and one of marked natural aptitude for the instruction of pupils. He soon puts those under his charge in sympathy with him in his efforts for their instruction by the earnest interest he takes in their behalf and his kindness of manners and disposition. His ability and tact in bringing out the truth of any proposition he desires to in a clear and forcible light, which he wishes to explain, is most marked, and by simplifying the point sought to be impressed upon the minds of those under him, nad illustrating it by examples which can not be misunderstood, he succeeds in making, what would otherwise be exceedingly difficult to understand, plain and easy of comprehension. His theory of teaching is that the first and most important work necessary is to awaken an interest in the minds of his pupils for the work they are to do to make it an object of their own desire to accomplish it, and then to assist them only so far as is unavoidable to a proper understanding of the principles involved in the propositions with which they are dealing. In other words, he believes in self-reliance in the school-room, and that one lesson learned by the pupil's own unaided study and investigation is worth a half a dozen acquired by the help of others. The Professor's success as an educator is the best proof of the soundness of his theory and practices in teaching. He has built up one of the best female seminaries throughout this part of the State. On the 15th of March, 1853, he was married at Frostburg, Md., to Miss Ella V. Ward, a daughter of William and Anna M. (Easter) Ward, of that place. Mrs. Pitman is a lady of culture and refinement and was educated at Mt. Nebo Seminary, near Cumberland, Md. The Professor and wife have five children: William W., Caroline L., Anna W., Ella V. and Mary S. One, David K., died at a tender age. The oldest daughter is now the wife of J. C. Heald, a merchant at Nashville, Cal.; Anna W. is the wife of C. A. Fripp, general agent of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and a resident of Pueblo, Cal. The Professor and wife are members of the M. E. Church South.

M. PRICE (Farmer, Post-office, Dardenne). Mr. Price's grandparents early settled in St. Charles county with their family from Ohio. They were among the very first settlers of the county and often entertained Daniel Boone at their pioneer but hospitable home. They came in a day when the trusted rifle was an inseparable companion both for protection and support. Wild game was principally relied upon for meat and their only breadstuff was the native Indian corn, often ground at home between two stones prepared for the purpose, and then to be found in almost every household. During the season of soft corn their corn-meal was made by grating in a tin grater, also of home manufacture, and the bread of that season was always considered a great luxury, as, indeed, it should be, for its lightness and superior richness and sweetness. Hog-killing time of a later day was not looked forward to with more fond anticipation then the soft-corn season of an earlier period. Especially the children were delighted when grated corn bread came in season. With their rich ash-baked hoe-cake, young new potatoes, fresh milk and good butter, and an abundant plate of venison or fat wild turkey, they had a meal that would make the gods smile with gastronomical delight. Those were days of good eating, unquestionably, and an abundance of it, and of good old-fashioned preaching, when the meetings were held at each settler's cabin, in turn, and the preacher came from miles off with his wolf-skin saddle bags and coon-skin cap, swimming the creeks on the way and lariating his horse out at night -- men with long hair, earnest visage and sparkling, restless eyes, who preached the word of God as a dying man would preach to dying men. Then religion obtained in its pure and simple and honest spirit and souls were saved not by one by whole meetings. Verily, the spirit of God walked abroad among his faithful, zealous worshipers. Mr. Price's father, Michael Price, was yet in boyhood when the family came to this county. He grew up in those early days and amid those early primitive, but happy and honest surroundings. He developed a worthy and honorable manhood and became a successful farmer and respected citizen of the county. He married here Miss Nancy Weldon, of another pioneer family of the county. Eight children were the fruits of their marriage. Of these but one is living, the subject of this sketch. Young Price was born April 7, 1815, and was reared on his father's farm. In 1850 he was married to Miss Sophia Graus, whose parents were from Ohio. She died in 1878, leaving two children, George and Sarah. She was a worthy member of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Price, the subject of this sketch, has followed farming from boyhood and is well established on a comfortable homestead. He is one of the well respected and worthy citizens of this township.

