his father died. He was a pupil of Barton W. Stone, a clergyman in the Christian Church in Kentucky. When twenty-one years of age he removed to Scott County, Kentucky, where he served for a time as deputy sheriff, and read law. In 1833, in company with his father-in-law, General David Thomson, he removed to Pettis County, Missouri, where he practiced his profession for a time. For four years, beginning in 1848, he managed government freighting from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, New Mexico. When the Pacific Railway (now the Missouri Pacific Railway) was projected, he became at once one of its most earnest advocates, and to his effort was finally due its present location, and the development of central Missouri. The original intention was to follow the course of the Missouri River its entire length from St. Louis to Kansas City. He conceived the plan of diverting it from that course at Jefferson City, through Pettis County, and overcame almost insurmountable opposition in accomplishment of his purpose. He rode on horseback over all the country which he sought to benefit, addressing public meetings, and arguing the case personally with men of influence and wealth. He was derided and abused, and the greater number of newspapers in the State united in a crusade of opposition. In January, 1852, he called a public meeting at Georgetown, where a resolution favoring an appropriation of $10,000 by the county was defeated. He took the stand and his argument was so convincing that the same meeting committed itself in favor of stock subscriptions to the amount of $100,000, and this measure was successful at the election in August following. In December, 1852, the General Assembly passed an act providing for the location upon what was termed the inland route, as distinguished from the river route, conditioned upon subscriptions amounting to $400,000 by the counties interested. In March, 1853, he assembled at Georgetown thirty representative men from inland route counties, and at this meeting was formed a committee consisting of two from each county, who were to endeavor to accomplish the end sought. The amount required was apportioned among the various counties, and the project was defeated in all save Pettis County. General Smith redoubled his effort, re-traversed all

the territory, and as a result, on the reassembling of the committee, the necessary amount was pledged, and an excess of $12,000. In 1854 he was elected to the Legislature. An act to lend the credit of the State to railways, in the amount of $7,000,000, $3,000,000 being the apportionment of the inland route, was stoutly contested. He led the element favoring the appropriation, and the measure was passed by a small majority. Governor Sterling Price interposed his veto, but the act was finally adopted. In 1856 General Smith bought the land upon which Sedalia stands, and founded the city. (See "Sedalia.") The name was derived from that of his daughter Sarah, familiarly known as "Sed." He remarked that he had previously named a flatboat for her elder sister, Martha. The name he first chose was that of Sedville. He changed this to Sedalia, following the suggestion of a friend, Josiah Dent, of St. Louis, who proposed Sedalia, closely resembling the Latin word Sedilia, meaning a seat, at the same time remarking that the change would be desirable for the reason that "General Smith designed the removal of the county seat to the new town." The slight change from the proposed word was made for the sake of euphony. General Smith gave his best effort, and used his means liberally for the upbuilding of the place. He gave to the Pacific Railway Company every fourth lot touching their tracks, and made large donations to various business enterprises, and to religious and educational institutions. He was for years a director in the railway company, and occupied various other high positions; with all these urgent claims upon his attention, he held the interests of the town as of first importance, and cared for them industriously until the close of his life. In politics he grew up in the school of Henry Clay. In 1843 he was appointed receiver of the United States land office at Springfield, from which he retired with the change of administration. When the Kansas troubles arose he was solicited to join the pro-slavery forces, and was offered high political preferment. He refused all overtures, and stoutly denounced the aggressions of the slave forces upon territory which he claimed should be preserved to freedom. On this account he became the object of bitter condemnation, and threats were made of personal violence, but he persisted in his course. In 1861

Governor Gamble appointed him adjutant general of Missouri, and he organized the first troops contributed by Missouri to the defense of the Union. At a later day he served as paymaster general of the State, but resigned the position on account of differences with the Governor. In 1863 he sat in a mass convention of the Radical Republicans of Missouri, and presented a resolution under which a committee of one from each county was sent to Washington to urge upon President Lincoln a more aggressive war policy. In 1864 he was an elector upon the Republican ticket, and made an active canvas. In 1864 he was an unsuccessful candidate before the Republican convention for the nomination for Governor. He was elected to the State Senate the same year, and was chosen president pro tempore of that body. He was appointed by President Johnson to be assessor of United States internal revenue for the Fourth and Fifth Districts of Missouri, but not being in harmony with the administration he soon retired. In 1870 he affiliated with the liberal wing of the Republican party, advocating the repeal of the proscriptive measures of the Drake constitution. In religion he was a member of the Christian Church. In 1827, before leaving Kentucky, he was married to Melita Ann Thomson. Her father was David Thomson, who was a major in a Kentucky regiment during the War of 1812; when his kinsman, Colonel Richard Johnson, fell in the battle of the Thames, he succeeded to the command. For twenty years he served in the State Senate of Kentucky. He removed to Missouri in 1833. A son, Manlius V. Thomson, became Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky when thirty-eight years of age, and was commander of a regiment during the Mexican War. Another son, Mentor Thomson, became a distinguished citizen of Pettis County, Missouri. Mrs. Smith died April 22, 1861. The first-born child of General and Mrs. Smith died at the age of nine months. Their other children, Martha Elizabeth Smith and Sarah Elvira, widow of Henry S. Cotton, are yet living in the parental homestead at Sedalia. Their home is adorned with the fine library of the father, and a remarkably large and valuable collection of paintings, engravings, photographic views and statuary acquired by the family during their visits abroad. The sisters design that these art treasures shall ulti

