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p. 1100 - REUBEN JEFFERSON WADE.

“Reuben J. Wade was born in Cumberland county, Kentucky, October 4, 1816. He is the son of Pierce Wade, who emigrated to Boone county in May, 1824, settling the place on which John Grant now lives. Here he and his wife lived out the remainder of their days He was politically a Democrat; religiously a Primitive Baptist. Young Wade was educated at the old log school houses of the county, under teachers who really knew but little; but education being at a low ebb, their qualifications were seldom, if ever, called into question. Mr. Wade was married to Miss Elizabeth Wingo, daughter of Thomas Wingo. By this union they have had ten children, five of whom are dead. The surviving children are Thomas B., Mary J., Alice, Mahala G., and Lucy E. William W. died while a soldier in the Confederate army. Thomas B. married India Rumans. They have five children. Mary J. married Harrison Brown. They have had three children, two of whom are dead. Alice married John T. Holloway They have no children. Mahala married James W. Benton. They have one child. In politics, Mr. Wade is an uncompromising Democrat; in religion, a member of the Christian church.”

p. 970 - DR. B. A. WATSON.

“Dr. Berry Allen Watson was born in Charlotte county, Virginia, January 28th, 1834. He moved with his father to Callaway county in 1840. He graduated at Westminister College, Fulton, in 1857, with the degree of A.B. After graduating, he taught school. Was principal of Dover Academy, in Lafayette county Missouri, until 1860. During the war served for a while in Capt. Jo. Shelbys company. From 1863 to 1864 he attended Louisville and Bellevue Medical colleges, graduating at the later place in 1866. Located at Millersburg, Callaway county, where he practiced for three years. In 1871 came to Columbia, where he still resides. Dr. Watson was married May 4th, 1864, to Clara E. Ward, of Callaway county. They have six children, all living. Mrs. Watson is a member of the Baptist church. Dr. Watson is a Mason. He is also a member of the Boone county and District Medical Association.”

p. 969-70 - DR. LEMUEL WATSON.

“Dr. Watson belongs to a family, whose male members are or have been, to a considerable extent, prominent physicians. His grandfather, Wm. Watson, was a native of London, England, and a cousin to Sir Thomas Watson, the eminent English physician and medical author, who was chief physician by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen. Sir Thomas still lives in London, at an advanced age. Wm. Watson came to America before the revolutionary war. He settled in North Carolina, on Edenton Sound, near the Cowan river. Being a stout Whig, or rebel, he had his property desroyed and his home broken up by the British soldiers under Cornwallis command. He removed to a plantation on the James river, in Virginia, and was again burned out by King Georges men. Dr. Lemuel Watson was born in Orange county, North Carolina September 2d, 1824. He was educated in the common schools of his neighborhood and at Jackson College, Middle Tennessee. He came to the latter State when young, and remained until May, 1849, when he removed to Missouri. His first location was in Clay county, and he afterwards resided in Clinton and Buchanan counties. He came to Columbia in the fall of 1863. In 1874 he located in Lexington and remained until the spring of 1881. Then, April 1, he returned to Columbia, where he still resides. Dr. Watson, inheriting the family disposition, decided, upon reaching maturity, to become a physician. He first began the study medicine under his brother, Dr. John D. Watson, of Clay county. In 1851 to 1852 he attended lectures at Popes Medical College, St. Louis. After practicing about seventeen years, in 1869 he attended the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and in 1870 received a diploma and an honorary degree the best that could be obtained in that celebrated school. The doctor is a believer in electricity as a therapeutic agent, and has always employed it when practicable. In 1879 he added the vitalizing electro-therapeutic cabinet bath as an auxiliary to his ordinary course of treatment of disease. The doctor is well versed in the science of electricity and claims for his bath (for which he is the sole agent in Boone county) that it is made for the use of physicians in their practice as an auxiliary to medicine in the treatment of both acute and chronic diseases, thereby increasing their armamenta medicamentorum a hundred fold, enabling them to treat cases successfully that have defied the most skillful treatment with medicine alone. Owing to the diversity of applications that can be made with electricity in this bath, combined or uncombined with hot vapor and hot dry air, many diseases yield readily to the bath treatment alone, yet a judicious system of medication is approved in conjunction with the bath. As to the effect of the bath, Dr. Watson maintains that in diseased conditions of the body it cleanses the skin and opens the pores; equalizes the circulation and relieves congestion; preserves health and prevents disease, purifies the blood by removing the impurities which accumulate in the fluids and tissues of the body; imparts vigor to the system and strength to the mind; removes morbid sensations and strengthens the nerves. If you are tired and worn, it will refresh and invigorate. Will establish more natural appetite, complete digestion, pure secretions, perfect assimilation, more complete nutrition. Will make you richer by giving you health. He has great success in the treatment of disease by this method. Dr. Watson has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Susan Smith, of Ray, to whom he was married December 23d, 1853. By this union there were four children, two of whom are now living, one, Dr. Claude Watson, a rising young physician of Kansas City, and the other, Miss Lulu Watson, at home with her father. Mrs. Susan Watson died in July, 1860, and the doctor was subsequently married to his present wife, who was Mrs. Anna Stone, a native of Kentucky. There are no children of this marriage. The doctor and his family are members of the Christian church and useful and honored members of society.”