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HENRY REINEKE (Retired Merchant, St. Peters). The citizenship of few men in the private walks of life reflect greater credit upon their communities and upon themselves than does that of the subject of the present sketch. Mr. Reineke is the founder of St. Peters, and has not only been chiefly instrumental in building up this place and promoting its best interests in every respect, but had made his life one of much value to the entire community in various good works both of a public and private character. Though he has accumulated a comfortable fortune by his energy, enterprise and good business judgment, he has done more than others than for himself. His chief aim has not been to accumulate property, but to make himself of value to those around him, and if he has acquired ample means, it is only because he has shared in the general prosperity of the community which he has done most to promote. In a word, throughout all the years of his mature manhood his record has been and is that of one of the more public-spirited citizens of the county, intelligent, broad-minded and liberal in everything. Mr. Reineke is a native of Germany, born in Hanover, August 3, 1832. He was about 12 years of age when his parents, John and Sophia (Seeger) Reineke, came to America with their family in 1845. They first located in Texas, but five years later came to St. Charles county and settled permanently in the vicinity of St. Peters. Here the father engaged in farming and was satisfactorily successful. He died in 1862. His wife had preceded him to the grave by about 10 years. Henry Reineke having been a youth of studious habits and of a quick, active mind, obtained a good general knowledge of books and passing events as he grew up, by self-application to study and by general reading, having had little or no school advantages. Reared to a farm life, he was principally occupied with agricultural pursuits, until about 1866, when, having accumulated a nucleus of means in the shape of ready money, he engaged in partnership with Mr. H. Deppe, in general merchandising at St. Peters. They carried on business together at this place for about nine years with excellent success. Meanwhile, in 1857, February 9, Mr. Reineke was married to Miss Mary Ann Ernst, a daughter of Henry Ernst, of this county, but formerly of Hanover. She lived to brighten his home and make happy his life for some 16 years, but on the 8th of July, 1773, fell to sleep in the cold embrace of death. She was from childhood a exemplary member of the Catholic Church, and died triumphant in the faith which had ever been her solace through life. Mr. Reineke's present wife was a Miss Emilie, a daughter of Dr. E. M. and Antonette (Marheineke) of Hildesheim, Hanover, Germany. Mr. R.'s wife was born and reared at that place and he was there married to her. She is a lady of superior culture and refinement, having been educated in the best school in the city of Hildesheim and reared in the best society. Her mother died in 1856 at the age of 82 years, and her father is living with them in St. Peters, Mo. Mr. Reineke laid out or surveyed the town of St. Peters in 1868, and had the plat of the place recorded. He is therefore justly entitled to the honor of being the founder of the town, although there was a small settlement here before he had it platted. But he is entitled to greater credit for what he has done for it since than for the mere naked fact of being its founder. He has been foremost in all movements calculated to benefit the town and has been not less liberal of his means than active in his exertions for the prosperity of the place.

REV. FATHER JOSEPH REISDORFF (Pastor of the St. Joseph's Church, Cottleville). Rev. Father Reisdorff is a native of Prussia, born in Nievenheim, October 4, 1840. His parents, Peter and Theresa (Augendendt) Reisdorff, were both of old German families, and came to this country in 1841, and made it (this country) their fatherland until their deaths. The father died in 1870, and the mother in 1882. Rev. Father Reisdorff was the third of their family of nine children, and was brought to this country when a child fo nine months, and located in Cole county, Mo. Before attaining his majority he decided to devote himself to the priesthood, and accordingly began a course of study with that object in view. His education was completed at St. Francis Seminary, near Milwaukee, Wis., and in 1872 he was regularly ordained a priest. On the 16th of March, of the same year, he was called to take charge of the Annunciation Church at California, in Moniteau, and for four years following he continued in the pastorate of that church. In the year of 1876 he was called to the charge of the St. Joseph's Church, at Cottleville. Father Reisdorff has occupied the chancel here for the last eight years, and by his manifest, earnest piety and his learning and ability, as well as his zeal for the church in the cause of religion, has made for himself a warm place in the hearts of his parishioners and of the entire community. He stands out by his life works and example, as every true priest should, a finger board, as it were, pointing out to his fellow creatures the way to Heaven.