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mately pass into the possession of the city for the benefit of the public. Their beneficences to public causes, and to individuals in need, are repeated and liberal. General Smith died July 11, 1879, leaving a memory honored for all those noble traits which mark the liberal public benefactor, sagacious man of affairs, kind neighbor and model citiHis vigorous intellect comprehended all conditions, enabling him to readily meet the most serious emergencies, while his tenacity of purpose dismayed opposition and compelled acquiescence in his designs. He was of large and vigorous frame, and commanding mien. His strength of character and deep immersion in important enterprises at times gave him an air of austerity, which had no real existence. Great-hearted in all the meaning of the word, his personal interest in his fellows was as earnest as was his devotion to public concerns, and his aid and sympathy was freely extended at the call of the suffering and needy.

Smith, Jackson Leonidas, lawyer and jurist, is a native of Missouri, and was born in Callaway County, January 29, 1837. His parents were Richard and Eliza (Waggoner) Smith. The father was a native of east Tennessee, then an extreme western outpost of civilization, and his childhood was largely spent within the forts necessary for protection against the Indians; he was a pioneer settler in Missouri, whither he removed in 1817; he died at the age of seventy-eight years. The son, Jackson L. Smith, was educated within the State at the Masonic College, Lexington, and at the Missouri State University. He then entered upon a course of law reading under the tutorship of M. M. Parsons, at Jefferson City; his instructor was an accomplished practitioner, and afterward rose to distinction in the Confederate Army. On being admitted to the bar in 1861, Mr. Smith entered upon practice in Jefferson City, and was so engaged until 1888, with the exception of five years occupied with public duties; for several years he was a member of the law firm of Ewing & Smith. In 1876 he was elected attorney general; the newly adopted State constitution was just becoming operative, and his duties were necessarily arduous and confining. In 1885 he was appointed fish commissioner by Governor John

S. Marmaduke, and he was reappointed to the position in 1889 by Governor T. T. Crittenden. For four years he was a manager of the State Asylum for the Insane at Fulton. In 1888 he was elected a judge of the Kansas City Court of Appeals, and was chosen as presiding judge. In 1892 he was re-elected to the position for a twelve-years' term, receiving the largest majority ever recorded in that judicial district. He is known as a close student, and as possessed of those analytical powers of mind which mark the accomplished jurist. Judge Smith was married to Miss Fanny Chappell, of Callaway County, Missouri. A son was born of this marriage, Clay Ewing Smith, who died July 4, 1898.

Smith, James W., physician and surgeon was born at Ghent, Carroll County, Kentucky, August 10, 1851, son of James L. and Mary (Davis) Smith. His father, by trade a tailor, removed to Pleasant Hill, Missouri, July 1, 1860, and has since resided there. During the war the elder Smith served in the Home Guard. Dr. Smith was educated in the public schools of Kentucky, and at Pleasant Hill, Missouri. At the age of fourteen years he began work on a farm and at the same time started to study medicine. When twenty years of age he again entered the public schools, but soon after removed to Kentucky, where he resumed his medical studies under the supervision of his uncle, Dr. Reuben H. Smith. Entering the HosEntering the Hospital School at Louisville, Kentucky, he prosecuted his studies one term and part of another, and completed his course in the Kansas City Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1877. Since March 4th of that year he has enjoyed an unbroken practice at Pleasant Hill, with the exception of the periods devoted to postgraduate work in New York in 1883 and 1893. For ten years he has been local surgeon for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and during President Cleveland's first administration served as pension examiner. In the line of his profession he is identified with the Missouri State Medical Society and the Hodgen District Medical Society, of which he was one of the five organizers. At the present time (1900) he is serving as its president. For eight years he

has also been a member of the National Association of Railway Surgeons. In Masonry

he has taken the commandery degrees. He is a member of the Christian Church, in which he serves as trustee. Dr. Smith was married December 24, 1888, to Ballie Jarrott, daughter of William Jarrott, of Pleasant Hill, and a sister of Honorable William L. Jarrott, of the circuit bench. Dr. Smith has an extensive and lucrative practice, and his professional labors have met with abundant success. is a deep student and keeps fully abreast of the most advanced research in the science of medicine. Personally, he is a man of striking qualities and a fascinating conversationalist. His record, in professional and private life, has been without a blemish.