p. 968 - JAMES H. WAUGH.

“Mr. Waugh is a native of Kentucky, and was born in Nicholas county, December 26, 1832. His parents were Archer S. and Matilda G. (Piper) Waugh, also natives of Kentucky, the latter of whom still survives in her eightieth year, and resides near Carlisle, Kentucky. James H. was reared on his father’s farm and received his education in the country schools and the town of Carlisle. In October, 1854, at twenty-one years of age, he came to Columbia, this county, and began clerking in the dry goods store of J.H. Parker. Subsequent to this he was deputy sheriff for several years, and in January, 1862, was appointed sheriff by Governor Gamble, to succeed John M. Samuel, who declined to take the required oath of loyalty. In November following, Mr. Waugh was elected to the office, and served two years. He took no part in the civil war, other than acting occasionally as military escort to St. Louis. Associating himself, in 1865, with Mr. John M. Samuel, Mr. Waugh and he organized the Exchange National Bank of Columbia, with Mr. Waugh as president and Mr. Samuel as cashier. Besides Mr. Waugh, the directors were R.L. Todd, Gen. J.B. Douglass, Sanford F. Conley, John Machir, Dr. William H. Duncan and William W. Tucker. The directors were subsequently increased to nine in number, and Mr. Waugh has been president ever since the organization. He has served the city of Columbia in different official capacities since his residence here, and is at this writing town treasurer. From 1867 till 1873, he was treasurer of the University board of curators. He helped organize the Valley National Bank of St. Louis in 187_ and was a director therein till 1879. He was also a director in the construction of the Boone County and Jefferson City railroad, built from Centralia to Columbia. Mr. Waugh was married at Arrow Rock, Missouri, May 3, 1859, to Miss Sophia Sidney Venable, daughter of Hampton Sidney Venable, deceased. They have one daughter living (Mary E. wife of Chas. B. Sanders, of St. Joseph) and one son and one daughter deceased, each dying at the age of sixteen months. Mr. W. belongs to no church, but his wife and daughter are Presbyterians. Politically, he was formerly a Whig, but now votes the Democratic ticket. He has made his own business capital, never having heired any patrimony. His success as a business man is too pronounced to need any extended comment here.”

p. 1100 - REUBEN JEFFERSON WADE.

p. 970 - DR. B. A. WATSON.

p. 969-70 - DR. LEMUEL WATSON.

p. 968 - JAMES H. WAUGH.

p. 1100 - FOUNTAIN F. WAYLAND.

“Fountain F. Wayland is a native of Virginia. He is the son of Joel Wayland, a soldier of the war of 1812. They are of English origin. The elder Wayland lived to be eighty-eight years old, and for three-score years and ten was a member of the Methodist church. Fountain was born in the ‘Old Dominion,’ November 17, 1821. They left Virginia in 1826 and went to Ohio, where they remained twelve years; thence to Howard county, Missouri, where they lived till 1842. Coming to Boone county, they settled on the farm where Mr. Wayland now resides. He was married to Semira M. Smith, of Howard county. They have had eleven children -- eight daughters and three sons. Three of their children are married. Mr. Wayland is an official member of the Methodist church.”

p. 612 – W. I. WEBSTER.