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HENRY J. SEIB (Dealer in General Merchandise, and Postmaster, Hamburgh, Mo.). June 14, 1847, and St. Louis county, were the time and place of Mr. Seib's birth. he was of German-American parentage, as his family name indicates. He father was Philip Seib, originally from the old country beyond the Rhine (Hassen Darmstadt), and he came to the United States in 1842. He died here January 22, 1867. He was a farmer by occupation, and an industrious, well respected man. Mr. S.'s mother was a Miss Margaret Graft before her marriage. They had a family of seven children, but only four are living now. The mother died December 17, 1854. Both parents were Protestants, members of the Presbyterian Church. Henry J. was reared in St. Louis county and received a good common-school education. He subsequently went to Columbia, in Monroe county, Ill, where he followed clerking in a store for about a year. In 1869 he came to St. Charles county, and the following year he and Pete Mades engaged as partners in general merchandising at Hamburgh. Later along, in 1873, Mr. Seib became the proprietor of the business, where he continued business in the general mercantile line and has followed it ever since. He is now also postmaster at this place. Mr. Seib has a good trade and is one of the popular merchants of his part of the county. He is a self-made man and commands the respect and esteem of all who know him. November 20, 1873, he was married to Miss Carrie Mades, a daughter of George and Catherine Mades, formerly of Hesse Coberg, Germany. They have four children: Heline C., Amelia C., Julia H. and George T. He and his wife prefer the Evangelical Church to all the rest, but have never been united with any denomination.

FRITZ  SCHNARRE*, a respected German American citizen of St. Charles County, is the proprietor and manager of a valuable form in township 47, range 6.   He commenced his life in the New World entirely without means, but his willing hands and ambitious desire to succeed have wrought for him a fair competence and a comfortable home. He has worked industriously to accomplish this result, and may truly be called a self made man. Fritz Schnarre is one of seven children, five sons and two daughters. Of this number two of his sisters and three of his brothers are still living, namely: Minnie, who is a widow, and Charlie, both of whom still reside in Prussia; and William, Henry and Louise, who have come to America. The parents of these children were Fritz and Lena (Kleasner) Schnarre. The former followed farming in Prussia, his native land, and there his death occurred when he was about sixty five years of age. His wife departed this life during the '50s. December 10, 1847, occurred the birth of our subject, in Prussia, Germany. He was reared up to the age of fifteen years in the Fatherland, and there received very limited common school advantages. Being a young man of enterprise, and feeling confident that he could better obtain a livelihood in the United States, he bravely bade farewell to the homes and friends of his childhood and set sail for the shores of the New World in 1862. For three months after his arrival in St. Louis, whither he at once proceeded, he lived at the home of an uncle. From there he went into the country and worked as a farm hand until he was twenty nine years of age. During all these years he carefully laid aside a large a sum as possible from his earnings, and at the end of this time rented a piece of land, some one hundred and twenty acres, on which he engaged in farming. He operated this place for six years, and so well did he succeed that he was then enabled to become the owner of his present farm. This arable tract of one hundred and sixty acres is mainly rich bottom land, and yields abundant harvests to the lucky owner. It is now nine years since he took up his residence upon this homestead, and as he could afford the outlay he has gradually improved the farm and increased its original value. On the 6th of March, 1881, Mr. Schnarre and Miss Mary Kipp were united in marriage. The lady is a daughter of Fred and Anna (Sieakman) Kipp, respected citizens of St. Charles County. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Scfenarre is graced wife two sons and three daughters, who are named as follows: Fred, Gustav, Emma, and Ada and Clara, twins. Our worthy subject and his good wife are members of the Lutheran denomination, and one of their chief ends and aims in life is to bring up their children with a proper regard for their neighbors and in a conscientious discharge of their duties as good citizens. Politically Mr. Schnarre is identified with the Republican party