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Smith, John Cook, merchant, was born near Cedar Hill, Pickaway County, Ohio, September 8, 1852, son of John J. and Deborah H. (Blue) Smith. (See sketch of Alvin J. Smith.) His education was received in the common schools near Columbus, Ohio, in Pickaway County of that State, in Bates County, Missouri, and in South Bloomfield, Ohio. At the age of twenty he became a clerk in a dry goods store at Columbus, Ohio, and four years later engaged in mercantile business for himself at South Bloomfield, Ohio, where he served as postmaster for five years under appointment by President Garfield. May 9, 1886, he came to Adrian, Bates County, Missouri, and engaged in the mercantile business which he still conducts. For four years he served as alderman, and for the past three years he has been a member of the school board of Adrian. Fraternally he is identified with the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Woodmen of the World. He is a steward and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Adrian, and has been superintendent of the Sunday school for eight years. He was married, April 12, 1877, to Kate L. Irwin, daughter of John E. Irwin, of Circleville, Ohio. They are the parents of five children, Lizzie Deborah, a graduate of the Kansas City Conservatory of Music in the class of 1900; Howard Irwin, a clerk in his father's store; Anna Kate, Helen Esther and Josephine Cook Smith.

Smith, Madison Roswell, lawyer, legislator and reporter for the St. Louis Court of Appeals, was born July 9, 1850, near Glen Allen post office, in Bollinger County,

son of Andrew J. and Barbara P. C. Smith. The family to which he belongs came from. North Carolina to Missouri, and he is of mixed English and Dutch extraction. Mr. Smith was educated at Caledonia and Central Colleges, well known educational institutions of Missouri, but did not complete a full college course on account of the death of his father, which necessitated his leaving school to assist his mother in settling up the family estate. He first entered upon a business career, becoming interested with A. R. Jaques in a drug store at Lutesville, Missouri. At the end of three years in the drug trade he sold out his interest in the store, and in 1873 began reading law under the preceptorship of Louis Houck, of Cape Girardeau. He was admitted to the bar in 1874 by Judge William Carter, of Farmington, Missouri, and began the practice of his profession at Marble Hill, the county seat of Bollinger County. Governor John S. Phelps appointed him prosecuting attorney of that county in 1878. Within a few years he became recognized as one of the leaders of the bar of that portion of the State, and for some time he was in partnership with Judge William R. Taylor. In 1886 he was elected a member of the State Senate of Missouri, and served with distinction in that body during a term of four years. He then went to Paris, Texas, as attorney for the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company, but after a time he resigned this position and returned to Farmington, Missouri, where he has since practiced his profession successfully. In November of 1899 he was appointed reporter for the St. Louis Court of Appeals, and entered upon the discharge of the duties of that office in January of the year 1900. In politics Mr. Smith is a Democrat, and his religious affiliations are with the Methodist Church.

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is a member of the Masonic order, and has held various official positions in that connection. January 12, 1881, he married Miss Nannie Leech, of Farmington, Missouri. Their living children are Melbourne, Alma, Taylor, Barbara and Nannie Leech Smith.

Smith, Nicholas R., was a native of Tennessee, who located in Springfield about 1836, and became a tavern-keeper. He was the first brigadier general of Greene County militia, and took the field during the Indian disturbances of 1837. Major General Joseph

Powell, division commander, being inexperienced in military matters, committed many breaches of military law and discipline, for which he was brought to trial before a military commission upon charges preferred by General Smith, and was dismissed from the service. General Smith, himself, was guilty of shortcomings of an innocent nature. In attempting to pass his own lines after dark he was halted by a sentinel who had seen service in the regular army, who demanded the countersign. Having forgotten the word, General Smith answered, "I haven't the countersign, but I'm General Smith, from Springfield." The sentinel responded "I don't care if you are General Smith from hell; you can't pass here without the countersign." The incident survived many of the more serious recollections of the times. General Smith died in 1858. In 1900 a son, Patrick, was serving as county clerk of Newton County.