“W.I. Webster, compositor in the Leader office, Sturgeon, Missouri, was born in Randolph county, May 13, 1857. He is the son of W.P. and Elizabeth (Coulter) Webster. He was born and reared on the farm, and remained on the homestead until he was eighteen years old, when he removed to Macon county, Missouri, and from there to Sturgeon, where he entered the Leader office as a compositor. Has worked at the trade about eight years. He was married, February 12, 1882, to Maggie, daughter of William J McLoney. Mr. Webster is a good workman and a competent newspaper man. He contemplates starting a paper of his own in the near future.”

p. 613 – WILLIAM H. WELCH.

“David B. Welch, father of the subject of this sketch, was born near Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. He came to Monroe county, Missouri, where he was married, afterwards removing to Boone county about the year 1835. He settled at Old Petersburg, where he was employed for several years as a teacher. Was also a shoemaker. He lived at Petersburg about seven years. The subject of this sketch was born in Boone county, October 1, 1840. His mother’s maiden name was Kituria Brink. Mr. Welch has been a citizen of Boone all his life, except while absent in the Confederaqte army and in California. He has been engaged in the mercantile business for about eighteen years. He spent four years in California. Was married, August 19, 1869, to Laura, daughter of H. H. Jamison, of Pettis county, Missouri. They have four children living and four dead. The living are Scott, Annie, Daniel W., and Serepta Evellen. Mr. Welch enlisted in the Confederate army under Capt. Ab. Hicks, of Clark’s Division. He was in the battles of Boonville, Lone Jack, Carthage, Wilson’s Creek, Drywood, Lexington and Pea Ridge. He also participated in the fatal assault upon Helena, Arkansas, and was in Price’s raid in 1864. Mr. Welch is a member of the city council, also of the Sturgeon Masonic lodge. He is of Irish and German origin. Was left an orphan at the age of seven, and from early boyhood supported and educated himself. He has also built up a good business by his own individual, unaided exertions.

p. 687 - E. R. WESTBROOK.

“Edwin Ruthvan Westbrook is the son of Cornelius Westbrook, a descendant of the early settlers of Delaware, and his mother was Betsey Goodrich, a descendant of the early English settlers of the Connecticut valley, her family living near Hartford. Both families emigrated to New York and settled on the Genesee River, where Mr. and Mrs. W. became acquainted and married. They removed to Ohio in 1833, locating at Cleveland. Here Edwin Westbrook was born, March 27, 1835. Two years later his parents removed to Morgan county and settled on a farm. In 1852 he came to Clay county, MO, about four miles north of Kansas city. Prior to coming to Missouri, Mr. Westbrook had attended the common schools of his native State, but after settling in this State his education was mainly acquired at Union School, Clay county, under the direction of George D. Hughes, completing his course in 1855, at the age of 20. After leaving school he engaged as a teacher, which profession he pursued for 24 years, or until 1879. During this period he served for two years as principal of the Ashland Public School. In the fall of 1879 he engaged as salesman in the store of Wiseman, Johnston & Bass, with whom he remained until January 1, 1881. March 1, following, he engaged in the business of general merchandising with John G. Wiseman, under the firm name of Wiseman, Westbrook & Co., which partnership continued until the ensuing October, when W. T. Maupin became a partner and the name was changed to Wiseman, Maupin & Col Mr. Westbrook was married in Bates county, MO, October 15, 1860, to Miss M. T. Caruth, of that county. They have had born to them nine children, of whom two boys and three girls are now living. Early in the civil war, Mr. Westbrook espoused the cause of the South and enlisted in Capt. Jackman’s company of Gen. Rains’ division of Gen. Price’s army. Not long after he had enlisted, he was captured by the Federals and held a prisoner for about two weeks, when he was released upon taking the oath. He returned to Boone county and remained until in October, 1864, when he again engaged to serve the Confederate cause, and on the 5^th of November, at a point 16 miles southeast of Osceola, St. Clair county, MO, while on his way to Gen. Price, he was again made a prisoner. He was taken to St. Louis and confined two weeks in Gratiot street prison, and then sent to Alton, IL, where he was confined until March 19, 1865. He was then released on condition of his enlistment in the U.S. army to serve against the Indians on the plains. He was a member of Company D 5^th U.S. infantry. A few weeks after his enlistment, he accompanied Companies C and D of his regiment as an escort to Col. Sawyer’s road expedition from Niobrara City to Virginia City, Montana Territory. August 13, he was engaged in a battle with the Indians near Fort Reno, which lasted nearly all day. The Indians numbered over 200 and were commanded by Red Cloud. There were about 250 soldiers. He assisted in the building of Ft. Reno. He also took part in Col. Carrington’s fight with the savages, July 1, 1866. He returned to the States via Forts Laramie and Kearney, and was mustered out October 1, 1866. He then returned to Boone county, where he has ever since resided. It is worthy of note that, in 1854, Mr. Westbrook spent a few months in Mexico, and that in 1856 he made an overland trip to California, where he was engaged in farming and teaching until in December, 1859. Mr. Westbrook has served as a justice of the peace in his township. He is a Democrat in politics and has been a member of the Democratic county committee since 1876. He is a member of the Ashland Baptist church, and belongs to the Ancient Order United Workmen and the Good Templars.”