JOHN SHORE, M. D.*,  a leading physician of St. Charles, is one of her most prominent and respected citizens. 
He has served as President of the Board of Health in St. Louis, and while a resident there was a member of the City Council for several years.
He is a native Virginian,  having been born  in  Petersburg, July 11, 1819.   For half a century the Doctor was engaged in practice in St. Louis,
and has only lived in this city two years.
Thomas Shore, the father of the Doctor, was also a native of Petersburg, and was Postmaster in that city for thirty consecutive years.
His father, Dr. John Shore, a native of England, was a graduate of Edinburgh University, and soon after leaving that institution located in Virginia.   Although he was admitted to regular practice, he was wealthy, and never followed his profession to any extent. He was a bosom friend of such Colonial celebrities as William Wirt and Governor Giles, of Virginia, and he was a relative of Florence Nightingale, whose father, William Shore, took the name of Nightingale, his wife's patronymic, in order to secure the family fortune. The wife of Dr. John Shore, who was in her girlhood Miss Ann Bowling, was a member of a well known Virginia family and a near relative of the Harrisons, Randolphs and other distinguished Virginia people, and like them had the blood of Pocahontas flowing in her veins.
Thomas Shore, our subject's father, married Miss Mary H. Bowling, a distant cousin, and daughter of Alexander and Ann (Prior) Bowling, the former a prominent planter near Petersburg, in Dinwiddie County, Va. In 1842 Thomas Shore disposed of his interests in Petersburg, and came west to St. Louis, where he made his home until his death, some six years later. His wife survived him twelve or thirteen years, her death resulting from an accident.
Dr. John Shore received his elementary education in the private school of Jonathan Smith, of Petersburg, a celebrated teacher in those days, who was reputed to have the best school in Virginia. At the age of eighteen years our subject entered Harapden Sidney College, of Prince Edward County, Va,, and the following year went to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. The next year he read medicine under Drs. May and Robinson, of Petersburg, and then, after two years spent in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, he graduated, in March 1841, after which, going to Nottoway County, Va.  he began practice with an uncle, Dr. Edward Short With his father and other members of the family he came to Missouri in 1842, and took up his abode in St. Louis, where his practice extended over half a century. Some two years ago he came to this city in order to live with his daughter, and here opened an office for general practice.
Dr. Shore was married, May 3, 1841, to Miss Martha Payton Branch, a granddaughter of Governor Giles, of Virginia.   She was born in Dinwiddie County, Va., her parents being Edward O. and Eliza (Giles) Branch. Her death occurred in St. Louis in 1854. Of her seven children only one survives, namely, Pocahontas, wife of William L. Yosti, of St. Charles- December 8, 1857, Dr. Shore married Theodocia Powell, granddaughter of Governor Thompkins, of Kentucky. She was born near Lexington in 1830, being a daughter of Chester B. and Mary Ann (Thompkins) Powell, and died in St. Louis January 22, 1891. Of the five children born of this union, four survive: Kate M.; Theodocia L., wife of James H. Lackland, who is on the staff of the St. Louis Globe' Democrat; Annie C, Mrs. Dr. T. L. Rives, of Florisant, St. Louis Count}'; and Robert E. Lee, a resident of St. Charles, and named for the famous Confederate leader, of whom he is a near relative. During the war Dr. Shore was arrested on suspicion of being a rebel sympathizer, and was kept a prisoner for six and a half months in Gratiot Prison, during the administration of General Rose-crans. This outrage was instigated by a rival physician, who reported that Dr. Shore had presided over and addressed a meeting of Confederate sympathizers, a gathering which he did not even attend. In the duel fought by Governor Reynolds and Governor Brown on the sandbar near Selma, Dr. Shore was surgeon for the latter. Politically he has been a life-long Democrat, his first vote having been cast for Martin Van Buren. Though his grandfather was a Presbyterian, and his father identified with the Episcopal Church, the Doctor and all his family are Catholics.
 