Smith, Patrick Reginald, county clerk of Newton County, Missouri, was born October 23, 1831, in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, and comes of one of the old families of that State. His parents were Nicholas R. and Harriet (Goodwin) Smith, both natives of the county in which their son was born. When he was five years of age, his parents removed from Virginia to Springfield, Missouri, and in the public schools of that place he obtained his rudimentary education. He then went to the military school at Lexington, Kentucky, where he took a three-year course, and later completed his studies at Springfield. In 1850, when he was nineteen years of age, he went to California and spent the next two years gold mining in that State. Considering his youth, his operations were quite successful, and he returned to his home with considerable means. After a brief residence in Springfield he went to Neosho, Missouri, and embarked in the mercantile business, in which he continued to be engaged until the outbreak of the Civil War. In the early part of that memorable struggle he enlisted in the Missouri State Guard under General Price, in whose command he served for ten months thereafter. At the end of this time he enlisted regularly in the Confederate States Army, and was mustered into Coffee's regiment of General Shelby's brigade. He participated in several of the early battles of the war, including those at Wil

son's Creek, Drywood, and Lexington, Missouri. In the State Guard he had served as aide on the staff of General Rains, performing the duties of division inspector. In the regular Confederate service he was adjutant of his regiment, with the rank of captain. In this capacity he served until the end of the contest, his regiment being disbanded at Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1865. Returning to Neosho at the close of the war, he was engaged in the real estate and insurance business until 1874, in which year he was elected county clerk on the Democratic ticket. In 1894 he was defeated for this office by J. Bascom, but in 1898 he was again elected, and still fills the office. He has always been an ardent Democrat, never wavering in his convictions, and never hesitating to express his opinion when called upon to do so. A member of the Masonic order, he has filled all the offices in the subordinate lodge with which he affiliates, and he is a member also of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Captain Smith has been thrice married-first in 1854, to Miss Susanna E. Logan, of Springfield, Missouri, who died in 1856. In 1862 he married Miss Harriet Chenoweth, whose death occurred in 1874. His present wife was Mrs. Lavinia (Townsend) Mason, to whom he was united in 1875. Four children were born of his second marriage, named, respectively, Henry C., Robert H., Allison W. and Emma C. Smith. The last named is now the wife of C. C. Peterson, of Neosho. Of his third marriage one daughter has been born, Lallah Smith.

Smith, Solomon F., actor, was born April 20, 1801, in Norwich, Chenango County, New York, and died in St. Louis April 20, 1869. At Louisville, Kentucky, he joined Drake's Dramatic Company, in 1820, but withdrew at the end of the season and studied law in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1822 he became editor of "The Independent Press," and at the same time manager of the Globe Theater of Cincinnati. The following year he traveled with his own company, gaining wide reputation as a comedian, his principal roles being "Mawworm," in "The Hypocrite;" "Sheepface," in the "Village Lawyer," and "Billy Lackaday," in "Sweethearts and Wives." In 1853 he abandoned theatrical management and the stage, and settled in St. Louis, where he practiced law during the

remainder of his life. He was a member of the Missouri State convention of 1861; was an unconditional Union man, and took an active part in forming a provisional government for the State and preventing it from joining the secession movement. He was the author of works entitled, "Theatrical Apprenticeship," published in Philadelphia in 1845; "Theatrical Journey Work," published in 1854, and an autobiography, published in 1868.

Smith, Thomas Adams, was born at Piscataway, Essex County, Virginia, August 12, 1781, and died at "Experiment," his country seat, in Saline County, Missouri, June 25, 1844. He was educated at William and Mary College, Virginia, entered the Regular Army as ensign in 1800, was commissioned second lieutenant of the artillerists the 15th of December, 1803, first lieutenant 31st of December, 1805, captain of the First Rifles 3d of May, 1808, lieutenant colonel 31st of July, 1810, colonel 6th of July, 1812, brevet brigadier general, for distinguished and meritorious services, 24th of January, 1814; brigadier general 25th of January, 1815; resigned his commission in the army the 10th of November, 1818. The active service of General Smith previous to the War of 1812 was on the Florida frontier. He commanded the post at St. Mary's, Florida, from 1808 until he was ordered to the front on the Canada line in 1812. At St. Mary's he had frequent brushes with the Indians and Spaniards, but no general battles. At the beginning of the War of 1812 he and his command were transferred to the line of hostilities in Canada, and on the lakes at Sackett's Harbor, Plattsburg, Burlington and French Mills, where he remained until the close of the war. He married, September 17, 1807, Cynthia Berry, daughter of General James White, of Knoxville, Tennessee, a sister of the Honorable Hugh L. White, judge of the supreme court, United States Senator and candidate for President in 1836. After the close of the War of 1812 General Smith was ordered to the West, made commander-in-chief of the Ninth Military Department, headquarters at Bellefontaine, a post that had been established by General Wilkinson immediately after the acquisition of Louisiana on the Missouri River just above its mouth. Major S. H. Long, of the topographical engineers, was