p. 971 - JAMES STANSBURY WHARTON.

“James Stansbury Wharton, assistant miller and book-keeper of the Columbia Milling Company, was born at Bunker’s Springs, West Virginia, June 8, 1856. He was educated at Frederick city, Maryland, attending the academy at that place for four years, graduating at the age of sixteen. In 1872 he commenced the milling business at a place called Sir John’s run, entering what was known as the Morgan Mills. Stayed there three years. In 1876 he went to Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio, and took charge of the Eureka Mills, owned by the Parker brothers. Stayed with this firm two years. Leaving the Parkers he went to Buckeye Town, Maryland, where he entered a mill owned by C. S. Simmons. In 1879 he came to Columbia, Missouri, where he was engaged by Anderson, Henderson & Co., proprietors of the Columbia Mills. He is now acting as clerk and assistant miller. He is a practical miller and book-keeper, and a thorough business man. He was married, April 21, 1881, to Miss Katie, daughter of James and Mary Jane (Turner) Brown.”

p. 689 - DR. HENRY W. WHIPPLE.

“Dr. Henry W. Whipple is a native of Illinois, having been born in Alton, April 12, 1842. He is the son of P.B. and Elizabeth (Williams) Whipple. Was educated at Sedgwick Institute, Great Barrington, Berkshire county, Massachusetts. Graduated in the scientific department of that institution in 1862. Came back to Alton, and, in August following, joined company G Ninety-seventh Illinois volunteers. Was at Chickasaw Bluffs, Fort Hindman, Port Gibson, Raymond, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg and Jackson. Afterwards was in the hospital department, where he remained most of the time until the close of the war. Returning to Illinois, he settled on a farm which his father had given him at Montgomery. Went to farming and practicing in that vicinity, but having been wounded during the war by a piece of shell, which struck his knee, he was compelled to give up farming, as the labors incident to farm life aggravated the wound and gave him much pain. During his stay at Montgomery, he was elected a justice of the peace. He attended a course of lectures at St. Louis Medical College, but did not graduate. Moved from Illinois to Bates county, Missouri, where he went into the drug business. His brother was with him in the business and practiced medicine during the four years spent in that county. The subject of this sketch also practiced, but not steadily. Dr. Whipple next went to Madison county, Arkansas, where he practiced his profession for a few months, and from there he came to Boone, settling at Burlington, where he has remained ever since. Was married, April 12, 1866, to Margaret L., daughter of C.F. and Catharine Powers, of Michigan. Have one son, Henry F. The doctor is a member of the Methodist church, also of the United Workmen. The Whipples trace their origin back into the remote past. One of the family signed the Declaration of Independence. The doctor has a good practice and is doing well.”

p. 1062 - “BENTON WHITE

Was born near Rocheport, Boone county, Missouri, January 10, 1842. When he was ten years old, his parents moved over into Howard county, settling near the Boone line, five miles northwest of Rocheport. Here Benton was reared, and learned the trade of blacksmith under his father, who was a votary of that craft. At nineteen years old, he began to do business for himself as a blacksmith and farmer, which he continued until 1867. He then opened a general store at what is known as White’s Store, on the old road leading from Rocheport to Fayette, where he is still in business. In March, 1862, he took in, as a partner, his younger brother, George H., who had been clerking for Benton since he was a small boy. At this time, they opened a store in Rocheport, one brother taking charge of it, while the other remained at the old stand. In 1872 a post-office was established at White’s Store, and Benton was appointed postmaster, which position he still holds. Their business now amounts to $20,000 in sales, annually, though they began on a capital of only $600. On September 1, 1862, Mr. White was married to Miss Susan, daughter of Ephraim Turner, of Howard county. They have five children: John, Nannie, Bettie, Samuel R., and May T. Mr. White is a careful and successful business man, and is held in high esteem by the business men of Boone and Howard counties, being ever found at his post, and gradually rising in business prosperity.”

p. 613 – JAMES T. WHITE.