Rev. FATHER NICHOLAS STAUDINGER (Pastor of the All Saints' Catholic Church, St. Peters). Whatever may the secular rewards and pleasures of this life, there inevitably comes a time to every man and to every human being when all these shrink into nothingness. Death must come to all, the high and the low, the rich and poor, alike. The great change must come when mortality shall put on immortality, or the soul shall be forever lost. Then it is that those who have spent their earthly lives in the pursuit of the vanities of this world, wealth and high station, or both, or, perhaps, worse delusions than either of these, at the sacrifice of their highest and best interests in the great Beyond, would give all they have won and enjoyed here, a thousand times all, for the faintest hope of happiness beyond the grave. Then it is that the true wisdom of the good man who devotes his life in this world to good works, regardless of personal aggrandizement or advancement, is brought out in bold relief, so that even the most unobservant and thoughtless can see and understand. Looking, then, at the mission of the priest in the light of the highest and best wisdom, who is there to question that his sacred calling is one that challenges not only the purest and noblest qualities of the heart, but the highest and best atttribute of the mind? Consecrated to the priesthood, the licentiate of this sacred called, by the act of his consecration, if his motives and purposes be pure, shows not only that his heart is right, but that he is possessed of a mind capable of the highest wisdom and supreme exaltation. These qualities are indispensable to the character of a worthy and useful priest. He must be capable of the greatest self-denial, and therefore of the highest stamp of fortitude; he most love truth and righteousness above all things else, even above personal comfort and happiness; and he must be ready to make the greatest sacrifices for the cause of the church and of religion. In a word, his whole life and being must be divorced from the world, in the common acceptation of that term, and devoted alone to the service of God and the church for the salvation of souls. Such a duty and such a work require a moral hero and religious devotee. Nothing short of both will do, and he must be found wanting in neither of these. Such a man and such a priest as this is Father Staudinger, the subject of this sketch, as all know who know him and are capable of judging. His life, since he entered the priesthood, and even before, has been an unbroken religious and moral triumph. At all times and in all circumstances he has held up the Cross of Christ and the church with unfaltering heroism and devotion. Nor has his priesthood been unproductive of happy results. Under his benign and sacred influence many, very many souls have been saved to Christ; and to all under his charge, or wherever he goes, who are striving to keep in the narrow way of righteousness, he has ever rendered a helping and sustaining hand. Such a life, when full spent and when the end comes, will have been worth more to him and his fellow creatures than all the rewards and honors the earth could bestow. Father Staudinger is a native of Germany, born in Witterda, in Prussia, February 7, 1835. He was the eldest of three children of Matthaus and Elizabeth (Leonis) Staudinger, and was reared at his native dorf, where his early youth was spent principally in the parochial schools. He also had the benefit of four years' private instruction at Witterda. At about the age of 18 years he came to America, landing at New York, thence shortly proceeding to Milwaukee, where he attended the Catholic Seminary. After some two or three years spent there in study he came to St. Louis and for about two years following was under instruction of the Jesuits of that city. In 1858 Father Staudinger matriculated at the Carondelet Seminary, and after taking a course there entered the Catholic Theological Seminary at Cape Girardeau, in which he continued until his regular ordination to the priesthood. He was ordained June 3, 1860. He was then given charge of the church at Germantown, in Henry county, where he continued, however, only a short time, being transferred thence to the rectorship of the church at St. Peters, in this county. After a pastorate here of about six years he became rector of St. Nicholas Church in St. Louis, and remained there for some 12 years. Meanwhile he was repeatedly solicited with great warmth and affection by the members of the church at St. Peters to return to his old charge here, and he finally consented. He came back to St. Peters in 1878, and has been here in charge of All Saints Church ever since. The thorough understanding and good feeling which have continuously prevailed between him and his parishioners have been very gratifying to both and productive of good results in the church and community. He is regarded with more than ordinary affection as a priest and pastor by the members of his church, and is highly respected and esteemed by all, even outside of the church. His influence at St. Peters has ever been for good, and in his capacity both as priest and citizen his residence here has been one of value to the community. He justly wields a marked influence upon all classes by his high character, learning and intelligence, and manifest purity of purposes.