“James T. White, farmer, is the son of William C. White, who was born in 1812, and came to Missouri about the year 1822 and settled in Howard county, where he remained one year, finally removing to Boone county and settling on a farm near where James T. White now lives. The subject of this sketch was born in Boone county, March 29, 1838. His mother, Luvicy Lawrence, was a native of Kentucky. Mr. White was reared on the farm, and has always followed the occupation of a farmer. Was a soldier in the Confederate army, being first a member of Capt. John Bole’s company, afterwards with Wat Stone. Was at Prairie Grove, Milliken’s Bend, Gaines’ Landing, and a number of smaller engagements. He served three years. He and his brother-in-law have in partnership three hundred and seventy-six acres of land and devote their attention to farming and stock raising. When Mr. White returned home from the war fifty dollars comprised all that he possessed in the world. He now owns, in addition to his Boone county property, a stock farm in Vernon county, Missouri, which he manages in connection with his lands in Boone county.”

p. 1060 - JOSHUA F. WHITE.

“This gentleman, an old settler of Boone county, was born in Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia, March 27, 1813. When he was nine years old his parents came to Missouri, and settled one mile north of Head’s Fort, in Howard county. Joshua lived with the family on the farm, even after he became of age; and when his father and mother became old and infirm, he, like a dutiful son, cared for their comfort and support till the time of their death. His mother died first, at the age of eighty, in 1851, and his father died in 1858, aged eighty-six. Mr. White fell heir to the homestead, which he owned till 1860, when he sold it and moved to Rocheport, this county. Besides being a farmer, his father was master of the cooper’s trade, which Joshua learned also. On coming to Rocheport he set up in that business, and has continued in it ever since. Mr. White served in the Black Hawk war, in 1832, as scout under command of Captains Canowl and Pollard. In 1837 he volunteered for service in the Florida war under Col. Richard Gentry, and was commissioned captain of his company. He, however, fell sick with a fever, and could not move with his command, Lieut. Jackson taking command of the company. On the 25^th of October, 1838, he was married to Miss Mary Hern, of Boone county, by whom he has at this writing five living children: Susan F., George W., Ann, Josephine, and Mary. Mrs. White died June 30, 1856. Not many of these old pioneers are left, and the time must speedily come when all that we know of them will be in vague tradition, unless, indeed, their names should be mentioned in history. But it is to them that the generations of this day owe their comfort and prosperity in this land of peace and plenty.”

p. 732 - “WILLIAM N. WHITE,

“Is the son of John O. White and his wife, Jemima (nee Conley) White, and was born in this county, on the 2d day of July, 1847. His parents were both natives of Kentucky, but moved out to Boone county at an early day. Mr. White’s paternal grandfather was a soldier in the war of 1812. William N. was reared on a farm till he was eighteen years old, and then accepted a clerkship in the store of Conley, Strong & Co., at Columbia, and was with them and their successors for twelve years. He then went into business as a partner in the firm of White, Barron & Co., at Columbia, also having a branch house at Centralia. In 1881 they consolidated at Centralia, where they do a leading business in their line, carrying a stock of some $50,000 annually. May 1, 1873, Mr. White married Miss Cornelia Shannon, daughter of the Rev. James Shannon, of Jefferson City, Missouri, an eminent divine in the Christian church, and for several years president of the State University. Mrs. White’s mother, whose maiden name was Moore, was born in Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. White are the parents of three children, two of whom -- John Shannon and Jemima -- still survive. Mr. White has been a member of the Christian church since he was fifteen years of age, and is also a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Knight of Honor. He accumulated what he has chiefly through his own exertions, and is a fine business man and a worthy citizen.”