SHADE SPALDING (Farmer, Post-office, St. Peters). It was on the morning of the 21st of September, 64 years ago, in the year of 1820, that Mr. Spalding was ushered into life. St. Charles county was the place of his birth, and this county has continued to be his place of residence from that time to this. Reared here, and afterhe grew up married here, that affection for the county of his birth and of his early life became so strongly developed that he could never think of being satisfied at a home elsewhere. His father, Thomas Spalding, was a pioneer settler of the county. He came here from Kentucky in 1816 with his family, when the principal inhabitants were Indians and French traders. Mr. Spalding's mother was a Miss Mary Lawrence, a native of Kentucky. She died in 1834. The father, however, was a native of Maryland. The father was twice married. By his first wife he had 14 children, and by his second, one child. Of the 15 children only two sisters and the subject of this sketch are living. The father died in 1854. Shade Spalding was the tenth child in the first family. December 23, 1851, he was married to Miss Margaret E. Foster, a daughter of Robert G. and Maria (January) Foster. Mrs. S. was the youngest of 10 children. Her father was a Virginian by birth, and her mother a native of Kentucky. In 1820 the family came to St. Charles county from Kentucky. Her father died in 1832 and his widow in the year of 1833. Mrs. S. was born March 10, 1833, and was reared and educated in St. Charles. Mrs. Spalding is a member of the church. Mr. and Mrs. S. have two children: Alice M. and Isadora. Alice is the wife of Daniel Sammelmen, a farmer of this county. Mr. Spalding commenced for himself a poor man with scarcely a dollar, but is now comfortably situated on a good farm. His place contains nearly a quarter of a section.

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LOUIS E. TECKEMEYER (Carpenter, Mechanicsville). Mr. Teckemeyer was brought up to the carpenter's trade, his father having been a master workman in that craft. His father, Christopher Teckemeyer, was a native of Germany, as was also his mother, who was a Miss Marie Deiker before her marriage. They were married in Germany and came to America in 1842, locating first in St. Louis. Two years later they came to St. Charles county, and the father worked at his trade until his death, which occurred in 1868. Louis E. was born in this county August 14, 1847. Reared in the county, he learned the carpenter's trade as he grew up under his father and has followed it ever since. In 1872 he was married to Miss Mene Tweihaus, a daughter of William Tweihaus, formerly of Deutschland. Mr. and Mrs. Teckemeyer have one child, Anna L. Mrs. Teckemeyer died in 1876. Mr. T. is a thorough mechanic, and is liberally patronized as a carpenter and builder. He is a member of the Masonic order.

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WILLIAM C. WILLIAMS, M.D. (Physician and Surgeon, O'Fallon). Dr. Williams has been a resident of O'Fallon for the last 19 years, during which time he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession, and has done a great deal for this place as one of its most public spirited citizens. He has ever been among the foremost, if, indeed, not the leader, in all movements and enterprises, material and otherwise, calculated to promote the growth and prosperity of the town and the development of the surrounding country. He is one of that class of men, of whom there are unfortunately too few, who strive to build up the place in which they reside. In his own affairs, also, Dr. Williams has been satisfactorily successful. He is now in comparatively comfortable circumstances. He has not made the acquisition of property his controlling, or even his principal aim in life. He has sought rather to do his full duty in his profession as a capable and successful minister of mercy at the bedside of the sick, and an alleviator of the sufferings of humanity; and to make his life of some value to those among whom he lives as a neighbor and citizen. Dr. Williams is a native Missourian, born in St. Louis county, July 23, 1827. His father was Rev. Thomas Williams, in a later life a local minister of the M. E. Church South, and who was originally from Pennsylvania, but was partly reared in Virginia and Tennessee. He came to St. Louis county when a young man in 1819, where he afterwards met and married Miss Margaret Williams, a union from which nine children were reared, including the subject of the present sketch. In 1853 Dr. Williams having grown up in the meantime, the parents and younger children removed to Texas, where the father died at a ripe old age, in 1874. His regular occupation was farming. Dr. Williams completed his general education at Central College, in Fayette, Mo. He then read medicine under Dr. William Seyle, and in due time entered the Missouri Medical College, under the presidency of Dr. McDowell, where he graduated in 1860. Before graduating, he had been engaged in the practice of medicine in St. Louis county for several years. He continued the practice in that county afterwards, until 1865, when he came to O'Fallon, where he has ever since been located. June 11, 1857, he was married to Miss Julia D. Pritchett a daughter of Henry and Martha M. (Waller) Pritchett, of Warren county, but formerly of Henry county, Va. Mrs. Williams was educated at Howard Female College, at Fayette, Mo. Dr. and Mrs. Williams are the parents of seven children: Ida P., who is the wife of Prof. Henry S. Pritchett, of the Chair of Astronomy in Washington University, a scientist of national reputation; Cora L., Edward (deceased), Josie C., Charles W., William and Mary Emma. The Doctor, wife and daughters, are members of the M. E. Church South.

JOHN W. WILLIAMS (Farmer, Post-office, O'Fallon). Mr. Williams, a prominent farmer of Dardenne township, and one of the leading wheat growers of St. Charles county, came to this county from Virginia, where he was born and reared, in 1867, a young man who had come through the fiery ordeal of the war and had little or nothing to begin life on for himself in this county. He went to work, however, with industry and resolution, and is making farming a marked success. Last year of wheat alone he raised over 1,200 bushels, and a large amount of other grain beside. He is also giving considerable attention to stock raising, in which he is having good success. He is a native of Loudoun county, of the Old Dominion, born January 8, 1843. He was reared in that county is is a son of George W. Williams and wife, nee Sarah Skinner, both of old Virginia families. His father is of Welsh descent, and a well-to-do farmer of Loudoun county. He is still living, but the mother died in 1847. John W. was the fourth of their seven children, and on the outbreak of the war in 1861, being then eighteen years of age, he enlisted in Co. K, of the Sixth Virginia cavalry, and served under Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, of the Confederate army, until the close of the struggle, participating during that time in many of the hardest fought battles of the war. In 1867 he came to St. Charles county and engaged in farming in this county. January 14, 1869, he was married to Miss Margaret M. Boyd, a duaghter of William A. and Elizabeth (Poage) Boyd, of this county. Mrs. W. was educated at Fairview Seminary. They have seven children: Elizabeth B., Marshall M., Olive L., Daisey B., Ethel C., Charles (deceased), and Kittie J. Mr. and Mrs. W. are members of the M. E. Church South.

RICHARD G. WOODSON (Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Dardenne). Col. Woodson's parents, Judge Charles Woodson and wife (nee Anne Wilson), came to St. Charles county in 1841. They were from Virginia, and Richard G. was born in Prince Edward county, Va., September 6, 1833. After the removal of the family to St. Charles county Judge Woodson became a successful and leading farmer of the county, and one of its influential and highly respected citizens. He was elected a member of the county court and during the war, although far advanced beyond the limit of military age, served as lieutenant-colonel in the Union home guards. He is still living, at the venerable age of 90, and is yet vigorous and his memory well preserved, considering his advanced age. His good wife is also still spared to accompany him on down the journey of life. All their family of eight children are living, and several of them are now themselves the heads of families. The Judge and his good wife are both members of the Presbyterian Church. Col. Richard G. Woodson was principally reared in St. Charles county and was educated at Wyman's high school, of St. Louis, the State University of Missouri, where he graduated in the class of 1853, and afterwards studied law, taking a course in the law department of the University of Virginia. About 1856 he returned home and located in St. Louis, where he was admitted to the bar. He continued the practice of law in St. Louis for several years. In 1862 he was commissioned major of the Tenth, or Third cavalry, M. S. M., and was afterwards made colonel of the regiment. During most of his time since the war Col. Woodson has given his undivided attention to his farming and stock interests. In 1868 he was married to Miss Grace Lee, a daughter of Phillip Lee, formerly of New York. They have seven children, namely: Gertrude, Alice, Charles, Tarlton, Nannie, Grace and Freda.

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LOUIS ZERR (Farmer, Post-office, St. Peters). Mr. Zerr, a substantial German-American farmer of Dardenne township, was born in Germany, July 18, 1843. His father was Louis Zerr, Sr., and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Arch. They came to America in 1846, when Louis, the subject of this sketch, was only 3 years of age. They settled in St. Charles county, where the father is still engaged in farming. Louis, Jr., was reared in this county and remained at home, principally, until his marriage. He was married June 6, 1864, when Miss Magdaline Schneider became his wife. This union has been blessed with eight children, six of whom are living: Mary M., Katie, Joseph, Michael, Theresa and Carl. Mr. Zerr has a good farm of 113 acres, most of which isin excellent cultivation. He and wife are members of the Catholic Church.

* Contributed by Barbara Ziegenmeyer
Portions of the above information  compiled 2006 by Andrea Myers using several sources
Portions of the above text transcribed from the book "History of St. Charles, Montgomery and Warren Counties, Missouri"--- National Historical Company, 1885.
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